this is d w news live from berlin u.s. president donald trump has been cleaning it in his impeachment trial is there for order going to judge that the search donald john being and he is hereby acquitted of the charges in said articles of the u.s. senate clears tromp of abuse of power and obstruction of congress ending a congressional being to oust him from office we'll go live to our correspondent in washington for the latest also coming up. a passenger private plane or breaks into

pieces trying to land in istanbul officials say at least one person has been killed and over 150 others injured the plane was being lashed by strong winds and heavy rain. and outrage here in germany after a longstanding political to burning is broken for the 1st time a regional leader takes office with the backing of mainstream parties and the far right germany. very welcome to the show or the u.s. senate has acquitted president donald trump of both counts of impeachment the senate run by the president's fellow republicans voted to clear him on charges of abuse of power and on obstruction of congress the result ends a congressional bid to oust him from office which came from democrats in the u.s.

house of representatives house. let's go straight to washington now and speak to d.w. correspondent all of a salad day hi all of it trump has been cleaned it's a historic day for sure but this was expected wasn't it roger and it's a story moment for sure you're right with that. and in particular because this has only happened 3 other times before this time is different however because we did not see any witnesses and we did not get any evidence the republican senators who are holding the majority here in senate i wanted to get this done as soon as possible wanted to acquit president trump because the outcome of the trial was also pretty much clear even before the trial started although i must say that there have been some republican senators that admitted that one president did there when that phone call was wrong that he should not have called president volodymyr zelinsky of

ukraine and pushed essentially for investigations against his political rival still in the end he was acquitted and one of the reasons for that is that simply many many republican senators in particular are up for reelection in november and they're simply fearing the anger of the republican voter now all over this impeachment has been full of dramatic moments not least of all a few hours ago when mitt romney became the 1st senator in history to back the conviction of a president from his own party let's hear from him the great question the constitution task senators to answer is whether the president committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of a high crime and misdemeanor. yes he did so mitt romney day he broke with the republican ranks and join the democrats and

voted to convict to no avail the all of the what does this. mean for trump now and how he campaigns to be reelected. right so i mean he will certainly celebrate that acquits he's been calling this whole impeachment proceeding the trial a witch hoax over and over again and he's already announced that he will deliver a speech tomorrow at the wide held at noon eastern time here and certainly be interesting to see his response but it's pretty clear that he will try to capitalize on the outcome saying that this was all a hoax essentially that it was a politically motivated trial and proceeding in order to get him from office that was his line of defense now the democrats they will certainly be saying that this is an impeach president and he will always remain an impeach president and there's another 1st that he has to go into his reelection campaign after an impeachment trial that's new so it will be interesting to see how that will play into his

campaign so the democrats will certainly try to get their political gain out of it and the republicans will do the same all of a trump's acquittal was pretty much all but certain a lot of people watching this might be asking why do it at all what was all these for well nancy pelosi the speaker of the house of representatives argued along the lines that they were simply forced to act as a certain point in time one quote we heard very often from the democrats was that no one is above the law and that certainly applies to the president as well and so they moved forward they argued in the name of the american democracy they wanted to show the strength of the system of checks and balances they failed but they knew it before they're morally on the right side this is all they argue and this is how they want to go down with this trial in history our correspondent in washington all

of a silent thank you all of. now to some of the other stories making news around the world at least 6 people have been reportedly killed after supporters of a populist cleric stormed an anti-government protest camp in iraq's southern city of the jobs medical sources said at least 20 more wounded cleric mock tada of saddam has waived wavered between support for an opposition to iraqi protesters demanding the removal of the ruling elite. authorities in turkey say at least 33 people have died in a 2nd avalanche in the country several others are still missing the avalanche struck while a large team of rescuers was searching for people hit by an earlier snorri slide in eastern van province that avalanche killed 5 people. staying in turkey at least one person has died and dozens of others have been injured after an airline airliner crashed in bad weather at an airport in istanbul

the aircraft was operated by the budget operator pisses airlines and it was carrying 177 people when it broke apart during what turkey's transcript transport ministry has described as a rough landing. at the crash site an emergency response into the night. and a desperate race to save casualties. the aircraft arrived in istanbul from the city of is mare in bad weather before it crashed into a field. because. unfortunately the pegasus airlines plane could not stay on the runway due to poor weather conditions and skidded for around 50 to 60 metres. when it fell down a height of 30 to 40 metres. 175 passengers through babies for flight attendants and 2 pilots were on board.

so far 120 passengers have been transferred to nearby hospitals. using. the version of the. footage of the landing shows the plane on the runway at high speed in heavy rain and strong winds. it continues past the end and then plunges not long after the smoldering wreckage passengers escaped some emerging from a crevasse onto its a wing others out of the gaping fuselage which had split into 3 parts. as the response continues flight operations have been shut down with other aircraft diverted to istanbul's other international airport. now this accident comes a month after another pegasus plane skidded off the runway at the same airport in

istanbul earlier we spoke to d.w. correspondent dorian joints and we asked him if people are now going to be questioning the safety of this low budget airline. indeed i think the papers said i will be under scrutiny like you said that there was appeared to be a a similar incident again bad weather was blamed for the plane careering off the runway and a year ago at a number of other provincial airports in the black sea again pegasus saw a plane full off the runway and into the into nearby close to the sea org and there were no injuries or fatalities but the landing procedures all the airline will be under scrutiny the pilots and i think also something to will be under scrutiny given the fact that both of these incidents occurred in found weapons and the way that they have been the sit in these conditions given the fact the airport is extremely busy will also be a point of. of investigation in the coming days or weeks. our correspondent daryn giants in istanbul there well here in germany

a regional election has set off what is being labeled a political earthquake for the 1st time mainstream pov he's have joined forces made the far right alternative to germany or i.f.t. to elect a state premier thomas kenniff from the pro-business free democrats was elected premie of the small state of 3 with help from the i.f.j. and the conservative c.d.u. now the c.d.u. is chancellor angela merkel's posse until today either party has had refused any cooperation with the anti migrant and. bad credit that got you fired that there outside the from democrats headquarters in berlin about a 1000 demonstrators gathered to send a message to the new state premier a few 100 kilometers away his election breaks a taboo inside the party leader was congratulatory but at a distance. the support from the far right comes as a surprise because the party is not aligned with our party it was purely

a tactical moves. but the a.f.d. in 3 inches says the vote was planned that way. the conservative majority prevailed and that's great because if we wanted to put a left party leadership posture and we succeeded for. the conservative christian democrats took their time to react some welcomed the result of the vote speaking in strasburg the head of chancellor merkel's party had this message. this one hurtin that you and 2 other than the way our party members voted in syringe i was especially against a recommendation of. i want to make that clear once more we have not approved the silly i consider it to be clearly wrong. it's both mainstream conservative parties are calling for new elections in 3. places. it is an unacceptable breach to align votes with those of the far right for the office of

state premier minister was in variance with the center left sees the vote as a threat to the government there calling for a special meeting of the coalition committee at the federal level. this was planned in advance a fixed con game with a clear goal that the free democrats the christian democrats and the far right and if they would form a common alliance to elect a state the perm yeah. the green and left parties also expressed their dismay over the election and. for the 1st time in germany we have a situation where democratic parties have gained power with the votes of the far right as it is intolerable the conservatives in the free democrats of person to be stir apologise for the far right they've been used. that's what the demonstrators outside the f.t.p. headquarters in the german capital are saying to the election and is likely to cause further unrest in berlin. well chief political correspondent melinda crane has been following this story for us and earlier we asked her to explain why these

are to be used of course such controversy here in germany well 1st of all because germany's mainstream political parties until now have considered any form of cooperation with the right wing a.f.d. to be off limits politically taboo and that includes both the chancellors christian democrats and the business friendly free democrats mr kennedy's party now suddenly those 2 parties appear to have coordinated their 3rd round voting today with the far right party the a.f.d. and i must say that the chapter into ringing is a particularly rabid far right chapter so by doing so these mainstream parties have lent an aura of legitimacy to the a.f.d. party and they also open themselves up to questions about what the f.d.a. might be expecting in return and that's reason number one reason number 2 mr

cameron represents a party that barely scraped into the regional parliament which barely made the 5 percent vote hurdle so many through the reagan voters will be asking is it democracy that he now would lead the state government and for that reason we are hearing a lot of calls for the state told the elections. well the round of 16 in the german cop drew to a close on wednesday and the final is now complete when you're in berlin and by leave occurs the now both into the quarterfinals after beating 4th. and 2nd division stood god respectively current title holders by and munich knocked out hoffenheim while sabra can. see went in went all the way into a penalty shoot out before sabah can finally prevailed. you're watching the news from as more news at the top of the aisle coming up in africa with my

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