the most pushy cupid minorities in the world. as protests wage against india's and contentious new citizenship along the supreme court to school is hearing a challenge to the legislation. called i'm julie with all of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up hours away from u.s. president trumps impeachment vote a move he calls quote an attempted coup against him. more tanks and find his arrival on the front lines of what's being described as the final battle for libya's capital. happy reunions 1st some who've returned sober a day after fleeing political violence but not everyone is convinced it's safe.

under their very warm welcome to the program india's top court has postponed hearings on a new citizenship law that spill protested violence nationwide supreme court judges want to get more details about the legislation from the government before considering petitions the law makes it easier for non muslims from afghanistan bangladesh and pakistan to gain indian citizenship but critics say that that's blatant discrimination by a government that they accuse of driving a hindu nationalist agenda well several people have been killed in demonstrations that have spiraled out of control since the law was introduced despite this prime minister then he is refusing to back down. also here raman is outside the supreme court in new delhi hi there so so the supreme court have decided that they're not going to deal with looking at this further quite yet

that's right julie basically the supreme court which is behind me right now was listening to petitions from the state of asylum in the northeast of the country they too heard wanted the supreme court the freeman bench chaired by the chief justice of india. day to understand that they were not happy with the legislation that was passed in parliament but what the supreme court has done it's very much procedure the government can pass as many laws as it wants but procedurally what happens next is that the government have to frame a set of rules that's the legal terminology once those rules are actually written only then can the supreme court assess whether the rules themselves are within the parameters of the constitution and within the spirit of the constitution so what the supreme court here in india has said to the government is that we want your set

of rules as you see them regarding the citizenship amendment act to be delivered to us within the new year and then on january the 22nd we will invite the government and all the petitioners to hear why for example the petitioners want the fact thrown out of course why the government want to proceed without an implementor across india so that's where we stand right now and so given that the government are now in this procedural part of the dealings can we expect protests to continue and perhaps even intensify. indeed there is no let up julie in the way that the public feel this law discriminates against minority groups yes global attention has been of on the issue of muslims whether they are within india or whether they are migrants into india

and how those 2 disparate groups would be treated by the current b.j. peter government what we are seeing going to continue to see in our peaceful protests certainly on wednesday that was the case yet it is still quite tense it can flare up at any time as we saw we didn't expect there to be clashes in the northeast of the capital on tuesday the police fired tear gas several people were injured it's more scenario these are the demonstrations popping up hoping that they don't turn violent as if they do the police are ready to react i was at one yesterday. at university we left maybe 500 meters away from the name boisterous loud protest very good natured it has to be said but around the corner were riot police ready to act if it got out of hand we are expecting large protests on thursday in mumbai they're already shed jeweled west bengal is still bubbling. because of the judgment here on wednesday with the petition is from a song we can expect people in

a song possibly to be back out onto the streets of samba's any return to normal a week after the act was legalized so to speak we're hearing from assad that limited internet has been restored and the curfew has been lifted because that's all. in terms of so that's all dependent of course all on the security situation and at any time the state legislature in any of these states can clamp down on people's liberties if they think that the environment is a dangerous one to be in so ho rahman there live from new delhi so thank you. war on democracy and an illegal partisan the u.s. president has again the months the impeachment process against him as well as falsely saying he hasn't been allowed to participate democratic party controlled house of representatives is expected to push ahead with the impeachment when it

votes later on would stay here's our white house correspondent can really help it. 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 hopes 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 acco the sentiments of a 6 page letter on official letterhead the truck is 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 real action kimberly health at al-jazeera the white house well supporters of trump's impeachment have been

making their voices heard when the $500.00 demonstrations were held in u.s. cities and they were organized under the banner nobody is above the law. at least $23.00 civilians have been killed in the latest round of russian attacks on rebel held areas of northwestern syria shelling in airstrikes in it province have escalated in recent weeks president bashar al assad's government appears to be preparing for a ground offensive to secure the main highway linking the capital damascus with the northern city of aleppo. it's a case foreign minister has had told the driver lead us in libya aimed at ending fighting to capture the capital tripoli the u.n. says that at least a 1000 libyans have been killed since warlord holly for half began his offensive 8 months ago and just as the store. 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. we then 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 and 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 ian mercenaries are all assembling on the front lines for what they're calling the final push so it's increasingly likely that turkey will deploy something to help defend tripoli if needed by the jna with the threat of escalation looming italy's foreign minister luigi did my own met with both sides on tuesday holding talks with fires also raj in tripoli and then with after 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 mr salim a trying to find a political solution. this conflict analysts say is becoming less and less about libya with international actors pulling the strings and flooding the battlefield. how does it. hundreds of sudanese refugees who were deported from libya to the share have been protesting outside the u.n.

refugee agency headquarters in our good days they are demanding better living conditions to return to libya many traveling there hoping to cross the mediterranean sea and reach. a strictly as experienced its hottest say on record the average temperature across the country and shoes that was almost $41.00 degrees celsius now that records likely to fall again as it's only the start of the southern hemisphere summer the searing temperatures have only made things worse for crews dealing with more than 100 bush fires burning in the eastern state of new south wales buys have also been threatening homes in the state of queensland. coming up after the wedding conferences changes the way the roman catholic church deals with child sexual abuse. and a mother's fight to prove that london's polluted air is to blame for her young daughters to hell that more when we come back.

hello there are very unsettled weather picture across much of western europe the cloud is streaming in of all see as plenty of rain coming in with this as well but look at this slice across the southeast clear skies here although we have got some foggy conditions in the morning hours this is actually budapest in hungary and look at that all the start of the day so even though some fog doesn't always close the days go by and in fact we have got a fair amount of cloud around as well but mild look at this 14 celsius book rest has about 9 degrees above the average out to the west we have got clouds and we have got rain very unsettled in the central med but just look at this or waiting in the wings in the atlantic this huge band of rain heavy at times will work its way across really much of western europe to the north and snow in that through scandinavia heavy rain at times pushing cross de france and in particular into central areas of spain and that cloud meanwhile well in compass of

a central europe and the showers on their way eastwards across italy not surprising then plenty of cloud across northern sections of africa some showers around as well certainly on wednesday we'll see those rain working their way through northern algeria so wet day analogies that clay is quite quickly but that next system it will trail down and could bring some showers across into northern as america. going to say mind people him being killed to the. united states traumatized the old man probably trying. to suzy deal with saudi arabia with the from the saudis and other arabs from britain to be used to help the us bombs do you know you're from stoke this meeting saddam isn't that interesting their shadow

on al-jazeera. they're watching al-jazeera quick remind are on top stories this hour in this top court says it needs more details from the government before it can hear petitions against a new citizenship law that's led to nationwide protests a law makes it easier for non muslims from gonna stand bangladesh and pakistan to gain indian citizenship rights pushed the rings back until january. italy's foreign minister met with libya's rival leaders in a bid to stop the conflict near tripoli the visit coincides with a surge in fighting between government forces and those loyal to war nor khalifa haftar. u.s.

president only chump accuse democrats of waging an open war on democracy congressional committee has cleared the way for a historic vote of impeachment against the president in a few hours time well after a few weeks of hearings public opinion on impeachment is split and the gallagher reports from miami florida this is not impeachable the impeachment hearings into president trump's dealings with ukraine. began in november the hearings have times been dramatic revealing and deeply heart is on places like graham's bar in miami though you're not likely to hear patrons talking about what many see as a political crisis it's something owner adam ghost and doesn't shy away from he holds election watch parties here isn't afraid of heated debate but says most of lost interest despite his efforts there's not an aha moment where you suddenly say democracy it's a long slog and you've got to stick with it and so my part in sticking with it is keeping people engaged and exposing them to what's actually happening exposure to

the twists and turns of politics may not be as crucial and deeply republican or democratic states florida and especially its hispanic voters will be pivotal in the 2020 presidential election i guess i kind of care but only like if he actually does get impeached but for the most part i am i am a keeping up with until the voting occurs i have no power in the situation so i don't pay attention i don't care so hard to weed through all the information out there and it seems like people are in such different sides of it that it's hard to at this point understand what's going on i mean for myself as a 2020 presidential election looms the fight to sway public opinion appears to have wavered on let's say that could have implications for the democrats they claim that trump was a russian stooge who was going to destroy the country the miller investigation found out that wasn't true and sort of decimated those trump russia conspiracy theories and now people are left wondering is this just more partisan bickering

voters remain divided in one camp of the other the sunshine state though has a history of deciding the nation's fate how people feel matters if florida does one thing consistently it tends to reflect the mood of the entire country for decades florida voters a back but winning presidential candidate and that's mostly because the demographics here make this a many. of the united states so a collective frog here could be seen as a fairly accurate reflection of the current mood under gallacher miami florida. the u.n. secretary general is calling on the world to find new ways to improve the lives of refugees and turn all good terrace was speaking in geneva at the global refugee forum the 1st meeting of its kind and will the humanitarian organizations business executives and refugees themselves high on the agenda how to share the burden of helping refugees 80 percent live and poor and developing countries where india is

one of the many countries in africa where refugees are a major concern thousands fled 4 years ago when hundreds were killed in political violence connected to the presidential election as katherine so reports from or wrong many refugees have returned home from camps in neighboring countries but others say they're still afraid to return home. joe vehicle boy and his family have just returned home from a refugee camp in kenya. they fled in 2015 at the height of political violence that broke out of a president paragons insist that time election. brings home a new son born in the comp and he's hoping another election scheduled for next year will go ahead peacefully. i'm up with my parents of planted me my house was find a way to leave you know i just need to find a place to stay one just about a 100 kilometers southwest of caldwell's home another family that's retired from

a comp in tanzania is settling back. one week ago gracious leaves in room longer province on the shores of lake tanganyika. i lived in 2015 because i was i witnessed the ethnic conflict from 993 so i fled with my family because i did not want them to experience what i did but i'm tired of running and i will stay here no matter what happens. government officials in both have told refugees in neighboring countries that the country's peaceful they say their repatch ration from tanzania is voluntary but some human rights campaigners say food rations in the camps have been reduced and refugees movements restricted more than 8000 have come back home in the last year but many are the deal in refugee camps. they're not ready to return. they're afraid that last year's election could also turn violent.

the name. a youth wing of the ruling party seems to invoke fear in many places those people are effectively spies for the ruling party and when someone new returns they instantly are going to suspect a person so we've heard cases of disappearances we've heard cases of pressure immediate pressure to join the ruling party or suffer the consequences and we've heard cases of people immediately returning back to tanzania because they just found the situation was intolerable government officials deny the accusations. and been our career young members of the ruling party didn't cause any harm and everything even in the countryside is peaceful return knees are being welcomed back very warmly. v.s.a.t. hopes he can stay out of politics and keep his family safe catherine soy al-jazeera . a 2 week long nationwide general strike in france isn't

a tear in the government for pressing ahead with pension reforms prime minister says the old system has to be replaced because it's unfair and it's too expensive trade union leaders so warning of no christmas truce so those walkouts and explains from paris. 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 classes because half the country 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 proposed was they would have to work until the age of 60 in order to have more time and that's to ease long ago but now

they say that without both the got the possibility cost of red light bulbs if it is also easy 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. 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 printing system more determination all based the governments on the driver to its absolute beauty calmly its absolute the government says it wants to avoid a prolonged standoff with the trade unions. now neither side is showing any sign of

backing down with the holiday season just days away it seems that they'll be a little response right for people trying to get around potential butler just iraq paris. pope francis has announced that the secrecy policy will no longer apply to cases involving the sexual abuse of children in the past the catholic church has kept sexual abuse cases confidential saying it was to protect victims and the reputation of the accused church leaders have been demanding so-called pontifical secrecy to be lifted. britain's prime minister says all breaks at negotiations will be completed by the end of next year boris johnson will use the large majority one in last week's election to ensure there are no further delays the day baba reports now from london here. 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 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 that trust and work 24 hours a day flatow right to deliver and. of course of the 1st 100 days were very busy 140 days whatever it was you may remember was a very frenetic type. but you ain't seen nothing yet flings. 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 in 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 bricks 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 that 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 challenges he's admitted will be healing a divided nation the dean barber al jazeera london. the 1st stage of an inquest has begun in london to determine if they are pollution cause the death for 9 year old girl i like to see deborah suffered a fatal asked the tac back in 2013 just a couple one reports. the human cost of air pollution a grieving mother seeking answers into her daughter's death rosamond kissy deborah arriving at coroner's court where she hopes to prove that her daughter ella died from london's unlawfully high air pollution. l. was 7 when she developed severe asthma she was dead by the time she was 9 in those

2 years ella who lived near a very busy road was hospitalized 29 times 27 of those came when air pollution spiked scientists say ela is not an isolated case doctors see hundreds of children every year struggling to breathe needing medicine to keep them from choking on the harmful unseen gases and particles in the air anywhere that has a very high intensity of traffic within a small area there are going to be a lot of children whose ass bar is affected by at least. there is no denying london's air is filthy the traffic is relentless diesel taxis and trucks we'll harmful emissions and new research shows it's not just our lungs that are affected pollution has been linked to heart disease trial the development strokes and even dementia measuring pollution levels tiny particles that can't be

seen but are small enough to pre air pollution mostly is is is invisible and that's why it's really important that we have stations and maps that we produce and forecasts so that people can see what your protein is like even though because she pushes an ultra low emission zone was introduced last spring the most polluting cars and trucks must pay $30.00 a day to drive in the city center early results show it's working it's been more successful than we expected no other city of the world will about that kind of transition from close to plate of it so it does signal these kind of play you just do. the zone will be extended to a much larger part of the city in october 2021 but 22 months is a long time for infant lungs a key stages of development the improvements can come quickly enough for those whose lives are endangered by deadly emissions jessica baldwin al-jazeera london.

stoney's president has apologized after her country's interior minister referred to finland's new leader as a salesgirl 34 year old son amar and became the world's youngest serving prime minister last week stoniest president says she's embarrassed by minister mark helms remarks. this is al jazeera and these are our top stories india's top court says it needs more details from the government before it can hear petitions against a new citizenship law it's led to nationwide protest law makes it easier for non muslims from afghanistan bangladesh and pakistan to gain indian citizenship it's pushed hearings back until january al-jazeera says so rahman has more from outside the supreme court in new delhi what the supreme court here in india has said to the government is that we want to go also to needs as you see them regarding the

citizenship amend the current to be delivered to us within the new year and then on january the 22nd we will invite the government and all the petition is to hear why for example the petition is won't be perfect throw it out because why the government want to proceed with the art to implement across india so that's where we stand right now. italy's foreign minister has had talks with rival leaders in libya aimed at ending fighting to capture the capital tripoli the u.n. says at least a 1000 libyans have been killed since war not hardly for have to are began his offensive on tripoli 8 months ago u.s. president donald trump accused democrats of waging quote an open war on democracy a congressional committee has cleared the way for a historic vote of impeachment against the president on wednesday. france's 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 prime minister eduardo filipe insists the old system is unfair and too expensive the un secretary general is calling on the international community to find new ways to improve the lives of refugees worldwide and to me a good terrorist was speaking in geneva the global refugee forum the 1st meeting of its kind involving humanitarian organizations business executives and refugees themselves high on the agenda to share the burden of helping refugees those are the headlines the news continues after inside story. board is really creating some. one who when he just goes back to school to find out the secret to this. one how does the.

thousands of international soldiers are in africa region but despite this there's been a dramatic increase in attacks by armed groups so what's behind this upsurge in violence and how will the international community secure the sign this is insight. to. khloe and welcome to the program back to the crisis in west africa region appears to be getting worse at a meeting on monday the u.n. security council express alarm over the recent increase in violence and called on governments to provide more help they are ready for a french u.n. african troops in the region yet despite this the saeed's vast area that runs between 5 countries has seen a shock.