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we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. just an hour remains before the u.k. officially leaves the european union brics its supporters rally outside parliament . are intended says al-jazeera live from london also coming up. a pivotal moment in the donald trump impeachment trial a senators get ready to vote on whether to allow further witness testimony. more restrictions on travel to china as the number of coronavirus cases worldwide passes those of the 2003 sars epidemic. and hot weather and strong winds threaten to fuel a major bushfire the australia's capital a state of emergency is declared. a
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low less than an hour britain will officially leave the european union ending 47 years of membership is small a 3 and a half years since the u.k. voted for brics it the prime minister boris johnson says it will be a moment of national renewal government buildings in the capital have been lit up in red white and blue of the union flag a countdown clock will soon be projected at number 10 downing street. and set the clock that you are seeing just the outside downing street and now let's take you to parliament square a celebration party is being held it's been a day of jubilation for many and sadness for all those. reports on the events so far. never before has the e.u. had to do this it hopes it never will have to again experience only an expansion
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now the e.u. is taking down a member's flag because it is leaving. and looking prepared to leave the e.u. a small party thrown in central london by handful of bricks its most ardent supporters really great to have that that had been smiling about the fact that we can do no good to a future hopefully this country will prosper you know that we have a chain around all that. much of the country is more muted yes this is a moments of huge national significance but little actually changes until the transition period finishes at the end of the year and it's not yet clear where the country is heading this is the man currently in the u.k. is driving seat before he got the job many thought it was a natural fit the stretch to. put in december boris johnson won a crushing landslide election victory on the promise that he'd finally get the bricks it done story which. said that. britain seemed to have voted to
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put 3 years of bargaining in political paralysis behind all the princes see the argument as something titanic has been achieved the sorry much of the town. like in northern ireland for example which is more exposed to brick sits on certainties than anywhere else in the u.k. it completely recasts reshapes to political and economic conversation across the islands between the island of ireland and britain right across the continent so this isn't an end point this is very much. beginning certainly the heavy lifting sorting out the u.k.'s trade relationship with europe everything from fishing to financial services is still to come all the political signs in the u.k. of that the u.k. want to sit diverged from the in the not to be part of the sort of. the european union but all the sort of dynamics of the negotiations point to a quick and a quick deal means trying to come up with alignment in key areas that are going to
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be in the ears interest in europe the message is clear proofs like this is going to double the u.k. will diverged from the e.u. standards the less access to the single market they will have. you will be looking to its own priorities and trying to solve its own challenges the u.k. is already receding in importance we want to have the best possible relationship with the united kingdom but it will never be as good as membership the e.u. wants to show there's little to be gained from blocking out the door. or of china's joins us live now from parliament square in westminster so i guess the people behind your pretty please with all this. yeah for anyone who thinks the moment of national liberation is just an hour away for anyone who thinks that the european union is some sort of sovereignty something sucky burst it's almost here in just an hour's time on a clock g m
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t. big ben will take its way to the top of the hour and britain will be out of the european union is the biggest constitutional change in this country for several generations and it will be a huge moment of celebration for the people here they have been waiting for it for a long time since that 2016 referendum they think they've been waiting too long they've been cheering for all their heroes here people like nigel faraj and margaret thatcher they've been doing. villains people like david cameron and the b.b.c. they are waiting for the moment and it can't come soon enough and laurie i suppose the challenge for the government though is to not make it something which is then to sort of saddening for the right for the rest of the people who voted to remain. yeah well that is boris johnson's message of the moment that this is a time to renew the nation this is
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a time to come together the people here in the crowd think this is a huge victory but boris johnson isn't really using that kind of language is certainly a way that the voice was very close it was 52 percent to leave 48 percent to remain so there is a large part of this country babsy a member even a majority now the thinks that this is a bad idea many of those have made their peace with it they have accepted that this is a democratic process it was a democratic decision and that has to be honored but boris johnson has to show them that he is listening to their concerns as well and he also has to deal with the next stage in this process getting out of the european union if anything was the easy part building the red the the relationship with the european union that will see britain and the europe and the european union march into the future not
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together but at least side by side that's going to be very difficult because a lot of the decisions that he has to make might shut off the revenues if he keeps the u.k. firmly aligned with the european union will that might make it a trade deal with the united states more difficult which wants standards and things like that lowered so we can get into the u.k. market so these are the things that have to happen and we have to remember that this is a transition period until the end of the 2020 that's when we will know the real live the land and worry as we watch that countdown clock down in downing street thank you very much indeed and the party the prime minister has been having a reception in downing street for cabinet ministers advisors and civil servants and they're serving various things including english sparking what apparently or is johnson earlier urged citizens to come together to move the country forward after backs it. tonight we are leaving the european union for many people this is an
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astonishing moment of hope a moment they thought would never come and there are many course you feel a sense of anxiety and loss and then there's a 3rd group perhaps the biggest who had started to worry that the whole political wrangle would never come to an end i understand all those feelings and our job as the government my job is to bring this country together now and take us forward the most important thing to say tonight is that this is not an end but a beginning this is the moment when the dawn breaks and the curtain goes up on a new act in our great national drama that's going on agenda howlers in central london jenna how boris johnson's message of reconciliation he received. it's not the 1st time we've heard the prime minister talk about reconciliation he did so immediately after his landslide election victory in december and if you look closely there could be some signs of substance in it after all the celebrations tonight could have been fog grander far more spectacular in fact they're fairly
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muted fairly low key i think boris johnson knows very well that his big victory and the fact of brakes it itself has come in quite some cost to this country in terms of divided communities damaged institutions parliament the judiciary and like and as the government scrambles almost immediately now to prove the benefit of bricks it for the whole country clearly he'd like to have the whole country behind it but how would it go down when i think if you didn't vote for breaks it if you've been against breaks it all this time if you all morning as many people are the loss of european union citizenship i don't think anything the prime minister has to say tonight is going to change that the proof will be in what he's able to do for the whole country in the months and years to come let me bring in my guest now marcia cordova joins me she's a labor party m.p. thanks for joining us marcia. of course boris johnson's big victory necessarily meant a big loss for labor i wonder what role now for labor in this bright
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shiny new boris johnson breaks that future for britain will 1st now take believe that this is going to be a bright shining teacher for this country because bracks that isn't going to be good for a country but we are where we are and labor's primary function now is to be a credible and working up position and holding this government to account every step of the way today is just the beginning of next it is the start of things to come and you know it is going to be up to par stunts and his government over these next 11 months to make a share our future relationship with the european union do i have much faith that he would get that done i apps. i think face a you know we could be at the end of this year facing. once again you'll be rebuilding of course you're already frantically rebuilding looking for a new leader looking towards the next election in 5 years' time do you imagine a future labor party platform as one of your candidates secure starmer has said
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this week being lobbying again for free movement of people lobbying potentially even again for membership of the european union in future. what you're absolutely right the labor party are now in a position where we are. in a leadership election the can to reelect elect new leader and a new. and i think you know that leader that their job really is going to be about uniting our party but also you know presenting our radical and progressive vision and on half way back to power and you know things like freedom of movement are very important to us because we are the labor party we are an outward looking and an internationalist party you know we welcome people from wherever they are crossed the border and also across the european union you were an m.p. in the last parliament as well. do you have any regrets do you feel that labor could have done more to ameliorate ameliorate the effects of break through to get
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a shaft of bricks or to perhaps tone down the. i think more i did as as a member of parliament representing back to see which you know overwhelmingly to remain as did i and it was our job in a treason may still was a bad. deal was also a bad deal and we did all we could to actually present our alternative plans which they would not budge on so we held we you know we worked in opposition to try and get the best deal for this country and you know that is what our job now will be over these coming months is to ensure that you know we hold this government to account because let's face it they've got to they've got to force that relationship with the european union and then we are going to years of trade negotiations with the us or whoever and i do not trust our stance and his government to get the. last question remains supporter. to drop these labels now the prime minister says will
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you be embracing the new 50 p. calling this commemorative bricks of course a lot of remain supporters say no what you know what i would love to this government with all the money they spend on. this this coin is actually invested in our public services we are right here in westminster and there are many people going to be sleeping on our streets tonight your cold i'm wrapped up warm you know and we can both go home many people won't be that's what they should have probably spent that money on rather than coins mostly because of the thank you so much for your thoughts thank you thank you know we've got about 45 minutes i think now or so before 2300 g.m.t. the moment when britain will formally cease to be a member of the european union back to jonah thank you very much want to touch a butler is in brussels for us so much i want to turn being there from the e.u. as it loses the u.k. as a member. well i have to say in brussels itself is difficult to imagine that such
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a momentous occasion is going to take place in less than an hour when the u.k. officially does leave the european union because it really feels like a night like any other here it's very muted very low key in fact the only thing that's really marked out the occasion a special is when we saw a little bit earlier start from the european parliament remove the british flag they then replaced it with a flag of the european union that was the only sign that this was even happening this evening and i think that's a very deliberate move on behalf of the e.u. for them this is a song for occasion this is a moment of great sadness we've heard many leaders this week talk about sadness the way they feel that the u.k.'s decided to leave the e.u. the block is losing one of the members that is had for nearly half a century losing a member that's been a big financial contributor and also it just sends a bad signal if you like to the world of the use been unable to maintain perhaps this key member states in the you certainly very worried the other member states
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might follow suit in the future so this isn't a good day for the it's certainly not a good day for the image it is a blow perhaps in some ways to their credibility some are saying it like that we heard from the french president a man omar earlier and he was certainly saying that this is a time for reflection on what the future the should be but i was speaking to one expert earlier from the european policy center 5 years alike and he said that no matter walt as far as the use concerned really the u.k. should never have left. i think it is a very significant moment in the european integration process there certainly will be introspection there will be some soul searching. in the end i think the chance another country will follow this is very small the experience of britain has been so negative that nobody will want to follow this example but still the european
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union needs to be why is the european union relevant for the world today so we need a narrative going forward. or a focus now will of course turn to what next the u.k. and the new trying to work out what sort of relationship they want to have in the future are they going to be entering into pretty tough you'd imagine trade negotiations are going to happen straightaway it's not going to happen tomorrow there will be a few weeks in which both sides the in the u.k. have to put forward their negotiating mandates their list of priorities it won't be easy boris johnson the british prime minister he wants a trade deal wrapped up by the end of the e.u. officials have made it very clear there over the past few weeks that they believe a fully comprehensive agreement is unlikely in what we might see are the is the outline of agreement or perhaps agreement over certain list of priorities that hash about her thank you very much indeed and this reminder that's the countdown clock
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projected onto downing street. around 43 minutes until that final moment when the u.k. will officially leave the european union at 23 g.m.t. and in 47 years of membership so what happens next with china under the takes us through some of the key dates and targets. just because it is going to happen it doesn't mean the story is over britain has now left the easy institutions and lost its vote in the bodies but the 11 month transition period means almost everything else stays the same it's now crucial for the u.k. that it sorts a trade deal with the e.u. the u.k. still signed up to e.u. rules but can negotiate a new deal up until the 31st of december can a deal be done by then while the european commission president live on the land was blunt she said it would be impossible to complete within the timeframe and without an extension of the transition period beyond 2020 you cannot accept expect to agree
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on every single aspect of our new partnership we will have to prioritize one option to speed things up is salami slicing tackling the go she area by area making smaller separate deals on aspects of trade fisheries and transport for example then there's an interim deadline at the start of july the final time britain can ask to extend the transition period but prime minister boris johnson says he won't and made it against british law to do so this means the u.k. could be left with the prospect of a cliff edge the deadline expiring with no trade deal in place doing business on world trade organization terms with all the tariffs and border checks that entails but don't forget one final date december 31st 2022 that's when the transition period could be extended to if boris johnson changes his mind and asks for an extension. still to come on al-jazeera this news our protest has rally against u.s.
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president don't plan to end the israel palestine crisis in gaza heaven and techie. trump administration expands the travel ban adding 6 new countries to the list including nigeria. the us senate is awaiting a crucial vote on whether to allow witnesses and additional evidence in the impeachment trial of u.s. president donald trump it has heard arguments from both the democrats and white house counsel ahead of the vote to decide the future of the trial democrats need at least for publicans to vote for additional witnesses but that looks highly unlikely after 2 key republican senators confirmed they would not in the senate will not hear from former national security adviser john bolton he reportedly claims asked him to help pressure ukraine into investigating his political opponents or trump
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could now be acquitted in the coming hours house impeachment manager adam schiff says trying the president without being allowed to call witnesses in the senate is yet another abuse of power if we tell the president effectively you can act corruptly you can abuse the powers of your office to coerce a foreign government to helping you cheat in the election by withholding military aid and when you are caught you can further abuse your powers by concealing the evidence of your wrongdoing the president becomes unaccountable to anyone if people of power and influence can insist to the judge that the house that the prosecutors that the government that the people must prove their case without witnesses or documents a right reserved only for the powerful. because you know only donald trump only donald trump of any defendant in america can insist on
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a trial with no witnesses if that should be true in courts throughout the land then as adams wrote the government becomes arbitrary white house counsel patrick philbin says the senate should reject the articles instead of redoing work the house failed today the senate is not here to do the investigatory work that the house didn't do . where there's been a process that denied all due process that produced a record that can't be relied upon the reaction from this body should be to reject the articles of impeachment not to condone and put its imprimatur on the way the proceedings were handled in the house and not to prolong matters further by trying to redo work that the house failed to do. by not seeking evidence and not doing a fair and legitimate process to bring the articles of heat of impeachment here
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thinking. or who's on capitol hill do we have any indication yet on the timing of the vote. lauren the debate on whether or not to call witnesses has reached its conclusion a bit earlier than i had expected and right now what we're seeing unfold in the senate chamber are these discussions private negotiations happening between the 2 parties on exactly how the following will unfold it's not a question of exactly what the decisions are going to be the 1st vote that we will eventually see likely today is on this question of witnesses and as you said that it will likely fail with those pivotal swing votes the moderate republicans having said that they intend to vote with their party against new witnesses so then the question becomes how quickly does the chamber move to the most pivotal vote of all
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which of course is whether to convict president trump and remove him from office well the the result of that vote is not a question we know of course that republicans control the senate and 20 of them would have to cross the aisle in order to convict the president will not even for will do so to open the vote open this trial to witnesses so that tells you everything there however will that happen by the end of today that's one possibility or could this possibly be delayed giving both parties an opportunity to for the final time be on the record giving their positions democrats have tacitly acknowledge that this is really a losing battle there is it is all but certain that trump will be acquitted however they know this is only the 3rd time in history that a u.s. president has faced an impeachment trial and so each and every member of the senate of the day on the democrat side at least wants to have an opportunity to state
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publicly on the floor of the their senate why this moment is so important and explain the reasoning behind their vote that hasn't been baked into the rules of this trial thus far that has some. that we are seeing discussed right now privately and within hours time we may have an answer as to why if there's going to be witnesses and then more importantly even whether the president will be removed from office. what impression is is there of the moment of how much this is affecting voters and what they really think of what we're going to decide in the in the election in november. well we certainly know that americans are very tuned into this but they are also very bitterly divided on whether or not trump should be removed from office and in fact that division is straight down the middle nearly 5050 consistently in polling with voters who identify as democrats saying trump should be gone those who gender bias republican steadfastly same trump should remain in office what these voters to have an agreement upon though is that 75
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percent has said this trial should hear more witnesses appears that that will not be the case and so republican senators certainly making this decision not to call witnesses have in the back of their minds to how their constituents may respond to that decision which is again coloring perhaps their their desire to be able to make their opinions known now they're debating again there with with both sides whether or not to have time for each member to explain their reasoning before the public on the floor of the senate what is your question or thank you very much indeed. barn is a former special impeachment counsel to the house of representatives he joins us live from washington d.c. what's your impression do you think that we'll have a this wrap up quite quickly to see if you think it could go on for another couple of days. in terms of whether whether they actually get to vote on the on the
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charges in the end. i think they would like to get it wrapped up sooner rather than later the president is supposed to make his state of the union talk. next week and i think they would like to get this behind them the republicans would and just move on with the administration's. timetable and what they want to accomplish i must say i am puzzled by why the republicans are so adamant that they are not going to allow witnesses i mean there's no question about how the ultimate vote is going to come out it's going to be not guilty it's been that true it's been true since the very beginning of this process and you have to ask yourself what are they so afraid of even in the face of the american public 75 percent of the american public want to hear the witnesses. i have a hunch that down the road after the acquittal the republicans will pay a price not with the hard core republican base but with the independents with
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those who voted for trump in 20182016 then in 2018 of voted democrat so i think they may be making a very gross miscalculation by don having more witnesses and what about the potential damage for the democrats will they stay regionally they were quite keen not to go ahead with impeachment and then they decided they would what it's all wrapped up do you think it would have been the right decision to go ahead with it. absolutely the the process of of the impeachment process which takes place exclusively in the house that is really independent of the trial process obviously you don't want to impeach if you don't have a reasonable basis to bring the articles of impeachment but if that or if that reasonable evidentiary basis exists i think it's incumbent on the house to do what it needs to do under the constitution and the chips have to fall where they may in
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the house i'm sorry in the senate. and the white house has been quite keen to try to crush any attempts by john bolton's book to be published they said that it had masses of national security in it and also though they are clearly very keen not to have him giving evidence in the senate in the end though do you think what he has to say will come out sooner or later whether it's in a book or an interview absolutely i think the republicans an mr trump of our. war the slightly delaying the inevitable it will come out the book will come out and mr bolton will be on every morning talk show you can find out and burn while we continue to wait to the moment when decide on whether they should call witnesses thank you very much indeed for staying with us on there thank you for. your well as president tom's impeachment trial continues in washington u.s. section of state might pompei or has pledged unwavering support for ukraine on
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a visit to kids who met president lula me as a lansky who called for the u.s. to be more involved in settling its conflict with russian backed separatists he's the highest ranking u.s. official to visit ukraine since trump's impeachment trial began tom faces allegations that he pressured selenski to investigate the son of his democratic rival joe biden on payroll insists any future visit by zelinsky to the white house is not dependent on an investigation into the biden family matter i'm unsurprised by your question i suspect you will not be and surprised by my answer. no there's there's no condition of the nature described for presidents who come to washington and have that visit it's just simply not the case will find the right time or find the appropriate opportunity. still to come on out there there's news hour long road to bricks it will take a look back at the tumultuous journey leading to britain's departure from the e.u.
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. and a competitive advantage in the world athletics governing body bans a model of not change is as another possible task. hello that australia still battling the heat and also these bushfires now there is some rain in the forecast some very heavy amounts of rain but it comes with a downside which is some pretty strong gusty winds but look at this this is actually very close to camera to the south of camera another massive bushfire which they working very hard to bring in to control this is what they call the was a bombing helicopter so i think in the water from this river and then trying to dump it on that fire but it's been all about the heat for the last few days this is melbourne and on friday the daytime high was 42.2 degrees celsius well above average now it should be the still above the average but this is what we've got
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coming this line of rain is coming into the front some very strong winds ahead of this system and at the same time some very heavy amounts of rain extending again up into the northern territory so another warm day south of the across into alice springs it does cool down somewhat on sunday and it certainly will across the south as that front slice or even very warm ahead of out front in christchurch 35 celsius over there in new zealand on a woman. 4 degrees but as i say things are cooling down safe those strong thunderstorms on saturday so good and bad the winds will be strong and we could have some heavy amounts of rain and cool storms to come in thunderstorms so really is by monday should be better below average with a high of 80. the .
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from out of the top stories here now to syria the u.s. senate is awaiting a crucial vote on whether to allow witnesses and additional evidence in the impeachment trial of u.s. president donald trump democrats need at least 4 republicans to vote with them which at this point is unlikely to hear from former national security advisor john bolton. and in just under 30 minutes britain will officially leave the european union ending 47 years of membership a minister boris johnson says it will be a moment of national review. or actually has been one of most divisive issues in recent british history and the heywood visited the seaside town of great yarmouth on england's east coast when will the 70 percent of people vote.
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