donald trump is impeached he'll face a trial in the senate after the democrat controlled house of representatives indicted him on 2 charges. but this fighting talk from the president he attacks his political rivals at a campaign rally. grazie nancy pelosi says house democrats. have. any shame and it really is it's a disgrace. this is al jazeera live. judges to the video for dozens accused of plotting the

philippines worst political move. at a deal between 2 companies to form the world's 4th largest auto but there are doubts some brands will survive. the 45th president of the united states donald trump has been impeached members of the house voted mostly along partisan lines to formally charge him with abuse of power and obstruction of congress trumps accused of withholding to ukraine but pressuring it into investigating his democratic political rival joe biden the case will now go to a republican controlled senate for trial next month. a great day for the constitution of the united states a sad one for america that the president's reckless activities the sesa tape of

our having to introduce articles of impeachment and so i do this this day this fall as something that we did to honor the vision of our founders to establish a republic the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform to defend our democracy and that republic and the aspirations of our children that they will always live in a democracy and that we have tried to do everything we can to make sure what that is their reality. auditory test drive explains now how politicians in washington are deeply divided over the. it's been 2 months of this impeachment inquiry but really it's been 2 plus years of this partisan big tree all that's all climax at these historic growth that we just saw which formally impeach is president trump and we saw these votes on the 2 articles of impeachment unfold almost clearly and

soley along partisan lines all but 4 democrats in the house of representatives voting to approve the the impeachment of trump there was one independent who sided with those democrats in approving the articles and then every single one of the republican members in the house voted against the impeachment not a surprise at all given all the partisan arguments that we've seen unfold today as well as through these last few weeks and those arguments have been pretty much the same a repetition republican saying that this entire impeachment process is illegitimate that democrats are pursuing it out of partisan distaste for trump and for his policies while democrats are framing this in historic terms saying that the founders of this country had envisioned using this tool of impeachment to hold

those who who occupy the highest offices in the land to account when they be tray their country and they're saying donald trump did that when he requested that ukraine interfere with the upcoming presidential elections and while the members of the house were voting donald trump was beating his supporters at a campaign rally in michigan he called the impeachment a political suicide by the democrats. to prove that she said it. crazy then she follows she's house democrats. with any journal of market share and it really is it's a disgrace. you are the ones interfering in america's elections you are the one subverting america's democracy we did nothing wrong nothing whatsoever this is really just an excuse. you are the 100 struck the just.

you are the ones bringing pain and suffering to our republic for your own selfish personal political and partisan. john hendren was at that rally he said this update . the president was clearly energized by this impeachment process and by the crowd that was here in battle creek michigan spoke for by my count a little 100 to howard dean the amount of the 3rd term that according to is preparing for market anyway about a 3rd of that was on impeachment but you heard the quote there earlier where he said the democrats are branded themselves with the market shame he said they are the ones who are endangering democracy and he gets energized by these crowds and he continues on even when a little more than 30 minutes longer than he was expected to speak and he was received in her words to seattle the latest was a crowd of many thousands there by one count about 18000 some of them were waiting outside along with a very small number of protesters but the president was not at all now he offered

no apologies there was no mayans and he made it clear that he's going to seek reelection in the 2020 minute do that he needs the help of states mind michigan michigan is one of those states the swing states 3 won by a very narrow margin no republican in done that since george herbert walker bush in 1988 and trump won with 47.3 percent of the vote to hillary clinton's 47 percent of those about 50000 votes and that is about the number who vote right here in this county so he's in one of those places that he needs to win in 2020 and going to look at the ground that is here you certainly got a lot of supporters here. well earlier i spoke to michael fauntroy who's an associate professor of political science at howard university and he thinks the impeachment will cost a shot on trump's reelection cap one thing. each president his face with significant opposition that in some of the most virulent of those opponents would

call for impeachment but nobody really takes that to be particularly serious but with president trump we have a completely different ballgame so to speak and his actions throughout his presidency and most particularly as those included in the articles of impeachment well while not it inevitable is certainly not surprise he might be a quid and quite frankly i think it's going to be very difficult to get 20 republicans to cross over and vote with the democrats you have to have 67 votes and 100 see senate 2 thirds majority to to remove someone who's been impeached and quite frankly that's not likely to happen but the reality is though that. it will certainly send a message but more importantly it is going to have a significant impact on president trump's reelection campaign he is conducting him self as if this doesn't matter politically but it does and it will be

a cloud over him is going to make it more difficult for him to wear win reelection even if this assuming of course that the senate does go to a quick study of emergency has been declared in new south wales with extreme heat and strong winds expected to fan dozens of uncontrolled bush 555 is a bad thing around 100 blazes across a stright is most populous state more than huff aroud of control temperatures are expected to exceed 40 degrees celsius over the coming days and residents have been warned to stay a list the state's capital city has been blanketed by ahead as hazardous smoke from the fires to several months protest is a calling for stronger action on climate change jessica washington is that those demonstrations and sent us this report. outside of the prime minister's residence in sydney this group of young protesters has gathered they say that the government isn't taking what they're calling

a climate emergency seriously and although there's a festival atmosphere here with music and games they say their message is serious the prime minister himself isn't here to hear their message he's on holiday but as we speak. across with at least 100 fires burning in most populous state. across the country there are heat waves across the country and they're not doing anything about it so it's terrifying as both a doctor and a member of the community waking up to a city blanketed in smart knowing that i'm going to go to work to an emergency department that's already overrun. outside of this crisis and if crisis and then knowing that we're going to have more people turning up in a smoky haze has hung over sydney for months now and the 7 day state of emergency is now in place authorities say heat wave conditions could exacerbate the situation and there are concerns of fire burning to the north could join up with further

south and that could create one. difficult for authorities. in the philippines top court has found members of a powerful political family and their associates guilty on multiple counts of murder for a mass killing in 2050 people many of the journalists were killed when a convoy of vehicles was attacked in the southern province of maguindanao around 100 people have been. many of them linked to a politically powerful family in the province the mass killing. for journalists in history. joins us on the phone from the take us through this. incredibly powerful political family and those associated with. can you tell me how trying to quit if you can actually remember their promises and it's. the point of the critics are in the members of one political judge felt to be

. sceptical to make. a little difference if they also demanded to have the victims disappointed in our current can depend. on the company. and the board i'm going to say it's very likely and i think people will they say that. finally the variable. me having problems i'm sorry john we're still having problems with the line to you there miller we'll have to leave it there still ahead on al-jazeera muslim leaders from around the world confront the challenges facing their community. and one of the world's most watched football matches disrupted by protesters in barcelona.

how the weather is desperately trying to quieten down across the middle east we've had some very heavy rain flooding rains falls on the west weather now in the process of pulling across iran towards afghanistan towards pakistan process guys will gradually come back in because there is that cloud then as we go on through thursday temperatures just about getting up to 26 celsius in karachi father will couple tops off around 10 degrees in a couple agrees more than that for tara he says out of the bad loss he fought in try as we go through thursday it's going to friday get more sunshine and by rate is around 20 degrees celsius come further south into the robin peninsula a lot of dry weather and sun side eventually pushing through but it's going to be quite breezy. all when set against a 22 celsius here in doha possibility of lifting dust and sand the west the weather map pulling away easing out of iran and pushing its way east was as we go on into

friday as you see lottie settle and sunny people clouds coming back in suez somalia so you must you want to see showers just rolling in either the next couple days or certainly something to watch out for showers continuing into north of madagascar it's in all the areas of medicine bake pushing up into towns and there but to the west south of that it's lotty fine and sunny. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of all the lives. of the stories. providing the temps into someone else's well out. the door on new day for. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. and witness on al-jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera here's a reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump has been impeached members of the house formally charged him with abuse of power and obstruction of congress trump will now face a senate trial next month trump called those impeachment proceedings an attempted truth he says it's a desperate if it by the democrats to win the 2020 election. a top court in the philippines has filed my. because of a powerful political family and their associates guilty on multiple counts of murder for a mass killing in 2958 people many of them journalists were murdered with

a convoy of vehicles were stacked in the southern province of maguindanao it was the deadliest single attack on journalists in history. muslim leaders are meeting in the malaysian capital to tackle the biggest issues facing the islamic world regional and ethnic conflicts like those in syria and kashmir a top of the agenda delegates will also work to combat islamophobia but his prime minister defended the summit which is being criticized by leaders from some other muslim nations yes. the muslims and their countries are in this state of crisis help helpless and on with the all of these creed religion men to be good for men kind it is for these reasons that the summit meeting is organized at the very least through our discussions we mean fine but when wrong we mean even fine

solutions if not to end these get this fees at least to a week and the slamming will. of the need to recognize the problems and their causes. let's go live now. in kuala lumpur just listening there to my dear but. saying that he sees the islamic world in a state of crisis is that being the common theme there at this at this summit. that's right all leaders who spoke in this opening session today they they talked about the deep crisis in which the world has been suffering for decades and basically they came here to the summits and they said that they need a new approach they need not to be just giving reactions to issues walls and

problems but they also have to put a long term program based on development the theme of this summit is the role of development in achieving national sovereignty so these countries malaysia turkey iran qatar they are considered among the most successful countries in terms of governance governance in terms of how they manage their affairs and so on and they think that if they put their act together along with any other countries that want to come on board then probably they can present to the islamic world something different from the long history of useless in their words of some analysts and in the words of some of the leaders those useless meetings and summits which only talk and not act so this time around these leaders are talking about measurable steps concrete steps looking for solutions not necessarily finding them immediately but

taking the the islamic world on the right path to words resolving those problems and for more on this i would like to welcome our guest in this show mr what his the president of the shark forum so about west different about this summit we have seen so many summits in the last several decades what is. it's not the sun it is about we didn't we we did not get from the previous ones it gives me 2 major indications number one there is a serious acknowledgement that this chemical is going through mess of transformation and is going through a major crisis this is number one that is related to civil wars confrontations refugees islamophobia against muslim minorities in various parts of the wall and also the 2nd point is that that parent mccain is getting the muslim world to work together which is represented in the i.o.c. which is put additional leader of a good organization of some accommodation or is he is not capable of living up to

hand in these issues and the crisis that the muslim world is going through this is why mahathir mohamad combined with the 3 representatives or leaders of qatar and turkey have come together in order to finish it something to talk about now is not the clear yet how lists would be formalized what can or 'd is going to happen but they finitely whatever has happened to the could become a beginning of 3 getting a new spirit within this can be called trying to activate this all aging system that has not been able to really live up to the expectations of the muslims across the world so basically we're talking about an alternative to the oh i see you and the patently this initiative is based on the criticism against you i see that it is inefficient and that's probably is the reason why countries like saudi arabia are

upset about it because they have been the as a people have a problem of star there so that he has been invited to participate in the summit beside their own of course but sara very very few is because the issue is i think this is what we fear right know that this are all these fee more noble over the presentation of this war. it's their platform that they should design and they should know how to handle so all i see basically is not but an organization minute it by a sort of the agent that this is why a lot of countries feel that it isn't love that i become isn't to handle the crisis that this was going through this is why the sort of this fear that this could be and although everyone said this is not an alternative we are just trying to raise our voices and try to find a way and you are most welcome a service to join us but the servants would like the leadership of it. to be invited for a thank you so about how far. president of

a shot for him so basically as he said this has caused some divisions within the islamic world at least it is about or different differences of opinion about this summit saudi arabia leading. opposition to it and saying it shouldn't have been organized in the 1st place because it is going to split the islamic world malaysia on the other hand the other leaders coming here they think that this is just just another contribution by a few people and they think that. beginning small and this initiative is helpful because when you have all the leaders of these moderate well it can only create more divisions and create an auction so they think that they should start small and if they have something to present maybe they will take it to the oh i see in the future baba thank you live there for a while. at least $23.00 civilians have been killed in the latest round of russian attacks on rebel held areas of northwestern syria shelling and is strikes in

problems have escalated in recent weeks president bashar al assad's government appears to be preparing for a ground offensive to secure the main highway linking the capital damascus with the northern city of aleppo. lebanon's former prime minister has announced for the 2nd time that he does not want to lead a new government saad hariri resigned in october after weeks of antigovernment demonstrations on monday the president planned to hold consultations with political parties to decide on a new prime minister but that's been postponed until thursday people have been voicing their anger against corruption and sectarian politics governing the country for decades bolivia's attorney general has ordered the arrest of former president this on charges of sedition and terrorism morale has resigned of left bolivia last month after protests and allegations of irregularities in presidential elections he fled to mexico but has since flown to argentina where he's been granted asylum he

says the protests were part of a right wing coup a latin america editor lucy newman is in capital santiago she says if a morale is wants to return to believe. former bolivian president. may be in self-imposed exile in argentina but not for long appeals has anything to say about it and that seems to explain why an arrest warrant has been issued against him not so much to put him in prison but rather to keep him from returning home. is still seen by his opponents as the biggest threat to stability ahead of new elections the date for which has still not been set he's being accused of stirring up undressed and encouraging supporters to set up roadblocks to cut off supplies of food and fuel to the capital ever since he left the country just a few days ago interim president and warned that if we tried to return he would have to face trial for terrorism and sedition. responded less than 24 hours before

the actual arrest warrant was signed. i should be allowed to go back to believe i'm not a presidential candidate nor will i be in these elections enough of this political persecution what alice was named campaign manager for his party's candidate whoever it may be at 1st it was presumed that this would be from a far but now he is challenging all attempts to keep him out and is vowing to return home to lead his party the m.e.'s in the election campaign and if he succeeds that will almost certainly lead to new outbreak of political violence in bolivia. mexico's president says he's committed to tackling the country's rising murder right more than 31000 people have been killed in the country so far this year putting 2019 on track to be the deadliest year yet. more from mexico city. government officials from across mexico met for an end of the year security

conference to assess progress made on curbing back violence that's affecting the country this is the 2nd time that president life is what i thought has met with regional leaders for this type of security conference now 2900 is on track to becoming a record setting year for violence with more than 31000 homicides recorded already so far this year it's not in this one than this bit don't ows is a relationship based on respect we have been able to work together and we will continue to do so we are obligated to work in conjunction towards guaranteeing peace and tranquility in. mexico's minister for security and civil protection and phone so that a so called on more cooperation between federal state and local authorities saying that solving the problem of widespread violence needs to be more efficiently delegated only. those we can take of this problem to give them or h. fail separately and no one should back away from the task one of the biggest policy

changes in 2019 to combat violence in mexico has been the creation of a national guard now government officials say they plan to double the number of national guards troops by the year 2021. catalan suppresses protesters have disrupted one of the world's most watched football matches by throwing inflatable balls onto the pitch there was a heavy police presence around the game between bus alona and real madrid known as 0 class ago as protesters used the global t.v. audience to broadcast their calls for independence to has more from boss alona and i know now that clashes between the police and demonstrators came even before the match started and the violence and anger grew as the evening progressed the protest was coordinated by an organization calling itself democratic tsunami demanding independence but catalonia. they estimated 25000 demonstrators answered their call on social media to stage

a rally at the el classico match the original game was cancelled in october following violent clashes on the jailing of catalan leaders. barricades have now been set alight around the stadium as the match and its final few minutes at least been trying to avoid confrontations but the the pace of the rot the pace of the trouble is now picking up. the game between barcelona and real madrid was watched by a worldwide audience was an audience that demonstrators were also trying to reach to publicize their call. the catalan question is still causing turmoil in spanish politics the socialist prime minister petro sanchez is talking to the m.p.'s in the new parliament hoping to gain their support to form a coalition government but the way these clashes played out around the stadium overnight shows the crisis is still stubbornly refusing to be defused and

casualties a growing. david chase to al-jazeera barcelona. 2 of the world's leading the joining forces in a deal which is to reshape the industry. and pozo own a p.s.a. have reached a deal to help them cope with big changes to the auto industry they've baka has more from london. as a new driving force in the old so industry italian american company feet chrysler and french firm p.s.a. the maker of persia used to be rivals but after months of talks ever agreed on a $50000000000.00 merger the firm's expected to produce $8700000.00 vehicles a year making it the world's 4th largest automaker ahead of ford and general motors . p.s.a. false colors to virus will become the new chief executive of the firm. the newly combined company will have 14 different makes a vehicle including persia citron mayo and jeep big given the large number of

overlapping brands the overall downturn in global sales and the cost of researching and developing electric and driverless cars there's a risk some of these brands won't survive p.s.a. in fear at chrysler aiming for annual cost savings of $4000000000.00 by combining technology the company say there are no plans to close factories but britain's biggest union is already seeking guarantees for the vauxhall brand and analysts say jobs could be at risk the numbers for me down and up they have a significant learning curve if you like in terms of cutting their emissions and investing in electric vehicles the meeting climate targets while at the same time only making savings of 3700000000 euros they're going to need to know for a lot more investment to address those challenges the entire industry is steering rapidly away from fossil fuels car makers such as tesla have been leading the pack

with a new generation of affordable electric vehicles other big name brands are quickly catching up but it takes expensive research and development to remain competitive the car industry is at a crossroads p.s.a. of chrysler hope the alliance will help them handle a certain to rain the park al jazeera london. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories u.s. president donald trump has been impeached after an 8 hour debate members of the house formally charged him with abuse of power and obstruction of congress he will now face a senate trial next month. a great day for the constitution of the united states a fad one for america that the president's reckless activities etc take off our having to introduce our open. i do this if

this all a something that we did to honor the vision of our founders to establish for the public the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform to defend our democracy and that republic and the aspirations of our children that they were old war and democracy and that we have tried to do everything we can can make sure. there will be. trouble call those impeachment proceedings and attempted to he says it's a desperate effort by the democrats to win the 2020 election but you are the ones interfering in america's elections you are the one subverting america is the marker see we did nothing wrong nothing whatsoever this is just an excuse. you are the ones obstructing justice. you are the ones bringing suffering to our

republic for your own selfish personal political and partisan. a top court in the philippines has found members of a powerful political family and their associates duty on multiple counts of murder for a mess 2 in 10 years ago 58 people many of them journalists were murdered when their convoy of vehicles was attacked in the southern province of maguindanao. bolivia's attorney general has ordered the arrest of former president evo morales on charges of sedition and terrorism for all those resigned and left bolivia in november after protests of allegations of irregularities in the presidential election he fled to mexico but has since flown to watch until you know where he's been granted asylum those are the headlines and news continues here on al-jazeera after witness. from the ancient emperors to come see this. age old philosophies and

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