the meeting point of those protests up she demonstrations in hong kong 5 years ago but there are a number of rallies planned over the weekend and obviously this is the the bigger why the movement the anti-government movement tonight are saturday night here in hong kong the simple human rights front has organized another gathering assembly in front of where we are which is the lead sort of council building in time our part that will no doubt attract big crowds on sunday and we have a quote beijing rally where we expect pro china supporters to sing the national anthem and then there's another march in the afternoon of course this is in the lead up to choose day which is china's national day it's a public holiday here in hong kong and this will mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china and police are anticipating violent clashes between the point beijing and the anti-government groups on that day so i know that the next few days will be filled with protests scattered across a number of districts in hong kong. the prominent student activist joshua wall is also announced he's running for local office why is this significant it appears as

if this is being deliberately time to around this key anniversary. it is a look he was the face of the umbrella movement back in $24.00 saying and it's interesting timing that he made this announcement today i mean the 22 year old has to be the 1st time he's running for politics he's going to run in the city's upcoming district election and this is the lowest level of the municipal organization but it could cost trucking through the lips of council but as i mentioned he was the 1st time is running for politics but he did co-found the dimmest to start a party and a number of people randomly were elected under the democrats type political party but of course they were disqualified and not long after their elected site and last month or so in the number of people registering to vote. that they got coming district elections which shows the political movement we have here in hong kong at the moment sarah clarke in hong kong on what looks like it's going to be another

day of big protests and thank you. still ahead for all al-jazeera. chained abused and tortured nigerian police for at least $300.00 imprisoned boys. chaos in haiti we'll tell you what's causing it and what the people in the streets are demanding. hello there well it is sunshine you want in your you will need to head to the south across the mediterranean because elsewhere as you can say there really is nothing but cloud and it's not just can we have got rain in here and some pretty strong winds as well now there are no warnings across the southeast europe for severe thunderstorms but we have got warnings across these northern sections for rain in particular you'll see this next area of low pressure that really is bringing some

very heavy rain across parts of the united kingdom and this could lead to some more localized flooding you can see by sunday it's very widespread and some particularly strong winds coming from this system so it will be very wet very windy the winds could actually strong enough with the rain to actually cause some damage to trees as well time which is of course low as you might expect but to the south of there it's very nice 23 in zurich a warm 29 in madrid and pretty good into vienna at 24 celsius and then the best sunshine is really through the eastern end of the by the trainees the 20 celsius in athens still cool in moscow 11 degrees and that rain is on its way it is fine and dry across northern africa temperatures typically in the mid to high twenty's a warm 34 in cairo on saturday and then by sunday will see a very warm tunis at 31 degrees.

one in 3 brazilian women is a victim of domestic abuse it seems every day a woman dies and it just becomes a statistic but some of broken away from the cycle of violence it's not easy to leave you have to ask for help and inspired others to turn their lives around i call the straw hat program the dream program my life changed after the course it gave me opportunities for my business women make change on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour. have been several explosions in afghanistan as polls for its 4th presidential election opened the polling station

was in kandahar injuring 16 people tens of thousands of security personnel have been deployed. donald trump special envoy to ukraine has quit kurt volker was asked to give evidence about a call that's led to an impeachment inquiry into trump the president reportedly asked ukraine's leader to help him best to gating his rival joe biden and his son. hundreds of protesters have defied a security clampdown for a 2nd successive friday in egypt they join rallies calling for the president to resign they accuse abdel fattah el-sisi of corruption and destroying the economy. 1st pakistan's prime minister has used his speech at the un general assembly to attack india's crackdown in indian administered kashmir imran khan warned of a bloodbath in the disputed region last month india revokes the semi autonomous status of kashmiri territory under its control india's prime minister also

addressed this summit but made no mention of kashmir jonah hall reports from the un and the north of the middle of the. un general assembly was drawing to a close in new york when suddenly it burst grimly back into life pakistan's prime minister imran khan decried india's decision to revoke self rule in majority muslim populated indian administered kashmir it was part of a policy he said of hindu nationalism and ethnic cleansing what is going to happen when the gov use lifted will be a bloodbath the people will come out then $100000.00 troops there they haven't come do ours not in the more diseases he's done this do for the prosperity of this is supposed to be for the development of these 900000 troops one of they're going to do. when they come out they'll be a blood but in his speech accused india's prime minister narendra modi of fascism

of pursuing an ideology of hate and racial purity drawn from hitler and mussolini in the 1930 s. he said the un must intervene to avoid conflict between 2 nuclear armed neighbors this is a test for the united nations you are the one who guaranteed the people of kashmir the right of self-determination ah they are suffering because of that. and this is the time. this is the time not to appease like in 1939 appeasement took place this is the dime to take action and number one action must be that india must live in human curfew a short while prime minister modi had conspicuously avoided any mention of kashmir which india insists is an internal matter but there was a veiled reference to what he has previously called pakistan backed terrorism in the region almost there is give out the hand. we belong to

a country that has given the world not war but buddha's message of peace and that is the reason why our voice against terrorism to alert the world about this evil brings was seriousness and outrage we believe that this is one of the biggest challenges not for any single country but for the entire world and humanity the lack of unanimity among us on the issue of terrorism dense those very principles that are the basis of the creation of the u.n. and that is why for the sake of humanity i firmly believe that it's absolutely imperative that the world unites against terrorism oh what i as both leaders spoke a block away from the u.n. building anti modi protesters demanded the world take action 55 days of court feel no food no house no madison and they can't go out it's not here we are here to protest we want to know the but let the word know what's happening there

and nobody's doing anything. and on the ground in srinagar kashmiris under strict security controls and with indian troops keeping watch made their voices go was both prime ministers modi and khan met separately with president on trump on the sidelines of the un general assembly this week but nothing has come of trump's offer to mediate between them and hence no sign of any real progress in avoiding further escalation over kashmir joe now al-jazeera at the u.n. in new york. sudan's new prime minister abdullah ham dog made his debut at the world stage with an address at the u.n. meeting in new york the leader of the country's transitional government court for a new era of diplomacy with the u.s. and expressed hope that long standing sanctions will be removed and kind of only go and those in the family part of the it was the former regime that supported terrorism and the sudanese people revolted against it the sanctions have caused

tremendous. suffering to our people they're full we call on the united states to remove sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and to stop punishing the people of sudan for crimes committed by the former regime also in jordan is at the u.n. with more. when omar al bashir the sudanese dictator was still in power he tried to bring it up doll home dock to be a senior official in his government the former u.n. official turned down that offer because he didn't think it was appropriate given aware of the shares a record both within the country and on the world stage now mr bashir is behind bars facing a lot of criminal and corruption charges in his government and still facing international criminal and human rights charges before the international criminal court a double hulled doc is the interim prime minister of sudan in his address on friday evening before delegates at the u.n. general assembly dock said that his country is trying to move beyond 30 years of

dictatorship of deprivation and of real terror he also said that he is asking the united states to remove sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism because he said the current government is committed to the rule of law to the respect of human rights and to promoting good governance however because mr han doc is a transitional figure it's unlikely that the united states is going to recommend any changes in the status of sudan until elections have been held until a new constitution has been formed and until a permanent civilian government has been established it is worth pointing out that mr han doc is indicating his country is going to continue cooperating with the united nations not just because of the assistance that u.n. agencies could provide but also to show that sudan is going to try to mature beyond

what has happened in. past 3 decades and to try to take its role not just as a member of the united nations but to be an upstanding member of the african union as well. police in nigeria say they freed more than 300 mile students held captive in a building in the northern city of could do you know someone with metal chains around their ankles is alleged to some students as young as 9 who've been sexually abused and tortured. this place is not. an islamic school because you have small children some of them abroad for in our neighboring countries but you know fossil miley gonna. fall and all of. the county you know i hear some of them why even chain you know i use human ice protests as in haiti's capital looted shops and set police cars on fire as anti-government demonstrations show no sign of letting up and these 4 people have been killed in port au prince in recent days as haitians rally over food and fuel shortages

they're demanding the resignation of president john. key's him of failing to deal with deep rooted corruption always as appeals for calm. in the haitian capital. public services are closed shops are closed businesses public transportation is that a standstill demonstrators here have blocked roadways using practically anything at their disposal from debris to boulders burning tires since early on friday now this frustration really began several weeks ago beginning with fuel shortages and people here in port au prince blaming the president should always saying that that it's his fault blaming corruption saying that the president is incapable of effectively ruling the country now to give you a sense of how tense things are here in the city since early on friday thousands of people have been out on the streets or being confrontational with police officers who have used here to tear gas and other tactics to disperse crowds there have been reports of injuries or been gunshots heard there's also been reports of looting

several stores have been broken into this includes a police station in cité soleil which is a which is known as one of the poorest slums here in the city of port au prince now in this case people actually did break into the police station and looted it there are reports that police officers actually fled now opposition supporters opposition to the president are saying that this is a last march final fight against the president calling for his reza. nation and there was one senator for the opposition that was quoted his name is yuri lot or 2 who was quoted as saying that if you down referring once more to the haitian president if you bill moyers does not resign today whatever happens to him it's not our responsibility so again tensions remain high thousands of people still out on the streets of being dispersed by by police and there's there's a sense that these protests as they've continued for for 3 weeks now will will continue in the days to come another round of talks some breaks it has taken place in brussels but little progress has been made on securing

a deal the e.u.'s chief breaks it negotiator met britain's representative and islands foreign minister on friday islands accuse the u.k. of not coming up with any new proposals paul brennan has the latest. it's been an extraordinarily toxic week in british politics particularly after those weapons they confrontations in the house of commons between the prime minister boris johnson and in particular opposition m.p.'s boris johnson calling a piece of legislation which is designed to stop britain leaving the e.u. without a deal as a surrender act and that really incited an inflamed tempest on both sides of the house but away from the arguments and the rhetoric of there has been some actual negotiations taking place in brussels on friday the problem is that doesn't appear to have been any tangible progress from then we're going to hear from a couple of those people involved in meetings in brussels 1st of all the british breck's it secretary stephen barclay i think there's still

a long way to go i think we are coming to the moment of truth in these negotiations we will see if that's a political world and both sides will commit it to securing a deal we're committed to leaving on the 31st of october but that deal just to be with the backstop now those sound bites moments of truth long way to go if he repeated those in several answers it appeared that that was clearly the pre-prepared answer he was going to give no matter what the question but the problem is that the irish foreign minister simon covais was also in brussels and he had a very different take on the stage that the negotiations are at until there is a serious proposal in writing that can be the basis for a negotiation. then the gaps that are wide at the moment will remain. and time is running out so you can see it's not just differences in the tone of the rhetoric it's also big differences in the contents of what's being said and what's being agreed or not agreed and remember all of this just 3 weeks until an e.u.

summit takes place in brussels at which the hopes are a deal can finally be struck. 2019 world athletics championships officially opened here in. the start of the tournament was marked by a colorful opening ceremony in the capital doha is the 1st time the championships have been held in the middle east this year's event didn't start until night time to avoid the desert heat. the 1st medals have been one of the championships in the women's marathon can use ruth chapman get it she overcame extreme heat and humidity and to win the race that was held at midnight to avoid the worst of the high temperatures still and i'm president of 28 out of 2068 runners failed to finish and shopping get to choose winning time was the slowest since records began. well the world athletics championships in doha is only

a dale but we've already seen some amazing displays of sportsmanship i. came in the 1st heat of the men's $5000.00 meets is jonathan be completely run out of steam but still managed to finish the race thanks to his fellow competitors. for a muscle car dragging the exhausted be over the finish line. but you can find much more on our website al jazeera dot com stay with us for more news. this is these other top stories several explosions have occurred in afghanistan as polls open for the country's 4th presidential election a polling station was hit in kandahar injuring 16 people tens of thousands of

security personnel have been deployed around the country tony but the has more from kabul. well we're getting reports that some people turned up to vote and their names are not on the register getting reports that some polling stations haven't opened because the workers haven't turned up now that could be because of this acuity situation it could be because they're just very apathetic and it's very difficult we were told that out of the $7500.00 polling stations planned for this election only $5000.00 were going to go ahead anyway and out of the 9000000 voters there are only anticipating around 4000000 to go and vote but if this polling station the center of kabul is anything to go by that figure could be way down on that donald trump special envoy to ukraine has quit volker was to give evidence about a call that's led to an impeachment inquiry into trouble the president reportedly asked ukraine's leader for help in investigating his rival joe biden and his son. hundreds of protesters have defied a security clampdown for a 2nd friday in egypt they join rallies calling for the president to resign they

accuse abdul fattah el-sisi of corruption and destroying the economy. the former government contractor whose videos helped spark the protests has issued a new message on social media calling on president sisi to resign. this is not how the. c.c.s. way that you will leave power if the people don't want you so please be a man of your word don't let your offices upset the people let them walk in the streets freely you promise the people freedom so please stop being a liar. nigerian police say they freed more than $300.00 male students held captive in a building in the northern city of could do you know some were found with chains around their ankles it's alleged some students as young as 9 were sexually abused and tortured the building was disguised as an islam xcor and rehabilitation center 7 people have been arrested. well those are the headlines the news continues here shortly but stay with us now for inside story by for now.

if. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world around. you call her on al-jazeera international bringing the news and current affairs that matter to. al-jazeera. democrats call it a cover up details emerge of the white house's efforts to lock down records of a presidential phone call will be impeachment effort against donald trump intensify or will it backfire on the president's opponent this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the show i'm sam is a than leveraging the office of the u.s. president to interfere in the 2020 alexion that's the accusation facing donald trump in a whistleblower complaint that set him on course for an impeachment investigation trump has been accused of trying to persuade the ukrainian leader to dig up dirt on his rival joe biden john hendren has the details from washington d.c. . democrats have a new word for the white house response to a whistleblower this is a cover up the accusation follows a newly released whistleblowers report that says the white house trying to lock down the transcript of a phone call in that july call president donald trump pressed ukraine's president to find dirt on a rival presidential candidate in this case former u.s. vice president joe biden reads like a classic organized crime shakedown the report says u.s. officials told the unnamed whistleblower that they were directed by white house

lawyers to transfer the transcript of a conversation to a separate electronic system that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information even though the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive that left trump's new acting director of national intelligence explaining on capitol hill why he withheld that mid august report from congress until thursday we could salted with the white house counsel's office and we were advised that much of the information the complaint was in fact subject to executive privilege a privilege that i do not have the authority to waive so a white house transcript of that call shows that trump repeatedly urged ukraine's volodymyr zelinsky to investigate whether joe biden sought to interfere in a conflict of interest probe of the ukrainian gas company for which his son hunter biden worked at the time trump was with holding nearly 400000000 dollars in aid without explanation under fire denies using any pressure what these guys are doing

democrats are doing to this country is it grace but they're going to tie up our country because frankly this so tied up this so it's good up as the director of national intelligence testified here on capitol hill president trump was at the united nations talking to staff he told them he wanted to know who told the whistleblower about his phone call adding that they were close to a spy and then he said something that sounded menacing. according to the whistleblower several senior u.s. officials were concerned by the president's call now exhibit number one in hearings to decide whether to impeach donald trump john hendren al-jazeera washington. let's bring our guests into the show now than we have in london greg swenson a spokesman for republicans abroad u.k. by skype in reston virginia rena shar republican strategist and in burlington

vermont hassen a democratic political strategist good to have you ward if i could start with greg in london so does the effort by the trumpet ministration to move those wreck hordes to so we say an unusual computer server does it indicate a cover up now of course not look the president needs to have executive privilege in needs to be able to have private conversations with another president of another country that's just natural and you also recall that there were a lot of leaks especially early on in this administration there's no shortage of of opponents of the president baked into the into the deep state in washington and in the intelligence services the f.b.i. and cia so look even you know there's no secret that there is a lot of leakers and a lot of whistleblower so you know there are so many weeks in the beginning like rachel this info on olympic tape maybe. if it's just a general approach to security you would probably be moving all your sensitive

records but if it's just one phone conversation you know i think that raises a bit of a question mark it's. well it could if you're especially if you're on the other side and you're desperate to find something on this president they've been trying to impeach him since december of 2016 on whatever the you know the topic of the day is you know try to with the russian collusion story really invested in that and so they just need something so look they'll pick on anything this one happens to be the the news of the week from the whistleblower sounded it almost sounded like a lawyer who wrote that. document not not an analyst but anyway look you need to have that confidentiality that has been an issue in the administration but i don't see anything really wrong with that and by the way the when they did release the document which they they did without a lot of pressure i mean yeah it took a couple of days but if there was anything really bad in it then he would have disclosed it he would have claimed executive privilege but he was pretty quick to

release and i didn't think you know depending on which side of the aisle you're on you know it didn't seem to me like there was any real smoking gun there just a couple of implications that you can interpret one way or the other ok will come perhaps to the contents of the transfer what if i can continue that point with reno so greg's point here renewed is that basically there's nothing and unusual in the effort that the white house made to keep this conversation private there are too many as greg said perhaps deep state elements in the f.b.i. and the cia is he said and this is how anyone should behave if he wants to keep his private matters private. well 1st and foremost i hope greg is ok because he's reaching really hard to make the points he's making i'm sure shoulders hurting i mean i have not heard anything more bizarre in my life and i'm a peach tree and it doesn't matter about my party politics of that for the fact that i've been a republican longer than donald trump has and i've been a strategist in the party far longer than mr tucker but the reality is simple here

this is about words that reviews everyone except it under any other president a word like weaver in the readout from the white house how do they not see that that's problematic when you ask where creeper that's the definition of quid pro quo and to the point that many republicans are in washington about there being no mention of aid being withheld from the crane at the call it's because the aid was already withheld before so it is very puzzling to me that many folks are not willing to put country over party here look i've never supported donald trump but the reality is simple i would not accept this kind of heat there for anyone but is it a jump you're going to maybe convert to greg's defense of a contain hey i guess supporters of donald trump would argue that this is a president who's been on the fines since well even before he got into the white house and nothing is really held on him and does he have a right old as some people have a right to be a little bit paranoid. now sammy i there is no need to defend gregg here there's no

need to defend anyone here everybody is entitled to their own opinion everybody should read the transcript of the call everybody should read there was a worth of playing in my book there is nothing more future got it than whistle blowing in this country we cannot let the people in power hide from the fact that they are using taxpayer dollars my hard earned money is paying taxes in this country and it goes to eating country to their defense and i think it's very simple and we go per person who is they part of the intelligence community been an analyst to come forth and say i've heard things that i'm worried about of course it troubles me that that person that counts weren't firsthand that he or she was not standing in the oval office to hear the call themselves or the other allegations are making but the reality is simple and impeach for proceeding inquiry allows the president the best venue to defend himself so donald trump has nothing to hide he should really submit himself to the sink where he and stop calling everything a witch hunt stop gaslighting the american public and lying day in and day out all

right i'll give credit a chance to come back in on this go his crack. yeah yeah it was a long monologue or a long rant so it's hard to hit every point but i'll try to address a few i think you know 1st so we have to look at this president's been harassed from the beginning and the trump haters have have tried to look for you know for it for anything obviously they invested a lot in the mall or investigation now is a failure so now they'll take anything look this is a president let me jump in if i can i was out for a defense all this yes sure hasn't done that either but is it not fair to say that this president has behaved in a way that to many americans it seemed against the normal presidential convention and that's precisely why he's been on the fossa much since the moment he got into the white house sam you're absolutely right he doesn't act like a traditional president and that's one of the reasons why he was elected so whether you like him or or not you know a lot of us conservatives were very skeptical or nervous about him when he started

and you know we didn't think he'd govern like a conservative and we were pleasantly surprised we also were a little disappointed with the frenzy on the progressive left and the never trumpeters on the right who have just been very unfair you know in the media and again on the progressive left so look this this president will never catch a break it's one of the reasons why i think this will backfire though because so many of the people the commonsense voters the you know the moderate center right and center left voters are going to look at this sure i agree with that is not just a raise there has been under fire is it i mean it's very day one from things like apparently inviting russia to hack hole or get hold of hillary clinton e-mails to the allegation of saying hey do me a favor to the president of another country that's not just one conventional politics right this is this is you could see what i'm getting here is that what could be water that no i can't sammy i mean it's a really good point and he has an a very unconventional delivery and an very unconventional way of communicating is

very transactional he likes the art of the deal he like. the flattery too and you noticed he was really gaming the flattery with with the president of you the ukraine and and you and you also noticed you know he was held to the 8 until the phone call because he likes to be asked for the order now but remember a lot of this has been done before vice president biden did it in 2015 the obama administration did it in 2016 and of course you had to the senator 3 democratic senators menendez leahy and durban sent a letter last may doing the exact same thing except it was in writing and when vice president biden did it he bragged about it when he got back to washington so look i think that everybody has to look at this is politics they're all there is often gaining with aide and you know or is that sort of implied quid pro quo sometimes it's very clear and deliberate like with biden sometimes it's a little more subtle all right let me bring obvious head into this arena i will

come back to you just let's give a 2nd father said to weigh in on all this is this all just politics what's been released so far doesn't seem like there is good grounds for impeachment. there's a fundamental question here and that fundamental question is is is that is the united states a country that is ruled by the government as governed by the rule of law or are we a country that allows individuals presidents to be use the power they have an office you just heard greg over here talk admit that this is indeed quid pro quo that indeed $400000000.00 worth of aid was threatened or suspended for the purpose of digging up dirt on a political opponent the president's benefit that is extraordinary and it's upsetting or should be upsetting to republicans to democrats and people who don't have a political party affiliation to be able to use and abuse power in this way for one's own political gain the report there was a report not only indicated this quid pro quo it also indicated a cover up it also indicated that there is more yet to come this is the tip of the

iceberg this is extraordinary and not in a good way i think it's upsetting when i hear people say oh well this is actually normal this is politics as usual i think we have to admit and we have to say no this isn't politics as usual and it doesn't have to be this way we as a country have to do better when we go we can't bring as of this impeachment inquiry is about or let me bring reno ultimately at the end of the day arena should we not forget vis is more of a political than an evidence based judicial process right. when we agree with yes. the day here no doubt but everything in washington so. that it's hard to even look at the actual evidence that is. what it is and how this president who say no that's an orange that very clearly in or out and

reno is not exactly what's going to happen when this gets to the senate do you really think senators are going to be looking at the evidence without any concern for political calculations the upcoming elections and so on. and the influence of money is so great in this country in our elections that these members of congress who are republicans who are even considering voting against a man that they have not liked from day one they are so consumed and obsessed with winning their seats back that they don't want to fall out of line they don't want to fall out of the good graces of the republican national committee and they believe that republicans overwhelmingly support this president so what are they to do if they don't want to speak up they want to keep their sleeves they think donald trump at the most gets another 5 years or a year and then he thought he term limited out but they take him with election over and over again if they say the right thing in the state of life not i want to speculate about the senate but i want to say this yes i supported donald trump being president i didn't vote for him but when he took office i thought it's a good thing to applaud the president wished for his success i decided that it is

the right thing only when this stuff came out because i said to myself there's nothing more clear cut than the president asking for the help of the port power in trying to eliminate of an american political opponent that they are scared up and that's exactly what's happened here republicans them spin and spin all they want but have this been barack obama he would be behind bars and i did not vote for obama either all right so let me take this back to out of shot i said you said a minute ago this is about the rule of law and things i mean i agreed with me at the end there that there is a lot of politics and spin at play is this going anywhere can the democrats really pursue a successful impeachment. i do think so i'm not saying that it's easy and i'm not saying that it won't be political of course it will but i look back to the nixon impeachment trials and i see a process that played out it took some time obviously and it wasn't popular at 1st but it's important to note that a process played out there were investigations and as things came to light the

country including republicans including people of both parties came around and that's what i'm hopeful for here that if we let the process play out we'll let it play out in the open then people will come around and it may be the president doesn't get impeached or doesn't get convicted but i think if we let the rule of law if we let process play out then we can have a better outcome and i don't think it's just about impeachment and i don't think it's just about democrats if you take a look at the seventy's and with the next impeachment we didn't just impeach the president he did resign but after that we passed a slate of laws that were reforms anticorruption reforms the united states because we as a country asked are we a country governed by the rule of law so we passed campaign finance reform we passed reform about where our intelligence services could do in terms of surveilling citizens we even the a.b.a. or the american bar association pass new rules and regulations about ethics as for a lot of for lawyers i think that there is a better vision for this than just saying oh the democrats republicans i think that

if we center on the fact that this is a country that is governed by the rule of law that there is a better path forward all right let me take the 1st part of your answer the gregg we've time maybe enough congressman come around to impeachment do you see that that's the direction that at least some republicans may go for with time. and i don't think so look i think the media on the left have spent the last couple days really jumping on the president spinning it their way it's natural for them to do that the you know the mainstream media has gone into a frenzy the the trump their enjoyment syndrome has gone into the bit of overdrive so you know they might get some some softer response from some republicans and maybe some voters but i doubt it i mean it it if it goes you know unedited sort of the result all right but doesn't it seem like some republicans are surely in shock and trying to figure out what they want to do i mean senate majority leader media donal's show and i think highly of most of the thursday's testimony and revelations

you can share you could say that about the steel dossier too and there's a lot of similarities between this and the steel dossier so you know look i think republicans by nature especially conservatives like to digest things not like to you know really take a look at a hard look at evidence look at the you know the trump papers will always jump on the impeachment bandwagon i have no doubt about that they did it they tried on the stormy daniels thing they tried it on russia collusion it doesn't really take much so as but it's a great question as for the republicans in the house in the senate sure there could be some leakage some leakage if they buy into this narrative but i doubt it and i also see what the democrats in the house look a lot of them you know you know you mentioned earlier you know the fact that you know the senators are up for reelection of course they are that's what politicians do the democrats in the house have to run next year in their congressional races many of which are in districts that trump one that's why nancy pelosi has held off on the impeachment narrative for 2 and

a half years she finally gave in this week to the progressive militant left and i think maybe she's just conceding the next election at this point she knows this there's a great risk and she knows a great risk that this backfires and boomerangs on the democrats that somebody outside the ring hollow points in 98 let me take that to us chad because you are a democrat then how do you think this to suit of impeachment is going to impact the presidential elections the a miscalculation here by the democrats. i don't think so and 1st and foremost like i say this has to be something that goes beyond typical partisan politics because something fundamental is at stake here but there are a couple good examples for us to go down i think. politicians see it that way. i think people are coming around to take a look so in that in 2018 we picked up a massive number of seats nearly 40 seats in the house so things are already are not going the way that the president wants and if you take a look back at the last time we successfully impeach

a president on the basis of the rule of law democrats not only picked up the house and the senate but kept it for decades so i think when we are driven we're motivated by something fundamental as to their foundational principles of the country people see that and reward that as something that that they want to identify with and so that's why i think it is a good idea both for the country and it is important for democrats to stick to their principles on this and that's why we're seeing a little bit of change as well that people see that their constituents are demanding accountability reno the whistleblower complaint indicated that there seems to be other recalls perhaps other calls which have also been locked down shall we say do you expect we're going to see more details more complaints emerge. well not in this moment because there's a really high risk of the whistleblowers cover being blown essentially being outed to the american public who wants to reveal things when donald trump's you know face

basically if angry and always use language like militant left and wants to essentially try to take down any american that speaks out against the president if look donald trump pulls pages out of the dictator's playbook on a on a relatively regular basis and i think where we are right now is in the point where americans need to confront reality and actually read what's happening in their government the average american is usually blue collar somebody that busy working 9 to 5 not sitting like most of us talk about we consuming people abused at the rate at which we are but i applaud the average american average everyday american because when i meet with what's right what's wrong be do the right thing and i think this is been incredibly past week in washington and it's going to make its way out into the country over the course of the next many weeks and people are going to get a chance to look at this by themselves like i said i didn't come to an event until this i waited for the ball or i felt like it was something of a nothing burger yet and i give this person a chance but no more this is too dictatorial and this is exactly guess what

conservative the pot were for many years we don't want to government gets you big and too oppressive and frankly donald trump inaccurate conservative i mean he's opposing terror the way he does goodness gracious this guy should not be the. right greg i think we've got a minute few before i always thought to have tools in the show sure i do agree with the ideologue agree with too much has been crossed. even if impeachment doesn't succeed there is some benefit for the country maybe it will generate some kind of reform or legislation to uphold the rule of law not just in how you want to approach these foreign leaders been things like a moments and all the all the issues which of course so much shall we say just comforts in the u.s. . you know look i can agree with you know we'd all like to return to a very clear definition of the rule of law and have these politicians obey you know actually obey the rule of law and so that's why one of the reasons trump was elected the whole you know drain the swamp you know argument or narrative but look

you know that we were saying this on both sides of the aisle the what biden did you know in in ukraine specifically in 2015 what obama's the obama administration did and 16 it's a bomb and you know it's really disappointing to see that to see what happened with hunter biden and and joe biden and you know it's look the biggest loser here very well might be joe biden because of this all this insanity so welcome disappointed but i can agree with that going back to the rule of law would be great for everybody on both sides of the aisle and and look i think that if there's a chance for the rest of the country to absorb this all the better i agree with with your other guests that you know if you read the document and you read the the whistleblower statement comes your own conclusion but right now you know impeachments been polling in the mid thirty's not really holding my breath on our in 40 seconds why would nancy pelosi a very astute political actor the sue impeachment now most observers say is

probably not going to succeed. because she knows it's a process she has she knows the long game you mentioned the polling for impeachment your polls are a couple days old in the last 2 days 3 polls have come out that have shown support for impeachment going up 8 to 10 points i think nancy pelosi knows that the american people are demanding accountability and then she needs to get ahead of it right the reason that congress is doing this is to have an open inquiry we need to get to the bottom of this that there i mean this is something that is important for our process important to uphold the rule of law and so important for this show to to get everyone's perspective on this so thank you very much to i guess i'm afraid we are out of time let's thank greg swenson rina shot and out of us and and thank you too for watching you can see the show again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion head over to our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter or handle there is at

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intensifies. keeping up the pressure people across egypt protests for a 2nd friday demanding president sisi steps down. let the games begin the world athletics championships kickoff here in qatar we have all the action including this moving show of sportsmanship. but 1st there have been several explosions in afghanistan as polls open for the country's 4th presidential election one was in the capital kabul and another in the southern city of kandahar inside a polling station where at least 16 people were injured the taliban have threatened to target people casting their ballots tens of thousands of security personnel have been deployed across the country voters are choosing from 14 candidates but it's

likely to come down to 2 men the incumbent president ashraf ghani and chief executive abdullah abdullah who have shared power says 2014 but the election which has been delayed twice is taking place after talks between the u.s. and taliban collapsed earlier this month the taliban has refused to negotiate directly with the afghan government tony berkley is in kabul with more details on the attacks. within 3 hours of the polling stations opening there were at least 4 attacks on polling stations in or around them in afghanistan by the taliban the most serious one was in kandahar where there was an attack from inside the polling station we are told a u.s. is a reporting that at least 16 people were injured but no details about how that attack happened whether it was a suicide bomber or a mortar fired 3 other stations in around have been attacked and targeted north of kabul no details about what was used and no details about casualties so far and

also one in helmand province where a mortar was fired near a polling station but nobody was injured the taliban have closed highways they are threatened people that they should not vote they've said they will target polling stations and that may have had an effect on voting i'm at a polling station in central kabul if you can picture the situation 5 years ago at the last presidential election there were queues of people here waiting to vote now today in the 1st 2 hours i'm surprised if more than 200 people have actually voted people here are one intimidated but 2 they are very disillusioned with the political situation in afghanistan 5 years ago there were made lots of promises about improved economy improved security reducing the levels of poverty and reducing corruption none of that has happened so people here are very disillusioned and they may be voting with their feet but when the votes are counted even if there is an outright winner is still going to be problems here because afghans will probably have afghanistan will have

a problem in accepting who actually wins but you can see in the ballot box here just a handful of ballots 3 hours after the polling station opened and that may be indicative of the malays that sweeping afghanistan as far as the political situation is concerned the united states says saturday's election in afghanistan must be credible transparent washington's had a military presence there for 18 years as we mentioned talks between the u.s. and talib. fell apart just weeks ago i'm officially looks at what lies ahead for u.s. afghan relations. 18 years more than $4000.00 american deaths and $800000000000.00 spent donald trump wants to significantly reduce the american military footprint in afghanistan there are $14000.00 troops there no but the threat from the taliban remains significant one former u.s. ambassador to kabul says the u.s. is still there because each president looks for a quick way out by my count we have had 9 changes of policy in the 18 years we've

been in afghanistan we don't convey consistency to anyone when we rethink our policy every 2 years so i have a problem with that the trumpet ministration but there was trouble palmer 5 changes of policy in the obama administration. afghan president ashraf ghani campaigned 5 years ago on the idea of peace talks with the taliban but he was sidelined as the group met negotiators in qatar a deal was close but in the week of the anniversary of the $911.00 attacks in the us donald trump called an end to the talks. first i'm concerned that they thought that they had to kill people in order to put themselves in a little better negotiating position this administration has threatened to withhold $100000000.00 in funding to afghanistan alleging government corruption and mismanagement in the run up to important presidential elections that has been seen by some as an implicit criticism of the cum president danny but not an endorsement

of his main challenger abdullah abdullah one afghan expert says to the u.s. the process may be more important than the result for the travel ministration they are simply looking for a candidate that wins the election and is free if and fair a possible way as possible they want to have a president that is seeing with credibility and legitimacy by the afghan people it's very unlikely that's going to happen with donald trump insisting he has no intentions of restarting the peace talks in afghanistan and the new initiative will have to come from whoever wins the presidential election there and that means for the time being the war continues and so does the cost in money and lives alan fischer al jazeera washington. the u.s. special envoy to crane has become the 1st casualty in a widening impeachment inquiry volcker quits after being named in a whistleblower complaint it accuses the white house of trying to cover up a call between president donald trump and ukraine's leader. reports. a few

subpoenas landed at the u.s. state department late friday evening congress demanding documents and testimony from 5 of their officials in the coming days including the u.s. special envoy to ukraine ambassador kurt volker soon after volcker quit his state department job this comes just after he and other trump administration officials were named by a whistleblower in the complaint he alleges the president cut off foreign aid to ukraine and days later in a phone call asked the ukrainian president for a favor a promise to investigate trump's potential rival former vice president joe biden and his son hunter who once had a seat on the ukrainian company board now the u.s. president is trying to turn the tables releasing this ad accusing biden of being in the wrong brush clearing out fire. trump is accusing biden of getting a ukrainian prosecutor fired for investigating his son when in fact the prosecutor

was fired for not going after corruption cases look in the weeks and the months to come is to congress's job to pursue the facts and. donald trump accountable in the meantime my job. our job is to make sure we beat down. what does seem clear is that after so many months of trying to investigate not getting very far in this investigation is moving very fast so far the administration has simply tried to ignore congress but now that impeachment has been invoked if they take this case to the courts president says they'll likely force the president to comply to let aides testify to turn over all the documents meaning it's possible a lot more of what the president said privately to many other world leaders could become public and then the congress will have to decide if his words rise to the level of impeachment. here in washington hundreds of egyptians have defied

a security crackdown for the 2nd friday to call on the president to step down they accuse abdel fattah el-sisi of corruption and destroying the economy rights groups are reporting the biggest round of mussar arrests in c. she took power in 201370 deca as more. they took a risk to come out to the streets and 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 operate egypt and also in near 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 bring out troops all over the streets of cairo now is angry or to do random checks all over the city is a very clear reflection of this government's insecurity. the fact that the thing that runs this government more than anything else is the voice of its own people our government didn't secure any standing at security which little missy and it

support among egyptians would 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 what has been the biggest show of discontent against he sees 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 wooders to remain silent stephanie decker al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera. millions of somalis are being forced to leave their homes plus. we understand the risk you know it's there it's present every time that we do that the annual event that's got hundreds leaping off a high rise building in kuala lumpur. hello there is still some nice sunshine we've had across little southern sections of europe but that is about it is of course that time of year.