down but to turn one of our top stories the impeachment investigation into u.s. president onil trump there have now been subpoenas issued let s go to our alan fisher is live in washington d.c. so allan president trump is unary clear that there s at least net right now he s not going to cooperate so what are democrats doing about that. of course donald trump has been famous throat to his administration for any time he gets requests for documents from the democrats who took over the house of representatives and therefore oversight responsibilities at the beginning of this year that he said no he has built that store and wall he s decided that he s not going to give them any information whatsoever now the democrats said they wanted details of the phone call with ukrainian president they wanted all the information surrounding that the white house is essentially seeing that s not going to happen and saw the subpoenas have been issued that means they re legally obliged to do that n
board but what mr johnson is proposing is an inverse of that so the european union will hates it but chances are looking at the numbers he might get the parliamentary numbers in the house of commons in london to get it to fly. well i doubt he ll get numbers in a westminster i think that is a mountain that he counts 5 and that s why he s looking for an election before this is is sorted out but but it s correct to say as your previous speaker highlighted that the order in ireland is extremely difficult to achieve the troll and it s impossible really to imagine any any workable d alternative arrangement to the backstop that might we retain the status quo while allowing the united kingdom to leave the customs union single market and that s been at the heart of the problem when there are over 300 crossings between northern ireland and the republic of ireland if you compare that to the eastern flank of the european union if you go to the baltic sea for example to the black sea the
military aid about 4 $100000000.00 to ukraine and apparently that caused some confusion among u.s. diplomats ambassador bill taylor who was of the embassador to ukraine said are we now saying that sect that security assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigation he wrote that in a text the answer came from ambassador to the e.u. gordon sunderland who is a trump supporter and was a donor prior to his appointment he said call me bill taylor pressed forward a few days later saying i think it s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign then suddenly and immediately responded bill i believe you are incorrect about president trump s intentions the president has been crystal clear no quid pro quo of any kind so as you see that last statement is what trump has been pointing to in these text messages changes as. his own defense but it s notable kemal that when ambassador sunland sent that and sent that text it was just as whistleblow
thirty seven years in power. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up dramatic video of the rescue of a north korean soldier who was shot while escaping across the border into the south . verdict you in the war crimes trial of former bosnian military leader. accused of genocide in the one nine hundred ninety. and increasing concern in the search for submarine missing for almost a week. we begin with the resignation of zimbabwe s president robert mugabe who stepped down after thirty seven years in power it s box scenes of jubilation across the country with large crowds filling the streets in celebration of reports in the capital harare. jubilation on the streets of harare across the country that robert mugabe rule for thirty seven years while to liberation was maybe even days. news demagogy was stepping down came as both houses of parliament sat in an extraordinary session to debase the president s impeachment to speak at the speed of the session and told m.p. s that h
on my way to work the chase and thought i was going to be late to work that we so this person lead officers on a slow speed pursuit for several counties and a person was arrested in the oakland hills. new information on this ongoing story. they gave us the name of the man. he is from berkeley and is facing charges of evading police and driving under the influence. i am a little perplexed because the individual was driving so slow why didn t they try to stop it sooner or box and then? reporter: chp says because the car was traveling so slow under 40 miles per hour and because they had spike strip to the car and the tires are mostly out only one left and because at that time of the morning there were very few cars and about and really any pedestrians they decided to let this go on as long as it did. the very slow long pursuit began in menlo park officers tried to pull him over because they believed he appeared intoxicated. the driver reversed the vehicle almost hitting the