we re keeping them honest. also, senator tommy tuberville on cnn said white nationalist to me is an american. now he is doing damage control, while still blocking promotions of military officers in a battle over abortion. and live reporting tonight from new england, where some of the worst flooding there in decade series still far from over. good evening. thanks for joining us. tonight we know what has long been suspected. the former president is trying to run out the clock in the documents case, and it s not just us saying it. he and his legal team did. a court filing, which arrived before midnight last night spells it out. in it, attorneys for the former president and his co-defendant walt nauta ask judge aileen cannon to not only set aside her august trial date, but to also, and i quote, postpone any consideration of a new trial date. so delay the trial and delay deciding when to visit. special counsel jack smith wants a december trial, which our legal analysts agree i
president s legal strategy becomes clear, delay, delay, delay. his lawyers make the case in the judge and documents case, we re keeping them honest. also, senator tommy tuberville, last night on cnn, he said white nationalist, to me, is an american. now, he s doing damage control will still blocking promotions of military officers in a battle over abortion. and live reporting tonight from new england, where some of the worst flooding there in decades is still far from over. good evening, thanks for joining us. tonight, we know what has long been suspected, the former president is trying to run out the clock in the documents case. and it s not just us saying it, he and his legal team did. a court filing, which arrived just before midnight last night, spells it out. in it, attorneys for the former president and his co defendant walt nauta asked judge aileen cannon not only to set aside her august trial date, but also to, quote, postpone any consideration of a new trial date. so
Awful lot of confidence that they would get there and they would get their man, and now they have. I suspect at the end of the day, lots of officers will regard this, despite the three or so days, as a test book textbook operation. They got their man before he was able to critically leave the country. There are so many Unanswered Questions they will want to know. They will want to know if it was an inside job, what help to know. They will want to know if it was an insidejob, what help he got. We now know he had a change of clothing, what was that about . Where did that come from . Was that something that was given to him, or did he steal it from somewhere . We dont know. All those questions need to be answered by the police so they know where to go next in terms of understanding. Bbc news breaking news Daniel Khalife, who escaped from Wandsworth Prison on wednesday it has been arrested. There has been a four day manhunt for him. Take us back to those moments when he escaped, and what w
Something that Good Police Work effects, good policing is about making sure that you check all eventualities, and the metropolitan police did that, they made sure that the airports were all aware of this mans escape very quickly so that all of the czechs were going on to make sure that he couldnt get out. What they also did was concentrate in and around the area that he had actually gone missing. So, the operation is very much based on a significant number of things, not just one item, and everything has to be pulled together by the commanders and then, thankfully, there has been and then, thankfully, there has been an arrest within what is a relatively small space of time. 0nce once we got that information that they believed he was in the Chiswick Area, do think there was a sign they were very much closing in . Absolutely. Forthe were very much closing in . Absolutely. For the police say that, then they were definitely of the view that he was in that area. If anybody had been helping
this september record breaking heatwave is set to continue and we ve provisionally had the hottest day of the year so far. and on bbc london. a nationwide manhunt continues for an escapee who broke out of wandsworth prison. we speak to a former inmate who knew daniel khalife. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a huge manhunt is under way for the former soldier who escaped from wandsworth prison yesterday morning. more than 150 officers and staff from the metropolitan police s counterterrorism unit are trying to track down daniel khalife, who was accused of gathering information for iran. he strapped himself under a food delivery van, still dressed as a prison chef. tonight, police say he has not been seen, but they have been giving more details about how he got out. we begin with our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford. wandsworth prison this afternoon, the day after the infamous escape, and a clear view of the kitchen block and the short route to freedom