come tonight. w. . this is day they'll be new year's live from the top democrat says she will begin impeachment charges against president house speaker nancy pelosi said the president struck at the heart of the constitution and the top no choice but to act democrats charge that mr trump abused his office by pressing ukraine to investigate his leading political rival we'll take you live to washington also on the program for

a french public sector workers a stage one of the biggest national strikes for its people taking to the streets protesting against proposed pension reforms the strike is causing widespread disruption to transport networks schools and hospitals taking life to powers. the pacific island state of samoa goes into lockdown as it carries out emergency measles mass vaccinations more than 60 people most of them children have been seen since. we take you to the village of turkey with all of its. villages old style twitter is under threat says young people. so you know it's to protect traditions.

i'm phil gayle welcome to the program we begin with breaking news from the united states u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says she's ready to draft articles of impeachment against the president's announcement must the culmination of a months long inquiry into whether whether president trump abused his office over his dealings with ukraine is alleged to have held up military aid to ukraine in exchange for that country launching an investigation into democratic presidential candidate joe biden this a speaker pelosi said threatened the heart of the u.s. constitution the president has engaged in abuse of power undermining our national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections. are in defiance of the vision of our founders and the oath of office that he takes to preserve protect and defend the constitution. sadly but with confidence and

humility with allegiance to our founders and heart full of love for america today i'm asking our chairmen to proceed with articles of impeachment i commend our committee chairs and our members for their somber approach to actions which i wish the president had not made necessary. more from data because for the public in washington welcome a problem so what does this announcement mean for the president. well it's obviously not good for president trump and we had expected we'd have been expecting you know articles of impeachment to be drawn up and passed on to have representatives from the judiciary committee in the next and the next few weeks but we didn't expect it to happen so quickly so what's going to happen now is the articles are you what exactly the charges will say the impeachment articles are

going to entail will be revealed now they'll be drawn up they'll be passed on to the house of representatives where they'll be debated it's expected that they will be approved and passed and then passes on to the senate where the senate trial will take place and of president trump and that is expected to take place now in january to take us back of. the heart of this is going to the phone call between president of the united states the president of ukraine. you're absolutely right now what we don't know at the moment is exactly what articles are going to be put forward by the house judiciary committee but we do have sort of crazy you know obvious statements were made yesterday will say. one of them is abuse of power because according to the democrats president trump basically put his

own personal political gain ahead of national security the only one that could be put forward is obstruction of justice at because he basically after locked in investigation from taking place or at least made it very difficult and the other one that the democrats have mentioned is that a president trumping gaged in bribery because he withheld $400000000.00 in aid for ukraine but like i said at the moment we don't know exactly what those articles are going to be bored i don't think we're going to have to wait very long to find out. washington thank you. so much of france has come to a standstill as the country experiences its biggest strike in decades over proposed pension reforms and the people taking to the streets with severe disruption to rail lines schools and hospitals president emanuel macros plans to overhaul the retirement system would force workers to retire like so see their pensions reduced

union leaders say they will continue the strike until monday. davey life in front and particularly in the capital paris is almost grounds to hold public transport is especially affected many flights have been cancelled and schools have state shot but such action is not uncommon in front many people have been preparing to days. everyone's ready my daughter left the house at 6 in the morning to arrive at work on time my son stayed the night in hotels close to their workplaces some people won't make it to work today. and lose a day's salary as a result but you build orange on its. people and demonstrating in several french cities against the government's planned pension reforms the details of the reforms the g to be announced in the coming week but trade unions want to put pressure on the french government and president not home now. concern is that workers will have

to work for longer in future and that pensions will be smaller. if you will have to keep striking until the government starts to listen to us. many businesses along the route of thursday's demonstration have remained closed amid fears that protests could turn violent. let's go straight to paris lui studio because bonnet is there covering events from the past and republic welcome lisa what's going on. well the man is the demonstration here kicked off a few hours back and people have now moved in to the president if you like just behind me we've heard the 1st classes between that blocks it seems and police there also clashes in other parts of france here the air is thick with tear gas already and we have moved of the behind the police cordon to be in

a safe place but there we're looking at what we were looking at live pictures as you're speaking there you mention the black bloc about what is that. well that's a an ad i kissed organization with a rino behind that but they're a characteristic is really that they're normally in hoods and you can actually see their faces and they're trying to create chaos and you know attack police of the police is fighting back several police groups of police have moved in already and you know to to counter the attack from the black rocks and fight back so to one side what a lot of the concerns that people have voiced to you. well people have been telling me that they're here for you know to fight against the pension reform obviously you know they against my cost plan to fusion that $42.00 different special systems into one big system and people are afraid that many of

you might actually lose out with that he they are asking the government to you know increase pensions instead of bringing them down and obviously you know when you're talking about the black blogs and many people the people i've been talking to are not really the ones who want violence to happen because that could actually discredit the movement and they're quite concerned also about violence within the demonstration if you look back over the past few months here over the last year in france there's been quite a lot of demonstrations by these so-called yellow vests some of them also here today and these demonstrations have been have become more and more violence of people who are demonstrating against the pension reform are quite afraid that that might actually take you know kind of distract from the main issue here that is the pension reform they're demonstrating against or it does look like a quite a scene there we were looking at live pictures as you were speaking of loss of smoke around the capital what is at stake for the president in this confrontation.

it's quite an important issue really for a man in my car he came to power a few years back saying the. he would reform the country you know and he had several plans but the pension reform was one of the centerpieces really so even members from the government are now saying that they really need to push through the survey form if they favor they say that his political capital could really go down he used to say that he would do reforms for the left and for the right in the meantime since he's come to power is left largely left support from lost support amongst people from the center left and center a lot center right is now his core support group and these people expect him to reform if he doesn't manage to do that even his the members of his own government think that there's very little chance that he will get reelected in 2002 to this interesting paris thank you. now we'll take

a look at some of the other stories making news around the world at least 57 people have died after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of tainio this according to the international organization for migration it says the vessel departed the gambler in late november headed for europe you know and says more than that 80 people survived the wreck. it all is holding a mass i mean all sorts of despite criticism from rights groups on the country's supreme court that it is cruel and outdated events involving the slaughter of thousands of animals is thought to be the largest of its kind in the world takes place every 5 years of tracks devout hindus from across the region. straining city of sydney shrouded in unprecedented pollution a severe bushfire rage nearby hundreds of homes have been destroyed down to 4 people have died since the start of the fires or weeks ago scientists say at the fires are more intense than usual due to a prolonged drought fuelled by climate change. thousands of women in chile

took part in a flash mob against sexual violence on wednesday as the government grapples with weeks of unrest over inequality the women song a rapist in your path has become a rallying cry for women around the world. not to the south pacific a state of samoa which is in lockdown as it carries out mass missiles vaccinations of its population of more than 200000 more than 60 submergence most of them children have died since the epidemic began in october the world health organization says describes the initiatives as a part of a worldwide outrage and a collective failure to protect people against disease more than 4000 cases have been reported since this outbreak began the main streets of the capital appiah are largely deserted as vaccination teams go door to door. no necessary buying clothes for her son to be buried in but he's one of more than 60

children who has died in the measles epidemic sweeping samoa. i don't know if we get by. with cases like as mounting the government has declared a state of emergency vaccinations have been made compulsory in a country where only around a 3rd of the population was immunized against measles. 90 percent need to be vaccinated for adequate protection one reason for the rapid spread of the preventable disease misinformation by anti vaccination groups we know that. many believe right now we are going to. force people to come from an area that's free. but the problem may be should we care. to get our right

before. we have children. and try to actually. you. know for. many of you. the government's patience is running it started a 2 day shutdown of businesses and most government offices and advise samoans to stay indoors. officials have asked residents who've not been immunized to hang red flags from their windows medical teams are going from house to house to administer vaccinations. others are being vaccinated in emergency centers the tiny island nation is desperate to finally stamp out the disease. health officials have been blaming misinformation online from a. this crisis worse reported john agreed has been following the story welcome

general. why is this outbreak there are lots of fact is doctors in. saying that a lot of young children have died as are seen in that report and that's because many of them are not only battling measles the battling other complications associated with. the health system under strain so we have many doctors flying in from overseas to help but i guess the big one is low rates of immunization in the community so before the outbreak right around 30 percent according to the world health organization it needs to be around 90 percent to prevent diseases like measles spreading so with so few people immunized. left some more vulnerable to an outbreak of measles which sadly is what it's seeing right now and there was overheard a reference or in the report this i'm t. vox on the internet what sort of role playing

a big one and that's according to unicef so the pacific islands boss for unicef is someone called children yet he said that content found on social media is is feeding into the outbreak and it's content that's coming from wealthy overseas nations like australia and the us countries that have largest stablished anti-vaccination groups that are sending their information to developed countries like. one of the most prominent anti vaccination campaign is in some 0 is someone called edwin thomas east he's got no medical training he's a businessman but he posts medical advice to thousands of followers he claims that vaccines a highly toxic and can have court serious long term consequences he advises his followers to buy which he just happens to be selling and he's actually been arrested for contravening a law that samoa bro. in to to try and crack down on this stuff one thing that

we've also been seeing is is groups from overseas. posting like trolls posting on the samoan government in content that it's putting out on facebook so aside from the community push to vaccinate people it's got advertising campaigns promotional campaigns and anti faxes from overseas the heating doors with me and misinformation and even nazi propaganda which we have chosen not to show he. of course facebook comes into play here it's announced a crackdown on and he backs odds but clearly hasn't gone quite far enough we need to remember to feel the world health organization this year labeled vaccine hesitancy as one of the top 10 global threats and that's clearly in play here on social media jared thank you for this is a day that we use live from bourbon still to come. in turkey where they're using their own centuries old version of twitter us go has having has

added the bird language to its list of protected traditions. it has been billed as the alternative nobel prize this year the right livelihood awards were gender and age balance and spanned the globe to honor your teenage environmentalist a chinese lawyer an african protest leader and the digitas brazilian fighting to save the amazon rainforest. it may look like many other ceremonies but the right livelihood awards in stockholm it sets out to shine a light on noble causes. but 2 of this year's winners were unable to accept their awards in person e. we have later tune burge the swedish teen who has sparked a global environmental movement fridays for future sent in an acceptance video she recorded in lisbon on the way to the climate conference she's attending in madrid and i still think on the few weeks if you like.

that. it means a lot. and yes if we continue. the fight continues and we never stop thank you so much for this on no reason was given for the absence of 58 year old chinese lawyer jan may some past winners have been unable to come to sweden to receive their awards due to travel bans the jury said jan may have done pioneering and persistent work in securing women's rights in china and in our 2 fighter dubbed the gandy of western sahara accepted her award for her 30 year old peaceful campaign for independence from morocco. and brazilian indigenous activists davi called acknowledge the focus the award gave to his cause a member of the yanomami people is campaigning to protect the amazon forest.

people from other countries do not know the current reality of the yellow mommy people we need support to make sure our native language and traditional knowledge will not disappear. that is why we are no mommy people are here sharing with you the issues we're facing the brazilian government is threatening our territories our why in. each of the 4 recipients will receive a cash prize worth $100000.00. along with continued support from the organization and a specially designed sculpture made from recycled metal from gun destruction programs in central america. now we all thought twitter was a 21st century invention but it turns out that residents of the village. coast have been happily tweeting and twittering for hundreds of years. cory is a small turkish community with about $400.00 residents nestled in the mountains

near the black sea its name means the village of birds and it's home to an age old bird language caught in bed accuses it to communicate with a neighbor from earth talk to avert a top. further up the hill a neighbor joins the conversation. carton bay big invites us over 30 several neighbors have come by and they all agree that modernity is to blame for the study the minds of the bird language in their village. need to be back in the day everyone could speak of our ancestors our grandparents for instance my father my mother my siblings they could all speak it now we've got telephones and the language is disappearing the young people say it seems rude to them when

they whistle they don't learn the bird language they could but they don't because they are moving to the city. in some of the grandchildren come back to the village from the city for their holidays caught in tries to teach the boys the language but it's nearly impossible to do in just a few weeks. he just used to call our neighbors for help by whistling we didn't have to walk everywhere you could whistle from here and over there people would understand. the traditions of cusco east t.n. hazelnut farming community are gradually being lost that's why unesco has added the bird language to its protection program the villages hope to receive financial support and a founder to school for the language. some can whistle their 1st sounds from the 1st day onwards there is need about one or 2 weeks it takes about 2 months until they can whistle their 1st phrases it has to do

with talent. evan is the great hope of the village. i'm just one of the few who are interested. the other could see the language is useless. but i believe it's very valuable. even though scientists believe the bird language is slowly going extinct interest in the tradition is increasing much further than turkey's own borders. and these days whistling is making a comeback across the valley of. germany's most a famous unsuccessful basketball. export. has received the order of merit in

following the ceremony of a former n.b.a. star took time to reflect and discuss what post basketball life. dirk nowitzki is imposing skills and hard work helped catapult the former basketball player into superstardom but his impact has extended far past the sports world if it's he was awarded the german order of merit the country's highest civic honor by president from faulty steinmeyer in berlin the award celebrates the 41 year old's athletic career and commitment to community service if it is a unicef ambassador and launched a foundation supporting children dealing with poverty and illness in 2001. after the ward ceremony a bit he made it clear he's enjoying himself after 21 years in the pros. it's a phenomenon as i said from the start that when my career was over i would need a year or 2 to take a step back and enjoy my family they played 2nd fiddle long enough. is no stranger

to accolades he led the dallas mavericks to the 2011 n.b.a. title and was the 1st ever european to win the league m.v.p. award in 2007 his larger than life play in the u.s. helped elevate the previously rarely played game back home. though he's accomplished enough for a lifetime germany's record point getter is already thinking of the next step. up i listen i've always tried to give everything for my sport with passion and heart. but now i want a different perspective and would like to enter the business world this is right i'm too however he follows up is a lustrous playing career there's no doubt if it's he will continue to stand out in the crowd. this is data news these are our top stories the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives that nancy pelosi has announced that the house is to draft articles of impeachment against president trump speaker pelosi said american

democracy was at stake and the president had abused his office and he stinks with ukraine. clashes have broken out in paris during france's biggest strike for decades public sector workers i'm going to the president marcos proposed pension reforms taking to the streets causing severe disruptions to schools hospitals and rebels says. south pacific state of samoa is carrying out a mass in the user's vaccination of its 200000 population more than 60 somalis mostly children have died since an epidemic began in october $104000.00 cases have been reported. and artists in the french city of rio are taking part in the annual festival of lights featuring more than 60 light installations with many projected onto the city's historic architecture.

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