We re our leaders are not caving as if we were in an emergency. In an emergency you change your behaviour to live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Its 8am in singapore, and here in london its just turned thursday the day the british electorate vote in their general election. The Party Leaders spent the final day of campaigning travelling from one key constituency to another, hoping to win last minute support. The bbcs Political Editor laura kuenssberg, has all the latest. Mrs monaghan at number eight was the yorkshire tory voter with an unusual milkman this morning. Morning so nice to meet you, Prime Minister. What are you doing up this morning . I am bringing your chocolate milk, orange juice. 0h, chocolate milk the last day of any election peak political pantomime. I will be with you in a second. I have an earpiece ready to go. Borisjohnson even retreated into a giant fridge when a reporter tried to persuade him on live television. Dont b
To Eliot Higgins, founder of the open source investigations website bellingcat. Welcome to hardtalk, with me, stephen sackur. What is the truth behind the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight mh17 or the poisoning of the former russian spy Sergei Skripal, or the recent assassination of a Chechen Rebel fighter in berlin. My guest today thinks he can piece together truths from the World Wide Web. He is Eliot Higgins, the founder of investigative website bellingcat. In an age beset by fake news, has he really found a way to distinguish fact from fiction . Eliot higgins, welcome to hardtalk. I want to start if i may with a self definition. Would you describe yourself as a journalist or a data analyst or some sort of online detective . I like online detective. We do acts ofjournalism and some of the work we are doing but really, the way we work with bellingcat uses open source investigation on a whole range of topics that go beyond journalism. I find it very difficult to define what we
Good morning. It is 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in london and 8 00pm on capitol hill in washington, where the Housejudiciary Committee has been debating for the last hour or so the articles of impeachment against President Trump. After what will be a spirited discussion, they will most likely vote later on thursday, ahead of a vote in the full house next week. If the president is impeached, the senate would hold a trial in the new year. With me is our north america correspondent peter bowes. Peter, tell us more about how this debate is unfolding. Well, this is a debate, as we expected, that is very impassioned from both sides. The democrats saying that President Trump has committed constitutional crimes and should, in effect, face the music. These two articles of impeachment, the charges against the president that he abused his position as president , and abuse of power, and also tried to essentially lock the process to withhold information power, and also tried to essentially lock the
Across the north west of scotland. A chilly and frosty start, but remaining cool. Very blustery for scotla nd remaining cool. Very blustery for scotland and Northern Ireland with Winds Continuing to pick up. With increasing winds and cloud, not quite cold but further chilly conditions for the south eastern pockets with frost in any clear spells. Firstly, big changes. Low pressure begins to take over. A blustery day. Thursday. Persistent rain piling into western scotla nd persistent rain piling into western scotland could lead to localised flooding by the end of the day. Showers into western england and wales but also sunshine and a mild day, particularly in the north and west. Friday, a mild start in the south. Unsettle, outbreaks of rain showers and sunshine in the afternoon. Io 13 degrees showers and sunshine in the afternoon. 10 13 degrees in the south. Turning fresher as we head onto the start of the weekend. Quite blustery showers. High pressure licking from the west for saturday.
Do you trust that promise . Well, look, boris is good at making promises and not always keeping them. But it would have been madness, i think, to stand against the government of the day if theyre effectively saying the same thing that you are. So what we will now do is target labour seats. We need to get a brexit party voice in the house of commons to hold him to those promises. And in other seats, where the conservatives are the challengers to labour, actually the labour vote we get in those constituencies will, in fact, in many ways make it easier for borisjohnson. David cameron would not have had a majority in 2015 if it hadnt been for the impact of the brexit four million votes. And when you hear National Pollsters who say, well, the brexit party take ten conservative votes for every six labour votes, that may be the national picture, but the regional differences and the seat differences are enormous. So, no, im convinced this is the right strategy. I want brexit to happen. I think