Tuesday, January 21
FT News Briefing
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🗓️ 21 January 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The US Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins today. Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell proposed rules on Monday evening that outraged Democrats.
Plus, lawyers for Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou told a Canadian courtroom that the US extradition case against the executive amounted to “fiction”, France signals a breakthrough in talks to resolve a spat over digital taxes with the US, and the UK could be fined or lose preferential access to the European market if it violates the terms of a future relationship deal with the EU.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times. |
| 0:02.4 | Today is Tuesday, January 21st, |
| 0:05.0 | and this is your FT news briefing. |
| 0:07.4 | France in the United States work out a temporary truce on digital tax. |
| 0:12.4 | Meanwhile, the EU has a new warning for the UK when it comes to post-Brexit trade. |
| 0:17.8 | And lawyers for Huawei's Mahuan Joes argued that U.S. charges against their client are, quote, |
| 0:22.4 | fiction during an extradition |
| 0:24.2 | hearing in Canada yesterday. But first the US Senate impeachment trial of |
| 0:28.9 | Donald Trump starts today. The FT's Lauren Fiedor explains how the trial might look on a |
| 0:34.3 | reframework that was put forward by Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch |
| 0:37.7 | McConnell on Monday night. I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:45.0 | So this was a long awaited resolution and we're expecting the Senate to vote on it today. |
| 0:52.0 | It's likely to be approved by the Senate to vote on it today. It's likely to be approved by the Senate, which is |
| 0:54.7 | controlled by Republicans at the moment. One of the things that it's setting the |
| 0:58.7 | stage for our marathon hearings this week. So the first main event on Wednesday at 1 PM |
| 1:06.1 | we're expecting the opening arguments |
| 1:08.1 | from both House Democrats who are acting as prosecutors |
| 1:12.1 | and Donald Trump's defense team. |
| 1:14.2 | McConnell has said that each side will have 24 hours over a two day period to make their |
| 1:20.0 | arguments. |
| 1:21.6 | What this means in practices practices what we could see are marathon hearings |
| 1:26.0 | going well into the wee hours the morning. Like I said it'll start at 1 p.m. |
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