after he was found guilty of trafficking a man to britain to harvest one of his kidneys. ike ekwere madu s wife, beatrice, was given a four and a half year sentence. the judge also handed down a ten yearjail term to a medic who helped them. the victim a 21 old street traderfrom lagos was offered $8000 and was promised a better life in britain, but only realised what was going on when he met doctors in hospital. the couple had planned to give the organ to their daughter who has a kidney disease. justicejohnson handed down the sentence at the old bailey in london. the wealth and power inequality and disparity between you and c could not be more marked. you, ekweremadu are a senator in nigeria s national assembly. you have held high political office. you had many staff, including domestic staff, maids, chefs and drivers. you own multiple properties around the globe. there is evidence of as many as a0. more than £400,000 went into your bank account over a six month period. b
The government loses the brexit case in the Supreme Court, but seizes the initiative in parliament. I can confirm to the house that our plan will be set out in a white paper, published to this house. Ministers produce a brexit bill mps complain about a lack of debating time. I was astonished at the amount of time it that the leader of the house has given this parliament to debate it. And doubts over whether theresa may can stand up to donald trump. How confident is she getting a good dealfor Global Britain from a president that wants to put america first, buy american and build a wall between his country and mexico . Its been a particularly fast moving week for brexit. On tuesday, the government lost a legal battle over who should authorise starting the formal process for leaving the European Union. The government argued that it could use the Royal Prerogative a power left over from the days of medieval monarchs. But the Supreme Court thought otherwise. The president lord neuberger sai
Handle it myself speaking last night, the president again said he was determined to build a wall between mexico and the us and suggested taxing their goods to pay for it. Word so has bbc news been getting a bit carried away by the new Presidency Rosie Victoria Wells thought so, writing Brian Gardner had this question meanwhile, Teresa Reilly wrote to us on monday after she had settled down to watch a report on the Supreme Court decision about brexit do let us know your thoughts on the bbcs coverage of Donald Trumps presidency or any aspect of bbc news. Details of how to contact us coming up at the end of the programme. Now for some of your other concerns this week, starting with the bbc coverage following a report in the sunday times that an unarmed missile went offcourse during a test lastjune. On his show that morning, andrew marr asked the Prime Minister about this several times. When you made that first speech injuly times. When you made that first speech in july in times. When you
and the wagner group is different from traditional soldiers because they can just say, well, we re done. it didn t work out. we are not pleased about the conditions, so we re just going to pull out. whereas in traditional armed forces, soldiers have to keep fighting until the government says, stop, we re done. the world food programme has said that millions of dollars worth of food aid destined for sudan has been looted since fighting broke out last month. the wfp said pillaging in the country was rampant. meanwhile, president biden has issued an executive order authorising sanctions against sudan, saying the fighting must end. the latest ceasefire has failed to hold, with heavy fighting continuing in the capital khartoum and in nearby cities. as the conflict rages people continue to leave the country, and the un estimates more than 100,000 people have fled to sudan s neighbouring countries. more now on this from our africa correspondent catherine byaruhanga