eva to investigate the son of a political rival would that be enough for it to be a misdemeanor well it would be enough to be bribery which is what's in the statute as i said mr trump is the most powerful person in the world whether he mentions the 400000000 dollars or not the united states and mr trump's word can do any number of things to help ukraine if you look at the transcript misters a lenski is desperate it's yes or with we're with you 100 percent certain you came ukraine will be your best friend sir he is desperate for help mr trump doesn't have to say anything until he's status 5 mr zine alinsky understands the situation and he says i will have mr barr call you i will you will you will meet again with mr giuliani which selenski had already promised to do and so the 400000000 dollars is really a side issue of course there's no express quid pro quo in that situation given what

selenski is saying that is clearly implicit kyron hagan's that professor at the school level and a former prosecutor thank you for joining us on your insights on al jazeera and today mr hagen thank you thank you. plenty more ahead for you on this news hour including down but not quite out israel's prime minister get some political breathing room despite failing to win outright in last week's election. digging deeper argentina looks to shale oil to help its troubled economy. and in sports heroes life celebration unlike the women at the rugby world cup it will be for that stock. now iran's president says there won't be any negotiations with the u.s.

while this country is under american sanctions hasan rouhani said this during his address to the u.n. general assembly washington has blamed iran for the attacks on saudi oil facilities earlier this month and stepped up sanctions against tehran iran says it wasn't behind the attack reports. his speech was closely watched by friends and rivals looking for any indication that iran is willing to talk to the u.s. but the president has a low honey made it clear he won't be the president donald trump as long as the u.s. continues to impose sanctions modeled. they call us to negotiations when they run away from treaties and deals our response under sanctions is negative iran's leader has called on regional neighbors to join an alliance to secure freedom of navigation in the strait of homers where much of the world's oil supply passes through but how to exclude the u.s.

from taking part in what he called the coalition of hope. but the u.s. and saudi arabia have quickly dismissed the proposal the european union is keen to cool the tension in the gulf and prevent further escalation its top diplomat for the recovery any says she hopes the 2015 year clear deal will continue to be respected despite ongoing differences we will continue to work together with unity of purpose to try and preserve it without ignoring the challenges the trump administration is rubbing on iran everyone u.s. secretary of state. said sanctions and isolation would continue until iran's nuclear ambitions occurred as long as around medicine behavior continues and continues sanctions will not be lifted they will be take good and the u.s. and saudi arabia continue to blame iran for the attacks on the world's largest oil

processing plant in the kingdom 11 days ago saudi diplomats have stepped up their pressure saying all options against iran are on the table iran's behavior cannot continue like this iran must abide by international law iran must comply with rule based international order and the iran's aggressive behavior must be checked the attacks took out nearly half of saudi oil production which the state oil company is rushing to restore as the u.s. continues to build the case against iran or holy war against any attack saying greta will quickly follow. the attacks on saudi oil installations threatened to be a game changer and could lead to a military confrontation but the e.u. russia china and some countries in the middle east say the crisis should be solved through dialogue and that would only further destabilize the region. new york.

all right and jordan is live for us now from the united nations is this sunday been one meeting between trump and rouhani said the dialogue that has that hashem is referring to there hasn't been taking place directly and tom's been complaining that the press hasn't been concentrating on the way he's been trying to do at the general assembly and what does he mean exactly by that. well essentially the president is making an argument some journalism critics would make which is that the press has been really consumed with the president's domestic political problems the fact that there's an impeachment inquiry beginning in the u.s. house of representatives against him and they've also been quite consumed with the political problems facing the british prime minister boris johnson and so what don't trump did in his opening remarks was to try to outline some of the ways in which the united states has been engaging positively with other countries as part

of this high level week at the u.n. general assembly he talked for example about the fact that the u.s. and several other countries sponsored and of that on tuesday on monday morning focusing on religious freedom they sponsored another event trying to bring pressure on china's behavior as far as the abuse and the treatment of we are muslims and caravans he also talked about the fact that he had a number of bilateral meetings with a number of countries working on by a lot of trade issues working on the crisis here in the united states and working on other issues that he said exemplified what the united nations is all about does all of this right is that mean that the u.s. has nothing for a different kind of relationship with the u.n. than it's had in the past. well it certainly is a change from the way that donald trump engaged with the united nations during his

1st 2 years in office he was very very critical of the u.s. behavior when he 1st took office our viewers may recall that he was adamant on the matter of u.n. structural reforms on cutting the amount of money that was being spent on u.n. peacekeeping operations and that was something which is 1st ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley really pushed forward during her time here but i think there's also something else that may. account for his new change in approach to the united nations his former national security advisor john bolton is no longer in the job and bolton who himself had served as an ambassador to the u.n. during the tenure of george bush was very much against this institution and so it might be that simply having this person out of the west wing might have made it . more feasible for donald trump to engage in

a more productive way or at least to a more respectful way with his fellow world leaders am with the u.n. secretary general. it's very much a marked change but then there's also this truism. when a u.s. president is having a lot of trouble at home he tends to look overseas to try to burnish his legacy. keeping on things for us at the united nations thank you runs on to other news now and israel's president has asked to longtime prime minister benjamin netanyahu to try to form a new government following last week's deadlocked election netanyahu still has no clear path to a 5th term to imagine from the september 17th about it without upon an entry majority he now has $28.00 days to try to cobble together a coalition have a force that reports from westerners to them. israel's president let out the caretaker prime minister to announce

a result he'd been trying to avoid riven rivlin wanted benjamin netanyahu to form a national unity government with his main rival benny gantz those talks failed and instead he chose the man with a bigger potential coalition bloc to have the 1st chance at forming a government to get militias back of education who should be handed the task of forming the government depends on who has more chance to succeed currently 55 supported knesset member lappin yehi and if the 4 supported knesset member benny gantz 10 of them said they wouldn't sit with him in their government before the announcement a 2nd meeting between netanyahu and dance at the president's home serve merely to confirm what was already clear the talks between the parties had gone nowhere neither man reportedly willing to go 2nd in a rotational prime minister agreement netanyahu said he would continue to push for such a deal within days the pressure is on his 1st and hearings on corruption charges a jew next week. to call the mormon doctrine of totally out of the utmost with the

mandate you gave me if i don't exceed our return the mandate to you and with the help of god than israel citizens and yourself mr president were established a broad national unity government down the line after the announcement dance reiterated that he would not serve under a prime minister facing indictment who insisted on bringing with him a large block of right wing parties the longer the process goes on the closer he gets to being charged the more pressure mounts on netanyahu to stand aside but if benny gantz his strategy is simply to wait until conditions favor him well the president reminded him that he had another option he could merely toss the ball to the knesset and ask it to find an alternative candidate who could muster 61 recommendations the president has made his initial choice but it's no breakthrough israel's political stalemate goes on air force at al-jazeera westerners. now hamas members of her have held a special session of the palestinian legislative council to stand with hunger striking prisoners dozens of palestinians in israeli jails and now

a missed 16th consecutive day of an open ended strike there protesting the presence of reportedly cancer causing mobile phone jammers in prisons. now britain's prime minister is challenging opposition parties to call a motion of no confidence in him which could lead to a general election chorus johnson has been facing repeated calls to resign after the supreme court said his move to suspend parliament was illegal but johnson told n.p.r. is that he believes the u.k.'s highest court was wrong and or until he has more from westminster. parliament spac the protesters are out again and inside the gloves are off for the knives around back from the usa came the prime minister attempted to show he's still in charge of the public don't want another referendum . what they want or what they demand is that we all know the promise we made to the

very troops to respect the 1st referendum here are trying to move or to put the bricks behind us he was roundly heckled they were shouting at him to resign the judges concluded there was no reason and i quote let alone a good reason for the prime minister to have shut down parliament. after yesterday's ruling mr st john the prime minister should have done the honorable thing and resign. i don't think he was trying to blame the opposition for blocking pricks it's insists he's making progress with the european union he. opponents say he's lying every single thing that boris johnson's done since he became prime minister has gone wrong for him he's lost every single vote in parliament cost over $20.00 of his own m.p.'s who now have no

loyalty to him and he's been accused of misleading the queen and unlawfully suspending parliament it's one thing him saying he wants to get on with his plans but in politics everything's about momentum and at the moment he hardly has any the surrender is. johnson repeatedly tried to infuriate his political enemies he described the opposition bill which demands he seek an extension to bret's it from the european union as the surrender acts that language surrendering to europe is used by the far right and many m.p.'s have faced death threats as a result consequently the atmosphere inside parliament became furious. that it's something to try and appears. like that tell the prime minister that didn't quite this month's. trial showing how it was to meet with

moderates how lonely it has to come from the prime minister blair's turn to make matters worse junction described those concerns about m.p. safety as humbug all in all it was the most angry parliamentary session anyone can remember the government accuses the opposition of running away from an election they say he broke the law over suspending parliament and fear he might do it again to the sense of democracy unraveling the whole thing is a horror show barnsley al-jazeera london. now to what's being described as the clearest report yet on just how climate change is overheating our planet's oceans and gases the united nations' intergovernmental panel on climate change says the rate of ocean warming has doubled since 1903 and will continue to rise oceans absorb new. percent of the world's excess heat marine heat waves of also doubled in frequency since the early 1980 s. and that rate is expected to increase the i.p.c.c.

also says sea levels will rise affecting hundreds of millions of people in low lying and coastal areas before the end of this century and under all scenarios both low and high emissions the report predicts that marine life will continue to decline and the report also details how glasses snow cover and sea ice will continue to melt while greenpeace scientists are building a case to protect more marine areas environmental it authentic clark is that amazon reef in the south atlantic ocean off the coast of south america. 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 of 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 sad thing that i will leave to my daughter i've got a daughter she's pretty young she's only 20 year 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 larvae 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 are changing yes we are getting into over temperature and this is this is this is going to change our or our rabbits this is not going to be all the changing the wildlife this is going to change also all the agriculture this is going to change also where we living and then our lifestyle. search plane that when it's evident that the oceans of the world all taking a direct hit when it comes to the climate crisis it's also clear that research and sun like which we're seeing here on board the esperanza it's crucial if we are to mitigate the worst effects of climate change. still ahead on out of there corruption and kabul afghanistan the upcoming election will be anything free and. taking to the skies in china that revenue airports in beijing making them easier

for traveling. and in the 4th round here what the fastest man has to say subject of a dosing investigation. we've seen some rather wet weather across southwestern parts of the u.s. recently what's the weather making its way across the plains and easing up towards central parts of canada as well there's been some flooding just around arizona down towards the southwest of course things down he was to go through the next couple of days but still a few showers into the southwest still in parts of california could also see some of that cloud and rain is really the main story is about the heat to get up to $35.00 dallas into the mid to high twenty's across the central areas over towards

the eastern seaboard even new york still getting up to around 27 celsius and i also have this in plowed right because at least in parts of canada similar temperature for seattle what tory attention to 9 degrees celsius lakes and snow over the rockies so that's going to set the scene as we go through the next couple days if we're lucky we have a high 5 degrees in calgary as we go through friday between some rather lively down posts then they will push their way across the primaries down across the great plains as we go through the next system rather lively showers. coming through their season love the weather too just around puerto rico around the dollars recently storm karen is nell living away. mr mclean. with the times throughout history a lot more for her spirit it's head with me and started fighting

a developed nation state there could be enough to. know within reach of those seeking. the most toxic substances with. many invisible threats on al-jazeera on the streets of greece anti immigrant violence is on the rise there or you have to go for. this and that this is a plus ism and increasingly migrant farm workers of victims a vicious beatings. is helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is 0 on al-jazeera.

hello again i'm mr. reminder about top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump says an impeachment inquiry against him is based on a hoax but a summary of his july phone call with ukrainian president released by the white house reveals that he did not mean the lenski to investigate his rival which i biden. iran. the president has accused the us of mass us economic terrorism on rouhani told the u.n. general assembly that he'll never hold talks with washington about his country is under american section. and the u.k. as prime minister is challenging opposition parties to call a motion of no confidence in him which could lead to a general election doris johnson has been facing repeated calls to resign after the supreme court said his move to suspend parliament was a level. off to $29.00 people were killed in mass shootings in the u.s.

just last month democrats in congress are continuing to push for gun restrictions including a possible ban on military style assault weapons but while the majority of americans do support the idea it's unlikely to become law how does your caster reports from washington d.c. the death of a 24 year old mother shot with an a k $47.00 style rifle at an el paso wal-mart in august was explained by the surgeon who tried and failed to save her life she was protecting a child and so she was actually shot in the back and through the shoulder she had this hole the size of a baseball at the top of her lawn so clearly in vessels were essentially nonexistent if this injury had been caused by a small fire she may have had a chance of survival but there's actually nothing i can do to fix that interested in injury. wednesday's hearing before the house judiciary committee was meant to

build support for a possible nationwide ban on assault weapons the firearms of choice of mass shooters in the us have no purpose but to kill as many people as possible as quickly as possible i want killers to rapidly repeatedly fire bullets at the human targets without stopping to reload so our weapons are designed for maximum bloodshed assault weapons were banned in the us between 19942004 today an estimated 16000000 such weapons are in circulation within the country recent polling shows that between 56 and 70 percent of americans want congress to ban assault again protesters against gun violence have regularly descended on the nation's capitol to urge lawmakers to take action. i want them to know that if they don't take action while i was going to be out was there to be at stake they were going to die it is the epidemic that we had to get really have to

figure out we have to just and right now but a ban on assault weapons is still unlikely republicans who control the senate have bulked at more moderate measures like expanding background checks for gun buyers the powerful gun lobby has argued for focusing on mental health instead it is very clear when you look at mass public shooters what you see is much higher rates of untreated serious mental illness and there's the matter of the sheer number of guns in americans hands nearly half of all the guns in the world that's a fundamental difference between the us and new zealand a country that rapidly responded to the christ church mass shooting by restricting gun sales and buying back weapons but in the u.s. where the right to bear arms is guaranteed by the constitution a mandatory gun buyback would be highly controversial with some gun owners valuing they would never comply. castro al-jazeera washington.

argentina is tapping into its shale oil resources to try to find a way out of its economic troubles the vaca muerta basin in patagonia said to be the 2nd largest shale oil development in the wild trees a bio reports the evoque on one of the shield for me shooting argentina's by their own year is home to some of the largest and convention an oil and gas deposits in the world. even though it was 1st discovered a century ago exploration and development in the area began recently and it has changed the life of one year as mall town located in the province of logan for river. game to find work she says thousands of others are doing the same. there is a real state deficit not only companies are bringing people to work here but there are others who come to find work because there is full employment here my grandson found a job in

a few days that doesn't happen anywhere else in the country the oil and gas industries booming here and companies from around the world are flocking to walk on water which means dead cow in spanish it 4 provinces in the country covering an area of 30000 square kilometers. that remains largely untapped and that's why argentina needs for incompetence to help explore and exploiting this area but the current economic crises and government policies oppose a major challenge to this area that if well developed could help solve argentina's endemic economic problems last month that government announced that contracts would be paid at a set exchange rate far weaker than the market rate it also froze an increase in the price of fuel for $90.00 days now it authorized this morning crease but companies investing here i worried and some have in their operations he said is the leader of the powerful workers' labor union he says of i'm one of the meets

predictability. in this activity there cannot be uncertainty you need to give clear steps this business needs to be like everywhere else in the world why do we have to be different we all have this wealth and should be able to generate job stability we want to create legislation that the guy who is in power in argentina they cannot be changed in detail the business needs to be run by development in this area comes with a cost to get the oil and gas out companies use fracking last year greenpeace told and british group shell of dumping highly toxic waste threatening wildlife and human health. area. the extraction of oil and gas is not ecological we have to begin with it has an impact on the environment and the residues of what they extract and up somewhere we have to develop more plants to deal with these residues and even more investment in these areas we have to mitigate the impact of

future generations. argentina is in desperate need of funds and he's one of the ways he has to get but only a serious long term government plan is what will guarantee that what is extracted here will change argentina's future for good. i'll just back i want to argentina now fighting has broken out between supporters of malawi's government and opposition groups in the city of blantyre hundreds of people have been calling for the head of the electoral commission to resign when things turned violent police dispersed the crowds using tear gas organizers of the march say they were ambushed by government supporters who threw stones at them. if you rebel say their offer to end hostilities with saudi arabia still stands despite new airstrikes on yemen the group claimed responsibility for the attacks on saudi oil facilities earlier this month ramadan reports from. rubble that used to be

our home. and suddenly. it was a horrific strike they violated all the internationally recognized red line it resulted in the defense of 17 people including 3 women 3 children and a pregnant woman of. the attack hasn't even excluded the risk. as world leaders meet at the un general assembly in new york the united nations a canned attack but some on the ground say. not enough. of the attack has taken place says the u.n. general assembly is holding its sessions unfortunately the international community has failed to do something serious to stop the attacks on civilians despite an international outcry. when there were a 1000000 in 2015 this out a little quality plan to quickly defeat yemen's these to reinstate the

internationally recognized government but the fighting continues leaving a trail of death and destruction with civilians are fearne in the firing line. saudi. military campaign against both is now in its 5th year yemenis and i was asking how many more innocent people will die before a serious illness killed. just. 50 malaysian students have been moved out of indonesia reale province where toxic haze has been threatening people's health days a state university that the students attend has been officially shut until the end of the month according to malaysian media up to $300.00 students could be airlifted from indonesia which is facing its west forest fires since 2050. afghans go to the polls on saturday to vote in their presidential election but there are

concerns about vote rigging the u.s. says corruption within the afghan government has reached such unacceptable levels that it was forced to freeze one $160000000.00 in aid tony badly reports from kabul . these blue boxes contain the latest biometric voting technology will do to aimed at making afghanistan's presidential election on saturday free and fair something they've never seen before equipment including indelible ink is being distributed to 4000 polling stations with the aim of boosting transparency and deterring voter fraud that has plagued previous elections afghanistan has made advances in democracy join the war the past 18 years but not so many when it comes to the electoral process voters are either intimidated by the taliban or pro-government supporters the other scenario is they are simply bought off. 2014 elections which was a disaster the 2008 election reform was far more bigger offered as after you've heard

digging your heart stuffing of ballads and even if it went to the extent of section certain allegations so i don't know how different are we in 2019 many have become disillusioned with election manipulation and corruption in 2014 we have also i like sand but. the corruption tends for this reason they are hopeless and they want to participate the election according to transparency international afghanistan is regularly place in the top 10 of the world's most corrupt countries grafton bribery or endemic here it is virtually every aspect of life on the corruption starts at the very top. because of it u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o has rescinded $160000000.00 of afghan a he said it's because of the an acceptable levels of corruption in the afghan government the american public the american government now understand that that is

not helping the afghan government ask for us advocating or to even corruption is concerned the kabul based afghan anticorruption committee or make investigate fraud and advise on ways it can be prevented it's recommended ations are mostly ignored by the afghan government and the guilty believe they are untouchable people who come through and through channels are very confident that nobody will remove them if even if they commit corruption and that's the confidence we don't want between people people has to to have this fear that if i committed corruption i could be behind bars and that's not happening 7 government ministers have been investigated for corruption but after 2 years one has been cleared and no charges have been brought against the others this month for rosie is the only high level afghan to have been jailed for corruption in the last 10 years but he was released.