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this is due to every news coming to you live from the it's back to business column one disease in london the prime minister suspend the ditch but the supreme court overruled today and now lawmakers are ready to question boris johnson on his next move and the big surprises we'll go live to london. democrats in the u.s. congress launch an impeachment inquiry into alleged crimes for president donald
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trump. no warrant is upon the law. a congressional committee will begin gathering evidence rich could ultimately lead to trump being removed from office. and a disaster in the making in the once oceans scientists on the un climate panel luong often dire consequences to humanity rising sea levels super storms more flooding and more drought. looking for a better we tell the story of a veteran of the struggle for an independent homeland in the western sahara she is one of the winners of this year's right livelihood award. and welcome. in london the house of commons has got back to work off the supreme
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court ruled that prime minister bars johnson's routing of parliament was unlawful knowledge and void johnson kugel from the united nations in new york overnight and is back in his official residence number 10 downing street meanwhile members of parliament are getting down to business in the chamber the speaker of the house has said there will be full school for urgent questions ministerial statements and applications for emergency debates the government meanwhile is planning to put a general election back on the table just a short while ago the attorney general geoffrey cox addressed the house of commons he rejected calls to resign and said the government was disappointed with the supreme court's ruling. the government 6. the judgment and exceptionally close the case at all charges the government acted in good faith . didn't
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believe that its approach was both no food constitution. but we were disappointed goody-goody the supreme court took a different view and of course we respect the judgment of acquittal. lest the head straight to the british parliament where did the obvious charlotte ponce astounding show that we just heard the attorney general there saying he thought the parliament suspension had been lawful and constitutional but now parliament is back and saying the suspension has been overruled tell us what's been happening there. well it's quite a stretch from the government considering that the supreme court so the highest court in the country said that the government acted unlawful there but the government insists they were on the right side here that they acted lawfully very interesting we are witnessing a very lively debate at the moment in parliament heated we can call it the 1st day
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that parliament is sitting here again after the prorogue ation and we've seen insults there from m p's to the government towards the government from the government ministers towards the m.p.'s a very heated there and the attorney general geoffrey cox just he was indeed calling for a try to have a general election the government now wants to table a motion where they would need a simple majority in column and to push forward sit through a general election they've tried this once before where they needed a 2 thirds majority and they failed to get that from parliament now will they get it now and this time around it is unclear because the labor opposition party does not want a general election at this time for many reasons but also because the numbers look quite grim for now many of the parliamentarians must be reaching for boris johnson to come he is due in parliament this afternoon do you think he'll get
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a hostile reception money arrives there charlotte. yes very much so it will be a hostile and very cold reception that he is getting the labor opposition party and the scottish national party are calling for him to resign in the wake of the supreme court ruling that johnson acted unlawful there johnson himself insists that he will stay on as prime minister that he did didn't do anything wrong he's very unapologetic. of the ruling striking quite a defiant tone we can say and we're expecting him to speak and parliament to address parliament later on today it will be quite heated and boris johnson is on thin ice here now if john thune sticks to his message to deliver briggs's on 31st of october do or die what options does he really have to achieve. so essing stand right now there's a law in place passed by parliament that forces boris johnson's head and makes him
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ask the european union for another extension beyond october 31st johnson insists that he won't do that he might even defy of this law if you break said if you breaks another law if you break this law of course he could end up in jail so what are the options a general election definitely would they would be one way out for him if he gets a mandate from the british voters if you wins a general election and gets a majority in parliament then he could in the end push through a brick sit on october 31st but things are very complicated as they are right now and really we have to look at the bigger picture at the moment what we're seeing in london is a power struggle between a very divided parliament and a weakened prime minister and we'll have to watch very closely who comes out in the end successful and we'll have to keep in mind this breck's the deadline is looming again 36 days to go at the moment. both reporting from london thank you very much
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on it. now only 2 presidents have been impeached in american history donald trump may become the 3rd nancy pelosi the democratic house speaker has accused of asking ukraine to help snare joe biden the democratic frontrunner for next year's presidential election congress a committee is will now start gathering the evidence the inquiry could ultimately see trump the 45th u.s. president removed from office it was a long time coming. but nancy pelosi has finally made the announcement many in her party have been waiting for the actions of the trump presidency revealed dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office betrayal of our national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections the president must be held accountable no one is above the law strong words from the speaker but why
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now a complaint about donald trump from a whistle blower has focused her attention it alleges that the president put pressure on ukraine to investigate former vice president joe biden and his son biden is one of the potential challengers to trump in the american presidential elections next year. we have a president who believes there is no limit to his power. president believes he can do anything and get away with it but the president believes he's above the law. pursuing the leader of another nation to investigate a political poll. this election is not the conduct of the american press. chum knew the inquiry announcement was coming and he wasn't impressed. look it's just a continuation of which are the worse which. you have the strongest because that is the best unemployment numbers we've ever had chance has faced down multiple
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scandals since taking office with the republicans controlling the senate even if he is impeached whether he is removed from the white house is another matter entirely . with me in the studio i have boris for one he's a professor of political science at college welcome bar as well as we should of course for donald trump's pietschmann have been there for a while why did nancy pelosi decide to call for it now and i think for a long time there's been a strategic has a tense especially during the miller report which took a while just took months and i think it took a part of the momentum out of the of the democratic campaign for impeachment plus there is a deep division within the democratic party where more progressive democrats are arguing for impeachment and the more perhaps pragmatic or more conservative wing is arguing against it for a long time that's a put those who was able to stave this off this kind of critique i think now is
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a moment where well maybe this is the this the straw that broke the camel's back and we're not suppose just respond but it impeaching a president is a long and complicated to see just some stand a 10 steps involving as you said they've been divisions within the democrats over this issue still divisions within the democrats and among voters is this a vis good move for the democrats given or if this is a risky move it's not seen as something that's very popular it's risky because of my backfire this is what has happened in part with the both. an impeachment where clinton was then able or the democrats were able to take away the midterm elections after the impeachment trial it takes a while trump might not even be in office anymore when de impeachment trial goes to the senate or go through the senate so there is a risk involved on the other hand there is a risk involved if you don't act if the democrats do not acknowledge you would wonder at what point an impeachable offense is an impeachable offense and i think
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there is a risk or thought that this could set a precedent and that the moment to act is now in the us the trump administration has been reluctant to provide documents a signal that subpoenas from congress why is that trump administration being supportive this time well the question is if it will be cooperative and is i think that's a very good question the report maybe was happening on a different scale the public limelight might be more intense for an impeachment trial so perhaps this adds this adds to the to the momentum at the same time if trump is portrayed the narrative the strong enough by democrats to put trey trump as somebody who's undermining democratic institutions that would feed this kind of narrative and i think this could increase the pressure that trump is where did many scams in the past for the befana tissues the things he said about women and a whole range of issues and he's managed to shun them all off the distance could it
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be different it could be we don't know. many times experts have been wrong in his presidency i think in part that might be the fault of experts in part it's because trump seems to be a different type of president and the rules seem to be working differently and i think this is exactly what the democrats are trying to point out we should have rules that you know need to be applied for all presidents no matter who it is at certain moments in time boris film and a professor of political science thank you very much bill and that if if it's. a new u.n. report has issued the starkest warning of a climate change catastrophe for the planet's seas predicting more super storms rising sea levels and ocean dead zones scientists on the intergovernmental panel on climate change say that one sees have been helping the planet cope with rising temperatures unprecedented overheating in the ocean poses a huge threat to humanity the report warns that. by the end of the century
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if global warming doesn't slow down making sun on a nation's uninhabitable. now i.p.c.c. scientists say a failure to act on this new data will have grave consequences for the future of our planet the consequences for nature and humanity are sweeping and severe. this report highlights also the urgency of timely ambitious who were needed and enduring action. what is it stake is the health of ecosystems wildlife and importantly the world we leave for our children. environment department and joins me now with some very dire warnings in the. report which is just what just how dire is the situation i think scientists agree that it is very very bad so we're saying
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a very comprehensive report that shows us that sees a woman sit up as a rising and bear in mind this is happening faster and faster and even faster than we previously thought and on top of that there are becoming more acidic becoming less productive and that huge consequences for things like fish marine life called reefs but more than just the oceans what this report highlights and the furries and parts of the planet say the north pole and the undie the alps all of these mountain region to high mountainous regions are all say on the severe threat from warming temperatures and not for anything huge amounts of water down into the into the atlantic and so what are these changes which i detail in the report mean for people especially those people living in situations like indoor lying islands so these people are the most bone or boats are the effects of rising sea levels and sound so one particular stock finding from the report. storms are
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going to get much much stronger so by 2050 they're expecting that the sorts of freak weather events that we maybe saw once a century should start happening once a year in some of these crystal cities and low lying islands and when you think about how an increasing percentage of the world population is living in these sorts of regions cities and megacities across africa asia that are on the cards they hugely threatened by this and on top of that small island nations of this and sea levels rise increasingly they're losing the amount of land from which they can move to and. i think i mean one of the scientists said to me that i think in fiji every had instance of the reader in katyn communities because of rising sea levels so there's a certain asians see to this problem what can be done in fact to deal with the situation than we do anything to address and change goals we set an economy the report lays out very clearly different policy options that government actions that government can take so one of the key things being true if you think rather being
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that we need to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and at the same time we need to adapt to the changing planet almost inevitable so in some great case that we're seeing these changes already happen and even if we ought to cut emissions immediately we will still have sea levels rise a certain degree what that means is that we need to both cut emissions and create the new infrastructure needed for instance to protect cars by building sea walls we need to do those things and under so clearly we have to adapt to rising ocean levels well more water is how well prepared i'll be for that would need some steps that would be i think foolish for anyone and the scientist and say this is the kind of claim that we're completely unprepared people are making steps and you see that if i'm in jakarta i think indonesia has built its is building its big sea wall to keep out rising sea levels. to actually probably cope with it and particularly to protect the most vulnerable people in society the report says that
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we need really investment to the tunes of i think up to several hundreds of billions of dollars and of quickly protect our costs. but what it does say that by doing so we can really protect people from floods and reduce the risk of flood by 2 to 3 of the magnitudes are 10 to hundreds of times safe. and that has really clear implication for people that means that we're protecting governments would be protecting their livelihoods their health their ability to get clean water their ability to feed themselves and i think it's worth stressing in the report does this that this doesn't just affect the people living on person the people living on islands the effects of any sort of sea level rise in extreme weather that will ripple inland as well and so yeah i think. it's something that we are adapting to and need to go faster right. thank you very much for those insights thank you. let me bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the the
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gym a subsidiary of thomas coke has filed for insolvency following the collapse of the company earlier this week 140000 holidaymakers travelling with the flow and affiliates it's now unclear how many customers will be affected. the death toll has risen to at least 37 people after a powerful earthquake struck pakistan. the 5.8 magnitude quake injured more than 700 people in the mountainous region where it leveled homes and split open roads. chinese president xi jinping has officially opened beijing's new mega airport the airport cost $16000000000.00 and boasts the biggest terminal building a starfish like structure designed by the late star architect zaha hadid it will eventually handle 100000000 passengers more on that story coming up in business
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news turning now to the people working to make our world a better place the winners of this right livelihood awards has have just been announced also known as the alternative nobel prize the award honest people offering solutions to our problems now one of this year's finds when else is a familiar phrase climate activist greta 2 unbagged the 16 year old has galvanized a protest movement calling on governments to do more to combat climate change and she made her case for that at the u.n. this week also being honored for produce protecting the environment is an amazonian tribal sharman darby campaigns to protect the last wilderness of the amazon and his tribes we of life. and from china rehab or gen my she is receiving an award for work fighting for gender equality she set up the country's finest legal advocacy group for women's rights which received little attention in china and
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this is honorary award goes to a pro-democracy activist from western sahara let's take a look at her lives work fighting for independence for her homeland. i mean that haidar has spent over 30 years fighting for the independence of her home in western sahara it's earned her a reputation as the gandhi of the sahara people for decades her dad has been involved in a struggle that has led to frequent clashes between american soldiers and her always she says she has been imprisoned and tortured multiple times it hasn't stopped the human rights defender from complaining for independence. $97051.00 spanish call on the forces withdrew from western sahara oracle deployed forces to lay claim to the territory but the offensive prompted an insurgency by the harare rebels who came to be known as the palace are you front the group declared the sorrow we ere of them accredit republic in 176 rocket took control of the territory
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shortly before un brokered cease fire went into effect in 1901 since then united nations efforts have repeatedly failed to reach a settlement i mean not haidar won't give up her peaceful protest the right livelihood foundation has honored her for her dignity and resolve making her one of the most respected leaders among the sarai people. joining me now is a uni on according she's a board and jury member of the right livelihood foundation welcome to you so we've just seen that report on an inspiring activist who has won this is already award can extend what makes the right livelihood awards so different from other prizes. the right livelihood award it's a very open award everybody around the world can nominate anybody secondly we don't give awards and specific categories we start a long term relationship with the laureates we say receiving the award is just the
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beginning the awards doesn't only honor what somebody has done but it also ends to protect the laureates and to support them for the rest of their life spacy cleese so we have to semele of laureates. and the 3rd function is. as a set we consider ourselves to be the megaphone and the shield of the lawrence to continue to support them in their ongoing work i think that makes it very different from a lot of awards they often single out people for prizes who are not particularly well known around the world but this is a great attitude and bug is among the laureates and she's been very much in the spotlight why did you decide to give her an award. well it tension is not much of a criterion for the jury the jury looks for chieftains and although great very young she has achieved as much as the lord so in terms of being a beacon of hope to millions of young people bringing the topic of climate crisis
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not only in the headlines but also to the talk of minds. she's clearly a call with with other laureates and as i said it's about achievement it's not about grabbing headlines i mean you just talked about i mean not to haidar she's certainly somebody where we deliberately put the spotlight on nobody has been you know nobody has to be talking about the conflict in the west. for a long time that's right because you have highlighted a forgotten conflict the sale with the aria was to me not to hide that it's important for the organization to draw attention to issues receiving a little attention as well. i think it does i think it does the weight of highlight areas where people are still struggling where people are suffering and to bring that to attention to make that part of an international discussion again this is something we can do without award and i think there is an ongoing fight for
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justice for self-determination i mean those are talking. we talk just about the climate crisis right now but there are topics like justice which make it important to have this planet inhabitable and give people a life of dignity so that's why we picked that. conan jury member of the right livelihood award a pleasure to talk to you thank you duping remains a concern in the land of sports authorities are looking hard to try and catch cheats before the word athletics championships begin on friday 7 men hopefuls have been banned but a potential still has been cleared to compete despite missing drug status. the qatari capital doha is preparing for its biggest sporting event to date but ahead of the world athletics championships doping is again the dominant topic you same
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both as retired and american christian coleman is a favorite for 100 meters glory but he is only competing after successfully appealing against a suspension us off already has had a nationally banned him from missing 3 drug tests in 12 months coleman argued one of the violations on a special whereabouts app should be backdated. i mean i don't really know. the situation. in my given an inability. to do. anything. but some athletes have been stopped from taking part in doha. michael kivett is among 2 top kenyan 5000 meter runners to be barred after failing to undergo sufficient doping testing. to d.q. stands on him to have a champion dilshad nasser of is also suspended after failing
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a drug test on a sample from 2011. russia has been banned from international athletics competitions in 2015 because of allegations of state run doping the suspension remains but sebastian coe reelected as the head of will def let exporting the i.w.a. f thinks the sport faces a bigger battle than just being you know these are the challenges that a sport confronts but they are not remotely the largest challenges that we face the largest challenge we face is to maintain our sport at the top of the sporting pyramid and to remain exciting and salient for young people hope the athletics would show how ready the country is for the football world cup in 2022 but doping may overshadow their efforts. she is a recap of the top story that the 4 men feel. british filmmakers are back in
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