At the emirates. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Downing street has described as unacceptable remarks alleged to have been made by one of the conservative partys biggest donors about the mp, diane abbott, during a Business Meeting in 2019. The guardian claims that frank hester said ms abbott made him want to hate All Black Women and that she should be shot. This morning diane abbott has called the alleged comments frightening. Mr hester has admitted making comments about her which he described as rude, but his spokesperson has said this is not a confirmation of the quotes in the guardian. Henry zeffman has the story. Some people who give millions to Political Parties have high public profile is. Frank hester didnt. Until now. This is what the guardian says mr hester told staff at the Health Care Software company he built from scratch at a meeting back in 2019. Its like trying not to be racist, but you see diane abbott on the tv and you just want to hate All Black Wom
Warnings in place through the Severn Estuary and the south coast but also lots of Surface Water around. Looking at the Rainfall Accumulation Charge for the rest of the week, for most areas we expect 20 to 30 millimetres of rain, across North West England the west and wales we could see 70 to 80 millimetres to the rest of the week. Parts of the South East Of England had seen their average march rainfall by the 12th of the month. It has been a wet week, it will stay wetter, we have seen rain today pushing further east, it is clearing away from east anglia and kent through the rest of the afternoon. Lots of low cloud and mist, some showery outbreaks too. Further north dry but lots of low cloud, the best of any brightness across Northern Areas of scotland. A brisk South Westerly Winds and temperatures now or 13 degrees the south. This evening and overnight, a couple of Weather Fronts bring more heavy rain, further south and east it is drier, lots of low cloud and very mild temperatures exp
language in the report about my recollection of the events, it is even referenced that i don t remember when my son died. how in the hell dare he raise that? frankly when i was asked the question, it wasn t any of their damn business. let me tell you something. since the day he died, every single day. every memorial day, we hold a service remembering him, attended by friends and family and the people who loved him. i don t need anyone, i don t need anyone to remind me when he passed away. the simple truth is, i sat for five hours, passed away. the simple truth is, i sat forfive hours, two days of events, going back years. at the same time i was handling an international crisis. their task was to make a decision about whether the charges in this case. that is their decision to make. that is hisjob. they decided not their decision to make. that is his job. they decided not to move forward. for any extraneous commentary, they don t know what they are talking about. it has no pla
across the region. they re venting their anger over soaring fuel and fertilizer costs, low prices for their produce, and increasingly restrictive eu regulations. demonstrations by farmers are planned in poland, hungary and italy today. italy s government has promised tax breaks to ease hardship for farmers after hundreds began gathering with their tractors this week, on motorways outside rome and turin. this was the scene on thursday. and in cyprus, farmers blocked the entrance to the european union s offices in nicosia, on thursday. there were also demonstrations in bulgaria. and more tractor protests across spain for the third day in a row, with farmers disrupting traffic in barcelona, and in smaller cities all over the country. they say eu rules to protect the environment make them less competitive. they have also had to compete with imports from ukraine after brussels waived duties and quotas after the russian invasion. this and renewed eu talks on a south america trade d
we were analysing the evidence. it was just not matching the official story. protests erupted across mexico. a team of independent experts began their own investigation and the government case starts to unravel. the mexican government claimed the students were on four buses when they were attacked. but cctv revealed students on a fifth bus. we saw that the mexican government was officially stating that the guerreros unidos were simply a local gang, and we knew that not to be the truth at all. my name is mark guiffre, and for 30 years, i was a special agent with the us drug enforcement administration. prior to the disappearance of the students, we had received intelligence that there was going to be activity relating to the movement of illicit heroin proceeds coming out of this particular location. we got authorisation to conduct a search of that location. and there we seized many kilograms of heroin, money counters, a quarter of a million dollars or so in cash and illicit he