cambridge university in the u.k. has launched a two year inquiry into how the eight hundred year old institution benefited from slavery during the colonial era. it is only right that can bridge should look into its own exposure to the profits of course the way but during the colonial period we cannot change the past but nor suit to seek to hide from it. cambridge university is not the only institution looking into its imperial past other prestigious universities in the u.k. and u.s. have done the same in recent years facing up to their past and the potential gains they made cambridge's rival oxford faced a long dispute over a controversial statue of a nineteenth century colonialist but claimed it would have faced severe financial cuts had it removed the monument university of east london trying to set up a one hundred million pound fund for reparations over slavery saying the money should be put aside to support ethnic minority students and in america harvard has removed master from its academic titles and georgetown

and the prestigious university of cambridge in the u.k. launches an investigation into its profits from the slave trade during the colonial era. global news live from russia this is our international brain it's tuesday evening at nine here in the russian capital is just turn to in the afternoon in venezuela that's the big story we're tracking over the past few hours where the venezuelan self-proclaimed interim president has called for a military uprising in the country describing it as the final phase and now top officials in the united states say he has full support. as. america will stand with you until freedom and democracy are restored by. today interim president who on good deal announced odds of a person young littered the years government foolish supports the venezuelan people in their quest for freedom and democracy democracy cannot be defeated almost immediately after white i was called clashes broke out on a garden bridge near the capital caracas gunshots were fired and tear gas deployed as protesters threw rocks at the authoriti

and floral tributes have been laid at cambridge university where jack worked. a woman who also died has not yet been named. three others were injured. mobile phone footage shows the moment usman khan was chased along the bridge. he sprayed with a fire extinguisher and another man lunges at him with what looks like a long tusk. moments later he is pinned to the ground, tour guide thomas gray was one of those he intervened. i saw that something was going on, so originally before even knowing what the incident was, i wanted to go and separate them and make sure that somebody wasn't getting beaten to a pulp. police arrived within minutes and he was shot dead. usman khan was a convicted terrorist, jailed for his part in a plot to blow up the london stock exchange. he served half of the 16 year sentence in prison and was released last year. in stafford, police have searched khan's top floor flat and taken away bags of evidence. friday's attack will raise questions about the extent to which convicted terrorists can be de—radicalised as well as the conditions of khan

usman khan also killed jack merritt, another cambridge university graduate who worked with prisoners to help them reform. usman khan was one of the people he'd assisted, a man who was released last december after serving eight years in prison for terrorism offenses, but turned onjack merritt and stabbed him to death. this afternoon, some of jack's friends came to london bridge to mourn him and lay flowers as the head of cambridge university paid him this tribute. well, we're devastated. i metjack only once, but i must say that he impressed me as a person of tremendous charm, but also extraordinary commitment. he really believed that the work that learning together is doing is fundamental for the future of our society. fishmongers hall remains closed — a crime scene being pored over by counterterrorism detectives because, although there won't be a trial, there will be a detailed inquest into the deaths of those who were killed here on friday afternoon. the investigation was continuing as night fell, police determined to gather every piece of evidence to help the families of two youn

on behalf of the university of cambridge i wa nt of the university of cambridge i want to express our shock and horror at the events that unfolded last friday. of course, we condemn utterly all forms of violence and terrorism. i want to express our deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims and to express our hopes for an early recovery for those who have been injured. colleagues across the university and with partner universities work tirelessly to provide opportunities for education for everybody. i want to thank them for everybody. i want to thank them for that. and finally, i want to express my admiration for the tremendous courage shown by participants at the conference and members of the public whose selfless actions likely prevented even greater tragedy last friday. he also paid tribute to jack merritt, he said the 25—year—old was committed to making the about a better place and also that he was really passionate about the work he did to try and educate prisoners. essentially, to help them integrate back into society. it echoes something his father put o

jack merritt, who was 25 and from cambridgeshire was also a graduate of cambridge university. three other people were injured. the attacker, usman khan who was later shot dead by the police, was a convicted terrorist, who'd served 8 years of a 16 yearjail sentence. before he was released on prison on licence. today the conservatives and labour blamed each other for his early release. more on that in a moment, but first for the latest on the investigation, here's our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford. saskia jones, 23 years old, a cambridge graduate who wanted tojoin the police. herfamily said she had a passion for helping victims of injustice. she was named today as the second person murdered in friday's attack, running from fishmongers hall, where he'd just killed two people. usman khan on london bridge on friday afternoon, pursued in an astonishing act of bravery by a man armed only with a fire extinguisher and another wielding the tusk of a narwhal, an arctic whale. he's brought to the ground and held before armed officers arrive and realise he's wearing what look

you know that cambridge university has just acknowledged it benefited from slavery and then appointed an english white man to do a review about what it should do about it how they all these subjects and the failure of their curriculum to represent the reality and object objective reality of british imperial history from a critical stump point i think all these things are much more important than i had dress or if cambridge had those things i think most students would attend despite not having local hairdressers i mean they're obviously going wrong the figures are low on their name take of ethnic and black minorities. and then obviously thinking about student quality of life as well as their university life but. there are always the other problems on their. no they're substantive problems like the fact as the guardian surveys along with varsity shoulders in 2030 that cambridge was rejecting a level black students despite them having equal qualifications to their white counterparts a lot more systemic problems then catering for. head dresses in in cambridge there are real problems of so

prestigious cambridge university launches an investigation into profits it may have made from the slave trade during the colonial era. there it's nice here now may the first. continues from the international first for you we've been tracking what's been happening in venezuela over the past few hours the self-proclaimed interim leader there has called for a military uprising in the country describing it as the final phase and now top officials in the united states say he has their full support. i monitoring the situation in venezuela very closely the united states stands with the people of venezuela and their freedom as. well america will stand with you until freedom and democracy is taught by. today interim president who i'm going to do announce thoughts of a person. the government foolish supports the venezuelan people who in their quest for freedom and democracy democracy cannot be defeated but almost immediately after . clashes broke out on a guarded bridge near the capital caracas gunshots were fired and take us deployed as protesters threw blocks of the authorities. has been follow

prestigious cambridge university which is an investigation into its profits from the slave trade during the colonial era. global news from russia this is r.t. international finance column tuesday evening at ten here and moscow is just in the afternoon in venezuela that's where we've been watching developments over the past few hours the self-proclaimed interim leader there has called for a military uprising in the country describing it as the final phase and now top officials in the united states say he has their full support i'm monitoring the situation in venezuela very closely the united states stands with the people of venezuela and their freedom as this where america will stand with you until freedom and democracy are restored. today interim president who i'm going to do announce thoughts of a person that the years government foolish supports the venezuelan people who in their quest for freedom and democracy democracy cannot be defeated almost immediately after white house call clashes broke out on a guarded bridge near the capital caracas gunshots were fired tear gas was deployed

usman khan also stabbed jack merritt, another cambridge university graduate specialising in helping prisoners to reform. khan was one of the people he'd assisted after his release from an eight—year prison sentence for plotting terrorism, but he turned onjack merritt and killed him. this afternoon, some of jack's friends came to london bridge to mourn him, and the head of cambridge university paid him this tribute. well, we're devastated. i metjack only once but i must say that he impressed me as a person of tremendous charm but also extraordinary commitment. he really believed that the work that learning together is doing is fundamental for the future of our society. fishmongers‘ hall remains closed, a crime scene being pored over by counterterrorism detectives. because, although there won't be a trial, there will be a detailed inquest into the deaths of those who were killed here on friday afternoon. the investigation continued into the night. police gathering every piece of evidence to help the families of two young people understand exactly how they came to be killed. daniel sandford,

he was cambridge university graduate jack merritt, he was 25. the relevance of his graduation is not many that explains his photograph and the way he is stressed, that he was working for cambridge university at the time, the university organised the conference at fishmongers hall, outside of which the attack took place. the organisation he was working for is one which specialises in education services for people in prison, and it held a conference on rehabilitation at fishmongers hall in london, which was attended by the attacker, as mankind. jack merritt ‘s father described his son as a beautiful spirit who always took the side of the underdog. it comes as the prime minister says he wants longer sentences for violent crime and an end to early release for serious offenders. the attacker, usman khan, had been released on licence last december, after serving half of a 16—yearjail sentence for his part in a plot to blow up the london stock exchange. earlier this afternoon, the prime minister has been speaking at the scene of the attack. we unde

university, it was a criminal justice cambridge university, it was a criminaljustice event, cambridge university, it was a criminal justice event, and cambridge university, it was a criminaljustice event, and he was invited, as i understand, is a former prisoner, to discuss issues of criminaljustice. my goodness, so many details which we still want to learn. there was one aspect and i know you were looking at that as we were, the prime minister boris johnson, he gave a statement and he spoke somewhat cryptically about how much prison time that terror, people have been —— people that have been convicted of terror act should get. you can let our viewers know a little bit about what was said. the prime minister was speaking at a cobra meeting, that is where people are fully briefed and up—to—date with what is happening with terror incidents and plans. the prime minister gave an interview in which he spoke about the idea that criminals convicted of serious offences needed to serve decent amount of time injail. of offences needed to serve decent amount of time in jail. of course we

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britain's prestigious cambridge university launches an investigation into profits it might have made from the slave trade during the colonial era. of our live news from russia this is our c.n.n. national brain moscow where it's just one in the morning here it's six pm in venezuela where we've been focusing on for the past few hours and developments there in venezuela is long a long time ally. and venezuela's opposition leader white though has claimed asylum at the chilean embassy in the venezuelan capital caracas leopoldo lopez is the founder of volunteers popular the party the quarterly and he's seen as one of the key figures behind quite a his move to claim the presidency lopez was sentenced to thirteen years in prison in twenty fifteen for inciting public unrest but on choose day he was reportedly freed from house arrest by his guards this comes as a mass unrest in the country after a call for a military uprising in venezuela describing it as the final phase and now top officials in the u.s. say he has their full support. i'm monitoring the situation in venezuela very closely the

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again so as mentioned before the break cambridge university in the u.k. has launched an inquiry into how the eight hundred year old institution benefited from slavery through the colonial era it is only right that can bridge should look into its own exposure to the profits of course the way but during the colonial period we cannot change the past but nor should you seek to hide from it. or coverage university is not the only institution looking into its imperial past other prestigious universities across the u.k. across the us have been looking into a similar thing for years to facing up to their history and the potential gains they made back then came which is main rival oxford for instance faced a long dispute over a controversial statue of a nineteenth century cologne lisp it claimed it would face severe financial cuts at that thing been removed the university of east london meantime tried to set up a one hundred million pound fund for reparations for slavery say the money should be put aside to support ethnic minority students then over in america tal

one of the two people killed in the london bridge attack was a cambridge university graduate who had been working to help rehabilitate offenders. jack merritt was killed by usman khan at a seminar he'd help to organise for students and former criminals. daniel sandford reports. 25 years old and with the sense of adventure, jack merritt had a masters from cambridge university. his father said today he was a beautiful spirit who always took the side of the underdog. yesterday, he was stabbed to death in a frenzied attack by a former prisoner at a conference that he'd helped organise. his killer was taken on by people from the same conference, including otherformer prisoners and by a passing policeman in civilian clothes, before being shot dead by firearms officers. the attacker, usman khan, was automatically released from prison last december, half way through a 16—year sentence for plotting to bomb the london stock exchange. 11 years ago he told the bbc he was no terrorist. i have been born and bred in england, in stoke—on—trent, in cobridge, and all the community knows me, and

they had graduated from cambridge university a year apart with masters degrees in criminology. jack merritt was 25, saskia jones, 23. both were at the start of their adult lives, but, today, they will be mourned after being killed in the fish mongers hall attack three weeks ago. at the holy trinity church in stratford—upon—avon, where william shakespeare is buried, close family and friends of saskia jones were remembering a sensitive, committed young woman, who wanted to join the police. who was working on a prisoner education project, but was killed by one of those she was helping. terrorism often seems, something far away, that it's not going to affect this sleepy town in warwickshire. but this has really brought it home that this is something that really can affect peoples lives here in stratford, and people have been very touched and moved by that and shocked by it. at great st mary's in cambridge, the university church and almost the university church — an almost simultaneous funeral service forjack merritt, whose body was in a wicker coffin in keeping with the ethic

we know that two people died, a man that has been identified as jack merritt, a cambridge university graduate. the identity of the woman who died has not yet been revealed. there were three other people that were injured, a man and two women. we now know that two of them are stable, and the third suffered less serious injuries. again, they have yet to be named, but police have contacted theirfamilies named, but police have contacted their families and they are being supported by specially trained officers. thank you very much. this evening, the london mayor, sadiq khan, condemned the government for its handling of offenders. this government was wrong to get rid of the power to give an indeterminate sentence to protect the public. that sentence was removed by the government. i am concerned, and i have said it publicly before, that i think the cuts that have been made to the ministry ofjustice, the changes made to privations and prisons means their ability to rehabilitate and supervise is compromised. it is important that the government reverses those cuts and changes. it is a fact of

usman khan also killed jack merritt, another cambridge university graduate who worked with prisoners to help them reform. usman khan was one of the people he had assisted, a man who was released last december after serving eight years in prison for terrorism offences, but turned on jack meritt and stabbed him to death. this afternoon, some of jack's friends came to london bridge to mourn him and lay flowers as the head of cambridge university paid him tribute. we're devastated. i only metjack once but he impressed me as a person of tremendous charm, but also extraordinary commitment. he really believed that the work that learning together is doing is fundamental for the future of our society. fishmongers' hall remains closed, a crime scene being poured over by counterterrorism detectives. because although there will not be a trial, there will be a detailed inquest into the deaths of those who were killed here on friday afternoon. the investigation was continuing as night fell. police determined to gather every piece of evidence to help the families of two young people at the start of

today he is studying for a masters at cambridge university and described it as cambridge university and described itasa cambridge university and described it as a humbling experience saying after a week, no one was really bothered about his roving credentials and he was never guaranteed a place. a great story. thank you. you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel. the next news on bbc one is at 6:35. bye for now. hello, you're watching the bbc news channel with ben brown. it's 12:40pm. five days from now, another brexit deadline looms, but whether the uk actually leaves the european union on friday, is still up for discussion. the conservatives and labour have failed to come up with a plan, despite days of talks. in london two neighbours — who have opposite views on brexit — have been having their own cross party talks. mark ashdown reports. we are living in an era of rather poor politicians. two men, one balcony and a debate which has played out across london. i decided to get a banner. imean big. covered the whole front. "vote leave. " i thought it was not

the expense strong competition or a fear of failure but britain's cambridge university has uncovered another lack of decent local hassle and we've been doing some quite detailed research particularly with black students particularly in london looking at all stickles to applying to cambridge and thinking about cambridge a number 3 on the list was headdress is it's unexpected but we need to look at applying to cambridge from their eyes for those students this is their concern. the internationally renowned institution has also been canvassing current students as part of efforts to encourage more up with pins for more diverse backgrounds in 2017 only 2 percent of cambridge is take work of black or ethnic a region that determines where a fear of student debt are not fitting in although the undergraduates featured in the university's promo video say they found college life more diverse than they expected. i think i realized what my original perception of cambridge was but the stereotype when i came here i followed there are spaces from what dot com you're from about what a very small talk'

there are too many white men running the show at cambridge university and they are from a particular class a particular culture the elite of british society and they maintain within them an academic culture that is profoundly classical. and whose culture in terms of respects press values. inimical really to black students who want to critically engage with academia to study issues of philosophy history and others you've got to are black professors you could have a curriculum that reflects a multicultural britain and moreover you've really got leadership from the very top of the university that demonstrates its commitment to race equality and unless cambridge really takes the issue seriously then they will forever focus on headdresses and steel pan and samosa nights to cure their problems. suffering from a lack of people's small school in rural france has taken a somewhat bizarre measure to stay fully open turning to his lush pastures to make up the numbers. that it was a symbolic protest organized by the parents of the students with a certain amount of humor the action showed that si

yes, the recording was made here at cambridge university's wonderful botanic garden. you can see the daily weather recording. 25th of july, yesterday, thursday, and here is the maximum temperature, 38.7 celsius. that temperature was recorded by a thermometer in that weather station over there, that white box. if confirmed, it hasn't been confirmed yet, but if it is, it nudgesjust ahead been confirmed yet, but if it is, it nudges just ahead of the 38.5 celsius recorded in faversham in kent back in 2003. the met office says it is provisional because this is such an important recording, the highest temperature ever recorded in britain. the met office want to be absolutely sure it is accurate. they wa nt to absolutely sure it is accurate. they want to send a team up to check the equipment and make sure it was recording everything properly. they said to me this afternoon that they see no reason that it won't be confirmed. should you break open the champagne? well, ask yourself this. are record temperatures like this something we should be celebrating? rising temperatures a

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saskia jones was a 23—year—old university of cambridge graduate. she and the other person who died, jack merritt, were both involved in a programme aimed at prisoner rehabilitation. the attacker usman khan was shot dead by the police. he was a convicted terrorist who'd been released early from prison. daniel sandford reports. saskia jones, 23 years old, a cambridge graduate who wanted tojoin the police. herfamily said she had a passion for helping victims of injustice and would leave a void in their lives. today, she was named as the second person murdered in friday's attack. friends remembering a determined young woman. she would've stood her ground, which breaks my heart even more because she would have stood up for herself, which, i dread to think what would have happened, to be honest. so, it's not — it's not fair. this world has changed. and a 23—year—old girl dying like that, it should never have happen. it should never come to that. man: where's he going, then? running awayjust after killing saskia, usman khan on london bridge, pursued