regards to who democrats are going to choose as their candidates that was doubly correspondent pablo foley aliased in washington d.c. now to some of the other stories making news around the world a grenade blast has killed one and injured dozens in indian administered kashmir is the bloodiest incident since india stripped the region of its special status in august several indian paramilitary police were also among the injured. police in the chilean capital santiago have used tear gas and water cannon against protesters running over education health services and growing economic inequality monday's demonstration marks the beginning of a 3rd week of mass protests. police in vietnam say they've arrested 8 more suspects in connection with the deaths of $39.00 vietnamese citizens found in a refrigerated truck in south east england last month the suspects are accused of organizing people smuggling over seas british police have charged 2 men with months over the deaths. turkey says it has captured the sister of the dead islamic state leader of a bucker al baghdadi rosny awad was caught in a raid

to invade syria as part of an chorus fight against terror our let's bring in our correspondent pablo foley now he is in washington the relations of course between turkey and the u.s. have not been going well they've been going south quickly in fact to the 2 leaders did they find any common ground that they can build on. well karl it was one of those press conferences that at times you were left wondering you know what exactly what was happening and it was quite interesting particularly hearing president trump said that he was a big fan of president of the one we just heard there the sound bite where president trump was saying that in fact you know president added one didn't have a problem with the kurds it was only a certain faction of the kurds now president and the one actually also said it wasn't it wasn't the he said it was with the terrorist now he's referring to the syrian democratic forces who have links to the p.k. k. that's what we can understand from that of course president trump was addressing at the ongoing conflict like i was saying in syria he said that turkey will continue

washington correspondent pablo foley. public do we know why the president president trump signed these bills. told me well you know with president trump it's always very difficult to interpret why decisions are made at a specific moment in time and this would be one of them the president said that he signed it out of respect for president xi jinping of china he said he's done that of respect for china and also for the people of hong kong now it's also been pretty difficult to work out at times one president trumps interpretation of the ongoing protests in hong kong has been you know he said that he's with hong kong at times he's also said that you know the chinese president xi jinping is a great guy now before signing the lol he also expressed a lot of concern about what the implications of signing this would be with regards to this quite delicate situation that the united states and china find themselves in at the moment with regards to this trade war and the possibility of reaching as some sort of agreement on ending it

now let's dig deeper into this with our washington correspondent pablo foley. problem the president is ever tweeting has he put off voters. i don't think so and in fact signs are that there could actually in fact be a surge in voter turnout in 2020 in fact it could even be the highest in decades and the last time around the percentage of voters who took part in the 2016 election was less than 60 percent that president presidency has really divided the nation and that's led to a belief amongst political analysts voters in fact will be out in force to make sure their candidate whether that be president trying for the republicans and whoever the democrats choose that wins that election now there or are also other indicators such as the number of people claiming to be keeping an eye on the campaign for 2020 that's up also the number of small donations to candidates also oak and also viewership figures of cable network networks that's also increasing so the figures basically as well for the midterms also were the highest in over 100 years so it looks like all the in

other names and saying that they of course should also face you know some sort of legal process pablo foley ileus reporting from capitol hill thank you whenever you have to speak now with some of the other stories making news around the world. 2 people have been killed in baghdad in the latest violence to vaga ravage antigovernment protests will official say police fired tear gas and live ammunition to disperse demonstrators more than 300 people have been killed in iraq since the protests began in early october. an 18 year old man in belgium has become the 1st person in that country to die from vaporing he died within a month of contracting a lung infection after the cigarette after using an isa gret reports of a ping related deaths around the world have been growing with 42 people dying in the united states alone from vague thing. in lebanon former finance minister mohammad somebody has agreed to become prime minister in an attempt to end months of protests and political stalemate with that appointment has failed to stop demonstrators from taking to the streets to protest that very move th

these public hearings a commitment stored nary a development of reporting for you from washington pablo foley alias thank you. well the impeachment hearings on capitol hill stem from a controversial phone call between president trump and his ukrainian counterpart back in july the man on the other end of that phone call ukrainian president volodymyr selenski is getting more attention from the u.s. than he ever wanted so how does the impeachment inquiry look from kiev and what's at stake. we had. i think good phone call it was normal we spoke about many things than day but i think when you're ready that nobody bullshit bullshit me yes no freaking. no pressure on ukraine to launch an investigation into trump rival joe biden's son hunter that's a claim that since been challenged by numerous top u.s. officials testifying to congress irrespective of whether this ends in impeachment what does this mean for his visibly uncomfortable guest polygamous alinsky and the country's elite. as worrying is ukraine gate is few grains leaders in the streets of the capital kiev people are struggling to understand

pablo foley alias there for us is pretty down some of the other stories making the news at this hour china has condemned the legislation passed unanimously by the u.s. senate which aims to protect human rights in hong kong's democratic bill put the territories special trading status with the u.s. in jeopardy and it bans the sale of crowd control munitions to hong kong beyond. serious as anti-aircraft defenses have thwarted a series of israeli air raids near the capital damascus israel has released a statement saying that its jets did target syrian and iranian forces in syria in retaliation for rockets fired towards israel on tuesday. libyan police and military have deployed armored vehicles to end a blockade of a major gas plant by protesters demanding the return of former president if all metal us officials say at least 3 demonstrators were killed in. that's near la paz . well today is world children's day and this one marks 30 years since leaders from around the world made a commitment to protect the young from violence of the light now only one country has yet to ratify the un con