west coast president donald trump arrives in california to visit areas ravaged by the blaze it's locals pointing to a warmer planet but blames the fires on poor forest management. and is there life on venus scientists have found what might be our 1st clue. i'm in tilton welcome to the program we begin in the u.k. where british lawmakers have given their initial approval to a controversial new brecksville despite concerns that it breaches international law . and he's in the house of commons back to the u.k. internal market billed by 340 votes to 263 clearing the way for further debate over the next 2 weeks the bill gives the government power to override parts of the parts . withdrawal deal agreed with the european union just last year. again these countries that's. a british reporter jill dougherty joins us now and he's been following that vote in the u.k. parliament so joel walk us through this here what exactly is the significance of today's vote but with this bill boris johnson and his conservative government have given themselves the power to override the terms of that withdrawal agreement that they reached with the european union and if they go ahead and use those powers they will be breaching an international treaty and therefore breaching international law boris johnson says he doesn't actually want to intend to use these powers but he says they are necessary in case they go with the european breakdown and that could leave northern ireland operating under a different trading agreement and arrangement then the rest of the united kingdom effectively cutting northern ireland off from the rest of the country in terms of trade we can hear now what boris johnson had to say in the house of commons it's a protection it's a safety net it's an in an insurance policy and it is a very sensible measure so we kind of have a situation where the very fundraise of our country could be dictated by a foreign power international. british prime minister government no part of it could ever accept such i think this but what's stunning irony is that this british prime minister this government in this parliament did accept the exact those exact terms when signed this withdrawal agreement back in january boris johnson was in charge of the negotiations of this deal he won an election on the back of this do you he even prevented the house of commons from scrutinizing this bill and now he says it's a bad deal we can hear now from the opposition labor spokesman ed miliband. it's time to fess up either he wasn't straight with the country about the deal in the 1st place or he didn't understand it because madame de p. spica a competent government would never have entered into a binding agreement with provisions that could not live with and if the government somehow missed the point but would. it would have done what any competent business would do after it realized they can't live with the terms of a contract it would negotiate a way out in good faith and that's why if you speak up this is also unnecessary. so why are we seeing this about face in this deal now well you could say that word phase 2 of bragg's at phase one was the referendum now phase 2 is this interim period in which the status quo is kind of maintained up until the end of this see a december 31st that's when stage 3 should kick in the permanent long lasting relationship between the u.k. and police brigs that europe so with this phase 2 and phase 3 however it's a bit tricky to get between those 2 and that involves negotiations which is where we're at at the moment those negotiations are stuck we've been hearing increasingly acrimonious comments from both sides saying that we're lacking progress and so this can be seen as a negotiation tactic the u.k. is trying to shut it tell the e.u. that is prepared to rewrite trade agreements ok let's let's focus on the prime minister here for just a 2nd it's even facing any type of opposition because of his turnaround on this deal well he faced some opposition from his own pays around 8 percent of them decided not to vote with this a bill some form of conservative prime minister spoke out against it including tories and made a former pm who stood up in the house of commons a few days ago and said how can the u.k. expect any other global partners to take it seriously when we rip up trade agreements and that's going to be increasingly important because the u.k. needs more trading partners in the 1st threads of the landscape so what happens next well this bill still has to go through a few more parliamentary phases and then it has to go to the house of lords so we haven't heard the end of it and we're still yet waiting to hear from an official response from the european union as to this latest escalation all right joel we have to leave it there but thanks as ever for keeping us up today. u.s. president donald trump is in california where he plans to see firsthand the devastation caused by massive wildfires along the west coast. the president has been meeting with firefighters and emergency officials in the north of the state who've been struggling to control record blazes that have devastated 20000 square kilometers of land has blamed the fires on poor forestry management and a failure to clear cut deadwood accusations many local officials reject and while talking to those officials made an apparent joke about climate change. it will start getting cooler i was just you just watch i wish. i knew how to think science knows i actually. corresponded as if is in sacramento california i mean good to see you so tell us why did trump come to sacramento high and yeah this was an unexpected visit now he did not plan to come to california at this leg of his campaign but he did so anyway and the reason is because the california wildfires were making headlines around the world now like i said he didn't plan to come here because california is very heavily democratic state he doesn't expect to win this state anyway but i think he realized that that now is the time to come here and show that he has the situation under control but a bit of a mixed message there because he seemed to be making light of the connection with climate change which climate scientists say is the reason why these fires and this catastrophe here in the state is unprecedented trump has faced blistering criticism for his handling of the wildfires what are people there saying about his visit today. well you know the trump supporters came out to see air force one land so there was several 100 people at the airport to greet him warmly but i don't know if that reflects the state again california is a heavily democratic state a lot of people in california and sacramento in particular are still a bit angry about his comments this year and last year blaming california for mismanaging its forest and saying that that's the reason why they're having forest fires which many scientists disagree with but there were also people who showed up at the airport to protest some people from a black lives matter movement but also just to trump's critics. all right and briefly if you could there have been some reports of cars crashing into a trunk protesters what do you know about that. that's right protesters were blocking the roads and instead of waiting for them several cars at least 2 cars drove into crowds to make their way through and one police car even tossed a protester off the roof there was multiple injuries there so we're following that story all right. reporting for us from sacramento thank you let's take a look now at some other stories making news around the world. people along the u.s. gulf coast are bracing for the arrival of hurricane sally forecasters saying it could make landfall in louisiana and mississippi as a category 2 storm it's expected to bring heavy rain and flooding into areas including new orleans sally is the 2nd hurricane to threaten the region in less than a month. doctors in berlin treating russian opposition figure alexina volleys say his condition has improved and that he's now able to get out of bed for short periods of time the german government says labs in sweden and france have now confirmed german findings that novell and he was poisoned with the soviet era nerve agent nova chuck. and some other bees is holding its 1st ever hip hop auction featuring around 120 artifacts from the 1970 s. up until the 1990 s. among the items on the block the crown worn by new york rapper biggie smalls in a photo shoot just days before he was shot dead in a feud that also took the life of tupac shakur. astronomers have to texted signs of what could be life on the planet venus researchers have discovered a gas called phosgene high in the atmosphere that may have been produced by living organisms scientists are cautioning that the presence of phosgene does not prove the existence of life on earth next door neighbor nevertheless nasa officials are describing the study as the most significant development yet in the search for an alien life. let's bring in dr sara seager she's an astronomer and professor at the massachusetts institute of technology and one of the co-authors of that study dr seager thanks for joining us tonight so what exactly were you able to detect well we were able to detect the gas. at tiny concentrations of 20 parts per 1000000 in the genus atmosphere. all right and walk us through exactly what that means what is fostering gas and why does it show that there might be potentially life in the unit the news in the atmosphere osteen is made of phosphorus atom and 3 hydrogen atoms and it shouldn't be present at all and venus is atmosphere we only find foss being in nature so to speak i'm jupiter and saturn they have lots and lots of hydrogen and they also have high temperatures and pressures in the bottom of the atmosphere so one of venus without hydrogen and without the kinds of temperatures and pressures needed to find fostering it shouldn't be there furthermore you know on earth phosphate is only associated by life it's either made by us humans or it's found associated with bacteria that live in oxygen free environments like swamps and wetlands and animal guts all right and when it comes to the search for extraterrestrial life star has been false indications of life on planets and other planets before so what's different this time well we're really pretty early in the process we have found phosgene gas and it doesn't long in venus's atmosphere we really have 2 possibilities one is that it's produced by some unknown chemistry something that you know we exhaustively searched through all possible chemistry and didn't find any easy way to make crossing so it can either be some new chemical process or it might be produced by life and honestly both of those explanations are equally crazy really so we have to do more work to see which one it might be alright venus is a famously inhospitable planet do we know if that where these microbes could be living if they actually exist at all. yes well the surface is incredibly hot it's way too hot for life of any kind but above the surface around 48 around 50 to 60 kilometers above the mrs surface there's a sweet spot where the atmosphere is cool it's actually just the right temperature temperature for life all right so when it comes to your research what exactly are the next steps well 1st i just want to add that even in this relatively temperate like this good temperature layer this is atmosphere is still incredibly harsh the clouds are not like our earth clouds made of liquid water but they're made of a very harsh chemical called liquid sulfur york acid so it's going to be challenging for life to survive in venus atmosphere to next step we'd like to confirm the presence of gas using other ground based telescopes than the one we used to detect it but ultimately we'd like to see a space mission go to the us and go into the atmosphere directly to look for other gases and molecules that might indicate life and even perhaps to search for life itself all right dr sara seager well to leave it there thank you for joining us this evening thank you for writing turning to sports now dortmund dominated duisburg and their 1st round fixture of the german cup on monday 17 year old new signing jude bellingham was among the top scorers in a 50 win earlier newly promoted bundesliga side armenia bielefeld were knocked out by ehsan dressin defeated hamburg and hanover got the better of its book. and before we go let's take a look at some mountain biking here in germany not in the mountains but in an abandoned quarry. after months away from the sport because of coronavirus restrictions fat tire riders from across europe got together to practice socially distance tricks in a radically transform setting competitors manage a couple of 1st in the competition including the 1st ever backflip bar spins a cliffhanger. you're watching g.w. news live from berlin and there will be more international headlines at the top of the hour and don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site that's t w dot com you can also follow us on twitter and instagram at t w news i'm aaron sultana berlin thanks for tuning in. after. a meal and i'm good welcome to the 2nd season of on the fence. the planet on the brink of disaster we did long in-depth interview experts about one question how all of the changes that have only the effects. of. social networks never forget. so i searched in my personal archives. 2012. march. had i liked or shared the most viral video in history 100000000. views in just 6 days. my name is jason russell and this is my son. it was the story of a young american director jason russell who hoped his 30 minute video would facilitate the capture of a new torrijos war criminal in central africa. joseph coney. this is the guy just tony. the battle. for 26 years tony has been kidnapping children into his rebel. turning the girls into sex slaves. the video was meant to shock outrage people's faces. to bring joseph kony to justice russell even set up a private n.g.o.s called invisible children. internet campaign kone 2012 was a runaway success. among those who circulated the video for a few of my friends. until recently i had forgotten all about the video and about joseph koni himself. then 2 journalists from our team entrusted me with this hard drive with footage shot in africa in 2014. the starting point for my investigation. i set out in pursuit of the most infamous war criminal on social networks and of invisible children begin g.-o. that want to stop them my 1st port of call was good in northern uganda joseph coney's native region. i took the same roads that the directors of kone 2012 took and met the same people. former child soldiers of the n.r.a. the brutal rebel group headed by joseph kony. from the late 1980 s. the warlord raided villages here to replenish his ranks with new recruits. it was. frightening. in the morning when they came to our village. i would definitely name. and the 2nd night i was given some simple training music done and i think that. whether i like it or not i don't. know so i have to tough and i said. the 3 filmmakers from invisible children turned up here in gulu in 2003. i was able to track down the woman who served as their guide at the time. and then i want a lot of charity organizations and i went to the u.s. to talk about the war than uganda and i started telling how i was a for much i was sold and then how many kids of being abducted here and that is where i received a lot of people. well they're ignorant about the war and when the boys so i always called in the boys i'm sorry but when the filmmaker has sold this story. they contacted me and said definitely i would see this story of how they wanted to talk aboard the car and they said wait a minute you want to talk a book war is a war with no then uganda. but because they were naive to. i drove with them to the north. they were not in full gear so russian. was what if i'm ever. going to be with children. and that's how everything started. what they did they made a lot of small videos about. some of the victims of the war. and of course the final the 12 documented was going to 12. bringing it out in top 10 minutes. a war that had lasted for more than 20. many people even looked like a joke. since then the ninety's kids have grown up and they're in geo is now based in washington like all successful mafias. like because it's just good just when it's just the year before i could talk to the president of invisible children you can let me know if my hair will be a problem at any point and i need to know that. there was an endless back and forth of negotiations in 24 teams my colleagues request for an interview was declined it took dozens of. emails and months of waiting before i got the green light. to new remember what its was the objective of the greens as well as the deal and part of my 6100000000 people have now was the main objective in the campaign was to push the us government to remain committed to implementing its counter eller a strategy and then the deployment of the advisors was an outcome of that strategy ready for the videos explicit aim was to provoke the us into sending troops after coni. train track him in the fast jungle in order to find him the us government has to deploy them that's where the american advisors come in not for self defense but because it was right. politically speaking it was hugely successful. hugely successful not really 2 years before coney 2012 became a global internet sensation invisible children was already lobbying the oval office as this photo from 2010 clearly shows. the greatest small number of u.s. forces i ordered the small number of american advisors to help uganda and its neighbors pursue the l.r. the removal of joseph kony from the battlefield sincerely. it's just a small step from garnering likes to dispatching troops. in the 21st century a video can start a war. but that's the americans helicopter visibility or says the videos on my hard drive document at the u.s. operation it featured some members of the 100 strong special forces team deployed by obama. may we have just a question with you because we just wanted to understand no no photos to go on camera or are there going i don't know. somewhat surprisingly and invisible children camp can be seen on the footage. surprising because my colleagues shot the material in 2014 in the eastern central african republic by then it had been almost a decade since joseph coney's militia had abandoned their base in uganda. the remnants were holed up somewhere in a vast neighboring area between the democratic republic of congo south sudan and the central african republic. here in obo hundreds of kilometers east of the war torn capital bangui is where the americans claimed that coney and his troops were hiding. on the ground my colleagues realized that not only was invisible children behind the deployment of u.s. army advisers the american n.-g. o. was also hosting military meetings. specifically for the u.s. special forces directing operations in the hunt for kone and their allies the ugandans who are carrying out their orders now we can and good. morning. carol in a way colonel eberly only measure of the u.s. forces that were. in regional towns course in the el rey bring in the ellery. they will hear our message 3 today and you know there's time to talk about. this next few weeks so it's free yes. thanks to. he's still in the bush right but his organization is coming out of the bush it's as you know this is a gigantic area here and to find one person that does not want to be found is very difficult. fast forward 4 years by now the u.s. operation was over the army advisers had returned home having failed to capture kone. but why end a manhunt when the target is still at large. had the most powerful army in the world been looking in the wrong place. or did the mission have other objectives. my family remained mostly in uganda. the father was prime minister. until that government it so it was overthrown by the. ecu. up to 6 years of intervention right they didn't get it right where they even looking for him of course not they were not looking for corn and in fact it's hard to say it's even a success or failure since i believe 100 percent that was never the objective anyway. this operation was cost more than $700000000.00 is that possible it only makes sense if that money was going to finance another i gent. who are the soldiers we filmed in 2014. what was the true nature of their mission. they were there under the banner of the pentagon's africa command africa. but it's not only a military command. according to this recently declassified internal document afrikan comprises both military personnel and civilians protecting u.s. interests in africa is one of its goals. which interests diplomatic and military but also economic financial as well as intelligence above all africa operates in the gray zone between traditional war and peace. africa this meant to intervene in a humanitarian role so that is the official narrative. but the more geo political narrative is that the u.s. would be able to start sneaking in u.s. forces through uganda and then spread it into the region to counter other interest in africa. in 2014 the people of oboe rarely saw u.s. army rangers on patrol. what they did see though was their aircraft their helicopters and their drones. to break up and going to. get. really an inkling out that you know. there are other things. going on here. without the excuse of hunting down a war criminal the u.s. military would never have been allowed to conduct an airborne operation over such an unstable strategic area. thanks to operation kone it was able to map the area and install g.p.s. beacons. or in military terms gather intelligence.

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