who oppress revenue martin luther king can continue to keep the negroes to be defense that what you mean by that about malcolm x. and martin luther king face to face on 00. this pansy will be held accountable to no one is above the law. signed sealed delivered articles of impeachment against donald trump have been submitted to the senate it will be the 3rd child of its kind against a us president. i'm about this in and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. and china take a key step to end the trade war that's affected global markets. security

forces tried to break up protesters who gather for a 2nd night in lebanon's capital. and we meet the team working to stop fishermen in the philippines going out in the waters around and have dropped a volcano. the u.s. house of representatives has delivered the articles of impeachment against donald trump to the senate trump is the 3rd president to face such proceedings in american history speaker nancy pelosi signed the document representing the start of a trial against president donald trump it follows a vote in the democratic controlled house was 7 members have also been assigned as managers of the trial the team led by house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff brought the papers into the senate chamber the president's accused of pressuring ukraine's leader to investigate his political rival joe biden charges

that he's dismissed as a hoax. make it be very clear that this president will be held accountable that no one is above the law and that no future president should ever entertain the idea that article one i mean she's the article 2 says that he can do whatever he wants senate leader mitch mcconnell confirmed the impeachment trial will start and honest on tuesday he says that he's confident justice will be done this is difficult for our country but there's precisely the conduct. for which the framers created this and i'm confident this body can rise above short termism and factional favor and serve the long term best interest of our nation well earlier i spoke with high digital costal from washington d.c. she's explained what's next in this historic impeachment trial. members of the

leaders of both parties framing this in its historical context calling upon you know the framers of the constitution majority leader mitch mcconnell the top republican in the senate calling for putting aside this factionalism well you know that's not even a word used nowadays in the u.s. to describe the partisanship we've been experiencing d.c. but it is a word that you see used by the framers of the constitution historically and so both mitch mcconnell and nancy pelosi the top democrat in the house saying that this is the most solemn for and important duty of congress to perform just under that of declaring war so what do we see from now going forward well we saw the pomp and circumstance as you said that march across the u.s. capitol building which is more than just symbolic you know taking those articles of

impeachment which are the actual documents upon which are printed these allegations against president trump and kerry in them by hand across the threshold of the u.s. capitol rotunda going from the side where the u.s. house of representatives needs to the other side of the capitol building where the senate has its chambers that means at the new threshold also in the status of this impeachment now we see the other half we're going to see the other half of this impeachment process play out which is the upcoming trial of president trump now that is a guaranteed process that will happen 1st thing we'll see will be tomorrow when these articles are read aloud it before the senate chambers by those the managers of the impeachment those who will be prosecuting the case followed by the swearing in of chief justice john roberts of the u.s. supreme court who will preside over. trial of president trump. michael

isikoff the chief investigative correspondent for yahoo news and he's joining us now from washington d.c. thanks very much indeed for being with us on all jazeera we've heard of course senate leader mitch mcconnell is saying that this investigation this trial will be free of partisanship is it ever possible do you think to have an impeachment trial that is free of partisanship. not in the current political climate in the united states and i can imagine that people are going to see this trial as devoid of partisan ship let's remember the house voted on purely partisan grounds to impeach the president all but 3 democrats voted for the articles of impeachment no republicans supported them all 'd republicans voted against them so this is by

its nature a partisan proceeding that doesn't mean it's not an illegitimate it doesn't mean it's illegitimate anyway but it does weaken the democrats and not to have had any republicans on board when they voted the articles in the 1st place if there are no witnesses called is it possible to have a legitimate trial a balanced trial just by examining the evidence alone do you think. well you know it's really how will the public perceive it how will this be spun as it were on its face if you're conducting a trial and you want to get at the truth you want to hear all relevant witnesses and certainly the the witnesses proposed by the democrats starting with former national security adviser john bolton can shed

a lot more light on the events at issue then arguably any of the witnesses who testified in the in the hearings in the house. but you know they've got to convince 4 or republicans to go along with calling witnesses and that's why while we all assume we know the ultimate outcome it seems highly unlikely that you're going to get 20 republican senators to vote for the removal of the president from office there are a lot of wildcards in this proceeding over the next few weeks and you know this is one of those rare occasions where we don't know how it's going to play out will for republicans vote for witnesses will if they do will the republicans will the president's lawyers seek to call their own witnesses such as hunter biden or even joe biden that's you know certainly something that's out there and i want to make

one other point that i think people are missing. warriors are taught to and from the earliest parts of their career that you never ask a question in a legal proceeding where you don't know what the witness is going to say as an answer in this case we have no idea what john bolton will say if he is called to testify the democrats have put a lot of chips on that. i'm calling bolton but it's a gamble on their part because bolton may support their version of events or that he may completely contradict their version of events as it comes to the president's state of mind and why he withheld that military aid from for ukraine michael isikoff the chief investigative correspondent for yahoo news good to get your views

in this thanks very much indeed michael now as later stage of the trump impeachment has been unfolding the u.s. and china signed the 1st phase of a new trade deal which will see china buy more american goods and that china is committed to buying an additional $200000000000.00 what if u.s. goods and services by 2021 beijing's also expected to remove some of the tariffs it's placed on u.s. products but the agreement keeps in place american tab riffs on $360000000000.00 worth of chinese goods until further negotiations went on tom says the agreement delivers economic justice for the u.s. together we are righting the wrongs of the past and delivering a future of economic justice and security for american workers farmers and families i want to thank president xi who is watching as we speak can be going over to china in the not too distant future our negotiations were tough honest open and

respectful leading us to this really incredible breakthrough most people thought this could never happen should have happened 25 years ago by the way but that's ok omar khan is live in washington with more on this the president certainly very happy about a but not everybody is pleased by this deal or they might. well certainly there's been a lot of criticism of this particular deal remembering of course that it is phase one of what is intended to be a series of agreements the particular point of criticism lies in the fact that it does not address the single most important fact in the u.s. china trade relationship and that is the ongoing chinese state backing of chinese firms with nass of subsidies which puts them at the vantage over the u.s. competitors it does address the issue of tariffs keeping in place some 65 percent of terror of president trump did introduce at the same time it does reduce tariffs

on a number of goods importantly it would appear for president trump selection charges a number of these goods relate directly to the consumer goods such as flat screen televisions footwear bluetooth headphones these items clearly designed to show the consumer that some kind of benefit has been directly achieved by the president in terms of his trade negotiations the other issue though that critics contend has not been addressed is what many believe is the state backed hacking of u.s. technology of u.s. firms operating within china this is one of the issues that has been rampant in terms of the relationship one of the issues that many content has not been addressed but at the same time despite this criticism from many most are relieved that there has been a pause in this ongoing trade war it's not the end of it by any means but certainly it would appear to be a truce and regardless of criticism most are happy that this is the case thanks

mark. still ahead on all desire iran's president blames what he calls us for fueling mayhem in the middle east. and find out why venezuela's opposition leader had to hold up the parliamentary session in a sealed term. hello they're still fairly quiet across northern sections of asia we have got some rain on its way towards western sections of japan always crowded you see here this is got some rain embedded within it that's beginning to push across the east china sea as we go through thursday taking a very heavy rain away from taiwan and use it as just spinning as a say on its way into western areas of home she won a few showers in shanghai on thursday 7 celsius fine and sunny in hong kong with

a high over 23 a similar story few there on friday a bit cooler in hong kong just 21 degrees a dry day in shanghai then look at all this rain working its way steadily mostly to the east of honshu but it could of course taken a few showers 11 celsius saka and tokyo and then to the south across indonesia has seen some heavy amounts of rain particularly into some march over the last few days the more of those along that west coast very widely scattered the thunderstorms across much of borneo slightly dried day as we go into friday in fact dried generally across the marcha and also at the mill a penciler is the fairly quiet in india for the last week or so that is set to change on thursday certainly to the north this is what we are dealing with very heavy amounts of rain and this is pushing to north that is where we'll turn over to snow but it's moving fairly swiftly out of the picture of a sunny feeling cooler in new delhi with a high of just 18. an escape from severe hardship onto the world stage as

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a vote in the democratic controlled house was 7 members have also been assigned as managers of the trial. the senate will then become an impeachment court as early as thursday though significant proceedings won't begin until next week trump is the only the 3rd president to face such proceedings in american history. the u.s. and china have signed the 1st phase of a new trade deal the agreement includes a promise from china to more than double purchases from american farmers in the 1st year but the u.s. says it will keep most of its tariffs in place until phase 2. ok let's go back to our top story and one of the people who could be pivotal during donald trump's impeachment trial is the man who's going to preside over the u.s. supreme court chief justice john roberts even though his task is mandated by the u.s. constitution domestic politics could complicate his role both during the trial and in his day job well as lynn jordan explains. john roberts has been the u.s.

supreme court chief justice for more than 15 years the upcoming impeachment trial of u.s. president donald trump will test roberts efforts to stay impartial i don't think he's going to you know put up with many shenanigans here and many bogus defenses while some think roberts could play an active role he could issue subpoenas he can make rulings. and his rulings would have to be overturned by 51 senators so republicans would have to hold their lines pretty strongly the fact is roberts' role is more ceremonial than pivotal he'll read senators questions outloud and he may analyze whether various bits of evidence should be presented however it's the senators who will decide what evidence to introduce or which witnesses can testify not roberts and more important it's the senators who will decide whether to convict analysts say roberts will move carefully he doesn't want to be seen as favoring one

side or the other in a political brawl but might also influence roberts is trial performance his day job critics have attacked roberts both for supporting president barack obama's health care program and for defending the right of corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns and this year roberts will have to weigh in on trump's financial records abortion rights and the possible deportation of the some 700000 young people known as dreamers congratulations mr president. then there's the dust up between the president and the chief justice after trump accused a federal judge of bias back in 2018 this was an obama judge roberts did the unthinkable he fired back but we do not speak for the people but we speak for the constitution our role is very clear. we are to interpret the constitution and

laws of the united states and ensure that the political branches act within them trump then attacked roberts on twitter it's not too much to assume that if the senate convicts tromp he will lash out at everyone including at the chief justice who presided over his impeachment trial rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington russian jets have resumed bombing of province syria's last remaining rebel held area. these are the 1st attacks since the beginning of a ceasefire brokered with turkey several towns were targeted including 2 main markets and it lead city at least 15 people are reported to have been killed the syrian government has launched an offensive last year to retake adlib and hundreds of thousands of people have fled the fighting. a senior u.n. official in lebanon has blamed the ruling elite for failing to tackle an economic

collapse that has reignited protests in the capital demonstrators have regrouped in beirut for a 2nd night they've been targeting lebanon's financial institutions as part of a symbolic attack on the ruling elites economic plans and also remains as corruption and falling living standards in a harder is in the capital beirut and she's explains why there's been so much anger directed towards the country's banks. running battles in the streets of the lebanese capital for the 2nd consecutive nights anti-riot police using tear gas to disperse protesters who as you can see are out in force and there is growing frustration is growing 11 on it is now the 4th month since think anti-static. 7 people took to the street to the mound a change in leadership the country's economy is in near collapse

a close close to us here there are banks people vandalizing banks and destroying cash machines really venting their anger at the banking sector that goes on all capital flows preventing it from accessing their deposit savings there is a cap on the withdrawal of the top of the withdrawal of lebanese pounds tear gas is why i write for the early protesters were outside at least back to finding a few. things you have to think of to speak to the cutting speak of her feelings have a century without a government is a political vacuum and the end of october a people are phenomena that we'll. go ahead of. and what the. the christians have been doing is referring amongst themselves.

overseas in the time of the united nations the morning that the situation is quote dangerous dangerous chaos in lebanon and blaming really the politicians for a failing financial system. iran's president has warned that european soldiers in the middle east may be in danger hassan rouhani made the comments just a day after britain france and germany launched a dispute mechanism under the 25th nuclear deal they accuse iran of repeated violations diplomatic editor james bays reports from the united nations. 'd at a time when large crowds of iranians have been protesting in the streets the country's president instead addressed his comments to the international community has signed rouhani is a meeting of his cabinet dismissed recent suggestions from the u.k. prime minister boris johnson that there should be a new deal with iran and said they should focus on the one already agreed in 2015

that. if you take the wrong step it will be to your detriment pick the right path the right path is to return to the nuclear deal there was this warning note to european nations saddam was on the call yaml is that a no many's the american soldier is not secure today to moral maybe the european soldier will not be secure let us address the city security for now the iran nuclear deal signed with 5 world powers including the us in 2015 when the obama administration was in office is still in existence but it's in trouble gradually in 5 stages the iranian side has stepped back from some of the restrictions imposed on the deal the most recent this year is to no longer comply with the restrictions on the levels of enrichment of uranium it's carrying out a process that could be used to make a bomb weapons grade uranium is enrich to about 90 percent the response to this

from the european side is to formally trigger the dispute mechanism set out in the deal one european diplomat has told me their country estimate is that iran is one to 2 years away. in building a bomb i'm told the europeans have no plans at this stage to bring the issue back to the un security council that has the power to trigger what's known as not back reimposing all the international sanctions against iran the dispute mechanism allows for further negotiations and would take many months iran watches those say the leadership in tehran is actually less interested in this timeline and focused instead on the u.s. political calendar they're looking to november's presidential election with the hope they can trump out by al-jazeera at the united nations canadian investigators are expected to examine the wreckage of

a ukrainian jet shut down and they are very in the capital last week there visiting the site in teheran but they haven't been granted access to the flight and cockpit recorders all 176 passengers and crew died when iran's military mistakenly shot down the plane most of the victims were from canada on tuesday iran's judiciary confirmed a number of people have been arrested in connection with the downing of the airliner russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev and his entire government have resigned medvedev says his resignation will allow president vladimir putin to introduce changes to the constitution during his state of the nation address put in proposed an increase in parliament power as well as an enhanced role for the state council the president who's currently serving his 4th term says he would hold a referendum on any such reforms sudan has reopened its airspace after an armed revolt led to the death of at least 2 soldiers in the closure of the

capital's airport members of the former security service with links to deposed ruler omar bashir staged the uprising on tuesday members of the despondent unit were angry at the time as they'd been offered as they were dismissed from their roles. a convoy carrying 4 venezuelan opposition politicians has been attacked by a group armed with crowbars no one's been injured opposition leader hong quite bold moves the parliamentary session to a theater in a suburb of caucus following the attack president nicolas maduro has previously tried to stop the opposition leader for siding over the national assembly in america ditto this year newman has more from caracas it was a very dramatic moment yet the 3rd one in a row in this month around the national assembly it was not the opposition leader one by the who was attacked it wasn't in the caravan but rather other members of

the opposition who had gone ahead of him and there were armed gangs as well as soldiers around the national assembly building called the legislative palace at the same time the pro-government constituent assembly was meeting inside there knowing full well that why they had called for a meeting of the national assembly they share the same building but in different chambers they were attacked they were shot at and what at least one of the cars had their windows broken with a crowbar or a stone it looked more like a stone to me but in any case no one was injured quite miraculously and they have already convened another part of the city and it looks like they're going to have to keep doing that from now on because the government is clearly making a plea is making it obvious that they will not allow one why though and his deputies to meet anymore in what has been the national assembly the only independent institution democratic institution to venezuela up until now. emergency crews in pakistan administered kashmir have recovered 21 more bodies as they search

for victims of recent avalanches at least 160 people from both pakistan and afghanistan have been killed because of the severe weather in recent days the region's needham valley is the worst hit area people are believed to be trapped inside their homes birdied by heavy snowfall authorities have been forced to use helicopters to rescue the injured as many roads remain blocked by snow. the philippines coast guard has been busy trying to keep fisherman out of the waters the surround a tall volcano tens of thousands of people have been evacuated since it 1st spewed . on sunday but despite more warnings not everybody is staying away so many island organ reports from the province of. these coast guard c. a hazardous eruption could happen any time and trigger a volcanic tsunami on these waters and the need to ensure that the thousands of

boats in the area remain anchored. there are those who refuse to listen up maintain the danger own the lake so we are here because we need to make sure that those under 30 years. we are now about kilometers from. what. is just a fraction of the total area the philippine coast guard actually called for now on a daily basis in the crisis started and they're telling us that at the average they are able to have free hand around 10 percent every day with their head out the fish . thousands of fishermen who live and fish here have been forced to go but some see their work comes 1st but i. didn't know it wasn't allowed so now i get it back wait no i have i am already about safety and they freak. tower volcano spewed ashes and lava on sunday forcing the government to declare

a state of emergency and evacuating more than 38000 residents to our volcano is steeped in folklore and history and is a popular tourist destination it is also the 2nd most active volcano in the philippines. here in the town of tad these residents are performing the superleague. they see at a time of such great uncertainty visit ritual dance serves as a powerful form of prayer that might appease mother nature. i hope that lisa's storer prayers and take heed we have always believed that superbly has helped us to rape since time immemorial. this would be a stupid associated with that of ok no and finally all of the entire belief system

. related to this ritual has to do with the lady and the volcano. those who have lived around the lake all their lives have long enjoyed the beauty of the isle volcano but many are living in fear of its explosive power. doug and al jazeera but on this province northern philippines. this is all just 0 these are the top stories the u.s. house of representatives has delivered the articles of impeachment against donald trump to the senate that follows a vote in the democrat controlled house where 70 members have also been assigned as managers of the trial the senate will then become an impeachment court as early as thursday though significant proceedings aren't expected to begin until next week i will cast one has the latest from washington d.c.

. we are going to see the other half of this impeachment process play out which is the upcoming trial of president trump now that is a guaranteed process that will happen the 1st thing we'll see will be tomorrow when these articles are read aloud it before the senate chambers by those the managers of impeachment those who will be prosecuting the case followed by this wearing in chief justice john roberts of the u.s. supreme court who will preside then over this impeachment trial of president trump well as the latest stage of the trump impeachment was unfolding the u.s. and china signed the 1st phase of a new trade deal china's committed to buying an additional 200 $1000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods and services by 2021 but the agreement keeps in place american htat of some $360000000000.00 worth of chinese goods until further negotiations

why the. russian jets have resumed bombing of it lived provinces syria's last remaining rebel held area there the 1st attack since the beginning of a ceasefire brokered with turkey several towns were targeted including 2 main markets an adlib city at least 15 people are reported to have been killed the syrian government launched an offensive last year to retake the problems a senior u.n. official in lebanon has blamed the ruling elite for failing to tackle an economic collapse that has reignited protests in the capital demonstrators have regrouped in beirut for the 2nd night they've been targeting lebanon's financial institutions as part of a symbolic attack on the ruling elites economic plans and those are the headlines the news continues here and dizzy era after inside story by finance.

sudan's transitional government put to the test the army says it lost what it calls a rebellion by former forces it all started with a plan to restructure the intelligence services so what does it mean for sudan's transition to civilian rule this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm richelle carey it was a great confrontation between what's seen as sudan's old guard and the new administration at the revolt from within the ranks of the security services posed a major challenge for the transit.