has said that amber ruddis diane abbott has said that amber rudd is hanging by a thread, as a shield minister. she says that she failed to read crucial document and again called for amber rudd, the home secretary, to resign. diane abbott hinting at the political dimension here which is definitely a play in this, i think, amber rudd's readers are at the home office was theresa may as home secretary —— processor. she was their —— predecessor. she was there during a lot of time under scrutiny in terms of the changes that she pushed through to immigration policy and how that may have led to legal immigrants from caribbean countries, the so—called windrush generation, being wrongly challenged and asked to prove their status. amber rudd has tonight signalled her intention to ride out this storm, face up to her responsibility and admit she did not see this document and was not aware of the targets that were clearly in place, and she intends to give more details it seems to parliament on monday. there is an operation clearly under way from conservative mps to rally around her, several tweeti

being criticised for details by diane abbott, irony is dead when diane abbott gets to talk about that should have seen this memo. there is a difference between something you could and should have seen but didn't get a chance to see. it is the sort of human error that eve ryo ne the sort of human error that everyone needs to hold their hands up everyone needs to hold their hands up to say they did not see it. her emigration minister did get the memo and we can assume that he would have seen it. —— emigration. it would have known at ministerial level. did she not see the document because she said she wanted to reduce the paperwork, was it an by her officials? that is what we will find out by her statement. department share responsibility. how later shared between her and the prime minister, we do not know. she is responsible for all of it, but without not having any internal insight, i imagine we got this memo coming to the fore because someone would have seen it. there is nothing wrong with having targets about migration. the difficulty here is that the set under david cameron this net

i think diane abbott is really pushing her lib dem.me secretary to put it into place —— pushing her lead there. putting in that theresa may was not home secretary. we are on the ball tonight. let us look at the government reaction. an interesting one from michael gove. very fulsome in his praise and heavy she comes back soon. he is terribly polite. all his ministry colleagues these days. isn't it remarkable? he is very polite to everybody. he is generally very polite, except to boris one time. it is interesting that there is quite a lot of warmth towards amber rudd from conservatives. that does suggest she could come back if nothing else goes wrong. even people on the other side of the fence on brexit. exactly. it ina of the fence on brexit. exactly. it in a sense in one year brexit will be less of a divisive issue in the conservative party, one imagines. the labour attack is interesting, the important thing is that amber rudd had changed the hostile environment policy. she had changed the terminology. it was called the complaint envir

that was diane abbott.rld. helen has been taken a closer look at the crime. statistics. there are calls for fridges and freezers with plastic backing to be "urgently" removed from sale after an investigation by consumer watchdog, which, found they pose a fire risk. all plastic—backed fridges and freezers, currently on the market, pass existing safety standards but testing found that some flame—retardant products could speed up the spread of a fire. for more on this i'm joined by alex neill, who's managing director of home products and services at the consumer advice service which? we've got the tests in place, so what are you looking at which will tell us a different story. we need to look at what a real fire might produce forfridges to look at what a real fire might produce for fridges and freezers. we have found that there are hundreds of potentially unsafe fridges and freezers on the market, which is why we are saying that these patent plastic backed fridges must be removed from sales. we have looked at

diane abbott.ssistant political editor norman smith is in westminster diane abbott says it is a question of honour. is the home secretary under increasing pressure to resign over this? her position has certainly got worse following the admission that there were indeed targets, albeit local targets, targets, albeit local targets, targets which she said should not have been used inappropriately, in other words to encourage immigration officers to remove people. these we re officers to remove people. these were internal targets for performance assessment, she said, but the very fact that there were targets contradicts what both she and the man in charge of the border and the man in charge of the border and immigration service, director of the service, told the committee yesterday. there was also no further clarity on the apparent contradiction, when she said she was only made aware of the windrush situation the last field for months, the british government was a p pa re ntly the british government was

diane abbott repeated the call this morning. she should resign.peated the call this morninglj think she is in a very difficult position, i think she is hanging by a thread. 0n the one hand there may be more to come out, but what we do know is that no one will take this government seriously on the windrush scandal until amber rudd offers her resignation. i think amber rudd is oi'i resignation. i think amber rudd is on her fourth apology about the scandal. there comes a point where the apologies have to stop and amber rudd accepts responsibility. the apologies have to stop and amber rudd accepts responsibilitym the apologies have to stop and amber rudd accepts responsibility. it has clearly been a difficult week for the home secretary, that is something of an understatement, but in the series of tweets yesterday it was clear that amber rudd has taken the view that she should stay. she is dating her heels in and tackling head—on and she is staying in the job for now, and as long she has the support of the prime minister, cabinet ministers and conserv

when you look back at the link to the hostile environment which diane abbott and jeremy corbin will beck decades of narrative which has gave bloated immigrants and told them they are the ones where wages have fallen and we have housing problems. newspapers telling us about the syrians coming and cockroaches. it will take a generation to undo. there were headlines in the sun paper, it was about illegal migration. that territory ended up pushing the government, because they listened to the sun, and they listened to the mail. it reflects the feelings of people who read your papers. if some readers care passionately about immigration then that will be reflected. there is nothing wrong with doing that. what has been happening... the trees. —— the truth is that people care passionately about too many migrants coming into the country. people's views in this country are hugely schizophrenic about immigration. how does the sun say you are reflecting policy which leaders agree and people are schizophrenic about it? this country has been built on immigration. everyone knows and likes the migrant

saw diane abbott, the local mp. much deeper roots. the met police, for their part, say they need the community to help them to tackle this violence and they are appealing for witnesses to all of the incidents to come forward and help them find the perpetrators. john mcmanus in east london, thank you. our home editor, mark easton, is here. to what extent is this state we are focusing on about gangs and therefore how much can be done, what can be done about that element of this? it is certainly a factor. tragically killing can be contagious. there is good evidence that an approach to countering gang violence is to treat it as a public health emergency, like a deadly virus. if you think about a young man living in an area of london where there is no gang activity and they have known someone who has died, they already scared, and you get headlines talking of a new spate of killings, it makes it more likely they will want to protect themselves, theirfriends, they will want to protect themselves, their friends, and they w

diane abbott, the shadow home secretary. different story, chilly start, temperatures falling in the highlands 2—6 last night, the temperature is picking up the sunshine, patchy mist and fog all but gone, in for a sunny day with fairweather cloud developing. in places it will feel quite pleasant. in the south—east, in contrast we hang on to the rain and wind, going to feel cold, average is getting to 7 degrees. elsewhere, still in double figures. this evening and overnight this area of low pressure 15 into the north sea. behind it, a ridge of high pressure building, cold night under clear skies, some frost around, even in towns and cities in parts of scotland, the next atlantic front coming our way, introducing yet more rain. we start tomorrow on a mostly dry day, a lot of sunshine around, chilly, the weather front coming from the west, introducing rain with thick cloud building all the time ahead of that. temperature is recovering, not as windy in the south—east, but feeling cold under the rain. the rain crossing is overnigh

jeremy corbyn was always considered the foreign policy guy, diane abbott was home affairs, that kindf stuff. he is relishing this opportunity to finally put forward what he believes is an ethical foreign policy, and he perhaps feels he has more on that tradition. there is the spectre of barack, isn't there, in all of this? the pm programme we ran robin cook's speech about iraq the other day. theresa may has not won the support of the british people. a poll in the sunday papers showed that two thirds of people didn't think it was right for this intervention without going to the commons. i think a lot of that comes back to iraq. i have been to kosovo and you see the exact opposite there, you see a case for intervention. it is not as though every example in recent history gives you the iraq deal. in kosovo it is the exact opposite. i do think one of the things that jeremy corbyn has drawn on here, he is saying that she has read donald trump's tweets. that is a weak argument. i don't think theresa may is going to be influenced by that. as we will see later, emmanuel macron was also a sup

so diane abbott saying it would be outrageous if there was not a vote ahead of military action.d of military action. i'm joined by a supporter of theresa may, but she is right, a lack of support in the last time syria action was discussed in 20 2014, so what is different this time? i don't agree with diane abbott's insistence on a un sanctioned investigation because the russians would simply veto it as they have done six times in the re ce nt they have done six times in the recent past. i don't agree with her contention that the only circumstances that she can think of where military force isjustified if the second world war, i think there isa the second world war, i think there is a strong case on humanitarian grounds to protect women and children in syria from being attacked with chemical weapons. and on your last point, the parliamentary vote, i would become able that the prime minister taking action before parliament debate on the topic. what is the rush? it's not just diane the topic. what is the rush? it's notjust diane abbott, its people in conservative party, kelly clark

we have also heard from diane abbott, from the labour benches on this. what has she been saying?h at a time when others, she didn‘t name individuals, but i think she was primary pointing at the foreign secretary, boris johnson, had rushed in to apportion blame. we will be hearing from jeremy corbyn later today. he is at a local government election event and i suspect he will be asked about this andi suspect he will be asked about this and i suspect he will probably point to the fact that labour has been careful to adopt a more cautious approach and perhaps that is now being vindicated. norman smith, many thanks. the leaders of iran, russia and turkey have begun a summit aimed at finding a political solution to the seven—year war in syria. the meeting in ankara is the second summit between turkish president recep tayyip erdogan, his iranian counterpart hassan rouhani and russian president vladimir putin. the three leaders represent the three largest foreign military forces currently operating inside syria, excluding the united states. theresa may has promised to tackle what she‘s

it is a serious accusation and there is no letup after pressure from the labour party and diane abbottetary who again this morning called for amber rudd to go. i think she's in a very difficult position. i think she's hanging by a thread. on the one hand there may be more to come out but what we do know is that no one will take this government studiously on the windrush scandal until amber rudd offers her reignation. amber rudd is on her fourth apology about this scandal. you know, there comes a point when the apologies have to stop and amber rudd accepts responsibility. so clearly the pressure will continue at westminster on monday. in terms of the policy, where does this come? we have had this rapid turnaround on the fate of windrush generation people who came to this country in the 50s and 60s, they will be compensated. is the policy story dead, is it about who knew what? i think it is far from dead. we have seen daily revelations about the government's dealings love the windrush emigrants. threatened with deportation. there may be more to come on that. their governments struggle to

diane abbott said that more thoughtful approach, her description, jeremy corbyn should get credit for this morning while stressing the need for what he called a responsible and cool approach to establish who actually was... or where the novichok came from. he also rounded on the foreign secretary, who has been very bullish on some of the interviews he has given and his conviction that russia was responsible, telling colleagues on five live last month that on a scale of one to ten, he was 9.98 certain that the novichok came from russia. this morning, jeremy corbyn was asked about some of boris johnson ‘s comments. this is his response. well, he claimed categorically, he used the words 10196, categorically, he used the words 101%, that it came from russia. porton down have not said that. they have said they have identified it as novichok and cannot identify the source novichok and cannot identify the source of it. either the foreign secretary has information that he's not sharing with porton down or it was a bit of exaggeration. i don't know which it is, but i think we need irresponsibl

diane abbott called for amber rudd to go. she has gone. diane abbottjoins me now., you wa nted this the end of the matter, you wanted her to go, she's gone? no, this isjust the beginning. there is still a lot of questions to be answered, we don't know how many people were deported, we don't know how many windrush people are currently detained. we want to know the details the compensation. a lot more has to happen before we get justice. you have said all roads lead to theresa may. in what way? because many of the aspects of the hostile environment were put into place and the theresa may. noticeably, her 2014 immigration act, which removed the protection on commonwealth citizens that stopped them being deported. so, how do you hold this prime minister to account, do you have a way of challenging her? we are looking for the home affairs select committee to hold an inquiry into how the windrush scandal came about. rest assured, just as i continually challenged amber rudd on this, the labour party is going to hold theresa may to account. to be clear, some of the policie

labor leader along with his shadow chancellor john mcdonnell and shadow home secretary diane abbott's have an unimpeachable record on mt racism unlike the parliamentary labor party when it was run by failed leadership candidates like this one. here i was not going to raise this that the prime minister waiting for me let me say to the prime minister you know trying to hide between behind me all the labor party when she was warned repeatedly that the damage to her obsession with high net migration target was doing judo and tried to hide behind blairite multiple war supporter events who. there is on the record for supporting the tories on immigration legislation and we support measures to bring immigration down that's when pre-columbian labor was selling mugs like these dummy money anyway to raise i'm a try to shut out the labor right getting on the wind rush bandwagon a parliamentary labor right that is arguably to the right of tereza may i say the rising interval nature. nobody is trying to blame anybody else some are actually blaming people we need to drive out institutional racism in

of evidence proving your right to remain in the uk and this morning the shadow home secretary diane abbottit was time for amber rudd to consider her position. i think this incident is so shameful and has caused such distress to so many people that she really needs to consider her position. the government says the landing cards would not be definitive proof of status, what do you think? was it the right move to destroy them and what do you make of the government's justification? the government is wrong to dismiss the importance of landing cards. many of these windrush generation were based on when did the person first into the country? the landing cards would have proved that. the fact they were just thrown away shows the home office doesn't have a care for commonwealth migrants despite what amber rudd is saying now. at the same time, labourare amber rudd is saying now. at the same time, labour are calling for a group exemption for the windrush generation, to exempt them from the normal immigration checks and for there to be an assumption that they have a right to stay. labour is also calli

labor leader along with his shadow chancellor john mcdonnell and shadow home secretary diane abbott have an unimpeachable record on anti racism unlike the parliamentary labor party when it was run by failed leadership candidates like this one. here i was looking to raise this with the prime minister waiting for me let me say to the prime minister you know try to hide between behind me all the labor policy when she was warned repeatedly that the damage to her obsession with high net migration target was doing do not try to hide behind blairite multiple war supporter events cooper is on the record for supporting the tories on immigration legislation and we support measures to bring. immigration that's when pre-columbian labor was selling mugs like these dummy money anyway to raise i'm a try to shut out the labor right getting on the wind rushed bandwagon to bottom entry labor right that is arguably to the right of tereza may i say the russian ruble needs. nobody is trying to blame anybody else some are actually blaming people we need to drive out institutional racism in all its forms where

experience is not quite it was that the front bench of the shadow home secretary diane abbott on review for this morning. said that we do not want to get involved when they were in force become a de facto party to the war and then actually bones on behalf of the islamic terrorist group isis so they are strong voices in britain. to ice to see reason and not push for anything to go further than that and what if things actually interest amaze mind though is it that she's keeping a cool head on this because as well as the iraq mistake that was made in two thousand and three don't forget her predecessor try to ask parliament about going to war in syria and that got him nowhere you think that's on the mind of the fear of losing in parliament again. well i think it would be very very sort of the balancing for her to lose that nothing definite cameron in fact he probably now and that's sort of less is the circumstances that give him a way to climb down and give but isn't obama a way to climb down and i think that the engine of this time and many people out i'm aware of that yesterday the expres

labor leader along with his shadow chancellor john mcdonnell and shadow home secretary diane abbott have an unimpeachable record on anti racism unlike the parliamentary labor party when it was run by failed leadership candidates like this one arguably i was not going to raise this with the prime minister waiting for me let me say to the prime minister do not try to hide between behind me all the labor party when she was warned repeatedly that the damage to her accession with a net migration target was doing do not try to hide behind blairite multiple war supporter yvette cooper is on the record for supporting the tories on immigration legislation and we support measures to bring immigration down that's when pre-court in labor was selling mugs like these money anyway to raise i'm a try to shut out the labor right getting on the wind rush bandwagon a parliamentary labor right that is arguably to the right of tereza may i say the rising interval no. nobody is trying to blame anybody else some are actually blaming people we need to drive out institutional racism in all its forms wherever it

that incensed diane abbott to be very specifically laid the blame on amber rudd and this government. had often come here as young children were required to show for pieces of original documentation for pieces of original documentation for each year they were supposedly in this country. you could have believed that that was as sustainable or their situation? as i said, it is not a surprise to ministers were there officials the situation we are rain because member have member has written to the home office trying to draw their attention to these cases. david lammy, he has been at the forefront of much of the campaigning forefront of much of the campaigning for the windrush family said he welcomed the measures but noted that the government was giving back citizenship to these windrush families who already had been], so there were given back something that they had in his words taken away. whether this will ease the row remains to be seen, but you sense the desire in government is to come forward with a really substantial package of concessions to finally try and put an end to this whole

diane abbott has called on amber rudd to resign, to consider resigning from her position.to do good. don't start sacking everybody. life is hard for many people. why make it harder? she is in the right place now to do some good, and she should be able to if she is given the right powers to do so. she is given the right powers to do so. i don't hate the british government or anything like that. it is just unfortunate this happened to me and thousands more people. let them do good and make it better than people, and end this stress and this horrible situation we are in. thank you very much. we asked a representative from the government tojoin us, and it wasn't representative from the government to join us, and it wasn't possible. they're known as the hooded men. they were 14 men who claim to have been hooded, beaten and tortured in northern ireland in1971. they say police officers from royal ulster constabulary were trained by the british army in the techniques, to try and get information about the ira. ten of the men are still alive, and they're going back to court, to try

i know your shadow home secretary, diane abbott, had real problems answering this this morning.icularly if they have been here ten years, what would you do? deport, give them an amnesty? successive governments have given amnesties, i'm not advocating that, but that is some thing that has been from time to time. what we need to do is obviously you need to try and have a system that can establish who is here legally. you would have an id card or something like that? it was a policy the labour party had in 2009. theresa may, when she became home secretary, actually abolished that policy. that it would have given the government a way of knowing through the biometric id cards who was here legally and who wasn't. if you are going to set targets you should never set arbitrary targets. you have to set targets on the basis of knowledge. this is really interesting. then you take action to make sure that this system operates fairly both for the system, people who are legally and perfectly justified and entitled to be here. it sounds like you are thinking we should have an id card and it wa

ridiculous because, as diane abbott pointed out, she is essentially a human shield for the prime minister— isn't that what is behind this? well, i think this crisis does show you what an effective home secretary theresa may was. she was six years at the wicket, dealing with a whole series of difficulties. and you know, as i say, these crises come quite often in the home office, and i think it is a measure of what a successful home secretary she was that none of them caused her serious trouble. but isn't that the point? you call her an effective home secretary, but this was all going on while theresa may, now the pm, was the home secretary. i mean, this whole windrush saga goes to the heart of what she called the perception of nasty party, doesn't it? most people agree with theresa may when she says that we should bear down, in a firm but fair way, on illegal immigration. the problem with this is that windrush was nothing to do with that, and it has got caught up in that, and it undermines values which britain has stood for all around the world, which we are respected for. and it is that t

well, it is important to say that diane abbott, speaking for the leadership, has said that she has foughtism include anti—semitism and she has fought back, but what you're seeing is profound differences as ruth smeeth and supporters ofjeremy corbyn have profound differences on that and profound differences on syria. i don't see a new party forming from within the labour party at the moment. at the moment, i see an uneasy truce. the intense concern over knife crime in london has perhaps ebbed in the last few days, the media has slightly shifted its gaze, but unfortunately people continue to die. an 18—year—old was killed in forest gate in east london last night. everybody has a theory as to what is fuelling the violence — cressida dick, the met police commissioner mentioned one factor — social media as a force that escalates violent feuds. well, newsnight exists to take some time to examine these things — and in light of cressida dick's comments, we went out to find out more about the culture behind knife and gang crime, and its presence online. this film from katie razzall, which we are a

diane abbott has called for that resignation but this has been historic, this was flagged up today, wement which was signed by the ministers in her department where all this was written out in 2015 and policy document. these ministers are signing documents without reading them but the impact communities and people. it is interesting you're not seeing she has to go now, thank you both but i want to ask about one other thing, anti—semitism. len mcclusky in the new statesman has written an interesting article today seeing a lot of labour mps are using this to attackjeremy corbyn. he names names, chris leslie, do you agree with len mcclusky and do you believe it's helpful? you'll have to forgive me but i've not read the article because i am busy with windrush today, lent is entitled to his opinion but let's be clear what jeremy has said, he has met withjewish leaders and they have agreed steps forward and i think that's the right way to proceed... do you think people likejohn woodcock are smearing thejeremy corbyn, do you think it's helpful for len mcclusky to make that charge while relati

lovely looking to be there to hear what diane abbott and david had to say and to register their own frustrationlve to do something about it and is a highly charged meeting. it was his speech and for the prime minister this week which really brought this to the government and burst open to a steady stream that had been reported. saying he had been acting and act fast. people angry again calling for an apology and that really seems to be the main thrust of people caught up in this scandal and people are calling it and they want to hear the prime minister public apology. we do have a sense of being done about it and they confirmed they're looking into 232 cases that the task force was set up earlier in the week. 0thers will be people who need help approving there in the —— immigration status. we have four people since that task force set up and given permanent resident status. the magician david copperfield has been forced to reveal the secret of one of his signature tricks after being sued by an injured british audience member. let's get the details from our correspondent in la james cook. what i

diane abbott. well, we did ask the government to join us tonight but nobody was available.ined by david lammy, the labour mp who's been prominent in fighting for the windrush generation here, and whose own parents came here from guyana. also with us, two people who you might have seen on the programme last week. sonia williams believes she is one of nine people whose cases the home secretary today said had been resolved. and samantha barnes—gha na. her father clayton barnes spent 50 years in britain but has been stuck for several years in jamaica and unable to return to the uk after losing his leave to remain and being denied a visa. samantha, the bbc managed to catch up with your father yesterday, here's a little bit of our interview with him from his hospital bed. samantha, the bbc managed to catch up with your father yesterday. he is in hospital so we willjust play a bit of the interview with him from his hospital bed. now you're here injamaica you're away from them at the exact time when you'd need to be with them. yes. that must be awful. i'd seen it like when they cam

diane abbott, the shadow home secretary, said that she either didn't read the memo or misled parliamentheard a response from amber rudd's team either. this poses further questions about their handling of this affair. earlier this week, downing street said they had full confidence in her. that was yesterday when there we re her. that was yesterday when there were calls for her resignation over the same question. it's worth pointing out that in the house of commons when amber rudd was addressing this point, there were many conservative mps who stood up on the back benches and gave her theirfull support on the back benches and gave her their full support and in on the back benches and gave her theirfull support and in particular support this policy because there have been questions about the government's approach. the primus or an home secretary said that they —— the prime minister. that illegal immigrants should not be here. the questions are whether or not there should be targets which have now been scrapped. the questions are now about how amber rudd what she knew and when. and about ho

been another letter sent to the prime minister about this today from the shadow home secretary diane abbott into whether amber rudd wrote the ministerial code. the government says they don't believe there is grounds for an investigation over claims that amber rudd misled parliament because she was not aware or rudd misled parliament because she was not aware 01’ she rudd misled parliament because she was not aware or she did not read a memo last year which told of deportation targets. so the windrush scandal which is rumbling on, there are further interventions in some of the papers this morning, the labour mayor of london siddique can't fix ofa mayor of london siddique can't fix of a hostile environment for immigrants in towns and cities up and down the country and the secretary sergei jared payne the telegraph this morning says this could have been me, he is of migrant stock himself and he calls on voters to look at the government record in tackling the issue over the past few yea rs. tackling the issue over the past few years. —— sadiq khan. amber rudd will return to the commons tomorrow

here at all and that prompted calls for amber rudd to quit from the labour shadow home secretary diane abbott were told earlier by someone else that there was a net re movals by someone else that there was a net removals target, that in forsman teams had to meet, and they are aiming to remove a certain number of individuals in any given month —— that in force meant teams. —— enforcement. the targets on posters in regional centres were there. when lord carrington resigned over the falklands he said it was a matter of honour. isn't it time that the home secretary is considered her honour and resigned? is she going to? has this comment on twitter said her job. she was never in real danger because she has the backing of number ten and there are no calls from tory backbenchers. often you can feel the support starting to crumble away but that is not happening. she is having a difficult time, no question, but i think she soldiers on. for the prime minister she is performing a usefulfunction, absorbing a lot of the political fla k absorbing a lot of the political flak the government is getting about

the speaker: diane abbott. this morning, labour asked for clarification.e home secretary said she had not set specific targets for the number of illegal immigrants to be removed, but... the immigration arm of the home office has been using local targets for internal performance management. cries of outrage these were not published targets against which performance was assessed, but if they were used inappropriately, then i'm clear that this will have to change. —— used. not good enough for the opposition, who were keen to keep up the pressure on the home secretary to quit. isn't it time that the home secretary considered her honour and resign? the speaker: home secretary. i would like to make the very clear distinction between legal and illegal migrants. and when the right honourable lady talks about the windrush cohort, we have already established that the windrush cohort is here legally and this government is determined to put that right. more criticism came from labour. we now understand that people have been removed because of targets, and she said she

the issue was met with fury from some labour mps but we‘ve heard from the shadow home secretary diane abbott credited. in although i think the fundamentals have not changed. i think the fear and government must be that the international community, that their supporters might get a bit nervous and maybe fade away but certainly that has not happened and we heard the chemical weapons watchdog meeting, the eu spokesman sticking by the uk and sticking by its criticism of russia. eleanor, many thanks. fifty years to the day since the assassination of martin luther king — the prime figure in the us civil rights movement — racial inequality remains a persistent feature of life in america. commemorations are being held across the usa today to remember the moment dr king was shot by a white supremacist in memphis, tennessee. my colleague clive myrie is in memphis. commemorations got under way in the last couple of hours, we had some speakers on the podium behind me. this of course is the national civil rights museum but in 1968 it was the motel where doctor martin littered king was assassinated on tha

diane abbott.heir families are, and angry the windrush generation and theirfamilies are, and how the scandal has resonated around the commonwealth? he talks about the windrush generation getting the legal status they deserve. actually, they were always british, they were a lwa ys they were always british, they were always british citizens. is he aware that this is notjust a matterfor the windrush generation and commonwealth citizens from the caribbean? the same plight that befell the windrush generation could also have commonwealth citizens who came here from south asia and west africa. so what steps does he intend to ta ke africa. so what steps does he intend to take in order to protect later cohorts of commonwealth citizens from the indignity that the windrush generation has had to suffer? he will be aware it was the prime minister as home secretary who introduce the 20 14th minister as home secretary who introduce the 2014th immigration act, which removed from commonwealth citizens the protectio

diane abbott. this morning, labour asked for clarification.e home secretary said that she had not set specific targets for the number of illegal immigrants to be removed. but... the immigration arm of the home office has been using local targets for internal performance management... cries of outrage these were not published targets against which performance was assessed, but if they were used inappropriately, then i am clear that this will have to change. not good enough for the opposition, who were keen to keep up the pressure on the home secretary to quit. isn't it time that the home secretary considered her honour and resigned? hear, hear. home secretary. i would like to make the very clear distinction between legal and illegal migrants. and when the right honourable lady talks about the windrush cohort, we have already established that the windrush cohort is here legally, and this government is determined to put that right. more criticism came from labour. we now understand that people have been removed because of targets, and she said sh

say the complaints are smears. " what he needs to do is when senior members of his party, like diane abbottsident of the board of deputies of britishjews, thanks for talking to us on brea kfast. thanks for talking to us on breakfast. we will speak to barry gardnerfrom breakfast. we will speak to barry gardner from the labour party at 7:20am this morning with more information on their perspective on that. here's carol with a look at this morning's weather. it has got chilly again, hasn't it? it has, and getting cooler into the weekend, naga. good morning. this morning we have a chilly start, temperatures fell to just below freezing in parts of scotland but now the sun is up it is picking up already. the forecast today is one of sunshine and showers, some showers will be heavy and thundery with hail and we've also got a western south—westerly wind blowing m, western south—westerly wind blowing in, quitea western south—westerly wind blowing in, quite a keen wind in the west, some of those showers will blow over to the east, we will see some developing anyway in the easter so showers becoming m

on payments, the shadow home secretary, diane abbott, saying the government should consider compensation of what went wrong, they need to bring this to the attention of the new unit as soon as possible. they can do so directly or go through their mp or another representative and the unit is going to try to sort this out within two weeks, the remit they have been given. they will get money back for that? i do not want to speculate about individual cases, but i would certainly hope, the home secretary has said people would be compensated fully reasonable legal costs a nd compensated fully reasonable legal costs and fees would be waived and i would encourage people who feel they have lost out financially take it to the home office unit and we can get the home office unit and we can get the case looked at in detail. can we also talk about syria and air strikes and whether or not parliament should be consulted? another discussion about this in parliament later. do you think that needs to be looked at, whether parliament should be consulted before air strikes are considered? the key principle

diane abbott is mp for the area and also the shadow home secretary.thers waking up and thinking they can say goodbye to their sons this morning, but will they see them later on in the day? there are a whole series of things that need to happen. first and foremost, we need more police officers on the street. in hackney, we have lost one in four police officers, since 2010, it is impossible to deal with gang crime u nless impossible to deal with gang crime unless you have the right level of neighbourhood policing. but law enforcement cannot solve things on their own, you need to work with schools, mental health services, social workers. it schools, mental health services, socialworkers. it appears schools, mental health services, social workers. it appears from what has been happening from the wide variety of victims, some teenagers, people in their 405, some of this is maybe our poetry, people carrying knives and getting into a fight, but some is also gang related as well. some is gang related, but a lot of it is just people having disputes and trying

the shadow home secretary diane abbott said it was the right thing to do. 0ur political correspondenton reports. morning, home secretary. for most of the past week, amber rudd has been under pressure. will you resign over windrush? late last night, she did just that. in her letter to the prime minister, she says she "inadvertently misled the home affairs select committee over targets for removal of illegal immigrants." and that's why she's going. it was the windrush scandal that marked the beginning of the end for the home secretary. days of damning headlines about the treatment of legal migrants. but on wednesday, mps on the home affairs committee asked amber rudd about targets for removing illegal migrants. these words would end her cabinet career. we don't have targets for removals. she later said there had been local operational targets that she hadn't known about, and apologised. then, on friday, the guardian obtained a memo copied to the home secretary referring directly to national targets. she said she hadn't seen it. but in her resignation letter, she admitted she "became awa

labor leader along with his shadow chancellor john mcdonnell and shadow home secretary diane abbott have an unimpeachable record on anti racism unlike the parliamentary labor party when it was run by failed leadership candidates like this one arguably i was not going to raise this with the prime minister waiting for me let me say to the prime minister do not try to hide between behind me all the labor party when she was warned repeatedly that the damage to her session with a net migration target was doing do not try to hide behind blairite multiple war supporter yvette cooper is on the record for supporting the tories on immigration legislation and we support measures to bring immigration down that's when pre-columbian labor was selling mugs like the money anyway to raise i'm a try to shut out the labor right getting on the wind rush bandwagon a parliamentary labor right that is arguably to the right of tereza may i say the russian ruble now. nobody is trying to blame anybody else some are actually blaming people we need to drive out institutional racism in all its forms wherever it rais