From inside the deadly, dirty world of myanmars jade mines, where hundreds die every year searching for green gold. Announcer live from our studios in london and singapore. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 6pm in houston, texas where the top 10 democrats vying to take on donald trump next year, are about to take the stage. Front runnerjoe biden will go head to head for the first time with Elizabeth Warren, his fast rising rival, in the three hour debate. But others like Bernie Sanders, kamala harris, Pete Buttigeg and beto orourke are all looking to make their mark. Laura trevelyan is in houston. All eyes on joe biden all eyes onjoe biden and Elizabeth Warren today, the first time they go head to head, but theres lots of other candidates as well. Will there bea other candidates as well. Will there be a clearer sense of the front runner after the debate tonight . Thats the 1 million question, of course, and the candidates are arriving. They are backstage at the moment and one hour to go until this key debate starts. Finally the top ten candidates on one stage on the same night, and joe biden will literally be centre stage, flanked by the progressive candidates, Elizabeth Warren, breathing down his neck, and Bernie Sanders. I asked that simpson from the progressive wing of the party, ceo of democracy for america, what shes looking for from tonights debate. Im looking for fireworks today. Youve got the top candidates on the same stage for the first time, and that gives a lot of opportunity. This is the third debate so folks have got the jitters out of them and we should see clear conversation and good tone and good energy from everybody. Everyone is concerned about the matchup between Elizabeth Warren and joe biden, about the matchup between Elizabeth Warren andjoe biden, but about the matchup between Elizabeth Warren and joe biden, but i dont think it will be crazy. Warren, as you know, is a very prepared woman. If he gets attacked, as we expect my from joe biden, she if he gets attacked, as we expect my fromjoe biden, she wont if he gets attacked, as we expect my from joe biden, she wont take the debate and after her exchange with trump, people want to figure out what she does when she gets attacked. I hope she stays steady and stays on message and stays on her plans and how shes going to get this done. But how does bernie exist in this place . He is seen in some places rising and some places falling, people will wonder whether he will evolve and come up with things, i wrote a speech for that, he will say, and see if he digs into some of these plans that take on questions about paying for some of this stuff, which we know we can, well see what happens there. The bigger second question is you could get a castro, harris, cory booker, they all need big moves today but what does that look like . What about electability, the polling shows that people going into the debate, they wa nt people going into the debate, they want someone electable and can beat donald trump. Joe biden says hes the man, what do you think . donald trump. Joe biden says hes the man, what do you think . I think any one of our candidates can beat from the. Electability. Any one of our candidates can beat from the. Electability. His foundation is racism, sexism, so the idea that when we are in a pinch, the white guy can do it and i dont think thats true. The reason why joe biden might not be the most electable is he is from a previous generation and our party is shifting more brown and younger, and folks wa nt more brown and younger, and folks want to change. Remember barack 0bama in 2008, everyone said Hillary Clinton is the one. He was 19 points ahead of barack 0bama in the race and then barack 0bama, black american, he takes over iowa and the re st american, he takes over iowa and the rest is history, as you know. I think this electability conversation is wrong. The idea is you want the best candidate and you want to elect that and we think the best candidate could be a lot of people. I know weve got women, brown and black people, weve got differences of viewpoints, i love that, so i think the most electable candidate is the one that ends up winning. Yvette simpson speaking to me earlier. The reason these democrats are holding this debate in texas, traditionally a ruby red state, is they think the growing diversity of they think the growing diversity of the state means it is somewhere that could turn purple if not ultimately blue. Maybe the next election but certainly in the years to come. Laura, do we get a sense of strategy from the different candidates, particularly the front runner, joe biden . Yes, absolutely. Joe bidens tea m biden . Yes, absolutely. Joe bidens team have already said they recognise tonight hes got a target on his back because hes the front runner, so that means he will be playing defence. They are signalling hes going to go after Elizabeth Warren, who has a plan for everything, whether it is Climate Change or cutting student debt. He will say having a plan is all very well but how are you going to execute it and get it done in polarised, divided washington . He will try to make the point hes got the experience to do that. It will be completely fascinating and speaking of strategy, andrew young, who just qualified for the debate by getting 2 in the polls and the right number of donors, his spokesperson has told political reporters that he will do something tonight that no president ial candidate has ever done yang. Remember andrew yangs signature policy is a basic income of 1000 per month. Thanks, laura. It all kicks off injust per month. Thanks, laura. It all kicks off in just under an per month. Thanks, laura. It all kicks off injust under an hour and youre there for us watching it stop looking forward to watching those developments stop thank you, laura youre there for us watching it. Lets take a look at some of the days other news the democrat controlled Housejudiciary Committee in the us congress has voted to broaden its powers to investigate president trump. As you might imagine, the two parties didnt see eye to eye on todays proceedings. The conduct under investigation poses a threat to our democracy. We have an obligation to respond to this thread and we are doing so. Most democrats hate this president. Theyve decided that hes guilty regardless of what the facts say, and so instead the Committee Democrats feel no choice but to investigate and investigate and investigate. Some more on that story with our correspondent in the states in just a few minutes time. Also making news today Russian Security forces have carried out raids on offices used by allies of the russian Opposition Leader alexei navalny. Hundreds of buildings are thought to have been searched, with armed men in masks seizing computer equipment. There were mass protests over the summer after many opposition candidates were blocked from running in elections in moscow. Mr navalny accused president putin of ordering thursdays operation. Translation this time, he got really u pset translation this time, he got really upset because of the tactical vote, as his favourite offspring, his retrial, i would say the United Russia Party has been busted in moscow and seriously beaten in the region s. Yes, hes upset, and hes stomping his little feet. A new report on deforestation says the planet is losing an area of forest land the size of britain every year. A group of Civil Society organisations say a five year Old International agreement to protect the worlds forests is failing. Instead of deforestation being halved by next year, the amount of tropical woodlands lost actually grew by 44 . Britains Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has denied misleading Queen Elizabeth about his reasons for suspending parliament. Hes waiting for the Uks Supreme Court to rule on whether a court in scotland was right to say that his actions were unlawful. Thats expected to happen on tuesday. Heres our uk political editor, laura kuenssberg. Almost a year to the day, this document was snapped by a beady eyed photographer in westminster. A hint of the turmoil the government believed might come if we leave without a deal. 12 months later, after leaks and suspicion, at last, ministers have been forced to publish the actual details. Do you understand what on earth were actually doing . Great, because i dont. Lets hope they do know what theyre doing, because leaving without arrangements in place could mean shortages of some food, protests, severe disruption at the irish border, and much more. If we have to come out on october the 31st with no deal, we will be ready. And the ports will be ready, and the farming communities will be ready, and all the industries that matter will be ready for a no deal brexit. After clashes in parliament, mps did change the law to make it much harderfor the government to take us out if theres no agreement with brussels by the end of october. But the Prime Minister is adamant hed find a way round that to stick to his deadline. So neither side has any intention at this stage of backing down. If we were to allow the country to leave without a deal on the 315t of october, we would not be serving our constituents well. We would be complicit in doing something that would be very disruptive in the short term, very damaging in long term. Reporter is there any progress . Do you want to tell us whats going on . Im very impressed. The only clear way out of the wrangle for the Prime Minister is of course to do a deal with brussels and leave the eu in an orderly fashion. There are whispers of progress in london and brussels, but the eus chief negotiators not so sure. We are still ready to examine objectively any concrete and legally operational proposal from the uk. The law has been changed to make it harder for the Prime Minister to take us out of the eu without a deal, but its not completely off the table. So, while ministers suggest these are just worst case scenarios, the anxiety in whitehall and beyond cant disappear. Nor can downing street escape a judges ruling yesterday that the way they suspended parliament was against the law. Number 10 is fighting on many fronts. This is not normal the Prime Minister having to deny that he lied to the monarch. Did you lie to the queen when you advised her to prorogue, to suspend parliament . Absolutely not. Indeed, as i say, the high court in england plainly agrees with us, but the Supreme Court will have to decide. Therell be that other verdict next week, but the opposition just doesnt buy the governments arguments, or whether theyre ready for no deal. Thats why we are so angry that parliament was prorogued, because i should be in parliament at the moment with the ability to interrogate the Prime Minister and ministers. Mps could be ordered back on the road to westminster by the courts next week. Were in a strange limbo. The only certainty change of some sort is on the way. Laura kuenssberg there. Lets turn to the United States and their politics. The democrat controlled House Judiciary Committee in the us congress has voted to broaden its powers to investigate president trump, which could eventually lead to impeachment. Lets look at the details. The house panel voted 24 17 to approve guidelines for an investigation to go ahead. Although this does not necessarily mean one will happen. According to the washington post, if an investigation did proceed, possible charges against mr trump could include obstruction ofjustice, abuse of power and defiance of subpoenas. Although a recent opinion poll says 59 of us voters oppose removing the president from office. I asked our washington correspondent david willis how serious the democrats are in pushing ahead with impeachment. This vote by the Housejudiciary Committee largely symbolic. This basically gives a slightly greater powers to an enquiry thats been investigating donald trump since way backin investigating donald trump since way back in march. It probably gives. It wont lead to President Donald Trump being impeached, or probably indeed to a vote on his impeachment, not least because republicans control the senate, of course, which is where an impeachment trial would ta ke is where an impeachment trial would take place, and in fact democrats, to get on directly answering your question, democrats are deeply divided on this issue. The house speaker, nancy pelosi, leaves there is more speaker, nancy pelosi, leaves there is more currency, speaker, nancy pelosi, leaves there is more currency, if you like, in getting into grassroots issues, such as the economy, healthcare and so on in the run up to the president ial election next year. Shes probably mindful as well of the fact republicans in the 1990s brought impeachment proceedings against bill clinton only for them to be thrown out in the senate and for bill clintons popularity to skyrocket. But progressives in her party have been agitating for impeachment proceedings against donald trump for quite some time, and those calls have grown, noula, since members returned from the summer recess at the beginning of this week. Theyve no doubt been hearing calls from their constituents who favour impeachment proceedings against donald trump, so 30 more have put their names to impeachment proceedings. Currently 135 democrats out of a total of 235 in the house of representatives favour impeachment proceedings against donald trump, but for that to succeed, 218 votes are needed, so theyre still quite clearly well clear of that. David willis speaking earlier to nuala. Youre watching newsday on the bbc. Still to come on the Programme Japanese law guarantees paternity leave for fathers, so why do the few men who take it up face discrimination . George w bush freedom itself was attacked this morning, and freedom will be defended. The United States will hunt down and punish those responsible. Bishop tutu now becomes spiritual leader of 100,000 anglicans here, of the blacks in soweto township, as well as the whites in their rich suburbs. We say to you today in a loud and a clear voice enough of blood and tears. Enough translation the difficult decision we reached together was one that required great and exceptional courage. Its an exodus of up to 60,000 people caused by the uneven pace of political change in eastern europe. Iam free this is newsday on the bbc. Im Sharanjit Leyl in singapore. Im Nuala Mcgovern in london. Our top stories all ten leading contenders for the Us Democratic partys president ial nomination are to debate together for the first time. A Us Congressional Committee has voted to press ahead with an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. Lets take a look at some front pages from around the world. Brexit continues to feature heavily the independent leads with a leaked draft resolution reflecting the european parliaments concern over the british governments treatment of eu citizens living in the uk. It will accuse britain of worsening an already hostile situation as many eu nationals find themselves without a guaranteed right to remain. 0n the front page of the the japan times tokyo is Standing Firm after south korea filed a complaint against its trade restrictions at the world trade organisations. Japan says it wont adjust its controls, which affect materials critical to south Korean Technology companies. And in the National Geographic an amateur astronomer in the ukraine has discovered a comet that could have come from outside our solar system. It could give scientists an exciting glimpse into how objects are formed around distant stars. Now, nuala, whats trending online . The most watched video on bbc news online is a report on the australia bushfires, which are becoming more intense. Its only the start of the fire season, but more than 140 bushfires are already raging across queensland and new south wales. Experts say they expect the fires this season to be hotter and stronger and theres a reason behind the trend. This is crazy. This is my house on the corner. And a massive fire. What were seeing now is fires starting in august, september, which is still effectively winter here, they are hotter and more intense and more fast moving and burning into areas that we wouldnt expect to see fires, like the edges of rainforests as well. As we go into spring and into summer, those conditions are going to be exacerbated by the increased temperatures, the dry atmospheres, which will mean that a lot of those areas, it wont take much for a fire to start and once it starts, they are going to be very difficult to control. And well be getting more on those fires from our correspondent in australia in the next hour. An employee injapan who wishes to remain anonymous, is taking his company to court for pata hara or paternity harassment. He says hes been sidelined at work since taking paternity leave to look after his two sons. The practice should be quite common injapan the law there guarantees paternity leave. But, only 6 of men take it. In a similar but completely separate case, glen wood, a canadian single dad whos lived injapan for 30 years, is also taking his company to court for unfair dismissal. His hearing begins in october he spoke to me about his case. In 2015, my son was born prematurely and he was in the intensive care unit, a life or death situation was not i applied for paternity leave which was rejected it when i returned to work, i was harassed and fired. It is time for change in the workplace in japan. This fired. It is time for change in the workplace injapan. This type of behaviour is unacceptable. Harassment is never an acceptable form of management and young men and women have the right to have children and enjoy their family and continue their careers. Your employer, they actually dispute your claim and say they enthusiastically support employers paternity leave and we know it has been guaranteed by law for about 20 years. Only 6 of men currently take it. Interesting that the other case that i mentioned, the person filing it, was just i mentioned, the person filing it, wasjust i mentioned, the person filing it, was just wishes to remain anonymous. Tell us, why is there such a situation injapan like this . Indeed, the law has been in place for more than 20 years and it is an extremely good law for both men and women to take maternity and paternity leave. The fact is, very few men are able to put up their hand and take it and those that do, research shows, other than harassed and fired. That brings us to the main pointand and fired. That brings us to the main point and why we have changed started the online petition. We need a zero tolerance policy for harassment. Harassment is never a good form of management. And your case which is currently under way this week, it could potentially change things quite dramatically and says something set something of a precedent. What will you think it will take to change things injapan . Things are very much ingrained in japanese culture. To take holidays or paternity leave is treasonous. I have published a paper of my experience in japan, other have published a paper of my experience injapan, other people being harassed. Tens of thousands of people have reached out about this issue. We are excited about launching a fund, and esg policy. Environment, support and governance. We are asking them to invest in values that a profit of bull to society. That is at the heart of capitalism. Profitable. Myanmar is home to the worlds biggestjade mines an industry estimated to be worth over 30 billion annually. But the hundreds of thousands of so called scavengers who search for the translucent stone of heaven are migrants whose lives are threatened by landslides, drug addiction and disease. Bbc burmese has gained rare access to the mines. That is it from both of us, goodbye. Over the last couple of days, the re m na nts of over the last couple of days, the rem na nts of two over the last couple of days, the remnants of two different exit Tropical Weather systems have been in charge of our weather. First we had the leftovers of what was Hurricane Dorian passing to the north of the uk. We saw outbreaks of rain and brisk winds and enduring thursday, it was x ex Tropical Storm gabriel was not not much left of it. A cold front moves away from the south on friday and High Pressure builds in behind. We will be left with a lot of fine weather, good spells of sunshine but are significantly fresher field. Humid air that has been associated with that x Tropical Storm pushed up to the continent. We start off with cloud in the Channel Islands and a bit of rain but that will clear quite quickly to than a lot of sunshine and drive the majority. It will be windy in scotland but further south, the winds light. However, in the fresher air, temperatures a bit lower. Temperatures of 20 21 degrees for plymouth, cardiff, london, more like 17 in aberdeen. Through friday night, temperatures will dip away. Particularly towards the south west where winds will remain light. More in the way of a breeze further north in Northern Ireland and scotland and some rain pushing back into the far north west. The overnight lows seeing one or two spots down towards the south getting down to three or four degrees. I pressure still in charge for most of us as we go into saturday morning but notice frontal systems trying to squash in towards the north west bringing some outbreaks of rain and also some pretty strong winds. Much of the rain on saturday is likely to be confined to the northern and western parts of scotland and a bit more cloud into Northern Ireland and the north west of england. Further south, a lot more sunshine and temperatures creeping up in southern parts. 2223. Always call and fresher across the north where it will be windy and particularly windy on saturday night through the far north of scotla nd saturday night through the far north of scotland and then into sunday, it looks like this frontal system will try to put a bit may push a bit further south but uncertain as to how far it will get. May be patchy rain into Northern England and north west wales. To the north something fresher and to the south, we could get up to 25 degrees. All of us getting into fresher air of the new working week. At the start of the new working week. With High Pressure in charge, it will be largely dry. Im Nuala Mcgovern with bbc world news. Our top story the ten leading candidates for the democratic partys president ial nomination are about to debate together for the first time. The three front runners joe biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are all in their 70s. Younger candidates have failed to have much impact in the campaign so far. More than 140 bushfires are already raging across parts of australia, an unusually early start to the annual fire season. Experts say they are fuelled by strong winds and a prolonged drought. And this video is trending on bbc. Com. Its the worlds biggest construction crane, which has just started work at the Hinkley PointNuclear Power plant currently being built in western england. Its called big carl and can lift 5,000 tonnes at a single time. Thats all. Stay with bbc world news. Now on bbc news, Stephen Sackur speaks to independent mp heidi