but they want to have more. we bring you the stories to the shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. donald trump former lawyer pleads guilty to lying to congress as part of the investigation into claims of russian collusion. you know i'm maryam namazie in london you're with al-jazeera coming up the u.s. president heads to the g. twenty in argentina with russia. saying that the summit is now. says it's because of the crisis in crimea where russia has boosted its military

hardware and ukraine's president has called for nato help mahi. mahi mahi. the music of the oppressed that's one less bustling un's list of global cultural treasures. welcome to the program our top story pressure is building on u.s. president donald trump after his former lawyer admitted he lied to congress to help his former boss in a surprise court appearance michael cohen says he made false statements last year to a senate intelligence committee is investigating russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election has lashed out at cohen calling him a liar and a weak man. has more from washington. mobbed by reporters michael cohen said nothing in leaving the court but inside a guilty plea he lied to congress. now admitting that he was trying to arrange

a real estate deal in moscow during the time it was clear donald trump would be the republican candidate the cohen was in fact going to travel to russia to work on the deal and that now president trump knew about it all things cohen had previously denied bruce fein worked in the justice department and he says this is a big deal so this is a time where we have a criminal information that identifies the president himself secondly it also indicates that president trump or then candidate trump felt vulnerable if it was known that he was dealing in russian enterprises or because he would need to curry the favor of mr putin nothing happens in russia of important without mr putin's approval the president dismissed the news in his usual fashion badmouthing his former top aide is a weak person. by being weak god like other people that you watch he's a weak person and what he's trying to do is get

a reduced sentence so he's lying about a project that everybody knew about i mean we were very open where the koan did plead guilty to crimes that completely related to trump pain of women who trump had an affair with so they would stay quiet before the election and while it might not have been illegal to do a deal in russia while he is under investigation for potentially colluding with russia to win the election it would have looked suspicious this makes six six close aides to the president have now pled guilty as part of the special counsel's probe democrats say this is bad for the president you've got all these closest associates of the president. one after another pleading guilty often pleading guilty about their ties to russia and russians and what are they covering up for and we also have a white house that still seems just obsessed about this investigation it's believed the special counsel has filed several indictments that are still under seal which

means it is quite likely michael cohen won't be the last to face the cameras or the court. elegies there washington has now speak to andy gallegos following the story for a story from washington and just to be clear and the president trump himself has not been accused of any wrongdoing but this charge does have serious implications for him doesn't it. it does i mean the optics of this not good what we have here is michael cohen a man who was president trump's trusted aide and personal lawyer for a decade saying that basically he lied to congress about dealings between the truck campaign the president himself and russian business people when it came to building a potential trump tower in moscow the president is categorically denied that on many many different occasions now if it turns out that the president was in fact having dealings with russian business people whilst at the same time campaigning to be the u.s.

president that could spell trouble because this is a country that has been accused in the intelligence community here is pretty certain was interfering in the u.s. election to get president trump elected while nothing illegal may have happened here the optics of these accusations from michael cohen are very important and it's also important to remember that michael cohen worked very closely with the president for ten years a man who famously once said that he would take a bullet for donald trump and who reportedly recorded lots of the meetings he had with the president so this is someone who is now. really going along with the special counsel robert muller's investigation is cooperating fully but there are two key points here one is what the president may have written in those answers from special counsel robert muller because if the president trump has written that he had no business dealings with russia posed january twenty sixth dean and here we have michael cohen saying that's not correct and there is some evidence that could spell serious trouble for the president and take into account everything else that

special counsel robert muller is doing all of this is piling on top of the president at the moment six of his aides six people who work closely with in his administration have already been indicted and now we have michael cohen someone who worked very closely with the president for a very very long time fully cooperating with robert muller's investigation so the net seems to be closing certainly if nothing illegal has been done here the optics of what the president may have done if it turns out that that is the case do not look good all right thank you very much from washington and gallica. well donald trump is now on his way to the g. twenty summit in argentina where he was due to meet russian president vladimir putin but trump announced the meeting was cancelled of a twist he also says he won't be meeting saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman because of time constraints our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports now from. one area of

compromise for the g twenty leaders could be on the issue of climate change it was divisive the last time they met in germany but now a decision by the truckload ministration to bury a report on the disastrous impacts of climate change could make agreement once again a tough sell kimberly healthy at al-jazeera where the satirist. right well alan fischer is also in one desire is and joins us now and it could be a very interesting g. twenty summit in the tweeting has already started from president trump he said that he won't now be meeting with vladimir putin i suppose as always with these things he could end up eclipsing everybody else. well assure us how things are going to be different this g. twenty normally in international diplomacy if you decide that you're not going to have a meeting with another country's leader you don't turn to a known so on twitter it's done through diplomatic channels so this is going to be

a different g. twenty from the one that your father your mother and you this is going to be a whole new ball game and the problem that they've got as they come into the g twenty here in argentina is that the g twenty which was set up by gordon brown to work together to combat the global financial crisis probably has never been as splintered and you're seeing that with different reactions to things like the jamal khashoggi case with the canadians arriving and is announcing that they're going to introduce sanctions against a number of named saudi officials with donald trump seeing that he stands by the chrome prince with president marcos saying that he wants to talk to the saudi crown prince because he wants to tell on the what happened should you was wrong wants to find out about the investigation we've got the saudi crown prince asking for a meeting with the president of turkey to discuss all this then add to that you've got the spark between russia and ukraine although it's a lot more than a spat and then you've got the world's two biggest economies at loggerheads over

trade tariffs and you've got donald trump planning to sit down with president jiang the sidelines of the meeting to try and see if they can sort some sort of deal meanwhile mexico and canada are going to sign their new nafta deal with the united states at some point during the g twenty as well so you can understand why the u.n. secretary general at a news conference just a couple of hours ago was saying look we've got to put all these divisions behind this and concentrate on the things that the twenty of us working together can actually do something about and he's talking about the global economy because there are people worried that it could well be heading for another recession and top of the agenda is global warming and that is a big problem because of course one of the biggest economies in the world the united states has a president who says that a report from his own administration which warned that effects of global war. i mean we're going to get much much worse if we didn't do something about it he didn't believe and so i asked him how do you get them to forget this idea of me first and want together until you get here is turned to me and said will you tell

me how to do what i'm not the u.n. secretary general so i think it gives an indication that he doesn't quite know how to heal all these refs and produce at the end of this g. twenty something of a roadmap for all of the twenty advanced economies in the world to move forward and that's the key isn't to alan such just hearing you mention all the different issues that need to be tackled it is a daunting list of challenges and here you have so many different countries personalities competing agendas how difficult is it going to be for them to all speak with one voice at the end of this. well i would like the job i mean this could be incredibly difficult they've always been problems between members of the g. twenty they don't always all get on there are always some difficulties but it seems that the cracks this time are more pronounced the ability to try and heal them much more difficult and so for the g twenty organizers they would like to come up with some sort of communique at the end but they realize that is difficult and one of the problems could well be donald trump now if you think about the impact some of

which happened just a few weeks ago that seizure pacific summit there was no communicate at the end of that because mike pence who was there representing the u.s. said that the u.s. couldn't sign up to some of the things that they want to do and if you go back to the g. seven several months ago remember there was a communique at the end of that and then go on to air force one was in the middle of a follow up with justin trudeau trade and decided while he was flying home that he couldn't stand by the communique that it signed up for a couple of hours earlier and disavowed it and so there was no real concrete movement in the g. seven either or the g twenty has got a lot of big global issues to deal with including climate change and they need people to sit around the table and discuss this seriously as well as deal with the small fractional regional difficult problems that they've got to sort out as well and so will they get a communique at the end of this well normally you get some sort of indication a couple of days before the end of the summit that that's going to happen at the moment we're not even entirely sure how they're all going to line up in the family

for to when all the leaders get together who wants to be standing next to no harm had been some in the saudi crown prince there are people are saying that they don't want to do that this is an incredibly difficult summit add to the argentina have got their own financial problems this isn't going to be an easy forty eight hours or more argentina seems to be very happy to have people here and there are thousands on the streets to protest about it being here i'm sure they'll be glad when all the world leaders start to depart early on saturday evening heading back and they can perhaps sit down and think why did we do that. right. thank you very much allan fisher. well ukraine's president is calling for international help in his nation standoff with russia wants nato to deploy ships to the sea of ourselves where he's accusing russia of blockading ports that comes as russia deploys more surface to air missiles to crimea border regions in ukraine are already on the national including the city of kharkiv from where andrew symonds reports.

martial law in ukraine second city is very evident more police on the ground and extra vigilance but most of the emergency powers now available to the president are being held in reserve so fear and counted scar is a journalist who was here outside the city's russian consulate when it was firebombed on sunday night nationalists demonstrating against russians action off the coast of crimea she says later when president petro poroshenko warned that russia could triple the number of times on the border people were startled some fearing in the vacation. it's karma. which local officials have assured people that moves which will restrict the constitutional rights will only be brought into effect if russia starts an open act of aggression such as an invasion people here in hockey live in a strange state is there a full war or isn't there. paper boats remain outside the consulate

passive resistance to the russian confrontation city officials won't comment and were understood to be seeking more clarification about the martial law or some politicians are still cynical about the president's motivations with their actions at the end of march next year the fact that a bill like the one about a bill in the back of a twenty four team it should have been done and everyone would have taken it normally it could have been an adequate response to the situation but now it looks ridiculous for the people an estimated thirty percent of hockey these people are ethnic russian and the border is only forty kilometers away if the conflict was to escalate drastically how kieve would certainly be in the firing line and this is the city that built thousands of teeth thirty four tanks its

legendary armor believed by many to have been one of the main reasons why the soviets defeated the nazis in the second world war now work to build and maintain ukrainian tanks is virtually nonstop with exports halted. it's not necessarily what's happening on the ground that's alarming it's what's going through people's minds military conscription for example is applies to young men between twenty and twenty seven years of age one year for graduates eighteen months for non-graduates special exemption for young people from serving on the front line but could this old change. a student's depart from a day's study in a university get a hint of their nervousness. if not to brotherly nations are fighting each other there needs to be a peaceful solution without the loss of human life but for the boy. but i will be

in pain if my brother is conscripted because i don't want him to go to war to fight somebody at a strange time and it's short history as an independent state the message from ukraine is one of strength and determination but there's divisiveness in its internal politics andrew symonds al-jazeera hockey few crying. you without is there are still ahead for you on the program syria's power brokers failed to agree on key issues in the latest round of talks and georgia elects its first female president but the opposition is calling it a criminal boss. once again we've got some quieter weather now pushing into that eastern side of new south wales as of this storm that's piling away now pushing towards the saving is

going to turn kristie wet and windy as we go on through the weekend here still quite windy across a good passive queensland where those wildfires are now reaching catastrophic levels major concerns here over the next few days high enough temperatures townsville thirty six degrees with full of something even on shore braces to pick those temperatures back a little bit as we go on through the next couple of days a little more clout just sliding its way and elsewhere they will cloud pushing into central areas of a struggle be some wet weather coming in here as well want to see the showers setting a possibility out of western australia into south australia at around the interior twenty three celsius that dry and five for perth thirty one for adelaide and for melbourne as we go on through the weekend the temperatures starting to wrap up now our system moving through the tasman as a set that's going to face some very wet and windy weather towards new zealand is because on through the next couple of days cherry rain increasing winds piling through friday saturday that wind really say it could be

a blustery day loss' showers racking across much of the country temperatures at ninety. once held in one of australia's toughest detention centers now a world renowned surgeon want to win his followers dr moon. as returns to his hometown baghdad to give up beauties the hope of walking again on al-jazeera. a research un report is driven remove the seeds of the fight against climate change over with threats like sea level rights at this year's climate talks in poland and the international community see the opportunity to take concerted action starting with al jazeera the latest from the front lines of the quadrate crisis from the culprits itself.

looking back with al-jazeera live from london a look at the top stories u.s. president has accused this former lawyer of lying oft repeated kilties making false statements to congress michael cohen says he lied to a senate intelligence committee that's investigating claims of russian collusion during the two thousand and sixteen election donald trump has canceled an upcoming meeting with the russian president vladimir putin at the g. twenty summit in argentina trump who made the announcement over twitter that he's called a shelf because of the tensions in crimea. in while ukraine's president has called on nato to deploy warships to the sea of oz of men rising tensions between ukraine and russia petro poroshenko has accused the russian president of attempting to annex his entire country. israeli military has denied reports that one of its jets was shot down of a syria earliest syrian state media said the air force had targeted several hostile

targets flying over its territory they reportedly brought down over the town of. south of the capital damascus will continue to keep an eye on that story for you but there are also been political developments around syria with the u.n. envoy to the country calling the latest talks involving iran russia and turkey to try and end the war a missed opportunity savannah mr is saying he is disappointed with the failure to set up a un backed constitutional committee syria's un ambassador has also called for the west to lift sanctions to help refugees return saying holder reports from kazakhstan capital asked on where the talks have been taking place. it's a new round of syria talks the power brokers russia iran and turkey brought the warring parties their allies yet again to the capital. the united nations was also invited the special envoy to find a mistake i was hoping for a breakthrough in what is likely to be his last diplomatic mission before leaving

office but there was no deal on the formation of a u.n. constitutional committee russia's presidential envoy alexander. so the issue of the committee is important and its creation is their goal moscow knows it won't get the backing of the west for its plans for post-war reconstruction and refugee returns if damascus doesn't engage with the un led political process so much the enough issues were thoroughly discussed yes there was no deal no formal announcement about the committee creation but details are being discussed on the show seriousness and i'm optimistic there will be a solution to this had this meeting was another missed opportunity to accelerate this stablish ment of what he called a credible balanced and inclusive syria owned syrian led un facilitated constitutional committee but he said he remains committed to facilitate for their efforts the target date to set up the committee is by the end of the year that is

what france and germany requested during the last meeting on syria and istanbul in october there are no longer calls for syrian president bashar assad to step down but the u.n. political process that involves a new constitution and free elections is about curtailing his powers and changing syria system of government. that is why damascus is resisting the un committee's work and mandate it doesn't want a new charter is we produce something constructive or important and be a political to start a process war in in more than forty years for reasons of course for instance we only see. the so-called asked enough for is about undercutting and sidelining the un but russia can't formalize the syrian government's victory on the ground without the international community that means damascus will have to give up at least some political power for now however it is showing no intention of doing

so that if. asked in a the us senate is expected to debate next week on whether to and american support for the war in yemen it comes after a majority vote on wednesday to go ahead with the measure and what's been described as a rebuke to the trunk of ministration meanwhile the u.s. humanitarian chief is in the yemeni capital sanaa for three days of talks is calling for a cease fire he's also meeting with aid workers displaced families and communities to assess the scale of the crisis. i'm very concerned about the humanitarian situation which has deteriorated since i was here last and as i've said repeatedly to the security council there are five things i would like to happen to improve the situation and to reduce the suffering of the people first i'd like to see a sation of hostilities especially around the key aid infrastructure especially around to date secondly i'd like to see the environment in which the aid system operates made easier for all the aid agencies keep the port safe and keep the roads

so provide access to all the key facilities. well now to georgia where the opposition party says it doesn't except the results of wednesday's presidential runoff which saw a former french diplomat elected as the head of state so amazing many is said to be the country's first female president and far stand walker has more on this now from tbilisi. georgians have elected their first female president in the capital there were mixed feelings about the result but i think that the road i'm trying to move towards a great place to show herself. and it's very likely see if i did my choice. i'd really. i think she'll do what's required of her we need our women's wish and women's perspective but i have some kind of role. hopes georgians will be able to reconcile

their differences after an ugly election campaign. trying the option. our choice is a peaceful georgia a free country where citizens have equal rights our choice is a dialogue with those who did not vote for me today or in the. cellar major of history will be the last elected president by the voting public in georgia in future it will be parliament that decides who becomes president as the country transitions to a parliamentary democracy but georgian democracy may not be as healthy as it seems according to the opposition the government's last minute promise of debt relief for more than six hundred thousand georgians was tantamount to a vote it was if. we had.

a court. georgia's most powerful figure initially. the billionaire chairman of the governing party staked his reputation on a zero win through most of the room got to voters our society realized their power understood that they have all the tools and reacted absolutely adequately billy's absence at this gathering was a symbol that real power in georgia remains a money dominated male affair robin for a steelworker al-jazeera tblisi one out of political developments in sri lanka where supporters of the sax prime minister ran away from a singer of push through a vote in parliament to cut funding for the man who has replaced him former strongman mahinda rajapaksa took over the job after the president removed from a singer plunging the country into a political crisis and rajapaksa supporters for it with their opponents and police

during two previous votes of no confidence against him. are now south sudan has been at war for much of its existence a report from an e.u. funded research organization says a network of shell companies in the us israel and uganda of help the country get hold of weapons this is despite a un arms and dog embargo that some place investigators with conflicts armament research found nearly three million rounds of ammunition delivered to south sudan's army came from bulgaria weapons were also sent from two other european union nations one military aircraft came from the united states during the shipping process documents wrongly indicated uganda was the final destination of these arms but once the cargo arrived in uganda the shipment was illegally transported to south sudan. that funding has allowed our field teams to spend nearly four years crisscrossing south sudan alongside both government and rebel forces to physically

documents the weapons that are being used in the conflict that's hundreds of weapons from an assault rifle used to battle tanks over two hundred thousand rounds of ammunition and then we've tracked those weapons back to their sources and try to understand how they've ended up in the hands of the competence so what we found is that. neighbors have been the primary conduit particularly sudan and uganda the primary kuantan to its and sometimes the active sponsors of weapons to each side of the conflict now up until july of this year there hasn't been a global u.n. arms in bargo on south sudan and that has allowed on shipments to come in to south sudan's neighbors legitimately and then be passed on into the south sudanese conflict and what we found is that in some cases correspondence between for example the ugandan and the south sudanese government show south sudan arranging for uganda

to provide the paperwork that makes it look like these weapons are coming into for the end use of uganda. well now the united nations is voted to get up stand up stand up for the rights of reggae music by adding it to its world heritage list. the un heritage agency in escrow says the music genre popularized by bob marley and other musicians is worthy of protection for its contributions to social and political justice reggae originated in jamaica fifty years ago with song lyrics tackling issues including inequality and police brutality well earlier i spoke to via robinson found a reggae brittania who explained to her attraction and her love of rag. people listening to reggae you hear the sound but they head to the roots of it they hate the music the hair the core of it and that message was about truth rights and

justice you know it came out of a time where black people were facing a lot of injustice especially in the caribbean and so when people hear it there's parts of them that come identify you listen to any reggae song any feel you have can hear that whether it's a love song whether it's a song which talking about something happening in your life and i think that's what cup captures people it's more than just a john with music it's more than just a sound it's a spiritual vibration and as i said love really. just a quick look at the top stories for you now u.s. president donald trump accused his former lawyer of lying off three pleaded guilty to making false statements to congress to help his former boss michael cohen admitted he lied last year to a senate intelligence committee it's investigating russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election he said he lied about the timing of negotiations with russia over a proposed trump tower in last go to be consistent with trump's political message.

that refers to. what he's trying to do is to to reduce so we lying about a project that everybody knew about every we were very open when we were thinking about building a building i guess we had in the former was an option rather to what you call it we decided i decided ultimately not to do it there would have been nothing wrong if i did do it if i did do it there would have been nothing that would fight this. well all trump is now on his way to the g. twenty summit in argentina where he was due to meet russian president vladimir putin but trump and else that meeting was cancelled over twitter he also says he will not be meeting with the saudi crown prince two to time constraints meanwhile the u.s. senate is expected to debate next week on whether to end american support in the war in yemen the un's humanitarian chief is also in the yemeni capital for three days of talks mark local cause calling for a cease fire so also been meeting with aid workers displaced families and

communities to assess the scale of the crisis. ukraine's president is calling for international help in his nation standoff with russia but wants nato to deploy ships to the sea of oz of what he's accusing russia of book aiding ports. he says the russian president is attempting to an excuse entire country tensions are fled since the russian coast guard fired on three ukrainian vessels on sunday seizing their crew. and georgia's opposition party says it doesn't accept the results of wednesday's presidential runoff which saw a former french diplomat elected as head of state salome's or a bush really is set to be the country's first female president. you're up to date with all the top stories that's it from myself and the team here in london there will be more news at the top of the next hour but one zero one east starts now. xenophobic violent and beating the drum for an ethnic civil war in the heart of

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