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its estimated 40% of all crime in england and wales is fraud. hello, its the police, open up. fraud, it is a national security issue. - its funding other organised crime. | you look back now and you think, how stupid were we? yeah. but at that moment in time, it was... ..it was quite terrifying. every year, fraudsters relieve us of an estimated £5 billion. last year in kent alone, 12,000 frauds were reported. panoramas been filming there for almost a year with the kent police fraud sq...

hello and welcome to bbc news. we begin this hour with some breaking news from scotland, where the prison service has announced an urgent review of all transgender cases in its prisons. it says it will pause the movement of all transgender inmates until the review is complete. it follows the outcry of the case of isla bryson, a trans woman convicted of raping two women before changing gender. isla bryson was initially remanded to cornton vale womens prison before being moved to a male ...

well, they will, because nicola sturgeon will be remembered as one of the most successful politicians of the most successful politicians of her generation in terms of what she delivered at the ballot box, a string of landslide victories for the snp, and if you take a step back to see where she came from, she talked about the 1980s, growing up in ayrshire, and it could have been pretty lonely in those days to campaign for scottish independence when labour was dominant in scottish politi...

and us actress raquel welch, often credited with paving the way for modern day action heroines in hollywood films, has died at the age of 82. hello and welcome to the programme. its seven am in singapore, and 6 pm in south carolina — where nikki haley has officially launched her campaign. some things to know about her — shes a republican, was the us ambassador to the united nations under donald trump — and while she once said she would never run against him — shes now doing exa...

with incidents in the weeks leading up to her death. and one month since the devastating earthquakes killed more than 50,000 people in turkey and syria — conditions are still desperate. we begin with the war in ukraine. the countrys president, volodymyr zelensky, says military commanders support digging in further, and continuing to defend the eastern city of bakhmut. it follows reports ukrainian troops may have been preparing to withdraw from the city, which russia has been trying t...

conditions further north. more snow to come in northern scotland. not quite so cold in the south, where we have still got that cloud that will linger through the day in southern england and south wales. a lot of that wet weather will peter out. further north, some sunshine and more snow showers pushing into northern ireland, particularly across the north of scotland on that cold wind from the arctic. whether you have got the sunshine in the north or the cloud in southern parts of engla...

im here to see what 2a hours in the big apple looks like today. and as a native new yorker, i know a thing or two about nightlife in this city. now any good night out starts with food, and where better to fill up than at one of manhattans most iconic delis? it is so busy here. i have to figure out what i want really quick, because if you dont know what you want, youre going to get shoved out of the way and people are going tojump in right ahead of you. the first thing id recommend is, ...

you are to the equator, the easier it is to get things up to the right speed to go into orbit? that is because that is where the earth is spinning fastest, so as you launch, it gives you an extra whang. and that is why the uk space port is way down south in cornwall. and that is why it was there, earlier in the year that virgin orbit attempted the first satellite launch from uk soil. marc cieslak: the uks first functioning spaceport is here in cornwall. we are creating a huge cluster o...

the british prime minister has sacked the chairman of his party, nadhim zahawi, following an investigation into his tax affairs. mr zahawi says hell continue to support the prime minister from the backbenches and criticised journalists for the way they reported his tax affairs. heres our political correspondent david wallace—lockhart. he arrived in the uk as a young refugee before becoming a successful businessman. he served as the vaccines minister, rising to become chancellor. this...

the british prime minister has sacked the chairman of his party, nadhim zahawi, following an investigation into his tax affairs. mr zahawi says hell continue to support the prime minister from the backbenches and criticised journalists for the way they reported his tax affairs. heres our political correspondent chris mason. nadhim zahawi arrived in the uk as a child, unable to speak english. he became a multimillionaire and rose to be chancellor of the exchequer. but tonight, his polit...