Helped foil a terror attack. Russian agents raided a flat allegedly used as a base to plan an attack on the kazan cathedral in St Petersburg. The officers seized explosives and weapons. Seven people were detained on charges of being members of so called Islamic State. The suspects were reportedly planning to carry out a Suicide Attack at the kazan cathedral in St Petersburg on saturday. President putin has thanked the us for its help. The bbcs david willis has more from washington. He says this isnt the only recent call between the leaders. It appears to be a telephone conversation, the second between these two leaders in the space ofjust three days, in which Vladimir Putin thanked donald trump and asked him to convey russias thanks to the cia and to its intelligence officials for the information that was needed to foil this attempted attack, or alleged attempted attack, on St Petersburg, on the cathedral there, an iconic cathedral, and other parts of the city which are known to be of
Let me see the face. Laughter. The interview was recorded as part of the today programmes guest editor series to be broadcast later this year. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. A British Embassy worker has been killed in beirut. The body of rebecca dykes was found by the side of a road in the city yesterday. Our correspondentjon donnison has been following developments. Our middle east correspondent martin patience joins us from beirut. What is the latest you can tell us . Well, this is a piece of news that has stunned the diplomatic communities. It is believed that rebecca dykes was attending a Going Away Party on friday night in a popular area of the city. After she left the bar, it is understood she was then abducted and her body was found dumped close to a motorway sometime on saturday. Police sources we have spoken to say that they believe she was strangled. Her family have been notified of her death. As i said before, this has stunned the British Community in beirut. In gover
Back of our mind. We thought it would be more of a washout than it was. Havent seen a huge amount of rain in the time ive been at perth. The two guys at the crease spent a lot of time there in the first innings, slightly different conditions, we have do believe we can stay in the series and get over the line. Tomorrow it will be tough, im sure there will be good balls flying out there but these two showed in the first innings they can to buy the crease for a long time so hopefully get off to a good start in the morning. Its obviously a pretty special wicket and to get root back in the sheds is important for us. Four wickets, we would love to get out there for an extra half an hour and get the fifth wicket today but come back tomorrow for the next six. Everything pointing for an australian victory to get the urn. This is the outlook in perth for monday. It looks like it might clear up monday. It looks like it might clear up slightly later, but through the middle of the day it looks like
Sterling at 139. Having the best performing currency against the dollar. David i want to turn to guy johnson who is on the spot in london. We just got these headlines. Surprises here . Guy that is not a surprise. That was anticipated. Surroundingnguage the next rate hike that is pushing the markets to do what it is doing. You can see what is happening with the cable rate. The pound is pushing higher at this point. The market has been pricing in the possibility of an earlier rate hike in anticipated from a. From may. We are starting to see that may be returning and talking about the fact that maybe that rate hike will come through. It is not a surprise we got a 9nil vote. It tilts on the hawkish and. Hawkish end. David the time in question. Help me through this. As i read this, its his three hikes over three years. When those hikes calm is that the deal . The rocket needs to price in a little more. The market needs a little withdrawal. That is what is priced in but it is shifting it a l
And britains dom parsons claims britains first medal of the Winter Olympics in the skeleton and the first by a male competitor for seventy yea rs. Chelsea have eased into the sixth round of the fa cup with a comfortable a nil victory over championship strugglers hull city. There was no upset in tonights other game either as leicester beat another championship side Sheffield United. Adam wild rounds up the action. Even in this competition framed for u psets few even in this competition framed for upsets few expected one. Whole citys real battle lies elsewhere. Hull. Citys real battle lies elsewhere. Hull. What a start for chelsea the only surprise about the second was it did not come sooner. Pedro unchallenged and untroubled. Now only trying to keep the score respectable. Quite, quite brilliant. At least some fans could stay smiling even though more misery kept coming. Chelsea unstoppable and 4 0 by half time. A second half penalty. Chelsea marks through to the quarter finals again. Che