In ukraine began and two weeks before the elections . Well, Vladmir Putin spoke for two hours. We will look at what he said and didnt say. And its our weekly deep dive into the world of artificial intelligence, including how events organisers used al to generate images of a fantastical willy wonka world, but the reality was anything but sweet. We begin in texas, where both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are visiting the Us Mexico Border. The pair locked in a high stakes political duel on an issue which could ultimately decide this years president ial election. Joe biden is visiting a border city called brownsville. Its recently seen a drop in the number of people illegally crossing into the us. Donald trump meanwhile is in eagle pass, the Texas Border Town where republican Governor Greg Abbott has defied the Biden White House by using state National Guard soldiers to detain undocumented migrants and erect border barricades. Mr trump spoke there a short time ago.
The false guise of an arrest. The chair of the inquiry into his conduct and background, says without a radical overhaul of Police Vetting and recruitment, theres nothing to stop another couzens operating in plain sight. June kelly reports. He was a predatory sex offender in a police uniform. A criminal with state sanctioned powers. Wayne couzens should never have been allowed to become a police officer, and Continualflawed Vetting meant he was able to stay in his role despite a series of red flags. These are among the stark conclusions of todays inquiry report into couzens. It examined his career, his behaviour and the way he was vetted. The metropolitan Police Service told the inquiry in 2022 that it still have recruited him if provided with the same information. I found this astonishing. Now is the time for change. Without a significant overhaul, there is nothing to stop another Wayne Couzens operating in plain sight. The report described how in 2004 and 2008, kent police turned down
Exactly, bbc one taken over for three hours. The only thing we would ever have in common withjoe rogan. Serious subject first. We have an inquiry out today, or the first part of an inquiry, that was looking at how Wayne Couzens, the serving metropolitan Police Officer who murdered Sarah Everard in 2021 in london, could ever have been a metropolitan Police Officer. What was it like for you, as somebody who has got political oversight of that force, reading that report . Because in every single page there was something really bad that had gone wrong over decades . Can i begin the conversation by speaking about sarah, Sarah Everard and her family, her parents and her siblings . It is important to remember her in the context of this conversation. I remember vividly the days after sarah disappeared because i live not far from where sarah disappeared from, and it was during the pandemic and my wife and daughters would go regularly for walks in and around that area. So it brings it all back,
Or is the rot here simply too deep . Its very depressing. Its very concerning. Our country is in a serious dark place. Stage 4 Load Shedding will continue to be implemented until further notice. It says that stage 6 will be implemented at 8pm tonight until 5am. How did it come to this . South africa, the continents great economic powerhouse, is in deep trouble. Long daily power cuts injohannesburg and across the country. Dawn, and the Traffic Lights are still not working. This is alexandra township, a poor neighbourhood on the edge ofjohannesburg. Every day here, the power goes out, sometimes for four hours, sometimes for eight or more. Officially, its called Load Shedding which sounds almost helpful, almost pleasant but the truth is that these power cuts are having a devastating impact in a country with a stagnant economy and soaring unemployment. And its particularly in poor neighbourhoods like this one that the effects are being felt the most. Suzeke mousa has run this bar for 25 ye
Action is being taken against the sun newspaper. Legal action against the mirror group over allegations of Phone Hacking. Who did you hack . It would be quicker to say who i didnt hack, wouldnt it . Itd be easier. Celebrities, politicians. I was living in this sort of Super Highway of illicit information. It was exciting. You felt like a spy. As the years have gone by, the story has grown and grown. I dont know to this day how many people have heard my deepest secrets, my desires. That Phone Hacking was not. Practised by the Mail On Sunday or the daily mail. You have just about anybody whos ever appeared in a Tabloid Newspaper saying, give me large wadges of cash, please. I think its actually a legal scandal. Its not the money im after. Its to expose their guilt. Its justice. I started working for the british tabloids, around 1986. Im the guy that tracked down jeffrey epstein s a girl that was with the prince, that famous photograph. Tracked her down to australia. I was asked to search