Scenes on social media at post boost on twitter, instagram and facebook. Remarkable year for book that have been tackling the uses and especially the abuses of this countrys criminal Justice System. And we at politics and prose have been honored to host authors and poets behind them. The first event we hosted this year at this location was for the investigation of the misdemeanor punishment without crime and were closing with an equally essential look at the way the legal world unfairly treats this countrys disenfranchised and the author target is his own former profession as a public testify. The become called usual crueltity comes from alec karakatsanis. The founder of the civil rising corps, advocating for racial justice. Especially known for come batting the unconstitutionality of money bail, karakatsanis was name the 2016 trial lawyer of the year by public yates and the steven b. B. B wright aired for and as an introduction to his talk tonight im very excited to be welcoming his g
Of the panorama journalists who investigated the claims by carl beech thats at n9 15. And also before ten oclock well take a closer look at one of the nominees for britains most prestigious prize for architecture London Bridge station. And fans celebrate as Katarina Johnson thompson scoops britains second goal and breaks the british heptathlon record at the world athletics championships. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. The uk and us governments have called on facebook to rethink its plans to use encryption for messages on all of its platforms. In an open letter to the companys chief executive, mark zuckerberg, the home secretary priti patel said the firms policy could Hamper International efforts to grant law enforcers faster access to private messages on social media. Facebook argues that it is working closely with child Safety Experts and governments to keep people safe. Encryption is creating those spaces, those spaces for terrorist individuals, terrorist organisation
The brexit deadlock. The financial watchdog, the fca, says millions of customers are overpaying for car and Home Insurance because industry competition isnt strong enough. And fans celebrate as Katarina Johnson thompson scoops britains second gold and breaks the british heptathlon record at the world athletics championships in qatar. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. A report has severely criticised Scotland Yard for its handling of its investigation into an alleged vip paedophile ring which turned out not to exist. The police inquiry, codenamed operation midland, was launched to look into allegations made by carl beech, who was laterjailed for lying. Retired High Court Judge sir Richard Henriques said that searches of the homes of the former home secretary, lord brittan, the former chief of the defence staff, lord bramall and the ex conservative mp, Harvey Proctor was unlawful. In a statement, Deputy Commissioner of the metropolitan police, sir Stephen House said the force w
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Patterns. These witnesses willing to blow the whistle even when it risked their livelihood and their careers. Unfortunately we learn the v. A. Continues to struggle with the culture of retaliation against whistleblowers. In in two instances the leadersp and supervisors have turned a blind eye to those in vas workforce that upon investors problems are tempted to expose that actors who abuse their positions or broken laws. And even worse the whistleblowers are often the target of active retaliation. One striking example came from doctor catherine mitchells testimony. In 2014 she was one of a group of people working at the phoenix v. A. Medical center that expose the existence of a secret waiting list of veterans in need of medical care. Instead of addressing this issue the phoenix the english actively worked to hide exorbitant wait times. It turned up such practices were occurring at feasts facilities nationwide. It was deliberate and health and well being of veterans was put at risk. Co