Lets speak to our lets speak to our political correspondent political correspondent damian grammaticas, who is at The Party damian grammaticas, who is at the Party Conference in brighton. Conference in brighton. You join us you join us youjoin us in you join us in writing where youjoin us in you join us in writing where the Lib Dems are enjoying that the Lib Dems are enjoying that election result. More than a election result. More than a four fold, fivefold increase four fold, fivefold increase election result. More than a election result. More than a fourfold, fivefold increase in mp5, Sir Ed Davey enjoying fourfold, fivefold increase in mp5, Sir Ed Davey enjoying mps, Sir Ed Davey enjoying absolutely will mps, Sir Ed Davey enjoying that. The benefits that he that. The benefits that he brought to the election where brought to the election where he put himself out there are he put himself out there are took part in lots of stance in took part in lots of stance in defence but try to tal
In england and wales. That policy sees the proportion of sentences which some inmates must serve behind bars temporarily cut from 50 to A0 . But latest government figures suggest more than a quarter of prisoners will go on to reoffend within a year of being released. The problem is there are no guarantees that anybody who is released early will not reoffend, because weve got to do ourjob in our prisons of trying to rehabilitate people. We simply cannot do that if theyre used as Human Warehouses and were overcrowded. We must be given a chance to give people hope. The Ministry Ofjustice says it cannot comment on individual cases but insists that anyone who breaks their Licence Conditions upon release, or who commits further crimes, will be punished, and the government says without the early release scheme, police would not be able to make arrests and the courts would not be able to hold trials. The Prison Population in england and wales has dropped by more than 2,000 in a week following
documents case. what special counsel jack smith did about it today. also tonight, record rain and floods in the northeast, we ll tell you who s about to get hit next. good evening, vladimir putin may be one of the most secretive russian leaders since joseph stalin. tonight, we re taking you inside his secret armored train. this on a day that russia and the war in ukraine is very much in the news. president biden has arrived in lithuania for the nato summit when the u.s. and allies will discuss efforts to obtain vladimir putin s aggression. as for biden, we ll be meeting with ukraine s president zelenskyy whose attendance had been in question until late today. both expected to be on the agenda and top the agenda. also today. turkey dropped objections to sweden becoming a member, and stockholm in turn appears to be supporting turkish membership in the european union. according to turkey s state run news agency. complete the succession to nato is a historic step that benefit
for the very latest on all of this, lucas is standing by. the investigation into this cocaine caper continues here as the president heads to europe. the treasury secretary is returning from china. earlier on fox news sunday john said the following. is secretary yellen bowing down repeatedly in china? it is embarrassing and emblematic. these are the people stealing our trade secrets, buying up our farmland. this foreign policy, it is a national desert national security disaster. critics say excessively it does not look like the courtesy was reciprocated. a senior treasury official tells reporters candidly while flying back to the u.s. no specific policy breakthroughs happen during this visit. a follow-up by the secretary of state which also had no breakthroughs. this produced a florida relationship reestablishing contact in hearing from them in beijing. the investigation continues into who brought this cocaine to the west wing. some people want to see the entire west w