Deepens a 2nd whistleblower inside the white house tells intelligence officials the u. S. President abused his power in a phone call to ukraine. And germany grab some gold is the world athletics championships wrap up after a series of cultivars. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us the Climate Activist GroupExtinction Rebellion has kicked off worldwide protests warning of an environmental cause apocalypse the protesters are taking their rebellion to 60 cities around the globe here in berlin protesters gathered at dawn to march on the citys famous Brandenburg Gate over the next 2 weeks civil disobedience actions were planned in cities across the world the. Demonstrations began yesterday in london protesters want Greenhouse Gas emissions to be cut to 0 by 2025. Met with climate activists in berlin and see how they prepared for their day of protests lets take a look. At more oh. This is how environmental activists from extinction are badly and are preparing for the protests one of them is 28 year old luke is the activist undergoing training in how to behave one blocking a road and one being moved by the police. Auditors and the other activists are demanding more climate protection action from government that includes a call for a climate imagine sea to be declared to make that point back to this one to paralyze transport and belin. Says shes willing to be arrested if necessary. By this. This this is the only way to show how serious we are its not sufficient anymore to simply wave flags and demonstrate we need to make clear how bad the situation is right and i think it will be highly symbolic if we are willing to be arrested and have our freedom cut tales. Of. Extinction rebellion was founded in 2018 and claims to have activists in around 50 countries that protest method is civil disobedience peaceful but sometimes illegal and provocative to illustrate the effects of Climate Change the activists even dyed the river in switzerland green. The dye was harmless but the campaign got a lot of attention and polarized opinion the protesters have pitched their tents and berlin not just anywhere but right in the heart of the government district there are expected roadblocks have provoked. From balance. From the tight the god we need to find a sensible solution broad consensus in society is what were after and extremism doesnt help. Us went on but i dont know what were going to achieve apart from creating more traffic which isnt great climate friendly. Doesnt or they should do it its not a problem we need to do something about it dont wait. To. Extinction rebellion only really stop possible nest of which parts of it intends to shut down the protest will last a week but to many the climate fight is a long Time Commitment on his who previously worked as a psychologist has decided to leave Office Savings and dedicate himself full time to the campaign. At an event then pursuing a career is becoming more and more relevant if you look at the broad context of our work here is very important so i cant imagine doing anything else at this moment and for america. His dream is that soon governments around the world will listen to hand happiness and its that goal that extinction or badly and want to raise awareness for over the coming days. And for more all the protests were joined by dr clare wordly she says water just and Research Associate at the university of cambridge and shes also an active supporter of Extinction Rebellion good to have you with us 1st of all dr work lee tell us in a nutshell what Extinction Rebellion is and what makes it different from other movements like. Friday for future thank you well to begin with of course we share a lot of the same aims as far as the future which is to get the worlds hake serious action to get government to take action on Climate Change and on other ecological crises but with x. Fridays the future this is initially this is just schoolchildren this is theres not much role for. Bottles there are other than coordinating so with Extinction Rebellion this is adult saying we dont just leave this to the children we are also going to protest and its a grassroots movement. Its decentralized meaning that anyone can and if they abide by the principles they can call themselves extinction about and they can go forwards we have a lot of connections across all the Different Countries we speak with each other but when not for example told what to do by the london Extinction Rebellion also one blend takes its own actions and we make up points by using civil disobedience ok you this week your group is staging a series of demonstrations all around the world 60 cities understand clude england what are you hoping to achieve with these actions so yes weve already kicked off in berlin with our process which started at 4 am this morning and were hoping to do a variety of things 1st aid to show the public how absolutely serious these crises are i think its very easy to forget about Climate Change and ecological collapse because theyre not very nice things to think about we dont want to read about them all the time and by disrupting we bring it to the forefront of peoples attention we also bring it to the forefront of governments attention and show them that the people that the citizens and theyre going to take this lying down that we want strong action that we have been trying for many years to get this through different means. Now the time has come where we actually go out and we stand in the streets and stay there until action is taken to try to draw attention to the urgency of this the language that you use soon if it goes in the direction of of apocalypse we need to be and something needs to be done now how far given the urgency of it do you think its reasonable to push your agenda what are the limits of civil disobedience for you so far extinction about and as a whole we have a set of Guiding Principles one of those very important principles is known violence so we would never say that violence and. Form is effort just a fight so we remain within the scope of nonviolent actions so for example this intrudes things like road blocks being ourselves to particular buildings or particular companies or particular ministries or departments. And causing disruption but in a in a quite usually quite a playful mana im not causing any harm to any living thing to have faith in liberal democracy in like we have here in europe for the most part to achieve the what you believe is necessary in order to avoid. The collapse of our society in our ecosystem so very interesting questions so i think one thing is that i do have faith in democracy and i do believe in democracy but i think that in many cases as well kristie its the 1st hit by special interests or if you look at for example the influence of lobbyist in the us oil and Gas Industries spend 120000000. 00 in 2018 alone not being the government here in europe we have lobbyists from the oil and Gas Industries from the coal industry from the Automobile Industry and these industries actually take rights away from citizens so we see across europe most people want environmental protections in the polls that have been conducted but i think that democracy needs to be a true democracy and ive got more to the people and thats why extinction of ballingall specific sense assemblies with randomly chosen citizens informed by science to take decisions thank you so much dr clare work lee shes with Extinction Rebellion she says while just a researcher at the university of cambridge thanks for being with us this morning thank you very much. Now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today the u. S. Says turkey is set to launch its long planned offensive against kurdish fighters in Northern Syria washington is withdrawing u. S. Troops from the area and says it will not support or be involved in the operation on sunday kurdish groups in the region held a mass demonstration against the turkish offense. At least 12 antigovernment demonstrators were killed on sunday in ongoing protests in baghdad taking the death toll there above 100. 00 since clashes began on tuesday iraqs Prime Minister. Has announced the social measures designed to appease the protesters including new housing and job training schemes. And exit polls from tunisias parliamentary election on sunday show the countrys moderate islamist and not a party in the lead on its rivals are also claiming victory for the action is seen as a bellwether for the upcoming president ial runoff between not his candidate and a jailed media mogul. Hong kong Police Arrested and charged 2 protesters for defying the ban on wearing face masks during demonstrations the protestors are the 1st 2 people to be charged under the new law outside the courthouse supporters use them to protest the approach to protect the protesters identities as they were ushered away the ban on face masks has helped fuel days of protests in on call. Tens of thousands of prodemocracy protesters continued to defy a ban on face masks on sunday kerry lam hong kongs chief executive had introduced the ban under colonial era state of Emergency Powers to try to end months of unrest prodemocracy lawmakers again went to the high court on sunday morning seeking an injunction against the ban they argued the Emergency Powers bypass legislature and contravene the citys constitution today is about terrorism 1st rule of law i would say this is one of the most important constitutional cases in the history of all but a senior judge dismissed the case that only increased the defiance of hong kong residents large crowds marched through to wrench will rein in unsanctioned rallies. Carry lam is trying to use the ban to keep us from coming out. She suppressing our right to express ourselves this will only push us further. How much as night fell things turned ugly some demonstrators turning their rage on businesses with connections to Mainland China and fighting pitched battles with police carry lamb has warned that the ban on face masks was only the 1st card in her hand the emergency law allows her to make any regulations whatsoever in the face of this sun rest. Or joined now by our correspondent in Hong Kong Mathias bolling a material the ban on facebook has clearly angered the protestors we saw violent clashes there over the weekend whats happening there today. There are new protests announced in telegram groups and online forums today so far there havent started yet but its clear that the protesters want to keep the pressure up they want to be on the streets and the law has clearly not achieved what it should achieve according to the government to deter the protesters and take some steam out of the situation no now the protesters are more furious than ever and everybody is where almost everybody is wearing a face mask now to the demonstration even those that were not wearing any before. But mathias we now have the Police Actually arresting demonstrators 2 of them of now appeared in court for wearing face masks. Can we really expect that the protesters will continue to defy the ban on face 1st. Its hard to say at the moment it looks like this and if you look at what has happened and throughout these 4 months then thats that every means off deterrence the troops at the border with china threatening to enter this city be it Police Tactics that target the protesters i dont really stage all this has not worked so far the people are not deterred and that might be because many protesters fear that if they stop to protest a much worse clamp down on this city will happen and beijing will take its revenge so so far of course. These things are very volatile and can take other turns but at the moment it doesnt look like this is going to deter the protests as they were not deterred by long terms for rioting people were charged with offenses that carry up to 10 years in prison. So one year in prison for wearing a mask would probably not do the job i. Understand public transport in hong kong has been severely disrupted mathias how is that impacting daily life there. You can see here this is one of the major m. T. R. Stations one of the most busy m. T. R. Stations in hong kong it has been vandalized for several days in a row. For transport system is down today again even more than half and of course this makes life here very difficult to transport system carries 5000000 passengers a day today is a Public Holiday so people are not most people are not commuting to their jobs that is of course changing tomorrow when schools and most businesses will pick up again and we will see how this is going to work this is this city is built on this transport system and it needs it appears that you very much. There in hong kong. Now to the us where democratic lawmakers have Fresh Initiative for their impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump a 2nd whistleblower has come forward in the case claiming to have 1st hand knowledge of phone calls between front and the ukrainian president vladimir selenski us democrats have launched a probe into whether trump pressured selenski 1st a trump leading political rival joe biden and his son. Miles. Of president trucks impeachment inquiry is proving extremely divisive in many states opinion on the topic a split predictably along party lines with democrats in favor and republicans against but it seems theres one point both parties can agree on the dispute is eroding even further the quality of u. S. Political discourse. The market hole in allentown pennsylvania. Theres plenty of Fresh Produce the chance to get a haircut and to have a chat with your neighbors everyone pretty much agrees here whats going on in washington is dividing the country like never before were going to have one hell of a time here if they dont straighten out up there d. C. Thats true one hell of a time were going to have so if this is what they want. Get ready people have had enough if youre in a position of power you should take your position of power and use it to your advantage and what youre doing is youre dividing this country and its not worth the time or the effort when we call the uniting which is what were standing for everything needed States AllentownPennsylvania Alliance and a highly competitive political district the democratic and republican parties are on equal footing here but in the last Congressional Elections the district chose a democrat congresswoman susan wound regularly holds town halls to check in with her constituents these Public Meetings are somewhat of a microcosm murdering the deeply divided state of politics in the usa itself i wonder colleagues in congress are assuming he was according to some polls the majority of americans not. One. I didnt come to congress to pursue an impeachment inquiry our president had with a foreign leader where he used his office to attempt to extract information about a political opponent he crossed the line clearly and hes too dumb to even know what he did which is shocking a lot of polarization divisiveness anger people doing crazy stuff because appalled by me i get any political discussion with anybody about 2000 kilometers southwest of allentown is the ribbit Louisiana Republican congressman mark johnson is not worried about his job his district is staunchly repub. Can but even here this seems to be disagreement especially a little pick of impeachments i believe it is worthy to teach me and hope that tense time for a vote on this issue will at least seriously consider the idea that he might be this or that i dont know what most people i do d next i dont know what law school i went to its actually not commit a crime and theres a lot of people who have a lot of issues with the president and his style and his twitter and got a lot of the ok right i mean to date no one has yet stated any specific crime voters here are split on trump impeachment but they are united in their opinion that political fronts have become too hard. The Division Goes all the way down to families all across this country and in france and those divisions are a real and theyre having an impact so we try to disagree without being disagreeable you know we try to do that in community you can have family you can have community if you cant respect each other with so much Political Division many him i see prayer as their only hope i mean. Weve got some sports for you in just a minute but 1st lets catch up on just a few other International News stories portugals socialists have claimed victory in sundays parliamentary election but they fell short of an outright majority Prime Minister antonio costa said he would start talks with other parties to form a coalition he has benefited from solid Economic Growth following years of austerity. Opposition parties have taken the top 2 spots in call supposed parliamentary election official results show the left is vets have been Party Winning with 26 percent but it will have to find Coalition Partners to govern the vote was called after the Prime Minister resigned in july when he was summoned to appear before the war crimes for. An astronauts in onboard the International Space station have successfully completed a mission to replace old batteries on the spacecraft 2 astronauts took part in the space walk that lasted 6 and a half hours this is the 1st of 10 planned missions to upgrade and maintain parts of the splitter. The world athletics championships in kata come to a close after a raft of controversies but the athletes wanted to finish off in style and one german long jumper did just that. The day of finals on the final day of a competition marred by low crowds and complaints about the heat began with a win in the long jump for germanys man like me humble was World Championship gold to last years european title was in the javelin understand peters won just a 2nd ever world gold for grenada have on the track kenyas timothy cherry ought to just the blistering performance in the 60100 meters hitting the front from the opening lap and never letting go of the lead was just a check to guy won a thrilling last lap bottle to take gold for uganda and the 10000 meters have time to sprint belongs to the United States was a lead a lead an american 12 in the 100 metres hurdles im have guns dolma hunted i didnt really go to her success and individual hurdles event as the u. S. Women destroyed the field in the 4 by 400 meters 5000 the men were similarly dominant. Right benjamin and could the team to the final gold of the championships to leave the u. S. With a table top medal haul of 29 im sure both fans will hope the organizers of the mens world cup here in 2022 can learn lessons from these troubled championships. We have new leaders in germany has been mislaid after various dimensions rocketed from 6th to 1st they took over at the top thanks to a handsome win over struggling or. Luke graeme weathering glass back couldnt kill the mood it brasier pot when the falls were ready for a potsie the match was less. And 2 minutes old when marcus tiran sets up denny south korea to go number 15 because the defense was sliced apart old to easily just a few minutes later bloodbath repeated the trick. By this time it was allison player from the left finding Patrick Hammond for the finish and in the 13th minute the same combination made it 3 to 5 rinse and repeat ive thought about her on fire house but wish i thought. If they coach Martine Schmidt thought it couldnt get any worse what he saw next will of left him dumbfounded. By luck that i didnt need a boost but i was but a keeper thomas kobe gave player one anyway im sure nearly half the time and 100 team was galloping to victory. Hausberg did finally have reason to cheer in the 81st minute. Florian needle a sham pounced on a loose ball to give the visit is a consolation goal but braille and below them scored a 5th goal for glass but to round off a nice perfect day for the hugs 51 the final score a game that left hausberg drenched and defeated and mention got by sitting pretty at the top of the table. While this fall were not among pundits tips for success in the bonus league of the season but they are now 2nd in the table and the only side yet to lose this term when young berlin were the latest victims few. Of those fans of pinching themselves up to their own big start to the season under a new coach others like last now. 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Basketballs Houston Rockets have apologized to china for a tweet that supported hong kongs democracy protests the tweet from a Team Official has since been deleted but it read fight for freedom stand with hong kong it led chinas state broadcaster to yank rockets games off the air millions of chinese fans have been a number with the n. B. A. Team since former player yelled meeting 1st joined them in 2002 the rockets general manager Darlene Morley says has since tweeted that he did not mean to cause offense to fans and corporate sponsors but some in the u. S. Including a president ial candidate criticized the rockets for kowtow to beijing. We have more news coming up for you at the top of the next hour but and coming up next we got Faith Matters but 1st we leave you with pictures from the u. S. State of new mexico spectators there enjoyed a sky filled with color this weekend as the 2nd annual Albuquerque Bowling fiesta got under way enjoy. The. Hospital Good Business into patients. 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