it is unusualto launch ona make that? it is unusualto launch on a sunday, but i think the tories felt they would get more coverage, perhaps, ona felt they would get more coverage, perhaps, on a sunday, when you've got sunday papers that can focus for the whole week rather than having a storyjust from the day before. but i think, after what happened in the 2017 election, and the disaster that followed the manifesto, this was always going to have to be a safety first budget. you know, the party couldn't afford to have bold policies that hadn't been pre— announced, that might not go down well. so the idea was, make sure everybody sort of knows what is coming, don't do anything to disastrous. there are actually lots of little, relatively small, spending pledges that are going to be popular with different groups. you know, we've got ea billion for flood defences, we've got childcare, extra funding for child care, more for small businesses, cuts in business rates, and there is actually quite a tax cut in there, the increase i

in 1949, the legislature, for the first time, o had a separate one put ona separate the ballot, so in 1952, it was the first time that new hampshire voters could actually vote directly for president. since that ballot, the direct n,te, every person sent i every person voted for the new hampshire primary. >> oh, my goodness. 1 >[laughter] >> so eisenhower was the first, that showed each president which and thishey won, president was not elected, but he did win new hampshire, right along, right up until today, and 17there has been primaries, and of the 17, 14 of the winners became president that year, and the other three came in second place. and then they won a primary. so that is why they say every single one has at least one primary. this guy did it in 1913. in 1949, and this , picture what they look like when they did it. so in 1975, it happened in new england, and he was the one songed new hampshire law this is the centennial. be today, theot indiana,ident both in back to indiana, it is the same story in minnesota. minnesota got rid of it and indiana so we were standing alone. we h

i know there are defense lawyers looking at weapons, ona tasks and for him to get involved in general flynn, i know there are people looking at to see whether the 2016 contract if you work for the fbi. we need to wait and see what those answers are. but that will be an area for further investigation. >> is unlike he was being paid to do reports on china and on russia but in fact he made one to $2 million by being an informant and entrapping people from the trump campaign, george papadopoulos, he met paige, michael flynn, is that what you surmise? >> there may have been some prepayments from the fbi, that has never been answered. but their people currently looking investigating trying to determine if the payments of ona were a soft spy operation. we will have to wait until we get the facts but i think that's a very important question for the american people. maria: before you go, you have obviously been reporting incredibly on the story for three years now and you're doing the same on ukraine. now you are being attacked, we talked earlier there have been thousands of stories written ab

whoever wins next month, we appear to be ona whoever wins next month, we appear to be on a journey to more investment and more borrowing too. quite the change from the previous three elections. faisal islam, bbc news. the former labour mp and minister ian austin has said that jeremy corbyn is ‘completely unfit‘ to be prime minister and has urged people to vote for boris johnson instead. mr austin, who left the party in february and is not standing at the election, accuses mr corbyn of failing to tackle anti—semitism. it comes after labour's deputy leader, tom watson, announced he was stepping down as an mp, but for personal reasons. here's our political editor, laura kuenssberg. the buses look the same, but it's not just the season that the buses look the same, but it's notjust the season that makes this a very weird election, as one senior mp put it. inside both the big parties, there are serious doubts about the leaders. jeremy corbyn's track record of handling or not handling fast enough racism against jews is under attack again. anti—semitism is a poison and an evil in our

i willjust mention we are waiting ona i willjust mention we are waiting on a press conference with president trump, and president erdogan of turkey, it promises to be a fascinating affair not least because of the withdrawal of american troops and days later turkish troops going in and the consequences that had for the kurds who had been allies with america in fighting the islamic state promises to be fascinating. donald trump said he would destroy the turkish economy a few weeks ago when he wasn't happen which with the approach the turkish government was taking. relations seem to have improved since then but these are two strong minded leaders and it is very ha rd to two strong minded leaders and it is very hard to predict how a press conference of this nature will go. that will make for interesting viewing when it begin, we will turn to it. but we are focussing on washington. but we are focussing on washington. for the first time, the impeachment inquiry into donald trump has heard public testimony. and we've been given a detailed look into the inner workings of the president's administrati

whether it has any impact ona significantly. whether it has any impact on a general election, we will wait and see. does this increase the pressure on facebook? we had mark zuckerberg saying that political spending, people need to have the right to free speech. the revenue is important but also the ability to save. now the google and twitter are drawing a line stop i am a lobbyist, there will be a big old lobby on this issue. in advance of the us residential. that is the big prize. in terms of spending, its us presidential elections, 0lympics prize. in terms of spending, its us presidential elections, olympics and world cup the driver huge amount of an spending. there is going to be a lot of lobbying going on capitol hill. in advance of november next year. mark zuckerberg says, where do you draw the line, climate change or women's empowerment? it's a fair point but the argument back to that is, surely that's a question for regulators rather than by the company ‘s to decide. should facebook be the regulator in this case. it's a

you haven't heard how much i swear ona you haven't heard how much i swear on a roller—coaster. it's not pretty! i am going to get you to like horror movies. this is going to happen. this is a very good way in. it is fine. a little bit, you know, but nothing deeply disturbing. scary enough to count as a horror genre, however? but not scary enough to disturb you or give you nightmares. 0k. well, disturb you or give you nightmares. ok. well, something for everyone. exactly as you say. i'm afraid that harriet is top of my list. you will really like it, it is really worth saying. thank you very much, see you next time. thank you for being with us. next time. thank you for being with us. enjoy your cinema going. bye— bye! hello. the number of flood warnings we have seen hello. the number of flood warnings we have seen across hello. the number of flood warnings we have seen across england in recent days has been falling but that trend may end as we look at the weather picture tonight and into saturday as well with further heavy rain around, quite likely to see the risk of further lo

something they have had the opportunity to explain why, whether you agree with that decision are not ona you agree with that decision are not on a footballing level, is a strange one. these things happen on the training pitch so often that you wouldn't really make a situation out of it. they had their tete—a—tete in the game and it boils after. this happened 2a hours early and then they meet up on england duty, can we expect that highly charged atmosphere to suddenly become chummy on england duty? not particularly chummy that you would expect the respect it to beaver between top players. —— you expect to see the respect there between top players. it isa respect there between top players. it is a one off, i think, in that it happened not on the training ground. gareth has dealt with it in his own way. england probably don't need raheem sterling to get a draw against montenegro but denying him a cap at wembley in what is going to bea cap at wembley in what is going to be a big occasion, international number 1000, it is a big punishments, it is a big deal. you look forward into the

electric ships don‘t work ona electric. electric ships don‘t work on a global basis, so essentially we are dealing with technologies that don‘t exist yet, and a very short time period to get this stuff on the water. this might sound like a really obvious question, but when it comes to global trade, ships are here to stay, aren‘t they? the vast amount —— the vast majority of ships will be —— goods will be shipped around the world. exactly, it needs to decarbonise rapidly but it is the most efficient way of decarbonise in 90% of globalised trade. the great beasts of the sea these days, the container ships which are carrying tens of thousands of containers, are far more efficient at containing those goods than any other mode of transport, trucking, aviation. and the trick really is to find a more efficient way of powering those vessels rather than changing the mode of transport, which would be far more environmentally challenging. richard, thank you very much indeed. of course that event taking place in london ne

try and shift the headlines away from what you are seeing in hong kong every single weekend to focus ona kong every single weekend to focus on a purely business headline in the way we are talking about this now but it is a big question as to whether or not alibaba could have waited until next year to get a better sense of what the market wanted. having said that, given how well it's doing, may be the right decision. it's a very rich company, $11 billion in hong kong, $36 billion in total. thank you for the update on aliba ba billion in total. thank you for the update on alibaba which is up by 8% on the hong kong stock exchange stop my colleague and asia business correspondent karishma vaswani reporting. australia's second biggest bank has said its chief executive brian hartzer of westpac will be stepping down with peter king taking over after the country's financial crime regulator accused westpac of 23 million breaches of anti— money laundering laws including allowing payments between known child exploiters. tour of america's used on line brokerages are merging to create a wealth mana

scientists were now coming up entrepreneurs and food scientists were now coming up with innovation ona were now coming up with innovation on a daily basis. these companies are happening everywhere now, not just silicon valley and north america but also also around the world. when options are abundant and investors and business people are coming into this field and pouring resources into this, i think this is just the beginning. that was the founder of green monday. let's look at the markers. fairly flat to the asian markets. it continues to slide, lots of worries about chinese retaliation over that us legislation that supported hong kong protesters earlier this week so we are watching those markets. it's thanksgiving in the us in those markets are shut. that is it for the show. this is bbc news. the top stories this hour: president trump has made an unannounced trip to afghanistan, telling us troops he believes the taliban are open to ceasefire. as australia's bushfire crisis continues, protestors in sydney have demanded the government takes climate change seriously. the number of vaca

i am all in ona reporter monica miller. i am all in on a diet. what about businesses? well, everything from the impossible burger to mcdonald's and pizza express creating vegan menus. food consumption and production account for 26% of the global economic footprint —— pizza express. by 2050 there will be 9.7 billion of us on there will be 9.7 billion of us on the planet which means we need to produce 50% more food, that is the equivalent of farming land double the size of india. researchers say that a big dietary shift to a plant diet is better than driving electric ca i’s diet is better than driving electric cars or taking less flights. now, the meat industry is the fastest growing industry in this realm. they are expecting, barclays says, to become a $150 billion industry over the next decade. big news for those diet companies. thank you so much for that update, my colleague and business reporter monica miller. now, from diets to coffee. in indonesia, which reduces more than tons of coffee beans last year, that will get you more than 60 billion servings of singl

cricket will be played in the middle of the streets ona played in the middle of the streets on a sunday, and there will be about 30 games of cricket all going on at the same time. and that's what you really wa nt the same time. and that's what you really want to see from football, and it is getting bigger and better. there's so many people out here that there is hidden talent that has not been found yet. he was saying about his technical staff, his scouting network, "i think that if they come look closely in india and look at the kids and some of the academies that are already set up and where they can lend a hand, they will suddenly start unearthing 1— to very, very talented young players." let's have a look at some of the other sports stories around today. uk athletics has launched an independent review of its own handling of its relationship with coach alberto salazar. a panel in 2015 has said there was ‘no reason' to remove british athletes from the american's programme — despite claims of anti—doping. salazar was banned for four years in october beth mead has signed a new l

parties, labour and the conservatives they are the two main parties that are throwing money around ona parties that are throwing money around on a scale that i do not know in terms of the funding. being called into this, they're trying to bring some kind of physical disk —— fiscal discipline. on this. on the telegraph, this is interesting. the telegraph, this is interesting. the telegraph says that borisjohnson is launching his campaign in the paper, slightly over blowing it. but it bears, tells you nothing about the conservative campaign. it is a political attack on jeremy corbyn it is very curious headline on newspaper layout terms. very hard to get the hang of. but you are right, it has nothing to do with the contents of the tory manifesto although it does tell you something about the nature of the tory campaign and in a way it is typical borisjohnson in the telegraph, the stuff i used to get paid to write and more further down about the government being trapped by ten tourism. so you have this. the wealthier person farmers. and the election being wealthy was not... but interest

her appearances ona number of is. kadeena cox... her appearances on a number of tv shows held her mental health. a lot of bits and bobs and trying to find myself and find a happy place and make myself happy so that performance comes with it and just enjoying my support again stopped above now on the road to recovery, she is back on the track ready to defend her 400 metres world title stop you what will be your biggest challenge on dubai? unlike this country it is very, very hot. i feel that will be a challenge. forshee i am heat in that she torrent. but people tend to not like the heat. we have a lot of strategies to help keep cool. like the heat. we have a lot of strategies to help keep coollj like the heat. we have a lot of strategies to help keep cool. i can relate to that. kate will you are there in the heat, what can british fa ns there in the heat, what can british fans look forward to tomorrow? this evening, we have seen some fun if time macro —— semi—finals. we have had one qualification in the t53100 metres. she has h

confidence. 13 years old, 12 yea rs body confidence. 13 years old, 12 years old, i would get body shamed ona years old, i would get body shamed on a regular basis. i did experience not eating at all. i would tell myself, if i eat any more than two spoons of rice a day, it would be very bad. like, i would spoons of rice a day, it would be very bad. like, iwould be spoons of rice a day, it would be very bad. like, i would be crying, spoons of rice a day, it would be very bad. like, iwould be crying, i would be so hard on myself. frustrated with the weight gain, she decided to talk about it on her youtube channel. most of the time we are body shaming ourselves, even though other people are not shaming us. though other people are not shaming us. it is so weird. what she showed brought in many followers who started asking for styling tips. that marked the start of her collaboration with niche plus sized brands which paid her to feature their products. experts believe the $4 billion worth plus size market has a huge potential in india, but it is largely unorganised. traditionally, tailors have fil

the 19—year—old missing out ona club chances. the 19—year—old missing out on a club goal and second after the pestana's player was on a club goal and second after the pesta na's player was responsible on a club goal and second after the pestana's player was responsible for the first goal conceded in this moment, a pivotal moment as sean benard wants to go back in time after this, a reminder that mistakes are punished in europe with little sympathy. they beat an english team for the first time and notjust any team, on what turned out to be a night of cosmic football, not youth. of course we are disappointed with the end result. but i thought we started became fantastically the boys were really, they took control of the game and scored a fantastic goal. and the response after they scored two was also good. of course disappointed at the ten minute spell where you could feel the pressure was coming and we couldn't get on the ball as we did. things were much more comfortable for celtic. they sealed top spot in their group with a 3

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if you fancy splashing out ona fortune. if you fancy splashing out on a christmas present for a loved one, whether you have £6,000 at your disposal. this diary assigned by the beatles is going out for auction on november the 19th. this lady was at a concert in 1963. the band was not particularly famous at the time. she gate—crashed the dressing room and she forgot about it. she was moving house recently and found in the bottom of a filing cabinet. she thought, oh, i rememberthat. auctioneers reckon it will probably make £6,000. the value is notjust about the signatures, it is about the story attached to it. she was there when. the provenance is intact in these instances. it is basically one owner, one lady owner, that diary. ijust cannot believe she has forgotten about it. if i met the beatles, i would tell everyone i had met them. the filing cabinet. another story, a modern day morality tale. this man is all over the tabloids for years. he basically became an alcoholic and had a terrible life for ten years. he now says

he had been briefed by the predecessor fi ah ona hill. vindman and miss williams from whom we heard this morning, like them, morrison emerged from the call, troubled. i was concerned about what he heard on the july 25th he went to see the nsc legal advisor soon after it ended. his fear was the president had broken the law potentially. he said that his concern was that the call could be damaging if it were leaked. soon after this discussion with lawyers at the nsc, the call record was hidden away on a secure server used to have highly classified intelligence where it remained until the call record was released ambassador volker worked with sondland and ukraine than president than president on statement that would satisfy guiliani. when yermak sent over a draft failed to

they are hanging from the governor and legislators and customers and local officials of the turned off ona regular basis. >> there were two other atinvestor-owned utilitiethe hearing. san dio gas and electric and socal edison. did they have the same kind of e ing drilling from lawmakers. >> southern california edison does not have spotless record and terms of starting fires ewictrical infrastructure. they started fires this year. sadiego gas and electric is in a different position. a smalleservice territory, just san diego county. that is a lot of customers. they started working on this thing about how do you mitigate wildfire danger when you have this dangerous electricity and the wind is blowing ats 80 mi per hour. they started on that more than 10 years ago. they are now the darling of the regulators and legislators. they worked out more sophisticated methods of dealing with it. that is pretty much reflected in the reception they are getting in sacramento and from the public utilities commission in san francisco. >> is there something they could learn from? >> pg&e said many times there

we have around 300 lorries coming in ona we have around 300 lorries coming in on a daily basis. inside the waste silo, giant grabbers mix the rubbish before dropping it into the furnace. so this is where the waste is being incinerated. i will show you over here. it is quite a sight. 0h! it is here. it is quite a sight. oh! it is like staring into the pits of hell! the plant generates electricity and potentially enough annual heating for 150,000 homes. we potentially enough annual heating for150,000 homes. we have potentially enough annual heating for 150,000 homes. we have waste in copenhagen, we will keep on producing waste in copenhagen and the rest of the world, so this is a product that is already here so we might as well use it for something reasonable, something that makes sense. back on the slope, it is time for me to get my skis on. can i borrow your one moment? thank you. i haven't been on a dry ski slope for maybe 15 yea rs. been on a dry ski slope for maybe 15 years. you will have fun. i have been on actual snow. well, it is quite different. speed is your friend, so..

i am working ona the news and go deeper. i am working on a place that is one of the most high put additive places on earth. if you look at the coverage versus anywhere else it is vast but i am bored by the majority of it and does not represent the place that i know. soi not represent the place that i know. so i try to find the intimate, try to find a unique entry point into any study, under, over a side door, around the corner because i am not interested in reproducing what it has all ready been done and said because what is the point. it is to because what is the point. it is to be something that has more than one dimension. i married a palestinian and had children and suddenly i was not a journalist coming in and out, palestine was home and i were sitting at checkpoints and experiencing this kafkaesque reality and watching sometimes operatic scenes of ridiculousness and humour to bypass or just scenes of ridiculousness and humour to bypass orjust survive the situations i started to look differently and think what story do

we start this morning off ona tuesday. we start this morning off on a largely dry and sunny note. a few showers across the north coast. cloudy skies the sentiments of any eastern part of nguyen were further showers will continue here but even here, showers will start to peter out or become fewer as the day wears on. chilly in the north, eight or nine celsius and showers wintry of the high ground. starting to peter out as a ridge of high pressure builds in. particularly under increasingly clear skies. mainly dry with some sunshine, mist and fog around as well. on wednesday, we look to the west, to the next frontal system which will be working its way in during the course of wednesday so likely to be a dry and chilly start the central and southern and northern and eastern areas with that mr hogg and frost which will tend to across the west, thickening cloud, outbreaks of rain will moving in the sunshine will become hazy further north and east pretending to stay dry until later on. a chilly day to come on wednesday, 6— 10 degrees in the south. the thursday and friday, it stays chil

he pledged to set zimbabwe ona and celebration. he pledged to set zimbabwe on a new path to prosperity, but the reality is that life has worsened. at a township on the outskirts of harare, it is plain to see. thousands q for food handouts. half the population is in need of food aid, compounded by the worst drought in living memory, and even the most vulnerable don't a lwa ys even the most vulnerable don't always get it. this 72—year—old is one of them. she connects discarded plastics to try to sell to buy medication and food. the government has asked for more time to improve the economy. but for many people, like this, time is running out. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: no longer the stuff of comic books. we meet the british inventor who smashed his own record for the fastest flight in a jet suit. the bombastic establishment outsider, donald trump, has defied the pollsters to take the keys to the oval office. i feel great about the election result. i voted for him because i genuinely believe that he cares about the co

i write about one of those who, ona 20-year-old december 1, 1980 four, was killed while trying to cross. it was to walls, armed guards in between, and many other border obstacles in between the external and internal wall. ago, the wayears germans focused on the memory of the wall changed. for the first time, they focused on the positive history of the fall of the wall and courageous east germans took to the streets , calling for change and brought that down. anniversary,0th while there are many people celebrating, there are also some but a loud minority, minority expressing their frustration that they have not still achieved western levels economically or in terms of the respect sometimes that they feel they are shown as being from the east. host: with just about 20 minutes left on the "washington journal" today, on c-span and on c-span3 on american history tv, taking your phone calls. this is jean out of detroit, michigan. good morning. caller: good morning. i just want to say that i was 46 or whatever at the time of the fall of the wall, and i was happy for the people, but i also felt

products to ona onal health service. [applause] mr. corbyn: you will sell ou national health service out to the united states. prime min. johnson: our nhs will never before sale, and i'm amazed how often this comes up. the only reason comes up is because mr. corbyn is trying to conceal the void athe heart of his brexit policy and refusing to answer the question. laura: be aware, this election could be a major juncture r the u. the tories rule out another referendum on scottish independence. labour?oh prime min.on: jeremy corbyn and the labour party have probably already done a deal with nicola sturgeon and the&p to form a corbyn-sturgeon coalition, and the price of th deal, the price of nicola sturgeon's support -- she has made it absolutely clear -- would be a second referendum on the union. mrcorbyn: i think i ought be able to reply to this nonsense. this nonsense, the idea -- [applause] mr. corbyn: there is not going to be a coalition of labor and anybody else. there are no deals that have been done and there will be no deals done.

widdecombe, former conservative minister and now a brexit party candidate, she says she would swear ona candidate, she says she would swear on a bible that she had been offered a role in the next stage of brexit negotiations. in response the prime minister has said this is all nonsense and speaking on the bbc this morning michael gove says he has no knowledge of any such offer being made. i'm completely unaware of any of these conversations of the kind that you mention. the conservative party is not interested in pacts, or deals, or arrangements of this kind. we are standing in every seat across the united kingdom because we want people to have a chance to vote for conservatives, so we can have a working conservative majority to get parliament working again. a vote for any other party risks letting jeremy corbyn into downing street with the paralysis and division that would follow. ina in a statement, the metropolitan police say they have received two cases of electoral fraud and malpractice and they are both currently being assessed. labour's manifesto is set to be finalised today, in

to strike me is over the past few hours, the narratives are so divided with people yet again coming ona so divided with people yet again coming on a partisan side and no nuance whatsoever and i am wondering what if it is like that in the country? it has been that way for a long time in almost every issue in this country. we have a dividing line between the donald trump people that support him and those that don't and that is so they see every issue, through that lens. you have people who only see this is a witchhunt and what the republicans are telling them to see and then you have other people in the country didn't understand that there is something worth investigating with the president and he may have bribed or pressured a foreign country to investigate a potential political opponent that is something worth looking into. more details have emerged of the legal action the duchess of sussex will take against the daily mail and mail on sunday. the byline investigates website has published court documents which accuse the papers of waging a fake news campaign against meghan. bbc reporter

chris buckler reports from washington donald trump arrived in afghanistan ona trip donald trump arrived in afghanistan on a trip surrounded by secrecy and a huge amount of security. the white house said the was intended to support show support for trips during america's thanks giving holiday and he made a point of serving food to soldiers thousands of miles away from their families. while they insist the visit is not connected with peace talks with the taliban, it comes after a prisoner swab. as mrtrump taliban, it comes after a prisoner swab. as mr trump met afghanistan's president, he confirmed peace dogs had restarted, a couple of months after they started to appear to collapse. the taliban wants to make a deal. we will see if they make a deal. we will see. they only want to make a deal because you are doing a greatjob. make a deal because you are doing a great job. this was the us president second visit to an active conflict zone since taking office. last christmas he fled to iraq stop while he has praised the work of american troops in the middle east he has made no secret of his d

however he has embarked ona electorate. however he has embarked on a fantastic candle and the idea that somehow the tories are going to emerge with an overall majority dash make a fantastic gamble. when they had abandoned the dup, the northern irish allies, and got rid of ten of their most loyal and prominent tory supporters and delineated the scottish nationalists and so they are likely to pick up the 20 seats in scotland, so they begin a0 seats down right from the beginning almost. if they're going to get an overall majority, that requires a huge swing in these northern labour seats at the moment. i frankly do not see it at the moment. i think, despite the polls showing the tories way, way ahead, i think the opinion is very very volatile. i think boris may make it and i suspect he want and we will have a hung parliament. as body mass as we are in now. just before we look all the way to december the 12th. -- as bad a mess as we are in now. we saw the interview with nigel farage and president trump. president trump criticis

relation and turkish — american relations should be erected oi'i american relations should be erected ona american relations should be erected on a healthy foundation. we should resolve to open a new chapter in our relations which are in full compliance with our deeply rooted alliance. also making news today: more palestinians have been killed by israeli air strikes in gaza as a flare—up of tensions between the two sides continued through a second day. at least 23 people are reported to have died in the palestinian territory, including three children. the violence began after the israelis targeted an islamichhad commander, ba ha abu al—ata. jeanine anez has assumed the interim presidency of the country, following evo morales's resignation. she promised to hold elections soon. her appointment was endorsed by bolivia's constitutional court. mr morales's party boycotted the session and the former president branded ms anez "a coup—mongering right—wing senator". australian authorities have warned that massive bushfires raging in queensland and new south wales will continue to pose a th

this is grandma joy and brad coming to you from big bend ona. >> right now we're at the rio grande river at the santa elena canyon, and it is so beautiful here. orndshe sas ady for anhing. >> i'm going to hit him with my. >> reporter: and tonight, their road trip wrapping up with one last park just today. >> we've made it to our 49th and final park in the lower 48. how do you feel to finally be done? >> well, it's kind of sad to know it's coming to an end, but it's kind of great to know we finally made it. >> reporter: and what's next for grandma joy? >> i am ready to go home, kick back my heels, and sit down and rest a minute. >> i think that's well earned. good job, grandma joy. >> and so i've done nothing wrong. >> confrontation at an east bay bart station. >> the confrontation captured on cell phone video. >> this took place monday morning at the pleasantville station. what do you think? rules or rules, they have to be enforced, or there are bigger concerns? >> abc 7 news anchor eric thomas is following the story and joins us with the details. >> reporter: if you regularly ride bart

within the space of an hour, we had booked flights, we have booked hotels and we, this morning, we were ona hotels and we, this morning, we were on a flight from edinburgh to madrid and here we are. i've been living in madrid for the past four years and my girlfriend is from here and they originally lived in edinburgh and it this morning, i saw on the bbc app that there was a free giveaway, i sent an e—mail and i am here. that there was a free giveaway, i sent an e-mail and i am here. just arrived yesterday and got an e—mail from my doctor saying that they're giving free tickets away and the day of this cup, seeing the team playing glasco, watch them play birmingham and so, it was like icing on the cake, really. you can listen to the commentary life to see what is happening between the two. it's been a really busy day of european rugby — no fewer than seven ties being played in the champions cup and it provided saracens with some welcome relief from their domestic woes. they are the defending champions, and today they played their first game since deciding not to appeal against a mass

a panda keeper and that will travel with him ona keeper and that will travel with him on a private jet. keeper and that will travel with him on a privatejet. appropriate, really, when you think that bei bei tra nslates really, when you think that bei bei translates as precious treasure. we'll be taking 15 to 20 kilos of bamboo, apples, potatoes, carrots, some some sugarcane, honey bamboo, apples, potatoes, carrots, some some sugarcane, honey and biscuits. all the things he likes throughout the day. we will take them with us so on that flight we can provide him with everything he needs. he sets off on tuesday, journeying to a new home and a new life stop by buyer, bei bei, buy buy. a reminder of our top story. police and hong kong have arrested at least 40 protesters after in two days stand—off at the polytechnic university building. we will monitor that story over the next few hours. if you want more, please go to our website. don't forget you can get in touch with me and some of the team on twitter. i'm @jamesbbcnews. hello there. i think we've got a couple of drier days coming up.

democrats have accused president trump of intimidating a witness after he launched a twitter attack ona after he launched a twitter attack on a former ambassador to ukraine while she was testifying at the impeachment hearing. it has been alleged that mr trump a sort of improper assistance from the ukraine in attempts to discredit his political rivaljoe biden. and the deposed president of bolivia, evo morales, has said he will stand for office again in any rerun of last month's election if his socialist party wa nts month's election if his socialist party wants him to. but speaking from exile in mexico, he told the bbc that elections could also go ahead without him.

i aim to help with seeing dubrovnik ona i aim to help with seeing dubrovnik on a shoestring, recommending the best greek island for a cut—price may escape, and the tricky business of international rail travel. first, though, as winter gets a grip on the northern hemisphere, the world's cold est northern hemisphere, the world's coldest city, yakutsk in north—east siberia, is now easier to reach. a new railway line connects the city to the rest of the russian rail network, almost. the wide lena river stops the line just short of the city, but in winter when the river is frozen, vehicles take passengers a short distance from the end of the line to yakutsk, and in summer there are ferries. back here in europe, bethany hughes wants to know: dubrovnik and budget used to go well together in the same sentence. but croatia's most beautiful city is now very firmly on the tourist trail. as a result, prices for everything from coffee to souvenirs have soared, and finding bargains is challenging. for eating, drinking, chilling and quite possibly sleeping, i urge you to consider taftat, a 40 minute

the alerts are out almost ona minute possible. the alerts are out almost on a minute by minute basis for people to tell them that they need to evacuate. people have been urged to evacuate. people have been urged to evacuate. people have been urged to evacuate. we have seen thousands of people spend the night in evacuation centres. this is not to ta ke evacuation centres. this is not to take away from the fact that this has actually been on a completely different level. many will tell you that bushfires are the story of the australian summer, but really this story is changing in a very dramatic way. this is the new normal. the fa ct way. this is the new normal. the fact that the drought has actually left the earth bone dry, itjust makes it that much more vulnerable to fires that could get out of control really, really quickly. so really, even though the country has seen really, even though the country has seen bushfires before, everybody is coming to terms with this new reality of the scale of it, of the timing of it, which is a lo

prime minister and he wants to secure a trade deal with the us, he is going to have to concede ground ona he is going to have to concede ground on a number of issues. i'm certain that the nhs will be one of them. so there is a big wad of paper to wade through and interpret and labour will make its claims in terms of what these meetings, which we have heard of before, really amount to. but of those claims will be heavily contested. borisjohnson, visiting a hospital today, wasn't prime minister when these meetings took place and said... there will be 110 took place and said... there will be no sale of the nhs, no privatisation. the nhs is not on the table in any way. the nhs is in no way on the table, in no aspect whatever. and this, as i say, is continually brought up by the labour party as a diversionary tactic from the difficulties they are encountering. today's effort and a big moment for labour came after a series of difficult ones forjeremy corbyn yesterday. are you fit for high office? heavily criticised over his handling of anti—semitism allegations, he was asked again if he wante

reported does a disservice, and a far more intelligent approach might be to step back and say, well, hang ona be to step back and say, well, hang on a minute. why is it that these different racism is keep showing up in politics? what does it say about oui’ in politics? what does it say about our society that these animating prejudices are so easily activated ina prejudices are so easily activated in a political context? and it does theissue in a political context? and it does the issue and it does minorities a disservice when we treated in the way that we are treating it now. obviously we have had a very important intervention from the chief rabbi himself, he would take a different view. let's move on to the mirror, because this is again another election story that we have seen before. the mirror headline, tory minister's trade talks with us drug firm boss. yes, so this is the kind of election mantra of the labour party, you know, the nhs is not for sale. the tories are looking to cook up a deal with trump and kind of sell it off. i think this is a bit of an achilles heel for the conservati

we want to put ona something we will do. we want to put on a performance. especially for a merseyside derby, i think you‘ve a lwa ys merseyside derby, i think you‘ve always got that bit of fire in your belly, a bit more, than a usual game is obviously its a big occasion. this weekend are set to be a wonderful occasion for liverpool‘s women but it comes at a critical point in their season. currently bottom of the women‘s super league table, having gained just one point from their opening five matches. however the manager insists there is a calm atmosphere in the dressing room ahead of what will be their biggest game of the season, so far. i think it doesn't matter what age you are, whether you're i think it doesn't matter what age you are, whetheryou're men, women, it doesn't matter, it's a derby. we have the ultimate respect for each other as pubs, but it is a fierce, feisty game at times. —— ultimate respect for each other as clubs. it's important they keep class about them and control what they can control and term up and perform and not let t

i think it is worrying to embark ona brexit. i think it is worrying to embark on a path that the government says will make us poorer if we do not have confidence that is what the majority of the population once. few weeks ago you were a candidate to be prime minister, is that still the case? not a single vote has been cast in this election. people have a genuine choice. i recognise that is a big step to take from where the poles look like right now but i am not going to be deterred from my vision for our country. can you level with people now and admit it is extremely unlikely unless something odd happens in the campaign? it is certainly possible. it is about trying to achieve change... if there is no majority, you could have an influential role. would you countenance working in any way with a government led byjeremy corbyn? we are not putting jeremy corbyn? we are not putting jeremy corbyn into number 10 nor boris johnson with liberal democrat votes. it is one thing to say liberal mps will not vote for that but would you actual

able to buy my carbon offsets to make sure that i'm doing the right thing for the planet because i am ona right thing for the planet because i am on a plane twice a month. stay with us, we have some tweets. viewers comments. about map—reading. deep breath. let's look at how you responded. stephen said ijust looked at another 15 minutes ago, well done! it say why. james is a retired geography teacher, we know what james will say, i retired geography teacher, we know whatjames will say, i do it regularly, interesting and informative, i keep a road atlas in the car to back—up dodgy satnav instructions. and alpha, the twitter handle says paper maps don't lose gps signals or need batteries to work. absolutely. gary says i have a large collection of maps, mainly the yorkshire dales and lake district, the newest is of new york where we are visiting soon. it's funny, vivian and i were talking about the difficulty of reading maps in the us, ifind, they difficulty of reading maps in the us, i find, they are like gobbledygook to me. everything is in straight lines. not a problem, gobbledygook to

forming a minority government, despite what the polls think, are they really going to turn the back ona they really going to turn the back on a chance to stop posterity, stop welfare cuts, get rid of you soon universal credit, just because they wa nt to universal credit, just because they want to block the right of the scottish people to decide the future? the latest there from nicola sturgeon. we can show you the scene live in telford because we are expecting the conservatives to launch their election manifesto this afternoon. the stage is set but the room at the moment is just starting to fill up but still some way to go. we are expecting to hear from boris johnson and 2pm. he will be preceded byjames johnson and 2pm. he will be preceded by ja mes cleverly, johnson and 2pm. he will be preceded by james cleverly, the party chairman. we will bring you live coverage of that in the next few minutes, hopefully. james cleverly expected to speak at 1:50pm and the prime minister and 2pm. while it may not be an election headline—grabber, like brexit or the nhs, the issue of childcare remains

he is ona great hall of the people in beijing. he is on a three—day state visit to china stop the french president is hoping to make progress on the long—awaited european union, china trade agreement, also sign a statement fostering the joint support for the paris climate record. you may have seen this footage and it's worth seeing again to stop this a rail worker in 0akland, to stop this a rail worker in oakland, california, rescuing a man who was a split second from being hit by a train. this dramatic footage shows the man, who was drunk, walking dangerously close to the edge of a platform, before falling onto the tracks. just as the train was coming in, it was particularly crowded after an nfl game. luckily he was pulled back bya train nfl game. luckily he was pulled back by a train company employee just—in—time. he said he has eve ryo ne just—in—time. he said he has everyone would have done the same thing. hello there. the rest of this week is going to remain on the chilly side, certainly temperatures a few degrees

it is notjust delete is simply dust easy tojump ona notjust delete is simply dust easy to jump on a vehicle and notjust delete is simply dust easy tojump on a vehicle and go. the first facet is we are not going to let this village die. we won't let fishlake let this village die. we won't let fishla ke disappear. had let this village die. we won't let fishlake disappear. had we all evacuated, this village would have been polluted with hours. it would've been impossible to have a squad of army soldiers present to stop happening. the looting has already taken place. the police are 110w already taken place. the police are now here in boats, there on foot in height clearance vehicles to prevent more looting. the second factor is that we didn't necessarily need to leave the village. the suggestion that the whole village needs to be evacuated is probably an excessive risk assessment that is not based on information actually on the ground. the situation is that we've had a frightening amount of water in the village, it is quite terrifying. but it did not leave us a situation... fortu nately it did

i think the story has moved ona regret. i think the story has moved on a little bit in that the original interview and the sort of horror or shock or the bemusement that many people fail out what —— felt watching it, ithink people fail out what —— felt watching it, i think it has its own choreography if you watch the whole thing rather thanjust choreography if you watch the whole thing rather than just snippets, that has been replaced almost by a story of an accumulation of smaller events, that as kate was pointing out, all the people sort of this investing from him and his charities and his causes. which is notjust, i think, this sorts of squeamishness at the association, but there is also a concern that there may well be more to come. what is going to happen? is the fbi going to make a formal request or demand to interview him under oath? how would he and the palace respond? i'm so old palace back channels are having those discussions now and are scenario planning for it —— all palace back channels. so we prob

there is £600 million a year ona year. there is £600 million a year on a national skills fun. the national insurance threshold going up national insurance threshold going up cost the exchequer £2.5 billion a year. in total, £6.5 billion in spending rises and tax cuts. it's very modest. for example, there is no income tax cuts for higher earners, as was promised to the pm's party members, and doesn't undo ten yea rs of party members, and doesn't undo ten years of spending squeezes, either. all of that basically is funded by not cutting corporation tax, the tax on business profits, to 17p, and leaving it at i9p instead. about £500 million is also raised from increasing the money charged to migrants for using the health service. this is not a transformative service. this is not a tra nsformative manifesto in service. this is not a transformative manifesto in terms of tax and spending pledges. it is pretty much steady as she goes. taken by the increases announced earlier this year, and then not much in addition. so i think the big ta keaway in addition. so i think the big takea