this is g.w. news live from berlin the most anticipated witness in the trump impeachment hearings delivers a stunning testimony u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon says the president directed him to pressure ukraine to investigate crimes political rival joseph and he says everyone near the president knew about also coming out israel on the brink of its 3rd election inside of a year blue and white party leader but the guns and says he will not be able to form a coalition before a midnight deadline and police in malta arrest

a prominent businessman in connection with the murder of investigative journalist daphne zia the tycoon and his yacht were detained by the military today while apparently trying to flee the. time burnt off it's good to have you with a star witness has given the most explosive testimony so far in the impeachment hearings against u.s. president donald trump gordon song the u.s. ambassador to the european union had already given evidence behind closed doors about the alleged attempt to pressure ukraine's president selenski into starting an investigation into trump's democratic rival joe biden but at today's public hearing his online gave even more explosive details. u.s.

ambassador to golden sunderland now writing for the impeachment hearings the question everyone wants him to answer did president trump hold back financial 80 ukraine in exchange for a corruption probe into his democratic rival joe biden and his links to energy fund the reason the own said he was following instructions from trump's attorney rudy giuliani thank you please 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 but

what about the millions of dollars of military aid that ukraine was waiting for for president we learned that the white house had also suspended security aid to ukraine i tried diligently to ask why the aid was suspended but i never received a clear answer in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid i later came to believe that the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement from ukraine committing to the investigations of the 2016 elections and were recently as mr giuliani had demanded i shared concerns of the potential quid pro quo regarding the security aide with senator ron johnson and i also shared my concerns with the ukrainians you test them not good enough according to the republicans or you acknowledge that. this is

speculation right it was a presumption ok you subsume with that trump told him directly on not sunderland is still convinced action to talk by the 8th of september it was it was abundantly clear to everyone that there was a link should the ukrainians go out on a ledge and make the statement that president trump wanted them to make and then they still don't get their white house visit in their aid that would be really bad for our credibility the democrats have welcomed his testimony calling it significant. trump himself said it meant the impeachment inquiry was over much as he might wish it to be true it's up to the democrats when the hearings and. are you scared of washington bring in our correspondent over salad he's covering the story for skinny to you oliver i mean what we heard today was damning damning testimony

against the u.s. president how much was the president damaged by this today. well it sounds very damaging brand to the testimony of former you. gordon sunland here on capitol hill because what he confirmed is essentially what the democrats were hoping for that there was the so-called the now in famous quit pro quo that president trump and his administration pushed for investigations against trump's political rival joe biden in exchange for military aid worth hundreds of millions of dollars and best arsalan confirmed this was the case he also said that basically large parts of the administration as well as president tom's private lawyer rudy giuliani knew about it they all were on the same page today also adam schiff the chairman of the house intelligence committee who was basically leading the impeachment inquiry said that this was

a pivotal moment in the history of the impeachment inquiry and now the biggest challenge remaining for the democrats is to bring this message to the american voters to the public because ass off now all the supporters and opponents of the impeachment inquiry still staying very much behind party lines behind party lines despite that the republicans certainly can't be happy with what be heard today has there been reaction from the republicans. although republicans certainly are not and what they're trying to do is basically their strategy is to raise doubt about the credibility of these witnesses they've done that in all the recent hearings and they've done it today again when they asked him better song and whether or not he spoke directly with the president whether the. president directed him personally to push for investigation and of course he had to say no because he only spoke to the president's lawyer so that is basically their line of defense the

democrats are trying to make clear that bester sunland has been a lifelong republican who served under george w. bush still they believe he has a high level of credibility and they're certainly trying to capitalize on that president also made a stance and he is saying that he doesn't even know better song and that he joined the administration quite late and therefore also joining in the line of defense of the republican party it's hard to believe that the president would say they're considering the president had to nominate mr song one to be the ambassador all right oversell it for reporting from capitol hill all over thank you. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world of britain's prince andrew says that he will step back from public duties for the foreseeable future he's been embroiled in controversy over his friendship with a convicted pedophile jeffrey epstein epstein was found hanged in a new york prison cell 3 months ago riot police in zimbabwe have attacked

supporters of the opposition movement for democratic change a crowd gathered in the capital harare today to hear a speech by m.d.c. leader nelson chamisa he later said the incident showed that the government is afraid of public anger over the country's collapsing economy. and to the middle east now in israel a 3rd election within a year looks ever more likely many guns announced today that he has not been able to form a new coalition government is the leader of the opposition blue and white party he had until midnight on wednesday to build a governing coalition under a presidential mandate but he has told israel's president that he could not persuade other parties to support a minority government prime minister benjamin netanyahu who also tried and failed to form a coalition says that he had guns should seek to establish a unity government. are its correspondents on ukraine or she's in jerusalem on the

story for us tonight you need to you. believe 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 it many guns speaking tonight giving his statement handing back his mandate some hours earlier i had been to the midnight but what he basically said is that i mean he a very run noted at the rotas wanted to liberal brought unity government but there was one problem that i mean the netanyahu he kind of accused an it in ya to hold the country hostage to you know not. going away from his block off the national will turn national and religious parties that netanyahu had formed just right after the last election they had to 55 seats to sort of the 61 and netanyahu would have needed to form a national right wing coalition government that was one of the main problems the

other problem into his flaws as ever tayshaun 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 would hand it now and that's quite interesting to the parliament now actually 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 $61.00 seats together to form subsequent

issue 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 election a certain election after the fury it are to diffuse tanya kramer on the story force in jerusalem tanya thank you. authorities in malta have arrested a prominent businessman in connection with the murder of the leading investigative journalist daphne the lead singer of the car bomb killing 2 years ago aroused a worldwide outrage the maltese government has been strongly criticised for its handling of the investigation. stopped by the military the maltese businessman's luxury yacht. apparently youngun finished a suspect in the murder of investigative journalist daphne koller on a guy who wanted to flee the island finish originally ran hotels and casinos but

then got involved in a lucrative powerplant project 6 years ago apart from that he sent to be the owner of a previously secret company 17 black that came to transfer money to maltese politicians via offshore companies and panama. that's one daphne. had been investigating. 2 years ago in october the 53 year old journalist was killed in a car bomb attack she had previously received multiple death threats which she reported to the police. it was a murder that sparked outrage in malta and abroad 3 men have now been charged with planting the car bomb but it's still not known who instigated the crime. malta's prime minister appears guarded he has spoken of a person of interest being arrested he's offered

a middleman immunity from prosecution. he has declared that he knows the instigator but some believe members of most scots government may be involved in the crime. a whip it is premature to speculate on anything you the media are free to reach your own conclusions but i cannot speculate. we have to wait some hours or days it depends and i will hold back a few days before expressing myself mr. speedily. scott says he wants to discover the truth about daphne koller death but that doesn't stop calls for him to resign from growing louder. our sports news now in football just a marine you know has announced or has been announced as the new coach of english premier side tottenham hotspur replacing marine c.e.o.

. marino 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 to chino took charge of the spurs in 2014 and led them to the champions league final last season but fell short of expectations this seems. germany's national football team completed their euro 2020 qualifying campaign on tuesday with a 61 defeat over northern ireland in frankfurt a hat trick from munich winger. and further strikes from leon and. germany recover from an early one deficit to record a dominant win the victory means they finish top of the qualifying group ahead of old rivals the netherlands have also qualified. and here's a reminder of that top story we are following for you u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon song but as told the impeachment inquiry

that president. directed him to pressure ukraine to investigate trump's political rival joe biden he says everyone knew that the president knew about. it you're watching. live from berlin watch is up next with business stick around for that. literature invites us to see people in particular that i like to see some. time. on you to. each handle things this is new ball speaking like come to the show with the da da da and concert.