Have a more detailed picture for you at about half past. In the weather, time to test our heating. It might be that time. Temperatures only heading one way over the next few days, that is downwards. How cold will it get . Ill have the details before half past. Bloodhound is go the supersonic car designed to reach i,000mph is tested in public for the first time. Hello everyone this is afternoon live. Im simon mccoy. The wife of a birmingham man who planned a terrorism attack in the city has been found guilty of helping his preparations by buying him the weapon he intended to use. Madihah taheer, whos 21, had denied preparing an act of terrorism by assisting her husband Ummariyat Mirza earlier this year. Mirza pleaded guilty to the plotting earlier this month. Our Home Affairs CorrespondentDominic Casciani reports. Wrestled to the ground in an armed stop, a birmingham man setting out to kill. The suspect seized in a joint intelligence led operation by mi5 and the West MidlandsCounter Terrorism unit. A week after the westminster attack in march, Ummariyat Mirza wanted to rampage in his home city. Now convicted along his wife, Madihah Taheer, who helped him, and his sister, zainab, who encouraged the planning via social media. Mirza was obsessed with knives and replica guns, and he wanted to fight in syria. Instead, he turned his attention to home. His pregnant wife bought him this combat knife on her credit card, and then he trained on this martial arts dummy. Finally, he went to an outdoors shop to buy cord to create a hidden shoulder harness. Mirzas attack plan wasnt fully formed when he was arrested, but hes admitted preparing an act of terrorism by researching targets including a synagogue and this raf Careers Office in the city. Its one of seven foiled plots so far this year. Detectives say he couldnt have planned it without the loyal and loving support of his wife. I think its sort of typical of the kinds of terrorist threat were now seeing in the United Kingdom small groups of individuals, in this case family members, it could easily be friends, sharing very explicit extremist material, using apps downloaded from social media, inciting and encouraging each other to be able to carry out an attack, being inspired by other attacks theyve seen in the United Kingdom and abroad. Taheer told her trial shed become besotted at 17 with mirza, as she tried to escape her abusive father. She admitted shed supported the self styled Islamic State group, claiming she had been brainwashed by her future husband. But prosecutors said her own words from social media gave her away. As their wedding approached, taheer messaged her boyfriend, saying, i want you to kill people for me, i have a list. Mirza said, on the day of the marriage, i will kill them all, give me the list. Her reply. You cant have it until you put a ring on it. Radicalisation experts say her conviction is symptomatic of the new role that some women now play. In this particular case, what weve seen is a woman who seems to be in control, shes confident, shes not someone who is going to stand there, shes actively encouraging. So, i think that needs to be borne in mind in terms of a shift in gender roles thats also occurring, but the fact is, it also challenges our notion of what a womans role within these movements has to be when we look at it in a broader global context. The jury concluded Madihah Taheer was no naive young woman. She was her husbands willing partner in crime. She had wanted a hero like the painting she placed on her facebook profile, and she found him, and now they both face jail. With me is dina hamdy, a political analyst who has looked extensively at radicalisation and extremist ideology and worked at the Foreign Office on the governments prevent strategy. Pa rt part of the shock of this is when you see those texts he was very much egging him on. This isnt a passive female, the cliche of a passive female, the cliche of a passive female or thejihadi bride, which i find very reductive. There is a sense of empowerment, a strong find very reductive. There is a sense of empowerment, a strong woman who knows what she wants and is not only encouraging him, but having her own set of demands and directing him. That is the noteworthy and slightly worrying trend. Youve used the word trends so we should expect this to become a more common problem or what . I think its already a phenomenon, a noticeable occurrence, ever since isis took hold of the strongholds in syria. They have specifically focused on winning to recruit them to build the caliphate, so recruit them to build the caliphate, so to speak. They need mothers and daughters and partners, the breeders of the next generation of fighters. Thats quite terrifying, i want to come to that in a moment. It was so weird that changed this . Before that it was young men going out there. The larger perception amongst most people, its primarily targeted at young men, disenfranchised a sense of grievance and whatnot. But increasingly, since syria, it has been specifically focused on winning with terrifying success i have to say. That word terrifying, used the word generational, this woman was pregnant at the time. There is a new generation growing up who know no other ideology. Exactly, those recruited into the ideology, as weve seen with the white widow and her son, who was used to carry out attacks and carry a gun himself. Yes, the idea is you are breeding this ideology into the next generation, a state with its own ideology, its own constitution. These are the future warriors. People watching you now, what do they look for . If were going to have to be more vigilant than weve beenin have to be more vigilant than weve been in the past . There is a cliche even among some of the people looking at this. It is primarily targeted at man and the women play a subjugated secondary role, whereas we need to be aware this is a trend, andi we need to be aware this is a trend, and i use the word deliberately. Women who have been recruited, Research Shows they have a sense of empowerment. Empowerment from a religious perspective, not a western feminist perspective, im doing this because this is in line with my religion and politics, so to speak. Not wanting to spread fear, we should point out these two appeared in court after a very Successful Operation by mi5. That the remarkable aspect. 0nline radicalisation is notoriously difficult to catch before anything terrifying happens. The fact this couple was caught and tried and charged well before they carried out the attack is remarkable in itself. More should be done to focus on the phenomenon of online radicalisation in general, but also the discourse, narrative and ideology used to target young men and women. Thank you. The uk faces a Significant Mental Health challenge at work, according to a new report, commissioned by the government, which shows the scale of the issue affecting the nations workforce. The thriving at work report found that more than 300,000 people leave theirjobs every year due to insufficient support for Mental Health problems. The nhs and the Civil Service will adopt the reviews recommendations. Rob sissons has this report. At this insurance company, theyre proud of their record supporting workers. Todays report recommends more places should be like this. Aviva in sheffield said it has tried to change the way people think about Mental Health, training managers and encouraging openness. James tringham was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, something the firm was aware of when they took him on. I was terrified. I had to be coaxed in and the support team that were training me at that stage werent sure if i would make it through, although they could see there was potential there. And work has a great benefit. It has a normalising effect. The government ordered review, which covers the whole of the uk, suggests what is been held up as Good Practice has yet to catch on. It concludes poor Mental Health costs businesses £a2 billion a year in lost work days and low productivity. The cost to the uk economy is put even higher, at £99 billion. That takes in nhs costs of caring for people, the payment of benefits and lost taxes. Employers generally have really got to grips with the idea of how you support the physical health of your staff, whether its with adaptations or particular approaches to the health of your staff, but we havent yet seen the same level of commitment towards the Mental Health of your staff. Todays report, we are told, is a wake up call to some businesses, whatever their size, across the uk. One of co authors of the report has told me what really lies behind it is the need for a culture change in some organisations across the land to do more. That, of course, could be easier said than done. Royal mail says it is convinced money spent on Staff Wellbeing does pay off. Its really important we look after their physical and their Mental Health. Obviously, there is a cost associated with that, but it is a cost that we see as well worth spending. We rely really heavily on our people and protecting their healt, safety and wellbeing is really of the utmost importance to us. The Prime Minister, who commissioned the report, said it underlines the need for action. She is asking the nhs and the Civil Service to lead the way. Some of the changes, creating support online and more training, will cost easier perhaps for big firms to afford than small ones, of course. But the message of todays report is not all the changes will cost money. With me in the studio is Louise Stewart from the federation of Small Businesses. Picking up the last point, itll cost some money. This is the issue, particularly smaller businesses cant really afford to pay the weight huge organisations can. Thats right, but when you look at it, if it costs £99 billion a year to the economy, which this report says, people are leaving the workforce because of Mental Health problems, if you are a Small Business you dont want people leaving the workforce, you want to encourage staff to say, so in many ways Small Businesses are better at tackling these issues because they are closer to the workforce if you like. Bigger organisations including organisations like the bbc are introducing things like Mental Health first aid is. If you are a small perhaps family run business, your Mental Health first aid is about opening the conversation, checking in with staff. Its not that they dont do it, they do it in different ways. If you work for smaller business might not you find it harder knowing the impact it would have had to say, i might have a problem and need support . Small businesses tackle it in different ways. Small businesses are much more likely to employ those hard to reach in the community, those people with chronicle Mental Health illnesses or disabilities. We were lobbying the government on a National Insurance holiday for those who help people back into work, something wed like the chancellor to look at in the budget. They made a commitment in the conservative party manifesto. Lets see that happen to encourage people suffering from long term Mental Health illnesses back into work. Does the buck stopped with government and they need to look at the entire picture, or is it with the entire picture, or is it with the businesses themselves who know better than anybody else how to run their business . This is something we all have to take responsibility for, the government needs to look at ways they can help, businesses need to ta ke they can help, businesses need to take responsibility. We also need to ta ke take responsibility. We also need to take responsibility. We also need to take responsibility. If you are self employed there is no safety net so self employed there is no safety net so how do you manage your own Mental Health . Its about networking, seeking support where you can, speaking out. We would welcome the government report today, the fsb had their own last month. We want to kick start this conversation about Mental Health in the workplace. When you talk to other members of the federation what is the feeling about how they are dealing with this issue at the moment, do they feel much better and further one than the bigger corporations . They do, people are more flexible, even in our own office we have a Winning Group that ru ns office we have a Winning Group that runs a couple of times a week and we think it is a great use of time, if they want to take in the day and do that, because it is about their Mental Health, having conversations, walking meetings. People getting more physically active. It helps support Mental Health. Thank you very much. Im going to take you to space because on the International Space station the pope is going to be talking, or is indeed talking now, to members of the International Space station. There he is at the vatican. His audience is literally out of this world. Hes giving an address to staff, arranged by the European Space agency with the help of nasa. 0nly European Space agency with the help of nasa. Only the second papal court of nasa. Only the second papal court of the International Space station, the last being from pope benedict. Were about to cut to space, i think, hopefully. The whole thing is available to watch as it happens on the youtube channel. His talking in italian to members of the International Space station. In the group is an italian, on his third mission. Science and the spiritual dont a lwa ys science and the spiritual dont always mix, but that picture tells you that just for today they really do. Astronauts have often spoken with religious reverence of the experiences theyve had among the stars. I know it in italian but lets listen in. Station, this is for a voice check. We thought we lost you for a while. Speaks italian. Studio werejust studio were just going to studio werejust going to hear what the response is to that. As you can see, there is a translation going on in space. As the pope awaits that response. Speaks italian. Studio lets listen in. Holy father, what surprised me is how approaching something from a different perspective can make something very familiar seem unrecognisable. That is rather special. There we are. For the second time ever in history, the pope talking to fellow humans in space. Thats listen again. Nuevo arcangel im working on something very close to me, ill get focused on that and not realise ive rotated it around, then when i go to another module, when i approached it from a different side that i didnt expect, that place, its kind of unsettling at first when im trying to understand where i am. Speaks italian. So thats been very interesting. What has been very surprising to me that hasnt changed is that in this environment where we dont really need the concept of our and down, to get my bearings i still have two decide which direction to perceive as up in order to make sense of things. Speaks italian. Studio there we are, it is as much the whole image that is amazing. There is the pope, even his tv stands looks ancient. The lighting is such that the contrast between the pope and the International Space station illustrating the worlds apart that we are witnessing here is the pope talks to astronauts on the International Space station. A remarkable few minutes i think youll agree. Youre watching afternoon live. The headlines 21 year old woman found guilty of helping her husband prepare a terror knife attack in birmingham. Lifting the two blue a quarter of support workers have Mental Health issues, 300,000 people leavejobs workers have Mental Health issues, 300,000 people leave jobs each year. 11 people arrested in one of britains biggest operations against people smuggling. Coming up, bloodhound is go. The supersonic car designed to reach 1000 miles an hour is tested in public for the first time. Australia have taken a four point lead in the womens ashes series with a commanding win over england in the second one day international. The chairman of the Football Association greg clark says the National Body has lost the trust of the public. James haskell has been left out of the england squad for next months three autumn internationals at twickenham. More on all those stories at about half past two. See you then. The Catalan Government says its leader, Carles Puigdemont, has suspended a statement he was due to make this afternoon about the future of the region. There had been speculation that he would use the occasion either to declare independence from spain or to call new elections in the region. My colleague tim willcox is in barcelona. Lots of speculation but nobody really seems to know. Thats about right, simon. High