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this is bbc news. the headlines: police in munich have shot dead 3 person suspected of carrying a person suspected of carrying a person suspected of carrying a firearm near an institute that documents nazi history. this is the scene live right now. police havejust held this is the scene live right now. police have just held a press conference, we will bring you the latest. ugandan olympic athlete rebecca cheptegei has died after being allegedly doused with petrol and set on fire by her boyfriend. survivors and bereaved families from the grenfell tower disaster say they are still waiting for justice after disaster say they are still waiting forjustice after a damning report into the deaths of 72 people. water company bosses could be banned from receiving bonuses and sent to
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prison following new legislation in the uk. welcome to prison following new legislation in the uk. welcome to the prison following new legislation in the uk. welcome to the programme. prison following new legislation in the uk. welcome to the programme. i prison following new legislation in the uk. welcome to the programme. i want prison following new legislation in the uk. welcome to the programme. i want to start with the breaking news from munich. i want to show you a couple of different bits of footage we have. these are the live pictures we have and you can see the police presence there in munich. the reason being we have police exchanging fire with a suspect, armed suspect. let us listen. gunfire let us watch that again. gunfire
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they are the pictures we have from an eyewitness filming on their mobile phone. these are live pictures of munich, continued police present. the details of what happened. there was an exchange between police officers and unarmed gunmen —— and an armed gunman, close to and an armed gunman, close to an institute and document documenting nazi history, also close to the israeli consulate. this is the area you can see in the live pictures. initial reports, the suspect was shot and injured by police. subsequently authorities say he was shot and killed by police. german authorities have just held a press conference and we are just scanning through the details of the press conference and we will bring you any more new lines from germany when we have them. in the uk, survivors
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and relatives of those who died as a result of the grenfell tower disaster say they are still waiting for justice after a damning report set out a catalogue of failures. the public inquiry final report laid the blame on successive governments consistent dishonesty from cladding companies, and indifference of the local council. annita mcveigh has been covering this for us. thank you. welcome back to grenfell tower. after that 1700 page report yesterday people have had more time to diejust the people have had more time to die just the contents of what the inquiry has said in its investigations, examination of the conditions that led to this tragic fire in 2017, with 72 people losing their lives, many interested parties poring over the detail of the report, asking what the consequences of
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it will be, what it means for safety, for how people live in their homes, for the way government acts, operations, so many questions. let us discuss some of those with deborah coles, director of inquest and joins me now. thank you for joining us. just to be clear, what does inquest do? we work with families, _ what does inquest do? we work with families, bereaved - what does inquest do? we work with families, bereaved of - what does inquest do? we work with families, bereaved of the l with families, bereaved of the state —related deaths. we have been working with some of the grenfell survivors and families and monitoring the inquiry and legal process. we and monitoring the inquiry and legal process-_ and monitoring the inquiry and legal aroma-— legal process. we saw sir keir starmer in _ legal process. we saw sir keir starmer in the _ legal process. we saw sir keir starmer in the house - legal process. we saw sir keir starmer in the house of - legal process. we saw sir keir - starmer in the house of commons yesterday apologised on behalf of the british state to the families, the survivors, the bereaved families. but we have seen many take public inquiries in recent years in the uk, the covid inquiry, to namejust one, yet there is no mechanism, is there, to monitor what happens to the recommendations of such an inquiry after the time, effort and public money
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that goes into them? absolutely, i work on keir starmer�*s apology —— i welcomed his apology and it was right. an absolute scandal. it is one of many. my frustration is seeing preventable deaths being repeated, recommendations being made from inquests and inquiries, and yet there is no mechanism to ensure that action is actually taken to prevent deaths. what we see is the cycle of repeated and preventable deaths occurring and it is particularly significant for grenfell because if you remember the lakanal house fire, there was a coroners inquest, people died, there were recommendations made, the government treated the recommendations with utter contempt. had they been enacted, maybe grenfell would not had happened. the recommendations - not had happened. the recommendations seem to have been passed around, not acted on, don't they? during that period you refer to. one of the
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recommendations specifically talked about cladding on high—rise buildings and refurbishments which is exactly what happened at grenfell. what would you like to see happen by way of accountability? who would monitor the recommendations from these inquiries and see that something is actually being done with the recommendations? what we are calling for as inquest is a national oversight mechanism which would be an independent body that would monitor, analyse and follow—up on responses to recommendations from inquests, public inquiries, and reviews, and make sure that those state and corporate bodies to whom the recommendations are made to publicly account for action or indeedin publicly account for action or indeed in action. this would be transparent, it would be available to bereaved but to all those who have an interest in public health and safety. and this is notjust in the interests of bereaved people but in the interest of public safety. but in the interest of public safe . ., ., .,~
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safety. that would take the burden, wouldn't _ safety. that would take the burden, wouldn't it, - safety. that would take the burden, wouldn't it, off- burden, wouldn't it, off bereaved families and survivors of tragedies such as this to drive it forward?— drive it forward? families alwa s drive it forward? families always feel _ drive it forward? families always feel they - drive it forward? families always feel they have - drive it forward? families always feel they have to i drive it forward? families i always feel they have to be drive it forward? families - always feel they have to be the ones to drive the cultural change and that places an incredible emotional toll on those families, not least when they see other tragedies happening. and this is in the interests of everybody. i very much hope that if this government are truly committed to learning and ensuring proper and accountability table implement this. �* accountability table implement this. ., ., accountability table implement this. �* ., ., ., ~' ., this. are you going to talk to them about _ this. are you going to talk to them about this? _ this. are you going to talk to them about this? we - this. are you going to talk to them about this? we are - this. are you going to talk to - them about this? we are pleased to see our _ them about this? we are pleased to see our submission _ them about this? we are pleased to see our submission to - them about this? we are pleased to see our submission to this - to see our submission to this public inquiry has resulted in the chair actually recommend —— recommending something similar and we await to see it implemented.- and we await to see it implemented. and we await to see it imlemented. ., ~ i. ., and we await to see it imlemented. ., ~ ., implemented. thank you for your time today. _ implemented. thank you for your time today, some _ implemented. thank you for your time today, some really - time today, some really interesting points being made about an oversight body to make sure these public inquiries
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which are hugely... take up huge amounts of time, effort and public money as well, that actually the recommendations that come out of inquiries like that come out of inquiries like that will be carried forward and have effect, as deborah was saying, had that happened after the recommendations from the coroner who reported on to lakanal house fire, another tower block fire in london in 2009, six people died. perhaps grenfell could have been avoided. we will be packed with more reaction and analysis throughout the day. for now, back to you. thank you. us officials have imposed sanctions on the two top editors of the russian state funded broadcaster rte, accusing them of participating in a kremlin backed operation to interfere with the presidential election in november. here is the us attorney general. these websites were designed to appear to american readers
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as if they were major us news sites, like the washington post or fox news, but in fact, they were fake sites. they were filled with russian government propaganda that had been created by the kremlin to reduce international support for ukraine, bolster pro—russian policies and interests, and influence voters in the united states and in other countries. internal documents of the kremlin described the content as, quote, bogus stories disguised as newsworthy events, close quote. this malign influence campaign has been referred to as doppelganger. the russian public relations companies drove viewers to these websites by deploying influencers and paid social media advertisements. they also created fake social media profiles, posing as us citizens, post comments on social media platforms with links to the sites.
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according to sda's records, it actively sought to, quote, eliminate the possibility of detection of the russian footprint. next, bangladesh, it has been a month since the dramatic asking of prime minister sheikh hasina. bangladesh's clothing factories supplying fast fashion brands are limping back to normality. the country's newington government faces long—term economic challenges which will take years to fix —— new interim government. back up and running after political turmoil roiled the world's second largest source market for ready garments. at this knitwear company, workers are in a race against time to finish up these christmas sweaters. the big concern at garment factories like these is not so much the short—term monetary losses, but it's really
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the reputational damage that bangladesh may suffer on the international stage. and the worry now is that long—term political instability could mean cancelled orders and supply chains relocating to other parts of the world. this man, whose family founded this export unit 20 years ago, is worried. translation: bangladesh doesn't have enough dollar reserves. - how will we pay for imports of yarn from india and china if we don't have forex? customers aren't able to visit for order placements either because they aren't getting travel insurance. we might see a hit in the spring—summer season if there is a loss of confidence about the economy. outside the garment factories, these students were part of the dramatic protests that brought down sheikh hasina's government. they've all been unemployed for more than two years. translation: the government should encourage the youth -
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to join the private sector. we are hopeful because the new leader is an entrepreneur himself. translation: right now, | we do not get the right skills from our universities to get private jobs. we need to be better trained. bangladesh's failure to do this comes into sharp focus at this deserted it park. an ambitious project launched in 2015, it was meant to house thousands of skilled techies who would help the country diversify and reduce its overreliance on garments. ten years on, it's almost completely empty. we have been investing in physical infrastructure, but how much we have invested in human infrastructure, right? human resource are the raw material of this industry. from the new government, we need proper planning and investment in developing the right human resource. on the streets of dhaka,
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there's still simmering anger against the previous regime for all that's been lost. but this young nation of 170 million people has now pinned its hopes on a new interim government. it has a monumental task ahead. nikhil inamdar, bbc news, dhaka. water company bosses could be banned from taking bonuses and sent to jail under new legislation. increased powers to regulate us to act when companies pollute water and it should make it easier to give out fines. here is our environment correspondent. for decades, both profits and sewage have flowed from england's privatised water companies. dividends have been paid to shareholders and multi—million—pound pay packages to company bosses. last year, the sewage spilled
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for 3.6 million hours. but could things be about to change? this new legislation makes it easierfor the environment agency to take enforcement action and introduces tougher penalties for executives. if they obstruct an investigation, they could now face up to two years in jail. bonuses for bosses will only be allowed if their companies arejudged by the regulator to have met both environmental and financial standards. what these new laws are doing is it's bringing back accountability into a system where the public feel there has been no accountability whatsoever, despite the fact that last year we saw record levels of pollution in our rivers, lakes and seas. the previous government, for 1h years, let them get away with this. this new law gives the regulator the tough new powers they need to crack down on these kinds of abuses. but is it really the laws that have been the problem? many campaigners say regulators
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should still have done more to investigate and take action over sewage spills. we actually have perfectly decent laws, perfectly, you know, acceptable legal framework. the problem is it's never been enforced. and what this bill does is comes up with some nice emotive phrases, like prison sentences and banning bonuses and so on, but it doesn't address the fundamental problem. we have a set of regulations already and they're not being enforced, and the only way they're going to be enforced is by our regulators to be properly funded and empowered to do the job they're supposed to be doing. this bill is an attempt by the government to tackle the worst excesses of the water industry, but it won't, on its own, stop the sewage spills. that's going to take billions of pounds of investment in new infrastructure, and negotiations are continuing between the regulator and the water companies as to how much all of our bills are going to have to rise to pay for it. jonah fisher, bbc news.
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14—year—old boy is due to appear in this morning. the attack happened on sunday walking his dog. our correspondent reports. a loving husband, dad and grandad whose life was centred on his family. that's how the family of bhim kohli have described him. his attack and his death have shocked the community in leicester. i'm a grandparent myself, you know, and ijust think my elderly mother lives around the corner. we should be allowed to just take a walk through the park without restraint and worry. you can't get closure on this. it's something that scars the whole of your life. one of absolute shock that something like i this has happened. particularly for people - who know mr kohli himself, who is well known to many people around here. - a postmortem showed that mr kohli died of a neck injury. he'd been out walking his dog, rocky, in his local park
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in braunstone town on sunday evening when he was attacked. a 14—year—old boy charged with his murder is due to appear at leicester youth court later this morning. leicestershire police say neighbourhood teams are in the area and will carry out regular patrols. bhim kohli's family and friends said one of his greatest passions was his allotment. every day, he'd tend to his plots with pride, and his family has said they've been overwhelmed by messages and support but add that their hearts have been completely broken. chi chi izundu, bbc news. a month on from riots which shocked the uk, the driver of a car targeted by violent mob says he is still traumatised and thought he was going to die. marius, not his real name, says he feared for his life.
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the vicious attack was being filmed and shared to millions on social media. he has been speaking to us. in the moment, you can die there. so two things — you are dying, it's very, very dramatic. this was the moment marius, not his real name, and his two cousins were attacked during the violent unrest in hull a month ago. they start to jump on my car, to punch with some things — metals, everything they had in the hand. i was trying to reverse back. they broke my window, they took my key, my phones and everything. we was very scared. i had some punches. marius and his two cousins
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have reappeared after record temperatures caused a reservoir to partially dry. residents of the village were forced to evacuate their homes more than 40 evacuate their homes more than a0 years ago to make way for a darn supplying water to the capital, athens. now drought conditions in recent months because the water levels to drop. revealing what remains of several homes and a school. the village was made up of around 80 houses, a church and a school. it has been 30 years since the british entertainment tv presenter roy castle died from cancer. in the months before, he travelled when the uk on his tour of hope raising money for research into fighting the disease. our reporter fiona london. and here's the man of. the moment, roy castle. roy castle, musician, entertainer and comedian. # record breaker. #
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for two decades, he was a staple of our television screens. woo! hosting record breakers. morning! in 1986, he became the fastest person to paraascend under ten bridges on the river thames. now, we connect up the drip straightaway and get the treatment started as quickly as possible. they stick a needle in your arm, it goes into the vein and and it goes into your arm. just a few years later, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. he let the cameras in to film his treatment — the first time someone so high profile had been so open about living with cancer. it started, really, when i was having a bath, because you wash your hair and rub itand, as i was rubbing the hair, when i brought my hands back down to look at them, they were just covered. they were just like ape hands, you know? in the last months of his life, he embarked on a tour
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of hope, travelling around the country, raising awareness. there's nothing worse than somebody that lies down screaming and grumbling and saying, why me? much better to get up and start flailing your arms again, isn't it? roy died two days after his 62nd birthday, but his legacy continues in the foundation set up in his name. it provides support to patients and has helped introduce lung cancer screening. and a major part of the roy castle lung cancer foundation is the research that goes on in these labs. over the last 25 years, they've collected over a quarter of a million samples from people who are healthy and people who have lung cancer. and then they're all stored in these huge freezers. so what we've done so far is find a whole range of different proteins which we know can help predict someone's risk of cancer. and what we then hope to do is develop tests where we can use just a very small amount of blood and measure a small number of proteins, which together tells
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you whether someone is likely to get cancer in the future or whether they actually are likely to have cancer now. the roy castle lung foundation provides advice and support for patients. like nick, who was diagnosed six years ago. they give you hope. because the place you're at, sometimes, you can't see a way out. but roy castle lung cancer foundation, they've been there for other patients. they've been there for patients at different stages of cancer, and they've seen people survive. are you having the same treatment as me? 30 years on, roy castle, his name and his legacy is stronger than ever before. funding, screening and research while helping those living with lung cancer and saving many, many lives.
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thank you. i want to take you to indonesia, jakarta, the capital, the pope is continuing his trip there. there you can see him speaking. he is speaking in front of 80,000 people in a full stadium there, —— in a football stadium there, delivering mass, you can get a sense of the scale. that is lesson quickly. —— let us listening quickly. singing
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pope francis there continuing his trip to indonesia. now time for the weather. hello. some sunshine and warmth to come across northwestern areas over the next few days, but for those in southern counties of england and south wales, rainfall is the story — maybe as much as a month's worth of rain for one or two. and if you're on the move, be prepared — there could be
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some flooding and travel disruption around, as well. if i show you the rainfall forecast chart in terms of totals, it pinpoints southern parts of england and wales — particularly towards the southwest — highest totals possible maybe up to 100mm in one or two isolated places. these are the weather fronts responsible — it's round an area of low pressure to the south through today and tomorrow, but at the same time, north of it, a strengthening easterly wind will bring humid air off the near continent, and temperatures will rise in the west. and it's here in the north and west where we'll see the best of today's weather in terms of sunshine. temperatures continuing to climb, as well. a few more breaks in northwest england compared with the morning. lots of cloud elsewhere, thick enough for some patchy light rain or drizzle. heavy bursts of rain working their way westwards across southern counties of england and south wales. brisk wind, too — especially for england, wales and eastern scotland, pinning the temperatures back on those eastern coasts, but maybe 20 to 22 celsius possible in western scotland. now, this evening, some of the heaviest rain will be in the southwest, but it leaves off for a time before more showers start to push their way in — not as extensive, though, as we'll finish the day, but rumbles of thunder possible, and increasingly humid for all of us into tomorrow morning —
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temperatures not dropping much lower than the mid—teens for many. but extensive mist and low cloud, northern, eastern scotland, through the central belt, northeast england — some of that will be a struggle to shift. a bit more sunshine, though, elsewhere — and even in the south, where we'll continue to see bursts of heavy and thundery rain, more of you will avoid it with a better chance of some brighter breaks. temperatures where the rain's falling still rather suppressed here, but a humid day elsewhere — 26 in northwest england, 25, maybe 26 in some parts of western scotland. and then through into the weekend. we've still got low pressure in france, but not as strong an easterly wind. weather system, though, does start to push a bit northwards — fairly weakened, but it does mean a bit more cloud more widely in northern england on saturday, with the chance of a few showers. still the odd shower and thunderstorm in the south. best of the sunshine, western scotland and northern ireland again — but even here, temperatures dropping — lifting a bit, relative to the next couple of days, in east anglia and the south east. as for sunday, greater chance of some showers and thunderstorms again through england and wales. more cloud into scotland and northern ireland, and accordingly temperatures will drop a little bit further.
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live from london. i'm annita mcveigh and this is bbc news. the survivors and bereaved families from the grenfell tower disaster who say they're still waiting for justice, after a damning report into the deaths of 72 people. at the end, seven years have passed, and we still have no justice. we have to fight again. i don't how many years it will take. the deputy prime minister and housing secretary — angela rayner, tells the bbc the work to fix unsafe buildings must be sped up. it is completely unacceptable that the mediation is taking as long as it is. and that is what i want to see concluded much more swiftly. police say they will follow the evidence that the charges won't be made until 2026.
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