ainge and they are continuing in fact to escalate this already very dangerously over armed region in the name of maintaining this. anti iran coalition led by saudi arabia israel the u.a.e. that the us is still part of that its so far still defensive officially but there is a very serious danger of a new perhaps officially unintentional war breaking out as they continue to escalate the level. of weaponry across the persian gulf we should remember sami that this is a moment that didn't begin with this attack on the oil the oil refinery it began when the u.s. withdrew from the iran nuclear deal a year and a half ago that's what set in motion this level of military escalation across the region and while the pressure is on the ministration our president trying to particular are certainly escalating right now because of the new political

pressures the beginnings of a an impeachment hearing in the house etc i don't think this is necessarily a new october surprise as we've learned to expect in this country but i do think the question was really no danger is very real even if the intention is not to actually begin a consciously deployed war and that iraq could jump in many or some fear that after the attacks on the quake would be a move through response either by saudi or perhaps even the u.s. now that it seems we're looking at transferring military hardware does that mean at least for mal there's not likely to be a military response or a stronger u.s. response unless something else happens. that's probably true right now as long

as we're looking at the actual material that they're sending they are sending additional troops but i think the importance here is less about the nature of the military equipment themselves whether it's more patriots they're sending another couple of 100 troops but it further escalates the tensions between the u.s. and iran between saudi arabia and iran the conditions in the persian gulf it's very crowded there are warships of all kinds on all sides and imagine if late at night a young sailor on on deck and when one of those ships on any side suddenly sees a flare somewhere and things oh my god this is an attack we're under attack i better respond the u.s. does not have the capacity for example to engage directly with the iranians to say hold your fire this was a mistake for instance they don't have the military to military hotline the way they do with the russians in syria if they would have to wake up the swiss

ambassador in tehran and say go get somebody in the military it could be a very very dangerous moment what the u.s. should be doing is moving towards real diplomacy ending that yemen war you know we should look at what's happening right now with the saudi use of these u.s. weapons that the u.s. is sending that they're not sending only this moment defensive weapons the u.s. of course is sending off ends of weapons that the saudis are using against yemenis just this week $22.00 civilians in yemen were killed in a saudi attack an airstrike on a market and a house more than that were wounded and we're hearing almost nothing about that we're hearing much more about the attack on the oil facility than we are about the killing of a human beings in yemen so this is of escalating the situation overall across the region or phyllis bennis there if i so much. thank you so much iran's president

says his country will of course engage in talks with the u.s. but only if sanctions are lifted 1st some rouhani made the comments at a news conference on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly in new york but he reiterated that the trump administration's current tactics are not working. it was very clear that the path chosen by the u.s. from the onset would never succeed so despite these pressures and these wrong choices they kept saying that we wish to speak to iran we have no problem talking or negotiating but we are not willing with the existence of preconditions to enter into talks if america takes the maximum pressure the sanctions off the table and in a way demonstrates it sincerely and gives us the needed trust that with this government we are able to talk and reach a conclusion of course there would be a different set of circumstances and a different atmosphere. rosalind jordan joins us now from the united nations has there been a response 'd from the u.s.

to the iranian call. well there hasn't been a direct response to hostile rouhani his comments because at the hour that he was giving his press conference the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o was also speaking to reporters in a separate location here in new york but pompei o did make it very clear that the u.s. was going to continue its maximum pressure campaign on terror because of what he says is now a growing international consensus that iran was behind the september 14th attack on the oil processing facility in eastern saudi arabia and does has demonstrated that in the u.s. his view it does not want to be a part of the international community of nations mr also made it plain to reporters at his press conference that while the u.s. is very keen to try to get those persons being detained by the iranian government

out of their clutches as it were that the u.s. is not going to lift sanctions on iran in order to try to make that process happen basically they're saying iran has to change its behavior before any discussions on a new nuclear weapons agreement or any other sanctions relief could go forward of course iran has been demanding sammy that the u.s. really sanctions 1st before coming back to talks so what does that mean is i mean the french president is ready dying at this point. well it does seem as if for right now while the work of president. has not gotten anywhere even though he seemed to celebrate the fact that he was able to at least talk to the u.s. and iranian leaders about having a face to face meeting while they were both here in new york for the start of the u.n. general assembly that said there does seem to be this real recalcitrants on both

country sides neither side wants to give in on what they consider core issues and certainly when the you have of the united states saying now that certain top iranian officials and their relatives will not be able to get bases to come to the u.s. for personal reasons where their travel or education or business engagement that certainly could be perceived by terror and as no other form of trying to punish the iranian government and by extension the iranian people the u.s. for their part say look this attack on the oil fields and processing plants was an attack on an ally something even called it an act of war we have to stand strew to our treaty obligations and we have to stand up for our country's values and so when you have both sides and really really firm positions it's really hard to see how any progress can be made to try to get them to talk something which both countries

have said they want to do. from the nations. stand in france that mahmoud abbas is threatening to terminate all signed agreements with israel if it's keep the west bank comes after israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu announced plans for more illegal settlements in the occupied west bank speaking at the u.n. general assembly the international community to help end what he told israeli aggression in palestine. i'm not sure i'm. not. a week before the israeli elections prime minister netanyahu came out to arrogantly announce that should he prevail in the elections he would end next and apply israeli sovereignty to the jordan valley northern dead sea and israel's colonial settlements despite the fact that all of these areas occupied palestinian territory

we reject this plan entirely our response is if the israeli government is to proceed with this plan all signed agreements with the government of the occupation and any obligations will be terminated. the syrian government did use chlorine as a chemical weapon in its battle for libya that the finding of the u.s. investigation secretary of state mike payor has condemned damascus saying the trumpet ministration has been working on preventing such attacks or shall i say the regime has been accused of several chemical weapons strikes against syrian civilians during the country's 8 year long civil war president trump has been pretty vigorous in protecting the world from the use of chemical weapons previous administrations haven't been prepared to do that and the syrian regime should know in the world should appreciate the fact that we're going to do. it we're going to

everything we can reasonably do to prevent this kind of thing from happening again now the u.k. government has admitted to further breaches of a court order that bans the sale of weapons to saudi arabia and peace had agreed in june to stop arms sales to the country on the basis they could be used in the war in yemen under questioning in the house of commons international trade secretary liz truss admitted further breaches of the agreement she added it's possible that more cases would come to light. my department identified errors that had taken place in the export licensing procedure in relation to the saudi coalition's activities in the conflict in yemen. as i stated publicly on the 16th of september i am reserving the apologize for the export license is that my department issued an error i have also given my own reserved apologies to the court britain's prime

minister has been delivered another blow to his push for an early election the house of commons speaker says on the car rolls it wouldn't be possible to go to the polls before october 31st while that's when britain is scheduled to leave the e.u. charlie on july has more from london. following one of the most furious debate british parliamentary history an attempt by the speaker of the house to restore some dignity to politics. yes. the house did move credit. the was. an atmosphere in the chamber. worse than any i've known in my 22 years in the house on both sides passions were inflamed

angry words were uttered for culture. was toxic role of the prime minster's to unite the country there are calls for boris johnson to apologize are dismissed pleas from lawmakers to tone down his divisive language and said the best way to honor the memory of murdered m.p. joe cox was to get bricks that cops who backed remain in the e.u. referendum was killed by a far right sympathizer but there was no apology fueling concern this is part of the prime minister's plan to pit the people against parliament address it the use of language yesterday i am going over the past few weeks such as the surrender bill such as invoking the war so just talking about the trial and treachery it has clearly been tested and work shocked and worked and it is entirely designed to inflame hatred. only hours after her statement the offices of m.p.

jess phillips were attacked by a man calling her a fascist. meanwhile in brussels the european parliament steering group met to discuss the current state of play insisting they're still waiting for the u.k. to put forward a workable alternative deal. because a solution would mean 1st finding compromise with european union then. building compromise in westminster to pass in the green and so maybe. on friday you can. join the table for more talk. back in parliament lawmakers voted down the government's request recess during next week's conservative party conference schedule into disarray. this is now a parliament of point scoring but trust has broken down and only consensus can

bring it back but there's no indication that is the prime minister's plan with just 5 weeks to go before the u.k. is due to crash out with no deal unless an extension is secured or deal passed. also ahead on al-jazeera a new detention center takes shape in northern india tell you who it's meant for. playing on to hope in mexico families wait for answers 5 years on to disappearance of dozens of students. and it's grown with star power in. the style against around the rugby world cup. had a very unsettled picture it is across much of europe just look at the satellite huge

amounts of cloud streaming across central areas eastern regions and to the old west a new area of low pressure and now we've seen some very stormy conditions and have a look at this this is the off some all some severe storms came through some of the audience in greece this is catalonia or off to the storm came through more than 4 times as that time average in just one day about 90 millimeters of rain so some widespread damage across the island as that storm system working its way further eastwards and moving pretty swiftly say through friday it's really going to people garia on interim maney where we have the threat of some more severe storms and then really across northern europe and their central regions out to the northwest this is where the next area of low pressure will be so this is where the very heavy rain will be and some pretty strong winds as well tom it is their own fighting to battle even underneath all that rain and clouds 16 in berlin 22 pretty nice image at $28.00 as cold up there in moscow 10 celsius but still about 5 degrees below the average and it's a very similar story and south of that rain becoming much more widespread mostly

case guys across much of the south some kara conditions pushing into much of turkey and as you can see it's still pretty warm in the southwest not about day in paris with a high of 20 celsius. some wilco asked. others rallied to the cause. but were all complicit in creating wild of terror and depression. now living in fear and denial they reveal their motivations and the shocking truths from the inside. witness the women advice. on al jazeera. one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else working for it is you

know very challenging liberally particularly because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended used to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior we're good audience across the globe. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines the acting u.s. director of national intelligence has testified before congress over his handling of a whistleblower complaint just now be made public details how the u.s. president tried to persuade his ukrainian counterpart to investigate and with rival

joe biden. brown's president says his country will of course in gaijin talks with the u.s. but only if sanctions are lifted or someone having made the comments on the side. when general assembly also reiterated the trumpet ministrations tactics are not working. the pentagon is deploying a battery of patriot missiles for radar systems and $200.00 personnel to saudi arabia going to bolster the kingdom's defenses comes in the wake of an attack earlier this month in the saudi oil processing facility. let's get more now on our top story the impeachment proceedings against president every hines is a legal analyst and former prosecutor for the city of baltimore she joins us from washington d.c. good to have you with us so 1st of all concerning the revelations about just how

far the administration went to try and suppress details of this phone conversation how damaging do you think it will be for donald trump. well it actually doesn't look very good and the fact that you know someone tries to hide evidence in many instances shows an admission of guilt in and of itself i mean if you felt that if he felt that it was ok for the conversation to not have been hidden undercover then there would be no reason for him to hide it but what we're learning bit by bit by bit is here is a president who is completely out of control who is unhinged and in many aspects many people feel in america that he is unfit to be the president of these united states so we have as you've said earlier him connel trump contacting ukrainian president to basically put pressure on him to obtain evidence or dirt or anything that he could find when joe biden who is his leading rival at least at this particular time and in the instances where i prosecuted in baltimore that can also

be known as the crime of extortion it is illegal to extort from a person to tell them that oh if you don't do this even if it's implicit in it then why won't provide any aid to your country. we also said that what we are basically looking at we have testimony from the ice to get right through the national intelligence today that we want to reveal to your mind about how easy this impeachment process is going to be. well there's no legal proceeding that's easy not at least in this country so even though we are gathering information there is testimony as you said that's going on it is still a process here and the way it really would work and it's only been at least 3 instances where it has worked in terms of articles of impeachment being brought against a president a sitting president is the congress would listen to the evidence draft what is

known as articles of impeachment which are really just charging documents just as if it were a regular crime at a prosecutorial setting and then those articles of an impeachment which are being presented to the senate and that is where the actual hearing or trial so to speak would take place in the senate which is at this point majority controlled by the republican party so many don't feel that that much would occur but at the end of the day i don't want anyone to think it's going to be a speedy process it's not going to be a speedy process we don't know days or months or how long but nothing in terms of the process taking place is really going to actually be speedy reading the behavior of republican members today in congress all they rally is the republican policy rallying behind the president in the way that he wants. well there are seeing a little bit of signs of breaking there but at the end of the day where we're sitting

right now today you and i the republican party is definitely rallying around the president i mean many of the repos in the republican party they have their own self interest involved in what i mean by that is this is a president who is widely popular in many of the districts where the republicans are up for reelection just as the president is up for reelection in 2020 so they have their self-interest there you know quite honestly afraid that if they were to go against the president then they will be voted out of office and what they're doing in that regard many of the republicans is basically taking their own personal gain over that of what they should be doing and what they're voting in to protect the country and the constitution that is the oath that they're sworn in to this country but yes we're still very partisan divide and you have democrats who are coming more around as you can see to the issue based on this last conversation and what's been going on with the hearings and the ukrainian telephone conversation that has not occurred when the republican side of the hour at least not as of yet i

don't know what more would have to occur before republicans would get on board and understand that they have a duty an obligation to support and uphold the constitution of the republic of the united states all right we'll leave it for now thanks so much while international efforts have been underway on the sidelines of the general assembly to broker a new u.s. iran talks a group of families and loved ones are being held as political hostages by turner on the road signs of hope they'll be released journal reports. i can't get over the fact that i'm paying the price for some dark politics between iran and the u.k. in 2016. radcliffe took her infant daughter on holiday to visit family in iran she's been a prisoner since accused of spying her husband richard on his 4th visit to the u.n. general assembly in new york calls her a hostage held he says for political leverage right now as nameless commits the

crime those hostages to the hells happen puts her in some sort of legal process it's a crisis says she wasn't allowed to speak a trial had chanced whenever my public even to her and think of the present and she was convicted of having been told that listen if the british government likes to bring the one charge of the us census it now isn't is not alone iran is currently thought to hold up to 30 dual nationals whose families insist they did nothing wrong this year we've known the families alliance with a number of promise to say listen the world needs to more this happens that has to stick now iran is to keep the stick isn't it is not the intention to tell the end there is a way in which actually the world is to worry if this can happen more and more that is we will not the same with tensions in the gulf spiraling an international effort is on the way to broken new talks with iran through zuma briefing you negotiations are a good outcome at this point conflict would not be here without doubt that the situation

of war is not good for my family one things i've seen this week is there's been increasing pressure on iran so this is unacceptable this cannot be allowed to continue my job to the british i think the most important thing is to put order think of us to have over citizens at the absolute center and it as issues in a recent phone call nazanin said i truly hope this will be the last time that you go to new york for the u.n. i hope that this time it pays off in very blunt terms that were not to fret releasing some of the talk about some point 7 summits life in the the. attritional quality of being held in the city all but 3 brutal way has a decimated. radcliffe has previously been on hunger strike and there are deep concerns for her mental health as events evolve on the international stage over which the family has no control there are only the faintest hopes of an imminent

release i don't know how al-jazeera at the united nations in new york. now with the hong kong protests into their 16th week the city's leader has opened talks with the public for the 1st time for many involved in the so-called dialogue session was not that unity to voice their anger at the government explains. they were the 150 people selected by a lottery to go face to face with hong kong chief executive kerry lamb in a so-called town hall meeting her 1st direct interaction with the people of this divided city she controls after nearly 4 months of protests that were sparked when a bill allowing extraditions to mainland china was presented lam later shelled the legislation permanently but it was too late for the protesters they expanded their demands focusing on alleged police mistreatment of protesters and less control from the yeah. and i'm a white guy no matter how difficult it is my colleagues and i think that it's time

to start a direct dialogue because in the last 3 months i'm sure no matter what political stance one holds they must be feeling very sad and worried or angry. but empathy was met with blunt to statements from some participants a young lawyer like i will say that you know we aren't doing it is you because you're useless at governing listen you're responsible for what has happened in the protests you must step down. as the to our dialogue continued inside the hundreds of protesters out front continued with their chanting and their demands for kerry land and her government they listened on their phones as they swarmed the street in front of the meeting venue. this political observer sees the dialogue as too little too late i think it's more political show and it all looks rather to be fosco these days because she talked about engaging in dialogue and since august

18th the massive bradley off $1700000.00 people in half the rain but after more than one month. what people see lam made one announcement during the meeting the authorities will end the controversy a practice of taking arrested protesters to a detention center near the border with mainland china but the concession appeared to have little impact on the focus of the protest movement with many events planned for the next few days it's got harder al-jazeera hong kong. the indian government is building the 1st mass detention center for people in the northeastern states of our somme who are deemed illegal immigrants 92000000 people many of them muslim were left off the government's national registry of citizens published last month a major ports it's a detention camp in the making aimed at housing some of the 1900000 people considered illegal immigrants in india about 450 laborers working on its

construction since december. among them. who might very well end up living here once it's completed. i'm. happy i'm very worried because my name didn't come up in the final list of the national registry of citizens my family is on the list i am not even if i submitted all the paperwork i don't know what will happen next i work here during the day and think about my future at night. the new material detention center is in the state of assam in northeast india near the border with bangladesh is being built after an anti migration campaign targeted the bengali speaking residents of the state the government carried out a census of 33000000 people to determine who had the indian nationality by birth out of those nearly 2000000 hindus and muslims were not included in the national registry of citizens they are considered foreigners even though hindus were

publicly assured they'd be granted citizenship even if they weren't of indian origin that leaves the muslims out they have $120.00 days to appeal to foreigners tribunal critics say the campaign was ultimately aimed at muslims. he will face a lot of problems because members of the tribunal are known for not being impartial and there is favoritism in their promotion an appointment depends on the number of people they declare as foreigners i know this from past experience. has not been declared their foreign yet but fears it's imminent she's also the only member of her family refused citizenship. i give them all the documents but i'm scared now i want to stay with my husband and children approaching a court will require money and resources and we don't have any. it's a problem facing born in poverty and like mom surviving on daily earnings now also

facing a future of shattered families and detention if not exile for the elders there. has been 5 years since 43 students disappeared in mexico thought to have been abducted by gang members from a cocaine cartel with the help of corrupt security forces some suspects arrested by police have been released after it was found they were tortured to confess grieving families fear the justice system will never give them the answers they want when you're out of power reports from mexico city. says she has hope her son is still alive even today 5 years since he went missing along with 42 other students from the town of. every year when it's my son's birthday i miss him and want to give him a hug is the love i have for him that keeps me going and i won't rest until i find

him. other parents have been the driving force behind the constant protests to pressure the government for answers. but they fear that those truly responsible for their children's disappearance may never face justice there have been a 142 arrests made in connection to the disappearance of the 43 students but the investigation found that much of the evidence presented to prosecutors was obtained illegally. a handful of the accused were found to have been tortured in order to obtain false confessions as a result as many as $53.00 of the $142.00 detained have been released this includes the locals the leader of the so-called needles the group believed to be responsible for the disappearance of the students. this is an example of the miserable rot that's spreading through the country's justice system and it smells rotten.

after years of misleading narratives the official investigation continues to drag on. the linking complexity of this specific case has become emblematic of mexico's problem with impunity and. this is a country with 40000 missing persons what makes this case especially relevant is that high level far things are under investigation along with members of federal and local police the military and for millions and cavernous. mexican president and the. us has vowed to parents of the students his government will get to the bottom of the case even if it requires starting a new investigation. there are but for the parents of the $43.00 that could mean an even longer wait for answers. mexico city. now former friend. has died his length.