the impeachment inquiry against president donald trump moves into a new phase with public hearings the stop next week. law and have them seek it this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up spying for saudi arabia to form a twitter employees are charged in the u.s. for snooping into accounts of the kingdom's critics. like those people destroyed on lives victims in the democratic republic of congo speak out ahead of the sentencing

of a rebel leader convicted of war crimes. and facing further turbulence as boeing is ordered to ground more jets. the impeachment inquiry into donald trump is stepping up again televised hearings are starting next week america's top diplomat in ukraine william taylor will be one of the 1st to appear he had said in an earlier closed door testimony it was his clear understanding that the president had withheld military aid to ukraine in return for kiev investigating his political rival joe biden and his son that testimony matches other witnesses including the u.s. ambassador to the european union 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 an increasing 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 the illicit aim of trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent as well as further conspiracy theory about the 26000 election that he believed would be beneficial to his reelection campaign. castro has more on this now from washington. bill taylor is the acting ambassador to ukraine and for impeachment investigators he served as a guide giving the road map with conversations dates and people connecting the dots to make this case to investigators that trump use the power of his office to try to get ukraine to help him with his political campaign for reelection now taylor testified behind closed doors 2 weeks ago but according to the transcript

that was just released he said he had a clear understanding that there was a quid pro quo and he said the idea for this came from trump's private attorney who was empowered by the president to circumvent regular diplomatic channels in order to carry out this foreign policy in ukraine that prioritize trumps political interests above that of national security now moving forward investigators have announced that public hearings will begin taking place next week which is at the key of what democrats who are trying to impeach president trump want to accomplish they want more members of the american public to hear the case for impeaching the president from these witnesses themselves up until this point all of the hearings have happened behind closed doors so the information to americans have has come through hundreds of journalists but even up to this point there's a growing number of americans who according to polls do support impeaching him even

removing trump from office that number is hovering right around 50 percent democrats are hoping that if they can get a clear majority of the public to support them to impeach the president then perhaps they can make a convincing argument to their republican colleagues in the senate who ultimately will be deciding the president's guilt or innocence and perhaps remove him from office. john marshall is an assistant professor at northwestern university and author of watergate's legacy and the press the investigative impulse he says the public inquiry is mark a significant new phase in the investigation what i think we're going to see happen is the inquiry turned from an investigation stage primarily to more of a performance stage now that we have some of the transcripts coming out people are so seeing it with with their eyes the words that the witnesses have been saying and

then what next week when the live hearings start which will be televised and i'm sure streamed all over social media people are going to see for themselves the witnesses and hear for themselves the words and whether the chairman shift and chairman navl or i can run hearings that are persuasive to the public and perform in a way that makes the impeachment inquiry seem like it's a fair and thorough process that could really sway public opinion in contrast if the house republicans are able to perform in a way to try to make the impeachment process seem like it's chaotic and unfair and i'm sure they're going to call it a circus then that is going to probably stop public opinion shifting enough to persuade enough republicans to vote in favor of impeachment. or 2 former twitter

employees have been charged with spying for saudi arabia a complaint unsealed in a san francisco district court alleges the pair accessed personal information of more than $6000.00 twitter uses they include prominent critics of the saudi royal family the prosecutors say the employees an american and a saudi were rewarded with a design a watch and tens of thousands of dollars in secret bank accounts they have been charged for acting as agents of riyadh without registering with the u.s. government a 3rd man a saudi has also been charged in the case rob reynolds has details. the justice department announced in san francisco that it had arrested 2 former engineers for twitter they were charged with spying for the saudi arabian government and passing on information about dissidents and people who made true critical remarks on twitter about the saudi regime a 3rd person who was a saudi national was also arrested he is believed or alleged to have been the go

between between the passing on the information those engineers gathered and the sending it to the saudi officials the defacto ruler of the kingdom of saudi arabia crown prince mohammed bin samana is actually mentioned in this criminal complaint although he is only referred to as royal family member number one it is believed that one of the twitter engineers flew to washington d.c. in 2015 right around the time that crown prince mohammed bin solomon was rapidly rising to his powerful status that he enjoys today and met with a member of the royal family and shortly after that the spying commenced the spies gather all sorts of information about people making critical comments about the saudi government including their e-mail addresses their ip addresses their dates of birth and so forth among the thousands of accounts that were breached was

one belonging to a prominent saudi dissident omar abdel aziz he was close to the washington post journalist jamal khashoggi who of course as we know was murdered in the saudi consulate in istanbul a little over 'd a year ago by saudi state agents according to multiple intelligence agencies several people have been killed after an attack on a porch in west in yemen and. the iran backed who the rebels have been blamed for launching missiles in drones of the red sea port of their fighting a saudi iraqi led coalition that's backing yemen's internationally recognized government it is the 1st major attack in the region since saudi arabia's around co all facilities were hit in september iran was blamed for those strikes though it denied any involvement at least $47.00 people have been killed after an attack on

mining employees in booking a fast so a convoy carrying star from a canadian own mine was targeted in the east they were being xcor to that by the military fighting with groups linked to i saw an al qaeda has surged in the last year killing hundreds of people on monday france announced the deployment of more ground troops. well still ahead on al-jazeera a rare attack on foreigners in jordan raising concerns about the future of the country's tourism industry and beyond the blackout iraqi protesters find new ways to spread their message. the weather's lost the set fabric cross the middle east at the moment the great

surprise is here that a cloud they're just about afghanistan pushing ever towards to where they stand is back to stop try and find for the most part that a bit of clout there just around the caspian sea but i think we'll see too much in the way of any weapons being squeezed out of this tyrant of around 18 degrees celsius with 10 degrees higher than that in beirut $28.00 celsius looking pretty good there across that eastern side of the mediterranean over the next few days central areas of the region baghdad and kuwait city right around $2930.00 degrees some attempt to 2 full karate since i should say maybe a touch warmer there here in doha where it 32 celsius across the reagan peninsula fine dry and sunny does largely somethings up we might just see a little bit of cloud there maybe your spot of right mc that northeastern corner saudi arabia just around the south of kuwait so maybe the old shots are just around the gulf of aden but for the most part there is a good deal of dry fine and sunny weather drive on a sunny to across

a good part of my sampai cased in parts the 1st south africa seen some very heavy rainfall recently just around 25 celsius go on into friday it brightens up further with the top temperature 20. whether sponsored by catalona. or you. how does the inquisition where their online life basements will see them directly all translated slavery or if you join us on sand this is an attack on academic freedom and on our ability to do research and teach freely this is a dialogue myanmar's not making it very welcoming for people to come about everyone has a voice in the changes through all the discourse in this world and i'm here to talk about the solutions on al-jazeera.

hello again you're watching it is the a reminder of our top stories this hour the united states top diplomat in ukraine says he had a clear understanding military aid for kiev was tied to an investigation into president trump's political rivals william taylor will be one of the 1st witnesses to appear in public hearings shadowed for next week. the u.s. justice department has charged 2 former twitter employees with spying for saudi arabia they're accused of accessing the accounts of thousands of users including prominent critics of the saudi government. yemen's government says routine rebels have fired missiles at the red sea port of. at least 8 people are reported to have been killed it was the biggest attack since september. 8 people have been injured in a knife attack in the jordanian city of jeddah ash

a popular tourism spot 3 mexicans and a swiss national were among those stab bernard smith reports from amen. the one is the other as one tourist 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 in general and randomly slashed and stabbed at people around. you was heading towards the care for tear and i was standing by the door behind me while the tourists a little men to the cafeteria passed in front of me and a link towards them slipped in instead me then backed away moving towards the policeman he gave the policeman a slight stare 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 only way to both of them is you've been to 2 people who are admitted to the operation room of the doctors at the public hospital in georgia still working on 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 are rare 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. jordanian authorities say the suspect is a young man from

a palestinian refugee camp his father says the family is in shock. we were about to faint may god not bless him because the one who commits this act is a psycho what fault as a tourist have i told to many times the tourist has no fault they are peaceful they are coming here to enjoy their time. there are you will do it my message is that anyone who commits such an act should be hanged kill him and get rid of him we do not need him i now have 3 sons not for. iraq's capital is facing an internet blackout for 2nd straight day the military says social media sites are poisoning the minds of youth attaching the name reports from bank debt. each day since the protests began hider raw it has been working this stretch near tahrir square selling iraqi flags good less than a dollar each the teenager dropped out of school when he was 8 to help support his family he says typically he would stand on a main street in the capital all day selling water but with iraqis he tree out it

fervor flags have become big business is what we want a new country better than this one rwanda. he killed young men every time young people come to buy flags and go back they start shooting live ammunition suffa serai is one of the nearly $280.00 protesters killed in iraq since october 1st protesters say they're fed up with corruption and a lack of jobs and they're demanding the government's resignation surprise friend say a tear gas canister he's had last week while he was trying to protect other protesters under attack on a nearby bridge. it has affected us greatly he was an irreplaceable person because he was educated and had a strong impact on the street especially among young people the process. testers have started a radio station and are publishing at this newspaper is on top after the automated

rickshaws that are transporting the wounded medics and supplies in and out of tucker square with the internet blackout the last few days they've been forced offline and are now printing these old fashioned newspapers it's a way for iraq ease to create a document of their experiences. walking the internet is a catastrophe it's equal to oppressing shooting and killing your thirties have totally isolated us from the world and started killing us a spokesman with the iraqi military says social media sites are showing killing and hatred that are poisoning the minds of youth almost daily men entire career stop to tell us if they died during these protests at least they would have achieved something greater than the dead end existence they've been living in. baghdad. a protest is in lebanon

a blocked roads and gathered outside government buildings in beirut as demonstrations against the ruling elite continue the nationwide protests began in october forcing prime minister santai levy to resign but there's been no sign of progress towards an agreement on a new government. a chilling chief prosecutor has charged 14 police officers with torturing protests these demonstrations against the government are now in their 20th day and there's anger over inequality in one of latin america's richest nations latin america and it's only seen human reports now from santiago. the charges against 14 police officers accused of torture are seen as a positive sign but the institute of human rights here until he says that there are least another $120.00 who are being investigated for fortune that they hope authorities will follow through in those investigations in the meantime president at last campaign is approving or trying to fast track proposals reforms to try to

appease the protest the latest bill sent to quell wish raising the minimum wage by 16.7 percent that would be subsidized by the state by the taxpayers not by. employers rather but that has certainly not satisfied both the protesters who came out in force yet again it's hurting to this neighborhood this is an upper class neighborhood if you like the more affluent part of the protests continued in this area and some of them asked people who have been causing violence and becoming more bold some of them attacked the headquarters of the of the party that's one of the most conservative parties that belongs to the ruling government coalition while another group attacked a police station and at least 3 officers were seriously injured and taken to hospital a french police have now started dismantling migrant camps as part of the new crackdown live pictures you're looking at from power. right now the government says

it wants to put limits on the number of illegal immigrants the move is seen as an attempt to win over voters from the far right. as more from powers. after french capital meeting in paris france's prime minister edouard felipe announced a raft of new measures aimed at tightening the country's immigration policy. we must take by control of immigration taking back control making clear choices about asylum and integration was a granting the right stay use actively based on our principles and goals rather than passively carried out as long as the case. the government wants to introduce immigration quotas for workers and attempt to address the country's skilled labor shortage in industries such as construction there are also plans to tighten rules for asylum seekers access to health care would be limited and benefits more rigorously controlled the number of asylum applications has increased in france in

recent years and the government says it must crack down on those who abuse the system rights campaigners say that asylum seekers already face very difficult conditions in france many of them end up sleeping rough in makeshift camps like this one in paris and the thing is that the government's new measures will only make the situation worse. the prime minister say says france most to regain its sovereignty well before contra wants to be more southern which will start by getting rid of this undignified camps in our cities then we can talk about sovereignty and humanity was. halfway through his presidential term emanuel macro is taking a tougher line on immigration but it's a gamble he may succeed in wooing voters away from his main political opponents the far right and stem the rise of what he calls dangerous populism but he also risks alienating some supporters who say that he's failing to uphold france's

humanitarian values the sasha butler al-jazeera paris. or the head of the united nations agency for palestinian refugees has resigned that's after an investigation highlighted what were called the management issues connected to pierre. diplomatic editor james bays reports from the united nations. pierre 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 kronwall 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 or 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 his era at the united nations. the protests have continued in sudan for a 2nd night as people block roads leading to the airport in the capital hard to they want to investigation into the suspicious death of a sudanese police officer in egypt's capital cairo the officer who claimed he had evidence on who gave the orders for the attack on sudanese protesters in june of 3 african countries at odds over a multi-billion dollar dam project on the nile hope to resolve the disputes by january 15th foreign ministers from egypt is e.o.p. and sudan are in washington for talks with the us mediating disputes in a few hours judges of the international criminal court will sentence bosco and to gand

the former rebel leader in the democratic republic of congo and to ganders been convicted of 18 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for atrocities committed by the rebel fighters he led 2 decades ago the prosecution wants a 30 year prison term catherine sawyer reports from q one ger in eastern d r c we both go into ganda has been nicknamed by the people of eastern democratic republic of congo as the tammany town he's a former rebel leader hues of human rights abuses in several parts of the region. judges of the international criminal court found him guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes including model using child soldiers and sexual slavery. the crimes are committed to a province between 200220035 the patchy arctic force for the liberation of congo rebel group. led the military wing thomas who bangle was the head of the

group and they serving 14 years in jail at the i.c.c. this man says his 2 brothers were killed by the fighters. we lost many family members sisters brothers uncles we also lost a lot of property. it turi might be the focus of this case but you now have a town more than 800 kilometers south victims of a moscow a 150 people were killed in one day in 2006 have been falling court proceedings kinley they sent a gun to was one of the leaders of rebel fighters who attacked their villages he says to have been passing the in charge of the q one to killings almost everyone here in lost a loved one of those we talked to said. and the fighters he led them off protecting a rival rebel they also say they want justice kill of one like you and rebecca

shows us has cause she says her husband and one year old son were killed in. what's happening with and tar gonda should be a deterrent to others who want to come and terrorize us in the villages those people destroyed all lives. this part of the country has been embroiled in armed conflict for decades thousands of rebel groups control remote villages and towns campaign has won the government and regional bodies to deal with human rights abuses and. we need a proper court here with proper investigators and justice system people want to have their day in court and looked at perpetrators in the eye the i.c.c. is too far away and disconnected from victims in the villages. and that is the 4th person to be convicted by the i.c.c. . turi sais he deserves to be in jail for life rebecca new link one is still waiting for justice catherine saw al-jazeera q one job east and

democratic republic of congo. several more boeing 737 have been grounded after cracks were found around the wings earlier this year the newer version of the plane the 737 max was stopped from flying after 2 crashes charlie angela has. boeing want the pride of the skies is facing further turbulent irish budget carrier 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 and 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 al-jazeera exposed quality concerns at boeing south carolina factory in an exclusive investigation using undercover filming it looks at issues concerning another craft 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 foti boeing admit 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 the searches boeing will have to reconvince the flying public with a safety charge al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera to get around them now of our top stories the united states top diplomat in ukraine says he clearly understood military a for kiev was linked to an investigation into president trump's political rivals william taylor will be one of the 1st witnesses to appear in public hearings set for next week castro has more he said he had a clear understanding that there was a quid pro quo and he said the idea for this came from trump's private attorney who

was empowered by the president to circumvent regular diplomatic channels in order to carry out this war and as shadow policy in ukraine that prioritize trumps political interests above that of national security and the u.s. justice department has charged 2 former twitter employees with spying for saudi arabia they're accused of accessing the accounts of thousands of users including prominent critics of the saudi government saudi arabia has not responded to the charges rob reynolds has more from los angeles. the u.s. attorney in this case david anderson referred to saudi arabia in his comments saying quote we will not allow u.s. companies or u.s. technology to become tools of foreign repression and while as you mentioned the saudis have not commented twitter as a spokesman saying in a statement we recognize the lengths that bad actors will go to undermine to try and undermine our service and twitter says it is committed to protecting the

identities of its users who discuss things like human rights repression and democracy and free speech yemen's government says hoti rebels have fired missiles at the red sea port of a mafia at least 8 people are reported to have been killed the biggest attack since september french police have started dismantling migrant camps as part of a new crackdown the government says it wants to limit the number of illegal immigrants move is seen as an attempt to win over voters from far right parties. those are the headlines you're up today we're back in half an hour with a full bulletin on al-jazeera right now it's a strange thing. it was. the prime minister's. mission to give the british on the 31st of

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