Good morning. It is 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in london and 8 00pm on capitol hill in washington, where the Housejudiciary Committee has been debating for the last hour or so the articles of impeachment against President Trump. After what will be a spirited discussion, they will most likely vote later on thursday, ahead of a vote in the full house next week. If the president is impeached, the senate would hold a trial in the new year. With me is our north america correspondent peter bowes. Peter, tell us more about how this debate is unfolding. Well, this is a debate, as we expected, that is very impassioned from both sides. The democrats saying that President Trump has committed constitutional crimes and should, in effect, face the music. These two articles of impeachment, the charges against the president that he abused his position as president , and abuse of power, and also tried to essentially lock the process to withhold information power, and also tried to essentially lock the
We coffer the sports as the season gets underway in australia. Ill tell you how new engines cause big problems and a new generation of drivers top the podium in melbourne. Its a vote that could change the Political Landscape and russias relationship with the rest of the International Community. The people of crimea are deciding whether to join russia or stay with ukraine but with more autonomy. Voters have the choice of answering either yes or no to the following two questions, are you in favor of the reunification of crimea with russia as part of the Russian Federation or are you in favor of restoring the 1992 constitution and the status of crimea as part of ukraine. Supporting the second option would grant crimea more autonomy within ukraine. Aljazeeras jacki roland joins us live. We are seven hours into this polling. What has turnout been like . Well, about half of eligible voters have apparently cast their ballots now, according to the election, the Referendum Commission here in cr
Behind them. Including a record breaking football star as he becomes the all time leading goal scorer in barcelona. So do you want your country to be russia or ukraine . Thats the question that the voters are answering today. Take a look at the live scene and the people right there are awaiting to hear the results of the first exit polls, the celebrations as you are seeing have started. Jackie is joining us from there as we are reporting, jackie, exit polls are meant to be announced any minute now. Yes, the voting ended just a few minutes ago. We are expecting initial exit polls in the next ten minutes or so. I will give you details about the turnout figures, it is about 75 . The Referendum Commission is saying more than threequarters of the registered voters participated. The council of the Minority Ethnic Community here, a community that is largely boycotting the referendum claim that the turnout is 30 . That injects an element of doubt there. From our experience, particularly at the
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