hello. you're watching afternoon live. i'm martine croxall. today at 2. the dutch authorities accuse russian intelligence of mounting a cyber attack on the international chemical weapons watchdog. at the time it was investigating the nerve agent attack in salisbury that poisoned sergei and yulia skripal. britain says the russians were trying to clean up their mess. if anyone had any questions in their minds about russian military involvement in seoul spree, this will put to rest those doubts. —— if anyone had any questions in their minds about russian military —— if anyone had any questions in their minds about russian military involvement in salisbury, this will put to rest those doubts. british aid agencies launch an appeal to help victims of the indonesian earthquake and tsunami. senators in washington study an fbi report on donald trump's controversial nominee for the supreme court.

two men die in a suspected chemical incident at a norfolk poultry processing factory. coming up on afternoon live... all the sport with hugh ferris. lots going in international football. that is right, it is one of those days where i host of countries announce their squads, nations league games, particularly in europe, the england squad will be announced shortly, gareth bale is in the wales squad, cristiano ronaldo is not in the portugal squad. more on that later. thanks. and chris has all the weather. rain for some? yes, indeed, some rain on the way across northern uk, turning cooler, over the next couple of days, colder conditions reaching parts of england and wales. and we will cast an eye further afield and look at what is going on in east asia, we have a typhoon causing trouble forjapan and south korea. thanks, chris. also coming up... no rain in spain. aftera hot, dry summer, what lincolnshire‘s farmers can learn from andalucia. hello, everyone.

this is afternoon live. the dutch authorities say russian intelligence launched a cyber attack on the international chemical weapons watchdog in the hague. they say it happened in april, at the time organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons was investigating the nerve agent attack in salisbury that poisoned sergei skripal and his daughter yulia. dutch intelligence say they caught four russian agents with a car full of electronic equipment near the headquarters of the opcw. the british authorities say the men were from russia's gru military intelligence trying to "clean up the mess" it had made in salisbury. this report from naomi grimley. it's seven months since the first chemical attack in europe since the second world war and even now another extraordinary twist. did russia's gru not only send

the would—be assassins but also send a team to spy on the body that tested the samples of the nerve agent? today the dutch authorities said they caught russian agents red—handed trying to snoop on the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons. on the 13th april this year, they carried out an operation, targeting the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons. four russian agents were discovered in a car near this building with laptops and in tonight and multiple mobile phones. —— four russian agents were discovered in a car near this building with laptops and in tonight and multiple mobile phones. they were trying to get into the opcw‘s wi—fi network. they had taxi receipt showing they had travelled from the gru headquarters to moscow airport and some of their equipment had been used in other hacking attacks around the world.

the british foreign office believes it knows exactly what was happening. this was not an isolated act. the unit involved, known in the russian military as unit 26165, has sent officers around the world to conduct brazen, close access cyber operations. we will increase further our understanding of what the gru is doing and attempting to do in our countries. we will shine a light on their activities, we will expose their methods, and we will share this with our allies. the four russian agents were expelled unceremoniously from dutch soil. the us will name them formally later. it's a jigsaw of evidence which the uk believes is compelling. if anybody had any questions in their mind about russian military involvement in the salisbury attacks, this will put to rest those doubts because here you have evidence of the russian military

launching a cyber attack on the very organisation, the international organisation in the netherlands, set up to investigate those novichok attacks and why would you do that if it you weren't the guilty party? meanwhile the uk has also compiled a list of cyber attacks which it says are not the actions of lone maverick groups but rather the products of russia's intelligence machines, including a cyber attack on the kiev metro, and the hacking of the world anti—doping agency, which saw the confidential medical files of international athletes leaked. yesterday, president putin thumbed his nose at britain again by calling sergei skripal a "scumbag."

today the uk's allies have hit back by listing the ways in which they believe vladimir putin is using his secret state to disrupt and medal in the affairs of the west. —— meddle. the us defence secretaryjim mattis has been speaking at a press conference about this subject, "russia must be held accountable for its attempts to carry out this act, russia must pay a price and a number of response options are available." the agreed with the determination made by the british and dutch authorities that the cooperation would continue to keep pressure on russia. our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, is at the foreign office. how much international cooperation has there been on this? a huge amount of cooperation, it is very unusualfor

amount of cooperation, it is very unusual for this amount of intelligence to be revealed in quite such detail, intelligence clearly coming from different intelligence agencies and governments. clearly, that coordination to reveal the information would have taken a huge amount of called the nation. secondly, the events of today, revelations by the british government, the dutch government, joint statement by the british prime minister, the dutch prime minister, americans weighing in later with their own evidence, their own indictments against named individuals, gru agents. clearly this is part of an international act by what we loosely call the west. notjust against by what we loosely call the west. not just against russia by what we loosely call the west. notjust against russia but specifically against the russian military—industrial complex, the gru. on top of the mass expulsion of diplomats that we saw from various allies of britain earlier in the year. what was really interesting,

at that time, everybody thought that might be the high water mark, that in some way, ok, we have supported the british on their particular incident in salisbury, many people thought the rest of europe would say, we want to maintain relations with moscow, we do not want to push too hard. in terms of the dutch, they have not taken that view because of what took place on dutch territory. the americans are still waiting in. the question will be how far this pressure can be maintained, the interesting question is this, if the interesting question is this, if the west wants to put more sanctioned pressure on moscow, on russia, that will have two come through eu sanctions, from a uk point of view, and at the moment, the rest of the eu is pretty relu cta nce the rest of the eu is pretty reluctance to ratchet up sanctioned pressure, because they have their own trading links and energy links with russia. many are waiting for written to leave the european union so written to leave the european union so they can relax existing sanctions. thank you very much.

our moscow correspondent is sarah rainsford. she explained the reaction in russia. we have heard just now from the foreign ministry saying this is western spy—mania picking up pace and they have promised a more detailed statement on that to come. we have heard that foreign ministries vokes person earlier today in her usual scathing form referring to the previous allegations made by british authorities about the whole wave of cyber attacks they are now blaming on russia. she was calling that a diabolical cocktail of accusation. she said that british officials fantasy new no round and she wanted to look the person in the face he was making all of this up. traditional dismissal by russia when faced with accusations that, as anna was detailing, the evidence particularly from the hague has been mounting. we can confirm, particularly from the names that have been released, to what are linked in public documents to addresses which belonged to the defence ministry here in moscow. that is independent confirmation

of the allegations coming out from the hague. uncomfortable evidence mounting for russia which, so far, is simply shrugging the whole affair. our correspondent anna holligan is in the hague, where the opcw is based. huge amount of information released to the media in support of the claims made by the dutch authorities. incredible body of evidence, this is the case file released, reads more like a spy novel. we have moved from the defence ministry to the very car park where the gi use aspects set up their surveillance and attempted hacking mission. —— gru. here in this car park, outside the headquarters of the organisation for

the prohibition of chemical weapons. taking you back a moment, chronologically, included in this case file, details of how these four men travelled from moscow, they have collected dutch intelligence, taxi receipt, from the barracks to the airport, the day they arrived, in the netherlands, pictures of them in the netherlands, pictures of them in the airport, at schiphol airport, in the airport, at schiphol airport, in the netherlands, with a member of the netherlands, with a member of the russian embassy, then they moved to the marriott, they conducted a surveillance mission. taking photographs from their window, then they moved outside, and then that is where they were picked up. in the briefing earlier, dutch intelligence said, how do we know these men were not simply on holiday here in the netherlands, and the suspect claimed they were tourists when sergei skripal was poisoned with nerve

agent. he then went on to detail the mobile phones that have been seized, the fact they were in possession of 20,000 euros and $20,000, they picked up laptops because clearly, these men were not expecting to be intercepted, given they left behind this whole body of evidence. it was not just the laptops, this whole body of evidence. it was notjust the laptops, but this whole body of evidence. it was not just the laptops, but the history, the search history, the wi—fi hotspot logging. things as basic as google map printouts, train tickets. this evidence, it is surprisingly and highly embarrassing that president by the mid—putin's top operatives could be capable of leaving behind this kind of paper trail. if we have time, i will show you some more images. this was the hacking system that they had attempted to set up, in the back of their higher car... from this car park, outside the marriott hotel,

which looks a cross into the headquarters of the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons, and another thing we should say, during this period, the opcw was in the process of investigating the nerve agent attack in salisbury, and also the alleged use of chemical weapons in syria. highly sensitive time, highly important body of evidence gathered by dutch intelligence services. i'm nowjoined by dr tim stevens, lecturer in global security and head of cyber security research group at king's college london. thank you very much for coming in. starting with the basics, close access attack, it has been described as, when we talk about cyber attacks... yes, we think about them being perpetrated from many miles distant, maybe even a different jurisdiction. but this is close access, that means operatives are up close and personal with the

institution involved. as we have seen, not very discreet. do they even seen, not very discreet. do they eve n ca re seen, not very discreet. do they even care that they have left this? so brazen, the tradecraft so poor, that one wonders if they wanted to be discovered, as it were, does not reflect well on their professionalism, certain elements of the intelligence states. what evidence does it make, the russians keep saying, nothing to see here, this is a fantasy. the russians will deny this as they have denied everything else. the point in attribute in publicly the ger you —— -- gru is attribute in publicly the ger you —— —— gru is to demonstrate to the world that russia is up to no good, and the uk and its allies know this and the uk and its allies know this and want to signal this to the russians. they need to draw lines in the sand about what is except the ball and what is not acceptable, in

that sense, this is the uk and its allies attempting to create or maintain the moral high ground, when it comes to these operations. what will make the message gets through to the kremlin? no one knows the answer to that, the point about these operations is not that you have to respond in kind, not this is only going to prosecute cyber attacks against the russians, you can be sure there is operations going on, but you have delivery giant power to do something about it. quite often that is sanctions but that has not stopped it, you might say we could go to the un security council and draft resolution, but the russians will next that from our one, as will the chinese. and the eu, not really the position with respect to the uk to do much either. —— hour one. difficult to tell what the uk and its allies can do to change russian behaviour. then, the emphasis must behaviour. then, the emphasis must be on prevention, stopping attacks.

that is an argument, certainly, the uk and all its allies are investing heavily in defence capabilities, trying to reduce the risk if you like, the numberof trying to reduce the risk if you like, the number of honour abilities in theirsystems, like, the number of honour abilities in their systems, but the problem is, the opcw is not a state organisation, it is an international organisation, it is an international organisation, no state is responsible for its cyber security, and that is across the piece. you're watching afternoon live. these are our headlines. the dutch authorities accuse russian intelligence of mounting a cyber attack on the international chemical weapons watchdog. british aid agencies launch an appeal to help victims of the indonesian earthquake and tsunami. senators in washington study an fbi report on donald trump's controversial nominee for the supreme court. in sport, gareth southgate extends

his contract as england manager until 2022, led the team to their first world cup semifinal in 28 yea rs first world cup semifinal in 28 years in russia this summer. cristiano ronaldo has been left out of portugal's squad for their matches this month against poland and scotland. kirsty gordon is one of three uncapped players named in the england squad for the world t20, lindsay smith and sofia dunkley are also included for the tournament next month in the caribbean. british charities are appealing for emergency funds to help survivors of the earthquake and tsunami in indonesia. at least moo people are known to have been killed in last friday's disaster, officials expect the death toll to rise. the disasters emergency committee says 200,000 people need clean water, food and medical care. charlotte gallagher reports. almost a week on, the devastation from the earthquake and tsunami remains startling. homes, hotels and businesses flattened. these rescuers continue to search through what remains of the buildings.

but they are finding more bodies, not survivors. teams believe they heard voices coming from the ruins of this hotel. this man is looking for his daughter. translation: we kept shouting her name, "it is me, your dad, with your brother" but no response, silence. i stayed there even with a couple of after—shocks, i would never give up. people who lost everything in the disaster are now living in makeshift camps relying on charity. and more aid is desperately needed here. what is getting through is only a tiny fraction of what is required. today the disasters emergency committee a gallon and appeal

for the 200,000 people in urgent need of help. the dec only launches these appeals when it meets our criteria and the scale is significant, and that's where we are with this emergency. the scale is huge. the member organisations of the dec can save lives and more importantly we know the british public would want to help. that's why we launched our appeal today. the indonesian military are guarding the aid which arrives here. there has been looting and soldiers have been ordered to shoot at people caught stealing. now there's fears that disease could spread as many bodies still are not buried. the challenge is getting food, water and medical supplies to people before the situation gets any worse. senators in the united states will be studying an fbi report

in the next few hours on allegations of sexual misconduct against brett kavanaugh, president trump's controversial nominee for the supreme court. bbc news understands the fbi haven't reached any conclusions about whether or not the claims are true. our correspondent, gary o'donoghue, is in washington. what about the white house, have they drawn a conclusion? they have made it pretty clear that they think there is no cooperation in this report for the allegations made against brett kavanagh. —— corroboration. the fbi was never going to come to a conclusion but they may have dug up evidence in the interviews they did, they spoke to nine people in total since last friday, far short of what the democrats wanted, the numbers they wanted, they wanted to does in

interviews, to be done, so i think thatis interviews, to be done, so i think that is the sort of battle ground you will see over the next 2a, 48 hours, democrats saying this was not enough, republicans saying, this now sealed it, no evidence, we can push forward with the nomination. what is interesting is who the fbi did not speak to, two of the main protagonists in this. yes, there was a bit ofa protagonists in this. yes, there was a bit of a decision by the white house or by the fbi not to do that, ina sense, house or by the fbi not to do that, in a sense, i suppose, we saw hours and hours of public testimony from those two last thursday, talking about brett kava nagh those two last thursday, talking about brett kavanagh and christine blazey ford. that may be the justification for that, what they will find harder to justify is justification for that, what they will find harder tojustify is how they did not speak to a whole bunch of college acquaintances and friends that brett kava nagh of college acquaintances and friends that brett kavanagh had, many of whom wanted to talk to the fbi, according to a piece in the new yorker. —— christine blasey ford. and they were not interviewed, and they tried to submit statements,

etc. that will be part of the controversy, as etc. that will be part of the co ntrove rsy , as we etc. that will be part of the controversy, as we say, in the run—up to the vote, which we now expect on saturday. confirmation vote requires, i guess, for everyone involved to vote very much along party lines, you cannot rely upon the numbers otherwise. the numbers are clear, 51 republicans in the senate, 49 democrats, you need a majority to get the confirmation through, if the republicans lose one vote, it goes to 50/50, then the vice president can have a casting vote, so they can only afford to lose one, there are three republicans on the fence still, so we are told, they will be keenly watched, i would say(!), to put it mildly over the next 48 hours to see which way they will go. if they were going to go against the nomination, and there are huge political costs

for them in doing that, if they were going to go against the nomination they would have do have some reason they would have do have some reason they can point to, perhaps this fbi report, for doing that, and there is no indication that there is a smoking gun in terms of evidence inside that report, that will allow them to turn around and say, actually, we cannot act this guy. the inquest into the death of westminster bridge attacker khalid masood has got under way. the inquest into the death of westminster bridge attacker khalid masood has got under way. the 52—year—old mowed down pedestrians in march last year, killing four people. he then fatally attacked pc keith palmer with knives at the palace of westminster. the coroner said the hearing would focus on the events in new palace yard leading up to masood's death and he warned jurors not to "jump to conclusions". two people have been found dead at a poultry processing factory in norfolk following a suspected chemical spill. emergency services were called to banham poultry in attleborough early on thursday morning, after two pest control sub contractors were found dead. police said the men, one in his 30s and other in his 405, were found close to the factory. no one else was injured

in the incident. melissa rudd has this report. police were called here to the banham poultry site in attleborough at 1:10am. two men, one in his 30s and another in his 405, were found dead, close to the factory. no—one else was injured. these men were subcontractors, they worked for a pest control company, and were not direct employees of banham poultry. as yet we do not know the cause but we do know the emergency services sent three hazardous area response team vehicles. also the town's trainstation which backs onto the site remains closed. greater anglia posted that due to what they called a chemical spillage services would not stop here for the rest of the day on the norwich to cambridge line. this morning we have seen police come and go as well as fire officers and forensics officers. this incident came hours after the business revealed it faced an uncertain future. it is up for sale and needs a partner. we have learned that two offers are being considered, one of which would see production here at attleborough cease and up to 1000 jobs in norfolk could be lost. away from that we're awaiting

further comment from the police about this tragic incident but we know the two men's next of kin have been informed. time for a look at the weather forecast, i promise it will be a... we are going to look at a typhoon. we are going to look at a typhoon. we will take a look at this typhoon, people in the southern japanese island of ka nawa people in the southern japanese island of kanawa have already felt the effects of the typhoon which has been brushing close. —— okinawa. a powerful typhoon, not the strongest, that was one which hit back in september, that was the strongest they have had for a quarter of a

century, this is not as powerful as that but is bringing impacts across the south of japan. here we that but is bringing impacts across the south ofjapan. here we are, you can see, just moving past these islands here, across the far south ofjapan, islands here, across the far south of japan, where is islands here, across the far south ofjapan, where is this islands here, across the far south of japan, where is this typhoon going, that is the important question, well, typhoon kong—rey we'll be moving up to southern parts of south korea, and then curves into the north of japan, of south korea, and then curves into the north ofjapan, around hot chi 90, the north ofjapan, around hot chi go, as we go into sunday, so we will see some big weather in packs. —— hokkaido. japan has had a rough time of it this year, particularly the summer. the typhoon earlier this year, the strongest in a quarter of a century, sitting in september, causing damage to the south of japan, we also had, injuly, a couple of record events, the heaviest rain we saw for a long time, causing the worst flooding in 30 years, and also injuly, we had

the record temperature recorded in japan, recorded at 41 celsius, both those massive floods injuly japan, recorded at 41 celsius, both those massive floods in july and the record temperatures injuly those massive floods in july and the record temperatures in july were linked by the japanese meteorology agency to climate change. they said the weather front that would normally be that time of year are further north, and that meant temperatures would rise, and that is what brought the heatwave, one of the contributing factors, and as well as that, with torrential rain, converging wind has brought a lot of moisture, sat there, raining and training, worst floods for 30 years. it does make you glad that our weather is as quiet as it is. we will cease in sunshine outside in london in the next hour to the north—west, streak of cloud moving in, pushing south, overthe next few days that cold air will be moving to southern england but not

really reaching the south until we get into saturday, slight changes taking place, northern ireland, scotland, soggy end to the day, outbreaks of rain, and the cloud continues to break further south, and in the sunshine, temperatures rise pretty quickly, temperatures up to 20 degrees. overnight tonight, weather front pushing south, rain moves away from scotland and northern ireland. will turn out to bea northern ireland. will turn out to be a cold night, cold enough for patches of frost in the countryside. at the same time, staying down for northern england and north wales, very mild, temperatures 11 or 12 degrees but it will be extensive low cloud, mist and fog patches, and bits and pieces of drizzle. friday, does not, this weatherfront, across northern england, north wales, damp day, only saving grace, weather front quite weak and the rain will probably get lighter and patchy as we go into the afternoon, maybe some

dry weather. best of the dry weather probably. when and northern ireland, best of the sunshine over a cold start. share was working into the western isles. weather front, bringing cloudy and damp weather. —— showers. in the sunshine, warm day tomorrow, 22 celsius possible in london, not far off average temperatures that we expect injuly, doing pretty well for october. into the weekend, that cold air is going to continue to push south, wet and windy weather, rain will be heavy and accompanied by gusty wind as it swings into east anglia. further north, cold start to the day, plenty of sunshine, no matter where we are, look at the temperatures, the colder air having reached across wales and into the south of england, you will notice the chill. second half of the weekend, england and wales have the best of the sunshine, further north and west, weather front moving in,

wet and windy weather. this weekend, weather is fair, across england and wales, rain, but a weather is fair, across england and wales, rain, buta reversal of fortu nes wales, rain, buta reversal of fortunes as we head through into sunday with the best of the weather further south. this is bbc news. our latest headlines... dutch security services say they expelled four russians over a cyber attack plot whiched targeted the global chemical weapons watchdog in the hague. officials in the netherlands gave a news conference in which they detailed how the group set up hacking equipment in a car parked next to the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons in april. at the time, it was investigating the nerve agent attack in salisbury that poisoned sergei and yulia skripal. britain says the russians were trying to clean up their mess. countries around the world — including britain — have launched an international aid effort to help the tens of thousands of victims of indonesia's tsunami earthquake. over moo people have been killed and over 2,500 injured after last

friday's earthquake. us senators are studying an fbi report into sexual misconduct allegations against president donald trump's supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. the report won't be made public but senators will assess the outcome of the allegations, which kavanaugh denies. sport now on afternoon live. let's look at football. we are likely to see the man on the waistcoat on the benches on the england side for a bit longer. gareth southgate has, within the last half an hour or so confirmed he has signed a new four year contract. the 2022 date is the date of the

next world cup. his assistant manager, steve holland, has also agreed a new deal through to 2022. southgate led england to their first world cup semifinal in many years in russia. he and his young team seemed to reconnect with the nation after decades of and achievement and the lack of affinity with the fans that followed them all over the world. southgate has been rewarded with what reports suggest is a pay rise to £3 million a year. you cannot guarantee you will win a tournament. every team turns up to try and win it. i believe we will win the world cup at one point in the not too distant future. for sure we will turn up to major tournaments, whether the year in 2020 or the world cup in 2022 hours more persistent challenges and the expectation should be we get to the

latter stages and that consistency is what we should need now and i'm delighted we can sign up gareth and steve for a further four years. greg dyke said 2022 was the tournament he and england should be aiming at. at least they now know who will be in charge. time to plan. gareth southgate has just announced charge. time to plan. gareth southgate hasjust announced his england squad. a busy day for gareth southgate. when you bear in mind that gareth southgate is going to be around until 2022, already a host of very young players in and around the england squad. he seems to have made a bit ofa england squad. he seems to have made a bit of a statement in bringing in even younger talent for the two nations league matches later this month against croatia and spain. some first call ups for names a lot of people will be hearing for the first time but are very much expected to be significant contributors to the future of england. they are sancho, a

manchester city youth product. mason mount, playing at derby and also james madison. the fulham goalkeeper has been called up for the first time. our whole raft of significant young call ups for gareth southgate for the new four year contract that gareth gates has signed. you will see the whole squad on the bbc website. more on that throughout the day. cristiano ronaldo has been left out of the portugal squad for next week's internationals against poland and scotland. the juventus forward hasn't played for his country since the world cup after being asked to be rested for portugal's games in september. on wednesday, he denied an allegation that he raped kathryn mayorga in 2009 in las vegas. ronaldo said he was calm over "any and all investigations" as he had

a "clear" conscience over the allegation. the former real madrid and manchester united player is his country's record goalscorer with 85 in 154 appearances. gareth bale has been included in the wales squad for their matches against spain and republic of ireland. he missed real madrid's champions league game this week through injury but is one of 25 players named by ryan giggs. joe ledley misses out because of injury. and his withdrawal means there are two changes overall with tom lockyer also ruled out. george thomas and jazz richards come in. after defeat last night for spurs and liverpool in the champions league attention later today moves to the europa league. and the four british sides are split over the two kick off times. celtic and arsenal start early against the champions of austria and azerbaijan respectively, while chelsea play vidi — the hungarian league winners. and rangers take on rapid vienna. that's all the sport for now. let's cross to washington. four

russian officers were caught red—handed as they attempted to bridge cyber security for the prohibition of chemical weapons. their target was a laboratory in switzerland, the next target. they we re switzerland, the next target. they were analysing the deadly russian nerve agent recovered in the uk following an assassination attempt, as well as other chemical agents used in syria against innocent civilians. the prime minister is of the netherlands and the united kingdom issued a joint statement condemning the russian behaviour. we are including a copy of that in the material provided to all of you. our indictment today charges some of the same russian operatives caught in the hague as long as their collea g u es the hague as long as their colleagues in moscow as part of a conspiracy to hack a variety of individuals and organisations in the united states, canada and europe to

obtain information and access that was then exploited for the benefit of the russian government. more specifically with this indictment alleges the conspiracy to use computer hacking to obtain non—public personal health information about athletes and others in the files of anti—doping agencies and sporting confederations in multiple countries. also to release the information speculatively and misleadingly. this was done to undermine efforts to ensure the integrity of the olympic and other games. other targets of this conspiracy where the chemical weapons laboratory in the hague and nuclear power company here in america. three of the seven defendants charged in this case where previously charged in the indictment brought by the office of special counsel in july indictment brought by the office of special counsel injuly of indictment brought by the office of special counsel in july of this indictment brought by the office of special counsel injuly of this she which pertain to a conspiracy to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. the current indictment

does not rise out of the work of the special counsel. the two indictments charge overlapping groups of conspirators and they have been some of the same methods of computer intrusion and the same overarching russian strategic goal to pursue its interests through illegal interests aimed at muddying or altering perceptions of the truth. the crux of this indictment, which the us attorney will describe in more detail is the targeting of the world anti—doping agency, the us anti—doping agency and the canadian centre for ethics and sport, the canadian anti—doping body. the gi you did so in response to efforts of anti—doping officials exposure to systematic and state backed athlete doping programme. embarrassed by that route, russia fought back by retaliating against the truth tellers and the truth itself. the

results of russian hacks were not just felt by the anti—doping efficiency —— officials or that agencies. russia decided it was fair game to flood social media with private medical information of 250 athletes from 30 countries in a manner that often inaccurately reflected or omitted the nature and purpose and context of the emperor mason. i hope that through the charges today, we can further educate ourselves as to the scope of the russian government's disinformation and influence campaigns. i hope responsible members of the international news media will cast a suspecting i on future operations which seek in part to manipulate stories. it is evidence that the defendants believed they could use anonymity to

act with impunity in their own countries and on the territories of other sovereign nations to undermine international institutions and to distract from their government's and wrongdoing. they were wrong. working together with our partners and nations that share our values, we can expose the truth for the world to see both nations like russia and others engaging in malicious activities should understand the continuing and steadfast resolve of the united states and its allies to prevent them and distract such conduct. justice is patient, it reaches long in its memory is longer. before i turn it over to the us attorney to discuss the charges in greater detail, i would like to extend my gratitude to the prosecutors in his office here in the national security division as well as in the team of fbi

investigators, the royal canadian mounted police and our international partners in the netherlands, switzerland and the united kingdom who are together responsible for where we are today. q. -- thank you. good morning. i where we are today. q. -- thank you. good morning. lam where we are today. q. -- thank you. good morning. i am scott brady coming united states attorney for the western district of pennsylvania. today, through our indictment of seven officers of the russian intelligence directorate, we are fighting back to protect us citizens and organisations from criminal cyber attacks funded by the russian government. these seven defendants are charged with the pervasive campaign of hacking, stealing private and sensitive information and publicising that information and publicising that information to retaliate against russian detractors and sway public opinion in russian favour. along with our international partners, we are shining a light on these criminals and are one step closer to bringing justice to the victims of

these malicious attacks. hundreds of victims were targeted by these russian criminals. the defendants targeted athletes and anti—day being agencies as retaliation of the state—sponsored athlete doping programme. victims included approximately 250 athletes from 30 countries as well as us and international anti—doping agency such as the court of arbitration for sport, the international association of athletics federation, fever, and as many as 35 other anti—doping sporting federations. but these bad actors carried out the titrate tax to further other russian interests as well. they targeted a nuclear power company in pittsburgh in pennsylvania which provided nuclear fuel to the uk and put that they targeted the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons which was investigating the use of chemical weapons in syria and the

poisoning of a former gru officer and his daughter in the uk. they targeted a lab in switzerland which analysed the nerve agent used in that poisoning will stop let me talk briefly about the charges and indictment will stop the defendants are charged within gauging in a lengthy and wide—ranging conspiracy to hack into private computers and networks around the world. the victims of this activity are anti—dopey organisations in the united states and abroad, swiss and dutch entities and an important company are my own district. federal law makes it illegal to use hacking techniques to gain access to protected computers and networks. this provided the basis for the wire fraud conspiracy count. five of the defendants were charged with aggravated identity theft. that means they legally obtained identity

information including passwords used by real persons and exploited it to further their hacking activity. one defendant is charged with four counts of wire fraud. he is alleged to have sent spear fishing e—mails to have sent spear fishing e—mails to specific employees in an effort to specific employees in an effort to trick them into providing logging in credentials to gain access to personal e—mail accounts and the westinghouse network. all defendants are charged with illegal money—laundering which means they used crypto currency like bitcoin to further their conspiracy. to pay vendor is by other hacking tools. the financial transactions occurred at least in part in the united states. i want to talk about two things generally. the howl of this conspiracy is fascinating. our ability to identify operational

practices was critical in our ability to identify defendants and bring the charges to bear. the mod of the cid units, the use of spear fishing campaigns, the use of d—dos attacks, the creation of spoof domains and the use of crypto currency. the use of a false profile to publish stolen data and the role of close access teams to hack hotel wi-fi of close access teams to hack hotel wi—fi and steel network access information. it is important the lie not get lost. it began with disclosure of russian state—sponsored doping programme for its athletes. in other words, russia cheated full debate cheated, they got caught, they were banned from the olympics, they were mad and they

retaliated. they broke the law and they were criminals. want to say a word about victims will stop in the midst of discussions over international standards and strategic interests when it is important to remember these defendants engaged in criminal activity in violation of the laws of the united states. this harmed the citizens of the united states. it is not by against spy, this is a criminal conspiracy causing real harm to real victims. —— spy against spy. when they target real organisations to steal secrets and technology, it costs american companies billions of dollars and there is a real cost to american workers, many of whom may lose their jobs as companies production or sales suffer. when the gru publishes private and sensitive information to

embarrass sports federations we are all made more vulnerable. no american citizen, let alone our most accomplished athletes representing the united states in world competition should have to ensure this. when the gru attacks labs for the use of chemical weapons for their own parochial interests and advantage we are all made less safe. at the department ofjustice we are not satisfied with merely exposing the conduct which is the subject of this investigation. our goal is the same in every case that we charge. we seek to arrest those who have broken the law. we want to bring them to pittsburgh and stand trial and put them injail. these defendants must be held accountable for their crimes will do that is our goal. it is what victims deserved and whatjustice goal. it is what victims deserved and what justice requires. goal. it is what victims deserved and whatjustice requires. we will hear from the fbi assistant rector.

—— director. hear from the fbi assistant rector. -- director. good morning. i am deputy assistant director for cyber on the harp of the fbi. i would like to make a few comments. we face cyber threats from hackers, force higher and illicit cyber enterprises. we face threats from nation states. the seven individuals indicted are all officers in the russian gru. the fbi investigation revealed the gru conducted computer hacking activities to retaliate against the world anti—doping officials publicly exposing russian sponsorship by russian athletes. the campaign was taken to internationally intentionally damage world organisations and athletes committed to fairness for that they import rated computers and networks

of anti—doping agencies, officials, sporting federations and hundreds of clea n, sporting federations and hundreds of clean, international athletes from hundreds of countries. targets extended beyond anti—doping and sporting federations for that they targeted the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons among others. in situations where gru operatives could not target the systems, they travelled using russian government issued passports to locations around the world to access close to locations around the world to a ccess close a ccess to locations around the world to access close access hacking operations. you can see some photos here. i think we have others we will provide after the conference where you will see the car used by the operatives outside the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons. you will see the materials and gear that was abandoned after the failed intelligence operation and you can also then see how the

gear was arranged to penetrate the wi—fi systems. this equipment was also used in compromises previously. the bold targeting of the wi—fi networks was used by victim organisations in various locations including switzerland, the netherlands and brazil. the gru use unauthorised access and stolen information to obtain through hacking efforts for the strategic benefit of the russian federation. they gauged in a campaign of influence to advance the interests of the russian government. they worked to undermine and destabilise effo rts worked to undermine and destabilise efforts of the international doping officials, publicise and expose information and drug testing belonging to athletes and damage the reputation of clean athletes around the world by peddling false narrative suggesting such athletes are using banned or performance and

answering drugs. gru officers released public, stolen, private information online hiding behind a false name. these activities moved well beyond acceptable government intelligence operations. the gru is breaking norms and the law in using cyber tools and resources in the fashion they have. the fbi considers any criminal activity conducted by nation state actors especially those leading to violations of american pregnancy and interference in our economy to be a matter of national security. they broke us law by hacking into infrastructure. victims targeted by nation state hackers should not have to face the threat alone in this indictment is important in seeking justice for the victims. we fully identify these conspirators. we can show who the rm provide detailed information and evidence of their affiliation with the russian government will stop ——

who they are and to provide detailed information. the chargers further layout for the international community some of the prior assertions the russian government was responsible for these attacks. we do not holler a criminal activity. we believe the gru officers are in russia and not available to answer the charges. —— we do not tolerate. we look forward to providing these subjects the opportunity to answer for these charges. we cannot always apprehend suspects but we will keep at it because the fbi has a long memory and an important responsibility to the victims. we would not be here without the cooperation of the victims and we urge victims to report suspected intrusions so we can raise the cost of this

behaviour. victims may be reluctant to report this. also to safeguard their privacy. we do not want victims to feel victimised again. suffering in silence does not help anyone. we want to help international partners. the royal canadian mounted police for their strong support and coordination between the investigations here and there, the uk national—security intelligence agencies for their ensuring and untiring support, the netherlands security service for their information sharing and assistance, eliminating the tactics of the gru and the swiss attorney's office for providing a prompt response. we will continue to work together to fight malicious cyber activities. we will work with diversity of thought, diverse city of countries but with commonality of purpose to ensure the safety of our

people and networks. —— diversity of countries. i know it was said that all of the defendants have been apprehended. do you have any reason to believe they have assets outside of russia, in the united states or other european countries, that could be seized as a means of trying to get back some money to victims is to mark i am not sure about that but it brings up an excellent point, which is one of the purpose of these charges. we have seen in the past where we have followed actions like this with sanctions on the defendants, on the organisations and other people involved. the administration has banged and many of the folks involved in previous cyber activity. there we have a

press co nfe re nce cyber activity. there we have a press conference by the us department ofjustice explaining their reasoning for indicting seven russian military officers following those revelations from the hague today regarding the organisation for prohibition of chemical weapons, saying they intend to bring these people to justice. two saying they intend to bring these people tojustice. two pieces saying they intend to bring these people to justice. two pieces of breaking news to bring you. people being advised to check pregnancy tests after a small number made by clear and simple gave inaccurate results. it estimates 58,000 tests are affected and have been inaccurate. having been distributed across the uk, women are buyers to return tests to their pharmacy and use another testing method. —— are advised. a strike by drivers on the

central line of the london underground will go ahead tomorrow after talks failed to resolve the row over industrial relations. that has just been announced by aslef. a strike tomorrow. time for the weather. pretty mild start the day, grey and drab. mist and fog patches out and about, grey skies setting of autumn colours, early in devon. cloudy at the moment, vast majority of those, stripe of cloud moving towards the uk, the weather front. over 12 hours that will push to allow cooler air into the northern half of the country, the weather front will continue to bring wet weather across scotland and northern ireland as we go into the evening. through the night, weather front becomes very

slow—moving, kind night, weather front becomes very slow— moving, kind of night, weather front becomes very slow—moving, kind of stalls the same areas, to the south, relatively mild, not of low cloud, mist fog patches. turning murky, bit of drizzle around, cold air getting into scotland and northern ireland, pockets of frost in the countryside to start the day on friday. as we going to friday, weather front will be slow moving across parts of wales and northern england, grey, cloudy, wet, further outbreaks of rain on and off for the rest of the day, mist and fog patches slowly lifting, the cloud may break to bring sunshine spells but across scotland after a cold and locally frosty start to the day, beautiful autumn conditions, isolated showers, most of england and wales will stay pretty great. temperatures could reach 22 degrees in east anglia, contrast that with 11 or 12 we were

looking at temperature wise further north. yes, turning that bit colder. looking at the weather picture into the weekend, wet and windy start to the weekend, wet and windy start to the weekend, wet and windy start to the weekend across a good part of england and wales, rain lasting well into the evening time across the south—east and east anglia, scotland and northern ireland with a fine start, cold to start the day, some sunshine. 11 or 12 degrees. second half of the weekend, dry weather with sunshine, and clear away, and as we go into the afternoon, cloud will gather, outbreaks of spreading into the north—west. there is also hello, you're watching afternoon live. today at 3: the dutch authorities accuse russian intelligence of mounting a cyber attack on the international chemical weapons watchdog. at the time it was investigating the nerve agent attack in salisbury that poisoned sergei and yulia skripal. britain says the russians were trying to clean up their mess in the us, thejustice department

charges seven russian military intelligence officers with hacking anti—doping agencies our indictment today charges some of the same russian operatives court in the hague as well as colleagues in moscow, as part of a conspiracy to hack a variety of individuals and organisations in the united states, canada, and europe. british aid agencies launch an appeal to help victims of the indonesian earthquake and tsunami. two men die in a suspected chemical incident at a norfolk poultry processing factory incident at a norfolk coming up on afternoon live, all the sport: gareth southgate has a new contract. he has been warned before taking england in the world cup semifinal, four year contract, until the next world cup, hugely popular with his tea m world cup, hugely popular with his team and the country, marked the

occasion by picking a squad with a definitive look to the future and just after half past we will have all the details. wet weather affecting scotland and northern ireland through the afternoon, cold front, pushing south, taking time to breach southern england but eventually all of us over the next couple of days will feel the cooler air ahead of the riba stirling prize next week, we take a look at the nominations to become britain's best new building. today we go to cornwall for the new tate at st ives. hello, everyone, this is afternoon live. dutch and british officials have named four suspected russian spies they say are part of a cyber

warfare team that tried to hack into the international chemical weapons agency in the netherlands. in a joint security briefing, the uk said the russian intelligence officers had tried to destabilise western democracies by hacking into the world anti—doping agency, and other targets in the us, britain and ukraine. earlier the foreign secretaryjeremy hunt responded to the latest allegations against russia's military intelligence agency. if anyone had any questions in their mind about russian military involvement in the salisbury attacks, this will put to rest those doubts, because here you have evidence of the russian military launching a cyber attack on the very organisation international organisation international organisation in the netherlands set up organisation in the netherlands set up to investigate those novichok attacks, why would you do that if you were not the guilty party. reality is that this is part of a pattern of cyber attacks, uk, us,

malaise, switzerland, now, the netherlands, the russian government needs to know that if they flout international law in this way, there will be consequences. they will be exposed. people will see the russian government for what they are, which is an organisation trying to foster instability through the world and thatis instability through the world and that is totally unacceptable. the uk has called out russia, in terms of cyber activity, most freshly, the attacks on the opcw, but what physical action beyond words is the uk and its allies going to do beyond what has been done already? the first thing we are doing is expose it, words matter, countries all over the world are hearing both sides of the world are hearing both sides of the story, hearing what the russians say as well, this is the evidence we will be getting from russia, fake

news, hard evidence of russian military activity. that is why we will be discussing with allies what further sanctions should be imposed. we will be working with friends and allies to counter this pattern of cyber attacks, which is the new type of attack that the whole world is dealing with. you have said the —— what evidence have you seen of russian interference in the brexit referendum, and the intervention of the the gru. we have not seen interference there, but we are monitoring these things and russia needs to know that if they do any of these things, but most of all, if they try to interfere with the democratic processes in other countries, it will be exposed and there will be consequences. jeremy hunt, foreign secretary. within the last half hour, we've had this reaction from nato.

this wasjens stoltenberg, secretary general. we are responding, everyday, and the fact that this attempt, this attack by russia on this organisation, that it was disrupted, shows we are getting better, at reacting to this kind of, or responding to this kind of cyber attack, getting better at providing the necessary attribution. what happened today was, uk and netherlands has exposed what russia, there are military intelligence services, or actually, are responsible for doing, in many places in the world. —— what russia's military intelligence services are actually responsible

for doing in many places in the world. our diplomatic correspondent james landale is at the foreign office. huge amount of evidence produced to support what is being said by the security agencies. the astonishing thing is the scale of the evidence that the dutch intelligence agencies have provided, this car that the russian gru agents had, outside the headquarters in the hague, stuffed full of telephones, computers, what one official called a huge haul of intelligence, that they have taken the last few months to sift through and check and followed traces of where these men have been in recent months, so they can say, these guys have not just been months, so they can say, these guys have notjust been trying to target the chemical weapons inspectors in the hague but also operations as far as from brazil, to malaysian, where they were trying to hack into the investigation into the downing of flight mh17. blamed on organisations

linked to russia. across the piece. what is being emphasised is, this is just an example of a huge pattern of behaviour, these intelligence agents from the ger you, not as going around the world doing this but also doing it remotely. —— the gru. earlier this year they tried to hack into the computers here at the foreign office after the salisbury poisoning, clearly a related incident, as they try to disrupt as much as they possibly could in response to the huge wave of international pressure put on russia after the salisbury incident. what is surprisingly is how much evidence these military officers left behind, quite a mess. they attempted to destroy some, after edwards clear

they were identified. —— after it was clear they had been identified. lily they did not destroy enough, one big question is why they had enough information on it, one of the details that is on them, the taxi receipt, going from the gru headquarters in moscow to moscow airport...! headquarters in moscow to moscow airport... ! presumably they headquarters in moscow to moscow airport. . .! presumably they were going to claim it back on expenses? they clearly kept this data with them. whenever you ask officials, is this port tradecraft, slightly incompetent organisation, they a lwa ys incompetent organisation, they always say, don't underestimate them, the subtext is, they won't say it openly but the inference is that actually, russia does not care, does not mind, it is quite open with this stuff, as long as it is deniable, it is why there was bad tradecraft over the salisbury incident, the fact these two men travelled together,

our sports with numbers, very similar, all these things which you would have thought they might put more effort over, in this case and in the case of the attempts to hack into the chemical weapons inspectorate of the hague, perhaps they were not as professional as others might expect. meanwhile, in the last half hour, officials in the united states have announced an indictment charging seven russian military officers with malicious cyber activities against the united states and its allies. the indictment charges of the same russian operatives caught in the hague as well their colleagues in moscow, as part of a conspiracy to hack a variety of individuals and organisations in the united states, canada, and europe, to obtain information or access that was then exploited for the benefit of the russian government. more specifically, this indictment alleges a conspiracy to obtain packing to get non—health

organisation about athletes and others in the files of anti—doping agencies and sporting federations in multiple countries full sometimes misleadingly, this was done to undermine organisation efforts to ensure the integrity of the olympic and other games. other targets of this conspiracy whether chemical weapons labradorian in the hague and a nuclear power company here in america. officials very clear about why and when russia carried out these attacks. let's speak to our state department correspondent barbara plett usher. they said they had a strong case with a lot of details, this element ofan with a lot of details, this element of an international conspiracy took place between 2014 and 2018, and it was because the russians had been accused of state—sponsored doping

campaigns for their athletes and therefore, because they had cheated, they were banned from the olympics, they were banned from the olympics, they were banned from the olympics, they were angry and they took revenge basically against those who had exposed them and against the agencies that were involved, so, anti—doping agencies in the us and canada, and other parts of the world, other sports federations and organisations officials involved as well. and then also, athletes, hacked into computers, obtained the personal information, medical health information of 250 athletes, from 30 countries, putting it in the public domain on social media in a way that suggested these athletes were not clea n. suggested these athletes were not clean. they were very clear, these officials, about why the russians we re officials, about why the russians were taking part in this particular pa rt were taking part in this particular part of the conspiracy, which was to retaliate for having been banned from the olympics over the doping allegations. they said thatjustice is patient and its memory is long;

how likely is it these seven military officers will ever be brought to justice? quite military officers will ever be brought tojustice? quite unlikely, probably a calculation taken when they are exposed like this, they did say here that they did not expect to get them from russia, but people travel, was the phrase, and other countries abide by the rule of law, the implication being they could be extradited if they travel but also, the officials in the press conference said it was important to bring this out publicly, with detailed charges, so it was clear this behaviour was not acceptable, they also said this lays the foundation for other government agencies if they want to take action such as sanctions. treasury has sanctioned a number of russian officials over the past year for what they would say is cybercrimes, including interfering in the 2016 election, so would not be surprising if there were more us sanctions put out against these individuals. the

idea of exposing with a great deal of information together with other countries and what is seen as an national conspiracy is all part of what they would see here as deterrents. british charities are appealing for emergency funds to help survivors of the earthquake and tsunami in indonesia. at least 1400 people are known to have been killed in last friday's disaster. oofficials expect the death toll to rise. the disasters emergency committee says 200,000 people need clean water, food and medical care. these rescuers continued to search through what remains of the buildings. they are finding

more bodies, not survivors. teams believe they have heard voices coming from the ruins of this hotel. this man is looking for his daughter. people who lost everything in the disaster are now living on charity in makeshift camps. and more aid is desperately needed here. what is getting through is only a tiny fraction of what is required, today, the disasters emergency committee began an appeal for the 200,000 people in urgent need of help.

member organisations of the dac are working and can deliver and can save lives, and more importantly, as well, we know the british public would want to support and want to help, that is why we launched the appeal today. the help, that is why we launched the appealtoday. the in indonesian military is guarding all the aid which arrives here, there has been looting and soldiers have been ordered to shoot at people caught stealing. disease could spread because bodies are not being buried, the challenge is to get food and medical supplies to people before this situation gets any worse. the

inquest the inquest into the death of westminster bridge attacker khalid masood has got under way. the 52—year—old mowed down pedestrians in march last year, killing four people. he then fatally attacked pc keith palmer with knives at the palace of westminster. the coroner said the hearing would focus on the events in new palace yard leading up to masood's death and he warned jurors not to "jump to conclusions". senators in the united states will be studying an fbi report in the next few hours on allegations of sexual misconduct against brett kavanaugh, president trump's controversial nominee for the supreme court. bbc news understands the fbi haven't reached any conclusions about whether or not the claims are true. our correspondent in washington, gary o'donoghue, told me what the white house were saying about the investigation. they have made it pretty clear through sources that they do not think there is cooperation in this port for allegations made against brett kava nagh, the

port for allegations made against brett kavanagh, the fbi was never going to come to a conclusion but they may have dug up some evidence in the interviews they did, they spoke to nine people in total since last friday, far short of what the democrats want, the numbers the democrats want, the numbers the democrats want, the numbers the democrats want them to talk to, they we re democrats want them to talk to, they were looking for something like two dozen interviews to be done, so i think that is the battle ground you will see over the next 24, 48 hours, democrats saying this was not thorough enough, republicans saying this now seals it, no evidence we can push forward with the nomination. what is also interesting, who the fbi did not speak with, two of the main protagonists. yes, obviously a bit ofa protagonists. yes, obviously a bit of a decision by the white house or the fbi not to do that, in a sense, i suppose, we saw hours and hours of public testimony from those two last thursday, brett kava nagh public testimony from those two last thursday, brett kavanagh and christine blasey ford, herself, that maybe the justification for that, what they will find hard to justify

is why they did not talk to a whole bunch of college friends, college acquaintances that brett kavanagh had, many of who wanted to talk to the fbi, according to a piece in the new yorker today and were not interviewed and tried to submit statements, etc, etc, that will be pa rt statements, etc, etc, that will be part of the controversy, in the run—up to the vote, which we expect on saturday. the confirmation vote requires, i guess, for everyone involved to vote very much along party lines, because you cannot rely on the numbers otherwise. numbers are clear, 51 republicans in the senate, 49 democrats, you need a majority to get the confirmation through. if the republicans lose one—vote, for example, it goes to 50/50, then the vice president can have a casting vote, they can afford only to lose one, three republicans

are on the fence still, so we are told, and they will be keenly watched, i would say, to put it mildly, over the next 48 hours, to say which way they will go. if they we re say which way they will go. if they were going to go against the nomination, and bear in mind, huge political costs in doing that if they do that, if they were to go against it, they would need a reason to point to, perhaps from this fbi report, for doing that, there is no indication that there is a smoking gun in terms of evidence inside this report that will allow them to turn around and say, actually, we cannot back this guy. trump has taken to twitter, over this fbi investigation. headlines: the dutch authorities accuse russian

intelligence of mounting a cyber attack on the international chemical weapons watchdog. in the us, thejustice department charges seven russian military intelligence officers with hacking anti—doping agencies. a drug dealer who trafficked three children including a teenage girl in and across county lines crack and heroin selling deal, has beenjailed for 17 years in a landmark ruling. british aid agencies launch an appeal to help victims of the indonesian. gareth southgate has signed a new contract with england. —— a man has been sentenced to 14 years injail after trafficking children into selling crack cocaine and heroin for him. it's the first time in uk legal history police have secured child trafficking convictions under the 2015 modern slavery act. england have called up their first buyer be born this century. jadon

sancho. a man has been sentenced to 14 years injail after trafficking children into selling crack cocaine and heroin. first time in legal history that child trafficking convictions have been secured under the 2015 modern slavery act. our correspondent, jon ironmonger, is in birmingham. that is what makes it a landmark case. that is right, the judge was new territory as he said in court, there is no sentencing guidelines to cover this kind of offence, and there was no legal precedent really for him to be working with, so he had his work cut out when sentencing this case, it is the first time, as you mentioned, that convictions, child trafficking convictions under the modern slavery act, have been brought against someone involved in

a so—called county lines operation, cou nty a so—called county lines operation, county lines being the use of teenagers or even children, sometimes, dispatched to provincial towns to deal drugs on the behalf of larger urban crime gangs. in this case, in the case of zachariah mohammed, police were led to him after initially starting a missing children's enquiry, children were going missing as early as december last year and turning up five weeks later in squalid flats in lincoln. you are under arrest for suspicion of supplying class a drug. april six, 21—year—old zachariah muhammed was arrested on his way to lincoln. it was from there that his drug operation took place, he admitted supplying heroin and crack cocaine, and trafficking children to deal on his behalf. he groomed teenagers, some as young as 14, into working for him, offering a lavish

lifestyle, and treating them like slaves. here, the children are seen selling drugs. he befriended these children, he groomed them, but with one end in mind, to exploit them, he did not see them as individuals, he saw them as a commodity, did not recognise their humanity, they were there to be exploited, to extend his business. police were led to him after children from birmingham were reported missing. teenagers were found holed up in a flat in lincoln, officers then identified a car making regular trips, from birmingham to lincoln, and that car was traced back to muhammed. mohammed was put under surveillance, after we re mohammed was put under surveillance, after were made between him and the drugs network. he was filmed buying tickets for the children from here, at birmingham new street station, to lincoln, where he made them live in the most appalling conditions. some of the missing teenagers were discovered during a police raid,

inside the flat, no heating, no food. instead, 25 wraps of heroin, and crack cocaine, and a pile of cash. now they have been reunited with theirfamilies, cash. now they have been reunited with their families, but it is likely there living nightmare will ta ke likely there living nightmare will take a long time to fade. sentencing muhammed, the judge acknowledged he was not the most senior member of the county lines operation but he did say he was a trusted lieutenant, and the investigating officers ascribe him asa investigating officers ascribe him as a busy man with no thought for the children involved, treated them as commodities, they said, he lived the life of a travelling salesman, stopping all night at service stations, driving four hours each day to deliver drugs, to the children, to the drug dens in lincoln, collecting money they had taken. —— driving for hours. the mobile number used to sell drugs was

making thousands of pounds every week but there was no evidence to suggest the children were seeing any of it. this is the first time these teenage drug dealers in this case have been treated as victims rather than suspected criminals, could suggest a change of tack really by the authorities in how they approach and investigate county lines networks, and it has certainly been, as we have seen today, a way of securing tougher convictions against operators involved. couriers with the delivery service, uber eats, and workers from restaurant chains including mcdonald's have gone on strike in a row over their pay. staff at two wetherspoon pubs in brighton are expected to strike, alongside workers from mcdonald's in london, cambridge and watford, and tgi fridays staff in milton keynes and two london branches. the unions involved in organising the action say the strikes will effect 8 cities across the uk between 5 and 6pm. joining me now is drjamie woodcock, a researcher

with oxford internet institute, who specializes in the gig economy how significant is this, it is this type of worker who is taking this action? this is hugely significant, it is not the first time we have had food delivery strikes, first we had was august, 2016, with delivery, but what is significant is now we have had them all across europe, china, hong kong. —— deliveroo. now what we haveis hong kong. —— deliveroo. now what we have is these new workers, starting to connect up the supply chain, chain restaurants delivering food, that means it is in an incredibly exciting development and has the possibility to win new things for these workers. mcdonald's have responded to this by saying, all restau ra nts responded to this by saying, all restaurants remain open as usual, despite frustrating attempts by protesters at a handful of locations to have an impact on customers and teams. it is a relatively short time they are doing this for, what impact will it have? with some restaurants,

what is important to remember is most of these workers are very young, most have never been in a trade union before, they are starting to learn how you can take action. i'm not surprised to hear mcdonald's say this is not a big deal, not a huge destruction, but i say to them, look at amazon, in the us, look at the fast food campaigns for $15 an hour, that are starting to happen, if there is a sea change happening, around the idea that you can push young people into low paid and precarious work. uber say that they provide a valuable way for people to supplement income and bridge gaps in work, last week, careers took home an average of £9,010 per hour, during mealtimes. they say they are making improvements. they feel they are doing quite well, for some people, this type of work is exactly what they need. —— taking home an average of £9 up to £10 per hour. since the

financial crisis, it has been increasingly difficult to get work and uber have stepped in, the strikes show people are not happy and everybody, regardless of whether you want flexibility, deserves a living wage, deserves some security in how they make a living. that is what wiest are starting to see happening, whether it is uber, wetherspoon ‘s, mcdonald's. —— that is what we are starting to see happening. it is one thing to organise a strike if you are in a localised workplace but how have these workers managed to organise, what might it teach traditional unions? it can teach a huge amount, i have done research with deliveroo drivers, for about two and a half yea rs, drivers, for about two and a half years, and most of these workers are organising themselves on whats app, not going to a monthly meeting, not submitting a motion about something, they are finding ways that they can ta ke they are finding ways that they can take power themselves, that they can make decisions. what's exciting about today is seeing new unions and the energy and the passion they

bring starting to connect up with some of the larger unions. they need to ta ke some of the larger unions. they need to take notice. this is what trade unionism looks like today. still a lot of cloud out and about. wet weather here over the next few hours, remaining heavy at times, if you patch is getting into northern england, north wales, otherwise, dry for england and wales, brights bells. weather front pushing south, taking the heaviest rain across into north wales. —— bright spells. in the south, mild, a lot of cloud, mist and fog patches and some drizzle, addictively around hills and coasts. northern ireland and scotland turning colder, on friday it is here they will have the best of the sunshine, after a cold and locally frosty start out in the countryside,

keeping sunshine on and off through the rest of the mild air. temperatures could reach 22. colder in the north with highs of around 12. that is the weather. this is bbc news. our latest headlines. dutch security services say they have expelled four russians over a cyber attack plot whiched targeted the global chemical weapons watchdog in the hague. at the time it was investigating the nerve agent attack in salisbury that poisoned sergei and yulia skripal.

britain says the russians were trying to clean up their mess. the justice department thejustice department charges seven officers with attacking anti—doping agencies as part of an operation with britain and the netherlands. a man has been jailed with britain and the netherlands. a man has beenjailed for 14 with britain and the netherlands. a man has been jailed for 14 years after a landmark prosecution. countries around the world — including britain — have launched an international aid effort to help the tens of thousands of victims of indonesia's tsunami earthquake. over 1400 people have been killed and over 2,500 injured after last friday's earthquake. the us senatejudiciary committee chairman chuck grassley has said there is "nothing we didn't already know" after senators studied an fbi report into sexual misconduct allegations against president trump's supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. sport now on afternoon live with hugh and gareth southgate has

a new contract with england. a new contract until 2022. he took england to the world cup semifinals and we will see if he can do it again. his assistant steve holland also agreed to an extension. southgate apparently stands to make £3 million a year for new four year deal. it wasn'tjust his waistcoat that was popular — his team was too. he reconnected with the nation and that was hugely important for the fa. england reached their first wc semi final in 28 years

and they want to contend at future tournaments too. you cannot guarantee you're going to wina you cannot guarantee you're going to win a tournament. every team that turns up wants to win. i believe we will win a tournament in the not too distant future. we will turn up for major tournaments, whether it is the euros or the world cup, there are more consistent challenge is an expectation that we should get to the latter stages. that consistency is what we will need and that is why iam is what we will need and that is why i am delighted we will sign up arrow and steve for four years. i am delighted we will sign up arrow and steve forfour years. —— gareth. england manager is often a divisive character. rarely such a no—brainer to extend contract. hugely popular, isn't he? he has announced a very hugely popular, isn't he? he has announced a very young squad. it's likely a coincidence because there are a few injuries around but this england squad makes quite a statement. 25 players —

only one born before 1990 — alex mccarthy. no players over 30 — and first player born in 2000 to be picked — jadon sancho. i say here's a man, here's a boy really. 18 yea rs i say here's a man, here's a boy really. 18 years old and plays for borussia dortmund. it was a bit of a surprise when he left manchester city. he went to borussia dortmund on the promise of more football. he is playing very well and has steadily made his way. more assists than any other player in the european leagues and he has been scoring goals as well. 18 and he gets a call up. also another teenager in mason mount. you can see all that 25 players selected. james maddison is called up. ross barkley‘s back in.

england play croatia and spain in nations league later this month. incredibly difficult fixtures for those players to come into. you never know with young players what they are capable of until they are given the opportunity. we gave joe gomez debut against brazil and he was man of the match. we have done right the way through the last few years. done right the way through the last few yea rs. i done right the way through the last few years. i think these guys, it may be a little bit early for them but equally they are having a big impact in important matches. it is good at this moment in time for their development to train with us and see how they adapt to that as well. cristiano ronaldo has been left out of the portugal squad for next week's internationals against poland and scotland. the juventus forward hasn't played for his country since the world cup after being asked to be rested for portugal's games in september. on wednesday, he denied an allegation that he

raped kathryn mayorga in 2009 in las vegas. ronaldo said he was calm over "any and all investigations" as he had a "clear" conscience over the allegation. the former real madrid and manchester united player is his country's record goalscorer with 85 in 154 appearances gareth bale has been included in the wales squad for their matches against spain and republic of ireland. he missed real madrid's champions league game this week through injury but is one of 25 players named by ryan giggs. joe ledley misses out because of injury and his withdrawal means there are two changes overall with tom lockyer also ruled out. george thomas and jazz richards come in. that's all the sport for now. we know the fbi has been looking into the allegations made against

judge brett kavanaugh. he denies all the allegations. now we have some comments from the chairman of the senatejudiciary comments from the chairman of the senate judiciary committee on comments from the chairman of the senatejudiciary committee on that report. his name is —— hears from iowa. there is nothing in it we do not know. these allegations have been rejected by brett kavanaugh. there were no third parties identified. this investigation found no hint of misconduct and the same is true that six prior fbi investigations conducted during brett kava naugh's 25 investigations conducted during brett kavanaugh's 25 years of public service. no one is on trial but the nation's edition of fairness —— tradition of fairness is on trial. it is time to vote and i will be voting to confirm judge brett kavanaugh. it requires the democrats

to vote as well and it may not be that everybody votes along party lines. we will have to wait and see while that confirmation takes place later. let's get more on our main story. dutch intelligence officials have given detailed accounts of an alleged russian spy operation against the international chemical weapons watchdog in the hague. the dutch expelled four agents who they say were launching a cyber attack on the opcw which at the time was investigating the nerve agent which poisoned the skripals in salisbury. joining me now from our bristol studio is brian lord, the ex—deputy director for intelligence and cyber operations at the cheltenham spy base. welcome. thank you forjoining us here this afternoon. how obvious target is this for the russians? here this afternoon. how obvious target is this for the russians7m is going to be one of the many targets the russians and the gru

have because it was vital in salisbury attack investigation. this is timed with the statement from the national cyber security centre, state m e nts national cyber security centre, statements from australia and new zealand, all pointing towards similar types of online cyber activity by the gru. this is simply pa rt activity by the gru. this is simply part of the ongoing war of words and activity between primarily russia and the uk and russia and the uk's allies. what would have happened had the attack been successful? cyber attacks are very different. does one wa nt to attacks are very different. does one want to disrupt the activity of the 0p cw want to disrupt the activity of the op cw or does one want to steal data from that organisation to find out what the nature of the investigation is, what they know and what degree

of evidence they have? the nature of online cyber activity can perform a number of functions. this would have compromised the investigation into the gru investigation in salisbury. russia denies every time it had anything to do with these claims no matter what evidence has been produced. what will cause russia to change its ways? i've been trying to get russians to change their ways is something a lot of nations have been doing too many —— for many years. it is demonstrating two things. the first thing is demonstrating that the uk is united entirely with its allies and the probing on russia is not just allies and the probing on russia is notjust coming from the uk but its allies and the russian attempts to

split the allies is failing. secondly, what actually does is demonstrates to the russians that the uk and its allies know exactly what the gru is doing. once you know that, it is a lot easier to counter it and that means they will have to adjust how they operate and so it goes on. it is making sure that the russians know they cannot operate with complete in punitive and the gaze of the world. that continues to ratchet up the pressure on the kremlin. we had all sorts of diplomatic expulsions in response to these salisbury poisonings. what would be unlikely, proportionate response from britain and its allies? there are a number of issues. the diplomatic spokesman issues. the diplomatic spokesman issue has been and gone. if one of theissues issue has been and gone. if one of the issues is, are we likely to counter with a cyber attack of our own against the russians i think, i

do not think we are into that escalation of issues? what we are looking to the moment is simply to demonstrate to the russians that we are aware of what they are doing and various potential for us to attack the infrastructure to stop these kinds of things happening. it is all pa rt kinds of things happening. it is all part of the ongoing narrative between the geopolitical tensions between the geopolitical tensions between the geopolitical tensions between the two country senator is stepping up the rhetoric a bit. thank you very much real—time. two people have been found dead at a poultry processing factory in norfolk following a suspected chemical spill. emergency services were called to banham poultry in attleborough early on thursday morning, after two pest control sub contractors were found dead. police said the men, one in his 30s and other in his 405, were found close to the factory. no one else was injured in the incident. meli55a rudd has this report. police were called to the site this

morning. two men were found dead. the5e morning. two men were found dead. these men were subcontractors, working for a pest control company. they were not direct employees of banham poultry. we do not know the cause but we do know that emergency 5ervice5 sent three response team vehicle5. 5ervice5 sent three response team vehicles. the train station which backs onto the site remains clo5ed. greater anglia posted that comment due to what they called a chemical spillage bus services would not stop here for the rest of the day on the norwich to cambridge line. —— that 5ervice5 norwich to cambridge line. —— that services would not stop here. this incident came hours after the bu5ine55 revealed it faced an uncertain future. it is up for sale and needs a partner. what we have learned is that two offers are being considered, one would see production here at attleborough 5eas considered, one would see production here at attleborough seas and up to a thousand job5 here at attleborough seas and up to a thousand jobs in norfolk could be

lo5t. a thousand jobs in norfolk could be lost. we a re a thousand jobs in norfolk could be lost. we are awaiting further comment from the police about this tragic incident but we know the next of kin have been informed. a man has appeared in court,charged with the murders of eight members of the same family, who died in a house fire in huddersfield in 2002. shahid mohammed, who used to live in huddersfield, wa5 extradited back to the uk from pakistan. our correspondent, phil bodmer, has been giving us the latest. thi5 this was a very short appearance at leed5 magistrates' court. a5 this was a very short appearance at leed5 magistrates' court. as you mention is shahid mohammed spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth. the 36—year—old, formerly of huddersfield, i5 birth. the 36—year—old, formerly of huddersfield, is charged with the murders of five children in three adults and one count of conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life. it follows the fatal house fire in huddersfield in may of 2002. eight members of one family all died during the fire in a

terraced house in the town. shahid mohammed wa5 extradited back to the united kingdom from pakistani by west yorkshire police. along with support from the national crime agency, the british high commission in islamabad, the crown prosecution service and local authorities working in pakistani. he has been held in prison in islamabad since january, 2015, when he was picked up by the authorities. that followed a joint operation by uk police and pakistani authorities working with the uk national crime agency. banham poultry wa5 remanded in custody to make another appearance by this time in front of leeds crown court, tomorrow morning. the business news in a moment. fir5t

the headlines. the dutch authorities accuse russian intelligence of mounting a cyber attack on the international chemical weapons watchdog. in the us, thejustice department charges seven russian military intelligence officers with hacking anti—doping agencies. a drug dealer who trafficked three children including a teenage girl to use in a "county lines" crack and heroin selling ring has been jailed for 14 years after a landmark prosecution here's your business headlines on afternoon live. sales of new cars last month are more than 20% down on last year. meanwhile, nissan warns about the impact of a possible no—deal on brexit. 7,000 people work at ni55an'5 sunderland plant. the japanese firm is urging the uk and eu to work together and towards a balanced brexit. as we've been hearing the boss of rbs has warned a no—deal could tip the uk into recession. the bank is also becoming more cautious about lending to construction and retail businesses. online retailing giant amazon has

been criticised for cutting benefits for uk warehouse worker5, offsetting part of a pay rise announced this week. the removal of employee share and incentive 5cheme5 could cost some workers £1,500 in a single year, according to the gmb union. big day for the publishing world? todayi5 today is known as super thursday. it i5 today is known as super thursday. it is the beginning of the christmas countdown. i went into a well—known shop today and i work chri5tmas decorations with cards on display. i felt this kind of visceral distaste towards it. it is too early. normally it should be after bonfire night. if you're a publisher you

have to think about getting the books on the shelves. £63 million of book5, books on the shelves. £63 million of books, a third of the total yearly volume of books sold i5 books, a third of the total yearly volume of books sold is sold in this period between the 4th of october and christmas day. it is around to see who will be the christmas number one. this year will see a few changes. in the last few years we have had autobiographies from younger people but this year it is all about older people and their live5. eric idle'5 "sortabiography" always look on the bright side of life; tina turner's memoir my love story; roger daltrey‘s memoir — named thanks a lot mr kibblewhite. where you open to adult colouring in books? they do the opposite for me. they make me very 5tressed. books? they do the opposite for me. they make me very stressed. this year, all the rage will be puzzle books are not colouring books.

joining us now is meryl halls, managing director why is this period so important? publishers are keen to get their big—name titles out. it is about getting as many of the big—name titles out in front of consumers so the can see them ahead of christmas time and back into the book shop. it is about making consumers go into book shops to buy books because we think that is the best place to buy books or you can see and smell and touch them. a third book sells happen in the run—up to christmas and it is really important for the high street. how important is it for independent book—sellers up and down the country to compete with the cost—cutting uc from online cells and bigger book—selling networks? ——

you can see from online sales. and bigger book—selling networks? —— you can see from online salesm and bigger book—selling networks? —— you can see from online sales. it is all about the personal recommendation, going into a book shop and striking up a relationship with a book—seller who can find out about you and what you might want. they are good at curating the books they have on their shelves. although some shops do sell discount, it is not their primary aim. they are looking to add to the experience of the consumer is after. there is a sense of community yearning. it is a tough place to be. the high street i5 tough place to be. the high street is very demanding with business rate and lots of other occupancy co5ts will stop book shops are all about setting up a personal relationship and curating setting up a personal relationship and cu rating titles setting up a personal relationship and curating titles available and helping consumers find a gift at chri5tmas helping consumers find a gift at christmas time for everyone. this year there are going to be a number of interesting books published. jk rowling i5 of interesting books published. jk rowling is coming up with a screenplay of her latest film and

also the memoirfrom michelle obama. have people's tastes changed or is it the big autobiography that gets people going? hardbacks are a great gift, a special gift will stop i think it is something, quite an intimate thing too give to someone at christmas. a very thoughtful gift. there is a lot out there. good to speak to you. thank you very much indeed. i have a pilot fiction. to speak to you. thank you very much indeed. i have a pilot fictionlj thought indeed. i have a pilot fiction.” thought you were going to say you had a par love this. when a short book coming out? —— a pile of fish. chris on twitter says, i only have three more presence to get. that is my christmas shopping finished and i have not stepped inside a shop once. maybe we should do our shopping

exactly that as a foil. maybe i will try that. let's talk about retail. it is very much in focused on the markets. ted baker has had issues. the issues mainly for the retail side. the retail side have suffered, especially through its franchise relationship with the house of fraser which collapsed. the hot weather we had in the summer impacted sales. the pound has rebranded against the euro over the last day or so. thank you. —— rebounded against the euro. the winner of the royal institute of british architects' most prestigious award, the riba stirling prize, will be announced next week. the nominations to become britain's best new building include a student housing development, a cemetery, and a nursery school. we'll look at each building in the shortlist over the next few days.

and today it's the turn of... the new tate at st ives in cornwall by jamie fobert architects with evans & shalev. it's a reconfiguration and extension of the postmodern art gallery which doubles the exhibition space and creates a new public walkway connecting the town to the beach tate came to st ives because of this amazing legacy here — an artists' colony that started in the early 19th century and continues to this day. we got to this point where we had four times as many visitors as we expected, so the gallery was bursting at the seams. the community wanted the gallery to expand, but at the same time they wanted it to be integrated into the landscape. we did this by excavating into the cliff side, so that we could create the largest possible gallery level with the existing galleries. st ives sits as a spit of sand out into the atlantic, which captures both the east and west light. it was this particular double light

that attracted artists here in the first place. the roof of the gallery is made up of massive concrete beams, above which are six very large light chambers that capture this very particular light of st ives. you could say that daylight was the primary material around which the gallery was built. besides the gallery, it was incredibly important that we provide art handling and staff spaces, and this created a small building that sat above this landscape. as it was looking out to sea and up at the sky, we chose to clad the building in a glazed tile — which reflects the sea and the sky and captures these two primal elements of the cornish landscape. you don't realise the scale of how big this build is and how clever it was to imagine that it would fit here, until you actually come into the finished space and you see it for the first time — and it was just amazing.

i'm just thrilled. to me, this is a testament to true dialogue with the communities of cornwall, resulting in incredible architecture. you can find out more about all of the nominated buildings on the bbc arts website and watch this year's riba stirling prize live here on the bbc news channel next wednesday evening between 8:30pm and 9pm. more than 58,000 digital pregnancy tests have been recalled after some wrongly told women they were expecting. women who have bought the clear & simple test, manufactured by guangzhou wondfo biotech, are being advised to return it. claire murphy from the british preganancy advisory servicejoins me now via webcam. what are your concerns for the women

he might be affected? it seems quite a large number of pregnancy tests. hopefully the number of women affected will be small. pregnancy testing can be a very emotional and stressful time for women, for women who have perhaps waited a long time to conceive, having a positive result is a source ofjoy and celebration. for women who do not wa nt to celebration. for women who do not want to be pregnant were clearly a positive result, an unexpected positive result, an unexpected positive result, an unexpected positive result, can be really problematic and thrown lifetimes into disarray will stop they will have to think about what to do next. women are aware that with pregnancy testing is, false negatives are common but clearly false positives are much more unusual. what is your advice? the advice is, the hmr a has

suggested retesting and making sure that if you have any of these pregnancy that if you have any of these preg na ncy tests that if you have any of these pregnancy tests at home, check the numbers that have been released. we appreciate you joining us. thank you very much. time for a look at the weather. still a lot of cloud out about with rain pushing into scotland and northern ireland. the rain is quite heavy at times. a few patches getting into northern england northern wales. a few bright spells to end the day. this evening and overnight, a weather front pushes southwards taking the heaviest rain into north wales. to the south it is mild with a lot of cloud with some mist and fog patches and drizzle, particularly around the hills and coasts. in scotland and northern ireland turning colder. after a cold and locally frosty start to the day

in the countryside, we will keep the sunshine on and off. in the south there will be rain across the north of england and wales. to the south of england and wales. to the south of the front, milder temperatures could reach 22 degrees. colder further north with highs of 12. that is the weather. hello, you're watching afternoon live. the dutch authorities accuse russian intelligence of mounting a cyber attack on the international chemical weapons watchdog. at the time it was investigating the nerve agent attack in salisbury that poisoned sergei and yulia skripal. britain says the russians were trying to clean up their mess. in the us, thejustice department charges seven russian military intelligence officers with hacking anti—doping agencies. our indictment today charges some of the same russian operatives caught in the hague as well as

colleagues in moscow, as part of a conspiracy to hack a variety of individuals and organisations in the united states, canada, and europe. a drug dealer who trafficked three children including a teenage girl to use in a "county lines" crack and heroin selling ring has been jailed for 14 years after a landmark prosecution. the chairman of the senatejudiciary committee says the fbi found "no hint of misconduct" in its kava naugh investigation. two men die in a suspected chemical incident at a norfolk poultry processing factory. coming up on afternoon live all the sport — and some news about the future of the england football team... a new contract for gareth southgate. he signed a new deal until 2022 to ta ke he signed a new deal until 2022 to take us up to the world cup semifinals in russia this year. and

he has named a very young england squad. more on that later. thank you. chris has all the weather. tell us what we can expect. some rain at the moment in scotland and northern ireland. it will be colder tomorrow in scotland and northern ireland with the cold weather reaching england and wales as we head into the weekend. during colder for all of us over the next few days, and we will also be looking at the typhoon that is forecast to hit parts of japan and south korea as we going to the days ahead. also coming up: no rain in spain. aftera hot, dry summer, what lincolnshire's farmers can learn from andalucia. hello everyone, this is afternoon live. dutch and british officials have named four suspected russian spies they say are part of a cyber warfare team that tried to hack

into the international chemical weapons agency in the netherlands. in a joint security briefing, the uk said the russian intelligence officers had tried to destabilise western democracies by hacking into the world anti—doping agency and other targets in the us, britain and ukraine. it is seven months since the first chemical attack in europe since the second world war, and even now another extraordinary twist. did russia's monetary intelligence outfit not only send the would—be assassins, but also send a team to spy assassins, but also send a team to spy on the body that tested samples of the nerve agent? today the dutch authorities say they caught russian agents red—handed, trying to snoop on the organisation. on the 13th of april this year, an

operation to disrupt an operation targeting the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons. for russian agents were discovered ina car for russian agents were discovered in a car in this building with la pto ps in a car in this building with laptops and ten i and multiple mobile phones. they were trying to get into the opcw system. they had taxi receipts showing that they had travelled from moscow airports, and other hacking attacks around the world. the intelligence office believes it knows exactly what was happening. this was not an isolated act. the unit involved, known as unit 26165 has sent officers around the world to conduct close access cyber

operations. we will increase further our understanding of what the gre is doing and attempting to do in other countries. we will shine a light on their activities. we will expose their activities. we will expose their methods and we will share this with our allies. the russian agents were expelled unceremoniously from dutch soil but today they were named and ministers in the uk say the evidence is compelling. if anyone had any questions in their mind aboutany if anyone had any questions in their mind about any russian military involvement in the salisbury attacks, these will put to rest those doubts. here you have evidence of the russian military launching a cyber attack on the international organisation in the netherlands set up organisation in the netherlands set up to investigate those attacks, and why would you do that if you weren't the guilty party? in washington, the department of

justice as it was indicting a group of seven russian agents who it claims targeting widmer targeted dad —— targeted the world anti—doping agency organisation. personal health information about athletes and others in the files of anti—doping agencies and sporting federations in multiple countries, and selecting that information selectively and sometimes misleadingly. all of this was done to undermine efforts to ensure the integrity of the olympics and other games. the uk has also compiled a list of other cyber attacks which it says we re other cyber attacks which it says were not the actions of lone maverick groups but rather the product of russia's intelligence machine. they include a cyber attack on the metro in kiev and hacking in 2016. it was described as a diabolical perfume cocktail and

someone with a rich imagination. yesterday president putin thumbed his nose at britain again by calling the main target of the salisbury attack a scumbag. today the uk allies have hit back, listing all the ways by which they believe vladimir putin is using his secret state to disrupt and medal in the affairs of the west. earlier i spoke to our diplomatic correspondent james landale, and he explained the significance of today's events. the astonishing thing today is the scale of the evidence, the car that agents had outside the opcw headquarters, stuffed with computers and telephones. one official called ita and telephones. one official called it a huge haul of intelligence that they have taken over the last few months to sift through and check and

follow the traces of where these men have been in recent months so they can say, these guys have notjust been trying to target the chemical weapons inspectors in the hague but also operations as far as from brazil, to malaysia, where they were trying to apparently hack into the investigation into the downing of a flight investigation into the downing of a flight in 2014, which has been linked to organisations belonging to russia. officials are emphasising that this is an example of a huge pattern of behaviour by these intelligence agents from the gre you, not just intelligence agents from the gre you, notjust going around the world doing this but also doing it remotely. earlier this year they try to hack into the computers here at the foreign office after the salisbury poisonings, in what officials say was clearly a related incident, as they tried to disrupt as much as they possibly could in response to the huge wave of

international pressure that was put on russia following the salisbury incident. and what is surprising is how much evidence these military officers left behind. it was quite a mess. clearly, they attempted to try to destroy some of it once they discovered that they had been identified, and they were about to become subject to the full force of the dutch intelligence services themselves, but clearly they didn't manage to destroy enough. one of the big questions is why did they have so much information? one of the details that is always incredible if they still had on them the taxi receipt from going from the headquarters in moscow to moscow airport. presumably they were going to claim it back on expenses or something in the future, so they clearly kept a lot of the stuff with them. whenever you ask officials about this and say, was this just an example of poor tradecraft or an

incompetent organisation? they a lwa ys incompetent organisation? they always say not to underestimate the organisation. the inference is that russia doesn't care, it doesn't mind, it is quite open about this kind of stuff. as long as it is deniable. the fact that these two men in the salisbury incident travel together on passport numbers that we re very together on passport numbers that were very similar... all of these kind of things that you would have thought they would make more effort over, and also in the attempt to hack into the opcw in the hague, they went as professional as others might have expected. we will return to that story in a moment. let's cross to washington where senate minority leader chuck schumer is holding a press conference to respond to the fbi report into brett kavanaugh. let's listen in. why shouldn't all of america see the facts? and

second, we are reiterating our call to make the directive at the white house sent to the fbi public because we believe it greatly constrained the investigation from the get go. the fact there is only one document in there for 100 senators is another example of constraining the ability of all senators and the american public to see the whole truth and nothing but. thank you. that was the democrat, disagreeing with the assessment of the chairman of thejudiciary with the assessment of the chairman of the judiciary committee with the assessment of the chairman of thejudiciary committee at with the assessment of the chairman of the judiciary committee at the senate, who said earlier that the fbi report into the sexual misconduct allegations against kavanaugh taught them nothing new

and he would still be voting to confirm judge kavanaugh. he believed the report should be made public but it isn't going to be. and also the directive from the white house to the fbi and the scope of their investigation should always be made public for everybody to see, because he felt there was some constraint in the scope of their investigations. we will keep following thatjourney towards the confirmation vote. kavanaugh denying towards the confirmation vote. kava naugh denying that towards the confirmation vote. kavanaugh denying that he has done anything wrong. let's return now to the disclosures by the dutch and british authorities about the involvement of russian military officers involved in a hack against the international chemical weapons watchdog in the netherlands. we can speak now to mark galeotti, he's a fellow at the european university institute and he's a former uk

government advisor on russian corruption and intelligence. thank you forjoining us. what strikes you particularly about the way the various allies involved have brought these disclosures to our attention today? it is clear this is a coordinated operation, notjust by chance that the americans, dutch and british are talking about this on the same day. on the one hand that shows impressive shift away from what we saw before the salisbury poisoning, which was every country was on its own, and now everyone is more co—operative. this isjust essentially a series of press conferences. momentarily embarrassing for vladimir putin but i doubt he's losing much sleep over whetherjeremy hunt likes him or not. the question is whether this is going to lead to a reaction or not. what options are there? in a way, we

did see more sanctions, we could see some other counter action against the russian government. things like at the moment we have heard things like, we will be sharing information with our allies. we would hope that britain and the netherlands and the us were doing that anyway. this is the problem. going back to what your corrib respondents said, at the moment the kremlin doesn't care. —— what your correspondent said. it is almost an advantage by being seen as almost an advantage by being seen as a recluse and aggressive. at the moment this isjust a recluse and aggressive. at the moment this is just words. if it is possible to boil it down, what is the purpose of these various different actions against these various different bodies by russia? essentially, we see a couple of different strands. one of them is clearing up messes. trying to see if they can break into foreign office systems and opcw systems after

scrape out —— after skripal. russia has been caught out and trying to get a lead into the advice of what they are going to say in the investigations. then we also have the american political campaign hack in the presidential elections, when it is clearly more about trying to direct the medal. it isn't doing it on its own initiative. if it is basically just the sharp on its own initiative. if it is basicallyjust the sharp edge of kremlin policy, the kremlin is trying to divide, distract and demoralise the west. so it is doing what it can to help. might there be a period when it tries to keep its head down, avoid these kind of tactics? if the achilles' heel for russia is its international reputation, which at the moment is looking pretty shabby.

this is it. i don't think so because i think putin has largely written it off. they are basically acting as the guidance of the one man in russia who really counts. so far he has been putting up a pretty clear signal that he doesn't care if it gets caught. it is more important that they try these things. if on the other hand he decide things are a little bit too hot, you might see a little bit too hot, you might see a new line and in which case, they will probably back away. up until this point, particularly given president putin's rather outspoken comments about skripal yesterday, there is no evidence that he thinks this is a problem. mark, thank you very much. a man has been sentenced to 14 years in jail after trafficking children into selling crack cocaine and heroin. it's the first time in uk legal history police have secured child trafficking convictions under the 2015 modern slavery act.

our correspondent jon ironmonger is in birmingham. tell us what has been happening. this really was a landmark sentencing in many ways. thejudge himself said that he was an new territory today because there is no legal precedent for the new sentencing guidelines for him. it is the first time that child trafficking convictions have been reached against an offender under the modern slavery act, as you were saying, for an investigation into cou nty saying, for an investigation into county lines drug running, which is when children or teenagers are dispatched to provincial towns, often a long way from him, to deal drugs and collect the cash for big urban gangs. it is also the first time that the children involved were treated as victims, not suspected criminals. the case in particular, mohammed zachariah muhammed, it came

to the police's attention as a missing persons enquiry. children we re missing persons enquiry. children were going missing from birmingham last year and turning up in flats in lincoln around 100 miles away. children as young as 14 living in squalid conditions with known drug users. the 6th of april. the 20—year—old, zachariah muhammed, was arrested on his way into lincoln. it was from there that his drug operation took place. he admitted supplying heroin and crack cocaine and trafficking children to deal on his behalf. muhammed groomed as teenagers, some as young as 14, into working for him, offering them a lavish lifestyle and then treating them like slaves. here they are seen selling drugs. he befriended these children, grooming them, with one end in mind—

to exploit them. he didn't see them as individuals, he saw them as a commodity. he didn't recognise their humanity. they were there to be exploited to extend his business. police were led to him after children from birmingham were reported missing. the teenagers were found holed up in a flat in lincoln. officers then identified a car making regular trips from birmingham to lincoln, and that khan was traced back to muhammed. —— that car was traced back. links were made between him and the drugs network. he was filmed buying tickets for the children from here at birmingham new street station to lincoln, where he made them live in the most appalling conditions. some of the missing teenagers were discovered during a police raid. inside the flat, no heating, no food. instead, 25 wraps of heroin and crack cocaine and a pile of cash. now they've been

united with their families that it's likely their living nightmare will ta ke likely their living nightmare will take a long time to fade. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines the dutch authorities accuse russian intelligence of mounting a cyber attack on the international chemical weapons watchdog. a drug dealer who trafficked three children including a teenage girl to use in a "county lines" crack and heroin selling ring has been jailed for 14 years after a landmark prosecution. the chairman of the senatejudiciary committee says the fbi found "no hint of misconduct" in its gareth southgate has had an extension to his contract. he names a very young squad. the forward is the first player to be called up by

england to be born this century. and ki rsty england to be born this century. and kirsty is one of three uncapped players named in the women's t20. sophia smith is also included in the tournament in the caribbean. more on that just after 4:30pm. the fbi have delivered their report into allegations of sexual assault against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, republican chuck grassley, said, "there's nothing in it that we didn't already know" and that there was "no hint of misconduct". the democrat minority leader said he disagreed with this assessment from chuck grassley. he feels that the report by the fbi should be made public for all to see. our correspondent gary o'donoghue is in washington. different reactions from the

different parties, rather predictably. and i think that was pretty inevitable, there was going to be a tug—of—war over the narrative of how to describe this fbi investigation. democrats, predictably, saying it wasn't fair enough. nine witnesses we re wasn't fair enough. nine witnesses were interviewed and they wanted to dawson. the republicans say there is no corroboration into these claims. those positions were well rehearsed and set out this morning. interestingly, chuck schumer, the democrat leader, again suggesting in a news conference a few moments ago he believed there is some evidence in this report. he said it was wrong to suggest there was no hint of misconduct. it is slightly cryptic because he can't reveal the

contents, that it is a way of trying to put pressure on the republicans and the white house to reveal this document in some way, albeit redacted, to try to put that to bed. but he is suggesting there is more to this than we are led to believe that the moment. what is going to happen next, with this confirmation vote? there are some arcane sennett shenanigans to be gone through so what will happen tomorrow is they will have a procedural vote, which is effectively a vote to pave the way for the burial float —— for the real vote. that will be indicative of how things are looking. then 30 hours later or so, they will probably have a full vote, probably saturday afternoon. it is a a bit fluid at the moment. we will see the confirmation vote go through around them. intriguingly, some reports in them. intriguingly, some reports in the us media that one of the floating voters, the republicans,

will have to fall in line in order for this to go through. susan collins indicating that she believes this is a thorough investigation. that would suggest that she is now leaning towards voting for kavanaugh. thank you. british charities are appealing for emergency funds to help survivors of the earthquake and tsunami in indonesia. at least 1,400 people are known to have been killed in last friday's disaster — officials expect the death toll to rise. the disasters emergency committee says 200,000 people need clean water, food and medical care. charlotte gallagher reports. almost a week on, the devastation from the earthquake and tsunami remains startling. homes, hotels and businesses flattened. these rescuers continue to search through what remains of the buildings. but they are finding more bodies, not survivors. teams believe they heard voices coming from the ruins of this

hotel. this man is looking for his daughter. translation: we kept shouting her name, "it is me, your dad, with your brother" but no response, silence. i stayed there even with a couple of after—shocks, i would never give up. people who lost everything in the disaster are now living in makeshift camps relying on charity. and more aid is desperately needed here. what is getting through is only a tiny today the disasters emergency committee began an appeal for the 200,000 people in urgent need of help.

the dec only launches these appeals when it meets our criteria and the scale is significant, and that's where we are with this emergency. the scale is huge. the member organisations of the dec can save lives and more importantly we know the british public would want to help. that's why we launched our appeal today. the indonesian military are guarding the aid which arrives here. there has been looting and soldiers have been ordered to shoot at people caught stealing. now there's fears that disease could spread as many bodies still are not buried. the challenge is getting food, water and medical supplies to people before the situation gets any worse. chris is here with news of a typhoon. they are like harry kane is over the

pacific. this one is starting to blow with strong winds on the japanese island of quinoa. —— arc in our. here it is on the satellite picture, working in across the southern islands of japan. from there it is going to be curving in a north eastwards path, which takes it close to south korea as we get into saturday before swinging into the north of japan as we head into sunday. more wet and windy weather so damaging winds, torrential weather and flooding from this system. japan has had quite a difficult time, weather—wise, hasn't it? it has had the strongest typhoon in japan ina it has had the strongest typhoon in japan in a quarter of it century, that hit in december. before that, injuly, they that hit in december. before that,

in july, they had that hit in december. before that, injuly, they had the heaviest... some of the heaviest rain we have seenin some of the heaviest rain we have seen in decades, causing enormous problems in japan. we seen in decades, causing enormous problems injapan. we had something like, well, enormous falls of rain. around 200 people died in the rain injuly so around 200 people died in the rain in july so it around 200 people died in the rain injuly so it raid was a terrible weather disaster. notjust that, we also had record temperatures in july, 41 celsius was recorded, the highest temperature they have ever seenin highest temperature they have ever seen in japan. the japanese meteorological society attributed one of the causes to flooding and the heatwave to climate change, so thatis the heatwave to climate change, so that is one of the things they have factored into the severe weather. in comparison, ours looks very tame. i suppose we should be thankful for that as well. our weather has been quiet. it is going to be turning colderfor all quiet. it is going to be turning colder for all of quiet. it is going to be turning colderfor all of us, with quiet. it is going to be turning colder for all of us, with cloud breaking nicely in england. this strip of cloud working into the northwest with a cold front. it will

be bringing cold air to scotland and northern ireland as we go into tomorrow. eventually the cold air will swing into england and wales. we will have to wait until the weekend before that arrives. on saturday we have wet weather pushing into scotland and northern ireland, also pushing into cumbria. a cold front stalling, becoming slow moving across northern england, north wales as well. to the south of the front, it is mild. it is also going to be murky with low cloud and mist and fog patches with drizzle. to the north, cold air. cold enough for pockets of frost. this little bump kind of stops the weather front running through so it becomes slow—moving. northern england and wales will see some rain on and off into the afternoon, although it will probably turn lighter and patchy. further south we have the low cloud, mist and fog which will take time to clear and we will see some sunshine. it should be glorious through the

afternoon across scotland and northern ireland. the few showers in the north—west but plenty of sunshine. there is the strip of cloudy weather. some damp. look at these temperatures. up to 22 celsius. not far off what we should see temperature wise in the summer. contrast that with the 12 degrees that we have further north. a drop of about five celsius for scotland, northern ireland and the far north of england. you will notice the change. into the weekend, wet and windy for england and wales. further north. and and northern ireland, nor the england and wales, it will be cold. temperatures between ten and 13 degrees. a reversal of fortunes for the second half of the weekend, whereas england and wales should have the best of the centre—right, further north and west we will see the weather turning unsettled with heavy rain in scotland, turning increasingly windy. another cold day for the time of year with

temperatures between ten and 13 celsius. all change, with cold weather spreading in over the next few days. this is bbc news. the headlines: dutch security security services say they have expelled for russians. at they have expelled for russians. at the time it was investigating the nerve agent attack in salisbury that poisoned surrogate and julia skripal. in the us thejustice department charges seven russian military intelligence officers with hacking anti—doping agencies as part ofa hacking anti—doping agencies as part of a joint operation with britain and the netherlands. a drug dealer who trafficked three children including a teenage girl to use in a crack and heroin selling ring has been jailed crack and heroin selling ring has beenjailed for 14 years. crack and heroin selling ring has been jailed for 14 years. countries around the world, including britain have launched an international aid effort to help the tens of thousands of victims of indonesia's tsunami and earthquake. more than 1400 people have been killed and 2000

injured after last friday's earthquake. the us senatejudiciary committee chairman chuck grassley has said there is "nothing we didn't already know" after senators studied sport now on afternoon live with hugh, and gareth southgate has named a very young england squad. good afternoon. a new contract for gareth southgate and a new looking england squad to mark the occasion. england already had one of the youngest squads at the world. this one is even more sprightly. it's likely a coincidence because there are a few injuries around but this england squad makes

quite a statement — 25 players, only one born before 1990. no players over 30 and first player born in 2000 to be picked, jadon sancho, plays for borussia dortmund, moved from manchester city when he was 17. he wanted more football at the time. he wanted more football at the time. he wasn't getting it then coming he is getting it now in germany. he is doing very well with both assists and goals. he makes the england squad. here's the full squad with average age just under 24 — also another teenager called up for the first time is mason mount. ross barkley, who is back in the england squad. they play croatia and spain in tough away matches in the nation's league later this month.

you never know with young players what they are capable of until you give them their opportunity. we gave joe gomez his opportunity against brazil and he was man of the match. we have done that through the last few years. you may be early for them but they will have a impact in big matches. it is important for their development to see how they perform and adapt to that. that's gareth southgate, who's new contract is a four year deal until 2022. responsible for helping team reconnect with the nation. the faa also want consistency after reaching their first world cup semifinal in 28 years. now we are talking about gareth bale, available

to play for wales. he has been included for their matches against spain and the republic of ireland. he missed real madrid's surprise defeat in moscow to cska. it was through injury, but he has had a scan and he is capable of playing for real madrid this weekend and as a result is one of 25 players named by ryan giggs. joe ledley isn't so lucky, you misses out because of injury. two changes with tom locklear ruled out and those coming in are george thomas and jazz richards. i think every player's motivation will be high, for a number of reasons. you are playing for your country, playing against a very good team. it is a chance to test yourself and also at the millennium, which is a different stadium. in

regards to that, all the players, with gareth playing in spain, added motivation for him, i am sure. cristiano ronaldo has been left out of the portugal squad for next week's internationals against poland and scotland. since the world cup after being asked to be rested for portugal's games in september. on wednesday, he denied an allegation that he raped kathryn mayorga in 2009 in las vegas. the former real madrid and manchester united player is his country's record goal—scorer. after defeat last night for spurs and liverpool in the champions league attention later today moves to the europa league. and the four british sides are split over the two kick off times. celtic and arsenal start early against the champions of austria and azerbaijan respectively while chelsea play vidi the hungarian league winners. and rangers take on rapid vienna. those two are the later kick offs. england have included three uncapped

players in their squad for the icc women's world t20 taking place in the caribbean next month. left arm spinners kirstie gordon and linsey smith receive theirfirst call—ups. along with batter sophia dunkley. who helped the surrey stars win the women's super league. there is no place for three world cup winners alex hartley seen here, georgia elwiss and laura marsh. chris mitchell will be with you in the next hour, but that is all the sport from me for now. two people have been found dead at a poultry processing factory in norfolk following a suspected chemical spill. emergency services were called to banham poultry in attleborough early on thursday morning, after two pest control sub contractors were found dead. no one else was injured in the incident. melissa rudd has this report. police were called to this site at 1:10am this morning. two men, one in his 305 and one in his 405 were found dead close to the factory. no one else was injured. they worked

for a pest control company and not direct employees of the poultry farm. we know the emergency services sent three hazardous area response tea m sent three hazardous area response team vehicles and also the train station, which backs onto this site remains close. greater anglia train company posted, due to what they call the chemical spillage, services would not stop here for the rest of the day on the norwich to cambridge line. this morning we have seen police come and go along with fire officers and forensic officers. this incident came hours after the business revealed they faced an uncertain future. it is up for sale and needs a partner. we have learned two offers are being considered. one of which would seek production here cease and up to 1000 jobs in norfolk could be lost. we are awaiting further comment about this tragic incident but we know the two men next of kin have been informed. as you drive north away from the

costa del sol and head inland to the heart of andalusia, there are olive groves as far as the eye can see. since roman times farmers have cultivated the slopes to make olive oil. this part of southern spain is one of the driest, hottest places in europe. but it produces 15% of the country's food and drink. this landscape has been transformed by the way spaniards are managed water supplies. i travelled to meet lincolnshire farmer robert caldwell. he is here to see how spanish

farmers cope during severe droughts. they have generations of experience. first we had to this dam, more than 2000 spanish farmers formed an irrigation community in the 19705. today they paid to help maintain this enormous structure and for access to its water. robert once a similar system in the uk. if we want to maintain our competitiveness in producing the high—quality produce we are used to, we must have this ability to irrigate and the access to water. the farmers need to be prepared to pay into that? there will be a cost. are you prepared to pay the extra cost yourself?” will be a cost. are you prepared to pay the extra cost yourself? i am. our other farmers pay the extra cost yourself? i am. our otherfarmers in pay the extra cost yourself? i am. our other farmers in lincolnshire? yes, i think they will be because farmers will see the opportunity this will offer. english farmers

wa nt to this will offer. english farmers want to avoid a repeat of this summer. half of robert's brockley crop in lincolnshire failed in the way. let's look at how the spanish system works. these pumps lift and pump the water from the main river channel into the reservoir, which is about 500 metres above our heads. it is stored in the dam for several yea rs is stored in the dam for several years until it is needed. by huge network of canals transports the water from the reservoir to the fields. this man and his family owned one of the area's largest farms. he tells me each line of olive trees has an irrigation pipe with tiny holes in it. translation: irrigation has been wonderful. before we drew sunflowers and wheat on the dry land. now we can grow vegetables, melons and many more. our lives have changed completely

and the soil is three times as productive. but the challenge is balancing the needs of farmers with those of the public, who rely on the same reservoirfor those of the public, who rely on the same reservoir for water. the periods are longer and longer, a few years of drought. it is getting more difficult. every year we are beating records of high temperatures. our spanish farmers better at working together and managing the water than perhaps farmers in the uk? i don't think they are better, but we have taken our water resources too much for granted and i think in the future we need to be prepared for hot, dry summers. we are going to get more extremes. the spanish system is by no means perfect, but water is treated as a precious commodity where they make use of every single drop. a new

story coming from the department of health. it has confirmed hundreds of tonnes of body parts and other chemical waste hasn't been disposed of properly by the contractor. there isn't a risk to public health but the waste material hasn't been incinerated in a timely fashion. this is anatomical waste usually stored in secure and refrigerated containers and has to be removed by this contract from a large number of hospitals in england and scotland. the environment agency is putting pressure on this particular company to dispose of the backlog, but there are to dispose of the backlog, but there a re rules to dispose of the backlog, but there are rules about incineration, which is slowing it down. in the meantime, alternative disposal arrangements will be put forward, but this contract in question is, for the moment, going to be allowed to continue collecting the waste.

department of health clearly concerned, but it cannot be her read at the moment. marion is here with the business news, but first, the headlines. the dutch authorities accuse russian intelligence of mounting a cyber attack on the international chemical weapons watchdog. a drug dealer who trafficked three children including a teenage girl to use in a "county lines" crack and heroin selling ring has been jailed for 14 years after a landmark prosecution. the chairman of the senatejudiciary committee says the fbi found "no hint of misconduct" in its kavanaugh investigation. here's your business headlines on afternoon live. sales of new cars last month are 20% down on last day. nissan has warned about the impact of a possible no

deal in brexit. 7000 people worked at the sunderland plant. the japanese plant is urging the uk and eu to work together and towards a balanced brexit. the boss of rbs has warned no deal could tip the uk into a recession. the bank is becoming more cautious about lending to construction retail businesses. profits have halved at the furniture retailer dfs. they hope the purchase of new firms will give it enough market clout to see out what could bea market clout to see out what could be a difficult winter for retail. some news about a firm that owns the viral news website unilad. a lot of people who use facebook will know about this company. the umbrella company called unilad has gone into

administration. if you go onto facebook and click on titles and videos that can be funny, it is very popular. 39 million people follow it on facebook. it employs 200 people. administrators have said they are seeking offers for the business to preservejobs. so hopefully some kind of deal can be done. ted baker in the news? yes, retail is in focus, dfs a little earlier. that was impacted by the hot summer. ted baker has been impacted by the hot summerand baker has been impacted by the hot summer and the cold winter. retail sales in its retail stores have been hit. online sales doing well, so it shows a company that can give a good, strong online offering to customers often does better than other firms. the house customers often does better than otherfirms. the house of customers often does better than other firms. the house of frasier colla pse other firms. the house of frasier collapse had a big effect on ted baker because it has so many

franchises around the country, in house of fraser stores. that is one of the big stories and shares on the market. i am joined of the big stories and shares on the market. iam joined now of the big stories and shares on the market. i am joined now by richard marwood, seniorfund market. i am joined now by richard marwood, senior fund manager at royal london asset management. let's talk through ted baker because it shares have suffered on the stock market. it has said some part of the business is doing better than others, particularly the online retail operations? it is interesting, profits are up year—on—year so it has managed to grow its profitability but it is the mixture out of the profitability. the online sales, internet sales have been strong, up 25%. but what people have been concerned about is actually the fact they then opened more space in physical stores and they are getting less sales from those real—life stores. it is a mix of the business that is a problem. the weather has been an issue. earlier in the year the weather was

too bad for people to get to the shops, now one of the issues we're looking at, because the weather has been warmer later into autumn, some of the autumn clothes like coats and jumpers are not selling as quickly as they might do. so just a bit of a problem. i am still wearing my summer clothes personally. let's talk about dfs, furniture seems to be on the whim of the weather. the colder weather perhaps not having an impact, but the hot, some heat wave, dfs says did impact their sales. people decided rather than buy a new sofa decided to do something else in the sunshine and didn't go out and spend. one of the issues there, people, the consumer confidence is particularly high at the moment. so for big—ticket purchases, people are holding back a bit to see what happens, maybe see what happens with brexit. obviously, one thing that

drives me furniture sales is people moving house. in times of uncertainty, people may be delayed on big decisions like moving house. but does have a knock—on into the furniture market. let's talk about oil prices. we have kept an eye on them for the last couple of weeks and we have seen them gradually creeping up, so why are oil prices becoming an issue once again? as you say, oil has been grinding up for much of this year. but the reasons are two fold. it is a supply and demand balance. on the demand side, the growth is good and if you look in the us, the economy is going along quite quickly. there is plenty of demand for oil. on the other side, the supply is constrained. exports from iran are actually reducing and also people are concerned about the production from venezuela because of their economy

and people are worried they will not bea and people are worried they will not be a blue keep the production up for much longer. you have plenty of demand and tightness in supply and thatis demand and tightness in supply and that is what is nudging up these oil prices. richard marwood, good to speak to you. i can't stop thinking about the idea people would have thought, stay out in the sunshine and then in the winter, they haven't got a sofer to sit on! anyway, let's move on very got a sofer to sit on! anyway, let's move on very swiftly because the ftse100 is down by around 1.4%. retail shares are dragging the market down. ted baker down over 3% and dfs furniture is down and tesco is down after it gave disappointing profits. brent crude have been rising, but they have pared back slightly. but still flirting with the 86 barrels at —— a barrel mark.

nice to see you. this time last year, sandra and her family were doing what most of the country were doing. everybody was talking about blue planet and we we re talking about blue planet and we were thinking there is something we can do. unlike the rest of us, sandra and her friends decided to make a bold decision. we said, let's go and get some paper straw machines and try and get rid of the plastic straws that you find on all the beaches and in the streets and the gutters and the rest of it. that is what we did. we started with one machine, we did

know how to work it but now we are at four machines. it is still small scale at the moment but these machines are churning out1 million straws a week. there is a growing list of orders as customers in hotels, cafes and pubs are demanding change. we do find people are deliberately asking not to have a straw in their drink. it's not until we tell them we do have paper straws then they will accept it anyway. so people are worried about having a plastic straw? yes. have you seen a big change? yes, people do not acce pt big change? yes, people do not a cce pt wa nt big change? yes, people do not accept want in their drink at all. i suppose that is worthy the effort is coming from, both customer and business, it is organically happening at the same time. with bars, restaurants and cafes struggling to keep up with customer demand at the moment, if you are

given a paper straw, the likelihood is that it has been flown in from china and that raises more questions about just how china and that raises more questions aboutjust how green it really is. this is the main warehouse where we pick the main orders. there has been a change in order at henry's catering supply company, they sell more paper straws than plastic ones. but he has to fly them in because no one can make them quickly enough here. customers would buy a box of the 250 blocks a plastic straws. the paper straws are three and £4 for a box of 250. three times the price of the plastic straw. even companies as big as mcdonald's have swallowed the extra cost and switch to paper straws as customers want to feel like they are doing their bit for the environment. more than 58,000 digital pregnancy tests have been recalled

after some wrongly told women they were expecting. women who have bought the clear & simple test, manufactured by guangzhou wondfo biotech, are being advised to return it. earlier i spoke to claire murphy — spokesperson for the british pregnancy advisory service hopefully the number of women, if any will be small. pregnancy testing can be an emotional and stressful time for women. for women who have been waiting a long time to conceive, having a positive result isa conceive, having a positive result is a source ofjoy and celebration and time to put in to their gp. for women who don't want to be pregnant and haven't been trying to get pregnant, can throw their plans into disarray and think about what to do next, including potentially seeking abortion advice. women are aware with pregnancy testing, false negatives, and false positives are

more unusual. what is your advice? to retest and make sure that if you have any of these pregnancy tests at home, check the numbers that have been released. clare murphy from the british pregnancy advisory service. that visit from the afternoon live tea m that visit from the afternoon live team today, next the bbc news at five with jane hill. now the weather. extensive low cloud, mist and fog patches out and about. the grey skies setting of the autumn colours earlier today in devon. thank you to mike for sending this picture in. although it is cloudy for most of us, we have this cloud working towards the uk which is a weather front and over the next 12 hours it pushes southwards allowing cooler air into the northern half of the country. the weather front will continue to bring back weather

across scotland and northern ireland as we go into this evening. a few patches of rain per northern england and the north wales as well. through the night the weather front becomes slow—moving and stores across those areas. to the south it is relatively mild but there will be a lot of low cloud, mist and fog patches over the hills, so turning murky. drizzle around as well. cold air getting into scotland and northern ireland and there could be pockets of frost to stop the day on friday. on friday, the weather fronts will be slow—moving across parts of wales and northern england. it is these areas that continue to be great, cloudy and wet with abrek subframe lasting on and off for much of the day. towards the south, lift and fog patches and lifting. after cold and frosty start to the day, beautiful autumn conditions with lots of sunshine and a few isolated showers in the law plus. sunny skies and northern ireland but the rest of

england and wales stays grey. the cloa k a england and wales stays grey. the cloak a break—up in the afternoon across south—east england, where it will be at its warmers. temperatures reach 22 degrees and contrast that with 11 or 12 we are looking at temperature wise further north. it will be turning colder. looking at the weather picture into the weekend, it is a wet and windy start a cross of england and wales. the rain lasting into the evening time across the south—east and east anglia. scotland and northern ireland having a fine start. cold to start the day and some sunshine. the second half of the weekend, dry weather with sunshine. the range of clear away from south—east england but as we go into the afternoon, cloud will gather and outbreaks of rain looks set to spread into the north and west of the uk. today at five: russian spies are accused of mounting cyber attacks on high profile organisations — including the global chemical weapons watchdog. dutch security services

expelled four russian agents who were caught trying to hack the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons in the hague. a car packed with electronic equipment was found outside the organisation at the time it was examining the nerve agent used on the skripals in salisbury. if anyone had any questions in their mind about russian military involvement in the salisbury attacks, this will put to rest those doubts. the us has also charged a number of russian military intelligence officers with hacking. we'll be talking to the foreign office minister sir alan duncan.