this is the news line from berlin britain's parliament opens for the 2nd time in as many months queen elizabeth as delivered a speech setting out the conservatives agenda on the bourse johnson following his election victory last week and no surprise the number one priority is delivering breakfast to get the latest from london also coming up the u.s. house of representatives impeaches president donald trump and historic but. one is adopting. with that gavel trump becomes just the 3rd u.s. president ever to be impeached his fate now lies in the hands of the senate for

a trial will decide whether or not he remains in office also on the program police in indiana rest hundreds of people for defying a government ban on protests over the country's controversial new citizenship law the ban was imposed after some of the nationwide protests turn 5. and the state of emergency in new south wales as australia's bushfire crisis continues a record breaking heat wave and strong winds are fanning unprecedented fires authorities are warning of worsening conditions over the coming days. when welcome to the program for the 2nd time in just 2 months the u.k. government has laid out its legislative agenda this time around the situation is of course dramatically different prime minister boris john. and now has

a large majority after last week's general election in a ceremony the british queen right off the priorities of the conservative government at the top of the list is delivering practice it but a clear upper hand johnson now has the votes he needs to pass his bill to take his country out of the european union. i was in london for us she's been following all the proceedings today now barbara as we've heard it's now 2 queen's speech is within 2 months what did we hear this time around was there anything different. of course the lady had to repeat herself to a certain extent even though some nuances are quite different in this speech but she sort of offered a very reduced version off the formal state opening of parliament because as you mentioned she just done it 2 months ago so it was no crown no kerridge no state

robe it was a dress and just an ordinary car she drove up here to parliament ridge a speech that i see internation we know so well from her and left again what for boris johnson this isn't a situation of course as you mentioned karl has fundamentally changed because now he can do whatever he wants in october he will still flailing around trying to cobble together a majority and figure out what and how to push things through parliament now he can just simply. and his parliamentarians will follow him because he led the party to that extremely. to that extreme victory and nobody will sort of offer him any resistance at all here certainly high on that agenda in fact the 1st item in that speech was bright said what are the government's plans now for delivering prices. the timetable seems. quite clear

and there is no more a stepping. stone there is no stopping breck's it that is over so the 31st of general will see britain leaving the european union the drawl bill will be discussed tomorrow on friday it will be voted upon it will go through and the road is completely clear and also person has sort of changed the bill he has added to. it piece that says that it would be illegal to ask for a poor location next summer in order to have more time in the transition period to negotiate with the european union that isn't just no piece that makes the time table for those talks with the e.u. very tight in very short he's trying to blackmailing them but he's also putting himself under pressure. brought to the world or other bills in that speech what do they tell us about the direction of the johnson government now that he has such a huge majority and are. is

a huge majority and he is trying in announcing that he's going to spend a lot of lot of money the question is however where that money is going to come from it's not really in the budget that is quite tight and public borrowing is already sort of increasing back he needs to and he wants to spend much more money on the ailing health service and that is something that these new voters in the north that he took away from labor that they are expecting from him they need changes and they need more money for public services because they're really hurting boris johnson promised everything how much of those promises he can keep we shall see in the next year and the years after because he's going to be in government now for quite a while. bomber faisal reporting from london for us thank you very much. well in the us donald trump has become just the 3rd president in history to be impeached the house of representatives voted on. charges stemming from trump's alleged

attempt to pressure ukraine into investigating his main political rival joe biden both votes fell long party lines almost all democrats voted for the changes while republicans voted unanimously against that the vote paves the way now for a senate trial which will decide whether the president is to be removed from office . after hours of debating the 1st article of impeachment for abuse of power passed perhaps. on this vote the yeas are 230 the nays 1907 present is one. article one is adopted and just minutes later the 2nd article for obstruction of congress went as planned for the democrats on this vote the yeas are 229 the nays are 198 present is one article 2 is adopted.

hundreds of kilometers away at a rally in michigan president trump reacted to his impeachment. with today's illegal unconstitutional and partisan impeachment. could do nothing democrats and they are doing nothing all they want to do is focus on this what they could be doing are declaring their deep hatred and this for the american voter. this lola's partisan speech is a political suicide march for the democratic party have you seen my polls of the last 4 which. back in washington democratic had speaker nancy pelosi accuse the republicans of being purely partisan she threatened to delay the impeachment trial until she could be sure it would be handled fairly in the senate. we have legislation approved by the rules committee that will enable us to decide how we

will send over articles of impeachment we cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the senate side and i would hope that that will be soon so far we haven't fulfilled what will they are to us so hopefully it will be your own when we see what all this will fall more. probably with voting concluded in the house of representatives and donald trump becoming only the 3rd u.s. president to be impeached americans now face the next stage in the process the senate trial that's due to begin in january but democrats face an uphill battle considering the senate is republican controlled and they need a 2. thirds majority to remove president trump from office. for the comp of the is about to begin a brief period of calm over the holiday season as members of the congress and senate spent time in their homes across the starkly divided country. let's get more now on impeachment joining me in studio rachel rizzo she's a us political analyst and bosh fellow here in berlin rachel i mean we keep calling

this a historic moment only the 3rd presidents in the history of the country to be impeached what does the word historic mean hero put this in context for us i mean when you look at the only 2 other presidents who have been impeached andrew johnson and bill clinton the word impeachment really hangs over their presidency even for richard nixon who resigned before he could be impeached and that word sort of hangs over his presidency too but i think this is about a lot more than just impeachment it's about protecting the integrity of the office it's about honoring the constitution but it's not a day of excitement this is not a day to celebrate. palosi made that very clear in the way she shut down democrats who started to cheer as she was reading out the votes so it's a really a solemn day for the united states in our history i think so how does this vote how does this this more a given pietschmann what does that do to trump's presidency how will people pretensions view president trump now from this day forward the word impeachment is

is going to be associated with donald trump's presidency and that bothers him that he doesn't see it doesn't seem like the ball exactly but donald trump cares about how he's perceived in public he's he cares about how the public sees him and you can tell that b. because of what he says over twitter from the letter he sent to nancy pelosi even what he was saying during the michigan rally that he held last night so this is something that is going to hang over his presidency and it's something that he's going to fight against because because it really does get to the heart of who gets . to speaking about the impeachment proceedings it's of course the lawmakers. you do the actual vote and we saw that last night but public opinion does play a big role in terms of potentially pressuring lawmakers to vote one way or the other what's the public opinion right now on impeachment in the united states people feel about this impeachment is a chaos creator for the united states right and it just feeds in to the hyper

partisan political climate that the country is experiencing to experiencing today i mean the country is divided so clearly along partisan lines democrats and republicans this impeachment proceeding isn't going to change decided voters either way republicans or democrats will continue to stay in their lanes i think what's going to be really interesting to see going forward is how this affects the very small number of undecided or independent voters in the united states there is an election you may have heard coming up in 2020 it's a big one will there be fallout from the impeachment do you think i mean it'll be in november so is that a long enough time or will still be a campaign issue by them well there's a couple things here the 1st is that there's going to be senators that are distracted by this candidates like cloe bush are booker warren and sanders they all have to come back from the campaign trail to finish this trial in the senate the 2nd thing is that republicans are really going to use this as a talking point against the democrats they're going to say that the dems are the ones who are dividing the country who are trying to feed into the hyper

partisanship and so this isn't something that's going to go any way go away any time soon it's going to follow the democrats all the way down the campaign trail until november that's on a trial expected sometime next year of rachel rizzoli us political analyst and bosch fellow in berlin thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world russian president vladimir putin is giving his annual marathon end of the year news conference put in his address issues ranging from climate change and the impeachment of president trump to the ban on russian athletes for doping 2000 journalists are present or the event. the pretrial hearings have started in the case of a slovak businessman tied to the killing of an investigative journalist more young coach is suspected ordering the killing of journalist young who had been investigating his business activities and his fiance were gunned down at their home in february last year. police in india detain hundreds of people during the new

protests against a new citizenship law the demonstrations went ahead despite an official ban on protests critics of the law say it makes religion a basis for citizenship and discriminates against muslims at one protest police arrested the well known historian who caught his attention has prompted widespread outrage particularly among academics and one twitter a delhi based political story and condemned what he described as quote the police manhandling one of our most prolific and influential public intellectuals and scholars u.s. journalist who has specialized in reporting on india tweeted this he says a system that can arrest and detain gandhi's biographer for police for peacefully protesting to uphold his constitution is not a liberal democracy he called people to quote stand with wrong we want more of the situation in india now i'm joined on the line by correspondent must say rahman he is in the capital delhi now mr rahman 1st of all i understand

mobile networks and the internets have some restricted there have been restricted in some areas or more can tell us about. but the more binding networks have been districted in subcommittee years. because the police have also not allowed the protests but i think you know proposing this new law to take place so hundreds of protesters are being taken milray by the police and keeping the. door due occasions in name around the city so the situation is pretty key ought to know i mean as we just heard some prominent figures including historians historians they've been arrested for protesting is there a sense that indian authorities they're becoming a bit more brazen in terms of cracking down on these demonstrations. well you know . who was detained today has described theaters in government as

so paranoid and fearful rigid so i think the government is displaying signs of. becoming really heavily an anxious of these protests so the crackdown is not so much against government citizens crackdown against to the same young people. have been leading these protests for a few days ago dead easy have the heart of sick invasion by the police so for you even this even students studying in the library were brutally assaulted once last use over the some students have been shot by the police so it's the young people who leading this protest to out of the focus

of this particular protest across india and and facing the blunt of the status quo. find those of rats despite the ban on photo thing what do you expect to happen in the coming days it doesn't seem like these protests are going away. yes well you know you know in a situation like this where it's not one organizing mission no one political party which is leading the protest which is let me that should go to predict. but the people certainly are very anxious very upset and the people are also fearful of the future so looking at it and then voting angrily. you know unconstitutional as this is the unconstitutional you a lot of those involved do so. you know unless the court

checked you know obviously doesn't look like the. do that. here i hope they're reading 12 different fields or a lawyer shop shouted. against the chief justice and the judges so. i spect more of this you're stuck on to you. if it makes coming the. right course on it must they bomb on in delhi thank you very much for that update. thank you. to australia now where a record breaking heat wave and strong winds are plaguing firefighters battling out of control bushfires the country's most populous states new new south wales has declared an emergency there authorities are warning of worsening conditions over the next few days this week and already thing 2 consecutive days of record heat to the average temperature reaching $41.00 degrees celsius that's $107.00 degrees

fahrenheit and it's that's a go even higher. a wall of flames consuming all before it the firemen trying to slow its advance of fighting a losing battle. wildfires have been raging in australia for months now it's causing more than 3000000 hectares of land and destroying over 700 homes this smoke has engulfed sydney blurring it psychotic skyline but with average temperatures reaching record highs the state of new south wales is preparing for things to get us given the severity of extreme weather conditions today and also saturday and for the next few days on advice of commissioner fitzsimmons new south wales will be in a state of emergency from today for the next 7 days scientists blame global warming for the severity of this year's fires parched from the searing heat new south wales

is a tinder box already a light. the fire service sending out its biggest plane this one dumps 36000 liters of fire retardant with every flight but that's still not enough we've got just under 104 hours going across new south wales and half of them are not can timed it was to die is going to be a very bad story here in new south wales the forecast is that sort of i will be even worse so we're talking about some very serious and dangerous conditions over the coming days. with the heat bearing down many australians took to the waves to cool off. even as they relax on the beach the flames are creeping closer. now that's where journalist roger major to standing by for us roger how are people coping i mean we saw people there cooling off in the waters there is these record temperatures and not only that i mean there must be

a big health threat posed as well by all that smoke coming from the bushfires are people coping there. well with great difficulty it has to be said we've had the return of the snow case which has been a problem in sydney and much of the bulls fortnight now i was really bad last week today or early this week is that today that there's no case returned and you know we had lots of people walking in the streets with masks around the place to protect themselves and you trek to the or has said that the. the the air quality was a little in times over the acceptable level so that gives you an idea of the sort of problems people are facing and for many that smoke in the heat is arguably more serious than the threat posed by bushfires which are still quite a long way from sydney in fact he said that more people in australia got from what it was than bushfires all floods put together and doctors here are buzzing people are staying silent possible all weathers facemasks that they have to go out into

the street i mean those images just walk almost apocalyptic now of the prime minister prime minister scott morrison he's come under some criticism for the way that he's handling this entire situation in fact he's currently out of the country is that right. that's right scott morrison has decided to go on holiday with his family as australia burns it's not a good look and he certainly hasn't gone down well with that many people in australia and there's certainly a big debate going on here about the cools of the bushfire crisis many people blaming the government for not addressing climate change and reducing the country's reliance on fossil fuels no but others argue that there's no direct link between climate change and the drought and droughts of course are part and parcel of australian history because for thousands of years here straight was the driest continent on earth so. what the league is between the 2 has yet to be really

a steady supply of somebody because even so the right of center conservative government has. action. i like that. scott morrison well the prime minister has a way a wife were his family and apparently we've heard today that he deliberately media minders asked reporters not to mention the fact a few days ago but of course it's no come home to roost now scott morrison was are expected to return. and ok well the vocation then may be over roger maynard there reporting for us in sydney thanks very much for years a check now of some of the global headlines of this hour bolivia's attorney general has issued an arrest warrant for exiled former president evo morales the new government has accused him of sedation and terrorism the left wing leader fled bolivia last month after the country's military pressured him out over a disputed presidential election or at least who is currently in argentina to

announce the arrest order as illegal. thousands of people gather across poland to demonstrate against a proposed law allowing the government to fire judges the protesters fear that the legislation gives the ruling party the power to get rid of judges they don't agree with. spanish police have clashed with football with protesters outside a football match between barcelona and real madrid the protesters outside the stadium in barcelona trying to draw attention to the catalonian separatist movement during the goals match it was watched by 650000000 people worldwide. fire munich have dominated german soccer for the last 7 seasons this season though they found the going tough after battering bremen 61 over the weekend they travelled to freiburg yesterday and they grabs a very late when. the high 5 for a high class performance at the weekend philippe coutinho out scored by ends goal

getter in chief. and the brazilian wasted no time trying to add to his weekend hat trick thankfully for hosts freiburg man well gould got back just in the nick of time. having dodged a bullet with coutinho they were soon in the firing line again sharpshooter 11 duff's he rarely misses perfectly placed a proud in the cross from alfonso davis. but instead of pushing their advantage by him found themselves pressed back it wasn't for the heroics of goalkeeper manwell neuer freiburg could have been levelled at the break. he might have told you that was a warning shot for what was to come just before the hour mark when chen's agree for a smashed in the cries of. he'd already fluffed one volley in the 1st half this one wasn't too pretty either but it did the trick freiburg in the ascendancy

and in spitting distance of a famous victory but in a team full of stars it was a relative unknown who stole the plaudits yahshua xix a on as a sub to continue putting byron back in front in stoppage time the young dutchman had only been on the pitch for 2 minutes some way to make an impact says gnabry added flattery to the scoreline with bae and. it would be the last kick of the game . by and leading men ably propped up by their supporting cost. are here's a look now at the bundesliga standings after those made. week matches are be leipsic hanging on to 1st place at the top of the table but they're only ahead of gladbach on goal difference are munich moving up to 3rd place in the bottom half cologne escaping from the relegation zone for the 1st time since nash they ate braman drop down to the playoff spots and dusseldorf look at them they're suddenly

in trouble. a reminder now the top stories that we're following for you this hour britain's queen elizabeth opened a new session of parliament following conservative prime minister boris johnson's election victory last week in her speech presenting the government's agenda she said as i already is to deliver breakfast. and the u.s. house of representatives has voted to impeach president donald trump the vote was split along party lines with no republicans voting in favor of the articles of impeachment will now be sent to the senate swore a republican majority is expected to vote to keep president trump in office. you're watching t.v. news coming up in. the trial of the decade in the philippines members of a powerful political family sentenced to life in prison for a mass murder committed 10 years ago. and chinese farmers and their fear of swine flu we look at wanted means for

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