but iconic number 38 fun to. say. this is g.w. newswire from berlin tonight paving the way for donald trump's impeachment trial. on both sides of the aisle. we are here today to cross at their very important threshold in american history the u.s. house of representatives votes to send 2 articles of impeachment against the

president to the senate and they approve prosecutors will be only the 3rd trial in u.s. history meanwhile at the white house president signs things one of a trade agreement with china aimed at ending an 18 month long dispute but major issues remain unresolved what is next for the world's 2 biggest economies also coming up tonight russia's government resign a surprise move comes as president vladimir putin calls for reforms that could keep him in power for well beyond the end of his presidential term we'll get the details for moscow plus will it erupt or will it knocks we meet people fleeing the tall volcano in the philippines returning to scenes of complete devastation.

i'm we're going to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and around the world well we begin in the united states where the stage is now set for the impeachment trial of a u.s. president for only the 3rd time in american history the u.s. house of representatives has voted to send 2 articles of impeachment against president donald trump to the u.s. senate the vote was largely along party lines today trump is charged with abuse of office and obstruction of congress in its efforts to investigate that abuse the house was also approved the team of 7 prosecutors who were managers for the trial that trial is expected to start next week. and for the latest i'm joined by my colleague public house he is in washington d.c. good evening to you paul what happens next. brant well as you mentioned there the resolution has been voted on and passed in

the hives of representatives to pass the. articles of impeachment which now pos onto the senate there's a sort of a ceremonial aspect as well today and we'll be seeing at the sergeant of arms who will actually physically bring those article articles of impeachment from the house of representatives over to the senate and that marks the beginning of this next stage in the process. will this be a real trial they're kind that we would expect to be in a courtroom and will there be witnesses. well it is a trial but it's a suppose you have to look at it different you mentioned it before there are managers appointed they've been appointed the managers act like the prosecution will say and they'll be arguing the case in front of the senate they are members of the house of representatives these monitors and they'll be arguing for why

president trump needs to be found guilty of these 2 charges abuse of power and obstruction of congress so that's basically the next stage in this process with regards to witnesses democrats of being pushing for witnesses to be included in this trial in the senate and there will have to be a vote on that in the senate at the moment it's unclear whether they'll actually get what they want they will need the support of several republicans there has been a lot of talk here in the u.s. media that some every publicans do want witnesses and new evidence to be included in this senate trial and we know the president was impeached westmont some time has passed now we're getting ready for the trial how divided is the u.s. over this impeachment with presidential elections just 10 months away. yeah you're absolutely right i mean the country is very divided on this issue if

you look at old the recent surveys that it's being carried out it's very much split practically down the middle for those in favor and against this impeachment process it's also if you analyze it a little bit further and it's very much split down on perhaps on surprisingly down party lines so the majority of republicans saying that they're very much against this impeachment process and a significant majority of democrats saying that they're in favor of that continuing with this process so that brant edge of the united states is very much divided on this issue very much divided but we know where the attention will be next tuesday in the united states. public on the story for some washington abo think you know after 18 months of economic conflict the united states and china have entered a trade truce or at least the 1st part of one president donald trump and china's

chief trade negotiator today signed a phase one of a new agreement just a short time ago in a ceremony at the white house now it's aimed at lowering tensions in a trade war that has slowed growth around the globe ahead of the signing hailed the deal as his store to take a moment this step one that has never been taken before with china toward a future of fear and reciprocal trade as we saw in phase one of the historic trade deal between the united states and china. together we are righting the wrongs of the past and delivering a future of economic justice and security for american workers farmers and families . well this deal will ease some u.s. sanctions on china and it will see beijing step up imports of american farm products both sides are holding off however on imposing further tariffs but many

other hot button issues they remain unresolved. chinese vice premier league you hate said the 2 countries can work together to achieve a win win relationship despite differences in political and economic models but i.m.f. managing director crystal reminded china's trade zada meeting in washington that the deal was only a truce not a permanent agreement the deal leaves in place tariffs on $360000000000.00 of chinese goods it doesn't cover china's huge subsidies for state owned firms or claims of cyber theft these issues will be addressed to join phase 2 negotiations these terrorists will stay in place until there's a phase 2 if the president gets a phase 2 quickly of consider releasing terraces part of phase 2 if not there won't be any terror leave newton even said terrorists could be raised again if china doesn't honor its obligations the saber rattling between the 2 economic powers

continues the phase one deal just prevents an escalation for now according to the deal the us has agreed to stop labeling china a currency manipulator beijing will by $200000000000.00 worth of u.s. farm products manufactured goods and services. i think it would be a fight she was right to choose to fight a fight between china and the united states and so both sides will continue to try to be with us directly to go to monitor there's. no solution can be expected any time soon on the strategic rivalry between the world's 2 biggest economies u.s. presidential elections are coming up in november and the chinese side feels it has enough domestic strength to avoid a major compromises. arduous but there is in some context a reality check if you will to do that i'm joined by my colleague from d.w. business kate ferguson kate good to see you so the u.s.

president says this is a historic deal is it well it that it has stark of anything up to. 18 months but it is a big moment symbolically because i think it's really important to remember that while u.s. president donald trump started this trade war the ideological rifts expose far predated his presidency so we're talking about issues like china treats foreign companies in the country so traditionally if you're a company operating from the united states or germany anywhere when you go to china you have to partner with a chinese company and that of course involves a lot of technology transfer and that is one reason. we're going to see it both ways and that is one reason that china has been able to advance technologically so rapidly and that's an issue that trumps previous us obama hot as well so these issues aren't really new but i think what's really interesting is that it's also raised this question of who the winners and losers of globalization are v so you know china has been accused by many countries of being protectionist but really

trumps decision to start this war was the ultimate defensive move he has been watching china grow there's one if there's one thing very good it's understanding who the winner is and the who the losers are and he's being very worried about the prospect of china increasingly becoming a winner so i think what's significant is that this is really a protection of stunts on the part of the united states have called into question the very principles underlying globalization winners and losers who profits moves them from this agreement today on the surface it's definitely united states so china has agreed to 2 by $200000000000.00 worth of american goods as you mentioned we're talking about farming products manufactured goods and energy now that signs pretty interesting pretty significant but really it's quite hard to implement so for one china has said it's going to base this on marcus market moves but you're really going to have to create an artificial market for $200000000000.00 worth of american goods so it's going to either involve chinese communist party officials

eating a whole load of soybeans. meeting. asli or of course they're going to have to stop buying goods from elsewhere so it's actually quite difficult to implement this policy and of course the tyro of the existing tire of those $360000000000.00 worth of them remain in place there will be no new levies for now but the tires that we ready have are staying for now so what about 2 so phase 2 is potentially where the folks 3 where we might see some of these ideological questions being addressed especially the question of state subsidies so one reason that china has been able to advance so rapidly in the recent years is because the government is helping companies that's propping them up and one company more than any other the has profit from this is of course huawei and that brings us to a whole host of other issues right why wait is a leader in 5 g. stocks the newest high speed highly reactive internet of the future it's going to

enable technology like self driving cars companies in countries all over the world want to get in on this game and they're putting pressure on their governments to buy huawei products you know saying look we won't be able to stay in on this game if we don't buy from huawei and again it's a question of ideologic ideology what's a bigger risk not keeping up or blindly trusting the chinese government we're economic policy and national security policy there start to merge as always we appreciate your reporting thank you but. our here's a brief would know what some of the other stories making headlines today are warning that more extreme weather events like wildfires and for the or on the horizon after the holidays decade ever recorded the average global temperature in 2019 was 1 point one degrees celsius pre-industrial levels beyond 1.5 degrees global warming is projected to have big stream consequences including the melting of most arctic sea ice showing that has rejected

a report by human rights watch condemning the treatment of the one mil. muslims held in so-called political education camps and the country's foreign ministry says the document is biased and distorts the facts the report also denounces beijing's use of mass surveillance and the silencing of critics. police in italy say they've broken up a large mafia operation that had been defrauding the european union almost 100 people were arrested in early morning raids in sicily italian media say the group had stolen 10000000 euros intended for former. political drama in moscow today the entire government resigned in mass and it came just hours after president vladimir putin delivered his state of the nation address in which he proposed changes to the country's constitution that would allow him to extend his grip on power after his term as president ends in 2024 today's

government resignation may have been a shock but it is no crisis putin even welcomed it russian prime minister dmitri medvedev decision to step down came as a surprise medvedev said the president's proposals to mend the country's constitution would significantly change russia's balance of power he due to flee made the announcement public. because we as the government of the russian federation should provide the president of our country with the opportunity to make all necessary decisions to change the russian political system. in the circumstances i believe it would be right for the incumbent government of the russian federation to resign. the news came just hours after president putin's state of the nation address. in that speech putin suggested changing the constitution to grant parliament more powers in effect weakening the powers of the presidency analysts believe putin could use the shake up to create

a new job for himself when his current presidential term ends in 4 years time under the russian constitution presidents can only serve to consecutive terms some believe may even take on a new role in parliament although medvedev has become increasingly unpopular with the russian public in recent years putin praised his service. i want to thank you for everything you've done in this phase of our cooperation i want to express my gratitude about the results of your work even though we didn't accomplish everything we wanted to i hope we will succeed soon. some people on the streets of moscow was slightly less forgiving of medved gives tenure. in principle the only question is why it took such a long time to be honest such a government should have been expelled many years ago were you sure you you can.

use meant that use the resignation is long overdue it's the right decision and putin is long overdue to control the economy the same way he controls politics. was putin is reportedly asked mage idea of to move to russia's national security council to work on defense and security affairs but the president appears to be leaving his own future career options open. about that sco to moscow now where my colleague emily sure when she's following this story can even help us understand this we've got the government in russia today resigning in mass we've got the president mr putin saying he approves and then we've got dimitri medvedev he's almost out of the job i mean what who will replace him and what is the role of the prime minister in russia. well we've now heard from president putin that he's proposed. excuse me

we should see him to replace me they are needed if as you can tell by my mispronunciation of his name he's a little known figure in russian politics he so far has headed the russian federal attack service since 2010 he's known as a kind of the fission bureaucrat now i wouldn't say that that necessarily means that the role of the prime minister is being downgraded the role of the president in russia has always been more important and in fact that is the real sea change after the mere putin speech today where he kind of increased the power of the parliament and downgraded the presidential power but he did emphasize that russia would remain a presidential republic and it's hard for people outside of russia to imagine what amir putin giving up power volunteer a leader mean one of his critics is that this move means that he plans to stay in

power indefinitely is that what is going on here. well in his speech today the state of the union of the nation address it did seem that putin isn't planning on going anywhere soon and in fact that speech and though the reforms the proposed reforms to the constitution that he mentioned and explained today those kind of give you putin various potential options for his future after all presidents in russia can only serve to consecutive terms put in 2nd consecutive term is up in 2024 and essentially since this term began people have been discussing what could happen next and today he opened up a potential option of becoming the speaker of a strength in the parliament that's one option he could also become the head of a state council which is an institution that he wants to now put into the

constitution as well that's made up of regional governors he could also become the head of the security council which could be strengthened and become some kind of have some kind of an advisory role in the country so he's kind of opened up a lot of potential avenues for himself there. potentially creating a new job for himself in 2024 really sure when with the leaders on the political. russia tonight you believe thank you. well here in germany a black lawmakers says bullet holes have been found in the window of his constituency office in the eastern city of hollow seagal born chemist. he became one of germany's 1st black lawmakers when he was elected to the federal parliament back in 2013 he is a member of the center left as p.d. social democrats and the army is no stranger to this kind of threat he has faced reeses slurs before and his office window has been smashed in the past all right my

colleague. has been on the story before she joins me now and so karl what more do we know about this as you mentioned the actually currently the only african born m.p. in germany he moved here from senegal many years ago he posted a photo of the aftermath on his twitter account we just want to show that to you here it is this is that picture and you can see at least 3 holes there and the window of his office he writes in the tweet he says an office window with his likeness was littered with what he says are several bullet holes police are investigating this they say they were likely air pellets it doesn't seem that those objects penetrated both both panes of glass represent as you mentioned a city of hala in eastern germany and that's a city where in october there was an anti-semitic attack outside of a synagogue the attacker did not gain access but killed 2 people in the process the suspect in that case has admitted that there was a far right motive to this attack in terms of this case we reached out to mr diaz

be a spokesperson told us that there were other buildings in the area that were also attacked so motive is not 100 percent clear yet but as we heard he has been the victim of racist abuse before as a politician here in germany and he's not the only politician more politician i should say the been targeted yeah absolutely i mean there have been several recent incidents in germany german politicians being threatened they even come under attack and police of links many of those incidents to the fall. right here let me just go through a few so 3 local mayors have recently resigned after they received death threats their cars were also attacked america germany's most populous state north rhine-westphalia he said he recently got a gun license to defend himself because there's a very unusual here very unusual very hard to get one for having most significantly of course you remember last year a local politician involved he was shot and killed in his own home the suspects in that attack is also believed to have far right beliefs we should also mention though there has been a threat against a very high profile a.f.g.

politician that's a far right party there was an envelope that was mailed to him with white powder in it it turned out to be a hoax but of course that could be interpreted as a death threat as well many of those incidents taking place in eastern germany that's where far right sentiments are on the rise as well as a stronghold for the far right party and overall the statistics say this is a german problem across the country all 16 states have seen a significant rise in threats and violence against politicians so what kind of reactions have we seen to this latest attack many are rallying behind the most significantly foreign minister want to show you what we had to say today and these were strong words brant he said quote simply unbelievable disgusting and cowardly and you can see he continues we will continue standing by your side for a free tolerant and diverse democracy i think that last bit is important a lot of germans are worried that perhaps the diversity of germany's democracy is

in fact under attack. ms always we report we appreciate your reporting karl thank you. and here's a brief look at some of the other stories that are making headlines this hour sudan says it has put down a rebellion by former security agents linked to its alstad ruler omar al bashir at least 5 people were killed in fighting late tuesday in the capital card to the security agents have reportedly rejected a government restructuring plan lebanon's capital beirut has been cleaning up after a night of protests in which almost 70 people were injured demonstrators caused heavy damage to banks which many blame for driving the country into its worst economic crisis in decades protesters are staging what they call a week of wrath to demand an end to months of political vacuum dozens of people in the united states are being treated for minor skin and lung problems take a look at this after a passenger plane dump fuel over several school the airliner was making an

emergency return to los angeles international airport after experiencing mechanical problems the federal aviation authority says it's investigating. in the philippines tens of thousands of people are still fleeing the erupting volcano many villages are already covered in a layer of ash amid warnings that a massive eruption could take place at any time and the volcano is located about 70 kilometers south of the capital manila in the middle of a lake and started spewing ash on sunday rescue teams have been working around the clock to get people to safety. holes is traveling with one of those team. clouds of ash covered this road in baton rouge. but still the rescuers press on. determined to drive those trapped in this boat can make a danger zone to safety. we're doing rescue operations to

evacuate people to higher ground we've rescued a couple of people already this morning we're moving to another town to rescue more . to tell the kaino has been billowing smoke into ash since it's a russian on sunday it lies in the middle of a lake just over 60 kilometers south of the philippine capital manila. for those these filipinos don't live on the phone can accommodate and they all still in danger are bashful and the likelihood of more russians are making evacuations here mandatory here others like claire and her sisters are choosing to gets out they can log on to say that on me we decided to evacuate today because we had that things may get worse with the pole pain or

the safest thing to do is to leave me some areas are too difficult to reach by truck so these rescuers use motorbikes to collect the locals it doesn't matter how they find them they simply know they have to get people out of this region as quickly as possible. well it was announced today the german city of dusseldorf will host the 2022 invicta international sports event which features wounded or traumatized war veterans now the event is the brainchild of britain's prince harry himself is a former soldier he created it back in 24 team athletes from 20 different nations will compete in. sporting disciplines this year's invictus games will be held in the netherlands germany will then host the 6th edition 2 years later. all stars from the world of tennis have played a charity match to raise money to help fight the australian bushfires players

including often adal and serena williams took part in the fundraiser in melbourne ahead of the australian open organizers of the rally for relief said they expect the of it to bring in around $2000000.00 euro as the global tennis community has already raised millions including several pledges to donate funds for every ace hit in australia. and here's a reminder of that top story we're following for you the u.s. house of representatives has voted to send 2 articles of impeachment against president trump to the senate setting the stage for only the 3rd impeachment trial in u.s. history trump is charged with abuse of office and obstruction of congress. you're watching news after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that.

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