this is t w news while i'm from berlin indicting the israeli prime minister is this is the beginning of the end for benjamin netanyahu israel's attorney general charges the prime minister with bribery and breach of trust netanyahu is calling the indictment a coupe we'll take you live to jerusalem for the latest also coming up the 5th and final day of public hearings in u.s. president donald trump's impeachment inquiry it follows wednesday's stunning testimony indicating that the president withheld aid to ukraine to force kiev to

investigate democratic libel giovani and all stroke his biggest city is choked by a thick blanket of smoke millions of people in sydney are breathing dangerous in there as nearby wildfires burning out of control. i'm burnt off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome the chances of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu beginning another term in office are looking slimmer tonight it comes after the country's attorney general today announced that he is pressing corruption charges against the prime minister netanyahu was being indicted for bribery fraud and breach of trust in 3 separate cases the prime minister who denies any wrongdoing says that the indictment is quote an attempted coup he's

currently battling to stay in power after september's parliamentary elections which produced in the clear winner. here is part of what netanyahu had to say earlier this evening it was written for the people you have to be blind not to see that something bad is happening with the police and the prosecutor is tonight we're witnessing an attempted coup with full sonic ations and a tainted investigation you know all right let's take this now to our correspondent tanya kramer she's following this from jerusalem tanya those were strong words coming from the prime minister calling this an attempted coup what do you make of all of this. well that's the reading his by the very defined netanyahu kind of a classic and netanyahu speech as you said calling it an attempt screwy also said an attempt to overthrow right wing government also talking to law enforcement

forces the investigators as i think that goes along goes along these lines you know his line of defense he always said he denies 1st of all of the charges and he said this is old politically motivated this whole process he has accused the left wing the opposition the media and they also of the police and part of the dish so system to be behind all of that and i think the speech tonight was mainly addressed also to use political allies but 1st and foremost to his supporters he has still a very very strong and solid base of supporters voted for him even though they knew he is under investigation but let's test have a look at what these indictments are about and what the cases relating to that let's have a look. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has political future hangs by

a thread. following months of investigation by a special police unit israel's attorney general has indicted netanyahu on several corruption charges these cases are known as case $1000.00 netanyahu and his family are suspected of receiving gifts from business colleagues and close friends case 2000 covers allegations that netanyahu attempted to influence the publisher of a daily newspaper to gain more positive coverage the recommended charges in both cases fraud and breach of trust and case $4000.00 allegations of regulatory favors for israel's largest telecommunications firm in exchange for positive media coverage the charges here fraud breach of trust and bribery. netanyahu has called the charges a witch hunt against him and his family and has denied everything. his immunity as

prime minister means he won't be legally forced to resign but he is caught in a political and legal limbo after failing to put together a government after 2 elections he now faces a legal process that could drag on for years. so. what impact. i think i mean the reading here is that this has a huge impact i mean people you know waiting for it they have always overshadowed political life that political life in is but at the moment it's also in turmoil have been 2 elections where inconclusive now prime minister netanyahu after the last election try to form a coalition he failed and just on wednesday yesterday many guns his main opponents had to give back the mandate because he also say it's to put a coalition to gether so now there's a prospect of

a possible search elections and so to see what impact that has on the voting behavior but certainly all of this you know mr netanyahu has been a divisive figure in israeli politics so this will have an impact on not just. and is this going to be the nail in the political coffin for benjamin netanyahu. well i think this is still to see i mean we just heard him tonight fighting back the other gay since fighting back you know against these indictments. he has always said this is politically motivated and will fight back on his legal way but also on the political level now legally speaking as a prime minister he doesn't have to step down until he is convicted but they are legal challenges on the way it's going to be a long process as you said you will have to fight face immunity in the knesset and

there might be also dick attendances to the supreme court possibly because he might have conflict of interest being the prime minister but also on the political level be interesting to see i mean they have been very muted response a spider that he could his own party but also what his political allies on the right will have to say from the opposition already to have been reactions to have asked him you know to resign a step down that he has not the moral standing anymore to make decisions in israel so all of that of course. saying that this is the 1st time that a sitting israeli prime minister has been indicted and that of course is a huge moment here in political life trying to kramer on the story for us in jerusalem tonight tanya thank you very much. here are some of the other stories now

that are making headlines around the world tens of thousands of colombians took to the streets on thursday the government's pro-business economic policies and its handling of a peace deal with the rebel group fark are among their grievances president vivaan do cays popularity it has dwindled steadily since he took power last august hong kong's campus seizure appears to be nearing its end the 20 more pro-democracy protesters surrendered to police today and were escorted from the polytechnic university the campus has been the scene of one of the most violent confrontations between police and demonstrators since protests began almost 6 months ago china has demanded that u.s. president donald trump veto new legislation aimed at supporting human rights in hong kong beijing has threatened strong countermeasures if the bill becomes law the u.s. proposals would impose sanctions on chinese officials found to be violating freedoms

in the chinese territory. u.s. lawmakers are hearing more testimony on this the 5th and final day of the public impeachment hearings against u.s. president donald trump key witnesses david holmes and fiona hill both gave compelling evidence political counsellor holmes told how he overheard trump's disputed telephone call regarding an investigation into trump's democratic rival joe biden national security official hill dismissed conspiracy theories about ukrainian interference in the 26000 u.s. election now if found guilty in a majority vote question in the house this truck will then face an impeachment trial to be held in the u.s. senate temperate tell us all right let's take this story now to washington where carla blanker is following the story for us good evening to you carla so how

significant are the testimonies that we heard today from fiona hill and david holmes given yesterday's damning testimony that came from u.s. ambassador gordon sunderland. today's testimonies were very significant because we heard from 2 more witnesses who have needed 1st hand. confirmation or firsthand experiences of ballots. about these goings on in ukraine that we have heard so much about as you mentioned mr holmes was told directly by mr sandland by ambassador sunderland that president trump doesn't care much about ukraine and only cares about big stuff like the investigation into the bidens and fiona hill has also witnessed ambassador sunland talk about this with ukrainian officials in the white house and tell them that's

a meeting with president trump what only happen if president selenski announced these investigations of the u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi she spoke earlier today in which she had this to say would you take a listen and the evidence is clear that the president. the president has used his case for his own personal gain and in doing so undermined the national security of the united states by withholding. military assistance to ukraine to the benefit of the russians and that he has undermined the integrity of our elections by what he has done again the russian interfere and being ignored by him. and there he has violated his oath of office and so that was

nancy pelosi speaking or are the democrats are they ready to move impeachment proceedings forward will today's testimony be convincing enough for republicans to change their minds on president drawl. adam schiff the chairman of the committee that is holding the impeachment hearings will have to be the one to announce next steps and it's soon that he will do so pretty soon after today's hearings are over but from what we have heard from pelosi saying that the evidence against trump is clear we can reasonably assume that yes democrats are ready to move into the next phase also because she has stress that they do want to move quickly now as for republicans it is highly likely that they will not turn on trump we've seen we've seen republican representatives on those committees downplay his acts and and really not see them as anything all too bad

and a recent poll has shown that republican voters the majority of them has said they're now even less likely to support impeachment than they were before the public hearing started. corresponding with the latest from washington carla thank you. well back here in europe the leader of britain's opposition labor party jeremy corbyn has unveiled a detailed manifesto for next month's a leg should as he tries to close that opinion poll with the governing conservatives labor's plan for government includes a 5 percent increase in public sector pay higher taxes on companies and the nationalization of some infrastructure it's being billed as the most radical plan in decades. this policy this movement this money 1st though is different.

labor is on your saw it and there could be scarcely clearer government straight shows that it's the furious reaction of the richest and most powerful. jeremy corbyn speaking there well the labor party pushes its economic agenda the biggest issue in britain's upcoming election. remains some 3 and a half years after britain voted to leave the european union the u.k. still hasn't left and breaks it is more divisive than ever you don't use your good mosques reports ok so if you want to thank you same as described as going canvassing for the fast haven't had life for the bricks 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 it party has promised i really believe the parts policy right now is their policy that's offering

a clean break. tories to 3. failed to take us out. and. bought in the effluent part of central london where alice lives most people are pro e.u. . comes into the back supporting me here people will start to lecture me. on the back supposed to. have a good day for 18 year old alice and her younger sister democracy is at stake they say the u.k. needs its freedom and to them be undemocratic even though most of their friends think differently they are discouraged by all school was in a very remain area and it was very politicized. all the way basically all about shaming people who practice that 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

campaigners who want to reverse break that are trying to get as many young people to vote as possible. so i'm bored your board of directors that we've been talking about this for 3 years now we're all dead femia underwood has more than 200000 followers on twitter and instagram he tells them that this 2nd referendum can put a stop to bricks it has 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 they collected more control over their country they're 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 gave 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 pulling into 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 away with i see the results of all day which oakleaf that the 2 activists have one thing in common for them breaks it is the most important election issue that views couldn't be more different. are here in germany chancellor angela merkel's conservative c.d.u. party is holding its annual conference this weekend in the eastern city of leipsic now it's important to note here that chancellor merkel is no longer head of the party her successor this woman right here on the great crom current power known as a k k which she is struggling in the polls so this gathering this weekend could see another fight over who should succeed uncle americal as chancellor. the

cd you have put is after greenpeace operation. see in city you which stands for christian went missing not the party's worst problem inside a leadership battle is looming just 20 years ago and it could come canberra embraced her political godmother i'm going america after succeeding has leader of germany's conservative c.d.u. party but the man who was narrowly defeated never gave up on this chances of one day himself succeeding marco. that ice melts to form a city you hopeful once left politics after losing out to medical but in the years since he decided to simply buy those time. and finally come campbell was climb to the top of the party was soon followed by had just sent in opinion polls within less than a year prove ratings have more than half. when she again had to

explain why the c.d.u. lost regional state elections in the east it was the leader of the party's you for going to is ation who openly confronted her with the leadership question opening the firing shot of the debate that has since overshadowed her double role as party leader and german defense minister. stone faced an eclipse decided to take on the challenge. who ever believes that the question of leadership needs to be decided this fall will have the opportunity to do that at the party conference. within hours her political rival merits was back with this sweeping attack of the something the whole of the parents of the government is a disaster to push under pressure to demonstrate her own more conservative profile . launched a series of strategic debates pledging for more dominant ajman in the world. a new tone partly contradicting chancellor merkel but surprisingly in tune with her

would be challenger. the man in question sounded more tame as the party conference in the. the given for the i fall and harsh words to criticize the government 3 weeks ago to be how to vote for close friends have since taken me aside and want me not to go too far it's. that mean launching a destructive debate over the potential future chancellor rather than policy this weekend's party conference will decide which way the party wants to go in germany's post era. it's about the competition for power to talk about that i'm joined by our political correspondent leone if and hammerstein's good to see you leoni so let's talk about the sort of about this woman right here known as a. she's struggling in the polls why is there well some of it has to do with her as a person and as a leader as we've just seen in the reports and she's come under

a lot of criticism from within her own in their own party from the youth wing but also from finnish man who have criticized her for her mistakes and bad decision making in the past and this recent 7 that says that only 6 percent of germans actually think she has been good for the passion but that is only one side of the other goes a bit deeper and it's a problem that's a lot of big traditional big tent parties are facing in germany but also across the continent and that is they are losing support and other parties with a more clear politico outlook gaining voters especially young voters here in germany it's the right wing populist safety but also the green party and they come kind of no i hasn't managed to reverse that trend. so a lot of the a lot of people within your own party a calling for more distinct policies going forward and a clear direction of the c.p.u. and maybe more distinctive personality which brings us to the gentleman the name of

friedrich merits now why is his name coming up over and over again and he has not been active in politics in the. long time and we have to let our viewers know that he was basically taken out of action by german chancellor angela merkel years ago exactly about goodness mats of hats and impeccable timing he's always there to step in when is losing approval and he's there to present himself as the alternative will turn it if that especially those parts of the within the c.d.u. that a more conservative one to see to you to move more towards the right in terms of migration but also economic policies. and we know that the german chancellor going to marital she's known around the world we know that she's going to step down as chancellor in 2021 she's no longer head of her party so what role is she going to play this weekend at this party conference

a lot of people are going to pay very close attention to what she's going to say in her speech at the party conference because as you said she's not the leader anymore she's retiring from politics and she has left the field off this internal struggle within her party lachie to her successor. and so she is expected to only talk about a 2 year paean policy foreign policy a policy issues that are close to a man. but at the same time she still has that weight she's still the chance that the world is watching what america says but she is aware of the fact that this party conference is supposed to determine the future direction the c.d.u. is going to take and that is a future without a future without her but she's still there leaves this weekend is that she's not running for reelection maybe he should be able to speak more freely than before we'll see we haven't hammerstein as always thank you. 4 firefighters are battling hundreds of bush fires across eastern and southern australia at least 6 people have

been killed since the blazes broke out more than a month ago smoke from the fires has blanketed the country's biggest city sydney. has bushfires 10 acres of australian farmland a rip tide of fire and fury firefighters and their trucks can only try to catch up . to some it's already too late the fires have left a trail of destruction in their wake. cousin. is totally go further up north with 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 fire. bushfires are

a part of life here meteorologists say the severity of this year's records of quints of climate change with the land dried out and ripe for fire is. we've seen whole way that we've seen strong winds and we predicted they would be fought it's important to point out at this particular point on that we still have a long way to go. in sydney smoke from the fire shrouded the city's most famous landmarks in a haze people have been wearing mollusks because of the poor quality. noses irritated throats and woke up with it today to help. the bushfires have affected all fix of australia's state's biggest risks this week i'm in the south with a code rate declared in victoria. well this is g.w. news in these are our top stories israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has rejected his indictment on corruption charges saying that the country is witnessing

quote attempted coup against him he spoke shortly after the attorney general announced that netanyahu would face trial for bribery fraud and breach of trust. u.s. lawmakers heard compelling evidence on the 5th and final day of public impeachment hearings against u.s. president donald trump political counsellor david holmes told how he overheard disputed telephone calls about a probe into trump's democratic rival and fiona hill a former trump advisor rejected claims that ukraine not russia meddled in the 2016 u.s. election. britain's main opposition labor party has unveiled its manifesto for next month's election with leader jeremy corbin valuing to make radical changes the program includes higher taxes on companies and high earners increased health spending and the renationalisation of some key services.

smoke from bushfires has created a thick haze over large parts of sydney australia fires along the east coast have been raging out of control for weeks now killing 6 people and destroying hundreds of homes. this is g.w. news from berlin for more you can follow us on twitter at g.w. news you can also visit our website at www dot com. you're watching the w. news after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that.

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