gchq chief plotting revenge on russia, what has he got in mind?comment. it is anomalous. they deploy all of their resources to hit back at russia over the nerve agent attack. interestingly, from a diplomatic point of view, you have france, germany and the us backing the uk over its stance. i think, you speak to people in security services. the only way you hit russia is in terms of freezing assets and if sanctions do not work, you really hit them ha rd do not work, you really hit them hard and with all of these different countries, that is the way you feel the pain and the consequence of those actions. i suspect that they will not bring these two people to book at all. they will not have given up easily. and what happened with crimea when it was annexed. but it is embarrassing for the kremlin, if nothing more? but has giles says, you can take embarrassment. you have russia today advocating their own storyline and perpetrating, still, huge conspiracy theories, alleging that, in fact, the russians had nothing to do with it. the russians saying they

russia‘s threat to the international community is ‘ a warning from the boss of gchq., according to the halifax. in the three months to august, prices climbed by 3.7% from a year earlier, up from 3.3% annual growth injuly. however, the monthly change was just 0.1%, leaving the average cost of a house little changed at £229,958. waterstones is buying the 115 year—old family—owned chain foyles, saying the deal will help to "champion" real bookshops in the face of online rivals. waterstones said the deal would help booksellers fight back against amazon‘s "siren call". a bad day for british airways. yes, but we don‘t know how bad. there‘s an elite has compromised some 380,000 transactions. they seem to have got a lot of details, including the serial number on the back. this suggests that the hack was not a harvesting of a database, but they intercepted... because you are not allowed to keep them. absolutely not. you have to get them as they urban put into the system. the other interesting thing, the other warning, obviously, you have two monitors your bank account and chan

last night, the uk's gchq said the threat from russia is reckless, real and active.ck was evidence of the kremlin's brazen determination to undermine international rules. he said the debt would be countered with the full range of tools for national security. russia denies its national intelligence service had anything to do with the attack, but the regime known for its intense secrecy has been dragged under an international spotlight. this is the briefing from bbc news. the latest headlines: back on the road — president trump rallies his base as critics claim his leadership and policy making in the white house is out of control. syrian troops are preparing to attack rebel fighters in idlib province. iran is hosting talks with russia and turkey. and support for an anti—migrant, nationalist party grows in sweden and the ruling party faces a significant challenge as the country goes to the polls. it's time to look at the stories that are making the headlines in the media across the world. 0n front of the telegraph, the head of gchq, the uk's intelligence, security and c

thank you, former deputy director of gchq. my gchq. my pleasure.ial" — calls the president "erratic, impulsive and amoral". chris buckler reports from washington. at a rally in montana, donald trump was surrounded by supporters, people who believe in him, but this has been a week of persistent claims that many working in the white house have no such faith in their president, and mr trump is well aware that some of those damning allegations have apparently come from one of his own senior officials. an anonymous, really an anonymous, gutless coward. you just look. he was... nobody knows who the hell he was, or she, although they put he but probably that‘s a little disguise, that means it‘s a she. but for the sake of our national security, the new york times should publish his name at once. the new york times insists it was a trump insider who wrote of the resistance inside the white house — individuals who are apparently working diligently to frustrate part of the president‘s agenda, claiming he‘s "impetuous", "adversarial", "petty", "ineffective", a

revenge in the headline here but it is clear that it isn't gchq plotting with their owfi it isn't gchq plotting with their own novichok and knocking off innocent russian citizens, the best things that theresa may said in parliament this week was when she clearly said we do not have a quarrel with the russian citizens or the russian people, this is a problem with the russian government and the way that they behave. what we need to do now is basically hack back. the uk is investing notjust cyber security but what they call offensive cyber security, which is basically reducing the technical capabilities. but it is not old school spy craft? the cyber security new front. surely it is a question ofjust doing it, not talking about it, as opposed to saying we will do it, as opposed to saying we will do it and then do it? it is putting them on notice. it is publicly shaming them, i don't think —— the consequence would be so huge. despite everything else it has been embarrassing and they are trying to shame them over their actions. embarrassing and they are trying to shame them over their action

looking on the telegraph, gchq chief plots revenge on russia.o see all get tonight what any of those tactics are... there's a whole toolkit. there's a propaganda war going on here, they're looking at naming and shaming russia and using publicity so they feel the full force. with the skripal thing, i suspect russia didn't really calculate it would unravel and become such a huge diplomatic storm, and hoping there will be a knock—on effect with different countries around the world. normally if you think you're going to do something and launch a cyber security attack, you're not going to talk about it. i suspect this is about trying to create a wall of noise around russia and creating pressure on them but the way you really hit them is by freezing assets, freezing bank accounts, and bank accounts of known associates of the russian government associates of the russian government as well. this talk from gchq, designed to be disruptive, designed to create uncertainty and put them on notice. also the issue of cyber security, how much mortgage and wean i

nations this morning telling the bbc that russia is a disrupter at the moment and the director of gchqhat 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, izvestiya, has published an editorial by a man called alexandra, a rail -- editorial by a man called alexandra, a rail —— well—known kremlin supporter in which he says, and like to remind the hotheads in britain that if these plans are carried out russia will be forced to consider it an act of aggression with all that follows from that. russia will not turn the other cheek wherever. so this is a very hot and cold war of words at the moment. daniel sandford, thank you. british airways has apologised to customers after a mass data breach. hackers have managed to get access to details of nearly 400,000 payment cards over a two—week

the head of the intelligence agency, gchq, has said russia poses a real and active threat.e government named two russian agents suspected of conducting the novichok attack in salisbury. he accused the kremlin of having what he called a "brazen determination" to undermine the international rules—based order. this morning russian officials have called the allegations a ‘frank lie' and have accused the british government of living in an information vacuum. parents in england are not getting the assurance they need about the quality of education their children are receiving, a committee of mps has warned. the public accounts committee says it is unacceptable that so many schools — previously rated outstanding by education watchdog 0fsted — are exempt from being reinspected. they claim cuts to 0fsted's budget mean families cannot make informed choices. 0fsted says it is confident inspections offer parents the assurance they need. we'll be hearing what the chief inspector of schools has to say about this, ataround 10:15am. that's a summary of the latest bbc news. thank you very m

in most of the departments, the treasury etc, and also with gchq.hrough what has changed. it feels like the regularity of these attacks is becoming more regular and impacting more people. it really is a cyber arms race. people would love to get up the next day and think that whatever they have done with their business or in their personal life, they have done it and it is over. that's just not how it is. in fact, looking at the good and bad news of this year, through august, malware, overall around the world, is at 70%. in the uk specifically, it's up to .5 times that, almost 180%. for those of us not su fsit, what is malware? ransomware was hugely important in the uk, that's not like tesco and reddish airways recently, but look at the nhs. ransomware around the world is up around 100%. the good news for the uk, it's down 65% this year. so the uk has done a good job in having people not paid and try to protect themselves. now it has moved somewhere else. in germany it's up more than 200%. the way we use technology is going in one direction, more and

meanwhile, the head of the intelligence agency, gchq, has said the uk and its allies will use all toolsussia. every year millions of tonnes of plastic waste flow into the oceans. now, for the first time, there's going to be an attempt to get into the middle of the pacific — to try to clean it up. in the biggest operation of its kind, a huge plastic—collection system will be towed out from california tomorrow. 0ur science editor david shukman explains. in san francisco, final construction ofa in san francisco, final construction of a massive project with an incredibly bold ambition. to try to clear the ocean of plastic waste. this animation shows how the structure is meant to collect millions of pieces of plastic to make it easier to get rid of. sites like this have shocks people around the world. but images of the damage to wildlife have inspired this effort to clean up. if we don't do it now the plastic will break down into smaller pieces. the smaller it is, though more harmful, and harder it is to extra ct. harmful, and harder it is to extract. there is a sense of urgency. there is pl

investigation going on and that is what the spooks have been up to, the intelligence agencies, mi5, mi6 and gchqwe'll have led into, andi that i think we'll have led into, and i am assuming here, i have no evidence, but i am assuming it is what led the prime minister to specifically say it is gru. it is russian military intelligence, less famous than the kgb but it does a lot of intelligence, a lot of operations overseas and clearly britain believes they were behind this and america seems to share that view. just to pick up on the status of them, the fact they were not rogues, was that uprising? did you not expect they would be part of an official structure? this isn't my view, we are reporting on what the government is saying. let's have a look at what happened. sergei skripal in russian eyes is a traitor. he served as a gru intelligence officer in afghanistan alongside other officers. he then betrayed them to mi6. he revealed a list of gru operatives in europe to m16. he list of gru operatives in europe to mi6. he was caught and arrested in 2006, given a lengthy prison sentence. but three year

the head of gchq has said russia poses a real and active threat.russian agents suspected of conducting the novichok attack in salisbury. he accused the kremlin of having what he called a brazen determination to undermine the international rules—based order. in a rare interview, the former prime minister tony blair has strongly criticised the current labour leaderjeremy corbyn, his supporters and his policies. speaking to nick robinson's political thinking podcast, mr blair said mr corbyn poses an existential threat to the future of the party, and many within the party believe that it is lost. jeremy corbyn has responded to previous criticism from mr blair by noting that he is entitled to his opinion, but that politics has changed. a number of top us officials, including the vice president, are among those continuing to deny they're the author of an anonymous article attacking donald trump. the new york times piece, believed to be written by a senior white house insider, says mr trump's colleagues are trying to stifle his agenda. the president has d

i know you specifically denied the motion of the meeting with the gentleman from gchq. general way saying the broader narrative, the notion that the beginning of the counterintelligence investigation began with some kind of tips from allies based on signal intelligence? are you making a broader claim there or are you specifically refuting the notion that the one story you referred to is false? >> my response to you was related to that one specific story. cia during the course of 2016 worked very closely with our domestic partners, and if there were opportunities to work with foreign partners, to try to understand what russia was doing, not what u.s. persons or u.s. officials were doing, but what the russians were doing to try to underminus. and i shared information with jim comey and with the white house as well as with the folks on the hill to make sure that there was a complete awareness of the things that we knew in terms of what russia was doing. so -- but, again, i keep reading stories that are fiction and that's what they should be titled. >> director brennan, dav

the times reports that the ministry of defence and gchq is setting up an offensive cyber—force to tackleeady to walk away from the eu without a deal, the daily mail says. the paper reports mrs may was visibly furious at a press conference in salzburg after her meeting with eu leaders. we should say also meghan markle is in lots of the papers this morning with her mum. take your mum to work day! yes. the guardian says mrs may was humiliated by the eu's decision. like many of the papers, the guardian have a striking photograph of a mrs may wearing her red jacket among dark suit—wearing eu leaders. some striking images, aren't they? and what plastic you can and can't recycle is one of the top most—read stories on the bbc news website. new research from the bbc has discovered there are 39 different sets of rules for what can be put in plastic recycling collections. we'll have more on this story later in the programme. david shukman will explain more. it is usually confusing. there's also figures on how many arguments people have at home. no, you're wrong, this goesin have at home. no, you're