michael buchanan, bbc news. tour de france winner chris froome is free to begin defending his title this weekend after cycling's world governing body dropped his anti—doping case. he tested positive last year for excessive levels of a legal asthma drug in his system. froome says he's "grateful and relieved". there's been more drama at the world cup in russia tonight. belgium came from 2—0 down to knock japan out of the tournament with a winning goal in the last seconds of the match. tomorrow it's england's turn to try to secure a place in the quarterfinals — they face colombia in moscow in their most important match for years. let's join our sports editor, dan roan who's there. this has already been one of the classic world cups. so many great games, incidents, no shortage of surprises either, the likes of germany, spain and argentina are already knocked out. today it got even better. two more of the supposed favourites, brazil and belgium, playing their last 16 games. as richard conway now reports, there was no

michael buchanan, thank you. investigation following the death of six—year—old alesha mcphail. in woodlandabout the safety of their children. james shaw is on bute and sent us this report. alesha's body was found by a member of the public in woodland. of their inquiry had changed. we are treating her death as a murder investigation. and the news that we've had to give them this evening. of their loved ones and the security of their homes. the amount of police presence... you feel actually worse. obviously, their children. all nervous because of it. we're scared. alesha was on holiday on the island, staying with family. being part of a group. of sympathy and sadness on bute. small island community. james shaw, bbc news, on the island of bute. allegations of sexual assault in britain. already known about. claims against him. victory over colombia. near st petersburg — and david 0rnstein is there. a little weary, david? that will do nothing to dampen the mood of the squad. mood of the squad. to the world cup quarterfinals for the first time in 12 years. the first time in 12 years. to believe

michael buchanan, bbc news.und guilty of four charges of breaking electoral law. the draft of an investigation into vote leave concludes that it broke spending limits and failed to comply with some of the rules. it is expected to impose fines as a result of its findings. the headlines on bbc news: police confirm that two people who fell criticially ill in wiltshire have been exposed to the nerve agent novichok. charlie rowley and dawn sturgess were found unconscious on saturday. police confirm the man arrested on suspicion of murdering six—year—old alesha macphail is under the age of 18. alesha went missing on the isle of bute on saturday. police are continuing to question a nurse, after arresting her on suspicion of murdering eight babies and attempting to murder another six. a nurse is being held on suspicion of the murder of eight babies and the attempted murder of another six at a hospital in chester. 28—year—old lucy letby was arrested yesterday by police investigating infant deaths at the countess of chest

michael buchanan, bbc news.contact with their gps. the health secretary, jeremy hunt, says the app will be available from december to everyone in england. here's our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones. this chest surgery, it's a typically busy monday morning with plenty of people wanting appointments. this practice already offers a lot of information and services online, but could a smartphone app make things more efficient? we have never had a nhs app that makes it accessible and easy. health secretary says the new app is part of a technology revolution that will transform the health service. the app, available to everyone in england from december, will allow you to put appointments with your gp, get descriptions and see your health files. i hope it will save a lot of time for gps so they have more time for their more complex patients who need longer than her minutes. at least at the beginning, the nhs app will be pretty unsophisticated and will be pretty unsophisticated and will be pretty unsophisticat

michael buchanan, bbc news.cial brexit campaign — vote leave — is expected to be found guilty of four charges of breaking electoral law. the draft of an investigation into vote leave concludes that it broke spending limits and failed to comply with some of the rules. it is expected to impose fines as a result of its findings. a nurse is being held on suspicion of the murder of eight babies and the attempted murder of another six at a hospital in chester. 28—year—old lucy letby was arrested yesterday by police investigating infant deaths at the countess of chester hospital. police have also extended their investigation to a second hospital — liverpool women's nhs foundation trust. our correspondent judith moritz reports. lucy letby once said she enjoyed nursing babies as she could see them progress and support their families. now she is suspected of murdering eight infants and trying to kill another six. today, police searches have continued at the nurse's home. forensic officers searching the house and taking it

michael buchanan told us how he sees the trade war playing out.l in terms of the actual implementations of tariffs. but there will be a number of products being hit by tariffs and is a significant concern. it is part of the reason for us to temper our base of investments. you can look around the world and pick one country and region and say, that is a great place to invest. everywhere has concerns. the united states is still very robust. with that will come in tightening by the fed. tightening by the fed and with that a greater chance of the u.s. recession. there could be interesting opportunities in technology. europe, we will be impacted if there is a u.s. recession. there are some really exciting opportunities for us, specific things we are investing in. i think the combination of the with thesions possibility of a recession in the united states is the largest risk we are worried about. we don't expect a full-blown trade war with a wide variety of countries and products. the high level of trade tension is already going to have an impact on busi

our social affairs correspondent, michael buchanan is here. this has become a very public row.is it for her? hugely embarrassing for her. one mp said he had never seen such a row in more than four decades in parliament. it stems from a report the national audit office publisher last month on the welfare change and found significant problems with it, some claimants waiting a long time for their payments, pushing them towards food banks and rent arrears. esther mcvey robustly defended this but today she was forced to say some of the claimed she made were not correct. an open letter was published by the head of the national audit office saying it was odd to hear you say we had ignored recent government changes to the benefit because your own officials signed up dill fund this week before its publication. he also said they did not say that the roll—out of universal credit should be speeded up universal credit should be speeded up at all. so this is an extraordinary rebuke from an impartial observer of how the government spends taxpayers money to a cabinet minister. thank you. the t

yvonne: that was michael buchanan speaking to our very own juliette saly.r apple engineer has been arrested on charges of stealing driverless car secret for a start up. the story is in san francisco. mark, good to see you. at certain levels, the story kind of speaks to the frictions were seeing because that's between the u.s. and china regarding tech. give us some background. >> the background is the autonomous striving car world is one of the hottest deals right now within china and silicon valley. pretty much every tech company that you can think of is working technologies, whether apple, google, amazon, europeanlift, all the car companies. all these companies are fighting for supremacy in this key field that's going to dominate the roads of not only today but tomorrow and for decades to come. -- what a former apple engineer is accused of doing his prior to resign from apple, taking key details and proprietary information from apple campus and presumably or allegedly planning to export that to a chinese autonomous carmaking company based in china. where d