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
hello and welcome. president putin is expected to hold a ceremony in the next few hours to declare that four ukrainian regions willjoin russia. the kremlin says luhansk, donetsk, zaporizhzhia and kherson voted to join russia in recent, self styled referendums. but ukraine and the west have dismissed the votes as a sham. ukraine insists its goal of fully liberating the country will never change, regardless of any statements from moscow. our ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse, has been to one village close to the front line, as well as where russia now sees as a new border. there aren t cues to the front line from this side. war with russia is trying to cause new water. it feels like driving into a vacuum. devoid of communities but not damaged. in the village here, it s mostly women and not many. the men and children have left now. life 11 miles from the enemy is not easy. translation: miles from the enemy is not easy. tuna/mom- miles from the enemy is not easy. translatio
and moving matches to avoid using floodlights. is the rising energy prices making football clubs finances unsustainable? we may be fast approaching winter, but major changes to the structure of two of our most high profile summer sports are being hotly debated tonight. in a few minutes, we are going to be talking about big proposals to shake up the structure of rugby in this country. but before that though, cricket. the new chairman of the ecb says the sport must find a compromise over controversial plans to overhaul the calendar amid a revolt by the counties who could have the number of matches they play slashed. in his first broadcast interview since taking up the role, richard thompson told our sports editor that change was needed because international cricket faced an existential threat from overseas t20 franchises. england may have enjoyed a resurgence in men are both vs cricket this summer but behind the scenes, mounting division on how to secure long term success. the
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financial markets spooked by downing street s economic plan. us vice president kamala harris is set to travel to south korea as she continues her asian tour. she s expected to visit the demilitarised zone hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the writer and broadcaster mihir bose and the sun s political and environment correspondent natasha clark. welcome back. same stories still dominating come of that for us us to look a0 minutes ago, different papers this time, though. squeaky fun time is the main headline mayor you can see and the sun, which reports that britain s pension funds nearly saved from having to sell many of their assets by the bank of england s intervention. xpress it was a day of turmoil on the markets again, quoting ministers who say the tax cut budget was still the right plan. the eft focuses on the bank of england £65 billion plan to buy government debt and has a chart showing how that move b