gathered m outside rochdale gathered outside rochdale -olice station to outside rochdale police station to protest against the footage. thousands of offshore wind farms to be built on parts of the british sea bed owned by the crown estate. three more top tories enter the race to be the next conservative party leader. the former business secretary sir vince cable gives evidence to the post office inquiry. a police officer has been suspended after footage emerged of a suspect being kicked and stamped on the head at manchester airport. greater manchester police say the officer has been removed from all duties and the independent office for police conduct is investigating. there were protests last night outside rochdale police station, as lauren moss reports. this report contains footage you may find distressing.

"truly shocking." the assessment of greater manchester police itself after this footage emerged of what happened during an arrest at manchester airport. an officer with a taser stands above a man lying on the floor. he kicks and stamps on his head. greater manchester police say, before this filming started on tuesday night, they were called to reports of a fight at the airport. when they went to make an arrest, three officers were assaulted, needing hospital treatment. a female police officer suffered a broken nose. one officer has been suspended from all duties, and the force has referred itself to the police watchdog. the prime minister says the home office is looking into what happened. look, i understand the public�*s concern. i have seen it myself, and i understand that concern. there have now been, i think, the suspension of one police officer this morning. and the home secretary is meeting the mayor of manchester to discuss this.

the mayor of greater manchester, responsible for overseeing how the force is run, says the footage is disturbing. firstly, i would say that it is a fast—moving and complicated situation in a challenging location, obviously at the airport. it is not clear—cut, i would say. and there are issues for both sides in the situation. that said, and here is where i want to be really clear, it is right that the officer has been suspended. that is the right action. i would ask for calm, because what i can assure people is that the right and proper steps have been taken in the right way. gmp, shame on you! late last night, a large crowd of people gathered outside rochdale police station in protest. this cannot be treated as an incident in isolation. this is just the latest

in a catalogue of incidents that have eroded trust and confidence. it is at its most lowest, its lowest, in black, asian and minority ethnic communities. greater manchester police says it knows communities are rightly concerned about the footage. in a series of statements released since yesterday, it says the use of such force during an arrest is unusual and they understand the immense feeling of worry and concern that people feel and fully respect their right to demonstrate their views peacefully. they say they will continue to meet and discuss these feelings with greater manchester residents and elected representatives whilst this independent investigation takes place. the video footage of a greater manchester police officer stamping on and kicking a man in manchester airport is truly shocking and disturbing. that man is one of my constituents in rochdale, and i am meeting his family later today. our police face a very difficultjob

every day in keeping us all safe, but they themselves know that they have to expect the highest standards of conduct in their duties. the independent office for police conduct says it is looking to all the circumstances in a thorough and robust investigation and will work to provide answers people want as quickly as it can. lauren moss, bbc news. yunus mulla is outside rochdale police station. when you've got greater manchester police referring to this incident as shocking and that people should be rightly disturbed, it is no surprise to find that's exactly what i am being told here in rochdale today. a lot of people have already made up their mind over what happened. in many people's view here when i speak to them, they say they feel that officer used far too much force for that incident. clearly there is an investigation under way to find out exactly what led to that incident. and that is something a lot of people here will be looking at. what we also need to consider,

of course, is that gmp say those were firearms officers and they have firearms that could have been taken away from them. we have heard andy burnham hint at a missing piece in thejigsaw. the body—camera footage the officers were wearing, could that give us a different view of what happened? that is something the iopc, the independent office for police conduct, will have to look at. they have a lot of cctv footage and also have a lot of footage shot by members of the public that has been widely circulated. that investigation could take some time. henry zeffman is in westminster with political reaction to the footage from manchester airport. finch political reaction to the footage from manchester airport. such is the intensi of from manchester airport. such is the intensity of the _ from manchester airport. such is the intensity of the public _ from manchester airport. such is the intensity of the public reaction - from manchester airport. such is the intensity of the public reaction to - intensity of the public reaction to this footage that it is very much thrust to the centre of the political debate today, you heard

earlierfrom sir keir political debate today, you heard earlier from sir keir starmer, political debate today, you heard earlierfrom sir keir starmer, the prime minister, saying he had watched the footage himself and that his home secretary, yvette cooper, would be meeting the mayor of greater manchester, who had already given his reaction to the footage, let's hear what he had to say. you are heading _ let's hear what he had to say. you are heading in _ let's hear what he had to say. you are heading in a _ let's hear what he had to say. you are heading in a very dangerous direction — are heading in a very dangerous direction and decide if people elected — direction and decide if people elected to parliament only few weeks a-o, elected to parliament only few weeks ago. as_ elected to parliament only few weeks ago, as those two individuals were, rush to _ ago, as those two individuals were, rush to take — ago, as those two individuals were, rush to take a side in the social media — rush to take a side in the social media thing, you know? i rush to take a side in the social media thing, you know? lam just going _ media thing, you know? lam just going to _ media thing, you know? lam just going to go — media thing, you know? lam just going to go with the side i want to id going to go with the side i want to go with _ going to go with the side i want to go with. that is not what you should do. go with. that is not what you should d0~ you _ go with. that is not what you should do. you should take care to think about_ do. you should take care to think about your— do. you should take care to think about your public statements. andy burnham is about your public statements. if burnham is responding there to two mps burnham is responding there to two mp5 from reform uk, they have five now after the general election, who had backed what the police appeared to have done in that footage, ideally i spoke to one of those mps, lee anderson. the ideally i spoke to one of those mps, lee anderson-— lee anderson. the message i'm nettina lee anderson. the message i'm getting loud _ lee anderson. the message i'm getting loud and _ lee anderson. the message i'm getting loud and clear— lee anderson. the message i'm getting loud and clear from - lee anderson. the message i'm getting loud and clear from myl getting loud and clear from my constituents is that they are fed up

with seeing police dancing around rainbows — with seeing police dancing around rainbows and being nice to people and running off from writers. they want _ and running off from writers. they want police — and running off from writers. they want police to do theirjob, and i think— want police to do theirjob, and i think these — want police to do theirjob, and i think these police should be commended, i would give them a medal, _ commended, i would give them a medal, because from what we are being _ medal, because from what we are being told. — medal, because from what we are being told, a female officer had her nose broken, other officers dragged to the _ nose broken, other officers dragged to the ground, they try to take the gun, _ to the ground, they try to take the gun. we _ to the ground, they try to take the gun, we have offices in hospital, we are in_ gun, we have offices in hospital, we are in an _ gun, we have offices in hospital, we are in an airport.— are in an airport. these are inevitable _ are in an airport. these are inevitable political- are in an airport. these are i inevitable political questions, are in an airport. these are - inevitable political questions, how the police should police our streets, our public institutions, what the right balances between four son daughter. those are always political questions, but right now they are intermingling with unclear questions about what exactly happened in this incident. as more details emerge, expected to become even more political.— even more political. henry zeffman there. we even more political. henry zeffman there- we can _ even more political. henry zeffman there. we can speak _ even more political. henry zeffman there. we can speak to _ even more political. henry zeffman there. we can speak to a _ even more political. henry zeffman there. we can speak to a former i there. we can speak to a former metropolitan chief superintendent who was also the first chair of the national association of muslim police officers, welcome to you. from what we have seen, from what we

know so far, what is your view about this incident, given that an investigation is under way and the police officer concerned has been suspended while it is carried out? i think that is the right course of action, the police officer should be suspended. police officers need to understand that they can use force, but it has to be reasonable and proportionate. i haven't seen the incident that your reporter was referring to in view of the incident that happened before the individuals were arrested, and i think, from what i gather, there was an altercation. so that obviously needs to be dealt with, but i think the footage showed a man prone on the floor, face down, the police officer then comes up to him and kicked him in the head and then stamped on his head a couple of times. he then moves to another person, who has his hands up, he pulls him down, cake stem and strikes him on the back

with his ties. that is excessive force, and i think that is what the public are concerned about. what police officers need to be is professional and make sure that the red mist doesn't come down, and i think with this particular officer and his actions of kicking someone in the head, in those circumstances, appear to be very disproportionate and excessive.— and excessive. there is no doubt that the video _ and excessive. there is no doubt that the video continues - and excessive. there is no doubt that the video continues to - and excessive. there is no doubt that the video continues to be i that the video continues to be shocking, it doesn't matter how many times i have seen us, it is disturbing no doubt for viewers, but as we have heard from politicians and others, it is not clear what happened before this, and that is what an investigation has to find out, isn't it? what has happened before and what is happening around it, and decide on what issues affect all parties here. how does an investigation unfolds now? whatever ha--ened investigation unfolds now? whatever happened before. — investigation unfolds now? whatever happened before, we _ investigation unfolds now? whatever happened before, we know— investigation unfolds now? whatever happened before, we know there - investigation unfolds now? whatever| happened before, we know there was an altercation involving these men we know that one police officer had a nose broken, and we know some other police officers were

assaulted, so we are aware of that. what we need to be looking at is this particular incident, you know, when you have somebody prone on the floor and the police officer kicks them in the head and stamps on the head. that is excessive force. i have been in lots of situations where i have had knives pulled on me, guns pulled out on me, and you use the appropriate level of force to deal with that. but what we have had here is a person lying on the ground, who is complying, and the videos that have been circulated then show a middle—aged woman wearing a shower can ease in her 405, 505, who appears to be related to these men, 5he 405, 505, who appears to be related to these men, she is then pushed and shoved. what we have to remember is that these are not anti—police, one of them has a relative in the police, and they are very supportive of police, so i think that context, that information, is very important

when you look at this group and how they were dealt with by armed police officers. tote they were dealt with by armed police officers. ~ ., they were dealt with by armed police officers. ~ . ., ., ., officers. we have heard from a la er officers. we have heard from a lawyer acting _ officers. we have heard from a lawyer acting for _ officers. we have heard from a lawyer acting for these - officers. we have heard from a lawyer acting for these men i officers. we have heard from a - lawyer acting for these men talking about the fact that they will be requesting and achieving best evidence interview with the victims today, so what happens now? what are the next steps for greater manchester police and i was investigating this incident? greater manchester police _ investigating this incident? greater manchester police need _ investigating this incident? greater manchester police need to - investigating this incident? greater| manchester police need to consider whether it is appropriate to release footage, because the officers will have body cameras, so they may want to release that footage, but the key thing is about making sure that the tension is minimised, and i think andy burnham makes the point about the importance of people looking at what has happened, he says the suspension was right and proper and that should give people some confidence that the appropriate action is being taken, so this is now a time for listening to the new

mp, andy burnham, the greater manchester mayor for that area, and then making sure the authorities do a thorough investigation. it is about calm heads, it is about standing back and listening, no matter how angry people are, we have demonstrations, but people need to wait to hear how the investigation will unfold. but the fact that the officer has been suspended as a good sign. interesting to get your thoughts, thank you very much for being with us. a man has appeared in court after being charged with the attempted murder of a man near barracks. the officer remains _ murder of a man near barracks. the officer remains in serious but stable condition in hospital. we can speak to our reporter who is outside

medway magistrates court for us, welcome to you, what has happened in court today? ye5, well, this morning at medway magistrates court in kent, the 24—year—old was charged with attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place. he is accused of repeatedly stabbing a uniform senior army officer on tuesday evening not far from here in chatham near a military barracks. we heard from prosecutors and court that he was arrested about 30 minutes after the incident on a motorhead and that a number of knives were found in the storage box of the most part. this was a first appearance, 5o of the most part. this was a first appearance, so a short hearing, mainly for those charges to be read to anthony esan, but when he was asked to confirm his name and address, he asked why. we know that the army officer involved is a

lieutenant colonel, who is in a serious but stable condition in hospital. anthony e5an has been remanded in custody until the 22nd of august, when he will appear at maidstone crowned court. —— crown court. the government is hoping to create more renewable energy byjoining forces with the royal family's property arm, the crown estate, which owns most of britain's seabed. the aim is to build thousands of offshore windfarms in england and wales, under the umbrella of a new publicly owned company, great british energy. ministers say it will eventually mean lower energy bills as our cost of living correspondent colletta smith reports. the price, the source and the future of energy in the uk are hot topics. so now the government is putting a little more meat on the bones of their election pledge to create great british energy. although the labour party first announced the plans two years ago, there are still questions about how it will all work. it will be a publicly

owned energy company, effectively a big investment pot, pushing money, expertise and sorting collaboration in lots of different types of energy projects, speeding up big onshore and offshore wind projects and putting money into other areas like nuclear, developing newer technology and supporting small—scale community schemes. crucially, it's not an energy company that will supply power to houses. you will never be getting a bill from gb energy. the work this company are doing is happening much earlier in the process than that. so what's happening today? the government has pledged £8.3 billion of public funding for the company to make all of that happen. and it's officially introducing the bill in parliament to set up the company. the prime minister, sir keir starmer. applause. today's announcement focused on how this move will bring energy security. a publicly owned energy company making money for the taxpayer, creating the next generation of good jobs and taking putin's boot off our throat once and for all. and the prime minister said

it will lower customers' bills in the future. but it will push bills down, and that's the sort of number one issue behind renewables, bills will go down, and not for a short time, but actually permanently. and for every family and every business across the country that is hugely important. today the crown estate are getting in on the act. they own vast swathes of coastline and sea bed around the uk and say partnering with the government will halve the time it takes for offshore wind to deliver power. but a deal hasn't been agreed with the crown estate in scotland yet. and they need another £60 billion of private sector investment, which isn't guaranteed. so will it work? i think it will take up a lot of the government's time and effort and focus, when it could be better spent on creating more certainty for investors through subsidy schemes or unlocking grid connection queues. this is a long—term plan which needs a fair wind from investors, so customers shouldn't expect any reduction in energy bills for now. colletta smith, bbc news.

former cabinet minister robert jenrick is the latest tory mp to announce he's running to be leader of the conservative party, promising to win back reform uk voters. he becomes the third conservative to enter the race following the former home secretary james cleverly and former security minister tom tugendhat, who said he is not afraid to leave the european court of human rights if he the leadership. tote to leave the european court of human rights if he the leadership.— rights if he the leadership. we need to be absolutely _ rights if he the leadership. we need to be absolutely clear _ rights if he the leadership. we need to be absolutely clear that _ rights if he the leadership. we need to be absolutely clear that the - rights if he the leadership. we need to be absolutely clear that the onesl to be absolutely clear that the ones we are members of the liver for the british people, and where they do not, they can be reformed, maybe we can derogate, as i have been calling for since 2013, or if it needs to, we should leave them, because this is about delivering for the british people, about restoring trust and

making sure that we deliver on the policies of the priorities of the british people and we are able to serve our great country. we're bringing you continuing coverage of the post office inquiry, where the former business secretary, sir vince cable is giving evidence. the inquiry is examining how hundreds of sub—postmasters were wrongly prosecuted for losses caused by a bug in the horizon it 5y5tem. let's listen in now. azadeh moshiri is at the inquiry and joins me now. take us through what has been happening at the inquiry today. well, samantha, sirvince cable happening at the inquiry today. well, samantha, sir vince cable wa5 well, samantha, sir vince cable was a cabinet member, business secretary under the conservative and a lib dem coalition, and he was in post from 2010-15, but he coalition, and he was in post from 2010—15, but he said he hadn't even heard the name allen bites, now sir alan bates, who was of course the champion of the sub—postmasters, who talk on the post office another landmark case. he said he didn't even know that the post office was

prosecuting its own sub—postmasters until the very end either. he acknowledged his share of the responsibility by saying there was clearly a policy failure, and that is because despite the fact that he and others in government had responsibility for the oversight of the post office, what is now seen as the post office, what is now seen as the ofjustice in uk legal history still happened, it wasn't prevented, and it was not stopped in its tracks until decades later. remember, hundreds of people were wrongly prosecuted, some went to prison over this, some lived with convictions even though they had done nothing wrong. it was the faulty horizon it system that caused this. samantha, we talked a lot about the role of fujitsu employees, post office officials, but the government owns the post office, civil servants were involved, ministers were involved, and the inquiry is trying to

determine today what they could have done, if anything, determine today what they could have done, ifanything, to determine today what they could have done, if anything, to stop this from happening to these victims. take us throu . h happening to these victims. take us through what _ happening to these victims. take us through what is _ happening to these victims. take us through what is happening - happening to these victims. take us through what is happening now - happening to these victims. take us through what is happening now at l happening to these victims. take us i through what is happening now at the inquiry. through what is happening now at the inuui . ~ ., ., ., inquiry. well, now we are hearing gre: inquiry. well, now we are hearing greg clark. _ inquiry. well, now we are hearing greg clark. the — inquiry. well, now we are hearing greg clark, the fact _ inquiry. well, now we are hearing greg clark, the fact that - inquiry. well, now we are hearing greg clark, the fact that both - inquiry. well, now we are hearing greg clark, the fact that both he l greg clark, the fact that both he and vince cable are appearing today is a reminder of how long the scandal went on for, and the fact that it happened across the oversight of several governments of various parties. greg clark was the business secretary as well, a cabinet member under theresa may as part of that conservative government. what he is being asked is what he knew and order was flagged up to him. what we have been hearing from several ministers, both junior ministers and secretaries of state, is that civil servants didn't flag up to them how serious the issues were, and what the inquiry counsel is trying to do right now is

go across the letters, the information that was presented to greg clark, to understand whether he should have been across this more closely. should have been across this more closel . �* ., should have been across this more closel . . . ~ ., ,, i. if you want to continue following the post office inquiry — we're streaming the proceedings non—stop today on the bbc iplayer. just navigate to the news channel page to see all our available live streams. we have one running on president biden and on the build—up to the olympics. watch on your tv, online or on the iplayer app. the bbc has discovered that a suspect in the racist murder of stephen lawrence admitted to being a paedophile but no action was taken against him. matthew white had also been convicted of carrying a machete four years before the murder in 1993. our investigations correspondent daniel de simone has the details. is this the final chance for justice? stephen lawrence was stabbed to death by a gang in a racist attack in 1993 at this south london bus stop. two of the gang were eventually convicted of murder,

but met police failures means the others have not been. in april, following bbc investigations, the met police said a new force will review the dormant case. stephen's mother, baroness doreen lawrence, does not accept everything possible has been done. the met police have always sought to say to doreen, and we have, and she has not taken at face value, saying we have done everything we can. and now we realise with what the bbc, what you have shown, is that that was a blatant lie. she has now asked for the case to be passed to an independent investigation team led by the retired detective who achieved the two murder convictions. a year ago the bbc publicly named the suspect matthew white, revealing witnesses placed him at the murder and detailed multiple police failures before his death. now, new details. when matthew white was interviewed about the murder in 2000,

he told the met police he previously had a girlfriend who was a child but the force did nothing. i was older, she was young. by older, how much older were you? five, six years. he named her — she was nearly a decade younger, a teenage schoolgirl. he ruined my whole life. in herfirst interview, she says police never told her about the abuse admission. absolutely disgusted, really, by it. i can't get over thel fact that they would just cover that up. she says white gave her drugs and sexually abused her. would you like an apology from the met police? yeah, i would like an apology. "we are sorry your. life was devastated." after white's paedophile admission, police documents revealed the met police did not treat him as a full murder suspect despite a witness implicating him in the attack and instead discussed helping him with drugs rehabilitation. these are shocking revelations and show the metropolitan police

cannot be trusted in terms of saying that they did a proper investigation. they show they cannot be trusted in terms of any future investigations. the met police's offered no defence to its failure to deal with matthew white's paedophile admission and said discussions were ongoing on an independent review of stephen's murder. three remaining prime suspects, including the brothers neil and jamie acourt, deny murder. unless the case is reopened, no—one else will be brought to justice. the met office is warning that climate change is dramatically increasing the frequency of extreme weather events in the uk. its annual state of the climate report says the country is experiencing far more very hot days and really wet days. this changing climate has a widespread impact on everything from our health service to our fragile eco5y5tem5,

the single most dramatic weather event of 2023 was storm babet. it barrelled in in october bringing a deluge that soaked much of the country and is an example of the uptick in the rainiest of weather the met office has identified. these maps show how the frequency of really wet days has increased since the 19605. look at this. in the last ten years we've seen 20% more days with the heaviest rainfall in an average year. but it is the increase in really hot weather that stands out from the data. look at this map, it shows how in the 30 years from 1961 only london and hampshire recorded an average of six or more days with temperatures over 28 celsius in a year. the met office describes these as hot days. spin forward to the last ten years and virtually the whole of england and wales now gets that many hot days every year,

while the south east now experiences an average of over 12 days above 28 celsius every year. and there is much more evidence of this warming trend. the new report confirms 2023 was the second warmest year on record for the uk. it had the hottestjune ever recorded in the country and the joint warmest september. the statistics, from the observations in this report, really speak for themselves. that our climate is notjust going to change in the future, it is already changing right now. it is the increasingly frequent weather extremes that have the biggest impact on all of us. our increasingly hot weather stretches our health care systems as vulnerable people fall ill. it damages our infrastructure and it disrupts our daily lives. hello there,

good afternoon. it's cloudier and it's breezier generally than it was yesterday. we've still got that muggy, humid feeling air, lots of moisture in it, and that, of course, has led to some more mist and murk for western—facing coasts and hills in particular. some more rainjust moving along southern counties. still some sunshine, the best of that to the east of high ground, including across north east scotland. but we will see some showers a bit later on this afternoon, just pushing in from the west. also some further pulses of rain just gradually making their way towards southern coastal counties, perhaps stretching up into east anglia later on through the afternoon. still some breaks in the cloud, the best of those possibly later on through the day across the midlands and into parts of lincolnshire. and the temperatures will react to that sunshine, 23 celsius perhaps here. but overnight tonight, some changes, we're going to start to get that cooler air feeding through from the north west, so the showers will fade away, the skies will clear, and it is a cooler feeling start to the day tomorrow, feeling a lot less humid, some

of our temperatures dipping back into high single figures, particularly across the north and the west, so that fresher air with us tomorrow. different feel to the day and there should be a lot different feel to the day and there should be a lot more in the way of sunshine, the air not holding quite so much moisture, of course, so there won't be as much cloud, but still some showers. and most of those showers will be out towards the north and west. so across northern ireland and across scotland, some of those showers could be quite heavy in nature. a few showers too for the north of england and for wales, but further south and east it's dry, and the sunshine will help to lift the temperature to around 23 or 24 celsius here. but the wet weather is back on saturday, as are some areas of cloud from a weather front just gradually pushing further eastwards, bringing some showers across scotland, northern ireland down through northern england. some more cloud and some showers for wales, but it's drier again the further south and east you go, but we should all be in for a dry day on sunday. high pressure builds in from the azores so still more cloud, maybe one or two isolated showers for the far north and the west, and there will be more cloud developing wherever you are.

developing wherever you are, i think, as we head through the afternoon, just bubbling up here and there, but still some sunny spells and temperatures will be rising accordingly. so feeling warmer pretty much across the board, and temperatures really climbing in the south as we head through into the start of next week. always the risk of some more showers to the north and the west. this is business this today live this is business today live from new york where calm is returning to wall street after a multi trillion dollar sell—off led by big tech. restoring that confidence better than expected news on the us economy. gdp growth surged in the three

months tojune while inflation eased calming fears of a �*hard landing' and leaving hopes of interest rate cuts intact. winds of change. the uk's new state run firm great british energy announces its first project to cut reliance on fossil fuels. and it hopes bring down bills. and from crypto sceptic to crypto evangelist. what's behind donald trump's digital conversion as he battles to return to the white house? welcome to business today. i am michelle fleury. there is a collective sigh of relief across wall street as the markets open broadly flat after a brutal sell—off in big tech shares which turned into a market rout on wednesday, wiping trillions of dollars off the market value here in the us and asia and europe. the snp 500 and nasdaq both

had their