Siren wails its the trial of a Major International drug trafficker, one of a series of prosecutions of gangsters. The story cant be reported until this final case is finished. Ive been investigating this organised crime group for two years. A succession of serious criminals have pleaded guilty and been locked up. This trial will finally provide a window into their world and how the police took them down. The man in the dock is edward robertjarvis, a major player in a Fearsome Liverpool Crime Group called the huyton firm. Hes pleading not guilty to Drug Trafficking and blackmail. Jarvis has a long criminal history. Hes already served time for trafficking drugs from venezuela in 2000. They had bought a yacht for £30,000 and equipped it to sail across the atlantic to pick up a large quantity, i think around 300 kilos, of cocaine. The smugglers were caught, and jarvis was sentenced by a British Court to 28 years. But not all the gang were jailed. According to the officers who were working
Since you wrote sapiens. It was a worldwide hit, and in essence, it was a very sort of positive explanation of how we humans have come to sort of dominate this planet. It was about our ability to cooperate, to tell shared stories, to give ourselves common purpose. Ijust wonder whether in the last decade, youve lost some of that optimism. I think our shared stories and our ability to cooperate, both as a species, but also on the national level, is collapsing in more and more places. I see it now in my home country of israel, which is really on the verge maybe of a constitutional crisis or even a civil war. Maybe what we need to understand specifically about democracies is that democracy, in essence, is a conversation. You know, dictatorship, there is one person dictates everything. Democracy is trying to reach some agreement through conversation, and conversation is not always possible. For most of history, large scale conversation was just technically impossible. You had small scale de
It was a worldwide hit, and in essence, it was a very sort of positive explanation of how we humans have come to sort of dominate this planet. It was about our ability to cooperate, to tell shared stories, to give ourselves common purpose. Ijust wonder whether in the last decade, youve lost some of that optimism. I think our shared stories and our ability to cooperate, both as a species, but also on the national level, is collapsing in more and more places. I see it now in my home country of israel, which is really on the verge maybe of a constitutional crisis or even a civil war. Maybe what we need to understand specifically about democracies is that democracy, in essence, is a conversation. You know, dictatorship, there is one person dictates everything. Democracy is trying to reach some agreement through conversation, and conversation is not always possible. For most of history, large scale conversation was just technically impossible. You had small scale democracies, like in city s
Agencies on the ground. And spare a thought for greece, battered by wildfires, inundated by storm dennis. We will touch on the other disaster in one of europes biggest farming areas. Good evening. We know what rishi sunak s plan is, when it comes to immigration. Weve got a plan, the plan is delivering, and im determined to stop the boats. So far, it has not quite worked out as the Prime Minister would like. Tens of thousands of migrants continue to cross the channel each year. And the governments supposed deterrant, sending the Asylum Seekers to rwanda, is yet to get off the ground. So today, the Opposition Leader keir starmer came up with a plan of his own. We have to stop that and i think the only way to smash that is to smash the gangs that are running this trade. Sir keir says the people smugglers who are making millions from this trade, should be treated like terrorists. Sir keir, who is well ahead in the polls, travelled to the hague today for talks with europol, the pan European
israel has intensified its military operations in the south of the gaza strip. the idf says it s hit more than 400 targets since a week long truce between israel and hamas collapsed on friday. this is live outside al nasser hospital in khan younis. a place that many people in the north have lied to. fled to. palestinian health officials say at least 200 and a0 people have been killed since the end of the truce. at least seven palestinians were killed in an israeli attack in the early hours of sunday near rafah. we re also keeping an eye on what s happening further north. this is the view from southern israel, looking at the gaza skyline. all this as israel has come under renewed pressure from top figures in the biden administration. the defence secretary, lloyd austin has said israel driving the civilian population into the arms of the enemy and that would be a strategic defeat. our middle east correspondent hugo bachega has the latest. khan younis in southern gaza. p