sure we're reporting tonight from the georgian capital tbilisi emily thank you. well today was the 5th and final day of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry against us president donald trump it was also the day after the hearings climax yesterday ambassador gordon's on been stunned almost everyone when he testified that there was indeed a quid pro quo between trump and ukraine and he also implicated practically the entire inner circle surrounding the president saying they were all in the loop and that there were no secrets today began with a rebuke for republican lawmakers from fiona hill the former white house russia adviser i was shocked. when on july 18th an office of management and budget staff member surprisingly announced the hold on ukraine security assistance efficient said the order it come from the president during the lunch ambassador silence said that he was going to call president trump i've entered president trump asked so he's going to do the investigation master song replied that he's going to do it adding a president selenski will do anythi

now police in the georgian capital tbilisi have folse protesters to move away from the entrances to palm and people have been trying to block politicians from getting inside and building the building and holding a parliamentary session they have been demonstrating for weeks now demanding an overhaul of the electoral system which they say favors the ruling georgian dream party they're also calling for an early election get the very latest let's go live to robin for he's in tbilisi outside the georgian parliament and say the protest is and have been cleared away by the security forces. they were cleared away this morning in the early hours before told around 5 or 6 am . they didn't put up too much resistance although 3 people were injured and number of people over a dozen people taken into custody right now there's a crowd over to my right in front of the parliament still there with their placards the same bodes a collection of civil society groups and different opposition parties and they plan to keep up their protest to keep reminding the governing party that they reneged on their promis

it in georgia where protests as a trying to block people from entering parliament in the capital tbilisi they've been demonstrating for weeks demanding changes to the electoral system police have use water cannons to try to break them up but they're refusing to move when go live now to tbilisi our correspondent robin for s.t.a. walka is there outside the parliament what's the situation there the protests is still managing to maintain their positions. well right now we have a small crowd in front of the building which you can just see behind me but over to my left side you can see those yellow jackets 'd of police who have formed their own security by using public transport you see that begin to prevent any attempt by the opposition to gather round the king entrances of the building to try to stop governing party m.p.'s from entering. this earlier this morning. shortly before. roy police were again deployed this is the 2nd time now in a week or so they would deploy it's they used water cannon. and forms of filings to move down the streets and. protest is the way from the small tent that t

tbilisi on sunday. it. certainly was number one in the several 1000 when i would say. 3 you know i will listen to it difficult to gauge believe treaty busy pretty time last night in knots when they decided that they were going to stay on and and and make their statements which was the effectively we have no confidence in the government is able to this is a good time said late. into it a long running standoff between the o.p.c. in the government which really began in the summer when. people came out i agree the way the government was handling its ongoing crisis with russia because russia continued to control georgian territory 20 percent of jordan territory and people are angry that the government here is seen as being too soft on russia not being proactive enough not getting those territories but they also feel that there is a full ruler of the country which is the country 'd. that beneath all they go to happen to be the chairman of the governing party and they take all of the blame on him and they thin

of breaking his promise to use electric could offer more on this we're joined from tbilisi he had the kind i would say she's a senior member of the opposition national movement party. should say as a georgian political analyst he is also in tbilisi and tell me all of our shallow needs a is an al-jazeera journalist who covers post soviet states including georgia she joins us from doha welcome everyone now we are in the for a government representative to join our panel today but they replied that they are unable to join so we're going to get started anyway i want to start here on my laptop with a picture this from alysia between its 3rd day of ongoing tbilisi protests parliament and other governmental buildings for soon to work this this will increase of police in downtown some protest leaders in the courts trying to get back to the streets doesn't come to the main protest spot every day and you can see the picture there provided by civil ga. dramatic scenes over the past few days is what triggered these protests because i know you were there among them just yesterday. oh hello thank yo

we're really sure when she has been talking to protesters on the ground in tbilisi she has this report. about a $39.00 p.c. and against the ruling party protesters outside the georgian parliament one snap elections and constitutional reform the protest has united around 20 opposition movements they say the current electoral system favors the ruling georgian dream party which critics argue has too much power for people here electoral reform is much more than a formality this is a very important change will do so society because everybody understands that with the current system there may be no free and fair elections people want something very basic they want this country to be peaceful to be democratic they want their will to be respected they want free and fair elections and the basic constitutional rights of georgian people some protesters are even camping out here to keep up the pressure on the government the ruling georgian green party had promised a change in the electoral system after protests in june but last week it didn't pass in parliament where the party has a majority we ar

was another day of pop-up protests in tbilisi this one outside the interior ministry to force the old thirty's into confrontation with the opposition. this week activists looking to parliament for failing to reform the electoral system was sentenced that tbilisi city court to short prison terms it actually spoke to us before being jailed for 13 days. they haven't any evidence and they can't threaten us with violence we'll continue to protest from prison or on the streets until we kick this probe russian regime out of that country. but not everyone sympathizes a passer by because directly his opposition party was once in power it still has enemies polls suggest georgians have lost faith in politicians from across the spectrum but the public does approve of democratic reforms a recent national democratic institute poll found that most georgians support the plan to introduce believe proportional representation in elections that's why opposition parties united after the government reneged on its promise to change the electoral code the governing party is unapologetic the final say for the

reforms which would see full proportional representation from and 1st you will get has more from tbilisi. protesters are now moving off far down the street from right the parliament. 34 hours you rightly said we sounded the protesters on songs i put padlocks up around parliament entrances and hundreds blockaded the streets around parliament and i think they were expecting. a long wait before the police took action in fact the police of reacted very quickly indeed they are moving off down the street now clearing the opposition supporters who are worth cooling for the government to resign after results. last week against electoral reform. the government had trimmings to make changes to the letter system so that they could be a proportional representation in the elections next year with a remake of that when the lawmakers rejected this legislation us we cannot cause the opposition very angry. for the opposition say that george air is no longer a democracy because everything is rules they say by one man between a even history the country's richest oligarch who is governing chairman of the ru

protesters are attempting to block people from entering polman this happening of course in the capital tbilisi they have been demonstrating for weeks now they want change to the electoral system police of use water cannon to try to break them up but so far they are refusing to move so we can go live now to our correspondent there robin for us a walker is outside parliament what's the situation and all the protests is managing to maintain their presence and indeed. to block people from getting into parliament. team right now you can probably see just behind me in those yellow jackets in those yellow jackets the georgian police who have formed their own court to know around the sides entrances to the main parliament building they've put up yellow buses said to block the roads to stop and in and anticipated attempts by the opposition to prevent the governing party in peace from attending a session this morning inside parliament this is how things looked last night. too which is a position wants to show that the government won't be put given breaking its promise of and looked. after it failed to a

current mic system favors the ruling party let's go live now to robin forrester walker who is in tbilisi and so we know that demonstrators have been rallying for some weeks now what do people say about why they are continuing to turn out to protest. people continuing to turn out to protest here because ever since that decision in parliament not to proceed with those electoral reforms the opposition has been drawing to get the upper hand to try to urge the government to reconsider and as long as that doesn't produce any results the opposition says they're going to continue to come out onto the streets and make themselves heard. a little bit about this what's been happening this evening is we've had several 1000 people in the front of parliament but many of them now of dispersed the saudi streets in an attempt to gain to block a parliament and we're seeing no crowds around 3 of the the parliament to back entrances are working andrew says we'll talk about that in a 2nd but 1st of all let me introduce you to barca she is a member of the georgian the shame movement so to me what exactly do yo

protesters say free and fair elections still on soloed demonstrations broke out in the capital of tbilisi this week after the government failed to keep its promise to reform the electoral system tens of thousands barricaded the gates of parliament's calling for an early election they say they were lied to and the ruling georgian dream party is using a broken system to stay in power or open forrester walker has more now from tbilisi . i'm standing outside george's interior ministry where young opposition activists have gathered this was a well organized event intended to maximize media coverage because the opposition want to show that they're still trying to persuade this government to do things differently based on that decision that happened last week in parliament where the government backtracked on a promise to reform the electrical codes that would have given a fully proportional representation in georgian elections that's what brought people out onto this streets on sunday and into monday where there was a tense encampment that was very quickly demolished crowds were dispersed on mon

bleak in washington while thousands have again taken to the streets of the georgian capital tbilisi the parliament failed to introduce proportional representation earlier this week the police cleared protesters using water cannon and tear gas opponents say the electoral system is unfair and gives too much brute too much the ruling party too much power to the ruling body even as in many szymon reports from tbilisi. for democracy. party protesters outside the georgian parliamentary elections and constitutional reform the protest has united around 20 opposition movements they say the current electoral system favors the ruling party which critics argue has too much power for people here electoral reform is much more than. very. people want something very basic. to be peaceful to be democratic they want their will to be respected they want free and fair elections basic constitutional rights people some protesters are even camping out here to keep up the pressure on the government the ruling georgian green party had promised a change in the electoral system after protests in june but last wee

robert forster walker was at the protests outside parliament in tbilisi right now there's a crowd over to my right in front of the parliament still there with their placards assembled a collection of civil society groups and different opposition parties and they plan to keep up their protest to keep reminding the governing party that they were next on their promise of electoral reform i should add that m.p.'s have been able to enter the building governing party and these they have held a session this morning and the speaker of parliament said that it was time to get on with business and that things should not be allowed to disturb our work that people are expecting us to get on with our jobs but there is also concern constellation amongst m.p.c. were in those who resigned from government after that vote the other week against electoral reform who was saying you know. it's it's time to acknowledge that there are a lot of angry georgians out on the streets and that there is a need for compromise we know that the diplomatic community is western partners have been urging the government to

robert miller's investigation into russian election meddling and police in the georgian capital of tbilisi have forced protesters to move from the entrances to parliament people have been trying to block politicians from getting inside the building they've been demonstrating for weeks demanding an overhaul of the electoral system which they say favors the ruling georgian dream party they're also calling for an early election those were the headlines of course the al-jazeera news hour is here in half an hour staying ground but we continue on al-jazeera with inside story to stay with us. h.i.v. 8 is still a major killer and african nations are struggling with the highest infection rates thousands of experts will meet in rwanda to exchange ideas and work out how to come from one of the world's most serious doubts challenging its special coverage on al-jazeera. i am for me ok and you're in the story and i'm really could be allowed to base my lips knows no borders especially in this digital world today we discuss how to end online violence against women share your thoughts you can tweet us at 8

al-jazeera tbilisi. in algeria thousands of people marched through the capital on friday calling for next month's election to be canceled have been many protests in recent weeks ahead of the presidential vote in response authorities appear to be making more arrests demonstrators. the vote cannot be free or fair if the military and senior officials from the old guard retained. candidates in guinea bissau presidential election have held their final rallies ahead of sunday's foes the incumbent president has a maria vance is running against 11 cap challenges including 2 of his former prime minister. nicolas hawke reports now from the capital the south. while this presidential campaign feels and sounds like a carnival. even countries fear it could end in disaster some of the candidates like domingo's see more speeded up have west african soldiers protecting them and not the country's armed forces. from all of. that you may not be the know when it comes when you will have a gun in the in stable. process you ha

i mean at the top stories from europe including clashes on the streets of georgia's capital tbilisi as fountains of protesters attempt to blockade the parliament building. and i'm leah harding with sports australia's prime minister slams rugby star israel folau for his comments on the country's bushfires claim the fires are god's way of punishing australia for passing same sex marriage and abortion laws. saudi arabia says yemen's who's these have hijacked a ship towing a south korean drilling rig in the red sea but the rebels they've captured military vessels the official has told al-jazeera they will release the drilling rig once they can confirm that belongs to south korea the saudi government is called the incident a terrorist operation who these have in the past targeted vessels off yemen at the southern mouth of the red sea. joins us from yemen's capital sana take us through this and try to clarify exactly what's happened here is this the hijacking of a saudi ship and a south korean oil rig or are we still trying to ascertain. yes according to the office full statements by the who

it's georgia now and thousands of people been taking to the streets of the georgian capital tbilisi after parliament failed to pass a bill to change the electoral system to proportional representation earlier this week police cleared protesters using tear gas and water. demonstrators say the electoral system is unfair and puts too much power to the hands of the ruling party you have used reports from tbilisi. rally for democracy and against the ruling party protesters outside the georgian parliamentary elections and constitutional reform the protest has united around 20 opposition movements they say the current electoral system favors the ruling georgian green party which critics argue has too much power for people here electoral reform is much more than a formality this is a very very important change. because everybody understands that with the current system there may be no free and fair elections people want something very basic they want these countries to be peaceful to be democratic they want their will to be respected they want free and fair elections and the basic constitutional

tbilisi. georgia is opposition wants to show the government won't be breaking its promise of the looked. after it failed to approve a system of fully proportional representation in elections. street rallies against the government and it's informal only got. even it's really becoming the norm it's an absolute must for the country to have electoral reform which would give all your parties the fair ground and then people could troops who are they want in the government so no matter how harsh the government behaves whether they use the police or they use whatever we are going to. be very tough on our protest demonstrate is repeated that tactic of putting up tents outside parliament the camps last week was swiftly cleared by riot police. this is the 2nd it was something of a symbolic it's heads to disrupt parliament to locate the streets around the police are over here. making sure that nobody attempts to put padlocks back on the gates but the opposition basically saying that this parliament lacks

continuing as rescue crews search for survivors. 28 people have been arrested in georgia's capital tbilisi as protesters there tried to block politicians from entering paula but riot police used board. cannon to force demonstrators from storming the building opposition and civil society members have been protesting for weeks they calling for a snap election and demanding an overhaul of the electoral system which they cited favors the ruling party up in farsi walker was at the protest outside palma to tbilisi. right now there's a crowd over to my right in front of the parliament still there with their placards assembled. a collection of civil society groups and different opposition parties and they plan to keep up their protest to keep reminding the governing party that they were next on the promise of electoral reform i should add that m.p.'s have been able to enter the building governing party and these they have held a session this morning and the speaker of parliament said that it was time to get on with business and that things should not be allowed to disturb our work that people are

joining us now from tbilisi tell us about the security situation right now. looking to. open you might hear that. in the background. but they were very. very dramatic rightly. very quickly create the streets that you see counted. they they they had to back the. protests. school a school away from the parliament 18 tinka we understand have to be changed as a result of those actions. so that's the situation right now as you would say your position. that he could very greedy decision to renege on the promise of a letter to rules risk pool i understand that now some of the opposition party leaders holding talks with members of the international diplomatic community they will simply say that concern last week when the pollen the dominee to by governing thought the n.t. chose not to support chose not to vote for the democratic reforms that would have introduced the proportional system of representation here which would have cost given a more reflective. number of seesaw physician policy reflective of the popular vote in parliament in election next year so now robin those elect

water cannon to disperse the opposition supporters while been forced to walk or reports now from tbilisi. on tuesday police outnumbered protesters outside georgia's parliament a sign that this government is taking no chances and good by its failure to deliver promised electoral reform opposition protestors closed off the area to traffic and encircled parliament on monday a 2nd attempt to disrupt parliamentary business in less than a week ended with police dispersing crowds. inside the building there's a sense of siege electoral reform is officially no longer of discussion but in any case government m.p.'s have nobody to debate within the chamber. was it to some of the opposition parties are upset and they. have the right but those rights have limits and if they try to disrupt parliamentary business the government will have to respond in a done in way to 3 interactions see if the opposition comes back to doing. this is what the opposition boycotting this like empty seats instead of a piece for the government of course it's business as usual but with no opposition they'll be no debate no c

the police in the georgian capital tbilisi have forced protesters to move away from the entrances to parliament people had been trying to block politicians from getting inside the building and holding a session they have been demonstrating for weeks demanding an overhaul of the electoral system which they say favors the ruling georgian dream party and also calling for an early election robin for a ca walker has more from outside parliament. right now there's a crowd over to my roy in front of the parliament. with their placards assembled a collection of civil society groups and different. position parties and they planned to keep up their protest to keep reminding the governing party that they were next on their promise of electoral reform i should add that m.p.'s have been able to enter the building governing party and these they have held a session this morning and the speaker of parliament said that it was time to get on with business and that things should not be allowed to disturb our work that people are expecting us to get on with our jobs but there is also concern constellati

water cannon to clear protesters rallying for a 2nd day near the parliament building in the capital tbilisi thousands of protesters gathered in 4 places near parliament shouting long live georgia and demanding an early election opposition activists say more than 20 were arrested the protests began on sunday when $20000.00 people rallied in tbilisi and they're angry that parliament failed to pass planned electoral reforms which would see full proportional representation from in 1st year walker has more from tbilisi. protesters are now moving off track down the street from. the heart of the. 34 hours they rightly should respond to the protesters on songs i put padlocks up around parliament's entrances and had blockaded the streets around parliament and i think they were expecting. a long wait before the police took action in fact the police of reacted very quickly indeed moving off down the street now clearing the opposition supporters who. were cooling for the government to resign after results on the last week against electoral reform. the government had trimmings to make changes to the let

another day of pop-up protests in tbilisi this one outside the interior ministry to force your thirty's into a confrontation with the opposition. this week activists looking to parliament for failing to reform the electoral system was sentenced that tbilisi city court to short prison terms irakli spoke to us before being jailed for 13 days. we're just. because they haven't any evidence and they can't threaten us with violence we'll continue to protest from prison or on the streets until we keep this probe russian regime out of that country. but not everyone sympathizes a passer by because directly his opposition party was once in power it still has enemies polls suggest georgians have lost faith in politicians from across the spectrum but the public does approve of democratic reforms a recent national democratic institute poll found that most georgians support the plan to introduce believe proportional representation in elections that's why opposition parties united after the government renee gets on its promise to change the electoral code the governing party is unapologetic a final sa

al-jazeera tbilisi. thousands of forests have taken their fight against addiction to india's capital digitas people have been accused of hurting the environment rather than helping it's that they say that's just a lie it's a help big business for her reports from new delhi. they travelled from forests in different states throughout india to gather in the capital new delhi nearly 2000 indigenous people providing a voice for more than a 1000000 others. they live in the forest and work the forest land but earlier this year india's supreme court ruled many would be evicted after local governments rejected their claims that they had a right to be there. a mother of 3 and a farm arctic an overnight train from the central indian state of madhya pradesh to join the protests how much we want more from our land the government is trying to push us out and want to give our land to the tigers forest officials claim many of these people are causing deforestation and threatening biodiversity they are demanding they pro

in georgia's capital tbilisi police move against protesters blockading the country's parliament. and i'm leo harding and sport australia's prime minister slams rugby star israel folau for his comments on the country's bushfires claim the fires are god's way of punishing australia for passing same sex marriage and abortion law. protesters are confronting police in hong kong as they try to rescue people caught up in a university standoff demonstrators have been holed up inside the campus now for several days before dawn on monday police entered the grounds and faced a barrage of petrol bombs and arrows they responded with tear gas and water cannon . most alarming. they did weapons were used in the 43rd at university rich has become a bit unfair treat despair as a refugee for extremely violent viruses 50 betterman so really this reached a critical level rochus. so intention. or cost well later a number of demonstrators fled the university building some on motorbikes several were arrested but it's not known how many remain inside now large groups of people have been marching to the c

protesters have gathered in georgia's capital tbilisi to demand a snap election will go to marin the mousing now with more from our european broadcaster that's right stan it follows more than a week of angry demonstrations over the government's failure to introduce a promised electoral reform bill the opposition is saying that the current mix system favors the ruling party so let's go live to robyn forestay walker who is in tbilisi where those protests taking place of course demonstrators have been rallying now for some weeks tell us about the size and scale all today's protests. all right well i'm outside the front of the to please see the capital cities parliament just me home of course this street i'm used to main avenue and it's been closed now for several hours because of the large numbers of people who gathered here in front of the building behind me but a lot of them now have moved not away from the building but up the side streets and to create their own groups around the side entrance is the working entrances to the parliament a strategy to blockade those entrances to stop m

hundreds of riot police in georgia's capital tbilisi have used water cannon against anti-government protesters outside the country's parliament building the day after demonstrators blocked the entrance people turned to the streets after the ruling a georgian dream party backtracked and promised and had trouble before. iran is next where authorities have defended the hike in fuel prices that sparked days of rioting at least 3 people have been killed and more than a 1000 arrested the government insists the price rises are necessary to fund social welfare programs the internet has been cut off and the senior commander accuses the united states of being behind the unrest. researchers have been warning for years about the rise of superbugs that's antibiotic resistant bacteria despite this the danger is higher than ever as the world health organizations world antibiotic awareness week begins is a look at the threat superbugs posed to global health and development. before the mid 20th century contracting a bacterial infection could easily kill you the age of antibiotics was ushered in by alexander fl

hundreds of riot police in georgia's capital tbilisi have used water cannon against anti-government protestors outside the country's apollo and building after a demonstration is blocked the entrance people have returned to the streets after the georgian dream party backtracked and promised electoral reforms. venice is getting back to normal after days of flooding caused damage running into hundreds of millions of euros as the waters in the city received other parts of north and they have been swamped by torrential rain which is left whole villages cut off. the rains have stopped life is getting back to normal but in venice that means assessing the damage after 3 floods within a single week still the waters are receding from public squares and the taxis are working the canals. but it's a different story in land flooded fields as far as the eye can see in central italy . and that field even a see a julia region rivers burst their banks flooding a key road and making access to cut off the ledge is difficult. we just cleaned up the lake and now this if it goes on this way we won't have any prospec

water cannon to clear protesters rallying for a 2nd day near the parliament building in the capital tbilisi thousands of protesters gathered near the parliament building demanding an early election they're angry that parliament failed to pass planned electoral reforms which would see full proportional representation. better or worse as president alexander lukashenko has cemented his grip on power in an election that's been criticized by international observers results from sunday's vote reveal there will not be a single opposition politician in parliament the 2 previous opposition members in the 110 members and they were not allowed to stand again russia's foreign ministry says 3 ukrainian naval ships that were seized last year have been returned to gun boats and a tugboat were taken in the current straight between mainland russia and crimea which moscow an extreme ukraine 5 years ago the handover is another step in efforts to end the 5 year conflict in eastern ukraine where russian backed rebels are fighting the government. the caliphate is next charting the rise and fall of the ottoman em