majority so now might north carolina lawmakers have a chance to rethink their stance on all of this. the question is, will they take it? that is the show for tonight. now it s time for the last word with ali velshi in for lawrence. they didn t take their last opportunity to rethink a bill they had a veto proof majority. on i loved your conversation with phillip atiba goff about minneapolis. an interesting point, if you re worried about police forces that are bad in america, minneapolis doesn t top the top 50. doesn t crack the top 50. but he said if you go three consent decrees at a time, which is kind of roughly the average these days, there are very few under the trump administration at all because the trump administration simply didn t believe in that sort of thing. it s gonna take us decades or millennia to figure this out. he was right in saying it s better than not having them, but it s a slow process. i believe the technical term is drop in a bucket, but that doe
opportunity to rethink a bill they had a veto proof majority. on y to another conversation with phillip atiba goff about minneapolis. an interesting point, if you worried about police forces that are bad in america, minneapolis doesn t top the top 50. doesn t crack the top 50. but he said if you go three consecutive degrees at a, time which is kind of roughly the average these days, there are very few under the trump administration at all because the trump administration simply didn t believe in that sort of thing. it s gonna take us decades or millennia to figure this out. he was right in saying it s better than not having them, but it s a slow process. and blew the technical term is drop in a bucket, but that doesn t mean it s not worth talking about. one of the things that make minneapolis interesting though is that the fundamental problem on that police force was the union chief, and that is the case in many american police forces. the police chief, the george floyd,
former president had knowingly stashed away? trump complained very loudly and very publicly about that raid. he also fundraised off of it and really, he took every opportunity to point out what a victim he was for a deep state which hunt. but his first real defense, his first real justification for why he kept all those documents in the first place, that came in the form of a statement said exclusively to fox news, quote, president trump had a standing order the documentary from the oval office and taken into the residence were deemed to be cool declassify the open moment he met them. they idea that a paper pushing delegate delegated by the president needs to approve the declassification, is absurd. so that was trump s defense. he had a standing order to declassify all of these documents. whatever a standing declassification order is. cool. except nobody bought it. cnn interviewed 18 former officials from trump s own administration who called this explanation ludicrous and ri
peru s president, dina boluartay, has called for a national truce, after clashes between police and protesters led to 50 deaths. now on bbc news, it s time for global questions. welcome to global questions with me, zeinab badawi, from sri lanka s capital, colombo. i m on one of the city s beautiful waterfronts along the indian ocean. sri lanka s stunning coastline makes it popular with visitors, but this country, like many others in the region, suffers from extreme weather conditions heatwaves followed by torrential rain and rising sea levels. so, we re asking is sri lanka something of a test case of what and what not to do in combating environment challenges? and will the historic cop27 agreement to help developing nations be enough to avert climate catastrophe? that s global question sri lanka: surviving climate change. applause. welcome to the magnificent national museum here in colombo, which charts the history of this beautiful tropical island as it marks 75 years of
and in other news. on the eve of the us midterm elections: democrats and republicans make their closing arguments this is the scene live in the state of maryland, where president biden is due to address the crowds. and bursting at the seams: we meet 72 members of the same familyall living under the same roof. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 8am in singapore, and 2am in egypt where the cop27 climate summit has started in sharm el sheikh, with the darkest of warnings from the head of the united nations. antonio guterres said the world was on the highway to climate hell with no sign of slowing down, and that humanity needed to co operate or perish . last year s climate conference in glasgow agreed a number of pledges on cutting emissions, but the un says progress on these has been woefully inadequate . our climate editorjustin rowlatt is at the summit in egypt and sent this report. in the egyptian desert, world leaders have been gath