i think in this country the great place. drama brick suit on al-jazeera. angry reactions in china as the u.s. congress calls for sanctions on communist party officials for their treatment of weak and muslims. this is al jazeera live from cairo also coming up the u.s. house intelligence committee submits a damning report against donald trump ahead of wednesday's impeachment hearing. divisions within nato are on full public display as leaders mark 70 years of about the largest military alliance plus. with the world all that such

a festival happening this week in amsterdam i'll be looking at why it says that it's chinese projects like this one with a dominatrix in the awards. china is condemning a u.s. bill that threatens sanctions against senior communist party officials because of their treatment of we're muslims hundreds of thousands have been detained as part of a crackdown in the northwestern region of. the bill passed by the u.s. congress as the closure of those detention camps and it names members of communist party who washington says are responsible for abuses she has been following all the developments from washington d.c. where the bill has received overwhelming support. 471 bipartisan support for this bill condemning the treatment of muslims and shown during 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 of the state department assessment of what's going on what's 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 that 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 they 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. brown joins me now from saying where there's been a strong reaction to the u.s. adrian what are we hearing from officials and this isn't the only u.s. that they are unhappy about. well as you might expect the reaction from beijing has been swift it has been furious they were anticipating this bill of course but nevertheless a foreign ministry spokeswoman has accused the united states of wantonly smearing china's efforts to try to combat terrorism and extremism in the far western province of shin jang it calls this bill malicious and the language has been growing stronger throughout the day and the reason why china is so annoyed of course is that what has now happened in many ways represents a defining moment for we good people this is in a sense

a moment they've been waiting years for because their plight has now become a foreign policy priority for the united states now a bit of context why it is matter so much to china well this province in the far western part of the country lies at the heart of president cheating pings ambitious one belt one road project and for that project to work has to work but china has complained for many years that it has a terrorism problem in shouldn't jang human rights groups say that during the past few years up to a 1000000 people have been rounded up and placed in effectively what is a 21st century gulag quote china denies that it says these people are being held in what it calls vocational training centers where they're learning how to improve their lives now why is all this important for other reasons well it comes just a week after president trump signed into law the hong kong human rights and

democracy act which also targets individuals in hong kong who could be accused of suppressing human rights sanctions could be taken against them it also means in the case of hong kong that the special trading status it enjoys with the united states could be subject to an annual review so what china is what what china's been china is i guess now in many ways being sort of threatened on 2 fronts by the united states shouldn't jang and hong kong and engine what does all of this mean for the other points of friction between china and the u.s. on going trade war. well of course this was supposed to be the month that had been built up was the month when perhaps phase one of this proposed trade deal between china and the united states was going to happen i think the odds on that happening have now been significantly lowered because in london president trump who is attending that nato summit has said that

in fact there is now no deadline to reach an agreement with china to end the deadlock over trade he's even spoken of perhaps leaving it to after the election the presidential election next year in the united states in 2020 so the trade deal the that the deal to try to end this trade war that's been going on for 18 months is now once more up in the air again and you're really lift left with the impression that you know in many ways this is what a cold war looks like. and even hong kong rather thank you for. now 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 in pizza report says the time being used as palin to seek help from ukraine's president to benefit his reelection bid how does her cast her 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 whether the american people have a 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 old so 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 impeach 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 will 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 does joe castro al-jazeera washington. cracks are appearing in the wilds biggest alliance leaders are in the u.k. for the 70th anniversary of nato divisions becoming clear the u.s. and french presidents have disagreed on several points unclear dinghies his role

and the return of foreign fighters from syria as. it's supposed to be nato 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 what a break here i think it's very sobering to a lot of different. really remember figure out a group. where we make a statement like there is a very very very nasty statement to essentially 20. 1 of your country's 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

you like to give them you believe you can take everyone you want to live if you say . very arguable point with them the wrong i'm focused on the. community the vision. you have foreign fighters coming from europe if you can finally get all of them we have in the region the number one problem of the foreign fight this is the point really. and you have one more fight for you to see. this is where he grew politician because i was one of the greatest economy answers ever. so the trouble disagreements are not the only ones at this summit the french leader at. turkey because of its recent incursion targeting the kurds in northern syria is going to see. this in the field of the on duty.

we need to be. seen out fighting against those who fight with us. 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 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. for more on the stand

holograms us now live from what just north of london where the leaders are gathering sorry john of the leaders i believe a jew to start arriving just in the next hour and things have already gotten off to a bad tempered start functions day so what's expected today. well that's right james laid it out there those 2 lengthy appearances by donald trump on tuesday the 2nd one in particular with emanuel macron that laid bare these divisions at the heart of nato not least mr macro's challenge to the very nature and future of this alliance what does it mean what's it all about and those very important questions leveled at nato member turkey with all of that in mind the leaders of got to turn up here at this gulf resort outside london and put on as convincing a show as they can of the unity to mark the 70th birthday of what is of course the world's most successful military alliance and that's what this event was supposed

to be about it's not a summit there were no big decisions planned and no key meeting instead designed really specifically to avoid controversy but look at what they've got to overcome instead they've got to overcome mr macro's objections he's refusing to stand down from his comments that nato is all but braindead for its failure to cooperate and coordinate between amongst its very own members they've got to overcome these questions aimed at turkey is it still a reliable member given its assault on the kurds in the north of syria people the kurds who many nato leaders consider to have been until very very recently invaluable allies in the fight against isis further questions about turkey's purchase of russian and defense equipment and also of course crucially turkey's threat to block efforts of bolter bolster the security of nato is eastern flank with russia if it doesn't play things turkey's way and of course donald trump again

urging very boldly demanding that members pay up and pay more for their own defense calling them delinquents those that aren't meeting their targets including france by the way and specifically and threatening to enact perhaps trade measures if necessary to force them to pay up for all of that together and nato's motto $1.00 for all. for one really on this occasion when it should matter so much really doesn't look like it stands for what nato leadership would hope very much to be projecting on this nato 70th birthday and as you say a tete a very likely be the center of attention they likely to be able to resolve their differences. well they've got very little face time together the leaders as i say this was only ever considered a low key meeting specifically to avoid differences there won't be much time to resolve the issue of turkey it's likely to hang in the air for some time to come there was that 4 way meeting that james mentioned in his report yesterday with

chancellor merkel mr macron boris johnson the british prime minister and mr erdogan in downing street she came out saying this is merkel that she was relatively optimistic about it all mr macron who of course is pushing the case of turkey said not all clarifications were obtained and not all ambiguity is resolved most of the focus now will be on this threat mr erdogan laid down the gauntlet before he turned up here saying if you don't follow me in northern syria and agree with me that the kurds are terrorists i won't support efforts to bolster the security of the baltics and poland against russia that cuts deep that goes right to the heart of his obligation as a member of nato to collective security it raises deep questions about turkey's reliability and is most unwelcome as the spotlight moves to really the very nature and as i said the future of this nato alliance china how they're watching all the developments from this news angles and from what fred for us thank you general.

there more children die as a result the outbreak ravages the tiny south pacific island of someone. this is not a place for a human being. from top european human rights official demands the closure of a migrant camp bosnia where conditions have been widely described as a port. we've still got quiet weather across central parts of europe but some of the lively storms down towards the southeast some wintry weather actually sliding down across turkey there into the central powers we have high pressure in charge so light winds so mr fogel lingering into the middle part of the day early part of the afternoon for some they've got these weather systems trying to roll their way in and just mix

things up a little over the next sunday mixed up downs was that western side of the mediterranean called an active area of low pressure here swirling away bringing some heavy showers some thunder showers into that eastern side of spain temperatures madrid just 12 degrees celsius there but the valley area still seeing some very wet and windy weather the quater weather the light winds as i said further north of a struggling all the time because he says dry there 5 celsius in paris 7 celsius that for london just getting about freezing the interview and there's a wintry mix down towards. pushing through greece because some rain here but snow with the high ground clearing through broad skies come back in behind the 4 celsius in ankara somewhat to weather there cool central part of the mediterranean by that stage and still some rather whether they're just around that eastern side of spain some of those showers longer spells of rain will affect the far northwest of africa but further east is fun and dry.

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a us bill which has the closure of weekend detention camps in the northwestern region of. britain sanctions against senior communist party officials that washington says are responsible for abuses. the committee holding the impeachment inquiry into us president donald trump has laid out what it says is overwhelming evidence of misconduct in office the impeachment report says the us president used his power to seek help from ukraine's president to help his reelection bid. on the 70th anniversary of nato has turned into a tense war of words the u.s. and french presidents have publicly disagreed on several points including nato his role and the return of i still fighting. and just around an hour's time the international criminal court's chief prosecutor will renew efforts to open a formal investigation into war crimes in afghanistan. says the afghan government the taliban and the united states all face accusations of abuses and edge of the committed between 20032004 the court rejected the request to investigate the cea

but our correspondent tony betty has more from one of the villages seeking justice . this is a graveyard in the village of jogger in eastern afghanistan close to the pakistan border 70 people here are buried who were killed in the village mosque when they were prayer by either a suicide bomber or planted bomb either by eisel or by the taliban it's not clear yet but what is clear is they were all innocent victims and so far in this war 31000 innocent victims are being claimed they have not had a voice now the international criminal court wants to give them that voice that's why they're trying to bring an investigation of potential war crimes in afghanistan even though that their request for an investigation by the chief prosecutor for 2 bensouda was thrown out by its own judges even though they said there was merit in the cases presented to them they said it did not serve the interests of justice because it would be too complicated too difficult and perhaps too expensive to deal

with that investigation on the ground because they've accusing the taliban the u.s. forces and the afghan government of committing acts of war crimes so trying to investigate that would be very difficult mrs brown suitor said that the united states was possibly responsible for a number of crimes which included their intelligence services and their military services which included torture cruel treatment rape and sexual violence against conflict related detainees the united states they deny this they say that this is concocted they refuse to comply with any investigation and it also will be difficult for the taliban and the afghan government to do that the taliban have been accused of killing 17000 civilians since 20097000 of them targeted and the afghan government has been accused of allowing torture against prisoners so getting all sides to agree to an investigation will be extremely difficult but it's drawn

condemnation from many human rights organizations who say this will be a precedent if the i.c.c. does not allow this investigation to go ahead. will be giving in to bullying and threats and it will set and give a signal to governments everywhere in the world that they don't have to comply and there's no fall back and no justice that could be used against them if you ask the people in afghanistan what they want most it's not justice for the individuals now it's it's peace they want a lasting peace which will not necessitate war crimes and it will not create any more innocent victims. now a top european human rights official is demanding the immediate closure of a makeshift camp on bosnia-herzegovina as border with croatia hundreds of refugees and migrants are stranded there in freezing conditions like age reports. inside this temporary camp near the bulls me in town of. 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 a 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. 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 can't with people now refusing any food or water human rights groups say the only option is to close it down immediately. called wasn't very hard for these conditions are not fit for human beings this is shameful i cannot believe something like this has been set up i'm talking about our history about everything we were free all aware refugees

this car must be closed today. both mia has struggled to helles thousands of refugees and migrants who 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 even 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. someone's government has ordered unvaccinated families to tie a red flag outside their homes as it steps up efforts to contain a measles outbreak 60 people have now died since the epidemic began there in mid october $52.00 of those are children under the age of 4 until now less than

a 3rd of someones have been immune immunized against the disease but vaccinations are now compulsory under emergency measures however infection rates do continue to climb with 171 new cases recorded in just the past 24 hours our correspondent jessica washington is in the someone capital of. the outbreak began in one of the. schools the focus really was on making sure that children in the most vulnerable age group of 6 months to 4 years old. but since then as this crisis has the scope of the emergency measures. the message. is that everyone under the age of 60 must be. and this. program. a number of. their health clinics. some government organizations and. now they're all signs that those initiatives are

working since. at least 60000 people. there is. where the capital city is. we do know that it's mostly. in areas that the. authorities. now the world's biggest architects a festival starts on wednesday in amsterdam and also case the best in new buildings and urban design more than 500 projects have been shortlisted and the country with the most is china andrew thomas reports from beijing. china is known for ancient architecture and more recently ugly tower blocks but the reputation for dull

buildings and places is changing this project the conversion of rooftops of traditional hutong housing into an offices open air meeting space is an example overlooked by beijing's ancient drum tower courtyard number 7 has been shortlisted for the old and new completed buildings prize for this week's world architecture festival awards it seems like we create a new wells of how to use the roof of the old building we like this kind of conflict between the traditional things and a new things as we like the most of 534 projects worldwide shortlisted at this week's awards 94 of them are in china no other single country has more projects in the running it wasn't long ago that china was better known for knocking good architecture down than building it up that's changed and these awards reflect that on the outskirts of beijing this park with public buildings in the shape of

a traditional chinese hand scroll is shortlisted for the urban landscape project's prize chinese project to shortlisted in virtually every one of the $39.00 categories of prizes at this week's awards. 2008 zelin pics were a catalyst for interesting buildings the beijing national stadium the bird's nest one dozens of prizes since all kinds of unusual architecture has been developed around china some 2 unusual in 2016 china's government issued a decree forbidding with architecture that is not economical functional or ascetic lee pleasing but a government that can at a stroke band some architecture can also push other projects through fast beijing's new airport which is the world's 2nd biggest single terminal airport was built in just 5 years the firm behind it has dozens of other projects completed or in

development around china a lot of architects lot of creative people are have that opportunity come here realize they work in such a short period of time and then they really are leading the. industry in terms of these new types of projects china's volume of new architecture and speed of project development is unmatched the world architecture festival awards reflects that andrew thomas al-jazeera beijing. and again this is al-jazeera and these are headlines china has condemned a u.s. bill which adds the closure of will get attention camps and the northwestern region of sudan and threaten sanctions against senior communist party officials that washington says are responsible for aging brown has more from hong kong. a foreign ministry spokeswoman has accused the united states of wantonly smearing china's

efforts to try to combat terrorism and extremism in the far western province of shinji i get calls this bill malicious and the language has been growing stronger throughout the day and the reason why china is so annoyed of course is that what has now happened in many ways represents a defining moment for we good people this is in a sense a moment they've been waiting years for because their plight has now become a foreign policy priority for the united states. the committee holding the impeachment inquiry into u.s. president donald trump has laid out what it says is overwhelming evidence of misconduct in office the 300 page impeachment report says the us president used his power to seek help from ukraine's president to help his reelection bid how these are castro has more 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 the judiciary 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 70th anniversary of nato has turned into a tense war of words the u.s. and french presidents have publicly disagreed on several points including nato his role in the return of isis fighters the world health organization says some was worsening the easels outbreak has set back global efforts and the minute the disease 60 people have died since the epidemic started in october most of them children under the age of 4 more cases are being reported every hour with more than 4000 people infected in a population of just 200000 people well those are the headlines and next up its inside story many countries aren't keeping up with their commitments to stop our planet teaching got. india cheap and at the un climate change conference in madrid

. and its representatives from over $200.00 countries gathered for a cop $25.00 genius for special coverage on al-jazeera. is nato still relevant cracks at the world's largest military alliance it's 70th birthday and the member states settle that differences and what could happen if they don't this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. the world's biggest military alliance is facing a crisis the united states cannot than 10 european nations formed nato at the end of the 2nd world war to confront what they saw us rats.