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u.k. is general election where in one of the battlegrounds where some residents are considering a tactical vote. i'm going to go with the sport as international test cricket returns to pakistan for the 1st time in more than a decade i'll have the latest from there much i can show lanka. thank you very much for joining us myanmar's leader is at the international court of justice in the hague defending her country against allegations of genocide she called the accusations misleading and science and she insists the military has been conducting a legitimate operation against on googs and that action has been taken against the use of excessive force on tuesday myanmar's leaders south through graphic accounts of mass murder and rape details against the military the allegations stem from a 27000 crackdown. which forced more than 700000 most muslims to flee to

neighboring bangladesh 10 deadly genocidal intent on the part of the state that actively investigates prosecutes and punishes sodas and offices who are accused of wrongdoing although the focus here is on members of the military i can assure you that appropriate action will also be taken against civilian offenders in line it's due process there will be no tolerance of human rights violations in the rakhine or elsewhere in the i'm not the kind to day suffers an internal conflict between the buddhist alekhine army and remarks defense services muslims are not a party to this conflict but may like other civilians in the conflict area be affected by security measures that are in place. we pray the court to refrain from taking any action that might give rate the ongoing conflict an armed conflict and

peace and security and rakhine. live to when he was at the hague for a swain unprecedented i think for a top political leader like entente so she to take a leading role in a legal case at the international court of justice tell us more about what she said in her statement and how it's been received. yes well it was another remarkable sight wasn't it for the 2nd day in a row seeing on sunday. once a week in a campaign for human rights for freedoms and democracy and me and back inside the international court of justice this time defending against charges of genocide leveled against her government and military i have to say though for the most part it was a fairly unremarkable speech anyone hoping that she would have a change of heart that would she would sympathize with the plight of the rich and what they have been through would have been disappointed by the speech in fact she

for the most part didn't even refer again to them as writing you're referring to them as a muslim group the only time in fact she used the term which she has refused to do in the past when she was referring to the militant group known as that stage the attacks on me and my security forces in 2016 and 17 and she firmly put the blame for the violence in rakhine state at the feet of and she really also failed to address the root causes of the problem and oncet questions as to why denied rights for the most part in myanmar why they are regarded as illegal immigrants which most people agree has been like i say the root cause behind the tensions over the decades between muslims and buddhists in rakhine and has led to this most recent round of violence genocide genocide of wayne is very difficult to prove

because it comes down to intent and these proceedings at the hague there at the international court of justice could go on for some time. yes they certainly could probably for years once the case proper starts in the short term in the interim these hearings over the course of 3 days this week are all about provisional measures that the gambians iraq's king they do. in the i.c.j. to order the gambians want the judges to force the government of to take concrete steps to verbal steps the riots the security who are still in rakhine state and those who have fled to neighboring bangladesh but too afraid to return to guarantee their safety and they want to be forced to report back to the i.c.j. within the next few months to prove that they have taken those steps well after on sunday. a few hours ago we heard from the legal team representing the case of me

and they in response to the gambian request called on the judges to reject that application thank you for that wayne hale forest at the hague and al jazeera stephanie decker is in call says bizarre bangladesh us where hundreds or thousands of muslims fled after the 27000 crackdown and she says refugees they're following closely following the course proceedings the consequences of the mean mars military offensive in august 2017 is turning this into the biggest refugee camp in the world one of these tents have a family a person who has the most horrendous stories of what happened to them so whether genocide intent of genocide is proven or not what is clear is that a very human rights violations atrocities were committed against these people many people here are aware of the proceedings in the hague some of them have been meeting with community leaders sitting around a radio listening having them translate what is happening there they've been

calling for justice for a very long time but there is kept this is a also among some as to why unsung suchi when. she went to the court for her own benefit we won't be benefiting from it she was part of these atrocities against us she went there to lie and to gain public support for the 2020 alexion in myanmar she went to the i.c.j. for. her own benefit. it is hugely significant what is happening so many miles away at the international court of justice but whatever way the court is going to rule it is going to take time many people will tell you that it's not going to have an impact a real direct effect on the people here people want justice they've been calling for that for over 2 years but they also want to go home now mean more hasn't given any insurances hasn't allowed the united nations or any agencies in to assure that they will be safe if they do return to bangladesh has made it very clear they don't want them here almost a 1000000 people live in these camps and their future is uncertain. let's explore

this further now with charles spare tree who is the former assistant secretary general of the united nations and former u.n. representative in myanmar from 2003 to 2007 his rise from bonn jaw the gambia thank you so much for being with us mr petri 28 years ago this week on science which he received the nobel peace prize and is now defending the same military who kept her under house arrest against genocide charges at the hague and in her statements this morning she admitted the use of disproportionate force but said there wasn't genocide or intent what is your reaction to that genocide is extremely difficult to prove isnt it. yes it is and i think she of course she makes a very compelling case or compelling point and it is going to take quite a while to do well for the courts to rule but my concern is that it must not serve as a distraction from acknowledging what actually has happened and it is undeniable in

terms of the definition of what's happened i mean there was the former high commissioner for human rights that the what happened was a. test or a perfect example of that the cleansing war crimes were committed in the course of the fighting the fall of 2016 and the rohingya have been subjected to. in human oppression for decades i mean as the u.n. rep at the time for us it was very clear that what was happening were. easily qualified as crimes against humanity so i think the issue of what's happening now yes let's try and see if the definition of genocide works or is appropriate it's not evident when we've seen elsewhere but i think most importantly in the proceedings is to to ensure that what is ongoing what has happened is immediately

stopped and corrective measures are taken yeah the gambia is legal team is asking i.c.j. judges for provisional measures to protect their behind that before the case is heard in full or what is the best case scenario for the victims and what sort of a can they expect when you consider that a final judgment could take up to 5 years as when he mentioned. well i think on the one hand that that that of the really. smart that that that that that the areas from which they've left are not reconstructed not not sort of the very nature of that that the possibility of return the physical possibility of return is protected but most importantly in myanmar is is to give some sort of definition some identity to these people when they do return the other is that the international community needs to be willing to to accept that this is going to be a long process and to provide the support that these people need outside of the

country so it is a tatchell court of justice a right court in your view to hear this case that has no implementation mechanism where else can justice come from for these victims i think it brings it brings in a very public way the crisis to the force so i think it's it's an incredibly good mechanism to to to to bring out the issue that i think the fact that it is between states also gives gives a new dimension to. the to addressing that problem. i mean in terms of of implementation in practical steps on the ground and i guess i you know i would say it's as good as anything else i mean the international community is not to extremely or leaning when it comes to dealing with such problems thank you so much for speaking to us and sharing your views charles petrie former u.s. assistant secretary general joining us live from banjul the gambia thank you for

your time thank you. in other world news if been launched protests in india's northeastern states of us entry poor are over a controversial citizenship bill but he sues want to cannon entier gas to stop protestors who have been knocking bones with burning tires the army is deploying troops in trip or a state and putting reinforcements on standby in a somme protesters say indigenous communities will be marginalized if a large number of hindu migrants from bangladesh are granted citizenship well meanwhile the citizenship bill is being debated in india as opera house approved it would grant citizenship to those fleeing religious persecution in pakistan afghanistan and bangladesh but it excludes muslims politicians and civil rights activists say this violates india's secular constitution by discriminating against muslims the lower house approved the bill on monday let's bring in an charge for our correspondent in new delhi and charlotte start with the huge protests that

we've seen in the northeast the pictures certainly spectacular what exactly are people upset about. well the people in assam are saying that if more all of bengalis even if there hindus are going to be allowed in then that impacts their culture their identity and essentially their livelihood as well and there has been a street all for opposition to the presence of bengalis in assam several movements in the past as well so we see 2 things happening one is one protests we witness in places like which is an authorization and in delhi which is against excluding muslims and political analysts journalists observers say that that is going against the nature of indian constitution which is secular the other is what we witness in go r.t. in assam that's a different kind of court as these protesters are essentially saying that we don't want any migrants to be included to be a good granted indian citizenship whether they are hindus all muslims because we

are assamese this is our land and we want like to have our own culture and our own people get the jobs that there are are these protests likely to influence the outcome of the vote in the upper house. not likely i think the government is thinking of making exceptions in the legislation so they have already come up with the exceptions there are 7 states in india's multis that come up with exceptions for 5 states but the 2 states where we have seen as i don't know these of india today. there are other there are some exceptions to some areas but not the entire states so the government is trying to come up with plan b. as to how do as we as soon as they consult but it's not going to impact the war to save because the government seems to have the numbers even in the upper house to make sure that the bill goes through and the debate has been on not for the whole day now it started at 7 g.m.t. and it is still going on thank you for that are in new delhi and of course we'll

come back to you when there's a result in that vote in the upper house plenty more ahead on this al jazeera news hour including after years of planning and 6 of several false starts say is in saudi arabia state owned oil giant aramco begin public trading. democratic party leaders outline impeachment charges against donald trump the u.s. president says they are weak and baseless and football fans turn their attention to qatar again would be a club world cup cho has more in sports coming up right. with just one day to go before voting begins in the u.k. election polls are cautiously suggesting victory for prime minister boris johnson but there's still the chance of a hung parliament and there's another factor that could throw all the result tactical voting nauruans the explains from walking him one of the battlegrounds of

this election. if you want to find somewhere to symbolise conservative in bloom's then this would do fine. in the countryside west of london as well takes care of itself. but perhaps because of that it voted by some distance to remain in the euro . the union based party said we missed all of the referendum result despite the best efforts of the town's longstanding conservative m.p. john redwood is an example in this election the pro e.u. forces see an opportunity to get their revenge on him and the timing really matters places like working and represent the last chance for opponents of brecht's it's trying to stop the conservatives from getting it done but to do it in polls persuading the public to vote not for the part of them. but for the party in any constituency with the best chance of beating the conservatives and that's where things get messy. here the n.t.

bricks it can do that with the best chance is a former conservative who defected to the liberal democrats were the opposition parties to stand down and give him their votes he's pretty convince he would win we've got a huge body of data with it's neck and neck which is why for labor very even if you have told you know vote for where you are if you're a tory remain and you think breaks or is a complete and utter disaster and you don't want to then you're also voting for me and if you can coalesce those 2 things together then we're not going to get out. and this is the labor candidate she broke her ankle right at the start of the campaign and is trailing in 3rd place but even though she can't win she resolutely believes she should not participate in tactical voting here might say to people you know your life from my perspective passionately believe in the policies but actually we're not going to stand anyone here because we want you to vote with them i just know facts not right democratic to get that number 345 how the 2 main

opposition parties agreed at the start of the campaign to stand on a joint platform then things might have been different but their general refusal to form a united front against bracks it could be a decisive factor on thursday it's the system that's breakin and actually what we're up. thing is the charts for your vote actually count and for increased democratic participation but dearly we would love for the voting system to be changed so that taxable voting isn't necessary unfortunately this election is. ok because if it is impossible to get around the fact that this is the bricks election because the conservatives have made it does the stop choice for people who don't like it is that ignoring its might allow it to happen mostly al-jazeera working. and here's a full list of candidates standing in the walking in constituency 5 of them in all an interesting one to watch on election night and of course we'll have full

coverage right here on al-jazeera let's get more now from another of our correspondents covering this election paul brennan in london so the final day of campaigning paul what are the politicians doing in the last push for votes. frantically trying to persuade the undecideds to fall into their camp and frantically trying to bolster loyal supporters to prevent them from going elsewhere it's i mean it's couldn't be more tense frankly at the tensions been added to by a poll that came out last night saying that the races probably tightened the leaders have been out on the campaign trail since early today boris johnson up in west yorkshire and metaphors all over the show he was delivering milk and he made the metaphor that he was delivering breakfast he then went to a piii factory in darwin and reiterated his oven ready metaphor that he's been using for his bracks it deal since the start of the campaign jeremy corbyn started early up in glasgow he kind of channeled his in obama you'll remember obama saying

they go low we go high will generally call him was commenting about how he'd run a positive campaign in stark contrast to what he said was the negativity of his opponents and i've been down in asia with the liberal democrats covering the start of their day job and their leader very similar to what you heard in lawrence's report that they're targeting a number of 3 seats which are. controlled by conservatives but which deliberate democrats hope with their stance they can overturn huge conservative majorities in those seats and one in particular dominic rather 23000 majority the liberal democrats really going for it and hopeful that they can overturn that such as they did the complication of it has had on traditional party ties in this election right let's opinion polls predict a conservative victory so it's looking good for voice johnson sense. yes i mentioned it at the start but it's not a foregone conclusion yet this is

a hugo of poll that was published 10 o'clock on tuesday night it's a redo of a poll that they did a fortnight ago and that poll 2 weeks ago predicted a majority for the conservative party of boris johnson of around 68 seats very healthy this so on the conservative vote appears to have stayed stable i just checked the figures 43 percent but labor's appears to have gone up 2 percent to 34 percent in the last in the last 2 weeks now that has a dynamic impact on the number of seats that are predicted to fall in tomorrow's voting the figures are conservative $339.00 labor to $31.00 and that's within the margin of error so one extreme again a healthy conservative majority if the modular goes the other way a hung parliament but very interesting to see how this all unfolds thank you very much for that paul brennan live for us in london. shares in saudi arabia state run oil company have officially begun trading on riyadh stock exchange opening 10 percent higher than the initial public offering saudi aramco made history

a week ago with the largest ever i.p.o. raising 25 point $6000000000.00 for less than 2 percent of the company this valued aramco at $1.00 trillion dollars making it the most valuable listed company in the world the i.p.o. fell short of the 2 trillion valuation the kinda man wanted though officials hope it will hit that mark on the 1st day of trading vandana harries the c.e.o. of market analysis firm vandana inside senshi says saudi arabia will be helping to make up the shortfall in are expected value. expectations had been whittled down quite a bit from compared with the initial aspirations to list 5 percent of the company with a total valuation of 2 trillion which would have netted the kingdom about. $100000000000.00 the i.p.o. the scaled down i.p.o. has brought in just about $26000000000.00 it was expected to be listed

simultaneously on international prominent international exchanges as well as the domestic exchange it has been listed only on the domestic exchange and bought only by the saudis with a little bit of contribution from the u.a.e. and kuwait so it is a success a limited success as you were just mentioning in your introduction how to get the valuation up from the $1.00 trillion which was achieved in the i.p.o. to the 2 trillion and i suppose to a large extent how does saudi arabia now make up for the 75000000000 dollars that it probably expected to get but but didn't we just had the saudi budget announced earlier this week and clearly they're looking at a bigger budget deficit they're looking at much less are oil revenues already oil revenues and 2019 came in nearly 10 percent below what they had budgeted so all of those are going to be major concerns. to lebanon now where protestors have tried to

block the entrance of the french embassy in beirut they're demanding that no foreign money be sent to the country until they can form a trustworthy government this comes as france whole say donor conference to raise money for lebanon which is struggling with a worsening economic crisis as in a harder has more from be able security is tight outside the french embassy in beirut there was a call for protests to coincide with a meeting in paris france gathered together countries members of the so-called international support group for lebanon to try to find ways to help this country deal with an acute economic crisis levanon lebanon's leaders have been appealing for international assistance companies are closing the unemployment rate is rising there's a shortage of dollars the banks are imposing capital controls there is inflation so lebanese politicians appealing for help but the protesters who have been in the streets for almost 2 months now against those in power want to give

a message to france they say don't give more money to these people who have been in power for decades who have done nothing according to them but accumulate wealth they're calling them corrupt politicians there's a suspicion of corruption. for this government so we don't want them to get any money from now so let's wait for a new government of independent to know how to manage any eventually over the 1st 30 years of the government proved to be. unable to manage a country unable to run a country for the same people it's time for us to change these people and put new blood in the government where protesters want is an independent government that is going to lead the country until early elections but it seems the international community the message from the international community is we're not giving you a blank check and we have conditions of our own they are calling for this. swift

formation of a cabinet a cabinet that will quote meet the aspirations of the lebanese people which in many ways means a change in leadership what we understand from sources is that the international community would like to see prepared take a prime minister saddle how did he return to power he is a man who has good connections with the west and at the same time there are conditions for example from the u.s. administration what we understand is they do not want to see the iranian backed hezbollah and its allies back in government and as well as not accepting this because this will weaken its political influence so there is a political deadlock and it seems much needed help from outside is being condition with a new government that will satisfy the demands and conditions laid down by the international community in particular the west for the past 2 months iraqi protesters have been demanding the resignation of what they call a corrupt government the southern city of nasiriyah has seen some of the worst violence now powerful tribes in the south of iraq want to take matters into their

own hands al-jazeera simona fulton has this report from the southern city of nasiriyah. the tribal elders of the province gather for an emergency meeting in the wake of a violent crackdown on demonstrators in the provincial capital nasiriyah they say they're attempting to fill the security and governance vacuum left by the iraqi state. of the day the current government has lost the trust of the people they can't do anything because the protesters are against them and they slaughtered the sons of our province and iraq. the governor of the province has resigned and parliament has dissolved the local council it's not clear who is in charge. they want to appoint a new governor as if nothing happened the parliament will vote on the new governor and he will be approved by the president but how will you convince demonstrators to accept. the leader's forge a joint statement demanding the resignation of parliament in early elections they

also want justice. that we stand with the demonstrations and the illegitimate demands we demand the severest punishment for those who harm the sons of the country we denounce anyone from the security forces who had a hand in the bloodshed. the tribes here have barred any outside force from entering the city the newly appointed police commander himself from the us leah and the 4th person to hold that post since protests began on october 1st takes us on a tour of the city to show that fings have returned to normal no more david says there are no see what the situation is very good our forces are deployed near the protest areas the checkpoints work well the entrance and exit of the city and also to protect the banks as well as the private and public buildings but instead of security forces we find demonstrators guarding protest areas and say to him bridge and not everything is a scar as it seems the groups come and they shoot at us they come in cars without

license plates we don't know who they are they don't bridge behind me is where some of the worst violence took place authorities say that the situation has since calm down as negotiations continue between demonstrators tribal elders and security forces the government has also promised an investigation into recent killings of the root causes of this crisis unresolved many fear that the standoff here is far from over they want to hold others there a. hard time now for a check of the world weather with rob and it's very cold in north america this is a big one the 1st deepest. of the winter news the temperatures are well beyond wednesday morning just about during now when he pegged in canadian prairie santa monica 25 even colder in north dakota and the minneapolis simple minus 20 you know these are the real terms just a few hours ago there it hasn't that hasn't spread everywhere which is a good thing because compared with the average with sort of 11 to 80 degrees below what the average says even for these cities that the chill isn't going to last for

a long time but it will return is this in here the satellite sees it as low temperatures on the ground if you strip away that is actually not watch where the going on it's cold over here is cold war dance of florida border 3 miami you're loving it if you want to maybe not further west front coming into the pacific will start to interfere with the cold in due course but in immediate future look there's a bit of snow on the east coast and cloud gathering in the west with otherwise it's just cold but sunny that's not bad do you minneapolis is forecast does see the temperatures warm because you can't have snow when it's that cold so the encroaching the clouds so music will become a little warmer not that it will last as i say on the east coast new york's max today about 3 degrees it's currently snowing that snow will go then we're up to 9 for friday fairly thank you very much for that rob still ahead on this al-jazeera news our young climate activist tells world leaders and not doing enough to tackle global warming when live at the u.n.

climate summit in madrid plus increased volcanic activity on new zealand's white island hampers efforts to find 9 people missing after monday's eruption and walking into a record deal the yankees splash on baseball stopped paychecks joe has the details coming up to stay with us. to. right. investigative journalist you are going to make sure it is

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says that case is misleading and that international action could harm peace and reconciliation in myanmar an overnight curfew has been imposed in parts of india state internet and mobile phones have also been dropped in several districts this after notch protests in the region over a controversial citizenship bill if approved the bill would grant citizenship to those fleeing religious persecution in pakistan afghanistan and bangladesh but it excludes muslims and shares in saudi arabia state run oil company have officially begun trading on the stock exchange the company made history with a not just ever initial public offering last week raising $25600000000.00. all saudi military students in the united states have had their operational training suspended it follows an attack at an air base in florida last week in which 3 people were killed gabriel is on to has a story. the decision taken by the pentagon it's being called

a security and safety stand down all saudi military students at all u.s. military bases barred from training indefinitely in the united states the decision comes as the f.b.i. continues to investigate a shooting on a u.s. military base on friday when a saudi royal air force officer killed 3 u.s. service members and wounded several others the gunman mohammad saeed. a 21 year old lieutenant was killed by police the decision to shut down saudi training is believed to affect more than 850 saudi military personnel in the u.s. analysts say the move to halt saudi training is significant for sending a signal to a country that you have a close relationship with to sell a lot of military equipment that we don't trust the people that are part of your your government they're trying to send a signal that it's important that you make sure that the people you send us are not

prone to do some of these terrible things the shutdown is part of a 10 day security review ordered by defense secretary marc esper tended to examine betting procedures of foreign military students in the u.s. it's an escalation by the pentagon it 1st said the halt to training would only affect about $300.00 saudis at 3 bases in florida but then late tuesday expanded that to all saudi military students in the u.s. . person after the shooting the governor of florida said it was terrorism and urged the pentagon to do a better job of screening for new it to reste do this they're doing a big review about how this stuff is done in terms of the vetting but my sense is is that more needs to be done over the weekend the defense secretary signaled a review was considered anybody that comes to united states to train is or should be is vetted by the department state department homeland security and ultimately us

there are more than 5000 military personnel from more than 150 different countries currently in the u.s. and various bases throughout the country doing training it's a military exchange that's been going on for many years now but since the shooter was from saudi arabia it's now saudi military personnel that are being closely scrutinized gabriels on go out is it a washington an investigation by the reuters news agency has found former white house executives helps to build a controversial spying units for the united arab emirates the program was code named dread by the u.a.e. and was built to follow suspects in the years after the 911 attacks reuters says richard cock a former counterterrorism chief for presidents clinton and george w. bush set up the program in 2008 with other americans and it was sanctioned by the u.s. the units focus went further though targeting human rights activists and both the

government of qatar and football's governing body over the 2022 world cup it joe shechtman is invest kit investigative reporter who broke the story for the reuters news agency he says a u.s. state department probably did not intend for the program to become what it has. yeah i think that the legal lines of what they could do became very blurred and i think they became more blurred over the years you know as we previously reported you know this same project would end up targeting al-jazeera itself would end up targeted media figures human rights activists b.b.c. journalists women's rights activists all over the world and i don't think that that's you know what someone like richard clarke or or the state department have had ever necessarily intended the problem is when you when you create a surveillance program like this it's very easy for it to spiral out of control and become like sort of a tool for for those in power to go after their enemies i think the u.s.

government it's within their power to say that. you know former n.s.a. people can't go to work you know for the u.a.e. as hackers you know they can't stop the program from functioning but there's no reason that the u.s. government has to authorize and allow people who gave these kind of hacking skills to go and work for a monarchy that is you know using those skills to you know to stifle dissent. u.s. resin donald trump. charges against him calling them weak democratic party leaders announced 2 articles of impeachment on tuesday charging him with abuse of power and obstruction of congress it makes trump only the 4th president to face a formal process to remove him from office. before some washington standing before a portrait of one of the nation's founding fathers george washington house

democratic leaders made a historic announcement today in service to our duty to the constitution and to our country. the house committee on the judiciary is introducing 2 articles of impeachment charging the president of the united states donald j. drum with committing high crimes and misdemeanors the 1st article is abuse of power for withholding security aid and a white house visit with ukraine's leader in exchange for political investigations that would benefit trump's reelection the 2nd obstruction of congress for refusing to cooperate with impeachment investigators the evidence is every bit as strong that president trump has obstructed congress fully without precedent and without basis in law if allowed to stand it would decimate congress's ability to conduct oversight of this president or any other in the future trump is only the 4th u.s.

president to have impeachment proceed this far he denies all wrongdoing tweeting during the democrats' announcement witch hunt democrats say the evidence against trump is damning it includes testimony from more than a dozen witnesses and a white house call summary showing trump asked ukraine to launch investigations into his political rivals republicans though say that's not enough to remove a president they're not impeaching the president because they they can the list and impeachable offense they're impeaching him because they're afraid he will get reelected that's not why you have the power of impeachment that's the abuse of power democrats are keeping the impeachment articles narrowly focused on trump's recent conduct with ukraine they decided not to charge the president for trying to stop the previous moller investigation that examine whether his campaign had colluded with russia in the last presidential election in less than a year's time

a deeply divided america will return to the polls that will be after trump's impeachment trial in the senate where he'll likely be acquitted by his fellow republicans democrats say despite the slim chance of removal doing nothing or waiting what amounts to complicity with trump's misconduct the argument why don't you just wait amounts to this. why don't you just let him cheat in one more election why not let him cheat just one more time democrats say trump remains a threat to the upcoming elections and to his own country heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington well donald trump reacted to the charges at a campaign rally in pennsylvania. you saw their so-called articles of impeachment today people are saying they're not even a crime what happened all of these horrible things remember bribery and this is

where are they they send these 2 things are not even a crime this is the lightest weakest impeachment you know our country said actually many impeachment you call judges and lots of a many of pages. but it was orginally everybody is that this is impeachment late. greenland's ice sheet is melting at an alarming rate 7 times faster than in the 1990 s. new analysis of satellite data shows it's losing about $250000000000.00 tons of ice every year and the losses are continuing to accelerate since 1902 will melt water from greenland has raised global sea levels by one centimeter and that puts millions more people at risk of flooding the climate activists gretta tun burke has accused leaders of using the cop $25.00 climate summit as a way to avoid taking real option the swedish teenager was speaking at the event in madrid she told delegates that politicians and c.e.o.'s are doing almost nothing to

tackle the global climate emergency except court creative p.r. . finding holistic solutions is what the cop should be all about. but instead it seems to have turned into some kind of opportunity for countries to negotiate loopholes and to avoid raising their ambition. countries are finding clever ways around having to take real action. when i speak to our environment at it's an economic cost at the summit in spain so they're rallying call next from greg saying is that being listened to. when i tell you well 40 aggressor is news i learn voice if you look behind me you give him no doubt that it's a group of civil society years movements most of proud of delegates and onlookers security staff and scurrying across to try and see what's happening there all

echoing gresson sentiments that it's all very well these missions being held but not a lot is actually achieved it's just a talking shop there is clarion call from hundreds of thousands of people or right around the world from protests is there not just to get something done is it being listened to well call for 3 weeks in with 3 crucial dates yet for the end of this conference i would say notes but there's always hope now the 2 days of negotiations to go at least so they could yet be some developments let's bring in dr stephen comenius series a former negotiator with that the united kingdom. a lot of reports out recently about seriousness and situation not least one detailing radians ice sheet raises important was it something that people should worry about i think there's lots of new signs that showing things are happening faster and maybe more urgently the signs previously had it's just been so this year port and bring an ice sheet very

may be an indication of the tipping point we can say that it is but it's one of these things that if you open a pandora's box and you company back you can already have an impact on sea level rise to green and ice sheet an antarctic ice sheet a big contributors to sea level rise and then the report from me into government plan room from change by that case that the melting of those is accelerating increasing sea level so you've got a very busy evening ahead because you're going to produce your own report which is like. of amalgamation the latest scientists will tell us about it so what we've done much of the if we looked at the i.p.c.c. the intergovernmental panel on climate change they produced a report on $1.00 degrees on land and on oceans and price here in last year and also the best global assessment of biodiversity in ecosystem services we put those together and taken up a story about you know how climate and nature interact and say how climate change is impacting nature and how nature can be

a critical ally in fight against climate change as a see what do you make of this is great divide between these people and those hundreds of thousands of protesters around the world calling for change and the almost stultifying progress that we seem to see these climates will have i mean this is this is really important what we're hearing here is really enjoying this is civil society raising their voice and demanding to be head about climate action and climate justice and so you know you've got the millions of people who've been out on the streets as you say the people in the person in the process here demand to be here and what they're asking for and what we had over the red cross is increased ambition on climate change so limiting global reach want to have to grease to limit the impacts by overuse i wrote where do you think we're at right now you know we have a good position that the science around idea right today with the sense i'm getting is that people are very frustrated in the anger isn't just being demonstrated by youngsters over there it's by a lot of the delegates as well and certainly by sciences yeah i mean if you had

what happened in the 1st week you had some of the lead is calling for ambition and then what happens in these negotiations is in the 1st week is typically a lot of technical discussions and then in the 2nd week it comes to the ministers and the more difficult issues get dealt with at a more political level and so as he said in your introduction or any half way through the 1st week long days on nights ahead of this and hopefully we can come that was something good here so what we want to see is that countries commit to putting forward raised ambition by september next is commensurate want to have to greece want to see. the. civil society we want to see non-state actors such as cities and businesses involved and we hear these people to be heard ok well there's only been here right now to do this if you very much indeed and another thing that they will give you good reason to cheer is more is the news that i'm just hearing that time magazine but not work is the person of the year but it's great that just came out thank you so much nick for that make right forests in madrid now efforts

to recover bodies from new zealand white island have been put on hold as for cannock activity continues to increase this pressure from families to find the 9 missing people but emergency workers say it's not safe the volcano erupted on monday killing at least 6 and injuring 30 others jessica washington has more from walk a tiny. this is a community in mourning and united in the most difficult circumstances the town of tommy has long been promoted as the gateway to white island from the shoreline it's possible to still see clouds of ash rising from the volcano this is. hairiness and while a large number of the people who have been negatively affected overseas visitors coming onto boats and things like that. we do have local people so who. really it's happens nephew who worked as a white highland guide is one of them. breaking. it's

the beginning of summer here in new zealand usually one of the most popular times for tourists to visit white island instead the boat a docked here at phuket tiny just 50 kilometers from where the disaster happened and locals here a deeply affected by the tragedy the family off another guide who lived in fact attorney confirmed he's among the dead most of the 47 people on the island at the time of the eruption had been passengers on this cruise ship it stayed docked here for 2 days to help with the investigation and finally set sail in front of an emotional crowd to find the words for to be frank i just want to sing love and compassion the effects of the disaster reach far beyond new zealand there were visitors from the u.s.

germany china and malaysia and more than half of those on white island when the volcano erupted. and we understand the international interest. while we can for percy's. we are unable to confirm helm. from each country. we will in the state can individuals where is we confirm the identities the authorities are under pressure to get information out to affected families the bodies of the deceased have been flown to oakland for post-mortems the injured many with severe burns are being treated in a number of hospitals i have declared a mess for tallaght incident which means that a number of agencies are now working together to resolve this tragedy with so many questions on and all people can do here if an hour is wait and pay their respects.

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the source is joe kelly thank you and national test cricket is back in pakistan for the 1st time in more than a decade the host and taking on sri lankan role pindi in the 1st of

a to match series should have been a last team to tour in 2009 when their boss came under attack in lahore killing several people since that in pakistan have played all of their home test matches neutral venue security is tight for this game and the pakistan cricket board is hoping that a successful series will encourage other top teams to come to the country to put in diapers and we ought to see only happy that selected team is that pakistani people are so excited that they have bought all the tickets and even i tried my best for tickets but it's hard to get one there are now what is your issue today is a great day for pakistan and for cricket lovers that despite the attack on the show lankan team a few years back they have made it to pakistan this time again everyone here is excited. now for the match itself sure langkow won the toss and chose to bat captain jim with coronado they led the lead with a half century and they ended the day 120245 when bad light stopped play.

getting ready to host its 1st major football test event ahead of the 2022 world cup and the rich sen has a report. catalyst football fans are having quite a year. it began with their national team becoming asian champions for the 1st time it will end with the country hosting the club world cup. this group of esperance fans living in qatar play their games in the colors of the african champions the 2 new zealand team will enter the tournament in the 2nd round. for us it's very important for us because we are working here and many people. see the march but there is no ticket or finish so all the people who want to see this event a total of 7 seems all be taking part catalyst to mystic champions plus 6

continental title winners including liverpool from europe and flamingo from south america cats i'll be hosting it this year and next important test events ahead of the world cup in 2020. fan zones catering for the diverse tastes of local and visiting fans being trolled for the 1st time by the hugs country alcohol is not part of our culture however hospitality and we make sure that there is. everything for everybody or something for everybody so fans who want to enjoy a drink will have designated areas where they can drink alcohol has been available in the country for 4 decades it's not something that's new. this tournament also working as a reminder that the main events of the middle east's 1st world cup is getting ever closer. you know for indians. living so close to. the dream to see alive. it's not

a dream anymore it's like you know we just got to be in the stadium and watch the matches live. so now supporters will have to concern themselves with watching some of the world's best club teams and the richardson al-jazeera doha were just 2 starts remain to be decided for the way for champions league knockout stage that'll happen later but one man who we won't see in the last 16 is color inch a lot he does because not only have sacked in just hours after they qualified thanks to a foreigner victory at home to gain the win and ended a 9 game winless streak but it wasn't enough to save the italian who was in his 2nd season with the club. the new yankees are preparing to make baseball history with a record breaking $324000000.00 deal for pitcher garrett cole the 29 year old is a free agent after leaving the houston astros cole helps them reach the world series in october it's reported he's agreed a 9 year deal with the yankees which works out at $36000000.00

a season. to the n.b.a. in the miami heat one fire in the game against the atlanta hawks by you and jimmy butler stole the show each securing their own triple doubles duncan robinson then tied a franchise record with 13 pointers the heat one 135221 sealing their 11th win at home. rugby team has a new head coach in foster who was assistant to former coach steve hansen has been promoted to the job on a 2 year contract the all blacks finished in 3rd at the recent rugby world cup in japan meanwhile tens of thousands of rugby fans of park in the streets of tokyo to celebrate the japanese team japan reached the quarter finals of the world cup for the 1st time at this year's tournament sparking a surge in local p.c. as i'm for the sports. that's what sport for now is about holly and joe thank you very much for that that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera but do stay with us we've got more world news coming up after this very short break thank you for

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