the bombs come. on w. . this is news live from berlin in washington democrats issue their 1st of pina and summon officials to testify as they begin impeachment proceedings against american president don't trump the 1st big target as secretary of state mike pump aoe aggression of 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 a democrat who could be chosen to run against trump in the next election will get the latest from watching. polls are open in afghanistan under the threat of violence and taliban have warned voters to stay away saying they would attack polling stations and security forces to disrupt the country's 4th presidential election. and german police strike a blow against cyber criminals and pull the plug on a huge illegal data center set up in an old nato 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

subpoenaed secretary of state might bump a 0 for documents related to that controversial phone call between president trump and the president of ukraine but trump is hitting back. the show is carrying on as normal at the white house president trump mading hispanic community late is a key voting group who needs to win in 2020. crisis what crisis was put away from the cameras the president is right his anger directed at the man now leading the impeachment inquiry gainst him on twitter trump right adam schiff must resign and be investigated he's been doing this for 2 years he's a sick man. chairmanships committee is now in overdrive the california democrat has signaled he came to hear from key witnesses as soon as possible and that from the president's inner circle we know there are many other witnesses to this conduct

that we need to bring in we know that he had others involved in this scheme as well the call to rudy giuliani giuliani the president's personal lawyer has been leading efforts to prove one verified allegations against trump's rival joe biden for months he's repeatedly met with ukrainian all of docs and officials the committee wants to know if he's freelance if it's damaged u.s. interests are also in the inquiry sights mike pump a state department lawmakers want to know if giuliani used pompei as diplomats to make contact with ukrainian officials american diplomats a supposed not to serve political parties known to say pump denied they'd done saw it to the best of my knowledge from what i've seen so far each of the actions that were undertaken by state department officials was entirely appropriate congress is poised to scrutinize that climb the judicial committee will continue work through the lead to such as current fulbright the speculation is that it's odd because of impeachment might be drawn up against

a president by the end of the year. so another turbulent day for the trumpet ministration correspondent oversell it gave his take from washington. things are moving fast in washington d.c. secretary of state mike pump ale was subpoenaed together with 5 other officials of the state department over documents related to the ukraine phone call at the center of the subpoena however is rudolph giuliani's role president trump's private lawyer and the question was the secretary of state perhaps an accomplice to president wrongdoing the democrats are running a high risk with the impeachment inquiry but recent polls show a surge in support for the impeachment proceedings the strategy of the democrats is clear president trump's reputation and credibility can be severely damaged and that might decide the election in 2020 and in a related development u.s.

media reporting that president trump's 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 and we've proposals for negotiations 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 polling places or won't warning voters to stay away from the polls more than 70000 soldiers and police have been deployed to protect voters the main contenders are incumbent president ashraf ghani and his long term rival. there are fears that a low turnout could discredit the election and its winter. the u.s. campaign against the taliban is the longest in american military history the corn

gal valley in eastern afghanistan was one of the most lethal battlegrounds for the americans u.s. forces named it the valley of death. one infantry man who survived the fighting. under fire. and returning fire. tracking down the enemy that was sergeant brandon no burns life for 15 months his unit's deployment was the subject of the claims 2010 documentary restrepo o'byrne returned to civilian life 11 years ago but sometimes he still finds it difficult to leave the war behind him i loved running when i pay for the military i loved running inside the military but now every time i ran outside the military every time i would get started get winded i would get really for having panic attacks like going on and then oh yeah of course like think about if you're in your ass afghanistan you're

walking up a mountain you're winded and you can't get out of the way you can't you know physically get to the next like cover and concealment spot that would be a problem when. the burn was 22 when he was sent to fight the taliban his mission he believed was to make afghanistan and the world a safer place but on the ground the reality was different. you can't defeat an ideology with violence you kill someone and they have family and now they have. now you've created 2 more terrorists in stead of the one and that's. at influence right like that you can you can do that forever that's what you know fighting this kind of wars after returning home from the conflict o'byrne battled for several years to overcome psychological problems and alcoholism with his life back on track he's now studying to become

a high school english teacher and lives in a quiet neighborhood in wilmington north carolina he thinks the u.s. government should withdraw troops from afghanistan as quickly as possible. we haven't figured out in 18 years what to do with the taliban. and make them more peaceful or or defeat them now they're more possession of more land territory now so we haven't figured out where we were last. in a small workshop in his back garden o'byrne works on sculptures it's his own retreat from the war and a way of remaining calm it also helps him process everything he's experienced. worth it is a hard hard thing to say. i like who i am as a person today i don't think there any other way. i wouldn't do it twice maybe that's the best way i wouldn't go again. o'byrne continues to work to leave his

experiences of the war behind him in the meantime america debates whether it can do the same. and now to 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 do know most of the captives were children a police spokesman said the building housed an islamic school and that several teachers had been arrested. haitian police have used tear gas and live ammunition to disperse looters in the capital port au prince at least 4 people have been killed in the latest wave of street violence which is being driven by nationwide shortages of food and fuel protesters are demanding that the government resign over the crisis. 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 doctor 500 square meters of service exclusively used for a multi-million euro criminal enterprise police seized $200.00 service here in a major operation. the bunker was hidden 5 stories below ground in the small town of harben tarbuck in germany just southwest of humvee an issue 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 the drums. 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 tiled pornography the investigation

was complex and lengthy lasting more than 4 years. it leap on this organization sentinel purchasing a data center like place in germany isn't illegal say. first you have to prove that on 9 crimes are committed by 3rd parties then you have to prove that the people running the center you have outed and supported it before the top of 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 did abuse at its sara stay joins me in the studio and tell me what kind of pictures and products were on the servers yeah so basically the services that were confiscated on friday by german authorities they contained all kinds of hosting services for illegal activities for crimes basically so what. sort

itself 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 worldwide it's. called the wall street markets and you have to imagine this had to turn over 41000000 euros so this was really a very large very large operation and who are the people behind this do we 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 the 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 proceed. to be very well and that's worked in the 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 really 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 the investigation more from the local people or from the villagers who became a suspect off those off the sites where we're at service for located and they alerted local authorities to its former nato base absolutely no i was just to ok to diffuse and i said i say thank you for that. in egypt security forces have sealed off cairo's tahrir square to prevent expected protests against president abdel fattah el-sisi the move is part of a harsh security clampdown following anticorruption demonstrations across egypt

last weekend. the streets of cairo a full of police especially around the prominent tahrir square the site of major protests in the past access has been closed off and strict controls are in place. the state has moved quickly to quell any demonstrations assists secretly recorded video shows. returning from new york president sisi portrays himself as a man of the people rejecting criticism and scorning the media. with the image they portray is full of lies and slander to deceive people gyptian is all wise enough not to believe it. but last friday hundreds of people in cairo and other cities called the cc's resignation there were the 1st protests in years. security forces responded with tear gas and rubber bullets according to human rights organizations almost 2000 people have been arrested in the past week.

internet videos from an exiled building contractor mohammed ali triggered the protests from his home in spain he accuses sisi of corruption and mismanagement he's calling for new mass protests. this is. the strong egyptians this man is using you undeceive in you. the state broadcaster gives no air time of government critics until now a shows only pictures of sisi supporters cheering at a rally in cairo. and you are up to date thanks for watching. the adventures of the famous naturalist and explorer. to celebrate clicks on the front of the boats from 250 barking on a 4 inch of discovery. expedition in blood on the.