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
the kremlin said they only hit military targets, not civilian ones. this was yuri sak, an adviser to the ukraine s defence ministry, responding to that. that s ridiculous, every time the kremlin moves their lips they re lying, and the world knows this by now so there is no trust to anything they said. and this just underscores that these are not normal people with whom negotiations are possible. these are terrorists who have to be either destroyed on the battlefield, which is what the ukrainian army is successfully doing. during the last 2a hours, we have destroyed 930 occupiers on the battlefield, so they either have to be destroyed or the other alternative is to surrender and stand trial. of course we will achieve justice and we will bring to account for these atrocities everybody who is behind them, including the top leadership of the kremlin. our correspondent andrew harding has the latest from the scene in kramatorsk. i m in the centre of kramatorsk, where the missiles
in sudan is not holding. there are reports of fighterjets, and drones, targeting positions held by the powerful paramilitary, rapid support forces, or rsf. there s also shelling in the country s capital, khartoum. hundreds have now been killed, and tens of thousands have fled the conflict which is de stabilising the entire region. one of the gernerals leading the rsf in the fight against sudan s army, has told the bbc he will not negotiate until the fighting ends. mohamed hamdan dagalo, also known as hemedti, was speaking to zeinab badawi. i want to put it to you that the people particularly in khartoum are living in an ordeal, what would it take for you to allow humanitarian corridors? translation: first of all i would like to thank the bbc for the interview regarding the truce. we have been asking for it from the first day of the war, we started a humanitarian corridor straightaway. we have opened these corridors within the areas controlled by our forces. we started the tru
with widespread disruption for passengers. the un secretary general meets ukraine s president for talks he says he s gravely concerned about safety at a nuclear power plant that s now in russian hands. joe fraser becomes the first british man to take gold in the european gymnastics final. and coming up on the bbc news channel. ben stokes helps limit the damage as england claw back wickets on the second day of the 1st test against south africa at lords, following a disappointing first innings. good evening. there s been delight but also disappointment on results day for hundreds of thousands of teenagers across england, wales and northern ireland who ve had their studies severely disrupted by the pandemic. almost 850,000 a levels were taken this year, when pupils did sit exams again. as you can see here, the proportion of top grades has fallen compared with 2020 and 2021 which are marked here in red that was when teacher assessments were used instead of exams because
This came after the Prime Minister rejected suggestions that he oversaw budget cuts that meant that crumbling concrete in schools in england was not replaced. It comes after claims from a former senior Civil Servant that rishi sunak halved the money available for the safety work while he was chancellor in 2021. This afternoon the Education Secretary apologised after her frustration boiled over during questioning about the way the government was handling the situation. It all comes as thouands of School Children mainly in england start the new term not sure whether their schools will be fully open or not. We start tonight with our Political Editor chris mason on a busy first day back for mp5. Fight night good evening, sophie. Certainly they fight night good evening, sophie. Certainly they see fight night good evening, sophie. Certainly they see as fight night good evening, sophie. Certainly they see as mp5 fight night good evening, sophie. Certainly they see as mps return i certainly th