this is g.w. news live from berlin the most anticipated witness in the trump impeachment hearing so far delivers a stunning testimony today u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon says that the u.s. president directed him to pressure ukraine to investigate trump's political rival joe biden and he says everyone around the president knew about it also coming up

israel on the brink of the 3rd election inside of a year blue and white party leader of any guns who says he cannot put together a coalition before a midnight deadline prime minister benjamin netanyahu has also failed to form his own government and on this world of children's day we look at the plight of thousands of youngsters in togo's capital instead of going to school earn a living collecting garbage plus find out about the lessons to be learned about climate change from penguins to hear from our correspondents in the antarctic. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with this we begin tonight with that bombshell testimony. in washington today

a key witness in the impeachment hearings against president donald trump has described how the white house made military aid to ukraine conditional on ukraine announcing an investigation into trump's political rival joseph america's ambassador to the european union gordon's online says that there was a clear quid pro quo in the president's push to get ukraine to investigate the son of former vice president joe biden and his links to the ukrainian energy company jury sma ambassadors on was testimony came on the 4th day of the investigations public hearings. a white house meeting between trump and ukraine's president zelinsky was also on the table here's part of what someone said today as i testified previously mr giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house does it for president selenski mr giuliani demanded that ukraine

make a public statement announcing the investigations of the 2016 election d.n.c. server and the recent mr giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the united states and we knew these investigations were important to the president . our let's take this now to our correspondent on the story for us in washington good evening to you this was without question damning testimony coming from the ambassador against the u.s. president how much damage did it do to the president. well brand in fact it sounded like a lot of damaging material essentially ambassador saw and hear confirmed exactly what the democrats are trying to prove that there was this in famous quote quid pro

quo what democrats are now calling a criminal act of bribery that president and his administration including his private lawyer rudy giuliani were pushing for and that is an exchange of investigations against president trump's political rival joe biden in exchange for an invitation for ukraine's president selenski to the white tells as well as military aid worth hundreds of millions of dollars so very damaging material if you are interested in it because the crucial problem here for the democrats at this point is that opponents and supporters of impeachment in korea very much staying behind party lines at this point and speaking of party lines what has been the response from the republicans they certainly didn't want to hear what they heard today. absolutely so the strategy 3 not even today but that has been the strategy of the republicans throughout the last days is

that they're trying to dismiss and especially to undermine the credibility of the witnesses here that this happened the days before and several other testimonies and this happened today again when they asked investors on land whether president tom personally demanded this quid pro quo in a conversation with him and of course investor sunland had to say no that personal conversation. never happened in contrast he spoke to his private lawyer to several other members of the administration and then president trump today even reiterated that by saying he doesn't even know ambassador silent personally that he joined the administration late that he wasn't even a trump supporter in the 1st place but again in contrast calls himself a lifelong republican so democrats believe he has a high level of credibility and they're certainly trying to capitalize on that right this is indeed the case g.w. celebre salat covering the story for us tonight from capitol hill in washington

oliver thank you. well here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world britain's prince andrew has said that he will step back from public duties for the foreseeable future he has been embroiled in controversy over his friendship with the convicted pedophile the late jeffrey epstein epstein was found hanged in a new york jail cell 3 months ago riot police in zimbabwe have attacked and supporters of the opposition movement for democratic change a crowd had gathered in the capital harare to hear a speech by m.d.c. leader nelson chamisa he later said that 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 a hong kong university appears to be winding 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. in israel a 3rd election within a year looks increasingly likely tonight has begun says announce that he has not been able to form a new government guns of the opposition blue and white party had until midnight on wednesday to establish a governing coalition under a presidential mandate but he has told israel's president that he has had no success persuading other parties to support a minority government prime minister benjamin netanyahu has also tried and without succeed success to form a government. it's correspondent tonya kramer she's in jerusalem on the story for us tonight going to need to you. god sees just declare that he's unable to form a government and what's been the problem for him. well there have been many

problems on the way behind many guns speaking tonight giving his statement handing back his mandate to some hours early ahead to the midnight but what he basically said is that i mean he very well noted at the rotas wanted to liberal brought unity government there was one problem that's when you netanyahu he kind of accused netanyahu to hold the country hostage to you know not. going away from his block off the national trend nationally and religious parties that netanyahu had formed just right after the last election they had 55 seats so short of the 61 netanyahu would have needed to form a national right wing coalition government that was one of the main problems the other problem it appears plus as they retain a sin of such a unity government it would have been a retainer

a premiership and there was disagreements who would go 1st and also what would happen if the acting prime minister netanyahu would a possibility of be indicted on the way. mr gunn said he had made far reaching compromises but at the end it didn't work out and he would now focus on the coming weeks what step to come you know what you know what is going to happen next. well now the monday it was given back to the president and he will just hand it now and that's quite interesting to the parliament now x.e. public members have now 21 days and any of those members of knesset could now say. they are able to form a coalition government if they get those 61 seats together to form subsequent government. and the guns has said you know there will still be and talks and also prime minister netanyahu that will still be talks and you know they were trying to

get a unity government together but that's highly unlikely so it looks more likely that we might have for another the action asserts election after the fury it are to diffuse tanya kramer on the story force in jerusalem tanya thank you for european countries are not keeping up with their promises to support libya in coping with the number of migrants in the country that is what libya's deputy prime minister is claiming in an exclusive interview with him sebastian on w.'s conflicts all i know it's in a human it to me russia team were pretty if we would do our best despite that that is not think been done from denton national community that has not been done that is no what he had had what you hear he's always used to blame some no i'm not blaming them we're not blaming them we are enough for the conditions and are up nations and the military and and there is a responsibility lie and i want to show that as

a government to florida but we out of time for and conflict and that's why we need the international community to stand by us has been gus to manage this fire it's a big fire maybe you can look at it with this fire i don't. and you can see jim sebastian's entire interview with the libyan deputy prime minister that's right here on to to be a news in about 20 minutes from now or you can watch it online on demand d.w. dot com slash conflict zone. you're watching the news still to come what can penguins teach us about climate change will head to antarctica and see if we can find help that's coming up in just a month or. once a day is unicef world children's day 30 years since world leaders made a commitment to protect the young from violence and neglect now only one country has yet to ratify the un convention on the rights of the child and that is the

united states and since the conventions adoption deaths of children under the age of 5 have fallen by 60 percent and the number of under nearest children has dropped by about health progress but despite this daily life is still a struggle for many children around the world the w. now reports from the capital of togo. these kids should be in school however instead they spend every morning connecting when they live on the streets of tokens copy toony collecting trash is one of the main means for them of the community. help. i have been doing this for 3 years but i don't like it i would like to study to become a painter and have my own business. i round 7000 children live on the streets of the west african country they all have their own

reasons why they are homeless for some it's an issue of poverty and insufficient resources forcing them to migrate and when they try to return home their hopes are usually got to. i try to go back home once every 3 months to see if someone there would take care of me but nobody wants to take me in many of the children feel ashamed and that's why they wish to remain anonymous the lack of a social safety net for kids in tow go eats them painfully unprotected. got home sometimes i slip in the market or the times i sleep at the same place where i sell the waste and got along. social worker kevin understands what these children are growing through all too well. when i was really young i also spent some time living on the streets for a while it was a really difficult time because the streets are not

a place for children and now i feel sad when i see on the streets because their minute of the dock moments in my life. kevin is the founder of health international an engineer that promotes children's rights and helps to reunite them with their families in addition to assisting them with daily issues on the street kevin wants to work to ensure a better future for them in the long run. this is the welcoming center which we call d n a that means well being here else international we provide a safe space situated where these children lead lives on the streets as you can see we are right in the middle of the ghetto but here the kids can come together and find people who care about them every morning the safe space turned into an alternative school the children come here to learn how to read and write and also

get to enjoy various social activities such as painting dancing or sports we have a vision for 2015 and it starts now with us implementing ways to provide these kids with access to education and also to involve your families so we would find them living on the street anymore kevin and his team will continue to tackle the issue of homelessness among young people and hope to help these teens find a fresh start. and for more now i'm joined by now. with unicef she joins us tonight from new york. good to have you on the program the u.n. convention on the rights of children 30 years old but i'm wondering what kind of impact does it have on the day to day reality for the children in the world like the ones we just saw in that report. i think it had a massive impact on millions of children around the world if we look at the statistics we know that many more children today are going to schools than were 30

years ago we know that the number of children who die of the rate of children who day from before their 5th birthday from from diseases which can very easily be preventable has also declined by 60 percent just over the past the past 6 to 13 years but we also know that that progress has not been affected all children everywhere we know that there are places around the world where those who live in the poorest communities continue not to benefit from from the gains that many other millions of others have secured thanks in large part to the conventional rights of the child so in your opinion what needs to be done nail reprove the plight of children. i think lots of actions need to be taken one of them is we need to know who the most vulnerable children are and how how many of them there are and how to get access to them so we can provide them with the support that they need we need to increased investments and children we need to make sure that there are enough resources to governments that also to the international organizations working on

the ground to be able to provide support and implement the programs that help children get access to school that help them get access to vaccination that help us fight issues like child marriage and all the other violations of rights and we also need to be looking forward to the next 30 years so we're not just reflecting on the progress that has been then and what needs to be done to the most vulnerable we also have to be looking looking forward to what else is happening in the mud and work today and children's daily life still day that needs to be addressed 30 years ago we didn't know much about climate change or about the impact of living in a digital space and that's very much oh yeah the key functions are now that we need to be aware of and find ways of addressing you know it's true and when we say we need to be aware of who do we mean there who's responsible you know in the report we just saw there in tokyo in geo has really come to the rescue of children but what about the role of governments and shouldn't they be doing more especially the

governments that signed the convention. oh absolutely government ultimately the 1st ones responsible for their wellbeing and the health and progress of the citizens of their countries and but we also see an increasingly important role by international organizations by by n.g.o.s by families that communities and i think one of the most impressive things that we see it around the world now is how young people themselves demanding to be part of the solution and are speaking loud and clear about their rights and the need for everyone who has a responsibility to provide those rights whether it's in relation to action on climate or in relation to education some of the most vocal voices we're hearing about all the world today are coming from children and young people who are out empowered and who are asking for their rights to be implemented and that if there's good news. joining us tonight from new york with unicef not sure we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you thank you for having me jewish

organizations here in germany have condemned a sale of hundreds of items of nazi memorabilia most of which belong to high ranking nazi officers the sellers raised questions about how germany should deal with relics from this dark chapter in its history this top hat once belonged to otto if it was one of the highest rated items at the munich option a bit a page $50000.00 euros for it many objects feature of a swastika a nazi symbol considered and he can see to snow in germany and is therefore banned . all these emblems that all these nazi flags the whatever they they sell all day bar you know i mean it was and still is not support and 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 a historical pieces of evidence and. it is

a historical object like any other the fact that its owner was a mass murderer is undisputed but the things that belong to him and were parts of his environment should not be mythologized by prohibiting that sale today. on the support of the thing personal items the auctioneer said would show the banality of evil the historian rejects this he believes context it'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 metro voyeurism and the objects themselves do not speak to you the ocean has said that it conducts checks on its betas but in effect it is impossible to control who buys nazi memorabilia and for what reason the and arctic is one of the remotest places on the planet and it's also one of the places that is warming most quickly and that makes it an important barometer for

measuring the effects of climate change on the earth therefore dozens of countries have decided to establish research stations there to monitor and study the effects of global warming one of those laboratories is the normal your station which is operated by a german research institute our correspondent money is a bird has been there to study how scientists study climate change and to witness its effects firsthand. 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.

deep in colony it's i think a huge danger for this penguin colony here is that the structure of the sea ice on which they green it is changing. if there's an increase in temperature and the sea ice shrinks breaks up earlier in the year they're breeding season will be shortened or they may not have any pleading grants or tall anymore 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 all. these pictures are supposed to work . that way we can piece them together as far as possible.

they do that here a few kilometers away at the alfred vacant institute's noir maya station the researches use 3 d. simulators to collate that 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. 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 of the stations across antarctica down but

that's not the case on the antarctic peninsula there's been a stock rise in temperatures there. to work. and it's that peninsula which is causing crusts in the most northerly reaches of the antarctic to melt scientists that have also measured the warming of the water climate change is already starting to eat away at antarctica it's just a question of how far the effects will reach. when i want to take you to the italian city of naples where a 16th century church is found an unlikely new function as a boxing gym in a neglected neighborhood in the north of the city a local priest invites teenagers in off the streets to learn the sport its rules and hopefully a different way of life. the sound of sirens is nothing out of the ordinary on the streets of rio. a neighborhood in northern naples home to high rates of

unemployment and organized crime opportunities for young people are scarce but 3 times a week in a 400 year old church some 60 local teenagers box to stay busy learn the strict rules of the discipline and let out their frustrations on the punchbag. as a child i love sport in general i practice different sports but boxing is the only one that makes me feel good both physically and mentally and allows me to express my emotions. the priest behind the program which has been running for around a year knows that boxing is no panacea for local social ills still he hopes to boost the self belief of the youngsters who take. you know we try to give the kids hints to say you can do things here in sunny we say if you can manage it here you can do it anyway that's our message. to local kids developing

that confidence in the boxing ring all grateful for the unusual charge so yes. well this is the w. news in these are our top stories a star witness has given the most explosive testimony so far in the impeachment hearings against u.s. president donald trump u.s. ambassador to the e.u. gordon sunderland told lawmakers that the white house made military aid to ukraine conditional on ukraine investigating trumps democratic rival joe biden. israel appears to be heading for its 3rd election inside of a year as opposition leader been guns has announced that he has not been able to form a new government guns had until midnight on wednesday to establish a governing coalition. britain's prince andrew says that he will step back from his

public duties for the foreseeable future he has been embroiled in controversy over his friendship with a convicted pedophile jeffrey epstein he was found hanged in new york jail cell 3 months ago. the stand off between free democracy protesters and police at hong kong's besieged polytechnic university appears to be coming to an end it's stalled around a 100 protesters are still inside the campus. this is news from berlin you can follow us on twitter at news or visit our website w dot com. i'll be back at the top of the i want.

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