New developments in washington as the impeachment inqury against President Trump gathers pace. Mr trumps dealings with ukraine are at the centre of the inquiry, and testimony has now emerged, from a senior american diplomat, whos told congressional investigators the president s personal lawyer ran a Smear Campaign against the former Us Ambassador to ukraine, to try to get her removed. George kent, whos in charge of ukraine policy at the state department, accused Rudy Guiliani of spreading what he called lies about marie yovanovitch. She was later recalled from her post. More on that and other developments from our north america correspondent david willis. Firstly we should say that he testified last month but a transcript has only just testified last month but a transcript has onlyjust been made public. Yes. And it is a long and comprehensive transcript. He gave a lot of evidence to that enquiry last month and george kent hitting the headlines today for that claim that there was a Smea
A Police Officer has been charged with the murder of the former footballer Dalian Atkinson, who died after being tasered. The ex aston villa striker was restrained by officers at his Fathers House in telford, in 2016. A second officer, also from west Mercia Police force, has been charged with assault causing actual bodily harm. Both appeared in court on thursday, as our correspondent sian lloyd reports. Dalian atkinsons talents brought him some memorable goals. This strike clinched him goal of the season in 1993. His career spanned 15 years, including four seasons with aston villa in the 1990s. But three years ago, police were called to his fathers home near telford. A taser was discharged and Dalian Atkinson was restrained. He died shortly afterwards following a cardiac arrest. What happened there was investigated by the police watchdog. Following that independent inquiry, two west mercia Police Officers, whose identities are being protected, appeared in court today. Both were charged
Hello to you. New developments in washington as the impeachment inquiry against President Trump gathers pace. His dealings with ukraine are at the centre of the inquiry and testimony has now emerged from a senior american diplomat, whos told congressional investigators the president s personal lawyer ran a Smear Campaign against the former Us Ambassador to ukraine to try to get her removed. George kent, whos in charge of ukraine policy at the state department, accused Rudy Giuliani of spreading what he called lies about marie yovanovitch. She was later recalled from her post. George kent testified last month before the house impeachment inquiry and the transcript has only just been released. The bbcs david willis has been taking a look. It is a long and comprehensive transcript. He gave a lot of evidence to that enquiry last month, mike, and george kent hitting the headlines today for that claim that there was a Smear Campaign orchestrated by Rudy Giuliani against the Us Ambassador to
New developments in washington as the impeachment inqury against President Trump gathers pace. Mr trumps dealings with ukraine are at the centre of the inquiry, and testimony has now emerged, from a senior american diplomat, whos told congressional investigators the president s personal lawyer ran a Smear Campaign against the former Us Ambassador to ukraine to try to get her removed. George kent, whos in charge of ukraine policy at the state department, accused Rudy Giuliani of spreading what he called lies about marie yovanovitch. She was later recalled from her post. George kent testified last month before the house impeachment inquiry and the transcript has only just been released. The bbcs david willis has been taking a look. And it is a long and comprehensive transcript. He gave a lot of evidence to that enquiry last month and george kent hitting the headlines today for that claim that there was a Smear Campaign orchestrated by Rudy Giuliani against the Us Ambassador to the ukrain
With the headlines. About 11 in cardiff. Now on bbc news, its hardtalk. Still on the chilly side. Into friday evening then, that area of cloud and rain slowly clears off towards the east, hello and welcome to hardtalk. So under those clearing skies, have a look at the blue colours, im shaun ley. That indicates quite a cold start to your weekend, in fact, subzero temperatures for many of us, particularly in the north first thing saturday, but really wherever you are, you could well wake up to quite we use random trials to test whether medicines make a difference. A sharp frost. Why not use the same method to find effective treatments for poverty . After that chilly start to saturday, the experimental trials in africa and india, run by professor esther duflo and two colleagues, have won them the nobel prize for economics. More cloud and rain work among theirfindings food aid isnt helping the poor and the poorest kids dont need more books, in from the west through the day, they need more