A former Chechen Rebel here in berlin have angered german lawmakers and questions mounting after new zealands volcanic eruption with the death toll rising to 68 people missing in dozens severely injured people are asking why tours were well there in the 1st place. Im burnt off its good to have you with us we begin tonight in the United States where democrats on capitol hill have concluded that President Donald Trump should be impeached for abusing his powers and for obstructing congress the speaker of the house nancy pelosi and the heads of investigative committees announced 2 articles of impeachment today the democrats accused of soliciting foreign interference in next years president ial election and of attempting to conceal from Congress Evidence of the president s actions. Heres how the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee adam schiff described the president s actions the president solicited a foreign nation ukraine to publicly announce investigations into his opponent and a baseless Conspiracy Theory promoted by russia to help his Reelection CampaignPresident Trump abused the power of his office by conditioning to official acts to get ukraine to help israel action the release of hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid that nation desperately needed and a white house meeting with an ally trying to fend off russian aggression in so doing he undermined our National Security and jeopardized the integrity of our next election and he does so still are there was and should speaking earlier lets take this story now to washington our correspondent all over salat is on the story for us good evening to you oliver so weve got 2 articles of impeachment walk us through tell us exactly what they tell us. Well brant number one the 1st article of impeachment the most important one perhaps is abuse of power and that is basically at the heart of the impeachment inquiry and goes back to that now infamous ukraine phone call between President Trump and president of a lot of mayors a lenski back in july the allegations made the allegation made here is that trump pressured selenski and ukraine to interfere in the 2020 Election Campaign of the United States not number 2 the 2nd article of impeachment made is obstruction of Congress Interesting lee that theyd spec to right after the inquiry began and essentially that President Trump instructed the white house to not cooperate with the inquiry he instructed his aides to withhold documents and even prevented them to testify on capitol hill and that could have been another a 3rd article of impeachment by the democrats really decided to focus on ukraine as they were afraid that they could weaken their case if they extend that impeachment inquiry in the articles here and we knew that the democrats in the u. S. House theyre convinced that the president will be impeached and should be removed from office has there been reaction today from the u. S. President. Well absolutely and President Trump took to twitter in his usual fashion and he called the allegation ridiculous he also pointed out that the ukrainian side to confirm that there was no pressure made and thats by the by the way the typical line of defense that weve been getting from the republicans here in recent weeks is interesting lee he didnt deny that he was seeking help for his 2020 Election Campaign the republicans have been standing very much united until now their strategy has been to discredit the inquiry sort of like arguing the democrats are afraid to lose their reelection at the to lose the election excuse me in 2020 now later there was a press conference of the House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy all of the republicans lets listen in what he had to say the speaker is more concerned about tearing the president down instead of building the country up this is the day that Alexander Hamilton feared and warned it would come this is the day the nation is weaker because they surely cannot put their animosity or their fear of losing an election in the future in front of all the other things that the American People want to know over despite. Those complaints by the republicans we are in a situation now where we could easily see the u. S. President impeached before christmas right. Thats right on thursday the Judiciary Committee wants to vote on these articles and that would open the way for a house floor wold so the house of representatives will vote on articles of impeachment as soon as next week and that in turn would trigger that socalled senate trial in january but lets not forget its unlikely the president will be removed from office as a result of that due to a republican majority here so the democrats are hoping for a shift in the Public Opinion despite all of this bi partisan animosity in washington today the democrats signed on to the president s new north american tree deal why are they giving giving trump such a huge political victory today. Well they dont see this necessarily the democrats dont see this as a major victory and nancy pelosi the speaker of the house talked about improvements that were being made to that initial deal itself for instance there were a stronger environmental and labor standards and all part of that trade deal between the United States mexico and canada and also if you want to look at the date most of the air time and you know off the News Coverage today is consumed by impeachment so its definitely not that dominating news story that President Trump was hoping for our correspondent in washington all over sell it on the story for us tonight all over thank you. Well heres a round of the other stories that are making headlines around the world ethiopias Prime Minister ill be off meds has received the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in norway the Nobel Committee praised for his efforts to end 2 decades of conflict with ethiopias longtime Enemy Territory while being warned of that militant groups continue to pose a threat to peace in the region Alberto Fernandez has been sworn in as president of argentina he accepted the president ial sash from his predecessor in receipt of mockery in his inaugural speech the center left politician val to put the peoples needs ahead of repaying argentinas Foreign Debts his Vice President is former president Cristina Fernandez thickish. What he said and the fact that he said it russian president Vladimir Putin is drawing the anger of german lawmakers over his comments about a former Chechen Rebel who was murdered here in berlin last august german prosecutors say the killing may have been a hit job ordered by the kremlin last week germany expelled 2 Russian Diplomats over the case putin has denied any involvement on monday at a press conference with Angela Merkel he told reporters that the man who was killed got what he deserved and that german lawmakers they should be happy about that. Mogul and putin both still had something to clarify the meeting in paris should actually have been about ukraine but merkel was concerned about something else. Really was shot twice in the head at close range in broad daylight at the end of august in central berlin a targeted assassination. The suspect a russian citizen was later arrested gradually investigators gathered evidence indicating russian intelligence may have been involved in the killing. As a result berlin expelled 2 Russian Diplomats from germany the reason russia did not cooperate in the investigation of the case. At the joint press conference in paris the russian president shot back he said the georgian who was killed it was a killer himself. That. He was a bandit a bloodthirsty brutal person with among other things he was involved in planning an attack on the moscow subway i dont know what happened to him but if someone associates with such criminals anything can happen. German politicians were outraged by those comments. If indeed evil plot from clydebank president putins choice of words was inappropriate you know weve all im appalled that he was trying to justify your murder by implying the victim was a terrorist the reason. Thats for the courts to decide what will tie and it was insofar as its very cynical what the russian president has said and for us germans its intolerable that what was apparently a contract killing took place on german soil. Putin has complained that expelling the 2 diplomats was unjust he said german diplomats would be expelled in retaliation the the german chancellor appealed to russia to cooperate because he did also. Get off on a lie think the russian side will share information with us in any event that would be a good thing he just wont let the circumstances of his death are still being determined federal prosecutors have taken over the investigation Zelin Khan Congo shrilly had long been afraid of being attacked and had already reported his fears to German Authorities and 2017 here. In new zealand the death toll in mondays volcanic eruption is risen to 68 people are still missing and presumed dead dozens are injured many with severe burns search teams are not returning to the volcanic island they feel that it could erupt again last week the threat level on the island was raised so why were tourists stillwell to venture so chords to a volcano that was ready to roll. It is a search operation because rescuers consider it unlikely 1st responders are flying over for carry island after the volcano erupted on monday afternoon local time 47 people were on the island during the eruption most of them had a narrow escape but a few are still miss. Singh with little hope of finding them alive. The scale of this tragedy its devastating police and Defense Force personnel have undertaken a number of aerial reconnaissance flights over the island since the eruption however no signs of life have been detected. Clark was one of the 1st on the scene after the catastrophe hit the paramedic flew in by helicopter what he saw when he arrived was shocking. There was just it was just plain to the nation it was it was quite quite a. Bit overwhelming response there was a helicopter on the wall and it did it all sleeping there at the time. With its right of lights were off it. Authorities believe the bodies of the missing people remain on the island but they say its too dangerous to recover them they feel the volcano crew up to get some people still wait to hear from their loved ones. We do know if i were on the all. Safe. Said this morning. It was on they had. Knowledge of 4. I was missing but i didnt come up 3. So. We think i might be most with. The new Zealand Police have said they launched an investigation scientists have noted an uptick in volcanic activity in recent weeks the question to be answered why were people allowed so close to a disaster apparently waiting to happen sports to be Champions League now in title holders liverpool have secured their place in the market stage of this seasons tournament liverpool won 2 nil against red bull salzburg they go through as winners a group with 2nd placed italian side napoli also qualify. The woman with the voice that made rudd said famous all over the world has died singer Marie Fredrickson passed away on monday at the age of 61 the swedish pop star died after a long battle with cancer were going to take a short break but 1st well listen and remember to the voice of rock sets and the songs that we all know by heart. That. Was facebook and twitter. Today to get in touch. Head of things this is the new ball speaking when i come to the show with a ding dong ha. Concert. 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