A massacre in 2009 that killed 58 people. Malaysias Prime Minister welcomes Muslim Leaders to a summit that he says must determine why islamic countries are quote in a state of crisis. The warm welcome to the program in a vote split down party lines much like its divided the nation the u. S. House of representatives has impeached President Donald TrumpDemocratic Party controlled by was charged with abusing his power as well as obstructing congress in its investigation those 2 articles of impeachment now go to the Republican Controlled Senate for trial however House Speaker nancy pelosi has thrown on the surface and see over these next steps by refusing to say when shell send those articles well we will work make our decision as to when were going to say and when we see what the deal is on the senate but thats a decision that we will make sure yes. Im not hurt. That would have been our intention but well see what happens over there so i said were going to send it tonight because its difficult to determine who the managers would be until we see the arena in which we will be protested taking. She had heard sounds the reports now on the 8 hours of highly charged debate that ended with donald trump becoming only the 3rd u. S. President to be impeached the result was never in doubt dont trump is the 3rd u. S. President in history to be impeached article one is adopting article 2 is adopted i mean research gentleman from new york over several hours the democrats repeated arguments that have now become very familiar the president needs to be held to account when a speaker the house of representatives has now considered 2 articles of impeachment against President Trump the 1st article charges that the president used his Public Office to coerce a Foreign Government into attacking his political rival. The 2nd article charges that the president took extreme an unprecedented steps to obstruct our investigation into his kind of taken together the 2 articles charge that President Trump placed his private political interests above our National Security above our elections and above our system of checks and balances what we are discussing today is the established fact that the president violated the constitution is a matter of fact that the president is an ongoing threat to our National Security and the integrity of our elections the basis of our democracy a central charge against the president is that he was demanding the Ukrainian Government announce an investigation into joe biden and his son hunter in return for an official white house visit to the tree a over the republicans argue that the democrats have failed conclusively to prove that case they say President Trump was right to be concerned about corruption in ukraine in addition they argue that home to bidens position on the board of a Ukrainian Energy company while his father was taking the lead in ukrainian policy as a Vice President does warrant further examination and they argue that impeachment is simply the attempt to overturn the results of a 2016 election we on the republican side have no problem taking our case to the majority and to the people of this country because they elected donald trump and it is a matter for the voters not this not in this way not in the way this is being done it is trampled everything this house believes in our democrat colleagues have weaponized the impeachment provision of the constitution to nullify the votes of 63000000 americans who elected president donald j. Trump this is not about a phone call or your crane or even his use of the executive privilege you have to remember that 95 of the democrats on this floor today voted to impeach donald trump before the july 25th phone call ever happened between President Trump and president selenski a trial is expected to be held in the senate in january the Republican Leadership is hoping for a relatively quick process of perhaps 2 weeks the president is almost certain to be acquitted. The polls suggest the u. S. Public is evenly split or impeachment in fact doldrums Approval Ratings have increased since impeachment proceedings began in the autumn she overturns the elders here at washington. Well all of that played out in washington donald trump was rallying supporters in a city called battle creek he slammed democrats impeachment efforts as quote illegal and a disgrace and pointed out had little chance hell be convicted and removed from office by the senate through the. The prey garches of the grazing land sea polo says house democrats. Have bred sounds with an eternal mark of shame and it really is its a disgrace. Well john hendren was at that rally any tells us more about the mood of trump and those who support him the president was clearly energized by this impeachment process and by the crowd that was here in battle creek michigan spoke for by my count a little 102 howard dean the rebound of the 3rd term that according to his prepared remarks anyway about a 3rd of that was on impeachment you heard the records earlier where he said the democrats have branded themselves with the market shaming that they are the ones who are endangering democracy and he gets energized by these crowds and he continues on even when a little more than 30 minutes longer than he was expected to speak and he was received in the worst news yeah absolutely this was a crowd of many thousands and by one count about 800000 some of them were waiting outside along with a very small number of protesters but the president was not at all now he offered no apologies and he was doing mine and then he made it clear that hes going to seek reelection in 2020 maybe do that he needs the help of states mind michigan michigan is one of those states the swing states in the 3 won by a very narrow margin no republican in done that since George Herbert walker bush in 1988 and trump won with 47. 3 percent of the vote to Hillary Clintons 47 percent of those about 50000 votes and that is about the number who vote right here in this county so hes in one of those places that he needs to win in 2020 in going to look at the ground that is here you certainly got a lot of supporters here. Well Brendan Oconnor is associate professor in american politics at the university of sydney and mr oconnor thanks very much for joining us on the program what happens now obviously procedurally the move from nancy pelosi it muddies the waters some wall but just take us through why you think that happened what happens next. Well nancy pelosi is delaying things at the moment she wants a bit deal from the senate she wants to get a deal in regard to how witnesses are going to be called into what is going to be a political trial undoubtedly this is saying that the republicans want to a very much quickly push this trial through without investigating into trumps cabinet maybe talking about to john bolton the former National Security adviser nancy pelosi is trying to push what with what little power she has what them leverage she has for a more i think from more evidence to come for people on trumped side really to dampen in the why that wouldnt sunderland the American Ambassador to the one union windsong lincecum brought by simply it was quid pro quo and basically we were holding back the citee and crying on the hope that they would investigate joe biden sorry when youre inside criticizes you would repel republicans criticize the people of criticizing that often are probably carried small white and thats what the democrats want to be up to do is to bring members of the company to stray tional pull them into the truck and ministration into the senate trial and get them to be you know on the stand get their evidence to be heard by the American Public how do you think the republicans are going to approach what comes next what defense do you think that they will produce. Well the main defense today in the house was that this is a partisan witch hunt said it was a very much or a painting of Donald Trumps lines not really getting to you could lead into the opponents making the claim that trump has always been heightened by the Democratic Party and therefore theyre trying to get rid of him by any means possible so not going to the facts particularly of the case maybe occasionally saying that the president of ukraine said it wasnt quid pro quo so wasnt but there was a saints that they were fighting this really on a partisan basis and there was at times since that they were trying to call black white that they werent really facing the hard facts trumps take mcmo money and said it was quid pro quo anyone i think you put the day some sort of at a time to looking at the evidence see it sees that i think really as a call people its all the abuse of power they didnt want to get so you could really and the evidence climbed the price is the in and the end but there was a surprise a sense of probably the time i think a demoralizing saying that the republicans were trying to at least not deal with the evidence as it stored but rather to make a political price against the democrats Brendan Oconnor isnt the risk to all of this i mean we saw those pictures there of trump in battle creek and all reporting use the word that he you know hes energized by this process and i think what concerns a lot of people is that you were trying to be a man who isnt a politician at politics so i mean could this backfire. Yes i mean in trump in some ways as a narcissist will welcome this attention i mean once again the worlds eyes are all on trump you know he denies that hes done anything wrong because he spies say some self is above the law so one of the fascinating things about trump president say and really is Business Career beforehand was the trump is clearly someone who has a real problem with procedural more with judicial processes and we need this about trump when he came into office we knew that trump sorum self in many regards is above the law he didnt respect judges decisions during the campaign he criticized judges he criticized various prices regarding investigations into his Business Activities so i think hes dumbed down expectation sign much regarding whats abusive behavior and corrupt behavior when he comes along and does Something Like this of using their it Ukrainian Military i. D. For his political benefit most people in america go well what do we expect you know this is the trump we know and some of the insides the trump we love and site there is the sense that trump what one of the end of the careers i think of any former president before him with trump in some ways is normal practice and weve become so used to flouting the law using the president to office for his own personal gain well as im curious a way guy that when something is dramatic as this ukrainian thing comes along were not that surprised because this is the right term pop right so its its very unfortunate the democracy i mean its very and its its an important priest into the future but in some ways the worse your behavior before you come to office and in your early part of your present say the more you can get away with whereas if youre squeaky claim if your record is the only sort of much one of the follies the more i mean you get caught out then youre the kind of person whos going to be removed from your political position or your political career will be. Bent on a common theyre associate professor in american politics at the university of st they brendan time keith. To other news now and a Philippine Court has found top members of a political clan guilty on multiple counts of murder over a mass killing in 2958 people 1st of 2 of them journalists were killed when a convoy of vehicles was attacked in the Southern Province of my given the now around 100 people have been on trial over that massacre many of them linked to a politically powerful family in the province the mass killing was the single biggest attack on journalists in history John Karr Daryl has the latest now from manila we are here outside the court in the big city metro manila where promulgating efforts in your case was recently handed down to primary suspects a crime members of the un but one political clan is southern philippines i found guilty and are sentenced to up to 40 years increase and some of the accomplices are also found guilty and are sentenced to up to 10 years in friesen some of them however are acquitted due to lack of evidence needed looks and Human Rights Organizations here say that they are very delighted to hear the news justice could have been delayed but at least this is a critical step to achieve justice for the victims and for their families however the case is not yet over the convicted suspects can still feel their conviction in 15 days if they do so the case would elevate to the next level need to groups and Human Rights Organization and the Media Community say here that you will still monitor the case. In the news ahead. On the close hawken bar are going to have fun on thats why so many migrants travel from a fear of through europe not through the mediterranean but across the atlantic before the free. And after the conservative victory in the u. K. We travel to a traditional labor stronghold to find out what swung the top of all that more when we come back. Hello the weather remains mild if not warm across many parts of europe at the moment lots of cloud of rice spilling in from the atlantic that will gradually make its way east which you can see clear skies down into the southeastern corner thats where weve been getting a very warm when the wind out of the sahara sirocco wind as its known and thats lifted temperatures in austria for example to around 2021 celsius december day on the record here probably i wont believe it was moscow as well 6 l. C. C. It should be about minus 4 there had 10 degrees about the average lots of wet and windy weather coming into western parts so when that cloud in the rain will pile in through the by a base going to western front some very heavy rain coming in across spain and coach go but its warm right because up to 12 celsius in london 40 in paris it had killed in paris as we go on through friday but 30 still very much on the mild side strength of the wind will be the overriding feature in the coming days that wet weather will make its way into southern parts of france and the snow over the outs further east where its fair amounts of cloud its based in parts of europe should be allowed to teach riding see it does still stay on the mild side across southern parts of africa it is generally find in try but still a little bit of weather to the northwest. Welcome back youre watching a reminder of our top stories this hour u. S. President donald trump has been impeached members of the house formally charged him with the b. Superpower and obstruction of us will not face a senate trial next month. Will trump has called the impeachment creating proceedings an attempted coup de says its a desperate effort by the democrats to win the 2020 election times accused of withholding aid to ukraine to pressure it into investigating his political rival joe biden. The Philippine Courts fund top members of a political crime guilty on multiple crimes of murder over the countrys worst mass killings 58 people were killed back in 2009 in the Southern Province of my game tonight. And Muslim Leaders meeting at a summit in kuala lumpur have been told they must address to missions between islamic nations theyre meeting in the malaysian capital to find ways to tackle the biggest issues facing their country and some including saudi arabia have criticized the gathering thing it sought to create another regional block for malaysias Prime Minister defended the summit that had been criticized by some leaders from other muslim nations yes. The muslims in the their countries are in this did of crazies held helpless. And with the of these religion which is men to be good for men kind it is for these reasons that the summit meeting is organized at the very least through our discussions really me fine but when drawn we me even find solutions if not to end these get this of these these 2 a week and the slamming will. Of the mean to recognize the problems and their causes. Large protests are expected in more than 10 cities across india on thursday as widespread anger continues over a new citizenship law protests broke in new delhi yesterday after the countrys top court has spawned hearings on the legislation until january a law for citizenship to persecuted minorities from neighboring countries but it does exclude moves them in anticipation of thursdays protest case have stepped up security number including near the red forward in delhi lets get the latest from hill raman is in new delhi and he joins us live hi there still so i believe that some permits are being with fused in a couple of cities will that stop people taking to the streets. Absolutely not julie you know what actually happened here at the ready for how about 5600 yards away because the internet signal was blocked it was very difficult to get messages out what transpired was is that the theres a very heavy Police Presence they barricaded and blocked roads of that surround the red force i mean if i just stand out of the camera range right into the distance you can see one of the many barriers that the police have actually set up there are hundreds of people that were trying to get to the red fort and to de