Its pm in london, 7am in singapore and 6pm in washington, where President Trump is dealing with a major setback to his agenda. His Republican Party has lost a key election in deeply conservative alabama. Mr trump backed the losing candidate, roy moore, despite claims of Sexual Misconduct against him. It leaves the president weakened as he tries to drive through key policies at home and abroad. Our north america correspondent nick bryant reports. Amidst all the noise and rage of american politics, its worth remembering elections are often decided in quiet suburbs. That was true in alabama, where moderate republicans didnt turn out for their partys radical, scandal hit candidate, and where many dont much like donald trump either. Its a rejection of donald trump. Tracy james is a lifelong republican, who yesterday went democrat. It was also a protest vote against the president. I do think donald trump has a problem in the republican suburbs. You dont know whats going to come out of his mo
Its 7. 00am in singapore. And 8. 00am in beijing, where the final day of the 19th Party Congress is just about to get underway. President xi jinping looks set to be confirmed as the most powerful man of his generation and elevated to the same status as mao zedong and deng xiaoping. His personal political ideology, xi jinping thought, is to be written into the partys constitution and will be taught in schools. Joining us from Tiananmen Square in beijing is robin brant. What will be taking place on the final day of the congress . We get is some up from the president. It wont bea some up from the president. It wont be a rerun of that epic 3. 5 hours on his feet last week. These will be the final words as this seventh and final day comes to a head, then later in the day we get to see changes that are likely to be made to this partys constitution. This is usually significant in china. Mal saved in, the people who founded the peoples republic of china. It looks like xijinping, he is neither
I rise today, mr. Speaker, to call for the impeachment of the president of the United States of america for obstruction of justice. Amy democratic congressman al green of texas join us to talk about why he is drafting articles to impeach President Trump just four months into his trumps term. Plus, we look at Donald Trumps budget compares to his campaign promises. Pres. Trump im not going to cut every Social Security like every republican or medicaid or medicare. Other republican is going to cut. They dont know where the money is. I do. Amy that was donald trump in 2015. Now President Trump is proposing massive cuts to medicaid and other programs to assist lowincome citizens in order to give the rich more tax breaks and find more military spending. We will speak to Nobel Prize Winning economic Joseph Stiglitz. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In britain, nearly 4000 soldiers have been deployed nationwid
Celebrating the intersection between music and technology. Jeffrey brown takes us to a festival pushing the bounds of sound. Theres something to be said about all music being some translation of our language and our way of communicating. Its a language. This is a new language. Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And
Celebrating the intersection between music and technology. Jeffrey brown takes us to a festival pushing the bounds of sound. Theres something to be said about all music being some translation of our language and our way of communicating. Its a language. This is a new language. Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And