Senate prepares for trial. And the u. N. Warns of a grave food emergency in parts of Southern Africa and says Climate Change is to blame. Russian and syrian warplanes have resumed attacks on the last rebel held province at least 21 civilians have been killed in live in recent days and thats despite a cease fire that was supposed to have started on sunday the White Helmets rescue group has recorded more than a dozen violations of the cease fire aljazeera is caught here lopez hayat reports. The damage caused by one of several air strikes in the Northwest Province of a plant survivors trying to salvage whats left. Emergency crews combed the rubble to recover the body of a child. That done. Other civilians were among the casualties and it lit city i. Did it give a jihad in the afternoon it lapses he was targeted by stroke or 23 jets they hit the Industrial Area and a hallmark it must of those hurt have serious injuries. In a nearby hospital friends console a father grieving his son was a c
More than 15,000 nurses in Northern Ireland walk out in an unprecedented strike over pay and patient safety. Relatives of four british soldiers killed in the hyde park bombing win a civil case against convicted ira member, john downey after his criminal trial collapsed in 2014. And coming up in sport, liverpool through to the final of the Club World Cup after beating mexican side monterrey. Historic scenes coming to us from the united states, members of congress are getting ready to vote on whether to impeach donald trump. Impeachment is the two stage procedure which can lead to the removal of a sitting president. In the first stage today, a majority in the house of representatives would need to support the move. ani if that passes a trial would be held in the us senate dominated by republicans next month. Thats unlikely to happen. But if it did donald trump would be forced from the white house 0ur north america editorjon sopel has this report. Merciful god, we pause in your presence a
I object. Objection noted. Quorum is present. We are conducting this hearing on the impeachment inquiry into president donald j trump. Presentations from the house select midi on intelligence in the House Judiciary Committee pursuant to House Resolution 660 and a special Judiciary Committee procedures that are60 described in section four a of that resolution. Here is how the committee would proceed for this hearing. I will make an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for an Opening Statement. After that we will hear two sets of presentations. We will hear 30 minuteco opening argument from counsels for the majority and minority [inaudible] order in the room. Order in the committee room. [inaudible] the committee will come to order. Obviously, i should not have to remind everyone present that the audience is here to observe, not to demonstrate and not to indicate agreement or disagreement with any witness or any member of the committee. The audience is here to o
Paul welcome. Great to see you. Thank you for having me. Paul lets take this legal question starts with the assertion of alleged crimes starts with bribery. What you think of chairmanships definition of bribery . I suppose he is right if you accept the gerald ford famous definition of an Impeachable Offense that is whatever the majority of the members of the house of representatives decide what it is. You know, thats a political judgment and ignores history in the constitution. Lets start with the constitutional language which is where we should start. A president or any public official cannot be impeached unless a determination is made by the impeaching authority which would be the house that treason, bribery of other high crimes or misdemeanor has been committed but the only one. Paul the only one defined as treason so bribery they are now using bribery all the time. But that can be untethered from what the founders understood bribery to beat which was at least common law bribery and
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