this is different when you fly from north arches crackdown on renewed nationwide protest against a controversial new citizenship local police arrest hundreds of demonstrators for defying a ban imposed after violence broke out at previous rallies to take you live to china. also on the program in a historic move the u.s. house of representatives votes to impeach. one if it. makes it official but refuses to say when she will send the articles of impeachment to the senate. president trying to get. miles and miles of files the legacy of the east german secret police the. 30 years after the fall

of the world and people still come to read. and often shaken by what they found. welcome to the program police in india have taken hundreds of people into custody for defying a ban on protest against a controversial new citizenship law the ban was imposed after protests in 2 states turned violent the new law office citizenship to migrants from pakistan bangladesh and afghanistan escaping religious persecution but it excludes muslims transport and communications networks have been shut down amid the disruption. defiance they came out to protest initially it started peacefully. people across the country refused to be deterred by the protest ban there against

a new law they say makes religion a basis for granting indian citizenship and discriminates against muslims and they believe it threatens the secular nature of indian democracy and yet you'll see here this citizenship amendment act is against the indian constitution it is a legal it is against the spirit of independence of our country and one of the art market you know and yet. many prominent people were taken into custody while protesting including the well known historian robert chan drug. his detention prompted widespread outrage on twitter a delhi based political historian condemned what he described as the police man handling one of the most prolific and influential public intellectuals and scholars the government said it was forced to take steps in the interest of public safety after many protests turned violent last week. in the capital delhi protests caused

more than a dozen train stations to be closed roads were blocked traffic congested authorities also shut down mobile phone networks in the internet in several regions many locals were left frustrated. by the device of very difficult situation and a very bad situation we're facing a lot of problems the roads also have a lot of traffic jams and some of them are blocked so it's a pathetic situation. but there may be much more disruption on its way there are a few signs the prime minister or injure modi is going to back down over the law and the protesters don't seem to be afraid to disobey. now with deadly consequences . straight to india then we join journalist sanjay rubbish in chennai welcome sanjay bring us up to date 2 people have been found dead and one person from luck now are from the. manual and both of them are

allegedly being fielded util hieron. completely the same did not fire and not sure who. was in the fighting and they will be investigating the deaths so far today and i cited the book a 2nd standard because there is a sort of mixed reaction our got. a lot of the art i know you know among the minority muslim community about what really happened to them and with that this is the slippery slope that could lead to who. might be really discriminated against and really just refining it back on the other hand we also have 01000 been liberated population who are now out on the street and yes having funded arab students and there's a sense of euphoria about that actually having come out on the. ride so to deaths.

rest across the countryside and yes give us an idea of the scale of opposition to this because what we see the pictures but is that is that being replicated across the whole of the country. knoxy the protests are largely confined to pockets in urban india so we're looking at the metropolis and the cities and some of the towns and if you know nazis killed in and out of bunch of a section of the. crowd that has come out the boys there been a lot of people who are you know off a school as they come they come out to come for a cup of identical act and this is also happening and good tests themselves not being you know was sort of the social media networks who want the messaging actually what's actually people are putting out your creation. kind meetings about protests and the ones getting all of this and their movies. just box all of the

cities where the book is that is still it is gathering steam in most of the metropolis is very good only indias and i was unaffected by it ok so now we have deaths and destruction in the areas but you have a prime minister and the government that seems to determined to move. that's right in fact women and still i'm not sure how has reportedly quark's sort of meeting to analyze the security measures in the wake of the protests that got me can get out and now are now closed in mourning and very frank in mourning but he has got divorce he also said that there is no way back on. them and after all naturists are citizens and you don't refuse to engage in a dialogue with me and getting students and i that was no. can expect to see full force in police attempting to quell protests in the days to come the

political debate about how much and how fire congress along with the purpose i actually want right thank you for that rubbish on. we move on and take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world now russian president vladimir putin has given his annual end of yet news conference during the for the half hour address he described impeachment charges against president trump as made up and criticised doping bans against russian athletes he also suggested that russians the 2 term presidential limits could be changed. police may have arrested more than 300 suspected members of the calabrian maffia amongst them former politicians and a police commander the rest were reportedly also made in switzerland germany and bulgaria by 2500 officers took part in raids in italy alone. this is

now to the united states where donald trump has become only the 3rd president to be impeached the house of representatives voted on 2 charges stemming from the president's alleged attempt to pressure ukraine into investigating his potential presidential rival joe biden both votes followed party lines with almost all democrats are voting for the charges and republicans voting unanimously against the decision now paves the way for a trial in the senate where the leader of the republican majority mitch mcconnell described the impeachment as the most rushed least sarah and most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern history. after hours of debating the 1st article of impeachment for abuse of power past the habs. on this though the ace 230 the nays 1907 present is one article one is adopted and just minutes later

this 2nd article for obstruction of congress went as planned for the democrats on this vote the yeas are 229 the nays are 198 present is one article 2 is adopted. hundreds of kilometers away at a rally in michigan president trump reacted to his impeachment. with today's illegal unconstitutional and partisan impeachment. would do nothing democrats and they are doing nothing all they want to do is focus on this what they could be doing are declaring their deep hatred and this thing for the american voter. this lawless harvester peach is a political suicide march for the democratic party have you seen my polls of the last 4 which. back in washington democratic had speaker nancy pelosi accuse the republicans of being purely partisan she threatened to delay the impeachment trial

until she could be sure it would be handled fairly in the senate. we have legislation approved by the govt committee that will enable us to decide how we will send over the articles of impeachment we cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the senate side and i would hope that that will be soon so far we haven't fulfilled what will they are to us so hopefully it will be for when we see what baubles will follow up on that matter. with voting concluded in the house of representatives and donald trump becoming only the 3rd u.s. president to be impeached americans now face the next stage in the process the senate trial that's due to begin in january but democrats face an uphill battle considering the senate is republican controlled and they need a 2 thirds majority to remove president trump from office. is

about to begin a brief period of calm over the holiday season as members of the congress and senate spent time in their homes across this starkly divided country. straight to day doubly so washington bureau chief of exam dr norman for the latest welcome alexandra so now the house vote has happened the focus shifts to the senate trial what do we expect well we know what the republicans want in the senate senate senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has said that he would like to have a very short quick trial with no additional witnesses with no additional subpoenas for additional documents from the white house he also said that he is not going to be an impartial juror that he is coordinating with the white house and of course president from would like to be acquitted as soon as possible but those remarks

have infuriated the democrats they say that they would like to have a fur process and that is the reason for house speaker pelosi to hold off on sending over the impeachment articles to the senate so both sides the republicans and democrats are now at loggerheads over how to continue with the impeachment proceedings it does sound as though the republicans in the senate have the upper hand here if he wants this to happen she has these articles of impeachment at some stage. yes it's rather unlikely that you know if she can refuse to send them over indifferently that would be a risky strategy also because there are a lot of democrat moderates democrats who have voted in favor of impeachment but would like the process to be over soon of course when we talk about the democratic

2020 hope force they want to concentrate on their presidential campaign so this is a risky strategy but we are going to hear from nancy pelosi today as she is scheduled to hold her press conference soon so yesterday's decision from the house that was long awaited it sounds like now the gavel has actually dropped it doesn't sound like the house is any any less partisan. no not at all we have to say that what happened yesterday has even deepened the existing position divisions in american politics the heated and bitter debate on the house floor yesterday then the votes along party lines then president trump's rambling corella in michigan and now the partisan infighting is fighting is continuing as has it has even intensified. 100 phenomena in washington thank you

now to the u.k. which has seen the 2nd state opening of parliament in 2 months the situation was dramatically different this time because prime minister boris johnson is now in a more commanding position following last week's general election queen elizabeth laid out the government's agenda in a speech written by the prime minister to no one's surprise that delivering it was the number one priority with a big majority it was jobs and now has the votes to pass his bill to take the u.k. out of the european union parliament due to vote been on friday the queen made it clear that britain's departure from the e.u. was no imminent. my government's priority is to deliver the united kingdom's departure from the european union on the 31st of january my ministers will bring forward legislation to ensure the united kingdom's exit on that date and to make the most of the opportunities that this brings all the people of the united kingdom

. announces a breaking news reaching us from moscow russian media reporting that shots have been fired outside the f.s.b. headquarters of the powerful secret service once headed by president putin a major police operation is now underway let's go straight to d.w. a correspondent and we show him on the line from the city welcome emily what more can you tell us. well at the moment as you say so it's just various media reports coming in there has been a conditional confirmation of any of the information but it seems that there has been a shooting in the entrance hall of the f.s.b. building that the russian security service the victim seem to be either members of the security service itself or of the fs though that the security services protect the president and numbers they are very we don't have confirmation but they could be between one and 3 people but again at the moment i don't know that security

services have now surrounded the area and people who are approaching the area. also being taken out of buses getting off of buses nearby the timing of course of this is important and relevant to mention because today. today there was a press conference of the russian president vladimir putin. it may be that those shooters or that shooter. that that might have been relevant to the consideration of what happened today in the planning that. no official confirmation that some russian or forces it is not what we would expect. usually it does take a while for their official confirmation in attacks like these natural disasters in explosions in russia so this isn't unusual in that sense but what we are getting

is a lot of reports from eyewitnesses at the scene people sharing videos on social media and media reports as well from the not from the agencies but from other russian media outlets. thank you. germany has been marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall this year and which led to a german reunification one of the big questions facing german leaders back then was what to do with a vast quantity of files kept by the stasi they were the much feared east german secret police who operated with the support of a vast network of informers willing to spawn coworkers friends and neighbors in the end the files were made available to the public but 3 decades on they remain a source of pain and controversy. 30 years ago east germans stormed the headquarters of the stasi there was they wanted to prevent the communist

dictatorship secret police from completely destroying its archives here are in supreme war these guys you know why waste the place where the secret police plan the oppression of the people being there and helping to preserve the files it's an experience i'll always remember as. my daughter i don't know how many out there today is the federal commissioner for the stasi archives is agency holds enough files to stretch for 111 kilometers as a journalist and civil rights activist he himself was put under surveillance spied on and filmed by the stasi until 989 just like millions of others the spying reached all the way to the top ranks and into the west one of the stasis main targets was long term chancellor helmut kohl after the fall of the g.d.r. the german government did not initially want to make the archives available to the public in an exclusive interview with g w the former chancellor's widow mica clearly explains why the since on stock there

of questionable truth what's worse the stasi also added fake information to the files so they were created in order to spy on people to subdue people and to secure the continuance of the regime but even suspicion but activists from the former east germany persevered soon anyone could apply to look at his or her own files people were often astonished by what the stasi had known about them and how much coal fired a long legal battle to prevent stasi files about himself from being released to academic researchers and journalists in the end a compromise was reached. top 40 stuff we thought i mentioned i thought it was the stasi violated our human rights by spying on citizens and helmut kohl was all i would call a collector that information these files of course they should be protected these are. 30 years on more than 2000000 people have seen their files

the identities of former stasi spies have been revealed. people who were wrongfully imprisoned were forced into working for the stanzi were rehabilitated but how to treat the files in the future is still controversial. they're not a legitimate source this was always my husband's concern he'd say the more distant people are from the g.d.r. over time the less they will understand that the stasi files are not of a constitutional state stopped says but one of the archives is a key historic document this is. to expand these files by talking to witnesses of the time but also with other information. in a sense history is always made up of many different elements like a mosaic of cards they shouldn't be a static image of history these archives should contribute to a discourse on history. that could take place here at the former headquarters of east germany secret police and berlin a campus for democracy as in the planning that should be finished by 2021 and it's

hoped it will send a clear message i think that towards dictatorship can be overcome that's a reason for hope and that's the message that can be learned from history also for future generations to become aware that freedom and autonomy are not a given but instead they must be cherished and protected. now that report was part of a d docu documentary tightrope act in dresden which you can still view online a d w dot com forward slash dr phil so let's take a closer look at this with your constat who is a political scientist for a university and head of the east germany researcher projects welcome to date of the. this was 30 years ago why are the stars the file still such an emotional topic here in germany well you must think that there are millions of people who are. reported about them and written in those files very personal

stories family stories about kohli working together. students who were spied on because they were thinking in a different way and it was wished so you had you have files about millions of people and a lot of people. did not start to read their files after they were open in 1900 to the falling because they feared to find something what was really. bad about the people who were in their surrounding and maybe reporting about them and still you still have people who start now reading the files they are with 16 and they say now i have the time it's far enough time gone and i'm now ready to read this because what was particularly insidious about this save it was that it wasn't just the baby officials during the spying but it was your neighbors your

friends your family they had agents around all around you if you were interesting for them some people who are interesting for them that's a work in the church and we're opposition knew they had 4567 people reporting about them and their offices were loaded down and analyzed it and there. you find the things. about you personally very personal things because because part of the work of the study was to. isolate people they thought who would be oppositional people so how did they convince how did they convince wives to spawn husbands husbands to spy watch children to spawn parents well we have this one case very famous case where a husband spied on his wife and the wife found that out after the reunification why did he do it when when he was asked why he did it he said she was opus ition a person in the church and i believed in the aims of our party of the government

he was the son of a man who was in the concentration camp in the nazi time and he was convinced about the system so he said i must tell them to stop my wife doing things what are against the state against us the system of using your stasi file i see my study 5 i studied invest in so for you an evening it is generally a i wasn't in east germany but we had one person in our institute who was working for them and was reporting what we were doing good you were researching about is june literature so you project thing what we were discussing and that in that 2. decision from 981 i couldn't visit any more east germany this they did they put me on the blacklist and you know who is we knew who he was and who we is and he was

kicked out of university shortly after 92 when this came out to talk to you thank you for joining us. from who is the head of the east german research project thank you. now russia says it will appeal against its 4 year ban from the olympics and other major international sporting events the ban was imposed earlier this month as punishment for russian efforts to cover up positive drugs tests the country's anti-doping agency rosado said it would lodge its case with the court of arbitration for sport within $10.00 to $15.00 days during his annual news conference russian president vladimir putin described the band as unfair. visitors to the italian city of pompei are about to see something special the ongoing restoration of some of the world's most famous works of art pompei administrators will open the doors on the 19th and 20th of december allowing the public to view were being carried out on frescoes in the orchard house or custard

del food tech though the work on the images of gardens ornamental plants and flying birds is expected to be finished in february. i was reminded of the top stories up this hour russian media are reporting that shots of being fired outside the f.s.b. headquarters in moscow the 1st piece of powerful secret service was headed by president from egypt a major police operation is now on the right course but the number of dead between i'm 3 people. i'm the indian government has cracked down on nationwide protests against a controversial new citizenship more police arrested hundreds of people for the firing up about an imposed death of violence broke out during previous demonstrations. but next up their own theme to news asia with sumi summer scotland don't forget seeing at all the latest news this morning from the clock on the website the state of news dot com i'll be back at the top of the average.

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