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
General. He was there for a long time. Both of these guys are there often. They win a lot. They lose occasionally. They are very good advocates. I am going to start by talking about news. Before thewo cases Supreme Court pending, waiting for the justices to say what if anything they want to do with them. One is from the d. C. Circuit. The d. C. Circuit ruled that when Congress Asks for information from President Trumps Accounting Firm related to whether or not they want to pass ethics legislation that would require the disclosure of axes, thents t d. C. Circuit said you have the right to do that because it is in the course of legislation. The second case from new york, the state case actually it is a city case. The District Attorney from manhattan has issued a grand jury subpoena. This time it is related to hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and one other person, im really not sure. The Second Circuit upheld that a criminalr investigation. They are both sitting at the Supreme Court.
Hong kong increasingly becoming the target are protesters anger. The United States has impose new sanctions on iran targeting the Financial Assets of 9 people close to the Supreme Leader it came as iran announced it was taking another step away from the 2015 nuclear deal doubling the number of its advance and refuses percent of our imports from tehran. The head of Irans Atomic Energy Organization at one of the countrys most important Nuclear Facilities this is where Ali Akbar Salehi announced that iran has now added another 30 advanced centrifuges. Zines you do see tell you what we want supposed to have 30 chinese centrifuges we wanted to work on it after we tested 20 chinese centrifuges then 3 to 4 years later that to work on the 30 chinese centrifuges but we faced political challenges and senior thorough decided to show irans potential power and determination. This is another step taken by iran to scale back its commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal authorities here say since the Unit
Has Just Announced the country will be taking another step away from the 2015 nuclear deal. From wednesday they will start injecting uranium gas into just over 1000 centrifuges monday iran announced it was doubling the number of its advanced centrifuges allowing it to produce and rich geranium faster that was met by the u. S. Imposing new sanctions on 9 aides close to irans Supreme Leader present when he outlined the next actions iran will be taking. More as a door on irans 4th step will be launched at the 4 down Nuclear Facility and i will advise the Atomic Energy organization to start as of tomorrow by feeding gas into the centrifuges i will also inform the p. 4 plus one of the stick this new action will also be under the supervision of the international Atomic Energy agency. Closer to tehran our daughter dorsetshire par is live for us. Was this expected that iran would keep continuing basically at this pace since the u. S. Withdrew from the deal. Well no we knew that iran was going
A crowded market in my jury. And fighting back a community displaced by diamond mining in sierra leone takes a stance in court. There on seeking another step away from the 2050 nuclear deal Hasan Rouhani says its about to start injecting uranium gas into more than 1000. 00 centrifuges its the latest fallout from the u. S. Decision to pull out of the last year and his daughter jabari explains its likely to put more pressure on the remaining signatories. President Hassan Rouhani arrived at this factory in teheran for an inauguration ceremony but he used the term announce enrons 4th and most significant step in scaling back its commitment to the 2015 nuclear deal more as fire door on irans 4th step will be launched at the Photo Nuclear facility and i will advise the Atomic Energy organization to start as of tomorrow by feeding gas into the centrifuges i will also inform the p. 4 plus one of the step this new action will also be under the supervision of the international Atomic Energy agen