Lu kewarm at best. A deadly outbreak of dengue fever in the philippines claims a thousand lives we report from the worst affected area. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Good morning. Its 7 am in singapore, midnight in london, and 7 pm in washington, wher the row over the democrats impeachment inquiry for donald trump has reached a new level. In effect, the president has doubled down, by calling openly notjust for ukraine to investigate the democratic president ial candidate, joe biden, but for china to do so as well. The democrats are describing it as repugnant, and a fundamental breach of the oath of office. But mr trump sees it differently. Take a listen. China should start an investigation into the bidens because what happened to china is just about as bad as what happened to ukraine so i would say that president Volodymyr Zelensky, if it were me, i would recommend they start an investigation into the bidens because nobody has any do
The eus response so far . Lu kewarm at best. A deadly outbreak of dengue fever in the philippines claims a thousand lives we report from the worst affected area. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, 1 00 in the morning in london, and 8pm in washington, where the row over the democrats impeachment inquiry for donald trump has reached a new level. In effect, the president has doubled down, by calling openly notjust for ukraine to investigate the democratic president ial candidate joe biden, but for china to do so as well. The democrats are describing it as repugnant, and a fundamental breach of the oath of office. But mr trump sees it differently. Take a listen. China should start an investigation into the bidens because what happened to china is just about as bad as what happened with, uh, with ukraine so i would say that president zelensky, if it were me, i would recommend that they start an investigation
A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. Today we hear from a new survey that finds people who quit facebook has become less repressed and more productive, so has ditching facebook made you more happy and. Using it would make you better with money . Thats what the survey said. Tell us what you think, just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Boris johnsons eu envoy is preparing for another round of talks in brussels on the latest brexit proposals put forward by the uk. Central to the plan is the idea that the whole of the uk leaves the eus customs territory but that Northern Ireland stays in the eus single market. But the blocs leaders say the proposals fall short of whats required to get a deal. Our europe correspondent, adam fleming, reports. David frost is facing a barrage of questions about the uk proposals. They foresee Northern Ireland following eu rules on agriculture and goods,
Is a big draw and one of the Worlds Largest air shows will be in dubai. Russias Sports Ministry has said it is not surprised by latest allegations that drug cheating is widespread in athletics but in a mixed message they completely rejected the worlds antidoping agencys conclusions and described the accusations that doping in russia were state sponsored as baseless and fictional and also insisted russias doping agencies are totally independent and says they collect 15,000 samples annually with disqualification of roughly 2 of the athletes tested and he is accused of double standards saying investigations are not commissioned in other countries and lets speak to rory challenge live in moscow and rory tell us more about what the russian Sports Ministry is saying because there is some confusion if its agreeing there is a problem here. Well, it does take a little bit of analysis to unpick the different comments that have come out of the Sports Ministry in the last few hours since the wider
Exit the world body. And germany mourns the loss of a former chancellor. Russia has been forced to close a laboratory after allegations of widespread drug cheating among itself athletes. Despite that the sports minister has vigorously denied the world antidopes agencys claims. He also insisted russias doping agencies are totally independent. He says they collect 15,000 samples annually, resulting in the disqualification of roughly 2 of athletes tested. He has accused the agency of double standards claiming similar investigations are not commissioned in other countries. Lets speak to lee wellings joining us from london. A strong sense of denial coming out of russia despite the laboratory closing down. Yeah, they had to close. There was no point in it being opened, because it was designed to link up with all of the other laboratories around the world, and the World Antidoping Agency runs all of them. And they suggested that it has to be closed down. It is of course, completely discredite