iran activates its uranium enrichment facility despite warnings and concern from the united states and the e.u. . oh i'm maryam namazie in london you're with al-jazeera also coming up on the program a date is set for the 1st public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump. a slope to be. with the policeman. 8 people a stabbed in an attack in the ancient city of joy rush one of jordan's most well known terrorist sites on the controversial dam project on the river nile foreign ministers from egypt ethiopia and sudan all meet in washington mediation.

or welcome to the program all top story this hour iran has started injecting uranium gas into centrifuges at an underground facility in the country's latest step away from the 2015 nuclear accord a facility will now be cost as an active nuclear site rather than a research plant the u.s. which pulled out of the nuclear deal last year has called the move a big step in the wrong direction the french president says it's a signal iran intends to quit the nuclear agreement altogether dosage of bari has more now from to iran. the foregoing nuclear facility near the city of call me is now fully operational according to iran's atomic energy organization just past midnight the uranium gas has been injected into centrifuges of that site and that is where the rains have said they will start producing. about 5 percent the rain in

present has some rouhani said this measure has been taken this is the 4th step they are taking to scale back their commitment to the nuclear deal of 2015 now this facility the fordo site became a research facility as of january of 2016 under the greens and that is because this is the only site in iran that is able to enrich uranium at 20 percent they were a means have said that they are taking this measure because the european signatories of the way are not upholding their and that the deal and this is the most serious step to they've taken and until the european signatories show that they are committed to this nuclear agreement iran will continue to scale back its commitments but the president has to stress that all these measures they've taken so far are reversible as soon as the european countries show full compliance enrich uranium can be used to make nuclear weapons but the process to enrich it is complex lower budget manly has more on this now. iran is moving away from the 2015

nuclear deal and further enriching uranium now let's take a look at just held this is done you're radium is a mind metal that contains 2 isotopes 99.3 percent is uranium 238 and the rest uranium 235 and it's that much smaller isotope the can release enough energy to fuel a nuclear reactor or a bomb but for that it needs to be enrich and this is done in centrifuges that spin the element 4 senior iranian 235 into the center but that's time consuming and difficult but it becomes easier as the uranium is further refined now before the nuclear deal came into effect iran was a richer in uranium at 20 percent now it's 5 percent which is the nothing for the moment to meet its nuclear fuel needs but it would need between 85 and 90

percent to make a nuclear weapon it's also using more advanced i r 6 centrifuges to enrich uranium faster now the country's leaders say the nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. impeachment proceedings against u.s. president donald trump will reach a critical stage in the coming week the u.s. house intelligence committee has announced it will hold the 1st public hearings in the inquiry with 3 key witnesses to testify now the investigation centers on whether president trump abused his power by withholding aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into his political rival joe biden i think you will see throughout the course of the testimony not only their testimony but many others the . most important facts are largely not contested we are getting increasingly

appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year and the degree to which the president and listed the whole departments of government in an elicit a move trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent as well as further conspiracy theory about the 2016 election that he believed would be beneficial to his reelection campaign why did joe castro joins us live now from washington 1st of all heidi impeachment investigators have released the much anticipated transcripts from mombasa to bill taylor's testimony one of the highlights there was more of we learned about his account of what's alleged to have taken place. sure mariyam so taylor is the current acting ambassador to ukraine and he has served as a guide to impeachment investigators offering a road map that has key dates in conversations and connecting the dots to make this

case that trump withheld u.s. aid from ukraine in hopes of getting a public statement from ukraine that it was investigating his political rivals and the transcript of taylor's testimony says that taylor had a quote clear understanding that this was the case and that the idea for this quid pro quo says taylor came from the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani who was empowered by trying to circumvent the traditional diplomatic government channels in order to carry out this shadow policy that democrats say put the president's personal political interests ahead of the national security interests of the united states now trump has adamantly denied a quid pro quo but witness after witness have come in who have shared a consistent story that this was indeed the case and in fact yesterday we had

a key witness who was the only person to have defended trump before these investigators he actually took back his defense saying that he now recalls that he was the messenger in fact who told you crane officials that without a public statement saying that they were launching investigations into trump's rivals that there would be no u.s. security money now that we're going to see the case for impeachment being made publicly when the house starts holding public in pietschmann hearings in the coming week how anticipated is this there in washington. well this whole thing was down to selling the case to impeach the president to the american public and up until this point that's been difficult because none of the witnesses have spoken directly on camera into americans television sets because all of this has occurred behind closed doors but starting next week with these public

hearings democrats are hoping they have an opportunity to make this compelling case come directly from those witnesses to the american public even given the fact that so far all this information has only been disseminated through journalists are reporting a growing number of americans have said they do support impeaching trump and even removing him from office that number just about 50 percent in fact even 51 percent according to some polls but the problem still is that few republicans want to defect from the president and as we all know it is those republicans who would need to vote to remove him from office thank you very much heidi jocasta in washington well in all the developments u.s. president donald trump is saying that talks went well with officials from egypt ethiopia and sudan of a new dam that's being built on the nile river the african ministers gathered in washington for talks aimed at reducing tensions over the project if you know he has

been building the ground renee zones damn near its border with sudan for 8 is but egypt fears the dam will reduce the flow of water along the river which accounts for nearly 90 percent of its supply mike hanna has more on this now from washington . well it came as a surprise when the foreign ministers arrived in the white house for talks with president trump there'd be no prior notification whatsoever and news of the meeting was only confirmed when the president himself tweeted a photograph with the foreign ministers after the talks had taken place he said that the meeting went well and that discussions would continue the 3 foreign ministers are d.c. for talks under the mediation of the treasury secretary steve newton this 8 here is traced by president trump to head these talks given that this would normally be a function fulfilled by the apartment of state however the talks continue through the day very low profile no media access whatsoever in fact it was never confirmed

where the meeting was taking place how long it took there has been promise of a written statement when the talks conclude however this is a significant shift forward in terms of the fact that the talks between the 3 parties have broken down 3 times since 2014 the important point would appear to be ethiopia's willingness to come to d.c. for a long period of time it insisted there can be no outside mediation if the situation has to be resolved between the 3 parties themselves however the fact that the foreign minister was here in d.c. was speaking to the other 2 foreign ministers and to the mediation of the u.s. treasury secretary a very strong indication that they could be movement of the years of argument if there is a possibility of some kind of agreement in the months to come 8 people have been injured in a knife attack in the jordanian says he had a chair rash 3 mexicans and

a swiss national were among those stabs cities one of the most popular terrorism destinations in the country there is planet smith reports now from the jordanian capital amman. the one is our father is one taurus lies face down apparently bleeding heavily another tries to stop the blood flow. a woman screams in spanish he's got a dagger. witnesses say a man jumped over a fence at the roman city injured and randomly slashed and stomped at people around . it he was heading towards the cafeteria and i was standing by the door behind me while the tourists aleut the men to the cafeteria passed in front of me in a link towards them slipped in instead me then backed away moving towards the policeman he gave the policeman a slight stir and tried to attack him from behind him i pushed him to the ground afterwards all the policemen came and took him. 3 mexicans a swiss and 4 jordanians were injured 2 described as in

a serious condition although everyone is now stable according to jordan's health ministry the. 2 people who are admitted to the operation room of the doctors at the public hospital in georgia are still working the bleeding has stopped the situation is under control and both people are stable them 2 cases were transferred by helicopter to king has seen medical city one was a mexican tourist and the other one was a jordanian guide we pray for them to recover the roman city it is one of jordan's most important tourism attractions more than 300000 people visited last year attacks on tourists. it's one of the most stable countries in the region and that helped boost tourism which generated revenues of around 5000000000 dollars last year that's essential income for a country facing an economic crisis and with youth unemployment at around 40 percent bernard smith al-jazeera. the head of the united nations agency for

palestinian refugees has resigned it's after an investigation highlighted management issues connected with. our diplomatic editor james bays has more from the united nations. piano crack and bullheaded annorah the u.n. agency that helps palestinians for more than 5 years he was widely perceived as one of the un's best communicators yet that from a humanitarian point of view there is one very fundamental difference but in recent months he's been at the center of controversy after allegations of mismanagement involving his inner circle his deputy and his chief of staff quit in july but it's believed his chief advisor maria mohamedi seen here remains in her job a leaked ethics report said she was given a favored position on bull took her on most of his trips using his authority to secure her business class travel their relationship the report said created

a toxic atmosphere the u.n. says after secretary general antonio good terrorists placed mr crack and bill on administrative leave of absence he finally resigned i think it's also important to reiterate that the preliminary findings of the this oil worse report exclude fraud or misappropriation of operational funds by the commission for general they are however managed they were however managerial issues that need to be addressed someone was bumped up to business because they had a very favorable relationship with the commission in general with that amount to misappropriate order in your view i cannot go into further detail at this point i've spoken to ambassadors from many of the main donor countries to under and to those close to the un secretary general is a real feeling of dismay at the way things have worked out there's been a distraction in recent months from the important work the agency does for palestinians one gets the sense from most of them that they would have preferred

the commissioner general to fall on his sword earlier jamesburg days out of the united nations it would al-jazeera life on the national health. so i say come. with us. leaders began campaigning for the u.k.'s general election with bracks a looming launch of the agenda. and nobody just stay on the ground with new concerns now over the safety of their wings. however we've got some wet windy and at times wintry weather coming into the south east of australia at the moment as a cloud rattling through that southeastern corner see the shelter that speckling of just running through victoria and into tasmania further north dry fine it's warm

and sunny brislin gets up to around $32.00 celsius the 30 for sydney on teens from melbourne and also for adelaide i bring to the way perth gets up to 30 celsius adorama saying could touch 34 by friday and wanted to the southeastern corner there is that cool wet weather that's that wet weather as well so we'll see some showers rolling back into a good part of victoria very wet weather blustery showers making their way across tasmania and pushing further east with so it's pushing towards new zealand it will turn increase to wet and windy through the weekend for the next couple days is not too bad a lot of cloud around yes but this of the fair weather for ati at least at the moment 23 celsius the full christchurch tough woman to go into friday and you can see it's largely dry but there is that what's the weather just knocking on the door on the south island for the weekend meanwhile we've got some wet weather making its way into northern parts of japan not see bad at the moment it will sweep through as we go on into friday dry fine and sunny behind.

jail you're at the mercy of the state but in the land of the free shareholders have a stake it is this profit motive that continues to interfere with adequate health care being provided to people who are detained in incarcerated across the country salt mines investigates how the outsourcing of health care in american jails is impacting the lives and deaths of those behind bars sick inside on al-jazeera.

welcome back a look at the headlines now iran's activated an underground uranium enrichment facility in the latest step away from the line mock nuclear deal struck in 2015 a much anticipated 1st public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump will be held next week 3 witnesses are set to give evidence also in other developments out of washington donald trump has held talks over a controversial dam on the river nile a success the u.s. is trying to find an agreement between egypt ethiopia and sudan. 5 weeks of intense political campaigning is underway here in the u.k. ahead of december's general election it's the nation's 2nd election since the 2016 referendum vote to leave the european union albrighton as our. the election campaign is officially on and the prime minister left downing street with the air of a man with no time to waste even using social media to post an election update while

on route to get the queen's approval for the ballots with the royal formalities complete johnson returned to downing street to address the media and lay out his battle plan a stark choice he said between his vision of a u.k. quickly out of the e.u. with a dynamic free market economy and his opponent's plans for high taxation and more breakfast uncertainty come with us get rates down and take this country forward. this is the alternative next year spin the whole of 2020 in a horror show yet. in a newspaper column on whedon's day the prime minister attacked jeremy corbyn the opposition labor party leader for targeting the rich with a vindictiveness not seen since talent but on the campaign trail in the u.k. midlands mr corbyn insisted that britain's richest 5 percent had a moral obligation to pay more together we can do something spectacular we can

transform people's hopes by the inclusiveness he of our campaign and into town and so that communities and painful and not held back and left behind i think it is time for real change again as campaigns go it's been a shaky start for the conservatives in a sign of just how unrestrained this election campaign may become the party posted a doctored social media video of labour's breakfast spokesman kier stammer and then refused to apologize when called out for it. and just moments before the prime minister's speech a letter arrived from cabinet minister alan cance tendering his resignation over allegations which he denies that he lied about his knowledge of a collapsed court case can's was lined up to lead the conservative campaign in wales and his loss is a blow and those setbacks came off the back of controversial and much criticised comments by senior conservatives about the ground felt our fire people but this is

a marathon not a sprint the 2 main parties are being challenged by the climate initiatives of the green party targeted pressure from nigel farraj party to separate his vision from the scottish nationalists and a new optimism from programme main liberal democrats. and liberal democrats by for the full action to win so that we can stop rex it and create a greater future. the next 5 weeks is shipping up to be a no holds barred political scrap an election battle with local and regional twists on the contests whose results will have far reaching consequences across europe and beyond paul brennan al-jazeera and in all a bit of news the saving deputy leader of the opposition labor party has announced he's stepping down and will not be seeking re-election as an m.p. in next month's election in his resignation letter tom watson said the decision was personal not alyssa cole watson has served as deputy for the entire 4 years of jeremy corbin's party leadership. now the environmental groups who launched mass

protests here in london last month have won a court battle with u.k. police a ban on the stench of rebellion demonstrations has been deemed an role full of the group's members should not have been arrested jamal israel has more from central london. a victory for freedom and democracy that's how environmental activist described wednesday's decision by u.k. courts to police ban on their protests was illegal the case was brought by lawyers acting for extinction rebellion a movement of climate change activists behind the so-called autumn uprising a series of protests held across london last month demonstrators have blocked roads and entrances to several key sites and buildings including parliament square the bank of england and london city airports the police made $1828.00 arrests and charged $165.00 people the protests cost the nest are made to $30000000.00 to

police a decision was made to ban all extinction rebellion protests across london with the police citing section 14 of the public order act as justification it's gives you authority as the right to prohibits public assemblies if they believe they may result in serious public disorder or serious damage to property or the life of the community really chalons a member of the european parliament for the green party was herself arrested during the police crackdown today's ruling is incredibly significant actually and it'll have a big impact it's significant because it's about defending the right to public assembly and protest and those rights are fundamental to a functioning democracy the ruling by the high porch not only means that environmental activists can hold similar protests again this time potentially during the current election campaign it's also paves the way for those who were arrested to sue the police for compensation several 100 of the activists who were

arrested on. this ban will now. have the charges against them drops and if they don't have other charges against them they'll be able to sue the police for false imprisonment and they have the right to compensation the police can appeal against the decision but extinction rebellions lawyers say they are ready to continue to fight the extinction rebellion movement said that their protests were designed to raise awareness about the urgent need for action to save the planet today's ruling means that not only can they continue their protests but it's also given their message more probably city. london. now in chile a prosecutor is seeking court approval to investigate 14 police officers for allegedly torturing protesters during the current wave of anti-government unrest it comes as the demonstrations continue for a 25th day of protest as angry at inequality and want to latin america's richest nations president sebastian pinera is now proposing an increase in the minimum wage

to congress the latest in a series of concessions that of so far failed to pacify the protest as our latin america is and you see a new man is in the capital santiago. presidents of us founding it has given his word that any security forces that are found guilty after being investigated of human rights abuses including torture will be brought to justice and punished so far that is there are 14 police officers that are being investigated by the chief prosecutor but the institute of human rights has brought charges or at least is accusing at least $187.00 right now about 100 meters from where i'm standing the police are battling against some looters and some more violent protesters who reached the course started a center that is south america's largest shopping mall and in some ways is sort of like the symbol of opulence in this country a lot of the protesters moved here uptown where i am now and where most of the offices have allowed their staff to leave early because of the protests they've

been moved here to this area from the midtown downtown area where they've been taking place up until now stores are being looted and in fact the headquarters of the party that's one of the conservative parties that belongs to the governing coalition was looted and sacked by some protesters forcing some of the staff to leave through the back exhibit. some news from lebanon protesters in the country have blocked roads and gathered outside government buildings as the wave of demonstrations against the ruling elite is continuing 100 stood outside the ministries of finance education and justice in the capital beirut calling for reform and nationwide protests were ignited in october and that side hariri to resign as prime minister last week there's been no sign of progress towards agreement on a new government meanwhile at least 3 more people have been killed in iraq in capital baghdad as security forces attempted to disperse large anti-government protests there the iraqi human rights council says another 17 people were injured

it comes after 2 protesters were killed overnight in the city of karbala south of the capital all in 260 people of lost their lives across iraq in demonstrations that began last month over corruption and high levels of unemployment. now to mexico one person has been arrested there in connection with the deaths of 9 u.s. citizens off to a suspected drug cartel attack 3 women and 6 children were killed when a gunman opened fire on their cars in the town of. 8 children were found alive after escaping and hiding in the bush officials say it's likely to have been a case of mistaken identity u.s. president all trying has offered to help mexico wipe out drug cartels he says. problems are continuing to mount for the world's largest airplane manufacturer with safety concerns about more of boeing's planes many boeing 737 and g.'s of being grounded after finding cracks in the wings while a whistle blower has pointed out

a potential issue with oxygen on the 787 dreamliner as charlie rangel has more. going once the pride of the skies is facing the turbulent irish budget carry of ryanair is the latest airline to ground some of the boeing 737 n.-g. planes in its fleet after finding cracks between the wings and the fuselage on 3 of their aircraft in the last month 50 boeing 737 n.-g. planes from various airlines around the world have been grounded for the same fault . the small cracks appeared in what's called the pickle forks structures that help secure the wings to the body of the plane components that should last the plane's lifetime there are 7000 boeing 737 n.g.'s flying worldwide currently 1000 have been checked 50 have been found to have these cracks this is something boeing is addressing of course optics wise it's not a good look at the 737 max still grounded world wide and now more problems with the

current and existing 737 the recalled planes are earlier versions of boeing 737 max aircraft a model involved in 2 crashes within 5 months that killed 346 people that entire fleet remained grounded investigations continue. in 2014 hours as they're exposed to quality concerns at boeing south carolina factory in an exclusive investigation using undercover filming it looks at issues concerning another of boeing's aircraft the 787 dreamliner now in a separate development a former quality control engineer alleges that some of the oxygen systems fitted on the dreamliner could be felty boeing admits there was a problem with some oxygen bottles in 2017 but say that was addressed but travel sites are already offering the option to exclude certain aircraft from their searches boeing will have to reconvince the flying public with their safety charlie

on al-jazeera and yet more on boeing and plenty of other stories right here al jazeera dot com. but look at the headlines before we go iran has started injecting iranian gas into centrifuges as an underground facility and the country's country's latest step away from the 2015 landmark care accord the facility will now be cost as an active nucleus i rather than a research plans united states which pulled out of the nuclear deal last year has called the move a big step in the wrong direction french president is saying it's a signal iran intends to quit the nuclear agreement altogether impeachment proceedings against u.s. president donald trump will reach a critical stage in the coming week the u.s. house intelligence committee has announced it will hold the fuzz public hearings in the inquiry with 3 key witnesses to give that testimony investigation centers on

whether president trump abused his power by withholding 80 ukraine in exchange for an investigation into his political rival joe biden i think you will see throughout the course of the test when not only their testimony but many others the. most important facts are largely not contested we are getting increasing appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year and the degree to which the president listed the whole departments of government in an elicit a move trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent as well as further conspiracy theory about the 2016 election that he believes would be beneficial to his reelection campaign meanwhile donald trump says talks went well with officials from egypt ethiopia and sudan of a new dam being built on the nile river ethiopia has been building the ground in

a sense dam near its border with sudan for 8 years but egypt fears the dam will reduce the flow of water along the river which accounts for nearly 90 percent of its supply. and 8 people including 4 terrorists have been stabbed in the jordanian terrorist. authorities say 3 mexican terrorists and one swiss visitor were also injured 4 other people got caught up as well including a jordanian it her guide and a security officer who tried to stop the assailant faultlines is a program coming up next on al-jazeera that will be more news after that that's it for myself in the team here in london stay with us. in 2020 tokyo will host the paralympics. for the nation as a troubled history caring for people with disabilities one i want to. japan's disability share now to the euro.

these grainy images from a chill surveillance camera captured one of the last days of madeline pickens life what do we know about madeleine's final hours day suffer greatly suffer greatly nobody came to her. on april 17th 2014 madeleine was booked on a drug charge at a cio in oregon. that's her slumped down and struggling to stand as her body goes through heroin withdrawal. she died 3 days later after pleading for help from the chelles for profit medical contractor a company called corrosive. she the chaplain from the jail and another police officer.