this is c w news coming to you live from berlin fresh doubts emerge about reaching a deal on breaks it crucial october deadlines looming for prime minister boris johnson as a stalemate with the e.u. leaders seems to take shape there's more skepticism being voiced about reaching a compromise with the u.k. also coming up the white house vows to impede the impeachment inquiry against

president trump democrats accuse the president of trying to place himself above the law and say he will be held accountable. and. remembering the protests seen as turning point in ending east of the east german dictatorship germany march 30 years since the monday demonstrations that helped bring down the communist government. plus one of germany's greatest ever football players announces his retirement from the game bastian schweinsteiger is hanging up his boots after a long career that included 8 put his league titles replied munich and a world cup title. well i'm terry martin thanks for joining us there's growing deadlock on bragg said after fresh talks between prime minister boris johnson and. the leaders of germany

and ireland dublin says it will be difficult to reach a compromise with the u.k. ahead of a key summit next week and earlier a source close to boris johnson told british media that chancellor merkel called a brags that quote overwhelmingly unlikely u.k. is currently slated to leave the european union on october 31st. $22.00 days until break that time is running out and now it's too late to reach a deal with the e.u. at least that's the latest need music coming from london the british government no longer believes an agreement can be reached and that coming from downing street that blaming chance and i'm going to makkah e.u. council president is outraged boris johnson what's at stake is not winning some stupid blame game at stake is the future of europe and the u.k. as well as the security interests of our people you don't want to deal you don't want an extension you don't want to revoke. that follows

a phone call between bars johnson and angola machall the chancellor reportedly said an agreement was overwhelmingly unlikely if northern ireland does not remain in the e.u. customs union but did she really say that no comment from chancellor merkel she kept quiet on the subject later to at a meeting in badland with david the president of the parliament travel to london on tuesday afternoon to meet with boris johnson it didn't seem to produce very much progress where there are 2 alternatives to a deal at this juncture extension or no deal. after society's departure barres johnson told parliament he still wants a deal giving the impression that the 2 sides are living in different breaks that you know passes. our correspondent barbara bezel is covering the story and joins us now from brussels barbara is there any hope in brussels that a deal between the u.k.

and the e.u. can still be reached. hope i'm afraid terry is wasting away fast and at the moment i wouldn't really put a tenner on it that deal can still be reached it looks very very unlikely if you look at the yesterday's twitter war if you look at the increasingly aggressive briefing that has been coming out of downing street since the beginning of the week monday for instance there was a briefing that was given to a tare magazine and that said that the conservative party was now getting ready to sort of go into an election was no deal on their manifesto all that shows sort of shows in which direction we are travelling now and know it is very unlikely if we talk about the terms of any possible deal the sticking point remains the border between the republic of ireland and the u.k.

what would have to happen in order to resolve that issue. it is the same old old old problem that has been there since the beginning of the bracks it talks almost 3 years ago the point is if we listen to the 2nd part of what you have a right to the irish prime minister has said yesterday he said that what happened is that the brits that this government the british side took the deal that was negotiated was to reason made off the table and they put half of it back on that is boris johnson offered to just keep northern ireland within the e.u. rules for producing goods and foodstuffs that is the so-called single market roots that is one part but the customs union the other side that says that goods can travel and people can travel freely back in force that has not been agreed and he

does not want to do that so it's only half a deal really that's on the table at the moment and the british side so say the irish and they have a say in this matter say we can't do that we can't bridge the gap as so often this could be coming down to a question of political will but from the position of the e.u. what just you want to see from london in order to move forward. what they would want to see is going back to the old northern ireland only backstop the 1st solution for this very tricky problem that had been put on the table call it what you may the e.u. says we can come up with a different name but basically northern ireland has to stay in both sort of regulatory speirs of the european union in order to keep things flowing back and forth in order to keep the all ireland economy that is the main point now london is not willing to do that so there could have been some bridging solutions but nothing

was offered so now you really sits here and says ok you didn't offer anything we can go for that uncompromising we had a stalemate and now come up and please say you want an extension and things are going to get very tricky next week during the summit because of boris johnson comes here and says i have to ask for an extension parentheses but i didn't really don't want it and could somebody please vote against it there's still talk that hungry is be to say no to that that will be a very difficult situation particularly for the european heads of state and government who then have to decide do we give an extension in spite of that in bed face more or less or do we say let's just finish this right here and sort of let them crash out at the end of the month. in brussels thank you so much. now to ecuador where thousands of indigenous people have converged on the capital

quito to join antigovernment protests clashes with security forces led the president to move his and ministration out of the capital and declare a curfew around state buildings some demonstrators stormed the congress building ecuador has seen 6 days of nationwide protests following cuts to fuel subsidies and other austerity measures. was. these a tactic that have toppled governments in ecuador before thousands of anti austerity demonstrators flooded the capital quito that angry over a government decision to end fuel subsidies to reduce the country's deficit leading to so wring petrol prices. that this country is rich in natural resources what's happened is that it has been impoverished due to the chain of corrupt governments which have stolen for this life and the next the brightest to be there you know to. protest this blockaded roads and briefly storms the

ecuadorian congress building before being driven out by police and soldiers firing tear gas. a state of emergency has been in place since last week when the indigenous led protests erupted eventually forcing the besieged government to flee to the port city of quiet. was president lenin morello has accused his left his predecessor rafael correia of trying to destabilize ecuador. say the sacking of the vandalism the violence shows that there is a political intention organize to destabilize the government and break the constituted order to break democratic order it will be in the book at the go. to have been hundreds of arrests while the turmoil is taking a toll on an already vulnerable economy. and then under mourinho has appealed to the. united nations for help in calming the situation a bit to ease the worst unrest in years. now to some of the other stories making

news around the world today german police continue the hunt for clues as to why a man hijacked a truck in the western german town of limbo crashing into several cars 9 people suffered minor injuries in the ensuing including the truck's driver the suspect in syria has been charged with attempted murder in the case. for hours and friends have been blocking highways with their tractors to protect protests around the government's agricultural policy they're angry about recent trade agreements and a growing trend of quote a group bashing which unions say disregards the farmers' profession. and turkey says it's ready to launch an offensive against syrian kurds following u.s. president all from decision to pull troops out of northern syria president trump now faces accusations that he has abandoned kurdish forces who are key u.s. allies in the fight against the so-called islamic state. the white house has

announced it will not cooperate with a congressional impeachment inquiry congress is building a case against the president on the basis of his phone call with ukraine's president a lot to me as a lens in july it's alleged that trump's administration abused power to pressure president selenski in a bid to force him to investigate democrat rival joe biden and his son hunter congressman adam schiff justice committee in summoning key people allegedly involved in that campaign. the white house announcement thanks government officials who will be blocked from appearing before that committee trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani argues it's reasonable it is a very very strong brief and very strong letter it is supported by footnotes not bull and not political propaganda it's hardly political it's legal and beyond their

competence because they are so mesmerised we're going to have to trump they've lost all common sense well joining us now is boris foreman he's a professor of political science from bard college here in berlin good to see you again boris what do you make of that white house letter and rudy giuliani's defense of. they're trying to find a footing and trying to find a strategy to counter the impeachment trial they're trying to portray trump as trump transparent also pointing out that some basic procedural rights have been offended and i think this will be ultimately for for lawyers to clarify they're also trying to do something which is not ultimately surprising which is to render it into a partisan issue to say the democrats are basically trying to undo the presidential election but if of 2016 but if that were a legitimate claim. impeachment as a procedure basically would be out the window how much do you think that this white house decision this move to block people from testifying did these stated

unwillingness to cooperation how to cooperate how much do you think this will affect the impeachment inquiry well i mean the 1st intuition would be that obviously it undermines it because it will make it difficult for them shift to to interview and subpoena witnesses but at the same time it offers a 2nd impeachable offense which is obstruction of the congress which could make the case much stronger. now does this show that trump actually has a real strategy for fighting the impeachment inquiry or is just this just a one tactical move that we can expect and not really knowing what's going on i think the latter is probably the correct answer i mean if it tries to look or 2 to appear as though there was such a long term strategy but if we think back. think about the 1st 3 years in office

there has not been a long term strategy in any policy field really. even though probably should be a little more careful in making this kind of a claim but i think there's a lot of technical actions and there's a lot of back and forth and a lot of movements that. make it difficult to come to a final conclusion this is early days in the impeachment process this could drag on for quite some time so we're just seeing the opening salvos really looking at precedent an impeachment process before how do you see this unfolding over the weeks and months to come but we don't have many precedents we also have to emphasize that the impeachment has never worked out in u.s. history the only time it did it didn't because nixon dissipated the move and step back from his office so it's a very complicated. set of measures also to not threaten the office of the presidency it needs a majority in the house and then 2 thirds majority in the senate which is very

unlikely so it's going to drag on some people even wonder if it will drag on beyond the presidency of trumps what we can say however in comparison to the mother report it seems to be much more point to the much more concerted in the actions that we're seeing motor was much more of a direct a process over months and months or sank you very much for your insights there was boris foreman professor of political science at bard college here in berlin. you're watching news still to come one of germany's greatest ever football players announces his retirement from the game. is hanging up his boots after a long career that included winning a world cup title. now to germany today is marking the 30th anniversary of peaceful protests that are seen as vital as pivotal indeed in toppling the dictatorship in the former east germany tens of thousands turned out

for peaceful marches on october 9th 1909 in light sea it was a decisive moment in a chain of events that led to the collapse of east german communism he met with 2 opposition activists from the time who braved immense risks to take part as the refuse of a heavy crackdown on the government. on october 9th 1909 catherine hutton hala was in a stasi prison in light in east germany she was just 20 years old on this day you could feel that the guards were very nervous and you could hear sounds later in the day close to the evening and what relate to crude few that maybe what we have heard. where the sound of 70000 people walking. among the crowd marching for freedom and democracy was that 18 year old opposition activist catherine my.

german reunification just didn't cross my mind at the time my motivation was things can't go on like this a strings are this country has no future we have no freedom of expression no free elections i wanted to reform the country i wanted democracy in the g.d.r. in. the months premie things had been held at leipsic said nicholas church on september 4th catherine hutton how an unfilled abana it called for an open country with free people the protest was captured on film by western media. it was important to us that our own people in our country could see it and they could see oh wow there's something that has started in life and it's not as g.d.r. media tells its like they are criminals and they want to destroy our country know

their girls they could be my friend they could be my daughter she was imprisoned soon after for riotous assembly but by october 9th knowledge of the growing protests had spread guns like the plaza bus and. it was clear throughout life what was at stake. vance for post at our own town full of soldiers and police on a call. on the roofs in downtown life in the hospitals blood reserves were being stocked up in ca who was and been put. in but the protesters marched peacefully around the city of lights like in the following weeks the demonstrations continue to grow and within a month the berlin wall had fallen and upward again in the heart it just gives you goosebumps it was unbelievable to see that so many people had overcome their fear who mustered up their courage and decided to join these demonstrations and i think

that's asked of us again today to engage in advocating for democracy and to nurture it together. so that then might offend i think a group always day with me but i have been growing up in a dictatorship for that. i will always value the freedom i have but i would like people remember that. democracy is a. living being so we have to be part of it. and that there's no one outstanding it for us i would really like people to remember that. our political analysts and young is with us in the studio simon there were many demonstrations in many cities in east germany 30 years ago why is the demonstration in leipsic considered have been so important i think mainly because of the numbers

involved there have been demonstrations in other places of course before this and have been some organized opposition in east germany for many years. on the night of 989 you had 70000 people who had to come out on the streets shouting we all the people facing up to the security forces also a couple of courageous journalists managed to film those pictures of it that we saw in that report and they were shown on west german t.v. the next day so this was something that the east german regime couldn't ignore or sort of keep quiet how much courage did it take to demonstrate publicly against the east german regime back then i think it took plenty of courage people talk about the real sense of fear that they had that something might happen you know lots of extra police soldiers had been brought in all men in uniform had been seen

you know being brought in on the motorways in the days before because it was known that this demonstration was going to happen another thing is that just a few months previously the communist regime in china had a crush. the rebellion there in beijing the so-called china men square massacre and indeed the east german companies government has sent messages of support to the chinese communists so there really was a real fear that something similar could happen in east germany among the many groups of participated in these demonstrations christian religious groups were very prominent tell us more about their role in those demonstrations if you will both the protestant and catholic churches would tolerate heat in east germany and they use their position to an extent to support dissidents and usually in

a sort of non-confrontational quiet way for instance by holding a peace pray as and so on in fact peace present been held in the nicholai case of the st nicholas church in light sake which would be a main focus today. since 1982 so this is this this it's something that had been brewing at the same time the the sort of structured nature of the churches of course allowed surveillance by the security services and indeed on the 9th of october 1909 the church was so full of agents that it was quite difficult for real dissidents actually to get in there son and thank you so much sharp little analyst simon young. and german president my father's time i will be speaking at a ceremony soon to honor the monday demonstrations we're bringing you special coverage of that speech in just under 2 hours time.

one of germany's greatest ever football players has retired from the game but. will quit the sport after finishing the season with his club chicago fire. made his name of by and munich becoming a genuine star in the bundesliga and for the national team. i it's finally time to say good bye this was how i got ended his germany career in 26 days. as the fan favorite took to the pitch for demon chef one last time now he's hanging up his boots for good. men to one of the most successful careers in football history trying to. get titles and 7 german cups along with one champions league title but the achievement fans around the globe will remember him for is the 2014 cup triumph.

dream about things like this as a kid so i'm proud of what i've achieved and yes makes me happy. literally be on the trophies friday as he was 9 came across as a down to earth character more interested in football than the trappings of fame for that he was loved by the fans something only the true greats achieved. now to thailand and a troubling discovery for wildlife officials they say that they found the bodies of another 5 wild elephants in a river and national park they made discovery while investigating how a group of 6 elephants died after plunging. into a waterfall at the weekend. these 2 elephants are the lucky ones they survived the fast flowing waters that swept away the rest of their herd officials initially thought 6 elephants died including

a 3 year old car. it could we think the elephants were trying to cross over to the other side of the river probably one of the smaller elephants slipped on the adult ones were trying to rescue them but instead was swept away by the water but aerial photos taken during the investigation revealed another 5 bodies palko 30 say it's the largest number of elephants to die in a single incident. well. for now we can say that based on these aerial photographs there were 11 dead elephants in total. and only 2 survived. of pictured here before the devastating incident last weekend this herd was part of a population of around 300 wild elephants in the park. the water. is known as the ravine of how. they will now look at walkways over the waterfall the

solutions to prevent a tragedy like this from happening again. the nobel prize in physics has been awarded to 3 scientists for their work in the field of cosmology canadian born astronomer james peoples was honored for his pioneering contributions since the 1960 s. to our understanding of the universe's structure swiss scientists michel d.d.a. quite low received their half of the prize for discovering an planet that's a planet outside our solar system which orbits the sun like star the swedish academy is due to announce the winner of the nobel prize in chemistry later today. and just reminder the top stories we're following for you here today on t.w. news there are more signs of deadlock over briggs's over the regs a deal between the u.k. and the european leaders reportedly voicing skepticism that

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