same family were shot dead texaco's president says he wants all for a sion not interventionism alan fischer has more from mexico city. the death of 9 americans in the cartel ambush earlier this month spot widespread outrage the victims 3 women 6 children were traveling through a remote area in northern mexico when they were the target jewel us mexican citizens the family the law but ins demanded the white house days ignore mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations you're going to do a telephone interview with a right wing talk host president donald trump said that process is under way i've been working on that for the last 90 days you know designation is that they're you know i don't go through a process. mexico's drug cartels are huge operations we control large chunks of the country and they're involved in drug trafficking assassinations kidnapping and political corruption being designated a terrorist organization by america means it becomes illegal for anyone to knowingly support the groups if banks realize they handle any cartel funds they must block the money under and form the g

$1000000.00 to trump's inauguration implicated other top officials saying everyone was in the loop alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . from the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. study test. the money. said it was abundantly clear to everyone ukraine would not receive military aid from the u.s. or a meeting at the white house unless it announced an investigation into a company connected to the son of political opponent question joe biden was there a quid pro quo as i testified previously with regard to the requested white house call and the white house meeting the answer is yes. sunderland previously denied the security it was conditioned on the biden investigation but he told the impeachment panel it warts in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid i later came to believe that the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement from ukraine committing to the investigations of the 2016 elections and were recently and he insisted senior figures on the administration knew what was going on including the vice president and the secretary of s

has delivered some of the most anticipated testimony of the donald trump and preachment inquiry alan fischer reports. from the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. stunning testimony and said it was abundantly clear to everyone ukraine would not receive military aid from the u.s. or a meeting at the white house unless it announced an investigation into a company connected to the son of political opponent joe biden was there a quid pro quo as i testified previously with regard to the requested white house.

oil again even though it has not revealed what caused the pipeline feel here in the 1st place alan fischeral-jazeera edinburg north dakota. australian officials have ordered more people to evacuate as firefighters struggle to contain an outbreak of bushfires cooler conditions how brought some relief in new south wales but still a leave immediately warning has been issued for several areas in the state of queensland the outbreak of bushfires on australia's east coast has already claimed 3 lives and destroyed about 150 homes firefighters say it will be weeks before they can get all of the fires out. saudi arabia bahrain and the united arab emirates have confirmed they'll now take part in football's arabian gulf cup and qatar will join the likes of defending champions kuwait who won the tournament in 2017 and for other gulf nations i mislaid the 3 countries said they boycott this month's tournaments those countries along with egypt imposed a blockade in 2017. we had some discussion about the ongoing dispute which is lasted for more than 2 years there are american efforts which qatar appreciat

just days after a significant oil leak from a pipeline nearby from linton north dakota here is alan fischer then we'll begin the hearing some came a great distance some came to object and some were veterans of the fight to stop the pipeline in the 1st place you know. for months the student defiance of standing rock in north dakota determined to block the building of the dakota access pipeline when the courts gave the go ahead the protesters were forcibly removed from the land now the company that built the. play wants to expand it pumping twice as much oil through it environmentalists. but if you double the amount of oil going through a pipeline you do have a leak. you're going to have twice as bad a leak so that's a real concern the state has been hearing the case for the expansion and the arguments against this is life for humans we can't eliminate all risk one of those objectives was to try the native americans from standing rock there what is heightened by a leak at the nearby keystone pipeline i think i was i hope definitely it was i would say was a blast and unfortunately probably som

tuesday the trumpet ministration has dismissed their testimonies as personal opinion and conjecture alan fischer reports from washington. this could be a pivotal week in the donald trump impeachment hearings many of the shuttle to give evidence were on the controversial july call with the ukrainian president that kills a key claim the hearings are based on secondhand reports giving evidence of tenet colonel alexander vigilant a career army officer and the ukraine expert on the national security council he was concerned by the call by president trump pushing for an investigation into democrat joe biden and his son immediately took those concerns to a white house lawyer is improper for the president of the united states to demand a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen and a political opponent a decorated veteran of the war in iraq vidlin his see these actions in testifying under attack from president trump supporters who question his loyalty this is america is the country i've served and defended that all of my brothers have served and here right matters. thank you sir gilbert. thanks one

he says they're still hoping for her return but who may not be enough to see for alan fischer mexico city. and he's also epidemic in some or has killed 40 people more than 3000 cases have been registered since october when the outbreak began where the country's seen a drop in immunizations and that's made it more vulnerable to i breaks of the disease. the u.n. says global warming is upsetting food systems reducing harvests and intensifying poverty and hunger but the way we produce food is worsening the problem that accounts for nearly 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and the hayward traveled to west wales in the u.k. where farmers are trying to do things differently. for farmers looking after the land whatever the weather is a lifetime commitment none more so than at the hold and family farm in the welsh hills where they take a holistic approach to producing food no chemicals have been used on the palm purported 6 years and they've sown herb's into the pasture land to build a copper back to the soil to help offset some of the methane produced by the cows. that's chicory and the

ahead there's no guarantee that it will bring more protests to north dakota and to standing rock alan fischer al-jazeera linton north dakota. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera this hour a cease fire has been agreed in gaza after 2 days of cross border fighting between israel and the group islamic jihad's egypt has been mediating between israel and the palestinian group 34 palestinians have been killed in israeli airstrikes since tuesday harry faucet has an update from the israel gaza border the terms of the cease fire are a little bit different depending on who you listen to islamic jihad is saying that it has secured from israel and undertaking not to carry on with or a return to targeted assassinations and not to use of live fire at the border protests on fridays and israeli officials being quoted in the call media saying that that is not the case in terms of the protests and the israeli foreign minister israel cuts has been on the airwaves to say that israel will target and kill anybody who it deems a threat. protesters in hong kong have blocked many parts of the city center for a 4t

let's get some reaction to what we've just heard bow for some analysis rather from adversaries alan fischer who's been listening in in washington what do you make of it allan. i actually do you know i'll be interested to hear what my pump is going to say but the question on ukraine because he's been directly asked why he may have misled the american base was not a cause is that someone said and well what happened in washington this year was that we provided $250000000.00 worth of security assistance defense assistance and i $140000000.00 or so of additional security assistance just like happened in fiscal year 18 and fiscal year 17 and the united states' efforts to continue to fight corruption continue throughout this year so that's what happened in washington with respect to ukraine this year and i think that's important because here i sit in europe a place that understands deeply the challenges of corruption in ukraine to stocks about those risks to europe incessantly and properly and importantly and our administration to the united states has been very worried about ukrainian corruption

the undersecretary for political affairs and laura cooper deputy assistant secretary of defense alan fischer in washington d.c. to bring us up to date allan this testimony which we've been watching just now it's a lot more. technical and a bit more dry i would say but what have you taken from and now. 2 really important things 1st of all in his opening statement devin nunes who is the leading republican on this committee said it was time to bring an end to the whole bring an end to this hearing said they should really just haltered know and they wanted to speak to the whistleblower at some point now they're not going to reveal who the whistleblower is that seems to annoy the republicans it's important to remember that this whole impeachment inquiry started we are told because they were so blower came forward 'd and said he'd heard from the number of people about this phone call where donald trump offered the ukrainian president a quid pro quo so why is that important because we had just in the last couple of hours 'd gordon and when asked was there a quid pro quo he said yes there are wars w

he says they're still hoping for her return but hope may not be enough to see for alan fischer al-jazeera mexico city. of thousands of people who survived a devastating cycle in zimbabwe 8 months ago are still living in tents hundreds were killed and thousands displaced one cycle any day struck parts of southern africa there are fears the rainy season will now make the lives of survivors even worse than with us or has more from chin money money in eastern zimbabwe. home for mabel check out our used to be a house with a small garden now she lives in the tent with her husband and children. they survived tropical cycle that struck parts of eastern zimbabwe in march but she says adjusting to this new way of living is hard her family never has enough food and whenever it rains it's terrifying not to just sit up to do much and only dug up from it brings back bad memories i keep thinking what if that terrible storm happens again last time could spit in my life what if this time is different in a day and always kid living in. many people in this camp say they want to place to call their own again

president and despite evidence from others on tuesday he insists president bush did nothing wrong alan fischer al-jazeera washington. still to come for you here on al-jazeera iraq breaks out as the u.k. prime minister and the main opposition party leader go head to head in the 1st debates in the run up to the u.k.'s general election also ahead we'll look at the financial implications of the political unrest ongoing unrest in iraq. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast well here across northern and western europe it is still quite chilly we're talking about temperatures in the single digits as a high and that's really going to stay like that today as well as into tomorrow down towards the south though we're watching this area of low pressure here in the mediterranean bring a lot of rain across much of the area today as well so anywhere from greece up across the balkan peninsula up towards vienna as well we could be seeing the very heavy rain now the good news is it looks like as we go towards tomorrow the rain is going to be making its way towards the east we're going

mentalists say the damage should be cause for alarm remember again north dakota al-jazeera as alan fischer reports. they're working around the clock in subzero temperatures and still the cleanup we take months it's 2 weeks since more than 1000 barrels of oil leaked into a field near edinburg in north dakota it's the 2nd major leak from the keystone pipeline in 2 years the 4th in 10 and environmentalist's see this is exactly what they feared this is as far as we can go the only people are beyond here are employees and regulators and some environmentalists say that stopping them from finding out exactly how bad the leak is the keystone pipeline carries around 590000 barrels a day from canada to refineries in the u.s. operated by t.c. energy the canadian company insists it's doing all it can to minimize disruption and damage our main goal in this is to do it correctly and do it safely in a does not matter how long it takes as long as we do it right the energy company wants to build a new pipeline the keystone x.l. it would double the capacity it was blocked on environmental crimes by barack o

he says they're still hoping for her return but hope we not be enough to see for alan fischer mexico city so he's from chile a football federation has canceled all matches for the rest of the season because of security concerns after weeks of antigovernment protests matches were suspended when the violence started last month the 6 remaining fixtures have all been cancelled and no teams will be relegated or promoted the protests began against plans to increase public transport fares but they have grown into why did demonstrations against social inequality. hundreds of people are in bethlehem to mark the start of the christmas season lights were turned on outside the church of nativity where christians believe jesus was born a relic said to be from jesus's manger was returned to bethlehem it had been stored in the vatican for more than a 1000 years palestinian president mahmoud abbas negotiated its return last year. just a quick recap of the headlines this hour for you iraq's prime minister has officially handed his resignation to parliament idyll abdul mahdi held an emergency meeting

has delivered some of the most anticipated testimony at the donald trump and preachment inquiry alan fischer reports. from the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. stunning testimony so england said it was abundantly clear to everyone ukraine would not receive military aid from the u.s. or a meeting at the white house unless it announced an investigation into a company connected to the son of political opponent joe biden was there a quid pro quo as i testified previously with regard to the requested white house call and the white house meeting the answer is yes. sundin previously denied the security it was conditioned on the biden investigation but he told the impeachment panel it warts in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid i later came to believe that the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement from ukraine committing to the investigations of the 2016 elections and a recent and he insisted senior figures on the administration knew what was going on including the vice president and the secretary of state everyone was in the loop the

tuesday the trumpet ministration has dismissed their testimonies as personal opinion and conjecture alan fischer reports from washington. this could be a pivotal week in the donald trump impeachment hearings many of those shared jewel to give evidence were on the controversial july call with the ukrainian president that kills a key claim the hearings are based on secondhand reports giving evidence of tenet colonel alexander vigilant a career army officer and the ukraine expert on the national security council he was concerned by the call by president trump pushing for an investigation into democrat joe biden and his son immediately those concerns to a white house lawyer is improper for the president of the united states to demand a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen and a political opponent a decorated veteran of the war in iraq vidlin has seen his actions in testifying under attack from president trump supporters who question his loyalty this is america is the country i've served and defended that all of my brothers have served and here right matters. thank you sir gilbert. one of vi

and impose travel bans on their leaders but there are warnings the plan will end up backfiring alan fischer reports from mexico city. the death of 9 americans in a cartel ambush earlier this month sparked widespread outrage for the victims 3 women 6 children were traveling through a remote area in northern mexico when they want to tact jewel u.s. mexican citizens the family the labatt ins demanded the white house days ignorant mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations you're going to do a telephone interview with a right wing talk host president donald trump said that process is underway i've been working on that for the last 90 days you know designation is not that easy i don't go through a process. mexico's drug cartels are huge operations they control large chunks of the country and are involved in drug trafficking assassinations kidnapping and political corruption being designated a terrorist organization by america means it becomes illegal for anyone to knowingly support the groups if banks realize they handle any cartel funds they must block the money under and form the governme

white house will back away from what many people here see as a dangerous and dramatic overreaction alan fischer al-jazeera mexico city apple's map and weather applications of started displaying the disputed crimea region as part of russian territory but the change is only visible to users inside russia else where the territory does not display as part of any country russian troops seize and an excuse me in 2014 which ukraine and its western allies denounced as illegal the united nations has urged greece to argentine pull of conditions in overcrowded refugee and migrant camps on its silence the un high commissioner for refugees from people grandy described conditions as miserable during a visit to les pauls about $39000.00 asylum seekers are currently living on various islands and hundreds more arrive daily greece's government says it's already trying to improve the camps and more unaccompanied children to accommodation on the mainland. guinea-bissau president shows a mario vazquez is out of the race to stain his former prime minister. and. no one now battling it out in a runoff vote next month.

family was shot dead mexico's president says he wants corporation not interventionism live to alan fischer in mexico city for as salaam bells ringing in mexico city and mexico in general allen how will the mexican government handle this while they try to stop the. well there is big concern here in mexico for a number of reasons 1st of all if the united states does go ahead and designate the cartels as terrorist organizations people here are worried that the united states may then launch attacks into mexican territory they could use a drone strike to take out a cartel leader in the way that they've attacked senior terrorist figures in the middle east they are why they choose that americans might stop coming across the border on vacation who wants to go to a country where terrorist organizations control large parts but people also see this as donald trump appealing to his political base remember this was a man who launched his political campaign by saying that mexico sent rapists and criminals to america they think he is simply pandering to them and therefore they're going to see what they c

of trafficking he says they're still hoping for her return but hope we not be enough to see for alan fischer al-jazeera mexico city are sudan's former governing party has condemned a new law that seeking to dissolve it and seize its assets the national congress party accused what it calls an illegal new government of taking a reckless decision kavin to pass a law to disband former president mahmoud abbas she is part of the solution was a main demand of protesters during months of unrest that led to bashir is removed. protest leader 100 kooker welcomed the developments but he's demanding further change. we are actually really excited about this rule it was like finally coming we were expecting it months ago and now that it's happening this is the one thing that was all uniting us on october 21st we went into big protests and the main aim was dismantling the national congress party and to us this is an end of an era just having this work is a big deal now when you want to talk about the deep state and all that and the committee that they put together there's only one thing that's really scarin

let's pull of together with alan fischer now has been following developments in washington alan it's not over is it in fact today is possibly pushed the house closer to the idea of impeachment actual articles of impeachment than ever before. well i don't know what media donald trump is looking at saying it's over i can't see anyone saying that i've also been looking at fox news and some of their commentators are saying this was a very damaging day for donald trump no if you've been at what cold day or you can't sit next the television or the radio we've been watching these impeachment hearings so you don't have to let me tell you the big reveal is of course court and saundra and saying look there was a quid pro quo or you remember this all started because an anonymous whistleblower hared the call on july 25th or let me correct that got reports from people who were on the call on july 25th and said there was something wrong about this so lodged a complaint with the inspector general for the intelligence community that then sparked these inquiries and that led to the impeachment hearin

he says they're still hoping for her return but hope we not be enough to see for alan fischer al-jazeeramexico city. chile's football federation has canceled all matches for the rest of the season because of security concerns the 6 remaining fixtures have been cancelled and no teams will be relegated or promoted. the decision follows weeks of antigovernment protests the demonstrations were originally against plans to increase public transport but they've grown into wider protests against social inequality. for the 1st time facebook has issued a correction noticed on a user's post at the request of singapore's government facebook embedded a correction notice at the bottom of the original post which contain claims of election rigging but it did not alter the text is in compliance with a law that demands social media platforms issue a notice on information the government deems as false critics of the north say it could be used to crackdown on free speech but they all the digital platforms and social media companies have had some sort of run in with governments apple says is taking a deeper

democrats are going to keep pushing this through the house allan thank you very much for that alan fischer live for us in washington d.c. has more about this to kyron higgens professor. law at cardozo school of law he's live from new york thank you so much for being with us. as we said it was a long day but a sunny a very important one which of the testimonies that we heard today do you think were the most damning for for the president and why. lieutenant colonel did when men of course he was the one who said that immediately upon hearing the president say what he said on the call on july 25th that it was inappropriate he went to the lawyers for the national security council where he's an official he was told by that lawyer to report anything else he heard and he has great credibility as a military man and the republicans only line of defense against him was really to attack his his character to repeat some allegations that his judgment was in question or that he had leaked materials from the n.s.c. right and what about kurt volker a witness that the republicans had pushed for offered a di

things on tuesday the white house attacked its own ukraine experts as he testified to serious alan fischer reports. this could be a pivotal week in the donald trump impeachment hearings many of those show jewel to give evidence but on the controversial july call with the ukrainian president that kills a key claim the hearings are based on 2nd hand reports giving evidence of tenet colonel alexander vigilant a career army officer and the ukraine expert on the national security council he was concerned by the call by president trump pushing for an investigation into democrat joe biden and his son immediately took those concerns to a white house lawyer is improper for the president of the united states to demand a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen and a political opponent. a decorated veteran of the war in iraq vidlin has seen his actions in testifying under attack from president from supporters who question his loyalty this is america is the country i've served and defended that all of my brothers have served and here right matters. thank you sir gilbert. illy one of vice presiden

ahead there's no guarantee that it will bring more protests to north dakota and to standing rock alan fischer al-jazeera linton north dakota. india's top court has ordered the government to assess the benefits of switching from fossil based fuels to clean up hydrogen there's been a smug emergency in recent days that's affecting parts of northeastern india in the capital new delhi schools are being told to remain shut for 2 days as the air quality index it's at 458 anything above 60 is considered to be unhealthy at least 2 people have been killed after a tornado swept through a town in eastern south africa these pictures show a separate incident in which a van was flips but surprisingly none of the passengers were injured the large storm hit new hanover late on tuesday the authorities of talk locals to stay alert as heavy rain and thunderstorms continue to hit the region. much of the italian city of venice is still underwater after the highest tide there in 50 years officials there are blaming climate change locals are angry more hasn't been done to protect the you know city from high tides th

he says they're still hoping for her return but hope may not be enough to see for alan fischer al-jazeera mexico city. police in chile have faults with protesters in the capital demonstrators threw rocks at officers who responded with tear gas and water cannon several people were arrested is there ollie's began in october when the government decides its increase metro fares well a proposal has since been reversed but the tester's demands have widened to a call for social equality thousands of yemenis have rallied in ties to protest against a worsening economic situation demonstrators blame the government and the saudi u.a.e. coalition for mismanaging the economy but the rebels are surrounding the city and have cut off supply lines for years of war has destroyed roads and much needed facilities there is a shortage of basic goods and many of minny's on the verge of famine. schools across iran's capital have been closed because of air pollution so has suffered from dangerous levels of pollution and smorgon the past few weeks the city's air is among the most polluted in the worlds. now thousa

i'm alan fischer in linton north dakota remember the people who protested at standing rock in north dakota over plans to build an oil pipeline unitive american land well they're back this type protesting plans to expand that pipeline. and sport some last minute changes for football's arab gulf cup as the 3 blockading nations say they will now compete in qatar. palestinian armed group islamic jihad has now offered israel terms for a ceasefire after 2 days of cross border fighting egypt's been helping broker a truce between the sides israel continued however to bomb gaza or in the early hours of thursday something she had fighters have also fired over 200 rock. it's in response $32.00 palestinians have been killed in the past 2 days an escalation which began after israel killed a senior leader of islamic jihad. firstly we want a stop to all the s.s. nations inside the gaza strip and the west bank generally secondly to cease firing on all the protesters taking part in the great march of return thirdly for israel to abide by agreements discussed in cairo relating to measures that have to be ta

in these open hearings public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into us president don't trump alan fischer with us our correspondent in washington d.c. as i said has been a lot to take in today. how about you take us through your views on what we've seen and heard today. big day important day historic day i think you know the republicans are parts missing a trick at the end of the proceedings for the last couple of days and sent to live just said yeah this is a show or tonight it was devon is saying this is story time thank you and good night where is adam schiff sums up his view of what the evidence has pointed them to undoubtedly the most important testimony came from gordon saunders of the man who is the e.u. ambassador the us ambassador to the e.u. the man who when asked was there a quid pro quo when it came to giving aid to ukraine he said yes he then implicated senior figures in the trumpet ministration saying everyone acted at the direction of the president and everyone knew about this the secretary of state might pompey or vice president mike pence chief of staff might move any of

treasury department is getting more and more now on how this is going down in mexico from alan fischerwho is live in mexico city and alan one presumes that mexico didn't know anything about it until they heard it heard it on the radio so what reaction so far. well there had been some talk about over the last couple of days and in fact at the beginning of the week the foreign minister here said that he didn't think the americans were going to go ahead with it and then we have got all trumped going on to the radio and saying yeah we're looking at the designation he says he's been working on this for 90 days or so in fact many people believe that he came under pressure from the lebaron family that might be a story that you may have missed that was a family 9 americans who also have mexican citizenship were driving in a rope remote part of northern mexico when they were ambushed by a cocktail gang no 6 children and 3 adults were killed and many members of the family petitioned the white house to have cocktails designated as terrorist groups while the whole thing came up at the president's

i'm alan fischer in linton north dakota remember the people who protested at standing rock in north dakota over plans to build an oil pipeline unitive american land well they're back this type protesting plans to expand that pipeline. welcome back to international weather forecast for the last couple of days have been very stormy here across much of southern europe all dealing with an area of low pressure brings a very heavy rain flooding approach cross parts of the adriatic as well as very heavy snow across parts of the alps into austria as well now not much is going to be changing the winds can be dying down but still very heavy rain is expected to pass again over parts of italy also very heavy snow across much of the area so this is something we're going to be watching over the next few days notice here as we go toward saturday the rain really remains across much of the region from though it is going to be rainy all through the weekend 17 degrees dropping down to 15 as we go towards saturday even heavier rain as we go towards sunday so expect to see some localized flooding across much o

campaign if a federal court clears the way for his appearance let's go live now to washington as alan fischer can tell us how significant is this allan. i would think the chances of john bolton giving evidence in front of an impeachment inquiry are still very slim that if you put in right in the end if a federal judge gives his approval now if there is going to be a court battle over whether or not john bolton can speak to the impeachment inquiry it could well drag on into the new year that's not something that the democrats want to do and so they're not going to take it to the court which will then go to appeal and then expect the supreme court to weigh in this is going to be dealt with by many people on the committee saying this is just another example of the white house obstructing is therefore we will add that to the articles of impeachment that would please the white house to a degree of course they're going to get the obstruction charge but it's understood that john bolton could be very damaging if he did give evidence in public that is because he is on record of being very critical of

state department officials on the issue alan fischer is in mexico city he says trump's decision has taken many officials from both sides of the border by surprise it appears that donald trump was under pressure from the law banning family that's the american family who deal mexican u.s. citizenship who were driving through a remote part of northern mexico at the beginning of this year when they were ambushed by one of the cartels 6 children 3 adults were killed many members of the le baron family petitioned the white house and said they felt it was time for the u.s. to designate the cartels as a terrorist organization donald trump his self has said that it's time to start clearing the cartels out you know there could be quite a distance between donald trump making this a moment when he's speaking to a right wing radio talk show host and something actually happening there are several legal steps but it certainly would kaito towards his position of being hard on mexico or hard on the drug traffickers as well but in mexico the president was asked about it during his daily news conference and

white house will back away from what many people here see as a dangerous and dramatic overreaction alan fischer al-jazeera mexico city. now plans are overhauling mining laws in bougainville could completely complicate the progress towards independence from papua new guinea the region's vice president says hill redistribute copper and gold mining rights and that would thereby it raise stakes currently held by the papua new guinea and government and the former operator a 60 percent share would go to bergen ville with the rest of a the ball to investors the move could affect the kosi asians after the independence vote polling began last saturday and ends on december 7th the southeast asian games start in the philippines on saturday but the organizers are facing complaints that athletes have been forced to sleep on the floor and go hungry jimmy or allen dogan has more now from manila. i don't press conference here in manila organizers in charge coming from the government actually denied that they have been disorderly in their management of the sea games here in the philippines they even said that t

white house will back away from what many people here see as a dangerous and dramatic overreaction alan fischer al-jazeera mexico city spanish police have seized a homemade submarine that was carrying 3000 kilos of cocaine across the atlantic the 20 meter long wessel was intercepted off spain's northern coast after an international police operation it had been deliberately sunk by its 3 man crew to ecuadorians have been arrested one more is on the run submarines are a commonly used to smuggle drugs in south america but place a this is the 1st to be intercepted in europe. rescue workers in albania racing to find survivors from tuesday's powerful earthquake at least 26 people were killed and hundreds injured when the magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck they'll pena's 2nd largest city of duress chancer a police report. the day after albania's most powerful earthquake in decades rescue teams are still digging in search of survivors but their relatives are worried this man's daughter and granddaughter are under the rubble of this apartment building he spoke to them by mobile phone in the 1st few hours a

oil again even though it has not revealed what caused the pipeline feel here in the 1st place alan fischer al-jazeera edinburg north dakota. hundreds of animals in zimbabwe's national park of died from a severe drought with many others now struggling to survive ranges plan to move some areas where there is food and water. has been sued monopoles national park to find out more just a warning some images in this report you may find disturbing. thanks she's thirsty hungry and too weak to get up. cold water is poured on her to try and cool her down but the animal is too far gone 24 hours later she's dead is the dry season in zimbabwe but park officials say this year it's much hotter and drier than usual hundreds of elephants and other animals are dying we've been through some pretty bad ones. when you see animals just walk here and elephants for example and they just collect on their legs really roll over they just collapse and die. it's very emotional. this is monopoles national park a unesco world heritage site in the north people here say the land is completely changed this is long haul the

president and despite evidence from others on tuesday he insists president bush did nothing wrong alan fischer al-jazeera washington. still to come here on al-jazeera a row breaks out as the u.k.'s prime minister and the main opposition party leader go head to head in the 1st televised debates of the general election campaign and violence in bolivia as the army tries to end the blockade on a major fuel plant. hello again it's good to have you back well here across the philippines we are going to be watching to better conditions in the next few days we did have a tropical system pushing across was on brings a very heavy rain across the region the system is going to emerge back into the south china sea still some very heavy rain there for manila here on thursday better conditions though by the time we get towards friday and your temperature coming up to about $32.00 degrees there across much of malaysia as well as indonesia a very heavy rain over the next few days pushing over here towards the west as well call a poor singapore expect to see those rain showers pretty much all day temperature in

oil again even though it has not revealed what caused the pipeline feel here in the 1st place alan fischer al-jazeera edinburg north dakota. saudi arabia bahrain and the united arab emirates have confirmed they're now take part in football's arabian gulf cup in qatar join the likes of defending champions kuwait who won the tournament back in 2017 and for other gulf nations initially the 3 countries said they'd boycott this month's torment the trio along with egypt imposed a blockade and the $27.00. we had some discussion about the ongoing gulf dispute which has lasted for more than 2 years there are american efforts which qatar appreciates to preserve the unity of the g.c.c. and to return it back to what it used to be qatar is always open to dialogue and has expressed its readiness to engage in an unconditional dialogue based on mutual respect nonintervention in the international affairs of other states and respecting for the sovereignty of other states. start a quick check of the headlines here and al-jazeera protesters in hong kong are targeting commuters for a 3rd day demonstrators are

number of homicides in the 1st 6 months of the year on the vine it shows no sign of slowing down as alan fischer ports from mexico city. luis enrique hopes one day soon his daughter will stop being a statistic one of the thousands missing in mexico he stopped strangers on the street asking for help follows up every possible lead but more than a month on i'm ronnie is still missing from my home in a cat to pick about an hour's drive from mexico city. i couldn't get in touch with her by foreigner what set me says i didn't know she came to my house or went to my mother's but i wasn't worried because she did that sometimes i thought maybe her cell phone ran out of vetri the next day there was still no contact he had no choice but to go to the authorities to report her missing missing this but he will i felt defenseless and i felt impotent because i had to do all the investigation i had to bring all the information to the authorities i even had to force them to search for her. i'm irani is one of thousands of mexicans who disappeared each year some have been trafficked others have been murdered the g

president and despite evidence from others on tuesday he insists president bush did nothing wrong alan fischer al-jazeera washington. still to come here on al-jazeera face to face in the 1st televised debate we'll hear the latest arguments as britain's election campaign heats up. also ahead burnt out in baghdad as of paying the price of the political protests. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast well improving conditions here across parts of japan but not in terms of the temperatures those are actually coming down slightly across the area the system is moving now into the pacific and behind it we still have some clouds we still are looking at that cold air coming into play only into the teens up towards sapporo only getting up to about 2 degrees here on thursday by the time we get to friday a little bit warmer up there but still very cloudy and also some rain possibly coming into tokyo by the time we get towards friday evening well now looking to about across much of southeastern china right now but up to the north for shanghai it is going to be a little bit cooler

officials believe the 2 were connected alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . from the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. stunning testimony and said it was abundantly clear to everyone ukraine would not received.

president and despite evidence from others on tuesday he insists president bush did nothing wrong alan fischer washington. exhausted but defiant a small number of protesters still inside a hong kong university campus are refusing orders to come out and surrender some of been trying to escape and avoid officers who surrounded the building the standoff began on sunday after some of the most intense violence and more than 5 months of anti government protests were during the worst of it demonstrators hold petrol bombs and even shot arrows at riot squads who threatened to respond with live ammunition meanwhile the u.s. senate has passed a bill to support human rights in kong and china has reacted to that bill as it was under thomas joins us live now from beijing andrew so what more have chinese officials been saying about this bill passed by the u.s. senate. well i think it's fair to say that beijing knew that this vote was coming up and knew that it was like to be passed and they had a pretty big statement prepared it came out immediately wednesday morning and it's very long and it's very strong b

military aid to ukraine was dependent on the inquiries demanded by trump let's go live now to alan fischer in washington and it was a riveting testimony that we heard from gordon sohn lin today what could this all mean for the president does it a show his impeachment. i think that's almost i don't think you can underestimate just how significant the testimony that we had today was here was court and so on bill and donald trump although a few hours ago were saying he hardly knew the man is close to donald trump spoke to him regularly according to his testimony gave him $1000000.00 for his inauguration fund and was appointed as the e.u. ambassador saying in front of congress that there was indeed a quid pro quo that donald trump was holding up aid to give to ukraine until ukraine announced an investigation into the 26000 election and also into joe biden and his sons business dealings in ukraine but he did it very cleverly he didn't quite cross the line of pointing the finger directly at donald trump here is what he did do he said that senior officials followed the president's orders and he n

president and despite evidence from others on tuesday he insists president bush did nothing wrong alan fischer al-jazeera washington. exhausted but defiant a small number of protesters inside a hong kong university campus are refusing orders to surrender some have been trying to escape and avoid police officers who have surrounded the building the standoff began on sunday oppa some of the most intense violence more than 5 months of anti-government protests meanwhile the u.s. senate has approved a bill to support human rights in hong kong let's bring in sara clark with joins us live now from sara so just bring us up to date on the situation at the university and how many students are still left inside. we are at the university the public take the university encounter we can confirm in the last hour 3 of those protesters have been arrested a small group tried to skype through the drainage system in the underground drainage system on the campus the 3 were arrested the others have retreated and gone back inside now we believe there were between 60 and 100 of those students are mine holed up on thi

president and despite evidence from others on tuesday he insists president bush did nothing wrong alan fischer al-jazeera washington. still to come here on al-jazeera violence in bolivia as the army tries to end the blockade of a major fuel plot and. i'm florence leon young turn lake at least in china where harry crabs off on so popular and expensive that that imitation in the market that story coming up. had a there still a very unsettled weather picture across much of europe in particular of the central med and central europe little is activity in the last few hours it is going to be carrying away but the damage has already been particularly close and austria widespread we've had avalanches mudslides and also flooding this is evidence of mudslides a here's a closer view you can see this is actually just to the north of salzburg huge swathes of land being taken away and of holes some buildings have been destroyed but as a say the good news is this system is actually on its way for the tools east now does mean the rain is heading on tools of all kinds if not to behind kara conditions sunny fin