this is the they'll be new year's live from the united states top democrat says she will be drafting formal impeachment charges against president trump house speaker nancy pelosi said the president's action struck at the heart of the constitution and that lawmakers have no choice but to act democrats charge that mr trump abused his office by pressing ukraine to investigate his leading political rival we'll go live to washington also on the program french public sector workers staged one of the biggest national strikes for decades the protests against the post pension reforms calls widespread destruction to transport networks to schools and hospitals

some of them becomes i take you live to paris. the pacific island states of samoa goes into lockdown as it carries out emergency mass vaccinations against measles and 60 people most of them children have died of the disease since. i'm still going to 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 you know that's what most the culmination of a months long inquiry into whether president trump abused his office in his dealings with ukraine is alleged to have held up military aid to the country in exchange for an investigation into democratic presidential candidate joe biden

speaker pelosi said that that threaten the heart of the u.s. constitution. the president in abuse of power undermining our national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections and actions 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 state. we know that with confidence and humility with allegiance to our founders and heart full of love for america today i'm asking you to remain. with articles of impeachment i commend your committee chairs and our members for the somber approach to actions which i wish the president had not me necessary straight to washington than we do indeed correspondent public so welcome pablo so what does this announcement mean for the president what it's obscene not good news for president trump

now what's going to happen next is that we're going to be waiting to see what exactly the articles of impeachment that are going to be prepared by not only the house judiciary committee but also the house intelligence committee and potentially also the house foreign affairs committee so what will happen now is then those articles will pass on to the house of representatives where they will be voted on by the lower house and then once those are will say approved it passes on to the senate for a trial which could take place as early as early january of next year so on what basis could the president be impeached. well you know this is been going on this investigation now for quite a considerable time now let's not forget that now we're in the next phase with the hives judiciary committee but of course we had the hives intelligence committee calling several witnesses and you know they gave pretty damning evidence against

president trump that now is so much of the potential charges are or articles which will be prepared 'd are one is abuse of power against the president because it said that he you know was putting his own personal political gain over united states is national security another one could be obstruction of justice and also engaging in bribery and so you know these are pretty serious charges or articles which will be brought against president trump and like i said it's expected that it will reach the senate by you know this trial will begin at the start of next year and the reaction from the white house so indeed from the republican party while the republican party have being quite solid will say in their support in many respects there have been some voices within the republicans who have expressed a lot of concern over watch these articles could be against president trumpet of

course it's best to hear directly from president he took to twitter actually i'm just going to read what he was saying in the past hour or so he said that the do nothing radical left democrats just announce that they're going to seek to impeach me over nothing and they already gave up on the ridiculous miller stuff so they hang their hats on to totally appropriate perfect phone calls with the ukrainian president so president trump is very defiant the white house has also come to say that it is you know. there's no basis to continue with this. inquiry and this possible impeachment of president trump so you know the republicans are standing solid. in washington thank you. presidential elections so what voters say about these impeachment hearings do you believe visited the town of blogs today in virginia a state that president failed to win lost time. blackstone is about

a 3 hour drive south of washington and the impeachment hearings going on there the residents here are proud to say they're part of the south. back i was born runs a wholesale beverage company in blackstone the trump supporter says he's doing its best to keep up to speed on what's happening in the capital and he's definitely not happy about the hearings. i don't think americans want this to go on for days and weeks and weeks and this witness and that witness and it is just seems this millions of dollars being wasted and we have so many issues national issues we need to solve as a country and this just of that's just the family business man doesn't believe president trump did anything wrong with regard to ukraine. i think a lot of this is just good politics and good business you know where your money should go and you want to make sure the things you're doing right before you help somebody. around 4000 people lived in blackstone roughly half

a white the alcohol for african-american the region is traditionally conservative but in the last congressional elections a democrat won the district. most african-americans we made on the street don't want to comment on the impeachment proceedings thomas tyler is an exception he says he'd rather see president trump's political fight decided at the ballot box next year we've got. to go 20 did this saddle so even the people will replace him. if you replace you get rid of the man to go to the country i. mean the people who voted for. him in a shop molly black occasionally chats with customers about the impeachment proceedings she says she doesn't personally follow the hearings she will remain a trump support a reg outlets of what's said in washington. right. everybody has their pros and

cuts there's things that make a good president good and bad president bad but look at the economy now there's no reason no reason to kick it out no reason for the impeachment's this week. showed how they did a great job with the figure of special counsel robert miller looking on the proprietors of a nearby bed and breakfast their hard work. their democrats and they believe the impeachment hearings are justified but they don't think the result will play a role in the upcoming elections. you're going to work for clinton this is the economy stupid and basically it sounds like it's going to be they're going to look real hard and economists. you know to the current administration. republicans and democrats and blacks don't seem to agree on this point they also agree that the united states is currently deeply divided but they differ on who's

to blame. but take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world at least 57 people have died after a boat carried by prince capsized off the coast of mauritania in northwest africa a report from the international organization for migration says more than 8 people survived and that the vessel left the gambia in late november bound for your. poll is holding a mass imo sacrifice despite criticism from rights groups around the country some cream called the practice is cruel and outdated events involving the story of thousands of animals is thought to be the largest of its kind in world it takes place every 5 names on the tracks devout hindus from across the region. a 23 year old woman is in a critical condition after she was sat alight on her way to a court hearing in the indian state of pradesh as she was on her way to attend the hearing in a rape case that she had previously filed against 2 men who were amongst the 5

arrested in connection with this latest attack. polish authorities say at least 8 people including a number of children were killed when a gas explosion destroyed a house in the south and in a southern mountain resort rescuers are searching the remains of the building. but much of france has come to a standstill as the country experiences its biggest strike for decades of a proposed pension reforms public sector workers have taken to the streets causing severe disruption to rail lines schools and hospitals president macross plans to overhaul the retirement system would force workers to retire later or see their pensions reduced union leaders say they will continue the strike until monday. daily life in france and particularly in the capital paris is almost grounds to halt public transport is especially affected many flights have been cancelled and schools have stayed shot but such action is not uncommon in france many people have been preparing for 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 will lose a day's salary as a result. 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. the concern is that workers will have to work for longer in future and the pensions will be smaller. 6 we'll 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. that the

plasterer republic in the heart of. what's going on. well the situation is quite tense here behind me at the plaza that if you break the demonstration was supposed to go from god the less towards president as you know for the east in the northeast of paris but it has kind of come to hold here because there are clashes that have broken out between mosques and protesters and the police they've been going 'd on for half an hour or so now even a bit longer and they're in the adjacent streets around the plusnet if you like i was sort of concerns of people of voice change amongst the crowd. while the people are here today in paris and other cities of france of this need to demonstrate against iran might cause the president pension reform they're worried

that when they get to retire one point all the children get to retire that there will be nothing left that he will actually squeeze pension so much that people won't be able to make ends meet they have been telling me that they're really concerned that the government seems to be taking more money away from those who are already struggling to make ends meet instead of taking it from the rich that's why they're here today demonstrators who've come to demonstrate against the pension reform peacefully have also voiced their concerns to me that you know if there are too many violent clashes that might actually distract from what they're asking for and the government could then say oh these people are violent she shouldn't go and to not to demonstrate and that's a good that that's what's really happening here today so what is at stake. that's got a lot at stake for a man in my car he came to power saying that he would reform the country was running running on a platform saying that you know i'm going to implement the left wing and right wing

policies turns out the center left voters are quite disappointed with him and he's lost their support his core supporters now in the center right and these people in the center. right they expect him to reform the country the pension reform is one of his fun of the centerpieces of his program money was running for president so even members from the government are now saying that it's crucial for him to push this through they say that if he fades he might lose the last political capital he still has here in france and it will be incredibly difficult for him to get reelected in 2022 these alerts in paris thank you. for the turkish fiance of murdered saudi journalist and a dissident shoji has condemned international inaction towards saudi arabia over the crime was a. washington post contributor and u.s. resident was killed in october last year by saudi agents saudi arabia's consulate

in istanbul it was there to obtain paperwork ahead of his wedding to a teacher chang yes she was waiting for him outside you know her returned. exclusive interview the interviews alexander matthews spoke with the teacher and guess about the unanswered questions surrounding her fiance's murder. unless the citizen goes to the embassy of his own country to hand over a paper to allow him to get married it's a completely normal situation and then he was in violently murdered don't you think that the human side of it counts more than the political side of it this is how i see it the fault of the men but also however the political side has started to get more attention as there has been no real outcome of the investigation for 14 months the but if the legal process continued under normal circumstances if there had been an independent judiciary if the criminals were punished and if they shared what happened with the public. none of this would happen. with them all but if you can

go will you still love the party system so the lack of justice made it more political message she says a lot of the thoughts of. all the indications were that the crown prince of saudi arabia mohamed bin fellow was behind the order for the assassination but nothing really internationally has happened how do you feel about that is that a source of frustration for you. have on the condition of. the 2 it is significant that all the evidence leans to the crown prince and the officials of saudi arabia. because it's a focus is the attention on one person. however when you consider the investigation in general at the ship there has been no improvement that because. we still don't know what happened there at the time i had. the whole world ancestors on learning more about how this complex murder happened it's hard for you all his death it's

very disturbing for me personally. i don't know how the world sees saudi arabia because of all however personally i'm astonished and upset by the situation. it's a body to school with. issue of. what's your heart that will come out of this what would you like to see happen next. to see too much of that we should not forget the horrendous murder that has happened and should prevent it happening to anyone else ever again. because there won't be any justice because joe won't come back again a lot of level however in the future people like. people who share his values those who have been jailed for those values to contribute to efforts to release them and raising awareness about them is important to me personally. when she took

on the. controversial artist collective here in germany has apologized for its latest campaign and set up a symbolic memorial to victims of the holocaust outside the german parliament and claimed the display included the human remains of people who were murdered in concentration camps during the nazi regime was done to caused outrage among survivors and their descendants the doubly reporter for the 1000000 a groomsman has more. this column allegedly contains ashes and bone fragments of murder total cost victims the artist's collective tent home for politicisation heights a center for political beauty claims to have collected them at $23.00 locations throughout germany and poland and in ukraine the group says the installation was supposed to be a monument to the murdered jews a few up and at the same time a warning sign for politicians not to cooperate with right wing extremists such as the german far right populist party if but the action backfired.

and for the survivors and their descendants are reacting with extreme grief over the force in the idea that there are bands of their murdered relatives could be touched or moved around it's unbearable for them we hear good chef to be had in this and for foods he takes. the jewish face not only for bits cremation but in most cases it also forbids moving remains from one grave to another and you dishes go up is a jewish grave is a terminal the eternal life and one does not touch it one does not interfere with the rest of the dead. and there would talk so how far can are to go visitors to the installation were divided many still think the action is good. that's a different angle it's more radical is that it also makes the issue more concrete

forced and because you can really see something and can imagine what's in that other than to fit into i'm going to set this deck there sickly i approve of this action because the culture of remembrance should always be upheld and the atrocities committed by the nazis should be remembered. but the facts also need to be clarified and those facts include whether or not the installation really contains human remains on wednesday. they the group apologized and covered up the display window in question but it hasn't cleared up all the questions it raised. now to the south pacific state of samoa which is in lockdown as it carries out mass vaccinations against measles for its population of more than 200060 samoans most of them children have died since the epidemic began in october the world health organization describes the initiative as part of a worldwide outrage and collective failure to protect people against disease while

the 4000 cases have been reported since this outbreak began the main streets of the capital apia are largely deserted his vaccination teams go door to door. no necessary buying clothes for her son to be buried in. he's one of more than 60 children who has died in the measles epidemic sweeping samoa. i don't know if we get it. 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.

really believe we are going to be. for people to come to such free. but the problem made sure we. didn't have to get. dry before. we have sold me. and actually. people. in the world. many of our viewers to. the government's patience has run that use 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. africa has a fake drug problem according to the world health organization the continent accounts for 42 percent of global consumption of substandard and fake madsen's the results a deadly 250000 children die every year from malaria or pneumonia due to fake drugs flooding the market kenya is one of the countries affected correspondent that melanie quoted about has been investigated it's been a year since below 18 month old son passed away memories of a baby boy are still vivid so are the nightmares of losing him when he got sick blood took a son to a local chemist for help he was given an injection his skin color changed soon after in a public hospital he died in his mother's arms. but. one of the

doctors pulled me aside and said your child has been injected with fake drugs fake drugs. they did blood tests which revealed that the drug they used was fake. into the system. this is the piece. says she is just one of many here in the slum of mathematics who have been affected by counterfeit medicines a friend millicent is convinced her son was also treated with fake medicine as she calls it rather than helping him the drugs ended up paralyzing her once playful boy she says. from the moment he received injection. walking when his old body stopped working properly still today that's why

he's this way the 2 women share their grief they say they don't only blame the counterfeit medicine for the fate of their sons but also the people of ministering and distributing it. on 1st impression access to medicine doesn't seem to be an issue here selfishly pharmacies lined the streets the problem is none of them is licensed the individual prescribing a medicine has not been trained as a pharmacist and the medicine itself legally speaking cannot have been purchased legitimately through a regulated wholesaler so where's this medicine coming from. we met the owner of one of the fat is illicit drug outlets who wanted to stay anonymous for fear of repercussions he admits to occasionally buying drugs from illegal briefcase sellers a major source of dangerous substandard medicines. they're selling it very

close to the. price the drugs selling are not bought it is sorted that may be. from a certain sauce. yet the real difficulty is in verifying the quality of medicines sold in unregulated pharmacies like this one in kenya the issue is widespread. out of 20000 drug shops we have 5000 registered pharmacies so 15000 of them are outright quacks but are putting the public at harm below one for government to step up their response. using so much for his daughter no missy is that cell fake drugs should be shut down these fake docs has to get justice make me. justice.

she hopes that someday soon it will be safe to buy medicines and her community so that others won't have to endure the same heartbreak that she still carries with us today. i'm next to. a shop with a parish pantry i'll be back on the top of the top with.

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