What weve heard from President Trump about how. He wants to ask china and the ukrainian press the president to investigate joe bodies and what does this mean for the impeachment investigation against them. Well hes just digging as hone hole deeper by. Reaching out to other governments for assistance not just the chinese but now apparently also the australians we dont know who else and this is a classic tactic by President Trump that hes used quite successfully as entire life deflected i dig in an attack and thats his effort if you saw that extraordinary press conference yesterday with the president of finland he never answered any of the questions he just attacked attack deflected and he thinks that this is going to work for him and it may have worked for him in business but it will not work in the United States government theres a checks and balances and what he will slowly learn and the faster the better because everything is going to come out what was the purpose of withholding the
Trying to persuade the ukrainian leader to investigate his rival joe biden the allegations and name at the center of an impeachment inquiry by House Democrats john hendren reports from washington d. C. Democrats have a new word for the white house response to a whistleblower this is a cover up the accusation follows a newly released whistleblowers report that says the white house trying to lock down the transcript of a phone call in that july call President Donald Trump pressed ukraines president to find dirt on a rival president ial candidate in this case former u. S. Vice President Joe Biden reads like a classic organized crime shakedown the report says u. S. Officials told the unnamed whistleblower that they were directed by white house lawyers to transfer the transcript of a conversation to a separate Electronic System that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information even though the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive that left trumps new acting direct
Process asylum application also screen refugees overseas the problem with that argument is that most because of policy that been put in place over the last year on the Top Administration has really limited the number of people get asylum and whether or not you can get asylum so very few of those people who are going to be processed are actually going to get asylum what were going to actually have is very many many fewer refugees being resettled overseas and very few people getting asylum were basically just not going to be having a lot of people gaining refuge in the United States at all. Prosecutors in mexico say they are exploring new leads in the case of 43 students who went missing 5 years ago the case aspires International Outrage years later the victims families hope a new governments will provide answers. And reports. A march in the heart of mexico city to mark 5 years since 43 students went missing the victims are believed to have been abducted by gang members affiliated with c
Also still to come on the news hour including calls for an uprising in cambodia leads to the arrest of 9 members of a bands Opposition Party. Heightened security across afghanistan on the eve of president ial elections and in the sports with some of the tackle that seem very serious rugby player sat at home in the front big world cup. With. Thousands of protesters are in Hong Kong Central Business District in support of activists attains near the border with Mainland China many are in the hold and center were later treated in hospital some with broken bones on thursday the embattled chief executive kerry lamb said part of a Community Dialogue session with members of the public was the 1st time she sat down with her critics since the protests began 16 weeks ago well as cross to hong kong then get the latest live from sarah clarke sorry youre up that process what are people there saying. Well this protest its been building over the last hour and a half or so i would go thousands of peopl
President trump and racism. 22 years on, prince harry follows in his mothers footsteps, with a visit to the minefields in angola. And the world athletics championships are under way, as competitors deal with blistering temperatures in the gulf state of qatar. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news one of the worlds all news one of the worlds the latest reports, resul interviews all the latest reports, results, interviews and features from the bbc sport centre. Good evening. The former cabinet minister amber rudd has accused number 10 of using aggressive language over brexit, that incites violence. It comes after a turbulent week, in which mps returned to the commons and engaged in furious exchanges on the floor of the house. But today, borisjohnson once again defended his use of language, and insisted that delivering brexit on october the 31st would take much of the heat out of the debate. Meanwhile, scotlands first minister Nicola Sturgeon has indicated shed be open to backing Jeremy