Hello, im ros atkins, this is outside source. The articles of impeachment against President Trump are being been sent to the senate. President trumps trial there next week will be only the third of a us president in history. He will be held accountable. He has been held accountable. He has been impeached and impeached forever. They can never erase that. Meanwhile at the white house, President Trump was signing a partial trade deal with china. He said it will mean fair and reciprocal trade but it does nothing to remove the huge tariffs the countries have on each others goods. Scientists from three global agencies have given another Climate Change warning confirming that the past decade
was the warmest on record. And the half sister of the duchess of sussex says their father Thomas Markle, will testify in her court case if hes asked to. Meghan is suing a british newspaper for publishing a letter she wrote to her father. Another crucial step towards Donald Trumps impeachment trial. The us house of representatives has voted to send formal articles of impeachment to the senate where the trial is due the us house of representatives has voted to send formal articles of impeachment to the senate where the trial is due to start on tuesday. The articles of impeachment will be carried by hand by congressmen and women who are appointed by the speaker of the house nancy pelosi. They then serve as prosecutors in the senate trial. Heres nancy pelosi speaking about the process. Today i am very proud to present the people who will bring the case of which we have great confidence in in
terms of impeaching the president and that this further evidence consists, and we would not be in this situation that we not waited. Insisted that there be witnesses and that we see documentation. As nancy pelosi says, the democrats and republicans have been disagreeing over how witness testimony should work in the trial. Heres a senior democrat on that issue. Bea be a voice of the sudden urgency about this and achieving in the next election. As soon as we did take up and pass the articles, Mitch Mcconnell made it clear that he did not want a trial in the senate and he didnt want witnesses or documents, this time has given us the time to show the American People the time to show the American People the necessity of a fair trial. The democrats argue there is new evidence against the president that needs to be heard. And theyve released new documents to support their case. They include a letter
from mr trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani sent to president zelensky of ukraine. Here it is. It says in my capacity as personal counsel to President Trump and with his knowledge and consent, i request a meeting with you. There are also Text Messages and handwritten notes from an associate of mr giuliani, this man lev parnas, a ukrainian american businessman who has links to ukrainian officials. This is a copy of a handwritten note written in the Ritz Carlton Hotel in vienna from mr parnas in which he states that ukraines president should investigate the biden case. And there are Text Messages sent by this man robert hyde a former congressional candidate and supporter of President Donald Trump to lev parnas. In march 2019 mr hyde and mr parnas exchanged texts about the then Us Ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch, who President Trump wanted to remove from office. If youre wondering what all that adds up you and me both. Heres ben wright in washington. You wouldnt as a smoking gun, would you . Know, but i think the democrats, further evidence that requires interrogation and presented at the trial and i think it adds to their argument that for this to be meaningful, they should be able to subpoena further witnesses in the documentation like this and i think this new batch of Text Messages just show the level of involvement that trumps personal lawyer had in the dealings of the ukraine and this just strengthens the democratic argument where there could be more documentation and there will be cheering by republican senators that
are inclined to add her voice, but potentially for new witnesses new documentation. That would be one of the important moments in the next few days if and when theres a vote on whether or not to have new witnesses. It straight up and down vote, a simple majority would be required constantly for republicans after vote and then they can open up after vote and then they can open up a whole new front in this trial and make it much more dramatic. President trump was impeached by the house last month, on accusations of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. He denies behaving inappropriately in pressuring ukraine to open an investigation into his political rivaljoe biden. Earlier the president tweeted as you can see in this graphic a two thirds majority vote is needed in the senate for the president
to be removed from office and thats never happened in us history. And in this senate, the republicans have a majority. So two thirds of senators turning on the president looks very unlikely. Ben wright is on capitol hill for us. What are they home together this realistically is yellow what are they hoping to get out of this. They are hoping these impeachment articles stand and you are not going to get republicans switching in anything like the numbersjoining the democrats to convict donald trump and get him out of office. But in the course of this trial, it will demonstrate, in their view, President Trumps and fitness for
office, raise very difficult questions about his judgement and character that they will hope will cut through the voters what is absolutely critical election year. He is dismissing this as an illegitimate sham and use this impeachment trial to frame it as the establishment obsessed with that so and the concerns of real voters. Im sure this is your set this is how he will try to frame it. This is only happened twice in American History before, 1989, bill clinton hadnt impeachment trial and that went on for about four weeks before he was acquitted. So i provide some sort of template for the timing and sequencing in the choreographing of the trial itself. Once the trial begins, we think it
will last for, the senate will sit for five hours every day, to saturday until either the thing is thrown out or there is a final vote. But i reckon four weeks, like the 1999 impeachment would suggest, could be the length of this trial. That is coming next week, live with us that is coming next week, live with us in washington dc. Its official the last decade was the warmest on record. Nasa, Americas National oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the uks met Office Confirmed what the un predicted last month. Since records began in 1880. The world has progressively warmed. We can see that from this heat map provided by nasa and researchers there say its only going to get hotter. This shows the rise in temperatures versus pre industrial levels. We know Carbon Emissions from human activities are the main cause of this rise. We also know unless our behaviour changes, that rise will continue with catastrophic consequences. This is dr liz bentley, chief executive of the royal meteorological society. Carbon dioxide levels are at the highest that we have recorded in our atmosphere and theres a different connection between the amount of Carbon Dioxide and the temperature. We are seeing the highest Global Temperatures in the last decade. And we will see more of that as more Carbon Dioxide continues to grow and we will see temperatures, Global Temperatures increasing. One of the consequences of Climate Change is the intensity of natural disasters as well as hotter weather and weve seen plenty of both in the past year alone. In the far north of the United States alaska had its warmest year on record. Far away in australia
the same record was set. The Hurricane Season came as it always does to the carribean but in the bahamas, Hurricane Dorian was the strongest storm theyd ever had with winds of nearly 300 km per hour. This shows temperature records across the world for 2019. 2019 was the second warmest on record for asia and africa. And any region in pink recorded temperatures warmer than average. Red a new record high was recorded. Heres our global science correspondent rebecca morelle. Scientists say we need to stop temperatures rising above 1. 5
degrees to stop the worst effects but with the current climate policies, we are heading for more than three degrees and that will bring unprecedented changes. Higher temperatures mean more heat waves and droughts, sea levels and regular intensify, bringing more floods like the one that hit yorkshire last year. Climate crisis is going to affect us from so many different dimensions, from health and food supply and food security. As we talk about Critical Infrastructure and the impact of electricity, the impact on schools and hospitals. Our oceans are getting warmer too. A seperate Study Released this week by a team of scientists from 11 institutes around the world concluded that the past ten years have been the warmest on record for global Ocean Temperatures. The lead author says
or put that another way thats as if five atomic bombs were dropped into the water every second. If there is a Silver Lining to this grim outlook its that modern technology is allowing the worlds best scientists to monitor and research this crisis better than ever before. Lets hear from one of those experts doctor Gavin Schmidt the director of the Nasa Goddard Institute for space studies. Of course. Confirming those trends and dashing the hopes of people who think it is also a blip that would just return to normal on its own. The updates that we are doing year by year, we are becoming more comprehensive and the data that we are putting out. We have more satellite data to bolster the results that we have from the
surface weather station network. We have better reanalysis from the European CentreWeather Forecast and all of these things are put together and we see the coherence that there is no ambiguity about Global Warming trends, no question that this is the warmest decades the we have just went through and that the last five yea rs of went through and that the last five years of the warmest years in the record. And that could be going back, and beyond the 19th century when we had this instrumental records, but hundreds of thousands of years ago. Which metrics to focus on despite average temperatures, Ocean Temperatures but there are another number of factors that you are monitoring. Betrayed a monitor everything the time, which is a challenge we are looking at new monitors every time. And we are
looking at rainfall and coastal flooding we are looking at heat waves, we looking at ozone changes in all of those things are connected and a lot of them are directly tied to the surface temperatures that we are reporting today in the ocean heat content changes that tells us very clearly why this is changing and it is changing with more and more energy coming into the system and others are leaving at that is due primarily to the increase of Greenhouse Gases from human activity. Stay with us on outside source still to come. Us authorities are investigating why a Delta Air Lines passengerjet dumped fuel over a suburban area of los angeles including over a number of elementary schools. British airways has filed a complaint with the European Commission over the uk governments rescue plan for the troubled Regional Airline flybe. Other airlines have branded the bailout a misuse of public funds. Simon jack spoke to the boss of easyjet. We would not support any state funding or state support to any carrier, any airline at all, because we believe that that is misuse of taxpayers money. Particularly when the company are, you know, backed by well funded companies also in the first place. Youve been calling for apd, Passenger Duty to be cut for some time. Theyve done you a favour, havent they . We have always argued that, for instance, apd should be revised to more and better reflect the efficiencies of the operations that Different Airlines have. It is one of the highest passenger taxes in the world. We dont think that is designed in an appropriate way. And its not linked at all in how you decarbonise the aviation industry. The us house of representatives has voted to send impeachment charges against President Trump to the senate wheres hell stand trial next week. New footage has emerged which appears to show two missiles being fired at the ukrainian airliner which was unintentionally shot down by iran a week ago. The New York Times obtained the images they were captured on a Security Camera in tehran and then apparently filmed on a mobile phone. They show a first missile being fired at the plane, which strikes it. About thirty seconds later a second missile is launched, and hits the plane. All 176 people on board were killed when it crashed moments later. Supporters of the government in venezuela have attacked a convoy of opposition politicians outside parliament, preventing them from holding a session there. Opposition leaderjuan guaido moved the meeting elsewhere and accused president Nicolas Maduro of acting like a dictator. Bbc mundo the rapperjay z is taking
legal action against us prison officials on behalf of 29 inmates whose lives he says are at risk. The lawsuit claims the mens lives are in peril due to understaffing and neglect in mississippis prisons. It comes after five prisoners were killed in attacks in the states prisons in one week over the new year. Bbc. Com the us and china have signed a partial trade deal first concrete sign of progress after an 18 month trade war. President trump hosted the chinese vice premier at the white house to put pen to paper. Lets hear the chinese perspective. This is a mutually beneficial and win win agreement. Economic growth and promote world peace and prosperity and is in the interest of
the producers, consumers, investors in both countries. In the deal, china has committed to increase us imports by 200 billion this covers a range of products from farm equipment, to energy and financial services. In return, the us is reducing some of tariffs its put on chinese imports. But lets be clear the us and china still have hundreds of billions of dollars worth of tariffs on each others goods and weve no idea if and when they may go. Heres President Trump. We will leave the tariffs on and i will agree to take those tariffs are off if we are able to do phase two. Recently, the International Monetary fund warned that tariffs betwen the us and china. Hurting Business Sentiment and confidence globally. Karishma vaswani is the bbcs Asia Business correspondent shes in singapore. What Companies Want most from
beijing and washington, and the uncertainty that is created. Business confidence has fallen and people are holding back on investments in new jobs people are holding back on investments in newjobs because they are not sure because of what happens in the future. So it is possible for now, but it will not make that much of the difference on the ground on this tariffs on both sides come down for good. An important moment to signal that they are making progress the way the journalists describe it. Jonathan lemire is a reporter for the associated press. Tim stratford is a us trade lawyer whos based in china hes a former us trade representative too. Here he is on some of those thorny issues. To what extent should the state be involved in the economy . What extent should companies
receive subsidies . China has found that this approach is helped them in many respects to make great technological and economic advancements, but the United States and other countries feel that this has displaced a lot of other countries. Michelle fleury is at the white house if you questions on this. That figure that china is committed to spending billions of dollars in us imports, was going to make sure they do it . That falls to the us trade representative send this agreement which does include Enforcement Mechanisms and americas lead tree negotiator basically saying that look, thereby 30 days for this trade deal to go into effect. It would ta ke deal to go into effect. It would take a bit of time, but he upset some indication by the spring that at least things appear to be moving in the right direction. If not, and the party has complained can file an appeal, the us of attendance to
respond and if there is a sequence of events that follows, a period where he needs to be addressed in a 45 day period before there has to be a meeting between the c