And what happens to indigenous villagers in indonesia when Palm Oil Plantations take over . Voiceover live from our studios in london and singapore. This is bbc news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, iam in the morning in london and 8pm in washington, as donald trump is set to become only the third president in us history to face an impeachment trial in congress. The democrats have said they will start drafting what are called articles of impeachment, accusing the president of abusing his powers for personal gain. There are major obstacles ahead, but its a significant moment in a troubled presidency. Nick bryant reports from washington. On capitol hill today, the battlelines started being marked out for an epic political fight. A process likely now to lead to the trial of donald trump, a constitutional spectacle seen only twice before in the turbulent history of america. The Democratic House speaker, nancy pelosi, is now ready to move forward with drafting the articles
President trump has hit back at democrats in the house of representatives, who have announced articles of impeachment against him. Mr trump said they were crazy and that he would win a trial in the senate, which is republican controlled. On capitol hill today, the battlelines started being marked out for an epic political fight. A process likely now to lead to the trial of donald trump, a constitutional spectacle seen only twice before in americas turbulent history. The Democratic House speaker, nancy pelosi, is now ready to move forward with drafting the articles of impeachment, a charge sheet, in effect, accusing the president of high crimes and misdemeanors. Sadly, but with confidence and humility, with allegiance to our founders and a heart full of love for america, today, i am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. The democrats havee accused donald trump of undermining american democracy by trying to get political dirt from the president of ukraine, volodymy
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Hand. To the east from novoprokopovka to verbovov there are oncoming battles. Well, kupinsk is getting closer and closer. And the hysteria of ukrainian talking heads is getting stronger. According to the walker of the kharkov region, sinegubov. In the limankupinsky direction , the russian army concentrated a fist of 100,000 soldiers. Soon he will begin his new offensive. Handles for holding on, comfortable, almost like in the kievskaya minibus , the seats are the same soft, its also true armor, its true that armor is a few centimeters above you, this is the kind of transport on the front line, this is the turkish kirby. Before we have time to get to the positions, on the horizon, the cubs break again. The enemys air strikes have just worked, theyve dropped aerial bombs again, we can see the smoke from the arrivals is dissipating on the horizon, thats how it is here at the front, its hot every day, especially now when its sunny the weather is just the right time for enemy aircraft to ar
Newsroom. The number of people waiting to start routine hospital treatment has hit a record high of 7. 68 million. Its the highest number since records began in august two thousand and seven. Earlier, the government announced the nhs will receive. £200 million to will receive. £200 million to help the service in the coming winter. Labour says the monies are sticking plaster, but the Prime Minister says the government is trying to improve waiting times. Waiting times. Well winter is always a challenging time for the nhs and this year we started planning for winter earlier than ever before. Today were announcing before. Today were announcing £200 million, which will go to the nhs to help build extra capacity and resilience for this winter season, making sure that patients can care that patients can get the care that they need. Earlier this year, we also announced the long term workforce plan , making sure that workforce plan, making sure that for the first time we train more doctors a