new developments in washington as the impeachment inqury against president trump gathers pace. mr trump s dealings with ukraine are at the centre of the inquiry, and testimony has now emerged, from a senior american diplomat, who s told congressional investigators the president s personal lawyer ran a smear campaign against the former us ambassador to ukraine, to try to get her removed. george kent, who s in charge of ukraine policy at the state department, accused rudy guiliani of spreading what he called ‘lies‘ about marie yovanovitch. she was later recalled from her post. more on that and other developments from our north america correspondent david willis. firstly we should say that he testified last month but a transcript has only just testified last month but a transcript has onlyjust been made public. yes. and it is a long and comprehensive transcript. he gave a lot of evidence to that enquiry last month and george kent hitting the headlines today for that claim th
secretary of state mike pompei oh calls for a blow bill rejection of what he says is iran s nuclear extortion. and it s only becomes the 1st country in the world to make it mandatory to study climate change in public schools. and in schools some of the biggest stars in athletics it s been excluded from its premier competition world athletics announced a major overhaul of the diamond league and many high profile events have been dropped. the international criminal court has sentenced a former congolese rebel leader to 30 years in prison bosco ntaganda was convicted of 18 war crimes that including murder rape and using child soldiers to serious catherine sawyer reports now from one judge in the eastern democratic republic of congo. mada rape and conscripting children a soldier s offenses committed by. that along with other war crimes have led to him being sentenced to 3 decades in prison he ordered fighters to carry out attacks in the tora province over to yes in 200220032 driv
agree to a 100 day delay in forming a unity government. i mean our entire none of the top stories from europe including french police dismantle a migrant camp in paris home to thousands of people a day after the government announced tough new immigration rules. out in school some of the biggest stars in athletics to be excluded from the sports premier competition world athletics radically reshaped the diamond league and many high profile events have been dropped. the former national security adviser to the us president donald trump says he s willing to testify in the impeachment inquiry john bolton says that he ll defy the white house appear in federal court and testify he is reportedly going to talk about his alarm at the ukraine pressure campaign if a federal court clears the way for his appearance let s go live to washington now to syria s hadija castro can tell us more if that federal court allows him to work to testify what are the witnesses bulking going to make. well a
for the stork week this morning for a while and mr moss and i spent time. we were vividly reminds me did ride it on the highway in full separation it. would cause by the wall we saw guard towers bunkers remains of the very structure president reagan called as a scar of a wall i thought it was a bit of a walk down memory lane for me or memory or a memory struck. you could. you could say i saw a piece of history that i was a tiny little part of back in the late 1980 s. there was a plaque honoring american troops who protected peace and freedom in western europe i was proud to play that small role i think it s indicative of the incredible important relationship between our 2 countries over decades and decades and decades and decades as we move forward together as well as you said i caught him a little while a continue my visit here in leipsic will visit st nicholas church a sacred birthplace of german freedom. i ll talk with some of the brave demonstrators who 30 years ago helpe
hello good morning welcome just come on the clock here in moscow you re watching international 30 years ago the wall was torn reuniting east and west berlin and heralding the beginning of the end of the cold war where security is high today ahead of major celebrations across the country in berlin thousands are expected to take part in numerous events including a variety of exhibitions on the wars history but for those who can t attend his artesia with the story of. the berlin wall a symbol of the cold war and division a mind that separated the city families friends and changed berlin for the remainder of the 20th century 40 kilometers long at slice of the city and was erected on the night of august 13th 1961 1st it was just a barbed wire and concrete france where 12 checkpoints but it swiftly grew into the fortified version most know it today the checkpoints were reduced to 3 and crossing became all butt. impossible. imagine this a concrete wall 3.6 meters high and 1.2 meters