Partner on instagram. In a world full of specialist publications, competition to represent communities, and make more money, is getting tougher. But activists say the platforms are more important than ever. Ben hunte, bbc news. Coming up in a few minutes after the weather. The travel show heads to greece, as the Acropolis Museum unveils its newest excavation, to mark the tenth anniversary of the attraction. Now its time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. Hello. Its looking pretty unsettled this weekend, we have a band of rain slowly pushing into the west, thats going to bring cloud and rain to Western Areas today, and tomorrow it will be stalled across eastern areas to bring a quite a lot of rainfall, in fact. This is the weather front im talking about, slowly pushing in off the atlantic. So turning wetter and windier across Western Areas, particularly Northern Ireland, western scotland and around irish sea coasts. Further east, it should be dry, some hazy sunshine here. Best
To investigate his political rival and potential president ial rival, joe biden. And, amid all the talk of impeachment, mr trump continues to make unfounded allegations about mr biden, who hopes to challenge him in next years president ial election. Youre pointing out when hes flat lining, where there is no evidence, none, not a scintilla, not one tiny piece. The American People know me and they know him. Even the people who support him know this man lacks character. Even people who support him know he lies constantly. In a letter, the chairman of three congressional committees accused mr trump of choosing a path of defiance, obstruction and cover up. In response, the white house accused the democrats of setting up a Kangaroo Court that would only waste time and taxpayers dollars and president trumps press secretary insisted that all their enquiries would ultimately show that t president had done nothing wrong. The foreign secretary, dominic raab, says hes called the Us Ambassador to e
Victory over argentina in tokyo. And after another big week for brexit, join chris, laura, katya and adam to examine borisjohnsons new proposals in the latest edition of brexitcast. At Donald Trumps political opponents have intensified efforts to impeach the president. Three congressional committees have demanded legal documents relating to a telephone call by mr trump, in which he asked ukraine to investigate his president ial rivaljoe biden. From washington, Chris Buckler reports. What was a request has become a demand. Democrats are piling the pressure on President Trump by issuing a subpoena for a series of documents. They want a full, rather than a rough, transcript of thejuly phone call in which he asked the ukrainian leader, volodymyr zelensky, to investigate his political rival and potential president ial rival, joe biden. And amid all the talk of impeachment, mr trump continues to make unfounded allegations about mr biden, who hopes to challenge him in next years president ial
Show in half an hour. Much of hong kong is shut down after violent demonstrations led to the suspension of the citys Public Transport Network many shopping centres, banks and businesses have been unable to open. Thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest against a newly imposed ban on wearing face masks. The protesters use the masks to avoid identification. Hong kongs leader, carrie lam, is warning that she can no longer tolerate rioters destroying the territory. The extreme actions of the extreme actions of rioters the extreme actions of rioters created a very dark night for hong kong, and made Hong Kong Society semi paralysed. Everyone is very worried and concerned, or even scared. The government will suppress violence with the greatest determination. I appeal to everyone to support the government in suppressing violence in accordance with the law, condemn violence together and cut ties with rioters with a firm well. Lets talk to our correspondent robin brant whos in ho
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