this is the news live from berlin the indian government cracks down on nationwide protests against a controversial new law police rest hundreds of people for defying a ban on protests over the citizenship law the ban was imposed after some of the protests turned violent we'll go live to china also coming up britain's parliament opens for the 2nd time in as many months queen elizabeth sets out her government's agenda following last week's election to no one's surprise the number one priority is the liver and breasts. and in

a historic vote the us house of representatives impeaches president donald trump. cards one is adopted. with that gavel trump becomes just the 3rd u.s. writer ever since being impeached his face now lies in the hands of the senate swore a trial will decide whether or not he remains in office and a german football barred music leave it until the last minute but they take home what could be a crucial win at friday's. i'm calling welcome to the program police in india have taken hundreds of people at the concert for defying a ban on protest against a controversial new citizenship law the ban was imposed after protests in 2 states turned violent last week now the law for citizenship to immigrants from pakistan bangladesh and afghanistan escaping religious persecution but it does not include

muslims communication networks and transports have been shut down amid the ongoing demonstrations. defiant they came out to protest and peacefully they resisted people across the country refused to be deterred by the protest ban. 6 they say the new law makes religion a basis for granting indian citizenship and discriminates against muslims they believe it threatens the secular nature of indian democracy yet north here this citizenship amendment act is against the indian constitution it is a legal it is against the spirit of independence of our country i know nothing about mother you know i'll tell you that. many prominent people were taken into custody while protesting including the well known historian robert chandra. his detention prompted widespread outrage on twitter

a delhi based political historian condemned what he described as the police man handling one of the most prolific and influential public intellectuals and scholars . the government said it was forced to take steps in the interest of public safety after many protests turned violent last week. in the capital delhi protests caused more than a dozen train stations to be closed roads were blocked traffic congested authorities also shut down mobile phone networks and the internet in several regions many locals were left frustrated. monday president i thought a very difficult situation and a very bad situation with facing a lot of problems. the reds also have a lot of traffic jams and some of them. so it's at the sec take situation. but there may be much more disruption on its way there are a few signs that prime minister narendra modi is going to back down over the law

and the protesters appear not afraid to disobey. our let's get the latest now for more we bring in sanya ravi shankar's he's a journalist in chennai india 1st of all we understand mobile networks the internet have been shut down in some areas of the country what more can you tell us about that but strong possibly getting the national capital of india had. some black oak for mobile networks and this is largely because the calling for protests are spreading through social media networks as well as the messaging apps like whatsapp so in fact all the talk have received a bunch of close to action and it's been 2 blocks up basically mentioning you know where to protest the going to take place and what kind that's going to take so this is kind of. tickets that is being spread to via social media networks and whatsapp and a large section of urban india is coming out to put this in fun and i do think with

the students who are opposing the controversial citizenship amendment and the national shift that this is who sending out those those alerts on social media who's behind these these protests the organizers have been. well it's unfair as to whether this protest is actually led by somebody of course the opposition has joined in and they have you know conducted their own little protest marches and they've jumped into the fray and said it but it does not seem to have any specific leader in that sense so we're looking at a protest and seeing the lead largely by the social media by messages which are being fed to the social media network and the people are coming out to expensive father daddy so even if it's just for a few hours they take a break from work they come out they protest and they go back so that's what they witnessing right now in india as long as we heard prominent figures are being arrested for protesting is there any kind of sense that indian authorities are becoming

a bit more brazen in this crackdown on demonstrations by the indian government or the home minister has that equally stated that there would have been no negotiation or no backing down in the sense on these 2 controversial bits of legislation so in fact he has also stated clearly that there will be no dialogue with the protestors or students so it does not feel quite the government is going to back down in fact it's slightly that we're going to see some more police action to quell the protests that are taking place now as a police action continues do you think the indian government may start to lose any sort of support over the way that is dealing with these protests and with the bill itself. well it's still early days yet is only the 3rd day of protests in the rest of india outside of the northeast where the north. have been protesting for lucky on it of course but it's still early days and we're going to have to wait and see what happens i don't know what the odds are to see is that

a section of urban india is coming out in solidarity and this is something we have not seen since 2011 when the anticorruption happened in the metro cities but. i live and it's probably because the messaging in the negative has not actually reached them and probably there is no understanding of what are the consequences of these 2 lives that should right sagna ravishankar engine i thank you very much for that update. in the u.k. the normally infrequent states opening of parliament has taken place for the 2nd time in 2 months this time around the situation is dramatically different because prime minister boris johnson is now in a much more commanding position after last week's general election queen elizabeth laid out the government's agenda in a speech written by the prime minister to no one's surprise delivering products it was the number one priority with a big majority johnson now has the votes to pass his bill to take the u.k.

out of the european you. i was in london for us she's been following all the proceedings today now barbara as we've heard it's now 2 queens speeches 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 had just done a 2 months ago so it was no crown no carriage no state robe it was day dress and just an ordinary car she drove up here to parliament read her speech was 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. law and his parliamentarians will follow him because he led the party to that extremely. to that extreme victory and so nobody will sort of offer him any resistance at all here certainly high in that agenda and back the 1st item in that speech was bright said what are the government's plans now for delivering price. the timetable seems quite clear and there is no more a stepping up in boris johnson there is no stopping bracks 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 for. in his sort of changed the bill he has added. a 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 dish no peace 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. of 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 in parliament. is a huge majority and he is trying in announcing that he is going to spend a lot of a 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 in public during is already sort of

increasing patty 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. are the check now of some of the other stories making news around the world scotland's 1st minister nicola sturgeon says that the scottish government will consider all options of the british government tries to stop it from holding an independence referendum sturgeon's pro independence national party won 48 seats in last week's u.k. why don't watch. the pretrial hearings have started in the case of a slovak businessman tied to the killing of an investigative journalist. is

suspected of ordering the killing of journalist john. who had been investigating his business active. and his fiance were gunned down at their home in february last year. in the us donald trump has become de 3rd president in history to be impeached the house of representatives voted on 2 charges stemming from trump's alleged attempt to pressure ukraine into investigating his main political rival joe biden both votes fell long lines almost all democrats voted for the charges while republicans voted unanimously against them the vote paves the way for a senate trial which was signed by 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 though they are 230 nays 1907 present is one. article

one is adopted i'm 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 thing for the american voter. this lawless 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 fund over the articles of impeachment we cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the phone 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 for when we see what all this will. 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 bosch 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 more a given pietschmann what does that do to trump's presidency how will people per potentially view president 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 them seem like the ball exactly for 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 the 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 it really does get to the heart of who gets.

to speaking about the impeachment proceedings it's of course the lawmakers who do the. voter 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 how 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 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 was 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 then well there's a couple things here the 1st is that there's going to be senators that are distracted by this candidates like clover star 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 thank you thanks. well in australia a record breaking heat wave and strong winds are frustrating firefighters who are battling out of control bushfires the country's most populous states new south wales has declared a state of emergency authorities they are warning of worsening conditions over the next few days this week has already seen 2 consecutive days of record heat the

average temperature reaching 41.9 degrees celsius that's 107 degrees fahrenheit and it's set to 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 tinderbox 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 guy 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. our let's go to city now that's where journalist roger maynard is standing by for us roger how are people coping i mean we saw people there cooling off in the waters

there as 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 as you said we've had the return of the snow case which has been a problem in sydney and much of the. 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 think to the authorities 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 it was than bushfires all put together and doctors here were busing people to stay

inside possible all weathers. have to go out into the street i mean those images just walk almost apocalyptic their 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 austria burns it's not a good look and he certainly hasn't gone down world with that many people in australia and the certainly a big debate going on here about the kools 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 drought and droughts of course are part and parcel of australian history but as it is in a straight as 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. an attacker it's like a bad action and. as you rightly say i like that but if. we did that scott morrison well the prime minister has a way hole-y. apparently with his family and apparently we've heard today that he deliberately his media minders asked reporters not to mention that fact a few days ago but of course so that you can see now come home to roost and now scott morrison his family are expected to return next earlier than planned ok well they think haitian and maybe over a roger maynard there reporting for us and said we thank you so much. here's a check now of some of the other global headlines of this hour bolivia's attorney general has issued an arrest warrant for exiled former president brollies new government has accused him of sedition and terrorism a left wing leader fled bolivia last month after the country's military pressured

him how its over a disputed presidential election was currently in argentina denounce the arrest order as illegal. thousands of people gathered 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 that they don't agree with. sports now and by a new nick may have dominated german soccer for the last 7 seasons but this season they found the going a bit tougher than usual after battering braman 61 at the weekend they travel to freiburg yesterday and they grabbed a very late when. a high 5 for a high class performance at the weekend philippe coutinho scored byron's goal getter in chief. and the brazilian wasted no time trying to add to his weekend hattrick thankfully for hosts freiburg. back just in the nick of time.

having dodged a bullet they were soon in the firing line again sharpshooter 11 the rarely misses perfectly placed approach in the cross from alfonso davis. but instead of pushing their advantage by and 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 grief was smashed in the cries and. 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 in a team full of stars it was a relative unknown who stole the plaudits you're sure was exceeding on a subsequent putting by him 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 gain. byron's leading man ably propped up by best supporting cost. i with that let's take a look now at the bundesliga standings after the midweek matches as you can see at the top as rb leipzig they're hanging on to 1st place only ahead of gladbach on goal difference by munich moving up to take 3rd ends in the bottom half colonus from the relegation zone the 1st time they've done that smashed 8 bremen dropped to the playoff spots and dusseldorf now looking good the team suddenly in trouble in the 7th slot. well you watching the news coming up in news asia.

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