At whether the ambitious transition will benefit its people. Were welcome to the program a u. S. House committee is meeting to finalize the rules for the Impeachment Vote against President Donald Trump members of the House Rules Committee will decide on how much time to live for the debate before the vote which is likely to happen on wetten state the democrat controlled house is expected to vote in favor of impeachment that would then lead to a trial in the Republican Controlled Senate early next year well double jump has been tweeting haar White House Correspondent kimberly how could will give us more on that shortly but 1st lets go to joe castro on capitol hill so heidi what is exactly happened today well can we expect. He julie this is the House Rules Committee that is hashing out these technical questions about how tomorrows likely historic vote will go these are questions like how long the debate will be whether these articles of impeachment against trump will be voted upon one at a time or together as a whole that all sets up for tomorrow when the full house will consider whether or not to impeach president making him the only the 3rd president in u. S. History to have impeachment proceedings progress this far and the full house is looking at these 2 political charges against the president abuse of power and obstruction of congress both related to allegations that trump used the power of his presidency to pressure ukraine for political dirt on his domestic opponents at home now this is a vote that is widely expected to pass democrats control the house of representatives and have the number even if they suffer a few defections to impeach the president which would then set up for a trial in the senate which is controlled by republicans the president s own party that is set to start in january now Mitch Mcconnell the leader of republicans in the senate has just spoken with reporters saying that he will reject the democratic proposal to call additional witnesses during the impeachment trial democrats had wanted more witnesses including members of trumps innermost circle in the white house to testify as part of that hearing they have not been heard from yet and there are individuals who may have keen insight into trumps motives when he withheld security aid to ukraine the white house has blocked those witnesses from testifying in the mcconnell has just said that he will not allow them to testify and in fact that he is in full court a nation with the white house in shaping the rules of this trial. How did you cast for their life from capitol till thank you will trump powers taken to its roots in the last hour he says and i quote impeachment poll numbers are starting to drop like a rock now that people are understanding better what this whole democrat scam is all about well lets go live to our White House Correspondent kimberly haokip in washington d. C. Hi there kimberly so no change to the president s very vocal approach to this. Yeah but what the president is vocalizing are the poll numbers that havent really moved when you take into account the hearings that weve had for weeks the fact that there has been damning testimony against the president instead what hes underscoring is that Public Opinion has really moved very little if at all given the margin of error on many of these polls not at all that the part of the american voting public is evenly divided when it comes to whether or not the president should be removed from office or not and this latest tweet coming from the president in the last hour really gives you a sense of where the president sees his vindication coming in the Republican Controlled Senate even in advance of this house vote that will take place controlled by democrats we believe on wednesday the president tweeting the comments of a senator republican senator saying they the dems dont have anything this whole thing is a joke its time to get the president exonerated the house has no evidence of any Impeachable Offense theres nothing there and they didnt even charge a crime theyve had their chance theyve had their Kangaroo Court what the president is doing here is underscoring that he believes and many of his supporters believe that the democrats have cherry pick the evidence against him he has not had an opportunity to defend himself even as the white house has blocked some witnesses from appearing at these hearings and feels that in the republican controlled body of the u. S. Senate that he will be able to have his case defended by his republican senators now this is certainly something that Many Americans feel very passionate about but again in terms of the scale and scope of these hearings there has not been any sway in one direction or the other in fact the president touting on twitter that he believes this is strengthened his position going into the 2020 election race while he hasnt predicted he will win reelection at least today he certainly is intimating that. There live from washington d. C. Kimberly thank you. Pakistans army has expressed anguish after former president Pervez Musharraf was sentenced to death in a treason case sharples in office from 1999 to 2008 after seizing power in a military coup the case relates to the emergency he imposed after suspending the constitution in 2007 musharraf lives and by him was tried in the capital islamabad in his absence while hide has more from pakistans capital. After special court bought that death sentence against the former ruler of bloggers generated by read my childhood in Critical Condition in a hospital and the by day was a wave of great again and anger from several including the countrys military. Has caused a lot of anguish and pain across the rank and file of the military forces and questioned as to how a man who served this country. Also taking part in that was defending that country and was president of the country how he could be a traitor coders graduated from the military their government extended smiling all the options and much of his own party they all focused on mostly saying that their great. Challenge there were days of despair of color so indeed an Important Development that choice friction between that your gayety and their military. Role had become controversial given the fact that theyre allowed a former Prime Minister who were 101010 great care to go out of the country to grant him bail on medical grounds and yet project gets spent caring for a man who would go to grady and Critical Condition and know how to prevent it and thereby. Italys foreign minister luigi demaio is in libya where hes met with warlord for half the are in russia in the east earlier damasio also held talks with the leader of libyas un backed government has criticized both the government of National Accord and turkey for what it describes as their mistaken a porch towards the ongoing conflict meanwhile theres been a surge in fighting between Government Forces and those loyal to have stuff the u. N. Backed government launched artillery attacks against half the us troops have been attempting to take the capital after us forces have been conducting air strikes in a number of areas he had earlier called for a final offensive to take tripoli all this follows the announcement of a Mass Mobilization in a number of cities opposed to star but would is in tripoli he explains why the move by the un backed government can be seen as a counterattack to the media war waged by have to. On the ground there hasnt been any major change any advancement for neither side of the warring factions or the ground and i think unless those cities send the troops and weapons they vowed to send to the front lines but on the other hand this could be read in terms of the media war the psychological war between the 2 warring factions because this declare ration of Mass Mobilization by the. Cities is a kind of counter attack to have those media war era member that have to as of forces have been. A media war to intimidate and test their enemies the latest declaration was on thursday by have to himself declaring the 0 hour war encouraging his forces to enter tripoli so this declaration by those cities do for Mass Mobilization is a kind of counter declaration to also intimidate have to us forces who are now trying to push closer to the city center. Its been more violence in parts of indias capital over a controversial new citizenship law and these fired tear gas have hit protesters with batons after vehicles shops were damaged during those demonstrations theres widespread anger against the law that office minorities from neighboring countries citizenship but it excludes most them so ill off one is in new delhi where there still tension from days of violence. It started off as being a pretty quiet day in terms of demonstrations yes lots of loud demonstrations across the country endangering clue doing a job a diversity could see that violence between Civil Society students and of the police on sunday however by mid afternoon we were getting reports from a district called salim court in the north east of delhi where members of the community there seemed to clash with police now the police fired off several rounds of taylor gas and its believed that several members of the public have been injured in knots as much as we know at the moment now that situation has been brought under control but it only goes to show what a sort of tin departs this whole issue is of the citizenship Amendment Act and how its actually not just affecting people but making people now realise how it could affect than if theyre not really members of the majority Hindu Community were now seeing the opposition groups elizabeth such people like Priyanka Gandhi coming out onto the street she was at a vigil and a protest of india gate the highly sensitive area of Central Delhi where the war dead of remembered that she said that the ruling to be j. P. Party and the government have to withdraw this law it is completely unconstitutional and goes against indias secular credentials hes 14 civilians have been killed in the latest trend of russian attacks on rebel held areas of northwestern syria shelling and airstrikes on a the province of escalated in recent weeks it comes as the government of president Bashar Al Assad appears to be preparing for a grand offensive to fortify the main highway linking damascus with aleppo. Still ahead here on aljazeera frustration in sudan 100. 00 days after being sworn in the government is accused of failing to meet its promise its. Flights and trains are canceled in france a genius protest against Pension Reforms well have reaction from paris. We got a fair bit of cloud to central parts of china at the moment and a fed meeting writing this while see this thickening band of cloud here pushing over toward shanghai that will sink its well little further south which as we go through the next couple of days northerly winds on that cold wind we could see some snow just on the northern flank of the system there but a fair bit of wet weather just to the south of that come down into with some cost china here this fine and dry 25 celsius in hong kong tap code as you go on into thursday but not too bad that what the weather will sink through temperatures in shanghai full back to around 8 degrees celsius as the right policies for the south which may well be got some very heavy rain continuing across parts of sri lanka you can see the shower clouds here rumbling away pushing in the big down post a much of india it is staying dry we are seeing temperatures getting up to around 29 celsius into the southern pos but on the 18 it need that if that bit of cloud around here thats going to continue to push its way further east which is we go on through thursday they tried to clear the air a little at least showers continue for sri lanka as you can see more heavy downpours him a mom across the peninsula while she tried to watch out for some right furcata over the next couple of days. Out planet is warming as napa before. With profound consequences for all life on earth but the worlds leading Scientists Say that is still time to act on it as the west sets out the facts on the Science Behind the issues affecting up on it. And brings you what people across the globe adhering to the crisis around climate on aljazeera. Youre watching our own mind of our top stories this hour a u. S. House committee is meeting to finalize the rules for the Impeachment Vote against president dont trump members of the House Rules Committee will decide on how much time to allow for the debate before the vote which is likely to happen on what needs to. Pakistans army is expressed anguish after former president Pervez Musharraf was sentenced today in the trees in case he was the chief of army staff before he sees power in a coup in 1990 and until 2008. Its elise foreign minister luigi demaio is in libya where hes met with warlord khalifa haftar. In the east earlier he held talks with the leader of libyas un backed government theres been a recent surge in fighting between Government Forces and those loyal to her before dark. So saddams president salva kiir says he and the main opposition need to react much are have agreed to form a unity government the 2 men met so over the past 3 days in the capital juba to resolve standing disputes that prevented the formation of a Coalition Government by the previous november the 12th deadline in 2013 kier accused of attempting a coup sparking a conflict that left hundreds of thousands dead well just a matter of joke is the cofounder of the Surge Institute inside recuse new york in the u. S. And its an independent think tank focusing inside sudan he says one of the reasons a unity government wasnt formed sooner is because the country was divided into 32 states by president salva kiir. The south sudanese people are not really holding their breath that this will work out this time around. But there is still hope and people are tired of the war and the consequence of the war including the collapse of the d economy the displacement of nearly half of the population and. They interact abolishes that prevented these 2 men from forming a Transitional Government of National Unity including the division of the country by president keel into 32. 00 states and the opposition is saying that this is state unconstitutional and must be that order must be rescinded i think finally now. They may have agreed to look past that issue and say we will sort it out once the government has been formed the government has flagged the possibility of holding a referendum on this issue the opposition is not decided on this up to this point the other issue was the security arrangements including the Defense Forces for the parameter to be in juba and it seems there is now an understanding that that that that provision of security for the. Would be 1st Vice President will be will be availed by the state so i think that our hopes and there d is optimism in the air. But i think people are saying we have been here before and it has not we have not gone past that stage hopefully this will be not be the case again this time around. French transport workers are staging demonstrations nationwide for the 13th day against government plans to reform pensions trains and flights are being disrupted and that could continue throughout the Christmas Holidays workers would need to work 2 extra years before getting a food pension under the current proposals the government says theyll create a fair system but the official behind the plans has had to quit over a scandal involving undeclared income the tasha butler is in paris she says workers believe the government crossed a red line in their reform plans. Opinion polls suggest that the majority of french people actually support the strikes even though the majority also support the fact that the government does need to make some changes its really down to the details people feel that although the Pension System does need to be changed to modernize thats what the government says they are unhappy with some of the details most particularly theyre unhappy with the fact that the government wants people to work to me is longer than they do now in order to be able to have their full pension so that means instead of 62. 00 they can retire at 62. 00 on a full pension it would take them to 64 and thats something quite controversial in france because they feel that the government had promised not to touch the age of a full pension retirement but nevertheless what the government is saying is that they say that no matter what they dont want to start off with the trade unions they dont want to get into the situation in which the disruption continues the government says that it wont back down but it really does look as if what we have is exactly that a standoff situations the trade unions are saying they can going to continue with the strikes the government is saying they need to forge ahead they need to modernize this Pension System because they say its an equal its not fair they say that its costing too much public money and the frogs needs to really annoying itself with all the european countries. 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