Troops to leave. And defying volcano evacuation orders in the philippines some return home despite warnings of an imminent explosive eruption. The names of those who lead the prosecution of u. S. President donald trump during his impeachment trial have been announced and in less than an hour the house will vote to send the articles to the u. S. Senate House Speaker nancy pelosi announced the Prosecution Team naming adam schiff the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee as leader trump is accused of threatening to withhold military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into his political rivals joe biden the trial is expected to begin on thursday. The emphasis is making a strong with possible pace to protect and defend our constitution to seek the truth for the American People im very proud and honored that these 7 members distinguished members have accepted this serious responsibility again to protect and defend for that people defending our democracy well springs while White House Correspondent kimberly how could in just a few moments but 1st lets bring in a heidi is your castro has on capitol hill for us so weve got the 7 names of the impeachment managers basically the prosecutor has in the senate trial what happens next heidi what adrian in shortly in about an hours time or so the full house will vote to approve the resolution which would have fish fully or again if you will these 7 individuals as the prosecutors their members of the house but they will serve as prosecutors once they take this impeachment over to the senate where the president will be on trial with his office at stake and this afternoon or later this evening is when will we will expect to see that transition from the one chamber of the legislative branch to the other youll see a ceremony with a lot of pomp and circumstance as those 7 impeachment managers walk with the printed articles those documents in their hands to deliver on to the senate this comes just a day after new evidence came to light that may after into the trial in the case against President Trump and the accusations that he was using the power of his office to compel ukraine to launch investigations into his political rivals what is this evidence well one of trumps an associate of trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani by the name of love part he is under federal indictment and just recently he was allowed to share his documents with congress and some of them show this effort the Shadow Campaign led by giuliani which giuliani says in these documents had the full knowledge and consent of President Trump himself which was to pressure ukraine to launch investigations into joe biden and this is exactly the type of evidence the democrats say they had hoped would come to light as a result of the delay in transmitting the articles of impeachment and what adam schiff now the lead impeachment manager says is the kind of evidence he hopes that senators will consider. During the trial. Additional evidence continues to come to light that not only has bolstered an already overwhelming case but has also put in additional pressure i think on the senate to conduct a fair trial mr mcconnell has taken to saying that the senate should only consider the closed record that comes from the house and as if what the senate is is not a trial but an appeal from the trial but of course the senate the framers had in mind a real trial with witnesses and evidence and of mcconnell makes this the 1st trial in history without witnesses it will be exposed for what it is and that is an effort to cover up for the president. And that trial could begin as early as tomorrow Mitch Mcconnell the Top Republican in the senate has said his members will receive instructions in short order a dream i do many thanks theyve had your castro on capitol hill a few blocks away is a White House Correspondent kimberly how could kimberly house the white house taking all of this. You know already theres an effort by this white house to discredit the proceedings against the president as a sham illegitimate at and really focused on politics not the work of the American People that is required for the American People in fact Stephanie Gresham the White House Press secretary releasing a statement in it she writes the naming of these managers does not change a single thing President Trump has done nothing nothing wrong he looks forward to having the Due Process Rights in the senate that the Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats denied to him and expects to be fully exonerated and the question really becomes as this senate trial kicks off how will the president try to influence as we saw him doing when the impeachment inquiry was underway in the house of representatives we certainly saw the president there at points tweeting well there was live witness testimony trying to the essence some would argue even intimidate the witnesses other times we saw this blocking of testimony all together in order to try and shape the arguments and the evidence well there is a real effort underway to try and do that again and even as House Speaker nancy pelosi was speaking before reporters on capitol hill the president was tweeting heres what he writes here we go again another conj aab by the do nothing democrats all of this work was supposed to be done by the house not the senate i dont even really know what the president means there are trying to translate that but what we do know is hes trying to manipulate the media hes trying to control the media narrative something hes very adept at doing and so i think that really signals adrian that hes going to do this as this trial carries out now one very quick thing in all of this there has been this back and forth between democrats republicans on the hill whether or not there should be witnesses called we heard today democrats pushing that there need to be witnesses that could also backfire if republicans do agree to that given the fact that theres. Saying we want reciprocity we would like to see hunter biden called the son of former Vice President joe biden because he was sitting on a board of an Energy Company in ukraine democrats are saying that is not relevant that is not necessary so that is unclear whether or not thats going to happen in the midst of all of this we have the president claiming no wrongdoing a White House Correspondent kimberly how could lead live in washington many thanks Kimberly Bruce fein is a former United States associate Deputy Attorney general he helped to draft the articles of impeachment against president bill clinton and joins us now live from washington d. C. So bruce we have the name is now of the 7 to impeach the 7 impeachment managers the House Speaker pelosi said the emphasis was on litigate says what do you make of the. Well i think thats misplaced i believe that the evidence is quite undisputed a narrative created by mr trump himself in releasing at least part of the transcript of his conversation with president selenski of the ukraine that indeed he did with whole hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid and solicited in exchange a benefit for his 2020 campaign namely ukrainian open and public in the torrijos investigation of joe biden a possible nominee of the Democratic Party and his son and his sons company. I dont think that that narrative is in question so you dont need litigators you need people of a sense of constitutional dimension to understand the nature of high crimes and misdemeanors these are political crimes against the constitution also those who are thoroughly familiar with the nixon case now one of the things that seems to me quite peculiar since i was also involved in the nixon impeachment and helped draft article 3 which impeached mr nixon because he defied a subpoena compromised the ability of the house to obtain evidence relating di crimes and misdemeanors now what weve seen with regard to mr trump is numerous defiances of subpoenas orchestrated by mr trump himself and yet the congress of the United States has not said well its not a question of calling them as witnesses if you flout the subpoena and mr trump is complicit because hes ordered you to do so that is an Impeachable Offense and they should argue that case is and demonstrating that the impeachment clause becomes a scarecrow if the president of the United States can thwart all the efforts of the house investigators to gather evidence but thats not whats happening here theyre not charging the Impeachable Offense or kind of begun in groveling to the senate please call these witnesses that we didnt call rather than taking what was done in this position in the nixon case which is i we dont need to go to court if youre compromising our ability to investigate that itself isnt pietschmann in order to preserve the sanctity of the impeachment power itself all right so once the trial gets under way in the senate what can the republicans do what were they likely to do to try to slow it down to make it a nonevent. Well this is what i think the republican tactic will be the Opening Statements and the arguments and the reach rehashing of what the houses already gathered is to be candid going to be largely dull to an audience theres no flesh and blood to it i think that was shown in the clinton case where when you had ken starr read his report you didnt have the dynamic that you had a nixons case with regard to live witnesses john dean John Mitchell ehrlichman hall the minute cetera and their hope is that you let these opening arguments and the the recitation of what the house has gathered persist for a week or 2 weeks everyone will be bored theres nothing there theres nothing new and then at that point people say we just need to get over with it now this is the other element however that comes into play and we saw it i believe in the assassination of mr soul the money in my judgment theres no doubt that in the next days if not even sooner we will see an escalation of a crisis over iran someplace in the middle east against hezbollah in order to create a theme that we can afford prolonging the impeachment process we have our National Security is at stake oil coming out of the strait of hormuz and all sorts of things that will be used to try to frighten the senate and the American People we need to get this over now we cant afford to have time for witnesses and we already know that mr trump was planning to go beyond mr solomon in iraq he had targeted another hezbollah or iranian general who is in yemen so hes got numerous candidates to attack under his theory of preventive or preemptive warfare where things that happened decades ago can be used to justify current violence and conflict and i think thats something that hasnt been discussed but i believe thats clearly in the playbook of mr trump bruce regrets to achieve any thanks deep find the washington thank you. Russias Prime MinisterDmitry Medvedev and his government have resigned just hours after Vladimir Putin announced plans for a referendum on changes to the constitution critics say the president putins paving the way to stay in power indefinitely hes already been in power for 20 years and the constitution bars him from extending his term which is used to end in 4 years time. So. That in accordance with article 111112 of the constitution of the Russian Federation the president only receives the agreement of the state duma to appoint the russian Prime Minister then he appointed was the head of the cabinet and his deputies and all the ministers i proposed changing this procedure to entrust the state not only with the agreement but confirming the candidacy of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation under serious alexander got 4 joins us now live from moscow so just hours after that state of the Union Address from the president the Prime Minister and the government resigns in a fit of pique or to help him out. Well this is the big question that we are all asking governor selves and that analysts are saying that this is going on actually to help the president deliver the changes. As quickly as possible and also what analysts are saying that this move all of 14 to bring in the constitutional changes is to secure him stay in power not in a position of the president that has been completely clear today that hes not running and hes actually cutting that possibility out for himself but in the some other capacity what he did mention in his address for instance a new body called the state council which might he become head of and thus controlling controlling what is going on in the country on its a Different Levels now that when he had to go were his hand in his resignation said that the proposed changes in the constitution will bring actually change of the balance of 3 branches of power in russia and he wants to give both in free hands to do that in the proper way or xandra many things to do it xandra go for the reporting live from. Were going to weather update next here on aljazeera then one thing we can be certain is that other trade relation will get worse over time the u. S. And china signed phase one of a much anticipated trade deal with look at the winners and losers. Of the cease fire in libya is over. The top official moral toward Khalifa Haftar his forces attack areas close to trickle in. Hello again welcome back to International Weather forecast well here across much of the middle east things are looking too bad we are going to be picking up some rain though here across parts of western saudi arabia over the next few days and were going to be seeing that rain actually off the red sea not so much here on thursday but by the time we get towards friday notice the active weather right here that is going to continue to make its way towards medina as well down towards mecca maybe a shower by the evening timeframe we do expect to see attempts there of about 30 degrees well for the northern part of africa course were still dealing with the heavy rain across parts of coastal libya as well as into egypt that is going to continue with some winds as well as we go from thursday as well as into friday cairo you can even see a shower too as we go towards friday temps are dropping to about 17 degrees there but up towards tunis much Better Weather with a temperature of about 15 degrees and then here across much of Southern Africa we are going to be seeing some very heavy rain over towards medigap over the next few days in the Mozambique Channel we do have a circulation we are watching thats going to bring some very heavy rain across 1st towards northern madagascar and as we go towards friday that will start to slide a little bit more towards the south even parts of mozambique you could be seeing some very heavy rain over the next few days but for cape town it is going to be a few showers in the forecast at 23. 00. Frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires usage really well going to the politics Climate Change informed opinion the economy i think is actually whats keeping damo truck afloat right now critical debate sequel on those 2 schoolchildren know what the law is on a bogus argument is astonishingly patronize an indepth analysis of the days headlines this is the beginning of a new iraq of a new conscious and aware youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on aljazeera. Rooted. Well again this is al jazeera but so much of the main news this hour u. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is they of the 7 member team that will lead President Trumps a peach but trial in the senate the u. S. House of representatives just years of votes to hand over the impeachment charges to the senate trial is expected to begin on thursday. Russias Prime MinisterDmitry Medvedev has resigned just hours after president Vladimir Putin proposed changes to the constitution the president had suggested the Prime Minister should be appointed by parliament and said hed like to see a referendum on that and other changes. The u. S. And china have signed a deal that could help end a trade war between the worlds 2 largest economies its the 1st phase of an agreement that aims to reduce some u. S. Tariffs on chinese goods and get china to buy more American Goods some tariffs are expected to stay in place until phase 2 of their reconciliation after serious katrina new reports from beijing. Is waited 2 years chinese exporters have been hoping for a trade deal with the United States this week chinese negotiators are in washington to sign one of the socalled phase one deal to spend additional u. S. Tarps on nearly 160000000000. 00 worth of chinese goods the agreement also seeks to expand u. S. Access to Chinese Markets strengthen intellectual Property Protection and marilee u. S. Trade deficit with china according to washington beijing has promised to almost double u. S. Imports to china over the next 2 years increasing purchases of Agricultural Energy and manufactured goods by 200000000000. 00 the chinese analysts say that figure is unrealistic if china does come into 200000000000. 00 and that means china is making big compromise but it also means that in later stage the enforcement can be a very difficult thing to do. U. S. President dont trump says the agreement includes china buying 40000000000. 00 worth of American Farm goods but the Chinese Government says it wont raise its quotas on grain imports to meet u. S. Demands beijing is reluctant to divert trade from europe and south america and has so far remained silent on how far its prepared to commit itself by signing this agreement beijing is treading a fine line between preserving relations of washington and not wanting to appear weak chinas leaders say this is an opportunity to set aside tensions the u. S. But now focused on the slowing economy and toppling obviously and officials here expect more far reaching trade talks to last through. A phase 2 deal has been planned but there are other sticking points including beijings plan to dominate global High Tech Industries under its made in china 2025 initiative growing anti China Sentiment ahead of the elections in the u. S. May also influence any upcoming negotiations we also took the toughest ever actually cares. Was we just received a breakthrough its just really hard to predict where the next move is on but one thing we can be certain is that odd a trade relation will get worse over time since the competition between the 2 contraries a well persist. For now many chinese manufacturers are probably feeling relieved over the deal may not be a long Term Solution it does deliver enough for some optimism. Aljazeera fading irans president has reiterated his call for all foreign troops to leave the middle east. Says that american troops are not safe in the region for the 1st time hes also warned that european soldiers. Quote may be in danger the comments come off to germany france and britain call for action against half robert violating the 2015 nuclear deal. Be called a little. Stop making mistakes return to the j c p o a we are ready return and choose a path that leads to the stability and security of the region an american trooper today is insecure and tomorrow the european soldier may face the same insecurity lets establish security we dont want insecurity in the world we want to get out of this region of course not by war but by wisdom lets walk a path that is to the interest of the world and the region. Afshin shah is a senior lecturer in International Relations and middle east policy at the university of bradfords and says the domestic pressure may force irans leaders to the negotiating table. We have seen the admission of defeat by the you would forget that over the last 2 or 3 years for 3 reasons for on and german before congress a blacksheep Foreign Policy before one of the most important part of the consensus maybe in the European Union and despite the defiant despite the resistance the offer of the United States in from a trump into power youve made it very clear despite the disagreement with the most important power in the globe they want to maintain their commitment for for the deal well the moment you want to bring basically a net Foreign Policy to move the moment you want to bring in a new Missile Program or Defense Program into the equation youre going to take some very serious impediment having said that if you look at the history of Islamic Republic over 40 years any time the face and existential crisis very quickly they d seem to be willing to make some serious fundamental compromises and they feel what is happening at the moment in iran iran seems to be 6 to 9 week on thursday of how people argue that you know im never ever been the freak over the last 40 years so given the internal political dynamics given the legitimacy quite so are facing at the moment and the pressure from the with if its not completely false mitch well you dont want to go back to the negotiation well for everything that is the limit despite the fact that they would be willing to negotiate i very much doubt that they would like to be proper about 7. Us foreign minister is in baghdad to try to deescalate tension after the u. S. Strike that killed a top iranian general in iraq. Has called on all sides to respect iraqi sovereignty. And what. This visit comes at a critical time witnessed by iraq and the region my visit aims at having talks with these excellently the foreign minister of iraq about how to keep iraq away from conflict tensions are all over the place and everyone and every country have to decrease tensions that are together with some friendly countries trying to decrease the tension we have made some contacts internationally for more consultations with our allies today we see signs of decreasing tensions and we hope these continues what. We discussed ways to decrease tension in our region we have our common efforts and allies where the iran or the United States our talks have been based on this relationship and weve concentrated on iraq not being seen the regional conflicts we support free navigation in the gulf and we need to go for countries to make their own decisions and supervise the freedom of maritime activities in this area. In baghdad and says that there seems to be a huge emphasis on unity. Judging by the language that both Foreign Ministers use the key word that kept being used was sovereignity iraqs sovereignty and this is a very crucial moment in iraqs history where people here are actually very worried that the u. S. And iran will use this as a battleground for their fight and now many iraqis that you speak to are looking to outsiders to try and help us certainly here in the Foreign Ministry i was speaking to people before the press conference began and the other word that was being used was crucial this was a crucial visit for the iraqis to try and calm down tensions now remember shaikh to mean the it. Was actually in tehran just a few days ago he held meetings with all the key players there and now his foreign minister is in baghdad with the same message that things need to be right so it looks like council is getting involved it looks like cattle has a message to bring to the people of iraq and the leaders of iraq and after this visit to the Foreign Ministry will be meeting with the speaker of the parliament the president and the Prime Minister. In libya fighting has resumed to cease fire talks stalled the un recognized government tripoli says that its forces lost the war most colorful half to a showing position south of the capital turkey and russia brokered the truce ankara says that its too early to say but the deal has collapsed. Is the general director of the libyan think tank the setback institute he says enforcing the libya arms embargo would be more effective for another peace conference. The fact is a simple i think there are a very very different measures in your state for what will really be progress in libya the 1st and and most glaringly obvious one is that an arms embargo and that has been piloted over the last 9 months and many many years before would really kind of take away the military means that continued this war and that that would be a better precept that they didnt want that moment but if you allow for the pockets of macedonian issue so really are the regular supply lines so room you drove online havent you you know. Given the security there at the last 9 months if you are allowed to do all those things then how will you approach its only going to be the same objectives that is for him to achieve on the ground through military means which is that take over the government and all of the economic and Political Solutions in tripoli so its almost going to be you know always that strong arming up in berlin by other means or over other ways in the philippines some 40000 people have been forced to leave their homes as they tal volcano spanners and lava into the air several new cracks open in the ground nearby and Scientists Say that a big eruption could be on its way they want the area completely evacuated. From the bride is near the volcano of batangas province and says that the government may have to adopt stricter measures to get people to leave. A lot of anxious eyes now cast towards the whole volcano to see what it might do next tens of thousands of people from around the lake here have a left or they are seeking sanctuary in Evacuation Centers but the government has a set of potential danger zone of some 14 kilometers radius which is a big area all around this lake where some half a 1000000 people are located urging them all to leave and as they do so it does seem as though this wednesday afternoon the government may be taking tougher measures to try to force people to move away from here this wednesday afternoon they have suddenly the city and also the Tourism Department given an order that all the hotels the restaurants guest houses around this lake be closed down everyone should move out that is why we are here we have had to leave like everybody else were now at a roadside further around the lake and the dust that you see around us is not and i think that has come from usually from the volcano but this is all of the action dust that was spread on sunday on monday across a huge area of the island of luzon which still obviously hasnt been cleared with the traffic and as the winds whip up during the day it all the once more start circulating people have been looking at the volcano looking at the plumes of smoke and ash which have been getting left it has to be said of the last day or so but the vulcanologist here the experts vulcanologist weve been visiting have been telling us that the other readings do seem to indicate that its still a big eruption could well be imminent things like the amount of sulfur in the air the intensity and the frequency of some of these tremors and earthquakes i mean this that to heart still remains potentially very dangerous. Ok lets go live to work capitol hill all in washington d. C. Where the house to paint on him the impeachment managers resolution has begun speaking now is republican jerry nadler the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee lets listen then to the debate beyond doubt the president s betrayal and violations of the constitution but we still have not heard the whole truth because the president has refused to allow a single document to be turned over to the house in response to our impeachment subpoenas and he has prevented us from hearing key witnesses as well this is unprecedented our speakers lead our fight for a fair trial in the senate above all a fair trial must include additional documents and all relevant witnesses the American People have common sense they know that any trial that does not allow witnesses is not a trial it is a cover up the speakers insistence on this point has gotten results just yesterday we received critical new evidence from the president s former associate late pinus that further proves mr trumps scheme to pressure ukraine to go after his personal political opponents new witness testimony has become available as well including john boltons announcement that he would honor a Senate Subpoena under todays resolution the managers also have Broad Authority to submit to the senate any additional evidence the house may acquire on its own and we will do so the senate is on trial we will see whether they conduct a fair trial and allow the witnesses or conduct a cover up todays resolution is the next step in this serious and and i just you know process i urge my colleagues to vote yes on the resolution shannon gentleman from georgia. Thank you madam speaker this impeachment process has been flawed from the outset it resembles not a congressional action it resembles more a dr seuss book knowing not which way it goes on september 24th press the speaker declared at a press conference the house was conducting an impeachment inquiry however to the contrary to the speakers decree that she knew that we were all of a sudden impeachment inquiry the house did not authorize the impeachment inquiry until october 31st by adopting h. R. 660 it is just said just a moment ago that the speaker has been leading the fight for a fair trial in the senate i wish the speaker had been leading for a fair hearing in the house instead of trashing our rules for those 71 out of 78 days from the time it was announced at a press conference to the time we finished the president was not permitted to participate in these meetings think about it 71. 00 days out of 78. 00 in which we actually did something on impeachment is not presented to the ability to crossexamine fact witnesses present counterarguments no due process at all in those 71. 00 days when presented with the opportunity when it came to the Judiciary Committee instead of the Judiciary Committee stepping up and actually acting like the usually committee of the committee of impeachment we put on it we had a couple of some law professors who already had their you know basic talking points he could have been crossexamined them that would have done a lot of good then we could have had quick staffers who testified again lot of good where were the fact witnesses instead of the rubber stamp that we were warned about 20 years ago by the current chairman we became the rubber stamp democrats repeatedly