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sienna rogers, as a careful. sienna rogers, as a journalist — careful. sienna rogers, as a journalist what _ careful. sienna rogers, as a journalist what do _ careful. sienna rogers, as a journalist what do you - careful. sienna rogers, as a| journalist what do you think? careful. sienna rogers, as a i journalist what do you think? i journalist what do you think? i think my view is quite predictable, of course i completely agree with joel and the fact that he is resisting this if it comes to it, i think he is absolutely right. i think he is absolutely right. i think in a situation in particular the fact that he is a freelance journalist does increase the risk but also means if they do go ahead with an order then he has less financial backing and less support that other journalist financial backing and less support that otherjournalist might have. so he feels the weight on him to kind of set a precedent in resisting this kind of thing but also one particular has he been targeted for that request? find particular has he been targeted for that request?— particular has he been targeted for that request? and shaun bailey 'ust ick u- that request? and shaun bailey 'ust pick up something i that request? and shaun bailey 'ust pick up something with i that request? and shaun bailey 'ust pick up something with relating h that request? and shaun baileyjust pick up something with relating to l pick up something with relating to the riots and you previously criticised keir starmer for picking a side as you said. but surely there arejust the side a side as you said. but surely there are just the side of law and order on the side of criminality? what on the side of criminality? what keir starmer _ on the side of criminality? what keir starmer did, _ on the side of criminality? what keir starmer did, he _ on the side of criminality? what keir starmer did, he came - on the side of criminality? what keir starmer did, he came out and said everyone involved has these
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feelings— said everyone involved has these feelings and they are far right and i live _ feelings and they are far right and i live in_ feelings and they are far right and i live in east london and it is easy to find _ i live in east london and it is easy to find diverse communities including white working class communities so i asked white working class men _ communities so i asked white working class men how they felt and one said to me _ class men how they felt and one said to me i've _ class men how they felt and one said to me i've never been racist but when _ to me i've never been racist but when i'm — to me i've never been racist but when i'm concerned about something for the _ when i'm concerned about something for the prime minister to say that i'm far— for the prime minister to say that i'm far right because i have those thoughts — i'm far right because i have those thoughts then makes me think am i? and keir— thoughts then makes me think am i? and keir starmer has made the far i’ilht and keir starmer has made the far right far_ and keir starmer has made the far right far more important than they ever were — right far more important than they ever were for people. so right far more important than they ever were for people.— ever were for people. so he is sa in: ever were for people. so he is saying that — ever were for people. so he is saying that people _ ever were for people. so he is saying that people rioting - ever were for people. so he is saying that people rioting in i ever were for people. so he is i saying that people rioting in the streets are far right? he saying that people rioting in the streets are far right?— saying that people rioting in the streets are far right? he is saying that peeple _ streets are far right? he is saying that peeple who _ streets are far right? he is saying that people who are _ streets are far right? he is saying that people who are worried - streets are far right? he is saying | that people who are worried about these _ that people who are worried about these things that have these thoughts, and even then you cannot label a _ thoughts, and even then you cannot label a whole community like that because _ label a whole community like that because he has to realise that he's no longer— because he has to realise that he's no longer the leader of the opposition but the prime minister and if_ opposition but the prime minister and if it— opposition but the prime minister and if it looks like he's a side than — and if it looks like he's a side than everyone will retreat to their friendship— than everyone will retreat to their friendship groups and will have no peace _ friendship groups and will have no eace. ., ~' friendship groups and will have no eace. ., ~ ,, friendship groups and will have no eace. ., ~ i, friendship groups and will have no eace. ., ~' y., ., friendship groups and will have no eace. ., ~ ., ., peace. thank you both for coming on the programme- _
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let's take a quick look at a few of the stories on the front pages. starting with the daily mirror, get ready to flee, the middle east on the brink. the daily mail, keir starmer told to get a grip of work—shy britain. talking about 9.4 million adults neither in a job nor looking for one. the daily telegraph, a surge on children on disability benefits. the guardian, and the number of women killed this year and celebrating their lives. independent, the shame of a british judge keeping a free journalist in jail. that is all for tonight. faisal will be back tomorrow. dojoin him then. goodbye.
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live from london — this is bbc news. slava ukraini! he laughs. ukraine boasts to hold more than 70 russian settlements — we report from the border — as president biden says the incursion provides a real dilemma for putin. a bbc investigation finds that a priest in blackburn who was assessed as a potential risk to children was given a six—figure pay—off by the church of england. a 13—year—old girl pleads guilty to violent disorder during the recent wave of anti—immigration protests. and — banksy unveils his ninth animal artwork in as many days — this time at the london zoo.
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hello, i'm catherine byaruhanga. president biden says ukraine's surprise cross border incursion into russia, provides a real dilemma for vladimir putin. they're his first remarks, since ukraine's lightning strike a week ago, and the white house says it had no advance notice, of the military operation. kyiv now claims to control more than 70 communities in the kursk region of western russia, an area of around a thousand square kilometres. this map shows just how rapid the advance has been in the last seven days, with ukraine claiming to have taken more territory in a week, than russia has all year. james waterhouse, reprots from the front line province of sumy, bordering kursk. ukrainian soldiers in western made vehicles, driving into russia, a potentially seminal sight which few saw coming. the russian guards were quickly overwhelmed. it has been a while since this
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border crossing was used in peacetime, and the ukrainians have not stopped here. the central square of sudzha. a ukrainian armoured vehicle drives through a russian town. it's a military inversion which has restored momentum and morale to kyiv�*s war effort. and instead of directing events in ukraine, moscow's reacting to surprises at home. more of its kursk region is falling in the most dramatic of battlefield changes. "we've just been to this russian supermarket, "and the selection isn't very good," remarks this soldier. slava ukraini! russia is struggling to contain this weighty offensive, but it is trying. across the border in ukraine's sumy region, evidence ukraine is deploying some of its best troops
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for a goal that is still unclear. military equipment is branded with a triangle, the symbol of this operation. ukraine is committing to this gamble, but success might not come here with the capturing of territory across the border. it may well come elsewhere, where russian forces might be forced to redeploy. if this gamble doesn't come off, the consequences for ukraine's war effort could be catastrophic. for the border villages habitually hit by russian glide bombs, there is no fear of what moscow's response might be. translation: i want them to take it and do this. - translation: russia attacked first, not us. i now our guys responded, showed what we're capable of. if we had permission to do this earlier, we would have captured
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russia a longtime ago. in the city of sumy, evacuees give their details to be rehoused. as with across the border, tens of thousands have been moved after an increase in air strikes. ukraine has benefited from secrecy, but its civilians less so. in a choreographed briefing you would usually see in moscow, the head of the armed forces, oleksandr syrskyi, tells president zelensky they are still advancing. translation: first, - i thank our guys and girls. also, i ask you not to forget to develop our important next steps. what ukraine does next will be crucial, especially with the moment of surprise now behind it. james waterhouse, bbc news, sumy region. a bbc investigation has found that a priest in blackburn, who was assessed as a potential risk
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to children and young people, was given a six—figure pay—off by the church of england. canon andrew hindley, was subject to five police investigations, including — into allegations of sexual assault, but was never charged. he's always strongly denied any wrongdoing. aleem maqbool, has this exclusive report. and welcome to blackburn cathedral... for more than 30 years, canon andrew hindley worked for the church in and around blackburn. over that time, he faced allegations of abuse. it led to five police investigations, including two involving sexual assault, though he was never charged and has always strongly denied any wrongdoing. but several risk assessments concluded he did pose a potential risk to children and young people. for years, the church failed to act effectively on the warnings. the first reaction seemed to be one
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of fear to take it on. joan, not her real name, says her relative made a complaint of sexual misconduct against canon hindley. she won't talk about the allegations themselves but says her family was deeply let down. that fear seemed to revolve around the likelihood that the church could be brought down by this. a former bishop of blackburn even suggested she and herfamily move on. well, canon hindley was suspended at least twice, but restrictions on him weren't monitored. internal church disciplinary proceedings stalled, and there were more allegations. what we now know from leaked documents was the church appeared fearful he would take legal action if he was removed. we've now discovered, when he left in 2022, it was with a payoff believed to be around a quarter of a million pounds. the church says it was made to settle legal action by the priest. reverend julian henderson was bishop of blackburn at the time. he explains the payment by saying in a statement...
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"0ur priority was to ensure that canon hindley could never return to ministry. this was primarily to protect children and vulnerable young people from the risk he posed. this was the only option left open to us." i took a decision on conscience that i couldn't work for an organisation which put its own reputation and the protection of alleged abusers above the protection and care and listening to victims and survivors. rowena pailing was a senior blackburn cathedral priest who resigned in protest at the payoff. the message that that sends to victims and survivors is absolutely horrific, so when there were senior clergy, bishops saying, oh, this is wonderful, it's all resolved, a settlement has been reached, expecting me to be happy, i was devastated. the church has acknowledged huge failings in its safeguarding system, but critics insist, when risk assessments show a priest poses a threat of harm, more could and should be done,
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whatever the legal consequences. hopes remain that planned talks in the middle east this week, could pave the way for a ceasefire deal between israel and hamas. and a deal is seen as a way of avoiding a wider escalation of the conflict, involving iran. but on the ground the war in gaza continues, with israel claiming to have killed around a hundred hamas fighters in rafah, in southern gaza in recent days. meanwhile, palestinian medics say 19 people died in israeli air strikes today, with four—day—old twins, their mother and grandmother, reported to be among the dead. lucy williamson, has more from jerusalem. for four days, mohammed abu al-qumsan was a father. this day will haunt him forever.
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the day he left his newborn twins, ayssel and asser, at home with their mother, while he went to collect their birth certificates, and returned to find them killed in a strike on their building in deir al balah. today, he prepared to bury them. a new parent, comforted like a child. "i didn't even have time to celebrate them", he said. gaza's health ministry says 115 infants, including ayssel and asser, have been born and killed during this war. we asked the israeli army why the twins' family home was bombed and are waiting for a response. fighting has continued across the gaza strip, with both israel and hamas under fresh pressure to agree a ceasefire deal to calm spiralling regional threats.
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today, hamas released this video which it said showed rockets being launched from gaza towards tel aviv. israel's army said one had crossed into israeli territory and fallen into the sea. in the southern city of khan younis, displaced residents, not long returned, fled artillery and air strikes again. "who will breast—feed this baby?" one resident cried over the ruins of a building. "all her family were killed, even her mother." reem abu hayyah, three months old, was pulled from the rubble, bruised and battered, the only survivor of an air strike that her grandmother says killed her parents and eight siblings, along with ten other people. translation: they are the terrorists, the ones| that kill children. they are supported by america. out of 20 people, this one is the only one left. the focus on gaza now
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is shrinking as the threat of regional conflict grows. but each child left without a family, each father left without his children, is adding to the long shadow of this war. lucy williamson, bbc news, jerusalem. a 13—year—old girl has pleaded guilty to violent disorder outside a hotel housing migrants, in aldershot in hampshire. she's among dozens of people appearing in court today following widespread violence, sparked by the fatal stabbing of three girls in southport. daniel sandford has more. yes, the courts are still seeing a blizzard of cases linked to the riots and disorder of the last two weeks, with more than 350 people now charged and over 120 convicted. today's most unusual case dated to the violence in aldershot on the sist ofjuly, at the potters international hotel, where asylum seekers were being housed.
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with her parents sitting in court, a 13—year—old girl pleaded guilty to violent disorder. she was not sentenced today and was given bail. the other notable cases included john honey, who among other things admitted looting a lush cosmetics store in hull, and 19—year—old drew jarvis, jailed for three years for throwing bricks and burning arrows at police, at a hotel housing asylum seekers near rotherham. this man, philip prescott, seen at the riot in southport bringing missiles in a bin and throwing them at the police, was jailed for two years and four months. of the charges so far, more than 200 have been for violent disorder, which carries a maximum sentence of five years, and 30 have been for allegedly assaulting police officers. of the more than 50 sentences passed already, the average length has been two years, with the highest three years, four months. and remember, those arejust
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the cases where people have pleaded guilty. people who are contesting the charges will get significantly longer sentences if later found guilty by a jury. a 32—year—old man has appeared in court charged with attempted murder after an 11—year—old girl was stabbed in london's leicester square. loan pintaru, a romanian national of no fixed address, is alleged to have held the girl in a headlock, and stabbed her eight times. he was remanded in custody, to appear at the old bailey, next month. a review into the care of a man who killed three people in nottingham last year, has found what it calls 'a series of errors, omissions and misjudgements' in the way he was treated. valdo calocane, was psychotic and suffering from paranoid delusions. the care quality commission, says if the system doesn't change, there's still a risk to public safety. calocane admitted fatally stabbing ian coates, barnaby webber and grace 0'malley kumar lastjune, and is serving an indefinite hospital order for manslaughter. here's alison holt.
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for the families of those who were killed by valdo calocane, the aftermath has been grief—stricken and raw. it's been impossible to understand what happened. i can't even comprehend how i'm going to deal with it. and all they were doing was walking home. they wanted answers, and today's report finally sets out the failings in calocane's care that led to that terrible day in nottingham injune last year. the morning when calocane fatally stabbed 19—year—old students grace 0'malley—kumar and barnaby webber, and 65—year—old caretaker ian coates. cctv picked up calocane walking the streets for hours beforehand. the report found he was acutely unwell with paranoid schizophrenia, but mental health assessments missed key details and minimised the risk
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he posed to himself and others. barnaby webber�*s mother says the report shows gross systemic failings. it's so clear that there are so many missed opportunities, so many... so much bad decision—making. i would say it's inevitable that, had people done theirjobs properly, then there's a very strong chance barnaby would be alive today. the son of ian coates also believes better care might have changed what calocane did. ifjobs were done properly and these opportunities weren't missed and were dealt with properly and he got the help he needed at an early stage, it might have gone in a different direction. the care quality commission says, over the two years calocane was in the care of nottinghamshire mental health services, there were difficulties getting him to take his medication.
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his aggression was increasing when he was unwell. in the community, he missed appointments, and when he was discharged back to his gp in september 2022, the risks weren't considered properly. while it is not possible to say- that the devastating events of last year would not have taken place had valdo calocane received that - support, what is clear- is that the risk he presented to the public was not managed well, i and that opportunities to mitigate. that risk were missed by the team. i extend to you my condolences, my thoughts and also my willingness to work with you. when he was in opposition, sir keir starmer met the families and committed to a public inquiry. we've had 19 years of. emotional investment. grace 0'malley—kumar�*s parents say it is needed to hold people to account, and today the health secretary confirmed that the prime minister remains committed to a judge—led inquiry. as yet, the scope and the nature of the inquiry has to be confirmed with us, and i suspect that might depend on some of the outcome of ongoing
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investigations and inquiries. we would like the scope to be as wide as possible, - and we would like it to be a statutory public inquiry, led by a judge, and one that has real teeth. - nottinghamshire healthcare foundation trust says it accepts the cqc report, and that it's doing everything in its power to learn from what happened and to improve. alison holt, bbc news. time to take a quick look at tomorrow's papers. starting with the metro, which leads with fears of an iranian attack on israel, and keir starmer�*s call with iran's new president, masoud pezeshkian. "iran tells starmer in phone call, retaliation is our right" — it reads. meanwhile, the financial times is leading with the surprise shake—up at starbucks, and the appointment
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of chipotle's brian niccol as its new ceo. the i turns its attention to elon musk and x — with an article saying the social media platform uses 'far right hate' to sell adverts. the daily telegraph claims there's been a "40% surge in children on disability benefits". the guardian leads with a special report on the 50 women killed by men in the uk so far this year. the paper is marking their lives, with pictures and details about each one. and the daily mail is focused on the so—called worklessness crisis in the uk — and the pressure on the prime minister to get it under control. running was just a lockdown hobby for rose harvey from worcestershire. but her passion took her all the way to the olympics in paris, competing for team gb in the marathon on sunday. but it wasn't to be a dream ending to herjourney, with the 31—year—old now revealing, that she ran with a broken leg.
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here's sophie raworth. this was not the way rose harvey wanted her olympic debut to end. her training had been going perfectly, she was in the best shape of her life, but three weeks ago, her hip suddenly felt tight, and despite treatment, it didn't get better. it was going to get worse in the marathon. we knew that, we knew the risk, but there was a good chance that it would get me through and i would be able to run a pretty decent race and actually do my training justice. so that was the glimmer of hope that i was holding onto going into the olympics. ..as the women's olympic marathon gets under way. two miles in, it started to hurt. by six miles, rose was falling behind the pack, and she was on her own. already, rose harveyjust dropping off that group, that big group there. just kind of seeing your dreams slip away from you, it literally feels like it's slipping
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through your fingers as they go on. any other race, i would have stopped, because i wasn't able to run the race i wanted to, and the pain was really bad, but ijust had to get to that finish line, i had to do the olympic marathon. that's it, girl! out on the course was rose's fiance charlie, who was urging her on. less than 2k left now. i know it hurts. it hurts, but you're good. every mile, ijust thought, "right, just run to charlie. run to when i can see him next, when i can see my friends and family next." i knew deep down, if i stopped, i would always wonder, what if ijust could have run an extra mile? and i wouldn't be able to live with that. she crossed the finish line in two hours and 51 minutes on what turned out to be a broken leg. i'm not sure it's the sensible thing to do, to run on a fractured leg, but it's just different for the olympics. we're going to have charlie and rose
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enter the venue and then also to the church... her next big challenge is very soon. she and charlie are getting married at the end of august. it might be charlie walking down the aisle at this rate! you'll be at the altar? yeah! and as for her running, she'll be on crutches for a while, but rose says she'll be back next year stronger and faster. incredible determination. street artist banksy has unveiled his ninth work of art involving animals in london in as many days. it shows a gorilla, seal and birds and it's at the entrance to london zoo — which said it was "absolutely brilliant" the latest flurry of banksy street art began last monday, with this goat on a wall in richmond tuesday saw a pair of elephants leaning out of windows in chelsea the next day, three monkeys appeared on a railway bridge over brick lane
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near shoreditch on thursday, a wolf popped up on a satellite dish in peckham — which was quickly taken by a suspected thief. friday saw the emergence of these pelicans above a fish and chip shop in walthamstow. then the weekend began with a cat on a disused billboard in cricklewood — again quickly removed. while sunday saw these piranhas in the city of london. yesterday an eighth artwork featuring a rhino mounting a nissan micra was revealed in charlton, south east london. but sadly it wasn't long before it was defaced. a man wearing balaclava was caught on camera brazenely walking up to it and spray painting it with graffiti. in case you missed it there's another chance tonight, to see one of the sky's most beautiful sights. this was north yorkshire last night, when the perseid meteor shower and the northen lights combined to give dramatic display. though the geomagnetic storm causing the colourful aurora has subsided,
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the meteor display will be active until august the 24th. let's get the weather now with darren bett. hello there. tuesday wasn't as hot or as humid, but still with some sunshine across norfolk and suffolk before we got a few light showers, temperatures reached a very warm 29 degrees. other parts of the uk have cooled down a bit already, and it's still quite mixed through the rest of the week. there'll be some sunshine at times, but we're also going to find some spells of rain, and our weather essentially is going to be coming in from the atlantic. at the moment things have slowed down a bit and this weather front still bringing some rain early in the morning, particularly across the midlands. but a sunny start and a chilly start in scotland.
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some sunshine for northern ireland. it will cloud over here in the afternoon and later in the day into western scotland. but more sunshine develops across northern england, wales and the southwest. and even though we've got more cloud, the midlands towards the southeast, that should tend to thin and break up a little bit. we will trigger a few showers in the southeast in the afternoon. it's not going to be as warm here as it was on tuesday, of course, 23 or 24 degrees and elsewhere, those temperatures very similar to what we had on tuesday. so our weather is coming in from the atlantic, and this is the next weather system to bring some wind and rain in from the north west. and it could be quite wet through much of thursday across scotland and northern ireland. this band of rain is only moving slowly into northern england and wales. it's going to be late in the day before we see some sunshine, but through the midlands, towards the southeast it may well be a dry day with more broken cloud we've got a chance for things to warm up again. temperatures could reach as high as 27 degrees, but for scotland and northern ireland, it's likely to be a cooler day on thursday. that rain is slowly moving its way southwards, and that weather front will eventually take some rain into more southern parts of england. it could hang around for a bit on friday,
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we're likely to find the rain tending to move away from the southwest, but the southeast it could be a bit more of a struggle. that rain could still be around into the afternoon at least more cloud. we've got sunshine elsewhere once again until you reach the far northwest, with a bit of rain coming in here again as the breeze tends to pick up. so temperatures scotland and northern ireland 19 degrees at best. otherwise our top temperature further south 23 or 24 celsius. i think it's those sort of temperatures that we'll see over the weekend. so not a hot weekend, but it looks like a fairly decent weekend. most places will be dry with some sunshine. just a few showers, perhaps towards the northwest.
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now — it's time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. some great writers thrive on distance. distance from the people, place and culture into which they were born. others stay rooted and observe from within. my guest today is an acclaimed novelist of the latter type. anne enright has lived in and around dublin, part of a close—knit family, for almost all of her life. she is undoubtedly one of ireland's greatest living writers, but to what extent has her country
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shaped herfiction? anne enright, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. well, it's great to have you here. now, to an outsider, you do seem like a deeply rooted writer. that sounds so dull, doesn't it? yeah, no, ishould have gone places and done things, and i did a little, but, yeah, i returned to ireland. but would you acknowledge that those roots are hugely important to you? i pass the building where i was born when i go into town. so it is, it is quite close. yeah. it's fascinating because, just the other day, i interviewed
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a colombian novelist and he said to me, "i only really was able

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