hello and welcome to the programme, i m lewis vaughan jones. starting with the latest developments from sudan. they developments from sudan. they developments from sudan. are centrin- around international they are centring around international efforts to get their citizens international efforts to get their citizens of the country from top from top the latest from france, they have undergone and i quote a rapid evacuation operation to get rid of their citizens. and earlier we heard from america, they had done the same, this is a statement from presidentjoe biden, saying, on my orders, the united states military conducted an operation to extract us government personnel from khartoum. this is saudi arabia in the port ofjeddah and we understand around 150 people have been evacuated to safety, mostly citizens of gulf countries. the canadian government has urged remaining canadian city scenes in sedan to shelter in a safe place. in khartoum, air strikes and shelling have been g
of the met with our home editor. also this lunchtime. scotland s former first minister nicola sturgeon cancels a public appearance today, as the police investigation into her husband continues. a new drug on the nhs for people living with inherited breast and prostate cancer. and delays again for holiday makers booked on cross channel ferries from dover, as the easter getaway begins. and coming up on the bbc news channel. we round up the latest action, he key interviews and discuss the day s biggest talking points in sport. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. dozens of metropolitan police officers have been diverted from investigating serious crime and terrorism to root out wrongdoing within the force. the head of the met, sir mark rowley, says he expects hundreds of staff to be removed from duty over the next few years. it comes after a damning report last month called britain s biggest police force instutionally racist, homophobic and misogynist. helena wilki
caroline modarressy tehrani and seb payne, director of the centre right think tank, onward. welcome to the programme. the us secretary of state antony blinken, has urged israel and the palestinians to take steps to calm tensions during a spike in violence that has put the region on edge. in the latest incident, just hours before mr blinken was due to arrive in israel palestinian health officials say israeli forces shot dead a palestinian man at a military checkpoint in hebron. the violence was sparked on thursday, when ten palestinians were shot dead in the occupied west bank by israeli forces. then on friday, seven israelis were killed when a palestinian gunmen opened fire outside a synagogue in east jerusalem. secretary blinken has already met prime minister benjamin netanyahu and will also meet the president of the palestinian authority mahmoud abas. from the moment mr blinken s plane touched the tarmac he made it clear that addressing the violence of the last week
daffodils in wales. and there is plenty of wet weather, muddy foot pads in lancashire and across the south west of england with rain across scotland as well. not a lot is set to change as we head through the rest of this week and into the start of next. still cloudy, mild and a lot more wet and windy weather to come in the forecast. this is today. you can see the rain starting today. you can see the rain starting to ease across scotland with a brisk south westerly wind and another cold front pushing slowly across england giving outbreaks of rain. south westerly wind, brisk towards western coasts dragging on mild air so temperatures away from the far north west of scotland are higher than they were yesterday. this afternoon in more detail without picks of rain across central and southern england was not the best of us sunshine today in north east england and temperatures peaking between 11 and 15. much higher than they were yesterday. all of that much milderfeeling they were y
majority of workers, they have the most votes in this. if they get behind us, then this could get through. if other small unions don t recommend this, for example unite, that might not matter. at this stage it s not clear whether all the unions are going to recommend this offer to their membership. my sense is that the unison, gmb unions will probably get behind this. but it s a big question whether the membership are going to think that is good enough. there is a lot of anger out there. and why is it a sense of suddenly more serious talks now? i was interviewing a key union leaders fought some time, so be it for them, it was completely obvious obvious, that they were offering olive branches to the government that were not being taken up. what changed? that were not being taken up. what chanced? ~ , ., ~ that were not being taken up. what chanced? ~ , ., ,, . changed? why do we look like we re closer to a hat changed? why do we look like we re closer to a hat deal chan