Hello and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week. Its almost christmas a moment to examine religion and politics across the globe, starting with the citizenship bill that is triggering huge demonstrations in india. Its also the week donald trump became only the third american president in history to be impeached. Does that energise or damage his campaign for re election . My guests catherine pepinster, commentator on religion and politics, french algerian journalist nabila ramdani, Stephanie Baker of bloomberg news, and Political Writer and broadcaster jonathan sacerdoti. Welcome to you all. On 25th december, christians celebrate a life story that began with the birth of a baby in a stable and ended with his execution as a common criminal. The point being that god is often closer to the weak than to the mighty. And christianity, like the worlds other great faiths, preaches compassion and tolerance. But for 2000 years, politicians have often preferred to politicise reli
Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Good morning. Its 8 00am in singapore, midnight in london, and 11 00am in australia where a state of emergency has been declared in New South Wales and now also queensland. Dozens of bushfires continue to burn in the region. Earlier, authorities issued the highest level of warning in some areas known as catastrophic for the First Time Since new fire warnings were introduced a decade ago. For more heres the bbcs phil mercer in sydney. Well, we have heard that 850,000 pairs of bushland has been burnt in New South Wales since the start of this years fire season hectares. So that is a huge area of land. Today we have heard that both New South Wales and queensland have declared a state of emergency. What that does, gives the fire authorities greater powers to protect life and property. So that just gives you an indication as to how serious this is. Dozens of fires are burning in both Eastern States and the fo
Hello and welcome to world news today. The Us Democratic president ial contender, joe biden, has accused donald trump of an overwhelming abuse of power. It follows reports he tried to pressure ukraine into opening a corruption investigation against mr biden and his son. President trump has not denied the reports claming it doesnt matter what i discuss. This is what mr biden had to say about the affair a few moments ago. Know trump t investigated. I know trump deserves to be investigated. He has violated every basic norm of a president. You should be asking him the question, why is he on the phone with a foreign leader . Trying to intimidate a foreign leader, if thats what happened. That is what appears what happened. That is what appears what happened. You should be looking at trump. Trump is doing this because he knows i will beat him like a drum, and theres usually an abuse of power in every element of the presidency to try to do something smear me. David willisjoins me now from wash
Hello, and welcome to bbc news. The Us Democratic president ial contender, joe biden, has accused donald trump of an overwhelming abuse of power. It follows reports he tried to pressure ukraine into opening a corruption investigation against mr biden and his son. President trump has not denied the reports, claming it doesnt matter what i discuss. This is what mr biden had to say about the affair a litte earlier. I know trump deserves to be investigated. He is violating every basic norm of a president. You should be asking him the question, why is he on the phone with a foreign leader, trying to intimidate a foreign leader, if thats what happened. But appears to be what happened. But appears to be what happened. You should be looking at trump. Trump is doing this because he knows i will beat him like a drum, and he is using his abuse of power and every element of the presidency to try to do something to smear me. That was a pretty fired up joe biden a couple of hours ago. David willis i
Remembering the largest Airborne Assault in history, a 97 year old veteran of the battle of arnhem takes to the skies to mark its anniversary. The Us Democratic president ial contender and frontrunner, joe biden, has accused donald trump of an overwhelming abuse of power. It follows reports he tried to pressure ukraine into opening a corruption investigation against mr biden and his son. Leading democrats say if true it could be grounds for impeachment. President trump says its another witch hunt. Our north america correspondent david willis reports. I know trump deserves to be investigated. He is violating a very basic norm of a president. You should be asking him the question, why is he on the phone with a foreign leader, trying to intimidate a foreign leader . If thats what happened, thats what appears happened. You should be looking at trump. Trump is doing this because he knows ill beat him like a drum and is using the abuse of power and every element of the presidency to try to d