Marched through the streets and in coronation protests against a controversial citizenship you know off and a mining project in brazil which is facing opposition from indigenous communities. Living as internationally recognized government has a approved a military did with turkey or paving the way for her to play a bigger role in the civil war the deal could save turkish troops deployed to defend tripoli from warlord Khalifa Haftar well egypt which backs half the has rejected the agreement saying it violates Un Security Council resolutions including an arms embargo roy chalons has our top story. Libyas warring forces are on the move here soldiers after Libyan National Army Advanced west there are breaking out and hoping to open a new front its for months theyve been fighting on the outskirts of tripoli against the army of the government of National Accord on thursday the u. N. Backed g. And i announced its agreed to receive greater military help from turkey but that. After iran is an a
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Sudan which is a deal with the Opposition Leader to form a unity government barton differences between the political rivals remain. Donald trump has issued a warning to his political rivals as members of congress finalize the details for the Impeachment Vote against him the House Rules Committee is deciding on how much time to allow for debates before the vote which is set to happen on wednesday the democrat controlled house is expected to vote in favor of impeachment and that would then lead to a trial in the republican dominated senate early next year while the president says that the democrats go ahead with the impeachment theyll be declaring war on an american democracy and hes condemned the hearings as a sham. Whole impeachment thing is a hoax we look forward to getting on to the senate were not entitled to lawyers were not entitled to witnesses were not entitled to anything in the house its a total sham when you have a guy like shifty chef go out and make up a statement that i ma
Were not entitled to witnesses were not entitled to anything in the house its a total sham and when you have a guy like shifty chef go out and make up a statement that i made sure he said this is what he said but i never said it he totally made it up one of the us president roh say a strongly worded letter is House Speaker nancy pelosi describing the process as an impeachment crusade which is an unprecedented an unconstitutional abuse of power roslyn jordan has more. Well the letter was 6 pages long and it basically recounted every objection which donald trump has raised to the impeachment inquiry and now what appears to be on the eve of the vote to formally impeach him on 2 charges the president essentially told congress that what it is about to do is patently illegal however the House Speaker nancy pelosi who herself was long resistant to even allowing an impeachment inquiry to take place until the information about the president s pressure on the ukrainian president of a lot of the
Its 9 00 in the morning in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm in washington where the us house of representatives is set to vote later on wednesday on whether to impeach donald trump. Its over claims that he threatened to withhold military aid from ukraine unless it investigated his leading democratic rival in next years president ial election joe biden and his son. In a letter to the house speaker, nancy pelosi, mr trump called the impeachment process an illegal, partisan attempted coup, that will, based on recent sentiment, badly fail at the voting booth. The democrat controlled house is expected to vote in favour, which would lead to a trial in the senate, probably in january. Heres the president speaking earlier. This has been a total sham from the beginning. Everybody knows it. Ive never seen the Republican Party so united. We got, as you know, 100 of the vote. I believe the senate is equally as well united. I watched Mitch Mcconnell this morning, i watched numerous people last nigh