Has also exited to court with his legal team and we are told that the magistrate should be backin that the magistrate should be back in the court at around 12 30pm with his decision. Over the last 20 minutes or so we heard the defence say that Mr Edwards switches to apologise, he wishes to coach a know how profoundly sorry he is. He says he recognises the repugnant nature of such images aren t a heart that is done to those who appear in such images. For his part in that he apologise sincerely and makes it clear he has the utmost regret. This is significant because it puts forward her remarks how remorseful Mr Edwards is for his crimes. As barrister is using that as a mitigating factor. We have 30 has mental and physical health problems. We have been hurt that he has been struggling for the last few years. Mr edwards s mental Health Battle has been in the Public Domain. He has spoken about it while he was anchoring the ten o clock news. This is significant because we have some timings c
Justice system at breaking point, From Today Thousands Of Prisoners in england and wales will be released after serving 40 of their sentence rather than 50 . It 4096 of their sentence rather than 5096 than 50 . It was the only 0 tion than 50 . It was the only option on than 50 . It was the only option on the than 50 . It was the only option on the table than 50 . It was the only option on the Table And L than 50 . It was the only option on the table and thats because the alternative to not making this change would have been to allow the Prison System to collapse and therefore to allow the Law And Order in this country to collapse. But these Emergency Measures are controversial with big concerns from some Prison Staff and campaigners about Public Safety and an increase in reoffending. They have nowhere to live, they fall back they have nowhere to live, they fall back into drug taking, they fall back into drug taking, they have Mental Health difficulties already. If they are not difficul
Let s turn our attention to us as well and talk about the us jobs data, that s out this friday. Will that have any impact on what the fed decides to do? we know they re meeting in a few weeks. We are looking at potentially the highest risk economic event of the year so far. Because what we have seen so far, august was unprecedented for some global markets volatility and one of the catalysts behind this was concerns that us economic momentum after being very robust and resilient for the past 18 months or so is showing signs that those rocks are falling and the momentum is falling with it. We do expect the fed, the us central bank, to cut interest rate this month but what s concerning is that fed policymakers have had a pokerface of not giving too much away until recently. We had a weak economic data release for the monthly jobs report in august and we have also seen a data revision where up to 850,000 jobs were potentially overestimated between april of last year and march of this year.
Will get to the panel shortly. The latest bbc news, first. The Us Senate Majority leader, Chuck Schumer, has called for new elections in israel, describing its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an obstacle to peace. Mr schumer, a democrat, is americas highest ranking jewish official. The communities secretary, michael gove, has set out a new definition of extremism which includes the promotion or advancement of violence, hatred or intolerance. He also said two groups, which he identified as far right, and three that were islamist, would be checked against the criteria. Prime minister rishi sunak has said there will not be a general election on 2nd may, the date when local elections are already taking place. Earlier this year, mr sunak suggested the general election would happen in the second half of 202a. The pioneering Starship Rocket developed by elon musk s company spacex has made its longest and most ambitious test flight so far. Contact with starship was broken as it began its