The pressure mounts on u. S. President donald trump House Democrats to subpoena his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani over the ukraine whistleblower allegations. Im dr thomas great to have you with us china has been staging a massive military parade to mark 70 years of communist rule some 15000 soldiers hundreds of tanks and military hardware including a Nuclear CapableHypersonic Missile rumbling through the Capital Beijing celebrations commemorate the founding of the peoples republic of china by chairman mao 1949 an event that ended a bitter civil war that claimed millions of lives president she said chinas development would be peaceful but that its military. Would safeguard chinas sovereignty and security. Lets bring in the ws mathias billings whos at the celebrations in beijing good morning to you mathias president easy saying this morning that nothing can stop the rise of china was that message more for the home crowd or for the international audience. It was of course for both but the more important crowd here is the home crowd because what she chimping ideology what his narrative his promise to his people is is that he will make china strong and powerful his predecessors have started to konami reforms they have started this economic miracle they have achieved some. Economic prosperity and he will be the one who gives china the role that he thinks it should have on the International Stage these. Are the preparations and the parade has been broadcast throughout china broadly in social media on t. V. In newspapers so it is really a show of. What the communist party thinks it has achieved and it is thanks very much for that from beijing ok lets go straight to hong kong now and there are no big celebrations planned there today did have a charlotte chosen bill standing by in hong kong for us charlotte that city has been dominated for months now by the anti beijing demonstrations whats happening where you are right now. Brian were one of several mass protests taking place across hong kong today and the mood really has changed quite dramatically in the last hour or so were hearing that sick ass has been fired in multiple different locations were also getting reports from local media that to live warning shots were followed was fired by Police Officers its still very early here in in the day here usually the pattern has been Peaceful Protesters in the day descending into violent clashes in the evening when weve already seen those clashes on the street there is an enormous Police Presence here off to rule this protest has not been authorized anyone taking part there who is breaking the norm not sure if you can see behind me at the moment but there are Police Officers stationed across this area theyre up on looking down on the protesters looking to see whats happening to try and keep some order here now where we are its still very peaceful but this should be a busy road usually this is a National Holiday today instead it is overrun by protesters chops claes barricaded everyone here bracing for was expected to be and is known expected to be an extremely tense day yes you can hear some of the the chance in the background there where your im considering this this heavy Police Security presence stands out on the streets today are protesters still planning for more events later today. Its widely expected that these protests will go on far into the evening people here that weve spoken to over the last few days have only signaled that today is expected to be a big day theyve been protests in the lead up to today in the lead up to the anniversary but many have said that they wanted to save that energy to come out on the streets are they not because they know that the whole world is watching they know today is significant day in Mainland China and people here want. Capitalize on that attention to show you the quote 8 that anger and to repeat that im on on an International Stage i think some people here is well i came to show you the show come to the streets a day that china is trying to celebrate it says to try and overshadow perhaps even embarrass authorities in beijing say people will be here on the streets its expected going to be. More from the chosen bill from hong kong as those protests move forward say thanks very much charlotte. The well with me in the studio now is younger wardle china expert at the German Marshall Fund good morning to you thanks for coming in as we saw there hong kong is clearly a threat to beijings authority is beijing going to wait it out or could the leaders in beijing president xi risk a tiananmen style military crackdown as you can see over the past couple of months now theyve been waiting for this to and theyve been waiting for this to stop like a natural im not sure times to peter out what we havent seen is like a clear movement there from think the line from beijing side that they could intervene whenever they wanted to with People Police or with troops but it does not seem very likely because theres not much to gain also i think we have a problem if we focus on that too much because now anything below that level seems like a good outcome for us. In the west if we think about just the military intervention as being key as being like the thats the red line not to cross them thats a pretty low bar for the Chinese Government not to ok and they will no doubt take that into consideration as they did today what they were displaying in beijing beijing one of the things we saw theres a new generation of military technology the hypersonic Nuclear Capable missile out there wasnt alone in it wasnt the only thing we saw is beijing close to stealing americas Competitive Edge militarily think what beijing has demonstrated today is that it is going to be more deadly to attack in any kind of form and its going to be too. Much more fierce in retaliation so the Competitive Edge is not when they are not equal times yet but there are pockets of accidents in which china has achieved near equal status to American Military capabilities especially and have a sonic feel for example were talking about a lot of those the drone technologies for example so there are pockets of excellence and which means that it is definitely hard to beat china in a military confrontation and how does this factor into the south china seas role looking at that right now its not just the United States the philippines vietnam a lot of regional players does this military progress that china has made mean that that region now belongs to china or we havent seen anything to the contrary and like to think that for the freedom of navigation operations who have been a show of force of some sort by the u. S. And other western powers we have not seen much of a competition about dominance in that in that region anymore this is basically chinas territory President Trump in the u. S. When he wants to turn that around he wants to slow chinas rise with the tariffs with better protections for intellectual property is there support for this ring fencing china strategy here in berlin for there is definitely is support on the like the analysis of the problem that were facing. Current economic posture its a set of mess and the region this is definitely something that is not something that is appreciated in the in berlin and in europe more broadly but there is not an agreement on the ends that are approached and the way in which the administration is approaching china at the moment but and certainly doesnt want to get in between washington and beijing at security provider and its most important economic partner ok so this big number of reasons to stay on the fence right now for berlin over last few years theres been a growing realization that prosperity did not bring china the democracy and freedom that we hoped for when it entered the w t o in 2001. Should. The west respond when we look at on kong for example i think it is interesting to see that the west is not responding really at the moment its awfully quiet around hong kong aseptic separate in washington one has to say in europe theres not a lot of theres not a lot of voices i get that i heard many times the muckle traveled to. Just recently there wasnt a lot of criticism on this so this shows that there is not a lot of leverage that europe needs to grow stronger and needs to act more forcefully and more in the crime and closer coordination with the United States on these issues if it wants to have a voice in this something that may prove difficult for berlin and brussels and definitely will i mean this is that its hard to side with a company ministration at this point in time if youre based in berlin you dont go order china expert a German Marshall Fund thank you very much for coming in thank you. Spriggs you know some of the other stories making news today of bridge crossing in taiwan has collapsed smashing on to boats more below a truck carrying oil wasnt plummeting from the bridge into the water at least 10 people were injured rescue teams are searching for survivors. Nigerian police say they have freed 19 pregnant women and girls from the socalled baby factory the victims were allegedly abducted and raped so their captors could sell the babies to female suspects are in custody in the capital lagos. In peru president martin this car has dissolved congress and called new elections and a power struggle the opposition. Lawmakers a balky his attempts to fight corruption. Been engulfed in a scandal involving a Brazilian Construction Firm with multiple politicians accused of accepting bribes and exchanged for government contracts. British Prime MinisterBoris Johnson says hell present his final plan this week to get a deal for britain to leave the e. U. At the end of october reports indicate his ideas include a locating Customs Center several kilometers away from the irish border and also wants a u. To rule out any further delays to brets. On the United States pressure is mounting on President Trump over his dealings with foreign leaders democrats claim trump sought assistance from other countries to help discredit his opponents a phone call with australias Prime MinisterScott Morrison is now also honors for he us media is reporting that the tribe asked morrison for his help and looking into the words ins of the miller russia best. Morrison reportedly said that australia was ready to help the white house has restricted access to the calls trasks. Lets go to sydney now for more on the story with journalist Roger Maynard good morning roger what do we know about the phone call between donald trump and the australian Prime MinisterScott Morrison or not a lot of a few sentences for only a problem and this is the official spokesman here he said that morrison was asked to help president trying to escape the origins of what he called this damning report about russian interference in the 26000 election and other spokesmen camera said the government had always been ready to assist and call crate with efforts to help shape further light only matters under investigation and the plan is to confirm this region is once again in this conversation this phone call with the president this will expand it now this admission follows a report in New York Times another American Media which claims to trump us mr morris and to work with the u. S. Attorney general william bought together information which might discredit special counsel robert knows investigation into allegations of interference in the last American Election ok do we know if the Australian Government in fact complied and do we know what kind of information President Trump was looking for. Well again its all a bit hazy at this stage australias involvement is believed to be a link to it stemmed from a conversation cameras then high commissioner in london Alexander Downer had with the then Truck Campaign advisors george happy double is it in a london pub apparently a mr downer passed this information he was given during the meeting on to the Australian Government then passed it on to the us United States after speculation had emerged that the f. B. I. Suspected Hillary Clintons emails of being hacked by the russians now mr papadopoulos you may recall revealed the russia may have possessed damaging information on democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and hes long blamed mr downer for sponsoring the subsequent investigation that investigation may recall it in the babytalk listening 14 days are in prison for lying to the f. B. I. Theres obviously a bit of bad blood there and stood down and said he knew nothing about this recent phone call with mr morrison and he said i dont know anything about it and i think about the conversations that have been recorded he said im afraid these days its not the sort of thing that im privy to ok i can get into the cells roger what kind of coverage is this story getting where you are and stronger. Well its its got limited but its always a good and quick little coverage in the media its had a certain amount of criticism from. The labor party the Opposition Labor Party who point out there was only a week or so go that mr morris and went to washington for a state visit and was a lot got a great reception from mr trump and it was a loaded thought is its political process and this is exists the Prime Minister and the liberal position it was saying thats indication that mr marson was being rewarded in some way or other and thats to trump a rather major 1st and said he thanks for bring us up to date on. This date of you know still to come the show using technology to save time new services are helping thousands have again dr oz infamous traffic jams more efficient. But 1st german leader only machall is known as an international stateswoman but now halfway through her final term as chancellor many say her influence on the global stage is waning when it comes to Foreign Policy shes often restrained by her social Democrat Coalition partners but critics also accused her and her party of running out of ideas and leaving others like french president to manual mccraw to fill the vacuum shes left. Halfway into her last term as german chancellor if anything aguilar machall is sounding more ready than ever to take on more global responsibility. We have the responsibility to solve the tensions between russia and ukraine unless libya is stabilized the whole region in africa will become unstable and thats why this is our task europe must leave a footprint as one might say today in solving the conflict in the world. And that footprint is looking increasingly french as president in monaco my call make sure he is seen to take the lead in europe. Meeting russian president Vladimir Putin he has pushed germany out of the diplomatic driving seat over the ukraine conflict markov also took the lead in trying to negotiate a meeting between irans president rouhani and the us President Trump. Its less than a year since germany and france renewed their political viles by signing the our country to you know bilateral cooperation but in this political marriage president markov is increasingly seen as the one wearing the trousers. And the think tanks are beginning to talk. Because for the new chancellor is making space from a crawl without setting her own agenda. As part of that afghan treaty german and french m. P. s held their 2nd joint session in berlin last week mccall sent his top diplomat for europe who found german Foreign Policy restraint unlike in france were not used to coalitions we are in a system where we have more freedom of movement i would say more deficit to be a giant in the Current Situation of the Global Crisis we see this is sometimes an advantage a french m. P. Who was in the room also sees merkels Leadership Qualities limited by her lack of political space. We all see how calm she is not a face of adversity but she isnt free to act to shout with like. Fight. Having to share the government benches with the social democrat s. P. D. Party appears to be keeping germany from taking more of a european lead key merkel advisors say the demand for german leadership is not being met. That should be our role. Politics look slightly different not only in this country do we have a coalition so we always need to find compromises the opposition is less diplomatic we have a huge lack of leadership and lack of initiatives coming from germany what we see is a government in this country which is. Which is done there are tired stability and compromise have been the hallmarks of merkels policy architecture for just over 14 years that formula alone may no longer be working flow with us and america my belief that from the outside and under merkel is already being regarded as a kind of lame duck who has entered the end phase of her term and has little left that she can shape. Agel america has survived. Many attempts to declare the end of her political career but in the autumn of her last time as chancellor the woman long seen as the lead to europe is running out of opportunities to demonstrate that leadership. Lets talk about this more with Political Correspondent mark 1000000 a kosher joining us now good morning to you thanks for coming in and you know just last year germany had the initiative on a number of Foreign Policy fronts on iran ukraine migration doesnt anymore lost an issue whats happened in berlin life in the grand coalition is what happened so were seen the German Government that currently consists of macos possibly the conservative c. D. U. Has sister part of the variances you and the social democrats having like had a long time of forming this government it was almost a record of several months until they were able to form this government and then they were darkly fearne into crisis mode over domestic politics just on migration they couldnt find a. Line there and then other topics took over rich saying that the Climate Crisis has become a defining topic for voters here in germany and with the rise of the greens becoming a Stronger Party and that has determined politics in germany more than Foreign Policy they will jury recently hosted the 2 apparently get some kind of new edition of the 1st big meeting of the new all alliance for multi multilateralism 15 nations committing themselves to boosting International Cooperation is this Group Approach the new face of german Foreign Policy if talking in terms of how german chancellor Angela Merkel seems is probably shes always been a champion for kind of like solving things in the bigger group shes always been a champion of multilateralism and some say thats the election of the u. S. President donald trump has been one of the motivated to keep her in office to run for this last and yes so it has been a for policy terms thats to keep up this multilateral liberal democrat. Take well go to has been one of her like defining issues and Foreign Policy if you will germany in the autumn of all a makeover turned to the initiative will again initiative again what do we expect from german Foreign Policy during the 2nd half of this administration well especially what is going to be interesting is into looking how the german is going to position itself within europe weve heard that the french president among cries then taking the lease in the shape and define Foreign Policy of policy in general and europe and will be interesting to see where germany especially the german chancellor Angela Merkels going to position herself and as we are celebrating i used to celebrate today the 70th anniversary of time especially going to be interesting how germanys going to position itself and relation to chinas most important trading partner and its going to be interesting how germany with in europe is going to find a stance on chinas rise to global power ok now now if germany realigns lets say someone with china would not risk its relationship with the United States that is exactly the conundrum germany is in at the moment it is the most important trading padma china to germany of the same time it needs to think how europe and germany within europe is going to play a role into how that tensions between china and the u. S. Economy happening in the chinese u. S. Trade will have well see where all this is that most of the on a project for a state thanks very much we have some sports for you know the world athletics com championships are taking place in qatar on day 43. 00 out of 6 gold medals went to athletes who also took the top spots last time around. Undisputed leader of the pack of defending champions was russian high jumper maria last its kaino who won her 3rd straight gold medal. This one though as a neutral athlete as russias track and Field Federation has been suspended since 2015 due to widespread doping allegations. The mens 5000 meter final had 3 norwegian brothers competing in debates and the youngest of the band of brothers was leading in the final lap only to be picked at the left corner. Brisson ended up in 5th gold and silver went to ethiopia with a trace repeating his tram from 2 years ago in london. And finally some joy for i know we didnt athlete cost involved home defended his title in the 400 Meter Hurdles climbing an impedance streak of 14 races meanwhile 3rd place. When the 1st middle of the championships for both schizo. And staying with us lurks the coach over to salazar the head of an american track and Field Program funded by Corporate Giant nike has been handed a 4 year ban by the u. S. Anti doping agency salazar has been found guilty of orchestrating in facilitating doping british olympic champion mo ferrari and us runner guillen rupp are among the athletes who have trained under him at the nike oregon project but they have not been accused of any wrongdoing salazar said he do feel nike has not yet commented. U. S. Opera star just enormous died at age 74 saying more than 80 times at new yorks metropolitan opera. Shero showered rather with prizes on or a doctored story her long career she sang for to us the president ial moderations Queen Elizabeths birthday and the Opening Ceremony of the atlanta olympics. Its to bangladesh now in its capital dhaka has one of the worst traffic problems on our planet the World Bank Says more than 3000000 working hours are lost each and every day there as commuters sit in bumper to bumper jams as a result many are turning to a new Ride Sharing Service but as we report that comes with his own problems. For decades nearly 20000000 residents getting from a to b. Is a daily nightmare the bangladeshi capital is one of the most congested cities in the world. To me is 6 kilometers by come can take up to an hour which isnt much faster than walking. Now technologys offering a helping hand. Sharing a back way that says a lot of time. It can we change our all time usually on all the rights of states because all the traffic. Sharing our bike ride really has me a lot swapping full wheels for 2 allows drivers to navigate narrow alleys and congested traffic lanes and as well as cutting travel time ride sharing has created thousands of jobs one local company alone has more than 200000 registered drivers. Misjudgement turn in my free time im right sharing its a Good Opportunity to earn some money. Millions of bangladeshis now use one of several companies on the market producing travel time has also been a boon for business. Trip which used to be 2 hours before people were uncomfortable writing on rickshaws on you know now only 3040 minutes and that. Not to really save their time but also increases their productivity. But despite the numerous perks critics say ride sharing has led to a spy. In traffic accidents in a city that already has one of the worlds highest road death tolls. And thats all we have time for im brian thomas for the entire news team thanks for being. 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