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the transcript of a phone call at the center of impeachment proceedings against donald trump is released that shows he urged his ukrainian counterpart to investigate the business dealings of rival presidential candidate joe biden and his son. british prime minister faces a hostile house of commons for the 1st time after his humiliating supreme court defeat ruling that its parliamentary suspension was unlawful furious m.p.'s haven't been holding back. these government stands in shame i
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see clearly if you like to go prague a son. so it was a coup last night. the arrest of an american soldier a reported plot to bomb a major news network uncovers his wider plans to fight alongside an extremist but talian in the ukraine. live from moscow thanks for joining us and r.t. international daniel hawking is here with you tonight's welcome to the program. the white house has released the transcript of a controversial july phone conversation between donald trump and the leader of ukraine but out of me as a lenski so the center of an impeachment inquiry that's moving forward against the us president claims he abused his powers to try and smear a potential election rival with the details his kaleb open 3 minute conversation 5
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pages of text here and donald trump certainly does mention joe biden and his son hunter biden and the issue regarding a prosecutor in ukraine there's a lot of talk about biden son body didn't stop the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great i will have mr giuliani give you a coup and i move so we're going to have attorney general who and we will get to the bottom of it i'm sure you will figure it out now the initial allegations from the democrats cited an unnamed whistleblower and said that trump had not only mentioned biden and the scandal and his son but had also threatened to withdraw over $400000000.00 of u.s. military aid to ukraine unless he was helped out there is no mention of u.s. military aid in this transcript of the conversation it's also important to note
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that the democrats have given a very strong reaction they haven't seen it so has come from our meeting but that. is. the fact is that the president of the united states. in breach of his constitutional responsibilities has asked the foreign government to help him in his political campaign president trump abuse the powers of his office and be trade the public trust. for personal political gain like any mafia boss the president didn't need to say that's a nice country you have it be a shame if something happened to it because that was clear from the conversation there is no quid pro quo necessary to betray your country or your oath of office even though many read this as a quid pro quo i'm not concerned whether it is a quid pro quo or not now the house of representatives has already launched an
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impeachment inquiry they launched it before this transcript was released so that inquiry is under way the way the impeachment proceedings are laid out under the us constitution it's the house of representatives they're the ones that bring impeachment charges we've got 6 committees they're investigating tromp at the moment it would be the house judiciary committee that would drop articles of impeachment and it would then be the u.s. house of representatives that would have to vote to proceed with the impeachment however it would then be the u.s. senate that would carry out the impeachment trial and then ultimately vote on whether or not to remove u.s. president donald trump from office now at this point the republicans control the u.s. senate and it's very likely that if the house of representatives were to vote to begin impeachment proceedings that the u.s. senate led by senate republican majority leader mitch mcconnell they would simply vote to not proceed and have the impeachment trial it's very likely that it would
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not happen now it's important to know we've only had 2 u.s. presidents who've undergone impeachment proceedings before we had bill clinton and andrew johnson both undergo impeachment trials now both of them survived the senate in both cases voted to keep them in office now richard nixon was facing an impeachment inquiry and was leading to an impeachment and then he stepped down from office so at the moment no u.s. president in u.s. history has ever been. down with impeachment proceedings it's never happened no matter what so ever and if you take a look at the democrats they went down to see the president of ukraine and they asked him for all sorts of things it's the single greatest witch hunt in american history probably in history but it american history there was no pressure the way you had that built up that call it was going to be the call from hell that turned out to be a nothing call however not all democrats are in unison on this we've heard from
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tulsa gabbert the congresswoman from hawaii she opposes an impeachment proceeding as she as a democrat says this would hurt the democratic party and hurt the country overall so what happens next is going to be quite interesting not exactly clear we know what the u.s. constitution says and how the procedures go along but we don't know exactly where everyone stands on this dr robert good show an associate professor of u.s. politics told us the transcript raises a lot of questions not only concerning the u.s. lead this is just a glimpse at what we're looking at and certainly union group could open up lots of doors that we haven't even considered yet about presidential conduct or misconduct that may have been going on around this particular instance or others you're not seeing a lot of mainstream u.s. press and the united not seeing now questions about well it could also be distracting us from when joe biden has done and others have been involved maybe there really is something there that's a question that is not coming through really the questions that are being asked in
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the hope i think for those who are were answered from this have this leads into really great. leaked information or juicy information not about joe biden but about donald trump. people who are upset with his politics and this could be a way to move us away from when joe biden might be involved in if anything. of a lot of news alone skis currently in new york for the u.n. general assembly is expected to meet god trump later today 30 of a wednesday about his phone call with the american president the ukrainian leader gave a somewhat vase of reply and then you told them was a different atmosphere because there's always an agreement and then impeachment to more than is reasonable for you to do your denial of the him and them and then he's been demoted you can meet senior woman she's told you. over 2 years and heckling the embattled british prime minister's face and the wrath of a furious commons chamber as after the supreme court ruled his swoop to suspend parliament lawful is what suffering defeat after defeat and taunting in peace to
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force an election they don't want boris johnson blamed m.p.'s for trying to derail bricks at. the good people of this country can see perfectly clearly what is going on they know that parliament does want to honor its promises to respect the referendum and the people at home know this parliament will keep delaying it will keep sabotaging the negotiations because they don't want the deal this is because the truth is that members opposite are living in a fantasy world i want to sit down and people want us out on october 31st and i'm back to work after this controversial suspension of parliament was ruled as voided by the u.k.'s highest court on tuesday well michael say the provocation was a cynical attempt by boris johnson to stop them having a say on preventing bush and crashing out of the e.u. on october 31st at the 1st session back was never going to be an easy ride with us
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opposition m.p.'s venting at the ruling conservatives the government's chief legal adviser the man who had told boris johnson the suspension was good to go that fellow lawmakers. are disgraced we now have very wide number of this house. race against levy at all denying the electorate in charge of having. how this matter should be resolved this parliament is very good yet really he was hoping that parliament would still be probed until the middle of october but as it was we saw that ruling yesterday by the u.k.'s supreme court unanimously coming to the conclusion that that decision to probe parliament why the government wasn't lawful and in fact ruling that as far as they were concerned it never happened there was no such thing that had no legal basis and so m.p.'s were able to once more take their seats in the house of commons
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today where we saw those very far east scenes not just like the ones we saw from the attorney general but also from other m.p.'s who was that with this. delighted to be back in the house also out the government this government stands in shame tendering a legal advice to our monarch and not even able to uphold our most basic but most important of principles abiding by the rule of law yes the speaker we had notice of the intention to prove with your assistance we could have entertained motions against seats or even a motion of no confidence so it was a coup wasn't it was yes she did not need if you like to go prioritization i shall go down this. time i sat down the caretaker certainly thought i would lie like you do like this either leader like they describe when i start to talk about. it i guess right now the government say that while they disagree with that ruling
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parliament had to say it once more they will abide by it and they're now trying to table the motion calling for a general election we've already seen the opposition in the house of commons rejecting that twice before they say that boris johnson's attempts to try to get an election are just a distraction process and what they want to do is to stop and no deal brigs it from taking place also those opposition figures calling on that boris johnson to stand down it's not likely that he will but with those with that deadline of october 31st looming parliament saying that he must extend article 50 and call for an extension to the gregs a deadline it's really unclear to see what's going to happen next. the f.b.i. has arrested an army soldier who allegedly planned to bomb a news network and assassinate a presidential candidate to arrest those also uncovered a wider plot for a man to join
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a notorious ukrainian ultranationalist group fighting in eastern ukraine and as the old quarter reports he's far from the only american joining the ranks of ukrainian neo nazis. planning a terror attack preparing to murder and tea for members this isn't a movie plot it's the allegations that recently landed jarrett william smith in an f.b.i. cell and authorities say his plans were only confined to the us of a smith had spoken about his desire to travel to ukraine to fight with the ukraine based violent far right paramilitary group as of battalion why ukraine well it's a hotbed for the far right and white supremacy which have a big influence in the country's military the hours of the taliban for example its insignia features 2 nazi era symbols still widely used by neo nazi groups.
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and smith was dead set on joining up with as of and it's not just him reports say some of his collaborators were already fighting with another neo nazi group called right sector it seems kiev has a poll for americans on the far right remember charlottesville. for members of a far right group involved in that riot were arrested and lo and behold 'd they too had a fixation on the battalion they even traveled to europe and met one of the battalions leaders with so many neo nazis in the us you would think washington would unambiguously oppose their growth but that's just not the case at 1st in 2015 congress unanimously voted against military aid to the neo nazi as of battalion i
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am grateful that the house of representatives unanimously passed my amendments last night to ensure that our military does not train members of the. neo nazi azoff but talian but just one year later washington changed its mind and all of the sudden pictures began surfacing on social media of as of and u.s. soldiers striking poses together and makes you wonder if the u.s. even thinks nazi ideology is a threat let alone something negative frankly you now are banning screens for human rights violations not for ideology neo nazis you know can join the u.s. army too looks like the us army will take anyone these days as long as they hate the people washington wants them to hate in this case given the a sieve and a russian. dominated united states floor at least a decade if not more it isn't surprising that there would be people who were eager
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to join the military who. are crazy with. russia as i look around is that when you have a volunteer. military as as the us does it does attract. not necessarily very good people it also attracts people who subscribe to dangerous etiology there should be a bit rose as to prevent people who have these dangerous psychosis however. probably the us military simply doesn't happen but the process there is so eager to get as many recruits as possible that they wave almost everyone in nationalist groups in ukraine have also been creating children with extreme views here's some footage filmed by artie's video agency ruptly.
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position. it is not interesting for children to sit still and just listen that's why they play war games. you know you can you. give them. what you. want to name just to tell them the real story of the ukrainian and surgeon who was and what people who fought for its. politicians and journalists around the world are still picking over the speech of a 16 year old climate activist group of the u.n. climate summit or has been widely praised for a passion address there are those who say she's leading a cult for the younger generation ragas the of looks the thin line between activism
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and fanaticism. the thing with climate change is it's called deligated we don't fully understand it ourselves we know it's happening we know some of the reasons but it's all tenuous and the guys who have the best grasp of it scientists and always easy to understand but that's why mother nature gave us climate change activists no need for his meteorology degree there. are many activists it isn't about science or facts policy or debate it's faith but lief and something greater something they don't necessarily understand
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conics plain and wound comprehend like the judeo christian religion the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change we face catastrophe and crisis on this planet climate change that though is not something that we have to prepare for it is something that is here you know there's a word for that the in a feeling that the world is about to end that armageddon is around the corner schooled eschatology and it formed the basis of early christian dogma but the day of the lord will come as a thief in the night in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise and the elements will melt with fervent heat both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up we should be grateful to climate change activists trying to save our and worthy polluted souls save us from judgment day and as with any faith they have a prophet that you need
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a college. education jesus didn't have a university degree now the lord of climate stability has said to his daughter we are not in school today. and this time we are not alone we have some adults one other work today either. yeah. and why because this is an emergency our house is on cyan faith is for everyone the rich and the poor all genders races and ages this is a hooley crusade and anyone old enough to hold a protest side or throw a rock concert of the holy spirit of the atmosphere.
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brings a tear to my eyes it's exactly like the crusade of the year 1212 thousands of european children joined up to liberate the holy land of course none of them got that many died along the way but come on it's kids doing stuff spies everybody plus it makes the heretics look bad we're going to report to you a little extra let's go live now to the meeting between president trump of america and what do we have a let's cue of ukraine let's bring you live right now to that meeting. best employment numbers that we've ever had we have now almost 160000000 people working which is more than we've ever had so we're doing very well in every respect and i have a feeling that your cookie is going to do fantastically well and do whatever we can
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think of a very modest record thank you very much it's a great pleasure to me to be here and it's better to be on t.v. than by whole thing. mr president thank you very much and i'm not the 1st time through this ache in new york. but i know that you've never been in ukraine and your. also hard to say the name didn't find time. for a soul and i couldn't give me a war that the you will come to all was great conquer while i was in the truck and i know a lot of people i do i will say this i know a lot of people from ukraine they're great people and i own something called the miss universe pageant years ago and sold it to i am. and what i went for president i thought maybe it would be the greatest thing in the miss universe and miss usa
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pageant but it's a great thing and we had a winner from ukraine. and we really had that we get to know the country very well in a lot of different ways but it's a country i think with tremendous potential yes i know only because i'm from this conference but. i'm one to thank you for invitation to washington were you invited to me but i think i'm so laurie story about but i think you're going to tell me the deet. but i think in the nearest future they'll tell you that all of it has been old before and i want to thank you to think you especially mr president to you to say to your golf. like i said that i know many many people many phases like this 2nd family off to my ukrainian family we know each other thank you for your support especially now when you know when we have to relate to. worse in ukraine with corruption
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you know but we'll 5 know will be we know in this fight i'm sure and then a priority my party or just told the war on the boss to get it back i want territory since crimea boss. thank you for your support in these case thank you very much thank you very much for that if you're a member of the universe crimea during a different administration during the cup of ministers and yet so you can still count process for i've never heard of the obama administration that the us crimea. i didn't think it was something that you should have but it was done a long time ago and i think it was handled poorly but it's just one of those things one of the elements that we discussed is the united states helps ukraine but i think that other countries should help ukraine much more than they're doing in germany france the european union nations they really should help you
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a lot more and i think maybe together will work on that they have to feel a little bit guilty about it because they don't do what they should be doing and you're very important to the european union you're very important strategically very important and i think they should spend a lot more in helping ukraine and they know that also they actually tell me that but they don't seem to produce so i'm sure you'll call for them and i'll certainly be talking to them thank you very much from them. but you know what or now we need to i want to tell you that we now rolled the new concrete and sort of but we need help we need support real support and we think thanks everybody i think all of the european concert. we also want to have more. more bonds. i understand from seoul what all. only to give america and the
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view on it together we can stop the war and then you know. we are ready we just wanted to live without remember that we have the biggest country in europe but we want to be the richest one its rules in my car. but you know you have great people in ukraine and you have very talented people of manufacturing in terms of some of the things they do and will be doing were doing creating already but we should be doing a lot more trading with ukraine but we have very talented people they make great things. at the top of the line really so that's very important and the other thing is i've heard you actually have over the last fairly short period of time really really made some progress with russia here a lot of progress as for the maid just keep it going to end that whole disaster. of course will go you know before before. then relations
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russia will prolong so long it i mean that they have to know and i want to know that now we have been seeing the new policy the new golf is so now we will. give poorer laws new rules we shall keep an eye out for a one year reforms land reform with. the lawyer that concession did we early little with the general persecutor it and we launched. it sideris secretary is right. this. and i'm tops in court as we came we did it with the launch of the un to corruption court you know it began to war. of september and it was you know it was off there 5 days we had been about. so we. already we want to show that if we just
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calm and if somebody you if you we want to. so just lifts do business case. we have many in the west month cases where it is. and stop corruption in ukraine because that will really make you great it will make you great personally and it will also be so tremendous to be a nation in terms of what you want to do and where you want to take it thank you very much it's a good thing to him us try to. help if. i think you read them or think. so you i think you read the text i am i'm sorry but i don't want to be involved to do a great take all. the. elections
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elections all of us say no you sure that we hadn't. i think good old peter was normal we spoke about many and they put so i think in the you read is that nobody bullshit bush me yes and there was no correct reference to oh you didn't know why there was no pressure and no there was and by the way you know there was no pressure and you have to do it as i see it when i would call but you know that's what you could ask a question and i appreciate the answers go ahead it was my 1st cliff. you know i watched him to do whatever he can this was not his fault he was there but here recently but whatever he can do in terms of corruption because the corruption is massive now when biden son walks away with millions of dollars from ukraine he knows nothing and they're paying them millions of dollars 1 at
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corruption were invited to waltz at a funeral with $1500000000.00 in a fun and the biggest funds in the world can't get money out of china and he's there for one quick comedian who flies in on air force 2. i think that's a horrible thing i think it's a horrible thing but i'm going forward you know that i know the president and i have read a lot about ukraine have been a lot about a lot of countries you want to stop corruption he was elected i think number one on the basis of stopping corruption which unfortunately has played ukraine and if you could do that he's doing really the whole world a big favor i know and i think he's going to be president strong bonds that it's got everything on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly exchanging democratic president treason. doesn't it skew setting out was domestic and foreign policy objectives of course also commenting on that on that phone call which is cause so much controversy and impeachment process over the last 24 hours and that's it for now from the back in 30 minutes time with the
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