In england and wales. That policy sees the proportion of sentences which some inmates must serve behind bars temporarily cut from 50 to A0 . But latest government figures suggest more than a quarter of prisoners will go on to reoffend within a year of being released. The problem is there are no guarantees that anybody who is released early will not reoffend, because weve got to do ourjob in our prisons of trying to rehabilitate people. We simply cannot do that if theyre used as Human Warehouses and were overcrowded. We must be given a chance to give people hope. The Ministry Ofjustice says it cannot comment on individual cases but insists that anyone who breaks their Licence Conditions upon release, or who commits further crimes, will be punished, and the government says without the early release scheme, police would not be able to make arrests and the courts would not be able to hold trials. The Prison Population in england and wales has dropped by more than 2,000 in a week following
Countries in the region including the Czech Republic where 38 locations have declared the highest flood alert. Authorities there say the worst Rainfall And Flood risk should be experienced in the coming 2a to 48 hours. Poland, too, has also experienced heavy rain. Our correspondent in warsaw, Adam Easton, has the latest. Well, what this cyclone is doing, catherine, is causing extremely heavy rainfall which is leading to dangerously high river Levels Water levels in the rivers across the region. Many rivers have burst their banks, and thats causing flooding in many countries particularly, as you mentioned, in romania, where four people have been found dead in the east of the country by the River Danube delta. 5,000 homes have been damaged in the flooding and the romanian authorities have, as you said, set up Displacement Camps and are providing blankets and food for people who have been forced to evacuate their homes. In romania and in the Czech Republic, the floods have caused Tens Of
After Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon, billionaire Jared Isaacman became the first non professional astronaut to walk in space. Our Science Correspondent Phalab ghosh was back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here earth sure looks like a perfect world. Historic words for an historic moment. Out comes the first private Sector Astronaut to walk in space. Silhouetted on earths orbit. Hed paid billions of dollars for this experience. The capsule has no Air Logs of the entire spacecraft is in the vacuum of space once the doors open. Then the all important checks to make sure the spacesuits dont leak. They have been upgraded for the spacewalk, stronger and more flexible. The helmets have a Heads Up Display so they see how well their bodies are coping. The air is taken out of the capsule so the pressure inside matches what is outside. The hatch opens, and isaacman exits the spacecraft. There is not much to do outside apart from testing the suit, so
It freaks me out. But for me, something incredible might come out of it a chance to meet a sister i didnt even know i had. Her train is pulling in now. Id better go in and wait. We are Donor Conceived, and this is our story. Im about to start a personal journey that i didnt think i would ever go on. And im really nervous. I dont know how this is going to end. I was 17 and i found out i was pregnant. And i lived here at the time. My dad, he just couldnt even look at me. He was so upset. And i actually had a bleed that night, so my dad had to take me into hospital. I didnt know if he wanted to speak to me, so i went in and had the scan on my own and they printed the pictures out for me. And ijust came out and gave them to him and it was like all had been forgotten. Yeah. Then it was fine. If being pregnant at 17 was a shock, then the news my dad was about to tell me was something i never, ever expected. So, i was about six months pregnant. I came down, i was on my phone, just like, 0h, w
also this lunchtime. borisjohnson accepts he did mislead parliament over lockdown parties in downing street, but says he didn t do it intentionally or recklessly. a warm handshake from the chinese president for vladimir putin, even though the russian leader is now wanted for war crimes in ukraine. a new scheme to keep lung patients out of hospital, as new research show a sharp north/south divide. and maddie hinch, who saved all four penalties to win olympic gold for great britain, announces her retirement. and coming up on the bbc news channel, he s back roy hodgson returns to crystal palace, tasked with keeping the club in the premier league again. good afternoon. a scathing report has found that britain s biggest police force is institutionally racist, misogynist and homophobic . baroness casey s review into the metropolitan police follows the murder of sarah everard by a serving officer, wayne couzens. the report says a boys club culture is rife within the force. the