ahead with a new law aimed at restricting judges powers. the number of migrant crossings in the central mediterranean is up sharply according to the eu s border agency. we have the latest from italy. lets head to the bbc sport centre. thank you very much indeed. we know the identity of the first semifinalist at wimbledon, and it is marketer wondrous over, the unseeded czech player who has made the last four beating jessica pegula, the fourth seeded american in the last few moments. this is what transpired on court number one, withjessica pegula reaching the quarterfinals of wimbledon for the very first time, losing to wondrous over. this is the other match taking place, with a iga swiatek in trouble, the poland number one seed playing against elina svitolina, a former semifinalist at this competition, one that iga swiatek is not reach the quarterfinals of the poor, they are on serve though at the second set, having won the first set svitolina by seven games. they are on se
things did suddenly pick up and kick in from last thursday when the sun reported it, but when you look at the timeline, the question is partly because the bbc said the sun s report contained new allegations what was the initial complaint? in terms of the situation we ve got on our hands, i want to say one thing upfront, which is you are balancing serious allegations, duty of care, privacy issues and legitimate public interests, and how do you navigate that fairly, calmly and do due diligence? i ve given a bit of context to a few people in terms of the numbers of issues we get coming into our corporate investigations unit. over six months, that will be about 250 and you take those and they are the serious complaints that are coming through of all different types. what happens is we have an outstanding corporate investigations team, they re very experienced, they assess the complaint. i m not going to go into the absolute specifics because of privacy concerns. i understand th
it s wednesday, 31st january. our main story. scotland s former first minister, nicola sturgeon is due to give evidence about the decisions she took during the pandemic, when she appears before the covid inquiry today. ms sturgeon, who led the scottish response to the coronavirus outbreak is expected to face questions surrounding lockdowns, and missing whatsapp messages as the inquiry continues sitting in edinburgh. our scotland correspondent lorna gordon reports. 1,044 positive cases were reported yesterday. nicola sturgeon was at the helm throughout scotland s pandemic response. as head of the scottish government, she was the key decision maker and first in the firing line when things went wrong. we will have made mistakes on all aspects of the handling. now about to be questioned on that handling and how decisions the truth, the whole truth. the former first minister s closest political ally amongst those who admitted texts between the pair no longer exist. are those t
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