this is bbc news. the headlines... the chancellorjeremy hunt has set out his plan to boost economic growth, prioritising reducing inflation and stabilising the economy. mr hunt also committed to the planned hs2 rail link reaching central london despite reports to the contrary due to rising costs. i don't see any conceivable circumstance in which that would not end up at euston, and indeed i prioritised hs2 in the autumn statement. nottingham university hospitals nhs trust is fined £800,000 after admitting failures in the care of a mother and her baby, who died 23 minutes after being born. a british teenager has been sentenced to 11—and—a—half years in prison for producing far—right

extremist videos that influenced two mass killings in the united states. daniel harris was convicted of encouraging terrorism. us presidentjoe biden urges protesters in tennessee to remain peaceful after five former memphis police officers are charged with the murder of a black man, tyre nichols. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the chancellor, jeremy hunt, has been defending the government's record on economic growth. in a speech, he said there's too much gloom about the economy, and that the uk can be the next silicon valley with a network of investment zones, and brexit a catalyst for growth. but his speech follows recent warnings that thousands of british businesses face bankruptcy

and a slump in the uk car manufacturing industry. this report from our economics correspondent, andy verity. uncertainty has made it really difficult to attract investment into the uk, and this is what we need to address. what we need is a plan. a growing chorus of business leaders has been demanding a long—term plan from the government to grow the economy. the manufacturer of cars has seen its lowest growth in a long time. just this month, columnists from both left and right have talked about an existential crisis, britain teetering on the edge and that all we can hope for is that things don't get worse. i welcome the debate, but chancellors are also allowed their say.

and i say simply this, declinism about britain it is just wrong. the key to the plan, half inflation, assure tax investment zones. tax breaks to attract investment. the verdict of overseas companies and executives is that britain is an extremely exciting country to invest and grow, and i think we should remember that and not get too sucked up in the latest economic statistics, because this is a difficult patch but we can get through it and there are tremendous opportunities on the other side. but inflation is forecast to half in the next year anyway, not because of anything the government is doing, but because global prices from oil and gas to shipping costs have been plummeting from last year's peaks, and jeremy hunt reversed his predecessor's decision to cut business and personal taxes. the only thing that will improve our growth prospects now is to get rid

of the conservatives out of government because they have shown that they are not fit to govern, they crashed the economy, they are full of sleaze and scandal, and they are the ones that are doing the uk down at the moment. what we need is an optimistic government that has a plan to take us into growth, into the future. businesses like this robotics plant in blyth, northumberland, welcomed the government optimism, but to invest in the future, they need a government plan to be much more concrete and detailed. the themes that the government is talking about are correct, but there is a lack of clear, strategy, and that the policies that are going to underpin that strategy. without that clear, long—term plan, it is not... business can't get behind it, can't have the confidence. it is time to power up the future. just down the road in blyth is a business that was supposed to be at the heart of the green industrial strategy, making electric car batteries, but it collapsed last week,

and its founders say the battery manufacturing sector is doomed unless the government ramps up support. to drive growth long—term, optimism alone won't be enough. andy verity, bbc news. let's talk more about this with our economics correspondent dharshini david. what did you make of what the chancellor had to say? this what did you make of what the chancellor had to say? this was a hu . e chancellor had to say? this was a huge thing _ chancellor had to say? this was a huge thing for — chancellor had to say? this was a huge thing for the _ chancellor had to say? this was a huge thing for the chancellor, - chancellor had to say? this was a huge thing for the chancellor, it | huge thing for the chancellor, it might not sound like much, the growth plan, but when you look at what he is trying to say, apparently we have brilliant minds in the uk which is absolutely true but how do you translate into us all being better off and that is a really key question at the moment, incomes are falling, the economy is still smaller than it was prior to the pandemic, it is not enough to say leicester just pandemic, it is not enough to say leicesterjust be optimistic and have a bit more confidence, employment, enterprise, education, also everywhere, so it sounds great, but how do you make sure they are

more than just buzzwords? this is where we run into a few issues because one business group has turned this is perhaps needing to have a bit e, empty, because there wasn't much in terms of the detail, when you talk about people getting back to work we know some people retired early and some people find childcare too expensive, how do you solve those issues, we don't quite know. taxes is another thing that chancellor was asked about and it seems to be the case, he is saying we know some people want to see lower taxes and it might give people more money to do more things with but that is not on the cards just yet because the public services are under such pressure. also he talked about brexit freedom, what does that mean in practice? what are you suggesting there is we have red tape left over from our membership of the eu that could go when in actual fact if you talk to business about what they say is we have red tape associated with brexit trading routes. we need to find a way of bringing that down. also a lot in that? frankly there is going to get

business saying we're going invest in skills and training and technology? all those things that make us better up? at the moment probably not. fine make us better up? at the moment probably not-— probably not. one of the big things he was talking _ probably not. one of the big things he was talking about _ probably not. one of the big things he was talking about and _ probably not. one of the big things he was talking about and affects i he was talking about and affects everyone watching is inflation. he is everyone watching is inflation. he: is dead right, when we talk about what is holding us back, the huge surge in the cost of living over the past year, it has been a huge detriment to our fortunes and that means our money doesn't go as far, we can't expand, we are not feeling as well but ultimately what is, about this? on the chart promises has, having inflation is up there but the government told us all these months that inflation has been a global issue, caused by global factors, higher energy prices, higherfood costs in the global stage. those of the kind of thing is that government couldn't do that much about on the way up, they can't do that much about on the way down, there are a few things that the bank of england can do with interest rates, there are various levers the

government can pull but most of those have to do with things like public pay which they don't like talking about. but that is a thorny issue and the chancellor knows until he can get to grips with that and stop that being front and centre of mines it is very difficult to talk about the rest of this. the budget is coming up, not far, six weeks, we'll probably find out more then. thank you. meanwhile, the chancellor has inisited the hs2 high speed rail line will go ahead, despite newspaper reports this morning it may be scaled back, and no longer stretch as far as euston station in central london because of rapidly rising costs. 0ur political correspondent damian grammaticas is in westminster. took us through what the reports were this morning and what has been said about them. what were this morning and what has been said about them.— said about them. what has been said is jeremy hunt _ said about them. what has been said is jeremy hunt the _ said about them. what has been said is jeremy hunt the chancellor - said about them. what has been said is jeremy hunt the chancellor saying | is jeremy hunt the chancellor saying very clearly that this hs2 line will be built all the way into euston

station. the reason this has come up is this morning there was a newspaper report in the sun suggesting that the government was looking at not building the line all the way in to finish at euston station but stopping short of that, west london, 0ld 0ak common, north—west london and about five or six miles out. that caused a big star, the issue there is that the rising cost of this project, it is a massive thing, 20 year project, costs have already gone from £55 billion initially pencilled in to perhaps around £100 billion is the thinking now, and the plans already have been scaled back with the idea of a line going to leeds, that would not happen but what we are meant to be getting is london to birmingham to manchester. the report is saying that perhaps that last little connection in london to euston might

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infrastructure, this whole question about hs2 and this massive spending on it raises lots of difficult arguments and passions on all sides and one of those issues is the question that some have been saying again today, would this money or not be better spent on improving local services, local trains, be better spent on improving local services, localtrains, connections between cities in different parts of the country in the north? the supporters of the hs2 project site if you try to scale back a bit and cut out connection to london it undermines the whole point of it because the point is to get people quickly into london on a new line, break up the other old lines that exist exactly for those local services. so those arguments keep going. the costs and the difficulty for the government, the pressure is the costs are rising, inflation pushes anything up to delivering all this to budget and to time is a very tough ask. this to budget and to time is a very tou~h ask. . ~ i. an nhs hospital trust has been fined a record £800,000 after admitting mistakes in the way it cared

for a baby who died 23 minutes after being born. nottingham university hospitals pleaded guilty in the case of wynter andrews, who died from a loss of oxygen flow to the brain, after being delivered by caesarian section in 2019 at the queen's medical centre. navtej johal has been following the case. the proceedings here at nottingham magistrates�* court lasted less than an hour but they will have significant consequences. this was only the second prosecution brought by the regulator, the care quality commission, against an nhs maternity service and the fine handed out today of £800,000 is the largest ever issued in the circumstances. now, it's a result of what happened three and a half years ago. sarah andrews gave birth to her daughter wynter, her first child, by caesarean section at the queen's medical centre in nottingham. butjust 23 minutes after she was born, she died in her mother's arms.

an inquest a year later into wynter�*s death found that she died due to a loss of oxygen flow to the brain, which could have been prevented had staff delivered her earlier. now, the trust admitted that its maternity services had not provided safe care and treatment to sarah and wynter andrews. it's also apologised to wynter�*s parents for the pain and grief that it's caused them. earlier, sarah andrews delivered a statement here in response to today's fine. today's sentencing hearing has demonstrated the seriousness of the trust's failings towards wynter and i. these criminal proceedings are designed to act as a punishment and a deterrent. no financial penalty will ever bring wynter back. we thank the judge and recognise the delicate balance she has made to impose this significant fine, which we hope sends a clear message to trusts�* managers that they must hold patient safety in the highest regard.

sadly, we are not the only family harmed by the trust's failings. we feel that this sentence isn't just for wynter, but it's for all the other babies that have gone before and after her. now, in explaining her sentencing, the districtjudge said the trust's failures were more than sufficient to cause harm to wynter and her mother, sarah. but she said she was also acutely aware the fine would be paid for by funding that would usually be used for patient care. describing this as a delicate balance to strike. she also mentioned that the trust is operating with a continuing deficit. now, the wider picture here is that the trust's maternity services have been rated as inadequate by the cqc since 2020. and this all comes against a backdrop of a wide ranging review into those maternity services by the independent midwife donna 0ckendon. now, that started in september

and is due to conclude next year. the headlines on bbc news. the chancellorjeremy hunt has set out his plan to boost economic growth — prioritising reducing inflation and stabilising the economy. mr hunt also committed to the planned hs2 rail link reaching central london despite reports to the contrary due to rising costs. nottingham university hospitals nhs trust is fined 800 thousand pounds after admitting failures in the care of a mother and her baby, who died 23 minutes after being born. president biden has appealed for calm as officials in the us state of tennessee prepare to publish police bodycam video, of officers allegedly beating a black man they had stopped in his car.

lawyers for the family of tyre nichols, who was 29 and from memphis, say he was kicked, punched, and tasered. he died three days later. five officers have been charged with second degree murder, as peter bowers reports. another case of alleged police brutality in america, this time in memphis, where 29—year—old tyre nichols died three days after he was stopped for alleged reckless driving. his family say he was severely beaten. the five officers were sacked last week after an investigation found them to be directly responsible for the physical abuse of mr nichols. now they've been charged with second—degree murder. this is a failing of basic humanity towards another individual. this incident was heinous, reckless, and inhumane. video footage of the arrest will be made public in the coming hours. tyre nichols�* grieving family had an opportunity to review it earlier this week. i don�*t know anything right now. all i know is my son tyre is not here with me any more.

in a word, it's absolutely appalling. let me be clear — what happened here does not at all reflect proper policing. this was wrong, this was criminal. this is a case involving a young black man and police officers who were also black. it is, according to the civil rights leader, the reverend al sharpton, particularly painful because of the race of the officers. it is more injurous to me and others that these are five black cops. we fought to put blacks on the police force, and for them to act in such a brutal way is more egregious than i can tell you. in a statement, president biden said tyre�*s family deserved a swift, full and transparent investigation into his death. he went on.

with the imminent release of the video footage, officials in memphis have called for calm, but they are not discouraging people from taking to the streets. peter bowes, bbc news. it�*s international holocaust memorial day, which is observed on the anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz—birkenau nazi death camp. commemorations have been taking place there this morning with holocaust survivors and their families among those present. the day honours the millions ofjews and other minorities murdered by the nazis during the second world war. lily aybert was sent to auschwitz when she was just 20 years old. she survived and will soon be turning 100. now, with the help of her great—grandson, lily�*s started

to share some of her experiences on tiktok, to teach a younger generation about the horrors of the camps. graham satchell has been to meet her. that was my number given in auschwitz. 10,572. they were born jewish. they are not human beings. we don�*t need them. what can we do with them? that is simple, we can kill them. lily ebert was born into what she describes as a respectable middle classjewish family in hungary in 1923. when the germans invaded hungary, then our life changed from one second to the other. lily was put on a train to the nazi death camp, auschwitz—birkenau. it was 1944.

lily was just 20. when we arrived, the families were divided, and that was terrible. i was taken there with my two younger sisters. the last time when i saw my mother, my younger brother and sister. more than 6 million people were killed in the holocaust. the vast majority were jews. lilly made a promise that she would tell her story as a warning to the world. with the help of her great grandson, dov, she�*s become a tiktok sensation. some of the videos are pure joy. but in most she answers questions about the holocaust sent in from all over the world, from her 2 million followers. at auschwitz, in the morning they gave us black water to drink,

and that is what they called breakfast. i never think that tiktok that i am a star, but i take it. i am very happy that i can be a part of it. i can tell the world, when we are not careful, we will... what can happen, and what happened in our generation. i hope for the sake of humanity, that humanity can survive, where nothing like that can happen again to anybody. holocaust survivor lily aybert ending that report from graham satchell. vera schaufeld is another holocaust

survivor and has been talking to us about her story and why it matters to keep marking holocaust memorial day. i was born in the czech republic. my father was a lawyer. my mother was a doctor. which is quite a long time ago. and i was born in prague. but we lived in a town just south of the czech republic now. and i had a normal happy childhood. and i really didn�*t know why my grandmother left germany not knowing any czech and came to live with us. i think that, as long as holocaust memorial day has the opportunity, i think they will help people to remember, and have a wider understanding of what happened in the past, what is still happening in the present. israel says it�*s carried out air strikes against palestinian militant targets in gaza after several rockets were fired into israel.

tensions have escalated in the region following the israeli military raid in the occupied west bank on thursday in which nine palestinians were killed. israeli security forces say they entered a refugee camp injenin to arrest members of the armed group, islamichhad, who they accuse of planning a major attack. 0ur correspondent yolande knell has more from jerusalem. reports say a total of six rockets were fired from the gaza strip overnight, most of them intercepted by israel�*s iron dome missile defense system. israel�*s military says it responded by bombing a site in gaza used by militants to manufacture rockets. we�*re not hearing reports that anyone was hurt, but we know that egypt and other mediators going behind the scenes from early on trying to stop the violence which have begun in the west bank from spreading into gaza. this really followed the morning raid by israeli forces inside thejenin urban refugee camp.

nine palestinians were killed there, both civilians and militants. israel�*s military said it was acting on accurate intelligence that an islamichhad cell was planning major attacks against israeli civilians and militants. now, i was in the refugee camp not long after three hours of fierce battles had ended, gun battles between armed fighters in the camp and the israeli forces who had entered in dozens of military vehicles. there were then these mass funerals that took place. tensions rising very high. and what we saw then actually in other parts of the west bank driving through, at other regular flash points is that there were clashes between palestinian protesters and israeli forces. just outside ofjerusalem one palestinian man was killed. that brought the number of palestinians killed through the day up to ten, the number killed already this year,

up to at least 30 people. we have had from the united nations, from the us secretary of state, messages coming out that they�*re very concerned about this "cycle of violence", as it�*s being called. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, is actually due to arrive here in a few days�* time and he was already going to have a challenge trying to talk to israeli leaders and palestinian leaders. certainly any notion of the peace process going anywhere any time soon is really not something that people are talking about here. but now tensions look that much higher. we�*ve had the palestinian authority in ramallah saying that they�*re actually cutting off their cooperation with israel on security matters in reaction to what happened injenin. a british teenager whose far—right extremist videos influenced the gunman in an american mass shooting has been sentenced to 11

and a half years�* detention. 19—year—old daniel harris from derbyshire, posted videos which were shared by payton gendron, who has admitted a supermarket shooting in buffalo, new york. sentencing harris, thejudge said harris was " a propagandist for an extremist right—wing ideology" by publishing his material online. let�*s talk to our reporter phil mccann. it was from this market town nestled in the hills of the peak district here in derbyshire, glossop, where mr harris posted his videos which went on to inspire some mass killings, specifically those killings, specifically those killings in buffalo, of 10 people in black neighbourhoods. but in a sentencing hearing that took place yesterday the judge was also told that the main suspect behind her was

thought to be behind the killings of five people, and lgbt nightclub in colorado springs, that he had also accessed these videos by daniel harris. sentencing him todayjudge patrick field said that through his videos harris expressed violent anti—semitic misogynist views, leaving non—white and gay people should be subjected to violence and killed. his videos that were put online were variously praising mass murderers including people like anders breivik in norway and the perpetrator of the shootings, the killings at a mosque in christchurch in new zealand, harris also had a 3d printer that police found in his home here in glossop which had been used to make some parts for an automatic weapon. thejudge used to make some parts for an automatic weapon. the judge said in sentencing today that that weapon would have been highly dangerous and would have been highly dangerous and would have been intended for use in

a terror outrage. because of harris�*s age, 17 and 18 when he was posting these videos, the initial approach to him was to use a de—radicalisation programme but he manipulated the people from that programme and lied to them while he was saying that he was being successfully de—radicalised, but he was actually producing a video which praised thomas mair, the murderer of the mpjo cox in 2016. today at manchester crown court harris was sentenced to 11 and a half years in a young offenders institution. the judge said that he poses a significant future at risk and that he hadn�*t shown a scintilla of remorse. he hadn't shown a scintilla of remorse-— now it�*s time for a look at the weather with nick miller. hello. a lot of dry weather continuing for the rest of the day. we have a weather front just edging the rest of the day. we have a weather frontjust edging into far north—west of scotland which moves in, we will see smoke bricks of rain

developing from that. ahead of that in scotland and northern ireland a lot of cloud, a few stones of brighter skies into the monitoring of those well. a lot of clubs are averse to bring about wales, thinning and breaking a little bit in places but where it remains quite thick you could see some further patchy drizzle out of that. 0utbreaks patchy drizzle out of that. outbreaks of rain running further south across scotland into northern ireland this evening and through the night reaching the far north of england later in the night. behind that touch of frost as skies clear in scotland, ahead had a bitter cold and out across much of england in particular, parts of southern england will be surprised to see some —5 temperatures on saturday morning in the countryside with a few fog patches so to clear. still a weather front and may be a few spots of light rain affecting parts of poisoning and, moving on towards wales in the midlands. north of all that bright skies and sunny spells and a few showers in northern scotland. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines. the chancellorjeremy hunt has set out his plan to boost economic growth,

prioritising reducing inflation and stabilising the economy. mr hunt also committed to the planned hs2 rail link reaching central london despite reports to the contrary due to rising costs. an nhs trust is fined £800,000 after admitting failures in the care of a mother and her baby, who died 23 minutes after being born. a british teenager has been sentenced to 11—and—a—half years in prison for producing far—right extremist videos that influenced two mass killings in the united states. president biden urges protesters in tennessee to remain peaceful after five former memphis police officers are charged with the murder of a black man, tyre nichols. sport now from the bbc sport centre. novak djokovic has been defending his father. he says he did not

intend to pose for pictures with vladimir putin. he is never lost a semifinal at the australian open. but in novak djokovic�*s way, the surprising american unseeded but with a large following. support for the defending champion was down by one. his father staying away after criticism of posing with fans of vladimir putin. perhaps why novak djokovic started slowly. watching on, bill gates, who should have suggested a reboot. novak djokovic then seemed rattled, needlessly arguing that the umpire. tell me how it works. he then lost

nine points in a row. and suddenly he had levelled at 5—5. would you believe it? but the champions reserves are deep. he fought back. who is chairing now?— who is chairing now? moments of brilliance in _ who is chairing now? moments of brilliance in the _ who is chairing now? moments of brilliance in the second _ who is chairing now? moments of brilliance in the second but i brilliance in the second but experience shone through. it didn�*t take him long to get to match point. and novak djokovic was due to his 33rd grand slam final. there was a british fridge overnight with a trophy to boot. alfie hewitt and gordon reid winning theirfourth australian open wheelchair doubles title. but on sunday, in a tournament he says he loves, novak djokovic will have a chance to become world number one again. it looks like everton may have found their man after sacking frank lampard this week. and it is a familiarface to the

lampard this week. and it is a familiar face to the premier league. sean dyche was sacked by burnley last april but now he looks certain to be given the task of rescuing everton is troubled season. they are 19th in the table after picking up just 15 points from 20 games. in a decade at burnley, he guided them to two promotions from the championship and two top class premiership finishes. 0rganisers of this is women�*s world cup say demand for tickets has been so great they want fifa to allow them to move the australian team is first game too much bigger stadiums. football australia�*s ceo says they are following the lead of england�*s victorious lionesses who sold out 0ld victorious lionesses who sold out old trafford with their first us match against austria. the world cup takes place in australia and new zealand. it was extremely inspiring and we were watching that tournament very, very closely. and we took a lot of learning from that tournament and i think what we saw is if your first

game gets off to a strong start, it sets the tone for the tournament and that�*s something we would love to replicate here down under. that's something we would love to replicate here down under. england's cricketers afford _ replicate here down under. england's cricketers afford back _ replicate here down under. england's cricketers afford back in _ replicate here down under. england's cricketers afford back in the - replicate here down under. england's cricketers afford back in the first i cricketers afford back in the first of their 3—1 day internationals against south africa in bloemfontein. they got off to a rapid start after winning the task and batting. ali got the breakthrough in england took three more wickets. nojoy breakthrough in england took three more wickets. no joy so far for archer who is playing for england for the first time in almost two years. the score is 283—5 with just a couple of overs left. the dubai desert classic golf tournament will go into a fifth day to ensure that $9 million event is played over 72 holes. it�*s the first time in its 3a year history this has happened. rory has been playing well competing a six round six under 66 with two birdies in the stunning eagle on the eighth. and for a time he shared the

lead with the usa patrick reed. because of the rain, his second round will get under way in the early hours of saturday morning. a short time ago richard bland and ian poulter shared the lead on eight under. that is all your support for now. more in the next hour. thank you, holly. this week has seen a significant increase in western military support to ukraine with the approval of the supply of more battle tanks. but ukrainians have also been digesting new allegations of corruption levelled against some government ministers. it�*s led to president zelensky removing a group of ministers and officials in the biggest reshuffle since the conflict started. 0ur ukraine correspondent james waterhouse reports on what�*s been described as "kyiv�*s other enemy" — corruption. the fresh beginnings of 2019 and a promise by ukraine�*s new president to finally deal with corruption. translation: my election has proved that citizens are tired _ of experienced politicians who over

the past 28 years created a country of opportunities — opportunities to steal, bribe and loot. yet in 2023, ukrainian politics is once again riddled with those exact allegations. ukraine�*s leader has overseen around a dozen resignations or sackings this week. 0leksiy symonenko quit after taking a holiday in spain at a time when most men can�*t leave the country. vasyl lozinskyi was fired after being arrested for allegedly taking a bribe worth more than £300,000. he has denied it. and kyrylo tymoshenko, president zelensky�*s own deputy head of office, stood down after reports that he�*d been living a lavish lifestyle. those came from this man, mykhailo tkach, an investigative journalist for the news website ukrainska pravda. translation: if the source of the money is unclear, i they register things,

such as cars or mansions, to their close people or relatives, people that do not have an obligation to declare their property. i think every step an official makes should be clear to society. mr tymoshenko has also denied doing anything wrong, but mykhailo�*s scoops have led to a shake—up across government. translation: the president's latest decision also shows that such - responsibility is recognised at the highest level, that you can�*t play around with this. we are talking about our country�*s existence. it is very important. this has already been a war that has taken so much from so many. and while there is fighting in some parts of the country, in others, people are trying to recover. so when there are claims of corruption once again at the heart of ukrainian politics, the political damage is that much deeper. outside of kyiv, the power has just come back, allowing ivana�*s bakery

to do business once again. translation: i don't like it. it would be better if this money went for something good for ukraine rather than to someone�*s pocket. probably we need to replace all those who are there for many years. they got used to that, it�*s what feeds them. corruption has plagued politics in ukraine since it declared independence 31 years ago. now, with the world�*s eyes on it along with the scrutiny that comes with receiving billions of pounds worth of foreign aid, kyiv seems keen to act, or to be seen to. russia is telling to an organisation called the waggoner group. they�*re active in several countries and they�*ve recently been sanctioned by the us for criminal activity, which they deny. in the uk they�*ve been discussed in parliament, and the government

is considering changing the process that allowed the organisation�*s head to get around sanctions and sue a britishjournalist. but who exactly are they and what�*s behind wagner�*s war in ukraine? 0ur security correspondent frank gardner reports. wagner troops in action in eastern ukraine, purging this town, they say, of nazis. these private military contractors, or mercenaries, have been in some of the fiercest battles in the donbas, fighting tooth and nail for towns like barmouth and soledar. their headquarters is in st petersburg, the same city where president putin worked for the kgb, but theirforward operating base is down in southern russia, reportedly at molkino, close to a russian military intelligence base. when the wagner group invaded crimea in 2014 they wore no insignia. people referred to them as the "little green men". they were established in 2014, seemingly on putin�*s direct orders, as a way to send russian fighters to east ukraine while still

maintaining an important element of deniability and in that, i would say that wagner group is, in many ways, a quintessentially putinist organization. well, since then their activities have gone global. in 2015, they deployed to syria, propping up the regime of president bashar al—assad. there they successfully drove isis out of the ancient town of palmyra. in libya, they are allied to general haftar in the east, who set up a rival administration to the one in tripoli. in mali, they have effectively supplanted french troops, partly thanks to a slick pr campaign, like this poster praising mali�*s military ruler, colonel assimi, and president putin. some propaganda goes even further, like this anti—french video portraying wagner as the partner that african countries can rely on. in the central african republic they have been providing security for the president, and they are in burkina faso and sudan.

but in mozambique, they got ambushed by isis and took heavy casualties. they were pushed out quite quickly. it was a month—long deployment, a very short while. islamic state was able to take on vast swaths of territory, to a point where they were able to seize palma, which is a rich oil—producing area, one of the big gas towns. but it�*s really in ukraine�*s donbas region where wagner group has absolutely hit the headlines. they�*re often more effective than regular russian forces. their ranks swollen by 40,000 convicts, recruited from russia�*s penal colonies and often used as cannon fodder. so what does a typical wagner contract mercenary look like? they�*re often former members of russian special forces, the spetsnaz. they tend to hide their identities behind balaclavas or facemasks. they�*re armed with some of the latest russian weapons and equipment and they�*re far better paid than ordinary russian conscripts. this is the man who runs them, yevgeny prigozhin, wanted

by the fbi, a former convict and a close ally of vladimir putin. he grew rich through his catering contracts and is often referred to as �*putin�*s chef�*. here�*s prigozhin with his troops down in the tunnels beneath soledar, which they recently captured. and here he is, recruiting convicts to serve on the front line, offering them a six—month contract in exchange for their freedom. but no one surrenders, he tells them, and deserters will be shot on sight. at the beginning, the wagner group was much more professional than russian army. they used to recruit special forces. now their main personnel are prisoners. but this man did desert. andre medvedev is a former wagner commander in ukraine. he claims to have witnessed war crimes there, including those who refuse to fight being shot as an example to others. incredibly, he managed to escape russia across this arctic border

into norway in mid—january, being pursued by dogs and armed guards shooting at him. soon after that, the white house announced it was sanctioning the wagner group as a transnational criminal enterprise, a charge it denies. the fighting in ukraine shows no sign of letting up, and wagner are an integral part of it. but casualties are so high on both sides that even their boss describes it as a "meat grinder". around the world, wagner has become a useful arm�*s length tool for the kremlin and possibly a sign of how some wars will be fought in the future. thank you to thank for that. you�*re watching bbc news. the headlines on bbc news. the chancellorjeremy hunt has set out his plan to boost economic growth — prioritising reducing inflation and stabilising the economy. mr hunt also committed to the planned hs2 rail link reaching central london despite reports to the contrary due to rising costs. nottingham university hospitals nhs

trust is fined 800 thousand pounds after admitting failures in the care of a mother and her baby, who died 23 minutes after being born. the world�*s largest bird survery starts today, as the royal society for the protection of birds asks members of the public to note down which species of birds they observe from their windows and in their gardens. it�*s the uk�*s largest citizen science project. joining me now is emma marsh, rspb�*s executive director, to tell us more about the survey. thank you for coming on the programme. first things first, can you just remind us what the surveyors?— you just remind us what the surveyors? so, it's over this weekend. — surveyors? so, it's over this weekend, today, _ surveyors? so, it's over this weekend, today, tomorrowl surveyors? so, it's over this i weekend, today, tomorrow and surveyors? so, it's over this _ weekend, today, tomorrow and sunday, and we are asking people to spend just one hour counting the birds that land in their garden or their local green space and it means you can be part of the largest garden

wildlife survey in the world and the largest citizen science project in the uk. nearly 700,000 people took part last year and so it�*s an amazing opportunity tojoin part last year and so it�*s an amazing opportunity to join with people to really let us know what�*s going on with our garden wildlife at the moment. fiend going on with our garden wildlife at the moment-— the moment. and what if you don't know anything _ the moment. and what if you don't know anything about _ the moment. and what if you don't know anything about birds - the moment. and what if you don't know anything about birds and i the moment. and what if you don't know anything about birds and you| know anything about birds and you can�*t spot these different species, can�*t spot these different species, can you still do it? can't spot these different species, can you still do it?— can you still do it? completely. there is a _ can you still do it? completely. there is a bird _ can you still do it? completely. there is a bird find _ can you still do it? completely. there is a bird find online, i can you still do it? completely. l there is a bird find online, rspb, really simple, which will tell you exactly what the birdies. simple birds from a blackbird, a sparrow, and even if you don�*t see any birds at all, we still really want to know, submitting your result is so important because that tells us that there are some significant issues going on. let�*s explore that further. 0ver going on. let�*s explore that further. over the years and years it�*s been going, what kinds of things have you been able to learn from it? from the citizens of science we do with this, 44 years,

we can analyse which species are doing well such as great tips, which have seen a 54% increase since 1979, and then which species are really struggling so starlings for example, they are the third most spotted bird in 2022, so last year, so we might think they are thriving but actually their numbers are down 81% since 1979. other losers, the song thrush, and again, last seen in gardens, it�*s the and again, last seen in gardens, it's the 81%. and again, last seen in gardens, it�*s the 81%. house sparrows, the goldfinch have done really well. we know that some do really well, some not doing quite so well that overall, it�*s not looking great. we have lost over 38 million birds from our skies since 1979. it�*s only going down at the moment so the more we can find out about them the better. 38 we can find out about them the better. ;:j~ .. we can find out about them the better. ;:j~ ., . , . ,, , better. 38 million, a stark number, isn't it? any _ better. 38 million, a stark number, isn't it? any ideas _ better. 38 million, a stark number, isn't it? any ideas about _ better. 38 million, a stark number, isn't it? any ideas about why i better. 38 million, a stark number, isn't it? any ideas about why those | isn�*t it? any ideas about why those numbers overall are falling like

that? ~ ~ ., �*, numbers overall are falling like that? ~ ., �*, ' numbers overall are falling like that? ~ ~ ., �*, ' ., that? we know it's different for each species- — that? we know it's different for each species. climate - that? we know it's different for each species. climate change i that? we know it's different forj each species. climate change is having a real impact. changing places overwinter, breeding possibilities, we know birds aren�*t having enough food so there are less places for them to forage. they desperately need insects to eat, but actually we are making our gardens really tidy so insects haven�*t got anywhere to hide, so if we could just let the bushes grow bigger, not trim hedges too much, let the grass grow longer, it gives it so much more food for birds to eat and therefore they can have more babies and we can see them thrive once again. and we can see them thrive once aeain. ., ,. ., and we can see them thrive once aain. ., , ' and we can see them thrive once auain. ., , ' and we can see them thrive once aaain. . , , again. fascinating stuff. good luck with this years _ again. fascinating stuff. good luck with this years survey. _ again. fascinating stuff. good luck with this years survey. thank i again. fascinating stuff. good luck with this years survey. thank you. | here in the uk, a campaign is being launched in bristol to end the practice of bidding wars in the rental market. with demand out—stripping supply, campaigners say prospective tenants are being taken advantage of and even being asked how far over the asking price they�*d be willing to pay.

lee madan reports. it�*s a question anyone renting in bristol has become used to being asked. what is the maximum monthly rent you are prepared to pay? how did you feel when you read that for the first time? that it was asking me, yeah, how much more are you willing to pay? sophie�*s one—bedroom flat in st george was advertised at £750 per month, but she felt under pressure to offer £800. that was what made me quite anxious about it all, i was really desperate to get this place. it did force me to offer more, and i got the property, but i have had to work extra jobs. and sophie is not alone. with fierce competition for every flat, house or even room that becomes available, in the last three years, the rental market in bristol has seen a spike in bidding wars. the union acorn is calling for this to stop.

everyone's so desperate to get a roof over their heads and find somewhere to rent, landlords and letting agents have unfortunately taken advantage of this and seen this as a route to maximise their profits to make even more money. the union has been visiting letting agents and asking them to commit to sticking to the advertised prices. ben giles runs an agency which has agreed to never encourage prospective tenants to pay more. he says stopping the practice altogether though is difficult. it�*s fairly common for people to approach us with an elevated offer now, so you don�*t necessarily need to have a bidding warfor it to go over asking rent, anyway. people will quite commonly come in with 25 or £50 over asking rent and people who have been looking for a long time know to do that now. with many landlords looking to put their prices up this year, due to increased costs, the situation for anyone hoping to rent remains challenging.

as part of the coronation weekend, which is now 100 days away, people are being encouraged to take part in a day of volunteering. the big help 0ut will take place on monday may 8th which has been designated as a bank holiday. charities and volunteering groups are gathering in london today at the launch event. 0ur royal correspondent sarah campbell was there speaking to bear grylls. i think volunteering really changes lives, not only the people that are being helped, but also volunteers themselves who always say it makes people happier, makes us all more connected. and i think brits are great volunteers, but we always need more. and it�*s amazing and inspiring seeing that the coronation weekend and the king wanted public service and volunteering to be so at the heart of his coronation. and i think that it�*s about creating a legacy, isn�*t it? a legacy of kindness. but there are so many... i meet volunteers all day, every day. you know, look at the scouts.

we�*ve got 140,000 volunteers every week giving up their time for young people. and many people i meet want to get involved but often don�*t know how to. and that�*s what the big help out is about. it�*s about opening the doors, big, warm invitation to say, come and get involved in your community and know how to make a difference. so today it�*s sort of charities and organisations getting together and working out how they can do it. and you want more as many volunteer organisations to get involved and get in touch as possible, is that right? yeah. i think the more volunteer organisations that sign up, the bigger, the better celebration that�*s going to be. and also it�*s notjust about volunteering on may 8th on that bank holiday, it�*s about starting then dipping your toe in trying it. and i think volunteering works by a lot of people doing a little. this legacy of volunteering that goes way beyond the times when the flags would come down

and the paper cups put away for people to get involved in their communities. and people often want to do that but aren�*t asked or don�*t know. so the big help 0ut says, here we go, come and join us, sign up, be involved. and i think as of march 20th, i think is when all of the organisations that are involved will put on a website, you know, how people can get in touch. but it�*s notjust about that, is it? i mean, literally you could go out and litter, pick or go and visit your elderly neighbour. lots of things that people do. the idea is theyjust go and do it. yeah, i think people many people are volunteers without knowing it. i think if you go and visit an elderly neighbour, you�*re part of it already. but this is about trying to bring it all together into one place. the website for it is abighelpout.org.co.uk, and bring and bring it under the umbrella of the coronation. and for me it�*s inspiring that the king wants to have that public service and volunteering. so at the heart of his reign and this is really something, this coronation that defines the nation and it�*s brilliant that volunteers at the heart of that.

do you know what you�*re going to be doing on may 8th, something you haven�*t volunteered at, tried before? well, i�*ll be involved with the scouts. you know, that�*s always where my heart lies. but everyone loves different things and you know, they�*re volunteer organisations. today we�*re meeting up with the samaritans, the royal voluntary service, who do great work in hospitals, all coming together, opening the doors, saying come and get involved. it�*sjust one thing. and stats that have been released for this year show that particularly people over the age of 65, volunteer numbers have dropped, i think, as following on from the pandemic. it�*s been quite a difficult couple of years. so are we hoping that this is going to kind of boost that again? and just once again, how do you encourage people to take this on and volunteer when maybe they haven�*t done so before? yeah, so interesting. i think you�*re right. i think a lot of people are anxious. but how do we overcome that? we get you get involved, you start small, you try, you go with a friend, you sign up baby steps. and i think it�*s like a muscle inside, isn�*t it? how do we overcome the scary things? we move forward, not backwards.

so as a volunteer, it makes us stronger, it makes us happier, makes us more connected. and the more we do that, the more confident we become, and hopefully the better our community is as well. archaeologists in egypt have uncovered several tombs that have been sealed for more than 4,000 years. buried within one of them was a gold laced mummy and numerous statues. the discovery was made just south of cairo in the legendary saqqara necropolis. tim allman reports. beneath egypt�*s�*s ancient desert sands, it feels like there�*s always another secret to be revealed. in the shadow of the stepstone pyramid of djoser, a new discovery from the age of the pharaohs. as so often in this part of the world, the past intrudes on the present. saqqara is a very important place. it reveals many important treasures and we are announcing today one of these great treasures.

these tombs were sealed up more than 2,000 years before the birth of christ. buried within them, statues, pots and stone tablets adorned with hieroglyphs — a sign ofjust how important occupants of these tombs really were. translation: this - discovery is so important. we found the tomb of a priest, the tomb of a man who was a judge and a writer. and the last tomb was for the owner of the statues we found. this discovery is so important as it connects the kings and the people living around. critics have said this is more about publicity than archaeology. either way, officials are pressing ahead. another recently discovered tomb is to be opened next week. who knows what treasure, and what secrets, that will reveal. now it�*s time for a look

at the weather with nick miller. hello. high pressure keeping us with a lot of fine weather out there today. we�*re hard pressed to find much in the way of sunshine. a lot of cloud so far today in wales. as we go deeper into the day, we are more likely to see that cloud breaking. probably the best placed to see further sunshine is in eastern and southern england. it�*s not wall to wall here either. although there is an area of high pressure leaving driver cloudy weather, the weather front is starting to work its way into the north and north—west of scotland during the day, bringing further outbreaks of rain as it edges ever closer. we may see things brightening up across parts of eastern and the far north of england. where you have thicker cloud in the midlands and the north of wales there could be further light rain or drizzle. temperatures between four and seven. 0vernight tonight we will see outbreaks of rain from that weather front moving south. it will become increasingly

light and patchy. a colder night across much of england, and rural spots in southern england. i would not be surprised to see a minus five somewhere on saturday morning. the weather front is just cloud and drizzle. a few fog patches around early on slow to clear. behind it, sunny spells. in scotland you could catch a shower in the north. temperatures between six and eight degrees for most places. we have a weather front passing close to northern scotland on sunday bringing strong winds. in the northern isles we could have costs up to 60 miles an hour. a breezier day on sunday. away from this weather front, which will bring outbreaks of rain further south for scotland and northern ireland during the day, there will be variable cloud and sunny spells. a touch milder on sunday.

largely dry on monday. another area of low pressure will bring perhaps even stronger more stormy conditions with the risk of disruptive winds for a time. it is the northern half of the uk in the week ahead that will see most of the wet weather. cold enough for snow in scotland at times. the further south you are, largely dry.

this is bbc news. the headlines... the chancellorjeremy hunt has set out his plan to boost economic growth — prioritising reducing inflation and stabilising the economy. the government has committed to the planned hs2 rail link reaching central london despite reports to the contrary due to rising gusts. president biden urges protesters in tennessee to remain peaceful after five former memphis police officers are charged with the murder of a black man, tyre nichols. an nhs trust is fined £800,000 after admitting failures in the care of a mother and her baby, who died 23 minutes after being born. a british teenager has been sentenced to 11 and a half years in prison for producing far—right extremist videos that influenced two mass killings in the united states.

good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the chancellor, jeremy hunt, has been defending the government�*s record on economic growth. in a speech, he said there�*s too much gloom about the economy, and that the uk can be the next silicon valley — with a network of investment zones, and brexit a catalyst for growth. but his speech follows recent warnings that thousands of british businesses face bankruptcy and a slump in the uk car manufacturing industry. this report from our economics correspondent, andy verity. uncertainty has made it really difficult to attract investment into the uk, and that is the number one thing we need to address.

there are absolutely decisions available to british policymakers to get britain growing and thriving post—brexit, it's time to take them. and the real answer the industry is looking for is a plan. - a growing chorus of business leaders has been demanding a long—term plan from the government to grow the economy, as key industries like cars see their weakest performance for decades. today the chancellor was keen to reassure them that the government does have a plan. just this month, columnists from both left and right have talked about an existential crisis, britain teetering on the edge and that all we can hope for is that things don�*t get worse. i welcome the debate, but chancellors are also allowed their say. and i say simply this — declinism about britain is just wrong. the key to his plan — half inflation, ensure taxes are low and create investment zones, mini canary wharfs for each growth industry — with tax breaks

to attract investment. the verdict of overseas companies and executives is that britain is an extremely exciting country to invest and grow, and i think we should remember that and not get too sucked up in the latest economic statistics, because this is a difficult patch but we can get through it and there are tremendous opportunities on the other side. but inflation is forecast to half in the next year anyway, not because of anything the government is doing, but because global prices from oil and gas to shipping costs have been plummeting from last year�*s peaks, and jeremy hunt reversed his predecessor�*s decision to cut business and personal taxes. the only thing that will improve our growth prospects now is to get rid of the conservatives out of government, because they have shown that they are not fit to govern, they crashed the economy, they are full of sleaze and scandal, and they are the ones that are doing the uk down at the moment. what we need is an optimistic government that has a plan to take us into growth, into the future. businesses like this robotics plant in blyth, northumberland,

welcomed the government�*s optimism, but to invest in the future, they need a government�*s plan to be much more concrete and detailed. the themes that the government is talking about are correct, but there is a lack of clear strategy, and then the policies that are going to underpin that strategy. without that clear, long—term plan, it is not... business can�*t get behind it, can�*t have the confidence. it is time to power up the future. just down the road in blyth is a business that was supposed to be at the heart of a green industrial strategy, making electric car batteries, but britishvolt collapsed last week, and its founders say the battery manufacturing sector is doomed unless the government ramps up support. to drive growth long—term, optimism alone won�*t be enough. andy verity, bbc news. 0ur economics correspondent dharshini david gave us her reactions. this was a huge thing

for the chancellor, it might not sound like much, the growth plan, but when you look at what he is trying to say, apparently we have brilliant minds in the uk which is absolutely true but how do you translate into us all being better off and that is a really key question at the moment, incomes are falling, the economy is still smaller than it was prior to the pandemic, it is not enough to say let�*s just be optimistic and have a bit more confidence. four es. employment, enterprise, education, also everywhere, so it sounds great, but how do you make sure they are more than just buzzwords? this is where we run into a few issues because one business group has termed this as perhaps needing to have a fifth e, empty, because there wasn�*t much in terms of the detail, when you talk about people getting back to work we know some people retired early and some people find childcare too expensive,

how do you solve those issues, we don�*t quite know. taxes is another thing the chancellor was asked about and it seems to be the case, he is saying we know some people want to see lower taxes and it might give people more money to do more things with but that is not on the cards just yet because the public services are under such pressure. also he talked about brexit freedom, what does that mean in practice? what he is suggesting there is we have red tape left over from our membership of the eu that could go when in actual fact if you talk to business, what they say is we have red tape associated with brexit trading routes. we need to find a way of bringing that down. is there a lot in that frankly there that is going to get business saying we�*re going to invest in skills and training and technology, all those things that make us better off? at the moment probably not. one of the big things he was talking about and affects everyone watching is inflation. he is dead right, when we talk about what is holding us back, the huge surge in the cost of living

over the past year, it has been a huge detriment to our fortunes and that means our money doesn�*t go as far, we can�*t expand, we are not feeling as well off but ultimately what are they doing about this? 0n the chart of promises he has, halfing inflation is up there but the government told us all these months that inflation has been a global issue, caused by global factors, higher energy prices, higher food costs in the global stage. those of the kind of things that government couldn�*t do that much about on the way up, they can�*t do that much about on the way down, there are a few things that the bank of england can do with interest rates, there are various levers the government can pull but most of those have to do with things like public pay which they don�*t like talking about. but that is a thorny issue and the chancellor knows until he can get to grips with that and stop that being front and centre of minds it is very difficult to talk about the rest of this. the budget is coming up, not far, six weeks, we�*ll

probably find out more then. let�*s speak now to helen thomas, ceo at blonde money, a financial consultancy — and former adviser to thank you for coming onto the programme. what did you make of the chancellor pulls �*s comments? it chancellor pulls 's comments? it felt there was mixed messages but thatis felt there was mixed messages but that is depending on who you think the audience for this was. 0ne that is depending on who you think the audience for this was. one of the audience for this was. one of the biggest audiences has been the financial markets because of course we all remember how badly burned everyone was by the tumultuous period last year, so credibility is the watchword here and i think jeremy hunt wants to reassure the markets that he isn�*t going to be promising all sorts of flashy giveaways. this doesn�*t make necessarily very positive political messages. necessarily very positive political messaues. ., . , ., messages. you have been involved in olitics, messages. you have been involved in politics. you — messages. you have been involved in politics. you were _ messages. you have been involved in politics, you were an _ messages. you have been involved in politics, you were an adviser- messages. you have been involved in politics, you were an adviser to i politics, you were an adviser to mps, these kind of speeches and the thought behind them and the impact they have, is it fundamentally

negligible because actually we are all just waiting negligible because actually we are alljust waiting for negligible because actually we are all just waiting for the negligible because actually we are alljust waiting for the budget where economic levers can be pulled, or does the messaging out there beforehand really make a difference? it is important to manage expectations and we can see what they are trying to do with this, we heard about the office for budget responsibility going to downgrade some of theirforecasts, responsibility going to downgrade some of their forecasts, we have seen some recent debt data that was worse than had been expected, you�*re constantly getting the message that it is not great right now. what the political message is, bear with us, it will get better, we will get there. i think the key lesson that jeremy hunt would like people to take away is inflation got equals tax cut. as you were just discussing, inflation is the big story but how much can the government really do about it? that is the message he would want you to take away i imagine. i5 is the message he would want you to take away i imagine. is a is the message he would want you to take away i imagine.— take away i imagine. is a part of the problem. — take away i imagine. is a part of the problem, the _ take away i imagine. is a part of the problem, the government i take away i imagine. is a part of. the problem, the government can't take away i imagine. is a part of- the problem, the government can't do the problem, the government can�*t do a great deal about inflation

generally, so it is cut, which is the expectation that it will be anyway, do we have a government claiming credit in six months�* time for something it didn�*t really do much towards? i5 for something it didn't really do much towards?— for something it didn't really do much towards? . . . , much towards? is interesting, it was one of rishi — much towards? is interesting, it was one of rishi sunak's _ much towards? is interesting, it was one of rishi sunak's five _ much towards? is interesting, it was one of rishi sunak's five promises i one of rishi sunak�*s five promises for the year ahead and politicians don�*t like to make a promise they cannot keep, and of course he wants to associate that with his regime. the thing with this government is, it is bear with us, we know what we are doing. there won�*t be a plethora of flashy announcements but give us a year and things will be better. the real issue with that strategy is, does the public have the patience and what is the opposition, both the real opposition and the opposition within his own party going to say to that? because if you just say bear with me, it will get better, we are doing things, you give the oxygen to the other side and you heard it there earlier on where angela rayner was pretty clear that the answer to this was to switch government completely, so it

is very strange therefore to make a speech that says bear with me because i need feels like there is nothing in this speech, but if he didn�*t make the speech, what are they doing? they have to do something and that key message is, and inflation cut is a tax cut which they hope will calm down the right wing of their own party, who are agitating for those tax cuts. the olitics of agitating for those tax cuts. the politics of economics. fascinating. thank you. meanwhile, the chancellor has inisited the hs2 high speed rail if line will go into central london as planned, despite newspaper reports this morning it may be scaled back. the sun said the may no longer stretch as far as euston station and instead go to a hub in west london because of rapidly rising costs. 0ur political correspondent damian grammaticas has been following the story. jeremy hunt the chancellor

saying very clearly that this hs2 line will be built all the way into euston station. the reason this has come up is this morning there was a newspaper report in the sun suggesting that the government was looking at not building the line all the way in to finish at euston station but stopping short of that, west london, 0ld 0ak common, north—west london and about five or six miles out. that caused a big stir, the issue there is that the rising cost of this project, it is a massive thing, 20 year project, costs have already gone from £55 billion initially pencilled in to perhaps around £100 billion is the thinking now, and the plans already have been scaled back with the idea of a line going to leeds, that would not happen but what we are meant to be getting is london to birmingham to manchester. the report is saying that

perhaps that last little connection in london to euston might not happen. the chancellor said it would and he is committed to the plans. the prime minister has also been out and about and he was asked about the issue a short time ago. this factory have a contract to build the bullet trains for hsz and yet we read this morning the project could be delayed again, is that true? the government is committed to investing in rail— across the country and previously when i was chancellor _ we announced something called the integrated rail plan, - £96 billion of investment up and down the country - to improve journey times, reliability and frequency. of services across the north, i the midlands and everywhere in between. that is really exciting. today's visit here to hitachi is a great example of- what the investment does in practice, providingjobsj and opportunity for local people across the north—east _ and that is what wel will keep delivering. you could just say no, hsz won't be delayed? the government is committed to delivering the plans it has.

announced with rail, _ but as well as the rail schemes which are important what i am also keen to do is make sure _ the government invests in local transportation, i around areas where people live, | whether that is better local roads and filling in potholes, i putting in more bus lanes, road junctions, bypasses, - all the day—to—day bits of transport infrastructure people also care about, we are getting - on and delivering those i because those big projects are important but they take time i and what i want to do is make sure we make improvements to people's. day—to—day lives in the here and now and that is why we are investing in communities up and around l the north—east, today's visit to this factory shows this i investment is creating jobs and that is what the - government agenda is. you will notice the prime minister was wriggling a bit there, not committing to things being done on time, 2033 is the first target date for completion of this birmingham route to london section, and the whole thing,

his comments there about also investing in local infrastructure, this whole question about hs2 and this massive spending on it raises lots of difficult arguments and passions on all sides and one of those issues is the question that some have been saying again today, would this money not be better spent on improving local services, local trains, connections between cities in different parts of the country in the north? the supporters of the hs2 project say if you try to scale back a bit and cut that connection to london it undermines the whole point of it because the point is to get people quickly into london on a new line, free up the other old lines that exist exactly for those local services. so those arguments keep going. the costs and the difficulty for the government, the pressure is the costs are rising, inflation pushes anything up so delivering all this to budget and to time is a very tough ask. joining me now is paul chapman,

senior fellow at the said business school at the university of oxford and vice—president of the association for project management. thanks for coming on the programme. good to be with you. if thanks for coming on the programme. good to be with you.— good to be with you. if you were a bettin: good to be with you. if you were a betting person. — good to be with you. if you were a betting person, do _ good to be with you. if you were a betting person, do you _ good to be with you. if you were a betting person, do you think i good to be with you. if you were a betting person, do you think this i betting person, do you think this extra bit of the line going all the way into euston and central london it will happen or won�*t happen? i it will happen or won't happen? i think it is a really good question. as a correspondent has been saying it is an important project which takes time and has taken a lot of money. 0ne takes time and has taken a lot of money. one of the things when we start big projects as we learn a lot as we go. i think it is not unreasonable to take stock every now and then and think, how does the detail come together, and what today events have sewn up as may be some questions. i events have sewn up as may be some ruestions. .. �* events have sewn up as may be some ruestions. ., �* . ., . .. , questions. i don't want to accuse ou of questions. i don't want to accuse you of sounding _ questions. i don't want to accuse you of sounding like _ questions. i don't want to accuse you of sounding like a _ questions. i don't want to accuse you of sounding like a politician i you of sounding like a politician and giving a politician answer but

do you think it will happen and should it happen? if do you think it will happen and should it happen?— do you think it will happen and should it happen? if you look at the reali , should it happen? if you look at the reality. old — should it happen? if you look at the reality. old 0ak _ should it happen? if you look at the reality, old oak common _ should it happen? if you look at the reality, old oak common is - should it happen? if you look at the reality, old oak common is coming| reality, 0ld 0ak common is coming togetherwell. i reality, 0ld 0ak common is coming together well. i live out to the west, in oxford and often go into london and travel through it. from there you have the amazing elizabeth line. if it is stopped there it is not on the periphery of london, it will be on a 14 step platform, major station. it wouldn�*t undermine the integrity of hs2 altogether so i think that is an option people should explore. the next five or six miles into euston will cost something in the order of £15 billion so we have the value for money question all over those. interesting. the issue of inflation and the costs all then, there are always arguments about the cost of h is too every time there is a new development and we are reporting on it, can you put them into some sort of context for us? shit it, can you put them into some sort of context for us?—

of context for us? at the risk of soundin: of context for us? at the risk of sounding boring _ of context for us? at the risk of sounding boring academic i of context for us? at the risk of sounding boring academic as i of context for us? at the risk of i sounding boring academic as well, i wrote a paper about this and publish it about a year ago when inflation was quite dull and it became the big economic story of last year. which inflation number you take and the number of years over a big project makes a massive difference step 1% additional money over the 20 years of a project like this is an simple maths over 20%. we are talking 150 billion, 20% on that is enormous. i am old enough to remember when £1 billion was a lot of money and it turns out it still is.— turns out it still is. interesting. do ou turns out it still is. interesting. do you think — turns out it still is. interesting. do you think the _ turns out it still is. interesting. do you think the questions i turns out it still is. interesting. j do you think the questions that turns out it still is. interesting. i do you think the questions that come up do you think the questions that come up also about let�*s not spend these billions, it should have a gun in this project, let�*s invest all the money instead on improving rail networks up north, is there any validity to those arguments? i think there are two _ validity to those arguments? i think there are two different _ validity to those arguments? i think there are two different pots - validity to those arguments? i think there are two different pots of i there are two different pots of money we need to keep in mind, it is not this year is spent, so what we

spend if you think about the cassels, what we spend month—to—month verses the mortgage and the investment and the great future, they are actually different pots of money. hs2 was part of a wider engender to make a better and more brilliant uk. we do need to connect the north and south much better, so if it was down to me i would continue with it but i would also do come from the north of england myself and have family there and the atrocious transport networks, particularly east west, also need addressing, hopefully we have the money and capital available to do both. you have the money and capital available to do both. ., ., ., , ., to do both. you are an expert on these huge _ to do both. you are an expert on these huge projects _ to do both. you are an expert on these huge projects that - to do both. you are an expert on these huge projects that take - to do both. you are an expert on these huge projects that take a l to do both. you are an expert on . these huge projects that take a long time. you must be a patient person. when hs2 was announced my little lad when hs2 was announced my little [ad was born, 10 years ago, i genuinely thought to myself, when he is a teen he will get me on that train and buy me a point in manchester. he is now 10 and it looks like he will be

closer to 30, so they are intergenerational. closer to 30, so they are interaenerational. �* . ., , intergenerational. brilliant answer. we must leave _ intergenerational. brilliant answer. we must leave it _ intergenerational. brilliant answer. we must leave it there, _ intergenerational. brilliant answer. we must leave it there, thank - intergenerational. brilliant answer. we must leave it there, thank you. j the headlines on bbc news... the chancellorjeremy hunt has set out his plan to boost economic growth — prioritising reducing inflation and stabilising the economy. the government has committed to the planned hs2 rail link reaching central london despite reports to the contrary due to rising costs. president biden urges protesters in tennessee to remain peaceful after five former memphis police officers are charged with the murder of a black man, tyre nichols. president biden has appealed for calm as officials in the us state of tennessee prepare to publish police bodycam video, of officers allegedly beating a black man they had stopped in his car. lawyers for the family of tyre nichols, who was 29

and from memphis, say he was kicked, punched, and tasered. he died three days later. five officers have been charged with second degree murder, as peter bowes reports. another case of alleged police brutality in america, this time in memphis, where 29—year—old tyre nichols died three days after he was stopped for alleged reckless driving. his family say he was severely beaten. the five officers were sacked last week after an investigation found them to be directly responsible for the physical abuse of mr nichols. now they've been charged with second—degree murder. this is a failing of basic humanity towards another individual. this incident was heinous, reckless, and inhumane. video footage of the arrest will be made public in the coming hours. tyre nichols�* grieving family had an opportunity to review it earlier this week. i don't know anything right now. all i know is my son tyre is not

here with me any more. in a word, it's absolutely appalling. let me be clear — what happened here does not at all reflect proper policing. this was wrong, this was criminal. this is a case involving a young black man and police officers who were also black. it is, according to the civil rights leader, the reverend al sharpton, particularly painful because of the race of the officers. it is more injurous to me and others that these are five black cops. we fought to put blacks on the police force, and for them to act in such a brutal way is more egregious than i can tell you. in a statement, president biden said tyre's family deserved a swift, full and transparent investigation into his death. he went on...

with the imminent release of the video footage, officials in memphis have called for calm, but they are not discouraging people from taking to the streets. peter bowes, bbc news. let's go live to memphis now and speak to barbara plett usher. yet another one of these cases we are reporting on and again hugely sensitive and potentially inflammatory and there is for calm and peaceful protests there. that's ri . ht. and peaceful protests there. that's right- officials _ and peaceful protests there. that's right. officials feel— and peaceful protests there. that's right. officials feel they _ and peaceful protests there. that's right. officials feel they have - and peaceful protests there. that's right. officials feel they have to . right. officials feel they have to release the footage, this comes from several body camera footage and

other cameras that capture the incident. they feel they need to release it in the interests of transparency but they have seen it and so has the family and they also feel it is quite shocking, so the family members have said for example that the officers really beat tyre, kicked him like a football, one of the lawyers have said they beat him like a human pinata. it sounds quite disturbing and the words used to describe it by some of the officials have been shocking, staggeringly brutal and so on, so you can imagine that it will be a difficult watch and the city is concerned that this will ignite anger and destructive demonstrations, and so they have delayed releasing it until they were able to conduct as much of the investigation as they could end until the indictments were brought down by the grand jury and the charges were levelled against the police officers, but they are urging protesters to respond to it in a

peaceful manner and that will happen we expect later today, and it should be about one hour of footage from different cameras. we be about one hour of footage from different cameras.— be about one hour of footage from different cameras. we all remember the black lives _ different cameras. we all remember the black lives matter _ different cameras. we all remember the black lives matter protests - different cameras. we all remember the black lives matter protests out i the black lives matter protests out on the street and the moral reckoning across huge parts of society in the us, an examination of the relationship between the police and the people who are policed. has there been any significant movement, development on that? this there been any significant movement, development on that?— development on that? this is a complicated — development on that? this is a complicated case _ development on that? this is a complicated case because - development on that? this is a complicated case because it. development on that? this is a - complicated case because it brings together two of the elements of that in a different way. when it came to the george floyd killing it was an issue of race and police brutality, because the officer who killed george floyd was white. in this case the officers are black but they are all still participating in a culture of police brutality and so that has added a layer of complication for civil rights campaigners. you heard

the quote in peter's story they're saying it was particularly egregious that the officers were black because a civil rights movement had fought to get back officers on the police forces, but having said that there police forces themselves sometimes respond in ways that are excessively brutal and after george floyd's killing the city of memphis which has a majority black police force did pass policies to reduce use of force by police, various points where the police department was supposed to implement them to reduce use of force, but in recent years there has been quite a high rise in violent crime and that has become the focus and these five officers were part of a special unit that was patrolling high crime areas, so that is an element in this as well and officials are saying probably now the focus will re—shift to police reform. i will add also in terms of theissue reform. i will add also in terms of the issue of race, civil rights

leaders have said there is still an element of race in this because they do not believe that if the person in the car had been right he would have been beaten up in the same way tyre was and the lawyer for the family said this is a welcome case of swift justice but he hoped such swift justice but he hoped such swift justice is also imparted to white police officers when they are accused of brutality.- police officers when they are accused of brutality. the head of the uk's biggest business group has said most bosses "secretly" want all of their staff to return to working in offices. tony danker, director—general of the cbi, said the "whole world of work" had "gone crazy" since the pandemic. let's talk now with peter cheese, the ceo of cipd, a professional body which sets standards for hr and people development. what do you think of this idea, our bosses up and down the uk secretly wanting everyone to come back into the office? i wanting everyone to come back into the office? ., �* , ~

the office? i wouldn't put it like that. ithink— the office? i wouldn't put it like that. | think of— the office? i wouldn't put it like that. i think of course _ the office? i wouldn't put it like that. i think of course there - the office? i wouldn't put it like that. i think of course there are j that. i think of course there are many bosses who are finding these sorts of changes challenging to deal with and they want to understand what has changed with the expectations of the workforce and how therefore things do need to be adapted, so there are core some levels of resistance but i don't believe it is the case that most bosses want everybody to be back in the office all the time. looking at it from the other perspective it is certainly not true to say that employees want that position, so it is about finding the right balance and learning from the pandemic and these times when we have had to work more from home to try i think more positive changes and working practice that can be good for everybody. d0 practice that can be good for everybody-— practice that can be good for eve bod . ., ., ., , everybody. do we have now any evidence. _ everybody. do we have now any evidence. we — everybody. do we have now any evidence, we have _ everybody. do we have now any evidence, we have been - everybody. do we have now any| evidence, we have been shifting everybody. do we have now any - evidence, we have been shifting this working practice, working from home, do we have any evidence of productivity and the changes that have been in place?— productivity and the changes that have been in place? yes, we do. this is a question — have been in place? yes, we do. this is a question everybody _ have been in place? yes, we do. this is a question everybody is _ have been in place? yes, we do. this is a question everybody is asking - is a question everybody is asking and rightly so. we need to

understand how this is impacting people's performance and productivity. the surveys we do and we do a lot on trends like this do indicate that by and large people feel they are being more productive and a lot of employers would recognise that. but it is not universal and we do need to keep measuring these things and making sure we are understanding what are those things that are driving productivity? for many they would say they are more productive because they are not always having to commute backwards and forwards every day, orsometimes commute backwards and forwards every day, or sometimes they find that space where they can work more quietly in what can often be very distracting office environments but on the other hand deep in connection with employees and teams and how we collaborate and work together, sustain corporate cultures are all really important questions we try to understand as well so productivity links of those things and we still have work to do and in all organisations to understand exactly how these things are benefiting both the employees but also of course the

outcomes and outputs which are important to business. share outcomes and outputs which are important to business.— outcomes and outputs which are important to business. are you of the opinion _ important to business. are you of the opinion that _ important to business. are you of the opinion that it _ important to business. are you of the opinion that it is _ important to business. are you of the opinion that it is firmly - the opinion that it is firmly established, this hybrid approach of sometime in the office each week and sometime in the office each week and some time at home each week? ithat some time at home each week? i that is becoming — some time at home each week? i that is becoming the _ some time at home each week? i that is becoming the case _ some time at home each week? i that is becoming the case and _ some time at home each week? i that is becoming the case and i _ some time at home each week? “that is becoming the case and i believe these are long—term shifts in the patterns of work. after all we have been talking about these things predating the pandemic, younger generations have been saying for quite some time they want more flexibility. if we are really going to make inclusion work for us, being able to support everybody into work and even going to some of the comments from the chancellor this morning about the economically inactive, ringing many of them in work will require us to be more flexible in how people work, so i think these are long—term shifts and long—term trends stop we need to understand some of the underlying dynamics and many business bosses do need to understand the data and help understand how they promote these

things but i believe we have to do these things because the expectations of the workforce have changed and we know how critical it is now to be able to attract and retain all the skills we need and make sure we are building an inclusive working environment and these changes i think are very much part of that process. we these changes i think are very much part of that process.— part of that process. we must leave it there. thank _ part of that process. we must leave it there. thank you. _ now it's time for a look at the weather with nick miller. hello. a lot of dry weather continuing for the rest of the day. we have a weather frontjust edging into the far north—west of scotland which moves in, we will see some outbreaks of rain developing from that. ahead of that in scotland and northern ireland a lot of cloud, a few zones of brighter skies, into the far north of england as well. a lot of cloud through the rest of england and wales, thinning and breaking a little bit in places but where it remains quite thick you could see some further patchy drizzle out of that. outbreaks of rain running further south across scotland into northern ireland this evening and through the night, reaching the far north of england later in the night. behind that touch of frost as skies clear in scotland,

ahead of it a colder night across much of england in particular, parts of southern england won't be surprised to see some —5 temperatures on saturday morning in the countryside with a few fog patches slow to clear. still a weather front and maybe a few spots of light rain affecting parts of northern england, moving on towards wales and the midlands. north of all that, bright skies and sunny spells and a few showers in northern scotland. hello, this is bbc news with lewis vaughanjones. the headlines. the chancellorjeremy hunt has set out his plan to boost economic growth, prioritising reducing inflation and stabilising the economy. the government has committed to the planned hs2 rail link reaching central london despite reports to the contrary due to rising costs. president biden urges protesters in tennessee to remain peaceful

after five former memphis police officers are charged with the murder of a black man, tyre nichols. an nhs trust is fined £800,000 after admitting failures in the care of a mother and her baby, who died 23 minutes after being born. a british teenager has been sentenced to ii—and—a—half years in prison for producing far—right extremist videos that influenced two mass killings in the united states. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's holly. good afternoon. nine—time champion novak djokovic is on course for his tenth australian open title after beating american tommy paul in straight sets. djokovic had raced through the previous rounds without any major incident and, with the exception of a slight wobble in the opening set,

he regained his focus and composure, breaking twice in each of the next two sets to secure victory after two hours and 20 minutes. he'll face stefanos tsitsipas in sunday's final. djokovic�*s father was missing from the crowds after attracting headlines for posing with supporters of russian president vladimir putin. after his victory, djokovic was quick to defend him. he was passing through, made a photo, it's escalated, he was misused in this situation. by this group of people. and that's what happened, so, i can't be angry with him or upset because, you know, it was not his fault. he went out to celebrate with my fans and that's it. that's all that happened. earlier, britain's alfie hewett and gordon reid have secured their fourth successive australian open wheelchair doubles title, defeating dutch duo

maikel scheffers and ruben spaargaren. it's their 16th grand slam title together in doubles. hewett will go again in the men's singles final on saturday. it looks like everton may have found their man after sacking frank lampard this week and it's a familairface to the premier league. sean dyche was sacked by burnley last april but now looks certain to be given the task of rescuing everton's troubled season. they're 19th in the table after picking up just 15 points from 20 games. in a decade at burnley, dyche guided the clarets to two promotions from the championship and two top—half premier league finishes. scotland defenderjen beattie has announced her retirement from international football. the arsenal centre—back is retiring after a is—year international career in which she earned 143 caps, scoring 2a goals for her country since making her senior debut at 16.

she continued her career for club and country despite being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020. organisers of this summer's women's world cup say demand for tickets has been so great, they want fifa to allow them to move the australian team's first game to a much bigger stadium. football australia ceo james johnson says they're following the lead of england's victorious lionesses who sold out old trafford for their first euros match against austria. the world cup takes place in australia and new zealand. it was extremely inspiring and we were watching that tournament very, very closely. and we took a lot of learning from that tournament and i think what we saw is if your first game gets off to a strong start, it sets the tone for the tournament and that's something we would love to replicate here down under.

the rain—affected dubai desert classic golf tournament will go into a fifth day to ensure that the £7 million event is played over 72 holes. it is the first time in its 34—year history this has happened. rory mcilroy has been playing well, completing a first—round six—under 66 with two birdies and a stunning eagle on the eighth. for a time he shared the lead with the usa's patrick reed. because of the rain, his second round will get under way in the early hours of saturday morning. a short time ago, englishmen richard bland and ian poulter shared the lead on 8—under. england's cricketers have fought back with the ball in their the first of their three one day internationals against south africa in bloemfontein. the host got off to a rapid start after winning the toss and batting, but moeen ali got the breakthrough and england took three more wickets.

298-7, 298—7, so england are chasing a score of 299. a short time ago they were 39 without loss. a bit more cricket needs before i go, england have reached a sunday is women's under 19 world cup final after a thrilling 3—run win over australia. a surprise win at that for the lots of reaction to that online. that's all the sport for now. thank you, holly. a british teenager whose far—right extremist videos influenced the gunman in an american mass shooting has been sentenced to ii—and—a—half years' detention. i9—year—old daniel harris from derbyshire, posted videos which were shared by payton gendron, who has admitted a supermarket shooting in buffalo, new york. thejudge said harris was "a propagandist for an extremist right—wing ideology" by publishing his material online. our reporter phil mccann has the background to the case from daniel harris�*s home town of glossop. it was from this market town nestled in the hills

of the peak district here in derbyshire, glossop, where mr harris posted his videos which went on to inspire some mass killings, specifically those killings in buffalo, of 10 people in black neighbourhoods. but in a sentencing hearing that took place yesterday the judge was also told that the main suspect behind her was thought to be behind the killings of five people, and lgbt nightclub in colorado springs, that he had also accessed these videos by daniel harris. sentencing him today judge patrick field said that through his videos harris expressed violent anti—semitic misogynist views, believing non—white and gay people should be subjected to violence and killed. his videos that were put online were variously praising mass murderers including people

like anders breivik in norway and the perpetrator of the shootings, the killings at a mosque in christchurch in new zealand. harris also had a 3d printer that police found in his home here in glossop which had been used to make some parts for an automatic weapon. the judge said in sentencing today that that weapon would have been highly dangerous and would have been intended for use in a terror outrage. because of harris�*s age, 17 and 18 when he was posting these videos, the initial approach to him was to use a de—radicalisation programme but he manipulated the people from that programme and lied to them while he was saying that he was being successfully de—radicalised, but he was actually producing a video which praised thomas mair, the murderer of the mpjo cox in 2016. today at manchester crown court harris was sentenced to ii and a half years in a young offenders institution. the judge said that he poses

a significant future at risk and that he hadn't shown a scintilla of remorse. thanks for that. there's been a big rise in the number of people going to hospital with eating disorders, according to latest figures. nearly 30,000 people were hospitalised for conditions including anorexia and bulimia last year, around 40% more than the year before the pandemic. but amongst children the increase is more than 80%. today, the eating disorder charity seed is opening two new therapy rooms in hull named after women who died two years ago. jayne mccubbin reports. i asked the nurse on the phone, "is she still going to be there when i get back? and it went quiet for a second. and she said, "i don't think so. i want her back, you know? i want to be able to, like, talk to herand...

oh, sorry. ..cuddle her. eating disorders destroy lives, families, friends, and data shows hospital admissions have increased almost 40% since before the pandemic. for me, this was nikki at her best. nikki grahame died when she was 38. the chelsea that we remember. her cheeky little smile. chelsea blue was 17. beautiful girl. they never met, but they died within three days of each other after both had struggled to access the help they needed. it took me a longtime to walk in them doors. ijust didn't want it to be real. you had fought for help? fora longtime. my little angel, my little... one day she actually said, "carls, you know, i think i'm dying. and i said to her, "come on, niks, you can do this, like, let's just get you to the hospital. so we did this gofundme because,

honestly, it was the last resort. now their names will be used to try and save the lives of others. today, almost two years after nikki and chelsea blue died, this new eating disorder drop—in centre is being opened in hull by the charity seed. inside, therapy rooms dedicated to those two young lives. 0h! do you think she'd like it? oh, wow. 0h. have a look. god, if chelsea was here she'd just tell me to shut up and sort myself out. and the idea of the chelsea blue - therapy room and the nikki grahame therapy room was just that, to give comfort. _ they're going to be helping so many other people. - the increase is devastating and it shouldn't be happening. - an eating disorder is a mental health illness, and it's- about a pain that hasn't been expressed, and a way- of dealing and coping . with difficult situations.

for me personally, i believe - that the increase is because people aren't being helped early enough. the government told us, "these are tragic cases highlighting the importance of our work to improve services. we're investing almost £1 billion in adult mental health care and £54 million a year in children's community eating disorder services. and i wish there was more of this. yeah. this kind of service is in huge demand, and in short supply. jayne mccubbin, bbc news. joining me now is danny bowman, the chair of male voice ed — a charity which supports men with eating disorders. thank you very much for coming on the programme. my pleasure. this is obviously a very sensitive and distressing issue, so could you start by giving us an idea of the scale of the problem.— start by giving us an idea of the scale of the problem. there is a massive scale _ scale of the problem. there is a massive scale and _ scale of the problem. there is a massive scale and obviously - scale of the problem. there is a | massive scale and obviously this research really exemplifies the

scale of it. an 80% rise in children being hospitalised, and many adults obviously ending up in the situation and there just isn't the support available. you know, it is mentioned in that clip right there that people are waiting way too long. there is no clear prevention agenda are being put forward by the government. and we really need to take this seriously because, as we saw in that film there, there are too many families suffering from the loss of loved ones because of this horrific illness. if loved ones because of this horrific illness. , ., ., ., ., , loved ones because of this horrific illness. ., ., ., illness. if you are comfortable and ha - illness. if you are comfortable and happy too. — illness. if you are comfortable and happy too. would _ illness. if you are comfortable and happy too, would you _ illness. if you are comfortable and happy too, would you tell - illness. if you are comfortable and happy too, would you tell us - illness. if you are comfortable and happy too, would you tell us a - illness. if you are comfortable and happy too, would you tell us a bit | happy too, would you tell us a bit about your experience? yes. happy too, would you tell us a bit about your experience?— happy too, would you tell us a bit about your experience? yes, i had my own exoerience _ about your experience? yes, i had my own experience at _ about your experience? yes, i had my own experience at 14-15 _ about your experience? yes, i had my own experience at 14-15 years - about your experience? yes, i had my own experience at 14-15 years old, - about your experience? yes, i had my own experience at 14-15 years old, i l own experience at iii—15 years old, i got huge pressure to look a certain way. and i did excessive exercise, i purged my food, and it was devastating for me. so devastating

that i had to withdraw from my education, and luckily i got that back, but i got that back because i got good help from the nhs and, unfortunately right now, there are too many people not being able to get access to that. there's also the site know that i was a man, as well, which obviously made it increasingly more difficult.— more difficult. we will come back to that issue in — more difficult. we will come back to that issue in just _ more difficult. we will come back to that issue in just a _ more difficult. we will come back to that issue in just a second _ more difficult. we will come back to that issue in just a second because. that issue in just a second because you mention to help you got, the nhs abroad, what are the kinds of things that helped you or help others and the kind of support that you feel needs to be in place? absolutely, so i not needs to be in place? absolutely, so i got brilliant — needs to be in place? absolutely, so i got brilliant support _ needs to be in place? absolutely, so i got brilliant support from _ needs to be in place? absolutely, so i got brilliant support from the - i got brilliant support from the maudsley hospital in london, but then again i had to go from the north—east of england to london, so i had to travel over 300 miles to get that support. but really what it was is kind of going through some of the behaviours i was doing, trying to kind of work through them, why i

was doing them, some of the background to that, as well, and reallyjust background to that, as well, and really just talking through background to that, as well, and reallyjust talking through it background to that, as well, and really just talking through it with someone and being able to slowly change my diet, slowly change a lot of the things which help me get to a point of recovery, but it's never a linear line. there's ups and downs all the way through it. but i'm extremely grateful that i got the support that i need, and that's why i'm here today talking to you. find i'm here today talking to you. and we really are _ i'm here today talking to you. and we really are glad you are and we appreciate your time for coming on talking to us. just because you mention it as well, that specific issue of being a man in this situation, going through that, what kind of difference that make? yes. kind of difference that make? yes, of course. — kind of difference that make? yes, of course. i — kind of difference that make? yes, of course, i think— kind of difference that make? 1a: of course, i think traditionally anorexia, bolivia, conditions like that, have obviously been very gendered. people see them as a female issue. and i think as a man, i was a rugby playing lad female issue. and i think as a man, i was a rugby playing [ad from the north—east, and trying to come out and say i'm struggling with my

weight and worried about the way i look was really, really difficult and it felt the emasculating to talk about it. but actually, when i did talk about it, it kinda down then barriers and i really felt much better. so i would encourage any man who is experiencing these difficulties to really speak out about it because that really is the bravest thing you can do. you have soken so bravest thing you can do. you have spoken so brilliantly _ bravest thing you can do. you have spoken so brilliantly over— bravest thing you can do. you have spoken so brilliantly over the - bravest thing you can do. you have spoken so brilliantly over the last l spoken so brilliantly over the last couple of minutes and we really appreciate your time for coming on the programme. thank you.- appreciate your time for coming on the programme. thank you. thank you ve much. if you've been affected by any of the issues raised you can find organisations offering help and support on the bbc action line website. just search bbc.c0. uk/actionline. some news coming into us here in the newsroom at the bbc. the actress sylvia sims, best known for ice coal

in our six —— ice cold in alex has died at the age of 89. the actress sylvia sims has died at the age of 89. along career starring sylvia sims has died at the age of 89. a long career starring in many, many films on the best known of them, ice cold in alex, and victim, but the news reaching us here that she has died at the age of 89. those all the details we have at the moment but as and when we get any more of course we will bring to you. you are watching bbc news. the headlines on bbc news. the government has committed to the planned hs2 rail link reaching central london despite reports to the contrary due to rising costs. president biden urges protesters in tennessee to remain peaceful after five former memphis police officers are charged with the murder of a black man, tyre nichols. an nhs trust is fined 800 thousand pounds after admitting failures in the care of a mother and her baby, who died 23 minutes after being born.

russia's wagner group are gaining international prominence. they're active in several countries and they've recently been sanctioned by the us for criminal activity, which they deny. in the uk they've been discussed in parliament and the government is considering changing the process that allowed the organisation's head to get around sanctions and sue a britishjournalist. but who exactly are they and what's behind wagner's war in ukraine? our security correspondent frank gardner reports. wagner troops in action in eastern ukraine, purging this town, they say, of nazis. these private military contractors, or mercenaries, have been in some of the fiercest battles in the donbas, fighting tooth and nail for towns like barmouth and soledar. their headquarters is in st petersburg, the same city where president putin worked for the kgb, but theirforward operating base is down in southern russia, reportedly at molkino, close to a russian military

intelligence base. when the wagner group invaded crimea in 2014 they wore no insignia. people referred to them as the "little green men". they were established in 2014, seemingly on putin's direct orders, as a way to send russian fighters to east ukraine while still maintaining an important element of deniability and in that, i would say that wagner group is, in many ways, a quintessentially putinist organization. well, since then their activities have gone global. in 2015, they deployed to syria, propping up the regime of president bashar al—assad. there they successfully drove isis out of the ancient town of palmyra. in libya, they are allied to general haftar in the east, who set up a rival administration to the one in tripoli. in mali, they have effectively supplanted french troops, partly thanks to a slick pr campaign, like this poster praising mali's military ruler,

colonel assimi, and president putin. some propaganda goes even further, like this anti—french video portraying wagner as the partner that african countries can rely on. in the central african republic they have been providing security for the president, and they are in burkina faso and sudan. but in mozambique, they got ambushed by isis and took heavy casualties. they were pushed out quite quickly. it was a month—long deployment, a very short while. islamic state was able to take on vast swaths of territory, to a point where they were able to seize palma, which is a rich oil—producing area, one of the big gas towns. but it's really in ukraine's donbas region where wagner group has absolutely hit the headlines. they're often more effective than regular russian forces. their ranks swollen by 40,000 convicts, recruited from russia's penal colonies and often used as cannon fodder. so what does a typical wagner contract mercenary look like?

they're often former members of russian special forces, the spetsnaz. they tend to hide their identities behind balaclavas or facemasks. they're armed with some of the latest russian weapons and equipment and they're far better paid than ordinary russian conscripts. this is the man who runs them, yevgeny prigozhin, wanted by the fbi, a former convict and a close ally of vladimir putin. he grew rich through his catering contracts and is often referred to as �*putin's chef'. here's prigozhin with his troops down in the tunnels beneath soledar, which they recently captured. and here he is, recruiting convicts to serve on the front line, offering them a six—month contract in exchange for their freedom. but no one surrenders, he tells them, and deserters will be shot on sight. at the beginning, the wagner group was much more professional than russian army. they used to recruit special forces. now their main personnel are prisoners.

but this man did desert. andre medvedev is a former wagner commander in ukraine. he claims to have witnessed war crimes there, including those who refuse to fight being shot as an example to others. incredibly, he managed to escape russia across this arctic border into norway in mid—january, being pursued by dogs and armed guards shooting at him. soon after that, the white house announced it was sanctioning the wagner group as a transnational criminal enterprise, a charge it denies. the fighting in ukraine shows no sign of letting up, and wagner are an integral part of it. but casualties are so high on both sides that even their boss describes it as a "meat grinder". around the world, wagner has become a useful arm's length tool for the kremlin and possibly a sign of how some wars will be fought in the future.

we are going to live to print any circus in central london where survivors of the holocaust are lighting candles to mark holocaust memorial day, observed on the anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz nazi death camp. nick johnson is there.— johnson is there. lewis, yes, holocaust — johnson is there. lewis, yes, holocaust memorial- johnson is there. lewis, yes, holocaust memorial day - johnson is there. lewis, yes, l holocaust memorial day today. johnson is there. lewis, yes, - holocaust memorial day today. to mark the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp in what was then nazi occupied poland. holocaust memorial day has only been going for the past 15 years. it was set up as a charitable organisation in 2000 but holocaust memorial day itself is still quite recent. picadilly circus, where we are in central london, it's become the focal point for this moment of remembrance around the uk. there have been events notjust here in england but also wales, scotland and in northern ireland as well. what is going to

happen is the nations around the uk will culminate in a sombre reflection. at four o'clock, people will be lighting candles. candles have been distributed throughout the day. not only here in piccadilly circus, but also outside downing street as well. we will see those candles lit and a quiet moment of reflection at 4pm. people have been gathering here for the past hour or so and we've also had the king and queen consort, theirfirst so and we've also had the king and queen consort, their first holocaust memorial day, events at buckingham palace today, to mark the occasion, and danejoanna lumley has been around as distributing candles across london to help people like the candles at four o'clock. laura marks is the chair of trustees for the holocaust memorial day, so tell us laura, a little bit about today and its history first of all. this us laura, a little bit about today and its history first of all. as you said, holocaust _ and its history first of all. as you said, holocaust memorial- and its history first of all. as you said, holocaust memorial day i and its history first of all. as you | said, holocaust memorial day was and its history first of all. as you - said, holocaust memorial day was set ”p said, holocaust memorial day was set up by— said, holocaust memorial day was set up by government recognising the importance of the holocaust. we

commemorate it would also the other people _ commemorate it would also the other people who are gay, disabled, who were targeted by the nazis and then were targeted by the nazis and then we also _ were targeted by the nazis and then we also commemorate the subsequent genocides _ we also commemorate the subsequent genocides in cambodia, rwanda, bosnia _ genocides in cambodia, rwanda, bosnia and four, and we do that because — bosnia and four, and we do that because sadly genocide didn't end in 1945 and _ because sadly genocide didn't end in 1945 and in — because sadly genocide didn't end in 1945 and in fact it still goes on today— 1945 and in fact it still goes on today around the world whether people — today around the world whether people are being persecuted in china, — people are being persecuted in china, people are still targeted today— china, people are still targeted today so— china, people are still targeted today so we need holocaust memorial day, a _ today so we need holocaust memorial day, a day— today so we need holocaust memorial day, a day where we reflect, where we think_ day, a day where we reflect, where we think about not only what happened in the past, and commemorate the people who were murdered. — commemorate the people who were murdered, for who they were, but also think— murdered, for who they were, but also think about people today and how, _ also think about people today and how. even— also think about people today and how, even today, in the use of our language. — how, even today, in the use of our language, the way we other people, how we _ language, the way we other people, how we actually need to do better to make _ how we actually need to do better to make sure _ how we actually need to do better to make sure such things don't happen. you mention— make sure such things don't happen. you mention today and we talked about various groups, but it is a

chance to think about peace and there is a conflict in europe again today and the holocaust memorial trust plays a part in calling for peace? trust plays a part in calling for eace? ~ , ,., , trust plays a part in calling for eace? ~ , ~ trust plays a part in calling for eace? �* , ~ ., peace? absolutely. when we look at what's going — peace? absolutely. when we look at what's going on in _ peace? absolutely. when we look at what's going on in ukraine, - peace? absolutely. when we look at what's going on in ukraine, one - peace? absolutely. when we look at what's going on in ukraine, one of. what's going on in ukraine, one of the reasons— what's going on in ukraine, one of the reasons the russians david for invading _ the reasons the russians david for invading ukraine is to de—nats are fired _ invading ukraine is to de—nats are fired and— invading ukraine is to de—nats are fired and that not only not true but a terrible _ fired and that not only not true but a terrible distortion of what actually _ a terrible distortion of what actually happened to both then and now and _ actually happened to both then and now and are terribly disrespectful way now and are terribly disrespectful wav to— now and are terribly disrespectful way to address the people were murdered by the nazis. this way to address the people were murdered by the nazis.- way to address the people were murdered by the nazis. this is also a da , set murdered by the nazis. this is also a day. set up _ murdered by the nazis. this is also a day. set up to — murdered by the nazis. this is also a day, set up to mark— murdered by the nazis. this is also a day, set up to mark the - murdered by the nazis. this is also | a day, set up to mark the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp but also a day to remember those who have been killed in genocides around the world. ijust have been killed in genocides around the world. i just want to bring have been killed in genocides around the world. ijust want to bring in antoinette, thank you very much for joining us. you were a survivor of the rwanda genocide in the mid—19 905. tell us very briefly about your

journey from there to here. mr; 90s. tell us very briefly about your journey from there to here. my name is antoinette- — journey from there to here. my name is antoinette. i'm _ journey from there to here. my name is antoinette. i'm a _ journey from there to here. my name is antoinette. i'm a genocide - is antoinette. i'm a genocide survivor— is antoinette. i'm a genocide survivor in _ is antoinette. i'm a genocide survivor in remand. - is antoinette. i'm a genocide survivor in remand. when . is antoinette. i'm a genocide - survivor in remand. when ordinary people _ survivor in remand. when ordinary people turn— survivor in remand. when ordinary people turn to _ survivor in remand. when ordinary people turn to each _ survivor in remand. when ordinary people turn to each other- survivor in remand. when ordinary people turn to each other and - people turn to each other and murdered _ people turn to each other and murdered human _ people turn to each other and murdered human beings, - people turn to each other and i murdered human beings, today, people turn to each other and - murdered human beings, today, as we li-ht murdered human beings, today, as we light a _ murdered human beings, today, as we light a candle — murdered human beings, today, as we light a candle of— murdered human beings, today, as we light a candle of remembrance, - murdered human beings, today, as we light a candle of remembrance, we - light a candle of remembrance, we want _ light a candle of remembrance, we want to— light a candle of remembrance, we want to remember— light a candle of remembrance, we want to remember those _ light a candle of remembrance, we want to remember those who - light a candle of remembrance, we want to remember those who were murdered — want to remember those who were murdered in— want to remember those who were murdered in holocaust, _ want to remember those who were murdered in holocaust, we - want to remember those who were murdered in holocaust, we want. want to remember those who were| murdered in holocaust, we want to remember— murdered in holocaust, we want to remember those _ murdered in holocaust, we want to remember those who— murdered in holocaust, we want to remember those who were - murdered in holocaust, we want to l remember those who were murdered during _ remember those who were murdered during the _ remember those who were murdered during the genocide _ remember those who were murdered during the genocide against - remember those who were murdered during the genocide against groups. during the genocide against groups in remand — during the genocide against groups in remand and _ during the genocide against groups in remand and other— during the genocide against groups in remand and other genocide - during the genocide against groupsl in remand and other genocide which happened _ in remand and other genocide which happened after~ _ in remand and other genocide which happened after. the _ in remand and other genocide which happened after-— happened after. the holocaust memorial day _ happened after. the holocaust memorial day really _ happened after. the holocaust memorial day really does - happened after. the holocaust memorial day really does havei happened after. the holocaust i memorial day really does have a place beyond the second world war and the holocaust originally? yes. and the holocaust originally? yes, the holocaust _ and the holocaust originally? yes, the holocaust memorial _ and the holocaust originally? yes, the holocaust memorial day has a day beyond _ the holocaust memorial day has a day beyond that— the holocaust memorial day has a day beyond that time _ the holocaust memorial day has a day beyond that time because _ the holocaust memorial day has a day beyond that time because we - the holocaust memorial day has a day beyond that time because we are - the holocaust memorial day has a day beyond that time because we are all. beyond that time because we are all invited _ beyond that time because we are all invited in _ beyond that time because we are all invited in to— beyond that time because we are all invited in to remember— beyond that time because we are all invited in to remember and - beyond that time because we are all invited in to remember and light - beyond that time because we are alli invited in to remember and light the candle _ invited in to remember and light the candle of— invited in to remember and light the candle of remembrance, _ invited in to remember and light the candle of remembrance, as- invited in to remember and light the candle of remembrance, as i- invited in to remember and light the candle of remembrance, as i hope . candle of remembrance, as i hope that we _ candle of remembrance, as i hope that we will— candle of remembrance, as i hope that we will all— candle of remembrance, as i hope that we will all learn _ candle of remembrance, as i hope that we will all learn from - candle of remembrance, as i hope that we will all learn from what i that we will all learn from what happened — that we will all learn from what happened in— that we will all learn from what happened in the _ that we will all learn from what happened in the past, - that we will all learn from what happened in the past, and- that we will all learn from what happened in the past, and for. that we will all learn from what| happened in the past, and for a better— happened in the past, and for a better future. _ happened in the past, and for a better future. it's _ happened in the past, and for a better future.— happened in the past, and for a better future. it's getting a little bit closer to _ better future. it's getting a little bit closer to 4pm, _ better future. it's getting a little bit closer to 4pm, which - better future. it's getting a little bit closer to 4pm, which is - better future. it's getting a little bit closer to 4pm, which is when events are going to culminate in a

candle lighting. the reason this is being held a little bit earlier this year, is not quite dark, it'5 year, is not quite dark, it's because it is shabbat today, and it means you have to do things a little bit earlier than hpn than we would usually be marking this moment. i want to bring in nora again. behind u5 want to bring in nora again. behind us is the famous piccadilly circus big screen and for the last few minutes we had lots of portraits of people so tell us about what we have been seeing. istate people so tell us about what we have been seeing-— been seeing. we are very lucky to have the lights _ been seeing. we are very lucky to have the lights up _ been seeing. we are very lucky to have the lights up here, - been seeing. we are very lucky to have the lights up here, an - been seeing. we are very lucky to have the lights up here, an iconic| have the lights up here, an iconic place _ have the lights up here, an iconic place in _ have the lights up here, an iconic place in london, and there is to lots of pictures being shown, won a competition we ran for young people to do pictures of people who were either— to do pictures of people who were either affected by genocide or affected by racial hatred, so there's— affected by racial hatred, so there's beautiful pictures they did, and a _ there's beautiful pictures they did, and a lot— there's beautiful pictures they did, and a lot of— there's beautiful pictures they did, and a lot of them are interesting because — and a lot of them are interesting because it — and a lot of them are interesting because it is where somebody from one background is actually done a picture _ one background is actually done a picture about a different background to show _ picture about a different background to show that, even though each form of hatred _ to show that, even though each form of hatred is— to show that, even though each form of hatred is different, they are all forms— of hatred is different, they are all forms of— of hatred is different, they are all forms of hatred and the other pictures— forms of hatred and the other pictures which are showing are some beautiful— pictures which are showing are some beautiful photographs of survivors

done by— beautiful photographs of survivors done by rankin, a famous photographer, again to show, to memorialise the few people who are left and to— memorialise the few people who are left and to try to use those pictures— left and to try to use those pictures to remember the millions of people _ pictures to remember the millions of people who didn't survive. it�*s pictures to remember the millions of people who didn't survive.— people who didn't survive. it's now for pm and — people who didn't survive. it's now for pm and the _ people who didn't survive. it's now for pm and the screen _ people who didn't survive. it's now for pm and the screen behind - people who didn't survive. it's now for pm and the screen behind us i people who didn't survive. it's now for pm and the screen behind us isi for pm and the screen behind us is showing a flickering candle and it says holocaust memorial, learning for a betterfuture says holocaust memorial, learning for a better future totality and turnit for a better future totality and turn it about this moment right now and what it means to you and what it means to people who are part of this organisation? one thing is to remember the people who were _ one thing is to remember the people who were murdered one thing is to remember the people who were murdered for one thing is to remember the people who were murdered for who one thing is to remember the people who were murdered for who they one thing is to remember the people who were murdered for who they were, a moment— who were murdered for who they were, a moment of— who were murdered for who they were, a moment of reflection, and the other— a moment of reflection, and the other is— a moment of reflection, and the other is to — a moment of reflection, and the other is to think about what we can do to— other is to think about what we can do to make — other is to think about what we can do to make sure the world is safer in the _ do to make sure the world is safer in the future. it might be something small— in the future. it might be something small like _ in the future. it might be something small like to speaking out around the dinner— small like to speaking out around the dinner table when you hear racist _ the dinner table when you hear racist language or defending somebody who is subject to some sort of prejudice _ somebody who is subject to some sort of prejudice. there are these two moments — of prejudice. there are these two moments for reflection and we hope people _ moments for reflection and we hope people are _ moments for reflection and we hope people are lighting candles, we were

to die _ people are lighting candles, we were to die at _ people are lighting candles, we were to die at buckingham palace with the kin- to die at buckingham palace with the king and _ to die at buckingham palace with the king and queen lighting candles, i believe _ king and queen lighting candles, i believe that the prime minister is lighting _ believe that the prime minister is lighting a — believe that the prime minister is lighting a candle at the moment —— we were _ lighting a candle at the moment —— we were today at buckingham palace. particularly— we were today at buckingham palace. particularly what we can do to make the world _ particularly what we can do to make the world safer. it particularly what we can do to make the world safer.— the world safer. it has 'ust gone for a the world safer. it has 'ust gone fora mi the world safer. it has 'ust gone for a clock now h the world safer. it has 'ust gone for a clock now and _ the world safer. it hasjust gone for a clock now and the - the world safer. it hasjust gone for a clock now and the lights i the world safer. it hasjust gone i for a clock now and the lights here at piccadilly have gone back to something we see died today but as laura was saying, holocaust memorial day is not onlyjust remembering the victims of the holocaust as part of the second world war but the genocides subsequently and how this charity very much has a place in europe and the wider world but also in our own homes today. studio: just stand by for us there. i might want to come back to you in a moment. thank you to you and your guests for summing up brilliantly what was happening there. i want to show you these live pictures of downing street because as your guest

mentioned there we are expecting the prime minister also to be lighting a candle as many others will be across the country and so many people around the world taking a moment today on holocaust memorial day to mark and remember. we did see pictures earlier on of the ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky marking the moment working up to a public shrine at taking a few moments to pause and reflect. just remarkable that this is an event that you say is relatively recent in the big scheme of things but is being marked notjust scheme of things but is being marked not just they are at piccadilly circus where you are but right around the world.— circus where you are but right around the world. , . ., around the world. very much so and certainly over— around the world. very much so and certainly over the _ around the world. very much so and certainly over the last _ around the world. very much so and certainly over the last hour- around the world. very much so and certainly over the last hour or - around the world. very much so and certainly over the last hour or so - certainly over the last hour or so more and more people have come, more and more people perhaps you didn't realise quite what was happening here have been talking and asking questions and have been staying to

have a look at some of the artwork but also talking to other people about what today means for them, giving candles, the candles have been lit and that moment of reflection really feels like in the heart of this place in central london has brought people together and people of all backgrounds, not only people who knew this event was planned but also tourists who have come here and come to find out a bit more about what has been going on. thank you so much with that and talking us through events there in central london. the chancellor, jeremy hunt, has been defending the government's record on economic growth. in a speech, he said there's too much gloom about the economy, and that the uk can be the next silicon valley — with a network of investment zones, and brexit a catalyst for growth. but his speech follows recent warnings that thousands of british businesses face bankruptcy and a slump in the uk car manufacturing industry. this report from our economics correspondent, andy verity. uncertainty has made it really

difficult to attract investment into the uk, and that is the number one thing we need to address. there are absolutely decisions available to british policymakers to get britain growing and thriving post—brexit, it's time to take them. and the real answer the industry is looking for is a plan. - a growing chorus of business leaders has been demanding a long—term plan from the government to grow the economy, as key industries like cars see their weakest performance for decades. today the chancellor was keen to reassure them that the government does have a plan. just this month, columnists from both left and right have talked about an existential crisis, britain teetering on the edge and that all we can hope for is that things don't get worse. i welcome the debate, but chancellors are also allowed their say. and i say simply this — declinism about britain is just wrong. the key to his plan — half inflation, ensure taxes are low and create investment zones,

mini canary wharfs for each growth industry — with tax breaks to attract investment. the verdict of overseas companies and executives is that britain is an extremely exciting country to invest and grow, and i think we should remember that and not get too sucked up in the latest economic statistics, because this is a difficult patch but we can get through it and there are tremendous opportunities on the other side. but inflation is forecast to half in the next year anyway, not because of anything the government is doing, but because global prices from oil and gas to shipping costs have been plummeting from last year's peaks, and jeremy hunt reversed his predecessor's decision to cut business and personal taxes. the only thing that will improve our growth prospects now is to get rid of the conservatives out of government, because they have shown that they are not fit to govern, they crashed the economy, they are full of sleaze and scandal, and they are the ones that are doing the uk down at the moment. what we need is an optimistic

government that has a plan to take us into growth, into the future. businesses like this robotics plant in blyth, northumberland, welcomed the government's optimism, but to invest in the future, they need a government's plan to be much more concrete and detailed. the themes that the government is talking about are correct, but there is a lack of clear strategy, and then the policies that are going to underpin that strategy. without that clear, long—term plan, it is not... business can't get behind it, can't have the confidence. it is time to power up the future. just down the road in blyth is a business that was supposed to be at the heart of a green industrial strategy, making electric car batteries, but britishvolt collapsed last week, and its founders say the battery manufacturing sector is doomed unless the government ramps up support. to drive growth long—term, optimism alone won't be enough. andy verity, bbc news.

our economics correspondent dharshini david gave us her reactions. this was a huge thing for the chancellor, it might not sound like much, the growth plan, but when you look at what he is trying to say, apparently we have brilliant minds in the uk which is absolutely true but how do you translate into us all being better off and that is a really key question at the moment, incomes are falling, the economy is still smaller than it was prior to the pandemic, it is not enough to say let's just be optimistic and have a bit more confidence. four es. employment, enterprise, education, also everywhere, so it sounds great, but how do you make sure they are more than just buzzwords? this is where we run into a few issues because one business group has termed this as perhaps needing to have a fifth e, empty, because there wasn't much in terms of the detail, when you talk about people getting

back to work we know some people retired early and some people find childcare too expensive, how do you solve those issues, we don't quite know. taxes is another thing the chancellor was asked about and it seems to be the case, he is saying we know some people want to see lower taxes and it might give people more money to do more things with but that is not on the cards just yet because the public services are under such pressure. also he talked about brexit freedom, what does that mean in practice? what he is suggesting there is we have red tape left over from our membership of the eu that could go when in actual fact if you talk to business, what they say is we have red tape associated with brexit trading rules. we need to find a way of bringing that down. is there a lot in that frankly there that is going to get business saying we're going to invest in skills and training and technology, all those things that make us better off? at the moment probably not. one of the big things he was talking about and affects everyone watching is inflation.

he is dead right, when we talk about what is holding us back, the huge surge in the cost of living over the past year, it has been a huge detriment to our fortunes and that means our money doesn't go what are they doing about this? on the chart of promises he has, halving inflation is up there but the government told us all these months that inflation has been a global issue, caused by global factors, higher energy prices, higher food costs in the global stage. those are the kind of things that government couldn't do that much about on the way up, they can't do that much about on the way down, there are a few things that the bank of england can do with interest rates, there are various levers the government can pull but most of those have to do with things like public pay which they don't like talking about. but that is a thorny issue and the chancellor knows until he can get to grips with that and stop that being front and centre of minds it is very difficult

to talk about the rest of this. the budget is coming up, not far, six weeks, we'll probably find out more then. meanwhile the chancellor has insisted the hs2 high speed rail line will go into central london as planned, despite newspaper reports this morning it may be scaled back. the sun said the may no longer stretch as far as euston station and instead go to a hub in west london because of rapidly rising costs. our political correspondent damian grammaticas has been following the story. jeremy hunt the chancellor saying very clearly that this hs2 line will be built all the way into euston station. the reason this has come up is this morning there was a newspaper report in the sun suggesting that the government was looking at not building the line all the way in to finish at euston station but stopping short of that, west london, old oak common, north—west london and about five or six miles out.

that caused a big stir, the issue there is that the rising cost of this project, it is a massive thing, 20 year project, costs have already gone from £55 billion initially pencilled in to perhaps around £100 billion is the thinking now, and the plans already have been scaled back with the idea of a line going to leeds, that would not happen but what we are meant to be getting is london to birmingham to manchester. the report is saying that perhaps that last little connection in london to euston might not happen. the chancellor said it would and he is committed to the plans. the prime minister has also been out and about and he was asked about the issue a short time ago. this factory have a contract to build the bullet trains for hsz and yet we read this morning the project could be delayed again, is that true? the government is committed to investing in rail—

across the country and previously when i was chancellor _ we announced something called the integrated rail plan, - £96 billion of investment up and down the country - to improve journey times, reliability and frequency. of services across the north, i the midlands and everywhere in between. that is really exciting. today's visit here to hitachi is a great example of- what the investment does in practice, providingjobsi and opportunity for local people across the north—east _ and that is what wel will keep delivering. you could just say no, hsz won't be delayed? the government is committed to delivering the plans it has. announced with rail, _ but as well as the rail schemes which are important what i am also keen to do is make sure _ the government invests in local transportation, i around areas where people live, | whether that is better local roads and filling in potholes, - putting in more bus lanes, road junctions, bypasses, - all the day—to—day bits of transport infrastructure people also care about, we are getting - on and delivering those i

because those big projects are important but they take time . and what i want to do is make sure we make improvements to people's. day—to—day lives in the here and now and that is why we are investing in communities up and around l the north—east, today's visit to this factory shows this . investment is creating jobs and that is what the - government agenda is. you will notice the prime minister was wriggling a bit there, not committing to things being done on time, 2033 is the first target date for completion of this birmingham route to london section, and the whole thing, his comments there about also investing in local infrastructure, this whole question about hs2 and this massive spending on it raises lots of difficult arguments and passions on all sides and one of those issues is the question that some have been saying again today, would this money not be better spent on improving local services, local trains, connections

between cities in different parts of the country in the north? the supporters of the hs2 project say if you try to scale back a bit and cut that connection to london it undermines the whole point of it because the point is to get people quickly into london on a newline, free up the other old lines that exist exactly for those local services. so those arguments keep going. the costs and the difficulty for the government, the pressure is the costs are rising, inflation pushes anything up so delivering all this to budget and to time is a very tough ask. joining me now is gareth dennis, rail engineer and writer. thank you for coming on the programme. thank you for coming on the programme-— thank you for coming on the programme.- let's| thank you for coming on the - programme.- let's look at programme. how the. let's look at this, we programme. how the. let's look at this. we heard _ programme. how the. let's look at this, we heard there _ programme. how the. let's look at this, we heard there that _ programme. how the. let's look at this, we heard there that the - programme. how the. let's look at this, we heard there that the line l this, we heard there that the line at the moment is where it will go all the way into euston but if it didn't and it stopped in this hub in west london, could it be done and

what difference would it make? i suppose it depends on your definition of feasible. it could be done but it would be a horrible messy compromise resulting in even worse overcrowding on crossrail resulting in billions of extra pounds being spent on expanding the station at old oak common and it certainly wouldn't be any benefit in terms of cost because the costs that you could save are not doing anything in euston and leaving that gaping hole there would be spent again in redesigning, delaying and expanding the station at old oak common, so it is not a very sensible thing and ultimately it is a bit of a dead cat to distract from the series of increasingly baroque scandals within the cabinet so it is important to have that context within the story.— important to have that context within the sto . ., . ., , within the story. that context being our within the story. that context being your context _ within the story. that context being your context and _ within the story. that context being your context and your— within the story. that context being your context and your opinion. - within the story. that context being i your context and your opinion. let's focus on the idea if it does go all the way into euston, and it is successful in that sense, is overall this project worth the money.

absolutely. there is no more cost—effective way to deliver the desperately needed expansion in public transport capacity on railway systems across the country, as your correspondent was describing there, the argument for the line, the actual railway argument for building this is the main benefit is to release capacity in the existing railway network, more suburban capacity, the sort of capacity we desperately need, outside of the m25, could commuter numbers are above pre—covid, so we need not only more leisure travel but more commuter capacity for people to get in and out of cities. haifa commuter capacity for people to get in and out of cities.— in and out of cities. how much of a blow was it — in and out of cities. how much of a blow was it for _ in and out of cities. how much of a blow was it for connection - in and out of cities. how much of a blow was it for connection to - in and out of cities. how much of a| blow was it for connection to leeds not going ahead?— not going ahead? substantial. i an ued not going ahead? substantial. i argued that _ not going ahead? substantial. i argued that it _ not going ahead? substantial. i argued that it is _ not going ahead? substantial. i argued that it is the _ not going ahead? substantial. i argued that it is the most - not going ahead? substantial. i - argued that it is the most important part of hs2, the connection from birmingham to leeds and the north—east, that section of the route was what really enabled the capacity release notjust on the west coast main line but also midland mainline and east coast main line so places like nottingham,

peterborough and all sorts of other cities and towns along those roads, corridors would have that released capacity but of course leads especially losing out massively from the loss of hs2 and the impact that has on services across the pennines towards manchester as well. you are clearl a towards manchester as well. you are clearly a fan — towards manchester as well. you are clearly a fan of _ towards manchester as well. you are clearly a fan of the _ towards manchester as well. you are clearly a fan of the project, - towards manchester as well. you are clearly a fan of the project, is - clearly a fan of the project, is there any amount of money that it could go over budget or any amount of damage to the line where it is being built up and down the country that will change your mind? imilieu being built up and down the country that will change your mind? when you build a bridge — that will change your mind? when you build a bridge over _ that will change your mind? when you build a bridge over a _ that will change your mind? when you build a bridge over a river— that will change your mind? when you build a bridge over a river you - build a bridge over a river you don't say how much money do we have and how far across the river do we want to go, you can say we need a bridge across the river, how much will it cost to get across the river and you don't change your mind about what type of ritual have when you have the bridge, so the reality is this will continue to cost more if government continues to shilly—shallying on delivering it and deciding shape. there is cross—party consensus on how hs2 should look, almost a decade ago agreed through parliament, through

our democratic process to progress with this mine, it is undemocratic that treasury had continued to decide to change it, check bit and alter it when the reality is the need for the line as we grow more acute since it was first received royal assent back in 2013. great are our royal assent back in 2013. great are your thoughts. _ royal assent back in 2013. great are your thoughts, thank _ royal assent back in 2013. great are your thoughts, thank you. _ the actress silvia syms, known for her roles in the films ice cold in alex and for playing the queen mother opposite helen mirren as her majesty in the 2006 film 'the queen' — has died. she was 89 years old. sarah campbell looks back on her life. ice cold in alex, the film that made silvia syms' name and launch a career that took her smoothie from young starlet to claim character actress. ., ., , ., , , actress. nothing has happened, we have done 21 _ actress. nothing has happened, we have done 21 miles. _ actress. nothing has happened, we have done 21 miles. she _ actress. nothing has happened, we have done 21 miles. she had - actress. nothing has happened, we| have done 21 miles. she had already roved she have done 21 miles. she had already proved she could _ have done 21 miles. she had already proved she could act _ have done 21 miles. she had already proved she could act on _ have done 21 miles. she had already proved she could act on a _ have done 21 miles. she had already proved she could act on a woman i have done 21 miles. she had already

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of tyre nichols, who was 29 and from memphis, say he was kicked, punched, and tasered. he died three days later. five officers have been charged with second degree murder, as peter bowes reports. another case of alleged police brutality in america, this time in memphis, where 29—year—old tyre nichols died three days after he was stopped for alleged reckless driving. his family say he was severely beaten. the five officers were sacked last week after an investigation found them to be directly responsible for the physical abuse of mr nichols. now they've been charged with second—degree murder. this is a failing of basic humanity towards another individual. this incident was heinous, reckless, and inhumane. video footage of the arrest will be made public in the coming hours. tyre nichols�* grieving family had an opportunity to review it earlier this week. i don't know anything right now.

all i know is my son tyre is not here with me any more. in a word, it's absolutely appalling. let me be clear — what happened here does not at all reflect proper policing. this was wrong, this was criminal. this is a case involving a young black man and police officers who were also black. it is, according to the civil rights leader, the reverend al sharpton, particularly painful because of the race of the officers. it is more injurous to me and others that these are five black cops. we fought to put blacks on the police force, and for them to act in such a brutal way is more egregious than i can tell you. in a statement, president biden said tyre's family deserved a swift, full and transparent investigation into his death.

he went on... with the imminent release of the video footage, officials in memphis have called for calm, but they are not discouraging people from taking to the streets. peter bowes, bbc news. earlier i spoke to barbata plett usher who is in memphis. she gave us an update on the highly sensitive case. officials feel they have to release the footage, this comes from several body camera footage and other cameras that capture the incident. they feel they need to release it in the interests of transparency but they have seen it and so has the family and they also feel it is quite shocking,

so the family members have said for example that the officers really beat tyre, kicked him like a football, one of the lawyers have said they beat him like a human pinata. it sounds quite disturbing and the words used to describe it by some of the officials have been shocking, staggeringly brutal and so on, so you can imagine that it will be a difficult watch and the city is concerned that this will ignite anger and destructive demonstrations, and so they have delayed releasing it until they were able to conduct as much of the investigation as they could end until the indictments were brought down by the grand jury and the charges were levelled against the police officers, but they are urging protesters to respond to it in a peaceful manner and that will happen we expect later today, and it should be about one hour of footage from different cameras. we all remember the black lives matter protests out on the street

and the moral reckoning across huge parts of society in the us, an examination of the relationship between the police and the people who are policed. has there been any significant movement, development on that? this is a complicated case because it brings together two of the elements of that in a different way. when it came to the george floyd killing it was an issue of race and police brutality, because the officer who killed george floyd was white. in this case the officers are black but they are all still participating in a culture of police brutality and so that has added a layer of complication for civil rights campaigners. you heard the quote in peter's story they're saying it was particularly egregious that the officers were black because a civil rights movement had fought to get black officers on the police forces, but having said that, police forces themselves sometimes

respond in ways that are excessively brutal and after george floyd's killing the city of memphis which has a majority black police force did pass policies to reduce use of force by police, various points where the police department was supposed to implement them to reduce use of force, but in recent years there has been quite a high rise in violent crime and that has become the focus and these five officers were part of a special unit that was patrolling high crime areas, so that is an element in this as well and officials are saying probably now the focus will re—shift to police reform. i will add also in terms of the issue of race, civil rights leaders have said there is still an element of race in this because they do not believe that if the person in the car had been white he would have been beaten up in the same way tyre was and the lawyer for the family said this is a welcome case of swift

justice but he hoped such swift justice is also imparted to white police officers when they are accused of brutality. and stay with us on bbc news — we'll bring you that news conference from memphis scheduled for five o'clock. now it's time for a look at the weather with nick miller. we have gone from big weather differences across the uk to hardly any and for many of us today the guys look like this. a lot of cloud, just hints of blue poking through but overall it has been a dry and settled down. weather front working into north—west scotland now will take its way down across northern ireland is of the night and reaching the final thing. south of that where there are clear skies, a greater chance of frost in the

morning. more widely across england compared with this morning. and tomorrow overall it looks like it is settled butjust a thicker zone of cloud will produce light rain and drizzle, parts of north england, wales and doing it, that have surfaces but, if you fog which is slow to clear. northern england and northern ireland and scotland seeing the sunniest skies, just the odd shower in northern scotland. more cloud around on saturday night in the south, it limits the first, just a few pockets as sunday begins. another area of wet weather across scotland and northern ireland and wales in northern scotland on sunday. —— gail in northern scotland.

means to people who are part of this organisation? hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. the chancellorjeremy hunt has set out his plan to boost economic growth, prioritising reducing inflation and stabilising the economy.

the government has committed to the planned hs2 rail link reaching central london despite reports to the contrary due to rising costs. president biden urges protesters in tennessee to remain peaceful after five former memphis police officers are charged with the murder of a black man, tyre nichols. an nhs trust is fined a record 800 thousand pounds after admitting failures in the care of a mother and her baby, who died 23 minutes after being born. events here in the uk and across the world mark holocaust memorial day on the anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz—birkenau nazi death camp. and the actress sylvia syms, best known for her roles in the films ice cold in alex and the queen, has died at the age of 89. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's holly.

good afternoon. nine—time champion novak djokovic is on course for his tenth australian open title after beating american tommy paul in straight sets. djokovic had raced through the previous rounds without any major incident, and, with the exception of a slight wobble in the opening set, he regained his focus and composure, breaking twice in each of the next two sets to secure victory after two hours and 20 minutes. he'll face stefanos tsitsipas in sunday's final. djokovic�*s father was missing from the crowds, after attracting headlines for posing with supporters of russian president vladimir putin. after his victory, djokovic was quick to defend him. he was passing through, made a photo, it's escalated. he was misused in this situation by this group of people. and that's what happened, so, i can't be angry with him or upset because, you know, it was not his fault. he went out to celebrate with my fans and that's it. that's all that happened.

american tommy paul was disappointed to lose but positive about his overall performance in the first grand slam of the year. i want to keep moving up the rankings, _ i want to keep moving up the rankings, you know. it would be nice to end _ rankings, you know. it would be nice to end the _ rankings, you know. it would be nice to end the year top ten, you know. i feel likem — to end the year top ten, you know. i feel like... the way i started the year. _ feel like... the way i started the year. it's— feel like... the way i started the year, it's the right path to do it, so obviously i have a lot of matches to win _ so obviously i have a lot of matches to win this — so obviously i have a lot of matches to win this year and hopefully get some _ to win this year and hopefully get some titles too. i don't want to 'ust some titles too. i don't want to just lose — some titles too. i don't want to just lose in _ some titles too. i don't want to just lose in semifinals. i want to, you have — just lose in semifinals. i want to, you have my— just lose in semifinals. i want to, you have my name on some trophies next year~ _ earlier, britain's alfie hewett and gordon reid have secured their fourth successive australian open wheelchair doubles title, defeating dutch duo maikel scheffers and ruben spaargaren. it's their 16th grand slam title together in doubles. hewett will go again in the men's singles final on saturday. scotland defenderjen beattie has announced her retirement from international football. the arsenal centre—back is retiring after a 15—year international career in which she earned 143 caps,

scoring 24 goals since making her senior debut at 16. the defender continued her career for club and country despite being diagnosed with breast cancer in october 2020 and undergoing radiotherapy. england's cricketers are chasing down a target of 299 as they attempt to win the first of their one—day internationals against south africa in bloemfontein. the hosts got off to a rapid start, but england's moeen ali spearheaded the breakthrough. rassie van der dussen top scoring with 111. but the returning jofra archer was in the wickets for england, with sam curran taking three. south africa making 298 for 7, from their 50 overs. a short time ago england were 125. jason roy passing 50. england are through to the final of the women's u19 cricket world cup against india after a thrilling three—run victory over australia in south africa. after slumping to 45 for 7, england were indebted to a 46—run partnership between alexa stonehouse, who top—scored for england with 25, and josie groves as they managed

to 99 all out. in reply, australia looked in control at 56—4 before losing their last six wickets for 40 runs. grace scrivens took the all important final wicket of maggie clark, while hannah bakerfinished with three wickets for 10 runs from four overs. and there's been a big apology from the rugby football union today. it comes after an announcement last week where they said all leagues below the championship in england would adopt the waist tackle from next season. the goal was to help prevent concussions, but the news was poorly received at grassroots level with players and coaches completely blindsided. with no consultation or explanation on how the new waist tackle height would work there was talk of a player exodus. today's apology acknowledges the rfu got this wrong, saying "waist and below" is misunderstanding and confusing. that's all the sport for now.

a british teenager whose far—right extremist videos influenced the gunman in an american mass shooting has been sentenced to 11 and a half years' detention. 19 year old daniel harris from derbyshire, posted videos which were shared by payton gendron, who has admitted a supermarket shooting in buffalo, new york. the judge said harris was "a propagandist for an extremist right—wing ideology" by publishing his material online. our reporter phil mccann has the background to the case from daniel harris�*s home town of glossop. it was from this market town nestled in the hills of the peak district here in derbyshire, glossop, where mr harris posted his videos which went on to inspire some mass killings, specifically those killings in buffalo, of 10 people in black neighbourhoods. but in a sentencing hearing that took place yesterday the judge was also told that the main suspect behind her was thought to be behind the killings of five

people, and lgbt nightclub in colorado springs, that he had also accessed these videos by daniel harris. sentencing him today judge patrick field said that through his videos harris expressed violent anti—semitic misogynist views, believing non—white and gay people should be subjected to violence and killed. his videos that were put online were variously praising mass murderers including people like anders breivik in norway and the perpetrator of the shootings, the killings at a mosque in christchurch in new zealand. harris also had a 3d printer that police found in his home here in glossop which had been used to make some parts for an automatic weapon. the judge said in sentencing today that that weapon would have been highly dangerous and would have been intended for use in a terror outrage. because of harris�*s age, 17 and 18

when he was posting these videos, the initial approach to him was to use a de—radicalisation programme but he manipulated the people from that programme and lied to them while he was saying that he was being successfully de—radicalised, but he was actually producing a video which praised thomas mair, the murderer of the mpjo cox in 2016. today at manchester crown court harris was sentenced to 11 and a half years in a young offenders institution. the judge said that he poses a significant future at risk and that he hadn't shown a scintilla of remorse. there's been a big rise in the number of people going to hospital with eating disorders, according to latest figures. nearly 30—thousand people were hospitalised for conditions including anorexia and bulimia last year, around 40 percent more than the year before the pandemic. but amongst children the increase is more than 80 percent. today, the eating disorder charity seed is opening two new therapy

rooms in hull named after women who died two years ago. jayne mccubbin reports. i asked the nurse on the phone, "is she still going to be there when i get back?" and it went quiet for a second. and she said, "i don't think so." i want her back, you know? i want to be able to, like, talk to herand... oh, sorry. ..cuddle her. eating disorders destroy lives, families, friends, and data shows hospital admissions have increased almost 40% since before the pandemic. for me, this was nikki at her best. nikki grahame died when she was 38. the chelsea that we remember. her cheeky little smile. chelsea blue was 17.

beautiful girl. they never met, but they died within three days of each other after both had struggled to access the help they needed. it took me a longtime to walk in them doors. ijust didn't want it to be real. you had fought for help? fora longtime. my little angel, my little... one day she actually said, "carls, you know, i think i'm dying." and i said to her, "come on, niks, you can do this, like, let's just get you to the hospital." so we did this gofundme because, honestly, it was the last resort. now their names will be used to try and save the lives of others. today, almost two years after nikki and chelsea blue died, this new eating disorder drop—in centre is being opened in hull by the charity seed. inside, therapy rooms dedicated to those two young lives. 0h! do you think she'd like it?

oh, wow. 0h. have a look. god, if chelsea was here she'd just tell me to shut up and sort myself out. and the idea of the chelsea blue - therapy room and the nikki grahame therapy room was just that, to give comfort. _ they're going to be helping so many other people. - the increase is devastating and it shouldn't be happening. - an eating disorder is a mental health illness, and it's- about a pain that hasn't been expressed, and a way- of dealing and coping i with difficult situations. for me personally, i believe - that the increase is because people aren't being helped early enough. the government told us — "these are tragic cases highlighting the importance of our work to improve services. we're investing almost £1 billion in adult mental health care and £54 million a year in children's community eating disorder services. and i wish there was more of this. yeah. this kind of service is in huge demand, and in short supply.

jayne mccubbin, bbc news. this week has seen a significant increase in western military support to ukraine with the approval of the supply of more battle tanks. but ukrainians have also been digesting new allegations of corruption levelled against some government ministers. it's led to president zelensky removing a group of ministers and officials in the biggest reshuffle since the conflict started. our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse reports on what's been described as kyiv�*s other enemy. the fresh beginnings of 2019 and a promise by ukraine's new president to finally deal with corruption. translation: my election has proved that citizens are tired _ of experienced politicians who over the past 28 years created a country of opportunities — opportunities to steal, bribe and loot. yet in 2023, ukrainian politics is once again riddled

with those exact allegations. ukraine's leader has overseen around a dozen resignations or sackings this week. oleksiy symonenko quit after taking a holiday in spain at a time when most men can't leave the country. vasyl lozinskyi was fired after being arrested for allegedly taking a bribe worth more than £300,000. he has denied it. and kyrylo tymoshenko, president zelensky�*s own deputy head of office, stood down after reports that he'd been living a lavish lifestyle. those came from this man, mykhailo tkach, an investigative journalist for the news website ukrainska pravda. translation: if the source of the money is unclear, - they register things, such as cars or mansions, to their close people or relatives, people that do not have an obligation to declare their property. i think every step an official makes should be clear to society.

mr tymoshenko has also denied doing anything wrong, but mykhailo's scoops have led to a shake—up across government. translation: the president's latest decision also shows that such - responsibility is recognised at the highest level, that you can't play around with this. we are talking about our country's existence. it is very important. this has already been a war that has taken so much from so many. and while there is fighting in some parts of the country, in others, people are trying to recover. so when there are claims of corruption once again at the heart of ukrainian politics, the political damage is that much deeper. outside of kyiv, the power has just come back, allowing ivana's bakery to do business once again. translation: i don't like it. it would be better if this money went for something good for ukraine rather than to someone's pocket.

probably we need to replace all those who are there for many years. they got used to that, it's what feeds them. corruption has plagued politics in ukraine since it declared independence 31 years ago. now, with the world's eyes on it along with the scrutiny that comes with receiving billions of pounds worth of foreign aid, kyiv seems keen to act, or to be seen to. the headlines on bbc news. the chancellorjeremy hunt has set out his plan to boost economic growth — prioritising reducing inflation and stabilising the economy. the government has committed to the planned hs2 rail link reaching central london despite reports to the contrary due to rising costs. and the actress sylvia syms, best known for her roles in the films ice cold in alex and the queen, has died at the age of 89.

russia's wagner group are gaining international prominence. they're active in several countries and they've recently been sanctioned by the us for criminal activity, which they deny. in the uk they've been discussed in parliament and the government is considering changing the process that allowed the organisation's head to get around sanctions and sue a british journalist. but who exactly are they and what's behind wagner's war in ukraine? our security correspondent frank gardner reports. wagner troops in action in eastern ukraine, purging this town, they say, of nazis. these private military contractors, or mercenaries, have been in some of the fiercest battles in the donbas, fighting tooth and nail for towns like barmouth and soledar. their headquarters is in st petersburg, the same city where president putin worked for the kgb, but theirforward operating base is down in southern russia, reportedly at molkino,

close to a russian military intelligence base. when the wagner group invaded crimea in 2014 they wore no insignia. people referred to them as the "little green men". they were established in 2014, seemingly on putin's direct orders, as a way to send russian fighters to east ukraine while still maintaining an important element of deniability and in that, i would say that wagner group is, in many ways, a quintessentially putinist organization. well, since then their activities have gone global. in 2015, they deployed to syria, propping up the regime of president bashar al—assad. there they successfully drove isis out of the ancient town of palmyra. in libya, they are allied to general haftar in the east, who set up a rival administration to the one in tripoli. in mali, they have effectively supplanted french troops, partly thanks to a slick pr campaign, like this poster praising mali's military ruler,

colonel assimi, and president putin. some propaganda goes even further, like this anti—french video portraying wagner as the partner that african countries can rely on. in the central african republic they have been providing security for the president, and they are in burkina faso and sudan. but in mozambique, they got ambushed by isis and took heavy casualties. they were pushed out quite quickly. it was a month—long deployment, a very short while. islamic state was able to take on vast swaths of territory, to a point where they were able to seize palma, which is a rich oil—producing area, one of the big gas towns. but it's really in ukraine's donbas region where wagner group has absolutely hit the headlines. they're often more effective than regular russian forces. their ranks swollen by 40,000 convicts, recruited from russia's penal colonies and often used as cannon fodder. so what does a typical wagner contract mercenary look like?

they're often former members of russian special forces, the spetsnaz. they tend to hide their identities behind balaclavas or facemasks. they're armed with some of the latest russian weapons and equipment and they're far better paid than ordinary russian conscripts. this is the man who runs them, yevgeny prigozhin, wanted by the fbi, a former convict and a close ally of vladimir putin. he grew rich through his catering contracts and is often referred to as 'putin's chef'. here's prigozhin with his troops down in the tunnels beneath soledar, which they recently captured. and here he is, recruiting convicts to serve on the front line, offering them a six—month contract in exchange for their freedom. but no one surrenders, he tells them, and deserters will be shot on sight. at the beginning, the wagner group was much more professional than russian army. they used to recruit special forces. now their main personnel are prisoners.

but this man did desert. andre medvedev is a former wagner commander in ukraine. he claims to have witnessed war crimes there, including those who refuse to fight being shot as an example to others. incredibly, he managed to escape russia across this arctic border into norway in mid—january, being pursued by dogs and armed guards shooting at him. soon after that, the white house announced it was sanctioning the wagner group as a transnational criminal enterprise, a charge it denies. the fighting in ukraine shows no sign of letting up, and wagner are an integral part of it. but casualties are so high on both sides that even their boss describes it as a "meat grinder". around the world, wagner has become a useful arm's length tool for the kremlin and possibly a sign of how some wars will be fought in the future.

thank you to thank for that. some breaking news that we are getting details from police in london about a man who has died in london's west end. a man was crushed and trapped underneath a telescopic public your rhino while working on the device in central london. —— urinal. according remains in cambridge circus. he was freed after a rescue operation at the junction between shaftesbury avenue and charing cross road. but the met police have given an update saying we are sorry to have to update that, despite the efforts of emergency services, the man who was critically injured in cambridge circus was pronounced dead at the scene. his next of kin have been informed. as we get more details on that, we will bring them to you. tracking what shoppers buy, via loyalty—card data, can help spot women with early signs

of ovarian cancer, according to doctors who have been running a study. they found that frequent purchases of over—the—counter painkillers and indigestion tablets revealed a higher risk of ovarian cancer — which is often diagnosed late. there is no reliable screening test and the symptoms, such as bloating, can be vague and confused with other common, harmless conditions. as part of the coronation weekend — which is now 100 days away — people are being encouraged to take part in a day of volunteering. the big help out will take place on monday may the 8th which has been designated as a bank holiday. charities and volunteering groups are gathering in london today at the launch event. our royal correspondent sarah campbell was there speaking to bear grylls. i think volunteering really changes lives, not only the people that are being helped, but also volunteers themselves who always say it makes people happier, makes us all more connected. and i think brits are great

volunteers, but we always need more. and it's amazing and inspiring seeing that the coronation weekend and the king wanted public service and volunteering to be so at the heart of his coronation. and i think that it's about creating a legacy, isn't it? a legacy of kindness. but there are so many... i meet volunteers all day, every day. you know, look at the scouts. we've got 140,000 volunteers every week giving up their time for young people. and many people i meet want to get involved but often don't know how to. and that's what the big help out is about. it's about opening the doors, big, warm invitation to say, come and get involved in your community and know how to make a difference. so today it's sort of charities and organisations getting together and working out how they can do it. and you want more as many volunteer organisations to get involved and get in touch as possible, is that right? yeah. i think the more volunteer organisations that sign up, the bigger, the better celebration that's going to be. and also its notjust

about volunteering on may 8th on that bank holiday, it's about starting then dipping your toe in trying it. and i think volunteering works by a lot of people doing a little. and hopefully it creates then this ripple effect, this legacy of volunteering that goes way beyond the times when the flags would come down and the paper cups put away for people to get involved in their communities. and people often want to do that but aren't asked or don't know. so the big help out says, here we go, come and join us, sign up, be involved. and i think as of march 20th, i think is when all of the organisations that are involved will put on a website, you know, how people can get in touch. but it's notjust about that, is it? i mean, literally you could go out and litter pick or go and visit your elderly neighbour. lots of things that people do. the idea is theyjust go and do it. yeah, i think people many people are volunteers without knowing it. i think if you go and visit an elderly neighbour, you're part of it already. but this is about trying to bring it all together into one place.

the website for it is abighelpout.org.co.uk, and bring and bring it under the umbrella of the coronation. and for me it's inspiring that the king wants to have that public service and volunteering. so at the heart of his reign and this is really something, this coronation that defines the nation and it's brilliant that volunteers at the heart of that. do you know what you're going to be doing on may 8th, something you haven't volunteered at, tried before? well, i'll be involved with the scouts. you know, that's always where my heart lies. but everyone loves different things and you know, they�* re volunteer organisations. today we're meeting up with the samaritans, the royal voluntary service, who do great work in hospitals, all coming together, opening the doors, saying come and get involved. it'sjust one thing. and stats that have been released for this year show that particularly people over the age of 65, volunteer numbers have dropped, i think, as following on from the pandemic. it's been quite a difficult couple of years. so are we hoping that this is going to kind of boost that again? and just once again, how do you encourage people to take

this on and volunteer when maybe they haven't done so before? yeah, so interesting. i think you're right. i think a lot of people are anxious. but how do we overcome that? you get involved, you start small, you try, you go with a friend, you sign up baby steps. and i think it's like a muscle inside, isn't it? how do we overcome the scary things? we move forward, not backwards. so as a volunteer, it makes us stronger, it makes us happier, makes us more connected. and the more we do that, the more confident we become, and hopefully the better our community is as well. now it's time for a look at the weather with nick miller. a lot of settled weather out there today and a lot of cloud, hints of blue coming through here and there as we take a look at the satellite picture today. you can see, yes, good of cloud come in parts of east anglia, they fared very well today for sunshine. anglia, they fared very well today forsunshine. northern anglia, they fared very well today for sunshine. northern england as well. we are seeing some outbreaks of rain heading into the west

announced the moment courtesy of this weather front which will slowly edge further south as we go through the night. and into parts of northern ireland as well. it will tend to weaken as it does so. this is how friday evening are shaping up. more of scotland seeing rain edging southwards. you'll notice that across western scotland overnight moving to northern ireland and tending to to fizzle out as it reaches far north of england. a colder night tonight, more widely across england, compared with last night and that does mean a greater chance of frost in parts of southern england and the countryside, down to -4. a england and the countryside, down to —4. a few fog patches as well as we start the day. a hint of frost in scotland unlike this morning and here into northern ireland, and increasing so in northern england, sunny skies tomorrow, a shower in northern scotland and a week weather front overnight friday and saturday across scotland and northern ireland, giving patchy drizzle towards wales and the midlands. part

two of the weekend on sunday, low pressure is just passing to the north of scotland. it will come close enough, though, to strengthen the winds with gales close enough, though, to strengthen the winds with gates in the northern hours, gusts in excess of 60 miles an hour, and an area of rain gradually moving to northern ireland during the day and maybe some patchy rain reaching parts of north—west england as well, south of all of that, after lots of cold starts, a few sunny spells here and there and most likely towards east anglia and the south—east of england. temperatures a few degrees higher on sunday. that warm weather front all is a move south overnight into monday following on behind, wintry showers in scotland, fresh snow into the hills as monday begins and a quiet day again on monday. another area of low pressure which could turn things quite stormy across parts of scotland especially into the north later on tuesday. that's one to watch for potential disruption. the northern half of the uk most likely to see windy conditions but the further south you

are it will be more subtle but not completely dry. temperatures are above the average for the time of year. you can check the forecast wherever you are, wherever you are going, by having a look at the bbc weather app. that is your forecast.

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