said i found that shocking clearly that was because eastland was a racist and biden is white biden's ability to reach across the aisle had nothing to do with not being called boy why was this not clear and biden's mine it's a mystery to me i don't believe that biden is anything close to a racist himself he has a strong track record in favor of civil rights but it's remark was ill considered and betrayed a thoughtless ignorance of those terms so i could hear you trying to get in there can you see where this is something that's ripe for people to jump on and say you're out of touch. i muchly not sure because i think one of the things the democratic party has to deal with is political correctness i think a large majority of voters have simply had enough with being told that this although that it can't use this kind of language and while joe biden's language may have been in correct and perhaps he was right that he was called out i think there's a sense among the voting public that enough with all this political correctness let's just get on with talking about policies let's talk about h

biden's role did not change and former vice president biden continued to lead u.s. policy in ukraine on this record there is a legitimate basis for president trump to have concern about hunter biden's role on barisan as board. the prospect that some senior ukrainian officials worked against president trump in the run up to the 2016 election draws an even more visceral reaction from most democrats let me say very very clearly that election interference is not binary i'm not saying it was ukraine and not russia i am saying that both countries and work to influence an election a systemic coordinated russian interference effort does not mean that some ukrainian officials some ukrainian officials did not work to oppose president trump's candidacy did not make statements against president trump during the election ambassador volcker testified in his public hearing that it is possible for more than one country to seek influence in u.s. elections dr hill testified likewise at her public hearing contemporaneous news articles in 2016 noted how president trump's candidacy led

but stopped short of endorsing biden were the words you don't believe in the moment joe biden will have to convince the diverse and useful members of the democratic party that is seventy six year old white man is the only candidate that can defeat president donald trump it's a paradox that biden will have to work to overcome kimberly helped get al jazeera the white house well let's talk more about this was shawn zeller who was that he had a tour of congressional quarterly magazine and he joins us live now from washington d.c. sir thank you for joining us welcome to al-jazeera we were just hearing our correspondent there saying that of course still biden's going to have to convene said the democrats specially the younger members i mean how do you think he's going to do that what would you say is is unique selling points to use that phrase i think is a unique selling point is that he served for eight years under a very popular democratic president barack obama who made inroads in all parts of the country and was particularly popular among youth and i think you make the case that he can ca

terser the admission of biden will be a formidable task for there on the same generation joe biden many wrote this reflects all of the things that donald trump is not so i'm expecting more of this but i think ultimately democratic voters are going to see that for what it is and that is significant designed to help throw them off of their choices michael fauntroy from howard university in washington d.c. thanks for being with us on al-jazeera my pleasure thank you well mexican immigration agents have detained over three hundred central american migrants who attempted to cross over to the united states this week it's the largest raid they've carried out in more than a year the detainees were part of a caravan that was traveling north through mexico and with immigration checkpoints now dotted around the south of the country people are taking more dangerous options there resorting to sitting on top of a train known as the beast that has seen people die always live in the past after falling off well our man you were part of is live in arriaga in southern chiapas near that train manual tell u

mr giuliani in this time in that made september he mentioned the biden investigation he mentioned biden over 50 times and 20 something times and in relation to crane now that stirred your curiosity. as will finally come to this point you know as i testified i met with mr giuliani once and he did bring up vice president biden and i pushed back on that and i maintained a very clear distinction that ukraine investigating its own citizens and corruption would be fine going beyond that to say we're an investigative 'd vice president is not fine did you have any discussions with anyone in the state palmer or anywhere else in the administration about concerns about the investigation in the portion co yes so i know that i raised this with ambassador taylor in advance of that we had been in some of the same meetings some of the country team there. i don't remember whether i had raised it with george canterville recorder not i may well have done. that but it was something that we had discussed as part of our meetings in that time to the chairman. so master when you have this conversation and you

and it says the other thing there's a lot of talk about biden's son this is president trump speaking that biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it it sounds horrible now at the time of this call vice president biden was the front runner for the democratic nomination in the 2020 alexion and mr credit are you familiar as you indicate in your opening statement about these allegations related to vice president biden i am and to your knowledge is there any factual basis to support those allegations none whatsoever when vice president biden acted in ukraine did he act in accordance with official u.s. policy he did now let's go to the in the last excerpts that i wanted to highlight. which is president selenski speaking and he says i also want to thank you for your invitation to visit the united states specifically washington d.c. on the other hand i also want to ensure you that we will be very serious about

but stopped short of endorsing biden were the words used. in the moment joe biden will have to convince the diverse and useful members of the democratic party that a seventy six year old white man is the only candidate that can defeat president donald trump it's a paradox that biden will have to work to overcome kimberlee help get al jazeera the white house. the french president has given america news conference to unveil proposals that he hopes will end the months of anti government demonstrations emanuel mccrone says he wants to significantly cut income tax and jobs for life for civil servants as part of reforms to transform france responding to months of yellow vests protests against them he also said the make it easier to hold referenda on national issues does address came after three months of town hall style across france which have been dubbed the great debate. above all public order must return and with an ascent. look cool but i don't want the actions of some people to eclipse the just a mom who would at the start of this movement a

the fact that we don't want our people like vice president biden done 6. for us already in the ukraine the unverified and vague accusation against joe biden was echoed by the secretary of state if there was a lection interference that took place by the vice president i think the american people deserve to know we know there was interference in the 2016 election and if it's the case that there was something going on with the president's family because the conflict of interest and vice president biden behaved in a way that was inconsistent with the way leaders are to operate i think the american people deserve to know that joe biden says it was the obama administration as a whole along with the e.u. that called for the firing of the then ukrainian prosecutor back in 2016 and the matter had nothing to do with his son. and president trump's critics insist they will not be distracted from finding out why the white house council will not allow the release to a congressional committee of the whistleblowers complaint this tweet from house intelligence committee ch

biden river windsors. when the moment joe biden will have to convince the diverse useful members of the democratic party that a seventy six year old white man is the only candidate that can defeat president donald trump it's a paradox that biden will have to work to overcome kimberley health at al-jazeera the white house mexican immigration agents have detained over three hundred central american migrants who attempted to cross over to the u.s. this week it's the largest raid they've carried out in more than a year the detainees were part of a caravan that was traveling north through mexico and with immigration checkpoints now dotted around the south of the country people are taking more dangerous options they're resorting to sitting on top of a train known as the beast. and seen people die old lose limbs in the pasta for the north my view of apollo has more from i mean. we're standing near the railroad tracks in the town of in southern mexico just under three hundred kilometers north of the mexico guatema

vice president joe biden has officially kicked off his 2020 presidential campaign with a major rally in philadelphia a veteran political leader used his speech to attack president trump biden says he's best placed to take on the current commander in chief well the message tailored to republican and moderate voters. reports. in the. nation when joe biden announced he was running for the democratic nomination for president 3 weeks ago he began by attacking president donald trump. but on saturday in his 1st big campaign rally officially kicking off his run for the presidency biden tried to present himself as a man who could unify politically divided america to defeat. this politics is so hard it's written in this country park to see. our politicians our politics today traffics in division and our president is the divider in chief. choosing pennsylvania for his kickoff rally was not by mistake the state's voters will play a key role in picking the next president in 2016 hillary clinton merely was defeated by trump in this state by less than one percent of the vote the 20 electoral votes

biden were to reduce the number that joe biden will have to convince the diverse and useful members of the democratic party that a seventy six year old white man is the only candidate that can defeat president donald trump it's a paradox that biden will have to work to overcome kimberlee help at al jazeera the white house almost seventy people have been killed and hundreds of fled their homes after heavy rains caused flooding and mudslides in south africa it's once again raise concerns about poor government infrastructure. has more from pinetown one of the worst affected areas. this is what's left of several roads in pinetown he range in the last few days along the east coast of south africa to get catastrophic flooding and landslides wiping out homes and tearing down power lines. have tried to salvage a few positions things that can't be easily replaced and a six year old sister was nearly killed during the deluge. the houses collapsed and. she managed to get out just before. most people were killed in areas around the port city surrounded by hills prone to landslides and. lost eve

biden specifically you recall that. and as she mentioned that you had been asked or been prepared for a question about hunter biden's role on the board of bree smoke but i don't think that you gave us the answer or answers that the obama biden state department prepared you to give in response to that question do you remember what those answers were yeah it was something along the lines of i would refer you to the vice president's office on that so did they in the course of that brief you about. the amount of money that hunter biden was being paid by. now that this wasn't part of a briefing i mean i had sort of big old books with right questions that might come up in preparation for your confirmation and they thought that under biden's role it breached might be significant enough that it would come up during your confirmation is that correct apparently sound i mean there are hundreds of questions well. hundreds of questions but were there hundreds of companies how many companies other than. did the obama biden state depa

and you think they would be interested in joe biden threatening to withhold u.s. loan guarantees unless the ukrainians fired a prosecutor who was investigating. that would be a textbook example of bribery the media of course are free to act as democrat puppets and they're free to lurch from the russian hoax to the ukraine hoax at the direction of their puppet masters but they cannot reasonably expect to do so without alienating half the country who voted for the president they're trying to expel americans have learned to recognize fake news when they see it and if the mainstream press won't give it to them straight they'll go elsewhere to find it which is exactly what the american people are doing that i yield back i think the gentleman today we are joined by lieutenant colonel and jennifer williams lieutenant colonel alex alexander of inman is an active duty military officer who joined the army after college and serve multiple tours overseas serving in south korea germany and iraq he was deployed to iraq at a time of heavy fighting and was awarded a purple heart

yes he already had he already does bernie sanders has criticized openly criticize joe biden and some of the other candidates have joined in biden has said some things that are controversial in the democratic party he will he comes from the democrats passed he talked about working with segregationists which is horrifying to younger democrats who don't remember when segregationists and racists were real force tolerated by the democratic party he talks about the crime bill that he supported back in the 1990 s. which a lot of african-americans and minorities blame on mass income for mass incarceration joe biden has a lot of explaining to do and he'll be called on it by a number of his competitors but he still comes across to many many democrats as the best positioned to take on donald trump and to what extent do these these gaffes that you're talking about things things that he said in the past that that he should have said to what he said to does that matter to democratic voters because of course we get. president trampas saying what appeared to be inappropriate things all the time and

president did withhold military aid to ukraine unless the ukrainians investigated his political rival joe biden and his son for corruption on tuesday 3 other witnesses appeared before the house intelligence committee they overheard the controversial phone call when trump allegedly pressured ukraine's lot of ms lewinsky to investigate the biden's. visit was a white house correspondent is following developments at the white house will be speaking to her in just a moment but 1st let's go to heidi joe castro who's outside the chambers where that hearing is about to be held heidi what can we expect today. hadrian some court in song linda is a witness that everyone is watching not sure what to expect he is important reasons 1st of all he has been the closest of any of the witnesses to that play to testify to the president himself with direct conversations with trump in regard to ukraine and secondly someone has a bit of a wild card as you just mentioned he has reversed. in the past he has been the source of perhaps the most solid defense of trump as well as the most damning evidence against trump and

donald trump's claims over joe biden be the start of an impeachment process. and it was a controversial victory at the singapore grand prix we'll have the details later in our sports roundup. tens of thousands of indian americans packed into texas stadium for an unusual joint rally between the indian prime minister narendra modi and the u.s. president donald trump the events in houston dubbed how the modi was a rare mass show of support for a foreign leader on u.s. soil our white house correspondent kimberly was there. oh wherever you are into remote goes controversy usually follows outside the houston stadium in advance of the indian prime minister's speech modi supporters physically grabbed al-jazeera as camera and yanked press credentials as we tried to film those protesting his visit was once banned for years for entering the united states for violations of religious freedom but on sunday he stood in front of thousands of indian americans alongside u.s. president donald trump harding by france the massive rally is designed to beam a positive image of modi

several crowded frontrunner joe biden has come under fire in the 2nd round of debate from rivals are hoping to become the party's presidential candidate the former vice president was repeatedly forced to defend his record on health immigration and the race among other things john hendren has been following that debate for us in detroit so john as we were saying joe biden in the spotlight in the 1st round of the debate his performance was described as lackluster how to do he did this time. well he was a front runner again this time and as often happens to front runners he might as well have a target on his back because several of the other candidates were gunning for him joe biden was the 1st actually to launch an attack before coming out you may remember in the 1st debate connally harris the california senator attacked him on his civil rights record he ended up looking bad in that debate so this time as they walked in he embraced harris and he said take it easy on me kid but then in the 1st question it was biden who took the 1st shot criticizing her on her plan for publicly funded he

nation when joe biden announced he was running for the democratic nomination for

so biden's already picking up and dawson's and support. yeah he's picking up and doris mids but the endorsements are coming from senator senior senators who look a lot like joe biden namely sort of older white men and this is a challenge for joe biden one that we see reflected with his announcement the fact that while he is touting his experience what he chose to focus on when he opened up with his announcement video was the issue of charlottesville as you point out a very divisive issue of race because he realizes that that is what he needs in terms of trying to attract particularly some of the were from grass of members of the democratic party so and announcing his candidacy he's also perhaps exposed one of his vulnerabilities and that is that he is mature that he is not sort of reflective of the more diverse wider field of candidates those one thousand candidates in fact notable when we talk about indorsements he has been praised by the spokesperson for barack obama of course where he was the vice president but at the same time that spo

president put pressure on ukraine to investigate political rival joe biden william tell it was one of 2 foreign offices to ours at the 1st televised hearing that's on the hot and pietschmann inquiry into donald trump. reports now from washington d.c. the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god william taylor and george kent took the stand together at the 1st public hearing in the impeachment inquiry career foreign officers called by democrats to tell a compelling story to the american public taylor is the acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine who upon assuming the post in june. found himself dropped in the middle of a mystery once i arrived and gave discovered a weird combination of encouraging confusing and ultimately alarming circumstances taylor had begrudgingly agreed to come out of retirement to take over the u.s. diplomatic mission at a critical time his predecessor. had been ousted without explanation and president trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani was meeting with ukraine officials to discuss debunked corruption allegations against political rivals that had taylo

many support the 2 best known former vice president joe biden and vermont senator bernie sanders but everyone here wants change 1st of all we have our man the man stands for make america think hard right now but i think. getting better 1st grade . because by doing what you night. when you get there and that he's going to make it better and then from i will release children from cages on a stage candidates keen to make the voices heard made this the robust debate many expected at times it was hard to hear what was being said from an area where we don't know a lot but senator kemal harris who with an emotional attack on the former vice president on the issue of race it was hurtful. to hear you talk about the reputations of 2 united states senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country and it was not only that but you also worked with them to oppose bussing and we got neither bernie sanders nor joe biden attacked one another perhaps a wise move for 2 of the leading candidates when he came to president trump though the vermont senator didn't ho

when he said it implied that biden's memory was failing over something that biden had said previously in the debate so you know kind of a low blow there but again i just say that this is not really change the entire nature of there was no cataclysm or. you know tectonic shift here in houston tonight all right rob thank you for that well another one of our correspondents watching the debate as heidi jocasta and she was in the texas border town of macallan. this debate watch party is hosted by republic texas civil rights project and they are a group of activists who look out for the interest of asylum seekers and immigrants trying to enter the united states we violence and poverty in central america and some of the people here say they are particularly. bested in fearing what some of these democratic presidential candidates are proposing as solutions to this migrant issue in of particularly concern to them is the u.s. supreme court ruling that came out this week which allows the trump an ministration to continue its very controversial policy of automatically didn't naing us asylum to an

and his son hunter president trump stated the other thing there's a lot of talk about biden son biden stop the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great if i didn't went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it it sounds horrible to me. witnesses unanimously testified that there was no factual support for this claim rather they noted that vice president biden was acting in support of an international consensus and official u.s. policy to clean up the prosecutor general's office in ukraine despite these facts by the time of the july 25th call mr giuliani had been publicly advocating for these 2 investigations for months while also using back to analysts to press ukrainian officials to initiate them in support of his client donald trump ambassador son and understood mr giuliani's role very clearly he testified mr giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the united states and we knew these investigations were important to the president to others mr giuliani w

vice president joe biden's son it comes as democrats recent text messages revealing how u.s. officials discussed pushing the ukrainian presidency to publicly announce an investigation into trump's rivals president donald trump asked ukraine to investigate biden and his son in july that was revealed in an explosive whistleblower complaint which is now triggered an impeachment inquiry let's go live to washington white house correspondent kimberly can tell us more this is pretty big isn't it kimberly. yeah there are so many fast moving developments adrian with regard to this impeachment inquiry right now we're watching very carefully to see the white house do a couple of things today but the big thing is it may in fact formally object to this impeachment inquiry and what does that mean what it means essentially is it's not going to cooperate with the request from the democratic controlled house of representatives that is overseeing this inquiry in terms of documents testimony until there is a vote in the house so that's one big piece watching very carefully on top of that there

is neither in the battle for the soul of this nation that might be one reason biden chose the issue of race in his announcement video to be a candidate for u.s. president talks america tonight dear my dear it is stronger than any army figure in the ocean more powerful than any dictator tyrant he's confronting his vulnerability and selling it as a strength. he says with u.s. president donald trump blamed the deadly twenty seventeen white supremacist rally in charlottesville on both sides are new through tuesday. like any art ever seen in my lifetime fighting argues that despite looking a lot like trump his views are starkly different or touch with the issues progressive and younger voters care about but biden's decades of experience as a vice president and senator also present challenges will be scrutinized for past traditional views he says have changed over time on issues of race and women's rights last month he defended himself against accusations of inappropriate touching of women. changing. given five and shifting positions many younger a progressive voters continue to support s

joe biden's son which. both mr holmes and dr hill suggested was done for political reasons this was seen as sort of derailing american foreign policy making better yvon of it was removed it seems at the behest of mr giuliani in part because she was seen as an obstacle to the investigation that giuliani and song one wanted one thing that came out of songlines testimony yesterday that's particularly damning is suggesting that a number of white house staffers knew about this sort of shadow foreign policy effort and were involved in it including. chief of staff more veiny but also secretary of state pompei oh and the vice president and the president himself that's pretty damning it's serious ok so what is spin testify what the testimony that has come out is that there was this quid pro quo multiple witnesses have said this that the president's lunch he would not get a meeting at the white house with president trump and they would not be released if he did not make an announcement not necessarily actually make a

jobar joe biden the u.s. democratic front runner in the race for the white house has come under fire in the 2nd televised debate california senator kaamelott harris question is recalled on race and called his remarks about working with segregationist senators hurtful and again i got reports from miami. outside the debate hall crowds gathered to back their candidate of choice. many support the 2 best known former vice president joe biden and vermont senator bernie sanders but everyone here wants change 1st of all we have are now so mad bake america think hard right now but i think i. can do it better the 1st great. because by doing so with unite. the people i get there and that he's going to make it better and then from i will release children from cages on a stage candidates keen to make the voices heard made this the robust debate many expected at times it was hard to hear what was being said in an area where we have not heard senator kemal how is it who with an emotional attack on the former vice president

trump also responded to reports he'd pressed another top diplomat about the investigations into biden just a day after that july phone call where they know nothing about that 1st time i've heard it although president trump wants the impeachment inquiry to go away his campaign is using it to raise money an e-mail to supporters to call the hearings not just an attack on president trump but on americans the goal to raise $3000000.00 from just the 1st day of public hearings kimberly held at al-jazeera the white house. there was so i was formally recognize bolivia's new interim leader janine and yes' but there's been widespread opposition to her appointment 2 people were killed in violence that broke out on her 1st full day in office marianna sanchez has more from the bolivian capitol. protesters clashed with police and the army on the streets of believe you live rounds were shot tear gas didn't dispel and we believe ian's who demanded interim president. to resign on her 1st day in office she's facing a country in turmoil i socialize political disputes are battled all around including the

in which the president asked the diplomats if ukraine would investigate the bidens let's go live now to what the the capital of this is how the job castro is just outside the chambers where today's impeachment inquiry will begin what will wait just run through for us what we're expecting to hear today. sure adrian so the testimony this morning from the yonah hill who is a former member of the national security council she was the ukrainian and russian expert there she in a sense is really a stand in for her boss john bolton the former national security adviser to the president who has thus far refused to comply with any efforts to bring him forward for testimony now the hill has said previously and in the closed door hearings that have already occurred that bolton called this shadow diplomacy channel in his words a drug deal and that he was so concerned by the fact that the president had empowered his personal attorney rudy giuliani to really read that campaign that bolton said giuliani was alive hand grenade and that there were meetings at the white white house that led up to the ph

for voting for the war in iraq but i think it's that moment between camilla harris and joe biden that people will be talking about she really did need that boost in the polls she was only polling in the single digits and she came in here with very little to lose but i think she gained a lot of momentum from this debate joe biden held is own he's the most experienced politician on stage the most experienced person in the white house having been the vice president so it's really up to the voters now who having watched these 2 debates with 20 candidates will make their own decisions about who were the winners and who were the losers remember there's almost 18 months to go before the general election happens as more debates in july there's more in september these candidates will get whittled down over these months as they fail to meet the criteria to go into the next debates but for certain people the 1st night who leon castro from texas did a good job with another emotional statement about immigration and tonight i think come on harris will be declared something of a window while bernie

the bidens he also made clear that everyone was in the loop another exact quote everyone was in the loop basically that meant he said secretary state pompei o at some point was aware of this he referenced repeatedly rudy giuliani the president's personal attorney who was in charge basically of the efforts. of energy rick perry as well chief of staff nick mick mulvaney that is former national security advisor john bolton current volcker who also testified former special envoy to the ukraine he testified yesterday and he implied that at some point bice president mike pence also became aware so let's go ahead and play just a bit of the testimony of an ambassador horns on let's listen this is not my 1st time cooperating with this committee as you know i've already provided 10 hours of deposition testimony and i did so despite directives from the white house and the state department that i refused to appear as many others have done i agreed to testify because i respect. the gravity of the moment and i believe i have an obligation to account fully for my role in these events to let everyo

but on saturday in his 1st big campaign rally officially kicking off his run for the presidency biden tried to present himself as a man who could unify politically divided america to defeat. this problem so it's easy for him so far it's written in this country park to see. our politicians our politics today traffics in division and our president is the divider in chief. choosing pennsylvania kick off rally was not by mistake the state's voters will play a key role in picking the next president in 2016 hillary clinton merely was defeated by trump in this state by less than one percent of the vote the 20 electoral votes in the state helped trump become president this time around it might be different biden was born in pennsylvania and appeals to the state's white working. class voters there is no one no one's going to work longer no one's going to campaign harder to win your heart your trust and your support than the stronger character you do you refer to her in scranton pennsylvania. polls indicate he's beating trump in the state by more than 10 points but before then there are 22 othe

accused of pressuring them to investigating biden in exchange for military. i found it confusing an unusual arrangement for making u.s. policy toward ukraine there appear to be 2 channels of u.s. policy making an implementation one regular and one highly irregular well donald trump was dismissive of what he's already labeled a witch hunt i hear it's a joke i haven't watch have a watch for one minute because i've been with the president which is much more important as far as i'm concerned this is a sham and shouldn't be allowed it was a situation that was caused by people that should have allowed it to happen who want to find out who is the whistleblower because the whistleblower gave a lot of very incorrect information including my call with the president of ukraine which was a perfect all well president trump says the alliance with turkey remains strong despite differences on key issues he's held talks with president russia type one in washington d.c. relations have been strained over policies on syria and turkey's purchase of a russian missile defense syste

it's all goal for joe biden as the former vice president officially launches his campaign to ice donald trump. hello again and welcome back to your international weather forecast we're here across china plenty of rain to talk about over the next few days and it's really going to be expanding as we begin the week as well most of the rain will be up here towards the central areas we're talking about chengdu on will see some very heavy rain as well for joe the rain for you but as we go towards monday the rain starts to make its way towards the south that's going to corporate hong kong as well and that rank be quite heavy along the coast expect some travel delays if you are coming into hong kong up towards shanghai though the rain will stay just to the south of you but we do expect to see plenty of clouds in the forecast there or across india we are seeing some rain down here towards the south across carola those rain showers could be quite heavy we are going to be seeing a little bit of a break as we go towards sunday up towards the central region so for now per still quite warm at $42.00

trump also responded to reports he pressed another top diplomat about the investigations into biden just a day after that july phone call where they know nothing about that. 1st time i've heard it although president trump wants the impeachment inquiry to go away his campaign is using it to raise money an e-mail to supporters called the hearings not just an attack on president trump but on americans the goal to raise $3000000.00 from just the 1st day of public hearings kimberly healthy at al-jazeera the white house. bracing for another day of transport destruction protesters are on the streets. have already closed a major tunnel as a precaution sarah clark joins us live now from hong kong sara so another day of transport chaos across hong kong tell us what's been happening. we've just had a flash more protest up here in the central hong kong with a couple of 100 people blocking some a key roads in central but where we are now we're polytechnic university just on the calhoun side of hong kong and this appears to be the new battleground we've got protests is a few 100 as far as we've s

testify his son hunter biden testify potentially calling nancy pelosi how does that work is it a one witness for the republicans one witness one witness for the democrats know. if the scene moves to the senate then a senate majority does 51 votes the vice president doesn't preside doesn't have a vote in this case could determine the witness list. as to whether or not the republicans will want to call vice president biden or his son or the speaker. there's been some pushback in the republican caucus in the senate about that. so i don't.

vice president joe biden officially kicks off his campaign for the top job with a rally in philadelphia and a unique fishing community struggles to adapt as the country in modern times says. hello again and welcome back we're here across australia we are watching one from about a that is making its way across the buy into victoria over the next few days you can see the clouds right there pushing into the central part of the continent now we are going to be seeing thunderstorms particularly across the south pushing through adelaide as well victoria you'll see thunderstorms as well tasmania will be getting some thunderstorms and some very heavy rain over the coming days here on sunday it will be adelaide with the storms in the winds as well and then as we go towards monday the storm pushes across towards the east for sydney though you can be just on the north and that storm we don't expect to see too much few there up towards brisbane though a little bit cooler at $21.00 degrees in townsville about $27.00 degrees for you there well here across the north and south island of new zealand act

debate in houston texas the 3rd debate was the 1st time that the frontrunners former vice president joe biden said this is his birth warn him but he does the same stage previous debates have seen 20 candidates face off a the 2 nights but this one involved just the top 10 well throughout the debate the candidates took turns to challenge judged by. if you lose your job for instance his his health care plan would not automatically enroll you you would have to opt in my health care plan would that's a big difference i'm fulfilling fulfilling the legacy of brock obama and you're not i'll be surprised him. and you. this is why financial debates are becoming on watchable yeah when this reminds everybody of what they cannot stand about washington is going points against each other and ok'ing at each other and telling each other that you're my plan your plan look we all know that's called a democratic primary election ahead of you out of it's go to the election you know like you know this is what we're here for the election. rannells who's that at the debates and rob says said mrs sound is a moron and

television today is failing to its current from the front runner former vice president joe biden along with senators bernie sanders and come of the harris candidates are expected to address the host of issues from health care and immigration to foreign policy 10 of the democratic hopefuls including elizabeth warren to part of the festive base on wednesday and our correspondent joins us live now from miami where the debates are currently being house and where an hour into the debate now so who's making impressions so far. from my vantage point the california senator kemal harrison is doing a pretty stunned job she's just taken on vice president former vice president joe biden over his discussions with segregation is something he got in trouble with over the last 2 weeks and it was a very emotional moment vice president joe biden was almost taken aback by the attack from her and she of course has a lot of experience as a prosecutor she's using that to good effect tonight and of course joe biden is the current front runner in all of this he did have a target on his back coming into this d

very smart and hunter biden as well as his direct overtures to the government of ukraine. directly or through proxies that's what i understand and as you understand it under whose authority do you think mr giuliani was acting under congresswoman i don't know. did the ukraine caney and fishes you spoke to understand that mr giuliani was telling them to investigate vice president biden's son and debunk the 2016 conspiracy theories i'm sorry consider going to do you think that the ukrainian officials that you spoke to understood the underlining meaning of. mr giuliani's advances to be both investigating the bidens as well as debunking the 2016 conspiracy theories yes i think to be clear i think you're referring to. debunking that it was a russian interference actually now was somehow implicating themselves or was ukraine interference or not exactly now was this official us foreign policy to push for investigation into the bind. it was not part of any process by participate or not miss williams do you agree that pressing these 2 investigations was inconsistent with official u.

and bernie sanders but joe biden remains leader in the national polls. first in the primary race. land mines are constant threat in asia so are attacks by so and other armed groups battling government forces for control of that remote desert area now in the tiller bury region thousands of people have been forced to flee the fighting turning the village of in addis into a ghost town warning you may find these images and lauren burden manley's report disturbing. to thank used to dream of finishing school now she just wants to walk again she lost the use of her legs after she stepped on a mine planted by isis fighters she can't leave her bed and her brother tries to keep her comfortable. but her situation hurts are so much you wish to see her standing on our feet again markie i had a big other sister and 3 cousins including an artist tribal leader who also killed by isis mine. 2 years ago and i salute tak until her bury killed for us and 5 soldiers. in may the u.s. military released this video of recovery operation after 28 soldiers were killed in a single

before a biden is still riding high above the other candidates by fairly significant numbers a he was attacked very strongly in one of the previous debates by senator campbell harris over his past positions on bussing as a tool for school desegregation in the 1970 s. and eighty's but that didn't have much of a in effect and in fact hamil harris is poll numbers started to drop so we'll see whether whether warren and perhaps bernie sanders team up as the left wing candidates in this race to try and take a chunk out of biden and of course we will also be hearing. the democrats talk about their policy priorities including expanding health care reducing gun violence over overhauling the immigration system in the criminal justice system and much more as you were just mentioning joe biden has endured of some attacks obviously in past weeks over the past positions and also some gaffes on his part. and yet he remains in the lead what explains is your ability to think. well i think that in large part it's simply his written name recognition of course he was 8 years as president obama's number 2

television today's field includes current frontrunner former vice president joe biden along with senators bernie sanders and camelot harris all 10 are expected to address a host of issues from health care and immigration to foreign policy 10 other candidates including elizabeth warren took part in the fast a based on wednesday well our correspondent joins us live now from miami where the debates are being held and 3 of the frontrunners are about to take each other on and we expecting it to be quite feisty tonight. i think that's a great question i think tonight's debate may well be more robust than it was last night just simply because of the makeup of these 10 candidates unlike last night where we have elizabeth warren who is the best known person in that set of candidates tonight we have bernie sanders from vermont seen as a progressive left candidate we have of course the former vice president joe biden making his 3rd 3rd run for the presidency we have a church from indiana and we have camilla harris the prosecutor from california who made a name for itself in congressional hearing so

that's right joe biden is the front runner in this race and when he walked into the fox theater behind me he might as well of had a target on his back because everybody was gunning for him you may recall in the 1st debate harris the california senator savaged him on bussing that is the policy decades ago whereby minorities were to be transferred to mostly white neighborhoods to get a better education well that knocked his poll numbers down and hers went up so this time when he walked onto that stage embrace terrorists and he said go easy on me kid but when the questioning started it was by going who really launched the 1st strike attacking her plan for government funded health care he said the senator has had several plans so far you can't be president trump with double talk on this plan and then one after another and avalanche of attacks came from other candidates on immigration julio castro the former u.s. secretary of housing and urban development under obama said it looks like one of us has learned the lessons of the past and one of us has and that was a reference to the fact that

harris attacked biden got a boost in the polls. on the way into a debate to be asked her to go easy minutes later on question one he has sailed her plan for publicly funded health care the senators had several plans for you can't be president trying with double talk on this plan we are now paying 3 bill a trillion dollars a year for health care in america over the next 10 years it's probably going to be 6 trillion dollars we must then inside detroit's fox theater came an avalanche of counterattacks on immigration it looks like one of us has learned the lessons of the past and one of us hasn't on criminal justice because you stood up and use that tough on crime phony rhetoric we got a lot of people liked it but destroyed communities like mine and on climate change washington state governor jay inslee called biden's plan in adequate his disagreement with his response with me it did kind of set me off a little bit when he said. there's no work in the south this is our last chance in the next presidency we had to move our house on fire

and mr biden's son hunter biden is alan fischer. this could be a pivotal week in the donald trump impeachment hearings many of those shared tool to give evidence were on the controversial july call with the ukrainian president that kills a key claim the hearings are based on 2nd hand reports giving evidence of tenet colonel alexander vigilant a career army officer and the ukraine expert on the national security council he was concerned by the call by president trump pushing for an investigation into democrat joe biden and his son immediately treat those concerns to a white house lawyer is improper for the president of the united states to demand a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen and a political opponent a decorated veteran of the water in iraq vidlin his see those actions in testifying under attack from president trump supporters who question his loyalty this is america is the country i've served and defended that all of my brothers have served and here right matters. thank you sir gilbert. i. one a vice president migh

son was a board member of and into the bidens himself themselves and and possibly into the you know these bunked theories that ukraine meddled in the 2016 elections against trump and what holmes testified to is that he was very concerned about this and that in particularly giuliani was trying to get holmes's boss fired who was that was marie yavanna the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine who trump and giuliani had perceived as being against the administration there was no evidence of that but working in conjunction with members of the outgoing ukrainian ministration who later lost favor with their current president that that appeared to be the source of these conspiracy theories that ended up and then fact costing ambassador given a bitch her job and holmes said that that was unlike anything else he'd seen in his career but some other interesting things he testified to and important things that really get to the heart of the accusations against trump in this impeachment inquiry is whether or not there was a quid pro quo coming from the white house that was leveraging the u.s. securit