To become ranked world number one with a 33 19 victory at twickenham in their first world cup warm up match. And coming up in half an hour here on bbc news protecting our planet explores Sustainable Solutions to Climate Change and how best to care for our enviornment. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The government has announced a package of new measures in a crackdown on law and order. The Prime Minister has promised to create an extra 10,000 prison places after an increase in Violent Crime. This will involve the building of new prisons and the expansion of existing ones at a cost of around £2. 5 billion. Stop and search powers will also be extended to all Police Forces in England Wales which will allow police to stop someone in an area where they think a crime may be committed. Borisjohnson also called for tougher sentencing and an end to the Early Release of prisoners convicted of violent or sexual offences. Labour said austerity measures taken by conservative governments ha
and in cyprus, farmers blocked the entrance to the european union s offices in nicosia, on thursday. there were also demonstrations in bulgaria. and more tractor protests across spain, for the third day in a row with farmers disrupting traffic in barcelona, and in smaller cities all over the country. jos ubels is a cattle farmer in the netherlands and vice president of the farmers defence force. he told us why he s unhappy with the eu s agricultural rules. well, first of all, of course, it s the administration, bureaucracy. many people don t know, but the european union tells us what to sow, what to harvest on our fields and when to sow it and when to harvest it and they are checking this with live satellite imagery every three days all over europe. so we re being watched by european union from the satellites every three days. they invent legislation to prevent climate change or whatever, but they don t invent rules that change things for the better. we, as practicing farme
A 6th cease fire being in place. If it says the 1st priority has been to talk to you and agencies down the ground, the 2nd us i lauren, who started working all day, itll be sure that we have the commitments. Obviously, i vitamins you military is to protect your monitor systems to deliver on the obligations to allow supplies, people to move and the we should do that. And you my Chance University do this even when there is no fall national, we will still require agreements. The rates are low to soft runs. President abraham ray is he has met with syrian president bush allison in the syrian capital damascus. Its the 1st visit by an arabian president since the outbreak of serious war president res, he has said in interviews that he is ready to cooperate with syria and rebuilding the country. Joseph jabari has more from terran. Well, the reigning president s is the 1st iranian president to visit damascus since ma, whod ad medina john went to syria in 2010, prior to the start of the war in sy
mystery during the recent uptick in activity from the justice department is what happened to mark meadows? now we know the answer. the answer is that he has responded. he s complied with a subpoena from the justice department as part of the january 6th investigation. now, this makes him the highest ranking trump official to comply with a subpoena as part of this criminal investigation, and, you know, in addition to him, we also know that ben williamson, one of his aides, a very top aide of mark meadows has also been subpoenaed as part of this big push we recently reported more than 30 subpoenas that went out to people in the trump orbit. with mark meadows, we know he s provided, you know, all of the materials he had given to the january 6th, the house committee that is investigating january 6th. that s thousands of emails and text messages from the period that, you know, covers everything from before the election to up to obviously january 20th. so that s an important window