Its monday the 22nd april, our main story. The mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has told the bbc that the investigation into his death should be reopened, after the metropolitan Police Issued another apology for the way theyve handled the case. Stephen was 18 when he was stabbed to death in a racist attack in south london 31 years ago today. The metropolitan Police Commissioner has apologised to Doreen Lawrence after questions were raised about another suspect in a bbc investigation. 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 to justice. 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
editorial report . i m paul gigot. hunter biden was indicted in los angeles thursday on nine new federal charges with the justice department accusing the first son of willfully failing the file and pay his taxes on time. hunter s9 latest legal woes come as republicans get set to move forward with vote to formal oohize their impeachment inwiry into his father, president joe biden, next week, with speaker mike johnson calling the move a necessary step. wall street journal column is dan dan henninger if editorial board members kyle peterson ask kate bachelder odell. abby if lowell, hunter s attorney, says the charges are wrong, hunter s innocent, and they would never have been brought if his name weren t biden. well, you ve got to put up a defense of some sort, don t you? and that s abby lowell s defense for hunter biden who evaded taxes for four years. isn t it kind of an irony that the biden administration is asking for a lot more money for the internal revenue service to
antonio guterres has invoked a clause not used in response, the israeli representative to the un, gilad erdan, accused the secretary general of bias against israel and called for his resignation. he said the call for a ceasefire plays into the hands of hamas and gives them hope that the war will be stopped and they will be able to survive. meanwhile, israel s security cabinet has agreed to allow a minimal supplement of fuel into gaza, quote, to prevent a humanitarian collapse and the outbreak of epidemics in the south of the territory. the fighting there has intensified particuarly around the city of khan younis. our international editor jeremy bowen reports now on the growing humanitarian crisis and you may find some of the images in his report distressing. more palestinian civilians fled south towards the egyptian border after israel declared a brief pause in combat operations. almost two million gazans have fled their homes. israel says it is killing fewer civilian
orders in southern gaza but there is nowhere to go . israel has carried out more heavy aerial bombardment across gaza in its fight against hamas, designated a terrorist organisation by the uk. and the fighting on the ground has intensified in the south particuarly around the city of khan younis. 0ur international editor jeremy bowen reports now on the growing humanitarian crisis and you may find some of the images in his report distressing. more palestinian civilians fled south towards the egyptian border after israel declared a brief pause in combat operations. almost two million gazans have fled their homes. israel says it is killing fewer civilians, as the us has requested. the un says nowhere in this tiny territory is safe. this person offers people lifts. he says he has seen casualties in the street with legs or heads blown off, and no one can reach them. the stream of misery entering the hospital in khan younis does not stop, and neither is growing condemnation fro