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since the music of your highness. the brahms code. starts oct 11th on t.w. enough. this is d w news live from birthday china mock 70 years of communist rule. celebrations in seattle and square in beijing with a massive display of military might have been teaching pain says that isn't the powell on earth that can help the advance of the chinese nation also coming up. the pressure mounts on u.s. president donald trump democrats subpoena his personal lawyer on the over the
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ukraine whistleblower scam. i'm anthony howard welcome to the show john has staged a massive military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of communist rule some 15000 soldiers and more than 500 tanks and a huge amount of other military hardware paraded through the center of the capital beijing even the proclamation of the people's republic of china by moussa dome in 1949 following the civil war president xi she said china's development would continue to be peaceful but he said the military would be safeguarding the country's sovereignty and secure. well the double east correspondent mathias building is covering the festivities in beijing force he says that behind the
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celebrations last some difficult realities for the country's leaders china wants to be seen as a world power as a military power and that is at the heart of siege in ping's ideology he wants to be the man who made china strong after others have made it prosperous his previous messages and this comes at a time when china's challenge by many problems you cannot make growth is slowing down the trade war with the u.s. is threatening china's economy and in hong kong protesters are challenging the author ity of the party. that is spilling it in beijing to the u.s. now where president trump has come under fire from multiple directions as moves in congress towards impeachment proceedings gather pace democrats in the house of representatives have subpoenaed trump's personal attorney bruni giuliani as well as 3 of giuliani's associates. has democrats are turning up the he's on donald trump's personal lawyer. giuliani has been ordered to turn over text messages phone
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records and other communications related teen crane. it's a significant step by the house intelligence committee as it examines whether trump abused the office of president when he asked ukraine's president to dig up dirt on 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 it probably figured i made a call the call was perfect whether the whistleblower reported it he made it senator and then you have that i'm sure of who even worse made up my words which i think is just horrible that never even think 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
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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 wise has then restricted access to the call a breach of convention also used to conceal chum's call with the ukrainian president. well let's bring in washington correspondent of a cellar to unpack today's events of a welcome public opinion finally seems to have shifted about half now support the impeachment inquiry what's behind that you think. well we've seen a steady search here or 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
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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 to pass 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 they also know right now is with the growing public support that this could also damage president trump in the 2020 election campaign will 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 all these 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 essentially press the ukraine to initiate investigations against joe biden and his son hunter biden
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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 the committees are now believing that president trump and rudy giuliani could have been jeopardizing the national security with their behavior with 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 or following that report on the investigation on russian election meddling in the 2016 campaign the so-called moller investigation was initiated after the tips came from australian officials
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and all following that report president trump pressed the old australian prime minister on the phone to start investigating the beginnings of the modern investigation obviously in an attempt to spin that back to raise doubts about the credibility of these 2 other investigations the transcript reportedly was then treated the same way that 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 under. 2 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. nigerian police say they have freed 19 pregnant women
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and girls from captivity in lagos believed they were being held in a so-called baby factory where ducted women rights to the captives can still be babies 2 female suspects have been taken into custody. british prime minister boris johnson says he'll release his final plan this week and a deal for britain to leave the european union at the end of october reports suggest his ideas include an island economic zone and for the e.u. states to rule out a further delay to breaks. in peru president not to invest got a has dissolved congress and called elections in a power struggle with the opposition because lawmakers of blocking his attempts to fight corruption peru has been engulfed by a scandal involving brazilian construction firm bricked and hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes for contracts throughout south america.
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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 cross this meeting of the greek government following a fire at an overcrowded migrant camp on sunday the death of one woman has been confirmed after that fire in the morea camp on the island of less boss. 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. 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 tear gas. migrant arrivals in greece from turkey have surged reaching their highest
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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 comma is facing a huge lawsuit of the mission scandal really hoffa 1000000 days will drive is a bringing germany's 1st class action suit demanding compensation for the cars they bought. they could be a watershed moment for germany's legal system 4 years after the emission scandal
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broke hundreds of thousands of drivers now have the chance to hope the carmaker to account. it's the 1st ever class action lawsuit to take place in the country similar actions in the united states have seen consumers come away with billions of dollars in compensation. for the good of analysis we're confident about winning them and that the arguments speak for themselves 1st the leaders knew about things from the star sides on and the devil you haven't put anything for us down told that you can't contradict justice. and. put suddens 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 in the heart of value to this day hundreds of thousands of vehicles are still in use by customers for us this means that there's no damage and therefore no reason for compensation these days hearing comes just
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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 post-war industrial scandal are still being counted. for at the track and field championships in qatar was the defending champions came to the fore 3 out of the 6 gold medals that. went to athletes who also held top spot 2 years ago. the undisputed leader of the pack of defending champions was russian high jumper maria losses came in who won her 3rd straight gold medal this one though as a neutral athlete as russia's track and field federation has been suspended since 2015 due to widespread doping. was the men's
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5000 meter race had 3 norwegian brothers competing in the final. brits and the youngest of the band of brothers was leading in the final round only to be pipped at the last corner in your brits and ended up in 5th well gold and silver went to ethiopia with a dress repeating his triumph from 2 years ago in london was then finally some joy for a norwegian athlete carsten barholm defended his title in the 400 meter hurdles crowning an unbeaten streak of 14 races meanwhile 3rd place of their akim some one the 1st medal for the hosts qatar in this final was the champions league returns on tuesday not by munich travelling to last season's runners up top them again comes at a perfect time for bond struck at robert levin duffy has set a record by becoming the 1st player to net 10 goals in the opening 6 is like a game. there can be no doubt who the main man in bahrain is this season robert
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levon dusky just keeps getting better and better the polish striker has scored 12 goals in mind games in this campaign but in brian's champions league clash against tottenham he'll face another of the best strikers in the world english forward harry kane. is complete with 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 dusky are among the top 23 or 4 strikers in the world. and canes goals help drive top into 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 buy in a team with a more storied past in europe's top club competition the other club.
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tried to bribe. or liberalism to try to win the competition which are believed because the story say that by and will become the 1st german team to play at 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 of young americans fighting against any of that's up next now matheny hallett thanks for watching. and i'm just i'm going to brand new delusions on this post this person device it's about so place that affects us all a lot of solutions climate change and the return of. full marine science check out .
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