Good afternoon. Her brutal murder shocked britain, and now an independent report into the killing of Sarah Everard has found the man responsible should never have been a Police Officer, and several opportunities to stop him offending were missed. Wayne couzens is serving a whole Life Sentence for sarahs rape and murder, and was off duty when he kidnapped the 33 year old, under the false guise of an arrest. The chair of the inquiry into his conduct and background, says without a radical overhaul of Police Vetting and recruitment, theres nothing to stop another couzens operating in plain sight. June kelly is live in central london, with the very latest. Clive, lady elish angiolini, the seniorjudge who produced the report, has come up with 16 recommendations to stop another potential Wayne Couzens. Some of these recommendations are related to betting, others to the way the police deal with the crime of Indecent Exposure. She also says she believes that there are as yet unknown victims of
That most of those who died were run over as the aid convoy moved away. In the last hour, the Un Security Council has been meeting Behind Closed Doors to discuss the situation. It comes on the day that the hamas government says more than 30,000 people have been killed in the territory since this conflict began in october. Our special correspondent fergal keane reports from Jerusalem The Hunger created by war made this tragedy. That is a fundamental fact of what happened today. The dead and wounded were starving people, simply hoping to feed their families. Translation | am| one of the wounded. I was on al rashid street. We were there all day in order to get food for our children, but we paid for that aid with our blood. Thousands had gathered in the predawn darkness. Theyd heard trucks were coming with aid. There were farmers, mechanics, our bbc cameraman, teachers, a doctor from a local hospital. An israeli drone filmed people crowding the aid trucks. It is a striking depiction of hum
Hello. Good evening. Wayne couzens, who abducted and murdered Sarah Everard while he was in the metropolitan police, should never have been given a job as a police officer. That is one of the stark findings of an independent inquiry. Its chair, lady elish angiolini, said red flags about couzens had repeatedly been ignored by three police forces, and that without significant overhaul, she believed theres nothing to stop another Couzens Operating in plain sight. The metropolitan police has responded that it must go further and faster to regain public trust. Heres our home Affairs Correspondent, june kelly. He was a predatory sex offender in a police uniform. A criminal with state sanctioned powers. Wayne couzens should never have been allowed to join the police, and constant flawed vetting meant he was able to continue in his role despite a series of red flags. These are the stark conclusions of todays inquiry report. The metropolitan Police Service told the inquiry in 2022 that it would
And a large part of that has been driven by growth in the manufacturing and the construction space. Some of the numbers do offer a lot of question marks because if you look at agriculture, if you look at industries, you know, our core sector data is from steel, cement, all of them have actually shrunk. Consumption, in fact, has also been weak too, almost for the nine months it grew by only 5 . And thats why there was there has been a lot of question mark, but a large bit of this has been pushed by the Government Spending in the construction space. You know, Building Infrastructure around the country and some bit of private capital and private investments also seem to be flowing in to the economy right now. And that has pushed the growth to this level right before the national elections, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a third term in power. Narendra modi. And this is the premise, the high growth rate where india has become somewhere an alternative to china for most compan
These eastern areas, brighter conditions further north and west but with really heavy showers, so we had some sunshine earlier on today in Northern Ireland, not been a bad morning here, but showers will work their way in right across Northern Ireland, Notjust Staying in western counties and across into Western Scotland too. Today, showers with hail and thunder mixed in, in orkney and shetland windy with gusts reaching 50 60 miles an hour, temperatures on the mild side, 8 12 degrees. Overnight tonight an area of low pressure and swinging a band of low pressure and swinging a band of rain and from the west. Ahead of the rain we are looking at cold and frosty conditions setting and particularly across scotland and Northern Counties of england, then into tomorrow, this area of low pressure could bring one or two issues because weve got this occluded front stretched across parts of North West England and Northern Ireland and its along that that we could see a spell of hill snow. The amount