reported jill dougherty jill tell us what exactly is this doomsday clock it does sound like something out of a disaster movie doesn't it actually is meant to reflect the stock reality however of the threat of manmade catastrophe it was unveiled 1st back in 1947 that was at the start of the cold war in the nuclear arms race and it's been adjusted ever since then the most relaxed point ever was at the end of the cold war in the early ninety's but in the last decade it has been advancing steadily forward towards that disaster point at midnight the decision on whether to move the hands of the clock is made by a panel including scientists world leaders and nobel laureates we had a bit more about this panel of experts why all they say worried now the reason they're worried today are actually the same as back when the call was 1st unveiled namely nuclear weapons they say that the collapse of the nuclear iran nuclear deal as well as new weapons being developed by the u.s. and russia a cause for concern and they're also worried about things like killer robots but their main concern today is cl

reporter jill dougherty joins me here in the studio to talk more about this good to see jill what more do we know about this particular strain of courage of ours at the moment well scientists are now telling us that they believe that the corona virus was 1st transmitted to humans from snakes now we know that it emanated out of a particular market in ruhani in china where they so live exotic animals and suspicion 1st centered on bats but chinese researchers have just published a new paper where they conducted genetic research genetic sequencing and they found that snakes are the most likely source now what we don't know is how the virus moved from the snakes to schumann's and in any case it doesn't actually need snakes to continue spreading now because it has become a human to human virus transmitted via the respiratory system and of course that is the worrying development and we have seen the world health organization sitting down discussing that what have they had to say so far well what we're waiting to hear is whether they're going to call it a public health emergency of internation

jill dougherty thank you so much. for our mind out the top story that we all following for you both leaders have a paid a tribute to survivors of the holocaust and those who died at the yad vashem memorial in jerusalem any corroboration is marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz death count and the speech german press in the sun quoted steinem i underlined his country's historical responsibility to fight. while you're watching the news coming up next it is don't feel the world's most polluted river the saved stay tuned for that more headlines coming your way at the top of the hour we're going to get the latest on a website it is d. w. called i have an old friend valid scientific company. it is time to take one step further. and face the last. time to such. fine comes. down to conduct. its.

for more, cnn contributor jill dougherty joins me from washington.noll at theed wefellow a wilson center. what do you make of that investigation of the ambassador, what do you make of that, if that happened? >> you know, i think until we do get into the investigation, because we won't know. the subplot here is that mr. hyde, according to other people and apparently according to him has drunk quite a bit over the years. so there's a question legitimately whether he was indeed even sober when this conversation was going on. he says, in essence, it's a joke. that he was just fooling around with lev parnas. so, was it real? was it not? but when you get these apparent, you know, emails that are coming in from other people in other country who were, perhaps, surveilling the u.s. ambassador, it does get more complicated. it would be very serious, as you pointed out, if you had an american ordering the surveilling of the u.s. ambassador in ukraine. it would just be unthinkable. but anything in this case doesn't really seem very unthinkable. you know, i think

certainly that balancing act which is particularly tricky for public health officials t w reporter jill dougherty thank you so much well now sue the united states an impeachment trial of president donald trump the republican controlled senate has been hearing the opening arguments from house impeachment manages to stop was impeached last month on charges of a piece of power and instructing congress he's accused of pressuring ukraine to investigate former democratic vice president joe biden of course a political rival and impeding a congressional inquiry into the matter trump denies any wrongdoing. or lead impeachment manager adam schiff told senators that child's actions represented a danger to america's constitutional order must not go on checked if not remedied by his conviction in the senate and removal from office president trump's abuse of his office and obstruction of congress will permanently alter the balance of power among the branches of government inviting future presidents to operate as if they are also beyond the reach of accountability congressional oversight and the law well sure l

and and now a wave of misinformation and scams is making the situation even worse my colleague jill dougherty joins us now for more so joe what what's going on what are you seeing on social media there's a blame game going on brenton's the church straight is try to come to terms with who was responsible for this terrible tragedy and unfortunately some of what we're seeing is misinformation so there's a conspiracy meme doing the rounds claiming that environmentalists have purposely been starting these fires to quote perpetuate a fake linkage between the fison climate change and promote green agenda and now police in australia actually have taken action against about 200 people for starting fires during the 5 ban that include some awesome ists and some people who foolishly study campfires but there's no suggestion that is some kind of orchestration political action here so as well as these conspiracy theories we're also seeing a lot of social media chatter blaming the a straight in green party for allegedly going against fire control that's where firefighters start small fires in order to preve

and for more i'm joined by reporter jill dougherty joins us a huge amount of interest in this trial which is due to start in a few hours in washington tell us it's not a trial in a traditional sense though is it well it has a judge it has prosecutors it has so-called jury members there may be witnesses and evidence called but don't let any of that distract you because this is all about politics and it's not about justice so the senators have all sworn an oath of impartiality but we already know some of them have taken sides for example the leader of the senate the republican leader of the senate mitch mcconnell before christmas he said that he's taking his cues directly from the white house let's have a listen to. well exactly how we go forward i'm going to coordinate with the present lawyers so there won't be any different for the trade offs on how to do those cases so darn week coming over from the house we all know how it's going to be on there's no chance the president's going to be removed from office so that's kind of like a judge taking orders directly from the defendant and we als

of interest in this trial which takes place in about 4 from now and to be following that right jill dougherty thank you very much fold is an issue commons. well mexico's national guard has fired tear gas at my friends trying to cross into the country from guatemala hundreds of migrants began wading through the border river off authorities closed a border gate on a nearby bridge mexico is under pressure from washington to crack down on a vegan migration. the question reach the u.s. is ending here for many. mexico's national guard forcibly repelled hundreds of migrants trying to storm its southern border. officials also detained several 100 who may face deportation some parents and children reportedly got separated during the crossing. was most of the migrants are from honduras and say they want to escape rampant poverty and crime. can also took him 7 years i'm scared and i don't want to go back to my country because there's nothing there no work my daughter and i go hungry i think i'm a muslim member of the l.g.b. t. community it's very hard to find a job in place yet but i think the majority

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reporter joel door dougherty joins me here in the studio jill good to see you tell us a little bit more about what we know about this particular strain of corona virus well scientists are now telling us that they believe that it has transmitted to humans from snakes now we know that it originally was sourced from a market in china where there was selling live animals including snakes and scientists are now conducting genetic research on the strains of the virus and they do believe that snakes the source originally thought was bats but now they've . there's the switched over to to looking it snakes what we don't know is how it moved from the snakes to the humans and it doesn't really matter now because in any case it's transmitted now a through humans is become a human to human transmission of our as via respiratory systems and tell us more about the response from the walls health organization they have been me sing they will continue see meet what have we heard from them so fall well what we're waiting to hear is whether they going to call it a public health emergency of international c