Testimony linking donald trump to a quid pro quo. Also on the programme. Nigel farage interviews donald trump on his lbc radio show. The president says he is hopeful the us and uk could strike a trade deal but hes concerned about the current brexit plan. We want to do trade with the uk and they want to trade with us. To be honest with you, this deal, under certain aspects of the deal, you cant do it. And for the first time in 100 years a washington dc based team wins the world series, perhaps in part maybejust a little bit due to me. Hello and welcome im Michelle Fleury in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. In a vote which split, almost entirely along party lines, the house of representatives has endorsed the democratic led impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The resolution, which was passed a few hours ago, provides for open hearings and a written report on the case. It also entitles the president to Legal Counsel in the hearings which so far he has been denied. But i
World series title. Hello, welcome to the programme. The house of representatives has endorsed the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The vote was almost entirely along party lines, with democrats supporting it, and republicans against. Its only the third time in modern history that the house has voted against a sitting president. Democrats are looking into whether President Trump betrayed his oath of office by trying to get a foreign power to investigate his political rival. As Laura Trevelyan now reports, its clear mr trump and House Speaker nancy pelosi are on a collison course. On this vote the yeas are 232, the nays are 196. A historic moment. A house of representatives votes to formalise an impeachment enquiry into the president. On the table. Did donald trump create a high crime and misdemeanour in trying to strong arm the ukrainian president into investigating joe biden . Thats the accusation. The house divided almost entirely on party lines. Only a couple of democrats v
To one of the suspects wanted over the deaths of 39 people in a lorry in essex. And, its rugby fever as england prepare for their World Cup Final clash tomorrow against south africa. And at pubs across england, they are expecting queues outside the door at 8am, as people gather together to watch the final. This pub has eight screens. Watch the final. This pub has eight screens. We will be reporting on the preparations. Coming up in the sport later in the hour on bbc news, victory for englands cricketers in the first match of their t20 series against new zealand. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Nigel farage has said his brexit party will contest every seat in england, wales and scotland in next months election unless borisjohnson drops his deal with the eu and signs up to a leave alliance. Mr farage said the Prime Ministers Withdrawal Agreement with the eu is simply not brexit. The brexit party say they have 500 candidates ready to fight the election. The conservative
Confused by it, you are not the only one. confused by it, you are not the only one. Many aspects of the brexit story. We will be joined by chris morris from the bbcs reality check. Get in touch with us through twitter and e mail. We will spend the whole hour of outside source looking at the issue of brexit, send in questions on any pa rt of brexit, send in questions on any part of it. These brexit talks come in two phases, the first one is all about the nature of the uks departure and the second is all about the nature of the uks future relationship with the eu, and for the second phase to start there needs to be sufficient progress in the first phase and we thought we might hear about that today, this is theresa may and Jean Claude Juncker, they met earlier we thought they might emerge to say they had reached that point. We were wondering, could they make enough progress on Citizens Rights and the divorce bill and the irish border and the answer was no. Im still confident that we can
Time for a look at the weather. Heres sarah keith lucas. Well last night we got down to 10 degrees in parts of eastern scotland and it is another chilly day out there but a lot of sunshine on offer gcioss there but a lot of sunshine on offer across many parts of the country. In fa ct we across many parts of the country. In fact we had some beautiful images coming in from our weather watchers. This in north wales where we had a lot of snowfall yesterday. But through the afternoon it will cold but there would be quite a bit of sunshine around. Higher pressure is in charge before the next front comes in from the north west. So the cloud has been pushing in across scotla nd cloud has been pushing in across scotland and Northern Ireland in particular. Clearer skies more sunshine across england. And here we keep the bright skies through the afternoon. Further north west you can see that cloud working in and the breeze picking up for scotland and Northern Ireland with a bit of rain and hill s