this is bbc news. the headlines at 8.00pm. former cabinet minister amber rudd accuses number 10 of using words that could incite violence — but borisjohnson defends his comments yet again. can you use words like surrender to describe a certain act, a certain bill? quite frankly, i think that you can. nicola sturgeon says the snp could back a caretaker government led byjeremy corbyn — to prevent a no—deal brexit. "a broken force that's become a national disgrace." cleveland police becomes the first force in england and wales to be classed as "failing in all areas". pressure grows on the bbc to overturn its ruling on comments made by breakfast‘s naga munchetty

about racism and president trump. 22 years on, prince harry walks in his mother's footsteps as he visits a minefield in angola. a pulitzer prize—winning novel gets a big screen adaptation in the goldfinch starring nicole kidman. see what kermode thinks of that and the rest of the week's releases in the rest of the week's releases in the film review. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the former cabinet minister amber rudd has accused number 10 of using aggressive language that incites violence. it comes after a turbulent week in which mps returned to the house of commons and took part in furious exchanges in the commons.

exchanges in the commons. today borisjohnson again defended his use of language and insisted that delivering brexit on the 31st of october would bring much of the heat out of the debate. meanwhile scotland's first minister nicola sturgeon has indicated that she'd be open to backing jeremy corbyn as interim prime minister to stop a no—deal brexit. here's our political correspondent alex forsyth. it might seem calm today but it has been a fractious week in westminster. with heated scenes in the house of commons came claims that words like surrender, when used about brexit, are divisive, even dangerous. now amber rudd, a former home secretary, who only quit the government a few weeks ago, has waded in, telling the evening standard newspaper the sort of language we have seen more and more coming out from no 10 does incite violence. hello! an extraordinary accusation aimed at the prime minister. today, during a hospital visit, he said any threat against mps

was appalling but insisted he was not stoking division. what we need to do now is to get brexit done by october the 31st and i genuinely think that once you do that, then so much of the heat and the anxiety will come out of the debate. i think a lot of people are very tense. i think businesses are still uncertain. and i think get it done and we'll all be able to move on. and his senior advisor said "getting it done is a walk in the park" during a book launch last night. the referendum was pressure, the referendum was difficult, this is a walk in the park compared... dominic cummings is himself a divisive figure. the man behind the vote leave campaign now at the heart of downing street, this morning seeming to question his own comments. you said it would be a walk in the park. you said it last night at a book launch? no. there is real angerfrom some here at the tone coming from downing street,

that the prime minister shows little sign of changing his approach, still insisting he'll meet the departure deadline of october the 31st, despite the fact parliament's passed a law saying he'd have to delay if he doesn't get a brexit deal. with such little trust here, opposition parties are talking tactics. the snp leader today suggested ousting the prime minister and didn't rule out the labour leader as a temporary replacement. i don't particularly want to pushjeremy corbyn here. the point i'm making is that if the opposition is to unite behind a clear plan that takes away the threat of a no—deal and moves to a general election, where i think everybody accepts is where we should be heading, then we will have to compromise. but plenty here won't put the labour leader in charge, even if only for a short time to slow the brexit process. we need to have a solution that will work. jeremy corbyn doesn't have the numbers, the basic parliamentary arithmetic isn't there, and, to be fair,

he knows that, the snp knows that, you and i know that. so a direct move against no 10 isn't expected imminently, but with feelings here still running high, don't expect an outbreak of calm either. alex forsyth, bbc news, westminster. 0ur political correspondent helen catt is at westminster. signs tonight of some possible deal? the uk government has said it will put forward concrete proposals next week after the end of the conservative party conference, which i’u ns conservative party conference, which runs from monday to wednesday. if the proposals are acceptable to the eu there will be a huge amount of work to turn them around for the crucial summit on the 17th of 0ctober, so there is a very tight timeframe for this and it does depend what the proposal are. today the brexit secretary was in brussels for more talks and says the moment of truth is approaching for the negotiations to see if there is political will on both sides, but he

has insisted that the irish backstop to try to prevent irish checks needs to try to prevent irish checks needs to go from the withdrawal agreement. michel barnier has said that so far the proposals to do that have not worked. we are going to take our viewers to westminster where nigel farage is speaking at the final brexit party rally. paying the bills with no voice, no vote, no veto, no mrjohnson. the real surrender will be putting through that dreadful withdrawal agreement. don't reheat mrs may's deal. that would be surrender.

but isn't it extraordinary, isn't it hypocritical that a group of people who for the last ten years of my life have constantly abused me, threaten me, attacked me, called me all the names under the sun, suddenly, when you call them out for what they've done, don't like it. as corporaljones would have said, they don't like it up them, do they? but i will say this. there is much talk about the temperature of political debate in this country. much talk coming from the headmaster of the nation yesterday morning, john bercow. did you see him? do you

know, he's almost the most popular figure amongst levers in the country. there are lots of names i could call out that you would bow. tony blair. john major. they b00 the one that gets the biggest bow is currently leader of a party who are hovering at around about 0% in the opinion polls. she didn't have the decency to call a by—election when she defected and yet it would seem if you look at broadcast media and cable television, she is on, it seems, for hour upon hour every day. almost the new agony aunt of the

nation. yes, the least popular figure with leave voters without a single shadow of a doubt is anna souray. they b00 before i am accused, which ino they b00 before i am accused, which i no doubt will be, of using strong language and stirring up emotions. i want to make this very serious point. civilised democracy only functions if you have the principal of losers consent. that matters in a democracy. what has gone on since 2016 has never been seen. normally one side win and the other side

accept it because that is how democracy works. but since that 2016 referendum we have seen many senior figures in british society who simply do not accept the result. they have done their best through parliamentary tricks and elsewhere to delete, delay, frustrate, stop, reverse or to delete, delay, frustrate, stop, reverse 01’ 110w to delete, delay, frustrate, stop, reverse 01’ now even to delete, delay, frustrate, stop, reverse or now even just revoke the greatest democratic exercise in the history of our nation. but it's worse than that. because they've actually said that brexiteers are basically stupid. that brexiteers didn't know what they were voting for, that brexiteers are somehow a lower subspecies than they are. they have a moral superiority, they believe they are actually better people than us and that, i think, is where the strong language, the bad behaviour, that is where it begins.

now, when i read... applause when i read that a cabinet minister has said that there will be riots on the streets of this country if in riots on the streets of this country ifina riots on the streets of this country if in a second referendum the brexit result is overturned, i feel i must say something about it. the first thing is, if we did have two face a second referendum and provided we were given a proper question with a genuine leave on the ballot paper, i have absolutely no doubt we would vote to leave by a bigger margin than we did back in 2016. but whatever happens, there will

not... and listen to this, establishment, please. they will not be violent riots on our streets. do you know why? because we have got a well sensible, moderate, democratic political party called the brexit party. people wouldn't riot, they will come and join the party and we will come and join the party and we will do this democratically and we will do this democratically and we will do this peacefully. applause thank you. and i say that because this is now actually about more than just delivering brexit. this is in fact about democracy itself. this is about democracy itself. this is about our nation. this is about those who for hundreds of years built this nation, defended this

nation, sacrificed so much so that we could be a nation. this is about who we are as eight people and as a country. it really is. but it is also about oui’ it really is. but it is also about our place in the world and is standing in the world, and i have to say i've met so many people who have said to me, what on earth is happening to your country? we used to have great respect for the uk and we thought you were a great nation. we have been reduced by our politicians on the world stage to being a laughing stock. and i want us being a laughing stock. and i want us not just to being a laughing stock. and i want us notjust to deliver brexit but i wa nt us notjust to deliver brexit but i want us to re—establish where we should be in the world. being represented in the higher council

across the globe by somebody from the european commission is, i would suggest, not worthy of who we are as a people. and, of course, we will be friends, cooperate and trade with oui’ friends, cooperate and trade with our european neighbours but perhaps something we have forgotten in this country, which is important around the world and important to many communities that live here is this — those countries that make up the commonwealth, and if you add in the united states of america as well, there are 2.7 billion people now living in those countries. they are oui’ living in those countries. they are our genuine friends and allies in the world. applause. and we have got a massive

opportunity to reach out, to trade, to rediscover a world in which we have, through language and history, some quite extraordinary advantages. the conservative conference will begin this weekend. i thought perhaps we might have just one or two quick words of advice for the prime minister. i was pleased that when boris got elected that he brought some much—needed optimism and energy to the job. it needed brought some much—needed optimism and energy to thejob. it needed it after what had gone before with mrs may. and it was clear that the strategy and the tactic was, let's out brexit the brexit party. let's sound more like nigel farage than he does. if we do this and if we say,

we will die does. if we do this and if we say, we willdie in does. if we do this and if we say, we will die in a ditch and we will do ordie and we will die in a ditch and we will do or die and will leave on the 31st of october it's really simple because what will happen is all those voters who supported the brexit party will all come and support the conservative party. that is what they thought. but here we are. and what they find is the brexit party are rock solid in the opinion polls and we are not going down. applause. and the reason for that is we just don't trust the party that tells us over and over what it will do, promises things in manifestos actually often without the intention of ever delivering them, i think. the reason brexit party voters will not go back en masse, it's very

simple, wejust not go back en masse, it's very simple, we just don't trust the conservative party. it's as simple as that. simple as that. but equally, equally, we are not actually quite sure, likeable though boris is in so many ways, we are not just sure what he himself actually believes in. is he really truly a genuine brexiteer? and i say that because in developments over the last couple of weeks have been, i think, quite disturbing. we saw a specimen of this in strasbourg last week. with the parliament in session. there we were, the 29 brexit meps... applause. they have sat us all together in a block. big mistake! and every time one of these characters attempted to

talk down the country, say the referendum was a mistake, demand that we vote again, we rose to stand up that we vote again, we rose to stand up and give voice to the fact that they really, politely, ortojolly well mind their own business. and, you know... applause. i think we've really had enough of being talked down to and humiliated by the bureaucrats of brussels and many other european leaders, the last example of which was the pipsqueak in luxembourg humiliating borisjohnson. pipsqueak in luxembourg humiliating boris johnson. we've had pipsqueak in luxembourg humiliating borisjohnson. we've had enough of being talked down to and it's time we stood up for ourselves. applause. but the worry was that there were

john cole juncker —— john but the worry was that there were john colejuncker —— john cole juncker... he john colejuncker —— john cole juncker. .. he is john colejuncker —— john cole juncker... he is not all bad, i tell you. what bothered me wasjunker in the meeting that morning saying that he had no emotional attachment to the backstop. that is what is wanted. maybe he was still talking about boris, i don't know, when later on that day, after lunch... yes. he said he had no erotic attachment to the backstop. yes! either way, it looks like there will be some concessions from brussels and it looks like borisjohnson has,

as his primary goal, indeed, as he has put into writing to the european council, his highest priority is to get a deal but it's not a new deal, it's an old deal. it's a reheated version of mrs may's failed to deal. it failed three times in the house of commons and it is a new european treaty, binding in international law and any future trade deal that came from it would rely on them acting in good faith. i put it to you, that is not going to happen. i tell you this, mrjohnson, mr cummings. if you think... and if you do get this through, that you can sell this as brexit, you are in for a bigger surprise. the british people won't swallow it. if they realise nothing has changed they will not put up with it and they will lose votes to us with it and they will lose votes to us in huge numbers. heed that warning, please.

applause. of course, if he was to do the right thing, if he was to do the right thing, if he was to do the right thing and go for a general election. by thing and go for a general election. by the way, there is a general election coming, don't worry. we are going to get our chance to get even with this parliament. when he goes toa with this parliament. when he goes to a general election for a clean break brexit, far from fighting against him, we will work with him because although we are proud of the success because although we are proud of the su ccess we because although we are proud of the success we have achieved over the course of the last 25 weeks, to get this done we would always, always, a lwa ys this done we would always, always, always put country before party to achieve the brexit goal. always. applause. thank you.

which is more, i think, than could be said for the marxist rabble that recently be said for the marxist rabble that rece ntly got be said for the marxist rabble that recently got together in brighton. the labour party promised in their ma nifesto the labour party promised in their manifesto that they would honour the referendum result on brexit. they know... emily thornbury laid out the policy, didn't she, brilliantly. did you see her on question time the other week? poor old richard had to sit next to her for an other week? poor old richard had to sit next to herfor an hour. so, this is how it's going to work, folks, according to emily thornbury. they are going to win the election, then negotiate a new deal in brussels, they are then going to put that in a referendum to the british people, they are deal, against remain, and then they are going to

campaign against the deal they've negotiated in brussels. you simply couldn't make it up, could you? you couldn't make it up, could you? you couldn't make it up! so, there are 5 million labour voters out there who voted brexit who now don't have a home, but it is even worse than that. a second betrayal by the labour party. in their last ma nifesto labour party. in their last manifesto they put, when we leave european union, freedom of movement will end. and yet they passed a motion that mr corbyn says he will abide by at their conference not just to keep freedom of movement with the rest of europe but to extend it to the most of the rest of the world. they have decided to embark upona the world. they have decided to embark upon a policy of uncontrolled mass immigration into britain, and all of us in this party recognise that immigration can be a very good and a very positive thing for our

nation but you have to control it sensibly and selectively, and that is what people want and demand. applause. and almost unbelievably, they've said that all foreign citizens coming into the united kingdom will also get the vote. they are trying to gerrymander the future of british politics through uncontrolled mass immigration. there will be no deals of any kind with corbyn‘s labour party. if you notice in those european elections, our strongest performances came in places like the north—east of england, the valleys of south wales. we are going to be the main challenger to the labour party in many traditional parts of this country. seats they have held

for 100 years, we will be the challenges. applause. i think we've got energy and optimism in our party. i hope you are impressed with our technology, with our online, with our marketing. ido with our online, with our marketing. i do hope you think that our men and women who have put themselves forward a re women who have put themselves forward are a pretty good lot. i do. applause. he does. that was nigel farage. he is currently speaking at the last brexit party rally in london. our correspondent has been listening into that. remind us what he was saying. you heard some of the strategy the brexit party will be employing going into a general election. they did well in the european elections,

getting 29 of the 73 available seats for the uk getting 29 of the 73 available seats forthe uk and getting 29 of the 73 available seats for the uk and the european parliament. very broadly his strategy is, as he set out, is to stand everywhere. however he has offered the conservatives what he calls a nonaggression pact. what that means is if the conservative government were to agree to what nigel farage terms a clean break brexit or eight no—deal brexit as many people would commonly understand it, the brexit party would not field candidates in any conservative seat or any target seats, instead focusing on leave voting constituencies, labour constituencies, but the conservatives would have to agree not to stand in some seats that the brexit party wanted them not to. the conservatives have poured cold water over that in recent weeks. you had there that nigel farage does intend

to target labour leave seats, particularly picking up on what was agreed in the labour party conference last week, the immigration tactic. you get a sense of where they would be going and the big unknown in any snap general election would be what impact, if any, the brexit party would have on the two main parties. thank you, helen. cleveland police has become the first force in england and wales to be found inadequate in all areas of its service. the police watchdog said it was not investigating crime effectively and it didn't respond to vulnerable people fast enough. the force has recently appointed a new chief constable who says the report is a wake up call, but argues it must be given time to improve. michael buchanan has more from middlesbrough.

several officers have been convicted of gross misconduct and now this, effectively labelled the worst please pass —— police force in england and wales, with some being described as clueless. saturday night in hartlepool... with cleveland police as they answer another 999 call. last year, we highlighted the pressure frontline officers like kevin face. we've been scrapped. they are now both going to the police station, where they will spend the night until she has sobered up and he will get interviewed about obstructing police. lack of money and officers has forced the closure of hartlepool‘s custody suite, a consequence of austerity, says the force. but the chief constable of cleveland just months into hisjob acknowledged today that the force has to take some responsibility as well.

frontline staff work extremely hard in cleveland police. i see it and i patrol as much as any and i see how hard they work to protect our members of the public. but our staff members have not been well served by senior leadership in this force, providing a direction of what is required and being clear about what is required, and a performance regime being set up to hold people to account. inspectors rated cleveland as inadequate across the board. the first force in england and wales to get such a poor ranking. it doesn't operate efficiently or sustainably either. it doesn't treat the public or its workforce well. perhaps most crucially, the force is not reducing crime or keeping people safe. 67—year—old terry was beaten up in middlesbrough city centre in an unprovoked attack last november. there were dozens of witnesses. a man was arrested but his son, a bar owner, says the family have not been contacted by cleveland police since. they are a joke. quite simply they are a joke.

cleveland police is in crisis. last year, we revealed local people in hartlepool have taken to patrolling their own streets, furious with the lack of police protection. today one of the men we met that night told me little has improved over the past 12 months. people are reporting crimes but nobody comes out. i mean, it is notjust petty crimes. it is serious crimes. and the police don't come out. not because they don't want to, but because they don't have the numbers. cleveland police will now receive support from outside agencies, as well as being closely monitored, but what is clear is they have much to do to rebuild trust among their exasperated communities. michael buchanan, bbc news, middlesbrough. julia breen is a columnist and deputy chief reporter at the northern echo. shejoins me now from darlington. thank you for speaking to us. we are

hearing a lot about the failures. what does that mean for the stories you have been covering? on the streets. cleveland is not meeting their demand. it has got money in their demand. it has got money in the coffers, but it is not policing the coffers, but it is not policing the areas that it needs to police and the chief constable itself has said yesterday they are just not understanding where the demand is. the parents don't match and the areas of greatest demand leaving people exposed and have the wrong people exposed and have the wrong people working in the wrong investigations and prison officers supposed to be doing with the prisoners and also child abuse investigations officers working on that have not been trained to do that. what impact has this had on the public? because the prison

police have been in trouble for a long time there's been a series of scandals and i think they have lost a lot of public trust. i think it will take a long time to build that up will take a long time to build that up again. when you say lost public trust, what sort of things the public saying? if you report a crime and don't hear anything else about it that people talk to each other and they just all think that the clevela nd and they just all think that the cleveland police is really bad and there's been years of negative headlines about them as well. from institutional racism to chief co nsta bles institutional racism to chief constables being suspended and sacked as well. it's just, constables being suspended and sacked as well. it'sjust, i don't know how they will rebuild that public trust. people don't have faith in the senior officers and i must make this play in that rank—and—file officers are really good but the issue with the force of the has been messed managed. as of the has been messed managed. as of the stories you've covered in the scandals have developed and as you

said all of those headlines. what sort of measures do you think should be put in place to start to fix this? cleveland police is one of the smallest forces in the country. but it police the very challenging area. and i think from years of being such a small police force everybody knows each other, i think it's important and that's with the chief constable is doing now and hopefully this marks the turnaround but we have said this before, it's to bring in some senior leaders from the outside who can change the force. and really ta ke who can change the force. and really take accountability for things that go wrong instead of trying to hide them and run away from them, that's never served them well in the past. many to face up to the problems that they have had in the past and need sea now. thank you very much for your time. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich.

we are heading into a very turbulent weekend of weather. some heavy rain and strong winds in places. through the rest of this evening and tonight, we see further showers pushing from the west towards the east. some of these on the heavy side. some heavy spells in between, and whether winds are lighter across the north and north—west of scotland, it could get quite chilly for some. generally, temperatures holding between eight and 12 celsius. into tomorrow, quite a few showers around at first. but they should tend to ease in many areas of the day wears on. by the afternoon, a fair amount of dry weather and some spells of sunshine. afternoon temperatures ranging from 13 to 19 celsius. behind me, you see our next month of wet weather. that will drive its way north—eastward across england and wales during saturday night. there is the potential for localised flooding. the rain will be quite persistent. 0n the southern flank of this area of low pressure some strong and gusty winds. it stays wet and windy for many of us during sunday. the best chance of seeing dry weather across the north of the uk.

hello this is bbc news. the headlines. the former cabinet minister, amber rudd, has accused number 10 of using words that could incite violence. nicola sturgeon says the snp could back a caretaker government led byjeremy corbyn — to prevent a no—deal brexit. cleveland police has become the first force in england and wales to be rated inadequate across all areas of performance. a mother has admitted murdering her two teenage sons in sheffield — and plotting to murderfour more of her own children. after facing criticism over the decision to uphold a complaint about breakfast tv presenter, naga munchetty, bbc bosses say they're not impartial on racism. sir lenny henry is among more than a0 broadcasters and journalists who've signed an open letter

to the bbc urging it to reverse its ruling concerning the breakfast television presenter, naga munchetty and her comments about president trump. she was found to have been in breach of editorial guidelines for speaking out on air about remarks he'd made, which were widely condemned as racist. david sillito reports. bbc breakfast, and the topic was a tweet by donald trump, calling on a group of american politicians, all women of colour, to go back from where they came. dan walker then pressed his co—presenter, naga munchetty, for her opinions on the story. every time i have been told as a woman of colour to go back to where i came from, that was embedded in racism. now, i'm not accusing anyone of anything here, but you know what certain phrases mean. that was deemed fine, but the next exchange caused an issue. i know that you are sitting here not giving an opinion but how do you feel,

then, as somebody who has been told that before, when you hear that? furious. when you hear it from him? absolutely furious, and i can imagine that lots of people in this country will be feeling absolutely furious that a man in that position feels it is ok to skirt the lines with using language like that. does that then...? do you feel that his use of that...? that is the point i was trying to make — it then legitimises other people to use it. yes. as our guest was saying, it feels like a thought—out strategy to strengthen his position. it is not enough to do it just to get attention. that exchange prompted a complaint which has been upheld. the bbc‘s executive complaints unit, which is independent of bbc news, says she was allowed to express her feelings and say the words were racist, but not comment about donald trump's motives. describing a remark as racist is not the issue at stake here. the issue at stake here is whether it was right to go on to ascribe motive, in this case to president trump, but it could have been to anybody else. it suggests that we are impartial on racism. the bbc isn't impartial on crime. if a crime happens,

we call people a criminal. we have to be impartial on these issues. the reasons why these remarks were made, and there was speculation in the programme which she made, amongst others, about the nature and the reasons why those remarks were made and we can't do that, whether it is president trump or whether it is anybody else that we are assessing in that way. amongst those disagreeing, a number of bbc journalists. afua hirsch's letter criticising the decision has been backed by more than a0 black and asian writers, actors and broadcasters. it's ludicrous to say it is fine for a presenter to express her own experience of racism, but she shouldn't cast judgment on the person being racist. that's suggesting that as people of colour who have experienced racism, we can talk about those experiences but remain impartial about whether we think they are good or not. and this evening a new statement from bbc managers describing naga munchetty as a star who they admire for speaking honestly about her own experiences. david sillito, bbc news.

a mother has admitted the murder of her two teenage sons and hatching a plot to kill four more of her own children. sarah barrass, killed teenagers tristan and blake barrass, at a house in shiregreen in sheffield in may. family member brandon machin, also pleaded guilty to their murder and the attempted murder of four other children. phil bodmer was in court police were called to a semi detached property in the shah green area of sheffield on the morning of may 2a this year. later that day a senior officer revealed some disturbing information about what had happened. a number of children were taken to hospital. sadly two children have since died and four children remain in hospital. at the time please describe it as a major incident, but have never gone into any details about how 13—year—old tristan barrett and his brother blake, 1a, died.

today the boys' mother, 35—year—old sarah barrett and family member brandon mitchell, who is 39, appeared at sheffield crown court. they were flanked by security staff as they entered court, and each pleaded guilty to two counts of murder, five counts of attempted murder and one count of conspiracy to murder all six children. barras sobbed as she entered her pleas, may chain remained impassive throughout the 20 minute hearing. addressing the defendants judgejeremy richardson qc said, no words of mine can ever fully reflect the enormity of what you have both done. the crimes you have committed quite frankly speak for themselves. the murder of two children, the attempted murder of four children and the overarching conspiracy to murder those children. tristan barras appeared on the bbc show our school in 2017 speaking about his bright hairstyle.

it makes me who i want to be. with natural hair you just look like every other person. hundreds of mourners turned out for tristan and blake's funeral last month. a double white coffin was accompanied by an honour guard of 300 motorcyclist and two lamborghinis, the brothers' best loved bikes and cars. barras and mei chen will be remanded in custody and are due to be sentenced on the 12th. are due to be sentenced on the 12th. the conker tree has been put on the official extinction list. ravaged by moths and disease, the horse chestnut is now classified as vulnerable to extinction. the tree is among a54 native european tree species, which were assessed for their risk of extinction by the international union for the conservation of nature. of those, 42% are threatened with extinction.

and 58% of europe's endemic trees — those that don't exist anywhere else on earth — are threatened. emily beech, is a conservation officer at botanic gardens conservation international and one of the report authors. how worried should we be about this? soi how worried should we be about this? so i think this is the first of a report of its kind. as the first time we've assessed the conservation status of all european trees and i feel pretty concerned about many of the species. the first time that we really got a good idea of the trends across the continent and many species are facing extreme decline due to various threats. on this tree, we mentioned that it involves moths. talk us through that and also other causes. it's an interesting

example because although it's an iconic uk species is not native to the uk. extended to the balkans where it's suffering from this leaf moth and also a fungus which is causing blight on the leaves. you can sit on trees around london and it's something that people will be aware of. it's also suffering to clients because of mountain tourism. this is a mountain species in their native habitat and increased ski seasons causing massive declines to the species. how do we fix that and mitigate those threats? can we in time? i think so. this would require action on the ground and so research is needed to find out what they're really doing to the tree in its native habitat and mitigation of the

threats of tourism and logging are really important on the ground in the balkans. obviously many people will be thinking of horse chestnut, if we said to the concrete tree it would realise what that means. they are not actually indigenous to the uk, and there is this trend and a general decline in a54 uk, and there is this trend and a general decline in 454 species, it is. are we seeing a replacement of invasive species replacing them? is that the trend? we can see that, that's one of the threats to the species. sometimesjust that's one of the threats to the species. sometimes just declined that's one of the threats to the species. sometimesjust declined of the species and a lot of species are threatened by agriculture and expansion for example. 0r infrastructure projects. tourism is a big issue for many species found by the coast for example or in mountain regions and also we are looking at other pests and diseases, some people might know dutch elm

disease is causing massive declines in elm trees which are native to the uk and also ash for example is a very big problem also to uk native species. and does climate change play a part in this? most definitely. for many species the effects of climate change are unclear at the moment but it's definitely having an effect. for others we have seen already big decreases in rainfall for example causing more fires which has affected several species or the opposite, more rain. being a problem for seed production. yes climate change will become, as we figure what's happening, more and more important. thank you very much for that. breaking news coming into us here at bbc news. for police conduct will assess whether boris johnson committed the criminal offence of misconduct in public office during his time as mayor of londonthe allegations are that borisjohnson maintained