what does it take to change the course of history. raising the curtain start september 30th on g.w. . the but. this is really is coming to you live from the complaint that launched an impeachment inquiry into president u.s. lawmakers prepared to grill the acting u.s. intelligence chief over a whistle blower's complaint and reports on president trump's dealings with his ukrainian counterpart and possible abuse of power. also coming up. former french

statesman and jacques chirac dies at the age of 86 though names this bridge dozer shock was known as a charming statesman problems into the 21st century. and a peaceful civil debate over the dregs a divided. country cheechoo. i suppose it's. not there's. no because up to change children after parliament reopens 2 british confrontations between boris johnson and angry and. torture chambers in refugee camps did you have your mates refugees who were kidnapped in libya to say they were tortured by people smugglers promised to take them to go.

on and welcome good to have you with us i'm on the. us the makers are reviewing a classified whistleblower complaint against president trump 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 the u.s. president abuse his power by urging ukraine to open a corruption investigate an investigation into trump's political rival joe biden and his son. not for the 1st time on a difficult day in new york donald trump was forced to defend his conversation with ukraine's volodymyr selenski using a familiar line which aren't continuous 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 trump 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 things than they are so i think when you're ready that nobody bullshit bullshit me yes or no 3. no pressure on sense he may be but the impeachment inquiry launched by democrats has put trump under the microscope. the tactic 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 it looks like business as usual as he tries to ride out the latest scandal. former french president jacques chirac has died he was 86 shocked 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 but children. by corruption scandals marking the legacy of a man who'd charmed the nation. towards the end he hardly

would out in public at all. the few photos that were taken document the state of his health. who as president of france was a master at powerful poses now looked frail and confused. his road to presidency was a long one the son of a banker he was born in paris in 1932 his political mentor george pompidou wanted chirac to be his private secretary in the palace he became prime minister in 1996 under guard to stone but soon he and she rocket political differences. in 1905 he won the presidential election against opposing candidate socialist. he rose from secretary to top ranks in the elite he had achieved his life goal right at the very start of his term she rocked shocked the world by authorizing underground nuclear tests in the pacific ocean he set

a clear course opposing the us president george bush during the iraq war and the people of france agreed with him but france's rejection of the e.u. constitution which he had championed was his biggest failure in office he had little love for his party colleague nicolas sarkozy yet he could not stop him from becoming his successor after she rocks term in office was over old scandals return to the public eye he was accused of paying party colleagues for fake jobs while mayor of paris he was sentenced to a 2 year suspended prison term the judge chirac remained popular though he'll be less remembered for his politics and more for his warm bond to the french people. now let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world a strong earthquake has struck the islands of peace and into music killing at least 20 people and causing structural damage the 6.5 magnitude tremor was centered northeast of the provincial capital on authorities have not issued

a tsunami warning for the. ongoing unrest in the caribbean nation of haiti has left at least one person dead and several others injured demonstrators clashed with dr police who used tear gas that people are protesting over food and fuel shortages spiraling inflation and government corruption. a massive fire at a chemical factory in northern france has prompted authorities to close schools in rwanda and 12 other nearby towns police said there were new reports of victims and that the fire was the toxic but they are fears the rivers said could be for you to hundreds of firefighters are still battling the big blaze. to the u.k. in a day after parliament resumed following its suspension being declared under full the speaker of the house is urged lawmakers to stop treating each other as enemies this comes off to bitter confrontations when boris johnson took on 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 were coiling with rage of the prime minister's unlawful suspension of parliament's describing our stuff to talk about the r r r g h i just write for us 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 how. is he actually going to vote no confidence in this government is he going to dodge a vote of no confidence in the primaries. in order to speak with good oversight. no vote followed instead

a cool 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 until it breaks it to lace 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 are welcome shot if we sell 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're used to lively debate inside the parliament but yesterday was really extraordinary political observers and m.p.'s a like 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 for us 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 but i wasn't sure if you want to read this thinking that we should not resort to using offensive dangerous for inflammatory language for legislation that we do not like and we want to see this just be done to the c.e.o. i did was he right was it isn't right sometimes too damn right it appears and i

think i think i think how the prime minister to quote its words was trying to overtake trying thank god comes to me it's so very emotional there with departed friend of course she was referring to joe cox a an m.p. who was killed by a right wing extremist shortly before the e.u. referendum so how did bars johnson respond to that energetic interjection. well he said it's humbucker which is basically 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 still. at the same time the briggs's deadline is 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 the 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 this 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. the u.n. high commissioner for refugees is urgently calling on countries worldwide to take refugees stuck in libya the agency described its my been sent in tripoli as severely overcrowded but it's not the only camp libya is one of the most important transit points for migrants crossing the mediterranean into europe holding camps of strung up for the thousands of refugees stranded in the war torn country german diplomats have described conditions in them as inhuman but investigating those reports is nearly impossible but i managed to meet some camp survivors by traveling

to that's the south of libya a warning this report contains britches some of you might 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've 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 have 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 a voiceless voice to be heard. we are innocent refugees living in the 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 a mina she was kidnapped while fleeing from somalia and taken to a hidden building in the libyan desert many others die on the journey across the sahara i mean us kidnappers demanded $8000.00 for her release they tortured emina to increase the pressure the parents were forced to listen to it on the phone. the hole 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 of with shocks to their breasts 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 sudan doesn't want to reveal his true identity either and asks that we call him he says when he was in prison he was sort of the. 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 night to torture us to go all on board all the horrific stories we hear it from refugees inside this. area they've seen and experienced things they're going to have imagined before now here they are the 1st time that life is not easy here to all the hope for the great.

many hope to reach europe. we managed to meet someone who profits from the refugees suffering he calls himself of the lousiest 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 adela's use understands why they do that. one wasn't at the beginning 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. and that report by the modern look 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 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 her aloft once and she decided to flee she traveled through the sahara desert she saw people falling down the cars because the cars that go of really fast with the sour edges that 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 said she thought she thought it's she's already close to save europe but then this boat was the doorstep that 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 with a resilience in the face of a great adversity 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 well this torch and 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 is just looking away from these abuses that we have seen actually know well

a bit maybe you 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 myron no refugee should be held in a prison. they also present that's why these of equations are possible but in some they're not so the refugees and migrants are all on their own and. the reason for that they say is that they don't get access by the government to these detention centers i talk to humanitarian work and he's working for doctors without borders he said well we had 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 so sad 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 news or to libya it was always. part of the daily life there migrants from west africa always used to work in libya and algeria it was totally normal that 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 reporters with us your insights

on the story thank you. news from the world of sport one. 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 poland 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 if you notice it wasn't 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 put in a dean klein and 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. and. previously the metal 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. skateboarding will be making its debut as the limbic event in tokyo 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 olympics in 50 years. this guy is the limit for sky brown and 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. it was to ice pressure but then. like i say what is a fulfilled she said there's no pressure. as though it was like i really. like war but i happen like the playground 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 the gun against female summer a libyan since puerto rican swim early out of the sense in 1968 unlike many other olympic sports skateboarding does not have an age requirement for its athletes. sea turtles are a crucial link in the global marine ecosystem yet nearly all species are classified

as endangered wildlife conservation is in costa rica have been working to protect this marine animal and were thrilled to release 100 $57.00 newborn ridley sea turtles into the sea after they were born on one of the country's protected turtle nesting sites the playa had. wildlife refuge cares for the eggs that are spawned on the beach which are threatened by poachers birds and dogs after the eggs hatch the release the turtles back into the wild. here's a recap of the top story that we're following for you u.s. lawmakers are preparing to question the acting u.s. intelligence chief over to receive your complaint against president trump that complaint has prompted an impeachment inquiry into trump's dealings with his dear crean in. congress is investigating whether trump abused his power.

that's it for me. up to. a level for you the top of the hour up next is conflict zone and to sebastian sits down with sam brownback the u.s. ambassador for international religious freedom to stay with us for that and remember lots more on our website dot com as well as protests and you can also follow us on facebook.

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lights of bush's story like this this week you saw on the ground by hamas and the citizens emotional religious freedom is donald trump trying to hijack legitimate some political purposes conflict so for a moment before the details freeze the foam. coming from some media attention are some of the famous naturalist and explorer. to celebrate comics on the front bolts $250.00. morning on a point of discovery. expedition onboard dino many of. counseling. he said carefully. don't look too soon be nice to get good. feel

actually. discover the. subscribe to the documentary on to. get excited about the fact that. we're not a perfect country and we don't claim to be you're going to see less terrorism with you have more religious freedom give me another country that pushes religious freedom or the united states gets to who has ever held a minister early on religious freedom before this one has anybody donald trump may not be known as a champion of human rights but there's one in particular that's caught his attention the right to worship free my guest this week here in washington is sam brownback ambassador for international religious.