hello, welcome to the programme. we have got another action packed programme for you tonight. coming up, the white house says they have still had no consular access to anerican journalist evan gershkovich, who is being held by the russians on spying charges. we will speak tonight from the former soviet dissident natan sharansky, who was held in the same moscow prison in the 1970s. we will also hearfrom mark urban on his continiung investigation into russia s 331 parachute regiment, and the losses that unit has sustained in ukraine. but we start tonight with the clean up within britain s biggest police force. the met commissioner, sir mark rowley, who was appointed in september, believes there are hundreds of corrupt officers serving in the force who should not be in the job. and so concerned is he at the scale of the problem, that around 90 of his officers from serious and organised crime have been tasked with investigating their own. this morning, sir mark set out the plans
For an immediate ceasefire. Rescue operations are stepped up in france and italy after storm alex brings torrential rain and flash floods to many areas. Good to have you with us. President trump has taken a short car trip to wave at supporters gathered outside the hospital where he is being treated for covid 19. Mr trump arrived at the Walter Reed National military Medical Center on friday, hours after publicly revealing that he and wife melania were infected. Doctors treating the president say hes continuing to recover well and might be discharged from hospital within the next 2a hours. Our north america correspondent davis willis reports. The Us Governments medical experts have advised coronavirus patients to stay in their room and only venture out if it is medically necessary. Not this patient. Accompanied by secret Service Agents in protective gear, President Trump embarked on a slow drive around the walter reed Medical Center to wave to supporters who had maintained a vigil there
And theres just hours to go in transfer deadline day in the premier league. Everton sign defender ben godfrey from norwich city in a £25 million deal. Hello, good afternoon. Number 10 says an investigation has begun into the error which meant that the close contacts of nearly 16,000 people with coronavirus were not traced last week. Public Health England has blamed what it described as a technical issue, and the investigation will look into why the problem wasnt discovered sooner. Although those testing positive were informed, their details were not passed on to the test and trace system to alert those theyd been in contact with. The bbc has been told by Senior Public Health officials a significant proportion of the unreported cases are from the north west of england. Phe says the issue has now been resolved, but labour has called the situation shambolic. The Health Secretary matt hancock is to make a statement to mps this afternoon. Heres our Health Correspondent cichard galpin. Test
There are still holes in the Airport Security net. An investigation by the Inspector General of the Homeland Security Department Found airport employees, dozens of them, got security clearance from the tsa, even though they were on a terrorism watch list. How could that happen . Heres kris van cleave. Reporter the new report found the tsa does not have access to terrorist watch list data that would have flagged 73 airport workers. That includes airline employees, airport vendors and others with access to secure areas of commercial airports in the u. S. The tsa is responsible for vetting every application for Airport Security credentials. The report noted the vetting was generally effective, but it identified thousands of aviation worker records that appeared incomplete or inaccurate including those for 75,000 immigrants that did not list a passport number and 87,000 records without a Social Security number, something by law the tsa cannot require. The report follows last weeks revelati
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