this. accuse the president of abuse of power and obstruction they say trump used his office to pressure ukraine to investigate a political rival and that event to obstruct the congressional investigation we'll go live to washington also coming up tonight a nobel peace laureate and once held as a human rights defenders now being mars' aung san suu kyi she is being forced to

defend her country against accusations of genocide and questions mounting after these ilands volcanic eruption with the death toll rising to 6 people missing dozen severely injured people are asking why tourists were allowed in there in the 1st place. and bidding farewell to one of the most recognizable voices of the 1980 s. and ninety's marie frederick's that's the swedish pop duo what's it has died at the age of $61.00. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us we begin tonight in the united states in a momentous mood. democrats in washington have concluded that president donald trump

should be impeached for abusing his powers and for obstructing congress the speaker of the house nancy pelosi and the heads of investigating committees today announced in 2 articles of impeachment the democrats accuse trump of soliciting foreign interference in next year's presidential election and of attempting to conceal from congress evidence of those efforts here's how the chairman of the house intelligence committee adam schiff described the president's actions president trump solicited a foreign nation ukraine to publicly announce investigations into his opponent and a baseless conspiracy theory promoted by russia to help his reelection campaign. president trump abuse the power of his office by conditioning to official acts to get ukraine to help his reelection the release of hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid that nation desperately needed and

a white house meeting with an ally trying to fend off russian aggression. in so doing he undermined our national security and jeopardized the integrity of our next election and he does so still are there was an inch of speaking earlier let's take the story now to washington our correspondent all over salat is on the story for us good evening to you oliver so we've got 2 articles of impeachment walk us through tell us exactly what they tell us. well brant number one the 1st article of impeachment the most important one perhaps is abuse of power and that is basically at the heart of the impeachment inquiry and goes back to that now infamous ukraine phone call between president trump and president of a lot of mayors a lenski back in july the allegations made the allegation made here is that trump pressured selenski and ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election campaign of the

united states not number 2 the 2nd article of impeachment made is obstruction of congress interesting leave that they'd spec to right after the inquiry began and essentially that president trump instructed the white house to not cooperate with the inquiry he instructed his aides to withhold documents and even prevented them to testify on capitol hill and there could have been another a 3rd article of impeachment but the democrats really decided to focus on ukraine as they were afraid that they could weaken their case if they extend that impeachment inquiry in the articles here and we knew that the democrats in the u.s. house they're convinced that the president will be impeached and should be removed from office has there been reaction today from the u.s. president. well absolutely and president trump took to twitter in his usual fashion and he called the allegation ridiculous he also pointed out that the ukrainian side to confirm that there was no pressure made that surprisingly by the

way the typical line of defense that we've been getting from the republicans here in recent weeks interesting lee he didn't deny that he was seeking help for his 2020 election campaign the republicans have been standing very much united until now their strategy has been to discredit the inquiry sort of like arguing the democrats are afraid to lose their reelection and the to lose the election excuse me in 2020 now later there was a press conference of the house minority leader kevin mccarthy all the republicans let's listen in what he had to say the speaker is more concerned about tearing the president down instead of building the country up this is the day that alexander hamilton feared and warned would come this is the day the nation is weaker because they surely cannot put their animosity or their fear of losing an election in the future in front of all the other things that the american people want to

know over despite. those complaints by the republicans we are in a situation now where we could easily see the u.s. president impeached before christmas right. that's right on thursday the judiciary committee wants to vote on these articles and that would open the way for a house floor wold so the house of representatives will vote on articles of impeachment as soon as next week and that in turn would trigger that so-called senate trial in january but let's not forget it's unlikely the president will be removed from office as a result of that due to a republican majority here so the democrats are hoping for a shift in the public opinion despite all this bi partisan animosity in washington today the democrats signed on to the president's new north american tree deal why are they giving giving trump such a huge most of the speaker of the house talked about improvements that were being

made to that initial deal is so for instance there are a stronger environmental and labor standards in all part of that trade deal between the united states mexico and canada and also if you want to look at the date most of the air time and you know off the news coverage today is consumed by impeachment so it's definitely not that dominating news story that president trump was hoping for a correspondent in washington all over sell it on the story for us tonight all over thank you. in new zealand the number of people killed in monday's volcanic eruption has now risen to 68 people are still missing and presumed dead dozens are injured many with severe burns search teams are on able to return to the volcanic island they fear that it could erupt again and they'll many are asking why tour groups were allowed to visit the site in the 1st place after

the threat level was raised just last week. it is a search operation because rescue is considered unlikely 1st responders are flying over for coffee island after the volcano erupted on monday afternoon local time 47 people were on the island during the eruption most of them had a narrow escape but a few are still missing with little hope of finding them alive. the scale of this tragedy it's devastating police and defense force personnel have undertaken a number of aerial reconnaissance flights over the island since the eruption however no signs of life have been detected. clark was one of the 1st on the scene after the catastrophe hit the paramedic flew in by helicopter what he saw when he arrived was shocking. it was just it was just plain that a nation it was it was quite quite a. bit overwhelming response there was a helicopter on the wall and it did it all sleeping there that's on. with that's

right of lights were off it. authorities believe the bodies of the missing people remain on the island but they say it's too dangerous to recover them they feel the volcano clear up to get some people still wait to hear from their loved ones. we do know that i were all. safe. and said this morning. he was on the. so $11.00 of messina i didn't come up to me so among we think i might be in most of the intellectual the new zealand police have set their launch an investigation scientists at noted an uptick in volcanic activity in recent weeks the question to be answered why were people out so close to a disaster apparently waiting to happen. were known to climate change in the past year

a 16 year old sweet you see here behind me she's become the most recognizable face in the fight against global warming but greater tune bag is not the only young person calling for urgent action at the un's climate summit in madrid earlier today and 8 year old from india addressed global leaders at the conference and she had a heart felt message after overcoming one of the obstacles that comes with being a child in an adult's world. and funny from a few jewel. moving my future is more like proving. a few points on the stock market. really just before magic makes the generations come and just before the hour focused album just like we're on the will rise and i want. are for more on that i'm joined here at the big table by my colleague. it's good to see you

again so in an 8 year old speaking to the adults how did that happen well actually she's been involved in kind of i visited her over a year and a half now if you can believe it she had her 1st speech to a climate convention when she was only 6 years old that was in mongolia after that speech this was actually before going to turn berg was in the news after that speech once the fridays for future protests start picking up she got involved with that she went to the parliament in india and people saw her there she got picked up by media in india and that kind of launched her career so to speak talk about a career for an 8 year old but of course behind every 8 year old world travelers usually an adult in this case it's her father she is the chairman of an organization for use activism actually so. she's been supporting her along the way and she's been she's been very creative in how she protests right that's right one of the things that got a lot of attention was this invention that she calls a sea of the suki food incident where that you came up with it stands for survival

kit for the future she post about this on instagram and twitter we can see a video of it here. what she did was basically. oxygen mask attached to a plant in glass box she calls an invention i would maybe refer to it more as an artwork but besides project yes exactly whatever it is it's a poignant image though because especially in delhi where the air is so porter breed you see this 7 or 8 year old out there trying to make do with what she has it is interesting isn't it that when we were talking about an 8 year old we're talking about gratitude it is. children and teenagers they become the most prominent voices in faces when we talk about preventing climate change and you know you can ask what's behind that but certainly it certainly is a bad sign for the adults who are in charge right now isn't this right some adults some adults like it some adults really hate it and he told off a child i think

a lot of this does go back to gratitude nephritis for future movement has inspired a lot of young people to skip school a lot of them with the consent of their parents as well. but you know the kind of started a movement of young people that it's now being encouraged by organizations like the un who are kind of giving them the platform now to speak out a lot of people criticize this saying that they're just being used as props for adult activism i actually brought this question up with her father father of the subject. and he told me that while he is an activist and she does have activism in her blood she's completely self-motivated she's afraid of climate change she wants to change the world so she is she's out there doing you know and we if we didn't have the young people's voices it could be very silent nowadays i mean as always thank you for. well here's a roundup now of the other stories that are making headlines around the world ethiopia's prime minister has received the nobel peace prize ceremony in norway the

nobel committee praised him for his efforts in 2 decades of conflict with ethiopia's one time anime eritrea these are all being mourned that militant groups continue to pose a threat to peace in the region and the other nobel prizes were given out at a gala ceremony in stockholm sweden they include the literature prizes for both 20182019. and peter hunka of austria last year's literature prize was postponed due to a sex abuse scandal involving the selection committee. it's over now and as has been sworn in as president of argentina he accepted the presidential science from his. own predecessor in receipt of mockery in his inaugural speech the center left coalition valve to put the people's needs ahead of repaying argentina's foreign debts his vice president is former president cristina fernandez the kitchen. german politicians have reacted angrily to comments by russia's president over the

killing of a former chechen rebel here in berlin last august german prosecutors say that moscow could be behind these suspected hit job and berlin last week expelled it to russian diplomats over the case while denying russian involvement on monday vladimir putin told reporters that the man killed was himself a killer but lawmakers here say that is no justification. machall and pollution both still had something to clarify the meeting in paris should actually have been about ukraine but merkel was concerned about something else. is illegal. really was shot twice in the head at close range in broad daylight at the end of august in central berlin a targeted assassination. the suspect a russian citizen was later arrested grantley investigators gathered evidence indicating russian intelligence may have been involved in the killing. as

a result berlin expelled 2 russian diplomats from germany the reason russia did not cooperate in the investigation of the case. at the joint press conference in paris the russian president shot back he said the georgian who was killed but was a killer himself. that. he was a bandit a bloodthirsty brutal person which among other things he was involved in planning an attack on the moscow subway i don't know what happened to him but if someone associates with such criminals anything can happen. commutable german politicians were outraged by those comments. if indeed develop life and i think president putin's choice of words was inappropriate you know we've all i'm appalled that he was trying to justify your murder by implying the victim was

a terrorist the reason. that's for the courts to decide what will tie and it was it is a fairly it's a very cynical what the russian president has said and for us germans it's intolerable that what was apparently a contract killing took place on german soil. he could have putin has complained that expelling the 2 diplomats was unjust he said german diplomats would be expelled in retaliation the the german chancellor appealed to russia to cooperate because he did also. get off on a lie think the russian side will share information with us in any event that would be a good thing. the circumstances of his death are still being determined federal prosecutors have taken over the investigation zelin khan congo she really had long been afraid of being attacked and had already reported his fears to german authorities and 2017. are for more this is bring in our chief political

correspondent melinda crean she's here in berlin can even see you melinda so this is classic what amir putin he says that the georgian man who was killed here in berlin was himself a killer and he got what he deserved help does the german government view comments like this. well as we heard in the report there was widespread condemnation of those remarks from pretty much all the german political parties with members of the parties governing together in the grand coalition saying that those words were tantamount to a threat or an admission of russian involvement however the chancellor took a rather more restrained tone at the press conference itself choosing to concentrate instead on the more cooperative remarks that putin had made we heard them also in the report namely his statement that the russians should help their

german colleagues. and participate in the investigation and the chancellor as we heard said that she would find that to be a very good step but she also emphasized that the investigation is ongoing and absolutely left open whether the german response might change over time as more is known and putin also you know gets you through a dark rather germany today by accusing the country of not on remote scales earlier requests to have this judge and extradite and why is the german government you know mentioned or why is he mentioning that now and why aren't we hearing the german government react to them well in fact german government spokes people did say today that they know of no such extradition request whatsoever and and as you know in fact the diplomats were expelled by germany the russian diplomats because russia had not been cooperating

here again that looks an awful lot like a red herring coming from mr putin and the demand to be extradited georgia not just what does all of this mean for german russian relations at the moment. well. put in trying to downplay that saying it's not a crisis but there is no question whatsoever it does burden the german russian relationship and that at a moment when many german businesspeople had been hoping that the time might finally have arrived when one could start talking about rolling back economic sanctions on russia but in fact expelling diplomats is a very serious step and should russia proved uncooperative in this ongoing investigation or should the suspicion of russian involvement harden as more facts are known i think we will certainly hear more calls for

a stronger response possibly also a coordinated european response such as the one that we saw last year with the expulsion of of russian diplomats by many countries at the same time after the poisoning of the russian double agent sergei scrip hall and interestingly enough president mccraw of france who had been viewed as trying to be conciliatory toward russia made it clear that if the facts justify it france would be on board with such a reaction our chief political correspondent linda greenlaw story for us tonight here in berlin linda thank you. mars a leader on songs e.g. is here in europe and she's in court she appeared at the international court of justice at the hague to defend her country against genocide charge says the case of the un's highest court accuses me of mars military of mass killings and abuse were hinge of minority some she has previously denied any wrongdoing by the government

she's expected to speak at the court on wednesday. when she was not obliged to appear at the hague in person but she chose to do so critics say her aim is to raise her profile ahead of elections and we had more in the past few days so she's supporters have held large rallies many see her as a defender of the embattled country on the global stage but her hinge of refugees they paint a different picture. and the refugee camps of cox's bazaar a woman who once represented hope is now a pariah the consensus here on sunset she must answer for what happened to the. feeling of our how was it wasn't it we pray to allow that we will get justice. she is not a good person we want prayed sincerely to god for her we supported her when she came to power she did no good for us she's a liar we hate site she did nothing for us she's responsible for the genocide she

talks does she really does it. from one doorstep to the next march testimonies of ruthless violence at the hands of me and most military. the other is another one of the 2 soldiers had me down while one of them raped me in front of my mother and 4 children was a job i said shit out of my shoulder didn't work and why did my daughter was crying so they hit her on the head with a weapon out of there got to the time when i was alone hunger. i lost 8 of my sons and grandsons they were all but shot by the military. we were at the bottom on. a military burn to homes. we were a family of 18 and they killed 12 by burning them alive. but there were more than 2000 people in our village and all their homes were burned in on a hill. on sun suci has long defended me and mars 27000 crack down on their

hinge are saying a target militants and she'll do so again at the hague. and majority myanmar the scrutiny of the un's top court has stoked indignation. over there not just accusing one person in myanmar they're accusing the whole country we actually believe everything that unsung suchi does will be ok. a decision from the hague over me and marse treatment of the ranger could take years a long and uncertain week for justice for people that have already lost so much. this is the w. news and these are our top stories democrats in the u.s. house of representatives have presented 2 articles of impeachment against president donald trump they accused him of pressuring ukraine to influence next year's

presidential election and of concealing from congress evidence of his actions the health could vote on the articles before christmas. meehan mars leader aung sun suu kyi has appeared at the international court of justice at the hague to defend her country against genocide charges me in mars' military is accused of mass killings and abuse of roof hinge of mine or is. new zealand police have launched an investigation into what led to the deaths of 6 people in monday's volcanic eruption 8 others are still unaccounted for in are presumed dead medics say that some of the injured are not expected to survive on. ethiopia's a prime minister of the ahmed has received the nobel peace prize at a ceremony in norway he was praised for his efforts to end 2 decades of conflict with the o.p.'s one time enemy there are 3. this is g.w. news from berlin for more you can follow us on twitter at t

w news you can also visit our website that's t w dot com. senior marie fredrickson has died at the age of 61 the news coming from her manager today the swedish pop star died on monday after a long battle with cancer her bed rock set sold more than 70000000 records worldwide will leave you now with a few samples of her biggest hits. pick

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30 years later he looks back on the time in dresden. starts december 19th d w. c .