also point out the speaker of the house nancy pelosi who is the one that called for this impeachment inquiry she has also been speaking here in the united states on national television in the last couple of hours she says that it's important to get the facts that's why this inquiry will continue that's why they're continuing to depose us. officials in the trumpet ministration including kurt volker that heidi jocasta was talking about she says that this is important because right now she believes that donald trump's requests for investigations are undermining not just the u.s. constitution and national security but also the integrity of u.s. elections ok kimberly holker at large for as the white house thank you very much indeed let's stay with this and speak with nancy soderberg she was a former deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs during the clinton administration as we said not the trumpet ministration very much for speaking to us here. if i could just start by getting your reaction 1st of all to

what we've heard from president trump about how. he wants to ask china and the ukrainian press the president to investigate joe bodies and what does this mean for the impeachment investigation against them. well he's just digging as hone hole deeper by. reaching out to other governments for assistance not just the chinese but now apparently also the australians we don't know who else and this is a classic tactic by president trump that he's used quite successfully as entire life deflected i dig in an attack and that's his effort if you saw that extraordinary press conference yesterday with the president of finland he never answered any of the questions he just attacked attack deflected and he thinks that this is going to work for him and it may have worked for him in business but it will not work in the united states government there's a checks and balances and what he will slowly learn and the faster the better

because everything is going to come out what was the purpose of withholding the aid that he rightly increased as president to ukraine what were the terms of that suspension what triggered the reentry of what was the process that led him to decide one day 'd to hold up the very aid that he had approved and what was the quid pro quo any time a president ited states is on the phone with a nother leader that in an up self is pressure because when the press the president and states ask you to do something it is very hard to say no where the a slow roll out or actually do it depends on the countries but i think this is one more day of obfuscation and what's going to happen is this circle of people who some of whom the volcker today testifying are true public servants others are his political henchmen inside an outside the white house all of them need to just get

up tell the truth because it will come out and the cover ups are always worse than the original crime so it's tell me more a bite why exactly is the cover up worse than the original cry because a lot of people are struggling just to. the united states but otherwise to see what president trump has done wrong here just asking for something on a phone call why is the legal aspects of the of the accusations might be lost on a lot of people why is a cover up more more damaging. well apparently what happened is he held up ukrainian aide to get dirt on a political opponent that's not good whether it's impeachable we'll find out but that's the underlying fact and we'll dig deeper into what happened and why and who was involved that's the investigation is going on in congress but what always happens whether it's richard nixon in the coverage of watergate whether it's president clinton and. his impeachment effort it's always the

those who try and lie and cover up goes back to ronald reagan in their own contra says people go to jail because of this and ultimately. you get everyone involved look i've worked in the white house the natural instinct is to protect your present defend because it's a political climate and you want to fight back and defend what you do because you believe in it what's happening with president trump is everyone around him seems to be circling and trying to play to his cues focus on biden focus on biden focus on biden and do not answer any of the questions like we've seen with mike pence and. also the secretary of state mike pompei are they were in the know on this. at least vice president's staff or was in on that phone call whether he briefed as boss or not we will find out what the strong message that all in this circle should here is just tell the truth because you cannot hide it the u.s.

government does not work like that so the longer this deflection continues its going to just get worse for everyone involved and just quickly say. how much of this does anything matter because president trump is being attacked for all sorts over the past and has managed to come through and it's this is turning it seems like it's more of a political question than a legal one his baser locking up the defense even president clinton managed to get the cases impeachment inquiry and survive how much of any of this going to last it's of the voters in the next election. well it depends on how it evolves i think nancy pelosi is political calculation is this is not necessarily helpful to the democrats in the long run as you said president clinton was. one of those popular presidents ever and still remains very popular people don't care. what were they will care about is officials in inner circle hiding the truth from the american

public and so it matters very much any impeachment process is it's very rare in history so it matters to the president how it's all going to unfold we really don't know yet but it is going to have an impact particularly on those aides who are getting sucked into this vortex ok nancy so words are very great to get your thoughts thanks very much indeed for speaking to us thanks now the death toll in iraq is rising with a curfew in several cities failing to quell 3 days of violence and see government protests demonstrations have spread across 9 provinces with security forces opening fire on crowds of people so far at least 20 have been killed most of those deaths happens in southern iraqi cities like nasiriyah and ammara i would baghdad alone at least 440 people have been injured more than 200 protesters were arrested but many have since been released a government imposed curfew remains in several southern cities as well as baghdad

in the european union's just issued a statement urging iraqi security forces to exercise maximum the streets and keep those protests peaceful let's bring in a judith know rick in athens greece she is the author and journalist who's written extensively on iraq 1st of all judith what would you say these protests are by its. they are about the fact that shiite who are in power do not get what they think they should they should get that that they think they they are entitled to. since 2003 it's the shiites who are the majority and who are the majority in the government as well informed of government but you don't see that if you travel around in the south of iraq. there is a lack of of everything infrastructure but also many young people are out of

jobs and if you know that huff of the of the. iraqis at the moment is under 20 then you understand is a very big problem that so many of the young people trying to ok i know this problem of unemployment is not new to iraq what was different this time brains. the difference is that this times it's not organized there is no political party behind it like it was last year this is as good as the protest to say themselves there is no recompense ation that that can't talk to the government there's no one the government has already said let's talk they don't have one someone like that so these are groups of young people who say the government should go if the government doesn't go. we're never going to get any future ok. i'm sorry to cut you short but thank you very much indeed for joining us from athens in greece. there's lots more still to come on the news hour including.

find out why there's going concern about its a possible transatlantic trade war between the u.s. and europe. i may fly out on board the greenpeace campaign ship as brands are reporting on a unique scientific expedition off the coast of south america. and in sports with ireland's got back to its winning ways at the rugby world cup. bringing up to date on a developing story out of paris where at least 4 police officers have been killed by a kohli among the. one woman and 3 men on the sasha butler can bring us the latest details from the french capital. or more details are emerging about the attacker police union spokes person said that the attack was

a 45 year old man who'd worked in police administration for more than 20 years it seems that in recent years he had worked in this paris headquarters right in the center of the french capital very close. most recently in the intelligence services while he carried out an attack with a ceramic knife that would not have been picked up by metal detectors around 1 o'clock in the afternoon eyewitnesses said that see a large doubt several police officers 4 police officers were killed i witness is described scenes of real panic of people crying and police officers extremely shaken the french prime minister interior minister and president rushed to the scene the whole area around this paris headquarters has been cordoned off and this attack comes just one day after thousands of police officers marched through paris to protest against what they say are increasingly stressful work conditions and also protest against what they say is increasing violence against the police arab

citizens in israel are staging protests against what they're calling police inaction on domestic violence hundreds are protesting outside the merged our crude police station in of the upper galilee they say there have been 70 killings recently in the deaths of been widely ignored by israeli police force it is life or is in west jerusalem harry what's happening in the north. well yes this is a protest in this town of tulkarem and it should clarify that we're talking about violent crime about murders and killings using weapons such as firearms and knives and in recent weeks it's felt a palace in israel is that there will be a story like this to wake up to every few days just this week in this town there was a brawl involving 3 brothers 2 of those brothers were killed with a with

a gun shot each and a 3rd man was killed with a stabbing injury and so this is representative of what's been happening in these communities especially it seems this year more than 70 people according to police have been killed so far palestinian israelis make up about 50 about 20 percent of the population about 50 percent of murder victims and there is a feeling that. the places in with which they live are essentially vacuums when it comes to proper security that police are properly engaged there aren't enough on the streets and that essentially such crimes go unpunished whereas if they were happening in more jewish areas of israel there would be a lot more police in gauge went now there is a meeting that's been called by israel's public security minister earlier today in which he says there will be plans put in place to put in specialist units to target specific areas specific criminals hundreds of new police on patrol in these areas

the police spokesman also saying that new police stations have been and will continue to be put in in palestinian israeli villages and towns but it also does represent a wider feeling and one which was reflected in the recent election where there was an upsurge in voting for palestinian israeli parties the so-called joint list of a elected 13 members to the israeli knesset. the parliament and today the day which the knesset is being inaugurated this new knesset those 13 members have boy because it is part of a general strike which is going on in arab areas of israel on this day about this issue and the leader of the joint list i'm a notice saying a racist government neglected us and the police have abandoned on neighborhoods to gangs and criminals so very strong feelings on this subject rick a hairy farce that life has in west jerusalem thank you. now in hong kong an 18

year old student shot and injured by police during anti-government protests has been charged with rioting and assaulting 2 police officers students at the chinese university in hong kong held a rally to condemn the shooting of their colleague on tuesday which was national day in china sarah clarke has more from the court where the student was charged. the 18 year old high school student who was shot with a live bullet during tuesday's demonstrations by a police officer has now been charged with a number of offenses including rioting arson and assaulting a police officer that he wasn't able to appear in thursday's court hearing it was shot in court simply because he's still in hospital in stable condition he was one of the group of 7 cases that were heard at the shot in court but only 4 of those people were able to attend because of the injuries now a couple 100 people gathered at that court to show their support for the high school student who was shot because the police are still under pressure as to why they used live bullets during that demonstration and why they targeted the

protesters chest now on friday the government is expected to announce a special meeting the executive council which is effectively the government's cabinet will host this meeting and is expected to consider implementing a new anti mass bill which simply bans the use of mosques being worn at these unlawful assemblies are considered by the government not the strategy would be used by simply used to utilise through the emergency powers now the probation groups have already showed their support towards this particular act on this particular motion on friday kerry lamb is expected to hold that executive council meeting and will make an announcement shortly after. well the action is underway on day 7 of the world i thought 6 championships here in doha with more scope to far. thanks so much we've got 4 titles up for grabs later on thursday and the stadium there have tattle on and it have on reached their conclusion there is also the finals of the women's 400 metres and shot. while action from another golden knight on the track

including dana asher smith securing her 1st wall tido and the american college champions trice gold in an incident field 110 meter heard all the finals was quiet action from the day's matches at the rugby world cup join us in about. who the and what or we appear to have lost far unfortunately let's bring you some news coming out of nigeria 8 people have been kidnaps a gun points in the area of the say 6 girls and 2 staff members were abducted from a boarding school in kaduna states early thursday morning rescue teams have been sent to look for the group while nigeria's president is visiting south africa following attacks on foreign businesses the last month mamata bihari met with

president of force and the 2 the gers discuss ways to prevent similar incidents from happening again or the violence problem says nigeria's finance 600 citizens home south african businesses in nigeria were targeted in retaliation to the attacks in johannesburg and he's a member isn't pursue oriya where the 2 leaders are leasing. while much of the focus in meetings between the south african president. and his counterpart nigerian president mamadou baria focused on business and political ties between the 2 countries a significant amount of attention has been paid to the recent incidents of xenophobic file and in cities like johannesburg in south africa where lash nals from other african countries were targeted some of them nigerians are of course has condemned the violence and once again he's expressed what he says is deep regret for the

public violence saying that both countries are doing whatever they can to ensure it doesn't happen again we have expressed our work deep regret. of the past few weeks that many present themselves who are turks. to the foreign national. condemnation or or. violence remains very very. we here. who are. great measures. of which are probably. in the future and this is an important relationship that south africa enjoys of nigeria 64 percent of the trade that south africa has with the west africa is attributed to nigeria specifically this is a relationship that it appears both presidents wants to safeguard they've also

spoken about some of the root causes of the of the problems that have been seen as just a month ago but also in other years a saying that they need to cooperate in terms of the police and security intelligence in both countries to ensure that the violence doesn't escalate in the way it did previously and now the meetings between the presidents are concluding during the state visit over the next 3 days and a lot of attention will also be paid to the ties between the 2 countries in that this is a strategic relationship one that might have seen some strain it during the periods of his in of opec violence. lots more still to come here on al-jazeera. i'm a cloud on board the greenpeace campaign ship as brands are reporting on a unique scientific expedition off the coast of south america.

how i welcome southern look at the international forecasts more hates across the middle east but some showers today and to the southeast in kona southern parts of iraq a little bit of cloud on the charts hey we've had some wet weather so making its way across the far south of pakistan and that will be the case as we go on through the next day or so so friday a chance of wanted to showers just creeping into pakistan pepping up somewhat as we go on into saturday and that could lead to some localized flooding you see have a slot across the border into those southern sections of iran just around the straits of hormuz further north it is dry and it is hot no quite as hot as it has been recently for baghdad 37 celsius plenty hot enough 27 celsius there for beirut and not just to the north of that we've got some clouds and ryan just spinning its way across western parts of the chance of want to see showers to

a little bit damp weather around the western side of the gulf of aden western parts of yemen could see some showers over the next day or so but once again typically across the arabian peninsula and try something about 30 celsius here and it's 100 in found high so more hot sunshine a fair bit of sunshine or at least warm sunshine across southern africa some wet weather to cloud and rain making its way out of mozambique and pushing into tanzania. 2 planes came from studio b. and 15 and check in now to tell you mr chairman. i think it is possible to fully clean the premises. it's all forensic evidence but what you don't leave is evidence that you have fully cleaned the mystery wanted to give an excess of the stuff that speaking about the old him before even the saudi government will just.

murder in a saudi consulate on al-jazeera rewind returns with a new series. and brand new updates on the best about using these documentaries think. it's fun just. to remind continues with uncomfortably you know this is gaza central jail and this is the section where they're holding prisoners on drug charges users and dealers here but there's 120 of them in 3 different cells on al jazeera. this is al jazeera a reminder of the top stories this hour. a former special at u.s.

envoy to ukraine is appearing in front of congressional committees behind closed doors as part of an impeachment inquiry into donald trump investigators want to know of kurt volker played a role in drums efforts to pressure ukraine into investigating a political rival. at least 4 police officers in the french capital in paris been killed in a knife attack on a colleague it's actor was later shot dead and most of it's still unclear. and sporadic gunfire has been herod's in the iraqi capital where antigovernment protesters are defying a curfew at least 20 iraqis have been killed in baghdad and other cities during 3 days. of antigovernment demonstrations. of aids has the latest now on the situation in iraq. they defied the curfew imposed by iraq's security forces.

and for not following orders the bullets were fired at that. time to government demonstrations in the capital baghdad for the last 3 days have also spread to other cities such as bus run nasiriyah and i'm. as the violence escalated security forces blocked major roads and the internet is severed i protest as a demanding a change of government as well as would jobs less corruption and in to religious discrimination no i don't want album is that all despite the curfew we are going out to call for our rights we want to change the regime they've arrested our people they've done things are people that they did not even do to die and they beat them up and humiliated them while firing live gunfire what did we do are we suicide bombers we're here to call for our rights. under a dead has risen steadily and hundreds have been injured since the defeat of ice and protesters say nothing has changed for them despite the promises of politicians

. no matter what yellow there even with the curfew i swear to god we will not retreat we're demanding our simplest rights the simplest rights to be honest for you know what we secor fight ourselves for our country to be sacrificed for iraq our people come out not for yourselves but for your children. iraqis are also unhappy with their abrupt dismissal of the rehab inside the bullet counterterrorism forces in the fight against isis and analysts say the government's reaction to protest is a dangerous escalation iraq's fragile security relies on managing deep sectarian fault lines as well as the threat from remnants of eisel ourselves and our judge at the start the people are being rolled the people are begging on the street there is no work you come to protest and they fire at you they are all a rainy and speaking in farsi you want to speak to them they answer in farsi the iraqis would not fire at you. iran has close to border crossings dealing

plans by millions of iranians pilgrims to visit iraq for a religious ritual iraq to u.s. allies and the united nations and appealing to iraq's government to exercise restraint prime minister other liberal mathy and his year old government is facing its biggest challenge yet but it's unclear how can he stop the outpouring of anger against his rule with no apparent leaders of the protesters to negotiate with. some of the others there. well to syria's imran khan joins us now on the phone from the iraqi capital. emraan what's the iraqi prime minister been saying. well in the last 24 hours. the law to modi has actually been speaking to a very sustained dollars office so he wants to negotiate at least talk to the protesters but it's very unclear who he's going to talk to because this is very much needed listen lupin is just very ordinary young men in the streets because the

record straight to with their economic situation doesn't have any job so there's no real leader that he can actually speak to this is very much about him trying to manage what is the biggest challenge to. the long. run ministership now the curfew has actually holding him back to what we've seen throughout the day. various groups of young men gathering in 5060 income and numbering about 5060 trying to get a critical mass of youth about how to have lost a will or focal point which is where they haven't been able to do that but it looks like the government structure e.g. of keeping people off the street is actually looking whether it's sustainable long term is a whole other question many iraqis now seem so outside of the protest movement simply just ordinary citizens wondering out loud whether the law into friday of course try to bring the holy. rock and the product prices whether they'll be able

to get at friday prayers if the government stops them from going to the mosque and to going to pry that will be another flashpoint ok thank you very much indeed imran khan joining us live from baghdad. frances the european union is looking at imposing retaliatory tariffs since the u.s. plans new g.t.s. on a wide range of the blocks products washington will impose $7500000000.00 worth of tariffs on the e.u. gets over a 15 year disputes the u.s. archy's aircraft giant who in most billions of dollars all because of illegal subsidies to airbus the world trade organization says those subsidies are illegal the u.s. is planning to tax the e.u. gets from between 10 to 25 percent and that includes tires some french cheeses and wines. president stone will trump this about the tariffs calling them

a 7500000000 dollar award from the world trade organization against the european union who has for many years see right street seats in the u.s. very badly on trade tariffs trade barriers and more he said the case has been going on for years and called it a nice fix sciri well for the for the grant is the founder of the open political economy network and a former advisor to the president of the european commission he says the u.s. has an opportunity to make a settlement instead of escalating the trade disputes what donald trump hasn't mentioned obviously is that the e.u. also has a case against boeing avatar which is expected to rule in favor of the e.u. on that next year and that in turn would allow. you to impose its own tariffs on u.s. products so a sensible way out of this conundrum would be to have a negotiated settlement whereby everyone agrees to stop subsidizing and nobody

imposes tariffs instead the americans are jumping the gun potentially causing the retaliate and potentially leading to a much bigger trade war with donald trump threatening to impose tariffs on european cars as soon as next point. britain's prime minister boris johnson is hoping his new set of proposals will unlock stalled negotiations they include a new regulator his own in northern ireland to replace the backstop arrangements in the existing withdraw bill but it hasn't gone day with some senior european parliament figures who say they won't support it you know how reports from london it is going to fail to ring a morning meeting of the cabinet boris johnson told ministers he would defend his new brakes of proposals in parliament with glutinous in mali and it's typical johnson language meaning he'd be syrup the sweet q very much was just and so it proved the prime minister and his proposals could hardly have seemed more

reasonable this government's objective has always been to leave with a deal and these constructive and reasonable proposals show our seriousness of purpose of alternative a range but the prime minister's proposals while welcomed by former skeptics on his own side have not gone down well with the opposition plan to have even the remotest customs checks on the island of ireland while northern ireland alone retains elements of the e.u. single market has been shot down as not credible and designed to fail if he doesn't get a deal at the october council summit will he abide by the laws of this country the emir withdrawal number 2 act and request an extension to avoid a disastrous no deal that option does not come commend itself to me it would incur another 1000000000 pounds a month to no advantage whatever there are in this divided house of commons now 2

opposing forces on the one hand a force of will willing a new brics it feeling to be willing and to this breaks it crisis and on the other hand a force of resistance those who simply don't trust boris johnson's motives and who will do what ever they can. to prevent and no deal breaks it none of which points to an easy majority for a deal in the house of commons which in turn is little incentive for e.u. leaders who will need to make their own compromises but our objective is very clear we don't want to see any costumes posts between north and south nor do we want to see any tariffs are restrictions on trade north and south they were all in the 1900 s. we don't want to go back to the us the majority of people in the north don't the majority of people in the republic of ireland don't but if are going to be in 2 different customs unions i think that creates a real difficulty that's going to be very hard to reconcile separately european

commission president john claude yorker has called the problematic senior european parliament for you say they won't support it boris johnson will have to use his most glutinous emoluments when he heads off as expected on a tour of e.u. capitals later this week john a whole al-jazeera london. a colombian politician who was jailed for buying votes from custody. had been escorted by a prison guard to a dental appointments once the guard was out of the room she opened the window and used a rope to shimmy dein to the street below a motorbike was waiting for her and they quickly sped off while the government has launched an investigation. u.s. prosecutors claim the president of honduras took a $1000000.00 bribe from mexican drug lord chapo guzman the accusation was made as a course in new york where one orlando hernandez his brother is on trial for drug trafficking prosecutors allege his brother gave the president bribes from drug

smugglers an exchange for giving them protection and dismissed the accusations as absurd. demonstrators in mexico city have taken to the streets to mark the 51st anniversary of the massacre of hundreds of student protesters the march was peaceful overall though some protesters damaged property and police blocked a number of streets then 968 killings took place just days before the city hall since the olympic games the government is trying to stamp out weeks of what it saw as embarrassing demonstrations by students demanding reforms. their team of divers has been descending into the unknown off the coast of south america nick clarke joined the unique expedition charts in the recently discovered amazon reef. here on the northeastern edge of south america lies an outpost of france where in the cooler tropical evenings they relax as they might do in paris or not but this

is cayenne in french guyana and the launch point of a unique expedition to explore and dive a whole new world we jump on the expedition ribbon head out to see the ship with the joint is lying 20 kilometers off shore the esperanza is one of greenpeace's campaign vessels and right now a dive ship and a flotilla poetry combined so the amazon river and the amazon mouth is here the amazon reef presence was 1st revealed. here is a girl off the coast of brazil here with her 1st greenpeace expedition in the area and a 2nd when this expedition in the area last year identified the reef presence also into fresh rianna watchers we head off to find it no one has died disease before this expedition almost immediately were accompanied at the bell by a school of dolphins just joining for the ride these waters are brimming full of life. a sign

a device they call the fish is launched and scans the sea bed it images anxiously observed on deck we scanning the bottom of the ocean between 81 and one in 20 meter to find if there is a rock basically start reef this expedition is not alone with an interest in what lies below now 500 kilometers in that direction lies the mount of the amazon and the brazilian waters where it's estimated up to 14000000000 barrels of oil and companies like b.p. and the brazilian government for that matter they want to get at it and the fear is that should there be an oil spill the great outpouring of the amazon river which is the world's largest. spill up in this direction destroying the pristine ecosystem is give much more argument to the global call for marine conserve ation and creating marine protected areas this is one of the kind of player tara we need to protect in the world because if you have species you have

a rabbit ecosystem so that's a way to global leaders for marine protection. meanwhile the say not even found a section of reef suitable for diving. and you can see some heel we got up to 67 meters high reached at the bottom so clearly some interesting some interesting areas you go in and dive. so time to prepare the dive for an early morning mission to the team. with the new day will bring clark al-jazeera of the coast a french guy on. the sports on the fall light.

it would. be. going to be it would. pose for the sport and far a life in the world championships going to get the big. welcome to the khalifa international stadium endo how where the action is underway on day 7 of these championships today it's a conclusion of the multi-discipline events britain's catarina johnson thomson believes they have tough one overnight after 4 events canada as chair of the pasha is the man to catch at the halfway stage in the dicastillo. it will be a long day for those competitors their last race is finished after midnight local time the other titles to be decided on thursday of the women's 400 meters and the

women's shot put. the sprint relays get underway on friday were britain's idina ashes will be looking for a 3rd medal at these championships or gold in the $200.00 metres was the highlight of another dramatic night on the track records. dean ashley smith can now call herself a world champion all eyes are on the briton in lane 7 for the women's 200 meter final the 23 year old was the favorite following an impressive season and moreover the silver medal in the 100 metres she went one better this time crossing the finish line in 21.88 seconds to seal the title and her place in the history books. the win makes ashley smith the 1st british woman to ever win the 200 meter title. the next best align of them. i just i didn't i don't think it sunk in yet i was

really happy that i won but then it's slowly coming to me that i'm actually about champion. the men's 110 meter hurdles final store not the young athlete come of age . earlier this year grant holloway won the u.s. college title and set a world leading time in the process the 21 year old held his nose at the world gold medal nice collection in a race marred by chaos spain's orlando ortega was denied a probable bronze medal after the reigning olympic champion obama crowd veered into his lane and tumbled ortega's competent for a rerun but they were denied. there was no controversy however in the how much through final. pavel friday component his 4th world title in a row with a throw of 80.50 meters. despite his domination of the world's opponents never won an olympic medal you have a chance to change that next year in tokyo still. 0.

before these championships the idea of appointed its 1st ever female vice president short time ago i was joined in the studio by men ira strap oh and i asked her about getting more women into sport across the board. well i do believe it is very important in any kind of organization we need diversity we need women to be there speaking for other women and speaking for everybody else so i really believe that having a women in richness it gives richness to any organization but do you think the idea will lay out still has more to do what we do have more to do but things are changing i think sébastien go has done a great job with allowing women and forcing it a little bit for the women to be able to be allowed to get into senior positions so they've been working we have to stay working but the new constitution is going to make sure that women can reach those positions ok i want to ask you about caster

semenya now she's not here to defend her 800 metre wall title do you have sympathy for her situation i don't have sympathy for situation i think it is very difficult for her i also have sympathy for the other women athletes it is difficult to compete against somebody that you know has some advantages so it's i think it's a very tough decision is a very difficult situation for both for her and for the other women. and speaking of female athletes they've done really well here they've broken records. they've made history do you think they've outperform the man here. not really i think we're doing more or less about the same i think it has been a great competition not with lots of world records but we do have lots of competition we have had very good competitions with lots of people competing very well you know like a very high standard so that has made this world championships amazing it's been really really great for defense for the bug league because the level of the competition has been very high. some athletes however have complained about the

conditions here you know tokyo is said to be much worse how do you respond to those criticisms or maybe the criticisms come from the. the events done on the street for marathon or for d. rays. walking because for the track it has been very very comfortable the truck has any conditioning and the conditions have been really good i do believe for the marathoners and the research workers it has been really tough but it's not the only please would they have to meet those conditions like you were talking about talk to will probably be the same and we've had some other places where the competition will be where there has been really tough for dee rees walker marathoners and well i know it's difficult but we do have to to learn to deal with some conditions sometimes and do you think bringing events like this to the middle east will encourage female participation still get into sports i hope so and that's what

we're hoping we need to go with her for their next 2 countries where it isn't popular with that's i think one of the reasons the decided to do it here in indoor to show it to make people. more aware of track and field to get more public so i think it is it is a good idea to take track and field to take a letter to khan to swear it isn't popular. now way from the athletics ireland have got their campaign back on track at the rugby world cup they bounced back from their surprise defeat to host a panel of the bonus point victory over russia 5 tries for the irish in a 35 no win scoring rounded off by gary ringrose ireland go top of the way having played 3 of their 4 game. elsewhere on thursday fiji have their 1st win of the tournaments they ran in 7 tries as they beat georgia 45 points to tie. and that's all your support for now we'll have more live from the cleaver

international stadium later now on but for now it's back to how. thanks very much and say it far above us about ed for this news hour but to stay with us here on al-jazeera on the back in just a few moments time but more. on the streets of greece anti immigrant violence is on the rise there all you have to go from love plenty of the sound that prove this is a plus ism and increasingly migrant farm workers of victims a vicious beatings. is helping the pakistani community to find

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and corruption there's been allegations made against you even how corrupt is malawi the president of malawi peta missouri talks to al-jazeera well you. know. donald trump's former ukraine envoy testifies before the impeachment inquiry committee but the u.s. president says ukraine and china should investigate joe biden and his son. and how he'd seen this is all just the real life from doha also coming up. with.

iraq's prime minister calls for calm matter at least 20 people are killed in anti-government protests across the country was a knife attack at paris police headquarters these 4 officers dead. u.k. prime minister's new plan for brics sets boris johnson urges and peace supporters the deadline to leave the e.u. can't sever calls or. hear the former u.s. special envoy to ukraine is appearing before 3 committees and parcel of the presidential impeachment inquiry kurt volker is the 1st key official to testify as investigations in. it's a trans dealings with ukraine ramp up while the house intelligence foreign affairs and oversight and government reform committee is are questioning volcker behind

closed doors he resigned from his post on friday after whistleblowers complaint emerged but of course said that trump and tried to pressure ukraine's president to investigate democratic rival joe biden and his son before course said to have connected trump personal lawyer with each of the army with ukrainian officials of all colors also one of the witnesses that the section of state might pump a 0 trying to to blog from appearing before congress with just a few minutes ago trump said he could ask both china and ukraine to investigate his democratic rival joe biden and his son take a listen. they should investigate the bike because that is a company that really formed well these companies that you look at and by the way likewise china just started investigation into the bike because what happened in china is just about as bad as what happened with. with ukraine

so i would say that president phillip. if it were me i would recommend that they start an investigation in the device because nobody has any doubt that they weren't working. well we'll get the reaction from the white house kimberly hole could stand by in just a moment 1st though let's cross live to hide the job on capitol hill where that hearing is underway heidi what work each of those. that's right the former special envoy to your crane curveball can or has been testifying behind closed doors for more than 2 hours now he may be a key witness to the democrats' impeachment inquiry of jonell trum bull connor resigned from his government post on friday just hours after a whistleblower report came public which named a bowl winner as having been part of the administration's effort to put pressure on

ukraine to dig up dirt against donald trump's potential political rival joe biden and his son in that was a low report or is said to have met with ukrainian officials just one day after trump was on the phone call with ukrainian president and that in that meeting will push hard guided ukrainian officials on how to navigate the president's demands volcker has been testifying now for a few hours he delivered several documents to committee members prior to his testimony and democrats really want to get to the bottom of one key question here and that is whether the president try to use u.s. military aid to ukraine as leverage to get that country to open up its investigation trump says that's not the reason that he withheld the aid however bull connor may have internal communications he had with the president's office that sheds more light on exactly what trump's motive was ok heidi thank you very

much indeed let's get reaction from our white house correspondent kimberly halted kimberly that was an extraordinary press conference from president trump earlier where he called on ukraine and china since the bisons i mean is any of this helping . no because while the president continues to maintain as he did as he spoke to reporters that white house north lawn departure that he in fact is innocent that is call was perfect back in july when he spoke to the ukrainian leader. underscoring in all of this is very damning for donald trump because what he's suggesting is the foundation of the democrats' impeachment inquiry on capitol hill namely that he has abused his presidential powers in order to harm a political adversary in this case the former vice president joe biden so well donald trump can say that any sort of characterization was called back in july is

total fiction made in terms of it not being what he calls a perfect phone call he's gone and suggested now that china should also investigate which is exactly what got him into hot water in the 1st place now we should point out in all of this the former vice president joe biden has been speaking to reporters he maintains that there is no evidence that he or his son hunter biden violated any laws his son fact worked with one of the energy companies inside ukraine he says this is all been investigated and the allegations that have been put forward by the trumpet ministration in no way in the view of joe biden reflect reality and this is why the democrats say that they are going to continue this impeachment inquiry the house speaker nancy pelosi saying in fact that she believes what has happened here is harmful to the u.s. constitution is harmful to u.s. national security and undermines the integrity of u.s. elections kimberly hold it for now thank you. so how they use that in the iraqi

prime minister is calling for calm after 3 days of antigovernment protests left at least 23 people dead adel abdul mahdi process is to recent announce with his office so that a resolution can be reached there is also crack down on corruption sacking over a face and government employees but the still widespread anger against lack of jobs and poor public services some a bunch of it has lost. they defied the curfew imposed by iraq's security forces. and for not following orders bullets were fired at that. time to government demonstrations in the capital baghdad for the last 3 days have also spread to other cities such as bus ride nasiriyah and. as the violence escalated security forces blocked major roads and the internet is severed.

protesters are demanding a change of government as well as more jobs less corruption and in to religious discrimination not only help despite the curfew we are going out to call for our rights we want to change the regime they've arrested our people they've done things to our people that they did not even do to die they beat them up and humiliated them while firing live gunfire what did we do are we suicide bombers we're here to call for our rights. member of dead has risen steadily and hundreds have been injured since the defeat of vice and protesters say nothing has changed for them despite the promises of politicians. oh what a load up there even with the curfew i swear to god we will not retreat we're demanding our simplest rights the simplest rights that we all for you know what we separate ourselves for our country to be sacrificed for iraq our people come out not for yourselves but for your children. iraqis are also

unhappy with the abrupt dismissal of the rehab inside the bullet counterterrorism forces in the fight against isis and analysts say the government's reaction to protest is a dangerous escalation iraq's fragile security relies on managing deep sectarian fault lines as well as the threat from remnants of eisel. judge at the start the people are being rolled the people are begging on the street there is no work you come to protest and they fire at you they are all a rainy and speaking in farsi you want to speak to them they answer in farsi the iraqis would not fire at you. iran has close to border crossings dealing plans by millions of iranians pilgrims to visit iraq for a religious ritual iraq's u.s. allies and the united nations and appealing to iraq's government to exercise restraint. prime minister other liberal mathy and his year old government is facing its biggest challenge yet but it's unclear how can he stop the outpouring of anger

against his rule with no apparent leaders of the protesters to negotiate with. some of and others there. 8 people have been kidnapped and gunpoint in nigeria please say 6 girls and 2 staff members were abducted from a boarding school in continuous face early on thursday morning rescue teams have been sent to look for the group. who back assad was a spokesman for the couldna state police command and joins me now from dina states . do you know who's behind this attack and i you any closer to recovering these people who've been taken. but actually like i said in my earlier press release but the catalyst at least common. mobilize them despise each some operatives with the view to trail in this perpetrators

of this crime. to rescue the victims present the criminals they will to face justice do you know you're looking in georgia going on. which which group of you looking for who do you think is behind this. actually we suspect him. 3 kidnappers. you know this this school is located out of the metropolitan somewhere and they actually use the course side of the school where the school friends had a lot that was true to the point of entry through which they came into the school in the early hours of today. so there we actually basically suspect that it could be some hotel i'm staying in gauging kidnapping of

persons or of some. so you don't think there's a good chance then of getting these these these 6 girls and staff members back then you do think this is anything related to any terror. or you have been known in the past to children young girls especially from schools non-normal you know recently we have been telling. kids and the kidnappers used to block highways. and kidnap persons or particularly commuters but following the restricted made by the major place whereby. they comes identified so had been raided and most of the kidnappers.