dollars worth of damage. and to mark martin luther king day, boston has unveiled a bronze sculpture to celebrate the life of the the civil rights leader, but its not universally popular. tonight with the context, the democratic strategist mary anne marsh and the writer and broadcaster chris morris. hello welcome to the programme. when david carrickjoined london s metropolitan police in 2001 he was already a criminal suspect in a domestic abuse case. the vetting procedure failed. not once but throughout a career that spanned 20 years. in the two decades he was an officer, later becoming a fire arms officer, the met and three other police forces received 1a complaints. seven of them involved allegations of criminal or predatory behaviour towards women. he was not re evaluated for 16 years, and even then incidents were not given the attention they should have been. today he was unmasked as one of britain s worst ever serial rapists, admitting 71 sex offences. pleading guilty t
welcome back to the programme. the great, the good, and the obscenely wealthy are gathering in davos, in the swiss alps. it s the annual meeting of the world economic forum, which kicks off tonight. the ceos of 600 of the world s biggest companies will be there, 56 finance ministers, central bank governors, trade ministers, foreign ministers. and yet perhaps of greater note the list of who is missing. of the g7 leaders, only one is attending this time german chancellor 0laf scholz. no rishi sunak, nojoe biden and even his treasury secretary janet yellen, who will be in switzerland to meet with her chinese counterpart this week, is not adding davos to itinerary, which rather underpins the theme of this year s summit, cooperation in a fragmented world . from the impact on energy markets to issues of food security, the war in ukraine and the standoff with china, how much co operation is there really?