for a prize. given recent events in the u.k. parliament recording it might seem fitting that a banksy painting has just sold for $12000000.00 a record price for the british street artist devolved parliament which depicts the house of commons full of chimpanzees was actually painted 10 years ago south of cape his identity a secret tweeted record price it's a shame i didn't still own it. on al-jazeera. i'm a. reporter. of south america and for laura how ireland. was at the rugby world cup.

a team of diverse has spent ascending into the unknown off the coast of south america the 1st of us live reports now clark joined the unique expedition charting 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 rib and head out to sea the ship with the joint is lying 20 kilometers off shore the esperanza is one of greenpeace's campaign vessels 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. years ago off the coast of brazil here with the 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 dived the seas before this expedition almost immediately were accompanied at the bow by a school of dolphins just joining for the ride these waters brimming full of life. so in 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 you there is a rock star 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 lie 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 a pristine ecosystem is give much more argument to the global call for marine conservation and creates. protected areas this is one of the kind of player we need to protect in the world because if you have. a rabbit ecosystem so that's a way to call up the global leaders for marine protection and. meanwhile the say not even found a section of reef suitable for diving. and you can see something here all we've got up to 67 metre high reef on the bottom so with us clearly some interesting

some interesting areas you go in and dial to. save time to prepare the dive for an early morning mission into the deep. with a new day will bring. al-jazeera off the coast of french guyana it's time for sport for that let's go to far at the world athletics championships and. welcome back to the khalif international stadium where it's been another golden night for britain at the world athletics championships. catherine and johnson thomson to golden have tough one to claim her 1st world title she saw of her main rival and olympic champion nafi belgium by $304.00 points it's the biggest winning margin for 32 years there was a german success in the de-caf one nicholas cow taking gold with victory in the final event the 1500 meters it was an upset in the final of the women's 400 meters

the n.b.a. champion and favorite shannon miller we bow was beaten by bahrain's a nasser her time of 48.14 seconds was the 3rd fastest in history and one final was decided in the field events china is gong at leisure hour defending her title and taking gold in the women's shot put with a throw of 19.55 metres the goal for johnson thompson sees great britain up to 4th on that's the medals table after day 7 china now have 3 golds at the championships one of the big surprises that these championships came in the men's 110 metres hurdles with 21 year old grant holloway taking gold has been speaking to our sports correspondent andy richardson. this was the 1st time i've ever really you know soaked it all in and tried that approach to it usually i would just pray and then you know i'll be nervous for the whole day but then you know talking with my inner

circle in the team chaplain here for us a.t.f. is just wanted things it was like no matter what happens when lose or draw you still got a god that's going to love you you know no matter if you have gold silver bronze or anything around your neck and it's just one of the cases you know i was at peace of myself and all i did was just go on one time and you know cross the finish line 1st units and professionally in june was it realistically a target few at the start of the year it's a come to dunbar and when a gold medal and it without a doubt that was definitely the case i think when we 1st sat down on me coach not my coach my colleague we 1st sat down kind of mapped out what would be goals with a year and the goal was to weigh in doing out there into the relays and then you know to double back to win the world championship and no doubt in my mind i knew i was fully capable of winning this this medal but it was just more so you know i just had to prepare mentally and physically and just get my mind right and you know

believe in myself to just go out there execute the blocks down and just run run my race look at you know high school and college create a very. good football player as well was it was always obvious to me that you were going to do the hurdles i think as i start to grow up and figure out who i was as a person i definitely see that track and field was was my. you know my dad did 22 years in the military and that's what i wanted to do initially when i was growing up then i started playing sports and then you know figuring out football is like ok i want to go to college and win the heisman and then you know you start again those college offers and you start doing track and field and you're figuring out exactly what you want to do and then from you know college i made a decision just to stick with track and you know the city and always in the back of my mind like i want to play football but you know at the end the day i felt like i made a great decision and worked out well now before these championships the i.w.a. after pointed its 1st ever female vice president in our strap probably joined me in

the studio when i asked her about getting more women into sport across the. well i do believe it is very important as it is in any kind of organization we need there versity one of the 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 organisation 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 it's about to go have been a great job with allowing women and forcing it's 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 by the new constitution is going to make sure that women can reach those decisions something you sad when you were elected that was quite powerful i just want to get it right it's important that sport look like the world which. well the world i mean that the world is at 505050 percent man and 50 percent women and i do believe that track and field on

the track we have to add $5050.00 almost but when you go to leadership in sports not only in track and field and in full ball in basketball in volleyball all these are going to say sure they're male oriented much many men have those position their women so i would love to see more women in power positions in the sports are going to say shows of the world ok i want to ask you about caster semenya now she's not here to defend her 800 meter wall title do you have sympathy for her situation i do have sympathy for susie to a show and i think it is very difficult for her by 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 do you think bringing events like this to the middle east will encourage female

participant to get into sports i hope so and that's what we are hoping we need to go with a fed ex to countries where it isn't popular. i think one of the recent they decided to do it here in in doha 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 medic's to come to sweat it isn't that popular. now way from the athletics manchester united's poor run of form continued in the europa league on thursday it failed to have a shot on target and a goal is draw at. amongst the other group stage winners were arsenal fame nor into an espanyol ireland have got their campaign back on track of the rugby world cup they bounce back from their surprise defeat to host japan with a bonus point victory over russia 5 tries for the irish and 35 when the scoring rounded off by gary ringrose thursday's other game in georgia. and that is

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i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up iraq's prime minister addresses the nation after days of protests announcing a move that could see poor families receive a basic wage emergency law that could see facemask banned from pro-democracy demonstrations in hong kong. and a record settlement is handed down in the u.s. to families of victims from the country's deadliest mass shooting. leading democrats in the united states have accused president trump of breaching his oath of office trump has openly called on both ukraine and now china to investigate his political rival one former vice president joe biden a similar request made during a phone call with ukraine's president in july has already triggered an impeachment inquiry in congress white house correspondent kimberly how could has the latest

from washington. with his presidency caught up in an impeachment investigation over a phone call with the ukrainian leader u.s. president donald trump on thursday called on china to get involved what. is just about as bad as what happened with. you phrase the unconventional request to beijing comes as trump faces questions over his administration's request to foreign governments to help investigate former u.s. vice president joe biden his potential democratic rival in next year's presidential contest. trump was chinese authorities and other countries to investigate biden's son hunter and his business dealings overseas members of the u.s. congress are investigating allegations trump abuse just presidential powers in a july phone call with ukrainian president vladimir selenski we need real support

in a trunk calls for an investigation into the biden's which is now the foundation of an impeachment inquiry led by democratic lawmakers on capitol hill 3 committees in the house of representatives on thursday question former u.s. special envoy kurt volker about his orders from trump regarding a meeting in kiev just one day after trump's infamous july phone call with ukraine's leader bowker's name is mentioned in the complaint provided to congress by an anonymous whistleblower house speaker nancy pelosi says the impeachment inquiry is investigating whether trump implied he would withhold military aid to ukraine unless an investigation was launched against there is a quid pro quo if you're if you are already a couple days apart and granting or withholding and then asking for favors to create dirt on your political opponent but trump maintains there was nothing nefarious about his phone call with the ukrainian president the whistleblower never says there was

a conversation he got his information i guess sex or desert has he wrote something that was subtle 6 just the former vice president argued there's no evidence that he or his son committed any wrongdoing. just know there are no true george against me no i'm sure every independent news organization. as you charge. has found to be flat out lie still the number of trumpet ministration officials and snared in the impeachment inquiry continues to broaden vice president mike pence is now in the spotlight after reports that president trump tried to involve pence in efforts to pressure the ukrainian leader can really help get al-jazeera the white house is going out on fisher who is live for us in washington d.c. so allan the ated that the missiles that were supposed to be there were being held

up rather that were intended for ukraine where do things stand with that. the missiles and the ada 2 separate things although part of the whole picture of the aid was separate and donald trump was saying we're holding that allegedly until we get a commitment from the ukraine that they are going to go ahead and investigate corruption particular and the bidens during his conversation with president of the ukraine. he said look we would like to buy some more javelin missiles from the united states and then don't trump said in the conversation well you could do us a favor and that's what everyone says is the quid pro quo and though tom says well look the whistleblower got it wrong he was making up to go from 3rd hand sources but a lot of what the whistleblower has said has actually come true no the sale of the javelin missiles has been approved by congress it's no going through the state department thank you very much in favor over so those missiles will be delivered to

the ukrainians when they start to pay the money to the contractor for doing exactly that meanwhile if that wasn't enough stick with me here china so donald trump who's been saying there was no quid pro quo or we would never asked ukraine for anything it was simply a conversation he then stands in the last few hours in front of the white house and says i have a lot of options with china and we want china to investigate joe biden because he makes this unfounded allegation never backed up by any truth joe biden and his son hunter are somehow corrupt in their international business dealings now this isn't saying that quietly he's saying this in front of the white house and that's exactly why the democrats are impeaching him because he is asking a foreign country to get involved in the 2020 election by investigating a political rival see exactly why the democrats have started impeachment proceedings and so donald trump has really made it difficult for republicans to

stand up and say it's all been a bit big misunderstanding there was no quid pro quo. particularly as donald trump is in the middle of trade negotiations with the chinese and they will be you next week so they could see what we could start their investigation but drop your thought of so far sed it shows he's not exactly the master negotiator but it also causes a real problems with the impeachment inquiry ok alan fischer great wrap up there from washington thank you very much and just days he's a former u.s. state department official who served in the obama administration he joins us also from washington we appreciate your time so it seems that every hour there is a new development a new leak that is coming out and within the past couple of hours the new york times has been reporting that ever guards to ukraine specifically that the u.s. diplomats actually drafted a statements for you crane's later president selenski to say that he would commit to these investigations that president donald trump was pushing and according to

the new york times this is true one of these people is culpable kurt volker who went and testified today gave a deposition today what does this say about potentially how widespread president trump's efforts were to push these investigations and to pressure ukraine well it's a great deal indeed in fact by the day by the hour we find out about additional u.s. officials today vice president pence evidence that he was pressuring zelinsky personally and other high officials in ukraine more shoes to drop on that so this is now reaching all across the top u.s. agencies but something that i must point out a bit to your leading statements those 2 diplomats were removed kurt volker and the u.s. ambassador there she was recalled and kurt volker was told he would be

fired if he didn't resign so he's in his. almost a whole full day 12 hours now of deposition to that the relevant committees intelligence chiefly as we speak on capitol hill and there kurt volker is straightening out the record and that is that very deftly he and the ambassador were trying to help the ukrainians navigate this corrupt process involving rudy giuliani the president the vice president the secretary of state almost everybody how damaging are president trump's admitted actions that they just that we know not even the things that we do know how damaging are these actions to state department employees are incredibly damaging the morale is really at a low point

a lot of the halls these days in the state department feel empty so many people have left positions unfilled my own neighbors where i live just like myself no longer work there so we've got a situation where u.s. diplomacy is being undermined and harmed directly when diplomats are forced to give rudy rudy giuliani and people like him a meeting with actual leaders of other countries and we're talking about a country getting squeezed by the russians and that is the ultimate player here what trump is doing and he's doing. for vladimir putin let's call a spade a spade this is an agenda that the 2 of them share that they cooked together we have a president who was looking for a long time ago like a potential agents of the chief adversary of this country and now we see even more

evidence of this all of this kind of as a red herring with the focus on ukraine and zelinsky and all these things you've got to feel awfully bad for them because they almost lost out on their aid in this process and this is why this president is being impeached all happening in plain sight. thank you very much former state is an additional. the poorest families in iraq could soon be given a basic wage addressing the nation on television the prime minister. announced the government will vote on the new law following days of violent mass protests a one m. you know other than today we have to 1st return life to normal in all provinces and respect the rule of law or under which everyone lives in safety and stability i'd like to assure you that the security procedures we undertook which included blocking roaming data temporarily was a difficult decision however it is like britain medicine it was mandatory because

we cannot afford to lose your security or take risks or to leave you all safety and the country in the wind preserving security is regarded as the highest in this country's interest and nationally is a priority so this huge rallies have been driven by several factors there is a chronic lack of basic services like electricity and water 42001000 only 8 percent of the budget has been allocated for education reconstruction and health combined that's compared to 14 percent on oil and 20 percent on security 13 percent of all adults and iraq are unemployed but that goes up to more than a quarter for young people of working age demonstrations as spread across several provinces most of the deaths have been in southern iraq and cities like a survey and ammara emraan khan has more from baghdad. they defied the curfew imposed by iraq's security forces. and for not following soldiers

orders bullets were fired at the. anticoagulant demonstrations in the capital baghdad for the past 3 days.