hello, i'm kasia madera, this is outside source. the white house is accused of trying to cover up president trump's request to a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020 us election. the us director of national intelligence gets a grilling on capitol hill. among the questions — whether military aid was withheld from ukraine as leverage to get dirt onjoe biden. i do not understand, i have no situation awareness if that was withheld or why it was withheld, mr chairman. well i can tell you, we are going to find out. president trump meanwhile denies all the charges laid at his door in a whistleblowers‘ report — and fires back. disgrace to our country, it's

another witchhunt, here we go again. borisjohnson says tempers need to come down after furious scenes in parliament yesterday. but the prime minister refuses to apologise for his language. i do think it is important that in the house of commons i should be able to talk about the surrender bill and surrender act in the way that i did. and after a long political struggle abortion has been made legal in the last of australia's states, to allow it. the white house stands accused of a cover up. it involves the records kept of that now infamous phone call made by president trump, during which he is alleged to have asked the president of ukraine to dig up dirt onjoe biden. the allegation emerged in this —

a complaint by a whistle—blower — which was released in full today. it says the verbatim transcript of that phone call was removed from its normal place and put onto a classified computer server in an effort to — the whistle—blower says — ‘lock it down‘. that all made for a hugely charged backdrop to the hearing today in congress, with the director of national intelligence appearing to answer questions. i think the whistle—blower did the right thing. i think you follow the law every step of the way and we just got... then why, director, when the president called the whistle—blower a political hack and suggested that he or she might be disloyal to the country. why did you remain silent? i did not remain silent, mr chairman, i issued a statement to my workforce telling them my commitment to the whistle—blower protection and ensuring that i would provide

protection for anybody within the intelligence committee who comes forward. and here's the chair of the committee with more, on what the whistleblower said. the whistle—blower further alleges that the white house officials told the whistle— blower that they were directed by white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcript of the call from the computer system, in which such transcripts are typically stored and instead it was loaded into a separate electronic system that is used otherwise used to store and handle classified information that is of an especially sensitive nature. one white house official described this as an abuse of the electronic system. that official word—for—word transcript has still not been made public. you may be thinking, didn't the white house release a transcript yesterday? but those notes ran to just five pages long and the phone call lasted for 30 minutes. also, the record of the conversation was put togetherfrom handwritten notes, not word—for—word

democrats are angry. here's the speaker of the house. when you have a system of electronic storage and information that is specifically for national security purposes, and you have something that is self—serving to the president politically and decided it might not be, you might not want people to know and you hide it someplace else. that is a cover—up. not for the first time this week the president has been out there defending himself. he claims he's the victim of a witch hunt. this was him speaking a short time ago. a little bit of this on television, it is a disgrace to a country, i watched a little bit of this on television, it is a disgrace to a country, it is another witchhunt, here we go again, it is adam schiff and his crew making up stories and sitting there like whatever you want to call them and it is really a disgrace.

now lots of republicans have been taking that line, but not all. here's a quote form senator ben sasse "republicans ought not to be circling the wagons. there's obviously lots that's very troubling there." our correspondent gary o'donoghue is in washington and has more on the reaction there. on the committee this morning, they said it is not ok, mr president, this is not in any way a kind of fissure opening up. but it could be a glimmer of unease among some republicans. in terms of the complaint itself, what they need to focus on is that key bit that the president talks aboutjoe biden. that is the thing that because the whistle—blower to make his complaint in the first place. there seems to be absolutely no doubt about what happened. the question is, did he constitute pressure? did it constitute an improper use of office? was it a soliciting of campaign finance requirements? was the president after help in the

2020 election? those are all the allegations of the whistle—blower has made and that is what deedee and i and others were looking at when they received that complaint. that is what has formed the basis of nancy pelosi's decision to bring forth impeachment proceedings. gary, an awful lot of interest in who the whistle—blower the new york times has got the report and what is it saying? well, they are suggesting that it is someone in the cia, serving cia officers that is perhaps attached to the white house but what we do know is that he or she was not on that call directly. but their information through half a dozen, may be a dozen of her individuals who were privy to that call and to the memorandum associated with that call interestingly, get this, the president had a closed—door meeting and apparently said that the people who pass this information to the whistle—blower,

they are like spies, aren't they? and we use to treat them in an old—fashioned way, didn't we? of course, what did he mean by that? he means execution. borisjohnson has called for tempers to come down in parliament, after the furious exchanges yesterday among mps. but, in an interview with the bbc he defended his own use of language, including words like "surrender" to describe moves by his opponents. we need, i need, to reach out across the house of commons. you need to watch your language more, don't you? i think it is fair enough to call the surrender act what it is. but you're also right in that we do need to bring people together and get this thing done. well, if i may say so, actually, you are right.

tempers need to calm down and people need to come together, because it is only by getting brexit done that you will actually assuage the current anxiety. mrjohnson has been urged to apologise by dozens of mps, over comments he made in parliament aboutjo cox — a labour mp who was murdered in 2016 by a supporter of the far—right. first here's the labour mp paula sheriff. and we stand here, mrspeaker, under the shield of our departed friend with the many of us in this place subject to death threats and abuse every single day. and let me tell the prime minister that they often quote his words, surrender act, betrayal, traitor and ifor one, am sick of it! we must moderate our language and it has to come from the

prime ministerfirst! and here's how the prime minister responded. (applause) i think, mr speaker, i have to tell you mr speaker, i have to say, i have never heard such humbug in all my life. todayjo cox's widower, brendan, called for all sides to stop using inflammatory language. this sense of politics now whereby, we're not just this sense of politics now whereby, we're notjust disagreeing with each other, but we are calling each other worst na m es other, but we are calling each other worst names that we can where we are saying what happened in the past few weeks was a dictatorship. the boris johnson is a fascist or the people that want to remain in the european union are in league with other nations. this stuff is not only wrong, because actually on both sides of the debate, people are just

trying to do what the things are for the country. but it is also dangerous. it creates environment where the sort of thing that happened to joe where the sort of thing that happened tojoe becomes more likely. another labour mp caught up in all of this is yvette cooper. her 19—year—old daughter ellie took to twitter today to say here's the mpjess phillips, who was a friend ofjo cox's, asking an urgent question in parliament today. the people opposite of me know how appalling it was to describe the murder of my friend as mere humbug.

cani can i ask for everyone to act with common dignity in this moment. i wa nt common dignity in this moment. i want to ask the prime minister to apologise and to tell him that the bravest, strongest thing to say is sorry. jess phillips also said today that a man was arrested after trying to smash the windows of her constituency office in birmingham, while reportedly shouting that she was a fascist. britain's most senior official in brussels has weighed in — the eu comissionerjulian king. and criticism has also come from within the prime minister's own party — in the last hour the former prime ministerjohn major had this to say. we are poor the language of division and hate and word such as saboteur,

traitor, enemy, traitor, betrayal. they should have no place in our party. no place in our political discourse, nor in our politics and i'ioi’ discourse, nor in our politics and nor in ourwider discourse, nor in our politics and nor in our wider society. i spoke with helen catt in westminster a little earlier. this is the morning after the night before. i don't think anyone is saying that this has not been the sort of anger awards cropping up in british politics before, british politics by its very nature, confrontational. even the way it is designed is very adversarial. but i do use to make sense that there is recognition in the comments that they may have reached a boiling point and that maybe we should take a little bit of a step back from that. and the government has lost yet another vote. at seven vote, just explain the context of this.

this is a vote to take some time off so this is a vote to take some time off so the conservative party could have its conference next week, which is between monday and wednesday. mps have devoted to say yes, we will not sit on those days. but mps decided against having that time off which means the conservative party conference will still go ahead, but things will still be happening in parliament and so you may see mps across the country to get things in parliament. it is breaking with convention, is sort of a son of the breakdown of goodwill that there is in parliament at the moment in the convention usually is that parties allow the other political party staff the conference and try not to interfere and overshadow it. so this isa interfere and overshadow it. so this is a big break with convention here andi is a big break with convention here and i think it does show the levels of lack of goodwill that there are at the moment and the parties.

stay with us on outside source — still to come. the fitness startup peloton joins the stock market but its been uphill going, on day one. nhs figures reveal a fall in the number of children receiving routine vaccinations across england. our health editor hugh pym reports. there wasn't a care in the world of children in this afternoon but there's plenty one decision is to get their children vaccinated. i am hundred percent for vaccinations. i believe that putting a child's health and happiness is always more important. in nearly all but one of the english regions. the only area with the vaccination rate remained unchanged was in the northeast which had the

highest level of coverage and 94 and a half percent. london was the worst with only just a half percent. london was the worst with onlyjust over eight out of ten children receiving the inoculation. our very clear, particularly for children being back in school, make sure they have all the vaccines because these diseases can be very unpleasant and can lead to death. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is? the whistleblower complaint is released — it alleges officials tried to hide president trump's attempt to get a foreign country to help him win the 2020 presidential election some of the other stories in the world service newsroom. the french president emmanuel macron has declared monday will be a national day of mourning following the death of the former the french president emmanuel macron has opened the elysee palace for the public to mourn jacques chirac.

monday has also been declared a national day of mourning for mr chirac, who was a dominant figure in french politics for five decades. he german chancellor, angela merkel, described him as an "outstanding the german chancellor, angela merkel, described him as an "outstanding partner and friend". an earthquake on the indonesian island of ambon has killed at least twenty people and injured more than a—hundred. the six—point—five magnitude quake damaged a number of buildings, including a university and a hospital. there were a number of aftershocks. prince harry has said the world will be a "very, very troubling" place if people continue to deny climate change. harry also praised the climate change activism led by the swedish campaigner, greta thunberg, calling the effort "a race against time". he was speaking during a visit to botswana, on his tour of south africa. new south wales has become the last australian state to decriminalise abortion.

the bill overturns a more than one—hundred—year—old law that had been criticised by opponents as archaic. the legislation generated weeks of debate and deeply divided the state's conservative government. here's the state premier. very important with the last to pass that important reform, carried unanimously in the house and conscience votes should bring people together and feel free to express their views and that is what happened. new south wales is the most populous state in australia with around eight million people living there. our reporter frances mao is in sydney. the state permits that this was unanimous but there was a lot of division over the. huge division. we had eight weeks of protest and within the government itself. so we have a female premier and the health

minister in support of the bill, but the conservative members of the bill voted furiously to try and restricted and to bring in tighter restrictions and actually it led to three of those conservative rebel mps last week, even attempting to stage a leadership coup d'etat. they tried to unseat the premier over the bill but that failed. i guess that shows the extent of the fury and the discussion in how controversial this bill really was. despite it being quite bipartisan and many sense and had many supporters across the political spectrum what is allowed? what does it enable? this moves abortion out of the crimes act in

new south wales and puts it in health legislation rather than putting it as a criminal offence. it allows people to get an abortion after 22 weeks and after 22 weeks, if it has the approval of two doctors. the abortion is available. abortion has practically been accessible to women and new south wales the past few decades but technically being illegal under the statute and there were just exceptions that allowed them to have an abortion. but this finally takes it out of statute and makes it something that women can access in a safe and legal way. thank you so much for talking us through this. now to trade tensions between the us and china. the us already has tariffs in place on $360 billion of chinese imports.

now it's imposed sanctions on six chinese companies, for buying oilfrom iran. the us has long had sanctions in place against tehran, as it tries to force the iranians to renegotiate the international nuclear agreement, which president trump withdrew from last year. this is the us secretary of state announcing the move in new york: to dave, we are imposing sanctions —— today. contrary to united states sanctions. we are also imposing sanctions. we are also imposing sanctions on the executive officers as well and we are telling china and donations that know that we will sanction every violation of sanctionable activity. vivienne nunis is live in new york for us. what are the implications for the oil shipping industry — which is already under pressure? (viv

will talk about the fact shipping some of them are owned by costco, the chinese state owned shipping giant. it disbands us entities from doing business with this company but the us state department is trying to do here's stop any company from helping iran make any money and iran is already facing serious economic sanctions from the us. they're trying to isolate them economically and trying to stop other companies that might be helping iran make money because from the state department point of view, any funding coming into the regime is used to fund terrorism to develop weapons and engage in foreign conflicts as well. so that is on the reasons why they want to stop any business that it seizes helping iran. and this is on top of the huge amount of tariffs on chinese imports and those relations are not going to get much better, are they?m

and those relations are not going to get much better, are they? it is an interesting time. we did see some olive extended in the war, president trump delayed the tariffs on some chinese imports and china was exempt of some products from tariffs coming in and things are looking slightly up in and things are looking slightly upfora in and things are looking slightly up for a while and then now the us has imposed the sanctions on the shipping companies and they have accused them of being a bully which set the tone not in a good way for the next round of trade negotiations which will take place in washington, dc. can we expect that kind of process for beijing? it is hard to say, we have seen this one side makes one move, the other side retaliates, but we have not seen any moves in beijing that states the us is being a bully but in the lead up to those talks, we will wait and see, we had some level of negotiations going on already here in the states, they're supposed to

set the groundwork for more important negotiations next month, but we have not yet seen a reaction, so we are doing c. many thanks as a lwa ys so we are doing c. many thanks as always and it is good to talk to you. it's been a tough work—out for the fitness startup peloton on its first day on the nasdaq stock market. its shares opened at 27 dollars, down from the listing price of 29, which valued the company at 8 billion dollars. peloton sells high—tech excercise bikes with screens to stream classes — or take on your friends over the internet. samira hussain has been finding out more. this stationary bike is unique with on—demand classes which allow users to virtually ride with thousands.

ican i can certainly understand the appeal, but i really miss the communal aspect of going to the gym stop you love there is a sort of community we can see people in the leader boards. in this weird way, you feel like you are part of a community and you can spread all over the world. translating that popularity to success on the stock market is a whole different game. it is not yet made a profit, the bike is not yet made a profit, the bike is pricey, $2000 plus a monthly subscription fee for its live stream classes. to eventually become profitable, it may need to convince some of these to ditch the class. if it had a couple of grand extra, i may buy one. i do like they did being ina may buy one. i do like they did being in a community and having an energetic teacher right in the room. young professionals, it is nice to

have a social aspect to the work—out. have a social aspect to the work-out. there will always be alternatives to this, but they have seen to establish a brand for themselves with a very loyal user base and we will see if that sticks. the company will need to keep that going. unlike the users, investors will not want to break a sweat. let's go to paris. this is a live shot where people are mourning the cueing up to book a, sign the book of condolences for the former president of france he passed away. he was a dominant figure in french politics for five decades. he strongly opposed to the us—led invasion of iraq and took us into the single european currency and it will be declared as a national day of mourning and that is the live

image from parents. i am finishing a bit earlier because brexit cast is coming into the whole gang so do stay with bbc for that. good evening, it looks like more rain to come here in the uk and the outlook with more on that later, but heading further into northern america. a winter storm is brewing and it is already turning quarter on friday at sweeping across the great la kes friday at sweeping across the great lakes into the south by contrast, the heat is on and towards the southeast. you can see the differences as you head towards the northwest with that cold, bringing with it some heavy snowfall in montana but also in alberta, you can see the cold and snow there that you've got in calgary. some warmth eventually that will push itself up to atla nta. eventually that will push itself up to atlanta. the weather getting back to atlanta. the weather getting back to normal and it is getting warmer

because the rain that we have had recently is moving away but a lot of sunshine across argentina, quite warm in the sunshine. here in turkey, we've had some recent thunder and lightning lighting up the sky. friday, still looks like it's going to be dry and much of the southeast from sunshine heading towards the balkans as well. in the mediterranean, more skies to come, but the north northwest a particular it is often wet and windy, not to sue in the uk. there is more rain to london but quite windy on sunday night and also in paris and if you wa nt night and also in paris and if you want the sunshine, head south so once again. continuing southwards into north africa, we have got sunny skies here and these are the seasonal rains still are very active into nigeria, south africa has been quite hot and is cooling down and came down in the heat is pushing its way eastwards. pretty hot the

mediterranean at this time of year and the championship friday and temperatures are going to be right 38 degrees comes a really hot for the spectators. in calcutta, there has been some flooding and also some flooding and it will be a northern parts of india into the himalayas they will see some very heavy rain in the next few days and further south, it is actually turning dryer and there may be some sunshine as well. looking elsewhere across asia, the weather is changing injapan. we've had some dry weather here but it is going to be turning later. this is likely to develop into a typhoon and head northwards next week, a few showers heading into parts of china as well as indonesia. sunshine for the most part, cool and cloudy and also tasmania, some wet

weather for the south island and ran the north island. —— dry in the north island. now, i'm wrapping a little earlier because it's time for the third edition of brexitcast. obviously the biggest thing that has happened this week was what happened in the house of commons last night. everyone's reactions to the other things that happened in politics, andi things that happened in politics, and i watched on my tablet, so tiny and i watched on my tablet, so tiny and grainy, hundreds of miles away and grainy, hundreds of miles away and even that was quite emotional. even today, laura, that boiling sense of anger carrying on. it was like a horror show that you cannot look away. you did not want to watch but you could not look away. and i've hardly ever, if ever seen and i've hardly ever, if ever seen and i've hardly ever, if ever seen and i've hardly ever, if ever seen mps so angry. i've hardly ever, if ever seen mps so angry. let's talk about it, welcome to this week's brexitcast.

i met borisjohnson once. i met boris johnson once. the doubters, and doomsayers and groomers. they're going to get it wrong again. remainers and the voters, that's going to end well. it's described as a dogs brexit. chris at westminster. laura at westminster. adam at westminster not brussels,. kotze yet at i've replaced them with a cap. about last night, what was it like? you we re last night, what was it like? you were editing a piece of the ten o'clock news rate in the middle of it all. i was in the press gallery

in the commons chamber for