He was willing to sacrifice the National Security of the United States in order to get what he wanted. The white house calls it a one sided sham with no evidence of wrongdoing. Well have the latest from the us. Also ahead when allies disagree, a tense meeting between president s trump and macron at the nato leaders meeting in london. Im kasia madera in london. Also in the programme well assess the damage caused by typhoon kammuri in the philippines. Tech entrepreneur elon musk goes to court in california, to fight a defamation lawsuit brought by one of the rescuers of the boys trapped in a thai cave last year. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london and and 7pm in washington , where an eagerly awaited report from the impeachment inquiry into President Trump says, its uncovered overwhelming evidence that hes abused his powers. Among the conclusions the evidence of the president s misconduct is overwhelming, and so too is the evidence of his obstruction of congress. The report went on to say; it would be hard to imagine a stronger or more complete case of obstruction than that demonstrated by the president since the inquiry began. The committee will now vote on handing over their report to the housejudiciary committee, which has the power to write the official articles of impeachment. Heres representative adam schiff, the chairman of in the inquiry. We dont have all the answers. But we do know this without any doubt, and that is, the president of the United States solicited foreign interference in our election, and used the power of his office, the power to convene a meeting in the oval office, the power to provide or withhold hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to an la at war, to get his political dirty work done. An ally. Adam schiff there who leads the committee that produced the impeachment report. The white house has said the report is a one sided sham, and it added that the democrats utterly failed to produce any evidence of wrongdoing. So, strong words from both sides, but what does this report mean . Our north america correspondent peter bowes has the latest. This report is the case against president from. As far as the democrats on the House Intelligent Committee are concerned, he abused his position in the white house, he abused his position of power for personal, political gain, political advantage as opposed to any kind of national advantage, that this was purely about donald trump inking about the next election and withholding funds, withholding aid from ukraine, and return for a promise from that country to investigate mr trumps likely possible political rival. Joe biden and his son who sat on the board of and his son who sat on the board of a gas company and ukraine, that investigation never actually happened. The funds, the aid was eventually handed over, and thats what the republicans are latching onto by saying, the democrats are saying, overwhelming evidence, the republicans are saying that in fact President Trump did nothing wrong. What are the next steps . What can we expect . You can imagine a criminal investigation, we are moving into the prosecution stage, although this isnt criminal, this is political, but when this moves to the house judiciary committee, which it will ina judiciary committee, which it will in a matter of hours. That starts open hearings on wednesday, they will be looking at the charge sheet and perhaps pulling together all of this information that has been provided to them, to compile articles of impeachment, which would essentially lay out what the president was accused of stopping the full house would have to vote on that and the democrats have a majority. If they pass that, then it is likely to go to the senate where that impeachment trial will take place. We have got a dedicated section on our website, so do check that out. Lets have a look at other stories in the news today. Climate activist Greta Thunberg has said that adults should stop making young people angry over global warming. Ms thunberg was speaking after her arrival in lisbon, portugal, after a two weekjourney across the atlantic from america. The 16 year old is on her way to the Climate Summit in madrid. The south korean singer and actor cha in ha has been found dead in his home. Hes the third k pop star to die injust three months. No details have been released about how the 27 year old died. Chas death comes less than ten days after k pop singer goo hara was found dead in her home. Googles co founders are stepping down from their official positions at parent company, alphabet. Larry page and sergei brin served as ceo and president , respectively. They famously founded the Search Engine in a garage in the late 1990s. Googles current ceo, sundar pichai, will take over the roles. More on this on Asia Business report in about 15 minutes. China has topped the latest global report on education. The oecd survey, which is conducted every three years, found that students from china are the most proficient in reading, maths and science, followed by singapore. The report also found that education performance across the oecd member countries had stagnated over the last two decades. Nasa says the wreckage of indias vikram lunar lander has been identified, three months after it crashed onto the surface of the moon. It was found thanks in part to the efforts of an amateur space enthusiast, after the Us Space Agency released satellite images and asked people to search for it. The 33 year old it professional spotted it after putting side by side comparison images on two laptops. A powerful typhoon has killed at least four people in the philippines, disrupting air travel and forcing government offices and schools to close. With winds gusting up to two hundred kilometres an hour, typhoon kammuri felled trees and ripped off roofs as it lashed the archipelago. Manilas International Airport was shut down as a precautionary measure. The authorities are still assessing the storms impact, but Disaster Management Officials Say the decision to evacuate several 100,000 people in advance has prevented greater loss of life. Our correspondent Howard Johnson gave me the latest. The rain may have cleared but you can feel the gusts here as it moves out into the west philippine sea. It is going to move out into vietnam by thursday, but at the moment we have seen a lot of damage, lots of flooding, big panoramic sites of fields completely covered with water. We have also seen the airport damaged by these high winds, and yesterday we went to katanga city, a two hour drive away from the philippine capital and we saw an Evacuation Centre with thousands of people being supported stopping there was lots of aid being given out, there were lots of areas for Families Together stopping more information will come out from the provinces today. There were signals down, electricity done, and hopefully we will find out more details about how they were affected. We have heard at least four casualties sadly as a result of this storm. Despite the strong storm, several Southeast Asian games competitions continue to push through . The philippines doing incredibly well in this competition but some of the events were postponed stopping the organisers say that they will be able to factor in those event in the coming days, so in those event in the coming days, so that there is no need to extend the gains beyond december the 11th. Organisers will also hope to get on with the. They had a rocky first week at a great opening ceremony. The country really wants to get behind the philippines and that now. Divisions between nato leaders have been exposed, with President Trump accusing frances president macron of being nasty and disrespectful, for describing nato as brain dead. Mr macron defended his comments and highlighted differences with turkey, which is threatening to derail efforts to set up a new Missile Defence system. This report from our Diplomatic Correspondent James Robbins contains some flashing images. Buckingham palace and a Birthday Party for nato leaders the peace through collective defence. Everyone on best behaviour for the queen, but nato is a family currently at war with itself. Frances president macron has been strongly critical of Donald Trumps isolationist role and called nato strategically brain dead. Today he stood by those remarks, even after mr trump rebuked him publicly. When you make a Statement Like that, that is a very, very nasty statement to make to, including them, to essentially 28 countries. I think that, you know, they have a very high Unemployment Rate in france. France is not doing well economically at all. In fact, the alliance faces another far larger threat to unity the military action by nato member, turkey, inside northern syria. Turkeys president erdogan is enraged nato isnt100 supportive of his fight against kurdish troops that he brands terrorists. But president macron completely rejects the turkish position. When i look at turkey, they now are fighting against those who fought with us, shoulder to shoulder, against isis. 70 years ago when nato was established it all felt so much simpler. The american led alliance faced a single enemy, the soviet union underjosef stalin. It was soviet communism which eventually collapsed. Nato survived, but now struggles to agree its future role. Nato is the most successful alliance in history, because we have been able to change when the world is changing. That is exactly what were doing again, and the fact is that were doing more together in this alliance now that weve done for many decades. But that sounds far too upbeat to those who think the alliance has lost its way and needs to face up to developing threats. So what are some of those future threats nato has to face . Still from russia and there is talk now of china, as well, not an adversary, nato insists, but a worry, nevertheless. And there is concern about possible future Cyber Attacks on satellites in space. How would nato react to that . President trump is now claiming success, pushing other states to increase their nato spending and so reduce americas 70 share. But other splits over the way ahead wont be resolved in a few hours of formal talks tomorrow. James robbins, bbc news, buckingham palace. Elon musk, the billionaire founder of electric car company tesla, is facing a trial in california, accused of defamation. He is alleged to have called british cave diver Vernon Unsworth a paedophile on twitter. Mr unsworth, who helped to rescue i2 boys and their football coach from a flooded cave in thailand last year, is seeking unspecified damages. Mr musk denies the accusation. Lets go to sophie long, who is in los angeles for us. We have heard the Opening Statements. What did the court here . The first Opening Statement came from vern unsworth, the man leading his legal team, and he spoke about that rescue that captured the worlds attention. Despite that, when the world was celebrating, he had gone on television and given an interview where he had when asked about elon musks attempted to help and how he had dismissed it as a pr stunt. Then talked about the succession of tweets that came from elon musk later and said that the particular tweet in question where he called Vernon Unsworth pedo guy, he spoke about the shame of being called a paedophile on what should have been one of the most proudest moments of his life. Elon musks lawyer gave a very different picture of the same series of events. He said that this is the case about an argument of two men trading insults, and he said that it was Vernon Unsworth who made the first insult first, he said it was not an allegation of a crime, it was not an allegation of a crime, it was an insult. He also said that that tweet was deleted. There was no damage caused. He went on to say that instead of damage caused to his life that was set out by Vernon Unsworth, he now needed an agent to deal with all the requests. Two different accounts of the event that led up to this case. Given the amount of press behind you, a huge amount of press behind you, a huge amount of press behind you, a huge amount of interest in this trail stopping what do we expect next . He said what he had in the interview, he was the interview on cnn that Vernon Unsworth had given, several times, there were three times he told the court, and he said what he heard was wrong and insulting so i insulted him back. He also said he knew nothing about Vernon Unsworth on that day, nor did he know any role that he had played in rescuing the boys. He also went on to say the court showed an e mail between him and his de facto chief of staff in which he was encouraged to apologise during the publicity surrounding his tweets. And he said that he had decided not to do so because it would look like a cynical attempt at rescuing teslas share price. So this case will continue for the rest of the week. Sophie long in los angeles, many thanks, as always. Youre watching newsday on the bbc. Still to come on the programme lost in the outback we have the latest on the search for a missing traveller in australia. Also on the programme the two wheeled approach to freedom. Well meet the refugees learning to ride bikes thanks to a project in new zealand. Its quite clear that the worst victims of this disaster are the poor People Living in the slums which have sprung up around the factory. I am feeling so helpless, that the childrens are dying in front of me and i cant do anything. Charles manson is the mystical leader of the hippie cult suspected of killing sharon tate and at least six other people in los angeles. At 11am this morning, just half a metre of rock separated britain from continental europe. It took the drills just a few moments to cut through the final obstacle. Then philippe cozette, a minerfrom calais, was shaking hands and exchanging flags with robert fagg, his opposite number from dover. This is newsday on the bbc. Im rico hizon in singapore. Im kasia madera in london. Our top stories this hour a report from the democrat led impeachment inquiry has accused President Trump of putting personal gain ahead of the American National interest. The white house says there is no evidence of any wrongdoing. Mr trump says the french president s depiction of nato as strategically brain dead was nasty. Mr macron says he stand by his comment. Lets take a look at some front pages from around the world. We start with the japan times and a story that north korea has warned the United States that it could be on the receiving end of an unwelcome christmas gift, a reference to its nuclear programme. The paper says this veiled threat is pyongyangs latest effort to pressure the us to offer more concessions in the stalled Nuclear Talks before the year end deadline. The New York Times is reporting that china is trying to build facial images using dna. According to the paper, chinese researchers are using blood taken from Muslim Uighurs held in detention camps to try to work out how to use a dna sample to re create an image of a persons face. And the Philippine Star features a photo of gold medal winning gymnast carlos yulo, whos from manila, at the Southeast Asian games alongside an article claiming budget delays were the reason for the many glitches at the start of the games in the philippines. Those are the papers. A search is continuing in the australian outback for a woman whos been missing for almost two weeks. Claire hockridge, and two others became stranded when their car got stuck in a riverbed. The trio split up to seek help and the other two have already been found. Ao year old phu tran was discovered by a farmer about i60km south of the town of Alice Springs and Tamra Mcbeath riley was found near her car. But, so far, theres been no sign of claire. Im joined now from sydney by our correspondent shaimaa khalil. Thank you so much forjoining us. The search continues for claire, how difficult is it for the police to find her . Its a very challenging terrain, rico. If you look at the map of australia, this area is kind of in the centre, a little bit north from the centre, very, very far away, from the centre, very, very far er from the centre, very, very far away, very hot, very uninviting. Not much around. Much the middle of nowhere. Its not just much around. Much the middle of nowhere. Its notjust that its very re m ote nowhere. Its notjust that its very remote and also uninviting, it is the fact that the terrain itself, the area itself is quite diverse. These were describing it yesterday and saying look, youve got sand dunes, youve got rocky areas, youve got hard clay, you got dense trees, so it wasnt like the police who have been searching for claire are still using helicopters, can look at an open area and find what they are looking for. The other thing that we know is that the travellers didnt stay in the place where they were stuck initially. They moved. They split up to find shelter and also to find help. We also know from tamra, who was speaking to the press after she was rescued, they were seeking shade in the trees. They often hid under trees for shelter. Thats why its been very, very difficult for the police to find claire, that is why the search continues for her mainly using helicopters. But also phu and tamra were discovered separately. Phu was discovered by a farm because he found groundwater you could use to keep hydrated, tamra and her dog didnt stray too far away from their car in they were found earlier this week on monday. Thank you very much for that update on the search for claire which continues in australia. The bbcs kiama kahlil in the sydney bureau. Each year new zealand resettles about 1,000 refugees, mainly in its big cities. But it often falls on Community Projects to help people integrate into a new life. Weve been to the countrys capital wellington to find out about one scheme letting women get to grips with something many of them have never had the chance to try before, riding a bike. You can do it. I got you. Keep that leg up. I am feeling a little bit of stress and shaking. Scary, i have to be honest. It is a bit frightening. So you feel really good and calm . Brilliant. Thought up. Put up. Keep that leg up. In iraq, no, i dont have a bicycle. Its because its not allowed for women to ride a bike there. Itjust started in a garage. A group of friends thinking lets get a few bikes together and give them out to people who need them and then it quickly snowballed into something bigger. As we were giving out bikes within the refugee community, it was all was the fathers and children that were asking for the bikes. The mum was often just standing there. And thats when we really identified that many of the women didnt know how to ride. One, two, three. Ive been thinking of learning it for so long. Every time i want to learn it im either pregnant or having a baby, so it was not a good time. But now its a great time. For women coming from middle Eastern Communities or some african countries, it just really wasnt acceptable. It wasnt a done thing for a woman to get on a bike. I have had some experiences with families not wanting their younger daughters to have a bike. I have had to work quite hard to say youre in new zealand now, its really safe for your daughter to ride a bike. Please give her that chance. Please give her that freedom. So, looking back, now signalling. In my home town i have ridden bikes, its small roads. But here its such a big city, so its hard to ride here. I would like to learn the rules here. Refugee housing often tends to be in the furthest, remotest corners of a suburb where theres no public transport nearby. I think having a bicycle means a woman can integrate and get out, get to the library, get to the pool and get to their language class. Im feeling like a bird. Im flying. Im so happy, im so happy. Me too you have been watching newsday. Im kasia madera in london. And im rico hizon in singapore. Stay with us for abr. Coming up the us house of representatives ramps up china tensions. The house is expected to vote soon on a uighur human rights bill that calls on china to end the arbitrary detention, torture and harassment of ethnic muslim minorities. Hello there. Weve got quite a mix weather picture coming our way for wednesday. The satellite picture shows a stripe of cloud coming into Western Areas. This is a weather front thats going to be bringing rain across Western Areas through the day. Further south and eastwards, high pleasure still influencing the weather across england and wales, where the skies are relatively clearer. Now, if your heading outside over the next few hours, a bit of rain working into north Western Areas, with strengthening south westerly winds. Further south and east with there are going to be some patches of cloud, there are also going to be clear spells. So contrast in temperatures, its mothers towards the north west of the uk with clear skies across england and, its cold indeedin skies across england and, its cold indeed in cold enough forfrost, maybe even the odd fog pads to start the day on wednesday as well. For many, though, its a bright start across england, wales, northeast scotland, in the rain will continue to push eastwards, reaching parts of Northern England and north wales do the course of the afternoon. Still bright to the south and east but its chilly, still. 6 8d, the modest weather towards the north west with blustery showers following into western scotland. And through thursday and friday, we are going to see weather fronts really target western scotland, bringing large amounts of rain here. We could see 7080 amounts of rain here. We could see 70 80 millimetres, it may be more than that of the high ground, but is enough to cause some flooding impacts. But it isnt the only place we will see some rain. But whether pushing across Northern Ireland, and the rain getting into Northern England and northern wales, too. More cloud around on thursday but it should be bright enough. Mulder south westerly winds spreading across more the country. I was the most between 9 i2 across more the country. I was the most between 9 12 degrees. What follows on thursday will be a very mild night, it might come as something of a surprise especially when you consider recent nights have had sharp frosts. As we head into friday morning, these are the kind of temperatures, 11 12 degrees. It is so mild as it is cloudy, wet and windy. Initially we have the winds coming in on a south westerly direction. Peter in the day we will get these north westerly is following in across the northern half of the country. Temperatures will be dropping away. Seven in stornoway, mild for the midlands, east anglia and southern england, tempered as around 12 13 degrees. Now that we can look like this. Original papers are to start things, sunday sees a weather front moving across the uk. So, saturday looks like it will be the better day of the two on the weekend, perhaps a bit of rain getting into Northern Ireland later in the day. Sunday looks like it will turn more widely u nsettled looks like it will turn more widely unsettled with rain at times. Thats your weather. Im kasia madera with bbc world news. Our top story the democrats have released their first impeachment inquiry report, it accuses President Trump of putting his personal interests ahead of americas. The report, which has now been approved by the intelligence committee, claims there is overwhelming evidence of misconduct. The white house says the report is a one sided sham. President s trump and macron had a tense meeting at start of the nato Leaders Summit in london, with President Trump saying the french president was disrespectful for describing
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