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Think show their parliament or or a Prime Minister or the even the presidency could do were and perfectly were the demonstrators or the protesters and the problem is a very complex in iraq the political system has produced a consensual you know all between the Political Parties and they have shared the power they have here everything and fortunately they cannot. Its resulted in their in a very proud you know and their you know weak government as well as very weak you know procedures to fight the corruption mismanagement you know these are real demands by everyone in iraq iraq would like to see their country is very prosperous and very strong country has a good economy has a good basic instinct services unfortunately the government. Which is the product of the political process and the parliament as well i dont think should the parliament could do with their emergency assertion do much because they are part of the craftsman not part of the solution so then what youve been discussing there is there is the systemic problems with the Iraqi Government and you know the Prime Minister of them hate is they even said there is no magic solution to the governance problems which are iraqs had thats long term were looking at pictures right now if i was in the streets and were looking at people protesting and people getting killed what do you do to stop that right now. I think rio. The new forms to the political processes that would be 10 job loss on the grounds not only promises and thats from says will the just pulling the people around promises to fight the corruption and bring all the corrupt officials to the justice and set them liable and accountable for what they have done and the past 16 years of the concept of governments where very fragile very then we cannot you know face are confronted with the Political Parties that are forming the government and therefore i think the real freeform and would be you know. I dont think so even that the the figures who are participating in the political processes are one apply to make this kind of reforms because they will deprive themselves of from the blue jays they have gotten from 2003 until today so independent of figures independent academy people. People who are not the parties and could possibly space in a community to provide the real and the breck matic reforms to the political process in iraq just quickly im just waiting for notes here where you pointed out give me that these protests have happened in the south and in baghdad which is a shia majority is that a significant part of these protests is very significant i think you know. You know this is a protest are this these the demonstrations are you know and after so of of a series of protests and demonstration took place in the past 2 years and the body was like expecting this approach you know them stretching to take a place in the last summer but it was i think possible until today. Because people are boiling for a problem from you know just a promising them for you know for nothing the government is handcuffed by the political elites they could not do anything here on the ground the they cannot fight the corrupt people they cannot to provide the jobs to dos who are a need for the poor job they cannot to provide even the the minimum of basic services so i dont think so the government therefore back to your question most of the people are who are them straight into though which is more significant as wealth in the south and in the end back there in the little that means the majority of people are getting the street to protest against the shiite majority government although there are sunni representative in the government as well as kurds are representative of the government so because it is consensual government and that thats really a 2nd if it cant and the protests shall she others are dispersed who aided the resentment with word that when the government and i need to a real what he plans on the ground so they will be feeling you know they are children and they have to be deal. With it or with the other people ismail also than me thank you so much for your thoughts and for staying with us as well to appreciate it thank you very much. Plenty more ahead for you on this news hour including the president ordering the release of hundreds of detainees linked to the countrys separatist crisis but will that be enough to end the fighting there. Also the conservation efforts that have led to this species making a comeback and spoke with south africa take a big big step towards the Rugby World Cup quarterfinals. Now the u. S. Justice department is facing a deadline to hand over all information about a whistleblower complaint that sparked an impeachment inquiry healths Intelligence Committee which is conducting the inquiry against President Trump says it wants all the material by friday this comes as ukraines new top Prosecutor Says he will review some 15 cases which were handled by his predecessors including a criminal case involving a Natural Gas Company that employed the son of former u. S. Vice President Joe Biden meanwhile house investigators have really several Text Messages between state Department Officials this is about withholding aid to ukraine the former special u. S. Envoy to ukraine could focus handed over these talks when he testified before 3 committees on thursday and still more developments Vice President mike pence is now under the spotlight after reports trump also involved him in the efforts to pressure ukraines president but pence is defended the president s call for an investigation i mean the fact that my predecessor had a son who was paid 50000. 00 a month to be on the Ukrainian Border at the time that Vice President biden was leading the obama administrations efforts in ukraine i think is worth looking into and the president made it very clear that he believes he believes our other nations around the world should look into this world. Ok heres the team covering this this hour capitol hill where more impeachment hearings are expected were starting though outside the white house with Kimberly Kimberly mike pence theyre doubling down as we say and what the president was saying about investigating. Foreign investigations i mean they seem to be just reiterating the point of what the whole impeachment is about. Yeah theres no question that the number of characters of the trumpet ministration is certainly widening and that includes Vice President mike pence he certainly has now been ensnared in this impeachment investigation and we are learning from all of this that we are he was aware of the july 25th phone call its not clear though whether he was told about donald trump and what he happened to say in that phone call namely the suggestion about an investigation into the bidens now i should point out that the u. S. President donald trump has been speaking from the white house in just the last few moments he has just departed from the White House South Lawn to go speak to the Wounded Warriors north of here in bethesda maryland and the president just like his Vice President speaking in live in in lockstep if you will saying that there is the right and duty of this administration to investigate the fact this is not about trying or rather this is about trying to root out corruption this is not about politics and essentially what donald trump is saying is that he believes is the democrats continue to try and investigate with this impeachment inquiry that they are going to pay a price at the polls now the u. S. President has also been saying that he denies that those tax messages that were released overnight that they were incriminating in any way they dont show any quid pro quo as we say in washington essentially withholding aid to ukraine in exchange for the political investigation the president says he has a right to call for and the other thing that the president said in all of this is despite all of this fixation on his political rival joe biden the former Vice President donald trump saying just now that he doesnt really care about joe biden and thinks he wont do very well if he becomes the democratic president ial nominee. The white house and now we are off to capitol hill. Concert how to tell us about further hearings happening. Well the hearing is still reeling from these Text Messages that were released overnight and capitol hill is still digesting what it says and they appear to be a compelling case that u. S. Diplomats and ukrainian officials knew exactly what was at stake when trump said to the ukrainian president during the phone call do us a favor though and what was at stake it appears to be a meeting an invitation for zelinsky to meet with trump at the white house now just go very quickly a few of these text the day before the phone call between the 2 president s the ukrainian on boy the u. S. Envoy to. Laid out the terms to any ukrainian aide and he said assuming president z. Convinces trump he will investigate what happened in 2016 we will nail down the date for a visit to washington then after the phone call us diplomats texted amongst themselves confirming that ukrainians understood that trump wanted quote the deliverable that being a statement that was drafted with the help of transpersonal attorney Rudy Giuliani and in fact ambassador volcker proposed wording to be given to their ukrainians for that statement that they should say we intend to initiate an investigation including karisma which is the Ukrainian Company that joe biden sunset on the board of and the 2016 u. S. Elections but after that ukrainians still wanted a date for that white house meeting before providing this statement and thats when they figured out that in august the u. S. Aid was withheld from them to have been promised and thats when another u. S. Ambassador bill taylor entered the conversation asking his colleagues quote are we now saying that Security Assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on a ukrainian investigation at which point another ambassador ordered sunland who is a wealthy. Hotel owner and trump donor said call me democrats are saying that this appears to be spelling out in black and white that indeed there was a quid pro quo. We have evidence of Text Messages between state Department Officials expressing concern as early as may that Rudy Giuliani had a jew there was a giuliani biting thing going on that had concerned a state Department Official we have evidence that a state Department Official was concerned that there was a linkage between Security Assistance and as he described a domestic political campaign. So i know the attacks were long but its important to really lay out exactly what evidence democrats are now working with and now theyre getting more evidence as the Intelligence Communitys Inspector General Michael Atkinson is now on the hill giving his close door testimony to investigators he is expected to speak more about the whistleblower report about that phone call between troubles unless you that open the doors to all of this and exactly what witnesses and what other evidence he may have access to that he could point investigators toward as well come on how to castro on capitol hill thank you for all of that stuff. And now i guess clay think his in philadelphia professor of law at the university of pennsylvania always good to see you claire lets start with Vice President mike pence today because this kimberly was pointing out he is another person being involved in this i mean this is were learning a lot about how many people could potentially be on one phone call at once and when its the president and the Vice President and i think the secretary of state as well it implicates a lot of people. What we learned the day before yesterday from a story that the Washington Post broke is that the Vice President had an aide on the phone call he was briefed on the phone call he was given notes he was given a transcript of the phone call on his way to ukraine and yet in the face of all that he was still claiming that he wasnt really aware of the details of the phone call and thats just not credible moreover it seems that if anyone was really involved in laying out the quid pro quo involving the sending of military aid to ukraine which the president decided to hold up while he tried to get information on hunter biden out of ukraine it appears that mike pence was involved in laying out that quid pro quo so what were talking about is a large scale conspiracy to subvert and violate Campaign Finance laws here that numerous federal agencies were involved in and the Vice President so no clear youre a legal expert in your laying out the legal argument but it appears that the white house isnt going down that path or misses that they just keep sort of talking and deflecting into the idea that well the bidens need to be investigated or this needs to be visited or china needs to help or ukraine needs to help. The laws has got to be important here. Thats right the law is very important and of course it will be very important when the house draws up its articles of impeachment which is where it looks as though we were going the interesting thing is while the white house is not going there as you say because they are trying to deflect and denali wrongdoing in this case the president is openly requesting Foreign Countries to assist in continuing to dig up dirt on hunter biden and investigate joe biden he yesterday just yesterday asked china to him to assist with this project so hes openly asked now admitted to asking ukraine he asked australia hes asked china is doing all this in plain sight and these requests do violate u. S. Law clear one other issue one has to ask you about is the subpoenas the democrats are saying they want everything by friday. This seems to be leggin lack of cooperation from the white house what happens if they dont actually cooperate with the subpoena. Well 1st of all theres a theres a request for voluntary cooperation and congress will always ask the white house to cooperate voluntarily if they dont cooperate voluntarily we expect to see a subpoena issued to individuals who they expect to have those documents that they want and if those subpoenas arent complied with then its up to congress to decide whether or not to hold those individuals in contempt of congress as far as enforcing a contempt citation congress has a number of different options one of the most likely options is that they would try to send it to a federal judge 6 and ask a federal judge to help and enforce the contempt citation clear always so informative talking to you thank you for joining us today. No host scott there are hoping for a Golden Knights of the world athletics championships here in doha more on that with far a smile. Yet to come all its all eyes on the high jump its the 1st of 6 titles up for grabs later here at the Khalifa International stadium. Bar shame is the defending champion and the big home favorite in fridays final will have action from another Golden Moment from britain as Catarina Johnson thompson finally delivers on the big stage and there was a huge upside in the 400 meters the olympic champion is beaten by the 3rd fastest time in history will also have action from the Rugby World Cup join us here at cle for International Stadium in about 20 minutes lots of sport coming up looking forward to that with fara and still ahead in the news as well were going to look at how young voters in britain will shape the countrys next general election whatever that counts. Hello there we have got some rain across the middle east is knows exactly why its spread you can see where the cloud is across more areas tools east but as we go through the next couple days some rain showers pushing into southern areas of iran and working their way across into southern areas of pakistan as well its already cooled off quite a bit across much of a afghanistan 20 celsius in kabul and then the clouds and the rain pushes further in the general direction so reading comes in much of central and Northern Areas of pakistan but drying out across much of iran meanwhile some showers to northern turkey much cooler and sunday of 19 degrees celsius so some nice sunshine in beirut with a high of 29 is still pretty warm across much of the Arabian Peninsula fairly calm conditions no real strong winds in the forecast. Still feeling quite humid particular in doha saturday 37 is the High Temperature has gone as the clouds along the southern areas of both oman and on into yemen temperature wise its in that i thought is the muscat weve got 30 on sunday and then into Southern Africa the temperature is a still on the high side 70 calls into where dublin in johannesburg there is some cloud just sliding by the south coast 21 is a high that if you cape town on saturday. International trade would you support it having free trade would not change your money or the japanese or chinese dogs or germany controversial immigration policies that you want to as a well founded youre a persecutory should be able to colonize the world minister from syria hes closer to the Syrian Refugees like the buffalo maybe his son goes head to head with see the trump advice and steal the money this year the trump deficit crossed a trillion dollars you would be urging everyone not to reelect him from well no not now to calm down to 01 of the really special things about working for al jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much and put in contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you know that it turns the body particularly because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues. People believe to tell the real story so ill just mend it used to deliver indepth journalism we dont feel inferior to the audience across the globe. Stories. After 4 days of antigovernment protests in iraq an emergency session of parliament is planned for today at least 50 people have been killed in 2 and a half 1000 injured in violence in baghdad and in other cities. In hong kong a ban on face masks used by prodemocracy protesters will come into effect in around 30 minutes part of chief executive. Down on violent demonstrations lorton vote a colonial era little lamb to colonial era law giving her the authority to pass rules without going through the legislature. And the u. S. State department is facing a deadline to hand over documents relating to the whistleblower complaint that sparked the impeachment inquiry at the same time ukraines top Prosecutor Says he will reexamined several criminal cases including a company at the center of impeachment inquiry he. Says ministry of health says one palestinians been killed by israeli fire during protests the Ministry Spokesperson says the 28 year old man was shot by Israeli Soldiers in northern gaza 11 others have been injured 5 of them by live fire palestinians have been gathering for weekly demonstrations at the border for 18 months now hundreds of palestinians and several israelis have been killed during those protests camerons president has ordered the release of hundreds of people arrested during the separatist crisis in English Speaking regions but rebel leaders say paul b. Is announcement is a political stunt a bell just keep fighting National Dialogue talks have been held this week ending the 3 year conflict camerons English Speaking regions are fighting to break away from the french majority and should then create their own state. He did this in order to show the people of the nonresponse out west that thats something and in itself the ideals dont arrest people enough. Read believe in the rule if you will with the religion infinity but at this point in time and given the way the delegates taken place its an encouragement to all and sundry that police. Lets bygones be bygones more on this now what i did you see is in you one day. Well basically the dollar has ended and resolutions. So right now. A lot of concessions up in bed by the cambodian government to appease those who have been against the dialogue as well as rebels who have been fighting the government for quite some time now the government believes that the concessions. Either in the field of Education Culture the judiciary and even the administration is enough to calm tensions now and start the process of rebuilding effectively ending the 3 year old conflict now. Right here with me to talk more about these dialogues and its resolutions. Simon. Pascoe. Handy who is a visiting scholar at York University simon youve researched the conflict in cameroon and Central Africa quite a lot and one article in particular written by you is that if handled right the dialogue could and coming soon and crisis are you impressed with the dialogue enough to kind of bring the situation under control now thank you for having me as a gorgeous morning afternoon on day to day i think that we have come at the fork in the road and what happened today is most definitely defining because at long last a cameroonian have engage one another and we begin the necessary painstaking process of reengineering and jenny could take only modify the d. N. A. The Political Economic and security d. N. A. Of this country and that fact that there was this gathering that took the time to revisit the fundamental issues at hand to me the positive step in the right direction but you may never convince the naysayers the prophet of doom and gloom will believe that it was a mere distractions but we have to remain optimistic because we have it within ourselves to begin cameron again so. Do you think the concessions made by the government. In the in the in the dialogue conference is enough to calm tensions i mean at least its the positive step in the right directions but beyond the concessions made by the government i think this is a collective endeavor we must understand that we are in this Inescapable Network government while it is tied into a single gone man of destiny we must either learn to leave our brother or perish as full as Martin Luther king put it at times he asked we are tied to our respective identities we must learn to be cameroonian 1st and cameron last now there are also incidents of reactions from certain regions of cameroon some of the 8 regions that remain saying that the government has conceded too much yet i think that we live in cameron with a cult of ethnicity. Which is also. A nasty legacy of a colonial past that we are still grappling with and that is why i think that the best starting point should have been to revisit. That colonial legacy that cast the country transform it into a neverending oneone that can be peeled. For ever and the fact that we did not do that i think one of one of the drawbacks but overall you have i think we have to stop. Simon pascrell and a visiting scholar at York University now the defining moment will be how the rest of the country especially those who have been fighting the cameroon and government will take this and whether or not well see in the next coming weeks how things will work out whether tensions will come down or not right and interesting you want to thank you. Now millions of young people in the u. K. Are heading back to university or beginning their studies coming at a time of deep political turmoil over a persons decision to leave the e. U. Student leaders are now calling on young people to register so they are eligible to vote when the general election does come and i heard reports now from southampton. Its an exciting time for new students in southampton at 18 theyre full of hope and ambition living away from home and with the prospect of being old enough to vote in any upcoming u. K. Election theyre all starting college life as britain prepares to leap to a u. The result of a referendum they were too young to vote. The fact its taken 3 years and like it was now i would have been. Like i wasnt able to feel like its affecting. My vote maybe things may have turned out differently 2 years ago. So youre making it so difficult for us at least i dont think thats a motion to stick by bridge to the student leaders are calling on young people to get on the electoral roll so they can vote if theres a general election the u. K. Prime minister is reported to have wanted october the 15th as an election date so fewer University Students would have had time to register so soon after starting a new term she didnt have such a powerful voice but so often the marginalized its his disgraceful because that. New generation of leaders and they should be having a say southampton is split politically at the moment so every vote will matter the student population here runs into tens of thousands so if they choose to vote it will have a big impact on the result here if there is an election and of course here in southampton there was a highly marginal constituency at the last election there were just 31. 00 votes in it in 2017 younger people tended to vote and other smaller parties rather than both conservative yet the older generation still going to the polls in bigger numbers Younger Voters are certainly a significant part of the electorate in any forthcoming general election one thing thats important to say is that as we have an aging population and rates of turnout still higher among older voters its easy to overestimate the extent to which the youth vote is going to swing in a particular constituency and that since you know every vote counts when this generation of students graduate in 2022 the impact of britains plan departure from the European Union on younger people looking for work should be clearer. I mean he would out there in southampton. Hundreds of facebook and instagram accounts pages and groups of all been removed for what the tech giant is calling coordinated in authentic behavior Facebook Says the accounts run misinformation campaigns mostly targeting the middle east and north africa most supported the u. A. E. Saudi arabia and egypt and were critical of carter iran and turkey dozens targeting internees were also removed the activist Group Extinction Rebellion has returned to the streets of london spraying a government building with fake blood to demand urgent action on Climate Change but the start went slightly wrong when protesters lost control of a High Pressure fire hose outside the u. K. s Treasury Building damage though because the bait the paint was made out to be true trees. Divers are exploring unknown waters off the coast of french guyana this is all part of a campaign to better protect the worlds oceans this is the 2nd of his reports from the region nick luck and the amazon reef. Alexi rosenfeld is dived all over the world but this is something new along with his team hes diving where no human has been before were now 135 kilometers from shore and around 600 from the mouth of the amazon. Its a real challenge to diving conditions and no no no one has ever dived here before we have to go through a really thick layer of sediment from the amazon mouth this layer is about 20 meters deep and after that its pitch black until the bottom there is a deep and complex dive careful preparation and double checking of equipment is essential. So that they get not be heading down to a depth of 110 meters which is so deep that i only have 15 minutes on the seabed and in that time theyve got to collect samples and send them back up to the surface and then they have to stay in the water submerge for 3 hours to decompress. They drop down. Into almost darkness seen by their dive lights. At the bottom they have to work fast collecting biological samples other divers scan the reef and film it for review revealing a richer ray of biodiversity. The samples are sent up to the surface heads over to pick them up and we hold the moment port and as the divers stay below to decompress the samples are right back on the esperanza is all manner of life care including all types of molluscs crustaceans sponges and starfish now you finding. That you dont recognize pretty fancy because this is all you see sassy very very few people over. Here if you read meanwhile back with the divers some inquisitive hammerhead sharks pass by the decompression stop but its just an inquiry shots lose interest and head off. Back on the ship its time for a closer look at the kind of species that exist here it has been an extraordinary morning and one that even the most experienced divers have found exhilarating its really i mean were were diving where yeah nobody has ever been its like discovering you when you were on it in age when our oceans are threatened by Climate Change overfishing oil drilling and deep sea mining the Scientific Evidence the team gather will help bolster the case for greater protection of the world sees nick clark aljazeera off the coast of french guyana. Sport coming up with. Here in doha as well as the luckiest day in the world moto g. P. This is the champion as well. Living in the largest city in the United States doesnt mean you can get up close and personal with the largest animals in the ocean usually. Enjoying the dividends of conservation efforts kristen salumi has a report. These tourists have come to new york to see a show but not the kind one typically associates with the big city here along Rockaway Beach and brooklyn the wildlife is the star attraction. This is the main species that we are going to be looking for today. Specifically humpback whales not too long ago whale watching here was a hit and miss affair these days its practically a sure thing. It didnt take long at all for the spotters to find what they came for. Like. Oh ok. Thats great news for captain tom palla dino who runs the cruises 4 times a week his family has made a living on the water here since the 1940 s. Now in the fiftys and sixtys and seventys it was very you would you would she want to year this year. Its probably 98 or 99 percent of our trips we do see well which is absolutely right in the last decade the whale population around new york has just exploded there were 272 sightings last year compared to just 5 in 2011 experts say the reason is cleaner water. Stronger pollution controls have brought back dolphins too as well as the whales favorite food a fish called menhaden. Researchers from the group gotham whale have been onboard tracking the creatures we develop datapoint simply where the whales are what their behavior is species and we take photographs of those whales and we share their kind of matching profile with people up and down the coastline for the public its easy access to the might of nature magnificent the whales are amazing and of course to be able to see them right here a bit all over the world watching whales but what cool thing to do to see him off the coast while mariel. And a whales tail of a successful conservation effort kristen salumi aljazeera off the coast of new york. Times sports and were off to say far as smile at the world d i think championships are in tow. Welcome back to the khalif International Stadium where were set for another big night of action at the world athletics championships 6 titles are up for grabs and none of them would be more popular here than a gold from all fuzzy sabar shane in the high jump the cattery athlete won in london 2 years ago and is now looking to become a double World Champion in front of his house fans also on friday on the track the pick has to be the mens 400 meters favorite michael normans injury has blown that race wide open and humidity should i gan be a factor late in the evening and the mens 20 kilometers walk well joining me now in the studio is al jazeera will pass i can recall the pressure is on local hope bar shame to win gold in the high jump can he do it do you think those that suffer can see if you can eat from the 8 years old hes coming to the peak of his career a defending World Champion. Theres a real buzz i think weve all felt around in and around this stadium the tortured soul which is right next to our studio the amount of cuts reserved going into the stadium still about now and a half away from the hard job for idol is a significant increase in amount of local should be a packed stadium hes never jumped under these conditions before i mean he is a huge experience athlete hes won World Championships hes won silvers and limpid games but in front of his home fans of one of his home crowd it will be fascinating to see how he deals with it because it could go either one of 2 ways you could be inspired by it or you know he could fold under that pressure but he does have the pedigree i mean his personal best is way above anyone else in this field on parisa he should win this race. In the high jump and if he does the roof of the stadium is going to go off mentality for it so that ok back outside later is a mens 20 k. Walk tell us about that well yeah we return to the coronation to the humidity of course the humidity. And how the athletes deal with it will be a huge factor and fascinating to say how they go in that the rice route is about 15 kilometers away from the khalifa Stadium Police video of course is their condition the rice walk is on have the advantage we saw those pictures as images from the womens marathon on day one of the well thats medics championships at the runners not finishing the race or the i w. S. Keep insisting that no one actually suffered from heat stroke but the images of rice of runners having to stop made rice go off the course wasnt good so theyll be hoping that those scenes are repaid to the lights around. Ok all right hold thanks so much for that well touch event later all day 7 at the stadium saw heartbreaks and shocks while a number of new stars and large soho malik reports. So. The pressure couldnt have been greater on britains Catarina Johnson thompson. She was favored to win to have tough along after leading from the 1st day and after missing out on medals at the worlds before and finishing 2nd at last years european championships she was determined not to come up short. This time the 26 year old didnt disappoint she stormed home in the 800 meters to capture that elusive gold medal the briton also made history her score 6981 is the best by anyone from her country. Yeah im sad for them time just because this is my 4th championship so solaced stannis im just happy that i was able to perform at my surgery. There was heartbreak in the decathlon defending champion kevin mayer who is leading off to 7 events had to pull out because of an achilles injury his exit opened the door for a surprise winner 21 year old Nicholas Coll who was ranked 8th in the world come into these championships stepped up i was the german one the final 2 events for a total of 8691. 00 to become World Champion. Was if you would have anticipated the result of the womens 400. 00 metres saeed nasr shocked the world by upsetting a limping champion. To see the gold medal. The bahraini ran the race to her life clocking in at 48. 14 seconds for the quickest time the event has seen since 985. There were no surprises however in the womens shot put chinas gong retained her title she now had to tokyo 2020 as the woman to beat by she seeks a 1st ever limb pick title sawhill malik aljazeera. All these championships is seen a number of rising stars step one of those is a new mans 110 metres hurdles champion grand holloway a 21 year old spoke to the richardson. You want to turn professional in june was it realistically a target phew the start of the year its a come to darren when a gold medal and it without a doubt that was the 1st because. I think when we 1st sat down on my coach Mike Hollywood 1st said now were gonna mapped out what were the goals for the year and the goal was to win indoor and outdoor and to the oval and then you know to double back when the World Championship no doubt in my mind i knew i was fully capable of winning this this medal but it was more so you know i just have to prepare mentally and physically and just get my mind you know believe in myself. Away from the athletics south africa have their 2nd win at the Rugby World Cup they scored 7 tries and a 4093. 00 bonus point victory over italy that her friends talked before will be tabled but have played a game more than new zealand italy need to beat the all blacks in their last 4. Fine. It was a lucky escape for the World Champion mark mark has during fridays practice from thailand moto g. P. He was involved in a high speed crash during the 1st session incredibly after being checked in the hospital he returned for the 2nd session mark has is hoping to secure and 8 world title on sunday. And that is all your sport for now will have more front for you from the cli for International Stadium later on but for now its back to far thank you for that just before we go quick look at a record breaking painting 12 and a half 1000000. 00 was paid. For this artwork it is called devolved parliament it depicts british m. P. s it was painted not actual british or irish. By the british artist banksy who said record prices to shame i dont still get. Back in a couple of moments here on aljazeera with more news in a moment. It is impossible to overstate the mental scarring of the survivors sure peter lived in the home until the age of 4 when the nuns sold him all to violent family by that time hed lost his sister she like nearly 800 others has the name recorded in the death for just a quarter catholic organization. Parties in here there were baptized to put them into on conservation ground savages for the campaign is in the government is so frightened of the damage to the church that the full excavation would do that it is resisting its so beth threatening court action i think the only way in which this will be result is sue an order of the spirit courts of this country i cant see any other way because there is no will theres no wish there is no appetite church and state in this country are still wedded in a poisonous pact on the streets of greece anti immigrant violence is on the rise there or you have to go from other potential and this and that group of this is all from plus or something and increasingly migrant farm workers of victims a vicious beatings. As helping the Pakistani Community to find a voice the stories we dont often have told by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is iraq on aljazeera. Im. Not you. I mean i like. Iraqis defied the curfews to voice their anger against the government forcing parliament to call an emergency session. Everyone im come on santa maria this is the world news from aljazeera a deadline looms for the u. S. State department to hand over all information about a whistleblower complaint that sparked the impeachment inquiry can trump. I will continue to take. The banning of. Hong kongs protesters hit back. Invokes the colonial era law banning face months as he tries to quell months of demonstrations. Hello from iraqi members of parliament are being summoned to an emergency meeting the number of antigovernment protesters being killed continues to rise at least 50 iraqis have died 2 and a half 1000 have been injured in 4 days of not and nights of unrest and some demonstrators are defying the curfews to step up their demands the support from baghdad with them on top. Protesters take cover under a bridge in central baghdad as gunshots ring out iraqs Security Forces continue to fire bullets at unarmed protesters dozens have been killed during the past 4 days and nights of antigovernment protests but i know more than 2000 people have been injured overnight the iraqi Prime Minister the appealed for calm his words seemingly having little effect. That they made promises by the Prime Minister are to fool the people and they are firing live gunshots out us this was a peaceful protest they set up these barricades and the sniper sitting right there since last night i said suka grand ayatollah Ali Al Sistani said in a letter read out by his representative. Now and that. We hope that the voices of reason and logic can prevail for the best interests of the country all the officials have the responsibility to make the right decisions to move forward everyone should be aware of the danger of excessive violence before it is to late. In the holy city of najaf in southern iraq mourners for one of the protesters who died a child theres no god but a lot of shade when he was martyred in a protest he was calling for the rights of the people he was 23 years old. The protest similar to others earlier this year aimed at government corruption the lack of jobs and basic services as well as religious discrimination paul even says its listening to protesters to months and will hold an emergency session on saturday. The age of the protesters has surprised many in iraq but with a young and often unemployed generation its perhaps unsurprising that frustration has turned to anger and anger into violence a lot of the protesters have reached a conclusion that the road is blocked and that the Political Parties have failed the ayatollah is now playing a fatherly role but he might not be able to influence the protestors. In baghdad there are checkpoints every few 100 meters and mobile patrols drive through empty streets despite the curfew protesters continue to gather not just head but across the country. To other news in the u. S. Justice department is facing a deadline to hand over all information about a whistleblower complained that sparked an impeachment inquiry the house Intelligence Committee conducting the inquiry donald trump says he wants all the material by friday comes as ukraines new top Prosecutor Says he is going to review 15 cases handled by his predecessors and it includes the criminal case involving a Natural Gas Company that employed the son all former u. S. Vice President Joe Biden meanwhile house investigators have released several Text Messages these are between state Department Officials and they are about withholding aid to ukraine former special u. S. Envoy to ukraine could vocal handed over the texts when he testified before 3 committees on thursday and Vice President. Might pence is now under the spotlight after reports trouble so involved him in his efforts to pressure ukraines president pence though defending the president s call for foreign investigation. I mean the fact that that my predecessor had a son who was paid 50000. 00 a month to be on a ukrainian forward at the time that Vice President biden was leading the obama administrations efforts in ukraine. I think is worth looking into and the president made it very clear that he he believes he believes our other nations around the world should look into it as well. So how does your castor as a capital hill where the pitchman hearings are expected heidi i will be with you shortly starting with kimberly how could the White House Well talk about mike pence in a 2nd kimberly but 1st of all donald trump you said he was leaving the white house maybe only half an hour or so ago whats the have to say. He hit a lot to say about the simpy schmidt in korea he says as he said on twitter early on friday morning that he has not only the right as president to investigate but also a duty to investigate his political rivals particularly since this the political rival is the former Vice President of the United States he says this is about trying to root out corruption and that is what he is alleging transpired when the joe biden was the Vice President the United States and his son hunter biden was serving on a board inside ukraine in an Energy Company now there is no proof or evidence to back that statement up but the president says this is not about politics he says that he denies that the batch of tax that was released by the state department that has emerged that shows that the u. S. President in his telephone call that now infamous telephone call on july 25th with the ukrainian leader where its alleged that he did withhold military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation on joe biden and his son donald trump simply saying no thats not the case theres nothing incriminating about those attacks and he also doesnt really even care about joe biden that much even though he mentioned him repeatedly in the departure before reporters can this make it ok kimmel held at the white house thank you now. On capitol hill where the hearings are ongoing whats expected. Welcome all right now the buzz here on the hill is still on these Text Messages that were released overnight and they appeared to build a pretty compelling case that u. S. Diplomats and ukrainian officials had a clear understanding exactly what was at stake when trump on that phone call with ukrainian leaders said were asking you for a favor and what was at stake it was a meeting an invitation for president s olinsky of ukraine to come to visit the white house in fact the day before that phone call was placed former u. S. Special envoy to ukraine curve volcker said to him and aide to president selenski that assuming zelinsky convinces trump the hill investigate trumps theory that ukraine somehow helped clinton in the 2016 elections then quote we will nail down a date or a visit to washington after the call the u. S. Diplomats texted amongst themselves to confirm that the ukrainians understood what was the deliverable which was a statement that trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani one of the ukrainians to make which would put them on the record for opening an investigation into the bidens and in fact the ukrainians said they would do so they said once we have a date for that meeting at the white house will call for a press briefing in announce that the ukraine will be investigating barisan thats the company that joe biden son sat on the board of and election meddling in the investigations now as this unfolded apparently ukraine was unaware that aid was being withheld as well but when they will lies that in late august. They became alarmed and that is when u. S. Ambassador to ukraine bill taylor asked are we now saying that sect sect Security Assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigation to that trump supporter and ambassador to nato ordered sunland he responded call me essentially telling volcker to take telling bill taylor to take this conversation offline now for democrats who are pressing forward that with the impeachment inquiry of trump they say this lays it out in black and white. We have evidence of Text Messages between state Department Officials expressing concern as early as may that Rudy Giuliani had a jew there was a giuliani biting thing going on that had concerned a state Department Official we have evidence that a state Department Official was concerned that there was a linkage between Security Assistance and as he described a domestic political campaign. And at this moment the Inspector General for the Intelligence Community Michael Atherton sent is testifying behind closed doors to members of the house Intelligence Committee and what his words may reveal could be possibly more evidence that democrats can investigate achan son was the one who brought forward the whistleblower complaint that brought all this to light just a few weeks ago i did hear castro capitol hill thank you people of again protested through hong kong after chief executive kerry lamb invoked a colonial era law giving her greater freedom to clamp down on the increasingly violent prodemocracy movement lam amounts to a ban on face masks which came into effect 12 minutes ago part of Emergency Powers not used in the riots in 1988 and these are live pictures apparently protesters setting out putting barricades up to block the Police Setting them on fire and looking to wissam mosques as well so it clearly hasnt made a difference the whole mosque ban is designed to be as a deterrent any protest wearing a mosque during rallies would face up to a year in jail plus a fine many people early on friday had already the warning the emergency regulations ordinance although effectively gives kerry the authority to pass rules without having to go through the legislature but lam insists that doesnt mean hong kong is under some sort of state of emergency. Hong kong its not in a state of emergency and we are not proclaiming that hong kong is entering a state of emergency but we are indeed in an ok sion of serious danger which is a state a condition in emergency regulations ordinance for the chief executive council to exercise certain powers and i would say that we are now in rather extensive and serious public danger but lams mayor hasnt gone down well with many people in hong kong who say theyre worried about what action could be taken next was was was was was i was i suppose to you was used. To was from there it was it was the room they didnt use us was arranging things and rings