The president of ecuador has won a referendum on introducing tougher security, to counter a surge in violence by drugs gangs. Daniel noboa says his government now has more tools to fight crime. The measures include allowing the military to patrol the streets, and the imposition of harsher jail sentences. The country now has the highest murder rate in Latin America as the influence of powerful drug cartels has grown. Ione wells sent this report from the capital, quito. Ecuador s capital, quito, is bursting with life. But among the songs and smiles, clues that this is now the continents most violent country. The bloodshed at this youth centre is just a sport. But on the streets, many young people are losing their lives at the hands of violent drug cartels. Carmens brother was killed by a gang member who wanted money when he wasjust 19. Translation the gang i threatened us at our house, throwing stones at us because the murder occurred next to my son. They said if the gang member goes to
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Divest its part in its company or it will be banned. So what were looking at now, this is the breakdown. We have the owners, bytedance with a 20 stake in the company. 60 is owned by Institutional Investors including Us Investment firms such as susquehanna and Sequoia Capital and 20 is owned by employees around the world. However, chinas, Secretary Has said they will oppose the sale of bytedance and seek to block a transfer of its technology. We heard from bytedance, from tiktok, rather, who said the media app ban would trample freedom of speech. Media app ban would trample freedom of speech. Thank you for getting freedom of speech. Thank you for getting us freedom of speech. Thank you for getting us across freedom of speech. Thank you for getting us across that, for getting us across that, monica. We will be watching developments in the middle east very closely after last fridays strike on a raft iran. Us officials have claimed israel was behind the Missile Attack on military targets i
The police, the met police have made in relation to the fresh evidence. I am hoping that reassures the lawrence family at door the lawrence family, doran in particular that under the new leadership in the Police Service, they will redouble their efforts to make sure that doreen and the family think that this Police Service has learned the lessons from yesterday. With more on this Daniel De Simone reports. The racist murder of Stephen Lawrence took place 31 years ago today at a south london bus stop. Two of the original five prime suspects were convicted almost 20 years after the murder. But the met s disastrous handling of the case means no one else has been brought tojustice. Last year, the bbc publicly identified a sixth suspect, matthew white, who died in 2021 and revealed multiple failures by the met to properly investigate him. Now, stephens mother, baroness doreen lawrence, gives her first interview about the new evidence and the met s response. We knew there was five, possibly s
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