And this weeks tv pictures may look like apocalypse now, but climate Scientists Say these fires and floods are just the start. So how are politicians framing their message on averting apocalypse ahead . My guests today chinese writer diane weiliang, american broadcaster jef mcallister, Stefanie Bolzen of german newspaper die welt, portugese writer eunice goes. Thank you for coming in. For most politicians it would have been a day to hide. A former ambassador gave startling evidence against his administration and a former close adviser was convicted on counts of lying to congress, obstruction and witness tampering. But this is donald trump and instead of hiding, the us president took to twitter to undermine the former ambassador to ukraine even as she delivered her testimony in congress. So is trump still teflon with his supporters or will his enemies succeed in tarnishing modern president ial over the course of these impeachment hearings . Jef, start us off. I think it is useful to sta
Jef, start us off. I think it is useful to stand back a little bit because donald trump is so unusual. It is very easy to go right into the horse race. 80 up, down . Letsjust stand back to think about who this quy stand back to think about who this guy is. 12,000 lives since he has been president. He has had his personal lawyer go to jail. It is well acknowledged. He is the campaign his Campaign Manager went to jail, his National Security adviser. Long time associates. The quy adviser. Long time associates. The guy he was conduit to the russians are getting the e mails. Wikileaks. This is who he is. Now lets go to the strange thing of impeachment. If there any doubt possible left from his own transcript of the coal from the interlocking witnesses, Good American bureaucrat without an axe to grind backed up by what is coming on ukraine, clearly he tried to pressure ukraine into giving data on joe biden. With any other president anyone would say, of course it is impeachable. But that is n
Hello and welcome to world news today. More than 1,000 people have been arrested in moscow, during unauthorised protests against the banning of many opposition candidates from local elections. There were scuffles as police dispersed groups of protesters, who responded with anti putin chants. The Authorities Say around 30 candidates failed to collect enough valid signatures, but the barred candidates say theyve been blocked for political reasons. From moscow, 0leg boldyrev reports. Police warned people from moscow not to come out for this unsanctioned protest but a few thousand came out anyway and soon they paid for it by being dragged into custody. The arrests were met with defiance. The police are trying to push back the protesters, who came here because the candidates they support were not allowed to participate in elections. We dont know how many people came to protest but plenty of people are angry that the candidates theyve been supporting were denied the chance to participate in
More than 1,000 people have been arrested in moscow during unauthorised protests against the banning of many opposition candidates from local elections. There were scuffles as police dispersed groups of protesters, who responded with anti putin chants. The Authorities Say around 30 candidates failed to collect enough valid signatures, but the barred candidates say they have been blocked for political reasons. From moscow, 0leg boldyrev reports. Police told muscovites not to come out for this unsanctioned protest, but a few thousand people turned up anyway, and very soon many of them paid for it by being dragged into custody. The arrests were met with defiance. So the police are trying to push back the protesters, who came here because the candidates they support were not allowed to participate in the elections. We dont know how many people came to protest, but certainly there are plenty of people angry that the candidates theyve been supporting were denied the chance to participate in
Tonight decision time for the International Olympic committee, will russia be banned from the winter games . Well be live in lausanne shortly. England are right back in the ashes root is leading the run chase in adelaide as they look to square the series. We are delighted to have any sort of chance of winning the game which we did not think we would have after the first couple of days. And its a Champions League night in europe, Manchester United need a point at home to cska to reach the knock out stages. Good evening, the International Olympic committee have been meeting at their headquarters in lausanne ahead of one of the most important decisions in their history. Whether or not to ban russia from the winter games in pyongchang next february. They are a super power in winter sport and topped the medal table when they hosted the games in sochi in 2014. The ioc stopped short of a blanket ban on russia at the summer game in rio last year. But two separate investigations coimissioned by