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If we ended up down that track and as i said, we dont want an election, we want to get delivering on the governments positive agenda and delivering brexit but if we ended up down that track, it would be the mother of all u turns byJeremy Corbyn. Because hes been saying for months, if not years, that he wants an election. But labour now say they wont be bounced into an election on borisjohnsons terms. Of course we always want a general election, you do not end austerity and Food Bank Britain without a general election. But the primary priority across parties is to legislate against a disastrous no deal. Well be talking to mps from all sides today, talking to voters worried about the impact of no deal, and we want to hear from you do you want a general election . Hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. Let us know if you want a general election . Tha ....
Papers obtained by bbc panorama show drax took timberfrom papers obtained by bbc panorama show drax took timber from rare forest in canada that it had claimed were no go areas. It comes as the government decides whether to give the firms yorkshire side billions more in environmental subsidies, funded by energy bill payers. Drax says its wood pellets are sustainable and illegally harvested. Lets get more on this from our reporter who conducted that investigation. What did you find . This is about a Power Station in england. This is the worlds biggest woodfired Power Station. It does say by burning wood pellets. It receives a huge amount of public subsidy, as you just mentioned, because these wood pellets, when you burn for electricity, that is counted as renewable energy. The Power Station gets through an awful lot of wood p ....
Yesterday, david holmes, an aide to the top u. S. Diplomat in ukraine, told lawmakers that he overheard trump make that request while on a phone call with the u. S. Ambassador to the eu, Gordon Sondland. This according to a copy of holmes Opening Statement obtained by cnn. This follows a day of dramatic and unflappable testimony from the ousted ambassador of ukraine, marie yovanovitch. The career diplomat told lawmakers that she was, im quoting now, shocked and devastated, end quote, after learning the president disparaged her in his july phone call with the ukrainian president. And yovanovitch talked about how isolated and hurt she was after being removed from her post by what she calls a campaign of disinformation from the president s personal attorney, rudy giuliani. In the face of this Smear Campaign, did colleag ....
Ambassador of ukraine marie yovanovitch. She told lawmakers that she was shocked and devastated after learning the president december par disparaged her. Lets start with the testimony under way right now what can you tell us . Mark sandy is a senior official at the office of management and budget. She a career official, and he worked for republicans and democrats. Whether or not trup and his allied eld funds back from ukraine to get dirt on a political rival. That is the part of the white house responsible for either releasing that aide or with holding that aide and sandy is the first person to come and testify. They have tried to talk to several several officials. Sandy did show up today. Essentially youre hearing or looking at once we see this transcript wes about whether or not it raised red flags. And it follows a night of what democrats are calling critical testimony that happened behind closed doors, and the testimony of david homes at the embassy in ukraine is critical because t ....