main stories on newsnight, which isjust getting under way on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are, but from the ten team, it s goodnight. controversy rages over rape trials withoutjuries in scotland. could a new pilot scheme improve convictions rates in rape trials, or undermine the principles ofjustice? we ll be speaking to a former snpjustice minister, who is implaccable opposed and the head of rape crisis is scotland who backs the principle. also tonight. the afghan interpreters and their families promised safety in britain, but stuck, some now for a year, in hotels in pakistan, under effective house arrest. now i m stuck here. the taliban are threatening me. i can t go to afghanistan, and i can t go to the uk. i m stuck in the middle of things. fresh momentum for donald trump as the fbi is heavily criticised for its handling of its investigation into alleged ties betw
month but the cost of living is still close to a a0 year high. all police forces in england and wales have been told to check their police officers against the national database to identify anyone who may have slipped through the net after the case of pc david carrick. and in tennis britain s emma raducanu and defending men s champion rafa nadal are both beaten in the australian open. more than 10,000 ambulance workers in england and wales will hold four more days of walk outs in the next two months as part of a dispute about pay. the gmb union says its members will go on strike on the 6th and 20th of february, as well as the 6th and 20th of march. another ambulance union is expected to announce its strike dates later. and today, there is disruption across the nhs in england, as nurses walked out as part of their dispute. about a quarter of hospitals and community health services are affected, though emergency care is being provided. 0ur health correspondent, dominic hugh
subconscious bias against him and also was we learned two, they were looking into people s past social media posts to try to see if there was something in someone s past and they were successful in getting thank to jurors, excluded yesterday, tuesday, because they found some problematic posts going back years and their pasts. and yet the judge cautioned the idea that every time you want to ask a juror in an isolated the question that you have a separate meeting with them. the judge is not want that to take place. they want the overall 30 minutes why dare to be used to actually identify any social media posts. but there s also one juror today who was very forthcoming about just how much but she knows about the allegations in this case. she s a lawyer. she s somebody who has read i think the pomeranz book who was one of the members of the da team, who outraged that alvin bragg did not initially want to go four with this case. she s still there well there s still going through the quest
to unfair trials. the law society of scotland has raised serious concerns. it says, a jury will always be far more reflective of scottish society than a singlejudge can be, which greatly reduces the potential for subconscious bias to influence trial outcomes. juries are anonymous whilejudges are not. and the government may struggle to get the pilot off the ground. criminal defence lawyers up and down the country, whether it be through their local bar association or scottish solicitors bar association, will boycott any pilot scheme that is put in place. it is seen to be an affront to justice, a social experiment, and one that we cannot knowingly subject our clients too. the bill would mean other sweeping changes too. the number ofjurors in trials will be reduced from 15 to 12. and the abolition of not proven
The letter was reportedly sent following the Sussexes appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show when Meghan claimed a member of the royal family had speculated about how dark their unborn son s skin would be.