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A summit in Alaska. Endless US attempt
to court Putin. What is it all for?
Russia unleashes its second biggest
strike yet on Ukraine. At least 21
people, including four children, are
killed in a wave of more than 600 drone
and missile attacks on Kev. Nearly 100
buildings, including the offices of the
British Council, were hit. This from
Trump's spokeswoman tonight.
>> He was not happy uh about this news, but
he was also not surprised. Perhaps uh
both sides of this war are not ready to
end it themselves.
>> There was however far stronger
condemnation from the EU and it's clear
the notion of any summit with Putin and
Zalinski lies in the dust tonight. Roit
will assess where this goes next. Also
on News at 10,
the children fleeing in the aftermath of
the US church shooting. The shocking new
images emerging along with details of
the killer. More than anything, the
shooter wanted to kill children.
Defenseless children.
>> Days before the price of skinny jab
Monaro balloons, its makers say they are
sorry for UK patients.
>> We're doing all we can to maintain
patient access. Um we are concerned that
patients may try and pursue um
alternative routes for this medicine.
>> The darkest trade. Sam uncovers the
macabra but legal market in human
remains including skulls and skin and
the chaotic KGB defector who it's
claimed changed the course of the Cold
War and the former work colleague who
could hardly believe it.
>> Did you have any inkling that he was a
KGB spy?
>> No. None at all. He just didn't seem
serious, you know, about anything.
This is ITV News at 10 with Julie
Edgingham.
>> Good evening. It was less than a
fortnight ago that Russia's President
Putin appeared to show to the world he
was interested in ending his war against
Ukraine. With great fanfare and a red
carpet, he was welcomed by a hopeful
President Trump in Alaska. But any hope
Mr. Trump or anyone else had lies
smashed in the ruins of Russia's second
biggest aerial attack on the capital Kev
since its war on Ukraine began. 21
people were killed, four of whom were
children, dozens were injured. The
drones and missiles managed unusually to
penetrate the heart of the city and
damage the British Council building and
the EU mission close by. Russia's
ambassador to Britain was called into
the foreign office to be told of the
government's concern. The prime minister
said on social media that Putin is
killing children and civilians and
sabotaging hopes of peace.
>> The promise of peace shattered in the
heart of Kev.
It wasn't soldiers or weapons that were
struck, but homes.
Before dawn, 600 drones and missiles
rain down. Among the dead, children. An
assault so vast it stunned even the
unshakable.
No sign here that Moscow is moving
towards peace.
>> The moment we left the house, the siren
was screaming above my head. At this
point, you feel horrific primal fear
that pierces your body with needles. You
just don't know what to do.
>> The number of dead rose through the day.
>> More casualties pulled from the wreckage
of collapsed buildings.
British and European Union compounds
were hit. The diplomatic stakes raised
further.
>> I'm in front of the British Council,
which has been very severely damaged uh
in last night's attack. It's
unacceptable.
>> To the foreign office in London, the
Russian ambassador to the UK was
summoned.
>> His car window lowered just enough for
cameras to catch him saying nothing when
crucial questions were asked.
>> Ambassador,
>> tonight, President Zilinski called it a
strike not only against Ukraine, but
against Europe and against President
Trump himself. He wants the US president
to feel it as a personal wound, a
deliberate slight.
>> But Trump's spokeswoman gave a familiar
response, saying both sides should take
a share of the blame.
>> Perhaps uh both sides of this war are
not ready to end it themselves. The
president wants it to end, but the
leaders of these two countries need it
to end and want it to end must want it
to end as well. Um and I think the
president will make some additional
statements on this later.
It's two weeks now since the red carpet
and the applause in Alaska.
For those who winced at the warmth of
this welcome, the promise was of payback
later. This is what it would take to get
Putin to meet his real rival, they were
told.
>> We had an extremely productive meeting
and many points were agreed to. and then
Washington. Zilinski in his suit with
Trump and then a caravan of European
allies acting as advisers and
bodyguards. Still, a direct meeting said
to be the next step.
>> But tonight, the German and French
leaders spoke out, saying aloud what
they might have suspected all along.
President Zilinski and President Putin.
>> It is clear that a meeting between
President Zalinski and President Putin
will not take place.
>> This is in contrast to what was agreed
between President Trump and President
Putin.
>> His words were chosen with care because
the fear now is that this chapter of the
war generously described as peace
negotiations
might be drawing to a close.
>> Roit say I mean it's extraordinary.
Alaska and all of those extraordinary
meetings at the White House seem as if
they're in ancient history now given
what we've seen in the last 24 hours.
The Kremlin said it's still interested
in talks. There's some pretty bleak
words though coming from the EU and not
least Fred MZ tonight.
>> Yeah. And and from him that is that's
certainly a a change of tone through
this phase of sort of sick fancy and
dishonesty and conversations with Donald
Trump tiptoeing around um his
sensitivities. It's perhaps the German
chancellor who has spoken with most
honesty and so he did tonight saying
what those European leaders have
probably known deep down for several
weeks now that actually there was very
little prospect um of a meeting between
Putin and Zilinsky. They're now saying
it out loud. Of course, the crucial
voice here we haven't heard from yet is
President Trump himself. Earlier his
spokesperson said that there would be a
statement from him relating to this
situation. We haven't heard it yet.
Everyone is waiting to see what that
says. And perhaps European leaders will
be hoping that they see from him uh a
suggestion of of consideration of a new
wave of sanctions and perhaps most
importantly the acceptance or the
beginning of the acceptance that
actually Putin after all doesn't want to
deal.
>> Okay, Roit, thank you.
Now, the awful intentions behind
yesterday's mass shooting in Minnesota
were spelled out at a police news
conference this evening of the attacker.
The local district attorney said more
than anything he wanted to kill
children. He was obsessed by it. He
wanted to watch children suffer. The DA
said his motive, the police said, was
notoriety and a hatred for Christians
and Jews.
>> Where's the shooter? Where's the
shooter? This dramatic new video shows
the moments after the gun attack as the
children flee the church.
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>> The confusion for the young pupils and
their teachers is clear to see.
>> Oh my god.
>> Where are they?
>> This was filmed by a father of two
daughters who raced to the scene after
hearing the gunfire. and my I just felt
like I was going to throw up and I ran
in as the police were there getting
there kind of alongside it was just
chaos. Um and just started helping kids
out you know saw a lot of injured kids.
>> Yeah.
>> Um it was tough. It was and I just you
know selfishly was just like where are
my girls?
>> His daughter June spoke of her fear as
the attacker fired through a stained
glass window and into the church. I was
scared about if um I would get hurt. I
was worried about like everybody
getting like hurt and injured.
>> The perpetrator was Robin Westman, who
in 2020 had changed their name from
Robert, wishing at that time to identify
as a woman. Westman left behind a dark
trail of clues and online videos,
including a sketch of the church and its
pews,
and messages written on the weaponry
filled with hate and threats.
A manifesto was fixated on guns,
violence, and previous school shootings.
Westman also appears to have posted on
an obscure online chat room writing,
"I'm thinking on shooting up a church,
what music to play?" It's unclear
whether that left enough time to avert
the attack.
>> Investigators are seeking to unravel the
motive, but said tonight Westman had one
chilling ambition.
>> One thing is clear, and it's going to be
hard to hear, but it's important to the
question of why this happened.
More than anything, the shooter wanted
to kill children.
>> A much bigger tragedy was narrowly
averted. The doors of the church were
locked just before Westman approached.
And then there was another stroke of
luck.
>> One live round was recovered from a
handgun
that appears to have malfunctioned as
the shooter attempted to use it and
became stuck in the chamber.
Amid the chaos of yesterday morning,
there had been acts of enormous courage
from young pupils.
>> We had one kid that covered up another
kid and took a shotgun blast to his back
>> as this Minneapolis community praise and
seeks solace in solidarity
across America. For parents and students
alike, fears are only growing of more
copycat attacks as the school year gets
underway.
Robert Moore, News at 10, Washington.
>> Four days out from a big rise in the
cost of the weight loss drug, Monaro,
for people who get it privately. The
makers have said sorry that patients
will have to make future treatment
decisions based on price. There was no
apology in our interview with Eli Liy's
medical director for the price rise
itself. She admitted to ITV News that
political pressure from President Trump
was a factor in its decision.
For Chloe, taking Mjaro weight loss
injections has been transformative
for her appearance, her health, and her
happiness. This was Chloe at 29 stone.
Her polycystic ovary syndrome made her
gain weight. On Mount Jaro, she lost
more than 10 stone in a year.
>> It's been a whirlwind, but it's been
life-changing. It's like I actually did
start my life a year ago.
>> But now the price of her life changing
drug is set to rise dramatically.
>> It's very difficult to think of life
without Mjaro. My worst fear is that
I've got my last jab in my fridge and
once that's gone, I don't know if I can
order another one. Um, I can't just get
that money from thin air.
>> From September the 1st, next Monday, the
price of the weight loss drug, Mangaro,
is set to increase by 170%. The
wholesale price of a month's supply of
the highest dose will rise from £122
to £330.
NHS patients won't be affected. He said
>> it follows this.
>> I just paid $88
and in New York I pay $1,300.
>> Donald Trump complaining of the high
cost of drugs in the US and putting
pressure on drug companies to align
global prices.
>> We are sorry if patients are
experiencing um an interruption.
>> This is the first time a UK boss at Eli
Liy, the drug company that makes Mjaro,
has answered questions on the
controversy. to what extent is the price
rise a result of political pressure from
President Trump.
>> So it's one factor that we take into
account, but we do also want to achieve
a price that is more on a par and more
equal to what we see across the rest of
Europe.
>> The price rise is causing people to
stockpile, panic buy. There are risks
about people turning to the black
market. Does your company accept some
responsibility for that? And are you
regretful about that?
>> We are doing all we can to maintain
alternative routes for this medicine and
one of our concerns is that we have this
medicine reimbursed by NICE but the roll
out of that medicine is going to take
over a decade. So NHS delays are leading
people to look to the black market.
We're concerned that if patients can't
access it through the NHS, then they may
look to the black market because that's
where they could find a cheaper version.
>> The company confirmed to ITV News that
it's proposed a deal so UKarmacies can
give £80 off the maximum price hike, but
says it can't control what they
ultimately charge their patients. Would
you or your company like to offer an
apology for the patients who are going
to be disrupted? People might be mid
treatment and they'll have to stop
taking this medication just because they
can't afford it.
>> So we are sorry for patients who feel
that they need to make decisions based
on price. However, we are working with
the NHS. We have already worked with the
NHS to ensure that we maintain access
through the NHS and we are working with
private providers.
>> Around 1 and a half million people in
the UK use weight loss jabs, the vast
majority like Chloe through private
prescriptions. Many now face
uncertainty.
>> So Rebecca, what did you make of the
apology that came from the drugs
manufacturer there?
>> Well, they do say sorry to patients
facing interruption, but they don't
apologize for the price rise itself. And
what I found striking from that
interview was the clear message of
frustration from this drugs company
about the slow roll out of Mjaro on the
NHS. The suggestion being that if more
people could get it for free on the
health service, then this big price rise
wouldn't be such a big problem. Some
might say that sounds like passing the
buck, but the eligibility criteria for
getting this drug on the NHS is very
narrow. The roll out has been
deliberately slow to prevent the health
service being overwhelmed by demand. The
Department of Health says that the
government is committed to ensuring that
more people can get access to these
revolutionary drugs. They point out that
this is not going to affect NHS
prescriptions and they say that pricing
on the private market is a matter for
Eli Liy and the private providers. Okay,
Rebecca, thank you.
There's been more trouble at the hotel
in Essex, where illegal asylum seekers
have been told by a court they have to
leave. Dozens of protesters tried to
push past police officers this evening
to get to the Bell Hotel in Eping.
Flares were set off and chance of send
them back could be heard. Another court
ruling had been expected today on
whether an appeal would be allowed
against the earlier order to close the
hotel, but judges said they were
delaying their decision until 2:00
tomorrow afternoon.
When the England defender Jess Carter
said she'd been racially abused on
social media during the Lioness's
success this summer in the Euros, the
police started investigating. Well,
today police in Lanasher made an arrest
of 59year-old man in the town of Great
Harwood near Blackburn. The country's
senior officer for football policing
said it will be the first of many.
>> Jess Carter was subject to some quite
nasty racial abuse.
>> The moment detectives confronted a man
they believe was involved in some of the
online abuse directed at Lioness Chess
Carter during this summer's Euros. Since
then, police have been working with
Carter, the FA and social media
companies to identify as many behind
that abuse as they can.
>> There is an incident which we believe
that you have some direct involvement
in. Okay. So, we've been instructed here
today to obly come and formally arrest
you.
>> Carter was so disturbed by her
experience in Switzerland, she came off
social media and revealed to ITV News
after the tournament that she was
terrified ahead of the final. As soon as
we lost against France, the messages
started going from, "Oh, she's not good
enough or shouldn't be playing for
England or should be ashamed of
performance or whatever." And then it
was started being about the reason I was
rubbish was because of I was black. And
I'm not going to go into detail on the
comments that I was getting, but like it
was like vi like violently aggressive
racism. After making today's arrest, the
officer in charge of policing football
in England said, "The messages directed
towards Jess Carter were appalling, and
I would like to commend her for standing
up to this abuse. We want to make it
clear that racist abuse of this nature
will not be tolerated. Everyone is
responsible for what they do and say,
and we want to ensure offenders cannot
hide behind a social media profile to
post vile comments."
Officers say today is just the start and
there are likely to be many more arrests
relating to the abuse Jess Carter
suffered in the coming months. Steve
Scott, News at 10.
Now, there are laws against buying and
selling ivory or wild bird eggs, but
not, it seems, human remains. And that
has allowed the trade in them to become
a multi-million pound industry fueled by
social media and it has to be said a
frankly unsettling fascination with the
macab. ITV News has discovered 80
sellers just on Instagram and Facebook.
They offer things like skulls, bones,
and you should be warned, wallets made
from human skin.
If you're easily disturbed, you may want
to turn away because these dozens of
accounts are part of a thriving and
chilling trade. From skulls to wallets
made of skin, the sale of human remains.
So, we were able to order some bones. I
find it quite unnerving, quite upsetting
really to think about what's inside
here.
We have a handwritten note of what's
inside.
And it says that we've got a rib,
vertebrae,
a kneecap there. No explanation about
where these have come from or who they
were or when they're from. These were
people.
Now they're being sent in the post. So
where are these body parts coming from?
Some are ex-medical skeletons, but
others are far less ethical. This church
crypt in Kent has stored skulls and
bones for hundreds of years. Now it has
a double lock system and high-tech
security alarm.
Necessary after the front door was
smashed in during a robbery.
21 skulls have been removed from the
shells down there and naturally that
caused great concern because it's
tantamount to grave robbing. These are
human mortal remains.
>> What is the difference between bones
being displayed here compared with say
in someone's living room?
>> This is holy ground. This is within
church property.
>> The human remains trade is a
multi-million pound industry. A skull
starts at around £400.
A child's skull is nearly 10 times more,
while a wallet made of human skin is
around 6,000 pounds.
>> BO is a group of academics and experts
aiming to stop the trade.
>> Currently,
selling human remains is legal.
>> Yeah, you can you can do that. Yes.
which is a terrible thing to say and
seems awful and I think everyone would
be very shocked to think that that is
something that is possible to do.
>> What do we think people are using these
human remains for?
>> Could be different things like ritual or
magic. Somebody may just have an
interest in it. They may see them as
artistic.
>> We've identified more than 80 accounts
selling human remains. Some are death
influencers with tens of thousands of
followers. We spoke to some of the
sellers. Few could say where the body
parts came from.
>> We took the bones we ordered to a
forensic expert to find out more.
>> These are definitely real human remains.
I would say that the appearance of these
bones, the completeness, the
preservation, the holes on the vertebra
um are more consistent with what we
would call anatomical teaching human
remains. But even exmedical skeletons
pose serious ethical questions. The
remains of people who never expected
that in afterlife they'd be sold by
dealers in death. Sam Holder, News at
10.
Through his publishing empire and
promotion of free speech, Hong Kong
businessman Jimmy Lie has been a thorn
in the side of the Chinese authorities
since they took over the territory from
Britain. He's been in jail for the past
5 years awaiting trial. His son fears
Mr. Lie will die behind bars. He's
charged with plotting against the
Chinese with foreign forces and
endangering national security. Today,
that trial has come ominously to an end.
He now has to wait until October for the
verdict of the China appointed judges.
He is Hong Kong's most high-profile
prisoner and the heightened security
that has surrounded his case was
deployed once again on its final day as
Jimmy Lie was driven into West Cowoon
Court. His wife Theresa has remained
free to attend the trial which lasted
twice as long as expected.
Jimmy's son Sebastian lives in exile
from Hong Kong.
>> He's essentially guilty of journalism.
um and you know the courage to stand up
for his principles and and and and and
his journalists. All these allegations
of him being behind the protest. Well,
turns out the only time he met with his
students was to tell him to be peaceful.
He never advocated for Hong Kong
independent.
>> Jimmy Lie was arrested 5 years ago,
weeks after Beijing imposed the national
security law in 2020. During his trial,
opinion pieces he wrote for his
newspaper, The Apple Daily, and his
contact with US politicians were used to
support charges that he colluded with
foreign forces and published sedicious
material.
After his arrest, his newspaper offices
were raided and closed, a day which
human rights organizations describe as
the end of free speech in Hong Kong.
censorship uh is very prevalent and you
know there's so much fear amongst Hong
Kong people that self censorship
unfortunately has become the norm. The
UK government has called on the Hong
Kong authorities to release Jimmy Lie
who is a British citizen. There is
growing concern for his health. The
77year-old has spent the last 5 years in
solitary confinement. He has diabetes
and has developed heart problems. A
conviction would likely mean Jimmy Lie
will die in prison.
>> This is a man who stood for the right
thing and and and did so peacefully and
and and killing him will have first of
all no benefit to Hong Kong and China
but also you know as the foreign
secretary said will have consequences.
>> One hope for his release could come from
Donald Trump who has promised to raise
the matter with the Chinese president Xi
Jinping. We heard in court that Jimmy
Lie was a Republican supporter. evidence
which was used against him.
>> You can't just, you know, sit around and
and and and hope that some miracle frees
him. Um, so that's what that's what I
do. I I keep I keep doing this so that I
I I have hope that I will one day see my
father again.
>> The Chinese government describes Jimmy
Lie as an anti-China destabilizing
figure in Hong Kong. His trial was held
without a jury by a panel of government
approved judges. Their verdict and a
decision whether he will ever be a free
man again are expected in two months
time. Debbie Edward News at 10.
Celebrated British road race cyclist
Chris Froom winner of four tour to
France has had a serious crash on his
bike while training. It happened
yesterday in the south of France. He
suffered a broken vertebrae in his back,
a collapsed lung, and five broken ribs,
but he avoided thankfully any
significant head injuries. No vehicles
or other cyclists were involved in the
crash. His team said he was helicoptered
straight to hospital in Tulong and has
had an operation this evening. There has
yet been no update on his condition, but
his accident will have ended his season
and very many will be wishing him well
tonight.
Finally, Britain was up against a
sustained campaign of Soviet spying. Of
course, at the height of the Cold War in
the 1960s, MI5 was desperate for a
breakthrough when into their lap fell a
wannabe Soviet double agent. His name
was Oleg Leelin. All this time later,
the role he played in turning the tide
against the Soviets with a single
expulsion from Britain of more than a
100 spies has been revealed in a book. A
friend of his from those days told us
she'd always been surprised that he was
a spy.
>> The Cold War, a time of tension and
paranoia.
>> Her support now constitutes a threat to
Western security. With the world braced
for the possibility of nuclear conflict,
it was in this atmosphere of hostility
between Russia and the West that Oleg
Lealen arrived in London in the 1960s
purporting to be a knitwear importer and
trade delegate. In reality, he was a
Soviet spy, part of the KGB's sabotage
and assassinations department.
>> What's your reaction now to know that
he's a Soviet intelligence officer?
Well, I can't believe it.
>> Susan Woodthorp was a receptionist at
the textiles business Lee Allen claimed
to work at. ITV News spoke to her
shortly after his true identity was
revealed.
>> He just uh can't believe it. He seems he
doesn't seem uh he's got enough
intelligence to be able to do it.
>> Well, he used to bring him bottles of
stish nay vodka and caviar and cream
cheese sandwiches.
To this day, she is the only person to
have met Le Allen who has spoken
publicly about him.
>> I was shocked really because I thought
he was just this guy that was enjoying
life, very flirtatious.
>> No, none at all. He just didn't seem
serious, you know, about anything. Yeah.
In 1971, dissatisfied with his work and
his marriage, Oleg Le Allen wrongly
assumed his cover was blown, he handed
himself into the police and defected.
Now, recently declassified FBI files
show he told MI5 of a Russian plot to
dump radioactive waste at a US nuclear
submarine base near Glasgow. The files
also revealed he scouted locations on
the Yorkshire coast that Soviet savurs
could land on.
105 suspected Soviet spies were then
expelled from the UK. Still the most any
country has ever removed. Richard Kabage
is the journalist who uncovered this new
information. He says Oleg Lealen changed
the course of the Cold War.
>> It was unparalleled. The KGB was forced
to shut down its Department V, the
sabotage and assassinations arm of the
KGB, which was incredibly damaging. Oleg
Le Allen was given the new identity and
died somewhere in England in 1995 after
his revelations reshaped our recent
history. Will Tullis news at 10.
It was those caviar and cream cheese
sandwiches gave it all away. That is it
for tonight. We'll see you again
tomorrow from all the team. Good night.