from tony blair to rishi sunak, ifelt like humming the tune of ghostbusters! who are you going to call? louise casey! why you? how did this happen? i don t really know, actually. i don t know. i started offjust working in charities with homeless people and then all our dreams came true when somebody said, we want to reduce the number of people sleeping on the streets by two thirds, we will set a target, we are serious and i got thatjob. and i suppose i am pretty fearless. and pretty determined, if i believe in the cause. and i always say to people, success then breeds success. we are a nation that loves our failures, aren t we? god love henman, who never won wimbledon but we made the name of that hill after him. we celebrate the underdog which is one of our most endearing and wonderful qualities. drifting is a fearless, we talk to a few people you worked with and one former cabinet minister said louise is like, a live grenade thrown into the civil service. and added, in cas
i am here in dorset where the school of your 150 million year old sea monster is going on public display. new tax rules mean leading online platforms will have to hand over details of people who make money from so called side hustles on top of their regular income. i ll explain who s affected and how. in sport, ready, set, and taking aim 16 year old luke littler becomes the youngest ever player to reach the semi finals of the world darts championship, and has his sights set on a spot in the final later. and we have a drier week this week. for the time being today we could see more disruptive rain and strong winds across the country. good morning. it s tuesday, the 2nd of january. routine school inspections won t take place for the next couple of weeks, while more training is given to 0fsted assessors to protect the wellbeing of school staff in england. in his first interview, sir martyn 0liver told the bbc that the organisation could also be far more empathetic, following t
champions league final in istanbul, leaving i o champions league final in istanbul, leaving 1 0 with 20 minutes left, rodri was the scorer. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. draw up a list of some of the toughest policy of nuts that any government needs to crack and you probably put pretty near the top rough sleeping. you might add anti social behaviour, troubled families, maybe child sexual exploitation. victims rights and last but certainly not least, the culture and standards of the police. that list is a short summary of the job is done by my guest this week on political thinking. job is done by my guest this week on politicalthinking. she job is done by my guest this week on political thinking. she has done those jobs political thinking. she has done thosejobs for political thinking. she has done those jobs for five different prime ministers, both main political parties over the last quarter of a century or
hello, i m ben thompson, welcome to the programme. we begin with a developing story hamas says its deputy head saleh al arouri has been killed in a blast in beirut, in lebanon. local media have described the explosion as an israeli drone attack on the hamas office in the south of the city. reports say five other people were killed in the blast. video footage shows a car in flames and damage to buildings in a busy residential area known as a hezbollah stronghold. the israeli military has told the bbc it will not comment the israeli military said whoever did this it was a surgical strike against hamas leadership. we did reach out to them after local media as you mentioned, attributed this blast to an israeli drone attack, we reached out to the idf who came back to the bbc and said they would not comment on reports from foreign media. we did get confirmation that saleh al?arouri, the deputy head, or deputy chairman of hamas political bureau has been killed in this blast, and
welcome to verified life, three hours of breaking stories in checking out the truth behind them. lots to actually dig into in today s verified, especially what is happening on the battlefield in ukraine in what appears to be the start of that counteroffensive. tf cells died in excess is switching to offensive action and kyiv says it is moving to a counteroffensive action and on defence as well in the south. ukrainian army has shown these images sing the forces are destroying russian positions in the direction of bakhmut, in contrast, russia s thing it is thwarting ukrainian attacks in the same region in releasing this video showing ukrainian armoured vehicles coming under heavy fire and moscow s since 250 ukrainian troops were killed and a number of armoured vehicles had been destroyed. the claims have not been destroyed. the claims have not been verified by the bbc and we ll hear from our verified teams later the hour. return to the maps is in the hour. return to the maps