iraq. more questions for the white house over ukraine the state department is forced to release documents that show trump's lawyer was in close contact with the secretary of state. and our intake of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up dozens killed and dozens more feared missing after landslides sweep away villages in western kenya. u.s. vice president mike pence makes an unannounced visit to iraq to reassure kurdish allies 2 months after the u.s. pullout from syria. and tribal trouble in sudan's red sea state as

a curfew fails to calm tensions. oh the u.s. state department has released records related to its dealings with ukraine they were made public after a lawsuit by an ethics watchdog the documents confirmed multiple contacts between ukraine sector state. and president all trumps personal lawyer rudy giuliani it supports testament at the impeachment inquiry that senior officials were in the loop on efforts to pressure kids into investigating trump's presidential rival joe biden john hendren has more from washington. the cast of president donald trump's ukraine pressure campaign grows ever wider 100 pages of newly released state department documents show that secretary of state mike pump aoe spoke to president trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani twice in march that was shortly before u.s.

ambassador to ukraine maria vonn of h. was removed from office scott lucas says it's not hard to win for when they were talking about but the day before pompei 0 2nd call with giuliani there was a time line prepared which set out all of the material about biden his son hunter and maria on a bitch 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 wouldn't have just wanted an investigation by ukraine the impeachment inquiry is looking into whether the white house engaged in a coordinated campaign to withhold nearly $400000000.00 in military aid to ukraine until the president of vacuum tree publicly announced that he would investigate president trump's chief political rival former vice president joe biden president trump denies that accusation i want nothing. that's what i want for you that's what i said i want nothing the newly released documents support this damning statement

from embassador gordon sunland was there a quid pro quo the answer is yes everyone was in the loop we kept the leadership. the state department and the n.s.c. informed of our activities and that included communications with secretary of state pompei o. the state department had refused to give those documents they were obtained through a freedom of information lawsuit by the watchdog group american oversight now senate democrats are asking pompei oh in a letter to recuse himself from the state department's response to the impeachment inquiry pump aoe was quick to respond i'm not going to accuse myself from this i know precisely what american policy was with respect to ukraine i was working on it and i'm incredibly proud of what we've accomplished also joining in the circle of those implicated in the presidential pressure campaign is the president's top defender in the impeachment inquiry republican devin nunez clearly these little

chris accusations don't reflect committee members who are honestly searching for the truth on saturday reports emerge suggesting nunez met with a disgraced former ukrainian prosecutor to find dirt on biden that is according to a lawyer for a businessman live parness indicted for his role in working with giuliani to prompt a ukrainian investigation of biden and his son if true the circle of all the president's men in the ukraine campaign just got bigger john hendren washington. gave his own he joins us now from washington so why do things stand with impeachment proceedings in congress. well lawmakers are away on the thanksgiving holiday they won't be back until december 3rd but the steps going forward are little bit confusing but it is sensually boils down to this that it will now go from the house intelligence committee to the house judiciary committee but 1st the

house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff will have to write a report that we expect could be in the next few days perhaps weeks we don't know he has no particular deadline to issue that report but that is the next step it will then go to the house judiciary committee and this is key because the judiciary committee in the house of representatives will den decide if they write articles of impeachment against president donald trump what is that that's accent chile the charges against the president trump if they do that then it would go potentially to a boat of the full house of representatives the democrats have a huge advantage on that there they have $233.00 democrats in the house compared to $197.00 republicans all they would need is a simple majority and that would be the final step in impeachment when would all of this happen democrats are signaling privately that they're hoping to have this vote but 10 chilly before the end of december and that with all that what are the

chances now that could be removed from office. it's important to remember this is a 2 step process and even if and that's a big if the house of representatives votes to impeach president donald trump that does not necessarily mean he is removed from office it would then go to the senate and the senate is controlled by republicans republicans that are quite frankly very loyal to the president and then there would be a trial in the senate trial could last 2 to 3 weeks uncertain and then there would be a vote in the senate to see if they remove donald trump or not that will be very key because he essentially could be impeached by the house but not voted out of office by the senate that's a very real likely scenario in fact by a lot of the close washington watchers that have been watching this closely there's no indication so far that any senators would vote to remove donald trump are i'm

sorry any republican senators would vote to remove donald trump out of office but it's still unclear as again it would have to go to a trial that could last $2.00 to $3.00 weeks or so so we're still several steps away several months away before we potentially get to that gave ritzer to thank you very much. and it was put to austin and has exacted a hit they watched all group american oversight which obtained the release of these latest documents the most important evidence i think is the direct paper trail connecting not just rudy giuliani to mike pompei or multiple times but doing so via the oval office one of these calls was set up by donald trump's personal secretary who has been referred to in the past past as his gate keeper that's new evidence we didn't have that before and it shows that donald trump was using the power of the presidency to further rudy giuliani scheme which at the time of these e-mails and

call which was march of this year seems to focus on the smear campaign against the sitting united states and vaster necessary extraordinary thing to think about the president of the united states the secretary of state of the united states were castrating the smear campaign against a sitting u.s. and master but the other person is just that these documents have never gone to congress american oversight got them because we could go to court but the congress has not received them which just underscores how my company or any administration writ large has been obstructing congress and he's 36 people have been killed by a landslide in western kenya heavy rains caused overnight flooding in several remote villages in the west precut region rescue efforts have been put on hold because bridges and roads have been washed away more than 30 people are missing the whole thought is said the disaster is unprecedented osca is a medical journalist covering the story and that as this update. so far going to 2

people are missing and total up to 4 have been recovered to get a plan for iraq and when a village gives in the thoughtful quote and then before the punky in there with don't see we've not. been because all day but the borrowed to within a bit found the patently we had that romero in the brig we got thought and they figured the obvious about playing up and i bet on the back the area that plays out to be quote beheaded down for that it is a big hit in the area. u.s. vice president mike pence has made an unannounced visit to iraq where he's met the leader of the country's kurdish region president on. a senior u.s. official says the trip is to reassure iraqi kurds they remain washington's allies

last month turkey no watched an offensive into kurdish territory in syria not long after the u.s. withdrew most of its forces from the region and the offense landed at base he says he dressed the ongoing protests in a call with iraq's prime minister regarding our conversations with prime minister ahmadi we we spoke about the under arrest that's been taking place in recent weeks here in iraq. he assured me that they were working. to avoid violence were the kind of repression that we see taking place even as we speak you know rahm and he he pledged to me that the that they would work to. protect and respect peaceful protesters as is a part of the democratic process here in iraq i also encourage them to listen to those who are protesting and their calls for reform. meanwhile one person has been

killed in the capital baghdad when security forces tried to stop protesters from reaching the central bank. and the. security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters a number of people were injured some demonstrators threw molotov cocktails and stones at least 330 people have been killed since precious began in early october sparked by anger at widespread corruption and mass on hold. at least 10 people have been killed in a car bombing in the northern syrian border city of tell a bid several more were wounded in the attack in an industrial area of the city which is controlled by turkish backed fighters to libya has seen some of the heaviest fighting since the turks launched a military offensive against kurdish y.p. g. forces along the border last month israel's opposition leader benny gantz has once again called on prime minister benjamin netanyahu to resign over corruption charges

for is netanyahu saying on friday he would not step down over the 3 indictments calling them an attempted coup imran khan has more from tel aviv. well against time to statement perfectly full the evening news and this was very much a message not just to the israeli electorate but to the likud party he said itself he actually spoke in that building just behind me here in the television expo center where he had an offer for prime minister benjamin netanyahu take a look at what he had to say. surely a call for unity government is a lodge is possible i will be the prime minister for the fish as well netanyahu can deal with his legal issues if cleared he can come back as prime minister this is the only way to prevent an unnecessary election. so the idea is that the prime minister benjamin netanyahu will be appalled all of the government but he won't have any ministries and certainly won't be prime minister instead many guns just

adjusting is that he fights his court cases and then studies result that they can take a look at any idea of a power sharing agreement and anything that might take place in the future between the good and the blue and white party whether that's going to be acceptable to netanyahu remains to be seen but the entire game at the moment seems to be avoiding a 3rd election we're in a period of about 17 days left where any member of the knesset can try and form a government if that doesn't happen then the country goes to the election which is what all the politicians seemingly are trying to avoid so this was not a generous offer to netanyahu but very practical one to try and avoid going to a 3rd election that see what the prime minister has to say about this he's also under a tremendous amount of pressure from within his own the crew party as well gideon saw is a pretender to these really throwing and he says he wants the likud party to have a primary election internal election and to choose

a new leader and to move on with the process of forming a government so netanyahu under a tremendous amount of pressure right. more still to come including how a student protest in india over commendation prices has raised questions about the affordability of a university education. internet in iran is back online and wake up to the government shut down the service in response to a wave of protests. hello again to welcome back well here across parts of southeastern australia as well as towards the east we're still dealing with the bush fires that are burning across the region now we had fun fun about to push through and of course sydney was dealing with some lower visibilities because of the haze as well as the fire crown across much of that area where we're going to be seeing though is the temperatures

over the next few days they are going to be making their way up across much of the area for adelaide though your temperatures are coming up as well $32.00 is expected high as we go towards monday but for sydney expect to see still hazy conditions as we go from sunday to monday and by the time we get towards tuesday our next round of rain is expected in the forecast there well for new zealand things are going to be quite nice over the next few days but we're going to see a big drop in temperatures particularly down here for christ church forecasts here as we go toward sunday 25 degrees so it's a very nice day as we and the weekend monday though completely different temperature 15 degrees is going to be a high up towards auckland though a fairly nice day for you at 21 degrees there and then very quickly appear towards japan we are looking at very messy weather a weather system is coming in off the sea of japan bring some very heavy rain over the next few days and for tokyo your temperatures are going to be about $22.00 degrees but it is going to be heavy rain across much of the area there.

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of the top stories. department has released records related to its dealings with ukraine documents confirm multiple contacts between ukraine. and president. at least 36 people have been killed by a landslide in western kenya dozens more feared missing heavy rains caused in several remote villages in the region. and. made an unannounced visit to iraq the leader of the country's kurdish region. a senior u.s. official says the trip is to reassure iraqi kurds they remain. at a government protests are continuing in colombia for a 3rd consecutive day hundreds of protesters were dispersed. following an overnight curfew and isolated looting in the capital bogota president even ordered the curfew but thousands gathered on friday night in defiance taking part in demonstrations 3

people were killed in connection with alleged looting. protests. he is in bogota. for us 3rd consecutive day protesters took to the streets of bogota small groups of a few 100 in different parts of this year they were protesting demonstrating peacefully but every time they tried to start marching towards downtown they were confronted by the police in particularly the largest group or close to the center. one of the main parks in the city were attacked by the police as they were marching and we also were there gas canisters were flying on the crowd and also the police used to stun grenades and people start running away towards the hills and we've seen this happening over and over again

throughout the afternoon it also happened once again in the center of town close to class a volley of our which has been the epicenter of these protests but people are telling us that the one to continue protesting and that they will continue demonstrating this fight this continues confrontations with the police the mayor. didn't say if there will be a 2nd curfew after the one that was imposed on friday night so we're going to have to this to see what the decision is there but he did make a reference to some of the looting and vandalism that we've seen in past days and he said this has nothing to do with spontaneous protests but instead he's convinced he said that behind the there's a political leaders who he said are arcus treating

a plan to create panic in the city and across colombia. in bolivia congress has passed a bill paving the way for new elections it's hoped the developments will be a political breakthrough after weeks of violent protests in the country over its contested october election which saw former president ever we're on is going to exile in mexico rana sanchez has more from the capitol up as. well the bill to call the elections was approved unanimously in congress after a heated debate now the interim president will enact it to begin the process of selecting members for the electoral tribunal and set a date for a new election. will give new look to. the next government cannot be abusive either with the rural or urban people it has to be neutral to manage the country well but if it's favors one or the other it will be lost. part of the demands made by members of the mass party that's it will more or less as party was to take the

military off the streets in turn the government wanted no more protests now streets have been quieter here in the past few hours after this past week clashes between protesters and the police and the army left 8 people dead here now the government wants all road blocks to be lifted to allow passage of food and fuel around the country but there are still many roadblocks that need to be cleared many parts of the traffic is fluid food is slowly making its way into stores but here there are long queues of people waiting to get gas and many here say they're not happy. things are not well yet we're not getting gas the government doesn't care we're being discriminated against not only here in the us on in other places around the country there are cars long lines of cars and trucks queuing up to get gas however here many people are saying that the approval of this bill to call elections is

giving them the confidence that now the country begins to move forward. at least 6 people are being killed in fighting between crimes in the sudanese state of red sea bottom so broken out sporadically over the last 6 months in the region who forces have imposed a curfew but many say they want action to end their own rest him a morgan has more from port sudan in the state of ritzy. a few days ago mohammed 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 benny ahmed a 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. they're going with this i was simply walking the tables when they entered the restaurant in large numbers they were from the head on the one tribe and they started attacking us one drew his sword and with one blow it 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 or the i was waiting for transportation and suddenly i was it's on the backward in life i did not know what some of the fighting of that sorry but everyone throughout their lives and source of fights. since june sporadic violence here has killed nearly 100 people and left more than 250 wounded according to health workers 2 pac's have been fined in the past 2 months to try and contain the

tribal tensions with people here say they are worried they are temporary solutions to problems that go back decades. the 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 bad governments may have gone their 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. mohamad salleh 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 so down thousands of people have been marching across france to highlight the problem of domestic violence against women france has one of europe's highest rates of domestic violence so far this year 116 women have been killed by current or former partners report released this month found that french police and the justice system often failed to protect women. students at one of india's capital's leading universities have been protesting against a propose housing fee hike they say most of the students are poor and can't afford an increase they also allege that the indian government wants to privatize higher education making it difficult for many to attend universities i'm sure has more from new delhi. thousands of students gathered in the heart of new delhi and

demanded their right to affordable education they have been protesting for weeks since the university decided to increase the fee for their accommodation their leaders say as many as 40 percent of the students come from families who struggle to make a living. and is a ph d. student who says he is the 1st in his family to get a university education he credits the local magician piece for his success if not better if public funding is a person must know that i would not be able to walk through probably a girl from the national guard because most of us think there was a large police presence during the protest a few days ago during a similar demonstration several students were beaten by police and detained for hours. david was one of them she says the police broke her arm in the scuffle but she's not deterred and will continue to protest the fight i'm living my life that i

wanted to get in and to fight what they're right it's just that i did it not at all martin. many of the current and former professors also came out in support placing the accommodation fee hike is the beginning of the indian government's plan to privatized every state funded university the students of this university are also dods with the government and other areas they see there only fighting for their right to dissent with the support of the government accused of sedition backing up to start. their university has faced several controversies many students here were accused of raising anti india slogans and backing those who the indian government defines as terrorists the students however say they are being targeted simply for not agreeing with the government they want to be very carefully controlled and organized and all this new there is there no

contradiction between them and us but india's governing b.g.p. or party agent the party insists the students must pay more 7 7. nobody is looking at the fact that lots and lots of rupees i spend every month a real on each student. i'm defeat is the lowest in the country why should it not be pleased. the students see the protests will go on they insist this is about their future and they're not in a bill to give in on any issue. archibald al-jazeera new delhi. iran has restored internet access after the government shut down last week in response to widespread protests that have began after the government increased fuel prices by up to 200 percent amnesty international says more than $100.00 demonstrators have been killed by security forces a figure rejected by iran's government said baik has the latest 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 falling 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 could carry out 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 counties 12 that's including security forces but amnesty 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 now 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. thank you more any time on our website the address of that. dot com. quick reminder top stories here are 0 the u.s. state department has been forced to release records related to its dealings with ukraine they confirm multiple contacts between ukraine the secretary of state might pump air and president donald trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani it supports testimony at the impeachment inquiry that senior officials were in the loop on efforts to pressure kiev into investigating trump's presidential rival joe biden at least $36.00 people be killed by a landslide in western kenya heavy rains caused overnight flooding in several

remote villages in the west polka to region rescue efforts have been put on hold because bridges and roads have been washed away yes vice president mike pence has made an unannounced visit to iraq where he's met the leader of the country's kurdish region president barzani a senior u.s. official says the trip to appeal is to reassure iraqi kurds they remain washington's allies. and. meanwhile one person has been killed in the iraqi capital baghdad when security forces tried to stop protesters from reaching the central bank they fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters a number of people were injured. israel's opposition leader benny gantz is once again called on prime minister benjamin netanyahu to resign over corruption charges it follows the top yahoo saying on friday that he would not step down over the 3

documents calling it an attempted coup. we agreed for another liquid member to lead as i said before the whole of and will lead the government as the election results decided. at least 10 people have been killed in a car bombing in the northern syrian border city of tel aviv and several more were wounded in the attack in the industrial area of the city which is controlled by turkish backed fighters antigovernment protests are continuing in colombia for a 3rd consecutive day hundreds of protesters were dispersed by tear gas following an overnight curfew and isolated looting in the capital bogota a.j. selects is next with the stories of health workers fighting diseases worldwide by for their. new talk and alaskan village rapidly losing ground to roshan following permafrost its inhabitants forced to move to safer ground allow the west

to see it 1st the environment when it rains when it's also where it's once people struggling to trade rights in syria and asked whether those who have the power to stop it appreciate the true cost of failing to act on al-jazeera. now they were all going. and learn. and learn a good.