christmas. this is the dublin news live from berlin donald trump becomes only the 3rd ever president of the united states to be impeached. are one is adopted. the house of representatives votes to 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 both bushfire emergency threat levels are set to rise as the country battles a record heat wave and dropped. i'm told me a lot of ball thanks for joining us. donald trump enters the history books tonight as the only as only the 3rd u.s. president to be impeached the house of representatives voted to send the president for trial in the senate on a charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress lawmakers of adopted both resolutions along party lines almost all democrats voting yes and the republicans voting unanimously against the articles of impeachment now need to be passed to the senate the majority of republicans there are expected to vote to keep president trump in office. a democrat jerrold nadler is the chair of the house judiciary

committee and the man who signed off on the articles of impeachment here he is speaking shortly after the vote. gives us no pleasure no pleasure to stand here today the president comes conduct is clear next election at risk 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 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 men 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 one 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's 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 once or ever 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 ok 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 i really 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 that has never been there before. and know when no times before has been a president impeached and goalie 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. speaking at

a rally in michigan the president had this to say about his impeachment but you know what they have done they've keepit the impeachment process and now. now anybody that becomes you know this was this is 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 cheap and it's exactly what our founding fathers didn't want and they said it could happen and it's now for more on this us political acts but when norbu 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 in 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 just 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 it probably wouldn't pass there's 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 between 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 we'll ignore glucose thank you. let's now take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world a court in the philippines has found guilty the members of a clan accused of murdering political opponents and journalists 58 people died in the massacre in 2009 the worst incident of political violence in the philippines to date. spanish police have clashed with protesters outside a football match between bos alona and reality rid the protesters outside the stadium in barcelona tried to draw attention to the catalonian 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 5 judges the protesters fear that the

legislation would undermine the independence of the judiciary the australian state of new south wales has declared a state of emergency to deal with the threat of bushfires authorities are warning that the threat from fires will continue to rise over the next few days the sweltering weather is worsening the situation the country suffered its hottest day on record this week with annual 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 no man or creature is spared the health risks dehydration can be deadly. for the fauna 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 scream in the river but some people have been calling bets out of the river this morning. so it's just going to get worse and worse the stress is going to build up there already did once apparently hanging in trays. down here with 67 e-mail flyboy feeling made of the extreme heat is compounding this problem since august millions of hec tears of australian bush have barred the hotter dry a 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 followers are going to be a challenge with a new threat and a new 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 fish to feed and monument crafted from charred branches stands as a bleak reminder of the national crisis. germany has been marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall this year which led to german reunification one of the big questions facing german leaders back then was what to do with the vast quantity of files kept by the east german secret police the stasi in the end the way made available to the public here's a look back at that debate. 30 years ago east germans stormed the headquarters of the stasi was they wanted to prevent the communist dictatorship secret police from completely destroying its archives here are in supreme war these guys you know the

place where the secret police planned the oppression of the people they were helping to preserve the files it's an experience i'll always remember as. my daughter i don't know how. today is the federal commissioner for the stasi archives his agency holds enough files to stretch for 111 kilometers as a journalist and civil rights activist he himself was put under surveillance spied on and filmed by the stasi until 989 just like millions of others the spying reached all the way to the top ranks and into the west one of the stasis main targets was long term chancellor helmut kohl after the fall of the g.d.r. the german government did not initially want to make the archives available to the public in an exclusive interview with the former chancellor's widow mica closely explains why the since on stock there of questionable truth what's worse the stasi

also added fake information to the files that they were created in order to spy on people to subdue people and to secure the continuance of the regime by labor suspicion but activists from the former east germany persevered soon anyone could apply to look at his or her own files people were often astonished by what the stasi had known about them and how much fun a long legal battle to prevent stasi files about himself from being released to academic researchers and journalists in the end a compromise was reached. top 40 stuff they thought i mentioned i thought it was the stasi violated our human rights by spying on citizens and helmut kohl was a collector that information and these files of course they should be protected these. because for. 30 years on more than 2000000 people have seen their files the identities of former stasi spies have been revealed. people who were

wrongfully imprisoned for forced into working for the stanzi were rehabilitated. but how to treat the files in the future is still controversial. they're not a legitimate source this was always my husband's concern he'd say the more distant people are from the g.d.r. over time the less they will understand that the stasi files are not of a constitutional state has stopped since but. the archives as a key historic document this is these arkansas it's important to expand these files by talking to witnesses of the time but also with other information. and his sense history is always made up of many different elements like a mosaic of cards they shouldn't be a static image of history these archives should contribute to a discourse on history. that could take place here at the former headquarters of east germany secret police and berlin a campus for democracy as in the planning it should be finished by 2021 and it's hoped it will send a clear message that that. can be overcome that's

a reason for hope and that's the message that can be learned from history also for future generations to become aware that freedom and autonomy are not a given that instead they must be cherished and protected. that ripple was part of the documentary tightrope act enter dresden that's coming up in just a minute i'm told me a lot of bond that's all from me thanks for your company. welcome to the but is the game here or did you. have plenty to talk about some. coverage. 3 more. little we have. let's have a look at some of the legal so you don't want to.

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