Ukraine and russia sat down for face to face meetings about the conflict in donbass. The first time they have met for peace talks in three years. And that the Golden Globes it is the golden girls were nominated. Then ifjennifer aniston, jennifer lopez, all of them over 50. Doesnt that make you feel old . If you didnt happen to read the 300 page report from the House Intelligence Committee making the case that in donald trump, today you could listen to it instead. Lawyers for democrats and republicans spent the last few hours laying out their separate cases that could be made with donald trump goes to trial. To summarise briefly democrats presented what they say is evidence that the president subverted the country for the National Security interest but his own personal gain, and the republicans say there is no case and the whole process is an offence to those who support from. The chances that peoples mines will be changed by what we have today will be slim but the Committee Chairman in
And then everyone, including a lot of his supporters, said that was a very wrong thing to do . Well, guess what . Yesterday Tweety Gonzalez pulled out his Little Orange thumbs and he did it again. This time he attacked a woman who works for mike pence currently. Her name is jennifer williams. Shes a special adviser to the Vice President. She was also listening in on trumps now infamous call with the president of ukraine. There were more people on this call than there were at his inauguration. [ laughter ] so in her closed door testimony williams says trump specifically mentioned the name of the Ukrainian Company hunter biden worked for. Its called burisma. But that was omitted from the transcript the white house released. You know the one the president keeps telling us to read. Well, turns out maybe that transcript has been sanitized for his protection. Trump of course as soon as he heard this went right on the attack. He called this woman who works, again, for his Vice President , a n
Our welcome to the program the Nigerian Navy is on high our lead after pirates kidnapped the crew of on last week it was the latest incident in a growing piracy problem afflicting the gulf of guinea off the coast of west africa the waters there now have the most anywhere in the World Nigeria is at the center of our correspondent funny for a shot way into the niger delta to find out the scale of the problem and how its affecting people there. From the outside the beautiful wetlands of nigeria inside a problematic his story we have read in the creeks of the niger delta. This region is already struggling for theft with arms trafficking kidnapping and in recent years another business has begun to florida now. Has become a hotspot for maritime piracy and Armed Robbery at sea. And this is where pirates operate from a labyrinth of waterways but its not only home to criminals per could be no lives near by the river he source of income he transports goods and people but hes careful since he was
As the United States blocks the appointment of the judges and making the switch take you to a dairy in mexico which makes cheese using some of our horrible technology. Is called welcome to the program the Financial Times says china has ordered all its government offices and Public Institutions to remove for computer equipment and software within 3 years it is the 1st time beijing has given buyers if you constructions to switch to domestic Tech Companies it comes in the midst of the trump administrations Global Campaign to curb the use of Huawei Technology outside of china the move is likely to have a big impact on u. S. Tech companies such as microsoft h. P. And dell. Now lets get more on the story with our wall street correspondent in new york u. S. Tech companies generate as much as 150000000000. 00 and annual revenues from china how have they been reacting to these rumors well if you look at the stock prices the reaction has been muted and we still have a couple of open questions so
Temperatures will be rising in the southwest, still quite a chilly one from the north and the east. So for boxing day, a band of wet and windy weather coming to our shores. But as it arrives, the milder air also arrives, turning very mild towards the end of the week. Hello this is bbc news with clive myrie. The headlines. A nine year old british girl, her 16 year old brother, and their father have died after drowning in a Swimming Pool at a Holiday Resort in the costa del sol. Prince philip is discharged from hospital after four days. The duke is now spending christmas with the queen in sandringham. The queen will use her Christmas Day message to say the past year has been quite bumpy adding that small steps can heal divisions. Now, take a front row seat as film critic mark kermode takes a look back at the big releases of the year in review 2019 the year in film. Hi, im mark kermode. Were here at the Cinema Museum in south london. Over the next half an hour, ill be looking back at some