managed by from bought. this is news live from berlin donald trump becomes only the 3rd ever president of the united states to be impeached. or one is adopting. the house of representatives folks just send the president to a senate trial in an attempt to remove him from office also on the program. a warning of dangerous times ahead this week in australia the state of new south

wales declares a bushfire emergency threat levels are set to rise of the country bottles a record heat wave and drought. premier. taking a long long. time to say goodbye to the latest star wars trilogy as the final movie in the series has its world premier. i'm told me a lot of people thanks for joining us. donald trump enters the history books tonight as only the 3rd us president to be impeached the house of representatives voted to send the president for trial in the senate on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress lawmakers adopted both resolutions along party lines almost all democrats voting yes on the republicans voting unanimously against the

articles of impeachment now need to be passed to the senate the majority republicans there are expected to vote to keep president trump in office. democrat jerrold nadler is the chair of the house judiciary committee the man who signed off on the articles of impeachment he is speaking shortly after the vote gives us no pleasure no pleasure to stand here today the president comes conduct a scooter next election it risks president trips behavior with the integrity of our constitutional order at risk in prison terms continued actions put the rule of law it is. doubly correspondent stephanie and jim joins me now from washington stephanie not a surprise this but how significant is it. well not a surprise that all the democrats voted for impeachment and all the republicans

against the beach been in the reps house of representatives you're absolutely right but of course that wasn't his measure that before it was a historic day it is an historic event this is the 3rd president ever in the history of the united states who is impeached now now something else. wondrous and absolutely unique happened after the vote that's palosi and the leadership to have their request for a little press conference and answer some questions she said there that she will be holding back sending the articles of impeachment that means article one article 2 will hold those back to send them over to the senate what you have here is historic too because there is no precedent for that and the democrats are using this for leverage why because the senate as you also said is republican controlled and the leader of the republicans in the senate has already said that there's no chance for a fair trial whatsoever and that he's correlating incorporating with the white house to squash the entire impeachment effort and the trial which happens in the senate off the off the bat so what's happening now here is and that is absolutely

unique is a political knife fight which you have not seen in an impeachment battle before ever in history of the united states again briefly so what then happens now. well if let's say the democrats send over the articles of impeachment then the trial the actual impeachment trial is supposed to happen in the senate again the senate is controlled by the republicans they want to have this done over with very very quickly if it's going to happen then it is going to happen in the early. weeks of generally 1st or 2nd week of january that's at least the plan now however another a very historic and absolutely unique point we do want to mention this will be one way or another the 1st president of the united states ever impeached and go into a presidential election this has never been there before and now. so where no times before has been a president impeached and going into

a presidential election the republicans will see to this come true by declining any grunt work for the democrats in the senate which they control ok stephens inman's in washington thank you. now speaking at a rally in michigan the president had this to say about his impeachment but you know what they have done they've shifted the impeachment process and now. now anybody that you know this was a sacred position anybody that becomes president i mean they could have a phone call and they get impeached so if the republicans if you had a democrat is president we have a republican house they don't like the guy for whatever reason or the woman they impeach the person it's sheep and it's exactly what our founding fathers didn't want and they said it could happen and it's one. of them on this us political x.

but william nog new craft is with me in the studio with him is trump right i mean is this a partisan effort at all was this actually in the pursuit of justice well he's right that the founding fathers didn't want impeachment to be used willy nilly for for partisan ends but they also didn't want a president becoming a king and using his powers to his own prolific goal or personal ends i would stumble up like this i would say republican scuse me democrats are being partisan but republicans are being tribal the difference being of course democrats have always been are mostly democrats have always been against trump for his policies for the way he's conducted himself for the way he's acted as president but they've also time and again when given the chance to impeach have avoided a peach when the moeller investigation was going to be their number was it was thought to be the way towards impeachment and that kind of just fizzled out and if not for this ukraine scandal there would be no impeachment right now that we'd be talking about where as republicans have just swiped aside swept aside all notions

of facts and reality and and just numerous credible witnesses that have come forward. presenting corroborated evidence of serious wrongdoing that that donald trump has it appears have committed to stick by donald trump to stick by the party which is very much become the party of donald trump. and that's where we're at right now these 2 parties. not able to see eye to eye on almost anything ok so you know the democrats have got the vote but this now moves on to senate which is majority republican why then i mean if they probably wouldn't pass this a why then did the democrats go ahead with this right it's unlikely it's going to pass if and when the trial happens we're now hearing from nancy pelosi that they don't know when they're going to actually be moving this on to the senate to try to get more fair conditions for a trial in the senate the senate the rules on that trial is still very unclear how

long it might last when it might start all these are very unclear democrats say they have a constitutional duty to check the president to uphold the division of power of separation of powers or tween to the executive branch and the legislative branch that they are doing their job in the house or garbles of what the senate does so they almost see it as independent of whatever happens in the senate they've at least done their job and history will judge them accordingly ok william no glucose thank you. the australian state of new south wales has declared a state of emergency to deal with the threat of bushfire as authorities are warning that the threat from files will continue to rise over the next few days extremely hot weather is worsening the situation the country suffered its hottest day on record this week with national average temperatures of nearly 41 degrees celsius hotter than ever australia is going through record high temperatures and for

a few here that's just another reason to make a splash. the creature is spared the health rest dehydration can be deadly. for the fauna rescue team and 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 out of the river this morning. so it's just going to get worse and worse this is going to build up they're already. apparently hanging in trays. down here with 60751 of the only 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 wash could be to come over the next few days we're going to see far 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 where it needs challenge as we head into this heat wave conditions that 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 the national crisis. let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world spanish police have clashed with protesters outside a football match between barcelona and real madrid the protesters outside the

stadium in. barcelona tried to draw attention to the cuts alone in separatist movement during the match which was watched by 650000000 people worldwide. thousands of people gathered across poland to demonstrate against a proposed law allowing the government to fire judges the protesters fear that the legislation would undermine the independence of the judiciary they also fear it could lead to poland's exit from the european union. bolivia's attorney general has issued an arrest warrant for former president evo morales he is wanted for trial on charges of sedition and terrorism rallies fled bolivia last month amid unrest after he claimed victory in a disputed presidential election he's currently living in exile in argentina.

the 9th and final movie in the star wars skywalker saga has had its world premiere the rise of skywalker crowns 42 years of box office gold we have the sneak peek and no worry there are no spoilers. taking hours. to. refind all star wars trilogy is coming to an end but the galactic battle between good and evil jed i insist isn't over yet joe di in training raves back to face down kyla ram the dark side of son of les and han solo and now supreme leader of the evil 1st order confronting fear. you would. think it was. the pressure is on and not least for disney and director j.j.

abrams through. been brought back to the star wars franchise after the last episode by a different director but a lot of fans disappointed. episode 9 focuses particularly on macallister between its central characters ray and her buddies of the resistance pilot podium are on and stormtrooper femme for cast and fans it's about more than just one movie it's the end of a saga this is the last one like it's crazy because it feels like because she's in a time machine and i travel back to when they 1st thought was going to cover the fonz and 42 years and 8 episodes later can the rise of skywalker live up to fans' expectations or losing the focus of course represented be careful on the way out director j.j. abrams certainly seems to think it can. if you're a kid watching this 100 years from now 500 years from now. to see this

inevitability the story concluded in a way that feels thrilling and shocking and funny and emotional and satisfy the final film reunites new cast and old after actress carrie fisher's death in 2016 abrams has even found leftover material from the last 2 soames to bring her back as princess wei. so how will the age old battle between july and 6 am and which skywalker will rise in the rise of skywalker with the release of episode 9 fans can finally find them. and a reminder of the top story we're following for you the u.s. house of representatives has voted to impeach president donald trump majority democrats won the votes which split along party lines the articles of impeachment now need to be passed on to the senate where republican majority is expected to

vote to keep president trump in office. coming up next the editor in chief you know asshole talk to me on the chairman of quo way told me a lot of thanks for watching. and demand. language courses. video and audio.

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