as the take up rate drops to its lowest level, in a decade. officers at the met police exchanged highly offensive racist, sexist and homophobic messages, claiming it was just banter according to a highly critical report from the police watchdog. and, a southern koala, born not in australia, but england, as part of a major conservation drive. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the deputy prime minister, dominic raab, says conservative mps still overwhelmingly support borisjohnson, following the release of the initial findings, of the report into lockdown parties in downing st. sue gray s inquiry, concluded there d been a failure of leadership. but the tory mp andrew mitchell warned the crisis risked breaking the conservative party. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, has accused borisjohnson, of trying to save his own skin, and taking the public for fools , in his defence of his own actions, in relation to alleged breaches of covid rules. with the latest, her
tonight, the uk appears to be on the brink of taking military action with the us against houthi rebels who ve been attacking ships in the red sea. could parliament be recalled to discuss any uk military response? tonight we ll guide you step by step through this latest international crisis with our defence editor mark urban and our political editor nick watt. also tonight. breathtaking testimony from a fraud investigator employed by the post office to examine shortfalls at branches across the country his evidence helped wrongly convict multiple subpostmasters he investigated this ex branch manager who was suspended by the post office after shortfalls and fraud accusations. you have been told there was a growing body of cases and that in itself was not sufficient for you the question the reliability of the horizon system. because i am not technically minded. i would expect that to come from people above. shazia saddiq was with us last night and is back tonight. she was at th
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