Hello. Britains Prime Minister has agreed to demands from parliament for more time to scrutinise his brexit deal, but only if mps agree to an early general election, in december. Effectively, it means borisjohnson has conceded for the first time that he cant keep his promise to take britain out of the European Union by the end of october. But its not clear if even this move will work out for him. He needs a two thirds majority in parliament to call an election and the Opposition Labour Party are not certain to support it. Heres our political editor, laura kuenssberg. Is there any clear way out of the storm . Downing street wants a route to a general election. After weeks of negotiation with brussels, number 10 did strike a deal but mps rejected the Prime Ministers plan to force it through at top speed, so now he wants to force them to go to the country. The way to get brexit done is, i think, to be reasonable with parliament and say, if they genuinely want more time to study this excel
His irish counterpart leo vardar who says an agreement before the october 31st deadline is still possible. We are. Pushing me to reach to the british team to know are you going to brief the 37 members have november. Of the following a time or do you see dr. Rick sheet rock climbing the mountain. We need. You to i mean in terms of patience chinas president is in india meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi xi jinping is discussing tensions in the disputed region of indian administered kashmir china has supported pakistan at a recent Un Security Council meeting also up for discussion indias 53000000000. 00 trade deficit with china and new security measures along their shared border. Well pakistans Prime Minister is heading to iran for talks before going to be arabia in whats believed to be efforts to help mediate between the 2 go for rivals a spokesman for irans government says imran khan stated that the Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin said a man asked him to help negotiate with the leader
Subway stations and businesses the protesters view unsympathetic to their movement. As routine now riot police came in to push the protesters out most left but small numbers faded into the smaller streets and with the announcement of more protests planned for this weekend its a routine that will probably be repeated its got hardly aljazeera hong kong that well u. S. President donald trump says he wont cooperate with an impeachment inquiry until the house of representatives has voted to approve the investigation white house is facing a deadline to turn over documents to congress or democrats when they will issue subpoenas the trunk says he neednt comply until a vote has taken place and it comes as Text Messages reveal how u. S. Officials want to push the ukrainian president to investigate trumps leading opponent joe biden well an official joins us live now from washington to transfer marks come as any surprise alan. It really has been stonewalling any sort of oversight that has come fro
A stone wall them in the past and when asked about at this time he gave this response i dont know that stuff is the lawyer i know the lawyers think theyve never seen anything so there theyve never seen that they think so i just ive been president now for almost 3 years and ive been a guy for this for almost 3 years its almost become like a part of my day and now house committees involved in the impeachment inquiry have os for documents from Vice President light and its about any role he might have played. Thats right well there are observers here in washington who would suggest that might pence was thrown under the bus by the president at his News Conference last week when he said well youre talking about my phone calls with ukraine what about mike pences phone calls with your create well all the house committees that have the oversight thought you know what a boat might pay and so they want to talk to him about what he knew about the phone calls in may and also in july what briefings
Cooperates but of course we know this track record is that he tends to stonewall and he tries to delay the 3 House Committee chairman have said that they sent a subpoena to the white house they want full details of the call with ukraine and the white house are going to object to that this is likely to end up in the Supreme Court this is happened before and its likely to be where pins this time round as well quite simply the house is frustrated with the stonewalling with the delays with. The failure to deliver documents that theyre asking and so that is why they have put forward this subpoena and also includes Mick Mulvaney who is the chief of staff some would argue often the 2nd most powerful job in washington is the president s chief of staff they want documents from him as well now what sort of public can the White House Point of view well they say that until the house has a full vote on impeachment then there are no impeachment proceedings ongoing and the know that if they did that