Samir Shah's anger was obvious, the BBC chairman's voice shaking with fury as he delivered his message of change. "If you think you're too big to live by the values of this organisation, you are wrong and we will find you out," he promised.

He left little doubt about his personal determination to stamp out bad behaviour at the BBC.

But will he succeed?

The Respect at Work 2025 report was commissioned following Huw Edwards' guilty pleas last year. The corporation was reeling from the revelations surrounding one of its biggest names.

But 12 years ago, a report was published after a scandal involving another former BBC star.

That 2013 Respect at Work review looked into BBC culture in light of Jimmy Savile's depravity. It found bullying was an issue inside the corporation, with some people viewed as "untouchable" because of their status and colleagues too scared to speak up, for fear of reprisals.

The then director general, Tony Hall, said he wanted "zero tolerance of bullying". The BBC brought in a series of measures, including updating its policies and setting up a confidential helpline.

'We have your backs'

On Monday, the current director general, Tim Davie, said he was "totally committed to make long-lasting change."

He said staff must feel confident to speak up and they will be supported (unless their complaints are malicious) without any negative impact on their careers.

"We have your backs," he said. He announced a series of measures including a new code of conduct, a more robust disciplinary policy and leadership training.

All organisations have bad apples, but the power dynamics in a media company are multi-layered. Well-known presenters, for example, can wield extraordinary influence, as well as behind-the-scenes editors and managers.

Then there is the issue of an industry that often relies on freelancers, who have even less power. 30% of freelancers told the report they had seen inappropriate behaviour at the BBC. Less than half said they would feel safe speaking up. That is sobering.

Equally, in BBC news and current affairs, only 48% of staff who answered a recent survey said they thought the corporation dealt with bullying and harassment concerns appropriately.

This is all about power imbalances. Will BBC employees ever feel confident that the organisation really will have their backs if they decide to complain?

My sense is that the biggest consideration when deciding whether to make a formal complaint is the fact that the person you are complaining about will be told you have done so. If that person is your boss, or a close colleague, how can you be sure that it won't have an impact on your career?

But equally, if you don't take formal action, then there is a perception that offenders consistently get away with bad behaviour. There are rumours and stories about particular individuals inside the BBC, just as there are in all organisations.

The proof, perhaps, of whether these new policies are working will be whether the small number of people whose names are often raised internally, accused informally of bad behaviour, will now face more scrutiny; whether colleagues will feel confident to raise a formal complaint.

The report makes clear the majority of people enjoy working at the BBC and that there isn't a toxic culture. But it also talks of some names repeated several times as people who are "not being held to account for poor behaviour".

Who are those people and is any action being taken in light of this review?

The report doesn't name names, either complainants or those accused.

A BBC source told me the corporation will always act if necessary on any information it becomes aware of.

But in pockets of the BBC there is real anger that bullying by individuals is an open secret - and there's a belief that complainants aren't protected. Shah and Davie are promising that will change.

It takes time to change cultures. While some behaviour is always unacceptable - sexual harassment or physical assault for example - the report also talks about grey areas, including colleagues being tetchy or rude, ridiculing ideas or using aggressive language. The plan is to nip these in the bud.

Sometimes this kind of behaviour has been blamed on working in a high pressure environment, for example a newsroom, where short-term emotions can run high. It's not an excuse, Davie said.

The report was commissioned because of the BBC's newsroom's most high-profile star, Huw Edwards. But his name was never mentioned over its 60 pages.

Perhaps the evidence of real culture change will be if this is the last report the BBC ever does about workplace culture.

The number of people who have crossed the English Channel in small boats in 2025 has exceeded 10,000, an increase of about 40% compared with the same period last year.

A total of 247 people crossed on Sunday, taking the total to 9,885 migrants the Home Office has recorded arriving in the UK since the start of the year.

More than 200 people made the crossing on Monday, taking the figure over 10,000. In 2024, that figure was reached on 24 May.

A Home Office spokesperson said the government were "strengthening international partnerships and boosting our ability to identify, disrupt, and dismantle criminal gangs whilst strengthening the security of our borders."

Labour campaigned at the July general election on a promise to "smash" the criminal people-smuggling gangs after a surge in small boat crossings since 2018.

Since coming to power, the government has announced a series of measures to tackle people smuggling, including a new criminal offence of endangering the lives of others at sea.

The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill currently going through Parliament sets out Labour's plan to treat people smugglers like terrorists - with suspects facing travel bans, social-media blackouts and phone restrictions.

A Home Office spokesperson said: "We all want to end dangerous small boat crossings, which threaten lives and undermine our border security.

"The people-smuggling gangs do not care if the vulnerable people they exploit live or die, as long as they pay and we will stop at nothing to dismantle their business models and bring them to justice.

"That is why this government has put together a serious plan to take down these networks at every stage."

Official forecasts estimate 5,400 migrants have been prevented from arriving in the UK on small boats through returns, arrests or and individuals being prevented from departing France.

Conservative shadow home secretary Chris Philp blamed Labour's scrapping of the last government's Rwanda scheme for the rise.

"We know deterrents work," he told the BBC.

"It stands to reason that if somebody illegally crossing the Channel from France ends up somewhere else like Rwanda, they won't bother attempting the crossing in the first place.

"Keir Starmer's claims to be smashing the gangs are laughable, they lie in tatters," Philp added.

Lib Dem Home Affairs spokesperson Lisa Smart said the figures were concerning.

"After the Conservatives trashed our asylum system, allowing criminal gangs to act with impunity the Labour government has failed to get a grip and turn things around," she said.

"We all want to stop these dangerous Channel crossings and that starts by improving our cooperation with international partners."

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage told the BBC: "If this carries on at this rate, by the end of this Labour government another quarter of a million people will have come into this country, many of whom don't fit our culture and will cost us a fortune."

He claimed Reform were "the only party that says unless you deport those that come illegally they will continue to come".

Between July 2024 and March this year, the government said more than 24,000 individuals with no right to be in the UK had been deported. Official figures show 6,339 of these were "enforced returns".

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A massive power cut has caused widespread disruption in parts of Spain and Portugal, with airports, trains and petrol stations impacted.

The chaos has also hit stores, with some supermarkets shutting and local grocery stores switching to cash as card payments stopped working.

Here we collect some of the day's most powerful news photographs.

Picture research by Nick Galvin and words by Amy Walker

A major power cut across large parts of Spain and Portugal has resulted in dozens of flights being cancelled as well as disruption to rail and road networks.

Some 96 departing flights from Portuguese airports have been grounded so far, with the country's capital city airport in Lisbon worst affected.

A total of 45 flights have been called off from Spain, with Barcelona and Madrid airports impacted the most.

The cause of the outage has not yet been established and, while some power supplies have been restored, the head of Spain's electricity grid said on Monday afternoon restoring all power could take "between six and ten hours".

The outage began soon after midday Spanish time and cities across the country have been impacted, although the popular tourist destinations of the Balearic and Canary Islands have not been as badly affected.

The blackouts have led to public transport being disrupted, with trains being cancelled. Traffic lights being affected led to the mayor of Madrid to ask residents to keep the roads clear as tunnels of certain highways were closed.

According to aviation analytics firm Cirium, Lisbon airport had the most (29.6%) departure cancellations in Portugal by Monday evening. A total of nine flights from the UK to Portugal were also grounded.

The BBC understands that Lisbon airport has limited its flow rates - effectively not allowing planes to arrive or there are delays getting planes in, which then knocks on to the tight system of airport operations, where planes normally arrive and leave in strict timeframes.

Barcelona and Madrid made up the majority of cancellations from Spanish airports, but zero flights from the UK to Spain have been scrapped, according to Cirium.

David Gleave, an aviation investigator, told the BBC any interruption to power supplies at airports would not affect air traffic control as "a battery will kick in a maximum of a second later, so airplanes are safe".

"From then on, a diesel-powered generator will keep power running so air traffic control can function," he added.

He said it was likely airports in Spain and Portugal have independent power supplies, "which will see big diesel generators which fire off when it senses no power from its usual grid supply".

Enaire, Spain's air navigation organisation, confirmed that a back-up generator had meant air traffic management operations were continuing to run from its five control centres.

"Appropriate regulations are being implemented to ensure the complete safety of operations," it added.

Iberia, Spain's national airline confirmed on X that despite the widespread power outage its systems were "operating at 100%".

"However, given the difficulties at several airports, we are offering all passengers with flights scheduled for today the option to reschedule their trip," it said.

While some flights are running as normal, the issues impacted the roads and public transport is likely to be a problem for travellers trying to get to airports.

Spain's Transport Minister Oscar Puente said it was not likely that medium and long-distance trains would resume normal service on Monday.

He said the plan was to resume shorter-distance commuter services as soon as electricity supplies had been restored. Work is also under way to rescue people trapped on stranded services.

Three young children who are US citizens - including one with cancer - were deported to Honduras alongside their mothers last week, according to advocacy groups and the families' lawyers.

One of the children is a four-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was sent without medication, a lawyer for the child's family said.

Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan said the mothers had made the choice for their citizen children to be removed with them. "Having a US citizen child does not make you immune from our laws," he said, adding the mothers were in the US illegally.

Trump faced a backlash during his first term for a policy that separated thousands of children from their parents.

On Friday, New Orleans Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials deported the two mothers and three children aged two, four, and seven, to Honduras from Louisiana, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a statement.

The two families - including one pregnant mother - had lived in the US for years and were "deported from the U.S. under deeply troubling circumstances that raise serious due process concerns", the ACLU said.

One of the US citizen children who was removed was suffering from metastatic cancer and was deported without the ability to consult with doctors, the advocacy group alleged.

Speaking to reporters at a news conference on Monday morning, Homan said deporting families together was better than separating them.

"We're keeping families together," he said. "What we did was remove children with their mothers who requested the children depart with them. There's a parental decision."

Homan dismissed the use of the word "deported" to describe the removal of the children from the country.

"They weren't deported. We don't deport US citizens. Their parents made that decision, not the United States government," he said.

Last week, a federal judge said he had a "strong suspicion" that one of the children deported to Honduras, a two-year-old citizen, - was sent away with "no meaningful process".

The Louisiana-born child and her family members were apprehended during a routine appointment at a New Orleans immigration office on 22 April, according to court documents.

Homan, in an interview with CBS Face the Nation on Sunday, said "the judge was due process", adding that the two-year-old's mother "had due process at great taxpayer expense and was ordered by an immigration judge after those hearings, so she had due process."

A hearing has been scheduled in the case for 19 May for the government to address whether the family was given due process.

The second family was detained on 24 April, when ICE refused to respond to their attorneys' and family members' requests to contact them, the ACLU said.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday touted the administration's immigration enforcement actions during its first 100 days.

Leavitt said Trump would sign two new executive orders as a part of his crackdown on immigration, including one that directs officials to publish a list of places that administration has identified as "sanctuary cities".

The term "sanctuary city" has been popular in the US for more than a decade to describe places that limit their assistance to federal immigration authorities. As it is not a legal term, cities have taken different approaches, some establishing policies in law and others simply changing policing practices.

Leavitt also touted an immigration raid at an "underground" nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Sunday, where she said officials detained more than 100 undocumented immigrants and seized weapons and drugs.

The Drug Enforcement Administration wrote in a post on X that 114 immigrants were arrested and placed "on buses for processing and likely eventual deportation".

Thousands of undocumented immigrants have been detained since Donald Trump returned to the White House on 20 January.

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A massive power cut hit large parts of Spain and Portugal on Monday, causing widespread chaos and disruption.

The outage left millions of people without electricity, while internet and phone networks were also down.

Trains were cancelled and evacuated in some regions, traffic lights stopped working amid mounting delays at airports.

With shops, homes and restaurants plunged into darkness - and some people stuck in lifts - Spain's electricity network said by mid-afternoon that restoring power could take several hours.

The cause remained unclear but there was "no indication" of a cyber attack, Portugal's Prime Minister Luis Montenegro said.

When did the outage begin?

The outage began around midday (13:00 BST) on Monday and its impact quickly escalated.

As the scale of the disruption became clear, residents of Madrid were warned to stay put, keep off the roads and not to call emergency services unless "truly urgent".

A Spanish operator said power restoration would take up to 10 hours, while Portugal's power firm REN said getting back to full power could take up to a week.

Queues formed at cash machines as card payments were affected by the outage, and there were reports that some petrol stations are closed.

Spanish media reported that some hospitals had implemented emergency plans, including halting routine work, news agencies reported.

By early evening and after several hours of blackouts, residents in some parts of the country reported the lights are back on.

Power was being restored "in several areas of the north, south and west of the [Iberian] peninsula", the Spanish grid operator said.

The authorities in Spain and Portugal are still trying to work out what caused the power cuts.

"There are no indications of any cyberattack" at this point, the President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, said.

As panic spread earlier in the day, residents of Madrid were warned people to stay off the roads.

In a video on social media, the mayor of the Spanish capital, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, told residents to "keep their movements to an absolute minimum and, if at all possible, to remain where they are. We want to keep all roads clear."

People should only call emergency services if it is "truly urgent", he said.

"If emergency calls go unanswered, go to the police and the fire stations in person, where they will try to deal with all the emergencies."

What has been the impact?

The country's nuclear power plants automatically stopped when the blackout hit, and the Spanish oil company Moeve said it halted operations at its oil refineries.

Flights were also impacted, with delays and cancellations at some airports. EasyJet said it was experiencing some disruption to operations at Lisbon and Madrid. It said the situation was "fluid" and told customers to check local advice.

Businesses have been severely affected. Some Ikea branches in Spain switched to backup generators and stopped customers from entering its stores.

The Madrid Open Tennis organisers have decided to cancel Monday's event.

Elsewhere, Andorra and parts of France were also hit, but the Balearic and Canary Islands were not affected.

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A child has damaged a painting worth millions of pounds by the American artist Mark Rothko at a museum in Rotterdam.

A spokesperson for the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen said it was considering the "next steps" for the treatment of Rothko's Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8.

The damage occurred during an "unguarded moment", a museum spokesperson told the Dutch media outlet Algemeen Dagblad (AD) last week.

A spokesperson for the museum told the BBC the damage was "superficial", adding: "Small scratches are visible in the unvarnished paint layer in the lower part of the painting".

The abstract painting is estimated to be worth up to €50m (£42.5m), according to newspaper AD.

"Conservation expertise has been sought in the Netherlands and abroad. We are currently researching the next steps for the treatment of the painting", the museum spokesperson told the BBC.

"We expect that the work will be able to be shown again in the future," they added.

Sophie McAloone, the conservation manager at the Fine Art Restoration Company, said that "modern unvarnished" paintings like Rothko's Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8 are "particularly susceptible to damage".

This is "owing to a combination of their complex modern materials, lack of a traditional coating layer, and intensity of flat colour fields, which make even the smallest areas of damage instantly perceptible," she said.

"In this case, scratching of the upper paint layers can have a significant impact on the viewing experience of the piece," Ms McAloone said.

The Rothko painting was hanging in the museum's Depot – a publicly accessible storage facility beside the main museum – as part of an exhibition displaying a selection of "public favourites" from the gallery's collection.

Jonny Helm, a marketing manager at the art restoration service Plowden & Smith, said the incident had implications for UK institutions such as V&A East and the British Museum, which are considering "opening up the display of things that would otherwise be obscured in archives."

"How will this event affect other UK institutions who are opening up their archives in the same way?" Mr Helm said.

Restoring a Rothko painting is a difficult task because "Rothko's mixture of pigments and resins and glues were quite complex", Mr Helm said.

He said the fact the painting is unvarnished – meaning it is "open to the environment" – will pose an additional challenge to conservators.

Conservators working to restore the painting will now likely be in the process of documenting the extent of the damage and researching "historic successful treatments" of Rothko paintings.

"Rothko works seem to have terrible luck – this isn't the first damaged Rothko we've heard about," Mr Helm said.

Rothko's 1958 work, Black on Maroon, was deliberately vandalised by Wlodzimierz Umaniec at London's Tate Modern gallery in October 2012.

Umaniec was sent to prison for two years and subsequently apologised for his actions.

During his trial, prosecuting barrister Gregor McKinley said the cost of repairing the work would be about £200,000. It took conservators 18 months to repair the painting.

Rachel Myrtle, Head of Specie and Fine Arts at the insurance company Aon, said fine art insurance policies typically cover "all risks associated with physical loss and damage to artwork including accidental damage caused by children or visitors, albeit with certain exclusions".

She said that when an artwork is damaged, a gallery's insurer will appoint a specialist fine art loss adjuster to visit the museum.

The loss adjustor typically "reviews the damage to the artwork, examines any CCTV footage to determine the exact cause of the loss, and assesses conservation options", Ms Myrtle said.

The museum did not comment on who will be held liable for the damage to the 1960 painting, which the gallery reportedly bought in the 1970s.

The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has previously billed visitors who have caused damage to artworks on display.

In 2011, the museum asked an unsuspecting tourist who stepped on Wim T. Schippers' peanut butter floor artwork, called Pindakaasvloer, to pay for repairs to the work.

Sharon Cohen, a spokesperson for the museum at the time, was quoted by AD as saying: "It is normal procedure for people to pay if they damage art."

The Rothko painting is described by the museum as an example of colour field painting, a term used to describe art characterised by large blocks of flat, solid colour spread across a canvas.

Rothko's Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8 painting is one of several works of modern art that have been damaged in the Netherlands in recent years.

In November 2024, multiple screen prints by the US pop artist Andy Warhol were damaged by thieves during an attempted robbery of the MPV art gallery in the town of Oisterwijk.

In another incident, a Dutch town hall admitted it "most likely" disposed of 46 artworks by accident – including an Andy Warhol print of the former Dutch queen – during renovation works last year.

Museums have different policies when responding to damage caused by children.

In August last year, a four-year-old boy accidentally smashed a 3,500-year-old jar into pieces at the Hecht Museum in Israel.

At the time, Hecht Museum worker Lihi Laszlo told the BBC the museum would not treat the incident "with severity" because "the jar was accidentally damaged by a young child".

The family were invited back to the exhibition with his family for an organised tour shortly after the incident occurred.