If i could ask you to stand there, please. Thank you very much. In that case, sir, when the crowd has gone, ill happily escort you out. Gideon falter told the bbc how shocked he was at what happened. I think its time for sir mark rowley to go. He has had long enough to get to grips with the situation, to get his police force under control, to tell his front line officers, dont worry, we are going to send enough police to back you up so that you can make the right decisions. And instead, he hasnt done that. And because of that, he has to go. The time has come. A little earlier our reporter Angus Crawford outlined the pressure now lying upon the met police commissioner. Well, its been very interesting. Here in london, since the 7th of October Attacks and israels response, if you like, the politics of The Middle East has been played out on the street every weekend with demonstration and counterdemonstration. The met police has come under huge pressure to get the balance right. What balanc
than seven million people struggle with the written word and most keep it a secret. one of the worst affected areas for illiteracy is the north east of england. for years, a former teacher has wanted to help. ah for. apple. ah.. ah for apple. but then kerry clegg saw this. it was a documentary about jay blades from the repair shop, who was learning to read. this is going to be my first attempt to learn since school. i contacted them and said we ve got a great need up here. how do you spell tree? t. where s r? r. 0k. that s it. and then e. but e starts down there. two years later and kerry s finally brought that charity to the north east, where volunteers teach adults to read. a teacher for 20 years, kerry knew how big the problem was across the north east of adults who couldn t read and she wanted to change that. it s about 16.4% of adults can t read. sadly, in the north east, that s even higher at 17%. that s about one in six adults who are reading at a below primary school
as he s always said, labour say he won t commit to anything that cannot be funded in future. so that s, i guess, a sort of clarification from labour there just to kind of calm anyone who might have heard that and had any concerns. of course, there is another huge political race going on over the atlantic and last night we saw the first tv debate between joe atlantic and last night we saw the first tv debate betweenjoe biden and donald trump. let s get some more on that, i am joined by democratic strategist and former presidential campaign strategist to the republican party. thank you both very much for being here on bbc news. laura, ifi very much for being here on bbc news. laura, if i can start with you, we have seen a lot of reaction to joe you, we have seen a lot of reaction tojoe biden s performance described by some as panic. what would you say, what is your response to what you have seen? i say, what is your response to what you have seen? you have seen? i would call i
Thousands of people, they want, on the streets to pressurise mr mugabe to step down. Zanu pf branches across the country calling for him to go and think they have got no confidence in him any more. The military taking over in the capital harare on wednesday, putting him under house arrest, despite that bizarre scene we saw today when he had been house arrest and suddenly ppped had been house arrest and suddenly normed up had been house arrest and suddenly popped up in academic robes handing out degrees to graduates at the university in the capital, but he has got fewer and fewer allies and i think for him time is running out. It is just think for him time is running out. It isjust a think for him time is running out. It is just a question, think for him time is running out. It isjust a question, really, they are trying to negotiate with him to go with some dignity, perhaps in return for some guarantees about the safety of him and his wife, grace, and his family. Ben, ido and his family
Now on bbc news in a special programme Steve Rosenberg travels across russia to find out how russians view the 1917 revolution. It is 100 years since the Russian Revolution. A seismic event for the world. There is a quotation which says the october revolution opened a new era in world history. It is the start of a great experiment and of russias bloodiest years. We are giving lessons, many of them are what you shouldnt do. How is the revolution seen in russia today . Are there echoes of 1917 in 2017 . Im Steve Rosenberg and im going on a journey across russia to find out how russians view the revolution that came to be known as red october. Myjourney begins where the revolution began, at the Winter Palace in St Petersburg. Soviet cinema would portray it as russias bastille moment. The people led by the bolsheviks storming into the palace and creating the worlds first communist state. The reality was rather different. For a start, many of the red guard revolutionaries that got into the