rural and neighbouring west midlands police. ruraland urban neighbouring west midlands police.nty together. for the drugs gangs, county lines gives them a bigger market across the country and for the police, it means they have to coordinate efforts, forces talking to forces and different types of units, uniformed and plainclothes, using technology and it has to work together. it means a big operation like this. we know more than we ever have known about the gangs and people who get exploited as part of cou nty people who get exploited as part of county lines activity. because we have close coordination between different forces around the country. but there will be more of these coordinated operations. because they get results. 169 weapons were found in this one week, including these. the county lines gangs deal in drugs and violence. and they seem to be here to stay. tom symonds, bbc news. there's been a major escalation of violence between police and drug gangs in mexico. it started after authorities in the city of culiacan attempted to capture the son of the jailed drug lord

west midlands police have launched an investigation.ng the concert said afterwards. i was getting a drink. there was music after music and all of a sudden, everyone was running out of the building. it was just finished. they didn't actually tell us what happened. it was just finished. i think seani b drew the short straw. he came onstage and said because of circumstances it was finished. and then we were just told to leave the venue for safety. it was good until then. now i'm just freezing cold and soaking wet. i am absolutely devastated, i'm not going to lie. i'm devastated from tonight because i understand the actions and i understand why they had to clear the venue. that's not my beef. you know, it's not, i get it. earlier i spoke to our correspondent simonjones, who said the event is known as bringing together some of the biggest names in grime and rap. it was completely sold out. the venue has a capacity of around 15,000 people but at around 10pm yesterday evening the event had to be halted. it was due to go on for another 45 minut

west midlands police had launched an investigation.repatriate uk holidaymakers whose flights were cancelled after the collapse of thomas cook last month. the civil aviation authority says it has brought home more than 130,000 of the travel firm's customers during the 2—week operation. tomorrow, it will begin accepting applications for refunds from customers whose holidays were cancelled before they had left the uk. it's not even 6:10am, so this may set your heartbeat racing. there were some hollywood moves on the strictly dance floor last night for the first themed episode of the season. i warned you, i really did. it was a magical moment. our very own ‘magic mike' and his professional partner, katya jones, danced the cha cha cha to ‘it‘s raining men'. they scored 18 out of a possible 40 points for their performance. that was a bit harsh, i thought they we re that was a bit harsh, i thought they were better than that. they are putting the hours in, putting the effort then. the final results for week three will be revealed in tonight's

west mercia police make a move against suspected dealers being tracked by neighbouring west midlands rural and urban forces working together. for the drugs gangs, county lines gives them a bigger market across the country. for the police, it means they have to co—ordinate their efforts, forces talking to forces, different types of units, uniformed and plain clothes, using technology, all has to work together. it means a big operation like this. we know more than we have ever known about the gangs and those people that get exploited, as part of county lines activity, because we have real close co—ordination now between different forces up and down the country. but there will be more of these co—ordinated operations... bang ..because they get results. 169 weapons were found in this one week, including these. the county lines gangs deal in drugs and violence. and they seem to be here to stay. tom symonds, bbc news. now on bbc news, our world. sirens wail. there is no other medication that within a week can condense someone toa within a week can condense someone to a life of addiction. i

west mercia police make a move against suspected dealers being tracked by neighbouring west midlands rural and urban forces working together. for the drugs gangs, county lines gives them a bigger market across the country. for the police, it means they have to co—ordinate their efforts, forces talking to forces, different types of units, uniformed and plain clothes, using technology, all has to work together. it means a big operation like this. we know more than we have ever known about the gangs and those people that get exploited, as part of county lines activity, because we have real close co—ordination now between different forces up and down the country. but there will be more of these co—ordinated operations... bang ..because they get results. 169 weapons were found in this one week, including these. the county lines gangs deal in drugs and violence. and they seem to be here to stay. tom symonds, bbc news. now on bbc news, the travel show. hello and welcome to the travel show, with me, lucy hedges, coming to you from the jungle in northern rwanda, where i am hoping to catch a g

west mercia police make a move against suspected dealers being tracked by neighbouring west midlands ing together. for the drugs gangs, county lines gives them a bigger market across the country. for the police, it means they have to co—ordinate their efforts, forces talking to forces, different types of units, uniformed and plain clothes, using technology, all has to work together. it means a big operation like this. we know more than we have ever known about the gangs and those people that get exploited, as part of county lines activity, because we have real close co—ordination now between different forces up and down the country. but there will be more of these co—ordinated operations... bang ..because they get results. 169 weapons were found in this one week, including these. the county lines gangs deal in drugs and violence. and they seem to be here to stay. tom symonds, bbc news. this is bbc news, the headlines: protestors have clashed with police in barcelona, after a huge demonstration by catalans against jail sentences imposed on separatist leaders. super saturday in the brit

west midlands police has joined forces with europol to find her trafficker, 26—year—old robert enesculice met up with tahir and the victim. hello, sir. let me come to the other side. she said one of the guys down the road here, he flagged me. tried to talk about... inaudible. 0k. when i came here she was crying. i asked her why she was crying. she said she came from romania on 16th february, five days before. can you help me? i said, what can i do? she said can the police help to me. she is working for sex. i don't want to, she said. can you call the police. do you know her name? she has a passport and everything. and we can speak to tahir mehmood and detective constable clive leftwich who investigated the case. what you did has had life changing implications for that woman who had been brought to this country as a sex trafficking victim but didn't realise what was going on until she got here. tell us how we concerned you were when you realised in the car. what did she say to you? you were when you realised in the car. what did she say to you ?|j picked up the woman. a man and woman w

west mercia police make a move against suspected dealers being tracked by neighbouring west midlands gives them a bigger market across the country. for the police, it means they have to coordinate their efforts, forces talking to forces, different types of units, uniformed and plain clothes, using technology, all has to work together. it means a big operation like this. we know more than we have ever known about the gangs and those people that get exploited, as part of county lines activity, because we have real close coordination now between different forces up and down the country. but there will be more of these coordinated operations... ..because they get results. 169 weapons were found in this one week, including these. the county lines gangs deal in drugs and violence. and they seem to be here to stay. tom symonds, bbc news. there's a big weekend of rugby ahead at the world cup quarterfinals in japan. england take on australia, wales play france — and ireland face new zealand. 0ur sports editor dan roan has been looking at their chances. here in the south ofjapan the pressure is

last few minutes a statement was read out outside of the court by the superintendent of the west midlands policek on a collie. we put in place to help staff struggling psychologically with the trauma and i would say that in all my years of policing, i never knew an incident at such a dramatic impact on staff including myself. to —— despite the impact, and had to say they have remained stoic in the face of adversity and they are out there doing what they do best, arresting criminals and protecting the public. that was the super intendant there accompanied by the injured officer. international pressure on turkey is growing after the launch of its offensive against kurdish forces in northern syria. the united states has now imposed economic sanctions on turkey, while the uk says there'll be no new arm sales to the country. president erdogan has insisted he won't back down from his campaign against what he describes as terrorists — he says he wants to a safe zone along the border. but casualties are mounting and around 160,000 people have been forced to flee their homes. mark lowen reports. week two

injured man was treated on site by medical staff and did not require hospital treatment and west midlands policevestigation. today marks the end of operation matterhorn to repatriate uk holidaymakers whose flights were cancelled after the collapse of thomas cook last month. the civil aviation authority says it has brought home more than 130,000 of the travel firm's customers during the two—week operation. tomorrow it will begin accepting applications for refunds from customers whose holidays were cancelled before they had left the uk. it is 8:11am. when we talk about dementia and those who live with it, most of us probably picture an elderly person. but the condition can affect people as young as 30. more than 42,000 people under the age of 65 in the uk have so—called young onset dementia. the show this report about an hour ago and we have had a phenomenal response from people. it is the case of ken barnes from yorkshire who is just 57. his wife linda has been telling us about it. where are you going to get the water from, then? no, over here. that's it. for somebody who was a builder, who could

west midlands. these pictures, this is the west midlands police website. this happening at birmingham crown court, the prosecutor describing the hub of the prosecutor describing the hub of the conspiracy as an aladdin's cave of stolen jewellery. so sentencing totalling 27 years and four months handed out at birmingham crown court toa handed out at birmingham crown court to a romanian gang involved in stealing cash and jewellery worth £850,000. you are watching afternoon live on bbc news. for years, we've been told to eat less red or processed meat to reduce our chance of developing cancer, but now a new study has cast doubt on that advice. an international team of experts has concluded there's little evidence to support it and the risks from eating bacon, sausages or steak has been overstated. but the study has caused widespread controversy with one scientist condemning it as "dangerously misguided". our medical correspondent, fergus walsh, reports. there have been repeated studies linking red and especially processed meat with heart disease and cancer. th

that within a couple of years he will certainly be able to get back to some kind of work for west midlands policehants. the eu's chief negotiator michel barnier says there is a narrow pathway brexit deal this week but the two sides have to agree the details by the end of the day. and an increase in the number of hate crimes recorded in england and wales. here's your business headlines on afternoon live. royal mail postal workers have voted overwhelmingly for strike action. it means royal mail is now facing its first national postal strike in a decade. around 110,000 members of the communication workers union were balloted in a dispute over terms and conditions and job security. 97% voted in favour of industrial action. the turnout in the ballot was 76%. thomas cook's former boss has defended a bonus payment of half a million pounds and said he was not the only one to blame for the collapse of the holiday operator. peter fankhauser said he was sorry but told a cross—party committee of mps that he worked "tirelessly" for thomas cook. the 178—year—old travel firm went under last month with the loss

move their drugs out of cities to smaller towns like this, but it means urban and rural police forces, here west midlandshe drugs gangs cou nty work together. for the drugs gangs county lines gives them a bigger market across the country. for the police it means they have to coordinate their efforts, forces talking to forces, different types of units, uniforms and plain clothes, using technology, all has to work together and it means a big operation like this. it seems to be working. in the week long push 743 people were arrested. more than £420,000 worth of drugs was seized, and 49 phone lines used for deals we re and 49 phone lines used for deals were disrupted. but county lines do not just harm the were disrupted. but county lines do notjust harm the drug users, these officers are heading on the rail network looking among the regular passengers for people forced or groomed by the gangs into moving the drugs around, a crucial part of this criminal business model. so officers fighting organised crime also have to deal with these vulnerable victims. you get to the point where you understand exactly how h

alex and edwin work for british transport police, and do extra patrols around the west midlands whenids are at school. what we are actually looking at today is to make sure that there are no access points onto the railway, by looking at the fences. the vegetation doesn't look like it's been disturbed at all, so in this instance, there has been no access attempt. the line at the top of this embankment, is one of the busiest in britain. this adds to the risk. that's 25,000 volts in there. that is not something you want to be messing about with, at all. no. it certainly was for tom. he was 16 and almost died trespassing on the railways when electricity from the overhead lines ripped through his body. i suffered 57% burns, all third degree, so all nerve endings, all the sweat glands, everything like that was just destroyed. he'll be scarred for the rest of his life. you would hope that what happened to tom would serve as a warning to others, but in the fives years since he suffered that catastrophic catastrophic electric shock, the number of children and young people caught trespassing o

27 years and four months after breaking into around 400 homes in the west midlands, and stealing £850,000 in jewellery and cash. policeffences and the valuables could be worth millions of pounds. police only caught the gang after one of them was discovered to have a very small footprint. sian lloyd has more. draped in cars, 28—year—old lorena spero was even photographed wearing some of the jewellery she helped dispose of, stolen from homes across the west midlands by a group led by her husband, catalan is a hurry. this security camera footage shows him clambering up bedsheets. the group often entered and exited houses the upstairs windows to avoid groundfloor alarm systems. david and norma richardson's home was one of the last to be burgled before the game was caught. i think i just - i couldn't accept it, i couldn't take it in. i didn't realise someone had been there and taken everything stopped when we started looking, everything was gone. just some of the items yet to be reunited with their rightful owners, found at a house rented by the gang and describe as an aladdin's cave of stolen jewellery. they evaded ca ptu

the other main areas where knife crime affects people is greater manchester police, the west midlands instrument was involved, decreasing by 14% in the decrease was mainly driven by falls in london. and is that because of a change in behaviour of people who are carrying knives? is it because our programmes in the capital to stop them being carried in the first place? what is going on? first of all you have to put it into context. in the previous year or so it was very high levels so we have a fall from very high levels to something not quite as bad, as it were, but they are still high levels of knife crime and knife —related murders but the numbers are certainly, in terms of knife related murders, broadly, they are coming down. 14% down, as you say. down to 248, which is to win every five murders involving somebody being stabbed, so the metropolitan police is driving the reduction in that sense as well and attempted murders across the board are also down a bit. so there are signs of inroads into these figures around knife crime that we've seen over the past few years, but still the nu

that is why british transport police sergeant matt payne is based in the west midlands signalling centrerovide up—to—date information to colleagues on the ground. but it can be a cut and mouse game, by the time we reach the bridge, they have left. the driver cannot know what is going to happen so my someone might not, they could just be sitting there observing the scenery. but we can't ta ke observing the scenery. but we can't take that risk. when you work on britain's railways, it's an ever present danger. perhaps best experienced from one particular seat. any fans and drives virgin trains between london and the west midlands. eddie, how much of a problem address passes on the truck? a list a couple of times a month you will see people taking shortcuts across the track, people walking on the west midlands. i have seen some ramblers who thought it was a walking route, obviously it's not. if you spot someone, it is going to ta ke if you spot someone, it is going to take you a lot longer to stop than to get to them. and especially on a band, you might not see them.“ to get to them. and esp

27 years and 4 months, after breaking into around 400 homes in the west midlands, and stealing millions of pounds in jewellery. policered to have a very small footprint. sian lloyd has more. draped in cash, 28—year—old florina spiru was even photographed wearing some of the jewellery she helped dispose of. stolen from homes across the west midlands by a group led by her husband, catalin zaharia. this security camera footage shows him clambering up bed sheets. the group often entered and exited houses through upstairs windows to avoid ground—floor alarm systems. david and norma richardson's home was one of the last to be burgled before the gang was caught. i think ijust... ijust could not accept it, i couldn't take it in. i didn't realise that somebody had been in there and taken everything. when we started looking, everything had gone. an earring, that had been worn by the bride. just some of the items yet to be reunited with their rightful owners, found at a house rented by the gang and described as an aladdin's cave of stolen jewellery. they evaded capture for years until a footprint left by zaharia tripped them up

police forces urban and rural have been working together. to move in on the county lines drug gates. this was a joint west midlands operation.erations like this take enormous resources in cooperation but it seems to be working. in the week—long bush, 743 people were arrested, more than £420,000 worth of drugs were seized, and 49 phone lines used for deals we re and 49 phone lines used for deals were disrupted. the police say they will be more to come. we know more than we have ever known about the gangs and those people that get exposure as part of this activity of because we have requires co—ordination now between different forces up and down the country. just asa forces up and down the country. just as a police have changed their tactics, it‘s likely the gangs will too. they‘re shown they‘re prepared too. they‘re shown they‘re prepared to protect the trade with half £1 billion a year. and they seem to be here to stay. scientists say they‘ve developed a technique to help them spot big groups of whales that have washed up on the shore from space. they‘ve been using satellites to investigate the largest ever recorded strandin

across the country, police forces urban and rural have been working together to move in on the county lines drug gangs. this was a joint west midlandse week—long push, 743 people were arrested, more than £a20,000 worth of drugs were seized and 49 phone lines used for deals were disrupted. the police say there will be more to come. we know more than we have ever known about the gangs and those people who get exploited as part of county lines activity because we have real close co—ordination now between different forces up and down the country. just as the police have changed their tactics, it‘s likely the gangs will too. they‘ve shown they‘re prepared to protect their trade — worth £500 million a year — and they seem to be here to stay. tom symonds, bbc news. a huge gunfight has erupted in north western mexico after the security forces seized one of the sons of the jailed drug kingpin el chapo. fighting raged for several hours in the city of culiacan between members of the sinaloa cartel and the police and military. from mexico city, will grant reports. culiacan is a city at war. not a conventional war, perhaps, but an intense and vi

across the country, police forces urban and rural have been working together to move in on the county lines drug gangs. this was a joint west midlands. operations like this take enormous resources in co—operation, but it seems to be working. in the week—long push, 743 people were arrested, more than £a20,000 worth of drugs were seized and 49 phone lines used for deals were disrupted. the police say there will be more to come. we know more than we have ever known about the gangs and those people who get exploited as part of county lines activity because we have real close co—ordination now between different forces up and down the country. just as the police have changed their tactics, it's likely the gangs will too. they've shown they're prepared to protect their trade — worth £500 million a year — and they seem to be here to stay. tom symonds, bbc news. turkey has agreed to a five—day ceasefire in northern syria to allow kurdish—led forces withdraw. the pause in hostilities was announced after talks in ankara between turkey's president erdogan and the us vice president, mike pence. rich preston reports. gun fires for days, turkey ha

across the country, police forces urban and rural have been working together to move in on the county lines drug gangs. this was a joint west midlandsbirmingham involved in the supply of drugs to worcestershire. 0perations like this take enormous resources in cooperation, but it seems to be working. in the week—long push, 743 people were arrested, more than £a20,000 worth of drugs were seized and 49 phone lines used for deals were disrupted. the police say there will be more to come. we know more than we have ever known about the gangs and those people who get exploited as part of county lines activity because we have real close co—ordination now between different forces up and down the country. just as the police have changed their tactics, it's likely the gangs will too. they've shown they're prepared to protect their trade — worth £500 million a year — and they seem to be here to stay. tom symonds, bbc news. we'll be back in a moment, but first let's go back to the studio for some business news. fireworks night is a couple of weeks away but not everyone will find them easy to purchase them this time. that is right. that is certai