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Police say they are investigating a cyber criminal network after £1

million was stolen from a Barclays Bank branch. A gang took control of

its computer system in what is described as a sophisticated sting.

Also this lunchtime, a warning for parents as police find hundreds of

children being blackmailed by paedophiles online.

The UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, tells his conference they are on course to

win next year's European elections. The trial of a mother accused of

starving her four-year-old son to death has heard that police were

called to her home eight times before he died.

And a clash in the Arctic come armed Russian forces aboard a Greenpeace

ship to detain 30 activists. Later on BBC London: Police investigate a

hit and run in Sutton - an officer is critically injured.

And the commercial property owners who claim they're being 'held to

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control of a computer there. made eight arrests. They believe

they made eight arrests. They believe

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into other accounts. Instead made eight arrests. They believe

installed in investigation, the e-Crimes Unit

believes investigation, the e-Crimes Unit

this year and detectives believe investigation, the e-Crimes Unit

acts online by paedophiles who threatened to send obscene images of

them to their families. That is the warning from the Child exploitation

and online centre. Abuse has driven some victims to suicide.

Daniel, 17, struck up a comma station with what he thought was an

American girl online. He sent expert at images of himself. But he was

communicating with a blackmailer who threatened to send the pictures to

his friends and family. Within an hour, he had fallen to his death

from this bridge. Now experts are warning that blackmail on the web by

abusers posing as teenagers is a growing problem. They are speaking

to a 14-year-old, saying, I am 14, 15, are you interested?

It is introducing themselves through the web as they would at school,

except they are going straight for the exploitative imagery.

Here is how it happens. A transcript of a real online chat. The abuser

says, hello, age, sex, location? The abuser says...

The next day, this message came. Two times more and you will be free for

ever. The victim responds. Experts say that often child abuse

result from a troubled upbringing or poverty. But not in this case.

In this form of abuse, every young person is vulnerable simply because

they are young. Because they are adolescents, they are going to be

exploring their sexuality and they adolescents, they are going to be

are more likely to take risks and the impulsive.

Ceop said it has identified 184 British victims of blackmail so

far, a legacy of self harm and suicide attempts. Its message to

young people is to tell somebody, whatever you shared online, because

you are not to blame. Tom joins us now. It is a worrying

story. What is the advice for parents, grandparents, who are

watching? It is to be sure that you tell your

children of the risk. Things are sent over the Internet can't be

taken back. Also it is going to be sent over the Internet can't be

horrifying if you find out that has happened. Don't say you were not

allowed children -- you will not allow children to use the Internet.

A lot of these abusers say, you can't catch me because I am abroad.

They say that to their victims. The police say they have done 12

operations so far, and in each case they have made an arrest. A lot of

the time it is people abroad. They target Britain because they see it

as having a permissive, liberal society, and we speak English. They

are researching the backgrounds of the children they are targeting.

They are coming up with the names of nearby villages. It is a

sophisticated operation. The police say there is hope and they are

starting to get to grips with the problem.

The trial of a mother accused of starving her four-year-old son to

death has heard that police were called to her home eight times

before he died. Amanda Hutton kept the body of Hamzah Khan in her

bedroom for 21 months before police on his remains. She denies

manslaughter by gross negligence. Our correspondent is that Bradford

Crown Court. What more can you tell us?

The court has heard more details us?

about the chaotic lifestyle that surrounded Hamzah, and also his

mother's dealings with police. We know that officers were called to

Amanda Hutton's home eight times while the four-year-old was alive.

We also heard more details of a domestic incident in 2008, a year

We also heard more details of a before Hamzah Khan died. His father,

Aftab Khan, was arrested for hitting his former partner. In a police

interview played to the jury, he would -- warned officers, you have

got to keep an eye on that woman. I want you to get a doctor to check

Hamzah. Check how neglected years. Jurors also heard how Aftab Khan

told officers that his former partner was an alcoholic. He said

Amanda Hutton would not let him take Hamzah to see a doctor. He said that

when it comes out, I will come back and see you, and say, I told you.

The court heard today there was no record of a phone call being made to

social services in Bradford. The court also heard that West Yorkshire

Police said officers around to Amanda Hutton's house but no further

action was taken. The 43-year-old denies manslaughter, saying her son

died from natural causes. The annual conference of the UK

Independence party has opened in London, with a rallying call from

its leader, who said he once they UKIP candidate in every seat in the

next general election. -- he wants it UKIP candidate.

It has been around for two decades. Written off by some along the way as

eccentric Sanford cakes, but 2013 has been a big year. You never seen

Nigel Farage without a smile on his face. Arriving today, he has good

reason to be cheerful. UKIP made big gains in last year's English

elections. They almost caused an upset in easily. They consistently

take third place in national opinion polls.

I said at the time of easterly that we would be established as the third

party in the public 's that neither politics. We are now rising fast. By

the time of the next election may we will have the third highest

membership of any party in this country.

Once, they were outside looking in. Now the leader things UKIP is on the

inside. They want tougher rules on welfare. And on immigration...

It is the single most important question facing the country. It

affects everybody. It affects the NHS, our broader economy, primary

school places, public services, and yet the establishment have done

everything they can to close down debate on this issue. UKIP is trying

to get away from being a single issue party.

They kicked off today with a big idea on energy. But when one speaker

refers to joining the EU as treason, you know Europe underpins

everything. The woman selling these paperweights said it would be worth

something when Nigel is Prime Minister, a bold prediction. But

UKIP has pledged to have a candidate in every seat at the next election.

They remain a threat to the Conservative party.

Let's pick up on that with our chief political correspondent, Norman

Smith. What is your assessment? The key phrase from Mr Farage was we are

changing the face of British politics.

By that he's does not mean there is going to be a load of UKIP MPs in

Westminster. He knows smaller parties are crushed by our political

system. But he means other parties are being driven to adopt their

policies. At the next election, he predicts all three parties will go

policies. At the next election, he in pledging a referendum. Mr Farage

said he was appalled by how right wing David Cameron and Ed Miliband

and Nick Clegg had become on immigration. On Syria, he said Tory

MPs had voted against intervention because of UKIP's intervention. It

was not so long ago that senior Tories -- politicians denounced

UKIP. They wouldn't do that now. After two years of increasingly

brutal conflict in Syria, the Prime Minister says the Civil War is

reached a stalemate. In an interview, he said it is clear

that neither side can win and suggested a cease-fire could be

possible. More than two years of fighting has

left much of Syria in ruins. It is estimated that more than 120,000

people are dead. Many others have been seriously injured. But now the

Deputy Prime Minister of Syria has admitted the regime and rebels have

fought themselves to a stalemate and has indicated that there could be a

call for a cease-fire. In an interview with the Guardian

newspaper, he said: This week, though, there have been

suggestions that moderate rebel groups battling government forces

may get more can not less, help from the West.

It would be in the form of weapons supplies tilting the balance in

their favour. But more fighting means more casualties. That is

precisely what Syria can no longer cope with, according to a group of

-- according to a group of doctors writing in the lands it. They say

the majority of hospitals and clinics have been destroyed or

damaged. Medical staff have been targeted, and as a result around

15,000 doctors have now fled the country.

It is almost a week since the US and Russia agreed on a seven-day

timescale for Syria to divulges the extent and whereabouts of its

chemical weapons. But what exactly is President Assad's regime expected

to divulges? Paul Adams has been taking a look.

This began a month ago, with those two attacks in the suburbs of

Damascus. The international community was outraged, and for a

while it seemed America was poised to retaliate. But then, last

weekend, Russia and America agreed on a plan to find and destroy

Syria's chemical weapons. What are we talking about? The agreement gave

Syria a week to hand over a competence of account of its

chemical weapons programme. This includes the names, tight and

quantities of its chemical agents, the various munitions involved, and

crucially where everything is stored the various munitions involved, and

and produced. It is thought Syria has around 100,000 tonnes of agents

and precursors. Where is it all? Nobody can be completely sure. Some

things like the main research and production sites are familiar

enough. But we know that much of the government's chemical arsenal has

been on the Move over the past year to keep it out of rebel hands and

leave the West guessing. But that may not be such a problem. They have

been working to keep it out of the contested area and that is the

silver lining, if you will, in the wake in which they have contained

silver lining, if you will, in the these weapons. If the Assad regime

is prepared to live up to its word, we should not have a problem

achieving access to their sites. Finally, how long might it take to

finish this complicated job? The international community has set some

extremely challenging deadlines. By the end of November, the

organisation for the Prohibition of chemical weapons should have

inspected all declared sites. By then, all the destruction of

production equipment should be complete. By then, Syria's entire

chemical weapons programme should be dismantled and destroyed by the end

of next year. It is a hugely ambitious target, so it is no wonder

perhaps that President Assad has said it could take over a year.

Prisoners in England and Wales could be banned from smoking anywhere in

jail within two years. The Prison Service wants to avoid paying out

compensation to people who claim to have inhaled second-hand smoke. It's

estimated that 80% of prisoners smoke, and prison charities are

estimated that 80% of prisoners warning that a ban could lead to

increased unrest amongst inmates. Olivia Richwald reports.

Mark Johnson was sent to prison at the age of 17. He served three jail

terms and told me a smoking ban will lead to violence. The community is

volatile even now, and you will see an escalation in disturbance. Staff

assaults, etc. Behind the barbed wire, smoking is one of the few

choices that inmates can make. Four out of five of them smoke. Prison

shops sell cigarettes and tobacco and offenders are allowed to light

up in their cells. But now the Ministry of Justice is considering a

total smoking ban. It would depend on a pilot scheme being successful,

but if it works, smoking could be banned from all prisons by 2015. The

prison officers Association has been campaigning on the issue of the more

than five years. We don't want to see come in the future, members

suffering from respiratory conditions, because nobody protected

them from second-hand smoke. Plus, conditions, because nobody protected

we one of the last workers in the United Kingdom who are still subject

we one of the last workers in the to the effects of second-hand smoke.

But in such a tense environment and with prison staff already stretched,

could a band be successfully imposed? One charity thinks not.

Present at the moment are facing unprecedented cuts.

Mark has no intention of quitting and thinks that talk of a tobacco

ban is a smoke screen to hide the bigger problems of rehabilitation

and strokes behind bars. Been the top story this lunchtime:

Detectives are investigating a cyber criminal network after more than £1

million was stolen from a branch of Barclays.

Still to come, we will look at how jumbo televisions are taking over

living rooms. Later on

Russian security agents have stormed the Greenpeace ship after an

environmental protest at drilling platform in the Arctic. Six Britons

are amongst 30 activists detained at gunpoint. Greenpeace says the boat

was in international waters in the Barents Sea and has been seized

illegally. The ship is now expected to be taken to the Russian port of

Murmansk. Reporting from, Steve Rosenberg.

The protest began two days ago, before dawn. In motorised dinghies,

Greenpeace activists sped towards the Russian oil platform in the icy

waters of the sea. Some made it onto the read. They clung onto ropes

while powerful jets of water were being directed at them from above.

Then Russian coastguards reached the scene. This Greenpeace video appears

to show the Russian boats ramming the dinghies, in an effort to stop

the protest is. Dash-mac protest ofs. Later, the Coast Guard fired

warning shots. The Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise, was nearby. Now

that ship has been boarded by Russian security forces, who have

taken control of it. Greenpeace says the 30 activists on board are being

held at gunpoint. The environmental group says its vessel was in

international waters and has been seized illegally. They put the

people on their knees from all of them were armed with knives and

machine guns, all of them shouted to the international Greenpeace crew.

Afterwards, they seized all of the computers and all hard disks aboard.

The Russian authorities say Greenpeace has broken the law by

violating an exclusion zone around the oil rig. Russian's -- Russia's

Foreign Ministry accused Greenpeace of being aggressive and provocative

and putting lives at risk. The waters of the Arctic are thought to

contain massive deposits of undiscovered oil and it is why

Russia and other countries are super -- so keen to drill here. Greenpeace

and other activist groups say it will be disastrous for the

environment. But Russia says it will not change its plans to tap the

resources of the Arctic. In Belfast, round-table talks are

due to take place aimed at finding answers to contentious problems like

parades, flags and dealing with Northern Ireland's troubled past.

It's the first time all five main Northern Ireland's troubled past.

political parties will have come together with the US diplomat

Richard Haass, who is leading the together with the US diplomat

talks. But all accept that agreement will be difficult after a tense and,

at times, violent summer. Chris Buckler reports.

Compromise can be a difficult thing to find in certain parts of Belfast.

A single street can mark a huge division. Where a loyalist parade

was banned from passing an area, protesters have set up what they

call is a civil rights camp. There is a growing sense of disenchantment

within the working class community where I come from. We do see that on

a daily basis, people think they have been left out of the process,

left behind. In the last 12 months, flags have been at the centre of

conflict. Republicans and loyalists clashed after a decision to stop

flying the union flag of a Belfast City Hall every day. It was the

violence that accompanied this year's marching season. After a

tense summer, the American diplomat Richard Haass started a series of

talks to deal with these issues. How is it going? OK. A Christmas

deadline has been said for politicians to find a solution to

the problems of flags, parades and the past, but that is an ambitious

target, particularly as opinions have hardened on some streets. How

do they canonise from one to the other? the peace process has changed

lives for the better across Northern Ireland, but there is no doubt

sectarian issues still arise. In this area, loyalists hold a protest

and a march every single night. That is costing £50,000 per day. It is

expensive and at the heart of the issues that politicians are trying

to fix. A former Member of the Scottish

Parliament has been jailed for 12 months for a string of attacks

against his three former wives and a stepdaughter. Bill Walker was

convicted last month on 23 charges of domestic abuse and one breach of

the peace. A by-election to fill his Dunfermline seat will be held next

month. A former special adviser to Gordon

Brown has described how he routinely tried to destroy the reputation of

Mr Brown's enemies by planting stories about them in newspapers. In

extracts from Damien McBride's stories about them in newspapers. In

memoir, he claims that his victims included the former Labour Home

Secretaries Charles Clarke and John Reid. Here's Iain Watson.

It is no secret that the relationship between Tony Blair and

Gordon Brown was frosty, but what has been revealed today is just how

divisions at the very top of the Labour Party were whipped up. Damian

McBride left Downing Street when his attempts to smear Conservative

politicians were made public, but he now admits it was usually Labour

ministers who fell victim to his toxic briefings. He says he tipped

off the papers about drug abuse, secret alcoholism and extramarital

affairs of the opponents of Gordon Brown and his book includes vanity,

duplicity, greed, hypocrisy and cruelty. I feel angry at the

constant destabilisation of the Labour government of which I was

part, which, despite all this, and I think this is a really important

part, which, despite all this, and I thing to remember, did some really

extraordinary things. Damian McBride said he undermined John Reid's

potential leadership bid by leaking embarrassing details from his past,

and he attacked the Tony Blair loyalist Charles Clarke by inventing

and exaggerating disputes within his department. When Gordon Brown moved

from number 11 Downing Street to number ten Downing Street in 2007,

Damian McBride's damaging reviews number ten Downing Street in 2007,

did not stop. But Ed Miliband and Ed Balls were close to the Prime

Minister at the time but there is no proof that they encouraged or

approved of the spin doctor's briefings. But at the same time,

everybody knows they were there, they were part of the operation to

get Gordon Brown in the job and they must have known what was going on.

On the eve of the Labour conference, the party leadership

will hope that these revelations are seen as a piece of political history

but they may regret that Damian McBride ever put his poison pen to

paper. The size of our TV screens has

doubled in the last decade. And experts are forecasting that by

2020, more than a third of televisions sold in Britain will be

what's called "super-jumbo". That's 43 inches or more. David Sillito

examines whether television sets are taking over our homes.

It is home time for Ruby and her mother, Justine. A chance to sit

down and turn on the television. This is television number one. This

is television number two. You like your televisions, don't you? I do,

yes. Number three. Number four. Number five! So what would you say

when it comes to screen size? The bigger, the better. When it comes to

television, Britain is going jumbo. In the year 2000, the average screen

television, Britain is going jumbo. size was just 21 inches. Since then,

television, Britain is going jumbo. it has gone up every year. It is now

33 inches. Our screens have more than doubled in size. And this is

what is coming next. Wallpaper television.

This is immersive basketball, and over here, I see you can compare

yourself. A tall, aren't they? Controlled by a tablet device, this

prototype can throw anything online onto a wall of screens, each no

thicker than a tile. You can reduce it down to that come or even to

that, and, of course, that could be even moved into the kitchen. Friends

and family can join you on the Virtual sofa. You can read the

paper, or go for the full 130 inch experience. Look her sharp that is.

The television as a box in your room, it is over, isn't it? I think

so. What is it going to be? Television is going to inhabit homes

in a way that is unobtrusive, it is going to blend into our environment.

It might look a bit science fiction and expensive, but it is worth

remembering that in 1970, a colour TV cost around £300. Around 7% of

the value of a house at the time, which would today be around £16,000.

Goodness. How times change. Time for a look at the weather with Ben Rich.

Hello. In simple terms, a fine, quiet weekend to come and it is

going to turn a little bit warmer. But whether Israeli that simple and

we do have a complication through the next few days that matter the

weather is rarely. It will be quite cloudy and there is some uncertainty

about how widely the crowd is going to break. You can see western areas

have quite a lot of cloud, the best of the breaks in the cloud across

eastern areas, where we are seeing some spells of sunshine. Across the

North West of Scotland, thick enough to produce some outbreaks of rain,

but in the best of the sunshine across the south-east, temperatures

of 19 or 20 degrees. During this evening: And tonight, most places

dry, patchy rain for the north-east of Scotland and increasingly murky

across the south-west. Quite drizzly around the coast and quite mild as

well. That sets us up for the weekend, because around this area of

high pressure, we are drawing very mild, very warm but quite moist air

up from the south-west, travelling right across the Atlantic and

picking up a lot of moisture. What that means for us is quite a cloudy

start for Saturday and in southern areas, quite misty and murky around

the coast with even some splashes of drizzle working eastwards. The cloud

should break up for most of us as we head into the afternoon. One place

where it probably won't is the North West of Scotland. Here, we will see

heavy rain and it will turn increasingly windy but for Northern

Ireland, we should see some brightness appearing and for the

east of the Pennines across north-east England, some brightness

developing. Bright spells across good parts of England and Wales,

particularly to the east of high ground, north-east Wales could get

up to 20 degrees where we see the best of the sunshine but around the

western coasts of Wales and south-west England, staying quite

cloudy and drizzly, and that will be the case on Sunday as well. The best

of the brightness in the east. North-east Scotland could have a

cracking day. Where we get the sunshine is where the warmer weather

will show its hand, perhaps up to 21 or 22 degrees. So a quiet weekend at

home. That is not the case across south-east Asia. This is Typhoon

USAGI, and intends storm that will affect the Philippines, Taiwan and

it will be bringing damaging winds and will make the news over the next

few days. Plenty more news on that on the Back to you.

Just a reminder of the main story. Detectives are investigating a cyber

criminal network after more than £1 million was stolen from a branch of

Barclays. Much more on that this afternoon but that is it