Public life included 2 terms as president and Prime Minister period he became a champion of the european single currency and a vocal opponent of the u. S. Led war in iraq they also served 18 years as the mayor of paris so this period was marred by allegations of corruption. Reports. People gathered outside former president Jacques Chiracs home in central paris to remember one of frances most famous politicians whose career spanned 5 decades in a t. V. Address to the nation president emmanuel macro pay tribute to the conservative leader know. The people of france have lost a great statesman that we love as much as he loved us became a familiar face after being in politics for more than 40 years and whether we share his views or not this is all recognize this man who resembled us and assembled us there of paris Prime Minister twice and president for 12 years he held nearly all the top jobs sure i was born in paris in 1932 his political prowess was clearly evident he spent the 1950 s. Working in the Civil Service before becoming a protege of Prime Minister 2 after the fact his climb was steep and fast within 12 years he was Prime Minister his march to the lease a palace began after he left the camp and its becoming men of paris in 1987 when he set his eyes on the presidency it would be almost 20 years before he would gain his seat in the least say he was elected promising tax cuts and more jobs but within months there was a general strike bringing millions into the streets the in Foreign Policy chirac was a supporter of multilateralism but he didnt shy away from taking a stand on a trip to jerusalem in 1906 he forced his frustration with the Israeli Security officers assigned to accompany him what do you want to go back to my own way and i go back to iran to god obama and then later let them go and theyre going to go that route no no dad or no problem i dont want this. Vision. Of there is no obligation to raise you know. One journalist traveling this year ak at the time. I remember sit 50. And that made him an immediate an overnight hero in the arab world in the next days we traveled to. Cairo damascus and beirut everywhere people had seen that on television and were. Absolutely amazed that the western leader could speak that way to Israeli Forces which no one had done before in 2003 the us president george bush failed to persuade chirac to join the invasion of iraq winning the french leader praise from some quarters memories of his leadership will be sullied by the corruption during his 18 years as paris may 20 levon he was convicted of embezzlement Jacques Chirac though was a consummate french politician a survivor but his legacy is uncertain and damaged by his personal failures Natasha Butler aljazeera paris. Richardson of the World Championships in doha with the 1st time since 2008 the events. On the start line the old. Business updates to you by Qatar Airways going places together. Business updates to you by Qatar Airways going places together. Join. You. Welcome to the international. Stadium here in doha where were getting ready for 10 days of top quality competition with 2000 athletes gathering for the World Championships but one individual will be notable by his absence for the 1st time since 2003 the event wont involve arguably its greatest ever star Andy Richardson reports on how track and field is facing up to life after you sing boards. On the stage where the hopes and ambitions of the worlds best athletes will soon be played out. And for the 1st time in more than a decade the sports biggest star wont be the center of attention. This will be a World Championships without you saying bolt on the startline an individual whose appeal went far beyond the running track. Time then for a new generation to step up. Was these are these the go you know but the sport has to continue or its like when Michael Jordan was there were basketball. They had to move on to other players you know i mean and thats what we have to do in this or now you got abroad saying you guys different heard you have other athletes and you have competition that you have thats invested but i think trying to do the same thing and its just a matter of creating the narrative bolts brilliance as a sprinter and is equally sparkling performances in front of the camera in short events like base and outlet its more generally captured a global audience what this sport now desperately requires is a new breakout star both on and off the train. South africas customs so many look to have the performance and profile levels to rival bolts but shes been banned from competition due to new rules which attempt to restrict to star in female run as. Russias suspension due to state sponsored doping has brought off unwelcome headlines its been a tough 4 years is theres no point in being naive. We have to grow the sport we know that we have to reach out beyond the beltway of of athletics fans we need to form partnerships but pretty much every level will be hoping bolts example can help clear the path to a Better Future the drive to be like him to be normal not just to inspire on his level its not going to show you need to grow it so what not to let him know that not only can you see more. That we can do to see when we can perceive and. See what. The world will know soon enough if lightning really can strike a 6 twice on the Richardson Al jazeera. Now the conditions here will be testing the temperatures around 40 degrees while humidity is over 50 percent but it might not be bad news for all athletes americas defending world and olympic Chappell John champion Christian Taylor spoke to aljazeera as a whole pack theres been a lot of talk about the hair and maybe that some of the Long Distance runners are going to struggle with this is that for someone in your event is the heat actually quite good for you in terms of competing interest yeah absolutely he does actually advantage from the southeast you know georgia florida so im used to the humidity im used to the heat. And im surprised when i heard that there would be air conditioned in the stadium you know i thought we would use that to our advantage and this was actually the 1st place jump 80 meters because i was in my element you know it was easier to move easy to define that flow so im really interested to see how it will be qualifications kind of get a feel for going through the call rooms and seeing how much they are pumping that they see it would be nice for the spectators nice for the distance runners but hope its not too cool for us. Well joins me now and rahul who are some of the athletes to watch here well im athletics far has been really struggling to step out of the shadow of the sign but he was such a huge carrot to buy on the track with his performances i dont fit with his personality but there are a few people coming through in the sport that people are getting quite excited about that are competing here in the world champs he is one of those guys is no allows hes a 22 year old american sprinter hes going in the mainstream 100 metres now earlier this year back in july he ran the 45 to 200 metres in history only 3 men to run quick a boat like Michael Johns of the people getting very excited about him and he seems to be best like to take that mantle of the next you sign but now hes opted out of the 100. 00 metres but even without liles the 100. 00 metres mens 100 meters is turning out to be a real blockbuster event as a young nigerian sprint call divine will to do a hes in good shape to maybe become the 1st african to win gold in the mens 100 meters hes made the rivals will be from america as a Christian Coleman the quickest man in the world this year and the defending World ChampionJustin Gatlin but on the womens side idea ashley smith from the u. K. Shes the european champion in the 10200 meters and many people think she will be the queen of world sprinting in the years to come and shes got 3 gold medals a window and will tell us how important is it for athletics to put on a good show here. For the last 2 years weve had constant stories about scandal about doping about corruption chairmanships now starting on friday weve got the olympics next summer in tokyo so i said its got a real chance for itself to put forth a much more positive message a much more positive narrative people talking about performances on the track rather than things off it really needs one of the ones that i mentioned the full one of the other athletes to form and to get to get people excited about performances aside on the track and not people talking about corruption or started paying or things like that athletics has a chance to really put forth a much more positive message and i think the head of the our double asked about i think ill be deaf. Thats what hes hoping about happens this week. Thank you were whole to other news now in england have made it 2 wins that are 2 with the Rugby World Cup in japan they scored 7 tries in a bonus point victory against the usa and Colby Joe Cochran and singer with 2 of those scores in a 45 points to 7 when the match also saw the 1st red card of the tournament for american player john well. In thursdays every game it will be thrashed canada by 48. 00 points just 7 to move talk of who will be the tally and grand in 7 tries all together to claim their 2nd straight bonus point victory theyre still likely to finish 3rd behind defending champions new zealand and 2nd favorites south africa. And that is all your sport for now its now back to sammy. All back in a moment with more of the days news. To stay with us. 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Explosive allegations against donald trump has been revealed in a whistle blowers complaint which is now being made public it details how the u. S. President tried to persuade his ukrainian counterpart to investigate these rival joe biden a complaint was made public shortly before trumps top intelligence official appeared before congress to testify john hendren reforms from washington d. C. Democrats have a new word for the white house response to a whistleblower this is a cover up the accusation follows a newly released whistleblowers report that says the white house trying to lock down the transcript of a phone call in that july call President Donald Trump pressed ukraines president to find dirt on a rival president ial candidate in this case former u. S. Vice President Joe Biden reads like a classic organized crime shakedown the report says u. S. Officials told the unnamed whistleblower that they were directed by white house lawyers to transfer the transcript of a conversation to a separate Electronic System that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information even though the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive that left trumps new acting director of National Intelligence explaining on capitol hill why he withheld that mid august report from congress until thursday we consulted with the White House Counsels Office and we were advised that much of the information the complaint was in fact subject to executive privilege a privilege that i do not have the authority to waive so a white house transcript of that call shows that trump repeatedly urged ukraines Volodymyr Zelinsky to investigate whether joe biden sought to interfere in a conflict of interest probe of the Ukrainian Gas Company for which his son hunter biden worked at the time trump was with holding nearly 400000000. 00 in aid without explanation under fire denies using any pressure what these guys are doing democrats are doing to this country is it grace but theyre going to tie up our country because frankly this so tied up this so its good up as the director of National Intelligence testified here on capitol hill President Trump was at the United Nations talking to staff he told them he wanted to know who told the whistleblower about his phone call adding that they were close to a spy and then he said something that sounded menacing you know. According to the whistleblower several senior u. S. Officials were concerned by the president s call now exhibit number one in hearings to decide whether to impeach donald trump john hendren aljazeera washington elizabeth is associate professor of american studies and Political Science at George Washington university she contrast the impeachment proceedings against trump with those against clinton in the late 1990 s. The entire circumstances surrounding impeachment are quite different back then it was about not only clintons behavior with a private individual you know one of his in turns but also lying about it. You know committing perjury and that was the justification for impeachment here we have a much different set of concerns its not only about impeachment i mean about you know possible perjury but its more about. Lying under you know not necessarily lying under oath in the way that it was for clinton but its about a larger behavior some of his problems some of his ways of abusing power that sometimes its hard to pin down as to whether or not hes crossed the legal line where he can be actively prosecuted but for the claim of impeachment which is high crimes and misdemeanors that can include an abuse of power that might not be explicitly criminal and right now we see republicans and democrats trying to draw different lines in a way that seems really different than clinton situation. The pentagon has unveiled new measures to protect saudi arabias Oil Facilities the u. S. Is to send a battery of Patriot Missiles 4 Radar Systems and 200. 00 personnel to bolster saudi arabias defenses the announcement comes after an attack earlier this month from the worlds biggest crude Oil Processing facility yemens who the rebels have claimed responsibility for those air strikes in saudi washington blames iran lets go live now to have a car in washington d. C. So what kind of message is the u. S. Trying to send. The message it sends is that theyre not going to go on the off uncivil least not yet remember right after the incident we saw the president tweeting that he had to talk to saudi but there would be action saudi arabia and we saw secretary of state mark pompei o called this an act of war so they seem to be ramping up the rhetoric but now the pentagon has responded after a late friday evening american u. S. East coast time announcing that they were going to send more troops they just dont know how many now a few days have passed and theyre coming out and sending this pretty small number of troops some perspective about 200 to 200 soldiers to work these Patriot Missile batteries so its sending the message that theyre not going to have a huge response this is a pretty small deployment the bigger takeaway though is that its still going to focus on the defensive measures defending saudi arabia as opposed to going on the often against iran now its not at all clear how effective this could potentially be its widely believed within the military Community Intelligence circles that saudi arabia over he has these patriot systems outside of its Oil Facilities and the big question in washington is why did all of this billions of dollars of military equipment that saudis purchased from the u. S. And others why didnt it really work and i dont think we have the answer to that yet but the clear thing is with Patriot Missiles theyre mostly designed for those Ballistic Missiles theyre more effective at that cruise missiles or drones theyve shown to be less effective and thats what the u. S. Says was used in this attack on the saudi facilities so theyre sending the message that theyre here theyre there to support saudi arabia because saudi arabia or questioned it but its a very Small Mission and a very small deployment of u. S. Hardware all right protocol had bad things for the. Irans president says his country will d of course in gage in talks with the u. S. But only if sanctions are lifted. The made the comment south and News Conference on the sidelines of the United NationsGeneral Assembly in new york but he reiterated that trump administrations current tactics are not working. It was very clear that the path chosen by the u. S. From the onset would never succeed so despite these pressures and these wrong choices they kept saying that we wish to speak to iran we have no problem talking or negotiating but we are not willing with the existence of preconditions to enter into talks if america takes the maximum pressure the sanctions off the table and in a way demonstrates its and and gives us the needed trust that with this government we are able to talk and reach a conclusion of course that would be a different set of circumstances and a different atmosphere. Has more fun to have. As the iranian delegation was getting ready to depart for new york for this years u. N. General assembly the hot button issue a hot topic on the agenda that they would no doubt have had to deal with in terms of their meetings with World Leaders would have been whether or not iran had anything to do with attacks on saudi arabias Oil Facilities on around got world facilities attacks earlier this month they were claimed by yemens hooty fighters now during his press conference iranian president Hassan Rouhani who gave a press conference in new york just before departing to return to tehran the 1st question right out of the gate was about whether or not iran had any proof to say that it was not involved in any way in those attacks around the president of course turned that around and said that it is the accused party that those parties that are making allegations against iran must provide the proof that iran was behind it they are the ones that must provide evidence to go along with the accusation not the other way around now iran has denied any involvement in those. Tax of course it has also said that yemens hooty fighters carried out those attacks as selfdefense as a form of retaliation for a saudi led war that has been ongoing against the yemeni people for many years and that is something the iranians say is the right of the yemenis to do so that a retaliatory attack was very right now in terms of the conversations the president Hassan Rouhani said that he had during his time at the United Nations he said that he asked World Leaders that were also accusing around outright of whether or not they had any evidence what was there evidence to suggest that iran was in any way shape or form involved in those attacks on saudi aramco Oil Facilities he said World Leaders told him that they had no evidence of that kind basically did not think that yemens hooty fighters were capable of carrying out an attack of such magnitude and of such sophistication irans president said his response to that was that the information about the ground reality in the middle east in that region that the World Leaders had was simply outdated. On danny danon is israels permanent representative to the u. N. He told our diplomatic and to james bays irans president is trying to fool the International Community. When he is coming to the u. N. If we you speak very nicely about cooperation but when you go back to. Finding terrorism do we expect that when you know the region there are the one who created all the problems in the 3rd of all moved their proxies thought that the best one was that they were gone and only a few days ago that pack the Oil Facilities so thats the joke we expect from the u. N. The International Community to put more pressure on day when me and to demand from them to stop sponsoring them and not to buy their lives little honey thank you your. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is threatening to terminate all signed agreements with israel if it had legs is a key part of the west bank it comes after israeli Prime MinisterBinyamin Netanyahu announced plans for more illegal settlements in the occupied west bank speaking at the un General Assembly the International Community to help end what he called Israeli Aggression in palestine im not sure i mean early in. A week before the israeli elections Prime Minister netanyahu came out to arrogantly announce that should he prevail in the elections he would annex and apply israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley northern dead sea and israels colonial settlements despite the fact that all of these areas palestinian territory we reject this plan entirely all responses if the Israeli Government is to proceed with this plan all signed agreements with the govern