yasmin, do you want to go? been part of the erg and pretty in —— uncompromising, he has written a piece for the telegraph and he has become very conciliatory at the moment, which is interesting and surprising. did you not find that the tone is different? we must compromise, we must allow him to do this, this is the best deal. i think what this is all about is trying to position the prime minister's deal in the eyes of the public, because most people out there, most people at home, won't be awaiting the details of the deal, and reading it very closely and making notes on it, instead, they will be taking their cues from political leaders, from journalists, from people that they trust. having someone from people that they trust. having someone like jacob rees—mogg, so hesitant and subsequently so against supporting theresa may's deal, as more details came out... he was allowed to get her, my god. from the beginning, before the details even became clear, he said he wasn't sure about this, and then no, definitely no

but, yasmin, the news this afternoon, ft. worth officials seem to be saying this should not have happened. there is no justification for this. and they have moved very quickly to distance themselves from this officer. the jefferson family, though, is still devastated. they're asking for justice at this point. and demanding more answers. >> well, and gabe, just quickly seeing that you are just with the family. hearing that you were just with the family, how are they doing? >> well, they are devastated. we spoke with tatiana's older brother. he was actually -- he's in the navy. stationed in san diego and he heard about this horrific incident and he's still in shock. he is telling us about his sister and how she was baby sitting her 8-year-old nephew inside the home. that he cannot believe that this actually happened. we spoke with one of her other sisters as well, who says that, you know, this is unacceptable. the one place you think that you are safe is your home. and she was inside that home and can't understand how this happ

a big thank you to my guests this evening, joe and yasmin. that's all from us and goodnight.s through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. what have you been watching? we have american woman starring sienna miller... animated fun with abominable...

you can sign up by going to sign up.axios.com. >> i'm yasmin alongside ayman.ing that matters is the transcript of the actual conversation that i had with the president of cue craukraine. >> yes, all that matters is the transcript. the transcript where the president of ukraine asked for missiles and you say i would like you to do us a favor, though. it's like a scooby-doo villain saying i would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for me releasing this signed confession. here, i'll rip off my own mask. >> i had a transcript done by very, very talented people, word for word. comma for comma. done by people that do it for a living. we had an exact transcript. >> okay, let's take a look at that exact transcript and see what the talented people wrote. right on the first page it says, not a verbatim transcript of a discussion. >> now, i get three days of peace and i'm walking into the united nations, going to meet with the biggest leaders in the world, and i hear about the word impeachment. i said what did i do now? >> well, it's good to know -- it's good to kn

i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside ayman mohyeldin.d. back at the wall. and that's gone. >> he goes deep. he let him hit him right in the chest. 2-1. the houston astros defeated the washington nationals 7-1 last night in game five of the world series. they now lead the series three games to two, after falling behind 2-0 games after the series headed to washington. game six is tomorrow night. back in houston. and meanwhile, president trump was at the game last night. where he was greeted with boos when his attendance was announced during the game. according to the "washington post," the crowd sustained booing hit almost 100 decibels, and was followed by chants of lock him up, and

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. it is the bottom of the hour.et's start with the morning's top stories. we begin in the middle east where president trump says in order to end quote, endless wars, he ordered about 50 u.s. troops to return home from northern syria. mark esper says not only is the number of troops significantly more than 50, they aren't actually coming home. >> we've removed all of our, as we said, 50 soldiers but much less than 50 soldiers. they're now in a very safe location, heading into an even safer location is we'. we're bringing our soldiers back home. we've done a great job. >> the u.s. withdrawal continues a pace from northeast syria, again, we're talking weeks not days. the current game pope franclan those forces to reposition into western iraq. >> all of them? >> yeah, the ones coming out, right, that original 1,000, and then two missions. one is to help defend iraq, and two is to perform a counter isis commission as we sort through the next steps. and again, that's the current game plan. things could change between now

i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian.e begin with the capitol hill testimony that is raising serious questions about the president trump's denial of a quid pro quo when it comes to his dealings with ukraine. acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine bill taylor spent more than nine hours behind closed doors testifying before lawmakers. taylor told members of the congress that the president directed officials to tie foreign aid and money to demands that ukraine open an investigation into the biden family. in his 15-page opening statement, taylor said trump insisted that president zelensky go to a microphone and say he's opening investigations of biden and the 2016 election interference. and that president zelensky should want to do this himself. taylor ed that eu ambassador gordon sondland told him, quote, everything was gent on zelensky making a public statement, including security assistance. in his testimony, taylor called it a confusing and unusual aarrangement for making it unusual policy towards that country. taylor told law

it's wednesday, october 30th, i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. we beginhy with the impeachment probe and parts of the phone call at theent of the inquiry that the white house admitted from the memo. the revelations coming from alexander vindman, a tupe ukraine expert on the national security council who testified ten hours yesterday. according to a lawmaker present for the testimony and another source, vindman told investigators that he tried to edit the transcript to reflect president trump's mention of the ukrainian president and the gas company burismo. it appears to be speaking at an event. according to "the new york times," vindman testified that some of his edits made it into the reconstructed transcript. he did not specify why the mentions of joe biden and burisma were admitted. >> and this contradicts the repeated claims that the white house released an exact transcript of the phonee call. here he is as recently as monday. >> they tried to take that conversation and make it into a big scandal. the problem was, we had it transcribed. it wa

i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian.gressional sources well nbc news that the state department's inspector general has asked to hold an urgent briefing from staffers from several house senate committees today. it comes as secretary of state mike pompeo resists efforts by house democrats to interview five current or former state department officials as part of their impeachment inquiry centering on a scandal. writing i am concerned with aspects of your request that can be understood only to attempt to intimidate bully the distinguished part professionals of the department of state. he went on, let me be clear, i will not tolerate such tactics and i will use all means at my disposal to prevent and expose any attempts to intimidate the dedicated professionals. and nbc news confirmed monday that the secretary of state was on that call, in his letter, pompeo acknowledged that he had received the subpoena and would respond by friday. >> meanwhile, the chairman of the house foreign affairs oversight committees hit back with the

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. we begin with three days after the president agreed to pull back u.s. troops from northern syria, turkey launched air strikes, fired artillery, and began a ground offensive against u.s. allied kurdish fighters it views as terrorists in the region. minutes after turkish jets began pounding the suspected positions of syrian and kurdish forces president erdogan outlined a tweet, to prevent a terror corridor along the turkey southern border and bring peace to the region. terrified residents fled in panic, leaving in foot and in vehicles, piled high with belongings. accordinged to the associated press, at least seven civilians and three members of the kurdish militia known as the syrian democratic forces were killed in the turkish bombardment. kurdish activists and a syrian war monitor says. unconfirmed reports from the syrian democratic forces writing on the official twitter account, a prison was hit during the turk irk air strike and the tweet says they believe turkey is undermining all

yasmin filmed herself singing in the subway without a he job she was sentenced to 16 years. there's no way i'm going to wear he job why should i it's raining so beautifully. and another woman 20 year olds a bar scene here on the right was sentenced to 24 years for her video filmed without the job. more and more women are joining the movement against the compulsory job and so-called white wednesdays women protest together by holding up white head scarves they send their videos to us based iranian journalist and women's rights campaigner. she initiated the white wednesday's campaign composer your job is the main pillar of a religious dictatorship it's the visible symbol of gender apartheid so that is why the government is very scared upon to compulsory a job movement and they took my family hostage because they want to keep the woman shut down. mostly shows us a picture of her brother the regime is targeting her family she fears that both her brother and her mother have been arrested to put pressure on her. brother sent her this video shortly before his arrest. hello mussy the

a big thank you to my guests this evening, joe and yasmin. that's all from us and goodnight. hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. what have you been watching? we have american woman starring sienna miller... animated fun with abominable... and will smith fighting himself in gemini man. let's start with american woman. sienna miller is debra, living in rust belt pennsylvania. she is pin balling endlessly between variously useless and occasionally abusive men and looking for security and love. one night, her teenage daughter goes out and doesn't come home. she is left holding her grandson with no idea what happened. here is a clip. it's been... it's been three days since we last saw bridget. she left home around seven. she was wearing a pink sweatshirt and white sneakers. she had her hair coloured a few days ago, so it's a little lighter now, a little more blonde. but not much. this is a mother's worst nightmare. to know that your daughter is out there somewhere and she's calling for you and you can't

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here is yasmin from "velshi & ruhle." >> hello everybody, coming up on "velshi & ruhle." former ambassador to ukraine risking her job to testify before the impeachment inquiry. we got late breaking details on that. plus, the humanitarian situation at the syria border is getting worse as turkey asusault is goig into its third days. tens of thousands of people are fleeing the region as the number of deaths arise. we are live there. wildfires in california prompting thousands of evacuatio evacuations and relenting winds. a key player of the inquiry. mary ma mary yovanovitch. sondland was supposed to appear this week but blocked for doing so by the trump administration. sondland was subpoenaed as al result. first, i want to focus on ambassador yoyanovitch. she was removed back in may months before her schedule. yovanovitch's tenure was cut short. yovanovitch's former colleague came to her defense. they also say it would be out of character for her to engage in partisan politics. there is another key player in all this w. fiona hill. she plan to say that rudy giuliani and eu a

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. we begin in syria where the trump administration has accelerated plans for a major troop withdrawal. turkey has ramped up its offensive and nearly hit an american base. a former u.s. ally has reportedly teamed up with american enemies, and isis detainees have started escaping. defense secretary mark esper described the situation and the trump administration's strategy yesterday. >> it's a very terrible situation over there, a situation caused by the turks, by president erdogan. in the last 24 hours we learned that they likely intend to expand their tack further south than originally planned and to the west. so we know that's happening. we also have learned in the last 24 hours that the syrian forces -- i'm sorry, the kiurdih forces are looking to cut a deal with syrians and russians to counter attack in the north. we find ourselves as we have american forces likely caught between two opposing advancing armies, and it's a very untenable situa

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin.e begin with president trump and he has a new defense for his july 25th phone call to the president of ukraine that is at the center of house democrats' impeachment inquiry. two sources familiar with the matter tell nbc news that trump told house republicans friday that he was urged to make the call by energy secretary rick perry. sources say trump suggested it was a call he didn't even want to make. in response to that news, which was first reported by "axios," the department of energy press secretary tells nbc news, quote, this, secretary perry absolutely supported and encourage ed president to speak to the new president of ukraine. he continues to believe there is significant need for improved regional energy security which additional options for natural gas supply will provide, and this is exactly why he is heading to lithuania to meet with nearly two dozen european energy leaders. perry is set to resign from his position next month. >>> a second whistle-blower has come forward wit

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin.e begin with the fast moving developments in the push to impeach the president. a new quinnipiac poll is just the latest to show a majority of americans now support the impeachment inquiry. 53%. this follows yesterday's "washington post" poll which found 58% of americans supporting the house probe. a 21-point increase since july. we also learned yesterday, that the trump administration will not cooperate with the inquiry, calling it illegitimate and unconstitutional. we got the first sign of that when the state department blocked a key witness in the probe eu ambassador ambassador sondland from testifying from the house foresight and affairs committee. democrats issued a subpoena to compel his testimony and for documents to get officials to investigate joe biden and his son. and remember the text message that diplomat bill taylor sent sondland that said, quote, it was crazy to withhold military aid to ukraine to help the candidate's campaign. a source tells nbc news before responding n

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i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian.resident trump yesterday confirmed the death of isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi following a raid this weekend in northwestern syria by u.s. special operations forces. according to comments by trump national security adviser robert o'brien and nbc news reporting from multiple officials familiar with the raid, at around 5:00 p.m. saturday trump and his top national security officials gathered in the white house situation room to watch the military operation. the day before trump had given the order to launch a raid to capture or kill baghdadi after options were presented to him on thursday thanks in part to information from the same syrian kurdish allies trump is accused of abandoning, u.s. analysts believed they had found the isis leader. the cia had been honing in the intelligence for weeks. the man believed to be baghdadi was under u.s. surveillance and his movements were being tracked. the american commandos had been staging in the region since last month. some of them were launched

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. it is the bottom of the hour.e morning's top stories in that last night's debate, former vice president joe biden took swipes at both elizabeth warren and bernie sanders for their big structure change ideas including medicare for all. >> i think a lot of what they had to say is really important. but, you know, senator warren said we can't be running any vague campaigns. i want to say something that is probably going to offend some people here. but i'm the only one on this stage that has gotten anything really big done. >> who are you saying as being vague? >> well, the senator said -- in fact, you're both being vague on the issue of medicare for all. if we have the guts, i would like to see the democratic party have that guts to stand up to the drug companies and the insurance companies and tell them that the function of health care is to guarantee care to all people. >> we can do that without medicare for all. we can do that -- >> no, we can't. >> we can. and we can afford to do it. >> following the financial cra

i'm ayman mohyeldin, alongside yasmin vossoughian. mick mulvaney was still trying to clean up comments about why the trump administration withheld aid from ukraine. mulvaney continued to walk back remarks last week about a quid pro quo arguing that reporters had misinterpreted his comments. >> why did you say in that briefing that president trump had ordered a quid pro quo that investigating the democrats, that aid to ukraine depended on investigating the democrats. >> that's not what i said. that's what people i said i said. there were two reasons that we held up the aid, we talked about this at some length. the first one was the rampant corruption in ukraine. the president was also concerned about whether or not other nations specifically european nations were helping with foreign aid to the ukraine as well. i mentioned in the past, the president had mention from time to time about the dnc server, he mentioned it to president zelensky in the phone call. it wasn't connected to the ate aide. that's where people got sidetracked. in the

it is thursday, october 24th, i'm yasmin vossoughian. ayman mohyeldin is out sick this morning. we begin with the wake of the escalating impeachment fight, republican strategy for defending president trump, defending, growing more frantic by the day. on capitol hill yesterday a group of gop lawmakers stormed the secure room where a deposition was set to take place, a house intelligence committee official telling nbc news more than two dozen republican members participated. the testimony of laura cooper, the top pentagon official overseeing u.s. policy toward ukraine was delayed by five hours, because of the outburst. house intelligence committee chair adam schiff suggested the demonstration was a response to ambassador bill taylor's explosive testimony just the day before. watch this. >> the testimony yesterday, they have been successful in stopping witnesses from cooperating. and so the president has elicited allies on the hill to see what they could do to stop the witnesses but we will go forward with the testimony and make sure that the facts come to light. >> and democrats h

i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. another wild day in washington, d.c. that culminating with this instant iconic photo of house speaker nancy pelosi standing around a roomful of men with her finger pointed directly at the president, tweeted by the president believe it or not after a contentious meeting discussing the meeting in syria. we're told that talks broke down and ended with democratic leaders walking out of the meter. nancy pelosi needs help fast. there is either something wrong with her upstairs or she just plain doesn't like our great country. she a total meltdown in the white house today. it was very sad to watch. pray for her. she is a very sick person. >> things went south when pelosi explained to the president that russia has always wanted a foothold in the middle east and now has one with trump withdrawal. all roads lead to putin. and i hate isis more than you do. >> and she said you don't know that. and is your plan to rely on the syrians and the turks, and the plan is to keep the american people safe. >> and she said that's not a plan, t

i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. we begin with the impeachment push on capitol hill. fiona hill testified more more than nine hours behind closed doors yesterday, a source told nbc news, she told lawmakers that former national security adviser john bolton was so disturbed by the efforts to get ukraine to investigate the president's political opponents, that he labeled it a quote drug deal. and that he wanted no part of the effort, which reportedly involved acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney. hill also testified that bolton called giuliani, quote, a hand grenade, and told her to report the situation to the national security council's top lawyer. the details of the testimony were first reported by "the new york times". hill also told lawmakers that giuliani ran a shadow foreign policy on ukraine, and that she considered what was happening to be a clear counter-intelligence risk to the united states. people familiar with her testimony tell the "washington post" that hill told lawmakers giuliani's policy cir

i'm yasmin vossoughian. ayman mohyeldin has the day off. we begin with this. nbc news has confirmed that an investigation into the origins of the russia probe closely overseen by attorney general bill barr has changed from an administrative review into a criminal investigation. the news was first reported by "the new york times," the review is being conducted by connecticut u.s. attorney john durham. according to the times, this move gives durham the power to subpoena witness testimony and documents, convene a grand jury, and to file criminal charges. as the times note, the opening of a criminal investigation is likely to raise alarms that president trump is using the justice department to go after his perceived enemies. at this point, it is not clear what potential crime durham is investigating, and a d.o.j. spokesperson declined to comment on this. federal investigators need only a quote reasonable indication that a crime has been committed to open an investigation, a much lower standard than the probable cause required to obtain search warrants. however, qu

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. we begin with new reporting concerning secretary of state mike pompeo's role in the july 25th phone call between president trump and the president of ukraine that is now at the center of an impeachment inquiry. a senior state department official telling "the wall street journal," and nbc news, has confirmed the reporting, that pompeo was among the administration officials who listened in on the phone call. pompeo's participation on the call has not been previously reported. in interviews last week pompeo said that he had not read the whistleblower's complaint, in its entirety, but maintained that actions by the state department had been quote entirely appropriate. >> the "the wall street journal" is reporting that pressed the president of ukraine eight times to work with rudy giuliani to investigate joe biden's son. what do you know about those conversations. >> you gave me a complaint of a whistleblower complaint, none of which i've seen. >> are you confident that none of your staff,

it is tuesday, october 29, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin, i begin with more damming testimony expected in the house impeachment probe today. for the first time house investigators will hear from a white house official who was actually assigned to listen in on the phone call to the center of the inquiry. "new york times" was the first to obtain the opening statement of a top ukraine expert on the national security council who is currently serving active duty in the u.s. army. he is expected to testify that he twice reported concerns to the lead attorney, once after a july 10th meeting in washington between then national security adviser john bolton and his ukrainian counterpart and attended by ambassadors kurt volker and gordon sondland. the meeting was cut short when sonland talked about ukraine delivering specific investigations in order to secure a meeting between the two presidents. >> and the opening statement continues following this meeting, there was a scheduled debriefing during which ambassador sondland emphasized the importance that ukraine deliver the inve

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. president trump's controversial decision to immediately withdraw all u.s. troops from northern syria ahead of a long-planned turkish military assault. it is smashing chaos in both the middle east and in washington and we have both angles from chief foreign correspondent richard engel. >> with criticis saying it puts kurds against isis at risk and open to attack. president trump is defending his plan to pull u.s. troops out of northern syria. >> we only have 50 people in that area, it is a small sector, and i don't want them hurt or killed. >> tweeting it is time to get out of the ridiculous wars and the kurds are blasting it as a betrayal, warning they could face ethnic cleansing, even genocide, by turkey, which is preparing to launch an attack against them. the kurds fought shoulder to shoulder, with u.s. special operations forces, for four years against isis. we joined them extensively on the front lines. and saw how much elite u.s. military units relied on them to fight the terror

. ♪ >>> good morning, everybody, it is tuesday, october 22nd, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside aymanmmohyeldin. president trump is chastising republican lawmakers for not significantly defending him. during a cabinet meeting yesterday he urged members of his party to quote, get together and fight while pointing the finger athe senator mitt romney one of his most outspoken republican critics. >> i think the democrats are lousy politicians with lousy policy. they want open borders. they don't care about crime. they want sanctuary cities. they don't care about drugs. they don't care about almost anything. i think they're lousy politicians, but two things they have. they're vicious, and they stick together. they don't have mitt romney in their midst. they don't have people like that. the republicans have to get tougher and fight. we have some that are great fighters, but they have to get tougher and fight because the democrats are trying to hurt the republican party for the election. >> senator romney spoke to reporters on capitol hill saying his fellow lawmakers should not jump to any c

i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. there is a lot to get to this morning. but we want to begin with the president's wild night in minneapolis. it's where he held his first campaign rally since the launch of a formal impeachment inquiry. for about 102 minutes he just basically let it rip against all of his favorite targets. none of his attacks were as vulgar and personal as those against joe and hunter biden. >> joe's son hunter got thrown out of the navy and then he became a genius on wall street in about two days. by the way, whatever happened to hunter? where the held is he? hunter, you know nothing about energy. you know nothing about anything frankly. hunter, you're a loser. why did you get $1.5 billion, hunter? and your father was never considered smart. he was never considered a good senator. he was only a good vice president, because he understood how to kiss barack obama's ass. >> wow. biden responded tweeting at the president, i spent my night at the human rights campaign forum talking about the fundamental respect every human being deserves and yo

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. it is the bottom of the hour. top stories. for several weeks now, rudy giuliani has been the name most closely associated with president donald trump. and the impeachment inquiry in the house. but after yesterday's briefing in the white house, mick mulvaney is now also center stage. nbc's kirsten welker reports. >> reporter: undercutting the president's denials of a quid pro quo the acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney with a remarkable admission, one of the reasons president trump held up military aid to ukraine was mr. trump wanted them to assist in a justice department investigation into the 2016 election. >> the lookback to what happened in 2016 certainly was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation. and that is absolutely appropriate. >> the president's request was over an unfounded allegation democrats meddled with ukraine's help in the election. mulvaney was pressed, with all of this, was all of this a quid pro quo which could be illegal? >> we do that all the ti

and we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers, joe twyman and yasmin alibhai—brown with us for that. good evening. there have been fierce clashes between turkish troops and kurdish forces in northeastern syria. since hostilities began on wednesday, nearly 50 civilians are thought to have died on both sides of the frontier, and more than a hundred thousand people have fled their homes. much of today's fighting has been in the border area near ras al—ain. the turkish military have entered the strategically important town, but they're facing stiff resistance from the kurdish—led, syrian democratic forces. ankara says it wants to establish a 20 mile deep buffer zone across the frontier with syria, to keep out kurdish militias and resettle syrian refugees. from the turkish side of the border, here's our international correspondent orla guerin, and a warning, her report does contain some distressing images. the front line in a conflict that is spreading fast. turning northern syria into a battleground. alarming washington and europe. the smoke is rising from the key town

and we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers joe twyman and yasmin alibhai—brown evening and welcome to bbc news. there've been fierce clashes between turkish troops and kurdish militias in northeastern syria. much of the fighting has been in the border area near ras al—ain. turkey claims it's military has entered the town, but the kurdish led syrian democratic forces dispute this. since fighting broke out on wednesday, nearly 50 civilians are believed to have been killed and more than 100,000 people have fled their homes. ankara says it wants to establish a 20 mile deep buffer zone, across the frontier with syria, to keep out kurdish militias and resettle syrian refugees. from akcakale on the turkish side of the border — our middle east correspondent, martin patience, has sent us this report. despite the growing international pressure, turkey's not backing down. at the border, the build—up continues. as turkey claims it's taking control of a key syrian town. gunfire. allahu akbar. this pro—turkish fighter says they've just entered ras al—ain. almost immediately,

are joe twyman, who's director of the polling company, deltapoll, and the author and journalist, yasminitjapan for 60 years has made landfall, bringing powerful winds and torrential rain to the west coast. millions of people have been urged to leave their homes, ahead of the arrival of typhoon hagibis. from tokyo, rupert wingfield—hayes reports. this is the hii river near mount fuji. usually it is a clear mountain stream. today, it was turned into a raging, boiling torrent. across central japan, typhoon hagibis has dumped record amounts of rain. 0n the southern side of tokyo, the tama river is now close to bursting point. tens of thousands of people who live along its banks have been ordered to leave their homes. the big dangerfrom these sorts of events is water. water is the thing that can do real damage, both if this river burst its banks, if it causes landslides in the mountains or, of course, when it reaches the sea. as night fell over tokyo, the eye of the storm approached, bringing winds gusting to over 140 kilometres per hour. this is the centre of shibuya, one of the busiest pla

i'm yasmin vossoughian. donald trump confirming that the world's most wanted terrorist, the leader of isirks was killed in northwest syria overnight in a u.s.-led operation. trump personally approved the operation himself as he just stated. the leader of isis. abu bakr al baghdadi was among several killed in the raid. watch this. >> last night the united states brought the number one terrorist to justice. abu bakr al baghdadi is dead. baghdadi's demise demonstrates america's relentless pursuit of terrorist leaders and our commitment to the enduring and total defeat of isis and other terrorist organizations. >> abu bakr al baghdadi is dead overnight. joining me from the white house, hans nichols, nbc news correspondent. hans, good to talk to you this morning. you've been reporting on this overnight. it has been an incredible 24 hours or so in the development of this story. the president speaking for almost 50 minutes or so. >> yes. >> going into an incredible amount of detail with this operation, with the del

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here is yasmin from "velshi & ruhle." >> hello everybody, coming up on "velshi & ruhle."mer ambassador to ukraine risking her job to testify before the impeachment inquiry. we got late breaking details on that. plus, the humanitarian situation at the syria border is getting worse as turkey asusault is goig into its third days. tens of thousands of people are fleeing the region as the number

yasmin is here. >> hi. how you doing? >> i got your name down now. >> it took a while, my friend. of the newsroom in order for you to get my name. >> i'm sorry. >> thanks, katy. >> in for ali velshi. it is monday october 14th. right now, that is what trump's former top russia europe advisor fiona hill is testifying about behind closed doors and her testimony set off concern within the white house as someone not viewed as a trump loyalist. a source familiar with her testimony told nbc news that she planned to tell congress that trump's personal attorney, rudy giuliani and current u.s. ambassador gordon sondland quote circumvented the administration to pursue a shadow foreign policy on ukraine. now, according to "the new york times," she quote strenuously objected. quote as an egregious abuse of the system by allies of trump who were seeking to remove a perceived obstacle.

yasmin vossoughian has the morning off. we begin with the latest in the impeachment inquiry of donald trump. last night house democrats released text messages how the president's top envoys pushed the president of ukraine to investigate the bidens and to investigate the unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that ukraine meddled in the 2016 election. that pressure included dangling the possibility of a white house visit. the messages appeared to confirm reporting from "the new york times" that then special envoy to ukraine, kurt volker and the u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon saundland helped draft a statement for the ukrainian president committing to an investigation into the bidens. in a july 19th, text message, volker stechlt volker texted this, had breakfast with rudy, teeing up call with yermak, an aide to the ukrainian president, and volker then added most important is for zlen ski to say that he will help the investigation. two days later bill taylor the top u.n. diplomat in ukraine texted sonland saying presi

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that does it for us on this wednesday morning, i'm yasmin vossoughian along side ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now. >> you know, if it wasn't your show, they would destroy him absolutely. you're the difference between donald j. trump and richard nixon. in nixon's case if he had someone that stuck up for him, he wouldn't have been, you know, motivated to cover up that burglary. >> donald trump -- >> wait, wait, hold on. was that a compliment? you know, if al capone had had someone like you, sean, come on. are you kidding me? if mussolini, you know where we're going here. her ral doe was the same guy -- didn't he say he wanted to punch people in the face? >> donald truas geraldo notes r nixon doesn't have a sean hannity. good morning, and welcome to "morning joe" it is wednesday, october 2nd. >> along with joe, willie and me we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan, president of the counsel on foreign relations and author of the book "a world in disarray" richard haass and historian, auth

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. >> that does it for us on this wednesday morning, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> and it seems very clear that he is incredibly concerned about ukrainian defense. i don't know that he's concerned about american policy, but his main mission was to make sure the ukraine got those weapons. i understand that. we all have an affinity to our homeland. >> ooh, how did we sink to such a low point that someone would openly question the loyalty of an american combat veteran in the name of partisan politics? well. >> he's a war hero -- he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured. >> if you look at his wife, she was standing there. she had nothing to say. maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. you tell me, but plenty of people have written that. >> this was a mission that was started before i got here. this was something that was, you know, just they wanted to do, and they lost ryan. >> i learned a lot about generals. i met some good ones, and i saw some bad ones, some that didn't have what it take