there is no pro quo and that was the fact that the night of that nullify that that text defending trump came just as the u.s. media was catching wind of a whistleblower report accusing trump of wrongdoing in his call with the ukrainian president that's what's launched the impeachment inquiry now targeting the president democrats heard from another witness friday the intelligence community inspector general who investigated the whistleblower report we have evidence of text messages between state department officials expressing concern is early as may that rudy giuliani had a jew there was a giuliani biting thing going on that had concerned a state department official we have evidence that a state department official was concerned that there was a linkage between security assistance and as he described a domestic political campaign democrats are trying to build

a compelling case for impeachment not only to convince the american public but also senate republicans it would take a swell of republican the factors to remove trump from office and thus far there's only been a trickle. castro al-jazeera capitol hill. well small still ahead on al-jazeera trying to hack the u.s. president to cyber group linked to the iranian government is attacking microsoft accounts. i'm a quote reporter from the waters off the coast of french guyana right of the my great tree roots of whales and other marine species as we listen to the sounds of the. how the weather is looking pretty mobile now across parts of northern europe because the sabria clapp which is. piling across the low countries into germany

that's the a remnant of what was storm around lorenzo that's going to city making its way further south which in the east was ahead of that this long line of class a lot of the shadows they're still in place they're just around grace pushing into that western side of turkey running up across the black sea as we go through saturday and pushing further north with showers set by this stage as you can see following behind from the remnants of lorenzo now pushing their way across eastern parts of germany into potent quasi weather for a time across that western side a few but the next area clad in bright really moving in across silence had to run its way further race which will see some wet weather across a good parts of the british isles we've got so weather warnings in force actually for us at least inside of england and there's a scotland as we go through the course of this weekend that could be some more localized flooding than showers there they are on their way down into central parts of europe let's find some fine weather there is some fine weather some lovely weather there was a good part spain and portugal madrid at around 27 degrees celsius which extends

its way across northern parts of africa as well as the fine and dry here a little bits of a fair weather cloud sketching with the far north of libya car of the high 35. planet is feeling the heat of the climate an ecological imagine see the world's leading scientists are warning of an existential crisis in the face of it reversible changes to be asked why minutes i'll be with you throughout as well on vironment correspondent nick carr will have reports from the front lines of the crisis and showcase new solutions to help combat threats al-jazeera brings you a new weekly. s.o.s. sets up the facts on the science behind the issues affecting our planet's.

you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour iraq has lifted a curfew in its capital baghdad and other areas which have seen days of violent protests at least $73.00 people have been killed parliament is convening at about the session to discuss the protests as to moms. protesters have gathered in central hong kong despite a rail shutdown and calls to council demonstrations on saturday covering their faces an open defiance of a mosque bombing imposed by the city's leader. us house democrats have subpoenaed the white house for documents relating to the president's impeachment inquiry but donald trump says he won't cooperate until the house of representatives votes to approve the investigation. court documents have revealed that britain's prime minister boss john some will send a letter to the e.u.

asking for breaks a delay if a deal isn't agreed in 2 weeks time scottish judges are considering whether johnson could be jailed if he takes the u.k. out of the block without a deal but johnson says he will comply with a new law which forces him to prevent a no deal breaks it on october 31st he submitted new proposals on wednesday which he hopes will lead to a deal for britain to leave the e.u. by that deadline on and says those proposals on good enough we recognize that this is a serious proposal from the british but we also acknowledge that there are a number of big problems with us. and so if it is the basis of a stepping stone if you like to a proposal that can be the basis of a deal then i think it's a really good thing. well all this turmoil over could lead to an early general election students many of whom will cast a ballot for the 1st time or be encouraged to register to vote and the hayward reports from southampton and southern england. it's an exciting time for new

students in southampton at 18 full of hope and ambition living away from home and with the prospect of being old enough to vote in any upcoming u.k. election they're all starting college life as britain prepares to leave the e.u. the result of a referendum they were too young to vote. about to take in 3 years if it was i would if. i wasn't able to effect. maybe things may turn out differently. by. student leaders are calling on young people to get on the electoral roll so they can vote if there's a general election the u.k. prime minister is reported to have wanted october the 15th as an election date so fewer university students would have had time to register so soon after starting a new term she didn't have such

a powerful voice but so often that marginalized his disgraceful because it's a. new generation of leaders and they should be having a say southampton is split politically at the moment so every vote will matter the student population here runs into tens of thousands so if they choose to vote it will have a big impact on the result here if there is an election and of course here in southampton there was a highly marginal constituency at the last election there were just $31.00 votes and. in 2017 younger people tended to vote labor and other smaller parties rather than vote conservative yet the older generation still go to the polls in bigger numbers. voters are certainly a significant part of the electorate in any forthcoming general election one thing that's important to say is that as we have an aging population and rates of turnout still higher among older voters it's easy to overestimate the extent to which the

youth vote is going to swing in a particular constituency and that since you know every vote counts when this generation of students graduating 2022 the impact of britain's plan departure from the european union on younger people looking for work should be clear and he would there in southampton. people in pakistani administered kashmir are marking 2 months since india ended the special status of india administered kashmir hundreds of people are marching towards the de facto border in the administered kashmir has been under a complete lockdown says new delhi took away the region's 7 autonomy status and arrested local politicians. thousands of protesters in algeria have called on the army to end its role in politics the demonstrations in the capital algiers on friday 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 which forced

former president abilities to to flicka to stand down in april donald trump's presidential reelection campaign is reported to be among accounts targeted by hacking group links the iranian government the reuters news agency says attempts to access his accounts were unsuccessful microsoft has confirmed the hundreds of accounts were targeted by the group known as the phosphorous they include those of current and former u.s. government officials journalists prominent iranians living abroad particle hain has more from washington d.c. . this is a pretty unusual move but it shows how much things have changed for tech companies since the 2060 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 was 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. covering the president has ordered the release of his main political rival opposition leader who was jailed in january for going to protest that order came as a national dialogue aimed at ending a separatist conflict wrapped up camarines english speaking regions have been fighting for 3 years to break away from the french majority on thursday announced

the release of more than 330 people. 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 reduce we'll 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 traditionalist 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 stabilizing capital there are factions that have harbors 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 great 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 key opposition figures are saying that this is an important 1st step whether or not chemical builds on that is a different matter altogether. doctors for us democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders say he had a heart attack elliot this week sanders seen here leaving the hospital after receiving treatment canceled all campaign events after suffering chest pains on choose day the 78 year old was treated for a blocked artery president donald trump has signed

a proclamation preventing immigrants who can't afford health care from entering the country anyone seeking asylum must now show they can obtain health insurance within 30 days of their arrival or demonstrate they have money to pay for medical expenses trump says the move will cut costs and save american citizens money greece's prime minister has accused turkey of trying to exploit europe's migrant crisis during a parliamentary debate mitt so tara case said turkey can and must control migration to europe after a relative 3 year lull more people are again reaching greece by boat the rice has increased pressure on overcrowded migrant camps turkey's foreign minister says his country is being unfairly blamed for the refugee crisis loans on the unfortunately there have been baseless accusations that kate's turkey after there was a small increase in closeness to the greek islands the fact that the french president criticised eternally when he addressed the european council parliamentary

assembly has not accepted a new set of making such accusations we need to say how we can solve the problem together turkey the feeling is supplication to. so and to be in studying the migrate to the roots of humpback whales and other marine species off the coast of french guyana in the atlantic part of that research involves listening to sounds deep underwater at the site of a newly discovered reef system nick clark takes a rare listen in 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 a manned and they don't have to wait long away a list spotted blowing the boats alongside the team heads out on to the water melon headed whales right the bow wave as they go all part of the rich biodiversity of these waters a team what a. 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 one called i feel no condemnation when. 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 that record sounds in water. and that is a song that humpback whale. we now know this is a feeding and the breeding ground for the species. is haunting song and means of

communication between and. in the coming months all the science gathered on board from surface to sea bed will be closely and giving an unprecedented understanding of marine life in an ocean flight like we have is that it and that oceans there is a lot of life and there's more lives than we expected that biodiversity is a source of richness for our planets and for us and we have to be here to preserve it really 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 out of the ocean 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. qatar celebrating gold at the world athletics championships for as well as a round up of day 9. is the toast of del have to winning another high jump world title this time in front of his house. it had gold in the final with a winning effort of 2 meters 37. are seems they made all the more sweeter with him coming back from a 14 month injury layoff to retain the title he won in london 2 years ago. on the track there was a new world record in the women's 400 metres hurdles final america's mohamed taking gold in a time of 52.16 seconds the olympic champion winning her 1st world title sidney mclaughlin who claimed silver also finished inside the previous world record time

elsewhere the bahamas won their 1st gold medal of the championships in the men's 400 meters final statement garder taken the title in time of 43.48 seconds in south carotene won the 3000 meter steeplechase i mean her as to cold in the women's discus day 9 of the championship sees 6 titles decided in the stadium including both the sprint relays the day ends with the final night road race the men's marathon. the headlines on al jazeera iraq has lifted a curfew in the iraqi capital baghdad and other areas which have seen days of violent protests at least $73.00 people have been killed this includes 6 members of the security forces parliament is convening an emergency session to discuss the demands of the protesters imran khan has more from baghdad well there was an incredible amount of criticism from all aspects of iraq the society when the curfew

was brought into place this wasn't just a night on curfew this was a curfew that had no seeming end lost it for 48 hours in the end the cost of the economy people couldn't get to work they can get to offices they couldn't move around the city was enormous it was never a long term or even a short or even a medium term solution to iraq's crisis so the government had little choice but to actually lift it so they could get back to. protests is of gathered in central hong kong despite a rail shutdown and calls to cancel demonstrations on saturday covering their faces an open defiance of a mosque ban imposed by the city's leader kerry lam. us house democrats have subpoenaed the white house for documents related to the president's impeachment inquiry but donald trump says he won't cooperate until the house of representatives votes to approve the investigation court documents revealed that britain's prime

minister boys will send a letter to the e.u. asking for breaks a delay if a deal isn't agreed in 2 weeks time charges in scotland are considering whether johnson could be jailed if he takes the u.k. out of the block without a deal but johnson says he will comply with a new law which forces him to prevent a no deal breaks it on october the 31st. people in pakistani administered kashmir marking 2 months since india ended the special status of indian administered kashmir hundreds of people are marching towards the de facto border the territory has been under a complete lockdown since new delhi took away the region semi autonomy status and arrested local politicians. cameroon's president paul has ordered the release of his main political rival opposition leader maurice was jailed in january for organizing protests in english speaking regions have been fighting for 3 years to break away from the french majority those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story don't go away. recently reelected for

a 2nd 5 year tam. we asked the president of malawi about alleged election fraud and corruption there's been allegations made against you even how corrupt is moloch's the president of malawi pete in missouri can extend al-jazeera. a genuine attempt to bridge the chasm that's how the u.k.'s prime minister describes his breakfast with those in the news they are not convinced but remain open to suggestions so honestly johnson's ideas workable and is the e.u. ready to compromise this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program today with me peter dubey die in a ditch and not extend breck's it his words or deliver on october the 31st

britain's prime minister boris johnson may have to live up to those words very soon that's if the european union does not approve his proposals the e.u. has already said there are problems key is what happens to the border between ireland and northern ireland there are more talks planned for october the 17th but that's just 10 days before boris johnson says leave will mean leave even if it's against the law and the law and now stands with one eye on a possible general election m.p.'s would have to vote for what he wants knowing that the e.u. can ultimately veto the whole thing anyway. do you know what for one moment resign from the fact that we have shown great flexibility in the interests of reaching an accommodation with our european friends and achieving the resolution which we all year if our european neighbors choose not to show

a corresponding willingness to reach a deal then we shall have to leave on october 31st without an agreement. we are ready to do so but that outcome would be a failure of statecraft which all parties would be held responsible ok we'll get the reaction from the e.u. and ireland shortly but 1st here's why this is you has become so very contentious no border checks exist at the moment between ireland and the u.k. and ireland is adamant that's the way it will stay the years economy depends on all of its members being able to trade as if it is one country that would be to jeopardize it if ireland is openly trading with an outside country which the u.k. will become post breck's it or us johnson so-called final offer does suggest a compromise northern ireland gets to stay in the e.u. single market but will have to leave the customs union along with britain if that

doesn't work the proposal would allow northern ireland to vote every 4 years on whether it wants to abide by e.u. trade rules. so how's that gone down with the parties involved european council president donald source says he is quote open but unconvinced to the proposal by the proposal a skepticism shared by the wider e.u. as we have said 7 i think points in the united kingdom's proposal and further work is needed but that needs to be done by the united kingdom and not the other way around we would remind you that it's the u.k. leaving the european union and not the european union leaving. the u.k. and we are doing everything in our power to ensure that that exit is on an orderly basis and we are willing to engage constructively with our counterparts but we're not going to be the ones left holding the bag the ball or any other kind of object meanwhile the irish prime minister. made it clear the current proposals would not

work our objective is very clear we don't want to see any customs posts between north and south nor do we want to see any tariffs or restrictions on trade north and south they were all in the 1990 s. we don't want to go back to the russian the majority of people in the north don't the majority of people in the republic of ireland don't. well the proposals are also struggling to find support in northern ireland but members of the democratic unionist party have defended boris johnson blaming ireland for setting the u.k. on a path to no deal the proposal will be amended the proposal is there the proposal will get the support of the house of commons therefore the european union needs to look very seriously at this proposal to very reasonable proposal and as i say i hope that other european leaders will prevail upon the irish government to to look at this proposal in a sensible and serious way today if they haven't done. ok

let's get going joining us today on inside story from dublin on skype is the nature of recording a professor of politics at the school of law and government dublin city university in brussels we have peter club head of the think tank open europe brussels and in birmingham will be joined by alex the router the director of the center for breakfast studies at birmingham city university welcome to you all do make or in dublin 1st so the e.u. is open but not convinced what has to change to convince the european union. well essentially disposal has been ruled out as the basis for a final agreement what is lacking is these details it's again aspirational it speaks of you know again a fictionalise order which is what we've had for the last quarter century now in ireland and maintaining that despite the wishes united kingdom to leave it to customs union a single market but it lacks the detail on how that can be reconciled and more worrying perhaps is that it it has this mechanism whereby in trying to create the

illusion of sense of north america by saying that if if northern ireland doesn't want to be in. the same regions as the rest united kingdom it can you can opt out but the thing is is that northern ireland doesn't have a sovereign government it has a regional assembly which hasn't met now for almost 3 years and you know it's a comp it's an exercise in conflict resolution in the conflict management and it would give the so essentially 2 long party in norton on the d p which has a close relationship with the serve the party and does not represent majority opinion in northern ireland it's important to stress that northern ireland voted to remain in the european union the vast majority of people in our the north and south are in favor of the backstop which bars johnson's proposals are essentially trying to dismantle but in a way a set that doesn't honor existing commitments that the british were who have entered into just to be clear appear to come up in brussels when we talk about the backstop i'm never quite sure what that actually means what that actually means is

the continued free movement of stuff across a borderless border but staying with you peter in brussels when the irish prime minister ot shipley of iraq could talks about a number of aspects that still need to be fine tuned which which aspects is he talking about. well yesterday for mr hoffa the seats for the car mentioned a number of options as a possible outcome and in and he makes clear deaths the irish government is. is is not prepared to tolerate northern ireland with lease the same customs regime as the e.u. and i find this quite. quite problematic because i think if you look at british politics even the labor party is opposed to customs checks

within the territory of the united kingdom so i think as long as the irish government sticks to its position that's no to not and has to remain in the same customs union asked the e.u. i think that's going to be very problematic what the british government wants to do is to to have fire norton aren't in the same customs union asked the united kingdom so you wouldn't have customs checks between or not and great britain but then of course you would need customs checks between northern ireland and the others public now the proposal of the u.k. government is discussed and checks with only be done at company premises really no that can work but it's going to only work if you exempt small businesses and the european union is not there to do that even if its external customs barrier is actually quite leaky and in practice we have all the flexibility there but the same

flexibility it is not prepared for the sake of peace in in or not and so i think both the irish governments and the e.u. will have to make a move now if they want to deal given that also the u.k. government has moved quite considerably. ok we'll come on to those 2 points that you're raising peter and then a little later let's go to the next to do so in birmingham alex when it comes to the slightly absurd elements of this because critics of boris johnson say what he's proposing with 2 borders is slightly absurd amid a we list on my phone bear with me the number of organizations by my reckoning that are for what mr johnson is proposing or not the d u p yes green tick but we have to build in a health warning as raised by donator shin fein no s.-t. o.-p. no the alliance party no the green party no manufacturing northern ireland no retail northern ireland no northern line retail consortium no c.b.i.

northern ireland no nobody nobody in northern ireland seems to think this will actually work so what's the rabbit out the hat here that boris johnson can come up with between now the next set of talks october the 17th and halloween october 31st . i don't think there is one i think realistically the only options he really has on the table if he wants to reach ritual agreement with the european union is to either go back to to raise a maze final negotiated deal and somehow repackage that to be more palatable to his employees or otherwise revert back to the original offer which effectively put the border down the irish sea i just do not see anything else in the offing here you know when we talk about technological solutions and we talk about tracking vehicles and the like that's all very well when you're operating within the same customs union zone but once you cross that customs barrier you then need to have checkpoints in place and even even norway where people talk about norway being a member of the single market which is kind of what johnson proposes for northern

ireland but norway is not in the customs union with the a you that the white times there on the best of days can still be in the order of 15 minutes and of course the norway sweden border is a quite a small one relative to norway in some sense in terms of the size of those economies the northern ireland border of course you know 300 miles long quite stradley it would just be a recipe for smuggling and contraband so really the any the only thing on the table for him to shoot will be a troll agreement would be to go back to one of those 2 versions of the agreement that was thrashed out over the last year or so failing that it's hard to see then where he goes if he really wants to leave the european union by the 31st of october and the nation brokering in dublin i mean i guess to boil this down mrs may's deal n.p.'s hated it the european union was kind of on board but what mr johnson is proposing is an inverse of that so the european union will hates it but chances are looking at the numbers he might get the parliamentary numbers in the house of

commons in london to get it to fly. well i doubt he'll get numbers in westminster i think that is a mountain that he counts 5 and that's why he's looking for an election before this is is sorted out but but it's correct to say as your previous speaker highlighted that the border in ireland is extremely difficult to to control and it's impossible really to imagine any any workable alternative arrangement to the backstop that might we retain the status quo by the allowing the united kingdom to leave the customs union and single market and that's been at the heart of the problem when there are over 300 crossings between northern ireland and the republic of ireland if you compare that to the eastern flank of the european union if you go to the baltic sea for example to the black sea there are a $147.00 crossings around and there's no recognition in the world provide at least that there's an existence now where you have to separate custom regimes and and yet you don't have a border to the east now but to get bogged down in the issue of trade and transport

is to miss the whole point northern ireland has been a zone arena of conflict for for decades and indeed ireland has been a conflict for centuries and it's not a treaty trade wasn't at the heart of the conflict the pump it was essentially about identity i want to break that has done against the wishes of the people of art and north and south east to restrain the constitutional question and and to take northern ireland out of the same arrangements as the republicans are and against the will of the people of northern ireland and the republic of ireland this is essentially an expression of english nationalism it's nothing to do they do never of all promote about the implications for the situation aren't when the vote took place in 2016 and we are running out of time but why are we running out of time it's true you know how few years since the great referendum took place but no here workable plan has been outlined by to push for much and now with 10 days to the european council meeting we're getting a draft. pages draft with no detail as if it's the basis for some new agreement as

if everything that happened in the last 2 or 3 years didn't happen i thought we weren't. because of these trees amazement as you remember is the same as a member of the same party as far as johnson forest johnson was foreign secretary december 27th with the backstop was initially negotiated and the backstop then was a compromise what he's trying to do is not you know opera compromise the compromise is already there it's a matter of whether it essentially recovered its existing agreements and what it is i'm doctor or grenades and. alex to return in birmingham would you agree with that analysis in as much as the good friday agreement i mean donna has got it right surely the good friday agreement was never about trade it was about in effect respect it's the people who live in ireland respecting the autonomy and the the wishes of the people who live in northern ireland and vice versa but project fear quotes kind of says are boris johnson is endangering the good friday agreement but

you can only in danger of the good friday agreement if those political paymasters who had alliances in allegiances with the paramilitaries actually say to those self same people take up arms again and go back to the troubles of the seventy's and the eighty's but in reality that is never ever going to happen shortly. but i believe couldn't come into america you can never be sure as to what impact the return to our border would have been the moment you start contemplating any kind of installations you may have you talk about customs possibly talk about placing a border with drones as some technological fantasies have been prone to doing you provide a target for disaffected people in society and i think one of the key points here is of course that a you takes its obligations as an opt out of the good friday agreement very seriously and that in turn gets to the wider significance of that which i think is lost on the british public particularly because many people here who object to the e.u. just see it as a vehicle for taking british money and when it's pointed out to them that the e.u.

monies returned to britain will they say to our money we can spend it everyone that's what we should do better misses the wider point the wider point being of course that the european union was a vehicle to promote peace on a shattered and lottery destroyed continent and in the ashes of world war 2 and in a sense that the northern ireland peace process as mirror that in a fashion a colleague from belfast who once said to me and more than a nobody is northern irish other irish or you're british and the thing that the european identity element has done is to try and diffuse that in a fashion is something that both communities could grab onto as an addition element to remain as in particular that european identity as they would put it is being torn away from them and in the case of northern and that it has particular implications for have a province would go forward. put a clip in brussels let's broaden the surface that can boris johnson is hostile to the idea of a customs union it's difficult when you've got countries say like the relationship that alex has already mentioned like norway and sweden where it's half in half out but logic would dictate that boris johnson isn't hostile to the customs union so

his hostility is a function of his political imperative i.e. he wants to be a conservative prime minister again after the next election how's that dynamic going down in brussels for you given that his ambition is vaulting he's only ever wanted to be quote king of the world now here is in his mind i guess if he was a 4 year old again king of the world that's why he wants to stay. what are people in brussels thinking of all this while the diplomats are of course trying to work something out and and and the member states are to a large degree i would say on the on position of the irish government however there are reports from from room work that from some germany was been looking into the possibility to have a time limit. to the backstop that would also be apparently plan b. of boris johnson in case the e.u.

would ultimately reject his compromise proposal now i think ultimately the keys are with the with the irish government and at the moment their position is look at the u.k. can leave the e.u. that's possible it can leave in a in orderly manner with a deal but the condition is that a part of the u.k. norden aren't stace and they're de gustibus the regime of the e.u. which effectively with mean if the u.k. will have an independent trade policy and of course as the world's 5th biggest economy one day that will happen that you would need customs checks insights u.k. territory and i think people have to understand that's not such an unreasonable it's not so unreasonable for the british not just a conservative party but actually also labor to be against that so i think the irish government has to think very deeply if it is actually with its hardline

position not creating a new deal dynamic because ultimately if there is a new deal and i don't think a new view will happen at the end of this month i think it will have an extension instead it's just not my my $0.05 but if there is a new deal at one point that could happen afterwards johnson is for example reelected and has been radicalized because he has to make all kinds of promises to convince bricks of party fodor's in such a cause. thanks are until being a great loser because nothing so much to you k. but its partners in the e.u. belgium the netherlands from sturman it with the irish government to protect. the border in order not and so in this let me just boil that time he truly put that point regarding the not funereal point in any other than donna simon cove near the irish foreign minister being very very tough this past week but the dublin government the t. shirt the red carpet hind the scenes they seem to be signaling actually we might be

able to talk on top of which emanuel mccrone radio silence angela merkel radio silence is there a warming of the mood music to what mr johnson is putting out there not at all and my view what they're trying to do is simply not close the door on on talks they've made it clear that these proposals such as they are and not on the basis of of durable agreement simply because they lack any any detail but at the same time their political enough to know that they can't rule it out of town to specially when it seems that boris johnson is trying to engineer a situation whereby the blame will be put on the european union and the irish government just in relation to what your previous speaker said about it all coming down to the irish government i think that flatters the position of the irish government some of ireland is part of the european union the european union it will see some of these issues not the irish government the irish government as a constituent part of the european union has its views and indeed the only fronts

here learn from the year between united kingdom and ireland will be on the island of arms of course our that is central to this but don't for a moment think that this is not the e.u. decision this is been a an attempt indeed by the conservative government was some time to kind of divide and rule as it were to look at the suggestion that aren't is an outlier that actually the european union is is is really eager to concede to virus johnson's demands but it's the irish somehow that are the stumbling block they are at the one . page on this d.d.e. use parliament steering committee yesterday said that what boris johnson was talking about was not even remotely in the realm of what was or is feasible this is not something that is uniquely irish and i have to say from the long term perspective in arden's this this kind of is eerily retold and of how the border came to exist in the 1st place in 1020 we're now approaching the anniversary of the partition of ireland how was it done it was essentially a private deal between the tory party which tory led government and the unionist

north americans to to and essentially was done to the government of iraq which said in its document that its aim was to achieve united are in a very same document partition ok alex that was in birmingham what you make of boris johnson's kind of calling card of the moment which is let's get bricks it done that was the calling card of the conservative party conference last week some people might say look he's being really really cynical because that the sell the selling point here seems to me to be let's get it over the line let's do it this is stage one and some people are saying stage 2 might take a decade. yes i would think to put it to fully that remark is a bad as instrumentalists being in the kitchen and saying that chop an onion you know what happens at the end of all that the simple answer to that fact is the patrol agreement is only even the beginning of the end to quote the 0 churchill it's just the end of the beginning if we get a withdrawal agreement in place in the improbable possibility of that happening you know in the next few weeks that would just be part one and and b i let's be clear about this people who say they are secure breaks the finke that breaks it should come to an end get breaks it down simply getting withdrawal

agreement in place will not get breakfast it done if we want a new comprehensive economic relationship but the rest of the european union if you look at a relatively simple case such as the canada a year free trade agreement the sita that took a good 8 years of negotiation now it's it entirely different ballgame when you have a member country that wants to leave a wants to have a level of economic integration that just goes beyond simple free trade this process could easily take a decade so people are sick of bricks that now they haven't seen nothing yet and even if the u.k. were to fall out of the european union they would all agreement in place it would then have to begin the process of patching up all those bilateral arrangements that would cover gay sectors such as chemicals aviation medicine food standards and said i want can i ask you all just about all rain and retain a 2nd as they say here is peter coming to you 1st in 10 seconds do you think brics that stage one will happen on october the 31st. i don't think so the e.u.

does not seem to be willing to engage with the compromise so i think words will resign just the example and it will have an election and there will be an extension requested by the government until maybe the 1st of april ok do not broken in dublin do you think bracks that stage one will happen on halloween. no i don't think so i think we're not anywhere near one for that's possible alex how about you. well there was a time when i thought no deal was distinctly possible halloway but now i don't for the simple reason that the bad actors all but ruled that out and i don't think prime minister johnson got to find a way around that so now i think really an extension and the ban act that's a whole different conversation gentlemen the clock as ever has beaten us here on inside story thank you so much your company thanks to all i guess they were the matter or broken piece of clip and professor alex the rooster and thank you to you 2 for your company you can see the show again anytime you want on the website al-jazeera dot com forward slash inside story and for further discussion do go to

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relatives of people who go missing finding closure is often impossible people are meeting here to raise money for the search efforts of the young woman advocates and family members have started to raise awareness about the high rates of violence that disproportionately impact indigenous communities most tribal police departments are understaffed and under resourced another factor is that tribes don't have jurisdiction over non-native americans for all crimes there but a lot of concerns that the federal agencies don't respond that they don't take these crimes seriously a lack of evidence is the main reason federal officials give for declining to prosecute crimes on reservations that should be the end of the discussion. there should be then a ok let's see what went wrong in this case why the is no evidence or why the evidence isn't good enough and make sure that that's not happening yet.

you can't stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world . al-jazeera. drug lives a curfew in the capital of the days of i'm to go to the protest leave at least 73 people dead. baka this is a lot from joe also coming up protests consider it all called off or at all it's a violent demonstrations forced the city. to shut down israel services. us

democrats subpoena the white house with documents related to an impeachment inquiry the president says he won't cooperate. in the highlands of the world athletics championships including a gold mine for qatar and you will record in the 400 meter women's that has. been lifted in the iraqi capital and other areas that have seen days of violent protests at least 73 people have been killed including 6 members of the security forces parliament will hold an emergency session later on saturday to discuss the protests demands. imran khan joins us live now from baghdad emraan what's behind this move to lift the curfew. well there was an awful lot of criticism from all aspects of baghdad society about the curfew itself actually lost it for 48 hours that's certainly the longest either experienced a curfew not been reporting from iraq in

a big way since about 2011 normally the curfews take place overnight the fact that this happened during the day meant that the entire city was paralyzed this is a little bit like shutting the u.s. government shutting new york down it had a very big impact not just on business but on the residence itself there was very little food coming in that was very little feel coming into the city so in the long term in the short term and in fact actually even in the medium term it was unsustainable so they had to lift the curfew at some point now they've lifted it all eyes are on the emergency session of parliament which is due to begin around 10 g. that's about 1 o'clock local time but there's a question mark ne there's a question mark about whether this parliamentary session will even happen to of the main political blocs within the parliament have said they are boycotting the session because they don't believe the government has an agenda it can implement that will satisfy the protesters now that's interesting in itself because

a lot of what the protesters are saying is not about this particular government they're blaming successive governments for the problems of corruption of unemployment of lack of opportunity what they're saying is that the problem is not just with this government it's with the system of governance now if this emergency parliament session doesn't happen then that plays into the hands of the protesters who say it's the system of governance that's the problem not the government however the politicians are squarely blaming this government for the body the former prime minister has said parliament needs to be dissolved the new fresh elections need to be held that's been echoed by an influential shia cleric and also the leader of one of the political blocs he's not turning up at the parliamentary session he said yes we do need fresh elections and this guy. it needs to be dissolved whether any of that happens whether this parliamentary session takes place one thing is absolutely clear the protesters are determined and now the case he's been lifted we are expecting to see more protests later on during the day and into the evening imran

khan in baghdad thank you some protesters have gathered in central hong kong despite a rail shutdown and calls to council saturday's demonstrations the protest as a covering their faces and open defiance of a mosque that the city's leader imposed. has the latest from hong kong protesters called off any marches and rallies that were going to be held on saturday they said to rest up for sunday because sunday they have big plans they say but some came out anyway or maybe just didn't get that message that they were canceled until too late so we have a couple of 1000 you know from causeway bay which is a very main shopping district and now they're walking to a one shot area a couple 1000 there we were with them for private 4 or 5 blocks blocking traffic but they've kind of moved on quickly but again you know this isn't directed fines of what carrie lamb was saying in this video statement i think the way this protest movement is organized is more of an indication of why what happened today happened

it's not really that there are divisions within the movement because it's decentralized there's not one person or one organization one body that really kind of orchestrates everything that's happening it's done by committee if you will so i think what this was is people came out before they canceled the event people came out and they figured we're here let's march anyway and that really feels this march has that organic movement of people u.s. house democrats to subpoena the white house for documents relating to the impeachment inquiry into the president donald trump says he won't cooperate until the house of representatives votes to approve the investigation this comes as text messages have revealed how much pressure ukraine's president has been put on the to investigate trump's political rival joe biden how did you castro has more from washington d.c. . and i want to think you it appears ukrainian leaders clearly understood what president trump meant when he spoke with the ukrainian president by phone in july and asked for a favor the favor was

a ukrainian investigation into trump's political rivals at home the payoff an invitation for president volodymyr zelinsky to visit the white house and the evidence one day before the call kurt volker the former u.s. special envoy to ukraine sent a text message his alinsky aide heard from white house will her rights assuming president z. convinces trump he will investigate get to the bottom of what happened in 2016 we will nail down date for a visit to washington then after the call ukrainian official andre your mac tells us diplomats once we have a date will call for a press briefing announcing among other things barista and election meddling in investigations bryza is the gas company linked to the son of former u.s. vice president joe biden the text messages released by house investigators show u.s. diplomats and tribes personal attorney rudy giuliani continuing to pressure ukraine

to draft a statement announcing an investigation but none was released then in late august the ukrainians learned of trump's decision to withhold nearly $400000000.00 in u.s. military assistance the u.s. ambassador to ukraine bill taylor appeared incredulous texting i think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign the response came from ordinance on land a wealthy hotelier and trump donor who was appointed ambassador to the e.u. i believe you are incorrect about president trump intentions he writes the president has been crystal clear no quid pro quos of any kind there is no bro whoa that was exactly what i saw at that salad bar that. that text defending trump came just as the u.s. media was catching wind of a whistleblower report accusing trump of wrongdoing in his call with the ukrainian president that's what launched the impeachment inquiry now targeting the president

democrats heard from another witness friday the intelligence community inspector general who investigated the whistleblower report but we have evidence of text messages between our state department officials expressing concern as early as may that rudy giuliani had a jew there was a giuliani biting thing going on that had concerned a state department official we have evidence that a state department official was concerned that there was a linkage between security assistance and as he described a domestic political act campaign democrats are trying to build a compelling case for impeachment not only to convince the american public but also senate republicans it would take a swell of republican defectors to remove trump from office and thus far there's only been a trickle. castro al-jazeera capitol hill. secretary of state mike pompei i

was in greece to sign a new defense agreement the deal will establish a new u.s. base near the turkish border that comes as turkey which like greece is a member of nato continues to develop closer relations with moscow that includes its controversial purchase of the russian s 400 missile system well let's cross live now to john psaropoulos in athens so firstly john how strategically important a location is a greece for the united states. when i think the elect. demonstrates is of rising importance in the u.s. view in hours of a 6 day trip 3 of those days will be spent here in greece where secretary pompei arrived last night i think that the mutual defense cooperation agreement which will be signed shortly here in athens and the foreign ministry behind me is going to demonstrate very palpably that the u.s.

wants to upgrade that relationship with greece there's going to be for the 1st time in u.s. greek relations an open ended dca that means it doesn't have to be renewed and ratified by parliament every year or every few years and it's going to include the possibility of the u.s. forces investing in greek military infrastructure across the map in souda bay down in crete where the u.s. 6th fleet is based we expect to see an expansion of birthing facilities so that not only an aircraft carrier but support ships can be serviced and rituals at the same time elsewhere in greece in central greece we expect to see a implementation of an agreement for greece's f. $1685.00 of those aircraft to be upgraded to viper which is the u.s. level of upgrade at the moment and in northern greece in the north eastern border town of alexandria close to turkey we expect to hear that the u.s.

is going to start building a helicopter base which will be for u.s. and allied use that is a strategically important location for greece obviously near its border with its traditional rival turkey. and john as you touch upon all of this is happening at a time when turkish u.s. relations have have somewhat cooled in recent months particularly have a techie's purchase of russian military hardware what kind of signal does this send from athens to ankara. well you're quite right this is partly the result of souring us turkey relations greece is the beneficiary of that troubled relationship greece's being established very much more than it has been in the past as a. east and south eastern backstop within the nato alliance but also an eastern end point within the us alliance. and greece is being

praised if you listen to the diplomatic language in recent months constantly for its stability through its eurozone crisis for its willingness to stick by its atlanticist views the nato of course alliance but also the european union it's being hailed as a pillar of stability that's something that secretary powell. and other diplomats have been saying there is also an energy component to this the united states is very keen to displace russian gas in southeast europe which it sees as a trojan horse for other forms of russian influence and it is keen to promote its exports of liquefied natural gas those exports have already begun to greece and greece is investing in important gas infrastructure throughout the country which will enable it to funnel much of that gas into the southeast european gas network the u.s. .