Restored spitfire. Hello to you. President trump has hit back at democrats in the house of representatives, who have announced articles of impeachment against him. Mr trump said they were crazy and that he would win a trial in the senate, which is republican controlled. He urged his opponents to move quickly so the country could, as he put it, get back to business. The leading democrat, nancy pelosi, said her party had been left with no choice but to act after weeks of hearings in washington. Nick bryant has the latest. On capitol hill today, the battle lines started being marked out for an epic political fight. A process likely now to lead to the trial of donald trump, a constitutional spectacle seen only twice before in americas turbulent history. The Democratic House speaker, nancy pelosi, is now ready to move forward with drafting the articles of impeachment, a charge sheet, in effect, accusing the president of high crimes and misdemeanours. Sadly, but with confidence and humility,
President trump has hit back at democrats in the house of representatives, who have announced articles of impeachment against him. Mr trump said they were crazy and that he would win a trial in the senate, which is republican controlled. On capitol hill today, the battlelines started being marked out for an epic political fight. A process likely now to lead to the trial of donald trump, a constitutional spectacle seen only twice before in americas turbulent history. The Democratic House speaker, nancy pelosi, is now ready to move forward with drafting the articles of impeachment, a charge sheet, in effect, accusing the president of high crimes and misdemeanors. Sadly, but with confidence and humility, with allegiance to our founders and a heart full of love for america, today, i am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. The democrats havee accused donald trump of undermining american democracy by trying to get political dirt from the president of ukraine, volodymy
Already hundreds have been killed in landslides have had to leave their homes. President trump has hit back at democrats in the house of representatives, who have announced articles of impeachment against him. Mr trump said they were crazy and that he would win a trial in the senate, which is republican controlled. He urged his opponents to move quickly so the country could, as he put it, get back to business. The leading democrat, nancy pelosi, said her party had been left with no choice but to act after weeks of hearings in washington. Nick bryant has the latest. On capitol hill today, the battle lines started being marked out for an epic political fight. A process likely now to lead to the trial of donald trump, a constitutional spectacle seen only twice before in americas turbulent history. The Democratic House speaker, nancy pelosi, is now ready to move forward with drafting the articles of impeachment, a charge sheet, in effect, accusing the president of high crimes and misdemean
Borisjohnson has won the conservative leadership election and will become the uks Prime Minister tomorrow. He beat his opponentjeremy hunt by some margin, nearly double, with over 92,000 votes. Heres a little of his acceptance speech. And we know the mantra of the campaign that isjust gone by. In case you have forgotten it, you probably have because its been a while since weve covered it. It is deliver brexit, unite the country and defeat jeremy corbyn. And that is what we are going to do and i know some lad has alreary pointed out that deliver, unite and defeat is not the perfect acronym for an Election Campaign since unfortunately, it spells dud. But they forgot the final e, my friend. E forenergise the Deputy Editor of the guardian points out and the leader of the opposition has warned that mrjohnson may not be able to hold on to powerfor long. Jeremy corbyn says labour will table a vote of no confidence in the new pm, but he wont say when. We will decide when that will be. It will
Rain are expected. Facebook is reportedly fined a record £4 billion to settle an investigation into violations of its users data privacy. Simona halep wins her first wimbledon title beating Serena Williams in straight sets on centre court. And england comfortably beat scotland to make it two wins from two at the netball world cup. Well have more on this and rest of the days action in sportsday in half an hour on bbc news. Good afternoon. The metropolitan police have released a statement in connection with leaked government documents which led to the resignation of the uk ambassador to the the us, Sir Kim Darroch. Assistant commissioner neil basu reiterated that publishing any more leaks could be a criminal offence but says the police respect press freedom. Andy moore reports. Sir kim darroch has resigned but that is not the end of the matter. Now a Police Inquiry will try to get to the bottom of who leaked his e mails. The memos published in the mail on sunday called the president ine