and i am at the cheltenham festival, looking ahead to the highlight of the week here, the gold cup. and coming up on the bbc news channel, crystal palace are looking for a new manager after sacking patrick vieira. he leaves after a run of 12 games without a win. good afternoon. a major review of the metropolitan police is expected to heavily criticise the force for racist, sexist and homophobic behaviour. baroness casey was appointed to examine the met s standards and internal culture after the murder of sarah everard by wayne couzens, a serving policeman. the bbc has been told the review published next week will be extremely bad for britain s biggest police force. our special correspondent, lucy manning, has been talking to former partners of police officers who say the met fails to deal with abusive officers in its ranks. sirens. they used to be in uniform, until they were convicted. since wayne couzens was arrested, more met police officers have been sentenced, many
the military takeover there. we start in the uk, which has seen the biggest day of strike action in more than a decade, according to the unions, with up to half a million people walking out in disputes over pay, jobs and conditions. among those striking are train drivers from the aslef union impacting most train companies across england. bus drivers in london about 100,000 civil servants from over a hundred government departments. thousands of university staff from 150 universities across the uk. and teachers from the national education union. these aerial images show demonstrators marching past the bbc s headquarters in london. 0ur employment correspondent was with them nearby at whitehall. the scale of this. this is the biggest straight for more than a decade. there has been some sort of talk about, could this be the general strike? it is not that. there are unions who have decided not to strike today. it certainly could be a lot bigger. what s interesting is there are un
for the met on tuesday, when this report is published, is that there is a possibility it will say that the met is institutionally racist, institutionally homophobic and institutionally homophobic and institutionally misogynistic. if that happens, that is devastating. it s 25 years since the mcpherson report, after the racist murder of stephen lawrence. that will suggest no lessons have been learned and nothing has changed. no lessons have been learned and nothing has changed. lucy, thank you ve much nothing has changed. lucy, thank you very much indeed. passport office workers across england, scotland and wales are to strike for five weeks in an escalation of a dispute over pay, pensions, and job security. more than 1,000 members of the pcs union will take part in the action from early april. the union has warned it s likely to have what it calls a significant impact on the delivery of passports this summer. 0ur employment correspondent, zoe conway, is at the passport office in lond
0ur employment correspondent, zoe conway, joins me now. zoe, another business story with potentialjob cuts, we were talking about amazon yesterday, how significant is this story for ford? it is significant because it s about the costs of producing cars in europe. costs are rising, they say, this isn tjust affecting the uk, more than 2000 jobs are going to go in germany as well, so it s about high inflation in europe, high energy costs. but, is also about the company refocusing towards electric vehicle production and what the company is saying is that electric