Good to have you with us. We will have a visit busy programme today. Also in the programme should frequent flyers pay higher taxes to help tackle aviation emissions . Is this just another change that we will get used to, like paying for plastic bags . Tell us what you think, just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Lets get started. We start here in london where business will resume in the house of commons in a few hours time. It follows that dramatic and historic ruling by the Supreme Court that borisjohnsons decision to suspend parliament for five weeks was unlawful. The Prime Minister said he profoundly disagreed with the judges but would respect their decision. A senior Government Official said that borisjohnson spoke to the queen after that ruling, but would not reveal details of the conversation. Our political correspondentjessica parker has been following events. Parliament is opening up again. The media tenants are making a return. Westminster coming back to life. It wasnt his plan
Impeachment proceedings against donald trump but her strange the actions of the Trump Presidency revealed dishonorable fact of the president s betrayal of his oath of office betrayal of our National Security and the trail of the integrity of our elections. Therefore today im announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry and directing our 6 committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry the president must be held accountable no one is about the law police he says 2 reasons convinced her to launch the inquiry that President Trump was allegedly also the ukrainian president to investigate democratic rival joe biden and some that the white house then prevented a whistle blowers complaint about the president s request to reach congress as required by law pelosi is putting aside her fear with an impeachment investigation would allow President Trump to move his base with claims of another witch hunt he ma
Flooding as a result of that particularly wet weather it stays disturbed as we go on through wednesday was showers longer spells of rain that rain as you can see extending all the way down into the bay of biscay central as if youre also looking rather unsettled as push further east but quads are in moscow there but is it cold 7 degrees celsius or wednesday often they will warm up as we go on through the next few days but particularly greatly once settled whether that will push its way down towards the balkans towards rumania it was the black sea clear weather coming in behind it you see more blustery conditions for the most west of europe as we go on through thursday temperatures in london struggling to get to about 18 degrees. The weather sponsored by cattle railways. In a country beset by poverty and lack of infrastructure. Sometimes we risk our lives in taking these roads with cattle saving lives is a dangerous job its a vaccine so its on a good 24 hours there are patients waiting f
Here we are just one more ploy in their book and by the way we all know this isnt going to go anywhere in the senate if nancy pelosi was really worried she would say before we move lets look at the evidence lets try to get some republicans on board if we can get republicans on board based on evidence maybe this thing had a real chance but the fact is this is just like the russian probe its political its and its trying to turn over the 2016 election which the democrats tried to do even before trump was sworn into office. Members of Britains Parliaments are on their way back to work 24 hours off to Supreme Court judges ruled the Prime Ministers decision to send them home was unlawful Boris Johnsons flying back from the United Nations General Assembly new york to face calls for his resignation opposition m. P. s were inferior to that he suspended parliament for 5 weeks before the bracks it deadline and tobar for a child and now joins us live from outside of parliament and london so rory w
He was arguing the governments position he was saying that the advice that was given to the queen was given as you say in good faith that the government is disappointed that this Supremes Court decision went against it it disagrees with it but it will respect it he did defend the judiciary the independence of the judiciary unlike some of his conservative colleagues whos called what happened in the Supreme Court a constitutional crew geoffrey cox doesnt take that opinion but he had very harsh words for parliament itself calling it a dead Parliament Saying that the opposition were essentially like turkeys who were trying to get away from christmas coming but christmas would come. He is basically saying that the government is going to push again for a general election now we can talk now to kevin craig who is a labor party a councillor a businessman to give us something of the. The inside track from the opposition in any normal time if you had a minority government that last decision of t