election was stolen and he calls these hearings a witch hunt, at least 2 more are planned for july. heidi jo, castro al jazeera washington. well still ahead here on our desert. ah. like widows please respond with malta. again said war to kind of indigenous protests does take control of a major cultural center in kito and medical staff involved in the care of dig a bower danara said to go on trial. we'll hear from all jan tinian sounds ah hello. the dangerous heat continues across southern parts of the u. s. lars, the clear sky is still in place, but look a little further north. you can see we have got some cloud around. we have got weather systems bring you some very active storms in across that northeast corner there in the process of clearing out of the way, breaking the heat somewhat 27 celsius there for new york. but you can see temperatures. what into the thirty's down towards that southeastern corner, up towards the central plays up towards a non place. we will see some wet weather wet weather there into central parts of canada as well. and that's going to shift its way, little further

at least 2 more our plan for july. heidi jo, castro, al jazeera washington. hundreds of thousands of people have been forced from their homes as record floods, threatens southern china, heavy rains, push water levels, and the pearl river delta to its highest in nearly a century. muddy flood water has inundated shops and buildings in several areas. italy's river po is experiencing its worst route and 70 years laud sections of the river have tried op food levels to so know the wreckage of a boat. that sunk during the 2nd world war has resurfaced only a terrifying moment for you as from a who fainted during hub routine at the world aquatics championship. synchronized swimmer anita alvarez fell unconscious and sang to the bottom of the pool while competing in budapest. her coach dived in to rescue her. she received immediate.

donald trump stole the building, encouraged by his false claims, the election he'd lost was stolen. heidi jo, castro reports. yeah. a congressional panel led by democrats has been investigating the january 6 right now, after conducting nearly a 1000 interviews and collecting 250 terabytes of data. the panel will finally begin to reveal its findings to the public truck was prepared to seize the presidency and likely to invoke the insurrection act and declare martial law. so we're going to tell the whole story of everything that happens. here's jen will be the 1st of several public hearing still features my witnesses in previously unseen videos from january 6. i think people would want to see some new information. and particularly new striking information about trumps involvement. videotape depositions of trumps, daughter and son in law may be shown at the hearings, but from himself is not expected to testify. we fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. last year, he was impeached for inciting insurrection, but was not convicted among the an

and when that failed, assembled the mob that would try to keep him in power by force. heidi jo, castro, al jazeera washington. russia has destroyed the last bridge out of savannah on that sc. a city at the heart of the battle for ukraine's dawn bass region. it was one of 3 bridges leading out of the city, but a civilians are now trapped. hundreds of them are still sheltering inside the household chemical plant, which has come under heavy shilling wash and back separatists of warned ukrainian troops to surrender or die out as he was. charles stratford is in cave. we also know that russian forces pushing up towards the she chance come areas that they control around the town of papa's nor incremental gains being made as reported by, by our sources in that area as they try and basically push up from the know from the south and the knolls down towards sloppy, and in this pinch, the movement to try and cuts off those ukranian forces, the ukrainian defense experts and the government embers here, making statements. this is all about weapons. they say they are not getting enough west and heavy

and again, falsely alleged that the election was stolen. heidi jo, castro, al jazeera washington. jennifer victor is a professor of political science at george mason university. shaw our school for policy and government. she joins us live from fairfax, virginia. jennifer, thanks so much for joining us. jennifer state election officials told the u. s. congress. they were personally pressured by them. president donald trump, to overturn the result of the 2020 election. is this gonna make it more likely that the justice department will department will pursue a criminal investigation against trump or any of his aides? i think that's hard to say. you know, the, the proceedings that are going on on capital hill, the very public hearings. the justice department doesn't need this public spectacle in order to gather their evidence or to determine whether or not they have cases that they could bring forward. the congress could collect that evidence and present it to d o j, or d o j could presented on their own collected on their own without this the series of public hearings. and so maybe t

election was stolen and he calls these hearings a witch hunt, at least 2 more are planned for july. heidi jo, castro al jazeera washington. oh, still had hail and al jazeera, the ear gives war, told me, crane candidate status to join the blog. it's hailed volume president vladimir zalinski is a unique and historic moment chained to a tree for 8 years formally. does of columbia's fall rebel sit through harrowing testimony? from those they wolves held us hostages. ah, the journey has begun. the fee for world camp is on its way to cattle group your travel package today. and i welcome to look at the international forecasts we have got clear skies now coming back into afghanistan. karen rain, pulling out the way weather will quiet down. it will be largely try for much of a canister if a little on the breezy side. so no side of any wet weather to go on through the next couple of days, temperatures and cabal. picking up to around 31 celsius by saturday afternoon. much of the middle east stays dry. we have a little bit of lifted. dustin sat across the raving peninsula. here in katara, we will see th

in the waiting days of his presidency. heidi jo, castro, al jazeera washington, the u. k. government plan to send asylum seekers to rwanda is facing a legal challenge. london's high court is hearing arguments from human rights groups, which say the policy is unlawful. the calling for court injunction to stop the 1st flights from the you case rwanda, which are scheduled for next week. georgia donna is a professor of forced migration and refugee studies of the university of east london. she says the policy is unlawful. anybody will be crossing the board? does it? i'm documenting my dog just the 1st of january to be sent to land and most refugee will come to the country. i've seen countries of war, so i put in some of them don't even when they applied for the side, 90 percent of their being rented asylum. so they can be from any country in the world and they will be deported. took place where they don't know. busy the language, the cards where they don't want to go, and some of that will have collections would be paid. so they'd be in a way, even if they had to send the cl

was the 4th hearing of the house committees investigation into last year's capitol hill, riot. heidi's, jo castro has more weeks before the january 6 riot at the u. s. capital far right protesters some who would later turn violent in washington illegally occupied the state capitol building in arizona. joe biden won the swing states, but donald trump and his supporters refused to accept defeat. trump's attorney rudy giuliani called arizona's republican house speaker, demanding help to overturn the results he would say aren't we all republicans here? i said look you are asking me to do something that is child or to my oath. trump also lost in the swing state of georgia. he himself called the states top election official republican brad robins, burger, i guess one of mine for $11780.00 low, which is one more that we have. what i knew is that we didn't have any votes to find very good. robins burger testified that he and his family suffered harassment from, from supporters, including sexually explicit messages to his wife and someone breaking in to his daughter in law's home. and i think somet

january 6th committee, crazy democrats, and again, falsely alleged that the election was stolen. heidi jo, castro, alto 0, washington. a jury in the u. s. is 5, dr. bill cosby liable for sexually abusing an underage girl in 1975. the california jury ordered caused me to pay the victim half a $1000000.00 in damages. i was family friendly. reputation was shattered. after more than 50 women accused him of sexual assaults over nearly 5 decades. it just, it's been torture. it has just to be ripped apart, you know, thrown under the bus, backed over. and this to me is such a big victory. it really is to all victim mean a security forces in ecuador, have you tear gas and palate shots against indigenous protesters converging on the capital. ketone be inviting. st. baffles of students and other protesters in the center of the city. a nation wide strength began 9 days ago, demonstrators of 10 demands including lower prices of fuel and food, and an end to mining and indigenous land. that is one protesters being killed and 3 are reported to be in a critical condition. i know a couple of following deve

resign and the lead trump was too dangerous to leave by himself in the waning days of his presidency. heidi jo, castro al jazeera washington against presidents as his troops or blocking russian attempts to advance in the region of zap alicia ludmilla zalinski says there also holding on to some cities in the east. ah, but russian horses are continuing. busy to attack guns better than yet, sc with street fighting and heavy artillery far ukrainian forces to the lack of. busy long range weapons, as catastrophic keep says between a 10200 soldiers have been killed every day. the highest estimate made public so far. the u. k. fonseca zillow's trust is said to speak to ukraine's foreign minister a day after 2 british men and one moroccan citizen, was sentenced to death by a pro russian court. the 3 men were fighting for ukraine. they were captured and convicted of being mercenaries in the eastern done yet screeching, which is controlled by separatists tracers condemned the ruling as a sham judgment. a deadlock on green exports from ukrainian ports are threatening a global food crisis. black sea port.

and again, falsely alleged that the election was stolen. heidi jo, castro, al jazeera washington. jennifer victor is a professor of political science at george mason university. she explains that the justice department doesn't need these public hearings to pursue a criminal investigation against donald trump. the justice department doesn't need this public spectacle in order to gather their evidence or to determine whether or not they have cases that they could bring forward. the congress could collect that evidence and present it to d o. j or d, j could presented on their own collected on their own without this the series of public hearings. and so maybe the fact that there are public hearings going on of the sort that are very polished, that are very well put together that are presenting extremely coherent and concise narrative on very specific questions relating to january 6. it may suggest that what capital hill or what congress are those involved in the hearings are hoping for is more of a public campaign where, where other actors, where, where the public or advocates or the

the plan at least 2 more of these hearings in july, heidi jo, castro al jazeera washington. oh, still had hill and i was, was there a community in molding tribute so held in texas for dozens of people who died at a human trafficking tragedy? on the final days of rodrigo to twenty's presidency, the philippines media regulates repose, the order to closed on one of his most vocal critics. those stories after the break ah, judy house began the faithful wolf copies on its way to the castle route. your travel package today. hello there. let's look to south asia on the southwest monsoon is in full swing across northern areas of india, dumping large amounts of rain in some of the states and woodside pradesh, that rain expected to shoot me down further south to more sensual areas. you can see it really picking up on friday. now. the strong winds and rain continue across the west and gets pushing into southern areas as well. some shop of thunderstorms expected in colombo, but it's the north west of india. that's going to get wet asthma. that rain cross the korean peninsula as we move

and when that failed, assembled the mob that would try to keep him in power by force. heidi jo, castro, al jazeera washington, a butcher's jaw just thrown out last ditch, attempt to hold the deportation of refugees and migrants to rolanda. but more legal challenges planned. the 1st flight schedule to take off on tuesday, nor button on the report. oh, oh, a chorus of an go from protesters outside london's court of appeal. as the judge gave the green lights for the 1st flight of refugees, migrants drew one dumb writes. good say it includes people who had escaped war in afghanistan and syria and being flown more than 6000 kilometers away. will traumatized them further. they suffered incredibly, they've seen how many members killed, they've, they've had talked to themselves and they are tired. but at the end of that heather, that finding attention incredibly, show him a tie thing, and those of a fair, the deportation half way across the way. it is absolutely terrifying for them. you k prime minister boys, johnson says a deportation strategy will undermine people's smuggling networks. and d

that the ovens granted in its absence, merited a hearing, and i didn't want to be used as a pawn heidi's. jo. castro has more from capitol hill. what's notable is kind of the lopsided balance of power. here you had the president of the united states, a personally calling these election officials who are republican in the swing states that had gone to jail biden. and we heard from that top election official in georgia, brad rapids, burger describing this phone call from trump, in which trump deliberately asked for one more vote than what joe biden had. one in georgia, a senior official overseeing the police in the us state of texas says officers response to the vault a school shooting was an abject failure. the director of the texas department of public safety told officials police could have stopped the shooting. within 3 minutes of the gunman, entering the building packet rob, 33 minutes after the subject 100 west building. there was sufficient number of armed officers warring body army to isolate, distract and neutralize the subject. the only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers

resign and believe from was too dangerous to leave by himself in the waiting days at his presidency. heidi jo, castro al jazeera washington. john nichols is national affairs correspondent of the nation. he says the hearing was unlike any the u. s. has seen before. it was, i think, unprecedented in american history at least in, in recent american history. because of the very powerful narrative that was created, and frankly because the committee chairs, the 2 main speakers benny thompson and lose janet members of different parties that united on this issue chose to keep it actually rather simple. this was not a complex hearing with all sorts of information coming from all sorts of different directions. it was a basic statement, the riot on january, 2021 was not spontaneous. it was organized and it was planned. they said that and then they provided evidence from documentary filmmaker and others to confirm that it was organized by supporters. that donald trump, your, and donald trump was more highly engaged with it. they provided video evidence to support that, again, more evidence to sustain the

at least 2 more are planned for july. heidi jo castro al jazeera washington. a 3rd protest to has died in ecuador, on the 11th day of a nationwide strike against the rising cost of living. our latin america added to lucy newman reports ha, thousands of striking indigenous ecuadorian st. rush to take back what they considered their headquarters. the capitals, indigenous house of cultures in an unprecedented move. the government had ordered the police to occupy it last week, enraging the confederation of indigenous nations. now that they retaken it there, celebrating, oh, this place represents our cultures. this is our home. away from home. i want it after almost 2 weeks of a nationwide strike that has paralyzed much of ecuador. it seemed promising. oh, but not for long running battles between right police and strikers, knew the legislative, assembly left scores injured. indigenous leaders say they wanted to deliver a letter to request that the assembly usage constitutional powers to question president good molasses. fitness to continue governing the conflict is

the plan at least 2 more of these hearings in july, heidi jo castro al jazeera washington resign as a former us associate deputy attorney general, who worked on the impeachment hearings for president richard nixon. um bill clinton josephine are via skype from washington dc. mr. fine, always nice to have you on the program for your insight. how significant is the testimony we've heard from these hearings in terms of making any war and especially sort of former president trump accountable for the events of the 6th of january 2021. well, i think it is very significant. i would hope that the testimony would encourage others who have been reticent to come forward. i even though i'm astonished that the committee itself is not issued subpoenas to mr. pence, mister chip alone, or even mr. trump, the u. s. supreme court for a 100 years has made it clear or committees like the january 6 committee are endowed with inherent in 10 power. those who defy their subpoenas can be summarily placed in prison before any court proceeding whatsoever. and why the committee has been so timid and begging witne

the plan at least 2 more of these hearings in july, heidi jo, castro, al jazeera washington. let's bring in richard trustee who is a profession professorial lecturer of the department of political science, george washington university. he joins us now. live voskus for washington. good chevy with us. richard, what do you make of for cassidy hutchinson's trustworthy? well, what cassidy hutchison provided was a very granular and visceral, a testimony about what actually happened within the context of january 6, a fair. and you know, if you look at a scheme of the white house, you see that mark meadow's office is in the left hand corner and her office is right next door to here in the oval office where she heard a commotion reportedly, a taking place with planks being thrown against the wall after attorney general william bar to president trump, the election was found that any accusation of stealing the election was nonsense. this. this gives us a really on the grounds appraisal of the president state of mind and of the chaos and what, how different actors within that context of

i speak now the haughty jo castro's following the hearing at the at capitol hill. heidi, i believe there were more people who watched the hearing the 1st hearing than there were those that watch the oscars. so what are we expecting today? something similar that's right. well, the 1st hearing some 20000000 americans tune in moline, which as you said, was significant. today, we're, we're expecting something a little more understated. this is no longer prime time television viewing time in the us. however, the committee is promising that today they want to lay out the case that they believe trump knowingly spread the false claim that the election haven't stolen from him. which so chaos in the days in which was the groundwork for the riot that later unfolded here on capitol hill. we didn't do that leading to death and injury . now, as you mentioned, the star witness who was supposed to be trump campaign manager bill set the and he now that he no longer testifying that morning. this will be a significant low to the committees plans even yesterday, as they were briefing reporters, it appeared