the political process progress which will really alter the door to many other aspects of development reconstruction business the ability coexistence he's on being the refugee in resolving this humanitarian needs and to how they see the people to stand on their own feet and see a better future for themselves so this beginning is a beginning we all hope of a new chapter or pause a bit of development to see to bring peace that village in prosperity for all syrians. and mr allawi to me ran out of time there very briefly what do you hope will come out of this constitutional committee particularly with the opposition what do you think what what would the opposition be asking for from the current government well there are several things i want to comment on very quickly just this reference to the refugees refer you back to to go to risk the us because the general has said about confidence building measures one of the things is that to

allow those refused to come back to syria without being put in jail to provide the proper and natural environment so they are not under threat and to improve the economics to a sion and this cannot be happy to be happening without the a getting involved in the political process another thing related to the kurds issue that you just mentioned that they are not being represented i tell you that if it is an issue of a component called the kurds who are being denied all their rights for decades i tell you that in the 50 in the constitution committee 50 members in the us and c c n and they go to his commission they are represented by the kurdish. national party but not that your idea because it's considered to be. labeled in one way or another another think of what we expect we expect those calls

a confidence building measures to start at least the release of refuse. the detainees are that there are those who are imprisoned for years and years and some of them died under torture you know that these are issue that took 55000 pictures of. 11 of them. were that under the torture all these things need to be taken care of so that there could be as. really all responsibility to words starting this political process with this opening of the constitution committee there could be a political process that again could bring syria back to life but it needs goodness it needs confidence it needs belief in syria and it needs somebody honest and morrow thank you very much great to speak to all of you i'm afraid be right out of time firstly thank you very much mr yang. mr taleb abraham good to speak to you and . thank you all very much for your time and thank you for watching you can see the

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malcolm i'm giving up paul and you're watching out is there live from doha also coming up the french president urges donald trump and iran's has honor i need to hold talks saying conditions are in place about to happen. shock and chaos in pakistan as an earthquake hits the northeast at least 25 people have been killed hundreds more injured. flying high china opens a massive multi-billion dollar airports expected to become one of the busiest in the world. a formal attempt to put u.s. president donald trump on the path to impeachment is about to be launched 2 and a half years after he came to power that across or opening an inquiry into conversations with his ukrainian counterparts he is accused of seeking help to damage the reputation of a political rival trump is describing the move as garbage he has more from

washington d.c. . it's been a long report with a democratic house majority leader nancy pelosi has been against impeachment proceedings against donald trump but who strange to the actions of the trump presidency revealed dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office betrayal of our national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections. therefore today i'm announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry and directing our 6 committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry the president must be held accountable no one is about the law police he says 2 reasons convinced her to launch the inquiry that president trump was allegedly also the ukrainian president to investigate democratic rival joe biden and some of the white house then prevented a whistle blower's complaint about the president's request to reach congress as required by law pelosi is putting aside her affair with an impeachment

investigation would allow president trump to move his base with claims of another witch hunt he maintains he's done nothing wrong and authorized the release of a transcript of his phone call with the ukrainian president selenski shortly after police he spoke with trump tweeted this from raising with you ready to go containing carefully curated sound bites from democratic politicians suggesting they were attempting to subvert the will of the people if we don't impeach this president he will get reelected it's time to stop this nonsense message by the republican leader of the house i realize 2016 did not turn out the way speaker pelosi wanted it to happen but she cannot change the laws of this congress the exact details of the way forward for an impeachment inquiry remain murky the police he said it would involve the findings of the 6 inquiries already underway into the president's alleged wrongdoing you know what may take the pressure off the democrats from their electoral base increasingly angry about

a lack of action against the president now i think what you'll see from democrats is the question is this going to be a short process or a longer process so a short process means we look we we know we need to know we're not going to do a lot of investigating not we're not going to wait and turn over a lot of other stones before we have this vote in the house to impeach this guy and then the senate will either do or will do whatever it does or doesn't do that's fine but. and by putting it behind nancy pelosi all of those house candidates have said their piece and now they can go on and talk about other issues and not be hounded about this inquiry may also speed up some of the judicial attempts on the way to get key information from donald trump ministration that so far remain secret trump is determined he will not be the 3rd president in u.s. history to be impeached and whatever the short term political consequences the opening of the inquiry doesn't mean trump will eventually be convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors she returns the al-jazeera washington. so how does the impeachment process work well it begins in the house which debates and votes on

whether to bring the charges against the president if that vote is successful a trial of sorts presided by the chief justice of the u.s. supreme court is then taken to the senate it's 2 thirds majority vote is needed in the 100 member senate to convict and remove a president impeachments though are rare out of $35.00 attempts only 2 presidents have been impeached and neither removed from office a 3rd president richard nixon resigned while proceedings were underway. jeff houser is the executive director of the revolving door project at the center for economic and policy research and he says many people are not taking the impeachment inquiry seriously. impeachment inquiry is a legitimate hearing when the people holding it actually mean to hold it i think what we've seen here it's a 4 is democrats experimenting with calling things impeachment related without really meaning it and certainly the leadership of the house democrats any hoyer and

others were not genuinely in support of impeachment and so the media was covering impeachment inquiry more about democrats being in disarray and disagreeing with each other and this is really not a legitimate and meaningful hearing as opposed to taking it seriously you've seen dozens of new democrats come out in favor of pursuing impeachment and i think all of the actions going forward in the next coming weeks are going to be radically different in intent and in impact in america than the ones that have gone before i think we're in a very different moment now than we were a day ago. french president obama micro and his pushing for a meeting between iran see their house and rouhani add president donald trump on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly. he believes it. was president again one of. the only if you got this is a look at the. relations between the u.s.

and iran became even more tense following attacks on 2 major oil facilities in saudi arabia this month or shinton says iran was behind the attacks a terror on denies that mccrone is urging the countries to pursue negotiation efforts our correspondent john holl is at the united nations in new york. there has been a flurry of activity involving a number of leaders meeting separately here in new york with us on rouhani the iranian president and also with donald trump france germany japan pakistan and the united kingdom all pushing separately to try and broker what would be a historic meeting between 2 countries whose leaders haven't met for 40 years emmanuel now from the french president particularly engaged in this effort he's known to want to set up negotiations more broadly at some point to taking a 4 point program and get a new nuclear file of course also ending the war in yemen coming up with a regional security plan and lifting sanctions he said but conditions he believes

are right now for a rapid resumption of negotiations it's now up to iran and the united states to seize the opportunity well that hasn't happened yet iran wants a lifting of sanctions now as a precondition for talks talks with donald trump he is not willing to do that at the moment but he has left the door open the u.s. president saying we are here we do have time they'd like to meet and certainly it makes sense to meet but nothing has been agreed yet. well earlier donald trump address the general assembly and you know why did the u.n. if it's potential for peace but he also last added to china iran and venezuela while laying out his strategy for america 1st our diplomatic editor james space reports. as he arrived at the general assembly the world was watching for president trump's next move on iran the u.s. is being joined by the u.k.

france and germany in holding iran responsible for the drone attacks on saudi oil facilities but the president who launched a policy of maximally pressure on to ron is still for now talking about possible diplomacy on iran i think we're doing very well. see what happens with iran but we are very very strong position on iran and i think they'd like to do something and i think would be a smart thing for them if they did and of course when he took to the podium inside the general assembly whole there was plenty of criticism of iranian policy but also another all the branch america is ready to embrace friendship with all who genuinely and seek peace and respect. many of america's closest friends today were once our greatest foes the united states has never believed in permanent enemies we want partners not adversaries

america knows that while anyone can make war only the most courageous can choose peace in the speech that we're all so tough words for china an effort perhaps to increase the pressure on beijing ahead of forthcoming trade talks the american people are absolutely committed to restoring balance to our relationship with china hopefully we can reach an agreement that would be beneficial for both countries. but as i have made very clear i will not accept a bad deal for the american people. when he spoke at the u.n. secretary general raised concerns that the war of words between china and the u.s. could develop into something much more serious i fear the possibility of a great. the world splitting into we did 2 largest economies on huns

heating 2 separate and competing. we cheated on dominance currency trade and financial. then only internet and not officially intelligence capacities and then a 0 sum geo political and military strategy. what do you tended the official luncheon with all the world leaders and the secretary general president trying to praise the united nations that was in contrast to a typical trump speech which promoted national sovereignty ahead of multilateralism and slammed the globalists. at the united nations. moving on to some other news now an earthquake has hit eastern pakistan killing at least 25 people and injuring hundreds more the 5.8 magnitude quakes epicenter was close to the city of near poor in pakistan administered kashmir dozens of homes were destroyed and cars damaged when boats collapsed in many areas come out hyder

is in their core that's close to the epicenter of the earthquake. we're getting traded in progress on the administered because the earthquake happened in the evening the rescue and relief operations were hampered by a dog electricity of course got off too many area cell phone service disrupted but the military now aiding that really and government in the rescue effort really 5. 100 more have been and are under treatment in radio. the pakistani military is confident that the situation is done to control and that day will be a breakthrough in the trip to asia and by evening today the rescue efforts are underway but what we have been able to witness that the people of this area. outdoors because. oh i'm done building them and of course most of them

decided to leave out ed you're going. to learn to read your dried rich drawl here link road rage i've been cut off daily communication. up there and military are now gone for doing that day we'll be able to contain the situation we didn't make great before our. and there's plenty want to tell ahead and. taliban threats and concerns over corruption raises fears over the credibility of the upcoming often elections. and why relatives of the victims of the max $77.00 crash in ethiopia are accusing boeing of a public safety stunt. however

had some really unsettled weather across western parts of europe over the last 24 hours we'll see bands of weather systems rolling in from the atlantic seems to really break down pulls there into products of england in particular what's the weather now in the process of rolling across france the low countries and on into germany this was the same in central london where we had about 40 millimeters of rain in central london this is actually liverpool street station which we believe lots of heavy downpours and there has been some localized flooding as a result of that particularly wet weather it's tastiest.