A trade agreement with China might have to wait until after next year s election in the days since though investors have regained some confidence a deal could come soon or a spokesman for China s commerce ministry says the 2 sides have remained in close communication the u.s. Is preparing to tax imports of many popular consumer items from China on December 15th if no agreement is struck before then it s possible the Trump administration will suspend those tariffs but the commerce ministry spokesman says China also wants relief from some existing Trump tariffs as part of any phase one deal Scott Horsley n.p.r. News Washington Iran s leaders calling for Islamic mercy to be shown to demonstrators arrested for protesting a recent 50 percent hike in the price of gasoline N.P.R. s Peter Kenyon says the government appears eager to soften its response of the protests that broke out last month across the country supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as remarks followed an acknowledgment that s
Neighborhood watch volunteer shot 17 year old Trayvon Martin following an altercation he claimed he was actually in self-defense and a jury found him not guilty of murder scientists a new vaccine against typhoid has cut cases of the bacterial disease by more than 80 percent in trials the one of injections being described as a game changer it s now being offered to 9000000 children in Pakistan where the disease has become extremely resistant to antibiotics folkish Walsh reports typhoid is a highly contagious bacterial disease which infects up to $20000000.00 people worldwide each year it s largely a disease of poverty spread through poor sanitation and dirty drinking water symptoms include prolonged fever abdominal pain and diarrhea it causes up to $160000.00 deaths every year a major trial of the new vaccine in Nepal cut cases by more than 80 percent the same success is hoped for in Pakistan world news from the b.b.c. . At least 13 people unarmed known to have been killed in the Phili
Argued that Donald Trump s attempt to get political dirt from Ukraine on his political rival Joe Biden by threatening to withhold u.s. Military aid was unquestionably an impeachable offense Iraqi police say they freed an ethnic u.c.d. Woman who was captured by the Islamic state group and sold into slavery he d been kidnapped when I guess Iran part of northern Iraq more than 5 years ago he s our of affairs analyst and Johnston according to the Iraqi police the woman they freed was kidnapped by ins when she was only around 13 years of age she was then taken to neighboring Syria where she was bought and sold by a series of owners they included Saudi and European nationals her last owner was killed but it seems one of his female relatives brought the captive back to Iraq she was released after a police raid on a house in the western city of heat and is now being reunited with her relatives the Lebanese president Michel Aoun says formal parliamentary consultations on forming a new governme
And Speer no expense to influence them and their response James Madison said that impeachment was needed because otherwise a president I quote might betrays trust to a foreign power press corps and can you elaborate on why the framers were so concerned about foreign interference how they accounted for these concerns and how that relates the facts before this committee so the reason that the framers were concerned about foreign interference I think is slightly different than the reason we are they were concerned about it because we were such a weak country. We were small we were poor we didn t have an established Navy we didn t have an established Army today the concern is a little different which is that it will interfere with us making the decisions that are best for us as Americans thank you for there are 3 known instances of the president publicly asking a foreign country to interfere in our elections 1st in 2016 the president publicly hoped that Russia would hack into the email of
Clinton impeachment most of the investigation was conducted by an outside special counsel in the case of this impeachment investigation the investigation has been conducted by members of Congress there is also some inside politics here at play there was a sense that House Intelligence chairman Adam Schiff was the right lawmaker to conduct that investigation he s a former prosecutor he is someone of expertise on the issues and that there was seen as as a bit of sidestepping of the Judiciary Committee so the inside politics of this is it shifts back to judiciary is can this committee handle it it s a much bigger committee it s much more partisan it s much more unwieldy and can the impeachment debate sort of stay on track or is it going to become a bit more of a sideshow Well you mention how the spotlight has shifted from House Intelligence chair Adam Schiff to House Judiciary Chair Jerry and Adler How might you compare and contrast these 2 men Adler and chef I think that you know they r