the differences. and the similarities of cultures a clash that. al-jazeera. us 3 more iraqi protesters are killed in baghdad during their fight for political and economic reform. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a defiant benjamin netanyahu denounces charges of corruption and says he'll carry on as israel's leader. says if he is impeached he wants a trial in the republican controlled senate to decide his fate. and on that list to be solid watch law enforcement agency this is my brother 1st mortgage state in

africa i don't like this is affecting all the presidential debates. it's pretty forces in iraq have killed 3 protesters in the capital baghdad it takes the total number killed since the beginning of october to at least $329.00 demonstrators have been rallying against corruption and unemployment the government has responded by promising political and social reforms some on a full time isn't back that. it's been another violent day in about here square i spoke to several eyewitnesses both protesters as well as volunteer medics who say they. are one of the major purchase here in baghdad. where security forces the board both tear gas as well as live ammunition to discourse disperse protesters around and i also spoke to one of the volunteer medics in one of those makeshift clinics read that he had treated several injured protesters had received

i mean it's not it's important to say that some of the volatile also coming from the protesters there for one molotov cocktails in the direction of the security forces and also spoke to one protester was actually part of a group who had actually tried to capture and one of the members of the riot forces here now we're also seeing a lot of funeral processions today a lot of caskets being carried through here square with people company building a final farewell to those who have passed away yesterday in the marshes and of course these funerals for to galvanize the crowd for anger and as the crowd surged here into here square we're likely to see more confrontation. israel's prime minister says he will not step down after being charged with corruption offenses mention that yahoo has criticized investigators calling his indictment an attempted coup the attorney general charged netanyahu with bribery fraud and breach of trust and 3 cases very false reports from lustrous song. israel's president says his

country is going through harsh and dark days hard to detect perhaps in the autumn sunshine in west jerusalem the talk to a few of those making the most of it in the shadow of this political crisis is never far away the country has to be skewered it carefully and responsibly and we know you no one questions how responsible that stewardship is going to be in the coming months here for the 1st time a sitting israeli prime minister has been indicted for crimes he's alleged to have carried out while in office but there are still plenty of israelis who agree with him that the case is politically motivated they don't like trump. that they're going to get him just as the same thing with with bibi a lot people have enough of him where he's been there long enough that's it i'm not saying he is innocent not saying is guilty in a sense israelis have got used over many months to the details of these indictments the case has been set out at some length so to they've got used to netanyahu repeated attacks against the media and the legal establishment nonetheless what

happened on thursday night was particularly stark and it sent a political shockwave through this country and through a system already stressed to breaking point no functioning government the prospect of a 3rd election and a prime minister attacking the legal establishment as he fights to stay in office could go home as one member of the the polluted investigation against me erodes the public faith in the system they should worry every citizen we have to put an end to this israeli newspapers have featured editorials urging netanyahu to resign for the good of the country some calling on senior members of his own likud party to engineer it it's not a big chance or a big possibility but there might be some cracks within likud or cracks in the $55.00 bloc of the right maybe because the indictment now is final maybe there will be some cracks there this this could be the political influence of this indictment what's clear is that netanyahu intends to fight off all challenges to his. position

be they legal or political but if there's one thing he's learned in his decades in israeli politics it's how to survive al-jazeera west jerusalem. u.s. president says he wants a trial in the republican controlled senate if he's impeached by the house or an interview with fox news he insisted he's done nothing wrong he defended using his private i was a small boy rudy giuliani to work on ukraine policy because of his reputation as quote a great crime fighter house intelligence committee has wrapped up a 2nd week of impeachment hearings looking into accusations that trump pressured ukraine to investigate his political rivals carefully halkett has more from washington d.c. . the latest wording from the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is that yes if there is the drafting of the articles of impeachment by the house judiciary it's up to nancy pelosi to make sure then that goes to the floor of the house of

representatives that does appear the trajectory that it is taking and certainly one the donald trump has said he wants given the fact that the argument has been from the white house all to this point that they have not had an opportunity to defend the president but the real reason is that that chamber of the upper chamber in the u.s. congress is controlled by republicans the president's own party and that's where he feels in fact he spoke on fox and friends a conservative leaning morning show this morning where the president had a very long and winding interview where he says he doesn't expect that he will be impeached it's not a certainty though and so that's why he's been waging a charm offensive he's been fighting republicans to the white house kind of to try and make sure that they're on board backing him sam berger is vice president of democracy and government reform at the center for american progress a colleague adrian finnegan spoke to him earlier and asked about the strength of the testimonies certainly an explosive week of testimony that i think laid out a very clear case that the president has committed impeachable offenses perhaps the

the most shocking testimony came over wednesday and thursday 1st bastard who was trump's point person in ukraine basically saying that everyone was in on it the highest reaches of government were aware of what he was doing and signing off on it and then the next day with dr fiona hill coming to realization almost before our eyes that what she was doing namely running a process to protect american national security was not the primary focus in ukraine rather it was investor somberness efforts to obtain these investigations to help the president politically that was at least the white house's focus with respect to ukraine so given all of that why would the president. through his spokesman say that he would welcome an impeachment trial in the senate well i think obviously any sort of statement by this white house has to be taken with a grain of salt but i think in part what you saw alluding to was remember the point

of this was to try and join up investigations in order to help the president politically and what he's suggesting is he'd like to use the senate to do just that basically to attack his political rivals through the guise of combating corruption in a police commissioner has called on dozens of protesters who are still inside the university to leave the campus polytechnic university has been the sane of some of the worst violence and 6 months of protests many students have been entered in confrontations with police the commissioner says he wants a peaceful resolution to the occupation and local elections are being held in hong kong on sunday the voting is likely to be dominated by the struggle over the territory's relationship with mainland china and that's having a big impact on the economy as more businesses are choosing sides robin pride has more. this election is not only a battle at the ballot box but also with the cash registers in this polarized society months of unrest have changed how people spend. this restaurant is

a so-called yellow ribbon business opposed to the government and at lunch times it's overflowing with pro-democracy customers. this chain of tea shops also publicizes its pro-democracy views giving people the chance to express them as with each visit student kyle learn only spends his money in places that support the protest movement my friends are very aware of well wisher up restaurants we go to we shall we go to yeah but yes we were very conscious about that i'm not quite sure about it in fact but we are trying to do what we can do at the moment you know to just to help with the situation to like express our demands in this highly charged atmosphere expressing your political views can invite attack. and much has been directed against businesses with links to mainland china. so-called blue ribbon

businesses those that are seen as supporting the government or the police have borne the brunt of protesters and the promise stablished one camp says it's contributed to hong kong slipping into recession and that the slump will continue as long as the unrest goes on. campaigning to keep his seat as a pro establishment district councillor come on fung has experienced that anger 1st hand. his party's office has been ransacked. and he was a stab proof vest below his shirt where he's campaigning i really do sad because just about 6 months ago it was our 1st save city you know the economic was very good but we still have to get by rest but nowadays people lost all their hopes we just we don't know how but they still next step we don't know how to stop the violence help stop the camping. whatever the results of sunday's election the

underlying causes of homecomings and resta like them to remain and businesses will have to navigate through and the economic fallout. broad al-jazeera hong kong japan and south korea appear to have reached a deal on intelligence sharing after months of escalating tensions south korea said it extended increment just hours before it was set to expire japan now says it will resume trade discussions with seoul tokyo increased taxes on south korean chemical products during the dispute robert professional of international relations office on national university says north korea seems to have made a series of concessions. south koreans seem to give on 2 things today the 1st is taking japan for the dead b.t.o. over export controls that were imposed earlier this year and then over the military sharing agreement it's not clear yet i don't want to sort of jump the gun it's going to be a contentious issue here in south korea but it looks like the south koreans flints

and if i had to guess why it's because the south koreans are also involved at this very moment in our increasingly tough fight with the americans over burden sharing dahlan trump would like the south koreans to pay substantially more than they have in the past for the stationing of u.s. forces in korea and i have the feeling that president moon of south korea thought that fighting a 2 front war with both the japanese and the americans at the same time when these things are calm late because the americans want this deal with japan also i think it was all just too much and we just sort of are treated on the on the lesser issues so he could improve his position on the bigger one of the americans. still ahead on al-jazeera. was the last. button on slater's put on a show of unity on national day as protesters call for rio and independence class but the black market cards are what has killed people and made them sick so that to me is the biggest misconception. yes tobacco companies insist their products are safe as the government considers a ban. how

they were after taste of wintry weather still to be cold just a few days ago in a large part of southern china it's walked off a bit now the sun's still reasonably strong so temperature is a reason of it 19 shanghai $27.00 hong kong 16 inches and we won't see the cold return immediately it's being kept a long way north but we've got cloud developing once more so rain will return at least some parts of china and shintoists to and shanghai things warmed up a little bit on the sun is the thing by days don't back cold at night either equally there's a change in the weather type and it's a very obvious one up through pakistan more especially afghanistan in the foothills of the himalayas that's right and of course snow is on its way through at the moment so the picture by saturday is going to be one of remnant showers of rain or

snow of course and the cloud trailing off for the rest of india so there is back in the sunshine again hopefully some of these starting to remove one little bit but the winds not that strong to be honest on the potential arabian peninsula the temperatures the slowly rising we haven't lost a shot this is a case at least in qatar and in riyadh which breezy potentially shari you know man . this to say. you'll be sure africa middle east. to a stage made. a claim should still makes the state of the company splits to. be excited to be sure to say. to.

this feel. good. watching al-jazeera let's recap our top stories right now iraqi security forces have shot 3 protesters dead in baghdad our test against corruption unemployment and poor public services began in early october. prime minister says corruption charges against him are a coup attempt benjamin netanyahu is facing bribery fraud and breach of trust allegations and us president trump says the impeachment inquiry is a sham he insists he's done nothing wrong and would welcome a trial in the senate if the house votes to impeach. military parades have given

way to protest marches lebanon marks its 76th and dependence day demonstrators have gathered in downtown beirut they have been calling for political and economic change these are live pictures for you the protests began last month over new taxes and a failing economy prime minister saad hariri has resigned but protesters are demanding a complete overhaul of a sectarian political system. has more from beirut. it is a mixture of celebration most well as maybe it's a determination or an in systems blocks of this uprising that many here are considered to be a revolution continues for. not wanting to the 2nd month of these protests the more the crowd over a few on the come are just on a basis for the past hour or so has been a parade rather than the normal military parade that you would have it is a civil parade made up of different that's

a battalions consisting of different sectors of lebanese society one of those who participated in this assault on your shoes your public policy expert you've been to dissipate in the protests very vocal about it tell me what's your view why this is the. anniversary of for independence this year what makes it different from having your. namely that it's there the bowl have reclaimed their lands people have reclaimed ownership of public spaces there are presenting civs of what it means to have her presented to it for the 1st time in the lebanese history that we have a full on revolution and at some point that word was contested and some people are saying it's demonstrations and revolution is seeking to uproot the entire political system the banking system the social system it's all everyone here is demonstrating against. the social people and chile is taking

a heavy toll on private and public property including a shopping hall in santiago which burned down on thursday night while most protesters were peaceful some have resorted to looting and arson i want america to listen him and has more from santiago. anger seems to be the common denominator among chilean protesters who've been on the streets for 5 weeks. but not all express that anger the same way some do it by going into battle again. riot police armed with stones sticks and even molotov cocktails they describe themselves as the front line of defense. i'm here to defend our people against police repression that's who we've come to fight. the vast majority are young like one in peril not their real names. it's unfair that we've had to resort to these extremes to be heard we protested peacefully for years and only now that there's upheaval does the state take notice both are 17 year old students from

a public secondary school who want to go to university but both of their parents are still struggling to pay off their own studies. my mother is $39.00 and she still owes $9000.00 it's terrible it's a case in water health all of a person's bicycle needs our business here and that's why we're so angry. they say the only use violence against security forces not to destroy property. but there is another type of protest or the kind that justifies for example the looting of this wholesale supermarket and not just looting but also other types of destruction and violence as a means to an end. according to the government criminal gangs and drug traffickers are responsible for around 30 percent of the widespread damage to public and private property. but who of the rest many are young men and women from santiago's

poor neighborhoods where anger has been simmering for decades. also not their real names describe themselves as radical opponents of chile's socially unequal system but. it's a system to make. well the upper class accumulates more well. they're marginally station people look down on us because it will be when the better if they distrust you no matter how hard you work or try your shot out. way that madea wanted to study architecture but instead says she was lucky just to get a job as a security guard in a posh uptown building now they say it's time for the political and economic establishment to feel safe here but i guess i will need to be shaken from their comfort zone they better not think i will just go and march down the street with signs and go back to sleep in our beds let them feel afraid to direct action to force social change. they know they risk prison if they're caught destroying

property or attacking police but like a great many of those who vent their rage like this they seem convinced that as things stand now they have little to lose you see in human scent. after years of protests and political turmoil voters and guinea bissau our hoping sunday's presidential election will finally lead to pace but the samaria mario was once another term despite failing to stabilize the economy and it with a growing illegal drug trade nicholas hawke reports from the outskirts of the capital. a last ditch effort to cling on to power in this campaign incumbent president joseph vos calls himself a man of the people the one that 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 veer 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 fast 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 was 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 no drugs will intervene. is about to become the 1st president of getting the south to complete

his mandate but as the campaign comes to close he seems even more determined to hold on to power by any means possible for as long as he can. talk al jazeera. versus calling the you not on calling on the united kingdom and calling them an illegal colonial occupier that's after the u.k. missed a deadline to return the silence the united nations gave britain 6 months to get archipelago back to morris britain kept the islands after marriage has gained independence then in the 1970 s. it forced the people living there to leave so that the us could build an air base there she says it was forced to give up the islands the prime minister marsh has condemned the u.k.'s an action the united kingdom cannot profess to be a champion of the rule of law and human rights why is maintaining an illegal clue in your administration in part of the territory of lucious and preventing the

return to the shadows. of the former inhabitants it forcibly removed 5 decades ago thereby being in clear violation of international law. relations between ukraine and russia appear to be improving ahead of talks scheduled for next month president. vladimir putin has been working to reduce tension and. now. while his name is often being mentioned in washington that donald trump's impeachment inquiry ukraine's president appears focused on signalling that the conflict with russia must and blow to mere zelinsky unveiled a bridge that's been rebuilt and a community on the front line in eastern ukraine government forces and russian backed separatists blamed each other for destroying it 4 years ago observers hope the new bridge is an optimistic sign stating it wasn't a meeting this should be a serious truce and serious cease fire where there is no shooting that's how i

understand it there must be a serious agreement with clear terms and obligations the bridge over the din that's river is one of 5 that ukrainian civilians can use to cross into territory controlled by separatists they control the eastern parts of dinette and the const russian speaking areas known as the don't boss part of the 7 percent of ukraine under control of russia and its allied forces. in another sign of thawing relations russia return 3 ukrainian navy vessels captured last year although stripped of their communications and navigation equipment. russian border guards fired on the gun boats a year ago and captured $24.00 ukrainian sailors. the incident in the current strait was so serious then president petro poroshenko declared martial law apparently fearing an all out russian invasion. since russian troops invaded and annex the crimea region 5 years ago at least 13000 people have been killed and almost 30000 wounded thor sankoh successor says he's determined to revive the peace

process the kremlin released the captured sailors a couple of months ago followed by both sides beginning to withdraw from frontline areas in eastern ukraine accumulations against me could q what's my relationship with zelinsky like i don't have one i've never met him we don't know each other we've talked on the phone i think he's a nice and honest person and i really believe that he wants to change the situation for the better including in dumbass soon the focus will turn away from impeachment hearings and symbolic handovers to a summit planned in paris on december the 9th that's when ukraine russia france and germany will discuss how to end the conflict once and for all enter schapelle al-jazeera. this president is set to meet leaders from the cigarette end history after he announces plans to introduce a ban on most of a ping products at all though that's what the faith in business health advocates are hoping he follows through a balance on the reports from gaithersburg maryland. a man in

a cowboy hat relaxing in the countryside with a cigarette dangling from his lips that's all smoking was portrayed back in the 1960 s. in a commercial for barbara's cigarettes highlighting the taste of a cigarette the comic add ins with the words come to where the flavor is more than 50 years later smoking has changed a lot to back users can now smoke through electronic devices it's called beeping and according to the world health organization 41000000 people do it at vapor worldwide in maryland a store that sells all things babying that means business was good with record sales thanks to more than 100 customers a day but that all changed quickly and now we can be as low as 30 to about 60 on the i haven't seen more than 62 people in one day since september 11th that's the day president donald trump announced he was considering banning some forms of

a ping response to several high profile deaths attributed to it at issue is the flavored electronic babying liquid that makes up the different flavors that makes it so popular this is what trump is considering banning here at this baby shop they sell hundreds of different kinds of flavors of the liquid there's blueberry banana mango iced berries lemon just to name a few eric the owner says that the perception that this is dangerous is simply wrong when we read the headlines that people are dying from east cigarettes invading that connotates that they're dying from this from vaporing nicotine liquids nicotine liquids that are regulated. by the f.d.a. we know what's inside here but the black market courts are what has killed people and made them sick so that to me is the biggest misconception but some health advocates in the u.s. disagree and are encouraging trump to ban babying the american lung association

knows that the only thing anyone should inhale into their wangs is clean air and tragically we've had misperceptions and misconceptions coming from the cigarette industry official advice in places like the u.k. remains that babying is much safer than smoking regular cigarettes but the future of the e cigarette industry in the u.s. is now in the hands of president trump gabriels on doe al-jazeera gaithersburg maryland. this is al jazeera let's take out the headlines for you now araki security forces have shot 3 protesters dead in baghdad a test against corruption unemployment and poor public services began in early october when a fulton is in baghdad. i spoke to several eyewitnesses both protesters as well as

volunteer medics say they. are one of the major bridges here in baghdad near our bridge where security forces the board both tear gas as well as live ammunition to discourse disperse protesters around and i also spoke to one of the volunteer medics in one of those makeshift clinics read me that he had treated several injured protesters who had received live ammunition now it's important to say that some of that coming from the protesters israel's prime minister says corruption charges against him are a coup attempt mentioned at yahoo is facing bribery fraud and breach of trust allegations and u.s. president ronald trump says the impeachment inquiry is a sham insists he's done nothing wrong and says he would welcome a trial in the senate if the house votes to impeach him japan and south korea appear to have reached a deal on intelligence sharing after months of escalating tensions south korea said it would extend an agreement just hours before it was set to expire japan now says

it will resume trade negotiations with seoul tokyo had increased taxes on south korean chemical products during the dispute i am tell you how many they need to handle north korea the cooperation of japan and south korea along with the cooperation with the u.s. is extremely important as i have said this repeatedly i think south korea has also made this decision based on a strategic point of view. parades have given way to protest marches levanon barks at 76 and dependence day demonstrators are gathered in downtown beirut you can see that it's live pictures even calling for political and economic change protests began last month over new taxes and a failing economy are the headlines keep it here earth crisis next.

in conflicts one of the silent and forgotten casualties is often the environment. from the chemical contamination of soils and the collapse of water and food supplies to the habitat damage caused by displacement. all has devastating consequences. manmade infrastructure has but also natural ecosystems are destroyed and i'm a lives are lost as well as human. but even amidst the most vicious struggles

through people fighting to protect the world we live in and recover what was lost. i'm tanya a sheet.