acting he gladly take to any k. yeah but its use welcome to live from piracy on france twenty four i'm margot in these looming world news headlines. us should inquire he says there is overwhelming evidence. drunken face foformal charges agagainstt the against himself these include a abuse of power bribery and obstruction of justice and the committee chair adam schiff says. other members of congress could also be implicated. tension between michael and trump at the nato summit hopefully thihis annnnoue conflicting versions o of the future of the alliance untrue blade into my dad translate into m macro over his brain dead remark. french president aimed

at the us leader. schools intensified by the prime minister of malta to resign joseph muscat is allegedly linked to a suspect in the murder of an investigative reporter that make kind of wanna galaxia . overwhelming evidence to impeach the us president the report by the u. s. impeachment viruses donald trump place personal interest about that of the united states. it'll call centers on the allegations trump tried to push ukraine to investigate a political rival the democrat. joe biden. it could pave the way for formal charges against the us leader the could include abuse of f power bribery and obstruction. the house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff who has led the ten week old investigation said it was important to move quickly

because the evidence of terms wrongdoing is. overwhelming. this report chronicles a scheme by the president i'd states to coerce an ally- ukraine- that is at war with an adversary russia. into doing the pleasant the presence- political dirty work- it involves a scheme in which donald trump. withheld official act so white house meeting as well as hundreds of millions of dollars of needed military assistance. in order to compel that power to deliver two investigations that he believed would assist his reelection campaign. shift the hm of each mencari let's bring in our correspondent in washington kevin go just on he was awaiting a skit about getting to you- tell us more about this. fast developing situation. all that so three hundred page- longer report from and the intelligence community from the democrats on the intelligence committee. i

really making the case of that overwhelming proof and that the president of the united states abused his office said to further his personal interest. there to a broader elements of accusation in those three hundred pages one is the abuse of power in which at their elements of bribery as well as at the- accusation and- he- requested from a for. a government to interfere in the elections of at the united states the other broad accusation is one of obstruction of congress as far as the room they were democrats saying that- the presidents of obstructed a congress's job by. preventing and pull it from the white house it from a testifying by refusing. to release of documents and these are two. elements that are important going forward because this report is now i'm going to go through to the judiciary

committee which wilill hold its first a public hearing at this wednesday the judiciary committee will read that report and based on that report they are going to draft a several articles of impeachmhment so we are looking. most likely act at least two articicles of impeachment one on abuse of power maybe we'll have two different types of abuse of power a one on the bribery part maybe the other one on asking a foreign power to interfere. in a u. s. elections another one and most likely on obstruction ofofourse- but now it democrats apparently or eating going forward whether to broaden the scope of and those are articles of impeachment. some want to really focus on at the ukraine issue and very strict very hard very clear others want to broader the school may be implicated and donald trump in obstruction. of justice it uses

the. and other elements we saw in the one. that is so it can be the judiciary committee will have the final word on those articles of impeachment and we're expecting at that a committee to draft as articles of impeachment probably next week. can i go just on the thank you for bringing us up to date with the situation that in washington. of course watching for developments on the situation but the impeach enquiring basics and the evidence to act against the us president donald trump is. overwhelming. it's been using use of the f. presidential- race- come out harris has pulled out of the race to be the democrat nomination for the twenty twentnty presidential elecection in the u us. califora senator who try to position itself as a unifying candidate. has been struggling to gain support and after strong performance in the debates in june harris is that out of contention. fans get the campaign finance to boost her chances so she decided that today to call it a day. next the tension at the nato summit the two day event on the way this tuesday at wofford. near london. and the love lost

between the us presidentt and hihis french countererpart was palpable. donald trump partiallyy rebuking. among american once arguably his closest ally m mug foreieign leaders.s. recently s saying tht nato w was experieiencing brain death as a result of diminished us ldership. in the alliance under donald trump. pull me to a macro the silence of the meeting trump late into the french president. what he said were very very nasty comments. will benetton is in london for france twenty four said join benedict now benedict even to you. tell us more about this tension that there is clearlyy between the two met. trump a mac from. well let's set the scene let's remember that this is the celebration a all meaeano bebe. nature the most successful military alliance in history say i its backekers suddenly oversee critics would disagree with that so. donald trump arrived late last n night and at the us ambassador's residence.

his first meeting was with the secretary general of nato jens stoltenberg i'm not h his when e really laid into when journalists. came intnto a press conference leading to present my course okay n not in the french president's. presence and he said it was quote very disrespectful i'm very insulting to the twenty eight otheher countriries- and just pn nasty a for suggesting that nato was brain dead andnd of course this is. what our viewers will note a reference totohe economimist interviewew e to. the present do you a few weeks ago which school world attention now the turn. seem to have improved by the time that was a bilateral. eric and president on the french president cerertainly thehey wod talk befefore that over the u. . threatening 1100% tariffs. on french goods such as the over the digital tax that they've imposed assume that some

champagne on rock for cheese. on a whole list of goods and that could come as soon as mid january then president trump became somewhat. wewell more optimistic and said it was probably possible to find a deal and certainly paris hopes upup that there's still room for discussion on those us tariffs what i think is interesting. i s thee fact thatat then tonigight president michael has tweeted a first in french and in english. this tweet my statements on nato trips some reactions i stand b by them it is a burden e share wee can't put money and pay the cost of all soldiers lives without being clear on the fundamentals of what nature should be. tomorrow i will stand up for the french and european interests and of course. presesent michael's does not just want it to be about moneyy that's very muchhat. a presidenent trump is very proud of having done on thatat is makiking all the l lead is. you will feel that pledgeses. to pay

for a nato o on that defense. bt to present my coal- since france is just lost thirteen soldiers and molly fighting terrorism out that- is very much pointing out that it's also about. the minute she backing the one gives us alliance. but it it for now thank you very much in the benetton b. about correspond in london with the latest that. on the day to some of which is happening at just on the edge of the city and the town a one foot. on the cool side that aided watching a football developments for us and our team. on the ground will be reporting from. details tomorrow. lebanon's can't take up foreign minister gibran by sealed. is suggesting the progress has been made in talks on forming a new government to ll the country out of f its worst economicc crisis in decades. talks between the main feuding participant deadlocks inside i'll have really. resigned as promised in late october. underer pressure from huge protests agagainst the ruling elite. regis deal had appeared to have been down. but

i'm baffled last month after a candidate for prime it withdrew. little sources the same purpose is been made in the discussssions to form an interim c cabinet with lebanese businessman sami al khatib. as primime minister we are awaiting developments on that one. france is facing growing problems in terms of the supply of fuel the talks are ongoing between the government and strikers who picketing petal depose across the country and even though. picket lines at ran now shell and breast not be lifted there are concerns at the general strike j judge you'l hear the first. it's a familiar scene in parts of northwestern france. shortages at the fuel pump. there's no gas the media tried i tried there you go i'm going back home and i'll have to deal with it you can guess what i have no gas left us in this i really need it. it's kind of ridiculous. how we supposed to go to work without gas some guys will. the

troubles are the product of blockades outside fuel depots largely in the country's west. one summer lifted on tuesday including one after police intervention one storage center remains under blockade. while no official figures exist one website is put together a map of filling stations that are affected. it estimates the nearly four hundred are completely without fuel with another four hundred lacking supply. on monday france's finance minister met with construction workers leading the blockades. while the state hasn't agreed to workers central demand the extension of a special tax benefit on fuel. france's finance minister said on tuesday that concessions have been made and that dialogue is continuing push up a second i'm calling on everyone to be responsible and reasonable. we have an agreement that saw the deed. we worked a lot on the question of security checks. and fair competition they don't and we're going to work on the final step three so that we can have a general agreement.

between the governments and these construction workers are still do but you only hope to be. but as lines outside stations continued on tuesday commuters remain anxious. ashley is france gears up for a nationonwide strike on thursday with st rail service expected to undergo major disruptions- was saying the nation might strike coming on thursday will bring you will develop and so on that. as we lived through it. next the u. lawmaker he says multis prime minister's position is not credible. in that the light of allegations about the murder of an investigative reporter. the u. delegation launched. its mission to malta after. an investigation into the twenty seventeen common deaf to count on a galaxy a leading investigative journalist. implicated promise to josephph muscat chief of f staff he felt chambray.. resesign from office denies anyny involvement being briefly arrested and questioned. in the case number w was releasd from c custody. is that a prominent businessman as the

suspected mastermind behind it your contract t allegedly linkig action be toto the killing. of sophia and felt as the lawmaker leading the investigation. prime minister little to speak is between. and the european union. the european union is. everybody. we'll see we'll be here in in the next day yeah. an international survey school students as shown again that asian kids on the best performers it also highlights of children from poorer homes still perform less well than that more well off class makes of cool stuff always exceptions to any rule.e. but the question reremains about how can the gap clothes to make school more democratic and enriching experience. assessing the ball the head t tuesday soul results

published for the latest program for international student assessment revealing a key finding o our piece o of twy eighteen assssessmentt shows a fifteen year old students i in bebeijing and shanghai lying young sue and shake john all performemed. by a rather largege margin t their peersrs from allf ththe other participating education systems. the p. is a survey is carried out every three years by the paris based organization for economic cooperation and development. the latest study b based on to our tests taken by six hundred thousand fifteen year olds l lat year. suree the chinese stutunts top the r rkings aheadad of ther western counterparts in readinig %-pe average. however the t tests of appepeared to reveal some shocking trends fewer than one in ten students. in the oecd countries. we're able to

distinguish between fact. and opinion and inequality appears to be assiststing acacross the board in some countries the gap in reading performance. between the 10% most social economically advantaged. and the 10% most disadvantaged students. would requirement of more than four years of schooling. focusing on developed oecd countries with us said it was disappointing but most m member states had sen virtually no improvemement in te performance of their students since the first p pizza surury f twtwo thousand.. t this despitea 15% increase in expenditure per primary and secondary students across oecd countries over the past decade. that's sever mongia of the main world news

headlines here live from paris. the democrats have that file that report saying this overwhelming evidence that impeachment proceeding should go head against a a donald trump the committee chatham shift even saying that other members of c congress could well be implicated. in the whole of fat. tension between macklin trumpet nato summit both it is announcing conflicting visions of the future the alliance troubling into background of his brain dedead remark about that- french president was aiming please trump. polls intensify the prime minister of all to resign joseph muscat is allegedly linked to suspect. inn the bed of the f festivall portr daphne carolina galaxia. some to tell about a business who better than take me to join us to start at the closing bell on ththe wall street absolutely marcus in stocks plunging around the world as investors braced for more trade tension donald trump has raised the stakes on two fronts- suggesting a trade deal with

china could be put off until after the twenty twenty elections. and separately threatening more tariffs on french imports and now jones and its worst day in about two months losing aboutut two hundrd and e eighty points at the close it had been down as muchch as four hundred earlier in the session shares of companies like apple and boeing were down well over one percent. they're seen as the most exposed to trade tensions with beijing whichh also sell o off in thee majorruropean indices-- just frfrkfurt's daxax managagg a popositive close their london fr two huhundred dropped one and ouout down one frereh luxuryo kk grgroups like lvmvm caring and abbas l losing beteten one point five and two and a half percent each. amid concerns about those tariffs. well both presidents trump and michael have suggestedd that they're escalating trade dispute could be solved. butut they didn't gie any details. washington said it cocod targeget for the two point four billion dollars worth of french goods. including c cheese champagne cosmetics and luxury goods like handbags. this in response to a frencnchlan to

tax digital giaiants like apple and facacook. now french farmers say they're c caught u p the crossss hairs o of an argumentnt that shouldn't even involve them pressure jackson has more. in this creamery in southern france fear is growing of a potential us tariffs on french goods. every year seventeen hundred tons of rock for cheese is created on these promises of which fifteen times is exported to the us. the ceo of the company's worried an increase in price good grades on customers and these the slice of the market's melting away hero if the importers paying twenty thirty or forty years worth of tax they're going to pass that cost on to the consumer. the result is that people won't be able to afford our product. the communists agree that the potential impact of increased ut's could be huge. is it does rule solar the united states the first markets outside of europe the french cheese. out of the one hundred and sixteen thousandnd tons were exported outside your beach yes. twenty

five thousand goes to the us. it's a considerable share our core consider harbor. the french farmers union is worried about the impact of france's agricultural sector. now asking the governments to be mindful of work is connecticut you in the book bob uecker culture a cannot be held hostage in trade discussions. especially when it concerns us sanctions. that have nothing to do with us. we've lost the e prime minister together with the european union to prioritize negotiations on the matter. france's *-*- was already stood to lose up to three hundred million euros and revenue as part of separate us tires it was just a few months ago. with champagne now also facing gz those projected losses are likely to increase. moving on some of the day's other business headlines now. german authorities have searched volkswswagen's headquarters in wolfururg. eight is the l latest chapter in the ongoing investigigation of the carmakers esel emimissions scandal jusust seenen out some thirty billion euros in fines and compensation. in september

german prosecutors said they were chargrging former and currrrent executives with market manipulation. italian bank unicredit has announced eight thousand job cuts lenders trying to scale back cost s some prededicts the turnaround plan will increase net profit and shareholder value. it is also planning to close five hundred branches and improve its digital banking offerings. and the video shop schering up take talk is been accused of sending users data to china the class action lawsusuit in the u. s. alleges that chinese surveillance software is harvesting and transferring details they could identify or track u users. ticked off is owned by chinese companies like to dance it has previously denied storing u. s. data on chinese servers. well despite fears of falling sales amid slowing global growth this year's black friday and cyber monday sales one course top all previous years. in the u. s. cyber monday sales not sure of a record nine point two billion

dollars. over the f five day period between thanksgiving and cyber monday- the marking shoppers spent an average of three hundred and sixty two dollars that's up 16% from last year. according to the national retail federation nearly a hundred ninety million people shopped over that stretch that's about 57% of the entire us population. all this despite growing activist opposition the consumerist for z. both events though paling in comparison to china's singles day shopping holiday which saw each commerce. alright thirty four point eight billion dollars of sales in one day a landmark. credit card is shuddering to think of that. okay thank them in a cave this great city. it's cross the studio will be fined emma james of mediawatch good evening- the nato summit on the way i learned. just outside.

the british mp that sorry pm prime minister boris johnson- it's kind of a real bound exact bouncing up to him to keep everybody happy. explain why up see he is on a diplomatic tight right right now because partials almost to safeguard that chummy relationship that he has with the us president bought without annoying the british public because there is an election on the way. now the onset of this is that we ought to hold partials and is very much trying to keep the us president of arm's length during the summit. hence a cartoon from christian adams in today's evening standard which has a boris johnson pressed up against the wall well the-- very recognizable have style of donald trump is poking through his left about saying hey little buddy you in. not only just on the right hand side i even larry the cast is get in on the act tries to avoid- donald trump's attention. i am they have been scenes is great- i need tata a friendship really at between the two in the pasta but it's something that- barstools necessity keen to avoid now because he isn't popular in the united kingdom. a donald trump as i'm at

business insider among those reporting on this one saying basically there are fears that it cannot she blow up boris johnsons election campaign that's just how. unpopular he is right now in the u. k. and that they are planning to limit the number of appearances where the men will be seen a side by side- andnd part of the reason for that is thatat the polls are narrowing slightly the conservative party still ahead partials inspected to be. elected ones will not once again he was elected fast but to be elected this time. the labor party is certainly making a great deal of the threat donald trump and the us trade deal is post brexit to. the national health service now this is something that. very keen to remind us what the two men has had in the past abortions immigrated to a

fantastic deal. and everything is on the table sale and it just so anything else from donald trump. and say a lot of people really playing on that via the nhs could be under threat now it's not just donald trump who has. made overtures on this on this particular topic. i am the business insider jealous of also dug up an old spectator article written by boris johnson some years ago- in which he talked about how. there should only be free kaffir those genuinely sick and elderly and if. a services continue to be free they will continue to be abused his idea is that if you pay for it then you appreciation. and now it does seem the lower british people are unaware of just how costly. at the nhs at could become if it adopted an american style system. post extras but not speaking to people on the street to find out if they understand just. how expensive it is to be sick in the us take a look. and. for

a baby is there a price yet jeez- hundred dollars under does turn off grant. an inhaler. hundred dollars yeah you're prettyty close t to the mallll hundred twtwenty two hundred fifty threree and fifty. for in highland. yes man so if you're poor you're dead. people you that yes indeed very strong was but a lot of people do you fear what could happen to the nhs post brexit if not days ahead at not the subject of paying delay of the french president is also doing something of a high wire act during the summit- he's trying to donald trump out of applying. to a 100% tariffs on things like cheese and wine at le huffpost heart attacks attacks as its front page earlier on today i'm not this is basically retaliation for the french plan to tax the tech giant's jaffa as its main hit google allison facebook and apple and they just happen to be american companies and donald trump is

not happy about the idea but michael says taxing big big tax. is a master of social justicee andnd it's interestingo see that frenchh people e may be insulted but amerirican people t seems t they do have the e orane plasticc cheese off rules are really concerneded about what this could mean for thehem you can take. the good wine and cheese out of my cold dead hands. meanwhile campaigning on the a british elects trial. has a new star quite literally on the doorstep to explain. yes imagine this you're british person sitting down relaxing maybe watching coronation street in the dodoorbell guyuys it's a pesky political campaign if you open the door and what do you see. no not that that hugh grant yes it really is the act the actual wedding. and a funeral yes this is a photograph taken of him out to start campaigning he- is now a passionate anti brexit campaigner. he's been seen out with various liberal democrat candidates. prompting the lib dems to read each champion his involvement how wet five. and

he's not just for the libdems he's basically for any party that can stop the conservatives he wants to stop brexit by any means. the live dens chose to really- slightly exaggerate at his stance on it- on n the evening standard which we should say the added to is a former conservative about four minutes. five minutes to i was born yes well with this line- hugh grant accuse let downs of lying days off to campaigning for that. which is perhaps a little strong basically they sat. week in the breeze and hugh grant said well no that's not true. and it's interesting that the specter. which is another conservative newspaper very much reveling in this

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