A fair trial in the senate where republicans told our. Fellow im Maryanne Demasi in london with the top stories from europe including. Moylans erupts in paris as tens of thousands march and national strikes over pension reform. Also this hour why greece and cyprus saw objecting to a turkish deal with libya that lays out sensitive maritime boundary its about he defends with all the base sport already more through the arabian gulf cup final offer a penalty shootout win over iraq will play out of saudi arabia or qatar for the trophy those 2 are currently consisting of the city final in doha. Thank you for joining as the top democrat in the u. S. Congress nancy pelosi says her party is moving forward to impeach donald trump saying the president s behavior has left them with no choice but o. C. Has announced the drafting of formal charges known as articles of impeachment she says sean past seriously violated the constitution. I democracy is what is it stake the president leaves us no choice but to act because he is trying to corrupt once again the election for his own benefit the president has engaged in abuse of power undermining our National Security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections his actions are in defiance of the vision of our founders and the oath of office that he takes to preserve protect and defend the constitution of the state. A reminder the case centers on allegations that trump tried to use military aid to ukraine as leverage to get its leader to dig up dirt on a political rival in response to policies announcements the white house said that the democrats should be quote ashamed it added president looks forward to a fair trial in the senate where his Republican Party holds the majority while we have our White House Correspondent kimberly how kate standing by well go turn just a minute but 1st to heidi also in washington for us heidi 1st of all just how big of a deal is nancy pelosi is announcement. Well foley this certainly adds the gravitas and the full weight of the House Speakers Office behind the this impeachment process of course follows c. She is the 2nd in line to the presidency herself and she said this morning using those sweeping terms that this is about a sense of duty by democrats and all members of congress to hold the president accountable so now this next step is to draft what these articles of impeachment or these formal charges what exactly will be from the looks of it they will include abuse of power as well as obstruction of congress but a bigger question is whether or not democrats who are writing these articles will also look back to the russia inquiry if youll recall earlier in the year the special counsel clear trump saying there was no evidence that he had colluded with russia to impact the 2016 election but he left the door open as far as obstruction of justice and hinted that it would be the congresss duty to act on those grounds if deemed that they exist now there are 2 schools of thought there are some democrats who want to make this impeachment articles more widespread to cover all of what they see as the wrongdoing of trump but then the other school of thought is that would actually play right into the arguments of republicans who have said this entire process is political in nature and have accused democrats of trying to undo the election that got trump into office that led to an extraordinary exchange between a reporter and seeker of the house nancy pelosi reporter asked her if she hates President Trump which is plain into what the republican Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee accused democrats of yesterday this is how palosi responded. This is about the constitution of the United States and the facts that lead to the president s violation of his oath of office and as a catholic i resent your using the word hate in a sentence that addresses me i dont hate anyone i was raised in a way that is full of heart full of love and always prayed for the president and i still pray for the president a pray for the president all the time so dont mess with me when it comes to words like that. And democrats have been claiming all along that this is ok jd and that they are fulfilling the duty of their office that no one is looking forward to impeaching him even perhaps removing the president from office now the next thing will see is on monday the Judiciary Committee will continue with more hearings to help craft what those articles of impeachment exactly. Thank you for the. Stay in washington and cross over to White House CorrespondentKimberly Halkett kimberly what are they saying over there about this announcement. Yeah well weve just had a statement from the White House Press secretary Stephanie Grisham and just the last few moments since the last few sentences that caught my attention essential is this impeachment process moves forward and continues to pick up momentum the press secretary saying that Speaker Pelosi is instruction to advance this impeachment process one that has violated every precedent move this country toward the most partisan and illegitimate subversion of the constitution in our history and certainly most in the United States would agree that this has fallen whether its in the u. S. Congress or in public support along party lines and other words those who are republican tend to defend the president those who are democrat say that he has committed wrongdoing and needs to be removed from office its been a very combative few hours between capitol hill and the white house the u. S. President for his part has sent out more than a dozen tweets many of them taking aim directly with the House Speaker nancy pelosi in fact as we played that sound bite of her saying that she prays for the president the u. S. President firing back within minutes saying i dont believe her 2 not even close theres no question that this white house is in a defensive mood a fighting mood in fact at one point the u. S. President even tweeting that he wants this Impeachment Vote to happen quickly why because he wants it to go into the senate where it is controlled by republicans the argument has been from republicans and from this white house that the process has been flawed that its been skewed in a partisan way in order for democrats to try and undo the results of the 2016 u. S. Election something that of course they dispute the reason the president was this in the senate as heidi jocasta explained is controlled by republicans where they feel the president can have a full and fair trial where they can also call witnesses that may bring forward testimony if they appear that may not be flattering to democrats what we have is yet another. Partisan battle here in the United States and it is particularly heated right at this moment with back and forth between this president and the speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi Kimberly thank you for that Kimberly Halkett live for us at the white house so how does process work well it begins in the house which debates and votes on whether to bring charges against the president if that vote is successful a trial of sorts presided by the chief justice of the u. S. Supreme court is then taken to the senate a 2 thirds majority vote is needed in the 100 Member Senate to convict and remove a president historically impeachments are rare out of 35 attempts only 2 president s have been impeached and neither removed from office a 3rd president Richard Nixon resigned want proceedings were underway well its now speak to jay newton small who is a contributor at Time Magazine she is via skype from washington thank you so much for being with us 1st of all what do you make of nancy pelosi is announcement today do you think this is a big moment in the impeachment process. I want certainly a big moment in American History any time you announce that youre going to move forward articles of impeachment against president obviously thats a huge deal in any country it is an attempt to remove the president even though odds are very slim they actually succeed in being donald trump as cutely was saying this is entirely a partisan process and so the house process has been very much skewed towards the Democratic Political goals as well as the democratic argument against almost shrubs and their goal of getting him out of office or at least convincing voters in november 2020 to get him out of office likewise the senate trial if it happens at all will be all about Donald Trumps case there to to voters in 2020 that this was an unfair process and outlining democratic intentional democratic rights and the other side that he says took place from one of his chief rivals by his former Vice President joe biden and his son hunter biden who was paid 50000. 00 over 5 years a month for 5 years by Ukrainian Oil company even though 100 biden and joe biden both say that that money did not translate into any kind of political favors by joe biden in his role as Vice President it looks like jay that the democrats want to move things quickly now they officially announced a impeachment inquiry into the president a minimum of a 2 months ago and not a song that they want they want to be done with it is that a mistake in your view are they perhaps moving too quickly here. Certainly there is some democrats that feel that the end of the year is an arbitrary timeline and theyd like to see this play out a little bit longer give for example the courts more of an opportunity to weigh in on whether or not a spate of very important misses former National Security adviser john bolton Current White House chief of staff dany whether they should be able to testify before the house they both have said that they would not testify unless they were sort of explicitly ordered to by a court and that being heard in but itll take a long time to peel in like take a long time to go through and so the house is just simply not going to wait for the courts to make those decisions really d do it again this is a political timeline nancy pelosi wants this over and done with at least 10 months ahead or 11 months ahead of any elections that if they overreach which there is a great tension for that they can spend the next 11 months correcting that overreach and sort of making amends to particularly this sort of silent majority of independent American Voters now those voters we call them the silent majority because they tend to not show up in polls they tend really to not Pay Attention in the United States to whats going on in the daily circus of news stories that kind of show up about a month or 2 before elections and make up their minds then but they dont like hyper partisanship they dont like extremes on either side and so if you overreach and if you are too extreme one way or another you really risk cutting off that silent majority of voters and i think republicans risk the same thing in the senate so as they if there is a senator allen im not entirely convinced that the house will necessarily garner enough democratic votes to impeach but if they do and they send the trial to the senate then thats potentially 2 months of hyper partisan activities that again risks putting off those moderate voters so will it be ultimately then the American Voters who decide the outcome of this all. I think thats always been the entire goal for this entire circus of proceedings is that we knew going into this that even if the house impeached the senate it was never going to find 2 thirds because you need so many republicans turned against the president to do so that they would never reach their own president and so going into this you know it was a political process and really theyre just building their cases and building their arguments to do voters come next november on why they should either be reelected if youre donald trump or why you should be barred out of office if youre a democrat thank you so much for speaking to us and sharing your thoughts jane nugent small from Time Magazine joining us today from washington d. C. Thank you for your time this plenty more ahead on this news hour including the u. S. And mexico seek new ways to fight back against violent drug cartels well have a live report from mexico city also organizers of the tokyo 2020 lympics are feeling the heat after more events are rescheduled over health and safety concerns ito have the details in sports. First violence has erupted on the streets of paris off to tens of thousands took to the streets across france striking over pension reforms. Under new center for more on that. These are some of the largest demonstrations the country has seen in years spread over 30 french cities and all part of a Massive Public sector strike involving Railway Workers teachers an emergency room medics amongst others president Emanuel Mccord wants to overhaul the countrys Pension System but unions who want the changes over time and have extended the strike now until monday and this action but reports to us from paris the protest has come from all parts of society. There are thousands of protesters marching across paris people from all walks of life noirs as you do in stealth workers transport workers and teachers there were united in protest against the governments pension reform plans now the government says the Pension System needs to be reformed in france because its inefficient its unfair and it costs too much public money we want people here have told us is that they are worried that their pensions will be reduced on to these proposals although theyll be forced to work more years now this strike has caused major disruption across the country with public transport here at schools universities close many businesses also of course to shut most workers who go back to work on friday but the transport workers say they are going to continue with rolling strikes at least for the next 3 days now the march is been mostly peaceful the protests across the country have been peaceful but there have been some clashes between police and protesters in paris and in the western city of knowledge. 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