the inquiry has obtained these documents held by the security service mi5, which record that the directorsecutions press representative had untruthfully told bartlett, a journalist, that they had no record of this case. smith was re—elected in greater numbers than before and, farfrom diminishing him, the allegations appear to have had absolutely no effect whatsoever. also under investigation, the rife sexual abuse linked to this residential school, knowl view, where smith was a governor. at one point, a sex offender roamed its corridors at night. but, as with cyril smith, the central allegation is of a cover—up. this inquiry is attempting to learn the lessons of the past so that children can be better protected in future. tom symons, bbc news, at the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse. there's growing pressure on the leaders of catalonia to abandon their plans to declare the region independent from spain. the catalan president is due to address the parliament tomorrow, in what's likely to be a major milestone in the political crisis and he's previously signalled that a formal dec

the daily telegraph carries a warning from the head of britain's security service mi5 that terror attacksannot be prevented in a free society. the guardian reports on the last blog post published by murdered maltese journalist daphne ca ruana galizia, where she signs off with the words "there are crooks everywhere you look, the situation is desperate." the china daily is of course focussing on the 19th national congress and says the country will stick to the policy of opening up and further expanding market access to foreign investors. and finally, city am has billionaire richard branson getting in a pickle over scammers who almost conned him out of millions. we will reflect on that in a moment but let's begin. with me is andrew tuck, the editor of monocle, a global news and business magazine. andrew, good to see you again. good to see you. let's start on daesh, the taking back of raqqa, as is a lwa ys the taking back of raqqa, as is always the case, it takes so long to do it. even now i see they are still saying there are a few is militants holding up in there? roughly 90% of holding up

security correspondent, frank gardner. four terrorist attacks in britain, inspired by so—called islamic state, in the space of six months. most of the attackers were already known to mi5, the security serviceal addressed journalists on the extent of the current threat. we've seen a dramatic up shift in threat this year. it's at the highest tempo i've seen in my 34—year career. i asked him why mi5 was unable to stop those attacks by known extremists. the likelihood is that sometimes attacks can happen, we've seen that. i've also said the likelihood is that when an attack happens, it may be done by somebody that we know or have known at some point in the past. were that not so, it would mean that we were looking completely in the wrong place. when three men attacked people with a van and knives in southwark in june, it turned out their ring leader was this man, khuram butt, a well—known extremist already on mi5‘s radar. what's the point of surveillance if someone is free to do that? one of the main challenges we've got is that we only ever have fragments of information. we have to try to assemble a picture of what might happen based on those fragments. sometimes i've talked about today pinpr

the enquiry has obtained these documents held by the security service, mi5, which record that the dppjournalist that they had no record of this case. smith was re-elected in greater numbers than before and far from diminishing him, the allegations appear to have had absolutely no effect whatsoever. also went —— under investigation, sexual abuse link to this school, where smith was a governor. at one point a six offender roamed its corridors at night. but as with cyril smith, the central allegation is ofa cyril smith, the central allegation is of a cover—up. this enquiry is attempting to learn the lessons of the past so children can be better protected in the future. tom symonds, bbc news. tom symonds, bbc news. a man from birmingham who planned to target a railway line with a bomb made out of fairy lights and a doorbell has been jailed for life. thejudge at doorbell has been jailed for life. the judge at winchester crown court said he was strongly committed to carrying out multiple bombings after killing hundreds of videos posted by islamic state. defence company bae systems is set to

in a children‘s home and residential school in rochdale have obtained new evidence from the security service mi5 called him mr rochdale. he became mayor of the town from labour but defected to the liberals. do you want a man to represent you or a party robot? in the ‘60s, it was never revealed he had been accused of sexually abusing deprived boys. now this public inquiry intends to get to the bottom of it. the decision to embark upon this investigation was in part in response to the public concern that some politicians, including cyril smith, were involved in child sexual abuse, and able to abuse with impunity because they were protected by the establishment. it‘s claimed cyril smith abused boys at a hostel, cambridge house, which closed in the mid—‘60s. it is now a private home. when police began an investigation in 1970, smith asked for a meeting. a transcript records a police officer saying... you want to see what we know? smith started laughing. well yes, fishing, i think that‘s fair comment. cyril smith was hoping to move from local politics to national. he told the police... or another whe

security correspondent frank gardner reports. four terrorist attacks in britain, inspired by so—called islamic state, in the space of six months. most of the attackers were already known to mi5, the security servicector general addressed journalists on the extent of the current threat. we've seen a dramatic up—shift in threat this year. it's at the highest tempo i've seen in my 34—year career. i asked him why mi5 was unable to stop those attacks by known extremists. the likelihood is that sometimes attacks can happen, we've seen that. i've also said the likelihood is that when an attack happens, it may be done by somebody that we know or have known at some point in the past. were that not so, it would mean that we were looking completely in the wrong place. when three men attacked people with a van and knives in southwark in june, it turned out their ring leader was this man, khuram butt, a well—known extremist already on mis‘s radar. what's the point of surveillance if someone is free to do that? one of the main challenges we've got is that we only ever have fragments of information. we have to try to assemble a picture of what might happen based on those fragments. sometimes, i've talked about

most of the attackers were already known to mi5, the security service.d journalists on the extent of the current threat. we've seen a dramatic up shift in threat this year. it's at the highest tempo i've seen in my 34—year career. i asked him why mi5 was unable to stop those attacks by known extremists. the likelihood is that sometimes attacks can happen, we've seen that. i've also said the likelihood is that when an attack happens, it may be done by somebody that we know or have known at some point in the past. were that not so, it would mean we were looking completely in the wrong place. when three men attacked people with a van and knives in southwark in june, it turned out the ring leader was this man, khuram butt, a well—known extremist already on mi5‘s radar. what's the point of surveillance if someone is able to do that? one of the main challenges we've got is that we only ever have fragments of information. we have to try and assemble a picture of what might happen based on those fragments. sometimes i've talked about today pinpricks of light in

this inquiry made a request to mi5, the security service, to see if it had any information that was relevantth had been investigated. smith was re—elected in greater numbers than before and far from diminishing him, the allegations appear to have had absolutely no effect whatsoever. cyril smith will be at the centre of these three weeks of hearings but the allegations are much wider, that paedophiles had easy access to children in rochdale and that it was covered up. the snp leader nicola sturgeon says she won't consider a second independence referendum until there is greater clarity on a brexit deal. she acknowledged the snp still has to build its case for a second vote. she suggested she will instead focus ona she suggested she will instead focus on a domestic agenda and hinted she would be prepared to raise taxes in scotla nd would be prepared to raise taxes in scotland to pay for public services. our correspondent is in glasgow. the focus of today's conference will be on westminster, there will be attacks on what the snp describe as tory austerity and the effect of spending cuts on scotl