chaz who says don't trust that you trust on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello from doha everyone i'm come on santa maria and this is the news hour from al-jazeera more damning the revelations against donald trump by a top diplomat and the 1st public hearing of the impeachment quire against the us president to withhold that assistance for no good reason other than help with the political campaign made no sense it was it was counterproductive to all of what we had been trying to do. it was illogical it could not be explained it was crazy.

i hear it's a joke i haven't watch have a watch for one minute. meanwhile donald trump himself dismisses the impeachment hearings as he meets his turkish counterpart for the 1st time since turkey syria offensive also in the news dozens killed in gaza as israel launches more air strikes over 200 rockets are fired in response and clashes between the pro and anti morale this supporters the al stability in leader rejects the move by an opposition senator to declare herself interim president. so the 1st public hearing of the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump has ended but testimony from the u.s. is acting ambassador in ukraine in that testimony william taylor suggested to politicians on capitol hill that trump asked about a year. craney an investigation into his democratic rival joe biden also taking the

stand the senior state department official george kent told me talking to our correspondent in jordan about and among the 1st this report from heidi castor the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god william taylor and george kent took the stand together at the 1st public hearing in the impeachment inquiry career foreign officers called by democrats to tell a compelling story to the american public taylor is the acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine who upon assuming the post in june found himself dropped in the middle of a mystery once i arrived and gave discovered a weird combination of encouraging confusing and ultimately alarming circumstances taylor had begrudgingly agreed to come out of retirement to take over the u.s. diplomatic mission at a critical time his predecessor. had been ousted without explanation and president trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani was meeting with ukraine officials to discuss

debunked corruption allegations against political rivals that had taylor worried and countered an irregular informal channels of u.s. policy making with respect to ukraine. unaccountable to congress taylor began asking questions and learned the informal channel was aimed at getting ukraine to investigate joe biden trump's potential opponent in the upcoming presidential election taylor says career diplomats were sidelined as trump's chosen aides pressed ukraine to publicly announce a biden investigation george kent a state department expert on ukraine says giuliani was getting more involved in u.s. relations with kiev it became clear to me that giuliani's efforts to gin up politically motivated investigations are now infecting u.s. engagement with ukraine leveraging president selenski desire for a white house meeting but there was more ambassador taylor says he had a clear understanding that u.s. security aid to ukraine worth $400000000.00 was also on the line the money was

essential for ukraine to fend off russia's military advances to withhold that systems for no good reason other than help with the political campaign made no sense it was it was counterproductive to all of what we had been trying to do it was illogical it could not be explained it was crazy multiple witnesses have corroborated taylor's testimony much of the facts are uncontested but there is a critical factor still missing from the democrats' argument to impeach president trump and that is evidence that trump was directly involved and therefore to be blamed the closest democrats have come is a july phone call between trump and the president of ukraine a lot of years olinsky tells trump his country's ready to buy more weapons from the us for defense purposes trump sansar i would like you to do us

a favor though then ask for investigations into democrats and the bidens this is extortion this is bribery and in any other instance. people would go to jail for sure trump says he's innocent and republicans are stunned sleep defending him but anyone familiar with the democrats' scorched earth war against president trump would not be surprised to see all the typical signs that this is a carefully orchestrated media smear campaign prior to the start of the public hearings americans were about evenly divided on whether to impeach trump and remove him from office now that they're hearing directly from witnesses all eyes are on whether the public opinion will change. castro al-jazeera washington as promised his rosalynn jordan to talk through more of this highroads short story here how bad was today for the u.s. president given that for the 1st time we all got to see it well come

all it could be argued that given that embassador taylor reveal new details about the contacts between the white house and the ukrainian government that this was probably a very bad day for donald trump the u.s. president however this was also a situation where you saw a congressional republicans seizing the limelight to essentially try to discredit the entire public hearing even though they had been calling for public hearings had been calling for these witnesses to actually be presented so that they could be cross-examined by their side so it really depends i think on where your political proclivities law and certainly whether you have been paying close attention to the details of these contacts between the white house and the ukrainian government over the past 6 or 7 months. i hear it's

a joke i haven't watched i have a watch for one minute because i've been with the president which is much more important as far as i'm concerned this is a sham and shouldn't be allowed it was a situation that was caused by people that shouldn't have allowed it to happen and i want to find out who is the whistleblower because the whistleblower gave a lot of very incorrect information including my call with the president of ukraine which was a perfect all so some reaction there from donald trump there as he was speaking to president at one. rose and nothing surprising in what donald trump says there was a perfect call i don't watch a minute of it all such things. but he does have as you pointed out he's got the support on this committee the republicans who are pushing exactly that same line. well it's not just the republicans sitting on the intelligence committee for this hearing including jim jordan who is being allowed to temporarily be

a member of the committee he's not an actual sitting member on the intelligence committee but it's pretty much every republican not just in the house of representatives but also in the senate where many widely expect that should the house vote to forward this impeachment to the senate that the senate will not conduct a trial against the president and that's because republicans control the upper chamber of congress this is of course a situation that has really exposed a lot of the partisan divides here in the united states especially surrounding the presidency of donald trump but at least for the moment this process is moving forward and we expect that this isn't just going to be one or several days of testimony we're expecting weeks of testimony with witnesses that the democrats who control the intelligence committee are going to be bringing forward in over in order to bolster what they think is a very strong case for impeachment and then

a trial of the president who is so much more to come as a resident jordan in washington d.c. thank you so this whole impeachment process it may well be new to you have victoria gazin be has been having a look at how the whole process works democrats alleged abuse his presidential power when he spoke in july with ukraine's leader have a lot to me is an end the call prompted a whistleblower complaint the foundation of the democrats' impeachment inquiry so how does the impeachment process was when it begins in the house of representatives which has evidence from witnesses and then debates and votes on whether to bring charges against the president if that vote is successful a trial presided over by the chief justice of the u.s. supreme court john roberts takes place in the senate. a 2 thirds majority vote is needed in the 100 member upper house to convict and remove a president historically impeachments are rare out of 35 attempts only 2 presidents

have been impeached bill clinton in 1998 and andrew johnson in 868 neither were removed from office a 3rd president richard nixon resigned while proceedings were under way trump has described the impeachment inquiry as a scam he's released a transcript of his corps with selenski which he says shows no wrongdoing now for the 1st time the world will hear publicly from some of the key witnesses in this investigation and american voters will judge for themselves who's telling the truth karen greenberg with us now director of the center on national security at the fordham university school of law joining us from new york today karen thanks for your time 21 years i think it is by my count since we've last seen impeachment hearings in the united states and how important it is that while the rest of the world but particularly the united states can sit and watch this now and what did

you make as you watched it today well. 1st of all it's very important it's important that we got to this moment and the reasons are not just partisan divide the reasons aren't even just the allegations and making sure they come to the public but the sidestepping of process and and the rule of law is very much what's at issue here and so for the congress to go forward and to try to do this procedurally. by the book is they say is very important because what needs to be done in addition to everything else ascertaining the facts figuring out what went wrong and who did what went wrong is to reestablish some kind of trust in the system as an ability to check put checks on the president to present facts to the public and to have some kind of coherent narrative comes out of this that's seen in the light of day by the american public i found the whole thing quite fascinating to watch just almost the tricks of it karen because. all the questions that came

regardless of what side they came from by were loaded by where they were coming from an angle you could see that all the time they were combative at times and the 2 men giving evidence were at pains to point out look we're just here to to to to say what we know we're not we're not coming up this from any particular angle. right they were they were very much taking out the ground of the word that usually used to describe this is nonpartizan the nonpartisan government official who is there as a as a career diplomat in this case who in both these cases who is trying to say look there is such a thing as a profession and there are certain rules and regulations and codes that we go by when we perform the profession of state craft and diplomacy and both can't and taylor were trying to make this argument in their extremely sober extremely dry way

while invective were flying over their head from their questioners what do you think was the most important that was your opinion on the most important thing that was said today or maybe we missed crucial thing we learned today. you know i think the most crucial thing we learned we already knew which was that there was a that the that there was a many 2 things there were many more exchanges about an investigation going on than we've learned about in the past we've heard hints of it we've seen it in the earlier transcripts but here it was in the light of day i think also the chronology was very important the way it was laid out today particularly the end of the chronology which was that it was that the the weapon was weapons the $410400000000.00 were given but they were given after the investigation was launched and i think although we had known this to actually see and and hear it was very important i also think that you know you referred to that the tenor in the in

the courtroom the contentiousness i think that adam schiff was trying very hard to be cool headed to talk about russia and ukraine in particular and not to be talking about republicans per se and the he may not have succeeded entirely but i think that was very much his intention to try to say look this is about democracy at home in the way we process things and actually it's about a democracy abroad as well and i think that message may have come through turn greenberg a pleasure talking to you thanks for joining us today thank you well at the heart of the impeachment inquiry is trump stretched to withhold military aid to ukraine kiev has received an estimated one of the half $1000000000.00 from the u.s. in the past 5 years of course ukraine is at war with russian backed separatists step vance and reports now from a training center in western ukraine where troops are getting specialist help from american soldiers. so just. laying low seems to be the message in

ukraine after u.s. military aid was temporarily suspended in july the country was suddenly at the center of an american political storm involving a phone call between the u.s. president and the newly elected ukrainian leader. undeterred by what's going on in washington ukrainian soldiers are preparing war games with the u.s. colleagues at the joint multi national training center in the west of the country tactics they can use in the ongoing war against russian backed separatists in the east while we're we pay attention to politics that doesn't affect our day to day process will be heard tomorrow as long as both governments agree that we're needed here. besides having ukraine's back against russia the americans are getting ukraine's troops ready to become part of nato. this is how u.s. military aid to ukraine looks like an army what was said to be suffering from

corruption and the lack of funds now we've got to face russia in the east but one threat to withhold this aid even though it was only temporarily has caused doubt about how much ukraine can rely on its most important ally. after the much debated phone call with trump ukraine's president followed a mere zelinsky said he did not feel pressured by trump's threat to withhold military aid but analysts say it has affected the image of the united states and ukraine and could even push some towards moscow what we're seeing in washington now that is under threat of unraveling completely as widely reported in a series that for trump our job is not interested in the larger issues of democracy promotion state building and human rights in ukraine rather he's interested in using grain for his own political needs. but the u.s. president still has some fans in this coffee shop only own. a few months ago i

would say it would make ukraine more famous and more people aware of ukraine it's happening in ukraine about war in the middle of europe ok but it wouldn't hurt the plane in that many americans don't even know that you're training this young lady chavasse with the i don't feel any particular help from america so i think we have to rely on ourselves. not the sort of message you craney and soldiers fighting what is known as the forgotten war against russian backed separatists want to hear they hope the u.s. will continue to support them step al-jazeera livy ukraine is what's coming up for you on this news hour why hong kong police say universities have now become a refuge for criminals also protestors in iran getting help from an unlikely source will tell me more about them. and support some last minute changes for football's arabian gulf now that 3 of the blockading nations say they will play in qatar.

we saw him briefly earlier u.s. president donald trump who says talks with his turkish counterpart reject typer one of the white house have been productive they discussed turkey's offensive in northern syria also talked about washington's disappointment at his purchase of a russian missile defense system but still praised turkey as a great ally we want to thank the president for his partnership and cooperation as we work to build a more stable and peaceful and prosperous middle east. we've assurity each other that turkey will continue to uphold what it's supposed to uphold i'm a a big fan of the president to tell you that and i know that the cease fire while

complicated is moving forward and moving forward at a very rapid clip to be demeaned you know legitimacy we all agree that we need to further profound our cooperation and that picture american relations should be erected upon a strong and a very healthy foundation i think we should remain results in order to open a new chapter in our relations which are in full compliance with our deeply rooted alliance we have reciprocally stated our will to fight terrorist organizations imposing a clear and a present danger upon our national security to his john hendren washington to talk a little bit more about this hi john was a slightly odd comment from donald trump at one point where he said that one has a great relationship with the kurds i'm sure they disagree did we get any further clarity about the us turkey relationship post that syria offensive. well not really we didn't get very far from the talking points of president trump

appears to have done what turkey wants in every possible circumstance he cleared the way for chirpy to launch and in courage and against the kurds in northern syria he has gone ahead and bought this russian missile system and now he is threatening to buy russian weapons systems these are fighter jets rather than the us f. 35 jets that have been banned for turkey to purchase nevertheless you hear president trump there say that he's a big fan of the turkish strong and despite the fact that turkey has offered literally no concessions to the u.s. no apologies about the incursion in northern syria and i cannot see any possible way in which the turkish president could have been better received in the united states he was invited here at a time when many in the u.s.

were very upset that the house has already passed sanctions against turkey and the senate is now looking at them and so trump invited a number of republican senators in to meet with eartha one apparently in the hopes that they would they would stave off sanctions against turkey and it sounds like they were actually fairly sympathetic it's not clear exactly where that is going but the fact that they met at all is astonishing considering where u.s. turkey relations would be with any other president right may be the sticking point at the moment the one big issue is the fact that the turks have bought a russian missile defense system something which the u.s. what light. right and those missile defense systems go with other technologies so it would seem logical that they would go ahead with a a russian fighter system everyone seems to be threatening here if you don't end the ban on american f.

35 fighter jets we will go ahead and buy from the russians and as you see from the meeting with trump their trump is not at all drawing a hard line here is saying this is a good friend of mine it seems like turkey can do pretty much whatever it wants last time to one who's in town. a bunch of his agents beat up a bunch of american protesters there seems to be no limit to what turkey can do with absolutely no rep or cautions here from the u.s. and donald trump will compliment them as he did today thank you john hendren full of that in washington d.c. . well our senior political analyst here at al-jazeera of course is now in bashara and he says donald trump has really changed his tune on turkey in just a matter of weeks because. outstanding relationship tremendous. showering the one with complements and showering turkey with compliments as a great ally. as

a powerful nato ally. yes and really underlining commonalities and agreement on a whole host of issues i can't imagine the president or the one would have could have ever had the better reception especially after all the rocky months in years under obama and the trump so a clear agreement and consensus on the fight against. a clear agreement on syria. and the turkish policy there a clear apparently agreement on the cards on the p why didn't they pick it calles on so forth a clear agreement on the fight against die a shiver also huge plans about trade quadrupling trade up $200000000000.00 the only disagreement it seems is one on the s s $400.00 but even that seems like not a disagreement they're all saying you know it will be resolved by dialogue and

we've gone a long way to do it and i've actually read a number of reports saying that one of the ways with this with which they will deal with it is they might not make it all operative anytime soon and some play meant it as we've heard by the purchase of perhaps better missiles and so on. on to other news on the number of people killed in gaza has surged after a 2nd day of israeli bombing doctors say 26 palestinians have been killed this escalation began on tuesday when israel killed an islamic jihad leader hundreds of rockets were been fired into israel in response matheson is a report from western isn't. gaza skys filled with smoke for a 2nd day as israel's military continues to target what it says a rocket launch sites of the armed group islamic jihad meanwhile after an overnight low rockets are again fired from gaza into israel gaza city has all but shut down many of its people are hiding. i think the situation is going towards war like in

2014 still it's not clear in the coming hours the situation will become more clear . on tuesday israeli fighter jets killed a senior islamic jihad leader by deliberately targeting his gaza highers israel blames. for dozens of attacks islamic jihad responded by launching more than 200 rockets into israel now israeli armored vehicles are lined up at the gaza border and air strikes continue in the past israel has said that any attacks that originate in the side gaza are ultimately the responsibility of hamas the palestinian political group which is in control of gaza there are fears that if hamas joins forces with islamic jihad then this conflict could get much worse but hamas seems reluctant to get involved. instead israel is making a point of blaming only islamic jihad fighters for the rocket attacks. on we are

responding to every attack against us with a very sharp attack and response i think the islamic jihad best understand that now rather than when it's too late well the united nations and egypt trying to negotiate an end to the shelling of gaza's border crossings have been closed a number of dead has been rising and the misery of people who can't escape is growing. right matheson al-jazeera jerusalem. in the news ahead more pressure on egypt to investigate cases of alleged human rights abuses also what's being blamed for the worst floods in venice and over 50 years and after 3 years in the sporting wilderness kong capital inside ever return to the n.f.l. .

however it's not february but you'd be forgiven for thinking if you're in chicago for example or the highest temperature on wednesday without minus 3 this is all cold and i and that's the cold front that brought it on us hard way half way through far at least miami out of it miami's got 27 degrees in contrast to single figures not far away really on the scale of atlanta but things are slowly warming out over time but freezing the snow on the ground is melting probably sticky and says gosh one good part of an ontario but it's not really deep winter yet it just looks like it for a time this revolving potential storm off the coast the carolinas could bring some significant rain the wash up this rain is not snow otherwise it's generally fine and some of the clouds increasing to the west won't bring much with a but there is rain creeping down the coast in the u.s. and snow on the canadian side of the border quite easily. to the south of all this lot ignoring florida and the potential of heavy rain just south coast of texas or

more likely heading towards mexico we've got an increase in the showers like that they are in the smaller of the caribbean islands and quite a concentration in rain for us from nicaragua south was down through panama and in the constant itself of south america big rain is now falling in southeast brazil. an inspiring quest for knowledge that led to remarkable achievements al-jazeera

wells meets the algerian entrepreneur. who helped pioneer computing in the arabic language and the egyptian islamic scholar honored for his contribution to arab culture both building successful lives abroad but never forgetting their roots arabs abroad the translator and the innovator on al-jazeera. this is the news hour from al-jazeera and these are the top stories the 1st public hearing in the impeachment inquiry into u.s. president on the trump has ended america's acting ambassador in ukraine says he was

told trump cared more about an investigation into his rival joe biden than he did about ukraine trance alleged to have pressured kiev into investigating biden in exchange for military. him out on the front called turkey a great nato ally during the turkish president's visit to the white house but to discuss to turkey's offensive into northern syria and onto his purchase of a russian missile defense system and the death toll on the 2nd day of violence between his very forces and the armed group islamic jihad in gaza has now climbed to 27 all of those who died were in gaza israel and islamic jihad continue flaunt rocket attacks at each other. the violence broke out in bolivia on wednesday on the interim president's 1st day in office security forces fired tear gas at hundreds of supporters of former president evo morales who resigned on sunday over his disputed reelection. inspirations took place near the presidential palace where jean anos

for acclaimed herself the interim president the session was boycotted however by morality the left wing party more now from teresa bow at a demonstration in support of a morale is on the streets of the parts. we're here just a few blocks away from the bolivian congress from last summer as you can see there's still a gas not far away from here supporters of evan with alice are trying to make it appear the movement toward socialist party has been trying to call for a session in order to reject what's been going on in this country which is basically calling and naming and interim president that's what happened here on tuesday and we're here seeing able not only supporters vs men that you can see with the red point chose there are indigenous leaders that have come all the way from different parts of libya they're demanding the right to go inside congress they're convinced that what happened in this country is a cool because they were more or less was asked to resign by the military which mean happening in bolivia has polarized the country there's lots of tension right

here the interim president has said that pacifying the country is a priority she is calling on to the armed forces and the police in order to pacify the situation here but that's going to be extremely difficult if this new administration does not consider the enormous amount of support that ever what alice continue to have here and he's a movement towards social is that there are massive party has been trying to go inside congress in order to hold a session as i said before in order to reject what's been happening in this country in the past 3 days. while bolivia's interim president is facing an uphill battle trying to pacify those supporters all. but she is insisting elections will be held as soon as possible. and today we start on a peaceful and democratic path to return legality which i have entrusted the armed forces and the national police with so that they can guarantee the pacification of

the country the time has come for us to reunite an end to the confrontation to look at one another and accept peace and i assure everyone that the persecution and intimidation in bolivia has ended. but morales is rejecting the legitimacy of believe it's new interim president speaking from mexico where he was gone to the saddam era says he is ready to return and pacify his country if that's what the people want if he believes he was removed from power because of his indigenous groups this we will. tell you that my 1st participation in a national election in 2002 we won but this stolen from us i would say also in the last election we won and they again are stealing it from us it is in part the ideological political fight i want to tell you never in my life have i asked for institutions authorities to do anything illegal i come from a family that practices the morals of not lying not stealing and not being lazy.

more on that side of the story now from mexico city with john heilemann. president rallies used his press conference in mexico city he's been granted asylum in mexico call for a national dialogue in bolivia to try and sort out the mess that's happened after the bolivian elections he repeated that for him this is a military coup in the country again said that he was asked to leave by the military and he said the proof of that coup was senator and now interim president shimon and years declaring himself interim president of bolivia he also spoke about the election process in the in the vote count that led to the organization of american states saying that it was serious or regularities he said that there wasn't fraud he said that he felt that the organization of american states was acting in the interest basically of the united states so that's president morales is take on what's happening back home in his country bolivia the organization

american states define serious regularities in the voting process there were serious doubts and that spurred the opposition a many people to take to the streets in a process that really hasn't stopped him believe we're now looking at clashes also between the opposition and between the supporters of president morales the president the ex-president now said that his sister's house was attacked in one of those confrontations so a very disturbing situation in bolivia and the president and the next president that's now many miles away here in mexico of. course in hong kong as role that police can go on to university campuses this is after days of fighting with student protesters university student union had asked the high court for an injunction to ban security officers from the campuses and schools have now become the battleground between demonstrators. and police people blocked streets in the city

center as well for a 3rd day government is still to close on things they say. here's more from hong kong to get the problem. well students at the chinese university decided to take matters into their own hands long before the high court decided not to grant the student union an injunction that would have allowed the university to stop police from and touring the campus the students had blocked all entrances carefully screening anyone who tried to enter the campus they also set a barricades all along the campus roads and they've been stocking up on supplies indicating that they were digging their heels in for the long haul as they wanted to safeguard their university that brought in supplies such as food water clothes fire extinguishers and even umbrellas in case not just not for the weather but just in case police decided to try and come in and tear gassed them and i'm quite disappointed in judgment of the credit cards because i think we can see the police

are all the country right now and astute and we are trying our best to protect a school levy that some people are not understand what we are doing but there is a kind of. there is a kind of. rejoining us all this very small force to do something to put ourselves. or you know he is to be vilified by the government maybe a lot of owners on tuesday night into the early hour so wednesday that this was the scene of intense confrontations between protesters and riot police riot police fired tear gas water cannon and even rubber bullets at the protesters on the university campus. it was on the forefront of many people's minds on wednesday as they took part in an impromptu protest in the city's financial center but really they were able that because now the ponies. they are not known.

and they're not doing according to the home color law so we want to fight well here the chinese university students say they'll now more time to protest after the university canceled classes till the end of the year the university says it's because of safety concerns and damage to property the u.n. special representative for iraq is meeting political leaders to try to bridge the gap between protesters and the government their parliament is discussing constitutional reforms aimed at satisfying demonstrators demands thousands of people have been protesting against corruption and a lack of basic services at least $319.00 people have been killed since the demonstrations began last month. ride to me is a former m.p. and a member of iraq's communist party he told us it's unlikely that these protests will stop anytime soon. today then is that up charm between the demonstrators and the government or probably the different authorities so as long as discipline exist i

think the communication house is really doesn't go through so with all the propositions of the government about the new forms they will not be a hub by the protests because they mishal fog that basic fact the fact that 2 more than 30300 people have been killed others are being killed by the got by by authorities by the set of by the police by by the by the armed forces and the fact that we have more than 50000 people and does this do me mere fact and not being really heated by the government and its own responsibility has not been admitted and i was wrong this is all being done been done i don't think and initiatives political initiatives will be good for the populace on the whole that will be here will have the the ears of the protestants so this is the i think the stumbling block this is the where where where we have the a deadlock

a political deadlock i think the problem the actual government is considered by the by the is a negligible it is no more qualified to be of a dialogue with a lot of discussion with. and protesters in iraq are being lent a helping hand by the elderly who sympathize with their cause mohammed jem jim has more on that from baghdad. but it has been one washes she also wishes for a brighter future and for a better present at 70 years old her kidneys give her trouble but her spirit remains strong i'm sad one tells me she volunteers out here for over 15 hours every day cleaning the clothes of protesters camped out in baghdad's tahir square and as i met john we do this for free it's all free even the detergent is from us if people bring us money we want to accept it if they give us to take it they will take it that's fine. in

a nearby garden sit but the and her husband abu producing a homemade remedy they say combats the effects of tear gas. and if that were to go ahead we have 3 sons each one of them was injured twice in the protests and they refused to leave and go back home my sons say they can't leave their brothers can go back so i decided to donate part of my pension so we could bring this water and yeast day and night they are here mixing the ingredients bottling and distributing constant work left but that he has handed blistered but she pushes on. i not couldn't leave but i'm not just coming out to support my sons i'm him for everybody this is my country this is my rock this is my land all of these people are like my sons and my brothers and my father is my how he says but that he and i would aided him after he was tear gassed while protesting but that their presence has helped

him even more than us. when we see these elderly people here leaving their homes and their relative staying how could i leave how could i go home there are people here that are 405060 years old. and it was despite the tension in fear surrounding the protests in baghdad these days and to hear square the mood is often vibrant in this unprecedented cross generational demand for rights and reforms the sense of community that's taken root here is remarkable an atmosphere of family and familiarity that's hard to miss yes these demonstrations have been led by the youth but look just beyond the youngsters and you'll clearly see the multitude of grandparents parents aunts and uncles were standing behind these protesters both figuratively and literally. the old back and the young spurning politics shunning sectarianism and uniting as iraq these. but that.

several countries have urged egypt to investigate alleged killings by its security forces and other human rights abuses the. u.n. human rights council is reviewing egypt's record as part of a regular examination of all member states we recommend egypt one address impunity by credibly investigating allegations of extra judicial killings torture and forced disappearances by security forces publicly release findings and prosecute those responsible to release detainees held for exercising their rights to freedom of expression or association and ensure fair trial guarantees for those remaining in detention 3 commit to supporting a free and active civil society by ending case number 173 foreign funding investigations travel bans and asset freezes against civil society more on the story with natasha butler now in geneva. well this is the 3rd time since 2010 that the un human rights council has conducted a review into the human rights situation in egypt now what that means is un experts

come late information from n.g.o.s from civil liberty groups individuals and egyptian authorities into the human rights situation that gets made into a report with recommendations that is later handed in a few months time to the egyptian government now what happened today in geneva was that there was a session at which a delegation from egypt presented what they said was the situation of human rights in the country they presented i reporter was a rather glossy picture and they then had also questions from all the member states and what was interesting is many of those member states raise issues about what they said were real human rights abuses in egypt it was a long list a litany of concerns including things accusations of state sanctioned torture concerns over the rights of women of refugees and of prisoners in egypt i was hopeful that this many states would speak out against the president repression that's happening in egypt. because the international community has been silent for

far too long on this issue and today. having witnessed egypt. murder kidnap in prison and torture thousands and thousands of citizens for criticizing it today the international community finally spoke with members of the egyptian delegation had to respond to the concerns were raised by other member states and they said that as far as egypt was concerned there had been great progress in terms of human rights ever since 2013 since president sisi came to power they say they've been much work done in areas such as women's rights they also said that at times though a tough line was needed in order to maintain national security and fight what they call terrorism. of america venice is blaming climate change for floods that are overwhelming the italian city more than 85 percent of its historic squares and streets and i wonder water hitting the highest levels in more than 50 years.

streets and canals mudge has the 2nd highest tide ever recorded swept through venice on tuesday undaunted most tourists took to touring the city on gangplanks but some chose to swim through st mark's square the city's main piazza as waters hit 1.87 meters high the highest in half a century sirens sound was for residents the effects a devastating. musk's plates everything look at what we're living with here i just want to cry. the city's mayor has declared a state of emergency blaming the rising waters on climate change meanwhile much needed off shore barriers designed to prevent floods remain on finished the project started in 2003 has been dogged by delays soaring costs and corruption scandals and venetians a demanding progress. it's been 10 years but they have done nothing it's in

total eclipse it does not work and i have stolen 6 and a half $1000000000.00 our politicians are old fleas they should be in jail. the damage is estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars and there are concerns that this flood is the starkest morning yet that the city is drowning. i merely 1000000 people have been affected by record floods in south sudan due to heavy rains in the last 2 months aid organizations are calling for an urgent response in a country that's already in dire need of help him organise more. this is what the eastern town of people here in south sudan looks like now homes and schools nearly fully submerged people trying to salvage what they can and more and what they can't it's the aftermath of weeks of heavy rain since october. on a school hit master but my school has been drowned by the floods

a drying so much that people saw the river rise and into their houses i ran to schools but even the schools were submerged and it was a good agricultural season we had harvested our crops but floods destroyed even though. i didn't george says he had to leave people or and come to south sudan's capital juba for refuge back home very little has been spared by the floodwaters people here see it's the worst they've experienced in more than 20 years a state of emergency has been declared in 27 of the country's 52 states more than 100000 people have been affected with almost half of them displaced over 76 people laws from the entire population of. you know $400000.00 population have been have been displaced some of which are $200.00 plus been have been. we are calling so loudly humanitarian intervention the

floods have also destroyed farmlands raising fears that it will add to the problem of food shortages aid organizations say the need for an urgent response is vital in a country where years of war has left 7000000 people in need of help to survive. the 1st phase is to provide that the median emergency response to trying to get the people who are living in water to have access to water purification tablets to have access to toppling the have access to all the medication to have access to medical and mosquito net those are the things that we started to work on that and as i said on category of our system that we started to work on is to look at how to start to really work in an area where the what this data recedes to start to really rehabilitate the water point people residents say they're concerned there will be outbreaks of what a point is he says and they say they don't know how long they will have to wait in camps or in be open before the water level to recede and for them to be able to go

back home he will morgan are just there on. still ahead on the. hopes of winning the. finals. we have.

a head. thank you very much all football fans from all countries are welcome those the words of castles organizers as they prepare to host an expanded gulf cup 3 of the nation's county blockading cats are reversed

a decision to boycott the tournament which means they will now be playing in die hard ice from this month david stocks reports. the organizers of the gulf cup have plenty to do with barely a week to go they need to reorganize the tournament to make room for 3 more countries and not just any 3 saudi arabia bahrain in the u.a.e. who are all imposing a blockade on cats are not an easy decision and it has been working with i think the president and the visible isn't what they want a card or 2 to get them to convince them to come and to really and that element is still a good sign from their side have to say i don't know. what the effort has been to come from this for division and they're excepted and that is under that they are going to be the cups been put back 2 days he was due to be held at doha skilly for international stadium but the blockading states u.-turn means a 2nd venue will be announced on thursday and a new draw will take place to a teams instead of 5 the land sea and air blockade of cats are has been in place

since june 27th seen preventing direct flights and land crossings from the blockading countries obviously this is a political decision it's not a sports decision i think we've seen a number of broader moves in the region both to try and dial down tension between the gulf states saudi arabia the u.a.e. 'd. as well and god are on the one hand but also between saudi arabia and iran and so there's very much into it and what i think it suggests is that there really is an effort to see it. to be very complex from getting out of control when qatar won this year's asian cup in the u.a.e. they had to make a 5 hour journey by kuwait and faced a hostile reception. the hosts block bought tickets to make sure only very supporters got in and they were sanctioned after shoes and water bottles were thrown it could tare players this time around officials say there will be a very different reception for visiting teams and fans in doha they are working

they are welcome at their countries and always do what has all been thought about the gulf cup has been played for the last 50 years but rarely has it been the focus of so much global political attention david stokes al-jazeera on track to frankfurt counts in david i want to play in germany has been the league again this year he's been banned for 7 weeks the body checking an opposition coach during a match on sunday the argentinian defender sense off after this knowledge on fireworks christian streit instant provides an on field brawl which also saw one freiburg player being sent off our hands be fined $27000.00 as well intends to appeal against the ruling. cohen captain it looks to have been given the chance of making an n.f.l. return of the league is to hold a private workout the captain echoed last played in 2060 the 32 year old schedule to try out the teams on saturday in atlanta all n.f.l.

teams have been invited to the session it's highly unusual for the lead to arrange something like this for a single player or catholic you last played for the san francisco $49.00 ers began nailing during the pregame national anthem to protest against racial injustice in the united states he opted out of his contract after the 26th season became a free agent but hasn't played professionally since in $27.00 seen cap'n it filed a grievance case against team owners claiming they were colluding against him that case was settled in february for around $10000000.00 or n.f.l. analyst michael colson says this could well be the 1st step towards applying return for cap nick. i think there's 2 things going on in n n one sense it is public relations and i think the fact that it takes place right after veterans day is certainly a key part of that but i think it's also the league's sending a signal to the teams that it's ok with them to sign cap or tick not of course that

there was any collusion going on but i think teams n.f.l. teams have been reluctant to sign catholic because the league doesn't really want want them to honor on a more political level i think they see donald trump's influence waning in washington and trump made a huge deal about capper nikken eric reed taking the d. protesting police violence against black people use that against the n.f.l. in the n.f.l. of course is always very wary about their antitrust status and their tax breaks from from the government so they don't like to offend the government i think this is a sign that they day don't think that's going to be a problem any longer for them rafael nadal has kept his hopes of winning the season ending 83 finals alive nadal had lost his opening group match in london and was forced to save a match points in this encounter with russia's daniel medvedev well the one coming back from a 51 deficit in the deciding set to eventually take the match in its high break

with al has never won this title before. honestly i have been sober like that. that's a real thing are sorry for the man it thought laws he was playing. but by that i mean the 3rd of course on this one off the day one of these days that one out of 1000 you win. major league baseball is looking into allegations of cheating by former world series champions the houston astros former astros player mike fires claims that scene used a camera to record hand signals being made by opponents during that 27 c. championship winning season catches on pitches use the signals as a cult to discuss tactics 5 says the astros use the recordings to crack the crowd and give their own bats an advantage ok that is how you sport is looking for not more light so thank you eddie and we have got more news in just a moment another full bulletin on al-jazeera in about 2 minutes time.

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