of the population vote. caveat number two, we don t know what impact so called greeters had on the numbers. these were people employed by some local authorities to meet voters outside the polling stations, they are there to manage queues, help those with mobility issues etc. some reminded people they needed id to vote. we don t know who was discouraged at that stage. the figures we have got do not record those numbers. according to the electoral commission that is one aspect that they are going to investigate. one final thing to consider whatever the impact at polling stations, and whatever the level of voter fraud that id is meant to tackle which in terms of recorded offences or convictions is tiny there has been a big positive impact on voter confidence in the electoral system according to polling by the electoral commission. at a time when trust in institutions is low, that fact on its own, say supporters of voter id, is a not insignificant benefit. bob posner, chief
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
japan says north korea s latest missile test is outrageous and unacceptable, after it fired a suspected medium or long range ballistic missile into the sea of japan. it prompted the japanese government to tell residents on the island of hokkaido to seek shelter, but the missile splashed down outside its territory. jean makenzie has more seoul. north korea has launched a suspected long range missile this morning, potentially an intercontinental ballistic missile. so these are the missiles that can, in theory, reach all the way to the us mainland. it appeared for one moment this morning that it was going to touch down very close to japanese territory. or at least that s what the japanese government thought when they issued that warning to the residents on hokkaido. but, actually, north korea has done what it normally does when it fires these long range missiles it s fired it right up into space. but what this false alarm shows is that this region is now on high alert when it
how the iconic sea king helicopter has found new purpose fighting the russian invasion. and standing by for lift off from south america for an eight yearjourney to send a spacecraft to jupiter. and coming up on the bbc news channel, manchester united take on sevilla in the first leg of their europa league quarterfinal tie. but they will be without marcus rashford as they face the six times champions. hello and welcome to the bbc news at one. a man has appeared in court charged with murdering a policewoman in west yorkshire 18 years ago. pc sharon beshenivsky, who was 38, had been a police officerfor only nine months when she died while on duty in bradford. piran ditta khan was brought back to the uk on tuesday from pakistan. he is also charged with robbery and firearms offences. here s our home affairs correspondent, tom symonds. two police officers shot while responding to an armed robbery, a rare and shocking crime, but then it was confirmed they were relatively inexperienc