into up a formal impeachment inquiry into president biden. thatjust been announced by the most senior republican in congress. floods in libya are reported to have killed two thousand eight hundred people, after a powerful storm swept through the east of the country. the un are mobilizing emergency teams. criticism of morocco as the red cross launched an emergency appeal. a new report in the uk describe sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape an open secret within surgery. we will hear from and rape an open secret within surgery. we will hearfrom one doctor that she suffered. we will hear from one doctor that she suffered. the north korean leader, kimjong un, has arrived in russia for a meeting with president putin. hello, i'm matthew amroliwala. welcome to verified live, 3 hours of breaking stories, and checking out

the truth behind them. let's turn straightaway for the breaking news from washington for the last ten minutes or so, the most senior republican a us congress kevin mccarthy says he's ordered house committees to begin a formal impeachment inquiry into president biden. mr mccarthy said his party uncovered what he called "serious and credible corruption allegations". republicans who narrowly control the house accused mr biden of profiting while he served as vice president from 2009 to 2017 from his son hunter bidens foreign business ventures. they've not presented evidence here is mr mccarthy speaking just in the last half hour. mccarthy speaking “ust in the last half hour. ., ., half hour. through our investigations - half hour. through our investigations we - half hour. through ourj investigations we have half hour. through our- investigations we have found half hour. through our— investigations we have found that president biden did live. to the american people about his own knowledge of his families foreign business deals. eyewitnesses have testified that the presidentjoined

on multiple phone calls and had multiple interactions, dinners resulting in cars and millions of dollars into his son's business partners. we know that bank records show that nearly $20 million in payments were directed to the biden family members and associates through various shell companies. the treasury department alone has more than 150 transactions involving the biden family and other business associates that were flagged as suspicious activities by us banks. even a trusted fbi informant has alleged a bribe to the biden family. biden uses official office to co—ordinate hunter bidens business partners about hunter's role in the

ukrainian energy company. finally, despite these serious allegations it appears that the presidents family has been offered special treatment by ivan�*s own administration. treatment that not otherwise would have received that they were not related to the president. that was kevin mccarthy — related to the president. that was kevin mccarthy speaking - related to the president. that was kevin mccarthy speaking the - related to the president. that was kevin mccarthy speaking the last l related to the president. that was i kevin mccarthy speaking the last few minutes. we go straight to washington. tell us more in terms of the background to this and a little bit more about what kevin mccarthy was actually saying they to reporters. was actually saying they to reporters-_ was actually saying they to reporters. yes. you have to understand _ reporters. yes. you have to understand that _ reporters. yes. you have to understand that there - reporters. yes. you have to understand that there is - reporters. yes. you have to understand that there is a l reporters. yes. you have to i understand that there is a very political climate here in the united states at the moment. kevin mccarthy a prominent republican who had to horses speakership to become elected in the first place, he's pointing at inquiries by the oversightjudiciary and ways and means inquiry. that has

looked into allegations around conversations thatjoe biden had in and around the time that he was vice president in ukraine for the republicans make allegations against joe biden that they claim he had knowledge of and participated in financial deals when his son hunter biden was involved with an energy company in the country. this is always been denied of course by the biden family, by the white house. in this case it was interesting about this case it was interesting about this is initially kevin mccarthy would have needed to get 218 republican party members to vote in favour of opening this impeachment inquiry. in this case is not done that. he's using his powers to direct the committee to open the impeachment inquiry. interesting for a number of reasons, theoretically that does not now need a vote but is already under pressure to stave off potential of government finances and to cooperate with democratic party

members. this one way or another is going to be a headache for kevin mccarthy. many people are going to say look, you do need a vote before this inquiry is open. to a degree as we saw with dawdle trump's to impeachment when he was president, it could be slightly academic —— donald trump. an inquiry vote to defeatjim could then be looking at democratic party members acquitting them ultimately. we democratic party members acquitting them ultimately.— them ultimately. we had a pretty instant response _ them ultimately. we had a pretty instant response from _ them ultimately. we had a pretty instant response from the - them ultimately. we had a pretty instant response from the white | instant response from the white house. . ~ ., ., , house. take me through that. they have said that _ house. take me through that. they have said that gop, _ house. take me through that. they have said that gop, that's - house. take me through that. they have said that gop, that's the - house. take me through that. they have said that gop, that's the term for the republican party haven't been investigating these claims for nine months. the white house says that they found absolutely no evidence that there was anything wrong. they've printed this is extreme politics. what we see is an extension of both parties throwing mud at each other, claiming weaponisation of various authorities, be that donald trump in the department ofjustice or in this case the house subcommittees. again,

theoretically, parties should vote on these issues, normally when it came to an actual impeachment decision rather than opening an inquiry. it's highly political. many republican parties feel theyjoe republican parties feel they joe biden republican parties feel theyjoe biden has not been investigated properly. they feel is hunter hunter biden have been given us off right in his recent collapse case and plea deal around gun charges, tax evasion actually at a separate gun charge. in this case there is not actually been any evidence presented in the public domain. this would be the opportunity for that to happen. it is highly political. again, an extension of what us politics is at the moment which is highly polarised and highly inflammatory. figs the moment which is highly polarised and highly inflammatory.— and highly inflammatory. as more details emerge — and highly inflammatory. as more details emerge in _ and highly inflammatory. as more details emerge in next _ and highly inflammatory. as more details emerge in next little - and highly inflammatory. as more details emerge in next little while j details emerge in next little while we were returned to you. thank you for that snapshot in the wake of the breaking development. in libya and the devastating situation there. floods are reported to have killed

two thousand eight hundred people, after a powerful storm swept through the east of the country. as many as ten thousand people are reported to be missing. much of the country has been declared a disaster zone and three days of mourning have begun. the un has said, they are deeply concerned by the situation and are mobilizing emergency teams. widespread flooding and mudslides, caused by torrential rain, have destroyed many roads and homes. a minister in the eastern government, which is not internationally recognised, said more than a thousand bodies had now been recovered in the worst hit city, derna. the eastern cities of benghazi and al marj are also among the worst hit. anna foster has the latest. a torrent of water washing away everything in its path. the devastation is clear to see. the death toll is harder to quantify. the red crescent and red cross say as many as 10,000 people are missing. but in a country without a single functioning government, getting

accurate information is hard. since muammar gaddafi was deposed as its leader in 2011, libya has been in turmoil. there are two rival governments, and regularfighting for control between factions in the east and west. libya has effectively been stuck in a political quagmire now for at least eight, nine years. and really, even though there has been no major outbreak of violence since 2020, sporadic violence has taken place. but there's been no settlement, really, to that conflict. the lack of internationally recognised government sources makes it difficult to know which details to trust. all the videos you see here have been checked by bbc verify. now the authorities need to get help to the people who filmed them. but the ongoing conflict makes access to libya difficult, and any aid that arrives will be far slower than its desperate survivors need.

anna foster, bbc news. lots of videos of the flooding in libya have been posted on social media. well, anna foster has been working with the bbc verify team looking at what we know is real. she is in the bbc verify hub with more. one of the really important and key ways that we can actually work out exactly what has happened in libya is using some of the videos, some of the photos that have been on social media, but checking them. and that's what the team at bbc verify have been doing today. now, i want to take you notjust to libya, but particularly to the east of the country. now, these are some of the cities that have been suffering from flooding, and in particular, this one, derna, is one that has been very badly affected. now, you can see here the river that runs all the way down to the sea and these two red blocks, mark dams. now, this was holding a huge volume of water back from the population that live here. and if you look at this video, first of all, now, this is one

of the videos that we've been able to verify on social media. and the reason we know this is genuine is because it was posted on snap maps. you can see the water running through the streets and snap is one of the apps that we can really use to work out where a video is filmed because the location data is automatically uploaded along with the video. similarly, here is another one and in this one you can see some of the water, but also the aftermath, the devastation, the buildings that have been damaged, some of the water that's been left behind and the vehicles that have been picked up and really thrown around by the flooding that has moved through this city. now, another really key part of what we're doing at bbc verify is using locations to prove what has been happening and to really authenticate some of the videos that we're seeing. so this is an absolutely landmark building in derna. this is the mosque. and if you see here in this video, you will recognize, again, that mosque. but this time you can see look at the water gushing through the streets down here.

and again, there's another video from a slightly different direction. but again, you can see the water moving through the streets and crucially, the mosque that is there that shows us this area. now we want to know what happened after the floods moved out. and we can see here really some of the devastation, the destruction. we can see the rubble lying in the streets. we can see the buildings that have been damaged. but the way that we know that this is real and this is the location that we're talking about as the camera moves around, look, there's that mosque. again, geo locating this video and showing us the area that we're talking about. and then finally, we can do that again with another landmark building. now, this particular video was filmed from the other side of the river. but again, you can see the devastation, you can see the destruction, and you can see a very distinctive building, this l—shaped building here, which is a school. now, if we move on to a satellite image of this same building, look, it's really distinctive.

and it shows you down here what things looked like before the floods actually pass through. this is from google google maps earlier this year. you can see the building. but look look at the way the land has just been carved away underneath that school. and it really gives you an idea of the power of that water and some of the destruction that has been wrought in that area. and finally, just one more video where we're talking about the dams. now, this video is the area around the breach dam. our colleagues at bbc monitoring who've been watching a lot of the libyan media are seeing reports about criticism of the upkeep of the dams themselves. you can see there a dam which has clearly been breached. and again, this is something that i think politically will become even more important in the days and weeks that follow. and bbc very bbc verify, looking constantly at these photos, these videos, using these specialised techniques to make sure that we're always showing you what is real, showing you videos, images, things from the ground

that you can trust. earlier i spoke to dax roque, libya country director at the norwegian refugee council, who gave us the latest. storm daniel swept across the northern coast of libya in the past couple of days causing heavy floods, and many cities across libya have been impacted. benghazi, al bayda, shahat, misrata, tripoli, but derna has definitely received the worst damage. according to recent reports, we can confirm that more than 2000 people have died, almost 10,000 are missing and the numbers are rising but we have received reports that more than 20,000 people have been displaced. further exacerbating the situation in derna, two dams have reportedly collapsed as well which resulted in significant flooding and complete destruction of neighbourhoods and residential buildings. the norwegian refugee council has more than 100 colleagues inside libya,

we have teams in benghazi and we are looking to expand support, working with local partners and local authorities. the numbers are vast and likely to grow considerably in the coming days, so is that partly because of simply the speed of the way the waters hit? correct. our teams are on the ground and are reporting a disaster situation in these communities. as i mentioned before, dams have been reported to collapse in derna causing widespread flooding. very inspiring and dedicated search and rescue workers are working night and day looking for people but unfortunately reports are coming in that more than 2000 people have died and 10,000 are feared missing. in terms of what help you are trying to get there on the ground, what have you got already in place

and how much is actually needed? correct, so, we are working with local partners and the local authority and the un who have mobilised resources. our teams are looking to provide emergency relief including emergency shelter, food and drinking water and we are also looking to provide psycho—social support for young children and young people impacted by this conflict. obviously it is quite challenging given the speed of this disaster but the teams on the ground are working quite diligently to get the support required to the people who have been impacted by this disaster. the politics in libya are hugely complicated. is that another impediment to trying to have a rapid, targeted response? i think everybody in libya is working to support people in need. what i want to communicate is that funding is required immediately.

we are calling on the international community, the un, donors, to mobilise funding that will allow actors such as nrc and other ngos but more importantly, local civil society organisations to support the people who need it the most. that is the situation on the ground in libya. that is the situation on the ground in libya. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. the biggest uk pub chain will charge more during its peak hours, due to cost increases, including extra security. stonegate, which owns slug & lettuce and yates's bars will add 20p to a pint during the busy periods. it says 800 of its 4,000 pubs will introduce "dynamic pricing" during the evenings and weekends. we will have more on that story in about a half hours' time. we will have more on that story in about a half hours' time. the state pension, is set to rise by 8.5% next year,

on the back of new earnings figures under the triple lock. the policy means, the increase in the state pension is the highest of average earnings, inflation or 2.5%. the triple lock is designed to ensure pensioner,s are able to afford rising prices. official figures show, that wage growth has caught up with rising prices, for the first time in over a year. regular pay — excluding bonuses rose by 7.8% from may to july, compared with a year earlier. but the unemployment rate rose and the number of job vacancies fell. the office for national statistics says, interest rate rises are having an impact on slowing the jobs market. you're live with bbc news. rescue efforts in morocco continue in search of any survivors or bodies after an earthquake hit the atlas mountains area on friday night. bbc arabic team has been to one of the closest towns to the epicentre of the quake where people are still digging to pull their loved ones out from under the rubble. bbc arabics' cahreen torbay sends us

this from the atlas mountains. in this village there were about 100 homes. people have been digging through the rubble since the deadly earthquake hit on friday. now that the rescue teams have arrived, the search continues for any bodies. days after the earthquake, there is no more hope to find any survivors in this village. these rescuers are looking for a three bodies, a grandfather, a father and a toddler. they are doing so with their bare hands. this is also how this man searched for his wife, son and daughter, whose bodies he recovered hours after the earthquake hit. translation: my wife was here. there was my daughter. she was like this. and over there, my son. i dug with my own hands

and with the help of some people here, we pulled their bodies out. i lost my kids, i lost everything. i appeal for the authorities and his majesty the king to help me. may they rest in peace. amen. the only people trapped under the rubble who survived were those rescued by the villagers the night the earthquake struck. translation: there were five of us. we went from one home to another, calling the residents by name, from door to door. we only focused on houses from which people answered. where we didn't get a reply, we moved on. we had to.

residents of the town are now refugees living on the road. during the day, they take shelter from the sun in the shade of a tree or under a makeshift tent. but at night the bitter cold reminds them that winter is coming and they have no shelter. careen torbey, bbc news. female surgeons, working in nhs hospitals, are subjected to a culture of "sexual harassment" and assaults by male colleagues — according to a major new report shared exclusively with bbc news. the research, described by the royal college of surgeons as "truly shocking", identifies a pattern of female trainees' being abused by senior male surgeons. our health correspondent james gallagher reports. spoke to dr liz o'riordan, a retired surgeon, about her

experience of sexual harrassment. over half of myjobs i was sexually harassed. that range from being in an operating theatre by the consultant stood next to me asked me who was having sex with and then propositioned me to being at a christmas party and american sultan from another hospital came up to me, grabbed his erection beside me and said it's not cheating if i kiss you. said it's not cheating if i kiss ou. . �* , , , said it's not cheating if i kiss ou. . h , , ., you. that's 'ust the tip of it. in terms of — you. that'sjust the tip of it. in terms of how _ you. that'sjust the tip of it. in terms of how you _ you. that'sjust the tip of it. in terms of how you reacted - you. that'sjust the tip of it. in terms of how you reacted at i you. that'sjust the tip of it. in | terms of how you reacted at the time, just describe your memories of what you then did and thought and felt. , ., , , felt. the first feeling was 'ust shocked. mike i felt. the first feeling was just shocked. mike consultant - felt. the first feeling was just - shocked. mike consultant actually just a bad to me in a roomful of people we're operating. —— mike consultant. it was a fact that nobody else in the room did anything, this was apparently ok behaviour and i had to put up with it. when your brain kicks in and you think this is not right you can't do anything because there is a patient awake on the table, their life

depends on the operation going smoothly. afterwards so many times i wanted to speak up but as a trainee surgeon in your career depends on that man or woman harassing you, letting you operate, give you operating time, saying you've reached all the competencies. and that fear of whistleblowing. in calling them out and then stopping you operating rumours spread your difficult person to work with was fair enough to stop me doing anything. fair enough to stop me doing an hina. ., ., , fair enough to stop me doing an hina. ., anything. you felt it was career endin: if anything. you felt it was career ending if you — anything. you felt it was career ending if you spoke _ anything. you felt it was career ending if you spoke up. - anything. you felt it was career ending if you spoke up. did - anything. you felt it was careerj ending if you spoke up. did you complain atany ending if you spoke up. did you complain at any stage over the years about these incidents happening? i did. it was hard to know if this was happening to me or anyone else because they were so few women working in surgery at the time. one day i had enough and i had a meeting with hr and it ended up being a meeting with them in the consultant who was harassing me and it was the most excruciating experience of my life. i backed down, isaid it's most excruciating experience of my life. i backed down, i said it's my fault, i was exaggerating, nothings happened because i had to carry out working with without me in for another three months before i could

move on to the nextjob. i think that's why so many women don't speak out because they are scared of what will happen to their future. i out because they are scared of what will happen to their future.- will happen to their future. i know that ou will happen to their future. i know that you speak — will happen to their future. i know that you speak about _ will happen to their future. i know that you speak about this - will happen to their future. i know that you speak about this now - will happen to their future. i know that you speak about this now at i that you speak about this now at conferences. i was struck by something you said to our producer when we were preparing this, you said how when you describe your experience, describe how you react in a lot of young women simply thought now that that wasn't good enough. do you think attitudes are actually changing in this report shines a huge light in this whole area now? i shines a huge light in this whole area now? ~ shines a huge light in this whole area now?— shines a huge light in this whole area now? ~ ., , . area now? i think it does, after the back of the — area now? i think it does, after the back of the meeting _ area now? i think it does, after the back of the meeting i think - area now? i think it does, after the back of the meeting i think women | back of the meeting i think women are realising that weight we assumed his normal behaviour actually isn't and is harassment and we have a right to be heard. and the people harassing us to be disciplined. i really hope this report will make surgery the safe space for everybody. surgery the safe space for everybody-— surgery the safe space for everybody. surgery the safe space for eve bod . ~ ~' ., everybody. we know within the medical profession _ everybody. we know within the medical profession there - everybody. we know within the medical profession there is - everybody. we know within the medical profession there is a l medical profession there is a hierarchy, senior doctors, is this

part of that and how does this need to be addressed and combated, do you think? i to be addressed and combated, do you think? ~' to be addressed and combated, do you think? ~ , , . , to be addressed and combated, do you think? ~ , , . think? i think surgery has always been a male _ think? i think surgery has always been a male dominated - think? i think surgery has always been a male dominated world. . think? i think surgery has always i been a male dominated world. even now only 50% of consultants are women. it's very easy to get away with that behaviour if you know your colleagues are doing it. i hope as more women come into surgery and it becomes a safer space that we can slowly weed out these rotten apples that are ruining the most amazing job. he that are ruining the most amazing 'ob. . ., . . , job. he travelled to the far east where we _ job. he travelled to the far east where we believe _ job. he travelled to the far east where we believe the _ job. he travelled to the far east where we believe the two i job. he travelled to the far east l where we believe the two leaders will actually hold talks. putin is already around 200 km from the north korean border. this is kimjong—un's first trip abroad in met putin in 2019. according to the us moscow wants to bite north korean ammunition for the war in ukraine. it's not kimjong—un

ammunition for the war in ukraine. it's not kim jong—un wants advanced satellite technology and nuclear powered submarines. let's return to the breaking news over the last little while which is coming from washington. the most senior republican in the us congress kevin mccarthy says he is ordered house committees to begin a formal impeachment inquiry into president biden. mr mccarthy said his party had uncovered what he calls serious and credible corruption allegations although he didn't put those forward. the white house responding immediately, slamming this probe as "extreme politics". let's go to this break by taking to you live pictures from hawaii. the eruption that has been going on since sunday. you can still be in full flow. back with more on today's headlines on bbc news. hello there. tuesday certainly brought

with it a day of contrast. we had heavy rain across northern england, but after a chilly start, some lovely sunshine. further north in aberdeen, it was a beautiful afternoon. if we take a look at the satellite picture, you can see where the sunny spells were through scotland and northern ireland with a few isolated showers. but the heaviest of the rain certainly across parts of east yorkshire, lincolnshire, north norfolk and a few sharp showers ahead of it. now, this weather front will gradually drift its way south and east and clear that humidity from the south east corner. high pressure will build, keeping things largely fine and quiet. so a murky start in the southeast. chilly start once again in scotland, but a lot of dry, sunny weather around to begin with and then eventually clouding over from northern ireland and into western scotland. some of that rain turning quite heavy. so temperatures here ia to 16 degrees notice to fresher as we've lost that humidity in the southeast as well, 21 the high. so through wednesday evening some of that rain will turn quite heavy as it pushes its way steadily east. and there will be some gale force gusts of winds at times just closest to the low pressure as we move through thursday.

that weather front will continue to slip its way steadily south and east and will weaken considerably. and down to the southeast corner. once again, we're going to tap into a little bit more heat and humidity. so temperatures will climb again. we could see 2a degrees at 75 fahrenheit. but further north and west, we keep that fresher feel ia to 17 celsius. now, as we move into thursday, we're going to see that weather front lingering and pushing up from the southwest. the position of the front still potentially subject to a little bit of change, but it's certainly the dividing line between this warmer, more humid air pushing in from england and wales again and the fresher air through scotland and northern ireland. so you'll notice the difference with the temperatures as we go through friday. so friday we'll see some rain and some of that pretty slow moving. so there could be some issues with rainfall totals totting up to the north of that cooler and fresher to the south, we could see temperatures as high as 25 degrees, 77 fahrenheit. that frontal system will

still cause some issues as we move into the weekend. so it looks likely that the weekend is going to stay showery with heavier rain at times further north.

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that has just been announced by the most senior republican. there's been criticism of morocco's official response to friday's earthquake — as the red cross and red crescent launch an emergency appeal. we are seeking 100 million swiss francs to be able to deliver on the most pressing needs at this time. and the us tech giant google is on trial over monopoly claims brought by the us justice department. google insists it did not violate anti—trust laws. sport and for a full round—up, from the bbc sport centre, here's mimi. we start with tennis news, and two—time grand slam winner simona halep has been banned forfour years for anti—doping violations. an independent tribunal determined the 31—year—old romanian had committed "intentional" anti—doping violations. she tested positive for roxadustat —

which can increase endurance — at last year's us open, and was also found guilty