13/07/2014 BBC Points West

A case which may shed light on the eavesdropping work of GCHQ in

In the first public hearing of its kind, the government's intelligence

agency is being taken to a tribunal by Amnesty International.

It's more than a year since former CIA employee Edward Snowden claimed

intelligence agencies, including GCHQ, were gathering huge amounts of

the public's Internet usage data. Amnesty International believes its

emails have been illegally intercepted here and in the US. It

says that's in breach of the Human Rights Act.

We know that the kind of organisation that we are, given that

we work with human rights defenders, working to hold governments to

account, it's very likely that ours are the kinds of communications a

government would be interested in. But this is actually about much more

than that. It's about you and me. And that's what is quite so

concerning. It's about the everyday communications.

Tomorrow, lawyers for Amnesty will argue their case at the

Investigatory Powers Tribunal which considers complaints about public

bodies. What we don't really know is how much GCHQ knows about what we've

all been doing on our phones, computers and tablets. They won't

confirm or deny any of it. So it's no surprise that they're not saying

much about tomorrow's case either. GCHQ has always said it works within

a strict legal and policy framework and everything it does is

authorised, necessary and proportionate. But Amnesty wants to

test that claim. Tomorrow's hearing will unusually be held in public.

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal normally sits behind closed doors.

For once we'll be able to watch those whose job it is to watch us.

And we might learn something about what they've been doing.

A man has been charged with attempted murder this evening after

a 41`year`old man was stabbed in the back at Cribbs Causeway Shopping

The victim remains in a stable condition at Southmead Hospital.

A West charity says there's not enough help for victims of

trafficking in the Government's anti`slavery bill that's going

through parliament now. 'Unchosen' makes films to raise awareness, and

helps to train professionals to spot and deal with this growing crime.

Documented on film ` the harrowing and true story of

Hung, a Vietnamese teenager smuggled to Britain on the promise of work.

When the cannabis factory was raided, it

Of course, Hung's case isn't unique ` latest Government figures show

1746 people were referred as victims of trafficking in the UK

last year ` that's a 47% increase on the year before.

But these are just the official statistics ? the real

The Government's new Modern Slavery Bill aims to tackle the problem.

The Home Office says it's the first of its kind in Europe.

It would introduce tougher sentencing,

an anti`trafficking commissioner, and better support for victims.

It's welcomed by campaigners ` as long as victims are

There is a real desperate need that victims are identified

In addition to that, one of the problems is that victims

of trafficking involved in criminal industries have often

So, really to recognise that victims can

be involved in criminal activities, but not to prosecute them.

Others feel it doesn't go far enough and want firms forced to

investigate whether slaves have been used to make their products.

I think businesses ought to care about whether there is slavery

If that creates an additional burden or onus on them to investigate,

then that is something they have a moral obligation to do.

Whatever the detail, most welcome a bill that does

It's been the final day of the Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford,

and over the last three days 140,000 people have been through the gates.

There was a D`Day tribute with a special flypast of a Spitfire

Warming up but becoming increasingly humid. Tonight, mainly dry. Clear

spells, light winds. Could see one to mist patches dawn. Temperatures

cooler than of late, down to 10 degrees. Tomorrow, brightness, some

sunny breaks. Not long before we start to see cloud pushing in from

the West, becoming thick enough to produce one or two spots of light

and patchy rain. Temperatures generally feeling quite warm, into

the 20s. Tuesday start cloudy, it improves and is becoming quite warm

and humid towards the end of the week.

Good evening. A fine night ahead. A few showers are lingering across

eastern England and eastern Scotland. They should fade away into

the small hours. There will be clear skies and it will be a fresher night

and last night. Temperatures will slide down into the mid-teens and

lower. A decent start to the new week. The emphasis really is on

start because, once the morning gets under way, wetter and windier

weather. To work its way into Northern Ireland probably reaching

most part by the end of the rush-hour and pushing into western

Scotland by lunchtime. The same weather system will also see the sky

is greying across the south-west of England and Wales. Cloud will build

further east. Still with some spells of sunshine. Temperatures of 23, 24.

Sunny skies across Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Wetter weather pushing

into Cambria. A bit brighter for Northern Ireland later in the

afternoon. A wet story. . It will continue to push its