Afternoon Briefing Thursday 30th October

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0:45Speaking at a party rally in London, Kemi Beidnok warned the government had failed to control both spending and unemployment. She called on Rachel Reeves to make the right decisions. No one is interested in your problems. We need you to solve our problems. If she puts up the tax, give Reeves the axe. Thank you. Meanwhile, the Shadow Chancellor has called for an investigation into Rachel Reeves after she admitted breaking housing rules by unlawfully renting out her family home without a license. Sir Keir Starmer has accepted her apology and says he's happy the matter can be drawn to a close after consulting his independent ethics advisor.

1:26But speaking to Times Radio, Samel Stride said it's not the end of the matter. There should be a proper investigation into exactly what happened. And I think for the Prime Minister, who stood on the steps of Downing Street and said his government was going to be all about transparency and integrity and bringing back trust in politics, I don't think his response of just saying, well, we'll exchange some letters quickly and sweep it under the carpet and put it to bed is appropriate or satisfactory. A man's appeared in court charged with killing a man and injuring two others in a triple stabbing in West London.

1:57Afghan national Safi Dawood's been remanded in custody. 49-year-old Wayne Broadhurst died and two others, including a 14-year-old boy, were also injured in Monday's attack in Uxbridge. The Policing and Crime Minister has called the decision to offer a migrant sex offender£500 to be deported, galling. Harish Kabatu was escorted onto a commercial flight to Ethiopia on Monday night. He had been accidentally freed from Chelmsford Prison last week, sparking a two-day manhunt. He now claims he tried to give himself up to officers but was ignored. Speaking to Times Radio, Sarah Jones insisted Kabartu couldn't simply be marched onto the plane.

2:36This sticks in the throat. The reality is when we return offenders, we do them on normal flights. These are not military flights or planes that we have taken over. These are normal flights. And if there is a risk that, as there was, that he wouldn't get willingly onto that plane, the operators there in that moment made the decision to make that payment. A new trial has suggested prostate cancer screening for all men over 50 would save thousands of lives in Britain. The European study found offering regular PSA blood tests reduced deaths by 13 % over two decades by helping to catch the disease early.

3:14Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in Britain with 55 ,000 cases and 12 ,000 deaths a year. It's understood the evidence will be assessed by health officials as they decide whether to start an NHS prostate screening programme. Donald Trump's to cut import taxes on Chinese goods after what he called an amazing meeting with the country's leader. The US president says Xi Jinping agreed to work to reduce the flow of fentanyl ingredients into America. And French authorities have announced five new arrests following the jewel heist at the Louvre. The group were detained in simultaneous raids in different parts of Paris last night.

3:51Two other suspects were detained at the weekend. Precious pieces from France's crown jewels were taken during the daylight robbery earlier this month. And remember, you can follow The Times News Briefing on Spotify and you can listen live to Times Radio Online.

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