the stage is set for impeachment vote on the u.s. president on wednesday in the house of representatives donald trump calls it ridiculous. and protests to taking place around the u.s. in support of trump's impeachment with a message nobody is above the whole. i'm stan grant this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.n. calls for help when the fighting in libya as war vote early 5 to troops advance on the capital. not backing down the french prime minister says he's determined to push ahead with pension reforms despite days of nice white strikes.

the elected prime minister to work flat out to get bricks it done. but u.s. congressional committee has cleared the way for an historic vote of impeachment against president donald trump the house of representatives will hold a 6 hour debate ahead of the vote on wednesday trump is facing charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress he's warned his political rivals they waging a war on democracy and call the ridiculous now white house correspondent kimberly hawking. in advance of an expected vote to impeach the u.s. president in the house of representatives donald trump's land the case against him the whole impeachment thing is a hoax we look forward to getting on to the senate. we're not entitled to lawyers

we're not entitled to witnesses we're not entitled to anything in the house it's a total sham those oval office statements echoed the sentiments of a 6 page letter on official letterhead the tribes said to democratic house speaker nancy pelosi accusing her of conducting an illegal partisan coup truck goes on to say by proceeding with your invalid impeachment you are violating your oath of office you are breaking your allegiance to the constitution and you are declaring open war on american democracy president trump is expected to be impeached in the house on 2 articles use of power and obstruction of congress says he wrote his letter to the house speaker to create a permanent record of his thoughts on the historic vote truck maintains he committed no wrongdoing when last july in a phone call he asked the ukrainian president for a favor to help on earth corruption involving his political rival former vice

president joe biden we must act with a sense of urgency to protect our democracy on capitol hill as democrats battled opposition republicans over the terms of the impending impeachment vote democrat defended their desire to impeach truong are arguing it's the only way to preserve the integrity of the upcoming 2020 presidential vote given that an unrepentant president considers his behavior perfect. given that he thinks the constitution empowers him to do whatever he wants given that he and his team are still awaiting president selenski statement about investigating joe biden we can only ask what the 2020 election will be like or indeed what any future election in america will be like if we just let this misconduct go but in his letter trump disputed democrats' motives writing as you know very well this impeachment drive has nothing to do with ukraine or the totally appropriate conversation i had with its new president it

only has to do with your attempt to undo the election of 2016 and steal the election of 2020 and despite efforts by the white house to block witness testimony during the impeachment inquiry trump has accused democrats of denying him due process likening his treatment to the salem witch trials of the 1600s where those falsely accused of witchcraft were executed it's a message that seems geared to trump supporters a rallying cry trump's letter says could propel him to reelection kimberlee help get al-jazeera the white house. protests supporting impeachment efforts against donald trump a taking place across the u.s. the rallies called nobody is above the law on the eve of the vote in the house of representatives more than $500.00 demonstrations taking place across the country of a song there was a one rally in new york he spoke to demonstrate his about why they want to see

trump impeached. thousands of people on the streets of new york city marking through the heart of the city and they're chanting things like lock him up lock him up in each room everybody here is a message they not only want donald trump impeached but they want him removed from office where you hear today i'm here because no one is above the law it's the night before they're going to vote on the impeachment articles and i think trump has got to go the ha. this guy we're nation of lies here founded on principles of freedom they're being violated right and left because we have a criminal posing as a president who has broken broken rules of the constitution that is a message from everyone here and it's a pretty diverse crowd of people too young older people middle aged it shouldn't be much of a surprise that new york city is donald trump's home but it's also very liberal and progressive city hillary clinton but that more than 2500000 more votes than donald

trump did here so this is why you're seeing so many people taking to the streets here in new york with their message to impeach trump. italy's foreign minister has but rival leaders in the earth to try to prevent an escalation of the conflict there the u.n. says more than 1000 people have already been jailed and 140000 displaced since war to leave off to began his campaign to take the capital 8 months ago and bruce a pill has been. reinforcements are heading to the front line for what could be the final battle for tripoli militia allied to the internationally recognized government moved heavy weapons and fighters sound to the outskirts of the capital and then up what the we them had you brigade support forces are on our way to the capital tripoli we are on our way and god willing we will be victorious. after forces are also reinforcing their front lines each side has foreign help turkey has

offered to send troops in support of the tripoli government will have to are has soldiers for hire there are a 1000 new russian mercenaries deployed to tripoli according to 2 u.s. officials and one source in moscow quoted in bloomberg news sudanese in chad in mercenaries all assembling on the front lines for what they're calling the final push so it's increasingly likely that turkey will deploy some to. to help defend tripoli if needed by the jna with the threat of escalation looming italy's foreign minister luigi to my own met with both sides on tuesday holding talks with fires also raj in tripoli and then with soft are in the eastern city of rajma inviting him to rome for further talks the u.n. is calling for the to the rival governments and international backers to agree to a political solution we continue to call for deescalation and for active support by all libyans and international actors engaged in libya to find

a peaceful and political solution to end the conflict and by addressing its underlying causes i think it's important that the international community as a whole rally around the efforts of the libyan people of course and also the efforts of the secretary general's. representative missed a solemn a trying to find a political solution to this conflict analysts say is becoming less and less about libya with international actors pulling the strings and flooding the battlefield and al-jazeera. france's prime minister says his government will go ahead with pension reforms despite days of nationwide strikes that include scrapping privileges for some employees and raising the retirement age from $62.00 to $64.00 the touch about the reports from back. after nearly 2 weeks of transport strikes and disrupted services in france the frustration and weariness is starting to show

in paris people battle to get on the few trains and metros still running russell because after such an experience it's frustrating because i wasn't the one who came up with the pension reform i feel completely taken hostage i'm starting to feel quite angry now in the center of the city transport workers joint teachers students and health workers to protest over the government's plan pension reforms these protesters up with taking aim at me with the fact that i did the government's response that they would have to work until the age of 60 in order to have all the time and that's to ease load up the now they say that without that nothing it would be cost effective white people to get the full to the us if we think retiring at $62.00 is already very old so talking about 64 well what next tomorrow 65 then 66 i think it's time for the government to act because we know very well that the longer a conflict lasts the more difficult it gets. the demonstration was mostly peaceful

that there was some clashes between police and protesters was during a heated debate in the national assembly the french prime minister defended the government's plans he said the reforms would create a fairer and more efficient pension system. clearly stated our aim to create a universal pension system marty terminations all based the governments on the majorities is absolute calmly it's absolute the government says it wants to avoid a prolonged standoff with the trade unions but for now neither side is showing any so. sign of backing down with the holiday season just days away it seems that they'll be little respondents for people trying to get around the trash but i just era paris. u.k. prime minister barak johnson says he will use the large majority one in last week's general election to ensure they aren't any further delays to leaving the european union johnson will put forward an amendment to his brakes

a bill on friday saying all negotiations with the bloc must be complete by the end of next year that in baba has more from london. back in the commons and finally in control boris johnson won the election by convincing enough people including traditional labor voters that he'd get it done on tuesday before parliament reconvened he chaired a meeting of his new cabinet it looks much like the last one but parliament certainly doesn't and johnson reminded his colleagues that in many cases the public had in his words lent the conservative party their votes it was a quite extraordinary it was a seismic election but we need to repay their trust and work 24 hours a day flat out to deliver and. of course of the 1st 100 days were very busy 140 days or whatever it was you may remember was a very frenetic time. but you ain't seen nothing yet folks. on friday after the

queen's speech when the monica outlines johnson's legislative agenda the new parliament will vote for the 1st time on the bricks it bill the government's now amending it to ensure the brics a transition period won't go beyond the end of 2020 between now and then the opposition will try to make sure johnson keeps his promises in areas like protecting workers' rights the prime minister in the campaign made many many promises and therefore has tremendous responsibilities to live up to he'll be judged on whether he keeps those promises or not by the communities that he's made them to our job and the labor party will to hold this government to account after all the deadlock the united kingdom now has a prime minister who couldn't get his legislative program through parliament of course what we don't know is exactly what kind of bracks it is going to deliver there's been some speculation johnson could go for closer alignment with e.u. rules than hardliners in his policy would like but with the new amendment his room

for maneuver is reduced you have to remember the boris johnson resigned over the checkers proposal which to reason may propose which was kind of not even really what we call a soft breck's it may be a kind of medium bracks it so you know his preference has always been for kind of as much divergence from e.u. rules as possible so i think really i think his his main aim is for a free trade agreement with his large majority boris johnson will be taking britain out of the e.u. by the end of january the bigger challenge is he's admitted it will be healing a divided nation. al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera with dreams of a better life in the european union have ended in turkey and mexico's president says he still proud of. this part of record rise in birds.

head though there was little some fairly active weather across more northern sections of the middle east is beginning to calm down and also on its way for the tools easy to see where all the cloud is so that is really taking with it most of the rain so clear conditions are turning wednesday across much of these northern sections of the band 900 celsius embury 20 degrees celsius in baghdad the rain is further to ease working its way through eastern southern sections of iran and at times particularly because the coast it could be fairly heavy but it really has gone by the cloud just working its way further east was pushing through much of pakistan and as i say clear time which is not too bad 900 s. and baghdad now what we'll see is that system works its way east was in south throughout the level and is we'll see the chance of again working their way through the gulf 21 celsius in doha on wednesday the winds coming from then also feeling

a bit cooler but it could also see a few showers across into abu dhabi with a high the 24 cooler in the wake of that system the winds a bit stronger too on thursday so just 21 and probably feeling a little bit cooler than that then down into southern africa plenty of showers in the forecast has so slightly the cape town durban no hold into the night 29 celsius with those rain showers and we could you see it's got a thunderstorm in johannesburg with a high of 28. sponsored by. almost the last time you were out on the streets protesting whether on line you feel the weight of the system going to walk through each and every club or later further further into the jail or if you join a sunset retention has to start from day one whether again you're in detention or you're incarcerated this is a dialogue everyone has a force ok there are states that support across colorado the varying accounts but i want to give people the reason for joining the global conversation on out is iraq.

this is al jazeera his reminder of our top stories. a u.s. congressional committee has cleared the way for a vote of impeachment to go its president donald trump wednesday the house of representatives will hold 6 hours of debate before voting on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress protests supporting impeachment if it's you guys trumpeting place across the u.s. rallies called nobody is above the law on the eve of the vote. italy's foreign minister has met with libya's brothel leaders the visit coincides with a surge in fighting the tripoli between government forces of those lord loyal to

warlord alif to have to. the u.n. is hosting the 1st global refugee for in geneva is looking at ways to improve the lives of millions around the world the 3 day event comes as the number of refugees continues to rise addressing the form so he's president criticized other countries for failing to provide financial help to syrian refugees in turkey his country has taken in more than 3. 1000000 syrians who fled the war. in order to find a sustainable and permanent solution to this issue we have to take global steps forward in cooperation is but we haven't yet reached the desired level of global ownership of the refuse the crisis our hope and pray that the global refugee forum here in geneva will be instrumental in terms of implementing our previous commitments and the only solution to the outstanding problem of the refugee influx crisis coming out of syria is far from being confined but it is a political solution this is a burden that we have been bearing for the last 9 years we need to find

a formula that allows the refugees to remain in their mother lands and the ones that have already come to turkey to be peacefully returned and resettled in their motherland. turkey has become a hub for african migrants hoping to cross the border into greece and into the e.u. but a deal between agra and the block to reduce the flow of migrants has made it's more difficult to make that journey and his mom of the door reports from istanbul that means many a choosing to make turkey they knew hong. the x.i.i. neighborhood of stumble is home to thousands of public and migrants people smugglers their middlemen and negotiate is also here for most migrants this is just a pit stop before the next leg of their journey to western europe but a crackdown by turkish authorities are stopped many here everything in iraq is is not free. if you want to read you have to pay more and nobody picks money in the

streets you have to walk and why it's not easy because wherever you are going to walk you most how what is called walk i meet. many find what they walk they come just to survive. this man are drawn together by the despair that drove them to leave their own countries in the 1st place a sick a new life elsewhere. if america is from nigeria and wants to be a professional football he says smugglers promised to help him join a utopian club but a year later he's still waiting you know what you can from move now oh you so you know because i'm still young and i want to play in the past 3000 of these thoughts to call the floor of my going through the country as part of a deal with a european union many of the african migrants he has say this sunday don't have nowhere to go yet very few of them are willing to go back on to face the economic

hardships that forced them on this journey and some might find they may do better making the most of the opportunities turkey house too old to cater for the growing number of off a can see here restaurants baba shops and churches have been opening up to brian mohammed from somalia owns this is a student in the heart of stumble 11 a house that my life my advice to the migrants here is the good life and opportunities you seek for in europe are available here to seek turkish papers and work or join universities and study there is no reason to risk your lives any more . pollution is tumble is slowly spreading from oxidizing to almost every other district raising hopes that migrants once stuck in a land that didn't want them could one day become an integral part of its society. stumble. india's prime minister has again defended his controversial new

citizenship law that has sparked protests across the country the red remote he says he's political rivals have created what he describes as an atmosphere of lives diskin indian muslims law office citizenship to persecuted religious minorities from neighboring countries but excludes muslims so harassment has more from new delhi. the. we want freedom the students are jumping a 1000000 slowly a university in new delhi are making their voices heard their mood is upbeat and support for them is growing the many are muslim and everyone here is against the citizenship amendment act passed last thursday they say it discriminates against millions of people from minorities across india especially muslims. on sunday fighting broke out between civilians and police who started it is disputed. video showing police dragging out students and beating them have gone viral dozens were injured students say it supports their accusations that they were specifically

targeted. on choose day lawyers representing the students and civil society took their allegations to india's supreme court the chief justice ruled that there were so many complaints on such a wide issue the high courts an individual states should hear them while students marshal traffic past growing crowds on the other side of the capitol police were firing tear gas at protesters several were reportedly injured. students here say the prime minister is falsely accusing them of being involved in the violence actually a lot of people from the look at it became. mixed with all the. protests that my students and they've been to what the police and everything i've been up to down. there certainly noisy but there you see there are university. the situation is very different to what happened on that day there's certainly no police around.

and civil society groups here so. of course things like this are being replicated across india and it seems like this or more people out onto the streets. as people gathered not far away riot police stood ready to move the opposition leaders have also criticised the police. said to me some of the government has a text by interim university so we will fight for the constitution of india we've said it time and time again that we will fight against the government. 6 but protests like these are some look likely to continue large demonstrations are being planted states opposed to the p j p led government of the citizens of bad but act. people from across the political divide are telling prime minister to read ramadi that this legislation strikes at the very heart of india's secular constitution and they'll fight it. al-jazeera delhi. thousands of people are calling for the czech

prime minister to quit over corruption allegations protesters in prague botched against beginning. for a 2nd week after a graft case against him was reopened he's accused of using european union subsidies for his private business which he denies human rights watch has released a report highlighting what it says is more than half a century of israel depriving palestinians of the human rights with no end to the occupation or a peace process inside the group says it's time for israel to give palestinians equal rights the task of going to reports from occupied east jerusalem. with his bright pink shirt abdullah abu rama was easy to spot in the crowd on this day 3 years ago he was arrested near the separation wall at the end of a bike rally he organized commemorating the next. or the day the israeli state was the stablished in 1988 the israeli military is well acquainted with this longtime

activist he says since 2005 he's been arrested 8 times and has spent more than a year in prison for protesting against the occupation yet the mythos. dealt with those prisoners in a violent and bob eric way with inhumanity and humiliation the last time they threaten to push me out of a speeding military jeep and say that i tried to run away this is a threat that is most dangerous and most terrifying. on tuesday human rights watch released a report highlighting the israeli army's use of military orders in the occupied west bank it says for 52 years these orders have deprived palestinians like abu rama of their human rights by targeting activists protesters non-governmental organizations and journalists the group says these military orders were intended for short term use under emergency law not for a more than half

a century occupation but it is now time for israel to grant and respect the rights of palestinians the civil rights of palestinians all of the human rights of palestinians using as a benchmark the right sick grants to israeli citizens we spoke to correspondent and author bob who recently published a book delving into the balance between protecting israel's national security and human rights in the west bank it's good that you know the world you know focuses and looks at you know is israel doing enough it's good to have that pressure on the other hand again i think whenever groups want to criticize israel or say you know having done enough it's a point to recognize reforms have been done and it's important recognize that it will israel is operating in an incredibly challenging environment and the terrorism isn't sort of like a fake thing a rama says his treat. by the israeli army is intended to silence him and other

palestinians who are resisting the occupation without violence despite the months spent in prison the huge amount of money spent in legal fees and fines and the trauma to his family he says he'll continue to protest and hopes others will as well natasha. occupied east jerusalem because their health care records of up to 15000000 people in canada have been compromised after a data breach personal information belonging to patients of a major lab test provider was stolen life labs says it has taken steps to secure the private records it says the breach was limited to patients from ontario and british columbia. mexico's president says addressing violent crime remains his top priority manuel lopez obrador by the reeboks as the government outlawed the latest statistics on violence the country is on track to set yet another record for homicides at the end of this year. as the data. but isn't that what

may on tuesday mexican president and basement where lopez obrador presented the latest statistics on violence nationwide. more than $31000.00 people have been killed since the start of the year the result of a wave of violence that's gripped much of the country. fast it hasn't been easy there's been an increase in crimes in general with few resources in interment to confront the problem of insecurity and violence. while some cities in mexico have turned the corner on violent few places exemplified problem of worsening insecurity more than a couple once considered the crown jewel of mexico's tourism industry today the city has lost its shine thanks now to khaled you don't says violence in this part of the country is out of control she says it's the reason she closed her restaurant 4 years ago they don't have a problem and that that the end of the violence here is unlike anything in the world you can walk along the coast or on the main avenue and find someone who has

been killed or a business or public bus that was set on fire or maybe someone being kidnapped you just feel helpless. even schools in acapulco aren't spared from the violence the school districts here now lets students out for christmas vacation several weeks early over security concerns yeah don't buy last name on this school principal asked us to hide his identity over the same worries. yes the worst part is getting used to the notion that a body might turn up on a corner or on the main street in that sense it feels like we're losing our humanity. has been a serious problem for almost a decade according to the latest national homicide statistics go ranks as mexico's 2nd most violent city just behind him and will gains have been made to rein in the violence many people here say they feel safe. at a public holiday celebration downtown the mayor of acapulco spoke optimistically

about crime fighting efforts. we've had several days without a homicide or a burglary i think it's important we highlight the good things about a poker. despite a shadow of violence that looms over the city there's also a general sense of hope that i couple whose future will be brighter. a couple. this is al jazeera these are the top stories a u.s. congressional committee has cleared the way for an historic vote have been peached but against president donald trump the house of representatives will hold a 6 hour debate ahead of the vote on wednesday it's expected to vote in favor of impeachment and that would lead to a trial in the republican dominated senate early next year approach to supporting the impeachment efforts are taking place across the u.s. the rallies are called nobody is above the law trump is facing charges of abuse of

power and obstruction of congress has warned his political rivals they're waging a war on democracy. whole impeachment thing is a hoax and we look forward to getting on to the senate we're not entitled to lawyers we're not entitled to witnesses we're not entitled to anything in the house it's a total sham and when you have a guy like shifty shift go out and make up a statement that i made he said this is what he said but i never said it he totally made it up. italy's foreign minister luigi is in libya where he's been meeting leaders from both sides of the conflict to bio hold talks with warlords have before have to in the eastern city of regiment earlier he met fires also ross the leader of libya's un backed government in tripoli the visit coincides with a surge in fighting need tripoli between government forces and those loyal to her after frances prime minister says his government will go ahead with pension reforms

despite days of nationwide strikes they include scrapping privileges for some employees and raising the retirement age from $62.00 to $64.00 it wad felipe insists the old system is unfair and too expensive. u.k. prime minister boris johnson says he will use the large majority one in last week's general election to ensure there aren't any further delays to leaving the european union and amendment to his breaks that bill will be put forward on friday saying or negotiations with the bloc must be completed by the end of next year those are the headlines and news continues here on al-jazeera after the strain. al-jazeera we were told to get to that between russia has this been addressed by turkey we listen what is the proposal. for a couple on you know we meet with global news makers and tweak the stories that

matter. i thought the ok and joy in the strain research shows that exposure to reading material early in a child's life has both an immediate term effect on the capillary general knowledge and comprehension skills. studies have also shown that nonwhite children who see their own identities and experiences reflected have higher self-esteem better social emotional functioning and increased classroom engagement so then why is it that there's such a dearth of children's books that include diverse characters with diverse attributes this in for golf summarizes where things are in the us the numbers are improving but hardly where.