By Hong Kong Police to disperse protestors holding a rally to mark the fifth anniversary of the pro democracy umbrella movement. Now much more tense. We have water cannon spraying water with blue dye in it. There are people here smashing up government buildings. Victorious japan as the Rugby World Cup hosts make history by beating ireland for the first time 19 12. Full details in sportsday at 7. 30pm. Good evening. Welcome to bbc news. The labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, says a minority Labour Government is becoming more likely every day, as opposition parties consider whether to call a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister. The Scottish Nationalists have reiterated their support for an interim government, to ensure they say, that britain doesnt leave the eu without a deal at the end of next month. All this comes at the end of a tumultuous week for borisjohnson, who less than an hour ago arrived in manchester with his partner carrie symonds. Theyre in the city forn the start of the conservative party conference, from where chris mason reports. Is this a leadership bid, mrjohnson . The conservative conference one year ago, the smiles of the carefree backbench challenger, the mobbed darling of the Party Faithful. Boris johnson will arrive at conference this year as Prime Minister, in office, but barely in control. Defeated in court, but defiant. What a week its been. The Prime Ministers advice to her majesty was unlawful. Parliament has not been prorogued. Welcome back to our place of work. Many of us in this place subject to death threats. I never heard such humbug in all my life. He faces huge questions about the future of the country and his own past. The mayor of london supports you. Borisjohnson has been referred to the Police Watchdog over a potential criminal offence relating to his relationship with the businesswoman jennifer arcuri, over allegations she received favourable treatment, including grants and a place on trade trips while mrjohnson was mayor of london. The Prime Minister denies any wrongdoing. This issue is being politically driven and motivated. And the Prime Minister has been clear that proprieties were observed. All in all, is all of this an open goalfor labour . They hope so, even if some privately wonder if their leader is match fit. If the government loses a vote of no confidence, could Jeremy Corbyn become caretaker Prime Minister . At the moment, he does not have the numbers, and yet. It is getting more likely every single day, because this government is collapsing. Its now lost all seven votes since borisjohnson became Prime Minister, and this tory government has been defeated over 45 times in parliament. They dont have a majority, they dont have a programme, they dont have policies and they dont have any credibility. The Scottish National party want to be seen to be trying to bring down the government next week, and could live with Jeremy Corbyn in downing street the only way to guarantee another brexit delay, they think, and then have a general election. Its only right and proper that he, as the leader of the largest opposition party, should have the first opportunity to form an administration, but if another name appears in the frame, a ken clarke or a Dominic Grieve that people can coalesce around, i personally and i think the snp would have very little difficulty with that. No one but no one knows what is over the horizon right now, but this is a party, despite everything, determined to show the world its best side. Our Political CorrespondentJonathan Blake is in manchester. Events in westminster overshadowing the conference there. Jonathan, what sort of welcome did borisjohnson get when he arrived . Aside from a small crowd of hardened anti brexiteers test or is who could be heard booing in the distance from outside security, Jeremy Corbyn. He arrived to a very friendly crowd, Jeremy Corbyn, his Party Faithful joining over here in the next few days for their annual conference happening in unusual circumstances. Because as you said, the government continue to sit back in westminster where opposition parties have been talking up the prospect of a vote of no confidence against the government in the coming days. A note of caution about that, because although the opposition parties need to pile up the opposition parties need to pile up orwant to the opposition parties need to pile up or want to pile up the pressure on the Prime Minister, they also are struggling to agree on what to do should they win a vote of no confidence against the government. Interesting circumstances for tories gathering here in manchester. As you can see on the front of the Conference Centre behind me, they will be hammering the. There also try to focus as much on the domestic agenda, as well. Do we know if the party has many divisions for many reasons, how are they responding to the concerns about their lack of trust in the Prime Minister as to whether he will observe the law that has been passed to stop us leaving with no deal . Look, the Prime Minister has said at every opportunity that he and the government will follow the law. But hes also said that he has no intention of asking for an extension to the brexit deadline. He is of course required to do that by law, if you cant get a brexit deal by 19 october. So opposition parties are increasingly nervous that the government will find a way around it complying with the legislation that the opposition parties passed in the last couple of weeks to force the Prime Minister to ask for the extension. So that is why perhaps we are seeing a stepping up in the talk ofa are seeing a stepping up in the talk of a vote of no competent democratic confidence. But the parties remain nervous if they can do that before the extension to praise it has been secured, and also that the Prime Minister would not allow and election to happen after 31 october. That man behind you has done very well, considering he doesnt have a loud hail her. But its good to see the right to protest is being demonstrated in manchester. At least it wasnt a xylophone, i suppose. And well find out how this story and many others are covered in tomorrows front pages at 10 30pm and 11 30pm this evening in the papers. Our guestsjoining me tonight are henry mance, whos chief features writer at the ft, and the broadcaster penny smith. I will get back to you with those timings, because the label and is on ata timings, because the label and is on at a funny time. Late bulletin. Jeremy corbyn says a future Labour Government would scrap universal credit, which merges six benefits into one payment. He also said labour would immediately cut the wait faced by claimants, from five weeks, to two. The stress involved in universal credit, and the cost of its administration, is massive. So what were saying is end the two child policy, end the capability for Work Assessment test, and treat people with decency. Leading democrats in congress have made their first demand for documents in the impeachment inquiry into donald trump. The secretary of state, mike pompeo, has been ordered to hand over ukraine related material within a week. The us special envoy to ukraine, kurt volker, has resigned. Our north america correspondent, david willis, reports. God bless you, mr President Donald Trump is defiant and lashing out on his preferred medium, twitter. Taking aim at the man who will play a key role in his impeachment hearings, the democratic chairman of the house intelligence committee, adam schiff. Of him, trump said. The whistle blower, who revealed details of his telephone conversation with ukraines president , volodymyr zelenskiy, mr trump has branded a pa rtisan operative. Yet, the whistle blowers account of events has proved uncannily accurate, not only about the contents of the telephone call, but attempts by the white house to cover them up. They have now confirmed that a transcript of the call was moved to a more secure server. As the democrats impeachment inquiry gathers pace, today saw the first subpoena to the secretary of state, mike pompeo, demanding documents relating to contacts between members of his staff and the government of ukraine. Committee members also said they had scheduled depositions from five state Department Officials among them the former Us Ambassador to the ukraine, marie yovanovitch, who was recalled over policy disagreements with donald trump. And the us special envoy to ukraine, kurt volker, who is said to have helped trumps personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, set up meetings there with government officials. Shortly after the news of the depositions was announced, mr volker resigned from his job at the state department. Donald trumps reaction to the impeachment inquiry continues to veer from anger to incredulity. The witchhunt continues. But they are getting hit hard on this witchhunt, because when they look at the information, its a joke. Impeachment for that . Yet the pressure is growing from outside congress, as well as within. More than 300 former Us National Security officials, from both republican and democratic administrations, have endorsed the impeachment inquiry, saying they want to know the facts. Events are moving quickly here, with some democrats predicting that articles of impeachment could be ready to be voted on by the end of november. David willis, bbc news, los angeles. Paul glastris is editor in chief of the washington monthly, and the former senior speech writer to president bill clinton. Hejoins me via webcam from washington. Thank you very much forjoining us here on bbc news. Just decipher this a little for uk audiences, how much trouble might donald trump be in this time . Well, serious trouble. It looks like the drive to impeachment has begun, certainly an inquiry is now happening that was not happening prior to these revelations. The unclear thing is, what crime was committed . One can make a hash of Foreign Policy and still not commit a crime. But we still dont know all the facts yet, and things are moving very, very fast. And these revelations, at least on face value, are quite extraordinary. He used the power of his office to not only dig up power of his office to not only dig up dirt on the most likely opponent in 2020, but he did so by denying military aid, holding off military aid that congress had passed and he had signed to an ally under active fire threat from russia. So a very big deal. What is different about this time . Because there have been attem pts this time . Because there have been attempts or rumblings of an impeachment inquiry before. Attempts or rumblings of an impeachment inquiry beforelj attempts or rumblings of an impeachment inquiry before. I think what happened the last time is at the Russian Investigation by special counsel Robert Muller that came out this summer was complicated. The special prosecutor deemed that as much back and forth as there was between the Trump Campaign and various russians, that it didnt rise to the level of a crime or conspiracy, but there was lots of indication of criminal obstruction of justice. But that would indication of criminal obstruction ofjustice. But that would be prosecutable after the president left office. So the democrats lost stea m, left office. So the democrats lost steam, and the democratic leadership in the house, nancy pelosi, has not wa nted in the house, nancy pelosi, has not wanted to begin an impeachment hearing. She thinks it is bad for her candidates for moderate districts in the next election. But that has changed, she is now getting behind impeachment inquiries. The politics have changed because of the nature of this latest scandal, where the president is on the phone with the president is on the phone with the Prime Minister asking for a favour in return for the delivery of weapons systems. But what bar would have to be reached for it to mean the end of his presidency . Well, it is unlikely that we will see that for the simple reason that, although the house of representatives, the lower house, in peaches, which is to say prosecutes an impeachment, prosecutes the crime in this case, it is the senate, the upper house, that convicts, that votes. In the upper house, the senate, is in the hands of the republicans, who have been at least loyal in the sense of not breaking with the president , even though many of them dont like him very much. So there is little hope even among democrats that trump will be driven out of office from this. It is sort of somewhere in between, where to not impeach, or not prosecute, is to ignore behaviour that many feel is impeachable. Even in the face of very little chance of removing him. But an impeached president going into a reelection is a weak election. Mike pompeo has been ordered to turn over documents relating to the trump administrations dealings with the ukraine. How might he be able to resist doing that . Well, they can try. Once an impeachment inquiry is panelled, extra power of subpoena kicks in. They can delay, they can call the documents part of executive privilege. Eventually i think they will probably lose. What weve seen in the Republican Senate is senators unwilling to support impeachment, taking the administration line. But also calling for the release of documents. That is how we got some of the documents weve already had. Soi of the documents weve already had. So i dont think he will succeed. Donald trump only met his counterpart at the un earlier this week, so theyve been seen together not so long to go. What reasons has kurt volker given for his resignation . As far as i know he has not spoken publicly about why he resigned. One can only guess. And my senseis resigned. One can only guess. And my sense is that kurt volker it was an unpaid, part time emissary envoy to ukraine. He has a dayjob. He seems to be somebody who tried to limit the damage, in the words of the whistle blower, and my guess is that he wants to go before congress and able to speak his own mind without the responsibility for also speaking for the administration. Paul, great to talk to you, thank you very much. My pleasure, thank you. The headlines on bbc news. The Prime Minister could face a vote of no confidence as early as next week, according to a senior snp mp, as conservatives gather for their party conference. Meanwhile, number ten describes as a politically motivated attack borisjohnsons referral to the Police Watchdog over his links to an american businesswoman. LaboursJeremy Corbyn promises to scrap the controversial welfare policy, universal credit, should the party get into power. Doctors are heralding an extraordinary transformation, in the treatment of a deadly form of skin cancer. Ten years ago, advanced melanoma was seen as untreatable, but a Clinical Trial shows half of patients are now surviving for at least five years. The drugs involved target the immnune system, and are already available on the nhs. Our health and science correspondent, james gallagher, reports. Pam smith is alive and well, but its been more than five years since she had the devastating news that her cancer was untreatable. An aggressive melanoma had spread inside her body and she says she didnt stand a chance. But pam took part in a pioneering trial and says it saved her life. Without having those drugs like that, i might not have got to see my grandchildren. So because its just over the five years now since it happened and my youngest grandchild, he was six at the weekend. So, you know, i wouldnt have seen him growing up and the other grandchildren as well. Ten years ago, people usually died within 6 9 months of being diagnosed. This trial on 9115 patients tested a combination of immunotherapies and showed 52 were still alive five years later. The doctor whos presenting the data at a cancer conference said the impact was an amazing surprise. Its been the most extraordinary transformation from a disease that was regarded amongst all the cancers as the most difficult to treat, with the most serious prognosis. Pam has not been cured. Her cancer halved in size after treatment and has not grown in five years. Others are in complete remission with no sign of the tumour in their body. We are so encouraged by todays news, and now there is this air of positivity and it has given lots of melanoma patients and families a lot of hope and a bit of a spring in their step. Immunotherapy is Nobel Prize Winning science that is making the untreatable treatable. James gallagher, bbc news. The Civil Aviation authority, says more than half of thomas cook passengers, whod been abroad when the company went bust, have now been returned to the uk. 76,000 people were flown back to britain in the first five days of the repatriation effort. 76 flights were scheduled today. Hong kong have fired water canon to disperse Anti Government protesters who threw rocks and blocked a key road next to a huge pro democracy rally. Demonstrators have been marking the fifth anniversary of the start of the so called umbrella protests. It happened near the Legislative Council building where many previous Anti Government demonstrations in recent weeks have been held. The umbrella demonstrations began in 2014 but the movement has surged again this year. More rallies are due to be held over the weekend as protesters continue their calls for political change. Our correspondent Stephen Mcdonnell has sent us this update from the streets of hong kong. These are the same streets which were occupied five years ago in the umbrella movement. But the mood is so different. Then, it was like a mass, peaceful sit in. Now, its much more tense. We have water cannon down the end of the road there, spraying water with blue dye in it. There are people here smashing up government buildings. The authorities, in the lead up to the 70th anniversary of the communist party coming to power in china, are not prepared to tolerate the type or the levels of disturbance that they were prepared to put up with weeks ago. You can see here, these activists do not want to get arrested. The mere hint of the Police Coming through and theyve all taken off, you can see. How many people are now coming through here. I mean, just minutes ago, thousands of protesters were occupying this road. That street is now empty, and theyve all come down here and now walking up, because the police are in the underground train station, so they cant go there. For that reason, protesters are walking out. The polls have closed in the afghan president ial election. Voting was marred by bomb attacks. The Election Commission extended the voting by two hours due to long queues of people waiting to cast their ballots. But turn out is thought have been down on recent elections. Well, joining me now is the studio is dawood azami from the bbc pashto service. Tell us about the level of violence that people have had to cope with. Well, the taliban had already threatened that they would try to the disrupt the elections, and they had asked people not to go to the polling stations. So the fear was already there, so that was one of the reasons for the low turnout. Still, many people went to the polls, there were attacks, the taliban had tried to block some polls, and the polls we are getting are that tens of people have been killed and injured in many parts of the country. But we do not have any confirmation on the exact number of people that have been killed, but the number is in the dozens who have been killed and injured. Tell us what the challenges are facing afg hanistannext president. What the challenges are facing afghanistannext president. Well, the turnout is the key issue here. The turnout is the key issue here. The turnout seems to be lower than any other election since the fall of the taliban regime in 2001. So this was the fourth president ial election in afghanistan since then. Turnout was lower because of the taliban ands threats, and there was another reason the two main contenders we re reason the two main contenders were already in government for the past five years, so there was no interruption for the people. The third reason was the peace process, which was going on for the past 20 yea rs, which was going on for the past 20 years, but trump suddenly cancelled us taliban talks a few weeks ago. So people expected they would have peace or at least a cease fire first before the election, and they did not happen. So this election took place in the middle of a war, which is one of the biggest wars in the world today it is bigger than the wa rs world today it is bigger than the wars in syria and yemen. So that was another reason for the lower turn out. But this was just the first phase of the challenge. The second challenge would be the announcement of the result and the acceptance of the result. Because there are indications that the main candidates would not easily accept the results, and the result would be announced in the next three weeks, and therell be another three weeks for the final results. So the challenge is not over yet. Thank you very much. 50 years ago, sikhs working on wolverhamptons buses won the right to wear their turbans at work. Their victory followed a long dispute, when racial tensions in the city were running high. John maguire reports on how one mans stand for religious freedom changed the law forever. It was a campaign that brought thousands onto the streets of the uk and india and personified a changing britain. After a two year battle, wolverhampton finally allowed its sikh bus drivers to wear a turban and beard. Tarsem singh sandhu was the man who made the stand. If there is no harm to anybody else, then why on this earth we are not allowed to practise our religion . So i thought if this is happening today, tomorrow Something Else will come up, tomorrow Something Else will come up. I have to live my life i have to live the way i am. Nobody will chain me. So that kept me going. Mr sandhu says he had hoped for support from his friend, the local mp that was one enoch powell, whose infamous rivers of blood speech had stoked the flames of anti immigration. My house used to be his Committee Room on election day, so he was so close to me. But in politics, you dont know when they are friend or not friend. If i had known it was your newspaper, i would not have. Now, half a century on and the city is paying a new tribute to one of its heroes. A play called himmat which means courage is being performed at the wolverhampton art gallery. And then sharanjit, who finally gives her the coins. I know from my own experiences people dont always have an understanding about who the sikhs are as a faith and as a community. And so, it is important for everybody to recognise that these things are happening in different ways. But they are still out there and we cannot forget that especially in the day and age that were living in now. We interrupted rehearsals with a surprise visit from the man whose story inspired the play. This was your first job . As a bus driver. 0k, 0k. I dont think thats from wolverhampton, but this is a drivers badge. Back at wolverhampton bus station, his legacy is plain to see. You cannot grow your beard, you cannot have a turban on, so i had to fight for it. One mans determination united many and divided others, but ultimately proved to be a catalyst for change and a victory for peoples rights, beliefs, and freedoms. John maguire, bbc news. Now its time for a look at the weather. Good evening to you. Things are going down hill from the southwest at the moment, some very wet and increasingly weather spreading. This is the radar picture, you can see this ring has been moving quickly across the southwest of england into wales and the midlands, this rain could give rise to some localised flooding and poor travelling conditions. Getting into northern england, some of that rain and freezing into Northern Ireland in the far side of scotland. The north half is getting away with a few showers, that is where the lowest of the temperatures will be. Also some windy weather on the southern flank, gusts of 14 16 mph in the most exposed spots. As the low pressure drift eastwards, persistent rain piling and across the north and eastern areas of england. Further south, a mixture of showers and storms. Just the odd shower here, heights of 13 20dc, brisk winds later in the day towards the east coast. More wet and windy weather spreading in from the south on sunday, parts of the uk in the north will turn much cooler. Hello this is bbc news. The headlines. The Prime Minister could face a vote of no confidence as early as next week, according to a senior snp mp, as conservatives gather for their party conference. Meanwhile, number ten describes as a politically motivated attack. Borisjohnsons referral to the Police Watchdog over his links to an american businesswoman. LaboursJeremy Corbyn promises to scrap the controversial welfare policy, universal credit, should the party get into power. Pressure grows on donald trump as secretary of state, mike pompeo, is ordered to hand over documents on ukraine linked to the impeachment investigation