Its merseyside base. Bronagh munro reports. Three masked men arrive outside a drug stash house in liverpool. A fourth is pretending to deliver a parcel. Four minutes later, they escape with the huyton firms cocaine. Hello. Two men in the house have been attacked with a machete and an axe. What injuries have you got, mate . Just sit yourself down. You all right there, mate . Yeah. A trail of blood leads to a Manhole Cover where the cocaine was hidden. Are you in dispute with anyone . Have you upset anyone lately or has anybody got a bit of beef with you . Any information s better than nothing. No one from the huyton firm talks. But this time the police have a secret weapon. The encryption system the criminals use, called encrochat, has been cracked. Detectives can see the messages theyre sending each other. The group theyre talking about is the stolen cocaine. 30 kilos are gone. Thats £1,000,000 worth. Its clear from the messages ive seen that this is a very effective criminal business
Israeli forces went into rafah on monday night, in defiance of international pressure, seizing the Border Crossing with egypt. The un secretary general Antonio Guterres has warned that a full scale assault on rafah would cause a humanitarian nightmare. Paul adams sent this report from jerusalem. A deal may now be tantalizingly close. But in rafah, israels military pressure is relentless. Today, severing gazas last link with the outside world, the crossing point into egypt. And raising theirflag, sending an unmistakable message to hamas. The noose is tightening. The sounds of approaching war echo among the displaced. Hundreds of thousands of palestinians living in the sand against the egyptian border. Or next to the sea. I dont know where to stay, ahmed says. People are fleeing from rafah and i have my children with me. Gazans have been on the move since yesterday morning, heeding israels latest warnings, not knowing if the coming days will bring relief or despair. Translation after wha
Did you sleep with stormy . Today in court, he had to watch a woman who claims she had sex with him openly testify about it. Stormy daniels was paid 130,000 by mrtrump to stop her going public with claims of a sexual encounter shortly before the 2016 president ial election. Just outside the court room, he insisted he shouldnt be on trial at all. And the trial is a very unfair trial. Its a very, very unfair trial. The good news is they have nothing. Thank you. The court was shown this photograph of mr trump with Stormy Daniels, as she described first meeting him at a Golf Tournament in 2006, the day she says they later had sex. It was at this golf course, she says, that donald trump sent his bodyguard to invite her to dinner. When she got to his hotel suite, she laughed at him for wearing black silk pyjamas while he dangled the possibility of her appearing on his tv show, the apprentice. When she asked about his wife, melania, he told her they slept in separate rooms. As ms daniels desc
And they dehumanise people like that. Across the road, a very different tune. Siren records is the local mecca for those searching for rare vinyl. Ask them about politics in here and manager heidi kaye will tell you that america failed to deal properly with the January 6th Riots and that trump cant be allowed a comeback. We dont need more division. We just need to get on with the business of the country. And im done, personally, with the novelty of trump, and thats putting it lightly. One concern is that trump is going to win and this country will be under a virtual dictatorship for at least the next four years. The other concern is biden will win and there will be another revolt, some sort of january 6th part two. Of course, donald trump has always been a politically divisive figure, and with the trial under way at the moment, thats just become accentuated. And in a town like doylestown, you really feel that. As if to emphasise the rifts, doylestown s cinema is showing the new film ci
The opportunity to lead to my home well, that has been the most tremendous honour that i did not think was reserved for people who looks like me. Msps then voted in a new snp First Minister, who said he agonised over whether to stand because of his concern for his wife in the Pinkjacket Who has multiple sclerosis. I cannot let this moment pass without making it clear to elizabeth my profound eternal gratitude for the sacrifices she is prepared to make to enable her husband to serve our country as First Minister. As for policy, he named one priority. So, i will be unapologetic about bringing to this parliament the measures we can take to eradicate Child Poverty and i look forward to seeking the support of others to achieve that aim. Words underlined with deeds, Asjohn Swinney crossed as mr swinney crossed the floor to shake the hands of the opposition leaders. So, john swinney insists he wants to get back to the founding principles of this parliament, to the politics of consensus. But t