this is g.w. news live from berlin tonight the whistleblower report against u.s. president trump claims of a cover up in the white house as the country's spy chief testify. in this matter is totally unprecedented why did president donald trump use his power by prodding the president of ukraine to interfere in next year's u.s. presidential election and also coming up tonight iran's president rouhani urging

the u.s. to end what he calls its policy of maximum pressure and says he could be prepared to hold talks could the iran be putting out feelers to end its standoff with the u.s. and to torture chambers in refugee camps d.w. news media refugees who were kidnapped in libya they say that they were tortured by people smugglers who had promised to take them to europe and it's ford's a young girl who's dreaming of a limp dick glory the talented sky brown is just 11 years old but she has high hopes of making it to next year's tokyo olympics. i bring golf to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world to welcome tonight u.s.

president is fuming over the democrats' impeachment inquiry calling it a disgrace and saying that there should be a way to stop them. today lawmakers received a redacted version of that whistleblower complaint that alleges trump tried to pressure the president of ukraine into investigating former vice president joe biden and his son now it's alleged that the white house tried to cover up or and you see right there a walk down any evidence about the phone calls between the 2 presidents i believe that everything here and this matter is totally unprecedented me that it was the latest bombshell in a fast unfolding story allegations of a quid pro quo that u.s. president donald trump made military aid to ukraine depended on the country digging up dirt on trump's political opponent the acting director of national intelligence joseph mcguire said he had legal reasons for not referring the complaint to congress as directed by law he faced off in hostile questions about his opinion on

the matter for. their capture you would agree that should be investigated would you not chairman the horses left the barn you have all of the information you have the whistleblower complaint you have the letter from the i.c. i.g. you have the office of legal counsel opinion yes but yes we do it would you agree i said if there is a serious and credible investigation you agree there should be an investigation i believe that it is a matter to be determined by the chair and this committee part of the complaint alleges that white house officials knew that the call contained evidence of potentially illegal activity and tried to quote lock down the official transcript that did not please speaker of the house nancy pelosi there is actions that are actions that i have her up yet when you take when you have a system of electronic store for information that is specifically for national security purposes. and you have something that. it's

self-serving to the president politically and decide it might not be you might not want people to know and you hide it someplace else that's a couple democrats a vow that their impeachment investigation will be swift and sure but there remains much to be investigated for let's take the story of no 2 w.'s publicly in the office in washington good evening to you. president trump has reacted to lose hearings that we sold today what did you have to say while president trump was furious brant we're actually we've heard from him on twitter and also he spoke at 1st i want to say just speak a little bit about the tweets he went directly after the chair of the house intelligence committee adam schiff he said that he has 0 credibility it's another fantasy to hurt the republican party he said he said a whistleblower with secondhand information another fake news story and he also

called it a democrat scam but interesting that he didn't speak to waiting press at the white house something that he normally does but he didn't speak a little earlier when he landed back in maryland near here to washington d.c. so let's hear from him now it's this race to our country it's another which john here we go again what these guys are doing democrats are doing to this country is it is great and it shouldn't be allowed they should be a way of stopping it maybe illegally through the courts they don't want to talk about lowering drug prices they don't want to talk about anything because they're fixated and then see full o. c. has been hijacked by the radical left and everybody knows it thank you. do we know if today's hearings of the establish whether or not president double trump actually abused his powers by prodding the president of ukraine to help

interfere in that 2020 u.s. presidential election well the acting director of national intelligence joseph mcguire sort of made a very clear in his appearance earlier he said that if a president pressured a foreign government for help winning an election it would be on warranted it would be unwelcome and bad for the nation but he didn't say it was illegal it was sort of more what we were hearing from add the republicans in the committee hearing at they sort of focused more on the claims that it was a hoax cooked up by a crooked by crooked journalist who were in ca who received improper leaks from the intelligence community where the chair the democrats focused more on the content and they said that they need to push forward with this inquiry into the impeachment inquiry and publish the new york times is reporting that

a cia officer is the whistle blower they are saying that 3 sources have told them that this cia officer worked inside the white house we're hearing there and then of course we've got joseph mcguire the head of national intelligence he was in a difficult position today there was a moment when he was asked about the credibility of the whistleblower what did he say. yeah you're absolutely right there's a main and there's a lot of media claims here and also there's one which i should mention too which is that president whoever provided the whistleblower with information about the cole with the ukrainian president is close to a spy and he added that in the old days spies were dealt with death differently and that's being. carried by a lot of media here in the u.s. but going back to joseph mcguire he said the whistleblower who filed the complaint against president trump the inspector general who handled it acted in good faith and he doesn't know who the whistleblower is now we know as well joe some of our of

course spoke in private behind closed doors to a senate committee to as well. before we rule of time the issues the complaint lists about the white house or the president yeah it's very clear really in this complaint i'm just going to read one section to you it said of received information this is coming from the whistleblower of received information from multiple u.s. government officials that the president of the us is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 u.s. election this interference includes pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the president's main domestic political rivals brant it's very clear exactly what the whistleblower is saying in that complaint and of course it's how it's being interpreted the republicans many are interpreting it in one way saying that there's nothing wrong in this and the democrats are saying that it gives them just cause to continue with their inquiry

into a possible impeachment of president trying. in washington to this problem is always the. iran's president rouhani has called on the u.s. to end what he calls that tal a sea of maximum pressure he's urging washington to return to quote dialogue logic and reason. also said that his country would be prepared to hold talks with the united states if president trump lifted sanctions on iran rouhani speaking in new york a day after addressing the u.n. general assembly. w.'s alexander phenomenon spoke to brian hook the u.s. special representative for iran and she asked him about washington strategy moving forward. the u.s. government has imposed new sanctions and travel restrictions on the iranian regime but it's to run as seems to remain defiant so it's you max and pressure strategy not working no we're very pleased with it and we're also very pleased here at the

united nations this week that germany france and the united kingdom have announced that we need a new nuclear deal that is much more comprehensive than the iran nuclear deal that the united states left last year the iran nuclear deal failed to cover iran's missile program in fact it relaxed constraints on iran's missile program and now here today we see the consequences in the middle east with iran using missiles to attack saudi arabia so we think this was a very productive and good week with our european friends they all said that iran is behind the attack on saudi arabia so i think the press has overstated our differences and i think the announcement this week is an example of that however as you said tensions have been rising recently so i we getting closer to a major conflict i don't think so that really is a question for iran we are committed to resolving our differences with iran diplomatically the problem is that iran is answering our diplomacy with military

force and i think what they did against saudi arabia meets the definition of an act of war so it's what i saw this week at the u.n. our nations increasingly diplomatically isolating iran for behaving like an outlaw state that doesn't respect basic international norms france and germany trying to mediate between the u.s. and iran to facilitate a direct talks are you willing to embrace or help. well we have made clear from the president on down that we are very much open to talks with the iranians they will continue to say no and so iran faces a choice they can either come to the negotiating table and work out our differences diplomatically or they can watch their economy collapse as our sanctions intensify it wants you to lift some sanctions it's going to happen i think the burden is on

iran to demonstrate that it has reached a change of heart and if we had attacks in saudi arabia only a week or 2 ago and so i think what the world should be asking is not whether the united states is going to lift its pressure but when will iran stop using military force instead of diplomacy thank you so much ok thanks for having me on. here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world a stronger earthquake has struck the moloch who islands of eastern indonesia killing at least 20 people in the 6.5 magnitude tremor calls for widespread damage and landslides it was centered northeast of the provincial capital amboy authorities say there is no danger of a tsunami in hong kong protesters have blocked roads over a public dialogue between embattled leader kerry lam and 150 members of the community and she reportedly admitted that trust in her government had quote fallen off a cliff the meeting was called to address hong kong's 4 month long political crisis

zimbabwe says robert mugabe will now be buried in his home village not at a national monument in the capital harare the late president's final resting place has been in dispute between the government of president and the god and mugabe's family ever since he died at the start of this month. will former french president jacques chirac has died at the age of 86 he dominated french politics for decades and served 2 terms from 1995 to 2007 and he led france in adopting the euro and he stirred national pride with his opposition to the u.s. led war in iraq but she later years were marred by corruption scandals tarnishing the legacy of a man who had once charmed the nation. towards the end the hardly went out in public at all the few photos that were taken

indicate the state of his health jacques chirac he was president of france who is a master of powerful poses now looked frail. he was supported by his wife bernadette his road to the presidency had been a long one. the son of a banker he was born in paris in 1932 his political mentor george pompidou want to cheer activities private secretary in the palace he became prime minister in 1904 and that she's got this done soon he and chirac and political differences in 1905 he won the presidential election against the opposing candidate socialist spawn he'd risen from secretary of state to the top of the ranks of the elites say and it changed his life go chirac then shocked the world by authorizing nuclear tests at a french atoll in the pacific he set a clear course opposing the us president george bush during the iraq war and the people of france agreed with him. france's rejection of the e.u. constitution in 2005 which he had championed was his biggest failure in office. he

had little love for his party colleague nicolas sarkozy that he could not stop him from becoming his successor. after chirac's term in office was over old scandals returned to the public eye he was accused of paying party colleagues for fake jobs while matter of paris he was sentenced to a 2 year suspended prison term. but jacques chirac remained popular that will be remembered less for his politics and more his warm bond to the french people. of the u.n. high commissioner for refugees is urgently calling on countries around the world to take in refugees trapped in libya the commission has described its migrant center in tripoli as severely overcrowded but it is not the only camp libya is one of the most important transit points for migrants who are trying to cross the mediterranean to get to europe holding camps have sprung up for the thousands of refugees stranded in the war torn country german diplomats have described the

conditions inside these camps as inhuman investigating those claims those conditions is almost impossible but a d.w.i. news team managed to meet some camp survivors by traveling to new share which is just to the south of libya and a warning the report you're about to see contains images 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'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 was starving people have died our lives are

disgusting so we appeal for our voiceless voice to be hood. we are innocent refugees living in a land of hell. are. in usually a 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 but 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 through their breasts until they cried and screamed loudly.

they did it so they would get the money faster than hottest. 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 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 just go would look. these are horrific stories we're hearing from refugees inside this.

area they've seen and experienced things they're going to have imagined before now here new sadness they are the 1st time that life's not easy here to all the hope for the great reset and. many hope to reach europe. we managed to meet someone who profits from the refugees suffering he calls himself of the occupation migrants model for $500.00 to bring smiles rents across the sahara to libya but if they can't pay the driver sell them to torture chambers of jealousies understands why they do that. one wasn't at the border 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 the smugglers out there only hope and

they're prepared to pay any price even if it means risking their lives. that. afghanistan is preparing for a presidential election this weekend and security is tight there has been an upsurge of terrorist attacks most of those attacks have been claimed by the taliban the extremists have threatened more violence to derail the elections telling the 10000000 eligible voters to stay at home and despite all these dangers 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 dollar and a former warlord who's really entered the political mainstream hekmatyar. 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. but if you match them up

we're going to be afghan people who risk their lives to go to vote this shows their determination that this should decide their future and the new circumstances will be allow fraudulent elections to once again decide best fate. but. the taliban have always committed terrorist attacks that was the ultimate killing of innocent people but they are a reality in this country you are not if. you are your heart your thought on 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 the negotiating the same group that the americans designated terrorists what is thought and they've been talking to them and want to put order in the khan. soldiers and police are out in force and not just in the run up to the election but 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. the actual water. issues threats every day. nonetheless i believe most people will participate in the election to defend democracy thank you but i would have by then. if security worries keep many from voting and turnout is low that could undermine the emerging democratic process. by sports news now and the world athletics championships to start in qatar on friday but the build up 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 metal upgrades for a number of athletes. a delayed tribute for christina oberkfell 11 years after the beijing olympics the former javelin 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 opponent 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 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 former hammer thrower betty hyde lou 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. when we hear 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 you can control the statement. 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. skateboarding will be making its debut as an

olympic event in tokyo next summer sky brill an 11 year old british skateboarding prodigy is on track to becoming the youngest female to compete at the summer olympics in 50 years take a look. the sky 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 brown'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 it was all we weren't there until. it was too i suppress share. thanks for writing so fulfilled she said but there's no pressure. as the as

i really like and. i happen like for the program for if brown qualifies it be more history made by this wonder kid and 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 liana v since in 1968 unlike many other olympic sports skateboarding does not have an age requirement for its athletes. all right sea turtles they are a crucial link in the global marine ecosystem yet nearly all species are classified as in danger wildlife conservation is in coasta rica have been working to protect this marine animal they were thrilled to release 157 you see them right there newborn ridley turtles into the sea after they were born at one of the country's protective breeding sites interpreted to lay their eggs in the sand on the beach

where they are then threatened by poachers birds and dogs so the plight of most up and wildlife present cares for the eggs and after they had she releases the baby turtles look at them going there into this sea against all of its. 3rd. and here's a reminder the top story we're following for you us all baker's a grill the director of intelligence about the whistleblowers complaint that alleges president trump trying to pressure the president of ukraine into investigating former vice president joe biden that plane prompted democrats to start an impeachment inquiry. i want you to use after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day.

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