this is the news live from berlin germany expels to russian diplomats of an alleged murder. victim was a former chechen rebel commander comes down in broad daylight in a bourbon pocket german prosecutors suspect russian or kitchen state involvement moscow says it will retaliate also coming up. fresh ammunition for u.s. democrats in their drive twin peaks' president trump legal scholars told u.s. lawmakers the trump committed impeachable offenses by pressuring ukraine's president for his own political guy and. contentious

meeting in london with a show of unity sacred to spend more on defense and china. but divisions within the alliance remain and frustrations with the u.s. president when light. thanks for joining us a murder investigation here in berlin is now a full blown diplomatic storm between germany and russia it began with the killing of a former chechen rebel commander. really he was shot twice in the head as he walked to a mosque german or thora things have now expelled 2 russian diplomats over the killing believing russian intelligence to be responsible moscow denies involvement and says it will retaliate for the expulsions. this decision could mark

a new escalation in relations between russia and western countries german chancellor angela merkel has defended the expulsion of russian diplomats after germany's federal prosecutor general said evidence points to russian state involvement. i'll be meeting the russian president next week and then i will let you know whether i have spoken with him and how that goes and we've taken this measure as you know mainly because we have seen that russia is not supporting us in investigating this murder and of course i've spoken with allies about this through bilateral contacts. that. in august a georgian national was shot in berlin in broad daylight soon after the assassination suspicions arose that the russian intelligence services were involved the victim was a formal rebel commander in the early 2000 he fought against russia in the 2nd chechen war this is specter the killer is a 49 year old russian currently in custody. moscow denies any involvement in the

killing. the investigation is underway in germany we don't have anything to say because we don't possess any information relation of this incident have to the russian authorities these are absolutely groundless assumptions. germany's interior minister. told reporters the investigation was ongoing. in germany there was a criminal process that deals with this kind of thing and in the case of a crime of this magnitude and with this background i can anything to be attorney general that he has taken it all noise that say something about the significance of this crime including its political background would he be tortured. for brains. still refusing to cooperate in the investigation criticism of russia in the west is getting louder. the journalist who played

a key role in veiling how this modem may have been political hit job ordered by russia run to brush it off editor in chief of the russian fact checking website the insider told the w. he has no doubt that russian authorities were involved in this case we have now such. evidence actually russia was involved as a state for example he his name. was him across the deleted from all the databases police databases and also we so that. she it was let free after the previous in order in moscow in 2013 so he wasn't in prison for some reason he got great price could travel abroad so all of this all of this group was 100 percent and russian authorities at least helped him and forcibly were the main agonizing road to success and now to some of the other stories making news around the world. that a hughes new commission president is love and

a lie and says she expects a thorough and independent investigation into the murder of maltese journalist definitely. miss cara want to kill it c.e.o. was killed in a car bombing in 2017 following her reporting on high level corruption multis politics and economy. the samoan government has begun a door to door mass missiles vaccination campaign the pacific island nations says more than 4000 of its 200000 inhabitants have been infected by the virus the epidemic has killed 62 people. the u.s. military says a sailor has opened fire at the historic base in po harbor hawaii the gunman killed 2 civilians and wounded one before taking his own life the names of the victims and the shooter have not been made public. for legal experts have testified in a 2nd round of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into us president donald trump 3 of the 4 constitutional law experts trump committed an impeachable offense

when he asked the ukrainian president to investigate trump's political rival joe biden the group was called to testify before the u.s. congress is top democrats try to lay the groundwork for formal charges against him before more let's cross to washington and correspondent all of us sell it all over what have these legal experts being saying. well they've given a pretty damning take on the findings that were presented by the intelligence committee yesterday wrapped up in a report and now handed over to the judiciary committee and one of the scholars nor feldman said that he believes that there is enough evidence for impeaching president trump he believes that he abused the power off his office another scholar michael hart said that if we're not. if what we're talking about here is not impeachable then probably nothing else is but then of course the republicans also

invited one legal scholar to testify here in the judiciary committee and he had a very different take he said although he doesn't believe that the phone call between trump and the ukrainian president selenski was purrfect he also thinks that it doesn't deliver enough evidence to move forward in the impeachment inquiry so 2 very differing positions here. and that also reflects the position in the opinion of the american public. and what is the is the exact purpose of they see rings. well there are different phases and the 1st phase that was concluded yesterday was about collecting evidence in the intelligence committee and that evidence has now moved forward to the judiciary committee and the strategy here seems pretty clear they want now independent legal experts scholars of some of america's most known universities to take a stance on these findings that's what we heard here today and so in the end

again 2 very differing per specked of see are the democrats got what they wanted but they were republicans did so as well so they all will have their sound bites that are now running all of the networks here and presented to the adequate audiences were given by the we have now weeks into these impeachment hearings what are going to be the next steps in the process. so this was the only hearing taking place in this week but of course within the next week the judiciary committee will focus considering articles of impeachment but it's also worth mentioning that the at the end of this process it's very unlikely that president trump will be impeached out of office due to a republican majority in the senate what's more likely is that voters will have a say in the end it's the 1st time in american history that an impeachment inquiry happens that close to a federal election and now the democrats of course of very much hoping for

a shift in the public opinion as until now both sides are staying very much behind the party lines of a salad in washington many thanks one night or late as making in london have wrapped up a contentious summit marking 70 years since the founding of the military alliance they adopted a joint statement recognizing the challenges and posed by china and reached agreements on defense and spending despite this proceedings have been mocked by the visions and angry outbursts from donald trump and at times frustrations with the us president went on full display. by the end of the meeting today like it's where all smiles we've had a tremendous 2 days i think nato is ever been a lot more money is being produced by a lot of countries and their enthusiasm about it trumps calls to members of the alliance to boost their military spending has added $130000000000.00 to nature's budget in just 3 years this is unprecedented and it is making nato stronger

made to remain still only a platform where north america europe discuss the saw it and take actions to get there every day to protect almost 2000000000 people. at 1st glance the nato leaders seemed to be indeed among friends but it wasn't all roses. one especially embarrassing moment was caught by chance on camera in the footage canadian british and french leaders seem to be mocking us president donald trump's long unpredictable press conferences. the nature family is currently going through a rough patch not unlike any regular family ahead of the holiday season tensions

have risen over financial contributions and alliances core values 70 years after its founding to $29.00 member pluck is sure to have a long future ahead but as nato leaders depart from their diverse 3 celebrations in london it seems internal conflicts won't be going away anytime soon. max hoffman has been following the conference from london and from there he sent us this is system. so it wasn't the car crash summit that many had feared it would be but that also means that the topics that caused that fear remain unresolved turkey's presence in northern syria unresolved still a problem for nato and also what a moderate my call the french president meant with his brain death comments still a problem of course the alliance has made progress militarily speaking many experts will confirm that at least in the last 5 years but politically this is still an alliance that is looking for solutions for many things 1st and foremost what are

the value of these alliance can you have turkey in northern syria and have the same values as the european nations that have a completely different strategy in the region the simple answer is no but those problems were patched over for this leaders meeting for the sake of the 70th anniversary of the alliance but at some point nato will have to resolve those issues if it wants to continue being successful. in london while it's being billed as the alternative nobel prize this year the right livelihood awards which janda and i balanced and spanned the globe to want to a european teenage environmentalist a chinese lawyer an african protest leader and an indigenous brazilian fighting to save the amazon rainforest. it may look like many other ceremonies but the right livelihood awards in stockholm sets out to shine a light on and noble causes. but 2 of this year's winners were unable to accept

their awards in person we have later tuned burge this swedish teen who has sparked a global environmental movement fridays for future sent in an acceptance video she recorded in lisbon on the way to the climate conference she's attending in madrid and i so wish you could take on a few weeks if you like. and. it means a lot. and just continue. to fight continue this and that stuff so thank you so much for this on no reason was given for the absence of 58 year old chinese lawyer jan may some past winners have been unable to come to sweden to receive their awards due to travel bans the jury said jan may have done pioneering and persistent work in securing women's rights in china and in our 2 fighter dubbed the gandy of western sahara accepted her award for her 30 year old peaceful campaign for independence from morocco. and brazilian indigenous

activist davi cope and that knowledge the focus the award gave to his cause a member of the yanomami people is campaigning to protect the amazon forest. people from other countries do not know the current reality of the younger mommy people we need support to make sure our native language and traditional knowledge will not disappear. that is why we are no mommy people are here sharing with you the issues we're facing the brazilian government is threatening our territories and our white. each of the 4 recipients will receive a cash prize worth $100000.00. along with continued support from the organization and a specially designed sculpture made from recycled methane from gun destruction programs in central america. you're watching day w.

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