0:00:06 > 0:00:07Tonight at Ten.
0:00:07 > 0:00:08A warning from the EU -
0:00:08 > 0:00:11Britain faces 'unavoidable' trade barriers if it leaves
0:00:11 > 0:00:14the customs union after Brexit.
0:00:14 > 0:00:17At Downing Street - the EU's chief negotiator meets
0:00:17 > 0:00:19Brexit Secretary David Davis and asks for greater clarity
0:00:19 > 0:00:23about the UK's approach.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25He said there wasn't a moment to lose -
0:00:25 > 0:00:27as he spelled out the consequences of Britain rejecting any
0:00:27 > 0:00:35customs union with the EU.
0:00:35 > 0:00:41Without the customs union - and outside the single market -
0:00:41 > 0:00:44barriers to trade and goods and services are unavoidable.
0:00:44 > 0:00:48We want a comprehensive free trade agreement,
0:00:48 > 0:00:50and with it a customs agreement, and to make that as frictionless
0:00:50 > 0:00:53as possible to make as much trade as currently exists,
0:00:53 > 0:00:54as free as possible.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58We'll have more on today's talks - and we'll be looking in more detail
0:00:58 > 0:01:00at how trade would be affected by leaving the customs union.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03Also tonight.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05A British man accused of hacking into computers at the FBI
0:01:05 > 0:01:07and NASA has won his appeal against extradition
0:01:07 > 0:01:11to the United States.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14A special report on one of the many victims of Fentanyl -
0:01:14 > 0:01:16the powerful painkiller linked to a growing number
0:01:16 > 0:01:22of drug-related deaths.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24Fentanyl's a killer, and those drug dealers are playing
0:01:24 > 0:01:26Russian Roulette with our lives.
0:01:26 > 0:01:27They give our children drugs, and our children,
0:01:27 > 0:01:29my child, died from it.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31A report from Syria - amid claims that rebel-held areas
0:01:31 > 0:01:36were targeted by a suspected chemical attack at the weekend.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38And - it's a century since one of the biggest advances
0:01:38 > 0:01:40in gender equality - but most women were
0:01:40 > 0:01:48still not able to vote.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50And coming up in sport.
0:01:50 > 0:01:51Chelsea in trouble again.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54Could the champions come back from a goal down at
0:01:54 > 0:02:02Watford to avoid a second straight Premier League defeat?
0:02:17 > 0:02:18Good evening.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21Theresa May's decision to rule out being a member of any
0:02:21 > 0:02:24kind of customs union after Brexit will result in new trade barriers
0:02:24 > 0:02:27on British goods and services.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30That was the warning delivered by the EU's chief
0:02:30 > 0:02:32Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier after talks
0:02:32 > 0:02:33in Downing Street today.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Mr Barnier went further and said the time had come
0:02:36 > 0:02:38for the UK to choose what sort of relationship it wanted
0:02:38 > 0:02:40with the EU after leaving.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Labour says it's 'foolhardy' to reject a customs union
0:02:42 > 0:02:46with the EU - which is Britain's largest trading partner -
0:02:46 > 0:02:52as our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54In a hurry.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58Not just to catch the 1056 from Brussels to London.
0:02:58 > 0:03:04We have not a minute to lose, because we want to achieve a deal.
0:03:04 > 0:03:08But the EU's chief negotiator wants to press on.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10It is time for bargaining he says as the next
0:03:10 > 0:03:14round of Brexit talks loom.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17The first priority for him and his host David Davis is to agree
0:03:17 > 0:03:19what happens straight after Brexit.
0:03:19 > 0:03:27Do you know what the British government wants?
0:03:29 > 0:03:32The two years or so timeframe, not much will change but the real
0:03:32 > 0:03:33posturing is about the longer term.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36Theresa May popped in for a drink after reminding her party
0:03:36 > 0:03:39that she wants out of the single market free trade area
0:03:39 > 0:03:42and the current customs union.
0:03:42 > 0:03:45But she knows, along with these two, there might be
0:03:45 > 0:03:47mishaps along the way.
0:03:47 > 0:03:52Our negotiating team is starting straightaway,
0:03:52 > 0:03:57tomorrow certainly, on an intensive period of negotiation
0:03:57 > 0:03:59and are confident we can get that agreement.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02Yet while this might sound elegant in a French accent
0:04:02 > 0:04:03it is still a warning.
0:04:03 > 0:04:08Without the customs union, outside the single market,
0:04:08 > 0:04:16barriers to trade and goods and services are unavoidable.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22Time has come to make choice.
0:04:22 > 0:04:29In other words, Foreign Secretary and others, make your mind up.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31The EU has consistently said we can't keep the best bits
0:04:31 > 0:04:33of the EU without losing somewhere.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36But that has always been rejected by Brexiteers.
0:04:36 > 0:04:40What my side wants, what most of the country wants is a good deal.
0:04:40 > 0:04:44The way to get a good deal is to be very clear that we are leaving,
0:04:44 > 0:04:52we are leaving the single market, leaving the customs union.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58The fear of others in the Tory party and Parliament
0:04:58 > 0:05:00is that the Eurosceptics are too close to No 10.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02This week the Prime Minister hopes to get the Cabinet
0:05:02 > 0:05:03to find a compromise.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06What is more important, sticking close to the EU or making
0:05:06 > 0:05:07the most of freedom outside?
0:05:07 > 0:05:10We've heard a lot of, we are not going to do this,
0:05:10 > 0:05:12we are not going to do that.
0:05:12 > 0:05:13What are we going to do?
0:05:13 > 0:05:16That is what we're waiting to hear, that is what the 27 countries
0:05:16 > 0:05:18the UK's negotiating with are waiting to hear.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20In the meantime this uncertainty is really,
0:05:20 > 0:05:21really bad for business.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24No 10 has to make bargains within its party as well as
0:05:24 > 0:05:29with the EU outside.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32Today's talks were about the EU and the UK plugging back
0:05:32 > 0:05:34in before the next charged round of negotiations really gets
0:05:34 > 0:05:37going but arguably for there to be meaningful progress any time soon
0:05:37 > 0:05:39the UK ministers have to speed up their decisions
0:05:39 > 0:05:42about their overall approach.
0:05:42 > 0:05:46None of the questions are easy but after months of squabbling time
0:05:46 > 0:05:48to discuss becomes time to decide.
0:05:48 > 0:05:52Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55As we've heard, Michel Barnier - the EU's chief Brexit negotiator -
0:05:55 > 0:05:58warned that leaving the customs union would bring added trade
0:05:58 > 0:06:00barriers for the UK.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03So how would trade between the UK and the European Union
0:06:03 > 0:06:07be affected by leaving the customs union?
0:06:07 > 0:06:13Our economics editor Kamal Ahmed is here with more details.
0:06:13 > 0:06:17Trade matters to the UK economy - and our jobs.
0:06:17 > 0:06:21We export 28% of everything we make.
0:06:21 > 0:06:29Our biggest customer is the EU.
0:06:29 > 0:06:3043% of all UK exports go there.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33And to help that trade we are a member of what is
0:06:33 > 0:06:34called a customs union.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37That means that goods and services can circulate freely throughout
0:06:37 > 0:06:43the EU with no import taxes and few border checks.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46UK farms are able to integrate themselves into supply chain
0:06:46 > 0:06:50networks so farms can have their manufacturing networks
0:06:50 > 0:06:53extend across countries.
0:06:53 > 0:07:00The second main benefit is that large multinational
0:07:00 > 0:07:01companies who have located their investment
0:07:01 > 0:07:03and jobs in the UK in the
0:07:03 > 0:07:04first place, to take advantage of not just
0:07:04 > 0:07:06the UK market but also the
0:07:06 > 0:07:10European market, the third benefit is that as a part of the large EU
0:07:10 > 0:07:14trading block the UK could extract concessions in negotiating with
0:07:14 > 0:07:17other countries like China that they might not have got
0:07:17 > 0:07:20if they were operating individually.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23The government has made it clear it wants to
0:07:23 > 0:07:27leave the customs union so
0:07:27 > 0:07:32we are less constrained by EU trade rules but as Michel Barnier made
0:07:32 > 0:07:35clear today that means taxes and border checks are likely for our
0:07:35 > 0:07:40exports to the EU, like food and cars.
0:07:40 > 0:07:44And that is a barrier to trade.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47And we could respond by applying our own taxes to imports
0:07:47 > 0:07:50from the EU, which could increase prices.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53The Prime Minister insists she wants a good trade deal with the
0:07:53 > 0:07:57EU.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59She calls it frictionless trade.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02And for businesses like this steel firm in Northern Ireland,
0:08:02 > 0:08:06having no border checks really matters.
0:08:06 > 0:08:10If anyone can remember back to the days when we did have to stop
0:08:10 > 0:08:13at the border and we did have customs clearance processes, very
0:08:13 > 0:08:15very disruptive.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Not constructive or helpful to businesses or trading
0:08:17 > 0:08:24between the countries.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27The British government says it wants to throw its trade arms wide and do
0:08:27 > 0:08:29free trade deals with countries like America and China,
0:08:29 > 0:08:31prevented at present because we are a member
0:08:31 > 0:08:37of the customs union.
0:08:37 > 0:08:41Britain is also a large importer of EQ goods so Brussels will want some
0:08:41 > 0:08:47form of trade deal. The key cabinet committee meetings take place this
0:08:47 > 0:08:51week. Set with the task of answering the nutty question exactly what our
0:08:51 > 0:08:59relationship with the EU will look like after we have left.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01A man accused of hacking into US government computers -
0:09:01 > 0:09:04has won a High Court challenge against his extradition
0:09:04 > 0:09:06to the United States.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Lauri Love - who has Asperger's Syndrome -
0:09:08 > 0:09:11a form of autism - is alleged to have carried out
0:09:11 > 0:09:13a series of cyber attacks against agencies including NASA
0:09:13 > 0:09:14and the US Army.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17But judges in the UK said it would be 'oppressive' to send him
0:09:17 > 0:09:20for trial in America - where he could have faced a 90-year
0:09:20 > 0:09:22prison sentence if convicted - as our correspondent Daniela Relph
0:09:22 > 0:09:25reports.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27For four years, the threat of extradition to the United States
0:09:27 > 0:09:29had hung over him.
0:09:29 > 0:09:33Lauri Love described it as "gnawing away at his soul".
0:09:33 > 0:09:37Today that threat was lifted.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40The reason I've gone through this ordeal is not just to save myself
0:09:40 > 0:09:44from being kidnapped and locked up for 99 years in a country I've never
0:09:44 > 0:09:46visited, but it is to set a precedent whereby this
0:09:46 > 0:09:50will not happen to other people in the future.
0:09:50 > 0:09:56The Appeal Court judges ruled that Lauri Love was vulnerable,
0:09:56 > 0:09:59that extradition to America could lead to severe depression,
0:09:59 > 0:10:01and make him a suicide risk.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03And crucially, for his well-being, he needed to be close
0:10:03 > 0:10:07to his parents, here in Britain.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09The relief for Lauri Love, his family, and supporters
0:10:09 > 0:10:11is obvious here in court.
0:10:11 > 0:10:18They believe that this decision is just and humane.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22In a spate of online attacks in 2012 and 2013,
0:10:22 > 0:10:25Lauri Love is alleged to have hacked into the computers and systems
0:10:25 > 0:10:29of several US government agencies.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32They include the FBI, the Department of Defense,
0:10:32 > 0:10:34the Federal Reserve, America's central bank,
0:10:34 > 0:10:39and the space agency Nasa.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42Lauri Love was traced via a Romanian e-mail address and a PayPal account.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45He's been interviewed here by Britain's National Crime Agency
0:10:45 > 0:10:48but, as yet, has not been charged.
0:10:48 > 0:10:55Today's judgment did not rule out a prosecution here in the UK,
0:10:55 > 0:10:57something his family and his supporters are prepared for.
0:10:57 > 0:11:01How do you feel about the prospect of a trial here in the UK
0:11:01 > 0:11:02and a possible jail term?
0:11:02 > 0:11:06I do trust a trial in the UK.
0:11:06 > 0:11:10In the US, the chances of me ever getting a trial are quite slim just
0:11:10 > 0:11:12because people are forced to plead guilty to avoid huge charges,
0:11:12 > 0:11:15huge sentences that they might face if they take a trial.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17In the UK, we don't strong-arm people into facilitating
0:11:17 > 0:11:18their own prosecutions.
0:11:18 > 0:11:22This case has been a strain on the entire Love family,
0:11:22 > 0:11:27especially Lauri's father, who is a prison chaplain.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29There is a consensus of agreement about the things
0:11:29 > 0:11:35that really matter, about decency, about justice, about fairness.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38I've always believed to be born in these islands is to win
0:11:38 > 0:11:41the lottery of life and that what makes Britain great
0:11:41 > 0:11:43makes it Great Britain, is not our power or our might,
0:11:43 > 0:11:48but the fact that it is a great place to live.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51The United States now has two weeks to lodge a request for an appeal
0:11:51 > 0:11:54hearing at the UK Supreme Court.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56The Crown Prosecution Service will also decide
0:11:56 > 0:11:57whether to bring charges.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00But, despite the remaining uncertainty, this was a day
0:12:00 > 0:12:03to celebrate for Lauri Love.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06He now wants to focus on his electrical engineering degree
0:12:06 > 0:12:11and is planning to pursue a career in cyber security.
0:12:11 > 0:12:19Daniela Relph, BBC News, at the Court of Appeal.
0:12:22 > 0:12:27The leading stock market index has fallen by the biggest modern
0:12:27 > 0:12:33history. The Dow Jones briefly fell one and 10% from its record high in
0:12:33 > 0:12:39January. Just tell us about the events of the day and the factors in
0:12:39 > 0:12:45this Fall.What triggered this was on Friday when you had a Labour
0:12:45 > 0:12:50report coming out in the US showing stronger than anticipated wage
0:12:50 > 0:12:54growth. So the expectation is it wages rise people will start
0:12:54 > 0:12:58ratcheting war and that would push up consumer prices and Ben Howe
0:12:58 > 0:13:03would the American central bank control that, by increasing interest
0:13:03 > 0:13:09rates. That is the bottom line, investors are concerned, traders are
0:13:09 > 0:13:12concerned that interest rates will rise more rapidly than anticipated
0:13:12 > 0:13:17in the US. You see this kind of big Fall in US markets, there was a
0:13:17 > 0:13:20possibility of a domino effect on markets around the world whether the
0:13:20 > 0:13:25UK, Europe, Japan or China. Those countries are impacted by other
0:13:25 > 0:13:30individual factors as well so hard to say how much that will affect the
0:13:30 > 0:13:34UK market. But on a more fundamental level essentially if you have a high
0:13:34 > 0:13:37interest rate in the US and an investor who has money to spend,
0:13:37 > 0:13:42they will think he is getting a higher return here so he or she
0:13:42 > 0:13:45could decide they want to move their money here at the US and that would
0:13:45 > 0:13:49be moving it away from other parts of the world. It is interesting
0:13:49 > 0:13:55because this comes less
0:14:05 > 0:14:08than one week after the State of the Union address where you had
0:14:08 > 0:14:10President Trump talking about how stock markets had touched record
0:14:10 > 0:14:12highs.We have not heard anything from him on this Fall today but
0:14:12 > 0:14:17certainly another record. Thank you for that update.
0:14:17 > 0:14:18Ministers have confirmed they're terminating
0:14:18 > 0:14:21the contract with Stagecoach to run the East Coast Main Line.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23The transport secretary Chris Grayling told MPs the company
0:14:23 > 0:14:26is making significant losses - but said there would be no
0:14:26 > 0:14:27question of a bailout.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29He insisted there would be no impact on the day-to-day
0:14:29 > 0:14:31operations of the railway - or on staff.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33The National Audit Office has already launched an investigation
0:14:33 > 0:14:35into the government's handling of the franchise -
0:14:35 > 0:14:38to provide services on the line between London and Edinburgh -
0:14:38 > 0:14:39as our business editor Simon Jack reports.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42The East Coast Mainline has been heading for trouble for years.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44Stagecoach owns 90% of the franchise, and Virgin 10%.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48Both companies wanted to walk away from the loss
0:14:48 > 0:14:51they were making in 2020, three years early.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54Today it became clear they will be getting to the point
0:14:54 > 0:14:55of collapse even earlier.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57It has now been confirmed the situation is much more urgent.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00It is now clear this franchise will only be able to continue
0:15:00 > 0:15:03in its current form for a matter of a very small number
0:15:03 > 0:15:04of months and no more.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06That is because Stagecoach has already lost £200
0:15:06 > 0:15:10million running the line.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12This company cannot be allowed to run this franchise and simply
0:15:12 > 0:15:14make a profit given what's happened.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17They got their sums wrong and they will pay the price
0:15:17 > 0:15:20for that, not the taxpayer.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22He said the option of full nationalisation
0:15:22 > 0:15:25was very much on the table. It wouldn't be the first time.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28The government profitably ran the East Coast Mainline from 2009
0:15:28 > 0:15:33to 2015, after National Express admitted
0:15:33 > 0:15:36defeat two years into a 10-year deal.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39The Secretary of State was very clear that he didn't think
0:15:39 > 0:15:43either the travelling public or the taxpayer would be affected.
0:15:43 > 0:15:44Stagecoach is the big loser.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46But that won't dampen the debate about
0:15:46 > 0:15:49whether a system that allows Stagecoach to potentially keep on
0:15:49 > 0:15:53running this line, and get awarded an extra year
0:15:53 > 0:15:56on a profitable contract on the West Coast Mainline,
0:15:56 > 0:15:59is a system that is fit for purpose.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01You've got people over bidding, over promising,
0:16:01 > 0:16:03and then not delivering.
0:16:03 > 0:16:09And on the East Coast Mainline, we're saying that from 2020 to 2023,
0:16:09 > 0:16:13that's £2 billion that the Treasury are not going to receive over that
0:16:13 > 0:16:18period, as Virgin and Stagecoach promised.
0:16:18 > 0:16:22So the system is completely flawed and should be stopped.
0:16:22 > 0:16:27Stagecoach admitted they got their sums wrong on the East Coast.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29But the profitable West Coast franchise was extended today
0:16:29 > 0:16:30from another two years.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32Good news for its operators - who happen to be
0:16:32 > 0:16:33Virgin and Stagecoach.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35Simon Jack, BBC News.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38A self-confessed Nazi sympathiser accused of plotting a machete attack
0:16:40 > 0:16:42The only surviving suspect in the 2015 Paris terror attacks
0:16:42 > 0:16:45has gone on trial in Brussels, relating to a gun battle
0:16:45 > 0:16:47with Belgian police.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50Salah Abdeslam, who's charged with possessing illegal weapons
0:16:50 > 0:16:53and the attempted murder of police officers, refused to stand up
0:16:53 > 0:16:55in court or answer any questions.
0:16:55 > 0:17:01Damian Grammaticas reports from Brussels.
0:17:01 > 0:17:05200 armed police ringed the court today, guarding this trial.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08More than two years after the Paris attacks, those in the courtroom
0:17:08 > 0:17:12strained to get a first glimpse of the only surviving attacker,
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Salah Abdeslam and an accomplice.
0:17:14 > 0:17:18Abdeslam refused to stand for the judge, refused even
0:17:18 > 0:17:20to have his face shown.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24And he wouldn't answer questions.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27"I don't want to", he said.
0:17:27 > 0:17:33Later he told the court...
0:17:37 > 0:17:39GUNSHOTS.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42When police finally traced and arrested Abdeslam in Brussels
0:17:42 > 0:17:46four months after the Paris assault, there had been a gun battle.
0:17:46 > 0:17:51In this trial, he is charged with trying to kill Belgian police.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54Survivors of the Paris attacks were here in court to see him
0:17:54 > 0:17:57face-to-face for the first time.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00Philippe Duperron's son was one of the 90 killed
0:18:00 > 0:18:03in Paris's Bataclan Theatre.
0:18:03 > 0:18:07TRANSLATION:It really was painful to see Abdeslam enter in front
0:18:07 > 0:18:10of us for the first time, to breathe the same air in the same
0:18:10 > 0:18:14room, but we don't expect he will reveal much.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17This court process is just the first of what are expected to be
0:18:17 > 0:18:18years worth of trials.
0:18:18 > 0:18:22Salah Abdeslam faces another in France for the Paris attacks,
0:18:22 > 0:18:24and dozens more have been rounded up in the police investigations
0:18:24 > 0:18:28that have followed.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31In total, since the Paris and Brussels attacks,
0:18:31 > 0:18:35around 200 people have been arrested and are now in prison in Belgium.
0:18:35 > 0:18:37The networks have been disrupted, but anti-terrorist police
0:18:37 > 0:18:42say the threats remain.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44TRANSLATION:The threat is still high.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46Islamic State has lost its territory, but its members
0:18:46 > 0:18:50are now dispersed, but it can still inspire others with grievances
0:18:50 > 0:18:53to carry out attacks.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55It was the Brussels district of Mollenbeeck where some
0:18:55 > 0:18:58of the attackers came from, where Salah Abdeslam lived
0:18:58 > 0:19:00and was eventually caught.
0:19:00 > 0:19:04Now, by night, some streets here feel empty.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06Rules were put in place to stop anti-social behaviour,
0:19:06 > 0:19:11banning gatherings of more than three people after 9pm.
0:19:11 > 0:19:15We met up with a friend of Salah Abdeslam.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17He told us, of ten people in their former circle,
0:19:17 > 0:19:22six are now in jail, caught up in the waves of arrest.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25Salah asked me to do things, think God I didn't,
0:19:25 > 0:19:26or I would be in prison.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29Others are, because they helped him, but they didn't know
0:19:29 > 0:19:31what he was up to.
0:19:31 > 0:19:35He needs to speak and tell the truth.
0:19:35 > 0:19:42But there's no sign Abdeslam will talk, either to help his friends
0:19:42 > 0:19:44or the victims of the attacks.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Damien Grammaticas, BBC News, Brussels.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Fentanyl is an extremely strong painkiller, much more
0:19:49 > 0:19:51powerful than morphine.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54Doctors prescribe it in lower doses for cancer patients.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57But dozens of people have died in Britain in the past few
0:19:57 > 0:20:01years, after taking it to get a high.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04Today, a 25 year-old drug dealer from Newport was sentenced to eight
0:20:04 > 0:20:05years in prison for exporting and selling fentanyl.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08Since December 2016, 113 people have died in the UK
0:20:08 > 0:20:12after overdosing on the drug.
0:20:12 > 0:20:19It's used worldwide, but 10 % of global sales take place here.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22Jeremy Cooke reports on where the drug is coming from,
0:20:22 > 0:20:23and who's being affected by it.
0:20:23 > 0:20:27His report contains some flash photography.
0:20:27 > 0:20:30It looks like chemical warfare.
0:20:30 > 0:20:34But this is a police raid on a drug dealer who was selling fentanyl over
0:20:34 > 0:20:37the internet from his home.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41Kyle Enos has now been sentenced to eight years in prison,
0:20:41 > 0:20:43serious time for a serious drug which has taken
0:20:43 > 0:20:49lives up and down the country.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51Robert was 6 foot 5 by two inches wide.
0:20:51 > 0:20:52Hi, guys!
0:20:52 > 0:20:55He was the kindest, gentlest person in the world.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58Full of life, full of promise, but when 18-year-old Robert Fraser
0:20:58 > 0:21:03went to buy cannabis, the dealer gave him
0:21:03 > 0:21:08something new, something different, something deadly.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11I got a phone call from my ex-husband to say he'd just
0:21:11 > 0:21:14walked in and found Robert dead in bed.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17And I just remember thinking, he hasn't said that.
0:21:17 > 0:21:21He can't have said that. It's not true.
0:21:21 > 0:21:25Robert knew nothing about fentanyl, a synthetic opioid drug which users
0:21:25 > 0:21:29snort, swallow or inject.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31It's related to heroin but can be thousands of times more powerful.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33Fentanyl's a killer.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35And the drug dealers are playing Russian roulette with our lives.
0:21:35 > 0:21:40They give our children drugs and my child died from it.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43Dealing with fentanyl is a game changer, for the police and
0:21:43 > 0:21:48emergency services and in this government-licensed lab.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50It can be absorbed by the skin, so we just
0:21:50 > 0:21:51don't want any risk.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53They've been trained to be super careful.
0:21:53 > 0:21:58Because just a few grains of fentanyl can kill.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00So it's powerful and cheap, and for dealers that
0:22:00 > 0:22:02means big profits.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05They've seen it all here. Heroin, cocaine, crystal meth.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08But nothing like this.
0:22:08 > 0:22:13Fentanyl's just a different category of drug altogether.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15And the potential harm that they can cause
0:22:15 > 0:22:19is just way above anything we've had in the past.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22But where is fentanyl coming from?
0:22:22 > 0:22:24The BBC is undercover in China on the trail of the
0:22:24 > 0:22:27suppliers and so a meeting with a laboratory boss
0:22:27 > 0:22:32and his translator.
0:22:32 > 0:22:33Let's talk business.
0:22:33 > 0:22:34So 1kg of fentanyl...
0:22:34 > 0:22:38China has banned production of some types of fentanyl
0:22:38 > 0:22:40but labs can work around the law by making small changes
0:22:40 > 0:22:44in the fentanyl molecule.
0:22:44 > 0:22:49And they're happy to ship the drug anywhere in the world.
0:22:49 > 0:22:532,600...
0:22:53 > 0:22:57Within minutes we are being offered a deal.
0:22:57 > 0:23:01The BBC bought no drugs but what is clear is that
0:23:01 > 0:23:04fentanyl is on sale to anyone with the money to buy it.
0:23:04 > 0:23:05This one is very powerful.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07Very strong.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09Yes, very strong.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11Can you send this to England?
0:23:11 > 0:23:14Yes, yes, England.
0:23:14 > 0:23:19From China to Britain, UK drug dealers get wholesale
0:23:19 > 0:23:22deliveries, then break them down to sell on the internet.
0:23:22 > 0:23:27Really, it looks much like any other online marketplace.
0:23:27 > 0:23:31Jamie Bartlett is an author who writes about the
0:23:31 > 0:23:35so-called dark net, a hidden, unregulated corner of the internet.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37But you have cannabis, ecstasy, opioids,
0:23:37 > 0:23:41psychedelic steroids and so on.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43408 different offerings of fentanyl on this website alone.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Yeah.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48Fentanyl is a highly dangerous substance.
0:23:48 > 0:23:53And carfentanyl, an elephant tranquilliser, is still more deadly.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56It makes all of these products which were never
0:23:56 > 0:24:01within reach, especially of young people, far more easy to get
0:24:01 > 0:24:02than ever before.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05In this part of Teesside alone over the past year at least six
0:24:05 > 0:24:07deaths have been linked to the drug.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09Kenny was lucky not to be the seventh.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11Ended up using what I thought was heroin.
0:24:11 > 0:24:14And turns out it wasn't.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16What was it?
0:24:16 > 0:24:21It was fentanyl or carfentanyl, not sure.
0:24:21 > 0:24:25Kenny has a history of drug abuse and overdo overdosed on fentanyl.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27Luckily he was in the Moses project drop-in centre
0:24:27 > 0:24:29with the antidote nearby.
0:24:29 > 0:24:35I overdosed, that's as much as I can remember.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Injected it and overdosed.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40I was dead.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44Seeing red, it was like blood was covering my eyes.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47The spike of deaths across north-east England put fentanyl
0:24:47 > 0:24:50firmly on the radar of the National Crime Agency.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53They know the drug is taking thousands of lives in America
0:24:53 > 0:24:56and are determined to stop it here.
0:24:56 > 0:25:01The NCA has prioritised the threat from fentanyl and its analogues back
0:25:01 > 0:25:03in April last year, and it's still priority today.
0:25:03 > 0:25:09So we have a number of officers working solely on that threat.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12Michelle knows the cost of fentanyl.
0:25:12 > 0:25:17How it took Robert's life. What it does to families.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19People are sitting in their bedrooms, clicking
0:25:19 > 0:25:21a button, and getting it. Why, how?
0:25:21 > 0:25:23The world I grew up in wasn't like that.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26And I don't want that future for my little lad either.
0:25:26 > 0:25:31For my surviving little lad.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34Michelle is now a campaigner, determined to make us all aware
0:25:34 > 0:25:37of the dangers of fentanyl, how easy it is to get,
0:25:37 > 0:25:39how easily it kills.
0:25:39 > 0:25:46Jeremy Cooke, BBC News.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48Details of organisations offering information and support
0:25:48 > 0:25:50with addiction are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline,
0:25:50 > 0:25:53or you can call for free at any time to hear recorded information -
0:25:53 > 0:26:01the number is 08000 155 947.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10In Syria, government and Russian forces have
0:26:10 > 0:26:12intensified air strikes against rebel-held areas,
0:26:12 > 0:26:15after rebels shot down a Russian fighter jet over the weekend.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18The strikes include reports of a suspected chemical attack.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20Syria's government has previously denied using chemical weapons.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23The latest attack took place in Idlib,
0:26:23 > 0:26:28the last rebel-held province in Syria.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31But since the start of the year a number of others have
0:26:31 > 0:26:34been reported in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36This report by Nawal Al-Maghafi's contains
0:26:36 > 0:26:42distressing images.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45A hospital in flames.
0:26:45 > 0:26:50Here in Idlib, a night of intense violence.
0:26:50 > 0:26:55Rescue workers raced to the scene of the attack.
0:26:55 > 0:27:01Inside, premature babies now being rescued from the bombing.
0:27:01 > 0:27:06Exposed to the smoke, they struggle to breathe.
0:27:06 > 0:27:10Medics attempt to resuscitate them.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13Only just introduced to the world, they're now
0:27:13 > 0:27:16fighting for their lives.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19Elsewhere, these men are being hosed down after
0:27:19 > 0:27:22a reported chlorine gas attack.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25While no one was killed, attacks like this spread fear among
0:27:25 > 0:27:29the population.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31The escalation was a response to rebels shooting down a
0:27:31 > 0:27:34Russian jet in the area this weekend.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36But this year has seen a sharp increase in reported
0:27:36 > 0:27:39chemical attacks.
0:27:39 > 0:27:43A US draft resolution that would have allowed an independent UN
0:27:43 > 0:27:46body to investigate the chemical attacks, was vetoed by Russia
0:27:46 > 0:27:49late last year.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52It was the ninth time Russia used its UN power to block
0:27:52 > 0:27:56action targeting its ally, Syria.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59Today, the US expressed his frustration.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01It is a true tragedy that Russia has sent us back to
0:28:01 > 0:28:09square one in the effort to end chemical weapons use in Syria.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11The besieged Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta has seen
0:28:11 > 0:28:17for reported chemical attacks since the start of the year.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20Without weapons inspectors on the ground, activists have taken
0:28:20 > 0:28:22to documenting them.
0:28:22 > 0:28:28This is one of them.
0:28:28 > 0:28:29Three were hit today, in the morning.
0:28:29 > 0:28:32Now we're just...
0:28:32 > 0:28:34Boom!
0:28:34 > 0:28:36Along with shelling and air strikes, they have become a terrifying
0:28:36 > 0:28:40prospect for civilians.
0:28:40 > 0:28:41TRANSLATION:We were sleeping.
0:28:41 > 0:28:45My wife woke up and said, "I can smell the chlorine."
0:28:45 > 0:28:53We closed the windows and covered ourselves with blankets.
0:28:57 > 0:28:59We can withstand it but the children can't.
0:28:59 > 0:29:00We have to be rushed to hospital.
0:29:00 > 0:29:02The Syrian government denies using chemical weapons.
0:29:02 > 0:29:04This war, now entering its eighth year,
0:29:04 > 0:29:07has devastated the country and its people.
0:29:07 > 0:29:09And with international diplomacy failing, Syria's war seems
0:29:09 > 0:29:10far from over.
0:29:10 > 0:29:17Nawal Al-Maghafi, BBC News.
0:29:17 > 0:29:20Tomorrow marks a century since women over the age of 30,
0:29:20 > 0:29:22who owned property or were graduates, won the right to vote
0:29:22 > 0:29:26under the Representation of the People Act 1918,
0:29:26 > 0:29:29which was passed by the coalition government led by Prime
0:29:29 > 0:29:30Minister David Lloyd George.
0:29:30 > 0:29:34It would be another decade before all women over the age of 21,
0:29:34 > 0:29:35regardless of property or education, were allowed to vote.
0:29:35 > 0:29:37Sarah Smith reports on the the events of 1918,
0:29:37 > 0:29:41a milestone in the struggle for gender equality.
0:29:41 > 0:29:45The Palace of Westminster was built as an exclusively all male club.
0:29:45 > 0:29:48No women allowed.
0:29:48 > 0:29:52So suffragettes often targeted Parliament itself.
0:29:52 > 0:29:58Four of them chained themselves to these statues in 1909.
0:29:58 > 0:30:00Their militant behaviour was then used as an
0:30:00 > 0:30:05argument for why votes for women would be "exceedingly dangerous".
0:30:05 > 0:30:09Hidden beneath those corridors of power, there is an intriguing
0:30:09 > 0:30:13memorial to the suffragette movement.
0:30:13 > 0:30:15In 1911, thousands of women tried to avoid being
0:30:15 > 0:30:17registered in the census.
0:30:17 > 0:30:20Emily Davidson said:
0:30:20 > 0:30:22"If women don't count, then neither
0:30:22 > 0:30:25shall we be counted."
0:30:25 > 0:30:27Emily Davidson spent the night hiding behind this
0:30:27 > 0:30:31door in a broom cupboard underneath Westminster Hall.
0:30:31 > 0:30:33She was discovered in here, so she was registered in
0:30:33 > 0:30:40the census as being resident in the House of Commons.
0:30:40 > 0:30:42COMMENTARY: A woman runs out. There is a fall.
0:30:42 > 0:30:45Davidson did not live long enough to see women win the vote.
0:30:45 > 0:30:48She died in 1913, after running into the path of the King's
0:30:48 > 0:30:51horse at the Epsom Derby.
0:30:51 > 0:30:57But she may not have intended to kill herself.
0:30:57 > 0:30:59This is the actual scarf Emily Davidson had with her that
0:30:59 > 0:31:02fateful day at the Derby.
0:31:02 > 0:31:05And it is thought now it might have been her
0:31:05 > 0:31:08intention to try and attach it to the bridle of the King's horse,
0:31:08 > 0:31:10rather than to actually bring the horse down.
0:31:10 > 0:31:13The scarf is owned today by a collector, who let me see a
0:31:13 > 0:31:15telegram she has never shown publicly before -
0:31:15 > 0:31:19sent from Queen Alexandra to the injured jockey.
0:31:19 > 0:31:23It says: "Queen Alexandra was very sorry indeed to
0:31:23 > 0:31:26hear of your sad accident caused by the abominable conduct of a
0:31:26 > 0:31:28brutal, lunatic woman."
0:31:28 > 0:31:32This is really strong language - a brutal, lunatic woman?
0:31:32 > 0:31:34Well, people had mixed feelings about the
0:31:34 > 0:31:38militant suffragettes.
0:31:38 > 0:31:41Half of them thought they were crazy, and half often
0:31:41 > 0:31:44thought that was the only way, by destroying property, that they would
0:31:44 > 0:31:47actually achieve the vote.
0:31:47 > 0:31:50As MPs, women continued campaigning for equal rights.
0:31:50 > 0:31:55Edith Summerskill, on the left, was first elected in 1938.
0:31:55 > 0:31:55And
0:31:55 > 0:32:01Her daughter, Shirley, followed her into the Commons in 1964.
0:32:01 > 0:32:04Women who got to anywhere in their career are
0:32:04 > 0:32:07very conscious, and should be, of the women who went before
0:32:07 > 0:32:13and paved the way and made it possible.
0:32:13 > 0:32:17That includes Saffron Dickson, 20 years old, who, because she
0:32:17 > 0:32:19lives in Scotland, has already voted six times -
0:32:19 > 0:32:24thanks to the suffragettes, who fought for her rights.
0:32:24 > 0:32:27Hopefully I like to think I would have been on the front line,
0:32:27 > 0:32:29you know, totally involved.
0:32:29 > 0:32:32But that's coming from a privileged perspective of somebody who a
0:32:32 > 0:32:34political voice just now, because of the women that made
0:32:34 > 0:32:36those sacrifices.
0:32:36 > 0:32:38But actually we've got so many different issues still
0:32:38 > 0:32:42happening in the workplace - sexual assault, sexual
0:32:42 > 0:32:44harassment and pay parity - that are still
0:32:44 > 0:32:45affecting women today.
0:32:45 > 0:32:50100 years of remarkable change since women got the vote.
0:32:50 > 0:32:52But any suffragettes surveying the political scene today would
0:32:52 > 0:32:54undoubtedly see much that still needs to be done.
0:32:54 > 0:33:01Sarah Smith, BBC News.