so this. was a cold storage nov 27th on t.w. . this is due to be news live from berlin taking the proceedings to the people the u.s. house of representatives opens historic public in pietschmann hearings against president donald trump in the biggest challenge yet to his presidency democrats want to prove he abused his office also coming up state of emergency venice the city of canal suffers its worst floods in half

a century the 2nd highest tide ever recorded since water gushing down the famous in the streets and alleyways the mayor brings climate change plus a bolivia gets a new silver declared leader for the time being at least opposition senator janine anya is a declares herself in a room president the former president evo morales accuses her and others are staging a coup. and made in germany electric car maker tesla will build its new european gigafactory near berlin c.e.o. you long musk says he's clucking into germany's reputation for expertise in engineering. on little rock it's great to have you along everyone and we begin with this donald trump is facing the biggest challenge yet of his presidency. potentially explosive

public impeachment hearings starting momentarily lawmakers will question to diplomats on whether president donald trump solicited ukraine's help for his 2820 election campaign and we're showing you live pictures and now from inside the house will democrats are trying to prove the president abused his office by threatening to withhold millions of dollars in aid to ukraine unless that government investigated the son of his chief political rival joe biden well the trump has called the process a scam by a democrat leaders say it's significant and serious. all right let's take you now live to alexander the nominee in washington she will be covering these impeachment to hearings for us alexandra historic day where you are. well indeed this is a very historic day because it's happened just 2 times in or it's happening for the

3rd time in the modern u.s. history that the president of the united states is facing the prospect of impeachment and as you said this is the biggest challenge so far to presidents trumps presidency and he has to cry out in korea as politically motivated witch hunts and he said that there was no wrongdoing that his phone call with president of ukraine with president was appropriate that it was perfect but of course many democrats are convinced that it is evidence that president strom abused his office and this is for the 1st time that they can make their case to the american public right a lot of interest obviously we've been showing some live pictures while you were reporting of committee chairman adam schiff who is expected to make the opening statement to any moment now tell us

a little bit about the timeline who will speak. so we have 2 witnesses scheduled to testify today 2 top diplomats one of them is william taylor america's top diplomat in ukraine. is deputy assistant secretary at the deprived of state george cans and both of them have already provided the investigators with vivid details about the trump administration's efforts to pressure the ukraine government to investigate president strums political opponent joe biden and his son hunter and i think that william taylor taylor in particular is a key witness because he is a very respected top diplomat who served under different administrations for 50 years and he is well respected here and he already told the investigator touch this to get to his whole concern to about what was going on with regards to recreate

ukraine and how concerned he was believing that the military aid that was supposed to be given to ukraine was really the condition to give it to the queen it was ukraine's announcement to investigate the bidens and bill taylor obviously as you reporting right now just entered the room lots hanging there in the balance what are democrats hoping to gain from having this process unfold in public alexandra. well as you may remember it was the republicans also who sat there they wants to hear in public what's the witnesses have to say and for the democrats it's also very important to hold those public hearings because of course they know that in the end they have to convince the

american people of that president's trump has abused his office and said that this is an impeachable offense so for them it is very important to make their case to the american public are dollars on a phenomena reporting thank you so much. well next one of europe's most important cultural landmarks in the world's most popular tourist destination is facing catastrophe venice is swapped suffering from the highest tide in more than half a century the tide level peaked at just under 2 meters leaving homes inundated boats stranded and tourists wading through historic st mark's square the mayor is urging government to help and says the damage is likely to cost hundreds of millions of euros. alarm sounds throughout venice's historic center warning people to find higher ground to escape one of the worst floods in decades high winds and rain caused the water level to surge to

almost $0.19 a meters with waves crashing into buildings. the mayor luigi broken out of film can sell for the famous mark square and blamed climate change for the extreme weather. some applies to all good after the others for the full diversity we just can't wait unfortunately. we have reached a new negative record these are the period we have to stand together against the effects of climate change to the from tight accuse the question of getting your trade to the community. now it's all hands on deck to push stranded boats back into the water. larger vessels require more than manpower. tourists are taking raised walkways to reach the city's famous sites including st mark's basilica.

the basilica itself was flooded for only the 6th time and its 1200 year old history . workers are assessing the damage. there is plenty of anger here the more a system designed to protect venice from high water has faced constant delays all this sort of did she added for the movie they've been on it for 10 years but they've done nothing it's in total neglect just doesn't work and it's only $6000000.00 euros in italy unfortunately that's the way it is our politicians are all thieves we should all be in jail. if god said it. was locals take in the aftermath city officials say the damage totals hundreds of millions of euros face as people prepare for yet more days of flooding. and we can take you to venice now to a julio bobo he works at the venice institute for the study of contemporary history so good of you to join us sir now the governor of the venator region

a look at syria described the floods as apical liptak devastation a with more rain forecast how worried are you. and start into that in rewarding now because what was supposed to happen it is really happening in the end the city is keeping to slowly sink into the bottom. level of the died in causing it constantly growing and we see that in this moment we don't have a real project that seems to work for try to put at least the situation on hold or under control until it will be able to be handled the completely i'm wanted to because i see that what was called an extraordinary time i tell you started to get the mahler a more normal and what happened yesterday it was a clear demonstration that there was in the control of the situation exactly to put this in perspective for us because the phenomenon of course of the high water is an

annual seasonal occurrence in venice and you kind of have to expect at this time of the year what makes it so different this time round. well yes it is more. that it is a phenomenon that is happening in the speed of the year so starting from fall into and it can be expected that bad water can make the difference so what can turn a normal dad into a. fit can be can change really in the last moments because you have a many factors were getting together the 1st month it is a tiger and then the usual like yesterday then you have the weather so if you have a if you have a depression it is it is a given more power to the tired it is and then at the end you can have a single event that is completely making lose the balance like the storm the school that you had yesterday in few minutes it's charge of completing

a situation intended even the provisional who was of a $21.00 immediate and 60 to diminish that and it went to of almost a thirty's intimidation more in. a matter of a half an hour so it is really not possible to go. to have the possibility to control and have a proper provision because it has too much to do with the weather so it briefly if you can in terms of the authorities handling of these floods i mean what do you make of it were they prepared. we're not prepared the major project who was supposed to help us to protect the city is not working it is not supposed to start to work for at least another 2 years and there are major flaws who are already there were expected the now are showing all they're ready and they are starting to show up now so we don't know if we have or in the event tomorrow or in

a year we will be equally unable to to prevent it and to help again stated as it is working out and that we can tell that this comes out of the blue because it is 50 years it is more than 50 years that we knew it would have to happen again julio a ball boy and works at the venice institute for the study of contemporary history thank you sir for giving us that update. your what. i want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world violent protests have again broken out in the chilean capital santiago after the national currency the past so dropped to a historic low weeks of mass street protests have plunged the country into crisis or testers are demanding wide ranging social reforms and they want president sebastian pinera to stand down. israel has launched new air strikes against palestinian militants in gaza leaving several dead tensions have risen after the israeli military killed

a senior leader of the islamic jihad early on tuesday at least 21 palestinians have been killed in the airstrikes it's as have fired hundreds of rockets into israel in retaliation. at least 7 people have been killed in a car bomb explosion media interior ministry in the afghan capital kabul no group has yet claimed responsibility in the blast comes a day after a prisoner exchange between the government and talabani insurgents which was aimed at diffusing violence in afghanistan. paris is marking the 4th anniversary of the so-called islamic state terror attacks that killed more than $100.00 people ministers in the city's mayor laid wreaths and remembrance of the victims shot his target at the but that concert hall as well as bars and restaurants and the national stadium. and bolivia opposition senator jeanine onions has declared herself interim president after the former leader evo

morales step down the constitutional court has endorsed her even though there were not enough lawmakers present in congress to appoint her or alice has gone into exile in mexico and he's accusing her of instigating a coup. yes we could bolivia's off position chance the process. finally there is after 14 years but in the most controversial of circumstances jeanine and yes has bitterly opposed the country's ruler since she entered 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 to keeping faith i promised her a tan democracy and stability to believe. what has and yes come to power democratically. there she made her constitutional case.

from is this 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 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 it. 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. the lesson bolivia learned 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 the. only seems to be escalating. and students from mainland china

early leaving hong kong because they say they're being targeted in escalating protests against beijing's influence over the territory local students at hong kong chinese university have armed themselves with weapons and a bit to keep police off their campus last night police and students fought for control of a bridge at the university police chief has warned that hong kong society is on the brink of total breakdown and our correspondent in mathias bullinger sent us this summary from hong kong. a tense calm has prevailed on this campus and on this bridge during that day and the even ing the day before police were coming in from this bridge were trying to enter the campus but they were met with resistance from the protesters this was by far the most violent battle that i've witnessed in all these months of covering the protests with police shooting hundreds of canisters of tear gas and rubber bullets to the protesters and the protesters hurling hundreds

of monitor of copters towards the police until they were able to drive them off this bridge now they have $45.00 dead bury kids they have prepared hundreds or even thousands of molotov cocktails again so if the police was to return here we would see another very intense and violent battle here we do not know what the police is planning at the moment but we do know that this has been a new step of escalation and there is at the moment no sign of any deescalation happening the point that the government has said it would not give in to any of the demands of the protesters calling it wishful thinking that they could meet an e of these demands and the protesters have vowed to stay on the streets until their demands are met nobody at the moment is in a position to negotiate between the 2 sides so we are probably going to see

a lot more of this and he is billing it reporting from hong kong for you watching it we news still to come. climate change activists crediting bird 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 tesla is set to build its 1st european factory on the outskirts of berlin c.e.o. iran. musk announced the plan at an awards ceremony in the german capital the new gigafactory will produce vehicles power trains and batteries musk says tesla chose germany because of the country's reputation for engineering prowess the new plant is expected to create around 10000 new jobs it will be based near berlin's new long delayed airports. let's get you more on this story our very own anthony howard is

here good to have a look here anthony tesla is not just any car company it is the one at the moment why has he almost decided to build this get a plant here he's closing in circle into europe they've been moving from the states where they've got to get factories in very very big size and one in buffalo as well then i went to china they're adding another $500000.00 cars a year they want to produce in china for that market and now they're coming to europe as well they're expecting to add another $500000.00 vehicles but it's also they coming into the home of robotics and fabrication they talk a lot about learning to make the machine that makes the machine that is what he's doing is coming right into the heart of that very notion here in germany and they've got a head start in this market and i want to keep it they have to keep having to keep their advantage that they've got ok give us a timeline when will production start now you live in berlin and you don't want to lie he signed 2021 and the reason we should explain why it is the lottery is that

it's taken the 1000000000 construction industry 11 is not to finish an airport so must to come here and say that he wants to finish a factory that makes 500000 cars is 120 football fields lodge in its footprint it think seems more fiction than science but this is part of the gone what makes him so interesting he pushes on people and he pushes on norms and that's what he's doing here so i reach for the stars basically always right now will tesla give the likes of volkswagen and mercedes a run for their money if they will i think if you ask them. 2 years ago i think i wouldn't have taken him so seriously this is the man who smoked weed on a podcast marijuana here and there he called someone a pedophile who was a cave rescue he's a brain erratic and hard to keep up with it didn't impress regulators it didn't impress investors but last month they announced that they had made 100000 vehicles on nearly 100000 vehicles out of the us and the share price rise in iran took him seriously so i think the local market sees him as a threat not just in terms of what he brings to the market but he's got his hand

out now for all that money that merkel says is for investment he's a big threat to that money and the local market here briefly if you can this is a man with a my just how much how is he going to fit in here he's not and that's what makes it so great at the land where you line up for a number to sign up for an application form the long mosque is going to be a bomb that goes off here and whether it works or whether it's a success i don't know if it is going to be must see t.v. it's going to be a road city thank you so much and think how great having your. now the climate change activists say gratitude works sailed across the atlantic to new york as part of her campaign to get world leaders to act on climate change she was supposed to continue on to the cop 25 climate conference in chile next month but that's been moved to madrid leaving to work on the wrong side of a large ocean and unwilling to fly. she's

found the right. 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 via 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's 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. this interation 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. to go with a shy smile and a fierce message is on her way. tennis now austria's domenic team booked an early semifinal spot at the a.t.p. finals with a stunning group stage victory over world number one novak djokovic or jockey which took the 1st set 76 but the 5 time champion could not hold team off longer the 26 year old won the next 2 sets and called this the best match he's ever played for

he has now beaten roger federer and nadal 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. in american football the n.f.l. has arranged a trial workout for quarterback collin capper nick all 32 teams are invited kaplan it hasn't played since 2016 when he began kneeling for the national anthem in protest against racial injustice in the usa well the 32 year old received an undisclosed payout from the n.f.l. in february that followed a grievance claim he filed accusing owners of conspiring not to hire him but he says several teams now have asked about cabernets readiness to play with a player keen to return. this is due to the news these are top stories the u.s.

house of representatives has begun public hearings in the impeachment case against president donald trump's lawmakers are considering whether trump abused his office by pressuring ukraine to investigate the family of his political rival joe biden. the mayor of venice says the city is on its knees after the highest tide in more than 50 years flooded much of the city while city landmarks including st mark's basilica have suffered major damage with cost estimated in the hundreds of millions of euros. bolivia has a new interim leader opposition senator janine and yes' dick proclaimed herself president hours after a long term former head of state even morales fled to mexico is accused her of instigating a coup and his supporters boycotted her swearing in ceremony. electric

car maker tesla is to build its 1st european factory outside the german capital berlin the so-called gigafactory will produce both vehicles and batteries c.e.o. elon musk says tesla picked germany because of its engineering expertise the new plant will create 10000 new jobs. this is you know we've used from berlin for more follow us on twitter at v.w. news or visit our website w dot com. coming up next made in germany can ethnic origin kill a career. export.

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