Tunisia where despite title borders migrants who risk their lives to cross the desert once. The little. One. Its time to say goodbye to the latest Star Wars Trilogy as the final movie in the series makes its world premier. Im cornells been welcome to the program u. S. Lawmakers will soon take a historic vote on whether to impeach President Donald Trump the democrat controlled house of representatives is expected to back the move which would make him the 3rd president in American History to be impeached within trigger a trial in the senate on whether or not to remove trump from office a washington correspondent under phenomena has been following the saga from the start in this report she traces the path to impeachment. It all started with a phone call a phone call in which President Trump asked president zelinsky of ukraine to investigate his main political rival democratic president ial hopeful joe biden and his son hunter i became increasingly aware of what followed was a congressional inquiry with a 1000 witnesses testifying in public describing crimes dealings with ukraine as improper and in as roughly its all going to blow up and here we are one witness in particular turned out to leak he ordered sunland the Us Ambassador to the European Union and so much trumped on arm he told the investigators there was indeed a quid pro quo in the works that president pressed the Ukrainian Government to get dirt on joe biden jewel an exchange for a meeting in the white house make at the same time you asked military aid for ukraine was put on hold as the president directions everyone was in the loop so we followed the president s orders corruption other witnesses added more damning details about Donald Trumps conduct time machine no evidence for the democratic majority in the house to move forward with the impeachment. The morning. The facts are contested the president the use his power for his own personal political benefit at the expense of our national security. If use of power and obstruction of congress to charges the democrats say that amounts to high crimes justifying impeachment however they havent convinced a single republican yet trumps party stands by the president decrying pietschmann as a political witch hunt you cant make your case against the prison because Nothing Happened if the majority of lawmakers approved the articles of impeachment which seems likely it will trigger a senate trial to determine if the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and should be removed from office. A trial President Trump seems to be gearing up for he expects to be exonerated by the republican led senate and hopes impeachment will backfire on his rivals there was nothing done wrong to the power of the peach on this nonchurch is an embarrassment to this country. Whatever the outcome what is happening in washington right now reflects the hyper partisan divisions in american politics. Our d. C. Bureau chief alexander for naaman found reports she now joins me live from capitol Hill Alexander this is shaping up to of course be a historic day as we heard how would we do we expect things to proceed today what should be watching out for. Well i will be keeping my eyes open for surprises so far we expect a vote strictly along party lines and we know that only 2 democratic lawmakers so far said that they are going to vote against impeaching President Trump one of them is even thinking about switching parties but we dont know if there are going to be more deflectors and works about the republicans are they going to try to disrupt the whole proceedings or maybe we are going to see them storm out of the chamber as it happens during the clinton impeachment so those are the things that will be watching out for lets assume of course the president is impeached the democrats do have the majority in the house of representatives how will that decision then affect the country as a whole. Well it is very likely that president is going to be impeached by this house of representatives and of course that means i would assume that we are going to see even more partisan fighting in washington d. C. But also the whole country however its not the case that the country is going to stop and do nothing and just watch the pietschmann trial in the senate even though president accuses to democrats of doing nothing to solve the problems that the American People have despite impeachment democrats passed for example yesterday to funding bills to avert a Government Shutdown this week theyre also expected to approve a trade deal with canada and mexico so as you can see its not stare at everything standstill only because we are dealing here with the impeachment so some bipartisan measures are happening or impeachment very much a partisan process perhaps even more than it ever has been some constitutional experts say but this process is barely functioning how would you rate it do you think the impeachment is functioning as as a part of the governmental process. Well to say that impeachment is not functioning its only one way of looking at things i think that the biggest problem in the u. S. Is how divided the country is and that it has become even more divided that it used to be during the clinton impeachment so that theres a really problem that today we even expect a Party Line Vote and no republicans would even consider thinking about the issue itself if there was and they think that President Trump did wrong our d. C. Bureau chief. For us on capitol hill thank you very much. Well here in germany chancellor Angela Merkel has entered the controversy over whether the Chinese Telecoms Company while way should be allowed to be a supplier for the roll out of 5 g. 8 chinas ambassador had hinted that his government might retaliate if they were excluded from response merkel said she had not been told about any threats by the chinese authorities and repeated that she is against excluding any single Firm Pressure on wall way stepped up this week when the u. S. House of representatives passed a bill banning the u. S. 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Well way has never received any such requests during our operations over the past 2 years and even if we received such requests in the future we would not agree to them without any lawful requests so we wont do anything which will now woman jail for which it was stated in the full interview coming up right after this program you can also watch it on demand at dot com and on you tube channel lets take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world french president emanuel says he is willing to make changes to his proposed pension reform by entering into talks with trade unions his announcement comes a day after a renewed nationwide protest the french government is hoping for a break in transport strikes the for the christmas holidays. The chrysler and peugeot manufacturer p. S. A. Group have announced that their boards have signed a binding deal to merge the 2 automakers the company said the new group will be led by p s as c. E. O. Carlos of r. S. The new company will be the worlds 4th biggest auto company. Protesters have gathered once again in indias capital delhi to challenge a new citizenship law the law provides a quicker path to indian citizenship for non muslim migrants from 3 neighboring countries the countrys Supreme Court says it will hear challenges to the legislation in january. While the United Nations has urged rich countries to do more to tackle the world wide refugee crisis speaking at the 1st Global Refugee Forum in geneva the u. N. Secretary general antonio terrace criticized what he called a hostile political environment for posing a threat to Asylum Seekers now one example of this can be seen in the west african country of the share of the recent increase the number of migrants going from africa to europe the e. U. Moved to shut down some of the main transit brutes through their brussels provided support for the military there to patrol the borders since then the number of migrants passing through the country has sharply fallen but Human Trafficking remains a lucrative business and places like debts reporter madea little travel to august as were many claim pressure from the e. U. Is making the situation for migrants more dangerous for nearly 30. Broad people across the border from agathis into libya he never thought he was doing something criminal. Like this who had taken the whole its not true that we are socalled human traffickers and we are deceiving people its also not true that we treat them inhumanely or badly. Europes politicians have demonized him as a criminal smuggler but here people like him used to be called press says and their work was considered the most normal thing in the world why should it be criminal to bring people from a to b. Most asks for centuries the desert city of agadez has profited from people passing through from west to north africa and search of work but this stopped in 2015 when the European Union signed agreements with several transit countries to curb migration to europe because of that suddenly became unemployed 6000 other former smugglers and at his fate store and hotel owners who used to live from the travellers had no income. Even though migration decreased it never stopped say human rights organizations such as Doctors Without Borders this week even though the laws been in force in 2015 the bigger issue never stopped and they will never stop oh if you put doors to the regulation the reviews are good doors so what we see is the reagan slow compared to the past they are much more vulnerable why because everything has to be undercover in the cloud the city hidden we managed to meet a smuggler who still active now his job is illegal if you get caught you risk several months in jail ever since the military started patrolling the borders he tells us scenes like this one are getting more and more common. Because if you have to look say im a driver transporting migrants when suddenly the military shows up there with the migrants out of the car just down the road and tell them to wait there until i come back and then i just leave and they die there there are many such cases. Its very rare that drivers actually come back the un suspects at least twice as many people die on their way to the mediterranean than in the mediterranean itself who are these people who despite these dangers make the Journey Towards europe. We are close to the socalled get away at the border of the tunnel. This is where migrants are being hidden by a smuggler who brings them across the Sahara Desert to the migrants say here to the smuggler has enough of them for one transport and then the dangerous and sometimes deadly journey begins. A clay court yard under the open sky there are hundreds of my grans waiting in places like this across the city. One of them. A student from guinea he has tried to leave 3 times each time he was picked up by the military on the libyan border and the route through the desert is not good libya and the mediterranean a not good but what else can i do. As a migrant from guinea was a man but he has little chance of receiving the right to stay in europe but that doesnt stop him. Although i want to go to europe i hate europe why do i hear europe because europe cant exist without Africa Africa is rich with resources like diamonds and uranium but who benefits from these resources goop. Europe is where these Young Africans dream of living and although their chances of actually getting there are slim for them giving up and going back home is not an option. For joining us now from geneva is Leonard Doyle hes the spokesperson for the International Organization for migration thank you for speaking with us now 1st of all the u. N. Secretary general is urging developed countries to do their fair share when it comes to the global refugee crisis what would that look like. Well i dont your your broadcast be primarily about migrants who are traveling from from some of our africa north and indeed within theres a large component of the side of the sea people who have a genuine fear for their own personal safety many migrants do as well they may not be entitled to sign but they are just a few people in need of you need protection and. I think what the sector generally is really talking about is that there is the equality that you see in the world that leads to people spontaneously leading a lot of Good Governance in their countries i mean for the songs of the mercy of these fathers who you so well documented in that last piece most mothers have no interest in the welfare of their charges they want the money if youre a simple and although you do the piece seems trading somewhat sympathetic to us losing out in this game. And probably here and murderous in their treatment tomorrow so i think what we need is more equality and better migrants governance so we say from this formerly in this regular people are not encouraged to with themselves at risk and use it over ways so often in tragedy well one thing that the European Union has been doing is working to stop african migrants from coming to europe in the 1st place that was a policy thats been criticized i mean is that an effective strategy in your opinion. Well i would take some issue with the way you phrased it theres something irregular marks without regular documents so of course we are you seriously think youre free to open pot ways for illegal migration to your that is not happening but the notion that people should be allowed to cross borders without a passport i think its fine for them to stay in age when there are concerns about everything from the economy to security i dont know any country in the world this is how good are we have you with or without a passport so i think we need a little bit about this in the way of your friends this question Leonard Doyle from the International Organization for migration thank you very much. Has suffered its hottest day on record the National Average temperature reached 40. 00 degrees celsius that tops the record set in 2013 now the record busting heat comes as the nation is battling a severe droughts and a bushfire crisis hotter than ever australia is going through record high temperatures and for a few here thats just another reason to make a splash. The norm. Is spared the health risks dehydration can be deadly. For the phone a rescue team the threat to wildlife is foremost. Thats why i know. Theres probably not very much food up there because of the drought. Not a lot of water they dont get me in the river but some people have been calling out of the river this morning. So its just going to get worse and worse this is going to build up theyre already apparently had to raise. 6075 for a fairly made of the extreme heat is compounding this problem since august millions of hectors of australian bush have barred the heart of trial whether has rendered firefighters helpless. Scientists say it is a result of mankind failure to address Global Climate