Slammed the process calling it a travesty. For the for third time in a century and a half the House Judiciary Committee has voted articles of impeachment against the president. Reporter a historic step in the House Judiciary Committee. A vote on party lines approving articles of impeachment against President Trump mr. Chairman there are 23 yeses and 17 owes. The articles agreed to. Reporter after 14 hours of debate and partisan fights thursday, the democratic controlled committee move forward with charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. Charges tied to the allegation the president leveraged a white house meeting and nearly 400 million in military aid to pressure ukraine into investigating joe and hunter biden. They predetermine they were going to do it and they did it come or high water. They had no proof, no evidence , no crime but they went ahead anyway and they are tearing the country apart. Today is a solemn and sad day. The house will act expeditiously. Reporter dem
Ukraine. Both Rudy Giuliani and Gordon Sondland urged the countrys leaders to investigate the Ukrainian Energy company that employed hunter biden, the son of president Trumps Campaign rival. No one has asserted my son did a single thing wrong. No one has asserted that i have done any wrong except a lying president. Reporter cbs news has confirmed the department of justice is now examining whether giuliani violated foreign lobbying rules after two of his ukrainelinked associates were arrested last week. Several other u. S. Officials are set to be deposed on capitol hill this week, despite a white house vow not to cooperate. Some republicans slammed the closed door nature of these impeachment inquiry interviews. The American People dont get to see whats going reporter as President Trump demanded once again to learn the identity of an anonymous whistleblower. Democrats now say they may not need to interview the individual. Our primary interest right now is making sure that that person is
A decade long. That is in ramallah in the occupied west bank and has. In the grand hall of the egyptian Intelligence Headquarters fatah and hamas officially signed on to egypts grand plan for palestinian reconciliation after a decade of division both sides expressed hope that this time it was for good. And again mean there has been full agreement on the concept of empowering the government and the legitimate Palestinian Government will return to working normally in accordance with his prerogative and the law. Despite the fact that we have some different views different political points we have different disputes but this will never change the fact that we are brothers we are brothers in religion we are brothers in nationality we are brothers in the National Interest we suffer the same we have the same future we need to find a way for a unity of our people to secure the ambitions of our people. This isnt the first time theyve been here repeated attempts to reconcile have failed a main s
Turkey iran and russia more from al jazeera. Who is at the jewel of the goes to Border Crossing on the turkey syria border. The possible the operation is underway but the buildup continues here on the border with syria there are still more reinforcements and more vehicles getting into the military Turkish Military bases on the border with the promise of. Now the stated goal of turkey in operation is to try to see the province of the best part of the ceasefire agreement between the different opposition factions russia and the Syrian Government but the troops now that crossed into syria are stationed in an area of village called. Which is on the. Border on the border where this is a territory under the control of. The Syrian Kurdish faction it seems that the Turkish Military is trying to take advantage of its deployment inside syria to block the kurds from expanding west towards places like libya and so briefly turkey of two goals first of all material presence in the second and most imp
Wont say its a five to harangues compliance with a two thousand and fifteen year kid ill as Korean Congress to put more pressure on irans Missile Program can be a help to reports washington d. C. Hes often threatened to tear out the landmark deal with iran but in the end u. S. President donald trump stopped short of pulling out of the two thousand and fifteen agreement to limit its Nuclear Program for now and even though his own administration has twice certified that iran is complying with the deal he now says he wont do it again i am announcing today that we cannot and will not make this certification. We will not continue down a path whose predictable conclusion is more violence more terror and the very real threat of Irans Nuclear breakout that is why i am directing my administration to work closely with congress for months trump has accused his predecessor barack obama of being myopic in negotiations with iran focusing only on irans Nuclear Program but not the financing of groups