Also tonight, france finally has a prime minister. You will know him he is the former Brexit Negotiator Michel barnier. Parliament. He will need all his skills to Negotiate a raucus french parliament. And not entirely immune from prosecution. Trump pleads not guilty, as his Jan 6 case returns to court in washington. Welcome to the programme. The Waterways here in britain are awash with Records Amount of sewage. Today, the governement announced a new bill that will beef up the powers of the Water regulator. In future the Water Bosses in england and wales will face 2 years in prison if theyre found to have obstructed an investigation into a Sewage Spill and their bonuses will be blocked if they fail to meet environmental and financial standards. But activists say it is not enough. The system is broken, and that current regulations arent being enforced. Heres our environment correspondentjonah fisher. Profits and pollution. For years, our Water Companies have paid out dividends to shareho
Approach to afghanistan? fawzia koofi, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. It s a great pleasure to have you in the hardtalk studio. It is now three years since taliban rule was restored in afghanistan. They have just passed a raft of new socalled vice and virtue measures in kabul. Tell me about the impact of those measures, as you see it. You have put it very rightly after the, you know, three years since the taliban regime was restored. This is the right way to put it, because many people think, say, um, three years since the taliban victory, since they have taken power. Ijust believe it s three years since afghanistan was handed over to taliban because of the moral defeat by all of us, especially international community. Now, the new law. . . You re talking about the decision led by the united states of the western nations who d been backing the afghan government to withdraw their troops, which, of course, then led to the collapse of the afghan national army and the taliba
And there is billions of dollars communities will be able to use for policing. And the frustrations of being the negotiator in chief, Infrastructure Talks between that Bipartisan Group of senators and the white house havent just hit a pothole, they are at the edge of a chasm over some big Sticking Points. The latest on that this just moments. Were following Breaking News as well out of the Supreme Court. A big decision on students free speech. It is an 81 ruling that former cheerleaders online profanity about her school is protected under the first amendment. Pete williams has read over the decision. What stands out to you . What stands out to me is who things. What the Supreme Court is saying here is that it is wiping out a Lower Court Ruling that said that schools can never punish students for what they say off campus. The court doesnt go that far. But it is the next best thing to that far as far as free speech advocates are concerned. Because the Court Suggests that the circumstance
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And also for Northern Ireland as we head into friday morning. Some mist and fog patches across southern parts of england and wales, they could be slow to clear tomorrow. We have still got that mix of rain around the coast and at low levels but heavy snow across central parts of scotland, so some disruption is likely. Heavy rain showers for parts of north east england and for Northern Ireland. But into the weekend thats when things will turn colder for all of us and there is further snow in places as well. So heading through the course of friday night into saturday, low pressure starts to drift away towards the south. We still got more snow across the Higher Ground of scotland, some of that snow on saturday falling to lower levels and it will start to snow across parts of Northern England as well. To the south of that mainly rain showers with the driest weather for parts of Northern Ireland and into wales on saturday but those temperature starting to come down, around 2 8 degrees but it