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defence secretary grant shapps is here to answer that question. how would yvette cooper, who wants to be labour s home secretary, manage the risk at home? and in the latest of our election year interviews, the first minister of scotland claims he knows what s going to happen. it is undoubtedly the case that keir starmer doesn t need scotland to win. he s going to be the next prime minister of the uk. how does he know? morning, morning. welcome to you, and welcome to my trio at the desk simon reeve, intrepid explorer who s been travelling round the world making tv for more than 20 years. lucky for some! conservative baroness nicky morgan, who was in the cabinet, and businessman, multimillionaire and philanthropist sir tom hunter. let s start with what s making the news. the bbc website is leading on the latest utterance from the israeli prime minister saying a two state solution can t be the answer to the conflict in the middle east. the papers are a mixed bunch. the s ....
housed on former military bases instead of hotels in new plans due to be announced later. germany prepares for the first state visit by king charles since becoming monarch. israel s prime minister reacts angrily to comments by the us president who urged him to walk away from his controversial judicial reform plans. amsterdam warns rowdy british sex and drug tourists to stay away in a digital discouragement campaign targeting men aged 18 to 35. hello and welcome to bbc news. we start with the news that the celebrated british tv presenter and comedian paul o grady has died at the age of 67. in a statement his partner andre portasio said he died unexpectedly but peacefully on tuesday evening and thanked fans for all the love they have shown him over the years . paul o grady first came to fame as a drag artist before becoming he first came to fame as the charismatic drag queen lily savage. the act, honed in a succession of pubs, had to be toned down for tv but it was as ....
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it has a systemic racial bias and misses repeat offenders. one officer had 11 complaints against him, from assault to abuse to sexual harassment. he s still in the met. parm sandhu was a chief superintendent. black and asian officers are 80% more likely to be accused of misconduct. she was one and sued for discrimination. i absolutely was targeted because of my racial background. and the fact that i had raised a misconduct issue many years before against another senior officer. and because of that, you then become targeted yourself, you become ostracised. when two police officers take photos with the dead bodies of murdered sisters nicole smallman and biba henry, then share them with colleagues, it is clear too many unsuitable officers have been allowed to stay. it is time now for change. we need that because when we are in trouble, the only people we can call are the police. and if you are not sure that they are going to be honest and true, we are all left in a terribl ....
march across africa, the threat is growing and is a global and multi domain. it is now time to signal that peace dividend is over and investment needs to continue to grow. before it becomes too late to address the resurgence threat, it is time to mobilise, to be raised, to be relevant. thank you. that was ben wallace, the secretary of defence giving that speech in central london, central london, facing the challenges of how the uk armed forces, against, this extraordinary backdrop of the threat being posed by russia. the interesting lines to pull out from what he said, referencing vladimir putin, he said he cannot be deterred by threats of punishment at all costs on the russian people, and separately outlining real threat, that russia lashes out again. he emphasised that as the threat changes, so must the funding, so a few interesting lines that will be dope like that we will be digesting from the defence secretary. we will return to that story a little later on. you re wa ....