hello, i'm kasia madera, this is outside source. the uk government has published its new brexit plan — borisjohnson says a deal could be done in ten days in his first speech as conservative leader he made a new offer on the controversial question of the northern ireland border — we are tabling what i believe are constructive and reasonable proposals which provide a compromise for both sides. the irish government is talking down the chances of a deal, but the eu says it will engage with the plan objectively. no deal will never be the choice of the eu, we will continue to reach a deal and work with the uk team.

we'll pick through the details of the johnson plan, analyse what's new and get all the reaction... also in outside source president trump takes the impeachment inquiry to a new level — accusing the whistleblower of being a spy and a top democrat of treason. and in hong kong hundreds of people take part in a peaceful sit—in outside the school of a teenager shot by police. eu leaders are considering borisjohnson‘s new brexit proposal, which was hand delivered this afternoon. in this letter, addressed to the european commission president jean claude—juncker, mrjohnson outlines his new plan. the most significant change is what happens in northern ireland. the new plan would scrap the back stop. the mechanism designed to stop

physical checkpoints on the border between with the republic of ireland and northern ireland, by potentially keeping the whole of the uk inside the eu's customs union. brexiteers were never fans of that. so under mrjohnson‘s new proposal, northern ireland would stay in the eu single market for all goods, which means accepting its rules and standards. but it would not remain in the eu customs union, so it could benefit from any future trade deals negotiated by the uk. and all of this would depend on a vote at the northern ireland assembly, at stormont. at the conservative party conference today, the prime minister tressed it was this deal, or no deal. stressed it was this deal, or no deal. yes, this is a compromise by the uk

and i hope very much that our friends understand that compromising their tone. because of the field to get an agreement for what is essentially a technical discussion, on the exact nature of future customs checks, when that technology is improving the whole time, then let us be in no doubt confidence of then let us be in no doubt conference of what the alternative is. the alternative is no deal. that is not the outcome we want, it is not an outcome that we seek it all. but let me tell you, my friends, it is an outcome for which we are ready. applause. jean claude juncker the president of the eu commission released a statement welcoming the proposal which he said contained "positive advances". but he also raised a number of issues with it. his colleague michel barnier, the eu's chief brexit negotiator, spoke to the media. we will continue to work to reach a deal and no deal will never be the choice of the eu, ever. so we will continue to reach a deal and work as a team. but the deal which respects

and fulfills the three commitments, the three proposals, backstop, in a legal operative manner. i caught up with rob watson for analysis on today's developments. i think they were never going to say that in the first instance. my guess is kind of based on what we have heard already and what is happened the past three years that the eu is going to find this immensely problematic for two reasons, more than two. but i'll give you the two though the most obvious. number one that the northern irish assembly of the democratic unionist party, the prounion protestant party will have a veto over this business of

northern ireland staying in the single market and in other words saying that they do not fancy this very much and they could foresee bigger checks on the island of ireland and i think the european union is very worried about the customs but because of what the brits are saying, look, the customs are going to be so light touch, yes will have a different international trade policy, but we would not have to do anything at the border. we can use technology and i think the eu is going to say hang on a minute, none of this technology actually exists at the moment it also is of opportunity for smugglers and i think they're worried about the integrity of the single market and one other thing in this sort of goes together. they may feel that while this may not violate the good friday agreement to northern ireland, they may feel like many people in northern ireland and the irish republic, isn't consistent with the

spirit of the peace agreement. at one economy that people in the north feel his irish wrist british or protesta nt feel his irish wrist british or protestant or catholic as they like. soi protestant or catholic as they like. so i think it's going to an uphill struggle. they feel that they need to get some kind of deal across, but just coming back from the conservative party conference, is he playing more to his party and of a potential election rather than getting some realistic deal that the eu could except in ireland of course. after giving a horribly long a nswer to course. after giving a horribly long answer to that first question, here's a short one to this one. it seems pretty clear for mrjohnson‘s proposal that he is far happier to keep the remaining voters that he was there were enthusiastic brexiteers in his own party. as i believe that answers your question, and some people take the view that actually does mrjohnson believed feel that serious by the deal? given

that this is going be hard for the european union to swallow, possibly critics will say this is about the politics. no deal, we came up with a reasonable plan, but it was the pesky europeans turned down what those say. one critic is the leader of the opposition, jeremy corbyn and he was quick to pick this deal apart. it is worse than to reason may‘s deal. it is worse than teresa may's deal. i can't see it getting the support that he thinks it will get and it will take us into a regime in britain of deregulation of undercutting and i think, it will also undermine the good friday agreement. jeremy corbyn suggesting boris johnson's deal would undermine the good friday agreement. that's the agreement that secured peace in northern ireland after 30 years of violence. mrjohnson‘s deal would need some form of border checks which could become terrorist targets. although mrjohnson says there will be no checks on or ‘near‘ the border. there's a commitment to "never conduct checks at the border in future."

and the small number of physical checks that do need to be done could take place at trader's premises or other designated locations." here's the irish prime minister, leo varadkar, sounding cautious. it is not promising and does not appear to form the basis for an agreement and will always keep talking and stay open to proposals from the british government. what about the other irish political parties? sinn fein — left—wing republican party — says the proposals drove a coach and horses through the good friday agreement. but the democratic unionist party — the tories northern allies — seem to be on board and are cautiously supportive. here's emma vardy in belfast.

overall, there has been a very pessimistic reaction to his plan from the irish government in any nationalist community that wanted to see northern ireland remained much closer to the eu than these proposals allow. the idea of a new customs checks on goods causing the irish land border was something that they wanted to completely avoid. but crucially for boris johnson, he appears to have northern ireland's unionist party on board with these plans. they hated the previous agreements that had been made by theresa may because they could've left northern ireland in a different regime from the rest of the uk measures they were boris johnson regime from the rest of the uk measures they were borisjohnson as offerings of the northern ireland assembly to agree to follow certain eu rules and regulations and for stormont to be able to review this every four years and that has been

enough to assure the dep that this position in the uk has not been undermined, force it is infuriating with arrivals, sinn fein which could violate plans to keep an open border down the line. let's bring you the latest in the impeachment proceedings against president trump. remember, at the centre is a phone conversation injuly, between the us president and ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky. against president trump. remember, at the centre is a phone conversation injuly, between the us president and ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky. according to a non—verbatim transcript of the call released by the white house, president trump pressured zelensky to help him by opening a corruption investigation against this man, the leading democratic presidential candidate joe biden. president trump has spent much of today denying there was anything

wrong with the phone call, calling the story fake news and attacking democrats. this was heated exchange he had with a reporter as he took questions with the president of finland. go ahead, ask a question. the question was what did you want president zelensky to do about vice president biden and his son, hunter? are you talking to me? yes, it's just a follow—up of what ijust asked you, sir. listen, are you ready? we have the president of finland, ask him a question. i have one for him, ijust wanted to follow—up on the one that i asked you? did you hear me? ask him a question. i will but... i've given you a long answer, ask this gentleman a question. don't be rude. no, sir. i don't want to be rude but ijust wanted you to have a chance to answer the question that asked you. i've answered everything. it's a whole hoax and you know who's playing into the hoax? people like you and the fake news media that we have in this country.

and i say in many cases the corrupt media, because you're corrupt. much of the media in this country is not to speak, it's much of the media in this country is notjust fake, it's corrupt to get some very fine people to come a greatjournalist, greet reporters, but to a large extent, it is corrupt and it is fake. ask the president of finland a question. that's a sense of the mood in the press conference. here's some of the substance. president trump said he would co—operate with any subpoenas from democrats in the house. but he also repeated untrue claims that the house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff deliberately misrepresented his words. i always co—operate. this is a hoax. this is the greatest hoax in just a continuation of what is been playing out for the last, since my election, i would say. probably, we will find out soon, probably even before my

election. this is a fraudulent crime and the american people but will work together with shifty schiff and all of them and we will see what happens because, we did absolutely everything, he had a great call. it was a mentor person. you have the transcript. and schiff went up and got the chairman of the committee, relayed a call that did not take place, he made up the language. no one has seen this, i think he had something of a mental breakdown. but he went up to the microphone and he read a statement from the president of the united states as if i were on the call, because what happened is, when he looked at the sheet, which was an exact transcript of my call. done by very talented people to do this, exact, word for word, done by very talented people to do this, exact, word forword, he done by very talented people to do this, exact, word for word, he said, while, he did not do anything wrong. so he made it up. he went up to a microphone and in front of the american people in congress, he went up american people in congress, he went up and he gave a whole presentation

of words that the president of the united states never said. it has to bea criminal united states never said. it has to be a criminal act, it has to be. and he should resign and some people even say it was treason. we've also learned more about secretary of state mike pompeo's role in all this. until now, he's dodged questions about what he knew about the call. but here's what he said today. as for was i on the phone call? i was on the phone call, the phone call was in the context of i've been the secretary of state coming on a year and a half, and a process what the american policy is with respect to the ukraine. mike pompeo has also said attempts by democrats to interview members of the state department are an attempt to intimidate and bully them. here's what one of the democrats driving the impeachment process, adam schiff had to say about that. we are deeply concerned about secretary pompeo's efforts to potentially interfere

with witnesses whose testimonies are needed before committee, many of whom are listed in the whistle—blower complaint, and we want to make it abundantly clear that any effort by the secretary, by the president or anyone else to interfere with the congress ability to call before a relevant witness will be considered as evidence of obstruction of the lawful functions of congress. gary o'donoghue is in washington. gary, we have seen two different, very testy exchanges between the president where he was just ranting against journalists, president where he was just ranting againstjournalists, pick out the details of what we need to be focusing on. i was sitting about three rows behind thatjournalist and have to say the atmosphere and

there was really, really angry and really accurate. the president was clearly furious about what had been happening he repeated his descriptions of adam schiff is a lowlife. he repeated that adam schiff made up the testimony when what actually happened was that he briefly parodied the president during the committee hearing last week. he slammed the democrats in general, he threatened on a separate note, he went off on a big tangent about the inquiry which finished before the summer saying how he is planning to issue lawsuits against some of the people that may have brought that about in the first place, he was absolutely hopping mad and determined to repeat all of those words that you can cut right through to supporters of there, words like treason, hoax, witch witchhunt, lowlife, and all sorts of

things. he really meant for today. he certainly did and he suggested that the transcripts of which these proceedings are based upon were a word by word account where we all know it was a non—verbatim account that was done from memory and we are awaiting for that stuff till it is not a transcript, these are never transcripts. there assembled from the notes of the people who are on the notes of the people who are on the court, possibly a dozen other people listening in on this call and there assembled and that way as a sort of memorandum, if you like, memorandum of the court and every, was exactly on the call, how you can have that on the speech exactly i do not know. but the call was substantially longer than the actual document that we saw. so it is not a word for word, verbatim transcript and really no one has ever described it as such other than the president.

stay with us on outside source — still to come. big falls on stock makets around the world driven by an economic slowdown — we'll be live in new york with the latest. community pharmacists are reporting shortages of medicines including driven by an economic slowdown will get the very latest from new york. community pharmacists are reporting shortages of medicines including antidepressants and epilepsy pills. a survey from the industry magazine chemist and druggist of 400 branches suggests manufacturing problems are partly to blame. james waldron, the editor of that industry magazine — chemist and druggist explained a bit more to bbc news. he says shortages are getting worse.

the survey results confirm will be of suspected anecdotally which is that medicine shortages are getting worse. for a long time these procedure reports are struggling, so the messes of the past years, 90% of them are finding it hard to find medicines that they did a year ago. also the survey revealed the breadth of the problem, this not the case of one or two drugs manufactured by certain manufacturers being in short supply. we have support to make report from multiple medicine categories and we have some scale of the problem. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is? the european union has responded cautiously to british proposals to avoid a no—deal brexit at the end of the month. some of the other stories in the bbc

news room. iraqi security forces are clashing with anti—government protesters for a second day in baghdad and elsewhere. at least one person has been killed. the demonstrators are angry about the lack ofjobs, poor public services and rampant corruption. bbc arabic. the fiancee of murdered journalist jamal khashoggi has called for saudi arabia to be held to account — on the anniversary of his death. a vigil has been held at the saudi consulate in istanbul, where the prominent saudi critic was murdered a year ago today. global markets have fallen sharply — wall street's main indexes were on track for their sharpest one—day declines in nearly six weeks take a look at the uk's leading ftse 100 index, it dropped over 3%. the falls follow a set of gloomy economic data on employment, hiring and manufacturing in the last few days.

vivienne nunis has been across the story in new york. investors are investors a re really investors are really worried about the economic date in the merger, first of all those jobs figures, the number of new jobs created first of all those jobs figures, the number of newjobs created by the private sector here is lower than economists were predicting and we've also got some updates on the august stage and that turned out not to be as strong as previously thought either through a couple of worries there, we're also seeing in the manufacturing sector that us factory activity has depleted since the financial crisis, this is led to the sell—off that we have seen with the major industries closing in the red, the dow was down i.86%, almost a95 points down. . consumer spending

makes a large chunk of the us economy, rp was is not spending enough. it really reflects the worries that businesses are having about the trade whether we are seeing between the us and china, businesses are putting on hold those big orders they really keep the industrial side tipping over and that it's a bc weaker manufacturing that it's a bc weaker manufacturing that has impacted jobs and that's why we are seeing the effect in the market today. india has shelved a ban on single use plastics saying it would be too disruptive during an economic slowdown. prime minister narendra modi was expected to announce a ban on plastic bags, straws and cups — but businesses fought back. suranjana tewari has been speaking to business owners. nds are the fastest growing plastic industries in the world. every year

more than ia million tonnes are produced for sale within the country and for export. but the workers of this factory and a million others in the plastic industry across india are suddenly staring at an uncertain future stability of these goods are phased out, there is no alternative will happen to us in the industry and our employees. we asked the government for time around three to four years to prepare. prime minister is an admission to free india a single use plastics but the lack of clarity of what can be phased out has taken a toll this factory has already seen a drop of 30 to a0% in sales. many businesses produce plastic product away of time and it is not a common —— uncommon, but with so uncertainty on single use plastics, many businessesjust

like this one do not know if their stock will be sold or go to waste. concerns are growing around the world about plastic pollution but it's these vigils that have really rattled india. on course to rise higher than the hill in the coming year. plastic is a huge challenge because we need to strengthen segregation, we need to strengthen processing, recycling and all of it is not happening in the present context. many plastic products have been banned causing some plans to shut down entirely. there is no doubt that india has a long way to go before solving its problems with plastic, but most people agree that waste management is as critical as prepping the use of these products.

coming up more eu reaction to boris johnson's new brexit proposal — the european parliament's lead negotiator has said the plan "falls short of what is necessary" asking to prorogue parliament for next tuesday until the following monday when it will launch its new legislative agenda. the stress here is that the duration of the prorogation will not be as long. it will be the shortest time possible because there was that huge controversy because there was that huge co ntrove i’sy over because there was that huge controversy over the main court saying that the prorogation, the suspension of cartman for five weeks was unlawful. so now borisjohnson us was unlawful. so now borisjohnson us to go back to her majesty the queen to ask for a suspension once again, this time a short one. to be again, this time a short one. to be a fly on the wall when that happens. a reaction to this as we come back

for the next edition of outside source. please stay with us here on the bbc. good evening. let's take a quick look at some of the big weather stories elsewhere in the world at the moment. and where we have seen some cold and exceptionally snowy weather across parts of canada and the northwest us, contrast that with what's been happening to eastern parts of the us. happening to eastern parts on tuesday, record breaking october heat all the way from georgia through to ohio, cincinnati 35 celsius, 95 fahrenheit. and that's in october. it is of course autumn, and we do see contrasts played out, but they have been very stark, and remained so at the moment. hermas chart shows up with hot humid air to the south and east, colder, snowy air to the north and the west. in between the two, when you get those contrasts in air masses, you do get intense rain bands, and some snowfall. that rain tonight will be across parts of the midwest, causing flooding, gusty winds with it, and it will slide through southern parts of the great lakes. towards perhaps

northeast united states. so new york, boston, they could turn quite wet, and at times windy as we go through into thursday. and after seeing temperatures into the low 30s in new york over the past few days, ia degrees, a big big temperature drop. a big change in wardrobe for those. and it's going to stay on that cooler side of things. although much more pleasant this weekend in new york. with the sunshine out. elsewhere, say the likes of calgary, we've got things turning a little less cold, compared to what we've had done as of late. now across eastern asia, we have seen typhoons pushing its way through taiwan, eastern parts of china, and recently, across south korea. no longer a typhoon, but torrential rain across south korea. that heavy rain spreads across northern japan over the next few days, sweeping bands of thunderstorms and gusty winds elsewhere across japan. easing away a little bit into the weekend, but there could still be remnants of humidity in tokyo, which is important of course, it's england versus argentina at the rugby world cup. 1—2 lighter showers around before things turn a little less hot into sunday. now, of course, for us in the uk,

all eyes on this spiral of cloud. this was hurricane lorenzo earlier today, as it pushed through the north and west of the azores. no pushing over colder waters, it loses its hurricane status, but into thursday, and thursday nights, that will then work its way to the west of ireland. could see winds gusting 85 mph along those atlantic coast. more of that and weather for the week ahead in half an hour's time. but, elsewhere across europe, we turn colder through central and northern areas, blustery winds and some showers, but we have seen some pretty hot conditions towards the south and east. bucharest, 30 degrees on thursday, but notice this, across the rest of the balkans, northwest greece, southern italy, some severe thunderstorms. flash flooding possible, and they will sweep across the rest of the balkans, greece, as we go through thursday night and into friday, bringing a big drop in temperature. bucharest will certainly notice that from the mid—30s over the past few days to just ia degrees. stays cool and blustery further west, with the remnants of lorenzo pushing its way south and east.

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hello, i'm kasia madera, this is outside source. the uk government has published its new brexit plan — borisjohnson says a deal could be done in ten days. in his first speech as conservative leader he made a new offer on the controversial question of the northern ireland border. we are tabling, what i believe, are constructive and reasonable proposals. which provide a compromise for both sides. the irish government is talking down the chances of a deal, but the eu says it will engage with the plan objectively. the no—deal will never be the choice of the eu, never. so we will continue to reach a deal and to work

with the uk team. president trump takes the impeachment inquiry to a new level — accusing the whistleblower of being a spy and a top democrat of treason. meghan and harry end their tour of southern africa — they head back to the uk, and a legal battle with the mail on sunday and in hong kong hundreds of people take part in a peaceful sit—in outside the school of a teenager shot by police. let's go back to our main story. eu leaders are busy reading through boris johnson's new brexit proposal tonight. and just like us — they too are getting their heads around the complicated politics of it all. essentially it comes down to the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland — the most significant change being that the backstop has been scrapped.

if you're confused, here's john pienaar to help you out. the prime minister has finally hatched a plan, and all that's left is to see if it flies. a plan for the uk to leave as one, and still keep the irish border open when it becomes an eu border. so the aim is to get from this, uk and ireland, part of the customs union, no trade tariffs, border taxes, and inside the single market, with the same rules and standards on goods, so, no checks needed, to this... the uk leaves the eu with a free—trade agreement by 2021, with no trade tariffs. though some say it's bound to take longer, but how? thejohnson offer is that mainland britain leaves the customs union and the single market, free to strike outside trade deals where it can, and set new standards for goods if it wants. though, that would mean checks and form filling,

and could affect access to european markets. but here's the big sticking point. northern ireland leaves the customs union as well, the dup insists on that. see it as a test of uk membership, so there'd have to be some customs control within the republic, just to collect taxes due on goods from outside the uk in the eu. now, ireland says any border checks or control posts would disrupt the peace settlement, called the good friday agreement, they'd may be become terrorist targets, and the eu says the same. the british suggestion of checks away from the border, online, just a few physical inspections is seen in brussels as wide open to smuggling, and that's not the only problem. the johnson offer keeps northern ireland in the single market for, and this is new, all goods. not just food and agricultural products. same rules and regulations on all sides in other words, but that obviously means there would be checks on goods from the british mainland to northern ireland, which could cross into the republic and the eu. will the dup live with that?

will the eu? there will be no border checks, so brussels is worried about its rules and standards being ignored, and borisjohnson says, for the sake of democracy in the union, the northern ireland assembly must approve before any new system kicks in during the transition period, and every four years afterward. so not the permanent guarantee that brussels wants. if you think the plan's complicated, just look at the politics. no clear sign the eu is ready to sign up. parliament has to agree any deal. if there is no—deal at all, then mrjohnson is left then chasing strongly brexiteer votes, and a brexit extension would mean a blame game between brussels, downing street, and parliament, and a wholly unpredictable election. john pienaar they're explaining us threat. , now no—deal planning does continue. in the uk michael gove has been put in charge of preparing the country for a no—deal brexit. this is what he had to say

about the proposals. obviously, it will be for individual european nations, and for the european nations, and for the european commission to respond as and when it thinks it's appropriate. but what i hope they will do is recognise that that the clock is ticking, these are serious proposals. on the brexit referendum, they underpin peace in ireland, and they underpin peace in ireland, and they respect the eu's own interests as well. i think on that basis, progress can be made, but we will have to see how european leaders respond. while they have been responding. the european commission president, jean claudejuncker has already given a response to borisjohnson over the phone, welcoming the new proposals. but said, "there are still some problematic points that will need further work in the coming days". "we must have a legally operational solution that meets

here's political editor laura kuenssberg's take... the german chancellor, angela merkel, has given her view. translation: we will closely examine the proposals, i can say anything you today on that, and this is also what we agreed. that we will evaluate them together. it is important for us them together. it is important for us that we stick together as 27, we trust michelle bonnie a. but the head of the european parliament's brexit steering committee is not so optimistic. ican i can tell you that the first reaction the brexiteer group was not positive. not positive in the sense that we don't think that this is really the safeguard that ireland

needs. tomorrow, we will give a point after point the reasons for that. what is not acceptable. —— in the proposal. for an overview let's go to adler, on the reactions from the eu. in this document, there are clearly areas that go against eu redlines, such as having any kind of customs system in between northern ireland and the republic of ireland, but, the eu does not want to rush forward with a blanket rejection here. one, because it wants a deal, and two, because if there is not going to be a deal, the eu doesn't want to be the ones slamming the door in the uk's face. so, he welcomed the arrival of these proposals here in brussels, it's something that he's been asking forfor a long time. yet he did express some concerns, but he also said that you remained available 20 a7, night and day for further negotiations. thereby putting the ball back in the uk's court. it's now up to the prime minister to decide, does he want a break

the deal enough to further engage with you? or will he stick to his take it or leave it approach? and if it does, then that will be him and not that eu it thinks walking away from negotiations. don't forget, the eu doesn't buy the prime minister's line, that it's this deal or no—deal. they think the next likely chapter in this long process will be another brexit extension. on our website, we have a whole load of background on how this new deal the furs —— is different from the old deal, so you can check that out, but i want to move on now, because in the united states, bernie sanders, one of the leading democrats competing to take on president trump in next year's election, has cancelled campaign events until further notice after undergoing surgery. here's the statement from his team "during a campaign

bernie sanders is 78, and if he were to win the presidency, he would become the oldest person in the us to hold the office. these are the democrats leading in the polls, according to real clear politcs — you can see senator sanders is polling third behind senator elizabeth warren and former vice—presidentjoe biden. let's hear from anthony zurcher again bernie sanders campaign said it was, until further notice, the campaign has been suspended. and while if you look into the stent procedure, multiple stints that were put in, bernie sanders artery to improve blood flow, that is something that people recover from fairly quickly. it doesn't require a long hospitalization. it is still going to be a setback for him, and it could accentuate

the concerns about bernie sanders' age, he 78 years old, he's the oldest candidate in the field running for president. and while he seemed to hale and hearty in his campaign in 2016, and so far, this time around, i think it is a very real concern for some of the democratic voters who are going to be casting ballots next year. any updates on bernie sanders' health, we will bring it to you. but now to the duke and duchess of sussex have ended their tour of southern africa. it comes as the mail on sunday says it will "vigorously" defend itself in a court case launched by the couple. megan is suing the paper over a claim it unlawfully published a private letter the duchess sent to her father. harry announced the news yesterday on the couple's official website where he wrote of a ruthless campaign against his wife. he said...

he recalled the hunting of his mother, princess diana, who of course died in a paris car crash while being pursued by the paparazzi. so this is the editor of the mail on sunday, he was arriving at work this morning, the spokesperson for the paper said that it is standing by the story it has published. sarah campbell has more. this isn't the first time that a member of the royal family has taken action, legal action against a newspaper, but perhaps what sets us apart is the tone of prince harry's accompanying statements. it's very long, it's emotive, and we understand that it would be likely the queen and the prince of wales would have been made aware before it was published, we don't know. so the duchess of sussex's claim has not been filed. —— now been filed. people have been asking,

why release this news today? this has rather overshadowed the very last day of their ten day tour of southern africa, which has been seen as a very positive tour, very successful tour, that this has just been a change of tone on the final day, and why is that? we understand this is down to the legal process that their hands were tied as to when this news was going to be made public. her lawyers say that the claim has been filed over the intrusive and unlawful publication of the private letter, the handwritten letters sent to her father shortly after her wedding, and so if this does go to open court, there is the prospect that of the duke and or at the duchess of sussex may have to give evidence. so this will be a significant moments, not just for the royal family, but also for the tabloid press in general. lets take a look at some of the highlights from prince harry and meghan's 10—day tour. one of the most memorable moments was when one we got a first proper look at the couple's baby, archie, when they took him to visit archbishop desmond tutu.

and this is from the first day of the tour. the duchess of sussex joined in with dancers in the nyanga township in cape town. and then there was harry's visit to angola. the duke brought back memories of his mother diana, princess of wales' famous visit to there as he also walked through a minefield in support of a landmine clearance charity. nomsa maseko is injohannesburg with more on the royal couple's final day in southern africa. after spending several days travelling around southern africa, prince harry reunited with his wife, meghan and their son archie here injohannesburg for the final day of their royal tour of southern africa. they walked hand in hand as they made their first engagement. they walked into the township, which is in the east ofjohannesburg to meet youth entrepreneurs,

and also held brief discussions around youth unemployment. and after that, they went to visit the widow of nelson mandela, and that visit was then followed by another one at the statehouse, with the president of south africa and the first lady. stay with us on outside source — still to come. we'll get the latest from hong kong where hundreds of people have taken part in a peaceful sit—in outside the school of a teenager shot by police. now to the sad news, peter sissons, one of the most distinguished news broadcasters of the past half—century, has died at the age of 77. he worked at both itn and the bbc. our correspondent liso mzimba looks back at his career. for decades, he was one

of the countries of the best—known news presenters, watched by millions on the bbc‘s bulletins. good evening. it's just after five in the morning, shortly after dawn... he began his career as a correspondent for itn, reporting from around the world, before becoming an itv newscaster. he was one of the original presenting team for channel a news, admired for holding public figures to accounts, even in the most difficult of circumstances. well i don't know whether you've gathered what happened there... good evening, and welcome to question time. hejoins the bbc in 1989, notjust as a newsreader, but also taking over from sir robin day, as the presenter of question time. it comes from julie clark, who is a student, julie?

there were moments of controversy during his career... this is bbc television news, buckingham palace hasjust announced the death of the queen mother. he faced some criticism for wearing a burgundy tie, rather than a black one when announcing this royal death. he covered some of the biggest news stories of the last 50 years, with compassion and understanding. well, the historic peace deal for northern ireland... on the eve of the funeral the princess of wales, her body was, tonight, moved to rest for a final night at her london home. that's all from the bbc news room tonight. he will be remembered as one of tv‘s most trusted faces over more than three decades. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is? the european union has responded cautiously to british proposals

to avoid a no—deal brexit at the end of the month. it's more than five years now since conflict broke out in eastern ukraine between the government, and pro—russian militias, backed by moscow. in that time one and a half million people have been internally displaced. the fighting in the donbass has ebbed and flowed throughout that time but one thing has remained constant, the demand of russian—speaking communties to have greater autonomy from kiev. now, there's been a significant development. ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky agreed to allow elections in those areas — and to grant them special status. the bbc‘sjonah fisher reacted by asking whwther this

the questions are still unresolved. one of the main focus points of the continuing problems there. irena taranyuk is from the bbc‘s ukranian service. she talked me through this announcement. it came as a big shock to a large chunk of ukrainian society that this formula was officially approved by the ukraine, because there has been, for the last couple of weeks, a huge movement against adopting the formula that the majority of ukrainians who have fought in the east perceived to be capitulation and surrender act of sorts, because they say this settles the piece, settles the conflict in ukraine, that's on putin's terms, because it was suggested originally by european mediators, and then foreign minister of germany,

who is now the president of ukraine, and he cannot even imagine that his name is associated with one of the biggest protest movements, the first mass movement against newly elected presidents. zelensky. a reminder that he was elected with a massive majority, and he has incredibly high approval ratings in society, over 70%. and yet, now, these protests will be the first test of his popularity. and the protesters, they have been outside his offices, but it's not as if, like you say, it's not as if he thought of this from thin air. this is something that was suggested by european mediators. zelensky came in on a mandate that he wanted to bring about peace there, but the problem is that the question of the potential of russian troops still being on the grounds, that's not resolved with the. it's not resolved with this, and many pundants in ukraine considered the formula as it is is not workable. because it was regarded to be a precondition for finally moving the process of negotiating

from the dead end that it has found itself a couple of years ago, because let me remind you, nothing happened. no negotiating, nothing. so, this is a concession that zelensky claims to have made, not to give up ukrainian territory, and he himself claimed it's not capitulation, this is a condition to start negotiating, and it's a coveted meeting with putin that he tries to arrange like that, and also a coveted place at the highest table with president macron, with putin, and he is prepared to sacrifice anything for that. in hong kong hundreds of people took part in a peaceful sit—in outside the school of a teenager shot by police. these are the pictures. the incident happened yesterday during massive protests in the territory, on the day china marked 70 years of communist party rule. it's the first time a protester was shot by police with a live

round in months of protests. tsang chi—kin is now in a stable condition. earlier, hong kong's police gave their justification for using live ammunition. this tweet from the bbc‘s stephen mcdonnell gives you a sense of the scale of tuesday's protests. so just put that into context, as stephen was saying, police fired 1000 rounds of tear gas on just 1a00 on that one day during those biggest protests. but if you see what they've been doing over the past two months, they fired 1000, so that the contrast is really, really staggering. 1000 and 1a00 injust one day. so let's hear from steve now on the impact of tuesday's protest. the fact that police have now used a

real gun that they've shot an activist with the bullets, show it to may deter some, but others, i think it might embolden them to take more drastic action against the police, and the fear is that the violence could actually escalate. to tell the truth, it had always been something we thought was going to happen, there have been so many close calls, whether police have pulled out their guns. i mean, even yesterday, the police say they actually fired live rounds six times. one into that activist. five warning shots in the air. so it was always going to be probably only a matter of time until somebody was shot with a real bullets. thankfully though, on this occasion, that young activist has not been killed. said to be in a sta ble not been killed. said to be in a stable condition. let's go back to boris johnson's new stable condition. let's go back to borisjohnson's new brexit proposal, because as well as trying to get that you to agree with it, the prime minister will have to get it through

parliament. british mps have of course refused three times to pass his predecessors withdrawal agreement, but the prime minister is hoping that the changes he's made will win them over. here's one influential brexiteer, from his own party isafairand is a fair and reasonable offer, and i think the european union should engage with a very constructively. it does meet the objectives, which has set with respect to the good friday agreement and avoiding any checks on or near the border. so it isafairand checks on or near the border. so it is a fair and reasonable proposal, and it should be engaged with constructively. borisjohnson is likely to need backers from other parties as well since he leads a minority government. we already know the dup — the small northern irish party that suports the government — is on board. pippa crerarfrom the daily mirror has tweeted... borisjohnson isn't on the best of terms with many mps however after those angry scenes that

followed his unsuccessful attempt to suspend parliament last month. so it will be interesting to see how quickly he can smooth over the necessary feathers. his conference speech earlier today meanwhile, might not have helped in that regard. we have so many reasons to be confident about our country and its direction, and yet, ifeel almost like a world—class athlete with a pebble in our shoe. there is one pa rt pebble in our shoe. there is one part of the british system that seems to be on the blink. if parliament were a laptop, then the screen would be showing, i'm afraid, the pizza wheel of doom. if parliament... if parliament were a reality tv show, then the whole lot of us, i'm afraid, would have been voted out of the jungle by now. while, at least... well, at least we

would've had the consolation of watching the speaker being forced to eat a kangaroo testicle. laughing if that's not going to test relations enough, then relations will be tested even more, because we've got this update coming into the bbc news room. borisjohnson will be asking the queen once again to suspend or prorogue parliament for a much shorter time at this time. but it's going to be really interesting to see him go back and asked the queen for that suspension. of course, every moment, covered here on the programme. hello there. wednesday's area of high pressure brought a welcome relief to all of the rain, which we've had over the past two weeks, especially for england and wales. we saw plenty of sunshine through the day, a glorious picture,

just provs that and london, and clear skies over ambleside and cambria. after the flooding downpours which we saw on tuesday. so what a what a difference a day makes there. but it is all set to change, as we end the week, as ex—hurricane lorenzo comes hurtling in off the atlantic from the southwest. it will also bring with it, much milder air, from the southwest, as the storm system continues to push and across the country. it starts off dry, bright, chilly again come across much of the uk for thursday morning. but the skies will turn cloudier, storm lorenzo begins to impact western areas very windy across the republic of ireland, with some huge waves there. gales will develop across a receipt coasts later in the day. temperatures creeping up slowly across the southwest, another chilly one across the north and east. and then through thursday night, and into friday morning, it turns wetter and windier for many of us. as storm lorenzo continues to work eastwards. but a much milder start friday, then

what we've had the last few nights, you will see temperatures in double figures, particularly across central and southern areas. now, storm lorenzo continues to work south eastwards on friday, but weakens rapidly. although it will start off fairly wet and windy, the rain it will ease down through the day, although it will stay pretty windy with scales across south wales and southwest england. as that system pushes off into the near continent, skies will tend to brighten up from it will become drier across the country to end friday. and a much milder afternoon as well, 17—18d in the south. 15 degrees or so in the central belt of scotland. into the start of the weekend, then we are in this brief ridge of high pressure, where we look to the west, the next frontal system, which will arrive around the middle part of the weekend, not looking too bad in fact, it should be a dry starts, wins coming up from the south or southeast, we should see variable clouds, sunny spells, but for signs of that rain and wind will arrive across northern ireland in western scotland by the end of the day. and quite a mild day, generally the mid to high teens celsius. and then through saturday night, that frontal system very slowly

works its way eastwards, it will tend to grind to a halt, we think, so it could be by the end of saturday night, sunday morning, it could be quite a bit of rain across parts of scotland, england, and wells. some of it will be quite heavy. but, it will tend to ease down through the day. leave a legacy of cloud, 1—2 showers, but also some sunny spells developing, those temperatures again around the seasonal average. that's15—17dc mark. on into next week then, it looks like it stays unsettled, low pressure being driven by a fairly strong jet across the north atlantic, it will keep things wet and windy. particularly across the north and the west of the country. we are looking at high pressure though, potentially pressure though, building and from the towards potentially building and from the towards the mid to latter part of the week. but, with low pressure nearby, and it winds coming in off the atlantic and i think temperatures will remain around the seasonal average. but there will be quite a bit of wind and rain, most of it in the north and west. with

parts of the south and southwest perhaps turning a little bit drier towards the latter part of the week, as high pressure wants to build in. but i think the general theme is, for the outlook, to remain rather u nsettled.

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