tv Our World BBC News February 7, 2021 3:30am-4:01am GMT
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this is bbc news, the headlines: in myanmar as thousands of people took to the street�*s of the main city yangon to protest against this week's military coup. they're calling for the release of elected leader aung san suu kyi and others detained by the army. a leaked document has revealed that borisjohnson astrazeneca believes the jab would protect against severe disease. major roads were brought to a standstill in india to show the opposition to agriculturalforms india to show the opposition to agricultural forms which they say would leave them out of pocket. dozens were arrested with more than 50,000 members of the security services being deployed.
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a leaked document has revealed that borisjohnson is considering a reform of the nhs in england. the changes could see a reduced role for the private sector and sweep away changes introduced by david cameron's government in 2012. nhs commissioners would no longer be required to invite private companies to bid to run services and there would be more focus on hospitals and social care services working together to improve patient care. our health correspondent katharine de costa reports. an ageing population brings with it the challenge of providing more complex care. hospital beds can often be tied up, waiting fora hospital beds can often be tied up, waiting for a care package to support elderly patients at home. ~ home. i think the devil will be in the detail... _ home. i think the devil will be in the detail... many - home. i think the devil will be in the detail... many health . in the detail... many health professionals _ in the detail... many health professionals feel _ professionals feel controversial changes made nearly a decade ago left health and care services fragmented. will i don't think you would find anyone in the nhs that would be very pleased to see
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the back of competition rules —— that wouldn't be pleased. it has gotten in the way of the health and care landscape. we all work better when we work cooperatively and we have seen that during the pandemic. people's reservations will be about ministers having a much higher oversight and say in what happens in the nhs and they haven't always shown they have had the expertise to do that. in 2012, underthe cameron government, lord lansley handed the control and finances of the nhs to nhs england with an annual strategy set by the government. it meant that nhs services were bought for patients like —— gp groups including from private providers. the new proposals rollback on much of this and will allow ministers to more tightly controlled how the nhs works as well as deliver public health and social care plans. but health campaigners aren't convinced. but health campaigners aren't convinced-— but health campaigners aren't convinced. , ., ., , convinced. this government has been more _ convinced. this government has been more dependent _ convinced. this government has been more dependent than - convinced. this government has been more dependent than ever before on the private sector during the pandemic we have had private sector roared into test
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and trace, brought into run laboratories parallel to the nhs, we have a four year plan now to use private hospitals, well while nhs beds remain closed and out of use so this isn't a government that has been looking to marginalise the private sector. but been looking to marginalise the private sector.— private sector. but one former health secretary _ private sector. but one former health secretary supports - private sector. but one former health secretary supports the | health secretary supports the plans and wish he had been able to get a grip on social care. the thing that i didn't manage to do which i tried to do, which i think is the next really important step, is a ten year plan and this is deigned hunting increase for the social care sector because that goes hand—in—hand with the nhs. we need to do much better looking after people at home. the department _ after people at home. the department of _ after people at home. the department of health and social care said it was rightly considering where changes need to be made with more details are still to come, but labour's questioned the logic on making big changes during a national crisis when service is already at breaking point. now it's time for this week's edition of our world. jane mugo is kenya's most
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famous, and controversial, private investigator. she says she's solved hundreds of crimes, but some accuse her of playing by her own rules. kenya's private investigative industry is one of the biggest in africa. a private investigator is a spy, there is no two ways about it. and one detective is feared above all others. her name is jane. jane mugo is my country's most famous private investigator. some say that her and her team are dangerous. private investigatorjane mugo has been listed as a wanted criminal by the directorate of criminal investigations. spy queen jane mugo is this afternoon denied charges of threatening to kill when she appeared before a milimani court. but to others she is a hero. she is not a criminal. jane is a hero.
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i am journalist sharon machira. i have spent months exploring the secretive world of kenya's private investigators. this is the inside story of my country's most loved and most feared spy. nairobi. private investigators make big money here. with kenya's police deeply mistrusted, people are increasingly turning to private detectives to find justice. experts estimate that this secretive industry is worth millions of dollars every year. but with no formalised training or regulation, some fear that this hidden army of spies are taking the law into their own hands. and no—one in the world of private investigators is more controversial thanjane mugo. police sayjane mugo, a self—styled private detective is a serial offender now on the run, and have issued a warrant for her arrest.
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in 2019jane's image as kenya's most secretive and successful pi was shattered. police accused her of making violent threats, and a number of serious crimes more than five years back. in 2015 she was accused and charged with detaining a man for hours after forcing him to pay her 440,000 shillings. jane denied the charges and was released on bail. she claims that the case against her is a witch hunt. with her court case looming at the time of filming, jane is in the greatest crisis of her life and could face years injail. i want to meet the woman herself. these could be her last days of freedom. she is a fascinating character, extremely badass. she is a private citizen just like me but she does some of the toughest jobs
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the police do. i'm talking about solving crimes, kidnappings, murder cases, and men are afraid of her. like, high—profile men. jane has many enemies, and access to her is closely guarded. it took weeks of tense negotiations before she agreed to meet with me. she lives in a secret compound on the outskirts of nairobi. i was met at her gate by jane's right—hand man and head of security, a man only known as "charlie1". um, is he... i had no idea what to expect. dog barks.
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hitler, halt! 0rder! be a good boy! hitler, order! be a good boy! no attack. jane personally trained all the security dogs, including her favourite, hitler. dogs snarling and barking. she is constantly surrounded by a team of bodyguards, who also work as her investigators. many are ex—police. she told me sometimes they are hired to spy on political opponents during elections. sometimes politicians can be specific, they will tell us i want you to have, i want you to give me somebody who will be a bodyguard and an intelligence officer during the campaign time, so we can go and fit into their team opponents, and get information about what is happening. spying for and against politicians for a living has made jane a major target.
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she has rigged her compound with cctv cameras, and her home is full of secret cameras hidden in everyday objects. when you look at number 10, you can see camera over there. oh yes, there is, a small camera. i really tiny camera on the zero. can you see this, number 10. the camera's there, you can look at it. she even hides them in her children's toys, and sometimes uses them to spy on others. this looks like a teddy bear. a few days later, she invited us to her operations hub in the heart of nairobi.
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we began to get a glimpse into her day—to—day life. as we enter her office, it is immediately obvious that jane rules her staff with an iron fist. it's from here that jane directs her investigations, backed by a team of ten private directives. jane's fame means her services are in high demand. i am not able to give you my fee before i get an instruction letter from the client through a lawyer. people come to her wanting information on cheating spouses, stolen items and from time to time, violent crimes. jane's investigations are highly confidential. but she was keen for us to see her in action.
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we followed her to the scene of a suspected murder in february 2020. the family of the victim felt that the police had failed to adequately investigate the case. so according to you, maybe he was tortured or something. did you see some blood around here or maybe... no blood. no blood, nothing. did he have any bruises all over the face, the hands... no, no. the body had been found in the trees, reportedly with signs of mutilation. jane's team swept the crime scene for any evidence they could find. what is this? could it have been food? yeah, maybe. to the naked eye, actually it looks like blood but we can take it for some checking. we can take it to analysis. there is a difference between blood and tomato sauce or chilli.
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despite her unconventional methods, jane noticed crucial details that the police report appeared to have missed. the details must remain secret, but after weeks of investigation, jane says she has solved this case, finally bringing closure to the victim's grieving family. in a country like kenya where there is often deep distrust of the police, private investigators can play an important role in securing justice. but how powerful have they become? by working with government and the police, jane is able to access huge amounts of normally private data — mobile phone call logs, text message history and banking records. so the issue of privacy, because everyone has
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their right to their own privacy. yes. where is that line? when it comes to privacy you have it personally, you have your privacy, but if you are a criminal, what privacy do you need as a criminal? but not everyone agrees that pis should have access to this type of information. their cosy relationship to politicians and the police gives them enormous power. even within the security industry, critics fear that people like jane are becoming untouchable. a lot of these private investigators are former military officers, former police officers, they know how to work through the system, they know how to subjugate the system, they know how to corrupt the system. so even if you would wish to sue them, for violations on your privacy, for human rights violations or whatever it is, then it would be arguably very hard. because you can imagine, if this is a senior officer who was discharged from the military or the police force, you would be accusing
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him to his colleagues. during our research into private investigators, we discovered widespread evidence of unethical activity by a number of individuals. one of the companies we approached was nairobi—based silver edge investigators. their website advertises a range of dubious services including mobile spying. the pictures of their team are fake, lifted from stock photos online. we wanted to test if they would be willing to break the law and breach people's privacy. so we sent an undercover journalist to meet with them. she posed as a potential client, a woman who suspected her husband was cheating. martin told her he could hack her husband's phone after installing so—called spy software.
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he said he could access the husband's bank transactions as well. the things he is willing to do are completely illegal, and it's troubling because private investigators are actually meant to be solving crimes, not seemingly willing to commit a crime. itjust shows you how broken this system is. the operative asked if it would be possible to "honey trap" the husband in order to capture incriminating photos. martin, again, said that he could.
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martin's price for the whole package — hacking a phone, a bank account, social media profiles and setting up a honey trap was just under $3000. all these actions are illegal here in kenya. i am slowly beginning to realise why some people believe that this industry is out of control. we reached out to martin kamau and silver edge for comment
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but they did not respond to our allegations against them. i want to know what senior figures in the security world feel about jane. do they see her as a rogue investigator, or is she widely respected? paul mwangi is a private detective who's worked with jane extensively. he is adamant that criticism of her is unfounded. others in the industry disagree. delano kiilu is head of prosak, the largest association of private security companies in kenya. unfortunately, from what we have been able to observe, she has been involved in quite a lot of malpractice. there have been examples
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of gun—brandishing, threatening staff, illegalarrests, also taking money by menace, those kind of things, surround her name. jane and her team are in a constant state of high alert. to ensure her safety, she regularly puts her squad through gruelling training sessions. excuse me, what do you want from me, boss? what you want from me boss? what you want? can you see this? can you breathe? he can't even breathe. jane has a tae kwon do certificate and was keen to show me her moves. can you feel it? you can do tae kwon do? i can do tae kwon do but my... show me some moves. and then you make the bastard
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fall down. so that's what you do it. have you been in situations where you have had to defend people? i love myjob, i lovejustice, and it is in my blood system. fighting for justice is in my blood system. no, no, no, hard! the rest of the training is led byjane's right—hand man, charlie 0ne. he uses his years of foreign military experience to put the team through a series of brutal drills. he claims his men are even better trained than the us special forces. we do our training in accordance to the guidelines of the navy seals. the same standard as the navy seals? probably even better, yeah.
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yeah. that is the reason why we are the best in africa. yes, good, good, good. so — power in your punch. alright? the training is relentless, even during mealtimes. we are still teaching them to endure pain — to endure. charlie 0ne then showed us how, if captured and tortured, members of his team will never give up information. i don't know anything! i don't know nothing! let me go! when you look at me, you can see i'm going to break you.
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i'm asking for the last time — will you tell us what we want? charlie hinted that the team used similar methods during their real interrogations of suspects. do you have to do that difficult type of interrogation with the suspects? we actually do worse than that. we actually do more than that. this is just a simulation for you, but we do worse than that. will you tell us what we want to hear? use a finger. he claims these techniques are needed to save lives. there's no harm in using a bit of force in extracting information from you which will help — which will save lives. ok? as much as the geneva convention prohibits torture, but ours is not torture, but it's... it's... you're talking about force. polite force. polite force? polite force.
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not everybody in the industry shares charlie 0ne's opinion on using polite force during investigations. there is no such thing as polite force — it is simply force. and it is wrong to use force. so somebody from jane's team says that they use polite force sometimes, what could that mean? the question we have to ask here, very specifically: who gave them that authority to use polite force? there is no—one in private security — under any act, regulation, or law, in kenya — who has been given permission to use polite force. jane claims that her team only uses such methods on criminals, and never harass people. throughout our time together, her looming court case seemed to hang over her. but there's one place that jane can go where she doesn't feel hunted.
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her home village in kirinyaga county. this is her sanctuary. she is welcomed like a queen. chanting and singing. people here love jane so much. so i'm from the same sort of culture and tribe as jane, the kikuyu community, and that is the kind of reception you get on your wedding day. despite all the celebrations, i sensed jane's emotions were on edge. the court case and the threats against her children were taking their toll. as the crowds left, i found her alone in the church. i needed to confront her about the allegations against her, and this was my last chance. in the media... yes. ..they say, you know, certain things about you. they say, you know,
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family in 2020. but a few days after we finished filming, criminal charges against her were finally dropped. she's already pursuing dozens of new cases. the jury is still out on kenya's private investigations. reform and regulation is needed to keep the secretive powerful industry in check. but for now, at least, jane mugo is free to fight another day.
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hello there. it has been called the beast from the east two and during sunday strengthening easterly wind will bring in colder air and we will have snow falling widely. the focus of the snow has been in scotland and it is still snowing here now but the emphasis changes towards the south—east of england where we are closer to storm darcy, bringing thicker cloud and added moisture, which is bumping into that really cold air that we can trace all the way back to the baltic sea and towards the arctic. we will find snow falling by the morning in the south—east and east anglia. it might be slippery elsewhere, further north there will be snow showers coming in off the north sea. let's focus on the heaviest snow, where we have the amber snow warning from the met office, it covers parts of suffolk, essex and kent. widely five to ten centimetres, more perhaps in some places and there will be blizzards and drifting as well with the winds continuing to strengthen. notjust knowing here, it will be snowing widely across the south—east
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of england and east anglia. further north, snow showers coming in off the north sea across scotland, northern england, northern wales, one or two for northern ireland, drier towards the south—west and parts of the midlands as well. the winds will be strong, perhaps gale force around the north sea coasts and it will make it feel cold. temperatures will be lower than saturday, so maybe two or three degrees at best. add on the strength of the wind and it will feel much colder, typically minus four or even minus five degrees. that run of cold easterly winds continue for the start of next week. the cold air coming over the slightly warmer north sea generates the cloud which generates the showers, which will be snow. those will stream their way in across england, heading towards wales, lots of snow showers coming into scotland as well. drier for northern ireland. we shouldn't see the heavy falls of snow perhaps in the south—east of england
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but it will be very cold here. temperatures below freezing all day with that covering of snow and of course, because we have the strong winds, it will feel much colder in the wind as well. we are likely to find more snow showers, for eastern parts of the uk during tuesday. and by the middle part of the week, it may be a bit drier, not as windy but it is still going to be cold. including mobile spying.
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