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FILE PHOTO: Mark Sandy, official of the Office of Management and Budget, arrives for a closed-door deposition as part of the House of Representatives impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 16, 2019. REUTERS/Yara Nardi

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An attorney for the White Houses budget office resigned in part because of concerns over the hold on U.S. military aid to Ukraine, an official for the office said according to a transcript of his deposition released on Tuesday.

Mark Sandy, a career official at the Office of Management and Budget, which ordered the hold on security assistance to Ukraine, told congressional investigators during the House of Representatives impeachment inquiry that a person in the offices legal division resigned in part over issues with the hold.

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In the phone call at the center of the impeachment inquiry, President Trump asked Ukraine for two different investigations. Today, we explore the unexpected story behind one of them.

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Rudy Giuliani offered to help an indicted Ukrainian oligarch with his U.S. legal problems if he, in turn, helped with Giulianis pressure campaign on the Ukrainian government, according to the oligarch. Dmytro Firtash, an energy tycoon linked to the Kremlin whos facing extradition to the U.S. on bribery and racketeering charges, spoke to The New York Times. Firtash claims that, in June, he met with Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who offered help with his Justice Department problems if he hired two lawyers close to President TrumpJoseph diGenova and Victoria Toensingand helped with Giulianis dirt-digging mission on the Biden familys activities in Ukraine. Parnas lawyer has confirmed his client met Firtash at Giulianis request, and encouraged the oligarch to help in the hunt for compromising information as part of any potential resolution to his extradition matter. Firtash said he had no information about the Bidens and hadnt paid for the search for it. Without my will and desire... I was sucked into this internal U.S. fight, he said.

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Despite being a member of NATO, Mr Erdogan has agitated fellow member states with his foreign policy, but his feelings towards the group of nations were previously positive. Dr Simon Waldman told Express.co.uk: Before, Turkeys position was that it should harness its relations wherever it has them, so in the Middle East it should have strong ties, strong ties with Europe and strong ties with NATO.

That is what gives Turkey its strengths, having as little issues with its neighbours as possible as well as cultural engagement.

However, the attempted coup in 2016 aimed at ousting Mr Erdogan from power, has left the Turkish President with bitterness towards some Western countries as he believes they assisted the Gulen movement in its efforts to remove him from the Presidential Palace.

Expert in Turkish politics, Dr Waldman continued: But then there is the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016, from the perspective of Erdogan this is a personal attempt against him, and he thinks where are the Gulen movement, the architects of the coup, from? oh it has bases in the US.

What did NATO give Turkey, where was NATO in the post-Saddam Hussein gulf war when Turkey came under threat? Where did NATO help after the Iraq invasion when the fallout reached Turkey? Where was the help when there was a Kurdish insurgency?

And who were the officers directing the coup, many of them earned their stripes in NATO- so this distrust of NATO starts to kick in.

During the coup, NATOs F-16 fighter jets were used by Turkish anti-government pilots to bombard the Parliament in the capital of Ankara.

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TEN suspected migrants including a pregnant woman and two children have been found in the back of a lorry today.

Cops arrested two people after swooping on the truck at a Shell garage on the westbound A14 near Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire just after 2pm this afternoon.

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None of the stowaways are thought to have been seriously injured and is not known what nationality they are.

One person was arrested on suspicion of assisting unlawful immigration and the other for suspected firearms offences.

It comes a month after 39 migrants were found dead in the back of a refrigerated lorry trailer in Grays, Essex.

Tina Rooney, 19, who filmed the moment the people were discovered, said around 20 cops surrounded the lorry.

Police officers opened the rear doors and found a man in a blue shirt.

More people emerged from inside the unmarked lorry, with a young child helped down from the lorry.

Tina said: "There were ten men, a baby, a young child and a woman.

"There were at least 15 people in the back.

There was steam coming out of the lorry when police opened it

"We stopped at services and were heading home when we saw the police and they looked panicked.

"There was steam coming out of the lorry when police opened it.

"There was at least 20 police officers, four vans and two cars."

Cambridgeshire Police said they were called after reports of concerns for ten people travelling in the lorry

A police spokesman said: "Officers stopped the vehicle at the Shell garage in Godmanchester.

"Ambulance attended and those within the lorry have been taken to hospital, but no one is thought to be seriously injured."

Immigration services have been notified as police inquiries continue.

East England Ambulance said three ambulances, a rapid response vehicle and three ambulance officer vehicles raced to the scene.

An East England Ambulance spokesman said: "Ten people including a pregnant woman and two children have been assessed.

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"None have required hospital transport, although crews remain on the scene."

Yesterday, a lorry driver accused over the deaths of 39 migrants found in his trailer pleaded guilty to plotting to assist illegal immigration.

Maurice 'Mo' Robinson, 25, appeared in court as Essex Police arrested a seventh suspect in connection with the deaths of the men, women and children, who were found dead in a refrigerated trailer at an industrial estate in Grays last month.

The deaths of the 39 Vietnamese nationals found dead inside the refrigerated container, sparked one of Britain's biggest murder investigations ever.

This week, Sun Online showed the shocking moment suspected migrants staggered out from the back of another lorry, struggling to breathe.

The men can be seen falling to their knees as they are rescued on the side of the M25 in Essex.

Heartless human traffickers are also cashing in on migrants' dreams of a new life in Britain - charging tens of thousands of pounds to smuggle them over the border.

The disturbing footage is just the latest to lay bare the migrant crisis that sees desperate men and women risk their lives to reach the UK.

Witness Bill told The Sun Online: "I had pulled into look at my car and I saw some commotion.

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"I looked up and there were people standing behind the lorry and the police came flying up.

"It looked like they were struggling to breathe, there's no ventilation in the trucks."

Earlier this month, Essex police were again put on high alert as they were called to reports of a lorry near Waltham Abbey, filled with ten migrants.

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