in a museum or heard about the benin bronzes in the media. in the past year, dozens of museums across the west have either agreed to, or are in the process of, returning them back to nigeria. it s estimated around 10,000 pieces were taken by the british during a punitive expedition to benin in 1897. the bronzes were then sold to institutions around the world. now there s no law in the uk which forces museums or other places to return stolen artefacts. but some institutions are doing it independently, like jesus college, cambridge. they were the first institution in the world to return a benin bronze in 2021. and soon cambridge university s museum of archaeology and anthropology will follow suit.
may have gone the other way. can you recount and reflect on how difficult actually mean it sounds like you know, everybody is ready to do it, but actually was very difficult to get the good friday agreement. it was very difficult. um been a 11 vital thing that i think helped was not just things we ve been talking about the last few minutes, but also. if you re going to make a peace process where you ve got to be prepared to talk to everyone, right and remember when we first. well i became the first british prime minister actually just sit down with the sinn fein people. and you know, this was. horribly controversial at the time when people thought you re gonna meet gerry adams have been prevented. there was a law in the uk that prevented him appearing on uk television, even his voice, his voice right voice and i don t
place for whistleblowers? we have a law place for whistleblowers? we have a law in place for whistleblowers? - have a law in the uk called the public interest inaudible but it does anything but protect whistleblowers. it is all about a dispute between an employer and an employee and while whistleblowers spent sometimes years meticulously putting together all of the evidence of the wrongdoing, the think they have found, the expectation when they get into court, somebody will investigate, they are always sadly disappointed. what we re to achieve now is a complete change in the uk putting us back to being the global leader around whistleblowing because it is not an employment issue, it is a government issue and it is a global issue. to a government issue and it is a global issue. global issue. to do this well, i have global issue. to do this well, i have proper global issue. to do this well, i have proper laws global issue. to do this well, i have proper laws in - global issue. to
hello, welcome to the programme. a0 migrants who crossed the english channel were brought ashore by the dover lifeboat this morning. so far, just short of 3000 people have crossed in the first two months of this year. that s twice as many as the equivalent period last year. the prime minister says stopping these boats is one of his top five priorities. tomorrow, we ll see how he proposes to do it. his new policy, that s been heavily trailed, suggests that going forward migrants who cross this way will be removed and banned from future re entry and automatically their application for british citizenship will be rejected. we will talk about what is proposed in a second, but let s first hear from someone farzad. he arrived by small boat in 2019, fleeing persecution in iran. he was granted asylum a year ago. he s been speaking to bbc radio 4. now, farzad, if you were in france, where presumably you were safe, and you heard that it was the law
benin in 1897, burning down the city s palace in the process. the bronzes were then sold to institutions around the world. now, there s no law in the uk which forces museums or other places to return stolen artefacts, but some institutions are doing it independently, like jesus college, cambridge. they were the first institution in the world to return a benin bronze, in 2021. more recently, germany handed back 22 bronzes and agreed to release over 1,000 items from their collections. the horniman in london has also sent pieces back to nigeria, and soon cambridge university s museum of archaeology and anthropology will follow suit.