Sinks off africas west coast. And protests against Pension Reforms take a violent turn in paris and other french cities. And with a week to go until for borisay a boost johnsons conservatives. [music] hello. An historic step. Speaker nancy pelosi has asked the u. S. House of representatives to draft thecles of impeachment, formal charges against President Trump. By says he abused his power with holding military aid to ukraine intoe investigating a political rival. A vote could be held in the next couple of weeks, setting up a the senate on whether the remove trump from office. Reporter its official. Sadly, but with confidence humility, with allegiance to our founders and a heart full of love for america, today i am asking our chairman to proceed of impeachment. Reporter donald trump will become the fourth president in history to face formal impeachment charges that could remove him from office. The facts are uncontested. The president abused his power for his own personal political benefit at the expense of our security by withholding ovalary aid and Crucial Office meeting, in exchange for an announcement of an politicalion into his rival. Reporter the white house says abusing their power and lying to the american people. Are you from earned to say impeachment might have on your legacy . Its a big fat hoax. Big question the in washington is what these articles of impeachment will be. Housert by the Intelligence Committee makes a case for abuse of power and of congress, stemming from the ukraine investigation. Thoseen there are still lingering concerns from the earlier russia investigation. July, special Counsel Robert Mueller told congress that while there was no evidence trump had colluded with russia to win the be6 election, there may evidence that he did you actually totally exonerate the president . No. Reporter the very next day, trump told the president of phone thatr the mueller had, quote, a poor performance. Then, according to the call for anipt, trump asked investigation into his political rival. Calledutional scholars by democrats have testified that trumps impeachable offenses go the ukraine phone call. I think the way you need to ask about this is, how does it the pattern of behavior by the president . Reporter republicans counter have been trying to remove trump since the day he took office. Theyve always wanted to impeach the president. You watch them at their words, actions,m at their watch what they have done. Reporter the democratic majority in the house will trump vote to impeach before christmas. Then the senate, dominated by president s own party, will put trump on trial in the new year. Al jazeera, washington. On a separate fight with the democrats, President Trump has asked the u. S. Supreme court to block an investigation into his finances. The president has petitioned the court to keep his financial records out of the hands of a congressional panel. That comes after a lower court ruled that the panel could the documents held by firm. S accounting the chief Investigative Reporter news joins us live now from washington, d. C. To talk more about impeachment. Much for being with us now. I want to ask you, first of all, fact that this impeachment inquery has not moved Public Opinion significantly in the u. S. Up to this point, especially among perfectans, do you ex that to expect that to change as the process moves forward to offting articles impeachment, in a full house vote, and then the likely trial in the senate . Look, nobody really knows how to shake out politically. This is worth noting that weve nowmore than two months since the transcript of the president s phone call with emerged. And, of course, then there was two weeks of public hearings in november. Was a spike in those who wanted to see the president removed, after the release of the transcript, the needle really hasnt moved much f. You look at the Public Opinion polls, theyre still pretty much where they a few months ago with roughly half the country, about 50 , who do want to see the president impeached and removed from office. And then, you know, 42 , 43 , opposed with, you know, a 7 ,l number, 5 , 6 , undecided on the issue. One can ask, if the needle did after two weeks of public hearings, whether its in the days and weeks ahead. Say. Hard to not much evidence of that. Thats why this is a bit of a gamble for democrats politically. But i should say, when this does go to trial in the senate, and it will next month, the level of and coverageion will exceed anything weve seen to date. Possible that more people will be watching, paying thention, listening to testimony, so there could be some shift during the course of in the senate. And what do you expect to be impeachment . This because up to now, its all been about ukraine. Think it might include the aspects of the Mueller Investigation at all . That be politically wise, given that the general consensus is that the Mueller Report kind of landed with a thud . Yeah. Look, there are a lot of progressives, particularly on the house judiciary committee, which will be drafting the articles of impeachment next do want to expand the scope of this impeachment to include instances of alleged obstruction that were detailed report. Ueller perhaps another article relating because of the president s retention in his collectinginess, and revenues from foreign governments and foreigners who who stay at the trump hotel in washington. But it does appear that Speaker Pelosi and the Democratic Leaders are not looking favorably at that. They are likely to oppose articles, specifically addressing those issues, although you might see a obstructionan article that references the conduct in prior relation to the mueller probe. And what historical can we draw here when it comes to impeachment . Mentioned how politically polarized the country is right now. But how does this particular impeachment compare with the impeachment cases against president bill clinton 20 years ago and richard nixon, going beforere than 20 years that . Yeah. Well, look, impeachment is by its nature polarizing in and of itself. And we do have this incredibly polarized climate right now in washington where theres no consensus among democrats and republicans about any of the issues relating to the president s conduct so far. Theres no indication that any republicans are going to vote for impeachment, which purelyhat this will be a partisan move by the democrats. You know, there was certainly a polarization during the clinton impeachment, which i was around for 20 years ago. But if anything, its gotten a lot worse. And in part, because of the stratification of the media. You have a media environment today where everybody watches the cable channel that their own prejudices. Everybody follows the people on reinforce their preconceptions about whats going on. Hard forakes it really one side to break through and persuade somebody on the other. Good to talk to you, michael. Being with much for us. President Lopez Obrador says he has had a good the u. S. Attorney general on the threat of drug cartels. Weekam barrs visit was a after President Trump said he wanted to designate the drug as terrorists. Obrador said he was against any but intervention in mexico is happy to work with washington to fight the surge in violent crime. Month, nine dual u. S. Citizens were killed by members. Gang the government says it will migrantste after 63 drowned off the coast. More than 80 survivors managed after theirhore boat capsized. But they were described as exhausted and starving. The worst loss of life this year along the western atlantic route to europe. The group is thought to have ago, heading week north. Their boat foundered off the northern mauritania, around 25 kilometers north. They were trying to make their way north along eventually reach europe through spain. The number of crossings on the western route have risen. The European Union says more come21,000 people have that way so far this year. Central11,000 use the route. While the largest number, more the 60,000, have taken eastern route from turkey to greece. Reporter is in mauritanias capital. 83 people managed to swim to the shore and they were military police, outside the northern city, in the early evening hours yesterday. Those people gave more news about what happened. Boat capsized off the shore. Days,at after about 10 being stranded there, running out of fuel and so on. Gave more details. And scores of people, at least people, are still missing. They are supposed to be, of course, dead. On thatd children were boat coming from gambia. The majority of the migrants country of gambia. Thats a small nation in west africa. One of those poor countries that supply this migration into europe. The story is still unfolding. Those people who escaped are treated. While we dont have much information about whats happening to the bodies are return them to their countries of origin, or are they going to be buried there . And from the International Organization for migration. He says people are being exploited by smuggers. Can smugglers. I think we can fairly assume this is the result of a vessel overcrowded. Over 150 people aboard and out of fuel. It speaks really to the callousness to the smugglers, the smuggling operation, who, of money, have made their and disappeared into the wilderness. That is basically the problem are beingle exploited. We can imagine they are deeply traumatized. Are there, helping with the mauritania authorities. But people will need medical need to then will establish whats their origin, theyre fromstand gambia, and try and help them return in as dignified a way as possible. The tragedy of all this is theres no happy solution for these routes,e especially when things like this happen. Up backntually end where they started. The only winner is the smuggler. Talks between major Oil Exporters have wrapped up in austria. Nightent eight into the at opecs headquarters in vienna. The oil cartel has been cutting for the past three years. But a further reduction is boost the price of fuel. Heres more from vienna on the consensus in the group. Reporter what we know so far is tot most members have agreed cut about half a million 1. 2els, in addition to the billion barrels that opec has already cut from its output since 2017. That number to 1. 7 million barrels. The division here and the be on who getso to cut how much. Countries like saudi arabia have that theyg the case have been doing most of the heavy lifting and noncompliant as iraq anduch nigeria, need to do more. That they we saw venezuelas and the iranians were produce much oil. So it was easy for opec to go with these cuts. Now were seeing that the russians arrussians are pushingr making sure they comply with the oil cuts but they want some form of their be taken out quota. There is a lot of talking that has been happening for the last few hours. Hundreds of thousands of people across france are taking the countrys largest worker strikes in years. The protests turned violent in some cities, with demonstrators president Emmanuel Macrons planned Pension Reforms. From paris. Atest reporter there were people from all walks of french life, and lawyers,dents joined transport and Health Workers in central paris. A nationwide strike, protesting against the governments plans to reform the Pension System. Fear the changes would force them to work for more payouts. Reduce their we are here to try and preserve our Pension System, one europe. Est in we dont want to go backwards. Reporter macrons macrons reforms are destroying french society. It looks like well have to retire even later, that well have even less money in our pensions. Reporter the demonstration was mainly peaceful but there were some clashes between police and bloc anarchist protesters. 6,000 Police Officers were deployed in the city. Spokespersonnit said many of them would have wanted to join the strike. A lot of them wanted to come. But we had only half today that was allowed. So we do not have the right to go and strike. So, yes, its difficult for us. Reporter the strike caused across theption city. There was little public transport. Most schools were shut. Even the eiffel tower was forced to close. The french president says the Pension System needs to be streamlined to make it fairer and save public money. Major test for a Emmanuel Macron because he made reforming the Pension System one promises. Paign so if he gives in to the protesters and scraps his political will be a failure. So far, the french president is showing no signs of backing down. Since the beginning of its mandate, the government has reforms that many would have believed would be almost impossible. But they managed to push them through, despite the challenges and risks. Reporter macron may not want to make concessions. But if the disruption continues, he may have to rethink. Areough most people expected to return to work this say, some transport workers they wont give up their fight and will continue to strike. Al jazeera, paris. A professoraryay is at the university of london. He says even though the pension havent beens ironed out, people are still concerned. I think macron has been, so far, very cautious, because he very sensitive topic. Years ago, it led to the resignation of the Prime Minister. So hes very careful about it. Hes walking on a minefield. Ready toe will be be to make concessions. It will depend on the agreement on strike andople himself. And i think for the time being, its only days, because we dont yet the contents of the bill. I think its a preemptive strike, if you like, because are very wary and afraid of what might be in the bills. What also is quite remarkable is normally it is a would betrike which involving people working in the public sector. Thats not the case this time around. People, independent workers, farmers, lawyers, people working in the private professionals, so that shows how big and the scale for bill,rry regarding this which we dont know about yet exactly. Ready toly macron is make concessions. But i think he shall be looking at how many people are still in the street today and in the next few days. We shall see then. All right. Plenty more to come on this news hour. Lebanon voicing their anger at an impending deal new primee a minister. A waya struggles to find forward after weeks of political turmoil. And saudi arabia meets qatar in arabiancally charged gulf cup semifinal. [music] our british Prime Minister, johnson, has received a Political Boost just a week until the u. K. Election. Four members of the European Parliament have abandoned Nigel Farages brexit party to back the conservatives. They say only a victory for ensure the u. K. Leaves the European Union. The issue of brexit has dominated the election and torn up old party alliances. Main Opposition Labor Party has promised to hold a second it wins next week. A placeports now from that voted overwhelmingly to leave the e. U. In the 2016 arerendum and where voters now turning their backs on labor. Reporter british politics have time felt like a game during the past few years, albeit one with no winners. Hartley poole has been a labor town for more than half a century. Seven out of 10 people here voted to leave the e. U. In the and the brexit party has made this a target. Longheld political loyalists are being cast aside. In itple dont believe now, because a majority of out. E wanted it will be a tussle between conservatives, brexit, because we left europe. It doesnt mean nothing, because if you dont like it in the house of commons, well have again, till they get what they want. Reporter many are disillusioned altogether, and with good reason. For years, governments have been accused of doing little to help this. Like this is still big business but decades of deindustrialization led to high levels of unemployment. Labor has a long history of doing well here. But this is an election like no other in recent times. Unpredictable. And the stakes, of course, couldnt be higher. Pool,e people of hartley what they want more than anything is their voices to be heard and their lives to improve. 53 reporter at the Community Center in one of the most deprived areas of the country, keeping count. Life can be challenging here, but people help each other out and they want real change. Its about getting people who proper wage, help them live together. Looms larget brexit in areas like this where people voted to leave the e. U. Punishingould mean parties at the polls. If ever a brexit mp, that be extraordinary. A party thats been around for has gotight months who no connection here and they vote would him elected, that be extraordinary and would Biggest Issuegle in their lives or at least the element of democracy remains the Biggest Issue in the lives. Reporter all parties are promising to improve the lives people. Ary politics since the e. U. Deeply divided e. U. Society. The issue of brexit could end up deeper split at the ballot box when it comes to the result. Lebanon is expected to nominate its new Prime Minister monday. He is a businessman with connections to the ruling elite. Toears to be the favorite replace. Thats angered both antiestablishment protesters who are demanding a complete change at the top and the sunni community. Reporter the numbers are a lot during the early days of the uprising that began almost two months ago. Against the governing elite persist in areas of lebanon, especially after it announced that formal parliament concentrations to appoint a Prime Minister to head a new government will be held on monday. Revolutionce the started, weve been calling in the ruling class has been accused of corruption. Theyre now working on forming a new government which includes the same political parties, which means theyre not listening to our demands. Reporter the successful businessman with no political experience is likely to be nominated for Prime Minister. His ties with the political elite has enraged protesters. Emerged after a caretaker Prime Minister hadidi withdrew his candidacy. His position was rejected by the governing alliance. Second choice the for the political powers, namely hezbollah. Preferred that hadidi to have this dual government because they need this National Unity government. Toy need the sunni, actually face the international pressure. Reporter its not just protesters who are against his nomination. The religious establishment hasnt endorsed him. The post of Prime Minister is muslim andr a sunday system. Nlebanons power sharig politicians are accusing the president and his allies of violating the constitution. Say the president should have called for binding confronts. Ry this, they explained, weakens the position of the head of whose jurisdiction is to choose his ministers and present the lineup to parliament for approval. Whether mondays meeting will go ahead isnt certain. The governing alines is led by led bys alliance is the hezbollah group. It knows a government that allnt have the support of sects is unlikely to receive the International Financial assistance badly needed to revive the economy. After weeks of political than 30that left more people dead, bolivians are wary of new election. Longtime president morales is in while in mexico. He resigned following of voter fraud. From la paz. Rt reporter the long term president , and the protesters and deaths that followed, a tense calm prevails in bolivia. Is functioning at least, under an interim government, but its also in waiting for fresh elections that have yet to be called. [speaking foreign language] the best thing would be for elections. Democratic elections without the the last president did, and that it happens soon, paralyzede country is in certain aspects. With a new elected government, better. Ill be reporter meanwhile, the interim unelecteds administration has been busy, radically altering the countrys Foreign Policy and accusing venezuela of causing the recent upheaval. Mr. Maduro, using his cousin, the terror that bolivians have experienced in recent days. Colombians are experiencing. This is really a conspiracy against latin america. [speaking foreign language] closer to home, morales has sedition andof heading up a narco network. Charges are also against other members of his party. Of whativians are happy they see as a rooting out of institutionalized corruption. Interim government is acting to bring to light the lastrities that the government committed. So it would be good that they longer. A bit reporter others see it as a Revenge Mission from conservatives finally back in pour. Countrys next president was due to take up the rak reign frm 22nd of january. Thats not going to happen now. Meanwhile, the interim is taking actions which, while it and its are necessary to clean up the country and bring. Resh direction to to others, it cares the whiff of political persecution. Expresident morales said there had been a
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