Country has become a different place. Here on i believe new zealand and its people have fundamentally changed i cant see how you could have been in things like this and not. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us the European Union has sharply criticized u. S. President Donald Trumps decision to ban nearly all travel from europe to the United States the 30 day ban affects countries inside europe showing in passport free travel area and excludes the u. K. And Ireland European Commission has said the decision had been taken unilaterally and without consultation President Trump accused the e. U. Of failing to act quickly enough to prevent the spread of the crown of ours. They were packed to punch a hole so european airports as american scrambled to get home holiday makers woke up to the news that the United States was restricting travel from the European Union starting at midnight on friday. Those of arriving on the other side of the atlantic were relieved to be home. We would hav
We are keeping an eye on day two of the nato summit. We just lost our live pictures there from london but President Trump meeting with several World Leaders today. Including Boris Johnson and the german prime minister. This is him arriving this morning for some of those meetings. He is also going to be meeting the leader of denmark and italy this morning. No official press conferences are scheduled but that did not set President Trump yesterday. He spoke to reporters more than two hours and then there was a video clip of other World Leaders including the president of france and the preminger of canada who appeared to be gossiping about that later on so he is continuing his talks with them today as World Leaders try to figure out the future of the nato organization. Today the house impeachment proceedings enter a new phase. The Judiciary Committee takes the case armed with a new report from congressional colleagues. Cbs reporter skyler henry is on capitol hill this morning with the late
Stories from europe including i just been to see i might see the queen of iran and she agreed to dissolve parliament for an election campaigning begins in britain 2nd general election since the 2016 referendum but will it be enough to break the bracks it impacts and install 5 sames can progress to the knockout rounds of the European Champions League this wednesday a win for christian on all those events against Lokomotiv Moscow will put them in the last 60. Open hearings into the potential impeachment of u. S. President donald trump is set to Begin Next Week with 3 key witnesses to testify House Intelligence Committee chairman adam schiff says the inquiry expects to hear from the u. S. Special envoy to ukraine. And youll remember that he said trump explicitly put pressure on ukraines president to investigate his president ial rival joe biden the Committee Plans to release a transcript of his deposition later on weapons say lets go live now to Washington White House correspondent kimber
At the Global Crisis in retail. A warm welcome to the Programme Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Also in the programme, have you started Christmas Shopping . If so, are you heading to the high street or shopping online . As amazon becomes the worlds biggest retailer tell us what you think about the crisis on the high street. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. The impeachment inquiry in washington is about to go public. Until now, the testimony has been heard behind closed doors. House democrats are looking at whether President Trump abused his power by witholding military aid from ukraine, while pressing for an investigation into the bidens. Mr trump calls the inquiry a hoax. The first two people in front of congress on wednesday are William Taylor the top us diplomat in ukraine, and George Kent Deputy assistant secretary for european and eurasian affairs. And on friday, former Us Ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch is due to testify. But,
Patrick hennikson, geopolitical analyst joins us from los angeles. Also joining us charlotte kates, International Coordinator at the sami doon Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network from vancouver. Welcome to you both uh patrick hanning, let me first start with you in this incident with the usbased a truck uh where seven gaza aid workers, it included uk, us and australian citizens. Uh, we saw lot of uh reaction. From this overwhelmingly uh around the world, but in in particular one that stood out was the way that the us President Donald Trump came out and uh compassionately said that uh, this was just such an unfortunate mistake uh, which it was uh, but when you put that into context of over 32,00 palestinians that have been murdered all this time, he did not show that kind of compassion for the genocide thats taking place. First give us your reaction on the incident itself and the way that the us president reacted to it. Yes, yes, well, the incident itself, its debatable whether uh,