to the police and the rspca.it is just bizarre. you can see more on bbc one seven o'clock tonight. thank you for joining us this morning, there is some sunshine out there and it is getting milder, and we have matt, what more could we want when it comes to the weather? good morning. good morning to both of you, things turning milder later this week. a dip in temperature compared to the last few days but still on the mild side today and all of us will see a little bit of sunshine. but this forecast for today also comes with some rain, especially across western areas and more especially this morning. showing the big picture, this strip of cloud extends from northern portugal all the way to the west of us. it is a weather front pushing enough the atlantic which has already brought rain the western scotla nd has already brought rain the western scotland and parts of northern ireland, and it is not far away from parts of pembrokeshire and cornwall and the isles of scilly. some heavy burst of rain on that, there are som

according to groups like the dogs trust and the rspca, puppies, often kept in horrific conditions, aredulent passports to be sold as pets to unsuspecting buyers. the issue was raised at question time by a senior conservative. the late prime minister stanley baldwin said that his country were a sentimental people easily moved by stories of cruelty. in that spirit, will the secretary of state clamp down on puppy smuggling by which means sinister foreign traders bring small dogs into this country causing disease, causing distress, causing death? well, my right honourable friend makes a very important point. he's absolutely right from the time of earl baldwin to this day, people have looked to the conservative party to safeguard the welfare of the nation and to stamp out cruelty. and he is absolutely right that puppy smuggling is one of the vilest types of crimes against animals and that is why we have introduced a specific provision in order to ensure that it is only from properly—licensed breeders that individuals can find the companion animals that give all of us such joy in our lives.

according to groups like the dogs trust and the rspca, puppies, often kept in horrific conditions, areassports to be sold as pets to unsuspecting buyers. the issue was raised at question time by a senior conservative. the late prime minister stanley baldwin said that his country were a sentimental people easily moved by stories of cruelty. in that spirit, will the secretary of state clamp down on puppy smuggling, by which means sinister foreign traders bring small dogs into this country, causing disease, causing distress, causing death? well, my right honourable friend makes a very important point. he's absolutely right. from the time of earl baldwin to this day, people have looked to the conservative party to safeguard the welfare of the nation and to stamp out cruelty. and he's absolutely right that puppy smuggling is one of the vilest types of crimes against animals and that is why we have introduced specific provisions in order to ensure that it is from appropriately—licensed breeders that individuals can find the companion animals that give all of us such joy in our lives. we all

we were talking about a country file investigation that the rspca is part of showing animal fightingare starting a campaign to change the law to try to hold all of the platform is responsible for the immediate they show because hare coursing is outrageous and should not be shown. we need a law change to make them responsible because they are always using excuses as to why they cannot ta ke using excuses as to why they cannot take things down. this relates to videos which you have described and all sorts of illegal contents, film and music, recently, the european government looked at new laws and article 13, 1a and 15, to allow creators to have much more of a return for their investments because these companies have spent tens of millions of pounds lobbying against it because they prefer the status quo, they are making so much money. the more videos you upload, the more bandwidth you need, the more money you make, but these even most horrific videos have adverts. the children's commissioner has also been talking to social media companies but the resistance is immense. money is driving

the rspca say...layer. and a reminder we go nationwide every afternoon at 4.30 here on afternoon live. the head of the metropolitan police has warned if progress continues at the current rate, it'll take 100 years for the force to be ethnically representative of london. but commissioner cressida dick told our home affairs correspondent danny shaw that the scotland yard is "utterly different" to how it was 20 years ago, when it was branded institutionally racist by the mcpherson report into the aftermath of stephen lawrence's murder. we're recruiting right now. we've had some new money and we are out recruiting. last year we were recruiting somewhere about 28% black and minority ethnic recruits. and that's great. and i want to see that continue and i want it to even increase in the future. but of course police officers do stay, it's a job that people like doing and tend to stick with once they've arrived. and most people will stay 30 or 35 years. so it takes a long time to change. however, if you go ou