Of impeachment Mr Trump he said had directed every witness not to give evidence the Republican ranking member on the panel Doug Collins said the inquiry had nothing to do with the facts you just don't like the guy. You don't like him says November 26th thing so don't tell me this is about new evidence in new things and new stuff we may have a new hearing room we may have new mice and we have tears in our cult but this is nothing new folks Chancellor Merkel says Germany was forced to expel 2 Russian diplomats because it didn't seem Moscow supporting its investigation of the murder of a former Chechen rebel commander in Berlin but she said the round should not affect next Monday's Ukraine peace talks in Paris in which Germany's a key intermediary Zelin can Congress really was shot twice in the head in August by a man on a bicycle as he was walking to a mosque through a park you're listening to the world news from the b.b.c. 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World Service with me Nic Miles NATO leaders have concluded their 70th anniversary meeting near London with a show of unity well in the past that kind of sentiment would be newsworthy but that was before tensions over Syria and other issues emerged threatening the very future direction of the alliance the NATO secretary general yen Stoltenberg welcomed a consensus on defending Poland and the Baltic countries which Turkey had threatened to veto unless its view that Kurdish fighters in Syria were terrorists was indorsed but after some fractious exchanges yesterday between President Trump and McCraw video footage emerged of the Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau in conversation with other leaders apparent to mock Mr Trump is our diplomatic correspondent James Roberts this was always going to be a fractious gathering even a bad tempered one substantial disagreements about Nato's purpose performance and future prospects guaranteed that in fact at today's formal session for leaders of the 29 member states one big crisis was averted Turkey withdrew its threat to block a NATO defense plan for the Baltic region in return for language on the threat to Turkey from northern Syria that President find tolerable if not sufficient but once again it was a row with President Trump that caught the most attention this time involving Justin Trudeau of Canada video footage from last night's Buckingham Palace reception shows Mr Trudeau chatting to fellow leaders including Boris Johnson and President McConnell He appears to mock President Trump for delaying proceedings by allowing an encounter with the press to stretch for 40 minutes today the president hit back pointing to Canada's failure to meet the spending target on Nato 2 percent of the country's and your output and also attacking Mr Krueger's character always do 1st and I honestly would do residential guy I find of a very nice guy brings. You know the truth as. I call them out of the fact is I'm paying 2 percent and I guess he's very very happy about Mr Trump canceled a final post meeting news conference saying he'd already said enough Boris Johnson dismissed the round and that his closing news conference stressed his positive view of proceedings there was a mood of a very great solidarity and determination and a willingness to push NATO forward. Not just the next few years before the next 70 years a real belief in the long standing value of this alliance So what can we reasonably conclude they have been plenty of angry exchanges over the past few days NATO was unable to celebrate its 1st 70 years in obvious harmony more broadly the strain in relations between democracies continues a theme of Donald Trump's presidency many other recent international meetings have been similarly tense any sense of a world order is not holding up well and the current pressures that was James Robbins on a short time ago I spoke to our defense and diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus at that meeting I started by asking him whether the meeting could be considered a success despite all the differences it's resolved a problem that was holding up a key reinforcement plan for the Baltic region it managed to finesse a Raul with the Turks over how Kurdish fighters in Syria should be regarded it resolved some of President crawls complaints about the alliance both his insistence that there was too much unilateralist again a reference to Syria with the Americans and the Turks doing their own thing there he wanted much more concerted discussion in the alliance he insisted that there was far too much talk about money a kind of jibe against President Trump and they needed to be much more talk about strategy he's getting a kind of study group that the secretary general is a stablish ing to enhance consultation with in NATO. I think it really you know the alliance is in a much more complex world it's a very big alliance now 29 soon to be 30 countries and in a new world a much more polarized world with political tensions in many countries even in alliance members countries you're going to see a NATO which is much more upfront with its divisions disagreements are going to surface much more frequently but fundamentally I think it goes away with its core essential purpose reaffirmed the collective defense of the territory of each and every one of its members given that they have achieved what I have at this mini summit I suppose that illustrates the fact that rare polity getting things done is so much more important than these individual relationships and if one leader is disrespected by others yes I think to a large extent you're right so you know NATO is fundamentally about the collective security of its members that is a hugely important thing often politicians say it's the 1st thing that the government is there to provide the security and safety of its citizens and NATO countries to to choose to do that in a collective way through the alliance personalities of course do matter I mean if you look at the impact that Donald Trump has had on the alliance not just the Rouse about spending but the question marks as to whether you know Donald Trump really believes that Russia is a potential throw question marks as to whether Trump really believes that NATO is in the United States' interests and he said very clearly here he thought the Europeans got more out of it than the United States does all of those things unsettle NATO allies they encourage countries like France to talk up the idea of doing more within Europe which is a nice aspiration but often fails in practice and causes you know further tension so personalities do matter Jonathan Marcus Well there's an illustration of those ongoing east west tensions in our next story because months on from the murder of a man in a burning part Germany is throwing to. Russian diplomats out of the country the victim was a former Chechen rebel commander and German officials believe the shooting was ordered by Russia or Russia's Chechen Republic Moscow has denied the allegations and says it's going to retaliate the German chancellor Angela Merkel was asked about that case at the NATO summit as a way for the un in a position president in an east of a whole a meeting the Russian president next week and I will inform him of the measures we took we took this decision because we did not see that Russia was supporting us in clearing up this murder but of. Our burning correspondent Damon McGinnis told me more about the victim but he was killed last August he was going for a walk in a small park in the center of Berlin on his way to a mosque apparently his name is Alan can Congress really he is an ethnic Chechen from the punk you see chords in Georgia so he's a Georgian citizen now it seems that he was shot twice in the head by a man passing by on a bicycle Witnesses say the cyclist then rode off police German police later then found this suspected killer as he was getting rid of the bike disposing of the bike and the weapon the gun in a nearby river Now this suspect has been held by German police since August he refused to speak but it seems he is a Russian citizen now what the allegations of the German state prosecutor is is that the Georgian citizen Mr Congress really was killed under orders from Russia now whether this means the Kremlin or some other authorities in Russia is not clear but that's because he was a fighter against Russia in the Chechen war so as such he was an enemy of the Russian States that's the allegation so far so it's several months old these 2 diplomats being kicked out. Germany it seems like quite a an understated response from Berlin given what for example happened after this so this cripple poisoning in Britain when you diplomats were expelled from various different countries Yeah I mean this is being called the 2nd scrip our case but actually there are a few differences one is that this was not a German citizen he was a Georgian citizen the other difference is that we don't yet have evidence as to who was behind this and what the allegations are about so so far the general Thora teas and indeed the German government as we heard Angela Merkel just say say the reason for the expulsion of the diplomats the 2 employees at the Russian embassy in Berlin is because the Russian authorities are not helping with the investigation so so far no German official is or no German government official is openly accusing the Russian state of involvement in this killing German state prosecutors say there may be Russian state involvement but that's as far as it goes so far so people are being very circumspect because obviously this is. A big thing and this could turn into a huge diplomatic row as it is though the fact that 2 employees of the Russian embassy are being expelled is pretty big and Russia has said they're not happy they view this is a very unfriendly act is how Russia despondent this and Russia has denied any involvement in the killing and said that they will retaliate Demi McGuinness You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service Nic has the headlines NATO celebration of its 70th anniversary has ended with a statement of unity but underlying tensions remain clearly visible President Trump has called Justin Trudeau 2 faced after a video emerged showing the Canadian prime minister mocking him and the congressional committee deciding whether to draft articles of impeachment against President President Trump has been told the inquiry has faced an unprecedented lack of cooperation from the White House we'll go live to Washington for more on that story with our correspondent in a moment but 1st let's hear now about. A health emergency on the Pacific nation of Samoa is currently a missiles outbreak there and the government is struggling to consign the spread of the disease Asia Pacific editor Michael Bristow reports some ohs in the grip of a health crisis out of a population of 200004000 of course measles 60 of those have died the majority were children under 4 is a statistic that doesn't fully reflect the pain felt by dozens of families as his grieving mother makes clear very happy to me. I never forget her the way the way I try to teach her how to talk the government has set up inoculation centers for the rate of infection is kept rising so officials are taking more drastic action on Thursday and Friday normal life will be suspended medical teams will go from door to daughter vaccinate those not yet immunized families needing jabs have to hang red flags from their homes to make it easier to identify those who need treatment the crisis in Samoa was caused by increasing skepticism about the measles vaccine heightened by the deaths of 2 children who inoculated last year it later transpired that they died because of other reasons the vaccination rate dropped to just over 30 percent too low to prevent the measles outbreak that's now causing so much devastation. Michael breasts are reporting the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch krill has criticised a proposed new law targeting domestic violence sang that it was dangerous to interfere in family life the law would offer a legal definition of domestic violence for the 1st time and imposed restraining orders on abusers so what arguments against it have been put forward on Lena in a sort of it is from b.b.c. Russian Service in Moscow the draft law was published a week ago and the day for the Russian Orthodox Church said that according to human was dangerous interfere in family life and that the church does not support this proposal and that he said that the church of course doesn't allow a new violence in the family in a family but Steele they they are basically against the floor so Nina he said we should treat interference by strangers in family life with great caution and the bill he said is an attempt to legalize outside forces in family life those kind of comments and sentiments and they can to find agreement for many in Russia or are they going to be rejected I would say that the church certain has to say the government saw like this but Arabs opinion could serve a perfect pretext not to pass the lore but Russia still a secular country so probably it's not many people. Just believe everything that the church says but in deepens the politicization on the subject in the country are so needed Can you put into context the level of domestic violence against women that there is in Russia how does it compare to other parts of Europe for example it's more so here with the thought of. Dramatic cases. Had recently made headlines and so it was quite serious here and we don't have hard data because as we don't have a law we don't have a 36 here by that said that up to one the never before family some time with have dealt with domestic audiences here Nina and as a Rove the next stage of the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump is under way the Judiciary Committee has taken over after the Intelligence Committee published its report saying evidence of the president's misconduct was overwhelming President Trump denies withholding aid to Ukraine in exchange for information on his political rival Well today the committee chair Jerry Nadler opened proceedings with the charge that Mr Trump had been prepared to compromise national security President Trump did not merely seek to benefit from foreign interference in our elections he directly and explicitly invited foreign interference in our elections use the powers of his office to try to make it happen he sent his agents to make clear that this is what he wanted and demanded he was willing to compromise our security and is office. For personal political gain but the Republican ranking member on the panel Doug Collins hit back you just don't like the guy you don't like him says November 26th St The chairman has talked about impeachment since last year when he was elected chairman so don't tell me this is about new evidence and new things and new stuff we may have a new hearing room we may have new mice and we may have chairs there are culpable but this is nothing new folks today's witnesses before the committee have been lawyers with advice for the lawmakers about advice has been complex with legal opinion both for and against impeachment Republicans called Professor Jonathan Turley who's 21 years ago testified to the same committee during the impeachment process of President Clinton I never thought that I would have to appear a 2nd time the elements are strikingly similar the intense rancor and rage of the public debate is the same the stifling intolerance of opposing views I'm not a supporter of President Trump I voted against him my personal views of President Trump are is irrelevant to my impeachment testimony as they should be to your impeachment vote I'm concerned about lowering impeachment standards to fit a paucity of evidence an abundance of anger. Let's go to our correspondent on Capitol Hill now the whole fate so strong reaction from one of the other witnesses over those Republican claims that the impeachment process has been fooled doesn't that. Yeah absolutely we heard from Jonathan Turley there but Pamela Karlan from Stanford University actually really hit back at the ranking Republican Doug Collins in his suggestion that there wasn't enough evidence that the whole thing had the whole process had been flawed she said that she was insulted by what he said because she had read through every single page of the depositions of public witnesses through these impeachment hearings in the Intelligence Committee and she said that she is absolutely sure going through that evidence and with her knowledge of the Constitution that what the president did it struck at the heart of the Republic she says he has the right and to corrupt the electoral process and has undermined the needs of this country in favor of his own personal reelection so not at this stage of the proceedings is all about the u.s. Constitution and what it says about impeachment is it right to go ahead with impeachment now is it possible that they could be a vote in the house before Christmas oh. Well that is definitely Democrats' goal at the moment I think what's really interesting is here we saw of course lawmakers turning to legal scholars to see with their interpretation of the Constitution was but even with those legal arguments this is 1st and foremost a political process and I think Democrats will be satisfied with what they heard in this hearing today to go ahead and try to draft articles of impeachment on not just abuse of power and obstruction but possibly even bribery they're going to try to do that soon so that they can move to a full vote of the House of Representatives before Christmas now it's important to keep in mind that wall that would likely result in President Trump being impeached but then that would quickly move to a trial in the Senate there 2 thirds of the Senate is controlled by Republicans so ultimately his fate and whether he'll be removed from office will live with his. In part negative effect