Good morning welcome to breakfast withjon kay and nina warhurst. Our headlines today a nakedly political put up job. Downing street reacts angrily as borisjohnson is referred to the Police Watchdog over his links to an american businesswoman when he was mayor of london. The labour leader, jeremy corbyn, promises to replace the governments controversial welfare policy, universal credit, should they get into power. The heat dominates at the world athletics championships. Kenyas Ruth Chepngetich wins the womens marathon but nearly half the field pull out. Good morning. A very unsettled weekend ahead. Whilst there is some sunshine in the forecast, theres also heavy rain and some strong winds. All of the details in the next half an hour. Its saturday the 28th of september. Our top story downing street has reacted angrily after borisjohnson was referred to the Police Watchdog over his friendship with an american businesswoman. The independent office for Police Conduct will look at whether a
Week for Boris Johnson, with criticism of his use of language in the house of commons and his referral to a Police Watchdog, following allegations that an american businesswoman received favourable treatment when he was mayor of london, a move described today by a government minister as politically motivated. Heres our Political Correspondent, nick eardley. Power is seldom easy. Borisjohnson has found out quicker than mostjust how hard it can be and the pressure keeps on coming. Come to london, build your business is here. The lairof build your business is here. The lair of munden support you. The watchdog has been asked to investigate his relationship with this woman, jennifer arcuri, over claims she received favourable treatment including grants and trade trips when borisjohnson was london mayor. The pm denies any wrongdoing and downing street is furious. This is being politically driven, it is politically motivated and the Prime Minister has been clear that proprieties were reserved
Russia so in a way there was a lot of sever ties from the west let me remind you that. You know there are attempts to call for boys quarter of the world cup in russia the european leaders send them merican leaders didnt come they try to stop the so called negotiators socalled investigations. Into the way we go on this world cup or just like theyre trying to stop them with qatar but in fact if you look at the history or or world cups i think it was a matter of justice that countries such as russia such as qatar such as african countries like south africa these countries did not get world cups for decades let me remind you that for many years europe especially the u. K. Lechon america and to a certain extent the United States dominated you know their trend thats more walled cops then all the other countries and i think it was a very important trend change in the trend when 1st south africa then russia and now qatar hosting these games and 1000000000 viewers you know there is a bond 10000
Time wrap, the First Episode of the 46th parliament, im tom connell. The election, of course, ended on may 18 and there was much commentary about whether or not australian voters had not supported more ambitious action on Climate Change given that was the agenda of labor and they lost the election, but the greens are not lying down saying the action of other countries highlights australias lack of action. My question is to the leader of the government representing the Prime Minister. Minister, 717 jurisdictions across 16 countries have made a declaration that we are living in a Climate Emergency. The Uk Parliament indeed the Uk Parliament led by a conservative government supported the declaration of a Climate Emergency and showed global leadership. So, minister, how does your government justify having such pathetic pollution reduction tags at only 16 when you take into account carryover credits, how do you justify having targets that are completely inconsistent with keeping warming bel
I consider this to be child abuse the sexual relation of children on an industrial scale so it makes me feel terrible i cant believe that a mother would do this. Coming from moscow every hour of the day this is the line welcome to the program top story the u. K. Foreign office ordered inquiry into the leak of sensitive to diplomatic cables penned by britains ambassador to washington in a series of bomb shell remarks president Donald Trumps white house is the scribe. Dysfunctional among many other old comments made by the department. This is the story of a Foreign Office inquiry into a series of leaks memos that came from the u. K. s ambassador to the us so kim darrick well so kim has a 42 year career in diplomacy but some of these emails ended up in the mail on sunday the british newspaper and in those memos he gave a candid and damning assessment of the trumpet ministration. We dont really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal less dysfunctional less