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what an unforgettable night good evening, lots of sport for you including all the football for the japanese fans. and athletics to come but we're at their very own world cup starting at the rugby world cup because ireland are still reeling they have done it once again, from one of the biggest shocls with another spectacular upset. in the history of the tournament. andy swiss, bbc news, shizuoka. they were beaten by the hosts — this is bbc news. japan 19 points to 12. andy swiss reports from shizuoka. the headlines at 5pm. the prime minister could face a vote of no—confidence that's it. well, what a memorable night for the as early as next week, according to a senior snp mp, thousands of japan fans here. four as conservatives gather for their party conference. i'll be back with the late news at 10:10. meanwhile, number ten describes now on bbc one, yea rs thousands of japan fans here. four years ago the world cup of course it as "a politically motivated attack" time for the news where you are. 00:00:24,890 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 bye for now. was south africa and now it was borisjohnson‘s referral to the police watchdog over his ireland on the end of a another links to an american businesswoman. remarkable giant killing. ireland's heap of control of the first half, labour'sjeremy corbyn promises to scrap the controversial welfare policy, universal credit, they scored two early tries. the first from gary as he collected a should the party get into power. fine one from jack accardi. then set the second tray as well for rob pressure grows on donald trump as secretary of state, mike pompeo, kearney. are truly seemed in control is ordered to hand over documents on ukraine linked to the impeachment investigation. but japan upped the tear gas and water cannon are used kearney. are truly seemed in control butjapan upped the tempo. kearney. are truly seemed in control but japan upped the tempo. they kearney. are truly seemed in control butjapan upped the tempo. they came by hong kong police to disperse back before the break, three protestors holding a rally to mark penalties meant ireland led only the fifth anniversary of the pro—democracy umbrella movement. 12-9 at penalties meant ireland led only 12—9 at half—time. japan had all the momentum and then with 20 minutes to gojapan
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now much more tense. we have water momentum and then with 20 minutes to go japan scores a momentum and then with 20 minutes to gojapan scores a try that momentum and then with 20 minutes to go japan scores a try that set their fa ns go japan scores a try that set their fans into ra ptu res. go japan scores a try that set their fans into raptures. the tri— cannon spraying water with blue dye courtesy of ken who went over in the in it. there are people here corner. they give them the lead. smashing up government buildings. arlie could find no way back as victorious japan as the rugby japan landed a late penalty to make world cup hosts make history by beating ireland it 19-12 at the japan landed a late penalty to make it 19—12 at the final whistle. such for the first time, 19—12. disappointment for ireland but for japan is now two wins out of two and for a memorable night here they are on course to make the quarterfinals. when you how tough it was going to be. anyone that was utterly shocked has not seen how good they are. we felt we were really prepared to but give credit to that team, they good afternoon. labour leaderjeremy corbyn says a minority labour government played really well. we made a few is becoming more likely every day, m ista kes as opposition parties consider played really well. we made a few mistakes and unforced errors. i whether to call a vote of no confidence in the prime minister. thinkjapan it follows a tumultous mistakes and unforced errors. i think japan played really week for boris johnson, with criticism of his use of language in the house mistakes and unforced errors. i thinkjapan played really well and they post a lot of questions to us of commons and his referral to a police watchdog, and unfortunately we cannot come up following allegations that with the right answers. a businesswoman received favourable treatment
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when he was mayor of london. a tough defeat for us to take with the government has decribed that move as politically motivated. the strength of the team will be how here's our political they respond and rebound from this. correspondent nick eardley. a six—day turnaround into this game was a little bit tough and we have power is seldom easy. got a five day turnaround now the borisjohnson has found out quicker russian game on tuesday. so another than mostjust how hard it can be and the pressure keeps on coming. challenge for us. come to london, build there were two other matches today — your businesses here. the mayor of london supports you. in pool b, south africa recorded the biggest winning score the police watchdog has been asked of the tournament so far. to investigate his relationship thrashing namibia with this businesswoman, 57—3 in a predictably one—sided game in toyota. jennifer arcuri, over claims the springboks scored nine tries with schalk brits breaking she received favourable treatment, through for the last. namibia are the lowest ranked including grants and places on trade side in the tournament. trips when mrjohnson was london mayor. the other match was from england's pool c where argentina picked—up the pm denies wrongdoing a bonus point after beating and downing street is furious. tonga 28—12. all four of their tries this issue is being politically came in the first half — driven, it is politically motivated julian montoya scoring a hatrick. argentina are now second in pool c, and the prime minister has been behind england who they play clear that proprieties next saturday in tokyo. were observed. mrjohnson will be in manchester later for his party's conference. but with parliament still sitting 160 miles away, tory mps could be onto football now and there are eight premier league matches called back any minute. today with manchester city in action opposition parties are in the late kick off right now.
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considering their next move so leaders liverpool were able to take advantage moving eight in the parliamentary brexit battle. points clear at the top of the table with a hard fought 1—0 win over the snp want to bring down the government next week and put sheffield united in the early game. a temporary prime minister rhia chohan has the details. likejeremy corbyn in place to extend the brexit deadline and call a general election. i think it's only right and proper liverpool paused like latest challenge has been near flawless. that he, as the leader they visited this with six wins out of the largest opposition party, should have the first opportunity of six. enough to put a grin on any to form an administration. but, if another name appears in the frame, miniature's face. but sheffield united was not going to make it a a ken clarke or a dominic grieve, free—for—all and with a report get a that people can coalesce around, then i personally, real chance it was an opportunity missed. liverpool often looked out and i think the snp, would have very little of their comfort zone, and united to difficulty with that. an open goalfor labour... close for comfort. it was a huge cheering. not quite. goalkeeping error which eventually turned the game around. handed a other opposition parties are not playing ball. so far, he just does not liverpool goal which swerved have the numbers, and yet... it is getting more likely every single day because this agonisingly over the line. a frustrating moment for on loan dean government is collapsing, it has now lost all seven henderson who otherwise held it votes since borisjohnson together. it was not their most became prime minister, and this tory government has been defeated over 45 emphatic performance. he has not times in parliament. squared away from home this season and it was not going to today they don't have a majority,
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either. leon clark almost clenched a they don't have a programme, they don't have policies point for united who showed his and they don't have any credibility. steel in a city that is famous for that does not necessarily mean the next few days, it, butjurgen klopp's side tech but but with 31 october getting ever was probably their hardest to earn closer, the pressure three points this season. will increase on opposition parties and on the government in this most fractious of political periods. it was never easy today. we needed nick eardley, bbc news. everybody for defending and nearly everybody for defending and nearly everybody for defending and nearly earlier, i spoke to our political everybody for attacking and we scored a lucky goal. we know that. correspondent jonathan blake — he's in manchester, where the conservative party conference gets but the boys worked so hard for it under way tomorrow. normally the conference season and you cannot luck, and that's what is a time for parties to focus on their own agenda they did today. united would have and to get their message earned luck as well but it doesn't across to not only the party happen every day. if they keep faithful, who gather whether it's playing like this will be a really in manchester or other tough place to hold next season. we cities across the uk, but the public more widely. made it difficult for them and but we are in unusual times, competed but it was a missed and the conservatives are meeting opportunity. we had an opportunity here in manchester this weekend to or three weeks ago when it opened for the next few days with up, they took it and today they said with parliament still up and running, back we, they were not at their best and down in manchester. normally, of course, mps would shut
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up shop for a few weeks, this happens and we have to but things are a bit different this capitalise, and we didn't and it's a time around, thanks to the suspension of parliament that was then overturned really poor goal from our point of view as well. by the courts, and the refusal harry kane scored the winner of mps to grant a recess — for tottenham in their hard fought home win over southampton. spurs were down to ten men specifically for the conservative for two—thirds of the match conference this weekend. so yes, as mps and party members after serge aurier was sent off gather here in manchester, and their keeper hugo lloris was both a villain and a hero they will have half an eye at least on what's going on back gifting southampton a soft goal but also making some down in manchester. magnificent saves. it finished 2—1 for spurs to move from seventh to fourth. —— westminster. in the other three o'clocks, opposition parties are talking up there were wins for chelsea the possibility of a vote of no—confidence in the government, and crstal palace and wolves. and certainly seeking pile in the late kick off, on the pressure to borisjohnson manchester city are at everton. and his government at this time. although it doesn't look likely that that will happen — the vote of no—confidence will happen the immediate future, simply because opposition parties are worried that if they do that, scottish premiership leaders then they will surrender some celtic dropped points for the first time this season — control and allow borisjohnson held to a contraversial 1—1 draw at hibernian. the election that he wants, and allow him to determine the timing of the election hibs made a great start — going ahead in the eighth minute through a kristoffer ajer own goal. that he wants, potentially allowing but celtic‘s equaliser caused fury
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a no deal brexit to happen in the meantime. in the hibs dug out. so it is a tense time, but one ryan christie scoring while there in which the conservative party, was confusion over a foul. despite what is happening hibs' manager paul heckingbottom kicked a water bottle in frustration in westminster, will be looking which hit the assistant referee. to ram home its message he was given a red card of delivering brexit by the end of october with or without a deal, and sent to the stands. focusing on the domestic rangers are within a point of celtic agenda, as well. in terms of the power of the opposition parties to get after thrashing aberdeen five nil. borisjohnson out of downing street, there is this dispute elsewhere there were wins going on at the moment for hamilton and motherwell. now to the world athletics championships where all eyes between the snp and labour, are on the 100 metres in doha where zharnel hughes is through to the men's final — who seem to think it would be ok to have a minority labour government. the only briton to qualify. the liberal democrats who, as we've been hearing he clocked a time of 10.05 on bbc news earlier, are not happy about that idea and don't seejeremy corbyn to finish second behind as an acceptable alternative. therefore, how difficult will it be south africa's akani simbine. to get this idea of a government meanwhile the contraversial american of national unity off the ground? sprinter christian coleman still looks set for the gold — i think it will be very difficult. clocking a time of 9.88 seconds to win his semifinal. britain's adam gemili finished it is one potential way forward, third in the same heat, but failed to qualify which opposition parties and the former conservative mps as a fastest loser. thrown out of the conservative party britain's sprint star
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by boris johnson for voting dina asher—smith comfortably won her heat to reach against the government, the semi—finals of the 100m — have talked about in recent weeks. crossing the line in 10.96 seconds. and the idea might sound simple asher smith is going for a potential enough that ifjeremy corbyn is too three medals in the qatari capital as she's competing in the 100 metre divisive a figure to have as a temporary prime minister, then you take an mp who perhaps relay and the 200 metres as well. won't be standing in the next election, someone like ken clarke, long serving members of parliament, there was british interest in the mens 800 metres who could command a majority where elliot giles won his heat to reach the semi—finals. jamie webb and kyle on a temporary basis from opposition langford also qualified. charl leclerc won his fourth pole parties across the house, in a row for tomorrow's to form a temporary government of national unity, russian grand prix in sochi. as it will be called. he becomes the first ferrari driver the trouble is the different since michael schumacher to take four successive poles. opposition parties all nick parrot reports. want different things — besides delaying brexit and avoiding coming out of the eu without a deal, besides getting rid of borisjohnson and the current government. you have the liberal democrats, who want to secure a further referendum. you have the scottish national party after becoming the first driver to with an eye on what their agenda is in securing a further referendum for scottish independence. claim first four positions after you have the labour party lewis hamilton. track mercedes have with their own brexit position,
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which has been carefully arrived dominated running every grand prix at through a very torturous process since 2014 but now their grip on of policy formulation, formula 1 is loosening. ferreri told and various others in between. so it's hard for them to come the time sheets in every session of together with a common name and say, "if we are going to have a temporary qualifying and in the final one government, if we are going knuckle one post of the time to to remove boris johnson from government, what do beat. the best of on course to join we do with it"? his team—mates until hamilton picked him butjust two hundredths of a second. both were left trailing in jonathan blake there. the wake by almost half a second. jeremy corbyn has said that that's a massive margin when it if labour is elected it will scrap the government's flagship welfare comes to formula 1. hamilton will system, universal credit. during a rally held in chingford, try to take confidence in the fact that he has won here three times mr corbyn described the benefit as "cruel and inhumane" despite only starting from the pole once but it's clear for all to see it would take something special or and an "unmitigated disaster." misfortune to deny charl leclerc his leading democrats in congress have third win of the season. made their first demand for documents in the impeachment inquiry into donald trump. kara felt amazing. definitely feels great to be back on pole, but i the secretary of state, mike pompeo, has been ordered to hand over don't know if it's the best track to ukraine—related material start on pole. the straight is very within a week. the us special envoy to ukraine, long. tomorrow the start will be kurt volker, has resigned. very important but will be even more
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our north america correspondent, because of the straight. these guys david willis, reports. god bless you, mr president! donald trump is defiant have some crazy speeds on the and lashing out on his streets, they're going to another preferred medium, twitter. level. they have something else taking aim at the man who will play a key role beyond that. so jet in his impeachment hearings, the democratic chairman of the house intelligence committee, adam schiff. level. they have something else beyond that. sojet mode. i give it absolutely everything i had at the end of the team did such a greatjob of him, the president said... to push forward and i'm so glad it came together. i was not expecting to get on the front row, that's for sure. there was no fairy tale home—coming the whistle—blower, who revealed details of his telephone for lizzie deignan in the world conversation with ukraine's road race in yorkshire. president, volodymyr zelenskiy, instead the netherlands' annemiek mr trump has branded van vleuten won the women's elite title after an incredible a " pa rtisan operative". 100km solo breakaway. patrick gearey was watching. sounding yet, the whistle—blower‘s account of events has the crowd here did not get the proved uncannily accurate, not only about the contents of the telephone call, results they wanted. no metal for but attempts by the white house the home favourite, but that's was to cover them up. like a 93 mile rides down memory they have now confirmed that a transcript of the call was moved lane for her. this is the area she to a more secure server. grew up in with these of the streets where she first rode a bike on an as the democrats' impeachment
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almost around every corner was a inquiry gathers pace, special place for her. she entered today saw the first subpoena her home town was allowed to go to to the secretary of state, mike pompeo, demanding documents the front of the field and a good view of the crowd including her nan relating to contacts between members at the side of the road. shelley of his staff and the gave birth to a year ago but with no government of ukraine. leading pack as the race went up but committee members also said they had scheduled depositions from five thatis state department officials — leading pack as the race went up but that is when van vleuten, the dutch among them the former us ambassador to the ukraine, marie yovanovitch, writer attacked with an incredible surge of energy with 65 miles is who was recalled over policy still to go, she opened up a lead disagreements with donald trump. that she never let slip of a really and the us special envoy to ukraine, remarkable individual performance kurt volker, who is said to have from the dutch time trial specialist. the rest of the field helped trump's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, set up meetings there going for second and third and with government officials. u nfortu nately going for second and third and unfortunately did not happen. she shortly after the news of the depositions was announced, slipped back into the final stages mr volker resigned from his job of the race. a race to remember and at the state department. donald trump's reaction to the impeachment inquiry continues let's hear from the of the race. a race to remember and let's hearfrom the home of the race. a race to remember and let's hear from the home favourite speaking after the finish. so to veer from anger to incredulity. the witchhunt continues. phenomenal and so grateful for the but they are getting hit opportunity. thank you to everyone hard on this witchhunt, because when they look that came out and supported because they made the event what it was and at the information, it's a joke. it will be a race that i will never
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impeachment for that? forget. the focus tomorrow switches yet the pressure is growing to the men's race and a chance to from outside congress, as well as within. more than 300 former us see thomas in action. he pulled out national security officials, of the time trial earlier in the week saying it was an emotionally from both republican and democratic administrations, have endorsed and very mentally tiring year for the impeachment inquiry, him but he will be involved in the saying they want to know the facts. men's road race. not a british winner in that one since 2011 but events are moving quickly here, with some democrats predicting that the weather forecast contrasted articles of impeachment could be ready to be voted on by todayis the weather forecast contrasted today is very bad. heavy rain expected in your church through most the end of november. of the day up so it could be one for david willis, bbc news, los angeles. thrills and spills. with me is professor brian klaas, that's all the sport for now. an expert on us foreign policy you can find more on all those and american politics, stories on the bbc sport website. at university college london. that's bbc. co. uk/sport. brian, good to have you with us. how i could tell you that manchester city have just taken a lead, they serious is this for trump? this is are playing at every ten around 25 the most serious scandal he's faced. minutes on the clock. just to scored it's the first time in the last 2—3 yea rs it's the first time in the last 2—3 years that i've considered it there and so 1— 02 manchester city. plausible that he might end up a full round up for you at 630. many getting removed from office. it is still unlikely because the process is that the house must vote to impeach, which is likely to happen because the democrats control it, thanks to you and we will indeed
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then the senate would have to have a stay with you for the bc sports day trial in which two thirds of the members would vote to convict. but coming up injust an hour. 50 years ago, sikhs working the republicans vote the senate, so on wolverhampton's buses won the right to wear several people in trump's party will their turbans at work. have to turn up. it is unlikely but their victory followed a long dispute, when racial tensions in the city were running high. still possible. and recent history, john maguire reports on how one as it were, of impeachment was bill man's stand for religious freedom changed the law forever. clinton, which was unsuccessful. richard nixon was impeach, but he it was a campaign that brought thousands onto the streets of the uk was not convicted of high crimes and and india and personified a changing britain. after a two—year battle, wolverhampton finally misdemeanors, but he resigned allowed its sikh bus drivers to wear because the senate and turned a turban and beard. against them. how does this compare in terms of allegations? in the tarsem singh sandhu was the man who made the stand. watergate hearings, there was the if there is no harm to anybody else, crime and cover—up. there are two crimes to this, as well. the crime then why on this earth we are not and parliament would be trump's phone call to the ukrainian allowed to practise our religion? president where he improperly abused his office by pressing him to investigate joe his office by pressing him to investigatejoe biden. his office by pressing him to investigate joe biden. and his office by pressing him to investigatejoe biden. and then there is a suggestion, a strong so i thought if this is happening today, tomorrow suggestion that there was a quid pro something else will come up, tomorrow something quo where he withheld military aid else will come up. to ukraine that was promised, $400 i have to live my life — i have to live the way i am.
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million... which congress approved and was due to be handed over. nobody will chain me. exactly, then a week later got on the phone call and responded saying so that kept me going. mr sandhu says he had hoped they need to do a favour in response for support from his to this. the cover—up is the second friend the local mp — part, which was broken in the last that was one enoch powell, whose infamous rivers 48 hours, where they put the of blood speech had stoked the flames of anti—immigration. recordings or the transcript of the call into a special server that we my house used to be his committee did not know existed which is room on election day, usually for extremely sensitive so he was so close to me. national security matters, and not for things like this which could just be politically embarrassing. the series of people involved in but in politics, you don't know this decision — the witnesses to it when they are friend or not friend. will be subpoenaed by congress, and if i had known it was your we will inevitably figure out what newspaper, i would not have... happened. leaving aside the merits now, half a century on and the city is paying a new tribute and demerits of trump's position, is to one of its heroes. there not a possible argument that a play called himmat — there not a possible argument that which means courage — the potential defenestration of is being performed at trump by the end of his term would the wolverhampton art gallery. amount toa trump by the end of his term would amount to a potential national and then sharanjit, who finally security crisis for the united gives her the coins. states, and therefore perhaps some i know from my own experiences people don't always officials might wrongly believe that have an understanding actually, it was the right thing to about who the sikhs are as a faith and as a community. and so, it is important protect trump? in my view, the for everybody to recognise
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that these things are happening national security crisis is already in different ways. there. you have a president who is but they are still out there and we cannot forget that — using national security as leverage to force a foreign government to especially in the day and age that investigate a political opponent. in addition to that in the last 14—15 we're living in now. we interrupted rehearsals hours, we've also had the revelation with a surprise visit from the man whose story inspired the play. from white house sources that say this was your first job? as a bus driver. that trump told the kremlin officials in the oval office with 0k, 0k. i don't think that's him in may 2017 that he was not from wolverhampton, but this is a driver's badge. back at wolverhampton bus station, concerned with their attack on his legacy is plain to see. american democracy in the 26 you cannot grow your beard, you cannot have a turban on, election, effectively green lighting that an encouraging it. because so i had to fight for it. americans do the same? exactly, which is not true. it is a false one man's determination united conflation of something that is not many and divided others, an equivalent. so when you look at but ultimately proved to be a catalyst for change and a victory national security, lots of people in for people's rights, beliefs and freedoms. the role of national security will say he's already used this as a john maguire, bbc news. bargaining chip for personal and legal interest. that is a crisis, so now it's time for a look removing him would shore up national at the weather with chris fawkes security. i was struck by the hi there, let's take a look at the weather picture. it is fair to say we have surveys over the last 24 hours, some had mixed fortunes. some of us seeing some glorious dramatic shifts in public opinion. sunshine, like here in musselburgh.
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not a million miles away, we haven't yet got a trend yet, but the skies look very there is a 12 point rise in the different in aberdeenshire. number of americans who think you grey, threatening skies, heavy rain and waterlogged roads as we saw persistently wet weather should be impeached? this is what happened with watergate. at the here from this weather front that was with us all afternoon. beginning, the claims became well we had a weather front also known in the public due to stretching in from merseyside towards lincolnshire, high—profile hearings, the also bringing some fairly persistent rain. investigations unearthed additional evidence, which i suspect will happen here. as people got to terms with what happened, they turned down towards the southwest approaches, some areas of blue. against nixon. so the way this would this is the area of low pressure end is one of two ways. either trump rattling off the atlantic, survives this and goes to the senate bringing some wet and windy weather trial and republicans don't turn on across much of england and wales, him, orthe trial and republicans don't turn on him, or the republicans in the particularly tonight. senate believe he is an electoral liability who will not only lose in 2020, but also hurt their chances in the house and senate, and will the rain will arrive, pushing north and east, privately say to him, "we have the getting into northern ireland and across northern england votes to remove you. you can either by the end of the night. go through a trial or resign." and showers will continue to affect thatis northern parts of scotland go through a trial or resign." and that is what happened with richard and with all the cloud around, the wind and the rain, nixon. we don't know which scenario not particularly cold. will happen, but i would much rather temperatures staying in double figures but the winds will be gusty be in the democrats's position then towards the english channel coast, trump's, because this scandal has around 45—55 miles an hour. sunday, it will push eastwards, legs which will consume the news at so after a wet start to the day,
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least for the next few months. thank the weather will slowly improve you very much. the headlines on bbc news... with sunny spells breaking through. the prime minister could face best of the weather to western areas a vote of no confidence but there will be showers as early as next week, across north scotland. according to a senior snp mp, as conservatives gather for their party conference. meanwhile, number ten the rain lingers in the east describes as "a politically midlands, into lincolnshire, motivated attack" could be a miserable day borisjohnson‘s referral for some on sunday. labour'sjeremy corbyn promises as that area of low pressure begins to scrap the controversial welfare policy, universal credit, to pull away later on sunday, we will get another swathe of strong wind, gusts reaching should the party get into power. 45—55 miles per hour across parts of eastern england. we say goodbye to that hong kong have fired water canon to disperse anti—government area of low pressure protesters who threw rocks and into the new working week, and blocked a key road next we have another one to a huge pro—democracy rally. with a repeat performance. hong kong have fired water canon to disperse anti—government protesters who threw rocks we could see another 70 millimetres and blocked a key road next to a huge pro—democracy rally. of rain over the hills of wales. it has been a wet spell of weather demonstrators have been marking so we could see some localised the fifth anniversary of the start of the so—called surface water flooding. " u m brella" protests. it happened near the across the north of the uk, legislative council building. largely fine with some bright weather and northerly winds making
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it feel more cool. showers across northern scotland. through the rest of the week it stays pretty unsettled, could turn wet and windy apologies for that, those are pictures ofjeremy corbyn. again mid week. hong kong have fired water canon to disperse anti—government protesters who threw rocks and blocked a key road next to a huge pro—democracy rally. our correspondent stephen mcdonnell has sent us this update from the streets of hong kong. these are the same streets which were occupied five years ago in the umbrella movement. but the mood is so different. then, it was like a mass, peaceful sit in. now, it's much more tense. we have water cannon down the end of the road there, spraying water with blue dye in it. there are people here smashing up government buildings. this is bbc news. the headlines at 6pm. the authorities, in the lead—up the prime minister could face to the 70th anniversary a vote of no confidence of the communist party coming as early as next week, according to a senior snp mp, as conservatives gather to power in china, are not prepared for their party conference. to tolerate the type or the levels of disturbance meanwhile, number ten describes as "a politically
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motivated attack" — that they were prepared borisjohnson's referral to the police watchdog over his links to an american businesswoman. to put up with weeks ago. labour'sjeremy corbyn promises to scrap the controversial welfare policy, universal credit, should the party get into power. pressure grows on donald trump you can see here, these actors as secretary of state, mike pompeo, do not want to get arrested. is ordered to hand over documents on ukraine linked to —— these activists. the impeachment investigation. the mere hint of the police coming through — and they've all taken off, tear gas and water cannon are used you can see. . . by hong kong police to disperse how many people are now coming through here. protestors holding a rally to mark i mean, just minutes ago, the fifth anniversary of thousands of protesters were occupying this road. that street is now empty, and they've all come down here — and now walking up, because the police are in the underground train station, so they can't go there. for that reason, protesters are walking out. the polls have closed in the afghan presidential election. voting was marred by bomb attacks.
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the election commission had extended the voting by two hours due to long queues of people waiting to cast their ballots. well, joining me now is the studio is dawood azami from the bbc pashto service. thanks very much for coming into the studio. the election itself is over. is it possible to assess yet how successful it's been? well it was successful it's been? well it was successful in a way that there were not many security incidents. we were expecting much more violence than actually happened, because the taliban had threatened that they would try to disrupt the polling, and told people not to participate. so it was a success, but on the other hand, the turnout was very low. it was the lowest than all other elections that had taken place
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in afghanistan since the fall of the taliban regime. we do not know the percentage, but from we know, the turnout was very low. and this was the fourth presidential election in afghanistan since 2001. so in a way, it was an important day for afghanistan. we don't know if there isa afghanistan. we don't know if there is a winner in this round, or whether there will be a second round. in terms of explanations from why the turnout was low, what may have contributed to that? for example, did the failure of the taliban — us peace talks have an impact? has it made people less confidence, or confident about peace talks? there were a few major factors. one was the taliban threat to disrupt the polling, the second reason was the cancellation of the us- reason was the cancellation of the us— taliban talks, or peace talks in general because a lot of people were hoping that they would have peace
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first, or at least a cease—fire, then an election. in the third factor was that many people just did not want to vote because there wasn't any new faces in the selection. so both main candidates are already —— have already been in government for the last five years, so people did not have a new choice. so these were the major reasons that the turnout was low. in in terms of the turnout was low. in in terms of the process — you don't know whether we will need a second stage. but if there is one, when will that take place? so if a candidate is unable to win 50% plus one vote, then there will be a second round. and it will bea will be a second round. and it will be a long process, because the election commission is supposed to announce the initial reserves within three weeks. and then the whole process will go to the election
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complaints commission, if there are any complaints. so they will assess the complaints, so they will take another few weeks. and then they will announce the final results. so if the final result doesn't show that one of the candidates has won plus one vote, then there will be a second round. so then there will be another election. but we don't know how much the turnout is, but we know there is a low turnout, and we don't know whether there will be a second round or a winner in this first round. thank you very much for being with us. in a moment, we have the weather with chris fawkes beforejoining viewers on bbc one for a full round—up of the national news with my colleague, clive myrie. more than half of the thomas cook passengers who had travelled abroad when the company went bust have now been flown home to the uk. the firm ceased trading on monday after failing to secure a bailout. the civil aviation authority said it was the largest peacetime repatriation, with more than 150,000 people being brought back to the uk. meanwhile, more than 1,000
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thomas cook staff have said they will take legal action against the company. dame deirdre hutton, chair of the civil aviation authority, said she is pleased with how the repatriation programme is going so far. we brought back half of the 150,000 will stop there have been some lumps and bumps on the way, as you always find with the aviation industry for some i'm grateful to passengers for putting up with that. i think i'm also pleased that 95% of those people, the vast majority, have come back on the day they would've come back on the day they would've come back at the end of their holiday anyway. so most will have got back when they were hoping to get not necessarily to the same airport, but at least to the same country? to the same country, and on the right day. soi same country, and on the right day. so i think everyone who is still there, the other 75,000 stay out there, the other 75,000 stay out there, enjoy your holiday and we will bring it back on the right day. what you think the lessons are for
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this experience, in terms of preventing problems arising in the future, whether they be airlines or travel operators like thomas cook? you will love her and the government already talking about an insolvency review, and i think government is now already very committed to looking at the airlines or travel companies going into administration. it makes it hard for the caa, we effectively back we have effectively set upa effectively back we have effectively set up a prop up airline, the fourth largest in the uk, in a few weeks. that is a big task. just in terms of that, presumably ultimately the cost of all this will have to be picked up of all this will have to be picked up by of all this will have to be picked up by the taxpayer because there isn't enough assets in thomas cook to pay for it. but don't forget that 60% of these passengers are covered by the apple scheme, and there is plenty of money in the insurance scheme that we run to pay for all
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that. about 40% are not covered, and the government will pick up the bill for that. they will get some of that back from the credit the other thing i thought was interesting, because of something we've heard a lot about on bbc news from holiday—makers is that many face this terrible situation where they booked a holiday, paid for it, but because the hotels and other places where they were staying only get paid in arrears, were suddenly faced with hotel you're saying they need to pay this bill, and if they don't, they will have to kick them out. having —— how have you become involved in all that? a great deal. at the beginning of this, it was tricky. you can't blame the hotel owners for being cross, but 3000 have been involved, and we've sent letters to all 3000. we started making payments, and we spoken personally to 2500. we are also getting a lot of help from the foreign office. the hotels issue has
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really calm down. it was difficult for the first two days. in terms of that, that is money that will ultimately come out of the scheme? yes it will. it is fair to say we have had mixed fortunes. some of us seeing some glorious sunshine, like here in musselburgh. not a million miles away, the skies look very different in aberdeenshire. grey, threatening skies, heavy rain and waterlogged roads as we saw persistently wet weather here from this weather front that was with us all afternoon. we had a weather front also stretching in from merseyside towards lincolnshire, also bringing some fairly persistent rain. down towards the southwest approaches, some areas of blue. this is the area of low pressure rattling off the atlantic, bringing some wet and windy weather across much of england and wales, particularly tonight. the rain will arrive, pushing north and east, getting into northern ireland and across northern england by the end of the night.
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showers will continue to affect northern parts of scotland and with all the cloud around, the wind and the rain, not particularly cold. temperatures staying in double figures but the winds will be gusty towards the english channel coast, around 45—55 miles an hour. sunday, it will push eastwards, so after a wet start to the day, the weather will slowly improve with sunny spells breaking through. best of the weather to western areas but there will be showers across north scotland. the rain lingers in the east midlands, into lincolnshire, could be a miserable day for some on sunday. as that area of low pressure begins to pull away later on sunday, we will get another swathe of strong wind, gusts reaching 45—55 miles per hour across parts of eastern england. we say goodbye to that area of low pressure and into the new working week, we have another one with a repeat performance. we could see another 70 millimetres
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of rain over the hills of wales. it has been a wet spell of weather so we could see some localised surface water flooding. across the north of the uk, largely fine with some bright weather and northerly winds making it feel more cool. showers across northern scotland. through the rest of the week it stays pretty unsettled, could turn wet and windy again mid week.
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good evening. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, says a caretaker government is becoming more likely every day, as opposition parties consider whether to call a vote of no confidence in boris johnson's government. the scottish nationalists have reiterated their support for a move against the prime minister, to ensure, they say, that britain doesn't leave the eu without a deal on october the 31st. all this comes at the end of a tumultuous week for mrjohnson, who's due in manchester, for the start of the conservative party conference, from where chris mason reports.
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is this a leadership bid? the conservative conference one year ago, the smiles of the carefree backbench challenger, the mob darling of the party faithful. boris johnson will arrive at conference this year as prime minister, in office but barely in control. defeated in court but defiant. what a week it has been. the prime minister's advice to her majesty was unlawful. parliament has not been prorogued. many of us in this place subject to death threats. prorogued. many of us in this place subject to death threatslj prorogued. many of us in this place subject to death threats. i have never heard such humble. he faces massive questions about the future of the country and his own past. the mayor of london supports you. boris johnson has been referred to the police watchdog over a potential criminal offence relating to his relationship with the business women jennifer arcuri, over allegations she received favourable treatment, including grants and a place on tray trips while mrjohnson was made of
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london. the prime minister denies any wrongdoing. this issue is politically driven and motivated. and the prime minister has been clear that proprieties were observed. all in all, is this an open goalfor observed. all in all, is this an open goal for labour? observed. all in all, is this an open goalfor labour? they observed. all in all, is this an open goal for labour? they hope so, evenif open goal for labour? they hope so, even if some privately wonder if their leader is match fit. if the government loses a vote of no confidence, it could jeremy corbyn become caretaker prime minister? at the moment he does not have the numbers and yet... it is getting more likely every single day because this government is collapsing. it has now lost all seven votes since borisjohnson has now lost all seven votes since boris johnson became prime has now lost all seven votes since borisjohnson became prime minister and this tory government has been defeated over 45 times in parliament. they do not have a majority or a programme or policies and they do not have any credibility. the scottish nationalist party want to be seen to be trying to bring down the government next week and could live with jeremy corbyn
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government next week and could live withjeremy corbyn in downing street. the only way to guarantee another brexit delay, they think, and then have a general election. another brexit delay, they think, and then have a general electionm is only right and proper that he is the leader of the largest opposition party should have the first opportunity to form an administration, but if another name appears in the frame, ken clarke or dominic grieve that people can coalesce around, i personally and i think the snp would have very little difficulty with that. no one but no one knows what is over the horizon right now but this is a party, despite everything, determined to show the world its bedside. welcome to a conference like no other. brexit potentiallyjust a month away, a vote of confidence in the government potentiallyjust days or weeks away. and yet this is a party that wants to set out a broad agenda on the health service, on schools and the police, as well as on brexit and all of this getting under way while parliament is still
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sitting 200 miles away, so that there is the prospect it could be boomtime for the sellers of train tickets with mps potentially having to hu rtle tickets with mps potentially having to hurtle back down to the house of commons at any given moment. thank you, chris mason, in manchester. meanwhile, jeremy corbyn says a future labour government would scrap universal credit, which merges six benefits into one payment. he also said labour would immediately cut the wait faced by claimants, from five weeks to two. the stress involved in universal credit and the cost of its administration is massive, so what we're saying is, end the two child policy, end the capability for work assessment test and treat people with decency. the civil aviation authority says more than half of thomas cook passengers who'd been abroad when the company went bust have now been returned to the uk. 76,000 people were flown back to britain in the first five days of the repatriation effort. 76 flights were scheduled today.
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doctors are heralding an extraordinary transformation in the treatment of a deadly form of skin cancer. ten years ago, advanced melanoma was seen as untreatable, but a clinical trial shows half of patients are now surviving for at least five years. the drugs involved target the immnune system, and are already available on the nhs. our health and science correspondent james gallagher reports. pam smith is alive and well, but it's been more than five years since she had the devastating news that her cancer was untreatable. an aggressive melanoma had spread inside her body and she says she didn't stand a chance. but pam took part in a pioneering trial and says it saved her life. without having those drugs like that, i might not have got to see my grandchildren. so... because it's just over the five years now since it happened and my youngest grandchild, he was six at the weekend. so, you know, i wouldn't have seen him growing up and the other grandchildren as well.
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ten years ago, people usually died within six to nine months of being diagnosed. this trial on 945 patients tested a combination of immunotherapies and showed 52% were still alive five years later. the doctor who's presenting the data at a cancer conference said the impact was an amazing surprise. it's been the most extraordinary transformation from a disease that was regarded amongst all the cancers as the most difficult to treat, with the most serious prognosis. pam has not been cured. her cancer halved in size after treatment and has not grown in five years. others are in complete remission with no sign of the tumour in their body. we are so encouraged by today's news, and now there is this air of positivity and it has given lots of melanoma patients and families a lot of hope and a bit of a spring in their step. immunotherapy is nobel prize—winning science that is making
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the untreatable treatable. james gallagher, bbc news. it's the second day of action at the world athletics championships in the gulf state of qatar, with the british favourite dina asher—smith making herfirst appearance in the 100 metre heats. but there's been criticism, after a third of the runners in the women's marathon failed to finish the race in 32 degree temperatures, even though it was held at midnight. our sports correspondent, natalie pirks is in doha for us this evening. the heat is clearly taking its toll. it was brittle might, frankly. it was 68% humidity when the race started last night and even some of the competitors that did finish were complaining they could not breathe properly. it has been hotter here today but in the stadium it is air—conditioned so there has been no problems for the men's100 metres semifinals. christian coleman is the fastest man in the world and he looks imperious, selling three. justin gatlin, the world champion,
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is there is a fastest loser and zharnel hughes is the only briton through, the european champion and the best hope of a medal but no briton has won a medal making this event since 2003. british hopes lie with dina asher—smith. she co mforta bly with dina asher—smith. she comfortably won the first heat of the women's100 metres this morning. she is through to the semifinal tomorrow night and then the final, which will be stacked with talent. anyone could win on british fans will be hoping the triple european champion could pick up the first of seven medals that uk athletics are targeting at these championships. all right, you. natalie pirks in doha. the hosts of the rugby world cup, japan, have pulled off one of the biggest upsets in the sport's history, beating ireland by 19 points to 12. andy swiss was watching. japan, we win! it couldn't happen again, could it? a sea of red and white flowed to shizuoka as japan fans hoped for another world cup miracle. 00:40:03,961 --> 2147483051:56:46,695 at the last tournament they beat 2147483051:56:46,695 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 south africa and now they had
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