armenians at the end of world war one as genocide a term rejected by the turkish government alan fischer reports from washington. are 403 the nays are 16 from the u.s. house of representatives an overwhelming bipartisan message to donald trump it's time to sanction turkey for its military action against the cards with these targeted strong sanctions america is holding accountable top turkish officials responsible for human rights abuses including attacking our kurdish partners it was elliot this month donald trump suddenly announced he was pulling u.s. troops from northern syria that led to a turkish operation in the area against syrian kurds who with the syrian democratic forces the s.d.f. had been the u.s. partner in the fight against eisel the syrian observatory for human rights says by the time a cease fire was declared around 140 civilians have been killed and more than 175000 people displaced as turkey tried to create a 30 kilometer safe zone on the syrian border. president trumps decision brought widespread criticism even from his closest allies one of them republican lindsey grah

rollin fischer is live so alan that the starting point is that the president has said that yes i asked ukraine to look into my political rival but it seems that what the republican party is doing is still going back to attacking the whistleblower now there's a 2nd whistle blower so what does this mean. ok for those of you not following along home what we had was someone coming up and seeing the world worried about a pattern of behavior of the president when he was dealing with ukrainian president and also with other world leaders that he's using essentially his political power to advance his personal agenda and he was getting that essentially 2nd hand other people were coming to him and expressing concern about what they'd heard on phone calls donald trump could easily dismiss that he said look this is all hearsay what i did i did nothing wrong and then he released the transcript or part of the transcript of the call with the minutes which tended to support what the whistleblower seeing no we have this 2nd whistleblower who has firsthand knowledge they were in the room if actually not

louisville mayor gregg fischer. what percentage of the people do you expect will come back?ayor fisher: so we know from some of our projects in the past, we know that about a third of the people move back. soledad: beecher terrace was built in 1939 to accommodate kentucky's burgeoning black middle class. restaurants and businesses lined the streets. today, 60% of the people in russell live in poverty. how can you avoid changing the russell neighborhood, you know, really the deal and five, not just -- the feel and vibe, not just move in new richer, whiter people into a community that's historically black? lisa: and that's gonna be the challenge for all of us for all of us. we know we're changing the neighborhood. soledad: lisa osanka is the head of the louisville metro housing authority and has been working to build affordable housing since she was a teenager. >> so demolition is proceeding in this area. soledad: she says being intentional is an essential part of the project. the city has begun discussing the creation of community land trusts for the first time. lisa: communi

where alan fischer is live for us now so let's talk about this a 2nd whistleblower and alan put this in some sort of context for us. ok it's worth reminding ourselves that the fox whistle blower came forward because they were concerned about what they described as a pattern of behavior it wasn't over just one phone call the donald trump tried to undermine that by releasing a partial transcript of the call with the ukrainian president saying look that shows i did nothing wrong that's not quite everyone's reading of that the inspector general thought the initial whistleblower brought forward something that was credible and arjen so had to be dealt with and of course donald trump said well that whistleblower wasn't there they're getting 2nd time information this is all here see what we have know is a 2nd whistle blower coming forward not with a new complaint saying i corroborate what happened but also it appears from what we can gather is that this person was in the room maybe not on the call but certainly in the room and they have no going to the inspector general of the intelligence c

starts to ease sanctions on north korea they won't be going back to the negotiating table alan fischer. washington scott snyder a senior fellow for korea stays and director of the program at u.s. korea policy at the council on foreign relations who joins us from washington d.c. thank you very much for your time so why such a quick set back. well actually the north koreans indicated before arriving in sweden that they were only going to come for one and a half days of talks and so i do believe that the early cut off was foreshadowed by the statement of north korea's vice foreign minister but i think that the bigger reason is that the north koreans at this time came looking for concessions rather than negotiations and that is really driven by their perception that president front might be dust for enough to make a bad deal with north korea in order to go into the election election season with a diplomatic victory so when you say that they look at the president of the united states as perhaps desperate what is he done to give that impression i mean going back to perhaps this summit that h

where alan fischer is live for us now so alan just to be clear i'm president trump said he did this he stood in front of the white house and say and has tweeted and said yes i asked ukraine to look into joe biden my should have everybody does having said that he and the republicans are still drilling down on this whistleblower complaint the 1st one now but there's a 2nd one what does this mean. well you have to remember that the 1st whistleblower complaint was about just one thing call it was a pattern of behavior and they reported it to the inspector general for the intelligence community who phoned the that complaint was credible and arjen republican said well this came to the fox whistleblower by someone else by a 3rd party he was acting on here see what we have know is the 2nd whistleblower coming forward who was actually in the room they might not be in the call but they were actually in the room so they are corroborating a lot of what the force whistleblower said oh you remember that one of donald trump's planks of his defense was that i'm going to release the transcript and the

starts to ease sanctions on north korea they won't be going back to the negotiating table alan fischer al-jazeera washington scott snyder is a senior fellow for korea studies and director of the program on u.s. korea policy at the council on foreign relations says north korea will not budge on its nuclear ambitions regardless of washington's bargaining tactics so parent lee will. set. the biggest reason i think is related to president trump's appearance at the demilitarized zone you know following hanoi the north koreans were facing their own failure and the meeting at the d.m.z. really rewrote that script and made it look like president trump was the one who was calling on kim jong un. and combination with the perception that president trump as talked about a new process you know indicated possibly he keeps on playing up the relationship with kim jong un it's true that president trump has met 3 times with the decision maker in north korea but we haven't gotten the decision that the u.s. wants national security adviser bolton notably thought that kim jong un is moving in the opposite d

client actually witnessed the phone call between president trump and his ukrainian counterpart alan fischer reports. an unusually low profile we can for president trump despite a new development in the high profile preachment quality of lawyers for the whistleblower who expressed concern over the controversial phone call with the ukrainian president have now confirmed on twitter there is another witness it said this government official has firsthand knowledge and supports the claims of the force was so blown the new witness is cooperating with the intelligence community's inspector general and the real we can tweet president trump dismiss the news writing they are going to the bench and another whistleblower is coming in from the deep state keep them coming but this weakens one leg of donald trump's defense that the original complaint was based on here see he asked his ukrainian counterpart to investigate one of his political rivals to biden during a call in july he insists he has every right to ask another country to examine wrongdoing involving americans but american law prohibits foreign

starts to ease sanctions on north korea they won't be going back to the negotiating table alan fischer al-jazeera washington well young shit bang is a research fellow at yonsei university he says he's not sure if these talks will lead to a breakthrough. it confirms there is a certain tension on both sides to make a diplomatic breakthrough while overdoing the possible tragedy of military actions in order to solve the problem so i believe that there is a hope for continues to negotiations and dialogue north korea seems to have come back to its previous negotiating tactics which is to demand the other time making big concessions forest before asking north korea to do anything in return donald trump said himself in the although he tries to make all the positive rosy spends on the current situation between north korea and the united states people are beginning to ask where is the period where is the actual 'd you know breakthrough so the decision point is coming closer and closer for the trumpet the administration to decide whether just superficial positive images of the current situation w

security the democrats assess an october 15th deadline alan fischer reports. from washington's capitol building more subpoenas in the growing impeachment inquiry this time new secretary of defense mark esper and the acting white house budget director have been asked for any documents which explain the timing and the reason president trump withheld military aid to ukraine the president continues to condemn those behind the impeachment you know but also insists it's not hearting him it's lucky that i'm the president because i guess i don't know what a lot of people said very few people going to handle it i sort of thrive on it a 2nd whistleblower is no cooperating with the intelligence communities inspector general his lawyers say he has 1st hand knowledge of the july phone call when president trump asked his ukrainian counterpart to investigate joe biden and his son hunter alleging corruption he's yet to provide any evidence of that if you see something say something and that's what these courageous patriotic wurzel blowers have been doing about ukraine a few r

starts to ease sanctions on north korea they won't be going back to the negotiating table alan fischer al-jazeera washington. all right still ahead when we come back. i just too long to baby why someone is desired to become mothers is causing an uproar in france plus. a major thomas in australia where recent fires combined with the worst drought on record adding devastating consequences for farmers and it's not even the summer yet. how the rain is pretty well scattered throughout southeast asia at the moment the rain band should be moving south now with the sun the sun the evidence of that but equally just look at the satellite picture showers all over the place some concentration recently in thailand and i could intensify the evening cambodia you could well see by tuesday a green center which means heavy rain but shasta larkin's in the will have to sumatra and it's in the lazy down towards singapore and particularly in borneo as yet java looks fairly dry and silly way she's got a couple of days off as well having seen some pretty wet weather in the last few days in australia and chang

starts to ease sanctions on north korea they won't be going back to the negotiating table alan fischer al-jazeera washington. long as research fellow at yonsei university institute for north korea studies he joins us via skype from seoul we appreciate your time so obviously these talks broke down but overall have had these attempts at talks accomplished anything even a little. it to come forms that there is a sewing tension on both sides to make a diplomatic breakthrough while overloading the possible tragedy of military actions you know to solve the problem so i believe that there's a hope for continuos the negotiations and dialogue north korea seems to have come back to it the previous negotiating tactics reduced that the men the other side making big concessions for just before asking north korea to do anything in return is north korea north korea rather playing this is if they somehow have the f.r. hand and today considering that us president donald trump is in the middle of being investigated for impeachment i believe so north korea leader just seems to be very much interested in

the autumn an empire at the end of the force world war remains an atrocity and not a genocide alan fischer al-jazeera washington. facebook is suing an israeli cyber surveillance firm for allegedly hacking uses of its encrypted messaging service whatsapp the lawsuit filed in san francisco is the 1st legal action of its kind according to facebook facebook says the n.s.a. group hacked into the phones of roughly 1400 users targeting human rights activists political dissidents and journalists omar abdel aziz is a friend of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi who was killed inside the saudi arabia consulate in istanbul in 2018 last december he filed a lawsuit against an s.o.s. saying that the hacking of my phone played a major role in what happened to jamal. group has not directed tonight hacking whatsapp but said it disputes the allegations and vowed to vigorously fight them it's going to be on this for marco instead his chief analyst for digital services of japan he joins us now via skype from tokyo good to have you with us what do you make of those denials from the n.s.o. group that it stung not

sanctions in exchange for the north limiting its nuclear bomb and missile technology alan fischer falls. in the chill of an evening in sweden a free to return to negotiations between the u.s. and north korea the 2 sites have been meeting in stockholm for the 1st time since previous nuclear talks broke down at a field summit in vietnam in february but it quickly became clear the 2 are dramatically far apart the u.s. raise expectations by offering suggestions like a flexible approach new method and creative solution is but they have disappointed us greatly and dampen aren't doozie as in for negotiation by bringing nothing to the negotiation table both sides agreed to restart the talks after donald trump's remarkable visit to north korea in june at the end of the g. 7 in japan he met the north korean president kim jumpman at the demilitarized zone in the area marking the border between north and south korea and then took the dramatic step over the border the 1st u.s. president to do so there was hope fresh talks might make progress after president trumps national security adviser john bolt

the trumpet did pressure ukraine to investigate a political rival and exchange for military alan fischer reports. william taylor is the acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine a career diplomat who served democrats and republican administrations the white house ordered him to ignore the impeachment inquiry he defied that instruction his closed door testimony may be highly damaging to president trump he was what he the white house meeting with ukraine's new president vladimir's alinsky was being held up until he delivered ukrainian help in investigating donald trump's political rival joe biden in his opening statement he said he spoke with ambassador gordon saundra and the u.s. envoy to the european union during that phone call ambassador sunderland told me that president trump had told him that he wants president selenski to state publicly that ukraine will investigate burst and alleged ukrainian interference in the 2016 election taylor said in the statement joe biden's son hunter had been a board member of a ukrainian gas company killer continued ambassador sunderland also told me that he no

the autumn an empire at the end of the farce world war remains an atrocity and not a genocide alan fischer al-jazeera washington boeing c is admitting mistakes were made with the company's 737 max jet crashes involving 2 planes killed 346 people in the past year than a small number appeared before a u.s. congressional committee and admitted there were errors in the jet's software he also said the company failed to give pilots enough information on a system meant to prevent the store we are sorry deeply and truly sorry as a husband and father myself. i'm heartbroken by your loss i think about you and your loved ones every day and i know our entire boeing team does as well i know that probably doesn't offer much comfort and healing at this point but i want you to know that we carry those memories with us every day and every day that drives us to improve the safety of our airplanes and our industry and that will never stop. thousands of protesters have been back on the streets of chile's capital despite a government reshuffle aimed at ending the unrest demonstrators threw rocks at police vehi

armenians at the end of world war one as genocide a time rejected by the turkish government alan fischer reports from washington. are 403 the nays are 162 from the u.s. house of representatives an overwhelming bipartisan message to donald trump it's time to sanction turkey for its military action against the cards with these targeted strong sanctions america is holding accountable top turkish officials responsible for human rights abuses including attacking our kurdish partners it was elliot this month donald trump suddenly announced he was pulling u.s. troops from northern syria that led to a turkish operation in the area against syrian kurds who with the syrian democratic forces the s.d.f. had been the u.s. partner in the fight against eisel the syrian observatory for human rights says by the time a cease fire was the cleared around 140 civilians had been killed and more than 175000 people displaced as turkey tried to create a 30 kilometer safe zone on the syrian border. president trumps decision brought widespread criticism even from his closest allies one of them republican lindsey g

starts to ease sanctions on north korea they won't be going back to the negotiating table alan fischer al-jazeera washington a gold miners are among 20 people killed in an attack in bikini a fast so gunmen raided the illegal mine site in the northern province of sume it's the latest in a series of attacks blamed on various armed groups some linked to al qaeda and i saw a cameron's opposition leader morris has been released from prison as part of an amnesty ordered by president pour beer cantor was jailed in january for organizing protests people are celebrating his release a day after the end of a national dialogue anger resolving a separatist conflict cameron's english speaking regions have been fighting for 3 years to break away from the french majority. the yemeni government is warning the health service the health service are suffering because of worsening petrol shortages the oil ministry is blaming the saudi led coalition for imposing restrictions on fuel imports just one tack it has been granted permission to dock in the past 2 weeks only providing enough fuel for 5 days. to get

starts to ease sanctions on north korea they won't be going back to the negotiating table alan fischer al-jazeera washington well as alan said that's been a challenge to get the 2 sides to the negotiating table ties were initially tense president trump issued warnings to kim jong un via twitter in 2017 then called him little rocket man at the u.n. in september 9 months later though to much fanfare the 1st meeting appen in singapore but critics said that it lacked substance 2 months later trump ordered secretary of state might pompei or to cancel a visit to pyongyang citing a lack of progress in february trump walked away from a 2nd meeting with kim in vietnam but in june trump visited the korean demilitarized zone with kim becoming the 1st sitting u.s. president to set foot in north korea robert kelly is a professor to san national university he joins us now via skype good to have you with us again robert should we be a top surprise that these talks broke down so quickly. uh the speed of it is a little bit surprising i would have thought they'd given all the hype that had been around t

chief negotiator michel vanya has gone to brief or de vry fischer like the 27 e.u. ambassadors about what has been achieved so far and the latest we heard just before this meeting began is that on paper at least between the 2 negotiating teams the sticking points of more or less all had been resolved they had found this formula and another little solution and another little twist to make it all somehow work for the both sides and the e.u. seemed to be agreeable to say ok we have a deal but just a few minutes ago there they seem to come warning noises from london that they're not ready to conclude a deal tonight and things have to be pushed off now nothing i say is official all this is just this constant drip drip of leaks here in brussels so we have to wait to get some sort of real statement somebody stepping out of in front of the door and saying this or that is the case by that seems to be the drift hot cold in out off on can it get any more thrilling full let's hope so meanwhile you you got briefly alluded to what was going on in london there also may goes asians

but all the statements coming from turkey should fischer's now talk about this is a war not only against the terrorist organization of the kurdish terrorist group but they also say so against the islamic state and they're very happy to take on this operation because they say provide legitimacy they see this as legitimizing this turkish operation so they say it's not just against kurdish terrorists but the terrorists and that will be something. from the expected growing international criticism that it face when we get growing reports of civilian deaths and fears of a major refugee crisis writer who responded with the latest from inside turkey dorian thank you. all right let's take the story now to the u.s. capitol in washington d.c. our correspond carlos laker is standing by good evening to you carlos so yes this what we're seeing today has a lot to do with the u.s. president what has been his reaction to the turkish incursion president donald trump has released a statement in which it says that it's that the u.s. does not endorse his military action in syria and that quote has made it cl

regional complaint alan fischer joins us live now from washington d.c. so allan how significant is it the existence of this 2nd whistleblower. well what it does is really undermine one of the key planks of donald trump's defense which has been that the initial whistleblower had no fust hand knowledge of what was going on everything came to them 2nd hand what this 2nd whistleblower reportedly does is put them actually in the room and you'll remember that when the initial whistleblower made the complaint to the inspector general of the security services he said that that report was indeed a credible and argent so what we have no is corroboration but we already had corroboration of a sort you remember that don't trump was so convinced he had done absolutely nothing wrong that he said he wanted to release part of the transcript which he did remember is only part of the transcript and he said that showed that there was no quid pro quo that everything was absolutely above board so he believes that he's already put a defense there that is successful but no we h

going to do have you ever seen a rhetorical question a president ever so on do as this guy is alan fischer has the latest now from washington d.c. . it's been a bad week for donald trump and friday wasn't much better know the democrats have seen him block requests for documents in the past this time he says that it's really up to the lawyers to decide if they hand over the documents involving his conversations and dealings with the ukrainian president the democrats aren't going to wait they've issued a subpoena a legal document which says that all those documents all the transcripts all the preparation memos have to be handed over now it's likely that the white house will dispute this they'll take it to court this could well escalate all the way up to the supreme court so that is going to take weeks and months to play out now if donald trump was having a bad friday things went much better for his vice president mike pence normally there's little daylight between the 2 but of course we know that donald trump said during one of his news conferences that perhaps congress would like to speak t

democrats even more munition and more certainly send a few republicans scrambling for cover ok alan fischer with the latest in washington allan thank you. iraq's prime minister is calling for calm after 3 days of anti-government protests have left at least 31 people dead adel belmonte has asked protesters to speak to his office directly so he can address their demands the protests are driven by common concerns so there is a chronic lack of basic services like electricity and water and the 200-1000 budget only 8 percent has been allocated for education reconstruction and health sectors come binded that is compared to 14 percent on oil and 20 percent on security 13 percent of all adults are unemployed but that goes up to more than a quarter for young people of working age and the issues are not just being felt in the capital administrations of spread across several provinces most of the deaths have been in southern iraq in cities like nasiriyah and ammara emraan com reports. they defied the curfew imposed by iraq's security forces. and for not following soldiers oldest bullets were fired at t

monetary interests with major biotech and pharmaceutical companies so for example let's consider linda fischer here was someone who was with the e.p.a. and then she went to join and become the head of government affairs at monsanto and now she's the vice president of safety health and environment and chief sustainability officer dupont so her interests are not only to ensure the advancement of dupont but she also used to be at the e.p.a. and she understands all the loopholes within the e.p.a. to advise her organization of how to get through safety issues another example is terri medley here's a person who is a administrator at the u.s.d.a. and at the f.d.a. and now serves of the director of regulatory and external affairs of dupont corporation's agricultural enterprise you can also look at someone like clayton uter who is also at the u.s.d.a. and was a u.s. trade representative and he's on the board of my kitchen which is a wholly owned subsidiary of dow chemical but perhaps for the most egregious ones is michael taylor who was appointed by the obama administration prior to joining as deputy d

congress alan fischer at the details. from its embassy in washington and with the 12 connected ambassador to the u.s. as well as the ambassador the united arab emirates has been pushing a campaign to close the i'll just leave the media network a report on the new site bloomberg says the embassy has employed a prominent d.c. law firm to meet with congressional staffers trumpet ministration officials journalists and academics to push its case the law firm it can jump straus how and failed a well known company on capitol hill employed a small lobbying firm to help with its operation it paid $100000.00 to the company definers public affairs in turn it acknowledged it sure was to provide strategic communication support and guidance in furtherance of the interests of the embassy of the united arab emirates with an emphasis on strengthening bilateral relations and regional security of the united arab emirates in particular including issues relating to clients' terminations of relations with qatar and accuracy and transparency of

corruption and that would include asking all suggesting other countries to help us out just as alan fischer has more from washington d.c. . donald trump has been tweeting out saying that he has the absolute power to investigate corruption and he can ask other countries to help the problem of course arises when he asks them to investigate political rivals he was standing in front of the white house when he asked china to investigate joe biden and his son hunter biden saying they'd been involved in corrupt deals in that country all the offering no concrete evidence of why he was saying that and it came just a few seconds after he was saying that he has a lot of options with china referring to the trade talks that are coming up very soon in fact the chinese delegation will be in washington next week and democrats are worried that donald trump will sit down around the table and say well if you launch an investigation into joe biden i can start bringing don't know all of this comes against the backdrop of course of the allegation that he tried to put pressure on ukraine to investigate join hunte

percent he is the one thing for him though as more information comes out that number is going up alan fischer al-jazeera washington. exit poll showing tunis is conservative n.r. has won parliamentary elections by a narrow margin the secular heart of tunis your party came in 2nd place but is hasham a hobart reports the election outcome may lead to more political tension it's a moment of celebration for another supporter the conservative party has secured 46 seats in preliminary results but it's a bitter victory for a party that won 69 seats 5 years ago. then a memory that you did we are at the beginning of a new period that people have given us their trust and we will live up to it. we will use all of tunisia's political capital in order to achieve their main objectives of the revolution such as the protection of personal and public freedom . their 2nd objective is dignity which requires jobs education and health services. the secular heart of tunisia has come in 2nd with $35.00 seats the party was founded 3 months ago by media tycoon a bill how do we who is in jail on corruption charges the c

forward and to vote on impeachment before yours and i do joe castro al-jazeera washington well alan fischer is live for us in washington we have the opening statement what does he say. and we do it came from the washington post the know it we all have it it's 15 pages long which is quite long for an opening statement but there's a few very interesting things in it 1st of all william taylor says that when he arrived in ukraine he was concerned that there was a 2nd line of communication between u.s. officials and ukrainian officials and that 2nd line of communication seemed to involve the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani and he believed it wasn't what king in the interests of long term american foreign policy but there's a point in the opening statement where he says the dog was clear that he wasn't asking for a quid pro quo but he did want the ukrainian president to step in front of a microphone and say that he was investigating joe biden joe biden's son the company that joe biden's son what for and also possible irregularities in the 2016 u.s. presidential election so there is no

percent here's the thing for him though as more information comes out that number is going up alan fischer al-jazeera washington now north korea has accused the united states of falsely suggesting that both nations are open to meeting again one day after it broke off the new kira's ation talks in stockholm john young says it won't need washington for more quote sickening negotiations unless it abandons its hostile policy chief negotiator kim young girl said saturday's talks broke down because the u.s. came to the negotiating table empty handed while washington says the 2 sides had good discussions exit polls suggest that yunus is conservative and not a party has won sunday's election by a narrow margin but as our reports the results may lead to more political tension. a moment of celebration for another supporter the conservative party has secured 46 seats in preliminary results but it's a bitter victory for a party that won 69 seats 5 years ago. then a memory. we are at the beginning of a new period that people have given us their trust and who will live up to it. we will use all of tunis

alan fischer al-jazeera washington. and the u.s. around 100000 people have been ordered to leave their homes because of a wildfire on the northern edge of los angeles the so-called salvage fire has destroyed a number of homes a man in his late fifty's who try to battle the flames died fire officials say the mandatory evacuation is expected to remain in place for a number of days the 1st person to ever perform a spacewalk has died at the age of 85 russian cosmonaut alexy leon of made history in 1065 when he floated outside a spacecraft for just over 12 minutes the mission almost trailed when his spacesuit filled with air which left him struggling to get back into the shuttle and went on to lay the sylvia part of the 1st joint u.s.s.r. u.s. space flight 10 years later trade a regional security dominated a meeting of india's prime minister narendra modi and chinese president xi jinping the 2 men held talks in southern india 2 countries had been at all odds over the kashmir dispute china recently supported pakistan at a recent u.n. secu

pressured ukraine to investigate a political rival in exchange for military aid and support from alan fischer. william taylor is the acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine a career diplomat who served democrats and republican administrations the white house ordered him to ignore the impeachment inquiry he defied that instruction his closed door testimony may be highly damaging to president trump he was what he the white house meeting with ukraine's new president vladimir selenski was being held up until he delivered ukrainian help in investigating donald trump's political rival joe biden in his opening statement he said he spoke with ambassador gordon saundra and the u.s. envoy to the european union during that phone call ambassador sunderland told me that president trump had told him that he wants president selenski to state publicly that ukraine will investigate burst and alleged ukrainian interference in the 2016 election taylor said in the statement joe biden's son hunter had been a board member of a ukrainian gas company killer continued ambassador sunderland also told me that he no recognize

exactly the master negotiator but it also causes a real problems with the impeachment inquiry ok alan fischer great wrap up there from washington thank you very much and just days he's a former u.s. state department official who served in the obama administration he joins us also from washington we appreciate your time so it seems that every hour there is a new development a new leak that is coming out and within the past couple of hours the new york times has been reporting that ever guards to ukraine specifically that the u.s. diplomats actually drafted a statements for you crane's later president selenski to say that he would commit to these investigations that president donald trump was pushing and according to the new york times this is true one of these people is culpable kurt volker who went and testified today gave a deposition today what does this say about potentially how widespread president trump's efforts were to push these investigations and to pressure ukraine well it's a great deal indeed in fact by the day by the hour we find out about additional u.s. officials today vice pre

he says the group would disappear warning eisel is an ideology and you can't kill an ideology alan fischer al jazeera washington. for me as national security adviser john bolton has been asked to testify at the impeachment inquiry into donald trump's controversial phone call to his ukraine counterpart some of even speculated that bolton could be the democrats' impeachment hero. castro has. impeachment investigators are eager to question john bolton the former national security adviser to president trump was a central figure in the administration's policy toward ukraine and one who said to have used colorful language to describe efforts to compel ukraine to investigate trumps political opponents a drug deal is what bolton's assistant said her boss called a july 10th meeting between ukrainian and u.s. officials at the white house the assistant testified bolton walked out of the meeting after sensing other u.s. officials had an agenda apart from solidifying the relationship between the 2 nations to get ukraine to investigate trumps domestic rivals i think that we've heard over the last severa

where alan fischer joins us now live so alan that the house democrats are clearly aren't just going to accept president donald trump saying i'm not going to cooperate tell us about these subpoenas they have. well you know if you go back to look at previous impeachment proceedings they tended to move relatively slowly this one is moving very quickly indeed so essentially they've said to the white house we want all the documentation that involves the calls to ukraine and any meetings that have been had with them we want them from the president we want to from the chief of staff and the white house is considering it but don't trump has already said it's down to the lawyers and he's got a track record of stalling on these things he doesn't believe that there should be any sort of scrutiny of the executive branch he believes that he has acted the way that he's meant to act as president and he's really been very much against anything that the democrats have tried to do in their oversight capacity the democrats simply have had enough of this they said right here's the subpoena this is a court

brendan fischer with the campaign legal center says the financial records suggest they are at the centerf the president and giuliani's campaign, urging ukraine to open an investigation of former vice president joe biden and his son, hunter. >> these two were central in bringing the narrative about biden and ukraine to trump's inner circle. >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden? >> of course i did >> reporter: cbs news has learned that parnas and fruman ytw key to setting up a meeting ulben gindee lutsenko, and reportedly also facilitated contact between giuliani and viktor shokin, a prosecutor biden pressured to idve fired because he was allegedly corrupt. >> o'donnell: paula joins us here because there are more developments. a house committee has now subpoenaed the energy secretary rick perry, and tomorrow they could hear from a central witness in the investigation, atrmer u.s. ambassador to kiev. what have we learned? >> reporter: exactly. we've learned that she would 'vke to testify. lw, she is still a state department employee, so the tmite house could try to block ehis, b

alan fischer al-jazeera washington. in ecuador there's been more fighting between police and indigenous communities as thousands joined a tense day in protest against austerity demonstrators want the president to repeat a law that ended a 14 year old phil subsonic at least 5 people have been killed since clashes began but has more now from the nation's capital quito. to clashes between police and protesters in ecuador's capital city show no sign of relenting police used flash bang grenades and tear gas to disperse the crowds. demonstrators say authorities have also used live ammunition against peaceful protesters. 6 the ongoing protests have paralyzed much of downtown. amidst the chaos and clouds of tear gas medical patients could be seen fleeing nearby hospitals you don't know see much the numbers just over time before you see this we couldn't have imagined a situation it's horrifying to see people fighting one another for a few looks. after more than a week of unrest indigenous demonstrators continue to run from acros

starts to ease sanctions on north korea they won't be going back to the negotiating table alan fischer al-jazeera washington. well scott snyder is a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations he says north korea will not budge on its nuclear ambitions regardless of washington's bargaining tactics. the biggest reason i think is related to president trump's appearance at the demilitarized zone you know following hanoi the north koreans were facing their own failure and the meeting at the d.m.z. really rewrote that script and made it look like president trump was the one who was calling on kim jong un. and combination with the perception that president trump as talked about a new process you know indicated possibly he keeps on playing up the relationship with kim jong un it's true that president trump has met 3 times with the decision maker in north korea but we haven't gotten the decision that the u.s. wants national security adviser bolton notably thought that kim jong un is moving in the opposite direction kim jong un is actually sending opposite signals domestically because he'

restarting because the chances of the united states easing sanctions before talks are slim to none alan fischer with the latest on that story from washington d.c. alan thank you. saying the u.s. president trump has signed an order preventing immigrants who cannot afford health care from entering the united states people relocating to the u.s. will now have to prove they can afford medical costs will get health insurance within 30 days of their arrival the new rule will be applied to people seeking immigrant visas and all those already in the country may own frescoes serve that the office of immigration litigation at the u.s. justice department under president obama he says the new regulation could discourage older people from coming to the u.s. the problem is an overbid got a gauri there no i will read your and growing market for like a 70 year old parent over us are. going to be quite caught.

all the statements coming from turkey should fischer's now talk about this is a war not only against a terrorist organization of the kurdish terrorist group but they also say so against the islamic state and they're very happy to take on this operation because they say it provides legitimacy they see this as legitimizing this turkish operation so they say it's not just against because kurdish terrorists but against all terrorists and that will be something. from the expected growing international criticism that it face when we get growing reports of civilian deaths and fears of a major refugee crisis. with the latest from inside turkey dorian thank you. and here with me at the big table is kristin helberg she is a journalist a syria expert she reported many years from inside syria let's talk about what we're seeing happening right now the turkish president the one he says that this is a peace mission that we're seeing you know but this is about security for turkey and even a lot more than that isn't it he's talking about security concerns and they have not been any attacks from kurdi

going to do have you ever seen a rhetorical question a president ever so on do as this guy is alan fischer has the latest now from washington d.c. . it's been a bad week for donald trump and friday wasn't much better know the democrats have seen him block requests for documents in the past this time he says that it's really up to the lawyers to decide if they hand over the documents involving his conversations and dealings with the ukrainian president the democrats aren't going to wait they've issued a subpoena a legal document which says that all those documents all the transcripts all the preparation memos have to be handed over now it's likely that the white house will dispute this they'll take it to court this could well escalate all the way up to the supreme court so that is going to take weeks and months to play out now if donald trump was having a bad friday things went much better for his vice president mike pence normally there's little daylight between the 2 but of course we know that donald trump said during one of his news conferences that perhaps congress would like to speak t

raid on saturday to get the details from alan fischer in washington d.c. allen the when the president talked about the operation a couple of days ago it was perhaps you know very descriptive and perhaps went further than he should have so what do we see a what we find out in this video that we didn't know before. well you have to remember that this operation lasted about 2 hours it took an hour to fly to the location we find out that that was from a staging post somewhere in syria they then flew to the compound when their craft were in the air they came under fire from local fighters who started to move towards the compound they don't think they were trying to defend al baghdadi they just think they were trying to get involved in whatever was going on and the american military essentially eliminated those people we see a very very short snippets of what happened during this operation we see troops moving towards the edge of the compound we don't see them going inside what we are told is that the army then issued orders in arabic for people to give themselv

presidential elections trump has repeatedly rejected the of regional complaint alan fischer joins us live now from washington d.c. so alan how key a development do you think the emergence of this 2nd whistleblower is. well what it does is undermine one of the planks of donald trump's defense in this case he has been saying for the best part of a week that the whistleblower is getting this information secondhand that it's hearsay all the legally that wouldn't rule out that he wasn't in the room what we're told is that this 2nd whistleblower actually was in the room whether he was actually on the cole we're not entirely sure but was concerned enough to go to the inspector general of the security services and also air their concern to you and you remember that after the initial complaint. inspector general said that he believed it was credible and it was argent therefore had to be investigated which is why it went to the senate so this is sensually removes one of donald trump's big sticks by saying this is just someone who wasn't actually in the room who had this 2nd hand he's described

going to do have you ever seen rhetorical question a president ever so on do as this guy is alan fischer joins us live now from washington 1st of all in a furious reaction there from joe biden really had some very strong remarks about to make about president trump. exactly calling him unhinged death making him this is very much on the last part of the war it's a friday night here in washington it has been a difficult week for donald trump he of course was in front of the white house on thursday and friday morning saying that hunter biden joe biden's son made billions of dollars from china where again offering any concrete evidence he said that he thinks the democrats probably have enough votes to impeach him and the house and senate we know from what the democrats have been saying in the last couple of years that that is probably the case that they have a simple majority there and would be able to do that but donald trump believes his strength is in the senate and says that republicans are holding together pretty well there there has been one voice of dissent that has been mitt romney a

patriots what we're getting is blind partisan loyalty more now from our correspondent in washington alan fischer. ok for those of you not following along the whole let me bring you up to speed to where we are 1st of all we had a whistleblower who went to the inspector general for the intelligence community and said they had heard from others that there was a worrying pattern of behavior when the president was speaking to foreign leaders that he was using his political power for personal gain the president was able to dismiss that saying this is all hearsay this was coming secondhand he had nothing to fear and even a transcript which backed up a lot of what the whistleblower was saying no we have a 2nd whistleblower who actually has we're told had knowledge which suggests they were either on the call or the very least in the room when the president made some of these calls and so that undermines a key part of donald trump's defense what is interesting is that here in the united states on a sunday we've assumed lou of political programs a lot of interviews what's the big hitters normally appear th