this is bbc news. the headlines: us secretary of state mike pao has been ordered to hand over documents as part of an impeachment enquiry this is bbc news. i'm reged ahmad. relating to the dealings with our top stories: ukraine government. the us secretary of state, mr pompeo will have a week to comply with the subpoena. mike pompeo, is given a week to hand over documents relating to ukraine, nigerian police say they've rescued nearly 500 people in the northern as the democrats step up city of kaduna where the trump impeachment investigation. they were being detained. those held were all men and boys, and said they'd been tortured nigerian police rescue nearly 500 and sexually abused. men and boys from what's being described as a former british cabinet mr has a house of torture. egypt's security forces shut down key areas of cairo, accused the prime minister ‘s office preventing fresh protests of using language about brexit that incited violence. amber rudd has criticised austinjohnson incited violence. amber rudd has criticised austin johnson for having what she called and immoral approach in his use of language. from taking place. and, 22 years on — walking in his mother's footsteps — britian‘s prince harry has visited a partially—cleared minefield in angola. and walking in his mother's footsteps — prince harry visits a landmine clearance site in angola those are the headlines. made famous by princess diana. now we discover how mod culture influenced the east midlands

hello and welcome to bbc news. impeachment proceedings appear to be gathering pace in the us as democrats say they're hoping to hold hearings into president trump, as early as next week. it follows claims from a whistle—blower that mr trump put pressure on the president of ukraine, to investigate joe biden, the democratic frontrunner in the race for the white house. the subpoenas are already flying. secretary of state mike pompeo has been ordered to hand over documents concerning contact with the ukrainian government by next friday. as the democratic—controlled house foreign affairs committee puts it, "your failure or refusal to comply with the subpoena shall constitute evidence of obstruction of the house's impeachment inquiry." president trump has lashed out at the inquiry saying it's a "witch—hunt". our north america editorjon sopel has the very latest. there is support and defiance

but also there is anger. in a twitter feuds like this morning he took aim at the democratic house intelligence committee, the person who will play a key role in impeachment hearings. the inspector general found that credible. donald trump said he must resign and be investigated. he's been doing this for two years, he's a sick man. and then the whistle—blower who revealed details of the president's conversation with his ukrainian counterpart. sounding more like the so—called whistleblower isn't a whistleblower at all. but everything in the letter has been proved true, the core did take place, president trump did ask his ukrainian counterpart to investigate his democratic party rivaljoe biden and the white house today confirmed the transcript of the call was moved to a more secure server. but when president trump asks ukraine to investigate corruption,

the democrats want to impeach him... but now the trump campaign is firing back. they lost the election and now they want to steal this one. don't let them. i'm donald trump and i approve this... but the speaker of the house is unmoved and she says she was left with no other choice but impeachment following all of this. this is about the national security of our country, and the president of the united states being disloyal to his own oath of office, jeopardising our national security and jeopardising the integrity of our elections. and the woman donald trump beat in 2016 has also made a rare intervention to pile in. he has turned american diplomacy into a cheap extortion racket. he has denigrated and — let's be honest — stabbed in the back of the career foreign service officers who serve bravely and selflessly no matter the politics of the administration that they are working under. the white house line

on the whistle—blower is that it's all second—hand information and inaccurate, it's anything but, so far everything he has said has turned out to be true. republican lawmakers can say they don't really care and donald trump is free to do whatever he likes, much harder, though, to say there is nothing here. john sopel, bbc news, washington. here's david willis with more information on that congressional subpoena. as far as the sabina to mike pompeo ‘s consent, that is about documents with his department stuff, state departments, and members of the government of ukraine. now mr pompeo has missed two previous deadlines for the production of those documents. he has been given a week by the chairman of three of the key committees, democrat —controlled

committees, democrat —controlled committees, that are now involved in this impeachment investigation. as far as depositions are concerned, the committee chairman are also ordering five state department officials to testify in person. they are people with knowledge of discussions on the ground. it's not involving members of the ukrainian government and rudy giuliani, who at the time was working as president trump's personal lawyer. now, of the five that have been ordered to appear before the committee chairman, one is mushy of an event. she is the former us ambassador to the ukraine. she has been reported he was sacked for to go along with exhortations to dig .com if you like, onjoe exhortations to dig .com if you like, on joe biden, exhortations to dig .com if you like, onjoe biden, the other is us special representative to the

ukraine, kurt volker. he is known to have helped giuliani arrange various meetings with members of the ukrainian government. no doubt as we started to hear from these individuals, more information will come out. but how is this all been covered in the united states, especially when it comes to donald trump's base? is it affecting how they feel about him ? trump's base? is it affecting how they feel about him? welcome you know what, i think more than anything else people are amazed at the speed of events. bear in mind that just over a the speed of events. bear in mind thatjust over a week ago nobody here really new about this conversation between donald trump and lord mayor zelenskiy of ukraine. and now everybody knows about it —— lord mayor zelenskiy. now it could the impeachment of donald trump. things are moving at a very fast pace. we had to sabina, we had word of the impeachment proceedings on

tuesday. and today we had the chairman of the house intelligence committee, a man called adam schiff, said he thought they might be able to compile let us of impeachments for voting on by thanksgiving, which is the end of november. that means there is a lot of momentum in this whole process right now. david willis there. here in the uk it's been announced that the independent office for police conduct will assess whether the prime minister boris johnson potentially committed the criminal offence of misconduct in public office during his time as mayor of london. the allegations are that borisjohnson maintained a friendship with the american businesswoman and former model jennifer accuri and, as a result of that friendship, allowed ms arcuri to participate in trade missions and receive sponsorship monies in circumstances when she and her companies could not have expected otherwise to receive those benefits. the police watchdog will now consider if it is necessary for the matter to be investigated. downing street has released a statement saying "everything was done with propriety and in the normal way". our uk affairs correspondent

daniel sandford has more. the basis of the allegations is that while he was mayor of london, boris johnson's friend, jennifer accuri, received £11,500 in sponsorship for events organised by whatever companies which came from organisations linked with the mayor ‘s office. and also went on three overseas trips with borisjohnson which, originally, she'd been turned down for. now, the greater london authority monitoring officer has been looking at these allegations this week and so have we, in fact, and noticed that people who went on the trips with jennifer accuri felt that she seemed a bit out of place, as her companies didn't seem as substantial as those of the other people that were on the trips, and certainly we know that

borisjohnson‘s office intervene to make sure that she went on one of the trips and the greater london authority monitoring officer has now decided to call in the police watchdog, the iopc, to assess whether boris johnson, the prime minister, should be investigated for the criminal offence of misconduct ion public office. the iopc are involved because when he was mayor of london, borisjohnson was in charge of london's metropolitan police. borisjohnson has vigorously denied these allegations, saying to the bbc last night that people are barking up the wrong tree. his office insists that he's always acted with propriety. and he says very proud of his time as mayor of london. daniel sandford. police in nigeria have freed some 500 people, many of them young children, from a building where they have been allegedly chained, tortured and sexually abused. to protect their privacy we have decided to conceal the identities of the victims in this report from mayenijones in lagos. captives in chains, boys, teenagers, and grown men held in a so—called islamic school and unable to leave.

look, they put chains on me, with all the level of my exposure. one look at my own age, i have responsibilities on my head. but they denied me access to a lot of things. police received a tip—off from relatives of children held here that suggested this place was not what it seemed. i say, "ok, take this loaf of bread and take it to them." so when we go back home now, we had a family meeting, so we said, "ok, the only thing that shall report this issue to the police station." that is exactly what we did. the police said this was no educational institution. we discovered that we have, today, and five graduates. civil servants i hear. most of them are ten. ten! as far as i'm concerned, this is modern—day slavery.

millions of students are in islamic schools across nigeria. parents in this deprived region often have to leave their children in religious boarding schools. these institutions have been dogged with allegations of abuse. earlier this year, the government said it planned to ban them. but wouldn't say when. as the victims are treated and reunited with their families, this latest incident may be a reminder of the need for reform. mayenijones, bbc news in lagos. a huge crackdown by egypt's security forces has prevented mass protests from taking place in the capital cairo. there were online calls for demonstrations against alleged corruption by president abdel—fattah al sisi and the military, instead it was the leader's supporters who staged rallies in his defence. protests broke out last week and since then human rights groups say nearly 2,000 people have been arrested. sally nabil is our correspondent in cairo. it has been a quiet day in cairo so

far, although there were calls for huge anti—government protests. but it seems that the people are too scared to take to the streets, like they did briefly last week. security presence has been beefed up all around the city. cars are not allowed into tahrir square, only pedestrians. we have seen security personnel stopping passers—by, checking their mobile phones and looking for their id cars. 0nly small—scale protests have taken place in a couple of cities in the south of the city and one neighbourhood in cairo —— cards. 0n the other hand, thousands have taken pa rt the other hand, thousands have taken part in pro cc gatherings in eastern cairo. the president himself has downplayed the significance of the protests that called on him to step down. it is a nervous time, and many are waiting to see what will happen

in the coming hours. more than nine million people are expected to cast their ballots in afghanistan's presidential election on saturday, in a poll which has been overshadowed by violent attacks — claimed by the taliban — which have left many dead in recent weeks. there are 16 candidates, all of them men, including former warlords, ex—spies, and members of the country's former communist government. the two main contenders are ashraf ghani, the current president, and abdullah abdullah, who was made chief executive after negotiations in 2014. we'll have full coverage of the vote, here on bbc world news. so dojoin us so do join us then. stay with us on bbc world news, still to come: photos capture what a world without mobile phones would look like. watch out — there's a lot of staring into space. in all russia's two mile it has not

quite come to this. resident yeltsin said that they would decide the nation's destiny. the nightmare that many have it for so long as playing at its final active. russians are killing russians in front of a grandstand audience. it was his humility that course of action from many catholics around the world. but his departure is a treasury for the catholic church. it is a's right winger ariel sharon on visited the compound and that started the trouble. he wants israel to have sovereignty over the homesites. an idea that is unthinkable to palestinians. after 45 years of division, germany is one. in berlin, a million germans celebrate the rebirth of europe's biggest and richest nation.

this is bbc news, the latest headlines: the us secretary of state, mike pompeo, has been given one week to hand over documents concerning contact with the ukrainian government. police in nigeria have freed 500 people, including young children, from a building where they have allegedly been tortured and sexually abused. women's marathon runners are braving temperatures of about 30 degrees at doha's world athletics championships. most athletes have been able to stay cool during the day in stadiums fitted with giant air conditioning units, but the marathon runners will have been coping with intense heat outside. the bbc‘s ade adeoyin has more. the buildup to these championships have been dominated by the weather, the extreme temperatures and very hot and the extreme temperatures and very hotand humid, the extreme temperatures and very hot and humid, as late as 11pm

friday, the temperature was still well over 30 degrees. in the stadium itself there is a sophisticated air—conditioning system which calls the temperature to about 22, 23, thatis the temperature to about 22, 23, that is where the track action got under way, kristin coleman, world ‘s fastest man safely negotiated his way into the semifinals of the 100 metres way into the semifinals of the 100 m etres ta ke way into the semifinals of the 100 metres take place on saturday, he is likely to go head—to—head with justin gatlin in the final which will be the last event of the night. coleman the favourite to win that, he is the only man who ran under ten seconds. also on saturday the 10,000 metre finalfor seconds. also on saturday the 10,000 metre final for the women, ethiopian born athletes who compete in the netherlands. there is also the longshot final, the stadium was knocked full yesterday, about 10,000 people there, but friday is a religious day here in qatar, it is interesting to see whether on

saturday it draws more crowd, particularly with the spectre of the men's100 metres final. the climate change protests known as the fridays for future have been continuing around the world — with the organisers of this march in montreal saying 500,000 people took part in the demonstration. they were joined by the swedish teenager who inspired the movement, greta thunberg. it was perhaps the biggest gathering, but many took place in other cities around the world: these pictures are from new zealand, where tens of thousands of school children and university students have taken part in protests across the country. 0rganisers say that 40,000 people got involved. these schoolchildren also made their point about the climate in abuja in nigeria. and there was also a gathering in the hague in the netherlands. 0ur correspondent anna holligan was there. what we want, climate justice! some schools here in the hague have actually cancelled classes and brought the peoples out to protest instead. building climate

consciousness into the real life curriculum. too many people, there is no oxygen there. this is the only chance we have. we need to take our chance we have. we need to take our chance and make the world better.m course the netherlands has a lot to be conscious of, with almost one third of the country lying below sea level. they are super aware of those arising tides. this country of course has a reputation of clean, green living, cycling, windmills, renewable energy. but actually it's record has a lot to be desired. children here in the netherlands have the highest instances of asthma caused by pollution anywhere in europe, and they are struggling to reach those targets of reducing emissions by 49% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels. the message here in the hague is clear, and it is

reverberating again all over the world today. we are here, is good what the world is doing, and now we hope that the rest, the rest say we do for the world, where doing it for the world, that's better. these other superheroes of the future. their relationship with the environment today will determine what it looks like in the future. the pakistani prime minister has said there will be a bloodbath in kashmir when indian troops withdraw. the indian administered part of kashmir has been under lockdown since new delhi scrap its semiautonomous status in early august. here is what imran khan had to say at the un general assembly. what is going to happen when the cu rfew what is going to happen when the curfew is lifted will be a

bloodbath. the people will come out, 900,000 troops there, they have not come and modi says they have done this for the prosperity of kashmir, this for the prosperity of kashmir, this is supposed to be for the development of these 900,000 troops, what are they going to do? when they come out, they will be a bloodbath! more than twenty years ago, diana princess of wales, walked through a minefield in angola, to highlight the threat posed by landmines — you may remember this famous footage. on friday, her son prince harry, retraced her steps, returning to the spot, to see how much has changed, and what still needs to be done, to combat the problem. 0ur royal correspondent nicholas witchell has sent us this report. minefields. .. a massive problem in angola, and an issue with a particular resonance for harry — in memory of his mother's efforts to make the world do something to deal with them. harry was taken into one of the minefields being cleared by britain's halo trust.

he saw the painstaking work of the mine clearance teams, combing the ground metre by metre. explosion. he detonated a mine which had been found a few days ago. and then on to huambo, angola's second city. it was here 22 years ago that diana, princess of wales, was filmed walking along a safe corridor through a minefield. it brought the whole issue to the world's attention and led eventually to an international ban. today the spot which had once been a minefield is a city street, but a place for a proud son to visit and to reflect on what his mother had achieved. to walk in her footsteps is clearly quite emotionalfor me, but i think as much as she did then, there is still so much to do, but without question, if she hadn't campaigned the way that she did 22 years ago, this could arguably still be a minefield, so i'm incredibly proud of what she's been able to do.

he went on to the newly renamed princess diana orthopaedic centre where the victims of landmines are treated. they are fitted with prosthetic limbs. 22 years after diana died, and there are still more than 1,000 minefields here in angola. harry's message, expressed today — let's finish thejob. for most of us the mobile phone is almost a third arm, we're so attached to it. yes, there are benefits to having a super computer on tap — but how about the social cost of all those lost interactions with the world around us? photographer eric pickersgill set out to show what we'd look like with our phones removed — and the results are pretty remarkable.

falling asleep back to back with my wife in our bed, and we are both using our phones, and as i'm falling asleep my hand starts to loosen its grip on my phone, and my phone slips from my hand and hit the floor right asi from my hand and hit the floor right as i fall asleep. and i remember that sound waking me up and my hand was still resting next to me as if my phone was still there. and that is the real moment, the real moment that the removed project was born. i could see my wife and i from the perspective of my ceiling fan looking down at us, being so close physically but so emotionally and kind of psychologically separated from one another. i really wanted to decide at the beginning, a strategy as far as what

decisions i was going to make, whether i was going to shoot digitally or actually photoshopped the phones out, or if it was going to be more performance—based which is the root i ended up taking. after i photographed several family members and close friends, i started to ta ke members and close friends, i started to take the camera out into the real world, and use it as a way to almost subvert the way that our screens from the people around us. so i would have to find someone in public who seemed approachable and introduce myself and the project. we kind of start to stage this and i move around as a photographer, recompose the situation, visually, so recompose the situation, visually, so it works as a picture. then i come up to them and remove their phone from their hand, and as they are sitting there, you start to see that the world is happening around them, but they keep their stair and they are still doing their part to make the picture, but it seems like the wheel is really turning within their brain about what the relationship is to their phone. ?

travelling across the south—east and a lot of the united states, i think it is strangely universalising tail, we are all doing this one thing, this one gesture all at the same time all around the world. i'm not trying to say get rid of your phones and throw them away, but i hope that people can start to think about moving forward in a very intentional way about how they are using the device. now — some news from deep in space, where for the first time, a black hole has been caught on camera. it's the work of this nasa satellite, known as tess. it happened some 375 million light years away, and you can see how the sphere shape of the star is sucked into an oval, before the gravity of the super massive black hole — the big black circle on your screen — rips it apart, and starts pulling the debris into an ever—decreasing orbit.

much more coming up. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @regedahmad bbc. if you are out across the northern half of the uk in the next few hours, and you have clear skies, you may be treated to the northern lights. but it has been a very turbulent end of the week, and it is going to be a rather wet and windy weekend for many of us, and there is growing concern with this next deep area of low pressure now developing, more rain on already saturated ground, with river levels hi, will result in further flooding. as well as that we have some strong wind around this low pressure system coinciding with high tides, because of the new moon, the full moon, so they could be coastal flooding as well. a band of rain moves across northern ireland, northern england, southern scotland, any mist and fog to the north will clear away, a

shower of rain across northern areas does tend to ease, the showery rain further south is away, so a day of sunny spells and showers, not as heavy showers today as we saw yesterday, but nevertheless, they are still around, still wet. it should feel pleasant with light winds and sunshine, as the day progresses, the afternoon progresses we are in for a big change, more tropical air tied in with this area of low pressure, it will be widespread, heavy intense rain, some thundery rain as well, and strong— gale force winds going in that direction rain and coinciding with high tides, we could have coastal inundation. really wet and windy through the night as we move into sunday. and that rain is really slow to clear, could be scotland and northern ireland escape the worst of the rain, as the day goes on we change our wind direction and pick up change our wind direction and pick upa change our wind direction and pick up a cold and north— north—westerly, but that will have a sting in its tail, you can see the england and wales, which has more rain

re—entering around the area of low pressure stop temperature barely academic on sunday but feeling colder in the north, later in the day as winds switch direction they may have a sting in the tail, we would have strong— gale force winds crossing into wales and later england and down the north sea coast, but potentially corresponding or tying coast, but potentially corresponding ortying in coast, but potentially corresponding or tying in with high tides here, so we will concern ourselves with coastal flooding here as well late on sunday. was to keep our eye on, it looks really unsettled through the weekend, heavy rain, gales, there are warnings out from the met office, down the website, and those high tides as well. further afield we are expecting rain for the rugby which continues into the weekend, japan— ireland on saturday, potentially having some heavy downpours around here and for australia — wales, i would not like to rule out downpours either. it is much cooler as we go into the new week back home, as you can see, remains unsettled, perhaps a respite 00:28:51,258 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 in the middle of the week.