loretta sanchez served in the us congress with her sister linda for over a decade. shejoins us now from california. when you hear something like this today, jojohnson basically coming out saying he had to make a difficult choice between country and family. what is it like when you see something like that, given that you serve alongside your sister? something like that, given that you serve alongside your sister7m something like that, given that you serve alongside your sister? it is very difficult, to tie the truth. i really feel forjo, because he was staying in the eu and his brother was one of the leaders to get out. it has really come to a head of stea m it has really come to a head of steam right now and so conflicted that he had to, you know, basically stepped out, step down. i have had situations with my sister where we have been on different sides of an issue or sometimes something that was going on in the congress where i

joining us now is democratic member of congress madeleine dean who was part of that committee. congresswoman, thank you for being with us. you had a chance to listen to part of what corey was just saying to alisyn. he suggested somehow that he did answer most of the questions from congress and he didn't dodge or weave. that doesn't seem to be the hearing that i watched yesterday. the one that he described. what do you feel that you got from him? >> that was a fascinating interview. i'm wondering if you and alisyn swore him in because as he told us, he feels no obligation to say anything truthful to the media. and i think he revealed himself today. we saw yesterday a failed foot soldier of a president in search of obstruction of justice, obstruction of us and congress and our constitutional obligations to over see the corruption of a president. just total cover-up. and mr. lewandowski is just a small player in that. the big player, of course, is

visit ncicap.org] aseric watson joining us congress returns from its summer recess facing a september 30 government funding deadline. the house majority leader steny hoyer in a letter to his colleagues announcing plans to take up a continuing resolution through the week of september 16. do you see any issues with congress not being able to fund the federal government this year? >> i am not worried about the governor as a government shutdown. i am a little bit worried about a shutdown in december or beyond. reprising the 35 day shutdown we saw. it will probably pass easily. they may be an intent to sent pass the defense bill. there's interest to get that out of the way and democrats are telling me they don't want to let that go and be left with a that the domestic spending world would not get addressed. probably into early november or -- late november or early december at which point we will see a larger battle. in recent weeks we found out the pentagon has finalized its list of military project to fund trumps border wall. that is an issue. the military construction bill , related to b

the democrat—controlled house judiciary committee in the us congress has voted to broaden its powers rump, which could eventually lead to impeachment, although this does not necessarily mean one will happen. a recent opinion poll says 59% of us voters oppose removing the president from office. let's get some of the day's other news: members of the public have been paying their respects to the former zimbabwean president robert mugabe, whose body is lying in state at a stadium in the capital, harare. his family and the government have disagreed over mr mugabe's final resting place. state television is reporting that the country's current president has agreed the mugabe family's wishes should be respected. the government in the bahamas has issued a tropical storm warning for the same group of islands where hurricane dorian left at least 50 people dead and more than 1,000 others missing. it said the storm had the potential to strengthen into a cyclone within the next day or two and move towards florida. british airways has started cancelling flights scheduled for 27 september, when anoth

the democrat—controlled house judiciary committee in the us congress has voted to broaden its powers y lead to impeachment — although this does not necessarily mean one will happen. a recent opinion poll says 59% of us voters oppose removing the president from office. here's our north america correspondent david willis. i asked whether the democrats are serious about pushing ahead with impeachment. this vote by the housejudiciary committee largely symbolic. this basically gives a slightly greater powers to an enquiry that's been investigating donald trump since way back in march. it probably gives... it won't lead to president donald trump being impeached, or probably indeed to a vote on his impeachment, not least because republicans control the senate, of course, which is where an impeachment trial would take place, and in fact democrats, to get on directly answering your question, democrats are deeply divided on this issue. the house speaker, nancy pelosi, leaves there is more currency, if you like, in getting into grassroots issues, such as the economy, healthcare and so on in the

however, the us congress has introduced — both sides of the us congress, the house and senate — has introduced the human rights and democracy act. this is to hold the administration or any future administration accountable for the human rights situation and democracy situation in hong kong. there is a one country, two systems model in place in which china and hong kong are part of one china but china has pledged in the past to maintain the separate distinct political and economic systems in hong kong so that is something we should be watching for. of course, the official withdrawal of the controversial extradition bill was one of the demands by protesters but they are asking for four other things including the release of arrested protesters and universal suffrage. do you think china may actually bow to those demands? universal suffrage i think is a clear no because china is an authoritarian regime. but it's questionable as to whether china would see to it that carrie lam, the chief executive of the local government in hong kong, might step down. that's one of the four demands that you mentione

because of poor policies you do the in the us congress the law currently being examined the wrong gong like mainland china as regards donald trump's trade war what impact do you think that will have will it actually help the home grown authorities authority over the people you will go what you're talking about the hong kong human rights and democracy act 2 or 19 which are planes to amend the 992 us hong kong policy acts which gives public all different treatment for mainland china under u.s. law this time to new york though they have tightened up the scrutiny they are requiring the secretary of states to make any or certificate that there is no violation of human rights freedoms you know. that sort of thing in hong kong and it is more intimidating because it affects one's sanctions against persons identified by by the administration as undermining white said freedoms and this is sending very negative signals about hong kong in fact holocaust has a very good standing of its rule up law so this all top allegations are really unfounded and the bill is. intimidating and sending very negati

the democrat—controlled house judiciary committee in the us congress has voted to broaden its powerslead to impeachment. let's look at the details. the house panel voted 24—17 to approve guidelines for an investigation to go ahead. although this does not necessarily mean one will happen. according to the washington post, if an investigation did proceed, possible charges against mr trump could include obstruction ofjustice, abuse of power and defiance of subpoenas. although a recent opinion poll says 59% of us voters oppose removing the president from office. i asked our washington correspondent david willis how serious the democrats are in pushing ahead with impeachment. this vote by the housejudiciary committee largely symbolic. this basically gives a slightly greater powers to an enquiry that's been investigating donald trump since way backin investigating donald trump since way back in march. it probably gives... it won't lead to president donald trump being impeached, or probably indeed to a vote on his impeachment, not least because republicans control the senate, of course, whi

to leading figures in hong kong as protest movement has made a direct appeal to the us congress for support social warming and timmy's ho urged a congressional hearing to adopt the hong kong human rights and democracy yet if passed the territory would have to prove it was specs human rights in order to maintain its trading status with the united states those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after my ethiopia for a lot of states have done so much about them. world leaders from un member states a pairing to take their seats for this year's general assembly. trump will attend. growing tensions between the u.s. and iran. will multilateral efforts provide solutions to a global refugee crisis escalating wars and climate change before it's too late join us for extensive coverage of the un general assembly on al-jazeera. yeah. i get in a. demand. yeah nato bear your question. i know it's of a n.a.o. can. you know the kidney. you took that would give. him a cigar thank us again. finally i never heard of you know with him i don't want to help you. i don't. know you know. both i

this is deja vu news live from berlin democrats in the us congress launched an impeachment inquiry into alleged crimes by president donald trump the actions of the trump presidency revealed the sound of that the president's betrayal of his oath of office of our national security and betrayal i think integrity of our elections the president must be held accountable no one is a front for the law. also coming up the british prime minister is returning early from the u.n. after the country's supreme court ruled his suspension of parliament was illegal look at reception would be getting in london. while there's boris johnson he's on his way back to. britain of course we'll have the very latest from the british capital. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us well after more than 2 years of jousting over president trump's conduct the ground has suddenly shifted in congress with a move toward impeachment nancy pelosi the democratic speaker of the house has announced a congressional committee will be launching inquiry its goal gathering the evidence necessary to impeach president trump for l

the headlines: democrats in the us congress have announced a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump. the speaker of the house of representatives, nancy pelosi, accused him of violating the constitution and betraying his oath of office. he's called the move a "witch hunt" and "presidential harrassment". the uk's highest court has ruled that borisjohnson‘s decision to suspend parliament was unlawful. the prime minister says the verdict is wrong, in his opinion, but will respect it. but leaders of all major opposition parties have called for his resignation. a major operation is continuing to bring more than 150,000 people back to the uk after the collapse of thomas cook. around 16,000 passengers were repatriated on tuesday. emergency flights are set to continue for another ten days. you can find more on all our stories on our website, just go to bbc.co.uk/news, or you can download the bbc news app. now on bbc news, live to singapore for asia business report. historic uk ruling, as britain's supreme court finds the prime minister's suspension of parliament was unlawful, what does

and japan is within reach at least according to its present owner trump in a letter to the us congress released by the white house trump said that he intends to enter into the agreement on tariff barriers and to ditch or trade in the coming weeks the letter does not mention tariffs on autos and parts long a sticking point between the 2 countries. well investors around the world keeping their eyes peeled to on developments in saudi arabia have to last we consider tack on an oil refinery slash the country's output in hard the attack claimed by hutu rebels in yemen course the price of oil to surge 20 percent the biggest one day rise since the 1991 gulf war the price of since dropped again but is still higher than usual the incident also sent asian shares down on tuesday with traders selling off stocks in airlines and to other fuel dependent industries for more analysis now let's bring in new york came up chief economist at command spang good morning and joseph gas who lie ahead of oil and gas analysts analysis institution in london good morning to you too i like to start with you joseph t

congress to fully investigate the conduct of this president. the president should stop stonewalling this investigation and all the other investigations into his alleged wrongdoing. using full constitutional authority, congress can demand the information it has the legal right to receive. if the president does not comply with such a thing. by continuing to obstruct congress and flout the law, donald trump will leave congress, in my view, no choice but to initiate impeachment. that would be a tragedy, but a tragedy of his own making. i've always believed, and still do, that america is a truly special and unique nation. better than any other nation in history. we have made the experiment of self-government work. we have always been a beacon to other countries around the world. we know who donald trump is. it's time to let the world know who we are. thank you very much. >> on the phone with us is jennifer havoc on who covers congress for "the los angeles times." what was done regarding impeachment? >> speaker nancy pelosi announced a formal impeachment investigation today and it sounds like the vast majority of democrats are on board with this after months of debate will

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members of the democratic party in in the us congress have announced a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump, accusing him of seeking help from a foreign government to smear a political rival. nancy pelosi, speaker of the house, accused him of violating the constitution. he's called the move a "witch hunt" and "harrassment". the uk's highest court has ruled that borisjohnson‘s decision to suspend parliament was unlawful. the prime minister says the verdict is wrong, but will respect it. a major operation is continuing to bring more than 150,000 people back to the uk after the collapse of thomas cook. around 16,000 passengers were repatriated on tuesday. emergency flights are set to continue for another ten days. the labour leaderjeremy corbyn has addressed his party's conference in brighton a day earlier than scheduled in response to the supreme court ruling. mr corbyn called on borisjohnson to resign as prime minister and insisted that labour was more than ready with a range of policies for government. 0ur chief political correspondent vicki young reports. # 0h, jeremy corby

a procedure for removing the president by impeachment so essentially you've got 2 houses of the us congress the 1st house being the house of representatives they would be the house that decides to go ahead with impeachment at this point we've got 6 committees investigating trump it would be the judiciary committee they would be the ones to ultimately bring impeachment articles against donald trump and if they were to then vote to begin impeachment proceedings it would be then the u.s. senate that would convene an impeachment trial and then vote on whether or not to remove trump from office now and in u.s. history only 2 presidents have been impeached bill clinton was impeached as was andrew johnson and both of those u.s. presidents remained in office they were not removed from office the impeachment trial happened and the senate voted to keep them in office now richard nixon was facing an impeachment inquiry leading to an impeachment trial he resigned ahead of time so we have not had any president in u.s. history ever removed through the impeachment route not all democrats are immediately j

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this is deja vu news live from berlin democrats of the us congress launched an impeachment inquiry into it alleged crimes by president trumped. the actions of the trump presidency everything dishonorable fak of the president's betrayal of his oath of office. of our national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections the president must be held accountable no one is upon the law. also coming up the british prime minister is returning early from the united nations after the country's supreme court ruled the suspension of parliament was illegal what kind of reception my he got if he shows up today at the parliament he told to go home and is now set to resume. and working for a better world we talk with a tribal shaalan protecting the indigenous way of life in the amazon is one of the winners of this year's alternative nobel prize. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us paul after more than 2 years of jousting over president trumps conduct the ground has suddenly shifted in the u.s. congress with a move towards impeachment nancy pelosi the democratic speaker of the house has

democrats in the us congress have announced a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump.ed of violating the constitution and betraying his oath of office over allegations he sought help from a foreign power to damage a political rival. mr trump has called the claims "garbage". our north america editor jon sopel has more. new york in september, when the leadership of the world converges on the un to speak, but one conversation is causing donald trump extreme difficulty and the heat is intensifying. injuly, he phoned the newly elected ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky and it's alleged donald trump demanded an investigation into his democratic presidential rivaljoe biden and his son's business dealings in the country as the price for receiving us military aid. no dirt, no aid is the suggestion. the president denies wrongdoing but his account of the call has changed continually as the questions have piled up. i think it's ridiculous, it's a witch—hunt. i'm leading in the polls, they have no idea how to stop me, the only way they can try is through impeachment. this has n

submitted their testimonies quite simply no before these testimonies could be taken into account the us congress passed a law that diverted the b.n.p. power of us find to american victims of terrorism leaving the sudanese and other victims without any form of redress for the harm they suffered and which the bank is believed to have played a role so with the money in the pockets of the americans and not the sudanese victims now making another attempt to receive restitution this time here in france that's because it's allow for corporations to be prosecuted if they've played a role in crimes committed a broad r.t. asked to be in for a statement it is yet to respond to that request the parish tribunal must now decide if this new complaint warrants a criminal investigation into b m p power does involvement any case though is likely to prove complex and lengthy meaning the victims still have a long way to go before they may feel that they perceived any justice. ati paris. just a couple of other headline stories this saturday 1st to egypt where thousands of supporters of the president meet in the capi

teenage face of the global climate change movement has been giving the us congress a dressing down 16 year old white attorney told members to listen to the scientists and take real action surely met former president barack obama and to trust the senate don't invite us here just to tell us how inspiring we are without actually doing anything about it because it doesn't lead to any thin i know you're trying but just not hard enough sorry. tandberg is in washington for a few days ahead of a global climate strike planned for friday it will also address the un climate action summit in new york on monday youngster became the face of this year's climate protests by taking part in school strikes and skipping class joined by students around the world. scientists though a warning of a growing number of youngsters being treated for eco anxiety after being exposed to apocalyptic warnings about the earth's environmental plight britain's climate psychology alliance says children are being prescribed psychiatry and trying to cope and one is the problem to become a recognised condition group executiv

congress today have argued this that if iran is responsible then iran has been provoked by the us withdrawing from the nuclear agreement. well that would be quite an interesting argument to argue that sanctions warrant what most people would consider an act of war in which missiles a lot are launched across borders and there are explosions taking place. the goal of the us max pressure campaign regardless of whether one agrees with the decision to withdraw from the iranian nuclear agreement is to bring to iran to the negotiating table it's amazing the lengths that iran is willing to go to avoid negotiating the evidence that was presented today by saudi arabia you as a military man and also as a military analyst would you say that that was a convincing case presented by saudi arabia that leaves without question that iran is responsible. it's a good question i've learned not to make definitive statements unless i'm on the ground able to look at things myself but if the equipment that was presented on video camera there wasn't back from those attacks which it appears to be it should be very easy

in the past couple of hours, democrats in the us congress have announced a formal impeachment inquirythe house of representatives, nancy pelosi, accused mr trump of violating the constitution and betraying his oath of office. earlier i spoke tojulian epstein, who was a counsellor for the democrats during bill clinton's impeachment proceedings. i asked him what the democrats are looking to find in these transcripts of the conversation between the us and ukrainian presidents. i think what democrats are looking for is whether there was actually a solicitation by president trump to the new ukrainian president or interference in the election by investigating joe biden, who is likely to be his general election opponent and joe biden‘s son and if there was a solicitation to interfere in the 2020 election, then i think it would be impeachable, and impeachable offence on several grounds. it's clearly a gross abuse of power. as a criminal matter, you could see a whole host of criminal charges which could be brought involving extortion laws and bribery laws and illegal solicitation of a foreign

the headlines: democrats in the us congress have announced a formal impeachment inquiry into presidentd that borisjohnson‘s decision to suspend parliament was unlawful. the prime minister says the verdict is wrong, but will respect it. a major operation is continuing to bring more than 150,000 people back to the uk after the collapse of thomas cook. around 16,000 passengers were repatriated on tuesday. emergency flights are set to continue for another ten days.

they're urging the us congress to pass legislation that would penalize officials in mainland china andin the chinese territory. 0ur correspondent in hong kong, steve mcdonell, is following developments. it is the first weekend since carrie lam announced that the bill would be withdrawn. when it comes to the more hard—core withdrawn. when it comes to the more ha rd—core protesters, withdrawn. when it comes to the more hard—core protesters, they are still turning out in quite big numbers, prepared to take on the police. earlier on today, though, we saw a much bigger rally, tens of thousands of protesters were marching to attempt to get the us government to make it harder for the city to retain its special trading status. and you can tell a day of protest is coming to an end in hong kong because activists have come to somewhere like this where they cannot be seen, they take off their black clothing and put on any other colour for that matter because if you are walking the streets around here with black gear on, for the rest of the night you risk being picked up by the police, so this is n

the headlines: democrats in the us congress have announced a formal impeachment inquiry into presidenting the constitution and betraying his oath of office. he's called the move a "witch hunt" and "presidential harrassment". the uk's highest court has ruled that borisjohnson's decision to suspend parliament was unlawful. the prime minister says the verdict is wrong, in his opinion, but will respect it. but leaders of all major opposition parties have called for his resignation. a major operation is continuing to bring more than 150,000 people back to the uk after the collapse of thomas cook. around 16,000 passengers were repatriated on tuesday. emergency flights are set to continue for another ten days.

they are urging the us congress to pass legislation that would penalise officials in mainland china anddoms in the chinese territory. 0ur correspondent in hong kong, steve mcdonell, is following developments. so it is the first weekend since carrie lam announced that the much hated extradition bill would be officially withdrawn, and as you can see, when it comes to the more hard—core see, when it comes to the more ha rd—core protesters, see, when it comes to the more hard—core protesters, they are still turning out in quite big numbers, prepared to take on the police. earlier on today, though, we sir are much bigger rally —— we saw a much bigger rally, tens of thousands of protesters marching to attempt to get the united states government to make it harder for this city to retain its special trading status. and you can tell a day of protest is coming to an end in hong kong because activist come to somewhere like this, where they can't be seen, ta ke like this, where they can't be seen, take off their black clothing and put on any other colour, for that matter. because if you are walking

you say it is a tremendous amount of time and money but wouldn't the us congress be failing its constitutionala whistle—blower thought to be from within the cia of allegations of serious wrongdoing if congress fail to even investigate those? this entire impeachment inquiry is predicated on a whistle—blower who blew the whistle on hearsay. he does not have first person knowledge, or she, of what happened here. they we re she, of what happened here. they were not in the room or listening to the phone call. all the evidence that we have, the transcript, totally acquits the president of any wrongdoing. it is a waste of time, without question. the transcript has not been made public. that was moved toa not been made public. that was moved to a secure server. not been made public. that was moved to a secure server. what was released were notes taken of the phone call, not the transcript. how did those notes clear the president? it isa did those notes clear the president? it is a transcript. you go and read it, it's a transcription of what both parties said. you can go and look it up. it's not a verb

relationship with the americans on the basis of the hong kong policy act, that was passed by the us congressieve. and on this basis, america gives hong kong favoured treatment, because we are supposed to have a system that is entirely different from that in the mainland. but clearly that is no longer the case, and so it is perfectly legitimate for the americans to say, if two systems becomes 1.5 systems, or very soon one system, then we have to review the whole basis upon which hong kong currently enjoys favoured treatment. but so far, they have stayed away, after 1a weeks of protests. why are they staying on the sidelines, the americans? the americans have not stayed on the sidelines. congress has been in recess, but it's meeting again next monday, and we expect the hong kong human rights and democracy act to be considered. but it's notjust american support that i think hong kong needs. we have trading partners with many countries. we share their values. they supported the joint declaration and the basic law. they have also a genuine stake in hong kong, and they should be speaking up in def