our legal correspondent dominic casciani reports.e truth, and it takes a skilled barrister to pull at the threads of lies. that costs time and money. but is all that about to change, thanks to artificial intelligence? the caseworker will subsequently... ai now helps advisers find the key legal points in their client's story that could help them win their case. we can actuallyjust spend a couple of minutes going through and redacting the the client's personal information, then ultimately upload it onto an ai model that can come back and give us all that information, and it'll usually shoot it back in about. . . maybe ten to 15 minutes. so it saves us hours�* worth of time. big law firms are already using ai tools, but the judge overseeing guidance in the field says they could, in fact, benefit the poorest. when people have claims which they can't resolve, it creates a huge economic loss to our society. and so we in the justice system really do want to find ways in which we can resolve people's problems more quickly and at lower cost.

dominic casciani has the very latest.as this an attempt to delete capture to bed an agent inside the royalfamily? panel of newsnighters, and of course look at what the papers are saying about tomorrow's news. with a chinese businessman, who's been banned from the uk, accused of being a spy. in a statement this evening, the prince said "he'd met the individual through official channels, with nothing of a sensitive nature ever discussed, and he's now acted on the advice of the government, after concerns were raised." china has condemned the decision to ban the businessman, who's been described as a close confidant of the duke's, and who received an invitation to the prince's birthday party in 2020. he'd also been told he could act on behalf of the prince, when dealing with potential investors in china. dominic casciani, has our top story. a prince under pressure again. this time over his relationship with a mystery businessman we are not allowed to name now revealed to be a likely spy targeting the royal family. forten like

dominic casciani. thank you.ies — in hotels, houses and b&bs — because of what the government is calling the worst housing crisis in living memory. many of them are moved to places hours away from their schools or their parents�* workplaces, and are living in unsafe, often shocking conditions. now the government has set out how it intends to spend £1 billion allocated to prevent and deal with homelessness. michael buchanan has been talking to one family affected. imagine cooking in this kitchen, in this house you didn't choose, when you have to live with this. i have to spray this house every morning. i have a lot of this, different types of it, to spray all the house before my kids start coming downstairs to eat their breakfast. this is how i live. the family were made homeless in april, after their landlord sold the house they were in. they were placed here in west london by the local authority, enfield council. ok, let's go. you know we don't have much time. it's called temporary accommodation, and it's 25 mil

dominic casciani, bbc news.ave been spotted in the skies of newjersey and pennsylvania have residents and lawmakers in the us concern. speaking at a briefing today, the white house national security spokesperson john kirby said the government has no evidence the drone sightings reported pose a national security or public safety threat. ~ . ., . . threat. we have no evidence at this time the _ threat. we have no evidence at this time the reported - threat. we have no evidence at this time the reported drugs i this time the reported drugs that plaza national security or public safety threat or have a four annexes. the department of homeland security in the fbi are investigating the sightings and they are working closely with state and local law enforcement to provide resources using numerous detection methods to better understand their origin. using very sophisticated electronic detection technologies provided by federal authorities, we have not been able to and neither have state or local law enforcement authorit

with me is our home and legal correspondent, dominic casciani.s to have happened is too large russian crypto currency networks operating out of moscow stepped in to help them, and they have step up basically a nationwide carrier scheme, so a drugs gang could hand over its cash to the russian —controlled careers and at the same time, they would basically authorise the delivery of crypto currency to the drugs gangs. why does that matter? it basically meant that they could get the data many of their hands, take the crypto currency to buy more drugs to flood the uk with more product. the brush and in turn could get that out of the uk and use that for other purposes. the for

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our legal correspondent dominic casciani reports. every day in our courts witnesses swear to tell thethat costs time and money. but is all that about to change? thanks to artificial intelligence at the westway advice clinic in london, many of its clients can't afford lawyers. it saves hours worth of time. big law firms are using ai tools. but thejudge big law firms are using ai tools. but the judge overseeing guidance in the field thinks they could benefit the poorest. when people have claims which they can't resolve, it was creates a huge economic loss to our society. we in thejustice system do want to find ways in which we can resolve people's problems more quickly and at lower cost. so i think artificial intelligence in time will be one of those tools that we will use. so will be one of those tools that we will use.— we will use. so how far could ai no? we will use. so how far could ai go? this — we will use. so how far could ai go? this is _ we will use. so how far could ai go? this is a _ we will use. so how far could l ai go? this is a demonstration of courtroom software. the to

dominic casciani has the details.sinessman we're not allowed to name, now revealed by the courts to be a likely spy targeting the royal family. for ten years, prince andrew promoted the uk's relationship with china. this was his pitch at the palace investment scheme on tour in china. from entrepreneurs to state visits — here with china's president xijinping — the duke forged closer ties amid a delicate and difficult diplomatic relationship. that relationship is now under new strain. a judgment from the semi—secret special immigration appeals commission has revealed that a man working for the chinese communist party's intelligence operations has been banned from the uk. he'd targeted the duke in an operation to influence him. in 2020, h6 became a close confidant with an unusual degree of trust, working with this man, the duke's adviser, dominic hampshire. he gave h6 the green light to act for the duke in talks with chinese investors. when the security services became suspicious and searched h6's phone, they found evide

our home and legal correspondent dominic casciani is following the story.f hyper masculinity, and linked to that are a lot of online get rich schemes. he and his brother tristan encourage people to sign up, subscribe to their online university to make money, courses in how to be a real man, how to basically generate wealth from the internet. but there�*s also online pornography in there as well. and critically, they are facing allegations in romania, where they�*ve been based since 2017, that they�*ve been involved in alleged human trafficking of women and controlling them. now, this case in london is indirectly linked to the romanian allegations, but it�*s really about what�*s fundamentally happened to their cash. now, british police found that over eight years they generated about £21 million thereabouts of income through their various businesses, through a lot of forensic exercises, looking at how money was being moved through seven accounts. the police froze those accounts and told the court that the movements of that money defied any commercial logic,

here's dominic casciani. a prince under pressure.advisor standing by him, and the mystery businessmen we cannot name. was this set of special relationships, now revealed in an extraordinary court document, the moment the chinese state targeted the royalfamily? for ten years, prince andrew promoted the uk's relationship with china as a trade envoy. i believe that china is a very, very important country. it's one that the uk needs to continue to have a good relationship with. from state dinners to business talks, he helped forge closer ties. this one, a business event nine years ago for china's president xi jinping. ajudgment from the special immigration appeals commission, a semisecret court, has revealed that a chinese man known only as h6 has been banned from the uk because he is a threat to national security. the duke's adviser dominic hampshire told h6 that he could act for the dukein told h6 that he could act for the duke in talks with potential chinese investors. when the security services search h6�*s phone in 2021, they saw ev

here's our home correspondent dominic casciani.s was a moment and a simple arrest in london during the 2021 pandemic set off a worldwide investigation. this man was carrying £250,000 cash in his car. and was investigated and found next as they dug stunned them. he, since jailed, it was part of a group of couriers moving cash for drugs gangs. across the country, the police were finding them linked into networks based in russia. this later meeting in the back of a car was just typical of what was happening. the two men walk off carrying a bag of dirty money. what you don't see is the gang in the car receive an online transfer of russian crypto currency in exchange for the cash. the sums moved by the couriers have been vast and much of it under the direction of this russian woman. as the pandemic lockdowns made it harder for drug gangs to move money, her network and another stepped in to help and offer the group into a multi—billion dollar global enterprise. 71 couriers been arrested in the past three years across the uk. investigator

our home and legal affairs correspondent dominic casciani was in court for the ruling.rdinary and very short hearing this afternoon. not what we were expecting. we were told to come to court at 2:00 because of a basically an urgent application in court. and we expect that we were going to have a bit of a battle over whether or not h6, who we can now say is yang tengbo, also known as chris yang, whether or not we could name him. and as we came into court, it became clear that mr yang's lawyers were going to apply to have his anonymity lifted. this is a very, very unusual situation because typically in a case such as this, before the special immigration appeals commission, the semi—secret court applicants who have been effectively banned from the uk, either as a national security risk because they are a suspected spy, or for or perhaps a suspected terrorist, tend to want to keep their anonymity because of effectively, the potential crushing blow this allegation has to their reputation were it to be public. but mr yang said he wanted to go on the front foot and to be publi

our home and legal correspondent dominic casciani explains the significance of these revelations.e agency, based on a three—year investigation. now, back in the pandemic, drugs gangs in the uk were really struggling to move their cash from their street sales of drugs quite simply because of the lockdown. they didn't know where to move it to. and what appears to have happened is two large russian cryptocurrency networks operating out of moscow stepped in to help them, and they have set up basically a nationwide courier scheme. so a drugs gang could basically hand over its cash to the russian—controlled couriers. and at the same time, the russian couriers would basically authorise the delivery of cryptocurrency to the drugs gangs. now, why does that matter? quite simply, it meant the drugs gangs could get the dirty money off their hands. they could then take the cryptocurrency to buy more drugs to flood the uk with more product. the russians, in turn, would get that cash out of the uk and put it back into theirfunds, which were already built up from ransomware, and then use that for

our home and legal affairs correspondent dominic casciani was in court for the ruling. more about what was said. it tell us more about what was said. ., , ., said. it was quite an extraordinary - said. it was quite an extraordinary and i said. it was quite an l extraordinary and very said. it was quite an - extraordinary and very short hearing this afternoon. not what we were expecting, we were told to come to court at two o'clock because basically it was an urgent application in court, we expected to have a bit of a battle over whether or not h six, who we can now say is yang tengbo, also known as chris yang, whether we could name him or not. we came into court and it became clear that his lawyers were going to apply to have his anonymity lifted, this is a very unusual situation because typically in a case such as this before the special immigration appeals commission, the semi—secret court, applicants who have been effectively banned from the uk either as a national security risk because they are a suspected spy or perhaps a suspected spy or perhaps a suspected terror

our home and legal affairs correspondent dominic casciani was in court for the ruling.t was quite an extraordinary and very short hearing this afternoon, not what we were expecting. we were told to come to court at two o'clock because there was basically an urgent application in court and we expected to have a bit of a battle over whether or not age six, who we can now say as yang tenbo, also known as chris yang, whether or not we could name him. it became clear that mr yang's lawyers were going to apply to have his anonymity lifted, this is a very unusual situation, because typically in a case such as this before the special immigration appeals commission, the semi—secret court, applicants who have been effectively banned from the uk either as a national security risk because they are as suspected spy or perhaps suspected spy or perhaps suspected terrorist tend to want to keep their anonymity because effectively the potential crushing blow these allegations have to their reputation wear it to be public. mryang reputation wear it to be public. mr yang said reputation we

let's get more on this from our home and legal correspondent dominic casciani. if not more seismic change to how the courts operate, criminal courts in england and wales, and it is being driven by a chronic situation and unprecedented crisis. we have currently got, looking at the figures as of this september, around 73,000 cases now waiting for trial in england and wales before the crown courts, serious cases, everything up to murder and rape cases. putting that in context, it is double the 143