A historic vote the us house of representatives impeaches president donald trump. Cards one is adopted. With that gavel trump becomes just the 3rd u. S. Writer ever since being impeached his face now lies in the hands of the senate swore a trial will decide whether or not he remains in office and a german football barred music leave it until the last minute but they take home what could be a crucial win at fridays. Im calling welcome to the Program Police in india have taken hundreds of people at the concert for defying a ban on protest against a controversial new citizenship law the ban was imposed after protests in 2 states turned violent last week now the law for citizenship to immigrants from pakistan bangladesh and afghanistan escaping religious persecution but it does not include muslims Communication Networks and transports have been shut down amid the ongoing demonstrations. Defiant they came out to protest and peacefully they resisted people across the country refused to be deterred by the protest ban. 6 they say the new law makes religion a basis for granting indian citizenship and discriminates against muslims they believe it threatens the secular nature of indian democracy yet north here this citizenship Amendment Act is against the Indian Constitution it is a legal it is against the spirit of independence of our country i know nothing about mother you know ill tell you that. Many prominent people were taken into custody while protesting including the well known historian robert chandra. His detention prompted widespread outrage on twitter a delhi based political historian condemned what he described as the police man handling one of the most prolific and influential public intellectuals and scholars. The government said it was forced to take steps in the interest of Public Safety after many protests turned violent last week. In the capital delhi protests caused more than a dozen train stations to be closed roads were blocked traffic congested authorities also shut down mobile phone networks and the internet in several regions many locals were left frustrated. Monday president i thought a very difficult situation and a very bad situation with facing a lot of problems. The reds also have a lot of traffic jams and some of them. So its at the sec take situation. But there may be much more disruption on its way there are a few signs that Prime MinisterNarendra Modi is going to back down over the law and the protesters appear not afraid to disobey. Our lets get the latest now for more we bring in sanya Ravi Shankars hes a journalist in chennai india 1st of all we understand mobile networks the internet have been shut down in some areas of the country what more can you tell us about that but strong possibly getting the National Capital of india had. Some black oak for mobile networks and this is largely because the calling for protests are spreading through social Media Networks as well as the messaging apps like whatsapp so in fact all the talk have received a bunch of close to action and its been 2 blocks up basically mentioning you know where to protest the going to take place and what kind thats going to take so this is kind of. Tickets that is being spread to via social Media Networks and whatsapp and a large section of urban india is coming out to put this in fun and i do think with the students who are opposing the controversial citizenship amendment and the national shift that this is who sending out those those alerts on social media whos behind these these protests the organizers have been. Well its unfair as to whether this protest is actually led by somebody of course the opposition has joined in and they have you know conducted their own little protest marches and theyve jumped into the fray and said it but it does not seem to have any specific leader in that sense so were looking at a protest and seeing the lead largely by the social media by messages which are being fed to the social Media Network and the people are coming out to expensive father daddy so even if its just for a few hours they take a break from work they come out they protest and they go back so thats what they witnessing right now in india as long as we heard prominent figures are being arrested for protesting is there any kind of sense that indian authorities are becoming a bit more brazen in this crackdown on demonstrations by the Indian Government or the home minister has that equally stated that there would have been no negotiation or no backing down in the sense on these 2 controversial bits of legislation so in fact he has also stated clearly that there will be no dialogue with the protestors or students so it does not feel quite the government is going to back down in fact its slightly that were going to see some more Police Action to quell the protests that are taking place now as a Police Action continues do you think the Indian Government may start to lose any sort of support over the way that is dealing with these protests and with the bill itself. Well its still early days yet is only the 3rd day of protests in the rest of india outside of the northeast where the north. Have been protesting for lucky on it of course but its still early days and were going to have to wait and see what happens i dont know what the odds are to see is that a section of urban india is coming out in solidarity and this is something we have not seen since 2011 when the anticorruption happened in the metro cities but. I live and its probably because the messaging in the negative has not actually reached them and probably there is no understanding of what are the consequences of these 2 lives that should right Sagna Ravishankar engine i thank you very much for that update. In the u. K. The normally infrequent states opening of parliament has taken place for the 2nd time in 2 months this time around the situation is dramatically different because Prime MinisterBoris Johnson is now in a much more commanding position after last weeks general election Queen Elizabeth laid out the governments agenda in a speech written by the Prime Minister to no ones surprise delivering products it was the number one priority with a big majority johnson now has the votes to pass his bill to take the u. K. Out of the european you. I was in london for us shes been following all the proceedings today now barbara as weve heard its now 2 queens speeches within 2 months what did we hear this time around was there anything different. Of course the lady had to repeat herself to a certain extent even though some nuances are quite different in this speech but she sort of offered a very reduced version off the formal state opening of parliament because as you mentioned she had just done a 2 months ago so it was no crown no carriage no state robe it was day dress and just an ordinary car she drove up here to Parliament Read her speech was that i see internation we know so well from her and left again what for Boris Johnson this isnt a situation of course as you mentioned karl has fundamentally changed because now he can do whatever he wants in october he will still flailing around trying to cobble together a majority and figure out what and how to push things through parliament now he can just simply. Law and his parliamentarians will follow him because he led the party to that extremely. To that extreme victory and so nobody will sort of offer him any resistance at all here certainly high in that agenda and back the 1st item in that speech was bright said what are the governments plans now for delivering price. The timetable seems quite clear and there is no more a stepping up in Boris Johnson there is no stopping bracks it that is over so the 31st of general will see britain leaving the European Union the drawl bill will be discussed tomorrow on friday it will be voted upon it will go through and the road is completely clear and also for. In his sort of changed the bill he has added. A piece that says that it would be illegal to ask for a poor location next summer in order to have more time in the transition period to negotiate with the European Union that isnt dish no peace that makes the time table for those talks with the e. U. Very tight in very short hes trying to blackmailing them but hes also putting himself under pressure. Of the world or other bills in that speech what do they tell us about the direction of the johnson government now that he has such a huge majority in parliament. Is a huge majority and he is trying in announcing that he is going to spend a lot of a lot of money the question is however where that money is going to come from its not really in the budget that is quite tight in public during is already sort of increasing patty needs to and he wants to spend much more money on the Ailing Health service and that is something that these new voters in the north that he took away from labor that they are expecting from him they need changes and they need more money for Public Services because theyre really hurting Boris Johnson promised everything how much of those promises he can keep we shall see in the next year and the years after because hes going to be in government now for quite a while. Bomber faisal reporting from london for us thank you very much. Are the check now of some of the other stories making news around the world scotlands 1st minister Nicola Sturgeon says that the Scottish Government will consider all options of the British Government tries to stop it from holding an independence referendum sturgeons Pro IndependenceNational Party won 48 seats in last weeks u. K. Why dont watch. The pretrial hearings have started in the case of a slovak businessman tied to the killing of an investigative journalist. Is suspected of ordering the killing of journalist john. Who had been investigating his business active. And his fiance were gunned down at their home in february last year. In the Us Donald Trump has become de 3rd president in history to be impeached the house of representatives voted on 2 charges stemming from trumps alleged attempt to pressure ukraine into investigating his main political rival joe biden both votes fell long lines almost all democrats voted for the charges while republicans voted unanimously against them the vote paves the way for a senate trial which was signed by the president is to be removed from office. After hours of debating the 1st article of impeachment for abuse of power passed perhaps. On this though they are 230 nays 1907 present is one. Article one is adopted im just minutes later the 2nd article for obstruction of Congress Went as planned for the democrats on this vote the yeas are 229 the nays are 198 present is one article 2 is adopted. Hundreds of kilometers away at a rally in michigan President Trump reacted to his impeachment. With todays illegal unconstitutional and partisan impeachment. Could do nothing democrats and they are doing nothing all they want to do is focus on this what they could be doing are declaring their deep hatred and this thing for the american voter. This lawless partisan speech is a political suicide march for the Democratic Party have you seen my polls of the last 4 which. Back in Washington Democratic had Speaker Nancy Pelosi accuse the republicans of being purely partisan she threatened to delay the impeachment trial until she could be sure it would be handled fairly in the senate. We have legislation approved by the rules committee that will enable us to decide how we will fund over the articles of impeachment we cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the phone and i would hope that that will be soon so far we havent fulfilled what will they are to us so hopefully it will be for when we see what all this will. Probably with voting concluded in the house of representatives and donald trump becoming only the 3rd u. S. President to be impeached americans now face the next stage in the process the senate trial thats due to begin in january but democrats face an uphill battle considering the senate is republican controlled and they need a 2. Thirds majority to remove President Trump from office. For the comp of the is about to begin a brief period of calm over the Holiday Season as members of the congress and senate spent time in their homes across the starkly divided country. Lets get more now on impeachment joining me in studio rachel rizzo shes a us political analyst and bosch fellow here in berlin rachel i mean we keep calling this a historic moment only the 3rd president s in the history of the country to be impeached what does the word historic mean hero put this in context for us i mean when you look at the only 2 other president s who have been impeached Andrew Johnson and bill clinton the word impeachment really hangs over their presidency even for Richard Nixon who resigned before he could be impeached and that word sort of hangs over his presidency too but i think this is about a lot more than just impeachment its about protecting the integrity of the office its about honoring the constitution but its not a day of excitement this is not a day to celebrate. Palosi made that very clear in the way she shut down democrats who started to cheer as she was reading out the votes so its a really a solemn day for the United States in our history i think so how does this vote how does this more a given pietschmann what does that do to trumps presidency how will people per potentially view president now from this day forward the word impeachment is is going to be associated with Donald Trumps presidency and that bothers him that he doesnt see them seem like the ball exactly for donald trump cares about how hes perceived in public hes he cares about how the public sees him and you can tell that the because of what he says over twitter from the letter he sent to nancy pelosi even what he was saying during the michigan rally that he held last night so this is something that is going to hang over his presidency and its something that hes going to fight against because it really does get to the heart of who gets. To speaking about the impeachment proceedings its of course the lawmakers who do the. Voter and we saw that last night but Public Opinion does play a big role in terms of potentially pressuring lawmakers to vote one way or the other whats the Public Opinion right now on impeachment in the United States how people feel about this impeachment is a chaos creator for the United States right and it just feeds in to the hyper partisan Political Climate that the country is experiencing experiencing today i mean the country is divided so clearly along partisan lines democrats and republicans this impeachment proceeding isnt going to change decided voters either way republicans or democrats will continue to stay in their lanes i think whats going to be really interesting to see Going Forward is how this affects the very small number of undecided or independent voters in the United States there was an election you may have heard coming up in 2020 its a big one will there be fallout from the impeachment do you think i mean itll be in november so is that a long enough time or will still be a Campaign Issue by then well theres a couple things here the 1st is that theres going to be senators that are distracted by this candidates like clover star Booker Warren and sanders they all have to come back from the campaign trail to finish this trial in the senate the 2nd thing is that republicans are really going to use this as a talking point against the democrats theyre going to say that the dems are the ones who are dividing the country who are trying to feed into the hyper partisanship and so this isnt something thats going to go any way go away any time soon its going to follow the democrats all the way down the campaign trail until november thats on a trial expected sometime next year of rachel rizzoli us political analyst and bosch fellow thank you thanks. Well in australia a record breaking heat wave and strong winds are frustrating firefighters who are battling out of control bushfires the countrys most populous states New South Wales has declared a state of emergency authorities they are warning of worsening conditions over the next few days this week has already seen 2 consecutive days of record heat the average temperature reaching 41. 9 degrees celsius thats 107 degrees fahrenheit and its set to go even higher. A wall of flames consuming all before it the firemen trying to slow its advance of fighting a losing battle. Wildfires have been raging in australia for months now its causing more than 3000000 hectares of land and destroying over 700 homes this smoke has engulfed sydney blurring it psychotic skyline but with average temperatures reaching re