And a special appearance by john lithgow. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen the hey, happy holidays fantastic hello hows it going. Hi hey, jon. I like it. Happy wednesday. Stephen Stephen Stephen Stephen Stephen stephen hi so nice. Wednesday, right . cheers and applause stephen thanks, everybody, up there, down here, all around the world, all my friends and neighbors. Welcome, one and all, everybody, everybody. Welcome to the late show. I am your host, Stephen Colbert. Lets get right to it. We dont have any time. We dont have a minute to waste here. Its almost christmas. Im busy, youre busy. Ive got an oven full of snickerdoodles i have to finish the monologue before the timer goes off. Its just after six clrks as we speak, the full house of representatives is still debating the articles of impeachment. They havent voted yet, but im about to go on vacation, so im jus
About a partisan impeachment in which politics of the majority who have their strength can do what they want to do it regardless of any facts. We are told donald trump is busy at his desk, but he is of course tweeting. Tweeting in caps. This is the scene live in the house of representatives, the debate is ongoing, we will be dipping into it throughout the programme. Hello and welcome, im katty kay in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. It is impeachment day in america. Donald trump, judging by the long seething letter he sent to nancy pelosi, is well aware that his place in history is about to change forever. And not in a good way. From now on his bio will read, donald trump, the 3rd american president to be impeached. Top democrats say they are approaching this day in a somber mood. And well they might. Its not clear that impeaching the president will do them any political favours. But the charges are serious, putting personal gain above Americas National security interests
Welcome to the program a protest votes come through loud and clear in hong kong prodemocracy candidates have won an overwhelming majority in Council Elections that are successful as months of demonstrations against increasing chinese influence but its prompted chief executive kerry lamb to promise that shell listen humbly sarah clarke begins our coverage. As dawn broke hong kong went to a new Political Landscape more than 70 percent of voters cast their ballots in sundays district Council Elections the prodemocracy party secured a Record Number of seats a lot of people actually sacrificed a lot of suffering but they suffered a lot in the last 6 months to to actually get this result and i think people are very. Theyre so united and they are so together to try to actually try to win something joshua one was disqualified for running but his party claimed victory in his electorate unseating the incumbent post councilor remarkable achievement in that this election is the efforts of callers
These brothers. These homesick brothers should go back to their countries and we should work on this and not that important step for our operation is to establish this. The area that will be safe with our operation 1st of all we are going to repatriate 1000000 syrians and after that another 1000000 will move back. Our plans according to our plans regarding this we have shared our plans with our counterparts hopefully with the support of International Community this plan will be carried out in this process with our russian friends will Work Together. And we are going to made it make agreements on the repatriation plans today which mr putin we have talked about fight against terrorism territorial integrity of syria and political unity of syria we also talked about. We also we also made a historic agreement with mr putin. About Syrian Refugees. We are not going to allow any agenda separatist agenda in syria. Instead 23rd of october we have given 120 hours and we have gave a condition that
Basically that the trade war happens and were seeing that now gradually feeding into into indicators like the car markers weve had now 14 straight months which is an incredible incredible period of decline and its really beginning to make its make itself felt on the real economy. Why electric vehicles are also being affected why and why is that so warning well electric vehicles are particularly worrying because thats always been the area that 1st of all the electric vehicles are good for pollution pollution is a big political issue in china the cities are are dirty the air is dirty and the government wants to change that people are unhappy about it and it seems like a great solution happening is that its just that there are various measures in place to encourage people to buy the cars on the electric vehicles on the various local Government Agencies have started bringing them back because theyre trying to get the market going again so theres theres a lot of different aspects that just