this is utopia news live from berlin evidence emerges of u.s. president donald trump prodding ukraine's president for damaging information on a political rival a memo of a phone call shows president trump urging his counterpart vladimir zelinsky to open a corruption probe connected to presidential candidate joe biden the call prompted democrats in the u.s. congress to launch a full impeachment inquiry against president trump were in washington. also coming up it is back to business parliament resumes in london the prime minister suspended

it but the supreme court overruled him and he is now bracing for a briggs it battle with lawmakers. and a disaster in the making in the world's oceans scientists on the un's climate panel warning of a dire threat to humanity rising sea levels super storms more flooding more drought . thank you so much for your company everyone well it is shaping up to be an eventful day in an already remarkable week in the united states the white house has released a rough transcript of a telephone conversation between president donald trump and ukraine's president vladimir selenski it shows that trump did. odd mr selenski to investigate former

u.s. vice president joe biden and biden son who were at the time worked for a ukrainian energy firm that phone call has triggered allegations that president trump behaved in appropriately. now this now the u.s. of course of the u.s. house democrats have launched a formal impeachment inquiry against mr trump want to turn now to our washington the correspondent pablo foley pablo a very eventful day for you there let's start with this memo transcript we are still digesting this document let's call it that for the moment but based on your reading your initial reading is this is a chance 5th a memo and why is that distinction important if at all. you're absolutely clear in calling it a document because actually now we're calling it white house said that the

transcript was developed with assistance from voice recognition software along with no takers and experts listening now what does that mean essentially does a software that listens to conversations or writes. copies what essentially it believes is being said and then no takers and experts confirm whether it is ok now in the actual document that was released today it says at the bottom of it quite clearly it says caution a memorandum of a telephone conversation is not a verbatim transcript of a discussion so the text in this document records the notes and recollections of situation room officers and c policy stuff assigned to listen so that's quite clear because now what's being said is that this is pretty standard practice and this is normally have conversations of this nature are recorded but there are many questions because if you actually read through the document it's quite clear that certain things john but for example when president trump is talking about certain issues in particular joe biden there are 3 dots dot dot dot many people in the

democrats many representatives are asking why exactly and they're asking for further information so you can imagine at the moment the further analysis people are reading reading reading the document to see if they can see anything else at the moment but that still begs the question was this the smoking gun or is it a storm in a teacup. well it's quite interesting that you said smoking gun because if we actually hear from the democratic presidential candidate elizabeth warren she'd used the term in fact in a tweet she said this transcript in inverted commas itself is a smoking gun if this is the version of events the president's team thinks is most favorable he is in very deep jeopardy we need to see the full whistleblower complaint and the administration needs to follow the law and that's quite significant because it sort of echoes the feelings of many democrats now let's not forget that this transcript is just one part of

a chain of. issues that the democrats want cleared up because of course we have to focus on the fact that intelligence committee chairman representative adam schiff announced on choose day that the whistleblower who filed the complaint the original complaint which includes allegations of president trumps conduct would like to speak to the committee that the democrats basically want to hear 1st they want to hear the full story before they can react now we heard from president trump in the past few minutes and he doesn't seem too bothered by it but he does stress the fact that he feels it's a witch hunt let's take a listen to what he said exactly because the way whatsoever and if you take a look at the democrats they went down to see the president of ukraine and they sorts of things and don't go with the republicans and stay with it like it's a political war they shouldn't. it's the single greatest witch hunt in american

history probably in history but it american history it's a disgraceful thing now that was the president moments ago have republicans rushed to the president's defense. now we've heard reactions from some republicans most notably lindsey graham who you know has often defended president and he said to impeach any president over a phone call would be insane mitch mcconnell from the senate he said speaker pelosi couldn't hold back the far left any longer. what's interesting though is we've also heard from republican mitt romney who has been an open critic of president trump and said that it was troubling it doesn't come as any surprise of course that the democrats have been reacting the senate minority leader chuck schumer said in the senate in the past few minutes president used his powers of his office to betray the public trust for personal political gain once again he also wants to see more

transcripts he wants to see more information and you know this is sort of a feeling that's been echoed by many democrats and republicans because both want to see the full picture before they can fully react but many democrats are saying that's enough it's enough information for them to continue with their inquiry into you know the possible impeachment of president trump all right i've got 10 seconds left are we expecting the whistleblower who brought all of this to light to speak to him or her i should say. well him or her exactly it is expected that you know like i said before this person has expressed a willingness and desire to actually speak and give the full story that we know that from the house intelligence committee chairman shift he said. this person would like to speak to the committee of course they've even come out saying that it

could come as early as this week well ok to be continued. publish all the alias that returned there for you from a washington now to a nother political firestorm this one in london the house of commons has got back to work after the supreme court ruled that prime minister boris johnson's paroling of parliament was unlawful while prime minister johnson flew home from the united nations in new york overnight in his back in his official residence number 10 downing street and parliaments the speaker of the house that there will be full scope for mercy debates where the government meanwhile is planning to put a general election back on the table and earlier attorney general of geoffrey cox addressed the house of commons he call on parliament to pass legislation allowing for a general election the bottom of it is very very small are you. sure you know where

you are under 58 hours and no moral right to feature on these green cards you want to buy. the old. it's a joke i like to hear it mr see. her twice a year be nostrum let her decide upon whether he should continue to say be married see why. certain 3400000 pieces. are emerging these are disgraced. emotions running high in the house of commons here with me in the studio is quitting peel a senior analyst with the think tank chatham house in london good to have you here in person extraordinary times in the u.k. i mean we're glued to our screens and every move in westminster how precedented is what we're witnessing right now just a few it's it's completely on track to territory this really is dramatic i think

what we're seeing fundamentally that and that's what's so important about yesterday's decision. in the supremum court is that apollo meant that it got weak and weak over the last 40 or 50 years and the prime minister got stronger and stronger suddenly the balance of power is tipping back again and punishment is being put into a much stronger position to hold the government to account so you have boris johnson with no majority flailing around trying to find a way through and we've just seen on geoffrey cox that. calling parliament to just strace the dead parliament will have many parliamentarians who turn around and say exactly the same but the government but it still begs the question i mean mr johnson's position is it tenable on time i mean he's come back from many many setbacks he has but he's had ever since he became prime minister he's lost everything that i think he has a game plan which is still alive and that game plan is essentially to take

a very hard line on bracks it crash out if necessary and get an early election way he can present himself as the passionate pro brecht's it the man of the people against that ghastly elite in parliament and indeed in the courts now the question is can he do that because parliament somewhat tied his ands by saying you can't crash out without a deal and they've also said you can't have an early election so it's like he's in a deep oh without an obvious way out why is the opposition leader jeremy career not able to capitalize on all this turmoil partly because he doesn't want an early election why doesn't he want an early election because he doesn't trust boris johnson not to crash out as a result you know in the interim and secondly i think he knows that his figures

don't look great in the country because the labor party is neither fish nor fowl. and in the in the brits it debate they want to have one foot in the remain in europe one foot in the bricks and their opinion poll ratings have been going down so he's very cautious but he'd numb the less to be making follow more progress the party that's making progress is on the right the brics it was stealing conservative votes and on the center left you've got the liberal democrats who've been stealing quite a lot of labor and conservative votes in conclusion mr peel where does this leave briggs it i mean has the timeline now changed because of the supreme court's decision or are we still on track with that october 31st deadline i think the time night is changed because of what punishment did to say you can crash out i would now expect we will get an extension how boris johnson handles it having said i want

to ask for an extension do or die time. of the day so i think you have to one way or another whether he'll find some fiddle to get somebody else to us for the extension but that he wants to have that election and nobody knows how it's going to come out the country is still incredibly evenly divided and i think we will have an election and nobody will win a majority christian peel senior analyst with the think tank chatham house or good to have you here with us in person that's. when i say you know what some of the other stories making news around the world. human rights groups in egypt say that more than a 1000 people have been arrested in a crackdown after last friday's protests against the us president i'd like to have seen seek he seized power back in 2013 when the military took over from the democratically elected muslim brotherhood president mohamed morsi. chinese president xi jinping has officially opened beijing's new made airport the

airport cost a whopping $60.00. $1000000000.00 it has the world's the biggest terminal building in a starfish like structure designed by the late we're now and architect saw it will eventually it is expected to eventually handle $100000000.00 passengers. it's a powerful lurch great that struck pakistan administered kashmir has is believed to have killed at least 37 people the 5.8 earthquake magnitude earthquake that has said hit the country in the mountainous region that has leveled homes and you have split open roads. a u.n. report has issued these starkest warning yet of a climate change catastrophe for the planet's seas predicting more super storms

rising sea levels and ocean dead zones scientists from the intergovernmental panel on climate change say unprecedented overheating in the world's oceans could receive a levels by about one meter by the end of the century rendering some coastal regions uninhabitable. one senegal's coast the village of popping greenness already feeling the effect of rising sea levels the atlantic has washed away several houses and a mosque. when people's houses have been destroyed they pack up their things and try to make a new start and the countryside wonder if they have the money they go to deckard or another city. in the winter and out of her to record. their situation as a result of events happening around the world sea levels are rising due to climate change carbon emissions and other greenhouse gases are making videos to warm up.

polar regions are seeing the permafrost saw glaciers and ice sheets all melting rapidly. flooding storms and erosion on tensor fighting. on the water global warming is also having an impact increased c o 2 levels are turning our oceans more acidic and that along with higher temperatures will cause fish stocks to dwindle especially in tropical areas like senekal. the i.p.c.c. report says that in order to avoid even more severe consequences the world needs to reduce carbon emissions immediately. back and pumping green with or eighty's have already built a sea wall. poster board. and the wall is a big help if it weren't there even the hill nearby would collapse and the house

there to the load on the back. but the seawall will not be enough if water levels continue to rise and even more people off forced to look for a new place called home. want to turn our attention now back to new york or to the general assembly there because iranian president hassan rouhani has told the a u.n. general assembly that his country will never negotiate with the u.s. under pressure he said lifting sanctions against iran could pave the way to talks iran is increasingly isolated internationally the u.s. along with germany france and great britain have blamed tehran for a recent attack on a saudi oil facility last year washington unilaterally canceled a landmark nuclear deal with iran and imposed new sanctions. i know. you hold be about a drum we remain committed to our promises in the deal. however

our patience has a limit. when the u.s. does not respect u.n. security council resolutions. and when europe displays an inability to act in the only way shall be to rely on national dignity pride and strength. millia whoredom on ause the iranian president addressing the un general assembly a short while ago joining us now from washington is ben and ben tell the blue of the foundation for defense of democracy in washington d c a think tank that recommends hardline iran policy yes sir welcome to the show what did you make of president rouhani statements. thanks for having me and great to be with you i think rowhani was a bit out of his comfort zone here rouhani and zarif iran's foreign minister

usually prefer to win that major diplomatic international arenas they prefer to keep america divided from the international community here they had to strike a tone much like he runs for president ahmadinejad the tone was intransigent it cast america as a bully it cast europe as weak and they cast iran's regional neighbors as dependent and it's just one of the measures of success if you will of this max pressure campaign of this u.s. attempt to press iran to come to the table because it's negotiating very publicly with lots of evolving talking points and it's negotiating with its actions in the region and with respect to the nuclear deal what you describe is a success of this this u.s. administration's maximum pressure approach some might say is a failure because it hasn't achieved any of its goals tehran isn't caving in the gulf region tensions there are have never been as high in recent years many of the

stakeholders are actively trying to find a resolution so what's the game plan here. well that is the game plan that there is no way out but through that unless you run realizes genuine engagement driven by a genuine change in the regimes behavior unless that actually happens that there will be no way out of the crisis for these let it's not working so and so many times we can sit around for this but the what the blueprint but the blueprint for this is not the nuclear negotiations it's the allow these sanctions to do what they've been doing which is to force teheran to choose and tehran has chosen the path that shows that there really is no difference between the new judge administration or the rouhani administration that when pressed the islamic republic is going to act like the row with the trumpet ministration has said that it is and that's a wrong with our use there at now even if even federica more greeny of the e.u. is saying that the j c p y cannot last in this form and even the e 3 is pointing to iran thrown in cruise missile strikes. that are reading right to

create you saw president french president on my current trying making an effort to get the 2 leaders the us all on iranian leader trying to get them to speak now of course we've heard from the iranian leader addressing the u.n. general assembly there did seem to be an opening there saying that if the conditions were right if sanctions were lifted against iran that could pave the way to talks now that is encouraging i don't know if you know it's realistic i don't have to use it but it is encouraging i'm just wondering i mean how do you expect iran to negotiate with a gun to its head. well looking at the past 40 years of the history of the islamic republic that's only when the islamic republic changes a key national security objective no one is saying that ballistic missiles terrorism the foreign and security policy and conduct of the islamic republic no one is saying that iran doesn't covet these things but we're saying that these

things can be negotiated away when there is pressure because if there is no pressure then there is no incentive for teheran to divest itself from terrorism no incentive to divest itself from the nuclear quest the only time iran has changed like the end of the iran iraq war given up on a fundamental national security product of is when there is pressure and it's ironic that rouhani says that if all the sanctions are waived then iran will to go shoot because then what is there to negotiate over a broader deal well if there are american sanctions all given away then what leverage does america have to negotiate that broader deal it's kind of a circular logic that iranian officials are weaving but again they're actually at this u.n.g.a. unlike 2013 when rouhani came in quite strong and was able to pick apart the international community and even 2017 under president from he was able to pick up i didn't start immunity i doubt anyone he did able to question the pressure campaign the maximum pressure approach has not yielded any results tehran on what basis is

going is on what basis are you sitting there it's not given a little ironic so let's say you're taking a polaroid approach to the problem as opposed to the cam recorder approach to the problem the iran iraq war is the example here that war was 8 years for the 1st 7 and a half of those 8 years the founding father of these lamas republic ayatollah khomeini said war war war until victory his goal was regime change in baghdad that was not a bush administration an issue of that was 1st they khomeini initiative but once iran was defeated on the battlefield once through a series of economic issues and military issues the country realized that there was no way out but through it had to settle for a sub optimal solution so the goal here is to pressure iran to keep it out i should leave it at sr and growing consistent and growing thank you so much for providing us with your perspective then tell the glue of the foundation for defense of democracy in washington d.c. . thank you. now here in germany the

artistic and architectural movement known as bauhaus is marking 100 years since its founding the style emphasizes minimalism functionality and clean lines well now a museum in the german city of chemists is highlighting the unique role of glass in the movement. the water glass redefined. here the water is trapped inside the glass making it a permanent part of a sculpture. the cabinets glass exhibition is a bit like a laboratory with artists exploring different aspects of the material. the show is dedicated to as a material is on the it was very important as the material in the beginning of the bauhaus movement creates wonderful possibility is a display objects and spaces. smartphone screens magnified

many times are also part of the show traces from fingers wiping the screen or frozen for eternity. the title of the exhibit i made entirely of glass comes from a quote by bauhaus artist mariana it includes her self portraits seen in round glass ball. but in a punt is an employer and a brand is a famous daughter of cam that says and she's one of the best known figures from the bauhaus and one of the women who developed an iconic object is the cornerstone of the act and 12 candidates residents were also invited to contribute by donating glass objects that had special value to them this lamp for instance was the sole surviving object from a house that was destroyed in a world war 2 bombing raid. this is d w news these are our top stories. the white house has released a rough transcript of a telephone conversation that shows us president doll trump product ukraine's

president a lot of resiliency to investigate democratic presidential candidate joe biden the cases prompted congressional democrats to launch an impeachment inquiry. british prime minister boris johnson has returned to london from a united nations summit in new york the house of commons got back to work after yesterday's supreme court ruling that found johnson suspension of parliament earlier this month unlawful. united nations climate scientists have warned of the great threats to the. world's oceans and to humanity a report released during a u.n. climate change summit says rising sea levels simple songs more flooding and more drought on the way. human rights groups in egypt say that more than a 1000 people have been arrested after last week's protests against president i'd like to his sisi he seized power in 2013 when the military took over from

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