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folder, photo and peach president you and suck your laughter, has failed been imposed martial law earlier this month. and george's parliament is picking a new president's house or october's disputed general elections and weeks of protests . the and we're going to pivot from syria to south korea, a live event right now. we are just hearing that the south korean president union suck hill has just been impeached. that means and you're watching the live footage right now of what's happening inside the national assembly. and so remember that less than 2 months ago, the presidency only briefly declared martial law. lawmakers managed to reverse that . after 6 hours he had to reverse his own decree of martial law, but that sent shock waves through the country in south korea. and a majority of protesters has since been calling for his impeachment. we know from

the polling numbers that a vast majority of south koreans once the president and peach, now the governing party, the p. p. p walked out of the 1st impeachment boats several days ago, but clearly they have now it shows and to support at least a critical number of the law makers within the people who have no chosen to support the impeachment. and so the opposition got the 2 thirds of votes that they needed in parliament, 300 seats. they got more than the 200 and the president is now in peach house with you as well. the bride is inside part of the building. and so go to rob. this is nothing short of a historic moment for what is still a young democracy in south korea. yeah, absolutely. this, that has a news that just comes to in the last few seconds or so. let me just ask some time just to zoom in here. these are the people power pots, the,

the ruling policy members coming out from the assembly chain. but it has to be said looking very some the. 3 but we, some of the moods about with the ruling policy having just taken this decision, basically to vote as the president out of office to vote for the impeachment of the presidents. they all just streaming out now the boat has just been counted. it has been going on for a the past hour or so that was on the special session, just one motion and that was the impeachment of president human sick y'all's, the people pa potty, who are the crucial to whether this motion would pass. so not to remember men, but last week is a boy called to this motion of the rail debates to impeach the president. this time around. they took that decision as the men, but should vote inside the chamber. and they was, they were speculation that a few of the ruling party members would break. ranks had already broken rags once

a day and pray payments of president june. that was number the band 7 know. so it was what they was calculated that they needed around 8 low make has to break ranks to vote with the off position at the numbers. they've just come through that side of the opposition. needed 200 of the 300 members in the chain, but to both you in favor of impeachment. the final number was 204. so they have done it by just full boats. they to vote for the impeachment, how president you have been a very this applause going on. it said in the various parts of the assembly building here. this is one of the public areas. there are other public areas of the assembly building where some of the supposed to be opposition groups have gathered and you can hear us of applause. i imagine as on the streets near the assembly in other parts of soul, that will be a much more rule cuz a celebration is going on right now. this has been a long anticipated by many people here,

especially the opposition with inside the chain. but also i boss majority of people out in the streets with being seen growing public protests, people looking for and calling for the impeachment of president jude. and that is what we have seen on this saturday afternoon here. and so, yeah, rob, we're seeing uh, actually both the live feed of what's happening inside the national assembly, which seems empty. now when that would make sense, since the vote is silver, we're also seeing in the center of our screen, the live feed of the just outside problem in the building. and so people are hugging this dancing from what we can see there was clapping. there was quite a bit of movement on the wider shot. this is what protesters. okay. yeah, we're just taking into footage right now. the protest is clearly found out may be less than a minute ago, and they clearly are elated. well, before i turn to us and find out what's happening in the crowd, tell us what happens now because this does not guarantee that the presidents is in

the rear view mirror. there's a whole process to impeachment after the vote. yeah, absolutely. this means effectively the president june is no longer president, and the he still is at it now goes to the constitutional cool at full, this decision to be confirmed as if this is the process that any impeachment has to go through. south korea has a be, even though it is a fairly young democracy, has gone through this impeachment process a couple of times. it is no stranger to this process, so it knows what takes place and what the president is. so this decision now goes to the, to the constitutional code, it can take anywhere from several months, up to 6 months for these constitutional called to confirm this decision. in the meantime, the president effectively has his or her duty suspended. the prime minister the

takes over as the can take a president in the meantime. but it's no, it's by no means assured that that is the end of the president's role. in fact, back in 2004, when there was a previous impeachment, it was over tons by the same constitutional court. and president june has filed to fight this. he sees nothing wrong against the imposition of martial law as a short lived. does he site just as it was? i seized nothing wrong, is that in fact, he believes it was it within his constitutional rights to impose marshall and is about to fight this. he decided to fight impeachment is about to fight the various actions, the legal actions that threatens against vince of full, and that's on charges of treason and so on. so he has vowed to fight it in the toilets. he is, of course, a lawyer or a government lawyer at by training. and so he has filed to, to fight this. and that's the next stage that we will see going forward. is that

this whole process now being taken to the house to choose the cause, but as far as this assembly is concerned, that the opposition parties they have achieve what they set out to. and that is the impeachment of president you'd sit down what a remarkable long and so as of now, as rob mcbride was just explained, there is explaining, there is a new president was the interim president and will be the entering president going forward for as long as it takes 4 as it takes to the constitutional court to decide whether to confirm or invalidate this vote for the impeachment of you. and so if you'll rob. thank you. we're going to go straight to alice's. here as you'd is kim eunice, you, you've been reporting on the crowds on the protesters, on this majority of south koreans who wanted to see the back of you and stuff your and in this extraordinary sequence of events less than 2 weeks ago. the military was surrounding the parliament building and now we're seeing people dancing in the street.

yeah, that's right. so they came out for a historic moment and a historic moment they got, we actually had to walk at least the kilometer out where we were last because of the sheer influx of people just coming in, pushing through in order to be part of this moment as the national assembly to lift up a counsellor balance, and as we know, 12 of the president's party, the people tired party lawmakers backed the impeachment motion. and now we have the 13th president of south korea who is now in peace. the 2nd of the, after a pumpkin hit in 2016, another conservative president. so at the top of the hour, i mean, you can probably see behind me this is just a regular, a thoroughfare, a road that's been close to traffic. and at the top of the hour,

when we had that breaking news, we saw people literally running toward the national assembly and, and, and yelling in tiers. and, and being just a laid is really at this news that they have been waiting since last tuesday when we saw the chaos, the constitution of uncertainty probably a through south korea with not. and with lots of questions over who the leader of, of south korea was initially the people power parties leader had come out with the prime minister saying that they would, you know, move forward with a 2 person temporary arrangement. while the president is to be safe side of power and then just to just past thursday, we heard from a defiant president, you talk guy, who said he was ready to fight to the end, whether it's impeachment proceedings for the investigations, the multiple investigations that are moving forward and, and that he,

he reiterated his argument that criminal troops were taking over the government. so for many of the people that hundreds of thousands that are here tonight, it was an obvious choice to impeach the president. and now we have that decision officially from the national assembly. and of course, the move then would that motion would be reviewed by the call to to support next unit is as i look at the pictures of what's going on, not just behind you, but you know, further, i know you have to step away for the noise and for your communications to work, but we look at the people right now. we are gathered outside parliament building. and this aerial shot shows us how many people there are an estimated 200000. i'm thinking back to less than 2 weeks ago when south koreans woke up to the news that their president had tried and had briefly imposed martial law and what they were saying. and so many of them it felt like it felt like they,

they felt their country had been stolen from them for a few hours. can you, you live there? can you describe the roller coaster of emotions over the last 1213 days? the yeah, it's been, i mean, the uncertainty that south koreans have had to live through the past 2 weeks. and it uncertainty, frankly, that still lives ahead. as the said piece, motion needs to play out over the coming months as has, you know, has impacted the bottom line. we saw the create and what really we can significantly in stock market saw lots of 4th investments pull out because of the uncertainty. we saw south korea in a diplomatic freeze of sorts. as you know, world leaders didn't see a need to engage with president use under right now, given his precarious position. so i think there's, you know, for a lot of people on an individual level as well. i mean, it is a saturday here,

but it does feel like a large swats of so if not the countries are, are, you know, coming out with their children, you know, and to take part in, in this protest to call for this impeachment from their elected lawmakers. so it, it certainly is a significant moment, but i don't think anybody is under false pretense, is that the battle ahead is, is done. yeah, i was gonna ask you, and maybe it's too early to, to have really an answer to this. but are people now going to go home mission accomplished and let the process play out? you know, allow for the constitutional court to do its job and, and decide where this impeachment vote goes. or do you think there's going to be sustained political protests or political presence outside the front of the building? the well, if uh the last and peace man. uh, you know,

precedent in 2016 with the previous conservative president, pumpkin head is, is any guide the political pressure will be on and people, if they feel especially that, that there are, you know, impediments be placed to, to the outcome that they are seeking. people will continue to come out. we saw people coming out to common square in central, sol in 2016 into 2017. even as you know, the constitutional court was reviewing that case. so i think people are, are ready to, to make sure that justice is served here. they are calling for responsibility to be taken for last week's martial law declaration. and yeah, this is, this is the story that, that has not finished yet. and you've done a remarkable job covering it along with our teams in south korea. you just came

there. thank you very much. let's go back to rob mcbride, who's inside the parliament building. and so rob, what's what a sequence of events. and really what a roller coaster the last 2 years had been since the president was elected. i mean, yes, he won the election that was very narrow. and then his popularity plummeted and plummeted even further until 2 weeks ago, when he declared this briefly declared, uh this uh, this decree of martial law. yeah, it has in d. b, that's involved to us the time, right. tabulate time and says between politics and many people will blame president use of jo, full bathroom for this position of the law. so the short lived in position and his attempt that afterwards then to defend his actions, of course, that he may well have to defend those actions with criminal proceedings. are

a number of investigations being carried out by prosecutors, by police with that charges of insurrection at possibly going to be coming down against him. but this, we are still in a fairly on chart today. i'm ruth, is at the bottom. it's entrusted territory. a given that some of the impeachment obviously by it's very nature is gonna bring an awful lot of uncertainty. now the, the person that is going to take over the duties of presidents is handled through. he is the prime minister at the moment. he will now take over the responsibilities of presidents uh well uh, basically president you and becomes effective be suspended in that role a but, but the problem is, the hon himself is also the subject possibly of impeachment over his role in the short lived a short lived martial law, so if there is actually a line of succession, if the prime minister is in peach, then the deputy prime minister is also the finance bit as to what then have to step

in. so we are writing very much on child to tired tree, but the as we have been for the past couple of weeks given unprecedented nature of what is taking place. but as far as a south career is concerned, as far as the lawmakers have are concerned, what has taken place here on this saturday afternoon in the national assembly with his impeachment vote is the end of president use term as president of south korea as a full the high flying public prosecutor who rose to the office of prosecute the general of south korea. you're in sick yell, now finds himself full in from grace and potentially on the wrong side of the law. following his ill fated attempt at imposing motion the toner. conclusion, i declare martial law to protect the free republic of korea from the threats of north korean communist forces. he had played a key role in convicting form of presidents leading young back. and then pocky and

hayes, who had been coming broiled in scandal and was forced out to of office of to large scale suite protests in 2017 units of done to pox liberal successive mood j. and until disagreements led to his resignation. setting himself off was a popular choice among conservatives to run for president himself. in march 2022, he won the presidential race by the slimmest of march is the 1st elected president to be bold off to the end of fighting in the korean war. when he came into office, you would seem to socially conservative domestically and whole case on foreign policy. taking that tough stand against your career and the much friendly position towards japan and his previous as his approval ratings. quickly plummeted. made was by his perceive todd line tendencies,

as well as domestic scandals involving himself on the 1st lady came gun. he's a poor showing that parliamentary elections earlier this year left him a week and apparently believing who by marshal bull was his only option. people, uh, you know, obtain be a very strong impression that it is to risk it to see if the president in the office, the guy seems like the president does not have the real sense of reality. totally disconnected with the rest of the society. whatever his political ambitions it is that short lived attempt to marshall more that will become his legacy. rob mcbride, i'll just say era, so the world. thank you very much for that book. i wanted to ask you also what happens now to the ruling party. it's in a minority in, in parliament, but i mean, the party of president eunice appeal because day one would imagine will be badly

bruised after this they will be and you, they remember of course, the conservative camp here has already been badly bruised a few years back if you cast your mind back to the presidency of pocky on, hey, which was a now the presidency that became embroiled in scandal in crisis. that was thousands of people out on the streets calling for her to go. she was also in peach. and so the role of the conservative time here is taking a bath ring. i was only just recovering from that and is taken another be to get on the the can the minds of the conservative lawmakers here are led by the people's power policy is of course what this might do in terms of allowing you elections to take place and allowing the liberals to come back into pilot. and just while we've been uh speaking that in the last few minutes or so, we'd be getting a breakdown of the actual final bocce in this historic both several. and just you

remember that they the opposition needed 2 thirds majority, 200300 seats. and the national assembly, they got $204.00 seats. voting against the motion to impeach, were 85 of votes, as with a number of both either up staining or being spoiled ballots. but basically from this, we could extrapolate that around 12 low make because of the governing ruling people policy in the end voted for impeach, but of their own presidents run the bride reporting from inside part of the building we're just moments ago. a majority of more than 2 thirds of lawmakers and parliament voted to impeach president young's seo, meaning he is now been removed from office, at least temporarily the prime minister becoming the ensuing president's why the constitutional court will now examine this impeachment, motion, and rule over the coming months,

whether to confirm its or invalidate is l 0 is units kim is in the south korean capital. so just outside parliament building your near units. i know you stepped away a little bit from the protesters just so we can hear you and we thank you for that . but we're also seeing and the center of our screen. just the relation, the joy of the enthusiasm, the happiness of the protesters. and just before coming to you, i was checking the time of the temperature, it is 5 pm where you are. it is also a 0 degrees celsius. it is freezing, literally freezing and people clearly do not care. they're happy. that's right there. a bundled up button and ready to party, you can probably see behind me people are filing out of those that were not here early enough to be closer to the action. but we see those, those of like a lights uh sticks if you will from k pop concerts coming out. uh they have,

you know, taken over the candles that we saw it in that last piece meant drive it in 2016 . but certainly, um, a lot of chairs, a lot of happy, happy people tonight to see a president that they feel is no longer qualified to lead. the 4th largest economy in, in south korea now officially impeached by the national assembly to spite his really conservative party having drag their feet on this. uh, you know, having walked out of the boat entirely last saturday. uh, you know, basically i am not able in the speaker to even open the ballot box because they did not have a for us. but you know, there's been a number of developments since then. um, you know, one of them being the president coming out and apparently i show it on sorry, self existing that he was in the right,

insisting that there are no enemy forces that are placing his, his governance, and that he will fight to the end. this impeachment the motion and also the multiple investigations that are proceeding around himself and also the police and military commanders that are legs are, are allegedly, some links to him including his former defense minister. but tonight i think people are in a party mood, they know that they have a long road ahead until this impeachment is final. but with the parliament move tonight, president, utah, you are now no longer has his presidential power as that moves on to the prime minister, who will take on the roll at on an interim basis until we have a constitutional court decision. sometime in the next 6 months test drive has taken

about 2 to 3 months of deliberation, and it will require a minimum, 6 justices, a green lighting at it is a 9 member constitutional court panel. but unfortunately, we do have empty seats within the constitutional court. so we would need a full backing of, of the 6 member constitutional court in order to for it this impatient motion to be vented. and that is not an easy feat ahead of so many eyes will continue to be watching the proceedings that will happen after tonight. yeah, absolutely, and we're watching this live and thank you for the tape on the, on the, on the lights candles, by the way, because i'm just catching up with what those dots of lights are. now i get it. if you see top right corner of your screen, you'll see people holding the light candles and on this white shot you, you understand what that looks like. as the aerial shot gives us

a picture of the crowd, an estimated 200000 people massed outside the part of the building in the so eunice, so this, the thing here is that even if the president's impeachment is ultimately confirmed by the constitutional poured correct me, if i'm wrong, but since the president has 3 years left on his presidential term right there, runs until 2027. even if he's in peach, then that's confirmed. it would still be somebody from his family battered party that would then take his place and proceed to govern the country until 2020. so if the president is ultimately impeached, you are correct in saying that he is just about halfway through his single 5 year term. so we do have about 2 and a half years left in his presidency. but at the constitutional court does rule that

his impeachment is to do solely so there would be an election that is called so it would not have to be a ruling, a conservative party leader, a could be the minor parties that put forth candidates and certainly one front runner that a lot in the conservative we are concerned about right now is the leader of the main off is ition democratic party, each head young who has not made no secret of his own political ambitions. he certainly been one of the strongest critics of his president really threw out his 2 and a half year of presidency. and in fact, he was his presidential arrival when you get that in career prosecutor had run for is on the conservative tickets. and he had the ease of down by less than a percentage point. having said that either be on is also facing his own a to do so, problems he is under investigation and, and actually,

but could see a ruling illegal ruling against him within the next 6 months. so as there had been, somebody was saying that the ruling party may try to drag this out until until then . um. ready we do have some constitutional court justices retiring in april, so it will be in the interest of the no opposition, liberal blog that really has been pushing for this impeachment to, to move forward with the legal procedures as soon as possible. aus is 0 is eunice came reporting from near the front of the building in so the south korean capital, you're seeing the live shots were just taking in these developments as about 2030 minutes ago 28 minutes ago. to be precise. we found out that a majority of more than 2 thirds of parliament had voted to impeach the south korean president units of people who announced martial law less than 2 months ago.

and we now know it turns out that that precipitated his downfall. let's take a look at what happens next. yo, yo will now be suspended from office and the prime minister will take over then. the constitutional court will hold the trial which could take up to a $180.00 days, 6 months. to remove the president from office, at least 6 of its 9 judges, as units was explaining, must agree to uphold this problem entry vote. and a new presidential election will have to be held then within 60 days. as bringing young sheep bone. he's a political analyst and a visiting professor at young state university. you are joining us from so i look, you're more than welcome to lead this conversation is worth 30 minutes into this somewhat new reality for sol. so we're going to try and draw some early lessons. i think the 1st obvious one is easy with the benefit of hindsight. is that the president's decision to declare martial law less than 2 weeks ago was

a tragic political mistake. there was a transitive click on this day by all measures, but he himself believe how firmly that it was the right decision within the power of the presidency in order to save the failing country. um she, as she is a pharmacist or the nation which was announced uh, 2 days ago uh, indicated. so the news um, you know, most of the changes of mind to face the, trying to the straightforward that he expected to see what the eventually in piece then uh his best uh would be to prove himself not guilty of idaho or they may. but across the board. so you said the president saw imposing martial law as a way to save the country. but in a democracy you don't.