donald trump tweets insults about an impeachment witness while she is testifying before congress. meanwhile, the president's long time adviser could wind up in prison after being found guilty of lying and obstructing congress. plus, britain's prince andrews speaks out about his ties to jeffrey epstein and allegations he had sex with an underage girl. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. "cnn newsroom" starts right now.

friday's testimony from two u.s. diplomates paints a vivid picture of the u.s. president's direct involvement in the ukraine scandal. first up was former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. while she was testifying, the president went after her on twitter. the other witness was david holmes. holmes said he was told the president did not care about ukraine, only in getting dirt on democratic rival joe biden and biden's son, hunter. he said the person who told him, that was the u.s. ambassador to the eu, gordon sondland. holmes said he was with sondland in a restaurant as sondland

spoke with mr. trump on the phone. quote, i heard ambassador sondland greet the president and explain he was calling from kiev. i heard president trump then clarify that the ambassador was in ukraine, ambassador sondland replied, yes, he was in ukraine and went on to state that president zelensky, quote, loves your ass. i then heard president trump say, so he's going to do the investigation? ambassador sondland replied, he's going to do it adding that president zelensky will, quote, do anything you ask him to. marie yovanovitch was testifying when the president himself attacked her on twitter. >> the president is facing accusations he crossed the line, sending a tweet that amounts to witness intimidation.

>> as we sit here testifying, the president is attacking you on twitter. >> i mean, i can't speak to what the president is trying to do, but i think the effect is to be intimidating. >> despite the white house saying the president would not watch the proceedings beyond the congressman nunes's opening statement, the president sent this tweet an hour into the hearing. everywhere maria was went bad. it is the president's absolute right to appoint ambassadors. chair schiff read that twit to yavonavitch adding it could lead to another article of impeachment. >> yavonovitch recounted how she's been threatened by the president and his associates before. >> the person who saw me read the transcript say the color

drained from my face. >> especially after the release of the july 25th phone call transcript between president trump and president zelensky. >> the former ambassador from the united states, the woman, was bad news. and the people she was dealing with in the ukraine were bad news. skoi just wa so i just want to let you know. what was your reaction when you heard the president of the united states refer to you as bad news? >> i couldn't believe it. again, shocked, appalled, devastated that the president of the united states would talk about any ambassador like that to a foreign head of state. and it was me. i mean, i couldn't believe it. >> what did you think when president trump told president zelensky, and you read, that you were going to go through some things? >> i didn't know what to think, but i was very kirnd. >> what were you concerned

about? >> she's going to go through some things. it didn't sound good. it sounded like a threat. >> did you feel threatened? >> i did. >> yvonne vich was ousted from her post in may after a campaign to remove her that she says was led by rudy giuliani and his circulation of rumors that were was undermining the president. >> i do not understand mr. giuliani's moevetives for attacg me. >> yovanovitch went point by point regarding the allegations against her. >> the idea that i distributed a do not prosecute list is untrue. also untrue are unsourced

allegations that i told unidentified embassy employees or ukrainian officials that president trump's orders should be ignored because he was going to be impeached or for any other reason. i did not and i would not say such a thing. the obama administration does not ask me to help the clinton campaign or harm the trump campaign. >> it was the allegation that you were bad mouthing president trump true? >> no. what i can say is that mr. giuliani should have known those claims were suspect coming as they reportedly did from individuals with questionable motives and with reason to believe that their political and fnancial ambitions would be stymied by our anti-corruption policy in ukraine . >> the former ambassador warning it sends the wrong message to countries like russia. >> our ukraine policy has been thrown into disarray and shady interests the world over have learned how little it takes to

remove an american ambassador who doesn't give them what they want. >> and as yovanovitch's testimony ended, people in the hearing room applauded the u.s. ambassador who has spent 33 years in the foreign service. maria yavonavitch wasn't the only person that talked to congress. david holmes spoke behind closed doors. he overheard the phone call sondland took at a kiev restaurant where the president allegedly asked about investigations. it is the latest in the rapid discusson of closed door and public testimony that will continue next week with eight witnesses giving public testimony. jessica snyder, cnn, washington. and president trump brushed off the suggestion his tweet was intimidating. he said he was exercising his you constitutional rights. >> i have the right to speak.

i have freedom of speech just as other people do. >> sir, with your freedom, were you trying to intimidate ambassador yovanovitch? >> i want freedom of speech. >> do you believe your words can be intimidating? >> i don't think so at all. >> and greg swenson is a founding partner of brig mccadem. let's start with the evidence of david holmes. those words, i heard the president say, they're key words for democrats who face criticism from republicans for second hand evidence. how significant do you think the holmes testimony is when it comes to the president? >> i don't think it's particularly meaningful. nothing is really new in the last few days. we've heard a lot of testimony. i think it was coming from reputable people, for sure. they really are. but none of the testimony had

any kind of bombshells or so-called bomb shells that the democrats talk about. i think it was pretty much another day in the saga of the impeachment drama. i don't think it's going to move the needle. >> donald trump denied this week knowing anything about that july 26 call, never heard of it, he said, and he said he heardly knew sondland, yet ambassador sondland can apparently pick up the cell phone and get the president on the line and according to holmes, there are two others at the table that might testify about what was said. that is a pretty direct link. is that not new? >> look, there is always going to be people that can brag about being close to the president and any powerful -- >> the people at the table heard the president. >> sure, they overheard the phone call. and that's fine. i think there's plenty of people who can reach the president. this is a president who is very unconventional. i think it's one of the reasons he was elected and one of the

reasons he might very well be re-elected next year. he doesn't do things by the book. he's not very diplomatic. i think it was a tactical mistake, but he's not a conventional president by any means. >> is being unconventional asking a foreign government to investigate a political rival? >> i think it shows some of the double standard and the hypocrisy on the left in much of the media where when this has been done in the past by the obama administration and by the clinton campaign it was overlooked. >> how so? give me an example. >> i could give a few. when first even going back to 2012 when the press on the left were critical of mitt romney for calling out the russians, you saw it in 2016 when the obama administration was asking the ukrainians to investigate the trump campaign. and that a lot of that, you know, shows the double standard.

so it's happened many times and i think even when vice president biden threatened to withhold aid and bragged about it when he returned to washington. >> that was nothing about investigating a political rival. >> sure, i mean, i think -- >> you know that. >> of course the eu did. so then the question is should the vice president, you know, receive a pass on hunter biden just because he's running for president doesn't mean he should necessarily have a pass. >> but he didn't do anything wrong. i'm trying to get your analogy there. >> yeah, i think there's -- at the very least, a perception of wrongdoing, even if it wasn't proved. but i think there was definitely that appearance of conflict of interest and can, in fact, that was well known to the vice president and to his administration. you saw that in the preparation that the former ambassador had prior to her senate hearing.

so, look, this isn't news, either. i think the double standard is there. the voters understand that. that's why there's not much movement in the polls. you saw a bump when mrs. pelosi announced the impeachment hearings a month ago. other than that, it really hasn't moved the needle. you have 8% of americans that might be swayed one way or the other -- >> well, the majority of the people are supportive of the impeachment process. i was going to ask you, though, ambassador sondland is going to appear before congress next wednesday. he might be feeling pretty vulnerable now and perhaps feels he needs to come clean on version number three. >> no, i think -- michael, first of all, you mentioned the majority of people favor the impeachment. the majority of democrats favor the impeachment.

>> no, people. >> but the majority of republicans are opposed to it. only 8% can be swayed either way. most of the people have sort of dug in on their views. that's -- and mrs. pelosi argued for months against impeachment and she said if we were to do it, it would have to be bipartisan and it's clearly not. so look, i think the president is probably not -- he's probably not worried about anything next week. there wasn't really any big surprises this week and it will be more of the same. they've been at this for 3 1/2 years. perhaps if they hadn't tried it from the day after the election or at the very least talking about impeachment since january 2017, if that wasn't the case, maybe there would be some credibility to adam schiff right now. >> another eight witnesses next week, including somebody from the office of budget. >> while unseemly, it won't be

anything that says this is an impeachable offense. >> we shall see. greg, appreciate it. we're out of time. thanks. >> thank you. while the president faces those impeachment hearings, one of his long time advisers has been found guilty of lying to and obstructing congress. a federal jury convicting roger stone on seven counts friday in a case stemming from the russia probe. now, those include lying during testimony and failing to turn over documents about his attempted contacts with wikileaks. the most serious of his crimes, witness tampering, he faces a maximum sentence of 20 years. prosecutors wanted stone taken into custody immediately. the judge declined that. but he's still under a gag order while he awaits sentencing. we'll have more on that story a little later on the program. president trump has ignored advice from his military and absolved three u.s. service

members accused of war crimes. mr. trump pardoning clint lawrence who was convicted for ordering his troops to open fire on three people in afghanistan. the president pardoned army major matthew goldstein who was charged with the murder of an afghan bombmaker. .mr. trump reinstated navy s.e.a.l. eddie gallagher to the rank of chief petty officer after he was convicted of posing with the corpse of an isis detainee he was later cleared of murdering. when we come back, prince andrew breaks his silence. he says he doesn't ever remember meeting a woman who accused him of sexual abuse when he was a minor. just heard, hear what his accuser thought it was like while she shared his testimony. tremfya® helps adults with moderate to severe

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meeting with epstein even after he was convicted as a sex offender. the royal says he has no recollection of meeting with one of epstein's accusers. >> this sit down is the first time prince andrew has been interviewed regarding jeffrey epstein. one of epstein's accusers said in a filing that epstein forced her to have sex with the prince while under age. this past august, epstein was found dead in his jail cell in new york. prince andrew has strenuously denied the allegations. he told the bbc he just doesn't recall ever meeting dufrey even though a photograph with the duke with his arm around

dufrey's waist first surfaced in britain's mail in 2011. >> virginia roberts has made allegations against you. she says she met new 2001. she says she dined with you, danced with you at tramp nightclub in london. she went on to have sex with you in a house belonging to gerlin maxwell. your response? >> i have no recollection of ever meeting this lady. none whatsoever. >> you don't remember meeting her? >> no. >> prince andrew has previously said he met epstein in 1999 and saw him infrequently and probably no more than once or twice a year. the prince also said that he stayed at a number of epstein's residences. the third child of queen elizabeth continued seeing him even after the financier pleaded guilty to sex crimes. >> the problem was the fact that once he had been convicted --

>> you stayed with him. >> i stayed with him. that's the bit that, as it were, i kick myself for on a daily basis. because it was not something that was becoming of the royal family. and we try and uphold the highest standards and practices and i let the side down. it's as simple as that. >> the bbc said the no holds barred interview which was recorded thursday will air on saturday evening. cnn, london. >> now the woman accusing prince andrew of assaulting her when she was 17 years old spoke to cnn's vicki ward last month. here is what she said about coming forward with the allegations. >> you begin to realize the enormity of what you alone basically were trying to do. because it's what, as it was, jeffrey epstein was very rich and seemingly untouchable. now you've got a member of the

british royal family. i mean, you're going after two of the best connected seemingly untouchable targets in the world. i mean, what does that feel like? >> there's a lot of feelings, again, that go through it. it's a very scary feeling because i know how powerful they are. and epstein had always told me, you'll never go to jail for this. he owns the palm beach police department. he's blackmailed tons of his wealthy friends. in terms of prince andrew, he hides under mommy's skirt. will there ever be a day that he's held accountable? probably not, but it doesn't stop me from saying the truth and telling people out there that just because you're rich and powerful or you have a great name attached to the last name of you, it doesn't mean that you can get away with hurting people. >> vicki ward has reported on jeffrey epstein for almost two

decades. her cnn podcast, the jeffrey epstein i knew, will have new he episodes starting january 6th. the yellow vest movement began over a now canceled fuel tax hike. it evolved into other grievances like cost of living and inewe quality. protests have dwindled in recent months, but there is still fear the violent unrest could disrupt france. melissa bell joins me now from paris on this anniversary. give us a sense of how paris is feeling. >> well, bracing itself, really, you can see a lot of police men and women out there making sure that the streets will stay safe or at least violence free this saturday. you're right, michael, what we had seen over the course of the last year after those massive figures of yellow vests on the street, not just of paris, but other french cities saturday

after saturday starting a year ago and lasting for several weeks after that, we had seen these last few months the numbers really dwindle. some yellow vests continued, two-man roadblocks up and down the country here and there. but really the numbers that turned out to demonstrate were significantly down. so the movement seemed to have lost its momentum. but this, the anniversary, has led to them to come out massively. so once again, we'll look at how many people do make it out on the streets, how much trouble can they cause. this part of it has been blocked off to them and the authorities have said no to their requests to hold demonstrations here, so they've been gathering in other parts of paris.

will they manage to get enough numbers on the streets to cause problems in paris and all around the country. >> and despite all that, french president macron is facing problems on pension reforms. so his problems haven't gone away. >> that's right. i suspect that is probably the more worrying for the french government at this stage. in a sense, the strength of the yellow vest movement has remained leaderless. it has rather led to its leaving its momentum. it's never managed to structure itself and take any significant power in the european elections, for instance, in which they stood. what is changing now? this is about pension reform. emmanuel macron is determined to push it through. but it could be his toughest battle with the unions yet.

those rail unions are calling for everyone to go on strike. and the daner for the government is they combine their forces with the unions for that date and that could cause massive trouble here in france. >> melissa bell in paris, thanks, melissa. now the russia investigation produces another conviction. roger stone becomes the latest trump associate to be found guilty of a crime. ahead, the verdict the impact could have on the president. also, flood waters force businesses and iconic landmarks to close in venice. what's next for the lagooned city? a live report on that coming up after the break. tremfya® helps adults with moderate to severe

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welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. u.s. lawmakers hearing testimony from two diplomates on friday about president trump's direct involvement in the ukraine scandal. the first was former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, maria van vich. she outlines how she became the target of a smear campaign and said she felt threatened when mr. trump said she was going to, quote, go through some things. the president didn't stop there. yovanovitch was attacked on twitter while she was testifying. she was asked about his tweets later and she replied she found

it very intimidating. after that, u.s. state department david holmes gave his testimony behind closed doors. he detailed overhearing a phone conversation between president trump and gordon sondland. sondland replied ukraine's leader was willing to do whatever president trump wanted. as we have reported, roger stone, the u.s. president's long time adviser, has become the latest trump associate to be convicted in a case stemming from the russia probe. a jury has found stone guilty of seven counts, including witness tampering, obstructing a committee proceeding and lying during testimony. cnn's sara murray with more on the case. >> a jury in washington agreed with prosecutors that truth still matters and found roger stone guilty on friday of

several counts, including lying to congress. stone, a long time friend and political adviser to president trump was convicted of five counts of lying to congress. one of witness tampering and one of obstructing a congressional proceedings. it would look really bad for his long time associate donald trump. they told the jury truth still matters. after three days of deliberations, the jury agreed. stone, known for his flamboyant style, offered no reaction as the verdict was delivered. the verdict marks the conclusion of one of robert mueller's highest profile prosecutions. stone was arrested in a predawn raid at his florida home in

january. as mueller's team was winding down its investigation. the trial revealed new details that had been redacted from the mueller report, like easy it was to get dirt from wikileaks in 2016. >> wikileaks. i love weekky leaks. >> and a number of phone calls between stone and trump at a time when stone was claiming he had direct contact with wikileaks founder julian assange. >> i actually have communicated with assange. >> a claim stone now denies. on one call in july 2016, trump and stone apparently spoke about the upcoming release of hacked democratic emails. according to testimony from former trump campaign official rick gates earlier this week. trump told mueller's team, i do not recall discussing wikileaks with him. president trump who has weighed whether to pardon stone in recent months slammed the verdict, tweeting so they now convict roger stone of lying and want to jail him for many years to come.

he called stone's conviction a double standard, claiming hillary clinton, adam schiff and even robert mueller had lied. stone declined to come on a possible pardon. >> mr. stone, what's your reaction to the verdict? >> no comment. >> will you be seeking a pardon from president trump? >> no comment. >> sara murray, cnn, washington. and joining me now is david cats, former u.s. assistant attorney. thank you so much for doing so. seven felony charges, seven guilty verdicts, lying to congress, witness tampering, could mean 20 years in jail. how does this hurt donald trump and the trump narrative? it certainly sends a message. >> well, it hurts terribly, really, because something happens with wikileaks that was very, very vicious. and as your speice showed, stone took credit for it. but stone didn't take credit to know it so he can publish it. he took credit for it so he could use it and he bragged about the fact of how much he

was helping trump. its will be pretty ironic if he ends up in prison during the trump presidency because it looks like he will. he was one of the two or three people who encouraged trump to run for president but then he didn't end up being part of the campaign because of his past. sew tri--ed to make himself valuable. that is why mueller wanted to talk with him. that's why the house investigators wanted to talk to him. and the charge is that he lied to all of those people and intimidated a witness in a rather comical way, but it's not very funny if you're the person who is told you're going to tie and i'm going to take your dog and you should clam up like they did in the godfather. it's not comical if you're the victim. >> and you make this point. former trump aid rick gates testified in the trial about a conversation he had between -- about a conversation between stone and donald trump regarding

wikileaks. he said trump told him more information would be coming and so on. this contradicts what he told mueller. does that complicate life for the president? >> now stone is another person that he's scared may roll over on him. and you might think, well, these people aren't going to roll over on him. manafort turned out to be not helping the prosecution, but a spy on the prosecution trying to help trump. and other people that you would think would turn on the president because they know so much. but this stone conversation, if stone decides to tell it would be very revealing. gates, as you say, testified that there was a conversation in july 2016, a critical time when trump was on the phone with stone. after that conversation, which unfortunately gates was not privy to, trump turned to him

and said there would be more wikileaks stuff coming. so there's a lot of grounds for suspicion. it's one more person that trump may be worrying about and maybe should be worrying about and he may start tweeting about him like he did about michael cohen. he may be another rat and another snitch in trump's book because he knows a lot, stone. people who are 67 -- i'm a criminal defense attorney. they really don't want to go to prison. it's one thing to clown around the way that he did. it's another thing to go to trial. it's another thing to be looking at federal prison when you're 67, 68 years old. he's facing 20 years. he won't get 20 years, but he's face ago chunk of time and he went to trial. i don't think any of it made a good impression on the sentencing judge. >> and, of course, six associates of the president have been convicted of crimes since he took office, too. it was interesting, though, talking about spending time in jail pretty much immediately after the verdict you had the president tweeting about the

conviction by a jury of his peers saying it was unfair. and, of course, in recent months, he has reportedly weighed pardoning roger stone if he was convicted. what would that look like, though, optics wise? >> optics, it would look terrible because it would look like he was giving ham pardon just to shut his mouth. if trump gets impeached, one of his last acts will be to pardon a whole bunch of people. it's also possible that trump might get re-elected and not removed in the impeachment. those pardons are very hard to do when you're actually in office. the famous ones were done while people were living office. george bush, the clintons, just as the president was leaving office. so i think stone may be very disappointed when it all shakes out and the point he gets really

disappointed, he could turn around and be another michael cohen. he was really disrespected by the president. if he sits down and thinks about it, what did he ever get out of any of this? >> so he has done some pardoning. david cats, former assistant u.s. attorney, appreciate it. thanks so much. >> great to be with you. >> we'll take a short break. when we come back, flood waters crippling venice for a fourth consecutive day as damages soar into the hundreds of millions of dollars. this is a live picture coming to you from venice. is there any relief in sight? we'll be live in the lagoon city. also, cnn was on board the historic nonstop flight from london to city. now richard quest shows us what it was like to be part of the long haul experience. right! connemara it is! there's one gift the whole family can share this holiday season, their story. give the gift of discovery, with an ancestrydna kit.

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relief from that, the rising water crippling the lagoon city. this is the worst flooding the area has seen in more than 50 years, the second worst ever, causing hundreds of millions in damages. scott joins me now from venice. the tide was out earlier as i saw you. what are they expecting there? so much damage to monuments, shops and homes. >> yeah. today is a brief bit of respite here. the souvenir stalls are out. a lot of the restaurants are starting to reopen that were affected by this, but the tight is starting to come up. the peak will be in the next hour or so. and so some of this might actually be wet. this is the basilica here, just

beside of it. the officials have put these tables or these platforms for people to walk on. this is common here in venice when the high water comes up. so they're prepared for some water, they're just not prepared for the amount of water that they got on tuesday when the level peaked at 187 sent meters above sea level. that is a lot more than they're used to dealing with. this square will start to flood at just 80 centimeters. so that was an entire meter above that. it was a perfect storm of things that had come together. it was strong winds pushing the waves on shore. and it was a full moon, as well, which exacerbated things here. the problem is, while things seem more normal today, even though the square is flooded pb it will be a whole other

disaster tomorrow. they've upgraded the title forecast now to 160 centimeters. so you see a lot of the places here in venice, they have some flood production. they have flood gates on the bottom of their storefronts or on their homes to try to keep some water out. but they only work up to a certain point. so what we saw on tuesday is that wind and waves could push the water even beyond those barriers and cause some flooding. so this is a real big headache for people here, michael. >> scott mcclain, stay dry. appreciate that in venice. and meteorologist derek van dam is here with what we can expect ahead. >> they're about an hour away from their high tide. water levels will ride before it

starts to recede for the day. did you know, michael, that venice has the highest concentration of architectural masterpiece t in world. so time will tell how this flooding will have faired on some of those beautiful magnificent structures. so on friday morning, over five feet of flooding and that is considered an exceptional tide event. we know it was the second highest recorded ever. it is the highest in over 50 years. this is a tidal map. pay attention here. you can see the 16th of november, the 17th of november. this is from the city of venice. there's the high tide. this morning, about 11:55 local time, 120 centimeters. sunday morning local time, 130 centimeters. so another round of flooding expected for the weekend.

penn what causes it, storm systems moving across the adriatics and the combination of a full moon which increases the tidal swings across the planet. now, look at the storm system that's moving across the met terrainan right now, setting up for another influence on our tidal swings and nothing compared to what happened on tuesday. st. mark's basilica has only seen flooding in the last 1200 years, but four events have occurred in the last decade. and i'm going to end this broadcast with this. this is coming from some of the council chambers out of venice. some of the governmental facilities. they had just rejected climate change measures and two minutes later, the chambers started to

flood from the rising waters. >> i know we talked about it yet, but i'm glad you mentioned it again. that picture there is the epitome of irony. insane. >> the picture pants a thousand words. >> good to see you, derek van dam. shout out to your mother-in-law, shirley, if she's watching. we were talking about what is the longest flight you've ever been on? >> 16 hours to cape town, south africa. >> i did that direct, as well. but imagine 19 straight hours. richard quest just did that. see what it was like on board the world's longest ever commercial flight when we come back. r skin that can last. in fact, tremfya® was proven superior to humira® in providing significantly clearer skin. tremfya® may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms or if you had a vaccine or plan to. serious allergic reactions may occur.

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qantas airlines has pushed the airline capabilities after completing the world's longest nonstop commercial flight from london to sydney. it lasted 19 hours and 19 minutes. that's a long way if you're not at the pointy in. our richard quest was one of a handful of journalists to get to experience it all. ♪

>> 4:30 in the morning when check-in begins. >> are you checking any packages? for qf-7879, the flight from london to sydney. we lift off before dawn and head east and our first sunrise on this double sunrise flight. it's a rare aviation event for the same flight to see two sunrises across different days, even the qantas ceo takes time to capture the moment. this flight is all about research for both crew and passengers, learning how our bodies handle ultra long haul. >> gives us an indication of sleep behavior at different times. >> that means exercise. luckily, the plane is empty. >> this flight is an airline ceo's nightmare. rows and rows of empty seats. they have to be empty. if they were filled with

passengers, we would never get to sydney. the flight is also about research with the pilots and their brain patterns. qantas will need to convince regulators to allow pilots to be on duty for up to 24 hours. >> i'm wearing an eg monitor to monitor the alertness level while i'm sitting in the flight deck and operating. i'll switch to a different one at night. >> our first meal is crafted to promote sleep. >> so the way we've designed the men is to support the sleep and awake cycles throughout the flight. we're carryinging that with dishes that have good quality protein and that helps to encourage the production of sayre tony a seratonin and melatonin. >> some are sleeping, others are not. i'm just enjoying the experience. our second sunrise comes as we pass the philippines. it's thought less than a

thousand passengers in total have experienced the double sunrise. >> we're flying over the south china sea and we've been airborne for some 12 hours and we still have the equivalent of london to new york to do. qantas has put a lot of money and effort into ultra long haul research, far more than other airlines who have similar routes. allen joins explains why. >> you can't do the type of studying that we're doing on regular flights. the pilot is going to be wearing headgear, they're going to be testing. you can't do that on regular flights that you can do on these delivery flights. >> before long, we're on final approach. this flight has gone much faster than i expected. not exactly sure what i've done for all these hours. we land in sydney. >> congratulations on that flight. >> have we broken the record? yes, we've made history. so it looks like we've done it. the longest flight in the world in both time and over 19 hours

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