i'm anthony howard welcome to the program a star witness has given the most explosive testimony so far at the impeachment inquiry into u.s. president donald trump gordon songkhla the u.s. ambassador to europe has already given evidence behind closed doors about alleged attempts to pressure ukraine's president selenski into starting an investigation into trump's democratic rival joe biden at wednesday's public hearing he got further details. u.s. ambassador good and sound and now writing for the impeachment hearings. the question everyone wants him to answer did president trump hold back financial a.t.u. crain in exchange for a corruption probe into his democratic rival joe biden and his links to energy fund the research the onset he was following instructions from trump's attorney rudy giuliani. as i testified previously mr giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house visit for president selenski mr giuliani demanded that ukraine make a public statement announcing the investigations of the 2016 election d.n.c. server and very smart mr giuliani was expressing the

are for more on this now i'm joined by our very own anthony howards good to see anthony well well well mr musk has come to berlin i mean his company is not just any company. why did he decide to build a factory in germany they closing their production loop they started in fremont california in production hell as you might remember that moved to nevada to build their fisc a factory that adds 500000 cars to the so the annual output that factories not yet built by the way to china puts another $500000.00 that factory comes on board next year it was built in one year so it's about they learning i spoke a lot in the early days about learning to build a machine that makes the machine he's come to germany in the middle of red bull hicks technology and expertise and fabrication he's come to the right place to expand on that to sort of got the motts they've been making cars for electric cars for a lot longer than anyone else they want to keep that lead that they need to get bigger gigafactory is make them bigger faster or not. well yeah i mean i wonder though if he's coming here if that's going

i'm anthony howard welcome to the program we begin in washington where the u.s. president donald trump has criticized the impeachment hearings calling then a disk rice and an embarrassment is coming to senior officials who listened to trump's july funchal with these ukrainian counterpart vladimir. expressed their concerns about the conversation the former special envoy to ukraine could volcker told the probe he should have realized the trump was holding up military aid to kiev to pressure the country to investigate political rival joe biden. 1st to testify on tuesday 2 officials who listened in on that controversial phone call newton and connell alexander van mann the top white house expert on ukraine alongside jennifer williams an advisor to vice president mike pence both told the panel they had concerns about the cole. i found the july 25th call unusual because in contrast to other presidential calls i had observed it involved discussion of what it appeared to be a domestic political matter it was inappropriate. it was improper for the president . to requestion

i'm anthony howard thanks for joining us we begin with what could be a fatal blow to the political career of benjamin netanyahu israel's attorney general has announced he will be pressing corruption charges against the prime minister netanyahu is being indicted for bribery fraud and breach of trust in 3 separate cases the prime minister has denied wrongdoing and called the indictment an attempted coup he's currently battling to stay in power after september's parliamentary elections produced no clear winner. the israeli prime minister remains defiant as he addresses the country following his indictment and it was you know you have to be blind not to see that something bad is happening with the police and the prosecutors tonight we're witnessing an attempted coup with fulsomely cations and a tainted investigation. that investigation lasted years on thursday israel satori need general announced his decision to formally press charges. when the attorney general decides to indict and waxing prime minister for severe charges of corruption which is a difficult and sad day for the israeli public

for more on this, i am joined by anthony howard's. mr. musk has come to an end that come to berlin. d he decide to build a factory in germany? anthony: they started in california, moved to nevada, annual output. it is not yet built. he goes to china and that victory comes on line next year. it was built in one year. they spoke in the early days of learning to make a machine that makes the machine. he has come to germany for robotics expertise, the right place to expand. tesla has been making electric cars for longer than anyone else and would like to keep the lead but would like to get bigger. the giga victory will help with that. brent: i wonder if he is coming here, if that will lead to the new airport being opened at some point in the future. what about production starting? will it be built as quickly as in china? anthony: he says 2021. that is very fast. anyone in berlin wants to laugh because of the airport, the one they haven't built in 11 years. he is trying to build a factory that makes 500,000 cars a year, 120 football fields in footprint and he will do it by the end of 2021

let's get you more on this story our very own anthony howard is here good to have a look here anthony tesla is not just any car company it is the one at the moment why has he almost decided to build this get a plant here he's closing in circle into europe they've been moving from the states where they've got to get to factories in very very big size and one even a buffalo as well then they went to china they're adding another $500000.00 cars a year they want to produce in china for that market and now they're coming to europe as well they're expecting to add another $500000.00 vehicles but it's also they coming into the home of robotics and fabrication they talk a lot a tesla about learning to make the machine that makes the machine that is what he's doing is coming right into the heart of that very notion here in germany and they've got a head start in this market and now i want to keep it they have to keep having to keep their advantage that they've got ok give us a timeline when will production start now you live in berlin and you don't want to lie he signed 2021 and the reason we

howard. can have a very strong and create. anthony the beijing of 14 and also the international community that's the home from people a state stand firm together trying to keep on the fight for freedom and democracy even though more people voted than ever before and this is a significant election much more still needs to be done to mend the divisions in hong kong got harder al-jazeera hong kong. let's bring in rob mcbride now who's in hong kong the count is on the way is it too soon to give us any indication of any trends at all rob. stan we are getting in the last hour or so the 1st preliminary results it is still early days it difficult to make any sweeping predictions but it has to be said that all of these initial results seem to be going in the direction of the pro-democracy camp now we've had around 16 percent of the $450.00 or so seats returned there has to be said that these are political limb unary results based on the 1st count they don't become official until there is a 2nd count but of the seats that have been counted so f

anthony wiener, joe barton. this is sensationalist. you get clicks, waives, whatever it is. the media has incentive whether it's a man or a woman. howardortable especially when they're published without somebody's permission and, as i said, in the middle of a divorce. >>> still to come, my response to stephen colbert after i somehow made a brief cameo appearance on "the late show." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ howard: i got into a spar with stephen colbert back in his comedy central days, now the host had a little fun with my wild, crazy and kind of testy interview with rudy giuliani. >> rudy has been on tv doing damage control, minus the control. [laughter] >> we got anonymous whistleblower who says that donald trump did something wrong. donald trump, like hunter biden says, i didn't do anything wrong. >> we have the transcript and the president's remarks -- >> wait, wait. before you interrupt me, howard -- >> classic legal defense. [laughter] sir, your client stands accused of multiple can accounts of arson. how does he plead? >> your honor, the defendant pleads -- shh. howard: i am so tired of you trying to get laughs by taking my show out of context an