it s goodnight. after multiple racist incidents involving uk police officers newsnight learns that the initiative set up to tackle racism in policing in england and wales is now facing allegations of racism itself. some ethnic minority staff who used to work for the unit tell this programme they believed they were seen as troublemakers or difficult . i was treated differently my white colleagues by a lack of support when the workload increased. i increasingly felt my voice and at times might lived and professional experience were being ignored. we ll ask the chair of the body tasked with oversight of the programme where this leaves the police race action plan. also tonight south africa grants diplomatic immunity to world leaders attending a conference in august. president putin himself has outstanding arrest warrants for war crimes, so will he now turn up injoburg? the message is that south africa would have been showing is that it prefers its relationship with mr puti
but what people remember is the awful tissue necrosis the drug can cause in humans. it s given a grotesque turn to an already devastating human crisis among some of the poorest and most vulnerable in america. let s speak to melanie beddis, director of programmes at savage sisters recovery in philadelphia, who was dependent on this drug and has been clean for two years. caroline copeland is a lecturer in pharmaceutical medicine at king s college london and director of the national programme on substance abuse deaths. melanie, you were dependent on heroin and fentanyl and then your drug supply was contaminated with tranq. tell our audience in the uk what effect it had on your body. so i what effect it had on your body. sr i think the what effect it had on your body. sry i think the most important thing was that. i wasn t aware that i was doing tranq, i didn t know what
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Drug dealers are selling powders and pills that contain fentanyl, but now a dangerous animal tranquilizer is being added to the mix. Xylazine in humans can cause open wounds, amputations and even death.