europol detained members of the group book thieves who, according to investigators, have been stealing rare editions of russian classics from libraries across the continent for years. foreign media have already called this the largest theft of the century, 170 unique copies of pushkin, gogol, lermantov, worth more than 2.5 million dollars, disappeared, and they disappeared mysteriously, so that even the staff did not immediately notice. the criminals posed as scientists, distracted them with a library, while their accomplice masterfully replaced the original. a barely distinguishable copy. for 2 years insidious tourists robbed several large libraries in france, latvia, germany and poland. the operation to capture them was carried out by a special department of europol, and nine georgian citizens were finally detained. some of the missing books were found with them, but the fate of the rest is unknown; they say that some have already been auctioned off at auctions in moscow and st. petersburg. the entire operational feed of legal news in telegram channels vesti the duty department is an

since we are no longer members of europol, we no longer members of europol, we no longer have the european we are no longer part of the schengen information system which is crucial in monitoring cross—border security, it is difficult to see how this will work. the main thing we would like to see is safe passage, we would like to see safe and regulated routes that allow people to come into the country. you can think of this in the same terms of prohibition in the us. alcohol was banned, criminal gangs flourished, as soon as it was allowed back in the shops the criminal gangs collapsed. safe passage will put the gang is out of action. ~ ., �* , , , ., action. wouldn't the numbers be on terribly enormous _ action. wouldn't the numbers be on terribly enormous if _ action. wouldn't the numbers be on terribly enormous if that _ action. wouldn't the numbers be on terribly enormous if that was - action. wouldn't the numbers be on terribly enormous if that was to - terribly enormous if that was to happen? in terribly enormous if that was to ha - en? , terribly enormous if that was to ha--en? ,. ter

mentioned today and talked about earlier, even with numbers and facts in hand, even according to europols already a situation with the observance of human rights too.. this means that in the recipient country, its fulfillment of its international obligations as a whole must also be taken into account according to its own standards. western capital is also a group violate political obligations or, to put it another way , politically binding agreements, they were adopted within the osce, by the way, they were adopted within the osce on the western initiative. primarily these include the principles governing the transfer of conventional weapons, this is 1993, the osce document on small arms light weapons of 2000 and the osce principles relating to the control of the export of manpads of 2008. well, what literally blew up ukraine, now at the level of its own citizens, is changes in order provision of consular services in ukraine. two innovations at once. the kiev regime occurred the day before and both are related to the procedure for providing consular services to citizens of this country.

europol detained members of the bookstore group. who, according to investigators, have been stealingnt for years. foreign media have already called this the largest theft of the century, 170 unique copies of pushkin, gogol, lermontov, worth more than 2.5 million dollars, disappeared, and they disappeared mysteriously, so even the staff did not immediately noticed. the criminals posed as scientists, distracted librarians, while their accomplice masterfully replaced the original.

we need a new partnership with europol.haring networks that are so crucial to our security. and which the government so casually threw away as part of its botched wreck the deal. that's why i've already been to the hague with yvette, to start pushing for a new security pact with our european partners. but, look, it is also my firm belief, based on years of experience in this area, that we also need new and stronger powers to bring these vile criminals to justice. in some areas of criminal activity, counter terrorism is most obvious, we have that the crime justifies tougher measures. make no mistake, we have reached that moment with illegal migration. these vile people smugglers are no better than terrorists. they are a threat to our national security and a threat to life. and it's time we treated them as such. that means new powers that, as such. that means new powers that, as with would—be terrorists, can be used free conviction with high court approval, that can limit the ability of the gangs to conduct their vile busines

part of the idea here is to have, officers embedded in europol , which is embedded in europol, whichething that we lost during dunng something that we lost during during brexit. and the idea is you'd have intelligence sharing between european countries. so yes, you can only arrest the ones that we find here. but you could actually , ask european law could actually, ask european law enforcement agencies to catch the ones over there. >> nigel, you've just alluded to it. there but this is going to be criticised, isn't it? it is already in the papers this morning that this is just the labour party wanting closer ties with the eu again. >> well, i mean, the whole thing is closer. ties are actually a good thing. i mean apart from the trade we do with europe, it doesn't mean reversing brexit or anything like that. what it does mean is cooperating with our european neighbours. we're already giving the french half £1 billion to help us tackle, tackle the, the small boats. so the idea of a bit more cooperation is probably best. i mean, even even natalie elphicke before she defected to labour a

i watched him turn up in the europol. >> so did i in the european parliament. >> he turned up.stile crowd and he wowed them. it was extraordinary. >> yes. and he was good at that. >> yes. and he was good at that. >> really good at that. >> really good at that. >> these are change times. i mean, to your point, you know, we have a terribly difficult economic situation. there's wars raging across the globe, the climate is in a different situation than it would have been for tony. i mean, tony, it was a sort of pre—digital age. it was, you know, one of his big pledges was connecting schools to the information superhighway, and that was an applause line. we all had to applaud, and we didn't know what it meant. >> we all had to applaud without trying to reduce their access to it in many sps. >> so very changed. >> so very changed. >> okay, i completely accept that we're, you know, decades on, things are different. blair inherited a very good economy in many ways, and that's not the case. it's slightly better than it was a few weeks ago. but the looks of it. but it's not great. and i

actually, she was called europol. sandy, this little girl, and now her hearing is almost normal. treated, at addenbrooke's hospital in cambridge. i mean, the footage of this is absolutely lovely because, you know , her, her sisters are deaf know, her, her sisters are deaf as well, but she has a cochlear implant out. and i just think when you hear the family describing this moment, when they realise that their little girl can hear so much better than before, and it's just the advances in technology and medicine and science. we're so lucky . lucky. >> bless you michelle and gb news for starting with the good news story. well, it's very rare andifs news story. well, it's very rare and it's incredible what technology can do. my grandfather went deaf. my father's going deaf. i'll probably end up going deaf, but thank god for this. i mean, i have no idea about what the science is behind it, but it is wonderful and great and i wonder whether actually in the, you know, 24 seven media of today, we should reflect a bit more on how the human race progresses forward. the good news is the fac

shall we move on to europol outlets? i know you love your eurovision, nigel. watch it from start to finish last night? >> i did watch it from start to finish. >> really? i avoided it like the plague. i've never really got into it. >> it's. it's a wonderful piece of silliness. and that's why it's so entertaining. >> i probably silliness is welcome, although there was nothing particularly silly about the protests outside, or indeed, the protests outside, or indeed, the way that the israeli candidate was made to feel on stage with all of the booing. >> yeah, i mean, i found most of the booing was was reserved for the, the european broadcast union , which organises, union, which organises, organises eurovision and that was because they allowed israel in in . the first place, now i in in. the first place, now i obviously eden golan and the singer has nothing to do with what's going on. but back home, and on the basis of that, i was pleased to see her able to perform and also the public vote afterwards. yeah, the public vote. >> i think the judges put her at 12 and

here's to europol baby born deaf, cured in a uk world first.n now hear after having world leading gene therapy in a trial in an nhs hospital. oh, this is fantastic. she's only 18 months old, bless her. diagnosed with a very rare condition. it's caused by the disruption of the nerves. anyway, so now. now she can hear again. good. wow. modern science . right. let's go to the guardian . scientist despair amid guardian. scientist despair amid forecast of at least two and a half, degrees temperature rise. they're despairing. these scientists, they're absolutely despairing , scientists, they're absolutely despairing, it's a poll that shows that climate experts expect catastrophic heating. we've heard that before, haven't we? hundreds of the world's leading climate scientists expect that global temperatures will rise by at least two and a half degrees above the pre—industrial levels. this century. right, so let's go to the i in interest rates cuts can't save sunak amid defection row. so the bank of england is expected to hold the interest rate at 5.25

we need a new partnership with europol.ce sharing networks, security at which the government so casually threw away as part of its botched brexit deal . and of its botched brexit deal. and that's why i've already been to the hague with yvette to start pushing for a new security pact with our european partners. but look , it is also my firm belief, look, it is also my firm belief, based on years of experience in this area , that we also need new this area, that we also need new and stronger powers to bring these vile criminals to justice. now, in some areas of criminal activity, counter—terrorism is the most obvious. we have made the most obvious. we have made the decision that the crime justifies tougher measures , and justifies tougher measures, and that's sir keir starmer. >> speaking in dover to the people there and to us all about his plans on, net on migration. joining us in the studio is mark white. mark, you've listened to some of the stuff he said, we need. we can cooperate, cooperate across borders , he cooperate a

far further afield as well also work closely with europol and go back to a situation where we can sharee channel. second, here, we've got to get a better grip of the asylum system. if you go back to 2014, over 80% of cases, then were being dealt with within six months and people were being housed in the accommodation that we've historically used instead. now we have a backlog way over 100,000 with people in hotels , a 100,000 with people in hotels, a miserable existence for them. and you're talking six, £7 million a day to the taxpayer, which is totally unacceptable. thirdly, we need to get returns agreements in place. we'd create agreements in place. we'd create a returns unit in the home office dedicated to doing that so that when people are not entitled to be here, they can then be removed. that is a fair system that labour would look to create both the people in the system and for the british taxpayer. >> nick wood, that returns agreement involve some kind of deal with the european union member states because these people are coming from france, we should be sending them back to fra

we also need to be sharing information with europol in the hague as well. to your point. make sure that we are actually tackling the people smuggling gangs at source across europe, and we treat it like we have counter—terror operations with, yes, the commander and the unit, the additional, specialists that we can recruit with the additional £75 million, but also the powers, things like serious crime prevention orders we've been using so that we can restrict what people do prior to conviction in areas like counter—terrorism. we successfully transfer it here. so comprehensive plan to bust the gangs, not just a gimmick. yeah. >> and forgive me for interrupting. we did hear extensively from sir keir starmer on that plan. james cleverly, the home secretary, today saying that this will turn the uk into an asylum sieve, the asylum capital of the world. but we're almost out of time and i really quickly want to ask you about another story that's making headlines coming out of labour hq and that is private schools. a new report has found that enrolments in independen