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
and with western weapons continuing to arrive in ukraine the country s defence minister tells the bbc his country has become a de facto member of nato. tributes are paid to lisa marie presley, the only child of elvis, who s died at the age of 5a. royal mail customers still can t send letters and parcels overseas after a cyber attack on the company. good afternoon. the manchester city footballer, benjamin mendy, has been found not guilty of six counts of rape, and one count of sexual assault. jurors were unable to reach a verdict on one count of rape and one of sexual assault. it follows a six month trial at chester crown court. our north of england correspondent, danny savage is there, explain more about what happened today is. explain more about what happened toda is. , , ., ., explain more about what happened toda is. , , . ., ., explain more about what happened toda is. , ., ., , ., today is. this is a trial that began today is. this is a trial that began to be heard t
Of this morning, 4 million women in this state woke up with fewer reproductive freedoms than they had last night. This is the new reality under a trump abortion ban. Starting this morning, medical professionals like this doctor could be sent to prison for up to five years for providing reproductive care, even earlier in pregnancy. Reality under a trump abortion ban. Starting this morning, women in florida became subject to an abortion ban sub extreme, it applies before many women even know they are pregnant. Which, by the way, tells us the extremists who wrote this ban either dont know how a womans body works or they simply dont care. Trump says he wants to leave abortion up to the states, he says, up to the states. All right. So heres how that works out. Today, one in three women of reproductive age live in a state with a trump abortion ban. Many with no exception for rape or incest. Now, on that topic, as many of you know, i started my career as a prosecutor, specialising in crimes a
Breaking news from new york. The judge in the donald trump trial, ruled the former president violated a 939 ruled the former president violated a gag order and found him in contempt of court. Signed a total of 9,000 for the breaches, lets go to the courthouse. Tell us more. We have been the courthouse. Tell us more. , have been waiting for the judge to rule on this request from prosecutors to hold donald trump in contempt of court. They presented ten examples of where they said donald trump posted on social media and his Campaign Website attacking potential witnesses and jurors. Donald trumps defence was that he was responding to political attacks or reposting posts by others but the judge had told Donald Trumps lawyers they were losing credibility with the court so we had assumed he had would come down hard on donald trump and he has found him in contempt violating that gag order nine out of ten times. The judge said in his order reposts are still the words of the defendant, that the
President has violated a gag order and found him in contempt of court. Hes fined a total of 9,000 for nine breaches. 0ur North America correspondent nada tawfik has the latest from outside the court in new york. Tell us about the fine and the comments when issuing the find. Yeah. Well, matthew, we had been waiting for the judge to rule on this request from prosecutors to hold donald trump in contempt of court. He rejected donald trump was not lawyers that the post his Campaign Website were responding to political attacks. He found in only one of the ten instances that there was a tenuous correlation as he put it to some remarks by one of the key witnesses in this trial, Michael Cohen. 0therwise witnesses in this trial, Michael Cohen. Otherwise he sided with prosecutors that donald trump had wilfully violated a gag water nine out of ten times. Under new york law, he is only able to find donald trump 1000 per violation. He did that but also said given donald trump is wealthy he might not