A discussion with ambassador bolton both after the meeting in his office a very brief one and then one immediately afterwards the subsequent meeting so the subsequent meeting after both meetings when you spoke to him and relayed to him what ambassador sunland what did ambassador bolton say to you well i just want to highlight 1st of all that. The bolton wanted me to hold back in the room immediately after the meeting again i was sitting on the sofa with a colleague right were just in that 2nd meeting what what did yesterday was he was making a very strong point they wanted to know exactly what was being said and when i came back and related to it to him he had some very specific instructions for me and im presuming that thats what was estimated as instrument specific instruction was that i had to go to the lawyers to John Eisenberg a senior counsel for the National Security council to basically say you tell isenberg ambassador bolton told me that i am not pos of this whatever drug deal
I hear its a joke i havent watch have a watch for one minute. Meanwhile donald trump himself dismisses the impeachment hearings as he meets his turkish counterpart for the 1st time since turkey syria offensive also in the news dozens killed in gaza as israel launches more air strikes over 200 rockets are fired in response and clashes between the pro and anti morale this supporters the al stability in leader rejects the move by an opposition senator to declare herself interim president. So the 1st public hearing of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump has ended but testimony from the u. S. Is acting ambassador in ukraine in that testimony William Taylor suggested to politicians on capitol hill that trump asked about a year. Craney an investigation into his democratic rival joe biden also taking the stand the Senior State Department official george kent told me talking to our correspondent in jordan about and among the 1st this report from heidi castor the whole truth and
Its saturday the 19th october. Our top story mps will vote on borisjohnson push bike you brexit agreement. Parliament is sitting on a saturday, for the First Time Since the invasion of the falklands in 1982. Just hours before the crucial commons vote, the Prime Minister is working to persuade mps to support him. Borisjohnson will address parliament at 930. You will see that live on this programme along with all the build up to the key vote. Turmoil and barcelona. Fresh clashes between right police and protesters after the jailing of catalan separatist leaders. Just minutes to go until englands kick off at the huge world cup match against australia, this is the team leaving their hotel to travel to the stadium. They are on the pitch warming up and the loser of this match, dont forget, will be going home. Another changeable day on the way today, worth taking your brolly. Still some showers in the forecast but gradually through the weekend we will see fewer and fewer showers. It is saturd
Down but to turn one of our top stories the impeachment investigation into u. S. President onil trump there have now been subpoenas issued lets go to our alan fisher is live in washington d. C. So allan President Trump is unary clear that theres at least net right now hes not going to cooperate so what are democrats doing about that. Of course donald trump has been famous throat to his administration for any time he gets requests for documents from the democrats who took over the house of representatives and therefore oversight responsibilities at the beginning of this year that he said no he has built that store and wall hes decided that hes not going to give them any information whatsoever now the democrats said they wanted details of the phone call with ukrainian president they wanted all the information surrounding that the white house is essentially seeing thats not going to happen and saw the subpoenas have been issued that means theyre legally obliged to do that now this is goin
A compelling case for impeachment not only to convince the American Public but also Senate Republicans it would take a swell of republican the factors to remove trump from office and thus far theres only been a trickle. Castro aljazeera capitol hill. Well small still ahead on aljazeera trying to hack the u. S. President to cyber group linked to the iranian government is attacking microsoft accounts. Im a quote reporter from the waters off the coast of french guyana right of the my great tree roots of whales and other marine species as we listen to the sounds of the. How the weather is looking pretty mobile now across parts of Northern Europe because the sabria clapp which is. Piling across the low countries into germany thats the a remnant of what was storm around lorenzo thats going to city making its way further south which in the east was ahead of that this long line of class a lot of the shadows theyre still in place theyre just around grace pushing into that western side of turkey