Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. A bbc investigation has found that drug crime in some villages in england and wales has more than quadrupled in five years. Thats as drug crime as a whole has risen in rural areas and smaller towns, but fallen sharply in major city centres. The findings highlight concern about the spread of so called lines gangs which traffic drugs using children and vulnerable people. Dan johnson reports. The latest frontier in the fight against drugs. Heroin and crack cocaine are pouring into north wales from merseyside and manchester. Theres a lot of money to be made in this town. Children and young people are running drugs hundreds of miles. They are vulnerable and at risk. If someone becomes established here, then llandudno is their town, if you like, so if another rival gang or someone from manchester or Something Like that tries coming into town and muscling in on the business, well, youre going to start getting sort of fighting between the two g
And if your timeline is not full of football transfer rumours then it may well be full of cats, because today is International Cat day. Hello and welcome. Im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. You dont have to become vegan, or even vegetarian to save the planet, but you do have to eat less meat. And you have to do it now. Thats the broad recommendation of a big new un report on land and water resources. Basically if humanity doesnt start farming less intensively we wont be able to carry on feeding ourselves. Already more than 10 of the worlds population is undernourished. Soil is being lost faster than its forming and the number of food deserts is growing. Climate change, with its increase in droughts and floods and storms, is only putting more pressure on our land and water resources. But if we change our diets now, we can help to tackle Climate Change. Heres our science editor david shukman. A wall of dust smothers the parched fields of oklahoma. The planet is he
Wont be moved onto a barge off the coast of dorset until next week. The ministry of justice will today publish new guidelines that will see drug possession and shoplifting offenders let off with cautions. Its part of off with cautions. Its part of an attempt to ease the record backlog in the courts. Backlog in the courts. And well bring you your latest weather forecast. Latest weather forecast. Heavy rain and strong winds. Its not looking very like today, is there any improvements on the horizon. 7 ill have the on the horizon . Ill have the full forecast coming up. Good morning to you. Im stephen dixon. And im Ellie Costello. And and im Ellie Costello. And this is breakfast on gb news news. News. And should we kick off just a little bit about what we need to do to save the country and save the planet . Yes, lets i think thats a really good, good place to start because, you know, i mean, you know, all green agenda and know, all the green agenda and everyones very concerned. Do we save t
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His father said, no. You have to go and study at this Religious School i and you have to be a good boy. So, a completely authoritarian. Figure who shaped erdogans life away from what erdogan had wanted to become. Erdogans family were religious but modern turkey had largely been ruled by the Secular Elite. So, the Young Erdogan was made to feel like a Second Class Citizen for his faith. He felt stigmatised i that he was studying at a Religious School. So, i think at every stage in his upbringing, as a teenager and in his earlyl years, in his 20s, erdogan felt profoundly othered in a society that was formally secularist,. And i think he has a grudge against the system to this day. When he was growing up, i he was exposed to wealth and privilege, and he realised that people who had economic power. Were also people who promoted the idea of a secular society. They chant in turkish driven by this sense of injustice, erdogan joins the Islamist National Salvation Party in the mid 19705. They c