of wax print. it is nine pm here in the french capital you're watching live from paris france twenty four i'm told but just wasn't these of the top stories. tens of thousands of people joined violent demonstrations in hong kong what was the seventieth anniversary of the foundation. of the people's republic o of china with police shoot one protest up using live ammunition. already facing impeachment proceedings evers interaraction with ukrainian president it emerges that president trump also solicited help from australia will tell you the significance of that in just a moment. plus france is a tall cool rules of the former president nicolas sarkozy will stand trial. and its charges of

illegal campaign financing parking two thousand and twelve . welcome back we begin in hong kong where an eighteen year old mom a shot by police officers today during violent clashes somewhat was the seventieth anniversary of the foundation of the people's republic of china. hong kong within four months of angry demonstrations but this is the firirst time tht a protest a has been hit by live ammunition since the unrest began. with tens of thousands of people join today's violent anti government protests which left fifty one people injured two of whom are reported to be in a critical condition full and total. a hundred and fifty arrests were made from circles all of the fairies in hong kong and has the latest on today's developments that. hong kong so

one of its first is days of violence on choose to the seventieth anniversary of the people's republic of china. were protests and thirteen neighborhoods across the city with your gas fired and nine. the protesters hurled petrol bombs and trust public and private property. police responded with tear gas water cannons. and rubber bullets. but it was a new escalation in the use of force with the shooting of a young man. with live a ammunition the first time ththis has happened in almost fofour months of protestst. the eighteen year old was shot during a protest in the suburban china june one. in the mid afternoon. he was brought to hospital in the evening on was operations on the bullish which is head is left l long was removed. he says life is no longer believed to be in danger but he rememains in a critical condition ozoes one other protesters. to all others are in serious condition in hospital they figure among fifty one injured. on the day

of exceptional violence in hong kong. who's from thirty four was all of the ferry reporting that from hong kong will tuesday was supposed to be an opportunity for beijing. to showcase its economic and military power. some hundred fifteen thousand rather troops and more than a hundred sixty ashcroft were involved in the commemoration of the- seventieth anniversary of the people's republic of china. with the center all those proceedings was president xi gin paying who many see as china's most powerful leader since multi dome. fossil fuels james for xena has this report. the show of force and flat. thousasands of synchronized dane is my top ten in square to mark seventy yearars of communist party rule. hold on to the watchful eye of president xi chining paying. earlier on in te day china brought out the big guns for one of the biggest military parades in the country's history. fifteen thousand soldiers fitting chinaman square showing offff nw hypersonic jones and ballistic missiles. for once she jingg

ping stood on the sportrts where most its own declared the foundation of the people's republic of china. back in nineteen forty seven i may order. there is a new force. but can i take the sanitation of this nation may all know force stop the chinese people. the chinese nation forging ahead kim gimbal lock. she jing ping who stepped ins office back in twenty twelve h has become one of the most powerful leaders in chinese history to sing the country's presence on the global stage is trying to take second place in the world's largest economies at home he's best known for his aggressive campaign against corruption so it's in both high and low ranking kansi officials. to his critics though he's an authoritarian leader his clampdown on freedom and tightened his grip on power and she's in pain could not remain president for life after lawmakers. removed the two term

limits on the presidency last year. no to the latest on the lingering impeachment inquiry hanging over the trump administration the us justice department said today thatt president trump. reached out to the australian prime minister scott morrison as well as to other foreign leaders. to help find out how the russia investigation got started. hehes from probes centers around the fact that donald trump is accused of soliciting foreign interference for his personal political benefit namely by all skin the ukrainian president to dig up dirt on his political rival. joe biden let's illegal under us little front circles monty francis has this report for us. . us s secretary of stae mike pompeii was in rome tuesday but was fully engaged in a political fight back home in a letter to congress pompeii hosted five state department officials scheduled to appear before committees in the impeachment inquiry this week would not show up. calling the

requests from democrats in attempt to bully and intimidate them. the refusal comes amid reports that pompey was on the july twenty fifth call b between prpresident trump andnd ukrainin president below demersal lylynskey. which trump asks the lynskey to dig up dirt on his politicall opponent and front runner joe biden while withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid. democrats also want to hear from trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani who said tuesday that he hasn't decided if he'll comply. i don't know i'm i'm weighing the alternatives on. i don't like go through it all get all my evidence together i'll get my charts i don't know if they let me use video tapes and tape recordings all this nonsense about identifying the election. i gathered all this evidence before the mall or paroled ended. president trump meanwhile is preoccupied by the identity of the whistle blower on twitter he said he deserved to meet his accuser writing why aren't we entititled to interviw

and learn everything about the whistle blower. but the identity of the person who reported that trump was illegally soliciting interferencece f from a foreign government and the twenty twenty presidential election is protected by federal law. in a new development the role of trump's attorney general bill barr is coming under scrutiny amid reports that he held private meetings with foreign officials overseas in an effort to discredit the molar investigation which found that russia attempted to influence the twenty sixteen election. in favor of mr trump. some democrats one bar impeached as well accusing him of trying to quash the whistle blowers complain when the justice department concluded it didn't merit t a crimininal investigat. no i course in tunisia has today rejected the appeal made by the presidential candidate nabil kero we who sought to a release from custody pending a final verdict in his tax evasion and money laundering trial. last month carol we came second in round one of the

presididential election. i will compete in a run off votes in two weeks from now against a retired professor. tice side. there's a sense of shock in finland after a young man armed with a sword went on a violent rampage in a vocational college in east of the country of their own today. according to the authorities he killed one person and left tens of a left ten others injured amongst them a police officer. we assailants who has not yet been named but has been identified as a finnish citizen was in rolled out back college. he was shot and seriously injnjured by the police when thehey arriveved one scene with the motive for ththe attack is not. yet clear. now france is the highest court ruled today that the former president nicolas sarkozy is to stand trial. on charges of illegally financing his two thousand and twelve presidential campaign. was okay as he faces allegations that his campaign team spent. far beyond the legal limits of twenty two point five million euros. that they then try to

cover it up. where the hearts of this case is a pr company called big malia. and the key question. how much did so because they know about their accounting practices. the date for that trial hasn't yet been set from thirty fourth floor investiga has the latest. despite two years of legal challenges by nicolas sarkozy's lawyers the former french president is now set to face trial in the big million case. after france's highest couourts rejected his f final appeal on tuesesday. sarkozy stands accusd of using public relations firm big million to issue fake invoices during his failed two thousand and twelve presidential campaign. allowing him to spend nearly double the legal limit of twenty two point five million euros. thirteen other people have been charged in the case including several big million executives who have admitted wrongdoing. yet sarkozy has repeatedly claimed his innocence saying he was not aware of the fraud. once the

trial date is set it will fall to prosecutors to prove that the former president was involved. sarkozy has spent the last few years fighting a barrage of corruption allegations if convicted in the big m million case the sixty for year old faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison. and a fine of f less than fofour thousa e euros. let's go back to the story the impeachment pro bad which is hanging over the trump administration it right now and get the latest on today's developments and try to make sense of the more we can speak n now to legal analyst and former u. s. federal prosecutor eric listen who joins us. from dc. now let me just start by asking you this i mean and president trump is very unlikely that to be removed from office as a result of the impeachment process so what is he going to be afraid of. he has a lot to be afraid of and

even this. sort of mainstream judgment that he's unlikely to be. removed which is it don this beautifully the conventional wisdom. is becoming more and more questionable every single day because we're literally hearing more and more allegations about. presidential misconduct abuse of power another impeachable offenses that do resound with the public. his presidency is hemorrhaging right before his eyes and he is devoting increasing amounts of time. to trying to salvage is that and do what is best for him personally. rather than what is best for the united states so he risks being not able to function att all. now it isis true that that doesn't seem to bother him. h he seems to hae spent his whole life living like this and that has not by all the evidence available to us change at all since he'e's been in the w white house. but t does pose risks for the rest of the country and indeed the rest

of the world. and why is it eric that that is significant it's the sex you say mike pompeii a was actually in on that cold back in july with ukrainian president what's the significance of his participation. well preliminarily let's just note that even pompeii thought it was significant enough that he had to cover it up when he was directly asked about his knowledge of that call before it was publicly known that he was listening in on it. which is highly unusual but it's also significant because the call itself was a it was a sort of a shake down it was extortion of the ukrainian leaeader and a way designed to further enhance trump's polititical prospects. but it by saying that he was going to condition the execution of us foreign policy and the execution of u. s. laws directed by congress which was to deliver this military aid to ukraine. on a sort of off the

books understanding that ukraine in return it would have to come up with some sort of information that would be helpful to. president trump in his campaign against joe biden so the fact that pompeii in addition to the president was directly aware of this as this was going on. and therefore affirmatively blessed it shows that pompey is affectively a co conspirator in this scheme to circumvent u. s. law i in this scheme to obobtain illegal foreign aid andnd this in this scheme to abuse the powers of the presidential office. so pompeii is in a very difficult position and it might even be said that his days are numbered as secretary of state he is protected by his close relationship with president trump and is willing at willingness demonstrably here. shown to do literally anything the president will ask him which makes the president backer of himm to the bitter end

but it's going to be difficult for pop had to withstand any sort of. congressional questioning on this matter. okay there's that there's a new issue. today i mean apart from this whole all skiing the ukrainian president to dig up dirt on the bidens. something new in tonight is that of the trump administration is understood to have cost all the foreign powers other foreign leaders namely the australian. prime minister to investigate the origins of the so called rusher investigation is that illegal as well. it may be illegal it's certainly improper and unseemly and i think there is a strong case for it to be illegal that one is a little bit trickier. to decrypt or to decipher because it is sort of in capsule lated enough facade of legitimacy by bar going out and doing what other attorney

general's can do from time to time is take foreign trips. meet with their foreign counterparts sometimes with foreign leaders to discuss issues of mutual concern the problem here is that bars directly inviting political interference in the into suppose it on going investigation which has escaped all normal. prosecutorial channels designed to safeguard its integrity they they did with there's no evidence based sett up of procedures here that led into bars discussions in fact in order to make it look more legitimate he had tapapd a career prorosecutor by the name of john durham. to supposedly lead this investigation and come up with it with a separate independent judgment as to whether there's any any there there so to speak this is really an investigation into the probes of what led to the mall our report. and it's an investigation into whether the consensus findings of the u. s.

and global the allied five eyes so to speak intelligence community are legitimate so is based on very. controversial grounds to begin with and it was designed to boost president trump's political prospects so now we see the attorney general going out and making foreign travel specifically. to push this somewhat spurrier's investigation forward outside of regular channels there's a number of laws and regulations that seem to have been bypassed year. and because this is another new bomb shell. discovery in sioux misconduct and abuse of power by trump administration officials we still have a lot of questions that need to be answered regarding this and bar is going to havee to answerer them himsef and this poses yet another conflict because he has made himself a witness. into his own investigation so we have e a number of very troublesome aspects here on top of this

before i conclude on this particular question it should be noted that even the other countries that are on the receiving end of these visits australia is not the only one but a number of other us allies. are apparently perceiving this as a shake down of them of allies to come up with some kind of dirt whether it's on their own intelligence agencicies are on us intelligene agencies in order to appease u. s. interests which are really. personal interests of president trump and not legitimate us security concerns this was someththing that was even echoed yesterday by former director of national intelligence c clapper and other professionals in the intelligence field this casts a pall all over the entire intelligence gathering operations. of all of these countries okay well thank you so much a lot happening there with that pro band related issues as well thank you very much for helping us to make sense of it. legal analyst and former u. s. federal prosecutor

eric listen thank you very much indeed. tell me about some of world news now under the rule of sudan's islamist ruler omar al bashir this would have been unimaginable. but a lot has changed in the last six months and so don's first ever women's football clubb leak has kicked off in ththe capital cosost to.. will them out yesterday was watched by the country's new sports minister and she described t this as a historical step falls ripples emerald maxwell tells us more. in scenes that were not long ago unimaginable in call team. these plays kicked of saddam's first ever women's club football league what kind of. because this is a great historic they also don it's the result of a very big effort didn't start yesterday. the crowd cheered and shouted civilian rule as the teams of the hardy and default inaugurated the twenty one club championship. these women

growing up on the structure a little playing football in the homeland was virtually impossible. bill that changed when longtime ruler of the *-*- was toppled in april following nationwide protests. this is my first time playing at the stadium in costume. it was really great special. notice if it hadn't been for the sudanese revolution my goal was to perhaps play for countries other than studentss. now i don't have too. it's a as a play fearing coununtry. the stall to the female football league comes amid expectations that the currrrent three yeaear transition period release the promotion of women's rightss spororts and arts. following ths fuss club class in the capital much is scheduled in other parts of the country in the coming days. someme of which are the top business news stories kate moody is here high that cake. some big changes at some major international institutions and talk about the imf and the world bank absolutely we seen chris still

lena at georgia that officially beginning work as the new managing director of the ininternational monetary fund. the bulgarian economist who has a background of both the world bank and european commission is the first from an emerging market to hold that post. she replaces christina god's will take the home of the european central bank next month. the imf weighs in on issues including international trade inequality climate change in debt. georgina said she would focus on building consensus between both leading and emerging economies take a listen. immediately mostly with the chinese jeez put us in the fun. toto work on identifyiying more specifically risks for individual member statess especially those countries that that already faced with difficulties in making sure that they handlele this series well. we're here to have a mosot recently served as the c.. e. o. of the world bank group for the past month that role has been filled by acts of on trucks and

berg who today has been confirmed as the managing director of operations that's essentially the right hand man to president david malpass and he joins us now from the world bank in washington. thanks for joining some friends twenty four and congratulations on your appointment what's the most pressing concern now for the world bank. the most pressing concern f for the bettr ofof thehe world bank is to cocontinue. its mission namely o help countrieses reduce poverty. and boasting share of prosperity. we have madade great progress in many parts of the world in reducing poverty. but poverty remains a big challenge particularly in the low income countries we have to focus on this. equally we have to focus on middle income countries. in there are and four it's to create also more jobs. and embraced to a still the many development challenges that can be in in infrastructure it can be in and improving education. it it can mean in improving

health outcomes. the bank is there as a long term development partner. and death will continue and what my job is working miss my team. to advance this development that dialogue. and the dialogue is going to be. implemented through an ambitious financial support program in your to all five fifty billion dollars per year. as well steph. nickel systems and analytical services. the outlook for the global economy as a whole is fairly gloomy by most measures including the world bank's latest predictions. yoyour correcect unfortunatetely d. a.. outlook iss last favorable eveve compareded to our last forecast namely about two point 6% annual gross for the world economy that's about zero point 3% last then that we initially projected earlier this year.

this is a concern we therefore would like to support countries in there i have four it's to deal with these challenges a and that can be into short term challenges in inin dealing with this macroeconomic at support programs. but it is also looking very m much at t the structural reforms as wells as the shows are programs of social programs will be impoportant because many people are going to be a factor by to slow down. no there's been a lot of focus on global trade tensions notably the american disputes with china and the european union. where do emerging economy standard all that up peoplele. well i think for the emergrging market theay forward is clear and they would like to take advantage of the possibilities are provided byy freeee t trade. this has been ae way off also boosting their economic growth prospect therefore the bank has always

been in favorr all free trade because it provides good opportunities to grow but also to reduce poverty in the country the fact that. therefore we favor clary clearly and as open as possible trading sir regime and that particularly developing countries can get as good access as possible to world markets. it passed after your career at the world bank you oversaw relief program for heavily indebted countries at government debt levels around the globe are now the highest in decades. which economies in particular stand in the most need of debt relief and is that really feasible. well the program that i lead was for it low income countries as well as cold they hit big death initiative that was implemented twenty twenty five years ago. i think that we it try to solve the problem for low income

country stats situation particularly in africa and we were successful what we are looking at i is that we are stressing now. that death in itself is no bad can contribute development and should be used prudently and that meansns that it should be embedded. in a sustainable framework we see in the macro and we believe that if this is well done including all so taking care of a transparent system so that people can know what is being contracted. that's the way forward in many of the countries that are affected by dad promos it is not immediately necessary debt they will need to have a cut. it is very often the combination all for. a good economic policies as well as good at death management death one can deal with the situation. i fell o o triton burgundy managing director of opoperatioions. at e

world bank thanks s for joininig us on front twentnty four. thank you very much thahank youou very much.. a top exetive a at credit suisse has resigned after it emerged that he ordered surveillance of a former colleague who left the bank in july. adding assorted twist to the affair it now emerges that a security consultant who apparently acted as a middleman appears to have committed suicide the trigger has the story. the mountains rocks switzerland's normally say the banking c circles over the last two weeks and now the man who ordered surveillance on former senior kriti swiss manager. well khan has resigned as paul says that the country's second largest bank moved to distance themselves from events. the dress was chief operating officer. acting alone. decided to initiate your reservations to call. there is no evidence to suggest that he discussed the decision. with the chief executive officer. any member of the executive board. the chairman warranty myself as

chairman the group for the concert. now former ceo yeah really the eighth i had felt that tom might try to poach critiques with clients after he left the five in july for arch rival ubs. eight would surveillance on the well nine banker at the end of august ubs announced is hiring. however khan became the way he was being followed and confronted investigators in the streets on september seventeenth as the massive became embarrassingly public. pretty suis then launched an internal investigation that found not only had to i acted alone but that tom had never attempted to poach are the clients all personnel. further complicating the if that was news there's a middle man between pretty swiss and the security firm who carried out the surveillance lost we committed suicide. and while they've opened a criminal investigation swiss prosecutors. are currently treating the death as suspicious. credit suisse trip clearly trying to turn the page on thisis a saga tom about lots of unanswered

questions still. yet extraordinary story by the sounds of things thank you very much indeed kate movie that. with that and the rest of the day's b

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