we invetigate why so many buildings that should have withstood the tremors collapsed. travel disruption and thousands of homes without power after storm otto sweeps across northern england and scotland with gusts of up to 80 miles an hour. and the hollywood star bruce willis is diagnosed with dementia at the age ofjust 67. on bbc london. coming up on sportsday later, will united find a new owner? tonight, the deadline for potential investors, forwarded ten p:m.. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a spy at the british embassy in berlin has beenjailed for more than 13 years for selling secrets to russia. david smith was caught in an undercover sting using fake russian agents who in fact worked for the british security services. the 58 year old had been passing on details to the russians of other members of staff as well as photographs and videos of buildings. british police described smith s actions as reckless and dangerous . our home affairs correspondent tom s
european union, but i think it is safe to say that progress has been made. it seems to us that it s very much game on, and we are very heartened by that, we are very conscious that a deal can be done and should now be concluded speedily. the information commissioner is to ask lancashire police why they revealed details about the health of nicola bulley, who s been missing for three weeks. the family of the hollywood actor bruce willis say the die hard and pulp fiction star is now suffering from a type of dementia. good afternoon. a former security guard at the uk embassy in berlin has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for spying for russia. david ballantyne smith admitted passing secret information to the russian authorities, after being caught in an undercover sting operation. our home affairs correspondent tom symonds reports. david smith, a fan of war memorabilia, a security guard at the british embassy in berlin and a spy for russia. motivated by hatred of britain and
good evening, welcome to bbc news. in memphis, tennessee, five former police officers have pleaded not guilty to second degree murder and other charges in the case of tyre nichols. mr nichols, a young black man, died after a police beating in memphis, tennessee last month. videos showed the officers repeatedly kicking and punching nichols in a traffic stop close to his home. the five officers, all out on bail, entered their not guilty pleas during an arraignment hearing in shelby county criminal court. tyre nichols mother made this statement outside the court. i know my son is gone. i know i ll never see him again. but we have to start this process ofjustice right now, and i want each and every one of those police officers to be able to look me in the face they haven t done that yet. they couldn t even do that today. they didn t have the courage to look at me in my face after what they did to my son. so, they re going to see me at every court date, everyone. exactly. ..u
In all areas, were at the top of our game and the conversation was extremely positive and the players are very positive moving forward that the structures are now in place. It looks really good and that of course makes me really happy because it is good for the players and good for the womens game to move forward and take the next step, but also we can focus on football, which we did anyway in the world cup because it did not distract, but when you Start Playing football you dont want to have discussions at that moment. It is exactly what happened. The Europa League group stages start on thursday, four british sides in that. Rangers, west ham, liverpool and brighton are preparing for their first european campaign. It starts at home to greek side aek athens. We believe in ourselves. We believe in the quality of the players, first of all, the level of the club. But we know we are brighton and we know our level. But we have the ambition to become better, better and better, step by step in