and hong kong activists call for people to rise up against beijing s plan to impose national security laws on the ity. hello. brazil s supreme court has released a video showing president bolsonaro trying to interfere in law enforcement appointments to protect his family from investigation. john holman joins us from mexico city. what more do we know about this video and how it came about? this is quite a complicated situation so i m just going to try to break it down for you. this all started when severageyow moro, brazil s justice minister, a star in his own right, quit. what he alleged is that president bolsonaro try to replace the regional police chief of rio de janeiro where his son is being investigated for graft. he then went bun level above that and fired the federal police chief. sergio moro said that was so he could replace him with someone more pliable, who could pass the president information about those cases. that s what he alleged. the supreme court which has
four million year old skull of an ape in ethiopia raises doubts about how humans evolved. and coming up on bbc news. in her bid to win a 24th grand slam title, serena williams comes from a set down to make it through to the third round at the us open. good afternoon, and welcome to the bbc news at one. the government insists mps will have time to debate the uk s departure from the european union, despite plans to suspend parliament for five weeks. yesterday, the queen approved boris johnson s request to prorogue, or shut parliament, until october 14th, less than three weeks before the uk is due to leave the eu. today, lord young, a conservative whip in the house of lords, resigned in protest at the decision, saying it risked fundamentally undermining parliament. here s our political correspondent, jonathan blake. the morning after a day of drama at westminster and the fallout continues from the prime minister s decision to suspend parliament. it is business as usual as far as
british politicians are gearing up for a potential brexit battle next week, as mps grapple with the prime minister boris johnson s decision to suspend parliament early. the challenges to mrjohnson‘s move have continued today legislative, legal and from the public, and we ll take a look at all those in a moment. but first, the leader of the oppositionjeremy corbyn says he s ready to take on the government. we believe we can do it otherwise would not be trying to do it. i had a very constructive meeting with the leaders of all the opposition parties in my office a couple of days ago to go through these, and we are working together to do everything we can to ensure that parliament is able to assert itself on behalf of the british people to prevent a no deal exit from the union. what about a vote of no confidence? how does that fit in? it fits in absolutely with it, of course, and that will be put at the appropriate moment. the government has defended its move today. here s w
hello. the united states plans to start withdrawing troops from afghanistan before next yea r‘s presidential election. secretary of state mike pompeo describes his directive from president trump as unambiguous end the endless wars. the afghan war is america s longest, with about 1a,000 us troops still there. two were killed on monday in an apparent insider attack by an afghan soldier, and although peace talks continue with taliban militants, the chances of real progress look uncertain. here is our north america correspondent peter bowes. this appears to be a sign that president trump is increasingly impatient over a lack of progress over the last two years. he has a lwa ys over the last two years. he has always made it well known, as he puts it, that he prefers to end these endless wars. and this is currently america s longest war. he would rather be taking troops out than putting troops in or living with the status quo. i think the key is in terms of this phrase, he woul
hello. the united states plans to start withdrawing troops from afghanistan before next yea r‘s presidential election. secretary of state mike pompeo describes his directive from president trump as unambiguous end the endless wars. the afghan war is america s longest, with about 1a,000 us troops still there. two were killed on monday in an apparent insider attack by an afghan soldier, and although peace talks continue with taliban militants, the chances of real progress look uncertain. here s our north america correspondent, peter bowes. this appears to be a sign that president trump is becoming increasingly impatient over a lack of progress in afghanistan over the last couple of years. and he has always made it well known that he prefers to, as he puts it, to end these endless wars, and of course, this is currently america s longest war. he would rather be taking troops out than putting troops in, or living with the status quo. and i think the key, in terms of the phrase