A prominent businessman in connection with the murder of investigative journalist daphne sia the man and his yachts were detained by the military all apparently trying to escape the un. Plus find out about the lessons that penguins can teach us about Climate Change the antarctic is a keeper all matter for measuring the impact of Climate Change well take a look at the researchers at work at the bottom of the work. Im burnt off to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin in the United States a key witness in the impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump has describe. I beheld the white house made military aid to ukraine conditional on ukraine announcing an investigation into trumps political rival americas ambassador to the European UnionGordon Tsonga says that there was a clear quid pro quos in the president s push to get ukraine to investigate the son of Corporate VicePresident Joe Biden and his links to Ukrainian Energy company. Ambassador songlines testimony came on the 4th day have public impeachment hearings a white house meeting between trump and ukraines president was also on the table here is part of songlines testimony that he delivered as i testified previously mr giulianis requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house visit for president selenski mr giuliani demanded that ukraine make a Public Statement announcing the investigations of the 2016 election d. N. C. Server and the recent mr giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the United States and we knew these investigations were important to the president. Our it was screwed in washington bring in our correspondent over salad hes covering this story for skinny to you oliver i mean what we heard today was damning damning testimony against the u. S. President how much was the president damaged by this today. Well it sounds very damaging brand to the testimony of former you. Gordon sunland here on capitol hill because what he confirmed is essentially what the democrats were hoping for that there was the socalled or now in famous quit pro quo that President Trump and his administration pushed for investigations against trumps political rival joe biden in exchange for military aid worth hundreds of millions of dollars and best arsalan confirmed this was the case he also said that basically large parts of the administration as well as president private lawyer Rudy Giuliani knew about it they all were on the same page today also adam schiff the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who was basically leading the impeachment inquiry said that this was a Pivotal Moment in the history of the impeachment inquiry and the biggest challenge remaining for the democrats is to bring this message to the American Voters to the public because ass off now all the supporters and opponents of the impeachment inquiry a still staying very much behind party lines behind party lines despite that the republicans certainly cant be happy with what they heard today has there been reaction from the republicans. Although republicans certainly are not and what theyre trying to do is basically their strategy is to raise doubt about the credibility of these witnesses theyve done that in all the recent hearings and theyve done it today again when they asked him better song and whether or not he spoke directly with the president whether the. President directed him personally to push for investigation and of course he had to say no because he only spoke to the president s lawyer so that is basically their line of defense the democrats are trying to make clear that bester sont len has been a lifelong republican he served under george w. Bush still they believe he has a high level of credibility and theyre certainly trying to capitalize on that President Trump also made a stance and he is saying that he doesnt even know. That he joined the Administration Quite late and therefore also joining in the line of defense of the republican party. Hard to believe that the president would say that considering the president had to nominate mr song to be the ambassador all right all over salads reporting from capitol hill all over thank you. But heres some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world britains Prince Andrew says that he will step back from public duties for the foreseeable future hes been embroiled in controversy over his friendship with the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein epstein was found hanged in a new york prison cell 3 months ago the standoff between police and prodemocracy protesters at a Hong Kong University appears to be winding down with police sealing off possible escape routes including sewers they say that they want to arrest several dozen activists who are still barricaded inside campus buildings more than a 1000 people have been arrested since monday. Riot police in zimbabwe have attacked the supporters of the Opposition Movement for Democratic Change a crowd gathered in the capital harare to hear a speech by m. D. C. Leader Nelson Chamisa he later said that the incident showed that the government is afraid of public anger about the countrys collapsing economy. Our to the middle east in israel a 3rd election within a year looks increasingly likely tonight bibi gun has announced that he has not been able to form a new government guns he heads the opposition blue and white party had until midnight on wednesday to form a governing coalition under a president ial mandate but he has told israels president that he has had no success persuading other parties to support a minority government Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu has also tried and failed to form a government. Correspondence on ukraine but shes in jerusalem on the story for us tonight good evening to you. Betty gods hes just declare that hes unable to form a government and whats been the problem for him. Well there have been many problems on the way behind many guns speaking tonight giving his statement handing back his monday to some hours early ahead to the midnight but what he basically said is that i mean he very well noted at the rotas wanted to liberal brought unity government there was one problem thats when you netanyahu he kind of accused netanyahu to hold the country hostage to you know not. Going away from his block of National Trend nationally and religious parties that netanyahu had formed just right after the last election they had 255 seats to sort of the 61 and netanyahu would have needed to form a national right Wing Coalition government that was one of the main problems the other problem into his flaws as ever tayshaun of such a unity government it would have been a retainer a premiership and there was disagreements who would go 1st and also what would happen if the acting Prime Minister netanyahu would a possibility of be indicted on the way. Mr gunn said he had made far reaching compromises but at the end it didnt work out and you would now focus on the coming weeks what step to come you know what you know what is going to happen next. Well now the monday it was given back to the president and he would hand it now and thats quite interesting to the parliament now x. E. Podium and members have now 21 days and any of those members of knesset could now say. They are able to form a Coalition Government if they get those 61 seats together to form subsequent ison government. And the guns has said you know there was still be and talks and also Prime Minister netanyahu that would still be talks and you know how they were trying to get a unity government together but thats highly unlikely so it looks more likely that we might have for another the action asserts election after the period. To defuse tanya kramer on the story force in jerusalem tanya thank you for Plastic Waste it is one of the most urgent challenges in the 21st century the problem is gotten worse and since trying to stop importing plastic rubbish last year now much of the hard to recycle Plastic Waste as produced in the west it used to be shipped to china now much of that material is finding its way to neighboring countries such as malaysia. Is not afraid of what she calls the waste mafia or of the bullies who work for them what does scare her happens over here. And. This facility she says. Right next to it is a factory imported plastic waiting to be melted. Mills. And chemical. Factories. In northern malaysia residents say dozens of these factories sprang up after china decided to stop importing Plastic Waste from the west. She spends a lot of these days fighting the flood of Plastic Waste from overseas. But. Back. Home but. Weve. Been giving. It. So. It shows plastic being burned in the country or in factories illegal factories the pungent smell hangs in the city year. It sounds crazy but here in. The world from the u. S. From japan and from germany. More than 700000 metric tons. At the moment there are 114 containers full of waste the paperwork for this one from hong kong is ok but its a filthy business waste from western Consumer Societies often ends up in places like this stashed among abandoned buildings a bag with german text it every day packaging from german supermarkets. Is a director of an Australian Company one of the few operating in malaysia that properly recycles waste. I see a lot of other ways to reach reach must have been. Out with the clear idea of it being nonrecyclable for example do these heavily printed. You know. Plastic wrapping i dont know what anyone would like to apply to recycle whoever would tell you that this can be recycled. Back in single patani in the north of malaysia residents are putting their bones for collection meanwhile in the evening factories rubbish from western nations. And her daughter spend the days indoors with a humidifier and away from son shane daughter hasnt been to kindergarten in months we were times i guess its just better for her otherwise she gets a fever after just one or 2 days she coughs and her nose starts to run and she plays a site she gets nose bleeds and becomes breathless pensioner lydia nowheres a moscow doors she has a message for western nations including germany. Really. Tell you. Dont. We have. She hopes people around the world will hear her plea and stop sending their waste to malaysia. Oh now from asia to the bottom of the world the antarctic is one of the most remote places on the planet but its also one that is warming up at an alarming rate scientists fear that Global Warming will melt the continents are contributing to rising sea level so the antarctic is a keeper rohmer for the impacts of Climate Change no one of the dozens of International Laboratories that are monitoring Global Warming there is the noise station and that is where our next report picks up. Antarctica a continent almost completely covered in ice its extremely sensitive to even the slightest changes in climate. Its edge the frozen ocean front is home to the emperor penguin here on the ice shelf its freezing cold perfect conditions for emperor penguin breeding researchers say if the Climate Changes it would most likely affect them right now that trying to count the penguins in the colony. Deep only its i think a huge danger for this penguin colony here is that the structure of the sea ice on which theyve green it is changing. If theres an increase in temperature and the sea ice shrinks breaks up earlier in the year their breeding season will be shortened so they may not have any pleading grants or tall any more under certain circumstances they wouldnt be able to build their colony at all will be able to reproduce. So the research is a document in the penguins numbers from above with a drone theyve been commissioned by the German Environment Ministry to get the big picture of whats happening here. Because the camera looks directly down and takes picture after picture at certain intervals all. These pictures are supposed to overlap that way we can piece them together as far as possible because. They do that here a few kilometers away at the alfred vega institutes noir maya station the research is use 3 d. Simulators to collate their data on the colony in the long term they hope to deliver valuable information on if and how the emperor penguins are reacting to warming worldwide temperatures. If warming is limited to 1. 5 or 2 degrees celcius has agreed in the paris accords this species of penguin could survive and if not theyll be wiped out by 2100 at the very latest for all the scientists measure how much things are warming up on the roof of the research station they send up weather balloons to collect and send back relevant data over the coming years the researchers hope to measure what changes where and by how much. And so on at this station for example were not actually seeing any changes in temperature. Its the same at many of the stations across antarctica down but thats not the case on the antarctic peninsula and theres been a stock rise in temperatures there stack of. 2 up. And its that peninsula which is causing place see a crusts in the most northerly reaches of the antarctic to melt scientists that have also measured the warming of the water the Climate Change is already starting to eat away at antarctica its just a question of how far the effects will reach. Authorities in malta have arrested a prominent businessman in connection with the murder of the investigative journalist. The car bomb killing 2 years ago calls to outrage around the world the maltese government has been strongly criticized for its handling of the investigation. Stopped by the military the maltese businessmans luxury yacht apparently youngun finnish a suspect in the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Koller on a guy who wanted to flee the island finish originally ran hotels and casinos but then got involved in a lucrative powerplant project 6 years ago apart from that he is said to be the owner of a previously secret company 17 black that came to transfer money to maltese politicians via offshore companies and panama thats one daphne. Had been investigating. 2 years ago in october the 53 year old journalist was killed in a car bomb attack she had previously received multiple Death Threats when she reported to the police. It was a murder that sparked outrage in malta and abroad 3 men have now been charged with planting the car bomb but its still not known who instigated the crime. Maltas Prime Minister appears guarded he has spoken of a person of interest being arrested hes offered a middleman immunity from prosecution. He has declared that he knows the instigator but some believe members of most scots government may be involved in the crime. Is such a whip it is premature to speculate on anything you the media are free to reach your own conclusions but i cannot speculate why we have to wait some hours or days it depends i will hold back a few days before expressing myself in this. Speedily. Scott says he wants to discover the truth about Daphne Koller death but that doesnt stop calls for him to resign from growing louder. And for more on this story im joined tonight by Keith Mcauliffe hes a journalist for the times of malta he joins us tonight from. In malta good to see you again what do we know about this arrest today. That was detained talk to me about the circumstances surrounding the arrest. There is happened in the i was in the air yellers of this morning at their own for half past 5 in the morning when mr fennis left with his not sure ial it from them are enough of did to not at a hotel which date own in malta however the yacht was intercepted about 10 minutes later shortly off the coast of the into by the un forces and he was forced to come back to the island notice a constances in which he was leaving or a suspicious that there was going to go up stunned because later on during the day it was or feel that in the last few days right even to his name being formally starting to be mentioned in the media he had to resign his day directorship in the Family Business as well as in the electoral votes consortium which in brief is the shareholder in the power of blunt which is at the heart of this and again it backs well is there any connection between todays arrest and their story from earlier this week and that being the middleman who has agreed to cooperate with authorities who reportedly may know who the killer is you know hes hoping to get a pardon from the Prime Minister is there a connection here. As apparently there has been a connection let me maybe refresh your memory. Buddy about and published a story whereby it had indicated that a very important businessman in malta could be involved in this Murder Investigation but for some reason whatsoever the police had never arrested him and had never interrogated him and that same story of those omissions the middle men know all of this is happenin