the family starts october on d. w. . this instead of you news live from berlin in washington democrats issued their 1st 17 and some of the officials to testify as they begin impeachment proceedings against american president to trump. the 1st big target as secretary of state might come pale congressional committees are giving him a week to produce documents about the phone call in which trump allegedly pressured ukraine's president to investigate joe biden the democrat who could be chosen to run against trump in the next election will get the latest from washington to.

afghanistan braces for violence as polls open across the country in presidential elections taliban extremists are threatening to bomb voters and only in places so will voters turn out. german police strike a blow against cyber criminals pull the plug on a huge illegal data center set up in a folder named hotel bunker. i'm nick spicer thanks for joining us. in washington the battle between the white house and congressional democrats intensified on friday 3 investigative committees secretary of state might dump a o for documents related to the controversial phone call between president trump and

the president of ukraine. but trump is hitting back he says a whistle blower's claims about that phone call are inaccurate he's accusing the democrats of trying to steal next year's election by conducting what he calls a witch hunt and he says that spies are behind the allegations. and we can discuss where things stand now with all of our salad our washington correspondent all of this is all moving very fast help us push the pause button here and understand the latest would you. think and as you just mentioned secretary of state mike pompeo has speed in the subpoena together with 5 other state department officials over a variety of documents related to the ukraine phone call that he so far has refused to hand in the is also being threatened by with obstruction charges if he does not comply with the subpoena now at the center of this of pina is the roll off of president trump's private lawyer rudy giuliani he allegedly had several meetings

with ukrainian officials in the past and that of course is illegal because it does not include the wide tells in the government and therefore things that have been said and done in these meetings can't be really controlled and recorded the assumption then right now is that the secretary of state or the state department must have known about these meetings with the big question of course if michael might even have been an accomplice to president trump's alleged wrongdoing and how is the government responding to the democrats' demands is it being overall cooperative. well president trump in particular has responded in an old fashion he took to twitter countless times he called this all a witch hunt and a hoax as he is always done it with every allegation against him in particular right now he's trying to question the credibility that's his line of defense off

the whistleblower but it we've also heard some very shocking words from him at a press availability in new york at the united nations just yesterday where he in fact to the death penalty he called the whistleblower a traitor and a spy even though whistleblowers are protected by law in the united states and you can hear some concern here even within republicans right now some senators and governors have voiced serious concerns that something is unraveling here even within the republican party and just how is public opinion in the united states reacting to all this. well today we've witnessed a significant change in the in the public opinion really just a week ago a great majority was actually against impeachment proceedings right now it seems the country is very much split over that question so things are moving really fast here and that might also be part of the democratic strategy because they know they

can't win and can't really impeach donald trump at the end the senate has to say the final verdict in this is hold by the republicans but they know they can dig up many damaging material against the president and also damage his reputation among the voters ok thanks for that. in washington reporting. and just recently u.s. media have begun reporting that president trump special representative to ukraine has resigned kurt volker was named in the whistleblower report on trump's phone call with ukraine's president as someone quote trying to contain the damage is scheduled to testify before congress on thursday he would like to be voting is underway in afghanistan for a presidential election that could mark a turning point for the country. the islamist taliban have vowed to disrupt the

election with attacks on security forces and polling places are warning voters to stay away from the polls there are fears that a low turnout could discredit the election and it's winter. it seems like this that the afghan government is desperate to avoid on election day the security plan to protect voters that polling stations was 8 months in the making that violence is just one of the challenges facing the officials organizing the elections 5 years ago allegations of systematic for would mark the last one abdullah abdullah the man who lost to the current president ashraf ghani then is still his main contender now but tomorrow 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 of iraqis the government that it will provide us with security and chose the terms parents of the election was. 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 fights in the elections to defend democracy. and publish a couple of

a mix on 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. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world. egyptian security forces have sealed off cairo's to rear square to prevent expected protests against president abdullah. several nearby subway stations have also been shut for alleged maintenance closures come amid a harsh security clampdown following anti corruption demonstrations across egypt last weekend. haitian police have used tear gas and live ammunition to disperse looters in the capital port au prince least 4 people have been killed in the latest wave of street violence which is being driven by feud food and fuel structured agendas protesters are demanding of the government resign over the crisis.

and now to a disturbing discovery in nigeria police in the northern city of could do not have rescued hundreds of boys and young men many of whom were shackled some had been tortured and physically assaulted they were all said to have been attending an islamic boarding school in the building where they were held in the reports that follows d.-w. is not showing the faces of the rescued boys. these police were sent to boarding school for a religious education instead they were starved chained and whipped. somebody external sconce if the physical suffering they enjoyed the we. want. to build up with that if you fear that they give up this certainly is out of the conscious to the to this is my last election what it is to live for the islamic will flourish that's what i understand it was look at the. literal plex watch of

one look at me. it's. access to a lot of. the police say it's not clear how long the children were how. not all of them came from nigeria these places and or an islamic school because you can see it with. small children some of them are brought for in our neighboring countries but you know fossil miley gonna under arrest. for all of us all over the country you know i hear somebody why even 10 you know why use human eyes because. there are many islamic schools across the northern parts of the muslim region of nigeria. the police have arrested 7 people including the teachers running

the school the children are now staying at a temporary camp in the city while police contacts their parents. german police say they have smashed a powerful criminal cyber network in a raid in the west of the country 7 people were arrested on suspicion of trafficking weapons drugs and images of children being sexually abused the raid follows 5 years of investigations it looks like the set of a hollywood movie a former nato bunker converted into a darter center 500 square meters of service exclusively used for a multi-million euro criminal enterprise police seized 200 service here in a major operation the bunker was hidden 5 stories below ground in the small town of harben taba in germany's southwest oklahoma munition it wasn't just that we had to secure the physical location we also had to crack the digital storage at the data

center. the solution to. it was likely from this location that an attack on door to telecom customers routers was carried out in 2016 this was also the home of illegal online stores like wall street market selling millions of euros worth of drugs illegal documents and even told pornography the investigation was complex and lengthy lasting more than 4 years. between this organization sentinel purchasing a data center like place in germany isn't illegal to say. first you have to prove that online crimes are committed by 3rd parties then you have to prove that the people running the center you have outed and supported it. the main suspect is a 59 year old dutch man the investigation and analysis of the data which could include customer data could take months if not years. for more now on this

story due to abuse and as sarah stay joins me in the studio and tell me what kind of pictures and products were on the servers yeah so basically the service that were confiscated on friday by german authorities they contained all kinds of hosting services for illegal activities for crimes basically so what. sort of stuff so far found is traces of trading illegal drugs selling weapons even distributing child porn also forging documents among all the sites that were holes that there was also the 2nd biggest marketplace for illegal drugs world why it's. called the wall street markets and you have to imagine this how to turn over 41000000 euros so this was really a very large very large operation and who are the people behind this do you know well we don't know too much yet among the 13 suspects that have so but so

far been named there are different nationalities there's people from germany the netherlands from bulgaria also to report mentions the 7 arrests that have been made and among them also the main suspect who is a 59 year old dutchman and he apparently has alleged ties to organized crime. so the group seems to be a very well networked and organized crime scene and also internationally based and just really quickly last question what took so long to arrest them all well it's actually very hard to trace the word this kind of dark and that's a page as our host it and it was something that's kind of started to investigation more from the local of people or from the villagers who became a suspect off those off the sites where were it not service for locate it and they alerted local authorities to its former nato base absolutely no i was just used to

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