Since a terror attack killed 12 people out of berlin Christmas Market opposition politicians in germany say authorities still have a lot of questions to answer. And in german football. Leave it until late in the game but take home what could be a crucial when at freiburg. Im brian thomas great to have you with us the u. S. House of representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress these charges stem from trumps alleged attempts to pressure ukraine into investigating his political rival joe biden while makers adopted both resolutions along party lines almost all democrats voting yes the republican. Voting unanimously against the articles now the articles of impeachment also now need to be sent to the senate the majority republicans they are are expected to vote them down thereby keeping President Trump in office. While Jerrold Nadler is chair of the House Judiciary Committee the democrat from new york signed off on the articles of impeachment heres what he said after the vote gives us no pleasure no pleasure to stand here today the president comes conduct this quitter next election it is President Trumps behavior with the integrity of our Constitutional Order at risk and president from continued actions with the rule of law it is. Were joined now by boris foreman Political Science professor at bard college here in berlin nice to see you again boris good morning to you the impeachment now moves to the senate when is it going to get there both sides say they want to speedy trial and can you walk us through what happens how the process holder sort of sort of a transmission mode with some from the hosts becoming managers of the case and moving it on and presenting the case to via to the senate and then theres some some. Equivocal statements that weve heard about how it will then move on the question is whether the republicans will low any witnesses the democrats are insisting on additional witnesses and so there might be a bit more of a drawn out process but i think what both parties want to avoid is a clash with the with the president ial elections in november ok so how long could the process take you know how much time were looking at in the senate well i think the theres hope that it could be done early in the year in the spring so that during the primaries it will be over and done with but theres also an incentive a small incentive for the republican subject to bit longer because what the impeachment trial does is to bog down the senators and if warren and senators are still in the race they will not be able to be on the campaign trail ok no chance of the democrat sped in the senate will pass republicans of course have the majority there well its as everybody says its highly unlikely 20 republicans would have to move to the other side and given what weve seen not just yesterday but over the last course of the years there is a deeply polarized political system its very unlikely for that to happen. And so it remains to be seen but as long as Public Opinion doesnt shift on this and it hasnt. This is probably not going to happen ok then why are democrats pursuing this course the president s described described as self destructive why are they going down this road well i think the argument here is that the founders of the constitution the Founding Fathers of the u. S. Have decided that there are certain mechanisms in place or have to be in place if democracy is going to be protected and if there is someone who puts their private interests above the general interest then these mechanisms should should be played out and this is the democrats argument and so theyre saying were doing this because it needs to be done weve been reluctant. Nancy pelosi has insisted on this multiple times and they are as well theyve been reluctant to get this process started but they have to follow through ok and nancy pelosi back in march said theres no grounds for impeachment she didnt want to go down this road what changed for the democrats well i think having looked at the evidence after that was what 4 of them made a difference the other thing is obviously the polarization not just between the parties but within the parties theres been a strong constituency within the Democratic Party thats been arguing for impeachment so she had pressure from both sides basically ok how do you see the appeasement process playing out in the elections trump one the former democratic strongholds in michigan and pennsylvania how is this process going to go down in those key swing states in the next election it seems like the position are very polarized again it doesnt seem like this will change. I dont know exactly whats going to happen in those swing states. There is a reason why trump was elected and why they went from democratic strongholds to republican backers i dont know however either whether what trump has been doing in office the kinds of reforms that hes been trying to get started to really have affected those voters in a popular or in a popular and helpful way so it remains to be seen ok boris foreman thanks so much for coming in give us insights this morning from bard college here in berlin thanks very much. Lets get you brief now some of the other stories making news this morning Spanish Police have clashed with protesters outside a football match between barcelona and real madrid the protesters outside the stadium in barcelona tried to draw attention to the catalonian separatist movement during the match which was watched by 650000000 people worldwide. Thousands of people gathered across poland to demonstrate against a proposed law allowing the government to fire judges the protesters fear the legislation would undermine the independence of the judiciary they also feared would lead to polands exit from the european union. Bolivias attorney general has issued an arrest warrant for former president if a model as is wanted for trial on charges of sedition and terrorism he fled bolivia last month and its on rast after he claimed victory in a disputed president ial election hes living in exile in argentina. Well all straw is most populous state of New South Wales has declared a state of emergency over its bushfire crisis authorities are warning the threat of fires will increase over the coming days extreme heat strong winds are making the situation worse the country suffered its hottest day on record this week yesterday with a National Average temperature of nearly 41 degrees celsius. A wall of flames consuming all before it the firemen trying to slow its advance of fighting a losing battle. Wildfires have been raging in australia for months now scorching more than 3000000 hectares of land and destroying over 700 homes that smoke has engulfed sydney blurring it psychotic skyline but with record temperatures fanning the flames the state of New South Wales is preparing for things to get worse given the severity of extreme weather conditions today and also saturday and for the next few days on advice of commission if it simmons New South Wales will be in a state of emergency from today for the next 7 days scientists blame Global Warming for the severity of this years fire as parched from the searing heat New South Wales is a tinderbox already alight. Weve got just under 104 hours burning across New South Wales and half of them are not can timed was to die is going to be a very bad i digressed are here in New South Wales the forecast is that sort of i will be even worse so were talking about some very serious and dangerous conditions over the coming days. With the heat bearing down many australians took to the waves to cool off. Even as they relax on the beach the flames a creeping place. Its to the philippines now where a court has found guilty members of a clown accused of murdering political opponents and journalists 50 people died in a massacre 2000 and it was the worst incident of Political Violence in the philippines to date those convicted are members of the influential family were found guilty of ambushing a convoy of arrival clad as a travel to register its candidate for a local election the familys trial was seen as a crucial test of impunity in a country where corruption and intimidation often decide local elections. For more than a story lets bring indeed the views on a santos in manila good morning to you on this case has been dubbed by many in the philippines as the trial of the deck a decade why is there so much National Interest and. There were people who were killed and 33 of them were cheering on them so there were a number of thing. Is that it started because of the political rivalry ruling political family with the running unopposed in an accent that they did not well im not their political rival fighting for a candidate so they had somebody killed 2nd is the bush had a huge issue of the strategy by which to murder. The winner you were part of the group that was you know sort of. All of the bodies were riddled with qualities and all of them were supposed to be very shallow graves using a particular bird there were media people and media workers were killed. And yet again journalists in the world. I like to see things that are that are wrong with the country put it about that one thing. By illness and impunity there is the pressure on of me here 3 dont ok and unfortunately were having a problem with gaudio were going to have to leave it there thanks very much for now anna santos for us from. This is due to the news live from berlin still to come on the show in german football the reigning champions by a minute move to 3rd in the table after of baffling when at freiburg. But 1st to spend 3 years now since an islamist extremists rammed the truck into a busy Christmas Market here in central berlin killing 12 people and injuring dozens many of whom continued to suffer gravely from their interests the attacker was known to German Authorities at the time as a potential terrorist a Parliamentary Committee has been investigating this case opposition members of that committee have now presented their interim report heres some of his for next. 3 years own candles and flowers still commemorate the victims of the attack. A Parliamentary Committee is still trying to discover why authorities werent able to prevent it opposition politicians make serious charges the most and i felt once that we simply have to point out that German Security agencies completely misjudged the threat their assessment of unease amery was incorrect to a great extent they failed to take his plan seriously even sometimes down spin room. Soon after the attack authorities describe damrey as a lone wolf a small time drug dealer who picked up radical ideas on his own some members of the Investigative Committee say that theory no longer holds water and he certainly had close ties to Germanys Islamist scene and the authorities were well aware of his activities file a big fear was one of the most dangerous potential terrorists of 2016 so no one seriously disputes that it was a hot potato that the passing back and forth no one really wanted the case. You couldnt get should 1st weve already determined the intercepted telephone conversations were not on and lies in a timely and competent manner that co that observation was prematurely broken off and especially that the eventual puppetry to south phone was not thoroughly satch to evidence. Would 3 years later the Committee Investigating the case say hes work is far from finished. Ok and this is a very troubling case in many ways were joined now from work by Political Correspondent hans from the morning hans we know a lot more today than 3 years ago about honesty and the network he was apparently connected to can can fill us in on the well he certainly was and the lone wolf that was forages talked about initially he was very well connected in that is them is seen both here in germany here and tended to mosques that were connected to that scene also in the western part of germany he was part of the islamist scene and we all know that he had connections to islamists in france and belgium and also in libya and back in his home country so he was very well connected internationally ok now the German Security services have been coming under a lot of pressure and some media are claiming theres been a cover up of key details in this case whats that all about what certainly happened is that there was a lot of back and forth between the federal authorities on the one hand and the authorities. In the various federal states where on his omri was active away a way where he was being observed at times we know that there were a number of informants close to him that were run by various agencies of the German Security system but these information the information that came from these people was not really coordinated between these various agencies and in the end here in berlin way it was finally observed people decided in the authorities that he was not in fact dangerous that he was more a kind of small time drug dealer and they stopped observing him just weeks before the actual attack if you have to say the deed of you we had an interview here right after it happened we had an Israeli Security expert saying it was impossible that this was a lone wolf attack at the time what can we expect to come out of of the parliamentary investigation its going to go on for a while its going to go on for another year or at least it has been going on for 2 years already and these kind of processes are very very slow the opposition members of the parliamentary inquiry are saying that the authorities are very reluctant to reveal all sorts of details amongst others the details that come from these informants that we were talking about so there has been quite a bit of kind of back and forth between the interior ministry and parliament trying to gain further explanation further information for the documents connected to this case theres also some idea that the German ForeignIntelligence Service was on 2 of those cases well there too the information coming out of that is very very slow so its a very very tedious process as likely to go on for a year or more are we going to see any changes in the Security Services and what they do to protect us the public well the German Authorities have said that they have already acted in fact there is a Coordination Center against terrorists and now active in germany all these various agencies on meeting regularly to try and coordinate their information and they say that they have prevented at least 7 further attacks in recent months from thanks very much for bringing us up to date on the story. Overstaying in germany this country is marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall this year which led to of course german reunification and one of the Big Questions facing german leaders back then was what to do with the vast quantity of files kept by the east German Secret Police the stasi in the end they were made available to the public but 3 decades on they remain a source of pain and controversy. 13 years ago east germans stormed the headquarters of the stasi was they wanted to prevent the communist dictatorship secret police from completely destroying its archives here are in supreme war these guys you know the place where the secret police planned the oppression of the people they were helping to preserve the files its an experience ill always remember as. My daughter i dont know how many out there today is the federal commissioner for the stasi archives is agency holds enough files to stretch for 111 kilometers as a journalist and civil rights activist he himself was put under surveillance spied on and filmed by the stasi until 989 just like millions of others the spying reached all the way to the top ranks and into the west one of the stasis main targets was long term chancellor helmut kohl after the fall of the g. D. R. The German Government did not initially want to make the archives available to the public in an exclusive interview with the former chancellors widow micah clearly explains why the senseless lack there of questionable truth whats worse the stasi also added fake information to the files because they were created in order to spy on people to subdue people and to secure the continuance of the regime by labor suspicion but activists from the former east germany persevered soon anyone could apply to look at his or her own files people were often astonished by what the stasi had known about them and how much fun a long legal battle to prevent stasi files about himself from being released to academic researchers and journalists in the end a compromise was reached. Top 40 stuff which are mentioned i thought it was the stasi violated our human rights by spying on citizens and helmut kohl. Of course he collected information and these files of course they should be protected these are. 30 years on more than 2000000 people have seen their files the identities of former stasi spies have been revealed. People who were wrongfully imprisoned for forced into working for the stanzi were rehabilitated but how to treat the files in the future is still controversial. Theyre not a legitimate source this was always my husbands concern hed say the more distant people are from the g. D. R. Over time the less they will understand that the stasi files are not of a constitutional state. But. The archives as a key historic docu