A report produced by the Trump administration says the human rights situation in the UK has "worsened" over the past year.
The annual report, which looks at global human rights, specifically pointed to what it said were restrictions on freedom of expression and threats of violence motivated by antisemitism in Britain.
The criticism echoes comments previously made by members of the US president's senior team, including Vice-President JD Vance.
A UK government spokesperson said: "Free speech is vital for democracy around the world including here in the UK and we are proud to uphold freedoms whilst keeping our citizens safe."
The report also describes the human rights situation as having "worsened" in France and Germany.
On freedom of speech in the UK, it said "specific areas of concern" included restrictions on political speech deemed "hateful" or "offensive".
It said the response to last year's Southport attacks had been an "especially grievous example of government censorship", adding, "censorship of ordinary Britons was increasingly routine, often targeted at political speech".
A peaceful vigil was held in the town the next day, but misinformation spread online about Rudakubana led to violent protests.
Posts claiming he was an asylum seeker, who had arrived in the UK on a small boat, were shared widely.
In the wake of the rioting, action was taken against internet users who made the false claims and urged revenge. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer promised that those involved would "face the full force of the law".
The US state department report said local and national government officials had "repeatedly intervened to chill speech".
State department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce, without naming the UK specifically, said online restrictions had targeted "disfavoured voices on political or religious grounds."
"No matter really how disagreeable someone's speech may be, criminalising it or silencing it by force only serves as a catalyst for further hatred, suppression or polarisation," Bruce told reporters.
The report also pointed to buffer zone laws which prohibit protests outside abortion service centres and Public Spaces Protection Orders, powers local councils can use to ban certain anti-social activities.
Scotland implemented 200m (656ft) buffer zones in September 2024. A month later, 150m buffer zones were put in place around abortion clinics in England and Wales.
When they were introduced, safeguarding minister Jess Phillips said: "We will not sit back and tolerate harassment, abuse and intimidation as people exercise their legal right to healthcare."
In April, a woman was convicted of holding a sign reading "Here to talk, if you want" outside a clinic in Bournemouth.
Livia Tossici-Bolt's case was highlighted by Vance and the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labour - a bureau within the US state department.
The bureau said it was "disappointed" by the ruling. "Freedom of expression must be protected for all," it added.
On a more positive note, the report also highlighted how "the government effectively enforced laws protecting freedom of association, collective bargaining, and the right of workers to engage in a strike or other industrial action".
Crime in DC: What do the figures say and how safe do people feel?
US National Guard troops have begun appearing on the streets of Washington DC, a day after President Donald Trump deployed the troops to the city and took control of its police force as he argued violent crime was out of control.
Armoured vehicles were spotted at urban centres and tourist sites around the US capital on Tuesday evening.
Officials have said that 800 National Guard troops are expected to be deployed, as well as 500 federal law enforcement agents.
Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, who has denied crime is out of control in her city, described the troop deployment as an "authoritarian push".
Watch: National Guard arrives in Washington DC
Trump, a Republican, has also threatened similar deployments against New York and Chicago, two other Democratic-controlled cities.
The camouflaged troops have been trickling into the US capital since Trump's announcement on Monday.
They have been seen erecting barricades outside several government buildings, and taking photos with tourists.
Twenty-three people were arrested by federal agents on Monday night, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. The agents are aiding local law enforcement.
She said the arrests were for homicide, gun offences, drug dealing, lewd acts, stalking, reckless driving, and other crimes.
"This is only the beginning," said Leavitt.
"Over the course of the next month, the Trump administration will relentlessly pursue and arrest every violent criminal in the District who breaks the law, undermines public safety, and endangers law-abiding Americans."
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FBI Director Kash Patel later said FBI agents were involved in around half of those arrests.
Both the mayor of Washington and the city's police chief said earlier in the day they shared the same goal as the federal agents.
"What I'm focused on is the federal surge and how to make the most of the federal officers that we have," Bowser said after a meeting on Tuesday with US Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith said: "We know that we have to get illegal guns off of our streets, and if we have this influx of enhanced presence, we know that it's going to make our city even better."
But at a town hall on Tuesday night, the mayor sharpened her criticism of Trump.
Bowser called on community members to "protect our city, to protect our autonomy, to protect our home rule and get to the other side of this guy and make sure we elect a Democratic House so that we have a backstop to this authoritarian push", according to the New York Times.
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It comes as a manhunt was launched for an armed assailant who killed a man on Monday night in Logan Circle, one of Washington DC's trendiest neighbourhoods, just a mile from the White House.
It was the 100th homicide recorded in Washington DC this year, according to local media.
Police say the suspect was last seen wearing a black shirt and carrying a rifle.
The shooting prompted US Secret Service to bolster security outside the president's home as a precaution.
According to crime figures published by Washington DC's Metropolitan Police, violent offences peaked in 2023 and fell 35% last year to their lowest level in three decades.
But DC Police Union chairman Gregg Pemberton has disputed those figures, previously accusing the city police department of "deliberately falsifying crime data, creating a false narrative of reduced crime while communities suffer".
FBI data has also indicated a drop in crime in Washington DC last year - a more modest decrease of 9%.
Studies suggest the capital's homicide rate is higher than average compared with other major US cities.
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Troops were seen posing with tourists on the National Mall near the Washington Monument
Crime in DC: What do the figures say and how safe do people feel?
US National Guard troops have begun appearing on the streets of Washington DC, a day after President Donald Trump deployed the troops to the city and took control of its police force as he argued violent crime was out of control.
Armoured vehicles were spotted at urban centres and tourist sites around the US capital on Tuesday evening.
Officials have said that 800 National Guard troops are expected to be deployed, as well as 500 federal law enforcement agents.
Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, who has denied crime is out of control in her city, described the troop deployment as an "authoritarian push".
Watch: National Guard arrives in Washington DC
Trump, a Republican, has also threatened similar deployments against New York and Chicago, two other Democratic-controlled cities.
The camouflaged troops have been trickling into the US capital since Trump's announcement on Monday.
They have been seen erecting barricades outside several government buildings, and taking photos with tourists.
Twenty-three people were arrested by federal agents on Monday night, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. The agents are aiding local law enforcement.
She said the arrests were for homicide, gun offences, drug dealing, lewd acts, stalking, reckless driving, and other crimes.
"This is only the beginning," said Leavitt.
"Over the course of the next month, the Trump administration will relentlessly pursue and arrest every violent criminal in the District who breaks the law, undermines public safety, and endangers law-abiding Americans."
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FBI Director Kash Patel later said FBI agents were involved in around half of those arrests.
Both the mayor of Washington and the city's police chief said earlier in the day they shared the same goal as the federal agents.
"What I'm focused on is the federal surge and how to make the most of the federal officers that we have," Bowser said after a meeting on Tuesday with US Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith said: "We know that we have to get illegal guns off of our streets, and if we have this influx of enhanced presence, we know that it's going to make our city even better."
But at a town hall on Tuesday night, the mayor sharpened her criticism of Trump.
Bowser called on community members to "protect our city, to protect our autonomy, to protect our home rule and get to the other side of this guy and make sure we elect a Democratic House so that we have a backstop to this authoritarian push", according to the New York Times.
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It comes as a manhunt was launched for an armed assailant who killed a man on Monday night in Logan Circle, one of Washington DC's trendiest neighbourhoods, just a mile from the White House.
It was the 100th homicide recorded in Washington DC this year, according to local media.
Police say the suspect was last seen wearing a black shirt and carrying a rifle.
The shooting prompted US Secret Service to bolster security outside the president's home as a precaution.
According to crime figures published by Washington DC's Metropolitan Police, violent offences peaked in 2023 and fell 35% last year to their lowest level in three decades.
But DC Police Union chairman Gregg Pemberton has disputed those figures, previously accusing the city police department of "deliberately falsifying crime data, creating a false narrative of reduced crime while communities suffer".
FBI data has also indicated a drop in crime in Washington DC last year - a more modest decrease of 9%.
Studies suggest the capital's homicide rate is higher than average compared with other major US cities.
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Troops were seen posing with tourists on the National Mall near the Washington Monument
"I sincerely apologise for causing trouble despite being a person of no importance," Kim told reporters.
The wife of South Korea's jailed former president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been arrested over a raft of charges, including stock manipulation and bribery.
Former first lady Kim Keon Hee denied all charges during a four-hour court hearing in Seoul on Tuesday. But the court issued a detention warrant, citing the risk that she may destroy evidence.
South Korea has a history of former presidents being indicted and imprisoned. However, this is the first time both the former president and former first lady have been jailed.
Yoon was detained in January to face trial over a failed martial law bid last year that plunged the country into chaos and eventually led to his ouster.
Prosecutors say Kim, 52, made over 800 million won ($577,940; £428,000) by participating in a price-rigging scheme involving the stocks of Deutsch Motors, a BMW dealer in South Korea.
While this allegedly happened before her husband was elected the country's leader, it continued to cast a shadow throughout his presidency.
"I sincerely apologise for causing trouble despite being a person of no importance," Kim told reporters.
She allegedly also accepted two Chanel bags and a diamond necklace as bribes from the controversial Unification Church in exchange for business favours.
Among other charges, Kim is also accused of meddling in candidate nominations during the parliamentary by-elections in 2022 and the general elections last year.
Kim appeared solemn as she attended Tuesday's hearing wearing a black suit and a black skirt.
"I sincerely apologise for causing trouble despite being a person of no importance," she told reporters.
While he was president, Yoon vetoed three opposition-led bills that sought a special counsel investigation into allegations against Kim.
He issued the last veto in November, a week before he declared martial law.
A special counsel was set up in June this year after Yoon's rival Lee Jae Myung became president.
UK firms bidding for Indian government contracts in specified areas will be treated on par with Indian suppliers
A standout feature of the India-UK free trade agreement signed last month was the Narendra Modi government's decision to open India's vast government procurement market to UK suppliers.
This typically includes a range of things the government buys - from goods and services to contracts for public works such as roads.
Some 40,000 high-value tenders worth £38bn from federal ministries will now be open to bidding for UK businesses in strategic sectors like transport, green energy and infrastructure - areas which have thus far been heavily protected from foreign competition.
The access is unprecedented, trade experts say.
It is "far greater" than what India had offered in its earlier agreement with the United Arab Emirates and "sets a new benchmark", Ajay Srivastava of the Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI), a Delhi-based think-tank, told the BBC.
Under the agreement, UK firms bidding for Indian government contracts in specified areas will be treated almost on par with Indian suppliers and also have real-time access to information on forthcoming public tenders and procurement opportunities.
Also, goods from the UK made with just 20% domestic input can now be supplied to the Indian government, allowing UK companies the flexibility to source up to 80% of the parts or raw material from other countries and still qualify for procurement preference in India.
The minimum contract value at which these firms can bid for government projects has also been sharply reduced as a result of which "UK companies can now bid on a wide range of lower-value projects - such as rural roads, solar equipment for schools, or IT systems for government offices - that were previously out of reach", said Mr Srivastava.
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UK companies can now bid on a wide range of lower-value projects such as rural roads
But for British companies, realising this opportunity on the ground will be easier said than done, several experts told the BBC.
While UK suppliers are eligible to participate as Class-II local suppliers, Indian companies will continue to get preferential treatment as Class-I suppliers, says Dr Arpita Mukherjee, a trade expert with the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations.
Moreover, pricing plays a key role in winning contracts, and "UK companies tend to have higher prices" compared with Indian companies, which will be a major challenge for them, she adds.
A more significant deterrent will be delayed payments and difficult contract enforcement, which are "major legacy issues when it comes to public procurement in India", says Srijan Shukla of the Observer Research Foundation think-tank.
He says a study on procurement by India's central public sector enterprises from 2017 to 2020 found that pending payments to suppliers were often more than the total average procurement in a year.
"This will impact UK players trying to enter India's public procurement markets, especially when it comes to public contracts that have long-time horizons and are subject to regulatory and political uncertainties," Mr Shukla told the BBC.
Pending dues have been a major irritant for India's small businesses too, leading to short-term liquidity issues that often "force them out of these procurement markets and reallocate that business to the big players", according to Mr Shukla.
Much of this is reflected in India's poor ranking - 163 out of 190 - on contract enforcement in the World Bank's Doing Business report, the latest round of which was in 2020.
While things have improved since these rankings were published - with one-stop-shop portals like Government e-Marketplace, the Central Public Procurement Portal or the recently launched online dispute resolution portal bringing more transparency to the public tendering process - payment discipline by government entities continues to remain a challenge, says Mr Shukla.
According to Ms Mukherjee, the India-UK trade agreement emphasises transparency in procurement but omits issues like pending dues, contract enforcement and penalties.
She adds the deal excludes the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement's dispute settlement provisions for four years after the CETA takes effect - these provisions usually define how disputes are resolved.
"Doing business in India is an acquired skill. Over time, companies from the UK will have to learn the way to work around complexities regarding the art of winning public tenders and navigating though complex regulations," Mr Shukla says.
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India's public procurement market has long been reserved for local small and medium enterprises
Despite the niggling issues, allowing foreign players entry into India's government procurement market marks a far-reaching policy shift.
It shows the Indian government's intentions to open up a space that has long been reserved for local small and medium enterprises, and could be reflective of the concessions Delhi is willing to give foreign players in future trade agreements like the one being negotiated with the US, according to GTRI.
India is late to including deep government procurement clauses in trade deals, making its current efforts a catch-up game, says Mr Shukla.
It is also a sign, he says, of the Indian government's "confidence that its own firms can compete with global firms both externally and at home".
The hope is that more foreign players will force more accountability from the Indian government and "help standardise" its tendering and public procurement process - marked by payment delays and poor contract enforcement - to global standards.
Putin and Kim spoke on Tuesday, with the Russian leader praising Pyongyang's military support for his country's war against Ukraine.
This week, Russia has been making fresh military advances in Ukraine, leading to a sudden thrust near the eastern town of Dobropillia and advancing 10km (six miles) in a short period of time.
Kim and Putin "reaffirmed their commitment to the further development of friendship relations, good-neighbourliness and cooperation," the Kremlin said in a statement.
Putin gave the North Korean leader an update on the Alaska summit's preparation, sharing with him "information in the context of the upcoming talks with US President Donald Trump," the Kremlin said.
The official North Korean statement did not mention this.
Repeating his earlier statement, Putin "praised the assistance provided by [North Korea's] support during the liberation of the territory of the Kursk region", according to his office.
The Ukrainian army briefly invaded Russia's Kursk region last year in an unexpected offensive that showed Western allies its capability to fight back against Russia, which currently occupies about 20% of Ukraine's territories.
'Like slaves': North Koreans sent to work in Russia
Putin and Kim spoke just days before the Russian leader is expected to travel to Alaska to meet Trump, his first face-to-face meeting with a US president since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The war, while causing Russia near-complete economic and diplomatic isolation from the West, has seen unprecedented collaboration between Moscow and Pyongyang. At least 10,000 North Korean soldiers have been sent to fight side by side with their Russian counterparts, according to Ukraine and South Korea.
North Korea also provided Russia with missiles, artillery shells and labourers.
With many of Russia's men either killed or tied up fighting - or having fled the country - South Korean intelligence officials have told the BBC that Moscow is increasingly relying on North Korean workers.
Do Kwon appeared in New York court wearing a yellow prison jumpsuit on Tuesday
A South Korean former tech executive accused of a helping to spark a cryptocurrency crisis that cost investors more than $40bn (£31.8bn) has pleaded guilty to two criminal counts of fraud.
Do Kwon was the boss of Singapore-based Terraform Labs, which operated two cryptocurrencies - TerraUSD and Luna - both of which collapsed in 2022, triggering a wider sell-off in the crypto market.
The US says he was responsible for the failure of the two digital currencies, accusing him of "orchestrating a multi-billion dollar crypto asset securities fraud".
As part of the plea deal, prosecutors have agreed to refrain from seeking a sentence longer than 12 years. Kwon is due to be sentenced on 11 December.
Kwon's guilty plea in a New York court comes after a lengthy legal battle.
US prosecutors said Kwon misrepresented features that were supposed to keep the so-called stablecoin at $1 without outside intervention.
They alleged that in 2021, Kwon arranged for a trading firm to surreptitiously purchase millions of dollars worth of the token to restore TerraUSD's value, even as he told investors that a computer algorithm called Terra Protocol was responsible.
Prosecutors say the alleged misrepresentation prompted a wide array of investors to buy Terraform's offerings, which helped prop up the value of the company's Luna token, which was closely linked to TerraUSD.
The following year, Kwon's TerraUSD and the Luna cryptocurrency crashed.
"In 2021, I made false and misleading statements about why [TerraUSD] regained its peg," he said in court on Tuesday.
"What I did was wrong and I want to apologise for my conduct," he added.
Kwon had originally pleaded not guilty to nine counts stemming from the crash, including securities and wire fraud, and money laundering conspiracy.
He had faced up to 135 years in prison if convicted of the charges in the original indictment.
As part of his plea deal, Kwon agreed to refrain from challenging the allegations in the indictment.
He must also forfeit up to $19.3m plus interest and several properties and pay restitution.
While prosecutors have agreed to limit their requested sentence to 12 years, Judge Paul Engelmayer maintained that he was entitled to prescribe a longer sentence.
That sentence could be up to 25 years in prison.
He still faces charges in South Korea, according to his attorney.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz and several allies will host the president for a video call, the latest in a summer-long effort to hold ranks in supporting Ukraine.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany and other European leaders will likely stress that any discussions of terms for ending the Russia’s war with Ukraine war must start with a full cease-fire.
The American and Russian presidents will meet face to face at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska on Friday, according to a White House official.
The number of people surviving cancer has improved hugely in the past 50 years, but experts warn progress has been uneven with some of the cancers with the worst survival rates falling further behind.
For some, including melanoma skin cancer, 10-year survival is now above 90%, while for all cancers, half of patients can expect to live that long - double the figure in the early 1970s.
But a study by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said there had been little improvement in those affecting the oesophagus, stomach and lungs - and less than 5% survive pancreatic cancer for 10 years.
The government said it was committed to making more progress with a new strategy due soon.
The researchers said advances in treatment and earlier detection were behind the improvements in survival seen for many cancers.
Breast cancer is a perfect example of this, with 10-year survival rates rising from 42% to more than 76% between 1971 and 2018 in England and Wales.
The period saw the introduction of an NHS breast screening programme, plus targeted therapies for different types of breast cancer.
In comparison, the cancers with the lowest survival rates tend to be the hardest to detect and have the fewest treatment options.
Alongside pancreatic cancer, the study says these include oesophagus, stomach and lung cancers, which all still have 10-year survival rates below 20%, after only a small amount of progress since the 1970s.
This has meant the gap between the cancers with the best and worst survival rates has nearly doubled.
'Amazing job'
Matt Black is someone with first-hand experience of how the type of cancer you get makes a huge difference.
In 2019 the 60-year-old lost his sister, Harriette, to pancreatic cancer, 20 years after his father-in-law died of oesophageal cancer.
Five years ago he was diagnosed with bowel cancer which has above average survival rates. Soon after developing symptoms he had surgery and was given the all-clear.
"NHS staff do an amazing job, but it's such a difficult time to be a cancer patient, especially for those with cancers which aren't easy to spot or treat.
"It's so important that there is more research and support for cancer services here, so that more people can be as fortunate as me," says Matt.
The researchers also warned that, while overall survival was still improving, the rate of progress had slowed during the 2010s. Longer waits for diagnosis and treatment are thought to be partly to blame.
Michelle Mitchell, chief executive of Cancer Research UK, which funded the study, said: "Thanks to research, most patients today are far more likely to survive cancer than at any other point in the past.
"But the reality is that this progress is slowing – and for some cancers it never got going in the first place."
The charity wants the government's forthcoming strategy to focus on:
cutting waiting times
early detection, including full introduction of a lung cancer screening programme
investment in research, particularly targeting the most deadly cancers
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said cancer care was a priority. with some progress already made on waiting times.
"The national cancer plan will set out how we will improve survival rates further and address the unacceptable variation between different cancer types," he added.
"I sincerely apologise for causing trouble despite being a person of no importance," Kim told reporters.
The wife of South Korea's jailed former president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been arrested over a raft of charges, including stock manipulation and bribery.
Former first lady Kim Keon Hee denied all charges during a four-hour court hearing in Seoul on Tuesday. But the court issued a detention warrant, citing the risk that she may destroy evidence.
South Korea has a history of former presidents being indicted and imprisoned. However, this is the first time both the former president and former first lady have been jailed.
Yoon was detained in January to face trial over a failed martial law bid last year that plunged the country into chaos and eventually led to his ouster.
Prosecutors say Kim, 52, made over 800 million won ($577,940; £428,000) by participating in a price-rigging scheme involving the stocks of Deutsch Motors, a BMW dealer in South Korea.
While this allegedly happened before her husband was elected the country's leader, it continued to cast a shadow throughout his presidency.
"I sincerely apologise for causing trouble despite being a person of no importance," Kim told reporters.
She allegedly also accepted two Chanel bags and a diamond necklace as bribes from the controversial Unification Church in exchange for business favours.
Among other charges, Kim is also accused of meddling in candidate nominations during the parliamentary by-elections in 2022 and the general elections last year.
Kim appeared solemn as she attended Tuesday's hearing wearing a black suit and a black skirt.
"I sincerely apologise for causing trouble despite being a person of no importance," she told reporters.
While he was president, Yoon vetoed three opposition-led bills that sought a special counsel investigation into allegations against Kim.
He issued the last veto in November, a week before he declared martial law.
A special counsel was set up in June this year after Yoon's rival Lee Jae Myung became president.
More live facial recognition (LFR) vans will be rolled out across seven police forces in England to locate suspects for crimes including sexual offences, violent assaults and homicides, the Home Office has announced.
The forces will get access to 10 new vans equipped with cameras which scan the faces of people walking past and check them against a list of wanted people.
The government says the technology has been used in London to make 580 arrests in 12 months, including 52 registered sex offenders who breached their conditions.
However, campaign group Big Brother Watch said the "significant expansion of the surveillance state" was "alarming".
Live facial recognition was first used in England and Wales in 2017 during the Uefa Champions League final football match in Cardiff.
The government is now funding ten vans equipped with LFR to be shared between seven forces, approximately doubling the number of vehicles.
The seven forces are Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, Bedfordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Thames Valley and Hampshire.
The technology identifies people by taking measurements of facial features including the distance between the eyes and the length of the jawline and then comparing the data to to an existing watchlist.
Each van will be staffed with a trained officer who checks the matches identified by the technology.
Simultaneously, the government is holding a consultation on what safeguards are needed to "ensure transparency and public confidence", ahead of drawing up a new legal framework.
Rebecca Vincent, interim director of Big Brother Watch, said: "Police have interpreted the absence of any legislative basis authorising the use of this intrusive technology as carte blanche to continue to roll it out unfettered, despite the fact that a crucial judicial review on the matter is pending.
"The Home Office must scrap its plans to roll out further live facial recognition capacity until robust legislative safeguards are established."
Charlie Whelton, policy and campaigns officer at Liberty, said: "It's welcome news that the government will finally develop a statutory framework on the use of facial recognition, but this should be in place before more facial recognition technology is rolled out.
"There's no reasonable excuse to be putting even more cameras on our streets before the public have had their say and legislation is brought in to protect all of us."
The government says officers using the LFR vans will need to follow the College of Policing's guidance on the technology and the Surveillance Camera Code of Practice.
It also says independent testing of the facial recognition algorithm by the National Physical Laboratory found that "the algorithm is accurate and there is no bias for ethnicity, age or gender at the settings used by the police".
Chief Superintendent of South Wales Police Tim Morgan said: "We understand the concerns which are raised about the use of live facial recognition technology and we use any new technology ethically and spend time and effort making sure it's deployed in line with all legislation and guidance."
The Police Federation of England and Wales, which represents police officers, said: "The government must also invest in comprehensive training programmes for officers to accompany this technology rollout, particularly as police forces face an unprecedented officer retention crisis."
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the government would "provide police with the tools they need to do their jobs".
"Facial recognition will be used in a targeted way to identify sex offenders or people wanted for the most serious crimes who the police have not been able to find."
The Home Office has also announced that it has fulfilled a manifesto pledge to ensure there is a named, contactable officer in every neighbourhood in England and Wales.
It said people can search for an officer on the website of local police forces, who have signed up to a commitment to respond to queries within 72 hours.
The type of contact method provided will be up to individual forces.
The migrant crisis dominates the papers on Wednesday, with the Times leading with the headline "Channel boat migrants arriving at record speed". More than 50,000 migrants have crossed the Channel under Sir Keir Starmer's leadership, which the paper says is "the fastest the milestone has been reached under any prime minister".
The Guardian's headline reads "Treasury targets inheritance tax rises", reporting that a "clampdown on gifting money and assets" is under consideration for the forthcoming budget. Sources told the paper that officials have been tasked with examining whether a change to inheritance tax could help close the reported £40bn gap between revenue and spending.
"Migrants flood into Britain" says The Telegraph, paired with a photograph of migrants racing into the sea to board small boats off the coast of Gravelines, France. The headline story is also on inheritance tax, with the paper reporting that the amount of money raised from the tax has more than doubled over the past decade.
"It's not our fault!" declares the Mail's headline, leading on comments from Baroness Smith of Malvern, a former Labour home secretary, after she said "what is happening is the result of the last government". The image of migrants sprinting into the channel is front and centre of the paper, with the caption "Dawn dash".
The Financial Times says migrants arriving by boat will "add to stresses" for local councils, which will have a duty to house the homeless amid a severe shortage of social homes. The paper also reports that weapons factories in the EU are expanding at three times their rate before the Ukraine war, which they write "represents rearmament on a historic scale".
A record eight million people are now receiving universal credit, according to the Express. The paper reports that the number of benefit claimants who are not obliged to look for work has "shot up by a million under Labour".
The i Paper is leading with a clampdown on artificial stone imports to the UK, writing that the incoming restrictions have come off the back of their own investigation into rising cases of silicosis among young workers.
"Bungling hitwoman in niqab faces life" reads the front page of the Metro, after US woman Aimee Betro was found guilty of attempting to shoot a man dead in the UK. Betro will be sentenced on 21 August.
The Sun's headline reads "Taunts of the TikTok migrant", reporting that a man has "boasted on TikTok" of crossing the Channel by dinghy and has "racked up a million views" detailing his journey from an asylum hotel near Heathrow.
The Star has pictured Match of the Day's new "hat-trick of hosts" of the front page, with the paper saying the new show will "focus strictly on footie".
"Dry alert" warns the Mirror, reporting that drought conditions could last until the middle of October.
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