it's in the meshes if they vote extinction techno onal disease. process rage against india's contentious new citizenship law the supreme court the sperms hearing a challenge to the legislature. hello them chilling with all this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up we're hours away from u.s. president trump's impeachment vote a move he calls quote an attempted coup against. or tanks and fighters arrive on the frontlines of what's described as the final battle for libya's capital. happy

reunions 1st some who've returned to burundi after fleeing political violence but not everyone is convinced it's safe. their warm welcome to the program india's top court has postponed hearings on a new citizenship law that's provoked protest and violence nationwide supreme court judges want to get more details about the legislation from the government before considering petitions where the law makes it easier for non muslims from afghanistan bangladesh and pakistan to gain indian citizenship critics say that's related to discrimination by a government they accuse of driving a hindu nationalist agenda 4 people have been killed in demonstrations that have spiraled out of control since the law was introduced despite this prime minister narendra modi is refusing to back down al-jazeera says so rahman spoke

exclusively with the supreme court senior advocates in new delhi. the focus of the country's attention has been on a university in the capital that saw a great deal of violence on sunday as police fought with students and civil society over the issue of the citizen ship amendment act the complaints made by the public have now come to the supreme court and joining me now is calling calls all of us who's the senior advocate to the supreme court thank you for joining us on al jazeera you were obviously in court petitioning the supreme court there were statements made by the chief justice was your overall impression of how your case went and the conclusions made by the chief justice of india where the supreme court said that instead of hearing it in the app bank scored straight away without going 1st to the high court may not be appropriate since the supreme court would like to get the impressions of the high court 1st and so the bodies have been sent back to

the high court and it is kept in the high court today at 234 hearing in terms of the citizenship amendment bill this is what is the central pivotal antagonistic piece of legislation that is upsetting indians across the country what's your legal opinion about whether this violates the. the constitution and the essence of the constitution well it dearly violates article 40 no fog constitution which speaks of equality. which is equality for all people irrespective of the religion that they profess now what's happened is that constitutional amendment act leaves out $500000.00 muslims. and allows regularization roughly 3 times that number of hindus and other communities so it is discrimination on the basis of religion non muslims come in you can be regularized in india as

citizens and my. slim's. similarly situated you will be probably put in detention centers and incarcerated where does the case go to the case that constitutional amendment act case is pending in the supreme court for determination that will happen soon and as far as our case is concerned relating to the very brutal assault on the students of germany and i saw this personally i went to the police stations and saw young people being brutally beaten and i saw it in the hospitals where they were full of bandages and broken legs and so on our case will be heard by the high court at 230 this dissolve to those calling us all this thanks very much for joining us here on out is there thank you very much for your time and of course the focus of attention here at the supreme court on wednesday as you see lots of media behind me is following from the state of asylum as they take that petitions to the 3 man bench of the supreme court headed by the chief justice in

the mean time the internet has been restored in the sun and the curfew has been lifted but the country watches this story unfold on a daily basis. a war on democracy and an illegal partisan u.s. president has again denying the impeachment process against him and falsely claimed he hasn't been allowed to participate the democratic party controlled house of representatives is expected to push ahead with impeachment when it won't later on wednesday here's our white house correspondent kimberly how kit. 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 echo 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 2024 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 the rallying cry trumps letter says could propel him to real action kimberly health at al-jazeera the white house. at least $23.00 civilians have been killed in the latest round of russian attacks on rebel held areas of northwestern syria shelling and airstrikes in edler province of escalated in recent weeks president bashar al assad's government appears to be preparing for a ground offensive to secure the main highway then came the capital damascus with the northern city of aleppo. italy's foreign minister has had talks with rival lead

us in libya aimed at ending fighting to capture the capital tripoli the u.n. says at least a 1000 libyans have been killed since warlord holy for the candidates offensive 8 months ago and as more. 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 south to the outskirts of the camp. 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 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 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 faisal saraj 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 sowerby tried 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. the world's major shipping associations want to raise $5000000000.00 to help meet un climate change targets under the plan ships would contribute $2.00 for every tonne of fuel they use money would fund research into low emission fuels and cleaner engine design the shipping industry is responsible for more than 2 percent of the world c o 2 emissions it's been urged by the un to have that by 2050 astray leah has experienced is hot to stay on record the average temperature across the country on tuesday was almost $41.00 degrees celsius and that record is likely to be broken 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 states he said when fires have also been threatening

homes in the state of queensland. still ahead here on the right a mother's fight to prove that london's polluted air is to blame for her young daughter standing. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast well big changes are in store for western europe but here across the central parts of europe we're talking about temperatures that are above average for this time of year and really the reason is we have a southerly flow across much of the area now we do have plenty of clouds in the region as well so we're watching those temps are starting to fall as we go towards the weekend but this is what's going to be happening a system is coming out of the parts of the atlantic that is going to be a powerful system we're going to see it's

a very very gusty winds along with the system today not really looking too bad for many locations the areas we are going to watch you know a parts of ireland northern ireland over here towards western france as well as into the northwestern part of spain the winds will start picking up by the time we go into the evening and the frontal boundary which this is associated with it will start to make its way towards the east and we're going to sing a lot of problems in terms of winds as well as rain i do think it is going to be portugal as well as northwest of spain that really sees the brunt of the winds as well as the rain in terms of rain we could be see well over 150 millimeters of rain over the next 3 days here in lisbon though the winds are going to be a big problem by the time we get towards thursday do expect to see some of those gusts reaching to about $100.00 climbers per hour but by the time we get friday the winds come down but still quite cloudy. weather sponsored by countdown and. what was the last thing the president said to you about impeachment when you last

spoke to him for a multicultural society it's not at all you. really damning allegations that would allow you to go chill how worried are you that the conditions are still right for another i think they are right join me many house on as i put it up from questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera remind our top stories this hour india's top court says it needs more details from the government before it can hear petitions against the new citizenship law that's led to nationwide cool test law

makes it easier for non muslims from afghanistan bangladesh and pakistan to gain indian citizenship pushed hearings back until january. its lease foreign ministers met with libya's rival leaders in a bid to stop the conflict near tripoli the visit coincides with the surge in fighting between government forces and those loyal to warlord after. u.s. president donald trump is accused him of prats of waging an open war on democracy a congressional committee has cleared the way for a historic vote of impeachment against the president in a few hours' time. well supported us of trump's impeachment have been making their voices heard when the $500.00 demonstrations were held in the u.s. cities and times it was organized under the banner and nobody is above the law gave elizondo was at one rally in new york where he spoke to demonstrate cysts about why they want to see their president impeached. thousands of people on the streets of new york city marking through the heart of the city and their charity 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 whole swamp has got to go we're nation of ones we're founded on for examples of freedom they're being violated right and left because we have a criminal posing as a president who's 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 a 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 strong. u.n. secretary general calling on the world to find new ways to improve the lives of refugees antonio good terrorist was speaking in geneva at 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 because 80 percent live in poor and developing countries. well burundi is one of many countries in africa where refugees are major concern thousands fled 4 years ago amid political violence connected to the presidential election as catherine saw reports from many refugees have returned home from camps in neighboring countries but obviously there are still too afraid to go back. and his family has 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 camp and he's hoping another election scheduled for next year will go ahead peacefully. my parents are planted me my house was find a way to i just need to find a place to stay. just about a 100 kilometers southwest of caldwell's home another family that's returned from a comp in tanzania is settling back. one weekend a gracious leaves in a 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 are not ready to return. they're afraid that next year's election could also can balance. 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 . getting a job in iran provides a lifeline for many in afghanistan but thousands of workers are leaving iran every week the u.s. sanctions continue to strangle the iranian economy as i said big reports from tehran afghans who stay are often discriminated against afghan refugees have been the arriving here in iran since 1979 when the soviet union invaded their country continued conflict and the united states were not friends stand sort of further influence there now iran 3000000 afghan refugees in iran and here in eastern iraq

many live and work and sometimes tiny little workshops scattered around the area and although many have been here for decades they still feel that there are some barriers towards integration with school or does no one cause we have problems we don't get certain things because we are afghan studying at university is an issue they make excuses for us not to attend also we can't own property or a car or even a sim card we can even have these things in our own name i have legal documents to stay but we need to extend it every year and there's a fee the wrong spends $150000000.00 annually but if you make about 10 children and the list is rate for those children that stands 69 percent the united states sanctions against iran at high inflation is making life increasingly difficult for those the flights to this country. the battle for control of the launching lawless a hail wage in a west africa continues to claim lives armed groups linked to iceland al-qaeda blamed for crossing the border from mali to attack targets in

a share that interest has more from mali's capital bamako. this is a military household for celebrations to mark scheerer street public day. but for the soldiers taking part it's a particularly difficult time. last week fighters are allied with i still crossed the border from mali and killed 7 to one of their. security conditions are deteriorating on the border with mali terrorists are attacking common people and mostly tribal leaders kidnapping in executing them terrorist target army personnel with explosives. at the border between egypt and mali stretches for hundreds of kilometers to long to be protected by the understaffed and ill equipped armies in the region. say it's a situation exploited repeatedly by armed groups with devastating results on one of the poorest countries in the world. insecurity always has

a heavy mental toll this is a metaphor they know that a skilled person cannot be productive and that's why education is their prime target. the us economy to is taking a hit these days fewer customers come to the market here into liberia apart from the shortage of supplies people are to impoverish for the. lack of security into the barry has gravely affected businesses many of the shops have closed down as commercial areas are always targeted how can businesses function in a situation where security is deteriorating day by day. apart from the 720 just soldiers killed last week more attacks were recorded in brooklyn a fossil and mali. it's our lead armed groups have also been active in the region regional armies are struggling to prevent these attacks because of lack of enough manpower and equipment. the united nations has

a large presence of more than $15000.00 troops in mali alone france also maintains thousands of troops in the region yet countries like mali and continue to suffer from these attacks and that's not only coursing concerns from the local population but also on. much of it aimed at french troops blaming them for not doing enough to protect civilians reste al jazeera. muslim leaders are in malaysia for a summit attacking challenges facing the islamic world conflicts in iraq and lebanon are on the agenda ahmed al has the story from kuala lumpur. tight security at this kuala lumpur convention center organizers say muslim leaders meeting here are taking a new approach to handling the challenges facing the islamic world you have to start with problem identification right well of the hues the need that inflate the wisdom and come up with some solutions. to how to overcome them and not go.

talk but something concrete the leaders of 3 sunni nations malaysia turkey and qatar are leading this initiative and are joined by iranian president hassan rowhani high level delegations from indonesia and pakistan are also here. but pakistani prime minister imran khan canceled the day before after visiting saudi arabia at the season made media reports the saudis are concerned the summit could lead to the creation of a rival muslim body to the saudi that organization of islamic cooperation i see the possibility that oh i see as it was in vision. 60 or 70 years ago may not be relevant for the future of the muslim world and this scale summit provides an opportunity to the muslim leadership coming from diverse backgrounds to deliberate more extensively on this question i think they really do why didn't

there's nothing like that we're not going to compete with anybody and in fact. this is complementing it's time consuming the life he. had there who is not going to replace the whole to take over from waverley he's not going to be a blow to the gates say they are here to tackle islamophobia and promote the interests of 1700000000 muslims through concrete joint action. and there was no shortage of pressing issues to discuss but you clued the conflicts in yemen libya syria and afghanistan unrest in iraq and lebanon and the plight of muslims in myanmar and indian administered kashmir the summits organizers say although meetings like this are often convened to try and tackle conflict and wars in the muslim world this one is different they say its theme the role of development in achieving national sovereignty shows reviving cultures and strengthening economies

are seen as means to overcoming problems. for that to be achieved a strong political leadership in the muslim world a clear vision and close coordination are needed to perhaps the main challenge facing delegates at this summit is how they will be judged by muslims with wars people being displaced and unrest across many muslim countries people say that summits in the past have failed to achieve anything substantial so when the leaders here stand up in front of this war for a photo op they will be under pressure to be seen to act. on his iraq kuala lumpur . a new inquest has begun in london to determine whether air pollution contributed to the death of a schoolgirl one year old delicacy deborah suffered a fatal attack 6 years ago families lawyers argue britain's government may have failed in its juta to prevent her death just one has the story 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. elo 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 and within a small area there are going to be a lot of children whose are so far 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 he 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 well what about that kind of transition from who's to clean 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. this is al jazeera and these are our current top stories india's 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 the law makes it easier for non muslims from afghanistan bangladesh and pakistan to gain indian citizenship it's pushed hearings back until january u.s. president donald trump's accuse democrats of waging an open war on democracy a congressional committee has cleared the way for

a historic vote of impeachment against the president in a few hours time supporters of trump's impeachment have been making their voices heard more than $500.00 demonstrations were held in u.s. cities and towns 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 and it led problems 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 italy's foreign minister has met with libya's rival he does in a bid to stop the conflict near tripoli the visit coincides with the surgeon fighting between government forces and those loyal to warlord. global shippers have proposed a new research fund to help clean up the industry amid growing pressure to slash it c o 2 emissions under the plan ships would contribute $2.00 for every ton of feel they

used to raise $5000000000.00 over the next decade the money would fund research into the emission fuels in cleaner engine designs the shipping industry is responsible for more than 2 percent of the world's c o 2 emissions it's been urged by the un to have that by 2050. experienced its hottest day on record the average temperature across the country on tuesday was almost $41.00 degrees celsius that record is likely to be broken again as it's only the start of the southern hemisphere summer the searing temperatures have only made things worse for crews to them with more than 100 bush fires burning in the eastern state of new south wales fires have also been threatening homes in the state of queensland you're up to date these are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream see you a bit later but by. al-jazeera we were told 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 imo 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 info golf summarizes where things are in the us and numbers are improving but hardly whether.