From the Great American songbook. Dealing with its debt restaurant chain Pizza Express calls in advisors over its £1 billion debt, ahead of crunch talks with its lenders. Andy murrays remarkable comeback from injury continues. Its confirmed that hell play singles at the australian in january, itll be his first singles appearance at a grand slamoa itll be his first singles appearance at a grand slam since major hip surgery. Sunshine and showers today but loving through quite quickly on a gusty wind. I will have more in 15 minutes. Its tuesday 8th october. Our top story the foreign secretary dominic raab has called on his us counterpart, mike pompeo, to allow a diplomats wife to return to the uk and face Police Questions about a fatal traffic accident. 19 year old harry dunn died in august after his motorbike was hit by a car near raf croughton, in northamptonshire, a military base used by the us air force. The main suspect, named as anne sacoolas, has left the uk and is protected from
Sometimes when ive heard some bad news or bad things that had happened outside, ijust, here and do some mechanical things. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Glad you could join us. Its 7 00am in singapore, midnight in london, and 7 00pm in washington, where the white house has published a letter to senior democrats, confirming that it will not co operate with impeachment proceedings against donald trump. The letter calls the process constitutionally illegitimate and claims democrats are seeking to deprive the American People of their president. Earlier, the Trump Administration blocked a key figure from testifying at an impeachment hearing. Gordon sondland, the Us Ambassador to the eu, was going to be asked whether he urged ukraine to investigate the former Vice President joe biden and his son. He released a statement saying hed been directed to stay away. Laura trevelyan has more from washington. Hes the manor House Democrats wa nted he
For us the impeachment of the present is the very seriousus matter and one that has been covered very extensively. This is the United States, as not only once but even potentially even of it this the abuse of power and the United States government to essentially in an attempt to a Foreign Government to interfere. I think in the investigation, and be on his political opponents. I mean, when i say, in terms of setting this time on it, its because rather straightforward, this is the complete violation, of our constitutional obligation. Its an abuse of power and betrayal of our country and not rely o that but it threatens our national security. I dont think that we should be wasting time debating if this is the legitimate graph, it is beyond legitimate. In fact every day that goes about, that went out accountability, integrity of our elections are threatened. We have to do something about it right now. He talked about it being a lethargic moment. We do think impeachment means. Impeachment
Meet afghanistans robotic team winning prizes and acclaim across the world, against the odds. Sometimes when ive heard some bad news or bad things that had happened outside, ijust, here and do democrats response was swift. Some mechanical things. Live from our studios the failure to produce this witness, in singapore and london, 00 01 11,005 2147483051 37 20,217 this is bbc world news 2147483051 37 20,217 00 00 02,764 its newsday. The failure to produce these documents, um, we consider yet additional strong evidence of obstruction of the constitutional functions of congress a coequal branch of government. Democrats were keen to question Gordon Sondland because hed been dealing with ukraine in the run up to the phone call between President Trump and that countrys leader, in which mr trump asked Volodymyr Zelensky to do him a favour and investigate the bidens. Us military to ukraine had been suspended days before. In Text Messages given to congress, veteran us diplomat bill taylor wrote.
Borisjohnson has reassured conservative mps that he will commit to a brexit negotation at the next election, but will leave with no deal if no compromise can be found. And the internet goes into meltdown as super sleuth Coleen Rooney outs fellow wag rebekah vardy, who she accuses of leaking stories to the tabloid press. Hello and welcome im Michelle Fleury in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. It is the norm these days, that Major International announcements come on twitter. Today was no different, the turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced to the world that his country was going to war in Northern Syria to neutralise the kurdish threat. Our mission, he said, is to prevent the creation of a terror corridor across our southern border and to bring peace to the area. The kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces or sdf had been braced for it for months, but they had been on heightened alert since the weekend when President Trump decided to withdraw us troops. In the United