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Could win the election he was saying the tories are going to lose, i was saying the same, joshing as old friends do. He has only gone and put it on a website and selectively leaked it, and i thought he was a friend. The Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi in court to defend her country over accusations of genocide against Rohingya Muslims. And the sport. Some rain and blustery wind, but nothing as turbulent as in iceland over the next couple of days. People are told to stay indoors, two metres of snow, and strong winds to come. I will have all the details just before half past. Two bens for the price of one. And the latest banksy street art gets protection after its reindeer are given red noses. Hello, everyone this is afternoon live. Six people are now known to have died and eight people missing presumed dead after yesterdays volcanic eruption in new zealand. 31 people are being treated in hospital, among them two british women. Almost all of the injured have at least 30 burns to their bodies. Dozens of people were exploring new zealands most active volcano when it erupted. Questions are being asked about how they were allowed to go there in the first place given that seismologists had raised the alert leveljust a few weeks ago. More than 10,000 visitors go to the privately owned island every year. Steam continues to rise from the crater of new zealands most active volcano. And on white island, images from one of the first helicopters on the scene reveal a white blanket of ash. And on white island, images from one of the first helicopters on the scene reveal a white blanket of ash. The rescue operation is now one of recovery. Many of those saved were badly injured when the volcano erupted, and today those who came to their aid have been telling their stories. Immediately the crew of the boat launched the inflatables and started picking up the injured. We didnt know what we were dealing with until the first ones started coming on, and as they came on, they were horrific burns, and everyone. We took 23 people off the island before we started heading back to mainland, every single one of them were badly, badly burned. New zealands Prime Minister, jacinda ardern, visited the injured and thanked those members of the Emergency Services who were first to respond. It was like. Like, ive seen the chernobyl mini series, there was just. Everything was just blanketed in ash. It was quite. Quite a. An overwhelming feeling. There was a helicopter on the island that had obviously been there at the time. They were pretty poorly, obviously difficult to see specific details but covered in ash, looking quite badly burned. Obviously requiring transport by helicopter meant they were very sick anyway, so. They were in fairly serious condition. As hearses arrive to pick up the bodies of some of the victims, an investigation into the tragedy has begun, although police say it is still too early to confirm whether it will be criminal in nature. Tipene maangi, a 23 year old tour guide from new zealand who was called in to work on his day off, is among the missing. Hes a wonderful boy, hes an awesome kid, tipene. Everyone knows him, he is well known on the coast, from the small babies right through to the kaumatuas, he can walk in all those worlds. Hard case, can sing. Very talented. Very talented boy. The local community has been paying its respects to those who lost their lives. The focus is now on those injured and bereaved, and questions are being asked about whether anyone should have been on the island in the first place. The alert level was raised in november, because of an increase in volcanic activity, but a direct threat to visitors was not envisaged. Today, though, all was quiet in whakatane as people mourn those lost across the sea. Russell fuller, bbc news. Two days before the general election, borisjohnson and Jeremy Corbyn have been trying to focus their campaigns on what they see as vote winning issues for their parties. For labour the emphasis has been on funding for the nhs but the partys Health Spokesman has had to insist that a secret recording of him apparently criticising Jeremy Corbyn emerged. For the conservatives, borisjohnson has warned a Hung Parliament would mean more uncertainty over brexit. Heres our Political Correspondent, chris mason. The last slog towards election day is under way. Jeremy corbyn outside manchester. All the parties want to talk up what they see as their key messages. And we will hear from Jeremy Corbyn in a moment. But first, stuff happens in elections. A private chat between a shadow cabinet member and a friend who is a conservative activist is leaked and the labour frontbencher candid about his partys prospects. I think it is dire for labour. I try to help my colleagues back over the line. But it is awful for them. It is a combination of corbyn and brexit. Mr ashworth insists it has been selectively leaked. I look stupid, of course i do. I was trying to wind him up. The reason this has come out today is because the tories know that the crisis in the tories know that the crisis in the nhs is ruining their campaign. AppointJeremy Corbyn wanted to focus on. We now have until thursday night to wind this election, thursday night to save the nhs, thursday night to save the nhs, thursday night to End Child Poverty in britain, thursday night to end homelessness in britain, thursday night to build a house is that we need, thursday night to get a government you can trust that will actually represent people. Labour are emphasising the nhs after a bumpy day for the Prime Minister yesterday after a four year old boy was pictured apparently asleep on a hospitalfloor in leeds, because there was no bed for him. Demand in the nhs continues to grow. We have seen that since its foundation. The founding assumption of the nhs is with increasing provision demand would drop, but the opposite has been true. But what we have is a very targeted and structured programme that has been agreed with nhs england to invest in places like leeds. At this stage in the campaign with a couple of days to go, it is about the parties playing their greatest hits. This is no time for obscure album tracks. Enter the liberal democrats with their big pitch on brexit. We need to run the best, the biggest, the hardest operation we have ever run to get those liberal democrat votes out, knocking on tens of thousands of doors, in each and every one of our target seats to make sure that we can stop borisjohnson getting a majority and leading us to a crash out brexit. The snps big plan is scottish independence, but in the short term, their message is similar to the liberal democrats. If scotla nd if scotland votes snp, we will make sure we will lock borisjohnson out of government, find an escape route from the messe brexit and crucially put scotlands future in scotlands fa ns put scotlands future in scotlands fans so we can get on to build a better future. In fans so we can get on to build a betterfuture. In scotlands hands. 0ur chief Political Correspondent vicki young is in westminster. Not the best of days yesterday for the tories, and today not so good for labour. Thats right, as we go into the final straight of this Election Campaign, of course all the parties want to be in control of the agenda, talking about what they see as they are strong points. What you saw yesterday, a difficult day for the conservatives on the back foot over the nhs. They want to be talking about delivering brexit. Today, for labour, this is very difficult, particularly because all eyes a re difficult, particularly because all eyes are onJeremy Corbyns leadership. When you have a member of the shadow cabinet even in a secret recording talking at length about the shortcomings of the leader and of course that is a problem, and talking about the partys prospects, saying that outside some of the remaining voting cities, things are dire for labour, that is certainly not the message they want out there. We heard from Jonathan Ashworth saying he was effectivelyjoking with a friend of his who heroes is a conservative activist, i think the problem for mr ashworth, though, is that as journalists we have all spoken to labour candidates and former labour mps over the last few weeks in the last few months, and they have been saying, quite a lot of them, that this is an issue on the doorstep, that there are some voters who are put off byJeremy Corbyn and his particular brand of politics, and that is harming them and their prospects. So i think that is the problem forJohn Ashworth at this point and for labour, particularly because what they want to be focusing on is the nhs, shortcomings as they would see it, problems with staffing, they have released a dossier today, focusing on all the things they need to do to improve the nhs, they think it is a killer vote for them and a killer blow for the conservatives. Thank you very much indeed. We can also talk to alex forsyth, who has been following borisjohnson. Not such a good day for the Prime Minister and the conservatives, and they have been trying to recover from that today. Yes, i think that they will view this leaked John Ashworth conversation is something of a relief because it was a very turbulent day on the campaign trail for the conservative party yesterday. Of course, started by the Prime Minister, shown the photograph of her four year old boy lying on the floor of a hospital, which knocked them off their central narrative, which for the conservatives has been about brexit from the very beginning, suffered today, focus on the labour recording, the are going to try to wrest the narrative back onto their comfortable terrace, so we are expecting the Prime Minister Boris Johnson here in staffordshire this afternoon, where we think he is going to give a speech, and the theme of that is going to be familiar territory, things we have heard from him time and time again. And that promise that we have heard that if he wins by a majority he will get brexit over the line, as he sees it, pretty quickly. The problem is to convince people he can actually deliver on that, that we can believe what he says. The reason this is so hard in this election is that he is asking people who perhaps have always voted for labour, would never have contemplated voting for the conservatives, to turn to him this time round and therefore trust is a huge issue for the Prime Minister. He is backing labour lead areas, we can expect him to be back in those kind of areas tomorrow on the final two days of the campaign, trying at this point not to let anything else not come off track because while the narrative is the conservatives are frontrunners, there is a sense that they cannot take anything for granted at this point because this is such an unpredictable contest, is pretty true. Thank you very much indeed. Let us take you to washington, regarding the impeachment charges in which they accuse the president of unlawfully trying to persuade a foreign leader, the ukrainians,. We stand here today because the president s continuing abuse of power has left us no choice. To do nothing would make ourselves complicit in the president s abuse of his office, public trust and National Security. The misconduct is a simple and terrible as this. President trump solicited a foreign nation, ukraine, to publicly announce investigations into his opponent opponent, and a baseless Conspiracy Theory promoted by russia to help his re Election Campaign. President trump abuse the power of his office by conditioning two official acts to get ukraine to help his re election. The release of hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid that nation desperately needed and the white house meeting within ally trying to fend off russian aggression. In so doing, he undermined our National Security and jeopardise the integrity of our next election, and he does so still. The evidence of the president s misconduct is overwhelming and u nco ntested, misconduct is overwhelming and uncontested, and how could it not be when the president s own words on july 25, i would like you to do us a favour, though, lies so bear his intentions, his willingness to sacrifice the National Security for his own personal interests. And when the president got caught, he committed his second impeachable act, obstruction of congress of the variability to make sure no one is above the law, not even the president of the United States. The evidence is every bit as strong that President Trump did this without precedent, and without peace and love. If allowed to stand it would demonstrate congresss ability to oversight this president or any other in the future, leaving this president and those who follow to be freed to be as corrupt or incompetent as they would like with no prospect of discovery or accountability. Now, some would argue, why dont you just wait, why dont you just wait until you get these witnesses the White White House refuses to produce, why not wait until you get the documents they refused to hand over . People should understand what that argument really means. It has taken us eight months to get a Lower Court Ruling that he has no absolute right to d efy that he has no absolute right to defy congress, eight months for one court decision. If it takes another eight months to get a second court 01 supreme eight months to get a second court or supreme eight months to get a second court or Supreme Supreme Court decision, people need to understand thatis decision, people need to understand that is not the end of the process. It comes back to us and we ask questions because he no longer has absolute immunity and then he claims something else. But his answers are privileged and we have to go back to court for another eight or 16 months. The argument, why dont you just wait, amounts to this. Why dont you just let him cheat in one more election. Why notjust let him cheat just one more more election. Why notjust let him cheatjust one more time . Why not let him have foreign helpjust cheatjust one more time . Why not let him have foreign help just one more time . That is what that argument amounts to. The president s misconduct goes to the heart of whether we can conduct a free unfair election in 2020. It is bad enough for a candidate to invite foreign interference in the political process , interference in the political process, but more corruptive for the president to do so, and who abuses power to make it so. Despite everything we have uncovered, the president s misconduct continues to this day, unapologetically and right now. As we saw when he stood in the white house lawn and asked, what do you want in thatjuly 25 pull, and he said the answer was a simple one, and not just a he said the answer was a simple one, and notjust a simple one onjuly 25, and a simple one today, but is he still wants ukraine to interfere our election to help his campaign. Even this week the president s lawyer was back in ukraine seeking to revive the same debunk Conspiracy Theory promoted at the president s behest. Which gets to the final and most pernicious of the arguments we have heard in his defence. But the president can do whatever he wants under article two, including get foreigners involved in our elections, and we should just to approach the president s chief of staff, get over it. Ben franklin said we have a republic if we can keep it. The president and his men say, you cannot keep it and americans should just get over it. Americans should just get over it. Americans do not get to decide americans do not get to decide american elections any more. By themselves, not without foreign help. For the members of congress this is not a question of fact because the facts are not seriously contested. It is rather a question of duty. The president s oath of Office Appears to mean very little to him, but the articles put forward today will give us a chance to show that we will defend the constitution and that our oath means something to us. And that our oath means something to us. I thank you, mr chairman. And that our oath means something to us. Ithank you, mr chairman. So there we are, the us Housejudiciary Committee aiming fora there we are, the us Housejudiciary Committee aiming for a vote on articles of impeachment against President Trump no later than thursday, we are hearing. And that was a representative from the House Intelligence Committee saying, if allowed to stand, Donald Trumps refusal to cooperate would leave them free to corrupt without accountability. The judicial chairman said there will be two articles of impeachment against donald trump, two charges effectively in the peach red impeachment process, one that he abused his terror by pressurising ukraine to investigate his opponent, joe biden, and the second article of impeachment that donald trump obstructed congress, and also saying that no one, not even the american president is above the law. The Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, has appeared in court in the netherlands, to defend her country against accusations of genocide. The International Court ofjustice in the hague is hearing allegations that myanmar committed atrocities against its Rohingya Muslim population.