you know on thursday morning and found the victims living in extreme conditions many of those rescued with children and showed signs of being tortured police say the school had been operating for 10 years and enrolled students to learn the qur'an and be rehabilitated from drug abuse and other illnesses. this is another rehab or an islamic school because we are safe small children some of them are brought for in the neighboring countries but you know fossil miley ghana and the rest. for all over the culture of course all over the country they were here some of them why even change their why use human ice under sarah's arm and address has more on this now from. police say some of the rescue children had marks on their body that showed evidence of torture at some point or another meanwhile many of them were found chained to structures or some some form of metro's inside the building which was registered as an islamic school but also some rehabilitation

work is going on there the police are saying that neither do the operators of the institution had license to stop protests health workers or rehabilitation workers nor the institution itself was registered as a rehabilitation center and it's believed that many of the inmates of that institution or school were to compare by their parents either for islamic education or for some form of these talks if occasion because it's thought that many of those found there had abuse some illicit substances at one point or another investigation is currently going on but reports from the city itself says that many of such institutions exist in the city of karbala and other parts of the geria you know the al jazeera live from london much more still ahead iran releases the precious tanker it detained 2 months ago in the strait of hormuz. this is a very sad time for our country i see it is to the u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi accuses the attorney general of going rogue in his

handling of a whistleblower complaint against president. hello they will get more cloud working its way into the southeast of australia really impacting most of tasmania and also victoria know much in the way of rain showers that also showers around but they're not really going to produce much in the way that much needed rain we've got 900 in sydney on saturday 30 celsius in brisbane but the real heat is on into western australia 26 celsius. in perth on saturday and in fact by sunday up to 31 degrees this is about 10 degrees above the average for this time of year elsewhere. but so warming up in sydney with a high of 22 then we had across new zealand where they have a warming trend over the next couple of days 17 degrees in christchurch it should

stay mostly dry we could just see want to showers into all of the next couple of days but look at the temperature in christchurch 22 celsius on sunday but that does likely come up with some rain showers now up into japan and southern portions of the korean peninsula this is where we can see some very heavy rain over the next couple of days it is fairly fast moving however it could be very heavy at times through central honshu in particular it will sweep its way eastwards as we head through the weekend so by sunday still very unsettled but generally quite cloudy and another very warm day in tokyo at 28. i asked which prepares to exit the people in power investigates disturbing allegations about the tactics used by the we need campaign we know that the was broken we know that campaigns and we know that russia tried

to build a relationship with one of the key campaigns. paid for bricks are people in power on al-jazeera. welcome back a look at the top stories this hour now protesters on a house in force they have been earlier on. in egypt's calling for president abdel fatah sisi to step down immediately more than 2000 people were arrested in demonstrations which initially began a week and go back it sounds prime minister is used his speech at the united nations general assembly to attack india's crackdown on indian in the midst of kashmir iran can told the assembly india's actions would end in

a bloodbath. more than 300 people have been rescued from an unlicensed islamic school in nigeria many of those rescued from the building incurred to know what children and showed signs of torture. well the world athletics championships is currently underway and cats are for the next 10 days the best athletes on the planet a coming together for what's an historic event the 1st time the championships have ever visited the middle east for more let's cross to the richardson and the holly for stadium. thank you very much mary maurya a huge day for sports in this country the action at the stadium has now just finished no medal events to tell you about just yet but we did get a 1st look at some of the contenders for the 100 meters title they went through

their opening round today and for the 1st time since 2003 male sprinters a coming to a world championships and not seeing you same bolt on the starting line up one of the things you saw and what was so good out for a flat 6 was that in between olympics he made sure there was a global view of the sport and it was just ignored on a 4 year cycle and organizers here and the heads of world athletics desperately hoping that a new star can emerge at these championships. track and field fans in doha have every right to be happy qatar's capital city is the setting for the middle east's 1st ever world athletics championships it's a 1st for qatar and then is just just nice to see all the nationalities together in one place yeah i'm saw exit date here so it's a patent now to see that my federal cadence here i come to separate them is beautiful with all the hard deceiver does my face that you always watch on

telly and to watch this is a girly. championships and normally held in august but on this occasion i've been shifted to the end of september in order to avoid the higher temperatures of cats all summer it does mean athletes are being asked to hit pay performance levels at a time when they're normally putting their feet up to be end of the season. it's a move worth making according to the president of world athletics said kospi meeting his olympic counterparts thomas back in doha both men recognize the need to push the sports they represent beyond established boundaries our biggest challenge and we recognize that around the table is to maintain in both our organizations the salience interest the relevance and excitement for what we're doing in sport and sport isn't actually uniquely our only competitor it's not that athletics can sit there any longer saying well you know it's swimming or gymnastics it's the rest of

the world and it's been that way for a long time it's the sprinters who can traditionally grap lobel attention and for the 1st time since 2003 the men won't have the same bolt lining up alongside them another 1st season running in a stadium with a cool technology guys like that to be so cool you know you're from i mean our side i mean all the senators feel a breeze is good i feel pretty good arm so i keep that in mind or for tomorrow when i want to have you know you. st paul says it feels strange lining up in a championship that is you know i mean you got so many other athletes young athletes already to ride in their prime in themselves are you told that's where you really get focused on fans will see the 1st track medals of these championships handed out on saturday. while there is still some action going on away from the stadium the opening ceremonies taking place on the doha shoreline so that city gets a feel for what is going on at these championships and then in about an hour's time

less than an hour's time now the women's marathon will take place that's taking place at that time to lessen the impacts of the heat and humidity which is still an issue this time of year in doha not so much at the stadium where there is a cooling certain knowledge of the athletes actually saying some of them saying that actually like it's a bit warmer in there but everyone involved in that marathon will be taking a very close look not just at how who wins the gold medal but how the athletes cope with the extreme heat conditions thank you very much with the latest from the stadium there in doha richardson well 2 other stories are following closely nearly 300 former u.s. national security officials have signed a letter supporting the democrats impeachment inquiry into president donald trump trump has been accused of pressuring ukrainian president vladimir the lenski to investigate the son of democratic presidential hopeful joe biden supporters of trump of accuse democrats of orchestrating a witch hunt speaking on us television speaker nancy pelosi accuse the attorney general william barr of going rogue by supporting trump well ukraine has confirmed

it's investigating a gas company linked to joe biden son but not during the time he was involved anticorruption bureau has been looking into the activities of the barista company between 201-2012 hunter biden was a director on the firm's board from 2014 until last year. well heidi castro is live for us in washington d.c. and just how damaging is this letter signed by some 300 former national security officials accusing trump of an unconscionable abuse of power a very strong words. that's right and these are some very high profile individuals there former ambassadors former members of the national security council and intelligence officials who as a group penned this letter saying that they in the past have hesitated to bring forth public criticism against because they are career professionals but that in

their words the revelations of recent days demand a response president trump appears to have leveraged the authority and resources of the highest office in the land to invite additional foreign interference into our democratic processes and of course that's in reference to the july 25th phone call in which president trump asked ukrainian president well it was a linsky to initiate that investigation into trump's potential political rival joe biden and his son now trump has lashed out on twitter throughout the day defending that phone call in his words he said it was perfect is that it could not have been better or more honorable and he accused the media and the democrats and congress of working together to target him for what he calls a witch hunt he also called for the immediate resignation of the chairman of the house intelligence committee adam schiff who is now the person leading the

investigation into trump's dealings with ukraine mariyam. the outrage of the reaction continues to mount president alleged conduct here was of the inquiry itself because congress is now in a 2 week recess how are the democrats pursuing their investigations. most of congress is indeed in recess but now the members of the house intelligence committee which again is spearheading the impeachment inquiry investigation they are remaining here in washington and they are reportedly already drafting possible subpoenas moving forward with plans of hearings in the coming weeks we know that the people they really do want to hear the testimony of includes the still unnamed whistleblower of the reported cia officer who brought all of this to light into public light starting this week really jumpstarting the impeachment inquiry and

giving democrats more ammunition than arguably they've had up until this point to pursue this impeachment now it's house speaker nancy pelosi the leader of the democratic party has said that she wants to fast track this investigation in a responsible way but she wants to get this done as quickly as possible to capitalize on the public anger that is surrounding this now that might mean that articles of impeachment could be ready for a house floor vote by thanksgiving time the end of november here in the u.s. but all of this is happening in the context of the bigger picture that an impeachment is not in any way the same as a removal from office of course for that to happen democrats would need the assistance of republicans who have the majority in the senate and up until this point republicans have large part stopped by their highly popular president among

the republican rank and file and in fact the leader of republicans in the senate mitch mcconnell has called these accusations involving trouble in ukraine laughable mariyam thank you with the latest from washington on this heidi joe castro well out of all the stories we're following iran has released a british tanker it detained 2 months ago in the strait of hormuz a move which further escalated tensions in the gulf the stone emperor left iran's bunder abbas port where it was taken off to being seized according to the reuters news agency the ship is now heading for port rashid in the united arab emirates. reports now from to. more than 2 months after being captured by iran's revolutionary guard the british flag tank istana in peril has now left the iranian port of blunderbuss tracking data shows the vessel has set a new destination for ports recede in the united arab emirates iran accused the tankers crew of violating international maritime regulations it's seizure was seen

as a retaliation for british marines detaining in the rain and super tanker off the coast of gibraltar. iran is accused of attempting to deliver or oil to syria in violation of its use sanctions against the regime the rename tank it was released last month and despite iran's reassurances to a british court delivered its cargo to syria the release of the stern imperio is being seen as an attempt to ease tensions in the gulf and some say may be intended to make european leaders more receptive to proposal for a new peace plan that's after iran deny devolvement in attacks on saudi oil processing plants earlier this month. rebels claimed responsibility but germany britain and france have all joined the u.s. and saudi arabia in accusing the iranians something u.s. president donald trump was keen to point out to the u.n. general assembly in response to iran's recent attack on saudi arabian oil facilities we just impose the highest level of sanctions on iran central bank and sovereign wealth fund. all nations have

a duty to act. no responsible government should subsidize iran's blood lust. iranian leaders have said they want to counter a new u.s. led naval coalition in the gulf that the pentagon says will help protect shipping from further attacks they ring is also want to find a way to avoid u.s. sanctions on iran's economic lifeline or the exports france has been working to save the 2015 nuclear deal that trump route through from 16 months ago the joint comprehensive plan of action allowed iran to trade or in exchange for curbing its nuclear activities iran has been reducing its commitments to the deal saying european countries need to find a way around u.s. sanctions but european leaders appear to be growing increasingly frustrated with iran's failure to comply with parts of the deal. u.s. sanctions against iran's banking sector taking a toll president rouhani may be calculating that the release of the stove in peril

really to some relief for iran struggling economy and so european leaders that engaging with iran can have positive outcomes. that iran. thousands of people protested in hong kong's business district in support of activists detaining of the border with mainland china many in the holding center later treated in hospital some of them with broken bones on thursday the embattled chief executive kerry lamb took part in a community dialogue session with members of the public it was the 1st time she sat down with a critic since the protests began 16 weeks ago. the political unrest in haiti over food and fuel shortages is showing no signs of abating the protests is putting up barricades and setting fire to police cars in the capital port au prince at least 4 protesters have been killed in recent days as haitians demand the resignation of president chavez. the protest is accused of failing to deal with deep rooted corruption he is appealing for calm. of course

in pakistan a sentence the brother of social media star can deal by loss to life in prison for murder the 26 year old model was found strangled in her home in 2016 after posting pictures of herself on facebook his brother mohammed was seen as emo had confessed to killing nearly a 1000 pakistani women and murdered by close relatives each year in so-called on the killings for violating conservative norms on love and marriage. the headlines this hour protesters are out in force in egypt calling for president sisi to step down cafes and shops have been closed and football matches perspire and as police put on a show of force across the country more than 2000 people have been arrested ahead of friday's demonstrations. pakistan's prime minister has used his speech at the un

general assembly to deliver an extraordinary attack on india's crackdown on indian administered kashmir and iran can tell the assembly that narendra modi's actions would end in a bloodbath and he urged the un to intervene to prevent war between the nuclear power neighbors what is going to happen when the gov use lifted will be a bloodbath. the people will come out there 900000 troops there they haven't come do. dundas do what prosperity of this is supposed to be for the development of these 900000 troops one of they're going to do when the when the come out there will be a bloodbath. order to what happens then. moved 300 people have been rescued from an unlicensed islamic school in northern nigeria some of whom had been held in chains police raided the building and could

do no on thursday morning and found the victims living in extreme conditions many of those rescued with children and showed signs of being tortured. nearly $300.00 former u.s. national security officials have signed a letter supporting the democrats' impeachment inquiry into president trump trump has been accused of pressuring ukrainian president logan is a lengthy to investigate the son of democratic presidential hopeful joe biden trump has accused the democrats of orchestrating a witch hunt against him and just one other story to bring you continuing political unrest in haiti over shortages in feud food and fuel with protests as looting in setting fire to police cars in the capital port au prince at least 4 protesters have been killed in recent days as haitians demand the resignation of president giovannelli mores we'll bring you more on that story in the news hour that's coming up at $2100.00 g.m.t.

in about half an hour's time do join me then but that comes off to people in power which starts now. now all jews era. where ever you are. in june 26th the u.k. decided to leave the european union in the aftermath amid acrimonious debate on the exact terms of britain's departure questions surfaced about the legitimacy of the referendum that began it all we asked journalist polish ma to investigate now with the brics it's saugus still mired in divisive political wrangling but showing his

report again. last. october 20th seen hundreds of thousands of protesters marched through central london one of the biggest demonstrations seen in the u.k. in gives my name to get in the 2nd child's to rethink britain's proposed exit from the european union to leave on the way the couple has covered their own behinds by giving us a people's vote so they feel we can actually decide. what to do next. a lot of us think that remaining is a much better idea and trying to reform the european union make that better broaden

running a highly went brits britstown quite. britain's prime minister might say the same thing but the truce of my not quitting has meant staying faithful to the small majority that voted to leave the 2 years ago whatever the cost yet what if that vote was tainted what if instead of being a free and fair reflection of the people's will the referendum was one of the biggest frauds ever perpetrated on british democracy in any other election if fraud of they say level had been uncovered then we have the legislation that puts aside the results and we have the election again as the deadline for britain's exit from the e.u. draws near there are still too many troubling questions about the vote that breaks it underway about its fairness and its legitimacy about who was behind it who paid

for it and the motives of many of those involved. my name is dr paul lashmar i'm an older and deputy head of journalism at city university of london. breaks it is a watershed moment for the u.k. like everyone else my students will be directly affected and look at the mess they've got that could be one of the most important political events of their lives so i've been looking for answers what i've heard is a story so complex and murky it almost defies belief. it all began in 2030 to placate a wing of his party that had long been antagonistic to the prime minister david cameron was taking the biggest gamble of his career we will give the british people a referendum with a very simple. choice. like

all ballots in the u.k. the referendum was to be overseen by the electoral commission. anyone could take part in the public debate the commission designated 2 official campaign bodies. one in favor of maybe in the e.u. one for leavin and gave each a fix spending limit of $7000000.00 pounds. only british registered donors were allowed to contribute to those campaigns now they go on. david cameron became the public face of the pro e.u. campaign better off we are safer in a reformed european union vote leave was fronted by the p.m.'s cabinet colleagues boris johnson and michael go i think we should take the chance now as a country to take back control the probe breaks its side have the backing of another unofficial campaign leave. its most prominent figure was nigel farrar of

the u.k. independence party but cameron's plan backfired because all the odds the u.k. opted for the exit the u.k. has voted to leave the european union. you know history. in the road and. the shock on the remains side was profound early hopes of an easy victory dashed how had it gone so horribly wrong. as the post-mortems got underway attention began focusing on the role played by social media a powerful tool for sway in public opinion to find out more i went to see one of my university colleagues would be looking at a bracks of debate for a very long time dr marco bastos is a specialist in communications of this is what we call a network graph or

a plot if he showed me a graph of twitter activity during the referendum strange patterns emerge we notice a drop in the number of users that we were monitoring it was a significant drop i hadn't seen anything that big up to the point and they turned out that there. he had very much to very much sort of like features thoughts of computer generated accounts program to automatically push messages online. what's happening here is that this boss is we tweeting a range of real world users this is a single message in all likelihood that was we tweeted several times by this very same marco explained that while bots were used by the remaining campaign it was the leave side that made the most of them they were more for the leave out of the campaign for sure. the figure was quite clear some of my colleagues have looked into similar data and they have come to the conclusion that these accounts war at

least a portion of them were operated by internet research agency in russia based in some petersburg the internet research agency for. is a troll for an organization created expressly to sow discord in this information on the web it was identified by american intelligence as having played a key role in manipulating the 26th election of president donald trump the no one year to the time it now seems that they are also played a role in bricks it. on the death of a friend we found a marked change in behavior so accounts that had been intimate tweeting on blacks it suddenly started to. edinburgh university research. has examined millions of tweets that were posted prior to the referendum many of them it turns out from the same suspect internet research agency accounts the tweets often at the same format which was that hash tag many u

r l and they were using that to keep made a trending topic so that people saw mation and that they were trying to access that's. what we have here is trolls so it's human people writing tweets what they flit was being. the true scale of the russian twitter activity on brakes it only came to light by accident because the company passed the data to us congressional investigation into the trump election that probe another key social media player facebook was already playing a starring role in this year's i covered what is facebook doing to prevent foreign actors from interfering in u.s. elections one of my greatest regrets in running the company is that we were slow in identifying the russian information operations in 2016 and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry what no one yet fully understands

is the role that facebook may have also played in bricks if the company says it has found almost no evidence of russian interference and repeated that claim in a statement to this program but research was skeptical facebook is basically a black box so we don't really know what's going on inside facebook. and that's not just facebook that's all the instagram what and a number of other platforms operated by facebook. the fact that doubts persist is jus in parts of the company's connection to another murky affair. in early 20 the guardian newspaper revealed that 87000000 personal facebook accounts had been illegally harvested by a u.k. based strategic communications business called cambridge analytical work because of the presidential campaign and had ties to leave the. an offshoot of a larger company called s c l which had an alleged background in military decision from ation cambridge analytic as promised was that it could target people with

messages to modify their voting choices so for a highly erratic and conscientious audience you're going to need a message that is rational and fair based or emotionally based the cambridge analytical scandal would eventually wind almost $120000000000.00 off of facebook's market value and raise serious questions about the vulnerability of western democracies to manipulation. to find out more i went to meet the journalist behind the guardian's cambridge alice a can scoop. walter told me how she 1st began to pull the threads together it started when in order to confirm the data company's links that leave you you she contacted the campaign group spokesman and you went more andy right back and he said happy to clarify came originally did you work for us but we never paid them they were happy to do it for free and. there's definitely something interesting

here because this looks like a donation to me and donations need to be declared. champion for art in front of the golden left and he's the person who took that photo. and in the face of the more he's in one as well the bad boys it breaks it and breaks it he said it was like a petri dish for the chum campaign. you know it was like a test case carol's revelations led to the biggest data protection investigation ever held on both sides of the atlantic we started a conversation with mr zuckerberg came a journal that i can start to identify mental vulnerabilities in voters and work to exploit them by targeting information designed to activate some of the worst characteristics in people chris wiley a former director of cambridge analytic turned whistleblower gave evidence to the u.s. senate and a british parliamentary committee that began taking an interest in the brakes at

referendum and fake news the definition of a conversion so we're going to say that magic these institutions you know she just you know it's in the act of the referendum might be different i think it's completely reasonable to say that there could be a difference in wrestling. you know had there not been in my view cheating there needs to be a deeper investigation of the of fake accounts and a group of facebook groups being used to propagate information conservative m.p. damian collins is the chairman of the british parliamentary committee we've had evidence from facebook but we feel that we should hear from mark zuckerberg because he buys into mr he's the person who decides what happens at facebook there are still big concerns are faced with not enough to investigate the role of fake accounts they've not been transparent on the issue of data breaches and user data and they got in the hands of people who shouldn't have it. fake accounts russian trolls data mining complicated stuff and none of it do much to quell my fears that

there was something unpleasant lurking in the bricks that undergrowth but i barely scratched the surface next up was another whistleblower this time someone who'd worked for the official vote leave campaign i was working with the some of the top advisor. as in the country you know constantly seeing boris johnson michael gove you know some of the most influential politicians in britain. recent graduates sharma's joined vote leave in early 2016 and was asked to engage with ethnic minorities but we've understood that they couldn't just win on white votes they understood that they couldn't win on like people that hate immigrants. he was tasked with working with one of the official campaigns reach groups called believe it was led by a young fashion student i met darren grimes in the 1st week that i joined there was one of the one of the few outreach groups that was very focused on the liberal

progressive method but some he says he later realised the official vote leave campaign and another purpose in mind for the young volunteers to circumvent the legally binding electoral commission spending limits of understood that they had a spending cap so they needed to find a way affectively to breach that spending cap it's also a good idea sonny was told that vocally had found a way of getting the believe outreach group some new campaign money but there were strings attached effectively vote leave advised us to create ourselves it was separate campaign groups so that they could give us almost 700000 pounds to spend but they gave it on a condition they gave it on a condition saying the only way that they can give it to us is if we give it to a i q which was a digital company working at vote leave. a i.q. i.q. as it's sometimes known is

a canadian based data business it works on us presidential primaries in 2015 with best elections cambridge i love the tickers parent company literally a week before referendum date we were spending hundreds of 1000 pounds a day. on a q yeah a day the money was sent directly from vote leave to q it never touched be back accounts sun is this quieted these events later turned him into a whistleblower he passed his evidence to the electoral commission and in july 28th they find locally 61000 pounds for among other things breaching the spending rules the founder of believe down crimes was fined 20000 pounds is now appealing that decision. but there's other stories involving strange sums of campaign fund in that haven't yet been as adequately explained. belfast northern ireland one of the poorest parts of the u.k. which has benefited the most from e.u.

investment for many here there's long been concern that breaks its effects on cross border relations with the irish republic could mean a return to the dark days of the troubles so when a small local political party received 435000 pound donation to the brics it campaign the largest in the party's history eyebrows would raise why he was an ordinary political party being so involved you know in the referendum in great britain in england and scotland back in 2016 investigative journalist peter keegan was shocked when he saw a proto leave 1st assignment in a local english newspaper the ad was sponsored by ulster's democratic unionist party de u.k.e. . for them is a huge sum of money so they're spending it on a on a piece of material that's not going to circulate norton in ordinary the dorm at all the single and ferguson cost the day you pay $282000.00 pounds

almost 5 times as much as they had spent on their participation in the u.k.'s general election the previous year but no one knew from where the money had come to pay for it norton aren't these unusual laws as they were secrecy of political donations when ordinary and you didn't reveal the names of political donors and the reason for this was kind of a hangover from the troubles the violence in ordinarily. the loophole was used by the dea u.p.s. shadowy benefactor to hide their identity finally after intense media pressure the d.c.u. revealed the money had come from a body called the constitutional research council or c r c but exactly who or what lies behind the c.r.c. remains to be seen do you know where the constitutional search came to get its money from you not asked the constitutional research here saying you don't know where the order i believe that they have released their money legitimately under we

were delighted to receive the donation from that i'm so you believe that it really meant you have to know that legally l m we did you know their incessant and say oh you didn't tell me what useful research council would publish where they do their fundraising not as a matter for them not the do you think the constitution research council is jargony term it's called non-corporate association it means they don't have to follow company accounts they don't have time address and because of the donor secrecy laws in order and we don't they don't have to tell us who they are they don't have to tell us where they got the money from but the democratic unionist party is supposed to be completely sure it has checked where this money came from of the money is the justice we also asked the day you paid what do diligence it had on the true source of the money spokes person told us the electoral commission has raised no issues in relation. into the d u p campaign including did donation which came from a permissible donor who in turn are themselves regulated by the electoral commission. interesting lay the do you piece spent another slice of the mysterious

donation on the services of agric i q the same data company to which boat leave said money when illegally circumventing the u.k.'s strict referendum spend in laws the d.p. did not declare that they were working with anybody to say that they were working poorly on their own yet they spent money with the exact same companies or for at least one of us despite these curious circumstances the u.k.'s electoral commission has said that it does not have sufficient grounds to open an investigation the d u p had broken the lord had committed a criminal offense to say joe moore is a director of the good law project a body now challenging the commission's decision not to investigate the law is very very clear to protect our democracy from foreign interference those who accept donations have a clear positive obligation to look at and to understand who is giving them money

so it's the faintly story all over again. since the breaks that referendum questions about the mysterious donors and the so-called dark money have continued to surface. journalist peter jukes focused his attention on the biggest political donor in you case history insurance mogul banks. allegedly he transferred more than 8000000 pounds in loans and donations to leave you and other bricks and campaigns the been face questions about how it's going for this because there's no visible means of support is not a wealthy man has a big house but has 850-0000 pound mortgage on. donated 9000000 pounds at least. leaving the e.u. whenever questioned banks has been evasive about the true source of his wealth his reticence troubles m.p. damian collins chairman of the british parliamentary select committee investigating

disinform ation of fake news the reason these questions around our backs in money persisted we keep being told different stories we keeping told well he sold this business and the money came from that sale but it turns out there was no real profit made on that sale or it came from these mines or it came from somewhere else and it never makes sense but what really concerns investigators are the multiple meetings mr banks is known to have held with russian officials in london in the months running up to the referendum why would he be meeting in the breaks at so many meetings me turned out if you're talking about levy u.s. officials and russian you know embassy staff 11 or 12. and i'm up to press one earth why are the russians dangling lucrative office to british businessman bankrolling bracks and you have to ask the question did for money making into the rights campaign in june 28th aaron banks and his business

partner and 2 more appear before a parliamentary committee but he left before the m.p.'s were able to fully question him he's misled parliament and the public not only about his own financial activities but also the frequency of his contacts with the russian embassy here in london in november 28th the electoral commission referred our own banks to the national crime agency on suspicion that various criminal offenses may have been the committed banks declined to answer questions but he has consistently denied receiving money from russia and dismisses other claims as ludicrous the case is ongoing in the form of government minister bradshaw believes a full inquiry into the referendum is long overdue he wants an investigation similar to the miller probe into alleged collusion between russia and the trump presidential campaign is it's very embarrassing for our government fran townsend

services to look flatfooted like this and to leave it to an american political and congressional process to reveal the truth about what happened in britain. over in brussels de facto capital of the union reps it is want to leave many think the truth is already out there i went to meet sajid kerim a leading u.k. conservative member of the european parliament he lays responsibility for the brics a mess squarely at the feet of russian president vladimir putin a weakening of the european union is in his interests it is is an aim it is his goal i'm afraid we are on the verge of. delivering that for him today i don't think brits and certainly many of the europeans have actually understood to what extent their lives are about to change. unless

our governments including my government in the united kingdom take the step of investigating and protecting our democracy today. it wasn't the only warning about russian meddling i heard in brussels russia is responsible for 80 percent on the information actually says. 80 percent after european commission conference electoral interference former nato secretary general anders rasmussen was giving a stark warning of the threat europe faces over the past 2 years foreign interference has been detected in at least 10 divisions and those on both sides of the atlantic. rest most and says was surely one of russia's targets i have no doubt and i think we have evidence that they interfere so i think

the lesson. is that we should focus on preventing this from happening in the future . back in britain the endless political rally over bricks it was rolling on but always about half implemented rather than the legitimacy of the referendum that got it going on sunday. but began this fill with questions about the brics a referendum that urgently needed answers what i've heard has only crease those concerns. as britain's departure from the e.u. draws ever closer i'm left with one chilling thought were we here in britain jute into making one of the worst political decisions in our history if you win our campaign or a referendum or an election based on breaking the law then it is a democratic it's a lot it's a scam to cheat. in september $2900.00 london's metropolitan police announced they

will be taking no. no further action against the leave e.u. campaign for spending offenses in the backseat referendum despite accepting that it broke the law the national crime agency has also said it will be taking no further action on these masses against leave e.u. banks and other us. just. counting the cost modi's economics very

a job losses rise and consumers tighten their belts plus stripped of its autonomy crush me as true $1000000000.00 will harvest is left to rot and olens brags that housing crisis is double most of them out of the car counting the cost 0. 0. 0 i maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up. thousands risk arrest in egypt to again demand that president sisi step down

despite a major show of force by the police. a democrat led house committee issues a subpoena for secretary of state might pay a compelling him to hand over documents related to ukraine also. what is going to happen. when the fuse lifted will be a blockbuster. pakistan's prime minister attacks his indian counterparts his actions in kashmir and urges the united nations to intervene. and i'm far is small with this for a live from doha as khalifa stadium for the world athletics championships the big names take to the track and there's a 1st ever night marathon along has water for. welcome to the news hour our top story demonstrators in egypt of again ben al calling for

the resignation of president sisi cafes and shops were closed football matches but officials tightened security across the country the protests began initially a week ago in response to corruption allegations since then human rights groups say more than 2000 people have been arrested stephanie decker reports. they took a risk to come out to the streets in protest for a 2nd friday that's despite warnings from egyptian security forces that they would face a harsh response al-jazeera cannot independently verify these videos but they are said to be in kenya the city and are pretty gypped and also in l.a. want to clear the capital cairo other reports suggest a large security presence in central cairo with the streets virtually deserted the roads the higher square which has been the heart of previous protests over the years blocked off. another narrative in what is just as much a media campaign state television showing pro-government protests in the capital

president abdel fatah sisi return to cairo early on friday from the un general assembly in new york this welcome posted on his official facebook page with the president reassures this crowd that all is well with the market what are you doing here why you got up early on a friday morning life is good and easy you have to know that the egyptians are very aware of how they try to fake the realities and realistic things and deceive the people for the sake of allah and for the sake of you what happened before will never happen again don't worry and don't be worried good morning to you but despite the president's assurances something is happening here waiting out troops all over the streets of cairo now is and we are doing random checks all over the city is a very clear reflection of this government's insecurity. the fact that the thing that threatens this government more than anything else is the voice of its own people a government that secure in its standing at security which little missy and it

support among egyptians wouldn't be so frightened or terrified by hundreds of protesters in the streets of cairo it started with this man mohammed alley a contractor for the egyptian military for 15 years the largest and most powerful institution in the country recently breaking rank uploading videos statements from spain where he now lives in self-imposed exile accusing senior military leaders of wasting millions of dollars to build villas palaces and hotels it hasn't gone down well with many who are finding it hard to live day by day. more recently there's a lot of economic discontent cc's economic policies have mostly failed the wealth gap has increased and egypt's poverty rate is rising pretty dramatically hundreds came out to protest last friday in what has been the biggest show of discontent against cc's rule human rights watch says nearly 2000 people have been arrested in the last week alone al-jazeera is banned from reporting inside the country the

bigger picture of what is happening here may take time to become clear but it seems once again egyptians have lost their fear and are defying orders to remain silent stephanie decker al jazeera. so i'm now joined by some a shouter an associate professor of middle eastern politics at university of oklahoma so as we were hearing in the report that last friday we saw small scale but certainly determined protests in several egyptian cities including of course the capital cairo so how then did the government prepare for this day. well there were thousands of police and security forces in different egyptian cities to harir square was closed off a number of streets and roads and event news towards to harir another streets were closed off so that people couldn't access the square and so on there was also

a statement dissuading people from the protests so the regime was incredibly prepared and mr sisi has said a number of times that what happened in 2011 that is a major protest against the government that brings it down is not going to happen again so they are on high alert and mobilized as many forces as they could to prevent anything from happening. apart from the deployment of riot police security forces in central cairo and the arrests what do you make of the sorts have counted mobilization from the government this pro sisi rally turning into a massive concept sure well this is a tactic that regimes have used in the past including the mubarak regime including during the revolution where there would be a numbers of pro mubarak protesters and ceases doing this as well for media for outside consumption but also for egyptian consumption now it's been stated that

some of the people who were you know in support of sisi received lunchboxes and other kinds of commodities as a payoff as it were there's no question that some people in egyptian society support the regime and president sisi but the proces see protests were managed were produced by the regime intentionally. obvious protest sustainable in the face of the violence and the crackdown and the oppression we have seen in egypt in recent years and which of course still exists can they go on. they can go on whether they will actually lead to any kind of political change whether hundreds of thousands will be able to protest as opposed to say a few 1000 is it entirely different question and i'm not optimistic and in fact many egyptian analysts believe that there is more to be that's going on then than meets the eye meaning that there are some forces in the regime itself that are

unhappy with the direction that president sisi is taking that government with corruption and so on and that they are participating or allowing some of these protests to happen so i'm not optimistic about the possibility of 2011 repeating itself nevertheless all of the problems that existed in 2011 economic problems and political problems have only deepened and so egyptians have very legitimate grievances about the current state of the economy and the current political system from a shower thank you sharing your analysis with us thank you. now to our other top story today democrats in the house of representatives have issued a subpoena to the u.s. secretary of state now this movies and compelling might pay a to hand over documents relating to contact with ukraine's government says house democrats continue their impeachment inquiry into president donald trump of allegations he pressured ukraine's president to investigate his political rival joe

biden i did cast her hospital. democratic leaders are keeping up the pressure on the white house with more calls for subpoenas and hearings next week nancy pelosi reportedly wants to formally vote on impeaching u.s. president donald trump by the end of november this is as serious as it gets when it comes to protecting the constitution of the united states and the oath of office that will take i think the president violated that i was trump's phone call with ukraine in which he pushed for a ukrainian investigation of his political opponent while withholding u.s. military assistance pushed democrats to begin an impeachment inquiry earlier this week then thursday the public release of a whistleblower report claiming the white house tried to bury the calls records gave democrats the most powerful ammunition yet to see trump impeachment i think we've gotten to the point that if they're not going to do something for us what

would they do something for on friday more than $300.00 former u.s. national security officials penned a letter expressing their grave concern they write president trump appears to have leveraged the authority and resources of the highest office in the land to invite additional foreign interference into our democratic processes that would constitute an unconscionable abuse of power it also would represent an effort to subordinate america's national interests and those of our closest allies and partners to the president's personal political interest trump maintains the phone call with the president of ukraine was perfect and says the anonymous intelligence officer who raised alarms is partisan and he's accusing adam schiff the democratic chairman of the intelligence committee of lying to congress and misrepresenting the call in a tweet the president called for schiff to immediately resign from congress house democrats have been investigating the president for several potential crimes

including obstruction of. justice and money laundering that's played into trump's quain that his political opponents are searching for any way to remove him from office. democrats say going forward they'll focus on ukraine to capitalize on public anger while it exists but even if they succeed in impeaching trump removing him from office is another matter that would require the cooperation of republicans whose leader in the senate calls the accusations against trump laughable castro al-jazeera washington. joins us now from washington and. it looks as though secretary state might bump a 0 is now going to be subpoenaed as poss of the impeachment inquiry what are they looking for from him they're looking for everything that has to do with ukraine and it's important to point out that these committees have been asking the secretary of state for these documents long before the revelations about this ukraine phone call

came out and he's simply been avoiding them ignoring them now that they've launched a formal impeachment inquiry if he continues to defy them legal experts say it is much more likely that the courts would order him to comply if not he would could be held in contempt of court so they're asking for basically all correspondence about ukraine everything the state department communicated to rudy giuliani the president's personal lawyer they're asking if they have a transcript of that phone call if so they say they want to see it and any details about the president deciding to suspend that hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to ukraine before the phone call and it's not just the documents they have said that these committees have said they were going to be on the move on this they were going to wait they feel like they've got momentum on their side the public is angry they want to continue to keep that in the headlines so congress is technically at a recess they're taking a break to go back to their districts not the members of these 3.