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live from london, this is bbc news. police investigating the disappearance of madeleine mccann begin searching a reservoir in portugal. i will have the latest from portugal as police search this reservoir is part of their investigation into the disappearance of madeleine mccann. two teenage boys died in a crash before last night's riot in cardiff which left several police officers injured. hello, i'm maryam moshiri, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast—moving news, interviews and reaction.
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police have begun a new search for the british toddler madeleine mccann who disappeared during a holiday in portugal 16 years ago. these are the latest pictures. police divers have gone into the the reservoir thirty miles from where the british girl was last seen. officials are hoping to find evidence linking the main suspect — a german sex offender — christian brueckner was made a formal suspect, or an "arguido", by portuguese prosecutors last year. german state prosecutor hans christian wolters issued the statement, saying, "these measures are being carried out with legal assistance from portuguese law enforcement authorities, with support from officials from the federal criminal police office". our correspondent navtej johal is at the barragem do arade reservoir in the algarve — where the search is taking place.
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this where the search is taking place. research has bee around this research has been taking place around this vast expanse of water you can see behind me and they have been a number of tools and techniques used today, we have seen emergency vehicles, police officers, an inflatable boat being launched into the water, police divers have been seen entering the water as well. my my colleague daniel sanford has the background to how we got to this point. already in position yesterday and ready to start work this morning, tents and equipment for searching at a dam three quarters of an hour's drive from where madeleine mccann went missing 16 years ago. she disappeared in 2007, a few days before her fourth birthday. despite her case being one of the most high profile missing person cases ever, no one has ever been charged in connection with her disappearance.
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her parents, kate and gerry mccann, have always hoped they would find their daughter alive. but german prosecutors who are leading this investigation are treating it as a murder inquiry. their suspect, christian brueckner, is currently serving seven years in prison for the rape of a woman in the same area of portugal in 2005. he's never been charged over madeleine mccann�*s disappearance, and has denied any involvement. but the german state prosecutor said there was growing evidence connecting him to the case, including mobile phone records. madeleine mccann vanished from flat g5a at the ocean club in praia da luz on the 3rd of may 2007 as her parents were in a restaurant a few yards away. but amid intense media scrutiny, no trace of her was found. in 2008, a private search of the same reservoir funded by a portuguese lawyer found nothing that proved relevant to the case. divers said there was almost no visibility, but police will search at the dam again starting today.
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the last significant search in this inquiry was nine years ago and was led by british police as part of an investigation that cost more than £10 million. madeleine mccann�*s 20th birthday was this month. 0n the 16th anniversary of her disappearance, her parents wrote, "the police investigation continues and we await a breakthrough". daniel sandford, bbc news, in the algarve. so far today we have seen a great deal of activity around this area. the police have had vehicles and inflatable boats, police divers entering the water and they have also been sniffer dogs seen along the banks of the reservoir as well. they started at around 8am this morning local time and it's been continuing ever since. there is also a significant media presence in the area as you would expect. this case
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has had intense public scrutiny and media scrutiny and interest from the very beginning. today marks another significant chapter as well as this is the first major search in nine years in this investigation. [30 is the first major search in nine years in this investigation. do we have a clearer— years in this investigation. do we have a clearer time _ years in this investigation. do we have a clearer time frame - years in this investigation. do we have a clearer time frame about| years in this investigation. do we l have a clearer time frame about all this? how long will it take? we know the olice this? how long will it take? we know the police will _ this? how long will it take? we know the police will be _ this? how long will it take? we know the police will be searching _ this? how long will it take? we know the police will be searching here - the police will be searching here today and at least until tomorrow. beyond that it's difficult to say. there was confirmation from the german prosecutor this morning saying the police and prodigal and the german police were working together to search here in portugal. beyond that, many details have not yet been revealed in terms of what exactly they are looking for and what they are hoping to find. in terms of a timeline we know that for at least these two days they will be an intense amount of energy and resources being expended here. we know 20 police officers have been
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assigned to this operation already. this is an investigation which over the course of the last 16 years, millions of pounds have been spent on it as well. so this is the most significant chapter we have seen since that search nine years ago. we will of course bring you any updates to the story as and when we get them at bbc news. prince harry has lost a legal challenge over his bid to be allowed to make private payments for police protection. harry was stripped of the security usually afforded to royal figures after he and his wife meghan stepped down from their official roles to move to the us. the high court in london ruled he could not also seek a judicial review over whether to let him pay for the specialist police officers himself. 0ur royal correspondent sean coughland has been giving us more details.
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this wasn't a full hearing of that application, it was a bit on his part to have a judicial review of it being turned down. there was a hearing last week when it was debated and he put the claim that they were situations in which people could make private contributions but the home office said that might work for something like a football match but extra police might be funded by private organisations but that wouldn't apply in the security situation with armed guards. so we established the principle that wealthy individuals can't buy security. this involved when prince harry and his family came on visits to the uk and as we've heard they no longer have the security afforded to embers of the royal family under the terms of the committee which decides these things. he wanted to be able to make its own private contribution to make its own private contribution to get that same police protection. he is one of the most newsworthy figures in the world at the moment along with his wife and that
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particular incident in new york happened where he would have had his own private security so it wasn't the same sort of thing as what would happen here. it also says that if he is coming here they would still be arrangements in place. it's not as if he would not have any security. he grabs on private security and the police would provide appropriate security on a case—by—case basis. we have seen with him with police riders travelling during the coronation so i think that will still be the arrangement. he will come back and they will be police protection but it won't be the same level as he had before. police in wales have confirmed two teenage boys were killed in a car crash just before riots broke out in the district of eelee in the welsh capital, cardiff last night. cars were set alight and objects, including fireworks were thrown at police. it's estimated 100 to 150 people gathered at the scene of the incident. police say the connection between the disorder and the car crash was unclear,
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but dismissed rumours of a police chase, saying officers had arrived after the crash had happened. live now to our bbc wales reporter nelli bird who is at the scene in cardiff. tell us more about what we know about the occurrences last night. this is a community that is grieving and there is still very angry. there were chaotic scenes last night as rioters went towards police throwing anything they could find, fireworks, pallets, bricks, glass bottles. it all escalated after a serious crash in the area which we now know those two teenagers died in and as the tension built over the evening you could sense something was about to happen and as the night went on that tension erupted. thomas morgan looks back at last night's events.
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oh, no, no, no, no, no. chaos in cardiff. rocks, paving stones and fireworks hurled at police after they were called to deal with a road accident in cardiff on the west side of the city and one of wales's most deprived areas. following their arrival, it appears the situation and the mood in the area escalated quickly. these pictures were streamed live on social media. get back! at several stages, the crowd seemed to charge forward, and riot police forced them back with their shields and batons. south wales police described it as a large—scale disorder, urging local residents to stay indoors and not to speculate online, insisting the original accident had happened before they went to the scene. forensic and specialist teams are continuing their investigation. tomos morgan, bbc news, cardiff.
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the council clean—up operation started pretty early this morning. the debris was swept away and quickly there was a smell of disinfectant rather than the petrol you could smell from last night. if you could smell from last night. if you look behind me there are still some evidence of what happened. a couple of the cars, all the windows have been smashed on the windscreen smashed. another car has got paint all over it. this is easily in the west of cardiff, it's known as one of the most deprived areas of wales, however this is an exceptional thing to happen and what you get a sense of it is there is still real anger. of it is there is still real anger. of the police have tried to quash of the police have tried to quash those social media rumours about the fact that possibly a police car was involved in the chase but still people are angry and want answers about what happened. we are starting to see people leaving floral tributes now to those two teenagers who died. it tributes now to those two teenagers who died. , ., , ,., who died. it must have been so frightening _ who died. it must have been so frightening for _ who died. it must have been so frightening for the _ who died. it must have been so frightening for the residents .
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who died. it must have been so. frightening for the residents who live in those houses behind you. we soke live in those houses behind you. - spoke to the man who lived here and he is a taxi driver and it wasn't his taxi that did get vandalised but he had two young children in the house and was explaining how difficult it was to keep them calm and trying to explain what was happening. they were clearly terrified. there was a disabled woman in a different street, the violence moves from here further down towards the police station, and her car was also burned out and she felt she was trapped in a house. so this stayed escalated and i think for a lot of people it wasn't clear how it was going to fizzle out. today, there is still this anger here so i think a lot of people just looking for those answers and we have asked to speak to south wales police, we've had that statement, but so far we haven't had an interview with them. fix,
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but so far we haven't had an interview with them.- but so far we haven't had an interview with them. a day after sanish interview with them. a day after spanish -- _ interview with them. a day after spanish -- arrests— interview with them. a day after spanish -- arrests have - interview with them. a day after spanish -- arrests have been i interview with them. a day after i spanish -- arrests have been made interview with them. a day after - spanish -- arrests have been made in spanish —— arrests have been made in connection with alleged racist abuse of the brazilian star vinicius junior. spanish police have arrested three people in the eastern city of valencia in connection with racist slurs. for other people have also been arrested on suspicion of hanging an effigy of the vinicius junior himself off a bridge in madrid injanuary. real madrid lodged a hate crime complained on monday after the brazil international was subjected to a torrent of racial abuse by opposing fans. we will have more than that story a bit later. president zelensky met with senior officials in the area and handed out awards to soldiers stationed in the
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battle scarred region. also visited to commemorate the day of the ukrainian marines announcing the formation of a new wrinkle. you are washing bbc news. more on that ukraine situation later. but across the world and around the uk, this is bbc news. let's look at some stories making news across the uk. the international monetary fund expects the uk economy will avoid a recession this year and grow by 0.4%. but it's warned that inflation "remains stubbornly high" and higher interest rates will need to stay in place. pressure continues to mount on rishi sunak to order an inquiry into whether suella braverman breached the ministerial code. the homem secretary attended her weekly cabinet meeting as questions over her handling of a speeding offence threatens to deepen rifts within the tory party. braverman has said she's "confident nothing untoward happened",
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but has refused to be drawn over whether she asked civil servants to arrange a one—to—one speed awareness course for her. bbc news understands there will be no further meetings aboutjunior doctors' pay in england, unless their latest strike is called off. next month's round of industrial action will last for three days from the 14th ofjune. the doctors' union, the british medical association, said the most recent pay offer from the government was in "no way credible or even reasonable". you're live with bbc news. the indian prime minister narendra modi has addressed a large rally in australia, where he's been greeted by thousands of cheering supporters at sydney's olympic park. he appeared on stage alongside the australian prime minister, anthony albanese. mr modi is looking to boost economic ties with australia, where there's a growing indian diaspora. 0ur corresondent in sydney, phil mercer has more. it is a typical example of narendra modi's oratory skills. very charismatic piece of oratory from the indian prime minister, talking about and praising local politicians in australia,
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food and cricket, referring to the passing of the australian cricket legend shane warne a year ago. and also, asking the audience if they share his dream, his ambition of india becoming a developed country. that drew a huge amount of applause. mr modi is addressing a crowd of about 20,000 people at sydney olympic park. the venue for the olympics back in 2000. there was a slight bit of tension outside the arena. riot police were called into what they say de—escalated bit of friction between sikh activists and narendra modi supporters. i think it's important to say that the visit of the indian prime minister to australia really highlights divisions within the expatriate
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migrant indian community in this country. there are muslim members of the community and sikh campaigners who want to raise various human rights and other political grievances. but as far as the audience inside the arena here in sydney is concerned they are seeing what they've described as a once—in—a—lifetime leader. how does australia see these ties? because i'm bound to say, india is somewhat controversial in the context of the conflict in ukraine. india is australia's sixth largest trading partner, two—way trade between the two countries was worth last year about $30 billion. australia wants much, much more. there are negotiations towards a free trade agreement. so, speaking economically australia believes there are enormous opportunities. australia is quite keen to diversify away from its trading reliance on china, for example.
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we've also been speaking to experts here who believe that closer ties between india and china are driven by a desire to counter china's rise in the indo—pacific. so, much for narendra modi to speak about during his trip to australia, which is becoming an increasingly close ally. sudan's latest ceasefire now appears to be holding despite early breaches of the deal, with reports of airstrikes and clashes in the capital khartoum as it came into force on monday evening. it's hoped the ceasefire will enable the delivery of badly needed humanitarian aid. the conflict between the sudanese army and the para—military group rapid support forces — or rsf — broke out five weeks ago. since the fighting began, an estimated 700 people have been killed and more than one million have been displaced. 0ur correspondent barbara plett usher sent this update from nairobi.
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we are still hearing from residents in khartoum that the capital is calm. as you mentioned they were reported air strikes and fighting overnight but at this point that i stopped. however one resident in east khartoum told us the rss militia men are wandering around her area shooting in the air and killing dogs. she says they are drunk and people are afraid to venture out of their houses. they are basically stuck in their houses because of this lawless behaviour. there is however no fighting between the two forces that we know of and it's hoped this means it —— aid workers will be able to deliver badly needed humanitarian supplies. there is a ceasefire organism to monitor and this would be the platform to check any violations reported and to try and resolve disputes and coordinate with these humanitarian actors.
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whatsapp says it will allow users to edit messages for up to 15 minutes after being sent. the feature will made be available to its two billion users in the coming weeks. edited messages will be tagged as "edited", so recipients know that the content has been changed. but, they will not be shown how the message has been altered. live now to kate bevan, a technology writer. there obviously has been a big push towards being able to edit messages on a lot of the these social media outlets, is it a good idea? i’m on a lot of the these social media outlets, is it a good idea? i'm not very keen — outlets, is it a good idea? i'm not very keen on _ outlets, is it a good idea? i'm not very keen on it — outlets, is it a good idea? i'm not very keen on it because _ outlets, is it a good idea? i'm not very keen on it because if - outlets, is it a good idea? i'm not. very keen on it because if you can't see what the edit trail is which you won't be able to on what's up, you don't know what's been said before and whether it's been changed in a way that makes the sender looks better or makes the recipient looked bad. i am slightly ambivalent about it but everybody wants it so whatsapp is behind the times in rolling this out. the
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whatsapp is behind the times in rolling this out.— rolling this out. the 15 minute thing interests _ rolling this out. the 15 minute thing interests me. _ rolling this out. the 15 minute thing interests me. a - rolling this out. the 15 minute thing interests me. a lot - rolling this out. the 15 minute thing interests me. a lot can l rolling this out. the 15 minute - thing interests me. a lot can happen in 15 minutes. you could be having a chat and a big group and i could say something to you there is a bit rude and you might reply and then later in my change my whatsapp message so people don't know what i said and your reply might look odd. exactly. peole your reply might look odd. exactly. people wanted. _ your reply might look odd. exactly. people wanted. what _ your reply might look odd. exactly. people wanted. what it's _ your reply might look odd. exactly. people wanted. what it's going - your reply might look odd. exactly. people wanted. what it's going to l your reply might look odd. exactly. i people wanted. what it's going to do is main people screenshot whatsapp message is a lot more than they used to just make sure they've got the original version of the message in case they need go back. that's not a great thing for privacy. what case they need go back. that's not a great thing for privacy.— great thing for privacy. what is it about editing _ great thing for privacy. what is it about editing your _ great thing for privacy. what is it about editing your message - great thing for privacy. what is it about editing your message that | about editing your message that strikes a chord with so many people? i think we want to be in charge of what we say and being able to go back and revise it so it strikes a chord with people. i am perfectly happy to delete and just repost if i get it wrong although it is very useful occasionally to go back and
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clarify the thread on facebook but on facebook you can see the edit trail and what has been changed. the oint is, trail and what has been changed. the point is, when you delete something people see you've deleted it anyway so that can be quite disconcerting if you see many deleted messages. if you open up whatsapp room and see lots of deleted messages you think what have they been saying about me? but even if it's edited you know what they've been saying about you. it can be unsettling but i see why people like this in one place but personally i'm not sure i'm going to be using it much. teilii personally i'm not sure i'm going to be using it much.— be using it much. tell us about the fact that whatsapp _ be using it much. tell us about the fact that whatsapp is _ be using it much. tell us about the fact that whatsapp is behind - be using it much. tell us about the fact that whatsapp is behind the l fact that whatsapp is behind the times. why is it taken whatsapp so long to get here?— times. why is it taken whatsapp so long to get here? whatsapp has been bus rollin: long to get here? whatsapp has been busy rolling out _ long to get here? whatsapp has been busy rolling out lots _ long to get here? whatsapp has been busy rolling out lots and _ long to get here? whatsapp has been busy rolling out lots and lots - long to get here? whatsapp has been busy rolling out lots and lots of - busy rolling out lots and lots of features. they've done allsorts of changes like you can now see everyone's avatar, you can see who
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is replying, they have been rolling and disappearing messages. messages you can put behind ten wall so if somebody spying on your phone they will need a pen to get at that particular chat. it has been busy keeping up. whatsapp is a blot on its plate as well because it's owned by meta and they have been lots of concerns about the possibility of the uk government wanting to build back doors into the encryptions. i am not surprised they are slower to introduce this feature. 50 am not surprised they are slower to introduce this feature.— introduce this feature. so you can exect introduce this feature. so you can exoeet this _ introduce this feature. so you can expect this feature _ introduce this feature. so you can expect this feature to _ introduce this feature. so you can expect this feature to happen - introduce this feature. so you can i expect this feature to happen within the next two days or weeks? the next few weeks may _ the next two days or weeks? the next few weeks may be. _ the next two days or weeks? the next few weeks may be. it _ the next two days or weeks? the next few weeks may be. it hasn't _ the next two days or weeks? the next few weeks may be. it hasn't rolled - few weeks may be. it hasn't rolled out to me yet. few weeks may be. it hasn't rolled out to me yet-— out to me yet. lovely to speak to ou. out to me yet. lovely to speak to you- thank _ out to me yet. lovely to speak to you- thank you- _ britain has stepped up its fight against the ivory trade. the government has announced a ban on the sale of ivory will now be extended. the import, export and dealing of elephant ivory
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was banned in the uk last year. but that will now be extended to five other species — hippos, killerwhales, walruses, narwhals, and sperm whales. 0ur climate editor — justin rowlatt — has more details. this is where they store the animal and plant parts they have seized at the airport and i am joined by naturalist steve blackshaw. and through this door is a rather gruesome house of horrors. it is where they store the animal and plant parts that they've seized at the airport. and i'm joined by tv presenter and naturalist steve backshall. steve, i warn you, you're going to see some quite unpleasant things in here. shall we go in? yes, let's. so, a huge collection. you really do wonder why anybody would want some of these things. they're really shocking, some of them. yeah, the thing that gives the greatest immediate impact is obviously the big elephant tusks. and you very rarely see elephants with ivory like that any more. they're super, super rare. you know, when i was a kid
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there were tusks around like that but now they've been hunted pretty much to extinction. so let's just be clear, because there is an international control on the trade in all sorts of wildlife products. i think 32,000 species are covered by that. but what the government wants to do is extend its ban on the trade in ivory here in the uk. elephant ivory is already banned, but they're banning five additional species. we've got some examples of those here. yes. i'm going to ask you to talk me through then, if you would. absolutely. so, i guess one of those replacements for elephant ivory is going to be hippo. so that is a hippo tusk which has been carved in a very similar way to ivory. and these have now been declared endangered. in some places where hippos were once prevalent, they're now gone completely. obviously we want to do anything we can to make sure that the legal and illegal trade in hippo tusks can be brought to an end in this country. and obviously the shocking thing about these, each one of these represents an animal, doesn't it? it does. and that there, that's the tooth of a bull sperm whale, which is the largest toothed animal on our planet. they have the biggest brain of any animal on earth. they communicate, they have empathy for members of their family group.
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and these ones here, these have been carved with what's known as scrimshaw. so that's a smaller tooth, but you can see the intricate workings on that there. hello. plenty of fine weather out there at the moment. it will stay dry and fairly sunny for the rest of today. we have areas of cloud just floating across the uk but still spells of sunshine and bare and largely dry. that continues not only for this afternoon but for the next few days. this big area of high pressure extending its way from the azores is keeping things settled. 0ne azores is keeping things settled. one of the weather fronts brushing around the north of that so we could see a little bit of rain affecting the final for scotland during this afternoon. a bit more cloud at times across northern scotland as well. a bit of cloud moving its way into the midlands and through southern england during the afternoon. 0n the
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whole sum plenty of dry weather and temperatures perhaps not as high as yesterday but still high teens. and when you get some sunshine to uv levels will be high across many parts of england and wales. medium to low further north. through tonight we will see more cloud again across scotland, a bit of cloud drifting down the eastern side of england into wednesday morning. 0vernight temperatures down to about five or 9 degrees. so another fairly quiet night. into wednesday and you can see this area of cloud in the north and west, sunshine for much of england and wales and as we go through the day again they will be a bit of cloud floating around but for most of us some lengthy spells of sunshine. temperatures creeping up a touch on wednesday and we could see highs of 22 celsius in the south—east. 18 degrees in central areas of scotland. by the end of the week this area of high pressure will
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move its way a little bit closer to the uk and that is going to bring some more sunshine so lots of sunshine expected on friday and thursday. a bit of cloud towards the south—east. temperatures will be a into the high teens or low 20s. 22 celsius in plymouth and cardiff and london. those temperatures could rise even further for friday and into the weekend and of course bank holiday monday. 23 to 2a celsius possible and as you can see lots of sunny symbols on the chart so dry and sunny for most of us. goodbye.
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this is bbc news, the headlines. police investigating the disappearance of madeleine mccann begin searching a reservoir in portugal. two teenage boys died in a crash before last night's riot in cardiff which left several police officers injured. in sydney — tens of thousands fill a stadium to see india's prime minister narendra modi addressing a rally. a bbc investigation finds some vapes confiscated in schools contain lead and other metals. now let's bring more on our main story. police have begun a new search for the british toddler madeleine mccann who disappeared during a holiday in portugal 16 years ago.
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