Perspective of some the major events in history in witness at 2 30. That includes the partition of india in 1947. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The metropolitan police has confirmed it has paid compensation to the former chief of the Defence Staff field marshal lord bramall, and the family of the late home secretary lord brittan, who were both falsely accused of child sexual abuse. Both men were named a by an informant known as nick whos now being investigated for allegedly perverting the course of justice. Angus crawford reports. They were horrifying allegations, of a paedophile ring at the heart of the establishment, but they all proved to be false. During 0peration midland, police raided the homes of the former chief of the Defence Staff lord bramall, ex home secretary leon brittan, and former tory mp harvey proctor. All on the say so of this one man, nick, whose real identity cant be revealed. But a scathing review of the investigation found nicks credibility wasnt proper
Record breaking 69th pole position at monza. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The metropolitan police has confirmed its paid compensation to the former chief of the Defence Staff, field marshal lord bramall, and the family of the late home secretary, lord brittan, who were both falsely accused of child sexual abuse. Both men were named by an informant known as nick, whos now being investigated for allegedly perverting the course ofjustice. Angus crawford reports. They were horrifying allegations, of a paedophile ring at the heart of the establishment but they all proved to be false. During 0peration midland, police raided the homes of the former chief of the Defence Staff lord bramall, ex home secretary leon brittan, and former tory mp harvey proctor. All on the say so of this one man, nick, whose real identity cant be revealed. But a scathing review of the investigation found nicks credibility wasnt properly assessed, search warrants were inaccurate, and the investigation went
The metropolitan police has paid compensation to the former head of the army, lord bramall, and the family of the late home secretary, lord brittan, who were both falsely accused of child sexual abuse. The value of the pay outs has not been confirmed. Lord bramall and lord brittan were accused by the same man who is now being investigated for perverting the course of justice. More than m00 people have died and a0 million have been left homeless or displaced after catastrophic flooding across several south asian countries. Parts of indias financial centre, mumbai, are under several feet of water and in the eastern state of bihar, more than 500 people have been killed. President trump has arrived in texas for the second time, to see what more can be done for people driven out of their homes by hurricane harvey. Hell make a point of meeting survivors and talking to volunteers, after facing criticism that last time he spoke only to officials leading the response to the storm. Hell also go
It has damaged or destroyed 100,000 homes, and left more than a Million People displaced. And yet President Trump spent the eve of this visit talking about scrapping a policy that protects young, undocumented immigrants. The devastation wreaked by Hurricane Harvey is plain to see here. Texas is barely beginning to count the cost, and many people here are astonished that the president would choose this moment even to mention immigration. And we have a lot of distilled waterfor the babies. Jessicas home was flooded, and now she is helping others. Brought here illegally at the age of four, she is among 200,000 texans who face being fired and deported if President Trump keeps his campaign promise. Its a complete slap in the face. I mean, you see people who are struggling, your initial reaction is to help them, and his is the complete opposite. He knows what he is doing. He knows what the effects of this would be in the community. The white house says the president will announce his decisio
Now, this is an objective they had set for themselves. We know they tested these long range rockets injuly. There were two tests that were carried out of Intercontinental Missiles and at that time, north korea had said that they were trying to produce a miniaturised warhead that could fit onto those Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles which was light enough and which could also fly that range. Of course, we dont have any independent verification of this claim but if north korea is now saying they can now weaponise these long range missiles, it will be seen as a big threat by america because those Intercontinental Missiles which they tested in july, many experts believe that they put a large part of the us mainland within range. Yogita, in terms of announcements from north korea, how sceptical and careful should we be until we get some verification . Well, we know the country has already conducted five nuclear tests. As far as the missile tests they have conducted, experts do believe th