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Ambassador to ukraine has testified in the pietschmann inquiry into President Donald Trump ivanovich says she was shocked and devastated when she was removed as ambassador and said there was a Smear Campaign against her while she was giving her testimony the president launched a twitter attack criticizing her reputation and korea the current phase of the inquiry is set to wrap up by the end of this month after that its likely articles of impeachment the charge sheet against the president will be worse and there would then be a vote on whether to impeach public hearings though continue next week witnesses include Alexander Van men the National Security councils top. But he listened in on that telephone call between trump and ukraines president and also expecting to hear from Gordon Sunderland the u. S. Ambassador to the European Union following all of this for us castro live for us from capitol hill and i think the most extraordinary moment were all saying in this hearing came in that exchange between event of each and adam schiff when she was all still respond to twitter attacks from the president in real time thats right i mean talk about political theater mariyam this happened in americans living rooms and they were following along as this hearing was broadcast on Live Television and you know President Trump had said before hed be too busy to watch these impeachment inquiry hearings which really have his presidency at stake but today he apparently did have time to tune in at least for a little while and it was while maria juran of each was on the stand that trump on twitter wrote that wherever she went turned bad he was referencing the other ambassador post that she has had in somalia and other places prior to going to ukraine and that led to this very revealing an Interesting Exchange between the chairman of this impeachment inquiry hearing and you of on of it herself. Shown the courage to come forward today testified notwithstanding the fact you were a white house or state department not to notwithstanding the fact that as you testified earlier the president implicitly threatened you in that call record and now the president real time is attacking. What effect do you think that has an other witnesses willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing. Its very intimidating its a dime designed to intimidate is it not. I mean i cant speak to what the president is trying to do but i think the effect is to be intimidating and of course heidi President Trump has said up until now that hes not paying any attention to these hearings that hes not going to be watching it but today he admitted that he did shoot in for the 1st time whats his response to what weve heard today right wont because we saw this play out in real time there was just immediate fallout from democrats who saw that Exchange Read the tweet from trump and accuse trump of witness intimidation and theres was even talk of this was evidence to draft another article of impeachment more charges against him the president came out defending himself. And ill tell you about what tampering is tampering is when a guy like shifty shift doesnt let us have lawyers tampering is one shift as it let us have witnesses doesnt let us speak ive been watching today for the 1st time i started watching and its really sad when you see people not allowed to ask questions its totally nobodys ever had such horrible due process there was no due process and i think its i think its considered a joke all over washington and all over the world the republicans are given no due process whatsoever were not allowed to do anything its a disgrace whats happening. And the president says further that he had no intention to intimidate the witness and that he was simply expressing his freedom of expression now you vonnegut her purpose on the witness stand today was to really lay the scene of what happened that led up to trump making the call to the linsky in july asking for political investigations into trumps opponents she said that trumps private attorney Rudy Giuliani had been meeting with correct corrupt ukrainian officials and that between those 2 parties they made these what she calls a Smear Campaign against her claiming that she was against the trunk of ministration which she denies and that led to her ousting in late may which she said came out of nowhere and that she was told later by the state department that she had simply done nothing wrong republicans though zeroed in on the fact that you have on a bitch had departed from the policy making scene by the time that the call between trump was and lindsey rolls around and by the time that trump made the decision to temporarily freeze the 400000000. 00 of u. S. Security aid that was meant for ukraine democrats are saying he froze that that aide in order to pressure ukraine to investigate his rivals which trump has denied but you vonage didnt have any information to share about one way or the other republicans continually say that these impeachment inquiry witnesses thus far who have been in the public hearings have been unable to pinpoint the president in taking the blame for any of this thanks very much for the latest from capitol hill heidi. Joining me now is susan block a professor of law at Georgetown University shes previously testified before the House Judiciary Committee and the senate on matters of constitutional joins me now from washington so you really have a unique perspective on this you know what it feels like to be in that chair and certainly we saw today that for a number of hours what is your assessment of her testimony and how she came across in the hearing. Well i think she came across as very believable a very dedicated Public Servant and someone who was truly frightened by what was going on around her and what are your thoughts on the republican crossexamination of you than of it that efforts to undermine her testimony well. I think that it was hard to undermine it i think the most they could do is try and make it try and make it irrelevant but she was painting a picture of a campaign to get rid of her and a campaign that led apparently by giuliani to. Look at the ukrainians to look into the biden matter. And show she was. She said he came across as you say as clear and credible in what she had to say what was your what were your thoughts on the strange that took place between evanovich and adam schiff when President Trump started to tweet in those tweets were read and read aloud in real time and adam schiff said he wanted to know for the record that this is witness intimidation well it was. Dramatic she had just said that one of the reasons she was concerned when she was asked to leave her post was that she would. Face a twitter stream if she didnt leave she would face a tradition stream of. Sort of criticism from the president and as almost as she was saying that he tweeted a disparaging remark and it was a high drama i dont know exactly why he did that it i dont think it helped his cause. Weve heard so far in the cessna and. In the hearings so far it sought to highlight u. S. Policy towards ukraine and how that allegedly relates to the president s personal political ambitions but is there yet direct evidence evidence i should say of the direct role of the president in this. Well its there are a number of things that involve the president obviously giuliani is the president s lawyer so he has. Made he has urged investigations of biden and trump also seems to have asked for that with the call with the president of ukraine so it does look like he was withholding the aid that had been authorized by the congress he was withholding it to try and get the president of ukraine to help him in his personal reelection how difficult that is and i just ask how difficult is your inquiry going to be given that President Trump himself has refused to testify and is also preventing staff at the white house from doing so how important is it for a nest next weeks witnesses to to move it on in terms of direct oval office involvement or that sort of thing. Well i think the kind of information that theyre eliciting now and perhaps and again i think next week is showing that. Trump wanted to withhold this a in order to get the ukrainians to investigate biden so the and the problem with that is we shouldnt we shouldnt on our president to withhold allocated money for personal reasons whose reelection is actually. A personal. Effort on his part not in the interest of the United States all right well thank you very much for sharing your perspective on this with the susan block professor of law at Georgetown University joining us that of course has been another big story out of washington former advisor to the us president roger stone has been found guilty of 7 offenses including lying to Congress Obstruction and witness tampering some was charged earlier this year during the house of representatives intelligence committees investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election witness tampering carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison so lets cross live to Patty Culhane who is in washington interesting character. Roger stone he does you were saying earlier that hes described himself as a trickster and all of that about that the nixon tattoo patti what was his reaction to this verdict. He showed no reaction in court and yes just to explain he does have a picture of Richard Nixons face tattooed onto his back he worked for nixon and hes been considered he calls himself a dirty tricks or says he likes to play dirty in politics but he didnt say anything as he left the courtroom partially because he cant hes still under the gag order what this is all about is during the campaign the wiki leaks released those emails from the democratic server that have been hacked the Intelligence Community says by the russians well he went on social media and sort of said things are coming in indicated he had sort of behind the scenes knowledge so when congress was investigating potential russian interference they called him to testify he went and he said wasnt me i was just going off what this other guy said public reports i didnt actually coordinate with wiki leaks wild then because of the special counsels investigation he was charged with these 7 counts including obstruction of justice obstructing official proceeding and intimidating a witness they throughout the course of a pretty short trial had all of these witnesses come forward these emails these tasks that show he in fact was trying to coordinate between the wiki leaks and the campaign in fact one witness said that he actually called President Trump to inform him of what was coming so in 7 hours this jury returned this verdict the most serious as you mentioned intimidating a witness and just to show how potentially clumsy this whole thing was for stone to go before congress and said no emails no texts no phone calls he sent a note to one of the potential witnesses he used language from the godfather movie about the mafia and then threaten to basically take away his dog so again facing potentially up to 50 years in prison but the way federal prison sentences are handed out theres sort of a formula because its a nonviolent crime because its a 1st offense unlikely hes going to face those 50 years of course the question is is the president going to spare him any jail time which he could thank you very much from washington. Here at the news hour live from london much more still ahead. More protests in lebanon over reports a former finance minister accused of corruption and could be the next Prime Minister. After more than 6 years in an australian Detention Camp refugee journalist back was but charlie arrives in new zealand a free man. And his boy hear from chinas most successful swimmer whos fighting to save his career at a legal hearing switch. Now on friday and politicians agreed on a plan that is seen as the beginning of the end to the countrys crisis the queen paves the way for a referendum next year on a new constitution placing one that dates back to dictate a augusta pinochet its a climb down to meet the demands of protesters who have brought violent scenes to the countrys streets and clashes with Security Forces markets have reacted positively positively to the move with the chilean peso recovering from some historic lows. But i latin america editor lucien human is live in santiago so how important is this agreement to have a referendum on a new constitution for the country. For maryam it is a historic agreement theres no doubt about that it will be the 1st time that the chilean people themselves will be able to decide on their own Constitution Forward on it decide what goes into it and how many of this is extremely important not just the just start but because expelled the end of the beginning of the end of the constitution that anybody you ask almost of the same reeks of dictatorship it was stillborn it was imposed under a dictatorship and for many chileans it is the root of all evil it is the cause of many of the of the of the ills that affect the society a society that they say pays more attention it gives more power to people who have money. Than than to the to the masses and a state that does not guarantee the basic needs of the peoples will that is what it will have already this is supposed to be and it was one of the main demands on the streets the people that you see here were demanding a new constitution and now theyre going to get it even though the president had been refusing to give in to the idea of a referendum hes had are i dont have a constitution but it has to be decided by the congress that has been scrapped and now 2 years will be will be allayed allowed sorry to decide on 2 things whether or not they want us to. Be assembling the words everyone warm and will draft this this new magna carta it will be elected by the people or whether all the half of congressmen and a half of people voted by the people so thats the mechanism that will have to be voted on in 4 months time it will be very very interesting to see if the referendum results as weve had interesting experience of the referendum in this country doesnt seem to have dampened the determination of people to protest. No absolutely not and you can see people are marching mind the thousands up to be italia plaza which was renamed by some of the dignity plaza on thursday and thats just a few blocks from here because some people are not happy with this agreement believe it or not they say that there was an agreement made amongst politicians that have no legitimacy and they dont like the fact that crude could be passed for the for the for the new constitution to be approved it has had 2 thirds approval of the delegates in it and they say that that is too much so thats going to continue to allow the old political the need to govern or to influence what happened so theyre going to say they going to be out on the streets and that they want some results and some reforms immediately they cant wait for a new constitution in education pensions better salaries shall remain see less. People out of the city but it certainly wont put an end to the crisis immediately now thank you very much our latin america editor only see and human joining us there from a lively and well enthusiastic scene in santiago chile thank you micio. Now israels military paged on friday 10 best again the death of civilians in gaza after a strike targeting Islamic Jihad group there is hard force it is falling story now from gaza. In the early hours of thursday morning 3 simple bedouin homes stood next to fields here in central gaza in an instant they were blown apart in an israeli airstrike 8 members of an extended family were killed as they slept. Abu mohammed rushed here from a nearby refugee camp one of the surviving children had raised the alarm after trying to pull his siblings from the rubble. I dont blame you we look for bodies under the rubble for body parts everywhere we were looking for individual members of the family searching my name by name. In the hours after the attack israel said it had killed me whos been identified as a rocket commander in the military wing of Islamic JihadIsraeli Media Company the story with this image this man on the Islamic Jihad says was not one of its members his neighbors tell us the same thing they passes photos of a different man who they say belong to the demobilised Palestinian Authority police force a muslim. Nobody could believe it is a simple man a p. R. Employee he lived a simple life as you can see here. A cousin takes us to a nearby house where the surviving children are being looked after incredibly 11 of them survived the blast. Including fara just 2 months old found covered in sand under a piece of metal sheeting. That for now the children are being kept busy with everyone around supporting them but tomorrow when people go home theyll start to realize the calamity thats happened. 5 of these children siblings and cousins were killed in the blast along with. One of his 3 wives of a man who says brother a farmer also survived his wife was killed more in a day on here one of the things that really strikes you is that this junk between the sheer flimsiness of the materials from which these structures were built and the power of the weaponry that came here to destroy them israel is now saying that it was targeting empty buildings it was unaware that