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It’s now six months since the first protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong. Back then they were demonstrating about a law that would have allowed people to be extradited to mainland China.

A fire in a factory in India has killed more than 40 people.

Billionaire businessman Elon Musk says his ‘faith in humanity is restored’ after he won a defamation case.

Dozens of fires are burning across Australia, including one that’s being described as a ‘mega-fire’ which the authorities say is too big to put out.

The climate campaigner Greta Thunberg has been mobbed at the United Nations climate crisis conference in Madrid.

President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has made a surprise visit to Ukraine.

Angry workers have clashed with police on the streets of Paris tonight. Authorities have barricaded the presidential palace, the Eiffel Tower is shut and planes and trains, including the Eurostar, have been disrupted as more than 180,000 union members in 30 French cities take part in a national strike.

From Minneapolis we’re joined by Richard Painter, who served as the chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration.

Traditionally the impeachment of a President would always be seen as a humiliation for the United States. Democrats are now presenting it as a chance for America to redeem itself.

From Washington DC is Sherri Goodman, the Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate and Security.

The news was expected – but nobody knew the figures. Just after midnight they came through: our global emissions are up. Just when they have to FALL radically to keep the promises made at the Paris Climate Agreement. No wonder protests are stepping up and frustration is growing at the UN climate crisis talks.

Everyone said this would be a social media election, and all parties have been using the online sphere to press their messages. But some campaigners have a proven track record.

As President Trump made his way back to the US his mood may only get worse. The second public phase of impeachment hearings against him has ploughed on in his absence and today constitutional experts testified that his conduct is indeed grounds for removal from office, even – worse than Richard Nixon’s offences during Watergate.

Krishnan spoke to the former Conservative defence minister Tobias Ellwood and began by putting to him that today’s summit hadn’t been an inspiring spectacle.

Today the NATO summit for the first time discussed a potential threat from China – and declared outer space a new operational domain. But planning for the future was overshadowed by tensions in the present.