High street chain wilko says it has appointed Administrators after failing to secure a rescue deal. You will remember this chain has been in the news for the last couple of weeks with concerns over whether it will be rescued. It looks like the rescue deal has fallen through and they have appointed Administrators. 12,000 people, it looks like, at risk potentially, following the news that wilko has appointed Administrators. We will bring you any more detail when we get the story but the Breaking News, wilko, the high street chain, has appointed Administrators. Here in the uk, police and the West Midlands say they are treating a fire at a Well Known18th century pub near dudley as arson. The cricket house, described as britains One Ovest Pub was largely destroyed by the blaze, it was then bulldozed with the local council said was unauthorised, unacceptable and possibly unlawful. Here is louisa pilbeam. Whats left of the 250 year old pub has now been searched by a Specialist Fire Service do
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medicines are in desperately short supply. the government has run out of hard currency to pay for imports. now on bbc news: from russia with blood. money is just like clothes. the dirtier it gets, the more it needs washing. and there s a lot of dirty money in the world. an estimated two trillion in us dollars gets washed each year. but money laundering is no domestic chore. it s the economic engine of terrorism. ..the drugs trade. ..dictatorship. .. ..and war. and where do international criminals go when they need reporter: kyiv is feeling the pressure of the war. l and where do international criminals go when they need their money cleaned 7 in recent years, it s often been northern ireland. it s thanks to secret little northern ireland companies that allow criminals across the world to make a clean killing. they re called northern ireland limited partnerships nilps. they can be set up in secret and in seconds from anywhere in the world. peter geoghegan runs investigative j
being given a platform in the media. those are your latest headlines. now on bbc news, from russia with blood. are legal loopholes allowing russian criminals to launder dirty money? jim fitzpatrick follows the cash. money isjust like money is just like clothes. the dirtier it gets, the more it needs washing. and, there is a lot of dirty money in the world. an estimated 2 trillion in us dollars gets washed each year. but, money laundering is no domestic chore. it is the economic engine of terrorism and drugs trade. , dictatorship and drugs trade. , dictatorship and war. , , and war. kyiv is feeling the pressure and war. kyiv is feeling the pressure of and war. kyiv is feeling the pressure of the and war. kyiv is feeling the pressure of the war. - pressure of the war. and where do international criminals go when the need the money cleaned? recently, it has often been at northern ireland. it is thanks to a secret little northern ireland companies that allow criminals acros
after spending the majority of the last decade behind bars or inside the ecuadorian embassy in london. speaking outside the court, julian assange s lawyer, barry pollock, said the prosecution of the wikileaks founder was unprecedented . in the hundred years of the espionage act, it has never been used by the united states to pursue a publisher, a journalist like mr assange. mr assange revealed truthful, important and newsworthy information including revealing the united states had committed war crimes and he has suffered tremendously in his fight for free speech, for freedom tremendously in his fight for free speech, forfreedom of tremendously in his fight for free speech, for freedom of the press, and to make sure the american public and the world community gets truthful and important newsworthy information. we firmly believe that mr assange never should have been charged under the espionage act and engaged in exercise that journalists engage in every day and we are thankfu