That will not happen today. It means attention turns to with the Withdrawal Agreement bill. This is a huge piece of legislation that would essentially bring the brexit deal and a part of the u. K. That is due to be published later this evening and then you should have votes on that tomorrow, the first of which would be a second reading and essentially if that goes through, it would be seen as a big win for the Prime Minister because it would mean mps back to brexit deal. They are happy for legislation to go forward to bring the brexit deal into u. K. Law. What would happen after that and what we expect the government to do is introduce a Program Motion that would accelerate the passage of the Withdrawal Agreement through the house of commons hoping to have it passed all its stages in the house of commons by friday. That would then set the stage for it to become part of u. K. Legislation by october 31. The current brexit deadline. David thank you so much. I think i understood that, but
We have been watching this run off here that has been coming just roaring down this wash that goes into a golf course. A lot of rain in palm springs and In The Valley where we are getting a couple of inches of rain which equals about half of what this area gets in a year. Authorities have closed a lot of the roads that goes over these washes. They did that pre emptively before the storm rolled in. They have done some of that here over the last few hours as the floodwaters grew and you see the gusty wind and some of the heavy rain has stopped over the past few hours but now on the backside of the storm this is really starting to gust as hillary moves on to the north. We can see the wind picking up there and in terms of the people who are living there, jason, how accustomed are they to this . You mentioned this is about as much rain as they usually get in a whole year. How vulnerable is this community . They are not accustomed to this at all. This morning i was at a station where they we
russia s foreign minister has called for a un security council meeting,. as this happened during previous prisoner swaps. our russia editor steve rosenberg gave us the latest from moscow. caught on mobile phone, the moment a russian military transport plane fell from the sky. woman speaks russian good god, she cries, as the consequence of what has happened becomes clear. the wreckage was strewn across the fields of belgorod region. not only did russia accuse ukraine of shooting the plane down, it claimed that on board were dozens of ukrainian prisoners of war who were about to be exchanged. translation: on board the plane, there were six crew members, - 65 ukrainian servicemen for a prisoner swap, and three russian military personnel escorting them. the crew and all the passengers on the plane were killed. with this terrorist attack the ukrainian leadership has shown its true colours. over at the russian parliament, mps were quick to condemn ukraine and those countries who
welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. let s start in ukraine as we try to verify exactly what happended with the destruction of a major dam in southern ukraine. scientists have found evidence that there was a large explosion in the area of the kakhovka dam, close to the time when the dam was breached. a seismology team from norway found evidence of a blast by looking at seismic signals detected in romania. in a separate development, ukraine s security services have released a recording of what they say are two russian military figures discussing how the dam was sabotaged although the recordings can t be verified. ukraine has reported heavy fighting in the eastern region of donetsk on friday. officials said ukrainian forces had gained more ground near the city of bakhmut. there are also reports of heavy fighting in zaporizhzhia. military experts say the area will be the focus of ukraine s long awaited counter offe