frank gardner, bbc news.ra: in other news, survivors of the terrorist attack on the bottle clan -- bataclan concert hall in parisre part of the trial that -- witnesses recall feigning death as the three gunmen fired on the crowd. responsibility was claimed by the islamic state. the nobel prize have been awarded to a german and a scottish man. their research could help us form durable materials, through energy more efficiently and batteries, or slow down the progre of diseases.opposition parties in austria have called on chancellor sebastien to explain himself after he was put under investigation for alleged bribery.they are looking for allegations his party used taxpayer money to commission favorable opinion polls published by a newspaper. his party says these are politically motivated allegations. you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come on tonight's program, molly is one of the poorest countries in the world, and also one of the most vulnerable to climate change. ♪ laura: australia is ending

frank gardner, bbc news.dential settlement agreement, which they believe will negate a civil claim being pursued against him. the claim was based on allegations of sexual assault made by virginia giuffre. prince andrew has always denied those allegations. our correspondent nada tawfik is in new york with the latest. it's now with the judge's prince andrew's legal team will soon get their hands on this confidential document that they believe will end this civil lawsuit against him. in a previous court hearing, the prince's lawyers said a settlement agreement reached between virginia giuffre and the six offenderjeffrey epstein essentially absolved anyone associated with apps time from any and all potential liability. but you need just three, her little team and abstain�*s estate have consented to hand it over the document, and now they have thejudge hand it over the document, and now they have the judge or sign up to do that, but her lawyer has said that he believes this settlement is irrelevant to prince andre

we can speak now to our security correspondent, frank gardner.to-date with the investiuation. ., , ., investigation. more details have emerued. investigation. more details have emerged- in _ investigation. more details have emerged. in the _ investigation. more details have emerged. in the past _ investigation. more details have emerged. in the past 24 - investigation. more details have emerged. in the past 24 hours | investigation. more details have. emerged. in the past 24 hours he investigation. more details have - emerged. in the past 24 hours he has been rearrested under what is called section 41 of the terrorism act and transferred to a london police station where detectives now have until next friday to question him. he has not been charged yet. they are gathering as much evidence as they can. it is fair to assume they will be going forensically through all his data communications, his phone, laptop, his history. the most important thing they will have wanted to establish early on is whether there was anyone else involved in the actions on

frank gardner, bbc news. the beijing marathon has been postponed indefinitely.s want to restrict entry to beijing as they try to rein in the outbreak across the north of the country in the run—up to the winter olympics. cricket now, and all—rounder ben stokes has been added to the ashes squad that'll head to australia next month. he's been given the all—clear by his consultant after a second operation on a fractured finger which he broke in april. he's also taken time out to focus on his mental health. time for a look at the weather. here is louise lear. i think if you were to take a straw poll and ask people what they think of october weather so far, mild. over the next two days, quite showery. it is mild, but take a look at this stunning rainbow photo. if you get caught in the showers they mean business. this was bournemouth earlier. i suspect that's a crazy golf course down there and i suspect there won't be much of that this afternoon. showers across england and wales are pretty hit and miss but the most frequent are up in western scotland, a real cluster be

i was security correspondent frank gardner.measures to better protect mps following the man arrested by police following the killing of the uk mp sir david has been named as ali harbi ali and is being held under the terrorism act. officers have until friday to question him. the first five recipients of the earthshot prize will be announced later, during a ceremony hosted by the award�*s founder, the duke of cambridge. it comes after senior royals expressed frustration this week at world leaders�* lack of action on climate change. the award recognises those who have come up with the most innovative solutions to solve the world�*s environmental problems. each finalist will receive £1 million to try to bring their idea to life. earthshot prize council member and environmental activist hindou ibrahim spoke to me earlier. she told me why the earthshot prize is so important. i think the prize, it�*s really very important for the world, not only for the individual who are winning it, because we are in a time of crisis, when you see al

frank gardner is live with is year own outside source. rom the reputational damage to sheikh mohammed, what legal consequences might there be? first of all, i should say that very soon after the findings were made public, sheikh mohammed issued a statement through one of his representatives continuing to deny these allegations, saying the findings were unfair and that he couldn't comment on the security and intelligence apparatus of the uae state, which it had nothing to do with this particular case, he said, which was a private family matter. to answer your question more fully, i don't think we are going to see british police travelling to dubai to investigate this, and certainly no one is going to put handcuffs on sheikh mohammed. this is an embarrassment for him, embarrassment i think for the british foreign office, which would rather not have things like this surfacing when it wants to have good relations with the uae and other gulf states. remember that britain has left the european union, it needs all the friends it can get. sheikh m

frank gardner, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. mike miller is with me.uld be some very heavy rain around, some disruptive went out there, some

frank gardner, bbc news. 0ur security correspondent, frank gardner, told us a bit more a short whilefled from dubai to britain —— princess haya, as you heard there, fled from dubai to britain in 2019 with her two children, saying she was in fear of her life. she felt intimidated having been basically ostracised by the court of her ex—husband, the sheikh of dubai, sheikh mohammed of dubai. and she then got a number of threatening messages, she was extremely worried that an attempt was going to be made to snatch the children and render them back to dubai. so she went to the british court to fight this custody battle, to get a non—molestation order and various other things from the court. and this custody battle is still ongoing, there are still welfare hearings to come, it is not over yet. what has transpired during these hearings, which have all been heard in closed, so we are only able to report this today once the embargo has been lifted and the court has ruled that it is going to be made public, is that this really serious serial hacking took place here in the uk, in the middle of

frank gardner our| security correspondent.he blame for breaking up the beatles in the 1970s first of all he was the first person to acknowledge that the band were on break. in a press release for his debut album which give up that year and in that he said that he couldn't foresee a time when he would ever work withjohn lennon again. and later that year he sued the rest of the band to dissolve their business relationships. since then fans and scholars have assumed that it was sir paul who instigated the breakup of the beatles. but a new interview he said that's not the case. i’m of the beatles. but a new interview he said that's not the case.- he said that's not the case. i'm not the person — he said that's not the case. i'm not the person who _ he said that's not the case. i'm not the person who instigated - he said that's not the case. i'm not the person who instigated the - he said that's not the case. i'm not| the person who instigated the split. you brought the lawyers and did new? no, no, _ you brought the lawyers and did

we�*re joined by our security correspondent, frank gardner. he is 25, british—born, somali heritage. he had spent some time on what is called the prevent programme, and counter radicalisation programme the government does to try to steer people away from extremism and he was referred to it some years ago and did not spend that long on it and did not spend that long on it and at the same time he was not on the mi5 and at the same time he was not on the m15 list of subjects of interest. he was not a suspect in any other way so it has come semi—out of the blue. brute any other way so it has come semi-out of the blue. we have seen ruestions semi-out of the blue. we have seen questions raised _ semi-out of the blue. we have seen questions raised about _ semi-out of the blue. we have seen questions raised about security i questions raised about security surrounding mps. is there anything you can suggest from your conversations with security officials that could be introduced to increase the security for mps? i think there is a broad spectrum here ra

i have been speaking with our security correspondent, frank gardner, about whether there will be further ramifications afterwards. >> soon after the findings were made public, sheikh mohammed issued a statement through one of his representatives continuing to deny any of the allegations, calling the findings unfair and that he couldn't anyhow comment on the security and intelligence apparatus of the state that had nothing to do with this particular case, which he called a private family matter. to answer your question more fully, i don't think we are going to see british police traveling to dubai to investigate this. certainly no one is going to put handcuffs on him. this is an embarrassment for him. embarrassment i think for the british foreign office, which would rather not have things like this surfacing when they want to have good relations with other gulf states. remember, britain left the european union, they need all the friends they can get. shake hamed is a -- sheikh mohammed is a master massive investor in the u.k. but this software is powerful stuff, the cyber equivalent of pl

frank gardner, bbc news.y on the bbc, still to come: we meet the artist photographer who mixes fantasy and reality to encourage us to think about our interaction with the environment. this was a celebration by people who were relishing their freedom. they believe everything's going to be different from now on. they think their country will be respected in the world once more, as it used to be before slobodan milosevic took power. the dalai lama, the exiled spiritual leader of tibet, has won this year's nobel peace prize. as the parade was reaching its climax, two grenades exploded and a group of soldiersjumped from a military truck taking part in the parade and ran towards the president, firing from kalashnikov automatic rifles. after 437 years, the skeletal ribs of henry viii's _ tragic warship emerged. but even as divers worked - to buoy her up, the mary rose went through another. heart—stopping drama. i want to be the people's governor. i want to represent everybody. i believe in the people of california.

frank gardner, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: president for the day.d took on the role as part of a global push to empower girls. this was a celebration by people who were relishing their freedom. they believe everything's going to be different from now on. they think their country will be respected in the world once more, as it used to be before slobodan milosevic took power. the dalai lama, the exiled spiritual leader of tibet, has won this year's nobel peace prize. as the parade was reaching its climax, two grenades exploded and a group of soldiersjumped from a military truck taking part in the parade and ran towards the president, firing from kalashnikov automatic rifles. after 437 years, the skeletal ribs of henry viii's _ tragic warship emerged. but even as divers worked - to buoy her up, the mary rose went through another. heart—stopping drama. i want to be the people's governor. i want to represent everybody. i believe in the people of california. this is bbc world news. the headlines: the world health organization approves a vaccine against ma

frank gardner, bbc news. same without him. here's our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba. its focus was on six friends, but a seventh character also made a big impression. this is a getting rid of everything rachel ever touched sale. i will take it all. and as friends' popularity grew, so did the role originally called coffee guy. gunther, six glasses. six, you want me tojoin you? oh, i thoughtjoey was here. five is good. but, of course, he had one storyline everyone remembers. rachel? yeah? when's your birthday? 5 may, why? i'm just making a list of people's birthdays. 0h, mine's december... yeah, whatever. i've finished it, i did all by myself! and there's nobody to hug. it was so important to fans the show felt they had to resolve it in friends' final episode. ijust have to tell you... i love you. i love you too. probably not in the same way. over the years, there were a few other small roles and he was reunited with his friends' cast mate in matt leblanc in bbc sitcom episodes. is that the best you'v

let's speak to our security correspondent, frank gardner who joins us. is frank, what do we know about the man who has been arrested?— who has been arrested? he is british born and raised, _ who has been arrested? he is british born and raised, 25 _ who has been arrested? he is british born and raised, 25 years _ who has been arrested? he is british born and raised, 25 years old, - who has been arrested? he is british born and raised, 25 years old, grewl born and raised, 25 years old, grew up born and raised, 25 years old, grew up in croydon. his parents came from somalia in the 1990s. his father was an adviser to somalia's prime minister and that caused some people to look at a possible somali connexion. but so far there doesn't seem to be any connexion to their prescribed somali terrorist group, al shabaab. the detectives al sha baab. the detectives questioning al shabaab. the detectives questioning have until friday. he has been rearrested under section 41 of the terrorism act 2000. they are going through every line of enquiries, police have recovered

our security correspondent frank gardner has more details about the suspect.gation, the suspect has been transferred from a police station in essex, where he was originally held, to a london police station, and he has been re—arrested under section 41 of the terrorism act 2000, which gives detectives longer to question him. he has not been charged yet. as you mentioned, they have got until friday the 22nd to question him, and in the meantime they are gathering all the evidence they can. they will be forensically examining his mobile phone, his browsing history on the internet. most importantly to discover if anyone else was involved in the events of friday. so far, it doesn't appear that there were. the rather strange thing about all of this is that the person in question made no attempt to flee the scene of the crime. the weapon used in the alleged attack has been recovered. the suspect has been named as ali harbi ali, a 25—year—old british man of somali heritage, but british raised. some of the media are talking about the visits made to, reportedly by anti—t

security correspondent frank gardner has more details about the suspect. under what is called section 41 of the terrorism act 2000 and transferred to a london police station where detectives now have until next friday to question him. he has not been charged yet. they are gathering as much evidence as they can. it is fair to assume they will be going forensically through all his data communications, his phone, laptop, his browsing history. the most important thing they will have wanted to establish early on is whether there was anyone else involved in the actions on friday. so far, there do not seem to be. in other words, he was a lone actor. we know his name is ali harbi ali. he is a 25—year—old british man of somali heritage. that is relevant because his father has been visited in london by counterterrorism police. his father, also named as harbi ali kullane, has been absolutely traumatised by this. his father was an adviser to the somali government, a senior member of that, or participant in that government, an upstanding member of the community, and is

here's frank gardner again with their reaction.ayed gunther and who has died at the age of 59 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. lizo mzimba reports. its focus was on six friends, but a seventh character also made a big impression. this is a "getting rid of everything rachel ever touched" sale. i will take it all. and as friends�* popularity grew, so did the role originally called "coffee guy." gunther, six glasses. six, you want me tojoin you? oh, i thoughtjoey was here. five is good. but, of course, he had one storyline everyone remembers. rachel? yeah? when�*s your birthday? 5th may, why? i�*m just making a list of people�*s birthdays. 0h, mine's december... yeah, whatever. i finished it, i did it all by myself! and there's nobody to hug. it was so important to fans, the show felt they had to resolve it in friends�* final episode. ijust have to tell you... ..i love you. i love you too. probably not in the same way. over the years, there were a few other small roles. and he was reunited with friends cast mate matt leblan

frank gardner, bbc news.is reaching us from the us, and this relates to texas, you may have been following over the last few weeks, republicans in texas introduced a very strict abortion law, basically prohibiting women from obtaining an abortion after six weeks. the supreme court refused to make a decision on it. well, now we are hearing from reuters that a federal judge on wednesday temporarily blocked the near total ban on abortion in texas. it is the toughest such law in the country, in a challenge brought by presidentjoe biden�*s administration after the us supreme court had allowed it to go into effect. so the supreme court had allowed it to go into effect but now a federaljudge has temporarily blocked that near total ban on abortion in texas. do stay with us here on bbc news, still to come. president for a day. how one young woman in finland took on the role as part of a global push to empower girls. this was a celebration by people who were relishing their freedom. they believe everything�*s going to

frank gardner, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. mike miller is with me. it may be one of the brighter days out there today but icy is going to change again, we expect low pressure to come back and further spells of wind and rain. there could be some very heavy rain around, some disruptive went out there, some met office weather warnings for the weekend so please look at those, online, especially if you are travelling. this area of low pressure will form, moving across us and deepen as icy does so with a swathes of heavy rain tomorrow from wales across england, reaching eastern scotland, the wind is picking up, windiest on sunday in northern scotland but by then icy is sunshine and showers. pretty much what we have at the moment, one of the brighter days out there, some showers to be had, but many places are dry and sunny this afternoon. sprinkling of showers working across east anglia and the south—east, some of them coming into north—west england, more especially for northern ireland and western scotland, some heavy downpours and gusty winds, as high as

frank gardner, bbc news.he winter ahead. prices fell back slightly again from those highs this afternoon after russia promised to increase supplies. 0ur economics editor faisal islam explains why this isn'tjust a uk problem and outlined the serious concerns about the widespread impact it could have. when you're trying to raise living standards, it's about getting wages rising faster than prices. and as the prime minister was speaking, the markets were conjuring up an iceberg for him in terms of the wholesale gas prices. i am going to show a chart here and there are the prices is big energy companies pay for the gas that they sell on to you, and you can see it going up and away, and 2.72 per therm — typically, it is 50p or 60p, 1p is seen to be a crisis. it fell back a bit because of vladimir putin trying to soothe the market, saying that the russians would supply more. what does this mean in practice? for now, because of the energy price cap until april, consumers will be protected from that extraordinary ris

our security correspondent frank gardner reports. together no longer.uring a crucial phase of the hearings. princess haya's phone was hacked, her personal assistants, and her security team. and even that of baroness shackleton, her barrister and a member of the house of lords. princess haya, invite, fled to by two years ago after hearing of her husband's abduction and mistreatment of two of his daughters. she applied for a court order to prevent children returning to dubai. the judge heard that one middle eastern ruler and a close ally of britain has gone to to exercise total control over the women in his family. the measures had been described as an abuse of power and the serial breach of criminal law here in britain. the court heard how agents of the dubai ruler used an intrusive spyware kyl pegasus car sold to the united emirates to infect their mobile phones of the sheikh's opposing legal team. iloathed sheikh's opposing legal team. what is remarkable _ sheikh's opposing legal team. what is remarkable about _ sheikh's opposing legal team. twat is re

we can speak now to our security correspondent frank gardner.n is. he is a controversialfigure. he about how credible this man is. he is a controversial figure. he was at the top of the saudi intelligence, the top of the saudi intelligence, the architect of saudi arabia's counterterrorism strategy that helped defeat al-qaeda and it was the cia's main point of contact in saudi arabia —— he was. as a part of that he tipped off britain and the us about the printer ink toner cartridge bombs in 2010 when al-qaeda smuggled these bombs on board inside ink tonerfor printers, on to cargo planes come above one of them were stopped in dubai and one of them got to the east midlands, bound for chicago, he tipped them off as a serial numbers because they had agents inside ik two al-anda, informants. the saudi government says he is a fraudster who has embezzled money, which he denies, and that he has stolen counterterrorism funds. he said he is a discredited former official. what he is claiming in this interview is that in 2014 the current de facto ruler of sa

our security correspondent frank gardner with the latest there.ather important company — facebook, which owns instagram. in fact, leaked internal research found that teens who struggle with mental health say that instagram makes it worse. the woman who leaked that internal report is called frances haugen — yesterday giving evidence in washington. the documents i have provided to congress prove that facebook has repeatedly misled the public about what its own research reveals about the safety of children. she also said that facebook�*s motives were driven by money, rather than the mental health of its users. i saw facebook repeatedly encounter conflicts between its own profits and our safety. facebook consistently resolved these conflicts in favour of its own profits. here in silicon valley, facebook has pushed back, saying that some of the research presented is misleading, and despite the fact that instagram concluded that it could be damaging for children's mental health, it also says that it can have a positive impact. reacting to haugen's evide

frank gardner, bbc news.ain for western england spread further through the afternoon. bright colour showing up indicating especially towards the south—east and east of england, 30-a0 south—east and east of england, 30—a0 millimetres of rain in places. mid to low teens. blustery out there but the strongest wind picks up through the afternoon, especially along the coast of south—east england and east anglia. gusts in the exposed parts to 65 miles an hour, could be disruptive. inland needing 50 for a time. as the rain clears away, into the evening, lingering across eastern scotland and into sunday morning where some good see up to 50 millimetres of rain with local flooding. northern isles heavy rain on sunday whereas we get sunshine elsewhere. showers move east to west during another blustery day and it will feel rather cool this weekend although there is a greater chance of us seeing sunshine in between the showers. an eventful weekend, difficult travel conditions at times, especially saturday and saturday nigh

our security correspondent, frank gardner gave us this update on what we know about him.rested under section 41 of the terrorism act 2000 and they are going through every possible line of inquiry, looking particularly at the forensic evidence on his phone. police also recovered the weapon that was used to murder sir david amess, that was recovered from the scene, and the suspect made no attempt to flee the scene at all. witnesses at the time said that he did not utter what is known as the takbir, which is the cry that is often mentioned injihadist terrorist attacks, and that his phone has been... taken away by the police are not saying very much, there is a dearth of information. the former us secretary of state colin powell has died at the age of 84. us media say he died of covid complications. in a statement, colin powell's family say they have lost "a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great american". colin powell was raised in the bronx and rose to become a four—star general in the us army. later, he became the first african—american secretary o

frank gardner, bbc news.his is a new high water mark for what sneakers, specifically game once makers are going to be expected to collect from now on. ., , , ., , ., now on. game worn is the praise that ou use now on. game worn is the praise that you use and — now on. game worn is the praise that you use and i — now on. game worn is the praise that you use and i use _ now on. game worn is the praise that you use and i use it _ now on. game worn is the praise that you use and i use it in _ now on. game worn is the praise that you use and i use it in the _ you use and i use it in the introduction, but it is so interesting because previously we would imagine that many of these things must be in what i think the other term is box fresh condition, brand—new, you are saying these are one and that gives me more value? that's right. a lot of sneaker collectors won't even try on the pairs they are spending. tens of thousands of pounds in some cases. this is something that was actually used as a piece of athletic equip

let's speak to our security correspondent frank gardner. n with somalia's own subscribed terrorist group, al shabab. nothing has come out about that yet. they have until friday to question him. he was rearrested under section 41 of the terrorism act 2000, being transferred from the essex police station to one in london to give detectives a bit more time to go through forensically all his phone conversations, what at he was on, what his browsing history was, etc stop they are not at the moment looking for anything else. going back to the prevent business, the police have been tight—lipped about it but it is widely reported he was referred six years ago, reported by a teacher, when he was still in his teens, to the prevent programme. what does that do? it is part of the government counterterrorism strategy to try to steer people away from the path of extremism. it does not carry any legal weight and you do not get any legal weight and you do not get a criminal record from it. it is not legal and you do not have to attend. this is where possibl

with me is our security correspondent frank gardner the iraqis have been tight lipped about where thisl be replaced, it is like a hydra's head, the value to them will be what information he can give them and the iraqis do not have a reputation for holding back when it comes to extracting intelligence. this guy, samijasim, was on the extracting intelligence. this guy, sami jasim, was on the council of isis's leadership, and he was not just in charge of finances, he was overseeing a lot of the cross—border activity between syria and iraq. isis, although it was militarily defeated 2.5 years ago, it remains a potent insurgent force, it has been attacking police, army and government militias and killed dozens of police officers this year alone. it is still a problem, it's an insurgency rather than having a physical caliphate. if this guy is able to reveal probably under pressure, which i think the americans won't want to be at those interrogations, but if he reveals what isis's imminent plans are, that could well avert some attacks and lead to further arrests. what kind of attacks has it ca

our security correspondent frank gardner can tell us more.terabytes of data onto the cloud base is something that has been mooted for quite some time because it is, insiders say, their future. it is something the americans have been doing for quite some time. this books, to give them their vernacular, are going to keep up, notjust with state competitors like russia and china and north korea and iran, notjust competitors but adversaries in some cases, but also with organised criminals and so on, then they are going to have to use the cloud, using ai, because there is so much data out there. it is not unique that they are making a partnership with industry. if you mention all the data communication systems that are already embedded in those offices and headquarters and outlying stations they have got around the world, they cannot do that themselves in—house, they have got to partner with industry, but it is quite unusual that so much is going to be put into the cloud, which is why downing street has issued a statement in the last few hours sayi