still waiting for that delivery sponsor of talks today so together. they live the future is. this is g.w. newsline from berlin a songbird historic day in the united states says donald trump is set to become the 3rd u.s. president in history to be impeached u.s. lawmakers are in their final debate before a vote speaker of the house nancy pelosi calls trump a threat to the united states but vice president mike pence is defending his bosses

saying that the impeachment vote is a disgrace we'll go to washington for the latest also coming up. is roasting its hottest day on record the country battling a bushfire crisis and a severe drought but even then it doesn't stop the prime minister from going on holiday. and germany moves a step closer to banning what's known as game conversion therapy and you'll meet one man who even underwent an exorcism in an attempt to become straight but it didn't stop his suicide. and there's very little. change you want. to say goodbye to the latest star wars trilogy as the final movie in this series has its world for me.

i'm going to go off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world well we start with that historic debate in the u.s. house of representatives to decide whether to approve articles of impeachment against president donald trump republicans attempted to halt the session as soon as it began today by calling a vote to adjourn but that was dismissed along with other attempts to condemn the democrats of the vote is expected to take place after several hours of debate if successful presidents will then go on trial in the u.s. senate well the speaker of the house nancy pelosi she opened the impeachment debate by saying this if we do not act now we would be derelict in our duty as custodians of the constitution. it is tragic that the president's reckless

actions make impeachment necessary he gave us no choice but we are discussing today is the established that that the president violated the constitution is a matter of fact that the president is an ongoing threat to our national security and the integrity of our elections the basis of our democracy. and my colleague alexander phonology joins us now from capitol hill in washington good evening to you alexander so it's in certainly a day we're history is being made in the united states but a solemn day talk us through what's happening right now. so right now at the bait is taking place on this house floor and this debate reflects in a very good way to radically different points of view with democrats saying that

there are sold and duty to defend the constitution and to impeach donald trump the coast they think that he violated the constitution that he abused his power and that he is as you mentioned and that's what speaker pelosi said and i'm going threat to the national security and to the integrity of the u.s. election the republicans were over they the cry the whole process as raked and they say that the democrats just wants to undo the 2016 presidential elections but of course the democrats had reasons to don't stare at impeachment inquiry so let's have a look at the facts and how it all began. it all started with a phone call a phone call in which president trump asked president zelinsky of ukraine to investigate his main political rival democratic presidential hopeful joe biden and his son hunter i became increasingly aware of what followed was

a congressional inquiry with a 1000 witnesses testifying in public describing crimes dealings with ukraine as improper and in a proper is all going to blow up and here we are one witness in such secured are turned out to leak he gordon sunland the us ambassador to the european union and so much on arms he told the investigators there was indeed a quid pro quo in the works. president trump pressed the ukrainian government to get dirt on joe biden jule an exchange for a meeting in the white house at the same time you asked for military aid for ukraine was put on hold so as to presidents direction everyone was in the loop so we followed the president's orders corruption other witnesses added more damning details about donald trump's conduct time machine no evidence for the democratic majority in the house to move forward with the impeachment. the morning.

the facts are contested the president and the use his power for his own personal political benefit at the expense of our national security. if use of power and obstruction of congress to charges the democrats say that amounts to high crimes justifying impeachment however they haven't convinced a single republican the at trump's party stands by the president crying pietschmann as a political witch hunt you can't make your case against the present because nothing happened if the majority of lawmakers approved the articles of impeachment which seems likely it will trigger a senate trial to determine if the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and should be removed from office. a trial president trump seems to be gearing up for he expects to be exonerated by the republican led senate and

hopes impeachment will backfire on his rivals there was nothing done wrong to the power of the peach when one is not charged is an embarrassment to this country . whatever the outcome what is happening in washington right now reflects the hyper partisan divisions in american politics. vision has led to. the president is impeach which we expect him to be within a couple of hours then what. then we will see the phase 2 of impeachment a senate trial and at the moment it's rather unlikely that there will be a 2 thirds majority in the rep republican controlled senate to convict donald trump and remove him from office nevertheless we will be keeping our eyes open for

surprises because it's not clear if the senate majority can dismiss the case straight away there are might be 2 or 3 republican senators who might want to listen to more witnesses to learn more about the conditions now and then what is this doing the country i mean you were going to have impeachment today the trial will happen probably next month and. the president will not be convicted and then he's going to go into a real pain what is all this doing to the country. the president has been talking a lot about that a lot about impeachment and how bad it is for the country and he has accused the democrats to be focused only on impeachment and not paying attention to the issues that are important to the american people but that's simply not true as we could

see this week only yesterday the house passed 2 spending bills to avert a government shutdown. lawmakers are expected to approve a trade deal with canada and mexico so things are being get got done here and the house of representatives and it's not the case that the country stands still only because of the impeachment and all these are there are americans or are they paying its engine these impeachment proceedings are mean how are they responding to what's happening. well what we can see in the polls is at that the american public is split over the matter it's like a 5050 situation and it's also worth mentioning that the support for impeachment and removal from office has been declining in the last weeks. our correspondent

alexander phenomenon on capitol hill where we are expecting a votes to impeach u.s. president donald trump within several hours alexandra thank you and here's a look at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world believe me as attorney general has issued an arrest warrant for former president if a morality he's wanted for trial on charges of sedition and terrorism morale is fled bolivia last month amid unrest after he claimed victory in a disputed presidential election he's currently living in exile in argentina germany's chancellor says she opposes us saying sions against the north stream to gas pipeline from russia to germany i'm going merkel suggesting talks are needed to resolve the issue the u.s. congress approved the same sions on tuesday washington says the almost completed pipeline will make the european union dependent on russia for energy.

well the german chancellor today entered into the controversy over whether the chinese telecoms company who way should be allowed to participate in germany's 5 g. network. china's ambassador has hinted that his government might retaliate if who way is excluded from the process but merkel says she has not been told of any threats by chinese authorities she repeated today that she is against banning any company before the 5 g. roll well w. has been to take a look inside who always extravagant offices and we have an exclusive interview with the company's chairman. it looks like a renaissance castle in the middle of europe but it is actually only a modern replica and part of the research and development operations at china's tech supreme oh huawei the campus outside of shenzhen was opened this spring from the outside it's nostalgia of britain large but inside it is futurism pure

while way demonstrates tomorrow's world of wireless communications here the company uses the facility to flex its 5 g. muscles while ways take on the new technology is praised by many customers and it's cheaper than 5 g. systems from europe or the united states but many are wary with critics saying the threat for a while wait to misuse the technology is real the concern is that it would pass on user data to the chinese government the chairman of the company told joyce avello the concerns are unfounded. all we want what way is never received any such requests during our operations over the past years and even if we received such requests in the future we would not agree to them without lawful requests we won't do anything which will a woman. though there is no proof of data protection issues that while away the

united states is vehement about locking them out of 5 g. network build outs germany is also wrestling with the issue beijing says it will retaliate against berlin if walk away is banned in germany. oh yeah this could be a battle beginning clifford countered for me to be a business joins me now clifford in the interview with the chairman of who or what he says that without a lawful request the company would not engage in sponsoring did he say what would happen if china makes what it deems to be a wall for request to the company well this is it i mean it's a gray area about what what is a lawful request i mean there are there are rules in place which would require a way to report if the government or the communist party which is the same thing required we've had the case of the 2 canadians who were detained a year ago after. chief financial officer of mom one joe was detained in there and

that's writing on it and she's under house arrest there they've been. under arrest in china for a year they haven't seen a lawyer if that kind of thing can happen basically the law is kind of whatever the congress party says it is so they haven't seen a lawyer but the see if you can of this she has had access to her lawyers right she's under house arrest she's she's living quite well she's living quite well what should we make of the german chancellor statement today where she says she's not aware of any threats being made well i mean. bastard did hint very strongly that there would be retaliated against against the automobile sector and we also had in estonia we had. there who was threatening. to threaten the danish ambassador so you've got you've got a building picture there and i think ultimately what this comes down to is it's about votes like in siemens as much as it's about. the huawei because you know she has got to play the political game china is

a big market for germany and she constantly can't exclude german firms i think people forget too can 26 tea in china surpass the united states is the biggest trading partner for germany so there's a lot at stake here how big of an issue is who away. though for the rest of europe we're seeing that how it's playing a big role it's in serbia for example they just installed surveillance cameras in the capital there a surveillance equipment it is selling 5 g. equipment to various other european powers it's cheaper they can deliver the goods so it's playing an important role but i think the question is still where the european firms in this you know i mean we have ericsson we have nokia who can also do this and i think that's been missing from the debates you know where exactly are where where is europe in all of this and why aren't the european firms stepping up and why are european governments doing more say to promote european firms in the face of a flow as a good point and if the u.s. is telling europe you know you can't do business with them where are the u.s.

companies then to fill the gap there very good question clifford from our business desk clifford thank you australia is suffering it's hard to stay on record today the national average temperature reached 40.9 degrees celsius beating the record that was set in 2013 the record breaking heat comes as the country battles a severe drought and a bushfire crisis more sweltering temperatures are forecast for thursday and friday hotter than ever australia is going through record high temperatures and for a few heah that's just another reason to make a splash. spared the health risks dehydration can be deadly for the phone a rescue team and the threat to wildlife is foremost. that . there's probably not very much food up there because of the drought there's

not a lot of water they do theme in the river but some people have been calling back out of the river this morning. so it's just going to get worse and worse this is going to build up their already. apparently hanging trays. down here with 6070 major flyboy but if they're really made of and the extreme heat is compounding this problem since august millions of hectares of australian bush have barred the hotter drier weather has rendered firefighters helpless. scientists say it is a result of mankind failure to address global climate change. could be to come over the next few days we're going to say far far as emergency services and all those communities close to farmers and in doing those some distance from followers are going to be a challenge with a new threat and a new challenge as we head into this heat wave conditions that are going to

dominate much of the sky and anger is growing up prime minister scott morrison after failing to concede for weeks that the fires were linked to climate change he's gone on holiday. for shoppers in central sydney however there is no escape a festive themed monument crafted from charred branches stands as a bleak reminder of the national crisis. in india authorities have banned large gatherings in several states after thousands of people took to the streets to protest the new citizenship wall a week after the controversial legislation was passed by parliament prime minister narendra modi remains unmoved 6 people have lost their lives in protests across the country but the demonstrations show no signs of abating. it's a show of solidarity. and passions have been running high. and yet

i don't think yes i know i'm nobody i'm a god i think i'm nobody. god many see the new law is discriminating against muslims 'd the rallies and demonstrations have spilled over into riots and clashes with the police the government says the new citizenship amendment act provides a path to citizenship for hindus buddhists christians and other religious minorities in 3 neighboring countries however it does not apply to muslims and for the protesters that's a violation of the constitution. on the basis of kneejerk prosperity nor would have to be why does 1st of all the the people of india it is the only mention in parts of the ship so that kinder regime of the government want to divide us on the basis of really just. police of bands demonstrations in

cities across the country. the european parliament accolade the annual sakharov prize for freedom of thought has been awarded to the weaker human rights activists you see right here in total i was presented to his daughter at the european parliament in straw spurred because he is serving a life sentence in prison in china is charged with separatism for being jailed in 2014 jodi. for more than 2 decades route through the ranks of china's persecuted minority more than a 1000000 we are currently being held in internment camps. sunders spoke to just before the ceremony about her father years that interview. when was the last time you heard from your father do you have any idea how he's doing now. the last time i saw my father in person with them was 2013 and the last time i talked to my

father was 2014 the last time i heard my father was 17 and which was also the last time my family was able to visit him and that was also the time when. exploded unfortunately i do not know how my father is doing i do not know if he's still being locked up in the same prison i don't know if he's doing ok physically mentally i don't even know if he is still alive so your father home told he was awarded the prize by the european parliament this sends a strong message of solidarity but will this be enough what does it need for international pressure to make a change. letting the younger ration is being educated of what is going on helping those international chinese students chinese international students to

gain awareness of what is going on inside their own country because many chinese government many chinese students have no idea this is happening to that we are community and with the chinese proper again the news of propaganda videos a lot of them have no idea this is happening and they sometimes would blame us for overreacting have been which i feel very it's pathetic. and also putting sanctions on those companies who support the concentration camp who are. importing as exporting from those concentration camps and also putting these are restrictions on government chinese government officials who are supporting or who have helped making the decisions for the concentration camp could also be a very helpful helpful way she'll have thank you very much for talking to you thank you. she were there speaking with us earlier today some of today's top stories

french trade union leaders have met with the country's prime minister in a bid to end the deepening crisis over proposed pension reforms the talks came on the 14th day of strikes that have paralyzed transport and other services president micro-loan has offered to make changes but his office insists the reforms must go ahead. and rival p.s.a. group which owns peugeot and vauxhall have announced that their boards have agreed to merge the 2 car makers the merger creates the world's 4th biggest all the company which will be led by c.e.o. carlo. here in germany the chancellor angela merkel's governments is aiming to ban what is known as gay conversion therapy for minors now the government says that the practice which claims to make gay people heterosexual has no scientific basis and that it often calls a psychological harm of the cabinet has approved the wall it has to be passed by

parliament before it takes effect. by banning conversion therapy germany's health minister says he wants to protect young people the law says that so-called cures for homosexuality that try to change people's sexual preferences lead to considerable emotional and physical damage. this is about addressing individual suffering and the suffering of those who have received the therapy but it's also signals to society that homosexuality being gay or lesbian is totally ok and this is for the. boston measure has experienced so-called gay conversion therapy today he's openly gay living without the kilt his strict pentecostal christian community pressured him to feel he had been playing by thoughts of suicide finally he sought the help of a doctor who performed an exorcism on the he then said that a big black bone was coming out of my back and that it was

a really big evil demon that was responsible for my homosexuality and that doctors have long agreed that homosexuality is not a disease but it's estimated that 2000 people undergo pseudo therapy to treat their sexuality each year in germany alone the world health organization says this is a violation of human rights. well as we say good bye to a decades we also bid farewell to a song from a galaxy far far away i'm talking about star wars the 9th final film in the skywalker saga has its world premiere the rise of skywalker crowns 42 years of box office gold we have this sneak peek without any spoilers take a look. at . the final star wars trilogy is coming to an end but the glad to battle between

good and evil genocide and 6 isn't over yet joe di in training rate is back to face down high low ram the dark side and son of late and han solo and now supreme leader of the evil 1st order confronting. killing city. it was often. the pressure is on and not least for disney and director j.j. abrams has been brought back to the star wars franchise after the last episode by a different director but a lot of fans disappointed. episode 9 focuses particularly on the chemistry between its central characters ray and her buddies of the resistance pilot po'd damron and stormtrooper fend for cast and fans it's about more than just one movie

it's the end of a saga this is the last one is crazy because it feels like christmas in a time machine and traveled back to when they passed. on to 42 years and 8 episodes later can the rise of skywalker live up to fans' expectations losing the fight to see if ghostwriter celgene be careful in the way of director. may the force be with you i'm broke off you're watching the news may the day be with you after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for the. see

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much of bella editor in chief innes pool interviews the chairman of the chinese telecommunications giant leon cool off. it. can huawei survive the tung oil caused by the trade war between china and the us. the interview. today on t.w. . china and russia have 2 things that europe especially germany needs in the 21st century 5 g. tech and energy pipelines hardware and natural gas there for the taking but at what price the united states is sounding the alarm warning the german chancellor of russian and chinese trojan horses in europe tonight when does a good business deal become

a political deal with the devil i'm burned off in berlin this is the day.