hello, welcome to the programme. we have got another action packed programme for you tonight. coming up, the white house says they have still had no consular access to anerican journalist evan gershkovich, who is being held by the russians on spying charges. we will speak tonight from the former soviet dissident natan sharansky, who was held in the same moscow prison in the 1970s. we will also hearfrom mark urban on his continiung investigation into russia s 331 parachute regiment, and the losses that unit has sustained in ukraine. but we start tonight with the clean up within britain s biggest police force. the met commissioner, sir mark rowley, who was appointed in september, believes there are hundreds of corrupt officers serving in the force who should not be in the job. and so concerned is he at the scale of the problem, that around 90 of his officers from serious and organised crime have been tasked with investigating their own. this morning, sir mark set out the plans
Congressional leaders are slamming the Russian government’s detention of American journalist Evan Gershkovich in a rare joint statement issued Friday, marking a year since his captivity began. “Evan Gershkovich, an American citizen and reporter for the Wall Street Journal, has now spent a year wrongfully detained by Putin’s government. We continue to condemn his baseless…
Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images(NEW YORK) The U.S. is keeping all options on the table as negotiations to free scores of hostages in Gaza press on playing a significant role in advancing talks between Israel and Hamas while actively formulating plans with international partners for tactical recovery operations that could be put into action if it s determined they could be carried out with a reasonable level of risk, according to two American officials.
The U.S., along with Qatar and Egypt, is working to move Israel and Hamas toward a deal to free many of the more than 200 captives Israel assesses are being detained, potentially including some of the 10 Americans that are still unaccounted for following Hamas surprise terror attacks on Israel on Oct. 7.
On Friday, President Joe Biden spoke with the emir of Qatar to discusses "the urgent need for all hostages held by Hamas to be released without further delay."
Despite the push for diplomacy and reports that both sides
The U.S. is keeping all options on the table as negotiations to free scores of hostages in Gaza press on playing a significant role in advancing talks between Israel and Hamas while actively formulating plans with international partners for tactical recovery operations that could be put into action if it's determined they could be carried out with a reasonable level of risk, according to two American officials. The U.S., along with Qatar and Egypt, is working to move Israel and Hamas toward a deal to free many of the more than 200 captives Israel assesses are being detained, potentially including some of the 10 Americans that are still unaccounted for following Hamas' surprise terror attacks on Israel on Oct. 7.
Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images(NEW YORK) The U.S. is keeping all options on the table as negotiations to free scores of hostages in Gaza press on playing a significant role in advancing talks between Israel and Hamas while actively formulating plans with international partners for tactical recovery operations that could be put into action if it s determined they could be carried out with a reasonable level of risk, according to two American officials.
The U.S., along with Qatar and Egypt, is working to move Israel and Hamas toward a deal to free many of the more than 200 captives Israel assesses are being detained, potentially including some of the 10 Americans that are still unaccounted for following Hamas surprise terror attacks on Israel on Oct. 7.
On Friday, President Joe Biden spoke with the emir of Qatar to discusses "the urgent need for all hostages held by Hamas to be released without further delay."
Despite the push for diplomacy and reports that both sides