Placed a strain on firefighters today many volunteers whove taken leave from paid jobs to help the Australian Government has announced plans to compensate them and honor their efforts. Omarion evanston welcome to the program Ukrainian Government forces and russian backed separatists have begun a Prisoner Exchange. These are live pictures of that Prisoner Exchange underway right now the swap is part of an agreement that was reached earlier this month at a summit between the leaders of ukraine and russia brokered by germany and france the swap is taking place at a checkpoint in the separatist wrong hold of done netsky. Forces as separatists have been fighting in Eastern Ukraine since 2014 the conflict has claimed more than 13000 lives. Russia and ukraine swap prisoners last september raising hopes of a wider settlement but fighting continues despite a cease fire agreement. A major Prisoner Exchange with russia im pro russian separatists in september it broke inmates harm and fostered hun
About before this is a show unfortunately today the witness who is supposed to be the star witness chose to take a pass and let a staff answer for that hes chairman of a point of order and usually mr chairman the point of order you know moves to this point of order is chairman because to do one of ruhleben requires you. To schedule a minority hearing day not to consider it not to meet to discuss it but to schedule one and to schedule it in a reasonable time not after articles have been drawn not after theres been a vote on articles of impeachment i enquire and insist mr chairman that you immediately schedule a minority hearing day or tell us why you are of the gentleman ignoring the rules gentlemen we were weve already gone through that but i peek it is not a point proper point of order in todays hearing as i have told the ranking minority members several times in considering the even aris request if you think we would be violating the rules of the house if we consider the articles of
Vehemently denied any connection saying no way i would never do that who told you that in closing the call president to trump told senator johnson that were reviewing it now referring to the Security Assistance and guess what youll probably like my final decision he told that to senator johnson on august 31st this statement strongly suggests that President Trump was already leaning toward lifting the aid separately on september 9th President Trump spoke by phone with ambassador sama and ambassador someone asked the president what do you want from ukraine president respond President Trump responded i want nothing i want no quid pro quo i want selenski to do the right thing. In addition senior Ukrainian Government officials denied any awareness of a linkage between u. S. Security assistance and investigations these denials are persuasive because if there was in fact an orchestrated scheme to pressure ukraine by withholding Security Assistance one would think the pause on Security Assista
Them in the right direction. Witnesses in the impeachment inquiry testified that the allegation of ukrainian influence in the 2016 election was appropriate to examine. Ambassador volker testified that he thought it was fine to investigate allegations about 2016 influence. Ambassador taylor said, for example, that the allegations surprised and disappointed him, on this record i do not believe one could conclude that President Trump had no legitimate basis to raise a concern about efforts by ukrainians to influence the 2016 election. Let me now turn to the first assertion that President Trump withheld a meeting with president zelensky as a way of pressuring him to investigate the former vp. Here it is important to note ukraines long, profound history of endemic corruption. Several witnesses during the inquiry have testified about these problems. Ambassador marie yovanovitch, for example, said ukraines corruption is not just prevalent but, frankly, is the system. Witnesses testified to ha
In lebanon clash with police is the government gets ready to discuss who will be the new Prime Minister. Person in the store university in new delhi to disperse people protesting a controversial citizenship law. After weeks of antigovernment protest. At a different kind of platform to tell their leaders what they want for their future. A lost opportunity thats how the u. N. Secretary general has described the deal reached at the Climate Change summit and madrid worlds biggest polluters cannot agree on some of the most contentious issues even though talks dragged on for an extra 2 days countries did agree on motions calling for greater ambition to cut Greenhouse Gases in order to limit Global Warming to 1. 5 degrees but they postponed a go she shines on Global Carbon markets until next year the system will allow countries for companies who exceed their emissions levels to buy credits from those who do not protesters have been frustrated by the lack of progress handful of countries inclu