what's more in order to make a. big old guy who goes through a major more sport or with 1000000. brained on the rails. moving on to lebanon where schools and banks have reopened for the 1st time in 2 weeks after anti-government protests rocks the country there is frustration over restrictions imposed by some banks on how much money can be sent abroad protesters are maintaining their demand for the entire government to resign earlier this week prime minister saad hariri handed in his resignation stephanie to has the latest from beirut. so friday a day that saw the reopening the unlocking of the banks to the people it's also seeing schools and universities starting to open their doors in the roads pretty much back to normal so a sense of normalcy is being restored across lebanon but massive questions still remain about how it's going to move forward politically these are essential and important and critical time we now waiting to hear from the president us to set

a date for what they call binding consultations has to do with the political parties putting forward a name of who they want to see as the next prime minister and it could again be sad how d.t. that person then needs to form a government the people want that government to be made of nonpolitical actors of technocrats. are the politicians going to agree are the people going to agree these are all still massive question marks and difficult ones because there is little time these economic reforms need to be implemented and you need a government to do that $11000000000.00 are attached to that something that this country desperately need so even though the protesters will tell you that they're waiting to see time is of the essence there is no denying that if they believe that nothing is being done the nothing is being done false to not that people will again swell in their numbers on the streets start to block the roads again because they say that they want change they want the government to answer to them and they say

that there is no going back well that's plenty more ahead here on this news hour including fares of off the shocks in the philippines after thousands were displaced by a powerful earthquake. dispensing demonstrations what chile is government is doing to end the protests against economic inequality. and formula one reveals a new car design new rules and a bid to revolutionize the sport details coming up with. now the test. many of an aide to acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney in the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump has now been postponed until monday robert blair is among those who listened in on that july 25th phone call between trump and the ukrainian president the postponement comes as u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi has been offering more details about just what happens now that follows monday's vote to move towards public hearings so hopefully as we

go forward with this the clarity of purpose a clarity of procedure a clarity of fact a clarity of troops it's about the truth it's about the constitution we will do so in a way that brings people together that is healing rather than dividing they are trying to impeach the president of the united states less than 13 months before an election based on anonymous walsall blower work with no firsthand knowledge who has a bias against the president it's reported that the whistleblower worked with vice president biden and on it goes the american people see this for what it is because the american people are fair people they are just people they are people with common sense and they will not tolerate this when i was house correspondent candy how trains us now live from washington d.c. can be despite the divisions we've been hearing that things don't look like they're

moving pretty quickly. yeah there's no question that nancy pelosi the house speaker has what she desires to be a tight timeline in terms of these public hearings beginning almost immediately next week and wrapping up potentially as early as the american thanksgiving holiday so the 3rd week of november and then potentially that vote on impeachment in the house of representatives in the months following that so it's not much time that's why we see the white house and particularly the u.s. president already building a case in defense one of their main arguments has been because prior these hearings have been behind closed doors the president has not been able to have his defense counsel present that all changes now but the president already taking this to the court of public opinion we know that he'll be holding a rally in the u.s. state of mississippi later on this evening he'll be leaving from the white house where he often speaks to reporters and also twitter where the president often will talk in the early mornings friday this morning not any exception to that the

president tweeting that he believes the public is watching seeing for themselves how just unfair this process is he says he's called the democrats corrupt accusing them of trying to take down the republican party and also accusing the house intelligence chair that is leading this impeachment inquiry adam schiff calling him shifty shift isn't the word to use this time but in this time he's pointing to him saying that he's on a power trip well in the defense of democrats they say that this is a pivotal moment in american history that there is fear that a precedent could be set that future presidents unless they hold this president accountable maybe not adhere to the cost of tuition responsibilities of this office in terms of its presidential power so that's where they are pressing forward with this impeachment inquiry at the end of the day the public right now pretty evenly split on whether or not this president should be impeached but moving forward as these testimonies now become public the question will become whether or not that needle moves can be how but there are white house correspondents across all those

developments for us thank you came by me. i also spoke to steve clemons he's the host of the bottom line that's al jazeera is new we can show he's also of the washington editor at large at the hill and he says the impeachment problem is pressuring the republican posse. we've seen 2 behaviors from republicans we've seen republicans stand together in voting against what was largely the beginning of a process in a procedure on impeachment rather then voting on the content and the substance of the president's behavior and these are 2 different things so to some degree this vote that we just saw that saw 2 democrats defect in all the republicans voted against the impeachment process beginning was one that was a free vote for people because it doesn't indict the president we don't go forward it just initiates the process many republican senators have begun to tell mitch mcconnell that they in the senate that they would not be pleased if he moved to

just dismiss these charges that the information that is coming out has greater gravity so we see 2 impulses one this substance may become a problem for the republicans and you may see some republican defense defections down the road that's what some of these foreshocks mean but right now every republican that i can think of perhaps other than maybe mitt romney in the senate is basically saying they can get away with voting and you know on the process and quibbling about that. a day off of the southern philippines was struck by a powerful earthquake people are worried about that the magistrate 6.5 quake struck on thursday telling at least 5 people it was the 3rd powerful quake to strike the philippines in just 2 weeks about 12000 people are now staying in shelters on the island of mindanao there was another earthquake on friday off the southern coast but no reports of injuries or damage that to let him die again has little from north cut to battle. we are outside this chick hospital of town in north of the

province where the situation is clearly difficult the devastation of the building brought about by the series of earthquake this month has forced doctors to attend to patients right outside the hospital and they're very difficult conditions extreme heat and basically according to doctors there's a shortage of medicine and water here there's stockpiles of medicine have been stuck inside that pharmacy and they have no way of getting it for now they say they need help because the situation is getting even more difficult with hourly aftershocks and more patients coming in and. most of the patients here are old people and some of them even tell us they were not able to run fast enough when the earthquake struck many of them are being treated for minor injuries here and those with serious injuries have been brought to the city the biggest city closest to

north about the province and beyond the immediate need of medical food and water patients you tell us they're also worried about the long term impact of this earthquake many of them have lost their homes and their livelihood and they're hoping for a promise from the government of assistance beyond just now this week also but in the coming years to come for them now hong kong protesters have taken advantage of halloween to defy a ban on wearing mosques demonstrations were held in a busy district with police using shields and tear gas to disperse the crowds and government demonstrators have been protesting against the ban on face coverings that came into effect last month protests have now arranged for 5 months of a chinese mainland influence in the territories affairs. well a military offensive is underway in colombia to find the gunman responsible for the murders of 10 people including 5 indigenous leaders in the southwestern province as

of kalka it's believed that a dissident faction of the far demobilized rebel group is responsible for those killings and has a. caravan of grief. governor. christine about that was the top spiritual leader of this semi autonomous indigenous reservation in the southwestern province of kalka. noise she always fought against the presence of weapons in our territory against drug trafficking and working to strengthen our process. she was killed on tuesday together with 4 indigenous guards by armed groups who profit from the drug trafficking of cocaine and maybe one in this conflict or even region criminal groups she openly confronted him was to the armed groups i want to say this is our house and dorothy's we tell you you are not welcome here. the colombian government is blaming at this event faction of the

now demobilized rebel group fight for demurred. the attackers crippled the governor sky with bullets in a grenade as the community tried to stop them from entering their territory 6 other men were wounded. others caught up in via tak to save themselves by jumping off this cliff president to travel to the region to condemn the attack and announce to the ploy mentor of $2500.00 troops to the region that amid the laws clearly the murderers and those responsible for this crime a drug trafficking organizations dissidents outcasts what they want is to maintain the drug traffic light business and seek to silence me and digitals communities. yet his announcement rang hollow for many here trade center attacks have increased since the signing of the peace deal with fark in 2016120 indigenous people have been killed in the last 14 months there's anger and fear among the community most

believe the government's response has been too little too late and could even prove to be counterproductive but i know this is useless it will only bring more violence more conflict and more did you know military presence is not the solution the solution is social investment in the communities to in the need for drug trafficking for the people of that where you know their response to their repeated calls for help has been inadequate leaving them mourning the dead of their last tragedy and wondering who will be next i listen to them. i think where you. know hundreds of people have descended on the international monetary fund building and one is aires demanding that the organization leave argentina protesters want the government to spend money tackling poverty instead of paying the country's debts argentina is facing a deepening economic crisis and it was a record $57000000000.00 to the i.m.f. but chile is government says the damage caused by 2 weeks of unrest there has

surpassed a $1000000000.00 to major silence to be held in santiago have now been cancelled and despite a 2 day public holiday the demonstrations for social reforms are continuing at last in america at least in u.n. reports from santiago. but there is a little anecdotes fernandes are locking up their hardware store in downtown santiago after taking out everything was shaving. we invested all we had in this store but there hasn't been a single day without looting we've lost 60 percent of our income. we have commitments bills taxes and salaries to pay i don't know how we'll manage. until 2 weeks ago chile was the envy of the. home to the so-called chilean economic miracle. but an explosion of social unrest has changed all that. most demonstrations are peaceful who did an extremely violent groups all over the

country have been burning and pillaging private and public property. that includes this emblematic public library that was just ransacked. until now the vandals have respected our center but yesterday they went too far they took the books and everything. the damage so far has well surpassed a $1000000000.00 according to the government tourism is also being devastated not just because of the cancellation of the cop $25.00 and the apec summit which would have pumped millions of dollars into the economy in this area for example downtown shops have been burned down even a hotel seriously damaging to its reputation as that america's safest and wholeness country. many shopping centers and hundreds of damaged supermarkets remain shut along with small businesses all of which will impact jobs.

because the small companies. employ the would reflect people the government will have to. measure. congress has in fact passed a bill and lightning speed freezing electricity prices until the end of next year and obliging power companies to reverse a 10 percent tariff hike that when to do effect this month. it won't be enough to appease the widespread demands for profound social and economic reforms but to many it's proved that their politicians will only listen when they are under extreme pressure. on. still ahead on al-jazeera an investigation in the u.k. asks why the security services appear to have missed warning signs ahead of the 2017 london french attack. and houses and the line of fire thousands are forced

from their homes in the u.s. state of california. i'm paul reese and yokohama way england will take on south africa and the rugby world cup final and a match that could take the sport far beyond its traditional heartlands. hello ghana welcome back well here across the northeastern part of turkey we are going to see quite a few clouds pushing into the higher elevations and that means it's going to be rain in the lower elevations as well as snow up into the higher elevations as we go into sunday so overnight lows are going to be dropping down below freezing but during the day should be coming back up for about cooler though that means some rainy conditions and some cooler conditions you with the temper there of 15 degrees but down towards the self in kuwait city we do expect to see a nice day at 28 well here across the gulf of course we have been watching all

tropical cyclone that system is still causing a few problems down here across the coast of amman now the system has weakened to a tropical depression but maybe some clouds maybe some rain coming into us a lot over the next few days up towards miska out though finally some nicer weather for you with a temperature of $31.00 but we are going to be watching the troubles like clone in the arabian sea and that is going to bring some clouds as we go into the weekend and then here across parts of southern africa it is going to be quite nice in the interior but over here across the coastal areas for durban that does mean some clouds for you as we go into saturday johannesburg at $22.00 degrees but down towards cape town it is going to be the winds and we are going to be some sun at 20 but for her you expect to see attempters come up with plenty of sun at 32. too often on the streets of india. are victims but a new force is at play. female police officers are combative

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hello again i missed. a reminder of our top stories this hour turkish and russian troops have stars and joint patrols in northeastern syria's so-called safe certain it follows a deal to remove kurdish y p g fight is to a distance of 30 kilometers south of the border. thousands of people protesting against pakistan's government have started to rally in the capital a convoy dominated by supporters of a conservative opposition party has been about on thursday demanding that prime minister imran khan resign and after weeks of protests and roadblocks across lebanon schools and banks have reopened their doors there has been some concern over funds being sent abroad because of reports that some banks may impose restrictions. now google is taking an expensive step into the health and fitness

trackers market buying fitbit for just over $2000000000.00 fitbit is a pioneer in wearable technology that has been hit by competition google's takeover depends on approval from regulates is 5th it says it's never sold people's personal health data and that one change well together more of a perspective on this let's speak to matt laurie maggot who's a technology analyst and the c.e.o. of connect safe he joins us live now from mountain view in california that's where google has its head courses laurie took us through google's thinking here because 2100000000 dollars is more than fit bits market value so is this about money or is it about the data. well it's probably about the data and it's also probably about entering a new market so there are android watches but they're not made by google and apple have competing obviously i think the google is obviously competing with apple now fitbit is a fitness band it's not technically

a direct competitor to the apple watch but there are model the fitbit which have essentially most of the features of the op watch certainly many of them and there is the potential for fit to evolve into a much more advanced product competing with the apple watch also offering such things as a for be a lace and electrocardiogram monitoring things of that nature which makes it not just a fit if device but it helped devise a health device but as you point out there's a lot of data that can be gleaned from all of these people wearing these devices including things like their heart rate and their fitness activity than their sleeping patterns oh merriman last year there was that controversy about straw that was the fitness app that basically revealed the location of sensitive u.s. army bases because its personnel were sharing information on their on their different track as i guess about their workouts so i guess once i strap on a health track it has access to a whole load of information about me i magine much more than i possibly intends to share. and much more intimate information than you would normally get from

typical kind of quasi invasive devices or web services because it it did literally measuring your heart rate your sleeping patterns your exercise your location and potentially far more of it gets into more health field so there is the concern now as you mentioned google did say or fit bits that did say that they are going to continue their strong privacy regulations and they would not merge their data with google ads but going forward one doesn't know what could happen in the future but it is a concern i think that privacy and security of course is a concern here and what could i do if i didn't want my information shared if i'm wearing if it gets i'm concerned about this i want to secure my days and what can i do. well i have to look at what procedure they do typically they're offending which allow you to limit some of the information they be shared and of course the other thing you could do if you use it in an offline manner not sink it with your phone and not allow the data to go up to the google servers but that

would greatly limit what the device would do for you so if you want to take full advantage of the device chances are you're going to have to share at least some of your data and larry because google is just so huge doesn't mean that if this does all go ahead that there will be more scrutiny about what it does with all this data we are already seeing regulators take a closer look at the steel so what what more might we see in terms of scrutiny oh i could easily see the u.s. congress being very concerned over this issue from may exaggerate the danger others may not so much but i definitely think regulator if they could fearne to because again you're putting a lot of very very personal data in the hands of a company that has already shown itself to be fucking up a great deal of data about if our location or search patterns or what not now they know our heart beat our sleeping patterns and even more about our location and yes it's all a matter of trust while larry magid there and the technology analyst and c.e.o. of connect safely dot all thanks for joining us on al-jazeera thank you.

now the need of the u.k.'s bricks and party has offered to help prime minister barak's johnson win the december election but only if he abandons his withdrawal deal with the european union for more let's cross to bob or sara he's in our european the center. that's as if thank you yes nigel farage opened his election campaign by threatening to run candidates in every seat against the conservative party if the bracks a deal isn't dropped for our says the agreement continues to follow any call for boris johnson to forge an electrolyte if parker explains. the odds in according to bookmakers prime minister boris johnson's conservative party will win britain's general election but don't count on anything and to nigel for a leader if they break that policy he wants to leave the e.u. without a deal and now wants johnson to ditch his brakes a plan and build

a leave alliance can johnson's deal agreed with the e.u. last month to a used car just enough to break down i'm going to say this or is johnson drop the deal. drop the deal because it's not. drop the deal because as these weeks go by and people discover what it is that you've signed up to very will not like it ferocious proposer non-aggression pact with johnson he wants the conservatives not to stand in 150 different constituencies where they've never won he thinks his party can do much better especially in constituencies under labor control where the majority of people voted to leave the e.u. thompson has until november the 14th to accept the practice of politics terms johnson's consistently ruled out a pact with the party if the breaks a party stands against the conservatives it could split the leave vote in individual constituencies to risk having many seats to other parties and to be

honest with you this person who definitely backs a pact is the us president donald trump who had this to say during an appearance on my show for raja's radio show every year and he get together. and stoppable force and corbin would be so bad for your country he'd be so bad he'd take you in such a bad way he'd take you in just such bad places the labor leaders accused trump of meddling in british politics and trying to buy britain's treasured national health service at a trade deal from denies this. on the other side of the break that debate pro remain parties are also in talks the liberal democrats green party and others could agree to avoid running against each other to ensure m.p.'s who back a 2nd breaks at referendum are elected oh. forget conventional calculations this will be no ordinary folk need barca al-jazeera westminster. an inquest

into the 2017 london bridge attacks as raise concerns of a policy within britain security services the chief coroner has questioned why a priority investigation into that ring leader was suspended prior to the june attacks which left 8 people dead for a challenge as more. these barriers were in place in june 2017 when 3 man hired a van and drove it into pedestrians on london bridge before jumping out and stabbing anyone they could now chief coroner mark blue cross prevention of future death report isn't a damning document by any means but it does raise numerous concerns and make recommendations to security service m i 5 could be enormous room with one of the attackers carom parts because the incidents were to drop the investigation a couple of times to reallocate reserves he says the m i 5 and counterterrorism police should communicate better with each other and the way the wonderful sites

are identified could be tightened up london bridge wasn't considered to be one if it had been maybe those barriers would already have been in place for the car and also on the concerns that the police had kept medics away from the injured for too long he says that in the main those who could be saved and were saved and of the police have medics back because some areas are still considered too dangerous for the recommends the london ambulance service and police talk better with each other and that some police are given better training in providing medical assistance to the injured he also says that there should be new laws in possessing the most serious material that as he puts it glorifies or encourages terrorism. a 2nd man from northern ireland has been charged with manslaughter in connection to the deaths of 39 people found in a truck container near london last week 23 year old a man harrison appeared in court on $441.00 charges in total including conspiracy

to commit human trafficking and the say. unlawful immigration another man was charged on monday with similar offenses harrison a suspect that have delivered the container to zeebrugge in belgium before its journey to britain meanwhile police in vietnam have arrested 2 people in connection with the incident. russia's supreme court has ordered the closure of a prominent human rights group according to the state news agency the justice ministry accuse the organization for human rights of breaching technicalities such as not registering as a foreign agent and there are 2012 lol the group used to be close to the government and even received state funding but ties were cut a few years ago as the group's founder became an increasingly vocal critic of the kremlin. the un has confirmed the next month's climate change summit will be held in madrid after chile pulled out as host because of ongoing anti-government protests earlier this week that u.n. presidents have a stent pineda canceled plans to hold that the semper cop 25 summit saying his

priority was to restore order after weeks of violent demonstrations spain's by the sanchez offered to step in at short notice or leaders are hoping to agree on how to implement details of the paris agreement as calls grow for urgent action on climate change. is it from the team in london let's go back in the doha. thanks barbara well timber exports are resuming in sierra leone as the government there tries to make up for low and mining revenue but environmentalists say well under 10 years of reforestation efforts reports. another forest giant comes to the chainsaw. this tree took about 25 years to grow. but less than a minute to bring down. the rosewood is most preferred by loggers across forests in several of these majestic trees are

being cut down illegally to meet an increasing demand for timber. or to say they are struggling to enforce the law we had to cut by. in adequate and intense shortages in our ranges to amend the forest so what we've done is to design programs where in the future of forest as we have to target areas that are prevalent in or not to go. and have listed. where joined mahogany trees once to all these past brush and undergrowth are left environmentalists estimate that all the 3 percent of sterile yards forest cover the remains still bleeding from the cut its young trees like this that are being targeted by loggers simply because the giants of the forests are gone and environmentally sound warning that in a short while there won't be trees this size to be cut anymore.

near the port here in the capital freetown the timbers prepared for export to china officials say large scale logging is not presuming it but the timber is exported to stop it from rotting away. resumption of office we came or were met a situation wherein there are a huge backlog of timbers that were already have a stead sit in the bush and some actually started going bad and a case was made to government to lift a temporary ban on the exploitation of timber access to allow those who are actually invested in. the timber production to allow them to all too little export their woods or the logs so that is in place and the process is still ongoing. these forests are slowly transforming into grasslands environmentalists say with the level of deforestation so even the shrubs will disappear they argue that the

decision to leave the timber export by and temporarily set back the gains of the past 10 years to regenerate the forest initiative 3 years of this country will never get them back once they are gone a new species some endemic you can't find them anywhere around the world except incidentally if we lose those in the me species and we've lost the whole world have lost something it's clear those concerns for now i know by loggers was only focus is the money they get in a country where it's a struggle to earn enough to survive. more than 70. now a stray is a national carrier quantas has grounded 3 of its planes after cracks were found in their wings the airline said complex repair work is needed on its boeing.