this is bbc news. the headlines. the online forum reddit says it believes leaked government documents, detailing uk—us trade talks, and posted on its site are linked to russia. the really big question is how did the leaks get there in the first place? how did they end up online, being amplified by what reddit certainly says is part of a known foreign influence operation? oceans are running out of oxygen — warn scientists — as global temperature rises put many species of fish at risk of extinction. a chinese american researcher is freed by iran in a prisoner exchange with the us —

but president trump says he won't rest until they release all wrongfully detained us citizens. 12 people are swept to their deaths by floods in uganda, as east africa is devastated by heavy rainfall and landslides. and coming up, the service terminates here, virgin trains make their final journey after 22 years of running the franchise. and coming up at 7.30, hype building for the long—awaited re—match, with anthonyjoshua facing andy ruiz tonight. find out about that — and more, in sportsday.

good evening. questions are being raised about russian interference in the election, after possible links emerged between russia and leaked documents, detailing trade discussions between the united states and the uk. the papers were used by labour to claim the conservatives will include the nhs in any deal with the americans after brexit — which they've denied. the documents appeared on the online discussion forum, reddit, which said they were linked toa campaign originating from russia. this report from our political correspondent, ben wright, contains flash photography. elections are about defence as well as attack. this morning, boris johnson was in stockport saying the toys or provide more grassroots football funding. but there are also questions about what role russian might be

playing in this election. this sense of blacked out reports. is leaked government document showing trade discussions between the uk in the us was highlighted by labour. the message board company reddit said it was posted online by an account linked to a campaign originating in russia. i do think we need to get to the bottom of that. we have not yet established the truth about that but, but i certainly think is that document, whatever it was intended to prove, did not prove what jeremy corbyn and the labour party hoped that it would prove. jeremy corbyn was out campaigning in wales this evening. they published the trade document in the public interest in saying that the government should release the parliamentary report into russian interference in the last election. the prime minister has answers to give when she refuses to do the prime minister has answers to give which he refuses to do about russian donations to the tory party or the report that he is sitting on about russian interference in british politics.

there should be no interference by donald trump or the russians. experts admit they still do not know exactly how the document got into the public domain. one of the possibilities is that this could have been the leak by some kind of foreign actor, not the only hypothesis but it is one of them, but it is a very worrying hypothesis because it looks like official documents have come up online and we do not know how that happened. this campaign is in its closing stages, the final chance for them to pick holes in their opponents arguments to drive their core messages home. while boris johnson feels he has the advantage, this unpredictable election is far from over.

the project would be funded by four billion pounds over ten years — from the party's green transformation fund. liberal democrat leader, jo swinson, has been campaigning in the party's target seat of st albans. the lib dems announced plans to scrap business rates to help small firms. snp leader, nicola sturgeon, has been campaigning ‘on ice' — with a message to voters that there are "five days to stop brexit". she predicted that results in scotland would be pivotal to denying the conservatives a commons majority. and we'll find out how the election and many other stories, are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30 and 11:30 this evening in the papers. 0ur guestsjoining me tonight are nigel nelson, the political editor of the sunday people, and sunday mirror, and jo phillips, political commentator, who was an adviser to the liberal democrats' leader, paddy ashdown. there's fresh warning that climate change and nutrient pollution are diminishing oxygen levels in our oceans. that's the conclusion of the biggest study of its kind,

undertaken by the group, ‘the international union for the conservation of nature'. while nutrient run—off has been known for decades, for the conservation of nature'. while nutrient run—off has been known for decades, researchers say that climate change is making the lack of oxygen worse and is having an impact on certain species of fish. earlier my colleague, shaun ley, spoke to minna epps, the director of the iucn's global marine and polar programe, who's attending the climate summit in madrid. what we are seeing from the middle of the last century is a 2% decline in the global average. within that average you have lots of different regional differences and 2% might not seem like a lot but if you think about the terms of the climate change debate, we know that even 1 degree will have a huge impact.

in the coastal areas, we are now seeing it in the open sea. we are looking at the reporting of your work that around 700 sites have been identified as having low oxygen levels, up from only 45 in the 1960s. 0ver several decades but that is a significant rise? yes and the low oxygen zones have increased by 11.5 square kilometres and that is the size of the eu. so this is a huge expansion of low oxygen zones. what are the impacts of different species, presumably some species need less oxygen? they are smaller and so on. presumably some of them are very dependent on the amount of oxygen in the water? that is very true. for example, the species which have a high metabolic rate, let us say the swordfish and

tuna, some of the species, they are actually dependent on oxygen rich water. they will be most vulnerable to the change. deoxygenation also results in other changes that will affect them. it might alter the energy and biochemical cycles affecting these systems that bring nutrients and oxygen rich waters to the surface. we are seeing that if you take the blue marlin, which dives about half a mile down to collect its feed, that is what they're doing outside the coast of california and we are seeing outside the coast of costa rica and guatemala, they are staying by the surface because they want to stay where there is more oxygen rich water which means they become more vulnerable. not only is their habitat shrinking but ultimately we will lose biomass.

president donald trump has thanked iran, for what he called, "very fair" negotiations with the us, which led to a rare exchange of prisoners between the two countries. it involved massoud soleimani, an iranian scientist arrested in the us, after allegedly violating trade sanctions. he was swapped for an american academic she—way wang — who'd beenjailed in iran for ten years for spying — a charge he denied. president trump says the united states will not rest until it brings every american wrongfully detained in iran and around the world back home to their loved ones! 0ur washington correspondent, chris buckler reports. both iran and the us have made the most of this brief thaw in their

relationship. the iranian foreign minister, even pictured himself with massoud soleimani. the professor on the right was arrested a year ago in chicago for allegedly violating trade sanctions. and as he made his way back to tehran, the us posted a photograph of wang starting his ownjourney home. the academic was charged with spying in iran more than three years ago. since then, his family have made several public appeals for them to be allowed to return to his wife and son. he was barely three when my husband left home for his research. and he is now six. he missed him for half of his life already. the us secretary of state tweeted that he would not rest until every american detained was back home. the prisoner exchange does mark a rare moment of an easing of tensions between the countries. at one stage this year,

washington and tehran appeared on the verge of serious conflict, following the attacks on tankers and the shooting down of an american drone. now they have shown they can negotiate, but are more substantial issues, but it does not mean that they are ready to talk. gissou nia is a human rights lawyer and iran analyst — at the atlantic council. shejoins me now from los angeles. what is behind this swap? these take quite a while to negotiate so the timing of this is interesting because it is coming at a time after weeks of very strong rhetoric from the us government around protests in iran and the aftermath and exchanges of words between the two governments. but this was in the works for a while and only in the past three to four weeks that i think negotiations intensified and

it isa think negotiations intensified and it is a rare glimmer of hope for diplomacy in a time where it seems like rhetoric between the two countries is just becoming increasingly more aggressive.“ that an indication that perhaps diplomatic relations are warming up? what is the state of relationships between the us and iran? that unilaterally withdrawn from the iran nuclear deal in 2018 and of course it has implemented a sanctions regime on iran and that has caused the iranian government to not want to engage in there has been some brief moments which he thought diplomacy could happen and this is a first for the donald trump era were they released a foreign national prisoner in iran because this happened during the 0bama administration, but this is not

happened in the trump administration, so it is a first. what do you make of donald trump's reaction on twitter? he had in a typical donald trump fashion, taking a swipe at the 0bama administration in saying that she—way wang was taken prisoner then in saying that she—way wang was ta ken prisoner then but in saying that she—way wang was taken prisoner then but has been released during the donald trump presidency. but his words are a bit in contrast to a secretary of state, and other people over the past few weeks who have very strongly condemned the iranian government for the hundreds of people who have been killed in the protests that have happened and for the thousands that have been detained and are at risk of torture or possible execution. so there is a bit of difference in words there but at a time

where all eyes a re words there but at a time where all eyes are on iran for the human rights abuses, this is a rare spot of good news and there are many other dual nationals and foreign nationals that are still in iran's jails on trumped up charges of espionage and security crimes, so we hope that this means that diplomacy could potentially work and ensuring that some of these individuals who are essentially hostages are released. to what extent does switzerland play in these affairs? because the us and iran have no formal diplomatic relations, the swiss are who conduct that and i should note that honestly, the swiss played a very strong role here but other countries have been involved in the discussions around these sorts of negotiations, so you will see that 0man is involved sometimes, and the wife had

spoken to the chinese to try to see if they could broker something. so there have been many countries that have sought to get involved and bring about this and pass so it is a lot of credit to the swiss and the intense negotiations that have happened over the past month even while there has been a very tense political situation in iran because of widescale protests. and in terms of people in iran do detained, these trials very door trials. for the valuable nationals to iran? in the past few years there have been anywhere from 30 to a0 dual in foreign nationals who are arbitrarily detained and iranian prisons, they usually have nationality with the west

and the very strong implications is that they're being very strong implications is that they‘ re being ta ken very strong implications is that they're being taken in, even if they're being taken in, even if they're just they're being taken in, even if they'rejust academics they're being taken in, even if they're just academics very non—politicized individuals, they are detained to be used as a political lever in negotiations and we see that there are british iranian dual nationals, there are french iranian dual nationals and their other types of nationals. australian academic who have been sentenced to ten years in prison and been held there for more than a year 110w. been held there for more than a year now. thank you very much for that. thank you. the headlines on bbc news. the online forum reddit says it believes leaked government documents, detailing uk—us trade talks, and posted on its site are linked to russia. 0ceans are running out of oxygen — warn scientists — as global temperature rises put many species of fish at risk of extinction.

a chinese american researcher is freed by iran in a prisoner swap with the us — but president trump says he won't rest until they release all wrongfully detained us citizens. nearly 300 people have been killed over the past two months —— and two million others are having to cope with unusually heavy rainfall and flooding in eastern africa. in kenya, more than 100 people have died and thousands have been displaced. at least 12 people have been confirmed dead in western uganda. and in somalia, cyclone storm pawan has made landfall on the coast. francesco rigamonti from 0xfam spoke to us earlier this evening from the kenyan capital nairobi. they are talking about

160,000 people tend affected in kenya, 80,000 people displaced and over hundred 70 people that were killed. asa hundred 70 people that were killed. as a matter of fact, as we were saying before, we are witnessing an event that was caused by a phenomenon. basically, the temperature in the indian ocean close to the coast of kenya in eastern africa is high and creates more rain and this is affecting the whole region and we have witnessed scenes like 0ctober whole region and we have witnessed scenes like october and heavy rains across the region and there are expectations that will last up to december when they finish in november. until august, we were talking about the situation of droughts in the northern part, these events a re droughts in the northern part, these events are unprecedented and the

people did not have a lot of time to prepare for it and the irony, if we can say that in this case, is that the population affected by the heavy rains are the people that were previously affected by the drought. so toa previously affected by the drought. so to a certain extent, the community we are serving were hit double by this situation which is concerning. the northern part of kenya, there were 3.1 million people facing insecurity in these floods that they are having at the moment are actually affecting the same geographical zone. at this point in time, we need to have, it is not an easy solution. we have to have investment to save lives now, but also maintaining and potentially even expanding the medium and long—term investments to

help these people and to strengthen the capacity on a different level of government to respond to this situation. so, we need resources now to help the people that are being affected, but we need to strengthen the capacity of the government and the capacity of the government and the local community to be able to respond to this crisis. so it is a double investment and should go in parallel. a woman who'd alleged she'd been raped in northern india — has died in hospital — after being set on fire. she was attacked earlier this week as she was on her way to court. five men, including her alleged rapist, have been arrested. pratiksha ghil—dial reports. the 23—year—old woman who died after being set on fire in the northern state of uttar pradesh was on her way to court to testify

against her alleged rapists. she was reportedly dragged from near a train station by a group of men to a nearby field and set alight. five men are under arrest over the attack. the woman had filed a rape complaint against two of them in march this year. the main accused was arrested, but later released on bail. the family is now demanding the death penalty for the accused. translation: my sister is no more. the names of these five culprits must also be erased. this comes close on the heels of another brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman in the southern city of hyderabad. the 27—year—old was making her way home after work when she was attacked, raped and set on fire. but a few days later, the accused were shot dead by the police while under detention and after being taken back to the crime

scene. it was overwhelmingly welcomed by many indians, however, human rights organisations have asked for investigation into these killings. these cases have once again renewed a debate over sexual violence in india, seven years after the gang rape and murder of a student in delhi that had led to massive outrage and resulted in the country tightening its rape laws. but for many, little seems to have changed. a huge bushfire that's burning out of control near sydney, may take weeks to put out. the large—scale fire, north of the city, stretches for over 35 miles and is bigger than sydney itself. almost 100 fires continue to burn in the drought—hit state of new south wales. phil mercer reports. the authorities are warning that some of the bushfires in eastern australia are too big to put out

and will only be extinguished by heavy rain. there are 100 blazes in drought hit new south wales, half are burning out of control. they can be unpredictable and fast moving. residents and animals have been forced to flee as walls of flame many metres high bore down on their communities. at any time it might come over the side so we are just going to leave. more than 2,000 firefighters, many of them volunteers, are on the ground in new south wales. their task, with the crisis now into its fifth week, is exhausting and unrelenting. it is dangerous, too. a water bombing helicopter has crashed landed but the pilot escaped with only minor injuries. sydney is again shrouded in a toxic, smoky haze blown in from nearby bushfires. health warnings have been issued and many weekend sporting activities have been cancelled.

there are hazardous conditions in queensland, too. parts of the state are blanketed in smoke and about a5 blazes still rage. bushfires are common in australia but scientists believe this year they have started earlier and have been more intense due to global warming. yellow vest protestors and trades unions, are holding mass marches across france. demonstrators are angry at government plans to reform pensions — forcing many people to work longer. national strikes have gone into their third day — crippling the national rail network and forcing many tourist attractions to close. britain's longest—running rail franchise will reach the end of the line this evening. virgin trains, which has been operating the west coast mainline between london and glasgow since 1997, will run its final service at 9—a2. the route will be taken over by

the new operator, avanti, tomorrow. kevin fitzpatrick reports. there's been a few different looks over two decades in the introduced us to the tilting trains. but not everyone is a fan of the onboard entertainment. awfuljokes in the toilet about what you cannot throw down. ie goldfish. for many passengers and crew station, the company has done a good job. virgin trains are absolutely brilliant so, i do not know how it is going to affect is now. the service was golden. the trains were clean. i know they say it's going to be better, but i can't see how. i fear that it's going to be worse. it is certainly the end of an era, they are promising more services and new trains, but from tomorrow, you'lljust notice different logos in different jackets on the staff. virgin couldn't bid to continue its franchise due to problems with pension liabilities and its partner business stagecoach.

both companies are suing the government over it. they've transformed travel up and down the country and it is a shame it is coming to an end but we will have a new company that can hopefully take things forward even more. one passenger is excited though, i will let her explain. it is really nice, the logo is. you like the new logo, that's why? yes, yes. i think it is very sexy. the last virgin train to leave the station will be 11 o'clock tonight. a new museum has opened in sussex, showcasing the history behind the winnie the pooh stories. it's estimated that a0,000 people visited ‘pooh corner‘ in hartfield, this year. it's the area that inspired aa milne and eh shepard to create the much loved children's tales. hartfield had previously only had tearooms and a shop, until now. charlotte wright takes up

the story. nestled in the hundred acre wood, pooh corner in hartfield has been a tourist destination for decades. but now, for the first time, visitors can come here to learn about the history behind the bear of very little brain. the aim of the museum was to ensure that when people came from japan, america, australia, canada. seeing as there is links, canada with the original bear was to be able to tell the story here so they could go and play the game of pooh sticks. they could then come into hartfield and sense what the village was like, and also actually learn something and see what life really was like and engage with the people that were behind the books. the museum is free to enter with artifacts on display dating back years. so this one here is a presentation copy for other states shepherd from a mill. so essentially they gifted one to each other. three, two, one! and who better to wait a minute than a former friend of a milne son, christopher? christopher robin would be thrilled

with the museum at pooh corner. he really would be, because it's a celebration not just of winnie the pooh, but of the world of a million. and the owner's hope the museum will help preserve that world in the place where it all began. now it's time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes iam sick i am sick and tired of this wet weather. certainly wet and scotland, weather. certainly wet and scotland, we have wet and windy weather to come over the coming few days or so, but it all really starts from now onwards, this band of rain that is sweeping down from the northwest and heading all the way across the uk and following that we get some blustery showers coming in and the wind is really strengthening overnight, gusts of 60 mph around some of these western coasts of keeping it on the mild side of her

night. tomorrow's going to be a day of sunshine but also some blustery good times with heavy showers more frequent out to the west and merging to get some longer spells of rain in northern ireland, western scotland, a touch wintry over the hills in scotla nd a touch wintry over the hills in scotland and northern ireland. it could get up to 13 in east anglia in the southeast of england, tempered by the strength of the wind with really gusty winds during tomorrow and it gets worse tomorrow evening and it gets worse tomorrow evening and tomorrow night with storms arriving and that could bring some very windy weather over across ireland and over the receipt, and to parts of wales in the southwest of england. gusts of 70 mph and perhaps higher than that. it is likely to be some impact.

hello this is bbc news. the online forum reddit says it believes leaked government documents, detailing uk—us trade talks, and posted on its site are linked to russia. the really big question is how did the leeks get there in the first place,? and being amplified by what isa place,? and being amplified by what is a non—foreign inflammation. oceans are running out of oxygen —

warn scientists — as global temperature rises put many species of fish at risk of extinction. a chinese american researcher is freed by iran in a prisoner exchange with the us — but president trump says he won't rest until they release all wrongfully detained us citizens. 12 people are swept to their deaths by floods in uganda, as east africa is devastated by heavy rainfall and landslides. now on bbc news it's time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday, with mejane dougall and ben croucher. our top stories this saturday evening.... a lighter antonyjoshua says "weight doesn't matter" as he prepares to re—claim three belts from andy ruinunior, in one of the most highly anticipated fights of the year. a pulsating end—to—end match, but manchester is red tonight after the derby and city's title