bret: wasn t a quirk of scheduling today or the speed of somehow stirring the democrats pot? either way, the same day the house interest articles of impeachment relating to the foot of former soviet state of ukraine. made a call on his american counterpart and president trump. correspondent rich edson shows us what happened. as house democrats and build articles of impeachment accusing the president of soliciting interference in the upcoming presidential election, the state department hosted top officials from the country that interfered in the last one. we should have a better relationship, united states and russia. secretary of state mike pompeo and russian foreign minister sergey lavrov disagreed on the election in the ference , venezuela, and ukraine.
and instability and has the latest cease-fire on the ground between turkey and syria came to an end at 11:00 eastern today, there was a nervous wait to see if violence would continue varied isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi may be dead when the territorial caliphate gone, but in this camp his ideas live on and many people fear it could be a ticking time bomb. bret. bret: benjamin hall in northern syria, thank you. while much of the global attention is understandably concentrated on syria in the middle east, other countries are facing instability in the region. hundreds are dead as violent antigovernment protests continue in iraq and demonstrations over corruption in lebanon have forced that country s prime minister to resign. state department correspondent rich edson looks at two countries facing public outrage. 18 protesters murdered in iraq as masked gunmen shoot into a crowd in the holy city of karbala. the protesters say there unsure if the shooters were right
for the second victory and look forward to it. demonstrations in iraq and lebanon joint protest across the world, including months-long demonstrations in hong kong and chile. protesters have clogged santiago after a proposed increase in subway fares and electricity rates. they are now demanding better social services and changes to the chilean constitution. president sebastian pena has replaced government ministers, offered minimum wage increases and offer higher taxes on the wealthy, concessions that have failed to satisfy these protesters. in about two and a half weeks, santiago will host a major international summit with world leaders like chinese president xi jinping and president trump expected to attend. despite these protests, the chilean government says the summit is still on. bret. bret: rich edson live at the state department. rich, thank you. great britain is set to hold an early election, early general election, on december 12th. lawmakers overwhelmingly approve the bil
car crash. correspondent rich edson has the latest from the state department. it rich. thank you, shannon. the highest levels of the british government are pushing the trump administration to evoke their immunity of an american diplomat s wife and for her to return to the united kingdom after her alleged involvement in a fatal accident there. i do not think that it can be right to use the process of diplomatic immunity for this type of purpose and i hope that they will come back and engage properly with the processes of force carried out in this country. speak of the family of 19-year-old harry dunn says he was killed in august on his motorcycle when the wife of an american diplomat was driving on the wrong side of the road. local police say they are treating a 42-year-old american woman as a suspect and that she fully cooperated at the time of the accident. police say she told them she had no plans to leave the u.k. in the near future and then she took off.
it s just such a dishonorable thing to do, just leave and go back and abscond back to her own country. what we found out after harry s funeral that she d gone. we knew we had a fight on our hands. under the 1961 vienna conventions, diplomats and their families are immune from criminal prosecution in the country they are serving in. unless the government they represent waves that immunity. in response, the state to permit spokespersons as any questions regarding the waiver of the immunity with regards to our diplomats and their family members overseas in a case like this receives intense attention at senior levels and are considered carefully. given the global impact such decisions carry. immunity is rarely waived. the state department s secretary of state mike pompeo spoke with his british counterpart about this among other issues, though offered no further details. shannon. shannon: rich edson at the state department, thank you. new documents tonight reportedly