donald trump's lawyer says the u.s. president will not participate in the latest impeachment hearings calling them baseless and highly potus. live from doha when i'm come on santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera the search for a new leader in iraq begins now prime minister the formally steps down after just over a year in office also the news malta's leader will finally resign next month for a scandal surrounding the death of a journalist. and making themselves heard protestors across latin america hold on to take this demonstration it's.

all over the white house says it will not take part in the next step of the impeachment inquiry into u.s. president donald trump he had been given a sunday deadline to say whether he would send legal representation to a hearing on wednesday. the white house says it will also respond separately regarding a 2nd hearing which has a deadline on friday was the us president under scrutiny for asking ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son in exchange for military big week coming up in the impeachment inquiry let's have a look at what is ahead members of the house intelligence committee will receive a copy of the impeachment report it will outline the findings of its investigation into trump's dealings with ukraine then they will have 24 hours for review the report there will be a vote on tuesday afternoon which would move forward to the next stage that being proceedings in the house judy. committee which is scheduled to sit on wednesday it

is the judiciary committee which would consider any articles of impeachment against president trump roslyn jordan is in washington d.c. she explains now why the white house and republicans on cooperating with congress on impeachment proceedings the house judiciary committee will be having this open session on wednesday morning here in washington and that's going to be about 12 hours or so after the house intelligence committee actually decides to revote to send the rural results of its 2 week long public hearings to the judiciary committee now there is this deadline at 22 g.m.t. on friday where the president's legal team will need to tell the house judiciary committee if they're going to be taking part in hearings that the judiciary committee will be convening not tomorrow on monday here in washington but starting a week from monday and that is another opportunity which house democrats say will

give the president the opportunity to tell his side to bring in witnesses to present evidence as this inquiry continues but it is widely expected here in washington that the white house will once again wait until late on friday to say that they're not going to participate because at least from a political standpoint they are now making the argument that the entire process is fraudulent and that this is nothing more than the democrats trying to undermine the president's efforts at being reelected in 2020. the other news in the iraqi parliament has approved prime minister. resignation after weeks of protests where by now more than 400 people have been killed across the country he will stay on to lead a caretaker government but attention now turns to just who will replace him so one of 14 reports now from baghdad. after only 13 months in office iraq's

a battle's prime minister addle up the mahdi has officially stepped down yet his succession is mired in uncertainty according to the constitution the president is supposed to take up the office of the prime minister until they replace minister chosen but instead of the mahdi is staying on as part of a caretaker government. the largest bloc in parliament led by shiite cleric mokhtar the outsider must now nominate a replacement within 15 days 6 it's a murky and often lengthy process that requires consent from shia sunni and kurdish parties as well as regional and global power brokers 7. more than ever the choice would have to be accepted on the streets it's a daunting task for political parties put himself space the wrath of the protestors the harlow. with the biggest block based on the last parliamentary election we have to nominate a candidate form a government with guidance from outside we will cancel sectarian and political

appointments system to give the right to the protesters because the people of the largest block and the demonstrations where the sacrifice has been made the candidate the people will be at choices well. but to know the people's choice would require fresh elections a key demand of the protesters we want to do so all of this government. they lived in tears. government just say that to. make. sure for their cause. politics party's parliament members say that passing these reforms could take up to 6 months we fully accept and fully support the idea of dissolve in the parliament and having a fresh election but that you have to know that this there are. first we have to go

with it we need a government even an interim government a transitional government before holding the elections this week we are discussing even way past that new electoral law. which is overseeing the elections in iraq the new election law currently tabled in parliament suggests an increase in independent candidates at least considerable power in the hands of political parties including the ability to choose the prime minister. protos just say that this resignation is meaningless if they cannot choose the next leader themselves they demand a presidential rather than a parliamentary system whereby the head of state is elected by popular vote a demand that has thus far been ignored by the political establishment see one of 14 al-jazeera baghdad. another latest a resignation to tell you about molten prime minister as a mascot sounds he will stand next month has come under increasing pressure over

the investigation into the murder of journalist death made. 2 years ago cut it up with other young reports it covered up i know my age is definitely in the defiant and under pressure to resign as prime minister josef most that announced on national television that he's stepping down and that the president of particle board is down i will write to the president of the labor party so that the process for a new leader is sit for january 12th 2020 that day i will resign as the leader of the labor party in the days after i will resign as prime minister stated by the club to start. hours before his announcement thousands of protesters demanded he resign saying he's too close to people implicated in the murder of journalist daphne could wanna go elise you. can use to resign the sooner the better even for his own political party it's it's better right now it's. some mess it's a big mess the journalist was killed in 2017 when

a bomb went off in her car at the time of the murder she was looking into secret accounts of some of malta elite. at the heart of the murder probe this is this man you're going fenech is a prominent businessman with ties to government ministers he pleaded not guilty after being charged with being complicit in the murder of the journalist joseph most god is very close friends with his now former chief of staff can be can be last week was arrested a couple of times in connection with the murder case can bury had secret offshore accounts with new york and senate. the resignation of top level officials has done little to calm the end or the demand is now that the prime minister and leave immediately there have been some insinuations that. he has the involved but general sense meant is that he's just too close to the people he knows the city.

most scared was once highly popular among voters he promised that he'd end corruption now an investigation into murder and corruption has ended his premiership katia will pursue the young al-jazeera. there have been a series of coordinated protests across latin america on them from mexico to argentina demonstrate is banging on pots and pans to express their frustration over growing inequality and widespread corruption the same happened in chile rocked by pro weeks of violent protests i was in yemen has a report now from santiago. a wave of political and social unrest is sweeping south america and swale has already been in turmoil for years but in the last 4 months presumably stable countries have a rapid heating death anger and political instability in their wake very small elite leap. and. then flow with extreme violence through

history that's part of living in america so when people rebel the rebel violently. ecuador where a steep rise in the price of fuel was the last straw an uprising led by indigenous ecuadorians brought the government to its knees. the simple livia will rage over president ever would alice is insistence on claiming victory in an election marred by indications of fraud lead to his forced resignation and ongoing unrest. but by far the biggest surprise has been chile considered an oasis of political stability and an economic model for the region. anger of a social inequality demonstrations human rights violations by security forces looting and vandalism have brought the country to the verge of recession in less

than 2 months here in chile the protest shows no sign of abating in fact they are turning out to be an inspiration in other latin american democracies to a dissatisfaction with the economy and the political status quo have long been simmering was. colombia which has a similar free market economic system is beginning to look like a copy of chile aggravated by already existing violence by drug traffickers left and right wing devil groups and a peace agreement with fart rebels that has collapsed amid charges of government sabotage. the largely uncontrollable uprisings and the weak response from democratic governments threatens more than social order well i think that's a threat to democracy in america so that we have to make all efforts to ensure that this social mobilization these protests in a even riots don't end up again in authoritarian or dictatorial regimes.

inequality isn't new but what is is a region wide awareness that people of all social classes have rights to decent social services in salaries to live in a democracy free of abuses and widespread corruption and most of all the right to take action there's little doubt that credible political institutions and recalibration of the regions economic priorities can't wait to spawning them could have unforeseen consequences lucy and human al-jazeera sent the i will. you're welcome because faced its 10th day of nationwide strikes and they see a mentioned in a similar way to chile protesters are expressing their frustration over economic reforms and the rise in unemployment tellus on the yes yes well from bogota. thousands of people are out on the streets in the capital both that a number of gathering points and also in other cities that cross the country

a spot of that event a demonstration of this on precedented national strike in that country people are out once again with their pots and pans banging on them that this has become one of the symbolic way here to grow this again i'm number of economic reforms that have been proposed but just painted coup by the government but also the fact that they see that the government has not done enough to implement. these feel they so you feel i was signed 3 years ago with 5 grapples and doing enough to defend the community leaders social leaders the danger leaders that are being killed in the country alarming rate and banging on top some bands that is not a traditional way of protesting and that but it has been that this symbolic way in which for the tenuously people have come out to approach this also the fact that the government and local media media have been focusing on sporadic cases of

vandalism and violence and not on the fact that these protests that have a call to this street an unprecedented an unprecedented number of people in that country what's clear is that people are animated and that this strike here in colombia will continue in the coming days. in the news ahead australia slimes the treatment of one of its citizens who's been detained in china for months now. dancing across the nation more than $100.00 aboriginal tribes you know striving to join a cross come. i think so. well as those who choose to going back to where they came from and the thanksgiving

weekend this unrolling winter storm is going through the doors and states this is a picture of north dakota maybe not a big surprise if you see fog or for example under the snow to if you seen the film it comes across as a cold state in the winter but this is unraveling and rolling eastwards through minnesota through ontario in canada towards new england and that is the story as this low is still in charge but look at the to the north of it as time goes by is means potential because it because it's cold enough to stay and it's windy these the daytime maxim she's on sunday all single figures and if anything it's going to get cold resisting winds up falling in behind it whether or not you get the snow the cold gets right to the east coast and snow showers on the appalachians a long way south as you can see but it's only get to say slightly less cold the wind isn't as strong as you can see but also there's rather less snow falling in california is going all the way down from north to south and the rain is possible in the sas during tuesday maybe even. there's also

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top stories for you this hour on al-jazeera the white house says it will not participate in the next step of the impeachment inquiry into u.s. president on trial inquiries looking into whether trump abused his power by asking crane to investigate his political rival iraq's parliament's acceptance of prime minister. his resignation after weeks of violent and government protests which have left more than $400.00 people dead and multis prime minister joseph muscat says he will step down in january after growing calls for him to resign over his government's handling of the murder of journalist stephanie cutter 2 years ago. a studies foreign minister says china is subjecting one of its citizens to daily interrogations including whilst being shackled pro-democracy riots a young joined has been detained in china since january has been accused of spying

. marie spain the australian pharmacist as young is being held in unacceptable conditions and his own aging beijing to release him more on this with patrick perrin joining us from hong kong amnesty international's china researcher thanks for your time patrick i don't think this is a case or a story that many people will necessarily have heard about in tell us a little bit more about what yang was doing that led to charges of espionage. miscarry concerning the war to mention because poorest buying this but not actually can mean like very serious punishment if convicted like even up to life in prison for example so i think like the public misled how he is treated is quite typical or dissidents in china and they have no access to lawyers and family and it makes it like a very very vulnerable to. a resort torture not

a new treatment and then now also. heard from this case treatment has already happened so i think it is something what concerns us most is how we can push china more to allow him at least to have meetings with his lawyers and so that leads to the question how can you do that given the dealing anyone. scuse me dealing with the government of of china would be quite fraught i would think. i think like the only way that would be to have more international pressure now i see australia's been raising concern about the case but if we have more lawyers from other countries and also that the united nations we can help the case to have a high profile and china has no choice but to respond to it of course on the

surface they will always like a response by saying they have been using very tactful lawful and very legal means to deal with the case but actually lead when we see how. international pressure can help to put more pressure on china to improve the situation of detainees something that we something that we need to do to push more on china's government patrick what was mr young doing what was he was he was he in his writing was he directly criticizing the chinese government's. and i want to see unlike his writings in the past few years many. of them make brightest point of view giving comments on the chinese government's policies and human rights violations so strictly speaking we don't see anything like

problematic for chinese government of course they see any criticism can be can see the some would taint each their government and now even lifeless saying they accusing him off. for espionage cases they always search hold a trial secret trial and there's no way to final what would be the actual evidence against him so i think. it is how the sole court trial will happen or if it would happen at all how it would be counter to where the his family members would be allowed to sit in the trial how to trial with the ban or something like is that because on how he would be tried and when unfortunately from previous experience in not a case is that if it's very likely he will be given

a fair trial petra pain from amnesty international thank you for your time to appreciate it now a local official in albania has resigned over comments she made about the death toll from last week's deadly earthquake the mayor of the city of that a spot outrage when she said she was quote satisfied only 50 people died in the quake was one of the hardest hit areas and she says $6.00 magnitude quake which killed at least $51.00 people and i thought about 2500 of us. airstrikes in the libyan capital of killed at least 3 civilians including a child a jets targeted the. in the south of tripoli military sources say the attack was carried out by forces linked to the eastern warlord holly for hafter and at least 10 other people were injured and are the one who is in tripoli says the un recognized government is accusing hafter of war crimes a state of anger and panic among civilians living and swanny area in southern

tripoli after the attack by an airstrike launch it by according to the tripoli because the government a warplane or probably a drone according to a military source is with the government so it's probably a draw or a fighter jet loyal to the warlords who for have to that targeted a civilian area populated area and killed 3 innocent civilians including 2 children and wondered 10 others this is the area it is not close to the front line but it is not far from the front line but anyways this is not the 1st time have fighter jets targeted residential areas and the tripoli based government is accusing get have to his forces of committing war crimes by targeting it it is essential areas. a soldier and his wife in democratic republic of congo have been killed by an angry crowd they were mistakenly accused of being rebels this was in the eastern town of burnie in north kivu province

a crowd attacked them after finding guns and ammunition in their beds they suspected them of being members of the allied democratic forces which is blamed for killing more than $100.00 civilians in the past month the u.n. peacekeeping chief visited benny where there have been protests against un troops as well people say they are not protecting them from the violence that people must obey the. message is that you should make the wrong enemies we are on the side of the people of this region the congolese people are there any things we can do better of course they are and we will work on it are our partners with who we work with every day also thinking about how to work even more closely with us the f a r d c armed forces the national police the authorities. the world health organization has raised concerns over the worsening violence in eastern democratic republic of congo it says the fighting in the area has limited health workers progress in reducing your break through and soil as

a report now from goma. the visit by the director general of the world health organization. was brief but necessary. health workers responding to an outbreak in parts of the region y. attacked last week by my my rebels in an area where people are still being infected by the disease for died and in this hospital the chief visits those who are injured even one. case could spark a fire so the same thing now actually with a major one of the major security incidents like this one concern is even more so it may take us longer than you know it would have taken with the progress that we had to have including he other agencies upon coordinate to shows us what they're dealing with the red sports you see the focus points it's

in mining villages in about 70 kilometers from town where most of the new cases of being detected yet it's one of the most unsafe areas and where the health workers were recently killed our breakfast important to stop or. this is very difficult to access because of the forest around the mining areas making sure that we have full access to be. the villages a month as important as outbreaks. up to a dozen a boiler responders have been killed and several treatment facilities attacked since the outbreak started nearly a year and a half ago. has killed on operations in beni because of the current security crisis these affects people tracking the disease we met. in beni 3 weeks ago she's among volunteers who wanted to people who've been in contact with ebola patients health

officials tell us one of the biggest con sons is how people. can safely keep in touch with those they wanted to for a ball of symptoms. but if you look at over the last report the performance went down because your own mind the person performance last 3 drafts you know up to 59 person this is a major problem because you want to make sure that. followed up and detected early enough. in goma the deadly to change also met. with containing the disease some of whom have been at it from the a ball of frontlines because of the and citing security situation health whatever hopefully the number of them for like a 15 year old by the end of the year but they also think. that's a huge it's a waste and you know that is not resolved quickly. was the right. protesters in india have held more vigils for 27 year old woman who was allegedly

raped and murdered near hyderabad an angry crowd gathered outside the police station where 4 men are being held in connection with her death they've also been peaceful protests elsewhere in the country with campaign is calling for stricter laws and why the changes in society. thousands of protesters known as sardines of rallied in milan they gets the far right party the saudi movement has become a symbol of resistance to the party's controversial leader much hassle vini it started as a response to the growing strength in the north of the country of the right wing coalition led by the late finally aboriginal australians have held a nationwide spinning top to does the 1st in their history $100.00 tribes join together in a ceremony to heal the country and its spirit here are some of the sights and sounds being shared online from the nation dons.

you should i think. thanks to. the proper functioning i'm going to do with thank god i mean anything. about connecting the people who are looking after act one tree. i'm going continuation it's going to be the next election and you'll. let me know that you'll be. we stand together solidarity with all 1st nations people right across the street and we see pay respect and sisters in law because in the land of the spin this is time immemorial.

we are here on al-jazeera and these are the top stories the white house says it will not participate in the next step of the impeachment inquiry into us president donald trump he had been given a sunday deadline to say whether he would send legal representation to a hearing on. the inquiries looking into whether trump abused his power by asking ukraine to investigate his political rival more on this from washington d.c. with rosalynn john well the lawyer who was speaking for the u.s. president donald trump a man named pat football leni said in a letter to jerry doubt lawyer who was the chair of the house judiciary committee that this is not just a fraudulent investigation against the president and his administration but that

the committee even though it says it's trying to be transparent and to provide the president ample opportunity to defend himself is doing that iraq's parliament has accepted prime minister addle of the these resignation he will stay on to lead a caretaker government but attention now turns to who will replace him his resignation follows weeks of violent anti government protests which have led to more than 400 people dying malta's prime minister joseph muscat says he will stand down in january after growing calls for him to resign over his government's handling of the murder of journalist stephanie cutter 2 years ago. australia's foreign minister says china is subjecting one of its citizens to daily interrogations including whilst he's shackled pro-democracy young jordan has been detained in china since january accused of spying mary spain says yang is being held an unacceptable conditions and is edging beijing to release him as strikes in

the libyan capital of killed at least 3 civilians including a child a jet targeted the elsewhere in the neighborhood in the south of tripoli military sources say the attack was carried out by forces linked to the warlord khalifa haftar at least 10 others were injured. and it strikes in the sorry over that already thousands of protesters outside aims of rallied in milan against the far right lead party the saudi movement has become a symbol of resistance to the party's controversial salvini it started as a response to the growing strength in the north of the country of the right wing coalition led by the late you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera a.j. selects is up next.