running their operations there but. that this is again goes to show the fragility of security in iraq and efforts are underway to try and figure out what actually happened thank you at least 12 people are feared dead after a fire at an animation studio in japan police are investigating as a possible cause of the blaze in the city of kyoto. just say more than 30 others were injured 10 of them seriously local media say a man has been taken into custody. for a short break here not just when we come back. calling for his resignation. donald trump supporters repeat his racist comments during the 1st. that.

hello there some of the best weather across southern portions of europe now we have of course the last you see more of those shots as thunderstorms pushing across areas in the southeast but eventually washing away from greece own tools taki out schools the northwest quite a band of cloud now this will continue to work its way quite quickly eastwards and they will see in those areas guys across much of the u.k. and across into the rain in scotland and then the rain you can see has scandinavia right there down in southern areas of france but it's scattered really are we will see quite a bit of cabot's a warm day in madrid 36 degrees clearing skies then for the temperatures will be on the rise very unsettled all the way across much of the baltics pushing on into western areas of russia so really keeping the temperature down particularly on friday in moscow just 19 degrees celsius quite some brisk winds too coming in from the west clearing skies are through much of poland blanket

a practical so central areas on more rain beginning to form in from the southwest but what it is doing is ushering in some very mild hotel which is actually on the rise 28 in paris and a very warm day madrid at 38 degrees celsius meanwhile know that africa is dry it is fine temperatures pretty good out across the northwest for about 23 and then it warms and cairo 39 celsius pretty good in tunis the next couple days at the hive 33 as we head on into friday.

welcome back a quick amount of top stories here on al-jazeera the u.s. house of representatives has abused the president by voting to block the sale of some alms to saudi arabia similar measure was passed by the senate last month but president trump's expected to veto the resolution. turkey has called the u.s. decision to suspend it from the f. 35 fighter jet program unfun saying it will harm their relations washington did this author to accept the delivery of russians as 400 defense system. the body of a turkish deputy consul general shot dead in the northern iraqi city of edibility wednesday is being taken back out into iraqi kurdish civilians were killed and then

i stopped at a restaurant. now they bombed the outbreak in the eastern democratic republic of congo is now an international health emergency announcement by the world health organization it was made just days after the virus spread to the city of goma that's a major regional hub on the border rwanda the boat has claimed at least 1600 lives in the region in the past year catherine so reports from the kenyan capital nairobi . after hours of deliberations by them i didn't see kmita of the world health organization over the state has of a point in the democratic republic of congo members have decided it requires a vigorous international response there is concern about the below from. a good way even though so far no cases were unusually effective in this. these days appointment there has been a recurrence of the tense transmission in baby. that the geographical

expansion. from 500 kilometers. or define it is going for a full year in. the meeting was called off top preacher traveled to the temple about 200 kilometers north of the city of goma to pray for the sick tested positive on his arrival back he died this week at the border between goma and rhonda health workers taking no chances rhonda has already told citizens to avoid traveling to go . the w.h.o. committee has warned against closing buddhas and district trades. darcey government officials say many of those who came in contact with the preacher had been vaccinated and it's unlikely the will spread father but asked still consigns is a key city. i can't afford to be afraid because if i'm scared of carrying someone

i'll get no clients and that means no money so warshel i eat. what will we do now children because of this i'm very watered. more than a 1000000 people leave and sitting at the tip of lake it's easy to travel to other countries in the region as well as other parts of the. nations in affected areas have intensified this is benny in north kivu province where there is concern that more people are getting sick there's also concern about the disease spreading to uganda health workers in south west uganda are vaccinating people who could have come in contact with the congresswoman who visited the pond where market to trade a few days ago she died of a boiler when she returned home the government says she did not cross a formal border point where she'd have been screened this is the same region where a child tested positive for

a boy last month after his mother took him back to d'arcy to bury his father the child who later died due to a death toll of more than 1600 in the past year cathy zoi al-jazeera now. the us president has stepped up his attacks on the 4 democratic congress in one of color while addressing supporters in north carolina it was trump's 1st rally since his racist tweets in which he told a for politicians to go home our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports from greenville. historic greenville north carolina is a southern town with a diverse economy centered around health care and education so it's not surprising there are many here unhappy with their president's tweets targeting 4 female congress women of color saying if they don't like the united states they can leave .

with. no matter how distasteful many believe donald trump might be across town at his 1st campaign rally since announcing his re-election bid defended his attacks on the for congresswoman and launch new attacks on congresswoman. she looks down with contempt on the hard working american saying that ignorance is pervasive in many parts of this country. omar has a history of launching vision and. screen. omar responded on twitter to the crowd chanting center back with a poem from american civil rights activist maya angelo still as trump addressed

supporters he insisted he's helped communities of color by lowering unemployment. failed vote in the house of representatives to impeach him as a victory and a wanted. polls show a majority of u.s. voters twitter attacks on the congresswoman as an american but polls also show most conservatives support the president's controversial stay. 8 minutes so expect trump to employ more not less race baiting in his reelection campaign as he vilifies the female democratic lawmakers many now call the squad trolls tactic of labeling a group of female congress women is vicious socialist the left wing cranks appears to be part of a broader strategy designed to use american pride 7 to not only hold on to a base of support but also when new voters can really help get al jazeera

greenville north carolina a u.s. court has sentenced mexican drug lords. to life in prison plus 30 is he was convicted in february of murder conspiracy and drug trafficking prosecutors say he's so more than $12000000000.00 worth of illegal drugs this would be the 1st time guzman's been jailed escaped prison in mexico twice once through a tunnel dug under his toilet. lawyer says the trial was unfair and he'll appeal against the decision this case was simply an inquisition it was a show trial and how it ended is exactly perfect for that description in that. it didn't make a difference what the jury. saw what they said what they discussed what they voted on at the end of the day all that mattered was the government's evidence about how flawed it may have been no matter how many lunatics and sociopaths and psychopaths

that it depended on all that mattered was the evidence and the jury be damned protests against puerto rico's embattled governor have turned violent in the capital san juan it's been several days since protest has took to the streets against a leader they say is intolerant and corrupt. as the latest. i i fighting in rioting on the cobblestone streets of the historic district of san juan puerto rico anger directed at the governor they say disrespects his own people the protesters are furious after nearly $900.00 pages of gov ricardo rosello his private text messages were leaked publicly last week messages that were pulled her and sexist summit made fun of obese people mocked political opponents and seemingly joked about the thought of killing the female mayor of san juan he's admitted the messages were his and apologized but said he won't step down so the people are

trying to force him out he hasn't been the best governor but when those checks got late we know that he hit right rock bottom like there's no way that this guy could continue governor puerto rico we need our strong leader we need someone to. guide us in the right way what started as small protests have turned into huge street demonstrations with tens of thousands of people now protesting from all walks of society young people old people even people that belong to the governor's political party now all out here with the same message not asking him to step down . but now demanding it it's the worst political crisis in puerto rico's history 2 cabinet members who took part of the texting the secretary of state have resigned but being mocked and ridiculed by their leader has seemingly united 3000000 puerto ricans against rosello.

it's not. our people. that's been. time and time again and we've had enough with the government caught in scandal over text messages to people saying the only way out is for the man who sent them to leave. san juan puerto rico police in the philippines have given what they call the real numbers in the government's war on drugs they say that between july 26th and april this year more than 5000 people were killed but human rights groups say that number is closer to 27000 residents. of the campaign 3 years ago last week the u.n. human rights council voted to investigate thousands of killings into the crackdown with. human rights office at amnesty international in the philippines he says the report on those killed puts pressure on the government to be accountable. amnesty

international and together with our partners as well locally and internationally we're very happy with the results of course. it's not as strong as you would like it to be but at the end of the day it's the 1st step that we need. hopefully a justice and some sort of establishing the reality in the facts in the philippines because as far as we're concerned this government hasn't done anything to really address you know the situation in the philippines i mean regardless of the numbers being presented whether it's 542526600 with additional more than $32800.00 votes again at the end of the day that's too many deaths that is still many that's and i don't see any recent why this government should be pushed and should be made to realize that. it's a long time coming you know making people laugh out of all protests have been held

in new york on the 5th anniversary of the death of eric garner who was killed by a police officer's chokehold the demonstrations coming after 3rd world prosecutors decided not to prosecute a white policeman in bold in the case until a it was accused of placing ghana in a choke hold that contributed to his death from 2014 his death helped spawn the black lives not a movement on his family is demanding the pan tomato be fired. prosecutors have dropped a case accusing the actor kevin spacey of groping a young man in a bar in the u.s. state of massachusetts and 2016 spaces accuser refused to testify over text messages the defense said were deleted spacy had denied the claims being faces other accusations one us up to claims that when when he was 14 years old spacey made a sexual advance on climatology and politics. a refugee who fled violence in his native ivory coast and made his way to france was performing a play about his experiences of the other new york theater festival.

a haunting song of survival. cannot say uses music to tell the story of a young refugee called jack who and his terrifying journey from ivory coast to france but the play is not fiction it's based on cannot take life. the country wasn't safe there was war so young yack you had to flee to save himself. cannot he was a student when violence forced him to flee his town he went north crossed borders and spent time in a refugee camp in tunisia before being sold into slavery in libya and imprisoned underground is on his own side in the bowels of libya music kept me alive i saw my fellow prisoners sinking depressed and all i thought about was singing so i sang in the cells music allowed me to stay alive. cannot he says the plays helped him

come to terms with his past and he hopes it will help people understand refugees. exile is one of the main themes of this year's avignon theater festival the southern french city is hosting nearly 2000 defense this exhibition shows the work of rescue ships in the mediterranean sea. several performances at the festival focus on how conflict violence and poverty forced people to leave their homes for one play calls a different light on refugees by showing how some people risk their lives and embark on dangerous journeys for reasons that are unexpected. a young man's strained relationship with his father and dreams of a more exciting life drive him to leave the kenya fast so for europe. to sometimes we don't know the full story of why people leave it's not always

because of war but their desire to discover other things can lead them into terrible situations we have to understand that. no matter how many wars we want to build migration will continue it's one of the big stories for page it is there the performances in avignon on the subject of refugees are all different but there's a common purpose to tell stories of individuals and the force if human resilience in the face of unimaginable adversity natasha al-jazeera france. stop a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the u.s. house of representatives has reviewed the president by voting to block the sale of some arms to saudi arabia a similar measure was passed by the senate last month for president trump expected to veto the resolutions turkey's call the u.s. decision to suspend it from the f. $35.00 fighter jet program unfair saying it will harm their relations washington

acted out to turkey accepted the delivery of the russian s 400 and defense systems but later 2nd a journalist come to turkey's defense and praised his role in the alliance i'm saying that turkey as a nato member is much more than. the body of the turkish deputy consul general shot dead in the northern iraqi city of arab build on wednesday is being taken home he and 2 iraqi kurdish civilians were killed in the attack at a restaurant at least 12 people are feared dead after a fire at an animation studio in japan police are investigating awesome as a possible cause of the blaze in the city of kyoto firefighters say more than 30 others were injured 10 of them seriously local media sandman's been taken into custody. the world health organization has declared the bone an outbreak in the eastern democratic republic of congo an international emergency is concerned the virus could spread quickly after cases surfaced in densely populated areas

bordering rwanda and uganda has claimed at least 2 lives in the democratic republic of congo in the past week including one in the crowded city of goma. the u.s. president just stepped up his attacks on 4 democratic congresswoman of color while addressing supporters in north carolina i am am i in. the crowd chanted sent her back because donald trump launched into a tirade against one of the woman. she along with the other 3 had been the focus of days of presidential tweets condemned by the house of representatives as racist police in the philippines are given what they call the real numbers in the government's war on drugs they say that between july 26th enough to april this year more than 5000 people were killed but human rights organizations say that number is closer to 27000 last week the u.n. human rights council voted to investigate thousands of killings linked to the

crackdown. or those with the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story staging them so watching i thought. it's 50 years since the world war 2 as u.s. astronauts last set off on the mission many of them to participate or ordered then modeled as they made the 1st uncertain steps i'm horrible. for. joining us as we look at the ingenuity and those who made the journey of a 111 possible. landing 50 years on and al jazeera new special. racist that's how the u.s. house of representatives has described president all times comments about for congress one that as he remains defiant what does that mean for race and ethnicity in the u.s. and for next year's presidential election this is inside story. hello

and welcome to the program. president donald trump's comments about 4 congress women are racist and strongly condemned that's the conclusion of the u.s. house of representatives which passed a resolution to rebuke the president it was backed by $240.00 votes to 187 but with only 4 busy republicans giving their support trump has launched a series of attacks on the congress women of color known as the squad telling them to go back to the crime infested places from which they came the politicians alexandra cortez ayana president and. born in the u.s. and it came as a refugee aged 12 the remarks have been widely denounced mainly by democrats who have renewed calls to new once and pietschmann to proceedings against trump. these

comments from the white house are disgraceful and disgusting and the comments are racist how shameful to hear him continue to defend those offensive words words that we have all heard him repeat not only about our members but about countless others while the vast majority of republicans have failed to condemn tom's comments i wonder if when we are tempted to accuse our sister or brother our fellow american political foe or even this madam speaker of racism by the way i do not believe the president is a racist i do not believe the speaker this house is a race i do not believe the majority leader is a racist i do not believe the minority leader's race we can go down as one i do not believe that and while we insist on using this floor to litigate the propriety of statements made outside these walls we assign a lot of wicked intent to a lot of tweets. and despite the widespread criticism of his comments trump has refused to back down and continues to tell the congress when they can leave america

they should love our country they should know it or you look at what they've said i i have clips raised here the most vile horrible statements about our country about israel about others. it's up to them to do what they want they can believe they can stay but they should love our country and they should work for the good of our country. well let's bring in our guests now in washington d.c. we have rhenish on she is a republican strategist and consultant in fort lauderdale florida we have christopher metzler he's a conservative commentator and author of the book divided we stand the search for america's soul and in san francisco we have christine pelosi she is a democratic strategist and the daughter of the house speaker nancy pelosi welcome to you all right to start with i do want to read you all a subsequent treat from donald trump after the initial tweets that we heard he says

those tweets were not racist i don't have a racist bone in my body christopher you're a staunch supporter of the president where the president's initial comments racist . there in my view the president's comments were not roses at all here and fox was expressing an opinion that is held by many people the difference is he says what he has to say it is not politically incorrect about it i don't see the racial angle here are on this tweet i'm christopher i do want to ask you about that because you're saying that he's saying that other people say same the similar views and therefore it's not racist but surely other people could also have racist views or just saying that he's speaking on behalf of lots of people doesn't make his tweets not racist. well in fact the president look in my experience i have no reason to believe that the president of the united states is

a racist in fact even as soon as he came down the escalator and before people of always hammered this notion that oh he's a racist he's a racist ok so if america were to label him a racist clearly as the house just did in its resolution then one you know what we should be talking about is we should be talking about the lives of all americans the president is a patriot he continues to be a patriot and this notion that his tweets were racist just simply don't make any sense and the notion of you know people saying well go back he said go back or you came from i don't believe he said that at all and in fact i am an immigrant to limber legal immigrant to this country and this notion of go back to where you came from didn't come across to me at all in this message ok as i want to that

tweet verbatim christopher he said it's so interesting to see a progressive democrat congresswoman who originally came from countries his governments are a complete and total catastrophe of the west my scripts and i'll stop there but he did say that they originally came from other countries but 3 of them were born in the united states and at this point i want to be done in a shot because i believe raina you're no stranger to these sentiments yourself not at all and i've been a lifelong republican long before this president was and i'll tell you in 2016 when i was one of the 1st public republicans to speak out against him i was an elected delegate to the republican national convention and i was on fox news and i said that i had trouble supporting this candidate and was not sure if i would vote for him in the general election afterwards i received all kinds of vitriol from a seemingly across the country. in the form of voice mails text messages e-mails telling me to go back to my country verbatim mistakenly calling me a muslim going for me and saying that i was not a real republican

a lot of these people identified themselves as some trump supporters and it's been documented this wasn't black and white given to me i was basically attacked for just speaking my mind exercising my 1st amendment right and i understand the president of the united states has that right as well but what he said in those tweets on sunday and subsequently has proven exactly who he is he's told us who he is now we've already know that he peddles in hate and rhetoric that is divisive however after this if you flip the script it's very easy to see this was textbook racism his supporters say that this was not his intense intent sorry to be racist however it's hard to see anything different because when you question how american someone is to tell them to go back to their place of origin simply based on the color of their skin that is the definition the appear to me of racism and of this one i want to bring in christine because we had your mother denounce those tweets as racist on on the house floor i'm guessing you agree with her. absolutely and

let's be clear about 2 things 1st of all when donald trump 1st appeared on the scene he and his father were being sued by the government for refusing to rent to black people when he came down into the public domain he was he was making a judgment about the central fark 5 the exonerated 55 black teenagers who is it turns out did not rape and be a jogger in new york city calling for the death penalty he never apologized to that when he ran for president coming down that escalator he talked about. all sorts of ethnic groups and attacked them one by one so the tweet was donnelly textbook racism but literally textbook if you look at the e.e.o.c. definition the equal employment opportunity commission definition of what is workplace racism one of the lines and examples they use is when people say go back to your own country so as rena points out people have been bullied by that not just

people speaking out on television not just these 4 congress women but every day people my stepson's latino in in our world are trying to raise an equality generation with my stepson and my daughter you know their friends their communities their public school classmates see this happen to them and see these conversations happen so when you're the president of the united states your words carry the most weight of anyone on the entire planet that is why yesterday when the house of representatives voted to condemn the racist comments they were invoking the words of republican icon ronald reagan who in his farewell speech to the nation talked about the fact that we have to continue to keep america open to immigrants and also that anyone from all over the world when they come to america can become. as american as people who were born here and just on a final note we have to really move past the racist comments and. and into the

racist policies the house tomorrow is going to vote to raise the minimum wage a federal minimum wage for the 1st time in over 10 years closing the racial wealth gap by doing that and pushing that example out to big companies like mcdonald's to say give your workers a wage so it's not just about the comments and the hate crimes that they inspire it's also about the racist policies that we need to dismantle and on that i would hope we could have some common ground christopher i say vigorously shaking your head that so let me ask you about one of the things that christine just said which was that it wasn't about necessarily what was said not just about what was said but who was saying it and that it was coming from the highest office in the land and what would you say to that ok. you know again we're going in circles here in my for my standpoint from my experience i don't see the race issue number one number 2 if

we're going to talk about what's going on and who said what it was a couple of days ago that a overseas said that in fact speaker pelosi is racist. so we've got that going on and let me go to the minimum wage question raising the minimum wage yes she did she said they were targeting and to go back to your textbook definition. she said that in fact the speaker was targeting women of color if that is not racist then i don't know what it's. and as it relates to the minimum wage issue or you're going to raise the federal minimum wage ok if that's what you want to do look at the amount of people that's going to put out of jobs and so if democrats are happy with doing audio enters out how a phony a girly study said absolutely none. and i want to thank you i miss her and i would

also i think. that you'll let me get emotional then i want to not of course guys i'm going to come in hand sorry i'm watching you get quite emotional rain and i'm going to ask you what the source of that yes i'm really sorry you know i just didn't think i would get this passionate about it i've been talking about this for 3 days and i'm a young woman of color somebody who was born in southern west virginia i was born to immigrants from uganda and india and my parents were incredibly successful productive members of society american society they gave job they've created hundreds of jobs they have never taught me to look at the color of someone's skin and judge their american is based off of that the fact that mr metzler does not see the president's words to be a problem since when did we start to disagree about president united states using proper words i have a child in preschool i do teach my child to not name call to not judge people based on the color of their skin i am thankful i am not

a white house adviser i would not want to work in this white house i was never offered a job there nor would i ever seek one out but let me tell you this if i was advising this president i would have said stay out of this spat between d.n.c. pelosi and these 4 young black and brown women what was between them is between them he does need to speak up but why he spoke up is because it's in his heart of hearts that he doesn't like these little brown and black girls who are dead democratically elected congress women who have the ability given to them by the constitution and check his power he has such a problem with women ok but let me tell you this it took this weekend to really tell me to show me that he has a problem with black and brown women he can't stand that we are powerful and that we are equal to him in this just society so you know what i don't like when new immigrants like mr meltzer come here and say that this is all ok it's not ok this president's not a republican because he has no respect or love for liberty or the constitution or freedom ok right at this point i'm going to i want to play some of what we heard from the congresswoman in question here and their reaction to what donald trump

said in his initial tweets as have a listen he does not know how to defend his policies so what he. is attacking us personally. and that is what this is all about are encouraging the american people and all of us in this room and beyond to not take the bait this is a disruptive distraction from the issues ok here concern and consequence to the american people right so christopher i'm going to ask you that is this a strategy then on the part of president trump we've been hearing broad condemnation of people being held in these awful conditions and border detention centers and now we see him potentially change the subject and make it about the race of members of congress i mean it's a pretty effective strategy if that's what it is. well is there a strategy behind that i don't know i haven't spoken to the president so i don't

know that and let me say it's not the president that changes the message it is the media who simply follows each and every tweets that tweet that those are his words out. to. ok well i understand that there are his words but question was is that a change of strategy and so the media simply is changing the subject over and over again look if you don't like the president's tweets if you don't like any of that don't report on him don't look at them go about the business of running the country if that is what congress wants to do then that is in fact what congress should be doing rather than obsessing over the president's tweets christopher the media. is the president of united states and on that note i'm going to be interesting. because i want to ask you about the votes

that we saw in congress when this was undoubtedly news so let's talk about the voters we in that vote we saw only 4 republicans vote. in favor of that resolution and since since the initial tweets out of $251.00 republicans in congress very few i believe less than 20 have even criticized his words so going back to the voters it did force the each member to have to choose to go on record one way or the other so this was smart politics on the part of the democrats christine was that the path. the plan is to protect people from what donald trump is doing with his words with his twitter feed and with the power of the executive branch there are inhumane conditions at the border that's what was being discussed last week and that was the context in which people were having a fight over the best way to get the kids out of those camps and to have humane

immigration policy last week his labor secretary in charge of fighting human trafficking mr costin had to step down because of a sweetheart deal that he gave to pedophile jeffrey as sting and that case is still reverberating as brave women are coming forward and talking about how they were raped as girls by this terrible person including some of them allegedly after this deal was cut so let's be clear it is much easier. too for the media and here i would agree with christopher the media on the one hand can can choose to multitask and should in fact multitask members of congress absolutely had to condemn those tweets because 1st of all there were attack on 4 members of congress which led to increased death threats against them put their safety in jeopardy and and 2nd as i mentioned and as reno mentioned with with her child you're talking about children who are listening and once the president says

it. if the president can say it then anyone can say it you know in a schoolyard in a store on an airplane you know everywhere anywhere and that's the danger is that our society. should be one in which we respect each other and we're trying to work through our differences not one in which we insult and harm each other you know the rate of of hate crimes is going up and unfortunately for the most marginalized people in america the trauma of this president is going to cost us for years to come and that's why we have to fix it and that's why as congresswoman presley said we can't take the bait we have to keep talking about about health care about wages about respect about dignity because that's the work of the congress that's being done and and those are bills frankly the president should support and sign rene your republican strategist and i want to get your take on the news and reaction

we've been hearing from republicans on this is this about trying to walk that tightrope between especially for those in divest states between their constituents and not raising the republican base and supporting president trump. look there are marette of issues here layered one on top of the other and i tell you as somebody who's kind of grown up in the party and has seen some really great republicans across the country always give me opportunities and allow me to share my origin story one in which i talk about my father's side being from uganda being thrown out by a dictator being told we had to go back to india when 3 generations of my family was currently living in uganda so i love the fact that every american i've met through my 30 some years i has always embraced me as a fully american but somebody is having a rich ancestry and heritage that i'm proud of and speak to but but understand that i'm committed to the ideas of creating a freer and more just society and creating opportunity for people despite whatever

zip code they were born in we can all agree on some basic principles and the republicans i continue to speechwriter for and advice today i still believe that they are good people and that just because the occupant of the oval office acts the way in which he does this party is not yet dead yes there are so many people that lack the moral courage to speak out against trump's abysmal actions and words however we have a greater task on our hands and that's to keep our republic to fix it to continually fix it our founders said they gave us a republic if we can keep it right so for my my duty for my daughters my my duty is to really talk about the american way and how we create opportunity for everyone but when we're stuck in the muck when we see situations like this where look i have never been a fan of speaker pelosi until more recently i remember being a young hill staffer and remembering the day she got this speaker's gavel smiling and feeling happy i was working in a republican member of congress' office at that time i was happy that

a woman had the gavel however i have serious differences with her policy wise but in this moment i think what we can acknowledge is that she has been a leader and there there is something that's very true here that we must acknowledge to the despite being. leader had she been a black speaker and these 4 women were white skinned trump would not have tweeted this stuff he could because he can't tell white skinned women to go back to where they came from and on that note i'm going to bring in christopher he's shaking his head again christopher i do also want to throw this forward looking at the election next year i'm going to ask you to react to that but i also want your take on whether this is going to change the playing field going into the 2020 president selection. well i you know at this point and i fully believe that in fact the president is going to be easily reelected here's why the president has made some significant strides relative to the economy as a relates to block unemployment the president has done

a phenomenal phenomenal job relative to that as it relates to businesses as a relates to opportunity zones are all of these things it is the actions that have been taken by the president that is going to make a difference as he returns to the white house in 2020 and let me just say part of the far story and here is that if we look at and there's all this conversation about what the president tweeted and what the president said here's the thing there is a significant concern about how left the democratic party is growing and in fact if you look out some of the members of the squad did not one of them say say that she is there to impeach that m.f. really referring to the president of the united states do we not have anti-semitic

comments coming from some members of the squad so let's be clear if you're going to criticize the president on what he does what he says the language he uses as it relates to impeach that m.f. so that's ok because it was it then line of print can i ask you to but it was said . of the squad i do want to bring in kristan on that exact issue the issue of impeachment because democrats have been. very split over the session here and now articles of impeachment have been filed in congress and that could potentially help unite the right and christine we don't have much time left i'm going to ask you to respond very quickly how split on the democrats on this idea than teaching the president. democrats 1st thank you for your comments earlier i do i do think it is true that while donald trump insults everybody he takes particular glee and malice in attacking women of color powerful women of color it's something that he whether it's you know maxine waters or the squad more recently

a federico wilson who still owed an apology because she was right about what had happened in news year to her constituent and so who is who is killed in the military serving over there so the fact of the matter is the economy the obama economy is cooking along it's not doing enough we need to do more the president can't count on racial animus and voter suppression the way he could and russian assistance the way he could in 2016 on the issue of investigating the president we are pursuing rick vigorous investigation we will see what happens as we follow the facts and robert mueller comes in as one who is a hamilton elector a member of the electoral college who pushed for a briefing to the electors before we voted on the trump russia connection we didn't get that but we got an independent investigation. conducted by mr moller so i think all eyes and all ears are going to be on mr moller on july 24th so ask me again

after that testimony where democrats are where americans are but i think we're getting closer to moments of accountability while i think we're 70 getting closer to my moments of of people trying to come together and i'm glad to put that we all could come together for this discussion as as difficult as it has been so thanks very much to what our guests rina shah christopher metzler and christine put icy and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for a further discussion do you guys have a facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story from mena stasia take on the whole team here life and.

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jordan this is obvious here on live from doha also coming up the body of a turkish diplomat gunned down in a restaurant near arab in iraq is on the way back. to rico's governor defies protesters calling for his resignation after stengel of online shops plus. i'm currently in village east java indonesia where the world's plastic waste problem and the failures of the recycling system. the u.s. house of representatives has reviewed the president by voting to block the sale of some alms to saudi arabia a similar measure was passed by the senate last month but president trumps expected to veto the resolutions as it was my kind of reports now from washington d.c. the joint resolution is passed. the house passes 3 bills expressing disapproval of

sales to saudi arabia 238 vote in favor 190 against the 1st bill dealt with the sale of precision guided missiles the 2nd with the export of smart bombs and the 3rd was aimed at blocking the sale of fuses needed to detonate the missiles and bombs the bulls had earlier been passed in the senate and will now go to the white house. but president trump has made clear he exercises veto and it appears neither house nor senate could raise the 2 thirds majority that would be needed to reject the veto and possum laws without presidential signature yet this bipartisan move by congress will have an impact this moment congress is clearly not interested in excel or reading american support for saudi arabia in its war in yemen and does not like having its authority usurped by the executive branch when it comes to approving arms sale so it's making a statement it's laying down

a marker it understands that the president will ultimately get his way but over time it can wear down the opposition and potentially even override a veto. there are layers of reasons for congress's anger about president trump's relationship with saudi arabia earlier this year the president vetoed a bipartisan bill demanding an end to u.s. support for saudi's war in yemen. then he invoked emergency legislation citing a threat from iran to override a congregational ban on weapon sales and thirdly this still intense and gain congress that the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi and the steadfast refusal of president trump to hold the saudi leadership accountable but even if or when the president vetoes the latest round of legislation there will be more to come in particular a bull demanding a report from the u.s. intelligence community about the call shoji murder that has been included in the house version of the defense authorization bill 2020 that was passed by

a resoundingly vote of 405 to 7 mike hanna al-jazeera washington turkey has called the u.s. decision to suspend it from the f. 35 fighter jet program unfair saying it will harm their relations washington says it acted after turkey began accepting deliveries of russia's s 400 air defense system last week the u.s. has tried for months to persuade ankara to pull out of that deal america's concern that moscow could gain access to secret military technology if turkey acquires both the f. 35 jets and the s 400 missile system where nato secretary general has expressed concern about turkey's expulsion from the program and praised its role in the alliance. and saying that turkey as a nato member is much more than 400. so i'm cos the only joins us live now from istanbul so i'm so turkey says this decision by the us is unfair how damaging could this be to relations between ankara and washington. well when you look at

turkey's foreign ministers immediate response to the suspension decision it seems turkey still keeps the diplomacy door open in order to negotiate with the united states because circus foreign minister's statement said that they expect the u.s. to reverse this decision also turkey it highlights that they had their requests for a joint committee in order to investigate whether this $400.00 would really intercept the intelligence from f. $35.00 so not because as far as it was reported earlier in the turkish media if a committee says that this for hundreds are problematic after some technical tests then turkey would have the right to give up on this $400.00 system but the u.s. has always avoided a void to establish this joint committee upon turkish requests also when i speak to

the military and turkish military members who are so who have served in the nato they also say that the nato members say that the u.s. doesn't have a proper explanation to them either also we have to look at the terms of the contract here daryn because now turkey says that this is a unilateral u.s. decision the f. 35 fighter jet program has 9 members in its cold sore seem including turkey and the united states so far we don't know whether it is the decision of only united says or does united states have the approval of the other consortium member countries including the u.k. netherlands denmark and many others also when you look at the when i speak to the defense industry specialists and again in military members who have served in the nato they tell me that the. this f. 35 program which has been ongoing for a long time has the term that no one can kick out any member any part the country

by itself and no part of a culture can say that i will be out if you say that i circulate say if you say that i'm going to be out of this project then you have to compensate for the losses of the other countries so this is an important detail that that has to be this has to be figured out and of course as i said turkey is seems to be ready for more trade offs but the us some of them thank you at least 20 people are feared dead after a fire at an animation studio in japan police are investigating arson as a possible cause of the blaze in the city of kioto firefighters say more than 30 others were injured 10 of them seriously local media say a man has been taken into custody. but the body of the turkish deputy consul general shot dead in the northern iraqi city of irbil is being taken back home he and 2 kurdish civilians were killed in an attack on a restaurant on wednesday some of been devalued reports from baghdad. it was just

another meal at the local restaurant in their view the capital of iraq's northern kurdish region but soon after a turkish diplomat and his colleague sat down a gunman entered and opened fire. goodish intelligence sources believe multiple attackers were involved but only one carried out the killings the turkish deputy consul general was shot at point blank range and died instantly so far no one has claimed responsibility iraq's foreign ministry has condemned the incident and kurdish authorities have launched an investigation the turkish president tweeted after the killing i condemn the heinous attack against our consular staff a new deal i wish god's mercy for our personnel who were martyred we are continuing our initiatives with the local and iraqi authorities to find the perpetrators as soon as possible the turkish foreign minister says turkey is ready to assist. according to information we gathered a turkish diplomat stationed in our consulate was attacked by 3 people while she was eating lunch in a restaurant

a colleague passed away make god have mercy on his soul. with borders extending to syria turkey and iran northern iraq has remained a complicated international battleground in the eastern part iranian forces have been targeting iran kurdish fighters while turkey has also been targeting kurdish separatists in northern iraq the kurdistan workers' party your p.k. has denied responsibility after speculation in turkish media since iceland's defeat security has been relaxed in iraq's kurdish region many aid organizations run their operations from a real because the northern city is viewed as relatively secure but this attack on the turkish diplomatic team go through the fragility of security in iraq. baghdad. joins us live now from you've been talking to witnesses on the ground one of a been telling you. during we're getting a more vivid picture of exactly what happened inside this turkey coffee shop on

wednesday afternoon in erbil i'm actually standing in the upscale neighborhood where this hit took place it's a very short walk from our bureau here. and the coffee shop is behind me now with this is our telling us the following that on wednesday afternoon 2 men pulled up in front of the coffee shop handed the keys to a valet attended one of them saying keep the car running will be out in a minute then according to witnesses the 2 men walked in but one man with guns in both hands began shooting he shot and killed a total of 3 people were told after the shooting that a total of 3 men left the copy shop at the coffee shop the implication being that one man had been sitting inside the coffee shop serving the turkish diplomat we know that a total of 3 men have died a turkish diplomat identified by turkey as osman cosi was from the southern port

city of merson he leaves 2 children behind and there were 2 iraqi kurdish men who we're told were actually customers inside the coffee shop having the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time there are social media tributes now being paid to both of these men natasha what's the latest on the investigation into who was behind this attack. well there are no suspects in custody just yet and the big question is who and why and suspicion is shifting to the kurdistan workers party or p k k a little bit of context the p.k. k. is an armed pro kurdish group it's been deemed a terrorist group by turkey the united states and the e.u. to name a few it is a big but not a unified or centralized group we did have someone from the military wing of the

p.k. k. come out yesterday saying that the p.k. k. was not responsible for this hit on the turkish diplomat but again bear in mind what i just told you it's possible there could be splinter groups with the p k k that might perhaps have carried out the hit but again this is great speculation but you know historically the p.k. k. has found a safe refuge if you will here in northern iraq it is a kurdish regional government it is a mountainous region that borders turkey and historically because of that the kurdistan regional government has had a bit of a tense relationship with turkey but as of late turkey and the federal government in iraq have been cooperating in what's been described as counterterrorism operations to fight terrorism and they include p.k. k. in that umbrella mission prior to the hit yesterday turkey had carried out.