this is deja vu news live from berlin moscow says it will retaliate after germany expels 2 russian diplomats expelled expulsions came as russian investigators alleged german investigators rather allege russia is linked to the killing in berlin of a former chechen commander just a machall says she'll be discussing the murder with the russian president when they meet on monday also coming up. u.s. democrats continue their drive to impeach president trump legal scholars tell

lawmakers that trump committed impeachable offenses by pressuring ukraine's president for his own political gain. and sentenced to death in china that despite committing no crime we need a man wrongly convicted of murder in a country believed to hand out more death sentences than anywhere else. i brought in thomas great to have you with us just days before the german chancellor and the russian president are set to meet to discuss the conflict in ukraine a diplomatic dispute is causing tensions between the 2 countries it centers on the murder of a former chechen rebel commander allegedly by russian intelligence here in berlin germany says russia is not cooperating in the investigation and as a result was expelled 2 russian diplomats moscow is that i any involvement.

this decision could escalate tensions between russia and western countries german chancellor angela merkel has defended the expulsion of russian diplomats after germany's attorney general said evidence points to russian state involvement with. a 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 . through all that. you know guest a georgian national was shot dead in berlin in broad daylight soon after the assassination suspicions arose that the russian intelligence services were involved the victim was a former rebel commander in the early 2040 against russia and the 2nd chechen war

the suspected 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 his political background with the. with moscow still refusing to cooperate in the investigation criticism of russia

and the west is getting louder. let's talk more about this with you political correspondent kate brady here in the studio with us and sure we're in moscow good day to both of you keith this investigation is still ongoing but at this point what can you tell us about why you german prosecutors believe moscow was behind this kill well prosecutors have said so far that there is sufficient evidence to indicate that this killing could have been carried out by russia or chechnya and so if we look 1st at just some of the circumstances even though the suspected perpetrator 49 year old russian national and he had actually already previously been wanted a different mode a case in russia also very similar case in which the victim was shot during a drive by shooting which is also carried out by a man on a bike that victim was also shot in the head and then if we look also that will closer as well to some of the circumstances around the victim in this case here in berlin german prosecutors have said that the victim was classified as

a terrorist by russian or thursdays and was persecuted as such so the victim had actually tried to seek asylum here after several attempts on his life in georgia he fought as we had there in their reports as a separatist in the 2nd chechen war in the early 2000 and we actually have either actually spoke to his ex-wife earlier this year as well who said that we were warned that something like this would happen in the end so there are lots of indicators at the minute to suggest this but as you say the investigation is still going ok and moscow's not going to cooperate in this investigation and says it's innocent in spite of all the indicators we've just been talking about that it hasn't rebutted and moscow says it's going to retaliate what form might that retaliation take. well of course we don't actually know yet but russia's strategy with these sort of diplomatic spots has been and with most things

in fact has been a kind of tit for tat response and there has been of course a precedent for this kind of case in 2018 the attempted murder of sygate in the u.k. that was kind of a similar case the u.k. accused russia of being behind that as well and at the time the u.k. expelled 23 diplomats and russia responded by expelling 23 diplomats as well and we've heard from parliamentarians here in russia as well that they that they think that a tit for tat response and an expulsion of that same sort could be a reasonable response but i do think that we're seeing both sides and from the russian side certainly treading kind of carefully because russian german relations have been traditionally very close and they have been traditionally and diplomatically this come this comes a very bad time the german chancellor is due to meet with the russian president on monday to discuss ways to end the ongoing conflict in ukraine

a big issue for both countries could these new diplomatic tensions undermine the push for peace in that region. well i think that the russian side is certainly hoping that they won't undermine those talks on monday and i think we're seeing signals of that for example i'm glad markel did did say that she would discuss the issue with putin putin yesterday at a press conference with his colleague with his. serbian counterpart didn't mention this at all so there seems to be a sense that perhaps the russians aren't even letting this issue get to the presidential level at all the timing is certainly inconvenient and we also heard from the head of the international affairs committee in the parliament he said he also pointed out the timing the normandie meeting on monday to discuss ukraine and he said that this whole diplomatic spat this whole murder would have no effect on

that meeting. you know voices have been growing inside merkel's own coalition especially within the part of the c.p.u. for a new approach to russia with this killing is any new initiative to restart relations with russia. on hold right now i wouldn't go so far as to say that they're on hold but certainly as emily mentioned the timing for these allegations couldn't be much worse right now of course we've also just seen the tail end of the nato leaders meeting in london as well where the nato leaders were discussing how they as a group of 29 would move forward in the in how they deal with with russia and what kind of relationship nato could have with russia in the future and then of course said there are also calls not only within medicals of governments for renewed relations and improved relations with russia but also from neighboring friends of president mccaul for example but of course as this case develops germany will be

looking on its neighbors full support in the same way that the u.k. did after the killing as are the poisoning should i say. of the form. double agent and his daughter in the u.k. say germany will be looking for its neighbors to its neighbors for some support as well within the e.u. and also. nato allies move closer we will have to see how this develops exactly how russia now will react so far we've had that they will react with most likely to the tat sanctions so we are expecting to see another couple of german diplomats expelled from russia but for now it seems that thing that these talks at least about ukraine about the ukraine peace process plan for next week those will go ahead and merkel has already said however that she will be raising this issue about this killing with president putin once again. thanks very much for that and really sure woman in moscow thanks so much to you as well thanks to both of you. let's get

to brief now on some of the other stories making the news today 2 people have died one is injured after a shooting at the u.s. military base in pearl harbor hawaii well terry officials say a u.s. navy sailor opened fire on a number of people before killing himself the names of the victims and the shooter have not been made public. nato leaders have wrapped up an ad times contentious meeting in london after affirming their commitment to the alliance needs with defense clause they agreed to spend more on defense and work together against threats from russia terrorism they also recognize the challenge of a rising china. the government of samoa in the south pacific has started a door to door measles vaccination campaign an epidemic of that disease has killed 62 people there the government says more than 4000 of its 200000 population have been infected. it's to the us now where 4 legal

experts have testified in the 2nd round of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into u.s. president from 3 of the 4 constitutional law experts said the president committed an impeachable offense when he asked the ukrainian president to investigate his political rival joe biden. the group was called to testify before congress as top democrats tried to lay the groundwork for formal charges against the president the other lawyers told by republicans defended trump but said he did make mistakes. interviews all over saletan washington tells us what to expect next in the inquiry hearings this was the only hearing taking place in this week but of course within the next week the judiciary committee will focus considering articles off impeachment but it's also worth mentioning that the at the end of this process it's very unlikely the president 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 yourself there so what are potential voters saying as the impeachment hearings reach a climax we went to a town in virginia that's a state president from failed to win in the 2016 election. blackstone it's about a 3 hour drive south of washington and the impeachment hearings going on there the residents here are proud to say they're part of the south. mack osborne runs a wholesale beverage company and blackstone the trump supporter says he's doing its best to keep up to speed on what's happening in the capital and he's definitely not happy about the hearings. i don't think americans want this to go on

for days and weeks and weeks and this witness and that witness and it is just seems as millions of dollars being wasted and. we have so many issues national issues we need to solve as a country and this is just a fatsis the family business man doesn't believe president trump did anything wrong with regard to ukraine. i think a lot of this is just good politics and good business you want to know where your money should go and you want to make sure the things you're doing right before you help somebody. around 4000 people lived in blackstone roughly half a white the alcohol for african-american the region is traditionally conservative but in the last congressional elections a democrat won the district. most african-americans we meet on the street don't want to comment on the impeachment proceedings thomas tyler is an exception he says

he'd rather see president trump's political fight decided at the ballot box next year we've got. to go 20 did this saddle so either they keep all over the place or . if you replace you get rid of one man to go to the country i. mean the people who voted for. him in a local baba shop molly black occasionally chats with customers about the impeachment proceedings she says she doesn't personally follow the hearings she will remain a trump supporter regardless of what's said in washington. everybody has their pros and cons there's things that make a good president good and bad president bad but look at the economy now there's no reason no reason to kick him out. that's no reason for the impeachment it's history they can go to show. how they did a great job with a figure of special counsel robert miller looking on the proprietors of a nearby bed and breakfast their hot. bed democrats and i believe the impeachment

hearings are justified but i don't think the result will play a role in the upcoming elections. are we going to look for clinton he says the economy stupid and basically it sounds like it's going to be now they're going to look real hard and see how the economy is going that will be the advantage to you know to the current administration. republicans and democrats and blacks don't seem to agree on this point they also agree that the united states is currently deeply divided but they differ on who's to blame. while up next in our program coping with life after death sentence a reporter meets a chinese man wrongly convicted of murder who says this case speaks volumes about china's justice system. but 1st the turkish fiance of the murdered saudi journalist and dissident jamal to

shock she has condemned international in action against saudi arabia after the crime shocked she a washington post contributor us resident was killed or tobruk 2018 by saudi agents while at saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul he gone there to obtain paperwork ahead of his wedding to how did she can't is she waited for him outside but he never emerged from that building. you spoke to her and asked her about her fiance's death becoming a political issue. on the ship the citizen goes to the embassy of his own country to hand over a paper to allow him to get married it's a completely normal situation and then he was in violently murdered don't you think that the human side of it counts more than the political side of it this is how i see it the fault of the men but also however the political side has started to get more attention as there has been no real outcome of the investigation for 14 months

. but if the legal process continued under normal circumstances if there had been an independent judiciary if the criminals were punished and if they shared what happened with the public. none of this would happen. with them all but if you can go boy some of the prices for so the lack of justice made it more political message she says a lot of the. all the indications were that the crown prince of saudi arabia mohammad the fellow was behind the order for the assassination but nothing really internationally has happened how do you feel about that is that a source of frustration for you. the coalition of. the 2 it is significant that all the evidence leans to the crown prince and the officials of saudi arabia. because it's a focus is the attention on one person. however when you consider the investigation

in general there has been no improvement if you. just look out we still don't know what happened there at the time i had. the whole world ancestors on learning more about how this complex murder happened to honda. his death is very disturbing for me personally. i don't know how the world sees saudi arabia however personally i'm astonished and upset by the situation. really it's a body that was just a little heigho. issue of. what's your heart that will come out of this what would you like to see happen next. long hard to see or to much of that we should not forget the horrendous murder that has happened and should prevent it happening to anyone else ever again. because that there won't be any justice because jomo won't come back i want you to get

a lot of love in my however in the future people like. people who share his values those who have been jailed for those values to contribute to efforts to release them and raising awareness about them so she is important to me personally. to binge and to come up with. more human rights groups often criticised china for handing down more death sentences than the rest of the world combined now because official numbers are kept secret the actual count could be much higher now innocent people are often executed a reporter met a group of men sentenced to death but whose convictions were later overturned. the foreman didn't expect anything when police showed up at their homes one evening in 20022 years earlier a gruesome murder had happened near their village. i want to be the new woman i

think they suspected the culprits lived in our village they came and just arbitrarily took people from there we weren't even hanging out together at the time you were the devil in the days you were on the promises and they didn't say much they just said immediately you're the one who did it. the poor were ultimately found guilty of killing a young man and raping and killing a young woman her body was found cut into pieces and wrapped in a plastic bag for today nothing reminds one of the crimes. to get even though you did this is the place where it happened inside this compound she began to this was a rice paddy at the time. don't you know. the double murder shocked many in the region chung frog and the others were sentenced to death they had confessed but under torture china is thought to have the highest number of executions in the word although the exact figure is the state secret once police have identified the suspect that person will nearly always be punished the conviction rate in china is

99.9 percent. well we didn't call us a bit of it we were prepared for everything 1st we wrote our will then we told our relatives they should appeal the sentence we were hoping we could clear our names but all the time i was scared that the communist party might suddenly take us to be executed. all of them were married and had young children or will farmers later chin's wife and every parent's worked as rickshaw drivers to pay for the lawyers and the kids' education his daughter was 7 when he was arrested took a fall she had my classmates would go home after school and have dinner with their parents these ordinary things were not possible for us. the blue color t.v. anniversary for other people this was something normal but to me it seemed like the biggest luxury i was so jealous of my classmates. it would

be 14 years until she could eat with her father again then in 2016 the men's convictions were finally of which. the story was widely reported in china one of a handful of cases where death sentences were revoked in recent years. and the others were compensated with 300000 euros each junge used the money to build a new house for his family. you know if we could have worked all these years we might have been able to make the same amount of money our reputation has been damaged our psyche our children and families have suffered we have mental health problems how can this money compensate this. it's not been several years since their release but they still struggle with getting through the day their ordeal traumatized them. people used to talk

a lot with each other there was a lively atmosphere at home it's different now we spend most of our time in silence . young says he has only one goal for his future to live a life as ordinary as possible. it's to the world of sports now and the former basketball star dirk nowitzki well he retired back in april after 21 years of the dallas mavericks that included an n.b.a. title and 1st many accomplishments out on the court the 7 footer has received germany's highest severe god. jerk novitsky is imposing skills and hard work helped catapult the former basketball player into superstardom but his impact has extended far past the sports world if it's he was awarded the german order of merit the country's highest civic honor by president fun fall to steinmeyer in berlin the

award celebrates the 41 year old's athletic career and commitment to community service if it is a unicef ambassador and launched a foundation supporting children dealing with poverty in illness in 2001 thing after the award ceremony and it made it clear he's enjoying himself after 21 years in the pros. it's a phenomenon as i said from the start that when my career was over i would need a year or 2 to take a step back and enjoy my family they played 2nd fiddle long enough it's the wicki is no stranger to accolades he's led the dallas mavericks to the 2011 n.b.a. title and was the 1st ever european to win the league m.v.p. award in 2007 his larger than life play in the u.s. helped elevate the previously rarely played game back home. though he's accomplished enough for a lifetime germany's record point getter is already thinking of the next step. up on this i've always tried to give everything for my sport with passion and heart

. but now i want to different perspective and would like to enter the business world this is right i'm too however he follows up his illustrious playing career there's no doubt if it's he will continue to stand out in the crowd. this is d.w. news these are our top stories germany has expelled 2 russian diplomats over the killing of a georgian citizen in berlin the former chechen rebel commander. so in contact vili was shot dead in broad daylight in a public park a suspect is in custody russia denies any role. for legal experts have testified in the 2nd round of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into us president trump 3 of the 4 said trump committed an impeachable offense when he asked the ukrainian president to investigate his political rival joe biden.

the u.s. military says a sailor has opened fire at the historic base and pearl 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. nato leaders meeting in london have wrapped up a contentious summit marking the military alliances 70th anniversary and opt in a joint statement recognizing the challenges posed by china and they reach agreements on defense spending. the state of new news from berlin don't forget we have more long twitter and our website d w dot com. up next is our business news will see what's in the pipeline as of thrones paired take on all sorts of your trust. our reporters goes to comes down the road with. dirt all for says that and much more straight ahead i'm brian thomas from the entire news team thanks so

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