Testifies over the 737 max crashes. Lebanon under pressure to form a new government, as Anti Government protesters celebrate after the Prime Minister resigns. Here in the uk, a general election has finally been called for december 12th to try to end the deadlock over brexit. It may also have serious implications for the unity of the country. Itll be the first december election in the uk in nearly 100 years. The Prime Minister has said the public must be given a choice over the future. The leader of the labour opposition described the election as a once in a generation chance to transform our country. This from our Political Editor laura kuenssberg. These will soon be portraits from the past. Speaker order order the howls and the rage of a house divided. Theyll be replaced with some new voices. Some here will disappear. I call the Prime Minister. Mrspeaker, thank you. Its never been that straightforward with this group of mps, as this still new Prime Minister knows to his cost. There is only one way to restore the esteem in which our democracy is held, and to recover the respect in which parliament should be held by the people of this country, and that is finally to offer ourselves to the judgement of the people of this country, and i commend this bill to the house. Labour had said no three times already, but this morning they were up for the rallies and the photo ops of a campaign, ready after weeks of refusing for the first december election in nearly 100 years. Were going out there to fight an election campaign, and i cant wait to get out there on the streets. In every town and village in this country, labour will be there, giving a message of real hope, where this government offers nothing. Labour only in line because the smaller parties changed tack. The snp and the lib dems reckon now the eu has backed a delay to brexit, their best chance of stopping our departure is that election. If youd heard them earlier, you might have imagined it was underway already. As a United Kingdom family of nations, strong together, working within the eu, we can reshape our economy and harness the technological revolution, and build a brighter future, and thats the message the liberal democrats will be taking to the country in this general election. Speaker order. Those backing a trip to the ballot box won the day. The ayes to the right, 438. The noes to the left, 20. Barring something strange happening in the house of lords tomorrow, the election will be on the 12th of december giving the Prime Minister his way, giving all of us the chance to say who will come here, which mps, which parties will have the job on unfurling the tangle of the last few years, who will be the Prime Minister who defines what happens next. Laura kuenssberg for us there. Donald trumps attempts to fight off moves to impeach him have suffered a serious setback first hand evidence from a senior white house official that he was so troubled by the president s phone call with the ukrainian leader that he reported his concerns to a superior. Lieutenant colonel Alexander Vindman is the first serving white house official to speak to the congressional inquiry. 0ur north america editorjon sopel is at the white house. Donald trump sought to characterise them as do nothing democrats trying to tear him down over what was a perfect call. Hes called it a lynching and says it is people giving evidence are never trumpers and that is what he accused Lieutenant Colonel vindman of being, except that Lieutenant Colonel vindman is a decorated war hero, injured in iraq and its hard to characterise him as some kind of party hack who wants to destroy the president. He served both republican and Democratic Party administrations so that makes it more difficult and what he said in his testimony was devastating. He said, i did not think it was proper to demand that a Foreign Government investigate a us citizen. The us citizen he is referring to is Donald Trumps democratic rivaljoe biden and his son hunter over his business dealings and he said there was no National Security justification for turning ukraine into a partisan issue, which it shouldnt be, and he said the president s interest in ukraine and joe biden predated this particular phone call. In other words, he is flatly contradicting what the president has said. Not only that, the white house has tried to put a ban on officials giving evidence to this impeachment investigation. They have given evidence and it hasnt been favourable to the president. John sopel at the white house for us. Devastating is the word he used there. There has been other testimony about the ukraine phone call. Why is this so problematic for the president . I asked rebecca legrand, who is an attorney that specialises in government investigations, why this testimony at the impeachment inquiry is so problematic for the president. Because one after the other there are Public Servants or Lieutenant Colonel vindman, a military veteran has come before committees in the house saying that they were disturbed in real time by what donald trump was doing and a parallel Foreign Policy seems to be running that was focused, instead of on protecting us security or the security of our allies, focused on digging up dirt on his opponents and focused on trying to reiterate the findings of every Intelligence Agency that has looked at it that russia interfered with the 2016 elections. That has been incredibly disturbing and witness after witness has gone before congress and said that is what they observed. And he is a first hand witness, of course, it is not something he heard from someone else. Ive got a whole bunch of people on my timeline, some very pro trump, some wanting to be there, saying international diplomacy, politics has always been tit for tat, there has always been quid pro quo, why is this different and why are we making such a fuss . When tit for tat is interfere with my political rivals to improve my chances of winning an election, historically, in this country, that has not been something we do. But if we want to have free and Fair Elections we need to make sure that someones not threatening to withhold half a billion dollars in military aid unless the president of a foreign nation gets on tv and says negative things about their arrival during an election. That is what appeared to be going on here and the risk to the integrity of our democracy, if that happens, is clear. Republicans also point out, of course, the democrats have been loath to hold a vote on this because they dont want to expose splits in their own ranks. They have now voted to go public. It has always been the case that in an impeachment enquiry the house does the enquiry, that can be in private, the senate does the actual public trial. What difference does it make the democrats are going to go with this . I think this is just proceeding in the fashion that you would expect as the facts come out and it becomes clear that this will proceed further and that eventually a vote will take place in front of the full house to decide whether to impeach the president , which then goes to the senate, the trial. But i think this is the process you would expect. Will become, very soon, it appears, a public proceeding in the house which i think will be of great interest to the American People who will actually get to hear this testimony, or parts of it, at least, of a stand. Senators in the us have accused boeing of putting profit over safety in its design of the 737 max 8. Two of the aircraft crashed within five months, killing 346 people. The head of the company faced a flood of questions and accusations from a senate committee. Tom burridge reports. The photos of loved ones killed were for boeings boss, who senators said to put profit of a safety when designing an aircraft which crashed twice in the space of five months. We do have Competitive Pressures around the world, but i can also tell you that never takes precedent over safety. Our business model. I could tell you it definitely did in this case, i would walk before i got on a 737 max. The 737 max had a new Flight Control system, called mcas, which before both crashes malfunctioned and pushed the nose of each plane repeatedly down. The senators pointed out today it was not in the pilots manual. Those pilots never had a chance, these loved ones never had a chance, they were in flying coffins as a result of boeing deciding that it was going to conceal mcas from the pilots. And on the key question of whether the aircraft should have been grounded after the first crash, this. We have asked that question over and over, and. If we knew everything back then that we know now, we would have made a different decision. Sammy was 2a when she boarded the flight from addis ababa in march. Her mother nadia wants answers from boeing and its regulator, the faa. The only way to re establish trust is to share information, and i are still guarding it. To allow scrutiny. Still grounded, the 737 max has been modified to make it safer and get it back in the air, but today boeings reputation took a battering again. Tom burridge, bbc news. The house of representatives has voted to recognise as or genocide mass killing of 1. 5 million armenians in the Ottoman Empire a century ago. It could be a significant moment. We get more from david willis. David, clearly this is an attempt to recognise and condemn an attempt to recognise and condemn an historical injustice. In a way it isa an historical injustice. In a way it is a rebuke to modern turkey, isnt it . It is symbolic, as you said, historic, but largely symbolic because there is unlikely to be a similar vote because there is unlikely to be a similarvote in because there is unlikely to be a similar vote in the senate. I think it highlights the growing frustration on the part of lawmakers from both parties here, democrat and republican, over the actions of the turkish government in recent years, not least the purchase of a Russian Missile defence system in contravention of us sanctions and, of course, that assault on northern syria, where Kurdish Forces have been allies of the United States. So what we have seen here is something that turkey has long lobbied against on capitol hill, this resolution which i think will cheer a lot of armenian americans. There are said to be up to 1. 5 million of them here in the us. It was a long time ago, david, i believe the killings happened between 1915 and 1923. Why is it felt to be so important to say publicly that this was genocide and other real world impact . Publicly that this was genocide and other realworld impact . It is something that has been shied away from for such a long time. There have been these resolutions which have been these resolutions which have not come to a full vote. President trump, indeed his predecessor, barack president trump, indeed his predecessor, ba rack 0bama, president trump, indeed his predecessor, barack 0bama, have shied away, both of them, from using the word genocide. But nancy pelosi clearly believes that with a majority in the house of representatives the time has come to address this issue. It has not gone down well in ankara. The Turkish Foreign ministry has said this will harm ties between turkey and the United States, that it is a meaningless step, and a political move. All right, david, thank you very much indeed. Thanks for being with us. Stay with us on bbc news. Much more to come. Including this. The 4,000 year old relaxation technique, using gongs to cleanse the mind, suddenly popular with millennials in singapore. Indira gandhi, ruler of the Worlds Largest democracy, died today. 0nly yesterday shed spoken of dying in the service of her country and said, i would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood would contribute to the growth of this nation. After 46 years of unhappiness, these two countries have concluded a chapter of history. No more suspicion, no more fear, no more uncertainty of what each day might bring. Mission control booster ignition and lift off of discovery, with a crew of six astronaut heroes and one american legend. Well, enjoying the show is right. This is beautiful. A milestone in human history. Born today, this girl in india is the 7 billionth person on the planet. This is bbc news. The latest headlines the British Parliament finally votes overwhelmingly for a snap general election in december to try to break months of deadlock over brexit. A senior white house official tells the impeachment inquiry into donald trump he witnessed first hand the president pressuring ukraines government to investigate joe biden. Lebanons Prime Minister has said he will resign, thats in the face of huge protests that have rocked the country for almost two weeks. Saad hariri said lebanon was deadlocked and needed a shock to break the crisis. Gareth barlow reports. Cheering after weeks of protest, a moment of celebration as the Prime Minister announced he would step down. Saad hariri said a great shock was needed to fix the crisis, which has brought rare unity to a country often plagued by sectarian division. Translation i am going to the palace to present the resignation of the government to the president and the lebanese people in response to the will of many lebanese who took to the streets to demand change. Lebanon is burdened by debt and chronic corruption, and demonstrators are demanding change. They say the resignation of the Prime Minister and the cabinet is only the beginning. Translation hariris resignation is the beginning of what we are working for. This is not enough. We want more of this. We want to continue with the remaining steps. Translation the resignation of hariri is the first step in building a patriotic, democratic country. First victory of this uprising has been realised. Now we have to start planning for the second victory. Earlier on tuesday, protests turned violent when supporters of the shia groups, hezbollah and amal, attacked the crowds, forcing the army to intervene to restore calm. Meanwhile, both iran and the United States have urged the lebanese authorities to establish unity and stability. The resignations might bring joy to many but they havent been welcomed by everyone, and theyre no instant fix to lebanons endemic issues. Gareth barlow, bbc news. Fewer people would have died in the Grenfell Tower fire if londons fire brigade had acted differently, according to an official report. 72 people died in the tragedy, in 2017. The report is due to be published officially on wednesday but sections have been seen by the bbc. It strongly criticises what it calls serious shortcomings and systemic failures in the fire service response. Heres our special correspondent lucy manning. Just a warning, you may find parts of her report upsetting. Who was to blame . Yeah, hello, hi, the fire in Grenfell Tower. How did 72 people die in their homes, unable to escape the flames . Get out, get out some told by those sent to rescue them to stay put. Where is the fire brigade . jesus firefighters were brave that night, risking their lives, but the fire brigade failures were many. The blaze was like one never seen, but institutional failure, wholly inadequate planning and communication problems left people trapped. Most damning, the decision to tell residents to stay put in these flames for nearly two hours. The report says if the building had been evacuated sooner, its likely more lives would have been saved. Its very hard, very hard, very hard, to go on. Nabil choucair lost six members of his family in the fire. The families have been told they cant discuss the report before its formally published tomorrow, but he can talk about what happened to them. Do you think your family could have been saved if the building was evacuated earlier . Of course, of course. I believe a lot of families could have been rescued, without a doubt. I personally believe they were inadequate of dealing with the fire. The report also criticises leadership failures. The commissioner of the london fire brigade gave little comfort to families at the inquiry. I wouldnt change anything we did on the night. Ithink. Remarkable insensitivity, said the inquiry. She has already announced her retirement with an estimated £2 million pension pot. I was very disgusted in her comments, and how can you. It shows her incompetence. Its the fact that she has given an escape route for herself. Theres some frustration the main criticism centres on firefighters and not those who made the cladding and refurbished the tower. That will be for the next stage of the inquiry. But the report did find there were building failures, that the cladding failed to comply with building regulations it spread fire rather than stopping it. Weve got planners, designers, architects, builders, subcontractors, building owners, building maintenance. All those things failed before the fire Service Comes along to put things right. It does feel at times that 20 years of building regulation failure is being laid at the feet of the fire and rescue service. The chairman of the inquiry, sir martin moore bick, met the grenfell families yesterday and told them he has written to the Prime Minister, saying he confidently expects the government and those in charge of the Emergency Services to implement his recommendations without delay. And the bereaved wonder if they will ever get justice. Hamid aljafaris family didnt all escape. His father ali died. Theres not a day i wont remember him. Every second, anywhere, i can smell him, i can feel him, you know . The memories, you know . To be honest, i dont know, we lost what we are fighting for, i dont know the meaning ofjustice. I dont know, its now more than two years. Were kind of like leftovers, we dont know whats happening. This tower once dominated the skyline in the most terrible way way, a symbol now of so many failings, and the families agonise about how 72 people could have died in what was supposed to be the safety of their homes. Lucy manning, bbc news. Lets get some of the days other news officials in western cameroon say nearly a0 people have died in a landslide caused by heavy rain. Its feared others are trapped. Rescuers in the Highland Town of bafoussam searched for survivors in the remains of flattened houses. In the neighbouring Central African republic, nearly 30,000 have had to leave their homes. 1. 5 Million People in california look set to lose power as wildfires threaten cables across the state. Pacific gas and electric has already cut power to almost one Million Properties to reduce the risk of a spark causing a fire. Strong winds have been fanning the flames and thousands of people in los angeles have been told to evacuate homes and businesses. Two brothers are being hunted by police on suspicion of manslaughter over the deaths of 39 people in the back of a lorry in south east england. Ronan and christopher hughes, from northern ireland, are also wanted on suspicion of human trafficking. There are plenty of ways to relax and zone out how about lying down while somebody hits a gong . A gong bath, claimed to cleanse the mind and body, is a tradition that goes back 4,000 years, but the 90 minute sessions are popular with millennials in singapore. We went to find out why from one practitioner, suraya sam. It cleanses the mind, the body. Why is it called a gong bath . Its because its a sound bath, right. You are nourished through the frequency. So youre basically showered with 90 minutes of gong. Singaporeans or generally this city is always so were rushing for time, theyre on their phones, theyre always chatting or e mailing and they forget about their surroundings. So the gong that is right in front of me is the earth gong. The earth gong will ground you and the saturn gong will uplift you. The moon gong is basically for expelling negativity or any stale energy. We do breath work, we do sound bath. I do take people on a sound journey. I definitely feel responsible for bringing an ancient tradition to this era. A mountaineerfrom nepal has broken records by climbing the worlds 1a highest peaks within seven months. Nirmal purja, whos 36 and a former british marine, reached the top of his last mountain, shishapangma in china on tuesday. It seems nirmal could have been even faster. He climbed everest, lhotse and makalu in five days instead of three because he stopped for two nights to have a drink. We nights to have a drink. Expect to speak to him abo| this we expect to speak to him about all this on friday and i will let you know exactly when. And before we go, wed like to leave you with these pictures of skeletons rising from the dead in mexico city. Residents are preparing for dia de muertos, the day of the dead festival at the weekend. Families will remember their dead on november the 2nd, and celebrate the continuity of life by setting up offerings to the dead flowers, candles, food and sweets. Thats it for now. Thank you for watching. Hello. Wednesday is going to bring dry and bright weather for most of us, but in one or two places across the south and the south west, its going to be another damp day. Its been raining in the last 2a hours in cornwall and devon, and you can see the weather front here, its actually stuck across the south west of the British Isles and will continue to bring further damp weather. So where weve got the cloud and the outbreaks of rain, its mild early on wednesday, nine degrees, but in the north where we have the clear skies, a touch of frost. This is how the morning looks, the vast majority of country has clear skies, sunny skies, but in the south west, cornwall, devon, possibly creeping up to dorset as well, if you spots of rain, may one or two well, if you spots of rain, may one ortwo in well, if you spots of rain, may one or two in pembrokeshire. Temperatures still on the low side, were talking about 10 degrees, for example, in newcastle. Then halloween itself is looking damp with a little bit of drizzle here and there. Thats it for me. Goodbye. 0ur this is bbc news. The headlines Political Parties in britain are braced for a general election in december after parliament voted for a snap poll, as a way of breaking the deadlock over brexit. If the conservatives win, the Prime Minister, borisjohnson is expected to engineer a swift exit from the european union. A senior white house official has told the impeachment inquiry into donald trump, that he witnessed, first hand, the president pressuring ukraines government to investigate his political rivaljoe biden. The officer, told the hearing that he had been concerned about the request, and reported it to government lawyers. Us legislaters have accused boeing of putting profits over safety and engaging in a pattern of deliberate concealment after two deadly 737 max crashes, killed a total of 346 people. The accusation came while boeings chief executive was being questioned by the Senate Commerce committee. Now on bbc news, panorama. Tonight on panorama, we are on the trail of an organised crime gang that laundered british drug cash around the world. Bbc panorama. Will you answer some questions . No. We have asked you. No we reveal how the Financial System failed to stop some dirty money. If Money Laundering continues, the driver of organised crime continues. We expose the big city firm that covered up evidence of crime. Instead of reporting the crimes that i told them about. My bosses just covered them up. And we meet the whistle blowers whose lives were destroyed after speaking out. It has caused myself and my family untold suffering. And nobody seems to care. Violent crime is on the rise on britains streets. Much of it is linked to drugs. Robberies, shootings, stabbings. There is a clear causal link between that street