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W news means refugees who were kidnapped in libya they say they were tortured by people smugglers who had promised to take them to europe. And it is sports a young girl whos dreaming of a limpid glory the talented skye brown whos just 11 years old which she has high hopes of making it to next years tokyo olympics. Thank you so much for your Company Everyone well we start off in the United States where the acting director of National Intelligence Joseph Mcguire says a whistleblower complaint involving President Donald Trump is unprecedented mcguire has been testifying to congress about the complaint which refers to Trumps Communications with his ukrainian counterpart. Congressional democrats have been grilling mcguire to explain why he withheld the whistleblowers memo for weeks while lawmakers have now been given every day acted declassified version of the complaint which spurred democrats to launch an impeachment inquiry against President Trumpeting the complaints is at least partially related to a collie tween President Trump and ukrainian president was a lot of mirrors olinsky in which President Trump urged him this to gate Democratic Political rival joe biden. People all right so lets go to do abuse a public figure foley ileus he is our washington correspondent good to have you with us pablo the u. S. Acting u. S. Director of National Intelligence a Joseph Mcquire is still testifying i understand on the complaint of the whistleblower what did he say so far. Going to break it down youre right has been testifying now for a few hours and it began very much with the focus on the humbling of the whistle blower complaints and now it seems to have moved on more to the contents that we heard from the acting director of National Intelligence from the very get go and he said im not partisan im not political he also when pressed several times by democratic members of this committee he said i speak to the president and anything i say that a president is confidential when asked whether you know this have been discussed this complaint had been discussed with President Trump now he also said that the white house did not and did not direct me to withhold the information neither did the office of Legal Counsel mcguire also added that we know that there are foreign powers trying to get us to question the validity of our elections that republicans are keying into the fact that the whistleblower acknowledges that he or she did not have firsthand knowledge of most of the event the events described but i think what we should do is maybe listen actually to the words of the acting director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire i believe that everything here in this matter is totally unprecedented and that is why when former directors of National Intelligence forwarded them to you whether or not that urge you could sure whether it was serious this was different this was different what are some of the issues the complaint by the un identified whistleblower that are raised. Well im just going to read a few of the elements from back complaint firstly the whistleblower said that white house officials were deeply disturbed by the trump ukraine called the whistleblower wrote the white house officials told me who told me this information were deeply disturbed by what transpired in the phone call this person then went on to say that ive received information from multiple u. S. Government officials that the president of the United States is using his power of off of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 u. S. Election this interference includes among other things pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the president s main domestic political rivals so very damning accusations there against President Trump of course the moment the acting director of National Intelligence shows of mcquire is being grilled and asked exactly sort of the contents of this complaint now in the meantime as youre reporting pablo us the House Speaker nancy pelosi has weighed in she claims that President Donald Trump has engaged in trying to work cover up temps to put pressure on the ukrainian president so i guess this means they are going ahead with the impeachment inquiry. Well it looks like it i mean the fact theyre theyre very serious words this is a code for oprah you know and weve heard it there from nancy pelosi who lets not forget have been very hesitant to actually begin an impeachment inquiry but it seems that in recent days with this situation revolving the ukrainian president on the conversation between President Trump and lansky that you know they felt it was justified and that they have to continue with the inquiry you can just see it actually in the questioning of the of Joseph Mcguire today from the democrats on the council you know theyre focusing very much on the contents and on several occasions hes being asked you know whether he believes what is in complaint is ok is it justifiable and hes been asked as well whether hes been discussing it with the President Trump and like i said before hes been saying time and time again i would not normally discuss any conversations with the president i can tell you know and he also said that i think that any other future leaders when they interact with their head of state might be more cautious in what they say and reduce the interaction that they have with the president because of the release so the democrats are on phased by essentially what republicans are saying which is that its unfounded to continue with this inquiry democrats are very much against what theyre saying and saying that they need to continue ahead with this inquiry the public fully ileus several porting from washington thank you. Next to france where former french president Jacques Chirac has died he was 86 shocked dominated french politics for decades and served 2 terms from 1995 to 2007 he led his country to adopt the euro and stirred National Pride with his opposition to the u. S. Led war in iraq but sure rocks later years were marred by corruption scandals tarnishing the legacy of a man who had once charmed the nation. Towards the end he hardly would out in public at all. The few photos that were taken document the state of his health. Who as president of france was a master at powerful poses now looked frail and confused. His road to presidency was a long one the son of a banker he was born in paris in 1932 his political mentor George Pompidou wanted chirac to be his private secretary in the palace he became Prime Minister in 1996 under the scar to stone but soon he and she rocket political differences. In 1905 he won the president ial election against opposing candidate socialist. He rose from secretary to top ranks in the elite he had achieved his life goal right at the very start of his term she rocked shocked the world by authorizing underground Nuclear Tests in the Pacific Ocean he set a clear course opposing the us president george bush during the iraq war and the people of france agreed with him but frances rejection of the e. U. Constitution which he had championed was his biggest failure in office he had little love for his Party Colleague Nicolas Sarkozy yet he could not stop him from becoming his successor after she rocks term in office was over old scandals return to the public eye he was accused of paying Party Colleagues for fake jobs while mayor of paris he was sentenced to a 2 year suspended prison term Jacques Chirac remained popular though hell be less remembered for his politics and more for his warm bond to the french people. Now to some of the other stories making news around the world. A massive fire at a chemical factory in northern france has prompted authorities to close schools and who won and 12 other nearby towns police said there were no reported victims and that the fire was not toxic but there are fears the river 7 could be polluted. A strong earthquake has struck the most google islands off Eastern Indonesia killing instrumented people the 6. 5 magnitude tremor caused widespread damage and landslides it was a center to north east of the provincial capital of Authorities Say there is no danger of a tsunami. In hong kong protesters have blocked roads over a popular dialogue between embattled leader a kerry lamb and some a 150 members of the community she reportedly admitted that trust in her government had quote fallen off a cliff and meeting was called to address hong kongs a 4 month long political crisis. And while the hong kong protests have dominated headlines across the globe users of one of the worlds most popular apps were no thats because investigations now by the newspaper the guardian and the Washington Post reveal that chinese own social media app ticktock has been suppressing content critical of the Chinese Government to get more on this story now im joined by my colleague. Good to have you here with this tick tock very very hot app i dont know about that it tell us whats the big deal about to talk what is to say so if you dont know about the app youre probably not within the under 25. 00 targets agree that they that they are off its the Fastest Growing social media in the world its chinas law biggest and most successful export ever it has 500. 00 more than 500. 1000000 uses its the 4th largest social media platform in the world its bigger than twitter for example its available in more than 150. 00 countries and 40 percent of the uses of between 16 and 24 years old now if you do know if you have heard about it youve probably seen clips video clips of teenagers left sinking or dancing to music but more and more people are now realizing that they have to be on this platform if you want to reach that Demographic Group so thats why you see more and more celebrities Companies Sports stars and Media Outlets now coming to this platform now we already know that a lot of young people get sick if not all of the news most of the news from social media and thats why its really problematic if this platform is censored what do we know exactly about the censorship thats taking place so documents that have been leaked theyve been seen by the british newspaper the guardian now they show that the beijing based Parent Company of tick talk is instructing its moderators to censor any content that is that is critical of china now says that for for uses outside of china content is moderated locally but we did searches here on on our phones in germany we search for things like hong kong protests we search for tenement square referring of course to the 99. 00 massacre of students and beijing we also use chinese characters in our searches searching for terms that hong kong protesters use regularly and what we found is weve got a handful of videos a few of them actually do show do show some of the protests in hong kong bet most of them have nothing to do with hong kong or to do with chatham and square and if you compare a search to to a search on twitter or to instagram with the same words you will get thousands and thousands of videos it shows you know their. There are just you know between 10 and 20 videos on the platform so the worry here is is that basically china is using this this social media platform as a tool or a weapon if you like in the global war information war if you like. And the chinese censorship now is reaching outside of china and can basically influence what young people in the west or around the world are seeing it when it comes to news. To themselves they say that people come to this form for fun and entertainment and they said that is the reason why there are so few videos from the protests in hong kong that its an interesting way of managing a narrative all right i said her our social media reporter thank you so much going to shift our attention now to the u. K. Where the speaker of the house of commons has urged lawmakers to stop treating each other as enemies when it comes as parliament to meets for a 2nd day after the Supreme Court declared its suspension by the government unlawful on they were bitter confrontations when Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced angry lawmakers. The speaker of the house of commons pretending to oversee m. P. s many of whom were coiling with rage of the Prime Ministers unlawful suspension of parliaments describing their stuff to talk about the r r r r j like a strike force johnson had to do all he could to be have a listen and. I think they should listen to speakers the Prime Minister dead the opposition to trigger an election accusing them of cowardice no. You see actually going to vote no confidence in this government is he going to dodge a vote of no coal produced in the primaries. In order to escape the goodies over virtually no vote followed instead of cool for accountability the highest court in this land has found the Prime Minister broke fool when he try to. Sway me try to shut down our democratic accountability at a crucial moment in our public life the Prime Minister should have done the all noble thing and resigned. But theres no sign of that for now the opposition is refusing to agree to an election and celebrex it delays a kids name but with johnson repeating his vow to take the u. K. Out of the 31st with or without a deal parliament is locked in stalemates reasonable justification devastating for the crime. The un high commissioner for refugees is urgently calling on Countries Worldwide to take in refugees trapped in libya the commission is ascribed its Migrant Center in tripoli a severe. Really overcrowded but its not the only camp libya is one of the most important transit points for migrants trying to cross the mediterranean into Europe Holding camps have strong a strong up rather for the thousands of refugees stranded in the war torn country german diplomats have described conditions in them as inhuman investigating those conditions is almost impossible but i did only a news team managed to meet some of those who used to live in the camp by travelling tunisia libya southern neighbor and a warning this next report that youre about to see contains pictures that some viewers may find distressing. These images were recorded by refugees in different camps in libya they show appalling conditions human rights activists say the images are credible we came into direct contact with 2 refugees by a messaging services they have been interred in a libyan migrant camp for 2 years they talk to us by a voice message we change their voices for their own protection. We have been tortured with skid with suffering and dying from various diseases. We were kidnapped we became victims of violence were starving people have died our lives are disgusting so we appeal for our voiceless voice to be heard. We are innocent refugees living in the land of hell. Are. In need we speak to refugees who went through this hell. One of them is 18 years old we call her she was kidnapped while fleeing from somalia and taken to a hidden building in the Libyan Desert many other star on the journey across the sahara i mean us kidnappers demanded 8000. 00 for her release they tortured amina to increase the pressure at parents but forced to listen to it on the phone. And hold it up which i also see that they changed me up hung me up and tortured me with electric shocks. They tortured men with electric shocks to their genitals and women of with shocks to their breasts until they cried and screamed loudly. They did it so they would get the money faster than how to stand she was a council floor. The torch a systematic many other refugees describe similar methods. About 1600 refugees live in this camp salt of the sahara they were all rescued from libya. This man from sudan doesnt want to reveal his true identity either and asks that we call him again he says when he was in prison he was sold good. People came and bought us like slaves. And they said we let you work and you get money for so. That in the end you didnt get any money. They said youre a slave youre a black man they even woke us up in the middle of the not to torture us. All on. The horrific stories were hearing from refugees inside this. Theyve seen and experienced things theyre going to have imagined before now here they are the 1st time that life is not easy here to hope for the great. Many hope to. We managed to meet someone who profits from the refugees suffering he calls himself of the occupation migrants model for 500. 00 he brings migrants across the sahara to libya but if they cant pay the driver sell them to torture chambers of dollars hes understands why they do that. Or not is it the do they say i spend money on you what am i supposed to do i want my money back and i want to profit on top of that that was when i started torturing people. We often hear refugees say that theyre not put off by stories like this smugglers other only hope and theyre prepared to pay any price even if it means risking their lives. Reporting there and she is here with me fresh back from m i also really desperate harrowing accounts that you have profiled there in your report what was it like to talk to these people and meet them. Well it was very moving you know you meet them like some of the refugees that i sat down with and you take half an hour sometimes an hour sometimes even longer and they tell you all these horrific stories you know the whole path of suffering that they have started in their home countries and water on countries like the don somalia or a repressive regimes like eritrea and then you know its its really impressive how strong these people are you know and for example a lady from a young woman actually my age from darfur in sudan she told me she had to witness the execution of her husband and she fled her country as she went through the Sahara Desert she saw so many people die in the dust and she went to the torture chambre where she was tortured and raped over months and months and then finally she went she got out of there and she thought she is you know shes crossing the mediterranean in a rather dangerous or she will make it to a safe europe but then the boat was intercepted by the libyan coast guard so all she was brought back to a Detention Center and this libyan coast guard is actually financed and trained by the European Union and then from the Detention Center she was brought to tunisia finally and you know you would think that people like this you know they they break at some point because its just selfprotection or i dont know but this woman was so strong you know you look at her and she was so having hope and still having plans for the future but contextualize this for smart because i mean this is just like the german diplomats. Describe it really inhuman how widespread is it is is this across the board in those camps in libya or are these very unique cases no its not unique very widespread phenomenon so for example the United Nations also stated that these Detention Centers in libya the government under tension sentence at least some of them their Business Model base is based on forced labor on traffickers and in smugglers human Rights Groups say that these markets the slave markets where you know people are being sold as construction workers or sex slaves there are also a very wide spread so many african migrants face these kind of dangers and the people that we met you know we talked to in the report theyre not unique examples of whats happening as you referenced in your 1st answer the European Union has also kind of outsourced some of those camps and put them in libya do you feel after what you see in a new share in all these accounts are they complicit because they have those camps over there you mean the European Union by having those camps over there where there is no oversight and there is nobody to check on these human rights abuses that are taking place yes i think you know its part of the whole european migration plan you know so of course the europe in the opinion is complicit so far that they are financing for example the libyan coast guard and these you know these militias that mostly there are only militias they get the people back and bring them to these horrible you know conditions in these Detention Centers so they are of course complicit at some point yes and libya of course as you mentioned is still a country at war and yes thats for that makes it of course so much more mariel thank you very important to reporting. All right we have says force news now for you skateboarding will be making its debut as an Olympic Event in tokyo next summer sky brown an 11 year old british skateboarding prodigy is on track to become the youngest female to compete at the summer olympics in 50 years. The sky is the limit 1st guy brown like most preteens brown is already an accomplished surfer a t. V. Dancing champion and the youngest nike sponsored athlete in the world recently winning a bronze medal from the world skateboarding championships brownes gotten one step closer to her goal making Great Britain skateboarding team for tokyo 2020 born to a british father and a japanese mother the 11 year old splits her time between Southern California and japan. We were gonna do. To our surprise share. Thanks for writing samples she said but theres no pressure. As though it was like i really. Like what i happen like so the program. If brown qualifies it be more history made by this wunderkind shell be 12 years in 12 days old when the games begin in july 2020 which would make her think youngest female summer a libyan since puerto rican swim early out of the sense in 1968 unlike many other olympic sports skateboarding does not have an age requirement for its athletes. Good luck sorry youre watching you know when he was coming up for our news asia poll you were dreaming we visit a drama school in mumbai inspiring the kids to think big and on the arrests in indonesia we take a closer look at whats been causing days of violent protests. All that a whole lot more coming up with my colleague melissa chan i like rock n roll a number for the entire news team thank you for spending this part of your to see. It as we had a real talent resides. I come from deer not to people in fact no than a 1000000000 if you could lead not just democracy thats one reason im passionate about people and our missions i am a. In the sense. 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