over new claims that he broke lockdown rules during the pandemic. he denies any wrongdoing. the independent police watchdog is to send investigators to cardiff following monday night s riot which started after two teenage boys were killed in a crash. the racism row in spanish football real madrid star viniciusjunior has his red card rescinded, as people protest in his native brazil over the racial abuse suffered by their star player. good morning. iamon i am on the roof of the bbc in london, where the sun is beating down. for england and wales we are looking at it day of sunny intervals, variable cloud. for scotland and northern ireland, cloud and spots of rain, but brightening up. details throughout the programme. good morning. it s wednesday, 24th may. our main story. inflation in the uk is expected to fall below 10% for the first time since august, when official figures are released injust over an hour. economists have predicted the current rate of 10.1% could drop sharp
during a holiday in portugal 16 years ago. madeleine vanished from a portuguese holiday home 16 years ago on the 3rd of may, 2007. a week later portuguese police said they believed madeleine had been abducted but was still alive and in portugal. at the end of may 2007 police issued a description of a man seen on the night of madeleine s disappearance possibly carrying a child. byjuly 2008 portuguese police say they have submitted their final report on the case. weeks later authorities shelve their investigation. in 2022, a german man is declared an official suspect by portuguese prosecutors. joining me live now arejim gamble, a former police officer who helped with the madeleine mccann investigation, and jon silverman, a professor of media and criminal justice at university of bedfordshire and former bbc home affairs correspondent. thank you forjoining me. first, what exactly are we looking at? it s been many years now since we had any kind of fresh investigation. why is
limatter. joining us bret, bret, so nice to see you. thank you for joining us. let s start with the facts, the evidence, what did the committee unveil that caught your attention? trey, thanks for having me on. as you know, my 83-year-old mother didi thinks you re the smartest man on tv so she s going to be thrilled that i m appearing on your show on mother s day. so thanks for having me. i will tell you my very first impression was first a bit dismayed that not all the media was there, you know, you mentioned the partisanship, you didn t have several of the larger media stations covering this and it s a major announcement that they claim they were coming forward so as i listened to it i thought to myself, you have four banks only four that they received documents from their subpoena, those four banks revealed $10 million had been passed through upwards of 25 different llc s to 9 different members of the biden family and friends. i look at that, trey, and you and i know very
areas in bangladesh and myanmar, bringing record levels of flooding. now on bbc news, europe s royals revealed. washington dc is the heart of the free world. let s go now to capitol hill. i m katty kay, and in more than 20 years spent here in the news business, i ve grown accustomed to thinking of this as the centre of power. decisions that reverberate around the globe are made here by politicians who proudly champion democracy: the rule of the people, by the people. we re here to assess the real meaning of the results in hundreds of races. but it s not the only way, or necessarily the best. a recent poll shows that of the 15 most successful democracies, nine are monarchies. the founding fathers rejected a king, but many europeans feel a royal family is an asset. i m leaving washington on a royal mission, as the uk has a new king, charles iii. i want to find out how other royal families, many of them king charles relations, manage to stay relevant in the 21st century. i ll b
the bay of bengal in recent years. in bangladesh hundreds of thousands of people were forced to take shelter. now on bbc news, europe s royals revealed. washington dc is the heart of the free world. let s go now to capitol hill. i m katty kay, and in more than 20 years spent here in the news business, i ve grown accustomed to thinking of this as the centre of power. decisions that reverberate around the globe are made here by politicians who proudly champion democracy: the rule of the people, by the people. we are here to assess the real meaning of the results in hundreds of races. but it s not the only way, or necessarily the best. a recent poll shows that of the 15 most successful democracies, 9 are monarchies. the founding fathers rejected a king, but many europeans feel a royal family is an asset. i am leaving washington on a royal mission, as the uk has a new king, charles iii. i want to find out how other royal families, many of them king charles relations, manage to