the mi5 spy who terrorised and abused women — yet the government refuses to reveal his identity. this is the moment he attacked his former partner with a machete. he said he worked for the security services. he had men in high places, who always had his back, who would intervene and who would actively kill me if i spoke out. the bbc knows his name but the government went to the high court to stop us revealing it, saying it risks national security. but critics say it means other women are still in danger. no more fines for the prime minister as the police close their inquiry into partygate — in total 83 people were fined, some up to five times. millions of tonnes of grain stuck in ukraine — the un warns of a global food crisis, even famine for some, if the grain isn't exported.

the final day of the libel case between footballer�*s wireless rebekah vardy and coleen rooney. lawyers are set out their closing outings. and britain's biggest ever lottery winners, the couple from gloucester who've won £181; million. it's surreal, they say. and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel, a huge night for everton�*s players. after a difficult season they can ensure prmier league survival with a win against crystal palace. good evening. an mi5 agent used his intelligence status to terrorise and abuse women. yet his identity has been protected by the secret services. the bbc has been stopped from revealing his name

after the government went to the high court. it says it is trying to protect national security and avoid a real and immediate risk to life. but the judge did rule that we can reveal details of the case in which the agent used his position to coerce and threaten to kill a former partner with a machete. the spy, who is not british, also threatened to sexually abuse and kill young girls. campaigners say the case sheds a terrible light on the response of the state to violence against women. our correspondent daniel de simone�*s exclusive report contains some graphic content. wielding a machete, this is an agent of the british state. ultimately, this position within the security services was used to terrorise me. a violent mi5 agent, who was able to exploit his position, despite a long history of abuse. he said he would be able to kill me and my daughter, too. but the abuser can't be identified.

this is the story the government tried to stop. beth — not her real name — lived with him in the uk, but the relationship became ever more abusive. there was so much psychological terrorfrom him to me, that ultimately culminated in me having a breakdown. he told her he was informing on networks of right—wing extremists. he said he worked for the security services. but the role was abused. he had men in high places, who always had his back, who would intervene and who would actively kill me if i spoke out. is that what he said? that's what i believed, and that's what he said. the security service runs agents in terrorist networks, informants who secretly work with mi5 officers — their handlers. beth says this agent's extremist mindset wasn't an act. he also described his paedophile fantasies and named young girls he wanted to sexually abuse.

his mistreatment of beth included this attack. i thought i'd better film this, mostly because i felt afraid. he threatens to kill her and returns with a machete. at the point that i say i'm going to call the police, he's punched me in the face and i've fallen. you can hear me screaming, and he tries to stab me repeatedly. weeks later, he referenced the incident, unaware he was being filmed, telling her she might get killed. asked if he'll do it, he says... it was almost me. he then describes his desire to kill. it's constantly in me. this murderous thing is always in me. i always imagine how i'd bludgeon someone to death. following the attack, police went to their home. the agent was arrested and charged with assaulting her, but the investigation was limited, the case was dropped. beth says he came back and continued to mistreat her.

within weeks, the agent vanished and she was hospitalised due to a mental breakdown. but extremist material found in the house, including a note he wrote about killing jewish people, had already generated a a police counterterror investigation. some of beth's possessions were also seized by detectives from their home, but returned to a relative months later, in an alarming visit by an unidentified stranger. i've established the mystery man didn't work for the police. he was, in fact, an mi5 officer. the counterterror investigation ended with mi5 being passed the evidence on their man. it was a highly unusual move by mi5, suggesting interference in a criminal inquiry. counterterror police say no criminality was identified during their inquiries but have apologised for the fact beth's possessions were not passed directly to her.

but how far back does his mistreatment of women go, and where is he now? we've traced him to another country. after leaving the uk, while still under counterterror investigation, he began working for a foreign intelligence agency. before beth, he met ruth — not her real name — abroad. violence. always violence. their relationship was horrifying. he started to tell me things that no human such as swimming in a river of blood, eating children's flesh. i had to listen to this every day. he said he would be able to kill me and my daughter too. fearing for her life, she was taken to a refuge. i was psychologically broken. really broken. the women's shelter ordered an ambulance to bring me to the hospital. we found he spent years in britain using her surname to hide his real identity

while working for mi5. i think it's not fair. and i'm angry. i'm very hurt. i feel cheated. you can't have trust. there is no justice. the agent threatened to kill and sexually abuse young girls known to both ruth and beth. both women remain traumatised. the government says it will not comment on security or intelligence, but the court order is aimed at protecting national security and avoiding a real and immediate risk to life, safety and privacy. the government took us to the high court, first to try and stop this story ever being broadcast, and then seeking to dramatically limit what we could report. they failed. but we've been legally prevented from naming the agent, because of a risk to him, despite the threat he poses. sisters, united, - will never be defeated!

violence against women and the state's response to it is one of the issues of our time. get off! yet the british government has thrown its full weight behind stopping women everywhere being warned about this dangerous abuser. daniel joins me now. why were the authorities here prepared to tolerate this man? weill. prepared to tolerate this man? well, normally these _ prepared to tolerate this man? well, normally these things _ prepared to tolerate this man? -ii normally these things remain secret, so somebody behaving like this would not normally end up as part of a journalistic investigation. mi5 would say, i am sure, that they have to work with unpleasant people, that agents are often extremists. but the issue here is that he was abusing his role in private, and it was domestic abuse, a threat to women and children. it is not part of his cover. i think they do have powers to authorise their agents to commit crimes as part of their cover. but it is really only to access life—saving intelligence or disrupt more serious crime. what we have

said here and what our report has shown is that was not what was going on, this man was abusing his position and his power. if you think back to sarah everard being murdered last year, and all of the public concern about that, and how the state response to violence towards women and girls, we have tried to shine a light on the more secret parts of the state and its record on violence against women and girls. hopefully this report might start a bit of a debate about that.- bit of a debate about that. thank ou. and if you'd like to see more on this story, you can watch the abuser working for mi5 — available on the bbc iplayer. the prime minister will face no more fines after the police announced they have closed their investigation into parties held in downing street during lockdown. borisjohnson and the chancellor rishi sunak were both fined last month for breaking covid laws at a birthday party in the cabinet room injune 2020. the police investigation resulted in a total of 126 fixed penalty notices. they were issued to 83 men and women — most of them understood to be civil servants who were at events

on eight different dates between may 2020 — the height of lockdown — to april 2021. here's our political editor chris mason. it was not long before christmas that partygate was first exposed, and since january officers here have been investigating it — investigating the prime minister and the government he runs, and whether they abided by the very laws they made. and now their inquiries are finished. i think it was very important to carry out the investigation. it was extremely important to do that in a really painstaking and thorough way. we've carried out an impartial investigation. i think the results show that there was an issue there to be investigated. we now know a team of 12 detectives worked on this inquiry, looking at 12 gatherings,

316 documents and more than 500 photographs. it cost nearly £500,000, and ministers sound relieved it's done. the police have decided that it's all over, they've handed out those fines that they want to hand out, the prime minister has apologised for the birthday cake incident. i'm sure he and, frankly, the rest of the country now want to move on to those really big issues, the war in ukraine, the cost of living crisis. of those who were fined for parties in these buildings and those close by, 28 people got more than one fixed penalty notice. at least one person got five. the prime minister, his wife and the chancellor were fined once for a gathering here in the cabinet room on boris johnson's birthday injune 2020. a do down there in the number 10 garden in which people were invited to "bring your own booze" led to some people being fined, but not the prime minister. there was a downing street christmas party on friday night. do you recognise it? i went home. and you'll remember this — a mocked—up a news conference in which there was talk

of a christmas party, which boris johnson wasn't at. we know some who were got fined. this fictional party was a business meeting. and it was not socially distanced! the labour leader keir starmer was in leeds today talking transport. he himself could still get a ticket, a fixed penalty notice over a beer and curry eventjust over a year ago. but his focus today was on what went on in government. well, what the investigation has shown is industrial scale - lawbreaking in downing street, i 120 or so fines, and that reflects a culture, and the primel minister sets the culture. the advent of partygate was on the 1st of december last year. five and a half months later, today is a big moment because for much of that time people have wondered what would happen if the prime minister got anotherfine, or so many that he could wallpaper a wall with them. we now know that is not going to happen.

but it's not quite over yet. there is still a parliamentary inquiry to come and the full report by a senior civil servant. so a significant chapter in partygate has closed today, but it's not finished. let me tell you briefly about the bit still to come. we await the full report from the senior civil servant sue gray. we had her interim findings a couple of months back. the full shebang could come as soon as next week. and what embarrassments for the prime minister might lurk there? then there is this parliamentary inquiry, trying to establish if borisjohnson intentionally misled parliament, something he denies. and keir starmer is not out of the woods yet either. the behaviour of our leaders when they were lecturing us about our behaviour during covid could still have political applications.

the us state has accused russia of holding hostage the food supply for millions of people around the world. 20 million tonnes of grain that should have been exported is stuck in ukraine, which is also a major exporter of sunflower and rapeseed oil. antony blinken said moscow's attacks on ukraine were worsening what he called the greatest global food security crisis of our time. the united nations has warned that the conflict could lead to years of mass hunger in poorer countries. 0ur correspondent caroline davies reports from 0desa. ukraine's wheat helps to feed the world. but while its black sea ports remain closed, much of it is beyond the world's reach. over 3,000 tons of grain fill yuriy�*s warehouse, but because of the issues transporting it out of the country, no—one wants to buy it. translation: | don't know - who in the world to ask for help. we would like to be helped to sell this grain at any price, as long as the people don't go hungry. i think that all western countries should help us.

you need to bang your fist on the table, open the ukrainian ports, stop the russian invasion and take out this grain. how do you feel knowing that there are many people around the world that would be desperate for this crop? translation: there is a feeling of despair. - i'm talking now with tears in my eyes. it's hard to say. yuriy�*s problems are faced by farmers across the country. this crop is due to be harvested in just over a month's time, but the farmers here still have no idea where they are going to store it or how they are going to get it out of the country. some goods can be taken out by road, others by rail, but not in the same quantities that used to be transported by sea. since russia began its invasion, ships can't move forfear of being hit. and the sea has also been mined, which could take months to remove.

andrey stavnitser is the owner of one of the largest ports in ukraine. we have about 80 ships that are basically ghost ships in ukraine right now. the crews have left them, some of them are full, some of them are empty, they are in the ports or outside the ports, they are standing idle, and for the crews to come back, their shipping companies have to get clearance from insurance companies, and these insurance companies are obviously not happy to allow this to happen because the sea is full of mines. how long do you think it will be until you can reopen the port again? we have no idea when we will be able to reopen the port. we are facing a disaster that is going to happen in the next few weeks when the new crop is here and the old crop is not exported. the un has warned that unless russia allows the ports to reopen, there could be mass hunger and famine for years. russia says sanctions imposed on it would need to be looked at if the world wants to solve the crisis. while many in the west will feel that russia is holding safe passage through the sea hostage, if no agreement is reached,

ukraine's crop could rot while others starve. caroline davies, bbc news, 0desa. a musician who was obsessed with serial killers has been jailed for life for the murder of the teenager bobbi—anne mcleod, who was abducted at a bus stop in plymouth last november. cody ackland, who's 2a, was previously unknown to the police and will serve a minimum of 31 years. jenny kumar reports. this is the moment that cody ackland walked into a police station and turned himself in. he confessed and told detectives where bobbi—anne mcleod's body was. ackland had no previous convictions and wasn't known to the police. but he lived a double life and had a secret obsession with serial killers. today the full details of his random and prolonged attack on teenager bobbi—anne mcleod were revealed in court for the first time.

the student was just 18 when she disappeared. her family see she lit up the lives of everyone she met. bobbi was a beautiful girl... their statement was read outside court today. the thoughts are continually going around in our minds. "why bobbi—anne?" "why make her suffer? " "to know her final hours were spent being tortured destroys us inside." at one point, the details laid out by the prosecution were so harrowing that a member of bobbi—anne's family left the court. cody ackland kidnapped her from this bus stop after hitting her repeatedly with a claw hammer. he then took her to this remote part of dartmoor where he murdered her in a frenzied attack. he later drove almost 30 miles to hide her naked body in this wooded area near the coast. the next day, he went out drinking and socialising with friends, appearing more joyful than usual.

but three days after the murder he handed himself in. detectives found photos of serial killers and thousands of grisly images, many depicting dead bodies, on his phone. in the days before the attack ackland had searched internet for potential murder weapons and remote locations. when sentencing today, the judge said that bobbi—anne mcleod had her whole life ahead of her until it was brutally and savagely snuffed out. he told ackland that he was likely to remain a highly dangerous person and it was possible that he would never be released from jail. jenny kumar, bbc news. the time is almost 20 past six. our top story this evening: jed brown! what are you doing? an investigation reveals the mi5 spy investigation reveals the m15 spy who terrorised and abused women yet the government refuses to reveal his

identity. coming up — the couple from gloucester who've scooped the uk's biggest ever lottery win of £181! million. what would you do? also the campaign in supermarkets to stop replacing people with machines by having more cash years at the tills. and touch for top gun. the stars out there, the royals are they are, and so are we. join us. coming up in sportsday in the next 15 minutes on the bbc news channel, rory mcilroy has been rolling back the years at the us pga championship. can he stay top of the leaderboard at the second men's major of the year? conservationists say we're now losing species faster than ever. the united nations estimates that around one million species are under threat. now scientists are turning to bio banking — that's saving frozen tissue from dead animals — for future cloning or other technologies that could reverse extinction. 0ur science correspondent victoria gill reports from the uk's largest biobank of living wild animal tissue all right, sweetpea, i've got you. a story that starts at the end of a life. sad to have to say goodbye.

at 28 years old, this bird, a tropical chattering lory, developed arthritis too severe to treat. can feel him drifting now. yeah, he's gone. on a sad day for the team, they quickly save a tiny sample of tissue from his body. it's nice we've got a feather follicle there. his dna could live on. the tissue stays viable for up to five days. chattering lories are just one of tens of thousands of species threatened with extinction. so when one dies at the zoo, scientists bank precious genetic material before it is lost. this is really where life begins again. it's sent here, nature's safe in shropshire, the uk's largest biobank of living cells from animals in danger of going extinct. and simply an extremely cold store of animal tissue. in here, there are hundreds of different species in vials, cryopreserved. so we've got a southern white rhino in here, mountain chicken frog, we've got a jaguar, a cheetah, all being preserved in this one canister. an unexpected death at the zoo, and we get a call. do you know what might have caused this?

we suspect, given it was so quick, maybe a twisted stomach or something like that. an ear, with every one of its skin cells containing the jaguar�*s entire genetic code, is sent off as quickly as possible. did she have any offspring, did she have any cubs? she never did, no. makes this all the more important i suppose? yeah, absolutely. goes into one of our cryovials. preserving just a fragment of the ear, at minus 196 celsius, means all the natural chemical processes inside the cells stop. it's in suspended animation. and that means it can be brought back to life. thisjust blows my mind. this cheetah passed away in 2019. we've re—awoken those cells a few days ago. and you can see now how they're all over the screen. they've multiplied and multiplied. we do an awful lot more thanjust the cloning side. but, yes, cloning is potentially one of the things it could be used for. with every species that is lost, unique genetic code

disappears forever. banking animals' unique dna could buy us some time in the fight against extinction. victoria gill, bbc news. scotland's first minister, nicola sturgeon, says the suspension of a third of all services on scotland's newly—nationalised rail network from next week is "not acceptable." almost 700 trains a day will be cut from monday. scotrail says it introduced the temporary timetable because services were already being disrupted by a dispute with the union aslef about pay and overtime, combined with a shortage of drivers. for the first time in the 92—year history of the football world cup, female referees will take charge of matches at this year's finals in qatar. stephanie frappart of france, who refereed the women's world cup final in 2019,

rwanda's salima mukansanga and yoshimi yamashita from japan have been selected on fifa's official list of 36 referees for the tournament, which kicks off on november 21. now, to the high court, on the final day of the so—called �*wagatha christie' case, where coleen rooney's lawyer accused rebekah vardy of being a "highly unreliable witness". at one point, mrs vardy walked out of court. she is suing mrs rooney for libel for alleging in an online post that she had leaked private stories about her to the sun, which mrs vardy denies. the judge will reserve her ruling on the case to a later date. colin paterson reports. rebekah vardy arriving in court for the final time, on her own, as her husband jamie vardy�*s team, leicester city, have a game tonight. for the first time, the rooneys were not present, having booked a holiday, thinking the trial would be over — and were spotted at manchester airport. today, it was the closing arguments. the barrister of the defendant, colleen rooney, went first, saying that rebekah vardy regularly and frequently leaked stories to the sun, and if she approved

or condoned the leaking of information through her agent, caroline watt, seen here on the left, then she was responsible for caroline watt�*s actions. he spoke about the deliberate deletion and destruction of evidence, accusing rebekah vardy of deleting whatsapp messages, and then having lied about it under oath. at this point, rebekah vardy picked up her laptop and left court, returning an hour later, missing hearing herself being called an entirely unreliable witness. then it was the turn of rebekah vardy�*s legal team, who argued it was a very simple case, if you cleared away the conspiracy theories. they said that rebekah vardy did not leak the information, nor did she authorise anyone else to leak. they asked that a substantial award of damages should be made. this trial has covered a lot of ground and brought up many subjects which have never been mentioned in the high court before. gemma collins faceplanting on dancing on ice. a mobile phone, which ended up at the bottom of the north sea

in davy jones's locker. and, unexpectedly, the pop star peter andre has become a major talking point. the use of social media is at the centre of this case. rebekah vardy says she suffered public abuse and ridicule on a massive scale, because of an unfair accusation. coleen rooney says her privacy was repeatedly violated, and she had no choice but to investigate and go public with her findings. it's estimated that each side will have a legal bill of more than £1.5 million, and whoever wins will still be hundreds of thousands of pounds out of pocket. many have asked why this came to court. at times rebekah vardy, who brought the case, looked like she was asking the same question. the judge will now consider the evidence and return with a detailed written judgment in a few weeks. colin paterson, bbc news, the high court.

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