meanwhile the us president's lawyer rudy giuliani is subpoena for documents about ukraine. hello and welcome to figure pollen you're watching our desire live from doha also coming up. stealing the spotlight from china pepper spray and scuffles in hong kong as beijing celebrates the 70th anniversary of the people's republic. power struggle in peru rebel politicians suspend the president's functions and promotes the vice president as supporters take to the street. so donald trump's presidency looks to be good and galt's by a nother firestorm over reports that he also a 2nd foreign leader for political help the new york times says the u.s. president honesty is truly in prime minister to help the justice department and investigate the moeller inquiry that examined the russian interference in the 2016 election that's it i hate has this report. for us president donald trump right now it's all about the investigations the impeachment investigation into his dealings with ukraine and now another one published reports say that the president reached out to australian prime minister sc

attorney for the southern district of new york the very office where rudy giuliani rose to prominence as a federal prosecutor is handling the case of his associates it's also the office that convicted michael cohen the president's fixer of campaign finance violations and now is reportedly investigating giuliani himself and you know i can't wait to come back to this giuliani denies breaking the law since he was working on behalf of the president not a foreign agent i think he shouldn't be underestimated i think he's a tough guy and i think some of his some lashing out acting out on the cable networks is is kind of an act. to distract to intimidate and to keep himself at the center of the story which he's a very effective at doing and so far he has refused to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry christian salumi al jazeera new york afghanistan's war against the taliban has claimed a record number of civilian lives and 2019 the u.n. says more than 4000 civilians were killed or injured between july and september that's up more than 40 percent from the same period last year making it the

it took about rudy giuliani the house intelligence committee a subpoena documents from. rudy giuliani trump's lawyer who allegedly worked with ukrainians to investigate joe biden at how normal is it to have a private citizens rudy giuliani is involved in a country's foreign affairs. various presidents that various times have made use of private citizens to negotiate. various activities for example spy swap in one case president roosevelt was franklin roosevelt was noted for using a variety of channels of communication so it really depends on the president but for the most part in modern times president searchers a state of tend to rely more on official channels that's more reassuring too for governments they prefer official channels generally ok so if mike pence the vice president as we've been discussing with our correspondent out here has managed not to be drawn into this controversy involving that phone call questions are now being raised about his involvement and how many people on the line when a president is talking to a foreign leader how many people are involved

well rudy giuliani donald trump's personal lawyer has been asked to hand over ukraine related documents to the impeachment inquiry chooses deadline to produce the documents also extends to vice president mike pence on monday the inquiry heard from the white house's former russia expert fiona hill who resigned days before trump crane's president to investigate joe biden and his son mike hanna has the latest from washington. yet another official from the trap administration has defied the presidential boycott of the going impeachment proceedings and arrived to give evidence before 3 separate congressional committees he is george kent an assistant secretary of state with responsibility in europe very much an expert on the ukraine now the committee is unlikely to be questioning him about evidence they'd heard yesterday from another ukraine expert and russian expert fiona hill who was a member of the national security council before reining in resigning shortly before president trump's conversation with the ukraine president now according to several sources fiona hill spoke about a shadow st

has publicly said something very different rudy giuliani has said that he is not actually transpersonal attorney he is doing essentially emissary work on behalf of trump as an individual on the trump campaign and that does not provide any sort of privilege which would protect his documents from going to congress the president has been taking to twitter and to the cameras to pronounce he's done nothing wrong the response from democrats in congress will find out and fast decline al-jazeera washington. to thomas says more from sydney. the spokesperson for australia's government essentially said that there's nothing unusual about this phone call in a statement they said the ghostwriting government has always been ready to assist and cooperate with efforts that help shed further light on the matters under investigation and the prime minister scott morrison confirmed this readiness once again in a conversation with the president so they've characterized it there merely as the prime minister of australia helping out the leader of a friendly country the us president in an ongoing investigation

it just didn't work out i don't know that he got along with rudy giuliani rudy giuliani who are seeking out corruption and what happens mostly in the 26th election because there was tremendous corruption in the 2016 election i think even you wouldn't that the election was it was disgraceful what happened and what happened to me and what happened to the republicans and that continues with lives palosi and wish if adam schiff got caught making up statements that he said i said that i didn't say which is fraud i mean disputed purely fraudulent so it continues and austrian man has been charged after a family of 6 was found locked away in his remote farmhouse in the netherlands the 58 year old is accused of holding them against their will and harming their health a father and his 5 children aged between $18.25 were found in a secret room after the l.d.s. escaped it's believed they had no contact with the outside world a 9 year. afghans in germany have reached an agreement on arms export wars for their joint military programs but they remain at odds over saudi arabia germany has agreed not to

rudy giuliani donald trump's personal lawyer has been asked to hand over ukraine related documents to the impeachment inquiry wednesday's deadline to produce the documents also extends to vice president mike pence on monday the inquiry heard from the white house's former russia expert who resigned days before trump's july phone call with ukraine's president she has is in washington d.c. unlike before my ambassador to ukraine is testimony on friday there was no opening statement for fear in the hills or nothing that could be leaked almost immediately to the press nonetheless we have been receiving briefings from those around her about what she is saying and the key the key point is yes there was a shadow foreign policy operation underway at the at the control of rudy giuliani on behalf of donald trump but the next question is always right that's fine the president is allowed to conduct foreign policy in any way that he sees fit but was this on behalf of the united states' national interests or was it on behalf of donald trump's personal political interests and that the suggestions we'v

giuliani and the white house are all refusing to submit documents to the inquiry. well the 12 democrats who want to replace donald trump in the white house have presented a unified front calling for him to be impeached they have just wrapped up their 4th debate in ohio a battleground state that's backed the winner of the presidential vote for decades but several laws that forcing trump from office cannot be the democrats' only message they were also fiery exchanges about health care foreign policy and gun violence and john hendren is in west of all high at the debates just and held john that debates just been wrapping up today any particular candidate stand out this evening. that's right it was the 4th and feinstein is debate so far 12 democratic candidates all on the same stage the largest number on the stage at any one time so each of them was trying to break out tonight there were some standout performances bernie sanders had a heart attack 2 weeks to the day ago and he came out strong and energetic he was feisty combative with some of his rivals but he also see

it just didn't work out i don't know that he got along with rudy giuliani rudy giuliani who are seeking out corruption and what happens mostly in the 26th election because there was tremendous corruption in the 26000 election i think even you would admit that the election was it was disgraceful what happened and what happened to me and what happened to the republicans and that continues with then see pelosi and wish if adam schiff got caught making up statements that he said i said that i didn't say which is fraud i mean disputed purely fraudulent so it continues. at least $35.00 foreigners have been killed in saudi arabia after their bus collided with an excavator the saudi media says the passengers were pilgrims of arab and asian descent it happened about 170 kilometers from medina home to one of his llamas holiest sites in nigeria a fire has broken out often oil career into a market in a city that's about 500 kilometers south of the capital abuja there's been no official casualty toll release but a woman and her baby sit to been among the dead it's. now protests getting louder in gui

gordon sunderland says trump outsourced american foreign policy to a private citizen rudy giuliani son told a congressional committee investigating trump that giuliani's agenda including exuded a push for key have to investigate former vice president joe biden giuliani has so far refused to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry into donald trump. on to your question has more from capitol hill in washington d.c. the white house now says that 4 military aid that was promised to ukraine was hinge on ukraine complying with the president's demand to nish aid and investigation but the white house says this investigation had nothing to do with joe biden president trauma's political opponent but rather into the beginnings of the russia investigation back in 2016 in that u.s. presidential election the white house acting chief of staff mick mulvaney telling reporters that there was nothing wrong with this request he said that it was standing policy for the u.s. justice department to reach out to a foreign nation to assist with an existing investigation and in fact he said to reporters that anyo

diplomats and trumps personal attorney rudy giuliani continuing to pressure ukraine to draft a statement announcing an investigation but none was released then in late august the ukrainians learned of trump's decision to withhold nearly $400000000.00 in u.s. military assistance the u.s. ambassador to ukraine bill taylor appeared incredulous texting i think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign the response came from ordered sunland a wealthy hotelier and trump donor who was appointed ambassador to the e.u. i believe you are incorrect about president trump's intentions he writes the president has been crystal clear no quid pro quos of any kind there is no bro whoa that was exactly what i saw at that salad bar that. that text defending trump came just as the u.s. media was catching wind of a whistleblower report accusing trump of wrongdoing in his call with the ukrainian president that's what launched the impeachment inquiry now targeting the president democrats heard from another witness friday the intelligence community inspector general who invest

vice president mike pence trumps really i'm rudi giuliani and the white house all refusing to submit documents to the inquiry as saying a state department official in charge of ukraine policy has become the latest to testify before the house committee is george kent's was questioned about his knowledge of times efforts to have ukraine investigates his peers who rival biden while the head of the house intelligence committee adam schiff says evidence of obstruction of congress continues to announce we are running into what we expected in one aspect and that is a complete effort by the administration to stonewall. today is long past due the date when the state department was subpoenaed to provide documents but the state department has thus far refused and were it not for the fact that at least some witnesses have given us documents we would not know that there is a paper record of efforts to condition this meeting and perhaps condition military support itself on these political investigations donald trump wanted. protesters and police have clashed on a 2nd day of rallies in the spanish

giuliani the personal lawyer for the u.s. presidents have been arrested court documents allege the man conspired to funnel foreign money to candidates for federal and state office alan fisher has more from washington. both these men were arrested at dulles international airport on the outskirts of washington in fact it's in the state of virginia that happened late on wednesday both were on a flight out of the country although you shouldn't read too much into that they are facing a number of charges it's a 21 page indictment they are accused of making false statements of falsifying records and trying to evade contribution limits by hiding the source of those contributions they made a contribution to the donald trump super pac america 1st they also made a number of contributions to kevin mccarthy who's a senior republican leadership figure on capitol hill and they made those contributions asking him to work towards the removal of the u.s. ambassador to the ukraine though she was eventually moved from her position by donald trum

ambassador accuses president trump of outsourcing foreign policy to his personal lawyer rudy giuliani. a clue in a killing the length between a crashed car and the murder of an election observer in mozambique and bus load the protests won't stop one of the biggest matches in the spanish league that's coming up in sports with. now heavy gunfire has rocked several neighborhoods in the mexican city of korea come of the security forces detained a son of the notorious drug cartel leader joaquin el chapo guzman. well the news led to running battles between cartel gunmen and police a government official confirmed the arrest of a video guzman vehicles and a petrol station was set on fire and state police confirmed several prisoners escaped from jail during the chaos well let's go to our correspondent now he's joining us live from the mexican capital and what more you hearing mannie about what's taking place in the city last days. elizabeth you've got a pretty good job of summarizing the chaos the safe place suits since the afternoon on thursday in create kind of the capital of the mexican sta

has publicly said something very different rudy giuliani has said that he has not actually trumped personal attorney is doing essentially emissary work on behalf of trump as an. if you on the trump campaign and that does not provide any sort of privilege which would protect his documents from going to congress the president has been taking to twitter and to the cameras to pronounce he's done nothing wrong the response from democrats in congress will find out and fast political gain al-jazeera washington for more let's cross to avoid has correspondent kimberly hall kit's in washington d.c. kimberly just how damaging is this sanctions allegation for president trump. well a view sort of take from it the president's reaction the fact that part of me he continues to tweet feverish sleaze trying to set the tone in the narrative in his defense i would say that is pretty damaging at least that's perhaps how the president is perceiving it he has continued to tweet about this even in the last hour or so once again calling his telephone call with the leader of ukraine blood amir's lenski perfect in hi

giuliani in ukraine policy the investigation was no one's stuff to a whistleblower allege that trump pressured ukraine to investigate democrats while withholding military assistance iraq's government has released a report on the preliminary investigation into the killings of protest is the report found that security forces used excessive force and live fire against demonstrators at least 157 people were killed. all those are the headlines the news continues here on out after the stream. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home i'll just bring in the news and current affairs that matter to. al-jazeera. hi i'm femi oke am and you're in the street and i'm really could be live today can legal marijuana put an end to mexico's drug cartels join our conversation you can tweet us at a.j. strain or leave your comments in our live you to chat and you may well be in the story. mexico is set to fully legalize marijuana that some proponents of cannabis believe will help curb rampant violence but critics say drug cartels woul

giuliani and according to the indictments both men funneled foreign money to u.s. political candidates will trump is facing an impeachment inquiry into whether he withheld military aid to ukraine for personal political gain they saw political influence not only to advance their own financial interests but to advance the political interests of at least one foreign official or ukrainian government official who sought to dismissal of the u.s. ambassador to ukraine. the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine meanwhile is the next in line to testify at the impeachment inquiry investigating president donald trump and he's accused of pressuring ukraine's leader to investigate his democratic rival joe biden memory of it she was recalled from her post in may the former diplomat was named in the whistleblower complaint that sparked the impeachment process let's bring in shihab rattansi who's joining us from washington d.c. and i suppose the question is will she show up and will she be testifying or will she be barred by the state department. right because the white house has said

giuliani in discussions about ukraine so let's look more closely at who gordon sunland is the wealthy owner of a hotel chain he gave a $1000000.00 towards donald trump's inauguration president trump nominated song line is the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. in may last year he's being questioned about any role he played in encouraging ukraine to investigate trump's political rival joe biden as well as biden's son. exchanged a series of text messages with another u.s. diplomat that i become central to allegations that with held aid from ukraine as a bargaining chip chip to encourage the biden investigation let's speak to robert let he's the former general counsel of the for the u.s. director of national intelligence he's joining us from washington thanks very much for your time with us on al-jazeera so is someone's testimony the smoking gun so to speak that the democrats are looking for when it comes to the impeachment inquiry against the president's. i don't know that i'd characterize sun lens testimony by itself as a smoking gun i think you've had an entire fuselage of guns going off thi

but a process under way headed by rudy giuliani that was more in line with the president's personal ambitions rather than national security and so on none of that is actually addressed in her initial statements all we have is that initial statement and it says yes there was a campaign for about a year from donald trump to try and get her at her place and she was incredulous based on what she considered as unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives and she denies those charges that we've often heard and it was certainly circulating among republican circles that she had stopped a corruption investigation in ukraine that she was helping hillary clinton in some way or that she was trying to hinder it all trump she denies all of that and she says that the people around rudy giuliani president trump's personal lawyer who clearly was spearheading the campaign to try and get her removed was certainly perhaps it's only alleged behind all the whispers against this being disloyal to donald trump the people associated with mr giuliani quote may well believe that their personal

rudi giuliani donor transpersonal lawyer is expected to hand over ukraine related documents to the impeachment inquiry tuesday's deadline to produce the documents also extends to vice president mike pence now on monday the inquiry heard from the white house's former russia exploded fiona hill who resigned days before trump ukraine's president to investigate joe biden and his son karen greenberg is director of the center on national security at fordham law school she joins us from doha terence nice to have you with us rudy giuliani has been central to all of this what are you expecting when we see these documents handed over to the inquiry. well 1st of all we have to see that the documents get handed over if they do get handed over it should give us a much more information about what he actually was trying to do who else was involved in what he was trying to do who he was trying to do in and around and around and around i mean one of the things that's come out of the fiona hill testimony it's been reported is that he was conducting shadow diplomacy on behalf not of the united states but the pre

gordon songkran says trump outsourced american foreign policy to private citizen rudy giuliani. from coleman's legislative council has descended into chaos for the 2nd day in a row as heckling nor makers were dragged from the chamber by security they've been demanding an inquiry into an attack an attack on a prominent human rights activist hong kong has been battered by months of pro-democracy protests. it's quite hard to reports. here for the 2nd day running hong kong leader kerry lamb had difficulty getting your point across on the floor of the legislative council oh ok. 'd that was drowned out by heckling from members of the opposition chanting slogans of the protest movement now in its 5th month. as on wednesday plans question and answer session about her policy address was twice halted before she could finish also know that probation council members condemned the protest in the chamber as a legislative council i don't think that any electrical members should use any kind of violence including. all physical law linsky in the chance to express their will i was before the legi

bush rudy giuliani among others since 2015 he's been a leading i think it's fair to say conservative critic of president trump author of the book everything trump touches dies now there's a title you and stephen have moved in similar right wing circles you've both worked on republican presidential campaigns who better represents conservative economic principles right now you or him well work i'm not an economist by trade or training steve it is but i will say this i still believe with the things that i think stephen believed before which is the primacy of free markets and now we have a president who wants to talk companies what to make where they can make it who engages in state capitalism sort of crony capitalist things and i think stephen you know prior stephen and now stephen there's a big dichotomy there and it's i don't think it's stephen alone i think there are a lot of republicans who display. that compromise you know so i'm curious like how does it feel to like to flip so fast and so hard resolve that i've always said read write. with me respond that i've always said the sing

giuliani on behalf of donald trump but the next question is always right that's fine the president is allowed to conduct foreign policy in any way that he sees fit but was this on behalf of the united states' national interests or was it on behalf of donald trump's personal political interests and that the suggestions we've been getting is yes fairly he'll say it was the latter this wasn't about u.s. national security this was about donald trump's personal position about may be key in any articles of impeachment now judges for this year's booker prize of ripped up the rule book a name to win as british author ben that in every stolen canadian writer margaret atwood have both been given the prestigious literary award has won for her dystopian thriller the testaments while every stone was honored for her novel girl woman other it's at would 2nd book a prize the 2 authors though would have to split the $60000.00 prize. it would have been quite embarrassing. for persons of my age. to have one the whole thing and they're trying. to capture a younger person in a different stage of their car

giuliani on behalf of donald trump but the next question is always right that's fine but the president is allowed to conduct foreign policy in any way that he sees fit but was this on behalf of the united states' national interests or was it on behalf of donald trump's personal political interests and that the suggestions we've been getting is yes fear and he'll say it was the latter this wasn't about u.s. national security this was about donald trump's personal position about maybe key in the articles of impeachment the british monarch has outlined her government's policy agenda including a pledge to leave the e.u. by october 31st queen elizabeth made the comments was delivering the queen's speech to open the new session of parliament which outlines the government's agenda for the year let's turn to jonah hole in london about this and it's the biggest misnomer isn't it john or it's not actually the queen's speech is written for her therefore what do we actually learn from something like this. well we learn what the government wants to do in the forthcoming session of parliament that's

giuliani on behalf of donald trump but the next question is always right that's fine but the president is allowed to conduct foreign policy in any way that he sees fit but was this on behalf of the united states' national interests or was it on behalf of dog trumps personal political interests and that the suggestions we've been getting is yes fairly well will say it was the latter this wasn't about u.s. national security this was about donald trump's personal position about maybe key you know the articles of impeachment. a why us police officer who shot an unarmed black woman in her own house has resigned shortly before he could be fired police chiefs have named him as aaron finch and confirmed the acted without justification and is under criminal investigation but here the. 28 year old actor tiana jefferson was killed in a house and for worse in texas on saturday while looking after her young nephew a concerned neighbor had called police when he saw her front door was open. judges for this year's booker prize have ripped up the rulebook and named 2 winners british author bernadine ev

giuliani according to the indictment both men funneled foreign money to u.s. political candidates trump is currently facing an impeachment inquiry into whether he withheld military aid to ukraine for personal political gain they saw political influence not only to advance their own financial interests but to advance the political interests of at least one foreign official a ukrainian government official who sought the dismissal of the u.s. ambassador to ukraine. let's go now to our correspondent john hendren who is joining us live from minneapolis in the state of minnesota where president trump is holding his laces to rally and trump supporters inside but some of the biggest protests we've seen outside the trump rally john. that's absolutely right what you're hearing right now is the audience turning a chant that once was heard at drum rallies like they're up in reference to hillary clinton turned on the president himself. you could hear them over to go saying now came up which has been one of their favorite chants another has been in the inside of the arena h

giuliani but they warn that no one should think they can avoid cooperation through lengthy legal action challenging congress's authority for example so we are concerned that the white house will attempt to stonewall our destination much as they have stonewalled other committees in the past. it's why i say the white house needs to understand that any action like that that forces us to litigate or have to consider litigation will be considered further evidence of obstruction of justice and of course that was an article of speech meant against nixon the implications for the white house clear from the democrats don't think you can hold the impeachment process up in the courts if you don't cooperate with the inquiry will simply roll that even to potential articles of impeachment as obstruction of justice and will infer that the reason you are not complying is because what the whistleblower said initially was true now the white house donald trump once again attacked the whistleblower who alleged he was abusing the office of the presidency to undermine the 2020 lections in his interactions wit

giuliani and abraxas agreement reached with the european union by parts johnson still faces a battle to get it through the u.k. parliament. is a lot going on with the weather across north america at the moment we've had a nor'easter this nasty little area clouds sweeping across new york into new england eastern parts of. canada further south some lively downpours rolling through here up towards the northwest we've also got some marar the heavy showers some wetter weather some wintry weather spilling out of western parts of canada into the pacific northwest as we go on through friday the main thing to watch out for will be down towards the panhandle we have a developing system here may become a tropical storm if you talk of depression from very wet and windy weather then coming into northern parts of florida and to up towards atlanta through georgia easing over tools that southeastern corner north of that it quietens down so 10 celsius there for up to 15 degrees in new york central areas to have wanted to showers a possibility whether that wintry weather up around the northwest will b

giuliani according to the indictment both men funneled foreign money to u.s. political candidates. they sought political influence not only to advance their own financial interests but to advance the political interests of at least one foreign official or ukrainian government official who sought the dismissal of the u.s. ambassador to ukraine. 5 people have been killed in ecuador following a week of violent protests demonstrators took several police officers captive parading them on stage in the capital quito the protesters are angry at new austerity measures introduced by president lenin merino that have led to higher fuel prices marino says he won't step down electricity has been cut so more than a 1000000 people in california as the state tries to prevent fires from breaking out pacific gas and electric announced a deliberate outage to avoid a repeat of last year when their power cables were found to have caused the state's deadliest ever wildfires. left 85 people dead and destroyed thousands of properties . in the world health organization says the bone ep

giuliani had a jew there was a giuliani biting thing going on that had concerned a state department official we have evidence that a state department official was concerned that there was a linkage between security assistance and as he described a domestic political campaign democrats are trying to build a compelling case for impeachment not only to convince the american public but also senate republicans it would take a swell of republican de factors to remove trump from office and thus far there's only been a trickle. castro al-jazeera capitol hill meanwhile president trump signed a proclamation preventing immigrants who can't afford health care from entering the united states those really hating to the u.s. will now have to prove they can afford medical costs or to be able to get health insurance within 30 days of a rival officials in north korea and the u.s. to resume their talks on denuclearization north korea's nuclear negotiator and the u.s. president's special envoy are among those meeting on an island off stockholm they will discuss north korea ending its nuclear program in

giuliani on behalf of donald trump but the next question is always right that's fine the president is allowed to conduct foreign policy in any way that he sees fit but was this on behalf of the united states' national interests or was it on behalf of donald trump's personal political interests and that the suggestions we've been getting is yes furia will say it was the latter this wasn't about u.s. national security this was about donald trump's personal position about may be key in any articles of impeachment the mexican government says they might be getting to grips with the country's high murder rate the comments were made on monday morning but i was later they were overshadowed by the killing of 14 police officers in the western state of michoacan john home and sent us this update from mexico city. so mexico's president and his head of public security came out on the morning of monday and gave a press conference in which they said it's nothing to boast about but we think we might just be getting on top of the murder rate in the country they called it a point of inflection in the h

ukrainian left pontus about a russian illegal for a minute or so seats of president trump the lawyer rudy giuliani they were involved in giuliani's efforts to get ukraine to investigate one of the leading democratic presidential hopefuls joe biden according to the indictment of both men funneled foreign money to u.s. political candidates trump is currently facing an impeachment inquiry into whether he withheld military aid to ukraine for personal political gain a short while ago trump accuse the democrats of using criminal methods in the investigation. i think it's very unfair to heads of countries when they think that every time they make a conversation or have a conversation with the president of the united states it's going to be on you know all over the world i think that's very unfair but in the case in the case of what we're talking about we released a perfect conversation the president of ukraine just confirmed had that should be case over i will say this adam shift took that conversation before he saw it and fabricated a gun or say shit to me that's criminal what he did is crimina

foreign policy and that was largely being coordinated by rudy giuliani who of course has no official role in the government he is president donald trump's personal lawyer now there's a point in this statement where he says that donald trump insisted there was no quid pro quo or that of course has been his defense since the very beginning but he did want the ukrainian president to go out and make a public statement saying that he was investigating joe biden and certainly as far as william taylor is concerned that was very clearly a quid pro quo what was also interesting is that taylor says there was no doubt that aid was being held up because donald trump wanted this investigation to get under way and when he spoke to gordon sunderland who is the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. he said he made it clear that it wasn't just a white house meeting between donald trump and president so they only so last may that was being held up it was everything that was being held up that includes the aid so what are the implications for this war 1st of all this is bad news for donald trump both he and a nu

giuliani and the white house or refusing to submit documents to the inquiry and there have been violent protests in barcelona for a 2nd day over the jailing of 9 separatist leader is now thousands have been holding vigils in a government offices but has escalated into clashes with police madrid has warned that it may act to ensure security in the region well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after listening post to stay with us. the story of one of the most successful p.r. campaigns in the us. study after study has demonstrated the perspectives american media coverage what part of this case you get through your thick head is hamas a terrorist organization the only thing that you're going to say is what we want and if you don't say it we're not going to speak it would be very hard for ordinary americans to know that they're being deceived the occupation of the american mind on al-jazeera. optician is not. that strange he said filing this last clash it's course. a 100 times he died fighting protests china's human rights a saving i think it's high at a low i'm r

giuliani and president trump and ukraine not having registered as foreign agents it's far more on the target on the front burner than it was in the past so that's where we stand politically right now running for senate in vienna of these people trying to come paint against al jazeera english or campaign against freedom of the press. ours any effort to shrug our religious leader iraq are for that matter any our media organization in the united states. it isn't a problem free to believe that every media organization has the right to exist i would like to wear a free speech closing down are asking though doing that will be just another lobbying agent told that they are about to go an attribute already years i'll just you know has god listed. as a media organization that has covered every little were which are about the demolition network doesn't have. great interest to prove that it took action there's no doubt about it and in the past others here are very focused. on plus right as a lobbying agent it is a general we are about ization and we see this as an attack on the street a much abs

of the inquiry is expected to be honest about military aid and the role of trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani in ukraine policy investigation was launched offer a whistleblower said trump pressured ukraine to investigate its political rival joe biden while withholding military assistance. castro has more on the story now from washington. ambassador taylor texted his colleagues last month saying i think it is crazy to withhold u.s. security aid for help with a political campaign that is why he is such a key witness in this impeachment inquiry because he may have knowledge of whether or not the president had corrupt intent when he temporarily withheld that aid while pressuring ukraine to take action against his political adversary joe biden those are the questions that democrats are now asking of ambassador taylor behind closed doors meanwhile the president himself has been on twitter writing this morning so sunday if a democrat becomes president and the republicans win the house even by a tiny margin they may impeach the president without due process or fairness or any legal rights al

giuliani according to the indictment both men fund foreign money to u.s. political candidates they saw political influence not only to advance their own financial interests but to advance the political interests of at least $1.00 foreign official or ukrainian government official who sought the dismissal of the u.s. ambassador to ukraine when a short while ago donald trump accused the democrats of using criminal methods in the investigation i think it's very unfair to heads of countries when they think every time they make it conversation or i have a conversation with the president of the united states it's got to be on you know all over the world i think that's very unfair but in the case in the case of what we're talking about we released a perfect conversation the president of great just confirmed that ad that should be case over i will say this adam shift took that conversation before he saw it and fabricated a gun or say shit to me that's criminal what he did is criminal. but let's go now to our correspondent john hendren he is joining us live from min

giuliani so she was actually it's our understanding the night before her testimony last night their white house tried to instruct her on the state department try to instruct her not to go testify she was subpoenaed and she did it so it's obvious that the administration has been very clear they're not going to cooperate how is that going for them. well that is indeed the case the state department had instructed her not to appear before the congressional committee however the congressional committee then to shoot a formal subpoena pointing out that she was now legally obliged to come before them and essentially giving her the legal protection from state department's injunction remembering too that she is still employed by state department even though she was recalled from ukraine now it does appear that this could be a crack in the trumpet ministrations attempt to boycott the ongoing investigation next week we understand gordon sunderland's the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. who was due to appear before the committee last week he was instructed by state department not to go his lawyers n

rudy giuliani donald trump's personal lawyer has been asked to hand over ukraine related documents to the impeachment inquiry tuesday's deadline to produce the documents also extends to vice president mike pence on monday the inquiry heard from the white house's former russia expert fiona hill who resigned days before trump asked ukraine's president to investigate joe biden his son meanwhile the son of the u.s. presidential hopeful joe biden has responded to the president's criticism of his ties to ukraine hunter biden has denied any wrongdoing but says he regrets becoming a board member of ukrainian company he was paid $50000.00 a month for that position in july donald trump asked the ukrainian president to investigate the bidens sparking the impeachment investigation i don't know what to tell you i made a mistake. in retrospect as it related to. creating any perception that there was wrong and so therefore i'm taking it off the table and you know i'm a connection maybe i will see if anybody else makes that commitment but that's the commitment that i'm making. a firefighter has died

giuliani and energy secretary perry and others who weren't ordinarily in the chain of command and that they basically told the ukrainians if you want this military aid you have to investigate biden and the the a legit origins of the russia inquiry so i think the facts are all understood in the question is what are the consequences going to be. still ahead on the news hour the threat of icy fighters escaping the iraq and french governments discuss their fate. violence during my exam beats election campaign raises questions about the impartiality of police and boxing more as the force finds her to die from injuries sustained in the ring and as many monstro would have the details in sport. is a lot going on with the weather across north america at the moment we've had a nor'easter this nasty little area clouds sweeping across new york into new england eastern parts of canada further south some lively downpours rolling through here up to was in the northwest we've also got some arar the heavy showers somewhat a weather some wintry weather spilling out of western parts of canada into the pa

campaign finance laws live potus and igor freeman a close friends of former new york mayor rudy giuliani the russian born business men were arrested earlier this month they're accused of helping funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars on behalf of a ukrainian government official into the u.s. political system. let's go to lebanon now where protesters are blocking roads across the country that's as part of a 7th day of demonstrations the army is trying to reopen mine routes demonstrations continue despite the government approving i'm president and economic reforms purchased as a calling for complete political change saying hold on reports from by rivers. they try to reclaim the streets but the people stood their ground lebanon's army has been ordered by politicians to open roads across the country the same politicians these lebanese want gone there were skirmishes a few injuries but at the end the military took a step back they're trying to intimidate the seriousness. thing that by a show of force we're going to back up people are going to be afraid to come and actually publish the opposi

giuliani were trying to get ukraine to open investigations into trump's political rivals and notably bolton according to previous testimony from his assistant called this shadow campaign drug deal and his worth and so that giuliani was alive a hand grenade now bolton left his post he claims that he resigned and trump says that he was fired as national security advisor back in september and he has remained relatively quiet since then so it's really an open question whether or not he will appear for this invitation to testify next thursday at this point it's not an obligation it's not a subpoena but he is also likely to be the white house is likely to intervene and say that he can't speak with investigators citing immunity citing executive privilege so this is an open question whether or not he will live here we know that he is a lifelong republican although some have speculated that bolton may be what they're calling the impeachment hero for democrats and you will see a big picture here will do and will trump be impeached. right so there are so many details right that we filling in bu