Restored spitfire. Hello to you. President trump has hit back at democrats in the house of representatives, who have announced articles of impeachment against him. Mr trump said they were crazy and that he would win a trial in the senate, which is republican controlled. He urged his opponents to move quickly so the country could, as he put it, get back to business. The leading democrat, nancy pelosi, said her party had been left with no choice but to act after weeks of hearings in washington. Nick bryant has the latest. On capitol hill today, the battle lines started being marked out for an epic political fight. A process likely now to lead to the trial of donald trump, a constitutional spectacle seen only twice before in americas turbulent history. The Democratic House speaker, nancy pelosi, is now ready to move forward with drafting the articles of impeachment, a charge sheet, in effect, accusing the president of high crimes and misdemeanours. Sadly, but with confidence and humility,
Bigger than most people realize. And journalism sure longa say theyre confronting intimidation from the new government. Will become just the 4th u. S. President to face formal and pietschmann charges Speaker Nancy Pelosi says he abused his power by withholding military aid to pressure ukraine into investigating democratic rival joe biden a votes expected in the next couple of weeks setting up a fight in the senate on whether to remove trump from office castro reports in washington d. C. Its official sadly that with confidence and humility with allegiance to our founders and heart full of love for America Today i am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. Donald trump will become the 4th president in u. S. History to face formal impeachment charges that could remove him from office the facts are uncontested the president abused his power for his own personal political benefit at the expense of our National Security by withholding military aid and crucial Oval Office
A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. At the moment, everyone seems to be sharing their most listened songs of the past year. What was top of your list . Tell us what you think, just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. France is waking up to a second day of strikes, with trade unions warning they wont stop until the government scraps its reforms to the pensions system. The disruption is the worst for decades, with trains cancelled, schools closed and Oil Refineries shut. There have been rallies in major cities, with some protests turning violent. Rich preston reports. Teachers, transport workers, hospital staff, even theatre employees turned out. Hundreds of thousands of workers in a show of force against the government of emmanuel macron. 90 of trains were cancelled, as well as hundreds of domestic and international flights. Schools were locked and the countrys biggest tourist attr
A couple and here we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter how does it. Know the secret is go ok lets try this cut down on me all right right. Ok. Thats just trying to design to right extremes. Hello im Richard Gilbert and youre at the listening post here are some of the media stories that were covering this week big news that beijing didnt want out there somebody inside the communist party wants the outside world to know what is happening in sin jack conflict of interest the corporate kind reporters at Bloomberg News cannot investigate their boss who happens to be running for the white house theyre tracking journalists from inside their phones the governments are buying an insidious piece of Israeli Software to target activists and reporters they dont like and is a deep fake version of Boris Johnson those are all less why should you believe me any less credible than the real Boris Johnson. It is one of the biggest human rights stories on the planet one th
Soybean and pork shipments that putses up 343 points on the dow. We are positive for the week as a whole now despite the declines earlier on this week joining us for the first hour, nathan from risk aver sal advisers so that point exact ly that wer up. 2 on s p, do you think the b jobs number justifies that given where we were monday, tuesday . I think its helpful when you think about the weak ism data and services this week that was a cause of concern. Especially if you did not have a lot of confidence that we were going to have the fear of increas increas increased tariffs taking off so this kind of mitigates that and here we are in familiar territory back at all time highs. Theres a lot of cross currents here what has happened to get us here you know, the fed has expanded the Balance Sheet by 300 300 billion, right and theyve lowered Interest Rates three times, 75 basis points in the last four months just to get us and keep us here. Were going to focus in on the big stories were wat