0. every. flaw idols have weaknesses. the u.s. senate's top democrat says donald trump's expected impeachment trial will be a cover up less white house aides testify. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program. india's prime minister calls for calm but protests against his new citizenship will spread across the country. gambians rally against

their president urging him to keep his promise and step down. and china says arsenal football a message ozil was deceived by fake news when he criticized the treatment of weak a muslim. a top democrat in the u.s. senate has accused the president donald trump of orchestrating a cover up chuck schumer has called for the current and former white house aides to testify trump's expected impeachment trial he says republicans have no reason to keep witnesses from testifying unless the president has something to hide those aides include acting chief of salt stuff make mulvaney and the former national security adviser john bolton a vote in the democrat led house to impeach trump is expected to take place on wednesday if it passes he will then be tried in the republican controlled senate. i haven't seen

a single good argument about why these witnesses shouldn't testify what these documents be produced unless the president has something to hide and his supporters want that information hidden. the trial structure i outlined in my letter to leader mcconnell will ensure that all the relevant facts come out without dilatory action. on mike hanna joins us live now from washington how difficult is it going to be then for democrats republicans to resolve their differences of the the structure of the trial and how it might take place in the senate. well this has been at issue throughout the whole impeachment process no signs of any compromise from either side a willingness to bend in any way to the other's point of view republicans arguing very strongly that if democrats in the house had wanted to obtain these witnesses then they would have gone to court to enforce the subpoenas now the democrats

decided in the end not to go to court because they believed it would take too long for the legal process to get underway so they then decided to go ahead with drawing up these articles of impeachment without the witnesses so republicans in the senate are now saying well now you are asking us to produce these witnesses after you did not go to the trouble of going through a legal process to bring them to give you evidence within the house so that's the type of argument that one is getting in terms of the actual vote on the house floor which may be happening on wednesday that's all going to be determined by a meeting in the course of the next 24 hours when the house rules committee will sit and discuss decide exactly how the debate is going to play out in the house so this is where we are at this particular stage the rules off that house debate still to be laid out and then of course we are getting to the ongoing argument with what kind of rules will be in place for that senate trial asked because it's clear from

chuck schumer's remarks today that democrats are determined that there should be witnesses summoned all subpoenaed to participate in a senate trial particularly those that refuse to participate in the hearings that we had in the house after republicans refused to agree to this and the democrats don't drop their demands could it lead to a delay and a trial taking place. well no because the republicans do have the majority in the senate the magic figure there's $51.00 votes and it's a simple majority that will decide on the procedures of the whole process the vote itself in terms of the trial does require a 2 thirds but while the republicans remain in the majority in the senate they can determine exactly what evidence is heard how the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell insistent that he wants a very short trial he says that people have already made up their minds and indeed the vote has been along party lines all the way but an interesting fact merriam is

that the last impeachment trial that took place in the senate bill clinton back in 1009009 there are 16 members of the senate no members of the senate who will be sitting again in an impeachment trial now in 1909 it's significant to note that it read democrats voted along party lines in favor of bill clinton the vast majority of republicans did so as well only one voted against party lines so the precedent is there the impeachment is a process that now as it was nearly 20 years ago is something that still goes along along party lines it's very much a political process as much as any form of investigatory impeachment idea the whole the whole thing as certainly proved to be very partisan and contentious thank you very much my canner in washington. so china and russia are calling for an end to some of the sanctions on north korea they have proposed a draft u.n.

security council resolution which receives some of the sanctions lifted to quote enhanced the livelihood of the civilian population of the country the draft resolution also exempt the into korean rail and road project from u.n. sanctions it goes on to welcome the continued dialogue between the u.s. and north korea. india's prime minister has called for calm off to 5 days of violent protests demonstrators angered by a new law that office citizenship to persecuted minorities from neighboring countries but excludes muslims around ramadi tweeted that the protests are unfortunate and deeply distressing well he said the citizenship amendment act would not affect indians of any religion and he said it's only for those who faced years of persecution outside and have no other place to go except india modi called for peace unity and brotherhood so everyone to stay away from room among of falsehoods

the protests are not dying down instead they have been spreading to university campuses nationwide as anger at modi's government following allegations of police brutality during a rally on sunday that turned line and. the government has a text by interim university so we will fight for the constitution of india we've stated time and time again that we will fight against the government. spokesman on a porn a man on a visiting lecturer and doctoral researcher in politics at university of westminster center of democracy she says despite the discriminatory nature of the citizenship amendment will protesters are demonstrating for different reasons. the protests are right now prime the of 2 kinds so in the northeast region of india. have been having protest against fears of loud skin migration happening into the into these areas because of the citizenship amendment act while in mainland india

the protest is primary against the discriminator e nature of this bill and the protests have been guided in the short span of 36 i was in 16 universities all across india and there have been large scale valleys being carried out on the streets in the roads everywhere and for there has also been parliamentary opposition to this so these states of. job have outright beautifully used to implement this act in their in this state now in all the stories we're following 12 people have been killed in a rebel attack that took place in the eastern part of the democratic republic of congo the right happened on sunday night in the village of commando was just a day after at least $32.00 people died in another attack and benny which was blamed on the rebel allied democratic forces there the latest in a wave of deadly attacks which triggered protests against the congolese army and u.n. peacekeepers i residents who say they are failing to protect them linus will also destructive efforts to contain

a boat outbreak in the region which has now killed over 2000 people well now to the gambia where thousands of people have been rallying there against president adama barrow calling for him to step down at the end of the year he promised to leave office after 3 is as part of the deal to form a coalition government protests to say he's made living conditions one. has more on this from joel. they shout in the local language it means it's time time for president adam a barrow to leave power and says he broke a promise he made to the people of gambia who brought him to power 3 years ago so we are protesting because our president. and i remember when they got. in 2016 that he would serve a transitional government for 3 years thereafter he would hold a presidential election. in which it would not be

a participant and where but imagine as the winner of that election he would graciously hand over to that person instead barrow says he wants to stay in power and complete his mandate until 2021 saying he's respecting the constitution but in 2016 with most political leaders in jail the opposition rallied behind president barrow then a political outsider they had protested under the slogan gambia has decided when longtime president john we refused to concede defeat during that year's presidential elections barrow told al-jazeera at the time he would respect the will of the people and only lead the country through its transition to democracy organizing elections in which he would not take part brunton us president stressed . another businessman. for the reform to. lead to leave the city. on this of i will. but his political party has now stopped backing him because he has surrounded himself with allies to

ya john me is foreign and finance minister as well as police chief are now part of that was cabinet a protest like this would simply not take place under john they people would be too afraid to take to the streets and demonstrate against a head of state and so while there is more political freedom under out a member of the change that he had promised and the reform in the security economic and social sector is too slow to conduct this sort of water it's a sitting president committed to. the conference. down there was. going to. this was. protesters handed a petition to a government spokesman setting an ultimatum for barrett to leave power next month as he promised to do so 3 years ago this is an unprecedented show of force in the nation's return to democracy and a reminder to its political leaders that it's the people not politicians who are in

charge of the ganges future nicholas hawke al jazeera ben jewel. some developments with boeing and the past hour the company has announced it will suspend production its best selling 737 max next month the plane was grounded while wide in march following 2 fatal crashes and into nisha and ethiopia which killed $346.00 people the grounding is set to last well into 2020 and cost a company more than $9000000000.00 the production phase expected impact supply as an airline is wild wide and will also likely have an effect on the u.s. economy. here the u.k. prime minister boris johnson wants to put his brakes it built upon it on friday the vote on the withdrawal greenville would be the 1st stage in his planned out person leave europe by january 31st johnson has been welcoming his new raft of conservative m.p.'s to westminster at an informal gathering he also spoke to u.s.

president donald trump on the phone and said they look forward to negotiating an ambitious free trade agreement. much more still ahead for you on the program we're looking at developments in iraq and lebanon both countries postponing the naming of a new prime minister until thursday after all of the politicians failed to reach agreement. and in venezuela probe led to a constituent assembly that to consider is how he tightens the screws on its opposition approving the trial of 4 opposition lawmakers for treason. i know that the heat is on yet again across much of australia we have. a route into more sudden sections of western australia but there's no real rain in the 4 calls instead it is about the hey look at these temperatures 40 celsius in adelaide 30 degrees across into melbourne and when we put the actual temperatures behind of the

numbers you can see where all this red is so far what we have across much of southern australia is severe heat warnings in place and in fact extreme heat warnings across much of south australia it will stay like that for the next few days temperatures are not going down $42.00 in adelaide 13 on a bellman and really no rain in sight at all so the fire danger once again is very high i mean lot across into new zealand it is wet it is windy a pretty cool as well just 15 celsius in christchurch on tuesday well much warmer really by wednesday and windy on both days with so 19 at best for you in all cloned a very mixed picture as well across into japan the korean peninsula we have got some snow around that will work its way steadily eastwards not about densa par on tuesday 7 celsius that does come with cloud and some rain very cloudy throughout much of honshu tends to kill little bit as we head through into wednesday and in fact not a cold day in tokyo with a high the of 18 degrees celsius. the

fact. this morning corpus on the planet one that could soon be lost forever with an international team of scientists is determined not to let that happen without intervention to give the big i would say here to about just now it's a race against time to try and paint a species take a chrysler it's an emergency plan to stave off extinction tag no 0.

welcome back with al jazeera live from london let's take you through the headlines the top democrat in the senate has accused president donald trump of orchestrating a cover up chuck schumer's call for current and former white house aides to testify trying to expected and pietschmann trial. india's prime minister narendra modi has called for calm off today's a protest over a controversial citizenship will spread to universities across the country modi tweeted that the protests are on fortunate and deeply distressing. and at least 12 people have been killed in an overnight attack in the village of ca mungo in the eastern part of the democratic republic of congo just a day earlier at least 20 at least 32 people were killed in another attack in banning which was blamed on the rebel group the allied democratic forces. will elsewhere the un security council has been discussing its role in west africa a day off the leaders of the sun hell week and held an emergency meeting in the shia on the increasing violence that just a few days ago 71 soldiers from me were killed by falling has linked i still have

a border with mali to address brings us more on this story now from bomb. these desperate times to africa. groups that inflicted heavy losses that forcing thousands of civilians from the whole shebang. leaders of the countries affected no one us g 5 scrambled this meeting in yemi to urgently find a solution host president mohamed use of force says the frequency of sophistication of recent attacks is worse of. that's going to that's what you notice the scale of terrorist attacks are getting larger day after day terrorists are getting more sophisticated weapons the terrorists have been real war professionals they progress every day on the strategic operative and tactical levels. they defied chairman appeal for a new strategy to phrase the growing threat in the foot. we must work together to ensure victory against terrorism in the short middle and long term as the case

in of the countries fighting terrorism we need allies in alliance characterized with responsibility cooperation and respect for each other. at the end of the meeting the leaders resolve to work together to fight the moves which until now has been largely carried out by a national lobbies syrian. leaders have agreed to improve cooperation between national forces joint military operations and international allies as well as bit of coordination on both the political and strategic level they've also agreed on information sharing between security institutions and the countries to better feist terrorism. earlier the leaders paid their respect to the graves of 720 just soldiers killed last week when fighters linked to eisele over that b.z. unitas more than 230 soldiers have been killed in mali putting up arsenal and me here over the past 4 months in addition to 30 french troops who died in helicopter

pollution while hunting for the fighters in the electorate region but what i mean it's really it's a carrying out attacks the regional armies and it's a group of civilians raising concerns of more violence in the coming weeks and months the g 5 leaders have concluded their summit but their citizens living on the front lines are desperate for help for now although it's not clear if the resolutions of the summit will do that degrees but michael. now the u.s. has imposed sanctions on to south sudanese officials it's accused of fueling conflict in the country the treasury department's talking to the minister of cabinet affairs . and the minister of defense and veteran affairs called money and shoot it says that they have been blacklisted for essentially saying the crisis by getting in the way of the country's peace process. the nomination of lebanon's prime part next prime minister has been postponed now to thursday because of fresh complications in the efforts to form

a new government has been another night of violence now with security forces firing tear gas and rubber bullets at protest as outside the parliament saying a holder has more from beirut. minutes before the constitutional process to form a new government was set to start lebanon's presidency postponed consultations until thursday politicians were to name their choice of prime minister and saddle heidi the caretaker prime minister was supposed to be renamed but he requested the men to avoid in his words violating the constitution and preserving unity among the nation sects. it seems the christian participation or vote is the reason why. the liberties forces party is refusing to name a prime minister from the political class and the other main christian party the free political movement is refusing to name this is the real problem lebanon's leaders who share power based on a sectarian political system are deeply divided how d.d. says he wants to have a government free from the influence of political parties his rivals led by the

iranian backed hezbollah who are part of the governing alliance and hold the majority in parliament say they won't give up power the compromise is hard to teach because every party is sticking to its position and. it didn't budge for one single inch and it's true that the prime minister resigned but since then they are trying to produce the same the same system a change in leadership is what anti-establishment protesters have been demanding for 2 months but the largely peaceful uprising against those who have ruled lebanon for 30 years has turned violent in recent days confrontations between unarmed protesters and security forces is raising fears about stability and security political deadlock is not rare in lebanon but there is an urgent need to form

a government the country is in turmoil the ruling class is bargaining over power while workers are losing their jobs companies are closing the local currency is losing its value. and people do not have access to their money and banks the economy is on the brink of collapse but even international financial assistance is being conditioned to the formation of a government that meets the aspirations of the lebanese people and now the united nations is warning the political impasse creates fertile ground for provocations and political manipulation that could lead to more violence so. it is a very similar situation in iraq where the president's deadline to nominate a new prime minister there is also been extended until thursday. stepped down from the post last month after weeks of violent protests in which $476.00 people were killed since then people have continued to demonstrate demanding a complete overhaul of the political system he said they're angry at widespread corruption on employment and poor public services. and has more from baghdad.

the new deadline we are told is now on thursday what is also confusing is which bloc in parliament should actually nominate a new prime minister according to the constitution the president is supposed to ask the biggest block in parliament to agree on a candidate now it is unclear which block is actually the largest and this is very peculiar and very typical of iraqi politics because many members of parliament switch allegiances the votes are not public so nobody really ever knows how many seats are controlled by a given party and the president actually sent a letter yesterday to the speaker of parliament asking him to clarify who is the largest bloc now of course this comes very late in this process this is something that has been clear a long time ago but it just highlights how obscure this process is how little transparency there is and this is precisely the reason why many iraqis are asking not for just the new prime minister but for

a complete overhaul of the political system it's a very obscure process that is basically the result of backroom dealings by the one name that has come up quite often is the name of mohamed sudan who is a member of our party which is the biggest ruling party that has been in place since 2003 and he also held several ministerial posts before so he's very much a considered to be part of the political establishment in that's exactly what protesters don't want they want somebody who has not served before somebody who is not beholden to the current political parties who is actually capable of pushing through very controversial reforms and that's definitely not mohammed also that he has already been rejected by the protesters so it remains to be seen whether he is indeed the one who will be nominated but in any case people want a fresh face they don't want anybody who has held an office in the past. now when israel is pro-government constituent assembly is approved the trial of opposition

politicians accused of committing treason and other crimes country's top. court which is also a loyal to president nicolas maduro alleges that the politicians try to seize military installations which they have denied the government has tightened the noose on opposition politicians this year stripping many of their parliamentary immunity it's also open criminal investigations into the opposition into one quite . well on sunday. and fellow opposition leader leopoldo lopez of being behind a conspiracy against the government rafi are locked up in a field thanks to the cooperation between the civil military and intelligence agencies we managed to detect in time who is behind this conspiracy a fascist monster leopoldo lopez a fascist most a psychopath who has in the past 20 years been behind all the coups and violence he carries violence in his veins he is a mentally ill person of violence and a thief leopoldo lopez i say and who is behind this his subordinate.

but who is also behind this the government of the united states now to a story from zimbabwe the wife of zimbabwe's vice president constantine a child has been charged with attempting the murder of her husband. appeared at harare magistrates court on monday where she was also charged with money laundering and fraud it's alleged she removed showing his intravenous drip and catheter when he was receiving medical treatment in south africa in july for trying to force him from the hospital magistrate ordered that she remain custody pending a bail hearing. now to the philippines where rescuers are still searching for survivors after a powerful earthquake on the island of mindanao many people are feared trapped beneath buildings that collapsed in sunday's magnitude $6.00 quake at least 4 people have been confirmed dead duggan has more from. this

was once a 3 story building take a look at what's left of it now devastated by powerful earthquake that struck the province of sure in southern philippines on sunday afternoon after hours of going through the rubble rescuers are recovered 2 bodies and they remain hopeful there are still survivors in. the earthquake was very very strong and in a matter of seconds we couldn't see much as we were surrounded by dust i was scared i ran as fast as a good government officials are asking for people to stay calm it hasn't been easy people here tell us there have been a series of earthquakes and aftershocks over the last few months thank you ali 20000 people have been displaced since a series of earthquakes struck many areas of the southern ridenhour region in recent months. this is really the best the ping so difficult for us. to

strong we try to provide everything that our people lead but it isn't easy we ask for prayers people your say they are living a life on edge that's because a relative period of calm is often interrupted by a series of violent earthquakes like this one. these families are to this chant to speak on camera their loved ones are trapped inside and they feel helpless i and as night falls their desperation grows the fear they are losing any chance of finding them alive i just dug an al-jazeera but that the devil till sore southern philippines. news even does have observed a minute's silence exactly a week off to the eruption of the white island volcano prime minister just into our

den led the tribute in the capital wellington to one of the 16 people killed police is still trying to recover 2 bodies believed to be in the waters off white island a further 26 people a still in hospitals in new zealand and australia many of them in a critical condition with severe burn injuries. china's foreign ministry says the arsenal football a message was deceived by fake news when he spoke out about the country's treatment to weaken muslims ozil who is muslim himself wrote on social media that we are warriors who resist persecution you also criticize china in the silence of muslims in response after the post chinese t.v. refused to show arsenal's game against manchester city well chinese foreign ministry has also responded by urging ozil to visit the north west region ocean genuine self that is where rights groups say about a 1000000 people mainly league is of been detained by the state in high security prison camps. there's more on everything we're covering al jazeera dot com we get

all the latest on the political developments in lebanon where the politicians have failed to reach any agreement on the nomination of a new prime minister that has now been postponed until thursday this with more protests and actually more violence in the country. now top stories this hour now the main democrat in the u.s. senate has accused the president of orchestrating a cover up and his call for current and former white house aides to testify president donald trump's expected impeachment trial chuck schumer said a trial without witnesses would not be fair on assist. i haven't seen a single good argument about why these witnesses shouldn't testify with these documents be produced unless the president has something to hide and his

supporters want that information hidden. the trial structure i outlined in my letter to leader mcconnell will ensure that all the relevant facts come out without dilatory action. now in our other headlines india's prime minister narendra modi has called for calm off the 5 days of violent protests across the country modi tweeted that the protests over a controversial citizenship rule were unfortunate and deeply distressing he wrote that the citizenship amendment act would not affect indians of any religion and that the act is only for those who faced years of persecution outside the country and have no other place to go except india modi called for peace unity and brotherhood to everyone to stay away from room mongering and false hoods the protests show no sign of dying down and instead they sprayed university campuses nationwide anger at modi's government following allegations of police brutality during a rally on sunday that turned violent india supremes course expected to have petitions

challenging the citizenship law on wednesday. at least 12 people have been killed in a rebel attack in the eastern democratic republic of congo the raid happened on the village of among go on sunday night just a day earlier at least 32 people died in another attack in benny which was blamed on the rebel group the allied democratic forces. and thousands of gambians are rallying against their president adama barrow calling for him to step down he promised to leave office at the end of the year as part of a deal to form a coalition government but has since changed his mind. those the headlines this hour that's it for myself the team here in london but talk to al-jazeera is coming up next peaking with the lebanese prime minister job or on a sale stay with us. a dramatic yet the donald trump ends with impeachment threatening his presidency no one not even the president is

above the law what next for the man hoping to win a 2nd time in power and 2020 the impeachment inquiry is a scam join us for the latest developments on al-jazeera. the. $2900.00 speed a challenging year for lebanon it seems nationwide protests for months. people are demanding an end to corruption a change in the political system and better management of the economy. as a result prime minister saad hariri handed in his resignation in late october. but protests to say that's not enough but have been calling for a complete overhaul of lebanon's political system and its 6 base power sharing agreement. and as people chant in the streets against politicians the one name that seems to be singled out often. feel lebanon's foreign minister but

seal is president own son in law and has previously held other ministerial positions.