mayor sadiq khan of london. thank you for joining us from austin. >>> two important issues for america and the world in our focus tonight. and that is it for our program. thanks for watching "amanpour" on pbs and join us again tomorrow night. >>> "amanpour" on pbs was made possible by the generous support of rosalind p. walter. ♪ ♪ ♪

it was enormously helpful and turned into the source of numerous stories exposing dirty london, the london financial world and came to trust me. he was desperate to have someone in his life who would listen to him and actually hear him and not judge him through the lens of this is an evil criminal. i am pretty empathetic usually, like most other journalists at the time i viewed him, and i loved the idea of cops busting as a journalist, nor bankers need to be locked up and i was a cheerleader for the idea and the irony is a banking criminal, and i was meeting with tom at least once a week. this guy is not the big party guy, really true, he loved me taking him out to tgi friday's where he would get something really fancy and didn't drink at all. eventually his wife found out we were secretly meeting and threatened to divorce him and if he continued and we had to develop a more clandestine way of arranging to meet. after a year of this, tom has not been on trial yet, he is awaiting trial, started cooperating with the british authorities to help build cases against alleged co-conspirators and

and as break that news london face it could lose its top creative talent. base is your business update on how to humphrey invited good to have you with us as promised u.s. president donald trump has slapped tariffs on china in response to a trade deficit which he has termed out of control and allegations of industrial scale intellectual property theft the levies on steel an ottoman image you to come into force tomorrow meanwhile the european union and six other countries have been spared the same fate for now at least they have been granted temporary exemptions u.s. trade representative robert light told a senate panel that trump has authorized a quote pools in the tariffs while talks are underway to find a more permanent solution argentina australia brazil canada mexico and south korea will also be exempt from the twenty five percent tariffs on steel imports and ten percent tariffs on the menu. while the same cannot be said for china the world's second largest economies facing levies on products coming into the united states worth up to sixty billion dolla

outside of london, there is a world outside of london, there is a world outside of london, amazingly, there is poor public transport, and houses are being built, and every house has two cars, roads cannot take that number of cars, there are too many cars, it is not good enough or frequent enough, public transport, and if you ta ke enough, public transport, and if you take away bus lanes, and sometimes in london the buses are back—to—back, you can walk across them rather than get on them. i think everyone should stay at home, check their facebook all the time... 0r... all, stay away from the quizzes, all, join elon musk, have your car floating around in space! the mail, and the sun. plastic bottles victory for the daily mail... they have one in 5p charge on plastic bags in the past, and now a bottle scheme... there is nothing new. you will not remember this, but we do! whatever happened to the limit bottles. i do find this astonishing, the daily mail has no shame! it is a 10—year campaign against plastic pollution. i seem to remember they were very disgruntled about the 5p plasti

markets in london. well you say you summed up the numbers quite nicely just a few few minutes ago and you talked about the fact that the european economy now perform the u.k. economy and that is only true. contrary to the predictions of doom and gloom that work came out the fall the brics referendum economic growth actually hasn't been that bad and let's not forget here that the u.k. economy has expanded from twenty consecutive quarters has been expanding since two thousand and twelve the economic recovery here is much more mature than say for example the economic recovery in europe so i think we are slightly ahead of you in the economic cycle which would i think reinforce the reasons i think why the european economy is probably growing at a faster right but certainly i think there are there are obviously negatives inflation you mentioned it is slightly higher it has pressed down on consumer spending but overall the unemployment rate is twenty five year low and wages to finally starts to be appear to be

they joining us now from london is our correspondent of it so good evening to you tess so so what do we know so far about the investigation into coffs death so he has been found yes of the night probably by its doctor but these requests have not been confirmed there was a report that he had traces of strangulation on his neck and that even the name has to now not been consent police so we have to wait in the met and requests of needless to say that he lived a very quiet life it was nice he came back two weeks ago from an operation on his leg with an kratos so he didn't seem to have the easiest periods of his life but right now. i'm tell us more about scalds background and why it's important. he was an associate in friend of or a spare izhevsk who was not only in a russian oligarch an ex and might want the most pronounced poutine critics of the past eighteen years and. because he was in this. had lots of problems also till today with a russian authorities he first when barry's us he moved to london in two thousand. was put in jail for fraud for a few minutes in russia and after he was

subsequently also killed him here in london and it was a case that really strained the u.k. russian relations it was a long standing inquest which was pursued by the widow of alexander litvinenko so of course it's something that comes to mind when you hear a case like this but the police saying it's not a counterterrorism operation at this moment but of course. you know people will be thinking about what what happened here before ok ok our correspondent there you must there in london with this breaking news story a sixty six year old man a thirty three year old woman the man we understand is a former russian spy who both of them living in the u.k. in critical condition this evening having been exposed to an unknown substance thank you very much. the ramifications of italy's national action are starting to unfold with its once promising leader former prime minister matteo renzi has resigned as head of the center left democratic party after a bruising defeat in the polls frenzy made the announcement just moments ago his party won less than nineteen percent of the vote that is

they should get out now and ta ke london. they should get out now and take their families and be gone immediately. that sounds like an invitation, or are you saying that he would take steps to force them out? i am saying that we should make it absolutely clear that their wealth is not acceptable here, we should be using unexplained wealth orders to freeze the assets and seize their goods and should be robust. but there are lawful and legal and honourable people who have come from russia, who have fled the brutality of the putin regime and you're living in exile, sadly, in london, and they are welcome here and have a place because the bond between our two people are very, very close. you only need to get postcards of sore neck of the second standing next to george v to realise that ourfamilies standing next to george v to realise that our families are very close. —— of these are standing next to george v. the links between scientists and research and cosmologists and i points to a depth of connection between the united kin

hub and let's get to caroline hyde in london for more on how london is bringing in big tech. thank you very much, and i will speak to the man whose job is to do just that. he is the first of london's cheap officers effort. he is touring the west coast as he speaks and joins us now on "bloomberg technology." great to have you on "bloomberg technology." talk to us about how much trade and investment you are managing to her in from big tex into london. have you found any big deal is yet? >> we are here for two purposes. one is to bang the drum for the u.k. tech sector and particularly london's tech sector. london is a city of convergence with over 40 tech sectors located there from artificial intelligence to cleantech, financial capital, obviously of europe. secondly, we are here to discuss smart cities, how we use data to make london a more livable place and also open up opportunities for business. together, wengs are over here supported by our team in london and partners which helps brings businesses to the u.k. and helps them start of their and deal with regulations. a few th

they were risky cases london bombers. they were risky cases that our government did not wa nt cases that our government did not want us to work with. who else is supposed to work with them? in this case we supposed to work with them? in this case we knew he was part of the programme and still plotting an attack? i have been putting this argument too many colleagues in the prevent field and civil servants and ministers. the current home secretary fully understood my concerns about the practitioners we have at the moment on the ground, but over the last five or six years, the level of expertise is appalling and aside from that, the level of risk averse this within government is also appalling. there are lessons to be learned. since 2006, we have had a number of different experts coming out with policies and ideas and strategies and we're still learning lessons. this is costing lives. this is absolutely ridiculous to come from the government, to say we are still learning lessons. how successful ca n we are still learning les

that was london mayor sadiq khan. blue apron had planned an entry mortar.ck and they say they will sell their prepare dinners and stores. no word on what they will cost but the wall street journal reports the kits will be available by the end of the year. shares have dropped more than 75% since its ipo last june. coming up, the endgame. accuses elizabeth holmes of years of line and fraud. rockets,omes to space elon musk is the king but when it comes retaining talent that's another story. ♪ ♪ emily: a former equifax executive is facing charges of insider trading. accusing himt is of selling off stock before the data breach was announced. ceo elizabeth holmes has been accused of fraud by the fcc. that's in addition to the two-year ban she was already serving. the lawsuit and settlement announced on wednesday detail how homes and her chief deputy lied for years about the technology. to forkd the publicity over more than $700 million. you will recall that the company company declared they could run multiple tests on o

they are due to leave london on tuesday. police in salisbury are continuing their investigation into the murder of sergei skripol and his daughter. one of the vic —— not one of the key questions is where sergei skripol and yulia skripol came into contact with the nerve agent before they ended up on that bench on sunday 4th of march, which is now covered by the tarpaulin, the white and yellow structure there. they know that the police from their activities in the last couple of weeks and from the information they are now giving us are particularly interested in the car that belonged to sergei skripol and we have been given another photo from the metropolitan police of the maroon bmw. we already had information from the police that they were very keen to hear from anyone in salisbury hall saw that bmw between 1pm and 1:45pm in the city centre and now they are appealing for information from anyone who may have seen this skripals driving in the bmw area in the day at about 9:15am. they have named three main rd through salisb

mayor sadiq khan of london. thank you for joining us from austin. >>> two important issues for america and the world in our focus tonight. and that is it for our program. thanks for watching "amanpour" on pbs and join us again tomorrow night. >>> "amanpour" on pbs was made possible by the generous support of rosalind p. walter. ♪ katty: the british prime minister slams the russian government over the poisoning of a former spy. christian: theresa may says it is likely the kremlin was involved. what is she going to do about it? katty: the russian ambassador has been summoned to explain, and mrs. may says there can't be business as usual with moscow. >> this is attempted murder using a nerve agent in a british town. it is not just a crime. it was an indiscriminate and reckless act against the u.k. katty: radio silence from north korea on trump's offers of talks. there is still much to be agreed. christian:

he has himself been the target of attacks by the russian ambassador in london. he has tried to get the speaker to stop debates on russian affairs he's tried to interfere in the internal elections of the house of commons he's tried to get me removed as chair of the all party russia group because i'm gay. is a very old way of doing diplomacy. the new attacks made many in london's russian community in mayfair uneasy alexander litvinenko was poisoned here another putin critic you have guinea to track him has set up a luxury wine shop here nothing will stop to kill the next person the secret service has killed few people and the idea that people who live here have to believe in fear and. mountains of. probable. together with politicians like chris bryant marina litvinenko is lobbying for tougher sanctions against russia such as personal sanctions like piece of restrictions against putin's entourage. we need to show to people who. take a minute from russia state from ordinary russian and drink this to u.k. enjoying this all luxury lifestyle and most of them there are

it takes london's claims at face value. when the u.k. tells us that they have proof that they know russia was responsible we have every reason to believe. there are other groups there i have i've not personally seen there were of them. where you can go to follow on those latest headlines up next to cross talk examines whether donald trump's cabinet is readying a war with iran. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle there is an issue probably the only issue that unite. many of the most powerful individuals surrounding donald trump and the issue his hostility directed at iran there is every reason to believe these same people will translate their hostility into action even military action the war cabinet is mobilizing. across talking trumps war cabinet i'm joined by my guest russian mohammad ali in london he is a journalist and documentary maker with press t.v. also in london we have some a humvee he is editor in chief of the international interest as well as a geo political risk consultant and in los

also in london we have some humvee he is editor in chief of the international interest as well as a geo political risk consultant and in los angeles we cross to john rainwater he is executive director of peace action. in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate russia let me go to you first in london we have mr bolton coming in as a national security advisor to donald trump pale leaving the cia going into the state department and there are others in the around trumpet have an intense intense hostility towards iran we also know that it is a little bit a year ago we had bolton addressing would be. possessors of power after there is forced regime change and by the end of two thousand and nineteen it's very public and we can talk about those people who are what is your are you concerned that there is a concerted planning effort for a significant action against iran including military go ahead rochelle in london it's difficult to say because trump is very very difficult to read in fact i've stopped trying to read him he seems to make policy on the hoof it de

seizing the assets of his friends in london? there has been lots of talk about dirty money, particularly in london, will that matter? two things, and i think this is the feeling of many financial a nalysts is the feeling of many financial analysts and experts, best whilst we have been strong tipple medically at expelling a large number of russian and officials, the financial side of the equation is less strong. this is not an all—out assault on russian money in london, the links between russian money and the city of london go back such a long way, such large interest that straight —— steak of the government has been rather cautious. the most important thing is the international action. what has been very interesting is there has been very interesting is there has been very interesting is there has been a lot of rhetorical support from key governments for britain, lots of activity in a number of major international organisations, the open —— which raja is said to have breached. the un human rights council, there is a me

i'm sharanjit leyl in london. also in the programme: cricket australia says only three players knew about plans to cheat against south africa, but big questions remain. a floating sunshield for the great barrier reef. the inventor tells us it could save one of the world's natural treasures.

meanwhile, the teenage bomber left london and went on the run. the year before he declared it was his duty to hate britain because his father had been killed by coalition forces in iraq. at the time of his attack he was on the government's de—radicalisation programme, prevent, aimed at turning people away from terrorism. he was very cunning and devious and, on the face of it, hassan was engaged on the programme but coming back to his devious nature, he kept it very secretive in relation to what he was doing, what he was planning, and nobody around him actually knew what his plot was. 2a hours on from the attack, firearms officers were surrounding hassan‘s house in sunbury in surrey. inside were his petrified elderly foster pa rents, penny and ron jones. this was a couple who had received mbes from the queen for fostering hundreds of children. ahmed hassan repaid them for giving him a home by secretly building a bomb in their kitchen. and it came out in court that the teenager staying in their spare bedroom had told immigration officials he ha

the number of people expected to leave london is 80, not eight as i said earlierfor london is 80, not eight as i said earlier for the london is 80, not eight as i said earlierfor the more london is 80, not eight as i said earlier for the more details london is 80, not eight as i said earlierfor the more details on our website on a story. the uk's information commissioner says she will seek a warrant to look at the databases and servers used by british firm cambridge analytica. the company is accused of using the personal data of 50 million facebook members to influence the us presidential election in 2016. it comes after a whistleblower came forward about the leaked data, which led to a big drop in facebook‘s share price on monday. andrew plant has the latest. facebook has come under fire, facebook has come underfire, a leak of uses data, it now faces tough questions about its privacy rules from politicians in the us and the uk as well. you have a company that is collating and putting together all the state on americans. christopher wood up with the company before turning whistleblo

this week, glushkov was due to appear in court in london. the russian authorities were continuing to pursue him for more than £100 million of aeroflot‘s money. did his past make him a target? russia's sternest critics have no problem believing that. mr glushkov‘s death fits into a wider pattern of the last 12 years or so of kremlin opponents dropping dead across europe. the consequences for the kremlin of this were limited forfar too long. the uk response has recently been much stronger but there's still an awful lot more that we could do. but it's clear to take the strongest possible action britain will have to rely on the gathering of solid evidence. so the world watches another complex investigation unfold. an iraqi teenager who smuggled himself into britain on a lorry to seek asylum has been found guilty of the london tube bombing at parson's green. 18—year—old ahmed hassan left his bomb on a packed underground train during rush hour. the device only partially detonated, but injured 50 people. it's emerged that hassan was on the

this week, glushkov was due to appear in court in london. the russian authorities were continuing to pursue him for more than £100 million of aeroflot‘s money. did his past make him a target? russia's sternest critics have no problem believing that. mr glushkov‘s death fits into a wider pattern over the last 12 years or so of kremlin opponents dropping dead across europe. the consequences for the kremlin of this were limited forfar too long. the uk response has recently been much stronger, but there's still an awful lot more that we could do. but it's clear to take the strongest possible action britain will have to rely on the gathering of solid evidence. so the world watches another complex investigation unfold. the direct attack by britain's foreign secretary on the russian president has triggered a swift and angry response in return. borisjohnson says he believes it's "overwhelmingly likely" that president putin was personally responsible for directing the use of a nerve agent on the former spy sergei skripal and his daughter in sali

the jury green station in west london. the jury was told today that the bomb was packed with shrapnel including nuts, bolts, screws, drill bits and knives. and it contained 400 g of the explosive tatp. it would have been lethal if it had fully decimated. this is the evidence from an explosives expert who went on to the train. the prosecution evidence at this trial is now bring to a close, and hassan‘s defence case is due to start next week. sirjohn sourced, who won the nobel prize for medicine for his work on the human gene and project has died. his work in decoding the sequence of human dna, the building blocks of life, saw him awarded the prize in 2002. the headlines on bbc news. nearly 200 military personnel are deployed to salisbury as the grave of sergei skripal‘s son was sealed off by authorities. president trump and kim jong off by authorities. president trump and kimjong in degree to meet face—to—face it is due to take place by may. an 85—year—old man dies in a hospital waiting room in northampton, nhs

we are already seeing talent we would naturally come to to london immediately after their studies on hesitating and so they might move to barcelona or berlin or london is an expensive city as well so it's kind of slowly losing traction the u.k. benefits hugely from london's reputation as a hub for creativity creative industries amount almost ten percent of all u.k. exports creative workers are in high demand there are already skill shortages creative industries are amongst the fastest growing sectors of the u.k. economy industry leaders want the government to recognise that asking for example first special visa system after breakfast that. the majority of staff at nexus are freelance highly specialized artists. they are often hired only with a few days' notice. the great thing at the moment is that i can call someone up in france they can hop on the or start coming if there are any issues or issues that we have to deal with my worry is that that won't be able to happen and that will definitely affect us and it will affect how quickly we can assemble a team here in order to qualify fo

so, london is a great city to start up a business. course, we have seen the likes of google and facebook investing in some big european headquarters in london as well. uber has been the big headlight in terms of being under fire with your administration when it comes to their license being revoked. what do you need to see from the company here for them to continue to operate in the city of london? uber is a very popular service around the world. uber, and my message to everyone, no matter how many lawyers you employ or p.r. experts, he will play by the rules. the rules are there for everyone and if you play by the rules, of course you can do business in london. i want london to be a place where disruptive companies come, where tech companies come, but you have got to play by the rules. time, theews, of the new ceo of uber has a very when comparedtude fro with the previous ceo. and this bodes well for over. emily: london mayor sadiq khan there. this is bloomberg. deborah: it is 11:29 in hong kong. china has announced plans for $43 tril

and that was used by this case in a london ok i don't believe that russia have a new connection with this case because it is not the in the interests right now or the russia matthew could win in london you had what vs just love was saying that what do you make of that. well i think there is clearly a very consistent line coming from berlin paris london and washington that the nature of the material the fact that it is high grade a high grade military nerve agent really puts all hours pointing in one direction and it the argument certainly made by to reason may and also the u.s. and people from the security services is that if this isn't anything to do with russia then that and then put forward a plausible explanation there are only two scenarios one is that it did come from russia sanctioned by the russians state the other is the russian state has lost control over high grade military agents those are affected lead the two scenarios are at play. meanwhile the british government has has pushed ahead with the sanctions which you know no government is going to impose the most significan

high commissioner for refugees and in london vava tampa founder of save the congo a london based campaign for human rights in the democratic republic of congo thanks for joining us it's actually start with claude so here is a statement i got from the u.n. security council there talking about thirteen point one million people in need of aid seven point seven severely food insecurity are the numbers wrong sir. if i can test something directly since like that there is a kind of dangerous mist mixture what you're doing expressly. as you start talking about. keeping power refusing to step down and so and so on you. after that to talk about. humanitarian crisis if you are suggesting that there is a kind of. clarify so we didn't actually use the words refusing to step down we did explain a bit of the background of the history of what's been going on in the you know they think their humanitarian right now or beyond the ten. factual actually that humanitarian crisis has nothing to do a free election not with politics as you know. you. in. the story you can. see that it's all community you two. two

meanwhile, the teenage bomber left london and went on the run. the year before he declared it was his duty to hate britain because his father had been killed by coalition forces in iraq. at the time of his attack he was on the government's de—radicalisation programme, prevent, aimed at turning people away from terrorism. he was very cunning and devious and, on the face of it, hassan was engaged on the programme but coming back to his devious nature, he kept it very secretive in relation to what he was doing, what he was planning, and nobody around him actually knew what his plot was. 2a hours on from the attack, firearms officers were surrounding hassan's house in sunbury in surrey. inside were his petrified elderly foster pa rents, penny and ron jones. this was a couple who had received mbes from the queen for fostering hundreds of children. ahmed hassan repaid them for giving him a home by secretly building a bomb in their kitchen. and it came out in court that the teenager staying in their spare bedroom had told immigration officials he had

when lit within couple of day in london it was the same situation and still we hear no. results of that investigation so we will wait. someone will find. the results and. if we hear from any. relation to it we'll take measures but even so i mean it's terms are saying i'm sorry if i just may interrupt you for a second this is an army grade nerve agent that was well made in russia so there is some link there is there somebody else who manufactures this type of talks it. these never guess maybe one hundred chips in any country because. as we know the formula is well known it is present in the internet. and we have no stockpiles of chemical weapons in our country so we reject these accusations ok that's very clear barbara want to go to you in london moscow asked london to back up its claim with evidence why are british authorities so reluctant to share the proof. because it is going to take quite a while and people here are experts who even speak of some months where until they really can be sort of like a trail of evidence that is presented police is still working on how th

and also i think london provides a huge amount of money for the rest of europe. we have very deep liquid capital markets and that provides great and if it to many european companies. so i suspect there is a deal to be done. let‘s see where we get to. but the kind of shape of deal that philip hammond seemed to hint that is that something you think is basically on the right track but what i think what phillips said today and what the prime minister said last week was the phrase mutual recognition. minister said last week was the phrase mutual recognitionm minister said last week was the phrase mutual recognition. it is less tha n phrase mutual recognition. it is less than what we have at the moment in terms of access but i think it is where a deal can be done. it is supported by many institutions in the financial services sector but also it has come out of work being done, led by the city of london, working with other companies and regulators around europe and so i think if you took the government out of the equation, politics, i think the companies and regulator

the russian community in london each difficult straits. but also when. the rules sort of pictures from the hospital we've seen nothing was. going on here you know only let me go only horse the police involved in it with police the most incompetent police force in britain tried to free x. prime minister edward heath i wouldn't trust him to look for my cat if he was missing most alone anything bigger. ok let me let me go to leave here but also you know one of the questions i asked in my introduction is that or what does washington in london expect russia to do if there is no evidence provided proving guilt when the russians are cutting this left kind of the wilderness here you have no evidence he won't share the evidence but you're going down this path of expulsions with other things being threatened in the future i mean what you know from the russian point of view you know how are they supposed to react to this kind of hysteria it's like dealing with an analyst sent headley. well i'll tell you let me take a slightly country position i actually don't think

having had 14 in london yesterday! the number of hospital admissions due to older people falling is expected to rise to nearly 1000 a day by the end of the decade. that's according to figures obtained by the local government association. it's prompted calls for more funding for adult social care. the former deputy director of the fbi, andrew mccabe, has been fired just days before he was due to formally retire. andrew mccabe said his sacking had been politically motivated, and claimed it was part of a wider effort to taint the fbi. president trump tweeted it had been a "great day for democracy". sport now...and for a full round up from the bbc sport centre, here's john acres. it has been snowing at twickenham. we've reached the climax of this year's six nations championship, three matches today and a huge afternoon ahead at twickenham. ireland have already taken the title but they're looking to complete the grand slam with victory over england, who've yet to lose at twickenham under eddiejones. here's olly foster. jose

we go to emory in london. -- we go to anne-marie in london. is one of the wildest months we have seen in record in years. in asia, a mixed bag. a key manufacturing gain came in better than expected. materials and industrials getting hit the hardest. jerome story is again powell fed chairman back on the hill. today he is talking to the senate banking committee. that is what the markets will be focusing on today. the nikkei, volatility is back. is saying it has attracted money to japanese shares. now we are seeing japanese stocks lower for the first time since june of 2016. volatility concerns are back. japan lower today. one analyst is talking about volatility creeping back into the market. we thought it was over, but possibly not. let's check in on oil. wti sub $60 per barrel. brent, under $65. stockpiles rose to the highest since november. gasoline reserve expanded at a four times the predicted rate. huge u.s. growth coming out of there. we have the opec secretary-general going to texas. he will meet with american oil executives for dinner on

and the expectation is that much will be exactly the same and london will be exactly the same and london will again be new york for murders. we are talking stabbings here. probably shootings in new york. and reg retta bly, probably shootings in new york. and regrettably, a lot of these crimes in london are involving young black boysin in london are involving young black boys in rival gangs and you probably remember the metropolitan commissioner the others —— the other day saying it is so feeling they start running rows on the internet and it whips up the excitement, with up, move them into going onto the street and doing terrible things to each other. that is one aspect. it is distressing to put it mildly that we are ahead of new york. do you have children that use social media? yes. how do you pass on the message. my yes. how do you pass on the message. my child is now 30 years old. 0k, grandchildren. no, i am afraid i am withjohn. my grandchildren. no, i am afraid i am with john. my children are grown grandchildren. no, i am afraid i am withjohn. my children are grown up, but the q

a one stop shop a london church but i'll go for brides to be.

here in london has said that the steps taken by the british government are unjustified unacceptable and shortsighted also saying that they do deterioration of ties between russia and the u.k. lies on the british government and that ultimatums don't work with russia is that. everything what is. acceptable with the city if the pictures. we believe that the you like to keep them should pull the international none of them under this obligations to him. live in the weapons they have to present their request to the organization and then we're happy to consider this within a few days this is the international law and of course we're not ready to. to talk you know we the ultimate. the actions taken by the british government became really a crescendo of over a week of the spy saga on raveling where we saw what could have been a potential local incident unravel into a huge international diplomatic standoff now thank you for those details last r.t. is an associate check in and london for more on the russian response let's go over to our correspondent daniel hawkins now who joins me in the studio d

ben ando, bbc news, central london. a former classmate of the russian spy poisoned in salisbury has claimed that his friend wanted a full pardon from president putin. vladimir timoshkov told bbc news that sergei skripal regretted becoming a double agent. the headlines on bbc news: hundreds of thousands of americans are preparing to take part in rallies calling for tighter gun controls. tributes are paid to the policeman who died of his injuries after swapping places with hostages during yesterday's terror attack. president macron says he was a hero. owen smith says he will continue pushing for labour to change its position on brexit, despite being sacked from the shadow cabinet. oxford is aiming for a fifth win in six years against cambridge in the men's boat race this afternoon. the cambridge women's crew is hoping for a repeat of last year's victory. watching the action for us and building up to that isjohn watson by the river thames in putney for us. by the river thames in putney for us. i heard one of your guests ea

the prizes recognise achievement on the london stage. the white house's top economic advisor, gary cohn, has resigned. he's said to be unhappy about the president's proposed steel and aluminium tariffs and the consequences for the american economy — jobs and the threat of a trade war. cornelia meyer, ceo of mrl corporation, a business consultancy joins me now. a revolving door at the white house. gary cohn, a democrat. many like him there. they felt he was balancing out donald trump's plans to a degree. he is going and it is clearly a sign of the protectionist, wilbur ross, bravado. he did not like the steel tariffs, he tried to go against them and i think he just had enough. last year, when they we re had enough. last year, when they were the race riots in charlotte deal and trump said there were some nice people in them which got gary cohn justifiably hot under the collar. many see him as someone who pushed through these tax reforms which he believes will help the us economy and so far they are having a good effect and he is worried

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and had of asylum here in london he was poisoned in central london. not very far from where i am at the moment and he died in two thousand and six of university college hospital which is also just around the corner were now in which which was at the time the seed of a huge media interest from all over the world there was an inquiry held into his death. and that found out that the most likely vladimir putin was to be held responsible for his death which was caused by polonium at the time and indeed there was a trail of polonium all over london and this is something that a lot of london as i think can still remember our data is very good masa with the latest from london thank you becker. now some other stories making news around the world uncertainty is mounting in italy after sunday's election failed to establish a majority for any single party leaders of both the euro skeptic five star movement and the anti immigrant league are now buying to rule the country there are unlikely coalition partners in forming a government could take weeks of negotiations

of what happened in london with alexander litvinenko this other perilous being drawn somebody kremlin critic who was poisoned here here in london and at this point in time there is no official of official analogy or the police are not saying that it's got anything to do with russia or you know the that is something that they could link the kremlin to but of course this is what people will be wanting to find out more about you know people are speculating indeed berkut erin coming to you we saw a report a little bit about this former russian agent but what more can you tell us about. well you know paul is that he was actually over the course of thirty years in agent for the g.r.u. that's the russian military intelligence service in two thousand and four he was arrested in that used to being a double agent for the british secret intelligence services and those were allegations he actually admitted to it seems that seriously paul had become a double agent sometime in the ninety's he admitted to taking money in exchange for turning over information that expose the identity of several dozen

just standing outside here of the london headquarters the c.e.o. paul polman said that it was really more to do with the streamlining of the company to make it more focused more efficient and that it was simply the corporate of that would be rebalanced over to. that the majority of those seven thousand three hundred jobs that are based in this country would remain here he also went on to say that the company has invested in manufacturing and research here in this in this country that it wouldn't do so if it had been thinking about sort of pulling out all together so really looking at some more of that streamlining effect having it and more to do with the legal headquarters being based out of holland thereby instead of making it a jewel headed company just making a single entity in that respect but it may have something to do with the fact that over the twelve year review it did have a hostile takeover bid from the u.s. food giant croft times trying to make a bid for that that was unsuccessful but if it continues to remain in the u.k. the u.k. has l

south london has been affected. ministers have been urged to launch a public enquiry into the situation. six months after controversially being introduced into several london boroughs, nearly 75% of council tenants who claim "universal credit" are now behind with their rent. it was supposed to simplify the benefits system, but critics say the credit has delayed payments, which pushes some of london's poorest people into debt. that is 12 weeks without money, 12 weeks without paying my rent every weeks without paying my rent every week 12 weeks without paying my licence, because all i could borrow money for was food and gas. i could not taken my friends and that, pay for my bank loan, pay for my tv licence. so, itjust mounted and mounted. -- say to my friends. the government says it's taken seven days off the wait time and offered an extra fortnight of housing benefit to help ease the situation for new claimants. pushing ahead with universal credit, it says, will help people get back into work. a theatre group is help

you know labor moves its headquarters from london to rotterdam and this comes at a crucial point and the u.k.'s brics it negotiations plus. i'm andrew thomas at the opening of sydney's b.n. ali this is the first ever to have an altruistic director i'll be explaining why significant what you say is about rule to change its. society. britain russia have exchanged strong words at the un security council is the u.k. accused moscow of poisoning a former russian spy and his daughter in england but received support from its allies on the council including the u.s. its ambassador to the u.n. called the suspected attack a defining moment emergency meeting came just hours after britain's prime minister theresa may expel twenty three russian diplomats the biggest expulsion since the cold war christen salome has more from the united nations headquarters in new york . the united kingdom laid out its case for blaming the russians and got full throated support from its strongest allies on the council including the united states france and sweden other council members were reluctant to point the fin

were joining me now from london is timothy ash a senior emerging markets sovereign strategist with blue bay asset management thanks very much for being with us so is russia under putin's leadership equipped to deal with the current economic challenges was a difficult few years i mean we had sanctions and lower all prices from twenty fourteen onwards the russian authorities kind of put the barricades up we saw we've had a very tight fiscal and monetary policy since and it's been about building barricades and defenses and you know that's worked in some respects it's created financial stability exchange rates been pretty stable inflation is drops the problem is they haven't had growth i mean growth has been very weak and very disappointing arguably fiscal and monetary policy has been too tight too aggressive because of concerns about the political challenges facing russia and putin is also held back from you know structure of forms of the russian economy is in dire need of the per deep structural forms things like business environment fighting corruption is lots of demographic problems in

cheap in london last september. today the old bailey was told a tragedy was only averted because the device involved failed to fully go off. an autumn morning in the rush—hour and there an emergency on an underground train in west london. today the old bailey heard how last september an improvised explosive device partially detonated on a district line train. it had just pulled into parsons green station. this partial explosion created a large fireball in the carriage. there were around 93 passengers in the carriage, the court was told, some were caught by the flames and sustained significant burns. today the teenager on trial for the attack was brought to court to face charges of attempted murder and causing an explosion likely to endanger life. 18—year—old ahmed hassan, an asylum seeker from iraq, is pleading not guilty. at the time of his arrest he had been living with foster parents. opening the case, the prosecutor alison morgan said of the passengers, many ran in fear and panic. they were fortunate. had

they are due to leave london on tuesday. meanwhile, police in salisbury are continuing their investigation... into the poisoning of the former spy, sergei skripal and his daughter. our reporter tom burridge is in salisbury with the latest developments into the police‘s investigation. some new information about the movements of sergei skripal and yulia on the morning of monday the 4th of march are spur for ibe became critically ill. what the metropolitan police have appealed for, information concerning the car of sergei skripal, it is a red maroon bmw and we had an appeal from the met saying that they wanted to hear from anyone in salisbury on that day who might have seen the car early in the afternoon here in the city centre and what they are now saying is they would like to hear from anyone who saw the pair are in the bmw earlier in the morning around about 915 on the three main roads in salisbury. those three main roads link the house of sergei skripal to the cemetery where his wife and his sun are buried. we have seen a

i'm sharanjit leyl in london. our top stories. president trump has sacked his top diplomat, rex tillerson, tweeting that the cia director, mike pompeo, will become the new secretary of state. the midnight deadline has passed. moscow does not respond to a british demand to explain how a nerve agent made in russia was used to attack a former spy and his daughter. the argentine navy has rescued four us scientists and a contractor from an antarctic camp after the us icebreaker due to pick them up got stuck in thick sea—ice. all five are in good health after being airlifted by helicopter onto an argentine ship. that story is popular on bbc.com. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. the financial times leads with the sacking of tillerson as secretary of state by trump calling it his ‘latest‘ clash with top aides. the south china morning post puts government reshuffles in china and the us side by side. china's shake—up is one of the biggest changes to bureaucracy in the country's history aimed to end confli