Sometimes when ive heard some bad news or bad things that had happened outside, ijust, here and do some mechanical things. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Glad you could join us. Its 7 00am in singapore, midnight in london, and 7 00pm in washington, where the white house has published a letter to senior democrats, confirming that it will not co operate with impeachment proceedings against donald trump. The letter calls the process constitutionally illegitimate and claims democrats are seeking to deprive the American People of their president. Earlier, the Trump Administration blocked a key figure from testifying at an impeachment hearing. Gordon sondland, the Us Ambassador to the eu, was going to be asked whether he urged ukraine to investigate the former Vice President joe biden and his son. He released a statement saying hed been directed to stay away. Laura trevelyan has more from washington. Hes the manor House Democrats wa nted he
Meet afghanistans robotic team winning prizes and acclaim across the world, against the odds. Sometimes when ive heard some bad news or bad things that had happened outside, ijust, here and do democrats response was swift. Some mechanical things. Live from our studios the failure to produce this witness, in singapore and london, 00 01 11,005 2147483051 37 20,217 this is bbc world news 2147483051 37 20,217 00 00 02,764 its newsday. The failure to produce these documents, um, we consider yet additional strong evidence of obstruction of the constitutional functions of congress a coequal branch of government. Democrats were keen to question Gordon Sondland because hed been dealing with ukraine in the run up to the phone call between President Trump and that countrys leader, in which mr trump asked Volodymyr Zelensky to do him a favour and investigate the bidens. Us military to ukraine had been suspended days before. In Text Messages given to congress, veteran us diplomat bill taylor wrote.
Customers facing uncertainty. Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg arrives to cheering crowds at a youth summit on Climate Change in new york ahead of the Un General Assembly next week. And in football Kevin De Bruyne is the latest to help man city score a massive eight goals against watford. The labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has quashed an attempt to oust tom watson as his deputy following an angry backlash from mps. The grassroots group, momentum, had tabled a motion at the partys ruling National Executive committee, to abolish mr watsons role but this morning the nec backed mr corbyns proposal to reveiw the position instead. Tom watson described the ploy to remove him as a sectarian attack. Our Political Correspondent, nick eardley, reports. What does he want to be talking about . The nec agreed this morning that we are going to consult on the future, of diversifying the deputy leadership positions to reflect the diversity of our society. Policies . His plan for government . Defi
Happen be a brilliant man and cant lose 3 billion jobs. That will be magnified many times over. President trump added he will only make a deal with china if it is quote fair and good. President trump took questions on a variety of topics standing alongside Emmanuel Macrone. The form minister was invited by macrone. President trump says he is open with meeting with iran in the coming weeks. President trump tid not attend the meeting on Climate Change, his aids were there. They pledged a fund to combat the wild fires in the amazon. Here is what the president said when asked if he is worried about Climate Change. The United States has tremendous wealth. The wealth is under its feet. Im not going to lose that wealth, im not going to lose it on dreams and windmills which arent working too well. Trump says he wants to invite russia and Vladimir Putin to the summit next year and thinks its better to have russia in the room rather than out. The president beliefs his resort this florida would b
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