President ever to be impeached his face now lies in the hands of the senate where a trial will decide whether or not he remains in office also on the program in whats being called the trial of the decade in the philippines of course and life sentences to the masterminds of the brazen political massacre by family members of the 58 People Killed say its only a partial to. End a state of emergency in New South Wales as australias bushfire crisis continues a record breaking heat wave and strong winds are fanning unprecedented fires authorities are warning the worsening conditions on the way in the coming days. Im carl kasell and welcome to the program for the 2nd time in just 2 months the u. K. Government will lay out its legislative agenda this. Around situation is dramatically different Prime MinisterBoris Johnson now has a large majority after last weeks general election in a ceremony of the british queen read off the priorities of the conservative government at the top of the list is of course delivering the clear upper hand johnson now has the votes that he needs to pass a bill to take his country out of the European Union. Barbara vessel is in london for us shes been following those proceedings hello barbara now this is the 2nd queen speeches weve heard within 2 months of what can we expect this time around will there be anything different. There slight differences nuances more or less of course but basically the lady had to repeat herself something that she was prone to do however she sort of scaled down the pomp and circumstance she came in a day dress she just wore head no crown crown was transported in the next her car no carriage only an ordinary creans car could never be ordinary car so it was sort of like repetition. In minor scale more or less but of course the fundamentals of what she had to say where very similar even though politically as you already mentioned the fundamentals have changed largely went on in october the Prime Minister was flailing around trying to do some things that he didnt get through parliament now his party who may lead to such a victory is going to follow him blindly in what ever he wants well speaking of repetition barbara the 1st item on the agenda was unsurprisingly what to learn how and when does Boris Johnsons government plan to deliver brussels. It is a quite clear timetable Everybody Knows it is more or less already a done deed problem and will. Vote on it tomorrow but as we now know there is no resistance left here in westminster against this brecks it so its the 1st 31st of january that will britain see leave the European Union and also he changed the law he wants to make it illegal to have. Next year for the transition period even so he is tying his own hands and try to making the time very short for negotiations with the European Union which also on the other hand means hes trying to blackmail the e. U. In giving him what she wants well that is going to work we will see much later next year however its a very tight time scale and she really wants to push it and show i can get it done even though the majority in britain know that this is me a referee barber there were other bills in that speech of course what should they tell us about the direction of Boris Johnsons government and he has such a large majority of what is he planning to do. He needs to spend money on the Ailing Health system that is one of the big pledges he made more than 30000000000 Edition Money to sort of great the whole system that is close to breakdown really that is one of the main concerns of people its not really bracks it but its the Health Service is Public Services in general its the police its the schools theres so many area and Public Services in britain that really need Big Investments that need to be in need reforms so that is really where his main that ground lies he got all those voters from the north that for the 1st time in their lives abundant labor voted for conservatives now he has to do something for them he cant just abandon them and say thank you very much this is it he really has to deliver something for them and that is what he really has to concentrate on and partly this could already be seen in the speech how far he will get because money is scarce in the public budget that is another question but the intention is there all right our roi. London barber of ezola covering the queens speech today thank you very much. Well its official donald trump is now just the 3rd u. S. President in history to be impeached the u. S. House of representatives as voted on 2 charges stemming from trumps alleged attempt to pressure ukraine into investigating his main political rival joe biden both votes fellow along party lines almost all democrats voted for the charges republicans meanwhile voted unanimously against them this paves the way now for a senates trial which will decide whether the president will be removed from office. After hours of debating the 1st article of impeachment for abuse of power past the hives. On this though they are 230 nays 1907 present is one. Article one is adopted and just minutes later this 2nd article for obstruction of Congress Went as planned for the democrats on this though the as are 229 the nays you know 198 present is one article 2 is adopted. Hundreds of kilometers away you have a rally in michigan President Trump reacted to his impeachment. With todays illegal unconstitutional and partisan impeachment. Could do nothing democrats and they are doing nothing all they want to do is focus on this what they could be doing are declaring their deep hatred and this thing for the american voter. This lolas partisan speech is a political suicide march for the Democratic Party have you seen my polls of the last for which. Back in Washington Democratic had Speaker Nancy Pelosi accuse the republicans of being purely partisan she threatened to delay the impeachment trial until she could be sure it would be handled fairly in the senate. We have legislation approved by the rules committee that will enable us to decide how we will fund over. And they cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the senate and i would hope that will be soon so far we havent flown what will they are to us so hopefully it will be for when we see what all bills will. Probably with voting concluded in the house of representatives and donald trump becoming only the 3rd u. S. President to be impeached americans now face the next stage in the process the senate trial thats due to begin in january but democrats face an uphill battle considering the senate is republican controlled and they need a 2. Thirds majority to remove President Trump from office. For the comp of the is about to begin a brief period of calm over the Holiday Season as members of the congress and senate spent time in their homes to starkly divided country. Lets get more now on impeachment joining me in studio rachel rizzo shes a us political analyst and bosch fellow here in berlin rachel i mean we keep calling this a historic moment only the 3rd president s in the history of the country to be impeached what does the word historic mean hero put this in context for us i mean when you look at the only 2 other president s who have been impeached and johnson and bill clinton the word impeachment really hangs over their presidency even for Richard Nixon who resigned before he could be impeached and that word sort of hangs over his presidency too but i think this is about a lot more than just impeachment its about protecting the integrity of the office its about honoring the constitution but its not a day of excitement this is not a day to celebrate. Dancing palosi made that very clear in the way she shut down democrats who started to cheer as she was reading out the votes so its a really a solemn day for the United States in our history i think so how does this vote how does this theres more of an pietschmann what does that do to trumps presidency how will people per potentially view President Trump now from this day forward the word impeachment is going to be associated with Donald Trumps presidency and that bothers him that he doesnt see it doesnt seem like the ball exactly by donald cares about how hes perceived in public hes he cares about how the public sees him and you can tell that the because of what he says over twitter from the letter he sent to nancy pelosi even what he was saying during the michigan rally that he held last night so this is something that is going to hang over his presidency and its something that hes going to fight against people because it really does get to the heart of who gets. To speaking about the impeachment proceedings its of course the law may. Who do the actual vote and we saw that last night but Public Opinion does play a big role in terms of potentially pressuring lawmakers to vote one way or the other whats the Public Opinion right now on impeachment in the United States people feel about this impeachment is a chaos creator for the United States right and it just feeds in to the hyper partisan Political Climate that the country is experiencing experiencing today i mean the country is divided so clearly along partisan lines democrats and republicans this impeachment proceeding isnt going to change decided voters either way republicans or democrats will continue to stay in their lanes i think whats going to be really interesting to see Going Forward is how this affects the very small number of undecided or independent voters in the United States there is an election you may have heard coming up in 2020 its a big one will there be fallout from the impeachment do you think i mean itll be in november so is that a long enough time or will still be a Campaign Issue by then well theres a couple things here the 1st is that theres going to be senators that are distracted by this candidates like Booker Warren and sanders they all have to come back from the campaign trail to finish this trial in the senate the 2nd thing is that republicans are really going to use this as a talking point against the democrats theyre going to say that the dems are the ones who are dividing the country who are trying to feed into the hyper partisanship and so this isnt something thats going to go any way go away any time soon its going to follow the democrats all the way down the campaign trail until november thats on a trial expected sometime next year of rachel rizzo a u. S. Political analyst and bosch fellow in berlin thank you thanks. Our lets take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the pretrial hearings have started in the case of a slovak businessman tied to the killing of an investigative journalist marianna koechner is suspected of ordering the killing of journalist. Who had been investigating his business activities. They were gunned down at their home in february last year. Scotlands 1st minister Nicola Sturgeon says that the Scottish Government will consider all options if the British Government tries to stop it from holding an independence referendum surgeons Pro IndependenceScottish National party won 48 seats in last weeks u. K. Why the election. Bolivias attorney general has issued an arrest warrant for exxon for president. The new government has accused him of sedition and terrorism the left wing leader fled bolivia last month after the countrys military pressured him hours over a disputed president ial election denounce the arrest or as illegal. A court in the philippines has found the masterminds of the countrys worst political massacre guilty of murder the convicted members of the influential family killed 58. 00 people in a 2009 bloodbath including political opponents and journalists families trial was also seen as a crucial test in a country where corruption and intimidation often decide local elections. 10 years have passed but these people students have not and may never hue. We cannot forget the murderers who took away their loved ones. But today justice has been done for them they are hereby convicted and sentenced to suffer the penalty of imprisonment. 29 of the suspects now face life imprisonment decades in jail but dozens of others are still at large the following accused who are found to have acted the atrocity in 2009. In the worst political massacre in the history of the philippines 58. 00 people were killed over a half of them journalists in the province of much in the now police found mutilated bodies in mass graves prepared ahead of the murder one body was never found. The region had long been governed by one family but in a provincial election they were challenged by a rival candidate a smile. After receiving Death Threats mangudadatu sent his family to register him for the poll together with a large group of journalists whose presence it was hoped would deter violence but the convoy was attacked by gunmen sent. A decade long wait for justice followed. Its a scar that will stay forever but perhaps their grief can now begin to hugh. In australia a record breaking heat wave and strong winds are plaguing firefighters battling out of control bushfires the countrys most populous states New South Wales has declared an emergency there authorities are warning of worsening conditions over the next few days this week has already seen 2 consecutive days of record heat with the average temperature reaching 41. 9 degrees celsius as 107 degrees fahrenheit and its set to go even higher. A wall of flames consuming all before it the firemen trying to slow its advance of fighting a losing battle. Wildfires have been raging in australia for months now scorching more than 3000000 hectares of land and destroying over 700 homes this smoke has engulfed sydney blurring it psychotic skyline but with average temperatures reaching record highs the state of New South Wales is preparing for things to get us given the severity of extreme weather conditions today and also saturday and for the next few days on advice of commissioner fitzsimmons New South Wales will be in a state of emergency from today for the next 7 days scientists blame Global Warming for the severity of this years fire as parched from the searing heat New South Wales is a tinderbox already a light. The fire service sending out its biggest plane this one dumps 36000 liters of fire retardant with every flight but thats still not enough weve got just under 104 hours going across New South Wales and half of them are not can timed it was to die is going to be a very bad story here in New South Wales the forecast is that sort of i will be even worse so were talking about some very serious and dangerous conditions over the coming days. With the heat bearing down many australians took to the waves to cool off. Even as they relax on the beach the flames are creeping closer. Now thats where journalist Roger Maynard a standing by for us roger how are people coping i mean we saw people there cooling off in the waters there is these record temperatures and not only that i mean there must be a big Health Threat posed as well by all that smoke coming from the bushfires are people coping there. Well with great difficulty as you said weve had the return of the snow case which has been a problem in sydney and much of the. Now i was really bad last week today or early this week is that today that the snow cave returned and you know we had lots of people walking in the streets with masks around the place to protect themselves and you trek to the or has said that the. The the air quality was a little in times over the acceptable level so that gives you an idea of the sort of problems people are facing and for many that smoke in the heat is arguably more serious than the threat posed by bush fires which are still quite a long way from sydney in fact he said that more people in australia got from what it was than bushfires or well floods put together and doctors here are advising people to stay inside possible or wear those face masks if they have to go out into the street i mean those images just walk almost apocalyptic their Prime MinisterPrime MinisterScott Morrison hes come under some criticism for the way that hes handling this entire thing to asia in fact hes currently out of the country is that right. Thats right Scott Morrison has decided to go on holiday with his family as australia burns its not a good look and he certainly hasnt gone down world with the many people in australia and theres certainly a big debate going on here about the kools of the bushfire crisis many people of blaming the government for not addressing Climate Change and reducing the countrys reliance on fossil fuels no but others argue that theres no direct link between Climate Change and the drought on grounds of course are part and parcel of australian history because for thousands of years here its traders to draw as continent on earth so you know what the league is between the 2 has yet to be really a steady supply of somebody because even so the right of center conservative government has. Actually. I like that. We hear that Scott Morrison the Prime Minister has a way holey. Apparently with his family and apparently weve heard today that he deliberately his media minders asked reporters not to mention that fact a few days ago but of course its no come home to roost and now its got worse and are expected to return. And ok well the vacation then may be over a Roger Maynard there reporting for us in sydney thanks very much police in india have detained hundreds of people during their new protests against a new citizenship law the demonstrations went ahead despite a ban on protesting by authorities critics of the law say it makes religion a basis for granting indian citizen ship and discriminates against muslims and one protest Police Arrested the well known historian from much under a google is the tension has prompted widespread outrage particularly among academics on twitter a delhi based political historian condemned what he described as quote the police man handling one of our most prolific and influential public intellectuals and scholars u. S. Journalist edward lucy who has specialized in porting on india tweeted this he says a system deccan arrest and detain gandhis biographer for peacefully protesting to uphold its constitution is not a liberal democracy he called on people to quote stand with wrong. Well heres what else is making headlines at this hour Spanish Police have clashed with protesters outside a football match between barcelona and real madrid protesters you see them there outside the stadium in barcelona trying to draw attention to the catalonian separatist movement during the goalless match it was watched by 650000000 people worldwide. Thousands of people gathered across poland to demonstrate against a proposed law allowing the government fire judges protesters fear that the legislation gives the ruling party the power to get bread of judges that they dont agree with. Russian president Vladimir Putin is giving his annual marathon end of the year News Conference and this year there are plenty of burning questions hooten has addressed issues ranging from Climate Change and the impeachment of President Trump to the ban on russian athletes for doping rights 2000 journalists have crammed into a moscow Conference Room to quiz him but we decided to take to the streets to ask ordinary russians which question they would most like to ask the president theres news poses a question but id like to ask him to stay his current course thats what i want he leads well our country is advancing were happy and we want things to stay as they are have through i want to ask him when we will finally get gas connections were providing europe and china with gas but in the Moscow Region some people arent thats not right near will im concerned about the fact that many of putins directives for economic and social reforms are being carried out on time you will notice of several. Earlier i spoke to moscow times journalist evan gets to the edge about that press conference and i asked him what sorts of questions journalists are able to ask given the lack of press freedom in russia is a really closely managed affair it takes 4 hours were about only half way through so far its been 2 hours and the questions that journalists ask all have to be approved ahead of time and they give a chance or put into address as you mentioned some of the main issues of the day back when these started 20 years ago in 2001 was the 1st. Was the 1st press conference it was much more free flowing International Journalists had much more of an opportunity to ask questions and as its over the years its basically become a lot more focused on what putin wants to send a message about some of the questions have been this here a bit more. Lets say spicy than you would think there was a question about an investigative journalist who was arrested in june that set off mass protests in moscow this summer and bush in answer that question that was absolutely unexpected the rest of the questions were the lot more in line with what you would expect there are questions about like the russian from the street mentioned earlier there was a question about peace talks with ukraine about the about the doping scandal and so on but theyre asking the sort of flat way that lets put in the answer however he sees fit. Its interesting that putin as well acknowledged events posed by Climate Change but that he had to say about Global Warming. It was actually the 1st question today was about Global Warming which is also interesting weve had record temperatures here in moscow we havent seen snow which is quite surprising for moscow in december temperatures are well above 0 so. People are a bit disconcerted you actually see Climate Change you know. In places where temperatures have read 0 you see those tangible facts put in acknowledges that Climate Change exists and he acknowledged it again today but he said today he said quote we dont know what is causing it he can be quite frustrating for Climate Change activists because on the one hand he does acknowledge that its a problem and russia ratified the Paris Agreement the global landmark accord on fighting Climate Change this year it was a bit late to the but it did sign it then again pushing wont actually go so far as to say that its human driven and which gives him a way to sort of be up with the International Norms but not pull back from the main. You know the main thing that drives the russian economy which is greenhouse gases. An interesting window into the thoughts of a lot of my pollution evan. With the moscow times thank you so much. Theres 2 pompei in italy will get the chance to see Something Special the ongoing restoration of some of the worlds most famous works of art pay administrators are opening the doors on the 19th and 20th of december allowing the public to view work thats being carried out on the frescoes in the Orchard House or the dead. A work on the images of gardens ornamental plants the flying birds is expected to be finished in february next year. The top stories that were following for you at this hour Britains Queen elizabeth has opened a new session of Parliament Following conservative Prime MinisterBoris Johnsons election victory last week in her speech presenting the governments agenda she said his priority is to deliver it. And the house of representatives in the us has voted to impeach President Donald Trump vote was split along party lines with no republicans voting in favor of the articles of impeachment will now be sent to the senate for a republican majority is expected to vote to keep President Trump. Stay tuned conflict zone is up next youre watching news live from berlin more coming at the top of the hour in the meantime all the latest news Information Available around the clock on our web site thats d. W. Dot com. Thanks for watching. Conflict some with sebastian. Chinas recent celebrations for his 70th anniversary one court the Public Relations triumph it was supposed to be marcus this week here in london is a big tent golf how does he justify chinas comes a log of human rights abuses im a continuing pressure on hong kong conflict so for next couple of. Smiles can inspire change the people making a possible moscow africa fantastic night. 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