perhaps in an across, perhaps in an exceptional set of circumstances. very difficult to determine and very difficult to do too much speculation because that can end up being misleading because people to an extent are guessing right now. but it will be really important to work out where these two individuals have been, what they have picked up object, where they have picked up object, where they have ta ken objects have picked up object, where they have taken objects away and one of the possibilities for example is that whoever smeared the material on the door knob of the skripal house cold, people want to get rid of the clothing they were wearing. they might be wearing a leatherjacket or something that any material would have splashed onto to protect the person who was carrying out the poison. if that was then thrown away somewhere, somebody else might pick it up and handle it and perhaps get exposed. given the eyewitness accou nts exposed. given the eyewitness a ccou nts of exposed. given the eyewitness accounts of these couple who have been taken ill, it is clear they are

extremely ill. they are in critical condition. we note that novichok is a very dangerous substance, that it does suggest that have been exposed to it very closely, but quite a lot of it. obviously of the sort of exposure that perhaps the scribbles themselves had. one of the problems of looking at exposure is of some of the materials, on the skin, can have an effect, so it may not be more material, but they were in contact with it for longer. that might make a big difference, so a small amount of material exposed to the skin for a long time can have as much effect asa largeramount on a long time can have as much effect as a larger amount on the skin for a small time if that makes sense. it could be they had an object that may they took that to the house, that had left material that perhaps they have washed their hands for a number of hours or it had been on another

pa rt of of hours or it had been on another part of the skin, so it had been there for quite a while. thank you very much forjoining us this evening. with that breaking news that two more victims of a novichok poison has been confirmed by the police tonight. thank you for joining us. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. and laura hughes. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. like many of tonights front pages, the metro, carries the poisoning of two people in amesbury in wiltshire from the nerve agent novichok, the i confirms reports

that the poison is the same type of chemical used to poison the skripals 4 months ago the financial times warns about the risk of a no deal brexit on uk car manufacturing as jaguar land rover says crashing out of the eu would cost them 1.2 billion pounds a year. the best of both worlds — the express reports on what it's calling a breakthrough post brexit customs plan being promised by the prime minister. a picture of the work and pensions secretary, esther mcvey, appears on the front of the guardian, she is facing calls to resign for misleading parliament about the rollout of universal credit. the mirror reports that meghan markles father thomas has told friends he fears they will never speak again the telegraph carried the picture.

as wimbledon complaint their men's final will clash with the world cup final. we'll have to see whether there is a clash between england being in the final. let's start now with the metro. this story that has broken in the last couple of hours. the confirmation that two people who we re the confirmation that two people who were taken ill have been poisoned by novichok, the same nerve agent used on sergei skripal. we do not know what has happened here but it's an extraordinary twist that dominated had headlines for several weeks. extraordinary twist that dominated had headlines for several weeksm dominated, the people could be forgiven for forgetting what happened in salisbury, not like long ago. as you say it is an extraordinary development, some would say a baffling development. this was a, serge in yulia skripal,

the damage in salisbury had been contained, people could go back to living their lives as normal. prince charles and camilla went, and this would be worried people up from the government to people living in answering salisbury tonight. that is the problem that people were reassured, they were had been told it was cleaned up and then people in salisbury had the disruption for many weeks and now it turns out to other people are critically ill. many weeks and now it turns out to other people are critically illm is not in salisbury, it is outside of salisbury which is terrifying if you are living in a small town or any of the surrounding towns because if it managed to get there, we don't know how, we do not know if the couple can pick up contaminated objects and carried it back to their homes or fit with amesbury. it is really unclear what has happened but ifi really unclear what has happened but if i was living in that area, i would want to know that it was safe in the home secretary said the threat to the general public is low but low is not good enough. i felt

as though the case was closed. done. we saw the dead contamination efforts lasted for weeks. how did anything get through. how did an item of clothing or surrender to whatever it might have been escaped attention and then find its way into the hands of two innocent britts? there will be questioned now on how that happened and the effort to clean up was not good enough. that it would be a test for the relatively new home secretary. he was not home secretary with his happened. he is going to chair the government emergency meeting tomorrow and is going to be very ha rd tomorrow and is going to be very hard for him to reassure people that they take the necessary steps. that is right. i think a lot of people felt the government held this quite well. theresa may was felt to have led the country well to have been assured leadership figure. i think tonight people might be slightly reassessing their confidence that

the government had in fact had on this. as she was saying, people will be worried. if you live in salisbury and you have gone on with your life, and you have gone on with your life, and are now thinking whatever the assurances, they gave us those assurances, they gave us those assurances last time, and we need to get out. it was extra dairy statement this evening, saying anyone had been in the areas that had been cordoned off today, should go and wash their clothes. that is not good enough. how are people meant to know what to do and how to respond this late in the day? hopefully this is not going to go any further but it is stilljust really unclear as to how on earth this could happen and come back months after this major major incident. and the police have said they do not think these two were deliberately targeted because obviously in the middle of world cup in russia, we know about relations of the uk and russia and we do not know if it is going to have an impact on that. if there are more people infected that makes it worse. the fact that they were not deliberate leak targeted, please do

not think they were delivered the target, my the less concerning in geopolitical terms, but if you are an ordinary resident in a sleepy town, you're going to be far more concerned by the people who have no connection to russia or spies or this different world, and suddenly in an area where they have not even bea in an area where they have not even be a decontamination operation because it was not thought to be pa rt because it was not thought to be part of the site, you can suddenly become affected by novichok. it is a bewildering thing to happen. people could be confused and alarmed. the same story, security services never found materials used poison. that is ina way, found materials used poison. that is in a way, we do not know about the police investigation because it is not what they would make public. whom i have brought into the country, we have not heard anything about that. it is extraordinary to have this substantial claims and

theresa may was very firm in waning russia for this. yet the whole of the eu it was a great political moment because she was so strong and the world became united, and we just do not actually know. we do not have a hard facts to prove who carried it out on behalf of two. a few days ago russia was saying britain had had a role in covering up, covering up the evidence, so they did not know who it was. it is quite strange, people have stopped asking questions. has russia been told by the british authorities, we have narrowed it down to this group of people, it might have been one of them acting on behalf of this, it felt it was as if the whole issue had gone away. but perhaps behind—the—scenes it was still investigations going on. we have gone on to other stories and we do not know the state of the investigation. just a word about, this broke very late, i think some of the newspaper front pages have not got the update on it. it is a

ha rd not got the update on it. it is a hard thing for a newspaper front page to prepare for. absolutely. the statement came very late and i'm sure there was the inkling from very early this morning, hang on, a number of suspicious substance, that is concerning, but people were known, until the chief medical officer came out and made a dramatic statement tonight. what makes you think we will find out more now about the investigation? this will start raising questions again. the next time he is in front people want to know details about where the police have gone to, but that is not the thing normally a politician is going to go public with. he probably cannot say. we do not well what he is and told. there may be very few officials that do note up we will not be able to find out the information. it is such a confusing extraordinary story. people are going to want answers. there are going to want answers. there are going to want to know how this was

possible and there are going to look for someone to blame. there is details about eyewitnesses that the illness, it was the weight that these victims were clearly in a bad way is going to be again very on. absolutely. people will respect and operational secrecy when it is former spies. but operational secrecy when it is formerspies. but suddenly operational secrecy when it is former spies. but suddenly if it is random members of the public, that is why to concern all whole wide range of people. we will leave it there. that is it for the papers. they will be back for me at 11:30pm. first though it is the weather. hello there. we had some showers at wimbledon today. the risk is still there tomorrow afternoon as well. most there tomorrow afternoon as well. m ost pla ces there tomorrow afternoon as well. most places were fine and dry. this was lovely weather watcher picture sentin

was lovely weather watcher picture sent in from hampton court as those showers moved through. earlier on we had to shower sitting on the radar there and more across south east wales. this speckle of showers to the m4 corridor into greater london. those are pretty much faded away. it is becoming dry overnight and showers in the highlands of scotland also fading. most of the low cloud will be out to the north sea. it is going to be warmer tonight. does this will be sold in the south. we have a band of cloud cutting into warm—up scotland and northern ireland. another one that is coming into the northwest but will be bringing any rain. what it does do is introduces air coming from a different source region so we are getting something more from the atla ntic getting something more from the atlantic cooler fresher air behind that weather. in wales, we still have a condo heat that will build very quickly in the sunshine and may ta ke very quickly in the sunshine and may take a while for the sunshine to come out and weather should improve in scotland. further south, you can

see one or two showers popping off across wales and seven england and against were the southeast. they could be heavy and boundary but there will not be many of them. most places will be dry and he is certainly still there. england and wales, not so much for scotland and northern ireland with those temperatures are significantly lower than today. we had a high temperature today of 29 degrees and northern ireland. we are likely to get 29 in england and wales. friday sees more sunshine a little or no rain. it is a dry day but more cloud coming into the north of scotland again later on. still the temperatures round about the low 20s for scotland and northern ireland but again up to around 30 or 31 across parts of england and wales so we are back to that sort of heat. the heat will build further north across the uk, essentially we have a high pressure building and again off the atlantic and again a little week weather front approaching later on in the uk. otherwise it is going to be dry. there will be more hot

sunshine, strong sunshine, the winds will be light and temperatures again not far away from 30. this is bbc news. i'm vicki young. the headlines at 11: police confirm that two people who fell criticially ill in wiltshire have been exposed to the nerve agent novichok. charlie rowley and dawn sturgess were found unconscious on saturday. the site where it's believed the two were poisoned — in the town of amesbury — is just a few miles away from the site of the russian poisoning in march. following the detailed analysis of those temples, we can confirm that the man and woman have been exposed to the nerve agent novichok, which has been identified as the same nerve has been identified as the same nerve agent that contaminated both

julia and sergei skripal.