it s goodnight. after multiple racist incidents involving uk police officers newsnight learns that the initiative set up to tackle racism in policing in england and wales is now facing allegations of racism itself. some ethnic minority staff who used to work for the unit tell this programme they believed they were seen as troublemakers or difficult . i was treated differently my white colleagues by a lack of support when the workload increased. i increasingly felt my voice and at times might lived and professional experience were being ignored. we ll ask the chair of the body tasked with oversight of the programme where this leaves the police race action plan. also tonight south africa grants diplomatic immunity to world leaders attending a conference in august. president putin himself has outstanding arrest warrants for war crimes, so will he now turn up injoburg? the message is that south africa would have been showing is that it prefers its relationship with mr puti
donald trump is claiming authorities will arrest him tomorrow relating to alleged hush money payments made to an adult film start stormy daniels. while a decision from a grand jury not far from right here where i m sitting could still be days away it. would make him the first former president indicted in our nation s history. what we know, what we don t, and the potential political impact here is our lead story. correspondent david spunt joins us now from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, good evening to you. late this afternoon, perhaps the final grand jury witness in a year s long investigation involving alleged hush money payments between the former president and an adult film address. two heavy hitters in manhattan court this afternoon, former trump fixer michael cohen and robert costello, cohen s one time confidante who rebuffed cohen. now is he on the revenge tour. i tonight condone it. i went in there to tell these people the truth about hot real
charges, in this case is jus the tip of the iceberg washington post reports that a federal judge has grante prosecutors requests to forc trump lawyer evan coren to testify before grand jury abou the former president possession of classified documents. he handled the initial respons to requests for trump s team t return the documents, an refused to until investigators questions, citing attorney client privilege that defense is now gone joining me now, former actin solicitor general of the unite states professor of law georgetow university, and msnbc lega analyst. anthony, holy former directo of the author of public affair in the department justice, and former senior adviser to attorney general merrick garland. and pulitzer prize-winning journalist charlie savage. washington correspondent for the new york times, msnb contributor, and author of power wars, the relentless ris of presidential authority an secrecy. what a powerhouse panel i have with me this morning i m going to st
newsroom, we re following global reaction boy the arrest warrant for russian president vladimir putin, we ll go live to kiev ahead. and to on you allow the use or prescription of abortion pills, the signs that point to a possible indictment of donald trump possibly soon. this comes amid a monday mental ruling by a federal federal judge involving one of former s president s attorneys. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with kim brunhuber. russian president vladimir putin, the world could be a lot smaller than it was for him 24 hours ago, the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for him and the kremlin so-called children s rights commissioner alleging they re responsible for the illegal deportation of ukrainian children to russia, international court was created to prosecute individualized of such actions right now, 123 countries recognize its jurisdiction and if putin travels to any one of them he could be potentially arrested there. russia, howev
vladimir putin is formally hichmes release for alleged scheme to deported ukranian children to rural. cnn has an exclusive interview with the chief prosecutor. also, a monumental court rule against former president trump, his lawyer ordered to testify in the grnl investigation of his handling of classified documents. stand by for details on the story first reported on cnn. and u.s. stocks slide as fears about the banking system persist despite multi-billion dollar rescues. we will get tips how you can protect your money. welcome to our viewers from united states and around the world and i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. biden administration reacted to the new arrest warp for vladimir putin saying the u.s. supports accountsability for perpetrators of war crimes. clarissa ward is joining us from the hague where the international criminal court issued the warrant for putin s arrest. walk us through the significance of this warrant and what are the changes that pu