i'm kasia madera with bbc world news. our top story: welcome to newsday. i'm mariko oi in singapore. democrats in the us house of representatives are beginning an impeachment inquiry against donald trump. democratic speaker nancy pelosi says the headlines this hour: the president had violated the constitution. democrats announce a formal but donald trump, in a series impeachment inquiry against president trump. of tweets, calls it witch hunt, nancy pelosi says he has garbage and presidential violated the constitution. harrassment. the actions of the trump presidency the uk's highest court has ruled that boris johnson's decision to suspend parliament was unlawful. the prime minister says revealed the dishonourable fact of the verdict is wrong, president trump's betrayal of his but will respect it. oath of office, betrayal of our national security and betrayal of but leaders of all major the integrity of our elections. opposition parties have called for his resignation. the uk's supreme court rules that and footage of woman travelling borisjohnson‘s suspension on a thomas cook flight of parliament was unlawful. who organised an impromptu he says the verdict is wrong — whip—round for staff after the firm collapsed is doing but will respect it. i'm kasia madera in london.

also in the programme. donald trump has accused iran well on our website. of escalating aggression at the united nations, and asks members to tighten the noose around the iranian economy. passenger elaine kersla ke and the duke and duchess raised more than $800 for the crew, from turkey, of sussex continue their tour who had lost theirjobs. that's all. stay with bbc world news. of south africa, visiting the country's oldest mosque. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 7am in singapore. midnight in london and 7pm in washington where, in the past couple of hours democrats have launched an official inquiry into impeaching donald trump. it follows claims that he pressured ukraine to investigate the democratic presidential candidate and former vice president, joe biden.

our north america editor jon sopel reports. new york in september, when the leadership of the world converges on the un to speak but one conversation is causing donald trump extreme difficulty and the heat is intensifying. injuly, difficulty and the heat is intensifying. in july, he difficulty and the heat is intensifying. injuly, he phoned the newly elected ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky and its alleged donald trump demanded an investigation into his democratic presidential rivaljoe biden and his son's business dealings in the country as the price for receiving us military aid. no dirt, no aid is the suggestion. the president denies wrongdoing but his account of the call is changed continually as the questions have piled up.” call is changed continually as the questions have piled up. i think it's ridiculous, it's a witch—hunt, i'm leading in the polls, they have no idea how to stop me, the only way they can tries to impeachment. this has never happen to a president before, there has never been a thing like this before, it's nonsense and when you see the call, the readout

of the call which i assume you will see at some point, you will understand. that call was perfect. joe biden is the democratic party frontrunner. he is leading donald trump in the polls and says the president this time has gone too far. the president does not comply with such a request to the congress, he continues to obstruct congress and bluffed the law. donald trump will leave congress in my view no choice but to initiate impeachment. thanks flouted. that would be a tragedy but a tragedy of his own making. the pressure on donald trump saying he will declassify the phone call and release the full transcript but too little, too late. it won't be enough to stop the democrats pressing the nuclear button and pushing for impeachment. the actions of the trump presidency revealed the dishonourable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of our national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections. therefore, today, iam

integrity of our elections. therefore, today, i am announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment enquiry. it's hard to overstate the significance of this move by the democrats and one that the leadership have been very wary about. a ball has been set rolling, with uncertain consequences. democrats will hope this brings about the end of the trump presidency. what they fear is that it will galvanise support for him and lead to his victory in 2020. jon sopel and lead to his victory in 2020. jon sopel, bbc news, new york. earlier our our washington correspondent david willis explained why this call to impeach the president is different. well, it's an historic move, mariko. he could becomejust he could become just the third american president to be impeached. nancy pelosi today, after meeting with members of the democratic caucus, took to the speaker's balcony and she said the president,

in her view, had broken the law and betrayed the oath of office. this to do with a telephone conversation that the president had with the president of the ukraine in which its alleged he basically used the word withholding of aid money to ukraine is leveraged to get the ukrainians to reinstate some sort of —— some sort of corruption probe into the activities of mr trump's rival, democratic rival, joe biden. nancy pelosi said no—one is above the law. she of course had been opposed to impeachment proceedings. the concern being that they could back via and basically shore up donald trump's base, if you like. now she feels there is nothing to be lost, not least because so many of the members in the house are in favour of impeachment proceedings, more than two—thirds of them answer. david, past us presidents have been

hit by big scandals but of course, no—one has been removed from the office. what does the process even look like? what will happen now, nancy pelosi said, is the six house committees that are investigating various complaints against donald trump will continue to do so, continue with those enquiries. they will then write articles of impeachment, which will go before the housejudiciary committee and that committee will then hold a vote and if those are adopted, it will go toa and if those are adopted, it will go to a vote of the full house. it will then go to the senate and that is republican—controlled so there is very little chance that donald trump will be objected from office for that reason alone but this is a symbolic move and he would become the third president in history, as i mentioned, to be impeached if indeed house proceedings against him are successful. david willis there.

and we will be hearing from a former counsel for the democrats during bill clinton's impeachment proceedings later on and more in the supreme court ruling in the uk that boris johnson's supreme court ruling in the uk that borisjohnson‘s suspension of the uk parliament was unlawful stop all that coming up at first, some of the stories making headlines. police have fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters demonstrating outside the indonesian parliament. they were protesting against a bill that would ban sex before marriage. it would outlaw most abortions and make insulting the president illegal. the bill has been delayed, but protesters are concerned it could still eventually pass through parliament. also making news today, officials in pakistani—administered kashmir say at least 22 people have been killed and hundreds injured in an earthquake. the pakistani security forces have reached the worst affected areas, in and around mirpur, to help with rescue and relief efforts. people in cities as far away as islamabad and delhi felt tremors.

the european union's top court has ruled that google does not have to delete all sensitive personal information about criminal convictions and sexual conduct that may show up in searches. but it does need to remove links from searches in europe after receiving an appropriate request. google had appealed against fines in france over what's known as the right to forget. tesla's ceo elon musk says they plan to build a major engineering team in china. the company is already building a factory there and has touted the country as a major market for its cars. ealier this year, he led a delegation of american entrepreneurs to meet with the chinese premier li keqiang. the highest court in the united kingdom has delivered a devastating ruling for borisjohnson and his government.

the uk supreme court agreed unanimously that the prime minister's decision to ask the queen to suspend parliament was unlawful. the house of commons will now resume its business. borisjohnson who's been in new york at the united nations says he ‘strongly disagrees' with the ruling. our political editor laura kuenssberg reports. ready to passjudgement ready to pass judgement on the prime minister. borisjohnson broke the law. the decision to advise her majesty to prorogue parliament was unlawful because it had the effect of frustrating or preventing the ability of parliament to carry out its constitutional functions without reasonable justification. jubilation outside in the rain. cheering yes! those outraged the prime minister had advised the queen to suspend or prorogue parliament for five weeks, suspicious he'd done it

to close down debate on brexit, which he denied. no justification for taking action with such an extreme effect has been put before the court. the conclusion — it was illegal, so it never happened at all. the prime minister's advice to her majesty was unlawful, void, and of no effect. parliament has not been prorogued. the government's lawyers a few weeks ago did not expect this. the courts traditionally allergic to politics and stay well away, but the other side's legal dream came true. the ruling today speaks volumes. this prime minister must open the doors of parliament tomorrow. mps must get back and be brave and bold in holding this unscrupulous government to account. thank you. so what next? immediate calls to new york,

3,000 miles away, for the prime minister's audacious move condemned by the court... prime minister, are you going to resign? ..to be a reason to resign. prime minister. thank you very much, anthony. for some of his allies, though, it's no emergency. there's been a court case in our country this morning, which i think some of you may have picked up on... another chance to suggest the establishment is trying to stop him. i have the highest respect, of course, for ourjudiciary and for the independence of our courts, but i must say i strongly disagree with this judgment. and we in the uk will not be deterred from getting on and delivering on the will of the people to come out of the eu on october 31st. the labour leader's conference in brighton disrupted and delighted by the news. it shows that the prime minister has acted wrongly in shutting down parliament. i invite boris johnson, in the historic words, to consider his position. johnson out, johnson out!

i have instructed the house authorities to prepare not for the recall — the prorogation was unlawful and is void — to prepare for the resumption of the business of the house of commons. the house of commons sits tomorrow, and that it does so at 11:30am. but once mps have raced back here tomorrow, what will they actually do? the alliance of former tories, still rebels, might try to take control again after the government's approach went so wrong. that advice was clearly very poor, and i think some of his advisers are going to have to leave. if boris johnson won't do the decent and honourable thing, then i think parliament has a duty to come together to force him out of office through a vote of confidence. there's no sign of that, though.

and look who's in boris johnson's corner. i know him well, he's not going anywhere. and look who is in boris johnson's corner. a place in power he might have dreamt of for years, but after only two months it's proving harder than perhaps he thought it looked. we're joined by the conservative party commentatorjo—anne nadler. discussing the tumultuous events of early on today. what realistically happens. jacob rees—mogg, the leader of the commons, is describing this asa of the commons, is describing this as a constitutional coup. what happens when boris johnson as a constitutional coup. what happens when borisjohnson comes back and faces parliament? curiously, despite there being an awful lot of sound and fury today, andi awful lot of sound and fury today, and i think genuine shock across the political spectrum, and possibly also in number 10 as well, actually nothing is going to change immediately. there have been because

of the prime minister to resign but he says he won't resign. and is essentially held in base by the fact that the leader of the opposition, jeremy corbyn, despite his confected anger about all this, will be very genuine anger. refuses to propose a vote of no confidence in him which would potentially precipitate a general election. at something he doesn't want right now because the bigger aim for him is to prevent britain from leaving the eu on the sist britain from leaving the eu on the 31st of october without a deal. the hands of the main opposition are somewhat tired. but when it comes to the advice borisjohnson was receiving to bring about the prorogation, he was getting advice from the attorney general, it wasn't blind. there are two elements. the

political advice on the strategy which one can question or dispute and in many ways seems not to have been fully successful because of the result we now see in this obviously the legal advice. what with her during the course of the day is the attorney general advised the prime minister in good faith that this move to pro— road parliament was perfectly within the constitution and would be legal. the curious thing some of us may feel about the actual state from the supreme court today, it suggested that boris johnson, or rather chose not to impugn his motives, only looked at the outcome. in a sense, if he was given the advice that this was perfectly legal to do. there is a

slight wriggle room for suggesting he didn't mislead, but what was seen as all the papers and the commentators saying he deliberately misled but if you went into this with good faith, it's hard to make that case. let's see what happens going forward. you're watching newsday on the bbc. more on the impeachment inquiry against donald trump. we talk to a counsel to the democrats during bill clinton's impeachment proceedings. also the programme: the duke and duchess of sussex continue their tour of south africa, visiting the country's oldest mosque. ben johnson, the fastest man on earth, is flying home to canada in disgrace.

all the athletes should be clean going into the games. i'm just happy that justice is served. it is a simple fact that this morning, these people were in their homes. tonight, those homes have been burnt down by serbian soldiers and police. all the taliban positions along here have been strengthened, presumably in case the americans invade. it's no use having a secret service which cannot preserve its own secrets against the world, and so the british government has no option but to continue this action even after any adverse judgement in australia. concorde have crossed the atlantic faster than any plane ever before, breaking the record by six minutes. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm mariko 0i in singapore. i'm kasia madera in london.

our top stories: democrats in the us house of representatives are launching a formal impeachment inquiry against donald trump over allegations that he pressured the president of ukraine to investigate his political rival, joe biden. allegations that he pressured the president of ukraine to investigate his political rival, joe biden. the british prime minister, borisjohnson, has defended his decision to suspend parliament but said he would respect a ruling from the uk supreme court that he had broken the law in doing so. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. let's begin with the japan times and it's focusing on its environmental policy, clean coal energy. it also reports on criticism the country's new environment minister has faced for his comments at the un climate summit. meanwhile, the south china morning post reports on the cheapest 5g phone to hit the market. someone at phone maker xiaomi was certainly listening,

it says, when consumers called for cheaper phones. you can snap up the latest for around $500. and it was all smiles between the us and singapore, according to the straits times. they've just renewed a key defence pact to allow american forces to use the city state's bases. it's been extended by another 15 years, right up to 2025. let's return to our top story now. in the past couple of hours, democrats in the us congress have announced a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump. the speaker of the house of representatives, nancy pelosi, accused mr trump of violating the constitution and betraying his oath of office. earlier i spoke tojulian epstein, who was a counsellor for the democrats during bill clinton's impeachment proceedings. i asked him what the democrats are looking to find in these transcripts of the conversation between the us and ukrainian presidents.

i think what democrats are looking for is whether there was actually a solicitation by president trump to the new ukrainian president or interference in the election by investigating joe biden, who is likely to be his general election opponent and joe biden‘s son and if there was a solicitation to interfere in the 2020 election, then i think it would be impeachable, and impeachable offence on several grounds. it's clearly a gross abuse of power. as a criminal matter, you could see a whole host of criminal charges which could be brought involving extortion laws and bribery laws and illegal solicitation of a foreign entity into a us election. what we are seeing here, if i may, is an emperor wearing no clothes moment. the moment the democrats indicated there was growing unanimity inside the party to proceed with impeachment, trump

folded like a wet blanket. 0n the question of whether he was going to provide the transcripts of the calls. he had been taking a very hardline position. coalescing around moving on impeachment, all that tough guy bravado just melted away. i think following along the thought of the emperor wearing no clothes, this bravado that trump, this roy cohen like, if your viewers don't know, a ruthless attorney from the 19805 that trump basis is political mindset on, this hold bravado that is not going to punch an inch, the moment he has some existential threat, that is just all talk. nothing much behind it. ithink democrats right now spell blood in the water. is there some chance that

democrats might not proceed with impeachment? they should provide the transcripts of the conversation but the entire whistleblower report, as you know, the us whistleblower listened in on the call. the inspector general port congress should hear about it right away and the director of national intelligence blocked that at the white house's direction. if they make that information available and if they are able to put some kind of better face on the president's motivation. that might have some effect. donald trump has used a speech at the un general assembly to criticise globalism. he said that if people wanted freedom and peace, they should love their nation. he said the future belonged to patriots and sovereign states. and all over, this large magnificent planet. the truth is plain to see.

if you want freedom, take pride in your country. if you want democracy, hold your sovereignty. and if you wa nt hold your sovereignty. and if you want peace, love your nation. wise leaders always put the good of their own people and their own country first. the future does not belong to globalists. the future belongs to patriots. president trump their speaking at the un general assembly. a lot of confident —— commentary that the president seemed subdued. the duke and duchess of sussex ate traditional south african food and visited the country's oldest mosque on day two of their tour of africa. the royals visited the 225—year—old mosque on south africa's heritage day, a public holiday celebrating national culture. from there, the bbc‘s

pumza fihlani has the latest. south africans from all walks of life are celebrating national heritage day here in south africa and what better place to celebrate where the duke and duchess have been welcomed by the diversity community of the western cape, and today marks a day when they come to celebrate the proud culture, the brother recovered walls welcoming many to the celebrations of freedom. —— the brightly coloured walls. that is what the community want them to experience, a celebration of their freedom. earlier they were in a mask which is the oldest mosque in south africa, greeted by interfaith groups. after that, they had an

intimate moment inside one of these homes were a resident will get to show a cup of tea with true south african hospitality. that was pumza fihlani their reporting on the tour of the duke and duchess of sussex and south africa. baby archie with them as well, the first foreign tour as a family and as you can imagine, everybody really excited about that. you have been watching newsday. i'm kasia madera in london. and i'm mariko 0i in singapore. stay with us. coming up: business news. and wework founder adam neumann steps aside. we'll see whether the move can get the troubled office rental company back on track. and before we go, a story that some people might find hard to swallow. we all know that chefs and food critics don't always see eye—to—eye. but one celebrity chef in france is taking thing to a whole new level. marc veyrat is suing the michelin guide after his restaurant was stripped of their

three star rating. and what's caused the stink? he said food inspectors accused him of using cheddar! he denies it all. saying the cheeses in his souffle were always french. that's certainly food for thought. hello there. well, september had been on course to be a dry looking month across the south of the uk until a more recent spell are very u nsettled until a more recent spell are very unsettled weather. yesterday we had this area of low pressure bringing heavy rain, thunderstorms mixed in with that. some really heavy downpours, actually. causing some localised surface water flooding. quite near the bbc around the oxford circus area in london. in boscombe down in wiltshire they recorded if the nine millimetres of rain over the nine millimetres of rain over the space of around about the last 24 the space of around about the last 2a hours. that's exactly a months worth of rain and with more rain in the forecast, september for a worth of rain and with more rain in the forecast, septemberfor a number of us is going to be much wetter than normal. here we are. the rain continues to moving across the south

of england, southern parts of wales. gusty winds around english channel coast costing around 30—a0 miles per hour. winds light of the northern england and scotland but rain around as well. to wednesday, our area of low pressure will eventually start to pull away and the weather will get a little bit less soggy for a time although there will be showers before the next weather system works in from the west through the afternoon. rain at times probably best sums up the weather. the winds eventually coming down through the afternoon. the skies trying to brighten up some heavy showers around. never got the next area of rain it's going to work its way into northern ireland as we go through wednesday afternoon. temperatures, 18,19 degrees, wednesday afternoon. temperatures, 18, 19 degrees, not feeling particularly cold but on enter thursday's forecast, the next area of low pressure follows in quickly. when fronts moving across the uk followed by south—westerly winds. those winds bringing a lot of cloud and showers so even as the rain clears its way through, the skies

but not for a time but further showers come in and those showers again could be heavy with some thunder mixed in so heavy downpours to come at times during thursday. temperatures, just falling a few degrees across scotland and northern ireland, the turning cooler here. england and wales, little overall change, 18 or 19 degrees the top temperature for thursday. friday's weather, another unsettled day, more rain pushing northwards and eastwards a cross rain pushing northwards and eastwards across the country again followed by showers in the afternoon, some of those heavy and thundery. temperatures friday afternoon, again, the coolest weather across scotland and northern ireland, 1a or 15 celsius. feeling a bit cool in the wind. further south, england and wales, temperatures coming down across western areas with highs of 16 in cardiff. 0n into the weekend, it stays quite u nsettled the weekend, it stays quite unsettled and windy with showers and link the spells of rain at times. 00:28:53,059 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 that's your latest weather.