Managed by for our part. This is news live from perth in germany to Russian Diplomats of an alleged murder plot. This was the victim a former kitchens Rebel Commander gunned down in broad daylight in a building and prosecutors suspect russian State Involvement moscow says he will retaliate also coming up. Fresh ammunition for u. S. Democrats in a drive to impeach President Trump legal scholars tell us the trump committed
Impeachable Offenses by pressuring ukraines president for his own political gain and i. Believe its wrapped up a contentious anniversary meeting in london with a show of unity thanks great to spend more on the fence and a greed that china is a major brits deficients within the alliance from night and frustrations with u. S. President trump would like big. Im Anthony Howard thanks for joining us a Murder Investigation here in berlin is now a full blown demick diplomatic route the storm between germany and russia it began with the killing of former Chechen Rebel commande
crime including his political background the be torn to. pieces. we ve moscow still refusing to cooperate in the investigation criticism of russia and the west is getting around to let s talk more about this with you political correspondent kate brady here in the studio with us and sure we re in moscow good day to both of you keith this investigation is still ongoing but at this point what can you tell us about why a german prosecutors believe moscow was behind this kill well prosecutors have said so far that there is sufficient evidence to indicate that this killing could have been carried out by russia or chechnya and so if we look at just some of the circumstances even though the suspected perpetrator 49 year old russian national and he had actually already previously be wanted in a different mode a case in russia also very similar to a case in which the victim was shot during a drive by shooting which was also carried out by a man on
the suspected killer is a 49 year old russian currently in custody moscow denies any involvement in the killing. the investigation is underway in germany we don t have anything to say because we don t possess any information relation of this incident have to the russian authorities these are absolutely groundless assumptions. germany s interior minister. told reporters the investigation was ongoing. in germany there was a criminal process that deals with this kind of thing and in the case of a crime of this magnitude and with this background i can anything to be attorney general that he has taken it all noise that say something about the significance of this crime including his political background with the. with moscow still refusing to cooperate in the investigation criticism of russia
of britain s. would not go still refusing to cooperate in the investigation criticism of russia in the west is getting louder the journalist who played a key role in revealing how this murder may have been a political hit job ordered by russia run to brush it off in a train chief of the russian fact checking website the insider told e.w. he has no doubt that russian authorities were involved in this case we have now such. evidence actually russia was involved as a state for example his name. to go from all the databases all these databases and also with so that. let s free up the group just lauder in moscow. he wasn t in prison for some reason he got great passport travel abroad so all of this all of this there was 100 percent russian authorities at least helped him and forcibly were the main agonize over all
in germany there was a criminal process that deals with this kind of thing and in the case of a crime of this magnitude and with this background can anything to be attorney general that he has taken it s almost say something about the significance of this crime including his political background would he be total. agreement. with moscow still refusing to cooperate in the investigation criticism of russia in the west is getting louder. the russian government says it had nothing to do with that murder point here in berlin let s bring in now journalist political commentator constantine. constantine it s good to see you i want to ask you about what we heard today from vladimir putin s spokesperson so you said that russia knows nothing about this case and had nothing to do with it.