Now the white house says it will not take part in the next step of the impeachment inquiry into donald trump the us president had been given until sunday to confirm whether or not hed send legal representatives to a hearing on wednesday the white house says it will respond separately about a 2nd hearing which has a friday deadline the u. S. President is accused of asking ukraine to investigate political rival joe biden and bidens son in exchange for military aid while its a busy week ahead for the impeachment inquiry members of the House Intelligence Committee receive a copy of the impeachment report later on monday it will outline the findings of its investigation into trumps dealings with ukraine will then have 24 hours to review that report and then there will be a vote on tuesday afternoon to move it forward to the next stage that being proceedings in the House Judiciary Committee which will consider any articles of impeachment against President Trump jordan is in washington d. C.
Now hundreds of people have again marched towards a u. N. Peacekeeping base in eastern democratic republic of congo gunfire was heard as congolese government soldiers blocked the crowds from getting too close to the compound near the airport in the town of its one of 2 u. N. Bases their demonstrations have been targeting u. N. Peacekeepers accusing them of failing to protect them from attacks by rebel groups in the region now our producer new conny is in beni and joins us now on the phone and talk us through what youve been hearing i believe youve been hearing these gunshots. We are we are really very very tense situation here there was a heavy gun sorts around even my you. Know one can move outside we dont know at this moment what is going to be exactly outside along the road because you cannot see protest of the game but some. Things the on the is facing some 5. Protesters probably from the militia groups because this is no longer gunshots for discussing the population if you like it
On aljazeera. Leaders of ukraine and russia meet for the 1st time theyll be in paris for a summit that aims to put an end to the conflict in Eastern Ukraine so will the 2 leaders find a solution and charge of a way forward and whats at stake this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im home here in ukraine elected a president in april whose top priority was to end the conflicts in the east more than 13000 people have been killed during the fighting there between the Ukrainian Army and russian backed separatists and now for the 1st time since he came into office lot of his own ski is meeting bush president Vladimir Putin well french and german leaders are mediating the talks taking place in paris on monday the socalled Normandy Group last met to discuss ways to end the fighting more than 3 years ago but president selenski is optimistic he can bring peace to Eastern Ukraine but his critics see him as a political novice and fear he might give away too much in his quest for pe
Than 13000 people have been killed during the fighting there between the Ukrainian Army and russian backed separatists and now for the 1st time since he came into office thought in his own skiis meeting russian president Vladimir Putin where french and german leaders are mediating the talks taking place in paris on monday the socalled Normandy Group last met to discuss ways to end the fighting more than 3 years ago but president selenski is optimistic he can bring peace to Eastern Ukraine but his critics see him as a political novice and fear he might give away too much in his quest for peace as opponents up in protesting heads off the paris meeting. Well speaking during an appearance on Ukrainian Television this is whats lewinsky have to say on his expectations from the summits but do you know whats above all this i want to return with concrete things and concrete results but we understand not everything will be achieved the meeting itself is already a victory because as you see it we
So it is my pleasure now to introduce bob cusack, the editorinchief of the hill who will moderate a panel on how will candidates messages and platforms change with the popular vote. Bob. Thanks, jim. I want to introduce our panel. Norm orenstein, michael steele. Bianca carmen. I was looking back at the states that were visited most by donald trump and Hillary Clinton in the last election. Not surprisingly North Carolina, florida, pennsylvania, of course democrats wish Hillary Clinton had visited wisconsin a bit more. But the first question would be if we did change the system and, norm, ill start with you. What would be the impact of campaigns and their strategy . So, as you mentioned, bob, they visited the large states. And i was kind of amused when senator cramer of north dakota defending the Electoral College said awfully close in terms of popular votes. Then every vote would count, and candidates would have an incentive to try and maximize the turnout even in places like north dako