this. from. the u.s. president donald trump after his acquittal now the anger trump attacks his enemies with words such as evil comes after u.s. senators threw out the impeachment charges against the president hailing his acquittal saying that he suffered a terrible ordeal and he says that the trial was a national disgrace also coming off the fallout from that virus in beijing a busy capitol that now looks like a ghost town. this is usually

a bustling commercial street lots of souvenir shops mock shops tourists who visit paging usually come to spend time here to j m d o d one. and german politics rocked by a scandal involving the far right the premier of the eastern state of the ring steps a day after being elected with the help of a party of extremists. it's good to have you with us he has been acquitted and now he's angry u.s. president addressing the nation a day after he was acquitted at his impeachment trial on wednesday lawmakers in the republican controlled senate found not guilty of abuse of power and obstruction he was alleged to have with a. military aid to ukraine to benefit his own reelection campaign now speaking from

the white house trump said that he is the victim of a long and corrupt process we've been going through this now for over 3 years. it was evil it was corrupt it was dirty cops. it was leakers and liars and this should never ever happen to another president ever i don't know that other presidents would have been able to take it some people said no they wouldn't have but i can tell you at a minimum. you have to focus on this because it can get away very quickly no matter who you have with you it can get away very quickly it was a disgrace get away very quickly all right let's talk about the president's 1st speech after the impeachment trial and to do that i'm joined by my colleague. he is in washington on the story for solo pablo

a me judging by the president's speech there you know saying that it could get away from you very easily can we say that any lessons have been learned from this impeachment trial. well before we get to that i would say 1st and foremost the 2 words that i would say that i got from my from that speech are triumphant and also angry now he reiterated time and time again that he's innocent he spoke once again of a word that we're very familiar to to hear from president which is a witch hunt he thanked his legal team he can thank his congressional colleagues his family and he actually even apologized to them brant and basically what we get from this is that he's the victim in all of this now for republicans to answer your question who voted to acquit him because they felt that perhaps he learned his lesson a good example would be susan collins of maine and i'm sure they're going to be asking themselves whether he actually has learned his lesson considering this speech this celebration as he called it which lasted over an hour he also had some

really harsh words for mitt romney of utah who voted with the democrats who voted against equating them and also as some of the usual suspects that president trump went after. monitor in the senate trial adam schiff and also the nancy pelosi the top democrat and also the speaker in the house of democrat of every presented of who he described as a horrible person you know it's interesting you mention. that romney because he's part of the this group of religious opponents that the president talked about this morning at the national prayer breakfast trump used words such as evil he said that his opponents had used religion to justify their opposition to him including the health speaker here's what the hell speaker nancy pelosi had to say to this. and pray hard for him because he's off the track of our constitution our values

our country the care i actually embrace the water they drink and the rest he really needs our prayers so he can say whatever he wants and say very once that i do pray for him and i do so sincerely all rise as you praise for the presidents the question tonight for the democrats in general is do they need prayers they've got problems of their own particularly in iowa following that fiasco with the caucuses there on monday the democrats now we understand that the chairman of the national democratic committee has already asked for a re canvassing of. i mean he's saying do the vote all over again is that a realistic option. well interestingly at the moment what's being said is that exactly from reforms to took place in the i went democratic party as actually if for 20 twentieth's that i would for this to happen and actually allow for

a total recount of us and also a recount of the results is also a possibility if the results could have an impact negative or positive on who will actually be become the candidate to run again against president trump who is decided the national convention which takes place later this year in the summer time so for the time being it looks like the state rules do permit this to take place but you know watching the media here and reading myself here from washington it's there are still some questions which remain unanswered from what has been said by the democratic national committee's chairman well you know the u.s. the u.s. president he's trying to get political capital out of what happened with the cole we also have to remind ourselves that this b.s. has to do with the way the caucus was curious to do have to do with the democratic candidates themselves does it no it doesn't i mean this is just what happened just

to remind everybody there was an issue with the app that was used you know to basically get the results basically the candidates are sort of focusing on the next primaries which are taking place in new hampshire and they basically want to move on from this but it really isn't coming out a very bad time for the democrats of course the acquittal of president trump and now this fiasco it looks like there's a little bit of chaos and that's what's being said by the republicans on president trump within the democratic party. all right a correspondent published us on this day after the verdict in that impeachment trial for president trump public thank you. the chinese doctor who 1st sounded the alarm on the corona virus has reportedly died after becoming infected with the virus himself police in the city of new han accused elite we know on of spreading rumors you may remember that story where the death toll from the virus is approaching $600.00 now in china germany and britain have announced more cases

bringing the total confirmed here in europe to 30 china's capital beijing is not at the center of the outbreak but correspondent much he is berlinger he found that the streets in the city squares are deserted as the government attempts to bring this virus under control. a rare sight in the dry winters of beijing the gate to the forbidden city covered in snow a few people have come out to take in this spectacle but getting inside is out of the question just like almost all public facilities beijing's most famous historic site remains closed thank you to it's good that the government took these measures we support them we'd appreciate even struck to measure his. business activity has largely come to a halt across much of the capital this is usually a bustling commercial street lots of souvenir shops snack shops tourists who visit beijing usually come to spend time here today i'm the only one. every day human

interaction has become suspicious this shop asked its customers to stay outside and communicate their needs from the outside. some pharmacies take the same approach everyone is wearing. because the younger it's a national emergency we stand together or we're not standing together should not be taken literally residential complexes keep strangers out in this compound visitors have to register with their id the guards look for the place of birth who are overweight people can't get any even if they live here they'll be quarantined. people from who by a province where the virus originated are to be isolated in this hotel discrimination against them is now rampant. at the entrance to the subway system a mandatory temperature check for a site the same site as everywhere in the city lots of space.

trains are running as usual it's the passengers were in. this circle i think some of beijing's most patients shopping area is the railway station. beijing has reported less than $300.00 cases so far but fear has spread much fos that in the virus. a scandal over the involvement of a far right party in a normally obscure regional election has shaken german politics to the core yesterday the right wing extremist alternative for germany party helped mainstream parties elect a new premier in the eastern state of the rangy it would today that new premier resigned under nationwide pressure and outrage but his resignation it cannot change

the fact that a taboo has now been broken a taboo among mainstream parties to never cooperate with the far right in government. just 24 hours after becoming state premier thomas keneally announced his resignation. we will be requesting new elections in order to rid the stain of a if the support from the office of state. mr president. the pressure had proven 2 great candidates found himself on the front page of almost every german newspaper the election of the free democrat politician with the help of the far right d. had set off a political earthquake the shock waves reverberated all the way to south africa where the visiting anglo american made her position clear. as this was foreseeable

it must be said that this is unforgivable and that's why the result must be reversed. there was a camera had been the head of the smallest party in the state parliament his election by lawmakers was only made possible with votes from the f.t. and anglo-american c.d.u. party in the state for the 1st time in german post-war history a far right party was kingmaker. the handshake between the new state premier and their india's a f d chief b.n. hooker left many disgusted the head of their injury has left party through have ok of flowers that chemists feet during the inauguration other parties joined the chorus of criticism. this is sadism inacceptable breach of the should be elected state premier with a 50 votes and especially with a vote of mr hucker. to serve as was planned then i go. to a concert again with

a very clear goal that i have to. enter into a joint alliance and the next day premium in the supposed envy and. within hours of the vote people had gathered all over germany to protest. demonstrations continued into thursday with protesters standing against fascism i'm rejecting the state premier who made it into office with the help of the far right. now joining me here in the big table is my colleague on your call she's one of our political correspondent she's also from the range where were all of this happened on you you covered elections there in the last october the elections that have yet to produce the government in that state how surprised were you i have to say i was really surprised i did not see it coming at all what we didn't know right after the election was that it would be very hard to form a coalition government in the state of so in jail because simply because the

elections haven't didn't bring any clear majority vote the city you and democrats conservative in turn into had ruled out right from the beginning to collaborate in any way with the far right and i'm i was really surprised that they did not keep to that promise what. would you think when you found out 24 hours ago that he was going to do this i was extremely surprised because the. special a 50 could use you could say it's one of the most extreme groups within the a 50 of the one in 7 days so i would never have imagined that these city you would collaborate in any way with that kind with that specific group. you know that we want to take a look now at the i mean that already has established itself in all of germany's state parliaments meanwhile extremist tendencies they are becoming clearer especially in the range of the party is dominated as we just heard by aggressively

nationalist we take a look. it is the party leader entering he's pushing the far right party even farther to the right that's the divisions within the party itself but they could lead the public face of the party and its internal tensions has frequently marched alongside well known right wing extremists nevertheless he's been a member of the 2 engine parliament since 2014 if the politicians have won seats in all german state parliaments it's the biggest opposition party in the bundestag where its members often provocative. campaigns are work us book as it heads cover girls and men with nice living off benefits and other good fun not seen or not secure our prosperity economy grows and in particular the welfare state. migrants particularly muslim migrants are the main targets of the f.t. which started out as a euro skeptic party the emphasis on migration issues has won over many voters big

tent party slug c.d.u. and s.p.d. and the more and more pressure especially in eastern germany where the a.f.p. has won up to 28 percent of the vote in recent elections it's increasingly difficult to farm coalitions without the far right party but that's a different story at the national level recent surveys show that if the next federal election was held today the f.t. would only end up with about 14 percent of voters in any case all party leaders in the bundestag have ruled out cooperation with the of the nationwide meanwhile into injure a significant faction of gun hook associates within the a.f.p. is shifting even further to the right the question is how far will they go. how far could they go on yeah i mean what we're seeing in the. state of is it something that could be replicated in other states across the country or 1st of all we have to keep in mind that the a of the has established itself in every state problem. and also this talk so

technically this would be possible as we just heard in the report the a if he tends to be stronger gets used the more votes in the former communist part of the country in the eastern states of the country the ranger used to be part of this communist region but i think what's also quite remarkable is that it took only hours after those after that election that people went out and took to the streets and demonstrated against it now you have to keep in mind the range is a pretty small state. linfield it's far way down no big towns in that state no cosmopolitan centers so going out and demonstrating spontaneously is not something that is not on the daily basis and they are ok it is there of and use it so i was really surprised to see that even in small towns people would go and take to the streets and i thought that was quite remarkable and you know we have to

remind ourselves and our viewers the right now in the german federal parliament the or the war just opposition group in parliament so what we saw could it have consequences at the federal level i think that it already did it because as i said the city when the afghan interim jet broke a promise not to collaborate with the a d i think that damaged their credibility also on a federal level and keep in mind that both are going to back of the chancellor and i think that come on the leader of the christian conservatives the c.d.u. did not approve off that election. come combo or try to intervene to make sure that this would not happen well it still happened and i think it shows us that that might not have complete control over the party at all times if there's an obvious disconnect there in that party for sure on your call as always on your we appreciate your insights and your reporting thank you. a group of celebrities and politicians in germany they have launched an appeal to have weekend leaks founder

julian assange released from prison in britain more than 130 public figures are urging the u.k. to follow the advice of the you when. you're on torture to release us all and on medical grounds now the former foreign minister of germany's ingmar gabriele he is among those who signed the founder of wiki leaks which publishes news leaks in classified material is a high security british prison awaiting extradition to the u.s. on espionage charges he previously evaded capture by taking diplomatic refuge. the 1st few months that julian assange spent in the ecuadorian embassy in london it was all defiant and optimistic gestures 7 years later he would emerge as a broken man. when british police tracked the wiki leaks founder out of the diplomatic mission in 2019 he looked confused and was almost unrecognizable.

at you when expert on to set a son showed symptoms of psychological torture. some fia this torch and may still be happening today. so how did we get here and why. julian assange took refuge in the ecuadorian embassy and 2012 after sweden us the u.k. to extradite that we can expound to answer allegations of rape and that country. sanchez always denied those allegations saying they were pretense to have them eventually extradited to the united states where he is wanted on espionage charges . as we can you expand under threat so it is a freedom of expression and the health of all our society. his supporters share this here they say the swedish rape allegations were fabricated and an excuse to punish

a sanch for the leaking of hundreds of thousands of confidential government documents and for exposing possible war crimes. one high profile leak was a video obtained from the u.s. military which wiki leaks says says he was soldiers opening fire on people in baghdad and killing several civilians and 2 journalists. a son just now in a maximum security prison in the u.k. and continues to fight against his extradition to the united states if he loses his fight and disconnected in the u.s. the wiki leaks founder faces up to 175 years in jail the rape case and sweden has since been dropped and for more on this i'm joined now by niels meltzer he is the united nations special report your on torture he investigated the case of julian is on his good to have you on the show you know i have to ask you our

viewers watching and you maybe have followed the story of julius on maybe asking why use the u.n. special report your own torture involved here has julian assange has he been tortured. yes absolutely and i can assure you it wasn't an easy step for me to get into all of this case that was myself a bit poisoned by his public interest about but when i went to visit him and medical doctors you examined him according to a specialist medical pros all focusing on torture victims and he showed all the symptoms that are typical for a person has been psychologically to wish and are is the claim that he is being psychologically tortured in a british prison is that what is that what i'm understanding well the time obviously there was 4 weeks after his arrest the british authorities it was more about the consequences of his prolonged confinement. now unfortunately you know

his state of health deteriorated and his treatment has not proved in british detention his due process rights have been seriously and systematically violated or . intense anxiety and on top of the health effects he has already suffered before certainly amount to truth you can write in treatment mr meltzer i think people watching me may be asking considering that julian is songe chose to go to the ecuadorian embassy there where he sought asylum he was there voluntarily he wasn't forced to go to the embassy so can we talk about him being tortured even though he was of being forced to be they are. well that's a fair question but you see if you look from the perspective of any asylum seeker is you know refugee actually is voluntarily in his host state but it's not because he would be acceptable for him to go back and not precisely is the problem that you

do in asylums yes it is voluntarily at the embassy but he was only able to leave the embassy without risking serious violations of human rights i also have to prove to be precise i mean torture does not necessarily mean in inflicting pain and suffering in order to get information. to a purpose in the world of torture of treating people is to intimidate others you know supporters in this case of journalists who might be tempted to publish secret information and this initiative that we had earlier in the show how helpful do you think that the signatures of 130 german politicians and celebrities how helpful can they be in the case of julius on. well i think it's incredibly helpful to see you know politicians former politicians high profile personalities recognizing the risk that this just case poses for democracy and for the rule of

law in our societies and so they can draw attention off the public to that the attention that so far and unfortunately the mainstream media has failed to drop his case those military the united nations special repertoire on torture mr meltzer we appreciate your time tonight thank you thank you. the legendary oscar winning actor kirk douglas has died at the age of a 103 he made his name in hollywood's golden age of movie making was one of the biggest box office stars of the 1950 s. and sixty's his son michael douglas who also became a big time actor announced the news of his father's passing saying to the world he was a legend but to me and my brothers he was simply. this is e w news and these are our top stories u.s. president has held his acquittal in the senate impeachment trial speaking in an

address to the nation he lashed out at those who led the impeachment process saying that he has suffered a terrible ordeal. a german state premier is stepping down just a day after being controversially elected with the help of far right extremists. from the pro-business free democrats won the vote in the eastern state of the regio with the backing of the far white alternative for germany chancellor angela merkel called that election unforgivable. china says the number of confirmed corona virus infections has now topped $28000.00 more than $560.00 people have died the world health organization has appealed for almost $700000000.00 to help less developed economies deal with the global health emergency. a palestinian man who opened fire on israeli security forces in jerusalem has been shot dead it comes

amid a spike in violence that sold 2 more palestinians killed in clashes in the west bank and another man arrested for ramming his car into a group of israeli soldiers. this is g.w. news from berlin for more you can follow us on twitter at the w. news visit our website at www dot com. m bring back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day hope to see you this.

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a town hall complex. and to the next train. can you see me see anything about a reporter on the roof with a name police officer mole just dr drew it seeing the light it starts every 8 on t w. speaking in the very room where the hearings to impeach him began donald trump this week declared the state of the american union stronger than ever a speech traditionally used by american presidents to appeal for bipartisan unity on ambitious political aims became nothing short of an election rally in cry as the president took credit for what he called the great american comeback many of his listeners will have found themselves pondering the democrats' chances of making a comeback after this week's chaotic primary election in iowa.