hello. this is bbc news. the headlines. the met police and borisjohnson are facing fresh questions after photos emerged of the prime minister drinking at a leaving do in downing street during lockdown. he wasn t fined for attending. the uk s withdrawal from afghanistan was a disaster and a betrayal , according to an inquiry conducted by mps. images china doesn t want you to see hacked data passed to the bbc shows the detention and indoctrination of uyghur muslims. all police officers in england and wales are to be given anti racism training as part of plans to tackle discrimination. and spanning over 100 kilometres from reading to essex, the elizabeth crossrail line finally opens more than three years later than scheduled.
was a disaster and a betrayal according to an inquiry conducted by members of parliament. all police officers in england and wales are to be given anti racism training as part of plans to tackle discrimination. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the met police are facing fresh questions after photos emerged street during lockdown. but this is an event that borisjohnson was not fined for attending. it happened in november 2020 at a time when indoor social mixing was banned in england. a report into such gatherings by the senior civil servant, sue gray, is expected to be
but it criticises what it calls misleading statements about the evacuation process, and says the leadership at the foreign office should be ashamed that two civil servants risked their careers to bring the situation to light. the foreign office defends its record. our staff worked tirelessly, a spokesperson said, to evacuate over 15,000 people from afghanistan within a fortnight. this was the biggest uk mission of its kind in generations and followed months of intensive planning and collaboration between uk government departments. the report urges the government to commit to a serious strategy for dealing with afghanistan in the future. a failure to do that, it says, would abandon afghan women and girls to the biggest single reversal of rights in a generation. paul adams, bbc news. all police officers and staff in forces across england and wales are to be given anti racism training, as part of a new national plan to tackle discrimination against black people.
he ava s death has brought to our attention the devastation that can be caused by carrying and using knives and that merseyside police will continue to work to combat knife crime. thank you. that will continue to work to combat knife crime. thank you.- will continue to work to combat knife crime. thank you. that is dead detective superintendent knife crime. thank you. that is dead detective superintendent for - detective superintendent for merseyside police following that verdict today. all police officers and staff in forces across england and wales are to be given anti racism training, as part of a new national plan to tackle discrimination against black people. but campaigners say the plan falls short of real change. our community affairs correspondent adina campbell reports. july 2020. this video of team gb athlete bianca williams and her partner went viral on social media, showing the moment they were stopped and searched by police in london. just two months before that, the mur