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the british people no longer indulge the polite fiction that we have a duty or infinite capacity to support everyone in the world was fleeing persecution. as one of his top generals disappears from public view, has vladimir putin shuffled russia's military leadership? hello and welcome to the programme. there are reports of more clashes in france — after a0 thousand police were deployed across the country to prevent a repeat of last night's rioting. there's again been violence in
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the paris suburb of non—terre — that's where the fatal shooting of a 17 year old boy by police took place on tuesday — which triggered unrest. there've also been disturbances with police in the southern city of mar—say. at least 100 people have been arrested. in the past hour, we've learned that the policeman who shot nahel has apologised to his family while in custody. lucy williamson reports. in nanterre today, thousands gathered to mark the void left by one local teenager and the rage that flowed in to fill it. the violence here last night still mapped onto the surrounding streets in ash and debris. nahel�*s mother leading a chant of police assassins. evan came from a suburb on the other side of paris but the problems there were just the same, he said. translation: we don't have jobs, we don't get hired -
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if we don't lie on our cv. there is nothing for us. we feel abandoned. and on top of that we get attacked by the people supposed to protect us. this is one offence too many. the march ended this afternoon in a different kind of protest, burning cars, tear gas, clashes with police. one local resident told her is her own teenage son had been mistreated by police and that the violence following nahel�*s death was justified. translation: i wouldn't be surprised if the trouble - continues as long as there are no consequences for this police officer. what happens here isjustified, the police on the dink relents, not our youth. parents are doing everything we can. the officer is in custody and facing a charge of voluntary homicide. france's interior minister said it was time for the violence to stop.
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translation: last night's riots and burning a town, l a social centre, has nothing to do with what happened in nanterre. those responsible for the troubles should go home. but no one we spoke to in nanterre thought the anger here had run its course. what's fuelling these fires isn'tjust rubbish bins and vehicles but decades of frustration with the french state. nahel�*s death triggers wider feelings of grievance with betrayal and smouldering cars gets the attention of france's leaders in a way smouldering resentments rarely do. thousands of extra police were deployed across the paris region last night. tonight, those numbers are being multiplied again, symbols of the state providing extra security and extra targets.
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at least 100 people have been arrested so far at least 100 people have been arrested so far tonight at least 100 people have been arrested so far tonight and at least 100 people have been arrested so far tonight and we also have a lot more on our website. we have a live page on bbc news websites so, do check that out as well. 0ur correpondent rajini vaidyanathan has sent this update from paris. a huge police presence in anticipation of a third night of violence. and i am in the area where17—year—old lived and died and it's also where earlier today, there was a march in his honour. the march was addressed by his mother and many people there said they turned out because they're angry with the way the police treats them and this is an ethnically diverse neighbourhood and they said they feel the police are not actually working to protect them. that piece, that march
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passed off peacefully but is wrapped up to a close, that's when the violence started to begin. we saw people setting things alight and we saw office france being smashed and in the aftermath of that, i saw one office had been smashed in the insides of been ransacked and we also heard that a bank here in nanterre was set on fire tonight. but indeed, we also are getting reports of unrest across the country, including places further afield such as marseilles. it looks set to be in many ways that the night is still young and usually, when it gets darker, that is when some of the more violent elements come out. it is unclear how bad things could be tonight and certainly, the authorities were bracing themselves for further unrest.
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we will have a lot more as information comes out of france. the us supreme court has ruled that race can no longer be considered as a factor in university admissions. the measure — known as affirmative action — had been used for decades to increase the number of students from under represented groups, butjudges decided the practice was unconstitutional. president biden said the values of the supreme court were out of step with the american people. from washington, here's jessica parker ajudicial a judicial decision sparking a political eruption. the supreme court ruling that universities can no longer considered a prospective student's race. immediately, there was anger and defiance.— and defiance. this is there today and _ and defiance. this is there today and are _ and defiance. this is there today and are tomorrow. l and defiance. this is there today and are tomorrow. i | and defiance. this is there . today and are tomorrow. i am and defiance. this is there - today and are tomorrow. i am a rising college senior, after i graduate, not only with the subject college admissions but it can affect employment as
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rewriting the rules of american socie . ~ ., _, society. i know the court decision _ society. i know the court decision is _ society. i know the court decision is a _ society. i know the court decision is a severe - decision is a severe disappointment to so many people, including me. we cannot let the decision to permit setback for the country and we need to keep an open door of opportunities.— need to keep an open door of opportunities. race was only a factor against _ opportunities. race was only a factor against many _ opportunities. race was only a | factor against many considered by us colleges for the extent to which it would've been a deciding what is what riled some people. today, the decision brings a major reset on this issue but without reconciliation. the uk government's controversial policy to send asylum seekers to rwanda has been ruled, unlawful. judges at the court of appeal said that rwanda had not provided enough safeguards to prove that it's a "safe third country". prime minister rishi sunak, said he "fundamentally disagrees" with the ruling and said the government will challenge it in the supreme court. here's our home editor mark easton. the government's controversial rwanda policy and asylum strategy have been dealt a significant blow today, with the appeal court
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concluding the east african country is not safe enough for the uk to send asylum seekers there. but the lord chiefjustice, lord burnett, announced it had been a split decision. he thought rwanda was safe, but his two colleagues did not. the deficiencies in the asylum system in rwanda are such that there are substantial grounds for believing that there is a real risk that persons sent to rwanda will be returned to their home countries where they face persecution or other inhumane treatment, when in fact they have a good claim for asylum. in that sense, rwanda is not a safe third country. the government will be disappointed by today's majorityjudgement. a blow for the home secretary who has expressed her personal enthusiasm for getting flights to rwanda started as soon as possible. but that's not the end of the legal journey. the matter will almost certainly now move to the supreme court for a final hearing later this year. the prime minister could barely contain his anger,
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issuing a statement saying he fundamentally disagreed with the court's conclusion, insisting rwanda was safe, and that it was britain and its government who should decide who comes here, not criminal gangs. the home secretary, who recently visited migrant accommodation in rwanda, has confirmed the government does intend to appeal. but government lawyers will also be working out whether having no safe country they can lawfully send migrants to means the controversial illegal migration bill is now fatally flawed. well, the system is rigged against the british people, it's as simple as that. that's why we're changing the laws through our illegal migration bill. that's why we are rolling out a ground—breaking partnership with rwanda, which we believe is lawful, with a country that we believe is safe. so we need to change the system, we need to change our laws. that's how we're going to stop the boats. the government believes the threat of being forcibly removed to east africa will deter people from crossing the channel and entering the uk illegally.
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however, the home office's own impact assessment says there's little or no evidence that it will work. and in the commons the labour party says there the rwanda policy should be abandoned. this rwanda scheme is unworkable, unethical, extortionately expensive and a costly and damaging distraction from the urgent practical action we should be taking from the plan labour has set out to stop wasting all this money on a failing scheme. it's a year since a plane loaded with migrants and bound for rwanda sat on the runway of an raf base unable to leave afterjudges intervened. today's ruling means it will be months, if ever, before any similar flight is cleared for take—off. mark easton, bbc news. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. bringing you different stories from across the uk. we have launched on routine
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you're live with bbc news. in iran, women are continuing to defy the strict morality laws in place across the country. last september, huge protests were seen in the capital tehran and elsewhere following the death of 22—year—old mahsa amini. she died in police custody after being arrested for allegedly being in breach of the strict rules on how a woman should wear her hijab or headscarf. weeks of protests followed her death, resulting in a violent government crackdown and the deaths of more 500 people. it is extremely difficult for the bbc to obtain footage from inside iran — ourjournalists are not allowed to work there. but a team in the uk has worked through and verified more than 350 videos posted on social media showing the protests in graphic detail. yalda hakim reports. in september 2022, the death of a young woman in police custody
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triggered antigovernment protests across iran. a family member went at her gravesite. i member went at her gravesite. i swear to god that when she left home, her clothes were so appropriate, she was dressed more appropriately than all of your daughters stop the iranian authorities pledged to investigate amini's death. to insist that the protests were organised by foreign powers. a bbc documentary has analysed over 100 hours of footage from those protests and verified 350 videos. please make the killing of amini have been transforming from an actress interested in women's right into wing activist. she was once a famous
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tv actor in iran. she is now an international movie star. and she's been gathering testimony on how the authorities responded in the early days of the uprising. responded in the early days of the uprising-— responded in the early days of the uprising._ i l responded in the early days of. the uprising._ i am the uprising. how are you? i am fine. thanrs- — the uprising. how are you? i am fine, thanks. i'm _ the uprising. how are you? i am fine, thanks. i'm very _ the uprising. how are you? i am fine, thanks. i'm very glad - the uprising. how are you? i am fine, thanks. i'm very glad to i fine, thanks. i'm very glad to meet you _ fine, thanks. i'm very glad to meet yon-— fine, thanks. i'm very glad to meet you. she had a teenage dau~hter meet you. she had a teenage daughter and _ meet you. she had a teenage daughter and an _ meet you. she had a teenage daughter and an old - meet you. she had a teenage daughter and an old video - daughter and an old video recording shows her singing with friends. she was extremely adventurous and fearless but was always afraid that something would happen to her. four days after amini died, she was filmed setting fire to her headscarf.
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i told her it is dangerous and please come home. she finally said she would and i could hear other protesters shouting that security forces. they never heard from her again. security forces. they never heard from heragain. her security forces. they never heard from her again. her death certificate stated she died from multiple injuries caused by the impact of a hard object. the regime denied wrongdoing and made inconsistent claims about her death.— and made inconsistent claims about her death. personally, i have a lot _ about her death. personally, i have a lot of _ about her death. personally, i have a lot of respect - about her death. personally, i have a lot of respect for - about her death. personally, i have a lot of respect for her . have a lot of respect for her bravery and free spirit. a belief that we are living in a specific point in history where such events are needed. in iran toda , such events are needed. in iran today. the _ such events are needed. in iran today, the mass _ such events are needed. in iran today, the mass street - such events are needed. in iran j today, the mass street protests of died down for now. but acts of died down for now. but acts of defiance continue on social media. dancing like this can get you arrested. but there is still dancing.
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now to russia where president putin has made further public appearances — in what's being reported as an attempt to reassert control. it follows the attempted rebellion last week by the mercenary soldiers known as the wagner group. but there've been questions over the whereabouts of sergei surovikin, a senior general who had previously supported the wagner group leader yevgeny prigozhin — who's not been seen since saturday morning steve rosenberg reports. if you're the president and you faced mutiny, what you really want are public displays of adoration. "we are with you, we'll support you," she says, at this moscow event. vladimir putin liked that. and look what happened last night. putin mobbed in dagestan in the south of russia.
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very un—putin like, this, getting up close and personal with people. good timing, though. a few days ago, it was the wagner mercenaries being cheered, including their leader, yevgeny prigozhin, as they ended their rebellion. state tv went into overdrive about putin. "even rock stars don't get this treatment," she says. this is a turbo—charged putin we are seeing suddenly. he's here, he's there, he's everywhere, trying to show he's super popular and in control. but, having survived this mutiny, russia's president faces another pressing task — trying to work out who he can trust. can he trust this senior commander? general surovikin was head of russia's invasion force in ukraine. he is thought to have been close to mr prigozhin. he hasn't been seen in public since saturday, fuelling speculation he may
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be under suspicion. for many here, the mutiny has added to the atmosphere of uncertainty, as russia's war in ukraine grinds on. in reality, few russians are cheering about what's happening to russia. but some still have hope. when this story is finished, this way or the other way, then will be a new beginning. and it is necessary to be prepared. but would a new beginning be better or possibly worse? first it would be worse. and then, if we survive, it would be a window of opportunity. and it would be necessary to use it. as for russia's immediate future, after the mutiny, that's unclear. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. a secret police unit in the uk,
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which spied on more than a thousand political groups and trade union activists over a0 years — should have been disbanded as far back as the 1970s — had the public known about its activities. that's the conclusion of a seniorjudge heading the undercover policing inquiry asjune kelly reports the vietnam war — one of the defining episodes of the 1960s. protests outside the american embassy in london led scotland yard to set up an undercover police unit, the special demonstration squad, to gather information on anti—war activists. soon, the sds had infiltrated scores of campaign groups. none of it was justified and the sds should have been disbanded early on says the chair of the undercover policing inquiry. today, his words were quoted by those targeted. the question is whether or not the end justifies the means. i have come to the firm conclusion that, for a unit
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of a police force, it did not. amongst those spied on in the �*70s were the women's liberation movement. anti—apartheid campaigners, including key figures like peter, now lord hain, who went on to become a labour cabinet minister. and trade unionists who ended up blacklisted and on the breadline. this is a national scandal. this report that's come out today should be the final nail in the coffin of the metropolitan police. today, the force said the sds was set up at a time of political and social change, but it acknowledged that officers should not have used the identities of dead children as part of their cover stories or had sexual relationships with activists. with the benefit of hindsight, there should have been more work in relation to reviewing the information that was being gathered and more care taken in relation to the groups that
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were being infiltrated. the undercover policing inquiry will now examine the activities of the spy cops who infiltrated groups in the decades since the �*60s and �*70s. june kelly, bbc news. now — to a galaxy far far away — and scientists believe they've picked up shock waves from supermassive black holes which exist at the centre of every galaxy. they say they could hold information about "some of the best—kept secrets of the universe". pallab ghosh explains. up in space, at the heart of every galaxy is thought to be a gigantic black hole. here's a real picture of the one at the centre of our own milky way. it's four million times the mass of our sun. it became that big by colliding with other huge black holes inside other galaxies. astronomers atjodrell bank and across the world think they've detected some of these cataclysmic events.
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pulsars, which are like nature's clocks, really... 0n the dish of the giant lovell telescope, dr hannah middleton tells me that ideas on how galaxies merge and grow have all been theoretical — until maybe now. we believe that galaxies and the black holes at the centre of them grow over time by mergers. but we haven't got evidence for this as yet. so if this is the signature of these mergers, it teaches us about the formation of galaxies throughout the universe. astronomers have made the detections by measuring the signals coming from spinning objects in space called pulsars, which are flashing stars at the end of their lives. pulsars are the lighthouses of the universe, sending out bursts of radio waves at regular intervals. the researchers noticed that something was changing their speed ever so slightly. they think that it's caused by gravitational waves constantly
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bombarding the earth. and the source, they believe, is giant black holes in orbit around each other, all across space. these are at the heart of distant galaxies orbiting each other. the forces between them are so powerful that they distort time and space and send ripples of gravitational waves across the universe. the lovell telescope is among a network of observatories that have picked up these gravitational waves. astronomers want to use them to study the black holes. currently, the signal that we're seeing is a noisy background from all over space. it's a bit like being in a noisy restaurant with people talking all around you. what we hope is that in the near future, we'll be able to zoom in and listen to some individual conversations, take the measurements from individual black holes and be able to really zoom in and study them. the researchers now have a new way to study the cosmos. they hope to learn how galaxies formed and discover
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new things that may reveal how the universe first came into existence. pallab ghosh, bbc news, at the lovell telescope at jodrell bank. that's all for now — stay with bbc news. hello there. at the moment, the weather seems to be changing quite a lot, really from one day to the next. on thursday, we were in cooler, fresher air with some sunshine, a few showers for northern parts of the uk. but on friday the weather's going to look and feel quite different. there'll be a lot of cloud heading our way. it's going to be bringing a bit of rain and drizzle and it will feel more humid as well. and we've seen that cloud beginning to push in on a westerly breeze coming in from the atlantic
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into western parts of the uk and the cloud will continue to thicken, particularly on those weather fronts which will bring the rain in from the west. but we could start the day with some early sunshine across eastern scotland and eastern england. don't think it's going to last too long. the cloud continues to stream in on that westerly breeze and it's thick enough to give it a little light rain or drizzle here and there. perhaps things turning a bit wetter through the day in northern parts of northern ireland and into scotland as well. and those temperatures are going to struggle with that cloudy, muggy air, 18 degrees widely, perhaps a little bit higher than that in east anglia and the south east, but nothing special at all. we're going to find those weather fronts taking the thicker cloud and the rain and drizzle away in time for the weekend. and then around that area of low pressure, we've got the winds coming in from the west or northwest and it could be quite blustery through the weekend. strongest winds across northern areas. this is where we're going to find the showers. it'll be sunnier and a bit warmer further south where the winds won't be quite as strong for many. southern parts of the uk may well be a dry day on saturday, with sunny spells further north for northern ireland. also across northern england, southern scotland, more frequent showers in the north
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and west of the country where it will be particularly windy and temperatures may be only reaching 16 degrees in glasgow, warm in the sunshine across the east midlands, east anglia and the south east. 2a degrees here. not too bad at all. second half of the weekend, not too many changes. still some stronger winds in the north. we've got showers, perhaps longer spells of rain in scotland, a few showers for northern ireland and northern england. but further south, better chance of staying dry again and those temperatures getting into the low 20s. so we've got a real difference north south over the weekend heading into next week. it's not a classic summer weather pattern because low pressure is going to be dominating that will bring some showers or longer spells of rain, particularly in the west.
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the us economy continues the us economy continues to show signs of resilience to show signs of resilience despite expectations that despite expectations that a recession might be a recession might be on the way. and we take a closer look at the chinese yuan and the japanese yen two currencies that have been weakening in recent months. hello and welcome to asia business report. i'm mariko 0i. we start in the us where revised data showed that the world's biggest economy grew much faster
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