Youre watching bbc news at 9 with me rebecca jones. The headlines at 9. The moment of crisis has come David Attenborough tells the bbc efforts to tackle Climate Change need to happen now as Global Temperatures reach an all
time high. This is an urgent problem that has to be solved. And what is more, we know how to do it. That is the paradoxical thing, that we are refusing to take steps we know have to be taken. Those comments from sir David Attenborough come as the bbc launches a year of special coverage on Climate Change. Prince harry will make his first public appearance since he and his wife meghan announced theyll be stepping back from their roles as senior royals. The nhs demands Gambling Companies take urgent action to tackle addiction and its effects on peoples Mental Health. An aide to Donald Trumps lawyer claims the president knew exactly what was going on when ukraine was pressured to investigate his democratic rival. And in sport. Why children in scotland
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It is not clear whether donald trump himself knew that when he hired tired bannon last week, but it has now been confirmed, as have some new troubling allegations of antisemitism from steve bannon. Allegations which have just in the last hour been reported by nbc news, and were going to have those in detail in just a moment. Its some truly surprising stuff. Weve also made some progress today on one of the weirder loose ends of this whole campaign thus far, which is this truly strange, like laugh out loud strange, doctors letter, which remains the only documentation the Donald Trump Campaign has ever released about their candidates health. Well, this is a strange letter. Hed be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency, blah, blah, blah. The new york city doctor who is behind that letter, has now explained why that letter is so unusual. And hes done it on camera. We have all of that straight ahead, including the doctor himself, on tape and on the record, explaining this t
That meeting will happen as Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey ford testify on capitol hill about her Sexual Assault allegations against the Supreme Court nominee. First on rosenstein. A senior official tells us the Deputy Attorney general overestimated how angry the president would be. Rosenstein expected fury after the New York Times reported he suggested secretly recording the president and using the 25th amendment to remove him from office. Rosenstein offered his resignation from office which led to discussions with top officials through yesterday. For now, the future of the man in charge of the russia investigation remains very much up in the air. Senior White House Correspondent jeff zeleny with the latest. Reporter christine and dave, President Trump waking up in new york for the second day of the General Assembly. He certainly is going to be on the world stage addressing world leaders. It is trouble and controversy back in the white house which is overshadowing his entire mee
Seven weeks at sea. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. Tuesday, september 25th. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. In six hours, the president addresses the u. N. General assembly. We start with what is happening in washington. If monday was any version of a fire drill, expect thursday to be hotter. President trump facetoface with Rod Rosenstein who right now is still Deputy Attorney general following a very chaotic day on the capitol. That meeting happening as Christine Blasey ford and Brett Kavanaugh testify on capitol hill about her Sexual Assault allegations against the Supreme Court nominee. So first on rosenstein. A senior official tells us the Deputy Attorney general overestimated how angry the president would be. Rosenstein expected fury after the New York Times reported he suggested secretly recording the president and using the 25th amendment to remove him from office. Rosenstein offered his resignation from office which led to discussions w
For scotland and Northern Ireland. The timing of these showers quite tricky. Temperature down again because it is slightly colder air. As we head to the weekend it will feel colder but it should be and brighter. High pressure, he really quite intense area of High Pressure, something we have not seen a lot of this winter so far. It coincides with the we cancelled although it is a widespread frost is that we will be rewarded with some clear skies. Temperatures will not get even to average for the time of year but with the lighter winds foremost and the sunshine i am sure that will compensate. Another chilly crisp start on sunday, bear in mind we have a lot of moisture around at the moment so at the moment it looks like frosty mornings over the weekend. Widespread frost sunday morning and temperatures recover in that hopefully strengthening january sunshine. We are going to pick up more moisture as we go towards the start of the week so although another dry, crisp, sunny day for the most