hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. there was one question everybody wanted to ask borisjohnson today. did you lie to the queen or when you advised her to parole, to suspend parliament? absolutely not. -- to prorogue. the uk prime minister was also asked whether a brexit deal was still possible. he said yes. but the eu says talks are at a standstill. the signals we are getting are not indicating that there is any initiative that could've reopen the negotiations. in houston, texas they're getting ready to host the next debate for the democrats who want to run against donald trump for president. and we'll be looking at the human and environmental costs of hurricane dorian after it

devastated the bahamas just over a week ago. if you're the uk prime minister and you're having to deny that you lied to the queen, and you're denying it because in edinburgh yesterday, scotland's highest civil court found that your suspension of parliament was unlawful — and effectively said that you did lie to the queen, then you're first few weeks in office may not be going to plan. but that's where boris johnson got to today. did you lie to the queen when you advised her to prorogue, suspend parliament? absolutely not. indeed, as i say, the high court in england plainly agrees with us, but the supreme court will have to decide. we've been going on in this parliament now for longer than any

time since the civil war, we need a queen's speech, we need to get on with things. and parliament will have time, both before, and after that crucial summit on october 17, 18th, to talk about the brexit deal. to reiterate what he was saying. the supreme court will rule next week if he behaved lawfully when he suspended parliament. the prime minister also tried to play down this document. it's codenamed "yellowhammer", was published after parliament demanded it be made public — and it reveals the government's worst case scenario in the event of a no—deal brexit. it makes for bleak reading with predictions of unrest, food shortages, food price rises, medicalshortages, impacts on social care providers, major delays at ports — the list is a long one — and the impacts will be disproportionately impact people with lower incomes. this is the reaction of

the anti—brexit liberal democrats. the medicines, food, and fuel shortages people have been talking about, exactly the sort of thing the government expects to happen in a no deal scenario. and therefore when government ministers go around the tv studios claiming everything will be fine, nothing to worry about, that is clearly not true. and this is the prime minister. if we have to come out on october the 31st, with no deal, we will be ready. and the ports will be ready, and the farming communities will be ready, and all the industries that matter will be ready for a no—deal brexit. what you are looking at here is just the sensible preparations of the worst case scenario that you would expect any government to do. shadow brexit secretary...

no sign of that happening. remember, in a highly unusual move for a time of crisis, borisjohnson has suspended parliament and so restricted its ability to influence the brexit process. while all of this is playing out in the uk — in brussels, senior eu figures have been meeting. remember, brexit is scheduled for 31 october — and borisjohnson has said he won't accept the current withdrawal deal — demanding that major changes are made. no sign of that. the eu's brexit negotiator michel barnier said earlier... now, boris johnson has

repeatedly that progress repeatedly said that progress is being made towards a deal. and he's said he wants a deal rather than a no—deal brexit. and of course he's been considering the practicalities of brexit for several years — and how to leave the eu's single market without having border checks on the island of ireland. but there we have the eu saying his government hasn't provided any plan for them to consider. europe editor at buzzfeed, alberto nardelli. .. this is the new president of the european parliament. translation: unfortunately, the signals that we are getting are not indicating that there is any initiative that could reopen the negotiations, not the way we see it. and we are unhappy about that.

next let's get the assessment of damian grammaticas in brussels. prime minister boris johnson might be talking about optimism, seeing a landing zone for a deal, in brussels, the view is a bit different here. not really a sense at the minute that they could to be very optimistic. a real sense, in fact, that the negotiations that are going on, all the discussions, not really negotiations, have not amounted to anything substantial that could give grounds for optimism. the uk has been presenting some sort of ideas and floating some proposals, last week it was to do with food and agriculture

if he is to deliver on his promise but the problem is could to get something through the parliament and would ireland drizzle because ireland says they they do not want anything short of a fully operable backstop.

and we'll be looking at the human and environmental costs of hurricane dorian after it devastated the bahamas just over a week ago. these are the latest images and we look at these pictures, it will come as no surprise that this is the worst disaster in the bahamas history. tens of thousands of people are still an urgent needs of help, the bbc has just returned from the bahamas. the thing that is going to stay with me from this last week is the way everybody just stay with me from this last week is the way everybodyjust looked dazed. like they had seen a ghost and you ask what it was like to go through that and the sheer look of terror on peoples faces as they describe what

it was like to write out the storm, people told stories about how they hid and laid in a bathtub with a mattress over themselves for two days. this was a hurricane that was extremely powerful, record—breaking but also came across very slowly so people had to endure this for hours and hours, others that hitting cupboards, others that ran into houses because the roof got lifted off and some who ran into a church, a church collapsing on people and i was told about the story of people seeing or having been to a church and watching a collapse on people in the storm. there wasn't a single building that was untouched. and like i said, it wasjust a haunted look on peoples faces of what they had gone through and just not knowing when things would be better, they all kept asking us, are things going to be ok? it is very difficult

to know what to say we look around and there is not structure standing. there are environmental consequences to dorian‘s devastation. oil has contaminated a section of the bahamian coastline because the hurricane ripped off the tops of oil storage tanks. map for example, there's an oil terminal is on the island of grand bahama. this is one of the tanks. you can see large amounts of oil spilled out around it. the norwegian company equinor owns this facility — and it initially said the leak was contained to land. but then it released this updated press release which says it's investigating whether oil spotted in the water up to 80kms out at sea came from them. and the possibility of environmental damage has worried people on the islands. here's more from aleem. if there is... i mean, it is such a stunning part of the world, abaco in particular is so beautiful and the waters around that are stunning.

if one thing is going to help in the future, it is going to be that the big industry coming, tourism. so anything that threatens that is something that will petrified those who have already lost everything, are worried about the future and are now worried about potential hazards like this, putting people off coming. but the needs are absolutely massive. part of the story that doesn't necessarily get told is a lot of the people, i mean, this touched everyone. a lot of these caribbean islands, there are the very, very rich in the big villas in the very, very poor. they were all affected. but the very, very rich had damage to their big villas, those in the shantytowns, a lot of people who were not there legally from the haitian community, they lost everything. they are not going to seek help because they are worried about being deported. a lot of people have left abaco because there is nothing left and the government

provided ways to get off the island, but what there were many left behind because they think if they go back to the capital, they will be deported to haiti. there's a big debate happening this evening for the democrats who would like the chance to take on donald trump next year. these are the preparations. the event is just hours away. it's being hosted by abc news on a university campus. only the top ten candidates will take the stage. former vice presidentjoe biden, senators a little bit warren, former vice presidentjoe biden, senators warren, bernie sanders, kamala harris to name a few. according to the latest polling from realclearpolitics it's really a three horse race — joe biden still leads, with the more progressive bernie sanders and a little bit with the more progressive bernie sanders and warren on his tail. the debate is in houston, texas and laura trevelyan is there. what is happening tonight for all ten candidates will be there on stage, and they will get one minute

15 seconds to answer the questions and they will get 45 seconds to follow up, no swearing, they have been told the abc news political director had to send around a memo because this is being broadcast on national tv. beta overworked, who is from texas, in recent months has been a swearing in the aftermath. —— beto overworked. —— aftermath of the shooting at texas. what will the question of the night be? immigration? climate change? will it be the possible impeachment president trump. in washington we see the housejudiciary committee broadening the scope of this inquiry. a fascinating night ahead, the question can joe inquiry. a fascinating night ahead, the question canjoe biden punch as well as take incoming punches as he has been doing for us that we would see him really going for elizabeth warren as mica looks like it. his buyers are saying that the tone of his presentation tonight will be most of elizabeth warren has a plan for anything. is it a plan that can

actually work? a fascinating night ahead. looking forward to that. don't go anywhere. let me ask you about that. the democrats have been divided about whether they want to impeach president trump. today they ta ke impeach president trump. today they take a step closer towards doing that. the housejudiciary committee voted to set formal rules for the investigation. it will look at a range of issues including cash money payments to cover up his relationships with two women and also whether he attempted to a sharp justice. here's the committee chairman. —— obstruct justice. justice. here's the committee chairman. -- obstructjustice. this committee is engaged in an investigation that will allow us to determine whether to recommend articles of impeachment with respect to president trump. that is what we are doing. some call this process and impeachment inquiry. some call it an impeachment investigation. there is no legal difference between these terms. and i no longer care to argue about the nomenclature force of the president responded immediately on twitter with a quote he attributed to al green. he

quotes... when he actually said during an interview in may was if i am concerned that if we don't impeach the president, he will get reelected. which is not quite the same thing. let's bring in a lower again. so many different developments of the story. how big is this one? —— in laura. developments of the story. how big is this one? -- in laura. it is definitely significant fonts although it is not actually impeachment itself. it is the house judiciary committee inching towards impeachment, if their investigations come up with enough. remember, that investigation into hush money, whether the president paid hush money to women he had affairs with to cover it up during the campaign. michael: come his former attorney, has gone to jailfor the michael: come his former attorney, has gone to jail for the crime of being the fixer. —— michael cohan.

on behalf of when we know what the president. there is a lot out there thatis president. there is a lot out there that is known, but because it is the view of the justice department you cannot die and sitting president, president trump will not be indicted for that crime while he is in office. —— you cannot indict. there isa office. —— you cannot indict. there is a crime out there associated with them, the committee will investigate, if they find he has committed the crime which is we already know that crime was committed because somebody has gone to jail, did they get to impeachment? that is the question. it will may get in the heart of the debate tonight because they want to focus on health care and things that are important in the progressives are important in the progressives are saying president is corrupt in oui’ are saying president is corrupt in our system will be broken if we did not impeach him. it will be fascinating to see what the front runner say about that tonight. and you will see some of that debate on bbc world news and on the bbc news channel. stay with us on outside source — still to come... we'll have the business here on oustide source — and the european central bank chief unveils his latest stimulus plan to kick—start

the faltering eurozone economy. a new study shows cancer survival in the uk is improving — but it lags behind that of other wealthy countries. nhs gp dr ellie cannon says access to scans is crucial: there is probably two main problems and they both a down to access. we know it is hard to get to see the gp. it can take weeks if you have an appointment. that means people are being diagnosed later. so gps are just as equipped as in other countries they know how to diagnose and we have good gps in this country and we have good gps in this country and if people are coming in that bit later, that creates a delay and in the other real problem with access thenis the other real problem with access then is the access that gps like myself half to the imaging that we need to the x—rays and the ultrasounds, we like pancreatic

cancer, patients need a ct scan for that. gps are just not able to refer for that type of imaging. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is? prime minister borisjohnson denies misleading the queen over his reasons for suspending parliament after a court ruled it was unlawful. business now and europe is not messing around in its efforts to kick—start its flagging economy. the european central bank has cut interest rates and re—started quantitative easing. it's worried some of the biggest economies in the eu may go into recession. germany's gdp shrank 0.i% in the second quarter of this year.

france's gdp grew 0.3%. and italy's didn't grow at all. this is mario draghi, the head of the ecb there is surrounding the euro area growth outlook, it remains tilted to the downside. it mainly pertains to the downside. it mainly pertains to the prolonged presence of uncertainties, related to geopolitical factors. uncertainties, related to geopoliticalfactors. the rising threat of protectionist and in one and emerging markets. so that's the european central bank saying several factors including the the us and china trade war are restricting growth. in response, it's moving one of its main interest rates, further into negative territory. what this mean in practice is that banks will have to pay to hold on to money instead of lending it to businesses or individuals. also, quantitative easing is back.

and what that means is the ecb will buy up twenty billion euros worth of debt — that's 22 billion dollars — each month from other banks. and that in turn will mean banks are in a stronger position which will allow them to offer lower interest rates to their customers — which in turn will increase spending in the economy. that's the theory at least. emily mansfield from the economist intelligence unit has more on this. the theory is that if you lower interest rates it is less attractive for people to keep their money in savings and more attractive for them to ta ke savings and more attractive for them to take out cheap loans and use that to take out cheap loans and use that to invest and spend more. that is important at the moment because the euro zone economy is important at the moment because the euro zone economy is slowing. the german economy contracted in the second quarter and it looks like it is heading for a recession. the quantitative easing, unconventional policy but it is one that enables them to get some additional stimulus for the whole economy. next here's the bbc‘s economics

correspondent andrew walker the european central bank clearly sees the alec of being weak, we had mario, the president, repeatedly saying to him he said it again and the press conference, that the inflation is too low in it is going to ta ke inflation is too low in it is going to take some time to get back to the target. in addition, the cbo economist have lowered their growth over the coming years and we know in any case the euro zone of the largest economy is either germany, either in recession or very close to it. there is no question, the ecb are worried about the economic outlook in the measures they have taken dojust outlook in the measures they have taken do just underlined that concern. i noticed there is no time limit on these measures. is that normal? certainly in the past this ecb has indicated with is quantitative easing the business of buying financial assets with newly created money. it set some sort of indication of the likely timescale.

it has never tied his hands, it has been clear that if it thought it necessarily go beyond the timescale but this time there is no data mention at all. that is something i think that is an indication that the ecb want to make the financial market and indeed economic players more widely aware that it is going to continue with this kind of policy until it thinks it is that she would wa nt to until it thinks it is that she would want to achieve. latest on the us—china trade war. president trump has announced a delay to the introduction of planned tariff hikes on $250 billion of chinese goods — he's called it a "gesture of goodwill". here's our asia business correspondent karishma vaswani. from the chinese commerce ministry we are here, that when asked about the goodwill gesture from the united states from donald trump, they are viewing it as a positive and i think underlines the fact that this is relatively a symbolic gesture from a president trump, not going ahead

with the tariffs on october the ist ama with the tariffs on october the ist am a very important day for the chinese, he says that on the request of the chinese officials, that went you look at the fundamental differences in the issues that are at play, really nothing much is change. it has to be set. what we are seeing is a delay of the tariffs that were meant to go into effect on october the ist come at this point they are still going to go into effect on october the 15th, still two weeks. what it does suggest is that the two sides could sit down and have a nether negotiation in the first couple of weeks of october, perhaps we can see in easing of tensions at that point. —— a nether negotiation. now to the us opioid crisis. purdue pharma is the company behind the painkiller oxycontin — and it's reported to be nearing a settlement with more than 2,000 plaintiffs, including 23 states. the deal involves purdue filing for bankruptcy. however, not all the claimants have signed up to the agreement. vivienne nunis, new york.

if they don't sign up, can they go ahead? at this stage, we don't actually know. there will be a lot of contention over this deal. as it stands, a few lawyers representing some of the thousands of states and cities that are bringing this action have encouraged their clients to accept this deal and what this deal will do is as you mentioned, perdue pharma file for bakery come if they do, they would be transformed it turned into a trust that would be taxed with paying out all these claims. and that will see the family give 3.5 billion over of their own money to the chorus. but as i a huge amount of discontent. —— filed for bankruptcy. amount of discontent. —— filed for ba nkru ptcy. states amount of discontent. —— filed for bankruptcy. states like new york are not happy with this deal. they want to see more of their fortune put forward. we don't know at this stage whether it will be agreed. forward. we don't know at this stage whether it will be agreedlj forward. we don't know at this stage whether it will be agreed. i want to understand better what the company is accused of doing wrong? is it manufacturing or marketing? marketing is a big part of this. the family and the controlling company

is accused of really miss leading doctors over the safety of this drug and aggressively marketing get well. that is why this is one of the companies at the heart of this opioid crisis which is not to have killed at least 400,000 americans over the past couple of decades. thank you. something a little bit unusual this evening. outside source is a bit shorter than it would normally be. but with very good reason. if you are one of the many thousands of people who subscribe to the brexit cast podcast, you will know about it. ina cast podcast, you will know about it. in a few minutes, it will be the first broadcast on tv. look who will be watching. hello. brexit cast tv tonight? bbc one, 1130 five p:m.. will you be watching? always. you can see it later on bbc one or in a

few minutes here on the bbc news channel and bbc world news. hello there. low pressure dominated the weather today but as we move through the next few days, high—pressure looks set to take control of the good deal of fine and dry weather to come with that as well, here's how it look today. remnants of the tropical storm gabrielle continuing to bring some patchy outbreaks of rain as you move through tonight and also introducing some fresher air. here's how it looks as we move overnight into friday. the cloud gradually working its way with a few outbreaks of light rain and drizzle with the clear skies behind it. the risk of a few showers for northwest scotland in the northern half of the uk with temperatures in the single figures and only double figures across the south. moving into friday, the high—pressure is going to dominate,

this feature in the northwest which could bring some showers to northwest scotland and will be breezy as well, but to the west of scotland we are looking at a good deal of dry and fine, early cloud cover for england and that could lead to plenty of sunshine and a lot of wind not feeling too with that section of the will feel less humid we're looking at highs on 21 celsius and southeast in the mid to high teens in the north. as you move overnight into saturday, holding onto largely clear skies, so it does look like a cool night across england and wales where we could see a touch of frost. this pushes in as we move into the early hours and we will see increasing amounts of cloud across the north, some outbreaks of rain pushing into northwest scotland into the early hours as well. to move into the weekend, we are looking at plenty of sunshine and we will see temperatures picking up across the south. saturday outbreaks of rain

in northern scotland larer pushing into northern ireland and it will be windy across the northern half of the uk with the risk of gales to the far norht of scotland. across the half of the uk it will be light winds and highs on 23 celsius and so the risk of showers, cloudierfor central parts of the uk with rain and dry for southern parts of england and here will see the temperatures picking up 25 to perhaps 26 celsius in the southeast. now we're finishing early today — and with good reason.

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