hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are broadcaster david davies, and anand menon, who s the director of uk in a changing europe. let s ta ke let s take a look at tomorrow s front pages. the financial times leads with plans by shell to move its hq and tax base from the netherlands to the uk. the metro tells of the extraordinary escape by taxi driver david perry, who was in his cab when sunday s bomb went off in liverpool. the guardian goes with the raising of the terror threat level, after the bomb attack in liverpool. the i splashes on the fact that people aged over a0 will be able to get a covid boosterjab, while the manchester evening news along with a number of other northern papers mocks up the poster from the movie trainspotting to urge the government to build the high speed hs2 rail system in full. let s get into some of those stories. we begin with the guardian, david, do you want to start us off with this?
it s thursday, 31st august. our main story. police chiefs in england and wales are to be given new powers to sack officers found guilty of gross misconduct. the overhaul of the disciplinary processes was prompted by the convictions of former metropolitan police officers wayne couzens, who murdered sarah everard, and the serial rapist, david carrick. our home editor mark easton reports. what is your relationship with malhotra? he s my cousin. i never knew it was so bad what he was doing. otherwise, i d never have gone along with it. frustration of pursuing bent coppers has seen sunday night tv drama echo the real world of policing. the head of scotland yard, sir mark rowley, is among a number of police chiefs, who ve been pushing the government to give them more powers to identify and sack rogue officers. the further people are away from it, the more forgiving they are of the behaviour is what i ve seen. so i want. i want the powers to be able to deal with this. the appalling
top of the hour here in the cnn newsroom. thanks for joining us. i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. happening now, attorney general merrick garland on capitol hill to testify before the jen at judiciary committee for the first time here. you see senators cruz and holly. he is expected to be hit with a wide range of questions including allegations from republicans as they said that the justice department is being weaponized against conservatives as well as updates into investigations into trump and biden and we ll take you there live as it happens. the annual cpac conference happens today as we get new cnn reporting about what trump s allies are doing to get house republicans in his corner. for 2024, not all of them are there. sdwloo also ahead, closing arguments are expected to begin today in the double murder trial of disgraced former lawyer alex murdaugh. jurors in that case at the crime scene at this hour. we will take you live to south carolina. let s begin this hour with
facing tough questions over the railway company s safety practices in the wake of the train derailment in east palestine, ohio, and now he has explaining to do before congress. shaw has apologized more than once for derailment, and he has said that the company is making changes, and they will do right by the people of east palestine. and let s get to the testimony from washington. and sunlen, what have you heard so far? some frustration from the residents of east palestine, but we did hear from the ceo of norfolk southern, and the company and the person who has specifically had so much criticism in the aftermath of this train derailment, and we have heard from mr. shaw. he said that he is deeply sorry of what happened, and he promised to see this through, to get it right for the residents there, and he said point-blank, it is clear that the safety mechanisms that we had in place were not enough. this is more of what he had to say. i am determined to make this right. norfo
here s the scene in bethlehem where tens of thousands of visitors are expected to gather for the annual christmas procession. and in his first christmas message as monarch, king charles pays tribute to his mother, the late queen elizabeth ii. hello and welcome to bbc news. more than a million homes and businesses in the united states are without power as an intense winter storm sweeps across the country. temperatures in some areas are predicted to drop to as low as minus 45 celsius. hundreds of thousands of people across the border in canada have also been affected. the rapidly plunging temperatures, heavy snow and fierce winds have complicated the plans of many people travelling home for the christmas holiday. tom brada reports. once in a generation weather at the worst possible time. ice, wind, rain and extreme cold are wreaking havoc in the build up to christmas. trees have been ripped from the ground and power lines have been knocked out across the country. from maine t