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this is the news live from both of the more pressure on us president donald trump house democrats of trump's personal lawyer pretty giuliani as the time into them toward impeachment hearings gadgets and more allegations emerged of improper behavior by trump and his allies also coming up. china mocks the 70th anniversary of communist government in beijing is going out of its way to make sure nothing brian's on that's perfect. and after a deadly fire greece's youth has plans for micro caps that include sending
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thousands of people back to. a math anyhow and welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump has come under fire from multiple directions as moves in congress toward pitchman proceedings gather pace democrats in the house of representatives have subpoenaed trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani as well as 3 of giuliani's associates. democrats are turning up the he's on donald trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani has been ordered to turn over text messages phone records and other communications related to ukraine it's a significant step by the house intelligence committee as it examines whether trump abused the office of president when he asked ukraine. president to dig up dirt on
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political rival joe biden this country trump has been pushing back aggressively firing at verbal barbs against democrats leading the impeachment probe reports on the whistleblower that prompted this probably figured i made a call the call was perfect whether the whistle blower reported it he raised the terror and then you had adam schiff who even worse made up my words which i think is just horrible that everything that they are going to but the allegations against the president are mushrooming the australian government has confirmed that trump recently urged prime minister scott morrison to help him discredit the miller inquiry another instance of trump pushing his own personal political interests with a foreign leader. the new york times reports that the white house then restricted access to the cole a breach of convention also used to conceal chum's call with the ukrainian
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president. well let's bring in washington correspondent of a cellar to unpack today's events of a broken public opinion finally seems to have shifted about half now support the impeachment inquiry what's behind that do you think. well we've seen a steady search here since last week where numbers went up 8 percent so nearly every 2nd american now supports an impeachment inquiry against president trump that was a pretty much different just a couple weeks ago and so what began as a very much as a political risk for the democratic party it looks like a successful path at least until now because what the democrats also know is that they eventually will have a very difficult task to impeach the president before the senate the senate has to speak the final verdict and the senate is controlled by the republicans but what
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they also know right now is with this growing 2 public support that this could also damage president trump in the 2020 election campaign or trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani is now being subpoenaed and trump is lashing out how much pressure do you think the president is feeling right now. well these are under a lot of pressure and 1st and foremost rudy giuliani is president trump's private lawyer who travel to madrid to meet ukrainian officials and press sensually press the ukraine to initiate investigations against joe biden and his son hunter biden the front runner of the democratic party and therefore a likely potential political rival of president trump so that's very problematic in and off itself and 3 the committees are now believing that president trump and rudy giuliani could have been jeopardizing the national security with their behavior by
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pressing the ukraine to interfere in national election and that is obviously for the president very dangerous as the rudy giuliani was acting on his behalf. and on another front all of the new york times reported today that trump has been in touch with the astride the in prime minister scott morrison asking for 5 is what can you tell us about that well following that report on the investigation on russian election meddling in the 2016 campaign the so-called moller investigation was initiated after tips came from australian officials and all following that report president trump pressed the old australian prime minister on the phone to start investigating the beginnings of the moller investigation obviously in an attempt to spin that back to raise doubts about the credibility of these 2 investigations the transcript reportedly was then treated the same way that
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the transcript of the selenski call the ukrainian president was treated that it was saved on a high security computer system so that very much looks like a common practice. in the white house under president trump to try to make material that is potentially damaging simply disappear of a cell in washington thanks be time now to some of the other stories making news around the world but as prime minister barak johnson says he'll release his final plan this week to get a deal for britain to lead the european union at the end of october reports suggest his ideas include an economic zone and for the e.u. states to rule out a for the delay to briggs. police and demonstrators have clashed in haiti during protests calling for the resignation of president jude no movies or just to say
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several people were hit by gunfire public discontent has been starved by corruption spiralling inflation and fuel shortages. jessye norman has died aged 74 she sang more than 80 times in new york's metropolitan opera and was showered with on are a doctorates and prizes during her career she sang for to us presidential inauguration. day and the in ceremony of the atlanta olympics. china is staging huge celebrations to mark 70 years of communist rule the anniversary comes at a challenging time a trade war with the united states is threatening the economy and pro-democracy protests in hong kong loom in the background the leadership in beijing is
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determined that nothing should distract from the historical events which set china on the road to the global power it is today. october the 1st $949.00 mousy term proclaims the founding of the people's republic of china until then i'm in square that ended decades of civil war pitting chairman mao's communists against nationalists mao transformed the feudal society is great leap forward collectivized industry and agriculture and sent unreachable targets the result catastrophic famine and the deaths of tens of millions facing criticism out launched his cultural revolution in 1966 thousands of opponents was sent to camps or executed. after decades of isolation china took steps to open up to the world welcoming us president richard nixon in 1972 chairman mao's death in
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1986 the nation's founder becomes its eternal icon. what followed was rapid economic growth as president dung shopping relaxed the state's grip on the markets but the boom was tarnished by a bloody crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy movement symbolized by the stand off on gentleman square. the new millennium soar china retake control of hong kong from the british join the world trade organization and host the hugely successful beijing olympic games putting itself on the podium of world leading nations but rapid economic growth has come at a cost cities are choked by pollution access to information restricted social cohesion and rigidly enforced minorities repressed though its economy is starting to flag at the age of $70.00 the people's republic of china is showing no signs of
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retirement. the new conservative government of greece says it wants to return 10000 migrants to turkey by the end of next year the decision came at a crisis meeting all of the greek government following a fire at another crowded micro-cap on sunday the death of one woman has been confirmed dr that in the morea camp on the island of lesbos. they left their homes in war torn syria for this the infamous maurya camp on the island of lesbos. sunday's fire has drawn attention to the desperate conditions here an estimated 12000 people in a camp built to hold a quarter as many. of the fire broke out and spread through containers used to house residents many were upset because they thought the firefighters took too long to arrive there were scuffles between migrants and firefighters and police fired
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tear gas. migrant arrivals in greece from turkey have surged reaching their highest levels since 2016 when the european union signed a deal with ankara to stem the flow greece is ill prepared to handle them it's just emerging from enormous financial difficulties and its resources are stretched. we are going through a national crisis it is essential that all of us pull together as we greeks have done in the past to handle this. athens says it plans to accelerate efforts to move people from the islands to the mainland but with winter fast approaching time is running out volkswagen is in court in germany the comic is facing a huge lawsuit over the diesel guy emissions scandal half a 1000000 days will drive is bringing germany's 1st class action suit demanding compensation for the cars they build. this could be a watershed moment for germany's legal system 4 years after the emissions scandal
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broke hundreds of thousands of diesel drivers now have the chance to hold the carmaker to account it's the 1st ever class action law suit to take place in the country similar auctions in the united states have seen consumers come away with billions of dollars in compensation. for the good of analysis which is football and we're confident about winning them into the arguments speak for themselves 1st the leaders knew about things from the star side from on and b w hasn't put forward anything for the stunt of that you can't contradict justice. correspondent lawyers maintain that the carmaker has removed the emissions cheesing devices and argue that diesel owners cannot claim for compensation while continuing to drive the offending vehicles the heart of damage to this day hundreds of thousands of vehicles are still in use by customers for us this means that there's
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no damage and therefore no reason for compensation these days hearing comes just a week after german prosecutors charge 3 v.w. executives including current boss happy with market manipulation accusing them of failing to inform shareholders about the financial impact of the emissions scandal . a further indication that the costs of germany's biggest postwar industrial scandal are still being counted. the sport now in the champions league returns with travelling to last season's runs up. the perfect time for. robert. he set a record by becoming the 1st player to make 10 goals in the opening 6. scoring in the team's champions league open. there can be no doubt who the main man and buy in is this season robert leventhal ski just keeps getting better and better the polish striker has scored 12 goals in knowing games in this campaign but in buy ins
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champions league clash against tottenham he'll face another of the best strikers in the world english forward harry cain. was unleashed and there's nothing he can do and he's a very strong striker i'd say that at the moment him and love and are among the top 2 or 3 or 4 strikers in the world. and canes goals help drive top and to their 1st ever champions league final last season their fans hope they can go one better this time around but coach mauricio pochettino is wary of buying a team with a more story past in europe's top club competition the other club. tried to prepare. or they prepare they said to try to win the competition which i believe because the story say that by and will become the 1st german team to play
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it tottenham's new stadium it cost more than a $1000000000.00 euros to build the 2 strike is set to grace its pitch up priceless you're watching news live from berlin after a short break a documentary film young americans fighting against in the meantime of course there's always more news at our website that's day w dot com an elementary help it's watched. literature invites us to see people in particular. time. 3 books on you tube. where you see. your family scattered across the globe.

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