this is you know we do is live from berlin on the offensive prison donald trump lashes out at the unnamed whistleblower who accuses him of abuse of power and trying to cover it up for the democrats the case is clear cut. by their very act of coming forward has shown more dedication to country more of an understanding of the president's oath of office. and the president himself well as the impeachment battle heats up president donald trump dismisses the whistleblower's complaints as so inaccurate also coming up. i'm gonna stop the pair's for

a presidential election overshadowed by a surge in taliban violence extremists are threatening to disrupt the vote with suicide bombings and rocket attacks. on their large thank you so much for your company everyone punch and counterpunch in washington president all trump has hit out at the unnamed whistleblower views accused him of soliciting interference in next year's presidential election has tweeted that the information in the whistleblowers complaint and been proved to be so inaccurate even though none of the allegations have been shown to be wrong. defiant as ever u.s. president donald trump slams the impeachment inquiry as another attempt by

democrats to get him. it's a disgrace to our country it's another which charge here we go again what these guys are doing democrats are doing to this country is a disgrace and it shouldn't be allowed they should be a way of stopping it may be legally through the courts now video has emerged of trump discussing the whistleblower alluding to how spies used to be executed by the u.s. critics have blasted the remarks as witness intimidation. leave these are the business groups on. the old days with more. than 3. a phone call between trump and ukrainian president blood in ms alinsky is what triggered the whistle blowers complained it accused trump of pushing selenski to investigate his leading democratic rival in the 2020

us presidential election joe biden and his son things live this monday the house intelligence committee chair adam schiff subpoenaed to us by chief joseph mcgwire to make him explain why he initially hadn't passed the whistleblowers letter to the committee that whistleblower by their very act of coming forward and showing more dedication to country more of an understanding of the president's oaths of office than the president himself in a tense committee hearing mcguire defended consulting the white house before releasing the whistleblowers reports the director of national intelligence according to the complaint senior white house officials try to lock down all details of the phone call between trump and selenski democrats said this reeks of a cover up a complaint reports a. quote repeated abuse of an electronic records system designed to store a classified sensitive national security information which the white house used to

hide information of a political nature this is a cover up that is a cover up. away from the theory in congress at the white house president trump met with police sheriffs' he was that's a highlight his credentials on crime as the us again debates whether the president himself has broken the law all. right let's discuss where things stand right now with the public fully is our washington correspondent the public where do things stand right now. well there this is a very fast moving story as we've discussed in previously and the chair of the house intelligence committee adam schiff has said that hearings will take place next week it's even being said here in the media that could take place next friday now 'd we could most probably be seeing the attorney general william barr and

president trump a personal lawyer at the former mayor of new york rudy giuliani appear in front of the. peach mint inquiry and there are 6 committees investigating in total. we do know that democrats are very keen to talk to the actual whistleblower whoever that may be because at the moment despite a lot of media sort of speculating as to who it is claiming that they know who it is we still are not we don't have confirmation with regards to the identity of that person and also what we've been hearing as well is the democrats and particularly the house speaker nancy pelosi is keen to keep this very much focused on this you know phone call with ukraine on the ukraine allegations in general will say and what would happen then is that the judiciary committee will decide on how many articles. of impeachment votes they would then pose to the house who would then vote on whether to you know impeach the president or not in

a nutshell i know this is a really big story but what's the case the democrats are trying to make to the american people. well there are several now there is one the cover up we heard it there in the story you know nancy pelosi has been speaking a lot about the covert many other democrats why did it take so long for the complaint to be released have been focusing very much on that and also the way the conversation was stored it wasn't caught stored in the normal computer system will say that they usually would use in the white house in fact it was stored in another one there's many questions with revolving around that and also they're focusing on the fact that was president a bit legally seeking foreign help in the hope of smearing joe biden of course the former vice president and also one of his president terms main rivals in the democratic and one of the democratic candidates of course for the 20 twentieth's action and also president trump they're going to be looking into music used of using military aid as a bargaining tool this whole idea of you know a favor for

a favor at this is coming up time and time again here in the u.s. so several fronts is where they're looking but meanwhile president trump of course is come out fighting he is pushed back a how is this playing out with his base in the general public well you know and as we've spoken about before you know the peach mint is not something that's particularly popular here and particularly republicans are very hesitant to push ahead with this president has been coming out fighting he's been focusing on discrediting many of those who are making the accusations against amanda also a particular the you know house intelligence committee chair adam schiff and also even saying that the whistleblower is not someone to be trusted and implying you know that they're basically it's there's something dodgy going on there so you know he's come out fighting and so have many of his supporters within the republican

republican party publicly at least reporting from washington thank you. well as i know about some of the other stories making news around the world. nigerian police have rescued more than 300 people held in chains in a building in the northern city of could you know most of the captives were children a police spokesman said the building housed a muslim exclude all and that several teachers had been arrested. in a generation security forces have sealed off cairo's to where square to prevent expected protests against president ivan for to his sisi several nearby subway stations have also been shut for alleged mignons the closures come amid a harsh security clampdown following anti corruption demonstrations that have erupted across egypt last weekend. the british oil tankers seized by iran in the strait of hormuz 2 months ago as if the iranians or to where it was being

detained the stina imperiled was taken by iran's revolutionary guard 2 weeks after an iranian tanker were seized by britain that ship was released in august. after months of delays and uncertainty afghanistan is due to vote in its 4th presidential election on saturday security is still a major concern taliban extremists are threatening to disrupt the vote with suicide bombings and rocket attacks there are fears that violence during the election could deepen political instability. it's scenes like this that the afghan government is desperate to avoid on election day the security plan to protect voters at polling stations was 8 months in the making but violence is just one of the challenges facing the officials organizing the elections 5 years ago allegations of systematic fraud marred the last one abdullah abdullah the man who lost to the

current president ashraf ghani then is still his main contender now but. with all our strength we will prevent any kind of fraud in this election at the last election i said we won't accept any government based on fraud but it happened because afghanistan was facing multiple threats time at the start of withdrawal of foreign troops the rise of islamic states and also the taliban have an upper hand. to fight electoral fraud around a 100000 election observers will monitor the nearly $5000.00 polling stations across the country but they will be allied to candidates. one 3rd of the afghan defense forces will be on hand but that is still not enough some polling stations will stay shot because the army cannot protect them coaches are worried both about their personal safety and fair elections without that we will participate in the elections and large numbers in iraq as

a government that it will provide us with security and she was the terms parents the of the election was going to follow was actually what threatening us all the time to stop us from participating in these elections they threaten us every day but despite this i believe most people will focus and the elections to defend democracy. and publish a couple of a mix and i'm protecting both voters' lives and democracy is a tall order for a government in a country where violent militants control or are active in almost half of the territory. he wus a correspondence under peterson is here with me in the studio she has reported extensively from afghanistan sandra for president hamid karzai has warned that holding the election i was like asking a heart patient to run a marathon is it the responsible thing to do holding elections in this climate of fear and possible bloodshed. the current president ashraf ghani very much things so

the other person who looks like he can be the only contender next to him that's his partner in the government of national unity he was the one saying for the sake of peace talks we can postpone elections further and maybe even give up on them if we form another government an interim government that might include the taleban but all of that is off the table now the elections will go ahead despite these massive threats and i have reported on the 2014 elections i saw back then how violent elections in afghanistan can be there were massive attacks in terms of loss rocket attacks and also we saw that voters coming out of the polling stations you know they have this indelible ink on their fingers switch lasts for days some of these voters had their fingers chopped off while they were exercising their right to vote so people there tomorrow they really run a risk of being harmed so having illustrated just that brit you just said what is

the appetite among afghans to to participate in these elections or risk their lives i mean afghans are very resilient that sounds like a cliche but really 4 decades of war if you're not resilient how else are you going to live they live with these threats almost every day and you know when they leave their families in the morning lots of people say i don't know if i will come back tonight so this is just another day off of violence in afghanistan and most likely tomorrow that with c. and then it depends on who you ask if you are like in kabul these young people that we sold they say we do want to go and exercise our rights to vote but at the same time we know that is specially in the country sites that will be millions disenfranchised they can't go to cost their vote because polling stations won't open yes there will be countrywide $70000.00 soldiers and policemen out in force but there are also lots areas controlled by. the taliban where voting just con take

place where instead fighting takes place and so you won't have anything close to democratic elections tomorrow let's talk about the candidates who is in the best position to get the taliban at the negotiating table and reach some form of agreements and this state of insecurity and afghanistan that's a very difficult question tossed because it does take more people than just you know the likely winner of the use of these elections what i've said is president gandhi and they both want you know to reach a peace agreement but laci and the. peace talks that we saw with the americans they were left out completely of the law was kind of fine with it because he thought his chance might come president ghani was against it so it will take the americans as well and also other international players hard to center peterson thank you so much for weighing in on thank you. you're watching the news up next is business africa

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