most potent economic when saudi aramco company and the state. on al-jazeera. crowds have attacked u.n. compounds in the democratic republic of congo warned they will keep targeting peacekeepers and so all of them doing. the watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha i'm doubting obligates are also ahead more than 20 killed and hundreds injured by a powerful earthquake in albania the birth people under their homes. 2 ministers on the top aide of the prime minister resign in malta as political turmoil escalates over the murder of an investigative journalist 2 years ago. protest leaders in

colombia call for a mass strike saying the president did not offer both solutions during talks. hello crowd so been targeting u.n. peacekeepers and the is turned on a crowd of republic of congo say they won't stop until all of them leave they've been defying a curfew imposed after a 2nd day of violence accusing the peacekeepers are failing to protect them from rebels say o'brian reports. around 18000 u.n. peacekeepers are in the democratic republic of congo to protect civilians from attacks by rebel fighters. but some civilians went on the attack themselves at a u.n. compound in north kivu province on monday accusing peacekeepers of failing to fulfill their mandate. but we never see the peace.

we want we don't we don't want them just there you know peacekeepers guarded what's left of their base in the east. in city of benny while a 2nd compound nearby became tuesday's target we've come here today to see if these u.n. people are still here we will burn it again and more places specifically the movie base. it was too dangerous to film near the movie base as an angry mob confronted u.n. forces and congolese troops. go as it's known is the biggest peacekeeping mission in the world it's been in the diaz say for the past 20 years and protesters say that's long enough for the u.n. to have defeated various rebel groups active near the border with uganda including the allied democratic forces or i.d.f. accused of widespread atrocities as they fight for control of the mineral rich region in there is it incredible it is legitimate for people to wonder why this peacekeeping force persists in the d.r.

see we've had good successes but now it's time to sit down and talk honestly about what could be done better because cannot stay in the d.r. c. forever. this latest ngo was triggered on saturday after 8 people were killed in attacks blamed on rebels the ad raced spread to nearby batam and goma the regional capital the un says it's working around the clock to battle the i.d.f. and has stepped up patrols but the congolese army and the dense forests around we are operating in a very very difficult environment and now having the protesters blocking our. movements preventing us from going out and doing our work this will all lead and prevent the situation the un waste is forced the world health organization to pull almost a 3rd of its staff from benny where doctors a struggling to contain and now the ebola outbreak the w.h.o. warns the instability almost sation related to an increase in the bowl of patients

alexia brian al-jazeera. so as alexei mentioned the protest has spread to. the city of goma katherine sawyer is there and tells us more about what's going on the situation is still extremely tense in beni and temple richie's a neighboring city in the temple we are told protesters banged a u.n. vehicle in a government office in many angry young men on the street all morning through the afternoon they were trying to get to a military base that is very close to the airport it's also a major logistics hub but they were appalled by. this also a lot of concern about what's going to happen on wednesday because there's going to be a burial of one of the process this was killed on saturday he was very popular and one of the organizers of the protest was shot dead by a police officer who himself was killed on the same day ban and you lord so there's

concern that his burial is going to just escalate the tensions protestants are saying they're going to march around the sifi of. tributes here in golmaal are there was also part test this morning protestors were trying to get to another u.n. base but then they were repulsed by police it's important to note that the president. kennedy on monday authorized a joint military offensive a joint military operation by the u.n. and government soldiers against a.d.f. rebels but this doesn't seem to really appease the protesters there saying look the u.n. has been here for so long they're not protecting us we don't need them they're also saying that government. the government soldiers really are not organized that's why this seeing this rebels even with an offensive going on coming back to the villages and killing them so brutally. elsewhere in the democratic republic of congo at

least 45 people have been killed by severe flooding. rain hit kinshasa causing landslides while floodwaters swept through homes severe flooding has affected much of central africa. rescue workers in albania are digging through the night looking for survivors fear trapped in buildings brought down by a powerful earthquake at least 21 people have died and more than 600 are injured the magnitude 6.4 quake calls major damage in the capital and cities in the north and west. reports in the port city of jurists and western albania. rescue teams pull a dead man out of the rubble of this hotel. they brought out his dead brother on lookers see mesmerized by the prospect of life or death emerging from this tube it's the same story across the street another collapsed hotel in this resort town

at least one man believed trapped between concrete floors so tightly packed it's hard to believe anyone could have survived here as crews peel away the destruction the death toll is likely to rise but it might have been much higher the earthquake that struck at 4 am on tuesday was heralded by earlier warning tremors i remember was that before you start shaking that you better start getting harder and harder harder why did it open the door in my room and i jumped on balcony. and i knocked on the window with my dad and my mom because they were sleeping in the 1st or 2nd week all the neighbors there were terrified all panicking kids and everything coming out 7 multi-story buildings collapsed nationwide and hundreds of homes are rendered uninhabitable creating a displaced and terrified population prefer in the open to any concrete shelter here at the daughter's football stadium hundreds of families are sleeping in army or shoot tents overnight with little protection. against the chill weather but

a blanket many of their houses are damaged or destroyed or they are simply afraid to go back indoors. this woman's husband dashed out of the house with their 2 children before the house began to crumble around her they rescued her by demolishing the door because it wouldn't open now they're waiting for a tent and this man saw the walls of the building it took him 10 years to build with his own hands open he jumped out with his wife and son but has nowhere to live now on the beach a group of young men have little fire and plan to spend the night here their houses have collapsed hopes a dwindling for survivors as the gruesome work of digging continues and people here a caught between fear of the indoors and the problems of rebuilding their lives. al-jazeera to this. president congress to allow troops back on the streets to

defend public services the request by sebastian pinera came just hours after human rights watch released a damning report alleging abuses by the security forces during recent protests are latin america editor of a sandeman reports from santiago. chile has been embroiled in the peaceful protests and uncontrollable violence for more than 7 weeks the 2nd time in 5 days the government was served with a harsher push on the state of human rights this time from the washington based in geo human rights watch while recognizing a serious deterioration in public security the report concludes that security and police are part of the problem rather than the solution the kind of reforms that the government. has to implement to change the behavior and address the fundamental. problems of lack of accountability and

brutality. the national police of chile are urging 0 no 7 not excessive use of force illegal detention sexual abuse brutal beatings against thousands of citizens including children as well as destroying or distorting incriminating evidence part of a long list of the businesses used to describe a security force that has not been overhauled since chile return to democracy indeed what. governments have. to grant. more and more powers to the police. mike. you know the words we. unlike his strong rejection of amnesty international support president. quickly embraced the recommendations to create a new modern police force that can be both of sect of and to guarantee respect for human rights. but in the same breath the president sent

a request to congress to authorize the army to safeguard keep public service installations without calling for a state of emergency. much of our basic infrastructure like electricity drinking water and hospitals have been attacked but there's a 2nd benefit it will free many police officers so they can concentrate on being on the street in our parks in the security or citizens. giving chile's history of brutality under military dictatorship bringing out the army which is trained for combat is likely to generate more control to see depending on the scope of their mandate but the very fact that such a move is even being contemplated is evidence of the incapacity of the police to step to really address the challenges cheney is facing and as things stand now it can be argued that the police is contributing to rather than reducing the environment of violence here you see in human al-jazeera. there been more

street battles between protesters and security forces in colombia us capital bogota during a 6 day of government protests demonstrators threw rocks at officers who fired back with water cannon anger persists about corruption and proposed changes to the minimum wage pensions and taxes. protesters are calling for a new general strike after a meeting with president even came made no progress on sunday the president opened what he called a national dialogue in an effort to end antigovernment protests. former bolivian president evo morales says he had received information that the u.s. does not want him to return from exile in mexico his comments come as bolivia's interim leader appointed interim bastard to washington for the 1st time in 11 years or allah says he wishes to return but only to participate in the elections.

i have information from high level is that the us doesn't want me to return just like the coup mongering bolivian right wing i'm asking for guarantees from our return i have every right to return to bolivia i repeat again i am not returning to seek the presidency that stiffen it but like any bolivian citizen i have to be in bolivia to participate in the election it's a major hong kong road link has reopened following a lengthy standoff between police and protesters at a nearby university the cross harbor tunnel had been closed for 2 weeks after protesters block the entrance and set toll booths on fire police said also cordoned off the polytechnic university where some demonstrators remained after a violent scene more than a week ago a search of the facility just found just one woman. still ahead on al-jazeera house democrats were proud to take the trump and pietschmann process to the next stage. and the film festival that's found itself caught up in the increasingly

tense relationship between china and taiwan. how the weather in iran seems to settle down who doesn't quite for a day or 2 at least in the east and more especially in afghanistan the clouds in the sky will be rain falling out of snow was heart of course 11 degrees in tehran now behind me well it's been churning up in the eastern med and that was quite active weather is it went through greece and produced some floods because heavy rain in lebanon for example in syria more especially turkey in the southern caucasus but this again is a reminder of what season we're in so that it blows through some big showers in syria iraq the sun comes out again in beirut comes thursday and the lower half just trails over to nothingness this is where the weather is going to be for the next couple of days so the arabian peninsula i don't think we'll see very much we've

seen a few thunderstorms in the high ground in western society in yemen that really in the forecast now the breeze might bring something into a moderate small cloud i think and right a very large breeze in the middle the circulation around bahrain and qatar means temperature all on the up to some degree 26 degrees very 27 by the time we get to says if he's quite tough for this time of year and quite pleasant southern africa then where we should be seeing some big rains in places but maybe not that far south yet as you can see the tail end of active rain is fossilised just as zimbabwe . the stories generate foundations of headlines these protests are saying down with the system and down with all of the parts with different angles from different perspectives just because we came to prison days or me right stopped at the gate separate the spin from the fact the western media jumps on stories we don't taking

down the misinformation from the journalism it's about telling the stories of those human beings on the ground with the listening post on al-jazeera. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera protesters of then venting their anger in the eastern democratic republic of congo towards un peacekeepers demonstrators accuse the un to failing to stop militia attacks on tuesday 2 people were killed as crowds marched to review when bent's. at least 21 people have been killed in albania by the most powerful earthquake to hit the country in decades the magnitude

6.4 tremor struck the capital tirana and cities in the west and north injuring more than 600 people. chile's president has asked congress to allow troops back on the streets to defend key public services amid ungar ongoing protests this comes as a human rights watch report accuses police of using excessive force against demonstrators. donald trump's political rivals the democrats are moving into the next phase of the impeachment proceedings the judiciary committee in the house of representatives will hold its 1st hearing. next week committee chairman gerry adler has written to trump inviting him to attend the session the impeachment effort centers on allegations that trump abused his power by withholding aid to force ukraine into investigating a political rival political hay is in washington and she has mourned how the next phase in the impeachment process will unfold so we now know the next step of the impeachment inquiry will get underway next week that will be when the judiciary

committee has its 1st hearing the intelligence committee basically did the investigation they called in all the witnesses they're now writing a report that they will send over to judiciary and the judiciary will host a panel of constitutional experts to ask was what the president did an impeachable offense it's not really defined in the constitution it talks about high crimes and misdemeanors and bribery so they're going to want to question these experts as to whether or holding back military aid to the ukraine in exchange for investigations use political rival raises to that level of impeachable offense now the committee has sent a letter to the white house saying the president can come his lawyers can come they can question the witnesses in this letter arguing that he can either take part or he can stop complaining about the process they've given him till this coming sunday to let them know if he is going to participate he's given no indication of whether or not he or his lawyers will take part in this next step donald trump is planning

to designate mexican drug cartels as terrorists in the united states trumps announcements highlighted the cartels roles in drugs and human trafficking he said the change in the nation has been in the works for the past 3 months mexico's foreign minister is calling for talks with the u.s. on the issue and warns his country will not tolerate any move that would violate its solvency. israel has bombarded empty training camps belonging to the military wing of hamas in the gaza strip israel's army says it was responding to rockets fired from gaza into its territory there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. and the palestinian red cross says 63 people have been injured in confrontations with israeli forces in gaza and the occupied west bank people are protesting against the u.s. shift on israeli settlements. israeli soldiers fired tear gas and stun grenades at the demonstrators who hurled stones back at them last

week the u.s. declared that it would no longer consider settlements to be illegal meanwhile thousands of people have rallied in support of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu in tel aviv he's been indicted on corruption charges and is battling a possible rebellion within his own party that's a man who denies any wrongdoing imran khan was at the rally in tel aviv and says that the now still has a lot of support. it's a sizable crowd of supporters that have turned up in tel aviv on tuesday night to listen to supporters of prime minister benjamin netanyahu but it's not just about supporting him there's a lot of anger towards the supreme court and the attorney general they say the charges against. the motivated and the echoing the prime minister

as well and they say that this is the attempted coup against him now although there are a number of supporters this is a divided country when it comes to. the latest polls suggest that over half the country would like him to leave office however he says he's not going anywhere and this crowd. local district resistance committees played a central role in sudan's revolution they helped organize the protests that toppled the longtime president omar and bashir and since a transitional government was formed in august the committees have taken a new role that's not being welcomed by everyone happy morgan has more from khartoum for several weeks i am hamad and his friends have been working to renovate huts me a primary school in the north of how to not because the construction workers and painters they are part of the huts me resistance committee and for the past few months they've been improving services in the districts they've grown up and.

as part of the district resistance committee we've been focused on making sure that the district has proper services the government can handle all the tasks it has inherited from the former regime and we are responsible for rehabilitating the school and we did it. but that's mere existence comics he is one of dozens created in january soon after the start of sudan's revolution they were formed across the country to counter what were known as popular districts comments he's made up of those loyal to the government the resistance committees organized anti-government protests to demand the country's president on what it was years that down he was ousted by the military in april after protesters launched a sit in at army headquarters when that was broken up 2 months later with the killing of more than 100 people an internet blackout was imposed to try to prevent protesters reorganizing but that didn't stop them the military was forced into negotiations and in august

a transitional government was formed but the role of district resistance from within have changed with a change in the governance structure in sudan using the slogan kind of me which means we will build the common theme in future but i protest reminding your government of what needs to be done during the transitional period for the coming season mostly focus on service delivery in their districts which is the main reason for most of the criticism they have received some believe that the committees are taking a role bigger than they should the national when the resistance committees end up working on building roads and schools and sorting out district problems what does that leave to the government what is the government doing others have a different view. and i think the resistance committees should continue doing what they do because the government can be there grassroots level so the committees can act as a link between districts and neighborhoods and the government. the sudanese professionals association the main body representing the protest movement has accused some committees of being funded by groups from outside sudan to influence the country's

transitional government it has issued a decree to organize the committees to make them more formal. the resistance committees are effectively the backbone of saddam's revolution the reason why they're getting so much criticism now is because there are no local government districts because they were all controlled by the former regime which has been ousted so there's a vacuum that has been created that the committees are filling and the solution is giving them a formal status with a defined role. and his friends say they're working to support the government and not on behalf of it and if it fails to deliver the demands of the revolution they're ready to go back on the streets and protest again morgan al-jazeera had its own. in malta 2 government ministers have resigned in connection with a case involving the murder of a journalist prime minister's chief of staff also creators police searched his home reporter daphne carolina galatea was killed by a car bomb 2 years ago while investigating corruption involving politicians as well

as business executives and maltese prime minister jess muscat has once again been confronted with the public's anger over the case a crowd to exit him as he left parliament he's refusing demands to resign. 28 people have been arrested in georgia's capital after people tried to stop politicians from entering parliament they're calling for the government to step down robin forestier walker reports from tbilisi. on tuesday police outnumbered protesters outside georgia's parliament a sign that this government is taking no chances and good by its failure to deliver promised electoral reform opposition protesters closed off the area to traffic and encircled parliament on monday a 2nd attempt to disrupt parliamentary business in less than a week ended with police dispersing crowds. inside the building there's

a sense of siege electoral reform is officially no longer of discussion but in any case government m.p.'s have nobody to debate with in the chamber. position parties are absent they boycotted parliament this is their right but there's right of limits if they try to disrupt parliamentary business the government will have to respond but done the way to have 3 in 3 lections is if the opposition comes back here to debate it. this is what the opposition looks like empty seats instead of m.p.'s for the government of course it's business as usual but with no opposition there'll be no debate no compromise and therefore at least in this chamber no way out. of these political crisis powers. outside in the cold the opposition admit there's another barrier to a break through a skeptical electorate one of the main reasons is that there is a huge segment in georgia societies it is it is everywhere this current government

is they are liars and they are incompetent but they are afraid of the return of the previous government. because because they failed to secure. the exit time and they don't want the same feeling to come back the opposition isn't just comprised of the full big government it's a broad coalition they must now find their own consensus on the street robin 1st you will get al-jazeera to believe. they call it the chinese language oscars taiwan's golden horse film festival has grown into a fixture for the movie industry in asia but china's now banned its filmmakers from taking part andrew thomas reports. 2 film festivals in 2 cities say a lot about one china in taipei the golden horse festival has for years been the showcase for a chinese language film with entries from mainland china as well as taiwan but this

year china's government in beijing banned its country's filmmakers from taking part instead they encouraged another film festival held across the taiwan strait the golden rooster shy man and the chinese mainland was held at exactly the same time beijing snubbed this year's golden horse after a winner at last year's festival used her speech to call for countries to recognize taiwanese independence taiwanese bill my kids and fans are disappointed but pragmatic decision in spite of china's boycott movies from any part of the world would continue to shine at the film festival they are not only hurting their viewers here to take away the chance to view these films they are also taking away opportunities for those artists especially chinese artists for their work to the scenery in the international. the beijing imposed the ban to make

a point taiwan is and always will be part of china it considers the island a breakaway province that will one day come back to the fold it's known as the one china policy beijing expects other countries to respect it in a thing or anyone that threatens the narrative is dangerous there's a good many in the industry are not happy to see that countries are using political influence to strangle the freedom of the f e m a k s 2 presence a paid in any international film festival. encouraged by a pro independence president likely to be reelected early next year people in taiwan are becoming increasingly assertive towards beijing. one young comedian has become a t.v. star largely through mocking china and president xi jinping about. i but beijing is pushing back to pacific island nations care about the solomon

islands have become the latest to switch diplomatic allegiance from taiwan to china both countries are receiving significant financial investment from beijing and beijing has threatened sanctions against any u.s. company involved in recently announced arms sales to taiwan in the big picture a snob of one film festival in the creation of another might not seem significant but cultural pressure is still fresh a way beijing hopes to steer taiwan. and al-jazeera beijing. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera protesters have been venting their anger in the eastern democratic republic of congo towards un peacekeepers demonstrators accuse the un of failing to stop militia attacks on tuesday 2 people were killed as crowds marched to a u.n.

base has been soyuz in goma with more detail. the situation is still extremely tense in benny and. a neighboring city in temple we are told protesters banged a u.n. vehicle in a government office in many angry young men while on the street all morning through the afternoon they were trying to get to a military base that is very close to the airport it's also made a logistics hub but they were passed by. soldiers. at least 21 people have been killed in albania by the most powerful earthquake to hit the country in decades the magnitude 6.4 tremor struck the capital tirana and cities in the west and north injuring more than 600 people chile's president has asked congress to allow troops back on the streets to defend q public services amid ongoing protests this comes as a human rights watch report accuses police of using excessive force against

demonstrators. lebanon's outgoing prime minister says he won't have the next government's sudden heidi to resign last month after nationwide anti-government protests. israel has bombarded empty training camps belonging to the military wing of hamas in the gaza strip israel's army says it was responding to rockets fired from gaza there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack there but more street battles between protesters and security forces in colombia's capital bogota during a 6th day of answer government protests demonstrators threw rocks at officers who fired back with water cannon anger persists about corruption on proposed changes to the minimum wage pensions and taxes those are the headlines the listening post is coming up next on al-jazeera the oppression of an ethnic minority and man my many. the intention was to make sure that rangers would no longer

entitled to basic rights or citizenship rights in a new documentary al-jazeera explores the history and motives behind the systematic persecution of the regime and me and my. exile on not just iraq. couple. brave israeli airstrikes in gaza killed 7 people just like us and i think that's all right all right ok i'll take that question about actually i am an hour which is fighting for his political absolutely freedom hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week cause and effect there are high stakes electoral politics playing out in israel and palestinians are paying the price yet again do you tubers chronicling and.