Minister valves to work flat out to get bricks it done. The president of south sudan reaches a deal with the Opposition Leaders to form a unity government but differences between the political rivals for a month. A u. S. Congressional committee has cleared the way for an historic vote of impeachment against President Donald Trump the house of representatives will hold a 6 hour debate ahead of the vote on wednesday trump is facing charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress hes warned his political rivals they waging a war on democracy and call the vote ridiculous our White House Correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. In advance of an expected vote to impeach the u. S. President in the house of representatives donald trump slammed the case against him the whole impeachment thing is a hoax we look forward to getting on to the senate. Were not entitled to lawyers were not entitled to witnesses were not entitled to anything in the house its a total sham those oval office statements acco the sentiments of a 6 page letter on official letterhead the tribes said to Democratic HouseSpeaker Nancy Pelosi accusing her of conducting an illegal partisan coup truck goes on to say by proceeding with your invalid impeachment you are violating your oath of office you are breaking your allegiance to the constitution and you are declaring open war on american democracy President Trump is expected to be impeached in the house on 2 articles use of power and obstruction of Congress Says he wrote his letter to the House Speaker to create a permanent record of his thoughts on the historic vote truck maintains he committed no wrongdoing when last july in a phone call he asked the ukrainian president for a favor to help on earth corruption involving his political rival former Vice President joe biden we must act with a sense of urgency to protect our democracy on capitol hill as democrats battled opposition republicans over the terms of the impending Impeachment Vote democrat defended their desire to impeach truong are arguing its the only way to preserve the integrity of the upcoming 2024 president ial vote given that an unrepentant president considers his behavior perfect. Given that he thinks the constitution empowers him to do whatever he wants given that he and his team are still awaiting president selenski statement about investigating joe biden we can only ask what the 2020 election will be like or indeed what any future election in america will be like if we just let this misconduct go but in his letter trump disputed democrats motives writing as you know very well this impeachment drive has nothing to do with ukraine or the totally appropriate conversation i had with its new president it only has to do with your attempt to undo the election of 2016 and steal the election of 2020 and despite efforts by the white house to block witness testimony during the impeachment inquiry trump has accused democrats of denying him due process likening his treatment to the salem witch trials of the 1600s where those falsely accused of witchcraft were executed its a message that seems geared to Trump Supporters a rallying cry trumps letter says could propel him to reelection kimberlee help get aljazeera the white house. Protests supporting impeachment efforts against President Donald Trump are taking place across the u. S. The rallies called nobody is above the law come on the eve of the vote in the house of representatives more than 500. 00 demonstrations have been taking place across the country Gabrielle Elizondo was the one rally in new york he spoke to demonstrators about why they want to see trump impeached. Thousands of people on the streets of new york city marking through the heart of the city and theyre chanting things like lock him up lock him up in each room everybody here is a message they not only want donald trump impeached but they want him removed from office where you hear today im here because no one is above the law its the night before theyre going to vote on the impeachment articles and i think trump has got to go. The whole swamp that were nation of lies here founded on principles of freedom theyre being violated right and left because we have a criminal posing as a president whos broken. Broken the rules of the constitution that is the message from everyone here and its a pretty diverse crowd of people too young older people middle aged it shouldnt be much of a surprise that new york city is Donald Trumps home but its also a very liberal and progressive city Hillary Clinton but that more than 2500000 more votes than donald trump did here so this is why youre seeing so many people taking to the streets here in new york with their message to the extra. Jeffrey kevin services the director of Political Studies this count in center a political think tank he says the republicans need to engage in the impeachment process if they want to win back voters i think what were seeing from republicans on that committee right now is a lot of sound and fury but ultimately it signifies nothing they are hunting very hard to actually defend the facts such as they are and so theyre trying to distract certainly no one i know expects to see anything then a largely Party Line Vote in both the impeachment and then the trial in the senate however theres a bigger problem that i think republicans arent paying special attention to which is that their problem right now is not to demonstrate 100 percent fealty to donald trump their problem is to win back the middle Class College educated voters who abandoned them in the last elections in 2018 unless they get those voters back they dont have much of a chance of regaining the house they might lose the senate they might even lose the presidency and to win those voters back you actually really do need to rely on evidence and argument rather than insults and obfuscation. There are some of those moderate democrats who are concerned they represent districts that they voted some whats in heavily from donald trump and they dont want this process to appear completely partisan so you actually have a small group of democrats hoping to get a century resolution in the house rather than impeachment but i think thats extremely unlikely to happen so i think theyre just going to go back to their districts after this and say that they called it the way that they saw it whether that meant that they voted for impeachment or not. Italys foreign minister has met rival leaders in libya to try to prevent an escalation in the conflict there the u. N. Says more than 1000 people have already been killed and 140000 displaced since war to leave a half to began to take the capital months ago and. Reinforcements are heading to the front line for what could be the final battle for tripoli militia allied to the internationally recognized government moved heavy weapons and fighters sound to the outskirts of the capital. Weve had you brigade support forces are on our way to the capital tripoli we are on our way and god willing we will be victorious. After forces are also reinforcing their front lines each side has foreign help turkey has offered to send troops in support of the tripoli government will have to are has soldiers for hire and there are a 1000 new russian mercenaries deployed to tripoli according to 2 u. S. Officials and one source in moscow quoted in Bloomberg News sudanese in chad in mercenaries all assembling on the front lines for what theyre calling the final push so its increasingly likely that turkey will deploy something to help defend tripoli if needed by the jna with the threat of escalation looming italys foreign minister luigi did my own met with both sides on tuesday holding talks with fires also raj in tripoli and then with soft are in the eastern city of rajma inviting him to room for further talks the u. N. Is calling for the to the rival governments and International Backers to agree to a political solution we continue to call for deescalation and for active support by all libyans and International Actors engaged in libya to find a peaceful and political solution to end the conflict and by addressing its underlying causes i think its important that the International Community as a whole rally around the efforts of the libyan people of course and also. The efforts of the secretary generals. Representative missed a solemn a trying to find a political solution. To this conflict analysts say is becoming less and less about libya with International Actors pulling the strings and flooding the battlefield and or chapell aljazeera. Frances Prime Minister says his country or his government will go ahead with Pension Reforms despite days of nationwide strikes that include scrapping privileges for some employees and raising the retirement age from 62. 00 to 64. 00 the trash about the reports from back. After nearly 2 weeks of transport strikes and disrupted services in france the frustration and weariness is starting to show in paris people battle to get on the few trades and metros still running russia because of cultural experience its frustrating because i wasnt the one who came up with the pension reform i feel completely taken hostage im starting to feel quite angry now in the center of the City Transport workers joint teachers students and Health Workers to protest over the governments planned Pension Reforms these protesters not the taking of them at me but the fact that i did the governments response they would have to work until the age of 60 in order to help all the time and thats to ease lot of the now they say that without the government it would be cost about why thats a good deal to divulge if we think retiring at 62. 00 is already very old so talking about 64 well what next tomorrow 65 and 66 i think its time for the government to act because we know very well that the longer a conflict lasts the more difficult it gets. The demonstration was mostly peaceful that there was some clashes between police and protesters. During a heated debate in the National Assembly the french Prime Minister defended the governments plans he said the reforms would create a fairer and more efficient Pension System. Clearly stated our aim to create a universal Pension System more determined versus the governments on the majorities is absolute calmly its absolute the government says it wants to avoid a prolonged standoff with the trade unions but for now neither side is showing. Any sign of backing down with the Holiday Season just days away it seems a little despite the people trying to get around. Just 0 paris. Still ahead on aljazeera by thousands of refugees returning home from. Countries at once a lively go families trying to prove she died because of londons air pollution. Hello there has been a very unpleasant 24 hours across much of the United States in the south in particular i can see this huge swathe of cloud this is a line of pretty severe thunderstorms and there were tornadoes coming from these storms in fact 26 were reported this is one that was captured on film this is rose pine in louisiana and about 90 kilometers away to the northeast in alexandria look at this damage that was done you can see here just to houses destroyed buildings really damaged trees were also snapped of course when the force of these winds now the good news by wednesday or this is moving well off shore and of a cold and breezy up to the northeast but mostly a fine day in new york but the main way in weather is really pushing in across a much of the west side you can see here this neighbor getting to work its way into the cascades on wednesday by thursday really blanketing the mountains and weve got rain of course at those low and evasions in the slightly milder as so not a good picture there on thursday but a much better picture generally cross much of the east although minus 3 new york so feeling a little bit cool meanwhile across the caribbean its a case of scattered showers some heavier at times and that front is also training right there down across the yucatan peninsula so a wet couple of days here and feeling cool into southern mexico just 17 in mexico city. The fact he took. The smallest corpus on the planet and one that could soon be lost forever with an International Team of scientists is the time and not to let that happen without intervention to give the big i would say here to about just now its a race against time to try and stay for a species i think chrysler has an emergency plan to stave off extinction techno on all jersey or. Youre watching aljazeera heres a reminder of our top stories this hour. A u. S. Congressional committee has cleared the way for a vote of impeachment against president. The house of representatives will hold 6 hours of debate before voting on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. Supporting impeachment efforts. Place across the u. S. The rallies called nobody is above the law on the eve of the vote. Italys foreign minister is in libya where he met with the countrys rival leaders the visit coincides with a surge in fighting the tripoli between Government Forces and those loyal to a warlord after. South sudans president salva kiir and the main Opposition Leader rick much have agreed to form a transitional unity government following talks in juba the pay was trying to resolve outstanding disputes which prevented them from forming a new government by last months deadline set by the United Nations the conflict in south sudan began in 2013 when to accuse much of an attempt to true triggering violence that left hundreds of thousands dead political analyst marwan mortared says there is some hope the new agreement will work. We mustnt lose the fact that they have forgotten or the same site for. Much of the liberation period but that this p. D. S. Goes back if it to the day of the russian. There was a small truce to tourists independence the patched up the divisions but that did not live very long to go to 2 years before the clock. Conflict but i think it can be resolved if the their position is generally. Certain things happen put into place like yours and it could have a power sharing that would make each faction feel unthreatened that they have their you know. A sufficient part of the case moving forward into the future that enough theyre not going to be disadvantaged then that could well i think that is the key to it if you get if you start this truce its nothing to do with. Or even agreement because as we speak thats still talking trying to resolve some of you know some crucial issues but i think this war target this would fatigue i think there is a push to cook mission from both sides and i believe that the cause has been to high 400000 south sudanese as youve said have died since 2013 that is about a 5th just slightly less than a 5th of the people who died in the antidepression period of a 52 years so that has been a very high cost the economy has collapsed or the hopes of you starting in your country are good footing have been lost so then the economys not working they have become popular so i think i doing it to some extent against their will and they have no no cuts left created for them to play. One of President Trumps former Campaign Advisors is going to jail for conspiracy against the United States and lying to the f. B. I. A judge sentenced gates to 45. 00 days in prison and 3 years probation gates cooperated with the mole investigation into alleged russian interference in the 2016 president ial election he was charged for hiding lucrative consulting work he did for ukraines former president. U. K. Prime minister bars johnson says he will use the large majority one in last weeks general election to ensure they arent any further delays to leave in the European Union johnson will put forward an amendment to break said bill on friday saying all negotiations with the bloc must be complete by the end of next year that in baba has more from london. Back in the commons and finally in control Boris Johnson won the election by convincing enough people including traditional labor voters that he could get it done on tuesday before parliament reconvened he chaired a meeting of his new cabinet it looks much like the last one but parliament certainly doesnt and johnson reminded his colleagues that in many cases the public had in his words lent the conservative party fair votes it was a quite extraordinary it was a seismic election but we need to repay that trust and work 24 hours a day flat out to deliver and. Of course of the 1st 100 days were very busy 140 days or whatever it was you may remember was a very frenetic time. But you aint seen nothing yet folks. On friday after the queens speech when the monica outlines johnsons legislative agenda the new parliament will vote for the 1st time on the bricks it bill the governments now amending it to ensure the brics a transition period wont go beyond the end of 2020 between now and then the opposition will try to make sure johnson keeps his promises in areas like protecting workers rights the Prime Minister in the campaign made many many promises and therefore has tremendous responsibilities to live up to hell be judged on whether he keeps those promises or not by the communities that hes made them to our job in the labor party will to hold this g