Ministers committed to ending rough sleeping by the end of this year. An inquiry into how a serving metropolitan Police Officer was able to abduct and kill Sarah Everard has concluded he remained on the force because of failures in recruitment and vetting. The inquiry said red flags were missed at the three Different Police forces where Wayne Couzens served over several years. He was off duty when he kidnapped the 33 year old in march 2021. He is now serving a whole Life Sentence for rape and murder. Her killing by a serving Police Officer prompted a widespread outpouring of anger and grief and sparked demonstrations over concern for the safety of women. The chair of the inquiry said that without a radical overhaul of Police Vetting and recruitment there is nothing to stop another Wayne Couzens operating in plain sight. We are expecting the full Police Response shortly but we have heard an Opening Statement from Chief Constable Gavin Stevens who said the harrowing murder of Sarah Evera
job vacancies in the uk fall for the eighth time in a row, according to latest figures published ahead of wednesday s budget whether government is expected to encourage more people back to work. a state of emergency s been declared in malawi, after tropical storm freddy struck the country for a second time, killing nearly 100 people. hello and welcome to bbc news. the leaders of the us, britain and australia, meeting in california, have unveiled details of their plan to create a new fleet of nuclear powered submarines, aimed at countering china s influence in the indo pacific region. under the aukus pact australia is to get its first nuclear powered subs at least three from the us. beijing has strongly criticised the significant naval deal. our political editor, chris mason, has more from san diego. military band plays. a packed and democracies coming together to tackle a new and growing adversary, china. , . . . china. australia and the united kinudom china. australia
west, more cloud and a few spots of rain in the morning and that could be more persistent into northern ireland on the western isles in the afternoon. not as cool as it has been close to the east coast, we are tending to lose the breeze. through into the middle of the week for the front tracks its way gradually southwards and eastwards. it will bring a spell of wet weather for many others. on wednesday, quite a lot of cloud moving on, rain putting in as well and the breeze picking up. down towards east anglia and the south east you are more likely to stay dry and bright to a good part of the day and around ten to 13 degrees. look ahead towards easter, a few showers on the map and things looking dry for most of us easter sunday. thanks, sarah. and that s bbc news at ten on monday the 3rd of april there s more analysis of the days main stories on newsnight with kirsty wark, which isjust getting under way on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join
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