through the process. the met has been trying to rebuild public trust following several high profile cases involving serving officers being convicted of serious crimes, including rape and murder. let s speak to dr charlotte proudman, a barrister and founder of right to equality, which campaigns to change discriminatory laws against women. thank you for coming on the programme. what was your reaction when you heard his comments this morning? i when you heard his comments this mornin: ? . , when you heard his comments this mornin: ? .,, , when you heard his comments this mornin? ., , , when you heard his comments this mornin? , ., morning? i was very disappointed to hear his comments morning? i was very disappointed to hear his comments that morning? i was very disappointed to hear his comments that we - morning? i was very disappointed to hear his comments that we still - morning? i was very disappointed to | hear his comments that we still have a way to go around potential
it is just a 900 page argument for expanded unfettered executive power. if you tacket that lid on ron desantis plans that s what he s arguing for, too. i think we need to have a conversation about what does it mean to be a republican now and how has that changed and what are people implicitly accept when they say i just want a strong president. thank you both. that is all in a on thursday night. alex wagner tonight begins right now. it still astounds me these are legitimate conversations we re having with our livelihoods. thanks to you at home for joining me this evening. the former president of the united states is a free man. he can go anywhere he chooses. today he chose to attend his civil fraud trial in new york city. this is weaponization of justice. this is something that nobody s ever seen to this extent. it s called election interference. it s a sad day for our country when things like this can take place. i m sitting in a courthouse instead of being in iow
knowing what we did, but with hindsight, that is the moment we should have done it, three weeks earlier, and it would have saved many, many lives. alistair darling, the labour politician who was chancellor during the 2008 global financial crash, dies at the age of 70. members of the rmt union except a pay deal ending their involvement in a long running series of rail strikes. hello, i m matthew amroliwala. hello, i m lewis vaughanjones. welcome to the programme. the pogues frontman shane macgowan has died at the age of 65. he was discharge from hospital last week. his wife confirmed he had died in social media. macgowan fronted the pogues from 1982 until their break up in 2014. the band are best known for the christmas hit song fairytale of new york. our arts correspondent david sillito reports. # it was christmas eve, babe # in the drunk tank # an old man said to me. # happy christmas, your ours, i pray god it s our last. fairytale of new york, a bleak, drink sodden duet
this programme continues on bbc one. the bombs stop dropping, and the aid starts to flow. the cessation of hostilities and the exchanges should continue tomorrow and are supposed to last four days, but president biden says he wants them to last longer. a unicef official in gaza tells us tonight the truce must indeed last longer. i have seen more children with most of them have come down from the north, so we will prioritise where the greatest needs are. and an update tonight from israel from the family of nine year old ohad, who has just been released with his mother and grandmother. my cousin had his ninth birthday in captivity. my cousin had his ninth birthday in captivity, so i think the only celebration we are going to have soon celebration we are going to have soon as celebration we are going to have soon as we celebration we are going to have soon as we are going to help him celebrate soon as we are going to help him celebrate his ninth birthday, spend it with