different perspectives separate the speech from the facts. with the listening post on. more questions for the white house over ukraine the state department is forced to release documents show trucks personal lawyer was in close contact with the secretary of state. kerry this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up heavy rains trigger landslides in western kenya killing dozens of people and washing away roads. and pressure on the french government activist a man tougher laws to stop violence against women. and a campaign of fear and for routine opposition activists accuse security forces of intimidation ahead of elections the government rejects those claims.

to be a state department has released records related to its dealings with ukraine the near $100.00 page document was only made public after a freedom of information lawsuit was brought by at the watchdog it confirms multiple contacts between secretary of state might pompei o n donald trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani earlier this year exchanges took place in the months before and then u.s. ambassador to ukraine maria bondage was recalled it supports testimony at the impeachment inquiry that senior officials were aware of efforts to pressure kiev into investigating shops rival joe biden john hendren has more from washington d.c. . those call logs confirm that official channels were used the us secretary of state was using the president's own assistant madeline wester house in order to contact rudy giuliani why is that important it's important because it confirms what

we've been hearing in the impeachment hearings in which it ministration officials have been saying there were essentially 2 channels for u.s. foreign policy one of them the official channel the other one essentially directed from the president through rudy giuliani and the goal of that seemed to have been as alleged in the impeachment inquiry that they were pressuring the president of the crane for a lot of years olinsky in order to launch an investigation into announce an investigation into joe biden and his son hunter biden and his role in an energy company there as we know this through the impeachment hearings through the testimony of gordon sondheim the u.s. ambassador to the european union who said basically everybody knew about this he named mike pompei o rudy giuliani make more of a meet the acting chief of staff in the administration so what this does is it add some paper confirmation to the verbal things we've been hearing in those impeachment hearings things that often the u.s.

administration has been denying. the fessor of international politics at the university of birmingham he says giuliani's calls to pompei were part of a plan to discredit joe biden has sent hunter amery upon a bitch. but the phone calls are not the most important things in the documents the phone calls on the 26 and the 29th of march between pompei enjoy johnny each was 4 minutes we don't know what was in the calls we just know they took place but what we do know from the other documents is that someone probably joy-ann his camp was giving the state department records of meetings that your yani his 2 associates indicted businessmen love parness and he got from and were meeting with the current and former prosecutor general's of ukraine in january in new york and the records of those meetings make explicit that the meetings were there to discredit joe biden and his son hunter or a board member on a ukrainian gas company and to discredit the u.s. investor memory of out of each who was subjected to 8 months on

a campaign of dissent from nation by giuliani till she was moved from her post in may now we don't have anything that says that those documents were specifically provided to pump a 0 but the day before pompei i was 2nd call with giuliani there was a time line prepared which set out all of the material about biden his son hunter and marie of on of it trying to set up in other words a paper trail for the secretary of state of these alleged alleged activities by biden and yavanna bitch that weren't in the best warranted an investigation by ukraine landslides in western kenya have killed at least 36 people at remote villages in the county of west pocket after heavy rains rescue efforts are on hold because bridges and roads have washed away more than 30 people are missing osca chis a local journalist covering the story he davis a sceptic. so far going to 2 people are missing and it doesn't know if it's him or

have been their comrades to know if. and when a village give in the book project and the local courts are prone to do that when. we've not actually been because of the day but the border within a bit county crowded lee we had about romero in the breach we have got thought and they think it is obvious about playing up in a bit on the back connect the area that by the happy because one of the beheaded down that is big even in the area is us president mike pence has arrived in iraq on an unannounced visit a says he spoke with the iraqi prime minister about the violent anti-government protests that have been going on for weeks demonstrators are angry over corruption and unemployment and for public services parliament is preparing to discuss a new electoral reform bill politicians are hoping this will calm the younger and says he has raised concerns about iranian influence and discuss the recent protests

regarding our conversations with prime minister ahmadi we we spoke about the un rest that's been taking place in recent weeks here in iraq he assured me that they were working. to avoid violence with the kind of repression that we see taking place even as we speak you know rahm and he he pledged to me that. they would work to. protect and respect peaceful protesters as a part of the democratic process here in iraq i also encouraged him to listen to those who are protesting and their calls for reform. in baghdad. this was an unannounced visit my the us vice president he arrived and he we are told is at the airbase that's in western iraq visiting u.s. troops there these are u.s. troops that lead the coalition that help the iraqi troops battle what remains of

the group eisel now it is very interesting timing because as you mentioned it comes at a time when there is this instability here because of these protests we've heard in the last few weeks the u.s. has called for government to actually hold early elections and implement these electoral reforms that we keep hearing the government talk about here but nonetheless we don't yet know if vice president pence is going to be meeting with the prime minister are that optimality there is one source we spoke to in the office of the prime minister who told us that he might meet him another source we spoke with said that the vice president may only call the prime minister it will be interesting to see how this plays out because if you'll recall just about 11 months ago u.s. president donald trump made a trip to an airbase while he was in iraq he spoke on the phone with the prime minister but he did not meet him and that was taken as a grievous offense by many adoptees who said that the u.s. president coming here and not visiting with officials in the government was really

something that not only was not expected but really could be seen as a bit of an insult so it will be interesting to see what exactly plays out how long this visit lasts and what will be accomplished during my princes visit there's been fighting between kurdish fighters and turkey back forces outside of key town in northern syria the attacks were carried out near. syrian government troops were deployed to the town after the u.s. troop withdrawal in october the kurdish side syrian democratic forces say turkish forces launched the attacks with tanks artillery and a large number of fighters. iran is restoring internet access after the government imposed a shut down last week in response to widespread protests that administrations followed a government increase in fuel prices by up to 200 percent amnesty international says more than 100 demonstrators had been killed by security forces a figure rejected by iran's government has away this from tehran as of this moment it's back up to 70 percent and that's up from 5 percent when it was shut down last

week that was following demonstrations and riots that took place as a result of the announcement by the government of a fuel price increase of up to 50 percent now that was a very sophisticated shutdown according to analysts that iran has made to shut down the internet inside the country stopping people from communicating outside of iran but the internal network inside the country still was up and running so banks transactions you could order taxis and absent access news websites within the country those are based inside the country but we still don't know how many people died during this last week now the official iranian 12 that's including security forces i'm just international has put the figure as over 100 now iran denies denies and rejects that figure but businesses have been affected to exchange currency exchanges travel agents people trying to communicate with family outside the country and iran says it was necessary to maintain stability in the country but

what they did manage to do is stop people communicating organizing and sharing videos of those demonstrations not only within iran but outside their own too. still ahead on al-jazeera reading 10 years for justice a court in the philippines is set to announce a verdict on a massacre plus a fragile truce is holding in sudan's red sea state as victims try to rebuild their lives. we have still got some unsettled weather in africa across the middle east at the moment so areas of cloud just rolling across iraq pushing into iran heading over towards afghanistan a possibility of some wintry flurries there over the higher ground we see some cloud was a possibility of specialty of rain coming through beirut still getting up to around 21 celsius in the sunshine on sunday as we go on into monday

a little more cloud just toppling across the eastern side of the but it's rainy and you can see there in cyprus for example italy's its way back across syria maybe you'll see getting into 11 in as well a little bit of cloud super she got it was a caspian it should be largely dry cold enough 7 or 8 celsius to terror and also into couples a little more cloud here but it should not see the snow at least easing away meanwhile across the raven peninsula we have got some bits and pieces of plowed into central parts of saudi arabia over towards the reds say so again a possibility of a special sea of lot right or drizzle for the race but the law's the clear and dry and sunny little cloud just pushing into the gulf as we go on into monday never seen a fair bit of cloud to the east the side of south africa recently with some lava shabbas here that making their way in some they sent the.

new talk an alaskan village rapidly losing ground roshan and falling permafrost its inhabitants forced to move to safer ground below the west 1st the. one that reads planets as it winds finds people struggling to cope with lights and suv and asks whether those who have the power to stop it appreciate the true cost of failing to act on al-jazeera. because the top stories right now. departments dealings with ukraine have now been made public they confirm contacts between secretary of state my pompei on donald

trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani earlier this year landslides in western kenya have killed at least 36 people they had several villages in the county and after heavy rain more than 30 people are still missing. u.s. vice president mike pence has arrived in iraq on an unannounced visit urged the iraqi prime minister to show restraint over a violent anti-government protests that rocked the country for weeks. in colombia have been out on the streets ignoring a curfew that was imposed by president yvonne touquet the move was announced to ease the anti-government movement protesters have been concerned about tax increases and a change to the pension system so far 3 people have died and dozens have been wondering in the demonstrations. he has more from the capital bogota. i woke up pretty much in tranquillity it looks like a normal saturday morning at least for now after today's unprecedented

demonstration protests and some cases of looting in parts of the city and after a night of curfew the 1st curfew in 42 years in and here in the capital hundreds of people defied the curfew and held. these protests in which they hit on the parts and on the streets and they've been chanting hours after the start of the curfew. dozens of them in front of the house of a president who came most of these protests are against his government that most people here believe the government hasn't done enough to implement a peace deal with fark rebels that was signed in 2016 hasn't done enough to defend the lives of social leaders indigenous leaders that are being killed and

alarming rates in many parts of the country there's also a konami issues and proposed reforms to the pension system and labor reforms that the people are protesting again there were calls for moat more protests this morning but nothing has happened yet where one at one of the gathering points but we haven't seen any any protesters arriving at this point a fragile truce is holding and south sudan's red sea state at least 6 people were killed in fighting this week but rival troops have now agreed to a 20 day truce hima morgan has more from right. a few days ago mohammed saleh was cleaning in the restaurant where he works when men carrying swords and knives and raided it and attacked him mohammad is a member of the tribe he says he was targeted because of his ethnicity what began

as a normal day at work and did with him in hospital contemplating living the rest of his life with a serious disability. that one minute because i was simply walking the tables when they entered the restaurant in large numbers they were from the had on the one tribe and they started attacking us one drew his sword and with one blow he cut off my hand ethnic violence broke out between the benny amad and the head then there were tribes in sudan's red sea state last week it was the latest incident in wave of outbreaks over the last 6 months health workers say more than 6 people were killed and more than a dozen injured. it started after an opposition leader returned to the state which had been under a state of emergency for nearly 3 months witnesses say people from his tribe celebrated his return but that provoked tension and fighting. who's from the head then to a tribe was among those wounded he says he was stabbed with a knife. i was waiting for transportation and suddenly i was it's on the backward

in life i did not know what the fighting at that sorry but everyone throughout their lives and source of fights. since june all right of violence here has killed nearly 100 people and left more than 250 wounded according to health workers 2 packs have been fined in the past 2 months to try and contain the tribal tension but people here say they are worried they are temporary solutions to problems that go back decades. the benyamin people live in eastern sudan and also parts of neighboring eritrea but for decades other tribes have viewed them as outsiders and they accuse them of backing sudan's former government ousted in april after months of anti-government protests and while that government may have gone the rivalry hasn't sudan's new transitional government says it's working to resolve the problem but it will take time. for now we are focusing on the security solution because of the regular outbreaks of fighting between the tribes but the solution to the long

term solution has to be political and that would need all sides to sit down and dialogue so while we were working on the political solution we were addressing this by securing an increase in forces in the state to contain the situation. how much says he hadn't expected to see such violence but he wasn't surprised it happened and he worries that have no political solution is found there will be more are bricks of violence and more lives lost people more going on just 0 or to down. elections and burundi are 6 months away but there are concerns over security opposition leaders say there is a climate of fear and intimidation against those who are critical of the governing party the u.n. has also issued a warning but the government tells al-jazeera the election will be free and fair catherine sawyer reports from bernie's commercial capital mission bora protected by america you can to cross memories of what happened 4 years ago remains low for this man he tells us his young son was shot by police while on his way to buy bread.

riots started in 2015. and one a 3rd tom that his opponent said was unconstitutional street protests a field vigilante like attacks and assassinations threatened to tear the country apart another election is due next year and the be real father says people are still being intimidated by security forces and members of the ruling party you've been called in born and. numb when i'm talking to you is putting me at risk if the police know what i'm talking on my me because fine don't and i can be arrested kill . people here have not forgotten buddhas he street of war at this ceremony they celebrate men and women who fought in another conflict in the 1990 s. the fighting stopped after an armed opposition group brought president to power he

promised civil liberties ethnic cohesion and improving people's livelihoods at the height of the conflict people could not use this word because of them and by president and other of illusionary craighead. and keeping the country relatively stable but now people accuse him of they were right for almost 2 years ago. all the. i just have one word they just need to. repent. spreading and. they're not here. and it is now and what evolution and what progress the people have made. some opposition leaders say breaux indians have no freedom to express themselves many have been forced into exile and independent media organizations remain shut

many people in the musician. just trampling on the constitution and nothing. they trying to to say to us peace only seen the day of the and its allies and. priests. this father who lost his son so brutally hopes politics will not drive the country to the edge again catherine saw al-jazeera. thousands of people are marching in paris demanding the french government take tougher action on violence against women a report released this month found police and the justice system often failed to protect women activists say this year alone at least 130 women were killed by a current or former partner and friends and they say attitudes need to change about their reports. joanna tilly thought she'd finally escape her violent partner when

she moved out of their home with their children she'd suffered years of abuse but then one day in september he killed or join his friends in the northern french city of love say her murder made them determined to help other victims of domestic violence so they teamed up and launched a telephone helpline they've been flooded with calls. when we saw how joanna had tried hard to get help her death made us think we have to do something we have to be heard there are some organizations that help but it's not enough. in our city join a story touched our shocked many people to raise the awareness we hope our suspicion will get people talking and. it was outside her local supermarket there joanna tilly was fatally stabbed by her former partner in front of her 3 young children just weeks before her murder she filed a complaint with police but they've done little to help. a woman is killed by her

partner or ex partner every other day in france many others face daily physical sexual and emotional abuse campaigners say that even though violence against women is widespread police judges and prosecutors rarely take it seriously every woman know because she heard that sure not nobody is going to listen to her though there is already the culture that if you go to the police you're not going to be understood you're not going to be listened and your case is going to be closed. for months sees activists in paris have been running an underground campaign after dark they put up antiviolence feminist messages in the street as. people realize that this is mass killing disguised as crimes of passion one of our messages says you will never kill because of love so we're raising public awareness and often women who are suffering violent tell us these messages help them to. the french government is working. no new legislation to tackle violence against women but

campaigners say the proposals so far failed to address the root causes of abuse they say what's needed is to change attitudes to women and better educate children and adults domestic abuse often thrives because it is hidden these striking messages of bringing the problem out into the open where it can't be ignored natasha partner al-jazeera paris after 10 years families are the victims of a massacre in the philippines may finally get justice 58 people traveling in a convoy in the south were killed by a group of gunmen bill allen duggan reports from manila. it is the single deadliest attack against journalists in global history and one of the philippines the worst incidents of political violence on the vendor 232-0098 group of gunmen working for a powerful political clan in the southern philippines herded everyone in the convoy to a hilltop and executed them $58.00 people were killed $32.00 of them were journalists

they were on their way to cover a local electoral event they were shot multiple times and were buried in mass graves using a back hole the basic facts of the case are undisputed the armed men were working for the powerful empire too and clan state forces were also implicated the harder. they shut my wife said back in times they shot her on her breast her prey big bird such and they were going to be cruelty my siblings were killed to expect nothing more than a conviction for all the major suspects at the very least when it happened we all saw the. without the joke go went into our just popping. it was a violence that shocked the international community. and yet 10 years on not

a single conviction has been made 'd this is a case that has been complicated from the beginning with over 300 sauce facts over 100 of them are in jail but over 18 of the accused remain at large the judge hearing the case as the supreme court for more time and the high court has granted her request giving her until december 23rd under it is that. journalists and activists remember there's own cawley they hope for a conviction for all suspects the see it will act like a beam of light at a time of political darkness 2 governments have come and gone but the culture of impunity continues this spike to being threatened with their lives filipino journalists continue to hold the powerful accountable with courage and conviction. and al-jazeera manila security is being stepped up ahead of hong kong's local

council elections on sunday the ballot bowl is months of often violent anti-government protests and rest was triggered by a proposed extradition bill but has since been scrapped a record $4000000.00 people have registered to vote and vote is seen as a major indication of public feeling towards mainland china robert briber ports. coming amid unprecedented unrest everyone agrees this will be an election like no other. many seats are being contested by a new generation of candidates some molded by the protest movement. and wing an independent is out on bail after being arrested and charged for unlawful assembly. where people have been paying close attention to the process the excessive use of force by police and the arrests and they've been studying the views of the candidates on these things and making up their minds in a city of 7000000 people

a record 4000000 have registered to vote. it's tough we don't know which side to take but beijing's in charge in any case the all signs indicate that the pro-democracy party is poised to win a big victory come to go this is important for hong kong people it's like an opinion poll normally dominated by local issues this election will instead focus on the much bigger question of hong kong's relationship with mainland china with pro china parties having the majority of seats up for election they are seen as having the most to lose given the groundswell of anti-government feeling pro-democracy candidates are contesting every seat with thousands of new young voters registering for the 1st time the probe ageing camp seems to be bracing itself for losses this year the elections have been highly politicized and violence have become

a central issue and there are people for and against so local issues sidelined campaigning on streets the bad the scars of months of unrest leo chu is a candidate for the democratic party. he's not hopeful about the chances of this vote forcing the government to concede don't any of the protesters demands i do not have a very strong and not the mistake of mine about they were kept out to be both they both. these are national but that's right it can provide a heavy and important matches to the international community that and people but people are thinking in hong kong. this pilot will likely prove the strength of feeling in this deeply polarized city the question then will be watching impact it has on the escalating violence of macbride al jazeera how come. people on the pacific island of bogun fell a voting in

a referendum to decide on and dependence or greater autonomy within pop on new guinea crowds marched in the strait celebrating the start of this long awaited vote polls will stay open for 2 weeks to ensure those in remote areas will get their say the result is expected and december. i'm richelle carey these are the headlines on al-jazeera records of the u.s. state department's dealings with ukraine have now been made public they confirm contacts between secretary of state mike pompei o n donald trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani earlier this year john hunter has more from washington d.c. . those call logs confirm that official channels were used the u.s. secretary of state was using the president's own assistant madeline wester house in order to contact rudy giuliani why is that important it's important because it confirms what we've been hearing in the impeachment hearings in which ministration

officials have been saying there were essentially 2 channels for u.s. foreign policy one of them the official channel the other one essentially directed from the president through rudy giuliani landslides in western kenya have killed at least 36 people they had several remote villages in the county of was spoken after heavy rains rescue efforts on hold because bridges and roads have been washed away more than 30 people are still missing. as vice president mike pence has arrived in iraq on an unannounced visit the urge the iraqi prime minister to show restraint as anti-government protests continue. at iran is restoring internet access after the government imposed a shutdown last week and response to widespread protests demonstrations began after the government increased fuel prices by up to 200 percent adam sandler national says more than 100 demonstrators have been killed by security forces iran's

government though rejects that they care protests in colombia have been out on the street protesters that is ignoring a curfew that was imposed by the president a found 2 k. the move was announced to ease the anti-government movement or testers have been concerned about tax increases and a change to the pension system so far 3 people have died and dozens have been wounded in the demonstrations. thousands of people are marching in paris demanding the french government take tougher action against domestic violence a report released this month found police and the justice system often fail to protect activists say this year alone at least 131 men were killed by a current or former partner in france as are the headlines keep it here planet s.o.s. that's at next. on

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