the teenager, safaa boular, is on trial for planning to travel to syria to join naweed hussain, and ofuk. our home affairs correspondent, june kelly, was in court. what did the court here this morning? in april2017, safaa boular had turned 17 and she and her family we re had turned 17 and she and her family were being monitored by the police and security service m15 and they we re and security service m15 and they were recording their conversations. towards the start of april, news came through from syria that safaa boular‘s fiance naweed hussain, who is originally from coventry, had been killed. he was out there fighting with the islamic state. what the recording picks up is safaa boular‘s reaction. their relationship was conducted online and he was a lot older than her, but she goes completely hysterical. she is heard sobbing and then you hear her mother and sister trying to reassure her. there is a lot of shouting and it is incredibly noisy, this whole recording. the mother and sister tried to tell her that naweed hussain is in paradise and waiting for her and she is sobbing uncontr

but it is claimed that she and naweed hussain were intending to be together, and then planned to donilled in the city of raqqa. after his death, the jury heard, she was back on social media talking about mounting an attack in the uk. she didn't realise she was communicating with undercover agents from the british security services. she talked about using a car and a knife. she had previously discussed an ambush with grenades or firearms. safaa boular allegedly planned to launch an attack here in the area around the british museum in central london — described in court as a culturaljewel and a popular tourist attraction. the jury was told this would have been an attack that at the very least would have caused widespread panic, but was intended to inflict serious injury and death. her barrister told the court she had been sexually groomed to be radicalised by a man twice her age and herfamily had encouraged and celebrated her radicalisation. it can now be reported that her older sister rizlaine has admitted planning a separate knife attack in the area around the houses of parliament. t

the first is she tried to leave the uk to join islamic state and marry a man called naweed hussain, aher mother and sister were dragged into that plot as well. today we have heard from safaa boular herself, now 18, in the witness box, explaining in detail this relationship she had with naweed hussain. he is in syria. she revealed that they secretly married, for want of a better expression, in an online ceremony. and after that, that he tried to encourage her to join him in syria but when that became ready impossible for her to do so, the police had her passport because she was already being monitored, he then encouraged her three times to try and attack the uk. each of those she said she rejected and today she said she was not guilty of preparing acts of terrorism. in a moment the business news with egon cossou. first a look at the headlines on afternoon live. and as you've been hearing, marks and spencer's profits plummet, down more than 60% as the retailer pays the price for closing stores. three weeks into the job, home secretary sajid javid promises to reset the relationship betwe