that defines a. 1970 the big. december 20. w. . this is the news live from donald trump poised to become only the 3rd u.s. president in history to be impeached as u.s. lawmakers debate whether to put him on trial before proceedings began mr trump wrote an angry 6 page data to house speaker nancy pelosi accusing her of undermining american democracy also on the program. australia roads through its

hottest day on the country pushed by crisis a severe drought they've enough to stop the prime minister. scolds in germany. to withdraw and one of the most entertaining games of. i'm still gal welcome to the program america's house of representatives is debating whether to approve articles of impeachment against president to trump republicans attempted to hold the session as soon as it began by calling the votes to adjourn it was dismissed alongside other attempts to condemn the democrats the vote expected to take place after several hours of debate if successful mr trump will go on trial in the senate. straight to capitol hill where we join the

w so washington bureau chief alexandra phenomena welcome alexandra talk us through what is shuttle to happen today. so as you just said the morning started with a disruption only minutes after the house convenes to republicans to present a motion to adjourn without considering the impeachment articles they knew that they would fail but they did it anyway because it's part of their strategy for ridge's tiring their protest against impeachment so definitely we are going to see more of that today we are also going to see a very heated debate it is scheduled to go on for 6 hours but again here different publicans can try to slow down the process eventual lead the house will vote in 2 separate though it's on to impeach on the 2 impeachment articles and it looks right now the democrats have enough votes to impeach don't know trump but let's pause for

a minute and let's see how it all began. it all started with a phone call a phone call in which president trump asked presidents olinsky of ukraine to investigate his main political rival democratic presidential hopeful joe biden and his son hunter i became increasingly aware of what followed was a congressional inquiry with a dozen witnesses testifying in public describing crimes dealings with ukraine as improper and in as proper it's all going to blow up and here we are one witness in such a killer turned out to leak he ordered sunland the u.s. ambassador to the european union and so much trumped on arms he told the investigators there was indeed a quid pro quo in the works that president trump pressed the ukrainian government to get dirt on joe biden jewel in exchange for immunity in the white house at the

same time you asked for military aid for ukraine was put on hold as the president direction everyone was in the loop. so we followed the president's orders corruption other witnesses added more damning details about donald trump's conduct time machine no evidence for the democratic majority in the house to move forward with the impeachment. the morning. the facts are uncontested the president abused his power for his own personal political benefit at the expense of our national security. if you soft power and obstruction of congress to charges the democrats say that amounts to high crimes justifying impeachment however they haven't convinced a single republican the at trump's party stands by the president decrying pietschmann as a political witch hunt you can't make your case against the present because nothing

happened if the majority of lawmakers approved the articles of impeachment which seems likely it will trigger a senate trial to determine if the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and should be removed from office. a trial president trump seems to be gearing up for he expects to be exonerated by the republican led senate and hopes impeachment will backfire on his rivals there was nothing done wrong to use the power of the preacher and on this is not a church is it embarrassment to this country. whatever the outcome what is happening in washington right now reflects the hyper partisan divisions in american politics. so alexander phenomenon in this type of partisan environment that you describe is the president is impeached today and it goes to goes to trial in the

senate will they if we do expect them to immediately just dismiss this. well that is still not clear why it now if the senate majority is going to dismiss the case straight away they could be there could be 2 or 3 republican senators who would like to see more evidence would like to learn more about the alleged gauge or allegations or to hear more witnesses so that it's not clear. right now watch seems to be rubber unlikely though is that there will be a 2 thirds majority in the republican led senate to convict president strum and to remove him from office so this is this is clearly a very serious a business one wonders how a decision to impeach would affect the country. well president strong has been talking a lot about that a lot about impeachment and whole bad this is for the country he has accused the

democrats of opening a war on america and democracy or focusing only on the impeachment and not paying attention attention to the matters that are important to the american people who work or we have to say that it doesn't seem to be true because what we saw in the last weeks is that the democrats are trying to work together with the republicans if they think that this important for the american people the house passed 2 bills they use today to avert a government shutdown and the house is also scheduled to approve a trade deal with canada and mexico this week so it doesn't seem to be true that the democrats democrats are only focusing on teaching. there are presidential elections next year how are today's actions likely to affect the balance.

will feel i think that it's too early to say how impeachment is going to affect its 2020 presidential election a president trying to believe that impeachment is going to help him to fire up its base and get reelected but we don't even know who is going to run against him what is how were notable is that impeachment will lead. or will force democrat senators running for president to interrupt their campaigns because they will need succumb back to washington to be jurors at the senate trial for talking to you thank you for that is wonderful norman in washington. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world germany's chancellor says she opposes u.s. sanctions against the north stream to gas pipeline from russia to germany and

american suggested talks to resolve the issue the u.s. congress approves the sanctions on tuesday washington says the almost complete pipeline remake the european union dependent on russia for energy 3. french union leaders have met with prime minister eduardo phillipe in a bid to end the deepening crisis over proposed pension reforms the talks came on the 14th day of strikes that have paralyzed transport and other services president macro has offered to make changes but his office insists reforms must go ahead. on the rival hearsay group which owns a persia and vauxhall have announced that their boards have agreed to merge the 2 car companies the merger creates the world's biggest of the world's 4th biggest auto company which will be led by p.s.a. c e o a carload of ours. australia has suffered its heart is down record with the national average temperature reaching 48.9 degrees celsius topping the last record

set in 2013 record busting heat it comes as the country battles a severe drought and a bushfire crisis hotter than ever australia is going through record high temperatures and for a few here that's just another reason to make a splash. no nor man or creature is spared the health arrests dehydration can be deadly. for the foreigner rescue team the threat to wildlife is foremost. that's why i know. there's probably not very much food up there because of the drought there's not a lot of water they don't get me in the river but some people have been calling that side of the river this morning. so it's just dreadful it's going to get worse and worse this is going to build up their already. perry hanging in trees. down here with 6070 little pretty nearly made of the extreme heat is compounding this

problem since august millions of hec tears of australian bush have barred the hotter and drier weather has rendered firefighters helpless. scientists say it is a result of mankind's failure to address global climate change the fire chief warned worse could be to come over the next few days we're going to say far as emergency services and all those communities close to farmers and in doing those some distance from are going to be a challenge with the news written in a new challenge as we head into this heat wave conditions are going to dominate much of the sky and anger is growing up prime minister scott morrison after failing to concede for weeks that the fires were linked to climate change he's gone on holiday. for shoppers in central sydney however there is no escape a festive themed monument crafted from charred branches stands as

a bleak reminder of this national crisis. of football i'm in germany's bonders league alive 2nd dortmund to drew 30 and one of the season's most entertaining matches the result against leipsic a 3 point lead at the top of the table. now goldman called this a title 6.0 the problem he'd never won in dortmund as a coach true to form the host dominated the early running and though jayden sanchez show was blocks reprise was only temporary inveigled is right foot sort of that if i go back in dorman's midfield and feeling much more at home. i don't men who are in control and turning on the style sonship again at the heart of things you hear in brands with the fancy footwork making geometry look cool to nail 34 minutes go on. like 6 best chance of the half came just before the

break tipped over by roman turkey but he soon went from hero to villain 2 minutes into the 2nd half spider-man misjudged his leap with catastrophic consequences. vanno was the grateful recipient he'd never scored against dortmund until today. good things come in pairs the saying goes it was certainly true savannah 4 minutes later he kept his composure to equalise after geometry man branch got his angles all wrong. the pendulum instantly swung back into opens favor marco royce cross for sam show the englishman smashing in his 8 goal in 7 games. but even dortmund actual super hero is invincible he limped off and likes to grab that chance again with

a little help from burkey patrick shit fired in his 3rd of the season. a breathless encounter had reached its end 33 the final score now goldman still hasn't won in dortmund but this will feel like a success. a reminder of our top story the u.s. house of representatives is debating whether to approve articles of impeachment against president trump republicans tried to hold the session about the terms was defeated several hours of debate will proceed preceded the vote which will trigger a trial in the senate if successful. i don't stray has suffered its hottest day on record with the national average temperature reaching for support $93.00 celsius and not red for breaking heat comes us the country opposite bush 5 prices and a severe drought just. so forget you can always get the news on the go just download the app from google play it for me at a store if you absence with latest news from around the world as well as push

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