Judges at the International Criminal court are due to sentence a former conga rebel leader of war crimes and sexual slavery. The impeachment inquiry into donald trump is stepping up a gear televised hearings starting next week washingtons top diplomat in ukraine William Taylor will be one of the 1st to appear or taylor said in earlier testimony it was his clear understanding trump would withhold Critical Military aid to ukraine unless kiev investigated his political rivals joe biden and his son that testimony also supports what other witnesses have said i think you will see throughout the course of the testimony not only their testimony but many others the. Most important facts are largely not contested we are getting an increasing appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year and the degree to which the president and listed the whole departments of government in the illicit aim of trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent as well as further Conspiracy Theory about the 26000. 00 election that he believed would be beneficial to his Reelection CampaignHeidi Jarrett castro has more from washington d. C. Bill taylor is the acting ambassador to ukraine and for impeachment investigators he served as a guide giving the road map with conversations dates and people connecting the dots to make this case to investigators that trump use the power of his office to try to get ukraine to help him with his Political Campaign for reelection now taylor testified behind closed doors 2 weeks ago but according to the transcript that was just released he said he had a clear understanding that there was a quid pro quo and he said the idea for this came from trumps private attorney who was empowered by the president to circumvent regular diplomatic channels in order to carry out this Foreign Policy in ukraine that prioritize trumps political interests above that of National Security now moving forward investigators have announced that public hearings will begin taking place next week which is at the key of what democrats who are trying to impeach President Trump want to accomplish they want more members of the American Public to hear the case for impeaching the president from these witnesses themselves up until this point all of the hearings have happened behind closed doors so the information to americans have has come kill tour through hundreds of journalists but even up to this point theres a growing number of americans who according to polls do support impeaching and even removing trump from office that number is hovering right around 50 percent democrats are hoping that if they can get a clear majority of the public to support them to impeach the president then perhaps they can make a convincing argument to their republican colleagues in the senate who ultimately will be deciding the president s guilt or innocence and perhaps remove him from office. John marshall is an assistant professor at Northwestern University he says the Public Inquiry is mark a significant new phase in the investigation what i think were going to see happen is the inquiry turned from an investigation stage primarily to more of a performance stage now that we have some of the transcripts coming out people are so seeing it with with their eyes the words that the witnesses have been saying and then what next week when the live hearings start which will be televised and im sure streamed all over social media people are going to see for themselves the witnesses and hear for themselves the words and whether the chairman shift and chairman navl or i can run hearings that are persuasive to the public and perform in a way that makes the impeachment inquiry seem like its a fair and thorough process that could really sway Public Opinion in contrast if the House Republicans are able to perform in a way to try to make the impeachment process seem like its chaotic and unfair and im sure theyre going to call it a circus then that is going to probably stop Public Opinion shifting enough to persuade enough republicans to vote in favor of impeachment. 2 former twitter employees have been charged in the u. S. For spying for saudi arabia theyre accused of accessing the personal account information of more than 6000 twitter users they include prominent critics of the saudi royal family prosecutors say an american and the Saudi National were rewarded with tens of thousands of dollars and a designer watch theyve been charged with acting as agents of riyadh without registering with the u. S. Government a 3rd man the saudis also been charged rob reynolds has the details. The Justice Department announced in San Francisco that it had arrested 2 former engineers for twitter they were charged with spying for the Saudi Arabian government and passing on information about dissidents and people who made true critical remarks on twitter about the saudi regime a 3rd person who was a Saudi National was also arrested he is believed or alleged to have been the go between between the passing on the information those engineers gathered and the sending it to the saudi officials the defacto ruler of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia Crown Prince mohammed bin samana is actually mentioned in this criminal complaint although he is only referred to as royal Family Member number one it is believed that one of the twitter engineers flew to washington d. C. In 2015 right around the time that crown Prince Mohammed bin solomon was rapidly rising to his powerful status that he enjoys today and met with a member of the royal family and shortly after that the spying commenced the spies gather all sorts of information about people making critical comments about the saudi government including their email addresses their ip addresses their dates of birth and so forth among the thousands of accounts that were breached was one belonging to a prominent saudi dissident Omar Abdel Aziz he was close to the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi who of course as we know was murdered in the saudi consulate in istanbul a little over a year ago by saudi state agents according to multiple intelligence agencies a hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders in yemen has been forced to shut off to a missile and drone attack and thereby warehouse in the red sea city of moncho used by a Government Allied force was also hit killing 8 people yemens military is accusing who the rebels of carrying out a strike. French police have now started dismantling migrant camps as part of a new crackdown started in northeast paris nearly 3000 people have been living there for years without any sanitation critics say the move is political and an attempt to win over voters from the far right. Always know unfortunately these large scale operations have taken place before every time were told it wont happen again but we need proper processing procedures when people arrive in france in order for them to have their rights respected in camps like these about 20 percent of people are refugees who are here legally but have not been offered any kind of housing there are also homeless families. 8 people have been injured in a knife attack in the jordanian city of jeddah 3 mexicans and the Swiss National were among those stabbed in the popular tourist site but smith reports from a man. As one tourist lies face down apparently bleeding heavily another tries to stop the blood flow. Woman screams in spanish hes got a dagger. Witnesses say a man jumped over a fence at the roman city enjoy rush and randomly slashed and stomped at people around. You was heading towards the care for tear and i was standing by the door behind me while the tourists a little men to the cafeteria passed in front of me and i ling towards them slipped in instead me then backed away moving towards the policeman he gave the policeman a slight try to attack him from behind and i pushed him to the ground afterwards all the policemen came and took him. 3 mexicans a swiss and 4 jordanians were injured 2 described as in a serious condition although everyone is now stable according to Jordans Health Ministry the. People who are admitted to the operation room of the doctors at the Public Hospital in georgia still working the bleeding has stopped the situation is under control and both people are stable 2 cases were transferred by helicopter to king hussein medical city one was a mexican tourist and the other one was a jordanian guide we pray for them to recover the roman city it is one of jordans most important tourism attractions more than 300000 people visited last year. Attacks on tourists are rare here its one of the most stable countries in the region and that helped boost tourism which generated revenues of around 5000000000 dollars last year thats essential income for a country facing an economic crisis and with youth unemployment at around 40 percent Bernard Smith aljazeera and man people in some of rugs major cities are struggling without access to the internet after weeks of and the government protests all of social media remains belong to. Crowds of protesters are still camped out by dance to the square. Your name is live for us from the capital baghdad to how the process look now. I think i mean i didnt quite hear you but in any event a u. N. Special representative to iraq has just finished a meeting with about 200 so testers she vowed that she will quote stop the oppression of protesters and the bloodshed and ensure that their demands will reach the ears of political leaders now this being follows a tweet that ignited outrage among protesters in her tweet she had talked about the disruption of quote Critical Infrastructure being a grave concern saying that it was the responsibility of all to protect Public Infrastructure she said that the closure of roads leading to oil fields and ports were costing the country billions of dollars and that it would undermine filling fulfilling the protesters demands protesters say that this tweet is a bit tone deaf for example sami in the oil rich province of basra people had been blocking the entrance to the port disrupting operations for days they had been complaining that this oil revenue is not trickling down to them they accuse the government of being corrupt and of looting the money they say all theyre getting is Poor Services no jobs pollution and cancer there have even been Cancer Patients among the protesters so clearly that meeting with the u. N. Special representative perhaps being intended to quell some of the concerns that protesters had about the u. N. Not being responsive they have been asking for the uns involvement asking for their assistance to help stop what they say are the governments Human Rights Violations against them and indeed the u. N. Released a report alleging that the government is committing Human Rights Violations and that those include hitting tear our protesters in the head with tear gas canisters and killing them suppressing the media and as you mentioned blocking the internet as well as social media. Or the social named from. Still ahead of Al Jazeera Police in jail a charge with using heavy handed tactics against protesters bad demonstrations over inequality and today we. And it also made him from bolivia as opposition as anger against the president spreads to rule areas. Hello again welcome back well the last few days we have been watching a very slow moving storm here in the South China Sea this is Tropical Storm to create and you can see the clouds right here just to the west of the philippines there of the next few days the storm is still going to be moving very very slowly we dont expect it to get any higher than a category of a Tropical Storm but still a few heavy showers could be expected here across part of the philippines in the Northern Area of luzon though we have seen flooding across that area here on friday the storm is going to slowly make its way towards the west heavy rain still for manila but as we go towards the weekend we do expect the system to make its way more towards was in vietnam could be seeing some very heavy rain as we end the weekend there well here for parts of australia i want to show you whats been happening here as a storm system has been moving across victoria and here just to the north east of melbourne it is matt hall to take a look at the video that has come in across this area over the last couple of days heavy snow has been pushing across this region because of the very cold air as well as the moisture pushing into the region kind of unusual for this time of year but still it is going to be quite messy across this area so for melbourne on friday expect to see some rain in the forecast but brits been very warm few with a temperature of 37 degrees. This decision by the heroes in your. Africa the middle east. A connection makes a state the becoming. The. Shortest i took. This feat. I make youll. Come back youre watching out just 0 time to recap our headlines the impeachment inquiry into President Trump is to begin televised hearings next week washingtons top diplomat in ukraine is due to appear he says trump tried to pressure here of into investigating his rival. To former twitter employees are being charged in the u. S. With spying for saudi arabia theyre accused of a setting the accounts of thousands of users including prominent critics of the saudi government. French police started this mantling migrant camps as part of a new crackdown the government says it wants to limit the number of undocumented immigrants critics say its an attempt to win over far right voters. At least 47 people have been killed in an attack on mining employees and back in a fast a convoy carrying stuff from a canadian mine was targeted in the east they were being escorted by the military and the close hog joins us now live from dhaka nicholas why are my this being targeted. Well its interesting with this attack it happened in the east of the country bordering been. In ma in the borders that border mali which is where most of the attacks took place on sunday it was attack on the deputy mayor of g. B. Someone that we had interviewed and he was assassinated and killed that on the mali border so this attack taking place in the east of the country is highly unusual it shows that the armed groups involved in these attacks have have spread across the country and it comes at a time where the defense minister of france visited just on monday and now saying that its expanding its military operation from mali into burkina faso both in the east west and north of the country this is a conflict that is really expanding throughout the hell in the governments in place whether in and are struggling to contain these attacks there was an attack on this same road back in december against Police Officers no one has claimed responsibility for these attacks but Security Forces suspect this attack has the home our hallmarks of the state integrators a higher and youre asking why the gold mines and these these Mining Operation will because gold mining is taking place in these bordering areas where these armed groups are active in investigation dating back from a fold it explains how a lot of these gold mines is gold is being exported to the United Arab Emirates illegally and some of it may be funding these armed groups active so these armed groups dont want to see private Company Coming from a Foreign CompaniesMining Companies coming in their territory mining their gold which they think is their rightful ownership. Thanks so much. Iran has resumed enriching uranium at an underground facility the process of injecting uranium gas into centrifuges is that it at the photo plant was observed by inspectors from the International AtomicEnergy Agency to run has been scaling back its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal after the us pulled out a imposed sanctions and iran has canceled the accreditation of a u. N. Nuclear watchdog inspector one of the. Staff was briefly detained last week and travel documents were seized its believed its the 1st such incidents since the nuclear deal was signed in 2153. 00 african countries are at odds over a multibillion dollar dam project on the blue nile they say they hope to resolve that dispute there within weeks the u. S. Is mediating talks and Foreign Ministers from egypt ethiopia and sudan are in washington egypt fears the reconstruction of the renaissance dam in ethiopia will restrict the supply of water to the nile river but ethiopia says the hydroelectric dam is crucial to Economic Development jill as chief prosecutor has charge 14 people Police Officers rather with torturing protesters thats as demonstrations against the government and their 3rd week is one of latin americas richest nations but many people are angry over wealth inequality. Bolivians angry at an election they see is fraudulent protesting since the vote last month they want president to step down but as people wait for the results of an International Orders of the election divisions in the country a deepening throws about reports. In sendai. The heart of bolivias Agricultural Industry a move is underway to disregard the presidency is the most. We are symbolically taking over Public Institutions because it meetings nationally we have decided or not in agreement with the frog this fraud that is being seen internationally we want the vote to be respected by all citizens from bolivia last month it will more or less won the presidency with a 10 point difference hes opponent. Denounce fraud when the vote count was halted for at least 24 hours when the vote showed a shift that favored abel morales and thats why people are demanding a new election. He should resign that is what the people are demanding and he owes that to the people that is why we are radicalizing our methods and we are in permanent peaceful protests to recover our democracy and our freedom. On wednesday violent clashes broke out between protesters and those who support him an example of the deep divisions in this and in nation. Even when i 1st indigenous precedent continues to enjoy support mostly in rural areas hes followers say morales opponents are racists and they vowed to defend their president. Were calling for justice prison for someone needs to pay for their crimes. Hes the leader of the. Group that has consistently challenge to us since he won the presidency in 2. 1006. I this would be moralists 4th term in office his critics say he has ignored a referendum in which we live in voted to restrict precedence to 2 terms. The organization of american states is auditing the vote and it is expected to be completed before the middle of the month but until then tension is unlikely to end anytime soon that is how will. New delhis air pollution is at a very unhealthy level according to the u. S. Embassy thats a slight drop from its peak on monday a car russian in the scheme and light wind and rain of helped improve the citys quality but the river your manner is covered in thick foam signaling high pollution in the water several more boeing 737 aircraft have been grounded after cracks were found around their wings earlier this year the newer version of the plane the 737 max was stopped from flying after 2 crashes Charlie Angela has more. Boeing want the pride of the skies is facing further turbulent. Irish budget carrier ryanair is the latest airline to ground some of the boeing 737 n. G. Planes in its fleet after finding cracks between the wings and the fuselage on 3 of their aircraft in the last month 50 boeing 737 n. G. Planes from various airlines around the world have been grounded for the same fault. The small cracks appeared in whats called the pickle forks structures that help secure the wings to the body of the plane components that should last the planes lifetime there are 7000 boeing 737 n. G. s flying worldwide currently 1000 have been checked 50 have been found to have these cracks this is something boeing is addressing of course optics wise its not a good look at the 737 max still grounded world wide and now more problems with the current and existing 737 the recalled planes are earlier versions of boeing 737 max aircraft a model involved in 2 crashes within 5 months that killed 346 people that entire fleet remained grounded its investigations continue. In 2014 aljazeera exposed quality concerns at boeing South Carolina factory in an exclusive investigation using undercover filming it looks at issues concerning another of boeings aircraft the 787 dreamliner now in a separate development a former Quality Control engineer alleges that some of the oxygen systems fitted on the dreamliner could be foti boeing admits there was a problem with some oxygen bottles in 2017 but say that was addressed but travel sites are already offering the option to exclude certain aircraft from their searches boeing will have to reconvince the flying public with a safety. Now south africas world cup winning run with tame as arrived in pretoria ahead of a victory parade the springbok squad was greeted by a presence or rather hoser at an official ceremony the team won the webb ellis trophy for a 3rd time crashing england at saturdays final in japan. Judges at the International Criminal court are due to sentence a former colonies rebel leader of war crimes and sexual slavery these are live pictures now from the i. C. C. Bosco and think gondo is also known as the terminator he was convicted of 18 war crimes and crimes against humanity for the killings of civilians in the democratic republic of congo the atrocities were committed in the touring reason which were in 20022003 thank god they became the 1st person to be found guilty by the hague of sexual slavery he faces a 30 year prisons in squares theres no into what the judges are saying the Chamber Found mr gundry responsible for Sexual Violence crimes committed against 2 distinct types of things namely members of the civilian population this was charged on the grounds for 57 and 8 and 2nd against female u. B. C. F. B. O. Under the age of 15 this was charged under ground 6 and. Noting the different factual considerations sort of on 2 types of games the chamber analyzed the 2 types of them separately and pronounces a separate sentences for rape and sexual slavery as war crimes for the stability teams and for the u b c f b l z. In the operation to do crimes committed against members of the civilian population the chembur found was that the gun theyre responsible as an indicted or perpetrator for rapes by u. P. C. F. B. I. Was the soldiers of women girls and men your inc and in the aftermath of the u. P. C. F. B. I. Assaults on mongol and in kill or in the context of the 1st operation and in kabul such and in bali in the context of the 2nd operation. The overall armor of specific rape victims was 21. 00 but the chamber also made broader findings on the rapes of quantified numbers of persons in addition the Chamber Found missed the gun theyre responsible as in direct call perpetrator for the sexual slavery of a woman and often 11 Year Old Girl in the context of the 2nd operation. Elation to the crimes committed against female you b. C f b i was the member of the age of 15. The chambre found was that i got the responsible as an entire corporator for the rape of an approximately 9 Year Old Girl and the rape and sexual slavery of 2 girls under 15 years of age. Were listening in that savings of a court there in the hague International CriminalCourt Sentencing it will be very shortly sentencing ask one thing and for his role hes been convicted for war crimes crimes against humanity. Lets bring you up to speed with all the headlines then the impeachment inquiry into the u. S. President is about to begin televised hearings next week washingtons top diplomat in ukraine is due to appear and hes previously said dont trump trying to pressure kiev into investigating his rivals i think you will see throughout the course of the test when not only their testimony but many others the. Most important facts are largely not contested we are getting increasing appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year and the degree to which the president and listed the whole departments of government in the illicit aim of trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent as well as further Conspiracy Theory about the 2016 election that he believed would be beneficial to his Reelection Campaign. To form a twitter employees have been charged in the u. S. With spying for saudi arabia theyre accused of accessing the accounts of thousands of users including prominent critics of the saudi government saudi arabia hasnt commented French Police have started dismantling migrant camps is part of the new crackdown the government says it wants to limit the number of undocumented immigrants critics say its an attempt to win over far right voters. At least 47 people have been killed in an attack on mining employees in booking a fast a convoy carrying stuff from a canadian owned mine was targeted in the east they were being a score sued by the military. Judges at the International Criminal court to do to sentence a formal conga leighs rebel leader of war crimes and sexual slavery these are live pictures now from the i. C. C. Osco anything and also known as the terminator was convicted of 18 war crimes and crimes against humanity for the killings of civilians in this the r. C. C. The atrocities were committed in the year 2 region between 20022003 the gander became the 1st person to be found guilty by the hague of sexual slavery he faces a 30 year prison term its faultlines now. And. With every. Piece grainy images from a chill surveillance camera captured one of the last days of Madeleine Pickens life what do we know about madeleines final hours day suffer greatly suffer greatly nobody came to her. On april 17th 2014 madeline was booked on a drug charge at a jail in oregon. Thats her slumped down and struggling to stand her body goes through heroin which are all