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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK If you are currently overpaying on software to run your business Remember this number ten thousand That's the number of new businesses that join Odu per month Join Odoo today at Odoo. com at OdWo. com. Picture this, you're with your spouse at a seaside Botanical garden The moss hangs low But your spirits are high And you've never felt more in love This is when it hits you. That myrtle moment It's the second everything clicks. When you realize Myrtle Beach is more than a getaway, It's right where you belong Don't just daydream about it. Find your own Myrtle moment at visit Myrtlebeach. com I'm Tom Sanders and on Friday the twenty sixth of June, these are the main news stories from Radio four Death and destruction in Venezuela, where tens of thousands of people are listed as missing after two powerful earthquakes. You can see people struggling with their own hands trying to remove the rubble, the concrete, the everything in the searching of the loved ones. Also tonight, the UK record for the highest June temperature is broken for the third day in a row. It's not very nice, there's no shades, you's got no l up. Yeah, you can see how it's baking An extraordinary rout at the home offffice escalates as the Secretary of State tells one of her ministers he can't see sensitive documents without her approval President Trump's former national seecurity adviser, John Bolton, pleads guilty to mishhandling classified documents And get back in ban. D, go, go go. Jeez, but he follow the place officer van driver who helped police catch a suspect by giving a lift to the armed officer chasing him There are fears that the number of people killed in two powerful earthquakes in Venezuela on Wednesday will rise significantly as a desperate search for survivors continues Five hundred and eighty nine people are confirmed to have died, but many more are missing with the United Nations humumanitarian chief putting that figure at more than fifty thousand One of the worst hit areas is the northern port city of Laguera where satellite images show many high rise buildings have been flattened Carolina Lopez is one of the people searching for missing relatives is in a man look again The only thing I can say is that I have my heart in my hands and I don't know what to do. That's the only thing I can say. I ask God for everything there where you see that destruction, nothing. I don't know where He is We' looking at it Wh many face anxious waits for news of relatives, there have been some moments of relief, such as this rescue of a woman Pulled alive out of the rubble earlier today What on! Where we going? Our reporter Vanessa Silver is in Laguera The level of devastation has no worth to explain what we have seen. In this area of this coastal town of Venezuela, the one that was hit with more force with the earthquakes that shake the country on Wednesday, there so many destruction wherever you see is a building collapses. This was a small mall Over there is another this building at my back is just completely Lining to one side is about to collapse and in so many places. And you can see people struggling with their own hands trying to remove the robot, the concrete, everything in the searching of the loved ones, but it's a lot of work that is needed. The international rescue teams are arriving to Venezuela, but still It' not enough. still is not deployed in all the places that we are seeing today. I mean, we literally see the floor open, the earth breaks in this area of La Gaida teeams from around the world are arriving in Venezuela to assist the relief effort, with tons of aid supplies also being delivered More details from our World News correspondent, Joynood wororking by torchline Rescue teams in Caracas use angle grinders and their bare hands to search through the wreckage of collapsed buildings Every now and again they fall silent to see if they can hear anyone knocking or crying for help then a shout goes up There has been an aftershock and they moveved to safety This was how much of the first thirty six hours of the rescue operation was carried out, local people working by hand That spirit was praised by the acting president Delsi Rodriguez when she spoke to the nation a few hours ago This demonstrates the great heart of our people and their solidarity. No one has hesitated to go out into the streets to lend a hand to their Venezuelan brother or sister. and a very special recognition goes to our rescuers, those arriving from all over the country to join this commendable task of rescuing people alive from collapsed buildings and homes But this country, which has long suffered from poor governance and US. sanctions, needs help to cope with the disaster of this scale Teams from all over the world have flown into Venezuela, with many heading for the worst affected area in this disaster The northern city of La Guera The UN says more than a thousand rescue workers have arrived, along with six teams of specially trained dogs. Nickola Putchild from the International Search and Rescue Dog Organization says they will save lives There is always hope to find people alive. So as we know from past events, there have been people found after several days. And I think this is also possible in this event and we are hopefully we are very hopeful to find a lot of people and can help families to bring back People they are ever seeing. Today, once again, the number of confirmed dead rose sharply manyany more are still missing E as a major international rescue effort gets underway If you doubt the true scale of this tragedy is only just beginning to emerge A new record high temperature for June has been set in the UK for the third day in a row as heat wave conditions continue to affect parts of the country the met office says a temperature of thirty seven point three Celsius was recorded at Santam Downham in Suffolk Stoppping the previous high of thirty six point seven Celsius in Somerset yesterday Health leaders have warned that the unprecedented heat is having an impact on NHS services As our health reporter Katherine Burns explains. When you think about NHS staff going above and beyond in a heat wave, it's not just doctors and nurses At Stain. Mary's Hospital in London, the estates team have been taking turns doing shifts on the roof day and night Posing down the rooftop chillers with cold water just to keep the air conditioning on inside. Essentially keeping it continually doused with water is the only way that we can keep it cool enough in order to be able to keep it running. That's Ian Bateman, the chief operating offfficer at Imperial College Healthcare. He says staff and patients have been brilliant, but it's not been easy Inside the hospital, it's warm. We're doing our very best. We've got additional chiller units in and fans everywhere that we could possibly put them, but unfortunately it is still uncomfortable. We're keeping our temperatures under constant review and wherever possible we moving staff and patients around to try and keep them as comfortable as possible. But I think it's probably fair to say it's pushed our buildings and it's pushed our staff to some really challenging limits at times. Parts of this hospital date back to the eighteen hundreds, not built with climate change or air conditioning in mind Health leaders are warning that the NHS isn't equipped for heat waves and needs investment to cope with what is becoming an annual event NHS staff have been telling me what it's like for them. One nurse said her ward was like a wall of heat and called it intolerable A midwife describes mums and new babies struggling to cope with temperatures over thirty degrees in a postnatal ward And an A andE doctor said the heating was still on in some parts of their hospital They said staff were irritable and some patients were abusive Amy Tomkins is a GP in Greater Manchester. Like so many others, our practice is converted residential rather than purpose built and general practice has limited resources to be able to cool the environment We have one air conditioning unit in reception. so several of the doctors have been taking regular breaks to go and stand out there throughout their clinics NHS England says its website pages on heat exhaustion have had more than one hundred twenty thousand hits in the last five days. It says services are using well tested plans to keep staff and patients safe but is asking the public to use their common sense about being out in the heat and staying hydrated The German weather Service has said the country has hit its highest ever temperature on record at forty one point three Celsius. As large parts of Europe swelter under similar conditions to the UK, Correspondent Anna Hoigan sent this report from the Dutch Seaside Resort Kite down On golden sand, stretching across the North Sea, toddlers splash in the waves and families seek relief in the sea breeze Elsewhere, escaping the heat is far more difficult The electronic music festival, Defcon one in the Netherlands was ended prematurely. At midnight, visitors were asked to leave as a code red weather warning took effect. Fans were gutted. I feel sorry for the people that have come really far. Some people have travelled literally from the other side of the world like a once in a lifetime experience, so I feel gutted for them But I understand as well because it's so hot. Organizers said they simply couldn't take the risk We were in the tent yesterday and You couldn't even dance. Everyone's pooring you swear, everyone's exhausted. You couldn't do it. and that was forty one degrees, so Fty seven today is unbearable, unbearable. Across the continent, the heat is having devastating consequences In France, a toddler died after being rescued from a car The pride march scheduled to take place in Paris this weekend has been postponed, while officials in Belgium cancelled a reenactment of Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo In Germany, temperatures have reached forty Celsius The World's Weather A attribution group of scientists said the record breaking heat gripping Europe is unmistakably linked to climate change and such temperatures would have been virtually impossible fifty years ago The Home Secretary Shana Mahmoud is restricting the access of one of her ministers to government documents in an escalation of a row over a newspaper column Taap wrote an unauthorized article about home office policy, which prompted Ms Mahouood to ask the Prime Minister to sack him Our political correspondent, Damen Graticus is following developments This is an extraordinary falling out between the Home Secretary and one of her junior ministers Shibana Mahmouood unveiled last year increases to the time people moving to the UK must wait before they can apply for permanent residence ap, the immmigration Minister has been working on the practicalities Writing in the Times, he said a new longer wait of fifteen years should not apply retrospectively to care workers already here, adding the system needed to be fair Moods understood to believe that was freelancing, contrary to the ministerial code and requested the Prime Minister sack Mr. Taap Downing Street has not done that It says Sakkir Starmer is taking advice posted on social media that he would not be intimidated to drop his views M Mahood has restricted her Junior minister's access to sensitive documents and meetings. Behind this are the fractured relationships in Sakkia's government has, as recently as this week, been a vocal public supporter of the Prime Minister. Mood was one of the ministers understood to have told Sakir he should set a timetable to go The Green Party has been forced to return a donation which was made by its leader Zach Polansky after it was deemed to be impermissible Mister Polansky gave just over one and fivealf thousand pounds to the London branch of his party last September, but wasn't on the electoral register at the time His party put that down to personal security concerns Here's our political correspondent Harry Farley Zach Polansky gave his party one thousand five hundred and thirty nine pounds shortly after he took over in September last year. But at the time, mister Polansky was not on the electoral register, meaning, legally, the donation was impermissible The explanation from his party that he wasn't registered because of security concerns comes as Mrter Palansky is understood to be in discussion with the Home Office and police about his protection Because the donation was unlawful, it should have been returned within thirty days, but it wasn't returned until the tenth of june this year party spokperson said this donation was made to the London Green Party. When the issue was brought to the National Party's attention, the donation was returned. The electoral Commission said it was considering the matter and so could not comment, but that it had not launched an investigation President Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton, has pleaded guilty to mishhandling classified information in a federal court. mister Bolton, who's become a fierce critic of mister Trump, made his admission as part of a deal, which could see him go to prison for up to five years M more from our North America editor, Sarah Smith John Bolton amassed various amounts of national defense information in the notes he took when he was researching his twenty twenty memoir, The Room Where It Haed He then used a personal email account and a messaging app to share that information with two members of his family who did not have security clearances His email account was later accessed by a hacker allegedly linked to Iran. Under the plea agreement he struck, he will serve no more than five years in jail and will have to pay a fine of over two million dollars A former top advisor to President Trump, Mr. Bolton has become one of his most outspoken critics When he was first charged, he sought to portray the investigation as part of President Trump's push to use the justice system to target his political enemies oday he admitted the charges and said he was sorry for it. His lawyer compared the case to the twenty twenty three indictment of Donald Trump for mishandling secret documents he kept at Maralago The judge overseeing that case dismissed those charges before it went to trial. The Russian controlled authorities in Crimea have declared a state of emergency after Ukrainian attacks have disrupted fuel supplies Moscow says the move is designed to keep essential services running President Zelensky of Ukraine has announced what he called what he calls a forty day influence campaign, aimed at forcing Russia to negotiate Our Eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford sent this report from Leviv First there was fuel rationing and power cuts. Now there's a state of emergency in Crimea, as Ukraine steps up its drone attacks on the peninsula . After making this announcement, the Russian appointed Governor Sergey Aksionov had to reassure residents it wouldn't mean restrictions on their movements or a curfew He said it was about cutting bureaucracy to take rapid decisions But Ukraine is focusing its military strikes on and around Crimea like never before And that's having a major impact. What m a supermarket? On social media people are posting videos of shopping centers with no power. and long queues of cars towards the main bridge as people head for the Russian mainland. Even children's summer camps have been suspended for safety Moscow's illegal annexation of Crimea in twenty fourteen was hugely popular in Russia and a big ratings boost for Vladimir Putin But for Ukraine, it was the first act of aggression in what later became an all out invasion So this intensified military campaign against the stolen jewel in President Putin's crown highly symbolic in itself. But it is also part of a wider push to increase pressure on the Kremlin force Vladimir Putin into peace talks before Russia gets better at intercepting the drones The court has lifted reporting restrictions that prevented the media from identifying thirteen men who are charged alongside a husband who' accused of conspiring with others to drug and sexually abuse his wife The husband and twelve of the thirteen other suspects are due to go on trial in Manchester later this year. Our North of England reports at Rhan Bridge listened to proroceedings at Manchester Minchall Street, Crown Court. This morning, the judge lifted a court order, allowing us to report more detail of the case Twelve of the thirteen co deffendants have pleaded not guilty They're Philip Wilde, Seaan Piers, Jonathan Kirk, and Robert Stewart all from Stockport Jordan Wallace and Alan Keelan, who are both from Manchester Mohammed Sabir of no fixed abode. Borham from Northwich and Cheshire Richard Townsend from Rochdale, Carl Lindseay from Taunton, Daniel Raynerer from Whitsable in Kent and David Graves from Ilkeston in Derbyshire Between them, they face a range of charges, including rape and conspiracy to rape A thirteenth coodefendant has pleaded guilty to four charges Keith Fotheringham, who's from Dundee, has admitted, amongst other offences, conspiring to rape and conspiring to drug the woman at the centre of the case Those who have pleaded not guilty to offences will go on trial in Manchester in September The comedian and broadcaster Hardep Sinkoli is to stand trial accused of twenty charges, including rape, sexual assault, and indeccent assault fifty seven year old has pleaded not guilty to all the charges, which involve five women. The incidents are alleged to have taken place between two thousand six and twenty twenty two at locations including the BBC stududios at PacificQuay in Glasgow The trial date has been set for October next year You're listening to the six o'clock newews on BBC Radio four. The I news so far A desperate search for survivors of two powerful earthquakes is continuing in Venezuela Thousands of people are missing The UK temperature record for June has been broken for the third day in a row Still to come The National program to London Radiated by the new long wave transmitter driit w the end of a radio era as radio four broadcasts on Long Waver switched off tonight The king has become the first monarch to reveal their tax bill, showing a payment that placed him among the top one hundred taxpayers in the UK. But there have been claims that, despite Buckingham Palace saying the figures are evidence of unprecedented transparency, the royal family's finances remain opaque Our senior rooyal correspondent, Danieela Ralph reports. Royal accounts can be opaque This year, both Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace have attempted to offer more information with limitations. For the first time the accounts reveal that the king paid twelve point nine million pounds in tax In the year twenty twenty four to twenty five And Prince William paid just over seven million pounds over the same period. But there is no breakdown of how these final figures were reached. Dan Needle, who is a tax lawyer and campaigner question the level of royal transparency. It's not tax in any sense. It's money going around of the circle for PR purposes. It's not paid in the same way as a real tax. It's not subject to scrutiny from the tax authority in the same way as a real tax. It's a PR trick. It would be much saer and probably a lot cheaper We simply gave the king less pocket money. The financial reports show that the king and queen will not move into Buckingham Palace despite a refurbishment costing almost three hundred seventy million pounds of public money Instead preferring their London home of more than twenty years, Clarence House. And the accounts also highlight the Sovereign grant, the main public funding for royalty. which is almost doubled in three years to just under one hundred million pounds annually. Julian Payne was a senior member of the King's household What you see is the combined income that he receives, voluntarily he pays tax on that amount of money. You can see all of the funds which come in, how he is paying for the two thousand two hundred seventy three public engagements, seven hundred eight of which are his own. you really are getting a very full picture of what it costs to run the monarchy today This year's royal accounts also highlight travel costs The most expensive royal trip overseas was Prince William's visit to Saudi Arabia in February which cost just over one hundred thirty thousand pounds and a visit by the King to Lancashire cost forty eight thousand pounds on the rooyal train. Next year, the train goes out of service as it's too expensive to run Downing Street has said that it's very concerning that a US fighter pilot stationed in the UK avoided trial under English law for strangling a woman in Cambridge Captain Jacob Wolson was tried at an American military court by a panel of eight male Air Force officers despite the incidents taking place while he was off duty Our UK correspondent Daniel Sanford reports. Sarah Steele waived her anonymity to allow the Guardian newspaper to highlight the concerns raised by her case The Cambridge A academic met Captain Jacob Wolfson on the dating app Tinder and agreed to go to see the fighter pilot at his flat in Cambridge But there he strangled her during sex, which she said was not consensual When she reported it, Cambridge Conabborary allowed the US military police to take the lead in the investigation. Wolsen was tried by an all male American court martial panel which found him guilty of strangulation, but acquitted him of non consensual sex. Sarah Steel told The Today programe that the panel then took into account Wilson's military record when passing sentence. They were raising in his mitigation, how many people he'd killed, supposedly to get him a lower sentence. for committing a serious violent crime against me. Under an agreement made in nineteen fifty one, members of US Armed Forces based in the UK will be prosecuted by the Americans for offences committed on duty or against other US personnel Other offences can be prosecuted in the UK courts Police forces are still required to give sympathetic consideration to requests by the US military to prosecute their own staff The Prime ministers official spokesman said it was very concerning that this case never reached the Crown Prosecution Service for a decision on whether it should be prosecuted under English law. Justice Minister Jake Richards agreed the case raised questions that he would now look at. There are issues around military courts, whether that is in America or indeed our own and how that interplays with our criminal courts and our civil courts. That's always an area that we look at. The minister said he'd make sure there was a thorough and objective review of the case A fourteen year old boy has appeared in court in South Wales, charged with murder foollowing the discovery of the body of a missing girl The defendant, who can't be named because of his age, appeared before Newport's Youth Ct formal identification of the body, which was found in the Dufferin Park area of a blinder hasn't taken place. But the boy has been charged with murdering fourteen year old Lily Jones BBC presenter Trevor Nelson has announced he's taking a break from his shows on radio two and onene extra for health reasons Writing on social media, the sixty two year old said it had a routine check upp and been advised to have some follow up tests He said he was concentrating on being back to one hundred percent me and to getting back behind the mic A van driver has been praised by police after giving a lift to an armed officer who is pursuing a man suspected of carrying out a serious assault. Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy sent this report from Margate Oh life Tuesdays in Margate don't normally play out like this Armed officers recording on body worn cameras are running after a suspect. But it looked like the alleged culprit was hot footing it to freedom That is until a passing van driver stops to pick up the officer Carry on the chase Rning down the hill towards the viadot G back it about G, go, go. go, go, go. Jes, what do you fllow that police officer So fresh. In a reverse of what usually happens in the movies, where the cop commandeers the car, this van driver was in full pursuit mode. Happy to help the police chasing the man suspected of carrying out a serious assault. If you just go past him keep going past. Pigame passast Stop here on the right. Stop! Don't move. P out the. The wheels of justice have rarely turned so fast. With chase overver and arrest made, the officer thanks his obliging new recruit Cheers. No problem. Gad service. Cheers budy. We'll get on with doing the rest of the. Thank you very much for your assistance. That was quite exhilarating th. So you lay h the rest of your day is a bit calmer. Cheers guys Kent police say the van driver who hasn't been named, should feel proud in what's clearly a case of a good Samaritan doing his bit Drive down crying In cricket, England's men's capaptain Ben Stokes has had an impact on day two of the third test with New Zealand at Trent Bridge. Stokes got full wickets as the tourists lost their last nine batters for just over one hundred runs. So there's a little ledge that is out. Yes. the spet go past the b Stopkes has made the breakthrough stop'es in fielder underneath it Day should take the catch. he does B a bound ser and has hit him somewhere, his caughtet slip and is taken In response, Ben Duckett scored the ninth fastest century in English history, reaching the landmark in eighty eight runs Short time ago, England were two hundred and sixteen for two trailing New Zealands first innings total by two hundred and twenty two runs with eight wickets remaining In tennis, Serena Williams will play their fifty third seed to the Australian Maer joint in her opening singles match at Wimbledon as she makes her highly anticipated comeback to the All England club In the men's singless draw, Britain's Jack Draper has been handed a tough first round match against the American Taylor Fritz who reached the semi finals last year Radio four broadcasts on Long Wave will end tonight. The BBC began broadcasting on the frequency from its original transmitters in Daventry in Northamptonshire in nineteen twenty five before switching to a new transmitting station in Worcestershire. Our media correspondent, David Silito reports Ready for number three. alady, Right, Let go. nineteen thirty four in the beginning of an engineering mark And to run up the high tension machinine. The powerful L wave transmitter masts at Dreitwichch, two hundred and thirteen meters high, along with two sister stations in Berghead and Westerglen in Scotland, ensured the BBC was a truly national service. It is the national program from London radiated by the new longwave transmitter at Dreitwitichch Beginning with Eric Coates, the Merrymakers, the BBC's new Droutitwit serervice sent out a signal that travelled far out to sea and for decades delivered the shipping forecast. Do Dover, Thames, Humber, Helligerland, East Doger. And That ability to travel far? In the Second World War, the long wave signal was a way of communicating across Europe. These are today's main events Germany has invaded Poland and has bombed many times, and even sending coded messages to the French resistance. had in more recent years. ninet eight long allowed cricket starved holiday makers to follow test match special in the beaches of Britany Hello morning and welcome But ninety two years on. The masks are showing their age. The elderly technology behind the service is drifting to obbsolescence ' going a long way these days and most will only hear the slightly scratchy sounds. I just wonder if there's anyone at the top of PBC radio four on one hundred ninety eight. It batting for radio four, which has been warning its few remaining listeners thingsings are coming to an end. This service is closing