hello, i'm nuala mcgovern, this is outside source. moving full steam ahead: us speaker nancy pelosi takes a historic step. today i am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. this puts donald trump on track to become only the third president to be impeached in us history. but mr trump remains defiant — he says the democrats have no case. we'll have all the analysis. more than half a million people are marching in cities across france and a nationwide transport strike brings much of the country to a standstill amidst anger over president macron‘s pension reforms. and we'll find out what the world's most valuable company oil giant saudi aram—co is worth as it makes its stock market debut.

the process of formally removing a sitting president in the us has officially moved to the next stage. democrats announced they will move forward with articles of impeachment against donald trump, making him just the fourth us president in history to face the move. nancy pelosi made the announcement — here's what she said about it. our democracy is what is at stake. the president leaves us no choice but to act, because he is trying to corrupt, once again, the election for his own benefit. the president has engaged in an abuse of power, undermining our national security and jeopardising the integrity of oui’ and jeopardising the integrity of our elections. his actions are in defiance of the vision of our founders and the oath of office that he takes. to preserve, protect and

defend the constitution of the united states. president trump has been tweeting furiously in response. ‘the do nothing, radical left let's go back to hear a little bit more. president trump has always denied wrongdoing and has dismissed the inquiry as a witch hunt. here's laura trevelyan. remember that speaker nancy pelosi only a few months ago was warning against impeachment saying he is not worth it of president trump, but what changed her mind and critically change the mind of swing seat democrats in the house was the whole business with ukraine. the robert muller report was not enough for nancy pelosi, she did not think that was the basis for impeachment but i'iow was the basis for impeachment but now she is saying the president has abused his power for his own

personal political gain. ask the judiciary committee to draw up the articles of impeachment and on monday the house judiciary committee will meet to get this process of impeaching the president. here's a reminder of how this inquiry came about. president trump is accused of inappropriately pressuring ukraine to investigate his democrat rival, joe biden, and his son hunter. injuly, president trump called ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky to congratulate him on his election win — and raised the issue of the bidens. in august, politico reported that us military aid was being witheld from ukraine. the inquiry has heard evidence from officials who believe the white house had ordered the withholding of the funds to pressurise ukraine to investigate mr biden. the white house denies this — and eventually, the aid was released. in september however an unnamed whistleblower sent this formal complaint about the phone call saying they thought the president's conduct constituted.

"a serious or flagrant problem, abuse, or violation of law". that was the trigger for democrats to begin impeachment proceedings. let's get more details onthe articles of impeachment president trump now faces. here's the new york times' washington bureau chief. right now we are looking potentially at three articles of impeachment, one on the abuse of power, a second one on the abuse of power, a second on obstruction ofjustice and a third on obstruction of congress. on obstruction of justice third on obstruction of congress. on obstruction ofjustice we just don't know whether that would include obstructing part of the muller investigation that is being debated as we speak. but that is what we are looking at here and we are looking also at next week hearings on those articles, and potentially a vote on impeachment right before christmas. i also want to show you this. after making her announcement to the press, mrs pelosi was leaving the room — when this happened.

do you hate the president met him speaker? i don't hate anybody. asked by a reporter from a conservative tv network "do you hate the president" she replied "i don't hate anybody" — and then returned to the podium. asa as a catholic, i resent you're using the word hate in a sentence that addresses me. i don't hate anyone, i was raised in a way that is heart full of love and always prayed for the president, and the still pray for the president, i the president, and the still pray forthe president, i pray forthe president all the time. so don't mess with me when it comes to words like that. let's get more now from our us correspondent anthony zurcher. if nancy pelosi has made this decision it's going to happen, she is the best vote counter in congress and perhaps one of the best in the history of congress. she knows what your party once and she is making this move now it's an indication that she has taken the pulse of her party and she knows that she has enough votes and probably all of the

votes to go in with impeachment. it's an important move. how will this play out now, the articles of impeachment as we are hearing could be abuse of power, contempt of congress, what happens next? next, on monday as you mentioned there will be anotherjudiciary committee hearing, get that 300 page report from the intelligence committee. the intelligence committee held those two weeks of hearings really gathered all this information interviewed witnesses. the judiciary‘s job interviewed witnesses. the judiciary‘sjob is to interviewed witnesses. the judiciary‘s job is to decide and articles of impeachment and vote on them and hand them over if it passes, which it will if democrats stick together to the floor of the house. another series of debates and other vote where if democrats stick together and trust in nancy pelosi and probably well. donald trump will then be impeached and at that point it goes to the senate and a formal trial of the president as you mentioned before only the third time that's happened. when people hear the word impeached its confused with

removing somebody from office but that's not actually the case. that is not the case. the best way to look at it is at a charge seat him an indictment where you are putting together the crimes that merit removalfrom office. together the crimes that merit removal from office. the together the crimes that merit removalfrom office. the trial where you will have the impeachment managers presenting the case that prosecutors and the president will have his own lawyers mounting the defence and the entire 100 person senate will sit as a jury presiding over by the supreme court chief justicejohn roberts. over by the supreme court chief justice john roberts. it over by the supreme court chief justicejohn roberts. it takes 66 votes out of the 100 to remove eight president and there's 53 republicans in congress and as long as they stick together donald trump is safe. people think it's unlikely that they will go against mrtrump, people think it's unlikely that they will go against mr trump, but is there any potential for that, do we know? this is an up-and-down vote. playing with a loaded gun and you never know what will happen on one

vote. it does not seem likely that republicans, enough republicans would vote to remove donald trump from office. you would notjust have to get some of the moderate republicans, one that expressed disapproval like mitt romney or susan collins, you would have to get republicans from states where donald trump is still very popular. the reality is it is unlikely and thus begin geta reality is it is unlikely and thus begin get a blockbuster revelation that changes the political dynamic we have right now. thank you very much to anthony for his thoughts. let's move on instead to this story happening in france today. police have used tear gas on demonstrators in france during a day of crippling strikes across the country. the walkouts — which are over planned changes to pensions — affected almost every sector, from transport to hospitals, schools, the courts, police, and even opera houses. tens of thousands have been taking part in what's being dubbed france's black thursday. here you can see the tear gas being used in paris to disperse protestors.

at least 80 people are reported to have been arrested. it's been a similar story in the western city of nantes, protesters were tear—gassed there too, after some threw projectiles at police. on the transport links, 90% of high—speed tgv and intercity trains have been cancelled along with hundreds of flights. eurostar trains between paris and london have also been affected. and tourists were disappointed to find parisien landmarks like the eiffel tower had been closed for the day. anybody planning on a day of sightseeing today was not the day to do it. more than 800,000 people are estimated to have joined demonstrations in a0 cities across france including marseilles, lyon and nantes — but that figure doesn't include paris where a further quarter of a million people have been protesting. they say they're angry at being forced to retire later

orface reduced pensions — under government plans for a universal points—based system. president macron is trying to simplify france's pension system, which currently has 42 different schemes. france currently puts 1k per cent of its gdp into pensions — making it the third—biggest spender among developed nations, behind greece and italy. france's official retirement age has been raised in the last decade from 60 to 62, but remains one of the lowest among developed nations — in the uk, for example, the state pension age will be 66 from next year. mr macron‘s new plan aims to reward employees for each day worked, awarding points that would later be transferred into future pension benefits. for more on the proposed changes here's anne—elisabeth moutet.

what president macro was trying to do is he's trying to unify the pension system in france so that eve ryo ne pension system in france so that everyone will have the same system but you would have something like a0 categories of public servants who had a specific pension system usually much better and for instance in the normal system grow pension is calculate it on the best 25 years of your career, and in the trains in france for instance the last ten yea rs france for instance the last ten years which means the calculation is much better on that respect. some professionals and which is only two and a half years. a feeling by the people not on strike that these special regime is that we call them, are unjust in the president has tried to play on this. on the other hand you've heard now for over a year u nrest hand you've heard now for over a year unrest in france because of deep and satisfaction of how the government is perceived to be running the country. labour unions who've organised the strikes say president macron‘s

plans will mean having to work longer for a lower pension. translation: a universal system is all well and good except for those who have problems in their careers. and there's a lot of uncertainty. unemployment, forced off time, there would be paying less or nothing. do they have a right to receive pensions? the industrial action is expected to last beyond thursday and some trade union leaders have warned they will carry on striking until the government abandons the reforms. here's france minister for transport. in the following days the prime minister will give very concrete guidelines on the new pension system. so i hope by the middle of next week we can make a very concrete progress with the unions in the strike will be over as soon as possible. one opinion poll put public support for the strikes at 70%, with backing strongest among 18 to 3a year olds. but another poll found that 75% of people thought that pension reforms were necessary, even if only a third believed the government could deliver them.

for more on what's expected to happen next with these strikes, here's hugh schofield in paris. the unions and people who have organised this protest today will be very pleased with the result. it's true there have been some clashes, some violence on the fringes of the big demo here in paris right where i am standing, an awful lot of graffiti. some damage done to property but in general a fairly festive and above all very big demonstration of force by those opposing the pension reform plans. the question of course is what happens next. tomorrow or friday there's no question there will be another big strike day, seems likely that transport will be as disrupted oi'i that transport will be as disrupted on friday as it was today, thursday. saturday, the possibility of demonstrations, it's tradition that the yellow vest turn out and say they may well turn out again in force on saturday to support this anti—pension reform that campaigns

and on monday next week will be key. other unions can keep the momentum going into a second week. next week is kiev well because that's when the government will spell out more specifically what is in the pension reform proposals. up until now it's not been clear exactly what they're proposing to do and that's given free reign to all thoughts of opponents and theories about what you may or may not be contained in the plan. stay with us on outside source — still to come. oil giant saudi aram—co is the world's most valuable company and we've just found out its worth — 1.7 trillion dollars when it makes its stock market debut. the global surge in measles shows no sign of slowing down, according to the world health organization. last year alone, more than 1a0,000 people died of the disease. sub—sa ha ran africa was the worst hit region — places like the democratic republic of congo had the highest

number of victims. here's dr ann lindstrand. we need to take this seriously. around the world and actually build a strong immunisation system. we know what to do, we have the vaccine. everyone has to be vaccinated by two doses of measles —containing vaccines, so public health authorities around the world need to make sure that vaccines are available for everyone in the child population early on in life, but also the possibility of being vaccinated before you go on travel. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story the democrats push ahead

with impeaching donald trump — he becomes only the third president to be officially accused of abusing his office. there's a week to go in the uk election campaign, and there's one thing borisjohnson still hasn't done. that's sit down for an interview with this man, my colleague here at the bbc andrew neil. he has a reputation for being the toughest interviewer in british politics. jeremy corbyn, jo swinson, nicola sturgeon and nigel farage have all subjected themselves to his questions. borisjohnson originally agreed to take part, but has since pulled out. tonight, andrew neil issued this challenge to the prime minister. it is not too late. we have an interview prepared to come up and ready as mrjohnson likes to say. a theme running through our questions is trust a white so many times in his career in politics and journalism critics, and sometimes even those close to him, have deemed

him to be untrustworthy. there is no law, no supreme court ruling that can law, no supreme court ruling that ca n force law, no supreme court ruling that can force mrjohnson to participate ina bbc can force mrjohnson to participate in a bbc leaders interview. at the prime minister of our nation will, at times, have to stand up to president trump, president putin, president trump, president putin, president shee of china. socially not expecting too much that he expects half an hour of standing up to me. so it's now up to mrjohnson. andrew neil issued that challenge after conducting an interview with the leader of the brexit party. nigel farage has been on the defensive today. that's because four of his brexit party colleagues have resigned, and are now urging people to vote for the conservatives. here's the so—called "gang of four". they were all elected to the european parliament under the brexit party banner in may. here's one of them explaining their decision. it is clear to me that the brexit party is splitting the vote of

leavers. in marginal and not so marginal constituencies. remember, the united kingdom uses the first past the post voting system. voters put an ‘x' next to one candidate and whoever gets the most votes wins — that's it. that means increased support for the brexit party — even if it's only a few per cent overall — could cost the conservatives votes, allowing a remain candidate to win. to guard against this the brexit party isn't standing candidates in the 317 seats won by conservatives at the last election. that's all the seats on this map coloured blue. but the brexit party is still competing in seats held by labour and others. the critics say that strategy is misguided. here's some of that andrew neil interview with nigel farage. four of your mvps a week before polling day have resigned instead of vote tory. let'sjust run through that very quickly. one of them is

the sister of a cabinet minister, and another, hang on, one of them is and another, hang on, one of them is a centre of a cabinet minister to another has a boyfriend working for that cabinet minister, and another one is a personal friend of boris johnson. they are not smears, they are facts. theyjoined the brexit party, theyjoin the coalition that apart together. they clearly were disaffected with mrs may as leader and we are not the conservative party. and i will tell you something, i will tell you something, i will tell you something, borisjohnson's deal unamended is unacceptable. i certainly stand by that. let's see if mrjohnson sits in that chair in the coming days. in the last few hours we've found out how much the world's most valuable company is worth. oil giant saudi aram—co will be worth 1.7 trillion dollars when it makes its stock market debut, thats‘s expected next week. however that's a good deal less than the two trillion dollars the saudi government wanted to raise

as it seeks to diversify its economy away from a dependence on oil. but the kingdom is still getting a world record 25.6 billion dollars for the 1.5% stake of the company it's selling. it's had to settle for selling the shares on the kingdom's local tadawul stock exchange. that's because so far it hasn't been able to drum up enough interest amongst international investors to sell them in london or new york. our middle east business correspondent sameer hashmi is in dubai with more details. in the beginning of this saudi aram—co had declared a price band of 30 to 32 saudi rials. 8.2 to a point one to 53. will be the top end of the price and so $8.53 which

essentially translates into $1.7 trillion in terms of the value of the company making it the most valuable company in the world, way ahead of apple which is currently the most valuable company in terms of if you look at companies. with the company is doing is they are just selling 1.5% of shares from the company, which means they're going to raise a little over $25 billion. it's been a struggle for them to get the ip of the ground, obstacles and low oil prices and then saudi aram—co's a factory getting attacked just a few months ago and a lot of doubts they would be able to launch the ip. this country essentially relies on oil, oil, and oil. but the crown prince wants to do is by raising this money he wants to invest in new industries and modernise the economy and create new jobs which will make the salaries less reliant on oil, and that's why this fundraising is really, really critical for them. now to the chinese telecoms giant

huawei and its dispute with the us telecoms regulator. this tweet from reuters business explains "huawei it's because the us government is concerned huawei could use its position as the world's biggest supplier of telecoms equipment to help china's government to spy. huawei has always denied that. vivienne nunis is in new york for us. good to have you with us. tell us more about this legal action? missed all dates back to the decision made by the federal communications commission last month when it decided that us mobile networks and carriers that operate in remote and rural areas can no longer have access to a pool of federal funding worth a and a half billion dollars a year to provide their services in those areas if they were going to

spend that money on huawei equipment. today we've seen huawei trying to launch this legal action to overturn that decision because it says that with the us has done there violates federal law and says u nfa i rly violates federal law and says unfairly paints it as a national security threat. i want to bring our viewers more aspects of this and i will come right back to you. and — this lawsuit — is just one front in the trump administration's battle with huawei. they're also trying to get america's allies, to block huawei from their 5g mobile networks. so they wont be happy with this picture which has been trending on social media today. it shows uk prime minister boris johnson using a huawei phone to take a selfie when appearing on itv‘s this morning showjust a day after he acknowledged those us security concerns. and on a trip to portugal today the secretary of state mike pompeo reiterated those worries.

so as we think about where americans information will be we want to make sure that information only gets to networks that we trust and we are confident will not end up in the hands of a malign actor, or the chinese communist party. we recognise the sovereignty of every nation and their right to make decisions for themselves, but we have tried for these past couple of years to make clear to our friends all around the world of the intended risks. the secretary of state pushing people to think there are risks taking place. what can they really get other countries are indeed the united states to do to kind of minimise the power of accra three? the us has been trying to use its weight to encourage its allies to do as it has done and block huawei from providing the next generation of mobile infrastructure. 5g networks. the us has blocked them from doing that here and also

encouraged allies like australia and new zealand to do the same which they have done so. interestingly this lawsuit we saw today is just kind of one front of this ongoing battle between huawei and the us. long—held concerns about national security that think they are too close to the chinese military and chinese government and could be used in espionage. huawei says there's no evidence of that and would never be allowing their company to be used for spying. just about 20 seconds for spying. just about 20 seconds for your answer but they are meant to be thrashing out a trade deal, and this big elephant, i don't know, in the room? another friend with a don't seem to be going well in the trade talks. big disagreement over huawei and china has said all terrorists should be rolled back if there is that agreement as it stands if we don't get an agreement that others do to be more tariffs implied to chinese imports on the us on

december 15. we will have brexit cast up next. hello there. here at home it's been turning milder and windier today. further afield we've got another winter storm set to arrive in western parts of north america. coming in from the pacific that area of cloud, big area of low pressure that's going to hang around for a few days. this areas of cloud here though are going to be pushing their ways towards more eastern part of the us on friday bringing some rain perhaps in the northeast some snow as well. a good chunk of dry weather right along the coast there in the west, that we will be turning heavy with stronger winds and some snow in the mountains as well. already been huge amounts of snow and some snow in the mountains as well. already been huge amounts of snow in the sierra nevada mountains to come here as well and make it rain for a while here, just tend to become drier though for the early part of next week. looking into africa, this rain here should not be there. this is

the horn of africa but normally dry this time of year but that rain is due to a decaying cyclone bringing ranges of the price of the middle east. there the seasonal rains and that's where we should expect the mmp that's where we should expect the ramp are also seeing heavy rain for northern parts of south africa and could bring some flooding as well. likely to be dry in cape town and going to cut that rain and heavier times. a few showers into a pond in the emirates as well. the picture across south asia and this is where we would normally expect the cloud to be at this time of year. some showers here and most of the rain though for sri lanka in the maldives and northern plains of india with a bit of mist and fog in the morning. the area of high pressure keeping most of china and the peninsula dry. moisture coming up from the south china sea bringing some rain into taiwan and pushing it to japan this weekend as well. moving down under

and it's been a record—breaking time here, new zealand the warmest november on record, australia the driest spring ever recorded. most of us driest spring ever recorded. most of us truly at the moment it is still dry. heat wave warnings across northern areas been extremely hot in perth. that weather from northern areas been extremely hot in perth. that weatherfrom bringing rain but will drop the temperatures as well. initially right now across the southeast but that will change. move over the sea towards new zealand and wet weather here. particularly across the south island may lead to further flooding. will get warmer into next week in perth and significantly warmer weather on the way for melbourne as well. within parts of europe turning milder and a lot more isobars on the chart for friday. a lot of rain recently at times through the mediterranean, some heavy thunder you on the whole sovereign parts of europe turning drier and more u nsettled europe turning drier and more unsettled across the north and northwest in particular. briefly it's turning milder and then he gets a little bit colder, and then some

showers or longer spells of rain. now it's time for brexitcast. the just—in—time thejust—in—time for the just—in—time for brexit i have not slept and three years now i've been living on college green for so long and i am technically qualified as an urban fox. welcome to brexitcast.

thank you for them impersonating some of our beloved colleagues. they will be back shortly as himself. it is the real adam here. will be back shortly as himself. it is the realadam here. and will be back shortly as himself. it is the real adam here. and the will be back shortly as himself. it is the realadam here. and the real, we should say we shall not be moved. and take over the studio.|j we should say we shall not be moved. and take over the studio. i think the real laura, notjust in a van, but a whole satellite, in derbyshire. and i have been banished as well in birmingham, but i'm on the campaign trail with labour. they do get a bit by this time of year. just thought i would be honest and give them a way out. you have your

thermals on, what have