a professor of government of essex from england is joining us. natasha, looking ahead of at what's promising to be pivotal, the impeachment inquiry will get under way and know the whistle-blower will likely testify. given what we know so far what is the impact of hearing from the very person who ignited this storm? >> well, i think that there's going to be more details that will come out that will solidify for the democrats what exactly took place. but i think that the democrats already feel that they have plenty of information. they feel that trump leveraged hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in order for his own political gain and he admitted it even on the rough transcripts and so i think what they're hoping to find out from the whistle-blower is a little more about who was involved, when did everything take place and just how deep this actually went. i think they already know that trump obviously directed this to take place but want to know how extensive it goes. >> let's say that's point one. point two certainly will be public opinion,

the prime minister visiting a hospital in essex this morning denied he was exploiting divisions over brexit. on the contrary, i think that what we need to do now is to get brexit done by october the 31st and i genuinely think that once you do that, then so much of the heat and the anxiety will come out of the debate. i think a lot of people are very tentative, businesses are still uncertain and get it done and we will all be able to move on. the latest criticism has come from the former work and pensions secretary amber rudd. in an interview with the evening standard she said... "this sort of language i'm afraid we have seen more and more coming out of number ten does incite violence." "it's the sort of language people think legitimises a more aggressive approach," she said, "and sometimes violence." adding, "a casual approach to the safety of mps and their staff is immoral." a government source said amber rudd was being deeply disingenuous. attracting anger from many in westminster, this man, dominic cummings, the prime minister's senior adviser. confronted by one mp yesterday. don'

i am seeing signs like them selling these assets, essex house, some of these other things along with the regular economic data is, they're hurting. i think they want to get better. >> yeah, agree. movements from the currency, charles out of the central bank i would throw in there as well. you're right. i guess they're starting to fold. i was thinking something catchy to say, it was like back in high school when i was playing baseball, if the batter is sitting on the fastball you throw the slider and curve. maybe that is what china is doing here. they're taking a different approach. they clearly underestimated trump the fact that he would dig his shoes in on this. to your point the effect on their gdp and how disenchanted their people will get. hong kong situation is what you're talking about today. a lot of other things going on, pork crisis. a lot are didn't count on happening coming together at once in our favor i guess. charles: having said that, president trump now, sort of entertaining the idea of a piecemeal deal something which i asked the administration from day one. felt lik

us being the number one oil producer in the world and one of the large essex porters of oil and gas. >> important point to make and talking about former ambassador under president george w. bush here to discuss and iran and saudis iowa and member arm service and budget committees here on oil and judge kavanaugh a lot to talk about there as well. the chief

the prime minister visiting a hospital in essex this morning, denied he was exploiting divisions of the brexit. on the contrary, i think what we need to do now is to get brexit done by october the 31st and i genuinely think that once you do that, then so much of the heat and the anxiety will come out of the debate. i think a lot of people are very tense, i think businesses are still uncertain and get it done, i think we will all be able to move on. attracting anger from many in westminster, this man, man, dominic cummings, the prime minster‘s senior adviser. confronted by one mp yesterday. and this morning, the man behind the successful vote leave campaign, asked to clarify comments he made last night. it does not look like a walk in the park, does it? walk in the park? yes. who said it would be a walk in the park? you said it, last night at book launch. here is what he said. in a week where mps have spoken about fears for their safety, dominic cummings said threats of violence should be taken seriously. but it was not surprising, he said, that people were angry, given that mps had sp

the city along with essex county announced a $120 million bond that is expected to greatly speed up this process. the estimates are that it will take two or three years to replace the 18,000 service lines. that means the pipes from the street into your house. in the meantime, many thousands of people still left to depend on bottled water. we are so happy to have with us tonight the two-term mayor of the largest city and the most densely populated state in our union, ras baraka. mr. mayor, thank you very much for coming in. >> thank you for having me. >> if i've had a frustration as a native new jerseyan in covering this, it's been that i wanted somebody to step up and own it. not blame, not responsibility for it, because that's a lot of people. someone to own this crisis and be the advocate for the old lady tonight in a high-rise. >> right. >> who's low income. who you know could use bottled water tomorrow and doesn't want to bother anybody. so she's going to go without. >> well, first of all, people in high-rises don't have lead service lines. that's number one. number two, i'm from new

well, she's a good essex girl. i put on the posh. she puts on the posh. i had to remind myself of the posh actually. and i hadn't done that accent in a while. and at first i thought am i being a bit too posh? do you ever go home and think, hang on a minute, do i have servants or not? i wish! where's anna? when you get yourself dressed of a morning. no, that never quite happens. barrowjust isn't up to the task. my lady? he won't clean the silver or he won't let andrew clean it. what? he says that the page of the thingamy will choose which pieces to use. isee. the truth is, he's in a sort of trance. won't you help me? i feel i'm pushing a rock uphill. i will be there in the morning, my lady. one thing i wanted to ask you, both of you, given the political madness going on at the moment, what do you think your characters would have made of it all? i think lord grantham would invite jacob rees—mogg to come and sit on the sofas and learn how to behave properly in a place that deserves respect. what would lady mary do? she would have thought it was all nonsens

just to tell you that the prime minister has been visiting a hospital in essex, he has been saying to reporters that that he is not exploiting divisions over brexit. we will get that interview in full brexit. we will get that interview infulland brexit. we will get that interview in full and will bring it to you at 12 o'clock. the time is now five to 12, so let's have a look at the weather with simon king. we have had quite a lot of rainfall the last few days, it will stay very u nsettled the last few days, it will stay very unsettled of the next couple of days. this area of cloud here is going to be at the weekend's weather, in the meantime i have that, there is quite a decade of low pressure, driving in a lot of showers into the uk. they are clumping together to get longer spells of rain across western areas currently. the general movement is from west to east which will continue throughout the rest of the day. there still could be heavy and thundery downpours associated it very gusty winds across southern areas in particular. there will be a bit of brightness across wales later on,

the essex eagles are cricket's t20 blast champions after a thrilling climax to the competition at edgbaston. it all came down to the final ball, with captain simon harmer hitting the winning runs to beat worcestershire rapids by four wickets. chasing a worcestershire total of 145/9, harmer came in to hammer 18 offjust seven balls to see his side over the line. nowjust before i go, how can a horse race affect tv coverage of a football match? any idea? well the answer is when the unexpected winner of scotland's premierflat race is owned by a pundit. angel alexander is part owned by former england striker michael owen and trained at his stables in cheshire. the three—year—old was the underdog in the ayr gold cup, a 28:1 outsider, beating 23 rivals to the finish. owen, unfortunately, wasn't at the race in ayr due to his television duties. but he might have struggled, because he tweeted this — apparently he lost his voice. i can't ican't imagine i can't imagine michael owen screaming out of control. given when you think about the stakes involved, can you imagine? what were you going to say

let's get more on this with dr caroline dollery, who's the chair of the mid essex clinical commissioning group — she joins me via webcam from her chelmsford practice. a dropping coverage across all 13 routine childhood vaccinations for the under fives. what is your reaction? it is very concerning. this is a significant continuing drop in immunisation uptake. it is certainly a major focus of national policy to try to address it. it is causing an outbreak really in preve nta ble causing an outbreak really in preventable infectious disease and obviously the consequences of that are significant numbers of young people, children and old people suffering significant ill—health and even death. are you seeing cases of measles in your practice, or lots of people coming to you expressing concerns about vaccinations? we are seeing more cases. anecdotally in our practice. we have had four confirmed measles cases in the past month. two of which were in young babies who were not old enough to have the mmr vaccine. 0bviously babies who were not old enough to have the mmr vaccine. obviously you cann

through because they had lost fewer wickets, but ben duckett couldn‘t manage that, and they will face essex in tonight‘s final. a much more comfortable win for them over derbyshire. after setting them 161 for victory they bowled them out for 126. that final starts at 6.a5 the spaniard jon rahm has the third round lead at the bmw championship at wentworth. he‘s on 16 under england‘s danny willet is second at the moment nearing the end of hsi round. he‘s 1a under, justin rose is a shot further behind . that‘s all the sport for now. i will be back with sports day at half past six. let‘s return briefly now to our main story. labour‘s deputy leader tom watson hasjust arrived in brighton for his party‘s conference. earlier today, the labour leader jeremy corbyn quashed a motion to oust his deputy by abolishing the position. instead, the role of deputy will now be reviewed. here‘s what tom watson had to say to reporters. iam i am particularly disappointed with the loss of momentum because i think he has not just the loss of momentum because i think he has notjust undermined me, t

natasha lindstaedt a professor of government from the university of essex and joins us from colchester. how do you respond to donald trump ‘s press conference last night? how do you respond to donald trump 's press conference last night? it's very predictable to how he tends to respond to things. he was more subdued than normal. he tends to act as if he has done absolutely nothing wrong and then he attacks the media and democrats and says it's a witchhunt. on the one hand he denies there is anything that happened and then he will say, i'm allowed to do this. it is typical donald trump. on a scale of one to ten, ten being terrible, how damning or otherwise is the phone call from donald trump to the ukrainian president? this is pretty bad. i think it is about a ten. to illustrate the difference of what happened in this case than from 2016, in this case donald trump initiated the collusion. he was directly involved, not his aides. he knows what collusion is. he wasn't a candidate, he was the president. he was asking ukraine to do him a favour and though he did not do an explicit quid pr

conservative mp vicky ford is in essex, she has been meeting some students going on the strike. jess baum and her daughter zippy are in bristol this morning, they'll both be protesting today. and we can speak to 9 year old ping ping from her primary school in cumbria, where she's also protesting. ping ping, you are the youngest protester among us, why are you protesting today? it is important for climate change. what do you know about what is going on? we are producing too much black smoke and it is making a hole in the ozone layer. how do you feel about that? i'm very upset about it. what are your concerns? 0bviously, i'm very upset about it. what are your concerns? obviously, you are very young at the moment. what do you think about what might happen in the future? that we are not being a good inheritance for our children so they will have a bad life. how do you feel about what is being done or not done because obviously you are worried not enough is being done about it. what do you think about the adults in charge at the moment? they are not doing enough so it is leaving us c

essex eagles play derby5hire falcons in the afternoon, but the morning 5ee5 last year's winners worcestershire warrior5 face the winners from 2017, nott5 0utlaws. we have had success in the past we have tried to stay as calm as po55ible have tried to stay as calm as possible and keep as little as po55ible possible and keep as little as possible through the day and like i 5aid possible through the day and like i said it is a pretty big day so if you can try and concentrate on those things that got you here in the first place, focu5 things that got you here in the first place, focus on those as much as you can and not get too caught up in the excitement of the day, i 5uppo5e, in the excitement of the day, i suppose, you can tend to stay pretty level and what you need to do. he doesn't believe he's back to his bestju5t yet, but he's showing signs of getting there, after danny willett moved into a share of the lead at the halfway stage of the pga championship at wentworth in surrey. he is the former masters champion, but saw form and fitness dip after that win. he's on 11 under par alongside spain

and finally before we go, in the last ten minutes or $0 essex have won cricket's county championship. they drew their match against title rivals somerset — and that was all they needed. a lot of rain over the past couple of days. the game was badly affected by the weather. you can find more on that and all the rest of our stories on the bbc sport website. i will be back at half past six. welcome back to westminster. well, the extraordinary scenes in the commons last night, did lead to calls today from the speaker, john bercow, for an end to the "toxic culture" at westminster. and some of you have been sending us here at the bbc, questions on brexit and what could happen next. so it's time for ‘ask this,‘ with our reality check correspondent, chris morris. and chris morrisjoins me from stoke—0n—trent this afternoon. the first question for chris comes from a student living in stoke—on—trent, gemma adkins — let's hear it now. how will brexit affect first—time workers coming out of university? it is the kind of question we have been hearing all day here at the shopping c

she is a good essex girl. i've put on the poss. they had to remind myself of the posture. hadn't done that accent a while. i thought for a while and my being too posh. do you ever go home and think tuwai have serva nts ever go home and think tuwai have servants or not? i wish! where's anna. when you get yourself dressed ofa anna. when you get yourself dressed of a morning. barrowjust isn't up to the task. he won't clean the silver or he won't let andrew clean it. he says that the page of the thing will decide which pieces to use. the truth is, he is in a sort of trance. won't you help me? ifeel am putting a rock uphill.” of trance. won't you help me? ifeel am putting a rock uphill. i will be there in the morning, my lady. one thing they wanted to ask you, both of you, given the political madness going on at the moment, what do you think your characters would have made of it all? i think lord crathorne would invite jacob rees—mogg to come and sit on the sofas and learn how to behave doubly a place that deserve respect. what would lady mary to? she would have thought it

for instance, oig staff found that staff at the essex county facility in new jersey failed to report to ice a loaded handgun discovered by a detainee in a facility bathroom. at the [inaudible] processing center in california the facility at which at least seven suicide attempts by hanging were made in less than one year and oig inspectors observed braided bedsheets referred to as nooses by center staff and detainees and 15 of the 20 cells we visited. serious issues like these raise questions about the effectiveness of ice is multilayered approach and prodded oig to review the entities involved in providing oversight in each layer. one there is the nakamoto group, a private company with which ice contracts to annually inspect facilities holding ice detainees. at the time of our review was expecting 100 facilities a year to evaluate compliance with 39-42 detention standards. ice is office of detention oversight or oto provides another layer of oversight at the time of our review audio was inspected approximately 30 facilities a year to determine 15-16 core standards. finally, ice stand

on school buses in the day handling north public schools transportation and special needs throughout essex county. our both vulnerable students, stretcher bound children that were paraplegic. so this is really where i cut my teeth in public service so i'm really glad to see that we're here discussing these issues. and also i'm proud that new jersey is on the cutting edge of safety. so, you know, i fully understand the need for safe school buses and commend you for your work to increase their safety. my children have triplets and in new jersey they have early school intervention where children go to school as early as three and so my children were on school buses in newark at three years old. as a matter of fact, there's one of them taking pictures of me right now. he's made it pretty far. so new jersey is a leader when it comes to school bus safety, requiring all school buses to have the three-point safety belts, yet the federal government does not require that all school buses have them. can you explain how three-point safety belts improve bus safety and do you think it would be in the co

another case of a potentially fatal streptococcus infection has been confirmed in essex. it brings the total number in the area to 37. those affected were older people and the majority were receiving treatment for wounds. there have been 13 deaths from the infection so far. this week, we're looking at whether arts subjects are being squeezed out of the school curriculum. in the last five years, the number of young people taking a—level music has fallen by 30%. and in tower hamlets, not a single student entered for a—level music in the academic year before last. but one school in the borough is bucking the trend. london is a centre, england is a centre, globally for music. the music industry is a growing industry. if we cut off at the grassroots in years to come, we won't be able to provide culturally the output that we already, globally. an exhibition on christian dior has broken attendance records at the v&a. tracing the history of the fashion house from 19a7 to the present day, the exhibit attracted nearly 600,000 people in seven months. the previous record holder w

essex have made a good start as they bid to seal cricket's county championship in the final match of the season. they need to avoid defeat against title chasing rivals somerset at taunton. somerset batted after winning the toss but have struggled with the essex bowling — and somerset were 75 for 4 when rain stopped play. british number one kyle edmund has parted company with his coach mark hilton. edmund has lost four matches in a row — most recently at the chengdu 0pen this morning — and he's been knocked out in the first round of three successive events. the decision to split from hilton was made last week, and he'll be assisted in the short term by colin beecher, who coached him when he was in his late teens. sacked rugby union player israel folau is returning to rugby league and will play for tonga at next month's 0ceania cup. folau had his contract terminated by rugby australia after writing on social media that "hell awaits" gay people — which breached a players‘ code of conduct. folau has tongan heritage — he'll face a touring great britain side in new zealand befo

10,000 children, school buses handling north public schools, transportation and special needs throughout essex county. our most vulnerable students, stretcher-bound children that were paraplegic. paraplegic. so, this is really where i cut my teeth in public service, so i am really glad to see that we are here discussing these issues. i am also proud that new jersey is on the cutting edge of safety. so, i fully understand the need for safe school buses and commend you for your work to increase the safety. triplets,n, i have and in new jersey they have early school intervention where children go to school as early as 3:00. so, my children were on school buses in newark at three years old. matter-of-fact, one of them is taking pictures of me right now. so, he's made it pretty far. new jersey is a leader when it comes to school bus safety, requiring all school buses to have the three point safety belts. yet the federal government does not require that all school buses have this. can you explain how the three point safety belts improve bus safety, and do you think it would be in the country's best

cricket's county championship reaches its climax this week with the two title contenders — somerset and essex — going head—to—head at taunton. you can listen to commentary on radio 5 live sports extra and follow all the latest on the bbc sport website — that's bbc.co.uk/sport time now for a bbc ask this. we've been taking your questions this morning on the news that one of the world's biggest tour operators, thomas cook, has collapsed after last—ditch rescue talks failed. it puts 9,000 jobs at risk in the uk. 150,000 british holiday—makers are currently abroad. to shed some light on the situation for those passengers and staff we've got victoria bacon in the studio, and simon calder — travel editor from the independent in salford. thank you forjoining us. first question comes from stacey on twitter. i have a holiday booked for the 9th of october with thomas cook and was atol protected. she is asking what she now needs to do and how long does a refund take? well, this is a how long is a piece of string questions, unafraid we simply do not know. the civil aviation authority admits

responsible for 10,000 children, school buses handling transportation for special needs throughout essex county. our most vulnerable students, stretcher-bound children that were paraplegic. so, this is really where i cut my teeth in public service, so i am really glad to see that we are here discussing these issues. and also, i am proud that new jersey is on the cutting edge of safety. so, i fully understand the need for safe school buses and commend you for your work to increase their safety. my children -- i have triplets -- and in new jersey, they have early school intervention where children go to school as early as 3:00. so, my children were on school buses in newark at three years old. as a matter of fact, there is one of them taking pictures of me right now -- so he has made it pretty far. so new jersey as a leader when it comes to school bus safety, requiring all school buses to have the three point safety belts. yet the federal government does not require that all school buses have this. can you explain how the three point safety belts improve bus safety, and do you think it wou

essex pose he exposed it of. in order to make it unlawful, only congress could do that. maria: in china, the chinese government says you do this, do you that, company. in this country we have ethics. dagen: we have laws. >> we also have the free market, sort of he free. maria: purdue pharma expected to file for bankruptcy now, judge. group of state attorneys general stalled. the company offered billions to settle lawsuits claiming they used deceptive sales practices to advertise the pain killer oxycontin. >> these are the same state attorneys general that we were just talking about a couple of minutes ago. which purdue approached, said look, there's all these lawsuits. you guys are suing us on behalf of thousands of people and thousands of people are suing us individually. here's $13 billion. you divide it up. and they couldn't come to an agreement. if this goes to bankruptcy court, purdue pharma will make out far better than it will if there are lawsuits before juries or if the case is settled. bankruptcy is just a cold financial decision. there's no pain and suffering.

caller: essex county college, the campus in newark, new jersey . ,y students are hard-working they are volunteering to go to school, they should be helped any way they can and if the corporations get tax breaks, i think this will help with their pr and standing and it would be great. i just heard this recently on your show, but if more corporations and more companies that can and want to help employees, it would help me help our students. i am just floating this idea. host: glad you called. you can go to our website, search opportunity zones, you can find that program online. jimmy in baldwin, maryland, good morning, go ahead. caller: good morning. i think the statement the business roundtable put out is simply a pr message. i don't believe she said ceos got together and came to this conclusion. i think what happened is they know the prevailing winds. they put their finger in the air and could tell -- even a lot of young people would turn towards -- have a favorable view of and just -- they send their jobs overseas. they lobby congress and spend bi

essex,liff is next in maryland. also on the republican line. go ahead. caller: i am hardened by some of the calls i have heard this morning. so far, 100% of the american people are against this. this is nothing but another coup. it is shameful what these communists are doing. this is the communist party, the democrat party is nonexistent. crew -- conducting a coup against the president of the united states. as far as the constitution is concerned, these communists are trying to destroy the constitution. trying to destroy the first amendment, second amendment, they want to open borders and sanctuary cities, this is crazy stuff. these people are insane. host: another view from maryland in greenbelt on our democrats line. c-span.good morning, i am up proud african-american scientist and a democrat and my party is democrat and this is the united states of america. i reported to two presidents in , george h. w. bush and ronald reagan and i swore on the bible to protect my country from domestic and foreign enemies. this president has put on a private server to

us being the number one oil producer in the world and one of the large essex porters of oil and gas. >> important point to make and talking about former ambassador under president george w. bush here to discuss and iran and saudis iowa and member arm service and budget committees here on oil and judge kavanaugh a lot to talk about there as well. the chief of staff and vice president mike pence mark short is with us this morning on iran, and as well the strength of the u.s. economy today to really sock up who is needed fox news senior tszuj andrew napolitano weighing in on brett kavanaugh with a big three hours coming up and top story this hour is that attack. on oil production facilities in saudi arabia . the twin drone strike on saturday sending oil prices soaring intensifying middle east tensions, rebels claim responsibility for this. the u.s. is rereleasing satellite foe e toes photos it is showing the impact it says came from the north and the northwest implying that tehran was more likely really the -- perpetrator here iran behind these attacks iran meanwhile deny any involvemen

talked about, one of the largest insurance companies just sold some key real estate assets here, the essex house and things like that. remember when japan bought all of america's -- all this big property, rockefeller center, pebble beach. it was when they had to start selling it back because people figured out that whole economic miracle is over. same thing is happening in china. i got to tell you, it's up to president trump but i think he's in a great position right now to cut a strong deal that would have 90% to 95% of what he wants and keep the pressure on what he doesn't get right now. stuart: market went up when you said that. charles payne, market mover. you don't want tb a market mover. charles, thanks very much. we will see you when? >> 2:00. i will go further into this and maybe talk about records by then. who knows? stuart: who knows. >> we have been rallying pretty strong into the close the last few sessions. stuart: we are 100 points away from the record on the dow at the moment. that's nothing in this market. i will watch you at 2:00. >>> check out big tech, please. all the bi

it's a chilly braintree in essex. that will teach me to be clever. we will talk about autumn and how it has lots to offer, so this morning we had mist and fog, dance across northern ireland and in the highlands of scotland a touch of ground frost. at this time of year we can get some warmth during the days and this is a video of a dust devil taken on sunday in worcestershire, so over the temperatures drop to around three celsius, they rose quickly during the day. when you have a small pocket of warm air rising quickly you get an updraught like this so the mechanics are similar to a tornado but on at tiny scale, i will play it again. you need a loose surface so it can pick something up. that's why they call them dust devils, presumably. as it works its way over to the grass, because the grass is cooler it tends to fizzle out, so someone did well to capture this. the other characteristic of autumnal weather, wet and windy conditions. this is when dorian was still a hurricane. it devastated the bahamas, went to the east coast of america and since then h