department in particular which it accuses of blocking information that legally the congregational committee should receive in the interests of protecting the president the congressional committee has now subpoenaed the acting director of intelligence to appear before it next week to explain why he did not follow constitutional and legal procedure and forward vetted complaint to the relevant committee in congress or clear finkelstein is a professor of law at the university of pennsylvania law school she says this is a significant development. this is an enormous story possibly the biggest story of this presidency because 1st of all it's arguably the 1st time that a whistle blower action has been filed against the president if indeed that's what this action is as we now are coming to understand. and there are

extensive protections that are required by law for whistleblowers to enable them to bring important information of corruption to light. second of all there would be as part of the story obstruction of justice potentially on the part of the white house actors in the white house or even the president because it appears as though there is potentially a coordinated effort going on to ensure that congress adam shifts committee in particular does not receive the copy of this complaint. and that's a very very serious matter for the president if indeed it's born out that he had anything to do with directing the office of national intelligence not to produce these documents and directing the attorney general's office to it so it vies the office of national intelligence tom for

a short break here not just there i want to come back something any of us police prepare for the houses of people trying to trespass on a secret military base more and saying. hello to them we're going to start this hour here across parts of north asia we are watching a tropical storm that will be turning into a typhoon very very soon but watch here on our forecast maps by the time we get to saturday that system is pushing. krause there you go islands as a tropical storm and this is tropical storm tapa breeze a very heavy rain not only for coastal areas of china but of course the real who islands as well as we go from saturday to sunday the storm strengthens makes its way to the north and slightly to the northeast still brings a very heavy rain across your island we could be seeing some storm surge here across china as well so you will start to pick up the heavy rain as well with

a temper there of 22 degrees while here across china things are all in quite nice along the eastern seaboard as well as down here towards the south of course we are seeing that system out here towards the east the rip currents could be a significant factor for eastern china but we will watch that up towards the north though shanghai attempt a few of 23 and the hong kong clear skies dropping down to about $31.00 degrees as we go towards sunday and then as we go towards the philippines the rain is actually starting to ease off from that storm we will pick up some isolated showers for manila but over here towards hodgman city the rain continues few it could be quite heavy at times at a temperature of $27.00 but down towards the cottage we do expect to see 33 in your forecast.

welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on the al-jazeera a global climate strike is under way with protesters from more than 150 countries joining a usenet movement calling for an end to fossil fuels and begins a week long worldwide campaign demanding greater action on climate change and of a u.n. summit in new york. the u.s.

justice department is being accused of playing a major role in reportedly withholding a whistleblower's complaint against president trump according to u.s. media the complaint relates to a phone call between trump and a foreign leader. a man is meeting but it's prime minister abbas johnson in london shocked i mean been hammered out than the un johnson will discuss developments in the gulf region and the world. for going to. ship 1st russia should years ago revisit the i do yes relationship because there is a very strong relationship over this and we. know look areas we can also show. that he has more now from london. well ahead of the brief meeting prime minister johnson did say that relations between the u.k. and qatar were going from strength to strength now before the emir actually travelled to london the u.k. ambassador to qatar made

a statement outlining some of the areas in which relations were extremely strong he mentioned trade and uli it's worth around $8000000000.00 u.s. dollars he also talked about energy he said that qatar provides between 20 and 30 percent of the u.k.'s gas imports and talked of the u.k.'s wish to help qatar expand its liquefied natural gas sector he also talked about defense cooperation mentioning that. aborts ordered $24.00 typhoon fighter jets from britain he said but the previous prime minister to resign may had signed commitments to cooperating with qatar on areas including health education and financial services and he said that he wanted to see all of those areas of cooperation increased in the coming years of course the prime minister and the emir of qatar will have touched upon the tensions in the middle east as well but there is a lot of business interests that we all want to have talked about as well twitter says

it's removed more than 4 and a half 1000 political spam accounts being used to target qatar in a coordinated campaign they were operating out of the united arab emirates and egypt and used fake personas to push content critical of qatar while promoting saudi arabia's government fighters also suspended their counter former saudi royal court adviser soledad khatami who's been implicated in the murder of the washington post journalist seymour hersh object. yemen's who the rebels have accused the saudi and iraqi led coalition of a dangerous escalation so after it launched an attack in the country's main port had data against what it describes as legitimate military targets a spokesman for the who thesis the action threatens a un broken ceasefire in the red sea port coalition says it destroyed 4 sites used to assemble remote controlled boats and sea mines extensive damage has been revealed at one of 2 saudi oil facilities attacked this week new video shows parts

of the courageous processing site charred from saturday's strike the 2 attacks on state and saudi aramco facilities knocked out half of the kingdom's oil output yemen's who the rebels say they were behind the drone strikes but the u.s. and saudi arabia have blamed iran been all around foreign ministers flying to new york after being granted a visa for the annual gathering of world leaders at the united nations next week of odds aris diplomatic mission comes just a day after he warned of all out war if the u.s. takes military action against iraq is in was rather. drone missile attacks on saudi oil facilities last week iranian leaders say the only reason the u.s. and saudi arabia are blaming them is because the alternative is too embarrassing that yemen's hoopy fighters were capable of carrying out such a destructive military operation. but the saudis say the drones and missiles direction of travel recover debris the capacity of the technology used in these attacks all draw

a straight line back to tehran foreign ministers of odds or it has said of the aramco incident is used as an excuse to attack his country iran won't think twice about defending itself. he also warned u.s. president donald trump not to listen to his saudi allies who would march to war with iran for their own sake they should pray that they won't get what they seek this still paying for a much smaller a human wall that they were too arrogant in 4 years ago for those hoping for cooler heads to prevail the rhetoric coming from to iran of widespread and destructive retaliation is worrying and an indication of how far the u.s. and iran have come from the negotiating table but the reality is iran's position is nothing new the promise of a kind of mutually assured destruction of american assets and allies in the region has been standing policy for years and iranian experts say is keeping iran's enemies at bay what is new is how frequent and assertive the message from iranian

leaders has become a signal perhaps that there is real concern into iran that some kind of u.s. aggression may now be closer than ever. on a visit to saudi arabia the u.s. secretary of state described the oil facility attacks as an act of war and promised more economic sanctions on iran there will be more sanctions. we we have set about a course of action to deny iran the capacity and the wealth so that they can conduct their tears it to provoke to prevent them from conducting their terror campaigns and you can see from the events of last week there's still more work to do we're going to continue to drive towards that end. you cannot fail to see the failed policy of giving money to this regime but what happened saudi arabia those opposed to the saudi led war in yemen now in its 4th year see the incident very differently the who has dismissed the saudi version of events describing the attack as an example of how their own newly developed weapons can now reach targets far beyond

yemen's borders and they warned if the saudi led coalition won't stop dropping bombs on yemen then coalition countries should be prepared for more of the same leaders here in iran have been quick to remind the world that it was yemen's who the fighters that claimed responsibility for the attacks last week on saudi oil infrastructure the hoodies no doubt consider these attacks not as an act of war by iran as the americans would see it but as retaliation for an ongoing saudi war that was sparked by a saudi led invasion and that's the line being pushed by iran's leaders as well zain. to me as is former president ben ali has died his 3 year old had been in intensive care for the past 3 months ben ali was in saudi arabia wed been living in exile since he was overthrown after the 2011 revolution he claimed his rule. it was criticized for widespread corruption and suppressing political freedom.

pakistan's declining rupee has sent the price of basic goods soaring it's now cheaper to buy a lead to a petrol the nature of milk and the country's central bank is warning inflation will only increase flow heidi reports from is not about. a country of over $200000000.00 people or the august on its confronting an economic crisis its population expanding at a rate of 3 percent annually by the inflation a. double digit figure after the government run for a bailout package from the international monetary fund. and creating that gap between the rich and poor because the pakistani rupee rally you and i'd already shared almost 30 percent against the us dollar buckstone is going through a partially artificial inflationary situation and because of massive defense devaluation of the repeat and all of the sudden rise in the interest rate. the

government is trying to slow things down because the government said that the fiscal and trade deficits were out of control however it has had a backlash which is in the form of higher prices the ordinary people are suffering even the so-called rich people are suffering because as i said the sudden rise in interest rates has caused this problem the sudden devaluation of the rupee has caused this problem and go ahead and consistent fiscal policy i have also added to the problem. a problem with corruption and money laundering and now struggling to try to stabilize the economy people are already complaining because the price of a central commodities have gone up. and over yeah they got about we hopeless now the prices have gone to an extreme that even by running the shop i can't cope with my utilities and my family expenses if i was not able to pay. the fees of my son

and took him off from school to work with me at the shop to save the salary of the worker i don't know what to do next. there is no work for me and i am sitting on the roadside since this morning and this is my daily routine on but i can't get any job to earn money so i can feed my kids i am very worried how to sustain as i am not able to pay the rent for the house as the owner is threatening me i don't know what to do i am at the mercy of god. had received help from the united arab emirates and saudi arabia still had to go to the i.m.f. under conditions. that are already being felt on the ground by the 4. because the local population may feed their day in the neighborhood or deliver on their. own is going through a major crisis and. they did it. right now even higher than died of you. at least 2 people have died and hundreds forced

to leave their homes after torrential rain drenched parts of the u.s. state of texas people were evacuated from a hospital in the town of winnie in houston thousands of people cannot by floodwaters were rescued by boat forecasters are warning further rain could bring catastrophic flooding as tropical storm imelda lashes the area the united states is exposed to cuban diplomats for what it calls influence operations efficiently as opposed to the huge at the cuban mission to the u.n. in new york the state department has no deal any details about the accusations or release their names travel to other officials at the mission has been restricted now in the u.s. state of nevada police are preparing for what they call an act of mass civil disobedience thousands of alien enthusiastically banded together through social media planning to trespass on to a secretive u.s. military base to report some rachel in the bot. it all started as

a joke university student matty roberts had been bored at work so to entertain himself he turned on his computer in created a meme about a pretend event he imagined on the spot the title of the event is star mary $51.00 that can't stop all of us area $51.00 is a top secret u.s. military base in the nevada desert it's where the cia developed spy planes at the height of the cold war and where classified military testing continues today but some believe this is also where the u.s. government studies aliens you can imagine that if indeed there is an alien race with the technology to be able to arrive here on our planet their knowledge would be very useful to us so it's very possible the rumors have always been that we might be in collaboration with some off world intelligence conspiracies are

enjoying a resurgence in american pop culture then enter roberts me about to be something funny for the $62.00 followers that i had on my page and apparently i was completely correct and it was funny to the entire world so funny that more than 2000000 people or is it online for the september 20th a vent of course not all of those millions of people will show up but hotel rooms and campsites have sold out in this very remote area and nearby desert towns used to supporting populations of no more than 100 are bracing for a potential onslaught of as many as 10000 alien hunters who will bring with them their very human needs there's nowhere to find food water or gas for tens of kilometers 2 counties have issued emergency declarations ahead of the event and the u.s. military says it will of rest anyone who trespasses on to area $51.00 as the signs

warn lethal force is authorized again. those who disobeyed so what does robert think of storming the base now and i think it's terrible. yes the creator of storm area 51 is telling people not to storm area 51 but it may be too late because of one some things launched into the great unknown of cyberspace it may return with alien life. castro al-jazeera rachel nevada. part of a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the largest climate change protest made history is now under way demonstrators some more than 150 countries are joining a strike calling for an end to fossil fuels it begins a week long worldwide campaign demanding great to action from political leaders. a bush meeting these are doing justice to our planet. it would be.

useless to set up our government of the people because doing something without thinking about the. other goal of. the system can be changed through a very very very easy policy changes incentivize good behavior penalize bad behavior is really very simple. the u.s. justice department is being accused of playing a major role in reportedly withholding a whistleblower as complaints against president donald trump according to media in the u.s. the complaint relates to a phone call between trump and a foreign leader even of qatar's in london he's been meeting the british prime minister barak's johnson. and johnson the been holding talks focusing on strengthening the relationship between the 2 countries. also discussed developments

in the gulf region. journey. twitter says it's removed more than 4 and a half 1000 political spam accounts being used to target caps are in a coordinated campaign they were operating out of the united arab emirates and egypt and used fake personas to push content critical of qatar or promoting saudi arabia's government. has also suspended the account of former saudi royal court advisor south khatami who's been implicated in the murder of the washington post journalist jamal. extensive damage has been revealed at one of 2 saudi oil facilities attacked last week new video shows parts of the teresa processing site charred from saturday's strike 2 attacks on state town saudi aramco facilities knocked out half of the kingdom's oil output yemen's who the rebels say they were behind the strikes but the u.s. and saudi arabia have blamed iraq for those were the headlines the news continues

here on al-jazeera of the inside story station that's watching live now. eradicating violence against women in south africa the government is under pressure to act the president has announced an emergency plan but is that enough to protect women and what are the root causes of the violence this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm in wrong come on south africa's one of the worst places to be a woman the so says cyril ramaphosa and he wants urgent action to tackle such violence the president has announced an emergency plan to stop rising assaults on south african women at a special setting apollo went on wednesday ramaphosa pledge $75000000.00 for a series of measures to curb the problem is also promised to make sure perpetrators are held responsible for carrying out killings and ripes recent incidents and sparked protests in south africa calling on both the government and businesses to take strong action is what robert plans to do. we need to make the necessary amendments to our laws and policies to ensure that separate traitors of gender based violence approach to book we would make substantial additional funding available for a comprehensive funding package of interventions to make an immediate and

lasting difference we will also complete the implementation of the decisions that were taken at last year's presidential summit on gender based violence and family side as you head from rochelle penn intel what victims of sexual abuse and violence are calling for is more action let's have more about her story. your family asa sizes you society are sizes you because i think gang rape through the act of my nipples at 16. my the man that. that thread moved from 6 to 9 he was living my parents' home and he broke my nose and my mom was at rock and my mom the sitting with me you know in my nose which is pleasing continuously my mom was murdered in 2009 asking pleaded to do the spleen

was structured she bled to death you know and that's why i find you've been abusing you've been raped and then taken away interesting or king of you they're not just taking away. your body they've taken away your mind so dark i mean so much pain but i have kids and i need to keep them strong and this is my story in this my pleat you know it's too late for those kids for our kids for the african kids you know we've been. left in the and it's worse if and it's not just people like rachela parents hell let's have a look at some of the figures sexual offenses recorded by the police including rape have risen 4.6 percent this year more than $41000.00 cases of rape were reported between 2 101819 this is at least $100.00 reported rapes

a day more than $2700.00 women and a 1000 children were murdered by men last year that means a woman is murdered in south africa every 3 hours a 2016 report by the world health organization ranks south africa amongst the 4 worst countries in the world for femicide rights. let's bring in our guests liz that lancaster is the manager of the crime and justice information hub at the institute for security studies she joins us on skype from pretoria by kanye who is director of rise up against gender based violence and joins us from johannesburg and jolene staying cuts is a senior research specialist in democracy government governance and service delivery at the human sciences research council she joins us by skype from port elizabeth in south africa welcome to you all i'd like to begin with you monday so

can you late so ramaphosa has said is the most unsafe place in the world for women the u.n. seem to echo that yet this isn't a new problem this seems to be a generational problem so why are people out on the streets right now. who are people out in the streets right now because since last year or when the total shutdown much happened on the 1st of august to try and bring one awareness towards how bad the scourge of gender based violence had become but also to give solutions to government from civil society in the form of $24.00 demands those $24.00 demands expired on the 1st of august this year and only a few are halfway through towards implementation so women have taken back to the streets to say but government to david demands we gave you solutions but it doesn't seem to be that you're actually doing in implementation and of course we then saw some of some of the new cases that actually got quite a lot of media attention such as we in any case where she was actually raped and

killed during broad daylight at a post office so some of those cases basically created some national anger and an uprising where women are saying we've had enough and you know what the solutions are government peacenik action so that's basically the situation that we're in at the moment where women are angry and they wanted to see decisive action from the government hence the joint sitting there was called on wednesday the monday so what does the decisive action actually look like what are you calling for. ok so of the $24.00 demands one of which is in this national strategic plan for gender based violence a costed national strategic plan to actually map out a way forward as to what we're going to do about the scourge we wanted g.p.g. council that's going to basically create a situation where we have a national response from prevention and response force we wanted an automated registry for protection orders what actually happens in south africa for example if

a woman has a protection order or what you call a restraining order in other countries in one province it doesn't actually apply in the next province so essentially a perpetrator can chase you from one province to the next and you have to have a fresh protection order for each and every one of the provinces insead government could have one system that is automated that works in all the police stations that could protect survivors of gender based violence from the perpetrators that's one of our demands sensitize asian trading for the judiciary as well as the police and other stakeholders that directly liaise with survivors of violence we do find a lot of secondary victimization of survivors when they are actually in the system legislation such as the hate crimes bill being implemented that actually protects the algae community these are just some of the interventions that are listed in the 24 demands as well as things like making sure that there's funding available for domestic violence shelters in the country which across the under-funded in actual

fact you get 70 rand per day for a woman in a shelter whereas a prisoner in prison gets 350 grand a day you're better off as a perpetrator in this country than you are as a survivor in terms of how the government actually takes care of your needs let me bring in lancaster here from pretoria i was actually speaking to a friend of mine who is a research and gender based violence based in cape town and also this question i said look is it why is this happening now and she said to me look one of the reasons is you just don't go to the police in south africa for anything you go. and you get a number for insurance purposes but you don't expect them to do anything about this and for too long women are either dismissive of the police process the site doesn't help in any way old or too afraid to go because they'll be seen as the victim is there an institutional security forces problem in south africa. it is absolutely a problem. as i'm disappointed not you know the. challenge or the problem is not

excuse that people are these but they are a great part of the problem we also do with the internet into generational bidens here and we have to understand that our police members also grew up in these households that have seen and experienced violence in the schools that are seeing and experiencing violence in the same communities that are rife with violence so and also they carry the same toxic mescaline that you are that that is associated with her society so it is. even a problem and a challenge in this country for the class to be far less here to to sensitize the police to deal with victims of gender based violence in a sensitive way to ensure that there's no 2nd great trouble but we know that there is an attack that's furthermore there's often a new 2 to treat these cases that's not serious that you know the police shouldn't

intervene and they shouldn't take it seriously and we've seen community policing forums for instance also intervening in what they call these domestic. you know just little arguments that that just needs to be dealt with but we know too that they're leaving people as little david and most women are because of intimate partner violence so there is a dive me to deal with really sink in this regard in not just how they investigate these cases and deal with these cases but also how they deal with victims of this to happen let me bring in john enos thing called same port elizabeth so clearly there does seem to be at least on one level a policing institutional problem but perhaps it's why didn't that is the government or successive africa south african governments haven't taken this issue seriously is what cyril ramaphosa trying to do now with a 75000000 pounds with this announcement some think they'll be able to change

governance generally and highlight what's going on against women in south africa. and i think for me when we had the joint sitting i was got a sense that it was a very reactive response. gender based violence and same a side in this country is really really not a new phenomena they should have been polished stronger policy interventions much earlier so that we do not reach this situation with as we know one woman is killed every 3 hours for example for me they are 2 elements at play you not have presidents appalls of throwing the proverbial money at the problem you know making resources available which is very welcome but it will go back down to that implementation phase how are you going to monitor and evaluate what the policy responses are and what impact those policy responses have policing as one

aspect of it and the sensitizing police officers and those within the judicial system to me i think we need more progressive policy interventions we know and in certain cases laws have been passed in other countries too to allow women to take time off work if they are busy leaving an abusive relationship so they don't have to be concerned about their job security mandisa pointed out earlier 70 random day. for a survivor of gender based violence visa v what a prison or perpetrator gates. for a woman who may be economically dependent on her partner and has children even though they might be a desire to leave in a very intimate knowledge that i may die in this relationship the fear potentially also of who's going to look after my children. may keep a woman so to speak trapped in their.