Whistleblower in the impeachment probe into the u. S. President s office to front up to questioning from republican. Protesters on both sides of the political divide in lebanon have been turning out for mass rallies large numbers and by roots of call for a complete overhaul of the ruling elite and the political system which is split along sectarian lines the protests began last month and ive already forced Prime Minister saad hariri to hand in his resignation a general strike has been called for monday. At those protests and by very. High political establishment protesters are back to close. They believe that this is the only way to maintain the pressure on the ruling elite to resign a few days ago they agreed to leave the streets after the Prime Minister. As submitted his resignation but now people here believe those in power are progress the one thing that they should have by now created a technocrat government which will prepare. Early elections but those that mans have not been met those in power theyve been in power for 30 years are unlikely to meet these demands because it means giving up the power that they have enjoyed over these years so back to closing roads but the Lebanese Army and the Security Forces are also in the streets but i can tell you people here are uncompromising and demanding demanding a new change in leadership but at the same time there is another street in the country the other street is defending those in power. They turned out in large numbers to send the message to those trying to topple the ruling elite supporters of president michel came from across the country and converged outside the president ial palace in beirut suburbs a show of force but also a call for cooperation. There are too many protest squares the situation must not turn against each other or protest against each other we do a road map with 3 points corruption the economy and a civic nation there your rights so thats why we need to communicate with you and agree and put efforts together people here say they too are asking for reforms and an end to corruption but unlike the antiestablishment protest movement they are defending their leaders the president s son in law foreign ministers. Gave no indication he is leaving office he is a divisive figure who has been accused of corruption overstepping his powers and exploiting lebannon secretary and structure for political gains. Let us not block the road in front of us with demands that are impossible to achieve today because you will speed up the financial collapse. The priority is to delay that collapse and maybe prevent it. Mainly sectarian parties still command support among 4000000 people but the street is divided and public squares and cities across the country antigovernment protesters are uncompromising lebanese from all sects have been coming together and the crowds chant the same slogan all of them means all of them they are rejecting the entire Political Class of lebanon socalled october revolution is now in its 3rd week the revolt against politicians who have been in power for 30 years has not lost momentum public pressure has reshuffled power the Prime Minister sato had d. D. Resigned last week but he could return to office as part of a deal politicians seem to be putting together and what they seem to be discussing are shares and divisions in the old practice and perhaps maybe just maybe thinking about do we give these socalled Civil Society 2 or 3 state seeds to come down the street but the problem is what you hear here when you talk to people is we want a coherent independent competent government the major reform these people want is proving difficult to achieve and no one knows how long the political standoff will last you know its a dangerous stalemate on the economy on the brink of collapse much needed economic forums reforms need to be enacted but you cant do that without a government and its not just that if the Ruling Coalition those in power decide to clamp down on this movement it will be very difficult because using Excessive Force would definitely be condemned by the International Community whos really their eyes have been on lebanon on western countries providing support to the Lebanese Army so the Lebanese Army the Ruling Coalition theyre in a bind they know what theyre up against a street which is uncompromising but at the same time its not clear if they are going to take escalatory measures them sell. In order to end this movement. Iraq is also embroiled in government protests and there the Prime Minister is calling for an end to bloodshed on both sides speaking for the 1st time since announcing his resignation. He says protesters have achieved their goals but they damaging the economy he made no mention of stepping down but hes also made a delegation from the u. S. Congress backing the iraqi governments efforts but protesters are giving up hundreds tried to storm the iranian consulate in karbala south of baghdad i raise the iraqi flag on the gate of the building and set fires nearby Security Forces fired shots in the air in an attempt to clear the crowds demonstrators have been calling for an end to what they see is iranian interference in iraqs politics and in baghdad demonstrators there of blocks major roads schools were closed in the capital and other cities as teachers went on strike to show their solidarity with antigovernment protesters the tested tonight as more. Protesters set fires erected barricades and even lay down in the road at intersections in central and eastern baghdad as the work week began the roadblocks created traffic jams across the capital preventing people from getting to work some government offices and businesses were forced to close. By we have one demand which is employees joining citizens just like cos they cant participate by staying at home we want all the government ministries to stop operating we can only unite we are all one people here in Tahrir Square which has become the epicenter of the protests there were signs that people are settling in for the long haul this burned out skyscraper has been occupied since the 2nd wave of antigovernment protests began more than a week ago from the upper floors protesters. And see the square in the bridge below leading to the green zone where Security Forces are positioned this was built during the Saddam Hussein era there was one thing this restaurant on top of one of its nickname it has been abandoned since 2003 when it was bombed there in the u. S. Led invasion now its become an iconic landmark of the un president and protests volunteers are trying to prevent this building from becoming a garbage dump we are here to clean this place and settings where we know many people were killed here and isnt even really knowing this a place should be a claim its kind of all the plays the stuff on the sally is a University Student and volunteer he says he knows being here is dangerous but this is a revolution what im going to do after what you asians theres no jobs so this is this golden age is killing like like this dust and there. We are we are just like dead people zombies no one no one knew no one know that there is people here have dreams want to do things in their lives moussaoui and other protesters say they feel proud for their role in what they regard as a historic moment theyre not following or answering to anyone in their eyes theyre all leaders natasha going to name aljazeera baghdad a no wage and shipping company says 9 of its sailors were abducted by a suspected pirates in the west african nation of binning it says the men boarded the vessel at the port of call to new on saturday the gulf of guinea from cameroon to liberia is one of the most dangerous maritime regions in the world and abductions have become more frequent. A prodemocracy politician in hong kong has had part of his ear but not by a man wielding a knife the District Council was attacked as the man tried to stop him leaving a Shopping Mall the mans last several other people before he was restrained and beaten by a mob of protesters well earlier riot police stormed several Shopping Malls in a crackdown on getting government Protesters Police say they moved in after demonstrators vandalized shops and threw paint. Schools are shut fights flights are being canceled at a public emergency has been declared as toxic smog chokes indias capital on the air quality index the result of 500 is described as severe plus the result for new delhi is double that experts say its like smoking up to 50 cigarettes a day people are complaining of sore eyes and throats with some Wearing Masks to protect themselves low visibility has also disrupted flights and officials have declared a Public Health emergency. It suffocated and we feel like coffin we forded the light showers will make the weapons better and the pollution level will improve it doesnt feel like it yet in the guardian or. Breathing shes pollution is also putting us under mental pressure its not winter stefano. Walking around with masts on what me is a distinguished senior fellow at Observer Research foundation he describes the difficulties facing those living in new delhi. I was in delhi yesterday and i was you know i walked in the streets and on a daily basis it is. I mean there are held has its that are posing to people but i think its its frustrating. It is dangerous normal life to step back to because schools are shut. And you know you cannot go about your day in a normal you when there is destruction in your normal way of life that is significant its a its not only a physical problem its also psychological it becomes a psychological problem and youre trying to find solutions around it and i think people are frustrated with the authorities about the politicise ational issue so there are all these factors and there is a resentment and i and i think at one level you know there are people that i personally know of friends who were in the last 5 years away from delhi because of these kinds of this kind of this kind of an issue that simply is unsustainable. Still ahead on aljazeera antigovernment protesters in chile say they want to go back to political basics in their fight against the president. The gears up for a general election but many voters are confused about the different partys policies on breaks at. The logon to welcome back to International Weather forecasts were arcing to dry conditions here across much of central and eastern china now most of the moisture is being drawn down here across the South China Sea with a developing system but to the north it is going to be plenty of sun and temperatures moderate for this time of year with 26. 00 and shanghai at about 22. 00 by the time we get to tuesday though hong kong coming down to about 28. 00 but still very heavy rain showers possible over towards taiwan with taipei at 24. 00 degrees there. Well that system we are talking about is developing very slowly in this math as clouds that you see right here is going to stay in this general area of the next few days so develop it is going to be slow the rain though is going to be mostly concentrated over here towards the west so the coastal areas of vietnam is where we expect to see the heaviest accumulations as we go towards tuesday as well for manila though it is going to be some heavy rain for you with a temperature of 29. 00 degrees while the other part of india were still watching the smog situation across new delhi that has been going on for the last week and that has been at severe levels at times tempter for new delhi though we extract spec to see about 29. 00 degrees as we go towards monday down towards the south though we do expect to see some off and on showers for many locations and she night it is going to be a better day for you with a temperature of 31. 00 degrees. The weather sponsored by countdown and. 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Youre watching aljazeera heres a reminder of our top stories this hour they have been rival protests across lebanon for and against the government demonstrators turned out in large numbers in beirut calling for a complete overhaul of the ruling elite and the political system iraqs Prime Minister is calling for an end to mass protests there he says demonstrators have achieved their goals but are now damaging the economy some tried to storm the iranian consulate in kabul over what they say is tehrans interference in iraqs politics pollution in and around indias capital new delhi is the worst so far this year experts say breathing the citys air is like smoking up to 50 cigarettes a day Health Emergency has been declared. The whistleblower who prompted an impeachment probe into the u. S. President has offered to answer questions from House Republicans donald trump has repeatedly called for the unnamed official to reveal themselves the inquiry is due to begin public hearings this month after several weeks of closed door testimony trump is accused of threatening to withhold military id ukraine im listed investigated his democratic rival Joe Biden Donald trump says members of the media know who the whistleblower is and they must reveal his identity the whistleblower gave a very inaccurate report about my phone my phone call was perfect it was totally appropriate but he gave a report here but according to the. Favorite says he they think they know they know who it is you know it is you just dont want to report it the whistleblower. You feel revealed because the whistleblower gave false stories some people would go the fraud i wont go that far but. When i read it closely i probably would with john hendren joins us from washington d. C. And john this is just the continuation of the trump strategy is in the pipe this is a media conspiracy as a democratic hoax as a coup to force seem from office. Thats right the president hasnt done what a lot of republicans have urged him to do and set up a formal crisis war room in the white house to deal with impeachment he seems to be doing it all themselves but he is following a few rules and one of those as you mentioned is to use the same term ever every time he talks about this its always perfect in this case perfecto he uses this spanish for some reason and then he vilifies those people who have testified against him in there been a number most recently there was a National Security council official alexander even mina Lieutenant Colonel still works in the white house and the president called him partisan and never trump or and as you just heard that is pretty much what hes saying about who he believes the whistleblower is so definitely following a set of rules in criticizing these people and in pursuing impeachment other republicans are doing something on their own they they pretty much have to make a decision at this point as to whether theyre going to go ahead and agree with the democrats that have pietschmann is justified or whether maybe what the president did was improper but not impeachable democrats meanwhile are trying to connect the dots theyre calling all these witnesses because they want to show that there was a transaction that the president deliberately withheld 400000000 dollars until ukraine launched an investigation into his political rival joe biden and joe we might hear again from the whistle blower questions from from republicans. Thats right the whistleblower has apparently made an offer through his lawyer we think its a him. Saying that hes willing to answer questions from republicans but he did say he would not answer certain kinds of questions that would identify who he is so that is apparently a major concern there were a number of people that have been scheduled to testify and it looks like a number of people in the white house will refused to do so at the office of Management Management and budget within the white house is the office that withheld the money from ukraine and they have not given a clear idea there are a few people within that office who are supposed to testify this coming week and we are told that Mick Mulvaney the white house chief of staff has apparently organized a rebellion here where those people will not testify also john bolton the National Security adviser to the president formerly he has said he will not testify on less he is subpoenaed and he hasnt said whether he would testify with a subpoena and thats important because hes a person who called this whole transaction a drug deal by the president he said Rudolph Giuliani is a sort of parallel state department was a hand grenade was going to blow up the rest of the white house and the democrats in Congress Want to know exactly what happened there john thank you john hendren live for us there from washington d. C. Still in the United States all evacuation orders have been lifted in the state of california as progress is made against wildfires the maria in Ventura County northwest of los angeles had sent over a live 1000 residents fleeing since it began on thursday it is now have it 50 percent contained in Northern California people have started to return theyre off to destroyed 17500. 00 homes over the past month. Into a cause for the drafting of a new constitution are intensified after weeks of violent protests over a lack of funding for Public Services at least 20 people have been killed in a Police Crackdown but there are others expressing their anger in a different matter reports from the port city of a. Small peaceful marches are taking place in dozens of neighborhoods in the chilean port city by. The mood here is quite festive its a stark contrast from the unrest thats gripped this community in recent weeks and these marches served to lighten the mood but they also had the effect of bringing neighbors out of their homes to discuss and debate the countrys ongoing social crisis. In many cases the meetings are highly organized and include working groups where people discuss different ways to change the countrys social agenda i meant that in the past we would see unrest in different Sectors Health education University Students workers women but today the demands from this whoops had been unified because there is no solution within the Current System and within the constitution to address these problems and. These public gatherings are called there are sort of exercise in democracy building and there taking place all over. These debates are also widely seen as one of the most Viable Solutions to the countrys ongoing social crisis of the 2 things go hand in hand. Social in new social contract. To show that embodies the new social contract sheilas former foreign minister. Says the countrys constitution is founded on economic policies that favor the rich over the well being of the people we have put all the efforts on universal rights and that i think is the road where we should be that should be our future. The idea of establishing a Constitutional Convention has become one of the loudest rallying. Cries among chilean protesters were going to tell. You we are going to get together and agree on creating a real society no more of these new leaving our society they are leaving a listen was born here you will die here. Apart from the desire for systemic change many chileans say they have a deep distrust of the countrys Political Class behind Us National Congress that was constructed during the final years of to lay a dictator. Rule much like the building itself the countrys constitution is seen by many as a remnant of the days of dictatorship. Its unclear how long the unrest in the country will continue but there is a hope among protesters that the outcome will result in a more inclusive democracy. But. There are protests against the presence of saudi. Forces on yemens strategic island of socalled dropped hundreds staged a rally in front of the headquarters of the coalition in demonstrators are calling on them to withdraw troops from the island protesters accuse the coalition of trying to overthrow the government. Years of fighting in syria have forced many ethnic and religious minorities to leave their homes for safety many have been displaced for years as cities changed hands between different armed groups the recent victory of turkey backed opposition groups over kurdish fighters in the border town of halabja however has renewed hopes of some returning home thats fraught with danger as hassam are bar reports sounding off. This is what we mains of the syrian army and church in tel aviv are. Derelict and abandoned for years passive it was set on fire in 2014 when i still took over. The syrian army in years were forced out of their villages and never went back even when the city was taken over by the largely Kurdish Syrian Democratic forces last year in 2050. For them. It was an important step allowing them to link up the other areas they control along the Turkish Border from maliki near iraq in the east to capernaum the last. Last month the Turkish BackedSyrian National army or s n i swept through. People here say the fighters said houses on fire during very treat. At about 3 am i to be up for my prime and get all my reaction the house was burning for 4 days i have lost all of my furniture. Father marvelously and we have been driven out of our homes for 4 years we have suffered a lot at the hands of the east a year. From now a local council has been set up to run the city but the situation remains delicate. It can explosion on saturday killed at least 13 people and left Dozens Injured to turkey and the s. And they accuse the s. D. F. Of the bombing in. Tel aviv is part of the socalled safe zone that turkey has established on syrian territory near its border to ensure the s. D. F. Is donald a stationed in the area tel aviv has changed hands many times during the 8 years of war in syria and religious minorities have been perseveres at or forced out of their villages now the city is in the hands of the opposition and no one knows if those people will return when there is no sign of an end to the conflict possible but ill just charlie offer his border with syria more than 230 refugees and migrants of arrived in italy after being picked up by rescue vessels in the Mediterranean Sea the 2 separate groups have been allowed to disembark in sicily and in the south they were rescued after attempting to cross from libya several e. U. Countries agreed to take in the majority of those on board. The u. K. s parliament will be dissolved on wednesday so politicians can begin campaigning for december snap election the poll could decide the future of brics it but many voters is too confused about the different partys policies so the yogo has more from london. Primed with sleeves rolled up theres an election coming case its been forgotten the 3rd one in only 4 years some new faces why is the choice not. If about who we are as a country. As well as more familiar ones thank you and good morning everybody pushing a long sought after goals. At the start of the race its all slogan and little policy. And so this wednesday parliament will once again be dissolved m. P. s pounding the streets persuading people to vote for them and towering over this of course is bracks it with those wanting to stop it battling those who want it to live it. And then there is the man that didnt make it happen i dont have to. Deep regret all we need to do is get on and do it despite a promise of do or die comment was made Prime MinisterBoris Johnson vowed he wouldnt ask for the extension that parliament and the courts made him request despite what the colorfully saying that hed rather be dead in a ditch. And the politicians snapping at his heels promising to take the u. K. Out without a deal the bricks at parties nigel faraj campaigning on a sole issue he will not be standing but offered up the partys backing to johnson even though it was roundly rebuffed by the problems Boris Johnson what so ever on this question of europe hes flipped and flopped twice voted against the Withdrawal Agreement he then voted for it so he showed his ability to change position and now mr johnson has the time drop the 3 c. Lets get over the problems. And its not just the u. K. Breaking away from europe thats on the ballot in scotland where there is now 50 percent support for independence its also where the belonging to the u. K. Is a viable option if brics it goes ahead. And alternative the much better dont turn it around our country is today curfew. Im to become an independent country. The conservatives may be ahead in the polls but a party that sapped a number of its m. P. s their one Time Coalition partner the liberal democrats their empty bricks of vision has persuaded moderate pro e. U. Tories to back them instead. And what of the main Opposition Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbett is mixed messages over bracks it has left it significantly behind the governing conservatives will seek to make this election about issues such as the Health Service raising taxes on the rich anything to distract from the elephant in the room. But the prop of the hate the others will likely make much of his inability so far to come up with a clear vision about where the party stands on the matter which could leave it out in the cold in this december elections. This is al jazeera these are the top stories rival protests have been held across lebanon both for and against the government protesters came out in large numbers in beirut calling for a complete overhaul of the ruling elite and the current political system iraqs Prime Minister has called for an end to mass protests in his country he says protestors have achieved their goals but are now hurting the economy some of them tried to storm iranian consulate into what they see is tehrans interference in iraqi politics a Norwegian Shipping company says 9 of its ducted by suspected pirates in the west african nation of been named it says armed men boarded the vessel at the port of poti new on saturday the gulf of guinea from cameroon to liberia is one of the most dangerous maritime regions in the world and abductions have become more frequent a prodemocracy politician in hong kong has had part of his ear bitten off by a man wielding a knife the District Councillor was attacked as the man tried to stop him leaving a Shopping Mall the band slashed several other people before he was restrained and beaten by a mob of protesters. Here pollution in and around indias capital new delhi is the worst so far this year experts say breathing the citys air is like smoking up to 50 cigarettes a day a Health Emergency has been to quit of locals are complaining of sore throat rives and sore throats. Dumb gutierrez move it suffocated and we filled a coffin we forded the light showers will make the weapons better and the pollution level will improve it doesnt feel like it yet in the good the mouth of. Breathing shes pollution is also putting us under mental pressure thats not going to say stephanie no fog Walking Around we must zone. The whistleblower who prompted an impeachment probe into the u. S. President has offered to answer questions from House Republicans donald trump has repeatedly called for the unnamed official to reveal themselves the inquiry is due to begin public hearings this month after several weeks of closed door testimony trump is accused of threatening to withhold military to ukraine unless it investigated his democratic rival joe biden those are the headlines the news continues here on out as 0 right after inside storage. All we doing enough to prevent attacks from. The u. S. Releases its annual report on global terrorism naming eisel and iran as persistent threats and its warning of emerging challenges so whats all the solutions this is inside story. And welcome to the program im the star of the attack a new threats are emerging in the socalled global war on terror thats the warning from the u. S. State department as it released its latest country reports on terrorism the analysis looks at efforts in the u. S. And around the wild to combat troops and their