16/03/2018 BBC News

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I'm Martine Croxall.

The headlines at 9pm...

Police launched a murder enquiry

into the death of another Russian

exile in London, they say there is

nothing to link this to the

poisoning in Salisbury. An

18-year-old is convicted of

attempted murder following the Tube

bombing in west London. Ahmed Hassan

was on the government's

anti-radicalisation programme,

Prevent.

On the face of it, he was

engaged in the programme but coming

back to his devious nature, he kept

it very secretive nature to what he

was planning as nobody around Jim

knew what his plot was.

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A murder inquiry has been launched

into the death of a Russian

businessman in London on Monday.

A post-mortem has concluded

Nikolai Glushkov died

from compression to the neck,

suggesting he was strangled.

Detectives say there's nothing

at this stage to link the murder

with the poisoning in Salisbury

of Sergei Skripal and his daughter.

Boris Johnson says he believes it's

'overwhelmingly likely' that

President Putin personally ordered

the attack on Mr Skripal.

The Kremlin has called his comments

shocking and unforgivable.

Our diplomatic correspondent

James Landale's report

contains flash photography.

Boris Johnson brought

the Polish Foreign Minister

to a Battle of Britain Museum today,

a memorial to a war

fought in the air.

Every single plane that Britain

had was up in the sky.

The Foreign Secretary used

the opportunity to push forward

Britain's current battle

with Russia, fought this

time over the airwaves,

blaming Vladimir Putin personally

for the nerve agent

attack in Salisbury.

Our quarrel is with Putin's Kremlin,

and with his decision.

And we think it overwhelmingly

likely that it was his decision

to direct the use of a nerve agent

on the streets of the UK,

the streets of Europe, for the first

time since the Second World War.

That is why we are

at odds with Russia.

The Kremlin spokesmen

issued an angry statement,

saying that mentioning

President Putin's name in connection

with the attack was shocking and

unpardonable diplomatic misconduct.

The Kremlin also confirmed that some

British diplomats based

at the embassy in Moscow would be

expelled, and that an announcement

could come at any moment.

It is retaliation for the UK's

decision to expel 23 Russian

intelligence officers who will leave

London next Tuesday.

Again, Russia's Foreign Minister

denied any involvement

in the Salisbury attack.

TRANSLATION: I don't want to comment

on the current situation.

Let it stay on the conscience

of those who have started this

shameless, groundless business.

And as for the language

of the Defence Secretary?

TRANSLATION: He says Russia should

go away and shut up.

Maybe he lacks education.

I don't know.

Officials at the Foreign Office

believe the robustness of Britain's

response and the unity

of the Western allies

has surprised Russia,

and they say they are ready for any

retaliation coming from Moscow.

As one source said, we have more

stuff in the locker.

But amid the diplomatic war

of words, the Metropolitan Police

announced that a Russian businessman

who had been found dead

at his South West London home

on Monday, had been murdered.

The 68-year-old Nikolai Glushkov

was a former associate of known

opponents of President Putin.

Detectives said they were keeping

an open mind but there

was nothing to link his death

to the nerve agent attack.

In Salisbury, two weeks on,

police were still in protective gear

in investigating the attempted

murder of the former Russian

intelligence officer

Sergei Skripal and his daughter,

Yulia, still making

the streets safe.

Simon Jones is outside

Nikolai Glushkov's house

in New Malden and has this update.

Police activity continues here at

the home of Mr Glushkov, as it has

throughout the week since his body

was discovered here on Monday

evening. The amount of police

activity throughout the week is

always suggested this was perhaps

more than an unexplained death, as

it has been labelled by the

Metropolitan Police at the start of

the week. Today we got confirmation

that the net are treating this as a

merger. Russian authorities during

the course of the afternoon through

the investigations committee first

labelled this as murder and they

next gave further details, the Met,

saying they were called to run

Monday evening and they called on

the counter unit because of

associations Mr Glushkov has had in

the past and a postmortem was

carried out yesterday and today it

was revealed the cause of death was

compression to the neck and at that

point the police were prepared to

said they believed this was possibly

a merger. They are stressing that at

the moment they see no direct links

to the events in Salisbury and they

say there is no question as far as

they are concerned of anybody being

poisoned here but they are concerned

with the links he has had with

Russia and the fact that he was

jailed in Russia for fraud and

money-laundering and he sought exile

in this country. He was also a

critic of President Putin and has

associated himself with other

critics of President Putin. That is

why so many questions have been

raised here and we have seen

officers coming and going throughout

the evening into those tents behind

me so still the search is very much

ongoing at the home here, as the

police seek further answers.

Simon

Jones reporting.

Our World Affairs Correspondent

Richard Galpin is in

Moscow with the latest

on the murder investigation.

This is another very

dramatic development,

the fact that British police believe

that yet another Russian exile,

someone else who was granted asylum

in Britain, is believed

to have been murdered.

The British police are launching

what they say is a murder

investigation into the death

of Nikolai Glushkov.

Mr Glushkov is someone who fled

to Britain 14 years ago.

He had been put in prison in Russia

prior to that for about five years.

The key points or one of the key

points is that he was a close

associate of Boris Berezovsky,

a friend and he helped to run one

of his companies while in Russia.

Boris Berezovsky was certainly

viewed by the Kremlin

and Putin as being enemy number one.

Berezovsky himself died

about four or five years ago.

That was deemed to be

suicide by many people,

although at his inquest

there were questions

about this and one forensic

scientist appeared dramatically

towards the end of the inquest

to say that he believed that he had

not committed suicide

and he had been strangled.

In the case of Mr Glushkov,

the British police say that he did

die from compression to the neck.

The investigation does go

on but this is another very

important development amidst this

febrile atmosphere in relations

between London and Moscow.

Particularly after the comments

of Boris Johnson, in which he

directly accused Putin

of being involved in

the poisoning in Salisbury.

Richard Galpin

reporting from Moscow.

An Iraqi teenager who sought asylum

in the UK as a child 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 government's

deradicalisation programme,

Prevent, while he was

plotting the attack.

The government says

there are lessons to be

learned from the case.

June Kelly reports.

Ahmed Hassan buying batteries

and screwdrivers in Asda -

everyday items but, for a violent

extremist, part of

his bomb-making kit.

He's asked for ID.

He may have looked young but Hassan

is said to be mature,

highly intelligent and calculating.

CCTV cameras captured his journey

as the following morning he left

home early with his bomb in a bag

and a murderous plan in his head.

He was setting off to cause carnage

on the London Underground system.

He made for a train and then,

a few stops down the District Line,

he got off, empty-handed,

his bomb on a timer left behind.

Just after the train pulled

into Parsons Green station,

the bomb detonated, creating

a massive fireball which rolled

down the carriage.

Passengers were left burning

and screaming in pain.

A gassy flare ran up

above my head, singed my hair.

There was panic all

around me on the train.

People were diving off the train.

Fortunately the doors were open

so I managed to get off the train.

My initial reaction was that there

was a fault on the train

rather than a device.

Hassan had strapped

shrapnel to the device -

nuts, bolts, screws and knives

to cause maximum death and injury.

It was said to be pure luck that his

bomb only partially exploded.

This computer-generated

graphic shows the scene

in the carriage after the attack.

He had used the explosive TATP,

known as Mother of Satan.

At Parsons Green a major emergency

operation got under way.

Terrified passengers

were taken off the train,

injured commuters carried out

of the station.

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.

24 hours on from the attack,

firearms officers were surrounding

Hassan's house in Sunbury in Surrey.

Inside were his petrified

elderly foster parents,

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 been

kidnapped and trained to kill

by the Islamic State group.

It is understood the Joneses

were not given his full story.

After the bombing,

Hassan headed for Dover.

He was arrested as he tried to flee

the country which had given him

a home and an education

but for which he felt only hatred.

He will be sentenced next week.

Severe weather warnings for snow

and ice are in place for parts

of the UK this weekend.

The Met Office has forecast snow

for the eastern side of the UK

and temperatures could drop by 10

degress across the

country by Saturday.

Forecasters say that although it's

the same Siberian weather

as the "Beast from the East",

the disruption

will not last as long.

Philip Avery has been comparing

the forthcoming subzero temperatures

with the balmy climate

of the past few days.

14.6 degrees in Northolt,

16 yesterday in Porthmadog.

Maybe more.

In the north, the

north-east, eastern in

Scotland, they have had

a weather front giving

temperatures closer

to

5 degrees, miserable and that

weather front is important.

Some interesting graphics...

Have a look at this!

Here is one that I made earlier!

That area of low pressure

in the Atlantic was a dominant

feature across us for a good part

of the past week but this is the

weekend.

And that high pressure,

if you follow those isobars from

northern Scandinavia,

across the cold North Sea,

all that cold air picking up

the moisture from the

North Sea and I suspect

you know what comes next.

As early as tonight,

as you have suggested in

the introduction, we

will see that weather

front tumbling across

the

British Isles, persistent snow

across southern England and Wales,

through Saturday morning.

Becoming more showery

but snow showers and

all the while, because of that

easterly further north, there is a

complete supply of snow showers

running from the North Sea and the

eastern side of Scotland

and England, absolutely exposed.

Given the strength of the wind,

temperatures feeling like -6, -7 or

-8, some of those snow showers will

get across the Midlands and into

Wales, particularly eastern Wales.

The father of a female engineering

student allegedly attacked

by a group of women in Nottingham

has called for "justice"

for his daughter.

18-year-old Mariam Moustafa died

on Wednesday, nearly a month

after she was assaulted on a bus

in the city centre.

Nottinghamshire Police says

there is nothing to suggest

it was a hate crime,

although they are

"keeping an open mind".

Sima Kotecha sent us

the latest from Nottingham.

18-year-old Mariam Moustafa, an

engineering student in Nottingham.

Her family are from Egypt and came

here for a better life.

Her sister and father

described her as loving,

cheerful and intelligent.

Mariam was always looking

up, looking forward

for being in engineering.

She was a hard worker.

She always put all her effort

to being in engineering.

In February, as the teenager

was making her way to see her mother

and sister, she was attacked.

She caught a bus on this street

to try to get away from the girls.

However, they followed her.

Police say she was

punched several times.

She died on Wednesday.

This footage on social media shows

what happened on the bus.

You move out of my way,

you move out of my way!

Yesterday, police said there was no

information at this stage

to suggest it was a hate crime

but that they were

keeping an open mind.

She was discharged from hospital

after the attack but then she fell

ill and was readmitted.

That's when she went into a coma.

The family gave us these pictures.

For me to now think that she's gone,

I still feel like she's around me,

I feel like she's going to come

knocking on the door.

But that's not happening.

The Egyptian government,

as well as her family,

have called on the UK authorities

to bring those who did

this to justice quickly.

A 17-year-old girl was arrested

on suspicion of assault but has been

released on conditional bail.

In a tweet this afternoon,

the Foreign Secretary,

Boris Johnson, assured the Egyptian

authorities that Nottinghamshire

Police was investigating the case.

Sima Kotecha, BBC News, Nottingham.

Before the headlines, some breaking

news... Kent Police say officers are

investigating a fatal collision that

happened in Thanet. This is an

accident that happened on the 3rd of

February, police called to report

that a private ambulance overturned

in Ramsgate. In the early hours of

the morning on Saturday the 3rd of

February, the vehicle travelling

from the Minster roundabout and the

collision took place nearby. There

was a patient in the ambulance, a

66-year-old man, who died the

following day and two others

sustained injuries. It is only now

being treated as a fatal collision

because of further tests and

postmortem examinations were carried

out by the serious collision

investigation. A fatal collision

being investigated by Kent Police

and they are keen to hear from

anyone who has not yet spoken to

them about that accident. The

headlines... Police launch a murder

enquiry into the death of another

Russian exile in London, they say

there is nothing linking the death

to the poisoning in Salisbury.

Sergei Skripal and his daughter are

still critical in hospital and the

Foreign Secretary blames Vladimir

Putin for the attack. 18-year-old

Ahmed Hassan is convicted of

attempted murder following the

London Tube bombing. It has emerged

that he was on the government's

de-radicalisation problem. --

programme. All the sports news...

Hello. Fifa have formally approved

this evening the use of Video

Assistant Referees for the World

Cup. The council gave the green

light to the system at a meeting

today after trialling this at two

tournaments over the past two years.

VAR is already used in Germany and

Italy won the FA Cup adopted this

season. There are some teething

problems but their FIFA President

has said we need to live with The

Times. Jose Mourinho has launched an

astonishing 12 minute defence of Man

United being knocked out of the

Champions League this week. They

lost at home to Sevilla with the

performance hugely criticised,

particularly by the fans. He ranted

uninterrupted at a press conference

today, using notes Chewbacca biz

points about United's recent record

in Europe and the Premier League,

which he claims should put the

defeat in a different light.

I am

not going to cry. Because I heard a

few boos, I will not disappear from

the tunnel, running admittedly. The

next match, I will be first to go

out. Then I was 20 years old I was

nobody in football and now, at 55, I

am what I am and I did what I did

because of work, because of my

talent and my mentality. I could be

in another country with the league

in the pocket. The count of league

that you win even before it starts,

but I am not, I'm here.

The door for

the Champions League quarterfinals

went on without Mourinho and Man

United and its biggest rivals were

drawn together, Liverpool and Man

City facing each other in the last

eight of the competition. The

quarterfinalists are taken from the

top four leagues in Europe, a repeat

of the final last year the Juventus

and Real Madrid and Barcelona and

Bayern Munich will be strong

favourites. The games take place in

successive weeks in April. The

Europa league draws... The

favourites kept apart, Atletico

Madrid drawn with Sporting Lisbon

and Arsenal face CSKA Moscow at a

time of strained relations between

Britain and Russia. After a week of

Irish domination at Cheltenham, the

Gold Cup provided an epic duel

between two English trained horses.

Native driver -- native river beat

Mite Bite. Both led throughout,

stride for stride for 22 fences,

more than three miles, before native

river pulled away after the final

jump, conquering the field and the

soft ground to improve on his third

place of last year. Champion jockey

Richard Johnson's second Gold Cup of

his career and a first for the

trainer, who prevented Nicky

Henderson winning the historic

treble of Champions Trophy, champion

chase and Gold Cup in the same year.

Richard Johnson was brilliant on

that horse, I do not think many Gold

cup winners do all the running and

jumping and you could see him

setting up the jobs, about six

strides out. That is a very long

stride and the horse would come

every time. He is away from the

fence very quickly as well. In

racing, that is very important.

And

he stays very well. A big day for

Colin Tizzard at Cheltenham. Much

more on the website. You can watch

the full 12 minute rant from Jose

Mourinho. We don't have time to play

it here but there is enough time to

bring you all of the sports news at

10:30pm... Spoilsport! Thank you

very much. We will see you later.

In Florida at least six people have

been killed after a newly built

bridge collapsed onto a busy

road in Miami.

The bridge had been put up in six

hours just six days ago

using a method called "accelerated

construction" to avoid

traffic disruption.

Ten people have been taken

to hospital and the emergency

services have been working

at the scene since last night.

Here's how the disaster unfolded.

The bridge at FIU just

collapsed out of nowhere.

There's cars stuck under there.

We tried to get people

out but we couldn't.

They were all stuck.

Two construction

workers also fell from

the crane.

I mean, it was horrible,

it was a disaster.

What I saw was it

slowly coming down,

and the dust and the cement just

shattering on top of the cars.

We exhausted last night

all of our search and rescue

capabilities in the hopes

of finding additional survivors.

We used auditory, we used visual,

we used our canines,

and we determined that there is no

longer any

survivors.

That's why we transitioned

into this recovery mode.

South Africa's former president,

Jacob Zuma, has been

charged with corruption,

a month after he was ousted.

Mr Zuma denies the charges, which

relate to a multi-billion-dollar

arms deal completed in the 1990s.

The French arms manufacturer Thales

has also been charged.

From Johanesberg,

Milton Nkosi reports.

The call for Jacob Zuma to have his

day in court has been a long time

coming.

He is facing 16 charges

of corruption, including fraud,

racketeering, and money-laundering.

The charges had been controversially

set aside nine years ago.

Paving the way for Mr Zuma

to become president.

The prosecuting authority says it

has more than 200 witnesses

lined up for this case.

This is going to be a long

and complicated trial.

After consideration of the matter,

I am of the view that there

are reasonable prospects

of a successful prosecution

of Mr Zuma on charges

listed in the indictment.

This case dates back

to the early 90s, when the state

purchased fighter jets,

patrol boats and other arms

in a massive defence overhaul now

known as the arms deal.

The charges relate to allegations

that Mr Zuma solicited bribes

for his personal benefit

from a French arms company

through his financial

adviser, Mr Shaikh.

He was tried and found

guilty of corruption.

Back in 2005.

But the former president has always

maintained his innocence.

This is what he told me

when I asked him about these

corruption allegations back in 2012.

There's nothing to clear my name of.

Absolutely.

Nothing.

Mr Zuma is no stranger

to controversy.

Two years ago he was ordered

by the highest court in the land

to repay some of the public money

used for security upgrades

at his private residence

in a rural location.

The current charges he is facing

have nothing to do with his latest

corruption scandal,

involving his relationship

with the controversial Gupta family.