his murders will be recorded as some of the worst in british history. 0n the line is former bbc correspondento had been in contact with ian brady from 1985 until the last few months. thank you forjoining us. how did you first make contact with ian brady? happened in 1985. there had been a lot of speculation at the time whether myra hindley and brady could ever be released. they had served 20 years of the sentence. but nothing had been heard from ian brady for a long time so i sent him a brief letter asking if he would apply for parole and he replied saying it is his intention to die behind bars. that was a start of a series of letters for a period of 30 yea rs. series of letters for a period of 30 years. track his personality through that period — what was he like in many of the letters? most of the letters were a litany of complaints about his treatment. first of all in the prison system and then in a secure mental institution. i believe he was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and he felt that eve ryo ne schizophrenic and he felt that everyone in authority was out to get him. in between

ahead of next month's general election, bbc correspondents are gauging the reaction across the countrythis evening, peter whittlesea's been to the tempo dance class in gillingham in kent and asked which policies are in step with voters. one, two, three, four, five and check. the snap election wrong—footed everyone. the carefully choreographed campaigns are now in full swing. it's a familiar routine thatisit full swing. it's a familiar routine that is it one that voters can follow? are you excited about the election? i don't think excited would be the word. strictly speaking, elections are won on policies like health, education and the economy. but this time around, the economy. but this time around, the realjudge if the voters here in medway have another category in mind. brexit's a large issue for me, yes. yes, the same. unfortunately, brexit is a big issue because we are both very staunch remainers.“ brexit is a big issue because we are both very staunch remainers. if we have a good deal with europe, everything is benefits. health and education is more important to me than brexit in

ahead of next month's general election, bbc correspondents are gauging the reaction across the countryvening, peter whittlesea's been to the tempo dance class in gillingham in kent and asked which policies are in step with voters. one, two, three, four, five and ten. the snap election wrong—footed everyone. a carefully choreographed campaign is now in full swing. it is afamiliar campaign is now in full swing. it is a familiar routine but one voters can a familiar routine but one voters ca n follow. a familiar routine but one voters can follow. are you excited about the election? i don't think excited would be the word. strictly speaking, elections are won bosses like health, education and the economy. this time round, the real judges, the voters here, have another category in mind. brexit as another category in mind. brexit as a largest two for me, yes. —— is a larger issue. unfortunately, it is a big issue because we very staunchly voted remain. health and education is probably more important to me than brexit in another election. but at the moment, it is taking priority. so it seems

former bbc correspondent tim reid is stuck at heathrow and sent this.ailable by british airways. people have been standing in queues for up to 70, 90, 120 minutes. the queue goes from the check—in desks to the back of the tournament will and out in front of the terminal where the taxis are delivering people. still chaos, despite this going on for some hours now. on the line is the bbc‘s philip norton, currently in rome. as we talk, some of his pictures will appear on screen. tell us the situation where you are. pictures will appear on screen. tell us the situation where you arem is quite calm here. people are waiting around for news. the flight was due to have left 1.5 hours ago and there was a small announcement which couldn't really be heard some people are getting information by going to the desk and it was only then that we found that there was an it problem. flight was delayed 45 minutes and i asked if it was realistic and the lady on the desk and they said no and trucked shoulders and i asked if there was any idea as to when the flight may ta ke a

bbc. so laura's doing herjob and she's doing that brilliantly. more broadly, though, viewers do complain that there's too much personal commentary from political correspondentsd it is not fact—based, it's not objective. wouldn't the bbc be better, as at least one of our viewers has suggested, just sticking to factual reporting? well, i think analysis is really important actually, as part of our coverage. certainly in elections, and as we saw in the referendum last year, parties and campaigns have their own positions to push and they will do that and they will give us figures. and really, an important part of ourjob is to try and analyse and say to the viewer, well, on balance this is what it looks like to ask. that's why we have very experienced people from laura down across the bbc working on that and trying to give the audience something that means something and notjust slogans and numbers. we have to talk about vox pops because they come up every election and the charge is two things, one is if they are too gimmicky you're not going to get much of an answer if people are in the gym, or whatever. but also that they're not informed and are representative, a

ahead of next month's general election, bbc correspondents are gauging the reaction across the countryn step with voters. 0ne, one, two, three, four, five and check. the snap election wrong—footed everyone. the carefully choreographed campaigns are now in full swing. it's a familiar routine thatisit full swing. it's a familiar routine that is it one that voters can follow? are you excited about the election? i don't think excited would be the word. strictly speaking, elections are won on policies like health, education and the economy. but this time around, the economy. but this time around, the realjudge if the voters here in medway have another category in mind. brexit's a large

our bbc business correspondent says us investors are worried that mounting distractions will underminerries about european politics and north korea have now taken a back seat. the us earnings season is mostly over, so it's all about global stocks being hurt by the trump crisis. japan and south korea will open trading doors in 30 minutes. we are expecting another negative day for key asian markets. politics and north korea. they have taken a back seat. well, those are the markets and what we can expect for today. earlier this week a congressional committee in the philippines unanimously voted down a motion to impeach president rodrigo duterte. mr duterte was accused of abusing power by endorsing the extrajudicial killings of drug traffickers and even suspected drug users. but despite his controversial policies, he still commands considerable support in the philippines. the bbc went to speak to some of his followers, to find out why. people in the philippines dedicated to president rodrigo duterte. thank you for watching newsday. i know many gardeners in england wanted some rain but i su

i spoke to our bbc russia correspondent and asked what was that relationship between mrs merkel and mr putin like. well, it was quite warm from the beginning and it's very easy to explain. they have two languages in common, russian and german. they both spend a lot of time in eastern berlin, their background of course. i remember the summit ten years back, when they held a meeting in siberia, putin and merkel, it was very warm. they even left to the airport in the same car. very warm in sigh beerament i like that. very warm if siberia, yeah. but then, it could be described their relations during all the years could be described more like a business than a friendship. germany depends on russian gas. they buy almost one third depends on russian natural gas. especially after fukushima when merkel initiated the closing of the old nuclear power stations. in russia, importing from germany as well. so it is a very solid ground for developing the relations now. an important one. we we re relations now. an important one. we were watching a little bit there, it was mrs merkel that brought up rus

former bbc correspondent peter gould covered the story for over a decade and has been in contact withking good morning and thank you to talking to was. i know you are in contact with ian brady for a long time. did you ever get your sense that he felt any guilt or a morse? this is a question many people have asked and if you read the popular press, they castigate him time and again for showing absolutely no remorse for these crimes, appalling crimes. i have to say there was one occasion in the many letters she wrote to me when he did express some kind of remorse. his phrase was, my remorse is painfully deep. that was the only occasion where he really referred to the crimes he committed. i know that on the number of occasions, relatives of the families of the children he killed wrote to him, trying to get more information from him about the circumstances of the crime, particularly the involvement of myra hindley, and where the bodies were buried and he said to me on one occasion, i received the letters, they have been passed to me but i can't read them, i have to keep the mental blocks

bbc transport correspondent, richard westcott, reports. can a computer glitch be allowed to cripple an entire airline? spoilt holidays, weddings, honeymoons. three days in and the british airways boss has broken cover to give his first interview, admitting their back—up system failed. the actual problem only lasted a few minutes, so there was a power surge and there was a back—up system which did not work at that particular point in time. it was restored after a few hours in terms of some hardware changes, but eventually it took a long time for messaging and for assistance to come up again. three days in and terminal 5 here is getting back to something like normality. but it is one thing sorting out the immediate problem and getting people on their aircraft, it is going to take ba far longer to ease people's anger at the way they handled the whole situation. the meltdown hit 75,000 passengers across the world, each with a different story, but one main complaint. no—one was telling them what was going on. you've got to do a lot better, have

bbc news. our correspondent catriona renton is at st anne's square in manchester city centre. hear, it is so quiet here today but despite that crowds are huge. the black coming here, still paying tribute and bringing flowers. you can see the carpet of flowers. you can see the carpet of flowers that keeps growing as people come here to remember the 22 victims of monday night's atrocity. i am joined by two people who are volunteering to help at the moment. a police support volunteer and a volunteer with the british red cross. there has been nature mendis response from the people of manchester to support each other. what have you been doing? there is quite a lot happening with the emergency services, greater manchester police put extra officers on the street and the voluntary special constabulary have been out in force. on tuesday the were 165 volunteers, part of the special constabulary, out on the streets of manchester protecting people. police say they are doing everything they can this weekend to make people feel safe with big events happening. are the police able to do enoug

stay with us on bbc news. 0ur correspondent has sent us this report.assage to the palace for president trump's armour—plated convoy. he's amongst friends and allies here, the leaders of the gulf arab states, most of whom share his antipathy towards their giant neighbour, iran. the us secretary of state, rex tillerson, signed a counter—terrorism pact with the saudi crown prince. yesterday, the secretary called on iran to stop what he called its "malign behaviour". last night, president trump joined his saudi hosts in a traditional sword dance of welcome. his earlier controversial comments appear to have been forgiven here. with president trump, you know, the inflammatory remarks on muslims, and the perceived "muslim ban", that caused a lot of noise in the united states, but you would be surprised how little noise it caused in the region. what did, however, cause a lot of controversy in the region, and cause a lot of support for donald trump in the region, was the strike on assad in syria. that's gone down well on the streets of the capital, riyadh. saud

bbc. so laura's doing herjob and she's doing that brilliantly. more broadly, though, viewers do complain that there's too much personal commentary from political correspondentsportant actually, as part of our coverage. certainly in elections, and as we saw in the referendum last year, parties and campaigns have their own positions to push and they will do that and they will give us figures. and really, an important part of ourjob is to try and analyse and say to the viewer, well, on balance this is what it looks like to ask. that's why we have very experienced people from laura down across the bbc working on that and trying to give the audience something that means something and notjust slogans and numbers. we have to talk about vox pops because they come up every election and the charge is two things, one is if they are too gimmicky you're not going to get much of an answer if people are in the gym, or whatever. but also that they're not informed and are representative, and shouldn't the bbc be more careful about using them? yeah, vox pops are tricky actually because i have a bit of sympathy for that view. however, if we're doing a lot of politicians, and w

the bbc home affairs correspondent says they understand the period in which they we re understand themation is over. the decision was taken after assurances were received by counterterrorism officers in the uk. earlier we said they raised the issue with donald trump, and trump said he wanted to get to the bottle —— get the bottom and was taking industry. they are now saying that period has come to an end. after assurances were given to counterterrorism officers. we'll keep you up—to—date as when our collea g u es keep you up—to—date as when our colleagues have updates. i mentioned donald trump. in a few minutes, we'll look at his time in brussels. he's been ruffling feathers and manhandling the odd leader as you see there. we'll get all the latest. ukip has launched its manifesto. paul nuttall says it is a message to terrorists that they will not win, the up and added that the other participant too cowardly to address the problem. there was no magic formula to turning back tide. a big islamic fundamentalism. action needs to be taken across many policy areas and will take time to make

here's the bbc africa's security correspondent, tomi 0ladipo, with more on the circumstances surroundingd says us troops we re the us africa command says us troops were assistant there is only cou nterpa rts were assistant there is only counterparts in and advise and assist operation against al—shabaab. they were approaching an area where the militants are believed to have been based and to have staged attacks from and that is when they came under fire. this soldier was killed as well as to others wounded. this is the first killing of its kind since 1993. the us has been wa ry kind since 1993. the us has been wary of sending troops to somalia and other countries in a large capacity and somalia is trying to build the army there, particularly the special forces group which has come into most contact with us forces, they want to fight now to honour their run. the african union which supports al—shabaab plans to leave the country in the next two yea rs leave the country in the next two years or $0 leave the country in the next two years or so and the army needs to be prepared for that so the

bbc news. our correspondent simonjones is at heathrow tonight.the news for passengers tonight and tomorrow? the big complaint from passengers during the day was a lack of information. i'm afraid that is continuing into this evening. now the company says it's working tirelessly to get the computers back up and running again. when i spoke to them a short time ago, they couldn't give me any time scale on how long that might actually take. it says overnight it's expecting long haulflights coming into london to be able to ta ke coming into london to be able to take off with a view to landing in the morning. it's hoping services will resume in the morning, but that seems a hope rather than a firm expectation. so if you are due to travel, the idea is check social media or the website, which is now back up and running, after crashing earlier. thank you very much. the g7 summit of world leaders in sicily has broken up without reaching an agreement on climate change, after donald trump refused to commit to the deal to cut carbon emissions. six world leader

bbc news. our correspondent simon jones is at heathrow. the stories of chaos and confusion, we sought the pictures in that report, how are things where you are? not a pretty picture, what passengers who were hoping to fly with british airways today have been told to go home and the message is if you have a flightless evening do not even attempt to come to the airport because they will not be a flight. airport because they will not be a flight. passengers have complained a lot during the day about the lack of information. they got to the airport to find the flight not going, then they had trouble getting any sense of what might happen next. ba said in the afternoon zero flights before 6pm and then later no at all during this evening. what people now want is clarity and they feel they are not getting that. what we have had is the boss posting a statement on twitter in which she has apologised for the disruption, particularly to families hoping to jet off ahead of the half term holiday. he says they are working tirelessly to fix this problem b

caroline hawley, bbc news. 0ur correspondent tom burridge is outside the ecuadorian embassy in londone of mr assange, but he did not hang around to answer questions, i understand. that is right. no questions to the journalists behove, no mentions of the rape allegations that he has a lwa ys the rape allegations that he has always denied, but has not faced the legal system in sweden because he has been holed up in the embassy behind me. it was a typical performance from him. defiance, vitriolic against western governments, particularly against the eu, against the british legal system. but if he were to walk out of the embassy behind me, even though that arrest warrant has been dropped, linked to the get investigation in sweden, he would still be arrested by british police and that is because the law states that five years ago he failed to a nswer that five years ago he failed to answer bail and turn up to court, and failure to answer bail in britain can if convicted carry a maximum sentence britain can if convicted carry a maximum sentence of one year in prison. thank you. let's get re

gavin hewitt, bbc news, manchester. 0ur correspondent wyre davies is outside police headquarters in thesers in the security services would not have done that lightly unless they thought there was evidence to suggest he had helped in procuring, designing, and arming that suicide bomb which went off with such devastating effect in manchester arena, killing 22 people, many of them children. it is the fact they have identified him and arrested arrested one other person, but are still actively looking for other people that may have been involved that they are so concerned about now. the investigation is moving fast. 0ften now. the investigation is moving fast. often with cases like this it ta kes a fast. often with cases like this it takes a while to identify the bomber and their associates. there is concern that they want to nip this in the bud and find associates before there are any other such attacks. as manchester wakes up in the next few hours, the reality of what happened on monday evening were once again confronts those living where you are. this is a tough and resilient city. it has

more news to bring this morning from the bbc home affairs correspondent. d, this is a moving story. there have been a number of rumours overnight but the attack in manchester overnight suspected to be the work ofa overnight suspected to be the work of a suicide bomber and certainly the man believed to have triggered the man believed to have triggered the ied seems to be dead. that is coming from our home affairs correspondent. again, these small nuggets of information which are slowly coming out. rumours overnight this may be the case and it seems to be that it is suspected to be the work of this is —— suicide bomber.|j think that is very likely. 0f course, we need to widen the lens. 0ver course, we need to widen the lens. over the last few weeks, we might have forgotten right now about what is happening in iraq. the stronghold which was occupied by the so—called islamic state in iraq is being liberated. this organisation is under a great deal of pressure at the moment. both in syria and iraq. 0ver the moment. both in syria and iraq. over the last six or se

lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. our correspondent thoma fessy is in paris for us now.ed the help of the traditional parties to get elected but he might need their help in parliament to get anything done. exactly. that will be his first real challenge. he will need to try and secure a parliamentary majority in parliament next month's election. without this majority, he will be extremely hard for him to pass any of the reforms that he has promised in his manifesto for which he has been elected. make no mistake, this isa been elected. make no mistake, this is a vote of confidence we have seen tonight, the nature of french politics is that both centre—right and centre—left voters have united to defeat and to stop marine le pen from taking power and emmanuel macron needs to take that into account when it comes to the elections next month. what was the mood in the marine le pen camp? she sounded defiant that her brand of politics were part of the mainstream now. exactly. there was a clear disappointment amongst the supporters. they were also celebrating some kind of victory.

tom symonds, bbc news, manchester. 0ur correspondent catriona renton is at st anne's square in manchestern is at greater manchester police headquarters. katrina, that scene behind you is a very breathtaking, with people still coming to the city centre to pay their respects. this has become a focal point for people to come into the city centre today to pay their tributes. the striking thing, you will see the numbers from the pictures, how many people are here, the growing number of tributes, balloons, flowers, but also a silence, the number of people you would imagine it to be quite noisy but it is a very quiet. i can also update you on the hospital figures because we know it 22 people died in that tragic attack but we now have comprehensive figures for the number of people still in hospital. 116 people have been treated since monday, 63 are still in hospital across a site in greater manchester and 20 are in critical care. people have been coming here to reflect with a mixture of emotions, sadler, anger, defiance, people wanting the city to go on and come back to some sort of normality. tw

>> bbc north american correspondence yesterday say we have to accept the way of life, if we accept thiss a way of life, it is appeasement, surrendering, and say we are going to step out radicalization, in prisons and elsewhere. we stop people from leaving our country and we will do something about this. if it takes years. >> security at major events, i pay a few dollars extra for metal detectors. >> it does appear this was a lone wolf attack, manchester police, three more arrests that are connected with the ariana grande bombing. >> one thing the intelligence he worried about regarding this 42-year-old suicide bomber, that he might not be alone and there is a possibility, and the mark he went to at the mosque at condemned the horrific attack. a network of like-minded people we have seen in the past. >> it is unlikely there is not a network of some kind, what i am hearing security services are very busy in manchester and london and elsewhere trying to round up his associates. all of that is the right thing to be doing but we have to get back to the cause of this problem and be tougher in

there is a well—known german newspaper, and our information comes from one of our respected bbc correspondentthat. we are not going to respond to it, we are going to continue to set out our position, to enter into what in many ways has been strong and positive negotiations. i observe, for instance, the trade commissioner has said yes, she would expect there to bea said yes, she would expect there to be a deal with the single market. so i don't recognise the tone in which this has been reported. at i do come back to the fact that it does make it clear that this is going to be a complex, potentially difficult negotiation at times, and who do we wa nt negotiation at times, and who do we want leading those? we want theresa may leading them, notjeremy corbyn. 0n may leading them, notjeremy corbyn. on that leadership of those eu negotiations, can you comment on speculation that there is a bit of a fallout between theresa may and the brexit secretary, david davis, over his conduct at that meeting? what do you know about that, and what can you know about that, and what can you tell us? to be honest,

karl riley, bbc news. 0ur security correspondent gordon corera says the the latest ransomware is a large—scale. it isa it is a global attack. it is not targeted at a particular country or particular industry sector, it is basically spread everywhere on the internet looking for machines which it can exploit, because they have a certain operating system which has not been upgraded in a way, which allows this worm to operate and do its work by encrypting and making the data on it inaccessible. we have seen this strange distribution of it where in the uk for instance, the national health service has been targeted, but in other countries, factories or in germany, railways we re factories or in germany, railways were targeted, different companies in different countries because it basically comes down to which companies or organisations or people we re companies or organisations or people were using a particular operating system which was vulnerable to this attack. and are we any nearer to knowing who is behind it? noel is the simple answer. i have spoken to people who say they still have not got a c

hugh schofield, bbc news, paris. our correspondent karin giannone is in paris.n extraordinary long and exciting election campaign. is this going to be an exciting start to the presidency do you think? it's a very busy day already and emmanuel macron is still fulfilling obligations today. he's been carrying out various ceremonies, you saw in the report he's been very busy this afternoon. we saw him return briefly here for lunch with his family and aids. he is now visiting a military hospital, you'll also be meeting the mayor of paris and then the real work begins. he says he's under no illusions about the tasks to come so already best day of celebration and inauguration is already about focusing on he has to do to fulfil his plans for reforming the economy and beyond. let's discuss this some more. what did you make of what we heard from emmanuel macron in his speech? it was an optimistic tone but it sounded realistic in some degree. yes, it was very solemn and serious, he said, you know, he would be back to work as soon as this evening. he also mentioned he neede

bbc news. our security correspondent, gordon corera, is here.n some of the points in your report, what's the latest assessment now on the likelihood of another attack and the kind of measures that people are putting in place? there were a lot of very nervous cyber officials this morning when people went back to work and switched their computers on. there was no second wave of attacks or victims today. although some still re—sidual impact from that attack on friday. this attack looks to be over but the fear is about what may be to come. one problem is that this attack used some code, some tools which were developed by america's national security agency, its spy agency, which were then stolen and then lea ked o nto which were then stolen and then leaked onto the internet as part of a cache of cyber weapons. the fear is more of those weapons could be reversioned and deployed to attack infrastructure and attack companies. soi infrastructure and attack companies. so i think the cat—and—mouse game between attackers and defenders is going to go on. you

hello, i'm anne—marie tasker, and i'm the arts and culture correspondence for the bbc here in hull andis kofi smiles. i'm the face of hull, chosen by the bbc with a mission, to bring you culture whenever and wherever it happens. today, we are taking it quite literally because we are not in a concert hall or in a theatre, we are here in a graveyard. it's a setting for a performance which is quite difficult to sum up in just a few words. it's part—circus acrobats, part music, part dance and it all takes place under the cover of darkness. areialists, acrobats, video artists, singers. coming together to tell the story of an ancient greek legend in a new way. "depart" explores the tragic love story of orpheus when he descends into the underworld and tries and fails to bring his dead wife, eurydice, back to life. the audience happens upon the action as they wander through hull's general cemetery. we are trying to find the right trees, and battling the british weather has been challenging. performing outdoors definitely has its challenges like that. namely the weather. quite often you will fi

and later on bbc news, dateline london. international correspondentsed in london will cast a critical eye over the weeks big news stories. that's coming up at 11:30. good morning and welcome to bbc news. routine appointments and operations at some hospitals remain cancelled this morning after nhs organisations across england and scotland were disrupted by a global cyber attack. some doctors have been unable to access patient records, while a number of hospitals are asking patients not to attend unless it's urgent. there's no evidence that patient data has been stolen. the first indication that something was wrong was mid—afternoon yesterday, when some hospital trusts and gp surgeries reported being locked out of their computers. vital information such as patient records and appointment schedules, became inaccessible. it meant operations were cancelled, patients were sent home and ambulances were diverted. the home secretary, amber rudd, says that around 45 trusts and some surgeries in england and scotland had been affected. the prime minister, theresa

caroline hawley, bbc news. 0ur correspondent helena lee is at the ecuadorian embassy in central londonuite bullish committee says it is a victory but he is not going anywhere. he is not and it is farfrom going anywhere. he is not and it is far from over. we going anywhere. he is not and it is farfrom over. we are not going anywhere. he is not and it is far from over. we are not really any clearer as to where he goes next. he appeared on the balcony as you saw for about 20 minutes or so. he came out, he stood there for a while, posed for the photographers to take pictures, there are dozens of cameras from across the world who have turned up to hear what he had to say. and there were a number of questions thrown to him, one of them was will you surrender to a bail hearing in london. no reply from mr assange. he was then asked by a member of the crowd, will you leave the embassy? again, no answer. he did not take any questions at all. and he said, today is an important victory, but the road is farfrom over, the proper war isjust commencing. as caroline touched on, if he does leave the emb

a former correspondent for the bbc and cnn covered the story back then.as into cold storage for many years and it required a supreme court order for the matter to be revised and now, a special court, a court which is the central bureau of investigation will ta ke central bureau of investigation will take up the matter in a continuous trial of the various leaders, which includes the main leader, the former deputy prime minister. what do you think will happen if this particular case does not go either way? could it start some conflict between hindus and muslims? it has already become, ever since it occurred, and very divisive issue. it has divided hindus and muslims on both sides, because it is about whether this was a temple, which is of course rubbish, and whether it was a mosque, which it was and the mosque was destroyed by hindu zealots and the pain and bloodshed continues. thousands of lives were lost in this communal violence, is it having an impact on indian politics? the communal violence that you occurred to the shrug referred to occurred after the

let's speak to bbc correspondent phillip norton, who has been unable to return to the uk from italy.ation from ba like to you waiting for the flight that never happened? yes, i think the lack of communication really has now been the most frustrating thing about this. certainly on the day, on saturday morning, when it became clear that the flight wasn't going anywhere, the communication, the only communication we've had was from the captain of the aircraft who came up and spoke on the tannoy at the gate and told us about this computer problem. since then, we've not heard anything individually and i think that's the case for most people and i think one of the main frustrations yesterday, when people we re frustrations yesterday, when people were wondering well, how do we get back home? was the fact that the advice coming from british airways for people who are overseas just simply wasn't working and it wasn't helping you rebook flights back to the uk. now, british airways were saying that they were going to run a near normal service from heathrow and gatwick yesterday. one of the major

i'm the arts and culture correspondent for the bbc here in hull. this is kofi. the face of hull, chosen by the bbc with a mission to bring you culture whenever and wherever it happens. today we're taking that literally because we're not in a concert hall or in because we're not in a concert hall orina because we're not in a concert hall or in a theatre, we're here in a graveyard it's the setting for a performance that's difficult to sum up performance that's difficult to sum up in performance that's difficult to sum upina performance that's difficult to sum up in a few words. it's parts circus acrobat, part music, part dance and it takes place under the cover of danceness aerialists, acrobats, video artists, singers coming together to tell an ancient greek legend in a new way. depart explores the tragic love story of orpheus when he descends into the underworld and tries and fails to bring his dead wife back to life. the audience happens upon the action as they wonder through hull's general cemetery. trying to find the right trees and battling the british weathe

bbc news. with me is gordon corera our security correspondent.ould we be about how this is likely to develop? it is not clear whether we are through the worst of it. i think there will be a lot of people taking a deep breath when they switch on their computer tomorrow. what happened on friday was a dangerous piece of malicious software. it didn'tjust target was a dangerous piece of malicious software. it didn't just target the uk and it didn'tjust target the nhs, but it only worked on systems which run a particular operating system and hadn't been upgraded. in the uk, that happens to be the case with a number of nhs trusts. that is why only one in five were affected, because the others had upgraded. some other computer systems may also have been affected. 0fficials i have spoken to suggest they haven't seen a significant new attack at the moment. they have not seen a new wave or a new variant. moment. they have not seen a new wave or a new variant. what concerns them is there could be a number of machines out there which have been affected with t

our correspondence from the bbc afg ha n our correspondence from the bbc afghan service, tell us whatave also had minor injuries, and u nfortu nately we lost had minor injuries, and unfortunately we lost one of our support staff, who was a driver. oh my goodness, i didn't realise that, as well. what do we know about who might be behind this car bomb? the afg ha n might be behind this car bomb? the afghan president, he has been asking that in the month of ramadan there should not be explosions, let's stop violence but nobody responded to that, insurgent group. this particular attack will be difficult for the insurgents to take responsibility because of the level of civilian casualties. this is normally the case when civilian casualties are high. insurgent groups don't take responsibility for it. if it is the security forces casualties are high, then the response is instant. apart from spreading terror, what is it that the insurgents want, ultimately?- the insurgents want, ultimately?- the end of 2017, they announce that this year at least, the taliban at least, announced they will be t

colin paterson, bbc news, manchester. our correspondentord stadium in manchester, where the concert will take place. as we can see behind you preparations are well underway now. that is right and they have only had about eight days to get it all done. you can see the stage behind me, that was already in place because of a concert last weekend so that can stay set up. on the ground, though, you've got staff working around the clock, not just you've got staff working around the clock, notjust protecting the wicket but also trying to protect the rest of the pitch here laying down plastic flooring in preparation for that concert on sunday. one of the organisers of the event told us earlier on it was probably the ha rd est earlier on it was probably the hardest task he's ever had to undertake trying to get everything ready in such a short space of time. he's praised everybody working here and said everyone has been pulling together and it's been absolutely incredible, a huge logistical task for them, a huge task for the police as well because s

bbc news. let's speak to our correspondent in washington, jane 0'brien. president trump is unabashed.oubled. he has done nothing illegal. classified information by definition is material information the president wa nts to material information the president wants to protect. but this is being seen very wants to protect. but this is being seen very much wants to protect. but this is being seen very much as an wants to protect. but this is being seen very much as an issue of governance, and a massive breach of trust with the intelligence community, not just here trust with the intelligence community, notjust here in the us but around the world. there are real questions in washington over how badly damaged those sensitive relationships are. and as was said in the report, he is meeting with president erdogan today, and has his first foreign trip coming up. this could overshadow those very important meetings. it also goes to the credibility of the white house itself. this meeting where this information was allegedly disclosed comes the day after president trump sacked the fbi directorjames

bbc news, south manchester. i was telling you about that photographs in the new york times. we have had smart home affairs correspondent. he has spoken to syria people —— senior people in counterterrorism. they said they are clearly frustrated. they said the lea k clearly frustrated. they said the leak undermines the relationship with partners and undermines the investigation and confidence of victims, witnesses and their families. in a compromising message in counterterrorism police were

danny savage, bbc news, manchester. 0ur correspondent clare fallon has spent the day in st anne's squaretinue to be laid. still, this evening, people are coming along here in the evening sun and laying flowers, and pausing for a moment to reflect, i suppose, upon the events of this week. but also, of course, to remember the 22 people who were killed in that attack at the manchester arena on monday night. just on the other side of st ann's square from where i am there is a multi—faith vigil going on down there, where they've been reading a prayer for manchester. every so often we hear a spontaneous round of applause from the crowd down there. because, up until today, people have been able to get very close to the manchester arena itself because of the police cordon, this place here has really become the focal point for people wanting to come along and pay their own tribute. as for the police investigation, that clearly is ongoing at a significant pace. police saying that they have made significant arrests and finds, saying today they are making immense progress with that investigation. ba

laura bicker, bbc news, washington. our correspondent gary o'donoghue is in washington for us.weet from the president saying james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. that sounds like a bit of a threat? bit of a threat? an absolute threat. in the week when he has been accused of being nicks only and in the handling of the james comey affair, this is only going to play into the saga. what is the potential disagreement? there is a dinner at the end of january and there are two differing accounts. james comey‘s friends are suggesting the president asked him for a pledge of loyalty at that dinner, which he did not give. the president says calmly asked james comey whether he, the president was being investigated and he got an assurance from james comey that he was. friends of james assurance from james comey that he was. friends ofjames comey said he would never have given that assurance to anyone, not even the president. that is the case at point. also the white house is getting its story in a massive model this week abou

bbc news. our washington correspondent, jane o'brien, says the difficulty for president trump is that robert mueller robert mueller does have sweeping powers not to just investigate the questions surrounding the tramp campaigns involvement with russia, but also any matters arising from that investigation. so this could conceivably include the issue over whether or not mr trump try to interfere in the ongoing investigation into his national security adviser michael flynn. this was yesterday's story, if you remember that far back, when it was alleged he asked james comey, the then fbi director, to step back from then fbi director, to step back from the case. it could go in all sorts of directions. i think it's also important to bear in mind that robert mueller is still answerable to the administration in that he has to the administration in that he has to tell the justice to the administration in that he has to tell thejustice department if they ask what he's doing. the justice department can stop this enquiry at any time. they could also potentially block charges, although if they did that, given rob

bbc news, south manchester. in a moment, we'll speak to our correspondent quentin somerville in libya, but first let's go to ourutside mi5 headquarters. they are talking about a network. i guess that is the focus of the investigation? absolutely. the intensity and pace of this investigation has not lessened, because in the last 2a hours, confidence has been increasing that salman abedi did not act alone. as we have heard, he was most likely pa rt we have heard, he was most likely part of a network. in particular, the concern is that he may not have built that relatively sophisticated explosive device himself. that means a bomb maker could potentially still be at large, and so could other explosive devices. that of course is why the threat level has gone to critical. here at mi5, they are aware that there may be questions asked at some point about what they knew about him. certainly, the home secretary has said salman abedi was known to the authorities, and the bbc has learned that a number of people reported him to the police because of concerns about his behaviour. so there may be questions in the future about

caroline hawley, bbc news. 0ur news correspondent tom burrows spoke to me earlierfrom outside the ecuadorian he said that mr assange had not given any interviews to journalists. no questions to the journalist below, no mention of the rape allegations against him in sweden, which he has always denied that he hasn't faced the legal system in sweden, because he's been holed up in the embassy behind me. it was a typical performance from julian assange, defiant, vitriolic against westerman governments, particularly against the eu, against the british legal system, but if he were to walk out of the embassy behind me, even though that european arrest warrant has been dropped link to the investigation and sweden, he would still be arrested by british police. that is because the law states that five years ago, he failed to answer bailand five years ago, he failed to answer bail and basically turn up the court. and failure to answer bail and britain can, if convicted, carry and britain can, if convicted, carry a maximum prison sentence of one year. 0ur correspondent maddie savage is following reaction

former senior counselor to the cia director and former national security agency and washington correspondent for bbc world news america. katie, first to you. the thing that's caught most people's attention is that the president said and it's hard to get the sequence of this, but he had dinner with the former director of the fbi and that at that dinner which apparently the dinner was whether to see if the fbi director in part would keep his job is that the fbi director said, you're not under investigation. so that naturally everyone is wondering if there is some sort ever quid pro quo. you keep your job if i'm not under investigation. is that what people were thinking? >> there were two phone calls in which he said the former fbi director said he was not under investigation. the problem here is that there may be no impropriety whether it comes to the russia investigation or any other issue, but the white house, by confusing the way it has rolled this out and by mixing its messages has made it look like there is an impropriety and therefore we are suspicious of everything that comes out of the white h

our royal correspondent, peter hunt, reports. leila nathoo, bbc, by his wife's side prince philip, as we soon wife's side prince philip, as we soon will not be seeing him, in public, and judy, by his wife's side. autumn the soon—to—be 96—year—old prince will be giving up such engagements. those who knowlj don't believe he will put his feet up don't believe he will put his feet up completely and disappear into the background and never be seen again. he will pick and choose what he wa nts to he will pick and choose what he wants to do and what is sensible and what is practical. i don't think we will see him disappearing but he's making it clear to organisations, please don't come and ask me to do things and expect me to say yes because the answer will be no. hopefully he can enjoy more of what he enjoys doing. this is an ancient institution adjusting to the fact that one of its key players will be on display much less. out and about, the queen relies on her husband. others will have to step up to the mark. relies on her husband. others will have to