we‘re co—ordinating a national defence and programme of flood defences.s there to ensure that cash is spent on the right defences, the right earthworks, earth banks and everything else that we are going to need. here, pumps are now starting to get the water moving. emergency teams have been getting through, but some here are still feeling forgotten. could‘ve done a lot more. could‘ve had a lot more warning. what do you say? what can you say? been let down, somehow. dan johnson, bbc news, fishlake, in south yorkshire. the environment agency has warned that severe flooding episodes are set to become more frequent. it‘s prompted a renewed debate about the measures and the money needed to the limit the impact. 0ur science editor david shukman looks at the challenge of saving homes, businesses and communities at risk. year after year, we see the misery of flooding, but this time it‘s striking in the middle of an election, adding real edge to questions about why it‘s happened and how to avoid scenes like this in future. a key dispute is over money, so how much

we're coordinating a national defence and programme of flood defences.en £2.6 billion of national investment and the environment agency is there to ensure that cash is spent on the right defences, the right earthworks, the right earth banks and everything else that we are going to need. here, pumps are now starting to get the water moving. emergency teams have been getting through, but some here are still feeling forgotten. could have done a lot more. could have had a lot more warning. what do you say? what can you say? been let down, somehow. dan johnson, bbc news, fishlake, in south yorkshire. the environment agency has warned that severe flooding episodes are set to become more frequent. it's prompted a renewed debate about the measures and the money needed to the limit the impact. 0ur science editor david shukman looks at the challenge of saving homes, businesses and communities at risk. year after year, we see the misery of flooding, but this time it's striking in the middle of an election, adding real edge to questions about why it's happened and h

jonathan beale, our defence correspondent, thank you.election campaign, we will be looking closely at the places where the final result could be won and lost, and asking people in those places what questions they may have. tomorrow, we will be reporting from bishop auckland in county durham, all day, on tv, radio and online. it is expected a rescue deal will be announced this lunchtime that would save up to 4,000 jobs at british steel. a chinese manufacturing group has agreed to buy the company for £70 million, securing the future of firm's plants in scunthorpe and teesside. british steel went into liquidation in may and another proposed rescue deal with a turkish firm collapsed last month. our business correspondent theo leggett reports. this is british steel's plant in scu nthorpe. the beating heart of an industrial town. its future had been in deep doubt after the company went into liquidation earlier this year. but today, news of a lifeline. the chinese firm jingye is expected to buy the business for £70 million. it's been a big conc

the ministry of defence has denied the claims. richard bilton has more.tan and iraq. most did their duty and came home. but some were accused of committing war crimes. panorama has found evidence the state covered up what they did. like the killing of rahid al—musawi in basra in 2003. translation: when rahid opened the door, the british soldier was crouching behind a pile of rubbish in the street. as soon as rahid walked out, the british soldier shot him here. detectives from the iraq historic allegations team investigated the case. they wanted to prosecute one soldier for the killing and his commanding officer for covering up what happened. but no one was charged. this detective asked to be interviewed anonymously. the ministry of defence had no intention of prosecuting any soldier of whatever rank he was unless it was absolutely necessary and they couldn't wriggle their way out of it. ihat looked at hundreds of cases, but in 2017, the investigation was shut down, along with 0peration northmoor, which was looking at killings in afghanistan. there were no

in sri lanka, the confidential former defence minister, go to buy raja pa ksa, former defence ministering former defence minister, go to buy rajapaksa, is claiming victory in the election. the vote comes just seven months after a terrorist attack killed more than 150 people. buses carrying muslim minority voters attacked by unidentified gunmen in sri lanka's north—west. no—one was injured, but it meant the election started on a nervous note. as voting got under way, worries about continuing violence began to dissipate. people came out in large numbers. in a country that saw fear and religious divides after deadly bombings this year, it was a sign ofjust how much this election matters. we do not want the separation. muslims, burghers, singhalese, tamils — all must be together. there's a bomb that went off quite close to my house. when we heard that, it's like "that is my family. we might be gone." we never know what might happen, right? so i want my country to get stabilised again. the attacks that took place inside this church and at several other locations in sri lanka, carried out by

and as far as defence is concerned and as far as defence workers is concerned, it is the case that whileppens is that we will have an integrated scottish defence force across the army, navy and the air force. we take our responsibilities seriously for them and we need to make sure that he would provide adequate defence for scotla nd would provide adequate defence for scotland to recognise the changing security requirements that we have around the world. so we have fantastic opportunities whether it is people on the front line or those that are supporting our military forces and we have given the commitment that we have made within nato, we will seek to continue to work with our partners whether it is within the united kingdom orfurther afield. so just to go back to the question, those thousands of defence workers beat look into a confident future in the defence industry and under a independent scotland or not? fast lane would be an integral part of our defence spending. of course the footprint will be different. —— farslane. the footprint will be different. —— fa rslane. template1 the fo

we'll have more on the floods, and the new calls to build more defences. also tonight...inburgh, the snp leader launches the party's election campaign — putting brexit and scottish independence at the centre. following the murder of a teenage girl in wiltshire, an 18—year—old man has beenjailed for life — we talk to ellie gould's family. two 15—year—old boys were among the 39 people from vietnam who were found dead in a lorry container in essex last month. it's about 35 quid there, harry. and we meet the veteran who's collected thousands of pounds to build a new memorial for the heroes of d—day. and coming up on sportsday on bbc news — it's the battle of the bottom two in the premier league, but can norwich stop watford claiming their first win of the season? good evening. we start tonight with the floods affecting parts of england, with some areas receiving a month's worth of rain in just one day. the north of england and the midlands were the worst affected. one woman has died after being swept away by the rising water in rowsley, in derbyshire. the environment agency h

that was one of the main innovations when the former defence minister now of the former defence ministere ministry of defence, this was the clear message that came from germany. i remember i was filming in 2016 in warsaw for the nato summit, and there there was the first joint declaration of nato in the eu, 76 points, a numberof declaration of nato in the eu, 76 points, a number of points of cooperation in defence. my film dealt exactly with this. europe needs to start thinking about its defence on its own, because it cannot count any more on america, and europeans need to take responsibility. we will have to leave the subject, but before we do, michael, just focus on exactly the 48 hours when everybody is in the uk, because these nato leaders are coming in in the middle of this difficult moment for nato itself, and they are coming into our uk general election campaign. exactly, trump is coming. tromp... tromp... britain tromp, that's what he calls borisjohnson. as we britain tromp, that's what he calls boris johnson. as we are talking about this, and there is a possibility he could go n

strong with their defence from the early hearing today about the quid pro quo.their perfect witness, someone might point towards the potential smoking gun?” don't think there has been that perfect star witness. just as we have seen coming out of other political hearings this year in the us, it's almost as if the democrats and republicans are watching two different hearings. today you had asked —— ambassador gordon sondland saying, if you asked me this was a quid pro quo, i would say yes but also, as you played on the audio, he did also say that the president had said, ido did also say that the president had said, i do not wanta did also say that the president had said, i do not want a quid pro quo. and that is the line that republicans are running with. there are two different hearings. democratic observers were saying it's as if ambassador sondland was having hisjohn it's as if ambassador sondland was having his john dean it's as if ambassador sondland was having hisjohn dean moment, referring to the white house council during the watergate hearings when the co

i want to do more to strengthen flood defences.ed doing straightaway, this isa it needed doing straightaway, this is a major event that the whole of the village of this lake was flooded overnight. they are only now, what, five days in, four days in, just starting to do something. it's wrong. the national farmers union has called for a seismic change to cope with events such as this, an emergency appeal to support displaced families has raised more than £50,000, but thousands more will be needed to help those affected as what is a personal disaster for so many, turns political. tolu adeoye, bbc news. let's go to westminster now and our political correspondent, jessica parker. this is a day when the floods became political. absolutely. it is an example of how election campaigns can taken an unexpected turn. the main story tonight is the devastation and the effect that is causing those communities but it has increasingly, today, played its part in that election campaign. we had heavy criticism about the governments's response from the

the defence is taking a battering around sheffield.ent correspondentjustin rowlatt. with our chief environment correspondent justin rowlatt. it with our chief environment correspondentjustin rowlatt. it is dry now, things seem to be improving but what is the forecast for the next couple of days? i have been out and about all day and the flood hit areas and what the fire service were sent to local residents is they are expecting another 100 millimetres of water to come through the river, ten centimetres. they say that the river level is going to rise before it begins to fall away. we know the ground is very saturated. we are expecting it to take days for the floodwaters to clear before they can —— before people can get back in their homes and begin to assess, the arduous process that comes next which is of course repairing their homes. ok, justin rowlatt, thank you for that. continuing problems here, it is dry now but the water levels are so high, it is going to take some considerable time for the water to dissipate and for people to be

certainly we need to continue to invest in flood defences.007, a lot more investment has gone into flood defences and has been more consistent year—on—year but we do have a lot of property and our towns and cities located on flood plains. 0n and cities located on flood plains. on occasions, where the floods are, these planes become flood plains again. and property on farms get flooded. we perhaps need to do more for the people who suffer from that and help them to be more resilient to flooding. and what does that look like? there is a lot we can do with properties and peoples homes, where they live and businesses, we can do a lock to keep floodwaters out of buildings and when they do get into buildings, we can use different materials for floors and walls so they do not get so damaged. and how well do the agencies work together? backin well do the agencies work together? back in 2007 there was a whole variety of organisations responsible for managing the floods and they did not work very well together. u nfortu nately, not work very well toget

despite a key aide to president putin being heard on one of the calls and the russian defence ministereing directly referenced, russia rejects allegations it was involved. 298 people died when the malaysia airlines flight was struck en route from amsterdam to kuala lumpur. the aircraft came down in eastern ukraine, and dutch investigators have worked for years to establish who is responsible for the disaster. russian backed separatists have been linked to the attack, but moscow argues the investigation is flawed, and aimed at discrediting its international reputation. four men have been charged and are due to go on trial, probably in absentia, earlier next year. investigators have already said the missile launch system used in the attack was sourced from russia. their hope now will be to ascertain who gave the orders and who pressed the button to trigger the deadly attack. another shooting at an american school. two students have been killed. several more were seriously hurt. los angeles police say a student, identified as nathaniel berhow pulled a semi—automatic pistol from his backpa

you are seeing them shifting their lines of defence.on what the ambassador said. it's been an explosive day in washington. to be honest, i wasn't expecting when these hearings went public to hear a lot of new information. everybody referred from publicly had already testified behind closed doors and those testimonies were released publicly and poured over by the press but what's been interesting in the public phase now of these hearings is how the testimony has given, kind of triangulate each other, and they are corroborating each other and for those who have had gaps in their testimony behind closed doors or had some inconsistencies, you are seeing their mind that out as we saw today with gordon sondland who decided to not only throw the president and rudy giuliani under the bus, but several other senior administration officials. where is the case the democrats are trying to make a stand? it's looking inevitable that the democrats will draft articles of impeachment and that may well past the house but the big question is what happens w

system. —— missile defence system. not trump is re—elected. we saw even before he was elected that 0bama was with drawing of it from... is there a shift here, almost a recognition of some of the point that alexander was making? that military alliances pressing right up against russia's backyard, as it would like to see it, not what the us should be doing any more? part of emanuel macron said is an affront to members of central european countries, particularly the balkans and poland to view nato as essential for their own security. so for macron to be saying that he is almost undermining the support he might need from those countries. for greater european integration. what we have seen as some of these countries pushing back. against those efforts at closer european integration, moving to more at nationalistic...” closer european integration, moving to more at nationalistic... i think thatis to more at nationalistic... i think that is a misreading of what he was doing. i think what he's doing is try to make nato stronge

this time there was more water, and the flood defences, did they manage to hold out?nervous. it adds an extra layer to the nightmare. this is what it was like in sheffield in 2007. the meadowhall shopping centre was flooded, the mall inside turned into a lake. what a difference between then and now. in 2007, shoppers had to be evacuated from here and the centre was closed for several days. last night, meadowhall avoided flooding. people were welcomed here as a place of refuge. today, it's been business as usual. this video filmed last night shows how close water got to the centre, mostly held back by flood defences. but it is thought those made the difference. part of a scheme costing more than £20 million to protect the city. the defences with the river levels absolutely saved a much wider flood event in sheffield, and much more devastating impact in terms of businesses and properties. as you can see, this wall is reinforced. but no one can be complacent. though the river levels were higher than in 2007, the defences will certainly be tested again in future. on this

the environment agency operates the defences in this pa rt of agency operates the defences in this partand we have a continual programme of that work. we don't make decisions in terms of opening or closing defences or pumping stations in this vicinity that could mean that one community was affected over another. the competing interests of town and country of those who work the land and those who live on it, always find balances but at the moment fishlake‘s feeling the impact and there is more rain forecast. dan johnson, bbc news, fishlake in doncaster. britain‘s economy has grown at the slowest annual rate in almost a decade, according to official figures — just 1% in the year to september. it has, though, avoided going into recession. 0ur economics editor faisal islam has the details. at this warehouse for a top tyre fitter in peterborough, business remains resilient, even as the impact of a world of economic uncertainty can be felt. the consumer is holding up, but fears around supply disruption and price rises linked to brexit have held back investment. a lot of the supply into our bu

things are going to get worse but along here there are houses that have their own flood defences built built in the last couple of years which should mean they are kept safe. there are problems elsewhere in worcestershire too. christmas preparations are continuing despite a swollen river. we have took precautions this time. we have took precautions this time. we have took precautions this time. we have sandbanks and bits and pieces over there. so far it hasn't come in. hundreds of square miles are under water across the midlands and the north. the government has come in for criticism from those who say they haven't spent enough on flood defences. we have a 2.6 billion programme of flood defence creation and maintenance, but absolutely, the science is clearer and clearer that our climate is changing and that one of the consequences in the future that it will become wetter and these kinds of extreme flooding events are going to become more frequent. so this is something, of course, we will take into account in terms of the decisions we make in the future and investing in flood defences.

the key dispute is over money, so how much is spent on flood defences?the air of the floods in south yorkshire today — the plight of the village of fishlake at the centre of the current political storm. the total budget for flood defences for this five—year period is £2.6 billion, but there has long been criticism that governments of all parties need to spend far more. what's striking is how it's the small villages like fishlake and farmland that are bearing the brunt of the flooding, and that's for a very simple reason. the money forflood protection is allocated according to the number of people who benefit from it, so the big cities do well and smaller communities are bound to lose out. another challenge, who is in charge of flood protection? rescue work by the emergency services is highly praised and well coordinated, but behind—the—scenes it can be another story. there's so much more water that these pumps are having to deal with... with central government, local authorities and drainage officials here monitoring the pumps at fishlake, a complicated

sri lanka's former wartime defence chief gutabaya rajapaksa declares victory in a presidential election divided the county along ethnic lines. i will be back in a few moments with the papers. but first over to lizzie for a round—up of the sport. thank you very much. good morning. wales moved a step closer to qualifying for next summer's european championships after winning their penultimate qualifying match. goals from kieffer moore and harry wilson meant them beat azerbajan 2—0. if they then win at home against hungary on tuesday, they'll automatically qualify for euro 2020. northern ireland though will have to try to qualify via the play—offs. they drew 0—0 with the netherlands after captain steven davis missed a penalty in belfast. scotland will also have to qualify via the nations league play—offs despite getting their first away win under steve clarke in cyprus. they took the lead through ryan christie's great strike, his first international goal. but cyprus responded with a brilliant goal of their own, former dundee and rangers player georgios efrem the goal—scorer. scotland weren

provides key missile defence system for europe.cknowledging was the reality that europe does need to start spending more on its own defence which is very much what trump wants to hear, right? but the reality of that is even if europe steps up with his plan to create a security framework, there will still be huge gaps, like the missile defence system. and that it remains a real challenge regardless of whether or not trump is re—elected. we saw even before he was elected that 0bama was with drawing a bit from the international sphere... —— we saw even before he was elected that 0bama was with drawing a bit from the international sphere... is there a shift here, almost a recognition of some of the point that alexander was making? that military alliances pressing right up against russia's backyard, as it would like to see it, are not what the us want to be doing any more? part of what macron said here is an affront to members of central european countries, particularly the balkans and poland to view nato as essential for their own secu

we also heard briefly from the defence.t was accidental. and the defence barrister saying that ms millane died as a result of a rough sex game that went wrong. and the reason why her body was concealed in a suitcase and taken to a mountain range near auckland to be concealed was because the defendant thought no—one would believe him. this trial is expected to last four oi’ this trial is expected to last four or five weeks. the this trial is expected to last four orfive weeks. thejudge in charge of the case is justice simon moore, and he has urged thejury of of the case is justice simon moore, and he has urged the jury of seven women and five men to act dispassionately, case that has attracted global headlines. phil mercer, thank you for bringing us up—to—date from auckland. it has been three months since indian—administered kashmir‘s special status was revoked by the indian government, and violence in the region has been growing. officials say it is being carried out by armed insurgents. there have been attacks against migr

so defence means building things like levies or protecting or restoring coastal wetla nds protectinge mangroves or salt marshes that can help. accommodation means things like homes on still what cities and homes designed in ways where occasional flooding isn't so ways where occasional flooding isn't so destructive and of course relocation means finding a new place to go. as we see more protests in major cities acros the world, this week on bbc news we're asking why. is there a common thread? why are so many young people taking to the streets? and how are governments responding? events in hong kong have been gripping the headlines sincejune. opposition to a plan for extradition to mainland chinese courts controlled by the communist party triggered the mass demonstrations which have now become a call for widespread reform, including universal suffrage. most observers didn't expect the crisis there to last this long. 0ur china correspondent stephen mcdonell who's been covering the protests from the beginning, has been speaking to some of the demonstrators. they didn't want to be identif

and we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers lucy fisher, defence correspondent times, and kevin schofield, the editor of politics home. stay with us for that. labour rejected accusations from the conservatives today that a jeremy corbyn—led government could result in an economic crisis within months. the conservatives said labour's policies would cost more than a trillion pounds over a five year parliament — a figure dismissed by labour as a ‘work of fiction‘. 0ur political correspondent jessica parker reports. two men competing to run the country's finances. the conservatives claim that labour's plans amount to an unaffordable splurge. but is their maths up to scratch? every single costing in this dossier that we have published today has either come from labour's own figures, most of them, actually, over 50% of the costings are from labour's own figures. the rest of them have either come from independent external sources and in some cases, yes, we have had to work them out ourselves but we have done that in a reasonable way and we have set out exactly in the do

is that a defence? or access it, this would be an issue for the wider public. we are sent things on our phones all the time so is it a defence that you haven't opened it? i don't think it's a defence if you know that it is there, so we are getting into the territory that the court has already dealt with, so hypothetically, if somebody sends me an image today and i look at the thumbnail and an image today and i look at the thumbnailandl an image today and i look at the thumbnail and i think, an image today and i look at the thumbnailand i think, oh, my goodness, that could be an indecent image, numberone i'm goodness, that could be an indecent image, number one i'm not going to open it, numbertwo image, number one i'm not going to open it, number two i will report the link to the internet watch foundation, number three i will make the report to police. there were two people in the whatsapp group who did have the wit to make the report to the police and that is how this unfolded. sol the police and that i

you spoke about 2070 dig what is the environment agency done for flood defence? like a drain off instead of a flood barrier. they dredged the rivers and again, that was 12 years ago. can still be a lot of silt on the river now and whether that affects anything i don't know. it is not a good situation. a police officer has been charged wtih the murder of the former footballer dalian atkinson who died after being tasered. the ex—aston villa striker was restrained by officers at his father's house in telford, in 2016. a second officer also from west mercia police force has been charged with assault, causing actual bodily harm. both appeared in court today, as our correspondent sian lloyd reports. dalian atkinson's talents brought him some memorable goals. this strike clinched him goal of the season in 1993. his career spanned 15 years, including four seasons with aston villa in the 1990s. but three years ago, police were called to his father's home, near telford. a taser was discharged and dalian atkinson was restrained. he died shortly afterwards, following a cardi

rajapa ksa got wartime defence chiefs sensed an opportunity.y ethnic conflict between tamil insurgents. torture, killings, the disappearance of minorities in the bombing of civilian areas. he is accused of them all. this is where the last very intense bit of fighting took place at the end of the sri lankan civil war. hundreds of thousands of tamils who were trapped there walked over this bridge into areas that we re over this bridge into areas that were under the control of the sri lankan military. among them were tamil rebel leaders who had negotiated a surrender with the government. but once they went across to that site, many of them we re across to that site, many of them were never heard from again. some believe they were killed on mr rajapaksa's believe they were killed on mr rajapa ksa's or theirs. thousands believe they were killed on mr rajapaksa's or theirs. thousands of those who disappeared were also civilians. their families still hold daily vigils asking for answers. even though it has been a decade since the war ended. even thoug

, and actually, if you listened to it, it was much more attack than defence.etting into the nitty—gritty of what had been claimed. rather, he was attacking the witnesses who had given evidence, suggesting that president trump had been pushing for this investigation into his political rival, joe biden, and his son hunter, who had business dealings in the country. when you listened to him, he was attacking one witness for apparently not hanging up his picture on the embassy she was in control of, attacking another witness for, in his view, not telling the truth. all of it is really about pushing this idea that president trump is in some way a victim of what he calls a witch—hunt, and certainly you get the idea that he wants this impeachment trial to take place in the senate, because he believes it is an opportunity to fight back, potentially even settle some scholars. it is why, for example, in that fox news interview, he was talking about the idea of bringing forward as a witness the whistleblower, who of course has not been somebody who has been publicly named

the environment agency operates the defences in this part of the river don's system.r basis and we have a continual programme of that work. we don't make decisions in terms of opening or closing defences or pumping stations in this vicinity that could mean that one community was affected over another. the competing interests of town and country of those who work the land and those who live on it, always find balances but at the moment fishlake's feeling the impact and there is more rain forecast. dan johnson, bbc news, fishla ke in doncaster. the pm will chair a meeting of the government's emergency committee, cobra, tomorrow, to discuss the flooding situation. let's speak to peter pridham the church warden at st cutherberts church in fishlake, who decided not to evacuate. hello, peter. good evening, thank you for having me. first off, why did you not evacuate? the promise of evacuation or multiple in this village. there are lots of people with livestock and animals. it is not just delete is with livestock and animals. it is notjust delete is simply dust easy tojump o

or is this the defence chiefs warning the tories that they dare not cut spending any more and of courseced to say, this is entirely untrue, we stand by our defence forces. cynicaljournalist thinking, i think you might be right, also army chiefs wanting to mothball the new aircraft carriers and the army and may be thinking the job of the ref will be done by drones. between different organisations. the sunday telegraph has got a great photograph of the prime minister and his dad. has got a great photograph of the prime minister and his dadm has got a great photograph of the prime minister and his dad. it is a good lively sunday newspaper front page picture. that is what it is about. underneath our best ever recipes, all quite delicious looking. it is quite interesting, they are talking about this triple tax look and there is this wonderful... and pot hole filling, very important. the latest boris catchphrase is, wait for it, boris joked that britain could be carbon neutral by 2020 if the tories win the december of the 12 election. that is pretty good. i think it's quite interesting. there

since the government came in in 2010, there's been a huge amount allocated to flood defences, but it'sain we're going to have to do more. after weeks of secret testimony, the impeachment hearings into donald trump begin on live television. and postal votes and christmas post is secure as a proposed strike by royal mail workers is ruled unlawful. and coming up on bbc news, the scoring sensation — australian striker sam kerr is on her way tojoin the team at the top of the women's super league. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. labour has pledged to outspend the tories on the nhs in england, promising an additional £6 billion a year by 2023—24 — that's on top of the £20 billion a year originally promised by theresa may. wales, northern ireland and scotland would get the same percentage increase. meanwhile the prime minister has renewed his calls to get brexit done and promised to double investment in industrial research and development on a visit to an electric taxi manufacturer in coventry. our political editor laura kuenssberg has the latest. filters tried to take charge

funding flood defences and emergency responders is an absolute priority.lain common sense. that is what a labour government will deliver, just plain common sense to help people in an emergency, to get through what is the most traumatic and disaster time of their lives. applause. as les was pointing out, at icom to her on herfantastic as les was pointing out, at icom to her on her fantastic work in southport, many people will know that over labour is elected, exactly one month from today, we will scrap university tuition fees and restore maintenance grants. —— liz. that is just one part of our life changing lan. a life changing plan for real change, because we will invest in a national education service free at the point of use, so that everyone can learn at every stage of their lives. it is one of the policies that i am most excited about. imagine, a national education service that is there for you as an aduu service that is there for you as an adult add in old age. so that no one is held back. i see education as an escalator running alongside you througho

upstream, next to the meadowhall shopping centre, the new flood defences were tested and bettered by the same river. a christmas event had to be cancelled at the centre as transport was seriously disrupted, staff and shoppers finding themselves boxed in by gridlocked traffic.

defence and said there were “— the area of defence and said there were —— they were willing to buy more strike theory, and also look into the bidens. neither of these investigations was in the us national interest. neither was part of the property material for the core. both were in trump is my personal interest, and any interest of his re—election campaign in 2020. ukrainian president knew about both in advance, because they had been pressing ukraine for weeks about investigations into the 2016 election and the bidens. it was important enough to be referred to the top lawyer. the white house would then take the extraordinary step of moving the call records to a highly classified server, exclusively reserved for the most sensitive intelligence matters. in the weeks that followed, ambassador taylor learned new facts about a scheme that would be described as insidious was the quote, are we now saying that white house meetings are based on conditions? it kept getting more insidious, as mrs on and testified. mr taylor, who took notes of his conversation said, the acid told him on a phone ca

in their defence, it is very, the industry will probably never be carbon neutral, but in their defenceo run an airline, because everything is, now they have the carbon emissions, but when the economy is good, fuel prices go up, because people fly. when the economy is bad, people don't fly. people will always fly. fewer people, people will buy less tickets. it is incredibly hard to generate a profit in this industry. the aig group has done remarkably well in terms of generating profits, but look at how many airlines went under over the last ten years. fuel tankering is this issue where they fill up with extra fuel to avoid paying high prices for refuelling at destination airports... what they claim, what they claim is, british airways, or they claim is, british airways, or the airlines claim, is that there may also be operational reasons, we have to be fair, that is what they claim. but the question is, how much do you say —— save? the numbers say they say very little and put that burden on the environment. it is a ha rd burden on the environment. it is a hard one to grasp, right? it is

of billionaires this is so the defence of billionaires this is so weird would launch a campaign. and saying that as a conservative policy for the selection? its entrepreneurs, will we do not sneer at the wealth creators. this is the prime minister saying... certainly in here, the message is we support wealthy creators so if you're a billionaire, we are on that seems to be the message. let us move on to a less helpful piece of headlining for the conservatives. this is coming as a result of jacob reese mogg's saying that common sense should have helped them to ignore the advice of the professionals and leave the burning building and he said i would've done that. he now says that he read the report and said he would have done it with hindsight, he doesn't mean he would have died at the time it is very sorry that he gave the impression that he did not think there is sensible people. he did give that impression it was shocking, insensitive and the apologies being made of the damage has been done and certainly the family's safari made statements showing how the stress —— families have

two possible defences, it was a quid pro quo but not corrupt.nquiry into corruption, and that's 0k, inquiry into corruption, and that's ok, whether you believe it or not is a different question. the second one is, it was bad and inappropriate, but he does not rise to the level of impeachment, basically, the bill clinton defence. i think we will hear one or a combination of those two defences. basically, the republicans are boxing pretty badly. the people we have heard from in at the last two days have notjust for a win rudy giuliani under the bus, they have given over him and reversed again. today, sondland said, we didn't like that rudy giuliani was involved in this, but we dealt with behind that we had in front of us. ijust we dealt with behind that we had in front of us. i just wonder what this means for him because there are already prosecutor is looking into the background of rudy giuliani. the ambassador certainly did not carry any water for the white house or fort mary giuliani today in his testimony, he held nothing back. i have develope

the don river has breached its flood defences in parts of sheffield, leaving hundreds of people stranded at a shopping centre. there are also reports of people stranded at another shopping centre in rotherham. hundreds gathered for the funeral of a mother and her two sons who were killed in a brutal attack earlier this week in northern mexico. relatives carried out the home—made caskets as friends and family turned to one another for comfort. but this isn't the last funeral, as the suspected drug cartel gunmen killed six other members of the american mormon family. germany's chancellor angela merkel has rejected sweeping criticisms of nato made by the french president. in an interview, emmanuel macron said a lack of strategic decision—making between the united states and its nato allies was leading to what he termed "brain death" in the bloc. now, take a look at this — a lucky escape for the crews of two

this is a show that defence manufacturers cannot afford to mess stopping the middle east is home to somependers in the world, and with insecurity rising in the region, it is thought that budgets will go up. fighterjets from is thought that budgets will go up. fighter jets from the is thought that budgets will go up. fighterjets from the united states, britain, and france are all here to make their mark. the russians are here too, with theirjets and helicopters, and the chinese are displaying drones. meanwhile, regional players like saudi arabia and the uae are demonstrating their homegrown technology stopping nearly 90,000 people are expected to attend the show, but it's not clear whether that will translate into big sales for the industry. and we will hear more about that event this week. now let's brief you on some other business stories: uk prime minister borisjohnson will outline his plans to reduce business rates and provide a series of tax breaks worth about £1bn a year. according to a report by the finanical times, johnson will reveal the new measures in a speech later today. comp

in sri lanka, a controversialformer defence chief has been elected president.more than 52% of the vote, which was split along ethnic lines. from colombo, our correspondent yogita limaye reports a wartime strongman returns, as sri lanka's most powerful. mr rajapaksa is seen as a leader who can keep their country safe. we don't have enough protection for the people. you see everywhere there are bombs and terrorists, day by day a lot of terrorists created here. so, we like to have a father for our mother country. in april this year, a series of attacks by islamist extremists killed more than 250 people. the days that gave mr rajapa ksa his deadly reputation. torture, killings, disappearances of tamil minorities, the bombing of civilian areas. he is accused of them all. this is where the last very intense bit of fighting to the end of the last sri lankan was. hundreds of tamils who trapped there walked over this bridge into areas that were under the control of the sri lankan military. among them were tamil leaders who had negotiated a surrender with the government.

beyond civilly beyond civil aviation, defence manufacturers cannot afford to miss this.e of the biggest military spenders in the world and with attention and insecurity rising in the region it is positive that defence budgets will go up. manufacturers from many countries are here to make their mark. the russians are here as well with their jets mark. the russians are here as well with theirjets and helicopters and the chinese are displaying drones. meanwhile, regional players like saudi arabia and the uae are demonstrating their homegrown technology. nearly 90,000 people are expected to attend the show but it is not clear whether that would translate into big sales for the industry. before we go, a recap of oui’ industry. before we go, a recap of our top story for this morning, hong kong police moving on university protesters on campus. we are told that the situation is calm but the u nrest that the situation is calm but the unrest has already pushed hong kong into its first recession in a decade with concerns that the ongoing protest will trigger a far deeper and longer

rallies his nationalist base with anti—american sentiment and is taking delivery of a russian air defencetrengthen his ties with moscow, moving away from nato. i mean, it's all true and the common denominator that literally was the adhesive or the glue that cemented the us— turkish relationship for decades was the cold war and the challenge that the cold war and the challenge that the former soviet union posed. i think with that change in the fundamental international equation and the rise of erdogan, he began to see himself from the standpoint of turkish interests, it smell may make sense to play the great power game. he doesn‘t trust the united states. the relationship with the kurds is something he perceives wrongly i think but from his perception, it is existential and keeping mr putin happy is important. 0ne existential and keeping mr putin happy is important. one additional issue, i think the coup ofjuly 2016 and use of american aircraft potentially against him drove his need for an potentially against him drove his need foran air potentially against him drove his need for an air de