on t w. this is g w news from berlin tonight in washington the whispers of impeachment getting louder as she was president marks two years in the white house a buzz feed news report contains explosive new allegations that trump directed his former lawyer michael cohen to lying to congress about his dealings in russia now leading democrats say they will investigate also coming up a letter to britain from germany with leading german personalities publish an open

letter in the times newspaper asking the british people to abandon bragg's it and to stay in the european union we'll get reaction from london and the bonus league is back we look ahead to saturday's top of the table clash between legal leaders dortmund and fourth placed far below and six. i'm burned off it's good to have you with us is this the smoking gun leading to a criminal us president a new buzz feed news report claims that u.s. president donald trump directed his personal attorney michael cohen to lying to congress about his business ties to russia the report cites two unnamed law enforcement officers of the president reportedly ordered cohen to lie about plans to build a trump tower in moscow and supported up. and for cohen to meet with russian

president vladimir putin to jump start the project last year michael cohen pleaded guilty to whine to congress about the russian real estate plan president trump has repeated the leader denied any collusion with russia or illustrate the story out of the u.s. capitol i'm joined by our correspondent all oversoul in washington good evening to you oliver if these reports this report by buzz feed news if it proves to be true what will it mean for donald trump or brand it will be another puzzle piece but this time it could really mean a shift in tides for donald trump the report says that dollar trump told some michael cohen to lie in front of congress about the direct duration all these negotiations for this mosque trump tower project michael cohen set the negotiations were over by the time that all trump was actually officially announced being the

candidate of the republican party for u.s. presidency but in fact these negotiations lasted a lot longer and they lasted until the summer of two thousand and sixteen and that being just a few months ahead of the actual u.s. elections now if this turns out to be true of these allegations that donald trump told michael cohen to lie in front of congress this would certainly mean that we're witnessing here the strongest piece of evidence yet of donald trump being guilty awful struction of justice and it comes at a time when you have the democrats who are now in control of the u.s. house of representatives meaning that they can subpoena people as they wish what kind of reactions are we getting from both sides of the political divide today. well the democrats can certainly be happy about this and they will certainly use this for their purposes we just had the chairman of the judiciary committee of congress saying that it's

a crime to lie to congress. especially to tell yourself ordinate to lie to congress rather and also vowing that his committee would investigate these allegations that they would get to the bottom of it we also already heard again once again from the democratic party's calls for an impeachment once more and donald trump has also responded on twitter a c usually does he is trying to question the credibility of michael cohen there he said that cohen was already convicted of perjury and fraud and that he simply lying to reduce jail time or at a correspondent over so little the story forwards in washington all over thank you very much. well all of this is happening as donald trump marks the midpoint of his term in the white house two years in he's already organizing his reelection campaign. news has been to detroit michigan to meet republican voters standing squarely behind a trump bid for

a second term regardless of the scheme it's truly an brothers bakery is a community fixture in this detroit suburb it's one of the few small locally run operations left every morning for the past forty eight years richard julian has put on his a friend and served the neighborhood everything from deli meats to birthday cakes the bakery is also situated on the edge of a county that was pivotal for trump's victory mccomb county outside of detroit julian like some of his employees and many of his customers voted for trump he thinks the president's term has been good for his thirty employees and his bakery donald trump was. much of a stretch for me in the beginning when he became the nominee for the party. because he was a businessman this is exactly the sort of small middle american establishment that was at the heart of trump's campaign message to lift up the little guy and stick it

to the elites. and celine light of an educator and a neighborhood resident said she was attracted to trump and his message in part because of how different he sounded. more i heard his. watch. at first. the first to pay. for it and state it was just different they don't love everything about him everyone we spoke with mentioned that his tweeting can be cringe worthy that maybe he has a tendency to. speak without thinking and sometimes his personal life can be messy but joan for a bakery regular and lifelong michigan resident said despite everything she wants to see the president succeed i'd like to see him take us back to the days when people were paid paul not units or objects or numbers classifications where

people were people but we have respect for one another and. i like some of the things that he's done on those who are of the moment. i just i really like the man and i want to see him continue with his goals and least get most of them accomplished not everyone in the neighborhood is a trump supporter and some family ties have been strained. gary milburn an employee at the bakery has two daughters who do not like trump he says he understood their objections but he still voted for trump. the family is not thrilled with me because because you know i did vote for trump you know he's made you know you know definitely many many excuse me many statements regarding our grubby women by the whatever and doing this which to me is a lot of you know a locker room talk. to years into trump's term as president the country is still

divided there have been shocking announcement scandals treaties have been torn up but would these people vote for trump again and. again yes i would anything wrong i hope. i want this to continue i would vote for him again depending on who he's going to be running against. a true republican challenger it looks unlikely during the two thousand and twenty campaign and the democrats will have a tall order to win back the hearts of these voters here in julian's bakery it seems trump would have no trouble getting reelected for a second term. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world is seven months after the u.s. president's historic me. with north korea's leader in singapore the white house is confirming that there will be a second summit next month donald trump and kim jong un will meet to discuss pyongyang's denuclearization you know that follows a meeting in washington between trump and a top north korean general violent protests have erupted in the sudanese capital

khartoum following the funeral of a protester who died from police gunshot wounds earlier this week officers fired live ammunition and used tear gas against demonstrators who threw rocks or two has seen five weeks of anti-government protests german lawmakers have approved legislation that classifies tunisia morocco algeria and georgia as a so-called safe countries making it much harder for asylum seekers from the countries to remain in germany interior minister horst as they hope for as long advocated that move more than twenty leading figures from german politics sports business and entertainment have appealed to the u.k. to abandon bricks in the open letter appeared in today's times newspaper and amongst the signatories are the new head of america c.d.u. party the lady known as a k k as well as the head of germany's social democratic party andreea dollars and

the head of the greens robert now it reads as follows after the horrors of the second world war britain did not give up on us it has welcomed germany back as a sovereign nation and the european power this we as germans have not forgotten and we are grateful should britain wish to leave the european union for good it will always have friends in germany and europe but britain should equally know that we believe that no choice is irreversible our door will always remain open europe is home we would miss the legendary british black humor but more than anything else we would miss the british people our friends across the channel therefore britain's should know from the bottom of our hearts we want them to stay. a while ago we spoke with our london correspondent bill good marse and we have to remember about reaction to the weather in london been half as far as i know and no

official reaction but it by any of the government figures but i've looked at the newspaper headlines and it has been reported even though it's not exactly had line news because there is so much going on in terms of brecht's it and as an absolute chaotic situation where the u.k. is trying to figure out where it wants to go so it has been a just for example the financial times the business paper said it's reflects a rising anxiety in berlin in terms of the cost of business so it's the fear of the heartbreaks it and this is a reaction to it then we have the sun the biggest tabloid they say they report well germany is begging us to stay in the you and similar the express and other tabloid and both the my leaning towards brics and they say it's a desperate desperate bid for britain to stay in the european union i haven't seen a lot of scathing criticism but it's certainly seen as something that is political

and it's a political intervention so it's not just heart to heart by leading german figures but it is something that as the center comes from the center of british of german politics really. and there was big and must reporting from london some sports news now the australian tennis open is in melbourne which has the largest greek community outside greece did you know that there were big celebrations when greek player stephanos made it to the round of sixteen a greek restaurant in melbourne has marked the win by naming a super lucky hafter him meanwhile one of the best matches of day five so former champion maria sharapova get past the defending women's champion or alina wozniak and germany's number two seed did i'm joined the care of a defeated german born australian kimberley boro in straight sets losing just one game

a great way to celebrate her thirty first birthday. well this weekend sees the bundesliga return from its winter break illegal leaders dortmund are up against in this saturday's late game after an impressive first half of the campaign but one could finally stop by in munich's run of six consecutive bundesliga titles there's plenty of anticipation in dortmund they sit comfortably top of the table with a six point lead and complacency may be their biggest rival going forward and. it's a good situation to be in but we know there are seventeen more games and that it's still a long season ahead or a big challenges and difficult games to play especially in the next few weeks pressure to perform dominated the opening half of the season with fast paced entertaining play they'll have to hit the ground running straight away with their first opponents fourth placed life sick coach. expects a tough away trip. this is dangerous in possession but also on the counter-attack

they can also play along with. transition really really quickly communions there's not much else to say about life there are very good team missions in the stands to much of dampening the mood somewhat is the recent illness of captain marco royce cossar is also only just coming back from injury together they've scored twenty three goals over half of the total the team also looked shaky in recent friendly matches. the christmas season then new year's eve then you spend time at a sunny beach in dubai or somewhere and you look at the table and everyone is passing you on the back of perfectly normal for the tension to lessen them but not affect us. we must maintain the same approach we have life of the season in.

statistics point towards a successful second half of the season men have led the league three times at the halfway mark and each time they won the title not a bad omen. and europe today with the w. news live from berlin for all of us here in berlin thanks for the company have a good weekend everybody. sometimes books are more exciting than real life. preparing to create. what if there's no escape. ritualised. german must create. celebrate one hundred years of cups and join our photo competition show us our movement impacts you.