year in the report we find that most violations are carried out by the police and the national intelligence service the s.n. err in comparison with last year we've had fewer allegations of the involvement of the armed forces however we've had much more evidence of the involvement of the embalmer corey part of the youth wing of the party in power they've been given greater freedom of action so that they're not simply acting alongside the police and the national intelligence service they're also acting at the behest of local administrative or for it is and the big advantage the in barak already have got is they're everywhere there are some areas because of the limited number of police where you won't find police but you will find corey everywhere and they are going round intimidating the population and carrying out human rights violations if there are enough international attention on the situation there and weren't enough pressure being born on the perpetrators of these violations. so there are there's plenty of engagement but the degree to which the situation in britain is a sufficiently high prior

russia denies its national intelligence service had anything to do with the attack, but the regime knownged 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 cyber agency, has promised to retaliate against the "brazen kremlin" for russia's alleged nerve agent attack in salisbury. jeremy fleming said the agency would "deploy the full range of tools" to counter the threat posed by vladimir putin's regime. the picture on front of the ft shows supporters of lgbt rights dancing

sudan, and i would like to know what you think about the fact that sudan's former head of intelligence, national service and secret the charte affair at the sudan embassy in the u.s. . need to get a whole file on what's going on in sudan. say this one thing. >> you know, you know, i'll just this, we've been studying al qaeda for so long, okay, and t's just amazing to me that people have still not learned what al qaeda was doing in sudan throughout the first half of the 1990s. still don't understand it, right? even still haven't even processed what the 9/11 commission found about what they were doing in sudan. their big tent version, and the links that they built there and how they developed this whole process. it's an endless source of frustration. august, we hadin the 20th anniversary of the u.s. bombings, which, the original ideas for that were was ructed while al qaeda in sudan. people don't even realize there is a 9/11 commission report, osama bin laden decided to do was he and al qaeda decided hey were going to go to inand hezbollah and ask, how did you do those bombings in 1983 in lebanon that mad

know what you all think about the fact that sudan's former head of intelligence, national intelligence and secret service is now at the sudan embassy in the us. >> i need to get a whole file from you because i don't follow the politics as much. as a nerd, i'll say this one thing. you know, i'll say this. we've been studying al qaeda for so long and it's amazing to me that people have still not learned what al qaeda was doing in dan in the first half of 1990. ill don't understand it. people haven't processed the 9/11 commission and what they were doing with the big think k tank version and the ways they built there and develop this whole process. it's an endless source of frustration. we passed in august 20 anniversary of the us embassy bombings which the original ideas for that were constructed while al qaeda was in the sudan and people don't even realize it was a 9/11 commission report that osama bin laden decided to do was he and al qaeda were going to go to iran and hezbollah and ask how did you do those bombings and make the americans retreat and around and hezbollah said it's all in the 9/11 commiss

know what you all think about the fact that sudan's former head of intelligence, national intelligence, and secret service is now at the affair here at the sudan embassy in the u.s.? >> i probably need to get a whole file from you on sudan. as a nerd i will say one thing -- >> i will just check here -- >> exactly. >> you know, but, you know, i'll say this, we've been studying al qaeda for so long and it's just amazing to me that people who have still not learned what al qaeda was doing in sudan throughout the first half of the 1990s, still don't understand it. people haven't processed with the 9/11 commission found about what they were doing in sudan, their tent version of jihadism and links they built there and develop this whole process. it's an endless source of frustration. we passed in august we had the 20th anniversary of the u.s. embassy bombings which it was -- the original ideas for that, right, were constructed while al qaeda was in sudan. people don't even realize this is in the 9/11 commission report that what osama bin laden decided to do was he and al qaeda decided they were going to go to i

national intelligence, fourth were -- former see i-8 -- cia director and -- they will gather for a discussion about the relation between presidents and the intelligence community. at 8:35 we will bring you the national service from the pentagon. then president trump who spoke at the flight 93 memorial. , tom kean and lee hamilton. some30, the 9/11 memorial -- ceremony from new york city. reporter bob post woodward is our washington journal just talking about his new book. tuesday at 8:30 a.m., ken starr joins us to talk about his book. join us next week on c-span's washington journal. >>

forward once again in the spirit of service to aid our state and serve in a seat vacated by arizona's most beloved adopted son, john mccain. announcer: next, national intelligence director dan coats on threats to the u.s.. he addressed what he referred to as the big 4,, russia, china, iran and north korea. this 25 minute speech was hosted communicationse and electronics association and the intelligence and national security alliance. national security alliance into the armed forces in electronics association. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [applause] our mission is to lead intelligence integration and form an intelligence committee that delivers the most insightful intelligence possible. this is the mission statement of the officer of the director of national intelligence, integrating the incredible people abilities of the 17 elements of the u.s. intelligence community, forging seamless collaboration and innovation across intelligence intelligencehuman air, space, land, sea, and cyber-domains, and leveraging that collaboration to deliver the most incisive intelligence advantage. this is the work that yields new insights, that protect a

national health service in responding to these incidents. let me thank all those involved in the police and intelligence community for their time and painstaking work which has led to today's announcement. mr. speaker, back in march, to doubtw it -- sought these attacks. today's announcement shows that we were right. we were right to act against the russian state in the way we did, and we are right to step up our efforts against the gru. we will not tolerate or baric attacks against our country. together with our allies, this government will continue to do whatever necessary to keep our people safe. i commend this statement to the house. when congress returns wednesday, the house will work on a fiscal 2019 spending bill for veterans affairs, military construction, and energy and water projects. they will also debate a bill to change the definition of a full-time employee for health care insurance, and 30 hours a week to 40. the senate will continue to debate on a new irs commissioner, and will consider bills for dealing with opioid addiction and allowing pharmacists to provide perception drug pricing information. watch gavel-to-gavel coverage

outstanding efforts of the emergency services and national health service in responding to these incidents, and we thank all those involved in the peace and intelligence communities for their painstaking work that has led to today's announcement. back in march, russia sought to sew doubt about the evidence we divided to this house, and some were of a mind to believe them. today's announcement shows we were right. we were right to react the way we did and we are right now to step up efforts against the gru feud -- gru. together with allies, this government will continue to do whatever is necessary to keep our people safe. i commend this statement to the house. >> at u.n. headquarters on thursday, russia's ambassador to the human denied the country's involvement in a nerve agent attack during a security council meeting chaired by nikki haley. in also included remarks from the british ambassador. this is 35 minutes. >> this morning the security council addresses the use of chemical weapons for first of two times today. as we have previously, the united states expresses its unequivocal condemnation of the use of chemical weapons. in salisbury or anywhere

intelligence community. at 8:35 we will bring you the national service from the pentagon. then president trump who spoke at the flight 93 memorial. , tom kean and lee hamilton. some30, the 9/11 memorial -- ceremony from new york city. reporter bob post woodward is our washington journal just talking about his new book. tuesday at 8:30 a.m., ken starr joins us to talk about his book. join us next week on c-span's washington journal. >> the national academies of science, engineering and medicine released a report recommending steps that adderall andstate -- federal, state local officials could take. coming up, a conversation about the report. >> good morning and welcome to everyone here with us today, and to those who were joining us on the web. on the report began in 2016 when the national academy of science, engineering and medicine appointed an independent committee to review the state of u.s. election infrastructure. the work was supported with grants from the carnegie foundation and the william and flora flat -- foundation. the community was asked to do several things,

two suspects in this group all case as russian nationals alexander petroff and the sheriff and claimed that they are members of the russian intelligence service former russian agent screwball and his daughter yulia were poisoned with the nerve agent in salisbury back in march the incident was immediately blamed on russia and led to an enormous fallout in relations between london and moscow. ok so i guess we'll find you course in their own words about all this no reaction yet from britain as to whether they're going to make any use of this information for now though a lot of also thanks for that. thanks for watching on t international just up to twenty eight minutes past ten here this wednesday morning i'll be back and i often feel next news update hope to see that. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance i'm bart chilton in washington thanks for being on the board coming up today we take a look at the currency crisis in turkey argentina and india we do so with the help from john grace the founder and president of investors advantage corp and from paris are two charlotte dubinsky takes a l

service to our nation. before president trump nominated her to be the first female director of the central intelligence agency, most americans obviously didn't know anything about gina. she made the few public appearances, most of her life had been spent in the shadows. maybe most unbelievable to the young people here, gina didn't even have a twitter account. so as the senate considered her nomination, we learned more about her. we learned about her impressive career as an intelligence officer spinning more than three decades. we heard some interesting facts such as how she keeps a cardboard cutout of johnny cash in her office as a symbol of american individualism. but i found one aspect of her biography rather shocking. this will shock you, too. although she graduated from the university of louisville, she now calls herself a u.k. basketball fan. [laughter] i'm sure she will explain not in the conversation. i'm not sure how she kept her allegiance to the wildcats a secret during her time here, but it clearly, clearly prepared her for a career in the clandestine services. [laughter] so common gina isn't that

lot of colleges and universities and i find still a lot of interest in public service, national security, and the intelligence community. sureu look -- i am almost if you look at the statistics on applications, they probably have not gone down very much. >> go ahead. from the overflow room. >> i agree with everybody. over multiplethis restrictions. i've written about this. we have had presidency disagreed with us and we have argued about the facts. we have had presidency disregarded the facts. we have never had a president for him the facts are not the departure point, for his reasoning and decision-making. i do not mean that to be judgmental. i mean that to be descriptive. that is a fairly accurate description of this president. that makes it very hard to influence. it does not change the dose -- ethos. it does not change our responsibility. sometimes --rface the teeth do not mesh. >> i think we're going to have to end it there. we could go all night and you all would love if we went all night. we do have to let our folks leave here. thank you for being a patient audience. we did not get to as many answers a

office for the protection of the constitution the domestic intelligence service has also been accused of negligence in the case of the nationalsocialist underground and neo nazi terror cell responsible for the death of ten people now mohsen has to see if you can still count on subparts especially from his spouse and minister hosty of. authorities in the southeastern united states are warning people to brace for devastation as hurricane florence heads towards the region the calling the storm a monster the governor of north carolina says it will be like nothing state has ever seen before and he urged people to follow orders to evacuate residents of coastal areas in south carolina and virginia are also being told to leave immediately. i think i have a theory. and i read them. a scramble to prepare before the storm hits. hurricane florence is expected to make landfall on thursday with torrential rains and winds of more than two hundred kilometers per hour. we are playing for devastation this is not a i like storm this is not a glancing blow this is a category four category five storm the hurricane is massive eight hundred kilomet

i find a lot of interest in public service and national security and the intelligence community today. if you look at the statistics on applications, but have not gone down by much. >> i believe -- agree with everybody. i've had commanders to say i don't agree with you. , we havenction here had presidents who disagree with us and we have argued about the facts. we've had presidents who disregard -- disregard our fax and my. i don't mean that to be judgmental just descriptive. that is an accurate description of this president. hard for the very fact-based guys it doesn't change the oath or our responsibility. the interface between our ears office, thethe oval teeth don't mesh. i think we will have to end it there. we could go all night. we do have to let our folks free here. thank you for being a wonderful audience. we did not get to as many questions and answers and we had hoped. there is a reception following. you will have opportunities to challenge these individuals. to stay in everyone their seats for just a moment or two longer so we can let the guests off the stage and the first

intelligence service. richard galpin reports. these are the two men, both russian nationalssuspected of poisoning sergei and yulia skripal with the deadly nerve agent novichok. named as alexander petrov and ruslan boshirov although these are probably aliases. and the police investigation has video footage showing their movements from the moment they arrived at gatwick airport on march the 2nd, two days before the poisoning. from gatwick, they travelled to east london, staying in a hotel where investigators found traces of novichok, although those traces soon faded. on saturday march the 3rd, they travelled by train to salisbury where it is alleged they carried out reconnaissance before returning to london. on sunday, they gain travelled to salisbury by train and they were seen near the house of the skripals just before midday. they were seen near the house of the skripalsjust before midday. it they were seen near the house of the skripals just before midday. it is alleged around this time, the novichok nerve agent was sprayed on the door handle. later that day, they were see

the emergency services and national health service in responding to these incidents and let me think all of those days and let me thank all of those involved in the intelligence community that led to today's announcement. today's announcement shows that we were right. we were right to act against the russian state in the way we did and we are right now to step up our efforts against the gru. we will not tolerate such a barbaric attack against our country and this government will continue to do whatever is necessary to keep our people safe. >>>

the emergency services and national health service in responding to these incidents and let me think all of those days and let me thank all of those involved in the intelligence community that led to today's announcement. today's announcement shows that we were right. we were right to act against the russian state in the way we did and we are right now to step up our efforts against the gru. we will not tolerate such a barbaric attack against our country and this government will continue to do whatever is necessary to keep our people safe. >>> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up wednesday morning, a discussion of brett kavanaugh's supreme court confirmation hearings. then, a political reporter joins us to talk about wednesday's hearings on foreign influence on social media platforms. be sure to watch washington journal thursday morning and join the discussion. >>> here is what we are covering thursday, live on the c-span networks. the house will continue work on allowing small-scale exports of liquefied natural gas. the house is on at 10:00 eastern . brett kavanaugh will take more questions from m

national security presidential memorandum. this action rolled back key parts of the obama administration's failed cuban policy, tightened restrictions on u.s. tourism to the island, restricted the flow of money to the cuban military, intelligence, and security service, and continued u.s. support of the nation's private small business sector in cuba. the trump administration has continued u.s. support for democracy and human rights in cuba, and in calling for the release of political prisoners, multiple efforts exist to support the critical work of human rights defenders on the island, communicate independent news to the cuban people through the office of cuban broadcasting, and increase internet connectivity with state departments internet task force. i fully support these actions. however, given the state of cuban destabilization actions in the region and subsequent migration flows and increasing instability throughout the hemisphere, i believe it is the u.s. national interest to work more with regional partners to curb the cuban regimes ability to wreak havoc on his people and the region. the u.s. should also continually update the list of 180 prohibited cuban entities and individuals announced last year to further prevent u.s. financing to cuban

standing efforts of the emergency services and national health service in responding to these incidents and let me thank all those involved in the police and intelligence community for their tireless and painstaking work which has led to today's announcement. this is because back in march russia sought to sow doubt and uncertainty about the evidence we presented to this house and some were minded to believe them today's announcement shows that we were right we were right to act against the russian state in the way we did and we are right now to step up our efforts against the g.r.u. we will not tolerate such barbaric attacks against our country and together with our allies this government will continue to do whatever is necessary to keep our people safe and i commend this statement today. that was to reason may the british prime minister addressing the house of commons are we going to listen to the opposition leader jeremy corbyn i'm not entirely sure whether we're going to listen to jeremy colvin but we are going to talk to lawrence the our correspondent who heard what mrs they had to say and lawrence i suppose the most damning element of trees amaze

of national intelligence leads the united states intelligence community and serves as the principal intelligence advisor to the president of the united states. drawing upon decades of public service in the united states army, as a member of the house of representatives, the united states ambassador to germany, and two separate chapters as united states senator, director advises the president and the national security council everyday on the threat landscape facing the country, a set of geo-strategic challenges. privilege tocular be able to introduce a leader who has set the vision for performance we all follow. ladies and gentlemen, join me in welcoming the director of national intelligence, the honorable daniel coats. [applause] dan coats: good afternoon. we're all coming from the three-day weekend, which makes live in francee because they take a three day weekend every week. i am honored to speak to you today. thank maria for the tiaerous introduction, leti for her efforts in pulling office together. and for the organization of this togetherringing academia and the private sector indeal with issues that are many ways overwhelming in the state of the world. i would love to be ab

nation of automation. we hear about new advances in technology all of the time from driverless cars to artificial intelligence services shows that americans are starting to hear robots taking over the workplace and eventually taking their jobs twenty seventeen goals. in the pew research center found that more than seventy percent of americans are concerned about a future where robots are capable of doing human jobs and sixty seven percent are worried about the introduction of algorithms that determine which candidates are hired for jobs in fact seventy six percent of americans said they would not apply to a job or thing you were a computer was deciding their fate and more than half said they would not ride in a driverless car or use a robot caregiver yet even with their growing concerns a poll of twenty seven hundred people from both the u.s. and u.k. found that most employees believe artificial intelligence will kill off forty percent of jobs within the next decade while mcdonald's has made headlines for plans to increase self ordering machines there are other companies that have faced backlash for implementing new t

congress and brief the cia, director of national intelligence, the commandant of the marine corps, and the navy seals. dr. gorka is a recipient of the joint service commendation which was awarded by u.s. special operations command area his book was a "new york times bestseller fight, new book, why we is for sale at our conference bookstore. he will be doing a book signing after he speaks. let's give a warm welcome to dr. sebastian gorka. [applause] dr. gorka: thank you for that warm welcome. it is great to be here. i can see so many familiar faces. i think charlie and candace may be around here. it is wonderful to be invited here. i am different from your breakfast speaker. i like preaching to the choir. and i think the protesters you had last night, i do not think you could have appealed to them even with emotional messages. they were not there to listen. they were not there to engage. they were paid to be rabble-rousers. as we say in the u.k., horses for courses and i'm going to give you a different type of speech today. the one thing i agree with your morning speaker very deeply on is that one bullet point she had on stories. everybody loves a

national intelligence leads the u.s. intelligence community answers as the principal intelligence adviser to the president of the united states. drawing upon decades of public service, in the united states army, as a member of the house of representatives, united states ambassador to germany and two to make separate chapters as united states senator. director coats advises the president of the national security council every day of the threat landscape facing the country. a set of geostrategic challenges that are the most complex the nation has faced in decades. it's a particular privilege to be able to introduce the leader to a set division for for excellent and performance that we all follow. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming our keynote speaker, the director of national intelligence, the honorable daniel coats. [applause] >> well, good afternoon. we are all coming from a three-day weekend which makes one want to thank that live in france because they take a three-day weekend every week. i'm really honored to be asked to speak to you today. i want to thank maria for the generous introduction, it is long for efforts in point is altogether. and for

national security. russia denies its military intelligence service, the gru, had anything to do with the attack, but the under an international spotlight. lucinda adam, bbc news. the presidents of iran, russia and turkey are holding a key summit today in tehran that could decide the fate of the last major rebel—held region in syria. the three countries have played a central role in the syrian conflict. turkey, which has long backed rebel groups, has repeatedly warned that an all—out assault on idlib would trigger a humanitarian disaster. russia and iran, who've provided vital support for president assad, believe the fighters must be forced out. the new us envoy for syria has said there is "lots of evidence" that syrian government forces are preparing to use chemical weapons in the province. with rebel forces defeated in most of syria, the offensive in the north—western province of idlib could prove to be the last major battle of the seven—year civil war. there are believed to be up to 30,000 rebel and jihadist fighters in idlib. in a moment will talk to our correspondent tom bateman in beirut and mark l

national security. russia denies its military intelligence service, the gru, had anything to do with the attack, but thee secrecy has been dragged under an international spotlight. lucinda adam, bbc news. police in brazil are questioning a man suspected of stabbing the leading candidate in the country's presidential election. doctors said the right—wing politician, jair bolsonaro, could have died after being attacked during a campaign rally. he suffered serious internal injuries. almost half the people who bought a leasehold house in the past decade had no idea what they were getting into, according to a new study. research from the national association of estate agents found home—buyers faced high fees and charges, with many feeling they were mis—sold. the study follows controversy which led the government to crackdown on what they called "unjustified" leasehold houses. 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 — previous

forward once again in the spirit of service to aid our state and serve in a seat vacated by arizona's most beloved adopted son, john mccain. announcer: next, national intelligence director dan coats on threats to the u.s.. he addressed what he referred to as the big 4,, russia, china, iran and north korea. this 25 minute speech was hosted communicationse and electronics association and

well the identity of the two nations is known now with little useful services for the russian armed forces and intelligencereaucratic. it could also be that they are afraid ofjournalists or other intelligence agencies tracking them down. and it‘s holding something in the western media about them. that russia does not want to be shown. a russia sort of feels that he needs to get ahead in scripting the whole thing and sort of dominating the narrative about them. and that it is better to act quickly and to go out with names now. the russian president has said the pair will appear soon and tell their story. how likely do you think thatis their story. how likely do you think that is and when might we see or perhaps just hear from them? that is and when might we see or perhapsjust hear from them? equally ha rd to perhapsjust hear from them? equally hard to tell, but i guess it is in the next few weeks to keep the story alive. we cannot guess how well prepared a rb forehand, creating an alternative narrative for them, creating for social media interest that messed up. it would make their story credible because th

national security at all. >> he was still lying. when you have an unsecured server as hillary clinton did, every single first class intelligence servicen the world will go after that server. even people we consider to be friendly because they are dying for that kind of information and it's relatively easy to get. she was so criminally gross in her conduct and carelessly and recklessly endangered the country with her security violations sending that classified information, 22 classified emails alone in addition to secret and confidential emails. her criminal conduct endangered the united states. david: is it too late to go back into this. >> it's a compelling urgent requirement to do exactly that. not just for the sake of the loss of information, the vulnerability and the damage assessment that is yet to be done. but also message it send. we have 4 million people running around this country with security clearances. do you think there is any disparity of treatment? and who is most of prejudice by this conduct of hillary clinton? the american people are. they are owed justice on this. david: we have been dealing a lot with mueller. when

intelligence services. if these folks think that lending information to the fbi to conduct a national security investigation result in the president revealing those sources, they're going to be reluctant to approach us or to cooperate with us. that's just a simple fact of life. >> david jolly, i feel the need to just go back and remind everybody, skprjust take a mome. the president this week called the fbi a cancer in our country. there are agents tonight all over this country preparing for court cases in the morning, serving warrants tonight with their fbi jackets on, needing to enforce the law. this can't help their lives. >> you cannot undo the damage that donald trump has done to the law enforcement community and to career law enforcement agents, both at the fbi, but in other court of law enforcement agencies as well. these are public servants who protect us and frankly protect the president of the united states himself, and while we can have discussions about it, the reality is the president's words matter particularly to his base, and they get repeated on other networks that are happy to defend the pr

united nations that it categorically rejects allegations that it was involved in the nerve agent attack in salisbury. yesterday, theresa may said two russians from the military intelligence servicee thought to have carried out the attack. they are accused of the attempted murder of the former russian spy sergei skripal and his daughter yulia, who were poisoned with the nerve agent novichok, in march this year. 0ur diplomatic correspondent james landale reports. these are the pictures the government believes show russia's responsibility for the first use of chemical weapons on european soil in decades. two russian military intelligence officers — alias alexander petrov and ruslan boshirov — flying to britain in march, taking the train to salisbury, laying a trail of deadly nerve agent on orders ministers say from the very top. all of which british diplomats in new york said was reckless and malign behaviour by one of the five permanent members of the united nations security council. 0ne p5 member has undertaken a pattern of behaviour which showed they tried to murder the skripals, they played dice with the lives of the people of salisbury. they work in a parallel universe where t

nation's policies not ministry officials. again germany's top domestic spy stands in the middle of a heated debate. how serious is this latest allegation against moscow. well the interior intelligence service has reacted to these reports this morning they told us that the information that was given was given at the explicit. wish or on the explicit wish of the interior ministry that no information was polished on against any contravened any laws on the other hand opposition leaders from the green party have told us that apparently also details of the budget of the interior intelligence service may have been discussed with the far right if the if that is the case that certainly contravenes those because these figures are highly cone highly confidential and can only be to be discussed with very select groups of parliamentarians at the moment it seems as though this is very likely to escalate further the social democrats have demanded that the three leaders of the parties involved in this coalition that is medical the chancellor from the conservative c.d.u. the bavarian. interior minister hospital from the bavarian cause of servitors and the social democrat leader until they are not as they w

nationals as suspects in the poisoning of former spy sergei skripal and his daughter yulia. the two individuals named by the police and cps are officers from the russian military intelligence service, also known as the gru. a daughter enslaved by islamic state is freed. we report on the plight of the yazidi community in iraq. i was scared to come back. i was scared my family would kill me. i was so scared my family would kill me. i was so surprised at the welcome i bought. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme: warnings of a global health threat as a deadly new superbug sweeps hospitals across the world. and love scooters, hate smog. can taiwan's two wheelers ditch petrol — and go electric? live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 7 am in singapore and midnight in london where two russian military intelligence officers have been named as the suspects in the attempted murder of the former russian spy sergei skripal and his daughter yulia. british police have released images of alexander petrov and ruslan boshirov after going through 11 thousand hours of cctv footage. but moscow has denied any knowledge of t

nationals identified as alexander petrov and rushlan borisov. british prime minister theresa may says they were in the russian military intelligence service and saysk was not a rogue operation. >> the actions of the grow au a threat to our allies and citizens. and on the basis of what we have learned in the salisbury organization and what we know about this organization more broadly, we must step up our collective efforts specifically against the gru. >> sergei skripal and his daughter were poisoned but not killed. >>> comics are having a ball with bob woodward's new book. here are your late-night laughs. >> "washington post" has released some of bob woodward's exposÉ of the trump administration "fear." a book named after the emotion trump feels wherever he sees a book. [ laughter ] >> the president was upset that he wasn't interviewed for the book. in fact, he called bob woodward to say so and woodward got that all on tape. it's quite a conversation. unbelievable. at this point the trump administration has had more men tell alls from the bachelorette. >> president trump once told rudy giuliani that he was a baby and then out of habit he added "bu

nationals as suspects in the attempted murder sergei skripal and his daughter yulia. the men, using the names ruslan boshirov and alexander petrov, are thought to be officers from russia's military intelligence service his daughter were poisoned with the nerve agent novichok in salisbury in march this year. but moscow has denied any knowledge of the men, as our security correspondent gordon corera reports. these two russians now stand accused of the salisbury nerve agent attack. it claimed in march they deployed the nerve agent that poisoned sergei skripal and his daughter, and which months later accidentally contaminated charlie rowley and killed dawn sturgess. police say they came to the country as alexander petrov and ruslan boshirov, but those are thought to be false names, used by two undercover operatives. the government has concluded the two individuals named by the police and cps are officers from the russian military intelligence service, also known as the gru. the gru is a highly disciplined organisation with a well—established chain of command. so this was not a rogue operation. it was almost certainly also approved outside the gru at a senior level of the russian state. the two men, poli