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For years, she’s remained silent over what she knew about the wrongful prosecution of subpostmasters. But tomorrow, the former head of the Post Office, Paula Vennells, will break that silence when she appears at the Horizon IT inquiry. Today, it was the turn of the company secretary, Alwen Lyons, who was at every board meeting…
We spoke to David Mencer, the Israeli government spokesperson.
Israel has urged what it called “nations of the civilised world” to oppose the International Criminal Court prosecutor’s request for arrest warrants for its prime minister and defence minister. Karim Khan also wants arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders.
A British man has died and 30 others have been injured after their flight from London to Singapore hit severe turbulence.
We spoke to Stephen Dorrell – Health Secretary between 1995 and 1997, while John Major was Prime Minister.
These two women were infected with contaminated blood. Caz Challis received several blood transfusions as part of her cancer treatment and was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 1993.
First, the vindication, now the compensation: the victims of the infected blood scandal have suffered for decades.
We spoke to the head of the inquiry Sir Brian Langstaff and began by asking him how this scandal could take place over so many decades and involve so many people, from doctors to civil servants.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s many other countries also passed along contaminated blood to thousands of unsuspecting people.
We spoke to barrister Toby Cadman, who specialises in international criminal and human rights law.
The Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defence minister – as well as the Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar and two other leaders – over what he said were crimes against humanity.
We were joined by Professor Mohammad Marandi, a professor at the University of Tehran, who was previously an adviser to Iran’s nuclear negotiations team.
Well as the crisis in the Middle East continues, one of the main players – Iran – is reeling from the death of its president Ebrahim Raisi.
Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer apologised to the victims of the infected blood scandal as Sir Brian Langstaff published his inquiry report.
“The government failed to discharge its fundamental duty to ensure the safety of the public” is the damning conclusion from today’s report.