For the woman police want to question. The businesswoman accused of taking favours from Boris Johnson when he was london mayor refuses to say whether they had an affair. And climate activists take to the streets in london and cities around the world demanding urgent action to stop global warming. And coming up on bbc news. We look at the cricketing credentials of former bowling coach Chris Silverwood as he takes the top job with the england cricket team. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Police forces across england and wales are battling rising levels of knife crime. Figures today show offences involving knives in england and wales increased by more than two thirds rising sharply outside london but with the capital still the most dangerous area. The trauma team at the Royal London Hospital in the east end is one of the busiest in europe, dealing with knife and gun attacks, and the bbcs clive myrie was given exclusive access to their work over a period of several months.
Never once did he write a letter of recommendation for me. Comeback. And Manchester United the surge in knife crime, striker Marcus Ratchford has as new figures show that offences apologised to fans for their woeful in england and wales have start to the season after another increased by two thirds. Defeat left them two points of the we have a special report. Relegation zone. He tweeted that the Police Watchdog clears fa ns relegation zone. He tweeted that detectives on how they handled fans deserve better. I will be back false claims of a paedophile ring at westminster, but theres fierce at half five. Criticism of its findings. President trump has defended his and 148 arrests as Extinction Rebellion block decision to withdraw american troops bridges and roads in westminster from Northern Syria saying it was too costly to keep in a protest over Climate Change. Supporting the kurds, even though they were allies in the war against the Islamic State group. Mr trumps move paves the way for
At the end of the month. The home secretary calls on facebook to rethink plans to encrypt messages across its platforms. Walking out former conservative leadership contender rory stewart resigns from the party and plans to stand for mayor of london coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with olly foster. Encouraging progress for andy murray. He was quite chipper today, he says hes been playing his best tennis yet on the singles comeback trail. Thats despite a quarterfinal defeat in china today. And theres been a big win for south africa over italy at the Rugby World Cup. Thanks olly and helen has all the weather. Wet conditions set to continue. U nfortu nately, yes, unfortunately, yes, thats right, martin, as storm lorenzo is approaching quite rapidly, we look for the next significant rainmaker coming up. I will have the details just before the bottom of the hour. Hello, this is afternoon live, im martine croxall. A damning report has strongly criticised the metropolitan police for
A letter asking brussels for a delay to brexit if no agreement is reached with the eu by the 19th of october. Downing street still insists the uk will leave at the end of the month. The biggest ever winter Flu Vaccination Programme. 30 Million People eligible for the jab this year. Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe the british iranian womanjailed in iran is sending her daughter gabriella home to london, so she can start school in the uk. The paralysed man who can move again with a mind controlled suit he says its like walking on the moon. And coming up at 5 45 Renee Zellweger steps intojudy garlands shoes injudy a new film on the last years of the singers life. Find out what mark kermode makes of that and the rest of this weeks releases in the film review. Its five oclock our top story. A damning report has strongly criticised the metropolitan police for its investigation into claims of a vip paedophile ring which never existed. Carl beech falsely claimed he was the victim of abuse by high pro