daniel sandford, bbc news, at the old bailey.r than they should, to start their treatment according to the latest figures from the nhs. (00v) injuly —— only 78.2 per cent of people were seen within the 2 month target, the worst performance since records began in 2009. now on bbc news, sport today. hello, i'm tulsen tollett and this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: playing in only her second major, puerto rico's maria torres shares the lead after the first round in evian. we're in las vegas where the fans are arriving for what's being billed as boxing's fight of the century. and the polish mountainbiker making history welcome to the programme. 12 months ago maria torres was with herfamily in puerto rico as hurricane maria battered the island, a year on she shares the first round lead at the final women's major of the season. torres carded an impressive 6 under par 65 at the evian championship in france and tops the leaderboard alongside spain's carlota ciganda. nick parrot reports: nick

daniel sandford, bbc news.isbury nerve agent poisoning may have visited the uk three times in the last two years. documents obtained by the investigative group found that alex petrov visited the uk several times and other parts of europe. as usual, we have much more on our website. you can get into it with me and some of the team on social media. i am @bbckasiamadera. now on bbc news, sport today. hello, this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: wada lift the suspension of russia's anti—doping agency in a move that is labelled as treacherous by those opposed to it. tiger woods eagles the last hole to hold a share of the lead after the first round of the tour championship in atlanta. defending champion caroline wozniacki is out of the pan pacific open in tokyo after losing to camila giorgi. hello there and welcome to the programme, where we start with the decision by the world anti doping agency to lift the suspension of russia's anti—doping agency. rusada have been banned

daniel sandford, bbc news, salisbury. 0ur correspondent steve rosenberg is in moscow.ere today. what has been the response there? well, what we didn't see today was moscow putting its hands up and admitting, yes, we did this, we carried this out. quite the opposite, in fact. carried this out. quite the opposite, infact. russia carried this out. quite the opposite, in fact. russia portrayed itself today as an innocent party, and pointed the finger back at britain. for example, the kremlin today said that from the outset moscow had told london it was willing to take part in a joint investigation into the salisbury poisoning, but that offer had been met with silence. the russian foreign ministry today accused britain of manipulating information and called for practical cooperation. that is not going to happen. it is clear that the british government is determined to increase diplomatic pressure on moscow. britain has called for a meeting of the un security council tomorrow. there is talk of trying to push through new eu sanctions. it is there an appetite for new sanctions

daniel sandford was in court.estminster less than an hour before the attack. armed with a radio, a whistle, a stab—proof vest, cs spray and his baton. then, this. a car smashed into the side of parliament after killing people on westminster bridge. and witnesses saw khalid masood heading round the corner. police officers on duty at the entrance to parliament saw him coming through the gate. "i noticed a very large man with two extremely large knives, one in each hand," pc doug glaze told the inquest today. "he was walking like a robot, his hands moving up and down." pc glaze thought there might be multiple attackers. "i remember thinking, we're going to die," he said. antonia kerridge was watching from a nearby parliament building and she saw pc keith palmer fall over as khalid masood charged towards him. "the policeman had collapsed," she said today. "the attacker ran over to him, lent towards him and raised the knife quite high, and hejust stabbed him two, three orfour times." another witness, james west, said t

daniel sandford reports from the old bailey.sters came to court with their lawyer to hear the distressing details of how she died. she was the beloved mother of two young daughters and was on her way to pick them up from school. in one of the last pictures of her she is texting her husband, unaware of what was about to happen. rob lyon was walking with colleagues on the bridge and saw it all. he saw aysha being hit by the car and landing right beside him and into the path of a london bus. "initially i sort of froze," he told the court. "i just remember trying to slow the bus down, because i could see it was going to run over aysha." in cctv footage shown in court, aysha frade can be seen walking up the bridge, where she is hit by the vehicle travelling straight along the pavement. these protective barriers weren't here then, of course. she is knocked right into the air and then almost directly under the wheels of a number 53 bus. the inquest was told she would have died nearly instantaneously and without suffering. soon afterwar

daniel sandford reports from the old bailey.sters came to court with their lawyer to hear the distressing details of how she died. she was the beloved mother of two young daughters and was on her way to pick them up from school. in one of the last pictures of her, she is texting her husband, unaware of what was about to happen. rob lyon was walking with colleagues on the bridge and saw it all. aysha being hit by the car and landing right beside him and into the path of a london bus. in cctv footage shown in court, aysha frade can be seen walking up the bridge, where she is hit by the vehicle which is travelling straight along the pavement. these protective barriers weren't here then, of course. she is knocked right into the air and then almost directly under the wheels of a number 53 bus. the inquest was told she would have died nearly instantaneously and without suffering. soon afterwards, a passer—by found her phone ringing on the pavement and answered it. it was aysha's husband. the stranger told him there had been a terrible

daniel sandford, bbc news, at the old bailey.r storm ali swept across ireland and parts of the uk with winds gusting to over 90 miles an hour. a woman died after a caravan was blown off a cliff, and a man in his 20s has been killed by a falling tree. scotland and the north—east of england have also been affected, with disruptions to transport and electricity as our correspondent emma vardy reports. a casualty of the extreme weather which lashed the west coast of ireland. early this morning, police received reports of a caravan blown onto a beach in county galway. the body of a woman in her 50s was recovered, believed to be a tourist visiting from switzerland who'd been asleep inside. as the storm ravaged northern ireland, a near miss for this driver in lisburn, just south of belfast. the treacherous conditions, forcing more quick thinking, this time from a ryanair pilot, just metres from the runway, aborting a landing at dublin. and obliteration of a hospitality tent in scotland at st andrews, hampering preparations for next mont

daniel sandford, bbc news, at the old bailey.interpreted election spending laws during the eu referendum, allowing the vote leave campaign to break them. vote leave paid more than six hundred thousand pounds to clear bills allegedly run up by a university student, darren grimes, who ran the ‘beleave' campaign. the commission initially said it had no grounds to suspect this was a scheme to get round spending limits, but later changed its mind and fined vote leave and mr grimes. both deny wrongdoing. the reality tv show, big brother, is to end after nearly 20 years on british television. channel 5 announced this year's series, the 19th will be the last. it's time for this game to end. the celebrity big brother programme is also being dropped. starting on channel 4 in 2000 it made household names of many people including jade goody and created some memorable tv moments including the politician george galloway pretending to be a cat. joining me earlier, entertainment reporter and tv critic emma bullimore, and former big brother conte

daniel sandford, bbc news, at the old bailey.an extra £2 billion available to build more affordable and social housing in england. councils, housing associations and other bodies can bid for the money for new projects from 2022. but local government leaders say it's not enough to deal with the shortage of homes. business correspondent colletta smith has spent the day with residents of the 0ulton estate in leeds. we love the area. kids have always been safe here. you know, it's like, "oh, you live on an estate?" you know, it could be a run—down estate, it could be... theyjust think of people as being rough, and maybe not working. not... people that don't have jobs. whereas most of the people on this estate are working. some are retired. they're just in low—paid jobs, so they can't afford to buy a house. more cash for social housing is something we've not heard for a long time. many people in society, including too many politicians, continue to look down on social housing and, by extension, the people who call it their home. so, to

daniel sandford, bbc news.two men accused of being behind the salisbury nerve agent poisoning. the men say they were just tourists. our security correspondent gordon corera is with me. what have you learned? these are the two men accused of being russian agents sent to kill. they used the names are the petra van ruslan boshirov. what has come out of a new details about their travels. the details about their travels. the details were obtained by an investigative group and we have been able to confirm some of the details. the documents show that alexander petrov made tendrils to europe in just two years. this included three trips the uk, one in september 2016, between february and march 2017 and finally in march of this year, when sergei skripal was poisoned. it is not clear what the purpose of those first two trips was. the pair were travelling on genuine russian passports, but it is alleged using false names. petrov‘s contains inconsistencies like a stamp saying do not provide information, one of a number of pi

our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford reports.d masood was seen laughing and joking with a hotel receptionist. but today his family described a darker more violent man. his mother had worried he would kill someone in a drunken fight. he'd spent two periods in prison for knife offences, and during that time he'd converted to islam. then the violence stopped but an interest in extremism began. the court heard a recording of him arguing with his wife criticising her for not supporting so—called islamic state. i never hear you say there's any good in the isis. i never hear you say that any of their people might be sincere and genuine muslims, sunnis. i never hear you say, "well, at least they're fighting against the shia, they're doing some good." today in court his wife spoke directly to relatives of the people he killed. "i'm sorry that i was not more vigilant," she said. "he made me to trust him and i have no reason to doubt him." his motherjanet ajao then recalled his last visit to her in rural wales five days before the attack an

our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford reports from the old bailey.stminster bridge attack last year but today, grim—faced, he had to give evidence in the inquest into the death of his girlfriend, andreea cristea. on holiday from romania, they'd been to visit westminster abbey and were heading over the bridge when khalid masood's 4x4 drove into them at speed. "after the vehicle passed, i looked on the left side of me to search for andreea but i couldn't see her," he told the court. "i started searching for andreea and i started running over the bridge." michael brown was driving past as it happened and saw what andrei hadn't. andreea had been knocked clean over the parapet. "she went about ten feet in the air," he told the inquest, "and as she came down, she went straight into the thames." michael brown told the inquest that he rushed to his van, got his phone and dialled 999, then looked over the edge of the bridge, where he saw andreea lying face down in the water. he immediately shouted to get the attention of the captain of a nearby passenger boat

daniel sandford reports from the old bailey.awyer to hear the distressing details of how she died. she was the beloved mother of two young daughters and was on her way to pick them up from school. in one of the last pictures of her she is texting her husband, unaware of what was about to happen. rob lyon was walking with colleagues on the bridge and saw it all. he saw aysha being hit by the car and landing right beside him and into the path of a london bus. "initially i sort of froze," he told the court. "i just remember trying to slow the bus down, because i could see it was going to run over aysha." in cctv footage shown in court, aysha frade can be seen walking up the bridge, where she is hit by the vehicle travelling straight along the pavement. these protective barriers weren't here then, of course. she is knocked right into the air and then almost directly under the wheels of a number 53 bus. the inquest was told she would have died nearly instantaneously and without suffering. soon afterwards, a passer—by found her phone

our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports.der of the band group al—muhajiroun, of the banned group al—muhajiroun, which has been linked to a quarter of all terrorist offences in britain since the ira era. he's in prison at the moment, but is about to come out. adam deen, who was once a follower, but now campaigns against extremism, fears choudary will reactivate his group. put that in the mix with the growing threat and the growing noise from the far right about anti—muslim bigotry, and it's a really disastrous cocktail. choudary was jailed in 2016 for five and a half years, but comes out automatically next month after serving half his sentence. a dozen or so of his followers have also been released, or are about to be, and one of the uk's leading experts on extremism in prison thinks there's not much chance of any of them having been de—radicalised there. such is the state of lawlessness inside many of britain's prisons, where some of these people have served their sentences, it isn't really realistic to assume that they've h

daniel sandford, bbc news, salisbury.poke to our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg, who told me that the effect of the sanctions that have been imposed on russia already, in the wake of the attack, is starting to be felt. ido i do get the impression that, in the last few weeks, perhaps, you do get the feeling that sanctions are starting to bite. and there is concern here about the next wave of us sanctions, which are expected in less tha n us sanctions, which are expected in less than three months‘ time. now, if these are announced, this could really deal a blow to the russian economy. and i think there is a concern that that could affect the national currency, the ruble. so although you hear a lot of bravado from the russians, saying that sanctions have an affected us, i think there is a feeling now that things are getting quite serious here in terms of the effects sanctions may have in the coming months. we can speak now to sir tony brenton, a former british ambassador to moscow. hejoins me down the line from cambrid

daniel sandford, bbc news, at the old bailey. to start their treatment, according to the latest figures from the nhs. injuly, only 78.2% of people were seen within the two—month target — the worst performance since records began in 2009. it means more than 3,000 people waited longer than two months for treatment to begin. the number of school—age young carers in england is much higher than previously thought, according to research carried out by the bbc with the university of nottingham. the report shows one in five young people aged between 11 and 16 consider themselves to be a young carer. that is they have someone with an illness or disability living at home and they help to look after them. it corresponds to more than 800,000 children providing some level of assistance to family members or siblings. our special correspondent, ed thomas, has been to meet some of those children. nobody knows how many times he has saved me. young, dedicated and loyal. in all this chaos, just a really calm, considerate child. he is like a mini ad

daniel sandford, bbc news, at the old bailey.ted states amid warnings it could cause catastrophic flooding across a wide area. around 10 million people live in the storm's path. 0ur north america correspondent chris buckler is in wilmington, north carolina. four days people have been preparing and now the first of the strong wind and now the first of the strong wind and rain has really arrived. in 12 hours' time this weather is expected to deteriorate rapidly, causing real problems here. storm surge portion water inland and this time tomorrow the eye of the storm is expected to be over the carolinas potentially causing 2a hours or more of deeply disruptive weather. 0n the edge of the carolinas the wind is strengthening and the water is rising. and this isjust a strengthening and the water is rising. and this is just a taste of what florence threatens. the hurricane has been making a slow approach from the atlantic. and if what has been forecast comes true, days of flooding lie ahead. there is talk about storm surges of maybe nine

our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford is here.re from moscow on this this morning. yeah, there's an ongoing cold war of words between british officials and diplomats and russian officials and diplomats. at her foreign ministry briefing this morning, the foreign ministry spokesman in moscow, maria za kha rova, ministry spokesman in moscow, maria zakharova, said everything in this story is absurd and then attacking theresa may directly, she said especially absurd of the statements by the british prime minister. britain's representatives that the united nations this morning telling the bbc that russia is a disrupter at the moment and the director of gchq jeremy fleming saying what has happened in salisbury demonstrates how reckless the russian state can be, that there is a coalition ready to reject the kremlin‘s brazen determination to undermine the international rules —based order and there has of course been taught perhaps of retaliatory cyber attacks and in response to that, one of the very, very pro—kremlin newspapers in russia,

daniel sandford was in court.uty at westminster less than an hour before the attack. armed with a radio, a whistle, a stab—proof vest, cs spray and his baton. then, this. a car smashed into the side of parliament after killing people on westminster bridge. and witnesses saw khalid masood heading round the corner. police officers on duty at the entrance to parliament saw him coming through the gate. "i noticed a very large man with two extremely large knives, one in each hand," pc doug glaze told the inquest today. "he was walking like a robot, his hands moving up and down." pc glaze thought there might be multiple attackers. "i remember thinking, we're going to die," he said. antonia kerridge was watching from a nearby parliament building and she saw pc keith palmer fall over as khalid masood charged towards him. "the policeman had collapsed," she said today. "the attacker ran over to him, lent towards him and raised the knife quite high, and hejust stabbed him two, three orfour times." another witness, james west

daniel sandford, bbc news.t unless the government increases funding then the worst cuts to services are yet to come. the county councils network says local authorities have already earmarked more than £1 billion of savings to be made by 2020, including cuts to libraries, transport, youth clubs and public health services. here's our social affairs correspondent alison holt. choose which one we want. it's families like the finches who know all too well how difficult it has already become to get help from many local authorities when you face a crisis. aged eight, adam was diagnosed with brain and spinal cancer. that has such an impact on family life. it feels like a grenade has just been thrown into your family and just shattered it all over the place. they were really struggling, but their council, like many others, has reduced early family support. she worries about today's warning of more cuts. in the current climate that we're living in with such uncertainty, austerity, cuts to local government, it's had a gre

let's speak to our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford at the old bailey.rowing has it been for those involved? there were some calm moments in court, for example when the footage was shown of kurt cochran and his wife melissa just before the attack. you see two tourists walking across westminster bridge enjoying the sunshine in no way any normal tourist would, just in the moments before the attack. apart from that, the rest of the day has been exceptionally harrowing. we have seen the cctv footage of the car going across the bridge, victims being thrown into the air and you can see one of the victims being pushed under the wheels of a boss. it has been a difficult day, and for the relatives, they chose to leave the relatives, they chose to leave the court and they didn't want to watch the most difficult footage. which included when the attacker stabbed to death pc keith palmer. the day began in an emotional way and each relative was asked to paint and each relative was asked to paint a portrait of the person who died. some of them chose to read them themse

daniel sandford, bbc news at the old bailey.n's railways has reached a 12—year low, following disruption from the weather and new timetables. one in seven trains missed the industry's measure of punctuality, according to the office of rail and road. the rail industry responded by saying billions were being invested to ease congestion, redsuce delays and minimise disruption. the grenfell inquiry has been hearing harrowing details from emergency service call operators who were working on the night of the fire, including one woman who spoke to a resident for around a0 minutes before she died on one of the top floors. another operator, angie gotts, who took 80 calls during the course of the night, said the control room had been "overwhelmed" and that operators had "tried their best". she said she had repeatedly forgotten to ask people which flat they were in. she also described the "stunned silence" in the control room, when callers finally went silent. in the philippines, hopes are fading of finding survivors buried by a landslide

daniel sandford at the old bailey.rrorism. two british tourists were among seven people injured last night on the banks of a canal in the north—east of the city. a man said to be an afghan national has been arrested. two men have been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a jeweller who was kidnapped and killed in a botched robbery. 74 year old ramniklal jogiya was bundled into a van and tortured in a plot to steal almost £200,000 of gold jewellery. a third man was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 16 years. ben ando reports. disguised in a burqa and pushing a wheeled shopping trolley, robert thomas jervis enters a leicesterjeweller‘s injanuary. he heads to the back of the store, where he believes that up to £200,000 of gold jewellery is waiting in the safe. to get the keys and alarm codes, they tortured the shopkeeper, but the safe also had a time lock, and they left with nothing. the owner of the shop was 74—year—old ramniklal jogiya, who had left the shop as usual, but, as he walked home, was bundled into

daniel sandford, bbc news, at the home office.ors from prescribing a cancer drug to treat a debilitating eye condition. the drug avastin is cheaper than two existing treatments for wet age—related macular degeneration and the decision could save the nhs as much as 500 million pounds a year. julie wood is chief executive of nhs clinical commissioners. what is your reaction to this decision? thank you, good afternoon. we are delighted by today's ruling, because it clearly shows that the northern clinical commissioning groups who were the defendants in this case acted lawfully in introducing the treatment pathway, including the use of avastin. how pivotal was it bad avastin has been licensed in the past for cancer treatment rather than this eye condition? you are right, avastin is licensed in this country for use in treating a variety of cancers. but it was found some time ago that it was actually also clinically effective in treating this eye condition and so elsewhere in the world, in the us and europe, it is widely used. but in th

daniel sandford, bbc news, salisbury.s now from ian bond, who's the director of foreign policy at the centre for european reform. ian was also a former british diplomat, who served in russia in the ‘90s. thanks very much forjoining us this evening. let me ask you first of all if these two individuals have been identified and the police are saying they believe is enough evidence to prosecute them, what are the chances of actually bringing them to justice? the changes are quite limited. the russians have a constitutional ban on extraditing their citizens, and the only chance of getting their hands on them is if they sit their foot outside russia and that's why the british government is issuing a european arrest warrant and is planning to issue a interval red notice so law—enforcement agencies around eve ryo ne law—enforcement agencies around everyone know that we are looking for these people. alternatively, after the vladimir putin era, things may change and there may be a different sort of relationship between the uk and r

daniel sandford, bbc news at the old bailey. a landslide that has killed at least 32 people in a mining town. the gold miners and their families had sought refuge from typhoon mangkhut in a temporary shelter on the side of a steep mountain. more than 65 people are thought to have died across the philippines following the typhoon. our correspondentjonathan head is there, he sent this report. in the end, it wasn't the wind, but the rain that was the real killer. that huge brown gash in the mountain is where an entire waterlogged hillside slid down and buried a building where dozens of miners had taken shelter from the typhoon. for two days, rescuers have battled to find survivors, clambering over the treacherous mud. they've been unable to bring up heavier excavation equipment because of the damaged roads. so far, only bodies have been recovered. dozens more are believed to be trapped under the mud. they aren't sure exactly how many. relatives have come up, to wait for news, clinging to the hope that there may yet be survivors. tr

daniel sandford, bbc news, at the old bailey.a may has failed to get eu leaders to back her chequers plan for brexit, which comes at the end of her two day summit in austria. christian fraser is in salzburg and has been following the days events. hello. welcome back. i'm sure theresa may expected some pushback on her chequers plan along the way but perhaps not here in salzburg. perhaps thinking that might have come at the summit in october. but after her ten minute speech last night the first time she's been able to set out our proposal to the other 27 to leaders, what would i today was almost unanimous rejection of the plan from the eu. at least there are by scratching the head. at least everybody scratching their heads wondering where this is going next. let's try and find out what to speak to our... it was both a work—out like this. a bit where they were supposed to talk bluntly how the negotiation is going the right way. they were supposed to throw her under the bus. that's what they were not supposed to. yes but i will put a

daniel sandford reports.he arrived at pc palmer's inquest to give his official account of that traumatic day. he described the panic inside parliament, with people shouting "go back", as he went forward. and how he walked past a line of armed police officers, pointing their guns, to go and help their unarmed colleague, who had been stabbed by khalid masood. when he got there, he found pc palmer with, among other injuries, a serious knife wound onto his left armpit. it lost a lot of blood and he was unconscious, tobias ellwood told the course. i checked for a pulse, there was a pulse. the minister said he tried to stop the bleeding but his heart soon stopped and they started cpr. at one point, he was close to tears in court, saying "forgive me, sometimes it's easier to do the helping them to talk about it afterwards". when a doctor arrived on the airambulance, there still seemed to be a chance but even surgery on the spot couldn't say the police officer and he died. the doctor moved on to help other patients,

our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports.er, tobias ellwood, helping in the desperate efforts to save pc keith palmer's life became some of the defining images of last year's westminster attack. today he arrived at pc palmer's inquest to give his official account of that traumatic day. he described the panic inside parliament with people shouting "go back" as he went forward, and how he walked past a line of armed police officers pointing their guns to go and help their unarmed colleague who had been stabbed by khalid masood. when he got there, he found pc palmer with, among other injuries, a serious knife wound under his left arm pit. the minister described how he tried to stem the bleeding but pc palmer's heart soon stopped so they started cpr. at one point he was close to tears in court, saying, "forgive me, it's sometimes easier to do the helping than to talk about it afterwards." when a doctor arrived on the airambulance, there still seemed to be a chance but even surgery on the spot could not save the police officer and

our correspondent daniel sandford is at the old bailey this evening. a distressing first week ended with difficult and probing questions being asked by the lawyer for pc keith palmer's widow. why had armed patrols inside the palace of westminster been changed leaving armed officers without guns defending the open gates to parliament? pc keith palmer at westminster less than an hour before the attack. armed with a radio, a whistle, a stab—proof vest, cs spray and his baton. then, this. a car smashed into the side of parliament after killing people on westminster bridge. witnesses saw khalid masood heading round the corner. police officers on duty at the entrance to parliament saw him coming through the gate. pc glaze thought there might be multiple attackers. antonia kerridge was watching from a nearby parliament building. she saw pc keith palmer fall over as khalid masood charged towards him. another witness, james west, said the stabbing was slow and deliberate, like in a hollywood horror film. after about five seconds pc palmer, now badly injured, ma

our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports.ife became some of the defining images of last year's westminster attack. today he arrived at pc palmer's inquest to give his official account of that traumatic day. he described the panic inside parliament, with people shouting "go back" as he went forward, and how he walked past a line of armed police officers pointing their guns to go and help their unarmed colleague who had been stabbed by khalid masood. when he got there, he found pc palmer with, among other injuries, a serious knife wound under his left arm pit. "he had lost a lot of blood and he was unconscious," tobias ellwood told the court. "i checked for a pulse. there was a pulse." the minister described how he tried to stem the bleeding but pc palmer's heart soon stopped, so they started cpr. at one point he was close to tears in court, saying, "forgive me, it's sometimes easier to do the helping than to talk about it afterwards." when a doctor arrived on the airambulance, there still seemed to be a chance, but even surger

our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford is here. gation here, now, daniel? u2 the police think they have got good intelligence as to who they are but they would like to have some firm evidence as to what the real names of those men are. they hope that will come out of russia and they wa nt will come out of russia and they want their help people who may have seen want their help people who may have seen them on friday and saturday night, hoping that someone might come forward and remember something about an interaction with these two men. a couple of other appeal points coming out from the police this morning. the first is a suitcase being carried by alexander petrov as he leaves heathrow airport, quite distinctive grey cities with a green stripe. he does not appear to have come into the country with that, so where was it, where did he it from? anyone who knows anything about that suitcase would, the police would be pleased to hear about it, and the rucksack that they were wearing on the day of the actual attack itself. it isa the day

daniel sandford, bbc news, at the old bailey.ficers across england and wales walked out earlier today in protest at what they say are unsafe conditions. a report into hmp bedford found that the site was violent, overcrowded and infested with vermin. the government accused the staff of unlawful action. our home affairs correspondent june kelly reports. it began at 7am. officers in nottingham, staffordshire, leeds and north wales were among those who joined the protest across the country. they walked out over what they see as a lack of safety and security in the prison system. it's the situation at bedford prison which triggered this latest revolt. this is the jail with the highest rate of attacks on staff. we're very afraid. it's been close already this year, with one officer that punched unconscious and had his head stamped on, needing emergency surgery in order to save his life from a bleed on the brain. we're very concerned, and worried our concerns are falling on deaf ears. it's a prison with a history of trouble. there was a

our home affairs corrspondent daniel sandford reports. it was a task no wife would want. cochran, still limping from her own serious injuries, arriving to give evidence at the inquest into the death of her husband, who she now calls her hero. she told the court they'd been touring europe to mark their wedding anniversary. they had just been to westminster abbey and had only been in london for two and a half hours. they'd almost crossed the bridge when khalid masood began his attack. it was just after 20 to three. "i remember hearing a car revving," she said today. "i remember seeing the front of the vehicle. the next thing i remember being on the ground." she spent 3.5 weeks in hospital in london, but kurt died as big ben struck 3 o'clock. schoolteacher kylie smith was in westminster that day with a group of teenage pupils. kurt and melissa had caught her eye as they walked hand in hand when suddenly she heard the revving of masood's car. in tears at times, she told the inquest, "the man tried to pull his girlfriend behind him, tried to shield her from the impact." she sa

our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford joins me now.e police investigation is concerned, a lot of detail yesterday but it's by no means over? detectives have made incredible progress, going from two people on a park bench to two men travelling on russian passports coming into britain and leaving and apparently being responsible for the crime. but they still need a lot of assistance, they still need a lot of assistance, they want to get the exact identities of those men and although they have got good intelligence they would like a good evidence about it. they want help from the public still about the movements of those men around britain that weekend between the second and 4th of march. they wa nt to the second and 4th of march. they want to know what happened to the perfume bottle between march and june. they are also interested in a suitcase alexander petrov was carrying as he left heathrow airport on the evening of the 4th of march, he is not seen carrying that suitcase earlier in the trip so does anything know anything about the dis

our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports from the old bailey.e first in a year of terror, and left four members of the public, one police officer and the attacker, dead. 0pening their inquest this morning, the chief coroner, judge lucraft qc, said the lives of many were torn apart by 82 seconds of high and terrible drama. among the lives, those of kurt and melissa cochran from utah in the united states — tourists in london, calmly walking across westminster bridge when tragedy struck. kurt cochran was the first to be hit by the attacker khalid masood's car. he pushed his wife melissa out of the way, before being knocked over the bridge's balustrade — falling five metres to the thames footpath below. in court, melissa's sister, angela stoll, called him: next, the car hit a retired window cleaner from clapham, leslie rhodes, dragging him 33 metres along the bridge. his family said he was greatly missed. his niece amanda said she always remembers him as smiling and happy. then, aysha frade was knocked i7 metres into the path of a number 53 bus, fal

our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford, is in salisbury for us this evening.nvestigation turned into a mammoth task of handling those thousands of hours of cctv using image processing software and specialist super recogniser officers and they managed to get from easy to cama down the road and then to russian men crossing the borderfrom gatwick airport and that got them names and a hotel room in east london where they found minute traces of novichok. this was the moment on the first friday in march that two men, calling themselves alexander petrov and ruslan boshirov, arrived at gatwick on a flight from moscow. after six months of painstaking work, detectives believe they used this hotel in east london to spend their first this hotel in east london to spend theirfirst night this hotel in east london to spend their first night in this hotel in east london to spend theirfirst night in britain before travelling by train to salisbury on a reconnaissance mission that saturday afternoon. detectives want anyone who saw them that day between 2pm and az30pm to come forw

mr cochran was killed but his wife survived, as our home affairs corrspondent, daniel sandford, reportsving to give evidence at the inquest into the death of her husband, who she now calls her hero. she told the court they‘d been touring europe to mark their wedding anniversary. they had just been to westminster abbey and had only been in london for two and a half hours. they‘d almost crossed the bridge when khalid masood began his attack. it was just after 20 to three. she spent three and a half weeks in hospital in london but kurt died as big ben struck three o‘clock. schoolteacher kylie smith was in westminster that day with a group of teenage pupils. kurt and melissa had caught her eye as they walked hand in hand when suddenly she heard the revving of masood‘s car. in tears at times, she told the inquest... she saw kurt knocked into the air by the car, and then chaos on the bridge. she told her pupils to run. they all made it safely home. it was on this pavement at the end of the bridge that kurt cochran heroically pushed his wife out of the way before being struck full on by the ve

our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports from the old bailey.e attack last march was the first in a year of terror, and left four members of the public, one police officer and the attacker, dead. opening their inquest this morning, the chief coroner, judge lucraft qc, said the lives of many were torn apart by 82 seconds of high and terrible drama. among the lives, those of kurt and melissa cochran from utah in the united states — tourists in london, calmly walking across westminster bridge when tragedy struck. kurt cochran was the first to be hit by the attacker khalid masood's car. he pushed his wife melissa out of the way, before being knocked over the bridge's balustrade — falling five metres to the thames footpath below. in court, melissa's sister, angela stoll, called him "the man who saved my sister". she read a tribute from melissa, describing him as "my inspiration, my rock star and — most of all — my hero". next, the car hit a retired window cleanerfrom clapham, leslie rhodes, dragging him 33 metres along the bridge. his family said he

daniel sandford reports. it was a task no wife would want.imping from her own serious injuries, arriving to give evidence at the inquest into the death of her husband, who she now calls her hero. she told the court they were touring europe to mark their wedding anniversary. they'd just been to westminster abbey. they'd only been in london for two and a half hours, and they'd almost crossed the bridge when khalid masood began his attack. it was just after twenty to three. "i remember hearing a car revving," she said today. "i remember seeing the front of the vehicle. the next thing i remember, being on the ground." she spent three and a half weeks in hospital in london, but kurt died, as big ben struck three o'clock. schoolteacher kylie smith was in westminster that day with a group of teenage pupils. kurt and melissa had caught her eye as they walked hand—in—hand when, suddenly, she heard the revving of masood's car. in tears at times, she told the inquest, "the man tried to pull his girlfriend behind him, tried to shield her from the impact.

our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford, is at the old bailey where the inquests are being heldt the old bailey has been watching what were often graphic cctv images of khalid masood's cart knocking victims into the airand in masood's cart knocking victims into the air and in one case and the wheels of a bus as his car ploughed down the pavement on westminster bridge. the day began with the families paying tearful tributes to their relatives who died. the lawyers for the families described the attack as an act of barbarity and inhumanity, as indiscriminate terrorism. the westminster bridge attack last march was the first in a year of terror. in a few brief moments the lives of four members of the public, one police officer and the attacker ended. this morning the chief coronerjudge mark lucraft opened the inquests of those who died, saying the lives of many were torn apart by 82 seconds of high and terrible drama. among those lives, those of kurt cochran and melissa cochran from utah, tourists in london calmly walking across westminster bridge when tragedy struck. kurt cochran w

russia has denied any wrong doing — as our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford explained.at the moment. the chief inspector of schools, amanda spielman, has rejected criticism from mps that 0fsted is not enough of a "force for school improvement." 0fsted‘s budget has been cut by more than 50%, but despite this ms spielman insisted her staff were not under—performing. her comments followed the publication of a house of commons committee report which suggests the inspection body was losing its credibility. legislation to ban the smacking of children in scotland is being published at holyrood. the measure proposed by a green member of the scottish parliament, has the backing of the scottish government and other political parties. however, the scottish conservatives said present legislation "works well because it is based on common sense, and reflects what the majority of parents want". there‘s been an assassination attempt on the leading contender in brazil‘s presidential election. zhur—eer bolson—aaroo was stabbed in the middle of a crowd of supporters —— he‘s had surgery an

our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford reports from the old bailey.ttack last year but today, grim—faced, he had to give evidence in the inquest into the death of his girlfriend, andreea cristea. 0n holiday from romania, they'd been to visit westminster abbey and were heading over the bridge when khalid masood's 4x4 drove into them at speed. "after the vehicle passed, i looked on the left side of me michael brown was driving past as it happened and saw what andrei hadn't. andreea had been knocked clean over the parapet. michael brown told the inquest that he rushed to his van, got his phone and dialled 999, then looked over the edge of the bridge, where he saw andreea lying face down in the water. he immediately shouted to get the attention of the captain of a nearby passenger boat. the millennium diamond reacted quickly, with captain gordon markley using a boat hook to stop andreea floating away. about five minutes after she fell in, a london fire brigade boat, the fire flash, managed to get her out of the water still alive. today ,gordon markley and

daniel sandford reports. it was a task no one would want. own serious injuries, arriving to give evidence at the inquest into the death of her husband who she now calls her hero. she told the court they were touring europe to mark their wedding anniversary. they'd just been westminster abbey. they'd only been in london for two and a half hours and had almost crossed the bridge when khalid masood began his attack. it was just after 3:20pm. she said today... she spent three and a half weeks in hospital in london, but kurt died as big ben struck 3pm. schoolteacher kylee smith was in westminster that day with a group of teenage pupils. kurt and melissa had caught her eye as they walked hand—in—hand, when suddenly she heard the revving of a car. in tears at times, she told the inquest "the man to pull his girlfriend behind him, tried to shield herfrom the impact." she saw kurt knocked into the air by the car, and then chaos on the bridge. she told her pupils to run — they all made it safely home. the next witness was walking with his nephew on th