My name is and im a past president of the National Press club. We have a terrific program ahead and we invite you to listen, watch or to follow along on twitter. Using the press club live. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience are members of the general public. So any applause or reaction here is not necessarily from the working press. We want to show our neutrality and other strategic to and our objectivity. Of dc media strategies. And press club staff liaison, Lindsay Underwood for their roles in making this event happen. And a special thanks, and i do mean special. Headliners team member who is also our photographer tonight and was the organizer of tonights event. Thank you all. Berlin in the 1950s was the spy capital of the world. As a nato power and the soviet union, jockeyed for advantage and postworld war ii europe. Without satellites and sophisticated snooping technology we have now. Spies had to get creative. The stories are epic. Here
For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience are members of the general public. So any applause or reaction here is not necessarily from the working press. We want to show our neutrality and other strategic to and our objectivity. Of dc media strategies. And press club staff liaison, Lindsay Underwood for their roles in making this event happen. And a special thanks, and i do mean special. Headliners team member who is also our photographer tonight and was the organizer of tonights event. Thank you all. Berlin in the 1950s was the spy capital of the world. As a nato power and the soviet union, jockeyed for advantage and postworld war ii europe. Without satellites and sophisticated snooping technology we have now. Spies had to get creative. The stories are epic. Here tonight to tell us about one of them, one of those epic stories is steve vogel. A former reporter for the Washington Post whose book, betrayal in berlin the true story of the cold wars most
Claiming officers mocked and assaulted people. It is alleged there was widespread self harm and attempted suicide at the centre, which houses migrants who are about to be expelled. Alison holt has more. Brook house Immigration Removal Centre sits a couple of hundred metres from the runway at gatwick airport. It is run by the Global Security firm gas. Here, Foreign National prisoners facing deportation at the end of their sentence are detained alongside asylum seekers, illegal migrants, and those who have overstayed their visas. Covert filming by the bbcs Panorama Programme shows a chaotic place awash with drugs, with self harm commonplace amongst the men held there. There are officers doing their best, but the undercover investigation alleges some staff mock, abuse, or even assault detainees. The incidents picked up by the hidden camera worn by another officer. Callum tully has worked at brook house for two years. Theres a culture of violence at brook house. When i started working ther
With others reporting discomfort. Sussex police said those who required treatment experienced mostly minor effects. Monitoring equipment was used at the time to try and identify the cause, but the readings were inconclusive. The maritime and Coastguard Agency now think the gas may have come from one of the many shipwrecks in the english channel. It is also investigating discharges from passing ships or lost cargo as a possible cause. The uk warm spot today, 22 celsius. Most saw some lovely sunshine. Tomorrows whether as a very different look to it. Ana ivanovic and atlantic weather system brings in rain. Higher cloud spreading across the west of the uk. Temperatures not going down as far as they did in recent nights. Tomorrow, heavy bursts in the west, where it is quite windy. It turns lighter and patchy through the day, creeping very slowly further east in two parts of north west england, the midlands, South West England. The further east we are, hazy sunshine, stay mainly dry in dayl
Of myanmars Rohinga Muslim minority are continuing to flee across the border into neighbouring bangladesh. Nearly 60,000 rohingyas have fled since myanmars army began a campaign against suspected militants in Rakhine State just over a week ago. Sanjoy majumder has been to a refugee camp on the bangladesh Myanmar Border and sent us this report. Exhausted and traumatised after escaping death, many of these rohingyas have walked for hours, across hills and through paddy fields, to avoid being shot before making it here. These are fresh arrivals, rohingyas who have just arrived after crossing the border. And, with every passing hour, there are more and more of them coming. There is absolutely no space left anymore, so they are just living on any piece of open ground that they can find, and many of them have the most disturbing testimony to share. I meet a man who is nursing a bullet wound in his foot. He tells me that his village, just across the border, was allegedly attacked by the Myanm