A record heat wave and drought. And in german soccer by munich get back to winning ways after snatching a late victory at freiburg. Im told me well thanks for joining us we begin in the u. S. Where the house of representatives is about to vote on author goals of impeachment against President Donald Trump republicans attempted to halt the session a soon as it began by calling a vote to adjourn but that was dismissed along with other attempts to condemn the democrats the debate is still going on with a vote expected soon now if impeachment is approved President Trump will go on trial in the senate. Now for more on this im joined by u. S. Political expert william nor blue cross now you know with the republican controlled senate. What exactly are we expecting to see in this because 1st of all the democrats are leading the way thats right i mean basically everything will switch weve been weve seen the last many weeks a democratic controlled process the democrats control the control the house representatives thats how this entire impeachment inquiry was able to get started in the 1st place after it should be noted the democrats saying no no no no to impeachment many times before theyve been able to set all the rules throughout this whole process theyve been leading all these committees all the investigations but able to say yes or no to witnesses now when this vote finally happens which should be coming very shortly and when it is expected to pass both articles those articles what some point be moved into the senate and then everything turns around youll have of course the senate being controlled by republicans theyll be able to decide who talks and who doesnt talk what the rules are and it could be as quickly finished as being dismissed the onus like a motion in any kind of Legislature Just saying no were not going to take it up it could go one day could go one week it could last weeks we just dont know until this vote happens until intil the president is actually impeached and until it gets moved into the senate how significant is this whole process very significant i mean this is impeachment is a break glass in emergency kind of procedure it is a last resort the last line of defense when congress feels there is no other way to rein in a corrupt president a president who has violated his oath of office who has violated the constitution other then bringing him down by impeachment and then eventually removal in the senate this he will become only the 3rd president in American History be impeached of course they threaten nixon with impeachment he resigned and this is the. 1st time of any of those impeachments that the charges and what this is regarding or relating to is about National Security about American Foreign policy about some very fundamental democratic issues of democracy i should say whereas when it came to clinton and it came to nixon it was very much about an interpretive very much about domestic policy and this is coming to some very core issues of the security and stability of the United States of america as you mentioned you know it might scale to stage but then fail with the republicans in senate so why would the democrats be so keen to go ahead with the process anyway yeah its very clear that this will probably die in the Senate Democrats say they they need to take a stand there theyre making a principled stand on protecting the constitution protecting the republic the United States of america and theyre saying that they cant wait because it has to do with election meddling about looking back at debuggers conspiracy theories of 2016 that trump things negatively affected him and looking forward to 2020 trying to help them so are the charges democrats say we cant wait for an election to decide because its the very election thats at stake here so theyre saying we cannot wait and even if it dies in the senate we need to go on record now history needs to be clear on where we stood looking back at this moment in time ok within the glue craft thank you. Now lets take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. Spanish police have clashed with protesters outside a football match between boss alona and real madrid but protesters outside the stadium in barcelona tried to draw attention to the catalonian separatist movement during the match which was watched by 650000000 people around the world. Thousands of people gathered across poland to demonstrate against a proposed law allowing the government to fire judges the protesters fear that the legislation would undermine the independence of the judiciary they also fear it could lead to polands exit from the european union. Bolivias attorney general has issued an arrest warrant for former president evo morales hes wanted for trial on charges of sedition and terrorism or as fled bolivia last month amid unrest after he claimed victory in a disputed president ial election is currently living in exile in argentina. The australian state of New South Wales has declared a state of emergency to deal with the threat of bushfires authorities are warning that the threat from fires will continue to rise over the next few days extremely hot weather is worsening the situation the country suffered its hottest day on record this week with the no average temperatures of nearly 41 degrees celsius. Hotter than ever australia is going through record high temperatures and for a few here thats just another reason to make a splash. The norm. Is spared the health arrests dehydration can be deadly. For the foreigner rescue team the threat to wildlife is foremost. Thats why i know. Theres probably not very much food up there because of the drought theres not a lot of water they dont get me in the river but some people have been calling the river this morning. So its just going to get worse and worse this is going to build up their already apparently had trays of. 6070 maybe. A fairly made of the extreme heat is compounding this problem since august millions of hec tears of australian bush have barred the hotter and drier weather has rendered firefighters helpless. Scientists say it is a result of mankind failure to address Global Climate change the fire chief warned wash could be to come over the next few days were going to so far as Emergency Services and all those communities close to. Those some distance from are going to be a challenge with the news where it challenges we head into this heat wave conditions that are going to dominate much of the sky and anger is growing up Prime MinisterScott Morrison after failing to concede for weeks that the fires were linked to Climate Change hes gone on holiday. For shoppers in central sydney however there is no escape a festive themed monument crafted from charred branches stands as a bleak reminder of the national crisis. By in munich have dominated german soccer in recent years theyve won the league 7 times in a row but this season they found the going hard after winning at the weekend they travel to high flying freiburg on. Wednesday its a 2 late goals to secure the 2nd victory in a row. Behind 5 for a high Class Performance at the weekend Philippe Coutinho outscored byrons goal getter in chief. And the brazilian wasted no time trying to add to his weekend hat trick thankfully for hosts freiburg manual gould got back just in the nick of time. Having dodged a bullet with they were soon in the firing line again sharpshooter 11 duffs he rarely misses perfectly placed a proud in the cross from alfonso davis. But instead of pushing their advantage by and found themselves pressed back it wasnt for the heroics of goalkeeper manwell neuer freiburg could have been levelled at the break he might have told you that was a warning shot for what was to come just before the hour mark in chens grief smashed in equaliser. Hed already fluffed one volley in the 1st half this one wasnt too pretty either but it did the trick freiburg in the ascendancy and in spitting distance of a famous victory but in a team full of stars it was a relative unknown who stole the plaudits. 60 on as a sub to continue putting by him back in front in stoppage time the untouched man had only been on the pitch for 2 minutes some way to make an impact says gnabry added flattery to the scoreline with bae and. It would be the last kick of the gain. By and leading men ably propped up by the supporting cast. Now lets take a look at the bundesliga standings rb leipzig hung on to 1st place but only ahead of blood back on goal difference byan move up to said. And the bottom half from the relegation zone for the 1st time since match day 8 bremen meanwhile dropped down to the playoff spot. Germany has been marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall this year which led to german reunification one of the Big Questions facing german leaders back then was what to do with the vast quantity of files kept by the east German Secret Police the stasi in the end they were made available to the public heres a look back at that debate. 13 years ago east germans stormed the headquarters of the stasi there was they wanted to prevent the communist dictatorship secret police from completely destroying its archives here are in Supreme Court war with the question are we going to the place where the secret police plan the oppression of the people being there and helping to preserve the files its an experience i always remember. My daughter going to be out there today is the federal commissioner for the stasi archives his agency holds enough files to stretch for 111 kilometers as a journalist and civil rights activist he himself was put under surveillance spied on and filmed by the stasi until 989 just like millions of others the spying reached all the way to the top ranks and into the west one of the stances main targets was long term chancellor helmut kohl after the fall of the g. D. R. The German Government did not initially want to make the archives available to the public in an exclusive interview with g w the former chancellors widow micah clearly explains why this incident stuck there of questionable truth whats worse the stasi also added fake information to the files because they were created in order to spy on people to subdue people and to secure the continuance of the regime. But activists from the former east germany. Severe soon anyone could apply to look at his or her own files people were often astonished by what the stasi had known about them how much fun a long legal battle to prevent stasi files about himself from being released to academic researchers and journalists in the end a compromise was reached. For the stuff they thought i mentioned i thought it was the stasi violated our human rights by spying on citizens. Of course he collected that information and these files of course they should be protected these are. 30 years on more than 2000000 people have seen their files the identities of former stasi spies have been revealed. People who were wrongfully imprisoned were forced into working for the stanzi were rehabilitated. But how to treat the files in the future is still controversial. Theyre not a legitimate source this was always my husbands concern hed say the more distant people are from the g. D. R. Over time the less they will understand that the stasi files are not of a constitutional state that stopped since but one sees the archives as a key historic document this is the vision of these arkansas its important to expand these files by talking to witnesses of the time but also with other information. In a sense history is always made up of many different elements like a mosaic as there shouldnt be a static image of history these archives should contribute to a discourse on history i pod published that could take place here at the former headquarters of east Germany Secret Police and berlin a campus for democracy as in the planning it should be finished by 2021 and its hoped it will send a clear message that the tours to the can be overcome that theres a reason for hope and thats the message that can be learned from history also for future generations about to become aware that freedom and autonomy are not a given but instead they must be cherished and protected here at the shots and to shoot that report was part of the documentary tightrope act into dresden thats coming up right after the break its also online a d w dot com. Im told me a lot of authors are you watching the news coming to you from but to keep up you dont follow us on twitter on web site e. W. 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