this is the doubly news line from the most anticipated witness in the trump and pitchman hearings delivers a stunning testimony u.s. ambassador to the european union says the president directed him to pressure ukraine to investigate trump's political rival joe biden says everyone here the president also coming up listen all to arrest a prominent businessman in connection with the murder of investigative journalist daphne. tycoon was detained aboard his fuel one apparently trying to leave the

office. plus what do you think is the right age for a kill to get. the hit go 68 below sons and. 60 is 6 years. reports from nigeria but child brides are commonplace. i'm anthony howard welcome to the program a star witness has given the most explosive testimony so far at the impeachment inquiry into u.s. president donald trump gordon songkhla the u.s. ambassador to europe has already given evidence behind closed doors about alleged attempts to pressure ukraine's president selenski into starting an investigation into trump's democratic rival joe biden at wednesday's public hearing he got further details. u.s. ambassador good and sound and now writing for the impeachment hearings. the

question everyone wants him to answer did president trump hold back financial a.t.u. crain in exchange for a corruption probe into his democratic rival joe biden and his links to energy fund the research the onset he was following instructions from trump's attorney rudy giuliani. 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 very smart 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

from reza 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 to resign 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 tested not good enough according to the republicans or you acknowledge that. this is speculation right it was

a presumption ok subsequent the trump told him directly or not sandland is still convinced. 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. washington correspondent of a cell it joins us from the capitol building and can bring us further up to speed all of this was damning testimony from and best someone today but to what degree can it hurt the president. has right anthony was

a lot of damaging material that we got here today in that impeachment hearing on capitol hill essential to form a u.s. or garden sandland said what the democrats were hoping for that there was this now in famous quid pro quo. and that means that the democrats and the. that the ukrainian government was supposed to be pushed to launch investigations against trump's political rival joe biden and that in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars of aid in military aid as well as a prestigious invitation to the white house gordon sunland confirmed all of that and the chair of the intelligence committee adam schiff today said that this was a pivotal moment in the history of the investigation. and all of what has been the response to today's proceedings both among republicans and perhaps more importantly

the american public. right well the line of the defense in the hearing of the republicans has been the same during the last days and i was able to follow several of these hearings and that is basically to undermine the credibility of the witnesses and that has happened today once again when they asked gordon sunland whether or not president tom personally instructed him to raise pressure on ukraine and of course he had to say that was not the case because he only spoke to president trump's private lawyer rudy giuliani which in and of itself is another problem but of course not part of this inquiry a large extent at this point no president trump also took a stance today when he also tried to downsize the role of gordon sound and he said he doesn't even know him well but of course it has to be said that he was the one to choose him for his role as you embassadors so no real credible line of defense here and the american public remains divided it's now the big challenge for the

democrats to spread their word to get the message out and convince them that the material that we're getting here is damaging because in the end it's very likely that the american public is the one to say the final verdict. is all of a selling covering the story for us from capitol hill thank you now to some of the other stories making news around the world israel appears to be heading for its 3rd of action inside a year opposition leader benny gantz wasn't able to form a government before the wednesday deadline prime minister benjamin netanyahu also failed to form a government. mali has held a funeral for the 30 soldiers killed during an attack by islam that is list extremists soldiers came under attack on monday during a pretrial more than $100.00 mali and soldiers have died in attacks by extremists in the past 2 months. smoke from bushfires has created such a thick haze of

a large parts of sydney australia that health officials have told people to stay inside a series of fires have been raging out of control along the east coast wakes killing 6 people and destroying more than 500 homes. or thirty's in malta have arrested a prominent businessman in connection with the murder of investigative journalist stephanie carroll won a. car bomb killing 2 years ago aroused worldwide outrage and the maltese government has been strongly criticised for its handling of the case. they're demanding justice from the justice minister. mafia they shout and shame on you. an arrest has reignited anger at the murder of journalist. a militant still without a conviction. they say the government is corrupt and want prime minister joseph to

step down. there in order to get there they must stone their poor little girl this was the year i decided no it was very clear the bridge did not go on like this so. the protests came up during a rest in connection with galaxy is moved a prominent businessman yogen finnish was on his luxury yacht and apparently preparing to flee when armed forces arrested him. senator originally ran hotels and casinos but then got involved in a lucrative power plant project 6 years ago. apart from that he said to be the owner of a previously secret company 17 black that aimed to transfer money to maltese politicians via offshore companies and panama that's what daphne koller one and i had been investigating it was 2 years ago in october that the 53 year old investigative 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. i cannot acknowledge as prime minister joseph muscat appears guarded he has spoken of a person of interest being arrested he's offered a middleman immunity from prosecution he says he knows who was behind the killing but some believe members of his own government may be involved in the crime. the money stashed away 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 i will hold back

a few days before expressing myself. in a speech that. says he wants to discover the truth about daphne koller new galaxy is death. but that doesn't stop calls for him to resign from growing louder. child marriage is a widespread practice in many parts of the world and it's common in northern nigeria some parents give away their daughters because of poverty others believe the girl is mature once she's been married our correspondent jennifer shot travelled to kaduna state to meet up with those supporting this controversial practice and those fighting against. a muslim neighborhood in could do in a city in northern nigeria i came here to find out about a girl who was locked up in this place for 2 years with not much light or food and left on her own her name is her son she was a child bride these pictures were taken when she was released from captivity just

a week ago she was held here by her family because she refused to return to her husband she was only 15 when she was forced to marry a mother of 4. a child bride one of millions in nigeria if you're born a girl here there's a 44 percent probability that you will be married before your 18th birthday. this neighbor knows how santa so he says at the age of 15 she wasn't too young to be married he would marry his daughters off much younger. son's age of 66. what we had been saying by the gold market. this is. a fierce advocate for women's and children's rights she helped to be free and happy is muslim herself she says the qur'an does not justify this practice

there is no pacific or any findings or any security that proved those things the admin as. it is a most of this is not done there's an islamic perspective the ad done based on cultural perspective she says education is key to change outdated practices and support women's rights. very why does a leader that is not all religion is something that has to do with advancement so are the laws can be amended and can be. the condition of this. child marriage exists elsewhere in nigeria to here in lagos poverty drives some parents to marry daughters of under 18. is privileged in many ways but that doesn't stop the 17 year old from raising her voice against child marriage his son a story makes are angry a lot of nigerians don't view women as human beings view them as.

i did and it is to them and susan wants to amend the constitution so that it bars anyone under the age of 18 from. getting married she and 2 friends have started an online petition to bring the issue to the senate floor the next step would be to get to the root of the problem and try to educate the men the women and everyone perpetrating this. there are millions of girls who are married off every year and if those millions of girls were millions of people at its nature is workforce the g.d.p. and he economy would be in a much better standing than it is now. a son has been transferred to this psychiatric hospital the doctors say it will take months to stabilize her it's unclear paula long the government will finance for treatment and with her family will be held accountable for the damage it has done. you're watching

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