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Of Million Pounds for one cask of rare Scotch Whisky the private collection thats up for sale. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news liverpool, Manchester City and tottenham are all in Champions League action tonight. Spurs host defending champions real madrid at wembley. Good evening and welcome to the bbcs news at six. Police in new york say the man behind yesterdays attack, which left eight people dead and many others injured, had been planning it for weeks and carried it out in the name of so called islamic state. 29 year old sayfullo siapov moved to america from uzbekiztan on a us Visa Programme seven years ago. President trump has ordered Security Services to step up vetting procedures. And he said america must get tougher, smarter and much less politically correct. Yesterdays atrocity happened just a few blocks away from where the twin towers were attacked in 2001. Saipov swerved his truck onto a path and hit pedestrians and cyclists at speeds of up to 60 miles an hour, before smashing into a school bus. He then got out, brandishing what turned out to be a pellet gun and paintball gun. He was shot in the stomach by police but is expected to survive. Our new york correspondent, nick bryant, is at the scene. The suspect was not known to the new York Police Department and he wasnt on the radar of the fbi, so he raised no alarms when he rented his pick up truck, asking for the biggest model available, and drove it from newjersey into Lower Manhattan to carry out the kind of attack that is so hard to guard against. Eight people were killed, and it could have been many more. This is a scene that new yorkers have dreaded for years, one that brings back the trauma of 9 11, one that shows how this city is vulnerable to new forms of terror. A rented pick up truck that became weaponised. A mode of attack that is common in europe. Now it has been used to deadly effect on american soil, and just yards from ground zero, the site of the september 11th attacks. The antenna on the new World Trade Center bathed in red, white and blue, to honour the eight people killed. This is the suspected attacker, Sayfullo Saipov, a 29 year old who reportedly shouted allahu akbar, god is great, as he left his truck. He was brandishing fake weapons, and was shot by the police and taken into custody. Moments earlier, he had driven at high speed along a riverside bypass, targeting cyclists and pedestrians. This was an attack on the United States and an attack on new york city, an attack on our people, and it was the definition of terrorism. An effort to take away peoples hope and spirit, and to make them change, and what new yorkers showed already is we will not change. Saipov is an uzbek immigrant who came to the United States in 2010. He is believed to have been radicalised in america, and told the police he was very pleased with the success of the attack. One of the early clues investigators found at the scene were hand written notes in arabic pledging allegiance to the Group Calling itself islamic state. But there is no evidence yet of a direct link to that group. You got kids in there . Hold on. His attack came to an end when he crashed into a school bus. Oh, my god. 0k. I need an ambulance right here. That was an accident, the suspect has reportedly told investigators, because he wanted to continue down the road. Police found knives in his vehicle. Oh, my god. Based on the investigation overnight it appears that mr saipov had been planning this for a number of weeks. He did this in the name of isis, and along with the other items, recovered at the scene, were some notes that further indicate that. He appears to have followed, almost exactly to a t, the instructions that isis has put out in its social Media Channels before, with instructions to their followers on how to carry out such an attack. Among those killed, five friends from argentina. Men in their late 405, in new york to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their graduation from college. Two americans and a belgian were victims. President trump has demanded tough justice and tighter immigration measures. We need quick justice and we need strong justice. Much quicker and much stronger than we have right now. Because what we have right now is a joke, and it is a laughing stock, and no wonder so much of this stuff takes place. In his home town, this tower was erected in defiance of terror, a symbol of a resurgent city that refused after 9 11 to be cowed, and at the ground level this morning that spirit was very much in evidence. Joggers following their normal routes. Even a cyclist berating a pedestrian for getting in her way, a scene that speaks of new york. The city has experienced much worse dawns than this, and waking up to the threat of terror has become part of daily life. Nick bryant, bbc news, manhattan. Sayfullo saipov remains under arrest in hospital after being shot by police. The 29 year old arrived in america legally seven years ago on a us Visa Programme. The Authorities Say they believe he was radicalised after his arrival. He lived for a while in florida, from where Rajini Vaidyanathan has sent this report. A man police say showed no remorse. Sayfullo saipov was said to have bragged about what he did for so called islamic state. Found in the truck he used as a weapon were papers saying, is will endure. Officials say he became radicalised in america. The 29 year old arrived here from uzbekistan through a green card lottery in 2010. Settling in cincinnati in the state of ohio, where he got married. One man who knew him then believes he was exposed to extremist ideology online. He always looked as a liberal muslim, Something Like that, you know. He always like, saying, you know, youre doing not right this one, doing this one like islam does. That was very minor signs of radicalising. From ohio, he moved to florida, living at this apartment complex in tampa. Neighbours say they remember seeing him by the pool with his wife and children, but that he wasnt particularly friendly. Although he was a practising muslim, Sayfullo Saipov wasnt seen at mosques in the area. This lawyer who speaks for the Islamic Community in tampa says there may be a reason why. Weve worked with the fbi on a number of cases of trying to protect youth from being targeted by groups like is, and the first tactic is does is try to get them away from the mosques, because they know the messaging of the mosques undermine the deviant extremist heretical message of groups like isis. 0ne resident says Sayfullo Saipov and his family packed up from here earlier this year, and that before he left, he gave her his computer and printer, which she donated to charity. She also said he told her he was moving to newjersey. And it was in paterson, a city with a large muslim community, that he worked as an uber driver. Close to here he rented the truck he used in the attack. Sayfullo saipov is still in hospital. The focus for authorities is how did an immigrant who wasnt on their radar commit a deadly terror attack in the country he made his home . Joining me is our north america editor, jon sopel. Weve heard President Trump renewing his vow to crack down on immigration. What will be political fallout be . Donald trump has set out a radical shift in immigration policy by saying he wants to end the green card lottery, the visa system by which people can apply from anywhere in the world, 50,000 visas are given each year, so hundreds of thousands of people have come to america and made new lives here off the back of that. He has also said that he wants to toughen up the criminal justice system, that he wants to toughen up the criminaljustice system, that its become a laughing stock and a jug, and hed be quite happy for nadiya to be sent to Guantanamo Bay to be questioned, but it is also taken divisive tone, the president greeting this morning that terrorists came into our country through what is called the diversity visa lottery programme, a Chuck Schumer beauty. Chuck schumer is the democrat minority leader who was one of the architects of this original policy. Chuck schumer has replied, President Trump, instead of politicising and dividing america, which he always seems to do at times of national tragedy, should bring us together. Now, its always said that, at a time of mourning, a nation comes together, a nation becomes united but not in todays america. The Prime Minister has written to Party Leaders, inviting them to meet next week to agree on the best way to deal with allegations of sexual abuse and harassment at westminster. Theresa may said she wanted a transparent system following a series of allegations against mps. Tonight, in the latest in a series of allegations to emerge, a former parliamentary intern has told the bbc that he was sexually assaulted by a former mp in 2012. 0ur Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports. What has been obscured is slowly becoming easier to see. Where fear and Party Loyalty held some back, more voices are now coming forward. This man was a labour intern in parliament in 2012. It was exciting, important, he believed. There was a lwa ys important, he believed. There was always something going on and i enjoyed it. But one night went badly wrong when he stopped to look at a picture in a westminster corridor. This mp put his arm around me, pointing at the thing in the painting, and explaining to me some of the different things, but then his hand slowly went down, and. Yeah, he sort of took advantage of that situation. I didnt really know what to do. Ijust. I dont know. It sounds stupid but i remember going home and having a shower. I wasnt. It wasnt like going home and having a shower. I wasnt. It wasnt like id been raped or anything like that, because thats a horrific, traumatic experience, but i still felt violated. It was awful. James was 22 and hed never even talked to the mp, who isnt in the commons any more, before what he considers sexual assault. You say you didnt wa nt to sexual assault. You say you didnt want to rock the boat. Is that why you didnt speak up . Who would believe me, and in turn, against a powerful mp . Who is going to win that argument . Its not going to be me put my name is going to go through the mud and people will think, hes the guy who made that allegation. Dont have anything to do with him, hes trouble. James tried to report it months later but was put off when he was told hed have to give his name. This former lib dem activist leaves the issue is so lib dem activist leaves the issue is so widespread that politics isnt a safe place for young people. |j so widespread that politics isnt a safe place for young people. I dont think that politics is built for young people and i think, without safeguards, young people shouldnt get involved. Yet some tory ministers implicated by this list vehemently denied anything wrong. Damian green faces an investigation for alleged inappropriate behaviour with a young woman. But he says the allegations are completely false. And others who have been named have gone publicjust and others who have been named have gone public just to and others who have been named have gone publicjust to say its not true. But theresa may is under heavy pressure to act. I have written and oral Party Leaders inviting them to a meeting early next week so we can discuss, a common, transparent, independent grievance procedure for all those in parliament. It is incumbent on all parties to have robust procedures in place to protect and support victims of abuse and harassment. I commit my members to work with the government to make sure we can have a system we can be proud of to protect all members of the house of parliament. Party leaders are to gather next week to talk of a new system. The hope of those who have been brave enough to speak out is for a genuinely neutral place where they can tell their stories and be believed. The Political Parties are now scrambling to get a new system in place. But perhaps what matters more than any different rules and regulations is a change in attitude round here. Where victims of harassment feel they can come forward without risking personal cost. There are nerves across westminster of what might come next, but maybe, perhaps, to, hopes that things might change. Laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. Another man has come forward to allege that the hollywood star, kevin spacey, behaved inappropriately towards him in the 1980s. The man, who wishes to remain anonymous and is now in his 50s, told the bbc that, when he was 17, the actor tried to get him into bed. Theres been no comment from mr spacey or his representatives. There needs to be a cultural change in the way relatives are treated in the wake of a public tragedy thats the conclusion of a review into the experiences of families who lost loved ones in the Hillsborough Disaster in 1989. The former bishop of liverpool the right reverend jamesjones was asked to write the report after inquests into the deaths of the 96 liverpool fans. He said the pain and suffering their families had been through must not be repeated. Judith moritz reports. Hillsborough was a disaster on many levels. 96 people died. But their families have suffered a burning injustice. Many institutions both public and private bear responsibility. Their treatment of the families making their suffering worse. That must not happen again according to this report which recommends measures to help disaster victims like those whose loved ones died at hillsborough. It calls forfairer Legal Funding for such families, a voluntary charter for public bodies, and for the police to be held more accountable. You can change the law as much as you want, but unless there is a cultural change you will not make a difference. Because what the families found is that when they challenged the institution, the institution closed ranks, put their own reputation above the needs and the rights of the individual. The Hillsborough Disaster happened when fans became crushed on the terraces of the sheffield ground. One of those who died was Jimmy Hennessey whose daughter charlotte was just six. Now a parent herself, she contributed to the new report. It is very, very difficult to talk about your life so openly and so honestly. Because, you know, youre going into back things that you have dealt with or you have kind of put away. If any good could come of this process, it has got to be that we protect other people. I would never want anybody to have the life that ive had. What happened here has raised Big Questions about the way the state and its agencies respond to disasters. And the success of this report will bejudged in part on whether people caught up in such trauma are treated better as a result. There are concerns that those bereaved by the Grenfell Tower fire are experiencing a repeat of the suffering endured by the hillsborough families. Some here welcomed the report. Let people be transparent and let the laws change for the people. To be transparent and accountable. Dont let us wait five years. It is just wicked. The report is full of personal stories of pain and adversity. But there is hope as well, with support for a hillsborough law as a legacy of so many lives lost. Judith moritz, bbc news, liverpool. Our top story this Evening Police in new york say the man who used a truck to kill eight people had been planning it for weeks. And still to come how much would you pay for a cask of rare scottish whisky . Coming up on sportsday on bbc news with 100 days to go till the winter olympics, we meet the Team Gb Medal hopefuls looking for success in south korea. Theyre the people who look after the most vulnerable in society children, old people and the disabled. But councils across the uk are struggling so much to recruit and retain permanent social workers that the money they spend on agency staff has nearly doubled in the past four years. A freedom of information request by the bbc has found that overall local authority spending on Agency Social workers rose from £180 million in 2012 to more than £350 million in the last financial year. And spending on agency staffjust for children over the same period went from £118 million to £238 million. 0ur social affairs correspondent, alison holt, has more. She requested for me to call her back, regarding concern for a child at your school. The school has contacted the duty social worker in northamptonshire, worried about the safety of one of their pupils. It is now ibrahimsjob to assess what is going on, and make sure plans are place to protect and support a child whose problems seem to be escalating. So if this has come in this morning, then, because obviously these are going to be new concerns. In the uk, many front line jobs like this are being done by agency staff because councils are struggling to recruit permanent social workers like ibrahim. He is newly qualified and says without the extra support he gets the job could be overwhelming. If something goes wrong, you will never forgive yourself, because you made that decision to put that child or young person in maybe a precarious situation today. So it is not easy, everybody though with the support its difficult. In northamptonshire, services protecting children are turning themselves around after a critical inspection, while demand for help is rising. Pressures that mean the council has increased spending on agency staff by more than 900 in four years. Last year, nearly half of the social workers in the Childrens Services department here in northamptonshire were agency staff. With all the work they have been doing to encourage people to stay, that figure is now down to just over a0 . They cost more than i can afford to pay. The new head of Childrens Services praises the work Agency Social workers do, but says things have to change. If we dont have permanent workforce in place, we need to employ agency staff, agency staff cost more, that means we are using our limited budgets not on children, but on the costs of those staff. So what are the school putting in place . They have set up a social work academy to help attract and keep more social workers. It means experienced staff like sue stevenson provide extra support for new recruits, easing them into the job. So that work has started and we are getting some feedback. Yes, we have the review, the eight week review. She says it is really difficult for the children they help, if their social worker keeps changing. They have to continually repeat their stories often, that they dont have somebody they can build that trusting relationship with, and that sort of start again syndrome. The government says the number of permanent staff working with vulnerable families is increasing, and that more money is being put into social worker recruitment and training. Alison holt, bbc news. A man who ran over and killed a former Royal Navy Officer as he stole his carfrom his home in manchester in april has been jailed for a minimum of 27 years. Ryan gibbons reversed over mike samwell and then drove over him again as the ex serviceman tried to stop him taking his audi a3. Teenagers were arrested at weekend after a number of properties were searched the Northern Ireland secretary has said he is taking the necessary steps for westminster to pass a budget for Northern Ireland. James brokenshire said that it was unlikely that power sharing could be restored at stormont before Northern Ireland ran out of money at the end of this month. Now, how much would you pay for a cask of rare Scotch Whisky . The owners of one of scotlands largest private collections have said they are open to offers for their collection of more than 150 casks. But it doesnt come cheap. The Thomson Family recently sold just one 30 year old Macallan Sherry cask at auction for a record £285,000. 0ur scotland correspondent, lorna gordon, has the story. In the bonded warehousse of scotland, some 20 million casks of whisky lie maturing. Most will end up in bottles, but interest in owning whole championss is growing. But interest in owning whole the aroma and the tradition of holding whiskys. 0ne familys decades old collection could now be on the move. Back in my fathers day, the vast majority of malt whisky was simply used for blending purposes, so nobody really understood what was going to happen, as malt whisky became more popular. This meant that 30 years later my brother and i have had the company passed down to ourselves and its ours to play with now. And if the price is right, to sell this familys liquid gold. Generally speaking, the older the cask, the more valuable the whisky it contains. But beyond a certain age you do have to keep a closer eye on it. Taking samples at least every couple of years. This is a process we call regauging, which is where we work out how much alcohol is left in the cask. So this cask is 46 years old. So from this process we are doing, we would be able to work out how much the angels have taken in their share. That evaporating spirit, that so called angels share is one factor which affects the volume and potential value in a cask. With no two the same, their uniqueness is, for some, part of the attraction. There is significant demand and a growing market for rare old whiskys still in the cask. We are seeing people from all over the world who are approaching us to buy some of these incredibly rare unique things. Thats the appeal. Its that truly unique nature. Every cask is different. Those who love a dram say whisky is for drinking, but with one recent cask selling at auction for more than a quarter of a million, from the connoisseur to the collector it can prove a good investment too. Lorna gordon, bbc news, speyside. Now time for a look at the weather. Heres stav da naos. Hello. Thank you, it was 1st november and it did feel like it. We had plenty of sunshine. Top temperatures wide in places, 16, same for Northern Ireland and aberdeenshire but it wasnt the same story in central and southern scotland. A lot of rain fell through the course of the day. That weather front affecting Central Scotland will sink southwards overnight. Behind it clearer, cooler, and a touch of frost. We could see dense fog patches in southern england, tomorrow, generally speaking it will be mainly dry, with good spells of sunshine. In fact almost unbroken across many northern parts, through the morning and into the afternoon. We will have ta dense fog in southern area, it could affect some of the airports so stay tuned. There could be a bit of cloud in southern area, maybe one or two shower, here it be mild, 12, 1a degrees, chillier in the north but you have the sun to compensate. Then on friday, we are in between weather systems so it will be a benign day, light winds, variable amount of cloud but we will see a change in the north west of the uk. Strongerer winds here and outbreaks of rain. Further south one or two showers and maybe the odd one further east. There should be sunshine, mild in the south, feeling cooler in the north. A tangle weather system, fronts push across the country friday night into saturday, bringing some rain, and then we open the floodgates of the north west, a strong north westerly wind will feed in, colderair north west, a strong north westerly wind will feed in, colder air right across the uk, as you can see from the blue there. As we head into the weekend, we will see a mixture of sunshine and shower, they may be blustery because the wind will be strong, sunshine in between though, that will be nice but nights will start to see a return to overnight frosts. Huw will be here at ten with a special report on the rise in gun crime in the uk. For six months the bbcs investigated the rise in gun crime. Tonight, we speak to the innocent caught in the cross fire. There is no way to live, man. The mother whose child was purred. L pa rt of the mother whose child was purred. L part of my died on that day. I dont know how to, i dont know how to go on from that. And we face the people who carry guns. Is that loaded of course its loaded. That is coming up tonight at ten. Now our main story. Police in new york say the man who used a truck to kill eight people had been planning it for weeks in the name of so called islamic state. That is all from the bbc news at six, goodbye from me, on bbc one we join the bbcs news teams where you are. Hello. This is bbc news with me, rebecca jones. The headlines at 6. 30pm police in new york say the man who drove into cyclists and pedestrians, killing eight people, had been planning the attack for weeks. The suspect, Sayfullo Saipov, a 29 year old uzbek immigrant, was shot and injured by police. We have to get much tougher. We have to get much smarter and we have to get much less the politically correct. Theresa may has written to Party Leaders inviting them to talks about the Sexual Harassment claims at westminster. A report about the experiences of hillsborough families says the burning injustice felt by people affected by public disasters must end. In a moment, it will be time for sportsday but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. In beyond 100 days, well be talking to a us congressman