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are some in the conservative party using anti muslim racism as an electoral campaign tool , as one muslim tory peer claims? what is the political significance of mr anderson s comments and suella braverman s claim that the labour leader is in hock to islamists ? is anti muslim hatred being used as a dog whistle, as some conservatives claim? we ll talk to this tory mp, who says lee anderson s comments were islamophobic, and the chair of the glasgow conservative association, who says he s satisfied with the way the prime minister has handled the row. also tonight, a warning from a former national front and bnp member that content on the dark web is fuelling dangerous extremism. i wouldn t have regarded you as to be like me in anyway so i d have viewed you is like an alien, as someone who had no interest in me. that is how you are taught to view people who are not part of your specific demography. and many victims of the infected blood scandal still have t received compe ....
game search can t reach the knockout stage. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. it s six years since the first allegations of sexual assault were made against the hollywood actor kevin spacey. he was accused of assualting four men between 2001 and 2013. the charges brought his acting career to a halt as he was dropped from role after role and he has not worked since. today he cried in the dock at southwark crown court as he was found not guilty of all nine sex offences and said he was humbled by the outcome. our special correspondent, lucy manning, is at southwark crown court this evening. kevin spacey s legacy, his career, possibly his freedom were on the line here in the hands of 12jurors who had helped him described as a predator. but the actor had been steadfast in his denials. there was a moment of real tension as he could not contain his feelings as the jury foreman read out the verdict. with hugs for the court security staff, a very relieved and emot ....
later, we will have sports day on the bbc news sports channel and bring you the latest action in discussing the biggest talking points all from the bbc sport centre. good evening. the infected blood scandal, known as the biggest treatment disaster in the history of the nhs, could and should have been largely avoided. that s the finding of the public inquiry into the tragedy that destroyed so many lives. more than 30,000 people were infected with diseases like hiv and hepatitis c, in a scandal spanning more than two decades from the early 19705 to the 19905. around 3,000 people have already died, while others are still living with ongoing side effects. these are some of their faces, and today victims and campaigners say those involved in the cover up over what happened should hang their heads in shame. in a moment, we ll hear from chris mason on political reaction to the inquiry s findings, with the prime minister in the last few minutes describing the scandal as a decades lo ....
dozens are due to arrive sometime this yearfrom european donor countries, and ukrainian pilots are currently being trained. mr zelensky also said the military was still short of manpower. and russia could increase its attacks in ukraine s north east following gains near kharkiv. our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse outlined how desperate this need is for air defences. well, he always plonks air defences at the top of his wish list, that s been the case for the last year or so, because of two things russia has continued to launch missile attacks on cities across ukraine, but it has become more dominant in the air, right across the front line. so that means that when you have exhausted, thinly stretched ukrainian troops trying to defend cities, you have russian fighter jets flying in and dropping missiles and glide bombs, and as in the situation in the north east with this incursion, we hearfrom authorities around the town of vovchansk on the border, they are saying tho ....
some unknowingly passed infections on to their partners, who then also died. victims and their families have spent decades fighting for compensation. chloe hayward explains. it s known as the biggest treatment disaster in nhs history and, so far, we know 3,000 people have died in the uk from infected blood and infected blood products given by the nhs. 0verall, 30,000 victims have been identified and these fall into two main categories the people with rare genetic blood clotting disorders and people who needed blood transfusions after surgery, for example. let s start with this first group, the haemophiliacs. people with blood clotting disorders need a special protein called factor viii or factor ix injected which helps their blood clot, but by the 1970s, the uk was really struggling to meet demand for these blood products and so they started to import from america. but because america pays for blood plasma, rather than it being donated forfree, it came from a lot of h ....