getting recipes for success the strategies that make a difference. baking bread on a d.w.i. . the but. this is you don't really use life for berlin a fire storm in washington did president trump break a law and a phone call with the president of ukraine u.s. lawmakers will lisa redacted version of a whistle blower's reports on the president's dealings with his ukrainian counterpart the acting director of national intelligence says the situation is quote unprecedented also coming up former french leader shocked shocked dies at the

age of $86.00 the president was a towering statesman and charming yet nicknamed the bulldozer a living oxymoron as one tribute. and torture chambers in refugee camps a t w news that meets refugees who were kidnapped in libya they say they were tortured by people smugglers who had promised to take them to europe. only a lark thank you so much for your company everyone well we start off in the united states where the acting director of national intelligence joseph mcguire says a whistleblower complaint involving present all trump is unprecedented mcguire has been testifying to congress about the complaints which were 1st to press. trump's

communications with his ukrainian counterpart congressional democrats have been grilling mcguire to explain why he withheld the whistleblowers memo for weeks makers have now been given every day acted declassified version of the complaint which spurred democrats to launch an impeachment inquiry against a president trump the complaint is that least partially related to a call between president trump and ukrainian president a lot of resilience in which president from him to investigate democratic political rival joe biden. want to go now were 2 of my colleagues public fully ileus that he is our washington correspondent pablo again a very were markable day in d.c. the director acting director of national intelligence joseph mcguire is still testifying about the complaint of the whistleblower what stood out for you.

hyla that's right i've got one eye on the testimony taking place at the moment well we'll just start from the very beginning almost he said he is not partisan and he is not political now what's been happening essentially is that the house intelligence committee has been focusing more on really the handling of the whistleblower complaint as of rather than actually looking out what is in that complaint of course they will eventually get to that mcguire is emphasizing that the whistleblower complaint represented an on president situation because it dealt directly with the president and that's why it took so long for that complaint to get to the intelligence committee and also mcguire said this he said the white house did not did not directly to withhold the information 900 the office of legal counsel the question came down to urgent concern which is a legal definition it doesn't mean is it important is a timely urgent concern mend the criteria so the focus very much has been. at the

moment on why it took so long for this complaint to get to where we are today all right let's talk about that redacted declassified whistle blowers documented that has been released today what was in it. well pretty pretty damning statement saying that the whistleblower said the white house officials were deeply disturbed by the ukraine phone call i'm just going to read i have 2 sections of it the 1st it says the white house officials who told me this information were deeply disturbed by what had transpired in the phone call the whistleblower and then went on to raise an alarm about the president using his power to quote solicit interference in the election now i'm going to read this section because it's pretty clear he said i've received her here she has received information from multiple u.s. government officials that the president of the united states is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 us election this interference includes among other

things pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the president's main domestic political rivals and they are to pretty damning statements from. complaint like i said this committee which is meeting with joseph mcguire at the moment we'll get to the ins and outs of that complaint all right now very briefly if you can pablo how is this playing out in the country what do americans make out of all of this well as you can imagine it's dominating the news here this being broadcast by all the main channels and networks at the moment funnily enough americans are very much against impeachment normally in recent polls even when the inquiry was taking place they were very much against it and it appears that they're going to have to wait and see how this complaint works out to see to gauge public opinion on whether an impeachment inquiry should continue or not publicly at least reporting from

washington thank you. well next to france where former french president jacques chirac has died he was 86 presidents former president chirac dominated french politics for decades and served 2 terms from 1995 to 2007 in that france to adopt the euro and stirred national pride with his opposition to the u.s. led war in iraq but president chirac's later years were marred by corruption scandals tarnishing the legacy of a man who had once charmed the nation. towards the end he hardly would out in public at all. the few photos that were taken to document the state of his health. jacques chirac who is 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 the scar 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's 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 jacques chirac remained popular though he'll be less remembered for his politics and more for his warm bond to the french people. want to know about some of the other stories making news around the world. a massive fire at a chemical factory in northern france has prompted authorities to close schools and and 12 other nearby towns police said there were no reported victims and that the fire was not toxic but there are fears that the river sand could be polluted. a strong earthquake has struck. the maluco islands off eastern indonesia killing at least 20 people these $6.00 magnitude tremor caused widespread damage and landslides it was centered northeast of the prevention the provincial capital.

authorities say there is no danger of a tsunami. and hong kong protesters have blocked roads over a public dialogue between embattled leader kerry lamb and $150.00 members of the community she reportedly admitted that trusts in her government had quote fallen off a cliff the meeting was called to address hong kong's 4 month long political crisis . and while the hong kong protests have dominated headlines across the globe users of one of the world's most popular apps were no investigations by the newspaper the guardian and the washington post reveals that chinese own social media but tick-tock has been suppressing content critical of the chinese government for more on this i'm now joined by my colleague reporter ali soccer ali basically

tick-tock is the hottest app right now i mean i don't know which is a lot of people lot of people use it but it's mostly the demographic of young people around the world so for them tick tock is like a big deal. yes if if you don't know about to talk it's probably because you know part of this on the 25 demographic group that they cater for it is the the biggest the fastest growing social media platform in the world at the moment it's china's most successful export ever and they have more than 5000000 users worldwide and it's the 4th largest social media platform that makes it bigger than twitter for example it's available in more than $150.00 countries and more than 40 percent of its uses are between 16 and 24 years old now if you do know about takes off you've probably seen videos of teenagers lip sinking to music or dancing and but more and more people and companies are realizing that they have to be on this platform to

reach that demographic group so that's where you're seeing you know celebrities news media sports people they're all coming to this platform now and we already know that it's you know a lot of young people gets most or if not all of the news from social media these days so that's why it's really problematic if this platform is being censored right now do we know about the censorship i mean how do we know about it 1st so the documents have been leaked and then been seen by the guardian newspaper they show that the beijing based parent company they're instructing their moderates is to censor any content that is critical of china now take took say that death for uses outside of china content is moderated locally but we did some searches hare in germany of our own we search for terms like hong kong protests gentleman square referring of course to the 1989 massacre of students there we also searched using chinese characters using terms that hong kong processed as often use and with all

of those searches what we found we got a handful of results of videos of some of them do show protests but it's very. very few and most of them have nothing to do with hong kong or which elements square and if we compare that to for example twitter or instagram you will get thousands and thousands of videos showing that so basically the worry now is that. china is using this as a weapon if you'd like to in the in the global information war and the chinese sense of state censorship will now shape what young people in the west elsewhere in the world outside of china see when it comes to news now to talk they say that people come to this platform for fun and entertainment and they say the vast is the reason why there are not so many videos of hong kong process and. thank you so very much greatly appreciate it thank you or turn our attention now to afghanistan that

country's preparing for a presidential election this weekend amid tight security well there has been an upsurge of terrorist attacks ahead of the vote most of them claimed by the taliban they stress have threatened more violence to derail the elections telling the 10000000 eligible voters to stay at home but despite that 2 of the presidential candidates have made their pitch to voters in a rare televised debate. those 2 contenders are the country's current chief executive of a dollar and a former warlord who's reentered the political mainstream. in the lead candidate didn't show up for the debate the current president ashraf ghani. the 2 addressed issues including election fraud and the taliban. well if you match them up we're going to be afghan people risk their lives to go to vote this shows their determination that this should decide their future under no circumstances will be

allow fraudulent elections to once again decide best fate. but. the taliban have always committed terrorist attacks that results in the killing of innocent people but they are a reality in this country if you are not in. the heart of the foreign troops are the reason for war in this country our country has been occupied. because nobody thinks about gives us a role in peace talks the americans and the taliban are negotiating the same group that the americans designated terrorists. and they've been talking to them want to protest in the congo. soldiers and police are out in force and not just in the run up to the election the taliban and other islam ist insurgents are battling u.s. backed government forces thousands of civilians are killed each year. the taliban aim to disrupt this vote but some people remain defiant and without that we're

going to vote in large numbers and we ask the government and security forces to keep us safe and to ensure the transparency of the election. and of a taliban issue threats every day. nonetheless i believe most people will participate in the election to defend democracy thank you but i depart but then. if security worries keep many from voting on turnout is low that could undermine the emerging democratic process. now the un high commissioner for refugees is urgently calling on countries worldwide to take an refugees trapped in libya the commission has ascribed its migrants center in tripoli as severely overcrowded. but it's not the only camp libya is one of the most important transit points for migrants trying to cross the mediterranean into europe holding camps have sprung up

for the thousands of refugees stranded in this war torn country german diplomats have described conditions in them as inhuman investigating those conditions is almost impossible but a d.-w. news team managed to meet some of those who have lived in those camps by travelling tunisia libya's southern neighbor and a warning this report contains pictures that 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 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. are. 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 emina to increase the pressure that parents were forced to listen to it on the phone. 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 up with

shocks to their pressed until they cried and screamed loudly. they did it so they would get the money faster than hottest and she was a council 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 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.

the horrific stories we're hearing from refugees inside this. they've seen and experienced things are going to have imagined before now here they are the 1st time that life's not easy here to hope for the greatness that. many hope to reach. we managed to meet someone who profits from the refugee suffering he calls himself of the occupation migrants money for $500.00 he brings migrants across the sahara to libya but if they can't pay the driver saw them to torture chambers does use understands why they do that. or not to do when 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. now the afloat except world championships kick off in qatar on friday and we are joined by retired german track and field athlete betty heiler she is a hammer thrower european and world champion and a silver medalist at the 2012 london olympics so good to have you here with us i'm just wanting to ended your career 3 years ago how does it feel to not be a competitor and to be a spectator. it's quite cool it's very good to sit at home and just what's to be and i don't know how the essence funa and him for me it's. not the same like some years before but. still novus because i know they are now struggling in the going to competition and then if they can sleep in bed and it's very interesting

when it's nice for me to be at home are you in touch with any athletes who are currently competing or will be competing on friday no that's not directly all right but you will be watching yeah that would be really good all right so one of the during these a big competitions a big topic that sometimes it steals the limelight are of course doping allegations that steal the focus while the specific issue is the retesting now old samples with new technology with this means is that athletes can be tested positive years after competing and other athletes like betty hadley who's here with me can get an unexpected medal of great. a 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 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 this nightmare that i 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 'd 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 for my hammer thrower betty hyla has swapped her 2012 olympics bronze medal for silver and x. shot put in a dean kleiner 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. this. if we want to improve sports particularly concerning equal opportunities justice and fair play in sporting competitions then there is no alternative to fun mesh control systems you can control is the statement of. 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. and betty you brought your silver medal here a very have you by the way a congratulations again but i still wonder if it's bittersweet for you i mean we saw you in the report you were clearly overjoyed with bronze but do you feel robbed of in that very moment to not have been given your dues at that time. yes because you never know if maybe the competition would have been another

competition when this one athlete would have been there or what happened but i have to say i had a victory ceremony so for me it's it's from bronze to civil it's a data step from civil to go from the the force of the 3rd that. i think that's much bigger problem. but i have to say as well that i'm really close with my bronze medal because of this best situation in london. measuring for everything what happened what happens there so i was very sad to give it away but i'm very happy to have does it want to show is the medal of the camera which camera at there you go yeah well congratulations again from your perspective and i'm sure you're still in touch with other fellow athletes do you feel that there is less doping taking place in for instance track and field and especially with this now deterrent because now years after the fact they can still track down if somebody doped you

know i don't think if they were. they have results and records and. for this reason there will always be doping. i'm sure does that i mean that's quite a depressing thought it is yeah it is especially for those as it's working with illegal things and just their own body in training without anything illegal. but as i said. they want to have records they want to have national records and there's the countries who work with darks and for them it's quite normal and to bring them to reboot the system that will take a long time and so that's the reason because i think that it's hearings today and you know our betty heiler congratulations again so good to meet your thank you so much for coming in greatly appreciate it. all right this is these are top stories.

u.s. lawmakers have released a redacted version of a whistle blower's complaint on the president's dealings with his ukrainian counterpart that complaint sport the democrats to launch an impeachment inquiry against trami the white house says there was nothing improper in president trump asking the ukrainian president to investigate the son of former vice president joe biden biden is running for the democratic party's presidential nomination. former french president jacques chirac has died at the age of 86 he dominated french politics for decades and served as president from 1995 to 2007 was known for opposing the u.s. led iraq war and let france to adopt the euro but his later years were marred by scandal any conviction on corruption charges.

a strong earthquake has struck the maluco islands of eastern indonesia killing at least 20 people the $6.00 magnitude tremor caused widespread damage and landslides it was centered northeast of the provincial provincial capital on bonn doherty's say there is no danger of a tsunami. this is you know we news from berlin you can always find the latest headlines i do w dot com or follow us on twitter. up next a special edition a focus on europe.

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