Which looks like it will happen and its inevitable he wanted the senate to take the time because he thought it would be politically advantageous but at this point it looks like hes been talked out of that. Mcconnell, the Senate Majority leader, felt like he wanted a quick trial and do not want to bringo in new witnesses and was able to prevail upon the white house if that was the best way toin go in those negotiations ae still ongoing and they are happening not only between the white house and the republicans n but also between the republics in the senate and democrats but at this time it looks like they are coming in on trying to have a relatively Speedy Senate trial that does not bring a lot of new witnesses but President Trump felt like maybe they could have brought in witnesses like hunter biden and others to expand the scope of it and try to push it for political advantage but at this point it looks like they will go in a different direction and also what is happening this alast w
Trade Representative Office is officially submitted usmca, the final language of the Deal Congress has votes scheduled in the ways and Means Committee on tuesday and then the vote goes to the full house, this is a ratification for the usmca clearing some of that and certainty. China, one longlasting part of this agreement, the ministration official says theres real enforceable protection for intellectual property of companies. The details of commitment to a number of areas like trade secrets, pharmaceuticals and trademarks and patents a as well as online infringement. It also addresses partly the force transfer of technology by removing the requirement that Foreign Companies have to partner with the chinese firm. The other big section of this for shortterm is agricultural bias. As Senior Administration official said chinese agreed to buy 40 50000000000 about a hundred dollars of agriculture for the next two years. It also has enforceable language. The president saying farmers will need
5 pm here in moscow having a good day what if you are in the wild thanks to choosing a National Lots of stories for you this hour starting with this one donald trump chose to spend his thanksgiving paying his fost of a visit to afghanistan and greasing american troops based on he had a message for them revealing talks with the taliban are back on despite being declared dead just 2 months ago my colleague daniel holkins discussed this with me. They call it a surprise visit but the motives behind it are rather clear since day one day one of his presidency mr trump wanted to and the war in afghanistan the bloody almost 2 decades long conflict that took so Many American lives and so Many American dollars trump wanted to end it for his own for steve at home and for his global influence in that region and internationally of course and hes been given this promises so many times that thanksgiving feels that short reason to afghanistan was all about that to demonstrate hes in charge and he is t
For myself. And welcome and thanks for joining us this friday evening. And we start with some developing news coming out of the british capital where its been reported a knife attack near London Bridge has left a number of people injured we can show you eyewitness videos taken from London Bridge which has a busy hour in the city police have confirmed they were cooled off to reports of a stopping one person has so far been detained. And our correspondent shot at woodstock she is at the scene for us so obviously this developing bring us up to speed on whats going on. In the world London Bridge is in the lockdown at the moment as you can see the vicinity is also being evacuated as we speak them to drive the city is now. A standstill now comes after an incident was reported shortly after 2 pm this afternoon now there are unclear messages coming out of this incident initially there were reports of emmanuel ting a knife running towards the public was then shot down by armed officers now that
Youre watching r. T. International. Breaking news story this hour unconfirmed reports say that at least 2 members of the public of being killed in a terrorist attack in central london. Eye witness videos taken in the area which is a busy thoroughfare in the city as we can see here people seem to be wrestling with the suspect trying to pin him to the ground just to get the knife off of the attacker an armed officer seen with his weapon drawn short time later the shot is heard Police Confirm that the attacker was shot dead at the scene our correspondent shadi Edwards Dashti has more details from the. London bridge is still completely on lockdown that follows the incident that broke out earlier this afternoon at 158 local time as you can still see there are still Mass Evacuations happening from the Office Building surrounding the London Bridge vicinity it was indeed a Major Incident and earlier this afternoon the assistant Police Commission and theyll pursue confirmed it was terrorist rel