And when politics meets football. Protests take place in spain ahead of barcelonas match with real madrid. In just the past few hours, donald trump has become only the third president in American History to be impeached by the house of representatives. That sets up a trial in the senate, which has to decide whether he should be removed from office. The house is controlled by his opponents, the democrats. His own party, the republicans, dominate the senate. The strong expectation is that he will be acquitted in the senate. This is how the impeachment was formally announced. The ayes are 230, the nays are 197. Present is one. Articlei is adopted. A News Conference followed that vote. Nancy pelosi, praised her democrat colleagues at a News Conference. I could not be prouder or more inspired than by the moral courage of the house democrats. We never asked more of them or how they were going to vote. We never whipped the vote. And use all the public state m e nts vote. And use all the public statements that some of them made. Saw the result when everybody else did not. The statements on the floor about patriotism and about being very true to the vision of our founders. I view this day, this vote as something we did to honour the vision of our founders to establish a republic. The sacrifice of our men and women in uniform to defend our demott receipt and that republic oui demott receipt and that republic our democracy. In the aspirations of oui our democracy. In the aspirations of our children that they will always live in a democracy and we have tried to do everything we can to make sure that that is their reality. Appearing alongside speaker pelosi, adam schiff, the democratic chair of the house intelligence committee, said republicans should now allow a fair trial in the senate for mr trump. The president of the United States has been impeached, for now, only the third time in history. The president of the United States should be tried in the question is now whether senator mcconnell will allow a felt trial fair trial in the senate, whether the majority leader will allow a trial that involves witnesses and testimony and documents. A trial that should be fairto documents. A trial that should be fair to the president , yes, but should be fair also to the american people. While all this was happening in washington, the president was out campaigning in the key state of michigan. Speaking at a rally there, he told supporters that the democrats were trying to nullify his election win. Yesterday i sent nancy pelosi a letter denouncing and condemning her pa rtys letter denouncing and condemning her partys outrageous behaviour. They have nothing. They are the ones who should be impeached, every one of them. Our correspondent, gary odonahue, has been following the debate and the voting in congress. He says its all been following partisan lines. It is an utterly predictable load that it it is an utterly predictable load thatitis it is an utterly predictable load that it is a truly, truly historic moment. President trump nowjoins the club of just moment. President trump nowjoins the club ofjust three other president s in this countrys 230 odd year political history to be impeached and face this sanction and he will now go forward to a trial in the United States senate. 100 senators they will decide his fate. It isa senators they will decide his fate. It is a political trial, dont forget, and because the republicans have a good daugherty there and a two thirds vote is required to remove him, he is safe in office to republicans have a good majority there. But he will not want to be pa rt there. But he will not want to be part of this exclusive club of three and he described it tonight as a suicide note for the Democratic Party ahead of next years election. Have there been any surprises in the procedures in the house of representatives . Any uncertainty for the republicans in the senate . Not really. As things stand we are still unclear really. As things stand we are still u nclear exactly really. As things stand we are still unclear exactly what will happen in the senate in terms of the rules. 0pposition the senate in terms of the rules. Opposition to any witnesses appearing from the leadership of the Republic Party there, there is a question of whether or not the secretary of state may give evidence there. But the key thing is that the senate decides its own rules for the trial and it only has two stipulations to follow. 0ne trial and it only has two stipulations to follow. One is that the chiefjustice stipulations to follow. One is that the chief justice of stipulations to follow. One is that the chiefjustice of the Supreme Court presides over the trial on the second stipulation is that a two thirds majority is needed to remove a president full after that they can make up the rules as they please. But after christmas, after the holidays, we will see that trial u nfold the holidays, we will see that trial unfold in january. The holidays, we will see that trial unfold injanuary. Again, another moment in American History. Still on these live pictures of the president at his rallying. He made the point that it could play badly for the democrats. Bill clinton came out of impeachment with his ratings in the polls much improved. That is right. Clinton did come out of impeachment with his rating improved but the republicans won the presidency two yea rs republicans won the presidency two years later, didnt they . So that is the calculation that democrats are making. They saw the polls move a little bit in their direction in the eight weeks or whatever since impeachment was announced and it is now a political battle to decide the legacy of this impeachment in the run up to election day in november next year. In other news, authorities in New South Wales have declared a 7 day state of emergency as firefighters battle around 100 bushfires. Tuesday was australias hottest day on record. Average temperatures nationwide reached 40. 9 celsius. But thursday may be even hotter, with winds expected up to 100 kilometres an hour. Emergency services are preparing for the worst. 0ur correspondent phil mercer is in penrith, west of sydney. Temperatures in parts of New South Wales are expected to reach 45 degrees celsius today. The authorities here in australias most populous state have issued a state of emergency because of the heat and its likely impact on the bushfire danger that is spreading across much of eastern australia. We are in the suburb of penrith, about 50 kilometres from the centre of sydney. It is roasting hot out here today. People are trying to escape the heat as best they can. Many children and their parents have come to this waterpark in penrith to try and seek some relief across the road there is a Shopping Centre and it is standing room only in the air conditioned spaces people are looking to escape this heat that has affected so much of australia in the past few days. A very hot mass of air has been moving from the west to the east and with it, of course, is the danger of heat related illnesses. Heatwaves in australia are the nations silent killer, killing more people than bushfires, floods and storms have put together. The advice for people is to stay indoors, if they can. Other people doing what they can to keep cool. As far as the bushfire danger is concerned it is very extreme hearing New South Wales. The danger extends to the north, to queensland and also to the south in victoria. It promises to be another brutal day here in australia. Lets get some of the days other news. All Mcdonalds Restaurants in peru have closed for two days of mourning after the deaths of two teenagers on sunday. The young man and woman were electrocuted during their overnight cleaning shift at a branch in the capital, lima. Perus ministry of labour is to investigate the companys safety procedures. There are already outbreaks of measles in samoa, fiji, and tonga, and now authorities in kiribas in the Central Pacific kiribati in the Central Pacific are trying to contain their own outbreak a case has been confirmed there for the first time. An 11 month old boy is receiving treatment. Kiribati is several thousand kilometres from samoa, where measles has killed 76 people most of them children in recent weeks. Its emerged that the highest earning youtuber is an 8 year old boy and for the second year in a row. Ryan of ryans world reviews toys, and according to an annual top 10 ranking by forbes, that earned him 26 million this year up from 22 million, in 2018. There have been mass protests outside the stadium in barcelona ahead of a game with real madrid, which was postponed back in october because of widespread demonstrations then over the jailing of nine catalan separatist leaders. The barcelona fans and the other protesters want a legal referendum on independence for the North Eastern region of spain. Gavin lee reports from barcelona. In the shadow of barcelonas football stadium tonight, the crowds outside are making a political point. Catalan independence demonstrators are outside every corner of the stadium, while record numbers of Police Stand Guard as one of the biggest spectacles in world football, real madrid and barcelona, takes place inside. Well, the demonstrations tonight have been largely peaceful, but small groups of catalan separatist protesters have been burning the dustbins all around the stadium and throwing projectiles at police. And theyve responded cat and mouse style, getting out and pressing then back. This game had already been postponed two months ago, given the tensions here in spains North East Region in the aftermath of the jailing of catalan separatist leaders for attempting independence in 2017. The gathering started hours before the match, and it was no coincidence that spains biggest Football Game was targeted. The clasico is seen by millions of people around the world. Every country where ive lived, for example, people can watch the clasico, right . So the opportunity that you have to send a message to the world is clear, and its, like, free. 0rganisers behind tonights actions say they will continue to target Public Events and places. The flames of the catalan protest movement shows little sign of dying out. Gavin lee, bbc news, barcelona. Stay with us on bbc news still to come meet the six Million Dollar dad the man who hopes his new bionic arm will make him a better father. Saddam hussein is finished because he killed our people, our women, our children. The signatures took only a few minutes, but they brought a formal end to 3. 5 years of conflict, a conflict that has claimed more than 200,000 lives. Before an audience of world leaders, the president s of bosnia, serbia and croatia put their names to the peace agreement. The romanian border was sealed and silent today. Romania has cut itself off from the outside world in order to prevent the details of the presumed massacre in timisoara from leaking out. From sex at the white house to a trial for his political life, the lewinsky affair tonight guaranteed bill clinton his place in history as only the second president ever to be impeached. This is bbc news. The latest headlines donald trump has become only the third president in the history of the United States to be impeached by the house of representatives. The focus will now turn to the republican controlled senate. Its widely believed mr trump will be acquitte and remain in office. Lets get more on that now casey burgat is a congressional expert with the free market think tank, r street, based in washington, dc. He says the impeachment votes went largely as expected. We got exactly what we were expecting. The only thing that many of us were watching tonight is just how many democratic defectors there would be. There ended up being two, which was expected. And then to see if any chance of any republican member of the house who left their party and ended up voting yes, giving democrats a voice of bipartisanship. They ended up with two democratic defectors and republicans kept their party in line which was about what we expected and now we move on to the senate were a whole new process will unfold in january. And to be clear, the defectors you mention, the tensions and the expectations here, are people who feel they may be at risk dependent on how they vote. Everyone has their eyes towards next november. We have never been this close, in fact we never had a sitting president in his first term facing impeachment and we have never had an impeachment this close to the next election with a president on the ballot. Everyone has their eyes to next november and this will be the defining vote for many of these members when they go back to their districts and ask to be re elected. 0n the democratic side, saying they held the president accountable as they said they would and on the republican side saying that this is a sham and a witch hunt in the president s words and it is theirjob and duty to protect him and they say they have. In terms of procedure, what will we see in the senate . Anything we should watch out for, things that may not go how they are expected to . This is the question on everybodys mind now that were headed to the senate. As the lead mentioned, the senate can make its own rules on impeachment. There are very few details within our constitution and even within senate procedures. So a majority vote within the senate can decide their own procedures. Right now the two party leaders, Mitch Mcconnell and his counterpart Chuck Schumer are having negotiations behind the scenes to see if they cant come to an agreement on this. Mitch mcconnell and the republicans have the vote, so if they want to put in procedures that will make this a quick process and one that does not introduce any new witnesses or new information, they can do that as long as they do not lose four Republican Senate votes. But we wait to see how those procedures will be finalised. Thank you so much. And theres much more detail on the impeachment process on the bbc news website. There have been mass demonstrations across poland in protest against plans to punish judges if they question the governments planned changes to the judicial system. Lawmakers are due to vote on the proposals on thursday morning. Rich preston has this report. Thousands gathered in some 200 towns and cities across the country. Here in warsaw, huge crowds outside parliament. The governing law and Justice Party wants to introduce sweeping changes to thejudicial system, and it wants to be able to fine or sackjudges who question the reforms. The government says the changes are needed to tackle corruption and to modernise the system. It wants to be able to punish judges who engage in political activity. The judges say it is an attempt to gag thejudiciary. Translation we are not only dragged through the mud we are gagged, put in the dock. They try to put us in jail, and if this law comes into force, they will succeed. Translation this law introduces sanctions against judges based on their decisions. It scandalously extends disciplinary sanctions against judges. It does not allow them to work in an autonomous and independent way. Translation the adoption of this law means that the separation of powers will be almost complete, the judiciary will be fully subject to executive and legislative powers. But the changes could cause wider problems. Poland is a member of the European Union and eu members agree to primacy of eu law. Polands Supreme Court says these changes contradict that and could result in poland being forced to leave the union. Its also called the reforms a clear attempt by the government to control the judiciary. Rich preston, bbc news. A young man who suffered life changing injuries as a child has been given whats described as a revolutionary new bionic arm. Danny florence lost a hand, most of his remaining fingers and both legs when he got meningitis at the age of five. He hopes his new limb will help him bond with his young son. The bbcs tim allman has more. Here you go. Thank you. Danny florence has waited a long time for this, more than 20 years, in fact. The chance to do something as simple as picking up a set of keys. I should be able to make a bring my fingers down to make a fist, sort of thing. And now when i raise it up, i can then bring this thumb in and do the same to make a little bit between the fingers. Its called the hero arm, made using a 3d printer and responding to different muscle movements it could transform dannys life. Most importantly, he wants to be there for his one year old son, joshua. His bionic limb helping him become a six Million Dollar dad. When he gets older and he needs to fasten the zip on his coat, i should be able to do it and he cant do it now. If he needs to step in his seatbelt, i should be able to. Danny says he has ambitions to be an artist as well as being the best possible father he can. Ready to be there, with a helping hand. Tim allman, bbc news. A man is being called the plastic bag monster, his raising awareness in senegal. Here 5 million plastic bags are thrown away every day. What cani bags are thrown away every day. What can i do for my country . Raise awareness, remove plastic bags, talk to children . And meet people in the markets. We are all aware that some industries are Still Producing plastic items. They have to stop it, stop importing it, stop giving plastic bags for free in shops. This outfit im really proud to wear it i may monsterfrom outfit im really proud to wear it i may monster from the future. In 2016, i was made night of the National Order of merit by the president. Every region has someone standing for the clean cynical association. Finally people realise, oh, it is not crazy, he has a message for us. But he worked so hard. My name is more do far, i am the president of clean senegal, and iam here the president of clean senegal, and i am here for zero waste. A hero. The finalfor i am here for zero waste. A hero. The final for many a pigsty was trilogy is having its european premiere in Leicester Square in london final in the trilogy for the star wars series. It has been hotly anticipated all over the world. Our reporter was on the red carpet. Im here with the director of the movie, jj abrams. You had huge success when this verse came back with the force awakens in 2015, what made you think you would try and stop that the force awakens. It was an opportunity to finish the story that we, with the force awa ke ns, story that we, with the force awakens, but also with george lucas and a new hope, it was an opportunity to good to pass up and too tempting. How do you feel about the responsibility taking on the most beloved movie series of all time . I think we all take this on as a responsibility and only want to tell a story that is meaningful to people. Of course, with anything like this you know going in it will bea like this you know going in it will be a divisive being. Any choice you make will be someone elses nightmare, no matter what you do. You just do the best you can, that is old. How important was it you to put a female character at the centre of this new trilogy . It was the first thing that i felt, when i was talking to Cathy Kennedy about this, the producer. That there was a woman in this world whose history was the films we knew. And we had to find her and tell her story. I dont mean to sound pretentious, but it was the feeling i had. And when we of course started writing it and found daisy ridley, it all started if you like it was making sense. How hard is it controlling the secrecy . Films like this rely on spoilers not getting 0n films like this there is sort of a process that takes place where a new prescription distributed, they are printed on crazy red spy paper. There are all sorts of security measures, its kind of commonplace and you do the best you can. So much of the movie is filmed here in the uk, pinewood, just outside london, what is it about british filmmaking and going back to the original trilogy that sets it apart . As a kid, all i remember is seeing the soundtrack and seeing that it was performed by the London Philharmonic 0rchestra performed by the London Philharmonic orchestra and feeling there was something about it, as an american, about it being made in london that gaveit about it being made in london that gave it something extra special. And i was lucky enough to work here to see what that meant first hand. The craftsmanship that goes into it, whether it is the carpenters, the painters, the said building, but also the group. Extraordinary. I dont mean to demean any of the work the amazing crews in the states do but i was just blown away by the level of quality here, i could not be more grateful. When you were looking at the writing aspect of this movie, is of course you did along with other people, how challenging was that . When you came back with the force awakens, you had another two films after that and you could go on all sorts of directions, you wouldnt have to worry about how it comes back together at the end, this one you have to tie up all the bits from the previous two movies as well as the rest of the saga from the previous six movies . Well, now that you say that i want to just go throw up. No, well, it was an incredible amount of work to figure out ways to put this stuff together ina way out ways to put this stuff together in a way that belt effortless does make felt. For some it will and for others i know that that was the goal. To have it feel inevitable, figure out which pieces of those nine stories feel like they must be present in this final chapter, and which are less critical. But it was really. Hurry up ithink which are less critical. But it was really. Hurry up i think that is john boyega is currently telling us to hurry up. There are hurry up mr boyer go, your time will come were just wrapping up on the news channel mr boyega was that thank you so much for talking to us, the premiere of star wars the rise of skywalker. Are you having a good time . You are maxing out my boy, my man. This has beena maxing out my boy, my man. This has been a huge movie, years in the meeting, he need some rest. You are selling it well, you are selling it well. Thank you so much, guys. Here from the european premiere, back over to you. Liz is embo kind of herding cats. Much more news for you any time on the bbc news website. You can reach me on most of the team on twitter, i may be busy mike embley. Im bbc mike embley. Thank you for watching. Hello there. After a windy and at times rather wet night, thursday promises to be a blustery and at times rather wet day. Some outbreaks of rain at times, but not all the time. It is going to be windy, but with that, its going to be mild. Low pressure in charge at the moment. 0ut here to the west, various clumps of wet weather spiralling around the low. Its quite a complex weather chart, but the winds are coming up from the south, so the air is turning increasingly mild. As we start off the day, well have temperatures around nine, ten or 11 degrees. But there will be some outbreaks of rain left behind from the overnight, particularly across parts of england and wales. This first area of rain should clear away north eastwards. Then its a mixture of sunshine and showers, before more heavy rain pushes in towards the south west of england, wales and the south midlands as we get into the middle of the afternoon. So at 3 00pm, this is how were expecting things to look. Some late day sunshine for many parts of scotland. Nine degrees in aberdeen, ten for glasgow. That will feel mild. Its going to stay quite blustery, but not as windy as it has been. For northern ireland, one or two showers as well. A similar story for northern england, but some fine weather, some spells of sunshine. However, for the southern half of wales, the south of the midlands, towards the london area, well have these heavy and persistent outbreaks of rain, and to the south of that, some heavy and possibly thundery showers. But mild still, 12 degrees there in plymouth. But across the south of england, the south of wales and the midlands, that afternoon rain will be falling on very wet ground. So there is the potential for some localised flooding and some poor travelling conditions as well. But, as we go through thursday night, this rain band drives its way northwards. Behind it, some blustery showers, and then another batch of rain developing across central and eastern parts of england, particularly as we get into friday morning. Feeling a little bit fresher by this stage. We will have lost very a mild southerly wind. In fact, the air starting to come in from more of a westerly direction, so not quite as mild as we go through friday. We will see some outbreaks of rain, especially across the eastern half of england. Elsewhere, its essentially a day of sunny spells and showers, but i think there will be a fair amount of dry weather, particularly the further west you are. Temperatures, though, a little bit lower, generally between 7 11 degrees. Now, as we head into the weekend, low pressure still in charge of the scene, but notice there are some fairly big gaps between the areas of wet weather, so there will be some dry conditions at least at times. This area of rain might affect southern parts during saturday night, but generally speaking, its a mixture of sunny spells and showers. Top temperatures of 7 11 degrees. Nightclub sent this is bbc news. The headlines lawmakers in the us house of representatives have voted to impeach President Trump on two charges. Hes only the third president in history to be impeached. Hell now be put on trial in the senate which is dominated by his republican supporters. Hes expected to be acquitted. President trump has been addressing a Campaign Rally in the state of michigan. He said to supporters cheering him that the democrats were trying to nullify his election win. He repeated that he had done nothing wrong. The crowd chanted back four more years, four more years. The australian state of New South Wales has declared a seven day state of emergency as bushfires burn out of control around sydney. Firefighters facing one hundred active blazes in the area are being challenged by soaring temperatures and unpredictable winds. Temperatures are expected to reach 44 degrees celsius