it s goodnight. after multiple racist incidents involving uk police officers newsnight learns that the initiative set up to tackle racism in policing in england and wales is now facing allegations of racism itself. some ethnic minority staff who used to work for the unit tell this programme they believed they were seen as troublemakers or difficult . i was treated differently my white colleagues by a lack of support when the workload increased. i increasingly felt my voice and at times might lived and professional experience were being ignored. we ll ask the chair of the body tasked with oversight of the programme where this leaves the police race action plan. also tonight south africa grants diplomatic immunity to world leaders attending a conference in august. president putin himself has outstanding arrest warrants for war crimes, so will he now turn up injoburg? the message is that south africa would have been showing is that it prefers its relationship with mr puti
Good evening. House republicans thought they had a new nominee for speaker till about an hour and a half ago. Take you to capitol hill and show you what happened. Also tonight, israels bombardment of Terror Targets in gaza is inten intensifying and e criticism of statementings by Theouted Nation Secretary General about the war here in the u. S. And concerns of Mass Evacuation of americans in the region. Jacqui heinrich at the white house on t teherans role in the attacks and new comments from the israeli hostages released yesterday. A short time ago the House Speaker race imploded again. Reporter good evening. Another day, another Speaker Nominee drops out. Tom emmer was the Speaker Nominee for only four hours and gop burned through three Speaker Nominees in less than two weeks. Tom is a great guy, but the voter base wants somebody not in leadership. Mr. Emmer agrees with me that the election was not stolen. He voted to certify. Reporter mr. Trump said voting for emmer would be a big m
Us tonight. Multiple tornadoes are sweeping through the midwest causing extreme damage and flipping Tractor Trailers right right in front. Guys. Holy [blee, violent tornado guy, violent tornado. Well, monitor and bring, leak you more as it comesed. But first. Late today, we saw mounting evidence not in the courtroom, but outside it that donaldg thro trump winning. After eight days of sitting through this sham hushug money day trial, he pivoted seamlessly to the news of the day including. Bidens comments at Howard Stern Show that hes happye in to debate trump and invitevid biden to debate it anytime they want, including monda tonio were willing to do it monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursdayhere night, on friday night on national television. Were ready to strike anywhere. Brilliant. And by the way, he looks great. Its hard to see the biden ever debates him, but well start popping the popcorn early fo. E poinr that one. But the point is, at 77 trump camee, donald out of that courtroom ener
toward tracing their way through the cartels. instead, as we, the house oversight committee and other organizations were led to believe, the atf lost track of those weapons. some were brought back into the country. two were found at the scene were border agent brian terry was gunned down. that was the story as we and nearly everyone thought we knew. now, tonight though, after six months of reporting, fortune magazine reveals a very different fast and furious. the bottom line, letting guns walk was not i repeat, not part of the plan. she writes, five law enforcement agents directly involved in fast and furious tell fortune that the atf had no such tactic. she goes on to say, they insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. just the opposite. they say they seized weapons whenever they could but were hamstrung by prosecutors and weak laws which stimied them at every turn. the house oversight committee is slamming is the story. we ll get to that in
interview and thought it was uncalled for. and the romney staff was particularly whiney after cnn s security debate so much so it made me wonder if they knew something we didn t. here s tonight s truth. if there is a romney collapse, you will trace the roots of the unraveling back to this week. whining is not sim non nom this with winning. team romney senses a disruption in the force. that united states a week ago. things aren t getting better from the romney perspective. a new florida poll shows romney 30 points behind newt gingrich. herman cain s campaign is teetering and its collapse could help gingrich consolidate the anti-romney vote in the early key gop battlegrounds. if you need more proof the republican race has a new front-runner, watch here. ron paul turning his attention to gingrich. i think he s getting a free ride and i ve worked with him for a long time and i think that the points i made on various issues he s a flip-flopper. he can hardly beat me on terms o