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tv   The Context  BBC News  June 27, 2025 8:30pm-9:00pm BST

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hello, i'm lewis vaughan jones. this is the context on bbc news. the man who killed a 14-year-old boy with a samurai sword has been given a life sentence. we will get more on that story now. the family of daniel anjorin, who was murdered by a man armed with a samurai sword as he walked to school, have paid tribute to their son as his killer was jailed for life. it is the first time his family has spoken publicly since his death. the man who killed the 14-year-old schoolboy was sentenced to 40 years in jail minus time served. he also attacked three more members of the public and two police officers. lucy manning reports.
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a warning, you may find some of the details in the report upsetting. daniel anjorin, a thoughtful, loving and loved 14-year-old murdered just walking to school. daniel's dad standing with daniel's mum, speaking for the first time about what they described as their nightmare. this has been a painful and deeply traumatic chapter in our lives. no verdict or sentence can bring back our son daniel, who we loved so dearly, but we are grateful that justice has been served. daniel was taken from us in a way that no family should ever have to endure. his life had so much potential ahead. he was gifted academically, he was kind and had a generous spirit that touched everyone who knew him. we carry that light with us even in this dark time.
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they sat in the courtroom composed, dignified, as marcus monzo, the man who murdered their son, was sentenced. you must have known whatever state you're in, he was a child, a schoolboy. but you came up behind him and with extreme force struck him to the neck, causing a terrible, utterly unsurvivable wound. drop that now! drop it! the judge praised the exemplary courage of police officers putting their lives on the line as they rush to confront monzo. drop the sword! he stabbed police officer yasmin mecham-whitfield as she chased him down an alleyway. police officer stabbed! inspector moloy campbell didn't hesitate to confront monzo. this is the terrifying moment he used his baton against monzo's sword.
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..clashing twice in hand to hand fighting until he was also slashed. i could see that he had real determination in his eyes. we then went back at each other and hit each other, and at that point, i think the blade came down my arm, cutting my fleece and then nicking my hand on the way out. the footage is terrifying - how were you feeling at the time? determined. the only feeling i had was...the need to complete what had to be done, which was disarming mr monzo and ultimately the preservation of life. also showing bravery that day, henry de los rios polania, his hand slashed when monzo burst into his bedroom where his wife and four-year-old daughter were sleeping. he grabbed a sword with his both hands. he went like that and tried to cut the head off carolina.
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so when i saw his intentions, i was like, "i can't let..." in my mind, i was like, "i can't let this happen. "he's going to kill us in the end." so i tried to pick up the sword with my own hands, and i grabbed it. what has been the impact on you? it's been really hard for the past year. i've been in recovery mode. three operations, two more to go, i'm surviving. for daniel anjorin's family, the loss and pain is inescapable, but their memory of daniel undimmed. we honour daniel's memory, not in the shadow of this tragedy, but through the love and happiness that he brought to us and all those who knew him. that report from lucy manning. israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has strongly rejected a report in an israeli newspaper claiming israeli troops were ordered to shoot at palestinians waiting for aid in gaza. one soldier was quoted
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by the left-leaning haaretz paper as saying his unit was told to open fire on crowds near an aid centre with "everything imaginable." the israeli army says its rules prevent any deliberate attacks on civilians. this comes as the head of the new gaza humanitarian foundation has denied that hundreds of deaths from shootings are linked to its aid distribution centres. johnnie moore, an american evangelical pastor, has told the bbc that international agencies, including the un, were spreading disinformation. but he also admitted his organisation is currently unable to feed all gazans. the us and israeli-backed group has faced severe criticism since its formation just over a month ago. today, the medical charity medecins sans frontiers said the foundation's relief effort should be halted, branding it as "slaughter, masquerading as humanitarian aid". it comes as the us revealed that it would give $30 million in funding to the aid group. it's the first direct funding coming from the us since the ghf took over operations following israel's
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11-week blockade of gaza. my colleague tim franks from the bbc world service radio programme newshour asked johnnie moore what he's doing to try to prevent deaths around their aid distribution sites. we're not actually sure that all of this information of a significant disinformation effort to try to both discourage gazans from coming to get our assistance, and also to sort of try to get us to fold up our operation. however, you know, despite the amounts of energy and time and effort that it takes every single time one of these pieces of news or disinformation or whatever it is comes out, you know, we spend an extended period of time trying to understand what actually happened, if anything actually happened, and whether there's a way that we can make it less likely to happen.
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in most circumstances, we haven't been able to identify anything happening. certainly, there are people dying every day in the gaza strip. it is an active war zone. we are not doing this work in the middle of a ceasefire. we're doing it in the middle of a hot war. some of that is unintentional, i'm sure. some of it is certainly intentional, at least on the hamas side. and the idf has said, you know, overtly a few times that they are responsible for some casualties. however, i think people need to understand that it is disinformation that people going to ghf sites are being killed. we have no evidence of that happening in proximity to our sites. we heard earlier from the country director at actionaid palestine. he's in ramallah and explained what his team has been hearing about people being killed at the distribution sites. at least the cases that were documented by our local partners, they have been killed by israeli fire, either by direct artillery bombardment or from gunfire in the vicinity of these sites. these are the reports that
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we have so far from the ground, and i also refer to the most recent article in haaretz, the israeli newspaper, also, covering stories on testimonies from israeli soldiers who operated in gaza saying that they have received direct orders from their commanders to shoot anybody in the vicinity of these aid distribution centres, including unarmed civilians and also civilians who do not pose any sort of harm to the israeli military. so i think we have enough evidence that these civilians were killed by the israeli forces in the vicinity of these so-called aid distribution centres. our correspondent mark lowen has spent the day at the israel-gaza border and sent this update. well, in the last few minutes, we have seen some trucks carrying aid entering gaza down the side here, after two days in which the israeli government said that there would be no delivery of aid into gaza, accusing hamas of stealing the aid. now, just before sunset on friday, we have seen some vehicles making the entrance. they are unmarked vehicles,
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and it would seem that potentially they belong to the gaza humanitarian foundation, this new controversial us and israeli-backed aid mechanism. we are here at the kerem shalom border crossing, which is right at the confluence of egypt, which is just over there, with its own border crossing into gaza, and here on the israeli side. and if you come through the gates here, you can see the official gate there, the official border crossing into gaza. that is where aid trucks, usually, through previous official channels, would deliver the supplies into gaza. but the trucks that just came went down the side here, with a direct entry into the gaza strip. now, the gaza humanitarian foundation has been lambasted for forcing gazans from the north of the strip to cross enemy lines, military lines to be kettled into areas to queue for aid. and it is deadly. the un says that some 400 people have been shot dead in the last month of operation by the gaza humanitarian
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foundation and accused the israeli military of opening fire at those sites. meanwhile, inside gaza, the killing goes on. we have heard in the last few hours bursts of automatic gunfire and artillery as the death toll has mounted there. and so inside gaza, the people are continuing to suffer from catastrophic levels of hunger. they are still being killed. the israeli government might say that there is now a renewed momentum to try to bring an end to the war in gaza, to seize the momentum with the ceasefire in iran, but for the people in gaza, they feel that a ceasefire is still a long way off.
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this is bbc news. here, a man has been found guilty of murdering his wife as she pushed their sleeping
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baby in a pram in bradford. 27-year-old kulsuma akter was staying in a refuge to escape her violent husband, but he tracked her down and attacked her when she went shopping in the city centre. habibur masum from burnley was arrested after a three-day manhunt by police. daniel savage reports. kulsuma akter, walking with the abusive, jealous husband she'd fled from because of his violent behaviour. he tracked her down through the location of her phone, he stalked her and confronted her. moments later, he repeatedly stabbed his wife while she pushed their son in his pram. the attack happened here at about three o'clock on a saturday afternoon. people who saw what was happening and heard the commotion rushed over to try and help kulsuma akter, but she couldn't be saved. her husband, meanwhile, calmly walked away and caught a bus. this man tried to help her. i heard screaming noise, and i rushed and went over the road.
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she was lying down by the shop, by the footpath, and that's where i tried to help her, to save her. and... but the guy was run away straight away. a manhunt was launched for masum. he'd fled to the other end of the country and was arrested after changing his appearance by shaving off his beard. today, he was convicted of murder. he left her there to die. his actions robbed kulsuma of her future, devastated the lives of her family and friends and took a mother away from her young baby. in the days before kulsuma was murdered, her husband sent death threats. she only felt safe enough to leave the refuge she was living in because he gave the impression he was abroad. masum will be sentenced next month. danny savage, bbc news, bradford. in the us, lawyers for sean "diddy" combs are to asks jurors to clear the hip-hop mogul of sex trafficking and other charges as the new york trial comes to a close. combs, a former billionaire known as one of the most recognisable names in hip-hop, has pleaded not guilty to racketeering
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conspiracy and two counts each of sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. if convicted on all counts, the bad boy records founder could be sentenced to life behind bars. i've been speaking to our north america correspondent, nada tawfik, who's following procedings in new york. this is the point where both the prosecution and the defence have one last chance to get the jury on their side. yesterday, prosecutors delivered their closing arguments. in it, they said diddy led a criminal enterprise using his company, his inner circle of his chief of staff and security guards and foot soldiers, such as his personal assistants, to force and control women like his former partners - cassie ventura and another woman testifying anonymously, jane - to engage in so-called "freak-offs" or "hotel nights", these drug-fuelled prolonged sexual encounters where they were forced to have sex with male prostitutes. but the defence today has been
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arguing that this is just an overzealous prosecution that has stemmed from women filing civil suits and wanting money. diddy's lawyers have portrayed the women as strong and capable, on equal footing with diddy, that there was no power imbalance, and very much painting him as the victim. so it's going to be up to the jury here to weigh evidence such as videos, photos, hotel and financial records, text messages between diddy and the women and staff, to decide, was this a criminal enterprise? did he sex-traffic these women? or is he the one who is being unfairly targeted for his personal sexual preferences? thanks to nada. a teenager from norfolk has become the first patient in europe to receive treatment which could potentially cure her life-threatening, inherited disorder. mary catchpole lost her mother, grandmother and other relatives to the rare condition which affects the immune system
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and reduces the body's ability to fight infections. but she says the newly licensed treatment has brought her "joy and hope". here's fergus walsh. all her life, mary has carried the burden of a rare disease that killed her mother, grandmother, aunt and uncle. now that weight has lifted, the 19-year-old feels liberated. i just hope it will give me a new lease of life. it's really just a miracle. music it means everything. it's bittersweet cos obviously my family members who passed away before they could have it, and it's brought me new hope and new joy about my life. and it makes me feel like i can just do anything. mary's ultra-rare condition is called apds and makes her highly vulnerable to infection, but she's the first patient in europe to get a transformative new drug.
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leniolisib, also called joenja, should stabilise mary's immune system by blocking the faulty gene which causes apds. it has a list price of £352,000 a year, but the nhs has agreed a substantial confidential discount. so here, we're looking at a ct scan of a chest scan of mary... apds can cause lung damage and trigger blood cancers. mary's consultant at addenbrooke's hospital hopes the new drug will prevent that. it's extremely significant. we have a treatment that's targeted specifically for the disease. so that, in itself, is absolutely transformative and amazing. mary's mother was just 43 when she died. other affected family members also died prematurely. mary's dad feared he'd lose her, too.
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to know that that is possibly the future for your daughter was really gut-wrenching. but this has given her a chance to just live a normal life and have a family herself if she wants to. it's wonderful. this is the lab at the university of cambridge where the faulty gene which triggers apds was discovered in 2013. to have an effective, licensed treatment just 12 years later is astonishingly fast. it's thought up to 50 apds patients in england could benefit from the drug mary is taking, a treatment which is giving her a sense of independence. fergus walsh, bbc news. next, we are going to head to italy. for some, it is the social
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event of the year, the impending wedding between amazon boss jeff bezos and his fiancee, lauren sanchez. they have chosen venice as the location for their wedding. dozens from film, finance and showbusiness have been invited. some estimates on how much it is going to cost. the whole thing is expected to cost around $56 million, with up to 250 guests. local hotels are expected to rack up around $33 million. and one estimate is $1 billion total economic impact. tributes have been paid to the award-winning film and tv composer lalo schifrin, who has died aged 93. his most famous work needs little introduction. music: theme from mission: impossible
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the mission: impossible theme was originally composed for the 1960s tv series and later reworked for tom cruise's blockbuster film franchise. in total, he composed more than a hundred film and tv soundtracks. picking up five grammy awards and six oscar nominations over a career spanning more than six decades. right, a reminder of our top story - donald trump says he's ending trade negotiations with canada immediately. he blamed the collapse of talks on canada's digital service tax and said he would announce new tariffs on canadian exports within a week. trump's import taxes were put on hold in april to allow 90 days for countries to conclude trade deals with the united states.
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that expires on the 9th of july. i am lewis vaughan jones. this is bbc news. hello from the bbc sport centre. it's the austrian grand prix on sunday, and mercedes team principal toto wolff has admitted he is exploring the possibility of signing four-time world champion max verstappen. earlier in the day, george russell said his contract talks with mercedes have been delayed because of the ongoing conversations with verstappen. wolff denied that but says his driver should use any scrutiny or speculation off the track to help his performances on it. you know, our sport is pressure, constant pressure, whether you're in the car, outside of the car. you just need to cope with that. and george knows that, like any other driver knows it. i feel that when you're being put in a comfort zone,
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sometimes that is actually more detrimental to performance. russell was sixth-quickest in second practice. it was dominated by the two mclarens - lando norris was a fraction quicker than his team-mate and championship leader oscar piastri. verstappen was third-fastest, in what is red bull's home grand prix. brentford have named keith andrews as their new head coach - he replaces thomas frank. the former republic of ireland international spent the last year as their set piece coach and now steps up for his first managerial role. brentford finished tenth in the premier league last season and have promoted from within after frank left to join tottenham following seven years at the club. leicester are hunting for a new boss after parting company with ruud van nistelrooy. the dutchman took over in november but managed just five wins. former everton boss sean dyche is being tipped as a strong candidate to replace him.
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jofra archer's inclusion in the england squad for the second test against india, despite having bowled just 18 overs in first class cricket in four years, has been part of a long process and not rushed - according to rob key, managing director of england men's cricket. archer returns to the test squad for the first time since 2021, and key expects the seamer to play in either the second test at edgbaston or the third test at lord's. it's been a two-year run, really, of taking it very, very slow with jofra. it's not just the games he's playing, he has always been working, even if it is back home in barbados, even when he has been back over here. he has ticked every box so far. whether it's the best thing to do to play him at edgbaston, we'll make that decision when we get nearer the time. in tennis, five-times grand slam champion iga swiatek
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is through to her first ever grass court final after a straight sets win over jasmine paolini in germany. with wimbledon starting next week, the polish woman showed she's on the right track, beating the italian who was last year's wimbledon finalist. swiatek has played just the one warm-up tournament going into wimbledon. and she'll face jessica pegula in saturday's final. it's a change, because usually i did not feel this good on grass, but i got to say that i really worked hard for me to feel comfortable, and i had also or practice days on grass. so i think all of it coming together can make a difference at the end. and, yeah, honestly, i really enjoy my time here, so i think you can also see that on the court. we're still over three weeks away from the start of the british and irish lions test series against the wallabies, but on saturday, they play the first tour game on australian soil as they take on western force in perth. it's the first of five warm-up
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matches before the first test. there are five debutants in the 15, but for irish prop tige furlong, this is his third tour with the lions. we're trying to get a group from four countries here to play a certain way, in a certain system. i know some of the irish systems, in terms of a little bit attack and defence, and i know the time it takes to get that. you know, at the end, there's the other side of, you're dealing with high-quality international players and you can just see that it's just chugging up every day. we are getting there, getting there, getting there, we are clicking, we are clicking. so we are just in that kind of big learning growth spurt phase of the minute, and we're looking forward to seeing what it looks like at the weekend.
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hello, welcome to the context with caitriona perry in washington. and lewis vaughan jones in london, where this hour we're focusing on president trump's second term and today's supreme court ruling that curbs judges power to block his orders. thanks to this decision we can now promptly file to proceed with numerous policies that have been wrongfully enjoined on a nationwide basis and some of the cases we are talking about would be ending birthright citizenship which now comes to the fore. the judges have tried to seize the executive branch's power and they cannot do that, no longer. if a democrat should win
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the white house next time,

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