Migrant camp one toilet for 200 miles it's yeah this is Europe so it's it's it's pretty unbelievable Plus we'll have a rare interview with the u.s. Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg our women's rights again under threat all of that and more after the news. B.b.c. News with Sue Montgomery protesters are gathering at Capitol Hill in Washington d.c. As the House of Representatives gets ready to impeach Donald Trump in an early morning treat his again to nun's the process insisting he done nothing wrong and calling the impeachment a terrible thing. Mr Trump is only the 3rd u.s. Head of state to face a trial in the Senate he's up against 2 charges as Gary O'Donoghue reports The 1st is that he abused his power by pressuring the president of Ukraine to investigate one of his main Democratic rivals form of Vice President Joe Biden the 2nd is that he obstructed Congress by trying to stop officials giving evidence and failing to provide documents Democrats know they won't get the 2 thirds majority needed in the Senate to remove a president under the Constitution but they're determined to do as much political damage as they can South Korea and the United States of soon to agree on how much so should contribute to host over 28000 American troops. The existing deal expires at the end of the year but negotiations will resume in January Laura big Karen song has more details Donald Trump has demanded that many u.s. Allies including South Korea pay more towards defense as part of his America 1st policy reports in Seoul suggest Washington is asking for $5000000000.00 a year that's 5 times the amount saved Korea currently pays the dispute has been a rare public sign of discord in a 70 year old alliance there have been several public protests in Seoul outside the u.s. Embassy American troops have been stationed in South Korea since the end of the Korean War in 1953 and their presence on the peninsula has been used to tear possible North Korean aggression British university researchers have revealed that un peacekeepers fathered hundreds of babies in Haiti before abandoning their young mothers a report compiled after extensive interviews described instances of girls as young as 11 being forced to trade sex for food they were then left to raise their children in misery. So the University of Birmingham said the situation was extremely exploitative wherever peacekeepers go they will be in a very volatile environment with a in almost all cases very poor population and that creates the kind of situation where any kind of relationship potentially is exploitative because the men have what the women need and want and in some cases it's a question of what they need for survival the women while they may think they are consenting they are actually in a situation where they're forced to make certain choices that in other situations they might not like and of course if we're talking about sex with underage girls that is rape in any case World News from the b.b.c. . Police have conducted high profile patrols in those parts of the Indian capital Delhi worst hit by clashes between security forces and protesters opposed to a controversial citizenship law which critics say amounts to religious discrimination against Muslims they also banned large gatherings in some predominantly Muslim districts of the city where demonstrations were staged and Tuesday and several people were injured and the head of the European Commission north slope on the line is want of the risks that Britain and the e.u. Face if they don't conclude a post Breck's it trade deal by the end of next year Mr Vander line called the timetable extremely challenging in case we cannot conclude an agreement by the end of 2020 we will face again a cliff edge situation and this would clearly harm our interest but it will impact more the u.k. Than us. The European Union will continue benefiting from its single market its customs union and the 177-0100 international agreements we shine with our partners but it is clearly not in our interest prosecutors in Greece to come for the leadership of the far right Golden Dawn party to be acquitted of charges linked to the murder of an untruth rapper and 2013 the prosecutor said it could not be proved that the party leader or other Golden Dawn officials had ordered the killing of Pavlos fees us and only $1.00 alleged member should face a murder charge. A court and South Africa has awarded damages to the family of a 5 year old boy who drowned in a school's pit latrine in 2014 the Supreme Court of Appeal granted a total of 70000 dollars to be split among the boy's parents and 3 siblings more than $4000.00 schools in South Africa have pits latrines b.b.c. News. And welcome to News after the b.b.c. World Service We're coming to you live from London I'm James Menendez in a moment We'll head live to Washington d.c. Where the House of Representatives is beginning a debate the set to end in the impeachment of President Trump That's our top story today also we'll have the 2nd part in a series from the migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos today looking at conditions for mothers and their babies plus in the 2nd half of the program a rare interview with a u.s. Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg's been talking to news as Resume Well that's coming up in about 40 minutes. But the top story takes us to Washington d.c. And a date for the history books the day when Donald Trump becomes only the 3rd u.s. President to be impeached they'll be a vote later today in the House of Representatives but given that it's controlled by the Democrats not g.b.s. On a has not seriously and doubt but impeachment is really just the start of the process it's centrally the charges in this case abuse of office for using the presidency to pressure Ukraine to investigate a political rival and obstruction of Congress by refusing to cooperate with the investigation the trial will take place in the Senate and that is controlled by Mr Trump's Republican Party and there's little sign at this stage that they'll vote to convict and remove him from office where Mr Trump's been tweeting this morning to denounce the process he's also written a long letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and last night he spoke to reporters the whole impeachment thing is a hoax and we look forward to getting on to the Senate we're not entitled to lawyers we're not entitled to witnesses we're not entitled to anything in the house it's a total sham and when you have a guy like shifty shift go out and make up a statement that I made he said this is what he said but I never said it he totally made it up it was a lie it was a fraud and he just didn't do those things so you know look it's a witch hunt and it's just a continuation it's been going on now for almost 3 years and the leader of the Republican minority in the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy said the Democrats Democrats had for the past few years focused on nothing but the impeachment of Mr Trump their entire majority the legacy of the 116th Congress will be defined by their hatred for President Trump and their deep rooted desire to oust him from office. Speaker Pelosi promised they would be different she said she'd have an agenda for the people that she put aside to show her religion to for the last 3 years of impeaching the president I truly believe regardless you supposed to represent the people not your hatred. We could. Let's go live to Capitol Hill in the B.B.C.'s Neda. Neda just take us through what's going to be happening over the next few hours. Well the House has come to order they had a prayer they have a pledge of allegiance and now they are going through some motions that Republicans have presented that will delay things a bit but then at about the next hour they will vote on the rules of procedure and after that we are expecting a long debate that could take between 7 to 8 hours from both sides equal time for Democrats and Republicans and that debate will be passionate it will be angry and it will be very partisan each side laying out why they chose to vote either for or against impeachment and I think was going to be really critical here is again to listen to exactly the justification that each side gives for Republicans they are likely to take the same tone as President Trump in that 6 page furious letter to the House speaker Nancy Pelosi saying that this was essential ie an open war on American democracy a coup in an attempt to redo the election results of 2016 arguing that she really has been treated unfairly than any other president and so it's interesting that you know Republicans may take that line not just to you know suggest the present maybe didn't maybe did do something wrong but shouldn't be impeached but will stand with him to say he did absolutely nothing wrong that was a perfect called the Korean president on the Democratic side what they're trying to do is really again show that this is a solemn moment for the country they are trying to show that they are not doing this because of their dislike for the president they say they are applauding their oath of office that the president clearly invited foreign intervention in a u.s. Election and that really cuts to the heart of an attack on American democracy putting the president's own person. Interests was going to be really interesting and I think what everyone should be watching for is how moderate Democrats respond to this they of course 31 of them were voted in the midterm elections from constituencies that President Trump won in 2016 and they have tried to say to appeal to their constituents to say that they are not here to impeach a president they came to Washington to fight for the bread and butter issues that Americans do care about but that they do think we're after reviewing the evidence that it is their duty to impeach the president now after that we will have that historic vote for President Trump is all but likely to become the 3rd president of the United States to be impeached and then after that the House will have to hand this over to the House managers they will essentially be the prosecutors when those articles of impeachment go to the Senate where it then goes into Republican hands and as we've said no u.s. President has ever been removed from office after being impeached and it's unlikely that President Trump will face that when the Republicans take up the trial has been made interesting way of saying about moderate Democrats I mean is there any likelihood that some of them may vote no to a page. Where we have heard in recent days from many of them about $27.00 Of the $31.00 Democrats have come out outright to say that they will vote for impeachment along party lines a lot of them in very angry town halls divided town halls where it was clear that there was a divide in in their districts where half of those were happy with their decision and others were very displeased but there are a few holdouts and that's going to be interesting to see from the state of New Jersey President Trump has been really boasting about this one definitely Democrat Jeff Andrew from New Jersey who is saying it he will switch to the Republican side he will switch parties but I think it's important to note that in that particular district he has become very unpopular they say that he was not going to win reelection as a Democrat and so many people. Saying that that is not about his stance going with his oath of office instead it was a very political move but as I say it does look like this will be very much a vote down partisan lines with Democrats almost completely in line to impeach and Republicans against I made it just in a sentence or 2 has is playing with the public and they pretty split over this. The public is still pretty split if you look about a little 6090 percent of Democrats supporting compassionate Republicans it's below 6 percent and across the country we have had modest rallies thousands of people across the country supporting a. Major think very much in databases native town for joining us live from Capitol Hill Well Corey Brettschneider is a constitutional lawyer and author of The Oath in the office a guide to the Constitution for future presidents and his view have the Democrats in the House made the case for impeachment yes I think they've made it extremely well we have 2 articles of impeachment both that point to real threats not just to an aspect of our constitutional system but to the system as a whole the 1st of course about abuse of power the thing the framers of our Constitution were at the most about in particular they worried about the stability of our elections and about foreign interference and what this 1st article of impeachment does is combine those 2 worries in recognizing that threat in the attempt of the president to try to influence a foreign government using American proceeds funds and a meeting in order to get them to intervene in our election to get dirt on his opponent Joe Biden So we're talking about a crime here possibly violations for instance of our campaign finance possibly bribery but more importantly we're talking about what the framers talked about as a high crime and misdemeanor a threat to the entire system and this is exactly that kind of abuse of power you they use that phrase when we had a lot of high crimes and misdemeanors but this isn't a criminal trial this is a. It's a cool process isn't it correct and in fact the phrase high crimes and misdemeanors doesn't appear in a criminal law case book it's really about comes from the British law offices actually and is an adaption in the United States to try to protect against a president who is abusing power in exactly this way to try to threaten the entire system Nevertheless some have and not all supporters of President Trump pointed to the fact that there is there was no explicit quid pro quo in there right worried about the lack of evidence I think that phrase has been overdone the president's main argument of why there's not a quid pro quo is that he said there's no quid pro quo but of course that's not a great argument but more importantly there are outlined I think possible criminal offenses of bribery and campaign finance violation but he's also barking up the wrong tree when he says in his letter for instance that protesting these proceedings that there's no crime outlaw blind and in fact I think he says at one point there's no constitutional theory that backs up this impeachment but he's got it exactly backwards the framers talked about a high crime a misdemeanor because they were worried about abuses of power of exactly this kind that's what's outlined in that 1st article of impeachment about abuse of power and it avoids talking about specific crimes because that's not the category that's outlined word for word in the Constitution high crimes and misdemeanors The 2nd article of impeachment is equally important it's about obstruction of Congress and it's here the blanket refusal to cooperate with the investigation at all and here there's a contradiction in the president's argument if he's worried that the investigation has been insufficient because he's blocked off people from testifying he's claim to kind of blanket immunity from the most constitutionally clear process that is out there and that's the right of Congress to investigate wrongdoing by a president. I mean he says he's been deprived of due process and the right to present evidence in other words he says he hasn't had a fair hearing and he writes. Our president says many things that are wrong and this is chief among them the Supreme Court's made very clear that this is not a criminal process it's up to the House and the Senate who are given the sole discretion to set up an impeachment inquiry in the House and what's called the Senate trial to come without judicial review and without the kind of due process that would be accorded in a criminal trial and that's because this isn't a criminal trial it's about firing the president for doing a bad job you grew so good to the Senate says when it when the when it moves to a trial in the Senate the Senate is must be impartial but given that this is political Why should they be it's not exactly a criminal trial it's not the same kind of impartiality but the current rules of the Senate trial require each senator to really transform him or herself from a political actor into a kind of juror and there's actually a new oath that will be taken in the Senate trial that proclaims impartiality just one final thought did the framers feel that it wasn't enough to keep the electoral process in other words the voters can can turn found a president and of action but do they fear why did they feel it was necessary to have another mechanism rather than letting the people decide the framers hoped for the best they imagined people a virtue taking that office that oath to preserve protect and defend the Constitution when they became president but they knew that within that 4 years we might get somebody who so disregarded the oath that there would be a danger in waiting for the next election and they imagined high crimes and misdemeanors so severe that the Republic would be threatened in the interim before the election could happen and in the extreme I think there was a worry that a really dangerous president might threaten the upcoming elections themselves Cory Brettschneider You're listening to needs one. Still to come on the program as crowds gather outside the u.s. Congress where the House of Representatives will shortly begin debating whether to impeach President Trump We'll have a rare interview with the u.s. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the roles of the different players in the process that house. And the Senate try. Should it try to be impartial Of course that's the job of the judge to be impartial more of that interview coming up in half an hour's time here on the program our other headlines this hour a study has found that u.n. Peacekeepers in Haiti fathered hundreds of children before abandoning the mothers to a life of poverty. This is James meant us with our life from the b.b.c. The medical charity medicine some front yes as a health emergency is unfolding as refugee camps on the Aegean Islands see a spike in new arrivals fleeing conflict on less boss almost 800000 people are crammed into a camp that was originally built for around 2000 people on Tuesday we heard from medics about the impact the conditions are having on children's mental health Well today we're looking at some of the most vulnerable people in the camp pregnant women and newborn babies the B.B.C.'s Global Health Correspondent chilling Missenden sent us this report. Have you been feeling in the last war I. Was here and you know. Zainab is 8 months pregnant so you're sleeping on the floor as I care so she's come for a checkup at a makeshift and he need to clinic comprising of a couple of shipping containers and tents it's run by the medical charity m.s.f. If you look at life here her baby is due in just a few weeks' time and she's worried this is my 1st try I don't like this for a long time I don't want my child. You know women living in the camp give birth at the local hospital but most returned straight back into the dirty and dangerous conditions there with the newborn babies just take a number to where she is the cure we will see you Martina kept places one of the few midwives on the island helping pregnant women from the camp the biggest challenges would be the harsh living conditions patients I've got like pregnant mothers coming to me in Moscow school little typing disorders are sleeping on the floor in tents with not even a mark for us and we've got the 6th rings and temperatures because of the winter months so there are coming to me with rest because retract infections chest infections as well you know one toilet for 200 euros it's you know this is Europe so it's it's it's pretty unbel