Where america has a massive military presence. Robby and leonora, the couple still recovering from the Manchester Arena bombing. Hes lucky to be alive. The doctor called me the miracle lad. Even after the operation i dont think he thought. It was still touch and go. Bridging the generations. The veteran playwright Alan Ayckbourn turns to Science Fiction to reach a new audience. Coming up in world athletics sportsday. Later in the hour on bbc news, well look ahead to the seventh day of competition with two british finalists, including eilidh doyle in the 400 metres hurdles. Good evening and welcome to the Bbc News At Six. The National Crime agency says modern slavery and people trafficking in the uk is a far larger problem than previously thought. It says victims are likely to be found anywhere from the high street to a farm. There are likely to be Tens Of Thousands of them working in every large town and city. More than 300 Police Operations are currently targeting the criminals involv
And a spy in stilettos Charlize Theron stars as the atomic blonde in this weeks blockbuster. Well have james kings verdict on that and the rest of the new releases in the film review. Its 5 00. Our main story 11 members of the same family have been convicted in a series of trials involving modern slavery, thought to be the largest of its kind in british legal history. Members of the rooney family from lincoln ran a Company Called Lincolnshire Driveways that specialised in tarmacking and block paving. But their staff were vulnerable slaves who they picked up from the streets, some of whom were alcoholics, homeless, or suffering learning difficulties. Our correspondent linsey smith reports. Patrick rooney, seen posing for pictures with staff at the family business, Lincolnshire Driveways. It looks professional, offering tarmacking and block paving, but some of the workers were slaves, kept in appalling conditions and paid little or nothing. The court heard how they were approached on the
That resulted in a woman being killed by a car was for to abandon a Media Briefing following protests. Meanwhile the white house defended President Trump after it was claimed he didnt go far enough in condemning violence by White Supremacists. Laura bicker reports. After a violent day of division, charlottesville has come together to pray, to show that this city condemns the hate brought here by neo nazis and White Supremacists. The Virginia Governor went from row to row, Hugging Worshippers in this baptist church. He promised to keep politics out of the pulpit, but there is a message he felt he had to give. It is about politics in that the political rhetoric in this country today is breeding bigotry. The streets here simmered with tension yesterday before finally erupting into violence, as White Supremacists gathered for a rally. The group, which included members of the klu klux klan, said they wanted to take america back. Counter protesters and anti racism activists challenged them.
Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 8am in seoul, where the head of the us military, generaljoseph dunford, is getting ready for talks on north Koreas Nuclear and missile threats. Hes to meet president moonjae in and south koreas defence minister. Afterwards hell go on to china and japan. The bbcs Richard Galpin reports. On the Pacific Island of guam, people turned out in large numbers on sunday to pray for peace. They are now potentially in the firing line as the stand off between the us and north korea continues. Pyongyang has threatened to fire missiles toward this island which is home to major us military bases. Were here to pray for the leaders of those countries to remain calm and think about the people and the lives of the people we have here. In japan, anti Aircraft Systems were deployed at the weekend to shoot down any north korean missiles aimed at guam. This area of Southern Japan would lie on the flight path. This is the most serious crisis in the region since the
Anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley, we head to manila where the kings music lives on. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in new york, where donald trump has made a fiery and at times angry defence of his reaction to the clashes in charlottesville over the weekend. He had been hoping to talk about his plans for americas infrastructure, but instead was drawn into a series of exchanges with journalists on why he had not issued an immediate condemnation of racist and neo nazi groups. In response, he seemed to hold civil Rights Groups equally to blame for the violence. What im saying is this. You had a grip on one side and you had a grip on the other and they came out each other with clubs, and it was dishes and it was horrible and it was a horrible thing to watch. But there another side. There was a grip on their side, you can call them the left, youve just called them the left, youve just called them the left, that came violently attacking the other group. So you can