good evening. the ministry of defence has confirmed to the bbc that it will provide the support of armed soldiers to the metropolitan police, after a large number of firearms officers handed in their weapons. they turned in their firearms permits after an armed officer was charged with the murder of 24—year—old chris kaba — who was shot and killed in south london last year. earlier, the home secretary, suella braverman, ordered a review of armed policing. joe inwood reports. chris kaba was unarmed when he was shot and killed in streatham. he was driving a borrowed car. according to police, the vehicle had previously been linked to an incident involving a gun. chris kaba was hit by a single bullet fired by a police officer. there was widespread outrage at his death, especially amongst london's black community. last week, his family were in court to see a police officer — who is only being referred to as nx 121 — charged with murder. they welcomed the prosecution, but it's been met with concern by many of the officer's colleagues. there are more than 6,000 police officers in the uk who are authorised to carry a firearm and many of them work in london in some of the most sensitive parts of the capital. now it's thought around 100 of them have said that they no longer want to carry a gun. 0ne former officer says he's not surprised. i was on armed response for 23 years, i was on vip protection, and i hugely enjoyed the professionalism, the teamwork of it, and i would miss that. would i put my weapon down today? yes, iwould hand it in. it's not worth it. announcing a review, the home secretary said police officers have to make split second decisions under extraordinary pressures. they mustn't fear ending up in the dock for carrying out their duties. officers risking their lives to keep us safe have my full backing. it has now been confirmed that the army will be helping to fill the gaps, although only as a contingency. at a time when there are calls for increasing scrutiny on the police, especially when it comes to dealing with minority communities, there will be many who see this as an attempt to reduce accountability rather than a welcome reset. joe inwood, bbc news. 0ur correspondentjoe inwood outlined the significance of the mods statement of support for the police. of the mod's statement of support for the police. to clarify, we shouldn't be expecting to see soldiers on the street. this is not a question of the army stepping in to do what we would think of as everyday policing role — they're not going to be arresting people. this will be a contingency service, a contingency role. i spoke to the ministry of defense earlier, and what they were saying is that there are there are armed, as people would expect, there are armed teams that are ready to respond, for example, to a terrorist incident, a live shooter event, that sort of thing, and those sorts of roles, the kind of in extremis roles, will be filled by the army if required. so i think we shouldn't get carried away in saying that the police are going to be replaced by the army. that's not the case. what we're seeing here is a contingency role for the army, but it is significant nevertheless. and it's interesting because we heard from suella braverman and in her statement there's clearly a lot of support there for the police. yeah, i think this is really interesting. i mean, here in the uk, we've been seeing a real debate at the moment over the last few years, as we have around the world, around the role of policing and specifically the use of force as some would see it, excessive force, against certain communities here in london particularly the black the afro—caribbean community. and the debate really has been around whether the police are scrutinised enough. what i thought was interesting about the statement from suella braverman today, the home secretary in the uk, was the fact that she was clearly saying that she supported the police. she thought that actually there was a problem here, that the police weren't being able to do theirjob because they're overly scrutinised. so i think we're going to be seeing a real tension here between the side of society that thinks that the police maybe don't always act in the best interests of all communities and of all people and the other side which thinks that maybe law and order is more of a priority and would like to give their full backing to the police. and i think the home secretary has quite clearly stated in launching this review where she views the argument to to lie, as it were. rishi sunak has been facing mounting criticism over his major change in direction on climate policies. on wednesday, the prime minister announced exemptions and delays to several key green policies. the former greek finance minister yanis varoufakis accused the prime minister of undermining the uk's credibility on climate change. a very special contribution, combination of incompetence and cynicism to manage to unite the car industry and the greens against you. and rishi sunak has demonstrated that. why do you say it's cynical? well, because it's very clear that this was the result of the uxbridge byelection and what's happening in the netherlands, where there is a backlash from nativist, rightist, anti—climate policy, segments of the population and a desperate prime minister is trying to appeal to that particular clientele, destroying all the credibility that governments, tory governments, have tried to build up regarding commitments to to net zero. john caudwell is a businessman and founder of phonesliu. he was also the biggest donor to the conservative party before the last election. however he said he was devestated by rishi sunak�*s recent shift in green policy. i have been lobbying with the government now for four years, ever since the start of the pandemic, actually, on something i call caudwell pandemic recovery, which is investment in britain. and one of the centrepieces of that investment in britain was to have an enterprise zone for environmental technologies. i have no doubt whatsoever that the growth in environmental technologies, the export opportunities and intellectual property and end products will be huge over the next 20 years as we face increasing environmental challenges. and so to make that an investment opportunity for people to come to britain, set up businesses in britain because of the attractive proposition we give to them, will grow britain because macro gdp proposition we give to them, will grow britain's gdp in the future and be an enormous boost to our country. and going back on the pledge of 2030 is an immensely negative statement because everybody is geared up for 2030 and all the motor manufacturers are gearing up, battery technology is racing on, everything is going full tilt to get britain ready for 2030. but also, of course, the rest of the world which will follow on behind. and i wanted us to lead the world in all technologies, or as many technologies as we could in the environmental space. but this doesn't mean britain can't do that, it's just kicking the can down the road, supporters will say it's just five more years and it gives people time to prepare a bit more because businesses have been complaining they don't have enough time to prepare for the introduction of this new technology? i am afraid that's not right. business is a race... business is a race whether you sell mobile phones, whether you sell cars, whatever you are in, if you want to be the world leader it is a race against the competition. and by by setting 2030 four that no further sales of combustion engines, that was a hugely positive boost to britain's future. yes, of course, there's challenges, but necessity is the mother of invention. we're seven years away still, there's seven years to go and then it's only the stopping of selling you. of selling new. they'll still be all millions of internal combustion engines on the road for decades to come, actually, but gradually they will phase out as the electric technology gathers momentum, battery technology gathers momentum and charging. but it's notjust about electric vehicles, it's about making britain the enterprise centre of the world for the environment by creating a tax free enterprise zone and wooing businesses. a capsule containing asteroid samples which scientists hope could help explain how life on earth began has successfully landed in the united states. the nasa spacecraft dropped the canister — carrying just 250 grams of rock and dust from the surface of the asteroid — onto the us state of utah. as our science editor, rebecca morelle, reports. on their way to recover a capsule that's travelled billions of miles through space — the conclusion of a seven—year mission called osiris—rex. the first glimpse — a tiny dot high up in the atmosphere, as it descends towards the utah desert. then a view of its parachute slowing the craft. finally, it's down. inside is the most precious sample — fragments of an asteroid called bennu that could reveal the secrets of our solar system. the scientists think there's about 250g of dust and rock, and every grain is precious. some of our instruments literally look at the atoms that make up the crystals inside these rocks, and when you're working at that scale, a single stone is an infinite landscape to explore. we'll be working on these materials for decades and decades into the future. all of this effort is to solve the mystery of what asteroid bennu is made of. this is vital, because bennu tops the list of nasa's most hazardous space rocks, so studying its make—up could help us to stop it if we ever need to. but it could also reveal more about our origins — it's a perfectly preserved relic from the dawn of the solar system. this was the moment the sample was collected in a five—second smash and grab, before it was safely stowed in the capsule for its return to earth. the rock and dust will be divided up between scientists around the world, including the team at london's natural history museum. we're all unbelievably excited to see what it's going to be made of. i mean, we've thought about it, we've talked about it, we've written papers about it, we've dreamt about what it's going to be. and finally, we're actually going to see it and find out what it really is, which, yeah, at the moment we have no idea. so it's going to be just so exciting to open the canister and find out what's in there. the main concern now is contamination. the team here in utah don't want what's on the ground — the dirt, the dust, the microbes — to get mixed up with the bits of bennu. it's vital that their invaluable sample is kept pristine. she's taking an initial thermal reading of that src as we speak... the race is now on to safely recover the capsule and bring it back to the military base. 0pening it will be a painstaking and slow process taking several weeks, but scientists say the wait will be worth it. rebecca morelle, bbc news, utah. 0ur science correspondent jonathan amos is in utah with the latest. we saw this capsule come screaming into the atmosphere of planet earth, moving at 12 kilometers a second, over 27,000 miles an hour. and first of all, they picked it up on these heat—seeking cameras. and then we got a view of a parachute and a capsule slung beneath it. and then it landed gently in the utah desert here. actually it landed a little bit earlier than we were expecting. we were expecting it to come down at 08.55 local time, and it came down three minutes earlier than that. now, that will be something that the engineers of the the capsule at lockheed martin will want to pore over. but i don't think the scientists care very much. they have their capsule back and they've got their sample back. and jonathan, we saw pictures earlier on of what they call the clean room, i believe, in which we saw sort of men and women in white suits carefully examining this capsule, because it's quite tricky work to recover what it is that they're after. we're seeing pictures of that room now on our screens. yeah, the watchword today has been cleanliness. these samples are precious. they tell us about the chemistry that existed four and a half billion years ago when the planets were forming around the nascent sun. and what we what we need is to see that chemistry uncontaminated. if we think, as the scientists suspect, there's chemistry in there that may give us clues about how life started on earth, well, it's no use looking at that chemistry if it's been muddied with earth dirt, with with microbes, or the oxygen in earth's atmosphere, which might have come in and started to oxidize compounds. so they need a pristine sample. so the idea was to bring the capsule back to a temporary clean room here. it's just over my shoulder here, about a kilometer�*s distance away. and at the moment, they're disassembling the capsule to try and get it into a box purged with nitrogen. so nitrogen will not react with anything in that capsule. and then they can move it — probably tomorrow — down to thejohnson space center in texas, where nasa keeps all of it, its archived materials. all of the moon rocks that came back during the apollo program are kept at thejohnson space center. they have a dedicated, clean room there. and what are they called? glove boxes. you've probably seen them in movies and on the television. you've got these sort of rubber gloves and you put your hands in and then you can manipulate stuff under a sterile, enclosed box. and they willjust kind of look at the chemistry and it'll take them certainly a few weeks to have a first take, to say how much sample they have and what the bulk composition is. french president emmanuel macron has announced france is to end its military cooperation with niger and pull its troops out of the african country. in a televised interview he announced plans to imminently withdraw the french ambassador followed by its military contingent in the next few months — in the wake of the coup that ousted the pro—paris president. france keeps about 1,500 soldiers in niger as part of an anti—jihadist deployment in the sahel region. now it's time for a look at today's sport with lizzie. europe's golfers have retained the solheim cup. spain's carlota ciganda holed the putt that helped them tie iii—all with the united states. ciganda knocked in a two—footer on the 17th to beat nelly korda in a tense finish to their match. it means she won all four of her solheim matches this year, a feat not lost on her emotional captain suzann pettersen. the us needed 14v: points to regain the trophy they last won in 2017, but it was europe's day. it comes down to one match, one put t. to come down to her in spain at home, you couldn't stage it better. she came from behind and worked her way back and i mean for her to get her point on 18 was massive. i still think we were half a point short at the time. i think it isjust meant to be. it comes down to her. she has it in her hands and she is so good. now to the rugby world cup where scotland saw off tonga with a bonus—point victory to keep alive their hopes of reaching the knock out stages. the scots scored four tries before half time. tonga came back into the game but missed tackles and ill—discipline let them down with two players shown yellow cards. scotland scored seven tries in total in nice — but they're in the most difficult pool with south africa and france above them and only the top two making the quarter finals. in the day's other match, wales are still playing australia in lyon. the latest score is 29—6. if that score stays the same, australia are unlikely to progress to the quarter—finals. 0nto football and the premier league where the first north london derby of the season finished 2—2. arsenal twice took the lead at the emirates, first through a christian romero own goal and then a bakayo saka penalty. but spurs captain son heung—min scored both equalisers. spurs drop to fourth, just above arsenal on goal difference. i think today we have that regret, especially that we lacked some composure on the ball, to get set and have more passes, we wanted to attack too quick and early and we didn't do enough with them and with this team we have to be more ruthless. newcastle matched their record premier league scoreline with an amazing 8—0 thrashing of the now bottom side sheffield united. any fears of a european hangover for newcastle following their champions league exertions soon vanished as they cruised to victory with every goal scored by a different player. elsewhere — brighton are up to third after beating bournemouth. chelsea were beaten at home by aston villa, and liverpool beat west ham, which moves them up to second. to the action in spain where the madrid derby is under way. and currently atletico are leading 3—1 against real madrid. alvaro morata with his second. there was a seven goal thriller in the match between real sociedad and getafe — 11—3 the final score in san sebastian. real betis against cadiz finished 1—1. while las palmas beat granada 1—0. a match in the dutch eredivise had to be abandoned on sunday after flares were thrown on to the pitch. ajax were losing 3—0 to defending champions feyenoord when the match was abandoned ten minutes into the second half. trouble continued afterwards outside thejohan cruyff arena with dutch riot police using tear gas to try to clear the crowd. ajax have won just once in their four other games this season. max verstappen is on the verge of a third formula 1 world title as he cruised to victory at the japanese grand prix. the result helped his red bull team secure the constructor�*s title with six races to spare which is an f1 record. and the dutchman will be crowned world champion if he wins in qatar in a fortnight. joining verstappen on the podium were the mclarens of lando norris and oscar piastri. and that's all the sport for now. returning now to the uk and the defence secretary, grant shapps, says it would be "crazy" not to look again at the rising cost of the hs2 rail project. a decision on whether the government will scrap the birmingham to manchester section of the line is expected this week. noor nanji reports. it's a grand project, first dreamt up in 2009. the aim — to speed up journey times and create more capacity. but hs2 has faced delays, cuts and spiralling costs. the original plan would have connected london to birmingham, and then leeds and manchester. in 2021, the section from birmingham to leeds was cancelled. now there is speculation the line might end in west london rather than going all the way to euston. and the birmingham to manchester bit is in doubt as well. the last official estimate on hs2 costs — excluding the cancelled eastern section — added up to about £71 billion, although this was in 2019 prices. £22.5 billion has already been spent on the london to birmingham leg, whilstjust over £2 billion has been spent on preparing for the other sections. this morning, the defence secretary, and former transport secretary, said no decision has been taken yet, but that it's important to respond to the budget. every government has to look at the overall budgets and then make serious decisions, which go beyond the sort of back—and—forth in a studio like this... 0k. ..to say, is this affordable, under current circumstances? i'm absolutely confident, for example, that when those statements were made, no—one knew we'd be in a war in europe right now. 0k. all of the consequences, all of the costs and all of the inflation. and any government that doesn't go back and then look at it is crazy. labour's been accused of sending mixed messages on hs2. we are supportive of h52 being built, but we're - responding to rumour and leak. and, look, victoria, - this is a really important infrastructure project. what i say on your show matters because we, the labour party, l hope to be in government next year. we're not going to make decisions about national infrastructure - projects that involve tens - of billions of pounds without all of the information being available. this weekend, business groups and political voices have been lobbying the government not to truncate hs2 further. with pressure mounting for decisions to be made. noor nanji, bbc news. authorities in kosovo say they've taken control of a serbian 0rthodox monastery in the north, bringing to an end a stand—off with a group of heavily armed men. the gunmen are suspected of carrying out an attack overnight, in which a policeman died. i've been speaking to our balkans correspondent guy de launey. the reports that we're hearing now from north kosovo, from the monastery itself, is that the armed men have left the monastery and that inside the monastery now we have kosovo police and also the eulex, which is the eu's special rule of law mission in kosovo. so those authorities are now inside the monastery, the armed group isn't there. kosovo's authorities say that they've arrested six people in connection with the attack and they say that three more people were killed, as well as the police officer who was killed in the early hours of sunday morning. so that's happening right now. also, what's happening right now, as you say, serbia's president, aleksandar vucic, speaking about today's events. and he's saying that it's one of the most difficult days for our country since 2004 and 2008. 2004 being when there was a great forced displacement of ethnic serbian people in kosovo. 2008, when kosovo unilaterally declared its independence from serbia. and he's saying that he was waiting to see what had happened before he made any comments. and he says, "i don't want to justify the killing of an albanian policeman, nor is it possible to justify it. that is absolutely reprehensible." guy, it's interesting that he should refer to this in terms of the context of when it was such a huge travesty for his country in terms of the displacement of the serbians, the fact that he's referred to that event as the last big kind of moment for serbia, is this a reflection of sort of simmering tensions perhaps in the country? the tensions have been been simmering forfor a long time now, specifically with the ethnic minority in north kosovo and with the authorities in the capital, pristina, who were majority ethnic albanian. now, this has been considerably worse in the past few months since a number of events in kosovo. and this involved the forced installation of ethnic albanian mayors in these majority serb areas in north kosovo. and we've seen a number of violent incidents and we've seen tensions very high indeed. president vucic, in this address to the country that he's just been making, says that he's been warning for for many weeks now that something like this might happen, that ethnic serbs in north kosovo might take matters into their own hands. so this seems to be a way of trying to distance serbia or as pristina has put it, official belgrade from any connection with this armed group, which seems to have carried out this attack on kosovo police units in the early hours of sunday morning, resulting in the death of a police officer. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. wet and very windy weather on the way overnight for some of us. now, as far as the rainfall goes, the heaviest falls of rain will be across western scotland, where we're likely to pick up around 30 to 50 millimetres, double that over the high ground. so there could be some localised flooding building in across parts of scotland. it's all down to an area of low pressure. a rapidly developing low, that's just the south of the republic of ireland. and this will also bring some very strong winds to the far north—west of scotland as well, where overnight we could be looking at gusts of 60 to 70 odd miles an hourfor the hebrides and the highlands. the heavy rain bringing a risk of some localised flooding as well. further southwards, that band of rain crosses wales and england. by the time it reaches eastern areas, not really a great deal left on it. it's going to be a mild night, gusty south—westerly winds, ensuring that. temperatures around 12 to 15 degrees. now tomorrow, a much brighter day overall with a lot more in the way of sunshine to go around. it's not entirely dry, though, there will be some showers. particularly for scotland, a few for northern ireland and the north of both northern england and north wales as well. the midlands, east anglia, southern counties of england should stay dry with their sunshine and these temperatures continue to be above average for the time of year — 17 to 22 for many of us. now entering into tuesday, it's another unsettled day. a couple of weather systems kind of combined to gang up on us here in the uk bringing, i think, outbreaks of rain for many of us. so rain at times probably best sums up the weather, the wettest weather in the morning across western areas. but by the time we get through the afternoon, rain will become pretty widespread with potentially some of it turning thundery. probably turning a bit brighter in northern ireland with the main rain band clearing through, but there'll still be a risk of some showers here. temperatures not changing too much — highs for many between 16 and 22 degrees. now for the middle part of the week, we're looking at a deep area of low pressure. this is going to be bringing widespread heavy outbreaks of rain, but some very strong winds as well. inland gusts are expected to reach around 50 to 60 miles an hour, but stronger gusts likely around some of our irish sea coast where we could see gusts of between 65 and even 80 miles an hour. so potentially damaging disruptive gusts of wind with us. with this area of low pressure on wednesday, we're quite likely to see some disruption then towards the middle part of the week. that's today's weather. bye for now. this is bbc news, the headlines: armed soldiers have been offered to london's metropolitan police after a large number of officers stepped back from firearms duties. their decision is linked to the case of a police officer charged with a man's murder. we have touchdown. nasa has brought back the largest ever sample from an asteroid. a capsule was recovered in utah after being dropped from a space probe that's spent the last seven years collecting the fragments. scientists hope it will shed new light on how planets were formed. police in kosovo have ended a standoff with serb gunmen at a monastery which followed a deadly attack on ethnic albanian police. questions surround the future of the uk's high speed hs2 rail line — speaking to the bbc, senior cabinet minister grant shapps