one of the poorest paid in brazil they have problems of their own unemployment and poverty and of course having people on the street increase of attention for the priority right now for the government to in a way decrease tension here and start sending families to other parts of the country that is a wanted thing the situation in brazil for us we cannot go over to us on the road. that's on the colombia ecuador order are there any signs that the authorities are heeding the u.n. calls to ease entry restrictions there. well we don't know yet but there has been a number of declarations coming from the ecuadorian government that might show a willingness to release to at least the time of these restrictions some are already happening in the case of young kids for example that don't have a passport if their parents do that then they're able to go through the same it

seems to be true for pregnant women we also see sort of us kids just granny that way for seeing go or not these restrictions by d.l. stories to use here some people that have been trying to cross without a passport have been stopped and are stranded here either once he said we're able to do it there was a group of forty people that was able to cross in a moment in which there was no police no like we're going to police on the bridge we know that they made it five kilometers inside the ecuadorian border they're doing all they can to cross the country and get through this stupid rule before the restrictions that are coming through expected there so it's a very fluid situation and it's fluid in the way to day activities that are handling gas as well and there's also a challenge that has been brought to court so by the ecuadorian public at the office on constitutional constitutional and humanitarian grounds and

a judge might make a decision on based on a friday but that might be too late for the people that are stranded here and want to continue wants to reach beirut are very worried that what will happen in peru on saturday they're also way worried that what will happen if they actually have to stay here or go back to colombia one thing nobody wants to do is go back to business well as they said there's no life. for them left to be left there anymore and they don't want to go back and they want to continue their journey one way or another understand around p.s.t.n. the colombia actually the border thank you very much. well that was our look at the situation in venezuela and the countries surrounding it where many people are escaping to this thread to more still ahead this news our knowledge is there a careless worst floods in a century environmentalist say it wasn't a natural disaster. destroy unions rightly

a poor what they witnessed. as truly as prime minister talks tough but is he about to become the latest victim of the country's leadership merry go round. and in sports we'll tell you why tiger woods has a chance to win nine million dollars from just one round of golf. so u.s. president donald trump has responded to speculation about the possibility of impeachment as two former aides face jail time former lawyer michael cohen implicated trump in a federal crime when he pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws saying he did so at trump's direction in an interview with the fox news channel trump said there would be an economic crash if he was no longer president i don't know how you can impeach somebody who's done a great job. i'll tell you what if i ever got

a ph i think the market would crash i think everybody would be very poor. because without this you would see you would see numbers that you would believe we could not get more on the developments relating to donald trump from our correspondent joe castro who is. or seem to d.c. we will get to our analyst a little later but first let's go to heidi. now heidi in that t.v. interview president trump was very critical of the justice department and now the u.s. attorney general jeff sessions has responded what did he say. that's hard to vias so jeff sessions is now by now accustomed to these rounds of criticism from his one time friend donald trump and usually they come to the same point the president says the sessions should not have recused himself from the russian vest a geisha and ostensibly should have stayed on to better protect the president this

is much of what was repeated in the early morning interview that aired today on fox news trump once again saying that sessions should have not recused himself that he should have taken control of the justice department and question what kind of man he was for having work used himself and that a sensibly fired some sort of trigger in session's who was silent on this issue finally fired back with his own statement today saying while i am attorney general of the actions of the department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations i demand the highest standards and where where they are not met i take action so now the next step is what kind of action of any could president trump take in response he has yet to say anything about session statement on twitter but the president has long hung over sessions had this final option of firing sessions which the president has absolute power to do but even getting rid

of sessions may not necessarily end the russian investigators and would certainly increase this political firestorm that's surrounding trump. heidi the tree gets even deeper in this case david pecker who's the head of the company that publishes the national enquirer does not give been given immunity into that investigation with michael cohen in exchange for providing information on more harsh money deals how significant is this. that's right a lot of developments all coming out one sylvia so let me help you paint the picture this pecker guy he was a long time friend of donald trump dating back decades to when trump was trying to make a name for himself in the new york city tabloid that is where the national wire is based now in exchange for immunity according to reporting from the washington journal pekar told federal prosecutors that trump had knowledge of these hush money

payments that were made to at least two women who alleged sexual encounters with trump and had wanted to go public with their stories the way that this worked according to these court papers is that trump had told pekar the publisher of the national enquirer tabloid to work with trump's former attorney michael cohen and together pay these women sums to buy their stories buy the rights to tell their stories and then to never publish stories at all and robert michael cohen former attorney in fact pleaded guilty to eight counts of criminal counts just on tuesday and they include campaign file and finance violation which does implicate trump so the whole gist of the story is now we have two men who were close to trump his former attorney and his former friend the publisher who are now corroborating each other stories both implicating trump only deepening the legal troubles for the

president. for us in washington thank you we can now speak to sean's others the deputy editor of the congressional quarterly magazine and he joins us live from washington d.c. thank you very much for being here today now as we heard in that interview talking . news channel telling them. how can you impeach a president that's done a good job so far and the economy would collapse should he be impeached is that a valid argument. i think it's not valid first of all the impeachment process would involve the house taking an action to impeach the president but he would also have to be convicted in the senate and that's very difficult because in the senate would require a two thirds vote so impeachment is only one part of removing the president from office secondly there is a process in place to replace the president should he be convicted and removed from

office and that would lead to mike pence's elevation he would become the president of the united states and in some ways i think the markets might prefer vice president pence because he's a more traditional republican he's more aligned with the congressional republicans he's more predictable and he is a free trader so it's likely that the tariffs would end in the prospect of a trade war would disappear and that we're hearing more news about this legal in this investigation into donald trump particularly with michael cohen. and we're hearing about david packard being granted immunity how much trouble is trump now in when all these people perhaps he once trusted us close friends or confidants are now. saying that they will speak freely. right well the cohen investigation and cohen's guilty pleas had to do with campaign finance violations they didn't have to do with the russia inquiry special counsel robert muller

looking into whether trump's campaign collaborated the with the russians to win the two thousand and sixteen election so i think at this point trump's problem is more political then impeachment that with the election coming in november all this news about his former close associate michael cohen and his former campaign manager paul manna for being found guilty of personal violations related to loans he took out and lies to banks that he made threatens republicans positions in the november election you had tom cole a very respected republican congressman from oklahoma come out and say that he thought republicans in swing districts should start to speak out about against the president but as far as impeachment goes i think that republicans will need evidence that trump collaborated with russia in order to go in that direction the campaign finance violations that have to do with michael cohen and paying off these

women who allege sexual affairs i doubt that they would find that that rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors thank you very much sean zeller deputy editor of congressional quarterly magazine thank you so much of trying to make sense of this very fos moving developments at the white house thank you now the south african governments has accused donald trump of inflaming way felt sense and after the u.s. president tweeted about allegedly and seizures from white farmers and the post says i have a secretary of state's my pompei it's a closely study the south africa and farm seizures that expropriations the large scale killing of farmers i hear that refers to a fox news segment which reported the south african government is now seizing land from white farmers. but the government there has not actually seized any major agricultural land from either miller has been speaking to farmers in béla béla

that's an improper province. the debate around landed spoke ration without compensation is a very motor one here in south africa the government says it supports the explode creation of land without paying for it as part of its land reform program but white farmers in particular say it will kill the agricultural sector and harm the country's economy now they say they are better ways of including landless black people in the agricultural sector and in that way empowering them and we spoke to a farmer earlier who's attending this land summit in bella bella in the limpopo province who says while farmers understand that injustices of the past have led to the vast majority of farming land being in the hands of the white minority the government has to reconsider its stance i think at the moment the uncertainty that that's in this whole discussion really really makes us feel threatened because you don't know we we're going to be in

a year star so we certainly creates uncertainty i think in the past few weeks we've got some clarity from government coming to government as surely come come also to this learned by to go and give some assurance on what they planning to do how they are farmers who say this is an opportunity for the government to boost the economy and give rural communities a chance to participate i think that the issue of land expropriation is an issue that's been coming a long way in the struggle for liberation in south africa it's therefore an emotive issue and an economic issue it's really a struggle about economic freedom and the liberties of people to live and work where they wish to as the government grapples with details of just how it will go about expropriating land for the fuse been added to the fire following a tweet by u.s. president donald trump saying land is being seized from white farmers now the government says trump's tweet is offensive. crude and it will deal with this

through diplomatic channels and its relationship with the us remains intact despite some in accuracies in that tweet is that african government now has to do some damage control. ugandan popstar an opposition politician bobby wine has been charged with treason why was we arrested just minutes after being freed by military courts where he'd been accused of inciting his supporters to attack a convoy carrying president yoweri was the veining now the government has denied accusations that one has been beaten and custody our correspondent catherine soy has this report from kampala. this is the man many ugandans had been wanting to see paul vi wine a popular musician and member of parliament appeared as a military court in the north end town of looking weak and in pain he had been in military cassidy's since last wednesday he was arrested following violence in local

election campaigns in the north after president yoweri in the seventies montacute was attacked the state withdrew the military leaders charges of possession of firearms and ammunition. search. on other charges. it was an emotional moment for wine but he was not treated in the future grain two hundred and they're arresting him now was immediately taken to a magistrate's court where he was charged with treason with intent to do harm to the passing of the president of the republic or uganda i don't know fully. understand moved towards them. and smile she. the real when screwed over the prison. in kampala the government's deployed police and soldiers in some parts of the city that are seen as hot spots

including where we are right now we're trying to prevent people from gathering or trying to get to their town center security forces also blocked several opposition politicians from leaving their. opposition leader who has been arrested and detained often over the years was again taken by police he had talked to the media cutting off the people to be cutting off forty million people so whenever they yeah they must be able to rule what kind. we do what. the magistrate include ordered that line gets medical care and that doctors be allowed and he needed access to him he will remain in cassidy until the end of the month when he appears in court. charged with treason. all the while he supported him. and to catch him.

and then are joined by phil clarke he's a reader in comparative and international politics at so as university of london thank you very much for coming in and talking to us so people have been very very closely particularly because bobby wine was somewhat of a celebrity but also because he's now been in and out of jail there been allegations of beatings what's the latest jailing or will do what will that do for the opposition movement will that suppress it or would that actually give it momentum been talking to a lot of friends and colleagues in uganda to die and there's a real sense that the country is on a knife edge people are not really sure which why this is going to go or there is a real chance that this entire attack using the judiciary against bobby warren could galvanize the opposition we we could see large scale protests in the coming days similar protests to what we've already seen over the weekend in kampala and

other cities or we could see something that unfortunately has taken place in the last few years which is that the ugandan opposition has completely failed to capitalize on these kinds of moments and so in terms of national politics that this could also dissipate very quickly it's it's very uncertain at the moment which why this is going to go and was of any has been ruling for for decades now what's behind the winds popularity is it because he was once a pop star is that his appeal or is there does he have real. political currency to him he certainly has real political currency and in fact even in his previous career as a pop star he was a very vocal critic against new seventy's government as a pop star he even proclaimed himself the president of uganda and always positions him self very clearly against miss seventies regime and so that kind of message has carried over into his last eighteen months or so as a member of parliament his popularity therefore is twofold it's both having been

a pop star but also he really has become a symbol especially of young people's discontent with this government and the youth of uganda who might get something like eighty percent of the population is under the age of thirty five years really see someone like bobby warren is as emblematic of the growing frustration with the policies of seventy's government by the same time what you have is old guard government that has a very tight grip on the country so what's it going to take to make them give the opposition some would we've seen support from other pops international pop stars but what what's it really going to take it's probably going to take two different dynamics that it's going to take this disprove test movement on the ground coalescing into something much more powerful than it has been in recent years and and that means opposition political parties using this momentum to to start to get people on the streets and to make a very clear political point but it's also going to need international pressure and

uganda very much has been a dolling of the u.s. the u.k. and the european union in particular most of these western powers have preferred to see more seventy and his government as an ally rather than someone that they need to put pressure on and it's going to take both the domestic form of pressure and this international pressure to bring about change the clock way to get your analysis builds from so ass thank you very much for coming in today you're welcome . now still to come this news are. sweating over the prospect of a no deal bragg's it's the u.k. government releases guidelines on what to do if britain crashes out of europe. and we look at a program that's helping children and struggling chicago suburbs to shoot for a better future. and some of the world's most colorful sports stars to add an unexpected i mentioned to a church service in mexico. and

we've got some cool weather spreading its way across europe now the look too impressive really on satellite picture is this blob of cloud here that's the leading edge of it giving us some areas of rain and as it works its way eastwards we see the cool russian behind that so certainly quite blustery for some of us here and certainly not warm a maximum temperature of ninety degrees in london and around twenty in paris that leading edge as it works its way across the eastern parts of europe is hitting this hot air that's been sitting across the eastern parts of europe over the last few weeks and as it does say is going to see an intensification to the rain on it so we'll see wet so weather spreading its way across the eastern parts of europe it will turn heavier here before the towards the south of a many of us across the northern parts of africa it's fine and settled at the moment not quite for all of us though we are seeing one or two showers around the

northeast in parts about syria and the northern parts of to newseum some of those really quite violent thunderstorms they gradually working their way away from us an easing though as we head through the next few days so it does look like such a saturday should be a dry a day for the central belt of africa plenty of showers here as you might expect or rattling their way towards the west we think quite a few of them over cameroon and into nigeria and quite a few in will the new as well. well those three big challenges facing human conduct in the twenty first century look real war climate change and technological disruption especially the rise of intelligence in bioengineering this will change the world more than anything else professor you know on her own free tool to al-jazeera. was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the

quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to distin shack around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp say going to be up at the gala the government raised our hopes and then abandon us politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight hundred five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government fail.

again here's a reminder of our top stories on our desire yemen's who the rebels say thirty one people have been killed in saudi led airstrikes on a camp for displaced people and her data most of the victims are children. the u.n. is urging latin american countries to ease the entry restrictions for thousands of venezuelans feeling an economic crisis higher than ecuador announced last week that they wouldn't let venezuelans without a passport. and donald trump has accused his attorney general of being unable to take control of the justice department which the u.s. president c'est unfairly jeff sessions head back saying he will be influenced by political considerations. nearly a million people remain displaced from their homes in the indian state of carola as the region recovers from the worst floods in its history many are now questioning whether the disaster could have been avoided in a state that's otherwise used to heavy monsoons and it's almost has this report.

hundreds of people have died more than a million fled their homes but now that trip was carolyn's disaster the quantity of rain was unprecedented two and a half times the normal figure for office so far but environmentalists say properly managed its land and rivers would have absorbed it and channeled it to the sea over development in flood plains is to blame left. claiming that even as an wetlands for other uses that is one of them a good thing which agree with the situation either way though flood plains in the form of paddy fields on about plants what are they going to accommodate on morsels of water. the floods were made worse a environmentalist by quantities of plastic rubbish clocking rivers stopping them flowing fast and freely instead the rivers burst their banks but even with those issues the floods say some could have been avoided aside from the long term impact of environmental mismanagement and pollution there is another way that some here

are seeing this as a manmade disaster they're blaming those who manage the dams and reservoirs carola has fifty three large reservoirs where the collective capacity of nearly seven trillion liters of water they are managed primarily for hydro electricity production and irrigation for farmers many operators are reluctant to let the water go when it's not needed so they were near capacity before the worst of the rain fell when it did the water had to be suddenly released to stop dam walls breaking people think infrastructure is a security against flood but more of the flood waters did not come from the rain they come from the release of their dams never happened before if we know too much rain is coming dams should releasing water as gently and not impounding the last drop and then flooding people's out of their homes it's likely no one factor caused carolus flooding but human activity and inactivity seem to have made it worse

andrew thomas al-jazeera. german prime minister malcolm turnbull is still clinging to power but facing another potential vote on his leadership parliament has been suspended as politicians in his party consider challenging for the job charlotte bell as has this report. malcolm turnbull continues to charge food despite doors closing around him no astray and prime minister has survived the full term in ten years now it's timbales turn to fight the strike will be rightly a poll by what they witnessing in the nation's parliament to die in the course of this week he narrowly won a leadership challenge on choose day behind the scenes former allies have just sold to replace him this is a government which had lost the will to leave but i don't even think on tuesday we could have seen that cannibalistic be idea of a government whose ageing itself alive some members of temples ruling liberal party

don't believe he can lead them to victory in next year's elections and so the rebellion began forty three liberal party politicians must sign a petition requesting a meeting on friday if that threshold is his term treat it as a vote of no confidence he says he will step aside to lead his party hold a new leadership ballot where his replacement will be elected former cabinet minister peter dutton as the front runner earlier this morning i called the other prime minister to advise him that it was my judgment that the majority of the party would no longer support his leadership but doesn't challenge is also controversial the country's top lawyer is investigating his eligibility to hold office there are concerns of a government funding for his businesses taxpayers watched the state as the government ground to a halt the leadership chaos leading to the suspension of parliament the house stands adjourned until monday ten september two thousand and eight

a chain of. terminals grip on power has lasted three years now he faces an early exit from the strain in politics just like the three prime ministers before him shall have ballasts his era. the u.k. government has released its contingency plan if britain crashes out of the year without a deal the minister has warned companies that they may face a tangle of red tape warder delays and costly credit card payments if the government fails to negotiate an exit deal with brussels reports from london. there was a time during the long saga of brics it's when prime minister to resign may used to say maybe it is best to do no deal for britain is better than a bad deal for britain so i said on many occasions that no deal is better than a bad deal by which she meant that falling out of the european union without a trade deal was better than one which didn't reflect the referendum results but

now it's becoming clear what no deal might look like and it's giving people the shivers food shortages if fresh produce rots at the border already stockpiling tins is actively being talked about would airports close down heathrow has borrowed a billion dollars to protect itself against grounded flights would no deal in economic collapse because businesses without taking the contingency plans big money factures would close up shop they'd need to be e.c. since the start to leave on mass the pound would tumble as we've never seen before with the government survived things like giant manufacturers shutting down and moving out does the government even have a plan breakfasters those who want a clean break with the european union dismissed all of this is what they call project fear a deliberate attempt to undermine the democratic vote to leave the e.u. it will be absolutely fine they say and indeed some argue that the little economic

hardship is a price worth paying for the u.k. to regain its sovereignty or no deal breadth it would test that theory to destruction the first batch of advice from government calls on businesses to protect themselves from a new pile of red tape and bureaucracy that currently doesn't exist the nervous looking minister spent much time wiping the sweat from his top lip is of course in relation to those in the current. trading links with the e.u. they'll be some extra changes that they'll need to be advised of the sensible thing to do is to give practical advice and work with them to make that a success come with a. me and together see. this sense of impending disaster the idea that politicians are fiddling while the u.k. burns struck many sufficiently surreal that it has a public view this video comparing it to the titanic disaster perhaps the very best expression of people's worst fears anything could happen nothing can be ruled out.

al-jazeera london the white house says the u.s. and china have just wrapped up talks on how to balance their trade and economic relationship on thursday both countries impose twenty five percent tariffs on sixteen billion dollars worth of each other's kids of the world's two largest economies have now slapped tit for tat levies on a combined one hundred billion dollars of products since july and china said it resolutely opposed the measures but it will keep retaliating as long as washington refuses to back down adrian brown has more from beijing. well as advertised china has retaliated against the united states imposing a twenty five percent tariff on some sixteen billion dollars worth of u.s. goods in the past few months of course china has accused the united states of being responsible for the biggest trade war in history so no sign of this dispute ending

anytime soon talks though are continuing in washington between officials from the u.s. treasury department and china's finance ministry the chinese side insists that it was the united states that invited china to take part in these talks but president donald trump or said he doesn't believe these negotiations will achieve very much of more concern to china right now is the fact that the u.s. trade representative's office is currently hearing arguments for and against allowing the united states to impose additional tariffs on some two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods if that were to happen it would hurt not just china but also the u.s. consumer because it would involve products such as parts for bicycles that sort of stuff every day consumer items here in china no sign of panic so far as we enter the second month of this trade dispute chinese consumers though are starting to

spend less there are signs that the consumers are a tightening their belts on the horizon they see an economy in china that is slowing and they also another see.