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welcome back to bbc news. we bring you some breaking news that's come in the last few minutes. the confederation of british industries has in the last few minutes announce its suspending all policy injune. this comes after dozens of firms paused or even cancelled their membership. a number of huge names have ditched the cbi and moved on. this includes bmw, john lewis, avi, mastercard, virgin media, lloyd's of london, schroders. these have either paused or cancelled their membership completely. the business lobbying group has been at the centre of all what only could be described as

varying degrees. there really has taken a toll on the organisations. we've seen its share resigning, stepping down. a new chair is do to take over, but we have had a lot of companies who rely on the cbi to not only lobby for them, but also to give best practice for businesses, to advise businesses on what is best practice. we've seen one of those companies who are really the bread and butter of the organisation, leaving the organisation because of fear. a little bit earlier on, we spoke to brian mcbride, who spoke to the bbc a few days ago and so the group had not previously been aware of the most serious allegations. they were working closely with police... this was a statement from

the cbi. " the cbi shares the shock and repulsion of the events that have taken place in our organisation have taken place in our organisation have past failures that allowed these events to happen. we are deeply sorry and express our profound regret to the women who have endured these experiences. we listened carefully to what colleagues have said and we have now heard out and clear a demand of far—reaching change. we want to understand how they envision our future role and purpose. we've taken the difficult but necessary decision to suspend all policy activity until an extraordinary general meeting at june. we will put forward proposals for a refocus cbi to decide on the future role and purpose of the organisation. this work and culture reform will be the entire and urgent focus of the organisation over the

coming weeks. they going to end by saying there's stepping takes to —— taking steps to address their failures. "we know it will take time to rebuild trust and purpose and culture and to give our team and former colleagues the space to heal." a source close to employees at the cbi have said the crisis over the past week has taken an emotional toll on staff at the business lobbying organisation. employees around 300 people, but because of the turmoil, their futures around 300 people, but because of the turmoil, theirfutures have been very much in doubt. we had comments from simonjack, who said the problems that the cbi are becoming more acute by the hour. he goes on to say as new allegations of rape and stocking emerge, some of the biggest companies in the uk have

started to cut ties with the crisis hit group. the cbi has a sickly said that it has decided to suspend all policy —— has distinctly. businesses who are members of the group, part of its remit are to lobby for this business to the government, but also to give businesses tips on becks processes —— best practice it this ongoing crisis is going to have a big impact. to bring you a bit more reaction as we get it here, but for now, i want to go on to another big making story. political turmoil at the heart of the british government.

political turmoil in the uk as prime minister rishi sunak�*s number 2 his deputy prime minister resigned earlier after an independent report found he'd bullied officials. the inquiry, led by a top lawyer, found dominic raab had acted in an "intimidating" and "insulting" manner with civil servants while justice secretary. the report also said he abused power while foreign secretary. 0ur reporter courtney bembridge has been looking through the key findings. first of all, we have the use of hand gestures, and the report said they had a great deal of evidence of any communication. at the most extreme and which would have been an unacceptable, this was put as his directing extending his hand directly out towards another person's face with a view to make them stop talking. it also goes to say another allegation was loud banging of the table to make a

point. it says there is significant scope for misunderstanding and the use of physical gestures in the report said "i was not convinced it wasn't done in a threatening way, although those unused style might well have found it disconcerting." the second example is about his conduct with policy officials. they said he acted in a manner that was a intimidating, and insulting in its sense of making unconstructive critical comments about the quality of work. we can see the work dominic raab described as utterly useless and as willful. the third example is going a lot further. the report says his conduct also involved in abuse or misuse of power and a way that undermines or humiliates. it says he went beyond what was reasonably

necessary in order to give effect and his decisions, and it says his conduct was bound to be experienced as undermining and humiliating and you must have been aware of thus affect release yet ought to have been. you can find a lot more allowances on our website. —— analysis. wa nt to want to bring in someone to talk about this because we want to know where this leaves the relationship between ministers and civil servants. it's a key relationship for any government. live now to anita boateng, a former special adviser to the uk conservative government. let me ask first of all what you thought when you read about this. what was your reaction having worked in this department? yes. what was your reaction having worked in this department?— in this department? yes, i served as a secial in this department? yes, i served as a special adviser _ in this department? yes, i served as a special adviser in _ in this department? yes, i served as a special adviser in the _ in this department? yes, i served as a special adviser in the ministry - in this department? yes, i served as a special adviser in the ministry of. a special adviser in the ministry of justice alongside dominic raab. he was the court minister at the time.

having worked in four or five departments, the relationship and the trust between civil servants and secretary of state are incredibly important. i'm really glad courtney made the point that it's important that —— it's in incredibly new nuance report. it's very clear from the report first of all that there was no... he doesn't find evidence of mall intent, there weren't incidents was when dominic raab sought to make anyone feel bullied. but there were some incidents where that he feels he ought to recognise that was the affect. the thing that's really important is that we recognise that there have to be ways for ministers to invite debate, but

also a system whereby ministers are able to actually receive some sort of feedback. i don't think this is a case of party political or anything like that. i think the relationship has to be effective for good governments, and it's clearfrom this account that there insist this is where it doesn't work as an ought to. ~ , ,., , ., to. the key point here is in two different departments, - to. the key point here is in two different departments, he was| to. the key point here is in two - different departments, he was found to have had issues with people, i guess the one thing that linked those was dominic raab. if you look at it from that point of view, what people are saying now is ultimately, why did he resign? if he did nothing wrong, why is he gone? i

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though that lesson didn't quite land. i think there is something to reflect on here between how that feedback might be given in a way that it can land and that ministers taken very seriously. i'm sure lot of ministers will take remiss that the bar is rightly very high for fostering a conducive environment within departments. they've got to be held to impeccably high standard, and i hope there's a way to formally make that easier. haifa and i hope there's a way to formally make that easier.— make that easier. how did you find him to work— make that easier. how did you find him to work with? _ make that easier. how did you find him to work with? i _ make that easier. how did you find him to work with? i find _ make that easier. how did you find him to work with? i find dominic. him to work with? i find dominic raab great _ him to work with? i find dominic raab great to — him to work with? i find dominic raab great to work _ him to work with? i find dominic raab great to work with, - him to work with? i find dominic raab great to work with, very i raab great to work with, very hard—working, very diligent and also, i didn't come across behaviour that concerned me. now, that... i was in the ministry ofjustice with him in 2017. i'm not saying any of his criticisms or any facts were

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this way. will talk tojim will talk to jim anderson, will talk tojim anderson, ceo of beacon, whojoined us. i lost my blue twitter tick today or yesterday, and it doesn't really bother me that much, but there is a serious side to this and that without the verification system, twitter is the wild, wild west. yeah, i lost mine as well, and it doesn't change much. when you go to twitter, you see not only who you follow, but suggestions by the algorithm. all of these social networks use algorithms to open up the opportunity for mischief. people will try to hide hijack activities for fun will try to hide hijack activities forfun or will try to hide hijack activities for fun or profit or whatever reason. the absence of the blue tick

makes it easier.— makes it easier. doesn't make twitter a worse _ makes it easier. doesn't make twitter a worse place - makes it easier. doesn't make twitter a worse place hang - makes it easier. doesn't makej twitter a worse place hang out makes it easier. doesn't make - twitter a worse place hang out in? it really does, it feels like a bad neighbourhood. it's an area you want to spend time, if you're running across hijacked accounts and there's more unsavoury behaviour, how is that good for twitter? i find this remarkable that elon musk thinks this is a good idea. i understand the need to make money, but to take away the blue check which is one of the things that tries to ensure authenticity seems like an odd way. some big names, including a uk celebrity, martin lewis, who is also known as a money—saving expert. he tweeted today that he's paid for his blue tick because he has so many people pretending to be him online and trying to scam people using his

name. he's found for him, it's more useful to have a blue tick. do you understand where people are coming from? flit understand where people are coming from? .., , , understand where people are coming from? _, , , . understand where people are coming from? , , . ., , understand where people are coming from? , , . . from? of course, but what does that i like to from? of course, but what does that i like to you? — from? of course, but what does that i like to you? it _ from? of course, but what does that i like to you? it sounds _ from? of course, but what does that i like to you? it sounds like - i like to you? it sounds like protection. "i have to pay because bad things will happen." maybe it's bad things will happen." maybe its practical, but i'm not sure the emotion you want to capitalise on. that's an awfully difficult dynamic. you want people to be on twitter, be expressing themselves, and yet you're taking actions that cause people to feel defensive. i thought to m self, people to feel defensive. i thought to myself. if— people to feel defensive. i thought to myself, if someone _ people to feel defensive. i thought to myself, if someone like - people to feel defensive. i thought to myself, if someone like martin | to myself, if someone like martin lewis were to have a tick, hundreds of others could get a tick themselves.— of others could get a tick themselves. �* , ., .. . ~ of others could get a tick themselves. �* .~ . themselves. and you can take a icture themselves. and you can take a picture of _ themselves. and you can take a picture of martin _ themselves. and you can take a picture of martin lewis - themselves. and you can take a picture of martin lewis and - themselves. and you can take a picture of martin lewis and put| themselves. and you can take a | picture of martin lewis and put it up picture of martin lewis and put it up there, and i'm now the real martin lewis. that's a can of worms that's been unleashed. there are things they can do to back away from

that. elon musk himself is offering to personally pay for verification. crosstalk because stephen came and lebron and... they said they wouldn't pay it. �* �* , ., and... they said they wouldn't pay it. �*, ., ., yis it. and it's not about the money. is like a game- _ it. and it's not about the money. is like a game. good _ it. and it's not about the money. is like a game. good to _ it. and it's not about the money. is like a game. good to talk - it. and it's not about the money. is like a game. good to talk to - it. and it's not about the money. is like a game. good to talk to you. i like a game. good to talk to you. thank you very much indeed. you're watching bbc news. let's get some more news making headlines. two protestors from the group just stop 0il have been jailed, for causing long traffic jams when they scaled the dartford crossing over the m25 motorway last october. morgan trowland and marcus decker used climbing equipment to scale the qe2 bridge over the thames, forcing a road closure for more than 40 hours. they've been sentenced to three years, and two years and seven

months respectively. thejudge said they had to be punished others from copying them. for the chaos they had caused, and to deter others from copying them. the agreement includes a one—off payment of £500 and a wage rise of 6% this year and 2% next year. the troubled rail operator, trans pennine express, has once again topped the list for the highest number of cancellations, in their latest survey from the rail regulator. trans pennine cancelled nearly one in six trains in the four—week period to the end of march, which is a slight improvement on past performance. the school watchdog in england... the schools watchdog in england says it will make changes to the way inspections are carried out, after the suicide of a head teacher injanuary. ruth perry took her own life,

while waiting for the publication of an 0fsted report, which was about to downgrade her school to �*inadequate'. despite calls to abandon such classifications, 0fsted says it will keep the single overall grade for schools. here's our education editor, branwen jeffreys. a dedicated head teacher, ruth perry took her life injanuary while waiting for an inspection report to be published. 0fsted described the death as a tragedy, but ruth's sister told me condolences weren't enough. she says 0fsted haven't been in touch or engaged with the family's concerns. the complete lack of any real engagement with the family, with our wishes, with my pronouncements, with my worries, my concerns about what happened to ruth, what has happened to other head teachers and teachers, what could happen again, is really upsetting. it adds to the hurt, it adds to the outrage, it adds to our feeling of injustice, what happened to ruth. 0fsted said today it's making some changes, but not the steps the family wants to see.

what i think needs to happen and should have happened already is a pause in inspections. no, there is no doubt in my family's mind at all that ruth killed herself because of that 0fsted inspection. she was fine beforehand. she was not fine during and after it. so, it is a potentially dangerous system. i think a pause in inspections is the decent, human, empathetic, correct thing to do. 0fsted found caversham primary provided a good education, but it was rated inadequate overall because of safeguarding, checks on staff and records on keeping children safe. 0fsted said it is listening and making changes — quicker follow—up where safeguarding is a concern, changes to the complaints system, more briefings for head teachers to demystify inspections.

but head teachers�* unions say these aren't enough. largely, what it misses is the main driver of concern among head teachers about inspection, which is the very blunt single—word judgement that 0fsted makes when they visit schools. the government has strongly backed 0fsted and says one—word judgements are clear and useful to parents. the education secretary told mps this week she would be happy to meet the family. an inquest will look at the events around ruth perry's death later this year. branwen jeffreys, bbc news. muslims around the world are celebrating eid, marking the end of ramadan. for many, the siting of a crescent moon above �*s saudi arabia marked the close of the holy month of the start of eid. to all of you

are celebrating out that they are. now it's time for a look at the weather. hello. a beautiful day on friday across scotland and northern ireland — quite warm, too. the coming days, however, are going to be pretty chilly in the north. a cold wind will set in even some wintry showers to come across the scottish hills, maybe even the pennines. here's the forecast for the short term — outbreaks of rain across parts of northern england reaching northern ireland by the early hours of saturday morning. some clear spells overnight, too, in scotland and the south of the country. that does mean a touch of frost, especially outside of town. but for most of us, around 5—6 degrees tonight. let's pick up on that rain in the north — you can see showers in northern england. that weather front reaching the southern uplands by lunchtime or so and certainly looking quite wet there in northern ireland, but also showers clustered in the south—west of the country. so these areas will be pretty chilly, 10—12 degrees, the south—west, northern ireland, the south of scotland, but where the sun does pop out briefly, i think on saturday,

maybe 13—15 degrees. now, talking about colder weather, there's that chilly atmosphere spreading in from the north on a east, north—easterly, so that change really starts to happen on sunday. in the north, frequent showers, really strong winds up to gale force, increasingly falling as wintry across the hills, and then elsewhere, it's a real mixed bag, even a crack of thunder here and there. the temperatures on sunday will struggle again in the north — 7—8 degrees, 12 degrees expected in liverpool in the south, maybe a couple of degrees high. maybe a couple of degrees higher. but the winds will be strong everywhere, so we really will start to feel that chill. and then, sunday into monday, we'll see even stronger winds and colder air spreading into parts of scotland. notice the wintry showers there across the hills spreading further southwards and really chilly along that north sea coast. and then elsewhere, i think a mixture of sunny spells and showers. so the temperatures really disappointing on monday — 6 in aberdeen, 8 in birmingham, maybe just about double figures there for cardiff and for london where showers are expected.

and that chilly atmosphere spreads right across the uk and into the continent, into scandinavia as well on tuesday. warmer weather will reach us, but not until later next week. so, here's the outlook for this weekend. chilly mixed bag on the way, that chilly air relatively for the time of the year is with us until wednesday, then from thursday, should warm up. bye— bye.

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