western governments, including the uk, mount a coordinated attack on what they claim are russian spies hacking into governments and institutions around the world. the dutch unmask four men accused of being russian spies and the equipment it's claimed was used to hack into the international chemical weapons watchdog. here, it's claimed russia hacked into the porton down chemical weapons facility. both organisations had been investigating the novichok attacks. if anyone had any questions in mind about russian military involvement in the salisbury attacks, this will put to rest those doubts. russia is also accused of mounting cyber attacks against the us, switzerland and malaysia. russia has denied it all, calling it western spy mania. we'll have the very latest. also tonight... a man is jailed for trafficking children, forcing them to deal drugs. the search for the missing in the indonesian tsunami as the death toll rises to 1500. and how children are spending three hours a day on tablets and smart phones before they're even old enough for school.

and coming up on bbc news... introducing england's new boys. jadon sancho, along with james maddison and mason mount get the call up from gareth southgate. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. western governments have mounted an unprecedented and coordinated fightback against a series of cyber attacks carried out, they claim, by russian spies on governments and key institutions around the world. the dutch claim four spies from russian intelligence hacked into the headquarters of the international chemical weapons watchdog in the hague. it was at a time the watchdog was investigating the novichok attack in salisbury. russia's also been accused of cyber

attacks on organisations here, including the foreign office and the porton down chemical weapons facility. and the us has charged seven people after claims that a nuclear facility and its anti doping agency were hacked. russia has denied it all, dismissing it as western spy mania. our security correspondent, gordon corera, reports from the hague. caught in the act. the moment four russian spies were detained in the netherlands. their plan — to use the equipment in the boot of their car to hack into computer networks. the story was made public today in an extraordinaryjoint british and dutch news conference in which the details were laid bare and the finger pointed at the gru — russian military intelligence. it can no longer be allowed to act aggressively across the world against vital international organisations with apparent

impunity. car park in the hague in april of this year. the reason they work here is becausejust april of this year. the reason they work here is because just next door is the headquarters of the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons. at the time the organisation was investigating the poisoning of sergei and yulia skirpal. the four russians arrived on the 10th of april. they were using diplomatic passports and carrying 20,000 euros and $20,000. they were secretly photographed carrying out reconnaissance the next day. in the boot of their car they had what is called close access equipment, allowing them to intercept passwords as staff logged into their computers so that the

russians could break into the systems. the dutch, with help from the british, had been watching and waiting. we were watching closely at that moment for that when we had the idea that the equipment was getting working, we disrupted the operation. you are confident this is russian military intelligence, the gru? we are confident. what ties them to the gru question of their phones were activated close to a gru base. one carried a taxi receipt from a gru based to the airport on the day they left. information on the laptop will honour the men links his computer directly to a series of cyber attacks, including the downed malaysian flight and hacking of athletes data from the world anti—doping agency. the british government also detailed other cyber

attacks hitting businesses across europe. even a small tv station in the uk. the way to prevent an escalation is to make sure when this kind of thing happens russia knows it isa kind of thing happens russia knows it is a red line and there are consequences, the price will be too high. in the final co-ordinated move, this afternoon the us department ofjustice issued detailed indictment against seven gru offices for a range of cyber attacks, focusing on sporting bodies. our security correspondent, gordon corera, is still in the hague. we'll speak to him in a moment but first to moscow and our correspondent, steve rosenberg. a very dismissive reaction there from the kremlin but is russia worried? not so much. in russia today, they reacted with the kind of bluster and division that we have come to expect from authorities. —— derision. the

russian foreign ministry declared that spy mania in the west has gone into overdrive and it dismissed british claims of gru cyber attacks asa british claims of gru cyber attacks as a diabolical cocktail of perkins in one bottle, produced by bearded imagination. this is being presented as part of a new anti—russian hysteria, a wave of hysteria in the west and is a storey which lacks evidence. the bbc has now confirmed at least two of the alleged russian military intelligence officers were registered in moscow at a facility owned by the russian defence ministry. gordon, the level of detail in the allegations coming out of the hague is pretty astonishing. what is likely to happen next in terms of action against russia? well, today was unprecedented.

counter espionage operations are normally top—secret operations. to see the level of detail we had today was remarkable. you could sense from the dutch officials the anger they felt at the russians operating on their soil. similar to what britain felt about salisbury and britain's foreign office and porton down laboratory were also targeted in a different type of fibre operation. the hope will be that three countries, the uk, the us and the netherlands revealing these details will help to expose gru activities. is that the same as stopping them? officials i have written to know they have moscow under pressure and they have moscow under pressure and they will be hoping that by doing so they will be hoping that by doing so they can raise the cost for moscow in carrying out this kind of cyber activity but they also know that moscow does not easily back down. thank you both. a man has been sentenced to 1a years injail after trafficking and grooming children into selling crack

cocaine and heroin for him. it's the first time the police have secured child trafficking convictions against a drug dealer under the modern slavery act. zakaria mohammed from birmingham admitted running what police call a county lines drug network, sending children out into provicinal towns to sell drugs. —— provincial. sima kotecha reports. zakaria mohammed. .. yes. you are under arrest for suspicion of supplying class a drugs. 6th april, and 21—year—old zakaria mohammed was arrested on his way into lincoln. it was from there that his drug operation took place. today he was sentenced to 1a years injail, after supplying heroin and crack cocaine and trafficking children to deal on his behalf. mohammed groomed teenagers, some as young 35111, into working for him, promising them a lavish lifestyle and then treating them like slaves. here the children are seen selling drugs. in many ways, they are brainwashed to believe that they are an autonomous drug dealer and they are high up

in the organised crime group but actually they are at the bottom of a very large food chain. police were led to him after children from birmingham were reported missing by their families. the teenagers were found holed up in a flat in lincoln. mohammed was running a county line supply chain, dealing drugs across counties and exploiting young people along the way. he befriended these children, he groomed them, but with one end in mind and that was to exploit them — that he didn't see them as individuals, he saw them as a commodity. he didn't recognise their humanity. they were just there to be exploited, to extend his business. mohammed was put under surveillance after links were made between him and that drugs network. he was filmed buying tickets from the children from here at birmingham new street station to lincoln, where he made them live in the most appalling conditions. —— for the children.

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. the judge described mohammed as cynical and ruthless. he looked down as he was led out of the dock. sima kotecha, bbc news, birmingham. the government has confirmed that hundreds of tonnes of body parts and other medical waste have been stockpiled by a contractor working for nhs hospitals. it's emerged ministers met last month to try to deal with the problem. the department of health insists there's no risk to the public. our health editor, hugh pym, joins me. sounds gruesome. what more can you tell us about this? this is a contract for the disposal

of medical waste, including body parts, by some but not all hospitals in england and scotland. they are supposed to be disposed of in a timely fashion at designated sites. the contractor has not done that. a backlog has built up. according to the health servicejournal, the company has argued incineration rules are tough and it cannot keep up rules are tough and it cannot keep up with demand. it is being monitored closely by the watchdog, the environment agency, which has known about this for a couple of months. ministers have met to review contingency plans if this company has to stop taking waste. sources have said there is no risk to patients and the public. labour says commit this has been known about for a few months, why was parliment not told about it sooner? 58,000 pregnancy tests have been recalled after some gave false positive results. women have been advised to return any clear & simple digital devices to their pharmacy and to use another testing method. the uk's medicines and healthcare products regulatory agency says patient safety is its highest priority. school spending claims

by the department for education are being investigated by the uk's statistics watchdog. ministers say that the uk has the third highest level of education spending in the world but head teachers‘ leaders have called the government figures wdeceitfulw as they include the tuition fees paid by parents to private schools and by students to universities. —— "deceitful". 1a uk aid charities have launched an appeal for emergency funds to help the survivors of last friday's earthquake and tsunami on the indonesian island of sulawesi. more than 1,500 people are thought to be dead, missing or injured, although that number is expected to rise further. our south east asia correspondent, jonathan head, reports from palu — one of areas worst hit. a government office in palu and tempers are fraying. this woman wants to know why no help has come to her neighbourhood yet. "i'm also a victim", a volunteer shouts back,

"but at least we're doing what we can." six days into this overwhelming disaster, they are now trying to count the missing. names and photos left taped on the walls. among them, a university student in palu. her family has travelled 300 miles from their hometown to try to find her. they have made photocopies of her description. she was right in its path when the tsunami struck, yet they believe she may be alive. "we think so," says her uncle. "we've already seen so many bodies and opened so many body bags and she wasn't among them." they decide to go back to where she was last friday, passing apocalyptic scenes that must have been disheartening for them. they stuck her photo onto whatever posts were still standing

after the tsunami and her father showed it to the police. she was wearing a yellow shirt and black trousers, he explains. it rings a bell with one of the officers. i'm going to the hospital to see a body they have there, he told me. she also has black trousers, he's been told, although the shirt has been torn off. but as they are about to leave, someone showed that they have found a body in the collapsed recreation centre where she had been last friday. this is an all too familiar scene in palu now but for sadran, not knowing whether they might have found his daughter, it's a harrowing wait. as they bring out the body, he hears it was a pregnant woman. it isn't her. the commanding officer commiserates with sadran. his search must go on.

today this has become one of the most characteristic and mournful sights in palu, excavators pulling away at the rubble, trying to get at the bodies of victims. there is much more of this heavy machinery now than a few days ago. given the sheer size of this disaster, it's likely that many of the victims will never be found. these searchers think they have found another body, but they are not sure yet how to reach it. one more victim to add to a growing total. the time is quarter past six. our top story this evening: western governments, including the uk, attack what they claim are russian spies hacking into governments and institutions around the world. and still to come... the low—budget internet movie about south london gangs that's getting international attention.

coming up on sportsday on bbc news... we look ahead to the super league playoff semi finals, which get under way tonight with st helens hosting warrington wolves. rising sea levels, punishing droughts and life—threatening heatwaves. these are the potential impacts of global warming. the world has taken action, agreeing to limit the rise in average temperatures to two degrees. but un climate scientists are meeting now to discuss whether that is too high and whether a limit of 1.5 degrees may be safer. many of the world's most vulnerable countries say that's essential to save them. one of those is vietnam. from there, our science editor david shukman reports. the painful sight of homes lost to the waves. the land here in the mekong delta is sinking. at the same time, the sea is rising as the world gets warmer. it is notjust houses being destroyed, farmland

is vanishing as well. these farmers saw their fields slip underwater and they are worried that it will never be possible to hold back the sea. climate change is getting worse, says this man, and the water level is rising so fast we don't have time to build defences. the threat is felt throughout the mekong delta. in the city of can tho, we found this flood barrier half finished. the homes behind it keep getting flooded. there are 18 million people living in this region and they're are only just above the level of the sea. so, even a small rise could be devastating, which is why vietnam, and dozens of other countries facing the same threat, want to see global warming limited as much as possible. so, what does this mean for the future? three years ago this primary school were swamped by the river beside it. rising waters are becoming more dangerous.

a researcher, florence halsted, is here to find out what the children think. i'm really interested in what it's like in the flood season. so, could you all close your eyes and i want you to really think about being in the flood season. this ten—year—old has something shocking on his mind. people scream out for help. scream out for help. right. florence then asked the children to draw pictures of flooding. they conjure up nightmare images of houses being washed away and hands reaching above the water. this ten—year—old sketches a girl in a boat, shouting for help. another has featured a giant snake. i ask her why. the hope is that encouraging this

openness about flooding will prepare the children for the more hostile climate they're likely to face as adults. they live in a water world and that is only going to increase. the water's not going away. they need to learn how to adapt and, whether that be through education like this, through community groups, that resilience really needs to be built up. back at the coast, work on new sea defences. scientists used to think there was a safe limit of global warming of two degrees but they now say we need a lower target to avoid serious damage to countries like this. we're about to get a major report on how to do that. david shukman, bbc news, in vietnam. senators have been reading the fbi's latest report into allegations of sexual misconduct against president trump's supreme court nominee, brett kavanaugh. if he is approved, he will be the deciding conservative voice

in america's highest court. our north america editorjon sopel is in washington, and this has been a saga followed closely in the us and far beyond — it is becoming any clearer whether kava naugh is likely to be approved? it is hard to exaggerate the division and raw emotion provoked by this case. the fbi report resolves nothing. you have had democrats coming out and saying the process is incomplete. the fbi haven't spoken to keep people like christine blasey ford, the original accuser, or woman, and you have had republicans saying, this is alljolly good, they have found no evidence of wrongdoing and it's safe to go ahead with the nomination of brett kavanaugh. but two significant voices have emerged, one, jeff blake whose intervention

provoked this investigation. he said there's no corroborating information, it sounds like he's happy, and susan collins on the republican side has said it appears to bea republican side has said it appears to be a very thorough investigation. if those two are on board, i think the republicans are home and dry, brett kava naugh will the republicans are home and dry, brett kavanaugh will be the next supreme courtjustice. christine blasey ford has written, saying the investigation is a stain on the process on the fbi and the american ideal ofjustice. we shall see what happens. thank you. new research suggests three quarters of children under five have access to a tablet, smartphone or computer. and preschoolers spend nearly three hours a day watching tv and online content, that's acording to a survey of more than 1,000 parents for the market research firm childwise. colletta smith has been talking to parents in manchester. just like adults, children are spending more time

looking at screens. over half of three to four—year—olds have their own device and in two thirds of preschool households, alexa or siri are on hand to help out. wow, you found a ladybird. but it's not all about screen time. this survey also showed an increase in the number of preschoolers getting their hands mucky. my son is four and he is diagnosed with autism. he seems to interact with screens better than he does with people. mastery of the it side of the job is a real advantage... so you're getting them started young? alongside sort of a variety of other interests, i think it's a valuable thing to do. he only tends to watch really youtube videos of nursery rhymes and singing along and joining in the fun, really. and is that on an ipad, is that on a phone? we have a smart tv so

it's on a tv screen. almost half of all preschool households now regularly access content via youtube. although netflix and amazon prime subscription—based services have seen a big increase in the last year, it is still cbeebies that is the most popular channel for little ones. boys tend to watch for longer than girls but for both genders, they are now watching on some kind of device for longer than ever before. if we go back even five or ten years, children's television would be on at very specific times of the day, whereas what we know 110w is you can access even good quality children's entertainment right around the clock, so this is a new challenge for parents and a new challenge in terms of boundary setting. we are still working out the impact of screen time on little brains, with the average for preschoolers now up to two hours and 48 minutes a day. a young filmmaker whose low—budget drama about london gang life has had more than 12 million views on youtube is on the verge of signing a deal with a major international production company that would see the series broadcast across the world.

andrew onwubolu, also known as rapman, based shiro's story on his experiences growing up in south london. linda adey went to meet him. a drama based on rivalry, violence and love. it's told mainly through rap music. a new style of storytelling, giving a fast—paced insight to shiro, the main character's london life. it's been a huge success on youtube and now global film and television companies are taking notice. my name is andrew onwubolu, more known as rapman, and i'm the writer, director and creator of shiro's story. why do you think shiro's story did as well as it has done? what is it about shiro's story? i think it was just something that everyone could relate to. i think it was just perfect timing.

i think in an internet world now, it came at the right time where there's nothing at all like shiro's story. the three—part web series is based on true events with a lot of the inspiration coming from this council estate where he grew up. the crime dramas are written by — no offence — bbc writers who, you know, went to university, came out and just got told, this is how we do it. they haven't lived it, they haven't been here, they haven't lived it. they haven't grown up in council estates like this, so it was a lot easier for me to write the things that i used to see growing up. like all those things you see in shiro's story, you know, i've witnessed it, being close to it. it's not hard to write about situations that you came up in. each episode is shot in a few days on a low budget with a cast that includes some high—profile rappers. this is where you are meant to come to. but with dozens of gang—related murders in london, does his drama glamorise violence?

no, not at all, unless you aspire to lose a loved one to gun crime. that's the only violence we show, it all ends in badness. if anything, it shows the ignorance of it. the first argument you get, you're going to pick up a weapon. in a lot of these situations, a phone call could have resolved it. you need to leave us a new enemy, bruv. international media companies are now competing to sign up the next chapter in shiro's story. the challenge will be to keep the same authenticity when the bigger budgets roll in. linda adey, bbc news. time for a look at the weather... here's chris fawkes. over the next few days we will have some big contrast in the weather across the uk as a weather front slips southwards. mind you, we have seen some big contrast today, with

brea ks seen some big contrast today, with breaks in the cloud and you can see the process happening before your eyes on this satellite picture. further north and west, it's a different story. clouds have been gathering in cumbria, rain falling there, and it has been turning down but the weather is turning cooler across the north of the uk. that will bring a change to how the weather feels over the next 2a hours. the process gets under way tonight with the rain moving away from scotland and northern ireland, and the rain becomes slow—moving for the north of england and north wales. to the south of the weather front, temperatures at 12 degrees but it will turn murky again with mist and fog patches. the cold air digging into scotland and the countryside i suspect we'll have some frost in the coldest areas to start the day on friday. on friday a lot of low cloud, drizzle, and the weather front never moves very far

very fast. even some sunshine later in the day, we could see highs of 22 degrees in south—east england, contrast that with 11 or 12 further north. that is a drop on the temperatures you have seen today. for the weekend weather prospects, it is cloudy wet and windy for england and wales. wherever you are it will be feeling chilly with temperatures between ten and 13 degrees, but then it is a reversal of fortu nes degrees, but then it is a reversal of fortunes for the second half of the weekend with england and wales having the best of the sunshine. chris, thank you. a reminder of our top story... western governments, including the uk, attack what they claim are russian spies hacking into governments and institutions around the world. that's all from the bbc news at six so it's goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. hello, this is bbc news.

the headlines. russian spies are accused by the netherlands, the uk and the us, of mounting a series of cyber attacks on high profile organisations — including the global chemical weapons watchdog. the us has indicted seven russian intelligence agents. our indictment today charges some of the same russian operatives caught in the hague along with their collea g u es in the hague along with their colleagues in moscow as part of a conspiracy to hack a variety of individuals and organisations in the us, canada and europe.