might try to. read books on you tube. this is deja vu news live from berlin venice suffers its worst flooding in the house a century the 2nd highest tide ever recorded and sent water gushing down the city streets and alleyways the mayor blames climate change and is asking the government for help. also coming up u.s. president havel trump faces the biggest challenge yet of us presidency as the impeachment inquiry goes public live on t.v.

democrats are seeking to prove that trump abused his office. olivia gets a new leader for the time being at least opposition senator you know i'm yes declares herself interim president but the former president is no more or less accuses her and others of staging a coup. i'm sorry so much got to thank you for joining us one of europe's most important cultural landmarks is facing catastrophe the highest tide in more than half a century has left much of venice on their water now the tide level peaked at just under 2 meters leaving homes inundated boats stranded and tourists waiting to historic st mark's square and you can get an idea here of that water level the mayor is seeking government help and says the damage is likely to cost hundreds of millions of euros. a sound vendor

says historic center warning people to find higher ground. one of the worst floods in decades high winds and rain caused the water level to surge to almost 190 centimeters with waves crashing into buildings just slightly to the most of them a luigi broken out of film and sound a famous scent marks square complained climate change for the extreme weather. some applies to all who have to cover for the full because we just can't wait unfortunately. we have reached a new negative record john if you we have to stand together against the ethics of climate change and reform because the question a little bit in your phrase community is. the last time water levels rose this high was in november 1966. shop owners wasted no time using whatever they could

to clear the deluge. others tried to salvage their goods. one biblical looking figure emerged from the icy waters in front of cent mark spitz silica. but there is plenty of anger here the morsi a system to protect venice from high water has been continually delayed. and bogus image she added for the movie they've been on it for 10 years but they've done nothing it's in total neglect doesn't work and it's the only $6000000.00 euros in italy unfortunately that's the way it is our politicians are all thieves we should all be in jail. you've got. let's locals take in the aftermath city officials say several key historic sites have been damaged. this as people are prepared for a 2nd day of high water. and we can speak now to julio bauble he works at the

venice institute for the study of the history of the resistance and contemporary society an institute that is now endangered by the floods julie i thank you very much for joining us give us an idea of what you've been seeing there in venice how dramatic is the situation where the situation we were expecting to see question yesterday about the going rate that we could be doing tonight when we got that storm right in the moment in which makes me right was coming so we can get we've got these heavy stormily. one more than 100 kilometers per hour and that was there that by the stroke. we got to the 2nd highest tide that recorded in the resort here it can tell you that at some point that it was looking really bad i can tell you perhaps you can stop it just in time because at some point the storm coming down to be turned out that their water was down otherwise i think that would have even exceeded the maximum of the 1965. and more rain is expected julio i how

worried are you about your institute and where you work could this be affected as well. i can tell you i didn't left last night because i was really afraid of what was the situation here because we don't have all of the library here but we have an archive is a unique and it is talking about this the story of resistance in the 20th century in benny's you can see there are no other cars like this one and it is in a cellar. as soon as the island where we are separated i thought i learned from the from vanity baseball judaica as soon as the public transport was connected again they came to see and we were in iraqi. waters stop it just a few centimeter from where it was the interest of the archive but i can tell you it was a close call it is a metaphor of how dedicated these cities and how. how the situation was bad

handled not in the last 20 years but in the last 50 years nothing changes there by the 96 to 60 i can tell you that you said this is being handled poorly i mean what do you think of what the city what authorities there have done to prepare for situations like these. what it is would be difficult to summarize in few moments but i can tell you the project that the supposed to protect the grannies that it's called and oh i see it was broken really gaining because no one will scroll to the where a lot of a lot of doubts about that the city council of venice protested to the last moment in which it was possible prepared to have an alternative to that and it was because it stopped at any kind of objection with the play by the federal government now what we got was a lot of corruption and the reason that it's not working that's what we got after 55 years all right julio babo from the venice institute's of the study of the

history of the resistance and contemporary society thank you so much for joining us here on. donald trump is facing the biggest challenge yet of his presidency with potentially explosive public impeachment hearings due to open today lawmakers will question 2 diplomats on whether trump sought ukraine's help for his 2020 reelection campaign democrats are seeking to prove trump abuses office by threatening to withhold millions of dollars in aid to ukraine unless its government investigated the son of his chief political rival joe biden trump has called the process a scam but democratic leaders say it's significant and serious. let's go live to our correspondent alex on the phenomena in washington she's covering the hearing for us on capitol hill i like sandra so how dramatic is this moment for donald trump's presidency. well what we certainly can say is that this is a momentous and historic day here on capitol hill because it's happening only for

the 3rd time in the modern u.s. history that the president of the united states is facing an impeachment inquiry and we will see today how dramatic it will be we know that president trump has to try this new pietschmann inquiry as to which happened as a presidential harassment but it is also very telling because of how he is going to spend this day he has invited president to one of turkey to the white house they are going to meet then there are holding a joint press conference and this is of course very telling because it shows that president trump wants to district the attention of which from what is going on here on capitol hill and by holding this press conference he wants to have an opportunity to direct respond to what is going to be testified she on capitol hill was also to get under way shortly there on capitol hill who will we hear from alexander and what are we expecting them to say. we are going to hear

from 2 american top diplomats one of them is william taylor their american top diplomat in ukraine the abra is their deputy assistant secretary of the state department john kander and they have already provided the investigators with vivid details on the trump administration's efforts to pressure the ukrainian government the ukrainian president to investigate president strums political opponent joe biden so this are very crucial testimony and one of the top diplomats is a key witness it is as i said william taylor because he's a career diplomat who served under different administrations and who is very well respected and known for his pickable memory. and you talk a little bit about what the president will be doing today what about where publicans how are they planning to descend the president well for them

this is the 1st chance to defend the president in a public hearing they have a clear strategy there was a memo that was circulated here yesterday so what they want to do is to 1st of all of course undercut the democrats' arguments they want to show that to minimize the president's role in all of that they want to depict the whole investigation in corrie as a political politically motivated witch hunt and they are saying that listen there was no wrongdoing there just just reached a transcript there was no pressure and in the end ukraine has got the military aid that was promised so that is there a strategy here and alexander just quickly these hearings are being publicly televised how much interest is there. well it doesn't seem to be too much

interest according to a new poll that was published today 62 percent of americans say that they have already made up their mind so not much interest as it seems but we are just at the beginning the 1st hearing is going to start today only the 1st one more to come all right you have used alexander from in there on capitol hill thank you so much. in bolivia opposition sen union yes has declared herself interim president after the former leader if a model is stepped down the constitutional court has endorsed and yes even though there was not enough lawmakers present in congress to appoint her morales has gone into exile in mexico he is accusing on yes of instigating a coup i. yes we could but levy is opposition chance the presidential palace is finally there is after 14 years but

in the most controversial of circumstances. and yes has bitterly opposed the country's ruler since she entered to live in politics over a decade ago now the senate vice president has declared herself the next in line to the presidency. thank you to everyone in bolivia fix heaping faith i promised her a tan democracy and stability to believe via. t.v. . but has the news come to power democratically moments earlier she made her constitutional case bubbles put on this is that you know. with the ruling party boycotting the national assembly she told opposition lawmakers that she had to step into the breach and take the president's job i actually i assume the state presidency immediately as specified in the constitution for me. but longtime leader evo morales

a shadow still looms over events at the morales is no in mexico where he was granted asylum after he resigned from there he is continuing to reel against his removal from power her out. on twitter morales quickly responded to and yes his declaration writing. the sneakiest and most nefarious coup in history has been completed a right wing coup mongering senator has proclaimed himself president of the senate and then interim president of bolivia a former president told the news that morales is a legit vote rigging was necessary in order to save democracy. and that i will leave you the lesson bolivia will learn is that a government that takes a step outside the rule of the law must be condemned by the bolivian people and the international community because when you allow the 1st violation the 2nd and 3rd

come to and they grow they become a snowball. and yet morale is still has support especially among the country's poor indigenous communities. they've responded with anger to his declaration less than a month after contested presidential election plunged the country into chaos the battle for bolivia sold only seems to be escalating. let's get a round up now some other stories making news around the world violent protests have again broken out in the chilean capital santiago after the national currency the peso dropped to an historic low weeks of mass street protests have plunged the country into crisis protesters are demanding wide ranging social reforms and they want president sebastian pinera to step down israeli tanks have moved in along the border with gaza tensions have risen since an israeli airstrike killed a palestinian militant leader officials in gaza say the death toll in the latest

escalation has reached 12 a barrage of rockets has been fired into israel in retaliation. and paris is marking the 4th anniversary of the islamic state terror attacks that killed more than $100.00 people ministers and the city's mayor laid wreaths in remembrance of the victims jihadists targeted the concert hall as well as bars and restaurants near the national stadium. students from mainland china are leaving hong kong saying they're being targeted in escalating protests against beijing's influence over the territory local students at hong kong's chinese university have armed themselves with weapons to keep police off their campus last night police and students fought for control of a bridge near the university police chief has warned that hong kong society is on the brink of total breakdown. so let's bring in correspondent he's at the bridge leading to chinese university where protesters have

a set up barricades how much yes bring us up to date on what's been happening there where you are. well as you said this is the bridge that enters the compas and this is the bridge where police tried to enter campus yesterday which led to these clashes protesters have set up barricades here they have barricaded all the entrances to this university now this university is different from other universities in other parts of town in that it is in a hilly area and they're very few access points to this university so it's very easy to block off now the campus is under the control of the protesters and they are preparing for the police to return so they have set up not only barricades but they've also prepared hundreds and hundreds of knowledge of cocktails and weapons to counter the police if they were to enter but i in my opinion it's all it would be very difficult for them already for the geographical layout of this university

and there is also now an injunction in court pending where the student unions have asked an injunction that would prevent the police to enter university campuses without. permission from the university administration this is what has been the practice in hong kong and this is what the white east is east attempt yesterday to enter the university lead to these clashes because they thought it was a breach of the rules that were headed towards the students thought it was a breach of the rules that were existing just like this other any efforts at the moment the ask the late in the situation as it seems to grow ever more violent is there any and mediation happening between hong kong leadership and these protesters . not that i know yesterday there was an attempt by the president of the university into negotiate with the police and the approach between the police and the protesters demanding the crew do police to retreat from this bridge

and then the protesters would have to promise that they would not throw anything. at the police in the direction of at the cost of holies perch when he was still talking to protesters police advanced already and the protesters were continuously throwing stuff so then clashes erupted and this was by far the most violent clashes that i've witnessed since i have been here in hong kong reporting from the very beginning of this movement there were hundreds and hundreds what he said today 1500 rounds of tear gas fired in the whole city but a major part here in its inside seconds it was it was really a fire so this is of course leading to an escalation and the government has made clear it is not intending to give in to any demands now what negotiations can there be if the government says that all of that giving into the demands what would be wishful thinking so i don't see any effort by any side to solve this in

negotiations and there's nobody no neutral instance who would be able to do this at the moment considering that also everything the government negotiates needs. to go from beijing. correspondent to ts telling of reporting there with the very latest from hong kong thank you. kenya's president to whittle kenyatta has pledged to end the same male genital mutilation by 2022 kenyatta and other african leaders attending a un conference on population and development are also calling for an end to trial marriage the 3 day summit in the kenyan capital nairobi brings together more than $6000.00 participants from $160.00 countries to discuss sexual and reproductive health and women's rights. these are new buildings on the edge of nairobi's biggest slum the city is bursting at the seams especially in the poorest areas nairobi's population has grown by 40 percent in the last 10 years budgets for improving water

supplies or education aren't keeping up with the rapid population growth bringing problems that particularly affect young women those attending this population conference in nairobi agree improving women's rights is the key a vision of full equality for women and girls and of reproductive rights for all that vision is still far from reality 25 years ago un member states agreed to that rather than trying to influence the size of the populations countries should instead focus on improving the lives of individuals particularly women. this project in nairobi supports girls through vocational training and sex education. it's run by a german nonprofit with the backing of the german government to do what has been unified when god is really young women have a child and by the way girls aged 15 to 19 have 21000000 unwanted pregnancies every

year in africa often their lives are almost over because they don't have any chance to further educate themselves. germany says it'll up its contribution to un population research from 22 to 33000000 euro i say yeah the conference organizers in nairobi hope that by the time it wraps up on thursday more countries. follow suit. you're watching d.w. news still to come on our show climate change activists credit to embark is looking for a boat to take her back to europe for the next big climate change conference in madrid it looks like she's found one but it will be a race against time. but 1st paris is hosting a design an art fair focusing on africa the fair called also known as africa attracted more than $100.00 artists and more than 40 exhibitors it's a leading platform for showcasing contemporary african art and creative design to european audiences francisco the doll traces his roots back to angola the dolls

art pays homage to the country's struggle for peace and the life of its rural workers. he uses the powerful symbol of the machete for the dollar it's more than just an implement used in the fields across africa so it's. our 1st to you know greek culture but also it was a 2 that was used in africa to start revolution so i think i want the painting to be revolutionary this is one of europe's most prominent dedicated to contemporary art and design from the african continent here its innovation and a distinctive style that caught artists whose pieces have a link to africa by showcasing their work. for the

spin at the forefront of this people are discovering art coming from africa they're realizing that it's a new language it's good to be fresh to us really new and they're starting to collect works there's a real market opening up. for the doll it's not just about taking inspiration from the past. i want it to be something that is from the present but you project on the future so the doing. its. is to say that we want to project something into the future forward looking and innovative this paris art fair is opening curious eyes to african art and helping african artists capitalize on their talents. now the climate change activists gratitude burke sailed across the atlantic to new york as part of her campaign to get a world leaders to act on climate change she was supposed to continue on to the cop

25 un climate conference in chile next month but that's been moved to madrid leaving to embark on the wrong side of a large ocean and unwilling to fly. she's found a raw each. wants to go back to europe but won't take a plane so she asked if anyone was sailing her way and gotten off. fittingly for a campaign and whose message spread around the world via social media she's traveling with a family that found fame and income fly instagram. many say the teenager has been pivotal in raising awareness and pushing for action on climate change she also credits u.s. president trump he is so extreme and he says so extreme things. so i think people wakes. people wake up by that in

a way so i think if. the situation would of course have been different if he was not the president. but i thought when he got elected that's now people will finally now people must find a way out. she's done her best to leave a smaller carbon footprint as possible but she's left a mark on the united states as gratitude to him but prepares to leave america artists unveiled a tribute in san francisco her next focus 1st the climate conference if i get to the cup 25 in time then i will participate in that because i received an invitation to do so and then i'll go home i think. for a bit of tennis news now austria's dominick team booked an early semifinal spot at the a.t.p. finals with a stunning groups stage victory over world number one novak djokovic joke of it

took the 1st set 76 but the 5 time champion could not hold team off any longer the 26 year old won the next 2 sets and called it the best matches ever played he has now beat roger federer and novak djokovic back to back to move on to the semifinals the prestigious tournament in london features the top 8 men's players in the world's. let's get a reminder now of our top stories on day w. the tourist spots of venice have been submerged after the highest tide in more than half a century cause serious flooding the mayor says the damage will cost hundreds of millions of euros u.s. president donald trump is facing the biggest challenge yet of his presidency as the impeachment inquiry goes public live on t.v. democrats are seeking to prove that trump abused his office. coming up next on t.v. news asia china wants to create its own at yellowstone national park it's good news

for the environment but is it bad news for tibetans. and released on bail last month pakistan's former prime minister might now get to leave the country. fears battered she has those stories and much more coming right up on deja vu news asia in just a few minutes don't go away. equal

opportunities for everyone regardless of ethnicity or parents unfortunately for many migrants in germany that remains a distant dream. many companies are trying to make their application process is more inclusive but does that really go against discrimination.

made in germany in 60 minutes on d w. earth a home or saving gloom geos tell stories of creative people and live aid of projects around the world ideas to protect the climate and boost green energy solutions but global warming to those be embodied in series of global 3000 on d. w. and online. how is your view of the well. where i come from but all of that could just go just like this chinese food does measure where i am always reminds me of home after decades of living in germany china's food is one of the things i miss the most but that taking a step back i see things i need to differentiate knowledge plenty of fluids 1st as an articulation that exists to add the part of the wallet haven't been implemented

in china that's why you've knocked up china for a full one knowing if their forty's save lives but if i have the right to learn all that is this is the job of just under the my how i see it and the why i left my job because i tried to do it exactly what it is an hour a day. my name. and i was abducted 2. if. this is. coming up breathtaking. what caused china want to set up national parks to preserve a view of pristine environment but concern over the impact of people living there also coming up from fierce critic to the head of the philippines just anti drugs campaign why did god do to point his vice president to head.