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Of the panorama journalists who investigated the claims by carl beech thats at n9 15. And also before ten oclock well take a closer look at one of the nominees for britains most prestigious prize for architecture London Bridge station. And fans celebrate as Katarina Johnson thompson scoops britains second goal and breaks the british heptathlon record at the world athletics championships. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. The uk and us governments have called on facebook to rethink its plans to use encryption for messages on all of its platforms. In an open letter to the companys chief executive, mark zuckerberg, the home secretary priti patel said the firms policy could Hamper International efforts to grant law enforcers faster access to private messages on social media. Facebook argues that it is working closely with child Safety Experts and governments to keep people safe. Encryption is creating those spaces, those spaces for terrorist individuals, terrorist organisations, child abusers, the people that are seeking to do harm to others, children, individuals and our own countries and our national security. So, i would really urge facebook to engage with us in active dialogue, which is something that hasnt happened thus far. Thats why we have issued this letter. But what is encryption . Our technology reporter, chris fox explains. There are lots of things we send over the internet that we might not want everybody to see. But as our messages travel across the web, they could be intercepted by Law Enforcement or criminals. Encryption is a way of scrambling data so it can only be read by the people you want. Many websites, such as e mail and online banking, already encrypt information sent between your device and the Service Provider without you having to do anything. But to be certain messages arent intercepted as they travel across the internet, many People Choose to encrypt their messages themselves. One of the many ways of doing that is with public key encryption. With this method, everybody gets two keys, one you can share with everybody, your public key, and oneyou keep to yourself, your private key. The keys are long numbers that form part of a complicated mathematical algorithm that scrambles your messages. The sender encrypts their message using the receivers public key. That secures the message, like a padlock on a box. Only the receiver can unlock the message with their private key. Even though the public key is freely available, the numbers involved can be made so big that it takes too long for todays computers to reverse the encryption process with just the public key. Some Services Already encrypt your messages like this without you having to do anything. That way, they cant be forced to hand over your messages to Law Enforcement, because they genuinely cant decrypt them. So you can see why some governments might not be happy about it. Some governments have urged Service Providers to build a so called backdoor into their systems that could give Law Enforcement access to your messages. Even without that, a determined snoop could try to read your messages before they get encrypted, for example by logging which keys you press to type them. And even todays strongest encryption is not infallible. One day, computers may be powerful enough to crack todays codes in seconds. And chrisjoins me now. What do you make of this request from us and uk governments to facebook to rethink what they are doing with encryption . As we saw in the video, the purpose of end to end encryption is to keep your messages safe as they travel across the internet. That keeps everybody safe. It means your messages to your partner, anything you are sending about your banking details, they are scrambled as they go across the internet and they cant be intercepted and read by criminals. Or Law Enforcement. So that does mean that if people are using messages, messaging apps for criminal purposes, the messages cannot be read by Law Enforcement if they intercept them. That does present a security problem. There isnt a halfway house. If you are forcing people to switch off end to end encryption just so you can track the small number of criminals that use those apps for nefarious purposes, essentially you are putting everybodys messages at risk from being exposed to criminals or being snooped on by governments. And that is a question people will have to ask, is that a compromise we wa nt to have to ask, is that a compromise we want to make . You are saying there isnt a halfway point, we are all in with encryption or we are not. Is there another way around this that allows people to protect their messages, but if Law Enforcement agencies have a reasonable suspicion about somebody, they can get access to their messages . Well, Law Enforcement agencies at the moment, even with encrypted apps, can get some metadata. They can request things like hell have you been messaging, when did you last send them messages, how often have you been messaging . They can get information like that, they cant necessarily get the contents. One of the solutions that has been proposed sometimes as risk from being exposed to criminals or being snooped on by governments. And that is a question people will have to ask, is that a compromise we want to make . You are saying there isnt a halfway point, we are all in with encryption or we are not. Is there another way around this that allows people to protect their messages, but if Law Enforcement agencies have a reasonable suspicion about somebody, they can get access to their messages . Well, Law Enforcement agencies at the moment, even with encrypted apps, can get some metadata. They can request things like who have you been messaging, when did you last send them messages, how often have you been messaging . They can get information like that, they cant necessarily get the contents. One of the solutions that has been proposed sometimes as a back door, just for the government, so that usually our m essa g es the government, so that usually our messages are encrypted, but if the government asked for permission then whatsapp and facebook could decrypt the messages and give them a copy, because they have a set of those keys. But security researchers say thatis keys. But security researchers say that is not a halfway house. If you build a back door into encrypted products, criminals will start looking for it and start attacking the apps and finding the back door. Once it is out there, the messages get exposed. Briefly, how do you think facebook is going to respond . Mark zuckerberg wants to be seen to be doing the right thing, but he has a business to run . He wants facebook to tilt towards privacy, he says thatis to tilt towards privacy, he says that is the future, especially after data scandals like cambridge analytica. I think private messaging as part of that, he doesnt want facebook to have copies of their messages, he wants them to be encrypted so that if Law Enforcement comes to them saying give us the messages, he can say they genuinely dont have them because they are encrypted. There are other ways you can find child abuse images without compromising the security of everybodys messages, and im sure he will announce in due course that they have been working on some kind of ai they have been working on some kind of al to spot images, they already have tools like that, and maybe that is somewhere where they can expand their efforts. We are learning in the last few seconds that rory stewart has said he will be standing down at the next general election and has resigned from the conservative party. I spoke to him a few weeks ago. I asked him if he might stand as an independent. But its not entirely clear from this that is what he is planning to do. Lets look at the tweet from him in the last short while. So, it doesnt sound as if he is going to stand as an independent either. He has been and incredibly high profile mp within the conservative party, often at odds with the leadership, right through theresa mays time in office and certainly since Boris Johnson theresa mays time in office and certainly since borisjohnson has taken over as leader of the party. We will be talking to our Political Correspondent iain watson about this breaking news in the next few minutes. Borisjohnsons chief europe advisor will hold another round of talks in brussels today, as the government tries to break the brexit deadlock. David frosts visit comes as the eus chief negotiator Michel Barnier said he still had plenty of questions about the uks plans. The irish Prime Minister leo varadkar has voiced his concerns about how the plans would be enforced. And our ireland correspondenr chris page is in dublin. Just elaborate on your thoughts on the concerns that leo varadkar has . The Irish Government expressing concerns and strong reservations, but also holding out that may be the proposals from Boris Johnson could form the basis for some kind of discussion to try to move things forward. The objection is that Leo Varadkarand forward. The objection is that leo varadkar and his deputy have been talking about in the last few hours oi talking about in the last few hours orso, talking about in the last few hours or so, there are two of them. The first is the idea that there would have to be customs checks on the island of ireland, on goods moving to and coming from Northern Ireland, evenif to and coming from Northern Ireland, even if the cheques are not at the border, the Irish Government would object to any customs checks at all, because some of their bottom lines are that any brexit deal should protect the all ireland economy, and also cooperation between Northern Ireland and the irish republic, which is a very important part of the good friday peace agreement. The other objection that the Irish Government has relates to the proposed role. Want in setting trade rules, the idea that the devolved Northern Ireland assembly would be able to vote every four years, maintaining any trading arrangements that had an impact on the border. Dublin is worried about that because of the Cross Community voting rules at stormont, it could mean that the democratic unionist party, Northern Irelands largest party, who are pro brexit, they could vote against any measures designed to keep the border open. They would have a veto under the current storm in system and so dublin says it is not fair to give one party in Northern Ireland that much of a say over any new and important trading arrangements. So, those are the two objections. At the Irish Government is not dismissing the proposals out of hand. Leo varadkar is in denmark, holding talks with his danish counterpart, yesterday he spoke tojean Claude Juncker and donald tusk. Away from high politics to the coalface, to the border, where people are potentially going to be most immediately affected by what has been talked about, what is the feeling there . People have been looking at this now for three years, and wondering what is going to happen. But we are closing in very fast on the 31st of october. How worried are people about the fact that they just dont worried are people about the fact that theyjust dont know worried are people about the fact that they just dont know what exactly is going to be happening in their daily lives . Well, speaking to people in the border area, particularly in the last two days since the new british proposals were published, if you things stand out. Of course, people dont want no deal. It would cause real economic problems for the irish republic, particularly, potentially, for the border region. But there is also very strong support, you get a sense, politically and in wider society, for Leo Varadkars brexit stance. That he has been right to hold firm, that he has been right to insist that the backstop, the guarantee that the border would remain open under all circumstances, is the best way to handle brexit. And whenever you talk to people about the prospect of no deal, the fa ct about the prospect of no deal, the fact that the 31st of october is getting ever closer, they dont seem to think that the danger of no deal seemingly increasing threats of no deal, that it means that the Irish Government should back down. The message from Political Parties in dublin, Business Leaders north and south, and indeed from people you tend to talk to in the border region, on the brexit front line, is that the Irish Government should hold their nerve and face down the british government. Plenty of support for the irish gunmens strategy across the country, but how it will end up, well, people still have a lot of questions about the uncertainty and certainly there is a great deal of concern. Thank you very much, chris page in dublin. People buying home and Car Insurance are paying £1. 2 billion too much every year. Thats the finding from a report by the city watchdog, the financial conduct authority. The fca says competition in the Insurance Industry isnt working and that customers are being penalised for loyalty. Its calculated that some six Million Consumers are each paying on average £200 a year more than they should on premiums. Our economics correspondent Dharshini David is here. So, why, according to the fca, isnt competition working in the Insurance Industry . You know what its like, you always like to think that loyalty pays off and if you are a loyalty pays off and if you are a Loyal Customer you would get Something Back in return. We should know by now that isnt always the case. Absolutely, we should listen to the people telling us to shop around. But you forget these things are coming up for renewal, and your friendly and helpful Insurance Company sends you a letter or e mail saying, dont worry, we have got this taken care of, just say yes and we can do this. Sometimes it automatically happens. You dont need to do anything unless you opt out. What the fca has done, the city watchdog, they have said they have looked into this because there had been a number of complaints, there was a super complaint filed to the competition and markets authority, saying that we are paying too much when we are Loyal Customers, not just for things like insurance, things like mortgages, your mobile phone contract. There are lots of investigations going on. This one focuses just on the insurance market. Over eight out of ten of us have motor insurance or Home Insurance, or both. So this is big business. As you say, the fca is saying it is costing us over £1 billion a year because of inertia. So it is looking at various remedies. It can include restricting 01 remedies. It can include restricting or banning companies and putting up prices, or even from automatically renewing those policies. There may be an onus on the industry, but an onus on us as consumers as be an onus on the industry, but an onus on us as consumers as well to put a bit of effort in here. This is an interim report, these are suggested remedies, it may not come to pass, there is lots of criticism for the regulator being too slow. Hong kongs leader has banned face masks in a bid to curb the citys protests. The masks act as protection from tear gas, which has been used frequently during the five months of protests. The hardline measures to enforce the ban fall under a law which hasnt been used in more than 50 years. Critics fear it will only heighten tensions. But carrie lam has insisted its in the citys best interest. We have the duty to use all available means in order to stop the escalating violence and restore calmness in society. As the Current Situation has clearly given rise to a state of serious public danger, the chief executive in council decided at a special meeting this morning to invoke the power, under the emergency regulations ordnance, and make a new regulation in the name of prohibition of Face Covering regulation, which is essentially an anti mask law. The headlines on bbc news. The home secretary, priti patel, is calling on facebook to rethink its plans to encrypt messages on its platforms. The Prime Ministers chief advisor on europe will be holding another round of talks in brussels today, aimed at breaking the brexit deadlock. The financial watchdog, the fca, says millions of customers are overpaying for car and Home Insurance because industry competition isnt strong enough. And also before ten oclock, well take a closer look at one of the nominees for britains most prestigious prize for architecture, London Bridge station. In sport this morning, katrina Johnson Thompson says it is like a dream as she wins heptathlon gold at the world athletics championships. She sets four personal bests and brea ks she sets four personal bests and breaks the british record. Wolves win ina breaks the british record. Wolves win in a major european match for the first time in 39 years, a late winner gives them victory over besiktas in the europa league. And celtic are top of their group after beating the side that knocked them out of the Champions League. We will seejohn very soon. Scotland yard is expected to come under severely criticism in a report investigating to an alleged vip paedophile ring which turned out not to exist. The police inquiry, codenamed operation midland, was launched to look into allegations made by carl beech, who was laterjailed for lying. With me is alistairjackson a bbc panorama journalist who investigated carl beech. Some of this report has come out already. This is another tranche of it. To go back your investigation, which was running parallel, i guess, to the met Police Investigation, all it took for you to expose beechs lies was one phone call . That is one of the things you were referring to, we co nta cted of the things you were referring to, we contacted a chap we had been told was one of the people that beech was putting forward as a possible victim of the hit and run near his school. This guy was alive and well in australia, it turned out. We now know that officers eventually flew to australia to interview this guy. Who beech was claiming had been killed in a hit and run by who beech was claiming had been killed in a hitand run bya paedophile . That would give you some idea, i suppose, paedophile . That would give you some idea, isuppose, when paedophile . That would give you some idea, i suppose, when i spoke to him, nobody else had spoken to him from the police, and it was the same when we looked at people in the area where beech was alleging there had been a hit and run, there didnt seem to be many active police inquiries. At that stage, the police we re inquiries. At that stage, the police were trying to get any people with similar experiences to come forward. That investigation went on, and on, and on, in the face of corroboration not really appearing. That really is what he was drilling down to in the report. What is interesting is that henriques criticisms are well known, but this report may really open up the Decision Making in the senior levels of the met, he was taking what decisions in the face of evidence from the inquiry . Were they pressing on with stuff when there was evidence they shouldnt have done . Were officers on the teams wanting to do other actions that Senior Officers decided not to do . That might be where the interest lies. It is worth mentioning for our viewers, you on the Panorama Team argued there was one key difference in terms of the approach that you touch, versus the approach that the police took, which was to do with the climate at the time, following the climate at the time, following thejimmy the climate at the time, following the jimmy savile the climate at the time, following thejimmy savile case . The climate at the time, following the jimmy savile case . |j the climate at the time, following the jimmy savile case . I think you have to bear in mind that the police were, like somejournalists, like a lot of society at that time, reacting to some quite serious m ista kes reacting to some quite serious mistakes that had been made in the past and they were very keen not to undermine the confidence of victims coming forward. I think the question that has emerged from that is at what expense . If that was at the expense of very rudimentary detective work that enabled an inquiry to go on spending millions of pounds on ruining the reputation is, was that right . And i think what the report will bring into focus, as isaid the report will bring into focus, as i said before, the report will bring into focus, as isaid before, is the report will bring into focus, as i said before, is the Decision Making of the highest levels. Cressida dick, the current commissioner, was, at the early stages of the inquiry, in charge of it, the senior manager steve rockhouse has since gone on to the National Crime agency. Two of the Senior Police officers who will indirectly, and in some cases directly, be mentioned by this report, and one thing in particular that henrique has gone public about since the publication of his report is his concern that the search wa rra nts is his concern that the search warrants that were obtained, were, in effect, in his view, illegal, because he says that the met had evidence that the claims by beech we re evidence that the claims by beech were not corroborated or consistent, and yet they applied for search wa rra nts and yet they applied for search warrants telling a districtjudge that they had corroboration with it and he had been consistent. There is no more serious allegation done that. It might explain the strength with which he believes that, and if it is there, the met would have to provide some response to it. We have heard that the home secretary priti patel has asked for the inspectorate of constabulary to effectively investigate the Police Investigation as well. Do you think that has merit . My understanding of what she is asking is asking to see whether the reaction to the criticism has been enough, whether things had been put in place to stop this happening again. Im not certain that deals with one of the key points, which is was miss conduct at issue here in terms of how this search warrant was gathered . Was the judge terms of how this search warrant was gathered . Was thejudge misled . Thats a very serious allegation. Crucially, the iopc, the independent body that regulates the police, have given officers a clean bill of health on that. They are providing a further report on monday as to why that was given. There is still a question lingering. If they are saying this is a matter of potential misconduct, and yet they have been cleared by the regulator, who is right . Does that have to be looked in to again . Good question. More now on our main story and the uk and us governments have warned facebook to abandon its plan to encrypt the messages of all users on its platforms. In an open letter to companys boss mark zuckberg, the home secretary priti patel argues encryption will make it tougher to fight crime and risks to Online Safety of children. Lets discuss this with silkie carlo director big brother watch which campaigns against what it calls the surveillance state and for people in the uk to be free from unfair intrusion. Shes in our Central London studio. Good morning to you. What do you make of this latest development in the ongoing debate between governments and organisations like facebook over to what extent data on social media platforms should be encrypted . Well, what is being proposed by the government would be one of the most misguided and damaging so called security decisions of the information age. We are talking about creating a back door to the modern communications infrastructure, for better or worse. The number of people who use facebook platform is to communicate is well over 2 billion. That is the majority of the people using the internet. Effectively, what the government are saying is that citizens shouldnt have a right to a private conversation, and that governments should always have a back door in, which is not only terrible for rights in the digital age, but really terrible for security, because it will leave the modern Communications Backbone of the world open to access by criminals, hackers, hostile states and basically anyone. How do you balance your argument with the governments argument here that, without this, Law Enforcement agencies will not be able to properly go after criminals . The curious thing, and there is a lot of misinformation about this, Law Enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies already have a raft of very strong powers to be able to get the content of messages and decrypt them. On a targeted basis. They need warrants to do it, and there are technical means to do so. At the powers are certainly there. So what this proposal is is much more chilling in terms of what the fundamental principle is. Just to interrupt you, sorry, if the government, sorry, if facebook was to introduce end to end encryption, Law Enforcement agencies, in your opinion, would still be able to get to the criminal they want to investigate, alleged criminals . They absolutely can. Under the regulation of investigatory powers act, anyones communications can be demanded, passwords, access to devices, seizure of devices, and then there is covert hacking powers as well that came in in 2016, under the title Co Investigator Co Investigator powers acta, there is an enormous amount of powers. This would create a vulnerability for everybody, and it is in the billions of people. It will affect all of us, but particularly those who live in less democratic countries, where the government will clearly wa nt countries, where the government will clearly want to get into the communications of activists, dissidents, journalists. It affects as here as well, because we also have here journalists that have been spied on by the police and intelligence agencies to identify sources, for example. And we work with journalists who do come in the uk, want to receive information from Police Whistle blowers, government whistle blowers. Its increasingly ha rd to whistle blowers. Its increasingly hard to do. If this proposal is seen through, then it is really game over for privacy, security and those kind of private communications, which is an unthinkable situation to be in a democracy. Children and vulnerable groups are being urged to come forward for a flu vaccination this year, in what the nhs says is its biggest ever winter immunisation programme. For the first time 30 Million People will be eligible for the flu vaccine. It will be offered to all Primary School children including year six pupils. Health officials estimate there were more than 1,600 flu associated deaths last winter. The medical director of Public Health england, yvonne doyle, says its also important that nhs staff get the vaccine. Last year the good news about Health Care Workers was that over 70 accepted the vaccine and were covered, and that has been improving remarkably year on year. This year we will be aiming for we would like 100 of Health Care Workers to be covered but certainly we would like nine in ten to have the vaccine. That protects themselves, their families and the patients. Still to come fans celebrate as Katarina Johnson thompson scoops britains second goal and breaks the british heptathlon record at the world athletics championships. Huge congratulations to her. Now its time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. Thank you very much. Good morning. Believe it or not, we have the re m na nts of believe it or not, we have the remnants of what was a hurricane on oui remnants of what was a hurricane on our shores today. It was Hurricane Lorenzo a few days ago. A pretty nasty category five over the atlantic. Today, nothing more than bog standard area of low pressure. Storm lorenzo it is now known, pushing across ireland at the moment. Notice the lines on the charge, they continue to become fewer in numbers as it works its way eastwards. The wind will get lighter and have very little major impact across the uk. We are seeing in england and wales outbreaks of rain, heavy and persistent in the west, pushing southward and eastward through the day. Further north and west we will see skies brightening up west we will see skies brightening up quitea west we will see skies brightening up quite a bit. Sunshine developing. A bit blustery here and there, the strongest of the winds are in wales and South West England, with gales and South West England, with gales and places. Temperatures 12 or 16 degrees. A chilly one across northern parts. As we go through friday evening and into friday night, what we have of rain left will gradually clear away. Much more in the way of breaks across the north and east of the country. A few patches of mist and fog into the morning and a cold and i could take us morning and a cold and i could take us into the start of the weekend. Temperatures close to freezing and inafew temperatures close to freezing and in a few spots. The west sees the wet weather. Hello, good morning, this is bbc news, the headlines. The home secretary, priti patel, is calling on facebook to rethink its plans to encrypt messages on its platforms. Encryption is creating those spaces, those spaces for terrorist individuals, terrorist organisations, child abusers, the people that are seeking to do harm to others, the Prime Ministers chief advisor on europe will be holding another round of talks in brussels today, aimed at breaking the brexit deadlock. The financial watchdog, the fca, says millions of customers are overpaying for car and Home Insurance because industry competition isnt strong enough. And fans celebrate as Katarina Johnson thompson scoops britains second goal and breaks the british heptathlon record at the world athletics championships in qatar. And, also, before ten oclock, well take a closer look at one of the nominees for britains most prestigious prize for architecture, London Bridge station. Time now for the morning briefing, where we bring you up to speed on the stories people are watching, reading and sharing. Google users in the uk are searching for more information on flu vaccines following news that almost half the uk population will be offered one in the biggest winter Vaccination Campaign the nhs has ever launched. Gp dr amir khan explained to bbc breakfast why more vaccinations are being offered. Our advice as Health Care Professionals is always to get the flu vaccine. People are always worried about maybe getting a mild case of the flu from the vaccine itself or any scaremongering they may have seen online but its so important. You know, the facts are the facts, and the fact state that we should get the flu vaccine. Its our best protection. Not everyone, there are target areas, we were going through some of them there. Not everyone. It is people who are eligible for the flu vaccine, so that is all Primary School children, everyone over 65, adults who have long term conditions, pregnant women, Health Care Workers, the list is quite comprehensive, but it isnt everyone, youre right. Just to go back on the myths thing, you dont get a little bit of the flu or you dont get ill because a lot of people do say when youve had it you can feel rotten afterwards. Not everyone. Some people can get a mild flu like illness but its nothing like having the flu itself. The flu isntjust a bad cold, its a really severe illness that can be very disabling. Does it hit all strands of flu . No. Thats got to be decided upon, hasnt it, early on . Yes. So, the World Health Organisation decides which viruses theyre going to target this year. And, for the vast majority, that will be four viruses in each vaccine. For over 65s, it is three viruses. Katarina Johnson Thompson has won britains second gold at the world athletics championships in doha. She set a new british record at the games last night, breaking Jessica Ennis hills score from the london olympics. Her victory came 2a hours after Dina Asher Smith won gold in the 200 metres. She spoke to bbc breakfast about how it felt in those final moments, when she knew she had won gold. A million thoughts go through your head. The 800 is a very difficult event, so, your legs are full of lactic, and youre just thinking just try to make it to the line. Going into the event, i knew i had to win if i wanted to place first. And i was stilljust waiting to see my name on the scoreboard because i didnt believe that it had happened. Katarina, you had, ithink, correct me if im wrong, four personal bests out of your event this time . What has changed . One, that is brilliant, but what has changed . What has spurred you on this time to perform not the best but the best for yourself, of yourself as well . Just my approach and my focus, and my confidence more than anything. I do feel like these last couple of years ive just slowly been starting to believe in myself and believe in my abilities. I just tried to focus on me and tried to win, break records, funnily enough, just try to get the best out of each performance in the hurdles. And at the start of the hurdles when i did that i moved onto the high jump, whether it was good or bad, and i was just constantly refocusing and refocusing, thats why its such an emotional roller coaster at the end of it, at the 800, to cross the line and just see that youve won and its all come together. There is no otherfeeling like it. The sporting world and beyond have taken to twitter to celebrate the british athletes win. Team mate, adam gemilli said. Katarina johnsonthompson is superwoman World Champion and in a new british record . This has been a Long Time Coming and i couldnt be happierfor one of my best friends in the sport. Sports presenter gabby logan captured a legendary moment when she posted this photo to twitter saying, look who we bumped into on the way home, Katarina Johnson thompson with her glorious gold. A chance for denise lewis and Jessica Ennis hill to have a moment only these three know what this feels like. Great photos now lets take a look at what you are reading and watching on the bbc news app. Number one is this extraordinary story about researchers in france who have built an exoskeleton which has allowed a paralysed man to move using his mind control the suit. Two implants were put on the surface of his brain around the area that controls movement and this man says it is like taking. Like being the first man on the moon taking his first steps in the exoskeleton. Number two on the most red is the story about Loyal Customers over paying for insurance weve brought to you. Number one in the most watched, i guess there must be a lot of cat lovers looking at the bbc news app, it isa lovers looking at the bbc news app, it is a story about cat owners in singapore, lots of them living in high rise, and lots of them falling and being injured and there is a big business in singapore as people. I will try to scroll on so you can see, people have all sorts of wonderful platforms and installations in their apartments to allow the cats to climb around inside without the risk of falling off those balconies. That is it for todays morning briefing. In a moment the weather but first lets heres Joanna Gosling with what shes got coming up in the Victoria Derbyshire programme at 10. Good morning, these photographs of a personal trainers transformation we re personal trainers transformation were lifted from his Instagram Account and used in a social media post that promoted diet pills without his knowledge or consent. We will talk to matt lindsay and ask what you can do to stop your personal pictures being used without your consent. And in an incredible scientific breakthrough, this man has been able to move all four of his paralysed limbs with a mind controlled exoskeleton suit. We will speak to one of the scientists who worked on the project. Join us at 10am on bbc two, bbc news and online. Sport now. And for a full round up, we go to the bbc sport centre. Here isjohn watson. Another morning with fantastic news from doe half. It is easy to forget as we reflect on Katarina Johnson thompsons event, shouldnt just break on Katarina Johnson thompsons event, shouldntjust break date mac in gold, should break the record. She had an overnight lead after four events, then leapt further than her main rival in the long jump. The javelin, traditionally one of her weaker events, but she threw a personal best, one of four pbs across the event. And then she rounded off a fantastic couple of days by winning the 800 metres to take gold. And, after only about an hours sleep, kjt spoke to us this morning and told us how she was feeling going into the final event. A million thoughts go through your head and the 800 is a very difficult event so your legs are full of lactic tenure thinking just try to make it through the line and going into the event i knew i had to win ifi into the event i knew i had to win if i wanted to place first. And i was still waiting to see my name on the scoreboard because i didnt believe it had happened. As she mentioned there, kjt has had some heartbreaking moments at World Championships. In beijing, four years ago, she was devastated when she slipped from second place to 28th. Then, in london, two years later, she was among the favourites but dropped points in the highjump, one of her best events. But shes overcome all that to finally follow in the footsteps of dame Jessica Ennis hill. Multi events is so tough. There were those years and stages of the major championships where she had that huge disappointment where i think we all thought was this going to be her journey . Was this the end point to kats career . And no, she kept battling through, setback after setback. The celebrations havent been limited to the world of athletics Johnson Thompsons old form teacher was reminiscing earlier about her school days and told us she was always a model pupil. What do you see now was what we saw in school, she was a fantastic person, very lovely person, stood out for all the right reasons in school, she threw her heart and soul into everything she did, real team player. What an achievement for Katarina Johnson thompson. It might finally be sinking in for Dina Asher Smith that shes a World Champion. Yesterday, she got some physical proof her gold medal. She ran a personal best time in that 200 metre final on wednesday night but says she can go even faster. And with the olympics coming next year, she knows she has a target on her back. Not that she minds. Yes, yes. It comes with the territory, doesnt it . Youve got to roll with it. Even that sentence itself, people kept saying it yesterday but it feels surreal. It is something that i think is going to be great in the next year because, hopefully, this is in as fast as i can go and hopefully i can get stronger and faster and i can push onto Better Things in the next 12 months. After six womens World Champions in 32 years, weve had two in 2a hours, and theres been praise from a couple of those former champions on social media Sally Gunnell said. And this from paula radcliffe. Of course kjt features on most of this mornings back pages. The daily express one of a few to go with top kat as the headline. Briton finally crowned World Champion to exorcise past global demons, the follow up there. The guardian say world class kjt seals doha gold. And they pick up on Dina Asher Smiths promise that she can run even faster. The sun go a different way, though, focusing on Manchester Uniteds dismal run edamned united the headline, after their goalless draw at dutch club az alkmaar. And it was a really frustrating night for united, although manager ole Gunnar Solskjaer said they put in a good performance. Hed been critical of the plastic pitch, and he was fuming that they were denied a penalty, when Stijn Wuytens brought down Marcus Rashford with ten minutes to go. The fact remains, though, that united didnt have a single shot on target and theyre now without a win in their past ten away games. Wolves won their first major european match since 1980, and it came in dramatic style. Willy boly scoring in stoppage time to snatch a 1 0 win over besiktas in istanbul. Its six points from six for arsenal, after Gabriel Martinelli scored two quick fire goals to put them on their way to a 4 0 win over standard liege. Celtic got a bit of revenge over romanian side cluj. They were the team that knocked them out of the Champions League in august but celtic beat them 2 0 last night to go top of their group as rangers lost at young boys. But there was heartbreak for rangers. Theyd been ahead against young boys but a goal nearly three minutes into injury time sent them to defeat. It looked like they would be getting away with a draw in that one. England cricketer kate cross says she accepts for now that theres a pay disparity between the men and womens teams in the new hundred competition which launched yesterday. Some of englands test players were picked by the eight new sides in the first part of the draft. There have been questions over the cost of the competition and whether its needed. The biggest earner in a mens team will receive 125, 000 pounds, butjust 15,000 pounds for the best paid women but cross hopes that will soon change. It could be very easy to get caught up it could be very easy to get caught up talking about what the men earn and we are realistic because we know the men get more bums on seats and sell out more crowds are in that sense we are realistic and we know as soon as we start generating that revenue may be we will learn a bit more but at the minute we are very happy with how we are going and the salary we are now earning on the fa ct salary we are now earning on the fact that we can be professional cricketers are not have to have jobs on the side which girls doing up we re on the side which girls doing up were until three years ago, that is a very important part for us. And im sure we will be talking a great deal about as we edge closer to the start of the tournament. Thats all from the spot centre for now and its back to you. More than a quarter of mammals in the uk are on the brink of being wiped out. Thats the stark warning from the state of nature report, which says Climate Change and more intense farming methods are to blame. Professor rosie hail is director of nature and science at the National Trust, shejoins me now. Professor, good to have you with us. 4196 professor, good to have you with us. 41 of professor, good to have you with us. A1 of the uks species studied have declined. Mammals 26 of those at risk of disappearing altogether. We know, it isnt rocket science, we know, it isnt rocket science, we know the reasons behind the decline of these populations, such as pollution, so what are we going to do about it . Well, yes, thats absolutely right. We do know the reasons behind these declines. We do also know what to do about it. We have a lot of initiatives that are working with land managers to manage the land, produce food as well as wildlife. The problem is we are not doing it as a sufficient scale. We really need to scale up to have an impactand turn really need to scale up to have an impact and turn around these declines in wildlife. I think the National Trust is about one of 70 organisations that has been working with the government, talking to the government. How much hedgerows have you been able to make in trying to increase the pace of work to save his animals, plants and other species . The National Trust itself has actually put conservation, Nature Conservation, at the heart of its strategy. We have a very ambitious target to restore 25,000 hectares of priority habitat by 2025 to we arejust hectares of priority habitat by 2025 to we are just one player. We are trying to play our part but Everybody Needs to play their part. And there are policies being developed in government that could really turn this around if they are implemented with sufficiently strong environmental laws, and with sufficient investment. Farmers in the past have just responded to the markets, the subsidies and regulation that has been in place so it is the system we need to change. What species are closest to the brink of extinction . Well, actually, you know, rather than picking out individual species, you know, rather than picking out individualspecies, like you know, rather than picking out individual species, like the wildcat in scotland, the thing is there are some shockingly. Every day species we are familiar with, like the hedgehog, turtle kukus. When did you last hear a cuckoo . I have heard one this spring but it used to be really common. And what can individuals do . How can they find out more how they can play their part in working to save the species . I mean, even small actions by individuals, if everybody does them, can have a cumulative effect. Manage your garden for wildlife. You know, dont cut your grass to short, there are those simple, little things. But also go out and join your local Nature Conservation organisation. This report is actually built on the Data Collected by thousands of volunteers. So get out there and get involved. 0k, professor rosie hail from the National Trust, thank you very much. The home secretary, priti patel, is calling on facebook to rethink its plans to encrypt messages on its platforms. The Prime Ministers chief advisor on europe will be holding another round of talks in brussels today, aimed at breaking the brexit deadlock. The financial watchdog, the fca, says millions of customers are overpaying for car and Home Insurance because industry competition isnt strong enough. The winner of the Royal Institute of british architects most prestigious award, the Riba Stirling prize, will be announced on tuesday. There are six nominations for britains best new building of 2019, which include a sculpture park, new Council Housing and a property made entirely of cork. All this week we have been taking a closer look at each of the nominated buildings. Today we are looking at London Bridge station, the enormous project in the heart of the capital connecting travellers all over the country and beyond. London bridge station was probably the most difficult station to get around in london, it was overcrowded and not a particularly nice environment so the brief from our client was to create a new station in the middle of the existing station by cutting through the victorian archers, to create this large concourse. The station has been completely reorganised and is now i hope one of the best stations in london from going from one of the worst. How this station looked and needed to operate was an important but not the most important part. It was how we built it and kept london running. Theres over 120 million passenger journeys every year we have to manage. All of those trains, all of those passengers had to keep on going. We had to design the building in strips or nine mini stations, effectively, build them and once they were completed, we moved onto they were completed, we moved onto the next bit, demolished it, built the next bit, demolished it, built the new book, the old bit was running alongside new bit. It is the largest concourse in the uk. Twice the size of Liverpool Street station and actually bigger than the pitch at wembley stadium. The station can appease themselves curve up in the centre to create what we call on eyebrow ridges to allow north light and a component of south light down into the station and make it a day late concourse. When the light streams down through comet hits the wood, it creates a lovely environment. I also love the western arcade which is the link between the new concourse and the london underground. Weve put in concrete arches which mix the existing brick iu ns arches which mix the existing brick runs which is the site of the first viaduct built in 1836 at the station. We get people coming in here coming to lunch now to meet other people. For a social thing, not even getting on the train. Its amazing, that is the word i can use. Here with me now is sadie morgan, architect and former riba prize winner and christine murray, editor of architecture publication the developer. Great to have you both with us as we have been working our way through the finalists this week ahead of next tuesdays announcement of the winner. Looking at London Bridge station, a fabulous shot in the air of how it looks, but this must be one of the biggest entrance weve ever had for this competition. And talk to us first of all, christine and sadie, about the challenges of undertaking a huge architectural project like this while keeping a station, which deals with 50 million passengers a year, open and running. You said it. How difficult is that . This is one of the most complex, difficult projects this country has ever undertaken and when we talk about our National Infrastructure, it has to be designed properly. It speaks to our National Identity so properly designed infrastructure is something that we absolutely desperately need in this country. And you are on the National Infrastructure committees are just to pick up on that point, people sometimes complain when things go wrong but hopefully this is a chance for them to celebrate when things go right. Absolutely. This isjust such a wonderful example of how great infrastructure can change peoples lives, can improve the quality of peoples lives. Christine, what do you make of this and the other finalists in this years competition . This is the most public of the buildings which is why it captures the national imagination, as people said, and it makes a direct difference in terms of being able to navigate through london, navigate to the city, you can go there, you can see this big piece of architecture. Things like it having really great toilets will make a big difference to millions of people who travel through every day. So i think thatis travel through every day. So i think that is probably on the shortlist. This one, really, for me, is the one that belongs to the people sol this one, really, for me, is the one that belongs to the people so i will be interested to see the results of the peoples vote and whether that is reflected. This one i understand is designed very much for the move away from queues for paper tickets to the fa ct from queues for paper tickets to the fact people are using their smartphones to gain entrance to the platforms for trains, for example. My understanding is the gates can be taken my understanding is the gates can be ta ken away my understanding is the gates can be taken away in the future so they are there in the at the moment but i think it does have a certain openness to the space so you can kind of see where everything is laid out, and you can see if they eventually take those gates away, and you drift through with your mobile phone telling the station what ticket you have, itll be a very fa st what ticket you have, itll be a very fast way to get to the platform, actually. The gates are still there for now. What does winning the stirling prize mean for an architect, an architectural practice . What does it do for you . a lwa ys practice . What does it do for you . always say it is like winning the oscars. It is an extraordinary achievement. When we won it, we felt it was an extraordinary achievement for the sort of community and project as a whole. Your project was . Hastings pier. Winning the stirling prize isntjust about the best architecture, it is about the best architecture, it is about the best project so it has to have a great client, it has to have the right fee, the communitys support so it is a holistic award which gives it that extra meaning. And, christine, how much do you think the prize, this competition does to bring an awareness of good architecture, whether that is big public spaces or private pieces of work to public attention . public spaces or private pieces of work to public attention . I think alongside the serpentine pavilion, which is another example people can go and experience architecture, the stirling prize is the biggest, most publicised architecture. It is almost like an exhibition, it is cove red almost like an exhibition, it is covered so widely. People are thinking more generally about the spaces about them and how they interact with them, how they can make their lives easier or more difficult depending on the design . It isa difficult depending on the design . It is a unique conversation of things like light. We heard about south light, north ryde, how it comes into your space, how it impacts your well being as comes into your space, how it impacts your well being as a person, having access to natural daylight, for your health, the connection of outside and inside spaces, that is only conversations that we have around the stirling prize. All right, thank you both very much for coming along to talk to us. You can find more. About all of the nominated buildings on the bbc arts website and watch this years Riba Stirling prize live here on the bbc news channel on tuesday evening from 8 30. There arent many wedding couples who can say that they had sir rod stewart singing for them on their big day. But thats exactly what happened to one couple from merseyside, whose dream wedding in las vegas was nearly ruined by the collapse of thomas cook. Sharon and Andrew Aitchison eventually made it to vegas on time, and found a special guest waiting for them. Lets do this one. I wish you all the luck in the world. Come and sit down next to me while i sing. Have i told you lately that i love you have i told you there no one else above you now its time for a look at the weather. Yesterday we had storm lorenzo which brought quite a bit of disruption towards the republic of ireland, thousands of homes without power. You can see it on the satellite imagery, it isnt much now, it has weakened significantly, but out across the atlantic, we have this next swirl of cloud bringing wet and windy weather as we go through the weekend. What was storm lorenzo no longer a storm now, just bringing us wet conditions across wales, three northern parts of england, moving southward. For the northern parts of england, across Northern Ireland and scotland, becoming largely dry this afternoon with some brightness coming through in scotland but further south remaining cloud with rain at times. Quite gusty winds across the south west approaches, 4050 across the south west approaches, 40 50 mile an hour gusts, temperatures getting from the low to the mid teens. Tonight stays cloudy, a little bit drizzly across south west wales, South West England and elsewhere some clear skies particular across eastern areas with temperatures getting down into single figures. Elsewhere, temperatures staying just about in double figures. For the weekend, we are looking at a largely dry start on saturday before rain moves in late in the day overnight into sunday. Here is how things looked on saturday. Some bright skies across eastern areas but towards the best you can see the cloud increase with rain moving into Northern Ireland, western scotland, and north west of england and wales by the end of the day. Maximum temperature is 15 17. But this is a weather system which will continue to move eastward overnight saturday into sunday. It isa overnight saturday into sunday. It is a slow moving future and itll bring some heavy at times across northern and eastern areas of the uk. Sunday morning starting off quite wet for many, the rain lingers on across eastern areas into the afternoon. Elsewhere, some brighter skies, bit of sunshine for South West England, wales, Northern Ireland and the west of scotland during sunday, maximum temperature is about 12 17. Into next week, remaining quite unsettled, more rain in the forecast, strong winds as well, particularly on monday and tuesday. That is it from me, bye bye. Hello its friday, its ten oclock, im Joanna Gosling. An undercover investigation by the bbc has uncovered clerics in iraq offering children for sale in temporary marriages. Well talk to yanar mohammed, who works in iraq, helping female survivors of sexual violence. A paralysed man has been able to move all four of his limbs using the power of his mind and a special suit. In his only bbc interview, well talk one of the team behind the exoskeleton. A report due to be published in the next half hour