Majority Parliament Convenes despite being dissolved while the president s supporters take to the streets. On a California Law that could pave the way for student athletes in the u. S. To get a share of the 1000000000. 00 industry of College Sports. Donald trumps presidency looks set to be engulfed in another political firestorm over reports that he asked a 2nd foreign leader for political help the New York Times says the u. S. President asked the australian Prime Minister to help the Justice Department investigate the miller inquiry which examined russian interference in the 26. 00 elections it comes as trump faces an impeachment inquiry over his dealings with ukraine democrats in the u. S. House and now demanding documents from his personal. Lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the wall street journal is reporting that u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei o is among those who listened in to the call between trump and the ukrainian President Trump asked for law to me as a lenski to investigate the son of his political rival joe biden well in a few moments well get the latest from australia the australian perspective from Andrew Thomas and city but 1st lets go to Patty Culhane in washington patty as weve been saying over the past few hours the case seems to be intensifying against the president but the president again and again along with those close to him saying theres nothing to see here and now new revelations that the president and a certain Prime Minister the Prime Minister australia have some dealings to. You know think about this its just been a matter of days since this news broke about this ukraine controversy and the democrats in the house that they were going to launch an inquiry and impeachment inquiry and it seems every single day since then theres been more revelations and now were seeing this with reports in the wall street journal New York Times the Washington Post which we are working to try and verify but what theyre saying is basically the tribe called up a few weeks ago the Prime Minister of australia Scott Morrison and asked him to help his attorney general william barr look into the origins of the russian bust occasion so theres the one thing that the impeachment is focused on which is the ukraine controversy this has to do with what has been bothering the president since he wanted action when it came out that the Intelligence Community had been looking at whether or not his campaign colluded with the russian government to interfere in the 2016 election so when he got his attorney general in william barr he said he wanted to investigation into how the investigation started and so now we know that the president himself reads out to the australian Prime Minister and now there are other reports that it didnt end there that william barr personally went over and asked the u. K. United kingdom for help and the people in italy these Intelligence Community and so why is this a big deal well it would be unprecedented think about this this is an attorney general the highest Law Enforcement officer in the United States asking the kids own countries allies to investigate his own Intelligence Services so that is of course going to be another thing for congress to look into as this looks like its going to continue to broaden. Weve been waiting for trumps lawyer Rudy Giuliani to speak on us t. V. Firstly has he spoken and whats he been saying. He has and perhaps not surprising this is very friendly territory for all trump confidants and friends and trump himself this is the right wing conservative cable news talk shows Sean Hannitys show one of the biggest cheerleaders of the president it is if youre watching it as if youre watching a bit of an alternative universe because the facts such as we know that you can biden push for the prosecutor in ukraine to be fired because he wasnt looking into corruption if you look at hannity show its all about the fact that he fired the prosecutor because he was looking at his sons company the company that is sunset on the board of so its not necessarily based in what we know as reality but it is a friendly place for Rudy Giuliani to go on and he did speak it was a bit rambling but it was really focused on mostly the wrongdoing that he alleges biden did which he didnt in fact do and as far as will he testify he said maybe if they did allow me to use by videotapes and my charts didnt go into what any of that meant so it didnt make any news but its once again Rudy Giuliani sending very mixed messages about what hes willing to do and again he might not be willing to testify but he might have to because he has actually gone on t. V. Another appearance and said im not the president s lawyer simply getting rid of all the client privilege so you didnt make any big news today but he continues to send the message that pretty much every time hes going to send a different message. Thank you very much wolf for more on the conversation of the dealings between President Trump and the Prime Minister australia lets cross over to Andrew Thomas whos live for us in sydney under the reaction been like way you are the revelations involving the australian Prime Minister. We havent heard from Scott Morrison the Prime Minister himself but a spokesperson for australias government essentially said this is all routine the leader of a friendly government also youve studied this government for help and inquiry i will Study Suggests of course well do what we can to help. Spokes person said this is training government has always been ready to assist incorporates with the efforts that help shed further lights on the matter is under investigation the pm Scott Morrison confirmed this readiness once again in a conversation with the president now back in may of this year when trump said that he was going to watch the attorney general so looking to the origins of the mother inquiry back then australias ambassador to the us we now know who sent a letter to the Us Government saying that then australias government would do all it can to help as well so all this is in a sense is a repetition of that private commitment given back in may but perhaps not surprisingly the opposition here in australia sees things rather differently in the last hour and now the maisie who is Scott Morrisons of labor rival to be Prime Minister of australia come the next election will he say that this is all very murky and that lots of questions need to be answered in terms of what australias Prime Minister has done and will answer the album easy terms his assistant is assistance in discrediting the investigation he says he doesnt want to strain as Prime Minister embroiled in what is essentially a domestic political issue within the United States he sees base inquiry that the attorney general in the us has launched as a political inquiry that Scott Morrison has got embroiled with and already Scott Morrison has come under fire for being much too close to president starting Prime Minister was in the u. S. Last week for a state visit that involved a month other things going up on stage in ohio and what looked like a Campaign Rally alongside president something along just quiet hail ready the studies Prime Minister its too close to President Trump and this would have here confirm that. In sydney thank you very much celebrations have begun in china marking 70 years since the communist party took power large parades are being held in beijing aimed at reflecting the countrys increased wealth and military strength. Chinas president xi jinping is making a speech lets have a listen to what he say we sincerely center best wishes to the peoples republic of china. On behalf of the c c p c National PeoplesCongress State council of the p. R. C. The National Committee of the Chinese Peoples political consultant of congress and the Central Military commission. 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You have been watching live pictures direct from beijing vast crowds there now to listen to the chinese president xi jinping the country is marking the countrys national day the foundation of the communist state in 1940 day 49 a day marked by huge parades as you can see but also a chance for china to showcase what the modern Country House to offer to the world he also talked about the need to keep the spirits of the founders of the communist state alive the spirit of chairman mao he said should remain a key vision for the country he also referred some warts to some of the criticisms perhaps of the countrys faced over its handling of the situation in hong kong he said that the one country 2 systems arrangement must remain alive and that unity was the main goal for the country going ahead well weve got correspondents in hong kong and beijing but lets go 1st to rob matheson whos standing by there in beijing rob an important day clearly for china a country thats been 3 massive changes since it adopted communism whats happening there in beijing what did you make of this rousing speech. Well in many ways this speech gave us nothing that we werent expecting already it was widely expected that president xi jinping was going to treat this as a rallying call for the people of china to get behind his presidency and also get behind the communist party of china and the government of china he made reference to it was the intention to continue to satisfy peoples needs for a better life perhaps an indication that the economy the state of the economy is very much on the minds of the Chinese Government at the moment back in the 2nd quarter of 29 t. The chinese economy for the 1st time started to slow down its slowdown of expansion about c. Point 2 percent compared to 6. 4 percent at the start of the year and now that may not like to see much of a drop but for china its significant it was the 1st time in 27 years that chinas economy has actually slowed down very slightly this is of extreme concern to the government it wants to maintain the impression that is in charge of a successful economy and that the Chinese People are benefiting from having the communist party and the beijing government and president xi jinping in charge but it was interesting also what you mentioned before the references to being peaceful united and. Heading towards the development of the one country 2 systems for hong kong and macau as well thats another of chinas special territories now obviously hong kong is proving to be a significant embarrassment for president xi jinping but also the Chinese Government at this time particularly when these anniversary celebrations are going on in a speech he made last night elected to the anniversary president xi jinping insisted that there would be a continuation of autonomy and he said that hong kong people would continue to govern hong kong but whether or not china steps in to take action if the protests were seeing him call on continue over the next few weeks is of course yet to be seen thats something that people are speculating on a lot at the moment but interestingly and just finally this also is of course a message towards taiwan because china views taiwan very much as part of its territory taiwan does not want to be associated with china but again china wants to implement the one country 2 systems plan in taiwan as well taiwan is rejecting that partly because it is seen what has been going on in hong kong so this again perhaps an appeal or a statement made towards taiwan as well to say that this system can still work. Robin in beijing thank you very much lets bring in scott hyde learn whos live for us in Hong Kong Scott as you heard there from from robert a message perhaps from president she jeeping that the one country 2 systems arrangement will remain that unity is the main goal of the Chinese Government how do you think that kind of message of unity will go down there in hong kong given the weeks and weeks of protests that weve seen. Well you can imagine that the other protesters absolutely disagree with those statements and those statements you know that particularly the unity message that shes in pain delivered as rob was saying that is something that has been really a focal point of his ruling he has always focused on that hes always focused on the one china and the so that is something thats not new but obviously yes reiterating it today again on the 7th anniversary of the founding of the peoples republic of china will not sit well with the protesters here was Something Else that was interesting you know in the building behind me there was a ceremony a flag raising ceremony marking t