are some obvious one, why did he do it, did the police and mis why did he do it, did the police and mi5ch about him, whether there was some warning signs they missed. but other issues coming to the fore today. a lot of questions from some of the lawyers around the production of pedestrians on westminster bridge. it is likely to develop over the coming days as to why was it after nice and berlin in 2016, why wasn't the protection of pedestrians on a busy tourist area in the heart of london, why wasn't the protection there from vehicles going out of control. also the positioning of the armed officers in westminster. when pc pama goes to defend the guaita parliaments, the two armed officers are not anywhere him. it is a close protection officer that eventually kills massoud. i think that is going to be another issue for this inquest. daniel, thank you very much indeed. companies are selling vehicle number plates without carrying out proper checks, according to a bbc investigation. it means the real owners can face fines or even be arrested when vehicles with their number plates are involve

which is that according to this, jeremy corbyn didn't attend a briefing this week held by the head of mi5ng to be told about the threat from russian spies, the terrorist threat, the islamist threat, and so on. —— he was. and he didn't attend that because he was attending a meeting about anti—semitism and so on. tony blair also talks about, potentially, his attitude to security being a weak point. i think those two things go together in the sense that although there may well be a perfectly reasonable explanation as to why he didn't turn up to this meeting, it doesjust play into a little bit of this feeling about him somehow or other being on the wrong side in all these national security debates. they had a file on him for many years, of course, so he is no friend of the security services. but he isa friend of the security services. but he is a friend, for example, he has appeared on russia today and all for what. the observer have another story about this. labour to shake up rules to deselect mps. this is going to be discussed at the party conference in the next few, well, this forthcoming

suddenly we are being told mi5 believes that the former labour leader, michael foot, was a believes that paid informant of the soviet union. a book has been written by the times columnist, ben mcintyre, who is highly respected in the field. he can definitely right. yes. the history here, of course, is that michael foot sued the times and one, sorry, sued the sunday times, i should say, over what he called the big lie, claims that he was a kgb spy. this was 23 years ago. so they are returning to this subject. of course what we now know is that in the 1970s services were out of control. you might remember the spycatcher book, peter wright talking about how they bungled and burgled their way across london. it is entirely unsurprising mi6 would leave foot was a spy. i think they believed all left—wing labour politicians were spies at the time, that was the mindset. what the book doesn't try to claim is that it has evidence that foot was a kgb spy, just that the depth of belief mi6 had that he was. i'm not convinced that tells us too much. it feels like revenge from beyond the grave for ten p

parallel investigation going on and that is what the spooks have been up to, the intelligence agencies, mi5 that i think we'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.

mi5 has said in the past decade every major terror investigation has used this kind of data, if you wantu have to accept there is maybe a price. i don't think is saying, are you saying they, is that what liberty is saying, take away the powers to gather that intelligence? absolutely not, that is not the question, the question is where do we draw the line in what the decision today reveals is the government has been drawing that line way too far in the other direction, what we need is a targeted surveillance regime, not a mass indiscriminate one that allows the government to sweep up all of our communications data, and know everything about millions of innocent people when what it really needs is... they don't really know, they are not trawling through that, you know, our boring e—mail chain about where we are meeting a friend for coffee. we hope not. we ought to live in security to know that. the law is catching up with the fact we are entitled to know the law protects us from the government being able to do that. a targeted surveillance programme. well well, the intelligence services cl