Start your Monday Morning. A little bit of rain for some, even some Thunderstorms Mist and rain to start your Monday Morning. Good morning, its Monday 2nd september. One or two word 0fsted Inspection Grades for englands schools are being scrapped with immediate effect. Last year an inquest found an 0fsted Inspection had contributed to the suicide of primary headteacher Ruth Perry, leading to widespread calls for change. Headteacher Ruth Perry, leading the government said the overall grades werent fair or accurate, but the change was criticised by the conservatives for removing a vital indicator for parents. Heres our Education Editor Branwen jeffreys. After an inspection, Caversham Primary was but yes, its this. A relief, really, that no other Head Teacher will have to go through what ruth went through. So from today, overall Inspection Grades are scrapped, like good or inadequate. School inspection standards remain the same. And from september 2025, there will be a new Report Card for
President ial hopeful joe biden condemns President Trumps handling of the nationwide Police Brutality for. 10 scenes outside the white house with a curfew now in full effect across the u. S. Capital. And after President Trump visited a catholic shrine criticism mounts that hes using religion as a political tool. Welcome to the program the family of george floyd have made an emotional appeal for justice as protests continue right across the country despite curfews and threats of force the mother of floyds daughter paid tribute to him describing him as a good man and emphasizing the impact his killing will have on his child hell have the. Well were agile way. He will never walk down. The problem see the baby in the day he did not have daddy more. Baby. And only of killing. Because of that one yes its a hill. While throwing to death the spot days of protests including in washington d. C. In the us president s come under criticism for his handling of the tense situation in particular the f
Students will look at the young people trapped in the lowest social class despite being highly educated. So huge crowds are gathering in the iranian city of for the final funeral procession for general. The top military commander who was assassinated in a u. S. Drone strike on friday it is solemn on his hometown he will be laid to rest there in the coming hours signaling the end of 3 days of emotionally charged proceedings force ultimately he was revered by millions of iranians many of whom are now calling for revenge on monday the Supreme Leader ayatollah ali president Hassan Rouhani led prayers in his. Bag is with us from tehran to talk about some of the you know aside all the commentary here coming from certainly the United States is a. No one will shed a tear for the loss of course and so the money in iran itself it is the exact opposite these are quite extraordinary things. Absolutely yesterday the funerals held in iran where the streets were packed the funerals lead us to. Many t
Little disruption for passengers. Record numbers of fires are burning in the amazon now brazils president claims theyre being lit deliberately by opponents of his government. The microscope that provides extraordinary images ofjust how our bodies work. This gigantic two tonne microscope is transforming our understanding of living processes. It takes something so big to see the tiny atom sized cogs and wheels inside us in action. And its that man again england bowler jofra archer takes the first wicket as the third test gets under way in headingley. And coming up on bbc news. Ireland name a more familiar squad to face england at twickenham on saturday as their world cup preparations continue. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Boris johnson is holding brexit talks in paris with the french president , Emmanuel Macron, who has insisted that the controversial irish backstop is indispensable to the integrity of the eu single market. The measure would prevent physical border
Hello and welcome. Us secretary of state mike pompeo is on his way to the middle east for talks with both saudi arabia and the uae and an offer to negotiate with iran. There have been days of extreme tensions with washington and tehran and it includes reports of an american cyber attack on iranian weapons, a p pa re ntly cyber attack on iranian weapons, apparently in retaliation for the shooting down of a us drone. Chris buckler reports. Having backed away from military strikes, america is trying to show it is not afraid of conflict with iran. Officials say they launched Cyber Attacks, which they claim disabled iranian systems controlling rockets and missile launchers, exactly the kind of hardware that was responsible for shooting down an american drone over the gulf. With tehran showing off the wreckage and President Trump threatening iran with obliteration if this ends up in confrontation, the International Community is increasingly worried. Everybody must keep nerves of steel. It is