President ial elections voters have a Record Number of 35 candidates to choose from. Also on the program is the end of an era an added bonus like a club fire munich president believe her nist has stepped down turn a specifiers Top Executive for 40 years during which time the Club Developed into a deep powerhouse in german football. And lame glue kroft good to have you with us shocked appalled devastated thats how mary of out of it described feeling after she learned that President Trump had denounced her in a july phone call with the ukrainian president the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine was abruptly removed from her post earlier this year at issue is whether that happened because trump rightfully wanted someone else or if those only to help trumps desire to investigate his political rivals which could be an impeachable offense. Good morning everyone its only the 3rd time in modern u. S. History that impeachment proceedings have got to this stage the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine mary you vanna bitch publicly testifying against the president to the house intelligence committee. Even if it says trump his lawyer and his allies derided and smeared her while she was still ambassador undermining american diplomacy president appoint and remove him passages but usually done publicly criticize them as donald trump has and in real time during impeachment proceedings as we see it or testifying the president is attacking you would twitter what effect do you think that has on other witnesses willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing. And its very intimidating. I want you know sure that some of us here take witness intimidation very very seriously and later trump it back. So you know what i what i have the right to speak i have freedom of speech just as other people do regarding the central accusation of the impeachment inquiry evanovich wasnt in post when trump withheld aid to ukraine allegedly to get ukraines president to investigate joe biden trumps political rival whose son was paid significant amounts on the board of the ukrainian gas company. In the run up to the 2020 president ial election what everyone is watching for is whether the threat of impeachment affects trumps popularity right now the polls say it doesnt. Lets bring in my idea of your colleague thomas turn now for more about what just happened today so that that tweet tell us about that does that have implications for this impeachment inquiry well its on heard of i mean its these days unusual in the hearings and like this to have live tweets but in a trump world of course it becomes more and more usual nancy pelosi the speaker of the house the democrats came out to say in a press conference afterwards that not pointing all talking directly about trumps tweet but speaking about witness intimidation in general im pointing towards that its of course a crime so whether this will be picked up in the impeachment inquiry later on we will have to see at the latest stage but otherwise what we heard today we. Didnt hear anything new and i read you one of each said more or less the same things that she said in the closed door hearing some time ago and as you just underlined the the issue of being felt threatened and the uncomfortable situation of being on the air what she called a Smear Campaign from. Personal lawyer Giuliani Rudy giuliani so lets talk about strategy here the democrats strategy is pretty clear theyre using these witnesses to try to show corruption and abuse of power by donald trump what are the republicans trying to do to defend him was quite interesting to see they were threatening a very fine line here today they were not criticizing her had all the metaphor there were actually pointed towards how professional she was they were talking about how. A professional civil. Servants shes been over the years so that was not the strategy they also been saying all along that its not on usual for governments to ask for favors we hear about this issue about withholding aid to Ukraine Military aid and they said well thats what governments do all the time and also the fact that a president can change a message as at any time so they have sort of pointed towards that nothing on usually in what the president had done and as you pointed out nothing new in comparison to what we heard from the closed door testimony but its new for a lot of americans a lot of americans hearing this for the 1st time so what can you tell us about Public Opinion yeah and thats at the end of the day what its all about it is from the democrats side their strategy to influence Public Opinion and of course also from the republicans not to change anything poll out here on friday was saying that 2 thirds of americans are actually following this and thats a huge number we think about what is actually going on in these very sometimes very long hearings very detailed political hearings and the. Poll out today saying about 41 percent of americans say that they now are more supportive of impeachment of dont trump but of course we have to band mind that its a long way to the elections its one year from now so at the end of the day theres a long time yet to change their minds all right thomas amtrak thank you very much. Now to some of the other stories making news around the world the suspected student gunman in thursdays California High School shooting has died the suspect fired at random at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita he killed 2 students before turning the gun on himself it was his 16th birthday. In bolivia 5 people have been killed in clashes between Security Forces and supporters of the exiled expresident if. Protesters say authorities opened fire on them dozens more were wounded. Has been in mexico since resigning on sunday over allegations of Election Fraud and mounting public outcry he says he wants to return the country to the country as soon as possible. Authorities in bosnia are threatening to impose a lockdown on 2 large migrant camps in the north west of the country to press the Central Government to relocate people to local mayors has the camps near bosnias border with croatia are dangerously overcrowded. Polls open in sri lanka for the president ial elections voters there have a choice of 35 candidates this time around a record for the island nation of around 22000000 people the campaigning has been vigorous but it has often been decided by very good media platforms its an election that comes months after more than 200 people were killed in serial bombings on Easter Sunday. The president ial election is here and paddock us social media timeline is flooded with political content most of which she says is negative nor online campaigning is permitted in the period before the vote and election day but proxy just about part of customs does not pink that the government should monitor let alone shut down social media. They also say when the web sites are restored after a shutdown all the content and accounts are available again not everything can be reported or taken down so whats the point people need to be discerning enough on their own but to be safe she has already downloaded an app that to let her access the websites even if theyre blocked. She nods Election Commission is aware of the challenges. The votes come in the shadow of this years deadly Easter Sunday blast but it isnt just focusing on the physical security or borders the commission is also keeping a close eye on provocative social media content. What we find and complain about hateful or fake content to facebook and google weve told them to immediately take it down. But its reach and other limited. Social media is far from the only source of mis information here prominent newspapers and channels in sri lanka how big science and im willing to go to shocking lengths to back that candidate this is a media analyst not long for going about than there has plenty of dangerous examples of this people declared that a prominent almost politician was asking the ethnic minority to back sodje premadasa one of the frontrunners major t. V. John has picked this up but the politician never said that in another incident a major to reach on the show with a muslim politician saying that. The other top candidate should be killed he said his soundbite had been doctored the politician had said rajapaksa should be defeated both politicians filed defamation cases but neither news outlet apologized the governments hands were tied since that contract elite private media. If something goes out on television and radio then it covers practically the entire population broadcasts never actually respects the right of reply deniers are very often completely ignored or deniers carried with strong rebuttal from the station which makes it worse. She now faces a sea of propaganda im 4th report. Navigating their way to the polls with the correct information certainly wont be easy. Tennis at the a. T. P. Finals alexander its a fair it has booked his place in the final 4 its fair of the rushes down elm inventive in straight sets in the final match of the group stage where i have took the 1st set 64. 00 and then won the 2nd in a tie break to set up a semifinal clash against dominic. Sparrow when also knocked out world number one rafael nadal. Its the end of an era in german football byron munich president lee curtis retired on friday after 40 years of management at the club ernest is considered one of the most influential figures in german football and is responsible for transforming biorn into a football powerhouse but harris is a divisive figure clashing publicly with many other bonus like the clubs over the years he also served time for tax evasion earlier this decade but he remains a hero empire where he said his final farewell at the annual general meeting on friday evening. Tried to fight back the tears. Since i was reelected in 2016 you have given me 3 wonderful years thank you i think you should see that. Its hard to imagine by in munich without really highness he was a 3 time winner of both the bundesliga and european cup in the seventys with he also won the 1974 world cup in 1972 year owes with west germany the success didnt slow down when he transitioned into management 1st as general manager and later as president tennis helped mold buy into the powerhouse they are today he steered the club to 2 Champions League titles including the 2013 treble and 20 bundesliga championships says over 40 year reign hasnt been without incident he was the sole survivor of a private plane crash in 1902 and in 2014 venice was imprisoned for evading over 28000000 euros in taxes he returned straight to his post after his release 3 years ago his stature not diminished in the eyes of bahrain players past and present. Were going to have to leave one as is byron munich what he achieved as a president and also as a player at the club is unparalleled there will never be anyone like him again. Thats why this might be used in contests and normally i think someone likelihood us will never stop and hes got a by our own heart. And a football heart. So he will always stay connected to us dont have to run amok. With byron chairman carl nearing the end of his tenure menaces retirement heralds the closing of a chapter at byron munich. Researchers in japan have been looking into how to reduce the number of fly bites cows dead scientists at the ide she Agricultural Research center painted cattle in black and white stripes they found the zebra painted cows received fewer than half the bites than the painted control group producing fly bites would help control the spread of Infectious Diseases and reduce animal stress officials expect the results to apply to other livestock too. Not a bad mosquito repellent youre watching d. W. News live from berlin coming up next world stories the week in reports dont forget you can get all the latest news information around the clock on our website dot com c. S. On twitter at the w news thanks very much. William had to be good goes up because were lions high you know if i had known to them i would be a small i never would have gone on the trip but you know i would not have put my