Podcasts about bbc home affairs

Policing has always had an uneasy relationship with journalists. In this podcast I interview Danny Shaw, who was the leading BBC Home Affairs correspondent for twenty years, Danny reported on policing and justice issues under ten different Home Secretaries and five different Prime Ministers, making him without a doubt the most experienced and knowledgeable journalist of his time in this area of public life.

This edition contains: with Britain on the brink of leaving the EU, BBC special correspondent Alan Little sets out on a tour of the UK to find out what the population feels after two years of divisive debate over what Brexit should mean. Following a spate of knife crime deaths involving teenagers BBC Home Affairs correspondent Reevel Alderson examines and contrasts Scotland's situation. With the collapse of the Russian ceasefire in the Syrian province of Idlib seemingly more likely, Herald foreign affairs editor David Pratt and Save the Children's Caroline Anning discuss the backdrop to the situation and the worsening humanitarian crisis the surrounding it. And in our long interview, Bill Whiteford discusses star gazing and space travel with astronomers Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest.

How far are you prepared to go to stand up for your beliefs? Two years ago, Ruth Potts and Mel Evans were part of a group that cut through an airport security fence and chained themselves to a Boeing 767. They did it to stop the Home Office deporting 60 people on a flight to Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone. Along with the 13 other people they did this with, they became known as the Stansted 15 after being found guilty of endangering the safety of an aerodrome. They were sentenced today, following a judicial process that has been hanging over them for almost two years. They tell us whether it’s all been worth it and BBC Home Affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani helps us to decide whether they made a difference. Producer: Duncan Barber. Editor: John Shields. Mixed by Nicolas Raufast.

With serious assaults at a record high, File on 4 investigates the growing tension within Britain's prisons. In the first of a new series, BBC Home Affairs correspondent Danny Shaw meets recently released prisoners and families of those inside to hear about their safety fears. And he talks to the Prison Officers Association about their concerns for the frontline members who they say are facing unprecedented levels of pressure and danger in a "chaotic" system. The Howard League for Penal Reform has used Ministry of Justice figures to calculate that around 40% of prison officer jobs have been cut - leaving inmates spending longer locked in their cells and less time preparing for their release. Lawyers and campaigners tell File on 4 that overcrowding and gang activity are adding to a "toxic mix" of problems leading to instability and tension. Twenty five years after the prison system was shaken by a series of riots centring on Strangeways in Manchester, is a new crisis starting to unfold? Reporter: Danny Shaw Producer: Sally Chesworth.

The nature of crime is changing, with much of it now happening online, sparking growing concern that official figures fail to account for potentially millions of fraud offences. Experts say frauds involving plastic debit and credit cards are among the crimes left out of the data. So just how reliable - and useful - are the statistics? At the same time, police economic crime units, which investigate fraud, have become increasingly stretched, partly as a result of government budget cuts. BBC Home Affairs correspondent, Danny Shaw, asks whether law enforcement has kept pace with the changing face of fraud and if there are enough resources to tackle financial crime and bring fraudsters to justice. Reporter: Danny Shaw Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane.