al jazeera. i am is a product and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the u.s. house judiciary committee prepares to vote on articles of impeachment against president trump. former bolivian president evo what on is given refugee status by argentina newly elected center left government. 3 people were killed in northeastern india in protest against a bill that will grant citizenship to minorities from neighboring countries. and barbara starr in london with the top stories from europe including deciding the

direction of bricks in the u.k. votes in what party leaders are calling the most important election in a generation. sport tiger woods captains the usa so they will start at the presidents cup in. the u.s. house of representatives is moving closer to impeaching president donald trump as the house judiciary committee holds its final debate now house democrats are leading efforts to formally charge the president of the beauties of power and obstruction of congress trumps accused of withholding aid to pressure you crave into investigating potential white house rival joe biden said right now the house judiciary committee is debating the precise language of the 2 charges against president trump. 2 votes will be held one for each article they are expected to

pass since democrats have a $1424.00 rather to 17 majority in the committee then it's up to the democrat controlled house of representatives to give its approval and a simple majority of 218 is needed for the articles to pass the house needs to approve at least one called for president trump to be impeached and this sets the stage for a trot out of the senate possibly in january in a just a few moments we'll go to our white house correspondent can be helped get a 1st pittsburgh and koster she is joining us live from capitol heard and it sounds like from highwood as the committees consider the amendments would in heidi. that's right and it's notable from the historical context that what's happening today on capitol hill has only happened 2 other times in u.s. history for an impeachment process against a president to move this far and there's little that republicans on the house

judiciary committee can really do about it of course democrats have the majority on this panel and already they have soundly rejected republican amendment to have struck and the 1st of those articles of impeachment abuse of power of course the 2 articles as being debated right now are abuse of power and obstruction of congress and what we're hearing from members now is a 2nd amendment offered by republicans this time trying to insert the name of joe biden's son hunter biden into the articles text that gives republicans at least for this moment a platform to again air those grievances that trump himself has said which are these unsubstantiated allegations that joe biden and his son were involved in corruption in ukraine again they're discussing this of men then now the democrats have the majority to quickly reject these amendments and by the end of the day we expect for these articles of impeachment to pass out of the committee which then

sets the scene for next week when the house of representatives with its democratic majority is expected to formally impeach president trump heidi thank you for that with the latest from capitol hill let's bring in our white house correspondent committee held good and the president has had a lot to say about this process taking place on twitter kimberly. he certainly has in fact he continues to as he has been since early this morning local time retreating coverage that is favorable to him or articles that have in some way discredited the process that is occurring on capitol hill right now well the president has often been his own spokesperson today it appears he is allowing the republicans to be his biggest defenders as they debate in that committee this century this is not a strategy by the white house from the beginning the president for his part today appeared before. the summit for advocating for children and families or paid family

leave something that the united states lags behind compared to other developed nations touting the successes of his presidency with respect to the economy and also some of the achievements he has been putting forward and his still continues to put forward and promises to if he gets another term so what we've been seeing largely is a coordinated effort between this white house and the republicans on capitol hill to essentially discredit this in the eyes of voters who will ultimately choose whether or not donald trump gets a 2nd term this november and pushing back on allegations that he had views the power of office that he used it for political purposes even acting like a dictator ignoring the checks and balances and the oversight of congress the main talking point that we seem to have traction on capitol hill that is stems from the strategy here at the white house has been that these are essentially flimsy articles of impeachment that many of the criminal allegations that early on in the

impeachment inquiry were being bandied about by democrats namely that there was extortion bribery collusion by this president have not ended up in the articles of impeachment so that's something that the white house had hoped would gain traction it appears that it has in those very contentious and boisterous hearings that have been occurring on capitol hill committee thank you for that white house correspondent committee how can you. live in washington d.c. let's bring in jeffrey kappa service now he's the director of political studies at miss katherine center and he's joining us also live from washington d.c. and i don't know if you heard our white house correspondent kimberly halkett describing some of the the hearings that we had on capitol hill as contentious as boisterous if we put the president's behavior aside i know that you have been writing that republicans have turned of page went into a carnival house. well i quoted in this morning's guardian column

a quote by carl sandburg an american poet he said when the laws against you argue the facts when the facts are against you argue the law when the law and the facts are against you pound the table and you're like whoa i think what we're seeing from republicans on that committee right now is a lot of sound and fury but ultimately it signifies nothing they are hiding it very hard to actually defend the facts such as they are and so they're trying to distract and get despite that this could go in donald trump and republicans favor i mean it's very much expected to do so because the democrat controlled house of representatives well impeach the president the republicans control the senate is unlikely to remove him from office so you have a vote along party lines one that does make it easier for republicans to portray this process as driven and totally partisanship which could help them in the next election. i think that's a very likely scenario certainly no one i know expects to see anything than

a largely party line vote in both the impeachment and in the trial in the senate however there's a bigger problem that i think republicans are paying special attention to which is that their problem right now is not to demonstrate 100 percent fealty to donald trump their problem is to win back the middle class college educated voters who abandoned them in the last elections in 2018 unless they get those voters back they don't have much of a chance of regaining the house they might lose the senate they might even lose the presidency and to win those voters back you actually really do need to rely on evidence and argument rather than insults and obfuscation so those are some republican concerns going into election year what about democrats do you think that there are some so-called moderate democrats that do have cold feet now about how they're going to vote in the house on and pitchman given again going into the next . there are some of those moderate democrats who are concerned they represent

districts that they voted somewhat heavily for donald trump and they don't want this process to appear completely partisan so you actually have a small group of democrats hoping to get a censure resolution of the house rather than impeachment but i think that's extremely unlikely to happen so i think they're just going to go back to their districts after this and say that they called it the way that they saw it whether that meant that they voted for the pitchman or not the cicada service thank you very much for your time on this we do appreciate it that is jeffrey capice of us live in washington d.c. . lead to move on to other news now in bolivia's deposed president even madonna's has been granted refugee status in argentina he was wanted political asylum in mexico when he fled there last month was forced out following mass protests and accusations that the presidential election in october it was rigged let's bring in our correspondent tori's a bow she's joining us live from buenos either is what is expected in argentina at

least 2 ways and what do we know so far. well it will more eyes arrival to argentina is the news of the day in this country it shocks everyone mostly because he was in mexico then he went to cuba and he was expected to come here at some point but nobody expected him to arrive here this was this thursday and it's happening just after argentina are sworn in a new precedent out of the 5 man this from just played a crucial role in helping him with alice get out of mexico getting approval from neighboring countries so that that plane from mexico that was carrying was able to make it all the way to mexico city so most peculiar i mean it was a surprise in a way because he wasn't expected today but he's a rival with the thing it goes mostly what we're seeing from this government is that it's prioritizing in a way it's for in politics for in relations relations to take a closer. to countries like cuba russia china than the united states even though

the government is saying that is wants to be with good terms with everyone are and what i listen to are seeking of political asylum and once he landed he filled in the paperwork so that he's considered a refugee in argentina and the foreign minister here explained the reason why which is mostly. it has certain normative serve for norms that able what our lives will have to fulfill in order to remain in argentina and one of those things the ones of the foreign minister said is that he's asking him to keep a low profile not to give or make important political statements there's a striking difference in the way what are lesser arrived here it's hard to do on the way he did so when he landed in mexico last last month the way hugh that landed here is a very low profile we don't know where he is where he's going to be staying he didn't give a press conference didn't give any type of interview so certainly this is a big change that we're seeing the way he's been handling himself since landing

here but what we do know is that he made some twits in those tweets he thanked the mexican government and the mexican population for saving his life and he said that he will continue fighting to defend those most vulnerable in his country especially indigenous communities and to raise a dozen what on his being in argentina doesn't change the way in which he would continue to engage with politics in bolivia. well let's not forget why of all what i list cannot return to bolivia i mean the fact that he's a refugee here in argentina it's what we're hearing is that the main reason is that he cannot practice politics in bolivia and he has several investigations against the strongest one that we know exist there is an audio recording vats of period of him asking people to take to the streets to protest against the interim administration. asking them to block for example the capital. telling people not to

allow for door gasoline to enter the capital city and in those type of clashes where many people in bolivia died and that's why there is an investigation against him and that's why there are many that are fearing that he could be detained if he would return to believe you have a what i list as we know right now is going to be considered the manager of the m.e.'s party the mass party the movement towards socialism party that the party he represents and the one that he's going to be handling from here from argentina it's not clear yet how he's going to handle this whole situation while being the manager of a party but being a refugee in this country that is not allowed to speak about politics well that's the big challenge ahead but we do know that he's here because there's a large we live in community in this country there and he has many supporters he's very close to the government not only to president i've got to fight him on this but also the vice president cristina fernandez de kirchner and that it is from here where he's going to try to help his party participate in the coming presidential

elections in bolivia that there's no date yet but it could have but in the next few months to raise it thank you for that for now that is to raise it with all the latest live and when inside is. now clashes have broken out between protesters and security forces in northeastern india over a bill approved by parliament that will grant citizenship to minorities who face religious persecution in pakistan and bangladesh and of the gonna start and thousands of troops have been deployed in the state of lease use tear gas to disperse the crowds who fear that more migrants from banda vish will be made citizens to protesters have been killed now protests are also taking place in neighboring through a state where large migration from bangor they show over the past few decades has reduced the indigenous population to a minority now bonded their shoes foreign minister meanwhile has canceled a planned visit to india that says it's not connected to the citizenship bill but

only rejected allegations by india that it oppressed minority communities the bill has also stood and there because it excludes muslim refugees and migrants the indian union muslim league that is a political party has petitioned the supreme court arguing that the bill is unconstitutional well al-jazeera is on child war and she says the protests have escalated their. the voters have been quite large we're really have now heard on the national television that there was a manager check with some of our local contacts a few people have been killed in a fire exchange of displaced with indian security officials details are still emerging we don't know what next these deaths took place or we've also learned that several people were rushed to a hospital and there are several injured people in a hospital in garage right now i like to give you an idea what's really going on all through the day we saw shop shop fuel stations a shock school the shop every traffic light was a protest people defied girl few everybody got involved and people were out on the

streets and they were protesting this that they're protesting because they want to preserve their identity because they think that over the years over the decades they have. a very hard to give shelter to many refugees from bangladesh and and muslims and they think that if the cut off date according to the citizenship bill of accepting bangladeshi hindus in this case would be december would be 2040 they would have to accept even more that's what this is they're protesting against. the pen to more head on the news al and including an election many algerian was a ballot paper the $21.00 and the presidential vote is replacing on that as a beautiful cat angst on sochi defending young miles on me against accusations genocide of the international court of justice and a sport of paper why the tokyo paralympic maddened won't be on the move.

underway in the u.k.'s general election the 3rd in 5 years for more let's go to bob or sara and i european broadcast center barbara. elizabeth thank you yes party leaders have cast their votes on what's being described as the most important election in a generation breck said and the future of the country's national health service have dominated the debate reports now from london. on a dismal december day democracy is in action is of breaks it deadlock has brought british voters back to the ballot box for the 3rd general election in 5 years. leaving a polling station in london conservative leader boris johnson and one of his close associates. called the election to try and secure a parliamentary majority so he can press ahead with bricks it on a post or is this far in london from the opposition labor leader jeremy corbyn

after he voted. the party for this election on the future of public services including the country's steamed national health service. in scotland the nationalists s m p leader nicholas sturgeon was feeling beat her party's main goal is to block forest johnson's ranks it. and i'm bishan shared by the liberal democrat leader joseph wilson the party's defining policy is to remain firmly in the e.u. . britain last held an election in december. the country braving hostile weather to cast their ballots they're choosing $650.00 m.p.'s to represent them politicians who will decide britain's future either in or out of the european union is expected to be a close race but several london constituencies large queues were seen outside polling stations this is partly in south london where a line of voters snaked down the street. everyone is very confused everyone is

deeply divided. families and friends of people are riven in a way i don't think i have seen before in elections in my in my adult life i think it's very tense the flow very upset on both sides of the argument polls close at 10 pm g.m.t. exit polls we publish straight away with the 1st official results mode a few hours later the park out of syria london where the party gets the govern the u.k. needs to secure a majority in parliament it's particularly crucial this election for the future of brics it is a major focus so how will the government be decided paul brennan explains. the united kingdom is divided into 650 electoral constituencies which each sent an m.p. to sit here in parliament and they're elected using the 1st past the post voting system with people in each constituency each casting one vote and whoever gets the

most votes becomes their m.p. now most candidates are affiliated to a political party such as the conservatives labor or the liberal democrats or several others and to win the overall election and form a stable government a party needs to win a majority of the parliamentary seats now that means at least 326 m.p.'s if the biggest party gets fewer than 326 then it can try to form a minority government or it might try to form a coalition government with another party or going in there were let's go to andrew simmons who joins us now live from westminster and andrew the weather doesn't seem to have been putting off voters this of course is the 1st assembler election in just under 100 years to do we know what impact that's had on turnout yet. well you're right in the observation about the weather teeming rain in large parts of the country early in the election campaign the weather in particular flooding be an election issue right now an election issue of

a different type but it hasn't ended it would appear that sun outs it's been pretty high in many places but these are anecdotal references not official figures we expect the full official figures later and we'll get a feel for exactly what that turnout has been 68.8 percent was the turnout for the last election 2017 there has been a trend in recent elections for a steady increase in turnout but what that effect will have on the overall result is not clear in terms of the actual results. we're going to get the exit poll at $22.00 g. as was referred to in the earlier report but the general feeling is that people want to get out and vote particularly in the capital london where people have been waiting in other areas in the southeast waiting for up to half an hour to vote now

that's not a lot in many elections worldwide but here in the u.k. it is one observer remarking it's typical london orderly queues and no one talking to each other but another remarked that this is really an important election this is as so many politicians are saying really the most aboard election for a generation. under simmons for the moment live for us in westminster andrew thank you and of course we will bring you the latest results here on al-jazeera as they have been going to have a little more from london later in the news hour now though let's go back to elizabeth in doha barbara thank you now thousands of algerians are protesting outside polling stations rejecting what they say is a sham presidential election where protesters accuse all 5 candidates of being too close to the old regime a former president often of these beautifully where he was signed in april following it 20 years in power and months of on rest demand and change then it smith has more at this polling station in algiers there weren't many voters but

plenty of ballot papers should turnout pick up later in the day here in the early morning just a few ballots have been cast in algeria is presidential election that algerian state t.v. found a busier place to show its of us this is all around what ocean in the at the hip the presenters voiceover encourages people to get out and vote tells them there can be no reform without stability and says the people casting their ballots here were people who had recently been protesting. but in the port city of the jail protesters took all the ballot papers and rip them up they wanted to make it clear they think the election is a farce. this is something that are 5 candidates running for president this is one of them as a dean he like the others has been approved by the state all of them the senior officials in the current regime. that is if you were in the old you the algerian

says they are aware that they need the massive popular legitimacy that's why we're noticing since this morning thousands of algeria is going to polling stations and this is real and certainly did those who are doubting that this day want realized what people hopefully know how did you know protest began in algeria in february when abdelaziz bouteflika said he'd stand for a 5th term as president he eventually backed down and resigned as if but it's not stopped tens sometimes hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets in the last 10 months on election day there wasn't much tolerance from the police for protesters calling for a boycott that was a good many algerians say this election won't get rid of look prove why the group of businessmen politicians and military leaders who wield the real power behind the scenes this was i mean this guy is a from the similar gmo beautifully there with or with with

a few was what shall i won't vote if i vote or betray my country no lections with the gangs that's it my brother so i with a low turnout whoever wins will face questions of legitimacy before he even begins to tackle the challenges of a stagnant oil dependent economy high youth unemployment and rampant corruption. bernat smith al-jazeera out now myanmar's leader aung san suu kyi has urged the international criminal court to dismiss genocide accusations being leveled at her country's army have appeared in followed closing arguments by the gambia which is pushing for the international court of justice to rule against the providing testimony on allegations of mass murder and rape such a insisted her country's military justice system needed to be given a chance to work. press corps to remove the case from it.

in the alternative to reject the press for the indication of position mischa's separatists. this president and members call. away and has more on the hearing from the hague we have now seen the end of the 1st phase phase one really of what is potentially going to be a very long genocide case against me and we heard the closing arguments on thursday 1st from the gambia and now from me the me and my lawyers really spent most of their time during the closing arguments once again arguing legal technicalities where the court has the jurisdiction to hear the case also looking at the interpretation of the genocide convention which me and my. violating and then it was the turn state counsel of the leader of myanmar effectively and the leader of

this defense team who closed the. argument and again didn't really address any of the specific allegations leveled against her country against her government and military the need for the international community to allow me to deal with its own affairs specifically the military if there is found to be any wrongdoing by soldiers in rakhine state then they should be allowed to investigate their own and deal with them through their own court martial system which is already being done once and there is a court martial a 2nd court martial that is already under way and she also spoke about the dangers of any external interference in what is going on and that could reignite the violence in rakhine state. now more than 700000 muslim rangar fled to neighboring. after the 27000 military crackdown stephanie decker's and cox's bazaar were hunger refugees are following the proceedings in the hague closely these are the people

who endured those horrendous atrocities at the hands of me and more as military these are the people who are being referred to when it comes to the case at the international court of justice now many of them are aware of the hearing some of them have been able to get information on their mobile phones others don't know about it all some of the people we've been speaking to think that this could potentially be a 1st step into being able to go back home but many people also tell you that they don't understand the real legalities the details of what is happening there. that you will get justice since the whole world has now put them on trial i hope our situation will change as a result of that. the opportunity to return home peacefully people have been calling for justice for a very long time it's been almost 2 and a half years since that offensive in august of 2017 was so hundreds of thousands of

people flee here in the space of just a couple of weeks but these people also want to go home and many people will tell you that the ruling of the international court of justice and that may take time will probably not be able to give that to them there's a lot of challenges ahead when it comes to seeing how they'll be able to go back home we've just been speaking to the head of the u.n. refugee agency here in bangladesh and he said even if repatriation started tomorrow it would create it would take an incredibly long time until you process this amount of people this is a city of refugees equivalent to the population of some of the world cities but each of them has a story of her endless horrors tragedy and trauma. to an hour an angry mob has taken the law into their own hands and hung this. eckstein year old boy after he shot and killed 6 people video shared on social media showed the mall beating and hanging the boy in baghdad central square iraqis have been holding mass protests

since that time but to denounce government corruption 20 government protesters have frequently come under attack last month 25 people were killed when armed when i was in fire on a demonstration in baghdad. still ahead a president weakened by mass protests faces a picture of proceedings will be live on why a chance later is expected to survive and why the has started to test cricket to pakistan is proving frustrating haven't had the details. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast we're here across the mediterranean we're watching a storm system bring some rain as well as snow across parts of turkey over here towards syria as well as into lebanon friday it's going to be scattered showers in some winds but by the time we do get to saturday the rain really increases across

much of this area and we are going to see some snow into the higher elevations of turkey as well a level at about 13 beirut at 19 and sunnier down towards jerusalem at about 14 degrees for you there or here across the gulf the possibility of some rain here on friday is going to be also in our forecast doha tempter few of $24.00 degrees but plenty of rain in and around the area now look he too bad by the time we do go toward saturday and over here towards scott things are looking quite nice with sunny conditions 3 day forecast for doha it looks like this potential of friday rain here saturday better but by the time we do get to sunday in the tundra coming up but the rain is coming back into the forecast as we go down here across parts of southern africa the rain is also still a big problem across much of the south east and that includes parts of durban as well as we go towards the front friday forecast we are looking at rain for durban a $24.00 degrees in johannesburg possibly showers as well with a temperature of $25.00.

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these mysterious. how do i get on the problem in doha these are the top stories this hour the u.s. house of representatives is moving closer to impeach ing president trump as the house judiciary committee holds its final debate is accused of withholding aid to ukraine to pressure it into investigating political viable joe biden. former bolivian president evo morales is in argentina where he's been granted refugee status he had been living in mexico after a disputed election and mass protests forced him to leave libya and 2 people have

been killed during protests in northeastern india against a controversial citizenship to grab citizenship to religious minorities from pakistan and afghanistan bot that excludes muslims protesters fear that they'll be economically and culturally marginalize as migrants from bangladesh a given citizenship now china is calling was has begun a debate which could lead to the impeachment of the country's president opposition m.p.'s say sebastian pinera failed to prevent human wides violations by the army and police at least 26 people were killed and thousands and get in a crackdown and protest. demonstrations began in the top of the social inequality but spiraled into weeks of rioting a latin american editor you see a new man has more from santiago there's really no indication right now as to which way it will go when the president has been increased unlucky in this case 1st of all yesterday his cousin the former interior minister was found guilty by the

senate of having of responsibility for having allowed gross human rights violations to take place when a state of emergency had been declared here in chile right at the beginning of this crisis and then on human rights day which was on tuesday the president announced a whole series of measures which he said would defend human rights here ahead of what's happening right now and instead that very evening to protest were so badly injured by riot police that their lives are heading in the balance at this moment so things are not looking very good for the president right now. now intense rain has been partly blamed for the collapse of a brazilian dam which killed more than $250.00 people in january the dam's operator says several factors including poor internal drainage led to the disaster which wiped out a nearby island mine the company says it had no warning that the dam was unstable and that no seismic activity in the area was recorded on the day now the joy in the climate change conference in madrid or cop 25 is in its final days for more let's

go back to barbara sarah in london barbara elizabeth thank you yes scientists and politicians from around the world are trying to agree on the next a crucial steps for the paris agreement the center of the un's a climate change strategy but they've been locked in arguments over how to make carbon markets work and the conference could actually be extended by a day our environment editor nick carr is at the summit he says there are still several outstanding issues that need to be a creek agreed upon. it is the penultimate day here madrid day will probably go into actual time as these things normally do so probably into saturday some crucial issues still at play not least national commitment to reducing emissions which is vital if we go into 2020 and also some rather we'll the but again crucial detail on carbon trading and loss and damage that is compensating those poor nations impacted

by climate change yesterday we had some drama in the halls outside the main plenary where the u.n. secretary general was speaking as lots of protests and just pictures of the incident lots of protesters gathered hundreds of protesters gathered making their voices heard frustrated at the state slowed state progress here. credential observers who then had their credentials taken away because of this protest not covered quite a few of these conferences over the last 2 years since 2012 and never ever have i seen scenes like that so it's an important issue and also demonstrates the chasm there is between the feeling outside these holes and as they say the slave state of progress within one piece of developing news we have the european union's greendale it hasn't been widely accepted as real progress but there is an element of progress in the sense that they put forward $100000000000.00 to try and that we in the e.u. countries off fossil fuels so that's one development there's an awful lot more

needed and climate change will stop of the edge and that the 1st european council summit for the president and commission president or name the block is laying out its environmental goals for the next 30 years our correspondent there has been following updates from the 1st day of the summit. this report. arriving for his 1st use summit as council president shall michelle left little doubt as to the main topic on the day's agenda climate change is number one priority for this afternoon's little and i hope we will have an agreement for a climb record with reality it's a very important goal the new european commission president ursula von delenn wants member states to commit to a carbon neutral economy by 2050 and a half the missions by 2030 under her so-called a european green deal all the e.u. policy would have to take into account the climate emergency put coal realigned

countries poland czech republic and hungary oppose the plan they say changing to clean energy would be too expensive if you only reach the carbon out charlie we have to understand that. every member states have a different energy mix and to reach this government actually they have also different costs to try and convince poland hungary and the czech republic to sign up to the green deal the e.u. is executive wants member states to approve a $100000000000.00 in the next budget to help coal base countries switch to clean energy it wasn't only inside the e.u. council that the green deal faced criticism earlier activists a demonstrated outside to say the plan failed to address the urgency of climate change the heads of government and state are discussing today whether the european union should go climate neutral by trying to 50 that is an important target but it

is not good enough to leave it to future generations to take actions our heads of gates said and government must take action today the e.u. wants to be a world leader in the battle against climate change but the blokes desire to help save the planet with this new plan won't amount to much unless all its member states sign up natasha butler. well just 0 brussels transfer unions in france say they will continue their national strike through the christmas holiday pay if the government doesn't back down on its pension reform plan the mass action is now in its 2nd week 10 of the 16 metro lines in paris are completely shut and only one of the country's 4 train lines is running on wednesday the french prime minister. proposed a universal points based system for pensions but people would need to work 2 years longer to avoid reduced payouts and they have since been protests in paris and must say. germany says the expulsion of 2 of its diplomats from moscow was unjustified

the move was in response to berlin kicking out 2 russian diplomats from germany last week over a mosque was refusal to cooperate in a murder investigation the victim who fought with chechen separatists was shot in broad daylight in berlin in august last week german federal prosecutors say that there is no evidence russian intelligence was behind the killing a fire on russia's only aircraft carrier the admiral that's off is now under control 10 people were injured in the blaze which is being blamed on welding work the aging flagship of the russian navy is docked in the northern port of more manske and had 400 people on board that is it for me and the team here in london for this news hour let's go back to his base in doha. thank you barbara now west africa's top court has ordered sierra leone to scrap a law that prevents pregnant girls from attending school the ecowas course says it

violated the girls' right to education and rights groups hope that the decision puts pressure on 17 other african countries which banned pregnant schoolgirls to review their laws it is unclear whether sierra leone will follow the court's ruling . eisel has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed at least 70 soldiers they camped near the western border with mali sustained hours of the heavy gunfire late on tuesday in asia said its troops came under attack from several 100 fighters they did just like you really don't believe the detachment in the not as military post near the border with mali was attacked by heavily armed terrorists estimated at several 100 there followed a combat of rare violence combining artillery fire and the use of kamikaze vehicles by the enemy on our position for 3 hours a search in pursuit has been launched in the footsteps of terrorists fleeing from our borders. the story from. frequent cross border fighting.

in august has always been in the crosshairs of the extremist groups operating along the border but by far this is the biggest in terms of casualty numbers according to sources the attackers numbering in the hundreds at the army post with suicide bombers as well as mortars and by the way you know just has been largely vacated since the last major attacks last year in the area and we've also seen across the region in this hell the uptick of violence carried out by al qaida into sliming state in the west african province and all the fighters in the region and the targets mainly all well military bases that were overrun and equipment being seized now i looked up people are warning especially security analysts are warning that we probably will see more violence in the coming months or weeks as the groups there

want to establish a foothold meanwhile across the region there is anger and concerns about the rule of multinational forces in the region especially the french presence here in mali that is particularly the feeling that the french are not doing enough to cut the violence and a meeting with the g. 5 leaders of 5 civilian countries with the french president which was supposed to start next week has now been shifted until early 2020 but a lot of people in the region i really concerned about why are all these is leading to. now commercial flights operating out of the libyan capital for the 1st time in nearly 3 months were traffic at my to the airport had been for spend because of. aerial attacks by forces loyal to warlord who for half the and that and wired reports the un recognized government since they were playing as

a victory over half. the foot is to fly it in 3 months has just taken of him a to get airport the only operational airport in the libyan capital tripoli airport was closed due to multiple attacks by fighter jets loyal to the world. have to now personages here say that they are grateful they no longer have to drive 2 and a half hours east of tripoli to take their flights in the airport of the city of misrata but officials here say that the opening of a may to get airport is a kind of victory because the government of the tripoli based government wants to say that it has survived attacks but on the other hand pursers you are still worried they say that there is nothing that can guarantee that this airport will

not be hit again by half dollars fighter jets but officials here say that the united nations is good in teaching that have to have those fighter jets will not hit this airport again this is very essential because it is the only operational airport and the capital tripoli and a report by any panel of experts recently concluded that the attacks against him a to get airport are violation of the international humanitarian law. the rights group amnesty international says the philippine government is literally getting away with murder the native government for going to show an estimated 5 and a half 1000 people have been killed since 2016 and president ronald reagan that has their so-called war on drugs activists say that number could be as high as 27000

and no one's been held accountable for the deaths of the. along the as a human rights officer for amnesty international in the philippines and he says the police for those don't paint the whole picture this mostly operational numbers that they have reported on this morning personalities arrests the operations conducted these are just you know. outputs of of. their drug operations from 10 to 16 not much was was said about the killings themselves and yes they have mentions it's 5500. it's just them perplexing for us for example when we released our report in february 27th mean the numbers are already up to 7000 in our out. almost 2000 killed in police operations and more than 3000 killed in a more than 4000 killed in by unidentified gunmen and by the end of 2017 in this is

a government report they have mentioned that around 4000 killed if police operations and more than 16000 dead by an unidentified gunman this is at the end of the 17 so it just doesn't make sense the numbers. now teams in special protective began attempting to recover the bodies of those killed in a volcanic eruption in new zealand despite warnings that another one is eminent the place mission twice hyland as now under way jessica washington reports. it's not how this is trailing interest would have expected to be going home leaving new zealand on a stretcher suffering from severe burns the israeli defense force is flying out some patients who suffered horrific injuries when a white island volcano erupted to relieve the pressure on new zealand hospitals burns units have been operating at full capacity with surgeons working nonstop since monday's tragedy trying to save the lives of dozens of people the nature of

the song is called one for the kids and in the rush. this is this is going to happen sewage treatment the obvious. then is the usual kinds of. things all of the survivors have been through at least one 3rd of their bodies surgeons here at the national brand center and hospitals around the zealand have called in for skin donations from the us and australia they're calling it an unprecedented medical emergency for new zealand days after the eruption a recovery mission to retrieve the bodies still on the island is said to begin that will go on to the island and i will make every effort to recover all of the bodies from the island and return them to the washington. and from there we will move those bodies back to the mainland. i have to emphasize that the risk

has not gone. the risk remains present authorities had been cautious due to the dangerous cocktail of gases on the island and a warning from seismologists of the likelihood of another eruption this is the most like to get for a car you walk tall and has been since 2016 and probably going back to quite a few years as well so it is really a high level of interest in this book and mark in men lost his brother in the disaster he's been calling for recovery crews to get to the island and is unhappy at the delays as not frustration i can get on this more frustration that i haven't gone to the on this dentist has it on the chin is get out there. and i can go on. red tape raucously leadership has filed.

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you. it is time for sports now here's peter elizabeth thank you very much for the 1st time in 14 years the international team leads golf presidents cup of the day one tiger woods provided the only relief for he's a u.s. team at royal melbourne in australia woods's who's a plane after the few teamed up with justin thomas to win their only point of the day as they beat mark leishman and 14 nieman $4.00 and $3.00 otherwise it was the

internationals you outclass the americans to take a 41 lead. but we have to go on air in the cup and we're not done we're not done you're not out of it yet and with this long which. the historic return of test cricket to pakistan after 10 years looks like being dampened by the weather in raul pindi just 18 overs of play were possible on day 2 of the 1st test against sri lanka was enough time for then enjoy the silver to make a half century for the tourists finishing unbeaten on 72 any work of the day fell to shaheen afridi removing leaders and the qualified 50 through 3 lanka 263486 when bad light and the play. much better conditions in perth as a stray near batted 1st in the opening test against new zealand monosyllabic shane with the same jury he was 110 not out as a straight a close play on 248 for 4. ferrari's chief executive louis camel larry has admitted the team have spoken to world champion lewis hamilton about joining them in the

future but cavaleri added that a meeting between chairman john alcan and hamilton at a social event has been blown out of proportion hamilton who's been within say distance 2030 in and won a 6th world title this season has one year left on his existing contract and said he'll carefully consider his next move. the organizers of the paris 2024 olympics were always going to stage their surfing events away from the city but nobody was expecting it to be on the other side of the world they've proposed the events of the games will be staged in fear who pose on the coast of turkey to eat in french polynesia that's nearly 16000 kilometers and we live in time zones away from paris but it is a regular stop for events in the world certainly the decision still needs to be agreed by the international olympic committee. 11 time world champion surfer kelly slater will find out in the next few days if he has done enough to qualify for next year's olympics in tokyo slater is in contention to clinch the 2nd u.s.

18 spot depending on how he gets on at the pipe masters in hawaii but he has sent out a warning to rival john john florence with a perfect 10 on wednesday at 47 years later is proving he's still one of the best surface around organizers of the 2020 paralympics are expecting record attendances with over 3000000 requests made for tickets so far are like the olympics a few weeks earlier the paralympic marathons will not be moved north to support due to the hot conditions athletes were consulted and said they wanted these races staged in tokyo with many marathon laughter it's also competing in track events during the games a move will be logistically difficult for them to accommodate the marathon is also the last event of the whole of talk your 2020. and after it's believed competing on the streets of the city in a free van that anyone can attend is

a way of saying thank you for the tremendous support talker residents have shown the paralympic movement over the last 7 years the u.s. ice hockey hall of fame is said to induct its 1st african american 82 year old meal henderson started before the pond ice hockey club more than 40 years ago encouraging minority players and fans to get involved in the sport henderson was on the ice for the ceremonial puck drop ahead of wednesday's game between the washington capitals and boston bruins. co i learned is back in toronto for the 1st time since winning the n.b.a. championship with his former team me was on it before the game receiving his championship ring in and left the raptors after leading them to their 1st n.b.a. title he then joined the l.a. clippers in july on a $103000000.00 contract he had a mixed response from fans as he's new to be toronto $11292.00 leonard school 23 of those points. the indiana pacers ended

a 7 game losing streak in their series against the boston celtics malcolm brogden scored 29 points aaron holiday many live interviews a team in the 4th quarter of just a holiday also helped finish it off 122-1172 the pacers. football fans in sweden have been showing their anger towards the latter only bramer which again the statue of the striker outside malmo stadium has seen a number of attacks by vandals this time they tried to saw through his feet abraham a bitch caused controversy last night by investing in a big rivals hammer b. he's home in stockholm has also been vandalized. ok we'll leave it there for now of most board again later peter thank you very much for that and that doesn't for the . bottom and the entire team here and thank you very much for watching.

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