working with iran to build—up their sort of eastern flank on the arabian peninsula. president erdogan of turkey has accused the saudis of being non— islamic and heretical. but the saudis have said there will be no cover—up. there is an awful lot of questions, not least the turkish authorities saying they have footage and a sound recording of what happened to jamal khashoggi. what we saw the need to see what is going on, because it is over two weeks now. and the little temptations of we have this, you are thinking why are we making such a big play on this story? one starting point is they were allowed into the consulate to investigate what actually happened, which is more than we did when yvonne fletcher was killed by the libyans. we expel them but we didn't actually go in. it does seem to me the turks are taking it seriously. the fact they have

come up with no answers yet, well, we will just come up with no answers yet, well, we willjust have to see how the investigation goes. i think the truth is that an awful lot of people are terrified of saudi arabia. they are terrified of saudi arabia. they are extremely powerful, incredibly wealthy, and they have access to an awful lot of things and a lot of contract. just to finish off our chat, president trump has been speaking, he is on the campaign trailfor speaking, he is on the campaign trail for the speaking, he is on the campaign trailfor the midterms, speaking, he is on the campaign trail for the midterms, and speaking, he is on the campaign trailfor the midterms, and he pointed out this is what it comes down to. it comes down to money and economics. he said i am not happy with the explanation, but it is over 1 with the explanation, but it is over i millionjobs, with the explanation, but it is over i million jobs, and with the explanation, but it is over i millionjobs, and that is what with the explanation, but it is over i million jobs, and that is what it all comes down to. and we have heard tony blair, margaret thatcher, they have all said the same thing. tony blair, margaret thatcher, they have all said the same thingm tony blair, margaret thatcher, they have all said the same thing. it has been a pleasure, thank you so much for coming in on your saturday evening. that's it for the papers tonight. bbc news has an interview with

gymnast simone biles next. good night. spring, texas. a town that sprung up in the 18705 around the international and great north railroad. but, from humble beginnings, it has grown. its population has more than doubled in the last 30 years. now a suburb of houston, more than 5a,000 people call it home, but one of them is a sporting superstar. a diminutive figure who is massive in the world of gymnastics. after 18 months out of the sport, simone biles is back. her timeout wasn't always easy. former us gymnastics doctor larry nassar was found guilty of serial sexual abuse. biles publicly admitted she was one of his victims. but she is aiming to take off

where she left the sport, at the rio olympics in 2016 she won five medals, four were gold. in the brazilian heat, she set the sporting world ablaze. everyone thinks we are overnight sensations, but we have been working our whole life for this. where do those medals live now? in a safe. laughter. ina safe? yes. i think i would have them on my bed. i know, but they are just so precious. you have to kind of hide them. after rio, the simone that we saw walk into rio and the one that left was very different. you had gone in, with this huge pressure on your shoulders, and you totally delivered. and then you came out and people knew your name suddenly. people that didn't before. what was that like to deal with that kind of pressure? it is very different and kind of scary. because every where i went somebody knew me. it is so strange because i don't know them but everybody knows me, it is like why is everybody staring at me. it was kind of scary.

but then you get adjusted and get used to it, it becomes 0k. get any good perks? so many perks. it is bad to say that but being an olympian you do get a lot of perks. we got to go see hamilton right away. the wait was two or three years long. i can't get see that. we went straight into that and you get to do so much. anything you say on social media, throw it out there because you'll get to do if you say it. that was kind of the craziest part. and she made sure she took time to capitalise on the success of rio, not just to have fun but some well—earned rest. and relax and recuperate and regroup with some me time. it was more mental than physical. i could've kept pushing and pushing if i wanted to but mentally i needed a break. you tweeted recently that you're the happiest and healthiest you have ever been. what part of taking a break do you attribute to that feeling? mainly my body and my mind because before, i would eat and breathe gymnastics and now i realise i don't have to do that to be as strong and confident as i am in the gym. so i really found myself doing a lot

of things outside of the gym to not just better my gymnastics but to better myself and i think that has worked out very well. that amount of time off of a sport that is a sport for younger people, that must‘ve been a risk? you must have considered bad. yes, i definitely expected after the olympics to take some time off and we were not sure how long but i said i wanted to take at least a year off to see and my year off was absolutely amazing and i honestly think it helped my body. after her break, she came back with a bang at the us nationals in august. she announced a return by sweeping the board, winning every event over the 2—day competition. i honestly expected me to be a disaster because it was my first 2—day competition in a really long time.

so i didn't expect it to go as well as it did. so i'm very happy with the outcome and that i held it together and performed the routines. i read after the nationals that you said you only give yourself a b+. what on earth do you think you need to improve on? why are you so hard on yourself? i don't know, i guess it'sjust the nature of who i am, but i feel like going in i could see the mistakes that i made that i didn't want to make. even though they were very slight, i wanted to be better. it was like she had never been away, yet some things have changed. the teal leotards she wore at nationals was in solidarity with victims of sexual abuse. a part of her history she felt she had to speak out about it. i felt it was very important to support the fellow gymnasts that it had happened to and to just speak up for what to believe in. and i hope i gave them courage to come out and share their stories

one day if they want to. injanuary of this year, us gymnastics team doctor larry nassar was sentenced to 175 years in prison for abusing more than 150 women and girls under the guise of medical treatment. your decision to assault was precise, calculated, manipulative, devious and despicable. you do not deserve to walk outside of a prison ever again. i have just signed your death warrant. the judge was absolutely amazing on her part. so we were very proud of her. it's kind of a relief because he kind of got what he deserved. for biles, it was personal. prior to the sentencing, she confirmed in a statement via social media that she too had been one of nasser‘s victims.

what prompted you to make that decision to write that statement and how did it feel when it was out there? it's very hard just because i think a lot of people struggle with coming out and telling their stories, but i figured if i can tell my story then it might encourage other people to tell theirs, because a lot of people do look up to me so they are like if simone can be strong enough, hopefully i can too and that is the message that i wanted to give. but i was kind of relieved when it came out. it was a lot of pressure off my shoulders, because to keep something in for so long when we usually share everything with our friends and family and ourfans was a lot. the young girls here, have you had young girls come up to you and say to you you're such an inspiration for having spoken out and done that? yeah, it's more the parents because i think the parents are linked to the social media accounts or whatever they see. i remember even some of our girls didn't quite understand it and they're 12 and 13 years old, so you have to be a little bit older

to fully understand what had happened. much of the abuse happened around an hours' drive from spring at a ranch deep in the texan forest. us gymnastics camps were held at a property belonging to the karolyis, the team's head coaches. in this compound, only accessible via a long, winding dirt track, nassar used his power to exploit the young girls under the noses of the unwitting karolyis, and sometimes even the gymnasts‘ parents, who were in the same room as nassar secretly abused their daughters. you'd written it would be heartbreaking to have to return to the ranch. four days after you wrote that, us gymnastics came out and said we're not going there anymore. how did that feel? i don't know. it felt kind of empowering. even though that is like an overused word right now.

but, really, yeah. do you think that what you all went to will mean that things are changing in the future and that us gymnastics will change? i think it has to. they have no other choice basically. but speaking out is the first thing that change will happen. you've often been talked about as being the gymnastics saviour. that is a lot to put on one person. how have you felt about that tag? it's kind of crazy because i can't be the one to save everything. but as long as i do myjob and everybody‘s pleased, maybe i will save something. i think because people think of you as kind of a superwoman, you can do things that normal human beings cannot. so, they almost put this superhuman thing on you. the older you've got, are you a bit more comfortable with that role now? i think so because coming up, being who i am, i push a lot of things away because expectations are scary and i don't want to be the one to hold all of them. but as i get older, i'm just more used to it.

and i expect for that to be put on me, so i try not to think of it too much. it's here at the world champion center where simone trains, her regime is pretty brutal. around 32 hours a week. but she has a new coaching team and has discovered a new love. i didn't really like bars before. they didn't like me. so it was kind of...in both. ifeel like i'm more confident in the skills that i'm doing. and just overall, i think i was just young and not mature enough and i would work against the bar and not with it. so i think that's why we had that problem. so, do you think it's a coming—of—age thing then? maturity has to do with some of that? a little bit. and i know that i have to do bars. and i can't get out of it,

especially at the olympics when they told me i was going to be put up on bars for the team. i said, what? i've never been in a bar team line—up. they were like, well, you have to go. and i'm like, oh, my gosh, i'm going to pass out. so i think that also gave me confidence that i went out there and hit that routine. the world championships get under way in a few days' time at the qatari capital of doha and will mark simone biles‘s return to this world stage. with a combined total of 19 olympic and world championship medals to her name, she will be expected by many to put in a performance worthy of america's most decorated gymnast. how do you feel your routines are heading into doha? right now, i'd say a little bit more confident going into doha with my routines. i feel a little bit more confident. and then we've worked on the little details, so hopefully i will be able to clean those up and keep that. do you feel more or less pressure now going in to the worlds,

knowing you've been there and done it and performed on the big stages? it's almost more pressure because you know exactly what to expect and the pressure that will be put on you rather than your first time, you kind of are so excited to be there and take everything in and whatever happens, happens. now you have those expectations. you're 21 now. iam! so, to normal people, you're still very young with a whole life to live. in gymnastics, you're like the elder. does that bring an extra responsibility with the other girls? again, yes. because i'm not a rookie anymore. i've had my training. now i get to mentor these girls, which is exciting because i've been through it all. so i really feel like i can help these girls on those world stages or the big stages out there. what's the absolute hope, dream, the realistic aim for going into the worlds after being out for so long? again, to provide the team with the best of my abilities in the gymnastics, hopefully we get a team medal

and i would really like to make bar finals, but then again, that's putting a lot of pressure on myself. so we will see. while the immediate focus is on very much the world championships, long term, it remains the olympics. four years on from rio, she will be aiming to be america's golden girl once again when the 2020 games come around injapan. tokyo — that's the big focus, isn't it? do you think you ever be able to top what happened in rio orjust a different experience and you want to experience different things? definitely experience different things because four years apart is a really long time. for my first olympic games, to walk away with five medals, i think is kind of unbeatable, even for myself. so we'll go in there with an open mind and see what happens. to put pressure on myself, that's a lot. the first time around for the olympics, i said,

i just want to help the team to the best of my ability, and that's what i did. so that is my next goal and however many medals i get, is how many i end up with. once this is all over, and you retire, what is the plan, what would you love to do? i haven't quite decided that yet, because i'm still in it for a while. i don't really have time to think about all of that stuff. but i was taking a couple of college classes earlier this year and now i can't because i'm still travelling and i'm doing so much. but maybe work with foster kids, or do something what professional sports. i haven't decided yet. you're a role model now. people listen to you. so you do have to be a bit more careful about what to say on twitter. being a professional athlete, we always have to watch for that. so that part was nothing new. but it's still a lot more eyes on you so you have to watch out. but before, i feel like just being on the us team,

we always had to be a little careful. and despite what's been a difficult and traumatic few years for her and her sport, simone biles still has a hopeful message to the younger generation of american gymnasts. the young girls she inspires, trains with and eventually the ones who will take her crown. i hope they see the fun in the sport and they can reallyjust enjoy and embrace those moments. and really whatever happens, happens. you don't have to win to have to have fun and enjoy it. favourite things to do to relax would be hanging out with friends and family, going to the movies, going to the beach or shopping.

who's my best friend? i have a couple of best friends. it would be caitlin, rachel, my boyfriend and my sister, my mum. i have a lot. ooh. it's one by khalid and halsey. i can't remember the name right now. yikes. eastside. yes. i'm not going to sing it. i'm such a bad singer! i guess it would be from my mum,

to be the best amount. some sunshine today, but more cloud for northern ireland, north—west england and northwest scotland. there was the more persistent rain arriving in the north. elsewhere it should be mainly dry, cloud lingering. clear skies further south and east are likely to fill in with me stand fog. the lowest temperatures in the south where it could get to two or three celsius. clearing away from northern and western scotland. as it slips south and east it will tend to weaken so we're and east it will tend to weaken so we' re left and east it will tend to weaken so we're left increasing cloud across parts of the midlands and northern england. quite windy, showers for the northern highlands and ahead of the northern highlands and ahead of the band of loud still some sunshine across southern england,

temperatures up to 18 or 19 celsius. one last day of autumn warmth in that sunshine. it is mainly dry and turning a bit cooler. this is bbc world news today. i'm martin stanford. our top stories: there has been international condemnation after saudi arabia admits the missing journalist jamal khashoggi was killed in its consulate. thousands of people travelling across central america to the us are now stranded on mexico's southern border. hundrends of thousands of protesters march through london demanding a referendum on the government's final brexit deal. and two satellites developed in europe and japan leave earth for a seven—year journey to the planet mercury.