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 involved. In just two months this year, the National Crime agency says thereve been 111 arrests. Heres our social affairs correspondent, dominic casciani. Another day, another anti slavery operation. Over the last six months, the National Crime agency has coordinated operations to smash trafficking and slavery gangs. This suspected brothel, run in the north east of england, just one of many thats been raided. Today a new analysis from the agency suggests the true scale of modern slavery is far greater than previously suspected. This man from romania was coerced into hard labour. The gang controlled his life for four months until he got out. Its just horrible, i tell you, its just horrible. Even now, ijust feel like my heart is start beating a little bit. I think we cannot call them people. Modern day slaves are tricked into uk by gangs promising a better life, and coerced into work they cant escape from. Women forced into prostitution make up to £600 a day. Men are trapped in gruelling work in Food Processing or agriculture, and victims are on high street in nail bars and car washes. You are more likely than ever before to unwittingly come into contact with a victim. A Cannabis Farm in a suburban home, run by workers under the control of a gang. Its impossible to count all the victims because like this enterprise, they are hidden from view. But investigators say the more they look, the more they find. We have also seen people as young as 13 and 1a being sexually exploited and forced to engage in prostitution. That should worry us all. This is a growing problem for which we think theres a shared responsibility across society in the United Kingdom to address. But critics say more could be to identify trafficking. The uks anti slavery commissioner has accused the nca of acting too slowly on its own intelligence. Charities investigating abuses say there are obvious signs that someone is being held against their will. Their passports are taken off them. They are forced to work against their will. They are held in squalid conditions. The trafficker controls their finances, controls their movement. In the small villages there are few jobs and no money. A new Online Campaign by the National Crime agency. Its pledging to carry on raids month after month, but investigators say they will still need the publics help to find all the victims. Dominick is with me now. A massive problem is you Havejust Dominick is with me now. A massive problem is you have just said. Dominick is with me now. A massive problem is you havejust said. Do dominick is with me now. A massive problem is you have just said. Do we know what is driving this trade . This is a story of our modern times. You will recall how globalisation has transformed the way people move around the world. With that comes modern problems and crimes. What has triggered a lot of the problems in the uk is interNational Crime gangs shifting from bog standard stuff like drugs into trading people, seeing them as commodities. You can trade in drug once and you can use a person time and again. Make far more money than ever before. One big issueis money than ever before. One big issue is that critics say there are serious inconsistencies in how some of the forces investigate what is going on around the uk and they want a morejoined going on around the uk and they want a more joined up going on around the uk and they want a morejoined up approach. A National Crime agency says it is doing what it can. 0ur Prime Minister and former Home Secretary made this a priority when she was at the home office. New laws are now in place. The message from the nca is it is time to get tougher but they need the publics help to get there. Thank you very much. The Food Standards Agency says that some 700,000 imported eggs contaminated with a pesticide have entered The Food Chain here. Thats a massive increase over the original estimate of 21,000. Several supermarkets have withdrawn egg based products but the fsa says they are unlikely to pose any risk to Public Health. Emma simpson reports. Dumped and discarded. This belgian farmer has had to destroy notjust his eggs but his hands as well. The produce is contaminated with an insecticide which is banned for use in The Food Chain. That is where it has ended up on a potentially massive scale. Translation you cannot put your eggs on the market for three months. And so i took the decision to kill the animals because it is really too expensive. The company which came to treat the red lights with an organic product really used fipranol. He is not alone. This farm is in the clear that millions of eggs have now been pulled from Supermarket Shelves on the continent. Fipranol may be popularfor the continent. Fipranol may be popular for getting the continent. Fipranol may be popularfor getting rid of fleas on pets but it can be dangerous to humans. Here in the uk, we produce oui humans. Here in the uk, we produce our own eggs but also import them full stop some of the eggs from affected farms have ended up here as well. Were not talking about fresh eggs we buy off Supermarket Shelves. The affected eggs went into processed foods like Sandwich Fillings and salads. A few days ago the Food Standards Agency said 21,000 eggs were affected. Today that shot up to 700,000. Sounds a lot but that is just. 007 of all the eggs we eat every year. There is no reason why people should avoid eating eggs. 0ur Assessment it is very unlikely it is a Public Health risk. People need to not have food which contains a substance that should not be there. Four supermarkets of limited number of products as a precaution. 0thers will already have been consumed. Yet another food scare, highlighting just how complex Supply Chains can be and how easily problems can spread. Just when you thought the war of words between north korea and america could not get any more heated pyonyang has pushed it up another notch. A statement from the dictatorship says it has a plan to launch missiles into the sea around the us Pacific Island territory of guam. Washington has threatened a devastating response. From guam, Rupert Wingfield hayes reports. It may not look like it but there is trouble in paradise. This little pacific Holiday Island is now the focus of unwanted worldwide attention. This is the reason. From north korea today, this strangely detailed threat. Translation the rocket will be launched by the Korean Peoples Army and will cross the sky above japan, flying 3356 kilometres for 1065 seconds before hitting the water is 30 to 110 seconds before hitting the water is 30 to a0 kilometres away from qualm. This is the missile. 0n Parade In Pyongyang this spring. No one should doubt it can reach qualm. In recent months, north korea has successfully tested a host of long range missiles. But itll Holiday Island is now within the reach of kim jong un. At the volleyball court, the locals seem strangely unperturbed. Un. At the volleyball court, the locals seem strangely unperturbedlj think locals seem strangely unperturbed. think we are kind of used to the whole ebb and flow of hearing were going to be bombed and it not happening and hearing about it again. It is not anything that is new to us. It never follows through, so new to us. It never follows through, soi new to us. It never follows through, so i was not really concerned. Think it is probably like the distraction maybe, a political kind of move on the side of us and career, just to get attention may be. If the aim of north korea is to scare people, have a look, it does not seem to be working. People are not cleaned the beaches for the airport. The threat is very specific. That has a few people worried that maybe, just maybe, kimjong people worried that maybe, just maybe, kim jong un people worried that maybe, just maybe, kimjong Unis Planning some sort of action to fire one or more missiles overjapan in this direction. Qualm was mighty macro huge Military Bases are home to a fleet of b 1 bombers. It makes the island are very attractive target. The tourists, on whom this island depends, are always a much more jittery than the locals. Translation i saw the news and started to check where the us Military Bases are located. I am worried. Everyone here is hoping this latest threat is more north korean bluff. They are also starting to wonder, what that they will do if it is not. What will they do if it is not. What will they do if it is not. What will they do if it is not . Police looking for a jogger who knocked a woman into the path of a bus on Putney Bridge in london have arrested a man. Video of the incident was widely distributed on social media following the incident. The woman suffered minor injuries. A man aged 50 was arrested at property in chelsea and has been released pending further investigation. The number of people waiting for routine surgery in england injune was the highest since december 2007. Nhs england said around a million patients were on lists for operations. Other key targets were also missed including urgent referrals for cancer care. Our Health Editor hugh pym reports. He has had his operation but he had to wait a long time for it. Andy waited more than a0 weeks before going into surgery on his foot to relieve serious arthritis. The nhs target is 18 weeks. During that long delay, everyday life became increasingly difficult. I couldnt walk great distances and it was quite painful afterwards, taking an awful lot of painkillers to sort of try and keep the pain down. And although i do it work and sit at a desk all day, i was finding the middle of the afternoon i had to stop, lie down, put my feet up just because it was too painful to sit any longer. The total waiting list for a routine surgery in england fell back a decade ago after government investment. But in recent years, it has crept back up again and injune, its estimated to have gone above a million. Most worryingly of all perhaps is this is the sign of a trend that is going in the wrong direction. Progressively we are seeing more and more people on the waiting list and with continuing austerity there is no end to it potentially. Nhs england argues that more operations are carried out every year. A spokesperson said, more than nine out of ten patients were waiting less than 18 weeks. Were working hard to cut long waits and the number of patients waiting over a year the treatment has dropped. Key waiting time performance targets have been missed again but nhs englands leaders are stressing today that in an important aspect of emergency care, progress has been made. That is the treatment of patients with Heart Failure after they arrive in hospital. A new report shows fewer lives were lost in england and wales after Heart Failure, partly because more specialists and new medicines were available in hospitals. Scotland, wales and Northern Ireland have also seen rising Waiting Lists for surgery though with different target standards. Andys10 month wait was unusual but more patients around the uk are experiencing longer delays, more pain and frustration. Hugh pym, bbc news. 0ur our top story. Modern slavery is in every large town and city. Police say there are thousands of victims. Coming up. I am say there are thousands of victims. Coming up. Iam here say there are thousands of victims. Coming up. I am here at the London Stadium as the man who defied illness now tries to beat his rivals to the world title. And coming up in sportsday on bbc news. Rory mcilroy starts his quest for a third us pga title as play gets under way in north carolina. Weeks on from the bomb attack on Manchester Arena, nine victims are still being treated in hospital. 22 people were killed and 116 were hospitalised in the Suicide Bombing by salman abedi on the 22nd of may. They included Robbie Potter and his partner leonora 0gerio, who were waiting to collect their daughters from the concert. The couple were in the lobby when the bomb exploded. Judith moritz has been talking to them about their long and challenging road to recovery. You may find parts of her report distressing. You i remember everything of that night we went through, everything. Its probably only a 20, 30 second thing, but it feels like an hour. From a concert to a coma. This was Robbie Potter with his girlfriend, leonora, after the Manchester Arena explosion. They stood next to the attacker and lived to tell the tale. I actually looked at the bomber. He was only ten metres away from me. I remember his face to this day. I will never ask his name, i dont want to know his name. Theres no point hating a man thats already dead. But you know it was him . Yes, i know it was him, yes. They had gone to collect their kids from a concert. The children were safe inside but their parents were in the lobby when the bomb went off. The brightest flash i have ever seen in my life. It was like a cloud of mercury exploding. You see bits of silver flying everywhere, which was obviously the bolts and nuts hed packed into his bag and his body. My girlfriend went flying, hit the floor. I felt something in my chest. There was a group of four or five kids, i think there were. I justjumped in front of them and told them to follow me, and i started running down. I felt a lot more shrapnel hit me. She dived, where she obviously collapsed and fell on the floor, but i found out id punctured my lung and had a couple of bolts stuck through my heart. You came very close to not surviving. Its a miracle youre here. Yes, it is. The doctor called me a miracle lad. Even after the operation, i dont think they thought. He said its still touch and go. This bolt fired from the bomb straight into robbies heart. He cheated death by a hairs breadth. You can see the two ribs here, thats the back of the ribs. The bolt was removed with incredible precision by this surgeon at wythenshawe hospital. It was wedged between the back wall and the front wall of the two blood vessels, so a millimetre either way at any velocity and. Thankfully it didnt, but we wouldnt be having this conversation in this setting. 0ne millimetre difference. Literally. One, two, three, four, i declare a thumb war. Robbies Daughter Tegan was separated from her dad when the blast happened. Next time she saw him, he was in a coma. She called him names to try and wake him up. Its just hard to see, with him just lying there, not talking. Having machines all over him. So you spoke to him . Yes. Tegan said come on fathead, its peahead. Obviously thats our names we call each other. And as soon as that happened, the eyesjust lifted. From that day, with force every day. Robbies girlfriend leonora was also badly hurt and sedated in hospital. Waking up, she didnt know what had happened to him. The first question i asked was, where is he, and they said you are in the same hospital. And i was like. I started to cry. Leonora has multiple fractures to both of her legs. She and robbie each face many months of rehabilitation. We want to look after each other but we cant do that. We cant do that because we are both on the mend. Morning, ladies. Before the blast, robbie played rugby. Now every step is an effort but he says hes determined that one day he will play again. Judith moritz, bbc news, wirral. A leading charity is warning that the number of rough sleepers in england, scotland and wales is set to soar in the next decade. More than 9,000 people are thought to be homeless and Research Conducted for crisis suggests the governments official figures underestimate the problem. The charity highlights the growing problem of so called sofa surfing, where people temporarily bed down at friends houses. Sima kotecha reports from leicester. Its nice when you know youve got somewhere safe to go to. Its nice when you know youve got a sofa to go to. That night you know youre going to be comfortable. It might last today, it might last tomorrow, but then thats it, im back out on the streets again. Mike is a sofa surfer. He goes from one house to the next, sleeping on friends couches to try and stay off the streets. It gets to you a little bit because youve got your friendship with yourfriends, youre happy they have looked after you for a little bit, and then you know youve got to go. Then again, youre sitting there thinking every day, right, its a struggle, what am i going to do for the next day . What have i got to get motivated for . Whos going to help you today . Todays report suggests more than 68,000 people across britain are sofa surfing. Its a hidden type of homelessness because it goes on behind closed doors. Campaigners say its on the rise and will get worse if the government doesnt act now. For those sleeping rough, their patience is wearing thin. Its disgusting. Thats why people drink a lot and are on drugs. I dont blame them because they cant live. Theyve got nowhere to live. Its a disgrace. Its not difficult to find people like this here in Leicester City centre who say they have no choice but to sleep on the streets. This man says hes been homeless for years, and he believes the main drivers for homelessness are drugs and Mental Health problems. Patrick used to be homeless. He now helps those who have nowhere to go. We have new things like legal highs now that are coming out. People who are in chaos, got nowhere to turn, will take these legal highs and it just makes homelessness a bit more harder because its hard to engage with these people. The government says its investing more than £500 million into solving the problem. It says new legislation that will be implemented next year will put pressure on councils to do more to help rough sleepers. Im fed up of living like this, sick of it. Every day is a struggle. Most days i dont make enough for what i need and thats it, im out here. Sima kotecha, bbc news, leicester. Relatives of some of the 29 People Killed in the 0magh bombing are to sue Northern Irelands Chief Constable for alleged failings in the investigation. The families believe mistakes made by the police allowed the killers to escape justice. They are seeking damages and a declaration that their human rights were breached. The attack in 1998 was the deadliest of the troubles. Athletics and the botswana athlete Isaac Makwala will compete tonight in the 200m final. He was unable to take part in the heats on monday night because officials said he had the norovirus but unusually he was allowed to run a time trial on his own last evening. Andy swiss is at the London Stadium. It is fairto it is fair to say not many of us had heard of Isaac Makwala a few days ago but hes become one of the stars of these championships and its an incredible story. On monday makwala was barred from competing because authorities thought he had the norovirus. Makwala insisted that wasnt the case and yesterday finally he was allowed to run his 200 metres heat two days after his rivals on his own. It was quite remarkable sight. He made the qualifying time, and a couple of hours later he raced in his semifinal. He finished second, then qualified for tonights final and has a really good chance of winning it although he faces high quality opposition. The final is at 9 50pm, live on bbc one and it could be very special indeed. Andy, thank you very much. Now, we know that all sorts gets washed up on our beaches. But walkers enjoying the North Norfolk Coast were in for a surprise today. Just take a look at this thats right, those are people walking on a massive pipe. This one was at Eccles On Sea and measured over 100 metres long and two metres in diameter. The coastguard say they were being towed out to algeria from norway when they came free. Sir Alan Ayckbourn is one of britains most successful playwrights, best known for Comic Portrayals of the middle classes. Now, aged 78, hes turned to Science Fiction for the first time. His new play the divide is co produced by the old vic and premieres at the Edinburgh International festival tomorrow. Its set 100 years from now, in an england where a deadly contagion has separated men from women. 0ur arts editor Will Gompertz asked the playwright what prompted his change of direction. It was, i think, an attempt by me to bridge my ageing writing personality to a younger generation, and the way to do that, i thought, was through the medium of Science Fiction. Science fiction is a great leveller. It gives you an even playing field, where you say to your younger audience, now this is a world that i dont know but i have created and you dont know, and you can inhabit it. Is it a concern of yours that the theatre is failing to engage the younger audience . Its a fear, its always a fear. If you look in the average audience, maybe because of money but they seem to be middle to late middle age. The sort of people i want in there. You can get the very young, you can catch them before they are ten but after that they are lost tribe. I want that audience back. Weve now reached the age where we are considered mature enough to be possible carriers and therefore a danger to men. How do you keep on challenging yourself . How do you make sure, you know, after all these plays you dont find yourself repeating past ideas . I think its a terror. That is a real problem because i keep thinking i must have done about everything by now. I had a stroke a few years back, and for the first time in my life for a few months i had no ideas. And i thought, well thats it. Then a little germ arrived and i go, wow, theyre still manifesting and of course now manifesting furiously. I feel very excited but a little bit nervous. Its a good feeling. Ive written next years play as well. Its a play called better off dead, i hope that doesnt predict anything sir Alan Ayckbourn speaking to our arts editor Will Gompertz. Time for the weather now with tomasz schafernaker. Today was a pretty good day across most of the uk but we are starting the Weather Forecast with some ominous clouds. That means the weather is going little bit downhill tomorrow. The clouds will increase across many parts of the country with rain in the forecast as well. Theres an extensive area of cloud across the atlantic, we are in a window of fine weather which we have got out there right now and this is what it looks like a few hours ago. You can see plenty of weather, scattered Fairweather Clouds and some showers in the south east. This evening, dry weather across england and wales this coming night. By the end of the night we will probably have rain in Northern Ireland, Western Scotland and additionally it will turn windy, even gale force winds. This is the low that will be moving across the uk tomorrow. In the evening for many its not looking too bad. But western areas, with that south westerly wind blowing off the atlantic, comes also a big shroud of cloud and spots of rain. Most rain will be light so it is not a wet wet day but it will turn overcast. The south east might stay dry through most of the day. Into saturday the Weather Front moves through, the Weather Front moves through, the weather improves, but the morning might bea weather improves, but the morning might be a bit cloudy with drizzle but the afternoon is looking a lot better. Saturday overall a fine day, temperatures more like september to be honest, and much the same on sunday, but compared to what some of us sunday, but compared to what some of us have had over the last few days we can say sunday is looking fine. Here is the headline for the weekend, largely dry with sunny spells so finishing on a positive note. Thats all from the Bbc News At Six so its goodbye from me and we can now join at six so its goodbye from me and we can nowjoin the bbc news teams where you are. Hello im martin cropped so here are it warned that estimates of about 10,000 victims in the uk represented just the tip of the iceberg. North korea has denouced Donald Trumps warnings of fire and fury saying the us leader was bereft of reason. Pyongyang claimed plans for a Missile Strike off the coast of guam could be ready in days. Slavery and Human Trafficking in the uk is far more prevalent the Food Standards Agency has said that 700,000 potentially contaminated eggs from dutch farms have been sent to the uk up from an earlier Estimate Ofjust 21,000. The agency said it was very unlikely that there was a risk to Public Health. Figures from nhs england show the number of people waiting for routine surgery in england is at its highest level for a decade. Its estimated that more than four Million People were waiting for operations injune. A former director of Public Prosecutions has said cases involving asian gangs who target white girls for sex must be recognised as profoundly racist crimes. Yesterday 18 people , mainly of pakistani or bangladeshi origin, were convicted of abusing girls in newcastle
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