party as they move forward we've got it election about just a little more than a year away. i think it can really but we've actually talking of the republicans with let's listen in to what the house minority leader kevin mccarthy is saying we now found after the fact that adam shift and his staff actually met with the whistleblower the only person in this congress who knows who the whistleblower is is adam schiff the only person who is withholding the whistleblower from coming forward is adam schiff we look at the phone call for a quick pro quo somebody has to take an action for another there's nothing in that phone call that is wrong or impeachable if you had the transcripts that we've been going for more than 3 weeks that no one's been able to read you would again go forward was wondering why this is moving forward no one is my understanding down there has ever said there was a quid pro quo for the same fear that hamilton said 100 more

than 200 years ago is what watched came forth today so this isn't about the republican party this is about the republic no one should ever go through this again we believe in the rule of law but unfortunately in nancy's house we do not. every single day our government works with another government to solve cases but the president asked for was an open case that the attorney general was already investigating it is nothing about the future it's about something that happened it's something that the entire country wants to know and get to the bottom of that we had just gone through 2 years of a nightmare why did that happen wouldn't you want to know that answer even as a journalist i believe you would be craving to know that answer and yes when we use

taxpayers' money i want their countability. this is precious money that is that is taken from hard tax working taxpayers i want to countability about it and the ukraine did nothing for the money to be released so again when adam shift looked into the american public and lied that he did not know who was and taking us down a new nightmare haven't we learned from the 1st time why will we do this we're one year away from an election yes. and 2 democrats. but the one thing the republicans always believe on show is the truth and we always vote based upon the facts when you want to ask every single democrat who voted today to justify everything that has already happened down in that bunker that they

have not read ask me why they voted that way or why don't you ask the number of democrats who voted for impeachment twice before them all the report ever came forward asked me what was impeachable at that moment ask me every single member of congress that now has a transcript of a phone call what is the impeachable offense so i'll make you this one promise republicans believe in the constitution we believe in the rule of law and that's why we're standing here today and that's why the bipartisan vote in the u.s. house of representatives was no. thank you very much. believe in the rule of law the words there of kevin mccarthy the house minority leader the republican leader in the house of representatives the lower house of the u.s. congress striking a very defiant tone rejecting the process that's been indorsed today and

noting as he said no one should go through this again we believe in the rule of law but in nancy's house we don't let's go back to kimberly hellcat so if there was any if anyone had any expectations that perhaps some of the bipartisanship might decrease that's certainly not. on this play today. you know that's not the case now what could change that is the fact that these hearings now moving forward will be open to the public so what we were talking earlier as i mentioned that the latest polls show that a majority of americans do not want to see president trying out of office with increasing testimony being made public that could change and both parties are keenly aware of that and trying to frame this so you hear the republicans there talking about how the process itself has already been tainted sort other words

whatever you hear moving forward you have to remember that there was also testimony you didn't hear and the president didn't get a chance to defend himself so they're trying to say that this is illegitimate process that it's flawed in fact that's the word that the white house press secretary used in her statement that she released shortly after this vote saying the president has done nothing wrong and dems know it democrats know it and essentially just sort of trying to discredit this process but you hear there from the democrats that they believe that they have a constitutional obligation to conduct oversight that the integrity of the american democracy is its stake and that's why they are taking this so seriously they say that they didn't want to have to have this vote but yet this is how it has moved forward they do hold the majority in the house of representatives it was bipartisan that is a problem for them moving forward because this gives ammunition to the republican opposition party to say this is along party lines this is not what the founding fathers wanted when they set up the republic of the united states that this is

never a process that should have been weaponized and they are accusing the democrats of doing that now all right thanks so much kimberly hawk. firefighters in the u.s. state of california trying to save hundreds of homes threatened by wildfires on the outskirts of los angeles since you have somebody who knows the latest to be hades. homes are being golfed as strong winds continue to whip up flames utility companies have cut power in several areas to help prevent electricity cables from sparking more fire as jay gray has more from simi valley we are inside the command center the staging area right now the fire teams are on high alert the national weather service issuing its 1st ever extreme red flag warning warning about winds that are expected to pick up here in fact forecasters are saying that the conditions this week the fire conditions are the most severe they've seen in

recent history right now more than 26000000 people under red flag warning from california to arizona and those are expected to last through at least thursday the winds are expected to continue to swirl in to the weekend here that's adding stress to these teams that have already been working most 24 hour shifts and for several days on these fires from here in the los angeles area all the way to the north outside of san francisco in wine country where the can fire there the biggest continues to grow more than 100 structures have been damaged hundreds of thousands of people forced from their homes all those numbers they fear will go up with these new conditions fire teams rushing in from it least 10 states to support the effort here to fight the flames it's a fight that's going to continue for quite some time they'll get through the weekend here but still trying to shore up on the front lines and control these

flames the best they can. early 5 months of protests have pushed hong kong's economy into recession the city is now recorded negative growth in 2 consecutive quarters it's the 1st time hong kong this 3rd into recession since the 2008 global financial crisis the u.s. china trade was also slowed the economy. has more from hong kong. as i define this my. question in one column do you think she has to get around 60 only a little to take part in this price started in victoria park and not trying to sense into an area known as $1.00 point from which you can look at like patient for the annual salary question that police have set up checkpoints to monitor this and you will assemble like i described these animal phyla simply around 3000 police have been deployed the protesters are using this particular pride to demand that this anti mosque will be done we want to tell the government that we have the right to wear masks. and i don't think they should just and not just the law and then

just pass all the acts they want it's not against the law i think this is the month of protests in montreal and it's taken its toll on the economy because of this fall into the 1st recession in 10 years retail sales and tourism have plummeted but neither side is showing any signs of compromise more like tests planned this weekend human rights watch report says cia banked afghan forces have committed abuses against civilians which amount to war crimes the group is accusing the troops of committing grave abuses without accountability the report goes on to say the soldiers have done lawfully killed civilians during night raids forcibly disappeared detainees and the tank health care facilities are treating fighters. israeli army has arrested a prominent palestinian politician during a raid on their home in the occupied west bank city of ramallah. gerard is

a former member of the palestinian legislative council she's also a leading figure in the popular front for the liberation of palestine a party that's been banned by israel. plans to reopen schools and universities in lebanon have been cancelled as anti-government protesters continue their sit ins in parts of the capital protesters have been blocking roads in and around beirut calling for political leaders to go prime minister saddle how do we quit on tuesday he's been asked by the president to stay on so hold it has more from beirut. what happened yesterday was that daily life really was returning to normal schools universities were supposed to open today protesters left the streets after the prime minister saddam had announced his resignation but the protest movement was hoping that his resignation will be followed by a decision to create a new government a new government made up of technocrats people who are not affiliated with any

political party in order to carry out much needed reforms and instead the ruling coalition remains stubborn they continue to cling on to power so that is one of the reasons why they returned to the streets but as you can see behind a security presence across the country there are there. are simply opening roads not allowing the protesters to continue to paralyze this country or to cripple the movement they don't want the public life to be disrupted even the lebanese army in a statement was very very clear we are going to continue to allow you to peacefully protest that is your right but you have to protest in. confine yourselves let's say in a public square so the army security forces out in force opening roads but protesters remain just as determined to topple what they say is a ruling class which has been in power for decades ruling class which has been corrupt and mismanaging the country funerals for 11 people killed in protests in

guinea earlier this month have been delayed because the government has not yet released the bodies to the families tens of thousands have been demonstrating against a possible change to the constitution that could allow president alpha condé to seek a 3rd term in power for tory gates and the reports. frustrated relatives wait outside the hospital linking east capital conakry desperate for news of when the bodies of the not ones who'll be released. we came today to collect the bodies but the ministry of health says they not. the to be released the families be mourning for 14 days we want them to give us the bodies for burial the 11 protesters were killed earlier this month during one of a number of demonstrations against president alpha condé. c thousands of people have been marching through the city week after week angry about a possible constitutional change that they say will push me into a dictatorship. they accuse president condé of wanting to hold on to power for

a 3rd term for them 10 years of condé government is enough 81 year old condé 1st came to power in 2018 with gagne's 1st democratic election after more than 50 years of mostly military rule since its independence from france in 1958 fulminate is all worried about the future of guinea under condé marial bai limo i don't have the words to express myself this deception what are we seeing on the ground it could kill politics and give it a funeral the sacred in our tradition our younger brothers were killed how can the family come here 14 days later with no chance to have the funeral. the ministry of health says the delay in releasing the bodies is because it's pathologists have finished performing autopsies which it says will help uncover the real causes and circumstances of their loved ones das these relatives have no faith in that process

and they insist the government is making an already difficult situation even was victoria gayton be al jazeera. all right that brings us to the end of this show a back of the top of the hour with another full bottles of their stay with us here on al-jazeera. too often on the streets of india 1000000 are victims but a new force is that plain. female police officers are combat sexual assault and domestic abuse. but changing society is a challenge and so is life behind the badge for india's. november on al-jazeera. 30 years after the fall of the berlin wall movie looking

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drugs in the usa i will have to make a decision as to when to stop treatment and choose to die so that i can leave my husband with enough the cost of living. is no one way of telling the story keeping is to the right and to be i suspect there is a great way to get to know the person for me to. voting along party lines the u.s. house lays out a path for impeachment hearings against president trump. on sammy's a band this is al jazeera live from also coming up iraq's prime minister promises

to resign but only if a suitable replacement to be found says thousands of protesters returned to the streets of baghdad. gas cooker explodes on a train in pakistan killing at least 70 people. i'm not going to stay in this country any longer if the air i breathe of the water i drink are polluted protesters in lebanon are promising to continue their demonstrations to be entire government is removed and schools and banks remain closed. the u.s. house of representatives has passed a resolution setting rules for the trump and peach inquiry the 1st formal vote on the issue in a divided house the resolution is adopted without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. members voted almost entirely along party

lines for weeks testimony has been conducted behind closed doors these new measures will now make witness appearances public the investigation is focused on allegations the president pressured ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff says democrats take no joy in the impeachment process they will launch shy away from it. we recognize the seriousness of this undertaking. we recognize that we have been compelled by the circumstances to move forward. when a president. abuses his or her office when a president sacrifices the national interest when a president refuses to defend the constitution. and does so for the purpose of advancing a personal or political agenda the founders provided the remedy. and here's what

the top republican leader in the u.s. house kevin mccarthy had to say it's unfortunate in this congress when they go back they'll run on a reelection of having more subpoenas than laws and not trusting the american people to actually have the choice. the vote today was bipartisan not to before we have a speaker of the house who said that impeachment would drive the country apart it have to be bipartisan it was one clear voice and where this congress believes the should go. there's nothing the president did to be impeached it's simply based upon election. president trump tweeted his reaction immediately after the vote saying simply the greatest witch hunt in american history white house correspondent kimberly halkett is live in washington d.c.

the us president i said kimberly they're calling it a witch hunt it's a it's become a usual common theme in his tweets with this time the vote went down very much along partisan lines perhaps something which donald will take some comfort in. yeah and democrats likely won't i think that democrats had been hoping that this would at least attract some republican support in fact we saw at least for a moment there just the opposite 2 democrats opposing formalizing this process later changing their votes they may have voted in error but the bottom line is it went down party lines and that's what the takeaway is here and that's going to make it more challenging for democrats moving forward and republicans have already seized on that they're trying to characterize this as a political witch hunt as you said the u.s. president tweeting his reaction immediately afterwards it was followed by

a statement from the white house press secretary stephanie grisham where she says that the president has done nothing wrong and democrats know it calling the process illegitimate what are they talking about when they see illegitimate they're trying to characterize this entire process move forward even though it will now be formally public as being tainted because already much of it has been conducted the republicans allege in secret what that means is that the president had not had the opportunity to have his counsel present for some of the testimony that had already been heard as so this is what the argument we're hearing from republicans as they try to frame this up is that they say now this whole process is tainted even though the public will now for the 1st time be able to hear with their own ears the case for or against what the president did what are we talking about a july 25th phone call where u.s. president donald trump although the transcript has been released and he says this shows that he did nothing wrong democrats say very much the opposite that what the

president was doing was trying to get one of his political rivals investigated and was withholding military aid to ukraine unless that ukrainian president launched that investigation so this is the case moving forward but as you can see in a divided american a divided congress how you view that telephone call and what should be done about it is being viewed through very 2 very different lenses. will the strength of those favoring impeachment now be the hope that with this moving more into the public eye some of the partisan nature of of everyone stances will erode well that's what democrats are particularly hopeful about because right now the polls are in their favor for impeaching the president you have to remember a u.s. election is just a little more than a year away the argument for republicans has been look at let the voters decide

a year from now don't congress spend public money on something that the voters can decide a year from now but the feeling of democrats is this is so grave this is so serious this is such a threat to the foundations of american democracy that they felt compelled morally to do this to set the precedent so that this can never take place moving forward with any other presidency the question is whether the public feels that way here's what you've got you've got low wages you've got low unemployment people may not necessarily like what's going on in the white house we know that the majority of americans don't like the tweets they don't always like donald trump conduct but they like that they're making a bit more money and so 52 percent of americans while they may not like his conduct don't want to see him removed from office it comes down to kitchen table if issues very selfish perhaps so this is going to be the challenge for democrats moving forward as these hearings are public and open convincing the american public to side with them that the president needs to be impeached and i can believe how could

that thanks so much well michael isikoff is the chief investigative correspondent yeah news and co-author of russian roulette he explains how this vote could get former national security adviser john bolton to testify in the trumpet pietschmann inquiry. there is something significant legally significant about what happened today which is that it does strengthen the democrats' hand in 2 very crucial court hearings coming up as early as this afternoon charles cupper men has gone to court after getting a request to testify saying given that the white house is invoking executive privilege is he regally permitted to go ahead and testify and one of the arguments that's going to be argued in court this afternoon separately there's another court argument about don again who was the white house counsel

during the moeller proceedings who's also the democrats want his testimony as well . having the house formally vote gives the democrats more. ammunition to argue that complements testimony is needed in the impeachment inquiry he was the deputy national security adviser and if the judge in that case judge leonis hearing this argument this afternoon approves that it almost certainly would give a green light to john bolton the national security adviser to testify as well if the democrats get bolton's testimony that could be political dynamite. i saw has appointed our. corps a she as its new leader the armed group chose its new truth after confirming the death of a bottle baghdad. itself during a us raid in the province on sunday and already

a message from the group's media has also confirmed the death of its spokesman. iraqi president barham saleh has addressed the nation in a televised speech he promised he will approve early elections in response to the week's long protests and he said the prime minister is ready to resign if a replacement is agreed the announcement comes as thousands of protesters are back on the streets of baghdad renewing their demands for reform. the prime minister has announced he is prepared to render his resignation and sought an agreement from other political parties where we avoid any constitutional vacuum i want to include civil groups in order to have the aspired reforms within the legal framework and in a manner that preserves public interest peace and security the current situation cannot go on we are truly in need of reform and massive changes. and treasure while

aim has the latest from baghdad. protesters heard this evening from president barham saleh was a kind of yes but yes prime minister ayad mehdi will resign but only after a replacement is agreed upon and no timeframe has been given for when that replacement that successor will be named instead there was a mention that they are reluctant. to step down immediately because there are fears of a quote constitutional vacuum another thing that said there will be elections but not until a new election law can be drafted and a new election can be formulated. said that a draft of a new election law will be presented to the parliament next week again no timeframe has been given as to how long that would take meanwhile mehdi is saying that he is asking political parties are in the parliament to help find

a successor to him it's important to note that mehdi came to power a year ago he's only been in office for a year and a week as prime minister and at that time sami he was considered a consensus candidate or consensus prime minister because there was a lot of wrangling in the parliament as to who should become the next prime minister at least 70 people have been killed in pakistan after a gas stove exploded on a train spunking a huge fire it's the country's worst rail disaster in over a decade the accident happened near the town of rice in the south of punjab province. reports one of the train was. water he says someone give me water because this man is among the dozens of people wounded when a passenger train caught fire in pakistan. to see in addition to those look very good lawyer.