teetotal dot com there goes the meeting. click. this is d w news live from verb in the most powerful woman in washington since the time has come to begin dropping articles of impeachment against president trump house speaker nancy pelosi says the president's actions threaten the heart of the constitution and that lawmakers have no choice in boston to ask democrats charge that trump abused his office 5. 20 he's leaving political rival also on the program

. french public sector workers stage one of the biggest national strikes for decades protests against proposed pension reforms caused huge destruction and some of them have turned fought. and germany's chancellor prepares to visit the site of the country's most heinous crimes angela merkel is making her 1st visit to the camp on friday she's bringing a large donation to help conserve the size and about future generations to learn about the atrocities committed. to me how with thanks for joining us the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives nancy pelosi says she's ready to draft articles of impeachment against president donald trump the announcement marks the culmination of a month long inquiry into whether trump abused his office in dealings with ukraine

he's alleged to have held up military aid to kiev in exchange for an investigation into his rival democratic presidential candidate joe biden. nancy pelosi was clear about the way forward with impeachment she said the president's abuse of power was clear and required action was heartbreaking but the president gave us no choice so we're not going to say what we would we would honor our oath of office but what he's the one who's dividing the country on this we are honoring the constitution of the united states. has asked the house judiciary committee to draw up charges which could include abuse of power and obstruction of justice trumps response was characteristically direct on his preferred communication channel twitter. they have no impeachment case and not demeaning our country he treated but nothing matters to them they've gone crazy therefore i say if you're going to impeach me do it now

fast so we can have a fair trial in the senate. his regular cheerleaders supported him calling impeachment is a just a mess are we ok with it we think it is ill conceived illegitimate process it will continue to be americans seem divided on the issue. i think the evidence is very clear that he put his own personal interests before the interests of our country. i don't find that appalling. and i have to say i'm really really disappointed. that the republicans. in government. don't seem to be able to put their country 1st. well right quite frankly i think it's very bad timing it's christmas time is going to be you know we have an election next year and they wait let the voters

speak we don't need her to speak force if the democrats move of a fast in the house then proceedings move to the 2nd stage of the peach mint a try in the senate where the republicans have a majority which could be to trump's advantage at the end of another significant tie on capitol hill d.w. washington correspondent of a seles since his assessment of what comes next in the impeachment process the democrats say they have no other choice than impeaching president trump according to the intelligence committee there is overwhelming evidence of president trumps wrongdoing the judiciary committee will now work on articles of impeachment abuse of power bribery and obstruction of justice are some of the potential counts but let's not forget no matter what the evidence suggests we're not looking at a trial and there won't be a formal court ruling the impeachment proceedings are a very partisan process and therefore we can expect lawmakers and senators to very

much vote 'd in the interest of their party and in the end it's highly unlikely that president trump will be impeached all of office. they wus all of a cell at their 2 fronts now where a nationwide strike brought the country to a standstill on thursday public sector workers joined of mass protests against president. plans to reform the pension system rail travel schools and hospitals have been seriously disrupted and some of the protests turned violent. as a sea of strikers it's the largest mobilization across france in decades this time it's all about pension reforms for future generations. their pension and security barely afford to eat. who don't have enough to make ends meet and this reform will make things worse. all the defend the nation i buy my free time myself in 10 years' time and i'm not sure i'll be able to survive on what my call 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's. take even if that is a good as he says they want to save money and so is the $1.00 class who paid the price for the cuts on acceptable that's a fact if there's money there the people in power like capitalists have to pay it off they know how to find money for not for the deals it is they've turned the world upside down and they want us to pay but we don't agree with that you went on in the fight that all. 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 there are a students nurses and doctors lawyers and yellow vests like me. unions say they might extend the strike as far as monday. night is some of the other stories making news around the world. at least $58.00 people have died after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of mar tenia in north west africa the report from the international organization for migration says that more than 80 people survived and that the vessel lift the gambia in late november bound for europe. right helling company says it received nearly 6000 complaints of sexual assaults in 20172018 in the u.s. it's the 1st time it has revealed the scale of such assaults from passages and drivers but the company says such incidents are rare noting that people in the u.s.

took the 2000000000 rides in that period. has launched a spacecraft loaded with nearly 3 tons of supplies to the international space station the dragon capsule is delivering holiday treats to the 6 station residents and 18 miles for a muscle study the falcon rocket busted off from cape canaveral a day late due to high winds. and outrage and a collective is how the world health organization is describing a surge in the number of people dying from measles the latest report shows that the disease killed about 140000 people in 2019 the w.h.o. says one factor in the surge is people fighting to vaccinate their children is a closer look at a place being devastated by measles the pacific nation of samoa. 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 london 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 know that. everybody right now we are going to. force people to come to such freak. but the problem means should we care enough to get by oh right before. we have children. and try to actually.

keep. them for so. many of our viewers will. be. the government's patience has run that use it started to today shut down 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. german chancellor angela merkel is making her 1st visit to the ask. it's birkenau memorial in poland on friday it's the site of the nazis la just death camp during the 2nd world war now who will be attending a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of

a foundation that funds conservation efforts are reported rats visited the memorial at the chancellor's abroad. for many people this sign is a good photo op it translates to work sets you free the nazis inhumane slogan looms above the entrance to the auschwitz memorial the horror of the past is the tourist attraction of today visitors from around the world come here over the past 10 years the number of guests has doubled over the past 20 years it has quintupled now there are more than 2000000 visitors a year breaking to see how cruel people can be and it's it's very moving through hard not to cry and we'll see on t.v. on freedoms many many times 1st time that you see in the 1st time in person that's pretty reset itself is really important like a place it's giving great people kind of impression about what happened to people and true and so on but i think that we are paying too much attention to the

buildings to the place itself to the general names and things like that and to small attention to what was really important so where did all came from the memorial has become a victim of its own success the an ending stream of guests is quite a challenge says the extra exhibition rooms have been added for crowd control. the numbers of visitors that we are getting are already overwhelming this is look just a clean difficult operation so we are also planning to build a completely new visitor center that will be slightly at the side of the historical . site of the comp and it will also help us from does very well just a cool point of view even the bitter december cold doesn't stop guests from visiting the barracks in the birth canal concentration camp. at this location more than 1000000 people mostly jews were murdered by the nazis through malnutrition

disease or the gas chamber today the barracks are crumbling but renovations have begun the goal is that they look like the original yet are sturdy enough to withstand hard winters this task may take decades to accomplish. this venue it is important that we dismantle the barracks under the supervision of the historical location of the challenge is to integrate the necessary thoroughness and procession into the process the restoration work is supported by the use of documentation that we prepared ahead of time. but it's not as modern of milan something that says the. precision is also necessary when preparing the exhibits in this case the conservation material used in the original construction has to be carefully removed because according to modern standards it is damaging to the exhibits the goal is not to repair the objects but rather to preserve their

original state and the object of these objects reflect the history of this so there deformation contamination the fact that some objects are not complete that's all this is testimony to what happened here. and yet there are plans to change the exhibition the present one was largely designed in 1958 by survivors who focused on the fate of the victims pictures of the perpetrators were hardly bearable for them in the future however their history will be included as well when we asked one of the most important educational questions about the story violence which is the question why does not the story about the victims disses the story about people who accept a decidedly older g. chose to join the nazi party cho chose to join the s.s. day where here and they were working and at the same time they were bringing up their children almost 75 years have passed since auschwitz was liberated germany is

now providing another $60000000.00 euros so that the memorial site can continue and the horrors of the holocaust can be viewed up close. you're watching news coming out of business with javier get us don't forget the web site is there for all the lightest 24 hours a day that's dot com headlines coming up at the top of the alpha math anyhow and thanks watch. because and now completely affectionately but as affectionately as you can. be true tonight in the middle of his election campaign 2000 but documentary was filmed for russian television. to turn the camera back on of course the film.