Im Maryam Namazie in london with the top stories from europe including the rich and powerful begin to descend on dallas for the World Economic forum and the Climate Crisis is top of the agenda and ive had a similar dispute over the concerns its rain which hampers the opening day of the Australian Open for the court under the roof to framing. The lights the crow. Thank you very much for joining us 2 iraqi protesters have been killed in baghdad where Security Forces used tear gas and live ammunition another has died in the central city of karbala further south demonstrators try to cut off the main highway to the oil rich province of basra well be live to baghdad in just a moment but 1st this report from a man caught. In one of the main squares in central Baghdad Police and protesters confront each other it again in the early hours of monday as protesters tried to block the road leading to the square they want a change of government and accuse the current one of corruption a cool had gone
welcome to the program the us senate republican leader mitch mcconnell has announced the rules that will govern president trump s impeachment trial and the designed to end the proceedings as quickly as possible trump s lawyers have filed papers calling the case against him flimsy the 2 articles of impeachment to accuse the president of abusing his power and obstruction of congress the trial is to start on choose day she had returns explains what the trial process is likely to look like from washington. so each side has 24 hours to make their case every 2 days democrats wednesday thursday republicans friday saturday if they need it then we have debate cross-examination rather about 16 hours of cross-examination by the senate is. to the to the house managers and the white house lawyers this isn t done but believe though this is done through written questions given to the chief justice john roberts is for citing over over the trial and then he asks questions. following that ther
genocide against the rangar but says war crimes were committed. welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump s impeachment trial is jus to get under way later that senate republican leader mitch mcconnell has announced the rules that will govern the proceedings and they re designed to end it as soon as possible we begin our coverage with she have returns in washington d.c. . so each side has 24 hours to make their case every 2 days democrats wednesday thursday republicans friday saturday if they need it then we have debate cross-examination rather that 68 hours of cross-examination by the senate is. to the to the house managers and the white house lawyers this isn t bubbly though this is done through written questions given to the chief justice john roberts is for fighting over over the trial and then he asks questions. following that there s a debate of 4 hours on whether witnesses and documents should should be should should be entered into this this trial this is a v
Of the sanctions it was a cig nif event for the United States as well. I would be happy to entertain questions on that when we get into it. So, theres been an awful lot of listening thats gone on. And what i would say is its broken down into a couple of themes. The first theme being this theme of balance finding the sweet spot. As ive said ive spoken to an awful lot of groups similar to this diverse groups, brookings tends to have a very balanced view of things more centrist so perhaps this program resonates. Weve tried to make it a balanced program, to try to reflect all the needs that are going on up there. But the second comment that i get most constantly when i brief this to groups, to the press and in particular to the other seven countries is almost the Immediate Response is wow. Thats rather ambitious. And it is. I will lay claim to our United States program probably being the most forward leaning, most Ambitious Program thats ever been proposed during a chairmanship of the Arct
In the United States, the United States government does not own industries. Now, some of the industries that are represented within the aec from other countries are at least partially or wholly owned by if state. Theres a state interest in having those countries in there to be able to develop things within the arctic. We took a different approach. First of all, because of our culture, once again, our government does not own industries. Secondly, if we start getting too close with industry, you start running into federal Advisory Committee rules that have to be complied with. So our choice, whether you like it or dont like it, our choice early on was to turn this over to the chamber of commerce in alaska. And the chamber of commerce selected three alaskan companies to be our representatives to the aec. And the aec has only just had its first meeting. So i think there are going to be some disputes on how the aec should be used. There will be questions about how we employ it. There will b