aruna iyengar, thank you. you are listening _ this matter. aruna iyengar, thank you. good people are talking to us this morning. i was going to ask seema, seema misra who went to prison, was tagged, was pregnant with her second child when she was in prison. to remind people if they have just joined us. seema, i know the word compensation is wholly inadequate. as a concept for what you guys have all gone through. it falls well short and seems almost facile, but redress is perhaps a better word. where are you in all that and where is everybody and all that, just to remind viewers and listeners? i is everybody and all that, just to remind viewers and listeners? i have received some _ remind viewers and listeners? i have received some interim _ remind viewers and listeners? i have received some interim payments - remind viewers and listeners? i i—e: received some interim payments but i'm still waiting for a full and final compensation. gdgre i'm still waiting for a full and final compensation.- final compensation. are still waiting , final compensation. are still waiting,

aruna iyengar, bbc news.inst the publisher of the sun newspaper. according to court documents, mr grant claimed the sun used private investigators to tap his phone and burgle his house. the terms of the settlement have not been made public, but hugh grant says he's been offered quote �*an enormous sum of money'. a spokesman for news group newspapers says the sun does not accept liability or make any admissions to the allegations. we can hear more 110w we can hear more now from our reporter sarah campbell. it had been expected that in january of next year, he would have his time in court. in this case against a news group newspapers, the publishers of the sun. and he is one of several individuals, including, as you say, prince harry, suing this group for unlawful information gathering. so mr grant's case, that means tapping of landlines, he alleges, bugging his house, bugging his car, using nagging methods to access medical information. and he had been very vocal about this, and so it was somewhat of a surpris

aruna iyengar, bbc news.g age due to long—term sickness has soared, pushing up the benefits bill and holding back the wider economy. new official figures this week showed another rise. that has all prompted a major "back to work" push from the government. but new research from the health foundation seen by bbc newsnight suggests the inactivity crisis is set to get considerably worse over the coming years, not better. newsnight�*s ben chu reports. my health caught up with me. it was that and it was nothing else. and it was the worst thing in the world for me to stop working. i hated it. i still hate it. it's mainly my autism and my anxiety that comes around with the autism as well. they're the main reason that i qualify for the benefits that i do. two faces of economic inactivity in 2024, but will there be many more in the decades to come? since the covid pandemic began in early 2020, inactivity among working age people — that's those aged between 16 and 64 — has risen by around 770,000. and the biggest driver

aruna iyengar has this report. fenny compton this morning.ng feeling in the community. 60 postmasters reconvened there today to take stock of where they are and grill kevin hollinrake, the post office minister. well, can i first say sorry for everybody in this room and for the thousands of people around the country? right at the back, who's there? there were questions about why compensation was taking so long. we still suffer, because all these people in this room are still- suffering as victims - and are not survivors yet. kevin hollinrake agreed the government hadn't been compensating people quickly enough. he also went further. people should be prosecuted. that's my view, and i think you and other people i've spoken to, i certainly feel, people who were within the post office and possibly further afield, should go to jail. it's been a long road. the first campaign meeting was here in 2009. eight years later, alan bates took legal action against the post office and won compensation. but much of this was eaten up in legal fees. the secret 20

kulsuma akter — who was 27 — died in hospital after the attack on saturday. 0ur reporter aruna iyengarhis police investigation in the search for a man who attacked this woman, kulsuma akter, in bradford. habibur masum was arrested in the early hours of this morning, tuesday, in the aylesbury area that's in buckinghamshire. police had been searching for him since saturday. he has been arrested in connection with the murder of the 27—year—old woman, kulsuma akter, also from 0ldham. she died after being stabbed in the westgate area of bradford on saturday afternoon. this was a particularly tragic incident as kulsuma akter was pushing her child in a pram as she was attacked. the baby is reported to be safe and was unharmed in the attack. due to police having contact with kulsuma akter and with habibur masum before her death, west yorkshire police has referred itself to the independent office of police conduct. it's also emerged that habibur masum was already on bail for assaulting and threatening to kill, kulsuma akter back in november. both offences were alleged to have happened in manche

our correspondent aruna iyengar has more from the newsroom.tagram and featured katie price having her breakfast in the morning, it was a video of her, and extolling the virtues of this low—calorie diet that she was advertising. and the advertising standards authority, which monitors adverts and can come down with...and look at complaints and decide whether the advert should be withdrawn or not, decided that this was a misleading advert because it said first of all that the advert should be clearly flagged, and it said that you had to actually engage in the ad, you had to watch it in order to realise that at the bottom of the post, where it said #ad, and that was only really at the bottom of the advert. so, in order to get to that point you would have had to have fully engaged in the advert before you actually saw that, so it was not clearly flagged enough. it was also said to be irresponsible, because it showed katie price taking around 775 calories a day, and it said that that was irresponsible, to be promoting a diet which was less than 800

aruna iyengar, bbc news. jeffrey donaldson has appeared in court accused of various things.first time so jeffrey donaldson has been seen since stepping down as leader of the dup, northern ireland's largest unionist party. since the charges against him broke, he wasjoined at since the charges against him broke, he was joined at the dock this morning by his wife and his co—accused, lady eleanor donaldson, and we heard or detail about the charges both of them face. sir geoffrey faces 11 charges in all, one count of gross indecency towards the child, nine counts of indecent assault and one of rape. those charges involve two individuals and span from 1985 until 2006. eleanor donaldson faces four charges of aiding and abetting of the charges faced by her husband. this morning, the police officer connected the dances to the charges against them. there were no pleas of guilty or not guilty to tip that place at a later date. we previously heard sir geoffrey was strenuously contest the charges. the entire hearing this morning lasted for around seven minutes and i would say there was a

aruna iyengar, bbc news.r. and last night, president biden delivered an election—year comedy roast in front ofjournalists, celebrities and politicians. he made fun of himself, and his rival donald trump. of course, the 2024 election is in full swing. and, yes, age is an issue. i'm a grown man! running against a six—year—old! president biden there. you are watching bbc news and if you want to follow up on any of our stories you can go to the bbc website. we have a life page. and that news of the defection of the conservative mp dan poulter to labour. you are watching bbc news. hello. we've seen some fairly heavy rain through the overnight period and this morning as well, pushing its way northwards across much of england. it's going to sit for eastern parts of england and eastern scotland through the course of the day, gradually easing. but there'll be some sunshine coming in towards the west. so certainly a day of mixed fortunes. this area of low pressure has been bringing us that rain. it's pushing northwards

aruna iyengar, bbc news.nished work, portrait of fraulein lieser, was thought lost for almost a century, until it reappeared in january. portraits by klimt rarely come on to the open market. let's speak to our correspondent bethany bell in vienna. that's a lot of money, isn't it, bethany?— that's a lot of money, isn't it, bethan? ,,, �*, ., bethany? guess, but it's not as high as some of — bethany? guess, but it's not as high as some of the _ bethany? guess, but it's not as high as some of the estimates _ bethany? guess, but it's not as high as some of the estimates were - as some of the estimates were before this auction, some were suggesting it might have gone up to 50 million euros, but it's now been sold for 30 million. and as you can see, the picture is behind me over there. it was a bit of a mystery about this whole painting, there are lots of unanswered questions — they aren't even sure exactly who the woman is that it portrays, what we know is that it portrays, what we know is that she was a member of

aruna iyengar, bbc news.ecovery process. on friday, sometime between 9:00 and 9:30, mr smith was having his final bath because he was expected to return to the uk that same day on friday when the incident happened. luckily, according to reports, his wife and friends that he was staying at the hotel with, which is the starfish hotel, were close by. so when they saw the commotion, they were able to run and assist him. i also understand that a doctor was on site, so the doctor was able to assist in any way she could assist until the ambulance arrived at the hotel to rush him to discovery general hospital, where he is currently. he had multiple surgeries. he was given a blood transfusion. his severed legs have been saved, his wounds stitched and also treated. right now, i understand this morning that the surgical team is preparing to decide what is the next step, which probably reattaching the limbs that was severed. the journalist elizabeth gonzalez in there. the grand final of one of the world's biggest competi

our correspondent aruna iyengar spoke to us earlier about the response.itical reaction to the posting of this video. sir mark rowley, there has been called for his resignation today, and the former home secretary, asking for his resignation over this event and other policing events since his pro—palestinian protests have been taking place over the last six months since those hamas attacks against israel on the 7th of october last year. we also heard from sadiq khan the mayor of london who basically said that the metropolitan police's metropolitan police's apology to this event that happened last weekend was slightly insensitive and could have been done better. the police apologised for the action of its policeman, what the policeman said was that the appearance of gideon falter, who is the chief executive of the campaign against anti—semitism and that his appearance was obviouslyjewish, that was meant to say that his presence there could be provocative, he said, to other people who were attending the protest. mr falter has been speaking about that today a

aruna iyengar has this report. fenny compton this morning.ers reconvened there today to take stock of where they are and grill kevin hollinrake, the post office minister. well, can i first say sorry for everything in this room for everybody in this room and for the thousands of people around the country? right at the back, who's there? there were questions about why compensation was taking so long. we still suffer, because all these people in this room are still- suffering as victims - and are not survivors yet. kevin hollinrake agreed the government hadn't been compensating people quickly enough. he also went further. people should be prosecuted. that's my view, and i think you and other people i've spoken to, i certainly feel, people who were within the post office and possibly further afield, should go to jail. it's been a long road. the first campaign meeting was here in 2009. eight years later, alan bates took legal action against the post office and won compensation. but much of this was eaten up in legal fees. the secret 2017 bramble r

advertising standards authority said the ad was "irresponsible" and must not appear again. 0ur reporter aruna iyengar breakfast in the morning. it was a video of her, and extolling the virtues of this low calorie diet that she was advertising. and the advertising standards authority, which monitors adverts and can come down and look at complaints and decide whether the advert should be withdrawn or not decided that this was a misleading advert because it said, first of all, that the advert should be clearly flagged and it said that you had to actually engage in the ad, you had to watch it in order to realise at the bottom of the post where it said #ad and that was only really at the bottom of the advert. so in order to get to that point, you would have had to have fully engaged in the advert before you actually saw that. so it was not clearly flagged enough. it was also said to be irresponsible because it showed katie price taking around 775 calories a day and it said that that was irresponsible to be promoting a diet which was less than 800 calories a day. and it said that really she should have bee

accusing you of anything but i'm worried about the reaction to your presence. )our correspondent aruna iyengarwas being interviewed there is the chief executive have called for the metropolitan police commissioner sir mark rowley to resign, and those comments have been echoed by the former home secretary suella braverman who has been writing today in the sunday telegraph newspaper saying she also feels that the metropolitan police commissioner has not handled these pro—palestinian protests well over the last six months and that he should now resign. this is the latest complaint in a series of complaints over policing in the last six months. this comes after hamas attacked israel on the 7th of october last year. as a result, there has been pro—palestinian protests weekly in london and across cities in the uk, it is the policing of that that is the issue here. in that clip that we saw there, gideon falter was told by police to remove himself from that area because it was felt that his presence there, and he was told that he was openly jewish, it was felt that his presence there could lead to a b

aruna iyengar, bbc news.s good to speak to you again. just tell us what prompted these rallies and these protests. irate tell us what prompted these rallies and these protests.— tell us what prompted these rallies and these protests. we have lost 32 women to men's— and these protests. we have lost 32 women to men's violence _ and these protests. we have lost 32 women to men's violence since - and these protests. we have lost 32 women to men's violence since the | women to men's violence since the start of 202a. the rates of domestic violence is increasing at an alarming rate. we felt the government wasn't doing enough and that the pledge against violence wasn't working. we wanted so much more to be done so we establish 17 rallies around the country. to more to be done so we establish 17 rallies around the country.- rallies around the country. to 'ust tell us a bit — rallies around the country. to 'ust tell us a bit about i rallies around the country. to 'ust tell us a bit about youri rallies around the countr

let's speak to our reporter aruna iyengar, whojoins us from the newsroom. the problem was with it? well, the ad which — what the problem was with it? well, the ad which was _ what the problem was with it? well, the ad which was on _ what the problem was with it? -ii the ad which was on instagram featured katie price haven't her breakfast, it was a video of her extolling the virtues of the low calorie dieted she was advertise, and the advertising standards authority which monitors adverts and can come down with, and look at complaints and decide whether it that should be withdrawn decided this was a misleading advert because it said first of all that the advert should be clearly flagged, and it said that you had to engage in the ad, you that had to watch it to realise that the bottom of the post where it had hashtag ad and that was only at the bottom of the advert, so to get to that point you have had to fully engage in the advert before you saw that, so it was not clearly flagged up. it was said to be irresponsible, because it showed katie price taking arou

aruna iyengar, bbc news.rn areas, another chilly but bright day further west that you are, but it marks a changed all weather because as we move into the new week, we'll start to draw up some warmer air from the near continent. many areas will actually turn a lot warmer than what we've had over the past week. this area of low pressure will continue to bring some rain to central, southern and eastern parts of england through the night. so early sunday, this is the position the rain will be in. less cold for england and wales, 5—8 degrees, but another cold night for scotland and northern ireland, a touch of frost. but it's here you'll have the best of the sunshine from the word go for sunday morning. further east, it will be a cloudy, wet picture, with that rain slowly pulling away from eastern england, becoming confined to north—east scotland, the northern isles. elsewhere, plenty of sunshine around, a few scattered showers developing into the afternoon, and a windy day to come, particularly close to the north

aruna iyengar has this report. fenny compton this morning.postmasters reconvened there today to take stock of where they are and grill kevin hollinrake, the post office minister. well, can i first say sorry for everybody in this room and for the thousands of people around the country? right at the back, who's there? there were questions about why compensation was taking so long. we still suffer, because all these people in this room are still- suffering as victims - and are not survivors yet. kevin hollinrake agreed the government hadn't been compensating people quickly enough. he also went further. people should be prosecuted. that's my view, and i think you and other people i've spoken to, i certainly feel, people who were within the post office and possibly further afield, should go to jail. it's been a long road. the first campaign meeting was here in 2009. eight years later, alan bates took legal action against the post office and won compensation. but much of this was eaten up in legal fees. the secret 2017 bramble report uncovered by t

aruna iyengar has this report. fenny compton this morning. in this room and for the thousands of people around the country? right at the back, who's there? there were questions about why compensation was taking so long. we still suffer, because all these people in this room are still- suffering as victims - and are not survivors yet. kevin hollinrake agreed the government hadn't been compensating people quickly enough. he also went further. people should be prosecuted. that's my view, and i think you and other people i've spoken to, i certainly feel, people who were within the post office and possibly further afield, should go to jail. it's been a long road. the first campaign meeting was here in 2009. eight years later, alan bates took legal action against the post office and won compensation. but much of this was eaten up in legal fees. the secret 2017 bramble report uncovered by the bbc said that fujitsu employees had the ability to amend or delete transactions entered by post office branch staff. this information wasn't revealed to postma

let's talk to aruna iyengar who is in the newsroom. been a lot of controversy about how the police dealt with this, and indeed their subsequent response. yes. dealt with this, and indeed their subsequent response.— dealt with this, and indeed their subsequent response. yes. the latest news on that — subsequent response. yes. the latest news on that is _ subsequent response. yes. the latest news on that is that _ subsequent response. yes. the latest news on that is that the _ subsequent response. yes. the latest news on that is that the campaign - news on that is that the campaign for anti—semitism, news on that is that the campaign foranti—semitism, of which news on that is that the campaign for anti—semitism, of which the man who was being interviewed there is the chief executive have called for the chief executive have called for the metropolitan police commissioner sir mark rowley to resign, and those comments have been echoed by the former home secretary suella braverman who has been writing today in the sunday telegraph newspaper

aruna iyengar, bbc news. unbelievable, isn't it?ot as yesterday. grab almost the same spot as yesterday. gmba almost the same spot as yesterday. grab a brollyjust in case. one of two of you will stay dry but showers will be around again through today and it will feel rather cool out there. especially in the cloudier and wetter moments. quite windy to begin within the north—east of scotland, where showers have been fairly frequent this morning. more cloud, patchy rain into the western isles and northern ireland, which will slide southwards. showers are few and far between through wales and southern england, fading after a shower restart. but the showers in scotland will transfer into northern england later and the cloud in the west will extend through to wales and the south—west of england. if you're in scotland, especially across central and eastern areas, it will be brighter this afternoon. still a few showers around, breezy but not as windy as it will be or showery as this morning. my showers in the evening rush—hour and the end o