Within days. Also ahead empty stations and closed schools on day 2 of the biggest mass strike in france in more than 2 decades. And the school is intended to cut i wont be lifting a 2nd trophy in 2019 saudi arabia beat the host nation one nil in the semifinals of the air arabian gulf cup. Top story the police in india have controversially shot 4 men suspected of raping and killing a woman in hyderabad in a case that reignited a nationwide protest movement over attacks on the women the accused were taken to the crime scene as part of the investigation but the police say they tried to escape and was shot. Was crowds in hyderabad welcomed the killings hundreds of people gathered at the crime scene and chanted long live the police the victims family have also thanked officers. Where id like to thinking congratulate the telling gonna Government Police and all those who supported me my daughters so now has. A happy ending and i think this will be an example and nobody will even think of doing it. And joins us live from new delhi and shell what justification have the police been giving. Well the police a said is that these accused tried to escape and one of them snatched a weapon on one of the Police Officers and fired the 1st shot and the police only responded in addition the police have also said that all of these 4 accused i have previous records and that they were quote hardcore criminals and that they had already confessed to the crime which was raping and murdering the girl last week so the police is essentially saying that they had no other option but to fire these shots at these people they also say that they called for an advil ambulance and doctors to give some medical aid to these people who they shot but that they had died before the medical services could be provided to them however the National HumanRights Commission of india says that they will be conducting their own investigation do a search on how the events of last night or early this morning unfolded as far as the killing of these 4 accused is concerned and wants the broader reaction been like. Well you know weve played the visuals of how people in neither of the shower flowers that some of these policemen so broadly and weve been talking to people on the street as well there is support for Police Action but womens rights activists and lawyers have said that this sets a very dangerous precedent of course politicians have also jumped in many of them have said that thats the right thing to do even one man did it in india said that rapists should be lynched and another one had advocated castration so that sort of seems to be the broader public mood but activists and lawyers are saying that this is an example of how the police is becoming very trigger happy and theyre not following proper legal procedures which could be very dangerous india after all is a democracy and in every case however brutal it may be procedures must be followed and activists are also saying that the government really has to come up with active policies to also look at to counter the tree arkell norms which are. And in the society which also play a huge role and sort of our dog ate the women even if theyre the rectums and not the men who commit these crimes and shell thanks very much. Well Sexual Violence against women in india appears to be a widespread problem government figures show more than 33000 women were raped in 2017 but the actual number is thought to be much higher as many cases arent reported due to fear or shame after the gang rape of a 23 year old joshi seeing on a bus in 2012 tougher laws were introduced including the Death Penalty in some cases prison terms would doubled these latest cases to put rape back on the political agenda with m. P. s again debating the crime in parliament could be to question him as the security of the all India Progressive Womens Association my colleague sam is it and spoke to earlier and asked if she was concerned about the Police Version of events. The police that has to give evidence to explain why 4 unarmed men all 4 of them unarmed had to be shot down and could not be controlled by an enormous police force that had taken them to the spot the other thing id like to say is that. In 2008 the same height about police had a similarly killing on a police had similarly killed 3 youths who were accused of attacking some girls that acid and this time around in the run up to this on social media as well as in political pronouncements people were egging on the police to do exactly the same thing which is why i am absolutely certain that this is a custodial killing and i want to say that the police which failed that the victim is the government which fails us all as women they are posing as saviors of women on the dead bodies of 4 unarmed men whom they are declaring to be guilty without any evidence except the custodial confession which was probably opting under torture because of custodial confessions in india agouti obtained only under torture by the police its the standard for investigation its a stand in for a Justice System that can actually listen to and respect the voices of victims and survivors. With all of that in mind how confident are you that there will be either a proper investigation of what happened to these men all the investigations will continue to establish who are actually raped and killed the victim in the 1st place no im certain that there will be no investigation follow up to the rape and murder case because according to the police the closing of that book you know they have done so called justice and the problem mike and the way i see it is that i think that this kind of lynch mob sentiment is not no longer just the public sentiment but actually is reflected as a tool of governance by those who govern us at the center in delhi as well as and state including taliban and other states because these are governments that are unable to prevent them from buying guns to light when she is testifying they are unable to prevent as they picked him from being pilloried in court and from being told by the judge that all we agree that you said no but youre not with too feeble and people no could mean i guess this kind of thing that unable to change unable to protect and able to prevent and now they want us to accept this kind of lynch mob sentiment as justice and we have to place this in a larger matrix where the Central Government now and if he does and if the ruling party is encouraging lynch mob incident to happen they are encouraging people to say just kill people from especially from minority communities and vulnerable communities and just kill them if you suspect them of anything and thats really if you come from a Vulnerable Community or youre a poor person its very easy to suspect you and accuse you of anything without any evidence whatsoever. The u. S. President has said to the House Democrats as they drop formal impeachment charges against him donald trump tweeted theyre trying to impeach him over quote nothing the pressure is increasing on mr trump as democrats move towards an Impeachment Vote in the house before Christmas Heidi jocasta reports from washington. Its official. That with confidence and humility with allegiance to our founders and a heart 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 are usually binding on your legacy no matter whether this president its a hoax or big fat 0 now with the 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 pres 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 trumps fate on trial in the new year 2. Castro aljazeera washington. Lets talk to our correspondent john hendren so john just to be clear here these articles impeachment basically they are the charges that the democrats want leveled at the u. S. President thats right these are the chargers that would be. Carried out in a trial in the u. S. Senate so there would be people acting as prosecutors it would be overseen by the chief justice of the u. S. Supreme court at what we dont know at this point what they are we know that they will involve the president s actions in ukraine whether they involve obstruction of justice as you heard joe castro say in that story is is not clear at this point the democrats have taken a strategy where they want to go limited at least at the beginning of this process they want one easy set of charges that are easily provable that the president improperly used his power to pressure the president of ukraine in order to investigate a political rival or at least to announce an investigation of his political rival there are a couple of key events today that will help us know a little more about this process at 5 oclock thats in about 9 hours eastern time the president s team will let Congress Know whether they are going to participate in this process its intimidated that they will not participate in the house version of this process that is the drawing up of these charges but that they will likely participate in the senate trial that would that would be carried out afterwards thats of course because they believe that that would be more favorable to them thats because the republicans their party will be running the senate at that time but the president has been tweeting up a storm about this this morning hes clearly agitated criticizing the people these historical experts yesterday who testified also saying dont believe the Anonymous Sources that youre reading in the newspapers he says that there was reporters are making up many of those sources i can tell you as a newspaper reporter of many years before i had this job thats not what they do but the president has been very critical very agitated and well learn a little more about this later today when the white house tells us if they will participate in this process when it goes to the senate though john isnt there a chance the whole thing just dies on its feet anyway given the republican makeup on the floor. Absolutely its really unclear what is going to happen what we have heard from Mitch Mcconnell the republican leader in the senate who would control this process is that he would carry out a trial as he said he is required to do under u. S. Law but how much of a process that would be what witnesses are called thats all under their control republicans are talking about calling joe biden and hunter biden his son going into some of these these allegations that have not been founded so far in order to it to distract from what the president has done it could be an abbreviated process where they simply call a few witnesses and then call a vote right now i think we all know that there are not the votes there to convict the president in the senate so if the republicans decide to make this a process that is very short and very quick then this could all be over with well ahead of the 2020 alexion i think that is the kind of thing the president would like he has already been suggesting the kinds of people they should talk to and suggesting they should investigate the investigators and very briefly john do the democrats feel theyve really really got to definitely get older adults in a row with this because robert mala didnt quite give them what they were hoping full back at the beginning of the summertime. The democrats have definitely learned from that miller process it was a lot of information miller did not come to definitive conclusions he left that to congress but it was just a lot for the American Public to digest and it allowed both sides to claim that they had points in their favor the democrats saying there was evidence of obstruction of justice among other things the republicans saying the president was essentially exonerated use on heidis story that they actually brought miller up to say that the president was not exonerated a thing that he specifically said in that report but because of all that the democrats say they want to make this very clear they want to limit the number of charges and they want to do this expeditiously getting this whole process out of the u. S. House of representatives by the end of the year so this isnt just a matter of a few months before the 2020 election in november when the American Public is going to decide whether they want to keep donald trump anyway. Thank you. Plenty more still to come for you here on the news hour including fears of an escalation in the mediterranean greece and turkey react after a dispute over maritime boundaries. Also ahead a race to save lives of buildings collapsed in my ropey on the scale of the disaster is now finally. The sports news tiger woods is back in title contention of the hero world challenge sanity with a story. Called for more strikes and demonstrations next week against the president a man your pension reform plans the announcement was made as hundreds of thousands of Public Sector workers went on strike for a 2nd day its effect to transport schools and hospitals is in paris whats the impact today. Live outside one of the main train stations in paris isnt a lot busier than it was yesterday when all those Train Services were cut there are some trains running about a 3rd of Railway Workers are actually at work today you can probably see behind me a poster now thats telling you about some of the Metro Services because several of the metro lines have also been culled so getting around in paris is very difficult indeed and you are seeing people on their bicycles and scooters this pouring with rain though and thats making it a lot harder as well some schools also are shot next week though it looks as if we might have another day like we had on thursday because the trade unions have called for a nationwide strike next tuesday theyre hoping to mobilize people like they did on thursday to go into the streets against the governments pension reform plans now the fear is for lots of people not just rail workers of course the transport workers but across all sections of French Society teaches. Health workers theyre really worried that the governments plans were. Theyll have smaller pensions less payouts i also worried that theyll have to work for a lot longer and they say that theyre going to continue with this sort of industrial action until their demands are met because part of the back story is the way that if you work for certain bits of the government or if you work on the t. G. V. Your pension is very good and if you work for the post office your pension is not so good but you can start collecting it very early compared to other european countries. Yes so one of the became reality in france is the navy everyone has a state pension 11 payson to one private pensions are very rare indeed and there are about 40 different schemes and it depends what job you do and whichever job you do thats the Pension Scheme you put into each of those schemes is different with different benefits so for example rail workers can often retire a lot earlier than other workers now thats a throwback to the days of coal and lots of people still without some further you know trains automated these days why are they retiring early and not me now the government says those are the sort of inequalities they want to get rid of they want to streamline it they say that these all these multiple Pension Schemes are a waste of money they want to have just one scheme that everyone pays into is going to be points based to how long you have worked but people feel very nervous about that this is not something they are of course used to the government was trying to push through this reform they are responding you might say in a way to this social movement because they were supposed to reveal the details of the plan towards the end of next week it looks like theyll probably reveal the details of whats actually in this pension reform in the middle of next week. Thanks very much greece has expelled libyas ambassador over a dispute on maritime boundaries last week libyas International Government signed a deal with turkey but greece has described agreement as illegal meanwhile turkey has condemned greeces expulsion of the liby