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News in Washington I'm core of a Coleman later this morning the House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on 2 articles of impeachment against President Trump the Judiciary Committee debated the articles for 15 hours yesterday and chairman Gerald now to postpone the expected vote at the end of the committee hearing has been a long 2 days of consideration of these articles and it is now very late at night and what the members on both sides of the I have to think about what has happened over these last 2 days and to search their consciences before we care so final votes but Republican committee members were angry saying now change the committee's plans without telling them if the committee approves the articles today they'll move to the full House for a vote that's expected by the end of next week Republicans say the Democrats have rushed to their impeachment inquiry Democrats maintain the president abused his office trade negotiators for the u.s. And China have reportedly reached a preliminary trade agreement this didn't stop Chinese trade officials today from saying recent u.s. Legislation has damaged trust between both sides N.P.R.'s Emily Fang has more China refused to comment on reports that the u.s. And China are close to finishing an interim trade pact that would delay or cancel tariffs that go into effect December 15th Instead China sharply criticized recently passed American legislation that supports anti-poaching protests in Hong Kong and another bill that condemns Beijing's detention of Muslim minorities as opposing Friday China's foreign minister called the moves quote paranoid and said they are quote seriously damaging the hard won foundation of mutual trust between the 2 countries hours later a foreign ministry spokesperson said the u.s. Has China policy was on a quote erroneous path and the u.s. Needed to quote calm down and lay Fang n.p.r. News Beijing congressional negotiators have reached agreement on a spending package worth $1.00 trillion dollars to fund the federal government a deadline is coming next week and without spending legislation the government will partially shut down. The state of Illinois is suing a cigarette maker Joel labs officials allege it intentionally targeted its advertising at children from member station Wu I s Sam Dunn club prepared this report the state attorney general's office says it wants to hold jewel accountable for its role in what it calls the youth East cigarette epidemic the company it says appealed directly to teenagers online and claimed its Pods had less nicotine than they actually did Jon Klein a pediatrics professor at the University of Illinois Chicago says the proof is in the flavors Jewel is peddling the whole idea that they're somehow necessary for adults to quit is part of Jewel's marketing to our young people New York Minnesota and California have also sued the isa great maker which has continued to come under fire from federal lawmakers for n.p.r. News I'm Sam dunk law in Springfield Illinois You're listening to n.p.r. News from Washington. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party have decisively won national elections held on Thursday the conservatives will hold a 78 seat majority in the country's parliament the prime minister says the election victory gives him the mandate he needs to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union next month in France striking unions appear to be hardening their stance against the French government's plan to overhaul the nation's pension system N.P.R.'s Eleanor Beardsley reports the French government's efforts to ease tensions aren't working the nightly news showed scenes of confrontation around the country dock workers burning tires in the port of mob say and strike wrecking bus drivers being blocked from leaving the terminal in Paris even the moderate unions say the government crossed a red line by raising the retirement age to 64 the head of the railway branch of the hardline c g t union said there would be no Christmas break unless the government comes to its senses businesses are hurting in the usually lucrative holiday season the strike has crippled the transport network and close schools still some 54 percent of the French still support the movement the strike enters its 9th day Friday Eleanor Beardsley n.p.r. News Paris a New Zealand military team has recovered the bodies of 6 people killed in a volcanic eruption this week the team made a very risky visit to White Island where tourists were caught in the eruption on Monday an additional 8 people are already known dead in the blast many other people who survived were badly burned I'm sure of a Coleman n.p.r. News in Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include the pajama gram company creators of matching holiday pajamas for the whole family including dogs and cats with Charlie Brown Star Wars and Grange games and myths fleece and flannel available at pajama gram dot com. 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News I'm Noel King and I'm Rachel Martin good morning the long slow Bronx at story has just sped up British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his conservative party just won a decisive victory in parliamentary elections this morning he promised to end 3 years of political paralysis in the United Kingdom over its exit from the European Union and he says it's going to happen fast I will put a men's tool that moans and we will get bricks done on time by the 31st of January no ifs no buts name a beast the vote represents a major shake up in British politics we've got N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt on the line from London good morning Frank and good morning Rachel no doubt a huge win for Boris Johnson how did he make it happen. Well he you know that it's interesting the conservatives picked up 47 seats this is the biggest majority since Margaret Thatcher's win in 1987 in the way he did it was just what you heard that line he said Get Breck's it done he had a laser like focus on this slogan and it was very effective and the reason for that is also what you were just mentioning earlier and that is over 3 years of political paralysis people are exhausted here I mean when I have been traveling around the country for the last number of weeks talking to voters and not only were people who voted in 2016 in the referendum to leave the European Union who wanted out of Europe those people it really appealed to that line from Johnson but even people who want to stay in the European Union felt that the company country just needed to move on even if it would do economic damage even though they were against this they just felt enough is enough and I think that that message really was this that the the most important thing that Johnson did in the campaign I mean what happened to labor I mean they ran on a very different kind of platform but he hasn't is and I thought they would do badly I didn't think they would do as badly as they did Rachael it's the were showing since $1035.00 for them so they have dug a deep hole for themselves and there are 2 things that happened here one is that Jeremy Corp and remarkably understand why did it he would not take a position on Bracks it which of course is the biggest issue to face the country in decades and the reason he did that is he had voters Labor voters on both sides who had different feelings he didn't want to alienate either side so his platform which was very hard to explain on the doorstep as people stay he say here in British politics when you're kind of pitching to ordinary voters he said what we'll do is I'll get a new withdrawal agreement on that renegotiate this with Brussels and then we will take it back to the people for a referendum either to accept it or stay in the European Union that just did not sell the other thing is that Corben politically is pretty far to the left here he wanted a national nationalized the rail roads which are problematic Corben has a point but he was also. About tuition free universities which is very appealing but people weren't sure they could pay for it and he also his negative ratings were 61 percent in a recent poll so he really was a drag on the party. Explain how this changes British politics I mean Johnson really carved together this surprising coalition representing a real change in the political and I think the political landscape is completely revamped and what I'd like to focus on is what's known as the red wall of north of here in the north of England in the Midlands even northern Wales Labor had this sort of traditional heartland industrial coal mining factories things like that that they'd always been able to rely on and a lot of them had voted to leave the euro and so Johnson was able to really go after that area and pick up very big wins and it's very reminiscent actually of what Donald Trump did in 2016 in the upper Midwest and of course that cost the Democrats the White House and the other big story of election night was the strong showing of the Scottish National Party which ran his platform of holding another referendum on Scottish independence how likely is that well not any time soon but this is a very serious issue and I think people are expecting in the next couple of years you're going to see a constitutional showdown between Nicolas sturgeon leader the Scottish National Party and Boris Johnson what Nicolas Sturgeon has already arguing this morning because they did very well is that this was a vote for another independence referendum and their argument up in Scotland the Scottish National Party is we voted to stay in the e.u. You're dragging us out we want an option to choose our own path so in the next couple of years I think that is going to come to had one way or the other so it's interesting that you talk about Bracks it getting done it's not done at all the the tremors the reverberation of this is going to go on for a long time N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt reporting from London thank you so much happy to do it Rachel. More than half a 1000000 people in this country do not have homes it's a crisis and you see it especially clearly along the West Coast there are tent cities along sidewalks parks and highway underpasses and they are at the center of a huge legal fight a federal appeals court has put limits on how far cities can go to enforce bans on camping as N.P.R.'s Leila Fadel and Kirk Siegler report this case could be headed to the Supreme Court Boise Idaho is maybe an unusual place to start this story the homeless crisis is overwhelming the big cities on the west coast Boise bills itself as one of the country's most livable cities touting its good schools its safe leafy neighborhoods and access to the outdoors yet it's this prosperous mid-size city that's at the center of a divisive legal battle over whether people can sleep on public property the case goes back nearly a decade when Pam Hawkes and her than partner are homeless here she says many nights they had no other choice but to pitch a tent in a wooded area along the Boise river I was like I just need somewhere to lay my head over night and it's not like we left we always packed up and we always kept it clean yet police routinely ticketed her for camping in public or reach talks in Spokane Washington where she's since moved she was on a city bus on her way to a job interview that kind of frustrating when they caught napping in public which then I feel it makes me feel like I'm right Max down salaries in all reality I tried my time to stay out of view of the public hawks and a half dozen others in a similar predicament sued the city of Boise and last year they won a federal appeals court ruled it's unconstitutional for cities to ticket people for sleeping in public if there are no shelter beds available this is now the law of the 9th Circuit that covers much of the West Boise is appealing to the u.s. Supreme Court but for now from here to Seattle to cities in California you can't just criminalize people like hawks for not having anywhere to sleep. It was to go with. Boys He's a civil rights attorney Howard still keeps copies of the dozen public camping tickets Pam Hawkes got she couldn't pay them so she'd spend the night in jail bellowed off represents the plaintiffs to deter homeless person is to give a place to. That's the. Underlying problem even though the homeless population in Boise is much smaller than in big cities the underlying tensions are the same the cost of living here is soaring Boise is now one of the nation's fastest growing cities and there's an extraordinary affordable housing crisis homelessness was a deciding factor in an unusually heated may oral race here this fall that ended a bitterly dividing to Democrats the message that one was Lauren Maclean's part that is ness is all too often is the importance of prevention of we want to prevent cancer we have to prevent. We have got to address. The community the losing candidate was the city's longest ever serving mayor Dave beater he took heat for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to appeal the case but Peter argues Boise needs the ability to issue some tickets to stop the spread of encampments that he said have taken over West Coast cities like Seattle and Los Angeles where my colleague is. Downtown 3000 people sleep on the streets every night in the shadow of the financial district and luxury condos tents and makeshift tarps and cardboard lined street. People camping on the sidewalks or shoving their belongings into plastic bags shopping carts backpacks or roller bags pushing them out of the way before sanitation workers get to their block to fill garbage trucks and power wash the sidewalks. It's a city program to keep areas with homeless encampments like Skid Row often referred to as the homeless capital of the nation clean. Ploy to harass the homeless making us don't. We don't supposed to that's one round he looks on shaking his head he's standing on the corner where he slept for 3 years before getting into housing last month he got hit by a car couldn't work and so like 150 people every single day in Los Angeles County he fell into homelessness were targeted because. It's like cockroaches instead of human beings we're no longer human beings down here no more homeless people are cockroaches to society now there to be rules on the streets that's l.a. City attorney Mike fewer He says he's against criminalizing homelessness but the Boise ruling is too broad l.a. And dozens of other municipalities filed supporting briefs in the Boise case I want the Supreme Court to issue clear rules let me there to be certainty in jurisdiction's like ours as to how we can regulate constitutionally conduct on our sidewalks for example he worries will the city be burdened with nightly counts of the number of homeless people versus available shelter beds he says the city has to balance the rights of homeless people with those of business owners and other residents they complain about the growing number of tent cities garbage human feces and use needles he says cities and states are working to build more shelters and affordable housing but as that work is done Los Angeles has to be able to police the streets so that our public spaces that are shared by everybody can be safe for everybody and occasionally that is going to require some level of enforcement and he has questions about how I can do that under this ruling the crisis is visible outside here is downtown office and back on Skid Row where I meet General Doug on conditions on. The refugee kids works for the local nonprofit called the Los Angeles Community Action Network he says for years he's watched the city follow the same pattern one ordinance after the next and criminalizing being homeless instead of completing badly. Raided housing projects the courts tickets confiscation of property are not solutions he says to stop the growing crisis. Everybody you know very about the laws they are 71 percent of the people whose home is in the city law saying because the rain is too damn hard Nassau That's according to the latest County homelessness count the numbers are up for debate and so is how to solve the problem in the last year homelessness jumped 16 percent in this city and whatever the Supreme Court decides to do won't change that reality there was N.P.R.'s Leila Fadel reporting from Los Angeles and N.P.R.'s Kirk Siegler in Boise the Supreme Court could decide whether it will take up the Boise case as early as today. This is n.p.r. News. 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