the reality is that previous impeachment hearings have started in committees in the congress it's then going to the floor of the house and then a vote at the senate so strictly speaking they're following procedure but the republicans are trying to say this is not the way these things are done that's not how it was done during bill clinton's case but this is the reality that donald trump is facing and impeachment is moving closer so let's talk about his vice president mike pence who has you know for the most part stood by president trump has not been critical of anything he has done in relation to ukraine so what does that mean for him well we often say there's very little daylight between mike pence and donald trump but it might pence might feel that it was slightly thrown under the bus about a week or so ago when donald trump held his 1st news conference about ukraine and he was asked about his phone calls in his communications he said you can ask me about them we should also ask my parents about his meeting with the ukrainian president and also the phone calls that he sighed the democrats thought that's

a very good idea let's do that so they have put forward their subpoena for documents from the vice president and in that letter saying we want these documents they've also said that failure to comply by october the 14th would be considered to be an obstruction of justice 3 very important what's important because that is whoa they managed to get richard nixon it wasn't the cover up well it was the cover up but it was blocking documents going to oversight congress so they're saying to mike pence look you hand over these documents there's every chance that you're going to be charged with obstruction of justice which means impeachment for you as well so this hasn't been a good week for the white house friday hasn't been a good day for donald trump and mike pence and the reality is things are probably only going to get worse from this point all right alan fischer with the latest from washington allan thank you. when you were head of the news hour and clearing strength and numbers and syria had as rival factions joined together as part of the

national army. reporting from the waters off the coast of french ground right of the migration routes of wales and all the marine species as we listen to the sounds of this. and sport bar has details of a golden night for host qatar at the world athletics championships. and there are reports u.s. president's re-election campaign is among accounts targeted by a hacking group linked to the iranian government the reuters news agency says attempts to access trumps accounts were unsuccessful microsoft has confirmed hundreds of accounts were targeted by the group known as phosphorous they include those of current and former u.s. government officials journalists and prominent iranians living abroad pedicle hain has more from washington. this is

a pretty unusual move but it shows how much things have changed for tech companies since the 2016 election microsoft making this announcement saying for the 1st time in this new election cycle that they believe a foreign government backed hackers tried to get access to a presidential campaign other not saying exactly which campaign and again this is microsoft alleging iran's involvement without actually providing any proof but the allegation is that it wasn't just the presidential campaign it was former and current government officials journalists prominent iranians in america and they said it wasn't a very sophisticated attack of the almost 2700 people they tried to identify what their e-mails were they were able they say to target about $241.00 of those people but only succeeded in 4 attack 4 accounts being hacked and microsoft says none of those were government officials or the presidential campaign still it does send a message that things are different this time around and tech companies are sending the message to hackers especially those associated they believe with governments

that they're not going to stay quiet when carl is a former cia officer he joins us from boston is skype appreciate your time so much can you put in perspective just how big of an issue this is the fact that hackers continue to try to to influence elections. well the issue of cyber attacks by intelligence services is probably the number one challenge facing the government's intelligence services today and going forward there are literally if you have to exact number but literally thousands of attacks per day on american official facilities now they range from the 13 year old student who wants to play up to the russian or in the intelligence services and other ones the crisis is that there's really

almost no way to stop this it's very encouraging however that google has taken a step because the experts assess that almost the only way to have some real effect in minimizing or at least reducing the effectiveness of these attacks is that have all of the different companies and industries and individuals sensitized and taking countermeasures on their own no government can stop this from happening it has a let's talk about those companies. how did this issue get away from them if it's something that that caught them off guard is it something that they just chose not to manage well i think there it has been a default attitude since the birth of the internet in favor of free access without government stiction to which is based on the american 1st amendment free speech and free strange ideas and that's all very laudable but it

also allows scope almost into so for a line evil hostile pardons it's only in recent years in the last several years that there have been. there's begun to be an awareness of the extent of the problem and a shift i think in attitudes with respect to the internet realizing that total freedom means that everybody is vulnerable so how do you make it there be consequences are there are consequences for hackers or the consequences for the companies that don't know enough monitoring i mean what what is it that can rein this in well that's the great question and unfortunately so far then the united states and all countries are spending your huge resources on how to address parity these problems and the u.s.

is spending billions of dollars a year in its defense national security assessment on trying to address cyber threats and the assessment so far so far as i'm aware is that there is no single or even this series of their defenses that are really effective and that the best defense that one has devised so far is to have a very strong potential oftens and that is mutually assured destruction fear that will say other parties hands for fear of retaliation or are suffering consequences themselves that's not a happy situation and doesn't protect us but that seems you know status right now all right glenn karl thank you so much for your insight we appreciate it. all rail services in hong kong have been suspended operators say it is due to malicious bandoliers and by protesters demonstrators have remained defiant against

a new ban on face mass chief executive carolan invoked a claudio era law to enforce the bad and gang greater powers to clamp down on the protesters scott heiler reports from hong kong. face mass have become one of the main symbols of the protester movement here in hong kong they're also a way to hide identities from surveillance cameras now it's illegal for protesters to cover their faces. their protests have become increasingly violent and initial peaceful rallies the largest ever seen here calling for the withdrawal of a proposed extradition law had escalated into running battles in vandalism. their demands became more of a broad push back against what protestors see as growing control from beijing chief executive kerry lamb has turned to a british colonial era emergency law not you since riots in 1967 anyone who wears a mask could face up to a year in jail and

a $3000.00 fine. hong kong is not in a state of emergency and we are not proclaiming that hong kong is entering a state of emergency. but we are indeed in an ok sion of serious danger which is a state a condition in an emergency regulations ordinance was many of the protesters said that they were not deterred by the emergency law and will carry on as before. other so that might stop some demonstrators but the banner won't help end the crisis possibly having the opposite effect goes i think some people with the afraid of bearing the legal consequences and are not going to protest in the future i also think that such a hot line approach is not going to work in the long run might come the dia this group of protesters the has been moving about here in the central financial district called started with a march of thousands now it's pared down to the hundreds so what they're doing is

they're bouncing between main intersections and blocking them off after work hours the number of protesters swelled into the thousands again. barricades were built fires lit. they then moved on from the financial district the marching mass of people growing the majority the protesters ended up in causeway bay clogging the streets and vandalizing m.t.r. subway stations and businesses the protesters you unsympathetic to their movement. as routine now riot police came in to push the protesters out most left but small numbers faded into the smaller streets and with the announcement of more protests planned for this weekend it's a routine that will probably be repeated it's got hardly al-jazeera from calm thousands of algerian protesters are demanding the army and its role in politics demonstrations in the capital algiers followed a ruling by a prominent conservative cleric urging people to vote in the december election the vote is also backed by the army but opposed by the protest movement area's been

rocked by months of demonstrations since former president and jealousies but it's like a step down and april. a number of syrian rebel factions fighting and are merging that's according to the turkish based opposition groups are joining the national army the main rebel group supported by turkey it's a move that may help widely opposition's influence in italy in costello reports in the turkish city of selling close to the syrian border. syrian opposition factions have gathered and split several times so far but they say that this time it is different because for the 1st time free syrian army f.s.a. factions and the national liberation front have gathered under one umbrella national army of syria which is only going to answer to the defense ministry of the syrian opposition run interim government the interim government is a part of the syrian national council which is internationally recognized here they say that their primary principle is to protect their territorial integrity and

liberate their soil should be outlawed should this shouldn't top up today terror groups ongoing airstrikes by the regime and russia threaten syria's territorial integrity that's why we wanted to boost our resistance against them we merge 2 of our armed forces this is a message to anyone who threatens us the men aim of this is to defend liberated areas in the. north west of the country. and we are preparing for the future. of some military operations to the east of structures and we look to the region to the east of the river. as a part of syria and we have civilians was kicked out of the region and. it is now important that they go back to their homes the united states sees the syrian the political forces as the primary force in order to fight against iceland 30 claims

that it's comments it is a mostly by the y.p. g. forces now these factions believe that they are a union under under one umbrella as the military as an as a conventional army of the interim government will also challenge the legitimacy of the wife e.g. in the fight against isis also mosco has been pushing turkey for the last 2 years in order to organize a for say factions together under one umbrella. now it's a question the how the h.t.s. hits author as some will respond to the situation in ad lib as well a funeral has been hell for a palestinian protesters shot and killed by the israeli military in here because israel border fence the 28 year old had gathered along with 6000 others for weekly demonstrations demanding palestinians right to return to the lands they fled in the 1948 war that created the jewish state gaza's health ministry says 40 others were wounded 18 of them by live fire. the palestinian authority has agreed to accept

hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue collected by israel so this money comes from duties on goods destined for palestinian markets transiting through israel the p.a. began refusing funds from israel after they started deducting money claiming it was being sent to terrorists palestinian prisoners in israeli jails are among those receiving the payments a jail saudi women's rights activists who campaign for the right to drive has been nominated for this shows this year's nobel peace prize. of war has been put forward by a group of no region in canadian politicians she was arrested over a year ago just before saudi arabia ended a ban on women driving cars rights groups say she has been in solitary confinement for months in subjected to abuse including sexual assault saudi officials deny the allegations. scientists say an precedented wave of extinction is underway because

of poaching global warming and a loss of habitat at the same time they're trying to save some critically endangered species including the northern right which has been hunted to obliteration in the wild rob and also ports are escondido city and california. edward the littlest southern white rhino in the san diego zoo safari park born at the end of july he's already of big boy is adorable he is fantastic we are just so lucky to be able to have him adorable little eddie is the 1st southern white rhino born through artificial insemination in the north america that's an important step toward bringing back another rhino subspecies from the brink of extinction this is nola a female northern white rhino she died in 2015 the animals have been hunted to obliteration in the wild and today there are only 2 northern white rhinos left in the entire world both elderly females living in captivity so the subspecies seems do

or maybe not part of biologist barbara durant's job involves giving ultrasound exams to pregnant rhinos not an easy task when your patient weighs about 1600 kilos so. durant is leading an effort to bring back the northern white rhino with a precious clutch of the animal stem cells and oh a day she has planned. a stem cell is a cell that has a potential to be any other cell in the body eventually they will we want to differentiate him all the way to sperm eggs but there's a big catch female rhino anatomy it turns out is complicated the cervix which you have to go through to deposit the semen is very convoluted it looks like a series of rings like this so we have to go in

a series of switchback turns so we're going to have to have something that is very flexible that can go around all those curves and that's where engineering professor mike comes in he wasn't thinking about impregnating rhinos when he developed this flexible robotic catheter for microsurgery but it turns out it's perfect for the job we've developed the robotic tool that is very thin long flexible device that we can very accurately steer through these narrow channels so that we can get very deep into the rhino uterine body and the posit the specimens needed the ultimate goal of this project is to produce a self-sustaining herd of northern white rhinos 1st in captivity and then return to the wild in africa that goal is decades away and direct says she may not live to see it happen but that's ok if we don't lay the groundwork it's not going to happen

so i think that what we're doing now is extremely important for the long game for the long haul dedicated scientists and a bold plan to save one of the world's rarest creatures rob reynolds al-jazeera escondido california still ahead on al-jazeera troubled waters on the nile while my egypt and other countries are worried by the largest sand and africa. the revolutionary technology that's led a paralyzed man a walk. gang using the power of his mind. and sport with our alpha africa take a big step towards the rugby world cup quarter final.

i once again we've got some wet weather in the forecast to southern parts of china over the next couple days lost a fine and dry at the moment as it has been for a good part of this week but we are starting to see one or 2 heads just cropping up as we go on 3 sas stay down stay largely dry we keeping that northeasterly wind but eventually these showers will drift across the south china seas heading over towards hong kong into the far south of china bits and pieces that sharon said you possible seen quite a brisk wind feeding those showers in as well so while the blustery sunny out in the open water is sunshine and showers today across a good part of southeast asia particularly in simulation the chain of storm still in place here as they should be at this time of year running across into the maple instead northern parts of sinatra heavy showers along the spells of frank grassy not in the way up into the gulf of thailand bangkok could see some very heavy rain as we go on through the next couple of days heavy rain stays in the forecast for

northeastern parts of india will see some wet weather pushing back across the western side of india quite a few hours there out of the western ghats pushing up into my heart so wet weather there it's a sudden possible pakistan for a time but at least somewhat drier and brighter for sunday. whether sponsored by cats on an. international treaty would you have supported having free trade with nazi germany or the japanese so china has always had germany controversial immigration policies that anyone who has a well founded euro persecution should be able to comment on this that from syria he's closed the door to syrian refugees as a compassionate maybe his son goes head to head with senior trump advisor stephen moore this year the trump deficit cross a trillion dollars you would urge everyone not to reelect him from well no i'm not hiding out and go on down to 0. incarcerated. in russia's toughest prisons stripped off their liberties. and unexpected creative opportunities. let's.

listen caused just like no other offers a chance of redemption and hope for the toilet if you. leave prison life inside i know fingers and murderers on al-jazeera. watching out there let's take a look at the top stories right now curfew is due to be lifted in iraq a capital after hundreds of demonstrators defied the lockdown at least 15 people had been killed since anti-government protests began 5 days ago. this house

democrats have issued a subpoena to the white house for documents related to donald trump's and pietschmann investigation says he will not cooperate with an inquiry into the house of representatives votes to approve the investigation at all rail services of hong kong have been so. spend operator say in states the malicious vandalism by protesters defiant demonstrators are challenging a new ban on face masks aimed it down on protesters. scientists have been studying the migratory routes of pump back whales and other marine species off the coast of french guyana in the atlantic ocean as part of the research they've been listening into sounds deep underwater of a newly discovered reef system that car takes a rare listen and his 3rd report from the region. early morning on the esperanza scanning the waters for signs of life on the surface or positions on the ship and and they don't have to wait long away list spotted blowing the boats

alongside the team heads out on to the water melon headed whales right the power wave as they go part of the rich biodiversity of these waters the team want to. cameraman christophe schwager jumps in and there are extraordinary encounters to be had here it's murky because of the enormous outflow of the amazon river further down the coast but it is a bright swell that emerges out of the gloom this whole region is a migrate 3 route for whales sea turtles and other marine species it is a field day for the scientists aboard the esperanza don't call if you know plan your mission which. we made our 1st expedition in 2008 looking at megafauna but this was by air so this is a follow up on the 1st aerial study it's a very interesting this area is virgin territory there are very few places like this on earth and something quite special this is a hydrophone a piece of equipment the record sounds in water. and

that is the salt of the humpback whale. we now know this is a feeding and the breeding ground for the species. is haunting song and means of communication between individuals. in the coming months all the science gathered on board from surface to sea bed will be closely underlined giving an unprecedented understanding of marine life in an ocean flight like we have behind us is that it and that oceans there is a lot of life and there's more life than we expected that biodiversity is a source of richness for our planet and for us and we have to be here to preserve it's really to to maintain it not true just think all this is this is far away we don't care really we'll we'll think about that later on now taking on the environmental and climate crisis is a battle of many fronts not least that of the ocean but the thing is scientists

want to explore and document all companies want to come and drill and these polar extremes are replicated across the climate debate isn't it really all about how one sees what lies beneath all the reserves worth billions or healthy ocean ecosystems and the wonder of life in all its great biodiversity clark al-jazeera off the coast of french guyana and you damn an ethiopian can threaten water supply to other east african countries downstream which depend on the river nile sudan ethiopian egypt are holding a meeting in khartoum to discuss sharing water reports. this factory is making baby clothes destined for the u.s. but it has a problem it's out of electricity running on a diesel generator much to the frustration of human the site's manager who wants to go green and it is up to him bottom line is when you just talk about the war going

to the book i already know that you know the direction of the field ethiopia has done what most countries thought impossible ethiopians half of whom live on less than $2.00 a day raised $4000000000.00 to build africa's the largest hydroelectric dam on the world's biggest waterway the river nile without any assistance from international donors the grander innocence dam is now near completion and this is making countries downstream nervous among them egypt because it gets 90 percent of its fresh water from the river nile. mother recognizing them you hear his friends going to send. for him to watch of the night and well as far as i understand and i don't know that egypt wants more water than ethiopia is ready to supply the dams reservoir is the size of greater london it filled too quickly egypt will fall short of water the issues 100 percent income come ons are scientists and see what is going going and this is how different part of them doesn't consume or to interpret

his own civil rights to use its own bristles but talks between the knowledge sharing countries are stalling intention is arising. last year ethiopia accused egypt of sending rebels to neighboring a rich to sabotage the dam prompting another knowledge sharing country sudan to send its troops to its border i. while this is the rainy season here in ethiopia and waterways are overflowing bringing power to people's homes and farmland for most of the year this river is a slow trickle because egypt controls most of the flow of the river nile into its. 3 at least for now ethiopia's dam will start producing electricity next year with the potential of providing power to the entire horn of africa where most live off grid clean energy to a promising and rising economy its neighbors might be worried about the effects but

it seems there is those topping ethiopia's ambitions nicholas hawk al-jazeera. cameron's president paul bia has ordered the release of his main political rival opposition leader maries canto was detained in january for organizing demonstrations and the central african nation and this move comes as a national dialogue aimed at ending a separatist conflict wrapped up summit recommended greater decentralization for the country's 2 engle phone provinces cameron's english speaking regions have been fighting for 3 years to break away from the french majority and create their own state when he has more from. the national dollar conference has made recommendations that include the do some for allies addition of such an active just for example regions will have more revenues to run that day to day activities as well as execute projects and then the locals will be able eventually to vote their own officials including governors instead of those officials being appointed by the

federal government then there is also the establishment of traditional rulers councils to establish or to empower local administrations in the day to day running of affairs of the people now the main opposition as well as analysts said the recommendations of course are an important step to a stabilising couple there are factions that have harbors so more deep seated hatred that it may never be possible to convince them but these now look must not overlook that there are pockets of grievances across the country people who have never actually been if they have never felt included in the process now a lot of people are watching closely what this will mean to the greater group will encourage rebels for example who have already indicated that they're not happy with their recommendations especially the issue of autonomy to the regions saying that

what they were looking for independence now but government officials as well as opposition figures are saying that this is an important 1st step one almost general builds on that is a different matter altogether the station talks of to north korea and the united states are neutral restart on saturday and sweden negotiations on the north giving up nuclear weapons in return for the lifting of sanctions have been stalled for months when he has more from the south korean capital. there have been plenty of handshakes and historic moments in this new age of diplomacy on the korean peninsula some concessions have been made by the parties involved but there's been no progress towards the denuclearization of north korea speaking at the united nations general assembly on monday north korea's ambassador blamed the united states only hopes on the q it depends on the u.s. on whether the d.p. r. k. u.s. negotiations will become a window of opportunity or an occasion that will hasten the crisis the last summit

between u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un in hanoi in february ended early without a deal or even any significant announcement the holo diplomacy continued in june with another symbolic meeting at the demilitarized zone but no substance then and none since the hanoi summit broke down because of a gulf between the 2 sides which the united states may now be willing to partially bridge they had wanted complete verifiable denuclearization before offering any sanctions relief the north koreans wanted most sanctions lifted in exchange for the dismantling of their main nuclear facility. trump is now talked about a new approach which could include offering to lift some sanctions in exchange for the destruction of the yongbyon nuclear research complex the us president recently blamed his former national security adviser for past failings john bolton fired back saying maximum pressure must be maintained on kim jong un he may try to get

relief from international sanctions he may make some concessions but under current circumstances he will never give up the nuclear weapons voluntarily this year north korea has continued to develop its short and medium range missile technology conducting tests 11 times its most recent came just hours after the resumption of talks was announced. trump says he's not concerned about the tests which some experts believe designed to strengthen their negotiating position you know this has to lower the bar of demands on to north korea when it enters into a working level negotiations otherwise north korea will continue to increase its capability to pose a direct threat to the very national security of the united states there is unlikely to be any major outcome from the resumption of talks but if a deal is reached any time soon it may be left to

a potential 3rd trump kim summit to announce its wane hey al-jazeera soul demonstrators have again taken to the streets in haiti's capital demanding the resignation of presidential we're now maurice or tester set tires on fire as they march to the united nations office and puerto prince opposition leaders are urging the international community to withdraw their support for moyes friday's march is the latest in almost 4 weeks of protests in which 17 people have been reported killed transported ground to a halt in cities across ecuador after 2 days of protests over the rising price of fuel demonstrators are angry over the governor the government's decision to end a decades old fuel subsidy present when a marina says he is open to talks with the protesters but has refused to scrap the plan a state of emergency was declared on thursday after the protests became violent court documents have revealed that u.k. prime minister of course johnson will send a letter to the e.u. asking.