i'm up here for all of those kids in athens and athens county that go home to, you know, not a lot of the table, hungry after school. you guys can be up here, too. >> wow. >> those words inspired athens residents, will drabel. he set a goal of $50,000. as of a short time ago, donations topped $323,000 and still climbing. >>> another mighty mark. will he get it here? yes. >> another louisiana quarterback, drew brees, taking his place in the history books. the future hall of fame quarterback, breaking "the point" career touchdown record be josh hill in the trouncing of the colts. brees has 541 touchdowns. he went 29 of 30, breaking another record for completion percentage. tom brady just behind brees with 538. and those two could be dueling for a few more years. >> he broke a record and then threw another one. >> at least a year to pad that record. >>> how will history play out tomorrow? a house committee ready to plla out the ground rules for impeaching president trump. (danny) let me get this straight. after a long day of hard work... ...you have to do more work? (vo) automatically so

courtney and i grew athens and head north. courtney and igrew up athens and head north.d i grew up with different sides of the story. greece is second city is a capital of the greek province of macedonia. many proud greeks, the use of the name macedonia for anything outside the state was a travesty. and 0liver farr, is one such greek. —— olive farmer. he felt so strongly about the name, last year he began to organise resistance to the proposed change. for him, the prespa agreement presents a fundamental problem. it is not just it is notjust history or land that the greeks feel is underfed. many businesses are worried about competition from north macedonia. this factor is concerned people will be confused by products from north macedonia simply labelled macedonia. salaries in greece are much more than in macedonia. the products from north macedonia must have the name but they do not put this in the agreement so we have this problem today. his solution is to develop a greek brand from macedonia that only greg macedonian product will carry. the stash greek macedonian produc

just outside athens lies the port of piraeus.o greece's prosperity for centuries, and it was here my grandparents boarded a ship for a new life in australia. their slavic names had been changed to greek ones and, although they left as greek citizens, they took with them a very separate macedonian culture. i want to get to the bottom of their story and fill in the gaps of my own identity. to really understand this issue, we've had to leave athens and head north. courtney and i grew up with different sides of the story. thassaloniki, greece's second city, is a capital of the greek province of macedonia. for many proud greeks here, the use of the name "macedonia" for anything not within the greek state was a travesty that many still resist today. michalis patsikas, an olive farmer, is one such greek. welcome. michalis felt so strongly about the name that last year he began to organise resistance to the proposed change. for michalis, the prespa agreement presents a fundamental problem. it is notjust history or land the greeks feel is

f i'm up here for all those-- e l those kids in athens, in athens county that, you know, go home to..t a lot of food on the table. >> o'donnell: how his words are feg edsothe inul ommf coa and from crisis to christmas, how a little snow and wa season brighter in the bahamas. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west. on the eve of the vote to impeach him, president trump is angry and defiant. today, he sent a scathing letter to house speaker nancy pelosi declaring his innocence and accusing her of subverting american democracy. at the same time, democrats were laying the groundwork for tomorrow's showdown on the floor of the house. our team is standing by across the nation's capital tonight, bd we're going to begin with our chief washington correspondent, major garrett, at the white house. major, the president and the dite house decided not to participate in or send lawyers to defend him during the inquiry. why this letter at the 11th hour? >> reporter: you know, norah, the presiden

right, let's cross over from athens and move to beirut, lebanon. there is a big party that is taking place, as you can ee here. some of the smoke and the flares, really more like a dance party. let's listen in as well. let's listen in as well. nuala: just two minutes past midnight 2020 in the lebanon and greece. going to be following other cies and countries during the coming hours. let's turn to hong kong at the moment, because they are new year's elevations have been overshadowed by more protest. riot police began 2020 byg firin tear gas and antigovernment protesters who blocked roads and started fires one district. the fireworks display was scaled down over security fears. there have been more than six months of sometimes violent protests in the territory. a big gathering his plan for new year's day. relet's bring you someing news coming to us. the le jong-un, has is that there will never be a denuclearization of peninsula if the united states sticks to its hostile policy. e state news agency of north korea is quoting mr. kim as saying he will c

. >>> i'm up here for all of the kids in athens and athens county that go home to not a lot of food on the table. >> the heisman trophy winner gets emotional about his hometown. people got the message. wait until you hear how. he's a terrific player and a better human. >> it christine romans. it's 5:00 a.m. in the east. if you're counting, 40 days from the iowa caucuses. president trump is one day away from joining a very infamous club. he will be only the third president to be impeached by the house. today marks the beginning of the end for impeachment proceedings in the house. lawmakers on the brink of a momentous vote on impeachment, obstructing congress and abuse of power. this sets up the final vote tomorrow. here's congressional correspondent phil mattingly. >> reporter: christine and dave, here we go. this is the end, more or less, of the impeachment effort in the house, for the final votes on the two articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of congress. you have seen the closed door depositions. you've seen the hearings in the house judiciary committee. you've se

and i'm up here for all those kids in athens and athens county that go home to not a lot of food on theys can be up here, too. >> that's awesome. >> what he did in that one speech has been remarkable because since then, a fund-raising page in honor of burrow's speech has raised almost $500,000 in donations for athens county. joining us is karen bright, the president of the athens county food pantry. karen, thanks for being here. how has the food pantry and your life changed since joe burrows made that speech? uh-oh. not hearing our end very well. >> we're working on fixing that. apparently, though, they are almost $15,000 shy of that half million dollar mark. it's extraordinary. >> that's a lofty goal. so this fund-raising page set a half million dollar goal. and did they say that karen is ready? yes. >> they're working on it, but we've got $15,000 to go. so everyone here at home, you got a chance to take them over the top here, people. >> but i mean, it's not just for the food pantry. what he did to raise awareness about the poverty of his hometown. and as we -- i mean, look. we know t

the greek foreign minister has summoned the libyan ambassador to athens and informed him this morning that he has 72 hours to leave the country the greek anger against libya stems from not only the fact that libya signed a treaty with turkey which deal linear it's an exclusive economic zone between those 2 countries that falls across what greece sees as its own exclusive economic zone in the southeast of dzyan and the middle of the mediterranean sea but also because the greek foreign minister had understood from his discussions with the libyan ambassador and also with the libyan foreign minister that this agreement would not be signed so the greek side it expresses the feeling that there has been an element of deceit from the libyan government or at least that the greek government was misled the greeks are also making contact with all of their key allies in the european union and nato but also china and russia and israel to gather as much international support as possible for the law of the sea which in the greek reading of it ascribed to islands a continental shelf and exclusive econ

he grew up in athens county which is the state's poorest area.ention to the region's plight after he was named college football's best player. >> i'm up here for all those kids in athens and athens county that, you know, go home to not a lot of food on the table, hungry after school. you guys can be up here too. >> we have been shocked, amazed, grateful beyond words. still trying to process that this is even happening. >> and since that speech on saturday, fund-raisers have brought in more than $300,000 for the food bank. >> good work by him. >>> up next in "the pulse," a new look at the "top gun" sequel. >>> also ahead, the incredible body transformation for a hollywood actor joining the marvel universe and how he achieved that body. >>> plus, why mariah carey's holiday classic has finally hit number one 25 years later. ♪ and i don't care about those presents underneath the christmas tree ♪ thenot actors, people, who've got their eczema under control. with less eczema, you can show more skin. so roll up those sleeves. and help heal your skin fro

turkey draw back injury line in the border but says it in the middle as the greek island of crete athens sense the new violates international law so what's at stake and could it lead to on conflicts this is inside story. it. hello and welcome to the program i'm home he had seen greece and turkey are its holds over a host of issues but the latest has pushed them closer to a military confrontation turkey has signed a deal with libya that map cites a boundary in the east of the mediterranean sea greece as responses by expelling the libyan ambassador and his bolstering its military in the area there are fears the agreements will further complicate disputes over drilling for yet on taps oil and gas in waters around the ethnically divided island nation of cyprus israel and egypt are also involved in this increasingly bitter controversy. well the agreements between turkey and libya was signs at the end of last month it basically draws a line in the eastern mediterranean sea between turkey and libya cutting across a strip also claimed by greece well the matter of time boundaries separates what t

greece is expelling libya's ambassador in athens after libya signed a maritime deal with turkey that sets a new boundaries in the eastern mediterranean sea which greece says is illegal greek relations with turkey a tense because of a territorial dispute about oil and gas drilling around the island of cyprus turkey has condemned greece's decision to expel the libyan ambassador john psaropoulos is in athens for the reason for greek displeasure at libya is that the libyan government had given the greek government assurances that it was not concluding such an agreement with turkey it was known that these talks were going on the greeks were concerned but can that be off the record discussions that the foreign ministers had had and that the ambassador had had with counterparts here was that this wasn't really a realistic prospect so this has taken the greek side by surprise and they believe with a certain amount of trickery on the libyan part. now the reason that the greeks are displeased is that the legal reason is that the turkish and libyan areas of sovereignty in the greek are you shou

when i came home from athens with my three gold medals in my bag, it is crazy.ght i was on top of the world, but at the same time i had all some parents who really grounded me. they told me to do my homework and i was like, 0k. grounded me. they told me to do my homework and i was like, ok. i a lwa ys homework and i was like, ok. i always knew i was adopted, it is not something my parents kept from us. i have got this bright blonde hair. i have got this bright blonde hair. i have grown to appreciate the russian background and don't get me wrong they have been moments that i have really struggled with my adoption, and that is why i was such a good swimmerfor so long. and that is why i was such a good swimmer for so long. i'm and that is why i was such a good swimmerfor so long. i'm really proud of myself for being more willing to open and talk about it, especially talking to girls who have been adopted and to sharing my experience, that has been really rewarding. so here i am, a year out of tokyo. and i am just so excited to step up and race, and that is somethin

there's so many people there that don't have a lot and i'm up here for all those kids in athens and athensoo. tracee: following those words from the lsu quarterback, many people donated money to the athens county food pantry. the money already raised could provide over 125,000 meals in the area. that is what's happening now. lauren: good for him. what a rich speech. yeah. tracee, thank you. jackie:.you may want to keep yor at home l if you're hitting the roads this holiday season. it has nothing 20 d to do with e weather. if the sound of an airport seems to soothe you, you want to stick around for this next story. kind of crazy. coming up. ♪ i'll be home for christmas. ♪ you are my diamond. for the diamond in your life, get 30 % off everything including these one of a kind deals. it's the "you are my diamond" event. exclusively at zales, the diamond store. ♪ ♪ everything your trip needs, for everyone you love. expedia. for everyone you love. it's been reported that there's a cyberattack on business every 39 seconds. ouch. i don't even want to think about it. comcast business has a solution

a fireworks display at the brandenburg gate celebrations has already taken place from oakland to athens london is up next also on the part of. thousands of ascribing square skype the wildfires sweeping the country by fleeing to big.

and this is 2500 years athens faces an existential threat. athens is threatened by the persian empire. the persians of course are the iranians of today. they're about to conquer athens, the city state, with the power of persuasion, convinces his captains to go and fight a bat until which they are outnumbered 5 -- perhaps 10 to 1 in these that the rowing captains of that day launched. here's the advantage that he had, all of the rowers were free men, no slaves. that persian fleet, five times the size, was rowed by slaves. he said to his captains, tomorrow you must row for your family. tomorrow you must row for your city. tomorrow you must row for freedom. they destroyed that persian fleet. it is an extraordinary story of accomplishment and charisma, but within three years, after that victorious battle, his arrogance overtakes him. and he ends up alienating his countrymen. he's banished from greece. he ends his life in the court of the persian emperor. it's a greek tragedy. and it is a story of how you can be given incredible gifts, but if you

john psaropoulos has the latest from athens. the reason for greek displeasure at libya is that the libyan government had given the greek government assurances that it was not concluding such an agreement with turkey it was known that these talks were going on the greeks were concerned but can the the off the record discussions that the foreign ministers had had and that the ambassador had had with counterparts here was that this wasn't really a realistic prospect so this has taken the greek side by surprise and they believe that a certain amount of trickery on the libyan part. now the reason that the greeks are just pleased is that the legal reason is that the turkish libyan areas of sovereignty in the greek you should not touch because greece lies between them greece says that according to the international law of the sea its southern region islands should have a continental shelf that comes between the continental shelf of turkey and that of libya so the that is why the greek side says this agreement is legal it says that we c

as well 18 celsius in athens the dry weather the 7 weather with mr folks said he still a problem into the central parts but the settle in quiet the air force and flair is athens at around 8 celsius says that wet and windy and at times wintry weather across the northwest if it continues to make its way back in this we go on through sunday some heavy rain there across northern spain imports into france meanwhile across the north of africa generate dry and now we still got bits and pieces of cloud rolling through the fine in out is. the weather sponsored by countdown to. the stories generate fountains of the night these protests are saying down with the system and down with all of the parts with different i. from different perspectives because we came to prison. separate the spin from. the misinformation from. the stories of those. listening post. there watching. the top stories right now identified gunmen in iraq have shot dead 16 people at a protest camp baghdad security forces deny any involvement but just a week after the prime minister mahdi. the king of saudi arabia has offered his

to the present to talk about ten dynamic admirals there has to be a great american 2500 years ago athens faces a existential threat by the persian empire the persians are the iranians of today they are about to conquer athens the city state with the power of persuasion and convinces his captains to fight a battle in which they are outnumbered ten / one with the captains of that day here's the advantage they had all of the rowers were free men that persian fleet was five times the size was run by slaves the mystically's said tomorrow you must row for your family. for the your city, for your freedom and they destroyed the persian fleet it is the extraordinary story of accomplishment but within three years after that victorious battle, his arrogance overtakes him and he ends up alienating his countrymen is banished from grace and ends his life in the court of the persian emperor it is a greek tragedy and it is a story of how you can be given incredible gifts but if you allow your ego and arrogance to overtake them metaphorically will end up in the court of the persian king. going to china n

as turkey over the next few days the winds also going to be very strong across much of this area athens at about 14 degrees here and as we go into a sunday notice that the system pushes a little bit more down here towards the south we're going to lose the rain but we're not going to be losing the winds and for athens as a 3 day forecast as we go through the rest of the weekend today is going to be a very windy and rainy day still a few a clouds here across the region on sunday but as we go towards monday things are looking better with a temperature of 70 degrees. the weather sponsored by countdown and. the stories generate foundations of headlines these protests are saying down with the system and down with all of the parts with different angles from different perspectives just because we came to prison doesn't mean right stopped at the gate separate the spin from the facts you western media jumps on stories we don't taking down the misinformation from the journalism it's about telling the stories of those human beings on the ground with the listening post on al-jazeera. with al-jazeera

the latest for us from athens. the reason for greek displeasure at libya is that the libyan government had given the greek government assurances that it was not concluding such an agreement with turkey it was known that these talks were going on the greeks were concerned but couldn't but the off the record discussions that the foreign ministers had had and that the ambassador had had with counterparts here was that this wasn't really a realistic prospect so this has taken the greek side by surprise and they believe with a certain amount of trickery on the libyan part. now the reason that the greeks are displeased is that the legal reason is that the turkish and libyan areas of sovereignty in the greek are you should not touch because greece lies between them greece says that according to the international law of the sea its southern indian islands should have a continental shelf that comes between the continental shelf of turkey and that of libya so that that is why the greek side says this agreement is legal it sa

league leaders real madrid were held to a close game for much of their fixture in athens made to work for their points in the early stages former n.b.a. player jim a for a debt kept kind of thing michael's close here with a 3 in the 2nd quarter scoring 18 overall but reale forward anthony rudolph's 22 point performance proved decisive as the favorites sealed the win by a margin of 12. fs istanbul remain a close 2nd in the table after a very win over 4th seed macabre television french shooting god will do the good beaubois dazzled with several steals and a season high 22 points. in berlin albo way to snap a full game losing streak against spanish side ceci best tonia mocks in the hammam song lead the score. with 18 points at the capital club by $24.00. thanks. last year's winners c.s.k. leaned heavily on daniel hackett as they narrowly defeated milan by just 3 points his 28 proved decisive stay close to the top with an 11th wind of the season i'm robert and a quick reminder of the top story we're following for you. take off. i was scheduled to fly.

after that speech, a resident in athens created an online fund-raiser for the athens food pantry.0. joe burrow said he's up there to help those kids and show them they can be up there too. >> and you know athens there. >> i went to school there. that college is everything for that outside of the community. >> go, joe burrow. here's me. airport workers in lithuania got very creative. they made a christmas tree not out of ornaments but items made out of confiscated items in security. like cyst says scissors, guns. you should see, we should know, no knives, no scissors, no lighters, and certainly no guns. it really is important. number one, they're on top of their job, which is a good thing, but it's funny but not so funny. >> you hope it was just an oversight. >> i forgot my gun. >>> and in a brand-new series we're exploring, what the next decade will bring in climate change to health. we're kicking it off with a look at 2020s in tech. the last ten years changed the way we get movies, music and news, and meanwhile uber, lyft, and airbnb transformed how we travel. what can be next? n

it is a new year in athens right now, 12 midnight. just to give you a little perspective.ive shot. you are looking live at athenss, greece, right now as the parthenon is the brand space for that celebration over there.

if athens were a democracy for free men the poor would get together and take away the property the rich. well the same dilemma they had opposite solutions aristotle proposed what we would nowadays call a welfare state to try to reduce inequality. so the same problem that solutions one is reduce inequality will have this problem and the other is reduced monikers. if you look at the history of the united states it's a constant struggle between these 2 tendencies democratising tendency that's mostly coming from the population pressure from below and you get these constant battle going on periods or gratian periods of progress in 1906 for example were a period of significant democratization. sectors of the folk elation that were usually passive and the city became organized active story pressing their demand. and they became more and more involved in decision making and activism and so on. they just changed consciousness and. minority rights. we don't want. women's rights. or. concerns of the. american as. nice a. safety net survive opposition to aggression i started i was criticized as the

greece is expelling libya's ambassador in athens after libya signed a maritime deal with turkey but sets a new boundaries in the eastern mediterranean sea which greece illegal greek relations with turkey are tense because of the territorial disputes about oil and gas drilling around the island of cyprus those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the big picture of more news in 25 minutes. many cultures tell the story of a great flood. chinese mythology speaks of tarantula grains being set upon the earth by an angry water god flooding the land for years. one man didn't look to escape from the flood or ride out the storm in an ark but to overcome it. his name was you and he built a series of downs and canals to channel the rising water to control its flow. he engineer order of the chaos allowing his people to survive and to flourish. you would become emperor and his deeds would become legend. today the story of modern china 5000 years in the making is still a story of order the struggle to keep it against the forces that would take it away . we have the belgian ro

it is a new year in athens right now, 12 midnight. just to give you a little perspective.o in capetown, south africa. we have a live shot. you are looking live at athenss, greece, right now as the parthenon is the brand space for that celebration over there. and we are just seven short hours away from the ball drop here in new york city as well. this is a look at times square live where a million people are expected to fill the streets. we'll fill you in on all that. >>> and from times square to wall street, what a year, what a decade it's been for stocks as they close out the very last trading day of 2019 in positive territory, turned around at the end of the day. it's the dow's best year since 2017 and the s&p 500 and nasdaq's best year since 2013. the dow's more than 170% gain since 2010 now ranks as the fourth best decade-long performance in the past 100 years. and now there's new hope that the celebrations will continue well into 2020 as president trump announces a breakthrough in the china trade deal. hi, everybody, this is "bulls and bears." again, happy new year to

ok i will leave it there rick berke now we thank you very much for speaking to us from athens. at least 100 bush fires are burning around sydney and australia would dozens of them out of control emergency warnings are in place across 3 states on soaring temperatures and strong winds create catastrophic conditions just a washington reports from sydney's blue mountains. this is usually one of sydney's most popular tourist attractions the normally picturesque blue mountains bordering the outskirts of the city. much of it now decimated by bushfires. they've been burning across large parts of australia for months now with flames as high as 70 metres the fire in this region alone has destroyed an area 7 times the size of singapore. but this isn't just bush land it's home for thousands of australians fire crews are working tirelessly to protect residents robert beecroft is a former volunteer firefighter he's seen many bushfires in his time but this one is different for being here for 67 years i've seen a lot of forestry the mountains actually are more you have to brace for quite a few

cutter arena works as an architect in athens whenever she has the time she works on her design project uncomfortable in her collection has now grown to include over 40 objects. some of them have been used in advertising campaigns. on the wall concepts have gone viral on the internet and caterina is working on more uncomfortable design objects. here she takes the arable nomics out of a toothbrush. that has a human as must have appeared what's most important is to pick a suitable object that has to be something that's easy to use and that we take for granted because we see it every day but that of all citizens for that is one of the thought then i think about how i use this object and i sabotage one aspect of this you see my above. this is i can come up with several different ways to do that and the one that makes me laugh the most while i'm sketching it out is the one that i developed the thing about cannot be as our image came off in the paper while. caterina also gives workshops to teach others how to design and usable things and delight in the many useless ideas with the participants

and in athens county that, you know, go home to not a lot of food on the table, hungry after school,here, too. >> but for more than 34 million americans, it's food stamp, not fund-raisers, that help them survive. now there's concern proposed changes in that federal program could drastically cut those benefits. the trump administration says it wants to reduce waste. adriana diaz is at a food bank outside of minneapolis. what are we learning? >> reporter: well, anthony, good the department of agriculture which operates the program, declined our request for an on-camera interview, but yesterday they told us these proposed changes are to, quote, ensure that the s.n.a.n. program, the food stamp practice is there for those in need. they want to make sure that food stamp recipients who can work do work, especially given near record unemployment. but families are still worried. >> this is it. this is our house for two months before coming into shelter. >> reporter: after patience kollie and john spinola's rent nearly doubled. they had to move out and into their car with their toddler and tee

of the territorial dispute about oil and gas drilling around the island of cyprus let's go live to athens and my colleague john psaropoulos john what's the backstory to this. well as you know the libyan ambassador was summoned this morning to the foreign ministry where the foreign minister has told him he has 72 hours to leave the country that means tuesday morning the reason for greek displeasure at libya is that the libyan government had given the greek government assurances that it was not concluding such an agreement with turkey it was known that these talks were going on the greeks were concerned but the the off the record discussions that the foreign ministers had had and that the ambassador had had with counterparts here was that this wasn't really a realistic prospect so this has taken the greek side by surprise and they believe that a certain amount of trickery on the libyan part. now the reason that the greeks are just pleased is that the legal reason is that the turkish and libyan areas of sovereignty in the greek you should not touch because greece lies between them greece say

the conditions there are unsafe for women and children and call on the government to take action athens says other e.u. countries should do more to share the burden of the migrant crisis and accept more people well talking all the demands by germany's green party political analyst told us that coherent long term solutions were needed instead of one time christmas office. is a crisis of countries not prepared to live up to their self i mean commitment they signed international of treaties. opposition pollute politicians before christmas can say whatever he wants because it doesn't have to erect consequences the government prefers to keep working on a coherent european multilateral solution and that any unilateral actions like let's take a number of kids is understandable but the question of why only children. camps why not also from their own or from jordan so we have to develop something like who here in systems based on the rule of law and principles and not just at heart fueling as of today you know if you are humanitarian because it's christmas and therefore i do something and to mor

the temperatures actually if anything they will be going down over the next few days down towards athens so it is going to be a chilly weekend as well as the beginning of the week we do expect to see those temperatures dropping as we go towards the next couple days and we do expect to see some windy conditions by the time we get towards monday. legally prescribe for the pain relief of the sick but taken in life threatening doses by millions in search of a fix. huge illegal shipments of the opioid tramadol are flooding west africa. people in power goes to nigeria to investigate the devastating addiction epidemic that is even fueling people around and search. west africa's opioid crisis on a just 0. and this is different but there is someone saying for some of the prevent this kind of when you think it's how you can show enough it is a certain way of doing it you can just buy a story in time out. what happens when plans for a new life are brewed idea railed by committing serious crimes from drug trafficking terminal bring to my only i don't remember how many times and stop there the way he

we're also going to be bringing some very windy conditions by the time we get towards monday and for athens it's going to be a chilly wet day for you with the temperature there of about 6 degrees to the west though things are looking quite nice mostly dry mostly sunny across much of the area you may see some morning fog but that will start to dissipate as the heating of the day begins but up towards paris it is going to be a nice day on monday at 7 in london at about 11 agrees there well for the northeastern part of africa we are dealing with that same weather system i just mentioned we're going to be seeing some very windy conditions all across the coast of libya over here towards egypt as well and we are going to see even more rain as we go towards monday extending all the way up towards tunis so expect to see some localized flooding across the region but a wet windy day at 13. the brazilian economy is booming but the deep divisions still exist between the haves and the have nots in a country where smartphones have become a part of everyday life technology help bridge the gap. the serious