scott walker, we hope to speak to you again.ng us from helsinki with your observations on what you have described as the most complex hostage situation he has come across in his many years in being a bolt in these kinds of negotiations. complex because there are more than 200 hostages involved, involving dozens of nationalities, and they include both civilians as well as soldiers. many countries, germany, turkey, they are trying to do their part. across the world, and across united kingdom, you are watching bbc news. thank you for watching. let's look at some other stories making news, rescue efforts have resumed after a british cargo ship sank in the north sea. one person died in the incident and four others are missing. it happened after two ships collided off the coast of germany. a new report says global banking giants are investing in companies which produce traditional chinese medicines containing leopard and pangolin parts. both species are classed as threatened. four uk astronauts could soon be heading into orbit on an a

with us, that is scott walker. we really appreciate your time. so now we decide to take a look at some other stories of making news at this hour. heavy fighting continues in ukraine's frontline town of the russian forces launch their counter attacking the do not screech in a few weeks ago, but so far have produced a few results and reportedly suffering heavy losses. keith is also made slower progress than it hoped in trying to retain occupied areas around of the if a suspected bomb blast as killed one person in wounded dozens of others. in india, a southern state of carolina, 3 explosions reportedly went off at a christian fair meeting, attended by over 2000 people. authorities are investigating the incidents events are taking place across the turkey to mark the $100.00 the anniversary of the countries founding in the capital on corrupt president ridge of tire. 31 later, read at the mazda liam, dedicated to mis stuff a come out to church, out of church, the country's founder for a modern secular republic. i'm the ruins of the ottoman empire in 19

scott walker and rachel briggs, thank you. around the world and across the u.k., this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making the news now. everton's chairman has died at the age of 78. he is also known for playing in coronation street between 1968 and 2012. in a statement, everton said they lost a chair, leader, friend, and inspiration. three oil protesters have been sentenced to 12 months immunity orders after briefly interrupting playing during an ashes test at a cricket ground. they must complete 60 hours of unpaid work and pay about 400 pounds in legal costs. they said their aim was to create headlines for their climate change protest. a cap on bankers bonuses will be lifted the end of october as part of a post brexit shakeup of financial rules. it was announced by the then chancellor last year making london a more attractive place to do business. you are alive with bbc news -- you are live with bbc news. next, a look at the diplomacy going on right now. in the past week, we have seen a number of world leader

what, how much recognizes scott walker says, is that is real, has consistently prioritize the safe return of their citizens. so you can add the vin on case in point the 19 year old is rarely soldier held by him. us for 5 years is we'll got him back by giving up more than a 1000 palestinian prisoners to him. us. they always want to take captives. they know what captains can do. one is really soldier people actually. and that's the price of israel is willing to pay to the families of those hostages are shaken and afraid desperate for any word and hopeful that the images of their sisters, brothers, parents, grandparents remain in the forefront of israel's moves against him. us now joined by 2 relatives of 4 of the german hostages, taken by him mazda coney roman, whose sister was kidnapped. and d as a leslie, whose aunt and uncle have been taken. thank you so much for joining us on the w today. a start review of when you, when did you last hear from your sister and her sister in law has also been taken by homeless. where were they? actually i was in south africa with my father. and when we sa

what, how much recognizes scott walker says, is that is we all has consistently prioritize the safe return of their citizens. so you can add the vin on case in point the 19 year old is rarely soldier held by him . us for 5 years is we'll got him back by giving up more than a 1000 palestinian prisoners to him. us. they always want to take captives. they know what captains can do. one is really soldier people actually, and that's the price of israel is willing to pay. the hostages ruthlessly taken on october 7th, and likely guarded now by some of the homeless kidnappers face a link the captivity. and indeed, the threat of death from the captors. the families of those hostages are shaken and afraid desperate for any word, and hopeful that the images of their sisters, brothers, parents, grandparents remain in the forefront of israel's moves against come us. let's take a look now, some other stories from around the world or in front of the president around you. around the cronan, his wife have attended the funeral of a teacher killed in a knife attack last week. dominic bernard was stopped to d

thank you so much for talking us through that scott walker form a hostage negotiator and the offer of order after of couse. thank you so much. i to your secretary sites on sunday. banking has been holding talks with the palestinian leader, my boot abbas in jordan. mister abbas has the policy in, you know, far say which controls the occupied by sponsor. he's initially made no comments on the how much time or how much terrorist attack in these ro. but i was a go. he released a statement condemning violence against affiliate by both sides, tech savvy blink and had earlier visited israel, where he met in tel aviv. we found the still ringing from the hamas attacks described, images of how the trust is shown to him by israel. as the prophecy, meanwhile, is riley stepping up. it's response award cabinet formed in response to a terrorist attack that's become known as israel's $911.00. at the top of their agenda, the race to bring back around a $150.00 hostages. many of them civilians taken by how much was the government the piece of the whole done the money to we're still working to locate th

thank you so much for talking us through that scott walker form a hostage negotiator and the offer of order after of couse. thank you so much. are your secretary sites on sunday blinking has been holding talks with palestinian leader, my food abbas and jordan. mr. abbas has the policy in, you know, star se, which controls the occupied by sponsor. he's initially made no comments on the how much tara, on the, how much terrorist attack and these ro. but i was a go, he released a statement condemning violence against affiliate by both sides, tech savvy blink, and had earlier visited israel, where he met in tel aviv with family still being from the homeless attacks. described images of how the trust is shown to him by israel. as the prophecy, meanwhile, is riley stepping up its response. the award cabinet formed in response to a terrorist attack that's become known as israel's $911.00 at the top of their agenda. the race to bring back around a $150.00 hostages. many of them civilians taken by how much was the government, the value of the whole done of the money to we're still working to lo

what, how much recognizes scott walker says, is that his wheel has consistently prioritize the safe return of their citizens. so they can add the vin on case end point. the 19 year old is rarely soldier held by him. us for 5 years is we'll get him back by giving up more than a 1000 palestinian prisoners to whom us they always want to take captives. they know what captain's can do. one is riley soldier, actually, and that's the price of israel was willing to pay. the families of those hostages are shaken and afraid desperate for any word and hopeful that.

what, how much recognizes scott walker says, is that is real, has consistently prioritize the safe return of their citizens. so you can add the vin case in point the 19 year old is rarely soldier held by him. us for 5 years is we'll got him back by giving up more than a 1000 palestinian prisoners to him. us. they always want to take captives. they know what captains can do. one is riley soldier, people actually, and that's the price of israel is willing to pay. the families of those hostages are shaking and afraid desperate for any word and hopeful that.

we scott walker is a former hostage negotiator, former counterterrorism with the united nations, and he joins me now. scott, i was watching the plaintive and agonizing entreaties by the families of the hostages today. in washington, of course, the field numerous events. in israel, as well. was there a pinprick of hope coming from the fact that four hostages have been released, dual subaru could israeli rather a daughter added to women, israeli women. can you give some context for what is happening right now, to the best of your knowledge? as best as you can draw from your experience, in terms of those negotiations? >> i think what we've seen so far demonstrates that the process that is in place's working. we have seen for hostages come out. i appreciate this over 200 being held, but it does show you that those negotiations are working and that the lies lines of communication, trust is being built between the qatar's in this case in the palestinian hamas leadership to secure the release of those hostages so far. but we are far from over with this. and there have been lots of coordinati

-- we battled back and forth with them as progressive upper midwestern state, and we saw what scott walker and some of those others did. they did it by gerrymandering and making it harder to vote. we did it by giving people things they asked for. cannabis -- don't underestimate it. people are happy. again, that was a social justice issue that we were serious on. the point that i would encourage all of you is to build coalitions in preparation. went to the indiana democratic party, went to nebraska, places that look very much like minnesota, june 2022, they were dancing on our great, said they were going to get the trifecta on the other type. i had cut a very fair deal with republicans. i cut a very fair deal, and they told me point blank, we are not going to take it because we are going to win it all. i said we will see how that works out, but that -- they were that confident. it changed with the dobbs decision and some of the work that we went from wondering what was going to happen if we fight rearguard to being able to pass all of these things. i'm building a firewall around them from a

what, how much recognizes scott walker says, is that is we all has consistently prioritize the safe return of their citizens. so you can add the vin on case in point the 19 year old is rarely soldier held by him . us for 5 years is we'll got him back by giving up more than a 1000 palestinian prisoners to him. us. they always want to take captives. they know what captain's can do. one is really soldier people actually, and that's the price of israel is willing to pay. the hostages ruthlessly taken on october 7th, and likely guarded now by some of the homeless kidnappers face a link the captivity. and indeed, the threat of death from the captors to the families of those hostages are shaken and afraid desperate for any word and hopeful that the images of their sisters, brothers, parents, grandparents remain in the forefront of israel's moves against him. us now joined by 2 relatives of 4 of the german hostages, taken by him loss of courtney rowman, whose sister was kidnapped, an audience, a leslie, whose aunt and uncle have been taken. thank you so much for joining us on the w today. a start

thank you so much for talking to us through that scott walker form a hostage negotiator and the offer of order out of towns. thank you so much. i. so are you a secretary signs in the bank and has been holding talks with the palestinian leader, my boot a boss and join. mister abbas has the palestinian authority which controls the occupied by spies. he's initially made no comments on the how much time on how much terrorist attacking these ro. but i was a go. he released the statement condemning violence against civilian by both sides . secretary blinks and had earlier visited israel, where he met intel, a feeling for the family still being from bahama. so tax described images of how the trust is shown to him by israel. as the prophecy. meanwhile, is riley stepping up its response award cabinet formed in response to a terrorist attack that's become known as israel's $911.00 at the top of their agenda. the race to bring back around a $150.00 hostages. many of them civilians taken by him of the government, the peace of the horde done the money to. we're still working to locate those kidnap

thank you so much for talking us through that scott walker form a hostage negotiator and the offer of order out of chaos. thank you so much. are you a secretary sites on sunday? blink, and has been holding talks with palestinian leader my food abbas in jordan. mr. abbas has the palestinian authority which controls the occupied by spot. it initially made no comment on the how much time or how much terrorist attack and these ro. but i was a go. he released a statement condemning violence against affiliate by both sides. secretary blinks and had earlier visited israel, where he met intel of feeling for the family still being from the how much the tax described images of how the trust is shown to him by israel. as the prophecy, meanwhile, is riley stepping up its response. the award cabinet formed in response to a terrorist attack that's become known as israel's $911.00 at the top of their agenda. the race to bring back around a $150.00 hostages. many of them civilians taken by how much of the government, the piece of the whole done of the money to we're still working to locate those kidn

what, how much recognizes scott walker says, is that is we all has consistently prioritize the safe return of their citizens. so it can add to the case in point the 19 year old is rarely soldier held by him. us for 5 years is we'll get him back by giving up more than a 1000 palestinian prisoners to whom us they always want to take captives. they know what captain's can do. one is riley soldier, actually, and that's the price of israel was willing to pay. the hostages ruthlessly taken on october 7th and likely guarded now by some of the hamas kidnappers face a link the captivity. and indeed, the threat of death from the captors and the families of those hostages are shaken and afraid desperate for any word. and hopeful that the images of their sister's brother's parents, grandparents remain in the forefront of israel's moves against time us. and that is what we have time for now remember you can get and use 247 on our website. that's dw, dealt com and a handle on social media is at the de leon. you sign, you could just make it and i'll be back. it was hopefully alex is more international he

let's speak to scott walker, a hostage negotiator, former un adviser, and author of order out of chaos briggs, hostage expert and ceo of the clarity factory, a security think tank and consultancy. thanks to you both for coming on the programme. this is a hugely delicate and complicated issue. rachel, if we canjust and complicated issue. rachel, if we can just start with you — two more hostages released, two released last week, so we are up to four. so what does that tell you, if anything at all? it does that tell you, if anything at all? , , ., , . all? it tells you things are moving forward, all? it tells you things are moving forward. it — all? it tells you things are moving forward, it tells _ all? it tells you things are moving forward, it tells you _ all? it tells you things are moving forward, it tells you that - all? it tells you things are moving forward, it tells you that there's l forward, it tells you that there's been progress in the negotiations, there's even a slight amount of goodwill emerging between them, and that we've got some forward momentum here. so it's an entire

with me is scott walker.n 300 what is the arc of a hostage crisis like this? this what is the arc of a hostage crisis like this? ~ , , ., what is the arc of a hostage crisis like this? ~ , i. .. what is the arc of a hostage crisis like this? ~ , , ., .. ., like this? as you can imagine, in the early hours _ like this? as you can imagine, in the early hours and _ like this? as you can imagine, in the early hours and days - like this? as you can imagine, in the early hours and days there . like this? as you can imagine, in the early hours and days there is lots of high emotion, uncertainty and confusion. 0ne lots of high emotion, uncertainty and confusion. one of the early stages is try and build an information intelligence picture, try to find out what is going on, who actually has the hostages come and try to engage in some kind of dialogue with them. tt is and try to engage in some kind of dialogue with them. it is different when you're _ dialogue with them. it is different when you're dealing _ dialogue wit

what, how much recognizes scott walker says, is that is real, has consistently prioritize the safe return of their citizens. so you can add the vin case in point the 19 year old is rarely soldier held by him. us for 5 years is we all got him back by giving up more than a 1000 palestinian prisoners to whom us they always want to take captives. they know what captain's can do. one is riley soldier, people actually, and that's the price of israel is willing to pay to the families of those hostages are shaken and afraid desperate for any word. and hopeful that the images of their sisters brothers, parents, grandparents remain in the forefront of israel's moves against time us. now if and when is relo inches, it's ground defensive into the goal is that forces will have to deal with a formidable network of tunnels. under the territory, the network is reportedly used by the militant islam as thomas and the other 2 hottest organizations. dozens of perhaps even hundreds of columbus as long as handles all known as the gaza. metro is the place a look. one of many is really air strikes on gaza. this

what, how much recognizes scott walker says, is that is wheel has consistently prioritize the safe return of their citizens. so you can add the vin case in point the 19 year old is rarely soldier held by him. us for 5 years is we'll get him back by giving up more than a 1000 palestinian prisoners to him. us. they always want to take captives. they know what captains can do. one is rarely soldier people actually, and that's the price of israel was willing to pay. the hostages ruthlessly taken on october 7th, and likely guarded now by some of the homeless kidnappers face a link the captivity. and indeed, the threat of death from the captors and the families of those hostages are shaken and afraid desperate for any word and hopeful that the images of their sisters, brothers, parents, grandparents remain in the forefront of his wheels, moves against him. us earlier dw nicole fairly was joined by 2 relatives of the german hostages, taken by him us. ronnie, romans sister was kidnapped and adi, soleski is aunt and uncle were taking. let's listen here. let's start with you. when you, when did you

. >> what hamas recognizes, scott walker says, is israel has consistently prioritized the safe return of their citizens. case in point, the 19-year-old israeli soldier held by hamas for five years. israel got him back by giving up more than 1000 palestinian prisoners thomas. >> they always want to take captives. they know what captives can do. one israeli soldier -- that is the price israel is willing to pay. >> the hostages ruthlessly taken on october 7 and likely guarded now by some of the hamas kidnappers face a lengthy captivity and indeed the threat of death from the captors. the families of those hostages are shaken and afraid, desperate for any word, and hopeful that the images of their sisters, brothers, parents, grandparents remain in the forefront of israel's moves against hamas. >> i'm joined by two relatives of four the hostages taken by hamas, you, whose sister was kidnapped, and you, whose aunt and uncle have been taken. we will start with you. when did you last hear from your sister and sister-in-law, who has also been taken by hamas? where were they? >> i was in south

it was president scott walker. it was president rick perry. come on.sident, who you think is the best most confident most responsible person to be president and there are some of the few people who have the resources to give that person a chance. but everybody wants to be careful. i'm careful of everybody being careful. i'm out here not being careful. i'm the only one that on the stage that didn't raise my hand and say i would support a convicted felon and i got booed by 5,000 people from milwaukee. i don't care because it is right. really want a convicted felon to be president of the united states? and you had jokers on the hill yesterday saying make him speaker. who are these people? >> who should be speaker? >> i like scalise. i've always liked steve scalise. i don't know whether he's up to it from a health perspective. i spoke to him when he first was diagnosed, he's a friend, and he was focused on making sure he gets well, which is what he should. only he knows what his prognosis is. >> jim jordan, total pro trump. >> who? >> jordan. >> well, look

i've got no problem with alex scott presenting football focus. she replaced dan walkerin his life. jacqui oatley , clare balding, jacqui oatley, clare balding, sue barker, laura woods among the best sports presenters out there. but surely the pundits on there. but surely the pundits on the sofa and in the commentary box should be ex pros from the game. they're watching. they should surely have played at that level in order to be credible . kevin keegan is credible. kevin keegan is getting slated for saying what many people think , which of many people think, which of course is the norm now in the clown world of 2023, the backlash against his comments in which he spoke highly of women's football is typical of how everything has become politicised and anyone not augned politicised and anyone not aligned to the religious or woke scripture will have all hell unleashed upon them . worth unleashed upon them. worth mentioning that the all female line up of pundits, 13 of them for the recent women's world cup, did not feature any men. not a fella in sight. hashtag equality and

walker here. mr. benedicto present. mr. yanez. present commissioner byrne here. commissioner yee is in route. vice president carter. stone. you have a quorum. also with us tonight, we have chief scott from the san francisco police department and acting director sarah hawkins from the department of police accountability. sergeant, could you please call the first item? line item one weekly officer recognition certificate presentation of an officer who has gone above and beyond in the performance of their duties. sergeant kevin quadro star number 1253 from the robbery unit.

i've got no problem with alex scott presenting football focus. she replaced dan walkerhis life. jacqui oatley , clare balding, jacqui oatley, clare balding, sue barker, laura woods among the best sports presenters out there. but surely the pundits on there. but surely the pundits on the sofa and in the commentary box should be ex pros from the game. they're watching. they should surely have played at that level in order to be credible . kevin keegan is credible. kevin keegan is getting slated for saying what many people think , which of many people think, which of course is the norm now in the clown world of 2023, the backlash against his comments in which he spoke highly of women's football is typical of how everything has become politicised and anyone not augned politicised and anyone not aligned to the religious or woke scripture will have all hell unleashed upon them . worth unleashed upon them. worth mentioning that the all female line up of pundits, 13 of them for the recent women's world cup, did not feature any men. not a fella in sight. hashtag equality and the

walker . yes. you know, i agree with you, chief scott. i think it's a wonder that anybody pulls anybody over at all because i. i don't understand those numbers. and we don't know where they were, where they were looking at for the stop that indicated that there were such a predominant number of caucasian asian drivers pulled over. for the direction in around traffic stops. is changing, or at least the messaging from this commission changes depending on sort of what we're working on. so it's again, one of the issues that i have is there are conflicting directions in different egos all over the place. and i have to say that if i was a police officer, i would kind of wonder what i'm supposed to do at any given point. i think it's time that we should actually make commissioner honors go through the academy and figure out how it is to be an officer because i just i think that i don't know. i mean, this just it sort of drives me crazy. and i'm sure that it's driving the officers crazy. so chief scott, thank you. vice president carter. so i just

walker. president mr. benedicto present. mr. yanez. present. commissioner byrne. here. commissioner yee here. vice president carter was done. you have a quorum also with us tonight, we have chief scottt and diana rosenstein from the department of police accountability. could you please call the first item line item one weekly officer recognition certificate presentation of an officer who has gone above and beyond in the performance of their duties. officer michael grande star number 302, investigator bureau general work .

walker here. mr. benedicto present. mr. yanez. present commissioner byrne here. commissioner yee is in route. vice president carter. stone. you have a quorum. also with us tonight, we have chief scottrom the san francisco police department and acting director sarah hawkins from the department of police accountability. sergeant, could you please call the first item? line item one weekly officer recognition certificate presentation of an officer who has gone above and beyond in the performance of their duties. sergeant kevin quadro star number 1253 from the robbery unit.

i mean, apparently alex scott's viewing figures, i believe on football focus. i mean , dan walkert that out kind of politely. but we all know what he really meant. i mean, is there an argument to say that the market has decided that they do just prefer male pundits ? pundits? >> well, they may or they may not. you know, that is not for me to really comment on because i think alex scott does very well whenever she comes across on commentary. i think some of the men across very well. the men come across very well. but, you know, also i sit there sometimes and listen to men on the radio and the tv and it's like a lads chatting in a pub. i have to switch it off sometimes. >> yeah, no , to be honest, yeah. >> yeah, no, to be honest, yeah. >> yeah, no, to be honest, yeah. >> a big issue. >> a big issue. >> no, fair enough . janey, look, >> no, fair enough. janey, look, thank you very much. i've really enjoyed this conversation. i hope to. well i kind of hope i don't have it again soon because that would imply someone that would imply that someone else up with something else has piped up

walker here. mr. benedicto present. mr. yanez. present commissioner byrne here. commissioner yee is in route. vice president carter. stone. you have a quorum. also with us tonight, we have chief scott from the san francisco police department and acting director sarah hawkins from the department of police accountability. sergeant, could you please call the first item? line item one weekly officer recognition certificate presentation of an officer who has gone above and beyond in the performance of their duties. sergeant kevin quadro star number 1253 from the robbery unit. good evening, commissioners. chief scott and director hawkins. i am captain mahkota of the major crimes unit , and i'm honored to be here tonight to present to you kevin, sergeant kevin. quadro. quadro of the robbery detail. sergeant quadro is a 11 year veteran of san francisco police department, having joined the department in 2012. sergeant quadro is the grandson of retired sfpd sergeant elmer quadro, with whom sergeant quadro shares the same star number. number 1253. sergeant quadro began began his career at tenderloin station and then was assigned to the mid-market foot beat. sergeant quadro was promoted to ser