the at. the at. this is d w news alive or from donald trump insists he did and not pressure a foreign government to gather got the dirt on his political right. the one that i want not what. i want so could broke world. the us president treats his reactions from a notepad following the latest explosive testimony in the impeachment inquiry with the probe soon winding down what to democrats trying to unseat him was. also

coming up as britain's labor party vows a sweeping changes to the economy d.w. speaks to activists on both side of the break to divide each favoring their own brand of change. and australia's biggest city shrouded in smoke is nearby the wildfires keep the burning out of control clear in sydney by millions of people have had to breathe ad that is beyond pacifist. am. now as. i'm one of the humphrey glad you could join me a key witness has given potentially a day damaging testimony at the impeachment hearings in the united states now gordon song then the u.s. ambassador to europe told nor makers that he followed donald trump's wishes in seeking a deal for ukraine's president to investigate democrat joe biden in exchange for

a white house visit. he was the most highly anticipated witness a president donald trump's impeachment hearing so far and invested a golden sunderland didn't disappoint in his testimony sundin told will make his he was pressured to follow orders and ukraine by translate we have rudy giuliani and that washington had pushed kiev to investigate trump's rival joe biden and his links to ukrainian energy fembot over his mouth and for 10 to white house access as i testified previously mr giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house visit for president selenski mr giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the united states and we knew these investigations were important to the president but was there also a quid pro quo involving military aid 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 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 just not good enough according to republicans you would know is that this is speculation right it was a presumption ok but a good enough presumption for democrats hoping sundance testimony will prove that trump's dealings with ukraine are grounds for impeachment. trump himself remains defiant before leaving on a trip to texas he angrily tonight pushing for an exchange of faith is with ukraine

. i say to the assessor's refund i want nothing i want nothing i want no quid pro quo socialist president zuma. to do the right thing i want nothing thank you both have a good time we're going to. say to him the inquiry was over but it's up to house democrats when the hearings will end. well here with me in the studio reporter would you believe crawford to analyze what has been going on what do you do you think that disownment delivered the kind of testimony the democrats have been hoping for it was very strong testimony coming from a trump ally you know a multimillion dollar donor to donald trump. and he said there was a quid pro quo as far as the meeting and the call was selenski was concerned less equal less certain about the military aid. so republicans and democrats can look at it as they want of course and the but the most important thing here is to always

remember that quid pro quo is not necessarily or peach bowl offense it's not what is necessary here for democrats to make their case of course makes the case much clearer because you can point smoking gun could pro quo impeachment but let's not forget that is not the legal standard or even the political standard for democrats pursuing impeachment and then eventual removal from office some of them have been labeling it as misuse of power for example county and other times president trump has said that he is clear by this statement how does he justify that well donald trump i think will always assume that he's cleared and exonerated any no matter what happens we see he's not doesn't have a track record of apologizing or saying he made a mistake so of course donald trump par for the course going to say he's exonerated there is that strong statement that he repeated again and again and went to the truck went to dump truck asked him an open question what do you want from ukraine and trump said i don't want anything. but we don't know the context of that we don't know what mood he was in we don't know what tone of voice he had we don't

know what else was happening at other times because it is very clear is on that has made it very clear that there was an exchange there was an expectation of some kind of investigations into burma and the bidens in effect so donald trump can say he was xander because that one particular moment. but it's online brought up many other cases through were to giuliani through other elements of the official of official government policy where it showed that donald trump. was looking for something out of the lenski to give him the attention of the united states right and we do also have to say of course at the event proceedings featured prominently last night of course during that t.v. debate between democratic presidential hopefuls let's take a listen to what the candidates had to say god would not direct were justice department like this president does i let them make their independent judgment i would not dictate who should be prosecuted for who should be exonerated that's not

the role of the president of the united states what we saw today is ambassador sonnen by his own words told us that everyone was in the loop that means it is a criminal enterprise engaged in by the president and from what we heard today the vice president the secretary of state and the chief of staff of the president was not only a pathological liar he is likely the most corrupt president in the modern history of america but we cannot simply be consumed by donald trump because if we are going to water we're going to lose the election and of course the pietschmann proceedings essentially with the elephant in the room the candidates have to talk about them in their address but i wonder is there a danger in focusing too heavily on not one single issue because at the end of the day those hearings could be done and dusted it's in a month's time well for us and i think we just heard of bernie sanders saying we as democrats can't be focusing on this if you want to win this election. even if

donald trump is impeached and a trial goes to the senate the chances are that he'll be cleared and that will mean he it will be the candidate they are facing in the 2020 election and remember the republicans are charging this is all a witch hunt this is all an effort to undermine the 2016 election and prevent trump from getting a 2nd term in 2020 and. if democrats if democratic candidates are only focused on that it will only lead to that idea that they're just trying to find another way to beat him because as republicans will charge they can't beat him fair and square in the election so we also know that voters especially in a really important swing states many of them also subscribe to this g.o.p. point of view and they want to hear about all the issues that matter to them an impeachment is a very complicated topic is something a lot of people don't follow detail by detail and the other issues of health care and education national security these kinds of things immigration are much more important them so and they want to see candidates talking about the issues of every campaign absolutely or do these issues mattering as well we thank you so very much

here insights has taken out some of the other stories making news around the world . china has slammed u.s. lawmakers over a new legislation in support of the pro-democracy movement in hong kong beijing has a presidential veto the bill threatening to take quote strong countermeasures if it becomes nil the u.s. bill mandates sanctions on chinese officials found to be violating freedoms in the city. tens of thousands of people have filled bangkok's national stadium to see pope francis lead a holy mass the pontiff is the 1st to visit thailand in almost 4 decades and he's taken the opportunity to urge cooperation between a buddhist majority and the catholic church. a free trade agreement between the e.u. and singapore comes into effect today signed last year the deal to reduce name or customs duties between the 2 jurisdictions although there are some exemptions in

agriculture and fisheries bilateral trade in goods between the e.u. and singapore amounts to 53000000000 euros every year. persons opposition leader jeremy corbyn has unveiled a detailed manifesto for next month's election as his labor party tries to close an opinion poll gap with the governing conservatives now labor's new plan for government includes a 5 percent increase in public sector pay higher taxes on companies and the nationalisation of some infrastructure is being billed as the most radical plan to change in a deficit party this move but this manifesto is there for its. labor is on your side. and there could be scarcely a clear a demonstration that the furious reaction of the richest and most powerful. let's get more from our u.k.

correspondent back at mass spec it what else is the labor party offering u.k. very. sir jeremy corbin and his labor party a really trying to emphasize the area of social justice they're trying to get the attention away from brigid which really has booked on the country for the last 3 years allowed trying to offer something. we appeared to be having a issue with the connection that you get mass our apologies for that but we will move on now because change in the u.k. well it's on other british minds as well ever since a narrow majority of voters back the country's withdrawal from the un to 26 the referendum the issue of gregg's it was polarized the country which has yet to actually leave the bloc and we do have this report now from our correspondent back at last. fall and i sort of give you one of those thank you. grant is going

canvassing for the 1st time in her life for the brakes of party she doesn't think britain needs a divorce to do with the european union her main priority is to get out of the us quickly as possible just as the bracks a party has promised i really believe that the parks party right now is very party about offering a clean break. tories to 3. failed. and i think well part spotty and very promising but in the affluent part of central london where alice lives most people are pro e.u. . comes into the practice of parting. action. on the back supposing that. for 18 year old alice and her younger sister democracy is at stake they say the u.k. need to its freedom and to them be democratic even though most of their friends

think differently discouraged school was a very remain area and it was very politicized. basically all about shaming people who. and it's really hard for me the majority of young people in the u.k. see the e.u. as something positive opening up opportunities to work and study abroad so those campaign us want to reverse products that are trying to get as many young people to vote as possible. so i'm bored of brecht's your board of directors that we've been talking about this for 3 years now we're all dead cimi older woman has more than 200000 followers on twitter and instagram he tells them that the 2nd referendum can put a stop to grex it is the 26 year low school graduate has put his career on hold to become a full time activist the things that he will vote for in 2016 are clearly not going to happen big spectum more control over their country they getting less they

expected to be richer being made poor they expected us to move on quickly this is dragging on for 3 years like a drug for a decade nobody wants any of these things give us a choice femi has been verbally abused and has received racist comments and threats on social media because of his views on blacks it for him the general election is key only if enough proof you politicians make it into parliament will there be a chance of a 2nd referendum if we show up to vote in massive numbers and got us in the back we need to and if it might i don't know i don't know i'm hoping that young people and the chemical woken up but i can't guarantee and so was i see the results of polling day which oakleaf that the 2 activists have one thing in common that for them breaks it is the most important election issue but their views couldn't be more different. and we can go back to our correspondent now back at mass spec that you're in northern england today tell us why. well i'm here because

the election is in full swing and this is a target seat for the conservatives i mean bishop oakland which was for over a 100 years within the labor party of an absolute stronghold now the majority has narrowed in the last election so the conservative party are trying to conquer this fortress which is in the industrial heartland of the former industrial heartlands where people really have always voted labor but now with the issue of bricks it a lot of people here voted leave there's a sense that they feel this place is maybe somehow forgotten and they voted for rex and they want to leave and this is why boris johnson with his get bricks it done message is really hope and is really hoping to to go the seat for for the 1st time and with this labor election manifesto which has been set out today have we had any reaction yet from the conservatives to what jeremy corbyn has set out.

well the conservatives are very much trying to focus on the brakes it message and this is something that in seats like here might go down well this is my impression we know that labor is really trying to push the social justice agenda they're saying they want a green economy they want to create jobs new green jobs social housing which is also will appear to voters in the industrial heartland here and bruce johnson has reacted in a way that also his conservative money faster he's also trying to to to tackle to tackle cry but also saying that they will invest more in the n.h.s. that he has made the health system one of his key election issues so everybody is trying to to get their message across johnson more with his progress agenda but also giving way in the social justice and health service are trying to. more public

services better public services for the people and jeremy corbin in the labor position really trying to push their social justice agenda. baggot mass reporting for us back at thank you. has taken it now at some other news i know is representing victims of the late sex offender geoffrey stephen on britain's prince andrew to speak to us investigators say this comes as the prince is withdrawing from public duties amid criticism of his friendship with epstein and a disastrous interview with the b.b.c. and in the interview the prince tonight having sex with a woman who says she was trafficked by mc we know. ukraine says 3 naval ships returned by russia this week are in bad condition and have been stripped of equipment president will admit is that when skin spector the vessels upon their arrival back in the ukrainian course their release is part of athens to ease

tensions ahead of a peace summit between russia and ukraine next month. israel is moving closer to its 3rd election in the space of a year off the opposition leader benny gantz was unable to form a government before the wednesday deadline lawmakers now have 3 weeks to rally around dance prime minister binyamin netanyahu cool and not a candidate in order to avoid going to the polls. but we. do know that. well. we're just having some technical problems at the moment you're watching the news still to come imagine an art exhibit with nothing to guide me but the pictures themselves will visit the show and munich that defines just finish. in australia firefighters are battling hundreds of bushfires across the eastern and

southern regions of the chute severe danger warnings from the fires as blanketed australia's biggest city sydney in the case. as bushfires 10 acres of australian farmland a rip tide of fire and fury firefighters and their trucks can only try to catch up . for some it's already too late the fires have left a trail of destruction in their wake. from our cousins. last period. stuff is totally gold and further up north where critics accuse the prime minister scott morrison of not taking his environmental responsibility seriously but he's denied his government's climate policies are to blame for the fires. bushfires are

a part of life here meteorologists say the severity of this year's records of quince of climate change with the land dried out and ripe for fires. we've seen hot weather we've seen strong winds and we predicted they would be fought it's important to point out at this particular point in time that we still have a long way to go. in sydney smoke from the fire says shrouded the city's most famous landmarks in a haze people have been wearing masks because of the poor air quality. noses irritated throats or tear and woke up with a side of the world today to help. the bushfires have affected all fix of australia's states the biggest risks this week are in the south with the code rate declared in victoria. well joining us now from sydney is journalist william bream william you have had no let up there in australia for weeks hundreds of bushfires

across the country what's the situation there at the moment. absolutely anna thanks for having me it's pretty serious at the moment people are saying the pollution is a hazardous levels people are being encouraged to stay indoors people like me without snow we're being told not to go out many schools that close and certainly particularly in the northern suburbs and the c.b.d. the central business district we've been getting quite a lot of the smoke and my view i live in a suburb which is pretty central and it looks out onto the central business district and waking up today and yesterday i was met with a haze of smoke so it's pretty serious grace guys and it's just very eerie out there at the moment as you mentioned sydney way you are now it's covered in a thick haze people are wearing face masks school kids are having to play inside how people they're coping. i think a lot of people are getting very frustrated a lot of people are linking it to climate change greenhouse emissions and it calls

the prime minister scott morrison is at the moment sort of backpedaling on that and people are saying that certain elements of denial people are saying not enough is being dominant a lot of people are not used to this we have bush was many years home centuries but this really does feel unprecedented and people just aren't accustomed to it and i think a lot of people are feeling very angry but not enough is being done and that it's not always being taken seriously enough you'll let us take away from of course the amazing work that emergency services are doing. generous when you bring him in sydney thank you thank you imagine visiting an art museum and finding only the what's themselves without explanation no nights no dates no expert commentry just you and the odd when you feel lost all perhaps suddenly liberated that's exactly what new makes he not protect them adana wants to find out and it's new exhibition. what does art do to us.

how does it touch us. what does a picture inspire in us when intuition guides arcane his is there a connection and how does it feel. this delbert give a tough quest i think the way we look at art is always influenced by our individual perspectives and biographies so by memories and experiences but also by whatever mood we happen to be in when we view a piece of art off the back. of this exhibition is an experiment there's no information about the art or the artists no distractions no signs nothing but the art. all that matters is the feelings that arise for the general director in art historian this is a highly unusual fancher. to

have a cure to the ocean when i heard that the exhibition wouldn't have any descriptions i thought that's the best thing you can do just see what the work says to you and only after that read what it was. was. everything that is in us humans is also in art suspicion. moments was. love. was. green. card. for the exhibition the artistry of die humbled the fallen painted to hold walls full of what they are currently moved by pakistan. is crucial and there's. their feelings play

a very big role because you can construct a lot but if the feeling isn't there it wouldn't work at all. so abstract art also evokes emotions surfaces forms or materials can make you happy calm you down or hurt you. it's just about to be i was is this a cold materials is that a hard material is it something soft something or oily. the pictures also have surfaces and textures and you can feel that very beautifully with your eyes a freudian. and since art is ultimately in the eye and heart of the behold are the emotions triggered by the works are sure to views varied as the viewers themselves . and now let's take a look at some other rather spectacular pictures this is the reigning world high diving champion who took a unique challenge by diving into the historic step well but india rianne an if then brave 20 need to drop following

a successful season in the cliff diving world series the well serves as joe has an official local swimming pool a richly been built as a drinking source in 18th century. and a wind in out the top stories that we're following for you donald trump's ambassador to the e.u. has given potentially damaging testimony at the impeachment hearings in the us gordon song then said that the president ordered steps to pressure ukraine's leader into investigating trump's democratic rival joe biden. we are watching the news still to come did china's president personally order the crackdown on the persecuted muslim week of minority we take a look at the evidence. and drowning in waste why malaysia is fed up of being the walls dumping ground. all that and more coming up next with a peerage bandaging you washington news from you can always get the latest on our web site that is d w don't call. on and off rain but it means watching the 1st. boy

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