Opener at hampden. Stop a murky start but for most of us Warm Sunshine developing today, watch out for more heavy thundery rain in the south. I will have the details. Its Friday 6th of september. The Home Secretary Will chair a meeting of senior ministers, Intelligence Agencies and Law Enforcement Bodies Today to discuss how to tackle criminal gangs which smuggle people across the channel. 12 people died on tuesday when their small boat came apart off the french coast. Yvette cooper said this showed the moral imperative of dismantling the gangs. Our home editor, mark easton, reports. The government claims the deaths of 12 migrants in the channeljust off the french coast earlier this week is evidence of both the moral imperative in destroying the smuggling gangs, and also that measures to disrupt the criminal networks are having an impact. The Home Office says it suggests the Business Model of the smugglers is under pressure. More people are being crammed into less seaworthy vessels, wi
of symi last wednesday, his body was later recovered on a remote hillside following a four day search. from symi, our correspondent joe inwood reports. it was here on a rocky hillside that michael mosley was found. he was just metres from safety when he was seemingly overcome by the heat and collapsed. the people of this island and the greek authorities had done everything they could. despite that, he was not found for nearly four days. it was on that beach of agia marina that the body, which has now been identified as michael mosley, was found. he was found lying just to the right side of that fence you can see over there so really close to where people would have been relaxing and playing on this popular and busy beach. we spoke to a police source who said that the body of michael mosley had been there for a number of days. that the body of michael mosley had it was a tragic end to a story that had begun on wednesday when michael mosley left the beach where he d been with h
anyway, so just before we dive into this episode of newscast, just a little moment to explain what we actually do. so, we and some of our other kind of bestjournalistic pals in the bbc get together every night, chew over what s happened in the election that day, and then publish it as a podcast, which is newscast. and you can get that every night wherever you get your podcasts. and it sjust, for me, as a journalist, it s really kind of fun, but also kind of in depth way ofjust processing what s happened in this big, crazy news event, which is the general election of 202a. that s right. and i think what we also try to do is open up our notebooks and give people more of the kind of conversations that you have with politicians, advisers, staffers, privately and some of the things, frankly, that you can t necessarily fit into a news bulletin when you ve got 60 seconds or two and a half minutes to explain a story. and we also want to hear from you and you in the next half hour c
last known sightings of michael mosley. rescuers are still trying to piece together what happened. greek police say he left his wife on the beach at st nicholas at 1:30pm. from there, it is thought he walked into another time. today s footage put some at a marina on the other side of the village, walking towards rocky hills. a search and rescue operation involving helicopters and drones continues. this mountainous terrain is described is not easy by those involved with the search. the time that michael mosley set off on his walk was also one of the hottest parts of the day. he had been staying in the main town on the island around one mile from the town. one theory that has emerged as it was trying to take a much longer route than first thought, passing over miles of exposed hillside. his four children have arrived on symi to help with the search. the islands mayor says the search will island s mayor says the search will continue until he is found. i’m continue until he is
of fact checkers busy here at bbc verify. let s start with a claim that s dominated the debate this week. angela rayner and the labour party, keir starmer confirmed this earlier this week, they are going to put up your taxes by £2,000. no we won t. that s a lie. by £2,000 per working household. penny, your government have raised taxes. crosstalk. we have, and we hated putting the taxes up. we ve looked at this a lot in the last few days and the figure is misleading because the £2,000 is over four years and the figures the conservatives have used to calculate it are dubious. both the conservatives and labour are promising not to increase income tax, national insurance or vat during the next parliament. obviously there s a lot of politics in this too, but when it comes to the facts, that s where we re at. there was also a big claim that cuts are coming when it comes to public spending, whoever gets the keys to number ten. there s £18 billion of cuts coming down the line agr