Chiles camps and shanty towns the stock illustration of unocal the key driving mass protests against the government of president Sebastian Pinera. Im Anthony Howard welcome to the program we begin in washington where u. S. President donald trump has criticized the impeachment hearings calling them a disc rice and in the barracks mint is comments came as 2 senior officials who listened to trumps july phone call with these ukrainian counterpart a lot of missile lansky expressed their concerns about the conversation the former special envoy to ukraine could focus told the probe you should have realized that trump was holding up military aid to give to pressure the country to investigate political rival joe but. 1st to testify on tuesday 2 officials who listened in on that controversial phone call newton and Connell Alexander van man the Top White House expert on ukraine alongside Jennifer Williams an adviser to Vice President mike pence both told the panel they had concerns about the call
The demonstrations began over the weekend after the government announced a shop hike in the price of petrol. Prodemocracy activists activists trying to use the cover of darkness to escape on kongs Polytechnic University and divided wrist the territories chief executive says protesters still on campus must surrender to police to end the 3 day standoff. Levy in place and military have deployed ahmed vehicles to win the blockade of a magic gas plant by protesters demanding the return of former president evo morales us Officials Say one demonstrator was killed in the city of el al to the pats. This is news from berlin for more follow us on twitter at the doubly or visit our website they w dot com. For almost a decade the founder of wiki leaks julian a son when to extremes in the u. K. To avoid facing rape charges in sweden the time apparently worked in his favor today swedish authorities dropped the investigation one legal door closes another remains wide open the u. S. Wants the u. K. To
Spains 2 main left wing parties make a significant move towards ending the nations political deadlock. I. Holding out hope hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants in the u. S. Asked the top court to reverse President Trumps decision to kick them out. And in school Roger Federer is back on track at the a. T. P. Finals in london a win over my parents amy reviving his hopes of reaching the last i. Would in the past our former bolivian president evo morales has landed in mexico city after the government there offered him asylum he was greeted by the Mexican Foreign minister told the crowd waiting he had no plans. Retired from politics back in bolivia supporters of more or less have rallied in the city of el al told they believed he was the victim of a coup when all is resigned on sunday after weeks of protests following his disputed reelection and we have several correspondents covering this breaking news story from all angles today sub 0 is in alto which is a more or less strongh
Whole system of automatic Early Release was broken by that i need to know whether or not the parole board were involved. And thousands of protesters turned out in malta demands in the immediate resignation of the Prime Minister. Call have all your support and clearing signing off in style i will turn will be far right on the formula one stephen in our we debate action and reaction coming up. I am. But we begin in iraq where parliaments has approved Prime Minister Abdullah Abdullah matties resignation so attention that turns to who will replace and can that person put a stop to months of violence and government protests its now up to the largest parliamentary bloc to choose the next Prime Minister and submit their choice see president barham salih outgoing Prime Minister abdul mahdi handed in his resignation of course on saturday no news of his departure brought iraqis out onto the streets once again as they continue their Pressure Campaign pushing for a complete political overhaul reme
For some and a war criminal for others for lankas new president to go to buy others a part is sworn in but is he the white man to diffuse ethnic divisions and fix the economy this is inside story. Hello welcome to the Program Obama sure lankas new president is positioning himself as the strong man who can fix the nations most challenging problems promises by a good as a boxer to improve security and the struggling economy gain support of the ballot box but tickler from the scene had a buddhist majority but his swearing into Office Highlights the islands ethnic and religious split similar to his brother mahinda during his 2 terms as president many tamil and muslim voters reject the. Go to was defense secretary while his brother was president when the tamil tigers were defeated 10 years ago and the 26 year long civil war both accused of war crimes and muslims have faced hostility following that is there so side attacks that killed 263 people lets hear what the new president had to say th