intelligence committee and the charm of the house judiciary committee decided not to. they decided their inquiry was finished and mode right ahead shows not to pursue the same witnesses they apparently would now like would nala the senate to precommit to pursue an arson. as i've been saying for weeks nobody nobody will dictate senate procedure to not state senators a majority of us are committed to upholding the unanimous bipartisan clinton president against outside influences with respect to the proper timing of these mid trial questions and so if any amendments are brought forward to force premature decisions on meant trial questions will move to table such amendments and protect our bipartisan president it was sen moves to amend the resolution or to subpoena specific witnesses or documents will move to table such motions because the senate will decide those questions later in the trial just like we did back in 1999 now mr president today may present a curious situation we may hear house managers themselves agitate for such a menace we may hear a team of managers led

house of representatives is live from washington d.c. thank you so much for being with us and thank you for your patients. first of all what do you make of the democrats' opening arguments adam schiff and his team seemed to carefully built their case with prepared remarks choreographed video will this make a difference. well i had the privilege of working with congressman schiff on 2 judicial impeachments some years ago and i thought his presentation today was absolutely masterful and i think it will be studied in the future by later generations as to how best to present an argument in this context i thought it was compelling i think the republicans or whistling in the dark and they can feel confident for one reason only it will take 20 republicans to cross over to go with the democrats in order to convict president trump and remove him from office by way of impeach oven pietschmann that's not going to happen or the likelihood of it happening is so remote that they can feel very confident they can say whatever they will however the real

knowing not which way it goes on september 24th press the speaker declared at a press conference the house was conducting an impeachment inquiry however to the contrary to the speaker's decree that she knew that we were all of a sudden impeachment inquiry the house did not authorize the impeachment inquiry until october 31st by adopting h.r. 660 it is just said just a moment ago that the speaker has been leading the fight for a fair trial in the senate i wish the speaker had been leading for a fair hearing in the house instead of trashing our rules for those 71 out of 78 days from the time it was announced at a press conference to the time we finished the president was not permitted to participate in these meetings think about it 71 days out of 78 in which we actually did something on impeachment is not presented to the ability to cross-examine fact witnesses present counter-arguments no due process at all in those 71 days when presented with the opportunity when it came to the judiciary committee instead of the judiciary committee stepping up and actually acting like the usually committee

house speaker nancy pelosi names the prosecution team and donald trump's impeachment trial. hello again i'm adrian for again this is 0 live from doha also coming up shakeup in moscow russia's prime minister and the government resign as president vladimir putin proposes major changes to the constitution. iran's president blames what he calls u.s. arrogance for fuelling may have in the middle east and repeats his call for all foreign troops to leave. some filipinos to 5 accusations and despite more volcano warnings about an explosive eruption in. russia what an eruption is story that when aims of those who will lead the prosecution of u.s. president donald trump during his impeachment trial in the senate have just come out house speaker nancy pelosi made the announcement on capitol hill just under an hour ago the man who lead the charge is adam schiff the chairman of the house intelligence committee which held the 1st hearings. the trumpet allegedly threatened to withhold military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into his political rival job by the trial is expe

white house correspondent can really help in washington d.c. as well what reaction has there been from the president can really. well the president has been tweeting it was a bit unusual it didn't really mean anything so i'm not going to read it back to you because we're not exactly sure what it meant other than it was it ever by this president to inject his voice into a process that is about him but essentially he has no involvement in at the moment so what the president has been doing in addition is also holding a signing ceremony with the representatives from china this is phase one of a trade agreement with china normally we'd be making a lot of noise about this would be a big headline and i think the white house was hoping that would be the case again but instead the real fixation here in washington or around the world has been the events that are taking place on capitol hill so perhaps because the white house wasn't getting the attention it wanted or the narrative wasn't going in the direction that they wanted there was a phone call betwe

issue of witnesses and documents house democrats argue that they were withheld in the course of their inquiries into whether donald trump was withholding congressionally mandated military aid for ukraine in return for an investigation into former vice president joe biden and that these must be produced in the senate trials a leader mcconnell wants a trial with no existing evidence and no new evidence a trial without evidence is not a trial it's a cover up the white house argues that the request for more evidence proves the democrats don't have a strong case against the president they said in their brief we have overwhelming evidence and they're afraid to make their case think about it think about it it's common sense overwhelming evidence. to impeach the president of the united states and then they come here on the 1st day and they say you know what we need some more evidence the white house also argues that the documents and witnesses are privileged in order to shape foreign policy the president must be able to have private deliberations with advisors and that's an argument rejected

senate as the republican majority blocks efforts to release white house and state department documents this is not a process for a fair trial this is the process for. democrats accuse republicans of covering up evidence that the president abused his powers. watching al-jazeera with means the whole robin life from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes after months of uncertainty lebanon finally has a new government but the unrest on the streets is far from over. also china says the new coronavirus is adapting and mutating as the death toll from the illness rises to 9. welcome to the program the impeachment trial of u.s. president donald trump has begun with senate republicans blocking democratic attempts to take documents and evidence in a bitter debate over proposed rules democrats accused republicans of a cover up trump is charged with abuse of power and obstruction of justice the reports on a longer opening day that stretching well into the night our founders trusted the senate to rise above short term passions at the last moment senate majority leader mitch

engagement with ukraine leveraging president selenski desire for a white house meeting. mr kant did you actually write a memo documenting your concerns that there was an effort underway to pressure ukraine to open and investigation to benefit president trump israel i wrote a memo to the file on august 16th but we don't have access to that memo to when i submitted it to the state department subject to the september 27th subpoena and we have not received one piece of paper from the state department relative to this investigation. deputy assistant secretary can also memorial day september of 15 conversation at which an bastard taylor described a ukrainian official accused in america for poc recy for advising president selenski against investigating. peace from prosecutor laying out the democrats' reasoning why the senate should subpoena the state department notes the trial is underway but currently immersed in the menu shy of technicalities of how the trial should be conducted over the coming days we will be following this as the hours go on before a vote is taken on the ru

and only if the house proves its case but by letting the house prove its case by letting the house call witnesses by letting the house obtain documents by letting the house decide how to present its own case and not deciding it for us in some by agreeing to a fair trial now let's turn to the precise terms of the resolution and the history of impeachment trials and what fairness and impartiality require. although we have many concerns about the resolution and i will begin with its single biggest flaw the resolution does not ensure that subpoenas will in fact be issued for additional evidence that the senate and the american people should have and that the president continues to block to fairly decide the president's guilt or innocence moreover it guarantees that subpoenas will not be issued now when they would be most valuable to the senate the parties and the american people according to the resolution the leader has introduced 1st the senate receives briefs and filings from the parties next that hears lengthy presentations from the house and the president now my colleagues the presiden

house of representatives to vote on a bill to limit the president trumps ability to attack iraq. in the libyan war khalifa haftar rejects a call for a cease fire going against a plea by turkey and russia. and the top stories including. trying to cash in on celebrity status public shock and anger part time. and in sports the tennis world number one makes a losing start to the new year actually barty sapper is a shock to a dinner opening match the brisbane national. so we begin this news with breaking news u.s. president donald trump says that he has suspicions about the crash of a ukrainian airliner outside tehran on wednesday all 176 people on board were killed when it came down shortly after takeoff u.s. intelligence sources of concluded that it was shot down accidentally by an iranian missile a view that donald trump shared with reporters. i have my suspicions it was very i don't want to say that because other people have those suspicions also. it's a tragic thing when i see that it's a tragic thing. but somebody could have made a mistake on the other could've could've made a m

house of representatives he joins me live from washington d.c. thanks very much for being with us now i understand you've done this from one side of the of the house to one side of the capitol to the other talk us through how that works and how it feels. well it's rather momentous although in my instance we were dealing with federal judges who have been impeached but it's very stirring i mean you start you leave the house chamber you walk down this very very long corridor then you go under the rotunda in the center of the huge building and of course there are always people there who are just sightseers and visitors and they are gawking at it was to wondering what you're doing and then we all march to the senate chamber we are announced that we are there to present the articles of impeachment the doors are open than we march in the lead manager in this case and presumably it will be adam schiff with whom i work for a year on 2 other impeachments he will then read the articles to the senate all of whom are in the room at that moment and so i mean y

english is a white house correspondent and right here in the studio. she's an iranian american journalist welcome ladies good to have you here i saw. reading a tweet today when a tweet in front of the white house something bad is about to happen. this is the 20 hope that all house republicans will vote against crazy nancy pelosi war powers resolution. why is this important and then i'll get you to weigh in as well but i don't know if you have that whole tweet out there in full frame but i want to really struck me was the ending fairly were i believe it's presidential harassment exclamation point as i recall that that's a big problem ok so here's why this is a problem congress is required whenever there is military action being proposed by the white house there are obligated to debate this this is the check and balance that is to put in place by the founding fathers in the u.s. constitution so when the president says presidential harassment when congress is essentially doing its job that is not only unusual it's alarming because once again this is a pre

and live to kimberly halkett now our white house correspondent kimberly the white house is keeping tabs on this trial in the senate tell us about their reaction so far. yeah the latest statements coming back ground from white house officials to al-jazeera the statement from the president's long time personal attorney who is one of the team members arguing the case on behalf of the president the senate jay sekulow he says that there is a lot to rebut and we will rebut we will challenge aggressively the case that they are putting forward meaning the democrats they specifically take issue with adam schiff one of the house managers the lead house managers the point that he has been repeatedly making is that the president. conducted quid pro quo in his conduct with ukrainian leader but they point out that this never alternately ended up in the 2 articles of impeachment in other words the 2 things that the president did wrong in fact this is something that has been pounced on him as well by a number of attorneys generals from republican states these would be the highest lawyers that each of t

to the to the house managers and the white house lawyers this isn't bubbly though this is done through written questions given to the chief justice john roberts is for fighting over over the trial and then he asks questions. following that there's a debate of 4 hours on whether witnesses and documents should should be should should be entered into this this trial this is a very contentious issues the democrats say more witnesses where this is need to be introduced partly because more information has come to light and also because they were able to speak to the key figures like former national security advisor john bolton during the house to house inquiry a republican say look you have now said already that you have the case for impeachment why do you need any more evidence if you need a witnesses and maybe your case isn't terribly strong so the debate of 4 hours on bats on whether to bring more witnesses documents if it is decided and some republicans have said that they're interested in hearing from the witnesses perhaps just because they want to show that they are taking this all ver

all right democratic house impeachment managers speaking ahead of the start of the. president. in the u.s. senate today the senate is deciding on the rules governing this trial they say that the republican leader's proposed rule mitch mcconnell's proposed rules do not describe a fair process a fair trial adam schiff we heard from there said that this is not a process for afraid and it's a process that allows a president he said to continue to obstruct the congress he also said that mitch mcconnell's evidence and whisnant witness rules are a departure from the clinton impeachment trial and not a comparison with the clinton impaired impeachment trial and he added that this is part and parcel of an effort to cover up the president's misconduct start speak to show on capitol hill for us. the dispute over witnesses really is the key friction point between democrats and republicans in anticipation of the start of this trial in the senate what can democrats really do about it at this stage. well they certainly do not have the numbers to vote down this resolution fully as you know repu

this is my father's house the house of the amount my father lived in this house for 8 years from the forty's until 48 with his mother he was chased out of the house like most of the palestinians because they wanted to confirm the statement of golda meir that this is a country a land without people but all these people who are living in these homes in the 1998 netanyahu came into governance and as. a money money maker and many money lover he wants to privatize palestinian houses in the same time as israeli telecom and and electricity water all these elements which which can be privatized so that he can gain more money my father's house was sold for $4000000.00 by plan who is a real estate agent who came from america and. neither my mother nor my son agreed to the fact that i am very passionately and emotionally involved in the past you can see that he didn't even come with me because he's he wants to avoid all these emotional issues when i came here last time. from outside i was taking a photo the people inside the house saw the flash they parked their car in the middle of the street

house of representatives will vote wednesday on a resolution to name the team of impeachment managers for the senate trial against president donald trump the house impeached trump last month on charges of abusing power by personnel in ukraine to announce an investigation it was democratic rival joe biden and of obstructing congress would u.s. house democratic geoffrey's heed to that the strategy that his party will pursue when presenting the case against trump. we're going to keep the focus. on the stunning corrupt abuse of power and gazed in by donna. who pressured a foreign government to target an american citizen for political gain at the same time withheld without justification $391000000.00 in military aid to a vulnerable ukraine as part of a geo political shakedown scheme now the u.s. house republicans have also been meeting and they've accused democrats of stalling the impeachment process and of delaying important work in the senate. we anticipate that the speaker will finally bring a vote to the floor to name managers for the articles of impeachment obviously after saying for

impeaching the president it would interpose the courts or the decision of a single judge between the house and the power to impeach moreover it would invite the present to prevent is own impeachment by endlessly litigating the matter in court appealing every judgment in gauging every frivolous motion or device indeed in the case of dawn mcgann the presents a lawyer who is order to fire the special counsel in lie about it he was subpoenaed by the house an april last year and there is still no final judgment a present may not to feet impeachment or accountability by engaging in analysts litigation instead it's been the long practice of the house to compile core evidence necessary to reach a reason decision about whether to impeach and then to bring the case here to the senate for a full trial that is exactly what we did here with an understanding that the senate has its own power to compel documents and testimony it would be one thing if the house had show no interest in documents or wit this is during its investigation although human their of the houses the soul right to determine his proce

president to face trial in the senate ballot for the republican controlled upper house he's most likely to get off the charges of abuse of power and obstructing congress so what's really the point of this impeachment trial this is inside story . hello and welcome to the program on martin dennis and historic trond of the u.s. president has got under way in the senate donald trump is accused of abusing power by pressuring ukraine to investigate his political rival and then trying to block the inquiry into the matter of the president's calling the whole affair a hoax senate has spent the 1st day arguing over the rules of the trial trumps republican policy blocked every attempt by the democrats to present new evidence and witnesses at the end of the trial 2 thirds of senators house around 67 need to approve at least one of the articles to remove the president from office but it seems unlikely is the republicans hold a majority here's how the 2 sides are preparing for battle he wanted to coerce ukraine into these sham investigations of his opponent that he was terrified would beat him in the

white house meeting. senators witness testimony text messages e-mails and the call record itself confirm a corrupt quid pro quo for the white house meeting an official act available only to the present united states in exchange for the announcement of political investigations the president and his allies have offered no explanation for this effort except the president can abuse his office all he likes and there's nothing you can do about it can't indict him can't impeach and that is because they cannot seriously dispute the president trump corruptly used an official white house visit for a foreign leader to compel the ukrainian president into helping him cheat in the next election the white house meeting of course was not the only official act that president trump conditioned on the announcement investigations into biden and the conspiracy theory meant to exonerate president trump from russians interference on his behalf in the last election in a far more draconian step as we have discussed the president

the house would like to call john bolton but the house did not seek his testimony during its investigation 1st of all we did we invited john bolton to testify and you know told us i'm not coming and if you subpoena me i will sue you i was a censor i will sue you mr bold as represented by the same lawyer who represents dr cupper men who actually did sue us when he was subpoenaed so we knew that john boat would make good on that threat now. the 2nd though says something about lawyer lawsuits not i have to confess i wasn't completely following the argument but something about lawyer lawsuits that we are against lawyer lawsuits well i don't know what that means but i can tell you this the trumpet justice department is in court in that case and other cases arguing congress cannot go to court to enforce its subpoenas so when they say something about lawyer lawsuits and they say there's nothing wrong with the house suing to get these witnesses a show up and they should have sued to get them to show up their own other lawyers are in court saying the house has no such right they're in court saying

i think their house managers have done a very very good job thank you everybody. we have been doing a very good job the words there of chuck schumer the senate minority leader outlining how he feels about democrats' efforts so far in the impeachment trial of the president of course this is a crucial moment a crucial day where the battle is raging on the point of whether to bring in more witnesses into the impeachment process addressing that chuck schumer said if it's a tie it'll be up to the chief justice the chief justice knows every trial has witnesses now despite that of course it is looking quite hard for the democrats to bring in more witnesses given how the votes are lining up but we'll keep you posted on this as soon as we get a little bit further in the process. switch gears a little bit thousands of palestinians in gaza held demonstrations against donald trump's proposed deal between palestinians and israelis protesters say it will maintain geysers isolation on the blockade against it and keep the status quo in the occupied west bank. stephanie decker has

were invited to participate in the house process so i that the due process was fine in the house but in the senate we now know what the republican argument is about the facts which is no one there's all this circumstantial evidence more circumstantial evidence than you would ever need in the world but a whole bunch of republicans have been very clear that we can't do this only on circumstantial evidence we need the people who talk directly but president trump himself and that is what the democrats are seeking to secure in their witness list in the senate they want to hear it from the horse's mouth you can surmise. it happened because there's an over abundance of circumstantial evidence but if you want to hear it from what the trump tell john bolton or mick mulvaney you've got to ask mick mulvaney or john bolton and for everyone watching at home just to explain the process it would take 4 republican senators to co say to mitch mcconnell has made it clear he doesn't want when he says he thinks it's a sham he's moving on.

the house speaker nancy pelosi has guided the impeachment process to this point but after the house vote it will move to the senate where majority leader mitch mcconnell will effectively take control he is adamant the democratic majority in the house has failed to prove a case and argues it's not up to the senate to do so the constitution gives the sole power of impeachment without if i ask majority wants to impeach a president the ball is and their court but they have to do the work to prove their case nothing nothing in our history or across the tradition says a house majority can pass what amounts to i have baked censure resolution and then inserted the senate bill on the block but senate rules mean mcconnell might not actually have the final say. the procedure of the trial is decided by a simple majority and republican senators are under increasing pressure to break ranks and join democratic party members in seeking a full trial with witnesses all it needs is for republicans to do so to decide whether the president merits acquittal or removal from office the senate must conduct a fai

says that the house managers. in the clinton trial had already testified their testimony was known so the question for the senators then was do we want to hear them again and there was another question not present here which is do we really want to hear witnesses talking about sex on the senate floor that's not the issue before us the issue here is does the senate want to hear from witnesses who have never testified people who like other witnesses have 1st hand information and unless the president is willing to concede everything the house has alleged these witnesses are very pertinent and relevant and so this is another profound distinction between the clinton investigation and trial and where we are today. having. a problem. having to defend somebody that you like but you're finding are you the manager is prepared. and. let me say we are prepared but the relevant question is relevance. is relevant in any trial you quote witnesses who have information about the allegations about the charges the allegations for wh

house of representatives has delivered the articles of impeachment against donald trump to the senate making him the 3rd leader to face such proceedings in american history this was after a vote in the democrat controlled house with 7 members were also assigned as managers of the trial i was your caster as a report from capitol hill. inside the locus are the articles of impeachment documents accusing president donald trump of abusing his power in obstructing congress the 7 newly ordained impeachment prosecutors follow democratic members of the house who will argue that trump should be removed from office as president is not above the law he will be held accountable he has been held accountable he has been a huge the senate's reception of the articles marks the beginning of the trial phase of crumbs impeachment the $100.00 u.s. senators will soon be sworn in as jurors with arguments to begin next week republicans hold the majority in the senate and their leader mitch mcconnell has voiced strong opposition to the impeachment if the senate blesses this unprecedented and diverse house pro

managers those are the democrats in the house of representatives that lack like the prosecutors in the senate trial that they are arguing now rate amongst themselves who argues what they're also going through the senate doing a bit of a walk through mapping out where they will stand that sorts of things but in the midst of all of this what they're also pushing for is for new evidence for there to be new witnesses because they argue that new revelations have been made since the house inquiry took place for example the ruling by the government accountability office that the trumpet ministration acted illegally when it withheld military aid to ukraine these are the new arguments that they are saying that they need to put forward on the floor we know that republicans are pushing back on that the latest republican view that the white house legal team who says that this simply is something that should be dismissed that's unlikely but they're certainly pushing for it ok kimberly thank you for that committee how good life for us in washington d.c. . the spread of a new virus appears to be acce

i send an amendment to the desk to subpoena certain documents and records from the white house the house managers strongly support senator schumer's amendment which would ensure a fair legitimate trial based on a full evidentiary record the senate can remedy president trump's unprecedented cover up by taking a straightforward step it can ask for the key evidence that the president has improperly blocked senator schumer's amendment does just that but the republicans are refusing to allow any amendments they say the democrats request to new evidence is proof that the impeachment case it's flawed the 1st thing that the house managers have done upon arriving finally in this chamber after waiting for $33.00 days is to say well actually we need more evidence we're not ready to present our case we need to have subpoenas and we need to do more discovery because we don't have the evidence we need to support our case this is stunning. it's a stunning admission of the inadequate and broken process that the house democrats ran in this impeachment inquiry that failed to compile a record to support th

the house force accuses arrived. in the senate chamber of the articles of impeachment were read for the left let's bring in a 0 us how does your castro use live for us on capitol hill i just took us through what it was we actually saw but. sure well you saw a lot of ceremonial aspects of this that really in u.s. legislative politics it's a rare thing we saw the sergeant of arms saying that on pain of imprisonment the senators had to guard their silence as these articles were read this is a process so in shrine in the u.s. constitution dating back hundreds of years and only ever played out for the 3rd time in u.s. history for trump to be the 3rd u.s. president to now face an impeachment trial and what we're about to see now in about an hour's time or so as you just heard there are 4 senators who have just been appointed to escort u.s. supreme court chief justice john roberts from the supreme court house which is just across the street from where we stand today he will be escorted by those 4 senators 2 republicans and

john bolton as a as a witness who would corroborate exactly what the uncontested evidence that the house put on shows that president trump used hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid to coerce an ally to conduct these political sham investigations. of the cole for bolton to testify as democrats say the new information from john bolton that trump directly linked to u.s. security aid to his demand that ukraine announced investigations into joe biden could significantly bolster the impeachment case this is stunning it goes right to the heart of the charges against the president. ambassador bolton essentially confirms the president committed the offenses charged in the 1st article of impeachment that article is abuse of power for allegedly putting his personal interests above that of the united states trump denies the allegation he's characterized bolton once his national security adviser as a disk run toward former employee who wants to sell more books i haven't seen him at this group but i can tell you nothing was ever said to john bolton but i have not seen a baby. i guess he's w

house of representatives has delivered the articles of impeachment against donald trump to the senate trump is the 3rd president to face such proceedings in american history speaker nancy pelosi signed the document representing the start of a trial against president donald trump it follows a vote in the democratic controlled house was 7 members have also been assigned as managers of the trial the team led by house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff brought the papers into the senate chamber the president's accused of pressuring ukraine's leader to investigate his political rival joe biden charges that he's dismissed as a hoax. make it be very clear that this president will be held accountable that no one is above the law and that no future president should ever entertain the idea that article one i mean she's the article 2 says that he can do whatever he wants senate leader mitch mcconnell confirmed the impeachment trial will start and honest on tuesday he says that he's confident justice will be done this is difficult for our country but there's precisely the conduct. for wh

inquiry of the white house is certainly taken issue with that. ok kimberly. what about the fact that and this may be he was talking to not only gets to saying well presidents don't necessarily have to be there but the fact that donald trump isn't even in the country at the moment i mean is this just him saying hey business as usual i'm all for. making america great again. well there's always the argument that the president is trying to ignore domestic headlines by making international noise obviously this is a meeting that is scheduled far in advance we didn't exactly know when the impeachment trial was going to take place so it's not necessarily true that the white house was able to orchestrate in any way this sort of distraction if you will but there's no question it's seizing upon the opportunity to as sensually make the argument look at some of the triumphs of my presidency i've negotiated new trade deals like phase one of china trade also the new deal that would take over for now after the u.s. m.c.a. negotiated with mexico and canada and it

i know montana and on down the top stories on al-jazeera the white house has warned former national security adviser john bolton that he can't publish a book where he's reportedly made explosive revelations about president donald trump and letter from the white house national security council says the manuscript contains material that top secret alternate engineer wrote a trump told him he wanted to freeze $391000000.00 in security aid to ukraine unless he have investigated the democrats committee hawk it has the latest from the white house there is certainly an effort by the white house to prevent the testimony of the former national security advisor john bolton as you point out al-jazeera has now obtained a letter that was sent to john bolton's attorney where the argument was made by the white house that releasing the manuscript would cause exceptionally grave harm to the national security of the united states if those contents were disclosed the letter goes on to say that many of the conversations that john bolton had with the president were president are classified at the top secret leve

well as a list was happening the white house issued a statement here is it in pots. very trumpy in tone the democrats are in also a judge they have no case in this latest political stunt proves that the idea that the counsel to the president has to turn over protect to documents and confidential information is ludicrous and to imply he can represent the president of the united states in an impeachment proceeding is completely absurd kimberly how could a white house correspondent with more on that the democrats are not a jerk and this life will put latest political stunt proves that can you explain to obvious kimberly what this apparent stunt is yeah it's a bit new i try to make it real simple essentially the president's attorney pats a polonia the democrats have argued it can't have argue and defend the president because there's a conflict of interest officially it comes down to this as the president's you know one of his primary lawyers he was very instrumental in trying to block the documents from leaving the white house and going to capitol hill and you remember o

embassy to disputed jerusalem from tel aviv in december 2017 the white house also cut off aid to the palestinians closed the palestine liberation organization offices in washington and recognized israel sovereignty over the golan heights moved seem to support netanyahu especially as he attempts to win reelection amid corruption allegations 1st. the deal of the century is the opportunity of the century the israeli elections are in march trump denies he's interfering instead trump is touting this plan as an economic opportunity for palestinians. months ago his sudden large yard kirshner proposed a peace to prosperity plan to raise $50000000000.00 to improve the lives of palestinians in the west bank and gaza it's something they should want they probably won't want it initially but i think at the end they will i think in the end they're going to want it the unveiling of president trump's middle east peace plan has been delayed repeatedly initially the white house said it was waiting until after the israeli elections given israel is now preparing for its 3rd vote in under 12 months the w

walk of the house manages from the house through the senate. that's right it wasn't just the motions that they were going through really that walk across presents a key threshold in this impeachment process transferring the power of impeaching president trump from the u.s. house of representatives which of course is the democratic controlled chamber and transferring that power now to the senate a very different environment this is where we have the republican majority which is of course president trying to own party they will conduct the trial of president trump and officially this trial will kick off in just about an hour's time that is when chief justice justice john roberts of the u.s. supreme court will be escorted into the senate chambers he will be administered and oath to become the presiding officer of this trial and then he will immediately in turn swear in the $100.00 senators to become the impartial jurist to decide whether or not president trump remains in office now that word impartial has been much dissected in this sense because

history the white house lays out its defense of president donald trump. and chaos as hundreds of migrants cross from guatemala into mexico as they continue their desperate journey to the united states. comes the program our top story at least 2 people have been killed in baghdad after iraqi security forces used tear gas and live ammunition to break up anti-government protests meanwhile in the south of the country hundreds of demonstrators that blocked main roads in several cities the had been a brief lull in protests as regional tensions between iran and the united states took center stage but iraqis continue to say the prime minister has not fulfilled his promises and they are calling for an overhaul of the political system imran khan reports now from the capital. in one of the main squares in central baghdad police and protesters confront each other it began in the early hours of my. as protesters tried to block the road leading to the square they want a change of government and accuse the current one of corruption a cool had gone out to protesters to b

the white house moves to block the publication of a book by former national security adviser john bolton which reportedly implicates donald trump at his ongoing impeachment trial. so robert you want to know just their allies my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes the rush to get more medical help more foreigners out of the chinese province struck down with coronavirus. also as palestinian protesters to dance donald trump's middle east plan president mahmoud abbas says that he'll travel to new york to address the u.n. . had a healthy appetite for new food carts how argentina's fighting malnutrition amongst low income families. the impeachment trial of u.s. president donald trump has added a new phase with the start of 2 days of senators questions but that's already being overshadowed by the fallout of an upcoming book by the former national security adviser john bolton which could implicate the president well leaked excerpts from the book appear to support accusations of abuse of power at the center of the president's trial the white house has moved to block the boo

there are several out lights are in for reporting that the white house has inform congress that later on in the course of the day it will deliver a reason for its exercise its attack in iraq this isn't terms of the war powers resolution which makes it obligatory on the president to inform congress 48 hours after hostilities have begun now the nature of it is a signed document from the white house which would be expected to lay the reasons for the action that may be part of the classified of the public part of the document but then also within the document it's expected that there would be the intelligence reasons given for the action that may well be classified limited to the eyes of congress alone so certainly this is a important step it is time democrats within the congress have been calling very strongly for such a move to be taken arguing that president trump has got to meet his obligations in terms of the constitution one of which they insist is to comply with the measures of the war powers act now this act is in place to prevent a president from taking any unilateral action with

speaker nancy pelosi who is the top democrat in the house she said earlier that this will have legal teeth even though it will not be sent to the president's desk for a signature she said that his decision unilaterally to work with the killing of general sulaimani was reckless. what happened in the view of many of us is not a moving piece but an escalation not that we have any confidence in the goodness. of the good intentions of that of iran and we certainly do not respect an actor my intelligence background know just how bad school money was it's not because we expect good things from them but we expect great things from us. and house republicans have brushed off this measure saying it is all just a partisan distraction that will have no legal powers now over on the senate side a similar measure is also pending and we have had a couple republican senators who have said that they will support that measure which similarly seeks to curb the president's war powers any wrong whether or not these chimeras pass and then afterwards whether they have the intended effect or any wiggle teeth

impeached has all worked to the benefit of the position that the house managers are trying to hit all right about law you know you know i said as a journalist myself i couldn't imagine anything that would probably get fewer readers but now you have a hot spot. if you're writing about law how would your north stars in sort of telling the story of what equities matter in a in an impeachment of a president what are the pieces that we should be looking at as we watch as we're all going to see this you know 100 senators sitting up there i've sat on the senate floor before it's a solemn and interesting place you feel the power of the history of the united states there in everything with this is a serious deal the chief justice of the united states so as you write about this what are the pieces you look for yeah well i think to answer that question we have to also think about what are the legal questions that are distractions right and i think in the context of impeachment there's been a common argument that there needs to be a crime committed in order to impeach a president of the united st

aid and white house a white house meeting to pressure ukraine to investigate his political rivals including a former vice president joe biden. is following all of this for us on capitol hill joins us now live heidi so we've heard from adam schiff now jerry nadler speaking talk us through the main points the democrats have made so far in their opening arguments and also what's it like inside that senate chamber right now. carol so we saw maybe the 1st 3rd of the arguments as just for today expecting at least another 4 hours of these arguments from the democrats and you just heard adam show starting this with really a plea to his senate republican colleagues we know they need at least 20 republican senators to vote with the democrats in order to convict president trump and remove him from office and really that is a tall order very remote possibility at this point but we heard adam schiff making that argument saying essentially to these republican senators. history is watching and that the american people are watching we saw a shift open with references to the framers of the u.s. constitution

john of the house managers john r. bolton's forthcoming book states that the president wanted to continue withholding $391000000.00 in military aid to ukraine until ukraine announced investigations into his top political rival and the debunked conspiracy theory about the 2016 election is there any way for the senate to render a fully informed verdict in this case without hearing the testimony of bolton mulvaney and the other key eye witnesses or without seeing the relevant documentary evidence. of thank you ms chief justice the short answer the question is no. there's no way to have a fair trial without witnesses and when you have a witness who is as plainly relevant as john bolton who goes to the heart of the most serious and egregious of the president's misconduct who has volunteered to come and testify to turn him away to look the other way i think is deeply at odds with being an impartial juror. i would also add in response to the last question that if any part of the president's motivation was a corrupt motive it

awaited mideast peace plan donald trump meets israeli prime minister benyamin netanyahu at the white house. player watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to people also coming up the u.s. military says it's investigating after a plane with u.s. markings crashes in afghanistan's gosney province. china's prime minister visits the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak that's now killed at least $81.00 people . and the horrors of the past overwhelmed all switched survivors who have returned to the nazi concentration camp 75 years after he was liberated. donald trump has announced he will reveal his much awaited middle east peace plan on tuesday but this already being criticized israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is calling it an historic opportunity but in a tweet iran's foreign minister labeled it delusional trump is meeting this now in the white house right now he insists that while the palestinians probably won't want the deal initially that the plan is good for them well i think he's here for a reason and hopefully that will reverse and peace in the militias the lon

house of representatives is to vote on a bill that would limit president donald trump's ability to attack iran. hello i'm adrian for get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the revolutionary guards commander warns that iran's missile strike against u.s. forces in iraq was just the start of a series of revenge attacks. foreign diplomats including the u.s. ambassador visit indian administered kashmir for the 1st time since its autonomy was revoked in oldest. and canada has joined the investigation to find out why a ukrainian jet crashed in iran killing all 176 people on. the us house of representatives is jews of those on measure limiting president donald trump's ability to take military action against iran as the fallout from the assassination of iranian general custom sala mahdi continues earlier on wednesday president trump backed away from saw the military confrontation but democrats are not satisfied house speaker nancy pelosi says that she doesn't believe saddam audi's killing has made the us safer. we are passing today a war powers resolution to limit the president's mil

but 1st this report from our white house correspondent kimberly hauck it. with the u.s. and iran edging dangerously close to war president donald trump proclaimed that tehran appears to be standing down truck gave no indication that the united states intends to strike back hours after running in missile attacks on 2 bases used by the u.s. military in iraq we suffered no casualties all of our soldiers are safe and orderly minimal damage was sustained and our military bases it was a stark contrast to the president's threats of retaliation without hesitation that have dominated his twitter feed in recent days instead flanked by top advisers and generals trump laid a surprising suggestion that members of nato to become much more involved in the middle east process it was an astonishing claim from a president who once called nato obsolete he also encouraged u.s. partners and allies to abandon the j c p a way an agreement put in place in 2050 and by world powers to live it iran's nuclear program we must all work together toward making a deal with the rain that makes the world