of its youngest citizens. hello. welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. we start in the uk where a manhunt is continuing for a suspected terrorist who escaped from a london prison. daniel khalife got out of wandsworth prison on wednesday morning, by clinging to the underside of a food delivery van. thejustice secretary has ordered an urgent investigation into what happened, and why the former soldier wasn t held in a higher security prison. but the prison officers association says that while it does not want to speculate about the issues surrounding the incident, it claims that wandsworth prison is overcrowded, and has chronic staffing shortages which it is blaming on cuts to the prisons budget. we ll be speaking to them live shortly. in the last few minutes thejustice secretary alex chalk has given an update in the house of commons announcing an independent review. we will hear that shortly. but first. live now to the bbc s
inescaped inmate and convicted murderer danelo cavalcante. we have thoroughly searched the area around two elementary schools previously contained within the perimeter and have adjusted the perimeter to exclude both schools from the perimeter area. we ve done this in an effort to minimize the impact on students and their families while we continue with our search efforts. the district attorney and i have an ongoing dialogue with school districts in the area and are committed to providing them the most up-to-date information so they can make informed decisions about school operations. i have told you all previously we re utilizing hundreds of state, local, and federal law enforcement officers, can nines, aviationets, and various types of technology in an effort to keep the community safe and bring this to as swift conclusion as possible. i d like to provide the media and public some insight for the scope of the operation we put in place. following the press conference today
you would catch them. see their demeanor. hear their testimony. look at the surveillance evidence. and make your own determination. and so the fact we could watch this hearing and we have having this discussion talking about how the attorneys are argue, how the judge responded back. that was a win for the justice system and we need more integrity so people can have trust in this trial as it plays out. that s a great point. you think about honing in on the why. why would these two people not want to be tried together? the comment from his lawyer was he was kind of the more intellectual of the two. pining about the electoral count act. he said sydney powell was more hands on. much more thought of as the master mind. she denies all of that. they don t want each other s stink on them. but if you are sydney powell, people know her from the defamation case. maybe if you are chestboro, you want a big ten foot pole. what about the other 17 including donald trump who has no
and the manhunt for a murderer not going according to plan. dense terrain and brutal heat as police struggle with the search now in its eighth day and new questions about how the killer got away and how another prisoner did pretty much the same thing just a few months ago. police expected to update the situation this afternoon. we ll bring you that when it happens. plus, democrats, you have a problem. new poll numbers painting a bleak picture for president biden s re-election campaign. concerns about his age, his job performance, and new numbers showing one republican with the best chance to beat him. can you guess who it is? we re following these developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. rescuers in turkey are rushing to save an american trapped deep inside a cave. mark dickey is more than 3,000 feet below the earth s surface. 300 stories. the 40-year-old is an experienced caving instructor who was part of a research team in the mor
two hours around the elementary school and adjusted the perimeter to exclude both schools. we ve done this in an effort to minimize the impact on the students and families while we continue with our search efforts. the district attorney and i have an ongoing dialogue and committed to providing them the most up-to-date information so they can make informed decisions about school operations. we re utilizing hundreds of state, local and federal enforcement officers, k-9s and various technology in an effort to keep the community safe. i d like to provide the media some insight of the scope in place. as a reminder, we re asking the public s help by familiarizing themselves with photograph and description of cavalcante, to check security cameras and call us immediately if they believe they may have seen him. again, we ask residents to secure homes, outbuildings and vehicles. cavalcante has clearly obtained some clothing and other unknown supplies. we want to minimize any opportunit