this is g.w. news from the most powerful woman in washington says it's time to begin drafting impeachment charges against president will drop house speaker nancy pelosi who says that the president's actions struck at the heart of the u.s. constitution and that lawmakers have no choice but to ask democrats charge the trump abused his office by pressing ukraine to investigate trump's leading

political rival republicans say it's a witch hunt also coming up the pacific island state of samoa and goes into a walk down as it carries up emergency mass vaccinations against measles is part of what the world health organization says is a collective failure to confront the world wide surge in measles cases with children bearing the brunt of the suffering. and french public sector workers stage one of the biggest national strikes in decades the protests against proposed pension reforms calls once for a disruption to transport networks today and schools and hospitals some of them have turned by a lens will have the latest from paris and will take you to the village in turkey was a language all its own. but the villagers old style help twitter is under threat as young leaves. leave for the

cities so you know scott has added what you're hearing right now list for church. tradition. golf it's good to have you with these speaker of the u.s. house of representatives nancy pelosi says she is ready to draft articles of impeachment against the u.s. president that amounts meant marks the culmination of months of inquiries into whether the president abused his office in his dealings with ukraine now he's alleged to have held up military aid to kiev in exchange for an investigation into democratic presidential candidate. speaker pelosi says that trumps actions have threatened the very heart of the us constitution the president has engaged in abuse of power undermining our national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our

elections and the 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 state. that with confidence and. with allegiance to our founders and heart full of love for america today i am asking you 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. where you could definitely hear the sadness there nancy pelosi is voiceless take the story to washington our correspondent. is in washington good evening to you public so what does this announcement mean right now for u.s. president all drawl. heidrun full of the it's not good news for

president trump you wouldn't get that impression from the his series of tweets today but before we get to what it means now is that the process is moving forward quite swiftly what's going to happen is that the articles of impeachment are being prepared it's expected that they'll be debated next week by the judiciary committee and then what will happen is that it will pass on to the house of representatives where they'll be voted on by the members of congress and then it's expected that they will be approved and they'll be passed on to the senate for the impeachment trial which should take place in january of next year so you know in a matter of weeks we're talking about here this is happening very quickly and what could the president be impeached. well at the moment you know it hasn't been obviously announced what exactly those articles of impeachment will be

but we do have some pretty good indicators considering you know the investigations which have been taking place and also some of the language that's being used just by you know even pelosi there one of those articles could be abuse of power by president trump he put his own personal political gain over national security bribery is another one that could be amongst those articles referring to the withholding of $400000000.00 of military aid which had actually been approved by congress already and another one is obstruction of congress so you know we're talking about very serious articles of impeachment terror but like i said president trump is defiant. in. the u.s. constitution dictates that this impeachment proceeding begin to take place is

a sad day for the united states she what about the republican party has there been any reaction from the party concerning where this is go. yeah you're absolutely right i mean obviously from the democrats you mentioned there for nancy pelosi it's a good representation of the feeling amongst them that the they say it's a very sad day but democrats and in particular i think what we need to do is focus on president trump of mention that now as for already a couple of times what his reaction has been it's defiance and i'm going to read some of what he said and his series of tweets and he said they already they referring to the democrats gave up on the ridiculous miller stuff so now they hang their hats on 2 totally appropriate perfect phone calls with the ukrainian president this will mean that beyond important and seldom used active impeachment will be used routinely to attack future presidents and this is not what our founders had in mind he's referring to see what you know nancy pelosi had said in

her statement where she referred several times to the founders of the united states . port and it is to proceed with the impeachment trial but the republicans you know have been standing pretty firm. standing behind president trump despite the fact that there have been many grumblings and amongst you know senior members included of the republican party but they're standing with the president so it'll be interesting to see what happens in that trial in the senate in january rather. than washington but we think you. you know the president could be impeached by the end of this year presidential elections of the u.s. were there next year in about 10 months from now and so what are voters saying then about all of this to do the telling the blackstone in the state of virginia virginia is a state the president did not win in 2016. blackstone

it's about a $30.00 draw of washington and the impeachment hearings going on. the residents here are proud to say that part of the self. mack osborn 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 his just seems as millions of dollars being wasted and we have so many issues national issues we need to solve as a country and this is just a fatsis 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 won't know where your money should go when 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 other half the 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 you've got you know. you've got 20 did this saddle so even the people all over the place. if you replace you get rid of the man to go to the country i. mean the people who voted for. him in a local baba 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 supporter regardless of what's said in washington. 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. no reason for the impeachment street they go to show. how they good. with the figure of special counsel robert looking on the proprietors of a nearby bed and breakfast their hot. bed democrats and they believe the impeachment hearings are justified but they don't think the result will play a role in the upcoming elections. for the guy that worked 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 see how the economy is going and that will be the advantage. 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 here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world at least $57.00 people have died after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of martini in northwest africa a report from the international organization for migration says more than 80 people survived and that the vessel left the gambia in late november bell for your. 23 year old woman is in critical condition after she was set alight on her way to a court hearing in the indian state of pradesh she was going to the hearing in the rape case that she had filed against 2 men who were among the 5 arrested in connection with setting her on fire. one week before the u.k. elections for members of the european parliament from the brics a party have resigned and urged people to vote for the conservatives they say support for the bricks and party is splitting the leave votes and that boris johnson's brags that dio is the only option for the country. and

outrage and a collective failure that is how the world health organization is describing a surge. in the number of people dying from measles now their latest report shows that the disease killed about 140000 people in 2018 most of those people were children under the age of 5 the w.h.o. says one of the reasons that the number of cases increasing around the world is because people are not vaccinating their children well here's a closer look at the place being devastated by meals the pacific nation of samoa more than 4000 cases have been reported since the current outbreak began and the main streets of the capital are largely deserted as vaccination teams go door to door. llano 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. anything it might be. 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 around 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 have. anybody right now they are going to. force people to come from an area that's free. but the problem means should we care. then have to get. right before. we have children. and try to actually.

keep. them for. many of you. 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. and this is not something that's coming from nature health officials are blaming misinformation on. online for making this crisis worse than following that is my colleague jeff agreed good to see 1st let's talk about how bad things are right now why is this

bad as it is well there are a couple of factors as we heard in that report a lot of children have died and doctors a saying on top of measles children often being presented with other complications as a result of the measles via pneumonia and instead philosophers and treating all these together is quite complicated especially on the body of a young child not their immune systems are not as advanced as adults. the health system they're under strain as we heard to say all of these medics have being flown in from overseas as we have been saying it's about the vaccination right before the outbreak the vaccination rates around 30 percent best practice according to the w.h.o. is 90 percent so many people not vaccinated that left some all vulnerable to such a highly infectious disease like measles just spread and take hold which it has but it's not just samoa as you said earlier 140000 people mostly children died last

year because of measles and vaccination rights stagnating in the w.h.o. says it's an outrage that is happening all over the world the question is why are parents now doing something that they didn't do 20 years ago why are they deciding not to have their children vaccinated it have something to do with these entire vacs are campaigns that we're seeing on social media right yeah right it's partly to do that is some says it's to do with mistrust in the government for example and also information what people are seeing online a lot of this information is coming from rich countries like australia and the united states this information has a real effect on developing nations like some oh and one of the most prominent and faxes in somalia is a man named tom ses he has. medical training but he posts information on to facebook we can have a look at his facebook account shortly he claims that vaccines a highly toxic and have serious long term consequences he advises he's followers to

turn to vitamins he's actually been arrested for incitement against vaccination order that the samoan government has introduced but it just goes to show with people like this you can see why the w.h.o. . labeled vaccine hesitancy as one of the big top 10 global health threats and it's partly to do with what's found on social media and you say he's been arrested but what he put on facebook is still. the misinformation that cancer is still spreading right she agreed as always thanks for your reporting. i want to turn now to france where a general strike. has brought much of the country to a standstill public sector workers joined mass protests against president emanuel micron's plans to reform the pension system schools and hospitals have been seriously disrupted some of the protests turned violent. assy of

strikers it's the largest mobilization across france in decades this time it's all about pension reforms for future generations. pension it's going to really barely afford to meet. who don't have enough to make ends meet and this reform will make things worse. defend the nation i might retire myself in 10 years' time and i'm not sure i'll be able to survive on what mccall is proposing is that simple. however by thursday afternoon scenes from paris city center showed increasing violence groups of protesters smashed store windows and clashed with police among them members often anarchist group the so-called black bloc the violence made visible to frustration many strike supporters feel with the french government. they give off that is it good and he says they want to save money that's who is the $1.00 class who paid the price but it has an acceptable that's

a fact if there's money there the people in power the capitalists have to pay it off they know how to find money for not deals that have turned the world upside down and they want us to pay but we don't agree with that you went on in the for that call. the general strike was called by trade unions to protest the government's plans for pension reform many fear it would increase their work time and reduce their pensions to strike has received widespread support. several forces united to this it's really big terrorist students nurses and doctors lawyers and yellow vests like me as usual. unions say they might extend the strike as far as monday. illustrate the story now to our correspondent lisa lewis she is in paris at the plus good evening to you this is what's going on right now in paris and what should we expect throughout the night.

well the demonstrations kind of finish there are the last time stages though right behind me the for these has blocked off the square and is asking everybody to leave but there have been just up until now some classes between protesters and police you know the demonstration took off at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and then got. the fact that if you recall quite a while but that it moves forward and finding the right here at the plus the next show its final destination. we know what are people upset about and we want to remind our viewers that france has about 42 pension systems as it is today and the president wants to basically to have one for the entire country for all workers are people upset about better or the upset about having to work longer or the their pensions are going to be smaller while the french are just afraid that they will have less money when they retire that it will be impossible for them to make ends

meet yes there are 42 different systems but they say lots of people here say there's also a reason to that for example if you take teaches you know teachers have a special system and parts of that special system is that their pension is calculated based on what they earn at the very end of their career now they statue off with a very low salary and that goes up successively year after year and that's why it's calculated that way so many people say yes it's very complicated but there's also a reason to the fact that some people have moved benefits that have this and we need to really be paying attention at that these people who are these out and willing behavior to make ends meet when they retire and of course every year this system gets more and more expensive the last time the french even thought about reforming pensions was in 1905 and we know that the protests lasted so long that the government backed off what do you think the president is going to do this start

. well he's of the afraid that that might happen again it's crucial for him to push through the pension reform it's one of the centerpieces of what he was running on the platform he was running on a when having elected 4 presidents so he is afraid that this might happen again and it looks like the government is open to negotiations with the protest says he doesn't want to give up on the main p.c. doesn't want to give up on that fusion of 42 systems and one that there seems to be some leeway for negotiation all right lisa was on the story for us in paris lisa thank you. well we're all thought that twitter was a 21st century invention that but it turns out residents of a village near turkey's black sea coast well they've been happily tweeting and twittering for hundreds of years take a listen. corey 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 rooftop to rooftop. further up the hill a neighbor joins the conversation. cowdenbeath big invites us over for tea several neighbors have come by and they all agree that modernity is to blame for the steady 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 but 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. you might get 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 t.v. and hazelnut farming community i gradually being lost that's why unesco has added the bud language to its protection program the villages hope to receive financial support and the founder of a 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. than is the great hope of the village. i'm just one of the few who are interested. the other can 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 turkeys on borders. and these days whistling is making a comeback across the valley of. well this is news and these are our top stories the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives nancy pelosi has announced that the house will draft

articles of impeachment against president trump speaker pelosi says that the president has abused his office over his dealings with ukraine. clashes have broken out in paris during france's biggest strike in decades public sector workers angered over president proposed pension reforms have taken to the streets causing severe disruptions to schools hospitals and rail service. at least $57.00 people died after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of north west africa the international organization of migration says more than 80 people survived and that the vessel left the gambia in the headed for year. the latest figures from the world health organization show that measles killed about 140000 people in 2018 that's up from 110000 in the previous year the w.h.o.

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disrespectful. as usual work to seek some sort of compromise and consensus.