the very 1st meeting between russian president vladimir putin and ukrainian president golda meir's olinsky the pair said earlier today with french president emmanuel mccrone and german chancellor angela merkel they are brokering this meeting and the conflict started back in 2014 it has killed more than 13000 people and displaced more than a 1000000 the worst fighting has been in the don't bet region our correspondent nick connelly traveled there and he sent us this report. close enough to see what the other side having for lunch that's how these ukrainian troops have spent the last few years just 300 meters from the russian backed separatists pacing them the whole night without a single shot i don't remember a day like maybe on the 1st night of the cease fire it's a strange and there's no fun at all you get all nervous we're used to the shooting and. the conflict may have fallen out of the headlines but the shooting and the death continues less than a 10 minute drive away a young woman out walking with her child was severely wounded by a stray bullet just last week our guide through the tr

breaking news coming out of talks in paris between the ukrainian and russian leaders a lot of years olinsky and vladimir putin agreeing to measures to implement a full and unlimited ceasefire by the end of this year in eastern ukraine that's after one. one talks to discuss the conflict there it's the 1st time in 3 years the meetings focusing on ending the war after been held and this is of course the 1st meeting between puts and and selenski the pair sitting down with french president emmanuel kroll and german chancellor angela merkel who were brokering the meeting the conflict started in 2014 it has killed more than 13000 people and displaced more than 1000000 of. our correspondent is live in paris for us he's been following those talks now the 4 leaders holding a press conference what did they say there what are we hearing about what's come out of this meeting. well the french president put it in a nutshell and said they haven't found a magic formula there's no silver bullet coming out of this cold night here outside the palace but what they have found is a mutual conclusion that is basic

infamous you ukraine phone call between president trump and the ukrainian president a lot of years olinsky the allegation that democrats are making years that trump pressured ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election campaign by withholding military aid and then pushing for investigations against joe biden of course president from full tensional 4 political rival in the elections and then number 2 with the 2nd article of impeachment is obstruction of congress interesting lee that was. a geisha goes back to right after the impeachment inquiry began essentially president trump decided to not cooperate he instructed the white house to withhold documents and even prohibited some of his aides to testify on capitol hill now there could have been more there was another article of impeachment discussed and that goes back to the malo report the investigation on russian interference in the 2016 election and that article would have been obstruction of justice as president trump was trying to fire the special counsel robert muller but then critics within the democratic party said let's rather focus on

caernarfon welcome to the program we start with a major meeting in paris ukrainian president flawed amir's olinsky and his russian counterpart vladimir putin face to face for the 1st time with eastern ukraine on the agenda after 6 hours of negotiations the 2 leaders have agreed to implement a quote full and comprehensive cease fire in eastern ukraine it's the 1st time in 3 years the talks focusing on. ending the war there have been held the pair sat down with french president emmanuel mccall and german chancellor angela merkel who brokered the meeting the conflict started in 2014 it has killed more than 13000 people and displaced more than 1000000. these 2 leaders made separate announcements after those closed door negotiations. in which the parties have reached an agreement on liberation all the prisoners before the 31st of december following the principle of hold by all. it has been agreed to verify the list of prisoners and provide access by the red cross to all prisoners. this is certainly an important step towards deescalating the situation in eastern ukraine as well as easing tensions. with

it all started with a phone call a phone call in which president trump asked presidents olinsky of ukraine to investigate his main political rival democratic presidential hopeful joe biden and his son hunter i became increasingly aware of what followed was a congressional inquiry with a dozen witnesses testifying in public describing crimes dealings with ukraine as improper and in as proper it's all going to blow up and here we are one witness in such a killer turned out to leak he ordered sunland the u.s. ambassador to the european union and so much trumped on arms he told the investigators there was indeed a quid pro quo in the works that president trump pressed the ukrainian government to get dirt on joe biden jewel in exchange for immunity in the white house at the same time you asked for military aid for ukraine was put on hold as the president direction everyone was in the loop. so we followed the president's orders corruption other witnesses added more damning details about donald trump's conduct time machine no evidence for the democratic majority in the house to move forward with

there is also a case of the 1st meeting between president putin and prisons olinsky since the election of the ukrainian president. i mean. i welcome the political coverage of the ukrainian president for trying to bring peace to the east of the country the actions taken. at the heart of the last months have been clearly a difference a decisive action to reestablish confidence necessary. on a reciprocal basis. meeting also allows us to at the highest level meet our joint efforts and objective to receive a fair and last thing he said and in a. horrible. we continue to cause so many deaths and victims and is an open wound at the heart of the european continent. he may have had the chance to express myself in the last few days on this the stability of the european continent and the building of a new architecture of confidence and security passes through the solving of the ukrainian crisis and the minsk protocol and that's why today's discussions have been important to this meeting was made possible by the preparatory work very important jury in the. the saw is progress that has been importa

ukraine's one big black market secondly why risk an escalation of the fighting what we should want is olinsky to do is to continue this peace process sometimes known as the minsk accord with russia to settle this dispute what's the point of sending more weapons to ukraine which by the way and its warehouses has plenty of weapons do you support the. no no no no i don't support the a preacher in trouble for a whole lot of reasons but i think that at the end particularly with elections what 910 months away and this is not something that i don't see the crime for which. you know it's compelling to make an impeachment case i've looked at all this stuff in russian here i mean it may have been bad form he had a couple phone calls with selenski which could have been better i don't think he's got great advisors in the white house some of the people he brought in the white house he didn't like but he brought him in to get the russia gate accusations he brought in hard liners like fiona on john bolton to make it look like he was tough i don't think it's good advice but you know i don't i don't you think

and then he says oh president i'm wrong by right president trump was asking ukrainian presidents olinsky to have the ukrainian officials look into vice president joe biden correct is that correct yes and i don't i don't think the record supports that it doesn't say when you look into it president trump is not asking and i don't i don't think it supports that i think it's ambiguous mr gold and your inexperience federal prosecutor i know that firsthand is this president trouble asking president zelinsky to investigate his political rival joe biden i don't think there's any other way to read the words on the page than to conclude that. and mr castro castro you made the point let me ask you question as an experienced investigator is it your experience that when someone has done something wrong or corrupt and they're dealing with somebody who's not in the scheme that they state their intentions to do something wrong full and corrupt is that your experience as an investigator well i mean are you going to call transfer just asking in general in general you're saying schemer yes would talk about

of the other stories that are making headlines around the world ukraine's president vote appears olinsky has denied any quid pro quo deal with the u.s. president to investigate double trouble political rival joe biden in an interview with a german news magazine der spiegel zelinsky says that he did not understand the allegations concerning his july phone call with trump and those allegations are currently at the center of the impeachment inquiry into the u.s. president china says u.s. naval ships and military aircraft will no longer be allowed to stop off in hong kong beijing is also announcing sions against several american in geos retaliatory measures come after the united states passed legislate. last week backing pro-democracy protesters in hong kong. are going to stay in china now with the question what do you have to do to get the new phone number beijing has put into effect new regulations that require people in the country to have their faces skiing when they sign up to get a new phone of the government's record river joins us now so this is ingenious even if you think it's sinis

that the military aid that was approved by congress for ukraine was conditioned on the president's olinsky of ukraine making an announcement about an investigation into the company associated with joe biden's son hunter biden in the investigations etc secondly they are alleging that the president carried out obstruction of the house of representatives impeachment inquiry and that essentially because donald trump was instructing witnesses allegedly and that agencies to ignore subpoenas and he was basically obstructing a congressional investigation those are the 2 main points that donald trump conditioned ate up on this meeting and made political conditions to president alinsky of ukraine and furthermore that he you know he tampered with and obstructed the investigation by the house impeachment inquiry now essentially these allegations have been denied by president trump on numerous occasions and present zelinsky of ukraine has also come forward and says that they are simply untrue now on monday the democrats in prior to the release of the democrats report the republicans released a $123.00

ukraine it's the 1st time that russian president vladimir putin and ukrainian president limit its olinsky have met since president emmanuel macron and german chancellor angela merkel are bordering the meeting. of the world anti-doping agency has banned the russia from international sports for 4 years and that includes the upcoming summer and winter olympics wada says that russia faked laboratory data and destroyed evidence russia has called the ban politically motivated. at least 5 people have been killed after a volcano were rubbed it on a new zealand island while 8 others are still missing the zealand's prime minister says a number of the injured are in critical condition. police in india have arrested the owner and manager of a factory destroyed in a fire that killed 43 people the blaze in the capital delhi broke out early on sunday as workers were sleeping inside. this is d w news from berlin for more you can follow us on twitter at d w news or you can visit our website that's d w dot com our twin baby pandas born in august here in berlin they have finally made their public debut ther

now the 1st bilateral talks between the russian president and the new ukrainian leader of libya is olinsky have just finished president putin said that he was satisfied by the meeting their talks came on the sidelines of a meeting with their counterparts from france and germany the so-called normandy for some it was convened to discuss the conflict in eastern ukraine and we will cross live later on the soon for their joint press conference for now on his attorney has been taking a closer look at why these discussions are so important. this monday is a very big day here at the palace in paris it's a very big day for europe a very big day for ukraine just a short while ago we saw the french president and manual macron welcoming his guests from ukraine russia and germany the 1st one to arrive was angle of merkel then it was full dimmers and then the ukrainian president and i'll tell you what we couldn't even understand if it was him for a moment because he came in on a plane run no minivan and the last of the 4 leaders to arrive was vladimir putin just an hour before that though a group of to

advisers had just gotten back on may 23rd from the inauguration of the new president president's olinsky they told president trump we were impressed he was elected on an anti corruption platform a reform platform you should schedule a white house meeting it's very important this is very good for the united states and the president's response was to talk to rudy who had been out there claiming that the ukraine ukrainian president had to do was investigate his political rival you'll hear that president trump's advisers told president zelinsky that president trump would not schedule the wanted white house meeting unless he announced a ukrainian investigation of former vice president biden there are documents there sworn testimony this happened and there is no question from the evidence that the president did this and presidents alinsky desperately needed a white house meeting both to show russia that the u.s. was still supporting ukraine and for his own credibility as a new president you'll hear then to ramp up the press pressure what president trumped it is he told his agencies to withhold

the saudi leadership or thousands in ukraine's capital have rallied against president vala dimmers olinsky his participation in a european summit zaleski will meet with russian president vladimir putin in paris on monday to discuss ending the 5 year war in eastern ukraine protesters are accusing selenski of surrendering to putin the heads of both countries have not met since 2016 north korean state media says the country has conducted what it calls a very significant test at a once dismantled launch site hours earlier it said denuclearization says denuclearization was off the table in any future talks with the u.s. for now 6 european countries condemn north korea last week for the 13 missile launches its conducted since may. 22 bodies have been recovered after flooding in western uganda that's according to the red cross parts of the country on the border with the democratic republic of congo were battered by to wrench all rain from saturday night into sunday morning at least 20 others have been killed by floods and mudslides earlier in the week. the game b s president is promising action a

here of course we keep hearing his name during the impeachment hearings all the time presidents olinsky he has been in tough negotiations with president putin for a couple of hours. sitting next to merkel and micron who are basically mediating these stocks now they these 4 way talks have ended and now straight and put in go into a bilateral meeting this is the 1st time ever the 2 leaders are going to meet each other face to face and of course we have been describing the difference of experience for example between put in and zelinsky put in of korans of course is an experience negotiated not known to make any compromises alinsky is the new kid on the block blocky just became the president so it is a lot of pressure on zelinsky to come up with a very good deal for ukraine and there's a lot of concern and also people have been protesting in the streets on the streets in the kiev accusing him of a capital a big to russia and there's also a lot of stick at stake for europe for merkel and mccraw and they also want an end to this ongoing war that has basically ruined the relationship between