iam i am spartacus! and the hollywood actor, star of dozens of historical epics kirk douglas has died at the age of 103. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it s newsday. good morning. it s eight am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington where president trump has been acquitted by the senate on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. he s the third us president ever to be impeached by the house, and go on to face and survive a senate trial. only one republican senator mitt romney broke with his party, and voted to impeach the president. there s already been reaction from the white house, which has described mr trump s acquittal ‘full vindication and exoneration‘. the bbc‘s north america editor jon sopel begins our coverage. senators, how say you? is the respondent, donald john trump, guilty or not guilty? a process that started last september came to an end today with senators voting one by one on the two articles of impeachment. mr alexander, not guilty. miss baldwin? guilty. miss baldwin, guilty. and then the verdict. it is therefore ordered and adjudged that the said donald john trump be and he is hereby acquitted of the charges in said articles. but the wall of republican unity was broken by mitt romney. the former presidential candidate with a bombshell speech, said he would vote to convict the president of abuse of office. the grave question the constitution tasked senators to answer is whether the president committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of a high crime and misdemeanour. yes, he did. with the impeachment process now behind him, donald trump is seeing his approval ratings inching up. the republican party is standing right behind him and the democrats have had a shocking few days, after the shambles of the iowa caucus. it s all turning out to be a very good week for donald trump. cheering and applause. and last night he delivered a highly partisan state of the union address that could have been for a republican rally. but the shadow of impeachment couldn t be missed, as donald trump pointedly snubbed the democratic speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, who d led moves to impeach the president. her outstretched arm ignored. and the speaker s disdain was etched on herface, as the president made his remarks. and then, in an extraordinary act of defiance, or petulance opinion is divided nancy pelosi ripped up her copy of his speech. in his speech, the president focused on the strength of the economy, something he hoped would be his trump card in this election year. jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging, and our country is thriving and highly respected again. cheering and applause. but to look at the faces of those listening loving from one side, loathing from the other. a microcosm of america, a foretaste of how bitterly contested this election will be. jon sopel, bbc news, washington. chris buckler is in washington for us. you have been monitoring this for us and no surprises, really with a senate split down party lines apart from one vote. the result of this was never in doubt. donald trump was always going to be acquitted of these charges in this trial and now he can put it behind him. not just that he can also use it. if you look at the white house today, as far as they are concerned, he is not only vindicated but exonerated and he will use that into the next election, calling it a witch hunt stop the point you made is an important one. yes, there was a senator who voted not with their party but other than that this was split along party lines and gives you a sense that the divisions in american politics has become deeper and deeper during this presidency andi deeper during this presidency and i think that will be very obvious as the election comes closer. and the white house coming out fighting. the white house press seemed scathing about mitt romney. and president trump scathing as well. he has taken to his favourite way of communication, gone to twitter and posted a video of mitt romney which is a damning video of him. nothing short of an attack on one of his republican senators. that will not come as a surprise and indeed the president s son donald trump jr has indeed the president s son donald trumer has also said that as rosie is concerned he should be expelled from the party. and the other thing that trump senior has posted is a picture of a mockup of a time magazine cover that shows mr trump going on to win notjust the 2020 election but going on to win elections for decades and centuries to come. let s be clear. he can only serve two terms as president of the united states but he is clear that he believes this victory has helped him in the battle for the second term. that mockup of time magazine says trump for ever. the trump administration they re feeling confident after donald trump being acquitted. the us political drama wasn t confined to washington. within the past hour we ve had more results from that democratic caucus in iowa, which was plagued by computing errors. with 85% of the results recorded so far, pete buttigieg has maintained his lead over nearest rival, bernie sanders. elizabeth warren comes in third, with former vice president running a surprising fourth place. rico, we are still avaiting the full results! the chinese authorities are warning that they face a severe shortage of beds and equipment to treat the growing number of people with coronavirus as it spreads rapidly across the country and abroad. more than 560 people have now died and tens of thousands of others have been infected and tens of millions more are now under some sort of travel restriction with many being told not to leave their homes. john sudworth reports from beijing. wuhan is a city at war, with an invisible enemy. and they re trying everything they can to defeat it. state media is now full of images of an heroic struggle the brand new hospitals held up as proof it s one they re winning. but xiao huang is not so sure. it took him days to find his grandad a bed in this hospital corridor. shortly after this video was taken, he was dead. he fears his grandmother, who also has the virus, is dying too. if they d been admitted earlier, of course, things would have been better , he tells me. wuhan is overwhelmed by illness, with hundreds more cases than available beds, and these patients hooked up to makeshift drips. one woman, who doesn t want to be identified, tells me that her uncle s death won t even be counted in the official statistics. there are so many cases like his , she says. this is the death certificate. he never made it to hospital. all of this might have been prevented. in mid january, knowing the virus was already spreading fast, the authorities allowed this massive community banquet to go ahead, putting the economy and political stability ahead of public health. with the epidemic raging, travel records show five million people were able to leave wuhan before the city was finally locked down. with infections now taking hold across china, other cities have begun imposing restrictions. in nanyang, hangzhou, wenzhou, harbin only one person per household is allowed out to buy food once every two days. the increasing disruption is why some countries, including the uk, are advising people to leave. others are getting out anyway. yeah, quite a bit disappointed but i think it s ok because they re trying to keep us safe. the cost of all this is immeasurable. this was the middle of beijing in what should be the middle of a working week. the ruling communist party knows that as well as economic, there are political risks in all of this. that deep public anger that officials didn t do enough to tell people what they knew soon enough, which is why we ve seen the highly unusual step of the ruling politburo admitting this week that mistakes were made. the big question now, of course can they fix this? with the propaganda in overdrive, the remotest corners are getting the public health message, but china faces a long journey yet. also making news today, more than 30 people have died in two avalanches in eastern turkey. many of those killed were rescue workers who were sent to find people missing, after the first avalanche on tuesday. it s feared dozens more remain trapped, as hundreds of rescuers try to reach them. the un security council is to hold an emergency session on syria on thursday as president assad s troops continue a major offensive in the province of idlib. eight major aid agencies have called for an immediate ceasefire in idlib, which in the past two months has seen pro government forces bombard towns and villages still held by jihadist and rebel fighters. angry villagers in southern nepal have refused to give additional land for the government s plan to expand the lumbini temple complex, known as the birthplace of buddha. residents told a visiting minister that they didn t get enough compensation when they handed over land for the first phase a0 years ago. this is an image of finland s government which has announced plans to give all parents the same parental leave. the move is being billed as a radical change to improve gender equality. and it s hoped that by better enabling men to share childcare duties it could also redress factors that damage women sjob prospects. in turkey, one person has died, after a passenger plane skidded off the runway at one of istanbul s airports, breaking into three pieces. the plane belonged to the turkish low cost airline pegasus and had 177 people on board. rich preston reports. the landing that ended in tragedy. this is the moment a pegasus airlines boeing 737 arriving at speed and wet weather lost skidded and overran the runway at the istanbul airport. seen from the roadside, the impact of the crash visibly split the fuselage of the plane into several sections. translation: u nfortu nately several sections. translation: unfortunately the plane could not hold onto the runway due to poor weather conditions and skidded for around 50 60 metres. it fell from 30 a0 metres. it fell from 30 a0 metres high. on board were 183 passengers and crew who had flown in from the western province of the country. for rescue teams, the scale of the task before them becomes apparent from the ground. there will now be an investigation into what happened although there have been fatalities, many will highlight this could have been much, much worse. you re watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: a song and a smile that could change the world. we report on the efforts to ensure the children of islamic state fighters don t grow up to be like their parents. also on the programme, he was spartacus and many other heroes. the hollywood icon kirk douglas has died, at the age of 103. this is the moment that millions in iran had been waiting for. after his long years in exile, the first hesitant steps of ayatollah khomeini on iranian soil. south africa s white government has offered its black opponents concessions unparalleled in the history of apartheid. the ban on the african national congress is lifted immediately, and the anc leader, nelson mandela, is to be set free unconditionally. ..four, three, two, one. a countdown to a critical moment. the world s most powerful rocket ignited all 27 of its engines at once. and apart from its power, its this recycling of the rocket, slashing the cost of a launch, that makes this a breakthrough in the business of space travel. two americans have become the first humans to walk in space without any lifeline to their spaceship. one of them called it a piece of cake. thousands of people have given the yachtswoman ellen macarthur a spectacular homecoming in the cornish port of falmouth after she smashed the world record for sailing solo around the world non stop. this is newsday on the bbc. i m rico hizon in singapore. i m kasia madera in london. our top stories: the senate has voted to acquit donald trump on all charges of impeachment. he says it s a victory for america. in china, the number of new coronavirus cases has seen its biggest single day increase more than 560 people have now died from the disease. let s take a look at some front pages from around the world. coverage of the spread of the coronavirus continues in the japan times. it s running a front page story on how at least 10 people on a cruise ship have tested positive for the new virus. we are getting reports ten more cases onboard have been confirmed. but it s not all bad news as the straits times of singapore reports one of thailand s first cases of the virus recovers. she is 73 years old, and is pictured giving a thumbs up after being in treatment for nine days. and finally, the gulf news is carrying a story lauding the strength of asian economies in the face of the coronavirus. those are the papers. now, kasia, what stories are sparking discussions online? rico, it s one of those scenarios you see in films. a doctor flying on holiday has been describing how she helped a woman to give birth to a boy in mid air. alena fedchenko responded to an urgent crew announcment on a flight from doha to bangkok and helped a woman who was already in labour to give birth. there was champagne and applause as the pilot announced the good news. good news indeed. if you were watching on tuesday we brought you a special bbc report on is supporters and their children detained indefinitely in syria. today, we look at what happens, when families are allowed home. in indonesia, some have returned but with catastrophic consequences. our correspondent, quentin sommerville, and cameraman darren conway have followed the route of one couple. the armies of the caliphate left much behind in syria. detention camps, full of their wives, their children, entire families. dozens of countries are now asking the same question, can they welcome back orphans and daughters and mothers who belonged to the enemy of the world? from the camps and prisons of syria, we traced the journey of one family who answered the islamic state group s: family who answered the islamic state groups: all the way through turkey and asia. the group tightened its grip on two indonesian followers. husband and wife couple here kid four months after they failed to get back to syria. they didn t stop these two fanatics, they failed to achieve martyrdom in syria, so instead they would try closer to home. while other countries dither, here in indonesia, they are already running a d radicalisation programme. tiny minds were a big part of the islamic state s plans. but theirs was a childhood without song, without playtime. here at the rehabilitation centre, the children ofjihad is are given love and attention. and are allowed to have fun. they are learning to be kids again. some of the children here have just returned from turkey. their radicalised parents are being treated here, but we weren t allowed to meet them. a counsellor at the camp met the couple. did you realise how dangerous they were? translation: i was surprised to learn of the terrible thing they did. because when they left here they were nice, cooperative. they were better than the rest and a year after they left the centre, we visited them and they were still good. i didn t expect that they would go back to this path. can you guarantee that given there are hundreds of indonesians, trapped in syria, who support ias, that if they come back they won t be a danger, they won t commit more atrocities or act of support is? know, we cannot guarantee. we went to uncover more of the story. so here and surrey is a former extremist who knew the couple and met them at the rehabilitation centre. he is against bringing more indonesian is supporters home. translation: i disagree with bringing them back because it will create problems. they are not trustworthy people. in many cases, former terrorist get involved again with groups, even after they have been rehabilitated. the wild and uncovered jungles in the southern philippines were where they headed next. here they would become martyrs and mass murderers. hundreds of asian fighters across two oceans joined the islamic state group in the middle east. the worry now is since the caliphate is lying in berrien, that that flow is reversed lying in ruin. look at the territory here, miles upon miles of open sea, hundreds of islands, difficult soup attack, and it s easy to move among them, easy to move among countries. the hollywood actor, kirk douglas has died. he was 103. famous for roles in spartacus, paths of glory and many other historical epics, he was the last of a generation of screen idols. lizo mzimba looks back on his life and career. for the first time in my life, people cheering for me! he made his name as a 1 stop boxer, champion earned him the first of the oscar nominations was the ppd ruthless, selfish, fiercely driven upstart, a bit like kirk douglas himself. 1 stop boxer. the ruthlessness and drive of his childhood, he was born the son of illiterate russian immigrants and brought up russian immigrants and brought up in extreme poverty. he enjoys playing villains more than heroes like the journal is that a than heroes like the journal is thata mining than heroes like the journal is that a mining disaster who wouldn t let anything get in the way of a good story. sir, would you like me to suggest what you can do without promotion? critics applauded his roles in paths of glory and lust for life, in which she played vincent van gogh. his lust for power earned him many enemies, he hurried and fired at whim and defied the anti communist witch hunt in hollywood, crediting a blacklisted writer for spartacus. i am spartacus! spartacus. i am spartacus! spartacus defied the roman emperor, much like how kirk douglas defied hollywood. emperor, much like how kirk douglas defied hollywoodlj didn t douglas defied hollywood.” didn t want to become a tycoon. i wanted a chance to do movies i wanted a chance to do movies i wanted to do. i wanted to do spartacus, paths of glory, even though they were successful, it wasn t easy to get the financing for them. what is he calling you about? he became a father son duo. kirk douglas had great affection from his own father but never received it. in the end he became the founder of a hollywood dynasty and one of hollywood s greatest stars. remembering kirk douglas who has died at the age of 103. rico, i mentioned the cruise ship injapan in quarantine. we can bring you live images now. this is the diamond princess, there were reports there were ten people onboard testing positive for the coronavirus, that number has now gone up to 20. and in fact, it s not the only cruise ship, there is one in hong kong being quarantined as officials there are checking for the virus. so, that is the livestock there. live shot. you have been watching newsday. i m kasia madera in london. and i m rico hizon in singapore. stay with us. coming up in business news we ll be looking at the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on global growth forecast. we look forward to seeing you again, we will have the next edition later. good evening. fog could cause one or two problems tomorrow morning but essentially things are calm at the moment. however, are calm at the moment. after friday things are however, after friday things are set to change quite dramatically. for the time being, though, high pressure is firmly in charge, that is giving us largely dry tonight. around this area of high pressure we re putting a lot of cloud into northern ireland, western and northern parts of scotland, that cloud perhaps thick enough to squeeze out the odd spot of drizzle. sunny across england and, some clear spells allowing you to get a little bit chilly, nothing unusualfor little bit chilly, nothing unusual for this little bit chilly, nothing unusualfor this time little bit chilly, nothing unusual for this time of year, just a typical cold winter s note. but frost was a man potentially some fog patches across the midlands, wales, the south of england, some of that fog could be quite dense and slow to clear. to the day tomorrow we are looking at some sunny breaks, a fair amount of cloud around generally for northern ireland and western scotland. temperatures typically between 7 nine, it may be a little bit lower than that if you are stuck with fog for any length of time. friday is expected to bring stronger winds, which means not as much fog in the morning are not as much blood throughout the day, so we should see some sunny spells. not as much fog the rout the day. as we go through friday night we re going to push that man is the woods across many parts of the uk, behind a window of dry weather. not a bad looking start to the weekend but then a more meaningful band of rain and with it, for the latter part of saturday, a of gales. that is initially in northern and western parts of the uk. and thatis western parts of the uk. and that is not the end of it. the weather for the second half of the weekend is currently in development across the south of the usa, an area of rain and snow expected to be pick up by an incredibly powerful jet stream. now, the jet an incredibly powerful jet stream. now, thejet stream winds in the atmosphere are expected to blow it 270 mph for a time. that essentially superchargers the atmosphere, brings unsettled weather our way, but it really deepens this area of low pressure, this is a deep looking logo which has been named by the met office. details may change, but wherever you are across the uk there is the risk of damaging winds. i m kasia madera with bbc world news. our top story. the us senate has voted to acquit donald trump of both charges for which he was impeached. votes were cast along party lines, with the exception of one republican senator. the president said it was a victory for america, and tweeted this mock up of a time magazine cover. chinese authorities are reporting the biggest single day increase in the number of new coronavirus cases. it total, nearly 25,000 people have been infected so far. there have been 560 deaths, the vast majority in china. and some newsjust in, the hollywood icon, kirk douglas has died. star of spartacus, and many other hollywood epics, he earned several oscar nominations in the 1950s for both his acting and producing. his son, the actor michael douglas, described him as a movie legend and a great humanitarian.
one person has died and more than 150 are injured after a plane skids off the runway at an airport in istanbul, breaking into three sections. and at 11:30 we ll be taking an in depth look at the papers, with our reviewers giles kenningham and maya goodfellow. stay with us for that. good evening. in the last few hour the us senate has found president trump not guilty of abuse of power and the obstruction of congress in his historic impeachment trial. donald trump had been charged with high crimes and misdemeanours by the members of the house of representatives but, as expected, the republican majority in the senate cleared him, which means he ll fight for reelection in november. 0ur north america editor, jon sopel, reports. senators, how say you? is the respondent, donald john trump, guilty or not guilty? a process that started last september came to an end today with senators voting one by one on the two articles of impeachment. mr alexander, not guilty. miss baldwin? guilty. and then the verdict. it is then ordered and adjudged donald trump equated of the charges and said articles. aquitted. but the wall of republican unity was broken by mitt romney. the former presidential candidate with a bombshell speech, said he would vote to convict the president of the abuse of office. the grave question the constitution tasked senators to answer is whether the president committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of a high crime and misdemeanour. yes, he did. with the impeachment process now behind him, donald trump is seeing his approval ratings inching up. the republican party is standing right behind him and the democrats have had a shocking few days after the shambles of the iowa caucus. it s all turning out to be a very good week for donald trump. cheering and last night he delivered a highly partisan state of the union address that could have been for a republican rally. but the shadow of impeachment couldn t be missed as donald trump pointedly snubbed the democratic speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, who led moves to impeach the president. her outstretched arm ignored. and there speakas much disdain was etched on her face as the president made his remarks. and then, in an extraordinary act of defiance, or petulance, opinion is divided, nancy pelosi ripped up her copy of his speech. in his speech, the president focused on the strength of the economy, something he hoped would be his trump card in this election year. jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging and our country is thriving and highly respected again. applause but to look at the faces of those listening. loving from one side, loathing from the other. a microcosm of america, a foretaste of how bitterly contested this election will be. jon sopel, bbc news. the chinese authorities are warning that they face a severe shortage of beds and equipment to treat the growing number of people with coronavirus, as it spreads rapidly across the country and abroad. china says 560 people have now died, tens of thousands of others have been infected. meanwhile thousands of passengers and crew on two cruise ships have been placed in quarantine after a number of people on board tested positive for the virus. john sudworth reports from beijing. wuhan is a city at war, with an invisible enemy. and they re trying everything they can to defeat it. state media is now full of images of an heroic struggle the brand new hospitals held up as proof it s one they re winning. but xiao huang is not so sure. it took him days to find his grandad a bed in this hospital corridor. shortly after this video was taken, he was dead. he fears his grandmother, who also has the virus, is dying too. if they d been admitted earlier, of course, things would have been better , he tells me. wuhan is overwhelmed by illness, with hundreds more cases than available beds, and these patients hooked up to makeshift drips. one woman, who doesn t want to be identified, tells me that her uncle s death won t even be counted in the official statistics. there are so many cases like his , she says. this is the death certificate. he never made it to hospital. all of this might have been prevented. in mid january, knowing the virus was already spreading fast, the authorities allowed this massive community banquet to go ahead, putting the economy and political stability ahead of public health. with the epidemic raging, travel records show five million people were able to leave wuhan before the city was finally locked down. with infections now taking hold across china, other cities have begun imposing restrictions. in nanyang, hangzhou, wenzhou, harbin only one person per household is allowed out to buy food once every two days. the increasing disruption is why some countries, including the uk, are advising people to leave. others are getting out anyway. yeah, quite a bit disappointed but i think it s ok because they re trying to keep us safe. the cost of all this is immeasurable. this was the middle of beijing in what should be the middle of a working week. the ruling communist party knows that as well as economic, there are political risks in all of this. that deep public anger that officials didn t do enough to tell people what they knew soon enough, which is why we ve seen the highly unusual step of the ruling politburo admitting this week that mistakes were made. the big question now, of course can they fix this? with the propaganda in overdrive, the remotest corners are getting the public health message, but china faces a long journey yet. here the government is chartering one more flight to get uk citizens out of wuhan. the government is prepared for more. the world health 0rganization prepared for more. the world health organization is appealed for £500 billion to help fight the coronavirus. this cruise ship, off yokohama near tokyo, has become a floating quarantine for 3700 people. the passengers, some of them british, are being confined to their rooms for the next 1a days, after several tested positive for coronavirus. it s just an extended two week cruise, but it s not going to be a luxury cruise it s going to be like a floating prison. the novel coronavirus was first officially notified in wuhan at the end of december, but it had been circulating there for weeks, which helps explain why the outbreak spread so quickly. the official number of coronavirus cases has rocketed to almost 25,000. it s rising by several thousand a day within hubei province, where nearly all cases and deaths have been just two of nearly 500 have been outside mainland china. 25 countries around the world have reported cases. now, this outbreak is still largely confined to china, but the key question is, will it become a pandemic, which means a global epidemic? for that, we d need to see sustained person to person spread of this disease in other countries. that hasn t happened yet. it s simply too early to know whether this virus can be contained and a pandemic prevented. the world health organisation has called for more than £500 million in donations to help fight the spread of the disease. this is not a time for fear. this is not a time for panic. it s a time for rational, evidence based action and investment. these labs in north london have tested nearly 500 patient samples for coronavirus. only two people in the uk have tested positive. it s thought the virus may be less contagious than seasonal flu. the transmission, as far as is understood from current evidence, is face to face. when a patient coughs on someone who is not infected, they can become infected from the droplets that occur in that cough. it s not propelled by a sneeze, which aerosolises virus in the air and spreads it from person to person at a distance. unlike flu, that may help prevent the spread of coronavirus, and reduce the risk of a pandemic. fergus walsh, bbc news. let s return to our main story now. the us senate has found president trump not guilty of abuse of power and the obstruction of congress in his historic impeachment trial which means he ll fight for reelection in november. since the result, donald trump has tweeted an animated video, giving his seventy two million followers an insight into hisjubilation following his acquittal. (music playing). i think ithinka i think a rather wry suggestion he is now unstoppable. let s talk to our washington correspondent, gary 0 donoghue. tell us more about the reaction to the news this evening. tell us more about the reaction to the news this eveninglj tell us more about the reaction to the news this evening. i was trying to get the music. the reaction has been, well, predictable. the white house has said it is a total exoneration and vindication of the president and they also had a sideswipe of mitt romney calling him a failed presidential candidate. he was the one vote out of 200 votes that was out of line on one of those articles so that the white house not happy about that. the president also planning tomorrow here at the white house to make a statement at 12 noon oui’ house to make a statement at 12 noon our time. we will get his words and reaction in that statement. you can clearly see from that to eat, a rather astonishing tweet, really, that he believes this has made him invincible. i am lovely involved it is in the whole of the mountain king. in the whole of the mountain king. in the whole of the mountain king. this this now mean he can focus his attention on the presidential campaign?” focus his attention on the presidential campaign? i think it does. in many ways, the legal process , does. in many ways, the legal process, the quasi legal process is over. there will be some hangover from it, for example, one of the house committees is threatening to subpoena john bolton, the former national security adviser, who did not appear as a witness in the senate trial so that might carry on. but i think, in purely electoral terms, this is something the president can use, of course. he has been using impeachment at his rallies already now he could say going forward, look, they have tried to get rid of me and they have not been able to do it. don t let them try. if you think about his appeal back into thousand 16, it was as the outsider, the non washington person, the one who would drain the swamp. the point is, once you have been president forfour swamp. the point is, once you have been president for four years, it becomes a bit stale. you can now reinvigorate, refresh that idea of being in the outsider because he will say the establishment, the opposition, they all tried to get rid of me and they failed to give me four more years. do you think we will see a change of strategy for the democrats as well because clearly the approach has been very much to target them and and all that stands for and what they would see as his dubious behaviour. are they going to have to try a different tack now? it is an interesting question. 0verhanging the whole race for the democratic nomination is the question of who can beat donald trump. that is almost true of the party that is trying to get back into the white house. the question is always that. it is even more so this because it is all about donald trump. the democrats will tell you they will argue on healthcare policy, the economy is pretty strong at the moment, the president is making a lot of that at the state of the union last night, they will argue about immigration and other issues as well. they will argue about whether or not these trade deals are for real, whether the middle class is feeling squeezed in any sense so these issues will be out there but i think this election would be about donald trump and whether america wants four more yea rs of whether america wants four more years of donald trump or if they are ready for a change. i think that is the battlefield that donald trump wa nts to the battlefield that donald trump wants to fight it out and i think the democrats would want to fight it on that battleground as well. good to talk to you. thank you very much. the headlines on bbc news: not guilty president trump is acquitted by the senate of all charges at his impeachment trial. the white house calls it a full vindication and exoneration. in other news, millions of people are placed under travel restrictions in china, as beijing steps up its efforts to contain the coronavirus as the death toll rises to 560. here, the government launches an eight week consultation over whether failing to pay your tv licence should be treated as a criminal offence. let s get more on that. the way in which the bbc is funded and how that money is collected looks set to become a major talking point in the weeks ahead. the government is launching a public consultation and a key issue will be whether failing to pay the licence fee should still be a criminal offence. the culture secretary, baroness morgan, is arguing that in the digital age the way we get our news and entertainment is changing and the bbc may have to change, too. here s our media editor, amol rajan. right, back to the studio floor. it s almost a century old, yet the chances of the bbc existing with its current funding model for another decade are receding fast. the health of our oceans is under threat. three quarters of the bbc‘s money comes from the licence fee, a compulsory payment for households who watch live television or the iplayer. it means bbc programmes, such as those starring sir david attenborough, are funded not commercially or by the state, but by the public. this morning, the culture secretary made the case for reform in the context of a revolution in global media. the bbc has a current charter that runs until 2027. there s always a review midway, and what we ll be doing is particularly looking at the amount of the licence fee now and this issue around whether there should be decriminalisation of licence fee evasion. the bbc says its focus is programmes, not prosecutions. there are some myths that need to be busted here. the current system works effectively. only a small number of people are prosecuted, and a tiny proportion of people five in england and wales last year went to prison not for failure to pay a tv licence, but for failure to pay a number of fines. it s fashionable to say that the bbc should be more like netflix, a subscription service worth around £125 billion today. but the comparison is lazy. netflix has racked up billions of debt on a spending spree and has negative cash flow of around £2 billion annually. where would the bbc get access to that kind of finance? and moving to a subscriber base would change the very nature of the bbc from a universal service to one tailored just to those willing to pay. the bbc licence funds content across tv, radio and online. but the younger you are, the less of it you consume. i don t think people really watch tv nowadays. and everything s online, isn t it? so. i know you can access bbc online, and that s free. i don t think we should be paying for it. i think that s outdated now. i think it s fine for the services that you get. ithink. we pay sky monthly, but a lot cheaper, and stop prosecuting people. # step into christmas. the bbc still produces big hits from gavin and stacey. to flea bag. but ultimately it can t do more and more with less and less. amol rajan, bbc news. in turkey, one person has died and more than 150 people have been injured after a passenger plane skidded off the runway in istanbul. the plane broke into three pieces. the boeing 737, operated by the turkish low cost carrier pegasus airlines. 177 people were onboard. the landing that ended in tragedy. the landing that ended in tragedy. the boeing 737 skidded and overran the runway. seen from the roadside, the runway. seen from the roadside, the impact of the crash visibly split the plane s use allows into several sections. fuselage. translation: unfortunately, the plan hold onto the runway due to poor weather conditions and skidded for around 60 metres. it fell from 30 110 metres high. onboard were 183 passengers and crew who had flown in from the country s western province. for rescue teams, the scale of the task before them as they comb the wreckage for survivors becomes task before them as they comb the wreckage 0ver rvivors becomes task before them as they comb the wreckage over 100 )rs becomes task before them as they comb the wreckage 0ver100 people imes task before them as they comb the wreckage 0ver100 people injured, apparent. 0ver100 people injured, none of them critical, but circus officials have reported at least one person has died. there will be an investigation into what has happened and many who will say it could have been much, much worse. rich preston, bbc news. turkish officials. ajudge in spain has ordered an indedendent investigation to be held into the deaths of three british family members, who drowned in a hotel swimming pool near fuengirola. 52 year old gabriel diya, his nine year old daughter comfort, and 16 year old praise emmanuel, died on christmas eve at the club la costa world hotel. the initial police report concluded that the incident was a tragic accident, partly blamed on the family not being able swimmers. voters in ireland go to the polls this week in a general election. three years ago, when leo varadkar who is openly gay and mixed race became the irish prime minister, he was seen as a symbol of modern ireland. but now he s facing a possible defeat, while there appears to be growing support for the irish republican party sinn fein. here s our ireland correspondent emma va rdy. the ancient west of ireland has seen rapid change. !z:!z;;:!.; res-seas él-s; 3a?!» ,, . ~ capital of culture. gay pride, remembers a less liberal city. i came out as lesbian. i didn t know the word lesbian, and i didn t know what coming out was. leo varadkar has been symbolic of ireland transformed. the legalisation of abortion under his premiership, a watershed moment. yes, there s been enormous, huge, positive change, and it is wonderful, particularly for our young generations, but we have a hell of a way to go. homelessness, our healthcare system. there s been an awful lot of cuts in leo varadkar‘s time, too. the high cost of living, hospital overcrowding and a major shortage of housing are turning people away from the main parties, while polls have indicated a dramatic increase in support for sinn fein. i think that the housing crisis is so big that people are going out to vote on that topic. graduate niamh has struggled to rent a place. there are families that are living in emergency accommodation, and then you ve got the other part of it, where there s the likes of me and other working professionals that are young that are just looking for a room to live in. hello, and you re very welcome to prime time: the leaders debate. after a poll by the irish times suggested sinn fein were now in the lead, the irish broadcaster rte was forced to make a late change and include sinn fein president mary lou mcdonald in last night s debate. but in large parts of ireland, the party still struggles to shake off its historical links to the ira. i think they ve become the voice of the left in ireland, but their history makes it difficult for a lot of people to be able to reconcile their progressive policies with their bloodied past. younger people are judging based on policies. sinn fein s past is less important? ah, yeah, i guess so, i mean, i m focusing on the future. the surge for sinn fein has become the shock of this election, but because of the party s old connections, fianna fail and fine gael insist they won t go into coalition with them, and no party is expected to win an overall majority. brexit hasn t been a major topic. there s broad agreement about the country s approach, but whoever emerges as taoiseach will influence the trade deal the uk is hoping to achieve. and while scars still remain from ireland s strict past, it s the new social problems that s driving voters thirst for change. emma vardy, bbc news, dublin. shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry has told the bbc that she fears she is being squeezed by her rivals sir keir starmer and rebecca long bailey for the labour leadership. she said under her leadership the party would be more professional , and there would be a leap of credibility . in the latest in our series of interviews with the leadership candidates, she has been talking to our political editor laura kuenssberg. the whole approach is just wrong. an awful lot went wrong for labour. she s lagging behind her rivals in this race. people are giving us their e mails. but could emily thornberry, london mp and shadow foreign secretary, be the person to put it right? the labour party doesn t need to go through some kind of great existential crisis about who it is that we are. i think we know who we are, and we re proud of it. i think whatjeremy brought to us was an authenticity and an ability, and a confidence to speak from the heart. i think there were some terrible tactical errors in relation to the general election. and i have been open about the disagreements i had. you were in the room. yes. you were part of the team that led the labour party to an historic defeat. do you think, then, this isn t a crisis for the labour party? no, but i think what we should be doing is not going back to having this crisis about who are we, what are we doing? i don t disagree with anything that was in the manifesto, i ll be honest with you. but there was far too much of it. there was far too much of it. we were announcing four orfive policies a day. i mean, i couldn t keep up with it, let alone anybody else. you were part of the misjudgments that got the party to that place. so, i ask again, why should you be, how can you be part of the solution? what i ll say is that politics is a team sport. and i was part of a team. and i did what i could do to try to make things go the right way. but, in the end, it is a matter. all you can do is advise if you re not the leader. i believe that it is my duty to stand up at this stage and say, i can help sort things out. with me as leader, we would be doing things in a different way. how would it be different? we would be more professional. we would be more believable, we would be more credible, and people would say, oh, thank goodness, the labour party s back. there s a lot of meet and greet to do. she s less than a fortnight to scoop up support from unions or local labour parties to get into the last round. thank you, thanks a lot. bye bye. the contest has been dominated so far by two others, keir starmer and rebecca long bailey. why do you think you re so far behind? unfortunately, the labour party can very easily fall into the good old way of fighting things in the labour party its left versus right. for the leader to take us forward, we need to have the best candidate. and so, to a certain extent, it s a good old fashioned squeeze. and i ve had people saying to me, ‘well, emily, i was going to support you, but we ve got to stop keir starmer, so i m voting for rebecca long bailey.‘ and then i ve had other people to saying to me, ‘i was going to support you, but i can t, because we ve got to stop rebecca long bailey, so i have to vote for keir.‘ and i m going, ‘hang on, hang on, isn t the thing to do to vote for the best candidate?‘ do you have any tory friends? rebecca long bailey said she didn‘t think she did, and keir starmer told us of course he did. i think i probably have some tory friends. particularly members of my husband‘s family. but i‘ve never kissed a tory in that way. that would be true to say. making it to the top job right now seems unlikely. but emily thornberry has rarely gone down without a fight. laura kuenssberg, bbc news. the papers are coming up in a moment. now it‘s time for the weather with ben rich. hello there. if you‘re making travel plans for this we go next week, it‘s worth staying with me until the end of the long range forecast because there is some stormy weather on the horizon. in the shorter term, what we have is the calm before the storm. high pressure in charge of the scene throughout thursday. the airaround high the scene throughout thursday. the air around high pressure moving in this clockwise direction. so that will always allows to pull quite a lot of cloud in. where you are closest to the centre of the high, we have late winds. fog could linger for quite a time on thursday morning, some of that quite dense. that fog tends to lift in most places then we will see some spells of sunshine. always very amounts of cloud in northern ireland and western scotland, the odd spot of rain. temperatures 7 9d, may be lower if you are stuck with fog for any length of time. these frontal systems will squat in from the atla ntic systems will squat in from the atlantic and ahead of those fronts we will see the wind starting to pick up. that means there won‘t be so much fog on friday morning, a better chance of breaking up the cloud and seeing some sunshine. late in the day we was this i was given to western areas where it will also start to turn milder. a band of rain will move the run friday night, should be clear by saturday. so we start the weekend in decent shape but here comes a band of heavy rain from the west. as we go through the day, with that we was the increasingly strong winds. through saturday evening there is likely to bea saturday evening there is likely to be a swathe of gales in north and western areas but pushing eastwards throughout the night. and that is just the start of it. what we have over the usa at the moment is an area of very stormy weather, rain and snow here. now, that is going to be picked up by a powerfuljet stream. we are expecting wind speeds in thejet stream. we are expecting wind speeds in the jet stream, higher the atmosphere, to reach 270 miles an hour, supercharging the atmosphere, denting that lump of
i m katty kay with christian fraser on capitol hill in washington. we on capitol hill in washington. apologise for being 6 as we apologise for being a little late as christian was having a nap after as christian was having a nap after a very long a few days. not true, we had a few technical problems. on the night before the us senate votes in his impeachment trial, donald trump came to capitol hill and reminded americans why he s such a divisive figure. his state of the union address began with republicans chanting four more years and democrats walking out early in disgust. welcome to campaign season 2020. the president touted a litany of his economic achievements, several of which were disputed by fact checkers. he made direct appeals to groups of voters who might help him win re election suburban women, manufacturing workers, even african americans. this was more campaign rally than state of the union. here s our north america editorjon sopel. paradoxically, the standout moments from this speech contained no words. it was the psychodrama between the president and the democratic speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, the woman who led the moves to impeach donald trump. first off, he very deliberately refused to shake her hand. and look at her facial expressions as the speech progresses. and finally the coup de grace as republican lawmakers are blistering their hands from clapping so much, nancy pelosi made clear what she thought of the speech. impeachment was never mentioned directly. instead, it was a victory lap on his achievements particularly the state of the economy. jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging, and our country is thriving and highly respected again. it was a speech aimed at his blue collar and conservative base, but there was also an attempt to broaden his appeal. this is election year, after all, and it was noticeable how much he talked about the african american community. african american youth unemployment has reached an all time low. african american poverty has declined to the lowest rate ever recorded. but look at the sea of faces, either loving or loathing a microcosm of america. jon sopel, bbc news, washington. let s bring injonathan turley, constitutional law professor let s go live to the senate. senator mitt romney is speaking. he has just told the senate he has voted to remove the president from office. does anyone seriously believe that i will consent to these consequences other than from an inescapable conviction that my oath before god demanded of me? i sought to hear testimony from john bolton not only because i believed he could add context to the charges but also because i hoped that what he might say could raise reasonable doubt and thus remove from me the awful obligation to vote for impeachment. like each member of this deliberative body, i love our country. i believe that our constitution was inspired by providence. i am convinced that freedom itself is dependent on the strength and vitality of our national character. as it is with each senator, my vote is an act of conviction. we have come to different conclusions, fellow senators, but i trust we have all follow the dictates of our conscience. acknowledge that my verdict would not remove the president from office. the results of this senate court will in fact be appealed to a higher court, the judgement of the american people. voters will make the final decision just as the president s lawyers have implored. my vote will likely be in the minority in the senate. but irrespective of these things, with my vote, i will tell my children, their children that i did my duty to their children that i did my duty to the best of my ability, believing that my country expected of me. i will only be one name among many, no more, no less. to future generations of americans who look at the record of americans who look at the record of this trial. they will note merely that i was among the senators who determined that with the president did was wrong, grievously wrong. we are all footnotes at best in the annals of history. but in the most powerful nation on earth, the nation conceived in liberty and justice, that distinction is enough for any citizen. thank you, mr president. i yield the floor. that was mitt romney the senator from utah who was told the senate that he will vote to remove the president from office on the first article of impeachment. that is abuse of power. he is the only republican as far as we understand who is going to break party ra n ks understand who is going to break party ranks and find the president guilty after this senate trial. it does not mean as you heard the senators say they are that the president will be removed from office but it is a stand that president trump will not appreciate. a repudiation of not only donald trump who is very popular in it mitt romney s state of utah but also a repudiation of his colleagues. there are colleagues more toward the centre who believe the president did do something wrong and this was not a perfect call and he is pointing to that evidence and say that is what we needed to hearfrom that evidence and say that is what we needed to hear from a former national security adviserjohn bolton, to get some clarity on what we saw through this trial. let s bring injonathan turley, constitutional law professor at george washington university. he s in our washington studio. i want to get your reaction to that breaking news that mitt romney will vote to remove the president from office on that one article of impeachment, abuse of power. office on that one article of impeachment, abuse of powerlj thought it was an excellent speech. i don t think anyone who has had even passing interactions with senator mitt romney would doubt his veracity. i think that he has taken this book very seriously and he has fulfilled his oath as he believes it must be fulfilled. it is a decision that could very well put a lot of pressure on senator susan collins. she has already indicated she will not vote to convey it, she will vote to acquit. and for that she may be getting added blowback in her state i iow getting added blowback in her state now that one republican has broken ranks. this is now technically a bipartisan effort to convict the president. i was also glad to see senator rodney rejected the second article of impeachment dealing with obstruction of congress. that is the article that i testified against most vociferously in the house. i think that was a very flawed article. in that article could well add a bipartisan element the other way. it is possible that a couple of democratic senators may be troubled by article two and it joined the republicans in voting to acquit him of that article. you say that it is now a bipartisan impeachment but of course there are democrats on the other side he were going to have trouble with this vote. some of them in purple states and submit republican states. think of doug jones of alabama and a joked mansion of west virginia and from arizona, they might go the opposite way. we have heard in the last 2a hours from jerry nadler, the chair of the judiciary committee, he says he will still subpoena john bolton. word does that go? if they acquit today, where does that process go?m does that go? if they acquit today, where does that process go? it is a curious position of the house of representatives. when i testify, i strongly encourage them to wait a couple of months to complete this record. it was an incomplete record, it was guaranteed to fail. and more importantlyjohn it was guaranteed to fail. and more importantly john bolton back it was guaranteed to fail. and more importantlyjohn bolton back then was saying he was one to testify if the house subpoenaed him. none of it made a lot of sense to some of us. they rushed the boat and they waited a month and that effectively nothing. and now after the vote, they will subpoena john bolton. so there will be a lot of questions as to what coherent strategy the house leadership ever had here. now clearly they could subpoena john bolton to come and do some greater damage to the president but the thing to keep in mind is that this is almost a many people have turned the sound off. they really came to this for the conclusion. people in the united states tend to be increasingly at sideload in their news that they get. this sort of echoed journalism where they hear what they want to hear. so even if bolton comes in and has that moment, that sort of hands a duffel bag moment that shocks everyone in that committee, it may not move the needle much. people are pretty baked it is to how they view this impeachment. how does mitt romney and it is only one senator, the other republican senators will vote to acquit the president, but how does it change history s reading of this impeachment trial?|j does it change history s reading of this impeachment trial? i don t think history will be kind to either side. this is not the way to impeach a president and it is not the way to try a president in impeachment. i think both sides will be show in history to have made to consequential if not catastrophic blunders. the house made a historic blunders. the house made a historic blunder by rushing this vote. it will not look well in history. it was a mistake that cost of the impeachment. they handed the record notjust of the impeachment. they handed the record not just of the opposing impeachment. they handed the record notjust of the opposing house but to the opposing party and then asked if they would please complete what they had failed to do in the house. they could have done that. they could have waited to my march and april is when i suggested, and had a lot more in terms of a record to go forward with. it would not necessarily have change the result that would have made it much more difficult for the sleep senators. the white house with a colossal blunder in concert in their defence around this theory by professor alan dershowitz. their position was it is all invalid because you don t have a crime, that abuse of power is not a basis to impeach someone on. the minute that alan dershowitz sat down, this case became the dershowitz defence. they met a lot of good points but all of that was lost. and i think it robs a president of any legitimacy historically because people will speculate whether the senators based their vote on what was a deeply flawed and widely discredited theory of constitutional law. valuable contacts. thank you very much for your thoughts. to remind you, mitt rounded the senator from you don t have to sit on the floor of the senate that he is going to vote in favour of the first article of impeachment that there was an abuse of power. met robbie from utah. he assumed republican who will vote that way because susan collins from maine said she did not think she will vote that way. there ll be repercussions to that and we will see and keep our ears across what else is going on the senate floor over the next few hours. it is worth pointing out that level of hostility we saw at the senate and have seen in the senate over recent days was there in the chamber yesterday as well. at the state of the union address. for the president, well. at the state of the union address. forthe president, both republican and democrats can was normally a bipartisan affair. not this time. case in point here. applause. indistinct chatter. applause. asjon mentioned, nancy pelosi rather theatrically ripped up her copy of the speech just as the president finished talking. that s received a lot of attention on tv and social media today, not least from the president, who tweeted and retweeted on the incident more than 20 times showing his disdain. meanwhile, the substance of the speech has been subject to intense debate over the facts. republicans clearly liked what they heard, but democrats said the president was lying about his record. we ve put some of the main points to our own fact checking team. we have created seven million jobs, and the unemployment rate is the lowest in half a century. that is true. there is some context needed here. during the first three years, the 6.7 millionjobs have been created in america. during the last three yea rs of in america. during the last three years of the obama administration, 8.3 millionjobs were years of the obama administration, 8.3 million jobs were created. that is false. no one will dispute the fact the american economy is humming. jobs and on employment are good. look back at the bill clinton record, they noticed 4%1% at one point and nudged 5% under barack obama. that is false. in fact, the president s lawyers are in court as we speak trying to get the affordable care act from president obama that made a prefix in condition for health care overturned and made also conditional. we re joined now by cassie smedile, deputy communications director of the republican national committee. some faqs disputed but some patently false. there were also a tonne of true positive facts that the democrats could not smile about let alone applaud. this was a speech for the american people. the president spoke of it to the american people despite the people in the review may not like him, it was for those at home he needed to hear and be reminded, unfiltered with full context of all the good that is happening in our country. they heard that message loud and clear and you are seeing that in the way they have responded to last night s speech which has been overwhelmingly positive. it was very well-received in the chamber last night. plenty of standing ovations from people at the beginning who perhaps did not believe in donald trump. when you look at his approval rating at the moment, has been climbing week on week in recent times and last night at 49%. so when you look at that, acquitted today and whatever mitt romney has said some of the mess in iowa, the speech last night, he goes into a iowa, the speech last night, he goes intoa campaign iowa, the speech last night, he goes into a campaign probably in a better position that he could ever have imagined. a great week for a president trump and republicans and for the country. you mentioned i will come of that was yes technologically a disaster but as you look at the candidates on the left, no one is emerging as a favourite. left, no one is emerging as a favourite. look left, no one is emerging as a favourite. look at iowa. the democratic party is not registering with average everyday americans and neither are there candidates. conversely, president trump, go to his rallies and people are lining up 40 hours in advance sometimes but on average a quarter of the attendees are registered democrats. sometimes more than half the crowd not republicans. that is not happening oi i republicans. that is not happening on the left. that is a movement and if some people like what they are seeing from this president so far. let me ask you about the breaking news that mitt romney says he will vote to give it the president on the first article of impeachment. how disappointed are you that you will not get a clean slate on the republican side and there will be a bipartisan effort technically to convict the president on abuse of power? disappointed is the right word but i think that is what his constituents are probably saying about him right now. so a poll today that the president is more popular in utah than the junior senator so he will have to reconcile with his constituents. and we know from a wide last of a polling that the american people are not interested in this impeachment trial. they are interested in their elected officials working on the priorities i that the better work on, something that has not really happened. relative senator is about to vote to remove the president from office potentially because of abuse of power. mitt romney certainly has not been quiet about his disagreements with the president and i don t think they are the same style a person. but that again is going to have to be something for all senators and thatis be something for all senators and that is a case and will have to go back and part of their constituents about who overwhelmingly support the president and support the results of this administration. thank you very much. i have got the pronunciation right now, thank you forjoining us. it is very cosy on this balcony, i worry you will help me over. you have been here a while, christian. i think worth pointing out that mitt romney is dealing with issues in his state the other republican senators are not. he has had a history with the president. he was taken out to dinnerfamously become the president. he was taken out to dinner famously become a very awkward and are in new york where he was photographed as he was being wooed for secretary of state and then was overturned. but he is one republican senator who has spoken out consistently against the president. on a variety of issues. he has made his views clear and president trump has a 45% approval rating in utah which is lower than the national average of the moment. there are figures today we have seen today in the gallup polling climbing and climbing and lots people think they are better in the pocket and think they are doing well with the economy. last night he spoke about a blue collar movement. that is something that is really going to hurt democrats on the campaign trail. look at those economic figures and a blue collar boom to my moving into their territory. also been fact checked on that because manufacturing job growth has not been as high in some places as he has claimed that he reached out directly people in michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania and reached out to african america ns wisconsin, pennsylvania and reached out to african americans and suburban women. it was a campaign speech as much as it was anything else. can we talk about the tweet from mike pompeo? there was a tweet last night from mike pompeo that has lisa simpson in the shot. it is a picture of lisa simpson ripping up her homework which was on making america great again. that is the picture there. what he took out is the contact. people were tweeting this and do you know why she ripped up this and do you know why she ripped up her homework was met because she was so upset that she came to washington and america was not great. it was not great. but that was left out. talks with the division there is in washington at the moment. other news around the world. a turkish passenger plane has skidded off the runway at an istanbul airport, breaking into three pieces and injuring 52 people on board. the pictures are extraordinary. the aircraft got sheared in half. the pegasus airlines jet was landing at istanbul s sabiha gokcen airport in heavy rain when it had what transport minister cahit turhan described as a rough landing flying in from the western province of izmir. the jet was carrying 171 passengers and six crew when it crashed. no one died. remarkable weeks the pictures. passengers were led off the plane, but officials were still working to free some still stuck on board. let s speak now to irem koker from the bbc‘s turkish service. what more do we know about how this happened was met those pictures are dramatic. indeed they are. we re ce ntly dramatic. indeed they are. we recently had some new information from the government. who said there we re from the government. who said there were 183 people including two babies and six crew members confirmed to be oi i and six crew members confirmed to be on board. and it is eight boeing 737 aircraft operated by pegasus which isa aircraft operated by pegasus which is a turkish local airline. it crash landed in istanbul. the second largest airport in the city. so far at least 120 people are injured and they are hospitalized and as we can see, there from the live footage, the rescue works are still under way. and we don t as of now know what actually caused this crash. but the governor said the plane crash from an altitude of 22 metres and skated before hitting the perimeter wall and some circus aviation experts say adverse weather conditions and to strong detailed wins may have played a key role in the crash. just talk to me about the people on board. you give us some details about the injuries but you look at that and remarkable as she said there were no fatalities. but imagine some of the injuries are quite serious. indeed we can. we still don t know the details on the injured people but again the official statement such as all art well except one or two people. and it is not a very. we still don t know how many are in serious condition. locally, the turkish media report that two pilots have seriously injured themselves in the crash. but still we don t have any confirmation on that and from the footage and from the reporting coming from the ground, we can say that there are still searches for survivors going on. especially in the front part of the aircraft seeming to be damaged quite heavily and it is literally upside down. so they are looking underneath to find if there are any casualties or survivors. ok, thank you very much for joining survivors. ok, thank you very much forjoining us. survivors. ok, thank you very much for joining us. unbelievable pictures of this plane it literally sheared in the middle into different places. to the live shot from istanbul there and remarkable as he recited there were no fatalities on that. venezuelan opposition leader juan guaido is currently visiting president trump at the white house. it comes a day after the president used his state of the union speech to support guaido s effort to oust socialist president nicolas maduro, who stands accused of corruption and human rights violations. the european union s enlargement commission has proposed changes to the way it admits new countries. the new methodology, which could smooth the path towards eu membership for balkan countries, has been welcomed by france. president emmanuel macron has previously blocked negotiations with north macedonia and albania. the metropolitan police are investigating after reports that david cameron s bodyguard left his gun in a toilet on a transatlantic jet. it s claimed a passenger found the weapon together with the former prime minister s passport and raised concerns with staff on the ba flight from new york to london on monday. the met says the officer involved has been removed from operational duties. prince charles yesterday announced that he d appointed a new ambassador for the british asian trust. another charity, another celeb. nothing to see here, you might think. but it was his choice that s raised a few eyebrows. yes, american pop star katy perry is the woman in question. anyone vaguely familiar with the singer will probably recognise that she is neither asian nor british. the charity sets out to tackle poverty and inequality in south asia, a noble cause no doubt, but her appointment has invited ridicule online. i m thinking how many people are there who are either british and asian or british or asian whom i have been able to do this job just as well as katy perry? seems a very odd choice. just been overseas in india and is going through a period of reflection at the moment and she does do a lot of charity work. but there are others. i m available as well. you are british but not asian. more qualified than she is. certainly not a celebrity however. this is beyond 100 days. we are on capitol hill. us senators will vote in a few hours on whether to acquit president trump at his impeachment trial. in the last hour, mitt romney became the only republican senator to declare he intends to convict the president. to future generations of americans who look at the record of this trial, they will note merely that i was among the senators who determined that what the president did was grievously wrong. what mr trump didn t mention once was the word impeachment. a striking omission, since the senate will vote in his impeachment trial in a couple of hours time. coming up in the next half hour: the who calls for more money to fight coronavirus street by street to stop the spead. is britain diverse enough at the top levels of management? companies are taking steps but not enough to hit government targets. the world health organization has appealed for $675 million to help fight coronavirus. the head of the organisation gave this warning: invest today or pay more later . the numbers speak for themselves. the last 24 hours has seen the most cases of the virus diagnosed in a single day with almost 25,000 now confirmed and nearly 500 deaths. in another development, at least 10 people on board a cruise ship docked in the japanese port of yokohama have tested positive. all 3,700 passengers have been placed under a 14 day quarantine and there are fears the number of infected could rise as tests continue. the chinese authorities say they ve increased efforts to control the spread of the virus, with approximately 18 million people in central and eastern china now required to stay at home. here s our beijing correspondentjohn sudworth. wuhan is a city at war with an invisible enemy. and they re trying everything they can to defeat it. state media is now full of images of a heroic struggle, the brand new hospitals held up as proof it s one they re winning. but xiao huang is not so sure. it took him days to find his granddad a bed in this hospital corridor. not long after he took this video, he was dead. he fears his grandmother, who also has the virus, is dying too. if they had been admitted earlier, of course things would have been better, he tells me. wuhan is overwhelmed by illness, with hundreds more cases than available beds and these patients hooked up to makeshift drips. one woman, who doesn t want to be identified, tells me that her uncle s death won t even be counted in the official statistics. there are so many cases like his, she says. this is the death certificate. he never made it to hospital. all of this might have been prevented. this massive banquet was held even though the virus was known to be spreading fast. the authorities, putting the economy and political stability ahead of public health. with the epidemic raging, travel records show 5 million people were able to leave wuhan before the city was finally locked down. with infections now taking hold across china, other cities have begun imposing restrictions. nanyang, hangzhou, wenzhou, harbin, all requiring people to stay indoors. only one person allowed out every two days to buy food. the increasing disruption is why some countries, including the uk, are advising people to leave. others are getting out anyway. quite a bit disappointed, but i think it s ok because they re trying to keep us safe. the cost of all this is immeasurable. this was the middle of beijing in what should be the middle of a working week. the ruling communist party knows that as well as economic, there are political risks in all of this. the deep public anger that the officials didn t do enough to tell people what they knew soon enough, which is why we have seen the highly unusual step of the ruling politburo admitting this week that mistakes were made. the big question now of course is can they fix this. with the propaganda in overdrive, the remotest corners are getting the public health message. but china faces a long journey yet. not far from where we re standing, the house foreign affairs committee is holding the first congressional hearing on the coronavirus outbreak. one of those giving evidence is jennifer bouey an epidemiologist at the rand corporation. we spoke to herjust before she went in and i asked her what recommendations she would be making. my advice to the government is it should contain its own domestic outbreak of this disease. but then in addition to the social distancing pi op in addition to the social distancing prop policies, they probably should also consider how the strategies to control the boomers and the stigma associated with this disease. and i also think this is a great time to provide humanitarian and the public health assistance with china, again because china is carrying the most burden of the disease now. the chinese government is getting credit for the way that it is handling the virus now, but at the beginning of the reporting is that they try to suppress the information about it. how much of a problem was that getting a handle on the virus early on and how much time was lost? well, i have to say that compared to sars, another similar outbreak 17 years ago, china s response this time is much faster. they announced the outbreak in about a month and in another 12 days they identified the virus through genetic sequencing and then another nine days, they triggered a public health emergency and that is where the country s case reporting system comes in. so you really feel the chinese government did everything right at the beginning of the virus? at the time, i would say that between the second and the 19th, there was a delay. there was a delay in case reporting because the expert team fought that the epidemic was well under control. i suppose the concern would be, globally, that there is no other country really on the planet that can control it like china does because they are able to lock down cities and ensure that people don t move. it really got a hold here in the united states, the us government wouldn t have that kind of power, wouldn t have that kind of power, would it? i don t think so. but again, i would it? i don t think so. but again, lam would it? i don t think so. but again, i am not surprised would it? i don t think so. but again, lam not surprised because when you look at sars, that is exactly what the chinese government did. after they finally admitted the there was an epidemic anyway. so there was an epidemic anyway. so there is a same kind of pattern, but this time the scale is certainly unprecedented. jennifer bouey, thank you forjoining us. the centre for control of diseases is sending representatives to china here today from america, so presumably they will see what is needed and they are going to have to step up what they provide to the chinese. and the rate at which it has spread in the last 24 hours is really alarming. let s get more american politics now. the democratic presidential candidates have moved their campaigns to new hampshire for the next contest and yet we are still waiting for the full result from the caucuses in iowa from monday night. some of the candidates are back here on capitol hill for the impeachment trial senators sanders, warren, klobuchar and bennet will all be in the senate for this afernoon s final vote. which gives joe biden, and pete buttigieg a free run at it, at least for 24 hours. here s what we do have from iowa. with 71% of the vote counted in iowa, it s pete buttigieg who , 75% is leading the way. here to discuss the race, we re joined by political reporter maggie severns from politico. so as they go into new hampshire, pete buttigieg still in the lead from those caucuses. how does that affect the new hampshire primary? well, yeah, it was a little bit of not a lot of people expected him to be the winning candidate and there are a couple of things happening. he has definitely gained momentum in the race but he didn t have that victory party. and bernie sanders, who is also in the lead, didn t get to have that victory party. so where we are in this strange kind of suspended state where candidate who feel like they are winning have actually just feel like they are winning have actuallyjust gained some momentum, but not quite got the lift they want. and then you have joe biden, who trailed in america and hasn t taken the hit he would have with the result on caucus night. can we just mention for a second that we are 36 hours on from the caucus finishing and we still only have 75%? in the uk, we get boxes thrown from the scilly isles and i think there are more than 7500 people who vote in that election and yet here in iowa, they have got telephones. all right, we know the app doesn t work but they have got telephones. how can they only have 75% of the vote counted? it has been absolutely wild and something we should say when they do their state primaries it can go they do their state primaries it can go quite late into the night, but you know, 2 mack go quite late into the night, but you know, 2 mack days is absolutely crazy. nobody expected it to be this way, there wasjust crazy. nobody expected it to be this way, there was just a total breakdown in the plan. after 2016, when there was a lot of acrimony after the iowa caucus between hillary clinton and bernie sanders, the democratic party doesn t want to mess this up or have any questions over the results they are releasing, so over the results they are releasing, so they are really taking their time when it comes to releasing the results, so that they are not. there isn t any error. but the problem with that if there is then a lot of rage over the amount of time when we are so used to having everything so fast these days. can we just everything so fast these days. can wejust quickly talk everything so fast these days. can we just quickly talk about the man who is the frontrunner still in a national poll? will have to look at the update to the polls post iowa, butjoe biden. he got away with one on monday night because he made what was a fairly triumphant speech, even though he has finished fourth in this race. but listening to people who have around his team today, they we re who have around his team today, they were saying that he is pretty short on cash? yeah, joe biden is pretty short on cash and his candidacy for months people have seenjoe biden in person and they have been concerned, saying he doesn t seem like he has been doing great on the trail but he has been doing really well in the polls. but in fundraising, he has been trailing people like bernie sanders, who have just raised way more money than him. joe biden entered january with less than $10 million in the bag, way less than elizabeth warren, weigh less than bernie sanders. so joe elizabeth warren, weigh less than bernie sanders. sojoe biden could be facing a cash problem if his donors look at his finish and iowa and say, i don t think. i think some of those long standing concerns about joe biden really some of those long standing concerns aboutjoe biden really are true and despite his position in the polls, i think this place in iowa shows that he really can t do the kind of politics he needs to do and can t do what needs to be done on the ground. if those donors he has on the ground walk away, he is really going to have problems mounting the national campaigns that he needs on super tuesday, when you have to be running across the country in states like california, texas, where it costs costs a lot of money. you need to be getting yourself in front of the vote rs getting yourself in front of the voters across the country and really making your case. maggie, thank you very much forjoining us. it s 2020 so you d like to think that what a woman wears in the workplace would not be any where near as important as what she says, or even does. especially if you are someone important like, say, a member of parliament. well, sadly, you d be wrong, as shadow culture secretary tracy brabin realised to her cost yesterday. she was wearing an off the shoulder dress in the commons, and it slipped a little, as she leant forward to speak. someone tweeted her, questioning whether her outfit was ‘appropriate . that prompted a barrage of comments online, including many really offensive and sexist comments. ms brabin took them on head on tweeting to state that she was neither ‘a slag, hungover, a tart, about to breast feed, a slapper, or drunk. you are raising the point before we came on that if a man came onjust differently, they would be attached to, and that there is a good point, but he wouldn t be attacked with sexual words. can but he wouldn t be attacked with sexualwords. can youjust but he wouldn t be attacked with sexual words. can you just underline be part that i was playing devil s advocate? is that an inappropriate dress for a woman in a public forum like that? there is, but what you are saying is. it is the reaction. this is beyond 100 days. still to come britain s biggest companies are struggling to improve the representation of ethnic minorities sitting on boards. we ll ask one expert what s behind this. voters in ireland go to the polls this week in a general election. three years ago when the openly gay and mixed race leo varadkar became prime minister he was seen as a symbol of modern ireland. but now he is facing a possible defeat, while there appears to be growing support for the irish republican party sinn fein, who were included last minute in last night s leaders debate. in last night s leaders debate. emma vardy has this report. the ancient west of ireland has seen rapid change. galway, now the 2020 capital of culture. but long time resident nuala ward, the woman behind ireland s oldest gay pride, remembers a less liberal city. i came out as lesbian. i didn t know the word lesbian, and i didn t know what coming out was. leo varadkar has been symbolic of ireland transformed, the legalisation of abortion under his premiership a watershed moment. the high cost of living, hospital overcrowding and a major shortage of housing are turning people away from the main parties, while polls have indicated a dramatic increase in support for sinn fein. hello, and you re very welcome to prime time: the leaders debate. after a poll by the irish times suggested sinn fein were now in the lead, the irish broadcaster rte was forced to make a late change and include sinn fein president mary lou mcdonald in last night s debate. but in large parts of ireland, the party still struggles to shake off its historical links to the ira. younger people are judging based on policies. sinn fein s past is less important? yeah, i guess so, i mean i m focusing on the future. the surge for sinn fein has become the shock of the selection, this election. but because of the party s own connections, fianna fail and fine gael insist they won t go into coalition with them, and no party is expected to win overall majority. if you were watching on tuesday, we brought you a special bbc report on is supporters and their children detained indefinitely in syria. today, we look at what happens, when families are allowed home. in indonesia some have returned but with catastrophic consequences. our correspondent, quentin sommerville, and cameraman darren conway have followed the route of one couple. the armies of the caliphate left much behind in syria. detention camps full of their wives, their children, entire families. dozens of countries are now asking the same question. can they welcome back orphans and daughters and mothers who belonged to the enemy of the world? from the camps and prisons of syria, retraced the journey of one family who answered the islamic state group s core, through the back streets of turkey, all the way home to asia. in this istanbul neighbourhood, the group tightened its grip on two indonesian followers. husband and wife suicide bombers rullie zeke and ulfah hid out here for months after they failed to get into syria. that setback didn t stop these two fanatics. they had failed to achieve martyrdom in syria, so instead they would try closer to home. while other countries dither, here in indonesia they are already running a de radicalisation programme. tiny minds were a big part of the islamic state s plans. but theirs was a childhood without song, without playtime. here at the rehabilitation centre, the children ofjihadists are given love and attention and allowed to have fun. they are learning to be kids again. some of the children here have just returned from turkey. their radicalised parents are being treated here, but we were not allowed to meet them. the counsellor at the camp met the couple. did you realise how dangerous they were? translation: i was surprised when we learnt of the terrible things they did. because when they left here, they were nice, cooperative, they were better than the rest. in the year after they left the centre, we visited them and they were still good. i didn t expect that they would go back to this path. can you guarantee that given there are hundreds of indonesians trapped in syria who support is, that if they come back, they won t be a danger, they won t commit more atrocities, they won t commit acts of terror? translation: no, we cannot guarantee. we went to uncover more of rullie zeke and ulfah‘s story. sofi an is a former extremist. he knew the couple. and met them at the rehabilitation centre. he is against bringing more indonesian is supporters home. translation: i disagree with bringing them back because it will create problems. they are not trustworthy people. in many cases former terrorists get involved again with groups even after they have been rehabilitated. the wild and uncovered jungles of mindanao in the southern philippines were where rullie and ulfah headed next. here they would become martyrs and mass murderers. hundreds of asian fighters crossed two oceans to join the islamic state group in the middle east. the worry now is that since the comfort is lying in women, the caliphate is lying in ruin that that flow is reversed. just look at the territory down here. there are miles upon miles of open sea, hundreds of islands, difficult to protect. and it is easy to move among them. easy to move among countries. our next report is from here in the philippines where the islamic state group is claiming new recruits and new attacks. some amazing reporting there from our team some amazing reporting there from ourteam in some amazing reporting there from our team in indonesia. two years ago the uk government set their biggest companies a target to improve the representation of ethnic minorities at board level. it was called the parker review, aimed principally at ftse100 companies and it was a relatively modest target a minimum of one non white director sitting in the boardroom. but statistics out today show that 37% of boards for the uk s 100 biggest companies are still all white. that is an improvement on 2017, when 51% were all white. the figures are even worse for the ftse 250. more than two thirds of them today have all white boards. we re joined now by the review‘s lead academic advisor, dr doyin atewologun. thank you so much forjoining us. what is behind the slow pace of change at the board level when it comes to what is behind it? there are multiple factors. one of the things we are finding in working with it is we are finding in working with it is we are finding in working with it is we are learning from what has happened with regards to gender and boards. and the slow pace, when we have worked with our colleagues in improving woman s representation on boards is replicated in what we see here. it takes a little while full change to happen and we are finding that. the initial conversations with the initial chairs and search firms are onlyjust beginning to ta ke firms are onlyjust beginning to take place. so one thing that i have heard, actually often from white men who would like a seat on a board, is, oh well, i tried to get a seat ona board, is, oh well, i tried to get a seat on a board, but they only want women oran on a board, but they only want women or an ethnic minority. and i think the subtext of that, which is quite insidious, is somehow that women or ethnic minority person is less good than a white man would be. is there still that attitude? i think you raise a really pertinent point. one of the issues we raised in that report is the myth that having a conversation around diversity means sacrifice of merit. it is really a fallacy. we find when we look at the material that the board is reporting on, a lot of commentary linked to diversity on their boards was also associated with a message, a messaging around not wanting to compromise on merit and that is one of our strongest recommendations. that we call out this fallacy that it is one on the other. you can easily, we would say, with the right search consultants, find talent there. i m so sorry, we have lost that line in washington. but don t worry, we will get that line a little bit later because we will be having catty and christian a little bit later on doing an impeachment special, where we will be going live to the senate, as you can see there. where we ll get the vote from the senate, the vote to decide whether or not we will remove president donald trump from others. he has been charged with two articles of impeachment, obstruction of congress. the likelihood is he will be acquitted, but we will go back to katty kay and christian and please dojoin them. back to katty kay and christian and please do join them. stay with us. hello there, good evening. fog could cause one or two problems for most of us, but for the mopar the most pa rt of us, but for the mopar the most part the weather is calm and will remain so until friday. after that, however, after that, things look set to change quite dramatically. for the time being, though, high pressure is firmly in charge. that is keeping us largely dry as we go through the night. this area of high pressure is putting a lot of cloud into northern ireland, western and northern into parts of scotland and that cloud perhaps enough to squeeze out the odd spot of drizzle for eastern scotland. and certainly then across england and wales, there could be some clear spells, allowing it to get a little chilly. nothing especially unusual for this time of year, a typical cold winter s night but frost for some and potentially some fog patches across parts of the midlands, wales and down towards the south of england, some of that fog could be quite dense and slow to clear. breaks and a fair amount of cloud around generally, especially for northern ireland and western scotland. temperatures between 7 9 degrees, it may be a little lower than that if you are stuck with fog for any length of time. friday expected to bring a stronger wind, which means not as much fog in the morning and not as much cloud for the day, so we should see some sunny spells, but two other systems are approaching. weather systems. the first brings some showers and then some more persistent rain later in the day. as we go through friday night, we are going to push that rain band eastwards across many parts of the uk. behind it, a window of dry weather. it s not a bad looking start of the weekend, but then here comes a more meaningful band of rain. and with it especially for the latter part of saturday, a spell of gales initially in northern and western parts of the uk. and that is not the end of it. the weather for the second half of the weekend is currently in development across the south of the usa. rain and snow expected to be picked up by an incredibly powerful jet stream. the jet stream winds high up in the atmosphere expected to blow up to 270 mph for a time. that essentially supercharges the atmosphere and brings unsettled weather our way, but really deepens this area of low pressure. this is an exceptionally deep looking low, which has been named by the met office storm ciara. still a few days away and the details may change, but wherever you are across the uk, there is the risk of damaging winds. this is bbc news i m rachel schofield. the headlines at eight. hours before president trump is likely to be acquitted in his impeachment trial republican senator, mitt romney says he will break with party ranks and vote to convict the president. acknowledged and vote to convict the president. that my verdict\ not acknowledged that my verdict would not remove the president from office, the result of this senate court will affect the an appeal to the higher court, the judge court will affect the an appeal to the higher court, thejudge of the american people. and, at half past eight we will have a special programme live from capitol hill as president trump s impeachment trial reaches its verdict. in other news, the world health organization asks forfive hundred million pounds to tackle the coronavirus as china steps up their efforts to contain the disease that has killed nearly 500 people. here, the government launches an eight week consultation over
an eight week consultation over whether failing to pay your tv licence should be treated respected gander. the democrats want as a criminal offence. to let reap rip the heart out of a spanish judge agrees to an independent investigation into the deaths of three members of a british family at a hotel the presidency but cannot we the swimming pool in december. script. not long now until the senate delivers its verdict will and, a plane has find out how the belt does down. and skidded off the runway at an airport in istanbul, which citizens will cost the party breaking into three sections. turkish officials say 120 people have been injured. lines. hello and welcome to this bbc news special bringing you the last moments of the donald trump s trial. live the patient phaser on capitol hill in washington. in the next good evening and welcome to bbc half hour or so the united states news, in the next hour, senators will cast their votes on us senators will vote whether to remove the president from upon whether to remove president trump from office. office. he is expected to be acquitted on both articles the president is expected to be acquitted of abusing his power impeachment, abusing his power by and obstructing congress, pressuring the ukraine to when his impeachment investigate his rivaljoe biden and trial concludes. right now, senators are addressing the president s impeachment obstructing justice. he still did trial. not know what democratic senators two thirds of senators will bring ranks. but one republican would have to vote in favour of impeaching him senator mitt romney, will vote to a threshold which is highly unlikely convict. corrupting senator mitt romney, will vote to convict. corru pting an senator mitt romney, will vote to convict. corrupting an election to keep oneself and office is perhaps the most abrasive and descriptive to be met given the violation of 1 s oath of office. he republican majority. however at least one republican senator has pledged becomes the first quite possibly the to vote against the president. mitt romney has accused the president of an abusive and destructive violation only gop member to party lines. of his oath of office. where i can the evidence presented meanwhile, the state of the union address and disregard what i believe my oath and disregard what i believe my oath and the constitution demands of me were i to ignore the evidence that for the sake of the partisan hand, has been presented in disregard for it would i fear exposing for the sake of the partisan hand, it would ifear exposing my my oath and the constitution demands character to history s repeat. the of me, for the sake of a partisan centre of my own conscience as well. end, it would, ifear, expose my iam aware centre of my own conscience as well. i am aware that there are people in character to history s rebuke and my party i did my state he will the centre of mound conscience. i am strenuously disapprove of my aware that there are people in my decision. and some quarters i will party and in my state who will be announced, and show sure to hear strenuously disapprove of my at least on the president and his decision. and in some quarters, i will be vehemently denounced. does supporters. does anybody seriously believe, that i would consent to these consequences other than from anyone seriously believe that i an inescapable conviction that my oath before god demanded that at would consent to these consequences other than from an inescapable the? lets go live now to the floor conviction that my oath before god demanded of me? of the senate. where we are going to meanwhile, the state have that vote coming up very soon. of the union address given annually by the president will go down as one we have now deleted vinaigrette of the most divisive ever. nancy pelosi, the most senior democrat in the house speaking. the facts, are not of representatives, tore donald trump s speech in half. our north america editor seriously in dispute. in fact several senators admitted that they jon sopel reports. believe that the president committed this offence. with varying degrees appropriate, wrong, shameful, almost paradoxically, the standout moments from this speech contained no words. it was the psychodrama all republicans will argue however, between the president that this reprehensible content does and the democratic speaker not rise to the level of an impeachable offence. the founders of the house, nancy pelosi, could not have been clearer. brilliant baby cannot delegate to the constitutional convention, the woman who led the moves to impeach donald trump. deemed impeachment and essential key first off, he very deliberately refused to shake her hand. security less the president spared and look at her facial expressions no efforts or means whatsoever to as the speech progresses. and finally the coup de grace get himself reelected. james as republican lawmakers madison, offered a specific list of are blistering their hands impeachable offences during a debate from clapping so much, nancy pelosi made clear in independence hall. a president might lose his capacity or embezzle what she thought of the speech. signs. a despicable assault might succumb to brides while in office. impeachment was never mentioned directly. madison again arrived at what he instead, it was a victory lap believed the worst kind that they on his achievements president could engage in. the particularly the state of the economy. jobs are booming, incomes president could engage in. the president could engage in. the president could be a tray his trust to foreign powers, which would be are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence fatal to the republic. madison s is surging, and our country is words. when i studied the thriving and highly respected again. constitution and the federalist papers in high school admittedly, i was sceptical that george washington warning. that foreign influence is one of the most baneful sellers at republican government. it seemed so it was a speech aimed at his blue collar and conservative base, but there was also an attempt far fetched. who would bear? the to broaden his appeal. this is election year, after all, foresight and wisdom of the founders and it was noticeable how and doers. madison was right, much he talked about the african american community. washington was right. there is no african american youth unemployment greater subversion of our democracy and mental powers outside of our has reached an all time low. borders to determine elections elections within them. if americans african american poverty has believe that they did not determine declined to the lowest rate ever recorded. best senator, got an president would rather send flooring take it that has? that is the beginning at the end of democracy. for a foreign but look at the sea of faces, either loving or loathing country to attend such a thing on a microcosm of america. its own, is to contemptible. for an american president to deliberately solicit such a thing, to blackmail a we have a bbc news special bringing you the conclusion of foreign country, and a helping hand president trump s impeachment trial. when an election is unforgivable. that s from half past eight tonight with christian fraser and katty kay does this arise to the level of they ll be live from capitol hill. impeachable offence chris knight of course it does ask that of course it does! determine high crimes derives from english law, crimes were the world health organization has committed between the subjects of appealed for 500 million pounds to help fight coronavirus. the monarchy. my clients, that were committed against the crown itself. the head of the orgnisation gave this warning: invest today or pay more later . the framers did not design a monarchy, they designed a democracy, a nation where the people working. the last 2a hours has seen the biggest rise high crimes are those committed in cases in a single day. despite a huge effort in china against the entire people of the the disease continues to spread. united states. the president sought in a new development, ten passengers on a cruise ship to cheat people out of a free and injapan have tested positive fair election. how could such an thousands of other travellers have offence not be deemed a high crime? been placed under strict quarantine. we ll have more on the cruise ship a client against the people. as one and the latest figures in a moment, but firstjohn sudworth reports constitutional college and house on china s race to contain the virus. judicially hearing specified, if this is not impeachable, nothing is. wuhan is a city at war i agree. ijudge the president with an invisible enemy. trunk, is guilty of the first and they re trying everything article of impeachment. the second they can to defeat it. state media is now full of images of a heroic struggle, article of impeachment. the second article is equally straightforward. once the president realised he got the brand new hospitals held up caught, he tried to cover it up. as proof it s one they re winning. they president asserted a blanket but xiao huang is not so sure. immunity he categorically defied it took him days to find his granddad a bed in subpoenas. he ordered his aides not this hospital corridor, not long after he took to testify and withheld the this video, he was dead. production of relevant documents. even the president nixon the author he fears his grandmother, who also has the virus, is dying, too. of the most incidents presidential if they had been admitted earlier, of course things cover up in history, that permitted his aides to testify in congress and the watergate investigation. the would have been better, he tells me. wuhan is overwhelmed by illness, idea that the top administration was with hundreds more cases properly invoking the various rights than available beds of the presidency is nonsense. at and these patients hooked up each stage at the house in clary, at to makeshift drips. the administration conjured up a different part of faith one woman, who doesn t want to be identified, tells me that her uncle s death justification for evading won t even be counted accountability. there is no in the official statistics. circumstance under which the administration would have complied. there are so many cases like his, she says. when i asked at the presidents this is the death certificate. he never made it to hospital. council, twice to name one document or one witness the president provided to congress they could not all of this might have been prevented. answer. it cannot be that the this massive banquet was held even though the virus was known president legal section can escape to be spreading fast. scrutiny entirely. once again, the fa cts scrutiny entirely. once again, the facts a re scrutiny entirely. once again, the facts are not in dispute, but some the authorities, putting the economy and political stability have sought to portray the second ahead of public health. with the epidemic raging, travel records show five million people article of impeachment as somehow were able to leave wuhan before less important than the first. it is not. the second article of the city was finally locked down. impeachment is necessary if congress with infections now taking hold is to ever hold a president across china, other cities have begun imposing restrictions. accountable again. get a crack or republican. the consequences of nanyang, hangzhou, wenzhou, sanctioning obstruction of congress harbin, all requiring people to stay indoors. it would be far reaching. and they will be irreparable. ijudge it that only one person allowed out every two days to buy food. president trump is guilty of a the increasing disruption is why second article of impeachment. the some countries, including the uk, are advising people to leave. senate should convict the president others are getting out anyway. cannot remove him from presidency and disqualify him from holding future office. the gales of the president on these charges there are quite a bit disappointed, but they re just trying to us safe. so obvious that here again, several the cost of all this is immeasurable. republican senators that nip at the this was the middle of beijing in what should be house has put in this case. so the middle of a working week. instead of maintaining the president the ruling communist party knows that as well as economic, sends the present counsel there are political alternately told the senate that risks in all of this. evenif alternately told the senate that even if the president did what he was accused of, it is not the deep public anger that the officials didn t do enough to tell people what they knew soon impeachable. this has taken the form enough, which is why we have seen ofan the highly unusual step impeachable. this has taken the form of the ruling politburo admitting of an escalating series of arguments this week that mistakes were made. the big question now of course including pieces powers not an is can they fix this. with the propaganda in overdrive, the remotest corners are getting impeachable offence, the president the public health message. cannot be an piece for noncriminal conduct that he also can t be indicted for criminal conduct. if a but china faces a long journey yet. president believes his own reelection is essential to the nation, then a quick pro cloak is at least a hundred and twenty not correct. these are the excuses people have been injured after a plane skidded of the runway at istanbul airport and broke ofa not correct. these are the excuses into three sections. of a child caught in a lie. each explanation or outlandish and the boeing 737, operated desperate than the last. it would be by turkish low cost carrier pegasus airlines, was carrying one hundred laughable if not for the fact that and seventy seven people. the cumulative effect of these officials said no one had died. all flights at the airport arguments would vendor not only face president, but all presidents and have been suspended unit from impeachment. and therefore above the law. several members of the chamber said that even if the you can see people standing guard president is guilty, if it is impeachable the senate still should around the wreckage, reports suggesting that this happened in very wet weather and you can see not convict because there is an election coming up. as if the that whatever it was that caused that, they will be investigating it framers forgot about elections. when and it has resulted in enormous they wrote the impeachment clause. if the founders believed that even damage. there was also a fire when a president is guilty of an inside, according to reports impeachable offence at the next earlier. so no deaths, but given the election should decide his fate, state of that plan, some serious they never would have included injuries and we will be keeping an because in the constitution. not eye on developments there in turkey. much is obvious. alone, each of the let s return to our main story. in the next hour, us senators defence is advanced by the will vote upon whether to remove president trump from office. the president is expected to be president s council comes close to acquitted of abusing his power and obstructing congress. being preposterous. together, they are as dangerous to the public as let s talk to daniel lippman the washington and white house reporter for politico who joins us this president a fig leaf so large as to excuse any presidential on the line from washington. misconduct. unable to defend a president, arguments were found to make him a king. let future does people tuning in, what lies ahead in the sense of the process generations know that only a fraction of the senate s swallowed that we are witnessing? this ll be a base fantasies. the best advice fairly straightforward vote and condemned then to the ash heap of every senator will have a chance to history. the duration of first year weigh in. but there is no drama and stu d e nts history. the duration of first year students everywhere. where only the washington because of this. this is third sentence in history to sit and kind of a long foregone conclusion impeachment hearing. the task they it was a very long shot to begin we re with for the democrats to actually impeachment hearing. the task they were given, is not easy. the framers convict him. you need two thirds gave descendents of this responsibility. because they could not imagine any other body capable majority and it is going to be a of it. they considered others that bipartisan vote to impeach, although they entrusted to us in the senate. it will fail because republicans control the chamber. it will fail because republicans controlthe chamber. 50 it will fail because republicans control the chamber. 50 the it will fail because republicans control the chamber. so the maths we re the republican caucus trained its control the chamber. so the maths were never in the democrats favour. outrage not on the content of the and will not make adds to the president, but on the impeachment numbers either. fairly notable process in the house deriding defector today from the republican falsely, and alleged lack of side. we did. senator mitt romney fairness and thoroughness. the who had previously been the republican presidential candidate conjured outrage was so blinding that the republican majority guilty backin republican presidential candidate back in 2012. he totally criticised and the very since it falsely accuse president trump for his behaviour, the house after netting. it calling it abusive and appalling and he is going to vote to impeach him, conducted the least fair, at least at least on one count. but this will l. conducted the least fair, at least l, most ranch impeachment trial in the history of this country. a surely lead to an avalanche against simple majority of senators denied mitt romney who has had a tough this and it s right to examine relativity evidence. to call relationship with the president. the presidents sonjust relationship with the president. the presidents son just called for mitt romney to be expelled from the gop witnesses and properly try, try the caucus which is not going to happen. impeachment of the president. making but democrats really wanted at least this the first impeachment trial in one vote on the republican side to the history that heard from no impeach donald trump because of his witnesses. a simple majority of actions in the ukraine. we know that president trump is not physically senators and deference to a slightly been anywhere near this whole infearof process and in the way, he has kept senators and deference to a slightly in fear of the president of their party, perpetrated a great his distance. but no doubt, you ll miscarriage of justice. have plenty to this evening. he party, perpetrated a great miscarriage ofjustice. in the trial of president trump. as a result, the will. they actually cancelled a pole verdict of this court will be meaningless. by refusing the facts by refusing witnesses and documents, that he could ve reacted to the romney news. but he was denied the there republican majority has placed a giant asterix, the asterix of a total exoneration that he had been looking for in terms of atv trial because he was not able to, did not sham at trial. next to the acquittal president trunk, written and wa nt to because he was not able to, did not want to actually, faces accusers. he permanent ink. acquittal in an had his lawyers do that. but this unfair trial with his giant asterix, will definitely be a black stain on at the asterix of a sham trial, his his reputation because voters of wife nothing at all. to president finally moved on and will have a fight on the issues. and of course, niekro one or to anybody else. no all the attention will focus next on doubt the president will boast that how all of this impacts on the he not exoneration. but we know presidential campaign in the better. we know this was not a trial election in november. and this is all about trying to have donald but by any stretch of the trump take down joe definition. the american people know all about trying to have donald trump take downjoe biden, who he it as well. we have heard a lot thought was the strongest candidate about the framers across the last in the democratic field. joe biden several weeks about the impeachment finished fourth in iowa and his clause that they forged. the separation of powers that they ve effort to muddy up his name has got. the kind that they most feared and now chief magistrate, but there proved somewhat successful. thank is something the founders considered you very much indeed, thank you for even more fundamental to our joining us. republic. truth. the founders had let s take a look at some of the other stories making the news this evening. seen and studied societies governed the trial of the manchester arena bomber‘s brother has been told he attempted to get friends to buy by the iron fist of tyrants and a acid for him online that could be divine right of kings, but none by used to make explosives. hashem abedi has pleaded arguments, not rational thinking, not guilty to murder, attempted murder and conspiring fa cts , arguments, not rational thinking, with his brother salman facts, debate. hamilton said the american people they ll determine to cause an explosion. whether societies are very capable of establishing good government from two avalanches on a mountain road in turkey have killed more than thirty people. reflection and choice. orforever officials say an emergency team had destined to depend on accident and been to sent to look for people force. what an astonishing thing missing after an avalanche on tuesday, when founders dad. they place a bet with a second one struck. one of david cameron s long odds, at bay believes that bodyguards has been taken off operational duties after he reportedly left a gun in a plane toilet. reflection and choice would make us capable of self government. that we the weapon was handed to flight attendants on a british airways would not agree on everything, but flight between new york and london. at least he could agree on a common as a former prime minister, mr cameron is entitled to continued security provided baseline of facts and entries. they by the metropolitan police. voted constitution with a remarkable idea that even the most powerful person in our country was not above the law and could be put on trial. a the headlines on bbc news. hours before president trump is likely to be acquitted trial, a place that we seek truth. in his impeachment trial republican senator, mitt romney says that faith in our founders but it he will break with party ranks has to make the failure of the and vote to convict the president. senate more damning. our nation was founded on trees. but there was no the world health organization asks truth here. the majority could not forfive hundred million pounds to tackle the coronavirus as china steps up its efforts let truth into the child. the to contain the disease that has republican majority refused to get the dates because they would afraid killed nearly 500 people. of what it might show. allegation here, the government launches was started on the idea of truth but an eight week consultation over whether failing to pay your tv licence should be treated in order to countenance this as a criminal offence. president you have to know like country. republicans walked in the halls with their heads down, they did not see between them that they can t respond to everything he says. sport and for a full round up, they hope he learned his lesson to start, i guess maybe next time he from the bbc sport centre. learned his lesson. our nation is ajudge in spain has ordered an indedendent investigation to be founded on truth. in order to excuse this president you have to willfully ignore the truth and indulge in the we ll start with tottenham against southampton who are going president s conspiracy theories. millions of people devoted head to head for a place in the fifth round of the fa cup. illegally. each state is out to get jose mourinho s spurs are ahead thanks to a deflected shot off on. ukraine interfered in our elections. you must attempt to jack stephens who deflects tonguy n dombele s shot into the back of the net. normalise his behaviour, obama did a minute later, danny ings went close, his shot off the bar it to be false a crane. democrats from close range nearly finding southampton the equaliser. the winners will entertain arejust as bad. allegation norwich in the fifth round. it to be false a crane. democrats are just as bad. allegation was founded on the idea of truth. but there s a full programme of fixtures in scotland too. this president is such a menace, so celtic could go ten points clear at the top if they beat motherwell contemptuous of every virtue, so and rangers lose at home dishonorable, so desires, but you to sixth placed hibs. must take miller a deed sacrifice, celtic are 1 0 up against motherwell rangers are drawing 0 0 against hibs. the truth to maintain his favour. the trial of this president his there s a big game at the bottom too failure reflects the central as tenth place st mirren host bottom side hamilton. that score is currently 1 0 hmailton. challenge of this presidency and maybe the central challenge of this that score is currently 1 0 hamilton. to rugby league as the time in our democracy. you cannot be super league has voted at a board meeting today to have on the side of this president and be more influence to prevent controversial signings in the future. on the side of this president and be on the side of this president and be this follows israel folau s move on the side of truth. and if we are to catalans dragons. the australian rugby player who last year was sacked to survive as a nation, we must by rugby australia for homophobic choose to risk. if the truth doesn t comments has been given another chance in rugby league matter, if the news he did not like his fate, if cheating in an election afterjoining the catalans dragons is acceptable, if everyone is as wicked as a weakest among us may hope for the future is lost. the eyes of the nation, are upon this by rugby australia for homophobic senate. what they see will strike comments has been given another chance in rugby league afterjoining the catalans dragons for the 2020 superleague season. but several clubs have backed hull doubt and heart of the most ardent kr s threat of legal action over the deal. patriot. the house manager journalist steve brady is based in france and covers the dragons. established the president abused the and he says the reaction there has power of his office to try to cheat been very different to the uk. my an election. a senate majority was my own personal opinion is that i have seen him, he has been moving. a poised to look at the other way. big unit he is kept himself fit and he is very keen to play. he just still i direct my final message, not wa nts to he is very keen to play. he just wants to play. we have been told not to ask certain questions. the club to the house managers, not even to is promised that should he speak my fellow senators, but to the co ntroversially is promised that should he speak controversially like he has in the past, there will be an immediate termination of this contract. i do american people. my message is not think will be hearing any more simple. don t lose hope. there is justice in this world entries and outspoken views on homosexuality or religion. i think will be a way to see is a very strong and talented player who has a one year contract write. i believe that. i would not and is going to try to prove be in this covenant if i did not. himself. i have a feeling that he is going to hit the season running and somehow, the ways we can t predict try to redeem himself back home in his homeland of australia. with gods mysterious hand guiding anthony watson will miss england s six nations match us, truth and right will prevail. with scotland on saturday due to a calf problem. the bath back trained on tuesday, but suffered a recurrence there have been dyed periods in our of the injury and sat out today s session. watson was forced out history but we always overcome. of the opening defeat against france space indent open prayer was a mess. in paris with the same injury. the england winger has scored 17 five, 24. let justice space indent open prayer was a mess. tries in 42 games for england, five, 24. letjustice roll down like and it s another blow for head coach water righteousness like an ever eddiejones, who has manu tuilagi flowing stream. the long arc of the also ruled out with a groin strain. moral universe. my fellow americans sports authorities in shanghai have recommended the suspension does bend towards justice. moral universe. my fellow americans does bend towardsjustice. america does bend towardsjustice. america does change for the better. but not on its own. it took the millions of of all sporting events in the city as a result of the coronavirus. the move casts even more doubt americans, hundreds of years to make this country what it is today. on the chinese grand prix, which is in shanghai on 19th april. americans of every age and colour of well here is the shanghai circuit. discussions took place today, my stay in protest to santa suit and it s believed that the race stood up and said n. them. americans will have to at least be postponed from that original date. the number of cases who defended this democracy, this in china has nowjumped to more than 211,300. beautiful democracy and it is with almost 500 deaths so far. darkest hours. on memorial day in 1884, oliver holmes told his weary meanwhile, the international audience that we are one accepts olympic committee have dismissed fears of the virus, after the organisers of the tokyo games said they were seriously fortu nate audience that we are one accepts fortunate estate and looks downward concerned about its effect. and data storefront aspiration or a cts and data storefront aspiration or acts uncolored and scale the ice, at the ioc said they were in contact with the world health organisation and had full confidence that tokyo one and only success which is yours 2020 were in control of the situation. to command, is to bring to your work 20 cases have been found in tokyo. a mightyi to command, is to bring to your work a mighty i have confidence that americans of a different generation, generation, will bring to our work a mighty heart. to fight for what is iam i am seriously worried that this could throw cold water on the right, to fight for the truth, and momentum towards the games. i hope that it will be stamped out as soon never, never lose faith. i yield the as possible. the tokyo 2020 committee will co ordinate with the floor. for senator chuck schumer ipc ioc, the japanese government and the tokyo metropolitan government to leader of the democrats and be tackle this issue thoroughly. that s all the sport for now. speaking with his closing arguments. making the case that they senate i ll have more for you in sportsday at half past ten. should vote to convict donald trump. ajudge in spain has ordered this president is such a net s, that an indedendent investigation to be held into the deaths of three british family members, you must sacrifice the truth to who drowned in a hotel swimming maintain his favour. then saying you pool near fuengirola. cannot be on the side of this 52 year old gabriel diya, his president and be on the side of nine year old daughter comfort, and 16 year old praise emmanuel, truth. he ranted the argument about died on christmas eve at the club la costa world hotel. why he police, the senate should convict donald trump. rethinking the the initial police report president and his colleagues he did concluded that the incident was a tragic accident, talk about what if the arguments partly blamed on the family not being able swimmers. that the senators have put forward. evenif that the senators have put forward. even if the president is guilty and is an impeachable with an election coming up they need to allow the our europe correspondent gavin lee joins us now from brussels he s been back and forth to spain election and the people to make a to cover this story. decision. let s listen to mitch before you bring us up to speed with mcconnell. they need another country development, just remind us of this dreadful incident. this was to keep attention from our republic. christmas eve, two o clock in the afternoon at the root resort. a huge said they created the senate. out of resort with three separate big swimming pools and the resort on the this city, james madison wrote, of costa del sol in spain. and the some stable institution in the government of some stable family was swimming, three of them in the water and then wrote comfort institution in the government. today, we both fell this purpose. we and shouting distress, emanuel jumped in and he cannot help her and her father jumped in and he cannot help her and herfather in jumped in and he cannot help her and her father in the 52 year old as will reject this incoherent case well, all three drowned within five minutes and we know that a 14 year old sister that survived was that comes nowhere near, nowhere trying to grab a life boy and try to near justifying the first presidential removal in history. entiat and the family were dead by the time she was able to untie it there partisan impeachment will and from the cord. the mother was today. but, i feared shouting for help, there are three clea ners shouting for help, there are three cleaners the first ran to the scene, none of them could swim, they all there partisan impeachment will and today. but, ifeared a threat there partisan impeachment will and today. but, i feared a threat to our institutions may not. because this shouted it took about ten minutes in total for the staff to run to the episode is one of a symptom of reception but eventually it was to something much deeper. in the last give cpr. but the bodies were pulled out of the water they re pronounced three years, the opposition to this dead at the scene. that happened on president has come to revolve around christmas eve. a two week long a truly dangerous concept. leaders police investigation. the initial report mentioned there were two big factors, the conical shape of the pool factors, the conical shape of the pool, it was shallow in the middle in the opposite party increasingly and made it difficult, if you are not an able slumber to get away argued that if our institutions do not produce the outcomes that they like, our institutions themselves swimmer. and they were not able swimmers. that has continued to be must be broken. one side has decided disputed and we found out today that thejudge who was disputed and we found out today that the judge who was formalising the that the feet simply means the whole system is broken. that we should report has held the inquiry for now, tearup system is broken. that we should waiting for what he said the family tear up the rules. in write new to carry out a separate ones. normally, when a party loses investigation, hiring their own team to look at the swimming pool so everything is on pause right now but an election and accept defeat. it a separate independent of the police investigation. and the parameters of reflects envy tools. but not this that investigation, what do we know? time. within months at secretary it is really interesting actually, because in the last few weeks, there clinton by suggesting her defeat was has been a british swimming pool invalid. she called our president inspector who said that he believed illegitimate. former president false that there were a number of factors and the pool that could have claimed that president trump did not actually win. he lost the election, affected potentially pulled the bodies towards the suction pipe that the former president said. members was a cleaning system at the bottom of the pool. this inspector was of congress abused similar rhetoric. taken by of the pool. this inspector was ta ken by another of the pool. this inspector was taken by another media organisation, not allowed access to the swimming this disinformation campaign pool but he concluded from his weakening confidence in our initial assessment that there was democracy. the very real issue of only one pipe for cleaning and it would ve been too powerful if you switched it on at the same time. his foreign election interference was assertion was that this could have been a factor that was not looked at abused to feel conspiracy theories. by the police. i put this to the for yea rs abused to feel conspiracy theories. spanish authorities and they said for years prominent voices said there had been a secret conspiracy that they had a diving squad and they were defectors to where there between the president s campaign on could be chlorine or some type of chemical, too much of that, they a foreign government. but when the discounted them they said no all of these factors have been looked at for thejudge is set moeller investigation debunks that these factors have been looked at for the judge is set for the family, the widow of gabriel and the mother della delegitimize that endeavour. of the two children, they have said they didn t stop then. didn t stop. that they categorically believe that there was something else in play here and now we look at more time remember what chairmanship said on before this overall investigation has concluded. the floor, he suggested that if the american people the elect president trump in november, that election will be presumptively invalid as well. channing shifts on this floor. breaking news on the plane crash in turkey. the crash as the plane broke saying, if the american people may into three sections, according to a elect president trump this november government minister, one person has election will be presumptively died. you can see there, the invalid as well. so they still don t pictures of the team still on the site, investigating what happened. but you can see from earlier accept the american voters last pictures just how badly damaged that decision. now they are providing plan was after it skidded off the ru nway plan was after it skidded off the rejecting the voters next decision. runway in istanbul. the boeing 737 if they did not like the outcome. operated by the turkish low cost not over the last decision but the next decision. if we plan, tales you airlines, 157 people were injured and according to the latest figures, one person has sadly died in that cheated. the can trust our democracy plane. a nyway cheated. the can trust our democracy anyway they say? of talk, creates the way in which the bbc is funded and how that money more fear and division for an hour is collected looks set to become a major talking point for ourforeign more fear and division for an hour for our foreign adversaries could in the weeks ahead. achieve in their wildest dreams. as the government is launching a public consultation and a key issue will be whether failing to pay the licence doctor hale testifies our fee should still be a criminal offence. adversaries seek to divide us against each other. degrade our not paying could become a civil offence, similar to non institutions and destroy the faith payment of council tax. the culture secretary, of the american people. in our baroness morgan, is arguing that in the digital age the way democracy. as she noted if americans we get our news and entertainment become consumed by partisan rancour, is changing and the bbc we can easily do that work for them. may have to change too. here s our media editor amol rajan. right, back to the studio floor. it s almost a century old, yet the chances of the bbc existing the architects at this impeachment with its current funding model claimed they were defending norms for another decade are receding fast. and traditions. in reality, it was the health of our oceans is under threat. three quarters of the bbc‘s money and traditions. in reality, it was comes from the licence fee, an assault on both. first the house a compulsory payment for households who watch live television or the iplayer. it means bbc programmes, such as those starring attacked its own president and due sir david attenborough, process. and by bashing to use the are funded not commercially or by the state, but by the public. impeachment power as a political this morning, the culture secretary weapon, a first resort. then there made the case for reform in the context of a revolution in global media. are articles that attacked the the bbc has a current charter that runs until 2027. there s always a review midway, office of the presidency, they attacked the senate and called us treacherous. then the far left try and what we ll be doing is looking at the amount of the licence fee now to accuse the four remaining and this issue around whether there should be decriminalisation of licence fee evasion. the bbc says its focus is programmes, not prosecutions. neutral. and now for the final act, there are some myths that need to be busted here. the current system the speaker at the house is trying works effectively. only a small number of people to steal the senate s soul power. to are prosecuted, and a tiny proportion of people, vendor a verdict. the speaker says, five in england and wales last year, went to prison not for failure she would refuse to accept this to pay a tv licence, but for failure to pay acquittal. the speaker the house she a number of fines. it s fashionable to say that refuses to accept this acquittal. the bbc should be more like netflix, a subscription service whatever that means. perhaps she worth around £125 billion today. but the comparison is lazy. will tear up the verdict like she s netflix has racked up billions tore at the state of the union s of debt on a spending spree and has negative cash flow of around £2 billion annually. address. so i asked my colleagues where would the bbc get access to that kind of finance? across the aisle, is this really and moving to a subscriber base would change the very nature cannot really where you want to go? of the bbc from a universal service to one tailored just the president isn t the president? for those willing to pay. the bbc licence funds content across tv, radio and online. and acquittal and acquittal? attack but the younger you are, the less of it you consume. institutions until they get their i don t think people really watch tv nowadays. way? it in my colleagues who may not and everything s online, isn t it? so. i know you can access bbc online, agree with this president my cdn and that s free. saturday at this logic. it s like i don t think saying you re so worried about a we should be paying for it. bull ina saying you re so worried about a bull in a time and shape that you i think that s outdated now. wa nt to bull in a time and shape that you want to bulldoze the tiny shop to chaseit want to bulldoze the tiny shop to i think it s fine for chase it out. he is in unsettling the services that you get. ithink. part, the most troubling part, there we pay sky monthly, but a lot cheaper, and stop prosecuting people. is no sign that this attack on our step into christmas. institutions will end here. in the bbc still produces big hits from gavin and stacey. to flea bag. recent months, democratic candidates and senate leaders had toyed with a but ultimately it can t do more and more with less and less. amol rajan, bbc news. filibuster. so the senate could approve changes with less next a bbc news special deliberation and changes. some of from washington as president trump s impeachment trial concludes. our colleagues and had a brace to now, the weather with ben rich. the submitting court threatening retribution. if theyjust did not decide a case in a way that they good morning. wanted. we have seen proposals to turn the fec the regulator of elections into a partisan body for essentially things are calm at the the first time ever. all of these moment. but it will not last. this is the calm before the storm. things things, mr president. ourtoxic turned much more unsettled as we look into the weekend, but to the temptations to stop debating policy rest of tonight, some clear spots we then have a great american around but a lot of cloud in scotla nd around but a lot of cloud in scotland and northern ireland with temperatures generally around traditions and instead declare a war freezing with a touch below freezing on the traditions themselves. a for some, so a touch of frost for some but also some fraud patches warrant on the traditions most likely for central parts of themselves. so colleagues can t england and towards the south and also some parts of wells. equally whatever policy differences that we lots of cloud and northern ireland may have we should all agree that in western scotland, particularly bringing the odd spot of rain this is precisely the account of between seven and 9 degrees. friday recklessness, the kind of is looking like a largely fine day recklessness, the kind of recklessness, the kind of recklessness, the senate was created to stop. the response to losing one as well with the winds a bit stronger and that should break up the cloud and bring more than with sunshine but then into the weekend, election cannot be to attack the office of the president. the the mets offices named storm keira a deep area of low pressure which response to losing several elections could bring damaging windsjust 00:29:19,966 > 4294966103:13:29,430 about anywhere across the country. cannot be through to threaten the electoral college. the response to losing a court case cannot be to threaten the judiciary. the losing a court case cannot be to threaten thejudiciary. the response to losing a vote cannot be to threaten the senate. we simply cannot let factional fever break our institutions. it must work the other way. as madison and hamilton intended. the institutions, must break the fever. rather than the other way around. if framers and build the senate to keep temporary rage from doing permanent damage to our republic. the framers built the senate to keep temporary rage from doing permanent damage to our republic. mr president is that we will do when we in this president breaking impeachment. i hope we look back on this note and say, at this busy day the fever began to break. i hope we will not say, is just the beginning. call of the chair.
and the hollywood actor, star of dozens of historical epics, kirk douglas has died at the age of 103. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news it s newsday. good morning. it s 9 am in singapore, 1am in london, and 8pm in washington where president trump has been acquitted by the senate on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. he s the third us president ever to be impeached by the house, and go on to face and survive a senate trial. only one republican senator mitt romney broke with his party, and voted to impeach the president. there s already been reaction from the white house, which has described mr trump s acquittal full vindication and exoneration . the bbc‘s north america editor, jon sopel, begins our coverage. senators, how say you? is the respondent, donald john trump, guilty or not guilty? a process that started last september came to an end today with senators voting one by one on the two articles of impeachment. mr alexander, not guilty. miss baldwin? guilty. miss baldwin, guilty. and then the verdict. it is therefore ordered and adjudged that the said donald john trump be and he is hereby acquitted of the charges in said articles. but the wall of republican unity was broken by mitt romney. the former presidential candidate with a bombshell speech, said he would vote to convict the president of abuse of office. the grave question the constitution tasked senators to answer is whether the president committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of a high crime and misdemeanour. yes, he did. with the impeachment process now behind him, donald trump is seeing his approval ratings inching up. the republican party is standing right behind him and the democrats have had a shocking few days, after the shambles of the iowa caucus. it s all turning out to be a very good week for donald trump. cheering and applause. and last night he delivered a highly partisan state of the union address that could have been for a republican rally. but the shadow of impeachment couldn t be missed, as donald trump pointedly snubbed the democratic speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, who d led moves to impeach the president. her outstretched arm ignored. and the speaker s disdain was etched on herface, as the president made his remarks. and then, in an extraordinary act of defiance, or petulance opinion is divided nancy pelosi ripped up her copy of his speech. in his speech, the president focused on the strength of the economy, something he hoped would be his trump card in this election year. jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging, and our country is thriving and highly respected again. cheering and applause. but to look at the faces of those listening loving from one side, loathing from the other. a microcosm of america, a foretaste of how bitterly contested this election will be. jon sopel, bbc news, washington. our washington correspondent, chris buckler, says the vote was split along party lines. the result of this was never in doubt. donaldj was never in doubt. donald j trump was was never in doubt. donaldj trump was always going to be acquitted of these charges in this impeachment trial and now he can put it behind him. but not just that can put it behind him. but notjust that he can also use it. if you look at the statement from white house today, as far as they are concerned, he is not only vindicated but exonerated and he will use that into the next election, calling it a witch hunt. the point you made is an important one. yes, there was a senator who voted not with their party but other than that this was split along party lines and gives you a sense that the divisions in american politics has become deeper and deeper during this presidency andi this presidency and i think that is going to be very obvious as the election comes closer. and the white house coming out fighting. the white house press seemed scathing about mitt romney. and president trump scathing as well. he has taken to his favourite way of communication, gone to twitter romney which is a damning video of him. nothing short of an attack on one of his republican senators. that will not come asa that will not come as a surprise and indeed the president s son donald trump jr has indeed the president s son donald trumer has also said that he should be expelled from the party. and the other thing that trump senior has posted is a picture ofa senior has posted is a picture of a mockup of a time magazine cover that shows mr trump going on to win not just the 2020 election but going on to win elections for decades and centuries to come. let s be clear. he can only serve two terms as president of the united states but it is clear that he believes this victory has helped him in the battle for the second term. that mockup of time magazine says trump for ever. the us political drama wasn t confined to washington. we ve had more results from that democratic caucus in iowa, which was plagued by computing errors. with 85% of the results recorded so far, pete buttigieg has maintained his lead over nearest rival, bernie sanders. elizabeth warren comes in third, with former vice president running a surprising fourth place. rico we are still avaiting the full results. 1596 15% more and they move on to new hampshire. the chinese authorities are warning that they face a severe shortage of beds and equipment to treat the growing number of people with coronavirus as it spreads rapidly across the country and abroad. more than 560 people have now died and tens of thousands of others have been infected, and tens of millions more are now under some soi’t of travel restriction, with many being told not to leave their homes. john sudworth reports from beijing. wuhan is a city at war, with an invisible enemy. and they re trying everything they can to defeat it. state media is now full of images of an heroic struggle. the brand new hospitals held up as proof it s one they re winning. but xiao huang is not so sure. it took him days to find his grandad a bed in this hospital corridor. shortly after this video was taken, he was dead. he fears his grandmother, who also has the virus, is dying too. if they d been admitted earlier, of course, things would have been better , he tells me. wuhan is overwhelmed by illness, with hundreds more cases than available beds, and these patients hooked up to makeshift drips. one woman, who doesn t want to be identified, tells me that her uncle s death won t even be counted in the official statistics. there are so many cases like his , she says. this is the death certificate. he never made it to hospital. all of this might have been prevented. in mid january, knowing the virus was already spreading fast, the authorities allowed this massive community banquet to go ahead, putting the economy and political stability ahead of public health. with the epidemic raging, travel records show five million people were able to leave wuhan before the city was finally locked down. with infections now taking hold across china, other cities have begun imposing restrictions. in nanyang, hangzhou, wenzhou, harbin only one person per household is allowed out to buy food once every two days. the increasing disruption is why some countries, including the uk, are advising people to leave. others are getting out anyway. yeah, quite a bit disappointed but i think it s ok because they re trying to keep us safe. the cost of all this is immeasurable. this was the middle of beijing in what should be the middle of a working week. the ruling communist party knows that as well as economic, there are political risks in all of this. that deep public anger that officials didn t do enough to tell people what they knew soon enough, which is why we ve seen the highly unusual step of the ruling politburo admitting this week that mistakes were made. the big question now, of course can they fix this? with the propaganda in overdrive, the remotest corners are getting the public health message, but china faces a long journey yet. i want to take you live to japan, a cruise ship, the diamond princess, with nearly a dozen passengers on board and at the moment it is docked in yokohama and passengers and crew quarantine because 20 cases of the coronavirus have been found. 20 people tested positive for this virus. we have been told that supplies are being brought onto the ship and that is what you are seeing now. this is a live image. across ship in hong kong with also another 2000 passengers in quarantine. this is from japan, yokohama, 20 people tested positive for this virus. let s bring you up to date with other stories making the headlines. also making news today: more than 30 people have died in two avalanches in eastern turkey. many of those killed were rescue workers who were sent to find people missing, after the first avalanche on tuesday. it s feared dozens more remain trapped, as hundreds of rescuers try to reach them. the un security council is to hold an emergency session on syria on thursday as president assad s troops continue a major offensive in the province of idlib. eight major aid agencies have called for an immediate ceasefire in idlib, which in the past two months has seen pro government forces bombard towns and villages still held by jihadist and rebel fighters. this is an image of finland s government which has announced plans to give all parents the same parental leave. the move is being billed as a radical change to improve gender equality. and it s hoped that by better enabling men to share childcare duties it could also redress factors that damage women sjob prospects. in turkey, three people have died after a passenger plane skidded off the runway at one of istanbul s airports, breaking into three pieces. the plane belonged to the turkish low cost airline pegasus and had 177 people on board. rich preston reports. the landing that ended in tragedy. this is the moment a pegasus airlines boeing 737 arriving at speed and in wet weather lost control, skidded and overran the runway of istanbul s sabiha gokcen airport. seen from the roadside, the impact of the crash visibly split the plane s fuselage into several sections. translation: unfortunately, the pegasus airlines plane could not hold onto the runway due to poor weather conditions and skidded for around 50 60 metres. it fell from about 30 a0 metres high. onboa rd were 183 passengers and crew who d flown in, from the country s western province of izmir. for rescue teams, the scale of the task before them as they comb to the wreckage for survivors becomes apparent from the ground. there will now be an investigation into what happened, there will be many who highlight this could have been much, much worse. rich preston, bbc news. you are watching newsday. still to come on the programme: the hollywood icon kirk douglas has died at the age of 103. this is the moment that millions in iran had been waiting for. after his long years in exile, the first hesitant steps of ayatollah khomeini on iranian soil. south africa s white government has offered its black opponents concessions unparalleled in the history of apartheid. the anc leader, nelson mandela, is to be set free unconditionally. ..four, three, two, one. a countdown to a critical moment. the world s most powerful rocket ignited all 27 of its engines at once. and apart from its power, it s this recycling of the rocket, slashing the cost of a launch, that makes this a breakthrough in the business of space travel. two americans have become the first humans to walk in space without any lifeline to their spaceship. one of them called it a piece of cake. thousands of people have given the yachtswoman ellen macarthur a spectacular homecoming in the cornish port of falmouth after she smashed the world record for sailing solo around the world non stop. this is newsday on the bbc. i m rico hizon in singapore. i m kasia madera in london. our top stories: the senate has voted to acquit donald trump on all charges of impeachment. in a tweet, he has called it a victory for america. in china, the number of new coronavirus cases has seen its biggest single day increase. in total more than 560 people have now died from the disease. let s take a look at some front pages from around the world. coverage of the spread of the coronavirus continues in thejapan times, which is running a front page story on how at least ten people on a cruise ship have tested positive for the new virus. we re now getting reports that 10 more cases on board have been confirmed. but it s not all bad news as the straits times reports, one of thailand s first cases of the virus recovered. she is 73 years old, and is pictured giving a thumbs up after being in treatment for nine days. there you go. and finally, the gulf news is carrying a story lauding the strength of asian economies in the face of the coronavirus. it reports that regional markets from shanghai to seoul eked modest gains despite the dampening economic effect of the virus. and with the coronavirus, it is only natural people turn to the internet to stay informed. u nfortu nately, internet to stay informed. unfortunately, misinformation and simplyfake unfortunately, misinformation and simply fake news is rife online. one of those fact checkers, rachel lundy, she is a fa ct checkers, rachel lundy, she is a fact check editor in hong kong. i asked a fact check editor in hong kong. iasked her what a fact check editor in hong kong. i asked her what can people do to avoid being misled online? unfortunately there s a huge amount of misinformation out there if you are looking on social media. but i would say on the flipside if you have some adjusted media sources that you follow, some adjusted health organisations, you know international bodies, then you can easily avoid being misled by misinformation that is out there. but let s take a look at a sample of a fake news story. this came from a fake book does make facebook post, and doctors according to this post projected ii according to this post projected 11 million people quarantine, and wuhan will die from the coronavirus. this caused a lot of anxiety among through lincoln facebook users. yeah, this was really sad to see. this was the kind of scaremongering style report that was out on sri lankan social media. there was really no basis for the claim and they actually attributed this to genuine doctors and tried to suggest that everyone in wuhan right now will die of the virus. in reality, that isjust com pletely virus. in reality, that isjust completely inflating what is going on. you know there has been more than 2a,000 cases of the virus diagnosed, which you know is definitely tragic and are certainly a cause for concern, but in terms of the figures, it is a lot lower than what was being suggested by this particular facebook post. and it was so tragic because as the number of coronavirus cases continues to grow, so do concerns about racism and stereotyping against people of asian descent. yes. for sure. u nfortu nately we have asian descent. yes. for sure. unfortunately we have seen this throughout the coronavirus outbreak, we have seen posts that are very xenophobic in tone, basically attributing this virus to chinese people on their own. basically suggesting that it their own. basically suggesting thatitis their own. basically suggesting that it is something to do with their culture and this is why their culture and this is why the virus has spread, which is just completely not true. rachel bluntly, and afp fact checker in hong kong. the hollywood actor, kirk douglas has died, he was 103. famous for roles in spartacus, paths of glory and many other historical epics, he was the last of a generation of screen idols. lizo mzimba looks back on his life. for the first time in my life, people cheering for me! he made his name as a washed up boxer, champion earned him the first of three oscar nominations. he played a ruthless, selfish, fiercely driven upstart, a bit like kirk douglas himself. ican i can beat him! the ruthlessness and drive of his childhood. he was born issur danielovitch, the son of illiterate russian immigrants and brought up in extreme poverty. what other way could we have donein what other way could we have done in the first place? the easy way. and why should we do that? he enjoys playing villains more than heroes like a journalist covering a mining disaster who wouldn t let anything get in the way of a good story. you have a big human interest story, you ve got to give it a big human interest ending. sir, would you like me to suggest what you can do with that promotion? critics applauded his roles in paths of glory and lust for life, in which he played vincent van gogh. but his own lust for power earned him many enemies, he hired and fired at whim and defied the anti communist witch hunt in hollywood, crediting a blacklisted writer for spartacus. i am spartacus! i m spartacus! spartacus defied the roman emperor, much like how kirk douglas often defied hollywood. ididn t want to become a tycoon. it gave me a chance to do movies i wanted to do. i wanted to do spartacus, about vikings, paths of glory, even though they were successful, it wasn t easy to get the financing for them and all that but that s why i had my company. his son became as big a star as his father. kirk douglas had craved affection from his own father but never received it. in the end he became the founder of a hollywood dynasty and one of hollywood s greatest stars. remembering kirk douglas who has died at the age of 103. let s discuss his work further. peter bowes joins us from los angeles. i ve been watching some of the films he starred m, some of the films he starred in, erected by stanley kubrick. just an incredible actor. you think of paths of glory, spartacus, where do you start? you have named some of the big ones. he may dozens and dozens of films. i think the big significance of this is he really was the last of a generation of course, in the early days, spartacus, those diesel good looks of his stood him in very good stead. but he was a tremendous actor. and a tremendously highly thought of figure in hollywood. and quite a political figure as we have been hearing as well, especially in the 1960s during those days of the hollywood blacklist. let me tell you what his son, michael douglas has said today, issuing a statement announcing his death at the age of 103. he said it is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and i announce that kirk douglas left us today the age of 103. to the world he was age of 103. to the world he was a legend and actor from the golden age of movies to live well into his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to justice only causes he believed in set a standard for us believed in set a standard for us all to aspire to. an absolutely beautiful tribute. very fitting. when it came to many of the characters he took on, they were often underdogs, fighters, he would night absolutely fighting every moment with his characters and also in his private life as well, taking on so many different causes. yes. and i think that is the beauty of the man. he was compassionate, especially in his private life and in his later years. he and his wife donated quite literally millions of dollars to deserving causes, to charitable causes, he worked a lot with children. and with many cases, troubled youth, helping organisations to raise money, schools, here in los angeles. i met him in 2008, he was a man with a demented sense of humourand we was a man with a demented sense of humour and we talked about the fact he d had a stroke a few years earlier, he lost his voice. he said what does an actor do who has lost his voice? he said they wait for southern pictures to come back, he was chuckling all the way. silent pictures. he was chuckling all the way. silent pictures. thank you for sharing that meeting with kirk douglas. remembering his extraordinary life. he died at the age of 103. you have been watching newsday. i m kasia madera in london. the hollywood icon will be missed. and i m rico hizon in singapore. stay with us. coming up in business news we ll be looking at the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on global growth forecast. hello there. we have high pressure to bring us we have high pressure to bring us fine and settled weather. you could call the next few days become before the storm. here is our area of high pressure, slowly retreating back towards the continent as we had to thursday and friday. but it is still going to be strong enough to influence our weather. light winds across central and southern areas means we could start this morning with the mist and fog patches, some of which could be quite dense and stubborn sickly. areas might hold onto it all day but for most it should centre left. and we should centre left. and we should see variable amounts of cloud but also some sunny spells, most of the cloud because western scotland and northern ireland. these temperatures generally peaking around 7 eight degrees, colder aware fog lingers. as we had to thursday night it is going to stay dry again. more of a breeze picking up in the west, generally more of a breeze, so it looks like it shouldn t be quite as going to start friday as we have seen in the last few mornings. we start friday off with a bit more breeze but also some sunshine and that means you are probably less likely to see mist and fog. some good business sense and through the day davies will be picking up from the south, particularly across the western areas where we will see the first series of weather fronts bringing outbreaks of rain. images lifting to 10 degrees. that first weather front spread through on friday night, it will be quite a breezy night, went in the north west. the rain clears away from the east early on saturday morning and then we have a window of fine weather. this sunny weather could be the best weather of the weekend for most of us. but it will be turning wetter in the west, gales starting to develop later in the day with this next to the front moving in with some heavy rain and snow on the hills. temperatures reaching highs of 8 nine degrees. it s much windier on saturday night for old, but particularly across western areas, widespread goes here and outbreaks of heavy and persistent rain. now for sunday s named storm, we will have to go back to the united states where this low pressure has already developed. it has brought trouble to the south and the east of the united states and will be picked up by a very strong jet stream as it hu rtles a very strong jet stream as it hurtles towards our shores. it is likely to bring some damaging winds. look at all the isobars on the chart associated with the storm. the models are agreeing with this, which is why the met office have named this storm very early. some concerns about the storm that will arrive saturday night through sunday to bring some damaging winds, likely to have disruptions, stay tuned to the weather forecast. i m kasia madera, with bbc world news. our top story: the us senate has voted to acquit donald trump of both charges for which he was impeached. votes were cast along party lines, with the exception of one republican senator. the president said it was a victory for america, and tweeted this mock up of a time magazine cover. chinese authorities are reporting the biggest single day increase in the number of new coronavirus cases. it total, nearly 25,000 people have been infected so far. there have been 560 deaths, the vast majority in china. and some breaking news the hollywood icon, kirk douglas, has died. star of spartacus, and many other hollywood epics, he earned several oscar nominations in the 1950s for both his acting and producing. his son, the actor michael douglas, described him as a movie legend and a great humanitarian.