it s revealed that almost 400 hotels across the uk are now being used to house asylum seekers at a cost of £6 million a day. and why something fishy has been going on after the body of a rare shark was discovered on a beach in hampshire. and coming up on the bbc news channel. facing a length ban aleksandar mitrovic s moment of madness means he could be out for a significant part of fulham s season. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. for the increasingly isolated russian leader vladimir putin, it is a hugely significant moment the chinese leader xijinping has travelled to moscow to meet him. president xi says today s state visit will give new momentum for relations between the two superpowers. mr xi will be the first foreign leader to shake vladimir putin s hand since an international arrest warrant was issued for the russian president on war crimes charges. 0ur russia editor, steve rosenberg, reports from moscow. when xi jinping arrived you could tell
fredricka reynolds used to do all the flowers for the weddings, but in an instant, that key part of her business was snatched away. they rang me on the thursday before the asylum seekers came on the monday, and cancelled all my weddings for the foreseeable. that s a huge amount of work and income to me. and she told me it s notjust the loss of thousands of pounds. me and my boys used to go swimming every saturday there. i ve got two little ones and every time we drive past there, they want to go swimming and, unfortunately, that s closed now. because of the small boats crossing the channel, the number of asylum seekers in hotels has gone from 3,000 to 51,000 in just three years. it s the government policy that almost no one is in favour of not even the government and it s costing the taxpayer £6 million a day. daniel sandford, bbc news, kegworth. more than 100 metropolitan police officers, who are being investigated for domestic abuse or sexual misconduct, are being allo
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