Good Evening And Welcome to the Bbc News at six. The head of the security service, mi5, has given a rare public Speech Warning that russia is on a mission to bring mayhem to The Streets of the uk. Ken mccallum says there has been a marked rise in the threat from Russia And Iran. And he spoke of a staggering rise in children being investigated for terrorism with very young people are being drawn into what he called poisonous online extremism. Our Security Correspondent Frank Gardner reports. State back to sabotage and other plots in britain late today at the door of Iran And Russia according to mis. Door of Iran And Russia according to mi5. From the russian embassy In London the last remaining military Intelligence Officer has been expeued Intelligence Officer has been expelled This year. But russian State Subversion according to mi5 continues. The gru, the same russian organisation are blamed for the 2018 salisbury Nerve Agent Attack is on a mission to generate mayhem on british and Eu
Blair institute for global change working with over a0 countries, the former prime minister is still searching for answers to the great challenges of our time. Labour s back in power after 14 years. Very, very few people know what it feels like to actually be the prime minister of a new government, to be a country s leader. What does. . . What did it feel like as you walked through that door and into power in 1997? well, for me, the feelings were less those of elation. I mean, everyone around me was. . . . . Was, you know, celebrating, but i was very conscious of the fact, first of all, i d never been a minister, let alone a prime minister, and secondly, there is an awesome sense of responsibility. So you realise you re going to be taking decisions, you know you re on the start of a journey, you know the journey is going to be really difficult, you know there s going to be a whole lot of events and circumstances you can t predict. And you re acutely conscious of the fact that there is
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Sir tony, thank you for speaking to me. It s very good to see you. Let s start with some feelings before we get to plenty of facts. Labour s back in power after 14 years. Very, very few people know what it feels like to actually be the prime minister of a new government, to be a country s leader. What does. . . What did it feel like as you walked through that door and into power in 1997? well, for me, the feelings were less those of elation. I mean, everyone around me was. . . . . Was, you know, celebrating, but i was very conscious immense burden of responsibility that comes with power, or should do. One of the fundamental challenges that notjust britain but lots of western democracies face today is populism. And i would say, tell me if you think differently, i would say populism is broadly that mode of politics in which charismatic leaders claim to represent the will of the people against a ruling elite. In your view, should populism be, as george orwell said of saints, always consid
sport and for a full round up, let s go to the bbc sport centre. hello from the bbc sport centre it s only day one of wimbledon, but already play has been disrupted by the weather. the roof came on over centre court, where the reigning men s singles champion novak djokovic has begun the defence of his title against pedro cachin. chethan pathak is watching and chetan it s going to plan so far for the number to seed? we had that sizeable delay in which novak djokovic was walking around centre court not happy with how slippery the surface was. they got the roof on pretty quickly but they delayed play for over an hour. it won t delay the inevitable though, he is looking very comfortable against pedro cachin, the 28 year old argentinian being the biggest match of his life. he had a good start and broke novak djokovic early on but novak djokovic looks cool and calm and it s a decade since he lost on that court. he is trying to win his eighth wimbledon title which would bring them l