some people don't want to even if it doesn't you know your school truth is it anyway on al-jazeera. political rivals or subtly impeachment charges against the us president within weeks. the president has engaged in abuse of power undermining our national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. i'll lifestyle the evidence against russian hackers accused of stealing around $100000000.00 from businesses around the world. and that's the real focus is on a measles outbreak in samoa the world health organization warns the problem is far

bigger than most people realize. and journalism sure longa say they're confronting intimidation from the new government. will become just the 4th u.s. president to face formal and pietschmann charges speaker nancy pelosi says he abused his power by withholding military aid to pressure ukraine into investigating democratic rival joe biden a votes expected in the next couple of weeks setting up a fight in the senate on whether to remove trump from office castro reports in washington d.c. . it's official sadly that with confidence and humility with allegiance to our founders and heart full of love for america today i am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. donald trump will become the 4th president in u.s. history to face formal impeachment charges that could remove him from office the

facts are uncontested the president abused his power for his own personal political benefit at the expense of our national security by withholding military aid and crucial oval office meeting in exchange for an announcement of an investigation into his political rival the white house says democrats are abusing their power and lying to the american people are you referring to the right are usually buying up on your legacy. reza hoax it's a hoax and some big fat 0 s. now with the big question in washington is what these articles of impeachment will be a report by the house intelligence committee makes a case for abuse of power and of struction of congress stemming from the ukraine investigation but then there are still those lingering concerns from the earlier russia investigation. in july special counsel robert muller told congress that

while there was no evidence trump had colluded with russia to win the 2016 election there may be grounds that he obstructed justice and what about total exoneration if you actually totally exonerate the prez you know the muller's appearance had little impact and the very next day trump told the president of ukraine over the phone that muller had quote a poor performance then according to the call transcript trump asked for an investigation into his political rival constitutional scholars called by democrats have testified that trump's impeachable offenses go beyond the ukraine phone call call i think the way you need to ask about this is how does it fit into the pattern of behavior by the president republicans counter democrats have been trying to remove trump since the day he took office they've always wanted to impeach the president. watch them at their words watch them at their actions watching what they have done the democratic majority in the house will likely vote to impeach trump

before christmas then the senate dominated by the president's own party will put trump's fate on trial in the new year. castro al-jazeera washington. michael isikoff is the chief executive reporter at an investigative reporter pardon me at yahoo news he says trump's poll numbers seem to be stable despite the impeachment proceedings. nobody really knows how this is going to shake out politically it is worth noting that we've had more than 2 months now since the transcript of the president's phone call with zelinsky emerged in the course than there was 2 weeks of public hearings in november while there was a spike in those who wanted to see the president impeached and removed after the release of the transcript the needle really hasn't moved much since then if you look at the public opinion polls they're still pretty much where they were a few months ago with roughly half the country about 50 percent. do want to see the

president impeached and removed from office and then you know 424344 percent opposed with you know a small number 567 percent undecided on the issue so you know one can ask if the needle did not move after 2 weeks of public hearings whether it's likely to do so in the days and weeks ahead hard to say not much evidence of that that's why this is a bit of a gamble for democrats politically but i should say when this does go to trial in the senate and it will next month the level of public attention and coverage will exceed anything we've seen to date so it is possible that more people will be watching paying attention listening to the testimony so there could be some shift

during the course of that trial in the senate and a separate battle with the democrats donald trump as the supreme court to block an investigation into its finances the president has petitioned the court to keep his financial records out of the hands of a congressional panel a lower court role the panel cuts the pain of the documents held by trump's accounting firm. and i did states is charged to russians for allegedly running a global cyber crime organization called evil court to remain at large they're accused of using malicious software or malware to steal millions of dollars sarcoma courts. are. living the high life. customized so you can call it. complete to the personalized number plate that spells out thief in russian. lavish policies and expensive gifts all captured on camera and used as evidence by u.s.

and u.k. prosecutors against russian hackers on thursday u.s. indictment accuse i go to russia and mike's india of running a global hacking group called evil quote from their basements we're here today to identify and announce charges against a russian national whom the department of justice alleges is responsible for 2 of the worst computer hacking and bank fraud schemes of the past decade yakob is a true 21st century criminal who with the stroke of a key in the click of a mouse committed cyber crimes across the globe he's earned his place on the f.b.i.'s list of the world's most wanted cyber criminals yeah qubits is accused of working for russian intelligence both men and legit to use ma when known as droid 6 is still at least $100000000.00 from the likes of schools and religious organizations across 40 countries the malware was spread through so-called phishing campaigns encouraging victims to click on malicious links sent by email once

a computer was infected the group stole postal banking information which was used to transfer funds fundamental weakness that organized crime has is that they are driven by money and they are driven by greed and we have been able to get evidence in the u.k. of a real world footprint of people seeking to drill down. funds from these offenses and also people who are exhibiting a very extravagant lifestyle online. was a rush of and acrobats remain at launch a $5000000.00 bounty has been offered for information leading to acrobats arrest and prosecution the largest reward ever offered for a cyber criminal sort of al-jazeera and u.s.p.s. the chief executive of global cyber risk my colleague hossam seek a spoke with her earlier and asked her how safe any of our online transactions really are. was very significant it's a a major bust of

a very large cyber criminal ring but what the f.b.i. wasn't really focusing on in their announcements was it took them 8 years to do this investigation they began it in 2011 so it is wonderful that they have finally brought this ring into indictments it's doubtful they will ever bring these 2 russians to trial because they remain in russia and it highlights the difficulty of how hard it is to track and trace and conduct cyber crime investigations is this kind of thing sort of a drop in the ocean is there more to it now that you believe a cyber crime costs businesses about 5 trillion a year i believe is the last number i read so the bad guys are winning and it is a step in the right direction but when you consider all the cyber crimes that happened between those intervening 8 years you can see that we're way behind so

it is a problem that we have to address in our legal frameworks and international cooperation and just in how we can pursue these cyber criminals it also highlights i should point out that there are there are 6 stream risks in online banking online banking is not completely secure so one thing people can do is to companies and individuals both is to restrict their use of online banking and be very careful about what they are doing with it and be very careful with their online credentials for logging in . listen india say they have shot the 4 men suspected in the rape and murder but that marian in the southern city of hyderabad the death of the 27 year old last week sparked protests across the country and calls for tougher laws police say the men were taken to the scene of the crime men were shot when they tried to escape

that of the world health organization has expressed outrage as new figures show a big increase in the number of deaths caused by measles the viral disease killed 140000 people in 2018 that's compared to 120000 the year before the report says children under the age of 5 make up most of the deaths the w.h.o. director says the numbers point to a collective failure and says vaccinations are showing signs of stagnation worldwide as trust of authorities in the spread of misinformation are partially to blame and we are on a trajectory that is going in absolutely the wrong direction we are backsliding very significantly and the additional point here is that we're really. influence to some of these situations are very influenced by the public perception of vaccines we've had anti vaccine voices since the time of vaccines in the 1700s that's that's not new what's new in the past 510 years is the megaphone that they

have and the tools that these anti vaccine voices which really are fringe groups it's actually quite a small number of people and groups who are spreading both misson disparate large and spreading misinformation. mass vaccination campaigns underway in samoa aimed at containing the measles outbreak which has killed dozens of children medical teams are going door to door to vaccinate as many people as possible all businesses have been shut and people told to keep their cars off the road just to washington is better to vaccination center in the capital apia. it's day 2 of some mass vaccination campaign and the team here at the emergency response headquarters are compiling the numbers from day one efforts so far they've indicated at least 16000 people were vaccinated here in samoa on thursday those efforts will continue today

on friday with the focus being on city and urban areas some oh is still in shutdown mode the roads are empty and businesses are closed that's all part of an effort by authorities here to make it as simple as possible for the medical teams going door to door to administer vaccinations authorities say if it's all going well and things should go back to normal as soon as possible. still ahead on al-jazeera a fight to preserve their pensions workers unite across france in one of the largest strikes in years. and a tense calm in the process bolivia struggles to find a way forward after weeks of political turmoil. and i would have

a wave of winter weather is running through turkey although it will produce weather further south the general movement is west to east which is the big surprise it leaves behind then cold scar yes so the sun is out but i'm through is best is 3 degrees and leper only 10 residual showers through southern turkey northern syria and down through iraq sundstrom seen quite lucky say 19 in baghdad still around about 11 in tehran where the sun is as of course it is one as you might expect and that's a good part of iran and around the levant in jerusalem shows that the cold air is still around and it's pushing stocks and it's going to prompt significant shot down through kuwait i think and just a bit of lift. 1000 reaches a certain get started very easily of course in iraq probably as well the tail end the potential was under storms isn't that evident nothing much i don't think on friday on saturday something might show itself in eastern saudi certainly breeze will pick up not usually a dusty dusty road ahead of any thunderstorms around possibly qatar as well as

cloudy and coast on the horn of africa circulation which is a tropical side which will make landfall but probably not into early hours of saturday and then it makes flash flood potential and some. good weather sponsored by qatar and. an investigation of how foreign companies planned africa's natural resources the trust is show important in the question revealing how new media's officials demand cash in exchange for favors. with confidential documents provided to al-jazeera by wiki leaks these are going to save you committee fortress or i will fight to the crunch and i'm not dealing you out his ear investigations the anatomy of a braai. watching

al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now us out speaker nancy pelosi has asked for formal impeachment charges to be drawn up against the president for abuse of power. looks forward to a fair trial in the republican controlled senate to russian hackers are being accused of living the high life on money stolen from banks and businesses and more than $40.00 countries a $5000000.00 reward has been announced for the alleged ringleaders arrest and conviction. and. say they have shot 4 men suspected in the rape and murder of a veterinarian in the southern city of hi tara and they were taken to the scene of last week's crime and shot when they try to escape that as police are saying. hundreds of thousands of people across france have walked off the job for a 2nd day in one of the largest strikes by workers in years protests turned violent

in some cities with demonstrators angry at president and planned pension reforms. in the capital paris. there were people from all walks of french life teaches students and lawyers joint transports and health workers in central paris policy of a nationwide strike protesting against the government's plans to reform the pension system they fear the changes would force them to work for more years and reduce their payouts if we're here to try and preserve our pension system which is one of the best in europe and we don't want to go backwards micron's reforms are destroying french society. it looks like we'll have to retire even later but we'll have even less money in our pension so the demonstration was mainly peaceful but there was some clashes between police and so-called black bloc and a case protesters i. more than $6000.00 police officers were deployed in the city this police union spokesperson said many of them would

have wanted to join this joint a lot of them wanted to come. we had. to do that was a load and. we do not have the right to go on strike so. yes it's difficult for force the strong cause major disruption across the city there was little public transport and most schools were shot even the eiffel tower was forced to close the french president says the pension system needs to be streamlined to make it fairer and safe public money the strikes on a major test for emanuel micro because he. reforming the pension system one of his campaign promises 3 didn't give to the protesters and. it would be. the same for the french president to be showing no sign of backing down this analyst says macro has a track record of controversial reforms since the beginning of its mandate the

government has passed several reforms that many would have believed would be almost impossible but they managed to push them through despite the challenges and risk. micro may not make concessions but if the disruption continues he may have to rethink although most people are expected to return to work this week some transport workers say they won't give up their fights and will continue to strike. paris. for his prime minister boris johnson a political boost just a week before the u.k. general election 4 members of the european parliament have abandoned. the party to back the conservatives they say only a victory for johnson will ensure the u.k. leaves the e.u. the brics issue has dominated the election and torn apart all party alliances the main opposition labor party has promised to hold a 2nd referendum if it wins. iraq's parliament has passed a bill to reform its law toral commission in an effort to ease tension after 2

months of anti-government protests on sunday the prime minister had it in his resignation but demonstrators say that start enough torture jabari reports and back that. i chanting psystar new york the leader of the revolution they made their way to tahrir square because i the chance refer to grand ayatollah ali al sistani the shia leader who claims the government and security forces for the deaths of demonstrators the protesters came from various other parts of baghdad but their message is the same as others who come here every day i don't know. we demand an end to the system we don't want to see still the basic nation of the prime minister is not enough we want a resignation of a lot of. well by living. we want the straight him to step down we don't want any promises from any of these political blocs at least 430 iraqis have been killed in 9 weeks of anti-government protests among the demands of protesters for jobs less

corruption you elections and changes today of actual laws and the constitution there were votes against the government force prime minister i don't often make these words are these now urging the parliament to fulfill its duties. were in the middle of an unprecedented situation but i think the legal and constitutional understanding of the situation is clear we understand the problems of our country and we hope the political powers will nominate and choose an alternative prime minister as soon as possible. but the political process in iraq is complicated by sectarian interests a major issue for many here they want more say in choosing their political leaders this is a makeshift memorial built to remember the protesters who were killed here but as the political wrangling continues behind the scenes many here say that they hope the protesters didn't die in vain but rather so that all iraqis can have

a better future dorsett a pari all to syria baghdad. after it's a political unrest that left more than 30 people dead bolivians are wary of new elections on time president evo morales says in exile in mexico he resigned following accusations of voter fraud john home and reports. of to the abrupt tick of long term president ever morale is the protests and this that followed the tense calm prevails in bolivia. the country is functioning at least under an interim government but it's also in limbo waiting for fresh elections that have yet to be cool their city or the almost again one must like them the best thing would be for elections democratic elections without the fraud that the last president did and that it happens soon because the country is paralyzed in certain aspects and with the new elected government things will be better. interim president jimmy 9

years he's an elected to ministration has been busy radically altering the country's foreign policy and accusing venezuela of coups in the recent people not just in bolivia and throughout the region you see. mr moore through diosdado cabello using his cousin has financed all the terror the bolivians have experienced in recent days the terror that colombians to land's end peruvians are experiencing this is really a conspiracy against latin america. and would be closer to home has been accused of sedition and heading up a narco network charges have also been presented against other leaders from his polity. some believe you are happy with what they see is a routing out institutionalized corruption you know you will be having to be nobody in the interim government is acting to bring to light the parodies that the last government committed so it would be good that they stay for a bit longer. but this is

a revenge mission from conservatives finally back in power the country's next president was jus to take up the reins of the 22nd of january that's not going to happen now a me while the interim administration instead of just a caretaker role is taking actions which while it and it supports is still a necessary to clean up the country and bring fresh direct should to all those curry the with of political persecution. and allowed to support his victim president really said that been a clamp down against the rejection the 9 years seeing her as illegitimate and how did that miss the must let it go right now we need elections janina now says there's peace what peace in alto there's no peace they say that we have been vandalizing the city but it's a lot more they were gathered to try and find out if social programs begun and who continue and of the questions will only be definitively answered of to believe it goes to the pope's whenever that is don't hold with al-jazeera. by

sharing a service worker has announced that nearly 6000 sexual assaults are reported to the company and the u.s. over 2 years as the 1st time ever has released figures which cover 20172018 the allegations range from unwanted touching kissing rape and 19 deadly assaults over and its competitors have been facing increasing pressure to deal with clients . talks between major oil exporting nations have wrapped up in austria without an announcement on production cuts the discussions went late into thursday night at opec's headquarters in vienna they will cartels been cutting production for the past 3 years and further reductions are expected but there's disagreement about how they should be shared. activists have staged a walkout during the united nations climate change talks in spain over oil companies attending the event about 20 protesters stood up and cover their ears in

the middle of a meeting in madrid organized by the international emissions trading association they say polluters including shell b.p. and chevron should not be allowed to influence discussions around the world extreme weather is being linked to manmade global warming the un has a war in the world will soon reach the point of no return. international media watchdog reporters without borders says it's concerned journalists in sri lanka are facing a new wave of harassment the group says members of the media have been subjected to intimidation since go to buy rajapaksa took office last month some journalists have resigned and left the country trail strapped for reports. these journalists work for a sri lankan online news organization based in the capital colombo nicolas helped set up news harper dot l.-k. 2 years ago. mobile phone video shows the moment police raided the offices on november the 26 and security camera recording show police what the journalists say

were plainclothes i-t. specialists looking through files on their computers the police said they were acting on a complaint that the website was publishing inflammatory articles against sri lanka's merely elected president rajapaksa. the new regime everybody is you know like. them it's not being said it has not been done on. but everybody has this you know. be hanging there. and that's that's that's not a good development i thought. it was defense secretary joining the latter part of sri lanka's civil war which ended in 2009 his brother was president it was a particularly dangerous time to be a journalist in sri lanka journalists were often beaten kidnapped in prison and even murdered during the 2005 to 2015 rule of mahinda rajapaksa. government

always denied responsibility and despite there being improvements in media freedom in recent years few if any people are being punished for those crimes journalists now fear that the recent election of gotoh by rajapaksa brother mahinda as prime minister means they could face similar threats again so it is that fear of what the board's once like and what it may become again and what the nature of the man who is now in power as president that is driving the censorship and the unilateral decisions of editors and orders and journalists themselves to dial down the reporting the government says allegations of intimidation of false and politically motivated that a few institutions are see if you are going to as they said who really made it during the campaign that that. game should not be tolerated are they should not be

elected but people may be making those comments so i'm just saying that the disk completely grossly unfair for one to rule that. only say the media is deeply politically polarized. the news channel there on our broadcast in a single language openly supportive of president rajapaksa who is from the majority senhor lee's community the channel has been accused of being heavily biased toward . the leader chief executive seems to channelise surely catering to majority group. of the people the problem so we tell the truth to the back of the news website overseas it makes the police raid scared him he describes journalism as an occupational hazard he's skeptical things will improve under the

new government and its leaders who deny inciting violence against journalists in the past. colombo. so the headlines right now on al-jazeera the u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi has asked for formal impeachment charges to be drawn up against a president or abuse of power donald trump says he looks forward to a fair trial and the republican controlled senate i democracy is what is at stake the president leaves us no choice but to act because he is trying to corrupt once again the election for his own benefit the president has engaged in abuse of power undermining our national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections his actions are in defiance of the vision of our founders and the oath of office

that he takes to preserve protect and defend the constitution of the state. to russian hackers are being accused of living the high life on money stolen from banks and businesses and more than $40.00 countries a $5000000.00 reward has been announced for the alleged ringleaders arrest and conviction the 2 are accused of working with russian intelligence to steal government documents. police in india say they have shot dead the 4 men suspected in the rape and murder of a veterinarian in the southern city of hyderabad the death of the 27 year old last week spark protests across the country and calls for tougher laws police are saying the men were taken to the scene of the crime and were shot when they tried to escape world health organization says new figures show a big increase the number of deaths caused by measles the findings come is similar to an outbreak which is killed dozens of children so medical workers are going door to door in samoa trying to vaccinate as many people as possible. hundreds of

thousands of people across france are walking off the job for a 2nd day this is one of the largest strikes by workers in years on thursday a protest against president planned pension reforms turned violent in some cities. 4 members of the european parliament have abandoned. the party to back the conservatives they say only a victory for prime minister boris johnson will ensure the u.k. leaves the e.u. the brics issue has dominated the election and torn apart all party alliances the main opposition labor party has promised to hold a 2nd referendum if it wends so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera or news to calm the strain as that next. many countries aren't keeping up with their commitments to stop our planet t.-t. god. can't be achieved anything at the un climate change conference in madrid. as representatives from over $200.00 countries gathered for

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