Good morning. It is 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in london and 8 00pm on capitol hill in washington, where the Housejudiciary Committee has been debating for the last hour or so the articles of impeachment against President Trump. After what will be a spirited discussion, they will most likely vote later on thursday, ahead of a vote in the full house next week. If the president is impeached, the senate would hold a trial in the new year. With me is our north america correspondent peter bowes. Peter, tell us more about how this debate is unfolding. Well, this is a debate, as we expected, that is very impassioned from both sides. The democrats saying that President Trump has committed constitutional crimes and should, in effect, face the music. These two articles of impeachment, the charges against the president that he abused his position as president , and abuse of power, and also tried to essentially lock the process to withhold information power, and also tried to essentially lock the
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Their 2nd general strike in a week accusing the president of failing to come up with concrete proposals to meet their demands. In a dramatic escalation of iraqs antigovernment protests crowds have torched the rainy and consummate he not java holy city for shia muslims hundreds surrounded the building lighting taia than anything else they could find while chanting iran out they accused tehran of propping iraqs government which they want replaced this is a 2nd time this month anyway and consulates has been targeted by protesters 3 weeks ago Security Forces defending at the site in karbala killed 4 demonstrators earlier we spoke to our reporter mama john john on the phone in baghdad he explained how suspicion and anger about iran have played into the protests. And there it here in the by by these thousands and our government demonstrators d that that area is far too beholden to store and powers and that among those foreign powers that are exerting too much influence in this country is the
As president has signed 2 bills into law that back hong kongs prodemocracy movement american sanctions can now be imposed on chinese and hong kong officials deemed responsible for human rights abuses and all kong special trade status will be reviewed every year the territories leaders say it will damage relations with the u. S. While china expressed extreme carette over the move saying it will respond with foreign countermeasures political heinous from following developments from washington. This could be a powerful tool if the president chose to use it its not at all clear hes going to not only does it a lot to him saying people in hong kong and china but if that special trade status that could be so critical if the secretary of state was to come back and say no china is not going along with the policy hong kong doesnt have enough independence they could basically take that status away that would have a huge impact on trade but bigger than that it could send a signal to a Financial Ma