time i have to stress that there were 2 diplomats here testifying that they were chosen by president truong that they were working for the u.s. government and they certainly have a high level of credibility and that is exactly what the democrats are trying to capitalize on today here on capitol hill words you know i said at the beginning of the program that history is being made today i mean this is the 3rd time that we've had impeachment hearings public hearings that they've been televised it's the 1st time that witnesses have been shown publicly to basically to tell the story of alleged abuse of power are we looking at a tipping point right now in the trump presidency well i think maybe one thing we should also emphasize is that yes we have seen impeachment hearings before. and yes they were aired on television but television meant a very different thing at the time and we have social media we have all forms of media forms of michel when nixon was going to be impeached or when the beach maturing started there was one public sphere there was 3 teachers there were trying to be channels of t

no official war on whether trumpet ministration is planning to impose tariffs on car imports the truong did say wednesday he had been fully briefed already and will make a decision soon blind. they'll be flexible so for another 6 months bill a is expected as a german i would have been lobbying and defending their investment here in the us to avoid an outcome that will tax your p. and cars with that 25 percent duty. simply plan for example mark said the beginning of an $800000000.00 expansion bill electric vehicles and around $1000.00 jobs here at. bringing us the latest from wall street thank you very much in new york. germany has given the green light for a special north stream to gas pipeline regulation agreed with the e.u. it means the pipeline will not fall under new e.u. regulations next year they would forbid gas problem to supply north stream 2 because it also owns it but clever berlin politicians have found a fix for the problem. donald stream to pipeline is owned by russian energy concern gazprom the gas it carries is also gas problems but the new e.u. regulations says the pipe

democrats but the way forward is a risky one today's vote some are concerned that impeaching president truong might eventually backfire in excuse election those are some of the hopes of the republican party minority leader kevin mccarthy sees the inquiry as a partisan power battle they face doubt about the credibility of the whistleblower and the motivation of the democrats ask me every single member of congress that now has a transcript of a phone call what is the impeachable offense so i'll make you this one promise. republicans believe in the constitution we believe in the rule of law and that's why we're standing here today. democrat congressman al green is an outspoken supporter of impeaching president trump he stresses the democrats have no other choice when it comes to impeachment and balance of power of the constitution protecting you know preserving the republic you have to put principle politics or you have to make sure that you do not allow your personal ambitions to become an impediment to protecting the country. the impeachment inquiry will now take place in the open despite the

position of the 2 leaders and ukraine's dependence on the united states amounted to a demand from truong to zelinsky and not a favor it was improper for the president to requestion to demand an investigation into a political opponent opponent especially at foreign power where there's at best dubious belief that this would be a completely impartial investigation and that this would have significant implications if it were became public knowledge and it would be perceived as a parson play it undermine our ukraine policy and it would undermine our national security are there was a 10 a kernel than men there testifying earlier today let's take the story now to washington our washington bureau chief alexander phenomenas on the story going to need to you alexandra so what we just heard there in itself is like quid pro quo with force what does it mean for trial. well that is another testimony another piece of evidence pointing to this direction that presidents trump's decision to withhold military aid to rick ukraine to block it for a certain amount of time that it was not as a decision decisio

meddling in the 2016 american election the case coincides with the impeachment inquiry against president truong in the u.s. house of representatives. like few other political operatives in u.s. history roger stone revels in attention whether it's good or bad. guy out. first. is not. a veteran republican strategist whose career goes back more than 40 years roger stone counts former u.s. presidents ronald reagan and richard nixon among his clients his affinity for nixon apparently strong enough to him to get this permanent reminder his ties with donald trump also go back decades in the eighty's stone turned trump the entrepreneur into a major donor for reagan's campaign and saw in him a potential contender for the white house. i have great affection for trump and the trump family i have wanted him to run for president since 1980 but while dirty tricks and prince of darkness are among the kind of names his critics used to describe him stone now faces a new one convicted felon. indicted by special counsel robert muller who was investigating russian interference in the 2016 campaign stone was charge

you know you're saying that maybe everyone senses that now is the time that he can make a deal with truong what do you what kind of deal do you foresee what could possibly get from drop. well that really is the big unknown i mean the fact is there are so many problems. with washington they want this go on the purchase of this american fighter jet the f. $35.00 which turkey's long term defense plans a built around that is a key to money on top of that take it defense industry we're building that plane so a major blow that they've been frozen out of that. has to make a concession on this this purchase and use of this russian defense missile which to trigger the freezing of this missile there is a suggestion that could be a deal that turkey gives a commitment that it will keep these misfunction missiles but won't activate them there is a suggestion that could be enough to lift the embargo but key to all of this is whether congress will follow on because congress has a numerous sanctions awaiting aimed at some of them personally aimed at one himself now is the key question here is that congres

alliance it doesn't seem that all of the allies agree with his assessment though the comments of truong several responses since they were published. france's president the french president used rather drastic words to express his views this is not how i see the state of corporation with nato i don't think that such a sweeping judgment is appropriate made to is in our interest it's all security lines obviously we have to take our destiny in our own hands but the transatlantic partnership is absolutely indispensable i agree with the chancellor merkel nato is strong. united states north america and europe we do more together than were done for decades we have implemented the strongest reinforcement so collective defense since the end of the cold war writer and broadcaster jonathan fryer told as though that chancellor merkel's remarks don't help to clarify her position. there is a certain contradiction i suppose in what she was saying in that if europe is going to be more responsible for its own military as well as economic future then obviously that would suggest painting of the link with

hearings where i hear i'm sorry a lot of inaccurate information a lot of people i get an angry and if truong supporters feel deceived they aren't being easy if they feel that you know they voted in 2016 for this man and the view it as their last chance to keep the country that is slipping out of their. hands under their control this is not my words you know i read it in there plenty of it's an article by young bremmer a preview would article you know about the supporters so which see how 1st ukraine was destabilized the united states was destabilized now the european union is destabilized and they blame it all all trump to trump and putin i hear them almost like charlie chaplin saying all the time competent competent competent which it was kind and in reality it's the same people in washington in brussels who destabilized ukraine destabilize the united states now through these impeachment hearings and destabilize the european union because we see a real conflict denmark has been blocking the north street. by applying for several new one of those russians have been able to overcome that so it

we had trump there to one and a bunch of us senators who feel very differently about mr elder one truong seems to feel how did that. well 1st and foremost i think it's important to stress that that's this is not something that we often see in fact it's pretty unusual brant as you know to invite me in this case 5 republican senators to a meeting of this level now among them was actually one of president trump you know a close allies that's lindsey graham a senator and he was there because of course they along with members of the republican party and the democrats have been very critical of turkey's purchase of this weapon system from russia and also like i said before you know the treatment of the kurds by turkey in particular in syria and of course they were pretty outspoken in many respects against president trump in the past few months and also of that you know turkey's policies in general now what was quite interesting is what we heard with regards to president out of line taking out an ad and showing at what's being described as a propaganda video showing what's been said is turkey k

offensive against kurdish militia the step cements the power shift in syria a month after president truong redrew u.s. forces. this is the news from berlin for more follow us on twitter at the doubly news or visit our website that's d.w. dot com. business news coming up after a short break stay with us for that. good . to the point of strong opinions clear positions from international perspectives. there's a growing sense of war torn syria censoring a new face with the u.s. apparently ambivalent about its role in the region russia and turkey have stepped into the vacuum so what now lies ahead for syria to find out also the point. clinton in 60 minutes on the g.w. . the media bench are some of the famous naturalist and explorers. to celebrate clicks on the front of the most of $250.00 of. the morning on the floor each of discovery. expedition in boyd dean. do you know france dear antonia dear cecilia this is of those of us i'm sitting on a terrace in twilight it's peaceful my 3 grandchildren sleep untroubled as asked outside when i was 8 trances age germany was split in 2 and remain divided

existing duties when asked if china would remove these tariffs chinese ministry spokesperson jen truong said the 2 sides are making progress. it's not a correct way to resolve the trade issue by slapping terrorists nor does escalating tension and confrontation serve the interests of anyone involved i don't see a trade consolation between china and the us has made some progress and is moving forward we have 2 sides will meet each other halfway and find a solution on the basis of mutual respect equality and mutual benefit this comes as the u.s. trade deficit with global partners dropped by 4.7 percent to $52500000000.00 in september reaching a 5 month low slightly above expectations which were at 52200000000 dollars on year over year the current trade deficit is still 5.4 percent higher than the same period last year exports declined $1800000000.00 to $206000000000.00 while imports also dropped $4400000000.00 to $258400000000.00 the us recorded its 1st oil star plus since 1978 of $252000000.00 while imports on consumer goods fell $2500000000.00 as cell phones and other household goods dro

handling of a high profile war crimes case the controversy pitted the navy commander against president truong gabriel elizondo reports from washington. the top commander of the u.s. navy one day shot down rumors he was going to step down over the handling of a war crimes case in all the navy seal gallagher story contrary to popular belief i'm still here i did not threaten to resign. but let us just say that we're here to talk about external threats and he gallagher's not one of them on the next day after those comments navy secretary richard spencer did not have to resign on sunday evening he was abruptly fired after pushing back against president donald trump it all stems from the case of the navy seal who walked out of a military jail in july a free man after being acquitted of war crimes he was accused by fellow navy seals of murder in iraq in 2017 including shooting unarmed civilians and stabbing a wounded teenager to death gallagher whose lawyers argued any civilians he killed was done so in the heat of battle was happy with the acquittal top navy commanders were not and demoted him in r

election fianna hill was testifying at the impeachment inquiry into accusations against president truong accusations that he pressured ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden castro reports. raise your right hand i will begin by swearing you in the day's testimony began with a warning from the former white house policy expert on russia and ukraine some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia and its security services did not conduct a company against a country and that perhaps somehow for some reason you craned it this is a fictional navas of this has been perpetrated in propagated by the russian security services themselves the on a hill testified russia was watching the impeachment hearings and ultimately would benefit from republicans repeating the quote fictions that ukraine meddled in the 26000 elections with the help of democrats she said she had warned gordon sagal and the e.u. ambassador the same when she realized he was carrying out the president's personal political agenda by requesting ukraine open investigations into trump's political rivals and i

foreign diplomats to appear in the 1st televised hearing at the center of an impeachment inquiry into truong hiding so castro reports from washington the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god william taylor and george kent took the stand together at the 1st public hearing in the impeachment inquiry career foreign officers called by democrats to tell a compelling story to the american public taylor is the acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine who upon assuming the post in june found himself dropped in the middle of a mystery once i arrived and gave discovered a weird combination of encouraging confusing and ultimately alarming circumstances taylor had begrudgingly agreed to come out of retirement to take over the u.s. diplomatic mission at a critical time his predecessor maria of out of it had been ousted without explanation and president trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani was meeting with ukraine officials to discuss debunked corruption allegations against political rivals that had taylor worried and countered an irregular informal channels of u.s. policy making with respect t

impeachment inquiry hearings into president truong jeffrey kava services director of political studies at the discount on the center he joins me live from washington d.c. thank you very much indeed for joining us so you've been watching this particular hearing what was the most significant part of it do you think. hi lauren i think the most significant thing for me is that there's not a single republican dissenter from the party line that this is strictly a partisan witch hunt by the democrats i think clearly the intent is to have the republican party vote almost as a block against impeachment and that will allow them to do have an easier time painting this impeachment as strictly partisan warfare on the part of the democrats but i think there's a cost to that which is that you go ahead sorry yes i think i think the cost i think the cost of that is that people in america want their politicians to represent not just their interests but their ideals and the republicans by toeing a strict party line are coming across as mere politicians there is no equivalent here today of a senator howar

threatening to withhold military aid to ukraine unless it's investigated his democratic rival joe biden mr truong claims members of the media know who the whistleblower is and must reveal his identity. the whistleblower gave a very inaccurate report about my phone call my phone call was perfect it was totally appropriate but he gave a report but according to the newspapers he they think they know they know who it is you know you just don't want. boarded the whistleblower. to be revealed because the whistleblower gave both stories some people would go there fraud i won't go that far but. when i read it closely i probably would. well we should say mr trump statement does contradict the white house's own notes of the phone call with the ukrainian president which largely corroborate the whistleblowers account john hendren has more now from washington. in the impeachment inquiry into donald trump what is interesting is not necessarily who might testify in the coming week but who will not testify there are 3 officials from the white house office of management and budget who have been asked by that inqu