Here’s a quick summary of what has happened around the world over the last 24 hours, brought to you exclusively by British Herald.
British Intelligence denied a newspaper report’s allegations that their MI5 agency withheld information from interior minister Priti Patel. The Sunday Times had reported that MI5 did not trust Priti Patel and hence, reduced the volume of intelligence that reached her. However, a security source deemed these claims untrue. With a request to maintain anonymity, the source elaborated that no information was being held back from Patel and that reports suggesting otherwise were wrong and not in service of public interest.
London police chief Cressida Dick said that she welcomed the government’s 2019 manifesto pledge to create a legal framework for the police use of new technology like AI, biometrics and DNA. “The best way to ensure that the police use new and emerging tech in a way that has the country’s support is for the government to bring in an enabling legislative framework that is debated through Parliament, consulted on in public and which will outline the boundaries for how the police should or should not use tech,” Dick said.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman announced that Britain will comply with the Northern Ireland protocol obligations with the European Union. However, the new protocol does not entail checks on goods.
Torrential rain brought floods to Indonesia’s capital on Tuesday, paralysing large parts of the city as rescue workers used boats to navigate streets turned into murky, brown waterways to get people to safety.
Indonesia’s weather agency linked the rains to tropical cyclones that brought bad weather to southern parts of the archipelago. It also warned of high waves in the seas south of Java island. Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan said more than 200 neighbourhoods were affected by the floods.
“We are concentrating on mitigation. We have prepared all resources to be deployed,” he told reporters, adding that evacuation posts had been set up with health facilities.
Low-lying Jakarta and surrounding areas are home to more than 30 million people and extremely vulnerable to flooding.
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