Our Breaking News this hour the australian Prime Minister says his country has foiled a plot to bring down an aeroplane. Malcolm turnbull says four people have been arrested in what he called a majorjoint Counter Terrorism operation. There are few further details at this point. Additional security has been put in place at all Australian Domestic and international airports. The australian public, as andrew and mick observed, can have great confidence in our security arrangements, and in particular our Security Screening Procedures at airports. However, what we have done is increased them so that there will be more bags being checked, it is really intensifying what we are already doing. And some of that will be visible, some of it will not be visible. But it will take more time. The bbcs phil mercers live in sydney for us. What more do you know about this plot . Well, the Australian Federal police say they have no specific details of time, date or location, but they believe they have cre
We have no tolerance for hate and violence from White Supremacists, neo nazis and the kkk. These dangerous Fringe Groups have no place in American Public life and the American Public debate and we condemn them in the strongest possible terms. And 70 years ago 200 years of British Colonial rule in india came to an end when the country was partitioned into pakistan and india Hundreds Of Thousands of people were killed as violence erupted on both sides. We will talk to two families about what it meant for them and the legacy it left. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11 this morning. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about today including the news of a big increase in the number of people being arrested for being drunk at airports or on flights. Do you drink when you fly . If you work in the Travel Industry and have experienced drunk passengers or if youre a traveller with views on whether Licensing Laws should be changed do get in contact. Use the hashtag vic
Further evidence about the manner in which of supervision and after care of Child Migrants, and the debates and grounds are concerned within volu nta ry and grounds are concerned within voluntary organisations. During that hearing you will hear from representatives of the key institutions and organisations involved in the Child Migration programmes. We expect you will hear further evidenced in part two from Oliver Cosgrove and david hill and octagon free is, who will give further evidence about what she has described as early warnings and missed opportunities and doctor humphreys. The experts will also impart to provide more evidence about reports of sexual abuse at several specific institutions, about issues of knowledge and response more generally. Turning briefly to some logistical issues about the evidence, as you have said it is anticipated some evidence will be live, someone will be read, someone will be by video link. It is anticipated the majority of questioning of witnesses li
Say about this controversy after the sort of the statement after statement that changed the story a little bit on donald trump jr. s meeting with this russian lawyer. He basically said my son is a high quality individual, hes been transparent and open. Hes come out and given the whole story. But there are a lot of questions that still remain and in the white house i think theyre very well aware these are not questions that are going to go away and theyre not questions that theyre prepared to take. Theres a lot of legal jeopardy around this meeting. Theres a question of whether the president himself knew about it. Of course we heard donald trump jr. Say in the interview last night that he had not discussed it with his father. But that is going to really hamstring their ability to get ahead of this story. I think there are a lot of questions about what more the president can say without getting a little too close to what is really one of the more damaging revelations of the last few week
do you think it will be riven with unintended consequences? because they would argue that, look state schools have had to cut their cloth in a very real and painful way for a long, long time. this will provide 6500 teachers and it is time for private schools to do just that. how do you answer that one? i private schools to do just that. how do you answer that one? do you answer that one? i think it will punish do you answer that one? i think it will punish both do you answer that one? i think it will punish both the do you answer that one? i think it will punish both the children - do you answer that one? i think it will punish both the children who| will punish both the children who are currently at state schools and the children who are at private school. take edinburgh. 25% of children go to a private school. there are six private schools just in the city. if those children are suddenly entitled to a place at their local school and they choose to take it up, where our edinbur