the far right is preparing for battle and their opponents or anyone who has different. prejudices tried in hungary on al-jazeera. the stage is set for donald trump's impeachment trial as the u.s. house of representatives hands over the case to the senate. blown down jordan the style jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. and china signed an initial deal to try to end that 18 month trade war zone your muted response from stock markets. banks are again vandalized in lebannon a 2nd night of running battles in beirut as protesters demand action to reverse an

economic crisis. a convoy carrying some venezuelan opposition politicians is the times they accuse the government of an ambush. president donald trump is set to stand trial before the senate the house of representatives has delivered the impeachment charges against him to the upper chamber trump is accused of abuse of power and obstruction of congress and that makes him the 3rd president in u.s. history to face such proceedings castro has more now from capitol hill. inside the locus are the articles of impeachment documents accusing president donald trump of abusing his power and obstructing congress the 7 newly ordained impeachment prosecutors follow democratic members of the house who will argue that trump should be removed from office as president is not above the law he will be held

accountable he has been held accountable he has been in huge the senate's reception of the articles marks the beginning of the trial phase of the crimes impeachment the $100.00 u.s. senators will soon be sworn in as jurors with arguments to begin next week republicans hold the majority in the senate and their leader mitch mcconnell has voiced strong opposition to the impeachment if the senate blesses this unprecedented and dangerous house process by agreeing to complete case at a subject of business or enough to impeach a president we will almost guarantee the impeachment of every future president. of either party. like that bird trump is only the 3rd president in u.s. history to be impeached he denies the allegations that he withheld u.s. security aid to ukraine in order to pressure ukraine's president volodymyr zelinsky to announce an investigation into joe biden new evidence continues to emerge in the

case on tuesday impeachment investigators released text messages and notes from an associate of trump's private attorney rudy giuliani get the lewinsky to announce that the biden case will be investigated wrote the associate who had been dispatched to ukraine and in a letter addressed to the president of ukraine giuliani says he is acting with trump's knowledge and consent witnesses may tell the truth and witnesses may not tell the truth documents joe generally like whether the new documents or potential new witnesses will play a role in trump's trial is an open question the president's defenders say no the polling shows the majority of americans think the senators should hear new evidence in order to have a fair trial the senate is on trial as well as the president does the senate conduct the trial according to the constitution to vindicate the republic or does

the senate participate in the president's crimes by covering them up at least 4 republican senators would need to agree to open the trial to new witnesses that's possible but the odds for conviction and remove all are much steeper support from 20 senate republicans will be required to make that happen but a historic trial of a president is now guaranteed heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. the world's 2 biggest economies have signed a deal to ease their trade war china has promised to increase u.s. imports and strengthen intellectual property rules in exchange the u.s. removes some tariffs on chinese goods but as mike hanna now reports it's an initial agreement and most tariffs remain in place. it was a lovely white house ceremony crowded with have to members lawmakers and executives from large u.s. corporations president trump hailed the deal as remarkable. today we

take a momentous step one that has never been taken before with china toward a future of fair and reciprocal trade as we signed phase one of the historic trade deal between the united states and china. together we are righting the wrongs of the past and delivering a future of economic justice and security for american workers farmers and families sentiments echoed by china's signatory to the deal dromi down war for. china and the united states with the larger picture in mind have taken a serious approach to our differences and work to manage them or appropriately reaching the phase one trade agreement that is good for china for the united states in the world. the reality though that this is just an initial deal and many problematic issues of u.s. china relationship remain an address i think that has moved the needle

a little bit with with china and it has made some progress but at the same time i don't think that it achieves the fundamental structural changes that are going to need to happen for us. the u.s. tech sector in particular to really feel comfortable the president trumps political opponents insist he's been outsmarted by his chinese counterpart i greatly fear that president xi is laughing at us behind our backs for having given away so little at the expense of american workers farmers and businesses the administration in order to get a deal at all costs before the 2020 alexion has thrown the american worker and american business overboard and they're going to be the ones left to face the consequences and that's the smiles and celebrations the awareness that this is not an end to the trade war as it is at the stage merely a truth. i cannot al-jazeera washington. china's foreign ministry has praised the

progress and trade talks with the u.s. after wednesday's deal which really just wanted to eat a little to do it i can be signing this phase one trade deal benefits china and the us and the whole world but so is that we can entirely we're cast a solution that can properly and effectively deal with the relevant issues through dialogue and consultation based on equality and mutual respect well done watching as an analyst at the economics and teligent unit she believes that china has given up more than the u.s. . this looks to me a very big concession on china's side and i genuinely don't see how china can fulfill its commitment of $200000000000.00 more dollars a purchase from the us which without increasing its fiscal subsidies to domestic producers and manufacturers dramatically and if china along the way of those 2 years. actually cannot fulfill some of the commitment and then we're expecting to

see a collapse of the 1st one deal and that the phase 2 in phase 3 will never happen it looks like for example agriculture in this 1st one it is more than twice the amount of the $27000.00 level and in order to do that actually a lot of the domestic producers farmers will sell for a watch on china was certainly increase its government purchase prices and expand that program but overall that means direct competition with chinese farmers start a mostly small scale and in that area china is not competitive and another thing that's funny to me is that by signing to steel actually china has to commit to buy more agriculture goes from the u.s. and that means buy a lot less from other countries for example canada and the e.u. and by signing this studio in fact between china and the u.s. it is china it is the u.s. allies fundamentally bear most of the cost in and warnings of another volcanic

eruption in the philippines a forced thousands more people to abandon their homes access to high risk areas is limited drone video shows one town near the volcano devastated by a falling us buildings have collapsed and evacuation centers across the tongue of province are almost full. drives in one of the errors that's under lockdown he says some people are not happy about being kept from their homes. we're on the side of the lake that's downwind from the volcano that's in the path of the ash and dust that still coming out and this is as close as we are being allowed to get since early thursday morning this whole place has been in lockdown and basically we are not allowed to get to the villages that are right on the lake it has also meant that many people here another had to get back to their homes which they're not very happy about but it gives you a sense of how dangerous this situation is still considered to be it might look as though the volcano is fairly benign at the moment the pollutants of gas and smoke

or quite small but we've been with a group of vulcanologist to been out checking for sulfur dioxide in the air which gives a much clearer indication of just how much activity there is still in the volcano and it does show that this is a volcano which still potentially is very dangerous. areas we have around 5000 tons and then the next days have been lower around 1600 but yesterday it's up again to 4600 so you don't expect really to have constant. but then it's very important for us and each and every day how we devalue sproat progress and there's been some criticism of philippines vulcanologist that they weren't able to predict the scale of this eruption especially as activity was detected many involves ago but then this volcano just goes to prove that even with all of their expertise and active volcanoes such as this one is still notoriously unpredictable

. russian jets are resumed the tax on the province that syria's last remaining rebel held area that's despite a cease fire that was suppose of come into force on sunday. was one activist saying 19 people were killed in a market the white helmet rescue group has recorded more than a dozen violations of the cease fire in russia negotiated a deal last week. besse been a 2nd night of violence in lebanon's streets over the government's economic policies security forces fired tear gas of protesters in the commercial heart of the capital beirut dozens of people injured banks have been restricting access to accounts and blocking transfers of brule and frustration is growing over the lack of action from the government was in a honda has been following this story since on to government protests 1st broke out in october. running battles in the streets of the lebanese capital for the 2nd

consecutive nights on tight riot police using tear gas to disperse protesters who as you can see are out in the floor south korea is growing frustration is growing 11 on it is now the force month since thing on try to stop it 7. people took to the street to the mound a change in leadership the country's economy is in near collapse a week was close to us here there are banks people vandalizing banks and destroying cash machines really venting their anger at the banking sector that he knows the feeling the capital flows prevented from accessing their deposit their savings there is a cap on the withdrawal of the us a top of the withdrawal of lebanese pounds tear gas is being used by the anti-riot police earlier protesters were outside at least very funny things to say you say.

ok we have to give it a little sneak. peek at the street so very very kind of the century without a government is a political vacuum and the end of october a people are going on their government out we'll tell you it. was settled. and then what what the politicians have been doing is securing amongst themselves. over 3 inches. having the united nations good morning that the situation is quote thing here is dangerous chaos in lebanon and blaming really the politicians for a failing financial system. for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back reform or an attempt to consolidate power we'll have reaction from moscow one of them tara russian government resigned . as to why they are become a battleground for the country's political divisions more on that stay with us.

hello again or welcome back to international weather forecast well we're watching the philippines very carefully what we don't want to see across the philippines because of the kennett activity is a lot of rain and a lot of heavy rain so because of that we're going to be watching to make sure that we don't see any flooding potential across the region in the reaches we don't want to see any mudslides or mudflows because of the ash across the region so over the next few days looks like partly cloudy conditions a few showers popping up as we go towards the afternoon timeframe on friday as well as into saturday in manila expect the high few about 30 degrees there well for the southeastern part of australia we are looking at some better air quality finally across the region we do have a frontal boundary that has pushed through the region has brought down the

temperatures switch the winds out of the south and that is going to continue over the next day as well as a lot of rain is going to be falling across parts of new south wales and into queensland much needed rain of course but of course we could be seeing some localized flooding along with that over the next few days $20.00 to $30.00 millimeters of rain could be seen on a daily average even higher where those thunderstorms are expected here on friday brisbane it is going to be a rainy day at $28.00 degrees and as we go towards saturday the rain continues for sydney but we could be seeing some heavy rain towards the north with britain at 27 degrees for you. the floor of the burning or spawn you champion dreams of peace and democracy but how many came to power they transformed from communist the social democrats but it was a fake democracy people in power travels through the former eastern bloc to ask why post cold war optimism to succumb to dhaka more authoritarian realities the police

called a couple of brout a moment to the notch and then with a vengeance to death tonight beyond the war zone to announce his era. for. welcome back to our top stories here on the al jazeera the u.s. house of representatives has delivered the articles of impeachment against donald trump the senate is accused of abuse of power is trials expected to start next week . the u.s. and china have signed the 1st phase of a deal to ease their trade war china has promised to increase american imports and the u.s. troops will remove some towers on chinese goods. warnings of another volcanic

eruption in the philippines a force of thousands more people to abandon their homes video shows one town in the tower volcano devastated by ash fall evacuation centers across the town the province are almost full. despite international pressure to abide by its 2015 nuclear deal commitments iran says it will continue to enrich uranium president hassan rouhani says terran has now surpassed the limits set on the agreement a statement comes just days after 3 nations launched a dispute mechanism that might bring more sanctions on iran diplomatic james bays reports from the united nations. 2 '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 yemen was 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 estimates. is that iran is one to 2 years away from 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 snap 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. al-jazeera at the united nations where pressure is also building on iran to fully disclose details of the downing of

ukrainian plane of a terror on last week foreign ministers and 5 countries citizens were killed a meeting in london to press tehran to cooperate with foreign investigators all are 176 people on board died many were from canada its government intends to ask iran for compensation to the families after an initial denial iran's military admitted it shut down the jet on the state. in venezuela a gunman on motorbikes opposition politicians to again stop them from taking their seats in parliament thank you did one who declared himself interim president last year a since then he's failed to overthrow president maduro despite widespread backing neighboring countries and the united states is a lot some out the editor for the 2nd time this month's than israel is opposition majority leader of was obliged to improvise a parliamentary chamber in a remote auditorium hours earlier armed groups of oil to the government had

prevented opposition lawmakers from approaching the national assembly firing weapons it on the losing of you crow bar to attack one of their video calls some depict isn't manish to press police bird years and were brutally am wish i don't they have to cut over the palace moved term problem and totally in the groups by the dictatorship heavily armed security forces had already surrounded the legislators palace went why the law had planned to convene parliament meanwhile government strong man arrived chair the constituent assembly a rival legislative super body created by a president nicholas smug little that operates from the same building he told al-jazeera the opposition didn't have the anything more to do in parliament in fact it's not clear whether the mainstream opposition will you ever be able to hold another session here in the legislative alice again a government strategy seems to be a to occupy this area up permanently the next step will likely be to allow the

supreme court controlled by mud little loyalists to appoint a new electoral council in like on the senate buttocks it's not possible to reach an agreement in parliament it's stipulated in the constitution the supreme court has the right to the clear a late just slip and proceed to might be appointments last january's united states and war than 50 other countries recognized by the law the president of parliament as the country's interim president as well. they argued that macdougall had rigged his 2018 reelection but a year later harsh economic and diplomatic sanctions to try to force my little to hold new national elections have failed. and it's now why dog was on the defensive as the military backed government uses all the means at its disposal to isolated defiant but increasingly powerless opposition you see in human al-jazeera cataracts

hong kong leader terry lamb says the city's autonomous status could last beyond its 2047 expiration date but she stressed that the one country 2 systems model can only be preserved by loyalty to beijing or. i think there will be enough grounds to believe the system can move ahead smoothly and there will be no change after 2047 so to fully implement one country 2 systems we need to preserve the foundation under one country and respect the differences under the 2 systems we have to uphold the principle of one country and only by doing this one country 2 systems have the chance to move forward smoothly meanwhile several opposition politicians were ejected from the legislature for heckling the law during that question and answer session pro-democracy nor make their shouted slogans and held placards echoing the demands of anti-government demonstrators they've been demanding greater autonomy from beijing since june. but russia's president has nominated

a bureaucrat with no political experience to replace prime minister dmitri medvedev he resigned along with anti government soon after valid near putin announced major changes to the constitution critics say he's paving the way to stay in power for life from the reports. it was dramatic and entirely unexpected except that just hours before the resignation of russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev and his entire government the president vladimir putin had called for government change. i mean. that as he's given. we is the government of the russian federation should provide the president of our country with the opportunity to make all necessary changes to the political system. in the annual live televised state of the nation address putin said that the constitution should be amended to allow parliament to choose candidates for prime minister and the cabinet a power now enjoyed soley by the president and the president he said should in

future serve a total maximum of 2 terms putin himself is currently serving his 4th the proposed changes would substantially limit the power of whoever succeeds putin as president after he steps down in 2024 as he's constitutionally bound to do. supporters describe the movers deepening democracy empowering elected members of parliament critics however suggest it offers a concrete clue to russia's hottest political question what happens after putin the answer some believe is more. the main result of putin's address tweeted kremlin critic alexy novell me what kind of idiots and or crooks are all those who said that putin would leave in 2024 the only goal of putin and his regime is remaining leader for life taking ownership of an entire country and appropriating wealth to himself and his friends the russian president seeks to. continue to exert control

or the russian political sphere even after he leaves the official office of the president so there's more of is intended to change the. structure of there are. a way. to possibly move to a different position from which he will be able to do so. but the mere putin has said nothing of his intentions post presidency but he could be planning a repeat of his 2008 move to become prime minister or take on another senior role a weakened presidency might pave the way for russia's longest serving leader since stalin take power with him when he goes. al-jazeera. now ponens right wing no one justice party now if you want to 2nd term in power last year but the opposition now has a majority in the upper house of parliament and as the political debate heats up

the battle for control of poland's cultural space is also underway but in. the street a cold night in good danskin thousands of people pay tribute to their form a man. who'd campaign for the rights of migrants was murdered on stage at this very event a year ago. this year's fundraiser here part of a national charity drive raising money for hospital equipment was dedicated to him . it used to be shown live on public television since 2017 it's only been carried by a private channel. this event's been going for nearly 3 decades but in recent years it's become controversial for some people here and it's just one example of the culture wars being waged between liberals and conservatives. the head of one regional councils actually refused to take part in this year's fundraiser claiming the event had become political this year was supposed to be. spent.

i asked his widow now a center left member of the european parliament and campaigner against hate speech what she made of that maybe they are not aware bad day or sell of there is a lot of hate there is a lot of maybe disappointment in daily life and a half. bad ideas but as we see in the arab i hear. there. you have any new. record we gather more in law 7 point some polls sympathetic to the ruling lower and justice party see the charity's founder. as a left winger whose politics are at odds with traditional values. it's a view shared by today is going to be who hosts a current affairs show in public television. his liberal attitude as expressed in his motto do whatever you want at the same time he supports very

problematic issues like abortion and euthanasia which are contrary to the current government's vision and that struggle for control over poland's cultural space is now moved here in this field between art and society the. center for contemporary art in warsaw the new director here who was appointed by poland's culture minister has spoken of the art world being dominated by a neo marxist ideology saying he wants to promote artists with other views conservative patriotic pro-family this nomination is the most traditional of our close. known for extremely conservative views and. he doesn't have the art community which will make his mission extremely difficult poland's political landscape is perhaps more polarized than it's ever been with little appetite for compromise that's only likely to make it harder to see the world through someone else's eyes. al-jazeera warsaw yet another dire

warnings been issued about overheating planet in the us oceanic and atmospheric administration say the past decade was the hottest ever recorded scientists say the arctic swimming 3 times faster than anywhere else extreme weather will become more common current level of greenhouse gas emissions are reduced. part time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the u.s. house of representatives has delivered the articles of impeachment against donald trump to the senate for a trial he's accused of abuse of power the proceedings are expected to start next week they could be very clear that this president will be held accountable no one is above the law and that no future president should ever entertain the idea that article one and she's the article 2 says that he can do whatever he

wants. the u.s. and china have signed the 1st phase of a deal to ease their trade war china has promised to increase u.s. imports and strengthen intellectual property rules in exchange the u.s. removes some tariffs on chinese goods which really just want you to eat it later do it i can signing this phase one trade deal bill if it's china and the u.s. and the whole world it shows that we can entirely will cast a solution that can properly and effectively deal with the relevant issues through dialogue and consultation based on equality and you to respect the warnings of another volcanic eruption in the philippines or forced thousands more people to abandon their homes towns near the tile volcano in batangas province have been devastated by ash fall evacuation centers are almost full russian jets have resumed attacks on adlib province syria's last remaining rebel held area that's despite

a cease fire that was supposed to come into force on sunday activists say 19 people were killed at a market. there's been a 2nd night of violence on lebanon streets of of the government's economic policies security forces fired tear gas at protesters and the commercial heart of the capital dozens were injured banks have been restricting access to accounts and blocking transfers abroad and frustration is growing of the lack of action from the government and the scientists have confirmed the last decade was the warmest on record 3 major research agencies say 2019 was the 3rd hottest year of the 2015 and 16 that warning that extreme weather will become more common with the current level of greenhouse gas emissions and reduced well those were the headlines the news continues here on al jazeera off the people in power station that's what it's like now.

al jazeera. when entering. the pull of the berlin wall just over 30 years ago came amidst sweeping changes that would end the cold war and see the town of corruptness or a tear in regimes or prosthesis. it 3 decades on the pro-democracy optimism of those days has turned sour jennifer a.b.s. and nationalism are on the rise political corruption is no way in the 2nd of 2 special reports we've been told carry out remain here and go to the last one of the lessons of history haven't.