0:00:05 > 0:00:09Brussels tells Britain that the time has come to choose what its future
0:00:09 > 0:00:17relationship with the EU will be after Brexit.
0:00:17 > 0:00:23The EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, in London for talks, warns
0:00:23 > 0:00:28that the decision to leave the customs union will impact trade.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29Without the customs union, and outside the single market,
0:00:29 > 0:00:35barriers to trade and goods and services are unavoidable.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38We want a comprehensive free trade agreement,
0:00:38 > 0:00:42and with it a customs agreement, and to make that as frictionless
0:00:42 > 0:00:44as possible to make as much trade as currently exists,
0:00:44 > 0:00:49as free as possible.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53We will look at what impact leaving the customs union will have on
0:00:53 > 0:00:55Britain. Also tonight.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57A man accused of hacking into US Government computer
0:00:57 > 0:01:00systems wins his legal battle against extradition.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04Running into trouble, the company which operates the East Coast Main
0:01:04 > 0:01:08Line is losing millions of pounds. Now the government intervenes.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Tackling the underground trade in super powerful painkillers that
0:01:10 > 0:01:17have claimed more than 100 lives in the last two years.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Fentanyl's a killer, and the drug dealers are playing
0:01:20 > 0:01:21russian roulette with our lives.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23They give our children drugs, and our children,
0:01:23 > 0:01:25my child, died from it.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27And 100 years after some women won the right to vote in Britain -
0:01:27 > 0:01:33we look back at their extraordinary struggle for equality.
0:01:33 > 0:01:37And later on we will have Sportsday on the BBC News Channel with the
0:01:37 > 0:01:41latest reports, results interviews and features from the BBC sports
0:01:41 > 0:01:51centre.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
0:02:01 > 0:02:08The Prime Minister has been warned that her decision to leave
0:02:08 > 0:02:10the EU's customs union, which allows goods to move between
0:02:10 > 0:02:12EU countries without tariffs - will cause 'unavoidable'
0:02:12 > 0:02:13barriers to trade.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16And the European Union's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier,
0:02:16 > 0:02:20who was in Downing Street for talks today, said the time had come
0:02:20 > 0:02:26for Britain to make a choice on what it wants for its future.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29But the Brexit Secretary David Davis said being outside the customs union
0:02:29 > 0:02:32would allow the United Kingdom to strike new trade deals
0:02:32 > 0:02:33with the rest of the world.
0:02:33 > 0:02:39Here's our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg.
0:02:40 > 0:02:45In a hurry. Not just to catch the 1056 from Brussels to London.We
0:02:45 > 0:02:53have not a minute to lose, because we want to achieve a deal.But the
0:02:53 > 0:02:57EU's chief negotiator wants to press on. It is time for bargaining he
0:02:57 > 0:03:02says as the next round of Brexit talks loom. The first priority for
0:03:02 > 0:03:07him and his host David Davis is to agree what happens straight after
0:03:07 > 0:03:12Brexit.Do you know what the British government wants?In the to years or
0:03:12 > 0:03:17so time frame not much will change but the real posturing is about the
0:03:17 > 0:03:21longer term. Theresa May popped in for a drink after reminding her
0:03:21 > 0:03:26party that she wants out of the single market free trade area and
0:03:26 > 0:03:30the current customs union. But she knows, along with these to, there
0:03:30 > 0:03:36might be mishaps along the way.Our negotiating team is starting
0:03:36 > 0:03:40straightaway, tomorrow certainly on an intensive period of negotiation
0:03:40 > 0:03:46and we can get that agreement.Yet while this might sound elegant in a
0:03:46 > 0:03:53French accent it is still a warning. Without the customs union, outside
0:03:53 > 0:04:00the single market, barriers to trade and goods and services are
0:04:00 > 0:04:09unavoidable. Time has come to a choice.In other words, Foreign
0:04:09 > 0:04:16Secretary and others, make your mind up. The EU's has consistently said
0:04:16 > 0:04:22we can't keep the best bits of the EU without losing somewhere. But
0:04:22 > 0:04:26that has always been rejected by Brexiteers.What my side wants, what
0:04:26 > 0:04:30most of the country wants is a good deal. The way to get a good deal is
0:04:30 > 0:04:33to be very clear that we are leaving, we are leaving the single
0:04:33 > 0:04:37market, leaving the customs union. The fear of others in the Tory party
0:04:37 > 0:04:42and the government is that the Eurosceptics are too close to No 10.
0:04:42 > 0:04:47This
0:04:52 > 0:04:55week the Prime Minister hopes to get the Cabinet to find a compromise.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58What is more important, sticking close to the EU or making the most
0:04:58 > 0:05:00of freedom outside?We've heard a lot of, we are not going to do this,
0:05:00 > 0:05:04we are not going to do that. What are we going to do? That is what
0:05:04 > 0:05:06we're waiting to hear, that is what the 27 countries the UK's
0:05:06 > 0:05:08negotiating with waiting to hear. In the meantime this uncertainty is
0:05:08 > 0:05:12really, really bad for business.No 10 has to make bargains within its
0:05:12 > 0:05:16party as well as with the EU outside. Today's talks were about
0:05:16 > 0:05:20the EU in the UK plug-in backing before the next charge round of
0:05:20 > 0:05:24negotiations really gets going but arguably for there to be meaningful
0:05:24 > 0:05:32progress any time soon the UK ministers have to speed up their
0:05:32 > 0:05:34decisions about their overall approach. None of the questions are
0:05:34 > 0:05:38easy but after months of squabbling time to discuss becomes time to
0:05:38 > 0:05:42decide. Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45So what will be the impact of leaving the customs union?
0:05:45 > 0:05:48And how will trade between the UK and the Europena Union be affected?
0:05:48 > 0:05:49Our Economics Editor, Kamal Ahmed is here.
0:05:49 > 0:05:54Thank you Sophie. First thing.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57Trade really matters to the UK - we export 28% of everything
0:05:57 > 0:05:58we make.
0:05:58 > 0:06:05Our biggest customer is the EU.
0:06:05 > 0:06:0743% of all UK exports go there.
0:06:07 > 0:06:11And to help that trade we are a member
0:06:11 > 0:06:13of what is called the customs union.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15That means that goods and services can circulate freely throughout
0:06:15 > 0:06:20the EU with no import taxes and few border checks.
0:06:20 > 0:06:25UK farms are able to integrate themselves into supply chain
0:06:25 > 0:06:30networks so farms can have their manufacturing networks extend across
0:06:30 > 0:06:35countries. The second main benefit is that large multinational
0:06:35 > 0:06:39companies who have located the investment and jobs in the UK in the
0:06:39 > 0:06:43first place, to take advantage of not just the UK market but also the
0:06:43 > 0:06:50European market, the third benefit is that as a part of the large EU
0:06:50 > 0:06:54trading block the UK could extract concessions in negotiating with
0:06:54 > 0:06:58other countries like China that they might not have got if they were
0:06:58 > 0:07:03operating individually.The government has made it clear it
0:07:03 > 0:07:09wants to leave the customs union so we are less constrained by EU trade
0:07:09 > 0:07:13rules but as Michel Barnier made clear today that means taxes and
0:07:13 > 0:07:18border checks are likely for our exports to the EU, like food and
0:07:18 > 0:07:24cars. And that is a barrier to trade. And we could respond by
0:07:24 > 0:07:28applying our own taxes to imports from the EU, which could increase
0:07:28 > 0:07:33prices. The Prime Minister insists she wants a good trade deal with the
0:07:33 > 0:07:41EU. She calls and frictionless trade. And for businesses like this
0:07:41 > 0:07:43steel firm in Northern Ireland, having no border checks really
0:07:43 > 0:07:49matters.If anyone can remember back to the days when we did have to stop
0:07:49 > 0:07:53at the border and we did have customs clearance processes, very
0:07:53 > 0:07:57very disruptive. Not constructive or helpful to businesses or trading
0:07:57 > 0:08:03between the countries.
0:08:03 > 0:08:07The British government says it wants to throw its trade arms wide and do
0:08:07 > 0:08:09free trade deals with countries like America and China,
0:08:09 > 0:08:11prevented at present because we are a member
0:08:11 > 0:08:12of the customs union.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14The problem is how quickly can we do those deals,
0:08:14 > 0:08:16and will they replace the close trading relationship
0:08:16 > 0:08:22we presently have with our most important export customer.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25Thank you.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28A 33-year-old man accused of hacking into US government computers has won
0:08:28 > 0:08:30a High Court challenge against his extradition
0:08:30 > 0:08:35to the United States.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37Lauri Love, who has Asperger's syndrome, is alleged to have carried
0:08:37 > 0:08:40out a series of cyber attacks on targets including the FBI.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43Mr Love was facing a 99-year jail sentence in the US
0:08:43 > 0:08:45but he could still be prosecuted in the UK,
0:08:45 > 0:08:47as Daniela Relph reports.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49For four years, the threat of extradition to the United States
0:08:49 > 0:08:51had hung over him.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54Lauri Love described it as "gnawing away at his soul".
0:08:54 > 0:09:02Today that threat was lifted.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07The reason I've gone through this ordeal is not just to save myself
0:09:07 > 0:09:11from being kidnapped and locked up for 99 years in a country I've never
0:09:11 > 0:09:13visited, but it is to set a precedent whereby this
0:09:13 > 0:09:15will not happen to other people in the future.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18The Appeal Court judges ruled that Lauri Love was vulnerable,
0:09:18 > 0:09:20that extradition to America could lead to severe depression,
0:09:20 > 0:09:26and make him a suicide risk.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28And crucially, for his well-being, he needed to be close
0:09:28 > 0:09:30to his parents, here in Britain.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32The relief for Lauri Love, his family, and supporters
0:09:32 > 0:09:34is obvious, of course.
0:09:34 > 0:09:42They believe that this decision is just and humane.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49In a spate of online attacks in 2012 and 2013,
0:09:49 > 0:09:51Lauri Love is alleged to have hacked into the computers and systems
0:09:51 > 0:09:53of several US government agencies.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55They include the FBI, the Department of Defense,
0:09:55 > 0:09:56the Federal Reserve, America's central bank,
0:09:56 > 0:09:59and the space agency Nasa.
0:09:59 > 0:10:05Lauri Love was traced via a Romanian e-mail address and a PayPal account.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07He's been interviewed here by Britain's National Crime Agency
0:10:07 > 0:10:13but, as yet, has not been charged.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16Today's judgment did not rule out a prosecution here in the UK,
0:10:16 > 0:10:18something his family and his supporters are prepared for.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21How do you feel about the prospect of a trial here in the UK
0:10:21 > 0:10:23and a possible jail term?
0:10:23 > 0:10:24I do trust a trial in the UK.
0:10:24 > 0:10:28In the US, the chances of me ever getting a trial are quite slim just
0:10:28 > 0:10:36because people are forced to plead guilty to avoid huge charges,
0:10:37 > 0:10:44huge sentences that they might face if they take a trial.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46In the UK, we don't strong-arm people into facilitating
0:10:46 > 0:10:47their own prosecutions.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49This case has been a strain on the entire Love family,
0:10:49 > 0:10:51especially Lauri's father, who is a prison chaplain.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53There is a consensus of agreement about the things
0:10:53 > 0:10:56that really matter, about decency, about justice, about fairness.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59I've always believed to be born in these islands is to win
0:10:59 > 0:11:04the lottery of life and that what makes Britain great
0:11:04 > 0:11:07makes it Great Britain, is not our power or our might,
0:11:07 > 0:11:10but the fact that it is a great place to live.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13The United States now has two weeks to lodge a request for an appeal
0:11:13 > 0:11:16hearing at the UK Supreme Court.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18The Crown Prosecution Service will also decide
0:11:18 > 0:11:20whether to bring charges.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22But, despite the remaining uncertainty, this was a day
0:11:22 > 0:11:25to celebrate for Lauri Love.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29He now wants to focus on his electrical engineering degree
0:11:29 > 0:11:37and is planning to pursue a career in cyber security.
0:11:37 > 0:11:43Daniela Relph, BBC News, at the Court of Appeal.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45The only surviving suspect in the terror attacks in Paris
0:11:45 > 0:11:48in 2015 is refusing to answers questions in court, where he's
0:11:48 > 0:11:50on trial over the gunfight that led to his arrest.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52On the first day of his trial in Brussels,
0:11:52 > 0:11:56Salah Abdeslam said that his silence didn't make him a criminal, and that
0:11:56 > 0:12:02Muslims were "judged mercilessly".
0:12:02 > 0:12:03The Transport Secretary Chris
0:12:03 > 0:12:05Grayling has announced that the company Stagecoach,
0:12:05 > 0:12:08which operates rail services on the East Coast Main Line, has
0:12:08 > 0:12:10suffered significant losses and that he's ending its contract.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12Let's get more on this developing story from our
0:12:12 > 0:12:13business editor, Simon Jack.
0:12:13 > 0:12:19What's happened, and what does this mean for passengers?
0:12:19 > 0:12:26Stagecoach owns 90% of the franchise which runs the East Coast Main Line,
0:12:26 > 0:12:29Virgin owns the rest, they already said when they bid for this
0:12:29 > 0:12:34contract, which is the seven years, they said we got our sums wrong, we
0:12:34 > 0:12:38want out only. They were going to let the magic 2020. This evening the
0:12:38 > 0:12:42Transport Secretary says it is much worse than we thought, this
0:12:42 > 0:12:46franchise will be passed within months so he needs to do something.
0:12:46 > 0:12:50The to options are renationalise the line, which is very much on the
0:12:50 > 0:12:56table, users, or allow Stagecoach Virgin to operate short-term
0:12:56 > 0:13:00not-for-profit service until something can be decided. Stagecoach
0:13:00 > 0:13:04could bid for franchise in the future. He said there was no legal
0:13:04 > 0:13:07basis to exclude them. For passengers and the real servers that
0:13:07 > 0:13:11shouldn't affect them which is why he's taking action now but this will
0:13:11 > 0:13:16no doubt re-inflame the intense debate, after the collapse of
0:13:16 > 0:13:19Carillion as well, over how much private sector companies should be
0:13:19 > 0:13:23allowed to bid for critical public services like this.Simon Jack,
0:13:23 > 0:13:31thank you. The time is coming up to quarter past six.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35quarter past six. Our top story. Brussels ones but are not leaving
0:13:35 > 0:13:39the customs union will lead to trade barriers.
0:13:39 > 0:13:40And still to come...
0:13:40 > 0:13:43The white supremacist convicted of planning to carry out an act
0:13:43 > 0:13:46of terrorism at a gay pride event in Cumbria.
0:13:46 > 0:13:50Coming up on Sportsday referee John Moss is backed after he awarded a
0:13:50 > 0:13:55controversial penalty in the game between Liverpool and Spurs but
0:13:55 > 0:14:00admits he was misguided and consulting a fourth official.
0:14:00 > 0:14:01Fentanyl - it's an extremely strong painkiller
0:14:01 > 0:14:03thousands of times more powerful than morphine.
0:14:03 > 0:14:04Doctors prescribe it for cancer patients.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07But dozens of people have died in Britain in the last couple
0:14:07 > 0:14:14of years after taking it to get a high.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16Today, a 25-year-old drug dealer from Newport was sentenced to eight
0:14:16 > 0:14:18years in prison for exporting and selling fentanyl
0:14:18 > 0:14:21on the dark web.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23Since December 2016, 113 people have died in the UK
0:14:23 > 0:14:30after overdosing on the drug.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33It's used worldwide but almost 10% of global sales take place here.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36Our correspondent, Jeremy Cooke, has been taking a look
0:14:36 > 0:14:39at where the drug is coming from and who's being affected by it.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42His report contains some flashing images.
0:14:42 > 0:14:46It looks like chemical warfare.
0:14:46 > 0:14:50But this is a police raid on a drug dealer who was selling fentanyl over
0:14:50 > 0:14:52the internet from his home.
0:14:52 > 0:14:57Kyle Enos has now been sentenced to eight years in prison,
0:14:57 > 0:14:59serious time for a serious drug which has taken
0:14:59 > 0:15:03lives up and down the country.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05Robert was 6 foot 5 by two inches wide.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07Hi, guys!
0:15:07 > 0:15:14He was the kindest, gentlest person in the world.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17Full of life, full of promise, but when 18-year-old Robert Fraser
0:15:17 > 0:15:19went to buy cannabis, the dealer gave him
0:15:19 > 0:15:21something new, something different, something deadly.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23I got a phone call from my ex-husband to say he'd just
0:15:23 > 0:15:30walked in and found Robert dead in bed.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32And I just remember thinking, he hasn't said that.
0:15:32 > 0:15:33He can't have said that.
0:15:33 > 0:15:37It's not true.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39Robert knew nothing about fentanyl, a
0:15:39 > 0:15:41synthetic opioid drug which users snort, swallow or inject.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44It's related to heroin but can be thousands of times more powerful.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46Fentanyl's a killer.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49And the drug dealers are playing Russian roulette with our lives.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51They give our children drugs and my child died
0:15:51 > 0:15:57from it.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00Dealing with fentanyl is a game changer, for the police and
0:16:00 > 0:16:03emergency services and in this government-licensed lab.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05It can be absorbed by the skin, so we just
0:16:05 > 0:16:10don't want any risk.
0:16:10 > 0:16:11They've been trained to be super careful.
0:16:11 > 0:16:15Because just a few grains of fentanyl can kill.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17So it's powerful and cheap, and for dealers, that
0:16:17 > 0:16:18means big profits.
0:16:18 > 0:16:19They've seen it all here.
0:16:19 > 0:16:20Heroin, cocaine, crystal meth.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23But nothing like this.
0:16:23 > 0:16:28Fentanyl's just a different category of drug altogether.
0:16:28 > 0:16:32And the potential harm that they can cause
0:16:32 > 0:16:35is just way above anything we've had in the past.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38But where is fentanyl coming from?
0:16:38 > 0:16:42The BBC is undercover in China on the trail of the
0:16:42 > 0:16:44suppliers and so a meeting with the laboratory boss
0:16:44 > 0:16:45and his translator.
0:16:45 > 0:16:46Let's talk business.
0:16:46 > 0:16:49So 1kg of fentanyl...
0:16:49 > 0:16:51China has banned production of some types of fentanyl
0:16:51 > 0:16:54but labs can work around the law by making small changes
0:16:54 > 0:17:02in the fentanyl molecule.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08And they are happy to ship the drug anywhere in the world.
0:17:08 > 0:17:092000...
0:17:09 > 0:17:13Within minutes we are being offered a deal.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16The BBC bought no drugs but what is clear is that
0:17:16 > 0:17:19fentanyl is on sale to anyone with the money to buy it.
0:17:19 > 0:17:20This one is very powerful.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24Very strong.
0:17:24 > 0:17:25Yes, very strong.
0:17:25 > 0:17:26Can you send this to England?
0:17:26 > 0:17:31Yes, yes, England.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34From China to Britain, UK drug dealers get wholesale
0:17:34 > 0:17:37deliveries, then break them down to sell on the internet.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39Really, it looks much like any other online
0:17:39 > 0:17:46marketplace.
0:17:46 > 0:17:54Jamie Bartlett is an author who writes about the
0:17:54 > 0:17:56so-called dark net, a hidden, unregulated corner of the internet.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58But you have cannabis, ecstasy, opioids,
0:17:58 > 0:17:59psychedelic steroids and so on.
0:17:59 > 0:18:00408 different offerings of fentanyl on
0:18:00 > 0:18:01this website alone.
0:18:01 > 0:18:02Yeah.
0:18:02 > 0:18:10Fentanyl is a highly dangerous substance.
0:18:11 > 0:18:15And carfentanyl, an elephant tranquilliser,
0:18:15 > 0:18:16is still moderately.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19It makes all of these products which were never
0:18:19 > 0:18:21within which especially of young people far more easy to get
0:18:21 > 0:18:26than ever before.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29In this area alone over the past year at least six
0:18:29 > 0:18:30deaths have been linked to the drug.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32Kenny was lucky not to be the seventh.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Ended up using what I thought was heroin.
0:18:34 > 0:18:35And turns out it wasn't.
0:18:35 > 0:18:39What was it?
0:18:39 > 0:18:41It was fentanyl or carfentanyl, not sure.
0:18:41 > 0:18:44Kenny has a history of drug abuse and overdo overdosed on fentanyl.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46Luckily he was in the Moses project drop-in centre with the antidote
0:18:46 > 0:18:47nearby.
0:18:47 > 0:18:54I overdosed, that's as much as I can remember.
0:18:54 > 0:18:55Injected it and overdosed.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57I was dead.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00Seeing red, it was like blood was covering my eyes.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02The spike of deaths across north-east England put fentanyl
0:19:02 > 0:19:05firmly on the radar of the National Crime Agency.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07They know the drug is taking thousands of lives in America
0:19:07 > 0:19:12and are determined to stop it here.
0:19:12 > 0:19:19The NCA has prioritised the threat from fentanyl and its analogues back
0:19:19 > 0:19:22in April last year, and it's still priority today.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25So we have a number of officers working solely on that threat.
0:19:25 > 0:19:26Michelle knows the cost of fentanyl.
0:19:26 > 0:19:27How it took Robert's life.
0:19:27 > 0:19:31What it does to families.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33People sitting in their bedrooms, clicking
0:19:33 > 0:19:34a button, and getting it.
0:19:34 > 0:19:35Why, how?
0:19:35 > 0:19:37The world I grew up in wasn't like that.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40And I don't want that future for my little lad either.
0:19:40 > 0:19:44My surviving little lad.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Michelle is now a campaigner, determined to make
0:19:46 > 0:19:50us all aware of the dangers of fentanyl, how easy it is to get, how
0:19:50 > 0:19:51easily it kills.
0:19:51 > 0:19:57Jeremy Cooke, BBC News.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01Details of organisations offering information and support
0:20:01 > 0:20:04with addiction are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline,
0:20:04 > 0:20:08or you can call for free at any time to hear recorded information.
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0:20:16 > 0:20:19UK sales of new diesel cars fell by 25% in January,
0:20:19 > 0:20:22according to the latest figures.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25Diesel cars have been the focus of air quality concerns,
0:20:25 > 0:20:27prompting speculation that owners could face higher taxes or limits
0:20:27 > 0:20:34on where they can be used.
0:20:34 > 0:20:38Motor manufacturers claim that buyers are confused by government
0:20:38 > 0:20:42policies on diesels.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45A white supremacist who planned to carry out a machete attack
0:20:45 > 0:20:48at a gay pride event in Cumbria has been convicted of preparing
0:20:48 > 0:20:49an act of terrorism.
0:20:49 > 0:20:5020-year-old Ethan Stables was arrested after police
0:20:50 > 0:20:53were tipped off when he posted details of his plans online.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55Here's our home affairs correspondent, Dominic Casciani.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Ethan Stables, self-confessed neo-Nazi.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59For more than six months, the 20-year-old planned
0:20:59 > 0:21:01a white supremacist attack in Barrow-in-Furness.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03Online, he spread hate.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05In the real world, he bought weapons and
0:21:05 > 0:21:07recorded this shocking video.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09It's just like gay people.
0:21:09 > 0:21:16Much nicer when they're on fire.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18In a series of frightening posts, he told fellow
0:21:18 > 0:21:20neo-Nazis on Facebook that he would attack this pub,
0:21:20 > 0:21:21hosting a gay pride night.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23I'm going to war tonight, he told them.
0:21:23 > 0:21:27I'm going to walk in with a machete and slaughter every single one.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Some readers encouraged him, but one replied, that's not right,
0:21:29 > 0:21:33Ethan.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35He posted this reconnaissance picture and signed off, I'm fighting
0:21:35 > 0:21:37for what I believe in.
0:21:37 > 0:21:45My country, my folk, my race.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50Barmaid Katie Bulger was setting up for the night
0:21:50 > 0:21:52when armed officers, tipped off by a Facebook user, rushed in.
0:21:52 > 0:21:53It frightened me.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55Because I felt like a deer in headlights.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57So angry, so angry afterwards to think that
0:21:57 > 0:22:00somebody would actually do something like that to a peaceful place.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02With the pub surrounded just over there
0:22:02 > 0:22:08by armed police, the manhunt across Barrow continued.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10And shortly after 10pm, Ethan Stables was arrested on
0:22:10 > 0:22:13this road between his flat and the target.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15Prosecutors said that this was his last act of reconnaissance
0:22:15 > 0:22:22before he would have gone home to get his weapons.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24And this is what police recorded finding after they
0:22:24 > 0:22:25broke into his flat.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27A swastika flag on the wall, weapons including an axe
0:22:27 > 0:22:29laid out and prepared, and evidence
0:22:29 > 0:22:32that Stables was trying to make his own explosives.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34His intended victims are furious that he could post his
0:22:34 > 0:22:35hatred online.
0:22:35 > 0:22:42It would have been a bloodbath.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44Personally, I think Facebook should have closed his account.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46His main picture was him looking very
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Aryan in front of a swastika banner, flag.
0:22:48 > 0:22:52And also, some of the literature was like, a new world
0:22:52 > 0:22:54order this, and very extreme Nazi propaganda.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57Facebook won't comment on why Stables was online, despite
0:22:57 > 0:22:59receiving four complains about his posts.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02He told his trial his comments weren't serious and he was in
0:23:02 > 0:23:04fact bisexual.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06He will be sentenced later for preparing an act of
0:23:06 > 0:23:08terrorism only discovered by chance.
0:23:08 > 0:23:12Dominic Casciani, BBC News, Barrow-in-Furness.
0:23:12 > 0:23:18Tomorrow marks 100 years since women won the right to vote.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21But the Representation of the People Act only granted that
0:23:21 > 0:23:23right to women over the age of 30 who had certain property
0:23:23 > 0:23:26qualifications.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29It would be another decade before all women over the age of 21
0:23:29 > 0:23:30were allowed to vote.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33Our correspondent Sarah Smith reports now on the momentous
0:23:33 > 0:23:38moment in the struggle for gender equality.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41The Palace of Westminster was built as an exclusively all-male
0:23:41 > 0:23:45club, no women allowed.
0:23:45 > 0:23:50So suffragettes often targeted Parliament itself.
0:23:50 > 0:23:55Four of them chained themselves to these statues in 1909.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57Their militant behaviour was then used as an argument
0:23:57 > 0:24:02for why votes for women would be exceedingly dangerous.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04Hidden beneath those corridors of power,
0:24:04 > 0:24:09there is an intriguing memorial to the suffragette movement.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11In 1911, thousands of women tried to avoid being
0:24:11 > 0:24:14registered in the census.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17Emily Davison was one of the protesters who said,
0:24:17 > 0:24:20if women don't count, then neither shall we be counted.
0:24:20 > 0:24:23Emily Davison spent the night hiding behind this door in a broom cupboard
0:24:23 > 0:24:29underneath Westminster Hall.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31She was discovered in here, so she was registered
0:24:31 > 0:24:35in the census as being resident in the House of Commons.
0:24:35 > 0:24:36A woman runs out.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39There is a fall.
0:24:39 > 0:24:44Davison did not live to see women win the vote.
0:24:44 > 0:24:48She died in 1913 after running into the path of the King's
0:24:48 > 0:24:51horse at the Epsom Derby.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53But she may not have intended to kill herself.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56This is the actual scarf Emily Davison had with her that
0:24:56 > 0:24:58fateful day at the derby.
0:24:58 > 0:25:02And it's thought now it might have been her intention to try and attach
0:25:02 > 0:25:05it to the bridle of the King's horse rather than to actually
0:25:05 > 0:25:07bring the horse down.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10The scarf is owned today by a collector who let me see
0:25:10 > 0:25:11a telegram she's never shown publicly before.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15Sent from Queen Alexandra to the injured jockey.
0:25:15 > 0:25:21Yes, it says, Queen Alexandra was very sorry indeed to hear
0:25:21 > 0:25:23of your sad accident caused by the abominable conduct
0:25:23 > 0:25:29of a brutal, lunatic woman.
0:25:29 > 0:25:33This is really strong language. A brutal, lunatic woman.
0:25:33 > 0:25:37People had mixed feelings about the militant suffragettes.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40Half of them thought they were crazy and half of them thought that
0:25:40 > 0:25:42that was the only way, by destroying property, that they
0:25:42 > 0:25:43would actually achieve the vote.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46As MPs, women continued campaigning for equal rights.
0:25:46 > 0:25:54Edith Summerskill, on the left, was first elected in 1938.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00Her daughter, Shirley, followed her into the Commons in 1964.
0:26:00 > 0:26:04Women who have got to anywhere in their career are very conscious,
0:26:04 > 0:26:06and should be, of the women who went before.
0:26:06 > 0:26:11And paved the way. And made it possible.
0:26:11 > 0:26:17That includes Saffron Dickson, just 20 years old.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19And because she lives in Scotland, she's already voted six times,
0:26:19 > 0:26:22thanks to the suffragettes who fought for her rights.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25Hopefully, I like to think that I would be at the front line,
0:26:25 > 0:26:28you know, totally involved.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31But that's coming from a privileged perspective of somebody that has
0:26:31 > 0:26:34a political voice just now because of the
0:26:34 > 0:26:36women that made those sacrifices.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39But, actually, we've got so many different issues still happening.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41In the workplace, sexual assault and harassment, pay parity,
0:26:41 > 0:26:43still affecting women today.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46100 years of remarkable change since women got the vote.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48But any suffragette surveying the political scene today
0:26:48 > 0:26:51would undoubtedly see much that still needs to be done.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54Sarah Smith, BBC News.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56Time for a look at the weather.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58Here's Louise Lear.
0:26:58 > 0:26:59Here's Louise Lear.
0:26:59 > 0:27:05We walk up to some record-breaking snow in Moscow this morning. Four is
0:27:05 > 0:27:10only UK, a light dusting in parts of Sussex and into account. Some blue
0:27:10 > 0:27:16sky and some sunshine also, as you can see inside and cold and
0:27:16 > 0:27:19Birmingham, but were we so blue sky and sun, temperatures are likely to
0:27:19 > 0:27:24follow the sharply next year was. You can see this ribbon of cloud in
0:27:24 > 0:27:28the far north-west. That weather front arrives overnight to make
0:27:28 > 0:27:31bringing snow into Scotland, Northern Ireland, north-west
0:27:31 > 0:27:37England, grinding to a halt in the Pennines by dawn tomorrow morning.
0:27:37 > 0:27:41There will be a hard frost for many first thing. Some sunshine across
0:27:41 > 0:27:44the south-east. As we go into the morning, the weather front continues
0:27:44 > 0:27:47to drift its way through Wales and perhaps the north Midlands.
0:27:47 > 0:27:53Weakening a little by the end. The band of cloud follows behind. Some
0:27:53 > 0:27:58showers in the North of Scotland with hail and snow. That adds study
0:27:58 > 0:28:02relations you have first thing tomorrow. The weather front will be
0:28:02 > 0:28:06sitting down through the Northwest of England and into Wales. In the
0:28:06 > 0:28:10Midlands, cloudy, best of the sunshine in the south-east. In the
0:28:10 > 0:28:13south-west, a band of cloud and rain. As we go into the afternoon,
0:28:13 > 0:28:21the weather front weakens as it goes through the Midlands. The odds snow
0:28:21 > 0:28:26shower from time to time. Nothing too substantial. It will be cold
0:28:26 > 0:28:30tomorrow, temperatures really struggling. 2-4dC at the very best.
0:28:30 > 0:28:37We need to keep a close eye through the evening. The number of areas, we
0:28:37 > 0:28:40could be waking up to light dusting of snow first thing on Wednesday. A
0:28:40 > 0:28:46cold and frosty start. A dry day for most of us before more rain pushes
0:28:46 > 0:28:47into the north-west.
0:28:47 > 0:29:11Thank you.