daniel sandford, bbc news, the old bailey.p allegations of misconduct against him from becoming public. that's according to documents released today. mr salmond was acquitted of 13 charges of sexual assault earlier this year. let's speak to our scotland editor, sarah smith. what more can you tell us? the evidence that has been published today contains a long string of whatsapp messages between nicola sturgeon and alex salmond. in them, he asks for several face—to—face meetings and also urges nicola sturgeon to intervene in the investigation into charges of sexual harassment against him, because he says if it was made public, it could embarrass the government. in reply to one of these messages come on the 1st ofjune, nicola sturgeon wrote back, me intervening is not the right thing to do. now, the first minister told the scottish parliament at the first she knew of these allegations against alex salmond, and that there was an investigation into them, was when he told her about it at a meeting in her home in april 2018. in the e

daniel sandford, bbc news, the old bailey. month away. tonight in utah, the democrat vice presidential candidate kamala harris and current vp mike pence, will go head—to—head in a debate. 0ur north america correspondent, sophie long, has more. judge kavanaugh, i am concerned whether you would treat every american equally. she is a senator from california, known for her incisive questioning of president trunp's nominees for the supreme court. i know full well the importance of presidential leadership. he has been president trump's right—hand man for the past four years. tonight, they will take to a specially adapted stage for a debate that will be watched by tens of millions of voters. vp debates are not normally the headline act of a presidential election campaign, but this one is anything but normal. given the age of their bosses, and the fact that president trump's recent hospitalisation with coronavirus means we don't yet know whether the remaining two presidential debates will even take place, tonight's meeting between kam

our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford reports.est 44. they were in the sealed trailer for some 12 hours, as the temperature rose to over 38 degrees centigrade. 0n trial today, facing 39 counts of manslaughter, were british romanian gheorghe nica and eamonn harrison, a young lorry driver from northern ireland. irish haulier ronan hughes has already pleaded guilty to manslaughter, as has maurice robinson, another young northern irish lorry driver. it was maurice robinson that had picked up the trailer from purfleet port that night. ronan hughes had messaged him, give them air quickly, but don't let them out, so he'd stopped and opened the door. the prosecutor, bill emlynjones, said to the jury, what he found must haunt him still. for the 39 men and women inside, that lorry had become their tomb. one of the dead, 28—year—old 28—year—old pham thi ngoc 0anh, had tried to send a message. "maybe going to die in the container, can't breathe any more, dear." it was found unsent on her phone. this was the ferry that brought the trailer, una

daniel sandford is at the old bailey. daniel, tell us more about what happened in court today.days about two previous trips using similar routes, and on one occasion, the identical trailer, both of which had about 20 migrants on board. today, for the first time, they will give an explanation as to why these 39 migrants may have died. the prosecutor said, you may well conclude that this time, the criminals were simply too greedy. this time, they simply had too many people in the trailer. we suggest these people smugglers were under pressure to double up. he suggested that he had been under pressure to do two loads in one. thejury that he had been under pressure to do two loads in one. the jury have had harrowing stories of how it was that the migrants, having been loaded into the trailer, left unaccompanied port of zeebrugge, then travelled across the channel, and the temperature sensor inside the trailer rose higher and higher and higher, eventually picking at 38.5 celsius, and the migrants were recording final messages on their phones to their relatives. 125 recorded on audio

daniel sandford is at the old bailey now. tell us more about what happened in court today.f 0ctober. watching cctv from the 11th of october. the prosecution says the lorry driver, christopher kennedy, collected an unaccompanied trailer from purfleet put on the thames estuary, a trailer that had come from zeebrugge in belgium. thejury we re from zeebrugge in belgium. thejury were then shown cctv of that same lorry being given past or is it golf course, down a remote country lane, accompanied by four or five smart black curse. the jury were told they would hear from eyewitnesses that saw 15 to 20 migrants jumping out of that lorry and into the cars, which then sped off. thejury that lorry and into the cars, which then sped off. the jury have that lorry and into the cars, which then sped off. thejury have been told that some of the organisers of that successful trip on the 11th of 0ctober were then also involved in the fatal trip on the 23rd of 0ctober the fatal trip on the 23rd of october in which 39 people died. the suspect, who faces 39 counts of manslaughter, admits being

our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford, is at croydon town hall where the inquest is takingest into the death of sergeant matt ratana. the senior coroner for south london, sarah allman walsh, was sitting here in the council chamber at croydon town hall. everyone was very well socially distanced, following on from your previous item. and she heard from the officer in charge of the murder investigation into the death of sergeant matt ratana. that's the detective superintendent nick blackburn. he described how at a 130 last friday morning, a 23—year—old man was stopped in south london. he was found to have a controlled substance and ammunition on him, so he was handcuffed to the rear taken in a peace vehicle to the croydon custom near centre where he was held in a holding area —— croydon custody centre. he was going to be search when he produced a firearm and fired, and the words of nick blackburn, several times, injuring both sergeant matt to ratana and himself. both are taken to hospital and its 0410 in the morning. sergeant matt rata na and its 0410 in the morning. sergeant

our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford, is at croydon town hall where the inquest is taking was very socially distanced following on from your previous item. —— matt mratana. she heard from the officer in charge of the murder investigation into sergeant matt rata na the murder investigation into sergeant matt ratana that last thursday friday morning a 23—year—old man was stopped in south london, found to have a controlled substance, and some ammunition on him so he was handcuffed to the rear, taken in a police vehicle to the croydon custody centre where he was held in a holding area, and he was held in a holding area, and he was about to be searched when he produced a firearm and fired, in the words of mick blackwood, several times, injuring both sergeant matt rata na and himself. times, injuring both sergeant matt ratana and himself. both were taken to hospital and it 0410 in the morning sergeant matt ratana's life was pronounced in extinct and a preliminary postmortem examination later that day it established that he had indeed died as we had all suspected from a gunshot ru