away from our composition that we need to going out to the house of commons, the home secretary yvette cooper year expend some form of child sexual abuse, violence and sexual violation in the home, or repeated rapes or know that encounter in that cell, know that encounter was recorded by another prisoner in the same cell. that was then, that footage was then shared widely and went viral and very quickly on social media will stop as a result, linda de sousa abreu was identified by staff at wandsworth prison only a couple of days later. she was then arrested by police while she was at heathrow airport before attempting to board a flight to madrid with her father. no at a sentencing earlier this year, and i think we're going to head back to you.— this year, and i think we're going to head back to you. nick, we will ull awa to head back to you. nick, we will pull away from — to head back to you. nick, we will pull away from our _ to head back to you. nick, we will pull away from our composition i to head back to you. nick, we will l pull away from our composition that we need to going out to the

you have seen yvette cooper announcement tonight. it helped?e have the jay review - announcement tonight. if you say that we have the jay review and i that we have the jay review and things that need to be done and we shouldn't have another long grass review because people will get very cynical if we just have review after review on every subject and i say that someone who has sat on inquiries and i am a public lawyer. if you say, we don't need to review and we have recommendations, you want to get on and implement them. i saw brilliant interviewing and stephen kinnock going, was it elon musk? if you're responding to the very dangerous and powerful man spreading lies about the prime minister, about the victims minister, about the victims minister, you have to respond. and if you accelerate your implementation of the jay review, so be it, it is the right thing to do. henry hill. potentially, because the government you're right, the government you're right, the government does have to respond. i do think— government does have to respond. i do thi

to be perfectly honest, the things that yvette cooper was announcing yesterday are all things that wed on ensuring that just the announcement of them gets made. the idea that we were going to have a victims panel, you can't imagine that i would ever set up a group about child sexual abuse and not have a victims panel. it's not my modus operandi. i'm not the last lot. uh, so all of these things are things that would be happening. all this current furore has done is made it so that everybody is talking about it. and so we're out there talking about the actions we were always going to take. elon musk described you on x as a "rape genocide apologist". what did you think when you saw that? i'm no stranger to people who don't know what they're talking about trying to silence women like me. since he started posting about you, are you having to go about your daily life differently at all? yes, my daily life is currently different. i won't go into the details of that but, yes, it is, uh... being in the spotlight like this and the suggestion of what elon musk is, the disinformation, as i believ

the home secretary yvette cooper has been on herfeetin secretary yvette cooper has been on her feet ina statement from her in the past 30 minutes in the house of commons acknowledging the house of commons acknowledging the scale of the depravity of these crimes and also the breadth of the failings. not least the fear from so many for so long that speaking out would be deemed to be racist. and she said she would bring what she described as a new impetus and action to try to deliver some of the recommendations set out in that national report that concluded a couple of years ago. she said she would make it mandatory to report abuse making it a an offence to fail to report or cover up child sexual abuse. she will assure that the police take allegations around this much more seriously and there will be more measures to come in the coming weeks about the growing problem of online abuse. the conservatives though are continuing to maintain their argument that there should be a full public inquiry and that the national inquiry and that the national inquiry of a few years ago was too narrow in i

well, so this morning, actually, we have a letter from yvette cooper, the home secretary, in which shenal inquiry. she says in the case of 0ldham in particular, a local investigation is more appropriate. and she points to the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse, which spent seven years looking into this issue, reported back in 2022. and in a letter to conservative shadow ministers who had written to her earlier this week, she says that of the 20 recommendations included in that final inquiry report, the previous government, ie the conservatives, failed to fully implement a single one. so that's her response to why labour are not holding a national inquiry. they say, well, there already was one. it took seven years, it reported in 2022. we're focusing on implementing those recommendations. of course, elon musk, not only is he a billionaire owner of x, a very influential social media platform, he is also supported reform uk. nigel farage. there are rumours of a possible donation to that political party which could be quite influential. nigel farage, you know, was asked about his

prime minister down see the challenge for what it is and that is why i am working so closely with yvette cooperour departments newjoint irregular migration unit to deploy every tool at our disposal to deploy every tool at our disposal to restore control to our borders. improving cooperation on the turns, and this is how we. conflict prevention is how we stop people fleeing homes in the first place, development work upstream is how we encourage people to stay in their homes, like the projects that we have now got in albania, in vietnam and in iraq. and we must use our sharpest diplomatic weapons to help restore control of our borders. today i am very pleased to announce, after a lot of hard work, that the uk is to set up or to be the first country in the world to develop legislation for new sanctions regime. specifically it will target irregular migration organised and immigration crime and this will help to prevent, combat, deterand disrupt irregular migration and smuggling of migrants into the uk. that is us playing our full part on theissue that is us playing our full part on the issue of irr

and we will be hearing from the home secretary yvette cooper, she will be making a statement in the houses, and if you're in the uk you will be able to watch that here on bbc news. now, let's turn to the middle east. israel says hamas has not given any details about the status of hostages it claims it's ready to release in the first phase of a potential deal. hamas has indicated that 3a hostages — including all the women, children, and elderly and sick captives it holds — could be freed. in recent days, negotiators from both sides have been holding indirect talks in qatar. our correspondent in jerusalem, emir nader, gave us the latest. we understand from mr benjamin netanyahu's office that the list of 3a names that hamas has shared with the media, including the bbc, is actually a list given by israel to mediators as early as july. a list given by israel to mediators as early asjuly. as you mention, on that list there are a number of elderly, young, female soldiers, some children who are understood, who hamas has previously said were dead. the israeli side has asked for information on the,

yvette cooper says the new offence will be introduced this year.commendations made to a previous conservative government by a seven—year inquiry into child sexual abuse, which concluded in 2022. 0ur political correspondent hannah miller reports. from rotherham to 0ldham, and telford, the children who were sexually abused and raped by grooming gangs have been promised change before but more than two years after a public enquiry that was described as a watershed by the previous government, its recommendations are yet to be implemented. never say they will now do it. these crimes have not been taken seriously for far too long and far too many children have been fail of that is why this government is determined to act, strengthening the law, taking forward recommendations from independent inquiries, supporting stronger police action and protection for victims. there is no excuse for anyone not to take these crimes seriously. anyone not to take these crimes seriousl . ., , seriously. the government says it will introduce _ seriously. the government says

the statement that yvette cooper did in the chamber a couple of hours ago is very clear, that there isated by british pakistani men, but this is an organised crime group. this is an identifier, their ethnicity, just as if they all went to the same golf club would be identifying. there are so many examples of child grooming groups going on. for simple, the church, i have to say, of the church, i have to say, of the bbc has got its own scandal in this area, so i think what we need to be doing is looking at how we prevent child abuse, full stop, and then we have to be specific about the pick of the models and how we address those particular models. it seems to me, the way that the public have responded to this, that people don't feel there was enough of a public reckoning, that... i don't know how you describe that and how you define that, but chris mason, i heard earlier today saying that the report came out around the time the government, the liz truss government was imploding, and it seemed not to get the headlines when everybody was focusing on the little drama over here. do you think

on monday, the home secretary, yvette cooper, told mps that legislation — making it mandatory to reportoming would be made an aggravating factor in sentencing. speaking to the today programme on bbc radio 4, professorjay was asked whether there's an argument for another national inquiry — which the opposition is pushing for. i don't agree with that in the sense of requiring further, more detailed national inquiries into child sexual exploitation. we have learned quite a lot from what those reviews that have already been undertaken, but locally, people need to step up to the mark, and do the sorts of things that have been recommended. i think there is something like 400 recommendations that we identified through a national charity, in all the reviews that had already been carried out, and many of those were simply not met. here in the uk, a number of major incidents have been declared as the country deals with severe weather, ranging from ice and snow in the north of england, wales, and scotland, to flooding in the midlands. more than 130 flood warnings are in place across england — that

the home secretary, yvette cooper, has condemned the act as disturbing and serious, and the governments reviving a controversial free speech law for universities, just months after it was paused over concerns about protecting hate speech. the higher education freedom of speech act, passed in 2023, gave universities a duty to promote free speech and allow the regulator to fine institutions or student unions that failed to comply. critics, though, including education secretary bridget phillipson, paused that law last summer, warning it could expose universities to costly legal action. now, a government source says the act will be adjusted to balance academic freedom with a proper complaints process. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'll be back with you in an hour. now, though, it's over to matt for the very latest. >> gb news direct to your smartphone. sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> welcome back to state of the nafion >> welcome back to state of the nation with me, matt goodwin. now, after 15 months of war since the 7th of oct

last night, the home secretary, yvette cooper, told mps that legislation making it mandatory to reporte would be introduced in the spring. keir starmer condemned what he said were lies and misinformation being spread about grooming gangs. our chief political correspondent henry zeffman explains how we got here. though this has propelled to the top of the headlines here in the uk in an unconventional manner, ie by the world's richest man posting about it nonstop, where it has got to politically by this morning is a conventional government v opposition dispute. the government's view, the labour party's view, kier starmer�*s view is there does not need to be a new national inquiry into grooming gangs, but instead the government needs to implement the recommendations of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse which spent several years investigating abuse in various forms and reported in 2022. the opposition's view is there does need to be a new national inquiry into grooming gangs, alexis jay led that report and she has given herfirst interview, you heard a bit there, so it is a ve

the home secretary, yvette cooper, said pc prior�*s death serves as a reminder of the risks that dedicatedold lorry driverfrom berwick, in northumberland, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. olivia richwald, bbc news, nearthirsk. preliminary results from croatia suggest the sitting president has been re—elected. zoran milanovic is on track to win a landslide victory over his conservative rival in sunday's run—off election. our balkans correspondent guy de launey has more from the slovenian capital llubljana. certainly, more than 70% of voters appears to have voted for him zoran milanovic to continue for a second term. that's a crushing defeat for his challenger and also for the governing party. the voters have turned up today and give the government and prime minister and extremely but he knows after rejecting the favourite candidate. tell us about the _ favourite candidate. tell us about the role _ favourite candidate. tell us about the role of— favourite candidate. tell us about the role of the - favourite candidate. tell us - about the role of the presi

there have been other tributes, yvette cooper the home secretary has said this brave officer's passingficers face every single day in the line of duty. she added, i want to express my heartfelt gratitude to the responders who attended the tragic incident, as well as police officers across the country for their dedication and the sacrifices they make every day, to keep us all safe. 0livia richwald, thank you. now it's time for a look at today's sport with mark edwards. starting with football, the fa cup weekend continues with some cracking ties on sunday. the pick of them is at the emirates as arsenal welcome defending champions manchester united to north london. meanwhile, tottenham hotspur are at non—league tamworth. and the magic of the fa cup is you never know what's going to happen. the kick off delayed this time as part of the net had come off the goal. but nothing two tamworth players and some sticky tape couldn't fix. the real question is do we have the ultimate cup upset on the cards? with less than six minutes to 90, with less than six minutes to go, the semiprofessional outfi

last night, the home secretary, yvette cooper, told mps that legislation making it mandatory to reportuld be introduced in the spring. she also said grooming would be made an aggravating factor in abuse cases. speaking to the today programme on bbc radio, professor alexis jay was asked whether there's a good argument for another national inquiry. i don't agree with that in the sense of requiring further, more detailed national inquiries into child sexual exploitation. we have learned quite a lot from what those review that have already been undertaken, but locally, people need to step up to the mark, and do the sorts of things that have been recommended. i think there is something like a00 recommendations that we identified through a national charity, in all the reviews that had already been carried out, and many of those were simply not met. let's speak to our chief political corresponddnet henry zeffman. this has been dominating the headlines after elon musk posted, it is interesting to note professorjay saying it is note professorjay saying it is not the time for a new national prob

yvette cooper the home secretary has said "this brave officer's passing serves as a reminder of the riskse to the responders who attended the tragic incident, as well as police officers across the country for their dedication and the sacrifices they make every day, to keep us all safe. 0livia richwald reporting. the foreign secretary is in saudi arabia for talks on syria's future, one month after the collapse of the assad regime. david lammy is expected to offer british help in organising humanitarian efforts during the talks in riyadh with the new syrian authorities, as well as arab six people have died in a suspected gas explosion at a restaurant in the czech republic. eight others were injured in the blast in the northern city of most. it's believed to have been caused by a gas cylinder attached to a portable heater. rescue workers say they evacuated dozens of people as the flames rapidly spread to surrounding buildings. the nobel peace prize winner, malala yousafzai, has urged muslim leaders not to legitimise the taliban government in afghanistan. speaking in islamabad, the campaigner

home secretary yvette cooper last month said the government had a moral responsibility to tackle channeln a target to see the numbers fall "sharply" would be met. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. to the middle east now. since the start of the war in gaza, an estimated 17,000 children have been left alone or separated from the adults who should care for them. some are too young to even say their names. in a chaotic situation amid bombings and mass displacement, the un's children's agency unicef, has managed to reunite 63 children with their parents or guardians. with more, here's our middle east correspondent, yolande knell. smiles now, but the children of the al—masri family have survived horrors. an israeli bombing killed jamal�*s parents and his cousin's mum and sisters. after they were rescued, like thousands of children in war—torn gaza, they were alone. we followed their difficult journey to be reunited with their grandma. translation: it's indescribable howjoyful i am, but my joy - is mixed with sadness. they came back without their parents. three months into w

mp5. is the scene live westminster this is the scene live in westminster where home secretary yvette cooperlitical future. plans are set out to treat more patients in england within 18 weeks — but health leaders express concern over staffing and funding. and the women using tattoos to reclaim their bodies after treatment for breast cancer. before that, it is time for sport, it lets us get the latest with gavin. we'll start with the football — and the action continues in the premier league later. and what an evening it could be for nottingham forest — who could move level on points with second placed arsenal, if they win at wolves — who are only above the relegation zone on goal difference. it's a return to his former club for forest boss nuno espirto santo and there's a lot of mutual respect between the two portuguese head coaches. the performances help, the players feel that they are confident, playing good, achieving good results, i know vitor pereira from a long time ago at the beginning of our careers. he had a very good career as a manager and he is showing at wolves. we expect a tough

that that aside, look, there's as much chance of keir starmer yvette cooper smashing the gangs as theref keir starmer walking barefoot across the channel. it just isn't going to happen. and the problem is that they there they were during the election campaign, you know, pretending to be coming in as batman and robin and it turns out that they're little more than laurel and hardy. they are just not going to do anything about it. and, you know, we laugh. but the problem is that we're going to get another 35, 40, perhaps 50,000 coming across next year because there's so much money in it and there's thousand. well, you know, who knows. you never quite know. it depends on the weather. it depends on the weather. it depends on. but we could do , depends on. but we could do, which means over 200,000 people coming in illegally across the channel since it all started in 2018, when sadiq sajid javid almost said it. khan. but even sajid javid declared an emergency. well, frankly, had he acted decisively then, had the government acted decisively, then we wouldn't have the problems that we do now. as

. >> and it's not just wes streeting, it's yvette cooper and others as well. >> louis, i think it's multifacetedifaceted. but what i've noticed with this particular labour government is they just have the blinders on and they're just going with their own agenda. they haven't u—turned on anything yet. and i think that almost these what you could describe as left field issues, things that weren't in their manifesto, things they didn't plan on. they always just like, well, get get rid of that. we just want to crack on with what we want to do. and it's like, well, that's just not how politics works. sometimes things you thought had been dealt with obviously not very well, come up like it was literally this time last year. it was the mr beats documentary, and that brought up the whole thing of the post office again, which had been out. we all knew about it, but it pulled it into the into the pubuc it pulled it into the into the public consciousness. and that's what they've got to do. they've got to be seen to be reacting to the british public's needs in that moment. >> they're not there. >> they're n

and if you look at yvette cooper, she handled it much better. know, she came out and said, no, we need to focus, you know? she acknowledged that the crimes were horrific and they needed to be dealt with. and they're going to focus on protecting girls in the future instead of protecting institutions, which is exactly what needed to be said. exactly what needed to be said. exactly what starmer should have said instead of protecting jess phillips. >> keri, you've been dealt the bum hand of having to defend the rape gangs. >> now, i didn't, i didn't know that's how this works. >> really? >> really? >> yes, it's an ofcom regulation. we have to try and keep balanced. >> yvette cooper has highlighted 1400 victims just from rotherham and you've got to remember, these are all multiple victims. it's not just like one crime each. >> this is this has happened over and over again. this is horrifying. and what's odd i'm just going to throw this out here at the top of the daily express, as we shouldn't be so relaxed about gratuitous violence we observe every d

. >> home secretary yvette cooper announces child groomers will get tougher prison sentences but still no inquiry. >> it is never an excuse to use race and ethnicity or community relations as an excuse not to investigate and punish sex offenders. >> survivor anger across the country as the government brands jumping on the bandwagon of the far right in a call for a public national inquiry. also, a blue labour group has broken from the government's position to call for that independent investigation . investigation. >> and the chairman of reform uk, yusuf, joins us on the show this morning. is his party rattled after the tech billionaire elon musk said nigel farage isn't the leader they need and floods, snow and ice. >> there are 200 weather warnings in place this morning as the north is battered by snow and ice, with flooding mainly in the south. hundreds of schools have been closed. this is probably the first day back. have you been impacted? >> let us know. and if you're overweight or a smoker, get to the back of the queue for nhs surgery as that's how the government is going to try a

yvette cooper told the commons this afternoon the government will be establishing a victims and survivors panel to advise on wider work around the issue. that's as the prime minister has defended his position as director of public prosecutions, saying child sexual exploitation is utterly sickening and it was something he had tackled head on whilst in that role. sir keir starmer also hit back at elon musk over his comments on x that claimed safeguarding minister jess phillips is an evil witch and deserved to be in jail. yvette cooper told mps today there's no excuse for anyone not to take such crimes seriously. >> ten years ago, two reports by alexis jay and louise casey in rotherham found that 1400 children were sexually exploited, raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked across other towns, abducted, beaten, threatened with guns. even children who had been doused in petrol. girls as young as 11 who were raped and their reports identified. then a decade ago, a failure to confront pakistani heritage gangs and, quote, a widespread perception that they should downplay the ethnic dimensions

yvette cooper told the commons this afternoon the safeguarding minister has met with professor alexis jay and survivors, and convened the first dedicated cross—government group to drive forward change and ensure victims voices remain at the very heart of this process. the government will also be establishing a victims and survivors panel to advise on wider work around child sexual exploitation and abuse. well, that, says the prime minister has defended his position as director of public prosecutions, saying child sexual exploitation is utterly sickening and it was something he had tackled head on whilst in that role. sir keir starmer also hit back at elon musk over his comments on x that claimed safeguarding minister jess phillips is an evil witch and deserved to be in jail, while yvette cooper told mps this afternoon there is no excuse for anyone not to take crimes of child sexual abuse seriously, nor is there any excuse for anyone not to recognise and act on the deep harm and damage from organised gang exploitation, abuse, sexual assaults and rape. >> ten years ago, two reports by a

yvette cooper told mps there's no excuse for anyone not to take crimes of child sexual abuse seriously ten years ago, two reports by alexis jay and louise casey in rotherham found that 1400 children were sexually exploited, raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked across other towns, abducted, beaten, threatened with guns. even children who had been doused in petrol. girls as young as 11 who were raped and their reports identified. then a decade ago, a failure to confront pakistani heritage gangs and, quote, a widespread perception that they should downplay the ethnic dimensions. >> a 39 year old man has been charged with sending malicious communications to the safeguarding minister, amid criticism from elon musk. devon and cornwall police says jack bennett has been charged with three counts of malicious communications. the messages were sent between april last year and january this year involving three victims. while commenting on the criticism of mr phillips from elon musk, the home secretary says the minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls has dedicated her

that is what you heard from yvette cooper, the home secretary, in the house of commons yesterday.mendations, as hanauer was describing there, now going to be cemented by this government, where it wasn't by the previous government before the general election injuly 2024. a before the general election injuly 202a. a couple of other things worth noting. the conservatives have really now picked up on this. it has had a slightly surrealjourney really now picked up on this. it has had a slightly surreal journey to the top of the news agenda, especially by elon musk, the richest man in the world, bludgeoning it there. the conservatives very much now running with this. they say they want to force a vote in the house of commons tomorrow to push for a new national inquiry. i think that a vote tomorrow, if it happens, could become the most divisive moment yet of this story. become the most divisive moment yet of this story-— of this story. henry, for now, thank ou ve of this story. henry, for now, thank you very much _ of this story. henry, for now, thank you very much indeed. _ of this stor

the home secretary, yvette cooper, told the commons yesterday the government will make it an offencewith professional and criminal sanctions to fail to report or cover up child sexual abuse. she added that the government will establish a victims and survivors panel to advise on wider work around the issue. that came as the prime minister said he had tackled child sexual exploitation head on during his time as director of public prosecutions, and a short while ago, shadow home secretary chris philp said that the labour party's announcement that they will whip their mps to vote against the national inquiry into the scandal is total moral cowardice. shadow justice secretary robert jenrick mp called once again for that inquiry earlier on gb news. >> i have long advocated whole life sentences for these grooming gang perpetrators and i've said that if they're foreign national offenders, get them out of our country, deport them. no ifs, no buts. so they never step foot on this soil of our country again. and the cowardly public officials who did turn a blind eye, they should be prosecuted as

. >> commenting on criticism of jess phillips, the home secretary, yvette cooper has said this.s phillips, minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, has dedicated her career to tackling sexual violence and abuse and to being a voice for victims and survivors of the most terrible crimes, including child sexual abuse. she goes on to say that she has worked with whistleblowers and campaigned tirelessly for justice for those badly let down by endemic institutional failure. meanwhile, this morning the prime minister pledged to reduce nhs waiting lists, saying we need nhs reform from top to bottom. the prime minister has called for more convenience for patients, and said that no institution is more important to the security of the country than the security of the country than the nhs. now a debate is due to be held this afternoon at around 430 in parliament on the petition calling for a general election. the petition has secured more than 2.5 million signatures after being launched by a west midlands publican. this is the third most popular e—petition since 2010,

. >> commenting on the criticism of jess phillips, the home secretary, yvette cooper has said jess phillips, minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, has dedicated her career to tackling sexual violence and abuse and to being a voice for victims and survivors of the most terrible crimes, including child sexual abuse. she has worked with whistleblowers and campaigned tirelessly for justice for those let down by endemic institutional failure. meanwhile, also this morning, sir keir starmer has pledged to reduce nhs waiting lists, saying we need nhs reform from top to bottom and that he would fight for the nhs day and night. the prime minister has called for more convenience for patients, and said that no institution is more important to the security of the country than the nhs. >> let me be crystal clear that money will be used not as it has beenin money will be used not as it has been in the past, as to sort of paper over the cracks. that's the definition of the sticking plaster politics that we were elected to change. now this is the year we roll up our sleeves and ref

the home secretary, yvette cooper, told the commons yesterday. >> i have long advocated whole life sentencesor these grooming gang perpetrators, and i've said that if they're foreign national offenders, get them out of our country, deport them. no ifs, no buts. so they never step foot on this soil of our country again. and the cowardly public officials who did turn a blind eye, they should be prosecuted as well. not a single one has been prosecuted so far. and that is completely wrong. we need to take action, and we need now to have a full national public inquiry. >> that was the shadow justice secretary, robert jenrick, there while moving on. >> a home office spokesperson has issued the following statement. >> they've said we're working at pace across government to drive forward real action to implement the recommendations of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse. >> elsewhere, a danger to life flood warning is in place as dozens of people have been rescued by firefighters and more rain, sleet and snow are on the way. >> two people had to be rescued from flood waters by firefighte

we can see yvette cooper, the home secretary. we can see that's the justice secretary, shabana mahmood. oh, and he's got the chancellor of the exchequer next to him. i think he needs that, doesn't he, to show how supportive he is of the chancellor of the exchequer, rachel reeves? >> she looks quite happy sitting there chatting. >> she's relieved that the inflation rate fell slightly from 2.6% to 2.5%. but if the fall was based on cost, fallen price of tobacco and hotels, hotel costs, so people who are doing their weekly shopping won't have seen much change, i'm afraid. >> and also, as i said earlier at christmas, december sales were not impressive across the board retail sales particularly that will have helped inflation. people just didn't really spend anything. i'm not sure she can. she can take much credit for that. >> people wait for the sales as well, don't they? >> trevor said, come on bev, you don't have a by—election for resigning from government. i know you don't, trevor, but that's my point, is that maybe in this situat

yvette cooper the home secretary has said "this brave officer's passing serves as a reminder of the risksress my heartfelt gratitude to the responders who attended the tragic incident, as well as police officers across the country for their dedication and the sacrifices they make every day, to keep us all safe. 0livia richwald reporting. the leader of sudan's paramilitiary rapid support forces has admitted losing a key city to its army rivals, one of its biggest setbacks since the civil war began. these images are from wad madani, where celebrations broke out after the sudanese army officially announced the capture of the city. but in an angry audio message, the rsf's general mohamed hamdan dagalo vowed to continue fighting until victory, even if it took another 20 years. the group had held wad madani for the past year. since the start of the war in april 2023, tens of thousands of people have been killed and more than 11 million people displaced. 0pheera mcdoom was the former reuters head of office in sudan and now runs a school in khartoum. she explains why the rsf is such a strong forc