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An early election, as eu ambassadors agree to another brexit delay. But agree to another brexit delay. They wont say for h a report into the crash of a boeing 737 max lion air flight uncovers a chain of events, a catalogue of failures, which led to the deaths of 189 people. And lining up for a crucial weekend at the Rugby World Cup, as england and wales try to make it through to the final. And coming up on bbc news. The former heavyweight champion tyson fury has confirmed that his rematch with Deontay Wilder will go ahead, despite wilder reportedly saying he thinks fury will drop out. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. The families of six people from vietnam say they fear they could be among the 39 people who were found dead in a refrigerated container in essex. The brother of 26 year old pham tra my says she has not been heard from since tuesday night, when she sent desperate messages saying she was dying and could not breathe. Her last known location was belgium. A 26 year old man and a 19 year old woman havent been heard from either. Today, Police Arrested two more people in connection with the deaths. Ed thomas is in essex. Tonight, sophie, the bbc has been contacted and throughout the day by families in vietnam, distraught at the idea their family families in vietnam, distraught at the idea theirfamily members families in vietnam, distraught at the idea their family members were inside this refrigerated container. Two families have told the bbc that people smugglers have returned the £30,000 paid to them to traffic their loved ones to the uk. Tonights report begins with the story of one young, missing woman and her familys fears. This is pham tra my, 26, from vietnam. Tonight, she is missing, and her family fears she was one of the 39 people to lose their life in the 39 people to lose their life in the refrigerated container found the 39 people to lose their life in the refrigerated containerfound in essex. At the exact time the container was crossing from zeebrugge, she sent this disturbing message. Im really sorry, mum and dad. My trip to a foreign land has failed. Iam dad. My trip to a foreign land has failed. I am dying, dad. My trip to a foreign land has failed. Iam dying, i dad. My trip to a foreign land has failed. I am dying, i cant breathe. I love you very much. Her brother wanted to broadcast this appeal on the bbc. The bbc has also spoken to the family of nguyen dinh luong, a 20 year old man also missing tonight. The Vietnamese Embassy in london is now working with uk authorities to identify any victims suspected of being from vietnam. Today, this investigation moved to cheshire. Police arrested a 38 year old man and a 38 year old woman from warrington on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic people and manslaughter. In essex, detectives are continuing to question the 25 year old lorry driver, named locally in Northern Ireland as mo robinson from county armagh. While the delicate process of private ambulances under Police Escort remove all 39 bodies from the wreckage rated refrigerated container, postmortems will be carried out one by one, as police try and find out how they died. What is this noise . The fridge working . Thats the sound of the fridge . This man has been transporting refrigerated lorries for two years. Temperatures can get as low as 25. Whats inside it . Answer unclear. You dont know whats inside . cant open this and check. Hi he is not allowed to open the seal but, every m ove not allowed to open the seal but, every move he makes, he is followed bya gps every move he makes, he is followed by a gps tracker. The trailer has this . And weve learnt more about the gps movements of the refrigerated container found in essex. Sources say tracking gps data shows the container left County Monaghan in ireland on october the 13th, monaghan in ireland on october the i3th, crossing to dublin and then dover to calais on october the 16th. In europe, it appears the container travelled between belgium and france, visiting dunkirk, bruges and lille, before going across to purfleet. For three years, there have been security concerns over purfleet, warnings that smuggling gangs were targeting the port. They are dishevelled. Some of them are smart. Janet has lived opposite for more than 35 years. It is the largest number of people use income ofa largest number of people use income of a container . Probably too dozen. People coming off the trailer . This is now an International Investigation as Police Search for the truth and answers for all 39 victims. Ed thomas, bbc news, tilbury docks. And we can bring you the latest information. A press conference is going on with essex police, who have tonight confirmed that a fourth person has been arrested in connection with these 39 deaths. This is a 48 year old man. He was arrested at Stansted Airport on suspicion of manslaughter and trafficking. Police said this is now a fast moving, complex investigation. Thank you, ed thomas. Our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford, joins me now. We dont know if any of these young vietnamese people were in that container, but what their Story Highlights is the lengths people will go to to get to the uk. Is weve investigated this trafficking route from vietnam to the uk, its been striking how incredibly organised it all is. First, as soon as essex police said it was thought that people in the container were chinese, we were being contacted by people from vietnam, saying, we are a bit worried it might be our relatives, because they knew where their relatives were, moving across europe, and these families had paid deposits or their young family members to be transferred to europe, and they were going to pay the balance on arrival, another indication of how sophisticated it all is. Some families who had paid some money has been given their money back, because the people smugglers themselves believe that their relatives have died. The route seems to go from vietnam to china to get a false documentation, and then a plane to europe, and then that perilous last journey in a plane to europe, and then that perilous lastjourney in the back of a lorry to the uk. The family stayed in contact with the young people up to the end, ii9 year old calling her family and saying, im turning my phone off because i am going into the container, and those tragic texts on the woman who might have been texting as she died. This is industrial, organised people smuggling with big profits and also big risks. Because it is the 21st century, these young people are staying in contact with their families using smartphones up to the last minute. Thank you. Parents are being warned that they are oblivious to the way children and teenagers are being targeted by drug dealers on social media and how accessible and cheap class a drugs now are. It follows the deaths of at least a dozen children under the age of 16 across the uk since 2017 after taking ecstasy. Our correspondent, hywel griffith, has this special report. You do, you think youre invincible as a child, you know . Still grieving, still confused. Its six months since tatum lost her little boy. I think i didnt want it to be real. You dont want to believe it or something. I was thinking, no, this is somebody else, its got to be. It cant be carson. 13 year old carson price died after taking ecstasy in this park. His mothers been told it was sold to him through a snapchat message on his phone forjust a few pounds. When they told me the cost as well, to know what my sons life, how much that cost. It was too easy, as easy as going to buy sweets in a sweet shop. You know, it was advertised on snapchat, meet someone openly, in broad daylight. Here . And thats how easy it was. Carson is one of at least a dozen children who have died in the uk since 2017 after taking ecstasy, in a trade which has passed most adults by. But not these teenagers in cardiff, who tell me children are being targeted by drug dealers online and in the classroom. Ive known people take them as young as 12, and it can start off like marijuana, but it can really quickly grow to ecstasy. That person whos in the library who is revising is also a drug dealer part time, because its such fast money. You can look outside your window, theres about eight kids running back and forth. You know exactly what theyre doing. A lot of drugs are actually sold off snapchat, just simply, so accounts would be made, theyre kind of hard to track, theyll approach you and theyll deliver to you as well. Snapchat has told the bbc there is no place on its messaging service for drugs. It encourages users to report illegal activity. When the police carry out raids, this is what they find. Ecstasy tablets are now at least double the strength and 80 cheaper than they were in the 1990s, making them more accessible than ever. You dont have to go to an unknown house any more. There are no drug dens. Its almost become respectable. Its a text message, an arrangement made very often by phone for a cost, really visible to the public, often not to the police. What is visible is the harm to young lives and the helplessness some families feel. Carson was only 13. Its going to get younger if they dont start making an example of it. Its just going to go on and on and on and spiral, and people are going to get away with it, making money. From what . From families being torn apart. The home office says it is concerned by the rise in use of class as. Its awaiting the findings of a major review to understand exactly who is most at risk. Hwyel griffith, bbc news. Borisjohnson has told Jeremy Corbyn to man up and back his call for a december election. Mr corbyn says he wants a general election, but he and his mps are thought unlikely to vote for one unless the Prime Minister rules out a no deal brexit. In brussels, eu officials have agreed in principle to grant britain a further extension, after mrjohnson was required by parliament to request one, but its not yet known for how long. There is some flash photography in this report from our deputy political editor, john pienaar. It looked easy enough. I cant make the scissors work. Cant make the scissors work, cant get an early election either. You run the world. I do. No, no, idont. Run the world . As if he needs labour votes to make a quick election happen, and Jeremy Corbyns holding back, so. We can have more debates on brexit, if thats what he really wants, but theyve got to agree a deadline. Time for corbyn man up, lets have an election on december the 12th. He is campaigning as if the elections started. Downing street even suggested the government would just ask again and again for an election if mps said no, virtually go on strike from doing anything else. Really . Isnt that an irresponsible way to go about things . I think you are totally confused here. We are going to be governing in the interests of the country. So maybe no government strike after all. Hello again, welcome back. But what will labour do . The partys split, and Jeremy Corbyns in no hurry to give the pm the quick election he wants. For now, hes saying no election until there is no chance at all of leaving with no deal. I hope the eu grants an extension. My position is weve got to get no deal taken off the table first, because it would be catastrophic forjobs and businesses. For brexit, as one door opens, another is closed. Have a good day. No comment. It was a very good discussion. Brussels chief negotiator was meeting eu ambassadors and keeping the uk guessing. While mps wait to see what kind of extensions offered, the eu is waiting to see what westminster decides. Westminster already seems paralysed. If an elections blocked next week, politics could be reduced to a game of who blinks first. An early contest seems inevitable, but who will yield . The snp want to seem more up for the fight than the others. The lib dems want a contest, too, but if brexit is approved first, how can they campaign as the party to stop brexit . We need to have the extension secured and implemented before we can consider a general election so that borisjohnson does not use the Time Available to take the country out on no deal. What i want is the opposition parties to come together with a vote of no confidence and bring this government down to move to a quick election. How long has he got to stay . Hopefully, we can have him out at the end of next week. Out by next week the young boy, that is, not the uk. The pm can wish and wait. John pienaar, bbc news, westminster. The time is 6 15. Our top story this evening. Families in vietnam say they fear their children are among those who died in the refrigerated container in essex. A short time ago a fourth person has been arrested in connection with the deaths. And why prince harry decided to gatecrash his wifes event at Windsor Castle today. Coming up on sportsday on bbc news. Englands preperations for their Rugby World Cup semifinal against new zealand have been hampered by bad weather, with rain delaying their training session. England face the defending champions tomorrow in yokohama. Alzheimers is the most common form of dementia, and theres no cure for it. But now scientists believe they could be on the cusp of a breakthrough, after a Drugs Company said it had the first treatment for alzheimers. In the uk, dementia is the single biggest cause of death. 850,000 people are living with some form of it, and that figure is expected to rise to around two million by 2050. Our medical correspondent, fergus walsh, reports on the alzheimers drug which just six months ago was deemed a failure. I was there, right there, in the chair. This lady was in the middle of receiving biogens experimental alzheimers drug in march when her consultant ran in and said the trial was being halted immediately. I was shaking, and this was devastating. Yes, it was. And very unexpected news. It was. It was a big shock. Biogen said the drug, called aducanumab, simply didnt work, but after analysing more data, it now believes it does slow alzheimers in higher doses. Did you feel it was working . Yes. Yes, idid. If you can you tell me the name of this animal . She was diagnosed with alzheimers three years ago. And thats one of those. You know. it affects her Language Skills and she often struggles to find words. I do know it but i cant say it. Her husband philip is relieved her condition has not got significantly worse. Maybe because of the drug. I think it made a difference. Shes still the person i was married to for 35 years and were still doing things like this. I dont know whether the drug worked but what i know is that my wife is still the person i knew. Yeah. Biogen said patients in a high dose of aducanumab had 23 less cognitive decline after 18 months than those on a dummy drug. It helped them retain life skills, like being able to do household chores. Abnormal amyloid, then it will show up as red. Aducanumab is designed to clear amyloid, an abnormal protein which ravages the brain, so could it be the wonder drug scientists have spent decades searching for . I have to be cautious here because of whats happened in the past. So, i hope we have the first drug thats going to slow alzheimers, but i have to see more to be fair to my patients and the people that have got hope. But if we do, it would be enormous . Yeah, it would be the biggest thing thats happened in alzheimers ever. And medical regulators will be poring over all of biogens as yet unpublished trial data before they decide whether to grant it a licence. Theyll be very cautious indeed. Its relatively immature data. Theyll be looking incredibly closely at that and normally what they would want to see is a second study, to confirm those results. If aducanumab passes all its regulatory hurdles, its still likely to be another two three years before it comes on the market here in the uk. It will undoubtedly be are expensive but it could also be transformative for patients, giving them crucial extra years of quality life. And enjoying life together is what matters to charman and phillip living with dementia, not defined by it. Fergus walsh, bbc news. Air accident investigators say that an aeroplane crash in indonesia last year, which killed 189 people, was caused by design flaws as well as human error. The lion air plane a boeing 737 max crashed into the sea last october. A second aircraft of the same model crashed in ethiopia five months later. Our Business Correspondent theo leggett is here. It was like a domino effect, wasnt it . Absolutely, a catalogue of failures, all connected which contributed to the disaster. First of all, poor maintenance. The sensor fitted to the aircraft didnt work and there is evidence the ground crew didnt check it properly either. Then there were design flaws on the aircraft. It incorporated a flight on the aircraft. It incorporated a Flight Control system which wasnt working properly. It relied on data from that single flawed sensor and when it was getting inaccurate information, it malfunctioned and repeatedly forced the nose of the aircraft and when the pilots were trying to gain height. Then there was pilot failures as well. The pilots didnt communicate with one another in the way they should have, to diagnose the problem and sort it out. Also, the report suggests the co pilot, first officer, lacked basic flying skills. All of this came together in a perfect storm that sadly led to the deaths of 189 people. Thank you. Almost 50,000 people have been evacuated from their homes as wildfires rage through california. The biggest fire has burned through 16,000 acres of land in Sonoma County one of californias best known wine regions. Fires are also burning near densely populated parts of los angeles and san bernadino. The fires are being driven by powerful winds, which are expected to worsen in Southern California over the weekend. Conversations about gender equality cant happen without men. That was the message from the duchess of sussex when she met youth ambassadors from around the world at Windsor Castle today. And to underline her argument, prince harry turned up as a surprise guest, as Sarah Campbell reports. It was a short drive in their electric car for prince harry and the duchess of sussex, from home to Windsor Castle. Good to see you guys, how are you . This, the first time they both faced the camera since their revealing interviews aired on sunday night. The focus of discussion today between young people from countries including south africa, nigeria, malawi and bangladesh, was one meghan is passionate about. Gender equality, which has been something i have championed for quite a long time. Harry hadnt originally been invited but his wife explained why he was there. You cant have a conversation about womens empowerment with just women. Right, and, so, for that reason, it made complete sense for him to join today, so thank you for letting him crash the party. Laughter. They both made clear their discomfort with the press. Prince harry wasnt expected here today but he came to support the cause and his wife. It was the safest of spaces, behind the thick walls of Windsor Castle, with just a handful of journalists. Is there a bit of a generational gap, as well, as in the older men not necessarily wanting to change their habits. Their attendance was appreciated by the inspirational young people whod come together, like 29 year old amir ashour, sitting next to the duchess, whos spent the last five years campaigning to help the Lgbt Community in iraq. Its easy to say we should stand for gender rights, but its harder to actually take the action and do it and its inspiring to see that both of them are willing to take that action. This was a meeting of minds from across the commonwealth and beyond, and giving them a Global Platform the duke and duchess of sussex. Sarah campbell, bbc news, windsor. Uluru, known to many as ayres rock, has been closed to the public for good to stop people climbing and walking on the rock. It follows years of battling to preserve the cultural meaning of the site for aboriginal communities, who said climbing and walking on the rock was a deep insult to Aboriginal People who revere the site. Rugby now and its a huge weekend for both england and wales at the world cup injapan. England coach eddiejones has made a number of changes for the teams semifinal against new zealand tomorrow. Meanwhile, wales have had to deal with injury concerns ahead of their crucial clash against south africa on sunday. From tokyo, our Sports Editor dan roan reports. They werent the conditions england would have chosen to train in but nothing was going to prevent final preparations for the biggest game of their lives. The reign of eddiejones began after the last world cup ended in failure, but having guided this team to the brink of the final, the head coach told me just how much it meant. Im pleased weve put pride back into english rugby. Im pleased for this group of players. A lot of them had to endure 2015, it was a tough time for them. Theyve been exceptional in the way theyve attacked this world cup and saturdays a great opportunity for us to attack the new zealanders. 2a years ago, england met the full force of the all blacks in a world cup semifinal. The four tries scored by the late greatjonah lomu giving rugby some of its most iconic moments and adding to the mystique that surrounds a team known as the greatest in sport. From tv commercials to billboards, the all blacks popularity here injapan is obvious, as they aim for a third successive world cup triumph. But one of the team who lifted the trophy in 2011 told me the reigning champions have their work cut out. You believe england can win this game, against new zealand . Oh, for sure, 100 . Im nervous really . Im nervous, im nervous, mate. Ive played england before and just seen how quality they are throughout the world cup. Yeah, like i said, its going to be a cracking match. Wales also trained at the yokohama stadium earlier, ahead of their semifinal against south africa here on sunday. The six nations champions have struggled with both form and fitness injapan but are intent on giving their legendary coach the perfect send off in his final tournament. Can you just sum up, though, what it would mean to you to get wales to the final for the first time in their history . If we could make the World Cup Final with the player numbers that weve got, it will be some hell of an achievement. Im probably the greatest optimist, in terms of i always go in there and believe somethings possible. Japan gearing up, meanwhile, host to a defining weekend for british rugby. Weve had the bad game, now lets put that behind us and i think we can go all the way to the final. The fact that new zealand are switching their team around, which they didnt do the whole of the last world cup, i think theyre on the back foot. Japan 2019 was already a very special world cup, the first to be staged here in asia. But now, england and wales have the chance to change the course of rugby history and set up what would be the tournaments first ever all british final. Dan roan, bbc news, tokyo. Time for a look at the weather. Heres darren bett. Lots of rain . Yes, rain injapan and at here at home as well. It has moved in across england and wales and we have an amber heavy rain warning from the met office the southern parts of wales, where in the hills they could be over a months worth of rain in 2a hours or so. Flooding likely, travel disruption also. Notjust in south wales that rain across the whole of the country and we will also see some heavy rain over the peaks and pennines. This band of cloud stretching that thousands of miles out into the atlantic is bringing this stream of wet weather our way in the rain is not moving very far at all. Overnight, wet the South West England and wales, turning wetter in the midlands and more rain to come in northern england. Further north, scotland and Northern Ireland should see clearer skies away from the showers in the north west. Cold here again, a touch of frost. We have a huge temperature difference across the uk. Southern parts of england mild, 15, winding along the south coast for a while. In the rain, the wind is quite light and slowly we band moving into the south east in the afternoon, allowing drier weather to follow into northern england, dead whales and eventually the south west of england. Sunnier skies further north, quite a rash of blustery showers and colder air will push southwards behind that rain band, so mild for longer in the south east but turning wetter during the afternoon. The rain band is on that weather front and that will take any mild airaway and weather front and that will take any mild air away and the rain as well bust with High Pressure to the west of the uk, we will see colder north to north westerly winds pushing down across all areas. So that extra hour in bed might be very valuable. It wont warm up a great deal but there will be some showers across northern scotland, quite windy here for a while, not as windy elsewhere, probably dry with lots of sunshine. That feeling quite chilly in the sunshine, temperatures typically 911dc. Sunshine, temperatures typically 9 11dc. Thank you. A reminder of our top story. Police say a 48 year old man has been arrested at Stansted Airport owns a conspiracy of trafficking people and manslaughter as families in vietnam say they fear their children could be among those who died in the refrigerated container in essex. Thats all from the bbc news at six, so its goodbye from me, and on bbc one, we nowjoin the bbcs news teams where you are. Hello, the headlines. Families in vietnam including relatives of this girl 26 year old pham thi tra my say they fear their children are among they fear their children are among the 39 people who died in the refrigerated container in essex. The lorry driver remains in custody and police have now made three more arrests as they continued their investigation. The Prime Minister tells Jeremy Corbyn