And with that, Kevin Mccarthys nine month term as speaker was over. The final straw his decision to do a deal with democrats to keep the government open. He didnt hesitate to point the finger of blame at the eight republicans who ousted him, led by matt gaetz, his nemesis. Look, you all know matt gaetz. You know, it was personal. It had nothing to do about spending. The unprecedented removal of the speaker has Left Congress in chaos. So much so, theyve decided to take a week off while they work out what to do next. One rebel, though, was unrepentant. This was the right call. The American People deserve a leader and a speaker who will tell the truth, and so too does the international community. They need to know that the next speaker is going to be honest and wont go back on their word. With republicans focusing firmly on themselves, the question of funding for ukraine, which congress controls, remains undecided. It does worry me. But i know there are a majority of members of the house and senate in both parties who have said that they support funding ukraine. The president was also asked if he had any advice for the next speaker. He could barely keep a straight face. Thats above my pay grade. While some candidates have begun the frantic process of gathering support, others have suggested an extraordinary alternative option, given the speaker doesnt have to be a member of the house. A lot of people have been calling me that, speaker. All i can say is well do whatever is best for the country. Congress has only agreed to fund the government for another six weeks with republicans at one another� s throats. Extending that has now become much harder. Gary odonohue, bbc news. Staying in the us, a judge overseeing Donald TrumpsCivil Fraud Trial has pounded his fists in frustration with the former president s lawyers, for what he called the ridiculous Cross Examination of a witness. Mr trump was back in court in new york for the third day of his trial, which threatens to dismantle his business empire. He, his two adult sons, and the wider trump organisation, are accused of gaining financial advantage by giving misleading valuations of their properties. Donald trump is not expected to return back for the rest of the week. It did sit through their minings proceedings and took the opportunity several times to address the camera is outside of the courtroom. You can slam the whole system, the judge and at the Attorney General herself as corrupt. The teacherjames had her own words for donald trump and after he left she declared the donald trump show was over. The Attorney General said his entire presidency had been nothing more than a political stance and fundraising start and she vowed she would not be bullied and called his comments offensive. Meanwhile, inside the courtroom, there were few heated moments. Thejudge at one point clearly becoming agitated, pounding his fist on the bench is that it was ridiculous that the defence was basically stringing out and dragging out their questioning and said there was no jury presents a question why they were performing in that way. Donald trump threw his hands up, it clearly exasperated. The defence team said they needed to take that line of question because they accuse awareness of being evasive. It is important to remember donald trump has a ready lost the core of this case when the judge ruled last week that he did commit fraud. Today we saw that his legal team has formally now filed a notice of appeal. They said they will be challenging every aspect of the judges ruling. At least ten people have been killed and more than 80 missing after a Glacial Lake Overflowed triggering catastrophic flooding in the state of sikkim. More than twenty indian soldiers were among those missing in the flooding. A Hydro Power Dam has also been breached. Our south asia regional editor Anbarasan Ethirajan has the latest. Videos on social media show how catastrophic the flooding was. It was washing away everything on its way. A number of key bridges connecting this mountainous state have been washed away. And more importantly, a key Hydropower Dam was breached. Now, what the authorities are saying is that because this is a glacial lake at the height of about 5,000 metres sea level, and it overflowed. And because of the impact, all the water suddenly emptied from this lake and the entire water, the power of this water carrying all the boulders and whatever one was on the way, it hit the Hydropower Dam. It breached and it happened at the middle of the night. So that did not give time for many People Living along this river, on the banks of this river to escape. Now we are hearing that dozens of people are still missing, including 20 indian soldiers and one of them was rescued late in the evening. And the impact, the Economic Impact has been severe because many houses were damaged. And the capital of this province of sikkim state, gangtok, has been cut off by road because the Main National highway has also been breached. So the authorities are still carrying out Search Operations for those missing. Right. Sikkim also is fairly popular with tourists now, and weve seen a spate of Natural Disasters in india of late. What are officials saying in terms of Climate Change triggered incidents . So this particular one, theyre talking about the cloudburst, which means on the one hand, you have excessive amount of rain falling at the same time in one single place. And in the himalayan region, what we have been seeing is that the Glacial Lakes are filling up fast because the glaciers are melting. So the water level, the Water Content has been expanding and unable to hold this amount of water. Then this kind of breach happens. What we witnessed in Uttarakhand State further west a couple of years ago that saw torrential rainfall as well as this water gushing, taking away small towns and villages and this kind of phenomenon they are witnessing for the past few years. And also the environmentalists are now questioning what is the purpose of having these huge Hydropower Dams in an ecologically sensitive himalayan region. And they are now studying and they are advising government just because for the sake of development, you cannot go and build these things in these areas like in the himalayas. Some pictures from japan said to release a second batch of water from the crippled fukushima nuclear. Looking at live pictures. The plant operated said the first water releases been completed and the second will take place on thursday. Authorities in turkey say the operation poses no risk but after the first release, china had banned alljapanese seafood imports. We will keep a close watch on that as well. The other story we are looking at. At the start of a three week summit, the pope criticised global Decision Making bodies for being ineffective as well is calling out climate deniers. It started with Pope Francis Presiding Over Messier in saint Peters Square and then at the beginning of a major gathering of catholics from Around The World, mainly bishops but some laypeople as well and for the first time women. We will be spending the next 26 days considering some of the key questions about how the Catholic Church moves forward and then at lunchtime, pope francis published a major document on Climate Change. It is an issue that the pope has talked about throughout the ten years of his papacy. In 2015 in fact publish an encyclical, the highest level of document that the pope can publish on the issue of environment where he called for much more to be done. This really was an assessment of what has happened since then and it was pretty bleak and he did not mince his words. He was critical of global governing bodies, saying they were ineffective. He did praise some of the acute agreements made but set off the recommendations were very vague, there were not enough sanctions for those countries who did not abide by the agreements. He was critical of politicians who denied Climate Change and acted too slowly to, in his words, risk looking like they were doing diversionary tactics rather than actually doing what was right for the globe. But he was also critical of individuals, particularly in the west, where he said the lifestyle and he talked about the us in particular, meant that Climate Change was still a perilous issue to deal with and unless there was a change in that lifestyle, then things were heading in a very bleak direction. And he talked about the fact that already, some of the fact that already, some of the impact of Climate Change was irreversible and of the need for much more urgency of dealing with the issue. Catholic Church Leaders from Around The World have gathered in rome for the month long synod which will consider questions ranging rom the role of women, priestly celibacy, and blessings for lgbt catholics. 0n International Womens day this year that report was presented to pope francis by one of its authors, tracy mcewan. We conducted the survey for the Catholic Roman speak network, and it is the Largest Survey of catholic women ever surveyed. And i guess the large number of responses came as a bit of a surprise, but also not because pope francis had encouraged people all Around The World to contribute to dialogue for the synod process. And i think the large number of responses was largely catholic women, you know, wanting their voice heard in this synod process. And how important would you say is it that this synod in rome will allow women to vote for the first time . I think its really highly significant. The women who completed the survey, you know, had a really strong sense of catholic identity. You know, nine out of 10 of them said that their catholic identity was really important to them, but they also had, like really quite diverse lived experiences of catholicism. And even though they that that lived experience reflected the cultural context which they were placed Around The World, we saw that there was a sense of harm and they a lot of women felt that theyd been silenced in the church. So i think its really important that some really important things that are happening at this synod, you know, that theres 70 lay members which include lay voting members, which includes, i think theres about 56 or 36 women or Something Like that who are able to vote for the first time. But there are also some notable absence. Were not seeing any lgbt people, openly lgbt people voting at the at the synod itself. Right. And think we also found that. Sorry. Your survey also found younger women in the church were found to be more conservative on issues. How did you see that as well . And yeah, that was really interesting. That was younger women in western English Speaking countries. So countries like australia, the us and the uk. There was this trend that young women were more conservative, that when we removed those western English Speaking countries from the sample, that same trend wasnt present. So it was something that was influenced by the high number of respondents from western English Speaking countries. And it was really prominent and somewhat surprising to us. But then i think when you look at some of the cultural changes that are happening in the church with, you know, less people, less young people in those countries in attending church, it might not be so surprising. Around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. Voiceover uk, this is bbc news. 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Premise to Rishi Sunak Has announced he is scrapping a major part of one of europes biggest infrastructure projects, confirming a key leg of the high speed rail project which would have went to the london birmingham stretch of the light of the Northern City of manchester has not been axed due to its soaring costs. Prime minister sunak also pledged to reinvest every penny and other transport projects in the north, midlands, and across the country. The speed was widely seen as an opportunity for the Prime Minister to revitalise his party ahead of a general election expected next year. Here are some of his speech. I am ending this long running saga. I am cancelling the rest of the hst project. In its place, we will reinvest every single penny. £36 billion in hundreds of new transport projects in the north and the midlands across the country. This means that £36 billion of investment in the projects that will make a real difference across our nation. Hs2 project. Across our nation. H52 project across our nation. H52 roect. � ,. ,. , project. But news from india were campaigners project. But news from india were campaigners say project. But news from india i were campaigners say tuesdays police raid in the home of prominentjournalists an attempt by the government too, quote, muscle free speech. The founder of news website newsclick has been arrested under an anti terror law as part of an investigation into its funding. Human rights campaigners have called it a ruthless crackdown against independent journalists. Ministers have insisted police are simply doing theirjob. The co ordinated raids at 30 locations were some of the largest on indias media in recent years. Staying with india. The Cricket World Cup is under way later on with reigning champions english play new zealand. The host india are among the favourites to win the tournament but must overcome the reputation as chokers having flopped in the last decade of the icc tournaments. More, we can go to a presenter and journalist with espn Cricketjoins Us from mumbai. Good to have you. I understand it earlier india but thats the excitement of the Cricket World Cup. How big is this in india and wants to move like across the country . Like across the country . Thank ou for like across the country . Thank you for having like across the country . Thank you for having me like across the country . Thank you for having me here. Like across the country . Thank you for having me here. It like across the country . Thank you for having me here. It is i you for having me here. It is an exciting morning for those of us who cover cricket. The mens world cup comes across every four years, the marquee event on the calendar. The buzz is compared to previous workups quiet in the median. You could attributed to several factors. This is the fourth time of a mans 0di World Cup has been staged in india, the previous three times they cohosted with many neighbours such as pakistan, sri lanka and bangladesh and this is the first time npr seoul hosts of the world cup but a slightly quiet buildup. A lot of it might have to do with the fact that tickets for this world cup went on sale a little later than usually expect with world events, but having said that, england versus new zealand in a repeat of the 2019 mans 0di World Cup Final at the Narendra Modi stadium in ahmedabad which can seat up to hundred and 30,000 people so once the action kicks off you can expect the bus to continue and definitely pick ones india and the commission on sunday when they play australia 130,000. They play australia 130,000. India are the reigning champions. You otherfavourites champions. You other favourites and champions. You otherfavourites and strong teams . You champions. You other favourites and strong teams . And strong teams . You have to look at england and strong teams . You have to look at england and and strong teams . You have to look at england and india and strong teams . You have to look at england and india who l look