this is news lot from a 2nd insider at the white house has told intelligence officials that u.s. president donald trump abused his power in a phone call to ukraine as the impeachment inquiry into tribes alleged illegal behavior gathers a new whistleblower could add strength to allegations that the president asked a foreign country to interfere in the 2020 u.s. election also coming up on the program protesters despise the baton facemasks in hong kong again on sunday police fired tear gas in several areas in an attempt to

stop attacks on shops and banks linked to mainland china. welcome to the program media in the us is reporting that a 2nd whistleblower has come forward in the impeachment inquiry of u.s. president donald trump the reports indicate the new whistleblower has 1st hand knowledge of a phone call between trump and his ukrainian counterpart a probe is being conducted into an allegation that trump pressured ukraine's president. to investigate trump's political rival joe biden biden's son. let's go live now to washington bureau chief. thanks for being with us to tell us what do we know about this whistleblower. so the whistle

blower has been described as an intelligence official we don't know his or her identity but as you said this appears to be someone with 1st hand knowledge of some of the other geisha instead were outlined in the original whistleblower complaint so that appears to be someone who can talk about directly. related to ukraine and to this phone call president trump had to with the ukrainian president and that could be someone who could undercut president strums claim that the 1st whistle blower complaint was completely wrong. as i recall he was saying that this was 2nd hand knowledge for the 1st complaint but now we have somebody who has firsthand knowledge of how how do you think this will affect the trump inquiry going forward. well i think that it's definitely backing up the argument

against president strum it's helping the democrats to build up their a case and there are moving in a very rapid and greece aggressive way and it's quite interesting and remarkable that normally you would see members of the trump administration on a sunday morning talk shows but there was no one defending the president's today however we also have to add that of course he thinks that he can do it the best way . and he knows he in fact been reacting in any way recently. yeah he has been very vocal about to topic on twitter of course he said that after the 1st whistle blower got his conversation with the ukrainian president completely wrong and now there is a 2nd whistle blower coming from the deep state and of course he. is. a sort of conspiracy theory he has been and his allies have been spreading for quite a lot while now that it is the intelligence community that is trying to bring him

down this way however we also have to say that it's noteworthy that the top republicans are being very silent on this topic they are avoiding questions connected to the impeachment investigation they are struggling to find and unified a response to the impeachment allegations ok did abuse washington bureau chief alexander phenomenon thanks for that. so hong kong where pro-democracy law makers have suffered a setback in the territories high court the judge dismissed their bid to get an injunction against a ban on face masks warna demonstrations protester just reacted defiantly with more marches in hong kong central business district which later descended into another night of violence. tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters continued to defy a ban on face masks on sunday kerry lam hong kong's chief executive had introduced

the band under colonial era state of emergency powers to try to end months of unrest pro-democracy lawmakers again went to the high court on sunday morning seeking an injunction against the ban they argued the emergency powers bypass legislature and contravene the city's constitution today is about for terrorism versus the rule of law i would say this is one of the most important constitutional cases in the history of all but a senior judge dismissed the case that only increased the defiance of hong kong residents large crowds marched through to wrench will reign in unsanctioned rallies . carry lam is trying to use the ban to keep us from coming out. she suppressing our right to express ourselves this will only push us further. more as night fell things turned ugly some demonstrators turning their rage on

businesses with connections to mainland china and fighting pitched battles with police carry lamb has warned that the ban on face masks was only the 1st card in her hand the emergency law allows her to make any regulations whatsoever in the face of this sun rest. so where is all this heading we're joined now by the w.'s cliff who reported from beijing for 15 years kerry lamb got a bad voted friday people were wearing masks. as we saw in those pictures. well certainly the legislation hasn't worked as they intended it to do it's meant to send a signal at the moment she's looking around for ways to deal with this situation which is escalating she said to impose this law which is actually a colonial era from $122.00. very popular and also ironic given the circumstances that she's looking around for things to do she's come up with this legislation

which people are patiently ignoring and it becomes an issue now of what can she do next she still has some options obviously book but for now she's kind of stuck with this the fact that you know she they have more power but she needs to escalate things clearly again and say and just today's court decision quite apart from the house proceed to empower the police in administrative terms it gives them more power we still don't have a state of emergency in hong kong we still have it there's lots of different ways of how the situation is being described but legally they haven't imposed a from urgencies didn't have things like a curfew you don't have these sort of much more extreme measures so she still has some leeway there to impose a state of emergency it heightens everything again it will heighten tensions it will expose the fact that things are getting close to 2. and it will obviously trouble in beijing which is obviously watching events very closely and when patients run out well it's interesting last week as you know we had the 70 on the

verse 3 of the of the p.r.c. people's republic of china they've made their display now they've shown that they have these incredible missiles and if they're angry they can they can take action so they're watching closely i think for now they think the hong kong police have got it under control and has it under control because despite the scenes there is still they are still containing things but you just wonder if things keep going on and on and on our whole point china is going to say we have to intervene and then we'll see what form that takes ok thanks for that insight. the polls have closed in tunisia as parliamentary elections early indications suggest turnout has been low around 15000 candidates are contesting 217 seats in the country's part of the results aren't expected till thursday the current governing our lives between islamists and the secular party looks set to lose power to nations vote again next weekend in the final round of presidential elections after

turning their backs on traditional parties in favor of independent candidates in the 1st row. is a traditionally male dominated society so women's rights advocates are campaigning to get more female candidates elected in department. i said for democracy in action raja gerry founded the independent electoral lists called citizens and we participate she's brought her supporters to the city of ariana to come pain the 2nd time and marcus here is a popular spot where many women shop she wouldn't mind that they can imagine is even women come to this market from the surrounding areas i know too noisy and women decision makers and women should support each other that's why we came here today to make sure these women know that they are important to enable them to improve their situation taking part in the elections and being able to choose

a list that is headed by women he said sit at that very few of tunis he has electoral lists can claim das only about 14 percent of more than $1500.00 taking part in the poll have a woman at the top. is one she heads to his is democratic and social union and she's calling on voters to choose her list in sunday's poll and one economics could be to win this but. the number of women who take part in political life in tunisia is very low and women are not politically active disk. the opposite bullet. the any other i think herman and just as competent as men can be and even more so than men sometimes has. been had a few statistics say that the percentage of girls who are successful in school is higher than that for male pupils is because if i put in a well however they remain less well represented and they are discriminated against

in decision making positions. then reducing fiction is in league of women voters this backing health howie is aims to empower female candidates and enable their participation in political life. when this bill will pass the hat when it counts women candidates are subject to political pressure from different political parties and they need fostering and protecting. the even the government doesn't really take into consideration the principle of equality between women and men in the thick of it where that's despite the fact that we have highly competent and honest women in public life. whenever that graduate jeremy is that easy on the campaign trail she doesn't have any problem sitting with men in cafes and just us in politics but she's convinced that she is

still a patriarchal society and thinks most people tend to vote for men rather than female candidates. and there's a sense here that the political parties campaigns and slogans calling for women's empowerment and participation are mere words many of the female candidates standing in 2019 fear their chances may be worse than in previous elections. officials and least 5 people died in protests on sunday taking the death toll to above 100 since violence erupted last week iraq's prime minister has announced social measures to deal with the deadly anti-government protests the package includes new homes in poor areas job training schemes for the unemployed and free health care for the injured late on saturday gunmen attacked the offices of several t.v. broadcasters. the work of unknown assailants were attacked media offices and the

target several t.v. stations get been receiving threats for days and see a link to their reporting on the ongoing anti-government protest in iraq. because we went faking reality we transmitted the truth as i stated. at the how much it seems that this state cannot bear the trees. and i hurt that the premier would announce his stance but he stayed silent about what happened. to her. life in baghdad has become increasingly dangerous says tuesday demonstrators have been taking to the streets to express frustration over a lack of jobs and basic services the interior ministry claims or thirties didn't shoot at anyone however more than 100 people have been killed during demonstrations late saturday the prime minister again tried to deescalate the situation. but i know my gun i will go and meet the protesters with our own weapons and sit with

them for as long as it takes to listen to their demands if this will isa's secure. this is a change in the prime minister's approach on friday he set the protesters demands have been heard after the violence of recent days they may be reluctant to accept his offer. for the law to blunder slee a soccer now and there are new leaders and a new 2nd place team after sunday's early games. mentioned blood moved top after a 51 thrashing of house for well spirit beat union berlin one nil to go 2nd frankfurt in bremen drew previous leaders by munich were stunned 21 at home by hoffenheim on saturday while dortmund slipped up again and a quick look at a surprising surprising part of me top half of the bonus the table shows are now leading the way by

a point from wolfsburg byron berger based leipzig and. are all level on points dortmund are down an 8th and at the other end it is more predictable pattern born are adrift at the bottom after just 7 games into the season with fellow promoted side also struggling. this is due to the news from berlin thanks for watching. my 1st bicycle was a sewing machine. i come from women have bones by this notion even something as simple as in any home to write a bicycle isn't. since i. wanted to bicycle off my home and it took me years to until they're. finally gave up and went on by me and i say that 100 times because sewing machine sewing i suppose was more apropos for goods than writing about.