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
Not receiving help. The severe warning from firefighters as bushfires continue to ravage the east coast of australia. At least three people have died and there are fears the number of casualties could rise. Weather forecasters say more bad weather is on the way. 1,300 firefighters, backed by water bombing aircraft, are tackling dozens of fires in baking temperatures. Officials in New South Wales say 150 homes have burned down. Ben shepherd joins us from the Rural Fire Service headquarters in sydney. Thank you very much for your time, i appreciate this is a busy day for you. Could you start by bringing us up to date with the latest . We still have some 70 fires burning across New South Wales and more than 40 across New South Wales and more than a0 of them i get to be brought under control. We are talking about a massive area we are dealing with, some 600 or 700,000 hectares of bushland that is a light. So we are having to deal with that ahead of these worsening conditions on tuesday. So
Big show this morning, joining the conversation fox business dagen mcdowell, moodies capital chief economist john and the brewer ceo, former investment banker and nfl player jack brewer. Dagen good morning. Maria we keep falling the bouncing ball with china story, yesterday when i spoke with wilbur ross played down november 17th when the president will meet with xi jinping to sign the documents and paper it up as they say. Dagen maybe better to set expectations low and theres only one president of the United States. Maria absolutely. Showing progress and hopefully close the deal as soon as possible, i think the market anticipates an end to this particular matter and thats a positive. Maria markets are positive feeling a sense that maybe theres something on the table but markets are fractionally moving. Chinas vice foreign minister and President Trump weighed in on negotiations and talked a bit about potential deal watch. We have a summit in chile or wherever that may be, able to sign a
Now on bbc news, its hardtalk, with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Remember the time when the internet was trumpeted as the tech tool that would deliver us a golden age of knowledge, freedom and democracy . Well, now we are in a darker, more cynical place. The digital revolution has generated fears about lost privacy, mass surveillance and systemic misinformation. Have the corporate titans of tech failed us . Well, my guest today is brad smith, president of microsoft. How do we ensure our astonishing technological advances are harnessed for good, not harm . Brad smith, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, nice to be here. You have served an extraordinary amount of time at microsoft, the best part of three decades. You have seen the evolution of our attitudes toward Information Technology and the internet in particular. I have referred to the sort of great positivity, the optimism, in the early years. Would you agree that these days, we are much more anxious and fear
President trump, and you know, under the Obama Administration this was very much carried by his ambassadors to ukraine who have long played a strong role in kiev in working with politicians there to try and convey the message of, look, you need to clean up corruption. What was then Vice President joe bidens role . So joe biden was obamas point person in ukraine, and he really carried that message for the president. He also oversaw the u. S. Response perhaps not the u. S. Response but the u. S. Messaging when it came to conflict in ukraine, the russian annexation of crimea, it was 2014 where you had russia lops off a chunk of ukraine, annexes crimea and then the war begins in Eastern Ukraine in the spring of that year. It was the first hot war in the region in an extremely long time, and you know, biden really carried obamas messaging on that in the region. Was it only the United States that was worried about corruption in ukraine at this point . No, absolutely not. I mean, this has bee