planned for this anniversary weekend sarah. we have a number of protests planned in this is of course in the lead up to october 1 which is china's national die it's a public holiday and it's marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china we have put beijing rallies organize for tomorrow this is where they'll sing the national anthem and they're hoping to get thousands together in that particular assembly we also have a march on sunday afternoon that's being organized by the pro-democracy groups and they'll be marching from victoria park which is on my left a couple of plummer's why back to where we are now and of course on a type of one week the plates are preparing for potential body clashes between the opposing great ceremony thanks i was there a sarah clark that lives in hong kong. the u.s. special envoy to ukraine has become the 1st casualty in a whitening impeachment inquiry could quits after being named in a whistleblower complaint accuses the white house of trying to cover up a call between president donald trump and ukraine's president of zeros practical

hane reports from washington. 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 top 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 all else we beat donald trump 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 is 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 i mean 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 political al-jazeera washington i'm just here is out to

gallica is with us now live from washington with the latest on day the president has been tweeting this morning saturday morning what's he been saying. well he's talking about do nothing democrat savages basically saying again like the miller inquiry that this is a witch hunt but we're hearing reports that suggest it isn't just that phone call that transcript between the president on the president of ukraine that has been potentially filed away in a super secret service but potentially now what we're hearing reports that that also happened with conversations between president trump and vladimir putin and between president trump and members of the saudi royal family that question was always raised from the beginning when this transcript was released between selenski on trump but you know the democrats really want to focus on what ukraine phone call if you listen to what nancy pelosi the speaker of the house is saying she's very

laser focused on keeping this these proceedings focused on just this one issue but already they say these proceedings are getting way more complicated the role of rudy giuliani is a factor in this what was said in those conversations between trump and putin and trump and in the members of the recited world family is also not part of this investigation but the white house his defense of this is that look so many of these conversations between president trump and world leaders have been leaked in the past think about australia think about the president of mexico that that's why these conversations were moved to this very sensitive server but that is say the democrats' unethical behavior it's not what the procedure should be but this investigation these proceedings to to go forward with impeachment are moving very rapidly now by oh this story seems to be changing constantly is there a sense of the white house is on the ropes here and to mix my metaphors here a feeling that perhaps this is a fire that the white house can put out. i think this is very different

from the mahler inquiry which we all lived through and reported over 2 years that was something the american public found hard to grasp it was it was very. it was very difficult to get the details this is a far simpler case this is whether the president said hey do me a favor get me some dirt on a political rival and then i will release funds to help your country that something many people here can understand very simply that's why in essence the democrats are trying to focus on just that one issue and not widen the net too much so the american public can understand what is going on but certainly it feels very different from the miller inquiry i think the transcript the whistle blower's testimony is all very clear and very highly understandable so i think it is fair to say the president trump is on the ropes and in fact if you've seen him over the past couple of days talking about this to paraphrase him he looks fairly low energy

he hasn't got that kind of zesty had for saying the mother inquiry is a witch hunt i certainly think he feels like he is against the ropes he's against time but ultimately this may be something the american public decides in november next year when we get the presidential elections or are they many thanks indeed andy gallagher live in washington earlier we spoke to matthew cooper who's the editor of the king of post he says the volcker was a well respected figure in ukraine. well i think this is pretty very recent news for ukraine since the news broke that late last night our time and people saturday morning are just waking up but i think this will be a very negative that will be perceived quite negatively craig who was highly respected both in ukraine and on both sides of the aisle in the u.s. he was seen as a positive a lot of people in ukraine say that he was very sensitive to the issues he listened a lot and he also from point of view the u.s. he was someone who could push negotiations and and approaches to potentially

resolving this conflict even sometimes when they weren't necessarily entirely palatable in ukraine in general this a very highly respected individual and it will be a big loss or i think u.s. foreign policy in ukraine as well as for attempts to regulate this conflict in eastern ukraine well if we look at the whistleblower complaint we don't be honest i don't think it is extremely damaging for older we see that he was trying to help the craniums navigate this very complicated and unpleasant situation with donald trump and rudy giuliani this is the news hour from al-jazeera still to come on the program chaos in haiti will tell you what's causing it and what the people in the streets demanding. millions of somalis are being forced to leave their homes we'll tell you why. i don't support action from a stunning upset at the rugby world cup. aerial

survey for zimbabwe's former president robert mugabe is on the way in his home village of zimbabwe the bitter dispute over where he should be laid to rest the government wanted the 95 year old to be buried as national cemetery but backtracked off the complaints from his family let's take you live now to rural home village as it was how much is there so after a dispute disagreement the burial ceremony how do is now. on the way. it's according to tradition here the body has to be buried people for fun we still have about. like late right now the cut is going on it's a chance for people in the villages to come and say goodbye and off with the family will by private but they still call the service was obvious that means that robert mugabe was angry that the army ousted from design because of that he said he didn't

want to have a national heroes a tree in the capital harare now the village say that they concerned about the sun happy part of the day because he was the founding father of the baba used to be buried in the national shrine in the capitol hill reports of family members told not to attend the burial services some of them are not to know that he's a very influential in a rural zimbabwe they the people you close when you want to say feel at this point but some kind of division within the local community and it is what people in zimbabwe make of all of this. while the general public had no say on the way most of it was going to be day but of course the longer it took to bury him the longest taking to the area and people thought they wanted grace look obvious why didn't want to build a national hero cemetery because they don't want to be near his 1st wife sally who died in 1902 other people are saying it's highly unlikely that grace is the big

thing here is that this is a mystery because she is not considered a hero she didn't fight in the water and white minority rule so very macabre him when she dies one day she'll be buried next to him but in some family members that being so close that someone was trying to make choices and get in place but it's home about it was very. family that what will happen to them off you know this whole process because when we got it guys. he was no longer in power or the influence of the had. these big elation that with the wanted to. be amassed over the years that one day some of them might drag. the government of the day well. but right now but if people wait. and finally. how many thanks indeed officers had to transfer their lives in

zimbabwe. it egypt hundreds of people have defied a security crackdown for a 2nd friday to call for the president to step down demonstrations were held across several cities protesters are accusing up to front of misusing public money of destroying the economy rallies in support of sisi also took place in parts of cairo and alexandria protests were also held in new york on friday in front of the united nations building the u.n. human rights chief has expressed deep concern over reports of the most sweeping the arrests in egypt since sisi came to power in 2013 in paris demonstrated in solidarity with anti sisi demonstrations back home they called for action to tackle the arbitrary arrests and prosecution of lawyers and journalists and in berlin activists protested in front of the egyptian embassy denouncing the security crackdown against protesters. in colombia anger over allegations of corruption and

misuse of public funds at a university that has led to further protests students marched through the streets of the capital bogota for a 5th day zeros on a sound old i'm p.f.c. reports. what started last monday as a single and take corruption protest on the part of the students this 3 public university. has grown into a. 10 different public and private universities with students. day after day against the both a number of alleged cases of corruption in the administration of this public university but also against what students describe as a very violent response on part of the police to these protests. many universities have decided to mobilize against these cases of corruption students have had enough of corruption at all levels in this country and that nobody does anything about it it's a claim against policies that only generate violence protected by the police. since

monday the district's university students have been demanding transparency and reforms and fighting for quality public education and private universities need to agree with that. the protests escalated into riots on tuesday and wednesday leaving at least 10 people injured as the police tear gas water cannons against the protesters who blocked one of mean roads the police response was widely criticized and only had the effect of making the demonstrations bigger with more students participating in solidarity unlike previous days on friday the protest was peaceful despite the students marching through downtown out o. tories sation something that the students say is a victory for their demands and this movement that they promise will continue. at least 4 people have been killed in several days of violent protests in haiti

demonstrations that are accusing president juvenile moyes of corruption and blame him for a food and fuel shortage they say they'll continue protesting until he resigns reports from the capital port au prince. chaos has taken over the streets of port au prince. what started as demonstrations over an ongoing fuel shortage has grown into a nationwide protest calling on haitian president you've now to resign no diplomat the president promised. haitian people to lift them from poverty to pull them out of the dirt and when he became president he made everything worse on friday thousands took to the streets. in the haitian capital tried to control the crowd but with little effect mobs of angry demonstrators broke into buildings and looted businesses. already. several people have died. one police station was vandalized and nearly set on fire people could be seen

running off with police things like riot shields and anything else they could carry thank you but those years if the president really loves haiti he should resign he should wait for there to be more looting in the streets for him to resign. with nightfall the streets of the haitian capital have quieted down and the city is now under a sort of self-imposed lockdown haitian president continues to call for a national dialogue but opposition leaders haven't said asked demonstrators to continue to protest and continue to pressure the president to resign meaning the unrest in the country is likely to continue up in port au prince. to have some weather journeys here if you're the us or canada joe he was telling me you got everything but the kitchen sink going on where you are the bureaucracy right asia we've got hate we've got thunderstorms and we've got snow it is very early in the season but it's not a 1st for the satellite put into motion as i say we've got some thunderstorms in fact we've had some very heavy amounts of rain particularly into the upper midwest

chicago so this picture shows you just how much rain has come down there trying to clear the ground here the pitch at the white sox stadium looks like snow but it is just water but there is plenty of this about now is the temperatures this is what is really quite staggering for this time of year so we've got this snow coming down from canada and what we've got is some very cold air coming with this snow and look at these temperatures minus one in calgary we've got 9 degrees in winnipeg and in fact it gets even colder in when you paid for that cold air pushing cross into monotone as we head through sunday these temperatures are about 15 to 18 degrees below the average for this time of year so we've got a lot of moisture coming into the pacific northwest in the united states this cold air coming down from canada and it is turning all of this to snow some very heavy amounts of snow so in actual fact the national weather service the u.s. is saying they could be saying as much as $300.00 millimeters of snow to parts of montana but it really is very widespread you can see what's happening on sunday it

comes from the south it pushes further towards the east and then what happens after that is that warm air in the south begins to push up to the north again so a lot of that snow turning to rain and to much is beginning to rebound but not in calgary one celsius is the best it gets over the next few days adrian. yeah thanks jenny but let's catch up with the world athletics championships and live to our sports studio khalifa stadium. thank you very much adrian while the 2nd day of the competition here at the stadium is now on the way coming up an hour but isn't that 1345 g.m.t. feeling the heat the women's m our sun goes ahead but a 3rd of the runners are forced to pull out no problems that for the main contenders the end the 100 meters or the the big names are still in the mix ahead of the men's final later on saturday. and the 5000 me to runa who've won his race despite losing his shoe all of that is coming up in our sports but it's in so

please join us at around 1345 g.m.t. sunny thanks we'll see a little later also coming up here on the news hour on john mccain in the austrian parliament on sunday voters will elect new members to this chamber who form the next government. we understand the risk you know it's there it's present every time that we go and daring or deathwish look at this base jumpers take a leap of faith from one of the malays he is best known landmarks. to strengthen the good you have to show do good all the more with it comes to fight against corruption. this for these heroes heroes like no who are about to be refused

a $15000000.00 brian the achievement of heroes like him showcased by the international ace award it shines a light on these heroes because the best way to fight a dark used to shine a light let's make the road to better police nominee. your anti corruption mirror. the question of shima conspiracy line he's in justice special coverage on al-jazeera.

get adrian for the get here in doha with the news from out as iraq the headlines polls have now closed in afghanistan's 4th presidential election but one in 5 stations failed to open several explosions went off across the country the taliban has vowed to stop people casting that ballots. thousands are protesting in hong kong to mark the 5th anniversary of the city's umbrella movement police have used water cannon and some protesters tried to reach the legislative council which has been evacuated and donald trump special envoys ukraine has quit because volcker was asked to give evidence about a call that's led to an impeachment inquiry into trump the president reportedly asked ukraine's leaders to investigate his political rival. or let's bring you more now on the elections in afghanistan the u.s. says that saturday's poll must be credible and transparent its forces a been in afghanistan for some 18 years now and talks between washington and the

taliban collapsed just weeks ago al-jazeera as alan fischer takes a look at what lies ahead for u.s. afghan relations. 18 years more than 4000 american deaths and 800. $1000000000.00 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 true of a palm 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 to go shouting position this administration has threatened to withhold 100000000 dollars 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 a 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. all this week on al-jazeera we've been covering the united nations general assembly in new york and we've been dipping into various speeches of various foreign leaders as they've addressed the u.n. general assembly we are even though it's saturday waiting to hear from one last leader . i mean the species are continuing but we want to bring you the speech of one losses not not a country's leader but the foreign minister syria's foreign minister walid muallem is jews who speak at the united nations general. assembly in the next

3040 minutes or so will bring you that address here on al-jazeera as and when that happens but just wanted to give you a heads up about that pakistan's prime minister has used his speech at the general assembly to criticize new delhi's crackdown in india the minister of kashmir imran khan warned of a bloodbath in the disputed region while india's prime minister also addressed the summit he made no mention of kashmir al-jazeera shown a whole reports now from the united nations as a nod to the minimum you draw another bleak by 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 curfew is lifted will be a bloodbath. the people will come out then 100000 troops there they haven't come

to ours not in the mood he says he's done this to prosperity of this is supposed to be for the development of these 900000 troops one of them going to do when the when the come out there will be a bloodbath 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 denied of self-determination why 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 well. as both leaders

spoke a block away from the u.n. building anti modi protesters demanded the world take action 55 days of course feel no food no how 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 . with 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 un in new york. austria holds an early general election on sunday and it's likely that the center right

former leader sebastian cuts could return to power in may he became the 1st chancellor in austria in history to be removed by a no confidence vote from vienna dominic kane reports. his people's party is riding high in the polls and his message is simple only he is fit to lead his country where a majority of the previous parliament had no confidence in him sebastien court says he has confidence in the voters how many did. recently the amount of support for us across austria has been amazing so many people told us they wanted to continue working for austria but just as many people say you're going to win it it's already decided my friends this election is not yet over. analysts cortes is attitude has been to try to pit the people against parliament always hovering around a bit because on the on one hand. we have got a new movement out of the old party on the other hand he's telling everybody that

he is the most experienced most senior most longstanding member of the government the party that used to work with him and then combined with others to oust him is struggling in the polls the far right freedom party was forced from office when video emerged of some of its leaders appearing to advise russians how they could gain influence over austrian politics and the media now its new party leader says he and his colleagues must learn from their mistakes and fight hard for every vote . yet it is worth it to continue this fight and do everything to get a government again with us in it which is so active so much liked and which does a lot for our country. the center left social democrats face a different fight having voted with the freedom party to remove sebastian cortes they must reckon with voters angry at being forced into an early election this is not islanders that every vote for sebastian cuts makes a rerun of the ip the coalition more likely after september the 29th and therefore

there is only one way to prevent that by voting for us dear friends the social democrats in austria surveys suggest the resurgent green party may do well on sunday and perhaps become a factor in coalition forming but as the clock ticks down to when voting starts it's clear who's out in front in the old parliament mr courts and his party occupied all of these benches in this part of the chamber if the opinion polls are right after sunday's general election they might find themselves spinning further over into these benches but will he and his party gain enough seats to put them back into government will find that out on sunday evening dominic cain al-jazeera in the austrian parliament. more frequent droughts in somalia are being blamed on climate change severe droughts used to occur every 10 to 15 years but now there are

capping every 2 years on average the u.n. says that more than 2 and a half 1000000 somalis have been displaced officer responded other reports now from the region of by doa dry dusty and parched desert sand is slowly taking over one's foretell filson somalia. just 2 years of to the last drought and the country's again facing one of the drivers train assistance in more than 3 decades. the victims are visible almost everywhere makeshift camps like this one for those affected by drought can be found in almost every city. this is by door in southwest somalia these people of just arrived from the countryside. builds a heart for her family from old clothes she says it took them a month to get his own name brand i don't know how i got all died and then the crops failed and we fled hanging out here but it is still follows as we have had no

help. the people of somalia are always named droughts and use the buses total miles of this but that was $1.10 or 15 years up now that become the new norm and scientists say that the country has dried up mark foster in the 20th century than at any other time in the past 2000 years. but in plains of sundin's 2 and have always known long dry spells but they've always been followed by. enough at least to rebuild hubs so that's can be repaid and milk provided for the children. that's changed 91 year old a loose ace he has never seen shifting weather patterns some forgiving. many 'd here and i don't remember around how it's not having food until recently this droughts are quite different from what we used to see there's no time for recovery they just keep coming back. just

a few months ago to shut up that man had $25.00 goats now she has just 5 the rest with it and died in the current drought. the my welcome my high survive on donations from well wishers is no pasture for the goats and i'm forced to look for grass for them in fountains and at times i even have to share my food with them. and it will hunting is not just an economic activity for the people of somalia it is who they are. and as the climate changes they too being forced change how the world has either baidoa in southwest somalia just ahead here on the news and sports or live at the khalifa stadium here in doha for day 2 of the world athletics championships. planets escaping the difficult.