article one is adopted. where our. breaking news this hour the u.s. house of representatives votes to impeach donald trump for abuse of power in the production of congress but the u.s. president doesn't seem to care much about the decision. this is really still it could be impeach. a new poll shows brits are losing their faith in the b.b.c. that's after its election coverage based claims of finance nearly half of the respondents believe it's journalists are no longer trustworthy. and if staying in office or at least threaten criminal prosecution against employees of russian news agency sputnik pressuring them to come up times with their parent company.

hello there you're watching r.t. international i'm rosanna lockwood's thank you for joining us. and we start with our breaking story this hour u.s. president donald trump has just been impeached by the democratic controlled house of representatives the a's are 230 the nays are 197 present is one. article one is adopted. the great. question is there are no right to have our authority to do. a little trump has been impeached on 2 articles abuse of power and obstruction of congress democrats accuse the american president of withholding military aid to ukraine for political gain and republicans in the house

have been strongly opposed to impeachment describing the process as a sham the articles will need to be sent to the republican controlled senate which there must hold a trial to determine if the president should be removed from office now considering that the republican majority in the senate trump seems confident of his standing during a speech at a rally in front of his supporters. either way. it doesn't really feel like we're being impeached still i think she's doing better than ever before were we not. we did nothing. we have tremendous support in the republican party like we've never had before. meanwhile hundreds of activists have been demonstrating outside the capitol building chanting nobody is above the law and while the protesters were demanding pietschmann to trump congress faced a total split of opinions between the republicans and the democrats. one of the you

know this process has been partisan vindictive dishonest the president's actions seriously jeopardize not only america's national security but security of our closest allies this investigation was unfair and the american people expect more out of congress the articles of impeachment are not based on facts but instead are entirely politically motivated president trump abuse the power of his office for his own personal and political gain at the expense of our national security history books will tell of this day. it will tell of a purely partisan effort to remove the president of the united states we're here at this moment in our nation's history because the president abuse the power of his office bribe a foreign government to intrude into our democracy and engage in a president a campaign of obstruction of congress to cover it up. well for this we can now

cross live to former u.s. diplomat jim jatra who joins us now jim thanks for joining us for this quite i guess historic moment you could say it's the 3rd sitting u.s. president to be in page for many there in washington d.c. this is been a long time coming double trouble as we've heard there has been impeached by the house of representatives on those 2 articles in the case will now be sent to the senate we understand in january what's your projection about what's going to happen in the senate. well you're right it's a historic moment it's also rather a historic moment i suppose that the democrats are trying to say that mr trump in his nessun has undermined our cost to share our national security by not being quicker not to give weapons to ukraine because after all russia is so that's the underlying reality of the politics here an unfortunate something most republicans do not dispute and rather would like talk about the procedural aspects that they

simply do not meet the criteria as they were removing who were president. yes and next to the staff would be a trial in the senate although let's be. focused on the fact that they may have a motion to dismiss the articles of impeachment is should it arrives at the senate and then baker with the extension if they could get a majority in the senate to dismiss those articles with your may not be a try and that is actually one possibility of how this turns out that would be quite the possibility because obviously a lot of people in d.c. and you know the media across the u.s. and you know in europe as well but what you have baited breath for this to happen i think people people expect to see if as you say that happens right at the start that might be a surprise to some people let's talk about how the democrats viewing this because as might be expected some seem to be celebrating this is a victory the ball polls have shown that straight is the jury in this impeachment process trumps writing that she increased. do you think the democrats are actually

going to be this as a victory as we head into the 2020 lection. i don't know that this is part of the trouble of having a country that is as divided as ours is is that you could see as the leading a story pointed out the trouble right now is that a rally in pennsylvania as has been in michigan and it was almost a celebrate story moved that his base actually loves that they think the democrats have gone way out on a limb here to appease the left wing of their party of course their side actually believes that trump is just so god awful evil he must be removed. the real question is how this affects independents especially in the swing states as people around the world made out really no we don't have national elections here we have 50 different state elections depending on how it's just a handful of swing states go and really the moderate swing voters in those states that will determine the outcome of the election and most the polls at this time

show that impeachment is not selling well with those moderate independents i'm glad you both up that michigan reality that because for those of all views he was wondering what that clip of trump came from way he sort of saying well that you know i think this is if this is what impeachment looks like he does he's been speaking at this rally in michigan to his supporters and some in washington d.c. saying these optics a very deliberate he decided to do this rally at the same time as the impeachment was being taken because when you compare the images side by thought it might have some sort of image that might be beneficial to his campaign we don't know but do you think jim that he should be taking the impeachment trial most seriously. i think in that sense he is taking it serious seriously as not here is treating this as what it is it is a political matter look the only real issue for this impeachment is that trump is bad his supporters and fly over country as they call are bad that it really is date it is almost really a demographic split between the urban areas in this country that have

a certain political or moral culture to them and you might say the more regular traditional america all those deplorable people in the middle of the country that people in the big cities can't stand in a way it's almost like the divide we saw in the united kingdom in the bricks of vote and then in this last election where ordinary working people out in the country side have one point of view and a lot of elites especially people with you know. you know a bell belonging to the you know ethnic or racial minorities or immigrant groups don't have the same values as the the legacy population of the country and that's what we're seeing here in america today let's talk about the souls of this current same page meant it's been happening because really what will both is this moment was trump stealings with ukraine and the charges that were. levied against him in the way that he handled that in your opinion jim do you think people expected it was going to be this it was going to be the in the ukraine that got him to this

point of impeachment or do you think that one of the things people expect him to get into head. well as tribes defenders point out the democrats have been talking about impeaching and removing him since he was inaugurated and they were i think waiting till they thought they had a smoking gun and then when they had the call with between president trump the president's lines lose their landscape they said aha we've got him now what that the democrats are not really serious about her acquiring the details here is that when the democratic leader in the senate and senator chuck schumer of new york asked for sure it was just with this is the white house chief of staff but he and john bolton he did not ask giuliani the president's lawyer why is that because i think the last thing the democrats want is to have all the school duckery about your rate ukrainian corruption and ukraine's involvement in the 2016 election coming out into the open that's something that those who fit into the narrative of ukraine good or russia bad that they've been still careful. and said it is

a complex narrative now let's just talk about you know we can say and try to make predictions on my but would like to get your opinion on what do you think trump will do next with regard to how he's going to respond to this because he we had 3 sitting u.s. president impeached in the oval that he is the 3rd serveti before him one of them resigned one of them apologized what you think it's good today. i don't think he's going to read i don't think he's going to apologize or resign i think he's going to let the republican leader in the senate mitch mcconnell drive the truck on this and that they will coordinate with center because look actioner brunel says he will coordinate closely with the white house if there is not an early dismissal of the charges and i expect that probably won't happen i think they will look where the leanest possible trial that preserves the narrative on foreign policy that both sides actually agree on and really stick to the procedural questions and allege there's some real ugly bombshell fact that comes out between now and when that

trial concludes it probably will take 2 weeks or so in late january i would expect possibly early february unless something like that comes out he will be acquitted and he will not be removed from office run jim just before we let you go i just want to get your opinion on this because obviously the way the different media outlets have been covering impeachment trial throughout has been quite interesting to be a by comparison standards how do you expect the media to be covering this you know hawk you can't pick them all out the from abroad standpoint the broadcast media over there in the u.s. in the print media yell busy a lot of them with the pads and with the with planning for this how how do you think it's going to end on the newspapers tomorrow where that's where i go back to what i said at the beginning it's not just historic it's hysterical that virtually all the media that means not only the main broadcast channels but also all of the online media like like c.n.n. or the cable media like c.n.n. and m.s.n. b.c.

and so forth are 100 percent trump and they will be treating this as you know removal of orange this is the absolute imperative of the republican right now and of course to watch will take the exact opposite view but that's only one network but a very very widely widely watched one and then you will have a speaker dividing the divided narrative on the internet and those are just this whole rises everybody has a very interesting indeed film of us it's much in jatra thanks have a few insights thank you. now another headline news public trust in the b.b.c. has taken a slight with a new poll showing bias concerns over the broke off this coverage of the u.k. lection k. pop which has more from london. it's all about an issue of trust so do britons trust that media outlets will according to a recent poll trust in the press to tell the truth has for all and less than half the population believe b.b.c. journalists are impartial and one in 5 britons say they don't trust the public broadcaster at all while

a set of britons are most likely to trust newspaper journalists working for the times of the guardian well the decline in public trust came as the b.b.c. was criticised by those on the left and the right over its coverage of the general election there some have even suggested their reporting contributed to labour's crushing defeat of a sight one reporter talking about boris johnson winning the majority he so deserves and it's believed he meant to say he so desires but the b.b.c.'s election night on down has defended his only look at it and the stakes are still trying to unite the broadcaster itself has issued a statement refuting all claims of bias we delivered almost ambitious coverage ensuring it was fair and proportionate over the course of the campaign we stand by our journalism will continue to make got own editorial decisions and report without fear or favor well such criticism isn't new the broadcaster has also been accused of being anti breaks it but is apparent bias just personal interpretation but the b.b.c.'s guidelines say it doesn't require absolute neutrality on every issue

though is committed to do impartiality which reflects a range of perspectives but as its funding relies on license payers with a range of perspectives and different ideas of impartiality apparently you can't please half of the people all of the time. and stay with news about the media a stone in authorities have warned employees of a local offshoot of the russian news agency sputnik that if they don't cut ties with their parent company they'll face criminal prosecution with the details of his nicaea or. sputnik editor in chief have described the action from thailand as arbitrary and now planned seek advice from the un the o.s.c. and other international organizations but what they describe as an unprecedented violation of freedom of speech and this comes after the owner of the office where dystonia was based to broke the lease contracts following pressure from police now employees are also said to have received letters from the police department and the

border control threatening criminal proceedings if they continue to work with. the agency in the new year now the measures been justified by the estonian authorities by citing european sanctions from 2014 the agency however did not appear on any such sanctions list the agency's press service has since responded with feeling that it is based on powell problems whilst operating in the country take a listen we consider the actions of the lords is to be. such a national organizations as the un the council of europe. are demanding a broad cements of the unprecedented case of violation of freedom of speech in recent years and measures to ensure the right of all journalists to carry out their professional speaking back in november the editor in chief of margarita simonyan said that the news agency had received more pressure in a stonier than anywhere else in the world she had how employees had been

intimidated by security services even had their bank accounts frozen and estonian banks that did service the agency have frozen all accounts since then so meanwhile the c.s. of all the nears the executive director plans to raise the issue with the russian presidential cumin rights council so needless to say this is an issue that the agency is not taking lying down. well independent journalist and commentator martin summers believes the threats by the of syrian authorities are politically motivated . political action quite clearly it's real. to the kind of pressures and tensions that are in the international system at the moment in which a star murias plays a key a key role there's a big issue in the end in general about what is legitimate freedom of speech i mean in the in the general election he just has stuff about the b.b.c. and its role and whether it was biased in favor of the government. but also of course you've got private newspapers and private broadcasters who openly cause

policies on now is the acceptable or loss if you think the jury in the american revolution there are lots and lots of people publishing stuff which is very un see the british government should that have been bunch of them in some control over it sees a wider issues but i think that's alarming what's happened here in a stone year is to do with the possibility of a negotiated solution in ukraine and the dislike of that are some elements within the a stone in astonishment. now a shocking case of child abuse has come to light in a small west in a russian village as it turns out one house in the community was a prison for the 8 children living there. which is the loose beautiful family room and the children to go to church every sunday the top of the system is another 3 sons. regime this is

a. minister and the children were always very shy one of the boys told me he could only go out when his father was away. you were suggesting what do relations with the children. wonderful wife was raising them. and why didn't they go to school why was protecting them. to which just doesn't get you girl has told us about the atrocities her own father committed against her considering the fact that these crimes were 1st committed

a long time again when she was very young could not comprehend the character and demeaning of those actions she was to to my country. right. now in other news this hour 16 year old climate activist and time magazine person of the year granted to him berg is getting a high profile documentary about herself u.s. streaming service hulu says the film with the working title will premiere next year how it's merged up the film crew has been following the celebrity from her early days of skipping class to protest at the swedish parliament against climate change long before hope global notoriety and some have voice surprised at how the filmmakers could have guessed that this online schoolgirl would turn into a global superstar. and sweden's national broadcaster didn't see the attraction at the time according to local media back in 2015 the parents tried but failed to give

its s.p.t. to film how she was battering them about the environment radio host of political analyst day perkins things grettir's quick rise to fame has been engineered by her family. he's become famous in a way that a 16 year old does not have the breadth of wisdom or imagination to achieve or accomplish on her own ergo therefore she's being pushed and it's coming primarily from her family who are showbiz and entertainment people actors producers she has performing siblings there's no doubt they saw her as someone who could be indoctrinated and trained and raised up into an environmentalist warrior from a very early age people don't know grudges mother wrote a book that has in the title our lives for the climate that family is an environmentalist activist family and has been probably since before grettir was born looks like the business of raising up a child to make her famous as an argue or for one side of a case when she's never learned the other side of the case and she probably won't

ever learn it now but yes it's obvious to me that it's a set up from the beginning. the russian federal tourism agencies primary campaign showcasing top russian travel destinations is in full swing the rocher has now raised india and china and the campaign comes ahead of the u.s. figure of 2020 football championship where the russian city of st petersburg will serve as one of the hosts russia has presented its new tourist initiatives to indian and chinese audiences inviting them to the championship and a new electronic visa regime is intended to simplify the entry process india and china 2 of the biggest sources of visitors to russia with the company big in the top 3 european tourist destinations for chinese citizens. now staying in russia in what's become something of a christmas tradition over the last few years president putin is about to face a grilling from the media says they will see his press conference that have anything in the post is to go by could last for hours as it betraying code takes

a look at what's in store. christmas is just around the corner so probably stocking up with gifts is the challenge that is on everyone's mind right now well unless you are a journalist with a badge that gives you access to a very special event this thursday the big ad you all are puton q. and a well for such reporters the number one challenge is to get noticed and to somehow leave a sea of colleagues behind by the way if you thought that it all happens behind the famous walls over there in this case you're wrong welcome to moscow's world trade center this is where very soon the q. and a will begin now let me explain how it works mr putin will be sitting at

a table lone in front of a massive audience holding up black cards for 5 years i've been using this nice little r. t. logo a bit further on to the president's left his press secretary usually he is the one who chooses who goes next but sometimes mr putin picks someone out himself and these are the kind of moments we always watch out for if you let them do is complain of their ice or a woman holding a sign that says by by ok go for it turn the heat up. oh my god sorry with age comes eyesight issues mystically and these are just translation difficulties i scared everyone with my sign today but actually it says putin by which means grandfather putin says so what are the chances of getting picked 29 things press or sets a record a total of 1895 journalists taken part over the last 7 years

vladimir putin had the time to answer an average of 58 questions per q. and a so i've done the math the chances are about 3 percent only 3 percent that you get to ask a question not the best of all odds but. the longest event lasted for 4 hours and 40 minutes and usually it's never less than 3 several hours of constantly jumping on your chair waving your black card trying to stand out from the crowd and get the president's attention i'll tell you what that's quite an experience anyway do stay tuned for the show because it could really shake things up a little bit before the holidays from pushing the stock markets are down to causing a real geopolitical stir just one example it is right in that building that florida are proving once back in 25th thing called donald trump

a bright talented man you know the rest of the story. and just to remind you of our breaking story u.s. president trump has just been impeached by the democratic controlled house of representatives. article one is adopted. he's been impeached on 2 articles the abuse of power and construction obstruction of congress democrats accuse the american president of withholding military aid to ukraine for political gain republicans in the house have been strongly opposed to impeachment describing the process is a sham they all schools will need to be sent the republican controlled senate which must hold a trial to determine if the president should be removed from office. well that is your update to move back in around 30 minutes time with more news and headlines from around the world see that.

guys are financial survival. when customers go by reduced. well reduced allow or. that's undercutting but what's good for food market is very good for the global economy. the partisan impeachment process against donald trump continues apace the framers of the constitution warned the impeachment of the chief executive was an extreme remedy are the democrats and the corporate media trivializing the impeachment process are they attempting to short circuit democracy itself.

time after it had the welcome to a special edition of going on the ground i'm with john pilger whose film the dirty war in the n.h.s. was finally screened on british television days after the end of jeremy corbyn socialist project at the general election john thanks for letting us into your home 1st of all our international viewers certainly be wondering why a john builder film could not be screened ahead of a general election when it concerned one of the major policy initiatives in the election yes the major policy issues the n.h.s. was brought to the forefront of british politics for the 1st time during the election campaign and that's what my foam of course is all about there are rules you say there are rules and there is a regulator called off home and the lawyers can bring out roles and so this is why it shouldn't happen and they're perfectly correct but what we should be questioning

is why a regulator has the power in effect to ban a programme about the the major issue of a british election campaign during the campaign the film was shown what 3 or 4 days off of the campaign and and as i say perfectly correctly following the off common rules when we should see question a good excuse me is the partiality of regulators in my experience in television right through my career it doesn't matter what you call them the independent broadcasting authority the independent television authority off calm whatever. their own posh l a t their own stablish one partiality is the is is an issue that is seldom address but isn't the point that the regulates it and certainly the law is

that britain's most biggest independent television station recognise that you personally are not an impartial journalist perhaps not so i don't know but the lawyers i know were perfectly happy with my film was combed by lawyers and and they did by and large very constructive job actually of of saying well that might be difficult to say that could be a liability issue there and so on and so there's nothing different about this documentary than previous documentaries into the sense that you still get the other side is close even that's what's different about it action it's close to home it was about the national health service the national health service even more even more than bricks it touches everybody in this country and. in my view it should have been the major issue that moved people during the

election campaign now the fact that my program wasn't shown on. the country's biggest television. commercial television network and europe's biggest television network. is down to the power of a regulator and what is the power what power does that regulate to have. is that a power on behalf of you was or is it a power on behalf of of of of powerful forces within this country in my experience over the years that's the latter. i want to get to the issues in the film you do interview those who favor the privatization of the n.h.s. in this in the break we're not like you're doing a one sided year olds as a journalist. i don't and i never do a one side to job that's pointless.