Now on bbc news, live to singapore for Asia Business report. Is the trade war deescalating . China and the us agreed to roll back some tariffs. Three years on, we assess the impact of indias ban on high value Currency Notes. It isa it is a friday, almost the weekend, good morning, asia, helloworld, glad you canjoin good morning, asia, helloworld, glad you can join us good morning, asia, helloworld, glad you canjoin us for good morning, asia, helloworld, glad you can join us for another action packed edition of Asia Business report, i am packed edition of Asia Business report, iam rico packed edition of Asia Business report, i am rico hizon, packed edition of Asia Business report, iam rico hizon, starting off with the trade war because the two economic superpowers appear to be inching towards a endgame and on wall street, investors are pleased with the latest signs of progress with the latest signs of progress with all of the major benchmarks surging to record highs. Asia is in positive
New developments in washington as the impeachment inqury against President Trump gathers pace. Mr trumps dealings with ukraine are at the centre of the inquiry, and testimony has now emerged, from a senior american diplomat, whos told congressional investigators the president s personal lawyer ran a Smear Campaign against the former Us Ambassador to ukraine, to try to get her removed. George kent, whos in charge of ukraine policy at the state department, accused Rudy Guiliani of spreading what he called lies about marie yovanovitch. She was later recalled from her post. More on that and other developments from our north america correspondent david willis. Firstly we should say that he testified last month but a transcript has only just testified last month but a transcript has onlyjust been made public. Yes. And it is a long and comprehensive transcript. He gave a lot of evidence to that enquiry last month and george kent hitting the headlines today for that claim that there was a Smea
Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 8pm in washington dc, where the impeachment inquiry continued to unfold on thursday and President Trump went on the attack. Hes furious about reports that he asked attorney general william barr to hold a press conference clearing him of any wrongdoing in that phone call with ukraines leader, in which mr trump asked for an investigation into his political rivaljoe biden. At the time, military aid to ukraine was on hold. Mr barr refused to hold a news conference. This, as highly anticipated public impeachment hearings are due to begin next week. Vice president mike pence accused the democrats of using the inquiry as a way of overturning the 2016 election result. What is going on in washington, dc today is a disgrace. Behind closed doors, there is a so called impeachment enquiry that i think the American People know is nothing more than a partisan impeachment, the latest effort by democrats to try and overturn the results of the 2016
New developments in washington as the impeachment inqury against President Trump gathers pace. Mr trumps dealings with ukraine are at the centre of the inquiry, and testimony has now emerged, from a senior american diplomat, whos told congressional investigators the president s personal lawyer ran a Smear Campaign against the former Us Ambassador to ukraine to try to get her removed. George kent, whos in charge of ukraine policy at the state department, accused Rudy Giuliani of spreading what he called lies about marie yovanovitch. She was later recalled from her post. George kent testified last month before the house impeachment inquiry and the transcript has only just been released. The bbcs david willis has been taking a look. And it is a long and comprehensive transcript. He gave a lot of evidence to that enquiry last month and george kent hitting the headlines today for that claim that there was a Smear Campaign orchestrated by Rudy Giuliani against the Us Ambassador to the ukrain
South east england around about lunchtime, following on behind, a brisket north westerly flow, see those showers packing in here, and some wittiness into the hills as well. A brisk wind, and without it will even chillier on monday. Temperatures for the most part in single figures. A similar picture going into tuesday. The low pressure now just passing to going into tuesday. The low pressure nowjust passing to the north of scotland, again that flow of air from the west and north west around that, bringing the showers from north west to the south east across the uk. Most frequent towards the north west. Maybe a bit of hail and some wittiness to the hills. Many southern and eastern parts of the uk seeing relatively few showers, temperatures fairly similar. Looking into wednesday, another gap between weather systems could well start frosty on wednesday morning, but notice we have more weather fronts with more rain, as they pushed east, summerhill snow coming in. With more rain, as they pus