the but. this is the news coming to you live from the complaint that launched pietschmann inquiry u.s. lawmakers given access to a whistle blows report on president prongs dealings with ukraine's president the landscape now that says if the president abused his power. also coming up a peaceful civil debate over the break the divide by treat each. house of. many of those not only has to change to win after parliament reopens to british

confrontations between boris johnson and angry m.p.'s. and torture chambers in the refugee camps d.w. meets refugees who were kidnapped in libya to say they were tortured by people smugglers promised to take them to your of. to have your company. u.s. lawmakers are revealing a classified whistleblower complaint against president truong that has prompted an impeachment inquiry the complaint is based on a phone call between trump and ukraine's president the issue at stake is did donald trump abuse his power by urging ukraine to open a corruption investigation into trump's political rival joe biden and his son. not

for the 1st time on a typical 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 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 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 on wittingly walks 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 a split so i think and you already that nobody bullshit bush me yes or no kerry. no pressure on sudan scheme maybe but the impeachment inquiry launched by democrats has put trump under the microscope. that fact is that the president of the united states. in picture of 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. the democrats may now be throwing caution to the winds for trump and looks like business as usual as he tries to ride out the latest scandal. to get

a perspective from ukraine i'm joined by correspondent nick connelly in kiev nick there this investigation has the potential of telling to something very big in the u.s. how is it being viewed in ukraine. well most people here ordinary ukrainians mused that suddenly their country is the heart of such a political bombshell in the u.s. in terms of the conflicts of interest that trump stands present trump stands accused of that is not something that really surprises or is a sort of concept that would shock anyone here ukraine most ukrainians i've spoken to seem to have the feeling that they are being sucked into a conflict that is not about ukraine and that ukraine is just a trigger for. conflict in the ukraine in the u.s. but school system in terms of the government here you really get a sense that people are worried that the elites are worried that ukraine is getting dragged into a partisan fight and that support for ukraine crucial to this country's continued

prosperity and survival that that will become a partisan issue that ukraine really can only lose if it gives trump what he wants it will bring the democrats against him if it doesn't provide the goods then it could anger the current incumbent of the white house so a lot to lose and not much to gain here for ukraine in this issue and what can you tell us about this company where hunter biden was working in ukraine and the allegations of corruption against his father. so there is really 2 issues here hunter biden was brought in to work on the board of one of ukraine's biggest private gas companies the he was there to be doing more kind of publish the work and helping the company to open doors internationally there was an investigation into that company which was closed without any kind of prosecution the potentially bigger allegation is that joe biden weighed in and used his influence as the u.s.

vice president to protect the company his son was working for to encourage ukrainian lawmakers to go easy but as yet there is no proof of that and there has been no information from us from ukrainian rather officials work at the time that anything of the kind happened. and we've seen pictures of that budget as it ends is very flattering and deferential towards donner what is at stake here for the country. with this transcript is definitely very embarrassing for villages lenski this was never meant to be published as a lot of forming going on as an entity talking about the fact he stayed in one of the hotels on his visit to new york that he not only 100 percent but a 1000 percent in agreement with the president trump but more seriously u.s. support and most of the financial support is crucial to ukraine under president trump the u.s. the style to selling lethal weapons javelin missiles to ukraine and providing such

financial support so without that against a backdrop of a situation where many european countries are talking about easing sanctions on russia without any kind of obvious. steps from russia to relieve take the pressure off ukraine this would really be very damaging if the u.s. were to step down its help the ukraine so there's a lot to play for here and the moment it only seems like ukraine has something to lose in all of this story. nick connelly in a kid thank you very much for that update from the. former french president jacques chirac has died he was 86 chirac dominated french politics for decades and served 2 terms from 995 to 2007 he led france to adopt the euro and stood national pride with his opposition to the u.s. led war in iraq she rocks lydia's were marked by scandal and he was convicted of corruption after leaving office. today you can

a day after parliament resumed after a suspension was deemed under full the speaker of the house has urged lawmakers to stop treating each other as enemies and this comes after bitter confrontations in bars johnson took an angry m.p.'s which led to heated exchanges in the chamber. the speaker of the house of commons pretending to oversee m.p.'s many of whom are crowing with rage of the prime minister's unlawful suspension of parliament's 6 prime minister to talk about the are all right ha it seems like this right boris johnson had to do all he could to be hurt this is this. i think they should listen to speaker the prime minister dead the opposition to trigger an election accusing them of cowardice oh. he's he actually going to vote no confidence in this government is he going to doj

a vote of no co-produce in the primaries. in order to speak good over virtually no vote followed instead a call for accountability the highest court in this land has found the prime minister broke school 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 only able thing and resigned. 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 justification in joining me

now from london his days of the correspondent shala thoughts a welcome shot of me still some very heated exchanges in fall and went yesterday and not m.p.'s of express outrage at the tone of the debate why were they so angry . well we are used to lively debate inside the parliament but yesterday was really extraordinary political observers and m.p.'s alike called it unlike anything there's ever been before unlike a debate that's it's never been like that very angry very furious the rhetoric was heated it was wild it was brutal force johnson they're furious about this law that parliament passed it forces says hands and forces him to ask the european union for another extension he called said the surrender of bill and it's rhetoric like this that many m.p.'s find very appalling such as this m.p. les let's listen in what she had to say. that she was agreeing to speak that we

should not resort to using offensive dangerous or inflammatory language for legislation that we do not like i was. this just because i want to the c.e.o. of i did right was anything nice some death threats and abuse and i think that i think that i told the prime minister quote this words i wasn't trying to overtake i thank you god for giving us. so very emotional there with departed friend of course she was referring to joel cox a an m.p. who was killed by a right wing extremist shortly before the e.u. referendum so how did boris johnson respond to that energetic interjection. well he said it's humbug which is he simply a casual dismissal of death threats against a female m.p. and many many m.p.'s found that very appalling very upsetting amongst them also

this morning the husband of jo cox of course but we have to keep in mind boris johnson is doing this intentionally on the one hand he has basically trapped at the moment he doesn't get the general election that he wants he can't leave the european union really on october 31st because of that law so he is trying to force m.p.'s into a general election he's trying to provoke them with that language and on the other hand he's not talking to parliament when he says these things he's talking to voters because he's setting the stage for a general election for a general election where he's pivoting the people against parliament so a very divided and still live at the same time the briggs's deadline is looming where do we go from here. well boris johnson says he intends to make a deal with the european union and i think after last night after we've what we've witnessed in parliament it seems highly unlikely that even if you got

a new deal with the european union which in itself is unlikely if you brought that back to this divided parliament it would not make it through parliament has just lost trust in this prime minister and i think that became very clear it's just too divided so where do we go from here boris johnson was asked yesterday in this debate if you would follow the law where he has to ask the european union for an extension and he plainly said no so with 35 days to go until the next breaks the deadline i think anything is possible at this point. the british parliament in london thank you very much. let me now bring up with some other stories making news around the world in hong kong preparations under way for a public meeting between embattled carried and 150 members of the community the dialogue will address hong kong's political crisis that's been going on for 4 months but critics dot whether the beijing backed leader. and concedes to protest

his demands. a massive fire at a chemical factory in northern france is trying to deter to close schools in aurora and 12 towns. there were no reported victims of the file was not toxic but the off is the river c n could be hundreds of firefighters are still battling the blaze. the u.n. high commissioner for refugees is urgently calling on countries worldwide to take in refugees stuck in libya the agency described its migrant center in a severely overcrowded but it's not the camp libya is one of the most important transit points for migrants crossing the mediterranean into europe. hoarding camps have sprung up for thousands of refugees stranded in the water on country german diplomats have described conditions in them as inhuman but investigating those

reports is nearly impossible but our team managed to meet some camp survivors by traveling to new that's libya's southern neighbor now a warning this report we're about to show contains the pictures that may some may find 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 by a messaging services they have been interred in a libyan migrant camp for 2 years they talk to us by a voice message we change their voices for their own protection. we've been tortured with scared we're suffering and dying from various diseases. we were kidnapped we became victims of violence where starving people have died our lives are disgusting so we appeal for a voiceless voice to be heard. we are innocent refugees living in

a land of hell. in the genre we speak to refugees who went through this hell. one of them is 18 years old we call her 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 that parents were forced to listen to it on the phone. and hold it up which i also see that they changed me up hung me up and tortured me with electric shocks. they tortured men with electric shocks to their genitals and women of 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 as

a possible floor. with the torch a systematic many other refugees describe similar methods. about 1600 refugees live in this camp salt of the sahara they were all rescued from libya. this man from sudan doesn't want to reveal his true identity either and asks that we call him even again he says when he was in prison he was sort of a good. people came and bought us like slaves. and they say we let you work and you get money for so. that in the end you didn't give 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 you go we'll look. these are horrific stories we're hearing from refugees inside these. they've seen and experienced things they're going to have imagined before now here

they are the 1st time that life's not easy here too all they hope for is a great. many hope to reach. we managed to meet someone who profits from the refugees suffering he calls himself of the lizzie's occupation migrants model for $500.00 he brings my gran's across the sahara to libya but if they can't pay the driver sell them to torture chambers of dollars he's understands why they do that. or not is it the do they say i spend money on you what am i supposed to do i want my money back and i want 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.

and that report by the modern joins me in the studio welcome now you've just got back from a distressing stories we heard in your report what struck you most in your conversations with refugees there what impressed me most i think is the resilience the strength of the refugees they went through unspeakable things horrible trauma and i met for example a woman from darfur in sudan she witnessed the execution of our loved ones and she decided to flee she traveled through the sahara desert she saw people falling down the cars because the cars that go really fast for the sahara desert she saw people dying of thirst she ended up in one of these torture chambers where she was tortured and raped for several months then finally she got out she managed to get on a dinghy a rubber dinghy on the mediterranean on you know she says she saw it she thought it's she's already close to save europe but then this boat was the deceptive by the

libyan coast guards which is by the way financed and trained by the european union they brought her back to a detention center in libya and from there she was finally evacuated and then i met her and she was so strong she was really impressive. strong and i just thought she still has hope you know and she. is real and resilience in the face of a great adversity are these cases that we saw in your report individual cases random cases all of these is just the feet of most of the refugees who are in that area while this torture an extortion for example a systematic also the u.n. confirms that the detention centers in libya they work on a business model which is based on smugglers traffickers. forced labor sometimes also many human rights groups they confirm that these slave markets these are not an exception many african migrants are being sold as construction workers or a sex slaves too so it's

a very widespread phenomenon and what the international community is just looking away from these abuses that we have seen actually know how well a bit maybe a saw the united nations they are totally aware of the problem they also do these evacuations from libya to tunisia where they said several times that. one should dismantle these detention centers that no my own refugees should be held in a prison. they are also present that's why these evacuations are possible but in some they're not sold the refugees and migrants are all on their own and and the reason for that they say is that they don't get access by the government to these detention centers to talk to humanitarian work and he's working for doctors without borders he said well we have no problem answering there we were there on our own team of 5 trying to take care of 600 refugees in these deplorable conditions you know so are the people smugglers or the human traffickers the villains in this

whole piece it depends i spoke to refugees who said you know there are my friends helping me to get out of my war torn country out of violence and also some made good experience as they say ok i paid them the money he brought me to the spot but also there are also these examples where the one we have in the report who clearly sympathizes with his drivers that he says at least his drivers are the one who are selling the refugees to the torture camps so they are these and that but also you have to mention that before 2015 it was perfectly legal to to transport migrants from the jail to libya it was always. part of the daily life there migrants from west africa always used to work in libya was totally normal but then in 2015 the european union put pressure on the chair to close the border of course in order to prevent migration to europe so you could say that the 1st order of europe to africa

is now in share money miller thank you very much for your reporting as well as your insights on the story thank you turning now to sport in the world athletics championships start in qatar on friday the buildup has been dominated by allegations of doping new technology means urine samples from a decade ago can now be retested and positive tests have meant unexpected medical upgrades for a number of athletes. delayed tribute for christina oberkfell 11 years after the beijing olympics the former general and throw has been awarded a silver medal she received her new prize possession at a small ceremony made up mostly of friends and family. her conan in 2008 russia's maria the commode was stripped of her silver medal off to retesting of old urine samples all but 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 close 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 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 we're 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.

previously the medal was just simply sent in the mail but a late ceremony for christina oberkfell at least goes some way to making up for her missing the real thing. skateboarding will be making its debut as an olympic event until next summer sky brown is an 11 year old british skateboarding star hoping to make history she's on track to become the youngest female to compete at the summer olympics in 50 years this guy is the limit for sky brown but like most pre-teens brown is already an accomplished surfer a t.v. dancing champion and the youngest nike sponsored athlete in the world recently winning a bronze medal from the world skateboarding championships browne's gotten one step closer to her goal making great britain skateboarding team for tokyo 2020 born to a british father and

a japanese mother the 11 year old splits her time between southern california and japan was all we were gonna do. was to i splash air. like for like 4 weddings. she said but there's no pressure. as the way i like i really. like work my happy like it's a good program for if brown qualifies it be more history made by this wunderkind she'll be 12 years in 12 days old when the games begin in july 2020 which would make her think youngest female summer olympian since puerto rican swimmer lee out of the sense in 1968 like many other olympic sports skateboarding does not have an age requirement for its athletes. and good luck to her here's a recap of the top story that we're following for you us filmmakers are giving

a classified with a look and claim that has prompted an impeachment inquiry into president trump congress is investigating whether trump pressed the leader of ukraine for damaging information on a political rival and. that's it for me on the thought she might up next is our focus on europe show did stay with us for that if you can.

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license to work as a swimming instructor. for an hour and 2 children $100.00 adults just one of us to just push. what's your story take part sheriff on info migrants talk. hello and welcome to a special edition of focus on europe this week we're looking at examples of how borders and barriers old and new are defining the european project to get things started we come here to northern ireland as you know northern ireland belongs to the united kingdom and shares a land border with the republic of ireland the separate you member states now that border is wide open right now but if in.