intelligence agency, mi5 — has given a rare public speech outlining the complex set of threats to uk national security. he said there had been a marked rise in state—backed threats from russia — which he said was on a mission to cause mayhem on british streets, and also from iran, who he accused of using organised criminals to do their work for them. since january 2022, we and our close colleagues in the police have together had to deal with 20 iran—backed, potentially lethal plots against british citizens or uk residents. that's a pretty unprecedented thing for us to be dealing with, and many of those threats are being presented by criminal proxies. the iranians, the iranian state, is comfortable commissioning, whether they be international drug dealers or low level crooks, to try to do their dirty work. frank gardner was at the briefing and this was his analysis. briefing and this was his analysis-_ briefing and this was his analysis. let's break this down, when _ analysis. let's break this down, when it _

analysis. let's break this down, when it comes - analysis. let's break this down, when it comes to | analysis. let's break this - down, when it comes to state backed threats, he was accusing russia and iran, rather than anybody else, saying, because we are them in terms of so—called diplomats and spies who have nearly all been expelled, because of that, those states are turning to proxy groups, to criminal underworld gangs, to do their job for them, he says, and underworld gangs, to do their job forthem, he says, and in the case of russia, 750 russian diplomats and spies have been expeued diplomats and spies have been expelled from europe since the start of the full—scale invasion to them a half years ago of ukraine, that is. —— two and a half years ago. he accuses the russian military intelligence, the people accused of the salisbury lover chop poisonings, of trying to sow mayhem on the streets of the uk and europe —— novichok poisonings. he talked about ten plots to attack iranian

nationals or iranian journalist in this country who were hostile to the regime in iran, and he said that figure is now 20, so together with the police they have detected 20 plots to kidnap or attack or intimidate or issue death threats to iranian journalists and dissidents iranianjournalists and dissidents in this iranian journalists and dissidents in this country. iranianjournalists and dissidents in this country. i did ask him whether there had been any specific threats to uk military or political or public figures by russian rats, and he said, no, they tend to be towards people who they consider to be dissidents from their own country. one in eight of all the uk terror investigations now involve minors so children under the age of 18. why? because it is very easy for them to access material online. whether it is social media or websites but

especially the former, and they are not necessarily at the younger end of the scale, they are not equipped to know what is right from wrong, what is truth and what is simply false information and fake news, and thatis information and fake news, and that is really worrying trend that is really worrying trend that they are having to deal with. . ~ a pair of red shoes, two beaded necklaces and a british 10p coin are among the few clues that could help to identify a teenage girl found murdered in western france more than a0 years ago. her death is one of 46 cold cases investigated as part of the second phase of the �*identify me' campaign by interpol, aimed at finding the names of unidentified murdered women. last year's appeal lead to a woman being identified after someone recognised a picture of her tattoo from the bbc�*s coverage, 30 years after her murder. earlier i heard from interpol�*s acting executive director of police services — richard chambers. he told me more

about the campaign. we want to share information from 46 cases relating to unidentified women whose bodies were found in six european countries. now, we believe that these women were the victims of, uh, murder or other suspicious circumstances or are simply unexplained. we're at a point where we need to share some information with the public because we are confident that, you know, there are people out there who can provide some information to us that will help us to resolve these cases and help us to get some answers for the families to which these women belong. i'll come back to how you are planning to do that in a moment. but you ended on that thought of the families. it's so important, isn't it? because one of your colleagues described it as a a double injustice.

they've become the victims twice — killed through an act of violence and then denied a name for many, many years. that's right, matthew. i think, you know, we need to walk in the shoes of mums and dads and brothers and sisters and sons and daughters, and realise that one of the toughest things they could deal with in their lives is the unknown. and when their loved ones are missing, you know, it's ourjob in law enforcement, but with other countries and the public and as you've pointed out, the media, to do everything possible to find answers for these women and for theirfamilies. that was richard chambers talking to me earlier. there's more on this on our website — including a link to the interpol �*identify me' campaign — where you can view all of the images of the unidentified women. that campaign was launched last year and it was successful in one of the cases and that is why they are repeating it this year with another 46 cases. you are watching bbc news.

one of wales most high—profile headteachers, who was jailed earlier this year for 17 years for sexual crimes against children, may have abused pupils for more than a0 years. neil foden abused four pupils in north wales between 2019 and 2023, but a bbc wales investigation has heard allegations of abuse from as far back as 1979 with up to four times as many victims than previously thought. elen wyn has the story. mr foden, i need to arrest you on suspicion of sexual touching of a child and sexual communications with a child. neil foden�*s final day of freedom just hours before his arrest. a former pupil says he was still sending her messages and that he'd been grooming her for five years. so this happened on the 6th of september. 0n the day he was arrested. it was back and forth every day in school, out of school, morning and night. any time. the woman who we're calling jo grew up in care.

targeted by foden, she says, when she had no—one else to turn to. he made me feel like i was special. hejust hugged me sometimesjust without reason, or his hands would go under myjumper. multiple teachers saw me on multiple occasions getting into his car alone. they'd make comments on how lucky i was to have him to drive me home. jo says she was deemed too vulnerable to testify against foden at trial. he denied any wrongdoing but, convicted of sexual abuse crimes against four girls, she now understands the extent of his abuse. the police came to me. according to them, there were over 20 other people who were in similar situations as myself. we've discovered that in 2019, there was commissioned a confidential report into the running of foden�*s school.

the same year, concerns had been raised about his closeness to some teenage girls, but there was no formal investigation. yet two years later, he was made a strategic superhead and was in charge of two schools in north wales. we've also uncovered allegations going back more than a0 years. you don't suddenly wake up in 2019 and decide to become a paedophile. i know that he was doing it in 1979 because he was doing it to me. this woman, we've changed her name to nia, says foden indecently assaulted her for two years when alone in his classroom. she didn't tell anyone at the time, but she did contact the police after his arrest. he'd come to the desk, stand behind me. usually his right arm would be rubbing up against my breast and i felt i couldn't move. i must have been 13. i was vulnerable at that age. naive. and he knew it. foden�*s now former employer declined a request for an interview. it said an official review

is underway and will provide that review with all the information it needs so that lessons can be learnt. jo and nia say they haven't been contacted by anyone involved in the review. it's notjust enough to say they need to do better, they need to be forced to do better. the child practice review were unaware ofjo and nia until we contacted them, but say they would like to speak to both now. others say they are taking legal action against the council. my oldest client is in her 505. my youngest is ia. it's notjust children, it's former staff and i the numbers are growing. jo and others remain angry, notjust with foden for what he did, but with others about what they failed to do. elen wyn, bbc news. 1a water companies in england and wales are being ordered to pay more than £158 million back

to customers because of poor performance — following a year which saw a record number of sewage spills. for the second year running, the annual report by the industry regulator 0fwat saw no firm awarded the highest performance rating — with three were put in the lowest category. 0ur climate and science news reporter esme stallard gave us this analysis of the 0fwat report. what they said is none of the companies have achieved the top rating, but they have made improvements in a small number of areas, such as water leakage. but really the biggest area of issue is around pollution, which we know has come up time and time again. they said there were significantly more pollution incidents last year, and as a result of that, they are now asking the majority of these companies to refund customers on their bills next year. so that's nearly £158 million. what does that actually look like on your bill? well, it's only going to be a few pounds for most customers, so not significant. and actually we are anticipating that bills are going to go up quite significantly over the next

five years by nearly £100 per household. so really this announcement today from 0fwat won't have a significant impact for customers. this is what we have got coming up. we will be in the middle east for the latest there with our correspondents but we will also be in the us, with thejoe biden saying the hurricane approaching florida is likely to be the worst this century. this is what it looks like from space, and this is what it looks like on the ground with hundreds of thousands of people trying to get out with the evacuation orders in place. we will hear more from whatjoe biden has said in the last half an hour and we will stalk to a storm chaser on the ground —— we will talk. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren bett. hello again. it's been a mild but wet day for many of us today. things are going to change

in the next few days. it's going to turn drier, but it's also going to turn colder. may well be some frost at night as well. tonight, though, is going to be on the mild side because we're keeping a lot of cloud. it's going to be very difficult to see the meteor shower, the really heavy rain that we're seeing across the south, it's going to move away into the north sea. further north, still some showery rain to come. and with all that cloud around, its going to be mild. lowest temperatures will be in northern scotland at around 7 or 8 degrees. now heading into tomorrow, we're going to find some more showers breaking out for england and wales. not quite as many or as heavy as today, mind you, but there's more cloud in the north, bringing some rain down across eastern scotland into northeast england. western scotland and northern ireland should be a bit drier here, but it's going to feel colder across northern areas in particular. for all of us, temperatures will be a little bit lower than today. could reach 17 in the southeast where the winds are lighter, but it's a northerly wind that's beginning to arrive across scotland, northern ireland and northern england, bringing that chill. there are some stronger winds here around the bay of biscay on wednesday.

that's the remnants of ex—hurricane kirk, that's going to miss our shores, going to slide up towards central parts of europe. but it does allow that northerly wind to push down across all areas. dropping the temperatures as we head into thursday. and an early frost in scotland. more cloud in the south will tend to break up. many places will have a dry day on thursday. a few showers around these windward coasts and the strongest winds will be down the north sea. feeling quite cold here. for all of us, though, temperatures are going to be a bit lower. may make ten degrees in the central belt of scotland and 12 across southern parts of england and wales. so quite a difference from what we're seeing at the moment. now that northerly wind will move out of the way by the time we get to the end of the week. westerly wind picking up actually in scotland. and that's where we're going to see more cloud and the showery rain arriving as well. but elsewhere, the winds will be light. could start with a touch of frost, but it should be a dry day with some sunshine around. but that cold air is still in place, so typical temperatures to end the week

will be around 11 or 12 degrees. now, over the weekend, temperatures will rise just a little. most of the rain is coming into western scotland and northern ireland. for much of england and wales it should be a dry weekend. some early mist and fog, but otherwise some sunshine. live from london. this is bbc news. israel expands its ground operation against hezbollah

with the potential for the storm to enter her florida as a hurricane and leave florida as a hurricane on the atlantic coast, this could be the worst storm in over a century.- storm in over a century. we'll hear from _ storm in over a century. we'll hear from a — storm in over a century. we'll hear from a storm _ storm in over a century. we'll hear from a storm chaser- storm in over a century. we'll hear from a storm chaser on | storm in over a century. we'll. hear from a storm chaser on the ground and people in the path of the approaching hurricane. israel expands its ground operation against hezbollah into parts of south—west lebanon. 15,000 troops have now been deployed. explosions. hezbollah fires more than 100 rockets into northern israel — as the group's deputy leader calls for "ceasefire i'm anna foster live in beirut as air strikes continue. there doesn't seem to be a diplomatic solution in sight.

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