this is bbc news. the headlines at 8pm: 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. the end of the line for virgin trains, today running its final service after 22 years of running the franchise. and coming up, the countown begins: the long—awaited re—match between anthonyjoshua and andy ruiz junior, due to start 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 tories would provide more grassroots football funding in england. but today there are also questions about what role russia might be playing in this election. these censored, blacked—out reports. this leaked government document detailing initial trade discussions

between the uk and the us was highlighted by labour. the american 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. as far as i'm aware, we have not yet established the truth about that. but i certainly think that 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 morning. labour has said publishing the trade document was in the public interest and argues that the government should release a parliamentary report into russian involvement in the brexit referendum and the last election. 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. of course there should be no interference in our british political system by donald trump or the

russians. experts admit they still do not know exactly how the documents got into the public domain. one of the possibilities is that this was the leak of uk government documents by some kind of foreign actor and that is not the only hypothesis but it is one of them but that is a very worrying hypothesis because it looks like official documents have come up online and we don't yet know how that happened. this campaign is now in its closing stages, a final chance for the parties to pick holes in their opponent's arguments and drive their core messages home. while team johnson feels like it has the advantage, this unpredictable election is farfrom over. ben wright, bbc news, in stockport. let's take a look at some of today's other election news. labour has pledged to make england's entire bus fleet electric by 2030. the project would be funded by 4 billion pounds over 10 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 "5 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 this story, and many others, 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 former liberal democrat leader, paddy ashdown. 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 xiyue wang, who'd beenjailed in iran for 10 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 has more. 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 xiyue wang

starting his own journey home. the princeton university 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, mike pompeo, 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 in the gulf of hormuz and the shooting down of an american drone. now they have shown they can

negotiate, but on more substantive issues, but it does not mean that they are ready to talk. well, a short time ago, i spoke to gissou nia, who is a human rights lawyer and iranian analyst at the atlantic council. she told me about the background to the swap. well, these sort of swaps 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 protest in iran and the aftermath and a lot of exchange of words between the two governments, right, but this has been in the works for a while and it is only in the past three to four weeks that i think negotiation has intensified and it is a rare glimmer of hope for diplomacy in a time when it seems like rhetoric between the two countries is just becoming increasingly more aggressive. is that an indication then, that perhaps relations are warming up? what is the state of

communications between the us and iran? well, the us had unilaterally withdrawn from thejcpoa, the iran nuclear deal in 2018 and since then, of course, it has implemented a sanctions regime on iran and that has caused the iranian government to not want to engage and there have been some brief moments in which we thought diplomacy could happen but this is a first for the trump era for there to actually be a release of a foreign national prisoner in iran. 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. pratiksha ghildial, bbc news, delhi. 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, researchers say that climate change is making the lack of oxygen worse and is having an impact on certain species of fish. kaveh madani is an environmental scientist and senior fellow at yale university. he previously served as the vice president of the un environment assembly bureau. hejoins me now from toronto. thank you for speaking to us. what is the science telling us? telling us is the science telling us? telling us that we have another big victim of climate change that we have overlooked. we are killing essentially our oceans and this is really frustrating. it also reminds is that we still don't understand the scale of impacts of climate change and the damages that we are creating. we don't even know the consequences of what can happen if we really kill our oceans. so what has been hit the hardest? we

are hearing about certain species of fish but what else is it doing to the ecosystem? this is, i think to a bit extent unknown to what the downstrea m bit extent unknown to what the downstream consequences can be but we know from the nature that once you impact part of the ecosystem cycle that would be a lot of consequences. now cycle that would be a lot of consequences. now what the ocean would not have enough capacity to absorb oxygen and if the oxygen is lost from the ocean as a result of warming then these fishes in the ocean would be affected if the fish and marine species are killed, then there would be other consequences so we are losing the capacity of the ocea ns to we are losing the capacity of the oceans to help us live on this planet and this is frustrating. it is good that we have discovered it, it might still be time to address it but we certainly know that there are

other things that we have damaged and we still don't know. you are describing a lot of unknowns because a lot of this is unseen, it is taking place away from a lot of people. how do we fix this and how long have we got? this is also the problem that we don't know much about. all we know is that we have to immediately cut emissions and what we are hearing right now is that the europeans at the forefront of pushing for immediate cutback of the emissions. all we can do at this point is to cut back emissions, reduce our carbon reduction and hope that our understanding of the physics of nature is correct and by doing so we have the chance to live on this planet. 0k, doing so we have the chance to live on this planet. ok, so cutting back on this planet. ok, so cutting back on emissions. you work with the science, the policy aspect and society as well. how do you go about, how difficult is it to

introduce policy that will help to reverse the effects, to stop what we are doing? what needs to change? this is the hard question that u nfortu nately, this is the hard question that unfortunately, many politicians don't like to talk about and many scientists don't address are fully when it comes to public discussions. we need fundamental reforms to our economic model, development model around the world and this is something that a lot of people are resisting, businesses, big businesses, a lot of politicians, these fundamental reforms, we have to change our lifestyle and a lot of things will be changed. those things are things will be changed. those things a re costly things will be changed. those things are costly and most politicians are afraid of losing loads because of raising the price of energy, shutting down some businesses can have consequences for them so unless we really push the policy makers and u nless we we really push the policy makers and unless we really want to see a change, as a society we won't see that coming. i strongly

believe that politicians don't lead movements, it is the people that make the movements and we are the ones to push the politicians. we had greta saying that there has been no advance and no change after all the protests, how confident are you that governance will take this on board? i think she is being too humble. she has made a huge impact, there are a lot of people who understand climate change better and are concerned. the increasing concern is necessary to push the politicians to change behaviour. if climate change becomes a big part of the elections around the world then we can see these things coming. she is right, we haven't seen politicians making a move but we are seeing that in societies we are increasingly concerned about this and we are speaking about climate change. this is the way forward and this is what

we need to do. thank you very much indeed. 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. 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 swap with the us but president trump says he won't rest until they release all wrongfully detained us citizens. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's

ben. the big event is the boxing match andi the big event is the boxing match and i will tell you a little bit more about that in a second. we'lll start with the manchester derby, where manchester city say they are working with police to help them identify the individual in a video on social media appearing to make racial gestures towards manchester united players. the incident came during the second half of city's 2—1 defeat to united, which leaves them 1a points behind leaders liverpool. lydia campbell reports. it's not a game for the faint—hearted. manchester city have won the league three times since manchester united have had their name on the trophy but this game means more than a just league position. every decision in a derby will be contested. this one needed vir, penalty given.

they've missed for spot kicks already this season, not this time. city couldn't handle the united attack, coming this close to getting the second. one more chance was all it took, anthony doubling the league. —— the lead. city had their own penalty shout before half—time, this time set saying no. frustration from the home fa ns saying no. frustration from the home fans was threatening to take over. city aren't in the business of rolling over, finally getting back in the game to set up a grandstand finish. but even six minutes of injury time wasn't enough and they now find themselves 1a points behind leaders liverpool. ollie and his side going a long way to

silence the noisy neighbours. i remember this, we look so dangerous when we get the ball and go forward. of course we are playing against the best team. for me, it isjust are playing against the best team. for me, it is just the preparation for this game, the way they can change things tactically and it is not easy to analyse them but they are an unbelievable team and to get are an unbelievable team and to get a result and defend like we did and to create as many chances as we did, i thought we should have been three orfour macro i thought we should have been three or four macro up. a good result for liverpool in their title fight, then. 1a clear of city, 11 ahead of leicester ahead of a 3—0 win at bournemouth. alex oxlade—chamberlain opened the scoring after a long—range pass from jordan henderson. naby keita made it two before half—time and then set up mo salah for their third. it extends liverpool's club record unbeaten run to 33 league

games. bournemouth have now lost five in a row in the premier league for the first time. everton under caretaker boss duncan ferguson surprised chelsea 3—1. tottenham thrashed burnley 5—0 with son hueng min scoring a goal of the season contender. watford and crystal palace was goalless. the big game in scotland takes place tomorrow with rangers and celtic meeting in the league cup final at hampden. four games, though, today in the scottish premiership. st mirren are off the bottom. they were 1—0 winners at hamilton accies, hibernian beat aberdeen 3—0, while livingston beat kilmarnock by the same scoreline. hearts lost 1—0 to motherwell, but have now appointed daniel stendel as their new manager. some sad news to bring you now and the former aston villa manager ron saunders has died at the age of 87. he guided villa to the first division title in 1981 and also won two league cups during his eight years at villa park. he also had spells in charge of birmingham and

west brom. ding junhui has beaten fellow chinese player yan bing—tao by six frames to two to reach the final of the uk snooker championship in york. ding hasn't won a major title since 2011 but raced into the lead against yan, building a 3—0 lead. yan managed to fight back to trail 4—2, but that was as close as he got and ding wrapped up a 6—2 victory. he'll play the winner of the other semifinal between stephen maguire and mark allen. maguire leads that 4—0. that's all the sport for now. just a reminder, we are less than an hour away now from the big fight in saudi arabia between anthonyjoshua and andy ruinunior. we're expecting them to enter the ring around 9pm. live text and 5 live commentary on the website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport.

nearly 300 people have been killed over the past two months and 2 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. 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 mightjust 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 45 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. 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 and they 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 at crewe 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 good. 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, avanti are promising more services and new trains, but from tomorrow, you'lljust notice different logos and 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. the independent‘s travel editor simon calder is at euston station, he'll be on board the last train tonight. i suppose the point is, if you have a virgin train ticket, you can still travel after midnight tonight? you certainly can, and indeed you can buy tickets on the virgin trains a website until midnight tonight and it will switch over to add vanity west coast, no point going on the website for that now because there are no tickets available. —— avanti. i will meet the last southbound train which is leaving manchester piccadilly in about ten minutes from now and it should get back here at about 11 o'clock and then, as you are saying, at the end of an era and i must say, given that

the other franchises have passed on to new operators without a word, it is quite remarkable that virgin have managed to make it something to commemorate if not celebrate. let's look back. what mark has virgin trains left on rail travel in the uk? when they first appeared on the scene, they started off with some of the oldest rolling stock in the industry, didn't they? certainly. let's go back to the mid—90s, neither you nor your lovely viewers are old enough to remember what the travel was like but it was pretty horrible. john major decided to privatise the railways and sold off almost all the the companies. there was this man, richard branson, and they thought we will give him a go. on the first day in

march 1987 of the franchise, he stood beside a locomotive which had been especially rebranded mission impossible —— march 1997. there have been some really terrible times on virgin trains, the suppose that hundred and 40 trains, the suppose that hundred and a0 mph speeds have never come in but 22 years on, the number of passengers has trebled. that correlation does not mean causation of course, i think a lot of people would say they brought vision, a spirit to the train operator and they have also inspired and empowered the staff to deliver great service and i am certainly a long—standing, almost always happy customer. let's turn our attention to ava nti customer. let's turn our attention to avanti who had taken over this franchise. they have promised to refurbish the trains, to simplify the fares, how badly was as

needed? you have to remember that the department for transport which said that virgin trains had disqualified itself from continuing the franchise, will actually specify what happens to the trains so all the virgin trains will be overhauled to make them more comfortable, they say better wi—fi which would be a relief and simplifying the fares but that seems to be happening anyway with the so—called williams review on the future of the railways. ava nti on the future of the railways. avanti which on the future of the railways. ava nti which means on the future of the railways. avanti which means let's go or forwards in italian and it is part owned by the italian state operator, has quite a hard act to follow. you will not notice any changes in the next few days, weeks, months even but by about 2022 there should be a fleet of new trains replacing the old diesel ones, the electric ones will keep going and also there will

be new destinations so you will be able to travel by train from places like walsall direct to london euston. we are going to leave it there. thank you and bon voyage. he is waving his ticket. time for the weather. we will see some wet and windy weather of the next few days. the wind is continuing to strengthen overnight combining with this rain thatis overnight combining with this rain that is still there in scotland and more recently has been affecting northern ireland. that band will sweep down towards the south—east, clearly scales following overnight but winds following 60 mph around some of these western coast. lots of showers but keeping temperatures on the mall side foot on a windy day on sunday, essentially a day of sunshine and heavy showers out to the west merging at times to give them longer spells of rain in northern ireland and scotland. attached wintry over the highest