america to what happened here in el paso license to hate on al-jazeera. we are witnessing an attempted coup against a prime minister. at a fine benjamin netanyahu denunciation charges of corruption and says he'll carry on as israel's leader. peter w. watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up let's just say a different channel and operation and relations to ukraine one that was domestic and political in nature a former russian expert at the white house testifies at the impeachment hearing shedding more light on efforts to pressure ukraine. on family tightening its grip

on power in sri lanka the president go to buy rajapaksa gives his brother senior cabinet posts including the role of prime minister plus. and on the list going to be soured what law enforcement agencies miss my brother for some are going to date in africa i know that this is affecting all the president sort of. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been charged with bribery fraud and a breach of trust he rejects the accusations saying they're part of a coup attempt or a force that reports from west jerusalem. there's never been anything like it in israeli politics on the day the grinding stalemate over forming a new government and to the new unprecedented phase the attorney general was ready with his own historical 1st. today i informed the representative of the prime

minister mr benjamin netanyahu about my decision to try him under an indictment that includes 3 charges a day in which the attorney general decide to serve an indictment against a seated prime minister the serious crimes of corrupt governments is a heavy and sad day for the israeli public and for me personally. and i later shocked looking benjamin netanyahu began his battle to stay in office while indicted. tonight we are witnessing an attempted coup against the prime minister using false accusation and a systematically tainted and biased investigation. investigations began in december 26th seen into 3 separate cases case $1000.00 involves gifts including cigars and champagne worth more than $200000.00 received and often demanded by netanyahu and his wife sarah from billionaires. and james packer the charge and breach of trust the same charges apply in case 2000 in which newspaper magnate on moser's is

alleged to have offered favorable coverage in return for his hampering the activities of a rival but it was case $4000.00 involving show the main stakeholder in the country's biggest telecom company that attracted the most serious charge bribery netanyahu and his wife accused of dictating precise elements of coverage on elevates his news site wallah in return for regulator benefits worth $500000000.00 a recurring theme runs through these indictments netanyahu is obsession with his media coverage and the alleged lengths to which he was prepared to go to try to control it that these charges were expected hasn't lessened their impact this is an explosive moment in israel's political and legal history now the focus intensifies on netanyahu future. was ahead of him a twin battle to head off any contest for the party leadership in the run up to a likely 3rd election next march and a potential supreme court case challenging his legal right to stay in office if he

was a minister he would have to resign or be fired because he's the prime minister it's not clear what is clear is that there's a moral problem right now because it's not just that the attorney general recommended indicting him including for bribery these are things that happened while he was prime minister earlier israel's president officially gave the parliament the job of finding a member with enough support to form a government and prevent another election unprecedented and in the view of most unlikely to succeed. these are harsh dark days in the annals of the state of israel he said there may be harsher and darker days to come for its longest serving prime minister. and harry joins us live from west jerusalem harry what's the reaction like inside israel does morning. well it is the biggest story here for many a year it is an enormous ruction in israeli politics and newspapers are reacting as you might expect what one of them the ariel sharon office is the newspaper that

there who is alleged to have offered its own a help in trying to help of the activities of its rival it has a full page spread saying the state of israel against netanyahu and then quotations from the various indictments against him up against a picture of earth of an unhappy looking prime minister and an even less happy looking prime minister in maariv again it's the state against benjamin netanyahu and in big red letters here the word bribery so the fact that such an important and consequential charges being filed is highlighted there and in haaretz the. left leaning newspaper which has this very widely read english language edition as well we see pm charge bribery fraud and we preach of trust there is specter there is an analysis here of his valuing it says political expediency or love of country

despite the bravery of battle still awaits talking about the fact that there is a huge fight ahead for netanyahu and the editor in chief of haaretz has made a lot of the fact that so much was risk by netanyahu for what he sees as so little good pictures flattering pictures of netanyahu as wife on the new site while this obsession with controlling so much of the media narrative was it really worth is what he's asking this huge. this huge fissure in israeli politics and this potential total clouding of benjamin netanyahu legacy in the times of israel there is a similar editorial from its editor saying that he should have chosen a more noble path and stood down and there is analysis and not use paper about what could happen next in turn. and you know who's right as a sitting member of the knesset the parliament to seek parliamentary immunity at the moment he can't do that because there is no functioning governments of the requisite committee isn't in place that could delay the entire process months until

there is of functioning government potentially after the next election as we believe there probably will be a next election in march could there be a legal battle over that from the attorney general trying to make sure that he can indict and you know straight away so much is up in the air but so much damage is being reported having been done both to netanyahu as reputation is of course innocent till proven guilty and also to the entire political system here so clearly harry already we're talking about a time scale of months might we be talking about a time scale of years with him still potentially in office well that's quite possible yes i mean the politics perhaps perhaps of more. immediately consequential than the legal challenges now because if he is able to fight those legal challenges off we expect that there will be petitions put to the high court of justice to say that he's not allowed to stay on as prime minister

while he's indicted but there's a pretty good legal case on offer for him to defend himself against that so the question now is will his likud senior leadership colleagues rally around and there is some evidence of that new reg of the culture minister. hun of the justice minister both support him but on the other side a potential rival get on side said that before next election or should be a leadership primary that he wants to lead the party into the next election so that he can form a unity government and bring the country back a unifying government and bring the country back together without all of this hanging over it but if none of that happens if he does stay in office then potentially he could fight this all the way until his very last appeal even if convicted and that is a matter potentially of years. many thanks. well staying with a story akiva eldar as a columnist for the news website. actually it's important to remind us that the attorney general who cited. was the cabinet

secretary and one of his confident it's not the leftists it's not you know the usual suspects from the israeli left all the. chief of police in ateneo 'd already smeared s. of you know a member of the deep state this is the one of the closest people jonathan and netanyahu has now that. to declare war he has the full authority to dismantle all to relationship with the palestinians and a combination of 'd 'd and indicted right minister and american president his closest friend who is there now facing impeachment i think this combination is something that. nobody could write

a script for a movie that a horror movie that. is as good as this one. former white house russia expert to such a fictional not received was used to link ukraine to interference in the 2016 us presidential election if you on a hill was testifying at the impeachment inquiry into thank you say since the president trump pressured ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden his hide it took castro. raise your right hand i will begin by swearing the day's testimony began with a warning from the former white house policy expert on russia and ukraine some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia and its security services did not conduct a company against a country and that perhaps somehow for some reason you craned it this is a fictional not a sieve that has been perpetrated and propagated by the russian security services

themselves the on a hill testified russia was watching the impeachment hearings and ultimately would benefit from republicans repeating the quote fictions that ukraine meddled in the 2016 elections with the help of democrats she said she had warned gordon sagal and the e.u. ambassador the same when she realized he was carrying out the president's personal political agenda by requesting ukraine open investigations into trump's political rivals and i did said to him gordon i think this is all going to blow up and here we are david homes of foreign service officer in the kiev embassy testified ukraine has been cleaning up corruption under its new president billowed amir's alinsky homesteads alinsky wanted an oval office meeting with trump but it was made clear that the linsky wouldn't get the meeting unless he announced on c.n.n. that ukraine was investigating joe biden this was

a demand that president selenski personally commit on a cable news channel to a specific investigation of president trump's political rival holmes testified he also had a clear impression that a hold on u.s. military aid was likely intended by trump to pressure ukraine for the investigation home said he overheard a phone call between trump and ambassador some land discussing whether his alinsky would cooperate so you heard president trump ask ambassador son when is he going to do the investigation yes or. what was ambassador sunless response he said oh yeah he's going to do it he'll do anything you ask that urn homes of this rebuke from republican congressman mike turner your statements that your interests are protecting ukraine are very dubious when you embarrass president zelinsky by making those statements even have to make who cares that investor

someone said who cares that question sums up a republican defense strategy to counter these 5 days of public testimony that democrats say showed trump at best misused his office and at worst committed bribery but is that enough to move the american public the latest polls show that americans remain evenly divided on whether to impeach trump and remove him from office and the vast majority say that these hearings will not change their minds hi peter castro al-jazeera washington well after thursday's hearing ended white house spokesman who can be at least at the hearings were a sham and unless that ended president wants to have an impeachment trial in the senate because it's clearly the only chamber where he can expect fairness and receive jew process under the constitution we would expect to finally hear from witnesses who actually witnessed he said and possibly participated in corruption like adam schiff joe biden hunter biden and the so-called whistle blower to name

a few mr trump's republican party holds a majority in the senate and during those impeachment proceedings on thursday he met some of his posse sentences at the white house here's what one of them said afterwards. i talked about impeachment to the proceedings now frustration is that all of this inability to be able to fend for itself. but he didn't do well once we didn't take up the only b.s. part of our conversation by any means. moving on trying because new president has appointed a cabinet with 2 of his brothers holding top jobs go to buy a rajapaksa was elected president last week he was the defense minister in the final days of the civil war and led a crackdown on the tumble tycho separatists he's picked his brother mahinda to be both prime minister and finance minister mahinda rajapaksa previously served as president for 10 years and rajapaksa has been named minister of trade he was

a speaker during mahinda time as president rajeev which is as a former leader of the liberal party of sri lanka he believes the biggest challenge facing the new government will be to ease tensions after the easter attacks earlier this year i think it's a very good sign that. as will the senior muslim supporter of the president has been appointed governor of the northwest we are we have a lot of problems who are not to be a protect and i hope that will lead us still confident i think the important thing for the government to do is to work with the tamil and the muslim people especially at grassroots level because i don't think back interested in separatism orkut reason or fundamentalism and to a bribe like the me that was the one candidate will to teachers who can't even rent in with a vengeance from the laugh government and indeed from the raj back you know and before that it was in bookish and in particular and there again they are not involved but you must reach out to the most important adults. still to come here on

al-jazeera. after weeks of unrest the lebanese take a pause to mark the independence day. and violence during protests in the colombian capital we'll examine what triggered all this. now that warmth in eastern europe for the last few weeks is a bit of a memory now this cold air over here this isn't tied this is what the satellite picks up his low temps on the ground was coming into the west yet more cloud and rain this time hitting ports go go across spain as well temperatures of course not very high 12 in madrid in the green is all the rain over the swirling arrows

strength the wind says windy and wet this part of europe there is more static rain running into northern italy once again as a streak of rain up through the chain towards snow near rumania that's how cold it's gotten book arrest him for about far you've come saturday the rain is by this time guns true spain and portugal and it's into southern france and northern italy and of course the outs will see snow for once more temperatures in kiev has slightly improved to minus 4 as a max warsaw's got colder this is the strip which is quite nice weather i think you know sunshine temps right about the 10 degree mark now cos what's coming across iberia will affect america that clouds are already going to cross once the next things on its way through so expect in robot rain at 90 degrees on friday his warm but increasingly cloudy and he'll be raining there on saturday. the weather sponsored by katherine this. week stories generate thousands of headlines these

protests are saying down with this is dumbing down with all of the parts with different angles from different perspectives just because we came to prison doesn't mean rights stopped at the gate separate the spin from the facts. jumps on stories we don't take down the misinformation from the journalism it's about telling their stories of those human beings on the ground with the listening post on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories so far this hour israel's prime minister says corruption charges against him are

a coup attempt benjamin netanyahu is facing bribery for water and breach of trust allegations. a former white house russia expert fiona hill says president obama and his allies used a fictional narrative to link ukraine to u.s. election interference in 2016 she testified at the impeachment inquiry on thursday . sri lanka's new president has named his cabinet and 2 of his brothers will hold senior positions but a buyer rajapakse his brother mahinda the prime minister and finance minister another brother takes over the trade portfolio. lebannon marking its independence day today after weeks of anti-government protests the 76th anniversary was observed with a military parade in beirut a bigger one had been planned but was canceled because of the armrest protesters are demanding a complete overhaul of the political system the movement forced the prime minister and his cabinet to resign last month zain holder is in beirut. no.

politician or anything close to bring on a new government really is the perfect picture behind me you see lebanon 3 top leaders the president the prime minister who is really a caretaker prime minister since he submitted his resignation a few weeks ago and the speaker of parliament sitting alongside the army chief but what is happening in lebanon is not this country's passing through what many are describing as the worst crisis since the end of the civil war in 1990 the prime minister is insisting that he will return to office only if he has technocratic government a nonpartisan government to live up to the aspirations of the people the people have been protesting in the streets by the governing a lot of the house speaker the president as well as there has been they are all insisting that the next cabinet has to be made up yes of independence but there needs to be representation from political parties and those and those in the governing alliance are not questioning the role of the army chief in the uprising

they are saying where do you sign up they are concerned the army according to them did nothing to open the roads to allow deputies to attend the parliament session to say last night the president even addressed the army and said you know you are being judged value act because this is how people have confidence in you and that's really dangerous when you start questioning the role of the institution which is supposed to be our maintain peace in this country the divisions are deep. in iraq at least 8 people were killed the security forces tried to stop and to government protest on thursday to gas and live ammunition was fired the crowds demonstrating against corruption and unemployment protesters have occupied 3 bridges in central baghdad which led to the greens and 2 government buildings and 300 people have been killed since the beginning of the rest in october. the police are gathered outside

a hong kong shopping mall where hundreds of people have been holding a peaceful demonstration the sit in protest mocked for months since an attack by suspected gang members on protesters and journalists. dozens of protesters are still holed up at a hong kong university after occupying its campus for several days they've been resisting pleas from the police to turn themselves in and comes after the polar technique university with some of the worst violence in the 76 months of protests many student demonstrators have been injured at the campus in fierce clashes with the security forces so clark has more from hong kong. this weekend is hong kong's district council elections a record number of 4300000 people have registered to vote now the increase of the surge has been in the 18 to 35 year old age group and this will be the 1st test of public sentiment and government support since these protests began around 6 months ago it was a test for the support for the protest and now the newly appointed police commissioner chris tang called a press conference on friday and he's confirmed that right place will be at these

polling places to guarantee the safety of those people going to bite you know. the place commissioners also confirmed that several dozen protesters remain barricaded up inside the polytechnic university in color but he's asked them to leave peacefully if they can but he said there's no deadline and we can't confirm around 1000 of the last few days and around $300.00 of those are under the age of 18 and the place commissioner also confirmed that those under the age of 18 won't be charged with writing but those over the age of 18 will be investigated and could face writing charges down the track. in colombia demonstrations against pension and tax reforms turned violent union members and students have gathered in the capital bogota saying they were inspired by other protests across south america. as more. started as a union protest against proposed economic reforms turned into one of the biggest

mass demonstrations seen in recent years. as pensioners students teachers in a growing section of colombia's middle class joined forces to them. straight anger and this satisfaction with the right wing government of president. is more significant this is a very significant for us because we are demonstrating that we are tired that we don't want to continue living with the government treating us this way there's a very powerful youth movement in colombia that's not afraid anymore 6. despite heavy rain hundreds of thousands rallied in downtown bogota and a number of cities across. protesters say they were inspired by the rest in other countries in the region and by a growing a ray of grievances. many marched against the slow implementation of the peace deal with dark rebels and the killings of local leaders who are dying at an alarming rate others feels left behind by an economy they say that only grows for some

because many want is that we're seeing the results of 25 years of neoliberal policies they've done for labor reforms 13 regressive tax reforms the cup is full. the marches began mostly without incident but as the rain cleared confrontations broke out across the city in the early evening. explosions and tear gas filled the central plaza believer and surrounding streets as protesters clashed with security forces some were injured and dozens arrested. tired we're tired of being marginalized of being disappeared we're tired you understand it's time for change confrontations and clashes continue then till late in the evening in downtown in cali colombia 3rd city the mayor imposed a curfew starting at 7 pm. when things calm down hundreds across the capital took

to the streets banging pots and pans in protest now the question is that these demonstrations will continue. today and if colombia will join other countries in the region that have seen continuous on rest for now more than a month. the police in bolivia have fired tear gas to break up a funeral procession that turned into an anti-government protest in aleppo thousands of people took part in the procession that began in the city of a lotto it coincided with a debate in the congress over when to hold new elections 60 people were killed on tuesday after the police and military moved in on a fuel plant that had been occupied by protesters. and there was violence between police and protesters in the chilean capital santiago at least $22.00 people were killed and more than 2000 were injured since the protests began just over a month ago on thursday amnesty international published a report detailing human rights abuses by the security forces. britain's main

opposition labor party has launched what it calls a radical and ambitious manifesto aimed at winning next month's election party leader jeremy corbyn on bill proposals for a shorter working week public sector pay rises and the renationalisation the rail mail water and energy industries he says he'll get bricks of course sorted in 6 months with a new exit deal put to a 2nd referendum and after years of protests and political turmoil voters in guinea bissau hoping sunday's presidential election will finally lead to peace now the incumbent just symmetry of ours wants another despite failing to stabilize the economy and deal with the growing illegal drug trade that was hard reports now from the outskirts of the capital itself. a last ditch effort to cling on to power in this campaign incumbent president just to marry a vast calls himself a man of the people there when they can bring peace and stability to the nation but

his mandate has been anything but stephen after dismissing all 8 of his government since taking office in 2014 he called on the military to step in on his behalf days before the election fear of a military coup still looms. as night falls hundreds gathered to hear him speak among the crowd are west african troops from nigeria and senegal here as a stabilizing force to keep a close watch on vos and his military entourage val's says we have to get to work together to bring an end to the political crisis accusing foreign powers of wanting to steal the country's wealth and tells the crowd to be careful with fake news. he then invites us on stage what was supposed to be a one on one interview is used to galvanize the crowd maple. see this journalist he accuses me of creating instability i tell you what

you have to be careful with what you say listen i will accept the election results even if i lose. with 20 attempted military coups and dozens of political assassinations never has there been a peaceful transition of power since guinea-bissau has returned to democracy 25 years ago the united states drugs in forstmann agency believes latin american drug traffickers are profiting from the political instability senior military commanders in cahoots with elected politicians are using the harbor to facilitate the smuggling of drugs from latin america through going to be south to europe that. dream fastest time in office 25 tons of cocaine was seized still his political opponents accuse him of using cocaine money to finance his reelection campaign and i.q. zation he denies. they say drug money has made it into the campaign we have to make

an effort to end this vote for me and starting november 24th you know drugs will intervene. is about to become the 1st president to complete his mandate but as the campaign comes to a close he seems even more determined to hold on to power by any means possible for as long as he can. talk al jazeera. we should all be here in doha with a quick reminder of your top stories israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says corruption charges against him are a coup attempt and in general has charged him in 3 cases accusing him of bribery fraud and a breach of trust is more of what mr netanyahu said just after those charges were announced. the polluted investigation against me erode the public faith in the system they should worry every citizen we have to put an end to this the public has

the right to a clean investigation that seeks the truth and only the truth the only way to restore the public's faith in the system is to establish an outside independent committee that investigates the method that puts an end to this it is about time to investigate the investigators. struggling because president has named his new cabinet and 2 of his brothers will hold senior positions go to rajapakse as brother mahinda will be prime minister as well as finance minister another brother takes over at the trade department the former white house russia expert fiona hill says donald trump and his allies pushed a fictional narrative linking ukraine to u.s. election interference in 2016 she testified at the impeachment inquiry into president trump on thursday. lebanon's holding its independence day after weeks of anti-government protests the 76th anniversary is being marked with a military parade in beirut a large one had been planned but was canceled because of the unrest protesters are

demanding a complete overhaul of the political system the movement forced the prime minister and his cabinet to resign last month. the police have gathered outside the hong kong shopping mall where hundreds of people have been holding a peaceful demonstration the sit and protest mark 4 months since an attack by suspected gang members on protesters and journalists dozens of protesters are still inside a hong kong university after occupying the campus for several days resisting calls from the police to surrender the polytechnic university suffered some of the worst violence during the territories 6 months of protests many student protesters have been injured those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream i will see you very soon thanks for watching but i for now. notice there are we. believe in the 2 state solution do you still believe in the 2 state solution we listen what i said was that pakistan would never start

a war i'm anti-war we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter just 0. hi emily could be and here in the stream today bolivia the nation is still dealing with the fallout of a disputed election so how will the country emerge from its political crisis we want to hear what you think share your thoughts with us via twitter or in our live you tube chop. this i am a journalist and i am make air from and you are in this place. on thursday bolivia's congress is expected to debate in the election bill that would nala disputed october presidential vote the bill would also appointed electoral board tasked with organizing a new vote in the coming months.