President trump has lashed out over his imminent impeachment in a 6 page letter to top democrat nancy pelosi, accusing her of declaring open war on american democracy. On the eve of the crucial vote in the house of representatives, which is dominated by the democrats, hes claimed hes been denied his most fundamental rights even though hes turned down an offer to give evidence himself, and have his legal team question witnesses. In his letter to the House Majority leader mr trump claims the charges he faces are completely disingenuous, meritless, and a baseless invention of your imagination and also claims the impeachment process, which is set out under the Us Constitution, is nothing more than an illegal, partisan attempted coup that will, based on recent sentiment, badly fail at the voting booth. Now the fear that impeachment could backfire, politically, on democrats is in the minds of some members of congress, as our north america editorjon sopel reports. 0h, say does that star spang
This is a really hard time of year to be homeless which is why one high street bank says its stepping in to help. Hello and welcome. Im katty kay in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. There is an evergreen quality to the title of this programme. Particularly when leaders keep promising to get things done within 100 days. And so it was this morning. The british Prime Minister at his first Cabinet Meeting since re election promised to work flat out to deliver on the promises he has had made to the british people. Among a number of commitments the tories have made is a new one that will prevent parliament from extending the brexit transition period beyond dec 31st next year. The Prime Minister says the deadline will focus minds in westminster as well as in brussels. The eu has dismissed it as sabre rattling and said it was expected as part of the Prime Ministers political positioning. The withdrawal bill itself will be brought back to the house on friday. Today was about, swear
Itv star Caroline Flack will not be presenting the new love island after being charged with assault. A lucky escape on one of londons busiest roads and the celebrity who came to the rescue. And coming up on bbc news, questions asked over liverpools decision to send a youth side to play in the league cup whilst their first team will play in qatar, despite their poor human rights records. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. John worboys, the serial sex offender whos been injailfor ten years, has been sentenced again this time, two life terms for attacking four more women. The court heard that worboys, who drugged women in the back of his black cab, remains as dangerous as ever. He now calls himselfjohn radford. As our special correspondent lucy manning explains, the women came forward last year after the controversy surrounding the possibility of his release. The black cab rapist would have been freed. Instead, he could now spend the rest of his life in prison. The authoriti
By one who lost her seat. Half a million washing machines are recalled by whirlpool over fears they could catch fire. And a Ground Breaking trial using mri scanning that could transform screening for Prostate Cancer. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news liverpools youngest ever first team is beaten as aston villa reach the semi finals of the carabao cup. Good evening. John worboys, the london taxi driver convicted of rape and numerous sexual offences, has been handed two additional life sentences for attacks on four more women. It has been revealed that worboys has confessed to targeting as many as 90 victims. Last year, the parole board reversed a decision to release him after a widespread public outcry. It prompted other victims to come forward to report attacks dating back nearly two decades. Mrsjustice mcgowan said today she did not know when if ever worboys will would cease to be a risk. Our special correspondent lucy manning has more details. They said the black cab rapist was
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