with confidential documents provided to al-jazeera by wiki leaks we're going to say but you can recall i was part of the crunch and i'm not dealing with al-jazeera investigations the anatomy of a braai. a damning impeachment reports accuses donald trump of soliciting help from ukraine's president to boost his chances of reelection. and this is al-jazeera my from doha also coming up the threat of u.n. sanctions on china intensifies over beijing's treatments of weaker muslims. an awkward alliance the french and u.s. presence at the center of a divisive nato meeting. and fears of

a humanitarian crisis the deepening despair for migrants sunk in a makeshift camp in bosnia. donald trump's political rivals have laid out what they say is overwhelming evidence of the u.s. president's misconduct in office the 300 page and pitchman report says trump used his power to seek help from ukraine's president to benefit his reelection bid i do joe castro reports from washington d.c. . house intelligence chairman adam schiff presentation of his committee's report on donald trump offered little more than was already known but it's a key moment in what could be the impeachment of a president this is not about ukraine this is about our democracy this is about our national security this is about where the american people have. right to expect

that the president i states is going to act of their interests with their security in mind and not for some illicit personal or political reason so americans should care deeply about where the president and states is betraying their trust in him betraying that oath that he took to the constitution to protect our country and defend its institutions according to the report president trump solicited interference from ukraine to benefit his reelection conditioning a white house visit for the ukrainian president and $400000000.00 in u.s. military aid on a public statement that ukraine would investigate joe biden's family for alleged corruption trump denies he did anything wrong a white house spokeswoman released a statement saying at the end of a one sided sham process chairmanship and the democrats utterly fail to produce any evidence of wrongdoing by president trump this report reflects nothing more than their frustrations chairmanships report reads like the ramblings of

a basement blogger straining to prove something when there is evidence of nothing the evidence came from 17 witnesses including state department and white house insiders who testified trump ran a shadow campaign that undermined official u.s. foreign policy toward ukraine there was also the partial transcript of a phone call in which trump asked ukraine's president for a favor the biden investigation republicans rebutted with their own report offering a very different reading of the facts they say the testimonies are here say that the phone call was perfect and that the democrats' efforts to include the president are an attack on a duly elected leader to laura provides nothing except a dreary drowsy appraisal for this country to watch as the impeachment process slowly drags on with no direction no focus because they're having one big problem and the big problem is the president did nothing wrong and they can't prove. the

process will now shift to the house judiciary committee which will draft articles of impeachment likely to focus on abuse of power and obstruction of congress americans have been evenly divided on whether to impeach and remove trump from office both political parties are claiming to be protecting american democracy how do you know castro al-jazeera washington well frank bowman is a professor of law at the university of missouri and has written a book called high crimes and misdemeanors he says there is a big disconnect between the current administration and some of the political appointees. there is a huge schism there is a huge disconnect between the office of the president and certainly virtually everyone else who is a competent career professional or and even if indeed a competent political appointee in the current administration mr trump is pursuing his own private interests and doing so often without facts or based on

speculation or conspiracy theories or information he gets from heaven knows where and the result of that of course is not only to produce bad policy as it certainly did in the case of ukraine but also to her found lee disillusion undermine the the guts of the american government public servants that actually make it make it run i don't think that that division is going to be healable so long as he's president the more profound concern going forward is assuming as i hope will be the case of mr trump will no longer be the president in 2021 that the question is what whether or not the country can can rebuild the government from the inside and restore the public servants faith that their expertise is going to be valued that they're going to be listened to and that they're going to be able to serve the american american public's interests. without being foolishly 2nd guessed by

a man who is who has seems predominately have his own interests in mind and is also staggering a lady ignorant about the world around him. the u.s. is threatening sanctions against senior chinese communists because of their treatment so if we can muslims there is of representatives has passed a bill calling on president donald trump to condemn abuses against the minority group it enriches the closure of detention camps in the north western region of sudan and it names members on the scene jones communist party hugh washington says are responsible for abuses returns he has been following developments from washington d.c. 471 bipartisan support for this bill condemning the treatment of muslims and challenging calling for the closure of those cameras also battling the export of surveillance equipment to the u.s. u.s. companies heavily involved in that also calling for the secretary of state to come up with a report with its assessment the state department assessment of what's going on

what what what scale of human rights abuses there is in the view of the state department giving the white house 120 days to come back to congress with a list of people to sanction who they feel are responsible for the alleged human rights abuses that that is the key part and that would mean that something i mean the u.s. actually sanctioning senior members of the politburo of the chinese communist party is a pretty big deal as you can imagine having said that there as we saw with the signing of the hong kong legislation last week the president does have an out when it comes to that he can sign this and it looks like because there's such a veto proof majority in both the house and the senate for this legislation he may have no choice but to sign it but he can sign it but have a signing statement which says he reserves the right not to sanction anyone because of national security in the end the president is in charge of foreign policy as far as u.s. national security is concerned so he can decline to in fact sanction anyone. well

china has urged the u.s. to stop the bill from becoming law saying it's a domestic issue and brown has more on beijing's reaction and what china's next steps will be. well a short time ago we did hear from the foreign ministry in beijing on wednesday morning not surprisingly they have spoken out very strongly against this bill warning the united states not to interfere in china's internal affairs and and calling on congress to basically correct its mistake in their words and not to allow this bill to become law as to what china does next well there are a number of options at its disposal they can carry out all sorts of sanctions against u.s. officials in china or they could restrict their travel in china now when president trump signed into law the hong kong democracy human rights act last week we saw just a few days later china barring u.s. warships from talking here in hong kong it also announced it would sanction

a number of u.s. n.g.o.s here in hong kong but it hasn't really specified what more it can do but there is no doubt that what you're looking at here is what in many ways a cold war looks like and this is not the beginning this is not the end we are in the middle of a deepening cold war between these 2 superpowers well earlier i spoke to her tangan a political analyst and government advisor he believes the situation is unique to asia and that western involvements will do more harm than good. when you start talking about asia it's the reverse society is put 1st all right and the individual is secondary to it so if you're a star going around in china and you go to it doesn't matter if you're in beijing or the smallest village and you asked them about shin jiang or hong kong or tibet's or taiwan you're going to get a much harsher more hawkish view than the actual government takes the government

is actually taking a very very moderate line compared to where a lot of its netizens where today should be they've got to understand why this society best by long cannot be more than a 1000000 more than a 1000000 of its citizens have a society best served by detaining a vast number of people and the other obligations this is this is tantamount to an ethnic a cultural genocide well from their perspective you're putting a loaded words in there there's nothing that's saying that they're preventing people from speaking the weaker language what they're saying is that they must learn han they must learn trades they must end the israeli. action in society otherwise you'd have an apartheid but in the china cables which were released and these documents have been drip site by the new york times by the the international consortium of journalists documents were released that say memos were given by the

chinese government to never allow escapes to never allow people to escape from these camps that doesn't imply that it's a voluntary process that everyone's just going in to learn hand chinese and certainly from others from weekers who have been leaving china well who have been testifying they've been saying something very contrary to that that their family members are locked up and they are not allowed to they're not allowed to contact them. well from china's perspective what they're doing is following the way it went beit perceived to be the un action plan against extremism and that means addressing the issues of poverty unemployment making sure that there's education available they china does not want an apartheid situation to occur because they simply as they and there are some people who blame them for saying why did you let this occur in the 1st place why did you let people not send their children to school only to go to the madrassa on saturdays where they could learn the koran they didn't learn

about science they don't they don't they're not able to speak. the standard language of china so therefore they're limited. cranks are appearing in the world's biggest alliance leaders are in the u.k. for the 70th anniversary of nato and divisions are becoming clear the u.s. and french presidents have disagreed on several points including nato's role and the return of foreign fighters from syria diplomats gets there james pace has more . it's supposed to be nato's 70th birthday but there's no celebration instead an atmosphere of disagreement and division with the u.s. president who once called the alliance obsolete now saying he fears that france might leave nato and i heard the president say you know to break here i think it's very disheartening to a lot of different courts including many very proud. when we make

a statement like there is a very very very nasty statement to essentially 20. 1 of the countries those comments were particularly pointed as president trump's next public meeting was with the french president there were uncomfortable moments when they were asked about european countries including france not taking back their nationals no prisoners in syria having fought for eisel. would you like some nice isis fighters if you like to give them you you could take everyone you want to live it's a. very large number 5 on the wrong are focused on the on on you baby. you have foreign fighters coming from europe this is the only week of all of them we have in the region the number one problem of the front 5 this is the ice cream. and you have more bikers uses the beach and. this is where this

is where the decision is ours where the green party enters over. ok the trouble disagreements are not the only ones at this summit the french leader attacked turkey because of its recent incursion targeting the kurds in northern syria to see . this and the feel of the quality. we needed to be. seen now finding against those who fight with us fall. short of. turkey's president later met with his u.k. host prime minister johnson as well as president barack raul and the german chancellor merkel he's threatening to block nato has plans to protect poland and the baltic states unless others agree with him on syria. but i don't differ that despite all the differences which exist and which we have to address also have to

discuss the future of nato and things we have in common strategically but i am relatively optimistic about this meeting on top of all the other problems i'm told there is currently considerable tension between chancellor merkel and president mark roll over european defense and europe's role in the state of the alliance right now is full of division it is a multi-dimensional mess. london. still to come on al-jazeera growing discontent still to see in the government some protesters in colombia and with no reservation amid plans for another nationwide strike us i'm sorry on is that the british seaside town of ramallah gate bringing a the winner of the world's most talked about price.

we got something of a wintry look to our weather across parts of the middle east at the moment certainly so it's sliding down towards syria lebanon and maybe pushing a little further south which into iraq as well what's a cloud showing up here at cloud will continue to just ease its way southwards and east was as i went through weather 5 celsius there for ankara pushes down its northern parts of syria over towards lebanon some tired and right here beside me over the high ground we are looking at a fair bit of snow just driving its way through south of that it's generally dry and cleopatra sunshine 21 celsius there in kuwait city 28 in karachi 11 degrees in the comp a wintry weather roberts was the highest ground meanwhile a little bit of cloud across southern parts of the arabian peninsula so i'm on down sward see gulf of aden seeing some rather wet weather and of course we have

a system out in the arabian sea that looks a lot it's a bring some flooding rains and it's removing to the latter part of the weeks to come thursday somalia seeing some very nasty weather reality to see fighting across northern and southern parts of the country receives a very heavy rain recently to the east side of south africa up towards botswana looking at more of the same come thursday. the weather sponsored by countdown to. the still real. family and fredo calling them i was 8 years old at school he heard the sound of large explosions. and the hardships faced in captivity they came for me at midnight they told me to leave my son i said how can i contact him i saw so much pain in the eyes of the other female prisoners. of the uprising coming soon on al-jazeera.

this is al jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. house democrats have released a report laying out the case for the impeachment of donald trump it says the president used his powers to get ukraine to help him with the 2020 alexion the white house has called the report a one sided sham fierce house of representatives has passed a bill demanding sanctions on senior chinese officials over the treatments of weaker muslim minorities trying to condense the bill and to nice the allegations and the 70th anniversary of nato has turned into a tense war of words the u.s. and french presidents argued on several points including nato's role and the return

of i saw fighters. that's all but european human rights official is demanding the immediate closure of a makeshift camp on bosnia herzegovina is border with croatia hundreds of refugees and migrants are stranded there in freezing conditions and there are fears of a humanitarian crisis al-jazeera snicker gauge reports. inside this temporary camp near the bores me in town of the hardship migrants huddle around a fire to keep warm with temperatures dropping they're facing freezing conditions little food and an uncertain future all people very close to live being in awe of all the big problem there are barely any facilities for the hundreds of people who've been here since the camp was set up in june. the conditions have most and since snowy started to full with tents giving way to the elements in. we can

expect an increase in diseases in the coming few days these people need to be taken care of all of their rights are violated here. it's led to protests in the camp with people now refusing any food or water human rights groups say the only option is to close it down immediately. these conditions are not fit for human beings this is shameful i cannot believe something like this has been set up here i'm talking about our history about everything we were all aware refugees this come must be close today. those near has struggled to hells thousands of refugees and migrants have arrived here in the past 2 years from the middle east africa and asia the government says it is looking at relocating them but that may not happen for another month. we have agreed to use the army barracks outside syria evo as a new place for the migrants i think within the next 20 days to

a month but this location will receive its 1st migrants our priority is to move all these migrants into the barracks many here are hoping for a change before the winter conditions get worse gauge al-jazeera. now they have of zimbabwe's population face a severe hunger as the analysis from the un's world food programme the un is planning to more than double the number of people it helps to more than 4000000 but as many as 7000000 need aid is expected to get worse with little rain forecast before the april harvest extreme weather and an economic meltdown have pushed those people into severe hunger and for a country that used to be the bread basket of southern africa the situation is nothing short of tragic there's no other way of putting it the crisis is being exacerbated by a dire shortage of foreign currency runaway inflation mounting unemployment the

lack of fuel prolonging power outages and large scale living a life stock losses. well yvonne i remember is country director at save the children zimbabwe she says she has seen 1st term the effects it insecurity on both rural and urban children in the rural areas families are having to lead tough choices in cases of children for instance they have to make a choice about whether they check whether the children stay bucketful men do chores and fight find other means of livelihood or go to school in the areas families have got to decide on you know what kind of meal they will have for the day because families and open areas and rural areas for most insists instances sometimes can only afford one meal a day they also have to decide on the composition of that meal so you will find that when crushes constrained and when income is constrained as it is they will

resort to buying mainly the cheaper the cheaper types of food so that's also having an effect on nutrition the school going age you find that children are now beginning to not go to school because they have to walk long distances to go to school and if they have to do that on an on an empty stomach then. there's motivation sometimes stay behind and it's now being estimated that at least 17 percent of children in the rural rural areas have dropped out of school we can't say for sure that all these 17 percent is because of the food insecurity situation and one that he says will need to be done about that but in the school administration they've suddenly noticed that since the onset of the of the food situation there's been a gradually dropping out of school of children. regional officials in mexico have visited the sites where 23 people were killed in a weekend gun fights at least 100 heavily armed gang members fought with security

forces in the town of via new on on sunday the battle contributed to a national top of $127.00 dead in 24 hours the highest on record residents of the town say cartels are trying to reclaim the territory after being pushed out 5 years ago the name of the decimal took the import we've had it for a long time the warning from the northeast cartel would rumors and its presence in the north of the state even clashes in other towns the warning that they want to into the state is here with a lot of the gang see our region as a perfect site to carry drugs into the u.s. and above all else be able to sell it it's been many years since they carried drugs through our state which is force them to go to other states or lose the drugs which later in the up on the street talks between the colombian government sand protest organizers have ended with no resolution the country is preparing for its 3rd in national strike in just over 2 weeks it's part of ongoing anti-government protests against president ivan do case social and economic policies are the standard i'm

here to reports from bogota. in this neighborhood on the outskirts of bogota people are gathering to discuss the state of the country it didn't go there mostly young students and workers that have been participating in the unprecedented protest that have rocked colombia and the in popular government of iran but as a stern was going it understood as budgets we are building these pieces to address the demands of the strike and from decision in a collective manner unified the demands of our proposal and the strike. hundreds of thousands of colombians have protested over the past 2 weeks compromising the government's reforms in affecting the local economy and commuters . yet despite the inconveniences poll say 55 percent of colombian support the strike don't most would also like to see a return to normality. jay gotta under pressure president who can now step great

national dialogue on a number of social issues but he refused to talk to the protesters directly so they called a 3rd national strike the government asked the unions and the student groups that make up the national strike to call off wednesday's protest offering an exchange the possibility of a direct parallel dialogue but the leaders of the strike were unmoved by their request. pro-government congresswoman might get it that is the report says the demonstrators are being duped by the government's policy to call opponents. started as a peaceful demonstration was exploited by negative political leaders who couldn't accept their defeat at the polls and they also all these foreign agents were not thinking about the future for our country and exploiting this for their political games. well almost. back on the streets professors from columbia's private university was

on this or holding free classes to discuss the long standing a comic and social issues brought up by the strike. does the historian says the government is blind to the changes happening in the country yes i think my generation was warning i was very violent we didn't get the streets i think this generation that was born in this century are not scary anymore and they want to just keep going on what the problem is here now i believe is that the government is not understanding that that's the way they have to express and that they want to express. their demands. a disconnect that seems to be growing every day for their fuel discounting i listen to. now one of the world's most prestigious art award since been splits between all 4 finalists for the 1st time they asked the turner prize judges to be treated as a group as a sign of solidarity and to fight a world charlie angela reports from arcades in england. it's the most talked about

prize in the world but this year the 4 artists redefined the competition by joining forces the 29th. turner prize has been awarded to the collective a radical move underpinned by the political nature of these artists we quickly realize the shared resource that runs across our otherwise very different practices when there is already so much that divides people we feel strongly motivated to use the occasion of the prize to make a collective statement in the name of commonality multiplicity and solidarity through the video helen camac explores the role of women in the civil rights movement in northern ireland weaving in songs of protest her films delve into a history that informs the mass demonstrations we see today in another video he's learnt the hamdan questions sound untruth. in

a project commissioned by amnesty international investigated the syrian regime's prison that sat in the prison known for its torture where silence was brutally enforced abbey hamdan interviewed former inmates and used it witness testimonies to understand what happened the powerful work that wouldn't feel out of place as evidence in a courtroom sculptor has produced some rather creepy effigy staring blankly at a black hole with a chink of light he says the work is about injustice industry and capitalism while thai shanny's dream like work draws on feminist tex she's created a mythical world with subtle references to mysticism and philosophy the prizes co-curator says all the artists are equally deserving of the award winning the turner prize even being nominated for the turner prize being part of it is i'm a massive and amazing platform for an artist we've had $93000.00 visitors to the gallery 7 percent of those i've never been to

a gallery before so you're getting your work seen by a much broader audience the painted tunnel was described margate sunset is the most beautiful in europe but the artists nominated here are really pushing against what many expect art to be inside is not art as entertainment or status as him but politics with a capital p. these winners will now have the platform to communicate their politics and their message of solidarity to a global audience charlie angela al-jazeera markets. this is al-jazeera and these are the top stories u.s. house democrats have released a report laying out the case for the impeachment of donald trump it says the president used his powers to get ukraine to help him but the 2020 alexion the white house has called the report a one sided sham the process for my shift to the house judiciary committee which

will meet this week. i did you castro has more now from capitol hill the house intelligence committee has been giving its stamp of approval on this report and now it is now passing that report on to that to sherry committee which is significant because it is the judiciary committee that will draft articles of impeachment basically these are the charges that trump would face once this goes to a trial in the senate. the u.s. house of representatives has passed a bill demands on sanctions on senior chinese officials over the treatment of the reader in this little minority the legislation also calls for the closure of the tension camps in the sim john region and it names members of scene jones communist party washington says all the sponsible for abuses china has condemned the bill and has denied the allegations the 70th anniversary of nato has turned into a tense war of words the u.s.

and french president sarkozy to on several points including the tools role and the return of ice or fighters present macro also attacks turkey over its military operation in syria nearly half of zimbabwe's population faces severe hunger as the analysis from the u.s. world food programme un is planning to more than double the number of people it helps to 4000000 but as many as 7 people needing aids the situation is expected to get worse with little rain forecast before the april harvest and regional officials in mexico have visited the sites where 23 people were killed in a weekend gun fights at least 100 heavily armed gang members fought with security forces in the town of fear in your on sunday the battle contributed to a national tour of 127 dead in 24 hours the highest on record but show up to date say was an al-jazeera they used until years after the strain. we were told to get to that between russia has this been addressed by turkey we listen

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