john mcmanus is at the scene and he joins us now. mcmanus is at the scene and he joins us now.ohn? you can probably hear gunshots behind me. i don't know if you can. there have been several now on london bridge. i will tell you what i saw. just a few minutes ago i was walking across london bridge from the south bank to the north bank of the bridge, there appeared to bea bank of the bridge, there appeared to be a fight going on on the other side of the bridge with several men attacking one man. police quickly arrived, including armed police, and then a number of shots were fired at this man. police have now cleared the bridge. everybody has been told to move back. i am now on the northern side of the bridge. there are more shots going on. i cannot see what is happening now. we have been moved out of the way. there are shots going on. you can probably hear the police sirens. the entire bridge has been moved. right from the north of the bridge until near the north of the bridge until near the bank of england is being cleared. we are being told to move back. it sounds very frighten

greta: congressional reporter scott wong, katherine tully-mcmanus, thank you both for being on "newsmakers." [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer: coming up in just a few minutes, discussion on impeachment, foreign interference, and how to best safeguard the 2020 elections. that will be live from the brookings institution here in washington, d.c., starting at 3:30 p.m.. the house intelligence committee chair adam schiff spoke today about the release of deposition transcripts of the former ukraine abbasid or and a former state department senior advisor. you can read those transcripts at c-span.org. >> good morning. today we had additional scheduled depositions with the top lawyer for the national mr.rity council, as well as blair from the office of management and budget. and someone who work closely with mick mulvaney. both of them defied congressional subpoenas and refused to appear for their scheduled depositions, as has bee

greta: katherine tully-mcmanus, what is the timeline for this impeachment? katherine: we don't have a specific timeline, but we know the democrats would like to get this completely wrapped up before anyone casts a vote in the 2020 primaries in any shape or form. that is early next year. we do know closed depositions will be continuing. on monday, they are scheduled for four different people to come in behind closed doors and to give testimony. immediately after the vote on the resolution, republicans were lamenting that ok, we just took this vote to open the process up, and now you are scheduling a whole docket of more closed-door inquiry. and so they are getting pushback on that, but i think the democrats are hoping to wrap up this closed-door portion and move on to the intelligence committee open hearings, and then a whole other phase. in the judiciary committee. they are on a timeline. greta: this resolution, the impeachment resolution voted on thursday, as the congressman noted, all of the republicans voted against impeachment inquiry. are there any repu

john mcmanus reports.in the crash, leaving the bus on the pavement and the car partially crushed. the driver of that car has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. the incident occurred on the outskirts of london, here on sevenoaks road in orpington, a busy commuter town. fire brigade officers who arrived on the scene help free passengers on the scene helped free passengers from the two buses and carried out first aid, while the london ambulance service says it dispatched ten crews to the incident, treating 15 people. they were sent to hospital. but despite the best efforts of the paramedics, one person died at the scene. they haven't been named. police are attempting to trace their next of kin. road closures remain in place in the area, while the investigation into what caused the crash gets under way. john mcmanus, bbc news. our reporter greg mckenzie gave us this update from the scene of the crash. the emergency services were called here to sevenoaks road just after 10p on las

over the past 2 years head researcher janine mcmanus and a group of students have recorded the number of plant species in selected study sites in the. in addition the group evaluates the earth budgetary index the index is determined by the amount of green seen on the ground by satellites and allows researchers to compare plant growth in different regions over time. and you can already start picking up changes in trains with the way the hood has been grazing especially over a longer racing period in parts of the farm and the green index shows that quite pronounced and we compared it to traditional farms where it isn't quite as pronounced and they seems to be quite a significant. it's just looking at the pixels alone you know taking the green out of pixelization but from that alone you can really start seeing a difference. there are many positive signs. areas that have been grazed by the herds on now seeing thicker plant growth. slowly while the animals are returning to the farm more than 500 antelope have been counted and even a leopard was recently sighted. a major success for. specia

luckily we have john mcmanus one of our reporters who wasjust over the john mcmanus one of our reporters. can you confirm for us, can you, the account we are putting together from these bits of video?” witnessed some of that myself, tom. i was walking from the south side to the north side. on the other side of the north side. on the other side of the road just after two o'clock i could see a commotion. somebody said, it looks like there is a fight going on. it seemed to be several men trying to hold somebody down. it looked like a rugby scrum. they started to run away from that person. i noticed then that armed police had suddenly arrived in the northern side of the bridge. all of the traffic stop. the police were armed. they were shouting at the person on the ground, telling us to get off the bridge. that is when i heard what sounded like two shots fired in the direction of this person. as i was leaving the bridge i could see that person was lying prone on the ground. they didn't seem prone on the ground. they didn't seem to be moving. i couldn't see if it was a man or a woman. i was on

john mcmanus reports. involved in the crash, leaving the bus on the pavement and the car partially crushed. the driver of that car has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. the incidents occurred on the outskirts of london, here on sevenoaks road in 0rpington, a busy commuter town. fire brigade officers who arrived on the scene help free passengers from the two buses and carried out first aid, while the london ambulance service says it dispatched ten crews to the incident, treating 15 people. they were sent to hospital. but despite the best efforts of the paramedics, one person died at the scene. they haven‘t been named. police are attempting to trace their next of kin. road closures remain in place in the area, while the investigation into what caused the crash gets under way. john mcmanus, bbc news. investigations are continuing in pakistan after a train fire, which killed 7a people yesterday. the pakistani government says a gas cylinder being used by passengers for cooking ex

john mcmanus in south london.it. richard browning shot through the sky above brighton beach at more than 85mph. ian palmer was there. we have lift—off, but can he break the jet—propelled bodysuit world record? i have shouted so loudly before i've been heard over myjet engine noise on the gopro in my head as i was just exclaiming with kind of joy. it is like this unparalleled degree of freedom when you're flying. it is super fun. richard browning is on his second adjudicated run. can he go any faster? the british inventor didn't just go faster, he obliterated his own world record. reaching a top speed of more than 85 mph. it did start out for no practical reason at all and it's still not the way you're going to take the kids to anytime soon. but it is a first stepping stone that opens the door to a whole new way that might inspire... it already has. these air scouts travelled all the way from northamptonshire to witness this extraordinary event. it's a wonderful opportunity. you don't get to see a jetpack every day

the 12 hour hostage situation came to an end after an army commander's operation —— mcmanus.terror operations across the country. after the catheter, at least 80 suspected militants were killed by the security forces during these operations. the bangladeshi government claims that they have successfully dismantled islamist militant groups. many security a nalysts militant groups. many security analysts believe that the country has a long way to go until it can claim to have seen of the militancy thread for good. akbar hossain, bbc news. i want to remind our viewers of this breaking news this hour to do with the us and hong kong. donald trump has signed into law a piece of legislation. this legislation was agreed by congress a few days ago. now the president has signed it. it basically backs the protesters in hong kong. the crucial line is this that it requires the state department to certify that hong kong retains enough autonomy to justify favourable us trading terms. they have been so vital to hong kong's position as a financial centre was up position as a financial centre w

host: we also have scott wong, who covers capitol hill with the hill newspaper, and kathy mcmanus, also a capitol hill reporter. scott: thank you for being here. republicans have up until now been complaining about the impeachment process. as these hearings and depositions have been a hind closed doors. but now with the impeachment vote and looking ahead for the process as it moves into the public sphere, can you talk a little bit about what the merits of your arguments look like? president trump has urged republicans to fight impeachment on the merits, not process. can you talk about the arguments on the merits going forward? rep. johnson: that's a good question. we just had a lengthy press conference after the vote on the house floor, which was bipartisan, you saw two democrats vote with the republicans not to proceed with the resolution. but we had problems with both process and the substance and we are anxious to debate both of those things and do it in the open, and that is the main thing. we want the american people to see the evidence that chairman schiff has decided to keep secr

let's speak to our correspondentjohn mcmanus.g ago, but some better news for these travellers tonight. these 25 migrants were discovered by crew on board this very which is operated by the danish company dfds. the ferry left the netherlands at about 7pm it is time this evening, the crews say they discovered these 25 migrants, somehow hidden within a refrigerated unit on board the ferry. as we know, thatis unit on board the ferry. as we know, that is extremely dangerous as well as being cold those units can often be airtightand as being cold those units can often be airtight and you mentioned the incident in essex last month where those vietnamese migrants were u nfortu nately those vietnamese migrants were unfortunately found dead. in this case, everybody was found alive. 0nce case, everybody was found alive. once the crew discovered the migrants they alerted police and immediately turned around and headed back to the netherlands. they say that there were 25 of them who were found, when they got to the port the medical services m

john mcmanus reports.ollision on the suburban road soon after ten o'clock last night. two single deck buses and one private car were involved in the crash, leaving the bus on the pavement and the car partially crushed. the driver of that car has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. the incidents occurred on the outskirts of london here on sevenoa ks occurred on the outskirts of london here on sevenoaks road in 0rpington, a busy commuter town. fire brigade officers who arrived on the scene help free passengers from the two buses and carried out first aid while the london ambulance service says it dispatched ten crews to the incident, treating 15 people. they we re incident, treating 15 people. they were sent to hospital. but despite the best efforts of the paramedics, one person died at the scene. they haven't been named. police are attempting to trace their next of kin. road closures remain in place in the area while the investigation into what caused the crash gets under way.

writes,e tully mcmanus house intelligence chairman adam schiff says his committee will transmit a report on the evidence gathered so far and impeachment inquiry soon after congress returns from the thanksgiving recess. that information is based on a letter reppo sedative shift sent to colleagues, where he also suggested, 'the possibility of more closed-door depositions or open hearings if new evidence comes to light. ' once the report is complete, it will be summit into the house judiciary committee which has the task of deciding whether to draft articles of impeachment. you can read more at rollcall.com. c-span campaign 2020 is with president trump, life tuesday at 7:00 p.m. eastern as he hold a campaign rally in sunrise, florida. his first there since trading his residency from new york to florida in late october. live coverage on c-span. watch online at

host: we also have scott wong, who covers capitol hill with the hill newspaper, and kathy mcmanus, alsoitol hill reporter.

a little earlier, my colleague ben brown spoke to the bbc correspondent john mcmanus who was a eyewitnessssing london bridge from the south side of the thames to the north. sometime after two o'clock, i think it was about ten past two, i notice a few people suddenly running very quickly past me going in the opposite direction. i then looked across the road to the western side of the bridge, and i could see what appeared to be what i thought was a fight going on. there was some shouting going on. then i saw what was looking like a scrum with lots of people jumping onto somebody on the pavement on the other side of the pavement on the other side of the bridge from me. they suddenly jumped up and started running away very quickly. i then realised there we re very quickly. i then realised there were armed police just in front of me training their guns on this person who was on that side of the bridge. we were all told to clear off the bridge immediately. we began to do that. as i was doing that, two shots rang out. i did not see the gun is fired. i did not see the impact. but after those shot

katherine tully-mcmanus writing the house will move into the public hearing phase next week.ill taylor, acting ambassador to ukraine, and george kent are scheduled to be the first two witnesses to give public testimony. eurasian eurosd responsible for 6 countries including ukraine. they will also hear from marie yovanovitch next friday. your calls and comments. 202-748-8001 for democrats. republicans, 202-748-8000. independents, 202-748-8002. checking twitter and what people are saying on facebook, jim tweets my expectation for next week's public hearings is to see each member engage in grandstanding while nothing new comes to light. kathy says no expectations, looking forward to hearing information from both sides. i think the house will provide solid evidence of house doing, the senate will acquit the president and they will all get voted out. stephen says looking forward to hearing the facts in public. joining us on the phone is julie grace from the hill. why are they taking the first couple of witnesses -- what does the intelligence committee hope to find out in a public

houseine mcmanus writes intelligence chairman adam schiff says his committee will transmit a report on the evidence gathered so far in the impeachment inquiry, soon after congress returns from the thanksgiving recess. that information is based on a letter representative shift sent to colleagues or he also suggested the possibility of ore closed-door depositions open hearings if new evidence comes to light. . ite the report is complete, will be submitted to the house judiciary committee, which has the task of deciding whether to draft articles of impeachment. you can read more at rollcall.com. >> the house will be in order. >> for 40 years, c-span has provided america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events from washington, d.c. and around the country, so you can make up your own mind. created by cable in 1979, c-span is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. gordon is, he serves as the president of americans for tax reform. we hear a lot of debate about the impact of the