Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its news day. Newsday. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in and 7pm in washington, dc, where the us house of representatives is set to vote later on wednesday on whether to impeach donald trump. Its over claims that he threatened to withhold military aid from ukraine unless it investigated his leading democratic rival in next years president ial election joe biden and his son. In a letter to the House Speaker, nancy pelosi, mr trump called the impeachment process an illegal, partisan attempted coup, that will, based on recent sentiment, badly fail at the voting booth. The democrat controlled house is expected to vote in favour, which would lead to a trial in the senate, probably injanuary. Heres the president speaking earlier. This has been a total sham from the very beginning. Everybody knows it. Ive never seen the Republican Party so ive never seen the Republican Party so united. We got about 100 of the vote. I belie
While at university, have called on colleges to help stop protests by millions of young people that swept across the globe, demanding action against Climate Change, have come to a close. From australia to india, europe and the United States, they took to the streets to call for change. Their inspiration is teenage activist Greta Thunberg who told crowds in new york we will make them hear us. Nick bryant has the story. Dont let our people die Climate Change is not a lie the protests followed the sun. From the low lying Pacific Islands to drought ridden australia, from the streets of south africa to the Brandenburg Gate in berlin. The children of the world, the inheritors of our Climate Change crisis. What do we want . Climate justice when do we want it . Now young voices speaking with passion and urgency, because theirs is the future thats at stake. Considering we have such a short amount of time to turn this issue around, its vital that young people are at the forefront of this convers
At the end of the month. The home secretary calls on facebook to rethink plans to encrypt messages across its platforms. Walking out former conservative leadership contender rory stewart resigns from the party and plans to stand for mayor of london coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with olly foster. Encouraging progress for andy murray. He was quite chipper today, he says hes been playing his best tennis yet on the singles comeback trail. Thats despite a quarterfinal defeat in china today. And theres been a big win for south africa over italy at the Rugby World Cup. Thanks olly and helen has all the weather. Wet conditions set to continue. U nfortu nately, yes, unfortunately, yes, thats right, martin, as storm lorenzo is approaching quite rapidly, we look for the next significant rainmaker coming up. I will have the details just before the bottom of the hour. Hello, this is afternoon live, im martine croxall. A damning report has strongly criticised the metropolitan police for
To avoid collpase. The woman who claims she was abused by Prince Andrew speaks out. Buckingham palace emphatically denies the duke of york had any sexual contact with her. Confronting the past calls for the body of spains former dictator, general franco, to be removed from an official mausoleum. And a glittering Opening Ceremony in tokyo heralds the start of the first ever Rugby Union World cup in asia. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news, one game in the premier League Tonight find out if bournemouth held onto their early lead. Good evening. Millions of people, including children and young teenagers, have taken part in demonstrations around the world, demanding tougher action on Climate Change. Huge crowds gathered in cities in more than 150 countries, calling for governments and businesses to do more to save the planet. The teenage activist Greta Thunberg, who protested alone outside the Swedish Parliament last year to draw attention to Climate Change, is tonight leading a march i
Protests by millions of young people that swept across the globe, demanding action against Climate Change, have come to a close. From australia to india, europe and the United States, they took to the streets to call for change. Their inspiration is teenage activist Greta Thunberg who told crowds in new york we will make them hear us. Nick bryant has the story. Dont let our people die Climate Change is not a lie the protests followed the sun. From the low lying Pacific Islands to drought ridden australia, from the streets of south africa to the Brandenburg Gate in berlin. The children of the world, the inheritors of our Climate Change crisis. What do we want . Climate justice when do we want it . Now young voices speaking with passion and urgency, because theirs is the future thats at stake. Considering we have such a short amount of time to turn this issue around, its vital that young people are at the forefront of this conversation because they will be impacted more than anyone else.