hello, i'm kasia madera. this is outside source. 10 explosive devices have now been sent in america to leading democrats and critics of president trump, including robert de niro. new york city's mayor says this is absolutely terrorism—related. saudi arabia admits for the first time that the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi was premeditated. president trump is to be briefed by his cia director, who's now listened to the audio of the killing. in italy, a 16—year—old girl is raped and murdered by three migrants. the tragedy is seized on by the populist government. and a museum in london proves beyond doubt that the fossil that shows birds evolved from dinosaurs is real. hello and welcome to the programme.

we start in the us, where the number of suspicious packages sent to top american figures has risen to 10. just in the past few moments, without a press conference from new york. as you can see, the fbi is saying the envelopes in the outer impact on sino risk of biological harm according to tests. no risk from that powder. —— show no risk of. this is something that's just been breaking in the past few moments. yesterday, the secret service confirmed that suspected explosive devices were sent to barack obama and hillary clinton, amongst other prominent people. the latest two packages were sent to the former vice presidentjoe biden. they were found in delaware in post offices in newcastle and wilmington. earlier, another package was sent to a restaurant in new york which is owned by the actor robert de niro. the locations of the other packages range as far as los angeles to new york, and even florida. and at a rally last night,

the president appealed for peace. any acts or threats of political violence are an attack on our democracy itself. we want all sides to come together in peace and harmony. we can do it. we can do it. but that call for unity didn't last long. less than 2a hours later, donald trump said this... he has past form on this. during a speech at the cia headquarters last year...

i have a running working media. they are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. —— i have a running war with the media. and it's notjust the media. all of the targets of these suspicious packages have at some point been the subject of donald trump's verbal attacks. and while we expect the president to criticise his political opponents, like hillary clinton and barack obama, other targets are a bit more unusual. like, of course, robert de niro‘s new york restaurant. well, in the past, the president described the actor as... this after mr de niro criticised the president at an awards ceremony back injune. and here's president trump on the former cia directorjohn brennan, who was sent a package care of cnn. he says thatjohn brennan... and this is how the president

described the democrat, maxine waters on monday. a vote for a democrat this november is able to surrender congress to nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, the great maxine waters. that's a beauty. maxine waters! you get that one? you get that? she's going to be in charge of your finances stop. in charge of your finances good one? you get that? she's going to be in charge of your finances good old maxine. low iq individual! that was president trump speaking at a rally. two days later, california democratic congresswoman maxine waters received two suspicous packages. i have to stress. it is important to note that the white house has strongly condemned these attacks. look. there is a big difference

between comments made and actions taken. the president is certainly not responsible for sending suspicious packages to someone no more than bernie sanders was responsible for a supporter of his shooting of a republican baseball field practise last year. the idea that this is at the hands of the president is absolutely ridiculous. the white house saying this is a terrible thing. samira hussain is in new york. i want to talk to you buddy press conference that we've just had, because it's important to note that the the powder —— the envelopes, the powder had no risk of biological harm according to the fbi. that was a big concern. even when they reopened the building, they did have the mailroom still cordoned off because they wanted to make sure they tested that white powder. the fear it could be some sort of biological weapon. they have at this press c0 nfe re nce biological weapon. they have at this press conference that it is in fact,

not some sort of biological weapon. a few other things that we should talk about that was brought up at this press conference. first things, all of the devices that were sent to various locations in new york have all been sent to quantico. fb the fbi's location in virginia. it is really the fbi doing some protesting. it's interesting that the mayor of new york city definitely call this an act of terrorism. he said this is something that the comet the attacks were directed at pillars of democracy. we're talking about political figures and we're talking about the media. and for him, defines what terrorism is. with regards to the specifics in the devices come officials did not want to say too much about what the devices were. there were a lot of questions about how deadly devices were, whether they were made with intent to just scare people or was it made with an

intent to actually go off? and law enforcement officials were not going to comment on any of that. the fbi is investigating this and we are absolutely treating this as a suspected bombs. we're going to go with this with the utmost care and treatment very cautious when it comes to these packages. we're absolute not going to be pushed on intense. it was interesting for those viewers that the data to the whole press conference, to hear how the authorities and how they're working across the whole country. all of these different locations, and how they found the package for george soros, they then very quickly moved on to different areas he is connected with the winning ticket hillary clinton in the obama residences, windows packages were found, quickly moved out new police officers at various different locations, including the media, like cnn. absolutely. and yesterday, when the we were reporting from the cnn

offices, police officer za nardi the we were reporting from the cnn offices, police officer zanardi said —— police officers had already said they were increasing presence because of abundant caution. even though there is no real threat, they believe there is no threat and have not received and more packages in the last eight hours, they are still being very cautious and having more ofa being very cautious and having more of a police presence at some media organisations. and at the offices of some elected officials. there's really a lot of caution here. there's one more thing that i would note, they have not had any packages emerge in the last eight hours, and that's something that they are referring to is a good thing, and that they are getting a lot of calls to their 100 number, saying that a lot of people are cutting in with tips. they would not go to any more detail about what they're saying but just saying that we're seeing an increased number of people that are coming and talking to us and that's

a really good thing. and also encouraging people if they're concerned. samira, as always, thank you very much. just to reiterate, the packages and the powder in new york pose no biological risk according to the fbi. let's move onto another story with developments today. the murder of jamal khashoggi. there are reports that the cia director gina haspel has personally listened to audio recordings of the killing. she is due to brief president trump later on. in addition to this, saudi arabia's public prosecutor has said the murder was premeditated. now, we've talked before about how much the saudi authorities‘ story has changed since the journalist's disapperance. it's summed up by here by zen chang. he's a lawyer, and he starts... the public prosecutor also says suspects are being questioned

on the basis of a joint turkish—saudi investigation. here's the turkish foreign minister speaking earlier. translation: the process is u nfortu nately translation: the process is unfortunately dragging on because there are still questions that need to be answered. for example, these 18 people who were arrested by saudi authorities, why were they arrested? who gave them orders? these we re were already asked by our questions were already asked by our presidents. however, jamal khashoggi's body has not been found yet. where is that? a confessed to killing him so why are they not telling us where it is? on that last question, pro—government newspaper yeni safak is reporting that turkish police have ta ken samples from a well located at the saudi arabia consulate. they didn't previously have persmission to search the well. but that has changed following intense international pressure

to find out exactly what happened. the washington post, the paper which jamal kashoggi worked for, has released a series of full page ads like these. and earlier today, a vigil was held forjamal khashoggi in istanbul. mark lowen was there. we're here, over three weeks since jamal khashoggi was killed, at the spot where he was last seen entering the saudi consulate here in istanbul. and friends and colleagues of his are holding a vigil at this spot. you can see they're holding candles, they're holding photos, posters with his face as well. there is one man who we've just seen dressed in saudi traditional clothing with red paint on his hands, a suggestion that the saudis, the saudi authorities have blood on their hands. these are people close to jamal khashoggi who know that the news cycle moves on, that political deals might try to sweep this under the carpet, but they are determined to keep the pressure on the saudi authorities in their demand for answers. ratcheting up that pressure today is reports that gina haspel, the director of the cia,

has been played, by the turkish government, audio recordings chronicling jamal khashoggi's murder. leaks of which, over the last couple of weeks, are very, very graphic, suggesting that you can hear the screams, the torture, the dismemberment of the body. the question now is, is that the smoking gun? and will that reveal... ? on the basis of that recordings, will they be able to trace a direct line of accountability to the top levels of the saudi state? turkey now are very confident that this was a planned murder. the saudi public prosecutor saying that they believe that is the case as well, based on the evidence they've received from turkey, that it was a premeditated murder. but still the question tonight on whose orders the saudi hit squad was operating. that the all—importa nt that the all—important question there. mark lowen inestimable. —— indispensable. stay with us on outside source. still to come, we'll have all the business news including

the latest from wall street, where us stocks have recovered from yesterday's multi—billion dollar decline. in the uk, 4,000 jobs are at risk after debenhams announced plans to close up to 50 of its high street stores — about a third of its total — over the next five years. the struggling department store chain lost a billion pounds last year, and says it needs to make tough decisions. here's the retail analyst richard hyman. what happens in situations like this is that, if debenhams does go under, there will be the opportunity for somebody to take ownership of a vast amount of stock at a very, very low price. a bit like what's happened at house of fraser. and there's the opportunity to make a lot of money fairly quickly and fairly easily. that kind of a saviour may well be in the wings, but that's not really a rescue worthy of the name. it's a short—term sticky plaster that will help to make somebody very rich but won't really provide long—term employment and security. you're watching outside source life

from the bbc newsroom. the us authorities have intensified efforts to find out who is sending crude explosive devices to leading democrats, after two more suspicious packages were discovered. some of the other stories that we are working on right here in the bbc newsroom. at least 16 school children have died in a flash flood injordan on the shores of the dead sea. others are still missing, and major search and rescue efforts are underway. the victims were among around a0 pupils and teachers on an outing in the area. bbc arabic covering that. the us military has said that it may deploy between 800 and a thousand troops along its southern border, as a caravan of central american migrants moves north through mexico. the pentagon hasn't confirmed

the reports, but earlier, president trump wrote that he would bring out the military to stop the caravan. more on that with bbc mundo. a french urban climber known as spiderman has scaled one of london's tallest buildings without safety gear. alain robert, 56, completed his bare—handed ascent of the 202m heron tower in a0 minutes. police arrested him for causing a public nuisance. more on that online. i want to take you to actively. three migrants from senegal and nigeria have been arrested in italy for the rape and killing of a 16—year—old girl. her death has been seized upon by the populist right. desiree mariottini's body was found in a derelict building in san lorenzo, a part of rome known for drug trafficking. she had been drugged and gang raped. the italian police have released these images of the men who have been arrested.

they are described as undocumented migrants and police say all are suspected of murder, gang rape and supplying drugs. it's an incident which has shocked residents there. translation: although these stories are frequent, ifeel very translation: although these stories are frequent, i feel very close to her and paralysed. i've been a bit unable to do anything for two days. the right—wing interior minister, matteo salvini, has seized on this. using the uncompromising language that's made him italy's most prominent politician, he tweeted... "i'll do everything so that the vermin guilty of this horror pay to the end, without mercy, for their treachery." that's a translation. mr salvini also visited the scene of the crime. as you can see, he was given a mixed reception. these people are chanting "jackal", accusing him of taking political advantage of human tragedy.

but he was also cheered by some. here's what he told reporters. translation: i spoke with the prosecutor of the republican ask for an iron fist. we can arrest people it actually buildings but everyone must do their bit. and an iron fist means not tolerate in fact there are thousands of abusive squatters in rome while thousands are waiting for social housing. bbcjournalist sara monetta has been covering this story, and gave us this update a short time ago. we are getting more information as the investigation goes on. it was seven or eight people party to this gang rape. what happened in a derelict building and from what the investigators are gathering, it was not the first time something like that happens. the girl actually knew the people that rates are because they used to sell her drugs, and so this is a very difficult social

background, that we're looking at. the reaction in the neighbourhood has been quite strong. there has been, it's been put up, a neighbourhood watch, to alert the police in case they see drug dealers approaching girls now. they say that they are not because they are racist because they are concerned of the safety of an area that, as a matter of fa ct, safety of an area that, as a matter of fact, has some security issues. even though we saw how upset the local residents were, in terms of the people that have been arrested, the people that have been arrested, the suspects are migrants. this feeds into the whole discourse that's taking place in it to me. the discourse that off the back of the populist government winning their election recently. one of the people, one of these migrants had been expelled. he was supposed to be expelled. but it italy, if the

government does not have a prosecution agreement with the country of origin with the migrant, once they are expelled, as a matter of fa ct, once they are expelled, as a matter of fact, authorities cannot make sure they have really left the country. this man who had been in jailfor country. this man who had been in jail for drug country. this man who had been in jailfor drug dealing, he had been expelled, he actually was still here in italy. this is one of the things that matters. —— this is one of the things he is ramping up his rhetoric about. we've had cases of rapes of tourists over the summer, another girl, pamela, she was also raped and killed by a drug dealerjust a few months ago. and that case as well, it brought a lot of attention on the issue of migrants, even though many people are doing that instead of looking at migrants as the issue, they should look at said organised crime that is actually handling this kind of drug dealers. our thanks to sara monetta for looking into that

rather difficult story. let's check in on wall street first. october is often a turbulent month for the dow jones industrial average, and this year is proving no different. kim gittleson is in new york. my my goodness, after yesterday, how's it looking today? if you thought yesterday was back in the yet to com plete yesterday was back in the yet to complete reverse everything you thought. the dow has rebounded something like more than 400 points that today. the s&p 500 and nasdaq rose. it is that october volatility. there are a lot of theories why this is the case. some states because the october budget comes out on october one. we are also in the middle of third—quarter earnings season and then of course, we have the specific factors that are weighing on investors right now. everything from ta riffs investors right now. everything from tariffs to rising interest rates. . it's been a volatile month and we have five days left and it does not like things will be changing. we

will beginning company results. we got amazon, then we'll get google and wiki facebook actually. what about the other tech companies? it's been an interesting earnings season here. there's been a lot of concerns when it comes to technology companies, not just about whether or not advertising sales are as strong as they once were but of course, what companies are doing when it comes to user data, user privacy and of course when it comes to figuring out how to combat this spread of misinformation. we saw that twitter reported its results this morning and it said that it actually lost 9 million users during the past quarter. that's because it's trying to weed out what it calls spam accounts. investors actually cheer this. they think this means investors will ultimately be better along with if they do this but it's certainly something whirring in the short—term. certainly something whirring in the short-term. thanks, kim, for walking

us short-term. thanks, kim, for walking us through this. kim gittleson. twitter may have lost some users in the past few months. those spam users in the last few months. investors are happy anyway. the firm said the number of average monthly users dropped to 326 million from 335 million injust three months. but nonetheless, the company said revenue in those three months was $758 million. that is a 29% increase since the same quarter last year. an impressive turnaround for a company that's only been profitable since the end of 2017. here's one analyst on why ad revenues are up even though usage is down. because twitter is a world respected platform and brand, the likes of the president of united states are using twitter as their default way to directly communicate with both their

electorate and with the international community. it's a big important part of the economy. they wa nt to important part of the economy. they want to grow market share now in this peak attention economy where we are now in, then they have to take it somewhere else. they're not going to ta ke it somewhere else. they're not going to take it from the likes of instagram because it is fundamentally different kind of demographic interested. they're not going to sing from facebook that is, again, it'sa going to sing from facebook that is, again, it's a fundamentally different kind of engagement. what they seem to be doing is doubling down on their existing users who get the most value out of the using it. to the city of nairobi. the city of nairobi has a new fleet of taxis — and they're all electric. here's ferdinand omondi with the details. he arrives to the train station at this mall in the south of nairobi. the electric car has no engine, and therefore, no roar or rumble. before he starts his day, he will charge the vehicle to full power to drive out to

pick and drop customers. he was previously a driver with other ride—hailing companies and he says the fact that he no longer needs to fuel his car is a big plus for his earnings. translation: first advantage is i no longer use fuel. on a normal day, when i used the normal app, i spent about $20. if you multiply this by 365 days — because i have to work daily to meet my targets and cater for my needs — it comes to about $7,000. this is money i can now save and use it to improve my life. independent research has rated nairobi's traffic among the worst in the world. at peak hours, motorists spend more time stuck in trafficjams as opposed to driving. add recent tax changes which have also driven up fuel prices, and motoring in the capital becomes a largely expensive affair. many taxi drivers in kenya have been driven out of business due to a high

operating and fuel costs, and relatively low prices as companies compete to retain customers by not raising prices to match the price of fuel. so perhaps the intrigue of a taxi that only uses electricity might offer that alternative that they want and perhaps help in getting the business back to profitability. but it's notjust thousands of dollars that the electric car could save for drivers. nairobi's congestion is a major contributor to air pollution, which the government says is exposing many to respiratory diseases. the finnish company launching this electric car in kenya says its zero emissions may help reduce pollution in nairobi. certainly one to watch for me. and the team for outside source, bye— bye.

the team for outside source, bye—bye. hello there. the super typhoon made landfall across the pacific. it was a significant typhoon. the most devastating to cross those islands with sustained winds around the centre of the aisle and 180 mph. it has caused significant damage to the island and i suspect those islands will be without power for some time, with roofs being ripped from the properties. huge storm surge associated with it. it is weakening associated with it. it is weakening a little as it continues to track in a little as it continues to track in a westerly direction. the equivalent ofa a westerly direction. the equivalent of a category three but nevertheless, it is going to continue to push in a westerly direction. it may well affect the north of the philippines or through taiyuan. we will need to keep a close eye on its track. of course, we'll keep you updated. let's move

now to north america, where we've got significant heavy rain that's just moving out of texas. you can see that from the satellite picture. that is going to continue to rack in a north easterly direction. this moisture bringing some very heavy rain as it moves his way up through atla nta, rain as it moves his way up through atlanta, georgia, through tennessee, to the eastern seaboard. as the warmerair to the eastern seaboard. as the warmer air just bumps into to the eastern seaboard. as the warmer airjust bumps into the cold air, there could be some significant snow to come on the leading edge of it as well. at the same time, after the west, a little bit quieter as we start the weekend but more rain is coming in to british columbia perhaps. across the turkey, it's been pretty stormy of late and pretty cold. you can see some significant snow as it moves through georgia and azerbaijan, but that system starts to easily. certainly, a quieter story to come. the temperature profile. the blue turns,

or we saw the snow, they will start to easily add something a little more like the average for the time of year. we are heading for a cold snap over europe. northerly winds descend down across the into france. yes, this weather front, descend down across the into france. yes, this weatherfront, the dividing line between warmer air down to the mediterranean and quarter air behind him and could spark off some significant snow across the pyrenees and also into the apps but whatever happens, there'll be some very heavy rain as well cross the french riviera and many of the alpine areas into northern italy. that's the dividing line. somewhat colder conditions up into the north. the first cold snap of the season. warmer weather so down to the top. it looks pretty u nsettled down to the top. it looks pretty unsettled on sunday across to italy, with the threat of snow using somewhat. that's it. take care. hello, i'm kasia madera, this is outside source. ten explosive devices have now been sent in america to leading democrats and critics of president trump including robert de niro. we still don't know

who sent them and why. saudi arabia admits for the first time that the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi was premeditated. president trump is to be briefed by his cia director who's now listened to the audio of the killing. hundreds of civilians have been killed in recent months, and aid agencies say millions more are at risk of starvation. we'll talk to orla guerin about yemen. and a museum in london proves beyond doubt that the fossil that shows birds evolved from dinosaurs is real. hello, welcome back. to yemen now. we know the situation there is dire. but this week we've had fresh

warnings aboutjust how bad it might still get. first — the un warned that half the country's population — that's 14 million people — are facing "pre—famine conditions." here's some more of what they said. there is now a clear and present danger of an imminent and great big famine engulfing yemen. much bigger than anything any professional in this field has seen during their working lives. so that is a warning from the un. next, an oxfam report with figures that were just as bleak. it claims that one civilian has been killed every three hours in yemen, since the beginning of august. it also says there have been more than 1.1 million cases of cholera in the last 18 months. and that over 2,000 of those proved fatal. with figures like these, it's easy to see why the un calls yemen the world's worst humanitarian crisis. its origins trace back to 2011 —

but the conflict really escalated in 2015 when a saudi—led coalition intervened after the rebel houthi movement seized control of much of the west of the country. there's more about that background in this online explainer. the situation has deteriorated drastically since then. orla guerin has been there recently — this is what she saw. well, i was quite shocked to see how much worse and had become. i was in yemen two or three months ago. but on that occasion we were in the south in the port city of aden. this time we managed to get to the capital in the north. the journey was quite risky. we had to pass from one site to

the other from the government—held side to the rebel—held side. but when we did manage to reach the north and travel around, we got a very clear and very harrowing picture of the scale of the civilian suffering. and i think that is the thing that i came away with most. when you were there and you are in the hospitals and you're seeing these children were literally in some cases reduced it to skin and bone, whose limbs are absolutely tiny. you see the devastating impact of malnutrition. you see parents sitting by the bedside, and instead of watching their children getting stronger every day, they're watching them get weaker every day. we interviewed one man who had eight children, who would really had nothing to give them. he said they were living on bread and tea. and he kept showing me his two—year—old, his younger son and saying you know, ‘the older he gets, the thinner he gets'. so there are many families across yemen in that situation. the united nations is really trying to ring an alarm bell at this stage, about the risk of famine on a massive scale, famine on a scale that hasn't been seen for 100 years. and we were told by the un

humanitarian coordinator for yemen that if there is no political settlement within the next three months, around 40 million yemenis could be facing famine. already the un is saying there are pockets of famine—like conditions all around the country and when you travel around you can certainly see evidence of that. of course there is a conflict. it is very difficult to get around. certainly there is no freedom of movement. you need permission notjust to enter the country, but to move but to move around once you are inside. you have to negotiate your way through checkpoints. you need permissions. so you can't simply travel wherever you wish. of course, there is a risk in certain areas particularly of being hit by coalition air strikes. but on this trip, we are in the country for about two weeks and we did manage to cover quite a lot of ground. we were in the capital sana'a. we managed to go to the red sea port. and we also managed to travel to the northern province, which is a houthi stronghold from which the forces

are firing rockets across the border to saudi arabia. we particularly wanted to go to sa'dah because there was an strike there two months ago which hit a bus full of schoolchildren. it was a waste that the saudi—led coalition initially said was a legitimate military target, that our military commanders on board. they were involved in recruiting child soldiers. eventually, after an international outcry, it apologised for what it called collateral damage. but i can tell you that collateral damage was these 42 schoolboys. and we went to their school. we saw the empty desks. the headmaster said to us, so and so sat here, so and so sat there, he was my brightest student. the boys were telling us about their friends who were gone. we met the fathers, showing us pictures of their children. including one man who explained to me that there was almost

an argument in the morgue between parents who were saying that they could recognise bodyparts of their children so they would have something to bury, so somebody would say "this is my son" and somebody else would say, "no, it's my child". the only reason he was able to bury part of this son was because he was able to identify the remains by his teeth. so that was actually the reality of what took place in this air strike. one of the things about this conflict is that it is very rare for independent witnesses, for outsiders, for foreign media to be able to go to these locations and verify what has taken place. but in these instances, we were able to do that, we were able to see the parents, we were able to see the graveyard that has been opened for these young boys, 42 of them. and the empty graves that remain for the bodies that still have not been identified. orla, when you spoke to the parents, when you spoke to the people that you made contact with, do they feel

they have been forgotten? completely. there is a sense on the one hand of either being forgotten or has never been noticed. some people said to me while we were there, from the start". "it is not the forgotten war, we have been ignored from the start". there is a huge fan of having been let down by the international community. people cannot understand how this conflict has raged for more than three years, and what was already the poorest country in the arab world. and as they would see it, there has been no meaningful intervention and no attempt to save their lives. no attempt to get the coalition to stop its air campaign. which has been completely devastating. i mean, by some accounts there has been an air strike in yemen every 19 minutes. for the last three years. and of course, people are also dying because of actions by the houthi forces. they are accused by the united nations of indiscriminate shelling, of planting landmines and so on. so you have a civilian population that is trapped between the warring forces, that is no way out. the saudi—led coalition has opposed an air and sea blockade. it has stopped civilian flights coming in and out of the capital sana'a. so if you are a civilian trapped

in sana'a and you want to leave, you have no way out. thank you for her to bringing that to us. also the report is on the website explaining the conflict in yemen. sophisticated laser scanning has proved once and for all that this fossil which is believed to date back almost 150 million years, is indeed real. here'sjonathan amos with more. archaeopteryx is one of the most famous fossils ever discovered. 147 million years old, it was discovered a couple of years after darwin published his theory on a solution. ——after darwin published his theory on evolution. it is essentially half dinosaur, half bird. it is the fossil that shows us the link between the two. so you can imagine how offended the natural history museum in london was — who keep this fossil — where when they were told that it was possibly a fake. this happened in 1985. a very esteemed astronomer, a chap called sir fred hoyle, looked at the fossil, he photographed it from many angles

and decided that the feathers on it had somehow been imprinted on top of a rubber dinosaur fossil. ——of a proper dinosaur fossil. the museum went away. they analysed it again. they basically unpicked the claim, part by part, to show that no, it was a real fossil. the one test that they couldn't do back in 1985, they have now been able to do. if you look at this fossil today, it is actually in two parts. because when they took the walked out of a quarry, they split it in half, and archaeopteryx, the different parts of it, the different elements of this creature spread across the two slabs. if you've been fiddling with either of those labs, if you tried to put them back together, then they wouldn't fit. what they've been able to do with modern digital techniques is laser scan the surfaces of the two slabs and virtually pick them up and put them back together. and they are a perfect match. jonathan amos, really impressive

what they can do. don't forget you can get much more detail on our top stories on our web site gfx there is full coverage on bbc.com /news or you can download the bbc news app. it's almost eight months since the poisoning of the former russian spy, sergei skripal, in south west england. but now there's increasing evidence that far from living quietly in retirement, he had been travelling across europe and to the us, providing information to western intelligence agencies. richard galpin has been investigating. sergei skripal, a colonel in russia's military intelligence agency the gru, who betrayed his country, was brought to britain in 2010 in a spy swap. so why were he and his daughter attacked eight years later? perhaps part of the reason lies here in the czech capital prague. this is the first place where it was revealed he had been actively assisting european and other western intelligence agencies. sources here tell me that czech secret services were in a battle

with russian spies operating in the country, claiming they were trying to subvert the czech government. so intelligence experts say the insights mr skripal provided into the workings of russian military intelligence were important. given the track record of mr skripal, i could imagine he would be very valuable. i am not aware if there would be any more interesting defectors right now in the hands of the intelligence. while it is not unusual for defectors like skripal to brief the intelligence services of allied countries, a well—placed source said czech intelligence officers possibly did ask him for names of russian spies operating in the country. this seniorjournalist believes sergei skripal still had relevant information. he was working in a high—level position, he still had the knowledge about the guys from gru who are all over europe. so he would have known names, exactly what they were doing? most likely he had the information about the guys who are still working for gru.

if he had been uncovering russian spies, that could have been a motive for moscow trying to kill him. but one source here in prague told me that czech intelligence officers were also interested in what he knew about russian organised crime and said that mr skripal was planning to produce analysis about it. my source said that potentially could have been part of the reason why mr skripal was eventually attacked. this is spain, another at least five countries skripal is believed to have travelled to in recent years. to meet intelligence officials. over the last two decades spain has had to deal with an influx of russian officials particularly here in the capital. they've been accused of

links with russian officials in moscow. the spanish officials in madrid refused to talk about skripal‘s visit. if it was about the russian mafia, it will create a parallel with the former russian spy alexander he is doing and go to work with m16 alexander he is doing and go to work with mi6 almost an organised crime and his linked with moscow. but he was murdered before he could give evidence to spanish prosecutors. translation: the litvinenko and skripal case are almost identical. if litvinenko helps the british, spanish and other secret services, he is an enemy of the russian government and they decide to silence him. the story is repeated with sergei skripal, the exact same thing happens. proving these theories is extremely difficult but sergei skripal was far more active than expected from an intelligence officer who betrayed his country and had been allowed to settle in britain as part of a spy swap, which would normally mean a very quiet life. let's turn to brazil.

sunday is the second round run off in the brazilian election. this is jair bolsonaro, we've talked about him a lot on outside source. he's a right—wing populist. this is fernando haddad from the workers‘ party, he was hand—picked by this man, brazil's former president lula de silva after he was forced to step aside due to claims of corruption. this is what the first round of the election looked like. mr bolsonaro won 46% of the vote, in the areas marked green here. and polls suggest he's currently ahead. katy watson joined us a short time ago from rio dejaneiro and i asked whether mr bolsonaro is the top contender. he is. he's got about 57% of valid votes. about 43% for fernando haddad. if polls are correct, and the first

round they were pretty accurate, then it is expected jair bolsonaro will take the top job job on sunday evening. so when do we expect, of course when it comes to the election, when do we expect the results to come in? what is the logistics of all this? very quickly. they're electronic voting here in brazil. within a couple of hours, sorry straight after the polls close we should be getting exit polls. within a couple of hours, we should be getting the real result. sunday evening, we will be getting an idea of exactly who has won and who will be the next president in brazil and they will be taking over starting theirjob on the 1st of january next year. katy i want to just show some of our viewers. when we talk aboutjair bolsonaro, he has been compared to donald trump. i want to show you some of the newspaper images. this is the guardian, which compares him to donald trump. the economist as well. calling him brazil's donald trump.

bloomberg as well also talking about rodrigo duterte from the philippines. a lot of the press is talking about jair bolsonaro as this kind of right—wing figure. yo've been speaking to your guests who say you cannot compare to donald trump or rodrigo duterte because he is more radical than that. absolutely. people feel that absolutely donald trump is not the right comparison. rodrigo duterte is a much more accurate comparison. he is a politician with a difference here in brazil. he is a very unknown politician. he's been a politician for a congressman for nearly 30 years. it's only the past couple of years, that he has really risen and become much more common.

he has run a campaign based greatly on fear, on the idea that brazil is in chaos, brazil's violence is spiralling out of control. looser gun laws will help bring that violence down. and he is going to rule brazil with an iron fist, if you like. that has won him an awful lot of support. but his controversial statements, his mysogonist statements, sexist, racist, homophobic statements have got people very worried about what kind of leader he will be and whether he will lead for all of brazil and not just for his supporters. katy, what on earth has happened to the left in brazil? well, this campaign is very interesting because it feels like it is more about who is hated rather than who is loved. in one of the big motivations for voting for bolsonaro is people‘s hatred of the workers‘ party. so you mentioning our introduction, lula was the poster boy of the left. brazil is a country known for its left—wing politics. but over the last few years, accusations of corruption,

lula is imprisoned 12 years for corruption. his successor was impeached. the workers‘ party has been seen as a symbol of that corruption. everything has gone wrong in brazil. it is worth pointing out that it is not the party that has been hit by corruption scandals. it is just one of several. but it was the symbolic nature. lula was the man who said he would change brazil for the better. his opponents say that just was not the case. and he is seen as bringing brazil to its knees. that is why there‘s so much anger and much hatred and why jair bolsonaro has helped... been pushed up in the polls. she is going to have a busy weekend covering that election over the weekend. sunday especially. yesterday we showed you the front page of the british newspaper the daily telegraph — "the british #metoo scandal which cannot be revealed". it reported "a leading businessman has been granted an injunction to prevent this newspaper" "revealing alleged sexual harassment and racial abuse of staff". the paper couldn‘t reveal the identity of the person in question due to a legal injunction. then, this afternoon,

the labour peer, lord hain, used parliamentary privilege to say this... about serious and repeated sexual harassment, racist abuse and bullying which is compulsively continuing. i feel it is my duty under parliamentary privilege to name philip green as the individual in question, given that the media have been subject to an injunction preventing publication of the full details of the story which is clearly in the public interest. labour peer lord hain there. this is philip green, who‘s been accused of sexual harassment by five women. he is a british retail billionaire, who‘s known as the ‘king of the high street‘ — he owns popular retail brands like topshop, evans, miss selfridge and dorothy perkins. the bbc cannot confirm the allegations and sir philip denies them. in a statement he said "to the extent that it is suggested that i have been guilty of unlawful sexual or racist behaviour, i categorically and wholly deny these allegations." here‘s the bbc‘s legal affairs

correspondent clive coleman. this story has moved very quickly over the last few days because the daily telegraph, one of the papers here, initially published the allegations and said that they could not give the detail because of this court injunction. this was an injunction granted by the court of appeal. in parliament yesterday, the prime minister was asked a question about this and she said that she was very concerned about the abuse of what are known as nondisclosure agreements, these are agreements — really contracts — but you‘ve been around for a long time, you they‘re used to protect confidential information in commercial businesses. but there is concern that they are being used in employment cases by rich and powerful people,

to gag less rich and powerful people who have made allegations of abuse against them. i want to bring you to some breaking news that we‘re getting the newsroom right now. this is from the google ceo who is saying and a letter to employees that 48 people have had their contracts terminated for sexual harassment, including 13 senior managers and above. and this has happened in the last two years. the background to this is that google are saying they are taking an increasingly hard—line approach. this statement was in response to an article from the new york times. it isa article from the new york times. it is a report by a senior reporter there. that says senior employee, a man who was received an exit package which was worth $90 million, he had actually faced allegations of misconduct. google however saying that there was no exit package. just off the back of that, google are now releasing this letter to employees saying that 48 people have had

there, they have had their contracts terminated for sexual harassment. as and when we get any more details on this story, we will bring them to you. let‘s have a bit of change of pace. let‘s talk about the clever tool—making crows, because they‘ve just wowed scientists once again. a few months ago, we told you how these crows were able to fabricate hooks to fish for food. well now in this new task designed to test their tool—making prowess, the crows spontaneously put together two short sticks to make a longer "fishing rod" to reach food. here‘s victoria gill on the significance of this. we already know that these birds are the cleverest birds that we have seen in action. they can make tools, they use tools instinctively in the wild. and the last time that we brought to you a story on the new caledonian crow, they were making hooks out

of twigs in the wild in order to fish out food from nooks and crannies. now this is a real window into how they think and some of their toolmaking and tool design even. so scientists from the university of oxford and the max planck institute designed an experiment whereby the birds would have to make what is called a compound tool. essentially they were given pieces that they would have to fix together to make a long fishing rod in order to fish a little bit of food out of a box. so they have a box with a little small opening at the bottom. and then they have small sticks — some of them which are hollow and some of them are solid — so they can slot into each other. that makes a fishing rod that can fish out there that little hole in the letterbox, this puzzle box, can fish out the little bit of food and get the treat. when they tested the birds in this human designed experiment, designed especially for them, four out of eight birds just instinctively made this longer tool, combined these sticks into a compound tool.

now that looks impressive. but beyond that, what this actually means is that we have a window into how these birds are thinking. we have a window into the mind, the scientists have said, of an animal that is very distantly related from us. a brain very different from our own brains. so while we thought we were the only animals that were able to plan and think of something that doesn‘t exist and design it and imagine how it would work in the future, actually it turns out these birds can do that, too. so it was thought — scientists had previously thought, who studied animal behaviour, that really animals when they are learning how to do something for example forage for food in the wild, they‘re just trying things at random and then repeating actions that work. these birds aren‘t doing that, they are doing something very specific, they‘re doing something very clever. perhaps they are imagining something that doesn‘t yet exist. figuring out that it would solve a problem for them, and then making that thing and using it. beyond that, the scientists actually want to live what processes are involved in making this decision and design artificial artificial intelligence, robots that could solve similar problems.

so imagine what could have a robot that you don‘tjust programme to ask it to do a particular task. but you can programme it to want to have an end goal. and to invent solutions and create tools that would solve that problem. i would never have thought of that. thanks for watching. bye—bye. hello there. so far this autumn has been pretty kind to as weather—wise. we‘ve seen a lot of dry and sunny weather, pretty decent temperatures, too. always above the seasonal average. for example, you cast your mind back to last weekend, we saw top temperatures around 20 celsius. people dressed in t—shirts and also with flip—flops. that is not going to be the case thought into this coming weekend. we will be reaching for the winter clothing, the gloves, the hats, the scarves. temperatures will struggle to get anywhere near double figures. it is going to feel very cold and raw. that is because we are opening floodgates to the arctic. this brief arctic blast will bring quite a shock to the system over the next few days. but it looks like it will be short lived.

more on that in just a moment. the cold there, the real cold air comes in behind his cold front which will be sold to clear from the south coast. eventually will do. sunshine was in his place. but if it is any colder through the course of the day. there will be lots of showers around particularly northern, western and eastern coasts. over the mountains in the north. into saturday, this is the peak of the cold spell. northerly coming like the way south of the arctic. it will feel raw indeed when you add on that when. lots of showers across northern and western eastern coast. over the higher ground. further inland you are, you should see the best part of the sunshine. the seat height reaching 6—9d. for many of us. if you‘re out on the wind, it will feel much colder than that. as we head north, the second part of the weekend, looks like we try to see a bit of a shift in the wind direction coming in more from the northeast, the north sea there. that will feed more showers into eastern coastal areas. remember the north sea at the moment is at its warmest time of the year. particularly after the warm summer that we have had.

it looks like any showers will certainly be raised of the north york moors. to the coast with some elevation over the top of the north york moors. could see some dreams. into next week, quite messy but it does look like the week is on to start off with a wet and windy note for some of us. as the week goes on, those temperatures will slowly climb back up. this is the pressure chart into monday and tuesday. we have got this weather system trying to move in from the west. it looks like it will grind to a halt. into that area of high pressure. this is what is going to be the player for the winner on monday and tuesday. this area of low pressure, moving north out of the near continent. for monday, this looks like skies will begin to turn cloudy across england and wales, increasing amounts of showers and also increasing easterly wind. which will be quite cold and warm. ——which will be quite cold and raw. best of the winter, scotland and northern ireland. dry with some sunshine. but a cold day for all temperatures in single figures. tuesday at stages, looking pretty messy.

this area of low pressure will get its act together. some pretty wet and windy weather, large portions of england and wales. a bit of uncertainty to how far west as it will arrive. it is going to be colder. sunshine across the extreme north and west. temperatures beginning to climb across the south and east. it will feel milder because the wind and the rain. looks like i could bring some snow to northern hills as the low pressure moves northward away from our shores, as we move deeper on into next week. and it looks like you see the atlantic come alive again. we will see some west or south westerly winds, a bit of uncertainty to when this next spell of wet and windy weather will arrive. the main message further ahead is that it is starting offjulian to next week with some wet and windy weather. as we pick up some air and weather systems off the atlantic. the billionaire retailer sir philip green is named in parliament as the businessman behind an injunction to stop claims of sexual harassment being published. in a highly unusual move, sir philip‘s name was revealed by lord hain, who defended

using parliamentary privilege to do so. i feel it‘s my duty under parliamentary privilege to name philip green as the individual in question, given that the media have been subject to an injunction preventing publication of the full details of a story which is clearly in the public interest. tonight, sir philip green said he categorically and wholly denied allegations of "unlawful sexual or racist behaviour". also on the programme tonight... illegally forced to take a dna test — the home secretary apologises to hundreds of people who were told to prove they were entitled to settle in the uk. the fbi says it‘s stepped up its hunt for whoever is behind