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I think the senior leadership are trying to come to terms with the fact that they had not anticipated losing litigation. Therefore they were part in Denial And Part in paralysis. May who briefed you when you were apPointed ceo . Within the organisation . As i see in my Witness Statement, i spent time obviously with the chair, Tim Parker talking about the priorities. I met with all of the Group Executive before ijoined with the exception of one who was on holiday. I met with officials before i started so this was throughout august 2019. I had a relatively broaden understanding coming in on day one. Amongst those briefings, i do not and i think as i said in my statement, i dont think the Scale Or Enormity of the scandal was brought to life for me. Because i dont think there was a Realisation Or Recognition at that stage within The Business of what needed to be done or indeed what was likely to happen. 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We need to look forward, that would be my summary of how it was positioned. H0 summary of how it was positioned. No analysis of the past in terms of investigation and prosecutorial Decision Making . No. You said you decisionmaking . No. You said you had Decision Making . No had only Decision Making . Tip. You said you had only limited contact with the Post Office legal team about it. Given Post Office legal team about it. Given the Post Office legal team about it. Given the in Cancer Significance of the dlo. Given the in Cancer Significance of the dlo, why did you only have limited the dlo, why did you only have limited contact with the legal team . Ithink limited contact with the legal team . I think it limited contact with the legal team . I think it goes back to what i described at the start when i came into the role which was that litigation and the judgment was not part of the initial briefings i had had a something i had called out very specific. Those early weeks were about trying to get to know that business more broadly. There were a multitude of different priorities that were required in those first 4 6 weeks. I think i identified them in one of my exhibits i provide which breaks down pretty precisely what occurred in those weeks in terms of the breadth of stakeholders and Business Understanding that was required. It was during that period that it became apparent that we should be looking to settle with the dlo and it was in october those conversations started to occur. Who conversations started to occur. Who resent conversations started to occur. Who present private conversations started to occur. Who present private prosecutions to you as a historic present private prosecutions to you as a historic issue . As a historic issue . Legalfunction and general as a historic issue . Legalfunction and General Counsel. As a historic issue . Legalfunction and General Counsel. If as a historic issue . 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Yes, i had no reason to believe that that stage i reason to believe that that stage that we should be going back and looking back 2015 and 2013. I think we were very focused on making sure we were very focused on making sure we made the right changes to address theissues we made the right changes to address the issues which emerged as opposed to historically re examining Prosecutorial Activity. If to historically reexamining Prosecutorial Activity. To historically reexamining Prosecutorial Activity. If we can move forward Prosecutorial Activity. If we can move forward to Prosecutorial Activity. If we can move forward to pages Prosecutorial Activity. If we can move forward to pages 13 i Prosecutorial Activity. If we can move forward to pages 13 and i Prosecutorial Activity. If we can l move forward to pages 13 and 14 Prosecutorial Activity. If we can i move forward to pages 13 and 14 of your Witness Statement, please . Move forward to pages 13 and 14 of yourWitness Statement, please . I think your Witness Statement, please . Think i have yourWitness Statement, please . I think i have just done what karen did yesterday, i have a feeling. Have i . �. ,. , have i . Am not quite sure what that. Green have i . Am not quite sure what that. Green light have i . Am not quite sure what that. Green Light Yesterday i have i . Am not quite sure what| that. Green Light Yesterday we have i . Am not quite sure what i that. Green Light Yesterday we had to call that. Green Light Yesterday we had to call on that. Green Light Yesterday we had to call on the assistance and we sat here quietly. Studio lets leave the inquiry for the moment. If you want to stay with that we are running a live feed on the Bbc News Website. You can watch it in its entirety. Lets speak to Graham Satchell whos at the inquiry for us. Summarise what we have just heard so far. Summarise what we have ust heard so far. ,. Summarise what we have ust heard so far,. ,. Summarise what we have ust heard so far. ,. , far. She started giving evidence at 10am this morning, far. She started giving evidence at 10am this morning, about far. She started giving evidence at 10am this morning, about 45 i far. She started giving evidence at i 10am this morning, about 45 minutes ago. He was taken to his previous employment, as a man who has turned around failing and struggling businesses. Then we had quite a revealing exchange about what he was told the Job Specification was which was Chief Executive of the Post Office. He took over from and interestingly the inquiry was told interestingly the inquiry was told in that Job Specification interestingly the inquiry was told in thatJob Specification there was no mention at all of either the litigation against Sub Postmasters or fax the Horizon Litigation against Sub Postmasters orfax the horizon It Litigation against Sub Postmasters or fax the Horizon It System needed to be completely re changed and revamped. The key issues that have completely dogged the Post Office that have brought about if you like the situation we are now in which were not even mentioned in Thejob Description or in the Job Interview that negri had when he became keeping Chief Executive. As you have heard, the Inquiry Elite has been taken may creep through the fact that when he started his job, everybody in the Post Office thought this was all a matter of history, everything had been sorted, there were no more litigations, as far as they were concerned the Sub Postmasters it difficulties were behind them. And they could concentrate on the future. He has only given evidence for 45 minutes but thats what we have heard so far this morning. But thats what we have heard so far this morning this morning. Wider context there with Nick Reed, this morning. Wider context there with Nick Reed, he this morning. Wider context there with Nick Reed, he had this morning. Wider context there with Nick Reed, he had quite i this morning. Wider context there with Nick Reed, he had quite a i with Nick Reed, he had quite a controversial tenure at the Post Office. He arrived after the prosecutions took place of the Sub Postmasters but take us through some of the other stuff that has been said about his time in charge. Yes, you are right. He took over from paula vennells. One of the very first decisions he made was to agree at settlement with Sir Alan bates and the 500 or so Sub Postmasters who won their case in the High Court vindicating them and then he did set P Vindicating them and then he did set up a Compensation Scheme for Sub Postmasters and put Sub Postmasters and put Sub Postmasters on the board of the Post Office. Hisjob Sub Postmasters on the board of the Post Office. His job was to change the Post Office and modernise it. You could say he started it in that vein. Very quickly, criticism started to swirl around him. Because the allegation was he was much more interesting in The End then his own situation and the fate of the Sub Postmasters when it came to issues around pay. The inquiry has heard Nick Reed became obsessed with his level of pay and continuing the asks for it to be increased to more than £1 million and also there have been allegations he was a bully as a manager, that he was investigated but cleared, he was accused by the head of Hr And Sub postmasters themselves accuse him of being greedy and not at all interested in their fate. Greedy and not at all interested in theirfate. There greedy and not at all interested in their fate. There will be a lot of questions for him to answer over the next three days as he continues to give evidence. Next three days as he continues to give evidence next three days as he continues to give evidence. Thank you very much. We will be staying give evidence. Thank you very much. We will be staying across give evidence. Thank you very much. We will be staying across that we will be staying across that across the day. As i said earlier you can go to the Bbc News Website if you want to watch that info. Here in the uk, Conservative Mps will decide today which two candidates to succeed Rishi Sunak will make it to the final round of the contest. James cleverly, Robertjenrick And Kemi badenoch are vying for a place on the Ballot Papers that will be sent to party members. Tom tugendhat was eliminated from the race yesterday. Earlier i spoke to anna mikhailova, who is deputy political editor for the mail on sunday. It is a big scramble going on today. The vote is this afternoon and it is all about trying to get Tom Tugendhat supporters to back one of the other three candidates. A few have already come out. Generally they were expected to side behind James Cleverly but to be honest his Surgeon Yesterday to first place, i think the key to understand this is that its a secret ballot. No one knows how any of the Mps Vote including the candidates themselves. They just see the number and its the most duplicitous electorate you could think of. We talk about underhand tactics and plotting. How would that work with people trying to decide in a strategic way who the final to make the person they most want . They are narrowing down to the final two that will be presented to members and each candidate has an idea and their teams have an idea of who they would prefer to be up against. It has long been written that robertjenrick would prefer to be in the final two. If they have a lot of supporters they can essentially lend some of them to the candidate of their choice that they want their guy to be up against or. And there has been a suggestion that has happened to James Cleverly. To be honest, he has mostly been boosted by a good conference, strong Speech Performance and missteps by his rivals. ,. ,. , , rivals. You mention James Cleverly havint a rivals. You mention James Cleverly having a bit rivals. You mention James Cleverly having a bit of rivals. You mention James Cleverly having a bit of boost rivals. You mention James Cleverly having a bit of boost that rivals. You mention James Cleverly having a bit of boost that would i rivals. You mention James Cleverly | having a bit of boost that would not have been predicted at the start of the race, coming out quite strongly but he is more centrist than the other candidates. If he ends up in the final two does he have what it takes to win the membership . Remember Rishi Sunak against Liz Truss and the mps picked soon act but We Membership picked Liz Truss. He has been quite popular with members, he was a former association chairman, did a lot of behind the scenes work with associations. Going around the circuit, giving speeches and helping out. The trend has usually been that the membership tends to pick the more right wing candidate. Certainly James Cleverly is not only not that, whether he goes against Kemi Badenoch robertjenrick, he has also Got A real problem of having been very senior in the government has Home Secretary and of course immigration is one of the big issues members are so unhappy with and unhappy with the conservative record of the last 14 years in government. I think part of what has happened is James Cleverly was a bit of an outsider, he was not the favourite for a long time. He has had a surge and i wonder if he makes it through to the final two, does that mean his record will be a bit more scrutiny . Winker macro just remind us what comes next. We are expecting the announcement this afternoon then goes out to the party membership. Takejust through the goes out to the party membership. Take just through the timeline. Members will be allowed to vote and thenit members will be allowed to vote and then it does not get announced till then it does not get announced till the 2nd of november. Quite a few weeks of this and we expect a final two to go out and do various hustings but it has been seen a slightly bizarre timeline and then there has been a peace within the party to bring it forward. Some candidates actually support that in terms of having up budget in place which is terms of having up budget in place which i ,. , terms of having up budget in Place Whichi ,. , ~ , terms of having up budget in Place Whichi ,. ,. , which is such a key moment. Something which is such a key moment. Something you which is such a key moment. Something you need. Which is such a key moment. Something you need. You i which is such a key moment. I something you need. You need an organised opposition. The prefer to keep the schedule as is but if it is robertjenrick Againstjames Robert Jenrick against James Cleverly there robertjenrick against James Cleverly there is robertjenrick againstJames Cleverly there is a chance they might actually agree to push the timeline a bit forward. At the moment, there is quite a few more weeks of tory Leadership Stories and hustings and members votes at The End, at the start of next month. Millions of americans have been urged to evacuate parts of florida ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Milton. It strengthened again overnight to become a category five storm the highest rating and is expected to make landfall in the next 24 hours. This is the live Hurricane Tracker from the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. You can see the eye of the storm moving up towards florida. Steve paris lives in tampa, which is expected to be in the path of the hurricane and he told us the difficulties hes experienced in the Evacuation Process. Evenif even if the Hurricane Weekend slightly, perhaps reducing category five, it still is predicted to wreak a lot of damage and we should watch out for those storm surges. This is the seen live in florida. We also have another scene here. This is tampa and we can also take you to Hillsborough County in florida. Overlooking a highway in florida. Millions of people people have been told to leave their homes. Joe biden warning that leaving was a matter of life and death. There has been a huge Evacuation Process in florida, but we were speaking to a reporter from Cbs News earlier who said there are some people who are determined to ride the storm out in their homes. That is a big concern. Hurricanes are these giant engines returning energy from Warm Ocean temperatures into Kinetic Energy in the air. If you increase the octane and the fuel by warming up the sea temperatures, as sophie was saying, you allow hurricanes to get more intense. We have seen an intensification and lots of indicators of Hurricane Activity since the 1980s. The longer Term Picture is a bit less clear. But that coincides with a rapidly rising temperature, much of that is Human Impact on climate. In terms of what might come next in terms of the storm, when you track this as a physicist, what could come next . Crucially for Storm Activity or for this storm itself, we are getting much better at Forecasting Hurricane Intensity and hurricane tracks, which does help enormously in terms of saving lives. Of course it can help people protect their properties but it still does enormous damage. One of the really good new stories here is how well forecast hurricanes are compared to what they would have been a few decades ago. But the longer Term Outlook is worrying, of course, because we are, as Sea Surface temperatures continue to warm, we will see more intense storms of this nature. How many more . It is like rolling the dice. If the dice is a bit loaded, you cant say exactly how many times you will get sixes, but we are loading it in that direction. When you look at the history of the intensification of these hurricanes and linking that to Climate Change, what lessons can you draw from that . We remember hurricane katrina, a category five hurricane that was nearly close to 20 years ago now. What can you draw from the lessons in the past decades or two . The important lesson is Climate Change is making certain types of extreme weather more intense. It is also making other kinds of weather less intense in other parts of the world. And we are having to cope with a changing climate as a result of Human Influence as a result of rising Greenhouse Gas concentrations. But the really important message i would like your viewers to get is we can stop it. We can stop global warming within a generation if we put our minds to it. The combination of reducing Carbon Dioxide from burning Fossil Fuels and responsible disposal of the remainder. In that regard, britain has Got A pretty good Track Record of reducing the amount of fossil Carbon Dioxide we produce from Fossil Fuels and the announcement last week of the government where they are going to start responsibly disposing of Carbon Dioxide under the North Sea is also very welcome. There are steps in the right direction but we have Got A long way to go. More on Hurricane Milton on the bbc website. But lets look at the rest of the weather. Hello again. Its been a fairly cloudy and a wet start to the day, particularly so across the north and the east of the country. Whats been happening is low pressure has been driving our weather. Its now pulling away into the North Sea, but we still have some remnants of fronts producing The Rain. And the other thing thats happening is you can see more of a northerly component to the wind. So feeling cold across the north of scotland, in fact, feeling quite raw now through the afternoon. We hang on to The Rain across the north and the east, but it will brighten up across southern parts of england, South Wales and northern scotland, with a few showers and some of those showers, down to about 600 700m in the highlands could well fall as snow. Temperatures eight to nine in northern scotland, but generally were looking at 12 to 17. 17 will feel quite pleasant if youre in any sunshine. Through this evening and overnight, that band of Cloud And Rain continues to sink southwards, weakening all the time. Clearer skies follow on behind. Therell be some wintry showers down to 300 400m across parts of scotland. And you can see where weve got the blue in the charts, temperatures could actually fall away to 3 or 4. So a frosty start in the north. But as we head through tomorrow, the cold weather sinks southwards as represented by the blues, eventually chasing away the milder yellows through the day. Because were all going to be in this northerly wind. So we start with the cloud and some showery outbreaks of rain in the far south first thing, then a lot of dry weather, fewer showers around. A lot of those will be on windward coasts and it will feel cold in that wind. Temperatures are low for the time of year anyway. Add on the Wind Chill and it will feel much colder than that. Its going to be a frosty start on friday. Quite a widespread frost, but a lot of dry weather for southern scotland, england, wales and northern ireland. But weve got some showery outbreaks of rain across scotland later in the day that will geT Into northern ireland, and weve got more of a westerly wind, but the cold air is already in place, so it still is going to feel quite a cold day. Then, as we head from friday and into the weekend, you can see weve Got A ridge of High Pressure. Yes, theres a Weather Front crossing us, but essentially on sunday the High Pressure will keep Weather Fronts at bay. So during the course of saturday there will be some rain in the north, drier in the south, but its looking like a decent day for most as we head into sunday. Live from london, this is Bbc News one of the most powerful hurricanes in a century is barreling towards florida. Five million people are urged to get out of the area. Homes and businesses are being boardered up in preparation. Joe biden says getting out is a matter of life and death. Hurricane milton is considered a category 5 storm, the highest possible classification, and is due to hit the Gulf Coast later on wednesday. A quarter of lebanese territory is under Israeli Military across the Border Israel continues its. Tiktok faces lawsuits across the us. Hello im Rajini Vaidyanathan with just hours to go until Hurricane Milton makes