In front of his home crowd the world number one showing his fighting spirit to help spain and france to the davis cup semifinals. We begin this news in the u. S. Where the state department has released records related to its dealings with ukraine that a 100 page document was made public after a freedom of information request by an ethics watchdog it confirms multiple contacts between secretary of state mike pump a. O. And Donald Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani earlier this year the exchanges took place in the months before but then the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie you have out of it was recalled it supports testimony at the impeachment inquiry that senior officials were in the loop on efforts to pressure kiev into investigating trumps rival joe biden lets go live to washington d. C. John hendren is more is there john what more do we know about these documents how did they come to light. Adrian we are still going through these documents that came out in a civil lawsuit against
Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. We begin with the Third Straight day of public hearings this week in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Today house investigators will question david holmes, a state Department Official, and fiona hill, a former Top National Security Council Expert on russia. Their appearance follows yesterdays blockbuster testimony by gordon sondland. The ambassador to the eu implicated President Trump in a quid pro quo scheme to pressure ukraine to investigate the bidens. Skyler henry is on capitol hill. The thing about the testimony is that President Trump was not the only one implicated during yesterdays hearing. Reporter yeah, good morning to you. Several members of the trump administration, to use ambassador sondlands word, were in the loop on this. That includes Vice President mike pence, secretary of state mike pompeo, and acting chief of staff mick mulvaney. All of
In the turkish city istanbul. Its the morning in sydney, and people are waking up to what authorities are calling a catastrophic threat its the morning in sydney, and people are waking up of dangerfrom bushfires thats the highest level of warning. And the day coming is predicted to be the worst since these fires began several weeks ago. Hot temperatures and strong winds in New South Wales are the reason why this threat level is being used in sydney. There are bush fires in queensland too. And we already know how desvtasting these fires can be. These are pictures from the last week. New south wales is already under a state of emergency. That gives the fire Service Special powers to evacuate property and turn off power. Fire crews have come from all over australia and new zealand to help. The fires escalated on friday. 150 homes were destroyed and three people died. This footage gives you a sense of the danger people and Fire Fighters are facing. This crew is completely surrounded by fla
Or still in latin america a former alice leading in bolivias president ial election but the incumbent faces a historic 2nd runoff against his main opponent in december early results show south americas longest serving leader is ahead of his rival carlos message but he hasnt won enough votes to secure the presidency outright needs 50 percent of the vote for that or as is confident of winning a 4th term in office. We won once again 4 consecutive elections weve won in bolivia historical and president. Ever i was speaking outside the president ial palace which is where john holeman is now in la paz has this gone as much as something can go in an election as expected john. I think its still going actually you heard up. Is it an eval more or less there and you can see here is the ports as well they just start now but they were sort of celebrating his if this was a win but hes saying Something Different than the results are indicating what he said in his speech 2 was that hes going to wait fo
Believe to be. Sorry syrian fighters these are the Free Syrian Army fighters that have created a full frontal despite fighting alongside the turks they effectively surrounded that city that was besieged. For well over a week so there were huge concerns for the civilians trapped inside a great relief that they are out now but what were made to be seen and what needs to be attention. To be focused upon is the fact that the president or the one wants this has proposed a safety zone to be 440 kilometers along the border and around 30 kilometers deep inside syria what we understand is that according to the s. D. S. They had agreed to withdraw all their fighters from russell line to tell labia which effectively is around 120 kilometers in distance between the 2 so were having some analysts estimating that only around the very most 25 percent of the area within that proposed safety so. As to force these have moved out from that area when you have threats from president obama saying that effec