could no longer claim to be the party of diversity, equality and anti—racism. 0ur religion editor, martin bashir what do you make of this? this is a highly exceptional, significant contribution by the leader of a religious denomination during the general election campaign. the chief rabbi has oversight for half of those in the uk to identify as practising jewish, and he is saying that labour's claim that they are doing everything in their powers to root out anti—semitism, using his powers, mendacious fiction, and that a new poison has taken root in the labour party, sanctioned from the very top. he says that, while he is not in a position to tell people how to vote, the chief rabbi asks, how complicit in prejudice would a leader of her majesty's opposition to be —— have to be in order to be considered unfit for high office? that feels like a rhetorical question. last week, the archbishops of york and canterbury issued a joint statement, appealing to voters and politicians to honour the truth and challenge of false herds, no reference to individual candidates or party leaders. —— challenge all fa

when previous members of the royal family have taken high—risk gambles, princess diana with the martin bashirrince charles, they ended up not going the way that the royal family wished and created massive disruption. clearly, this is an attempt to put a line under it. i would have thought that he woke up to see the papers and see the news across the world and would have been getting indigestion before his breakfast. the alternative, i suppose, following your line of argument, is that you stay quiet, you don't deal with the issues head on and you hope they go away. to an extent, that's a gamble as well, isn't it? we live in a world of sort of short—term amnesia and long memory loss. you know, i would suggest that this is not one of the premier members of the royal family. clearly, meghan has been at the centre of attention and has probably deflected away from this. i am not aware of the issues surrounding this that's going on below the water line, and clearly stuff is going on that might have crowded his judgment. but there is also the opportunity to put your best foot forward and suggest an i

in the last few hours, marine one touched down at martin bashir mara lago. when he released the congressionally approved military aid to ukraine. colleagues write, lawyers from the white house counsel's office told trump in late august about the whistleblower complaint explaining that they were trying to determine whether they were legally required to give it to congress. light sheds on trump's thinking at two critical points under scrutiny by impeachment investigators. his decision in early september to release $391 million in security assistance to ukraine and his denial to a key ambassador around the same time there was no quid pro quo. remember trump was so clear when talking with sondland on that point. also tonight, trump is talking about his personal lawyer and long time friend rudy giuliani. in an interview with bill o'reilly, the president distanced himself from his role in the ukraine effort deny iinge sent him to look for dirt on the bidens. >> i don't even know. he was going to go to ukraine and he cancelled the trip he has other clients other th

the interview with martin bashir was something she bitterly came to regret and affected the rest of heru, good scoop, congratulations and all that, but if i was at buckingham palace in the press office, i would be pulling my hair out. once you have done this, there is no end to it. it is a pandora's box and the next question must be the next question. thank you very much for your time here this morning. and you can see the full interview in a bbc newsnight special tonight at nine on bbc 2. another cold week. here's matt with a look at this morning's weather. some dry weather on the way. at the moment and all too familiar scene behind me captured by one of the weather watchers in ludlow. this is just one of a number of rivers in england and wales where there are close to 90 flood warnings in force at the moment. this shows where the bulk of them are in england, across the welsh borders into the midlands and yorkshire. these areas have seen the most amount of rainfall recently. understandable when you consider the likes of sheffield where we saw flooding a week ago. we have already seen c