from tony blair to rishi sunak, ifelt like humming the tune of ghostbusters! who are you going to call? louise casey! why you? how did this happen? i don t really know, actually. i don t know. i started offjust working in charities with homeless people and then all our dreams came true when somebody said, we want to reduce the number of people sleeping on the streets by two thirds, we will set a target, we are serious and i got thatjob. and i suppose i am pretty fearless. and pretty determined, if i believe in the cause. and i always say to people, success then breeds success. we are a nation that loves our failures, aren t we? god love henman, who never won wimbledon but we made the name of that hill after him. we celebrate the underdog which is one of our most endearing and wonderful qualities. drifting is a fearless, we talk to a few people you worked with and one former cabinet minister said louise is like, a live grenade thrown into the civil service. and added, in cas
the bbc finds evidence of major success in clamping down on opium growing in afghanistan. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. thank you for being with us. we start in ukraine, and the attack on a crucial dam in the south of the country. thousands of people have been forced to evacuate, because of rising flood waters. the dam sits between russian held territory to the south and ukrainian territory to the north. kyiv says that moscow is to blame, and so do nato and the eu, which has called the destruction a war crime . at a un meeting, russia has accused ukraine of sabotage. the uk prime minister, rishi sunak has said to kherson now, and this report from our ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse. i think it is still if you go by what us officials are saying just today it is still in its early phases. it has started nevertheless where ukrainian forces, small new units are probing different parts of this vast front line. they re trying to fin
gets tonight s last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now. e 11th hour with stephanie ts fight to get back on colorado s ballot. asking the supreme court to weigh in on the states ban. as president biden sets the tone for his campaign as a fight for democracy. then, the legal and medical consequences in a post-roe world as a woman faces a felony charge after a miscarriage. then, republican lawmakers take a trip to the border, and the push for democrats to talk more about immigration as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle and msnbc headquarters here in new york city. this evening, a very clear contracting contrasting messages from the presidential candidates who could be headed for a rematch. for incumbent by joe biden, it s all about the future of american democracy after this election. donald trump is legs are being focused on his poll numbers and getting the nation s highest court
champions league final in istanbul, leaving i o champions league final in istanbul, leaving 1 0 with 20 minutes left, rodri was the scorer. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. draw up a list of some of the toughest policy of nuts that any government needs to crack and you probably put pretty near the top rough sleeping. you might add anti social behaviour, troubled families, maybe child sexual exploitation. victims rights and last but certainly not least, the culture and standards of the police. that list is a short summary of the job is done by my guest this week on political thinking. job is done by my guest this week on politicalthinking. she job is done by my guest this week on political thinking. she has done those jobs political thinking. she has done thosejobs for political thinking. she has done those jobs for five different prime ministers, both main political parties over the last quarter of a century or
times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts rights now. hi, ari. thanks so much. i m ari melber, and yes, this is another busy news night. we have one of the special reports we have been working on this is brand new, and i m going to share with you tonight. it is about how donald trump as a client has been likened to a mob boss by his own lawyers. how the lawyers who have gotten in trouble have been the biggest assistants, factual, evidentiary and otherwise to the prosecutors pursuing trump, and how there s a lawyer we ve heardless about but i m going to get into details tonight, who can be a key, a lynch pin in any federal indictment. as we come on the air as well as the news we brought you tonight. we brought you a reporter who broke it last night, and now it s everywhere, not being disputed that the doj formally targeted donald trump for indictment. i ll walk you through what that means. number one, it s the clearest signal that charges at this time are p