claire marshall, bbc news, gloucestershire.sford — who first started reporting from russia some 20 years ago — has been expelled from the country — because she's considered by the authorities to be a threat to national security. sarah has now been told she can never return to russia — a decision which the bbc says is a �*direct assault on media freedom'. what follows is sarah's own account of her departure from moscow. this was the moment i discovered i was being expelled from russia. according to a specific law, i've been designated a "threat to national security" and as such i'm not allowed into the country. man speaks russian pulled aside at passport control, i was told the fsb security service had banned me for life. i recorded the conversation. i was returning from belarus, where i'd confronted alexander lukashenko on the mass repression and torture of peaceful protesters. his loyal supporters rounded on me... ..in a coordinated attack. vladimir putin's presenting this as just another working visit. .. i've reported from r

geronimo, in quarantine at this gloucestershire farm for the past four years, since he was imported fromgainst his positive tests for tb. just frustrating. anxiety, trauma, constant letters backwards and forwards, constant legal options of what do we do. it's taken over my life. all of this was avoidable. we've had four years ofjust trying to sit down and rationally discuss the science. the science is just not there. today, downing street said they understood how distressing it was to lose an animal, but said that everything needed to be done to tackle tb. if we get a positive, they're under a compulsory slaughter order. paul westaway has to test his 150 cows every six months. last year, two were infected among the 40,000 cold because of tb that year. what do you make of geronimo the alpaca's plight? i feel unbelievably sorry for the lady. i feel really sorry for geronimo. but the law is the law, and geronimo, an alpaca, cannot be more important than a cow. it's an animal, and every one of the owners of those 40,000 cows that had to have the same fate last year loved them just as much, p

geronimo, in quarantine at this gloucestershire farm for the past four years, since he was imported fromtrating. anxiety, trauma, constant letters backwards and forwards, constant legal options of what do we do. it's taken over my life. all of this was avoidable. we've had four years ofjust trying to sit down and rationally discuss the science. the science is just not there. today, downing street said they understood how distressing it was to lose an animal, but said that everything needed to be done to tackle tb. if we get a positive, they're under a compulsory slaughter order. paul westaway has to test his 150 cows every six months. last year, two were infected among the 40,000 cold among the 40,000 culled because of tb that year. and what do you make of geronimo the alpaca's plight? i feel unbelievably sorry for the lady. i feel really sorry for geronimo. but the law is the law, and geronimo, and alpaca cannot be more important than a cow. it's an animal, and every one of the owners of those 40,000 cows that had to have the same fate last year love them just as much, probably, as the

the animal's owner, in gloucestershire, claims the tests were inaccurate.though, he is set to be destroyed, after owner helen lost her fight against his positive tests for tb. sick. absolutely sick. because all of this was avoidable. we've had four years of trying to just sit down and rationally discuss the science. the science is just not there. farmers everywhere have cattle tested, and then they get a positive result and they have to put those animals down. why are you different? because the cattle test is designed for cattle, and it's an established programme, that is the test for cattle. the environment secretary george eustice said he'd looked into geronimo's case and, though he sympathised, the alpaca's tests, he said, were highly specific and reliable. helen's been fighting the results of the test for the past four years, but the high court says the results still stand. now, yesterday, a notice of entry was issued, and that means any time in the next 30 days, officials could turn up here to put geronimo down. in a statement, defra said... "testing r

the animal's owner in gloucestershire claims the tests were inaccurate. andrew plant explains.because all of this was avoidable. we've had four years of trying to just sit down and rationally discuss the science. the science is just not there. farmers everywhere have cattle tested, and then they get a positive result and they have to put those animals down. why are you different? because the cattle test is designed for cattle, and it's an established programme, that is the test for cattle. the environment secretary george eustice said he'd looked into geronimo's case and, though he sympathised, the alpaca's tests, he said, were highly specific and reliable. helen's been fighting the results of the test for the past four years, but the high court says the results still stand. now, yesterday, a notice of entry was issued, and that means any time in the next 30 days, officials could turn up here to put geronimo down. in a statement, defra said... more than 40,000 cows are culled in the uk each year, after testing positive for tb. helen says geronimo passed multiple tests before be

was seen here being taken away by government vets from the farm where he had been kept in south gloucestershirement saying geronimo was put down by staff from the animal and plant health agency in order to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis. there was a big campaign to save geronimo, going to the courts to try and stop that warrant are being put into effect. we had some reaction from downing street. the prime minister's spokesman saying that it was obviously a highly distressing for somebody to loosen animal to a tv, thatis somebody to loosen animal to a tv, that is a situation that farmers sadly have to face. the prime minister saying our sympathies are with the owner and anybody else who is affected by this terrible disease. thatjust in from the prime minister's spokesman, saying it's highly distressing for somebody to lose an animal to tuberculosis. geronimo the alpaca has been put down after that destruction warrant today. let's return to our top story — the foreign secretary dominic raab has said he believes the number of british residents remaining in afghanistan, now the last west

she's now looking for ways to help women that we spoke to saudi aid from women's rights group, gloucestershire sisters, anti virus and tv come with rebecca butler about the issue and her death. thoughts about women facing restrictions that i've got to stay on under the taliban. it says vacuous, self promoting behavior on the part of lily coal. when she did this to promote her book, general public is so really fed up of as a paid under qualified individuals that she signaling, particularly when they don't fully appreciate the token of what they're doing. it's not feminism, it's not diversity. the bercher is a symbol of oppression who cause a context. so of issue i was raised in a very conservative community, so i would see it as something that's very, very oppressive. but i also don't expect anybody that hasn't been raised in that community to understand some ignorance is genuinely innocent. why would i expect to understand what is going on within those communities? and i think it doesn't help me have hysteria on either side about the taliban saying they will respect women within the confines o

from south gloucestershire, back to you. rachael latham has more. yes, she definitely got the day started well for great britain, picking up that gold medal this morning and she said it was a smooth race. she really enjoyed it and she actually cycle faster than she expected to go when she was on the podium. she even looked a little emotional, which is very unusual for the athlete that's been going since 1992 and winning the whole way, but now she was not going to shift her focus to thursday, where she'll be hoping to pick up another gold medal in the road race, and if she wins a gold then she will become the most decorated paralympic athlete of all time with gold medals. what a title for sarah storey, there. also at the cycling it was ben watson. he got a surprise gold in the road cycling this morning. it was his paralympic debut and didn't rio 2016 he was actually watching at home. back then, he was a chartered accountant. he didn't get involved until 2017 and here he is today winning a gold medalfor and here he is today wi

government vets and a police escort arrived to remove the animal from the farm in gloucestershire thisr bovine tuberculosis. claire marshall is in wickwar. took us through what happened. geronimo's supporters feared this day was coming, the warrant was going to run out on saturday. the webcam has been beaming live pictures at around iiam webcam has been beaming live pictures at around ”am there was some disturbance on the webcam, people understood something was happening. three people reportedly turned up and they took the animal away. they have actually blocked off the public road not far from where i am. about six police cars were at the top of that road there. they then took geronimo away, put him in a horsebox. it wasn't clear for several hours what had to the alpaca but then we got the news, as you say, just about half an hour ago or so in an announcement from defra that the warrant had been carried out. helen macdonald, the owner who has been fighting for her animal for weeks now, who has gone into this extraordinary outpouring of public support, called it a disgrace. she said it

our environment and rural affairs correspondent claire marshall is in south gloucestershire.lpaca away. —— defra officials. it was taken away in this trailer to be euthanised. mrs macdonald had brought geronimo to the uk from new zealand in 2017. the alpaca had tested positive twice for bovine tv but mrs macdonald maintained the tests were flawed. == but mrs macdonald maintained the tests were flawed.— tests were flawed. -- bovine tb. i heard itoris _ tests were flawed. -- bovine tb. i heard boris johnson _ tests were flawed. -- bovine tb. i heard boris johnson has _ tests were flawed. -- bovine tb. i heard boris johnson has sympathy tests were flawed. -- bovine tb. i. heard boris johnson has sympathy for heard borisjohnson has sympathy for me, but stop your sympathy, boris johnson, why didn't you sort this out? why am i stood here today with the media surrounding me as my animal was dragged off with a rope around its neck. the animal was dragged off with a rope around its neck.— around its neck. the case has highlighted — around its neck. the case has highlighted the _ aroun

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will be showing you pictures earlier here of officials arriving at the farm in south gloucestershiree dominated the time trial, winning by 92 seconds as british team—mate crystal lane—wright took silver. it puts her on par with the record of britain's most decorated paralympian, swimmer mike kenny. sarah has the opportunity to win a 17th gold in thursday's road race. earlier, we heard from the chair of uk sport, dame katherine grainger who said sarah's passion and drive makes her one of a kind. she is, she is genuinely one of a kind. this is her eighth paralympic games, she was talking about paris, which would be her ninth. she has an amazing physical ability to set new standards and push the barriers every time the games come around. but she still has the same passion and drive, she still wants to break her own records and she's loving it. i don't when she will ever stop, maybe she won't! she has one more day back on the roads, and we never know put too much pressure on anyone, with the two event so far, it shows a good herform is. plenty could happen, but we have great terms and th

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government vets and police arrived to collect geronimo from the farm in south gloucestershire this morning sympathy, borisjohnson — why the hell didn't you sort this out? why am i stood here today with media surrounding me and my animal was dragged off with a rope around his neck? the case has highlighted the deep divide over how to control the disease in cattle. in england, the highly controversial badger cull sees tens of thousands of the animals, a protected species, shot each year. farmers believe it is a key part of the strategy. tb costs the taxpayer millions each year and can devastate farming businesses. we've lost around about 160 cattle and unfortunately when it happens, i don't like it, but i accept that if it has failed a test — if some of my cattle have failed a test — unfortunately their fate is sealed and that is what has to happen. the government said it was following the scientific evidence. there will now be a postmortem examination on geronimo. elizabeth homes was once celebrated as the worlds youngest, self—made, female billionaire. she counted among her many wealthy fr