Lizzo and Billie Eilish. It was a day of explosive testimony in the impeachment inquiry, as the Us Ambassador to the eu Gordon Sondland gave evidence. The ambassador said he was acting at the express direction of the president on ukraine. The democratic led house of representatives is investigating whether or not the president improperly put pressure on ukraine to investigate his political rival the former Vice President joe biden. The bbcs north america editorjon sopel reports. The day a simmering pot boiler became a blockbuster drama, with this unlikely character as the leading man. Gordon sondland, a wealthy hotelier, was made ambassador to the European Union on the strength of 1 million donation to Donald Trumps inauguration committee. Now hed come under oath to eviscerate the president s account of his dealings with ukraine. I was acting in good faith. As a president ial appointee, i followed the directions of the president. We worked with mr giuliani because the president directe
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Preferred better science, better results im Elizabeth Wagmeister in los angeles in this cnns Breaking News hello, and a warm welcome to all of us joining us Around The World. I, max foster, it is 1 may 9 00 a. M. Here in london, 1 00 a. M. In los angeles julies where protests on the campus at ucla are turning violence. As you can see, according to local media, things came to a head about two hours go when propalestinian and proisraeli protesters got into a Confrontation Kabc Reports Fireworks were thrown inside the propalestinian encampment Campus Police say theyre responding to the incident of course, College Campuses across the us having swept with protests over the last several weeks, but we havent seen this level of violence up until now demonstrators demanding an end to the war in gaza and for their universities to divest from israel as well, were trying to get a proper sense of whats happening on the ground. They are clearly clashes between protesters and other groups. But its a