A second whistleblower has come forward in the impeachment inquiry into President Trumps conversations with the ukrainian president. A lawyer involved has told American Television the second whistleblower is another Us Intelligence official. Donald trump has been accused of using military aid to ukraine as quid pro quo if ukranians agreed to dig up dirt on his rivaljoe biden. National security lawyer mark zayd confirmed the reports on twitter, saying the whistleblowers have also made a protected disclosure under the law and cannot be retaliated against. Our washington correspondent Chris Buckler gave us more details on the latest whistleblower. This second whistle blower has been described as a Us Intelligence official and they apparently have first hand knowledge of this controversial conversation that took place between donald trump and the ukrainian president. You might remember, in that phone call back in summer, President Trump asked zelensky to launch an investigation into his potential rival, joe biden and that was extremely controversial and caused a great deal of anger among democrats are now there are growing questions about whether there was any attempt to put pressure on ukraine, perhaps by offering some kind of incentive like a visit to the white house or potentially by threatening to suspend Security Assistance to the country. Now, that is very firmly denied by President Trump. He insists he had every right to ask that question. But while he has made unsubstantiated allegations meanwhile, amid all of this noise of politics taking place in washington, there are three congressional committees that are quietly working away on impeachment enquiries. At the moment, democrats are trying their very best to get information from the white house. They want documents about anything connected with that call between ukraine and the United States. And they will also, i suspect, want to hear exactly what this whistleblower has had to say. It is understood they have already spoken to the inspector general. Thats the person who acts as the watchdog for the Us Intelligence community. Joining me now is paul glastris. Hes a former speechwriter for president bill clinton and the editor in chief of washington monthly. Paul, thank you so much for your time. First of all, do you think the emergence of a second whistleblower strengthens the case against the president . I think probably mildly. But the analogy might be, you know, if the postman delivers a letter with important information, um, and a second postman delivers a letter, the second postman isnt important other than to the extent that the second letter has more information. So, the whistleblower isnt important other than the information he brings, or she brings. It is the president making the whistleblower important, isnt it . He is arguing it shows bias and conspiracy. Right, and in that sense, the second whistleblower is said to have first hand knowledge while the set while the first whistleblower didnt. As a matter of fact, it doesnt matter whether the first whistleblower had first hand information or not. It depends whether the whistleblowers information is true or not. And the president himself, you know, put out a transcript of his conversation with the president of ukraine that supported the first whistleblowers allegations. And since then, we have had other Text Messages that have come out but also support the first whistleblowers accusations. That also. We will see. Maybe the second whistleblower has more information that supports the first. Maybe it cou ntera cts that supports the first. Maybe it counteracts the first. We dont really know. I know this is the new information at the press has, but. Certainly, certainly the impeachment proceedings are continuing, and we will continue to hear more as well, but you are the former speechwriter for bill clinton. Bill clinton was impeached. But it increased his popularity. You think the democrats are making a mistake . Do you think. Well, you know, bill clintons popularity went up because the thing he was impeached for was lying about a sexual escapade. And the public determined that that wasnt an impeachable offence, and that the republicans had spent seven oi that the republicans had spent seven or eight years investigating him and that was all they had. You know, the question is whether trying to get a Foreign Government to dig up dirt on your opponent is a bigger deal than lying about sex, and i think probably it is. So im not sure about. Look, there have only been to impeachments in american history. The first one, they didnt have polling, but was back in the civil war. Two impeachments. Yes, bill clintons popularity went up, but it was a different case. I dont think, if you look at all the evidence, but President Trump gains in 2020 by being impeached. That President Trump. That was going to be my next question, but you have answered it. Thank you so much, paul glastris, former speechwriter for bill clinton. Scores of people have been arrested in hong kong after new emergency laws where brought in to try and end months of civil unrest. Tens of thousands of demonstrators took part in the latest protests on sunday and there were violent clashes as they were met by riot police. The new law forbids people from Wearing Masks to try and conceal their identity at demonstrations with a possible one year prison sentence. Our asia correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes reports from hong kong. Loud bangs. At what point does a protest movement become a rebellion . Today in hong kong, it felt close to that edge. It is now illegal here to cover yourface in public. But look at these people. Young and old, parents with children, nervous but defiant, determined they will not be stopped from protesting or Wearing Masks. Chanting. If carrie lam and her government were hoping that the new regulation banning the wearing of masks was going to stop people coming out on the streets, well, theyve been proved wrong. Even in this pouring rain, tens of thousands have come out again today, many, many of them Wearing Masks. It is a sign ofjust how little credibility and authority carrie lam and her government now have here. Many protesters are now scared. They fear what is coming but say they cannot give up. Actually, we are afraid but we still go, come out, because we. We know that this is the last chance for hong kong people. Look at the kids. Honestly, look at them. They are very young, and you know, they are fighting for us, you know, it is really for the entire hong kong. I think really we should really stand up and help, honestly. Even though i know that maybe its useless. After two hours, the police decided this illegal show of defiance had gone on long enough. Loud bangs. The police are now behind this wall here inside the Police Station and they have started firing volleys of tear gas over the wall, through these trees and down into the street. The protesters are responding by pouring water onto the tear gas canisters or throwing them back. These are the black clad radicals, the hardcore activists who the facemask ban is aimed at. The government says they are hiding their identities so they can create chaos. Explosions. The tear gas barrage intensifies and the protesters now fall back in a chaotic retreat. Police whistles, shouting. The race is now on to get into the back streets before the police can catch them. But many are too slow and the police overrun them. Among those arrested are two young women. They look like teenagers. The atmosphere is tense, the angerfeverish. As the police finally withdraw, the crowd cheers in victory. Cheering. For now, at least, the streets again belong to the people. Rupert wingfield hayes, bbc news, in hong kong. Lets get some of the days other news. A report in the Financial Times says the Banking Group hsbc is planning to cut up to 10,000 jobs. The cuts would come on top of more than 4,000 redundancies that were announced in august. The latest cuts are said to be part of interim ceo noel quinns Ambitious Campaign to reduce costs across the company. Hsbc is making no comment on the story. Portugals governing socialist party has won the most seats in the countrys general election, but not enough to control parliament. The Prime Minister, antonio costa, said he would continue to cut the budget deficit and the countrys debt. Since taking office four years ago, mr costa has presided over an economic upswing, and reversed cuts to Public Sector wages and pensions. The centre right social Democratic Party came second. The British Foreign secretary, dominic raab, has urged the United States to reconsider its decision to let a diplomats wife leave the uk after she was involved in a fatal car crash. British police say the American Woman, who has been named as anne sacoolas, is being treated as a suspect in their investigation into the death of a 19 year old motorcyclist, harry dunn, in august. They say theyd been prepared to arrest and formally interview her. The woman claimed diplomatic immunity and left the country. Harrys mother, charlotte, appealed to the American Woman to return to the uk so the accident can be investigated. We are not out to get her put behind bars, if that is what the Justice System ends up doing, we cant stop that. We are not out to do that. We are out to try and get some peace for ourselves. 0ur reporter simonjones is here. Simon, just to begin with, the significance of the name being released . Up until now there has been some degree of mystery about this case. We have known the name of the teenager who was killed, harry dunn, we have heard emotional appeals from harry dunns parents, for this woman to return to the uk. But her identity has been unknown. We do know now that her name is anne secoula, she is 42 years old, we dont know much more than that. With there have been appeals from her pa rents, there have been appeals from her parents, the British Foreign secretary has asked for an intervention, and the chief of northamptonshire police, the force investigating the crash, he has sent what is called a strongly worded letter urging the us embassy to waive this right to anonymity. Now, this diplomatic immunity issue is at the centre of this case. What is the point of diplomatic immunity . Why do they have it . It was enshrined in 1961 in the vienna convention. It states that diplomats and members of diplomats families have immunity from prosecution in their host country, if they are not actually members of that country, if they are not nationals of that country. Now, that can be waived by their home country. When this was enforced in 1961 the idea was that diplomats, and diplomats and potentially hostile countries, could go about their work without fear of being prosecuted for what they were doing. Since then, all these years on, there have been questions about how effective it is. For example, it was recently reported members of Embassy Staff had wrapped up unpaid bills of more than 100 million in congestion charges here in london, which they simply werent going to pay because they would not be taken to court over it. Racked up unpaid bills. So there are some questions about how it is being used and whether this idea of hostile countries are still relevant, for example, the relationship between the uk and the us, in this case. What has the us response been in this case . The state Department Says its sympathies are with harry dunns family, and it says it will listen carefully to this request to waive the right for immunity in this case. But it says it is very rare for them to do that. That is the wording they have issued. I think when we have seen the emotional appeal from harry dunns mother, speaking, very considered, but also with tears and wanting something done in this case, i think that is going to put pressure on this woman to considered returning to the uk. I am sure it is not the last we have heard of it. Simonjones, not the last we have heard of it. Simon jones, thank you. Iraqs interior ministry has confirmed 104 people have been killed in less than a week of Anti Government protests. Around 6,000 have been injured. The United Nations has called for an end to the senseless loss of life. Its the deadliest unrest in iraq since the Islamic State group was declared defeated in 2017. Heres our middle east editor, jeremy bowen. The Iraqi Security supporters are opening via demonstrators and that is why so many people have been killed. The use of deadly force as well as tear gas and other methods can only increase the anger of the mainly young people who have gone onto the streets to protest. The un in iraqi has demanded an end to what it calls a senseless loss of life. Decades of war have inflicted terrible damage on iraq and its people. Unemployment is high and even those with jobs are struggling. A quarter of the population lives on less tha n a quarter of the population lives on less than two us dollars a day. This man says he has a masters degree but the government wouldnt even hire him asa the government wouldnt even hire him as a street sweeper. All these young people, he said, are treated unfairly. Translation the Prime Minister has so translation the Prime Minister has so far offered little more than vague promises and an appeal for calm. He said he was speaking so the deterioration in the security situation would not lead to the destruction of the state. Perhaps it is surprising that it has taken so long for demonstrators to go onto the streets. Iraq has the worlds fourth biggest oil reserves. It should be rich. But it is also one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Another generation has grown up world. Another generation has grown up in world. Another generation has grown upina world. Another generation has grown up in a state that cant offer them much more than a very hard life, and these demonstrations are born of desperation. Jeremy bowen, bbc news. Stay with us on bbc news. Still to come the 5,000 year old settlement uncovered by archaeologists in israel. This was a celebration by people who were relishing in their freedom. They believe everythings going to be different from now on. They think their country will be respected in the world once more as it used to be before Slobodan Milosevic took power. The dalai lama, the exiled spiritual leader of tibet has won this years nobel peace prize. As the parade was reaching its climax, two grenades exploded and a group of soldiersjumped from a military truck taking part in the parade and ran towards the president , firing kalashnikov automatic rifles. After 437 years, the skeleton ribs of henry viiis tragic warship emerged. But even as divers work to buoy her up, the mary rose went through another heart stopping drama. I want to be the peoples governor. I want to represent everybody. I believe in the people of california. This is bbc news. The latest headlines a second whistleblower has come forward with whats described as first hand evidence of the phone call at the centre of the impeachment inquiry into donald trump. Police in hong kong have fired tear gas at pro democracy demonstrators and arrested dozens for defying a law banning face masks. Pope francis has denounced the fires that recently devastated large areas of the Amazon Region at the opening of the 3 day synod. The vatican is also considering whether married men should be ordained as priests in the amazon, a move to boost dwindling numbers of clergy in the region. John mcmanus reports. At the opening mass for the synod of the amazon, pope francis had a tough message for those he accuses of exploiting the amazon basin. Translation may god preserve us from the greed of new forms of colonialism. The fire set by interests that destroy, like the fire that recently devastated amazonia, is not the fire of the gospel. The environment is the main focus of this 3 week meeting of bishops and laypeople from the Amazon Region. But tucked away in the preparatory document is a potentially explosive idea that to remedy the serious shortage of priests in the amazon, the church could ordain married men. That would break with centuries of tradition, whereby only celibate men could be raised to the priesthood. The suggestion has aroused serious opposition within the vatican, with some clerics worried that a solution to a latin american problem could be exported across the catholic world. Cardinal raymond burke, whos become a focus of opposition to the pope within the vatican, has already denounced some of the synod discussion as heretical. But Church Leaders in brazil are adamant that the problem is real. 0ne diocese of more than 67,000 square miles has only 21 priests. Any final decision would be made by the pope and its unlikely even a reformer like francis would enact such a sudden and dramatic change. But the very fact that married priests are even being discussed is another sign of how this pope is opening up the church to different ideas. John mcmanus, bbc news. Now, just 3. 5 million years ago, a Massive Energy flare ripped through our galaxy. Its impact was felt 200,000 light years away. This New Discovery that the milky ways centre was more dynamic than previously thought can lead to a complete reinterpretation of its evolution. The team behind the discovery, led by professor joss bland hawthorn from australia, used the data gathered by the Hubble Space Telescope to calculate when the massive explosion of High Energy Radiation took place. Professor hawthorn told me why the discovery is so significant. When gas clouds and stars fall into the centre of the galaxy, they go into a death spiral around the central black hole we have an enormous black hole at the centre of our galaxy, formally times the mass of our sun. The black hole itself is invisible, but the spiral of gas going around the central black hole gets very hot indeed and then blows offjets, winds and bubbles into the surrounding galaxy. What we have seen is evidence of the explosion 3. 5 million years ago, a giant beam of radiation, like a lighthouse beacon across the galaxy and lit up gas a long with out from the centre of our galaxy. We just saw some pictures there to give us a sense of what this is, but given this is at the centre of the galaxy and given that earth is far away from it, are we any danger of this flare and what its producing . Its a very good question, because our black hole, in fact, the disc around the black hole does flop around a lot. Its not like the very massive black holes and quasars that we have seen in a distant universe. The ones we have seen in a local universe flop around. In actual fact, the gap in an radiation could come in our direction. That is an interesting question, because it could have happened in the past, it could happen in the future. Now that you have discovered this, what does it tell you . Why is it important . It is important because we now know that essentially all galaxies have these massive black holes at their centre. If you look out into the local universe, they have these shining discs right now, a few have these shining discs right now, afew have these shining discs right now, a few at have these shining discs right now, a few at most. What it means is they all have these events at the centre and the reason we only see a few which are bright today is because they are flickering. They turn off, turn off, rather like fireflies. Can imagine flashlight, if the battery runs out, the tour sta rts if the battery runs out, the tour starts to flicker. They flicker over thousands of years and i think the amazing thing for us was to find the own milky way is one of those sources. We have a flickering black hole at the centre of our galaxy. Archaeologists in israel have unearthed the remains of a 5,000 year old city said to be among the biggest of its era. En esur dates from the early bronze age and was believed to be home to around 6,000 people. The site is close to the modern israeli city of harish. The bbcs tim allman reports. It has been described by some as the new york of its time. An ancient city buried for millennia, rediscovered when engineers wanted to carry out roadworks. No one knew it was here. No one knew how big it would turn out to be. Translation en esur is the largest site and the most important from that era. Its double the size of what wed previously seen. The city covers an area of around 160 acres and dates from the end of the fourth millennium bc, in what was then the biblical land of canaan. All sorts of things have been unearthed tools, figurines, pottery. Experts believe it could transform the way we understand the development of villages, towns and cities. Translation what makes this site so important is that we can observe a set of components that make it a city, such as residential buildings and streets that divided the houses and created quarters which connected them to other areas. There are even some remains of what may be an older settlement from an earlier era. Once the site has been fully excavated and examined, its likely to be covered up once more. En esur has been called a megalopolis, a huge city of the bronze age. An ancient mystery, an ancient marvel. Tim allman, bbc news. Dont forget, much more on our website. You can reach me on twitter. Im regedahmadbbc. See you soon. Hello. Its been another very wet 2a hours for some. Western scotland, overnight into sunday, had nearly 60mm of rain in places. In east anglia, we had a0 50mm of rain through the course of sunday, which has resulted in flooding. And, in fact, there are a number of flood warnings in force across the rivers in scotland and england. And with more rain to come in the next 2a hours, thats not good news. The grounds saturated as well. But more rain is what we have. This next dominant area of low pressure is advancing in. So were looking at severe Gale Force Winds through the course of the day across parts of northern and western scotland and gales in other areas in the north and west as well. Combined with yet more rain, it will be particularly unpleasant as we go through the rush hour. We could see some mist and some fog under the clearer skies further east. But a very windy day across northern and western areas, very wet through the rush hour as well. Were not expecting as much rain as weve had in the past 2a hours, but nevertheless, the ground is saturated, so it will go straight onto the roads and into the rivers. Therell be lots of spray and standing water for those travelling. And, of course, the strong and gusty winds, which will eventually blow the rain away from scotland and northern ireland, allow some brighter skies, but heavy showers to follow. And it could take much of the day for that rain to get into southern and eastern areas once the fog has cleared away. It doesnt look as wet for east anglia as it was during the day on sunday. But nevertheless, more rain is not good news. Now, it does meander its way into the near continent as we head into tuesday morning. Its very close by, so it drags its heels a little bit. And then that low pressure is moving a little closer to the north west of scotland. So, still windy in northern and western areas. But windier, potentially, across england and wales on tuesday, which will blow the showers in. So more of a showery day. But the showers will tend to merge at times to give longer spells of rain. Strong and gusty winds will blow them right the way east across england and across scotland, northern ireland, and wales as well. And they will be heavy. There will be torrential downpours with hail and with lightning and, therefore, thunder. But temperatures are doing quite well. No real frost worries this week. Temperatures by day a little above average or around average. Another very showery picture, as you can see on wednesday, perhaps clumping together in places to give longer spells of rain. And perhaps fewer reaching eastern areas, but were clutching at straws for the detail. The devil is in the detail this week. But it does look very showery for most of us. Of course there will be some sunshine, but it will often be quite windy with that low pressure sat close by. No sooner does that one start to move out the way, by the end of the week we have another area of low pressure coming in and yet more weather fronts with those. So as ever you can stay up to date on the website. This is bbc news, the headlines a second Whistleblower Comes Forward in the impeachment case against donald trump. Theyre said to have first hand knowledge of the controversial phone call at the centre of the inquiry. President trump is accused of asking his ukrainian counterpart to dig for dirt on his rivaljoe biden. Police in hong kong make theirfirst arrests under the new law banning protesters from wearing face masks. Thousands of people took to the streets, with petrol bombs being thrown by demonstrators and police using tear gas in an attempt to quell the unrest. Pope francis opens a three week synod in the vatican dedicated to countries around the amazon and the needs of indigenous peoples. Among items to be discussed are controversial proposals to allow married men to become priests in a bid to boost clergy numbers, which are dwindling in the region