year old up the machine. one last week's elections. 130% of the country voted. we begin this hour in the united states with the baser exchange between republicans and democrats one day offf to donald trump was formally impeached trump is only the third president in history to be impeached and now faces a trial in the repepublicn controlled senatate. when he is likely to be acquitted first though the two sides must agree on when the trial will takee place and what it might look like some bread piece has more. article one the doctor warning

her democratic colleagues not to celebrate house speaker nancy pelosi gave the two bands of the gavel sentinel trump into the history books he is now the third sitting us president to be impeached. as the votes took place in washington trump was inn michigan where he learned the results on stage before a crowd of supporters. two twenty nine one ninety eight we didn't lose one republican vote and. three democrats voted for us. democrats say the us president instructed congress and abused his power by pressuring ukraine to investigate democratic rival jerry byington the president was defended by his republican supporters in congress who accused the democrats of partisanship american government. this particular house of representatives. has let its partisan rage at this particular president. great a toxic new precedent that will

echo well into the future. democrats maintained that they are merely up holding the u. s. constitution december eighteenth. a great day for the constitution of the united states. a sad one for america that the president's reckless activities ssx hated us arar haviving to. articles of impeachment. the articles of impeachmentt will now be transferred to the republican controlled senate which will hold a tririal on whetheher to reremove donald d trump from o . well for more let's go to washington david smith is the guard is washington correspondent he joins us now add david as expected. the whole impeachment process seems to have pretty deep in the division between republicans and democrats. that's right i think there's always some how with. a major price that's why this that perhaps they can be a

process. some kind of healing- but in fact. the opposite happened it just ready- hold the oil on the flames and i'm just entrenched and i'm called and- those divisions even further both in washington and- and the nation at large- i was that much of the debate. in the house yesterday and rate was like come. to side speaking two different languages- very cold common ground. and on the republican side- members we don't handle myself and- those are the defending double trouble. but sounding quite trump ian and. you do the same sort of talking points- he dials. the kind of grievance politics- claim that democrats was stating some kind of clue so i have no great surprise that this is building a green suit today where i write you

cut- nancy chalazion mitch mcconnell taking pot shots at each other over the- the upcoming- senate trial with chat. again i think will will merely- continue walks a you know some journalists have described as a as a cold the civil war. and a lot of interesting poll numbers coming out in the back of this at david in the last hour and releases it soaps paul it sells poll 46% of americans say trump should not be. removed 26% said they support of him now he's been in paged are. at 42% thank you should be removed from office now i mean. the big question is how is all of this going to play out in the action. the polls have been all over the place a bit b but some. i thinink it is bad. democrats hopes have been dashed in terms of that when this impeachmenent crcrisis began that the walls that view that perhaps a- day after day of televised public hearings. might shift public opinion significantly might so

we can- trumps hold on his based on that that would then. translate through to the politicians and perhaps the senate that would be- in a position to act convict him. however the opposite has happened and- the extremes do seem to have hardened. and yes there are some polls. suggest perhaps- impeachment might even help drop in the twenty twenty election because- as we saw last. night in a in a split screen moment. number two is being impeached that truck was holding a campaign may would some rail die hard supporters in michigan i'm ready trying to weaponize impeachment hayes i'm plants but- using it to say look. the liberal elite the establishment- iraq to get me there are apt to deprive you of your voice i think we'll hear a lot more of that so going forward that to the presidential election. david thank you very much david smith that. lebanon's president michelle our own has tososca the

former educatition minisisr with forming a new government hezbollah and its allies nominated academic house sandy apt. during long awaited talks with and pace. lebanon has had a caretaker government since october twenty y ninth when promises sought. resigned amid a mass uprising with more e not on joinedd at byy my high yeah yeah the director of the carnegie middle east center thank you very much for being with us some fronts twenty four. at so the end he's a have managed to come up with an agreement the question. is will this new government with the trust of the lebanese people. hi t thank you for havining me s not clearr that they were in-n- that it's n not clear thahat thm wherere you e even there arere e speak- demonstrations that have erupted aososs the country- gunfire was just heard in trippy. so when the route a lot of fluids and blocks and this evening- the proroblem is that then you pm- was basically

appointed with a very. slight majority- but more problematic is that his base of support and parliament. does not include his own community i you the sunni community. so it's going to be a very tough- doctor basically for him to both formal governmnment or even earn the trust all t the lebanese- we have to wait and see what the next year old what what the next few days school trucks. won't sit at a we to make of the fact that dhea has the support of the iranian backed. hezbollah because they're awesome phase all they that this could complicate complicate lebanon's efforts to get the international. aid that it desperately needs could that be a problem. that is certainly a problem i mean he is the- pm designates was basically.

selected on the basis off of old sorry or the sectionals has below i'm on and the s. and p. the parts here the president so- his main base of support are the two main she out parties in the country- so he alreadyy is being depicted in the international press as his bullets candidate. which of course is incredibly problematic the country is right now in an economic and financial free full- it desperately needs an injection of money liquidity is becoming very scarce. people are losing their jobs the- the you know and i'm unemployment's increasing of the catholic can't access our money many people have access that money and the banks there's concern about losing that because it's still it's reading a financial and economic free for antiquities trying up so there is a need for an immediate injection of cash. into the system this can only come from the nineteen. community add an

optional. financial organizations that is not going to happen if it's not a if there isn't a government that of the international community considers creditworthy with the prime minister that is predominantly supported by his by law. and hit and their allies that makes it more difficult however we still need to wait to see- hey how though was there the protests on the streets against the prime the prime minister designate. as subside arnold- what he does in the next few days what kind of cabinets he says he's going to start consultations on saturday so we need. what kind of cabinets you purple now that the mismanagement of the economy is one of the major grievances of protest movement at the all the walls. the level of government corruption and that is something the parts bin at really clear about even the u. n. why didn't says you know lead on reading need to a government that is not. correct that is based in integrity and is. a house and you have

somebody who could bring that. expo somebody maybe you do have to wait and see whether he- and that's why i said we have to wait to see what kind of government he proposes. even though his backing comes from you know from aids the problem is that the votes that have come in for and the people that have backed his candidacy. i went back along the lines of so. it's too polarized step but it's a good groups if you like- the march eight to march fourteenth the political groupings- so if he succeeds and putting forward. a cabinet that is made up. completely off indedependence-- i individuals h no questions around theirir integrity we know what they're doing. that's good mitigate this a bit but frankly i think it's a long shot it's s going to be an up and back to. my high

yeah yeah thank you very much. well here is the president has bebeen sworn in abdedel majid to burn a former prime ministeter t 158% of the votes in last week's election. about less than half of algerians voteded. the seventy f four year old replaces abdelaziz bouteflika he resigned amid nationwide unrest in april seven i insists he is a reformer antes offer to hold talks with protesting this. exactly a fresh new face of diligent tavern was sworn in as the new president of algeria. surrounded by the country's. in his maiden speech to been promised a new jones and cooled for the people to unite. are you hi show will be. algerian citizens is sons and daughters of martyred soldiers. we'll have that t today we must turn o

the h. and our dispute i yahoo id that you we are all algerians see them and we are all equal. and we will all work for our dear country. that it. is it is that i was using. this message may not resononate w wi- algerianss the- as a former prime minister and hello to the ousted president abdelaziz bouteflika. tabun i is seen ass partrt of a corrupt polilitical establishment. ththe candidates standing in los week's presidential election have close ties to the former president. who's the boycott the vitamins that's in totall support t of 20% of reregistered voters. the faces have changed but the ideas remain the same. the new president has already said that his government will include some ministers in their twenties- a move that could

appease many of those eager for change. he still faces a tough time with the distrusting public under budget and a strange. to do more about the situation in algeria and the new president i'm joined by dialing a gun in a resident scholar at the carnegie endowment for international peace thank you very much for joining us on fronts twenty four. at ease in your opinion to bring someone who can bring people together in algeria after this very at tobin period. was that he is going to be very difficult because this is a president to that has b been re fufuel is that. by y a majorityf wild judeans worry feels as a matter of fact as they say election. and the election that happened in december twelve that as so with the new on duty in president is facing a great deal all the- challengers and notably unlock awfully didn't see.e. and of courursehat one of his first challenges here i is this p popular movemenent to tht has beeeen going on for the last ten months very peacefully and cynically. yet to refusingng the fafalift if i mayay thahat to the re gm is trying to impose onon people as people. are askig

for we'll engine w when changes so whethther to born is going to be this president who is going to gatherr all i i'm doingng is together. i doubt about it. now these protests that have been striking- in one respect that they've been largely driven by young people we've seen so many young algerians as you say protesting peacefully- after the streets day up today saying they want real change they don't. the old system hanging on at and he have a man in the seventies- he's already beating government before it. it doesn't seem to be the kind of change people calling for doesn't. exactly i mean we have a president actually as some people told me an odd years and- this is the extension of would flip. it around without to boot. and rightly so we have here a president that that is actually a former and you know or if i may say it's sure product of the system has been there foror decades he's momore.

and seventyty eight more than seventy years old a and there is no real challenge and more e thn thatat today if we liste to he's the speed ship- he didn't. you know he mentioned several issues the e enomic chalallenges and so on so forth. and he did do not comment on the long awaited the issue of prisoners of detainees. and i think the first the jester add to gain a modicum off illegitimacy for this new president he is a you know to release all political detainees without any condition. that could be a strong you know me sage to send to the head out to the popular movement and that's good engage opportunity i do yeah in reading. you know i can lease that you know in the beginning all four of the transition get it could. not be seen as somebody who could at least oversee a transitional periods. in algeria and might not be someone emerging from the protest movement. he might b bea

few chili. of ontario. well you know the problem is that the bullet has no legitimacy and to board hass been brought. up by the military that's at facts so totoday we have a president who has a major problem he is the pressure to if i may say between on thee one hanand a population that has beeeen refusing. to him and on the other hand the v vitamin d. thre who brbrought him to power and who is going to older seat- everything quizzical. who is going to nott to govern the country but to o relate to noww for the head ugh it is very important for the head out to the side on its end point meaning. what doeoe concede shoot a victory for the hack and for this i believe that the popular movement hostile institutionalize itself but choose some personalities from its rank tour presented. to negotiate on its name and with the. government not a gun and

thank you very much indeed. now you're being because of justices ruled that a leader of the castle and separatist movement should have been given immunity from prosecution already origin candice's serving a thirty year sentence. for hiss r role in t the regions effoforts to gainin independence from spain your pin code of justice says his victory in european elections in may means that he should be released. and that's putting the e. u. at odds with spanish cold spring could reports. a it's almost on a boost from the e. u. for a jail cattelan separatist leader. the european court of justice ruled thursday that ordeal jim carris has parliamentary immunity due to his status as a member of the european parliament jen care's won his seat as an m. e. p. in may. despite being in pre trial detention in spain at the time in october the former vice president of the catalonia region was handed a thirteen year prison sentence for sedition and mis use of public funds following a twenty seventeen independence referendum that was declared illegal by madrid. thursday's decision is a boost for the cattle on separatist movement

overall and could potentially set the e. u.'s top judiciary body against the spanish justice system. jen care's lawyers have appealed his conviction with the case set to move to spain supreme court. to whether to independence leaders former regional president carlosos bustamante and health minister tony coleman also one seat as me please in may's elections. they've so far been unable to take their oaths of office in spain as both have fled to belgium to avoid prosecution. france has officially deployed it's fafast armed dronenes to the s. to help region in western africa as part of the fight againstst jihadists thehey previously provided surveillance but wilill now be able to strike targets as well. meanwhile the french president emmanuel icon is set to visit ny jets at the weekenends to papay tribute to seventy one e soldiers from the country who rere killedd in a jihadist attack other this month. from twewenty four hasas been speaking to measure presidents mahamadou issoufou.

just because of the draw if thee security sitituation deteriorats then what's going to happen. ththat one be any prorogress tht won't be any jobs for young people. that's going to encourage immigration and that's going to concern france and europe. i think the presidenent not concede that that's what's going to happen if terrorism trial to resume at eve i threw a fit. firefighters in new south wales australia struggling to contain the busush flies the raging across the state six people have been killed and hundreds of homes destroyed. in an area of at least three million hectares with government static titus declareded a state o of emergeny and high temperaturures and strong winds are expected to make conditions worse. one huhundred d firesre raging acros new south wales and authorities fear the worst is yet to come. ththe fire department doesn't even have enough men or trucks to contain the flames. well we've got just on two thousand

personnel on these farms at the monitor and we've got another five hundred people- that'd be elevated on the stand by to die forming up twenty four different strike times which will be pre positioned on log tied into. some of the most at risk areas a giviven the enormiy of some of those farar complexe. that's why the state has declared its second state of emergency in two months. it allows firefighters to shot roads and forced evacuations.. the biggest concern for us over the next few days is the unpredictability when you've got those turbulent when conditions in biz- and spot fires can occur very unpredictably. this is one of the worst fires the mega blaze surrounding sydney. it has covered the city w with smoke. pollution has never been worse with health professionals concerned by its consequences hospitals have already alerted over a surgeon cases of respiratory problems as

conditions are set to worsrsen auauthorities urged people to remain indoors. let's geget some bubusiness when i can't really say this in the cda and that kind of starts out with a nice is full of a boeing this of course of the ongoing problems with it seven three seven max planes yeah absolutely- boeing's credit rating has now been downgraded by the agency's s. and p. and movies. just days after it announced a temporary halt in production of its troubled max fleet the agency said the aviation giant could lose its competitive edge if the shutdown continues and the both boeing and its suppliers were now at higher risk of liquidity problems. separately it's reported that the us president donald trump cold ceo dennis muhlenberg to discuss the max's future boeing is america's largest exporter and its problems with the max of already dented the overall level of us manufacturing and exports yun berg reportedly a shorter trump that it was only a temporary suspension of production. these planes have been grounded around the world since march following two

deadly. crashes which killed three hundred and forty six people. the european court of justice has thrown out a case taken by hotel groups in france who argued that the government should regulate airbnb like a licensed property agent. hotel owners one of the home sharing service to o follow thehe accoununting insurance and financial rules which apply to the real estate sector coming at like has the more. has more. the nba has won a crucial ruling up the european court of justice on whether or not you should have a real estate license to operate in france. despite two million people around the world sleeping in a property rented out through at b. and b. every night. the court said the company is not a real estatate broker bought information sharing platform. many hotels feel that's disingenuous gives abby and be an unfair advantage. the president of the french association of hotel you from the claim his house at the ruling and calls for thehe lord to be updated. the directive on

electronic. to make it fit for the twenty first century. it is urgent that the government makes his voice head in the coming months to radically transform competition rules in the european union. this ruling is good news for the company ahead of its ipo plans for next year. and be in be husband facing a global backlash as local governments trying to crack down on the platform according to run to ruled last month felt hosts have to limit the number of rooms a list. and join a register. paris meanwhile has already tightened regulations off the listings in the city exploded from four thousand and 201-226-0000 in twenty eighteen. ameriprise has blames the company for pushing rents up on hidalgo has even pledge to hold a referendum on whether t to ban at b. anand b. listinings i in certaiain areasf she's reelected next year. what

you get on the day's trading action now wall street is once again risen to new heights at e. s. p.. five hundred hitting the level of three thousand two hundrered for the very first time. at the nasdaq up point 6% with about an hour of trade to go investors seemingly unconcerned about donald trump's impeachment. another makes clothes foror major eueuropean indices the docksks closedlightly in the red fifty one hundred was u up in london as the bankk of englaland kept intererest rateses on hold. and businesses look for clarity about the brakes it process. the french government is stepping in to help small businesses have been hurt by the on going strikes. the measures include giving them a longer to pay their taxes. shops restaurants and hotels are among the sectors of seen a drop in earnings since the strikes began on december fifth. the junior finance minister met with representatives of those businesses earlier to discuss their situation. according to one survey 80% of smalall firms say they say they've been hit by the destruction catherine viet has more. in la rochelle in western france there are few

people strolling the streets are sitting in cafe terraces. not many people are checkingg into hotels either. for small business owners the ongoing strike is taking a toll on their bottom line. yeah canan yu see t the schedule it s should e at. the actual 40% felt t that you were in this period. but yoyou could bee at zero. because it will and across france the story is fifteen. anti street demonstrations few trains in fewer tourists. this restaurant in lille has lost half its clientele. anand that wasas goig to and we have a lot of. you see what's happening is because suddenly to come here in turn. is quite the opposite we did. a survey by the confederation of smalall and medium sized firms found that 80% are affected by the strikes. 49% of seen a drop in their revenue and 42% say their business is in danger. without the metro the normally live lima marcher neighborhood in paris is quiet. the speaker

says he's losing customers he's had to cut in half the number of bank gas he makes each day. a drop in production that could have consequences for his employees. this is my last option is to put them on a partial unemployment does your catastrophic solution because we appreciate not he's always hot andnd we don't want to lose and- the french governmnment has promised to give a helping hand to those business owners affected by the strikes. officials say the measures put in place to compensate those affected during the yellow vest protests have been reinstated. they include delaying tax payments and support for workers his hours have been cut. unfortunately not much good newsws ahead f for the small businesses and that's how they commununicate their losses in twenenty twenty and have a bumpr yeah alright kate thank you very much indicate me do that with a business. we thank you so right away

12/19/19 12/19/19 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy nonow! aren this vote, the yeas is, the nays r 197, present 1. is adopted. amy: the house of representatives impeaches president trump, making him only the third president to be formally charged with high crimes and misdemeanors und