To reshuffle his team after the party s disappointing performance in the elections. He s already removed his deputy angela rayner as campaigns chief. Police are granted more time to question a man arrested in connection with the murder of community support officerjulia james. And disruption continues on some of britain s busiest rail lines after small cracks are found in some high speed trains. Now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. It barely merits international headlines these days, but america s guantanamo bay prison is still operational. A0 inmates are left. Most have been held for nearly two decades without being charged or tried. For m years, my guest today, mohamedou ould slahi, was held there, having been identified as a high value alqaeda terrorist. He was eventually released without charge, and now a film, the mauritanian, has been released, telling his remarkable story. What is the guantanamo legacy? mohamedou ould slahi
To question a man arrested in connection with the murder of community support officerjulia james. The government is expected to end the advice against hugging each other, as part of the relaxation of lockdown rules in england. And disruption continues on some of britain s busiest rail lines, after small cracks are found in some high speed trains. Now on bbc news, click goes shopping on the high street to see how new tech may get us more interested in visiting retailers and to find out how shops are getting a makeover post covid. This week bikes. Boats. Bots. And shops. Hey, welcome to click. This week we re going to talk about locking stuff and keeping stuff safe, which is why lara currently has a safe on her lap. Well, it s a safe with a bit of a difference. You know when you re at the dining table and it feels like everybody has a reason that they have to do something on their phone there and then? laughs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, this aims to overcome that. It s somewhere to lock a
Good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. Scotland s first minister, nicola sturgeon, has said any attempt by the westminster government to block a second independence referendum would show a lack of respect for scottish democracy. She was speaking after the cabinet office minister, michael gove, said the snp s failure to win an outright majority at holyrood proved that people in scotland weren t agitating for a new poll. Mr gove said the snp should concentrate on recovering from the pandemic instead. From edinburgh, here s our political correspondent nick eardley. Back in power, back to work. Nicola sturgeon says her immediate priority will be the pandemic, but a battle is coming. The snp won the election by some distance, and even though they were short of a majority alone, with the greens there is a comfortable pro independence majority and the first minister says that is a mandate. The people of scotland have voted for the snp on the strength of offering, when the time is right, an
bloggers as well, people who have to me you know, set up their own channels to talk about this trial. lots of conspiracy theories that the trial and the whole story as well, so it does really appeal to people. the case wasn t, the trial wasn t televised, you cannot have cameras and a federal trial as well, so we have been relying on, as reporters, we have been going in and out of the courtroom, but also sketch artist as well has been capturing everything a moment of the trial. our thanks to nomia there. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: a jury in new york has found the british socialite ghislaine maxwell guilty on five counts of grooming and trafficking teenage girls for abuse. maxwell faces the rest of her life behind bars for procuring girls for the financier and convicted sex offenderjeffrey epstein. let s get a bit more analysis of this now. sam lister, deputy political editor at the daily express, has given her reaction to the verdict. imean, i mean, it s such an i
of covid infections are recorded across europe and the us, driven by the omicron variant the world health organization warns of a huge strains on health systems. hello and welcome to bbc news. a jury in new york has found the british socialite ghislaine maxwell guilty of having helped the late financierjeffrey epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. the jurors found the 60 year old guilty of another four charges connected with procuring the victims and facilitating the abuse. she was found not guilty on one other charge. the defence team is expected to appeal against the verdict. the convictions mean maxwell faces the possibility of spending the rest of her life in prison. let s hear from our correspondent aleem maqbool who s outside the court in new york. tonight marks the final fall from grace for ghislaine maxwell, because a jury in the court has by me has decided she wasn tjust court has by me has decided she wasn t just a court has by me has decided she wasn tjust a byst