a plot to blow up st paul's cathedral — a woman who supported islamic state admits planning an attack on the iconic london landmark. safiyya shaikh — a 36—year—old muslim convert — was arrested during a police undercover operation. we'll have the latest from the old bailey. also this lunchtime: the mother of grace millane — the british backpacker murdered in new zealand — tells a court her daughter died terrified and alone. i will miss my darling grace until the last breath in my body leaves me. a ban in england on the sale of coal and fresh logs — for burning on open fires and stoves — in an attempt to cut pollution. england rugby star danny cipriani opens up about his struggles

with mental health — following the death of his ex—girlfriend caroline flack. now, you want to tell your children what i used to tell my nick... and — after 35 years in eastenders — dot cotton hangs up her pinny and leaves albert square. and coming up on bbc news: india win the opening match of the women's t20 world cup — stunning the hosts and defending champions australia in sydney. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. a woman who supported the banned islamic state group has admitted plotting to blow herself up

in an attack on st paul's cathedral. safiyya shaikh — a 36—year—old muslim convert from hayes in west london — was arrested after an undercover police operation. she's admitted preparing an act of terrorism by asking an undercover officer to supply bombs. dominic casciani is at the old bailey for us with the latest. dominic. yes, this is a major win for counter—terrorism officers here in london, e major plot averted by capturing this woman, who it is clear from the evidence and her admission in court, would have gone ahead with an attack on st paul's cathedral had she been able to get hold of a bomb. safiyya shaikh converted many years ago to islam but has become a follower of the islamic state militant group, so much so she stopped going to her local mosque because of concerns of women they are about her views, but

she was hiding her real views from the rest of the world. but expressing them online as one of our men do major pro is channel on social media and it is they are that she was calling for attacks on churches. during this undercover operation officers targeted her own mind posing as fellow extremists, finding out what she wanted to do, and that meant it lied to a meeting in the real world where she asked them to supply her with bombs. she told officers she wanted to attack a church at christmas or easter and place a bomb under the dome and kill as many people as possible. today through her admissions in court she has been found guilty of preparation for acts of terrorism and she is going to be sentenced in may, the judge saying she is potentially extremely dangerous. dominic casciani at the old bailey there. the mother of grace millane — the british backpacker strangled in new zealand — has told a court her daughter died

terrified and alone. gillian millane was speaking as the killer — who can't be named for legal reasons — was jailed for a minimum of 17 years for murder. he killed the student only hours after they met through tinder, on the eve of her 22nd birthday. before sentencing, grace's mother gave a victim impact statement via video link, saying that — such was the pain of her daughter's death — that she had thought about suicide. our correspondent — shaimaa khalil — has sent this report from auckland. on the eve of her 22nd birthday, grace millane spent a night out with this man. but, shortly after these pictures were captured, he murdered her. the killer has been jailed for life, with a minimum of 17 years without parole. a suppression court order means we still cannot reveal his identity. grace's mother gillian said her daughter would always be her sunshine. she addressed the killer directly via videolink,

saying he had ripped a hole in her heart. you walked into our lives and destroyed grace in the pursuit of your own sexual gratification. she died terrified and alone, in a room with you. i will miss my darling grace, until the last breath in my body leaves me. her brother declan was also emotional when he spoke about his little sister. this person did notjust take grace's life, but he took away a piece of my life as well. i've not felt whole since my sister's death. this is the last place grace was seen alive, she had earlier met the man on tinder and cctv showed them together in bars around the city, before coming here, to where he lived. within a few hours,

she was strangled in his room. during the trial, the jury heard that grace's killer took intimate photos of her dead body. he later put the corpse in a suitcase, and buried it in bush land on the outskirts of auckland. the chief police investigator criticised the defence, for arguing that grace's death was a case of rough sex gone wrong. strangling someone for five to ten minutes till they die is not rough sex. if people are going to use that type of defence, all it actually does is repeatedly revictimise the victim, and the victim's family. campaigners say men are increasingly using the rough sex argument as a defence to try to get away with murdering women. in many cases we have looked at, defendants often have a history of really serious violence against women that the jury might not be aware of. we know of at least three cases where killers have used this defence and gone on to kill again, so we need to see this

within a wider pattern of sexual violence against women and girls. grace's mother said no sentence the killer got would match a life without her daughter, but the case that shocked a nation and devastated a family has finally come to an end. shaimaa khalil, bbc news, auckland. the british embassy injapan says logistical problems have delayed an evacuation flight for holidaymakers who were stranded on a cruise ship hit by coronavirus. the britons involved say they're frustrated it's taking so long to get them home. laura bicker is at the quayside in yokahama. laura. for the last two weeks this cruise ship has been at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak. only second to that of mainland china. each passenger has been stuck in quarantine in their cabin only allowed out for one to two minutes

each day and these 70 britons have been stuck there waiting and wondering when they are going to get off and now they have had another delay, that their flight is going to ta ke delay, that their flight is going to take a bit longer, however we understand within the next few hours that weight might finally be over. just when the brits aboard the diamond princess thought it was all over, their plane has been delayed by almost a day. they had to watch passengers from other countries get their final medical checks and set off home while they remain in their cabins. it's just been one thing after another, and we can face the thought of 14 days, but then when you realise you have to wait for an evacuation flight it's just been a bit nerve—racking. the importance of this quarantine has become clear. two elderly patients from this cruise ship have died, but there are questions about how effective that quarantine has been. two australians who left here earlier this week and flew home

have now tested positive for the virus. in south korea they are using every weapon at their disposal to combat an outbreak centred around this church. daegu — a city of over two million people — is at a standstill. the defence ministry has locked down military bases after several soldiers were confirmed with coronavirus. two people have now died. there are over 200 cases and several hundred others say they have symptoms. translation: there are many fewer people here. some car parks have closed and because there are so few people some shops have shut too. translation: a lot more people are wearing masks now. it's hard to find people who aren't. the fear surrounding this virus has turned to frenzy in some places. protesters in this ukrainian town attacked buses carrying evacuees from coronavirus—hit china.

the president pleaded with them to show empathy. but there is still love in this time of coronavirus. in the philippines, over 200 couples got married at this mass wedding. they had to undergo health checks before the service. even with the masks, it's a welcome respite from the misery this outbreak has caused across the world. it is worth remembering that even though many passengers are getting to go home those that tested positive for the virus have to stay. over 600 people remain in hospital after being on this cruise ship and cases continue to rise throughout south east asia. coronavirus continues to take its toll. thank you. laura bicker there. the coronavirus outbreak could have a huge impact on world trade.

airlines say it could cost them more than £20 billion — and there's growing concern for the global supply chains of a range of products from cars to smartphones. our business correspondent theo leggett is here. tell us a bit more about the impact on trade of the coronavirus. there is the impact we are already seeing and what we could see in the coming weeks, so for example transport around china and the asia—pacific region has been restricted, airlines like british airways cancelling flights beijing and shanghai, kiel and france doing the same thing, so that means as a whole the association is expecting to see carriers' revenues cut by £22.6 billion which is a huge amount of money, and they are anticipating demand in the asia—pacific region alone will be down 13%. very significant fall in demand that is going to register nine for air travel as a whole, meaning it falls for the first time in ten years or so, so that is a big impact we had

already seeing. car sales in china have fallen off a cliff, down 92% in the first few weeks in zebedee, which affects manufacturers like jaguar land rover because china is one of its biggest markets —— in february. china is full of factories that produce goods that are put on container ships and shipped to the uk and other parts of the world and this take several weeks. we are seeing factories in china have been shut for longer than expected so shipping companies are cancelling ceilings which means that people who rely on a steady supply of products from china, car companies, electronics manufacturers, high street retailers, at all likely to see a shortage of products, so that could mean fewer goods in the shops that come from china and it means companies like jaguar land rover a shortage of parts, shipping parts out biplane into suitcases, that

kind of thing, which means that over the next few weeks we are likely to see bigger impacts because the time taken from the factory gates to our high streets and factories as a matter of weeks so this is not going to be disruption that we will get over at any rate soon. thank you. theo leggett there. tens of thousands of people have attended vigils in the german city of hanau for the nine victims of a far right extremist who opened fire on two shisha bars. many of those shot dead were kurdish immigrants. the german government says the security threat from far right extremists remains very high. our europe correspondent gavin lee reports from hanau. outside the arena shisha bar this morning, the raw heartache and grief of families visiting the site where they lost their loved ones. six people died at this bar. six families devastated as they try to understand what happened here. 35—year—old mercedes had gone out for a pizza with friends when she was shot dead.

herfather, philip, tells me his world has fallen apart. translation: she was a lovely person, a lovely person. she has got two children that she has left behind, now she is dead. i don't really know what to do any more. philip says his family moved here a0 years ago where his daughters have grown up. he says he cannot understand the hatred that motivated the killer. translation: what goes on in someone's head to do this, to go into the city and shoot people at close range? then come here, shoot two people in the head in the car and then go in this kiosk and shoot some more? all young people, without any reason. he did not even know them — hejust shot them. we are badly affected. barbara has come to lay flowers for the friends of her son peter who survived being shot

and wounded she said by playing dead. translation: he came in here to eat pizza, he told me all of a sudden a young man came in, he started shooting at everyone, every single one of them. everyone who moved, he shot. he hid on the floor with his friends and the guy kept shooting and shooting. he is the only one who had the chance to survive. all his friends who were next to him are now dead. there are people in this community who say they saw this coming, that hate speech has been becoming more commonplace and they lay the blame at the far—right politicians from the afd party with their populist anti—migrant rhetoric. in an alleyway close to the bar, one local resident shows me some old graffiti on the wall. a sign that the suspect may have long planned an attack here. yes, this was here for one week, two weeks with the internet address. he tells me that the attacker‘s website was upon the wall.

people walked past it he says and did not think anything of it, didn't realise it meant anything that he was leaving a message. police painted over it yesterday. authorities are obtaining a clearer picture of the suspect, 43—year—old local man identified as tobias r. he is described as deeply racist and influenced by conspiracy theories. the streets of this neighbourhood are quiet today. the focus for police know is on whether the suspect acted alone or had support. gavin lee, bbc news, germany. a 29—year—old man remains in custody after being arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following an attack at the london central mosque near regent's park yesterday. the victim — a man in his 70s who was stabbed as he was leading the call to prayer — was escorted back into the mosque today to join friday worship, after being treated in hospital. scotland yard said it was not treating the attack as terrorism—related. our top story this lunchtime.

a woman who supported the banned islamic state group has admitted plotting to blow herself up in an attack on st paul's cathedral. and coming up — a schoolboy‘s novel idea to stop liverpool winning the league. they said there is a letter for you, and before i opened it, i was like, oh it might bejurgen klopp because it had royal mail on the stamp. so and mammy was like no, it's not and i opened it and it wasjurgen klopp. the government is banning the sale of bags of coal and fresh logs for burning on open fires and in stoves in england. ministers say coal and wet wood create air pollution that can cause serious health problems.

they want people to switch to cleaner alternatives, as our correspondent katie austin reports. a cosy way to heat a home, but some materials commonly used as fuel mean wood burners can be very polluting. the logs sold by this business in buckinghamshire are all seasoned or dried, but many of the bundles you might buy from a petrol station or garden centre will contain wet wood, which emits more harmful particles and smoke. the government isn't going to ban stoves themselves, but in england it is going to stop the sale of wet wood and coalfor home burning. if you burn coal, and you burn wet wood, the smoke that comes out of that is causing a whole raft of nasty health conditions, from cardiovascular disease to cancer, asthma and there is clear data about that. it is good news, there is still so much more to be done

on this issue of air pollution, and also the associated issue of healthy heat for people across the uk, but this is a good first step. in terms of the timescale, well, people have had warning, they first announced this policy about 81 months ago. it is not a sudden announcement. sales of bagged traditional house coal and sales of small units of wet wood will be phased out by february next year. loose coal sold direct to customers will end by 2023. products will have to be labelled to show they comply, with local authorities enforcing the ban. it will stop, i think, the, the supermarkets and that selling bad wood, they have to check their wood. that is going to be the good side of it. the bad side of it is you are still going to get the people that willjust deliver a load of wood to anybody for a few bob. the move is meant to reduce rather than eliminate pollution from wood from wood burners and stoves, and concerns have been raised

over the impact on rural communities, but it is hoped people will be prompted to use cleaner fuels. katie austin, bbc news. scientists in the united states say they've used artificial intelligence to discover a powerful new antibiotic that's highly effective against drug—resista nt bacteria. the researchers created a computer algorithm to search for molecules that kill bacteria. our medical correspondent fergus walsh is here. this is pretty amazing stuff. this is pretty amazing stuffm this is pretty amazing stuff. it is, ben, soa this is pretty amazing stuff. it is, ben, so a team at mit in boston, they thought maybe ai, we could harness that power, to look for new antibiotic, so first they created this machine learning algorithm to train the ai this machine learning algorithm to train the al to look for come pond pounds that can kill bacteria, and once they got that in place, they then set it loose on a library of thousands of compounds, that would

ta ke thousands of compounds, that would take humans month, year, decades to go through, and within hour, it had found a new antibiotic, which was effective against some of the most dangerous multidrug resistant strains of bacteria, the nasties which threaten to throw the world backin which threaten to throw the world back in to the preantibiotic era, where a simple scratch could kill you. they have tested it in mice, and found that it clears those infections, it hasn't been tested in humans yet so we don't have a new antibiotic for the cling ebbing, this approach could be used notjust with antibiotics, but potentially in other disease areas like cancer and neurodevelopmental diseases so it is a promising story. thank you. thank you. a surgeon who harmed patients in scotland for years and can no longer work in the uk is now operating again in another country.

following our previous report on sam eljamel, a former head of neurosurgery who was suspended in 2013, the bbc has discovered that he is working again, in libya. the general medical council says its remit does not extend beyond the uk. our correspondent lucy adams has this report. pat kelly and jules rose were both harmed by the same brain and spinal surgeon. sam eljamel, the former head of neurosurgery at nhs tayside. pat is in constant pain and at risk of paralysis. jules found out he removed the wrong part of her body. dozens of patients were affected. the general medical council, the independent regulator for doctors in the uk, investigated and placed conditions on him. he was suspended by nhs tayside but the gmc never officially struck him off. it allowed to him to voluntarily remove himself from the official

register of uk doctors. then, he disappeared. we spent months, years, trying to find sam eljamel. now we know where he is, we know that he is in libya, and he's operating on patients again. how do you feel about that? absolutely devastated. those poor, poor people that are oblivious. i am not surprised the audacity that man has. one hospital in libya shared videos of social media. a post describes sam eljamel as the surgeon operating on this baby. that is a baby he's operating on. i just want to tell you to stop it lucy. 0k. it is just not right. the man, the manjust doesn't have a conscience. the bbc reached out to sam eljamel and the hospitals where he is currently working, and received no official response.

the gmc told us there is nothing stopping a doctor practising abroad if they are granted registration with the regulator in that country. it is said they notified other international regulators about sam eljamel‘s interim conditions and voluntary erasure from the gmc register, but that did not include the regulators in libya. police scotland is still investigating sam eljamel and is now consulting the national crime agency. pat and jules want justice for the physical and mental damage they have suffered, but more than anything, they want to ensure he doesn't harm any other patients. ijust simply want him stopped. i want the scottish government, or the uk government, to get in touch with the libyan authorities, and get this man stopped. lucy adam, reporting scotland. england rugby star danny cipriani has opened up about his struggles with mental health, after the death of his ex—girlfriend caroline flack. in a instargram post he talks about a time several years ago when he tried to buy a gun

and end his own life. our correspondent charlotte rose is here. ic, this approach could be used not just with antibiotics, but potentially in other disease areas like cancer and neurodevelopmental diseases so it is a promising story. thank you. what has he been saying? of course danny cipriani is best known as a rugby player, a fly—half and full—back for gloucester who has been capped for the national team but he is well—known for making the headlines for actions off the pitch as well. he is the former boyfriend of the television start caroline flack, they dated for a period last year round eight week or so but he says they remained in contact. he has opened up in a video posted on his instagram account about his struggles with mental health and depression. in it he said that about a decade ago, things got so bad for him that he tried to buy a gun and end his own life but he says he managed to talk himself back, from the edge. he says that he could talk to this with caroline because she made him feel safe, and he has revealed she called him and texted

him the night before she was found deadin him the night before she was found dead in heifer apartment. he says he deeply regrets not being able to ta ke deeply regrets not being able to take that call because he was playing a rugby match at the time. he says ultimately that regret is what has driven him to speak out now. i have to release this for me, this is for me, this is for her. this is for young people, who post pictures and field horrible comments, or whatever they might go through, because they might not be strong enough to deal with it. now, he ends this video, with a plea to people, to be kind to each other, echoes a social media post that caroline flack had herself put on social media, before her death, saying in a world where we can be anything, be kind. now, danny cipriani's club have said ticket sales from the next match against sale shark also go towards a mental health charity. thank you. thank you. dot cotton — one of the best loved characters in eastenders — is leaving albert square. june brown, the 93—year—old actress

who's played her for more than three decades, says she's left the show for good, though a spokesman for the soap said the door remains open for her to come back. our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba reports.

i left eastenders. shejoined i left eastenders. she joined the bbc one soap a few months after it launched in 1985 and fast bayern munich a favourite with viewers who followed ups and downs from her friendship with ethel. even religious men can only thing of one thing. to her troubled relationship with her son nick. merry christmas mum. as well as gaining critical acclaim, a monologue lasting almost an entire episode, earned her a bafta nomination. i know how to be on my own. she has been an indispensable part of albert square for more than three decades and the production team say should she ever want to return to playing one of tv‘s most beloved characters they haven't closed the door on dot.

a young manchester united fan who made a bid to stop liverpool winning the title has received a personal reply from jurgen klopp. daragh curley, from county donegal, wrote to the liverpool boss for a school assignment. the 10—year—old asked if it would be possible for liverpool to lose some games so they would not win the league. klopp wrote back, praising daragh's passion, but explaining liverpool could not drop points on his behalf. liverpool are on course to win the premier league comfortably and have not lost a league fixture so far this season. then in the back of my brain, it may be because it's a complaint and he doesn't get many of those, he might, he just might respond, but i didn't think he would. but he did. he did. and when did the letter come? it was monday night, mammy went up to mcfadden‘s to get

some cheese and then... the person who owns that shop said, "oh, there is a letterfor you." and before i opened it, i was like, "oh, it might bejurgen klopp," because it had royal mail on the stamp. and mammy was like, "no, it is not." and then i opened it and it wasjurgen klopp! time for a look at the weather. here's ben rich. we have been trying to calm things down and dry things out but we haven't had much success, in fact there is more rain in the forecast for this weekend, not only that, some brisk winds, and some snow mixing in, there are a lotly in scotland. this is the radar picture and what we have at the moment is is and what we have at the moment is is a pipeline of moisture ploughing in. especially over higher ground, the rain will be heavy and persistent. some spots across the south pennines and south—west scotland could see 60-80 and south—west scotland could see 60—80 millimetres of rain. not as much getting into north east england, south—east scotland to the eastern side of high ground