A new Prime Minister is named as president putin and frances his reform agenda. On the verge of a major eruption some residents living near the top of volcano in the philippines are reluctant to leave. And the new climate data it shows the past decade was the best on record. And im sorry a smile i have all the days sport including danger driving in the desert a lucky escape for that though alonso at the dapper rally in saudi arabia. Will begin on capitol hill where the u. S. House of representatives has voted to send the articles of impeachment against president to the senate it also passed a resolution authorizing the appointment of 7 managers for the trial and House Intelligence Committee chairman adam schiff will lead that team trump is accused of threatening to withhold military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into his political rival joe biden impeachment trial is expected to begin properly next week. The task before us is a grave one but one demanded by our oath the impeachment inquiry undertaken by the house of representatives found that president donald j. Trump abused his power and sought to cover it up with an Unprecedented Campaign of obstruction President Trump put his own personal interests above the National Interests above our National Security and if not stopped he will do it again for that reason he was impeached and for that reason the house managers will take the case to the senate and to the American People because the appropriate remedy indeed the only remedy is the conviction and removal from office of President Donald Trump audition castros live from capitol hill in washington d. C. How do you where are we now in this process. Lauren in a few hours time youll see House Speaker nancy pelosi in gross the passage of these articles of impeachment to be transmitted to the senate that means she will sign them in a ceremony and then immediately afterwards we will see these articles the actual printed documents being carried across the u. S. Capitol from the house of Representatives Chamber where everything thats far has unfolded and make their way across there were tundra and into the senate side of the capitol which will also be the crossing of this historic threshold with President Trump being only the 3rd u. S. President in history to now face a trial that could result in his removal from office and we will see those 700 smith managers who are essentially the prosecutors that will be arguing the case against they will also accompany those articles in a ceremonial march across the Capitol Building what that really means is that starting from that moment afterwards we will see the rest of this impeach him. A out in the Republican Controlled Senate that is where the trial will unfold and that is where because the republicans hold the majority there and of course thats President Trumps own party most of his mostly itll be his own supporters who will decide his fate it takes a 2 thirds majority vote to convict the president and thus remove him from office so the standard there extremely high one the likelihood that at least 20 republican senators would defect from trump in order to get him convicted that likelihood is very slim at the moment however we know that with the transmission of these articles today that this historic trial of a president is certainly guaranteed and how did new evidence has been released in the past 24 hours how significant is it. That they answer that question about their significance is whether or not they will be allowed to play a role in the upcoming trial of President Trump but the evidence itself certainly on face value appears compelling these are documents that were just released by levy are not he is an associate of the private attorney of President TrumpRudy Giuliani and he was dispatched to ukraine with the mission of digging the dirt on trumps political rival joe biden and he shared with investigators because of a court order allowing him to do so he just recently shared this trove of documents that include handwritten notes and Text Messages that have previously not been considered by impeachment investigators they include a handwritten note that says gets a little ski the president of ukraine to announce that the biden case will be investigated theres also a letter from giuliani the president s personal attorney addressed his alinsky that says that giuliani is acting with the full knowledge and consent. Of President Donald Trump that is significant because it directly ties the president to these allegations that he faces at the heart of this impeachment that allegation being that trump had the corrupt intent of trying to get dirt on his political rival to benefit his own reelection while using u. S. Security aid to ukraine as leverage that is something that the motivation there the intent is what President Trump has been denying and thus far there has not been direct evidence proving otherwise so democrats are certainly hoping that this will be allowed to be considered as part of a trial as well as new potential new witnesses who have said they would be willing to come forward and the American Public in recent polling have also said that the majority of the American Public believe that senators should listen to new evidence as it emerges should hear from those new witnesses in order for this to be a fair trial on your question of the time being thank you very much what i would burn is a former special impeachment counsel to the u. S. House of representatives he joins me live from washington d. C. Thanks very much for being with us now i understand youve done this from one side of the of the house to one side of the capitol to the other talk us through how that works and how it feels. Well its rather momentous although in my instance we were dealing with federal judges who have been impeached but its very stirring i mean you start you leave the House Chamber you walk down this very very long corridor then you go under the rotunda in the center of the huge building and of course there are always people there who are just sightseers and visitors and they are gawking at it was to wondering what youre doing and then we all march to the Senate Chamber we are announced that we are there to present the articles of impeachment the doors are open than we march in the lead manager in this case and presumably it will be adam schiff with whom i work for a year on 2 other impeachments he will then read the articles to the senate all of whom are in the room at that moment and so i mean you mentioned adam schiff that as one of those manages how critical is this particular cost of characters to the potential outcome of any trial well you know sometimes the members of the house who participate in an impeachment are there because they want to have a little participation in a bit of history adam schiff is the real deal so to speak he is a Stanford HarvardLaw School Graduate he was a former prosecutor for many years and he is a very talented lawyer so he is not simply there in a political capacity he is actually there because hes a very good draw lawyer ive seen him. On several occasions crossexamining witnesses arguing legal points hes hes for real and i think that if for no other reason he is very good that he from the democrats point of view very good that he is involved in this and you mention crossexamining witnesses how likely is it that that actually will be the witnesses in this in the senate. Well of course thats thats the big question i think a lot of pressure is building on the republicans who do control the entire process but i think the pressure is building for them to allow witnesses the American People i think want to know what happened and who was responsible its im sure there is a hard core in support of the president that really doesnt care this whole process doesnt mean a thing to them but there is a large group in the middle independents people who havent made up their minds yet who are very interested in hearing all of the facts and to the extent that facts are covered up i think they will draw a negative inference which means even though the president may be acquitted in this proceeding in the in the congress this is going to reverberate in november when the election comes around and i think that many people there are their eyes on that rather than simply whats going to take place in the Senate Chamber baron thank you very much indeed to share your expertise thank you oh White House Correspondent in may how kate has moved on president obamas reaction to the trial heading to the senate. It has been tweeting it was a bit unusual it didnt really mean anything so im not going to read it back to you because were not exactly sure what it meant other than it was it ever by this president to inject his voice into a process that is about him but essentially he has no involvement in at the moment so what the president has been doing in addition is also holding a signing ceremony with the representatives from china this is phase one of a trade agreement with china normally wed be making a lot of noise about this would be a big headline and i think the white house was hoping that would be the case again but instead the real fixation here in washington or around the world has been the events that have taken place on capitol hill so perhaps because the white house was a get Media Attention it wanted or the narrative wasnt going in the direction of the reaction there was a phone call between some of the senior Top Administration officials and members of the media to kind of give us a sense of how this white house is hoping this trial in the u. S. Senate will go moving forward and what this white house is pushing for right now is for this to be a very quick trial with essentially no witnesses being called now this is a big problem for members of the Democratic Party not just in the house of representatives but also in the u. S. Senate because their argument is there need to be witnesses called theres still more evidence the American People have not heard they want to hear from people like the secretary of state by pump a. O. The former National Security advisor john bolton in fact he would have some evidence that certainly would be pertinent to this case given his close proximity to the president. Restimulate mentioned the main order of business at the white house itself was the signing of a trade deal with china after more than 18 months of wrangling President Donald Trump signed the agreement which eliminates some tariffs and defuses a trade war between the worlds 2 largest economies 86. 00 page deal includes a promise from china to double purchases from American Farmers in the 1st year both countries say the phase one agreement is a mental step forward in their relations shilohs made substantial and in forcible commitments regarding the protection of american ideas trade secrets patents and trademarks this was not according to most i didnt know we covered every of this weve covered a lot of this its phase one but theyre doing many more things in phase one than anyone thought possible mike hanna is live for us in washington d. C. The White House National economic adviser larry could lawyers call it the best deal ever why what does he think that. Well it may be a bit premature to categorize the steel such as that it is phase one off what will be a multi phase deal it is very much a truce in the trade war rather than an end to it now it is significant that china has opened up its markets for the 2 u. S. Companies china has also made certain assurances and guarantees about allowing u. S. Companies to operate within china it does address the tariffs that were recently introduced by President Trump however most of those some 65 percent of those tariffs will remain in place the tariffs that had been reduced incidentally down to 7. 5 percent have to do with consumer items flat screen televisions athletic footwear bluetooth headphones which some observers point out is very much a way of signaling to the consumer that they will get some benefit from the deal linking to President Trump seeing this whole thing as the meeting off a Campaign Promise but those who are opposed or critical of the deal that has been signed at this point point out that it does not address what is a central issue in china u. S. Trade and that is the Chinese Government subsidies of Chinese Companies many of them state owned which essentially allows Chinese Companies to act as an advantage to u. S. Companies therefore being able to produce goods cheaper and therefore having an imbalance in trade between the 2 countries but it is as i say the 1st step most of the tariffs remain in place posed by the United States the other terrorists will be introduced if china does not comply with the agreement in the months to come so there is a punitive factor to this as well and many others have criticized the deal is weak tell us more about that. Well it says points that ive just made that there are elements in it that are not addressed at this particular stage i mentioned the Chinese Government subsidies of Chinese Companies which put them at a favorable position in regard to the u. S. Competitors also theres the issue of Cyber Intelligence the issue of chinese. Stealing of u. S. Technology chinese hacking of u. S. Computer systems now this is not addressed at all in this particular phase one it is many observers contend one of the central problems in terms of the u. S. China relationship so there are many issues that go unaddressed many of them very fundamental in terms of the relationship but even those observers who are critical of this particular phase one deal will greet with a sigh of relief this poor in a trade war that has been crippling to the economies of both countries and further afield so this as i said a truce not an end to the war but certainly a truce that is welcomed by most mike hanna thank you very much. Much more to come here on the news hour protesters continue to show their anger at lebanons economic crisis and a top u. N. Official says politicians only have themselves to blame. Irans president repeats his call for all foreign troops to leave the middle east saying american and European Forces are not safe in the region and rally for relief the stars of tennis come together now been to raise money for victims of the australian bushfires. Russias Prime Minister has stepped down in a move seen as paving the way for president Vladimir Putin to hold on to power when his term ends in 2024 miter madrid if says his resignation will allow for putin to introduce sweeping changes to the constitution during his state of the nation address hooten proposed an increase in parliaments power as well as an enhanced role for the state council trying to hoe reports. It was dramatic and entirely unexpected except the just hours before the resignation of russias Prime MinisterDmitry Medvedev and his entire government the president Vladimir Putin had called for government change. As hes given. We is the government of the Russian Federation and should provide the president of our country with the opportunity to make all necessary changes to the political system. In the end you will live televised state of the nation address putin said that the constitution should be amended to allow parliament to choose candidates for Prime Minister and the cabinet a power now enjoyed soley by the president and the president he said should in future serve a total maximum of 2 terms putin himself is currently serving his 4th the proposed changes would substantially limit the power of whoever succeeds putin as president after he steps down in 2024 as hes constitutionally bound to do supporters describe the movers deepening democracy empowering elected members of Parliament Critics however suggest it offers a concrete clue to russias hottest political question what happens after putin the answer some believe is more. The main result of putins address tweeted kremlin critic Alexis Novell me what kind of idiots and or crooks or all those who said that putin would leave in 2024 the only goal of putin and his regime is remaining leader for life taking ownership of an entire country and appropriating wealth to himself and his friends the russian president seeks to. Continue to exert control or the russian political sphere even after he leaves the official office of the president so theres more of is intended to change the. Structure of t