bialik asked. managed by from. visited the news live from berlin a key ally takes this battle in the trumpet in peach mint inquiry u.s. envoy gordon song says he followed the president's orders when he offered ukraine a white house summit in return for investigating mr trump's political rival also on the program. israel on the brink of its 30 election inside a year blue white party leader as announced in the last few minutes that he will

not interfere to form a government before the deadline expires. to find out are lessons to be done truck climate change from penguins we'll hear from a correspondent in the antarctic. i'm from welcome to the program a key witness in the impeachment inquiry against president donald trump has described how the white house made military aid to ukraine conditional on kiev announcing an investigation into mr trump's political rival america's ambassador to the european union gordon song that was a clear pro quo in the president's push to get ukraine to investigate the son former vice president joe biden and his links to ukrainian energy company. i'm just someone's testimony came on the 4th day of the enquirer's public hearings. meeting

between president trump and ukraine's president was also on the table here's part of the ambassador's testimony. as i testified previously mr giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house visit for president selenski mr giuliani demanded that ukraine make a public statement announcing the investigations of the 2016 election d.n.c. server and. mr giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the united states and we knew these investigations were important to the president as they don't lose that washington bureau chief. nominee welcome. this sounds damning is it it is

stemming for president from actually a real bombshell what we heard today from ambassador sun planned for 2 reasons he testified that he believed that president strummed was only willing to release u.s. military aid to ukraine and to meet with the ukrainian president if the ukrainians announce publicly that they are starting to investigation into his political opponents and for the democrats it amounts to a crime of bribery something that is an impeachable offense and that is what's to consider is saying the alba reason why this testimony is so damning is that sun plant told the investigators today that he and all the involved in this ukraine pressure come pain were following president strums orders were acting at his direction so given this apparent smoking gun that what has been the reaction to

today's proceedings both amongst republicans and the public at large. well the republicans have dismissed this stats to money they are ambassador sandland in this hearing if he ever was told personally in a conversation with president strums that they were preconditions for the military 8 and then meeting at the white house and said no they ask him if he has any documents and he said no so they have a point there defending president trump's direct involvement and he himself already dismissed the testimony he said that he doesn't really know mr sunde lent one of his mega donors in the past that he has not spoken very often to him but we have to to keep in mind that it's not all about evidence and credible witnesses here it's about public opinion it's about what the american people believe

eventually and that is something that the republicans in the house and in the senate would have to consider. nominal capitol hill in washington thank you. i'm just international says more than 100 people have been killed in a government crackdown on protests in iran you know the rest broke out after fuel prices were increased by have to 50 percent responded to the disruption with armored vehicles and water cannon supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has described the protests as a security matter. very little information reaches the outside world from iran authorities have shut down the internet whether there are still protests there and where they may be taking place it's difficult to verify. videos from monday evening show angry demonstrators some are demanding that the government step down the protests were sparked by a drastic increase in the price of gasoline u.s.

sanctions and mismanagement are the main causes of iran's economic crisis. also by the i have 3 jobs to support myself of course people are upset and now they found a reason to show their dissatisfaction everyone does it in their own way. but of course the pictures of men who have been arrested are shown on state television they're accused of initiating the protests at the behest of other countries one hard line newspaper reports they could face the death penalty. more than 1000 people are believed to have been arrested in the wake of the protests the un has expressed concern over the security services heavy handed response. numbers killed certainly in the dozens. in at least 2 figures some reports even higher so it would be very useful to have a better clearer picture but it's clearly very significant meanwhile the iranian

leadership is that hearing to a hard line internet restrictions are still in effect in iran. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world riot police in zimbabwe have attacked supporters of the opposition movement for democratic change the crowd gathered in the capital harare to him a speech by a d.c. leader nelson chamisa he later said the incident showed the government was afraid of public anger about the country's collapsing economy. the standoff between police and pro-democracy protesters at the hong kong university appears to be white. down with police sealing off possible escape routes including sewers they say they want to arrest several dozen activists who are still barricaded inside campus buildings more than a 1000 have been arrested since monday. pope francis was greeted by adoring crowds and bangkok as the arrive for a weeklong tour of thailand and japan hopes his visit will boost catholics to trust

pressing regional issues like human trafficking is the 1st pope to visit thailand since john paul the 2nd in 1984. the antarctic is one of the most remote parts of the world but also one that is warming the quickest scientists fear that global warming is melting the confidence ice contributing to rising sea levels. is a key barometer for the impacts of climate change i want to dozens of international the barges monitoring the effects of global warming where is the noise my last station we went to see how the research is study climate change. antarctica a continent almost completely covered in ice yet extremely sensitive to even the slightest changes in climate. it's edge the frozen ocean front is home to the emperor penguin here on the ice shelf it's freezing cold perfect conditions for

emperor penguin breeding researchers say if the climate changes it would most likely affect them right now they're trying to count the penguins in the colony. do you think you could only it's i think a huge danger for this penguin colony here is that the structure of the sea ice on which they've green it is changing. if there's an increase in temperature and the sea ice shrinks breaks up earlier in the year their breeding season will be shortened or they may not have any pleading grants or tall any more under certain circumstances they wouldn't be able to build their colony a tall will be able to reproduce. so the research is a document in the penguins numbers from above with a drone they've been commissioned by the german environment ministry to get the big picture of what's happening here. because the camera looks directly down and takes

picture after picture at certain intervals. these pictures are supposed to work a lot that way we can piece them together as far as possible because. they do that here a few kilometers away at the alfred vega institute's noir maya station the research is used 3 d. simulators to collate their data on the colony in the long term they hope to deliver valuable information on if and how the emperor penguins are reacting to warming worldwide temperatures. if warming is limited to 1.5 or 2 degrees celcius has agreed in the paris accords this species of penguin could survive and if not they'll be wiped out by 2100 at the very latest for all the scientists measure how much things are warming up on the roof of the research station they send up weather balloons to collect and send back relevant data over the coming years the researchers hope to measure what changes where and by how much.

and so on at this station for example we're not actually seeing any changes in temperature. it's the same at many other stations across antarctica but that's not the case on the antarctic peninsula so there's been a stark rise in temperatures there still. and it's that peninsula which is causing plate see a crusts in the most northerly reaches of the antarctic to melt scientists there have also measured the warming of the water the climate change is already starting to eat away at antarctica it's just a question of how far the effects will reach. football and just say marino has been announced as the new coach of english premier tottenham hotspur replacing tino a marine has won multiple titles in portugal england italy and spain his most recent coaching position was at manchester united where he was sacked in december

last year but to tino took charge of spurs in 2014 and led them to the champions league final last season but fell short of expectations this season. germany's national football team have completed their your own 2020 qualifying campaign on a high beating northern ireland 61 in frankfurt on tuesday drink from munich with a canal break and strikes from i mean union brand new become from a deficit to record when this means they finish top of the qualifying group ahead of old rivals and netherlands i've never been through also qualified after the match t w jonathan kreisberg with the midfielder and great john about how germany is shaping up ahead of next use tournament obviously it was difficult year last year do you think the team is now turned a corner and it's going in the right direction. the ira going the right direction i

think we have a young group and we have a lot of injured players as well and we didn't play that often to get like that like today and to about it great and. i hope in the future which i think it's been the difference this year and what's improved. you have a lot of for a new play i think a very good player and. the spirit and theme is very strong and. we are very hungry to think that you. know jewish organizations here in germany have condemned the sale of hundreds of items of nazi memorabilia most of which belong to high ranking nazi officers the sale has raised questions about how germany should deal with products from this dock and its history this top hat once belonged to otto if it's now it was one of the highest rated items at the munich option a bit up paid $50000.00 euros for it many optics feature the swastika a nazi symbol considered anti constitutional in germany and is therefore banned.

all these emblems or these not see flags or whatever they they sell or the bar you know i mean it was and still is not support for governor so in moral and ethical terms i think it's highly problematic the auctioneer on the other hand claims that objects like the top hat are historical pieces of evidence and. it is a historical object like any other the fact that its owner was a mass murderer is under sputum but the things that belong to him and were part of his environment should not be mythologized by hitting that sale today and handle support of the thing personal items the auctioneer said would show the banality of evil the historian rejects this he believes context that's necessary context that can be provided in a museum without placing them in the proper into the proper historical context. you don't understand them it would just be

a measure of voyeurism and the objects themselves do not speak to you the auction house said that it conducts checks on its bidders but in effect it is impossible to control who buys nazi memorabilia and for what reason. ok. up next with the business south africa. don't forget the website d w dot com world news of the top of the hour of the day. what secrets lie behind the swap. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. t.w. world heritage $360.00 get the maps now. to show hello

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