also tonight — the governor of the bank of england says brexit has weakened the economy and the uk must welcome opportunities to "rebuild relations with the eu". there is a very real problem of corruption among some prison officers, admits their union, after a record number are sacked for misconduct. animals stressed by fireworks — edinburgh zoo calls for restrictions after two red pandas die. and club over country? england's captain is disappointed by a depleted team for tonight's match against greece — what do the fans think? they should be here. it's their country. — they should be here. it's their country, it's the greatest honour, isn't _ country, it's the greatest honour, isn't it. _ country, it's the greatest honour, isn't it, playing for england? with— isn't it, playing for england? with all— isn't it, playing for england? with all those players out i think we will be lucky to get away with a draw. on sportsday later in the hour on bbc news, from firing napoli to the top of serie a, scott mctominay faces a different challnge this week, trying to keep scotland in the top tier of the nations league.

good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the bbc can reveal for the first time, serious allegations of abuse against mohamed al fayed's younger brother, salah fayed. three former harrods employees allege that he abused them between 1989 and 1997. he died in 2010. it comes after a bbc investigation in september exposed decades of serious sexual abuse allegations against mohamed al fayed — the metropolitan police say they've now had more than 80 complaints against him. you may find some of the details in helena wilkinson's report distressing. 1989, and salah fayed helping launch a book by the former first lady, nancy reagan, with his brother mohamed al fayed. helen is one of three women who have, for the first time, spoken about shocking abuse at the hands of salah fayed.

in the same year as this event, helen says she was abused by both mohamed al fayed and by his brother salah. in february 1989, helen went on a business trip with mohamed al fayed, and was told to stay in the same hotel suite as him. i was taking off my make—up in front of the mirror. and in the mirror saw fayed walking in, walked into my bathroom, no knocking, no... ..saying anything. i mean, it was like out of a horror film. it was so frightening. he decided he was going to take me into his room. you know, he was pulling me all the way up the corridor and i was saying, "no, no, let me go." and ijust hadn't got the... i knew i couldn't stop him. so, yeah, he raped me that night. months later, she was sent by mohamed al fayed to do some personal assistant work for his brother salah, here on the left.

helen saw it as a way to escape. i'd met salah. he seemed really nice, and friendly, and he didn't seem the slightest bit like his brother. a totally different character. you know, that's how i felt. but on completing the two—day task, helen says she was drugged by salah, and believes she was then raped by him while unconscious. i woke up the next morning in a completely different room, lying on a settee, and he was sitting at my feet. i remember saying, "i want to... i want to leave now." and i went to sit up, and i noticed that myjeans button was undone. helen recalls feeling a sensation in her body, and then discovering semen. i knew then what had happened.

in my head, i knew, because you just know, don't you? this is the letter that mr fayed gave me, that he received... earlier that year, two months after helen says mohamed raped her, she was told to sign a harrods nondisclosure agreement. she says it's partly because of that that she's felt unable to speak out 35 years. the bbc has also spoken to two other former harrods employees who don't want to be identified, and who say they experienced a range of abuse by both salah and mohamed, including trafficking and sexual assault. for helen, what was meant to be a dream job has left her with lifelong trauma. it's affected my life, it really has. i know it's affected my life badly, all of these things i've talked about. erm...

and we need to speak up to stop it happening to other people. harrods tonight has released a statement in response to this bbc news investigation. in that statement it says, "harrods supports the bravery of these women in coming forward". it says these new claims point to the breath of abuse by mohamed al fayed and also raise serious allegations about his brother, salah fayed. the statement goes on to say, "we encourage the survivors to come forward and make their claims to the harrods scheme", and harrods also says we hope they are looking at every appropriate avenue to them in their pursuit of justice, whether that be harrods, the police or the fayed family and estate. sophie.

studio: helena, thank you. and if you've been affected by anything in helena's report there are details of organisations offering information and support at bbc.co.uk/actionline, or call for free, at any time to hear recorded information on 0800 077 077. the governor of the bank of england, andrew bailey, says brexit has slowed growth in the uk. he'll be saying more on that tonight at a speech in london. our economics editor faisal islam joins us from the city of london. tell us more about what he is expected to say — and why now? yes, this is one of the biggest events in the financial calendar, the mansion house speech. their top bankers in britain are arriving here to hear it, both from the chancellor of the exchequer and the bank of england governor. intriguing, somebody like andrew bailey, when we interviewed him and asked him to analyse the economic impact of brexit, he has tended to be a little

shy in the past, but not tonight at this key dinner where he will say there have been consequences to brexit particularly affecting goods and trade, and that britain must be alert to an welcome opportunities to rebuild relations with the european union. now, ina rebuild relations with the european union. now, in a way, that is a statement of what is the government policy, but this comes at an extraordinary time in world trade diplomacy. obviously the election of donald trump as president of the us has raised fears and concerns about the application of trade tariffs on all trade into the us, and there is all trade into the us, and there is a scenario, i have heard it myself, from donald trump's advisors over the last few years that a country like the united kingdom has to sort of choose whether to be closer to the us or closer to the eu, so that is some of the context in the background of all of this. the bankers will be listening intently, and i think that one of the really interesting things about this is that many of the bankers in there will share those concerns, and will

want a closer relationship with the eu, and they will see this as a sort of, you know, the starting gun to make those representations pretty clear to the government. the government has not changed its policy with the treasury tonight pointing out rachel the —— rachel reeves will become the first british finance minister since the referendum to attend the key meeting of euro zone finance ministers next month. ., , ., , ., month. faisal islam in the city of london, thank _ month. faisal islam in the city of london, thank you, _ month. faisal islam in the city of london, thank you, and - month. faisal islam in the city of london, thank you, and you - month. faisal islam in the city of london, thank you, and you willl month. faisal islam in the city of. london, thank you, and you will be able to hear what he has to say on the bbc news at ten. thank you. a man accused of being a major supplier of small boats to gangs smuggling people across the channel has been arrested in the netherlands in a joint operation between the national crime agency and dutch and belgian police. authorities allege the 44—year—old turkish national — who has not been named — shipped engines and boats from turkey, stored them in germany, then transported them to northern france. the nca has called the arrest a "milestone in a significant investigation into organised immigration crime". the health secretary, wes streeting, is facing criticism from senior

labour figures over his repeated interventions opposing a change in the law on assisted dying in england and wales. mps will vote later this month on a plan to allow terminally ill adults expected to die within six months the right to seek help to end their life. one senior labour figure told the bbc today mr streeting "should hold fire a little bit" in his opposition. our political editor, chris mason, reports. should you be able to choose when you die? campaigners say yes, but it's a huge question. the health secretary said he'll vote against it. the labour mp leading the campaign to change the law has said that has left her disappointed and upset. i was just quite concerned that there'd been an instruction not to really talk about this publicly from cabinet members, but that's absolutely fine. you know, they are entitled to talk about it if they wish, and there's a range of views. like i say, wes has got his views, but you've got people like ed miliband and lisa nandy and liz kendall who are very, very supportive of a change in the law.

a month ago, wes streeting told a large, notionally private meeting of labour mps he would vote against a change, and he's said it repeatedly since. i've made it clear that i'll be voting against the assisted dying bill this time. that's mainly because i don't think that palliative care, end—of—life care is where it needs to be to give people a real choice. and yesterday, mr streeting spoke to nhs staff and suggested to reporters a change in the law would mean less money for other health priorities. all this after the government's most senior civil servant wrote to all ministers last month saying the government was neutral on the issue and so ministers...

i'm a i'm a great wes streeting fan but i think on this issue he should do whatever the cabinet secretary has said and should hold fire a little bit. —— privately and publicly, some labourfigures bluntly think the health secretary should wind his neck in. take this former minister who wants the law the change. i'm a great wes streeting fan, - but i think on this issue, he should do what the cabinet secretary said and just hold fire a little bit. - and now another cabinet minister has chosen to speak out for the first time. i'll be voting for the bill. you know, i've always believed in giving people as much choice and control as possible, and with all the right safeguards, which this bill has, i believe it's a really important step forward on such a difficult issue, giving people that choice and control. there was a suggestion from the cabinet secretary, of all people, that senior politicians, cabinet ministers, should be careful about the arguments that are articulated, that the government has a neutral position.

have you all managed that? has the health secretary managed that? look, i'm a great champion of wes streeting. he's a friend. he's a great champion for reform himself, but, you know, this is something that people have different views about. different views, often strong views from some on both sides, as others wrestle with their conscience about what to do. soa so a couple of observations tonight. firstly, if anyone in politics describes you publicly as a champion of yours are a fan, hold on tight for the next sentence where they might just for the next sentence where they mightjust be putting the boot in, gently or otherwise. then a bigger picture point from the government perspective, yes, this is a free vote and ministers and mps can vote how they like, but where would this leave wes streeting as health secretary, opposed to the change, if parliament was to back it? he says he would be able to carry on and implement that change he has opposed. what about the prime minister? he has previously said he would like the law to change but what happens if parliament were to say, with loads of labour mps in that scenario, saying it shouldn't

change? potentially awkward. that first vote coming up at the end of the month here. chris mason, thank you. independent pharmacies in england, wales and northern ireland have voted to cut opening hours and stop home deliveries, in a row with the government over funding. members of the national pharmacy association are demanding a £1.7 billion a year increase in financing. the department of health in england says it wants all pharmacists to work with it to achieve a service fit for the future. the consumer group which? has launched a £3 billion legal claim against apple. it's accusing the tech giant of unfairly locking a0 million british customers into its icloud storage service, and charging them rip—off prices. our technology editor zoe kleinman joins us from glasgow. zoe? if you buy an apple product to net a zoe? if you buy an apple product to get a certain _

zoe? if you buy an apple product to get a certain amount _ zoe? if you buy an apple product to get a certain amount of _ zoe? if you buy an apple product to get a certain amount of digital - get a certain amount of digital storage forfree but get a certain amount of digital storage for free but if you need more than that to back up your videos, photos, messages and everything else on your device you are encouraged to sign up for apple icloud and there is an annual fee. you can pay anything from 99p to £15 a month depending on what you need. apple doesn't allow other companies complete access to its devices, but the consumer group which says that is unfair. the consumer watchdog will backdate the climb to 2015 and says if it is successful around a0 million uk apple customers could be entitled to a payout of around £70 each, but it will take a long time for this to work its way through the legal system and that is even if it gets very far. apple says its practices are not anti—competitive and says its users do not have to use icloud and that plenty of them do use an alternative. earlier today, meta which owns facebook was fined by the european commission

nearly 30 million euros because it has been accused of breaching competition law by putting facebook marketplace and said its network. the big tech company are disputing this because of the number of people who use them. critics argue they are making it deliberately difficult for anyone else to compete, but the companies themselves say actually its opposite, that their popularity drives growth across the industry because it encourages other firms to launch rivals. because it encourages other firms to launch rivale— because it encourages other firms to launch rivala— zookeepers in edinburgh are calling for more to be done to limit the use of fireworks because of the stress they cause to animals. two red pandas died at the zoo last week — and it's thought stress from all the noise on bonfire night could be to blame. our scotland correspondent, lorna gordon, reports. the red pandas of edinburgh zoo. they are an endangered species with only around a000 left in the wild. the zoo has a successful breeding programme. but the recent deaths of a young red panda and her mum

means their numbers have now dropped by two. this is one of our red pandas, bruce, so i'm just feeding him and giving him a wee treat with some grapes. you know, i've worked with him for a long time so he's quite a nice wee animal. you can see, he's really gentle there, taking the grapes... days before she died, the young kit called roxie lost her mother. vets suspect the older animal's death might be linked to fireworks. but roxie had been doing well until the stress of bonfire night proved too much for her as well. we had observed her on the camera, feeding normally, but on bonfire night she was actually not in the house and in the morning we found her on the ground. which would be unusual, for a tree dwelling animal to be on the ground. on that particular night, the noise was horrendous, so it was really devastating to find that she had actually died when she had been doing so well. and the red pandas are not alone. a number of the animals here, including the chimps in this enclosure, find excessive noise stressful. the zoo is now calling

for restrictions on the use of fireworks. and others agree. animals don't belong in captivity, they cannot have their needs met in this environment. it's still very sad that roxie has passed, i mean, roxie is an individual animal, and it's very likely that her passing was due to the impact of fireworks. and it's just another reason why one kind joins the calls in supporting for a ban on the sale and use of fireworks. the red panda breeding programme will continue but the devastated keepers here hope more can be done to ensure no more animals succumb to stress caused by one of the noisiest nights of the year. lorna gordon, bbc news, at edinburgh zoo. the time is 18.18. our top story this evening: three more women who worked at harrods come forward with sex abuse allegations — this time against mohammed al fayed's brother — salah.

and still to come, the 500—year—old coral so big scientist thought it was a ship wreck. coming up on sportsday in the next 15 minutes on bbc news, the texas showdown — will it be a circus or a credible sporting contest? mike tyson says he wouldn't be fighting at the age of 58 if he wasn't fit enough. the prison officers' association says the threat of corruption in jails is "very real" with a minority of staff letting the prison service down. there are more than 23,000 prison officers in england and wales. 165 had been sacked for misconduct in the space of a year byjune — that's a record number, up by more than 30% on the year before. our senior uk correspondent sima kotecha has been investigating last year, beatrice was convicted of money laundering and served 1a months in prison before being released in september. she says while inside hmp

bronzefield in surrey, a prison officer made passes at her and other inmates. he commented on my appearance a lot. he suggested he wanted to come into my cell. what did he want you to do? ifeel, if i had been up for it, he would have wanted sexual favours. yeah. and i spoke to several other women since then that have all experienced the same thing from the same guy. comments about the size of their breasts. i was aware with one girl that he told her to hold out her hands and, um... she closed her eyes and he went in for a kiss. ijust, itjust... sorry. it upsets me because there's a lot of vulnerable women in there. bronzefield is a private prison run by sodexo. it said it can't comment

about any individual case, but that it will undertake all appropriate investigations and take necessary actions as needed. we managed to speak to a serving prison officer in one of england's largestjails. they said beatrice's story isn't surprising. there's a power dynamic and prison officers feel like they can do what they want, like asking for sex. they can make life difficult for those inside and they know that. and then there are those staff selling phones and drugs, a lucrative business behind bars. they know better than anyone how to get drugs and phones in, because they know the checks you've got to go through. it's easy money making and it's got worse. i've just come off the phone from speaking to a former prison governor who used to be in charge of an anti—corruption unit in prisons, and he says that the drug trade inside is worth up to £1 billion per year, with prison officers playing a significant part in making it happen. lee used to be a prison officer.

he was caught delivering cannabis, steroids and phones to inmates and served two years in jail. you were a corrupt prison officer. foolishly, yes, iwas. i let a lot of people down, i and it did take its toll on me. it weighed heavy. how much money were you making? in simple terms, for a package| into prison, you'd be looking at around £400 or £500 per package. that's what you were making per package? yes. the snowball effect of when i agreed to bring in the package _ the first time, it then became two and three. and after package four, it was purely, purely. about the money. there's got to be a bigger scope. they've got to up their ante . by searching officers going in. i was searched twice in three years and that isn't good. _ you know, we need to stop it at the gates. . the ministry ofjustice said the majority ofjail staff are hardworking and honest, and they're catching the small minority who break the rules. it said it's bolstered its corruption unit and is strengthening its vetting.

the way things are in prisons at the moment is not going to make people better. it's making people worse, if anything, and it's a hopeless place. sima kotecha, bbc news. scientists have discovered the largest coral ever recorded in a remote part of the pacific ocean. they travelled there to see how the ocean has been affected by climate change. the coral was discovered by divers off the solomon islands in the south—west pacific. our science correspondent georgina rannard has more. deep in a remote part of the pacific, not a reef, but a huge single piece of coral. seen for the first time, it's lived deep here in the pacific ocean for perhaps 500 years, growing uninterrupted from the time henry viii ruled england. and it's mega. measuring 32 metres long, it is bigger than a blue whale.

but it was found by accident. on maps, its location used to be marked as a shipwreck. scientist manu san felix was diving with his son off the solomon islands when he discovered the remarkable coral. well, i have behind me... speaking from his research ship, he told me he was in awe of it. look into this amazing coral, and with the biggest smile, i'm excited. i'm thinking, "wow, this is really special." this discovery has happened at the same time as the un climate talks here in azerbaijan, where small island nations have come to warn that coral reefs and their communities are now at real risk from the ocean warming caused by climate change. coral reefs is very important. our economy depends very much on marine and fisheries for its survival, and it's important for the world to know that we... it's a special place,

and it needs to be protected. in shallower waters nearby, entire reefs are dying because of climate change, but this centuries—old coral has managed to survive. scientists call it a beacon of hope that they want to learn from. georgina rannard, bbc news, in baku. universities in england are issuing a stark warning that almost three—quarters of institutions could face financial difficulties next year despite tuition fees rising for the first time in nearly a decade. the bbc has learnt the latest forecasts by the regulator, due to be published tomorrow, show 72% of universities are spending more than their income and a0% of them have barely one month of cash in the bank to pay bills. here's our education editor, branwenjeffreys. this university has already taken tough decisions.

£30 million cut from its spending in under two years to put its finances on a stable footing. we reduced by about 20% the number of courses that we're able to offer at the university. we're seeing class sizes increase, or more students in a lecture. we've had to, unfortunately, reduce the number of people in our student services, so things like mental health counselling and other support. yet while students here are focussed on their friends and lectures, the office for students warns many more universities face a financial crisis. part of the honesty that needs to come to the conversation is... speaking to me exclusively, the chairman made it clear university mergers and more course closures might be needed. they must work to think about a transformation of their offer. it doesn't make sense in many respects for universities in the same city or the same region to compete in terms of the courses being offered. but by the same token,

we don't want what's referred to as cold spots, where some courses are just not available to students in particular areas. the one year deal to increase fees by a little bit hasn't really solved any of the long term challenges facing universities. the number of international students has fallen, and that's not likely to change. and as the cost of going to university goes up, there is a risk that some students will be put off. these first year health care students will see their fees rise, but at least they know there are nhs jobs waiting. i'm surrounded by all this up to date technology. like, everything's working well. ifeel like i can see where the money's going, but i can't speak for other courses. i don't think all students see the benefits equally. it's hard as a student because you don't always see that money. we will, when our equipment changes, and, like, labs and stuff. but if you're doing something where equipment stays basically the same, if you're doing something like english, where a book

is a book, you're not seeing that money, really. so the pressure is on for universities to show value for money, explain to students what they get for their fees, all while the government considers if tuition fees should continue to go up in the future. branwen jeffreys, bbc news. football and injust over a hour's time england face greece in the nations league. captain harry kane has expressed his disappointment at nine players pulling out of the squad in the run—up to the match. it's a shame this week. obviously, um... yeah, look, i think it's a tough period of the season and maybe... yeah, maybe there's been a taking advantage of that a little bit. i don't really like it, if i'm totally honest. i think england come before any club situation. clu b club over country? our correspondent,

andy swiss in athens. he's not happy, is he? know, harry kane is normally _ he's not happy, is he? know, harry kane is normally someone - he's not happy, is he? know, harry kane is normally someone who - he's not happy, is he? know, harry i kane is normally someone who avoids controversy so this is really quite unusualfor controversy so this is really quite unusual for him essentially he is saying that some of the players who pulled out of this squad really could have been here. we are in the middle of a packed club calendar, and the suggestion is that some players are using this international window to take a break, rather than play for england. now, thousands of england supporters have been arriving here in athens over the course of the day, they've been enjoying themselves in the bars around the city centre. but they are disappointed that some of 1450 00:28