Swim ashore after a migrant boat sinks off africas west coast. Mass strike some protest against Pension Reforms take a violent turn in paris and other french cities. And with a week to go until election day a boost for Boris Johnsons conservatives. Following an historic step Speaker Nancy Pelosi has asked the u. S. House of representatives to draft articles of impeachment the formal charges against President Donald Trump she says he abused his power by withholding military aid to pressure ukraine into investigating a political rival a vote could be held in the next couple of weeks setting up a fight in the senate over whether to remove trump from office how do you know castro reports from washington d. C. Its official sadly that with confidence and humility with allegiance to our founders and in fact full of love for America Today i am asking our chairmen to proceed with articles of impeachment. Donald trump will become the 4th president in u. S. History to face formal impeachment charges that could remove him from office the facts are uncontested the president abused his power for his own personal political benefit at the expense of our National Security by withholding military aid and crucial Oval Office Meeting in exchange for an announcement of an investigation into his political rival the white house says democrats are abusing their power and lying to the American People are you referring to the right i had a vision in mind when your legacy. Reza hoax its a hoax and topics that are. Now with a big question in washington is what these articles of impeachment will be a report by the House Intelligence Committee makes a case for abuse of power and of struction of congress stemming from the ukraine investigation but then there are still those lingering concerns from the earlier russia investigation. Into why special counsel Robert Muller told congress that while there was no evidence trump had colluded with russia to win the 2016 election there may be grounds that he obstructed justice and what about total exoneration if you actually totally exonerate the prez you know for mullers appearance had little impact and the very next day trump told the president of ukraine over the phone that muller had quote a poor performance then according to the call transcript trump asked for an investigation into his political rival constitutional scholars called by democrats have testified that trumps impeachable offenses go beyond the ukraine phone call call i think the way you need to ask about this is how does it fit into the pattern of behavior by the president republicans counter democrats have been trying to remove trump since the day he took office theyve always wanted to impeach the president why. Im at their words watching at their actions watching what they have done the democratic majority in the house will likely vote to impeach trent before christmas then the senate dominated by the president s own party will put trump state on trial in the new here. Castro aljazeera washington. In a separate fight with the democrats President Trump has asked the u. S. Supreme court to block an investigation into his finances the president has petitioned the court to keep his financial records out of the hands of a Congressional Panel that comes after a lower court ruled that the panel could subpoena the documents held by trumps Accounting FirmMichael Isikoff is the chief Investigative Reporter at yahoo news he joins us live now from washington d. C. To talk more about impeachment thanks very much for being with us i want to ask you 1st of all given the fact that this impeachment inquiry has not moved Public Opinion significant in in the u. S. Up to this point especially among republicans do you expect that to change as the process moves forward to drafting articles of impeachment and then the full house for house vote and then likely trial in the senate. Yes look nobody really knows how this is going to shake out politically it is worth noting that weve had more than 2 months now since the transcript of the president s phone call with zoe emerged and of course then there was 2 weeks of public hearings in november while there was a spike in those who wanted to see the president impeached and removed after the release of the transcript the needle really hasnt moved much since then if you look at the Public Opinion polls theyre still pretty much where they were a few months ago with roughly half the country about 50 percent. Who do want to see the president impeached and removed from office and then you know 424344 percent opposed with you know a small number 567 percent undecided on the issue so you know one can ask if the needle did not move after 2 weeks of public hearings whether its likely to do so in the days and weeks ahead hard to say not much evidence of that thats why this is a bit of a gamble for democrats politically but i should say when this does go d to trial in the senate and it will next month the level of public attention and coverage will exceed anything weve seen to date so it is possible that more people will be watching paying attention listening to the testimony so there could be some shift during the course of that trial in the senate and what do you expect to be the disco of this. Because up to now its all a been a about ukraine but you think it might include the aspects of the. Investigation at all and would that be politically wise given that. General consensus is. Kind of landed with a thug. Yeah look i there are a lot of progressives particularly on the House Judiciary Committee which will be drafting the articles of impeachment next week who do want to expand the scope of this impeachment to include. Instances of alleged obstruction detailed in the muller report perhaps a another article relating to the emoluments clause because of the president s retention in his private business and collecting revenues from foreign governments and foreign go foreigners who would tend to stay at the trump hotel in washington but it does appear that Speaker Pelosi and the Democratic Leaders are not looking favorably at that are likely to oppose articles specifically addressing those issues although you might see a preamble to an obstruction article that references the president s prior conduct in relation to the mower probe and what historical comparisons can we draw here when it comes to impeachment and you mentioned it and how politically polarized the country is right now how does this particular impeachment compare with the impeachment case against president bill clinton 20 years ago and Richard Nixon going back before then when 20 years before that. Yeah well look impeachment is by its nature polarizing in and of itself and we do have this incredibly polarized climate right now in washington where there is no consensus among democrats and republicans about any of the issues relating to the president s conduct so far theres no indication that any House Republicans are going to vote for impeachment which means that this will be a purely partisan move by the democrats. You know there was certainly a lot of. Polarization during the clinton impeachment which i was around for her 20 years ago but if anything its gotten a lot worse in part because of the stratification of the media you have a media environment today where everybody watches the cable channel that reinforces their own prejudices everybody follows the people on twitter who reinforce their preconceptions about whats going on so that makes it really hard for one side to break through and persuade somebody on the other good to talk to you Michael Isikoff thanks so much for being with us now mexican president and a nice man Lopez Obrador says he has had a good meeting with the u. S. Attorney general on the threat of drug cartels William Barnes visit was a week after President Trump said he wanted to designate the drug gangs us terrorists and Lopez Obrador said he was against any u. S. Intervention in mexico but is happy to work with washington to fight this Violent Crime last month 9 jul u. S. Citizens were killed by suspected gang members. Of the mauritanian government says it will investigate after the 63. 00 migrants drowned off the coast more than 80 survivors managed to swim to shore off to their boat capsized but were described as exhausted and starving it is the worst loss of life this year along the western atlantic route to europe but the group is thought to have left the jewel in gambia a week ago heading north that both founded off the coast of northern mauritania around 25 kilometers north of new on the hebrew it is believed they were trying to make their way north along the coast to eventually reach europe through spain and the number of crossings on the socalled western routes have risen European Union says more than 21000 people have come that way so far this year another 11000 use the central route heading towards italy and greece from libya while the largest number will need 60000 have taken the eastern route from turkey to greece mohamed vali is in new york in mauritanias capital. About 83. 00 people managed to swim to the shore and they were found by the military Police Outside the Northern City of and why they were that was in the early evening hours yesterday and those people gave more news about what happened that boat capsized off the shore and after about 10 days being stranded there running out of fuel and so on so they gave more details and scores of people at least dozens of people are still missing they are supposed to be of course dead women and children where on that boat coming from gambia the majority of the migrants were from the country of gambia thats a small nation west africa one of those poor countries that supply this migration turn into words europe this story is still unfolding those people who escaped are being treated in and why do you we dont have much information about whats happening to the bodies are they going to return them to their countries of origin are are they going to be buried in and what the bill itself. Leonard doyle is from the International Organization for migration he has people he says people are being exploited by smugglers. I think we can fairly assume that this is the result of nancy where the vessel overcrowded as were learning or 150 people who are out of fuel so it speaks really to the callousness of the smugglers the smuggling operation will of course make their money already and disappeared into the wilderness and i think thats basically the problem here is that youre being exploited well one can imagine that theyre deeply traumatized and are stopped are you as you rightly say are there. Any authorities where people will be will lead to medical care and then really to establish like where whats their origin that we understand that theyre from the gambia and try to help them return in a in a dignified way as possible and when that actually it will all of this is that theres no happy solution for people who take these routes and especially when things like this happen they are actually end up back where they started and the only winner is this mother talks between major Oil Exporting Nations of wrapped up in austria without an announcement on production cuts they want late into the night at opecs headquarters in vienna the oil cartels been cutting production for the past 3 as well further reduction is expected to boost the price of fuel or some of binge of aid has more from vienna on the lack of consensus in the group. What we know so far is that most members have agreed to cut about half a 1000000 barrels that will be in addition to due to the 1200000 barrels that opec has already cut from its output since 27000 that will take that number to 1700000 barrels not the division here and the impasse seems to be on who gets to cut how much countries like saudi arabia have been making the case that they have been doing most of the heavy lifting and noncompliant countries such as iraq and nigeria need to do more previously what we saw was that the venezuelans and the iranians and the u. S. Sanctions were not able to produce as much oil so it was easier for opec to go ahead with these cuts but now that were seeing more and more non opec production coming in we are seeing that the russians pushing forward for making sure that they comply with the oil cuts but they want some form of oil and condensate to be taken out of the quarter so there are there is a lot of not a lot of talking there its been happening for the last few hours are hundreds of thousands of people across france are taking part in one of the countrys largest workers strikes in years the protests though turned violent in some cities with demonstrators angry president emanuel mark planned Pension Reforms and tasha butler has the latest from paris. There were people from all walks of french life teaches students and lawyers joint transport and Health Workers in central paris part of a nationwide strike protesting against the governments plans to reform the Pension System they fear the changes would force them to work for more years and reduce their pay outs we are here to try and preserve our Pension System which is one of the best in europe and we dont want to go backwards microns reforms are destroying french society. It looks like well have to retire even later but well have even less money in our pension so the demonstration was mainly peaceful but there was some clashes between police and socalled black bloc and a case protesters i. Think more than 6000. 00 Police Officers were deployed in the city this police Union Spokesperson said many of them would have wanted to join the strike a lot of them wanted to come. We had the day off today that was a load and also we do not have the right to go on strike so. Yes its difficult for force the strike caused major disruption across the city there was little public transport most schools were shot even the eiffel tower was forced to close the french president says the Pension System needs to be streamlined to make it fairer and safe public money the strike saw a major test for emanuel mycroft because he made reforming the Pension System one of his Campaign Promises 3 think gives in to the protesters in scotland is reform it will be a political failure so far the french president is showing no sign of backing down this analyst says macro has a track record of controversial reforms since the beginning of its mandate the government has passed several reforms that many would have believed would be almost impossible but they managed to push them through despite the challen. Isnt risky. Macro may not want to make concessions but if the disruption continues he may have to rethink although most people are expected to return to work this week some transport workers say they wont give up their fight and will continue to strike. Out just they were powerless. Is a professor of french and european politics at the university of london he says even though the pension reform details havent been ironed out people are still concerned i think my corps has been so far very cautious because even though it is a very sensitive topic well again 24 years ago it led to the resignation of the Prime Minister so hes very careful about it. Is walking on a minefield but i think he will be ready probably to concede to make concessions it would depend on the up all the force you know between the people on strike and and and himself and i think for the time being its early days because we dont know yet the contents of the bill i think its a preowned preemptive strike if you like because people are very wary and afraid of what might be in the bill so probably what also is quite remarkable is normally the type of strike which would be involving people working in the Public Sector thats not the case this time around when you have people independent workers farmers lawyers people working in the private sector professionals so that shows how big and how the scale so the worry regarding this bill which we dont know about yet exactly but clearly mark who is ready to make concessions but i think we shall be looking at how many people are still in the street today and in the next few days i think we shall see them. All right plenty more to come on this news hour protesters in lebanon voicing their anger at an impending deal to nominate a new Prime Minister. Attends common law powers as bolivia struggles to find a way forward after weeks of political turmoil. And saudi arabia meet qatar in a politically charged arabian gulf cup semifinal Peter Beattie and with the action later. British Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has received a Political Boost just a week until the u. K. Election for members of the European Parliament of abandoned nigel farage is braggs a party to back the conservatives they say only a victory for john so when they will ensure the u. K. Leaves the European Union now the issue of braggs it has dominated the election and torn