Good morning from the studio 57 news roochl at cbs news im annemarie green. Four weeks after the house of representatives impeached President Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of congress, it will take a vote today. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will announce prosecutors in the trial and send the articles of impeachment against the president. Majority leader mitch mcconn iden trumps impeachment trial to start next tuesday, this as new evidence emerges over the trump campaigns efforts to solicit information on joe biden from ukraine. Nancy cordes reports from capitol hill. A 28day delay comes to an end when house nancy Pelosi Releases the articles of impeachment without securing the assurances her party sought. Were in better shape than we were a few weeks ago, but theres no certainties at all. Democrats have been pushing for new testimony in i would have wanted to have a clear indication that there will be witnesses, especially with people like john bolton saying he would testify.
A final campaigning for whats seen as a pivotal general election. The u. S. Defense secretary says washington will take precautions to ensure the safety of its military bases after the gun attack at a naval base in florida. And in sport bahrain are crowd arabian gulf cup champions for the very 1st time maybe 3 time champion in saudi arabia in the final in. Our very own protest leaders in hong kong say 800000 people have marched through the city in a show of anger and frustration they are demanding from their leaders greater democratic freedoms and human rights this march the culmination of 6 months with widespread protests now police did approve sundays event they warned though they would not tolerate a rip. Piece of recent violence demonstrations in fact just before the march began they displayed this of the handgun and unishe and which they say were recovered during a raid saying the weapons would have been used to create chaos during the march when i joined brown is covering the pro
Political rival republicans say its a witch hunt also coming up the Pacific Island state of samoa and goes into a walk down as it carries up emergency mass vaccinations against measles is part of what the World Health Organization says is a collective failure to confront the world wide surge in measles cases with children bearing the brunt of the suffering. And French Public Sector Workers stage one of the Biggest National strikes in decades the protests against proposed Pension Reforms calls once for a disruption to transport Networks Today and schools and hospitals some of them have turned by a lens will have the latest from paris and will take you to the village in turkey was a language all its own. But the villagers old style help twitter is under threat as young leaves. Leave for the cities so you know scott has added what youre hearing right now list for church. Tradition. Golf its good to have you with these speaker of the u. S. House of representatives nancy pelosi says she is
Justin we want to thank the panel is for joining us here today and thank the audience were attending or watching online or on he spent and join us upstairs for sandwiches and cokes. Thank you all very much. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2024] this subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic will come to order. I want to welcome everyone here today. Without objection, the chair may declare a recess at any time. I now recognize myself, with the purpose of making an opening statement. Today, this subcommittee is holding a hearing to examine the future of the World Health Organization, and our relationship, as the United States, with the w. H. O. The World Health Organization is supposed to be the preeminent organization that governs just that, the worlds health. It played a key role in eradicating smallpox, and significantly
Ank you so much. In the last the world has persevered through a deadly pandemic that has claimed nearly 7 million lives across now, as we reflect on the International Response to this Public Health crisis to the future, we must do so with a commitment to advancing Global Health security. There is no International Organization as central to this work, as the World Health Organization. Which, has contributed to monumental advancements in healthcare access, improvements in Population Health outcomes, and the defeat of deadly diseases, even in the furthest corners of the world. The w. H. O. s continued surveillance of Global Health threats have helped prevent outbreaks of deadly diseases, such as measles from arriving on our shores. The w. H. O. s global vaccination programs have helped contribute to an overall 54 increase in global Life Expectancy in the last 70 years, and put us on track to prevent 51 Million Deaths from measles, and hepatitis b around the world. So, i want the time to e