3 separate cases involving disclosure of his financial records Mr Trump is trying to block subpoenas for bank records tax returns and other materials demanded by various congressional committees and the New York prosecutor the cases are not related to the impeachment hearings Mr Trump's the only president to have refused to disclose his tax returns negotiations at the u.n. Climate summit in Madrid are continuing into Saturday without an agreement in sight the to meeting newness cop 25 was meant to decide on rules the implementation of the 2015 Paris climate agreement Arianne skippers reports last week the new Time Person of the year the Swedish teenage climate activists created implored delegates in Madrid to take urgent action and come up with something concrete her words seem to have fallen on deaf ears many key issues that were left open after last year's summit in Poland remain unresolved one of the sticking points is compensation for developing countries for damage resulting from climate change other areas of disagreement include targets for cutting carbon emissions and rules around creating carbon markets some negotiators say the summit could end without any agreement and that might be better than a weak agreement Well good news from the b.b.c. . Police in New Zealand to resume the recovery mission of one of the remaining victims of Monday's fetal volcanic eruption on White Island a total of 16 people are thought to have been killed while dozens remain in hospital for Mercer reports a body was seen in the seas off white islands the day after the volcano erupted police and Navy divers hope to resume their search if conditions allow using the north or it is also plan to return to the island in search of another victim on Friday troops in protective suits retrieve 6 bodies they've been taken to or planned for post-mortem examination relatives of those missing after the eruption are reported to be feeling a sense of calm peace and overriding grief the United States and China have announce a preliminary trade agreement designed to ease tension between the world's 2 largest economies both sides of heal the so-called fees $1.00 deal is a breakthrough under the deal Council further penalty tariffs that were due to be implemented this weekend the president of Chile Sebastiaan piñera has declared 2 days of national mourning for the 38 people who were killed in a military plane crash off the Antarctic on Monday the announcement comes after human remains and Deborah we were lucky lucky to see the armed forces said no one could have survived the accident lawyers representing the users of a bankrupt crypto currency exchange Kordic a c x asked are asking the Canadian authorities to examine the body of its founder They say the circumstances surrounding 30 year old Gerald cottons death were suspicious he died suddenly last year in India from complications related to Crohn's disease but afterwards the exchange was unable to find significant crypto currency reserves cotton was the only person who had passwords a digital wallet containing the only $140000000.00 worth of cryptocurrency s. B.b.c. News. Hello I'm Jackie learned and you're listening to the news room from the b.b.c. World Service since entering office President Trump has been involved in a long battle to keep his tax bank and financial records private the president's lawyers have now taken the case to the highest court in the United States the Supreme Court which has agreed to hear it the decision sets the stage for a ruling during the election campaign next year our Washington correspondent is Chris Buckley President Trump has been doing his very best to stop his tax returns being published and remember it's worth pointing out that for decades not presidential candidates who have been getting to that final stage and presidents themselves have been making a point of making their tax returns public higher for Donald Trump feels very differently and partly he will argue that's because he has got huge amounts of business dealings he's got a big interest in a lot of issues for example like hotels and buildings and he's always wanted to protect these tax returns high ever a number of different people have been trying to get them not least Congress and indeed there are some of our Aussies looking into investigatory matters there would quite like to find out some of the details inside these financial affairs so as a result President Trump has been doing his best to block all these attempts to get his tax returns and it's essentially ended up with the Supreme Court not deciding that they will rule on this matter President Trump has made arguments time and time again that ultimately he shouldn't have to do that basically it's something that should be beyond whether or not he sits in the white or spots there are many who feel that this goes to the whole issue of presidential counter-balance say and what might happen if the Supreme Court if the Supreme Court turns down the request to keep the president's information private Well ultimately those tax returns will be passed on to various different authorities for example the southern district of New York who is looking into investigations not least those payments to. 2 woman who claims that they had affairs with Donald Trump those payments of course were jury in the period whenever President Trump was running to become the president of the United States that has been an issue which has been looked at and there continue to be investigations around that Congress also wants to see it but it's going to be an interesting one jockey for the Supreme Court because ultimately there is a conservative majority in the Supreme Court and some will see this as a question of not of whether or not they are independent of the president and independent of the White House because that conservative majority has House members justices who have been appointed by the president and some will be looking to them to see whether or not they actually will put pressure on doll trumped by having his taxes made public and so actually it's one that's being watched very very closely here in the u.s. And at the point at which this information if the decision goes that way it might become public the timing would be quite interesting wouldn't it yeah because we're looking potentially this happening pretty close to an election taking play us it's not clear when Supreme Court will come to a decision but certainly it will happen by the looks of things some time in 2020 maybe getting close to the or some of 2021 people go to the polls and at that stage there's going to be scrutiny on the president already and all of a sudden Congress will be able to look through his financial matters look through his financial records and also ask questions maybe about an election that took place 4 years ago in 26 thing whenever it seems some payments were made by President Trump that may or may not have been against the electoral rolls. Like President Trump moved a step closer to a formal impeachment investigation the House Judiciary Committee has approved 2 articles of impeachment setting the stage for a full vote in the House of Representatives next week speaking to reporters outside the White House President Trump dismissed the charges against him it's a witch and it's a shame it's a hoax and nothing was done wrong 0 was done wrong I think it's a horrible thing to be using the tool of impeachment which is supposed to be used in an emergency our Washington Correspondent Gary O'Donoghue told a small we had 14 hours of this committee hammering away at one another from 9 o'clock in the morning to 11 o'clock at night they even missed the White House congressional Christmas party because they were still going at it by the way so no free mince pies or or ugly vine there so. This morning in 10 minutes it was all done these 2 simple votes they called it a roll call as they call it where the the clock reads out the name and someone says I and someone says no and at the end of it was $23.00 in favor of the impeachment article on each case and 17 against straight down party lines so a step closer to the real vote matters which is in the House next week and that is the moment if Democrats get Democrats get their way and they will that is the moment the president is impeached there's a couple of Democrats 2 Democrats who we think are pretty much certain to vote against these articles on the House floor next week but they have a majority of more than 35 in the house so they can allow a couple of moderates in difficult districts the president may have won last time around cetera et cetera. To break away there be some understanding of that I think amongst the Democratic leadership they're pretty comfortable and I think it's a property pretty dead thing they're going to get this through I think is. We are likely Republicans will break ranks with that may happen you never know but very unlikely at this stage and then everyone goes home for Christmas with the prospect of this trial in the Senate as per the Constitution this trial in the Senate in January that was Gary Donahue in Washington a little over 24 hours have passed since it became apparent that the right wing conservative party and won the general election here in the u.k. Boris Johnson the British prime minister says he wants to use the victory to boost prosperity hope and growth Mr Johnson's Path to Power ran through areas of central and northern England which for decades have been considered heartlands of the opposition Labor Party its left wing leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he will stand down but he hasn't said when the Scottish National Party enjoyed a surge in support setting up a battle with London over their demands for a new vote on independence our assistant political editor Norman Smith reports Mr Johnson secured not only a crushing 80 seat majority and inflicting a shattering defeat on the opposition but in winning in parts of the country that have never voted Tory a result that settled once and for all said Mr Johnson for Bracks it was the irrefutable irresistible unarguable decision of the British people and outside Downing Street the prime minister made this appeal to his vanquished opponents to those who did not vote for us over me. If you wanted and bad still want to remain in the e.u. . I urge everyone to find closure and to let the healing begin the scale of Mr Johnson's triumph in breaching Labor's so-called red wall became apparent Not long after the polls closed in BLITH Valley a former mining seat Susan Elizabeth Dole who wears labor in corporative party 16728 in Levy the Conservative Party candidate 17. This stunning upset was followed by victory in a string of other one time labor bastions Mr Johnson acknowledged such communities had only lent their votes to him but pledged to work day and night to earn their trust as for labor it suffered a defeat worse even than that inflicted on Michael Foot in 1983 Corbin loyalists blame this on bread and the media and vehemently rejected suggestions the Jeremy Corbyn was the reason as for the Labor leader himself he was asked if he was the problem since I became leader of the membership is more than doubled I will talk to our national executive about what we do in the future the ruling body of the party our national executive will decide what process we follow them to the election the successor to me the timetable for vats however is likely to be bitterly fought over with some disgruntled Labor candidates demanding he quit swiftly and Corbin lawyers suggesting Mr Corbin could remain leader for several more months as for the Liberal Democrats they too will have to elect a new leader after Joe Swinson failed to hold her Dunbartonshire East seat her party also emerged with a paltry 11 seats the scale of Mr Johnson's victory is so. But the next decade may well be defined by Boris Johnson his beliefs and his leadership was Norman Smith You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service Still to come on The Newsroom and increasingly desperate situation for civilians trapped by fighting in the Syrian province of Idlib 1st b.n. Has that lined Britain's reelected prime minister Boris Johnson has rejected demands for a new Scottish independence referendum which had been rekindled by Thursday's general election result President Trump has dismissed impeachment charges against him as a sham after they were approved by a committee of the u.s. House of Representatives crucial un climate talks in Madrid or to continue into Saturday with no sign that an agreement is imminent and divers in New Zealand to resume their search off white island for the body of one of those killed in Monday's volcanic eruption Yes those New Zealand police and Dave Navy divers are trying to retrieve a body that was spotted not far from the shore the other victim is believed to be on the island itself the B.B.C.'s film or so has been following the story the or far it is believed that that body apparently seen in the water on Tuesday is still there and they're not sure if the 2nd body is in the water or on the land so it's a very complex operation trying to return to White Island that is because of the threat of further eruptions following Monday's disaster so what we have is police and Navy divers preparing to scour the seas looking for one possibly 2 bodies and also the Orthorexic is making another plan to return to the island itself to search for that 2nd body if it's not found in the sea so this is a very complex operation a very dangerous one as well it was a very risky mission the retrieval of those 6 bodies on White Island on Friday because scientists have. Warns there was a 50 to 60 percent chance of another eruptions these New Zealand troops were flown in from 2 helicopters and they were wearing full protective suits and breathing apparatus and that was just a sign of the dangers that they did face and they spent 4 hours on the island retrieving those 6 bodies as you say this is an incredibly dangerous complex painstaking operation it must also being credibly distressing for the bereaved families whose loved ones are still missing Well we understand the relatives have had a sense of calm peace and overriding grief as this recovery effort has got under way for several days following the eruptions of white silent on Monday was deemed to be too dangerous for those military teams to go in they went in on Friday the bodies that they recovered 6 of them have been taken to opened hospital where post-mortem examinations we expect to be carried out today the identification process is expected to take a lot longer it will involve police disaster identification experts forensic pathologists and also dental specialists as well as the coroner as well so for those relatives of those unaccounted for they don't know if the bodies retrieved are those of their loved ones or their missing relatives still on the island or even in the waters off white island so one can only imagine the anguish the grief and the trauma that they're feeling at this time but your forit is in New Zealand are acutely aware of that and that's why they are making these plans to return not only to the water off white island but to the island itself that was film now if you will of regular flying you know that and travel represents your biggest single source of greenhouse gas emissions. Airlines in recent years have invested in lighter more fuel efficient craft and have explored powering their planes with biofuel Europe's largest manufacturer is looking at another solution from a far more traditional viewpoint Stephanie Prentice. Reports intermissions from airplanes have taken the shine off travel for some the aviation sector accounts for more than 2 percent of global carbon emissions and one day a player in the market is trying something to try and reduce that harking back to more traditional methods of flying. The sounds of d.c. Traveling in a v. Formation each slightly above the birds in front of it something they do to be more efficient and use less energy juju reduced wind resistance hopes they can emulate that they're about to trial a new flying pattern mimicking the way the birds move to reduce fuel usage. One plane will take off soon after another following closely in precisely enough to take advantage of the ever text produced in the wake of the 1st plane the companies say the tricky bit will be finding the optimum part of the wake because the vortex is invisible and they don't want passenger safety or comfort to be compromised but that it's worth it as they could cut the amount of fuel needed by 5 to 10 percent per journey however activists like grated Totenberg say that's not enough they're giving up the mode of transport entirely and in her native Sweden the word fleet skull has been cordoned meaning ashame felt about flying with Stephanie printers now Fiona some of the other stories from us you Zealand's 3 time Olympic middle distance champion Peter snail has died at the age of 80 he was the last meal after you have completed the 81500 metres double at an. Games which he achieved in Tokyo in 1964 and was voted New Zealand athlete of the century. Rescue workers in Arizona have recovered what's believed to be the body of a missing 6 year old girl at a lake north east of Phoenix the 3rd child to have died when a family vehicle attempted to cross a rain swollen creek sheriff's deputies said they believe their phone will Rowlings several miles from where the group's military styles truck was recovered roughly 2 weeks ago. And a cow a cow and a donkey that made headlines in the United States after being pictured wandering along a road together have now been cast in a live Christmas nativity scene the trio were spotted walking along a road in Kansas and police shared a food to online appealing to find their owner it was determined to be an employee of the local wildlife park and now the park is hosting its 1st ever happy Hoofy days event featuring a nativity scene with the 3 animals as the star attraction thanks for fairness you're listening to the news room from the b.b.c. World Service in London it's nearly 9 years since the war in Syria began and it's still far from over with help from his Russian and Iranian allies President Asad now controls over 70 percent of the country but has yet to retake most of the opposition held northern province of Idlib this is despite an offensive launched last April which has caused many civilian casualties has been heavy bombing in recent weeks and the situation is becoming increasingly desperate Mike Thompson has been speaking to Syrians in it limp. A helicopter is now a bomb maker with an exodus of bottles. The last few weeks have been terrifying for many civilians in it live. We are going to leave our village. Go know who describes himself as a humanitarian activist lives just to the west of it live city with oil and electricity both in short supply and winter now setting in he fears that if the bombs don't get too cold will we have to destroy our couches to get want to put in the fireplace break our closets burned the cloth the truth we burnt clothes. Thanks Syrian regime tanks rolled into it live in April after years of my mistakes 3 missed I have 3 or I'll share more h 2 guests who now control the province refused to leave an agreed demilitarized buffer zone their. Russian and Syrian planes stand accused of deliberately targeting more than 60 health facilities in it live in 2019 alone but Dr Omar al her Iraqi who Bruns one of the few major hospitals still operating there fears that something even more frightening may be about to happen you have a threat that is only a lawyer there are chemical weapons to our Rockies fears are based on a story posted on Russia's defense ministry website and carried by the country's Sputnik newspaper alleging that it led big stream is said white helmet civil defense workers have broug