this is t.v. news live from berlin tonight a phone conversation with the potential to end donald trump's presidency a memo a phone call shows trump pressing the crane president told me. to investigate trump's political rival joe biden and biden's son despite evidence of wrongdoing the potential quid pro quo got the attention of a whistleblower and his push democrats in to pursuing impeachment. also coming up get. a defiant boris johnson addresses reconvene parliament and pledges once more

to take the u.k. out of the e.u. . people supporters of the party old regardless of how the big 3 years ago think the referendum must be respected. hong. kong. dawn and people want to go on october 31st and the campaigners in the u.s. state of alabama want to stop a near total ban on abortions we look at the pressure already faced by those seeking health. and well include cruft thanks for joining us u.s. president donald trump has called the impeachment inquiry launched by congressional democrats a joke but the latest details are no laughing matter or read out of a july phone call but. tromping ukrainian president

a lot of mir the lenski shows trump wants in the ukrainian leader to investigate democratic presidential candidate joe biden u.s. house democrats are calling his actions a quote an ambiguous damning and shocking abuse of the office of the presidency. not for the 1st time on a difficult day in new york donald trump was forced to defend his conversation with ukraine's fellow to me as a lenski using a familiar line and the which aren't continues but they're getting hit hard in this which aren't because when they look at the information it's a joke. impeachment that i didn't do it to take a look at that call it was perfect i didn't do it there was no quid pro quo the allegation trump pressured selenski to look into dealings by his political rival joe biden and his son hunter trumpet hoped by releasing this memo of the call the problem would go away for phrases like do us

a favor appear to back up the allegation that there's no mention of military aid being dependent on an investigation from discusses corruption crimes involving biden's son he says joe biden quote stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that the man who's unwittingly walked into a political storm had this to say for himself you sure that we had. i think good phone call it was normal we spoke about many seeing such and say that so i think and you already that nobody bullshit bush me yes no great. no pressure on sudan scheme maybe but the impeachment inquiry launched by democrats has put trump under the microscope. the fact is that the president of the united states. in his constitutional responsibilities has asked

a foreign government to help him in his political campaign that cannot stand he will be held accountable no one is above the law. to democrats may now be throwing caution to the winds for trump it looks like business as usual as he tries to ride out the latest scandal. for more now let's bring in alexandra naaman in new york alexandra welcome so you were there at the press conference with the 2 presidents tell us more what did you make of the 2 of them under these circumstances. it was quite interesting to watch them and to watch how they were trying to diffuse the situation by being humorous for instance when president trump creates ukraine for ukraine for its tremendous potential the ukrainian president responded by saying i know that i am from this country but then the mood changed very quickly when both leaders were pressed by

reporters on their phone call and president trump once again denied any wrong doing and the ukrainian president said that ukraine is an independent country and that there was no pressure no pushing know what said. and on that note of pushing or not pushing trump has said that releasing the phone call would exonerate him so now some of it or all of it or we don't quite know but that record is out there now does it seem that this has made things better or worse for the president. worse would say the transcript that was released is damaging for president trump because it is showing that he was trying to 9 pressure president. ukrainian president to open an investigation into joe biden his democratic opponents and his son he has said repeatedly in this phone call that the u.s.

has been doing a lot for ukraine but that this relationship has not been reciprocal so far and then he went on by saying now we would like you to do us a favor and to work with the attorney general to get to the bottom of the allegations against joe biden and his son and for the democrats it is clear that the president was trying to to use state power for political ends and that was he was willing to work together with a foreign power to get their art of his off on his opponent and to secure his election so there are facts and there's interpretation and it seems so far that democrats and most republicans who support donald trump agree on the facts the basic facts of what's what's happened here and yet still such different conclusions

such different interpretations how can there be such different interpretations when both sides seem to agree on the very basic facts here. well we don't see at the moment. democratic that republicans are not behind the president anymore darr still supporting him however it will be interesting how to how the democratic i'm sorry the republican party is going to respond to a whistle blower complaint that had touched off for this impeachment hearing and the 1st place this complaint was delivered today to congressional intelligence committees and the democrats are saying that this complaint is going to be yond the transcript and that that is very disturbing and very very alarming all right alexander phenomena in new york thank you very much. now to

a dramatic day of developments in the united kingdom's breck's of saga it began with the u.k. parliament reconvening for the 1st time since its supreme court ruled the prime minister boris johnson acted unlawfully when he suspended the parliament earlier this month johnson showed no signs of remorse in his 1st address to lawmakers since the suspension he challenge his opponents to call a confidence vote in his government and defended his attempts to take the u.k. out of the e.u. deal or no deal. this person was happy to reenter the house of commons but there was also anger at that parliament had been suspended in the 1st place it's only done i think this prime minister told couple no more i'm alright you hear he's like this right. course johnson had to do all he could to be heard this and this is. his 1st. i think they should listen to mr speaker.

the prime minister went on the offensive and attack the leader of the opposition. he actually going to vote no confidence in this government is he going to dodge a vote of no co-produce in the primaries. in order to speak you could be over by a. no vote followed instead a call for accountability the highest courts in this land has found the prime minister broke school when he try to. when he try to shut down all the democratic accountability at a crucial moment in our public life the prime minister should have done the all noble thing and resigned. i.

want to divide in britain's parliament is this widest ever if not even wider for now parliament is in session but there's no end in sight to this day late in british politics over bracks it's devastating for the prime to have you correspondent barry get mosse has been following the resumption of parliament in london she says events there marks yet another exceptional day in british politics . this is being another extraordinary day in british politics instead of apologizing to parliament prime minister johnson has accused m.p.'s of wanting to sabotage gregg's it all wanting to prevent any form of break through the door and he's used very aggressive language so very hostile impala mandan opposition m.p.'s have been exasperated they've said to the prime minister that he should be ashamed of himself so there is a lot of anger but not much is moving forward in terms of the brics it process that will probably only become clearer in the run up to the next e.u.

summit at the end of october in brussels and then we will learn more if there is a childs of the u.k. leaving without india or if there is more chance that there will be no deal or no pressure. now to some of the other stories making news around the world israeli president reuven rivlin has asked benyamin netanyahu to form a new government the move comes after a deadlocked elections last week netanyahu is likud party came in one seat behind the blue and white party led by benny gantz neither leader has been able to put together a coalition with a majority in the knesset. the families of $43.00 mexican students who vanished 5 years ago march through the country's capital it remains unclear what happened to the students who went missing after a confrontation with police officers investigators investigators are still looking for them international report found the initial mexican inquiry was flawed.

approach to just so use rothera has docked with the international space station after blasting off from the space center in kazakhstan after the new crew among the new crew is on the story from the united arab emirates he's made history by becoming the 1st arab astronaut on the ideas. to be later. the most restrictive ban in the united states abortion ban united states is weakening is weeks away from taking effect alabama passed the law in may it bans abortion in almost all circumstances including rape and incest its supporters hope it's a sign of things to come throughout the country many women fear losing access to reproductive health care they're pinning their hopes on a legal challenge the ban. it's 5 am in montgomery alabama and already anti-abortion activists awaiting as the 1st women arrive at the clinic.

near raven keeps an eye on what they're doing she manages a feminist community center next door it's her volunteers who escort women into the clinic. so there's always a saudi says you never know what can happen you know what kind of things are going to happen on the sidewalk or even you know between patients and the 1st just. the patients here are terrified of what will happen if they're recognized they know women and alabama have lost jobs because of abortion that scary and it's already in motion day out there yelling and talking and i can't change what i've already decided it's just insulting and just makes it harder. the last 3 abortion clinics could close here if pro-choice campaigners failed in a lawsuit aimed at blocking alabama's ban in may it passed restrictive abortion

laws that effectively overturned the supreme court ruling that 1st legalized abortion it's to test drove the word but the ultimate goal of it is is to make them born children personage protected by law. lawyer eric johnson roche alabama's bill he says there are no exceptions to his proposed ban not even in the case of rape so if we're making an argument that the unborn child is who. person good a man has can say we will be inconsistent in our legal organs 30 women turned up at this abortion clinic today many were uncertain whether abortion was still possible here but the state law hasn't come into force yet but that doesn't mean the current rules are lax says the clinic's owner june and says in fact they've got stricter over the years it's a war on women it's it is a marching for war on women's rights because they not only if they if they do this i see you know their abortion ban them birth control is going to fall for now

there's no sign that the standoff at the clinic will end soon on one side women seeking help on the other demonstrators determined to make their choice even tougher. you're watching news up next do you have your business stephen beardsley i will include croft thanks for watching. us and it's as if they do need to keep the baby out of the people for over a mansion on the 4th and. the minute we can unlock. the bottom of the valley at the last dragons in this world as you call it the whole 3 years. to agree books on. the milk and i'm getting close to the breaking news to leave barlow's.