dominic hughes, bbc news.ared in a court in the us charged with spying. the us justice department says yanjun xu was extradited from belgium on tuesday. peter bowes has more from los angeles. according to the us officials this goes back to 2013. yanjun xu was working for the government, but not always revealing his true identity. according to prosecutors he would invite experts, engineers from overseas, especially america, to visit china under the quys america, to visit china under the guys are america, to visit china under the guys are speaking to a university. but it was really to find out technical information about what they were working on. this specific case relates to a company in cincinnati, ohio. an aeronautics company making jet engines. they have a special technique, and there was a meeting in china involving one of the engineers. last year the fbi got involved, and yanjun xu was lured to belgium, for another meeting, and then he was eventually arrested. he was clearly lured some way he could be arr

dominic hughes, bbc news.ompanies charge loyal customers more for home and car insurance than people taking out policies for the first time. the financial conduct authority has sent out letters to insurance companies warning it will take action if loyal customers are not treated fairly. our personal finance correspondent, simon gompertz, is here. the concern here is that loyalty isn't rewarded — in a sense, it's punished? that is the concern. people have lots of stories of having been with the company for several years, have a look at what they are playing and they discover it is a lot more than they discover it is a lot more than they would get if they shopped around. other people do not do that and they carry on being overcharged. an example, a viewer, paying £741; a yearfor his home policy, and after several years, looked around, found he would get it for 189. a measure of the amount people of losing. the watchdog says there is a significant risk of consumer harm. people paying too much. and here are some o

dominic hughes, bbc news.ave seen images captured on cameras so sensitive that they can spot a mouse from a mile away. the technology was developed for military use — and until recently was top secret. our correspondent richard westcott has been to find out more. calais harbour in france. shot on a camera that's 20 miles away in dover. a bite powerful enough to crack open this rich source of food. and no one had ever seen this before — jaguars hunting sea turtles at night. their images captured on a thermal camera that was top secret until a few years ago and it's made here, in basildon. to give you an idea ofjust how sensitive the camera is, it can pick out changes in temperature down to 0.001 degrees. so if i put my hands on my chest like this, i'm heating myjumper and hopefully when i take them away... you'll see that. let me introduce paul, hello paul. hello richard. i know you are out there somewhere in the dark. we can even see a mouse from a mile away searching for food in a ploughed field. wow, a mouse

our health correspondent dominic hughes reports.e knows how important it can be four patients were dying and theirfamilies. when be four patients were dying and their families. when her be four patients were dying and theirfamilies. when her husband was seriously ill four years ago, linda found medical staff struggled with a conversation. they literallyjust said you have got weeks to live, and sadly, it was done in an environment that was not private, there are, as i say, were five people around the bed, pages were going off the same time, it was very chaotic and it left a real sort of feeling of guilt with me, because i felt that i should have done more because that was a private moment, really significant moment for him. -- pagers. nearly half of all deaths in england occur in hospitals. one in three adults admitted to hospital as emergencies in the last year of their life, but only 4% of patients have talked about end of life care with the doctor. as doctors, they will be seen as a failure for saying that we can't necessarily pro

dominic hughes, bbc news.esident of the royal college of physicians. thank you for coming to talk today. how much training to medical stu d e nts how much training to medical students get about having these conversations, because that's presumably where it should begin?m does begin there. all medical stu d e nts does begin there. all medical students are given communication skills training these days. they didn't use to be. part of that training is training about what we call a breaking bad news, which is talking about giving people news that they have life limiting diseases. perhaps the difficulty is they do it in simulated settings. so they do it in simulated settings. so the bad news is broken to an actor and they then receive feedback on how they performed the task. you can't possibly simulate, with the best will in the world and the best actors in the world sitting in the chair, you cannot simulate what it is like to deliver the news in a real situation i would have thought? how much of these conversation

dominic hughes, bbc news.etting more of us to go electric. that's the verdict of mps who say that rather than coming into force in 2040, the ban should begin by 2032. the business, energy and industrial strategy committee has described the government's plans as unambitious and vague. electric is the future, so the challenge is, how do we make electric possible? that means rolling out the charge points, which will encourage manufacturers to manufacture more cars if they know that people are going to buy them because people no longer have that range anxiety. blocks of flats which display residents' names on doors and doorbells are in breach of new eu data protection laws, according to an austrian court. council workers in vienna are removing more than 200,000 door signs from municipal buildings to comply with the ruling of a local court, angering many residents. a spokesman for the eu commission said the new rules were not intended to cover door signs. time for the sport with kat. good morning. quite a troubling

dominic hughes, bbc news.bers to the international space station has made an emergency landing after malfunctioning on take—off. two people are killed and half a million homes in florida and georgia are without power — after hurricane michael hits the region. companies could be forced to reveal their ethnicity pay gap — under plans put forward by the government i'm victoria fritz in the business news the treasury is finalising plans to overhaul tax rules which allow self—employed people to avoid paying national insurance. wh smith continues to be a business of two halves. in the year to 31 august trading profits in its travel division — stores in airports and railway stations — rose by 7% to £103 million. on the high street the picture is less rosy with trading profits european stocks were sharply down in early trade after concerns about a trade war and higher us bond yields stoked global investor concerns. it isa it is a business of two halves. i'm not talking about football, i'm talking about wh smiths. when

dominic hughes, bbc news., claimed he was reported to police because he's black and the children he was looking after are white. corey lewis was leaving a sandwich shop on sunday with the two children when a woman approached him in the car park, then followed him home and called the police. mr lewis posted this on his facebook page. i'm baby—sitting, right? i have two kids in the back—seat with me. i'm this lady across the street called me from walmart. this lady is following me because i got two kids in the back seat that do not look like me. but she doesn't even know, like, it's 2018 and this is what i've got to deal with. i can't go out with two kids that do not look like me without something being weird. you see the lady is still not moving. look, the police are here now. the police! we will see what the police have got to say about this. she saw you at walmart. i was at walmart, yeah. i'm baby—sitting. i have two kids i'm baby—sitting. the children's mother told us media she was in a ‘state of disbelief‘

dominic hughes, bbc news.aff are to take it up, why do you think there is so much resistance perhaps to taking this in other places? what we are seeing here of course is that flu vaccination for healthcare workers is really important, because health—care workers really are key, by taking up the offer of vaccine they can protect themselves and protect their patients. the key thing for getting high uptake for healthcare workers is really making it easy for those healthcare workers to get the vaccine. what does that mean, in terms of time, do you need recovery, is it? it is around the hospital trusts, making it easy for healthcare workers to get the vaccine to make it easy for them, as we saw with the royal blackburn trust, on the short earlier, but of course vaccination health—care workers is only part of the national immunisation programme, we've also got the really important part of the programme to protect the public and of course that's. .. programme to protect the public and of course that's... there are se

dominic hughes, bbc news.have ended their two—week tour of the south pacific — their first official overseas trip as a married couple. the duke and duchess donned traditional maori cloaks during a welcome ceremony in rotorua, in new zealand, where hundreds of people turned out for the couple's last walkabout. at a gathering hosted by the country's prime minister, jacinda ardern, prince harry greeted the crowd in not one but six different languages. prime minister, honoured guests, ladies and gentlemen, talofa. .. malo e lelei... bula vinaka... fa kaalofa hofihofi atu. .. kia orana, kia ora. cheering and applause. this is definitely the first time i've spoken most of those languages, so i apologise if my accent wasn't any good, but i had to give it a go. that's a summary of the latest bbc news — more at 9.30. thank you to you who work in the nhs and have got in touch to describe the kinds of things that have happen to you in terms of violent assaults from patients. the girl on facebook, i have been kicked in th

our health correspondent dominic hughes is in our salford studio.ent, just put that in context for us customer win over 15 of these nhs contracts that health care environmental services held have now been terminated. that was done on sunday afternoon at four o'clock. we know that before that nhs improvement, one of the bodies that oversees standards in the health service, they went to health care environmental services and gave them 48 hours to prove that they could actually fulfil the contract in the light of this environment agency criminal investigation into the way that materials were stored on sites around england. after 48 hours it was concluded they could not fulfil the contract and so those 15 contracts were terminated. we know there are another 35 so nhs organisations who still have outstanding contracts and it is likely that once alternative providers can be found for those contracts as well, that they will also be terminated. thank you very much. the leader of the democratic unionists — arlene foster — has been holding talks in brussels w

our health correspondent dominic hughes reports.conversation. they literally just said you've got weeks to live. and, sadly, it was done in an environment that wasn't private. as i say, there were five people round the bed. pagers were going off at the same time. it was very chaotic. and it left a realfeeling of guilt with me, because i felt i should have done more. because that was a private moment, a really significant moment for him. nearly half of all deaths in england occur in hospitals. one in three adults admitted to hospital as an emergency is in the last year of their life. but only 4% of patients have talked about end—of—life care with a doctor. they're worried as doctors they'll be seen as a failure for saying we can't necessarily prolong your life and they are worried about the reaction they'll get. the second is we don't always have the confidence as doctors or the training or the experience to have those conversations sensitively. and the third thing is we don't always have the time, or the privacy, or the right inform

confidence when it comes to telling a patient of a terminal diagnosis. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes never easy, but linda knows how important it can be for patients who are dying and their families. when her husband graham was seriously ill four years ago, linda found medical staff struggled with the conversation. they literally just said you've got weeks to live. and sadly, it was done in an environment that wasn't private. as i say, there were five people round the bed. pages were going off at the same time. it was very chaotic. had left a real feeling of time. it was very chaotic. had left a realfeeling of guilt, because i should have done more. i should have done more because that was a private moment, a really significant moment for him. nearly half of all deaths in england are in hospitals. one in three adults admitted to hospital as an emergency is in the last year of their life. but only 4% of patients have talked about end—of—life care with a doctor. as doctors they will be seen as a failure for saying we can't necessarily prolong your life and they are worried about the re

hugh pym, bbc news. the brexit secretary, dominic raab, has told mps he's confident of reaching a deal with the eu in theand said the government should hold its nerve. it comes as theresa may faces growing calls from within her own party and the opposition to change course as the government embarks on the final stages of negotiations. 0ur deputy political editor, john pienaar, reports. who is backing mrs may's planned for brexit? are you facing brexited mutiny? the cabinet is behind her, at least in public for now. but keeping tory discipline is a bit like herding cats. it is almost as if time is speeding up ahead of brexit day. these negotiations, mr speaker, were always bound to be tough in the final stretch. that is all the more reason why we should hold our nerve, stay resolute and focused, and i remain confident we will reach a deal this autumn. because it is still the best interests of the uk and the european union. no government has the right to plunge the country into chaos as a result of its own failure. time is running out but there is still time to change course and i urge the secretary of sta

army, under the command of lieutenant general hugh drumm was turned into a fighting force into the second world war. between 1940 and 1944, germany dominatedrn europe. under the heel of the nazi boot, most european countries were ground into subjection. ♪ from the balkans in the south to the rugged coast of norway, europe had become one mighty not the fortress -- not see fortress -- nazi fortress, and tailor the evilonification of -- and hit lower, the personification of -- hitler, the personification of evil. moving to england in the fall of 1943, it retraced the first of many miles it had traveled 25 years earlier. there were a few veterans but through the determination and the courage of the soldiers, they would once again make history. england meant endless hours of activity to bring the men to the peak of their performance. every skill was polished. every muscle hardened. every mind tuned to the structural -- the struggle which laid ahead. ♪ the allied plans for the invasion drawn for an assault on beaches by british field marshall's army and the first army led by general bradley. in the spring of 1944, the buildup in england was comp