the presidents of ukraine and russia on a cease fire in an effort to end the conflict which has claimed $14000.00 block. in jordan the south as they are alive and also coming up. it's your testimony to are that president trump did not view president to be a legitimate contender i don't know if president trying to leave your team believe it is too early. tainted exchanges and what's expected to be the final public hearing before a house committee drops articles of impeachment against president trump last. week to keep notes on the blog. no hope of finding more survivors on new zealand's white island off the volcano erupts killing 5 people plus. what.

people like. this is. the man who inspired the global ice bucket challenge that raised $200000000.00 for new gehrig's disease research. not in the u.s. the house judiciary committee has held another hearing in the impeachment proceeding against president donald trump attorneys of both parties presented arguments for and against impeaching trump is accused of pressuring ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden as i was how did your castro has more. fireworks inside of monday's impeachment hearing likely to last before the house judiciary committee draft articles of impeachment came not just from protests. but

also republican members committed to showing that they believe the proceedings against trump are a sham. was scheduled not to consider he made a ruling if you order to appeal him and was going to try to overturn the results of an election we're not elected people to be gentlemen less than the witnesses were attorneys for both parties and though the facts were the same that trump froze military assistance to ukraine then asked its president to launch investigations into trump's political opponents the interpretations of those facts couldn't be more different president trump use the powers of government for a domestic political airing to put his political interests above that of the nation and each a president who's $63000000.00 people voted for over 8 lines in a call transcript is boni it's unclear who the lawyers are trying to convince members of the house judiciary committee made up their minds long ago along party lines democrats hold the majority and will draft articles of impeachment likely by

next week if the president puts himself before the country evaluates a president's most basic responsibility he breaks his oath to the american people. if he puts them south before the country in a manner that threatens our democracy and our growth our privacy the american people requires us to come to the defense of the nation trumps attorneys declined an invitation to attend the hearing signaling deliberately defend the president before the senate in a likely trial in january and it's a disgrace to our country it's a hoax republicans hold the senate majority which means that obviously a conviction in the sun it will fall well short of the 2 thirds requirement to remove president trump from office and i think you would likely expect that it would be entirely a partisan vote outside the ivory domes of the u.s. capitol polls show the american public is also strongly divided by party voters who

identify as democrats strongly support the impeachment republicans are strongly opposed that about split the population evenly in halves with opinions unchanged since the beginning of this impeachment inquiry republicans say trans fate should be decided by the people in next year's elections but democrats say because trump is accused of soliciting foreign interference in those very elections he must be held accountable now heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. well daniel freeman is a fellow at the center for congressional and presidential studies at the american university he explains what happens next fidel the members of the house judiciary committee democratic caucus will meet i expect with the house leadership nancy pelosi and speaker's people to decide what they want to include in the articles of impeachment and there are there's impeachment and then there's impeachment lite

some people feel that they ought to just limit the allegations in the articles of impeachment to the ukrainian question and there are others in the democratic caucus who believe that they also expand them and include allegations relating to the moeller investigation i guess i'm cynical but i don't think today's hearing. accomplished a lot it made the people who are in favor of impeaching president states. more in favor of it and vice versa so i don't think the substance of what the witnesses had to say today affected anybody's position at all except on just those narrow issues relating to the ukraine the f.b.i.'s investigation into contacts between donald trump's presidential campaign and russia in 2016 was legitimate that's the finding of the u.s. justice department which says there was no evidence of political bias but the

department's inspector general did find a number of areas in how the f.b.i. handled the inquiry as there was a white house correspondent particle haint reports. it's been a bit of a montra from the u.s. president trying to discredit the investigation into his campaign's potential collusion with russia there was absolutely spying into my campaign to go a step further in my opinion it was illegal spying unprecedented spying now this report from the justice department's inspector general says it wasn't that the investigation was launched with credible information and that the people behind it did not have political bias or improper motivation a headline heralded by democrats. i think there's spying did occur but the head of the justice department the attorney general william barr is dismissing that conclusion sending out a statement writing the inspector general's report now makes clear that the f.b.i.

launched an intrusive investigation of a u.s. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that in my view were insufficient to justify the steps taken the report says the f.b.i. did make mistakes agents withheld a lot of information about carter page a trump aide when trying to get surveillance on him approved that's something the president and his allies are focusing on instead this was an attempted overthrow and a lot of people were in on it. and they got caught they got caught red handed i look forward to the durham report which is coming out in the not too distant future he's got his own information which is this information plus plus plus the president disregarding what the report actually says pinning his hopes on the next one a u.s. attorney has been tasked to prove what the president says is true even though this one after reading a 1000000 documents and interviewing 170 of the key people involved insist it isn't

patty calling al jazeera washington. russia and ukraine have agreed to implement a full and comprehensive cease. fire in eastern ukraine by the end of the year russia's president has been meeting the ukrainian leader in paris 14000 people have died in the 5 year long conflict in eastern ukraine between russian separatists and the ukrainian government well steadfast and joins us live now from paris steps are the leaders met for nearly 7 hours for talks and so just walk us through what's come out of the summit. yes some no concrete steps have now been agreed on in this road map to peace in eastern ukraine one of them is this cease fire before the end of the year there's also going to be a prisoner exchange before the end of the year and also the troops will withdraw 3 different points after that same thing happened a few months ago that will continue to be done and also there will be more crossing

points between the russian backed separatist area and the rest of ukraine but the very hot issues the special status on eastern ukraine on the us and the elections and who gets to get control over that area that hasn't been resolved at all it doesn't seem that any of the parties have moved a single engineer basically what went on is saying that the constitution of ukraine has to change to get a special status for dumbass and president i'm not going to be ordered to change my constitution basically zelinsky says that he wants the elections to be held in that area after all the troops have left and also the russian backed separatists have been disarmed so basically these crucial issues that have been lingering on for a while have still not been resolved but of course it's a good sign that the talks have happened and that the baby steps basically on this

road map for peace are still being taken yes we know that 14000 people have died in this conflict across the 5 years so what does this all mean then back on the ground in eastern ukraine. well i think for a lot of people there it's a great relief that the talks have happened everyone i was a day or 2 weeks ago everyone wants peace and an end to the fighting there have been 20 to cease fire yes and they all have been broken so it is a little trust. on the ukrainian side on the russian side so the fact that. the leaders. have met each other for the 1st time. i think has impact on the area they are 13000 people have died and still every week people are dying so i think that gives some kind of confidence that the leaders are serious and there is a road. there in paris to thank you new

zealand's prime minister has expressed her grief for the people caught up in a volcanic eruption on monday a tourist on a boat that was just off white island called the eruption on camera just seconds after it happened 5 people have been killed and 8 others are still missing 31 others who were on or near the on and at the time of the eruption are now in hospital for a challenge as more. thick smoke and ash rises thousands of meters into the air is the white island volcano also known by its indigenous maori name for a car erupts it's 50 kilometers away but the toxic cloud of sulfur in chlorine can be seen from the mainland. 34 people managed to get off the island some in boats others including some of the injured by helicopter volcanic ash is now hampering rescue as attempts to get to the island 47 people. into the oil and. we can

never complete is deceased. 31 currently in hospital through that i think still missing in 3 had been discharged from hospital. overnight. new zealand's prime minister has talked to the rescue missions i want to acknowledge the courageous decision made by feast responders and those pilots who in the immediate response if it's made a incredibly brave decision under extraordinary really dangerous circumstances in an attempt to get people out as a result of the if it's the number of people we risk it from the island why it's island is located in the bay of plenty and has been active for at least 150000 years he's new zealand's largest and most unpredictable volcano erupting every couple of years producing gas clouds steam and rocks the alert level was raised

last month a warning that the volcano may experience a period of activity more than normal and it's not a particularly big eruption is its seed it was kind of. almost like a throat clearing kind of eruption and that's why material probably won't have made it to my new zealand what mike it mainly in new zealand on the scheme of things from volcanic eruptions it's not large but if you're close to it is of this not good. emergency services haven't confirmed whether any of the 8 missing a still alive but reconnaissance flights haven't yet found any signs of life or retellings al-jazeera. time for a short break here now does it when we come back celebrations in argentina ahead of the official return to one of the country's grand old party. accusations a large part of saddam's gold well has been stolen.

had the or enjoying some very fine weather across much of central and eastern china the some cloud around but now really bringing much in the way of weather with it some good sunshine by day sunny. skies way to clear and i see 22 celsius in hong kong on tuesday and quite a bit milder up into shanghai with a hive 18 degrees celsius meanwhile we've got mostly conditions across taiwan also much of the northern philippines and also staying largely drawn across much of it now maybe one or 2 shows just beginning so what their way into these coastal areas as we head off into wednesday 23 is your high in hong kong for the middle of the week now farther to the south we have got one or 2 more showers across well central areas of the philippines some thunderstorms as well they can really see here on the satellite where the like he weather will be again as we go through the next couple

of days say very widespread rains across much of borneo out across into some entre well to about choose to cross them on a peninsula want to be pushing in that as we head through wednesday said definitely some showers and thunderstorms in you for calls in k.l. and singapore now from there we head across towards india and it's a fairly calm quiet picture here as well we're still seeing some showers across into sri lanka you notice a line of work its way into northern india this should actually be the end of the week but dry on wednesday new delhi at 22. sponsors countdown to. the last time i spoke to him he told me he was thinking of going to syria the world wants to see. he syria's fighters up close and personal but those behind the camera pay the price filmmaker yes it is you made these chillingly intimate footage on and behind the front lines cost him his life his body was riddled with bullets and

exclusive documentary syria the last assignments on al-jazeera. are going. out of our top stories here this hour russia and ukraine have agreed to implement a full ceasefire in eastern ukraine by the end of the year 14000 people died in the final conflict. the us house judiciary committee has held another hearing in the impeachment proceedings against donald trump from secure his depression in ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden. on the u.s. justice department has found no evidence of political bias by the f.b.i. and it opened an investigation into contacts between donald trump's presidential

campaign and russia and 2016. syrian activists say more than 18000 people have been displaced in the rebel held it lived province in the past 24 hours syrian the russian government their strikes have intensified despite a ceasefire announced by moscow in august at least 10 civilians were killed on sunday when a smith reports family love there was a market here in the southern italy village when the airstrikes began when. we didn't know they were russian jets according to the syrian observatory for human rights. volunteer white helmet how medics are there within minutes to do what they've done thousands of times during the civil war trying to save the lives of civilians them a scrabble full of dirt by hand when you know it. could displace more rubble she's patient she thinks it was somehow this man is still a large. muslim in a play on

a lot of it is that about intensive airstrikes by jets targeted the main market the airstrikes killed at least 8 civilians and left dozens injured as civil defense we took out the bodies and help the injured. by leon was one of 5 villages hit by syrian government forces in italy province in the last 48 hours this territory is the last holdout of groups opposed to president bashar al assad. russia which supports assad and turkey which backs the rebels had agreed in august that this would be a deescalation zone but attacks have continued since then. more than 18000 people have been displaced since sunday as a consequence of the latest bombardments most head north towards the turkish border worsening an already desperate refugee situation that. bernard smith. and iraq's foreign ministry has summoned for ambassadors for their condemnation of

a weekend attack on protesters in baghdad 20 anti-government demonstrators and 4 police officers were killed when gunmen opened fire on a protest in the capital's tahrir square on friday iraq as it used envoys in the u.k. france germany and canada of interfering in its internal affairs. and security forces in iraq are enforcing a complete lockdown in the southern city of karbala checkpoints have been established people are being prevented from entering or leaving the city residents have been mourning a prominent activist who was shot dead late on sunday after attending protests. i was particular. in argentina supporters of the peronist party celebrating its return to power at a rally in bonn as many supporters dressed as eva peron the wife of the former president one pair on. a major force in politics since peron's presidency in the 1940 s. president elect alberto fernandez. on tuesday was at the march he spoke to

supporters of the peronist party. we peronist social justice equality and an end to poverty unemployment and sovereignty above all. heaven fears. here indeed. there was a party here with people who were afraid about what's coming next in our. great

economic growth. even when they meet. now france will host an international conference and result in the political and economic crisis in lebanon government protests have been ongoing since. the country's been without a functioning government for almost 6 weeks the prime minister saad hariri resigned in response to those demonstrations under. the new prime minister.

is preparing to defend itself against charges of genocide at the international court of justice on tuesday heading the country's legal team will be the leader. takes a look at the leader who was once recognized as a champion of democracy. party one landmark election 4 years ago there was hope hope that the woman who became globally recognized as a democracy champion would lead the nation out of 5 decades of isolation under repressive military control she was under house arrest for 15 years in the international community obviously. everybody. awards and. but now that one time harbinger of human rights will have to fight charges of genocide against her country at the international court of justice in the hague. the nation of the gambia lodged

a genocide lawsuit against myanmar over the brutal army crackdown on the right of the minority un investigators concluded that the operations were carried out with genocidal intent foams were tortured thousands were killed and more than 700000 fled to neighboring bangladesh since 2017 myanmar says their actions were to counter attacks from militants. when on song suchi was silent on the running a crisis many thought it was because she was trying to strike a balance with the military leaders who still hold most of the control. slowly and inmates has begun. really quite stubborn and in spite of. the range of facts presented to the through a multiple of international agencies much of it you know everyone has tried to verify independently we see a brick wall you know we have heard words that she calls the military generals

a brother this brothers who were once her jailers within the block of southeast asian nations known as ossie on the red ink issue has always been a difficult topic member states held their summit here in bangkok just last month attended by on song suchi sticking to their tradition of non interference on domestic issues putting little pressure on myanmar to do something about the writing a crisis. unlike the international condemnation it's a different story at home on song suchi still garners a great deal of support and there's even been rallies ahead of her trip to the hague which is good timing for her as elections are scheduled for next year. al-jazeera bangkok. so the powerful group the rapid support forces have been accused of stealing a large part of the nation's gold rights group global witness says the group and its leader. may be a growing threat to peace at a time of political transition. and on that. is said to be linked to 3 companies at

the heart of our research funding one is our good noddy a gold trading company and 2017 the r.'s have seized control of a gold mine in the darfur region global witness says 2 other companies controlled by him and his family funnel money to the paramilitary group the report also says they are as purchased a 1000 vehicles from the united arab emirates and the group has an account under its own name in a subsidiary of an emirates bank well they are a service opposed to be controlled by the military but according to global witness its funding is almost totally independent even morgan is in khartoum and she says the report adds to existing concerns about the hours of leader for starters protesters who have been leading sudan's revolution since last year have been saying that they are also concerned about the role that the deputy head of the sovereign council he made to who is the head of the hours have explained and a transitional period there saying that they're concerned he's trying to whitewash

his image but global witness is think that they're concerned about the economy about his source of income and that he's using natural resources from the country to fund his militias which according to the head of the sovereign council one who is the commander in chief says that the ourself and the sudanese military are one and that they have the same budget but that report says that no what is happening is that the aristide has its own source of income from gold mines in the western region of darfur as well as the southern region of south kordofan so there are concerns that with the rapid support forces forces that have fought rebel groups in darfur and that have been accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity and atrocities that this transitional period would be very shaky if things don't go their way their commander him if he wanted to go. britain's prime minister barak's johnson is facing criticism for his response to the case of a toddler who's been admitted to a hospital in the city of leeds the 4 year old boy with suspected pneumonia was left to lie on the floor for hours in

a pile of coats because there were no beds the photo has come to represent issues many voters have with the national health service but a journalist confronted johnson with a photo of the boy here's what happened have you seen a photo probably so you make me have you seen the people by the by the b.b.c. if you need to make the best of it so is the photo so we need to be making investments now and that's why we put in for a few 1000000000 pounds this is a 4 year old boy promised suspected of pneumonia i have everything ready for use of the photo you take my phone put it in your pocket prime minister his mother says the n.h.s. is in crisis what's your response all right now i think it's a terrible terrible photo right now all right apologizing obviously to the families always you who have terrible experiences here the. foreign ministers from egypt ethiopia and savannah say they'll head to washington next month to try and finalize a resolution about a key dam project ethiopia is building a multi-billion dollar dam on the nile river but egypt believes it's

a threat to its water security announcement was made after officials from 3 countries met with u.s. authorities and the head of the world bank on monday activists and mole to stage a sit in at the office of prime minister joseph muscat to demand his immediate resignation. much greater say they want a proper investigation falling accusations that his chief of staff knew about what was involved in the murder of an anti corruption journalist says he'll leave office next month. finland is set to get a new leader who will be the world's youngest serving prime minister 34 year old son omarion is expected to be officially nominated on tuesday she will be heading a female led coalition following the resignation of the prime minister until rené mariner's had a swift rise in and finish politics since becoming head of a city council at the age of 27 the netherlands has announced it plans to ban lighter socks side better known as laughing gas the move is intended to reduce

recreational use by young people despite the netherlands famously liberal attitude towards some drugs there are some exceptions to the ban however including as a pain killer in dentistry the man who inspired the global ice bucket challenge that raised millions for lou gehrig's disease research has died no matter what. the people accepted nominations to be drenched with iced water and donate to charity peta for 80 years who was a former college basketball player lever determined fight against lou gehrig's disease the viral competition inspired race 200000000 dollars worldwide fighters was just 34 years old he often talked of his bravery. doesn't ever ever ever get nervous for things like this and we're for a very very few minutes ago so this should tell you how much this means to us and our family and just thank you all for being here and letting us share this moment

with everyone who helped us achieve everything we've done so thank you and this one's for this guy. our time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera russia and ukraine agreed to implement a full cease fire in eastern ukraine by the end of the year russia's president of the meeting with the ukrainian lead in paris 14000 people have died in the 5 year long conflict step fastens in paris with. the special status on eastern ukraine and the elections and who gets to get control over that area that hasn't been resolved at all it doesn't seem that any of the parties have moved a single engineer basically what. the constitution of ukraine has to

change to get a special status for i'm president. i'm not going to be ordered to change my constitution for us house judiciary committee has held another hearing in the impeachment proceedings against donald trump accused of pressuring ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden the u.s. justice department has found no evidence of political bias by the f.b.i. and it opened an investigation into contacts between donald trump's president presidential campaign and russia in 2016 new zealand's prime minister just into our terms expressed her grief for the people caught up in a volcanic eruption on monday. a tourist on a boat that was just off white island caught the eruption on camera just seconds after it happened 5 people have been killed and 8 others are still missing iraq's foreign ministry has summoned 4 ambassadors for their condemnation of

a weekend attack on protesters in baghdad 20 demonstrators and 4 policemen were killed when gunmen opened fire on a protest in the capital's tahrir square iraq is accused envoys in the u.k. france germany and canada of interfering in its internal affairs in argentina supporters of the peronist party are celebrating its return to power at a rally and when as dire as many supporters dressed as eva peron the wife of the former argentine president one parent to mark the occasion around this movement has been a major force in argentina politics since peron's presidency in the 1940 s. . those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story stage and dance of watching.

what does it take to become an indian citizen the government says a proposed new law offers a home for those fleeing religious persecution but opponents say it excludes one group of muslims and undermines the country's secular identity what will it mean for the constitution and india's future this is inside story. hello and welcome see the program on how he'd seen a proposal that would bring sweeping changes to india's 64 year old.