A major sure all followed by the opposition parties it will be important for the read of the other mainstream opposition parties the budgets on Peoples Party and the budgets onwards simply cannot wash where the day will be able to good throw their weight behind this particular model but the government on the other hand staying there dont mind saying that does god not have gone where there was a dime when the country is facing challenges on its eastern and reston front yard and is trying to facilitate a predated between iran and saudi arabia are larded at stake and the next few days it seems will be critical for pakistan. Theyre much more still ahead on the news hour crawl in an unfair refugees in greece tell us how they feel about the new asylum nor plus. On paul reese in yokohama way england will take on south africa in the Rugby World Cup final in a match that could take the sport far beyond its traditional heartlands. Iraqs president has promised to hold early elections and says Prime Minister the now they will resign but only once a replacement as agreed a large crowds again made their way to tidy square in central baghdad on thursday night more than 200 people have been killed in weeks of violent antigovernment protests. Looks at how iraq reached this point. Its been a testing time for iraqs leadership exactly a month ago young iraqis responded to calls on social media to start a new wave of antigovernment protests. And theyve been doing so ever since in the capital baghdad and elsewhere in iraq. Here is of war and political turmoil have left iraqis feeling desperate they are demanding change but that would be unemployment to collapsing Health Care System and corruption they want an end to a bureaucratic political system thats been in place since the u. S. Led invasion that toppled saddam hussein. Still when will we stay like this we are a nation that loves life our country is rich you steal from us we will remain stuck fast men and women together protest in iraq have been reoccurring over the last few years but this time many of criticized the governments response as heavy handed Security Forces have used tear gas and knives ammunition against the demonstrators within the 1st week alone more than 100 People Killed and thousands more wounded and the death toll has been rising. Ever since the United Nations has called for the protection of Peaceful Protesters activists and journalists say theyve been intimidated the internet has been cut off in some areas and theres a curfew in place but those on the street have largely ignored it to new delhi earlier this week either lab delimit who became iraqs Prime Minister a little over a year ago pledged to reshuffle his cabinet and bring in reforms a promise that hasnt stopped the protesters from demanding his resignation mocked others sudra deeds parliaments largest bloc in his political rival in parliament headed im very have also called on him to resign on thursday iraqs president but home saleh said modi is ready to step down if a replacement is agreed upon the kind of place it was i want to include civil groups in order to have the aspired reforms within the Legal Framework and in a manner that preserves Public Interest peace and security the Current Situation cannot go on we are truly in need of reform and massive changes. It took 8 months to form iraqs new cabinet at a time when many iraqis say they dont trust the government but its not clear how long it will take for these reforms to make any difference. What is no no is that these iraqis insist theyll keep on protesting until all their demands are met. At. Well lets go now to our correspondent natasha going to aim shes joining us live from baghdad square so what are people there telling you natasha about how they feel about president salih speech on thursday. Was that there were great hopes here among the protestors when it was announced that president saleh would be making a televised speech to the nation that quickly transformed into the danger protestors are calling it a speech by joe useless week and evidence of just more empty promise. This from the government they saved shows just how wide the gulf for bains between the government and the doing of the protestors sightless said yes right minister ill go out the back he will step down but not until successor is named so it wont create a constitutional back to them no details were given as to who would be us selecting the successor and what that timeframe would be yes salles said elections would be held but not until if you would like the law was drafted to do Electoral Commission was formed again in no time frame given but he did say next week a draft of the new election laws will be given to the parliament after the tasha thank you for that for now thats natasha going to the latest live in baghdad thank you. After weeks of hearings a behind closed doors the impeachment process targeting u. S. President dollar trump is moving into a new public phase the house of representatives which is controlled by tom rivals the democrats wanted to advance and formalize the investigation but not all democrats were on board as costs are reports from washington. And historic words from the speaker of the u. S. House of representatives as we gather here on that opening day with their families gathered around. To proudly raise our hand to protect and defend the constitution of the United States as Congress Took the 1st vote in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump the measure which authorizes the inquiry to enter a public phase passed 232 to 1962 democrats joined a unanimous Republican Caucus in voting no those in staver cliche. Those opposed say no. Democrats are trying to impeach the president because they are scared they cannot defeat him at the ballot box thats not my words thats the words of my colleagues from the other side of the aisle that has offered impeachment 3 different times this impeachment is not only an attempt to undo the last election is an attempt to influence the next one as well. Over the past weeks more than a dozen witnesses have testified before impeachment investigators behind closed doors leaked portions of their testimony paint a narrative of trump using the power of his office to pressure ukraine to investigate his political rivals to morrison the russian expert on the National Security council appeared on capitol hill on thursday despite white house orders not to previous witnesses have said morrison described having a sinking feeling after he learned a trump wanted ukraines president to go to a microphone to announce investigations into korma Vice President joe biden whats the problem here for the republicans in the president s the fenders. That the the evidence is pretty damning the road toward impeaching President Trump is still a long one and democrats into size that impeachment is not a foregone conclusion but thursdays vote paves the way forward and forecasts a bitter partisan battle ahead with trumps presidency at stake castro aljazeera washington. Rosalyn jordan looks at explains why the more about what these developments mean and wash has a long and highly politicized process the vote to formalize the impeachment inquiry in the house of representatives on thursday was a formality theres nothing in the u. S. Constitution that requires members of congress to actually take the step in order to conduct an impeachment inquiry of the u. S. President however Congressional Republicans have argued that the process which has been led by House Democrats has been illegal the president has called it a witch hunt so by calling this vote on the House Speaker nancy pelosi essentially was calling House Republicans bluff challenging them to say that they did not support a public and official. Inquiry even though that had been their complaint all along the next up for House Democrats is to try to move from the closed door preliminary questioning of witnesses inside the trumpet ministration to a series of public hearings perhaps by the end of november at the earliest what democrats are hoping to do is to convince the general public that what has been reported has been breaching the u. S. Constitution and they want these witnesses to make their case before the general public House Republicans however are looking for ways of stopping this process from taking place but regardless of what happens in the coming weeks it is clear that there is a real question about the president s credibility and about whether he was crossing the line in order to advance his personal political agenda House Republicans saying theyre going to make certain that this is not what they are calling a coup. Now hundreds have been lost in having more evacuations as crews in california bash for new fast moving fire is that being spread by strong and unpredictable whens coupled with continuous hot and dry weather Priyanka Gupta reports. This is what will come terrified residents of San Bernardino in Southern California when a 5. So out there. Its one of the 2 due wildfires in the area that have in cost homes and forced hundreds of people out to escape the roaring flames our neighbor over here he came back door. Here today. But anyway here heres the. Thing and then the Fire Department came up and he was right. My neighbor. Here. For ours far far to struggles against strong wind gusts to stop the fire from spreading in fact. Untrue by valley by thursday morning the blaze have spread across 140 hectors of tended dry land local authorities are asking people here to stay alert i want to remind people stay but. You dont hear the wind blow and roll hard right now at least where were but you go up on the side of a hill or up in the areas the winds are very erratic so please stay vigilant. In Northern California there was some good news hundreds of firefighters there were able to control 60 percent of a major blaze thats been raging since last wednesday. Became good fire is the biggest so far this season its destroyed nearly 300. 00 homes and properties and burned thousands of hectares of land in the Sonoma County wine region. The dry santa ana winds from the desert happen blamed for spreading the wildfires across the state wings so dry that the National Weather service had to issue an extreme red flag warning in los angeles and ventura counties. Aljazeera. Now one day after the southern philippines was struck by a powerful earthquake people are worried about aftershocks the magnitude 6. 5 quake struck on thursday killing at least 5 people about 12000 of staying in shelters in the island of mindanao there was another earthquake on friday off the Southern Coast but no reports of injuries or damage jemhadar in the guard has more from north quite a battle. We are outside to this chick hospital of town in north of out of province where the situation is clearly difficult the devastation of the building brought about by the series of earthquake this month has forced doctors to attend to patients right outside the hospital and theyre very difficult conditions extreme heat and basically according to doctors there is a shortage of medicine and water here there is stockpiles of medicine have been stuck inside that pharmacy and they have no way of getting it for now they say they need help because the situation is getting even more difficult with hourly aftershocks and more patients coming in and. Most of the patients here are old people and some of them even tell us they were not able to run fast enough when the earthquake struck many of them are being treated for minor injuries here and those with serious injuries have been brought to the city the biggest city closest to north about the province and beyond the immediate need of medical food and water patients you tell us theyre also worried about the long term impact of this earthquake many of them have lost their homes and their livelihoods and theyre hoping for a promise from the government of assistance beyond just now this week also but in the coming years to come for them. Well kevins here in a moment with the weather and then the mountain cost of weeks of often violent protests and china against poverty and corruption and lakes and sports live will tell you why train is a nervous whether its a safety ahead of the breeders cup. It is going to be a stormy weekend here across parts of the northwest part of your beds well as the u. K. We have a system that is coming in off the atlantic there the clouds right there rolling through parts of the u. K. As well as into parts of france as well the front about becomes down but its really going to be the winds behind this system that were very concerned about and the winds are climbing right now very gusty winds as well as a lot of rain pushing through parts of the u. K. And that is causing some problems at the airports as well but tomorrow that is going to be the major concern we do have yellow warnings across much of the area because of those very very strong winds i want to go a little closer in and show you who is going to be affected once we go into the timeframe of tomorrow winds tomorrow in the southwestern part of the u. K. Could be exceeding over 100 Kilometers Per Hour gusts could reach about 125. 00 and that is mostly going to be affecting that southern section of england we could be seeing Power Outages as well as travel delays structural damage could be a major issue as well so if you are flying in and out of london tomorrow do you expect to see some delays at any of the major airports today the rain kicks in tomorrow its going to be the winds very gusty winds but by the time we get towards sunday things are going to be improving and temperatures coming down to about 12 degrees about that area. Sponsors. Too often on the streets of india. Are victims but a new force is at play. Female Police Officers are combative Sexual Assault and domestic abuse. But changing society is a challenge and so is life behind the badge for indias. Growing up in the United States i learned that the 1st amendment is really key to being a freedom. Going to be. Men and women who believe that all are available but your story is that we just dont tell you what the subjects of the story want to know the government is not going to do the one thing the demonstrators want to apologize for. We ask the questions so that we can get closer to the truth. Instead to have you with us on the aljazeera news hour these are our top stories. Troops have started joint patrols in northeast in syrias socalled safe zone that follows a deal to remove kurdish fighters to a distance of 30 kilometers south of the border thousands of people protesting against. A rally in the capital a convoy dominated by supporters of a conservative opposition party. On the day and schools universities and banks have reopened and lebanon. There were more demonstrations overnight despite president michel aoun calling for a cabinet based on competence and not political affiliation well there are concerns that the lebanese government wont be able to shore up its currency or pay its debts particularly if theres a run on the banks lebanon is one of the most heavily indebted countries in the world over nearly 86000000000. 00 that is 150 percent of its Gross Domestic Product or g. D. P. Most of the National Budget goes towards paying back loans and interest and covering Public Sector wages and the expenditure often exceeds revenue lebanon has long relied on deposits from Foreign Investors to help pay its bills but a lack of reform is hurting the sick well lets get more on all the developments in lebanon joining us is Nasser Yassin the director of research at the is some Fathers Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of beirut very good to have you with us on aljazeera and before we talk more about the reforms that are needed we heard from president our one on thursday saying that ministers should be elected for their merit and not religious and political affiliations but does that mean that hes open to changing the very system of government that the country has because it is a sectarian one and it reserves you know its one that reserve certain positions for certain religions. Well i think we have a major issue in lebanon i think hundreds of thousands maybe millions of people went to the street took it to the streets because they have a huge trust issue with the current government with the current way that the country has been managed and governed for the past years i dont think the words of the president you know have been fall in in a very positive way among the general population in lebanon i think people you know listen to similar positions and statements before and now things are totally different i think people are fed up and they feel there is there needs to be a genuine and major change in the way their country their economy and the society have been you know taken care of by the state i think this is at stake at the moment and i dont think unfortunately i dont think those in government have been really you know feeling the pulse of the people in the streets do you think that Prime Minister assad had even felt the pulse when he resigned and that the protest that was seen over the last 2 weeks if they can result and had edis resignation can they also lead to the real political and Economic Performance of the country needs. You know i think one of the main demands of the protesters of the proposed movement of this Grassroots Movement was to have a new government a new cabinet that they trust does not just asking for the resignation of the government and the Prime Minister perhaps the Prime Minister felt that and he thought that he would resign and perhaps you know maintain and gain some points in his Political Capital or for his Political Capital but to that people are demanding much more i think they need to see genuine you know cabinet new faces that are not corrupt that theyre not actually there to to actually feed into the rest of the endless and that person and it was like we saw you know for the past few years i mean not everyone of course but a lot of those who were in power were actually trying to use their position the public position and Public Resources to siphon this into their private wealth and this is key in lebanon and this is what persons are trying to to change and there is a lot at stake isnt there because we have gone through the just the economic problems that the country is facing so these political and Economic Reforms that protesters are calling for a needed i mean people dont have access to Potable Water to an atrocity to free education. You know absolutely i think what what what people want they want a new cabinet and even new parliament. That can actually get into reform economically falls but also forms around the provision of well for provision of education of House Services of clean water of clean streets for that matter which has been you know or a complete failure by the governments in the past years you know the Electricity Sector itself has been siphoning a lot of the resources or law a lot of the solutions are there on the table but for a reason related to or maintaining this vested interests of some politicians in the fuel sack 3rd or in the related sectors that just keep growing with this way and this actually has led to a lot of the of that of the public that in lebanon due to the Electricity Sector i think people are fed up and this is something good brought us maybe may go a bit quiet the potters movements protesters may take a rest but i think it will come in different ways in different forms and this is something new and this is what politicians need to take note of mysterious and we thank you very much for your time on this video appreciate it that is nasa gas and live and david thank you. Now grace has a new law that will make it more difficult to claim asylum the government says it makes the process more efficient but human Rights Groups believe the noise the law fails to comply with european standards john serapion us reports from athens. Alecia left his native town of daters in Eastern Syria last year when the civil war then made it unsafe for him and his family he applied for asylum in greece and was told to wait 2 years for his hearing if hes Given International protection itll be up for renewal every 3 years a new asylum law that takes effect on january 1st forces renewal every year i asked me how he would feel if that applied to him. Its cruel and unfair instead of focusing on renewing papers every year and whether i can maneuver them or not i could just focus on supporting my family and being a good citizen and supporting greece but theyre doing this on purpose to drive us away and also dont allow us to go to another european country to apply for asylum there another want nor want us to leave greece is a turning point for 6 years its tried to keep up with asylum applications but constant new arrivals keep lengthening its backlog of cases greeces ag. And islands where Asylum Seekers arrive from turkey are in constant crisis reception camps are built for 6000 people now house 30000 the 3 month old conservative government says greece needs a tough asylum law that keeps economic migrants out of the system and allows only true refugees to apply human Rights Groups are crying foul. What this law does is to deregulate the asylum procedure in this country and expose many people to real danger of being sympathetic without their asylum applications being seriously examined and it introduces so many obstacles that the asylum procedure is an accessible to many people who truly need it these government wants a fast to procedures we want to separate who is really a refugee and who is an economic migrant from africa to pakistan countries that arent at war see europe as paradise because it has Social Security rule of law infrastructure and stability the government. Believes the new law will allow it to deport 10000. 00 unqualified Asylum Seekers next year thats 5 times more than its deported in 3 years under an e. U. Turkey agreement greece also wants other e. U. Members to take asylum applicants off its hands. Greece has received 6 out of 10 migrants whove crossed the mediterranean this year and its processing one in 10 e. U. Asylum applications thats 7 times its share and the European Commission rules theres currently no burden sharing mechanism for countries like greece with external review borders and thats perhaps what frightens greece most its the recipient of a phenomenon it cant control europe is happy to send money and rules but little else jumps at all pull us out jazeera athens well lets get more on this now were joined by eva cos a western europe researcher at Human Rights Watch and shes joining us live from the hague very good to have you with us on aljazeera so weve heard from him the United NationsRefugee Agency u. N. H. C. R. Saying that the normal and danger people who need International Protection i mean talk us through how the how the new what does this. Yes and i mean and the laws that make it attempt to block access to protection for those who need protection and through increased the port patients to face a friend increase in iraq over the last year its actually an attempt to make the e. U. Turkey dataquest great so far to work it would make it easier to detain us hiding seekers for a longer period of time it will scrap important protections for burnable people such as unaccompanied children who now would be able to be sent back to tricky but not only them older people people with disabilities the victims of torture or some i mean what the government said is that theyre trying to keep out agronomic migrants but what we say is that these low we also keep our reality refugees it impedes access to for an asylum process by putting so many obstacles for people to for example being and i think the solution and i might be also may not mean that the negative decision would be suspended the board ation before and in making it harder to access work and education and it sounds like it also in french is on a number of e. U. And International Norms you mentioned that they have been more arrivals in greece the sierra and that is true and we know that greece has taken more than its fair share of Asylum Seekers because of its location so does the European Commission i mean greece has passed this law but what about you know the European Union and the e. U. Commission and and its vaal where it still hasnt actually set up a a responsibility sharing system among Member States to ensure. You know a fair and efficient asylum procedure. Yes well weve seen over the years that the great European Union wants a European Commission and what European UnionMember States mostly want is for greece to be there were house for Asylum Seekers and refugees and migrants. So theyre pretty much happy about this law they also want to but theyre pressuring greece to keep people trapped on the islands under horrible conditions why we are calling for greece to end the campaign and transfer more people to remain on but more people to the mainland but itll be a Member States means people accessing more easily Northern Europe and thats what some thats something that they dont want and you mentioned you know you touched on the conditions for refugees for Asylum Seekers in the camps i mean theres tens of thousands more than 30000 of going to some of the side im sick of living in severely overcrowded camps just in the age and islands waiting for their claims to be processed so what are conditions like for them. Well i i week ago i was only. Interviewing people there about the conditions i mean this situation east and imaginable you cannot think that this is happening in a utopian country in 2001 thing that their Reception Center always was silent is designed to host a little bit of 3000 people and the current host 14000 women men and children its interesting to note that the vast majority are women and children and so its mostly families and they live in makeshift tents and i other and. Their housing makes it causing or just on the ground i dont even want to see what would happen when the weather would become by were when it would snow when it will rain dont have access to basic services such as food or water but have to wait in lines for hours to do pretty much everything to go to the toilet to shower to eat to go to the doctor for security these nonexistent Sexual Harassment is hyper women especially single women and burnable groups are not protected. Thank you very much for your time on this we do appreciate it that is the eva cost center in the hague thank you for a chill an hour the government says the damage caused by 2 weeks of on the west has surpassed a 1000000000. 00 and 2. 00 major summits jus to be held in santiago have been canceled despite a 2 day Public Holiday demonstrations for social reforms are continuing a latin america editor Lucien Newman reports from santiago. But 3 said the little anecdotes fernandes are locking up their Hardware Store in downtown santiago after taking out everything with saving. The. Little we had in the store but there hasnt been a single day without looting weve lost 60 percent of our income. We have commitments bills taxes and salaries to pay i dont know how well manage. Until 2 weeks ago chile was the envy of the region home to the socalled chilean economic miracle. But an explosion of social unrest has changed all that. While most demonstrations are peaceful who did an extremely violent groups all over the country have been burning and pillaging private and public property. That includes this emblematic Public Library that was just ransacked. Until now the vandals have respected our center but yesterday they went too far they took the books and everything. The damage so far has well surpassed a 1000000000. 00 according to the government tourism is also being devastated not just because of the cancellation of the cop 25. 00 and the apec summit