the odd. name in. this is you know we news line for world in legal jeopardy president trumps a former lawyer is said to have damaging information about russian meddling in the twenty six thousand elections after implicating trump in campaign finance violations michael cohen is said to be ready to talk about a supposed to the russian conspiracy and former campaign manager paul metaphor is convicted of financial crimes what will the stunning legal developments mean for the white house also coming up. desperation along one of europe's most heavily

fortified borders you never use goes into the spanish territory if so in north africa following migrants determined to get across. to a new satellite that will be a giant leap forward in forecasting the worlds for their. land. lay our kids great to have you along everyone. donald trump's former personal lawyer michael cohen has information of interest to the special counsel handling the pressure probe that's according to cohen's lawyer he says that if a ration could include testimony that trump knew about russian meddling in the twenty sixteen elections something trump has always denied on tuesday cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations at the same time former campaign manager paul metaphor was convicted of financial crimes by

a jury in virginia. to donald trump's critics the verdict is clear guilty as two of his former aides face judicial scrutiny activists lit up the entrance of trump international hotel in washington tuesday spelled double trouble for the u.s. president two of his exit visors could be facing lengthy prison sentences the first michael cohen passed no lawyer and close friend he pled guilty to a range of charges including campaign finance violations and the man who once said he would take a bullet for donald trump small he paid hush money to donald trump's alleged mistresses including stormy daniels he said he acted at the direction of whom he referred to as the candidate widely understood to be donald trump. he worked to pay money to silence two women who had information that he believed would be detrimental to the two thousand and sixteen campaign and to the candidate and the

campaign. according to the deputy u.s. attorney co and then try to get reimbursed for the payments using phony invoices. and minutes later a second court case delivered drama mr trump's woman complain manager paul manifold was convicted on eight counts of financial crimes manifolds trial as the first team match from special counsel robert mina's investigation into russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election on his way to a companion really invested in euro trump had this to say about the manifold case i feel very sad about that. because it is probably me but i still feel you know it's a very safe thing to have. nothing to do with russia and believe you started russian killing you this is really nothing to do with so which shows that it is great i. really go to the most ardent from support this night the cold case appeared to matter you know i now think our

break up that. we don't like. fake news out of the raj kapoor chant we got a whole big company of the time a trans crowd continues to cheer him on i am right let's get you more on the fallout to washington correspondent alexander fought nama joins us now i'll examine how big of a political risk our legal threat do these convictions pose for president dollar chop. when you look at what's michael cohen said yesterday in the courtroom how he implicated to the president and in the plots to illegally influence the election then you would seem that president trump is a deep trouble legal trouble however we have to say that most experts here in washington d.c. argue that a sitting president cannot be indicted for a crime and that has never happened before so it seems that president trump

could face political consequences or a punishment on the political truck and here we are talking about a possible impeachment however at the moment there are no loud voices saying that in the pietschmann process should be started but the topic is definitely going to be on the ballots in the midterm elections in november let's turn our focus now to mr michael cohen president trump ripped his former go to man accusing him of making up stories to get a deal i believe we have a tweet that we can pull up to show you exactly what he said he tweeted to michael cohen pled guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime president obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled. does

she have a point because mr cohen is in dire straits and he hasn't always been very truthful here. that's true and it's really seems to be the main defense lawyer to say that cohen is a liar and that they're referring to contradictory statements made by trump's former personal attorney in the past however we have to say that it was a different situation yesterday in the courts in the courtroom that michael cohen was answering the judge's questions. and that he apparently provided evidence to our trends there are apparently tepid conversations with the president so at the moment indeed we don't have any indication to believe that he's lying alexander how is all of this playing out in the u.s. . when we talk to trump's critics there are convinced that

it could prove to be the most consequential day or time of trump's presidency the president see that is in a deep crisis however we have to say that lawyers his advisers and many republicans are convinced cohen is lying lying that there is no wrongdoing by the president some even are convinced that the president can turn these events to his advantage by reinforcing his porch for you that he's under siege and we saw yesterday during this really in charleston west virginia were some supporters are already talking about a new smear campaign washington correspondent for nominee reporting thank you. let's bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. hundreds of elderly koreans have said their final emotional goodbyes to relatives at the end a very rare reunion for families separated by the korean border the south koreans

are heading home after a three day visit to the north the first for union to take place in three years. zimbabwe's top court has been hearing arguments and a legal challenge to the results of last month's historical election lawyers for opposition leader nelson community have claimed that votes were double counted to give president emerson god wot a narrow victory the court now has to decide if the results are valid. police in berlin have detained a thirty one year old russian man suspected of planning a terrorist attack authorities say had a large quantity of explosives in his apartment it's alleged she was working with another suspect arrested in france police also found links to any song reid who carried out the deadly christmas market truck attack back in two thousand and sixteen. after sixteen years of intensive planning

testing anka struction a new satellite is about to be launched that will be a giant leap forward for weather forecasting the satellite listening to after the keeper of the winds of ancient greek myth is scheduled to be sent into orbit shortly from the european space agency's south american center in french diana. b.o.'s will be the first satellite to directly measure the earth's winds at all altitudes. would currents play a major role in distributing he to around the planets of. the current send the rotation of the earth greatly affect where the patents and that part of what makes the blue planet habitable. the satellite is carrying what the european space agency calls one of the most sophisticated instruments ever to be put into orbit it consists of two powerful lasers a telescope and two receivers the illness will be hoisted to an orbit of three

hundred twenty kilometers. from there it will measure global winds by beaming short light pulses towards the earth some of that life will balance off small particles like dust and droplets of water the satellite will collect and measure the light that's reflected. until now meteorologists have only been able to piece together when dr using sources like weather balloons there are regions where little data has been collected like the southern hemisphere. and that's because a lot of it is coupled with oceans making it difficult to measure. the airless mission aims to supply the missing data. the satellite will complete an orbit around earth every ninety minutes and deliver its data to a site in norway the aim is to improve weather forecasts worldwide. scientists also hope to gain valuable insights about the climate from the dot of the satellite

sends back. complex weather patterns in the equitorial pacific will be one focus in particular the so-called el nino and la nina patterns phases of a cycle that involves temperature fluctuations between the ocean and the atmosphere . they can cause droughts and crop failures and also affect the formation of hurricanes in central and north america. scientists hope the wind measurements from the old us will help them better understand this climate phenomenon and its effects. the mission is shuttle to last three years. all right let's take you to the space center in the cool fresh diana where i'm joined by director of earth observation for grounds at the european space agency mr joseph a very very good day mr this must be such an exciting time for you there at the space center just hours left until the launch now.

yes it is very exciting moment as you probably know we are for tide yesterday wants to launch a satellite but. satellite mission wings was delayed because of wind so we are having a second attempt tonight six twenty local time here in co we all extremely excited said the light is all the way to fly and way the wind of course may be the deciding factor at the end of the day whether we can lift off or not but we are quite hopeful and we are really looking forward to tonight exactly and as are we there's a slight delay there in that connection so my apologies to the viewers talk to us sir about the practical uses why is it important to measure the wind.

wind is actually one of the these parameters of mythology would chart least observed is the largest state the gap which we have in our global observing system off of the various me do a lot of damage but the pressure temperature humidity and wind there are some measurements of wind today through radius on through balloons which are launched into the atmosphere but they only point to or which are highly populated and over land masses mostly so therefore this measurement network is very scouse and it's not providing sufficient information so the middle natural community mythological organization you'll be in center for medium range weather forecast the deutsch of edit the instant other services have expressed that this is the parameter which is most needed in order to improve weather forecasting and weather models and also with the weather models also climate models so therefore we are measuring a parameter which is much needed. now ileus it took sixteen years to develop and will operate for just three years while the expiring date by the short lifespan.

it is having a limited lifetime for several reasons because the technology itself is a very complicated technology and in fact the instrument onboard the laser is probably the most sophisticated instrument ever flown in space so very delicate and very very complex in terms of operation on the way it is designed another leason of course is that the satellite is flying the relatively low for these satellites typically defied at eight hundred kilometers height this one that's three hundred twenty kilometers height and therefore you have to keep correcting the you all bit because a three hundred twenty kilometer you have some drag our that means the the orbit will decrease and we have to be boosted again to divide all of it in order to to have position for the satellite for each measurement so therefore we need to fuel on board and of course there's a limitation of the fuel that can be bought on board the satellite with its launch

and this is also one of the limiting factors i should also probably say that is really a proof of concept because it is testing and developing this new technology which is groundbreaking and has never done before in any parts of the world and is really unique and are quite complex a concept mission and therefore we also testing the satellite the technology and the use of it state so one successful of course we would need to rethink how we continue from there to have an operational system mission in the space winds exciting exciting times sergio's of our spotter director of earth observation programs at the european space agency we wish you all the best. all right now why the effects of this year's hot summer are starting to show in switzerland where the largest glacier in the alps is shrinking twice as fast as

expected scientists monitoring the election. glaciers say it is melting at an unprecedented rate due to i'm usually hot temperatures the glacier has lost its protective snow covering and melt water is streaming down its surface now experts say the glacier has always treated by more than one kilometer in the past three decades they warn it could shrink by another four percent by september if the heat wave continues. and what a summer are we having with europe is baking in its hottest summer since nine hundred seventy six the year i was born. hardly any rain whatsoever that's threatening the livelihoods of thousands of thumb its drought is causing havoc around the world no clouds in sight in europe as you can see from the international space station that means more shortages crop losses and wildfires wide areas of this radio are also stricken by drought the worst in decades farmers of finding it

hard to keep their animals alive state aid has been allocated through landholders the u.s. state of california is also facing severe drought water supplies have been declining for decades but this year is especially grim more wheat and corn will be consumed in twenty eighteen they can be produced reserves a dwindling. germany is the amount three hundred forty million euros to help farmers hit by drought that's the result of a cabinet meeting today here in berlin help can't come soon enough we visited a couple of funds just outside the capital the fields in brandenburg are some of the sandia sin germany and it hasn't rained in the region since april for weeks drought related damage has prompted the german farmers association to demand rapid financial aid now that the government announced millions of euros in assistance the farmers lobby says prioritization will be key. i would like to stress

that it's important to support the farms that have suffered really bad setbacks losses of more than thirty percent oxygen we don't want to cast a wide net. we want to target the aid where it's needed most. is to allow the farms to continue to operate. that could make the fener farming call for it if. the head of the government's announcement it said it's lost seventy percent of the crops it needed to feed its cattle it wasn't able to build up large reserves due to poor harvests in the past. for out of the drought which means that we have a considerable shortage of the clock to even the one time we couldn't fill the contracts are now included with the agricultural co-operative due to poor yield sized co-operative has a deficit of its all to five hundred thousand euros this year. is from her not also

on the german farmers association expects this year's harvest to be down twenty six percent this again is likely to make prices rise. of course the numbers with our financial correspondent daniel cole as we heard there billions in damages in the millions in aid what went wrong. well but when you consider that for quite some time it was not even clear if those farmers would receive anything germans agriculture minister you could look and she's by the way the daughter of a wine grower has been very careful in the past week saying that she needs a complete overview of the situation and she can't promise the money everybody wants so i guess the millions are at least something now that's also what germany's farmer association has been saying today as with a statement they were already prepared for a scenario in which farmers would not have received anything because guess there are farmers that have really suffered this summer we're talking about ten thousand

to urgently need this money but there are also others who even profited with this whether wineries are expecting and most of the german reason excellent grapes also farmers with pumpkin plants or fields they have also benefit fed if it is so yeah at least they're getting some money but yes they wanted more was going to say the one grows up having a great time but what about the farmers from. will they invest that money in irrigation that this still so dependent on the rain and it's not coming. exactly well this money is mostly for those farmers who would be bankrupt after the season without support and yes not much rain is expected at least it's going to cool down i was just checking it in the next days but not much more can be changed in this season also we have in some areas of germany quite a water shortage at the moment so that wouldn't even work it will be more of a support to survive this year and hopefully again have better results in the

coming years but if we can't trust the weather experts who are saying that also the next summer could be like that farmers might need a plan b. it sounds like it's going to drive for a while don't have been prepared for us thank you. just briefly found as a mexico have found a culprit for a drought in the central state of puebla they blame german comic a fog in june v.w. started to use so-called hail cannons to protect new cars in the plant's outdoor parking lots the son of the vice isn't meant to disrupt the formation of hail in the atmosphere and prevent hail storms but farmers allege they also prevent any other form of precipitation the region see no brain since may and farmers say they've lost true thousand take his of crops is leaking over three million euros in compensation from the automaker. tampering with the weather don't

do it. to him if you are thank you so much i in their recent minds italy has taken its border controls now spain has become the main destination for african migrants trying to reach europe at one entry point in space north african enclave. hundreds of migrants have stormed fences in a bid to enter european territory now at least one hundred fifty people managed to cross the aisle in a bid to hinder more from entering the territory authorities have erected a six metre high fence along the eight kilometer long border with morocco but for those who make it through it's no guarantee of an easy passage to a new life if you don't use oversell it follows a group intent on making it to europe whatever it takes. and his friends have to make their way to the high don't carefully it's in the mountains of morocco near the border with. they say the police could show up at any time and destroy their camp. the group passed thousands of kilometers behind them

now just a few hundred meters separate them from europe that and so you to this fence. this man from guinea shoals as deep cuts there from his attempts to storm the border for. my father is dead my mother has nothing not even food i'm the oldest son and i want to try and make some money to help my mother that's why i left. i have been travelling for two years since leaving guinea nol they are stuck here with some fifty thousand others all hoping to make the journey from morocco to europe. the fence is here to stop them it's eight kilometers long and fitted with razor sharp wire along with the territory of this is the only other border in africa on the other side. from the spanish

guardian it's his job to secure the border but lately that hasn't always been possible. over six hundred migrants managed to storm the fence at the end of july the police are helpless and talk of unprecedented levels of violence makeshift flame throwers quicklime and grappling hooks other migrants weapons of choice but. they were very well prepared and organized. what's more they were so violent that we could not get to the fence. i mean they threw acid at us and did all they could to prevent us from closing the holes that they had cut into the fans . in morocco's mountains moosa and his friends are already preparing their next attempt. they're tired of the brutality at the hands of the moroccan police they only find food at a nearby rubbish dump a soft drink

a cucumber a moldy potato. life here is unbearable. morocco is teeming with police offices i mean all of my friends are left guinea with me made it to syria from. what am i supposed to do here i'll stay here until i can get in on. their sense of desperation is what drives them for moosa and his friends it's euro or nothing. next to the story of the full time u.s. federal judge to several times a month indulges his passion for ice dancing at the age of get this ninety five he's been hitting the rink regularly ever since he received a pair of skates from his wife that was twenty years ago when he was a mere seventy five years the. normally he is a busy new york judge who is presiding over high profile cases involving the likes

of facebook and harvey weinstein. but twice a week robert sweet takes on a very different challenge the ninety five year old heads to the rink to indulge in his second great passion ice dancing nowadays he wears a helmet after suffering a concussion following a fall but he's generally very steady on the skates and he's keen to get even better. this is. a very personal i assure you it. is for. you it's very important to to be found watch it's very important to your be in the right place on your blade it looks as if you're on the entire blade but you're not you're just shot at a relatively small part of the blade even has a coach but two time olympian some though was wary of training a judge at first. on the beginning i was very afraid because

federal judge. and then but i sure would like joe just for the like and you but do with. law enforcement but you become was not as my son if you become a slave for a because he is but a. livable nice folks love the sweet isn't surprisingly good old his clients but at ninety five he's showing no signs of slowing down. or gold and firing and a reminder of the top story that we're tracking for you this hour u.s. president donald trump is under pressure as chula vista former allies face jail over financial fraud and campaign along violations one of them his ex lawyer michael cohen is said to have damaging information about trump's knowledge of a russian conspiracy to influence to twenty sixteen elections. thank you so much for spending this part of the day with us the news continues at the top of the hour .

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