Fiona, hello. Hi there, how are you . Im very well, thank you. And welcome back to newscast. Thank you. In previous episodes, we have had about 15 minutes. We have now got about a0 minutes, so. Good job the world is quite chaotic at the moment. There is plenty of Trouble Spots that we can look at. Before we go on a kind of tour around the world, ijust wanted to do a bit of your personal history. So what was happening in County Durham in the 80s when you were a teenager and he decided that russian was the thing that you wanted to get into . Well, that was the period that actually, it is the subject of a Netflix Series at the moment about the Cold War and the bomb where we had the War Scare with the Soviet Union. The 1980s, there were several but the most memorable, at least from my perspective was 1983, when you just could palpably feel the sort of tension internationally. Even as a kid, teenager, in school in County Durham, it is thanks to the bbc, which we were watching religiously e
Don t think of them. The pain becomes a part of you. Get everybody out here to my house now. He came home and found her, his entire family gone. I said what are you talking about, what are you saying? it was surreal. As fellow cops suspected him. I did not do this. I did not do this. She was upset. She felt like history is repeating itself. Or police just plain wrong? it s like a twilight zone. Lies become truth and the truth becomes lies. May be the real killer was still out there. You have lied to the police about this case. So devastating. We know that was probably the key to solving this. 13 years of hell. Such an awful crime. The wife, the little boy and girl, shot at pointblank range. I was dumbfounded with shock. How to comprehend it? i said what, wait, what are you talking about, what are you saying? the husband had an alibi. He could have done anything, but he didn t. 13 years, three trials, appeals, reversals and changing stories. The big picture here for a lot of people as i
Further two week recess. There is more on this glimmer of bipartisan progress just ahead. By then administration also putting its weight behind fighting a surge of Violent Crimes in the country. Homicides up 24 , gonna salts up 22 over the same period last year, late today the president and Attorney General outlined a new anti crime strategy focused on getting more money to Police Departments and to violence Intervention Programs while cracking down on socalled rogue gun dealers. Zero tolerance for gun dealers who will fully violate the key existing laws and regulation. If you will fully sell a gun to someone whos prohibiting from processing it, if you will fully fail to run a background check, if you will fully falsify a record, if you will fully we will find you, and we will seek your license to sell guns. We will make sure you cant sell death and made him on our streets. Biden also noted crime traditionally rises during the summer months. He warned things could get worse in just the
Further two week recess. There is more on this glimmer of bipartisan progress just ahead. By then administration also putting its weight behind fighting a surge of Violent Crimes in the country. Homicides up 24 , gonna salts up 22 over the same period last year, late today the president and Attorney General outlined a new anti crime strategy focused on getting more money to Police Departments and to violence Intervention Programs while cracking down on socalled rogue gun dealers. Zero tolerance for gun dealers who will fully violate the key existing laws and regulation. If you will fully sell a gun to someone whos prohibiting from processing it, if you will fully fail to run a background check, if you will fully falsify a record, if you will fully we will find you, and we will seek your license to sell guns. We will make sure you cant sell death and made him on our streets. Biden also noted crime traditionally rises during the summer months. He warned things could get worse in just the
Further two week recess. There is more on this glimmer of bipartisan progress just ahead. By then administration also putting its weight behind fighting a surge of Violent Crimes in the country. Homicides up 24 , gonna salts up 22 over the same period last year, late today the president and Attorney General outlined a new anti crime strategy focused on getting more money to Police Departments and to violence Intervention Programs while cracking down on socalled rogue gun dealers. Zero tolerance for gun dealers who will fully violate the key existing laws and regulation. If you will fully sell a gun to someone whos prohibiting from processing it, if you will fully fail to run a background check, if you will fully falsify a record, if you will fully we will find you, and we will seek your license to sell guns. We will make sure you cant sell death and made him on our streets. Biden also noted crime traditionally rises during the summer months. He warned things could get worse in just the