this is not the end of anything but what happens next is now in the hands of congressional democrats newly empowered by the special counsel to act potentially dictating not only the terms of transfer mading time in office but also whether he might win reelection the twenty twenty presidential race can really help get al-jazeera washington the first democrat to declare for the twenty twenty us presidential race is calling for donald trump to be impeached so elizabeth warren says the house of representatives should begin proceedings a position is different to that of several other leading figures who say the process would be counterproductive to the during an election campaign robert ray is a former us independent counsel the previous title for mothers position he says launching an impeachment during an election cycle could be difficult. now with the release of the redacted report it appears as if it's certainly possible that the

position of the democrats may well change i don't think that they have too long before they have to decide one way or the other whether they're going to be commencing impeachment proceedings and of course weighed against that is the fact that the presidential election in the united states is now just eighteen months away it's an obviously difficult thing to be conducting an impeachment inquiry in the middle of a presidential election cycle and also one of the things that may happen as soon as next week once as expected joe biden is likely to enter the presidential race the first question he's going to be asked as the likely front runner just as a list of if warren was asked is the question about whether or not he supports an effort in the house of representatives to commence impeachment proceedings over the course of the next eighteen months experience on the last time the united states went through this process was now twenty years ago during the impeachment of

president bill clinton who as you know was impeached by the house of representatives but acquitted in the united states senate following a trial. the difficulty of impeachment in the united states is that it necessarily requires a two thirds vote which means that both parties have to support it in order for it to be successful there is no current indication that republicans support an impeachment effort and so that effort ultimately would be doomed to failure at least if the objective is to remove the president from office however that may not be the only objective obviously an impeachment proceeding is damaging to the president's reelection prospects and republicans will go to great lengths i suspect in the near term to avoid and try to prevent that from happening. fairness when an opposition leader one guy though is calling for mass may day protests i. i

i he said his supporters need to continue showing president nicolas maduro that people will not accept water and electricity shortages any further and to reject why those claiming to be interim president and has denied a humanitarian crisis. still ahead of al jazeera sudan's protesters make plans to take charge of the country. and what's behind the high rate of suicides among police officers in france. how this long weekend is it's coming upon the year of traditionally a rather miserable affair particularly in the nose as you can see from the satellite pictures not much cloud around in much of northern europe there is some of us paid in portugal which is traditionally where those in the north go to enjoy

the sunshine it's going to be the wrong way round this weekend thousand and twenty five degrees in paris twenty in berlin twenty two in london a light breeze in the east the sun is shining and this is true or the way down the center of europe down towards the balkans it's cooler in athens and in turkey but really quite disappointing in spain where rain going to fold on the east coast as you go weekend the sum will eventually reappear but it's not going to be for everybody fifteen in madrid this is come sunday by which time it's much the same in london in paris in fact most of france for much of europe and nice the king weekend clearly not show it out beria the payoff and that is showers seem likely in morocco for a time it'll be cloudy and briefly sherry in our jerry even tunisia but it will all eventually spin through east at this well look at that the won't go out of central parts of libya i mean tripoli could be up to thirty three degrees in quite a sandy wind which is what is go across and brings or fall and present conditions i think to much of tunisia.

how have you changed since zero seven. the. charting the lives of the children of apartheid over twenty one years each story reflecting a history of the mattick social and political change twenty eight hours south africa part one on al-jazeera.

you're watching out to see a time to recap our headlines now egyptians are voting in a referendum that could grant president up for sisi a longer term if they're in favor sisi could stay in office until twenty thirty are also deciding whether to allow the president to appoint top judges and expand the role of the military. in an apparent reversal of u.s. policy president donald trump has offered support to libyan warlords ali for have. you has been leading a military offensive against the un recognized government in tripoli. the first democrat to declare for the twenty twenty u.s. presidential race is calling for donald trump to be impeached after the u.s. justice department. denied the subpoena by democrats requesting an uncensored copy of a report into russian collusion. the opposition group months of protests in sudan says on sunday it will name the people it wants to take

charge of the country demanding a civilian government take over from the military rulers who ousted president on one of the shia earlier this month amid all reports. that joining the city is like stepping into a new sudan people are taking power into their own hands these civilians are now guarding the border and they're greeting people with songs and smiles. was so. almost a pleasure and they'll work in fun. while this crowd craves the heat to put out a message of change has helped to keep them cool money is also. donated drinking water is provided i. food is served for free for a day medical doctors have left their paid jobs on joint efforts to set up makeshift

clinics to help those who protested last night just yeah we worked in hard conditions there were days when we couldn't handle the sheer number of people who came for medical help we could hardly sleep for days we were doing both the humanitarian and national judy by being here. these people are here in front of the army headquarters to make sure a complete revolution is achieved and a military coup doesn't just lead to another period of rule like that bashir but as i see it in medicine as you said the military council most tend of the powerchair transitional civil and government which is protected by the army will fulfill all the objectives of derivative so far we have only cut the head of the tree we still need to remove the roots a message that's being eco sudan ordinary people now take center stage the blood that's been shed for this moment is on the walls as are the young women who acted

with courage and leadership this is where some of the deadliest blasts took place on the morning of course when thousands of protesters were caught in the crossfire many of us they didn't go to those classes they displace the special facility where protection came from this direction what if it's not a percentage. basis of this uprising it's like a fireball that's building itself that is the old regime. the uniforms of those snipers who were caught hank here as a mark of shame to those who fought change but many here say the deep state is still intact and only the facade of the former regime has been removed. they didn't go they just removed some dirt and put more tact in its place we don't want any national congress members in the government and that's why the protest must and and their rule slogan whether or not there is she has fallen and we are

staying here. police in turkey have arrested two palestinians who allegedly confessed to spying for the united arab emirates the two men are reported to have been accused of monitoring members of hamas and the muslim brotherhood according to turkish media one of the mail arrived in turkey in october last year just days after the murder of saudi journalist. police are investigating whether there's a connection to that crime. police in northern ireland say they've arrested two men in connection with the murder of a journalist a vigil has been held for lara mckee shot dead earlier this week politicians from all sides in the region which is part of the u.k. of condemned the killing and the hayward has more. only twenty nine years old larry mckee was a rising star in journalism she just signed a book deal and had a promising future instead she's the latest victim in northern ireland's long

running conflict. after police raided a property in london terry or terry as it's commonly known more than fifty petrol bombs were thrown at police and several vehicles were hijacked and set on fire the key was watching events and in the hours before her death tweeted terri tonight absolute madness. the journalist was standing close to a police vehicle when several shots were fired and she was hit she was taken to hospital where she died we believe this to be a terrorist act. we believe a spring cart provided to us republicans. are sas men of this time would be that the new ira are most likely to be the ones behind us on the forms our primary line of inquiry open night forensic teams what to try to piece together the events that led up to her. earlier this year the new ira was blamed for a car bomb attack in terry it's also claimed responsibility for sending possible

bombs. the killing of the journalist to shock the community and devastated have friends and family. our hopes and dreams and all of her amazing potential with a single barbaric act. this cannot stand britain's prime minister to reason that the murder was shocking and truly senseless condemnation too from the leaders of northern ireland's biggest political parties this is a tragic loss of a young life and our hearts are broken for although all those concerned those people who carried out this and this attack have no place in society those people who carried out this attack do not have any support those people who carried out this attack have attacked all of us they have attacked the community they've attacked the people of diary they have attacked the peace process and they've attacked the good friday agreement of course violence criminality terrorism was always rome is still wrong today and twenty nine chain we condemn not

wholeheartedly we hope that everyone will work in london diary and indeed for their fate and with the place service to give them all the support that they need many people in northern ireland to concerns about the when you ballance in derry what led to it there were many tributes being paid to lehr mckay all praising her as a seeker of the truth and the heywood. well let's bring you some breaking news just coming into us here we're getting word of gunfire and an explosion in the afghan capital kabul this apparently happening in the green zone near the ministry of communications will give you more details on this as they come in. as arise the sudden rise in the number of french police officers taking their own lives i think recent attacks mass protests and the police sentiment all all of that adding to the stress that all the average one police officer commits suicide every

four days under reports. police officers are the ones members of the public look to to keep them safe but now it's the police who are looking for help the pressures of the job becoming too much for some of them. these officers in marsay are no mourning for two of their colleagues who killed themselves this week twenty seven others have done the same so far this year others stood outside police stations and the interior ministry in paris woman is of. i myself my children do not ever become police officers because all their lives they will suffer in so believing in a lack of recognition so i can except for my children my current. working conditions for police officers and some of the country's main cities have been described as difficult. and some say the yellow vests protests which began last november in response to rising fuel costs but quickly became a campaign against the government have added to the pressures while the vast

majority of demonstrations have been peaceful there have been outbreaks of violence and cases of anti police chants. already under stress from a number of terror attacks and a two year long state of emergency officers faced long working hours and struggle to get paid for overtime. the government report reveals french police have a suicide rate thirty six percent higher than the general population already this year the number of officers who have taken their own lives is double the figure from the same time last year and police unions fear if action is not taken now twenty one thousand could see more suicides than in one thousand nine hundred six when seventy officers died. the government says it's setting up a special unit later this month to try and tackle the problem and prevent more deaths yet in question there is a passion for the uniform it's extraordinary but there is pressure and we obviously need to heed the warning cries that we come through these individual suicides cries

of the collective. that the police don't feel protected by the government and the yellow vests protesters don't think the government is listening to them it's a delicate balancing act on the streets of french cities and you should tell al-jazeera. lebanese women hope they'll soon be in the right to paul solman citizenship so their children even if they're married to a foreigner but those proposed changes to their nationality lol don't include women married to syrians palestinians so to hold the reports from beirut. has a lebanese mother and was born and raised in lebanon but that is not enough to gain nationality women married to foreigners are not allowed to pass on citizenship and that means their children need a residence permit if they are to find work while denied any government support for those like las whose fathers are palestinian the situation is further complicated

because they have limited right here i am an only child to my to my mother and my my to my aunt and i and my parents. i cannot own property and i cannot inherit inherit from my mom and past this inheritance to my pure church children. rights campaigners want the decades old nationality law to be reformed especially since lebanese men married to foreigners can pass citizenship to their wives and children we're being told that should women have the rights to nationality they are going to be of course i'm saying despite tween course they're going to. see the delicate sectarian balance of this country hence leading to another war this is truly bizarre. politicians who oppose amendments to the law say it will have an impact on the demographic balance in the country lebanon's political system

is based on a sectarian power sharing agreement they particularly fear the presence of a large syrian and palestinian refugee population because they are from one sect. she is a member of parliament's women and children rights committee he says it is the right of every woman to pass on her nationality to her children but it has consequences when you hire twenty percent more. the vote in the county like lebanon is about four hundred people. ok where you have voters they don't. i mean two million two million and. a huge. there are no official statistics but non-governmental organizations say there are at least eighty thousand women married to foreigners women affected by the law are hoping things will change but acknowledge they are

facing an uphill battle then after their ashes into beirut. take you through some of the headlines here now to syria now egyptians are voting in a referendum that could grant president of the c.c. a longer term if they're in favor sisi could stay in office until twenty thirty also deciding whether to allow the president to appoint top judges and expand the role of the military fifty five million egyptians are able to take part. in the explosion followed by gunfire is being reported in the afghan capital kabul a police spokesman says it happened close to one of the city's main hotels and the communications ministry in an apparent reversal of u.s. policy president donald trump has offered support to libyan warlords khalifa haftar he's been leading a military offensive against the u.n.

recognize government in tripoli. to settle down there is no value to this telephone conversation between trump and hafter the revolutionaries are in every street and we respond to them from here in the street and not three press releases the powers that support terrorism in libya are france russia egypt saudi arabia and the emirates we condemn the criminal acts against the libyan people let you know that you have become a slimy the libyan people are again and again after you won three billion rule freedom science and culture you want to live as other people do. the first democrat to declare for the twenty twenty us presidential race is calling for donald trump to be impeached that's after the u.s. department of justice dismissed a subpoena by the democrats requesting an uncensored copy of a report into russian collusion those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story stay with us.

in australia more women are being locked up than ever before what's driving this alarming development one on one. inmates the block behind bars on al-jazeera. robert muller support is out but the controversy over donald trump's ties to russia is far from over this attorney general the senate is boss on thursday that democrats and many journalists accuse him of misleading the public to protect the president this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm richelle carey yes president on this declaring total victory after the release of a censored version of robert mahler's report on collusion between his two thousand

and sixteen campaign and russia but outside trump's inner circle many are reacting very differently and again with al-jazeera and jordan on what the long awaited mullah report does and does not tell us. donald trump's two thousand and sixteen campaign team was dogged by charges it was working with russia to throw the election his way but when robert muller was chosen to investigate those allegations this was trump's reaction oh my god this is terrible this is the end of my presidency now bowler's investigation is done and the four hundred forty eight page report with many sections blacked out is now public the special counsel's conclusion stated at least three times. accordingly while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime it also does not exonerate him as far as the u.s. attorney general is concerned trump is not in legal jeopardy bill barr says just

because muller's report is filled with details about contacts between the campaign and russian officials doesn't mean anyone committed a crime we collect this information we use that compulsory process for the purpose of making that decision the report confirms what the u.s. intelligence community believes russia did meddle in the two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign between trump and hillary clinton russian contacts with members of trump's inner circle where betty including with his son donald jr who is not be charged with any crime his lawyer michael cohen and campaign manager paul bana fort both cullen and man a ford are now headed to prison for a lawyer to the government about their actions however muller and his investigator say there's not enough proof of a bigger conspiracy or of presidential interference if we had called wouldn't after

a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice we would so state based on the facts and the applicable legal standards however we are able to reach that judgment. but mohler it gets never compelled to sit for an interview in the interest of time raising questions in congress and the general public about how thorough this investigation really was rosalyn al-jazeera washington an hour before the report was released attorney general william barr spoke to reporters he was later criticized for mischaracterizing some of the report's findings and for acting like one of president trump's personal attorneys rather than as a neutral law enforcement official in assessing the president's actions discussed in the report it is important to bear in mind the context president trump faced an unprecedented situation as he entered into office and sought to perform his

responsibilities as president federal agents and prosecutors were scrutinizing his conduct before and after taking office and the conduct of some of his associates at the same time there was relentless speculation in the news media about the president's personal culpability yet as he said from the beginning there was in fact no collusion are defended throughout the press conference saying the president cooperated fully with miller's investigation but the report did criticize trump for refusing to agree to an end person interview with the special counsel and for refusing quote to provide written answers to questions on obstruction topics or questions on events during the transition or also said that trump had done nothing to obstruct the investigation but according to the report trump order a top white house official to fire miller and then when that official refused ordered him to lie about it perhaps most importantly barr repeatedly said that the

report showed there had been no collusion between the truck campaign and russia but it actually says the russian government to try to help trump's campaign and that the campaign quote expected it would benefit electorally front end formations stolen and released through russian efforts. and bring in our guests now joining us from philadelphia is joe watkins republican political strategist and former white house aide to george h.w. bush here in doha clyde wilcox professor of government at georgetown university and again from philadelphia on sky claire finkelstein professor of law at the university of pennsylvania law school welcome to the program all of you clyde i'm going to start with you because we began this discussion yesterday right before the press conference when you joined me here on al-jazeera and you had some concerns going into the press conference for a number of reasons even the fact that there was a press conference before reporters or congress that had

a chance to see the report now that the press conference happened and the report has been released what are your thoughts on the things that the attorney general said many of which clearly do not jibe with the report. two things first of all obviously the attorney general was doing a campaigns even for donald trump but secondly i just don't understand the logic of the press conference at all because an hour later we have the report and we can see that most of what he said or much of what he said was at least more complicated and often just wrong and so i don't know what the audience for that press conference was joe. here is a representative of the republican point of view what was your take on the things that bill bore said and the fact that at least some of those things clearly ended up not being true or at the very least were

a mischaracterization of what the report actually said. well from a political standpoint what the bill barr said was helpful to the president tourney's general generally supposed to represent the united states government to be the chief prosecuting officer for the for the us government but in this case attorney general barr saw fit to hold a press conference which was very helpful to the president trump and what i mean is that for the majority of americans who will never read the over four hundred page report all they wanted to know was whether or not the report. concluded that the president had obstructed justice or had colluded. participate in collusion with the russians and when attorney general barr said that the end of the day the report shows that there was no collusion and the obstruction of justice for millions of americans that was enough certainly for people in the president's base but also for lots of voters around the country who were never going to read the report for them

that was enough so what the attorney general did from a political standpoint was very beneficial to the president does actually let me go back and get clear on this before i follow up on that claire do you agree with that assessment that there was already concern going into this about the choreography of this and the order of this and the fact that the reporters in the room weren't going to have the benefit of having read the report to ask pointed questions but do you agree with those point that what will probably happen going forward no matter how much reporting there is the takeaway for a lot of people will be the words that that bill barr said. people won't actually dig into the report do you agree with that. i do and the biggest concern that i have is the stress that bill barr laid on the fact that he was not found in dateable for obstruction of justice on substantive grounds barr seem to suggest when miller stresses all the way through the report the long

standing tradition of the justice department of not indicting a sitting president it seems therefore highly likely that muller was trying to send this to congress that he was very concerned about evidence of obstruction of justice that the fact that it was the president of the united states we were talking about and the justice department policy which a lot of people don't agree with was really the reason for his not moving ahead or at least a very large reason for his moving ahead and so it's a technical point bill barr however has really spun the narrative on that one and i think that's concerning. ok lets you set up a lot there so we're going to come back to a lot of it i first though i want i do want to ask you about the clip that we played a moment ago where. after bill maher said all of what he said that he pivoted and said let me put this in context and then started trying to explain it from his point of view why the president had been frustrated perhaps did the things he did

it i don't know if it's the tweets i'm not really sure but we explained the role of the attorney general yes the attorney general is nominated by the president but explain for our viewers what the role of the attorney general supposed to be. the attorney generals the chief law enforcement officer of the united states he is not the president's personal lawyer and what's really shocking is that when you have a report that details russian interference to subvert our election you would think that the chief law enforcement officer of the united states would be out there saying i am really concerned about the role the russians played in trying to impact our election and we are going to make sure that we are doing everything we can on law enforcement side to ensure that it doesn't happen again and you don't find any expressions of that his primary focus has been on exonerating the

president it's not an appropriate role for the attorney general or to be massaging the rollout of this report in any way joe does that concern you that we haven't seen any pushback or anger from the president or even largely from the republican party about the fact that clearly russia did involve itself in the election perhaps tampered with are you concerned just from a national security perspective that we haven't seen a real effort to make sure that doesn't happen again joe. well in a perfect world there would have been no press conference yesterday because the thing would speak for itself that is to say the report would have spoken for itself and there would have been no need for a press conference but there was and as i shared a little bit earlier it was politically very helpful to the president look at it politically republicans don't have anything to gain from from continuing the debate . about the muller report in the year two thousand and twenty which is

a presidential election year and also a us senate and us house election year they know that voters will be looking to. economy issues the health care as hard as just a moment and i do want to talk about those things i do but i just kind of want to pivot back to the question i asked are you or the republican party concerned about the fact that russia meddled in the election and the president has shown no anger about that. clearly republicans and many republicans are concerned about the fact that there was mentally ill in the election and many have called for to take steps to make sure that that doesn't happen again and i think that from the president on down there would be concern on the part of the republican party but as a political issue that clearly is not front and center while efforts will be made by republicans as well as democrats to make sure that no foreign entities ever have an impact on u.s.

elections going forward that won't be the front and central issue. for republicans because they're concerned about winning back the house of representatives in two thousand and twenty retaining control of the senate and retaining control of the white house in two thousand and twenty they're going to be doing all the things that it takes to retain the white house and to retain the senate ok we will get to the politics of this because i do want to talk about how voters may be processing this but the national security issue who who are will be taking the lead on trying to do something about russian interference who will because donald trump at least publicly has not he continues to deny that it happened and the best of my understanding is that he's blocked efforts by both the cia and the f.b.i. to begin to count her russian efforts and i think this is really major this was a massive interference it didn't just happen in america it happened in brecht's it it's attempted to happen in germany the germans managed to stop a lot of it and were doing nothing and the details here about hacking into even

county level voter data is really frightening and i think that both everyone and both parties should be coming together now and saying we can't let this happen again claire are you concerned that it will happen again. i think for sure it'll happen again the russians have really not abated their efforts i do think there have been improvements in electoral security this mostly that's happened on the state level that the federal government has offered some assistance with that the intelligence community has caught up but the trouble is that we have a president in the white house who very clearly from this report welcomed the assistance of a foreign power in order to win the election and it does appear that the republicans are not concerned about that issue which means that it could happen again ok i. know you are in the hot seat as the republican and we appreciate you

coming here and taking the questions and a question i do have for you is if all of these things that this report were about a democrat how do you think republicans would be reacting. well they might react the same way the democrats are reacting there usually isn't much difference in terms of how parties react to these kinds of issues just depends on who's in power and what their leverage is and right now the challenge for democrats who have the right is certainly in congress as a co-equal branch of government to investigate to subpoena or they can do all of that and they should do what they're supposed to do but nonetheless they're going to be held to the standard by the voters as to what did you accomplish in the two years that we gave you the majority did you bring about any meaningful legislation did you help move the ball forward politically and the investigations are important and will take place certainly i'm expecting that that attorney general muller will

be brought to testify before congress some i'm sure that that special prosecutor muller as well will be brought to testify before congress of both bar and miller will be brought to testify before congress but that being said a mesh americans going to be more fixated on the pocketbook issues as he's a lessons roll around in two thousand and twenty and democrats have to be concerned with how they how they get reelected ok so claire let's talk about what he said because he does make a valid point this seems to be this axis of evil crisis the democratic party is having right now you know we have a duty to and vesta gate things like this that is what our job is we also have to be concerned about the things that our our voters are concerned about and joe does make a good point the average voter may not be as kneedeep in this is everybody else they may be concerned about you know kitchen table issues as they say but what it's to that point what responsibility do the democrats still have even if this is not

something that is necessarily top of mind to voters. it's really extraordinary that if this is true that voters don't care about electoral security and about foreign interference this is not a democratic republican of course and i as i agree but i did say when asked secure but i assure you of the sorry as i was when i was i know i agree but if it even just pay attention to the types of questions that come up in town hall meeting for some of the candidates that are out there they often ask more about health insurance except her etc so i'm simply saying is that necessarily what should drive the democratic agenda when something this big is still out there i think that the democratic agenda is focused on many different issues i think health care has it is true what you say that the american people seem to be overwhelmingly concerned about health care and i think the democratic agenda will be focused on that as well

but i think what's really important here is that democrats and republicans ensure that whoever is elected is a true reflection of the american people's agenda and not injected by a foreign power and by the way this is not just a problem with the russians this particular report deals with russian interference in the twenty six thousand election but we know especially from foreign agent registration controversies in issues that ukraine and saudi arabia united arab emirates have all attempted to influence u.s. politics in various ways we have to get a handle on this issue on national security grounds and both parties have to address it together regardless of what the american people are focused on at the moment domestic issues will always rise to the forefront for the ordinary person because it's closest to their lives but it's the responsibility of the of the

elected leaders. to identify threats to u.s. national security and to bring those threats to the attention of the american public clyde this report. a common thing throughout the report is that. donald trump lies a lot it is clear in this report that is not a bias that as a fact he conducts his staff to lie press secretary sarah sanders admitted in the investigation that she blatantly lied and a press conference when she said that there were people from the f.b.i. coming up to her saying thank you for firing muller she admitted to the investigation that she lied and then when she was confronted about that on morning television in the u.s. today she said well i said it in the heat of the moment i'm not a robot what does it mean for the country that the boy in the face of the white house press conference the president himself are documented

repeated liars. well and it goes beyond this because actually there's been a cases where the president was instructing people to lie and they refused and those people are no longer in the administration so i you know it was talked a bit about precedent to bar mentioned precedent and actually we have the watergate scandal as a precedent right and in this particular case republicans and democrats came together because they saw a crisis and the crisis was a president obstruction of justice and it was howard baker who took the lead and said i need to know what the president knew and when he knew it so this is actually a moment i think when both parties should be coming together to deal with this particular issue it's true the cut the country cares about the economy but i would if i were a republican i would be holding a lot of hope and that basically donald trump is underwater still about ten points in a gallup poll with a three percent unemployment rate so i'm not sure there's good news there but this is a really important critical moment in american democracy and i think that i'm looking

for republican leaders to step up and make some critical comments here joe i think the question now going forward can you see m.p.h. mitt proceedings actually happening probably not i don't think there's any will among leading democrats like nancy pelosi and. house member clymer to pursue impeachment proceedings especially since they know that there's no will to impeach the president on the in the senate and the republicans republicans control the senate so i don't think that's likely there still be of course a strong clamor from progressive democrats to least consider impeachment proceedings but i don't expect that to happen. clyde what's your take do you think that there are actually will at the very least will there be more testimony before congress and do you think that there could also end up being and pitchman hearings well yes to more testimony no to impeachment there's certainly impeachable offenses in this report but it pietschmann is

a political and the senate would not convict and so i think the democrats in the house would probably be shooting themselves in the foot to focus on impeachment when the republicans were trying to impeach bill clinton for obviously much smaller . problems public opinion rallied around behind clinton and he actually again the public support but i think continued investigation and then you know what we can actually hope for is republicans in the senate democrats in the house coming together to find a way to block foreign intervention in our elections ok then you're going to get the last word on this claire same question do you see that there will be at the very least bob muller going before congress to testify and then perhaps also the beginnings of some sort of impeachment investigation do you think do you do you think that voters want that even to voters don't want that do you think the congress has a responsibility to do that will you bar will testify and i think it's highly

likely that robert mueller will testify after that and it's also important to highlight that adam schiff committee the house intelligence committee will continue to investigate especially the parts of the report that are hinted. redacted for national security reasons and then the national security issues that are related to that i do not forsee impeachment however for the reason already given which is that there would not be conviction in the senate so i don't think that democrats will perceive it as in the country's interest or in their interest to proceed with impeachment proceedings that would not result in conviction i want to have a follow up question i want to ask you when you mentioned are just is there a reason for have it if from just going to the public and having his own cock press conference and explaining this report himself. he's not prohibited from doing that but he's the consummate professional it would not be

a very professional thing for him to do so if congress demands as in effect they have that he testify that would be the more comfortable way for him to speak i think it's very important that we hear from him because of the lack of agreement between. attorney general barr and the way that the report came out with regard to . what should happen as next steps all right that will be the final word thank you to all of our guests joe watkins and claire finkelstein both in philadelphia and clyde wilcox right here and with us i'm sure they'll be plenty more to talk about on this thank you for watching as well you can see the program again any time visit our web site al-jazeera dot com for the discussion got our facebook page facebook dot com for slash a.j. and side story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle s. at a.j. and side story for me richelle carey in the entire tape i found out.

on counting the cost it's been called putin is trojan horse while russian banks move to hungary is picking up a still. populist governments threatening the independence of central banks and is it the end of the runway project a way counting the cost on argentina. she's the head of for generations of family and the bearer of forty years of suffering goes a heart or a him to refugee in her ninety's has fled persecution in myanmar three separate times in her life the first in one thousand seventy then one nine hundred ninety one and finally. in two thousand seventy. one there you'll be beaten

as they kidnapped us they detained does. google and her family span almost a century in the. bonded through blood and displacement they now all live in a single hut located in the world's largest refugee camp in many ways what's happened to this particular extended family really mirrors what's happened to so many other rohinton who face decades of repression and abuse the range of aren't just the world's largest group of stateless people they're also among the world's most persecuted minorities people having to wait your whole record on this trial in fact a few years ago there was place only for one state on the land of israel i do not believe in a two state solution the official story isn't there and i'm sure we all still are you i don't care about the official story if you were a little visit today you would say what has the media been telling the world isn't black and white there's lots to graze in here join me mad the hot sun on out front of my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top

stories and big issues here when i'll just era. with and for you. egyptians votes in a referendum on a called situational change that allows the president to stay in office till twenty thirty. times sam is a down this is al jazeera live from the halls so coming up. libyans

vent their anger against president donald trump over his support for more locally for half the. democratic presidential candidate elizabeth warren calls for the impeachment of trump a day after the release of the mother of paul. on certainty grip somali two days after the prime minister steps down following protests over ethnic killings. egyptians are voting in a referendum that could grant frozen up the fatah has a longer term if they're in favor sisi could stay in office until twenty thirty are also deciding whether to allow the president to appoint top judges and expand the role of the military fifty five million egyptians are eligible to take part but rights groups are concerned the vote won't be free or fair so what led to this poll

the proposals were put forward by a parliamentary bloc called support egypt it gained support from other groups arguing sisi needed more time to complete economic reforms the amendments were approved on tuesday in parliament and sent to a referendum that vote is happening over three days starting on saturday and is expected to pass if it does the amendments will go to the upper house of parliament the shura council for approval well earlier i spoke to one of the must see an associate professor at the institute for graduate studies he says with no independent election monitors the vote could easily be raped. i think you have to take votes that are held in military dictatorships with several grains of salt egypt has completely eliminated opposition it's an environment of repression and fear people are terrified to to to vote to express dissent just in this in the lead

up to this vote more than one hundred twenty people have been arrested for campaigning for the for the no vote so i think we'll have to take these results with a grain of salt or several grains of salt as it were we also have to remember that there are no independent independent election monitors so the government is free to rig the results as they've done as they've done in the past if c.c. were you know a genuinely interested in a sort of referendum on his popularity he'd hold a free and for a truly free and fair vote or he'd open the country up to scientific opinion polling which he has banned how did we get here while we got here because the egyptian military and the rest of the deep state learned a very important lesson from the arab spring from the revolutionary revolutionary protest movement and that is that they actually had to be considerably more repressive and then the previous mubarak regime they don't want to allow even a small chance for another kind of popular uprising that's why all the direct call me and legislation that's why the complete elimination of opposition that's why the

shutting down of opposition media just this week the egyptian government has shut down thirty four thousand web site domains. owned by people who were advocating the no vote in this in this amendment this referendum. now the breaking news coming out of afghanistan an explosion followed by gunfire has been reported in the capital kabul a police spokesman says it happened in the green zone native astri of communications shall about us joins us now on the line from kabul charlotte who's responsible. hello sir this happened. almost an hour ago announcing i got of them actually in the green i heard the explosion and then there was three to four minutes of heavy gunfire and in about fifteen minutes ago there's been another round about three minutes of the game he began by a quite close to. what we're hearing is that the explosion the initial explosion

took place inside the ministry of communication and information technology now that it's not actually inside the green zone but it is in the center console extortive that dissipate your pitch is the another ministry of information. across a small pot business arena hard to tell which is where a lot of investors stable journalists stay and a lot of foreign stay in the last. we have we don't get much information out other than to inside the ministry of communication saying that that that explosion took place with chide the area has been cordoned off station who has arrived to the sing . and. my producer was actually close to it at the time and he said to lose a lot of confusion panic people heard the explosion subsequently implying everyone tried to get out of the area feeling quickly. the smoothing at the serena hard tell

he was actually a large news conference going on. the information technology will media was invited and kind of high level people involved in the information technology sick so that was the kind of in that immediate hundred nations and it would have been happening at the time of. what appears to be a complex attack. also our own chief david wilson intelligent intelligence reports that came out that were leaked to the media saying that potentially there may be an attack and to stay clear of this arena hotel and government buildings and that area . and that they were the situation in the area and into a boy if you can share with or not that is related to what we're seeing now. if you got it all right thanks so much for that in an apparent reversal of u.s. policy. supports a libyan warlord khalifa haftar has been leading

a military offensive against the un recognized government in tripoli praised for fighting what he called terrorism and securing libya's oil earlier this month the secretary of state demanded an immediate halt to half dollars advance on the capital. after it was led to protests in tripoli that angry about foreign interference in libya leaders like trying to stay out of the country's affairs many were wearing yellow vests like those warning people protesting against the government. there is no value to this telephone conversation between trump and hafter the revolutionaries are in every street and we respond to them from here in the street and not three press releases the powers that support terrorism in libya are france russia egypt saudi arabia and the emirates we condemn the criminal acts against the

libyan people. the libyan people are again and again you want. science and culture you want to live as other people do. our correspondent in tripoli. has been following developments. people here seem to be angry about this support from president from they say especially those demonstrators whole took to the streets today and to the main squares in civil cities and the worst of libya especially in the capital tripoli and the city of misrata the major cities in the west of libya they say that there is some kind of contradiction in the american situation towards libya specially they were happy when the state secretary mike pompeo in an interview in a television interview said that must set down and must stop the military

escalation on tripoli but when they heard that there is support from president trump will have to via this call and it kind of saying get to have to take here or are you doing well people here have become very angry this say that they are wondering whether or not there is more important than people's blood here . over two hundred people were killed since have to launch at this military offensive on tripoli on april fourth many of them are innocent civilians women and children the saudi led coalition in yemen says it's targeted a rebel drone base in the capital sanaa both sides claim to have downed drones in recent days the media posted this video on friday it appears to show a saudi air craft being shot down over side of province earlier this how the coalition said it had hit a drone over the city of. mali is facing political

uncertainty after the resignation of the prime minister and his entire government on friday follows weeks of mass protests over ethnic violence more than one hundred sixty people that are fully village were killed last month by suspected gunmen from the rival doggone ethnic group demonstrators are angry at the government for failing to stop such killings also want something done about the poor economy and presence of foreign troops. joins us now live from capital bamako so the president's reached out to unusual move to the opposition is a government coming together. that's right i mean he's expected to meet members of the opposition today yesterday he met with members of the ruling party worth remembering just on wednesday in an unprecedented move members of parliament of both the ruling party and the opposition voted

a motion. of no confidence against prime minister my guy and his government so he's really trying to well he's under pressure to try to build a government of national unity because since his reelection back in august this country has been rocked by political instability because the outcome of that unless he was contested by most members of the opposition and so at stake here isn't just the political stability of this country but also the security situation my guess was really put under pressure we've seen massive protests says here on the streets of bamako on april fifth there were threat of more protests if you didn't resign so really the president had no choice but to listen to the streets and try to find some sort of solution here we're told that by the end of the weekend we'll have an answer at least we'll have some sort of inclination who the next prime

minister will be and what the new government will look like sami. what sort of security challenge though whatever government comes together will have to face and deal with. well that's the key is the reason why my guy was was really removed is because he you mean the president was reelected on this idea that he will bring back security for all molly and but since his reelection the situation has gone from bad to worse and mike has tried to rely on. security forces in order to restore security but they're just not trained this don't enough of them and so he started to rely on militia groups to bring back security in the areas where the mali armies were not present and he and we saw the prime minister with these head of militia groups some of them were involved in the them.