hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. in a letter that rails against his impeachment proceedings — president trump accuses democrats of declaring war on american democracy. britain's prime minister boris johnson says he'll change the law to to prevent further extensions of the brexit process. italian football clubs have joined the backlash against italy's top football league, which has used images of monkeys in an anti—racism campaign. pope francis decides to remove secrecy rules allowing the catholic church to better report cases of abuse to civil authorities. and scientists say the idea artificial light from screens is keeping people awake at night is flawed.

on wednesday, house of representatives is almost certain to vote in favour of impeaching president trump. that's what's prompted an extraordinary letter from the president to the speaker of the house of represantatives. from the president to the speaker of the house of representatives. it includes baseless allegations, for example. there's massive exaggeration too.

he also accuses democrats of... if the house votes in favour of impeachment, there will be a trial in the upper house of congress, the senate, and today the house rules committee has been meeting to establish the rules that will govern that process. the president is facing two articles of impeachment. the chair of the committee set out the first one. president trump withheld congressionally approved a to the ukraine. not to fight corruption, but to extract a personal political favour. president trump refused to meet with ukraine's president until he completed the scheme. the second charge against president is obstructing congress — that's related to the white house

telling staff not to testify — or release some documents. serious charges no doubt — but this matter will be resolved with a vote in senate. republicans have a majority. and for the president to be impeached — 2/3s of senators must vote for it happen. that looks very very unlikely. here's one of the the leading republican on the hosue rules committee explaining his opposition. this is not the result of a fair process and certainly not a bipartisan one. sadly, the democrats impeachment inquiry has been flawed and partisan from day one. here's the finding of a new washington post and abc news poll: "americans locked in partisan stalemate on removing trump from office". as you can see, overall, there's a more or less an even divide for and against — and what people think about impeachment is very closely connected to which party they support.

that means every representative in congress is taking a position by which they'll be judged. for example, the democrat elissa slotkin represents a district in michigan. it was a republican stronghold until but she won there in last year's midterms. here she is explaining her decision to back impeachment. he gave the word to his administration to not produce any documents, to not respond to any subpoenas and to not appear. that is the president contravening the house's role and responsibility for the impeachment process and i'll be voting yes on the obstruction of congress. gary o'donoghue, washington. looking at that letter, does not

look like it was edited by anyone else. i am slightly speechless about it but i shouldn't be and we know how the president talks in this how he talks. it is like you could've rolled up the last, seven or eight weeks into one document and then just put it right out there and that is what you've got here. it is extraordinary. i have not tried to count the adjectives but it is groaning with adjectives. three or four adjectives for every sentence. it is full of alliteration and exclamation marks and it's all over the place and from exposition of his case to insults to hyperbole and in that crowning moment we see the comparison to the way he has been treated by the people who were

burned at the stake during the salem witch trials and the witchcraft to be dumped in pounds to see if they would be able to survive or not, it is quite extraordinary but as shown you, putting it this way, the impeachment has got under his skin a bit. and is this less a letter to nancy pelosi or a letter to his supporters saying look, you have to be with me through this process?” think that is right. if you wanted to hand over six pages of talking points to every republican voter and supportive for the next 12 months, this would be a decent place to start. there is a list, more than 30 of what the president was talking about his achievements in the middle of all of this defensive case on impeachment itself. all sorts of things ranging from unemployment

rates, the economy to more issues. it is quite an extraordinary document and i do feel at some point oi’ document and i do feel at some point or other, a decision was made to sit down and do this and i am quite speechless at it. it is an extraordinary historic document. this is quite a letter and you can find it on the bbc news website. in his victory speech last week borisjohnson said he thought everyone deserved a break from brexit. but we're not going to get one just yet. today the prime minister announced his brexit bill confirming the withdrawal deal with the eu — will also make it illegalfor the uk parliament to extend the brexit transiaiton beyond the end of 2020. the plan is for the transition period is start the moment brexit happens at the end of january.

it ends in december 2020. that means uk and eu negotiators have less than 12 months to work out a trade deal — trade deals normally take longer than that. which means the possibiluty of a no—deal brexit returns. here's some reaction from the eu. if he thought the first three issues were complicated and the withdrawal if we thought the first three issues were complicated and the withdrawal agreement, and they were, i think the next phase has an added layer of complexity because it will cover just about everything else. every industry, including security, pharmaceuticals, food, you name it and what we will be talking about then is the detail. borisjohnson ha slong argued the eu responds to hard deadlines. here's his message today. you ain't seen nothing yet, folks. we're going to work even harder

because people have a high level of expectation and we must deliver for them. the eu's chief negotiator michel barnier has previously expressed skepticism about getting a comprehensive free trade agreement injust 11 months. today he said "we will do the maximum." so both sides say they'll try. one possible outcome is a limited agreement in 2020 with a commitment for a more complex agreement down the track. here's damian grammaticas in brussels. the president of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, she has said that she favours an approach that will be a step—by—step approach to try and negotiate a limited range of things first and that deal with the real basics, trading goods, fair competition. it's worth noting that in practice this change to the law doesn't necessarily rule out an extention to the

transition period. borisjohnson has a large majority in parliament so he could easily change the law preventing him from doing so. interesting to look at the markets on this. bbc economics editor faisal islam here's a graph showing the pound against the us dollar. you can see clearly the rise in the pound straight after the election, and the drop—off today. so not for the first time, borisjohnson is taking a risk. here's naomi grimley‘s assessment of it. in order to get it done in a timeframe which people like michel like michel barnier think is possible, it may mean that borisjohnson as to cave in on certain things.

this particularly when it comes to aligning the uk economy with the eu on labour laws or environmental laws or, allowing the eu access to uk fishing waters. so, there might be a bit like what you sow the withdrawal agreement, there might be a case where borisjohnson may be conceding things, even though his big headline will be that he's doing it quickly. bizarre involving italy's top football league, serie a. it launched anti—racism campaign with artwork. that's right they chose to tackle racism with pictures of monkeys. it's hard to imagine the meeting where that was signed off. the artist responsible for this says: it's fair to say that argument‘s not cutting through. bear in mind monkey chants are one of the most comment forms of racism

at football matches. the european anti—discrimination group fare says serie a insist they're fighting the culture of racism with works like this. but there's been a lot lot more criticism. here's the artist responding. this reaction for me, from my point of view shows how, you know, the mind is twisted by all the things that are happening right now. because a pure mind, a pure heart, without any, i don't know the word in english, but a pure heart can see this campaign as a really huge step against racism because it's really brave. next this is the british journalist musa 0kwonga who's written extensively

about racism in sport. he refers to his stubbornness and i wondered if there were certain obstacles or objections raised were he thought, i'm going to plough ahead and that right there is a problem because some people think that when you make racist art, you have to want to be a racist. he clearly is not someone who dislikes black people. the problem is that sometimes even though you have good intentions, they can have racist outcomes and unfortunately, this art is a racist outcome. italian football clubs aren't impressed either. interesting coming from that club. it's striker romelu lukaku

says cagliari fans made monkey noises at him during a game in september. more recently, brescia striker mario balotelli had to be persuaded not to walk off the pitch when faced with monkey chants. here in the uk, manchester city has vowed to take action against a fan who appeared to make monkey gestures at fred of manchester united. here's more from musa 0kwonga. it isa it is a huge problem because it extends into society and what i would like to say is i like to hear from the directors of these football clubs, the directors of these clubs, many of them are white coming out in sitting the they celebrated in the plot, it should be far more widespread for the administration of this club say that there's proper

consultation and let us support our players not of the workers in the workplace have to answer for the workplace have to answer for the work conditions. they're too busy playing world—class football they should not be able to sort out the safety of their work conditions. the pope has ended the rule of "pon—ti—fical secrecy" — this obliged anyone bringing accusations of priests sexually abusing children to keep quiet about the details. the vatican used to say the rule was meant to protect the privacy of victims and he reputations of the accused. but critics said it was preventing cooperation with police officers. mark lowen has more. it has been criticised for enabling sex abuse and discouraging those people who were victims of it from actually reporting it. so pope francis is done today is that he abolished the use of it in terms of accusations, trials and decisions regarding sex abuse and he is also raising the definition of a minor in child pornography images from 14 to

18 to child pornography images from 1a to 18 to try and clamp down on clerics accused of possessing these images. this comes on top of an earlier move by the pope to compel members of the clergy who were aware of abuse or cover—ups to actually report it. this is all an attempt by pope francis to tackle perhaps the greatest crisis facing the catholic church, the sex abuse. he has been criticised by some for not tackling it quickly enough, for not bringing in laws that are strengthened to make stringent —— stringent enough. but finally an attempt to come to terms and tackle this crisis in these crimes and the vatican will be hoping that this shows that they are serious about coming to terms with the dark underbelly of the catholic church. stay with us on 0utside

source — still to come. scientists say experiments on mice show it's not true that artificial light from screens is keeping people awake at night. a review of the record low rate of rape convictions has found a justice system ‘close to breaking point‘ because of cuts. the crown prosecution service inspectorate says a damning number of cases are lost during what it describes as under—resourced police investigations. our home affairs correspondent june kelly explained the findings of the report in more detail. while there were so many allegations in england of wells, many ended in convictions. the campaign group says the crown prosecution is adopting what he calls a bookmakers approach when it comes to mounting prosecutions and only going for cases with their more certain of getting a conviction. the cps is a lwa ys getting a conviction. the cps is always denied this and there report vindicates cps and what this report

shows and what it has found is that there are a few cases being referred to by the police and also the police are taking longer to carry out investigations. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead is? 0n the eve of the impeachment vote — president trump writes an extraordinary letter accusing the democrats of declaring war on american democracy. police and protesters have clashed in paris at a demonstration against government plans for pension reforms. the protests and strikes have been continuing for nearly two weeks. the plans would see the average person expected to work till 64 rather than 62 to claim a full pension. world service europe a court in pakistan has sentenced the former president pervez musharraf to death

for high treason. but general musharraf has been living in dubai for several years and was sentenced in absentia. the charges relate to his decision to suspend pakistan's constitution and impose emergency rule in two thousand and seven. bbc pashto a six—year—old cat has become an internet superstar as the first in italy to receive two prosthetic hind legs following a serious road accident. vito lost his legs in an accident in milan. he's now wandering about his home again. let's start with the growing problems at boeing. the biggest impact will be

at the main factory in renton in washington state that employs 12,000 people directly. there will also be an impact at suppliers in the local area. but boeing is also the largest us manufacturing exporter and economists are predicting a 0.6% hit to the country's economic growth in the first three months of next year. the democratic congressman tom malinowski sits on the us house's transportation committee and has spoken to the bbc. isa is a huge blow to the company and it isa is a huge blow to the company and it is a cautionary tale. they spent many years lobbying in washington for these safety regulations and the result is that people died in the company itself is taking a huge economic hit. i think it is a lesson to multinational corporations that

sometimes it does not pay to get the government off your back. you think you're going to make things easier for yourself, you end up making things much harder. they wanted to be able to get these 737 max jets up and flying again by the end of this year. that has not happened and regulate as the united states and made it clear that they are not going to be able to adhere to this timetable and that is why we are who we are. working very closely, when you get these planes up closely, when you get these planes up and flying again, that said, if you're looking at some the airlines we re you're looking at some the airlines were there doing, american airlines and southwest airlines, two big carriers in the united states have 110w carriers in the united states have now delayed when they're going to put the 737 max jets into the

rotation and well into april. so thatis rotation and well into april. so that is a full year and more since the initial grounding of that fleet. nothing to do with boeing come but this is very close to a mountain and you have been to visit that mountain and tell us why. rare earth. these metals that you find in everyday items like cell phones and all kinds of technologies. rare earth is a really big and china provides many that we see in the us. but one american company believes that it may have found the answer. here in the far west of texas, since a mountain that is a big stake in the power play between the us and china. what you see in front of us.

geologist and securing the mining rights to the mountain that he believes is the big one. basically it is something you work for your whole career. these are large amounts of minerals known as rare earths. crucial elements for technological gadgets and military weapons. right here is the rock. this amber mountain could be worth $8 billion. so this is going to make you millions? that is it. fuelling his confidence is the us government. the trump administration says they wa nt to the trump administration says they want to boost domestic production of rare earths. military technology without rare earth technology would be about the same as it was in the mid 605. so we would be dealing with a chinese military in the 21st century and we would be in the mid 605. if it pays off, it can make his

company very rich. it could also solve a national security issue for the united states. but mining is a very dirty and ri5ky the united states. but mining is a very dirty and risky business. for 110w very dirty and risky business. for now the us only has this one rare earth mind. but with no domestic processing facilities. these rocks are still being sent to china to get the minerals out. a geological 5cienti5t the minerals out. a geological scientist and a board member of texas mineral resources. in his lab he has five or may be the secret to getting the rare earths out of the rocks both cheaply and easily. no one “— rocks both cheaply and easily. no one — — nowhere rocks both cheaply and easily. no one —— nowhere else has been able to find the fluorite which is highly, we have a unique deposit. and there i5 we have a unique deposit. and there is nothing like this anywhere else? no. the mind is not slated to open

into 2022 at the earliest. this look5 into 2022 at the earliest. this looks like a real winner. into 2022 at the earliest. this looks like a realwinner. given the high stakes between the us and china, it is notjust him that is looking for a big victory here. iam i am amazed that they do not have the facilities to process these minerals. the us government is really making a push in the us army i5 really making a push in the us army is also making a push to try and get their own processing facilities here in the us. but it is a dirty and difficult bu5ine55 in the us. but it is a dirty and difficult business and that is why you have seen the us ship it off to china. ending this half of outside source, china. ending this half of outside 5ource, who will bring you up—to—date on the australian source, who will bring you up—to—date on the australian bush fire, dranka up—to—date on the australian bush fire, drank a bit of criticism on the results of climate change and these massive protests we have seen in india over new laws on the way

citizenship works in reference to afghanistan and other countries. good evening. starting off this round up where we have an emergency tornado warning issue on monday and they have when the tornadoes head towards heavily populated areas and in the course of monday, it did cause tornadoes. from mississippi the risk of tornadoes continuing into tuesday across southern and eastern states. not just tornadoes but a risk of rain, freezing rain and that risk is receding somewhat on wednesday but will still see some la ke on wednesday but will still see some lake effect snow across the great la kes lake effect snow across the great lakes and cold air behind and more snow issues through the rockies where we have had a considerable

avalanche risk and that continues as well. it is the heat wave those we had towards austria that is causing concerns. we do have a cold front coming in here which will intensify the winds and the fire, is extreme in places and that will only exacerbate the situation stronger winds in that heat is now edging its way ever eastwards and so it has been record—breaking in places like adelaide will see a0 celsius for four days in a row. so some really dangerous heat as well. some extremely high levels of uv. temperature does dip away and with that weather front, some very lively winds to come. in contrast however, in new zealand, we have got wet and windy weather and it is cold enough for some snow so there are some mornings because it has been so wet so mornings because it has been so wet so far this december in the flooding

is anticipated in some parts of the north and south island. also some very active pictures with this line of clouds and rain here already further north giving us some torrential downpour centre edging their way southwards in wednesday and quarterair their way southwards in wednesday and quarter air replaces them. as we head to africa again, some very wet weather but those rents are now becoming a concentrated close to kenya and uganda and tanzania but we are concerned for marines coming in, so are concerned for marines coming in, so ongoing risks of flooding here, ongoing risk of flooding in parts of your bread is been so saturated. not just the rain strong winds but also the wind direction has come from the south so it will bring more and also snow potentially towards areas where we have seen snow earlier. you can see writing themselves up to bring weather weather to the uk. more wind and rain into france and across the alps as well. here in the uk, we

still have some fog problems earlier but then it turns much milder as the wind and rain return.

hello, i'm ros atkins, this is 0utside source. in a letter that rails against his impeachment proceedings — president trump accuses democrats of declaring war on american democracy. protests against a new citizenship law are spreading across india. this was a demonstration in delhi earlier. britain's prime minister boris johnson held his first cabinet meeting today — he's promising no delay to brexit, and has been setting out his other priorities too. we'll talk to iain watson about that. and it's not been an easy return to the commons forjeremy corbyn. he's been facing his backbench labour colleagues furious at the scale of the party's defeat. and today marks 30 years since the first episode of the simpsons aired on american tv. we'll look back at some of the show‘s best moments.

more on the process to impeach president trump. he's written a scathing letter to the speaker of the house of representatives, nancy pelosi, accusing the democrats of, among other things, declaring war on us democracy. remember, if the house of representatives vote to impeach the president tomorrow — and we expect them to — if there is under 50% to present remains in office and if there is a majority 51% or more of the impeachment proceedings proceed to the senate with the upper chamber of congress in the trial probably in

january. two thirds of the senators will need to do that, but if there's below two thirds in favour of mr trump stays in office, over two thirds and he is removed from office. the president is very, very unlikely to be removed from office. that means the role of senators will be crucial, and one of the most important people in us politics has been talking to the bbc about just that. ruth bader ginsberg is a liberal judge on the us supreme court. she's been speaking to my colleague razia iqbal. the house indicts, and the senate tries. should a trial to be impartial? 0f tries. should a trial to be impartial? of course, that's the job ofa impartial? of course, that's the job of a judge, to be impartial.

impartial? of course, that's the job of ajudge, to be impartial. but impartial? of course, that's the job of a judge, to be impartial. but you will be very aware that there are senators who are already saying before the impeachment gets to the senate, or the trial in the setting, they have already made their minds up. that's problematic. if a judge said that, a judge would be disqualified. from sitting on the case. it's about the level of accountability, so if a senator says i've already made my mind up in the trial does not exist at the moment there is no accountability, is there? my old chief put it very well when he said, in the day a judge stops being impartial and starts to do things to please the home crowd, whatever your home crowd is, that's the day thatjudge should step down.

from office. that's what's happening in washington. back to westminster,. we heard earlier about borisjohnson‘s plans to legislate against extending the post—brexit transition period. that change to the law is part of the larger withdrawal agreement bill. mp5 will vote on that later this week. parliament is already sitting — today it confirmed lindsay hoyle, as the new speaker of the house. the ayes have it the ayes have it. he has big shoes to fill, taking over from the colourful and controversial john bercow. lindsay hoyle is expected to be less combative than his predecessor. what you're seeing now is the new speaker being dragged to the chair. it's a tradition that dates back to days when the speaker could be executed for displeasing the monarch, so mp5 were reluctant to take up the post. he'll have plenty on his plate — but that's one thing he won't have

to worry about. another important parliamentary tradition will take place this thursday, when mp5 and lords gather to hear the queen's speech. that's the address delivered by the queen, but written by the government, in which it outlines its parliamentary agenda. here's borisjohnson on what we can expect. there is a huge, huge agenda. a huge agenda of delivering socialjustice, of addressing every problem from social care to homelessness, to leveling up and urinating across our country with better infrastructure and better education and technology. it's worth noting on the issue of social care mrjohnson was asked for details of late wants to do and declined to give them so people are interested to see how the conservatives will flesh out that ambition. while they are getting on with governing of course the opposition labour party not the speaker, the labour party are

conducting a postmortem. their election was a disaster and labour mp seven meeting for the first time since those results came through. jeremy corbyn has apologised telling his colleagues and very sorry for the result for which i take full responsibility. 0ur correspondent ian watson has pumped many hours of his afternoon into following all of this and no one knows more better than you, ian. how did it go? from jeremy public point of view he's faced robust criticism, provided over the lowest tally of seats for the labour party since 1935. this is a party of government as recently as 2010. as far as i'm aware i was standing outside the meeting, not inside it, but this was a marathon meeting with his members of parliament tonight and went on more than twice the usual length. and i'm told only three people spoke up in his defence the criticisms were wide—ranging. from whether politically he'd moved the party in the wrong direction, alienating

working—class voters during the selection right down to the nitty—gritty and the fact that one constituency ran out of labour stickers that they wanted to give to potential voters on polling day, support the organisation and politics over which jeremy corbyn presided came to pretty tough criticism. 0ne former leader of the party said there should now stay focused on electing a leader the country might want rather than just the activists. from jeremy's point of view he explained the situation like this. felt that he got an unfair hearing in the media and felt that he also had dominated and made the major issue and perhaps turning people with working—class areas from a traditional labour areas of the country away from the party. the explanation did not watch with some people and one for ministers said very pointedly the main problem with elections are both him and his

leadership. this is the kind of state the opposition party is in at the moment and is going to be a formal inquiry and jeremy corbyn will say he will go off and speak to people to find out why they had abandoned the party, but the will be abandoned the party, but the will be a new leader in place and probably in the spring and various candidates are trying to get their pictures out over the next few weeks in that contest. quite frankly, one veteran former labour cabinet minister summed up the proceedings. he said there's an awful lot of anger, but it did not crystallize into a plan of action. and you are saying the leadership or criticise, i would if the people around him were criticised because the leadership is based on powerful advisers, isn't it? with his advisers said to me, this is the myth of the bat adviser and the good king, all carrying out his instructions. 0ne and the good king, all carrying out his instructions. one member of parliament mentioned the staff

around jeremy corbyn and called for them to go. a defeated candidate around westminster tore into jeremy corbyn and said she was there in parliament today to make her own staff redundant and this was his campaign, his manifesto, he had to ta ke campaign, his manifesto, he had to take full responsibility and some people feel if they are losing their owi'i people feel if they are losing their own staff jeremy people feel if they are losing their own staffjeremy corbyn should be losing his. there was, initially, a question posed by many labour mps as to what he had not resigned immediately but the view is because there will be a timetable probably at the end of march that for the time being the focus will be on who should replace them rather than get him at the door earlier. those of you watching on twitter i strongly recommend you following him on twitter, you can see updates in great detail on all of these developments within labour. while the conservatives get on with governing, the opposition labour party is conducting its post—mortem.

there's been a massive protest in delhi against a new citizenship law in india. this is one of many we've seen across the country. the new law offers citizenship to people who suffer religious persecution in afghanistan, pakistan and bangladesh — but only if they aren't muslim. this is an image from an area in delhi called seelampur area — crowds threw stones at police officers. police retaliated with tear gas and batons. there were injuries. just as the were in similar clashes in delhi several days ago. a small number of protestors claim they've been shot by police. the police deny it. but this is what one protestor says.

next — this is the bbc‘s yogita limaye in delhi. it has been a week since the controversial law was passed, but tensions are not dying down. india's muslims have long feared the party's hindu nationalist agenda. but for the first time to be camper minister

in 201a, they are taking to the streets in such large numbers. bushfires continue in australia — fueled by hot and dry conditions. the fire season has come earlier and been more severe than previous years. listen to what a group of former senior fire chiefs is saying about the government's approach to the issue of climate change — and its contribution to recent climate talks in spain. we have no moral leadership as we saw in madrid, the bushfires were not even mentioned. 0ther saw in madrid, the bushfires were not even mentioned. other countries we re not even mentioned. other countries were aghast that while australia burns, or government went over there and argued against tougher emission standards, this has to change. there's no doubting the severity of what's happening. this an unprecedented bushfire crisis — here you can see all of the fires currently burning. the crisis has killed six people and destroyed more than 700 homes. here are some of the latest pictures.

this is part of the so—called "mega blaze". it's destroyed 20 houses near sydney and has now moved further into the blue mountains — that's a popular tourist area west of the city. firefighters are also trying to stop the fire reaching a nearby power station. there are large stockpiles of coal there. coal power is a major contributor of greenhouse gases which cause climate change. these are pictures from sydney itself. and over the last few weeks, air quality has been 22 times worse than the standard. doctors say it's creating a ‘public health emergency‘. it's notjust the east coast under threat — large fires are also threatening parts of western australia. these pictures are from north of perth. the fires are being driven by various factors. high temperatures are one of them.

this heat is from australia's bureau of metereology. this shows temperatures across the country — the dark red is where the temperature has reached 39 degress celsius or higher, the light brown higher than a2 degrees and the dark brown is higher than a5 degrees. and there's more coming — record—breaking temperatures are forecast this week. this from the current fire chief in new south wales. there's more than 100 fires burning throughout the state, any one of them because these problems over ensuing days. while we are concerned about this we also need to keep in mind is that there's a lot of communities still very close to the fire. while this is all going on, prime minister scott morrison is reportedly on holiday. the hashtag #wherethebloodyhellareyou was trending on twitter. that's a reference to this tourism campaign slogan which was launched when he headed the tourism agency. also this image has been shared a lot. this is a reference

to this moment in 2017, when scott morrison brought a lump of coal into parliament to show his support for the coal industry. australia was recently ranked as the worst—performing on climate policy in a global ranking of 57 countries. it's called the climate change performance index — and was put together by a group of think tanks. and this is australia's temperatures over the past century. the data from the australian bureau of meterology shows its got steadily warmer. bear in mind meterologists are always reluctant to connect individual events to climate change. they will though describe a long—term pattern of increasing temperatures — and we know that global warming is being driven by human behaviour. here's more from phil mercer sydney on that criticism coming from formerfire chiefs.

the finger as well and truly pointed at the centre—right prime minister scott morrison. in the last couple of weeks he has finally acknowledged a link between global warming and australia's unprecedented brushfire crisis, this is a country that remains heavily reliance on coal, it generates most of australia post make electricity and also pumps billions of dollars into the australian economy, the government here is very enthusiastic supporter of the coal industry. zoosk former fire and emergency cheese essay australia needs to take the threat posed by climate change farmer seriously. stay with us on 0utside source — still to come.

half a million washing machines in the uk made by whirlpool are being recalled because of a danger of catching fire. the firm says a fault with their door locking system may cause them to overheat. our business correspondent simon gompertz has more. it's just what you did not want in the run—up to christmas. a warning not to use washing machine. a bit of a shock. steve nsx knows why after his machine began to smoulder.” could smell burning and there was smoke drifting out of there. turn the plug off, took the washing out, you could really smell. whirlpool so the electronic door locks are to blame it customers will have to wait for a repair or replacement. we know this will cause some concern, and we especially understand that the washing machine is so important to

family life, and here at the christmas holiday season we know it will be even more of an important matter for our customers, and for that we apologise. what's the problem with the door mechanism of these washers? when the heating element is switched on, that's what heats up the water in the machine, there a high electric current coming through there's a danger that the electronics which allow you to open the door at the right moment can overheat, and that's what creates the risk of fire. despite the frustration safety experts say it's right to have a recall. in the uk we have excellent safety standards but occasionally things go wrong, that's why we have when manufacturers become aware that they can contact their customers and rectify the problem. a huge international company and will expect to ride this out, but the brands will take a battering if customers have to wait two months before they can do their washing properly.

this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead is 0n the eve of the impeachment vote — president trump writes an extraordinary letter accusing the democrats of declaring war on american democracy. psychologists working with refugees and migrants on the greek island of lesbos have told the bbc they are seeing an increasing number of children self—harming and attempting suicide. there's been a spike in refugees arriving on the aegean islands in recent months, the vast majority are fleeing countries of conflict. almost 18,000 people are living at the camp on lesbos, which was made forjust 2000. 0ur global health correspondent, tulip mazumdar reports from there — some of the details in tulip's report are upsetting.

this is no place for a child and yet moria camp is home to more than 7,000 of them. the vast majority of these children have fled war—torn countries and arrived here in europe — a place supposedly of humanity, safety and security. ok, let's go together. at the nearby children's clinic, a mental health emergency is unfolding. a 17—year—old boy slashed himself across his chest and arms overnight. his friend has brought him in. just ask him if we can talk to him. this is a sadly common scene here. he's not well. he doesn't want to talk about... he talks about wanting to... to do this again. more than 150 children have been referred to msf psychologists in the last two months alone.

that's double the number from the summer. two of those children attempted suicide, the youngest was just 13 years old. normally a child, when they experience something traumatic, has to have the time and the space to recover. moria does not allow the children to recover. in a child in a preschooler age, you can see children banging their head against a wall, for instance, pulling their hairs off, and in between the age more between 12 and 17, we see them cut themselves. they strongly start to talk about the desire of dying. a father in desperate search of help for his family, his daughter zaynab has autism and epilepsy. they arrived a few days ago and it took them two months to get here from afghanistan. they met us at a makeshift

community centre at the camp. he described how they almost died when they were flung into the sea as they crossed from turkey. their bag with their money and zaynab's medication was lost. translation: the children were just screaming. they had so much fear. and the darkness, we always remember the darkness. both children, he tells me, are utterly traumatised. translation: at night zaynab screams. she does not sleep, she hardly eats. we were refused permission to film inside the main, government—run part of the camp. but the overspill into the neighbouring olive grove now holds around half of the almost 18,000 population of moria. some families are getting stuck here for months awaiting news on their asylum claims. the greek government recently announced plans to move 20,000 people off this island

and neighbouring island by early 2020 but movement on that has been extremely slow. and people, particularly women and children, keep arriving on these islands every week. children are resilient. my name is mustafa! here in a tented shack used as a community centre, staff are trying to help them remember simply how to be children. my name is nagis! but there is only so much these young minds can take. tulip mazumdar, bbc news, moria camp, lesbos. much more information on the bbc news website about the refugees coming into europe and the multiple reasons why. today marks 30 years since the first episode of the simpsons aired on american tv.

this is a still from that episode, called "simpsons roasting on an open fire". approximately 13 million viewers watched the show that night, and the audience grew from there. it was the first prime—time cartoon to air since the flintstones, and it originally caused controversey. here's long—time simpsons showrunner, aljean. at the beginning of the show there was publicity that we were sacrilegious, we were outrageous, andi sacrilegious, we were outrageous, and i think when people watch the show we would see an incredible amount of hard, things that match andjim amount of hard, things that match and jim brooks amount of hard, things that match andjim brooks and an incredible sense of family trying to struggle and make ends meet in today's world. "the simpsons" history actually goes back longer than 30 years. the family first appeared in a series of shorts on the tracey ullman show in 1987. back then, they looked like this. but once they were given their own show the simpsons became a ratings and money making powerhouse you can see some of the merchandise here — many of you have probably owned something with simpsons branding at some point. 672 episodes later the show

is still on the air, making it the longest—running sitcom in us history. here's aljean again. the staff are very proud of the achievement. that ends today's addition of outside source. back with you tomorrow. goodbye. hello there. thanks to a ridge of pressure which moved through during tuesday night, when state looks to be the last of the dry in the cold settled days after more unsettled beyond wednesday. this is the game changer to our weather for the end of the week. to being wetter and windier. when starts cold, but sunshine and could have issues for dense fog for tonsil and northern areas as the breeze picks up for the day and drift north. some areas

could stay great but generally dry and bright, central and eastern areas quite cold to the west and southwest changes already taking place with letter and windier with those temperatures for the right thing. pretty wild to think right across the country, wet and windy conditions but the strongest of the winds through wednesday night will be across the ever see. the squeeze the isobars there of gusts may be 50 or 60 miles an hour. pushing north why deer across the scottish mountains and it's a transient area of snow because of the cold air begins to go northwards the mild air ta kes begins to go northwards the mild air takes over and reverting back to rain. so that's it. change with thursday in a blustery day, strong southerly winds and sunshine and showers in the best of the sunshine across the northern half of the country. the south will see heavy downpours and longer spells of rain. knows those temperatures, double figure values for the signal average about 13 degrees in the south. the

rangejust keep about 13 degrees in the south. the range just keep on coming about 13 degrees in the south. the rangejust keep on coming into friday and prickly across the southeast can be quite a lot of rainfall, following a saturated ground and have to watch this as there could be a risk of minor flooding. a5 there could be a risk of minor flooding. as we headed to friday at low pressure still with us, but looks like the main rain should clear off into the north sea for friday. we should see some sunny spells around for the showers pushing into the south and west again and some of these quite heavy and blustery in the southwest corner. temperatures coming at a little bit across the north seven rate degrees. similar stories north and the rest of the uk. generally remaining unsettled into the weekend. next batch of rain could pushit weekend. next batch of rain could push it to the south or west later on. we'll be quite wet across some

southern areas in the story of low pressure m oves southern areas in the story of low pressure moves across england and wales with such an showers following him behind. quite wet through saturday night into sunday in the south and sunshine and showers returning. the winds generally light to moderate. little bit cooler still across the north and 7 degrees quite into northern england as well. night tended to the south. beyond the weekend still some uncertainty but it does look like the jet stream will be fairly invigorating pushing weather systems are away. lucic temperatures will be around orjust a little bit above and some of them could be fairly intense to bring spells of what and when you whether with scales at times. keep watching weather for the weekend.

tonight at ten — john worboys, the london cab driver convicted of rape and other sexual offences, has been handed two additional life sentences. the new sentences are for attacks on four more women. it's been revealed that worboys has confessed to targeting as many as 90 victims. john worboys is an incredibly manipulative and dangerous individual, and obviously, whilst we welcome the life sentence today, the real concern is that he could be out after only a few years. we'll have more on the case. the judge said she did not know when, if ever, worboys would cease to be a risk. also tonight... borisjohnson says there will be a new law to finish the brexit trade talks by the end of next year. asjeremy corbyn meets his mp5 for the first time

since the election, he's robustly challenged