this is d w news live from berlin impeachment looms over president donald trump u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi announced congress will start an official inquiry into a ledge of high crimes and misdemeanors. the actions of the trump presidency revealed a dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office. national security and the trail of the integrity of our elections the president must be healthy. no one is upon food. and over rules by the

supreme court a unanimous decision rules that british prime minister boris johnson the suspension of parliament was unlawful with 5 weeks 5 weeks to go before the press at deadline johnson vows the ruling will not get the way of the u.k. takes it from the european union's. lust for a blood red skies in indonesia as fires burn out of control we meet a man who's battling the blaze in his region. i will have glue cruft welcome to the program only 2 presidents have been impeached in american history donald j. trump may become the 3rd after months of will she or won't she speculation nancy pelosi the speaker of the house of representatives has announced her congressional committees will form an umbrella encourage its goal gather the evidence necessary

to impeach trump that's the 1st of a long and uncertain path to removing him from office pelosi grounded her decision in the us constitution. the actions taken to date by the president have seriously violated the constitution especially when the president says article 2 says i can do whatever i want the actions of the trump presidency reveal dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office of our national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections therefore today i'm announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry and directing our 6 committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry the president must be held accountable no one is about the law. the amounts that marks

a sharp reversal for pelosi who for months had resisted calls from within her own party to impeach a whistleblower complaint changed her tune however and it suspected to involve a phone call between the u.s. and ukrainian presidents in july in that call trump is accused of pressuring ukraine into investigating joe biden a 2020 democratic presidential candidate and his son the 2 had close ties to ukraine while joe biden's joe biden was vice president now congress has the right to review such a complaint but trump has refused to hand it over yet the devil as they say is in the details and many of them remain out of public and even congressional view so earlier i asked our washington correspondent oliver salat what's left to find out. well we don't know for sure at this point what exactly was said in the 6 now famous phone call with the ukrainian president so the allegation is that president trump

pressed the ukrainian president on the phone for dirt against joe biden but president tom tomorrow will publish the transcript of this phone call and he must be very certain that there are no there's no evidence inside the transcript but nancy pelosi made very clear that it's not about the wording of the phone call that it's implicit that she tried and that he in fact abuse power by freezing military funding that the ukraine is heavily dependent on for instance so and in addition to that we will have the whistleblower who initially leaked this information testified by the end of the week in the house intelligence committee where we do expect some damaging material most likely against the president we don't know exactly what he will say in the in that hearing 3 but we know we only get that information by the end of the week and whatever these details may or may not reveal trump is no surprise not very happy about this latest development let's have

a short listen to what what he said before palosi made the announcement but he knew that that announcement was on its way look it's just a continuation of what you know it's the worst we're going to do it was you. know it was good it is because the good news. african american agent is going to get you close to his unit there's no reason given the economy is doing great people are prosperous no need to impeach what do you make of trump's defense in that statement. well it doesn't come very surprising that's been his strategy and his rhetoric right from the start he wanted to use the economy and he has done so the economy is doing great in fact and that by the way is one of the only field and if not the only field where voters believe the president is doing a good job according to recent polls and that is. now with looming recession so he might even 2 lose the support of voters in that field and so what he's trying

to do no basically is going back to his old rhetoric of this is all a rigged which he's trying to jam the republicans galvanize the republican party in fact and that could also backfire for the democrats and it's clear now with palosi statement we are in a new chapter of the trump era it could be a long one a very uncertain one so talk us through what happens now trump doesn't just get peaches and he leaves office i mean what what happens now what are and what are the risks to both democrats and and trump well there are 6 committees investigating right 1 now they will certainly continue investigate the president trying but on of this new on which is of course the impeachment that was just launched then this will certainly have have to pass certain votes in the house of. representatives where the democrats right now have a majority a simple majority is an awful lot of democrats are uniting behind the idea of

impeaching trump but the biggest hurdle will be senate where 2 thirds majority is needed and the republicans hold the majority that senate right now and that would mean that half of the republican senators would have to change sides of very unlikely scenario at this point at least and it really looks like a leap into the unknown for the democratic party all right oliver solid in washington thanks so much for joining us we look forward to hear from you as developments keep coming in. for now at least it's business as usual for the president in new york trump addressed the u.n. general assembly directing much of his ire at iran which the u.s. and its allies have accused of supporting terrorism and attacking its neighbors but what they're going to do about it remains hotly contested as our correspondent there reports. a lot of pressure in washington presidents trump took the stage at the united nations on tuesday to once again promote america 1st policy be proud of

your country hold on to youth over and see the future belongs to patriots not globalist this was his message in new york however it was those in favor of multilateralism who were in the spotlight at the u.n. france and germany talking to iran in the u.s. trying to prevent state conflict from as collating into all out war it's not clear yet if they will be successful but at least they are trying. now to some other stories making news around the world. opera star placido domingo has pulled out of performances at new york's metropolitan opera after allegations of sexual misconduct domingo had been due to appear in a production of macbeth starting on wednesday dozens of women have come forward accusing him of a rast meant which he has denied. the european union's

top court has ruled that google is not required to apply the e.u. whose right to be forgotten rule to search results outside the e.u. google had argued that if forced to do so worldwide it would allow authoritarian governments to cover up human rights abuses. and spain supreme court has approved the government's plans to remove the remains of former dictator francisco franco from a state muslim the issue has divided opinions in spain the socialist government should now be able to really bury franco in a family plot while rededicating his current gravesite to victims of the spanish civil war. a black panther that was seen roaming the rooftops of a northern french town a few days ago has been stolen from a zoo where it was being kept zoo employees discovered the animal's pen had been broken into over night the panther was due to be really honed better we have

rehabilitation center for domesticated wild animals. now to the british supreme court where 11 judges unanimously ruled that prime minister boris johnson suspension of parliament was unlawful so it's back to work for u.k. lawmakers but they remain divided over what to do about it. judges filed into the court room to deliver their highly anticipated ruling their verdict unanimous a stunning rebuke to the prime minister. the court is bound to conclude that feel that the decision to advise the majesty to purab parliament was unlawful because it had the effect of frustrating or preventing the ability of parliament to carry out its constitutional functions without reasonable justification the effect on the fundamentals of our democracy was extreme no justification for taking

action with such an extreme effect has been put before the court the court said the government's suspension order was null and void and that parliament should resume business immediately. common speaker john bercow confirmed m.p.'s would sit again starting wednesday. news of the ruling reached prime minister johnson in new york where he's been attending the un climate summit so obviously this is a budget that we will respect and i respect the judicial process to happen so i strongly disagree with what the justices were wrong and i don't think. it's right but we will go ahead it's what i've done well the ruling doesn't affect bragg's it directly it does mean parliament won't have to wait until mid october to have its say in the process. the decision like drags it has divided the public but these protesters welcome to the judges' decision. great day for democracy

a great victory for british democracy it's good to see the fruits reaffirming the rights to flee electorate sisters and eyes through its elected representatives what the government's doing on brit's of the night like opposition leader jeremy corbin who's been struggling with labor's own brags of divisions at the party's annual conference called on johnson to step down for a job i haven't found this letter because this is an elected prime minister should not be written off. during the prime minister's next move may be anyone's guess but he'll return to london to face growing pressure over his brags that strategy and his leadership. now many parts of the world are on fire right now including in asia indonesia is facing its worst fires in nearly 5 years in sumatra province the haze from the burn

left residents in some areas waking up to a lot of red skies now it creates a stunning sunrise but all this means danger scientists say the color signals heavy pollutants in the air fires are also raging in borneo it's here's a look at the battle to control the flames through one man's eyes. guarding the fires frontline a police officer by trade toha spends much of indonesia's dry season battling blazes in his home province of kalimantan fighting fires isn't strictly in his job description says he's driven by a higher purpose but about bungling it's what i call my soul's calling us about any information on the forest fire. i will rush to the scene straight away with my group of fire assault team like the one man but me. it's been

a routine that happens here in men time village what i mean every dry season there will be fire to morrow but the pacific about that i can tell a coordinated tame move mainly volunteers on how best to hide these down opening areas he's well respected among his peers i thought india tour is a set of he's loyal to friends he's a good passion we could always find him any fire that has broken out here but about edible you know. fires and nothing new in indonesia they happen every year which officials say is largely due to slash and burn farming practices but this year the blazes are particularly bad with an el nino weather pattern exacerbating the annual dry spell toha says he and his team will continue battling the blazes for as long as it takes. and now reminder of the top story we're following for you in the u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi has announced congress will start an official

impeachment inquiry into president donald trump investigation will focus on whether trump abused his presidential status and asked a foreign power to undermine democratic presidential candidate joe biden. they're watching t.v. news that's all for now a 1000000 blue cross remember you can always log in to d.w. dot com or follow us on twitter at the tell me you to. stay informed. and. language courses. video or you know. anytime anywhere.