just one site in amesbury thatis police. just one site in amesbury that is being searched. re that is being searched. the couple were suspected of being exposed to an unknown substance. on saturday night, it was even busier here with seven fire appliances. firefighters put on protective suits but, we're told, only as a precaution. ambulances, fire engines, more and more kept turning up, pitting on the suits. they were connecting hose pipes, so we thought there was gas. wiltshire police say they first thought a contaminated batch of cocaine or heroin could have been the couple ill, but say they have now carried out father tests and they are keeping an open mind. understandably, residents have been making comparison to the nerve agent attack in salisbury exactly four months ago today. sergei and yulia skripal when exposed to the toxic substance and spent weeks in hospital. oh, not again. it is close to home again. but we do not know any more than that at the moment. when things like that happen a few yards away from your own home. but i am not saying a single thing, because i

we will be live in amesbury with the latest. be live in amesbury with the latest. murder another six.a flooded cave in thailand as rescuers stage a rehearsal. england's world cup roller—coaster path to last night's victory. who beat switzerland yesterday. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. in wiltshire on saturday. describe as an unknown substance. at the nearby porton down chemical weapons research laboratory. the couple are now critically ill in salisbury district hospital. night when this first broke, and when they were taken to hospital. when they were taken to hospital. to what's gone on here, we simply don't know. don't know. they are keeping an open mind about all of this. all of this. police, especially given the recent events in salisbury. events in salisbury. the property was today's sealed off by police. by police. they are now investigating in amesbury and the surrounding area. amesbury and the surrounding area. the couple were suspected of being exposed to an unknown substance. exposed to an unknown substance. saturday night, it was even busier here, with

duncan kennedy, bbc news, in amesbury. question this lunchtime, how could this couple have them into contact with novichok residue in salisbury after all the time and money that was spent decontaminating that city after the attack on the skripals. it's known that novichok, this russian military nerve agent, was developed during the cold war and that it keeps its potency over a long period of time, as our science correspondent pallab ghosh now reports. the removal of the park bench where sergei ustyugov were found after they were taxed. this and other areas of salisbury were cordoned off and cleaned up. successful, it seems, as there have been no further incidents in the city. but how did the novichok nerve agent get to amesbury? the current explanation is that it came from an object that was used to make the agent that was carelessly discarded. if that's the case there are three crucial questions. could there be more objects? can they be detected? and are they still deadly? we have to bring in again the inspectors from the

in amesbury and wiltshire.nes. theresa may has said it's deeply disturbing that — for a second time — a man and woman in britain have been exposed to the nerve agent novichok. downing street has set out a new proposal for how trade between the uk and the eu could be handled after brexit. but will it unite the cabinet? and commuters in the south east are warned of a second day of disruption as rail bosses say trains in and out of london victoria will be affected by signalling problems until at least tomorrow morning. at wimbledon, johanna konta is on centre court next, followed by kyle edmund. marin cilic is out, he has lost in five sets just now. anthony joshua confirms his next two fights will be at wembley stadium. i will be back with more on those stories later. downing street has set out some of the detail of a new plan for how customs could be handled after brexit. the latest model is known as a "facilitated customs arrangement". number ten said it would harness the best aspects of two previous options und

i'm ben brown in amesbury. two people from one of the flats by me are still critically ill fighting for their lives in hospital after being exposed to norwich, the same russian nerve agent used on sergei skripal and his daughter yulia four months ago in salisbury. the nature ofa months ago in salisbury. the nature of a nerve agent such as nobbyjock is it is an absolute tiny needle in a very large haystack that we have defined. the government's emergency cobra committee is meeting, to discuss the latest of elements in vulture. health officials are warning if necessary they should ta ke warning if necessary they should take precautions. take the simple precautions of washing the clothes you were precautions of washing the clothes you we re wearing precautions of washing the clothes you were wearing at the time, but of course we should all remember not to pick up any items that we don't know what they are. i'm annita mcveigh — the other news stories this morning — downing street releases a new plan to deal with cu

duncan kennedy, bbc news in amesbury.irs correspondent, daniel sandford, is at scotland yard. he has the latest on the police response. we heard about the statement, what more can you tell us about what police are saying? the assista nt about what police are saying? the assistant commissioner from the counterterrorism unit only finished making that statement as you came on airand he said making that statement as you came on air and he said indeed making that statement as you came on airand he said indeed best making that statement as you came on air and he said indeed best people had been contaminated with the same kind of nerve agent that sergei and yulia skripal were contaminated with a novichok agent, but it was not possible to tell if it was from the same batch at this stage. there is no evidence that these two people who have been freshly contaminated had visited the sites which had previously been decontaminated after the attack on the skripals is that leaves the police with two options. one is that somehow some lef

i've had a walkabout in salisbury and now we're in amesbury.eeting local people and local businesses. i want to reassure local businesses. i want to reassure local people and businesses that we will continue to do everything that we can, working with local leaders, and what we can do nationally, to support them. i want to remind eve ryo ne support them. i want to remind everyone that salisbury and amesbury is open for business are they want to say to anyone listening now, this isa to say to anyone listening now, this is a beautiful part of the country to visit, so if you want a good day out, why not come down and show support, at the same time as having fun with your family? it is a lovely pa rt fun with your family? it is a lovely part of the country to visit. i want to ta ke part of the country to visit. i want to take the opportunity to say to everyone, especially local people, that the risk to the public remains very low. that is the clear advice of public health england. it is the clear advice of the chief medical officer and finally, of c

amesbury isjust any contamination.ury isjust a few kilometres away from salusbury, which was the focused of the skripals in march and that nerve agent attack. police again very careful to reassure the public and say that none of the places that we re say that none of the places that were decontaminated after the skripals case in salusbury were thought to be contaminated but around 11 kilometres, so very close indeed and as i said, sites in both towns are being looked at by police. we know there is a counterterrorism unit involved in this investigation, the government announced there would be an emergency meeting session chaired by the home secretary on thursday but the fallout from the case, we remember theresa may asking for accountability, will there be the same likelihood 7 for accountability, will there be the same likelihood? the interior minister, very interesting how he worded things. he thanked the emergency services and said police need to be given space to pursue their investigation but he also mentioned the

this time the property seven miles away, here in amesbury. two people we re away, here in amesbury.eople were taken to hospital after possible exposure to the substance, after police initially thought they might have taken a bad batch of cocaine or heroin. the man and woman are believed to be dawn sturgess and charlie rowley, we understand live locally and they are both said to be ina locally and they are both said to be in a critical condition in hospital. this man says he is a friend of the couple. he was sweating loads, dribbling, and you couldn't speak to him, was making funny noises, rocking backwards and forwards. there was no response, didn't even know i was there, it was like he was in another world, hallucinating. the bbc has been given this video showing the video on fold last saturday night. a number of firefighters turned up at the property before the couple were taken to hospital. the police have now declared it as a major incident. it was initially believed that the two patients fell ill after potentially using contaminated, illegal drugs. however, further testing is n

i'm ben brown in amesbury.is an absolute tiny needle in a very large haystack that we have defined. the government's emergency cobra committee is meeting, to discuss the latest of elements in vulture. health

more questions, is the novichok here in amesbury?out that possibility. metropolitan police officers were here yesterday, going door—to—door and carrying out house—to—house enquiries and trying to find out as much information as they could about the movements of dawn and charlie on friday and saturday, prior to them becoming critically ill. there seems to bea becoming critically ill. there seems to be a renewed focus here is the investigation here, at least, seems to be ramping up to the kind of levels that we saw with yulia skripal and sergei skripal in march. and other people on the estate have been told to go about their normal business, or as close to normal, with all of that activity around them? i have spoken to a number of them? i have spoken to a number of them again, they are concerned for their own welfare and their children's welfare. one gentleman i spoke to was thinking about keeping his children home from school today to try and protect them, he said he is stopping them from going into the garden and telling them not to

tom symonds, bbc news, amesbury.rs in thailand have now freed all 12 boys and their football coach, trapped in a flooded cave for 17 days. charlie rowley, one of two people exposed to novichok in amesbury last weekend, regains consciousness in hospital. it comes as health officials warn the public not to pick up suspicious items. here, the prime minsiter urges party unity following yesterday's high—profile resignations from cabinet. tonight, two vice chairs of the conservative party have also stepped down over brexit. sport now, and for a full round—up from the bbc sport centre, here is will perry. what a night it has been for france. i don't know about the action in the world cup semi—final, there wasn't that much to talk about, really. france shutting belgian downed 1—0. 0ur correspondent was watching. in russia's cultural capital, a sea of colour, the blue and the red devils in the st petersburg stadium, their canvas for the biggest match of their lives so far. it was belgium who showed the initial artistry, hazar

duncan kennedy, bbc news, in amesbury. continuing in northern thailand to work out the best way to rescue the 12 boys and their football coach who've been trapped in flooded caves for 11 days. they're being given food and emergency workers are making another attempt to provide a phone line for the boys. a previous effort failed when a waterproof seal broke. our south east asia correspondent jonathan head reports from the scene in chiang rai province. no longer alone. the trapped boys now have an army doctor treating them. they even manage a smile. they're being given foil blankets to keep them warm. they are painfully thin. "the food is coming", promises one of the divers. up on the surface, they've been rehearsing for the scenario everyone here is hoping for — getting the boys out and off to hospital. but it won't happen soon. translation: we need to be 100% confident in order to get the boys out, and they don't have to come out at the same time. we are assessing the situation and if there is a risk, we will not move them

dawn stu rg ess charlie rowley in amesbury.awn sturgess and charlie rowley fell ill on saturday and both are critical in intensive care. last night came confirmation that they had been poisoned by the nerve agent novichok. can you provide reassurance for the people of salisbury? in london, on from the attack in salisbury on sergei skripal and yulia skripal, the cobra meeting was happening together. the home secretary later briefed the house of commons. there is no evidence that either the man or woman in hospital visit did any of the places visited by the skripals. our strong working assumption is that the couple came into contact with the nerve agent in a different location to the sites that have been pa rt location to the sites that have been part of the original clean—up operation. in wiltshire a number of locations linked to the couple are now cordoned off. in amesbury there is charlie roly‘s flat, a baptist centre and a branch of boots the chemist. in salisbury, eight miles away, a hostel where dawn sturgess lived has been

duncan kennedy, bbc news, in amesbury.e now here in the studio is our correspondent, richard lister. blackwell, the police are saying a priority is to establish how the couple came into contact with the nerve agent, they are trying to read please —— retrace their steps to see if they have leads into what it was they touched or ingested and there isa they touched or ingested and there is a chance that might give them more clues as to what happened with the skripals because it is entirely likely the novichok used was a remnant of that used in the attack against the skripals. the two cases are just a few kilometres apart. ten, 11 kilometres between the two sites and although the police have said they have nothing apart from the novichok to link these two incidents, it is clear there must be some relationship between them, given that such a rare chemical has been deployed. what do we know about the couple that this has affected? dawn stu rg ess couple that this has affected? dawn sturgess and charlie rowley are both in their40

british police say they have found the source of a nerve agent that killed a woman in the town of amesbury and left her partner in critical condition they say a bottle was retrieved from the house of the survivor and that it was analyzed at the nearby military laboratory and porton down on wednesday july eleventh a small box was recovered during searches of charlie rose house in amesbury it was taken to put down for tests following those tests scientists have now confirmed to us that the substance contained within the box who is not a child and police are investigating whether there is any link between the ames incident and the screen paul poisoning in salisbury back in march the area in amesbury around the house where the nova chuck was found is still cordoned off officials say there is not believed to be any wider threat to the public we heard from dave column a professor of organic chemistry at cornell university he says that there is no evidence to link the salisbury and amesbury cases it's impossible to make a connection there been no data presented so we are at the mercy of the autho

duncan kennedy, bbc news, in amesbury.t daniel sandford is at scotland yard. he sent this update a short time ago. detectives are in a position where they thought they had a contained area in march, there was a reason and a motive for attacking sergei skripal and his daughter became contaminated. the police officer investigating them came in contaminated and after that it was trying to work out who had done it. suddenly, four months on they find themselves in a situation where it doesn't appear to be contained. two new people who have been named in the media became contaminated on saturday by what appears to be the same nerve agent, so saturday by what appears to be the same nerve agent, so police cannot be certain it was from the same action and that leaves police facing two possibilities, one is that there is some other area that they didn't decontaminate that they were previously unaware of, were some kind of object or some part of the environment is still contaminated with this nerve agent and these people became conta

from amesbury to a laboratory at portadown.ts on the vehicle. this is being done asa on the vehicle. this is being done as a precautionary measure and to assist investigators piecing together the facts behind this dreadful incident. three other men we re dreadful incident. three other men were also in the ban that they and they have been identified and contacted they have been identified and co nta cted by they have been identified and contacted by police. none of them are showing any signs of being exposed to the nerve agent of feeling unwell and they are being screened as a precaution. i am sure you will appreciate the investigation is painstaking meticulous and complex but can i also assure you we are doing everything possible to gather all available evidence. 0fficers everything possible to gather all available evidence. officers of already spoken to a number of people who knew don and charlie before they became ill. if anyone saw them are met with them that we haven't already spoken to, i would urge them to co nta ct alrea

a major incident is declared in amesbury. two people are critically ill after being exposed to an unknown substance. police are searching the home of a nurse who's being held on suspicion of the murder of eight babies and the attempted murder of six others in a chester hospital. the death of six—year—old alesha macphail on the isle of bute is now being treated as murder. the boys trapped in a cave in thailand say they're in good health and good spirits as rescuers rehearse plans to bring them out. and roger federer and serena williams headline todays second round action at wimbledon. good morning. it's july the 4th. welcome to bbc newsroom live. england are through to the world cup quarter—finals after a dramatic penalty shootout victory over colombia. it's the first time the three lions have won a world cup match on penalties. their next challenge will be sweden in the last eight on saturday. lets take a look at the winning penalty scored by eric dier. yes! england fans from around the world celebrated the win after an agoni

javid visit salisbury and says the city is open for business after the poisoning of a couple in amesbury. there is now a race against time injapan to rescue people after days of heavy rain. a dramatic rescue attempt to save the young football team trapped in a cave network in thailand has so far managed to save four boys. the operation started this morning with two brits leading a team of thai and foreign divers. eight players and their coach are still trapped — with time against the rescuers as more heavy rain is forecast. the four brought out are recovering in hospital. a warning that our south—east asia correspondentjonathan head's report contains flashing images. it began with more divers and air ta nks it began with more divers and air tanks going in and all other nonessential vehicles being sent out. a daring and complex rescue was under way. the governor, who commanded the operation, described it as d—day. conditions will never be better, he said. after their dramatic discovery on monday, the boys have been fed and treated by an army medic on the rock shelf where they had been for

jon kay is in amesbury. for the exactly this time four days ago, so saturday evening evening here in the uk, the emergency services were brought to the property here just down this cul—de—sac beyond where the officers are. a man and a woman in their 40s were taken from here, they're in salisbury district hospital. now initially the police say they suspected this was some kind of drugs overdose, or maybe that they'd been exposed to some kind of contaminated batch of crack cocaine or heroin. but four days on, police issued a public message this morning to say that this had not been declared a major incident, that wiltshire police, the localforce is now working alongside the interpol to police in london and their anti—terrorism offices. and at the heart of this is theyjust don't know what the substance was that this couple have been exposed to, which has caused them to fall ill. because we're so close to salisbury, 6—7 miles which was the scene of a massive investigation when the skripals were poisoned four mon

we have cordoned off a number of sites in amesbury and salisbury areas and we believe the two individualsn the period before they fell ill. this is a precautionary measure. while we continue to investigate how they came to be exposed to this substance. i do want to reassure the public that there is no evidence that even this man a woman recently visited even the sites that had been decontaminated following the attempted murders of yulia and sergei skripal. looking ahead over the couple of days, people in the area can expect to see increased police presence which will include officers wearing protective equipment as they carry out activities at a number of sites. this will look very similar to some of the activity you have all seen ta ke of the activity you have all seen take place in salisbury earlier this year. again, this is a precaution but necessary measure and allows officers to carry out systematic searches for evidence that will support the investigation. this must be done with great care as you appreciate to ensure there is no outstanding risk to both those brave officers and the

in amesbury, there is charlie rowley‘s flat in muggleton road.o closed off is a baptist centre nearby and a local branch of boots the chemist. in salisbury, eight miles away, a hostel, john baker house in rollestone street, where dawn sturgess lived, has now been closed. so too have the queen elizabeth gardens in the city. the gardens are close to the maltings shopping centre and a bench where sergei and yulia skripal were found collapsed in march. the skripal home is also nearby. charlie rowley was at this church social event on saturday. he looked a bit out of sorts. you could just sense there was something not right. one would have assumed it was possibly alcohol, but we don't know for sure. this footage shows him being taken into salisbury general hospital. dawn sturgess had already been admitted, as a friend who didn't want to appear on screen, described. on saturday morning i got a phone call. i was told that basically she had got rushed into hospital. she had basically passed out. it was the skill of the staff at salisbury general which sa

of police are investigating whether there is any link between the amesbury incident and the screwball poisoning in salisbury back in march the area in amesbury around the house where the number chalk was found is still cordoned off officials say that there is not believed to be any wider threat to the public we heard from dave colum professor of organic chemistry at cornell university he says there is no evidence to link the cells brain amesbury cases. it's impossible to make a connection and there been no data presented so you're at the mercy of the authorities assuring us what they found and what they know what it is and you know how bottle ended up in there they. and that matter whether or not they actually were poisoned by not which are if you're allowed to get down to i find it suspicious that they're carving no but chuck around in in what's called a bottle i would think the container they use might be a little easier than a bottle so but we have no information on it so but it yeah i find the whole thing suspicious. donald trump is claiming relations with the u.k. are better than

dawn and charlie came into contact with the novichok in amesbury.tures of a park in salisbury where it is possible charlie or dawn picked up that bottle. the operation came as some reports suggested the police may have been close to identifying suspects in the case. four months after the skripals were contaminated, today charlie rowley was able to leave hospital. one of four victims of a nerve agent now at the heart of a major police investigation. two 15—year—old boys who plotted to murder pupils and teachers at their school in northallerton in north yorkshire have been given custodial sentences. thomas wyllie, on the left, was handed a 12—year custodial sentence while his co—defendant, alex bolland, was given ten years. the teenagers were inspired by the killings of 13 people at the columbine high school in america almost twenty years ago. let's talk to our correspondent phil connell who is outside leeds crown court. why did the judge decide to name? it is unusual when they're this young. during the course of the trial we have not been able to ide

like many of tonights front pages, the metro, carries the poisoning of two people in amesbury in wiltshire from the nerve agent novichok, the i confirms reports that the poison is the same type of chemical used to poison the skripals 4 months ago the financial times warns about the risk of a no deal brexit on uk car manufacturing as jaguar land rover says crashing out of the eu would cost them 1.2 billion pounds a year. the best of both worlds — the express reports on what it's calling a breakthrough post brexit customs plan being promised by the prime minister. a picture of the work and pensions secretary, esther mcvey, appears on the front of the guardian, she is facing calls to resign for misleading parliament about the rollout of universal credit. the mirror reports that meghan markles father thomas has told friends he fears they will never speak again the telegraph carried the picture. as wimbledon complaint their men's final will clash with the world cup final. we'll have to see whether there is a clash between england being in the final. let's start now with the metro. this story th

tom symonds, bbc news, amesbury.test figures. the office for national statistics says warm weather and the royal wedding helped growth. the improvement has lifted expectations that the bank of england could increase interest rates in august. at the world cup france have beaten belgium 1—0 to claim their place in the final on sunday. england will try to join them tomorrow when they play croatia. this morning, the team trained at their base in repino before travelling to moscow, where the semi finals are taking place. our sports editor dan roan is there. yes, thank you. more on the momentous match between england and croatia in a moment, but first now they know, if they could make it through to the final on sunday, they will have to play france after they ove rca m e will have to play france after they overcame their rivals, belgium tonight in their semifinal in st petersburg as david ornstein now reports. st petersburg, one of the great port cities and russia's cultural capital — tonight the stage for the two of footb

we will be live in amesbury throughout the afternoon.ed — and to mark this special anniversary, services have been held in westminster abbey and york minster. the head of nhs england simon stevens spoke at the service in london and paid tribute to nhs staff and patients. a health service that belongs to us all, to those of all faiths and none, to those who fought to bring the nhs to life, to the staff and volu nteers the nhs to life, to the staff and volunteers who have sustained it ever since, and our families, volunteers who have sustained it ever since, and ourfamilies, who rely on it in their troubling times of need. all these people are represented here in this abbey today. because at its best, our national health service is the practical expression of a shared commitment by the british people, there when we need it, at the most profound moments in our lives, at the birth of our children, the deaths of our loved ones, and at all times in between. as we grapple with hope and fear, generosity, loneliness, compassion, some of the most

all they are saying is they found a small bottle at the house of charlie rowley in amesbury, and that bottle was found on wednesday. they say the bottle was then taken to porton down, the research lab quite near to amesbury, and the tests have come back positive for novichok. and what the police are not saying is what sort of bottle it is, other than it is a small bottle, and nor are they saying where that bottle came from. did either dawn or charlie pick it up here in salisbury, perhaps by dawn's hostel here behind me or did they pick it up in amesbury or en route? they're not getting any further details on that. what they are also saying is they cannot guarantee that there is not more novichok in the area. they say that is why they were going to keep the cordons on, looking at these addresses, like the hostel here behind me, also the park here in salisbury, plus one or two other places, in case there is another source of novichok in this area. so the police are describing the finding of this bottle as a significant breakthrough, and have been asking the public to help them on this,

four year old man they also mentioned that they cordoned off parts of the town of souls pray and amesbury as well that village where the couple were initially taken ill and it's not clear just yet they say if it's a criminal investigation in fact there are more questions than answers for the moment really we also heard a little bit earlier on from sky source is saying that blood samples from the past have been sent off to porton down now you would have heard of porton down in relation to this script poisoning because that is the lab the government lab that's just ten miles away from amesbury that identified the substance used against the script files as military grade of agent and in another sign that this could be a very serious incident we've also heard from london's metropolitan police that counter-terror unit is now helping police with the investigation given the recent events and so was gri officers from the counterterrorism network working jointly with colleagues from police regarding the incident in amesbury as police have stated they are keeping an open mind as to the circumstance

poisoning in seoul's pre back in march house in amesbury where the no child was found is still cordoned off fishel say there is no wider threat to the public we heard from dave collins professor of organic chemistry at cornell university he told us the fact that a highly toxic agent was kept in a bottle is surprising. it's impossible to make a connection and there been no data presented so we're at the mercy of the authorities assuring us what they found and what they know what it is and you know how bottle ended up and they're the victims houses and that matter whether or not they actually were poisoned by not which are if you're allowed to get down i find it suspicious that they're carving no but chuck around in in what's called a bottle i would think the container they use might be a little easier than a bottle so but we have no information on it so but it's yeah i find the whole thing suspicious. russia's ties with the u.s. can be repaired says kremlin spokesman dmitri peskov he was speaking to us easily put trying to head of monday's upcoming summit between donald trump of lemme pu

they fell ill hours apart at charlie's flat in amesbury.a baptist centre nearby and a local branch of boots the chemist. in salisbury eight miles away, a hostel, john baker house, where dawn sturgess lived, has now been closed. so to have the queen elizabeth gardens in the city. the gardens are close to the city. the gardens are close to the shopping centre and a bench where julia and sergei the shopping centre and a bench wherejulia and sergei skripal collapsed in march. the medical team who nursed julia and sergei skripal are now fighting to save these new victims of. this is an expanding police investigation and the biggest questions are where and how were this couple poisoned? police and public health officials are stressing that this contamination could not have happened at one of the sites in the skripal investigation because they say they they were properly contaminated. but there is concern around the public when they see these areas cordoned off and that is why there is immense pressure on officers to get hard fa cts pressure on of

let's go live tojune kelly who's in amesbury this evening...ury this evening... well, dawn sturgess t| this yes, well, dawn sturgess took ill at this lag behind me last saturday, and a few hours late at charlie rowley also took ill. they were both being treated at salisbury district hospital. the couple had spent much of friday together and it is believed that is when they handled this nerve agent in this 2a hours before they took ill last saturday. salisbury district hospital is the hospital that nursed sergei skripal and yulia skripal back to health and the hope was that this couple would also pull through but we have had this very sad news. we have had a statement from the national head of counterterrorism, describing it as shocking and terrible news, he says this terrible news only strengthens our resolve to identify and bring to justice the people or person responsible for this outrageous and barbaric act. now, we understand that the prime minister will be making a statement later this evening, but it appears that now an international murd

chemical weapons advisor about the specifics of the amesbury incident. when we talk about continuation how effective it was we actually fall into a trailer or. idea that was thrown in the u.k. mess media that there was a problem with continuation but let me tell you these. compound chemical. compound. i can't imagine how. prosperous compounds like. such structures. could still environment for four months to be fact if you can imagine that some british citizens found a container opened it and drank it or something this is a terroristic act. it was conducted british citizens. i can't imagine that that was done by second or you continue this is why the stinney is a chemical weapon expert. i can imagine a scenario with the second there would contamination. there's been a second night of violent protests in the french city of non over the death of a twenty two year old man shot by police on tuesday protesters clashed with officers throwing molotov cocktails and starting fires and several districts police say that the young man refused to comply with orders an

duncan kennedy, bbc news, in amesbury.ce bennett is a senior defence analyst for rand corporation. he joins us now from los angeles. thank you for your time. what do you make of this? it seems to be a case where it may have been worth of planted the agent in the first place could have planted it in more places than discovered. the nature of this agent is that it is difficult to discover if. it does not create vapour like other agents. it is persistent and sticks around potentially for four months. this is speculation. rather than a second attack on what seems to be ordinary members of the public, it seems they came into contact with an object or key area contaminated. it is the same thing that affected the skripals. we do not know. it is a possibility. this material could be so possibility. this material could be so toxic even a ten millimetre drop could potentially kill. what would be the priority. to establish how they came to contact with it and if anyone else did? that is the priority, trying to determine where the con

within the box who is novacek and police are investigating whether there's any link between the amesbury incident and the screen paul poisoning in salisbury back in march thirty's earlier said they don't believe the latest pair to be struck down by a substance they were deliberately targeted at the area in amesbury around the house where the nova chuck was found is still cordoned off officials say there is not believed to be any wider threat to the public. we're now joined by david coleman who is a professor of organic chemistry at cornell university thanks for being with us here on r t international. so you have a unique perspective and you can help us kind of get around the science of this all . you know and so scientifically so far there is no link that has been drawn between the screwball case and the information coming up from the u.k. police has been somewhat nonspecific what do you make of this latest incident in terms of connection. it's impossible to make a connection or have there been no data presented and so you're at the mercy of the authorities assuring us what they found a

they remind, amesbury is to blame. they remind, amesbury is just is to blame.they remind, amesbury is just a few kilometres away from salisbury where the former russian spy salisbury where the former russian spy sergei skripal and his daughter we re spy sergei skripal and his daughter were exposed to the same substance. let me play the statement of the uk defence secretary earlier. the simple reality is russia has committed an attack on british soil which has seen the death of a british citizen. that is something i think the world will unite with us in actually condemning. the russian government says that is absurd. let's hear from the russian government says that is absurd. let's hearfrom bbc‘s russia's correspondent. one of the most surprising thing came from the russian spokeswoman who commented on boris johnson's resignation and david davis' resignation but she clearly has linked back to salisbury and amesbury incidents and she wrote on her page on facebook, it was one thing to carry out experiments on sergei skripal and his daughter, who we re sergei skrip

duncan kennedy, bbc news, in amesbury.ts are continuing in northern thailand to work out the best way to rescue the 12 boys and their football coach who've been trapped in flooded caves for 11 days. they're being given food and the authorities are trying to put in phone lines so that the boys can speak to theirfamilies. but they say no attempt to rescue them will be made until it can be done safely and that could take months. our south east asia correspondent jonathan head reports from the scene in chiang rai province. no longer alone. the trapped boys now have an army doctor treating them. they even manage a smile. they're being given foil blankets to keep them warm. they are painfully thin. "the food is coming", promises one of the divers. up on the surface, they've been rehearsing for the scenario everyone here is hoping for — getting the boys out and off to hospital. but it won't happen soon. translation: we need to be 100% confident in order to get the boys out, and they don't have to come out at the same time. we are

police believe they have found the source of the nerve agent that killed a woman in the town of amesbury and left her partner in a critical condition they say a bottle was her tree from the house of the survivor a mother was on lies the at the nearby military laboratory at porton down on wednesday july eleventh a small bottle was recovered during searches of charlie rose house in amesbury it was taken to porton down for tests following those tests scientists have now confirmed to us that the substance contained within the box who is novacek the police are investigating whether there is any link between the two incidents authorities previously said though that they do not believe the latest purred to be struck down by the substance were deliberately targeted the area in amesbury around the house where the novacek was find is still cordoned off officials say there is not believed to be any wider threat to the public but we spoke to radio talk show host john gaunt about the investigation into the poisonings he's eighty count understand why so little progress appears to have been made. i thi

that is it from me in amesbury. continued police investigation. continued police investigation. having to identify the possible source of contamination. source of contamination. also be installed at some of the sites. sites. are currently in a serious condition in hospital. —— the cordons in place. you're watching bbc news. the headlines on bbc news... the time is 5:45pm. remain critically ill in hospital. to explain what happened. customs after brexit. its own trade deals. signalling failure at london victoria. trains in and out of the station had to be cancelled throughout the day. let's go back to another of our top stories today. 70th birthday today. and a half million people. try to run at which ensures a challenge in itself. director of nhs england. welcome. hope you have some time to enjoy the celebrations ended in interviews. celebrations ended in interviews. should be picked out —— could be picked out. picked out. practitioner, that's how you started. started. if you had to pick something, what would it be?

this is in relation to the notch up poisoning of charlie rowley and dawn sturgess in amesbury.n sturgess died as a result of coming into contact with another chalk and police havejust coming into contact with another chalk and police have just announced that they have found the container in which that robert rock was at the home of her partner, charlie rowley, in amesbury. let's talk to our correspondent duncan kennedy who is in salisbury right now. duncan, what more can you tell us about this discovery? this isjust come through from the met police in the last 20 minutes or so. they said they have found a container at the house of charlie rowley in amesbury which they believe to be the source of another chalk. they are describing it as another chalk. they are describing itasa another chalk. they are describing it as a small bottle, they say they don't want to go into any more details about it other than to say that. they are not saying either how it got to the house, did they carry it got to the house, did they carry it with them, has been there for awhile, no details on that.

javid, visits salisbury, and says the city is open for buisness after the poisoning of a couple in amesburyd the click team head to massachusetts to find out more about the latest robotics research. that's in half an hour here on bbc news. good afternoon. divers have entered the cave in northern thailand at the start of a mission to bring the old boys under football coach out to safety. officials have described it as d—day, saying that the threat of rising waters means that they need to act now. these british drivers are part of the international rescue mission, which could take up to crack days, to bring all the boys and their coach the surface. that depends on the weather and in particular the heavy rains. our correspondence sophie long sent this report from outside the cave complex. for the past week, rescue workers have done all they can to prepare, and today is d—day. 13 international expert divers have started to bring the boys out. translation: there is no other day that is as right as today. if we don't start the extraction on the day we most benefit from, we may lose this window of

that was alison freeman reporting from amesbury.r heavy rain caused landslides in japan. the torrential downpours have forced more than 1.5 million people to be evacuated from their homes in western and central areas of the country. and now japan's meteorological agency is forecasting record amounts of rain over the next few days. joanna jolly reports. it's been decades since the central and western areas of japan have seen rainfall as intense as this. vast areas in the main island of honshu have been inundated with muddy water as rivers have burst their banks. many of those killed have fallen into and been swept away by the fast flowing floods. hundreds of homes have been destroyed and factories have been forced to halt production. this is a mountainous area and the authorities have warned against the threat of mudslides, which have already claimed several lives. japan's infrastructure has also suffered as roads have crumbled and rail lines have been broken in half. 50,000 police officers, firefighters and members of the defence fo

this time the property seven miles away, here in amesbury.en to hospital after possible exposure to the substance, after police initially thought they might have taken a bad batch of cocaine or heroin. the man and woman are believed to be dawn sturgess and charlie rowley, we understand live locally and they are both said to be in a critical condition in hospital. this man says he is a friend of the couple. he was sweating loads, dribbling, and you couldn't speak to him, was making funny noises, rocking backwards and forwards. there was no response, didn't even know i was there, it was like he was in another world, hallucinating. the bbc has been given this video showing the video on fold last saturday night. a number of firefighters turned up at the property before the couple were taken to hospital. the police have now declared it as a major incident. it was initially believed that the two patients fell ill after potentially using contaminated, illegal drugs. however, further testing is now ongoing to establish the substance which led to thes

how high should the level of concern be around amesbury and salisbury? >> well, this is an absolute key question and lots of people in salisbury are worried nerve agents usually last for hours but the novichok is a secret program that has been uncovered that the russians have been working on for 20 or 30 years. we believe it's persistent, it's been around on the ground for four months now and has the potential to create serious injury. how much longer we don't know. one thing people are suggesting and i support is that the russians could rather than putting out this ridiculous propaganda could help and tell us what the novichoks are made of, how persistent they are and is it a threat in future. i agree with the chief medical officer in the uk that the threat to the population of salisbury is low but people are concerned and i've been requesting the british government give more information to the people of salisbury. i agree i don't think there's a lot of threat going forward but we don't know at the moment. >> we just heard from theresa may moments ago o