we're just learning this is just to feel. this is deja vu news live from berlin a massive show of military might in beijing as china marks 70 years of communist rule. president xi jinping says no power on earth can halt the advance of the chinese nation also coming up. the pressure mounts on u.s. president donald trump house democrats subpoena his personal lawyer rudy giuliani

over the ukraine whistleblower allegations. and on the macula serving her last term as for germany's leader she's still the most popular politician at home but internationally it is a different story with many saying the french president is now stealing the show. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us china has been staging a massive military parade to mark 70 years of communist rule some 15000 soldiers hundreds of tanks and military hardware including a nuclear capable hypersonic missile all rumbling through the capital beijing the celebration commemorates the founding of the people's republic of china by chairman mao in 1949 event that ended a bitter civil war that claimed millions of lives president xi jinping said that

china's development would be peaceful but that is military would save guarded sovereignty and security. spring indeed amusement is billing who's at the celebrations in beijing good morning to you mathias president easy saying this morning that nothing can stop the rise of china was that message more for the home crowd or for the international audience. it was of course for both but the more important crowd here is the home crowd because what she chimping ideology what his narrative his promise to his people is is that he will make china strong and powerful his predecessors have started to konami reforms they have started this economic miracle they have achieved some. economic prosperity and he will be the one who gives china the role that he thinks

it should have on the international stage these. are the preparations and the parade has been broadcast throughout china broadly in social media on t.v. in newspapers so it is really a show of. what the communist party thinks it has achieved ok is also show of just how omnipotent it appears the communist party's grip on power is is there any opposition at all to the chinese communist party. well there is no organized opposition in china as soon as people start assembling organizing themselves they will be very quickly taken into custody or will face other repercussions there is of course people have different opinions as in every place on on the earth and there is of course there are of course people who challenge you or 30 of the communist party there have been lawyers who want to

take party to stick to the laws it has some when when it breaks them there are activists environmental activists who challenge them on certain fields of policies and there is of course an uprising in hong kong that is challenging the communist party more than anything has challenge the communist party within the last 30 years and what about president jay looking forward as china marks this anniversary what are the main challenges that he's facing right. well this anniversary and this military parade comes at a moment where there is a lot of insecurity in the economy slow growth rates have slowed down they could just not take to keep up with the pace that they had 10 years ago and the the trade war that donald trump has started is also 'd of course threatening china's

growth and so these are the main economic challenges apart from of course the political challenge that comes with the protesters in hong kong who have been on the streets with 3 months this is something the communist party in china had to deal with only once that was in 1989 and the students in beijing protested much less furious than the protesters in hong kong today and it's very clear that beijing hasn't really found the clue how to deal with this and his thanks very much for that from beijing. moment is just mentioned hong kong and there are no big celebrations in hong kong today where g.w. is some pills standing by for us good morning to you charlotte hong kong has of course been dominated for months by the anti beijing demonstrations we've been following what's the mood where you are today.

where one of a number of protests to taking place across hong kong today the mood here very stark contrast to what is taking place in beijing these protests is a declasse that this is a day of mourning and i'm sure you can see a lot of people behind me she's going to dress in black not only because that is one of the iconic colors of this protest but also to play into this idea that this this day of mourning a lot of people as well throwing pieces of paper into the ad assembling symbolism being associated with a chinese tradition website you throw money when someone dies the idea being they have money and how there's a lot of symbolism here at the protests today having said that don't feel in a sense like a bit of a celebration people here united in that defiance against warnings from authorities to room this is an on all the rights protests people who are actually against the

wall by taking part in these rallies across hong kong today nevertheless you've got people of all ages on the streets music blaring the anthem of this protest glory to hong kong playing loud and clear in the background behind me. ok let's see if we can pick up now on we're going to listen in on what people hong kong have been saying about the celebrations let's give it a listen. it's. getting to. be like that now you get. no matter how much she covers people by race how there will always be a lawyer so when you have to say let me down that's. all for this that this is a good time. thing he has been pushing. back but i know that this situation the one side the road don't i

don't i don't like i would not like separate i think that this country. has no democracy but. i understand that. for china to have democracy it's very difficult. ok is a difficult way forward we're hearing a for democracy from some of the protesters people on the streets and a charlotte one of protest planning for today the national day 70 years of the communist party in china. it is what he expects it for and these protests will continue late in city evening we've been hearing from people today that they've been building for this a number of people saying that they wanted to save their energy for this day today to come out to the reason being they want to show that defines to authorities in china there is a sense that they do want to have

a shot or perhaps even up stage and embarrass the chinese the authorities here are celebrating the anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china today there is some confounding this could become a new violence police issuing their own warning thank that they fear that some of the more hard core elements of this protest may take action that they have described as being close to terrorism what we have seen is the number of small number of people who are already gathered here with the full face mask in their helmets appearing to be prepared for yet another night of clashes up until now that i have been largely peaceful there was a small a scuffle actually it's a safe at least he's happy right to break that up at the moment there is still peaceful but there is a sense that as the day goes on that the the mood could change what about the hopes and the fears of the people where you are in hong kong is there any indication that beijing might back off my to see to some of the demands for democracy in hong kong

. i the moment there on any clear signs that china will back off in in any way as you say in fact the opposite we've had good news agency has reported that. elements of the army had descended on hong kong last month we once holds that that was a troop rotation that happened instead they were it is reported from asian and wesson envoys that rather than being a rotation they were actually backing up the street they said there is no sign that any troops. i have left hong kong as i really is that a warning sign here that people back on the streets today having said that they authorities in beijing have laws she laughed as though authorities in hong kong had to do with this crisis the police in particular are accused of being very heavy hand handled and cracking down on these protests charlotte thanks so much now from

hong kong. let's review notes of the other stories making the news this hour the british prime minister boris johnson says he'll present his final plan this week to get a deal for britain to leave the european union at the end of this month before suggests his ideas include locating custom centers several kilometers away from the others border he also wants the e.u. to rule out further delays to drexel. nigerian police say they have freed 19 pregnant women and girls from the so-called baby factory the victims were allegedly abducted and raped so the captors did sell those babies to female suspects were taken into custody in the raid in the capital bloggers. and in through president martinez this car has dissolved congress and called new elections a power struggle the opposition excuse law makers of blocking his attempts to fight corruption through has been indulged in

a scandal involving brazilian construction firms with multiple alterations accused of accepting bribes and stains for concerts. well democrats in the u.s. house of representatives are increasing their pressure on president trump as they move closer towards impeachment proceedings they have now issued subpoenas against his personal attorney regional jani 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's president to dig up dirt on political rival joe biden coffee shop 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 whistleblower reported it he raised terror 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 seen that they were too but the allegations against the president are mushrooming. 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 call a breach of convention also used to conceal trump's call with the ukrainian president it's to greece now where the new conservative government says it wants to

return 10000 migrants to turkey by the end of next year that decision came at a crisis meeting of the greek government following a fire at an overcrowded migrant camp the death of one woman has been confirmed after that fire in the morea cab on the island of les mis. 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 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. now the german leader is known as an international stateswoman but as her final term as chancellor draws to a close many say her influence on the global stage is waning when it comes to foreign policy she's often restrained by her social democrat coalition partners but critics also accuse michael enter a party of running out of ideas and of leaving others such as the french president to manual mccall to fill the vacuum. her way into her last time as german

chancellor if anything. sounding more ready than ever to take on more global responsibility. we have the responsibility to solve the tensions between russia and ukraine unless libya is stabilized the whole region in africa will become unstable and that's why this is our task europe must leave a footprint as one might say today in solving the conflict in the world. and that footprint is looking increasingly french as president in monarch or make saw he is seen to take the lead in europe. meeting russian president vladimir putin he has pushed germany out of the diplomatic driving seat over the ukraine conflict markov also took the lead in trying to negotiate a meeting between iran's president rouhani and the us president trump. it's less than a year since germany and france renewed their political vows by signing the our

country to you know bilateral cooperation but in this political marriage president markov is increasingly seen as the one wearing the trousers. and the think tanks are beginning to talk. cancer than a bullet chanceless making space from a crawl without setting her own agenda. as part of that afghan treaty german and french m.p.'s held their 2nd joint session in berlin last week mccall sent his top diplomat for europe who found german foreign policy restraint unlike in france we're not used to coalitions we are in this isn't where we have more freedom of movement i would say more deficit to be a giant in the current situation of the global crisis we see this is sometimes an advantage a french m.p. who was in the room also sees merkel's leadership qualities limited by her lack of political space. we all see how calm she is not

a face of adversity but she isn't free to act to shout with like. fight. having to share the government benches with the social democrat s.p.d. party appears to be keeping germany from taking more of a european lead key merkel advisors say the demand for german leadership is not being met. that should be our role of politics look slightly different not only in this country do we have a coalition so we always need to find compromises the opposition is less diplomatic we have a huge lack of leadership and lack of initiatives coming from germany what we see is a government in this country which is. which is down there are tired of stability and compromise have been the hallmarks of merkel's policy architecture for just over 14 years that formula alone may no longer be working physically i

would just anglo-american my belief that from the outside and under merkel is already being regarded as a kind of lame duck because enter the end phase of her term and has little left that she can shape and. start. going to machall has survived. many attempts to declare the end of her political career but in the autumn of her last time as chancellor the woman long seen as the lead of europe is running out of opportunities to demonstrate that leadership. let's talk about this more was political correspondent max 1000000 a kosher joining us now good morning to you thanks for coming in you know just last year germany had the initiative on a number of foreign policy fronts on iran ukraine migration doesn't anymore lost an issue what's happened in berlin life in the grand coalition is what happens there were seen the german government that currently consists of america's party the conservative c.d.u. has sister part of the variances you and the social democrats having like had

a long time of forming this government it was almost a record home of several months until they were able to form this government and then they were darkly fearne into crisis mode over domestic politics just as on migration they couldn't find a. line there and then other topics took over a reef saying that the climate crisis has become a defining topic for voters here in germany with the rise of the greens becoming a stronger party and that has determined politics in germany more than foreign policy but they will generally recently hosted the 2 apparently get some kind of new initiative the 1st big meeting of the new all alliance for multi multi-lateralism 15 nations committing themselves to boosting international cooperation is this group approach the new face of german foreign policy if talking in terms of how german chancellor angela merkel says probably she's always been a champion for kind of like solving things in the bigger group she's always been

a champion of multilateralism and some say that's the election of the u.s. president donald trump has been one of the motivated to keep her in office to run for this last term and yes so it has been a for policy terms that's to keep up this multilateral liberal. democratic well doda has been one of her like defining issues and foreign policy if you will germany in the autumn of all a makeover turned to the initiative will again initiative again what do we expect from german foreign policy during the 2nd half of this administration well especially what is going to be interesting is into looking how germany's going to position itself within your we've heard that the french president amount of crime has been taking release in the shape and define foreign policy of policy in general and europe and will be interesting to see where germany and specially the german chancellor angela merkel is going to position herself and as we are celebrating my celebrates today the 70th anniversary of time especially going to be interesting how germany is going to position itself and relation to china its most important

trading partner and it's going to be interesting how germany with in europe is going to find a stance on china's rise to global power ok you know now if germany realigns let's say someone with china would not risk its relationship with the united states that is exactly the conundrum germany is in at the moment it is the most important trading padma china to germany of the same time it needs to think how europe and germany within europe is going to play a role into how the tensions between china and the u.s. economy happening in the chinese u.s. trade will have will see where all this is that it must be on a forestay thanks very much we have some sports for you now the world athletics championships are taking place in qatar on day for 3 out of 6 gold medals going to ask leeds who also took top spot 2 years ago. undisputed leader of the pack of defending champions was russian high jumper maria unless it scared know 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 allegations. the men's 5000 meter final had 3 norwegian brothers competing in debates the youngest of the band of brothers was leading in the final lap only to be picked at the left corner. of britain ended up in 5th well gold and silver went to ethiopia with a dress repeating his tram from 2 years ago in london. and finally some joy for i know we didn't actually cost involved home defended his title in the 400 meter hurdles climbing an unbeaten streak of 14 races meanwhile 3rd place abderrahim sumber in the 1st middle of the championships for hosts kitsa. in football the champions league return stiva byron munich facing off against

tottenham hotspur again comes a perfect time for byron striker robert lewandowski he set a record by becoming the 1st player to net 10 goals in the opening games of the bundesliga also scoring in the team's champions league opener. there can be no doubt who the main man at byron 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 brian's champions league clash against tottenham he'll face another of the best strikers in the world english forward harry cain. has unleashed 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 2 or 3 or 4 strikers in the world. and kane's 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 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 the us opera star jessye norman has died at the age of $74.00 she sang more than 80 times new york's metropolitan opera was showered with honorary doctorates and prices during her long career she sang for to us presidential moderations queen elizabeth's birthday and the opening ceremony of the atlanta olympics.

reminder now of our top stories this hour. china is marking 70 years of communist rule that country is staging a massive display of military might the capital beijing showing off new nuclear capable weaponry present she said nothing could hold the advance of the chinese nation. u.s. democrats have subpoenaed of president trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani and are looking for documents relating to his dealings with ukraine house committee is investigating whether to indict the president for allegedly pressuring ukraine to target former democrat vice president joe biden. the british prime minister boris johnson says he'll present his final plan this week to get a deal for his country to leave the european union at the end of october his ideas reportedly include locating custom centers a number of kilometers away from the irish border. nigerian police

say they have freed 19 pregnant women and girls from a so-called baby factory the victims were allegedly abducted and raped so their captors can sell their babes. this is the news from berlin you can stay up to date with all the latest headlines at our website dot com business news is up next for all of us here on the news team i'm brian todd thanks for being with us.

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