[John Vause, Cnn Anchor:] Welcome back, everybody. You are watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm John Vause with the headlines this hour. The impeachment report of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee has found overwhelming evidence President Trump abused the power of his office and obstructed Congress in an attempted cover up. The report has new details of phone calls between Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, and other officials including Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the committee. Democrats accused the President's allies of coordinating efforts to present false narratives. NATO leaders are hoping cool heads will prevail on Wednesday, a day after a tense round of talks between the U.S. and French presidents on the sidelines of the
[David Culver, Cnn Correspondent:] They are furious. There is no question that the Chinese foreign ministry is reacting strongly, swiftly, and the timing of it we also have to look for it about 45 minutes away from their daily press briefing. Well, this came out hours ago, within roughly one hour of that vote happening in the U.S. House of Representatives. So they wanted to come out in front as strong as possible. And of course this has been echoed in perhaps even stronger words by some of the state media publications, and even some of the government entities. Now, let's look at this bill because right now it's been passed by the U.S. House. It then moves into the Senate. And if it passed there it goes to President Trump, where it can be signed into law. And as you pointed out, John just last week it was the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act that was signed into law. China's response to that was that they banned U.S. war ships from going into Hong Kong and they also threatened sanctions on certain NGOs. It was unspecified. They did not go into many details. But if you look back at the statement that they put out with regards to this most recent act that was just passed it's a lengthy statement. But it is the last line actually that stands out. I will read the first part of it. This one says "Chinese government and people are unwavering in the determination to safeguard the national sovereignty, security and development interests." But then they go on to say that China will have further reactions according to the development of the situation. That is interesting to me, John, because they are clearly standing by not only for how the President may act that's assuming it gets to his desk, because passing it is one thing, enforcing it is another. Where does it go from here? That remains the question. And China is watching very closely.
[Vause:] Yes, essentially they kind of backed down on the issue over the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong with a, you know, strong statement that certainly did not go anywhere. I guess we will see what happens this time. David appreciate the live report. Thank you. A gruesome rape and murder is sparking new outrage in India. Protesters are demanding swift and deadly justice. Here is CNN's Scott McLean.
[Scott Mclean, Cnn Correspondent:] In a country where some 100 sexual assaults are reported every single day, one case has struck a nerve.
[Unidentified Female:] We want
[Crowd:] Justice.
[Mclean:] Last Wednesday in the central Indian city of Hyderabad, police say four men dragged a stranded women to a hidden area near a road where they raped and strangled her. Police say the man who confessed conspired to attack her. One of the men had deliberately let the air out of her scooter tire. Later they dumped her body under a highway overpass and set it on fire. As word of the crime spread, so did the protests.
[Unidentified Female:] Things were not getting better at all, but this case has triggered the outrage that you are seeing today.
[Mclean:] Days later there was another horrific case in a northern Indian village. A drunk man allegedly lured a six-year-hold girl out of her school with candy, then raped and strangled her. Suspects in both cases have been arrested but that has not dulled the public outrage.
[Unidentified Female:] Every girl is suffering from this. Every girl scared to go after night. Even after 9:00, every girl is like scared to go out.
[Mclean:] A women's rights activist had vowed to go on a hunger strike demanding that all rapists get the death penalty. "How can we sit silently when there was no one to listen to her screams," she asked on Twitter. The crimes have caught the attention of the Indian parliament where one member said rapists "need to be brought out in public and lynched". Another lawmaker suggested offenders should be castrated. India has had this debate before. In 2012 a woman was gang raped on a bus in New Delhi and died from her injuries two weeks later. The case set off national protests and prompted stricter penalties for rape. Then last year after an eight-year-old girl was raped and murdered, the law was changed again to allow the death penalty in cases where the victim is under 12.
[Unidentified Female:] If women chop off the heads of a few of these rapists, then automatically we will see the society change for the better.
[Mclean:] But no matter the punishment with tens of thousands of rape cases piling up in Indian courts, justice won't come easily or quickly. Scott McLean, CNN London.
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