hines. this is deja vu news live from berlin u.s. lawmakers view what democrats are calling the troubling complaint that launched a congressional impeachment inquiry for the very 1st time members of congress have gained access to the whistleblowers report on president trump's conversation with his ukrainian counterpart how will congress assess the president of use his powers . also coming up a defiant boris johnson addresses the reconvene parliament and pledges once more to take the u.k. out of the e.u. . supporters of the plan feel regardless of how i leave

a p 3 years ago i think the referendum must be respected. long breaks if dawn. breaks if the dominant people want to solve i'll tell you about the 31st. also coming up margarines packed into overcrowded refugee camps in libya d.w.b. survivors who say they were cheated now and tortured for ransom by the smugglers they thought would bring them to europe. and the ocean is a dumping ground for many people on this kenyan island but we look at one man's mission to clean it all up and to get authors to lend a hand. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us for the very 1st time u.s. lawmakers served. doing

a classified whistleblower complaint against president trump prompted an impeachment inquiry the complaint science a phone call between trump and ukraine's president lot of mirrors a lengthy well the white house has already released its memo of that call that's set off a firestorm in washington at issue did president trump abuse his power by urging the ukrainian president to open a corruption investigation into joe biden and his son hunter as they know for the 1st time on a difficult day in new york donald trump was forced to defend his conversation with ukraine's followed him is the lenski using a familiar line in 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 by his political rival joe biden and his son hunter trumpet hoped by releasing this memo of the call the problem would go away but 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 a good phone call it was normal we spoke about many seeing such and so that so i think and you already that nobody bullshit bush me yet no great. no pressure on sudan scheme maybe but the impeachment inquiry launched by democrats has put trump under the microscope. that tact is that the president of the united states. in picture of his constitutional responsibilities has asked a fine government to help him in his political campaign that cannot stand he will

be held accountable no one is above the law. the 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. let's talk about this more now with having reka is a transatlantic relations specialist at the german council for foreign relations thanks for coming in this morning lows and we have 2 competing claims being made in washington the democrats saying the president abused his power with this phone call the president saying he was asking do you have to look into corruption allegations surrounding a vice president's son how do you assess these competing claims i think you should should you should see both sets. ridley there might be issues to look at in the case of hunter biden but it was illegal i don't think so but acting like this was at least not very sensitive because his father was vice president and he was like

capitalizing on that but. the real issue is that the president pressed for and very dependent leda to help him in the in the domestic case against one of his opponents in the coming election and the front runner of the democrats and that is actually a mixing of like the private interests of donald trump and the interests of the united states that is i think not appropriate and they need to be some investigation on that what it meant it's clear in the phone call he didn't say you won't get any money if you don't do this but when you when you read the very. like humble. and flattering tone that presidents and applied you understand how depending ukraine is on the american a ok and assistance and that plays out here ok this touches on the issue of america's foreign relations of course with ukraine with its european allies are

also working to bolster the ukrainian government of course on the front line with russia how do you see this political battle in the u.s. affecting america's relationship with his friends in europe. all in all it's unclear for the europeans how president from stance towards russia the administration has a very tough standing on russia trump is. wobbling in that regard. it is clear though that the europeans don't do enough in the larger context to secure their own allies in europe but also to help ukraine and this is the reason why not only ukraine but other central eastern european countries as well rather look for washington for brussels when it comes to this a curate and this symmetry is of course now helping helping trump and he's building up a position with eastern europe and he's also picking on the european allies who don't

do enough. in the phone call and he knows john that their goal isn't doing anything which isn't quite true because older the negotiation for most of the sanctions we do on russia it's nothing but. he's using that as a leverage if the other europeans were more more up to the task. could use that ok we have time to talk about how america's adversaries and competitors view discomfort taishan in washington will it help them further their own goals america being wrapped up again with political issues like this. the point is that the teaching and process lights. undermine the president. even further losing credibility he might look like a lame duck in 2020 and that of course means that he is. in a more difficult position when it comes to press a pressuring china he has to to like withdrawal from certain certain conflicts

where he. might be sensible that american forces are on board so there is of course an opening that the risk could use but all in all it is not clear yet whether this process actually helps the democrats to undermine the president or whether it helps to really support and and called it a witch hunt you see the narrative. already says look we didn't do anything wrong but what the democrats do that might actually help him to win the election 20 tokay we're at the beginning of that process kind of sorting it all out. from the german council on foreign relations thanks very much you're welcome. it's britain now where lawmakers have gone back to work after the country's highest court ruled the parliament suspension was unlawful prime minister boris johnson ordered the suspension earlier this month on wednesday he returned to parliament and had to face the anger of many m.p.'s. the speaker of the house of commons pretending to

oversee m.p.'s many of whom were crowing with rage of the prime ministers an awful suspension of parliament's described minister to talk about the r r r g like a strike force johnson had to do all he could to be hurt this is this it. was. i think they should this was because the prime minister dead the opposition to trigger an election accusing them of cowardice now. he's 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 escape the burden over a vote. no vote followed instead a cool for accountability the highest court in this land has found the prime minister broke fool when he tried to. when

he tried to shut down our democratic accountability at a crucial moment in our public life the prime minister should have done the honorable thing and resign. but there's no sign of that for now the opposition is refusing to agree to an election and celebrex it delays a kid's name but with johnston repeating his vow to take the chaos of the 31st with or without a deal parliament is locked in stalemates reasonable. just to get those preview now and some of the other stories making the news at this hour a strong earthquake has struck the maluco islands of eastern indonesia killing at least one person and causing structural damage there the 6.5 magnitude tremor was centered northeast of the provincial capital. stories of not issued

a tsunami warning for the region. the families of $43.00 mexican students who vanished 5 years ago have marched in the country's capital remains unclear what happened to the students who went missing after a confrontation with police officers investigators are still looking for them an international report found the initial mexican inquiry for. a so is rocket has docked with the international space station after blasting off from the baikonur space center in kazakhstan among the new crew is hasa sori from the united arab emirates is made history by becoming the 1st arab astronaut on the i assess. well earlier this month the u.n. high commission for refugees issued a plea for countries worldwide to take in refugees stuck in libya the agency described its migrant center in tripoli is severely overcrowded but it's not the only camp libya is one of the most important transit point for migrants who want to

cross the mediterranean to europe many holding camps are run by smugglers you have you caught up with survivors who escaped and you share libya's southern neighbor this video contains an advisory some viewers may find it images distressing. these images were recorded by refugees in different camps in libya they show appalling conditions human rights activists say the images are credible we came into direct contact with 2 refugees i am messaging services they've been interred in a libyan migrant camp for 2 years they talk to us by voice message we change their voices for their own protection. we've been tortured with skid with suffering and dying from various diseases. we were kidnapped we became victims of violence we're starving people have died our lives are disgusting so we appeal for our voiceless voice to be heard. we are innocent refugees living in the land of hell.

are. in using our we speak to refugees who went through this hell. one of them is 18 years old we call her a mina she was kidnapped while fleeing from somalia and taken to a hidden building in the libyan desert many other star on the journey across the sahara i mean us kidnappers demanded $8000.00 for her release they tortured amina to increase the pressure at parents they're forced to listen to it on the phone. the whole with which. they changed me up hung me up and tortured me with electric shocks. they tortured men with electric shocks to their genitals and women and with shocks to their pressed until they cried and screamed loudly. they did it so they would get the money faster than how to stand.

in the torch a systematic many other refugees describe similar methods. about 1600 refugees live in this camp south of the sahara. they were all rescued from libya. this man from saddam doesn't want to reveal his true identity either and asks that we call him again he says when he was in prison he was sort of good. people came and bought us like slaves. and they said we let you work and you get money for so. that in the end you didn't get any money. they said you're a slave you're a black man they even woke us up in the middle of the not to torture us go will look. for no water these are horrific stories we're hearing from refugees inside this camp they say in libya they've seen and experienced things they're going to have imagined before now they are new sad to say the 1st time but life not easy

here too all they hope for is the great recession to save the country many hope to reach europe. we managed to meet someone who profits from the refugees suffering he calls himself of the lousiest occupation migrants money for $500.00 he brings migrants across the sahara to libya but if they can't pay the driver sell them to torture chambers does use understands why they do that. or not is it the duty they say i spent money on you what am i supposed to do i want my money back and i want to profit on top of that that was when i started torturing people. we often hear refugees say that they're not put off by stories like this smugglers other only hope and they're prepared to pay any price even if it means risking their lives. mario millo one of the authors who put the report together is with us

now in the store studio good morning mario morning that was a very moving reports a very disturbing 1st firsthand accounts of you found there people being sold to extortionists who use torture. is there any way to tell how common this is very difficult to say actually as i just saw the smuggler that we met and that we interviewed also in the report he says that sometimes refugees come to his drivers and say you know i don't have any money but i want to travel through this how does the tibia i have a friend in libya who will pay for me but then they have rife there and no friend so at the driver's such father possibility is to get the money and so they sell them to the to these torture chambers and then they torture the mylan so that they get the ransom from their families back home. but i also spoke to myron's told me well that's that's simply not true i paid for my travel and i was i ended up in

these torture chambers anyway ok what about international investigators getting into libya and looking into all of this i mean these are the. these are grievous tribes really against the most vulnerable people is there any push for police from any agency i'm talking about interpol for example to get into the camps well into now that doesn't happen no such thing as an international investigators getting into these torture chambers because they're all operating in the hit and nobody really knows where exactly they are of course are some known hops smuggle hops where you know ok there are some but then these are private homes sometimes underground so you don't even the refugees who escape from them they don't know where they where. but the international community is aware of the problem they know what's happening in there that they also where what's happening in the libyan detention centers for example the united nations the n.h. the are actually are evacuating people from there to share but also to europe but

there are some other detention centers where nobody's there so everything can happen to them and the reason they're united nations says we're not there is that. they say we don't have access to the detention centers the government funded detentions of those don't let us in but i talked to him an entire in worker from doctors without borders he said we have no problem in getting into these centers we don't know why the united nations are not there so it would be possible for international investigators for interpol for example to to follow the story run it down as he was happening with these extortionists well as i said it's very difficult to to to find them you know libya is a war torn country there's no you know structure of security so it's very difficult i think for for investigators to get anyone yess or anyone to do that ok you know there's smugglers that are working the peace of people traffickers are the part of the larger networks that these networks they start their work and the home

countries of the refugees for example every trails we've done somalia and they've reached to libya or even to italy some to. and there work very professionally they hand over the migrants at the border they're also viable gangs for kidnap migrants from one group to another but i also talk to a guy who worked you know what if the job of transporting migrants through the through the sahara desert since decades he says that was a noble job before 2015 when the law was passed and the european union put pressure on the government of new share to close the border of course in order to prevent migration to europe so you can say in some point the 1st european border to africa is now in the chair ok in human trafficking smugglers that's your next report you'll be looking into that for us as well looking forward yes thank you looking forward to seeing that tomorrow thanks very much for coming in. for us on the story

well western africa has about 10000 kilometers of coastline much of it boasts crystal clear waters rich coral reefs but it is also turned into a dumping ground most african countries are in the early stages of trying to curb this problem the kenyan island of lamu for examples on the frontlines of the war on ocean trast that's where omar islam ali is teaching his preschoolers to take part in the clean up. last big deal. it's ocean clean up the here. in kenya the children might have made a game out of it but for omar ali this is more of a possible conservation mission. 1520 minutes. together when they are you know.

doing. like many african countries kenya is grappling with a got beach problem there are no public dust bins for people to dump their trash and there's no garbage collection center with the trash piling up people have had to take matters into their own hands collection and recycling initiatives like omar's help to plant pick up. sound that he told us we can go to the beach to swim after collecting trash i connected. to. 80 years ago at the extent of ocean pollution really hits home form our studies have shown that the ocean is the 2nd most polluted in the world this affects both the marine life and the human food supply here in london amar decided to start doing his beats to protect the ocean.

but one time. when i came out of the boat. bad bad bad. everywhere and there was. you know. there was a lot of there was no doing and if. you. are just. playing you know. how it started but omar didn't just collect the boxes he used them to build and nasri school. but ease a conservative island and some locals were not happy when omar opened the school. no one has found this country. so that what they want to do is a move. towards. everything but my. the whisky and the wine used to getting the book will.

be important because. i don't mars with these youngsters i'm learning high time lessons not only in the classroom but out in the open yet where the ocean needs their help. we have some sports now in the celebrex world championships begin in qatar and friday normally the focus would be on you same boat bolt but with the sprinting great now retired allegations of doping have instead dominated the build up new technology means that urine samples from a decade ago can now be retested and positive tests have meant unexpected metal upgrades were a number of athletes. a delayed tribute for christina oberkfell 11 years after the beijing olympics the former general and thrower has been awarded a silver medal she received her new prize possession at a small ceremony made up mostly of friends and family. her pony and in

2008 russia's maria. was stripped of her silver medal off to retesting of old urine samples or bug fools bronze was given an upgrade that's not it was a financial reward which would have been bigger back then cannot be recovered it now has symbolic value which is great. i'm so glad that this has happened after so many years and hopefully it's also a small deterrent for athletes that are still cheating you know. as new methods are used to test old doping samples which are kept up to 10 years after competitions more athletes are belatedly receiving recognition form a hammer thrower betty hyla has swapped her 2012 olympics bronze medal for silver and x. shot put in a dean klein it has had results from international competitions upgraded more than 15 times for administrators the improved detection methods are an important tool in

the fight against doping. then via this. if we want to improve sports particularly concerning equal opportunities justice and fair play in sporting competitions then there is no alternative to fine mesh control systems. on the road to fame and. previously the medal was just simply sent in the mail but the late ceremony for christina oberkfell at least goes some way to making up for her missing the real thing. this is news and these are our top stories u.s. lawmakers are reviewing a classified whistleblower complaint against president from that's prompted an impeachment inquiry a complaint science a call between trump and ukraine's president white house relates to release summary of the call that showed the president asking his ukrainian counterpart to investigate the son of democrat joe biden political rival. people the british prime minister boris johnson has challenged the opposition in

parliament to put forward a vote of no confidence on his minority government. it was a dressing m.p.'s for the 1st time since the u.k. supreme court ruled his suspension of parliament unlawful. johnson said he respected the court's verdict but strongly disagreed with. her approach a soyuz rocket has docked with the international space station after blasting off from the baikonur space center in kazakhstan among the new crew as has almost sori from the united arab emirates he made history by becoming the 1st arab astronaut on the i assess. this is the interview news from berlin don't forget you can always get the latest headlines that did have you dot com or follow us on twitter we have more to come at the top of the hour here now thanks for being with us.

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