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with the sport for just over 7 months to go with each hi carolyn pigs is hit with a radiation scare plus a former australian rugby player reaches a settlement i have unfair dismissal antigay social media. let's get going nato leaders shot into a meeting right now near london as they search for unity on their future direction the alliance has been labeled quote brain dead by the french president emanuel macro and they have been disagreements over money and the ongoing war in syria the us president donald trump and the french leader miss your macro in particular have disagreed on several points doing so very publicly in a combative news conference on tuesday turkey has also threatened to block a major defense plan which could undermine the alliances role in the baltic region which prime minister boris johnson used his opening speech to push

a message of unity. we are rock solid in our commitment to nato and to the giant shield of solidarity that now protects 29 countries and nearly a 1000000000 people the fact that we live in peace today demonstrates the power of the simple proposition at the heart of this alliance the for as long as we stand together no one can hope to defeat us and therefore no one will start a war this is central principle is enshrined in article 5 of the north atlantic treaty that if any one of us is attacked all of us will go to their defense if nato has a motto it is as us says one for all and all for one james bays is diplomatic editor so james the central message is unity but

how unified are they. rock solid is not quite how i would describe it there are divisions there are divisions on a number of different fronts and they are divisions that are out there in the open at this summit we know that president trump doesn't like summits he particularly doesn't like nato summit we know that all the other leaders really would not want to be here at this particular time for this summit but this is something that's been in the dari for literally years because it is an event to mark nato's 70th birthday so what they're trying to do i think is damage limitation they've set an agenda that means that their meetings here in this luxury hotel and what food have been compressed very very short meetings and the declaration that will try and paper over the cracks and mainly look at future threats areas where there aren't so

much disagreement like artificial intelligence like outer space like the threat from china i think what we do need to look at closely those what's going to happen in the next couple of hours because this is the real activity of this summit going to happen on 2 fronts they have the meeting of all the leaders 29 around the table but after that we've had some bilateral meetings the most important of them happened in the last couple of hours and one may well be happening now and those are meetings involving president trump 1st with president odo on that to meeting the white house has said wasn't going to happen he wasn't going to meet the turkish president but they have had a meeting and the white house have now finally confirmed that after 1st turkish media put out pictures we don't know what happened there and we don't know whether there's any progress with regard to syria an issue where turkey finds itself in a different position from the rest of the nato allies the other important meeting

which may well be under way now is president trump meeting the german chancellor angela merkel obviously one of the most. or powers in nato we need to see what happens in that venue of course what we need to see is this meeting comes to a close in the next couple of hours is what they're all going to say and as ever when these summit meetings come to an end there is a could cause for any of the statements coming because what happens is each of the leaders goes and briefs their own national media so in the next 2 hours we're going to hear from $29.00 different leaders probably pretty much similar taney asli you'll need to watch that very closely the 1st news conference we understand is from nato secretary general young stoltenberg i'm told that's coming up pretty soon peter do you get the sense watching them close up where you are james is a little bit like herding diplomatic cats because you've got people who are not kind of building themselves onto a firm foundation angle or merkel she's out of the picture very soon emanuel macron

he is an internationalist boris johnson clearly distracted because he's got an election around the corner and donald trump never has never will like nato. no and they've all got different dividing lines there is not as there often are in some it's a problem that they have to solve and an old man or woman out there are numerous different issues where different people are on different sides and i think the fact that you have president trump in office and it's pretty clear that nato is one of those areas where he has big problems with multilateralism he links nato and the military budgets of nato to what normally would be very different issues of global trade that i think is one of the big problems in these summits when you have president trump there and of course the other factor is the

fact the president trump is always pretty unpredictable we are going to see i suspect one of those freewheeling president trump's news conferences in the next couple of hours and we really don't know what he's going to say or where this is going to go it's worth telling you that nato 70 years ago was actually born in washington d.c. that's where they trucked signed the treaty for nato but they had in the summer and i was there a pretty low key celebration of that with just foreign ministers there not the nato leaders and that i think is because they didn't want president trump presiding over a summit at this difficult time and that's why the summit being held here in the u.k. although they're saying it's not actually even a summit on this occasion but clearly you've got the summit of nato's leadership in terms of all the leaders here james many thanks will come back to i'm sure in the coming few hours let's talk tomorrow i'm sorry he's out as you know senior political analyst he's here with us in our mind or what was your reading of the

comments from boris johnson and young stoltenberg it sounded almost a little bit like a complete reboot both men saying this is what we do this is what we're here for. yes and you know they're trying to mend fences if you will between the varying contradictory or opposition views coming out from washington patterson. and even berlin there's a lot of disagreement among the nato members on a number of things i think johnson as the host country and stoltenberg as the that is a secretary there trying to project a more optimistic. vision if you will or reality on the nato now you know as as a channel that is not exactly european or western and certainly not chinese or russian if we just take a bit of a step away and look at what's happening i mean the degree of success for nato according to its secular general is the fact it was able to accumulate

$830000000000.00 plus for a military build up over it's. over it's members now if you look from from from afar and say wait a minute why is a minute that it builds up so good why is it positive why is it important for an alliance it's basically the more successful alliance in history and it's certainly not under any major threats because even their disagreement unlike during the cold war everyone knew the soviet union and the warsaw pact were the enemy now it's like a luxury time they're picking and choosing well is that russia is it china is it the war on terror is it cyber is it space and you know we'll see what our priorities are but the fact of the matter is al and i didn't interrupt you there which i apologize to the nature chief stilton is giving us his thoughts let's just listen in to what he's saying security for all our laws for 70 years and we have

looked to the future. our meeting has some once again demonstrated that nato remains the only place where europe and north america discuss decide on act every day to gether on strategic issues that concern our shared security and all the it is we're very clear we stand together that all for one and one for all our commitment to article 5 the collective defense goals or our alliance is i don't count today we took wide range of are important to decisions we have increased there than a sort of forces i kind of nonce that we have delivered on the nato readiness initiative allies have committed 30 battalions 30 air

squadrons and 38 combat ships bailable to nato within a 30 days we have declared space as the 5th operational domain for nato alongside lon air sea and cyber we have also agreed on a new action plan to step up our efforts in the fight against terrorism or on ours remain committed to the fight against isis and i would cheney in mission in iraq on a training mission in afghanistan today leaders committed to ensuring the security at their over telecommunications infrastructure including 5 g. we agreed to rely only on secure undecillion systems and allies further recognized the unprecedented progress we are making to achieve fairer burden sharing this is the thief the year of rising defense

investments. in fact you did peon and i sang canada on that $138000000000.00 us dollars and by the end though $10.00 to $24.00 that figure rise to $400000000000.00 u.s. dollars this is unprecedented and it's making nato stronger but leaders agreed that we must and will do more to lead there's also. a range of other decisions on the other important issues for our alliance to announce the protection of our energy infrastructure on how to assure our technological edge in the face of emerging on destructive it acknowledges on to step up our response to a hybrid threats we also have the substandard discussion about russia and the

future arms control we are committed to strong deterrence on the fence wide area remaining open to meaningful dialogue with russia nato is a spawning to russia is the problem and of intermediate range nuclear capable miss eyes in a defensive and coordinated way and we remain committed to strengthening effective arms control disarmament and nonproliferation for the 1st time we address the rise of china both the challenges on the opportunities it poses and the implications for our security leaders agreed we need to address these together asked the alliance and not to must find ways to encourage china to put it to participate in arms control range mints. os the world changes nato will continue to change nato is strong and our

accomplishments of the past few years to adapt to changing security environment are substantial on that basis we have agreed today to in the initiate a defection process under my leadership to further strengthen the political dimension of nato i want to find they're not the kingdom for hosting this meeting of nato lead this with such a wonderful hospitality we marked achievements or 1st 70 years and set the course of 40 years to come nato leaders have decided to meet again in 2021 and without i'm happy to take your questions. from. thank you robin image from reuters secretary-general we know that turkey has been very determined to hold up

a plan for defending the baltics and potent i wondered if you were able to resolve this issue today and if so how thank you. we have plans in place to protect all allies including also of course the baltic countries on poland and more than that with not only have plans but you have forces and more forces than before and in the baltic countries and poland for the 1st time and historic lines you actually called but they're the troops deployed. in the in the eastern part of the alliance and we have triple the size of the nato redness luneta response force so we can quickly reinforce and then we today launch the new red initiative we will add even more forces so we can we can act quickly reinforce if needed then these plans on how to protect the different. parts of the alliance

they are regularly updated revised and today we have agreed to the op dated plan for the baltic countries and poland so i welcome that and it shows that we are able to all saw and move forward on the update on the revised dance including and the fans pounds for the baltic countries and poland us with you today. thein. lady midwest's. and deprivations from sky nice you call nato the most successful military alliance in history and yet what we often only see in the headlines a disagreement such as if this meeting with president trump describing president micron is being disrespectful present maicon calling native brain dead the turkish president calling president macondo name brain that are you not worried that these kind of public disagreements are undermining the unity of the alliance thank you so

this agreement will always attract more attention than when we agree and on that's in the way the heart of our open freedom across the desert is work so i don't complain about out that that's just the fact. second there has been disagreements in nato as long as this alliance has existed we are 29 a different countries from both sides of the atlantic with different history different juggler friend different political parties in power so of course there are differences and anything else would be very strange. the strength of linked on is start we have always been able to overcome these differences and then unite around the record toss to protect on the front shoulder and that's exactly what to do today with a lot of substance a lot of important decisions whether member that we would have had disagreements in in this line since the suez crisis in the 150 s. to the iraq war in 2003 and many more. so what we proved today is that nato

delivers on substance we continue to adopt and under spawn the just implemented the biggest reinforcement of a collective defense in the generation. and you know i've been a politician for many years and politicians though very often criticised for being very good on rhetoric and then bad on substance and they do in a way it's a the opposite of the rhetoric is not always excellent but substance is perfect. i just hospice. damon wake from f t since you mentioned russia germany this morning expelled 2 russian diplomats and said there's evidence moscow is behind the murder of a former chechen rebel leader in berlin in this context how do you view french president in one on the cross calls for strategic dialogue with russia so nato is

in favor of dialogue with russia. we believe in a dialogue russia because russia is our. closest neighbor our biggest neighbor and we need to strive for a better relationship with russia. and even if we are not able to. get the best relationship with russia in the near term we need to manage a difficult relationship with high tensions with more military presence and more exercises we need to make sure that we have predictability transparency. to avoid instance accidents and if they happen to make sure that they don't spiral out of control and the un creates really dangerous situations so nato and i and we believe in dialogue with russia but we believe in what we call the dual track approach meaning the terrence the fence and dialogue as long as we are strong united and fur

then of course we can also engage in dialogue with our shop including on arms control we must avoid a new arms race that's expensive it's dangerous and that's also a reason why we so much regret the russian violation of the on their feet day. and their force we need to now look into how we can. strengthen the arms control process because we need agreements on keeping the levels of weapons down especially nuclear weapons and actual times. thank you michael peel financial times as secretary general you've spoken about arms control several times and the need to get china involved in arms control agreements can you give us a bit more detail on exactly what the ideas are that you've discussed about how china might participate in international arms control and also what about the wider

challenges that china presents what it the security challenges that you're particularly worried about on china and what was discussed today thank you nato has traditionally been focused on the soviet union and then later on russia. this is the 1st time nato leaders have an inscription on the on the on the dress together based on our analysis our our our assessments a discussion about both the opportunities there are so china connected to russia trying but also the challengers should just the idea that now 29 hours address this issue together is an important step in the right direction 2nd all. in all it's that this is not one dimensional issue there are so china the economic rights are trying are provides great economic opportunities that lifted millions of

people out of poverty but at the same time we see that china invest heavily in you more than. capabilities or a few weeks ago despoiled and you intercontinental ballistic missile able to reach europe and north america and they had this played hypersonic me size gliders and they have deployed the hundreds of intermediate range missiles that would have been violating the on their feet if china had been part of the on the treaty. so therefore we have at least we have stocked of knowledge to address how can we include its china in arms control of. relevant arms control arrangements in the future that process is not over. to be too to be too specific but at least to acknowledge stamp is one important step which leaders made today. china is part of some arrangements already for instance john as part of the one peru proof ration treaty though one of the things you have to do is to make sure

that we review that 3 to next spring and use that as the perhaps most important tool to make sure that we avoid further professional nuclear weapons in the in the world. to go to washington post in the 1st. thanks michael graham for the washington post secretary steinberg yesterday president trump was talking about taking retaliatory action against nato members who are meeting their 2 percent defense spending levels do you support taking retaliatory action against those members and did president trump talk about that inside the meeting today. and a 2nd question if the defense plans have now been approved for the baltics did you what did you offer president air to want to get turkey to agree to that thank you. as i had a good discussion with president calderon yesterday we discussed different issues

. the important thing now is that all allies agree on the new not the new but the op there to revise the defense plans for the baltic countries and and poland and it just shows that we are able to deliver on substance raible to to take positions and to move this. forward. it's not for me to turn away comment on what is an area leader said during the meeting and then also afterwards but what i can say is that all ours and all of us have today agreed their commitment to article 5 which is one for all and all form and that is an ironclad clad commitment and of course the main purpose of nato is the pursuit of peace our task is not to wage war but our task is to prevent or not to provoke

a conflict or to prevent the conflict and the best we're doing that is to have a 100 percent are in transit a commitment by behind article 5 so if one allies attacked it will trigger response from the whole alliance as long as all potential adversaries know that that's the case then why then there would be no attack then who would be able to preserve the peace and that principle article far the collective defense clause was what all are agreed to today then we all agree that we need to do more in the fan spending we recognize the norm is progress we have made but to continue to focus on the need to do more especially for those who are spending less than 2 percent and i will continue to address that and i travel around on the toes for spending less than 2 percent. to somewhat on this through. thank you this is not some i want to get from sentiment under in a fun stump. my question is about the resumption of peace talks with the taliban do

you think there should be a precondition including cease fire thank i welcome their full efforts to restart peace talks nato supported the talks. because we believe that we need a political negotiates solution in afghanistan. and the u.s. has consulted closely with all the nato allies and partners throughout the process . both for a political level but also of course are for instance of us a call assad has been many times in brussels so we are closely consulting on the efforts to. start peace talks in afghanistan and i welcome also of course the efforts to try to either have some kind of ceasefire and or at least adduction violence. still timberg there the native chief at that summit then you're north london in the area of what but i suspect the top line of

what you'll see only used papers tomorrow morning pretty much boils down to article 3 of the final communique nato saying we're facing distinct threats and challenges emanating from all strategic directions russia's aggressive actions constitute a threat to europe at length 6 security terrorism in all its forms and manifestations remains a persistent threat to us all mr stoltenberg there right at the top again signaling fair a burden sharing i.e. the money he was talking about european allies members of nato coming up with a $130000000000.00 u.s. dollars and that will in the next few years go up to $400000000000.00 making nato stronger he was also talking about something he termed a reflection process will get into that in just a 2nd with james bays our diplomatic editor let's just 1st though show you what's what else has been going on there because donald trump the u.s. president has been meeting angela merkel there we are that's been going on the

periphery of the photo opportunity of the formal lunch that they've been having there mr trump saying germany is and i quote a little under in it's nato contributions and he said they were going to be talking about it mr trump also saying no to a stronger than it's ever been before he said of justin trudeau the canadian prime minister trudeau is a nice guy but probably upset that mr trump called him out for nato contributions so we're getting some meat on the bones of the debates going on behind closed doors mr trump saying every country i've spoken to about half way that's of course the chinese tech giant is not going forward with the company there are serious questions being asked about huawei and their technological involvement in u.s. safety u.s. tech safety u.s. cyber safety and also. questions being asked about huawei when it comes to the forward direction the moving forward direction of what the u.k.

does with its future technological requirements when it comes to buying in that kind of tech at a reasonable price from or let's bring in our diplomatic editor james bays so james what's your main takeaway so far. well it's clear that he's trying to paper over the differences that we've seen very much in the open since nato leaders have been here some even questioning whether some in nato would follow article 5 which is the central part of the north atlantic treaty that was signed just over 70 years ago which says if any nato nation is attacked then all the others come to the defense but he said no there yes there's a situation where the rhetoric is not excellent but the substance is and he made it clear these are 29 different countries so there are bound to be disagreements he i think was focusing on new threats because i think that scenario unlike the burden

sharing the military budgets where there's been such disagreement that they can perhaps talk about things that they can agree on talking about the rise of china the challenges of the rise of china he was talking about another demain for nato in addition to land air sea and side but now space as well focusing on these things i think to try and steer us away from some of the differences now i think what was interesting is we didn't get a very clear answer on what happened with regard to president earlier one remember president made it clear he was going to block further plans to protect the baltic states and poland because the rest of nato didn't really agree with him on syria in the definition of a terrorist was certain he said they were moving forward with the protection of the baltic states and poland were already there are for battle groups from nato but not

really clear in his answer whether there's been a total resolution of that dispute with president as you say peter president has been meeting president trump just before he met the german chancellor and what we're going to get now in the next couple of hours. ours is all the different leaders speaking to the national press so i think more details are going to emerge in the coffin of news conferences in the next couple of us ok james will come back i'm sure in the next half hour or so we were talking just before we went to that news conference to our senior political analyst marwan bashar mo and that was interesting wasn't it mr stoltenberg asked very clearly very specifically about the relationship with turkey and he restated article 5. yes i think much of what the secretary general of nato has been saying has been sort of convoluted because he's in a position that should not be envied there's a lot of the agreements within the alliance they're trying to sort of iron

a lot of the issues apparently they sort of succeeded partially. when the brits the french and the germans met with the turks over syria certainly a president mccrone who is the sort of most angry about turkey seems to say look we've agreed on combating terror we've agreed on the question of the refugees and the political process forward in syria and yet there are issues still ambiguous and issues still needs to be. resolved so order norle on the question of turkey i think there seems to have been some progress that killing the immediate issues i'm not sure if we are tackling the bigger issue that net there is no longer what it used to be doing in the cold war that france and turkey and others want to be a pro active that the united states is probably less active than used to be less dominant then it was before and hence you have these multi-polar heads trying to

shape the future of nato and that's what the 2nd general is dealing with is need so do you think mowen serious question is nato fit for purpose because i mean nato is calling card is man a woman get some plane flies plane drops a bomb this piece someplace that's basically what one needs it was set up to do what it does and yet just at the end of their final communique they're talking about cyber security they're talking about hybrid threats do you get the feeling that they're still playing catch up but absolutely peter look this has been traditional sort of conventional slash as the 2nd general and by the way as the final communique and it's important for us to talk a little about what the final communicate self is that this is a conventional slash nuclear alliance. so it's supposed to be fighting in the battlefield as it were as you just described it but a lot of the new threats and new underline you know that's the keyword in fact cyber our urban our space and so on so forth and it's not clear that that that it

all lines is suitable and that's why once again i go back to the issue of the budget it's really not about $400000000000.00 plus it is as but as that mccrone said what for how what are we going to spend it on and again that's why it's important here is underlining of sticking by his statement about brain dead and brain dead by the way it's probably had to do with washington brand that in terms of the leadership of that into alliance and how committed it is to reshaping reforming rebuilding of the alliance to face the new challenges but as i said with a the communique and what we just heard from the secretary general there's a lot of convoluted language so you would say you would hear we are a defensive alliance but what the secular job described right at the opening was sounded to be not exactly very defensive this whole projection of force united

among the members with frigates and and planes and air for aircraft carriers and so on and so forth and then of course there's the big issue of china now you know one thing to confront the russian next door and maybe you know tow the latvians and don't worry if they were attacked we will defend you i'm not sure that they would but anyway what to do about china and china's development of new missiles that will reach the west that's a whole other ball game and my sense and here is what i think we need to go beyond the description and to do a little deeper analysis of what this all means because i'm afraid what the 2nd general is describing is military buildup. this is not this argument this is build up $400000000000.00 or one or for all and one for all 4 why don't one for all and so on so forth china's a threat cyber threat russia terror and and so on so forth and the sense i

get and when he was asked by the financial times correspondent what are you doing about it china and software i would have loved to hear an answer like look we're going to be issuing invitations to beijing and moscow to sit down and figure out how we're going to avoid another world war how we're going to reach some disarmament agreements how we're going to take take us away from arms race to something completely different but the language we're hearing and a lot of it inspired by president trumps pressure for everyone to build up not down their defense budgets i think is lead in leading to arms race is leading to more tensions with russia china and so on so forth and that does not necessarily bode well for international security do you think mowen that those gears will continue to rub up against each other in the wrong way in as much as just in the past few minutes stilton burgas also saying look the russian s. 400 system can never be integrated if it was the russians using it fine nobody

cares but it's the turks who are using it and on top of that everyone says the same thing about nato needs who works at its best when america leads but surely now america doesn't actually want to lead it wants to do something else. absolutely and just so that we remind our viewers around the world about this very issue of tension with turkey regardless what one thinks of the turkish leaders show president to do on what is clear is what but as then trump admitted yesterday is that turkey did search for american weapons notably the patriots batteries in order to have a system a defense against missiles on so forth but they were turned down by washington the they looked for moscow for the s 400 because they were let down by their own nato allies for some 18 years now they've had

a war next door that led to the death of hundreds of thousands this placements of 1000003 and a half of 1000000 of them syrians refugees in turkey and what has nato or what has europe what has the west done for turkey very very little so president basically was proactive unlike you know his predecessors saying look we can't do this we cannot work like this i cannot be at the receiving end of diktats from washington berlin and paris why we hear oh i have a lot of feet and hands in the fire in the middle east so i think trying to reach an understanding and as i summarize it from president macro on the questions of terror and combating terror whether it is eisel or pick a k. or whatever on the question of refugees answer to the on political solutions in the middle east are all very important for nato and for nato members to be tackling along with the ok we'll leave it them alone thank you so much.

well as donald trump attends that nato meeting in london back across the atlantic his political rivals of late what they say is quote overwhelming evidence of the u.s. president's misconduct in office the 300 page impeachment report says mr trump used his power to seek help from ukraine's president to benefit his reelection bid hydrogen castro starts our coverage from washington. house intelligence chairman adam schiff presentation of his committee's report on donald trump offered little more than was already known but it's a key moment in what could be the impeachment of a president this is not about ukraine this is about our democracy this is about our national security this is about whether the american people have a right to expect that the president i states is going to act of their interests

with their security in mind and not for some illicit personal or political reason so americans should care deeply about where the president and states is betraying their trust in him betraying that old foot he took to the constitution to protect our country and defend its institutions according to the report president trump solicited interference from ukraine to benefit his reelection conditioning a white house visit for the ukrainian president and $400000000.00 in u.s. military aid on a public statement that ukraine would investigate joe biden's family for alleged corruption trump denies he did anything wrong a white house spokeswoman released a statement saying at the end of a one sided sham process chairmanship and the democrats utterly failed to produce any evidence of wrongdoing by president trump this report reflects nothing more than their frustrations chairmanships report reads like the ramblings of a basement blogger straining to prove something when there is evidence of nothing

the evidence came from 17 witnesses including state department and white house insiders who testified trump ran a shadow campaign that undermined official u.s. foreign policy toward ukraine there was also the partial transcript of a phone call in which trump asked ukraine's president for a favor the biden investigation republicans rebutted with their own report offering a very different reading of the facts they say the testimonies are here say that the phone call was perfect and that the democrats' efforts to. and he's the president are an attack on a duly elected leader tomorrow provides nothing except a dreary drowsy appraisal for this country to watch as the impeachment process slowly drags on with no direction no focus because they're having one big problem and the big problem is the president did nothing wrong and they can't prove the process will now shift to the house judiciary committee which will draft articles

of impeachment likely to focus on abuse of power and obstruction of congress americans have been evenly divided on whether to impeach and remove trump from office both political parties are claiming to be protecting american democracy how do you know castro al-jazeera washington ok let's bring in tom ginsburg he is he's a leo spitz professor at the university of chicago law school and co-author of how to save a constitutional democracy he joins us live from chicago tom ginsburg have they so far in your mind monies to capture the the arc of donald trump's alleged wrongdoing . yes i think the democrats have done what they've set out to do which is to try to lay out a very clear simple message for what they think he's done wrong which of course is to misuse foreign policy powers for his own personal partisan gain doesn't seem to be changing the needle in terms of donald trump's core supporters the polls seem to

be just about where they've always been and so we continue to go forward in this very intense what looks like to be a quite a partisan brawl in the judiciary committee and going forward from there ok going forward how does this translate if indeed it does translate into being an atlas towards somebody or a group of people saying yes we are going for a full formal impeachment what 11 or 12 months towards the end of this presidency when he's right for reelection. right so the process is that the judiciary committee now will have hearings and will draft if they find wrongdoing articles of impeachment i think everyone expects that to happen on a party line vote i also expected to be quite a partisan brawl the procedures in the judiciary committee are different than those in the intelligence committee is going to be much more open the minority party can call witnesses so we're going to see both sides sort of appealing to the crowd if

you will then the process is that it moves to the whole house floor and each article of impeachment if there are multiple articles will be debated there and again i think this is a bit like a television show where you kind of know what the next few episodes are going to look like that there's going to be a probably a highly partisan vote to impeach the president but then of course it would move to the senate and the senate there's virtually larry little indication that any of the republican senators would cross over at this point because the president's base is so strong is there something of a disconnect here between the if that happens of course i punny for interrupting you but is there a disconnect here between what the central allegation is and how people like you and i and people around the world understand it which is basically the allegation that donald trump lent on the president of ukraine to get some on joe biden and joe biden's son hunter biden on the one hand and yet when that comes down to the

question the question one of the key questions that people will have to vote on is is donald trump an imminent clear and present threat to american security and that's a difficult one to tick the box on when you kind of offset that against what we've been hearing about over the past couple of months now. right of course the standard in the constitution is pretty vague it's treason bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors and as it's come down over the many impeachments we've had over 200 something years it's really very much a political standard as you suggest so that you know while we use legal language and there may be evidence of actual violation of a criminal statute here is that enough to warrant removal that's a separate and very political question what's novel in this particular instance is that as you say it is coming up right against

a presidential election cycle which is very much already begun and so we have the real possibility that the final episode of the show as i put it is going to be in november of 2020 the voters are ultimately going to have the choice on whether to keep donald trump in or not if they decide that they want to keep him in not withstanding a vote of impeachment and a failure to remove by the senate if donald trump wins reelection my research suggests that that's never happened in a presidential democracy with that many impeachments around the world many removals even some cases where you have impeachment without removal but have a president then win reelection that's really uncharted territory and so the united states may be entering a very new and. unusual phase of our constitutional democracy perhaps a dangerous one ok mr ginsburg live in chicago for us thank you so much. well staying with american politics a prominent american lobbyist has been accused of conspiring to conceal the source

of millions of dollars in donations to hillary clinton's 2016 presidential campaign george nader who worked for the go between for donald trump's top advisers and various middle eastern interests as one of 8 people facing campaign finance charges the u.s. lebanese businessman was allegedly involved in a scheme to gain influence in clinton's circle al-jazeera white house correspondent kimberly helka joins us live from washington so the other side of the political divide kimberly but significant accusations and claims here. yeah uncovered unsealed on tuesday in the department of justice filing this case we know that george nader is now awaiting trial in federal court in alexandria virginia i believe is where it's typically is we have no that is for ginia and that's usually where it's held this is really significant for a number of reasons let's start with reason number one this was a gentleman who had had ties to trump's presidential campaign but also continued to

have ties as trump became president trump even visited the white house we're told several times in 2017 but even more interesting are his ties and who he actively lobbied for and that is the crown prince of saudi arabia mohammed bin solomon as well as the crown prince of u.a.e. . the crown prince mohammed bin zayed so this is significant on that level but then also the charges against this individual are certainly know were the in and of themselves the fact that he was raising money making these donations we're told up to 3 and a half $1000000.00 that this was something that was then sort of known as a straw donor making these contributions in concert with 7 other individuals so this is something that is illegal under u.s. law you cannot sort of make these kind of anonymous donations or take other

people's money to make these donations which is what the department of justice is alleging the scheme was all about along with a man by the name of mad kosha and we're told that even sort of high profile celebrities were involved in this in participating in some of these fundraisers hollywood celebrities sports figures even from the basketball world and this is not the 1st time that george nater has had brushes with the law we're told he also has been charged back in july with child pornography charges and he has pled not guilty to those he was charged again with similar charges back in 1000. 91 so when you look at the totality of this not only is this sort of an alleged illegal scheme but he's been charged as well with falsifying records the enormity of it certainly registering on the radar here in washington and also noteworthy of the fact that not only was he trying to prey favor with the clinton campaign but he was seen as a star witness in that case against donald trump put under the microscope whether

or not there was in fact a cooling collusion between donald trump's presidential campaign and russia with that probe under robert mueller the special counsel such a complex story can be thank you so much for breaking it down for us to appreciate to talk she said you're welcome staying in the states still one of the biggest u.s. airlines has chosen not boeing for its latest fleet of aircraft united airlines is buying 50 aircraft to replace its aging fleets of boeing's struggling for orders since the grounding of the new 737 max boeing that is falling 2 precious in 5 months 346 passengers and crew were killed in indonesia and ethiopia let's talk to alex meszaros a friend of al-jazeera he joins on skype from boston of course the aviation analyst alex what does this mean for boeing what does it mean for us. and up a new piece of all of this is a significant order from united airlines is an order for 50 of the world's longest range single jet which is yet to enter service it's known as the a 321 x.

an r x m r given the range and basically it's a long range variant of the single object that already exists today that you may have flown on a short who asked for 23 hours in europe for example that plane is going long and why this is significant specifically for you not it would that is that united have placed an order to replace that boeing 757 that aging an older boeing jet with at us and of course in the aviation world no airline manufacturer wants the craft that they have provided to an airline for so long to be replaced by its competitor and boeing where in the race to be able to offer to the world a new aircraft that would replace a 757 however plans are on hold as the $77.00 max grounding continues ok if i was going to buy this or buy the boeing that they're not buying what would it come soon is that when we're talking about that decision making process. well the boeing that

united are not buying actually doesn't exist yet boeing has not announced anything about the sec rot and the reason why they haven't announced then is in light of those 2737 max incidents so while the aircraft manufacturer in the u.s. is busy grappling with the largest crisis it has seen in decades and are lapping up the orders and that's exactly what they have been able to do with the accent are this is an aircraft that would be able to fly out very easily from the u.s. to europe with sure to win a fission seat so it's good for the environment good for economics and of course good for airports for boeing any u.s. airline that orders a bus in this capacity that's significant and that's a huge loss is it also good does it improve the optics surrounding abbas as a company you know because some of those big missed middle eastern carriers they're kind of clearly signaling that look the a $380.00 was a lovely airplane the pilots like it the cabin crew like it more importantly the passengers adore the a $380.00 but the shelf life is coming to an end we're thinking about you know

getting rid of them in 567 years time exactly really visitation themselves well by recognizing that yes they did make some mistakes with the a 380 it is as in july but i know you yourself are a very big fan of the a 380 s. and mine but ultimately they have been able to reposition the company to offer the market the aircraft they need which they say is the age difference one x. and are an aircraft that can fly part with suitable efficiencies and unite to its endorsement we don't have the is a strong endorsement from the u.s. it's not good news for boeing it's better for us optics of course but boeing should be back in the race once they are able to overcome to 707 max prices it's just me as an a 3 x. thank you so much for the an internet has not element taught us and take it thank you. we move on more news of course if you want to on the web site al jazeera dot com iraqi security forces have arrested a deputy of the late ice

a leader abu bakar baghdadi a how do on was captured during an overnight raid and how we just city that's in the province of kirkuk baghdad he killed himself or surrounded by u.s. forces in october china's condemning a u.s. bill demanding the closure of so-called reeducation camps for weaker muslims the u.s. legislation still to be passed by the senate also threaten sanctions against communist party officials blamed for abuse more than a 1000000 of the muslim minority are imprisoned as part of a long running government crackdown in the northwestern region of jhon jiang adrian brown has the story at 1st china's government denied their existence but then last year state television released pictures of what were described as vocational training centers where ethnic muslim week is a learning new skills in the remote western region of shin jang human rights groups

estimate that more than a 1000000 we were being held in what they describe as a 21st century good leg where inmates are being brainwashed and forced to renounce their religion. now the united states house of representatives has decided it's time to act it voted overwhelmingly to call on president donald trump to apply sanctions against senior chinese officials the bill which refers to arbitrate detention torture and harassment still needs to be approved by the senate and the president before it becomes on wednesday china's foreign ministry spokesperson read a lengthy prepared statement accusing washington of a random smear urging it to correct its mistake made. the relevant bill to liberally slanders the human rights situation in china and jang and blackens china's efforts to eliminate extremism and crackdown on terrorism it will definitely have an effect on china a u.s. cooperation in important areas it is just

a week since trump signed another contentious bill into law that is also raising tensions between washington and beijing on another front hong kong where antigovernment protests are almost into this 6 month the hong kong human rights and democracy act has been welcomed by protesters there because it means the city special trading status with the u.s. will now be dependent on a yearly review the law could also be used to punish officials deemed to be suppressing freedoms in retaliation china has halted american warship visits to hong kong and sanctioned several non-governmental organizations it is unclear what all this means for the other big point of friction between china and the united states right now their trade war analysts warn that the odds on there being an agreement before christmas have now been lowered after president from war and there was now no deadline for a deal and on wednesday china also said it doesn't have

a deadline for a deal now either adrian brown al-jazeera homegrown. in australia the government says repeal the law. all that allowed a sick asylum seeker in its offshore detention centers to be flown to australia for medical treatment about 180 refugee use have been transferred to australian hospitals under the so-called medivac law since it was approved in february the government said this posed national security risks fears anyone caught trying to reach australia without documentation by boat has been sent to remote pacific prison camps and poppy new guinea and now to about 460 people being held there more news than if you want it on the website al jazeera dot com is the address you need you can tweet me at your back i'm at peta they'll be one when we come back in about 2 minutes we'll have all the latest international world news for including a live update from the nato summit in london to see.

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