against impeachment proceedings against donald trump that has changed the actions of the trump presidency revealing dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office betrayal of our national security and the trail 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 asking the ukrainian president to investigate democratic rival joe biden and some that 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 fear that 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 trump tweeted this from raising video 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 amplified 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 but 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. yes so

a short process means we look we we know what 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 then 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 on his ministration that so far remain secret reports so the truth 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 ever turns the washington. and for more on this breaking go to our white house correspondent kimberly how live for us in washington d.c. kimberly

a new day in washington as people come to terms with the developments overnight can you explain to us what the significance of this impeachment or this move to impeach is and what the process would be going forward. yeah in some ways nothing in this has changed in some ways everything has changed there's been a seismic shift there has been a call for impeachment from some members of the house of representatives really for the 31 months that us president donald trump has been in office but what this now has triggered is a process even though the judiciary committee was already drafting articles of impeachment what we don't have at the moment is that it calls for a vote on the floor of the house of representatives which would be the impeachment vote so that's why some people are saying look at nothing has completely changed here all we have now is a formalized process the number if you will under the articles of impeachment for all 6 committees now to start coalescing that information what has changed in the

minds of the democrats in particularly leadership that had been pushing off calls for impeachment is that there is now a singular issue that they feel that voters could really wrap their heads around in contrast to that russia investigation or even the president's tax returns this was sort of the in the past kind of murky issues now they feel that this very clear cut call that took place between the u.s. president and the president of ukraine where the president allegedly according to this whistleblower complaint tried to get the government of ukraine to investigate a political rival the former vice president joe biden who is of course running for president allude to against u.s. president donald trump that is what they feel is something that voters can understand that is very clear cut so what happens next a couple of things 1st of all for watching very carefully today is the u.s. president will meet with the ukrainian leader at the u.n. general assembly we're also watching very carefully for testimony thursday from the director of national intelligence who has been trying to keep this complaint from

congress and conducting its oversight and finally we're looking for the transcript of this call the u.s. president says the white house will release it will be watching very carefully to see what it says can really how it could with the latest for us from washington thank you. in other news 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 the emergency has been declared after homes and cars were badly damaged when roads collapsed this footage shows the moments the quake hit it brought down an entire building as people were fleeing the area residents reported walls swaying with each tremor come on higher has more in the aftermath from airport. after daybreak the rescue and relief efforts are now underway the military and civilian administration i think it's well

and parents who are now trying to clear out. the dead able to act most localities in this area but because this was a very shallow earthquake it had a damaging effect. to cross the country and in the 3rd rounding area close to the epicenter we are told that our doctors wouldn't people were injured most of them were treated and sent home however the ones who are critical are still in hospital . there are $300.00 homes in our village all of them are either destroyed or damaged beyond repair not to mention many deaths and hundreds wounded. today yet my grandson has broken like my crown due to has a back injury and the roof over my home has collapsed the civil administration and the military is now busy and providing help to doors affected by the earthquake as

you can see it has left a trail of destruction. i had a depth of 10 kilometers cause considerable damage to infrastructure to bridge a highway and even disrupted communications which made it a problem for people to communicate with each other the priority now for the rescue teams is to open these spots so that their teams can reach and head those people who have been cut off. and still ahead on aug there. we see what the chinese are calling their $11000000000.00 starfish us datings new airport takes off. how the weather is looking pretty good at the moment across japan but we have got some unsettled weather in africa some right in the forecast as we make our way

through the next couple of days the area cloud here sliding across the yellow sea south korea perhaps producing some drizzly rain from time to time but japan as you can see on thursday they settled in sunny 31 celsius there and a soccer friday very something of a change pushing very wet a weather just started to ease it's where course q.c. into southern parts of houma shit but to the north of that generally staying quiet for the time being at least quiet to across a good part of southern china we've got some pleasant sunshine coming through here hong kong around 30 degrees celsius a little more in the way of cloud watery sunshine to be cooling down to the southwest corner of china it will brighten up as we go on into friday on the other side of the south china sea as we still got the showers across parts of the philippines but all sunshine that shall isn't looking too bad it's all over the next day also in the what's the weather will be pushing its way down into malaysia we got some showers there just around some outer pushing of

a tool southern parts of thailand all sink a little further south was as we go on through friday and by friday just notice and a little wetter for cambodia. the $950.00 s. a clash of gung ho attacks and a challenge to french colonial. any 2 part series al-jazeera world tells the dramatic story of how martin to new zealand was born. to give us back a little don't see you know what to do. with a rare eyewitness testimony from the men who fought the french on the ground to newseum the battle for independence episode one rebel on which is iraq.

you're watching out is there and his reminder of our top stories this hour. the u.k. parliament has reconvened up to m.p.'s ordered back to the house of commons the supreme court ruled prime minister boris johnson's decisions as they spend parliament was unlawful johnson f. expected to address the m.p.'s within the next few hours. yes president has reacted with fury to house speaker nancy pelosi is announcement of a formal impeachment inquiry and called the witch hunt garbage they accused him of seeking political help from his ukrainian counterpart to investigate presidential hopeful joe biden. and rescue and relief efforts are underway in pakistan administered kashmir after a 5.8 magnitude quake at least 25 people have been killed and about a 1000 others injured homes and businesses have been left in ruins.

and that's what's being described as the clearest reports yet on how climate change is over heating up. planets oceans and glaciers the u.n. intergovernmental panel on climate change says the rate of ocean warming has doubled since 1903 and will continue to rise oceans absorb 90 percent of the world's excess heat marine heat waves have also doubled in frequency since the early 1980 s. and the rate is expected to increase the i.p.c.c. says sea levels will rise affecting hundreds of millions of people in low lying and coastal areas before the end of the century and under all scenarios the report predicts marine life will continue to decline and there portals details how glaciers snow cover an arctic sea ice will be can will continue to melt greenpeace scientists are building a case to protect more marine areas and our correspondent nick clark is in the south atlantic ocean off the coast of south america with them. yes we're on board

the greenpeace ship esperanza where scientists are investigating a newly discovered area of reef we're about 600 kilometers from the mouth of the amazon in that direction and about 130 kilometers from the shore french guiana and scientists here on board a conducting all manner of risk from the seabed to the surface hoping to bolster the case for protection of the world's oceans to the chuen 30 percent by the year 2030 the team here following closely the publication of this report which lays out in stark terms how the oceans are warming the dangers of sea level rise which could affect hundreds of millions of people and the impact on bio diversity in earlier we spoke to search plane from the french center for scientific research and he gave us his assessment the concern is 1st of all very personal news that i i grew up we've a world we've a certain scenario we were certain vision of the world and then we were certain

wildlife and i'm always a little bit sad thing that i will leave to my daughter i've got a daughter she's pretty young she's only 20 years plus and so i will leave that we're a very different song to what i get and so it's a personal sense of the 1st before scientific i would say sincerely on that in the context of the i.p.c.c. you get to worry about life be i've been able in several centuries and 1000000 to adapt to different and then suddenly changing that habitat transforming that he thought and so the end of these these are the end of those 4 and we don't know exactly but clearly they'll be strongly affected yes the climate is changing and yes our finances changing yes we are getting into over temperature and this is this is this is going to change our our rabbits this is not going to be all the changing wildlife this is going to change also all the agriculture this is going to change also where we living and then our lifestyle. so explain that while it's evident

that the oceans of the world are taking a direct hit when it comes to the climate crisis it's also clear that research and science like which we're seeing here on board the esperanza is crucial if we are to mitigate the worst effects of climate change adela marks it as the secretary of the intergovernmental panel on climate change since he joins us now on skype from america great to get you on the program thank you very much now we've outlined a few of some very alarming findings about the warming oceans but if you had to address what your most important issue s. right now that needs to be looked at what would it be and thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to speak with the outcome of own special report on the ocean and close in and turns in claimants. yes.

targets for. me to an old floor in the lights what was not been found in our report is that we should. give more attention to all this about the possibility of war those population. living in induced. risk in order to improve their ability to adapt to impact is a true climate change and also those are related to the changes in motion in the food security of the world. this is i think the men the main. focus and also attention should be or should provide that you did read that how are some. men and minorities are living like indigenous people and also the population live in the arctic arctic and all those the

reason for high mountain. ok did the warming oceans well affect everyone not just people in low lying areas eventually can you see these this being reversed in any way can we can we claw back some of some of this and via mental damage or do you think we now have to think of a way of adapting to this sad but a new climate an environment that that we have damage so much. yes. we don't get is an outcome of this report is. really a feeble. climate jones also done a think it is it well stated that climate has is clearly a real.