A measles i break ravages the tiny site Pacific Islands all summer long. Donald trumps political rivals have laid out what they say is overwhelming evidence the u. S. President s misconduct in office the 300 page impeachment report says trump used his power to seek help from ukraines president s its a benefits his reelection bid heidi jocasta reports from washington d. C. House intelligence chairman adam schiff presentation of his committees report on donald trump offered little more than was already known but its a key moment in what could be the impeachment of a president this is not about ukraine this is about our democracy this is about our National Security this is about where the American People have a right to expect that the president is going to act in their interests with their security in mind and not for some illicit personal or political reasons so americans should care deeply about what the president and states is. Betraying their trust in him betraying that old so that he took to the constitution to protect our country and defend its institutions according to the report President Trump solicited interference from ukraine to benefit his reelection conditioning a white house visit for the ukrainian president and 400000000. 00 in u. S. Military aid on a Public Statement that ukraine would investigate joe bidens family for alleged corruption trump denies he did anything wrong a white house spokeswoman released a statement saying at the end of a one sided sham process chairmanship and the democrats utterly fail to produce any evidence of wrongdoing by President Trump this report reflects nothing more than their frustrations chairmanships report reads like the ramblings of a basement blogger straining to prove something when there is evidence of nothing the evidence came from 17 witnesses including state department and white house insiders who testified trump ran a Shadow Campaign that undermined official u. S. Foreign policy toward ukraine there was also the partial transcript of a phone call in which trump asked ukraines president for a favor the biden investigation republicans rebutted with their own report offering a very different reading of the facts they say the testimonies are here say that the phone call was perfect and that the democrats efforts to include the president are an attack on a duly elected leader to laura provides nothing except a dreary drowsy appraisal for this country to watch as the impeachment process slowly drags on with no direction no focus because theyre having one big problem and the big problem is the president did nothing will and they cant prove. The process will now shift to the House Judiciary Committee which will draft articles of impeachment likely to focus on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress Americans have been evenly divided on whether to impeach and removed from office both Political Parties are claiming to be protecting american democracy heidi joe castro al jazeera Washington Well frank borman is a professor of law at the university of missouri and has written a book called high crimes and misdemeanors he says theres a big disconnect between the Current Administration and some of the political appointees. There is a huge schism there is a huge disconnect between the office of the president and certainly virtually everyone else who is a competent career professional or and even if indeed a competent political appointee in the Current Administration mr trump is pursuing his own private interests and doing so often without facts or based on speculation or conspiracy theories or information he gets from heaven knows where and the result of that of course is not only to produce bad policy as it certainly did in the case of ukraine but also to her found lee disillusion undermine the the guts of the American Government the Public Servants that actually make it make it run i dont think that that division is going to be healable so long as hes president the more profound concern Going Forward is assuming as i hope will be the case of mr trump will no longer be the president in 2021 that the question is what whether or not the country can can rebuild the government from the inside and restore the Public Servants faith that their expertise is going to be valued that theyre going to be listened to and that theyre going to be able to serve the American American publics interests. Without being foolishly 2nd guessed by a man who is who has seems predominately have his own interests in mind and is also staggering a lady ignorant about the world around him. Cracks are appearing in the worlds biggest Alliance Leaders are in the u. K. For the 70th anniversary of nato and divisions are becoming clear the u. S. And french president said disagreed on several points including nato role and the return of foreign fighters from syria so for mascots there james base has this. Its supposed to be nato 70th birthday but theres no celebration instead an atmosphere of disagreement and division with the u. S. President who once called the Alliance Obsolete now saying he fears that france might leave nato and i heard the president. Of the greater i think its very sobering to a lot of different who are in pretty good measure a pretty crowded room. When you make a Statement Like that is a very very very nasty statement to essentially 20 wearing them one of the countries those comments were particularly pointed as President Trumps next Public Meeting was with the french president there were uncomfortable moments when they were asked about European Countries including france not taking back their nationals no prisoners in syria having fought for eisel. Would you like some nice isis fighters you like to give them a few feet and you could take everyone you want to live if you say. Very arguable point was going the wrong are focused on the. Community and the vision. To that you have foreign fighters coming from europe if you can finally get all of them we have in the region the number one problem of the for and fight this is the ill fight for it. And you have one more fight you this is the reason. This is where he grows politician is that was one of the great khali answers. So the trouble macro disagreements are not the only ones at this summit. French leader attacked turkey because of its recent incursion targeting the kurds in Northern Syria to see if. This indeed after all these are on duty. To keep. Them out are fighting against those who fight with. Charlotte. Turkeys president later met with his u. K. Host Prime Minister johnson as well as president barack raul and the german chancellor merkel hes threatening to block natos plans to protect poland and the Baltic States unless others agree with him on syria. But i dont differ that despite all the differences which exist and which we have to address also have to discuss the future of nato and things we have in common strategically but i am relatively optimistic about this meeting on top of all the other problems im told there is currently considerable tension between chancellor merkel and president mark roll over European Defense and europes role in the state of the alliance right now is full of division it is a multidimensional mess james. London the us has stepped up its threat of sanctions against senior Chinese Communists over their treatment of weaker muslims the house of representatives has followed the senate and passing a bill calling on president on war trump to condemn abuses against the Minority Group it urges the causer all detention camps in the Northwestern Region of sin john. Has been following developments from washington d. C. 471 bipartisan support for this bill condemning the treatment of muslims and challenging calling for the closure of those cameras also battling the export of surveillance equipment to the u. S. U. S. Companies heavily involved in that also calling for the secretary of state to come up with a report with its assessment of the state Department Assessment of whats going on whats at what what scale of human rights abuses there is in the view of the state department giving the white house 120 days to come back to congress with a list of people to sanction who they feel are responsible for the alleged human rights abuses that that is the key part that that would mean that something i mean the u. S. Actually sanctioning senior members of the politburo of the Chinese Communist party is a pretty big deal as you can imagine having said that they as we saw with the signing of the hong kong legislation last week the president does have an out when it comes to that he can sign this and it looks like because theres such a veto proof majority in both the house and the senate for this legislation he may have no choice but to sign it but he can sign it but have a signing statement which says he reserves the right not to sanction anyone because of National Security in the end the president is in charge of Foreign Policy as far as u. S. National security is concerned so he can decline to in fact sanction anyone. Well lets get more on the story from him brandi joins us now live from Hong Kong Adrian what sort of reaction have we seen from china. Well a short time ago we did hear from the Foreign Ministry in beijing on wednesday morning not surprisingly they have spoken out very strongly against this bill warning the United States not to interfere in chinas internal affairs and and calling on congress to basically correct its mistake in their words and not to allow this bill to become law as to what china does next well there are a number of options at its disposal as you just heard in that report earlier they can carry out all sorts of sanctions against u. S. Officials in china they could restrict their travel in china now when President Trump signed into law the hong kong democracy human rights act last week we saw just a few days later china barring u. S. Warships from docking here in hong kong it also announced it would sanction a number of u. S. N. G. O. S here in hong kong but it hasnt really specified what more it can do but there is no doubt that what youre looking at here is what in many ways a cold war looks like and this is not the beginning this is not the end we are in the middle of the deepening cold war between these 2 superpowers now shin jang is an area of extreme importance to china because it lies at the heart of president cheating pings ambitious one belt one road project but theres only 1500000 people who live in shin jang and half of them are these ethnic muslim turkic speaking people the weaker some 9000000 of them but there are also an almost equal number of han chinese and the 2 communities as i saw when i visited shouldnt jang last year barely interact with each other and when you are there you really do. To detect this almost tangible fear among the local weaker population wherever you go in shin jang you see surveillance cameras this is the most tightly surveilled part of the country where surveillance is all very very very widespread now the United States is saying its going to prevent United States companies export ing that sort of Surveillance Technology to sion john ok brian there live for us in hong kong thank you very much indeed. Lets get more reaction from china and i know tangan is a political analyst and government advisor and joins us now from beijing i know weve been hearing there that china is has already come up with an angry response just why is china so angry at the u. S. Wants him to play its role as a moral leader. I think the hypocrisy of saying that the u. S. Is a position to be a moral leader at this point given whats going on in the middle east and other places you know it really strikes a chord within china but most of all this is seen as a continuing series of attacks really aimed not so much at freeing anybody or human rights but as putting pressure on china as its these negotiations these trade negotiations Going Forward now that having said that that i believe is the trump administrations point of view if you start looking beneath that at the democratic side in the fact that this was bipartisan it seems the only thing that people in the u. S. In politics in washington can agree on is that china is somehow an evil empire i dont know if thats necessarily the case china is not really doing anything differently than it has done for many many years but because of its sheer size and the implications of it becoming a. First the 2nd world power in perth 10 chile the 1st real power youre starting to see a lot of friction but is it possible im not sanguine that this isnt about. Getting an upper hand with trades that people are genuinely horrified by the allegations of what china is doing the ethnic week of population. Well i mean theres 2 sides of the story i mean theres always going to be a divide on this because on one side in the west we view the rights of the individual as almost being superior to the rights of society we go to extreme lengths to make sure that they are abated that theres a freedom of speech all of these things and that is endemic to the how how we see ourselves but when you Start Talking about asia its the reverse society is put 1st all right and the individual is secondary to it so if youre start going around in china and you go to it doesnt matter if youre in beijing or the small village and you asked them about sin jiang or hong kong or tibets or taiwan youre going to get a much harsher more hawkish view than the actual government takes the government is actually taking a very very moderate line compared to where a lot of its netizens which is that they should be they got a reset on why this society best buy a home coming up more than a 1000000 more than a 1000000 of its citizens have a society best served by detaining as a vast number of people and the other obligations this is a stance and its an ethnic a cultural genocide. Well from their perspective youre putting a loaded words in there theres nothing thats saying that theyre preventing people from speaking the weaker language what theyre saying is that they must learn han they must learn trades they must. Live in society otherwise youd have an apartheid but in the china cables which were released and these documents have been drip site by the New York Times by the the International Consortium of messages of journalists documents were released that say memos were given by the Chinese Government to never allow escapes to never allow people to escape from these camps that doesnt imply that its a voluntary process that everyones just going in to learn hand chinese and certainly from others from weekers who have been leaving china well you have been testifying theyve been saying something very contrary to that that their family members are locked up and they are not allowed to theyre not allowed to contact them. Well from chinas perspective what theyre doing is following the way it would be a perceived to be the u. N. Action plan against extremism and that means addressing the issues of poverty unemployment making sure that theres education available day china does not want an apartheid situation to occur because they simply as they and there are some people who blame them for saying why did you let this occur in the 1st place why did you let people not send their children to school only to go to the madrassa saturdays where they could learn the quran they didnt learn about science they dont they dont theyre not able to speak. To a lot of the standard language of china so therefore theyre limited they can stay on the farm they can surely you know one search and rescue center again and find nothing else but and these are these are all these are all certain points that i know for me but the other allegations coming out its of these cables detail charges which are much more serious and these this is the reason why these. Politicians in the us have decide its a pass this bill. Well i dont know that thats completely the reason i mean you have to understand that there are perhaps different cultural views that that the world is not mana current chromatic china views this as necessary steps to prevent violence remember this is a one party system anything bad that happens is the rip is the fault of the government and in this particular case theyve had no attacks and 3 years so from the general populations point of view they say no thats fine this is what they should be doing they must retrain these people even if its forced they dont care about that and the government is pursuing that line they say that it is better to act now than to have a festering situation where people who are limited by their education and poverty are easy targets for extremism now lets take it on the other hand if china did nothing and they allowed this kind of apartheid situation to occur where these people didnt have skills and they were basically forced things now remember there were more we were allowed to have more children then the one child policy up to 7 and in a lot of rural areas this represented free labor but the difficulty is when it comes to dividing up the land theres not enough land to divide 7 pieces and then 7 more pieces so at this point they need to do this i mean theyve been the Chinese Government is rolling out a series of statistics 56460000 jobs created in the last 10 months trending up 28 percent violence down you know they they point to the fact that since in the last 64 years the economy has gone up 200 times so from the chinese perspective its all about bringing prosperity this what we value as human rights they say is secondary. The primary human right is to live and eat. And we could debate this on and on but for now i know time going thank you very much indeed for joining us from beijing and lots more still to come here on aljazeera including running for their lives a massive explosion in tulsa factory in sudan well bring you that story after this. We got some quotes weather making its way towards the northeastern corner of the u. S. Following on from a recent wintry spell still a few wintry florists there for the the coming hours you can see how we are drawing in a northerly wind behind this area of low pressure temperatures going to be well down still but at least were looking at with a wet crisp sunshine over the next couple of days there will still be a few snow flurries upstate new york for example pennsylvania could see some wintry weather still in the mix but it is in the process of quality down for the southeast cold enough that they say it just 9 degrees celsius the chance of some snow too on the other side of the country over towards say other rockies parts of Northern California could see some snow some heavy rain doubts was just south l. A. Looking at some very heavy rain possibility of some flooding here over the next day also some of a wintry mix up towards the northwest and cold with some rain sleet and snow pushing through b. C. Quiet and down a little as we go on into thursday central areas seeing one or 2 pockets of snow 4 celsius there for dems and then we go clear skies into the northeast temperatures in new york at around 6 celsius in midst of the ice in the lines there for d. C. Down into the care of baby still this area of cloud and rain across the great around here is into the western side of the caribbean it lingers say for some time so still wet on thursday. Kenyan journalists in pursuit of press freedom and justice i have seen very desperate situations where someone seeking but ill give it up for being clean and investigating government corruption and the National Health care system some of the transactions espionage and the killing. Of money that is unexplained to Africa Uncensored and publishable seems up people dont want to publish even if it doesnt know about the oscar whos truth is it anyway on aljazeera. This is aljazeera reminds of the headlines this hour yes House Democrats have released a report laying at the case for the impeachment of donald trump it says the president used his powers to get ukraine to help and with the 20 twentieths action the white house has called the report a one sided sham the u. S. House of representatives has passed a bill demanding sanctions on senior chinese officials over the treatments over we do muslims china has condemned the bill and has denied down the geisha is over mistreatment. And the 70th anniversary of nato has turned into a tense war of words the u. S. And french president s own views on several points including nato israel and the return of i saw fighters. Now some more as governments is ordering unvaccinated families to tie a red flag outside their homes as it steps up efforts to contain a Measles Outbreak 60 people have died since the epidemic began in mid october 50 of those are children under the age of 4 up to now less than a 3rd of samoans were immunized against the highly contagious disease but vaccinations are no compulsory under emergency measures and schools have been shut down however infection rates continue to climb with 171 year cases recorded in the past 24 hours one of 4000 people have caught the virus of a population of 200000 jessica washington is in the samoan capital and capital of appiah with more on the emergency measures the government is taking. The outbreak 1st began in october 1 of the earliest steps was to close schools the focus really was on making sure that children in that most vulnerable age group of 6 months to 4 years old were vaccinated but since then as this crisis has widened the scope of the emergency measures has also widened the message now from the government is that everyone under the age of 60 must be vaccinated and this compulsory Vaccination Program is requiring a number of initiatives from the government there are Health Clinics set up all around some some run by nongovernment organisations and others run by Public Health workers now there are signs that those initiatives are working since a state of emergency was declared in mid november at least 60000 people have been vaccinated there isnt exactly clear data or on where these hotspots in particular are but what we do know is that most of the cases are concentrated in this island of where the capital city of apia is located we do know that its mostly in the town and in urban areas that the outbreak have occurred but authorities are trying to discern where else we outbreaks might be occurring. Now the health of zimbabwes population faces severe hunger thats the analysis from the Uns World Food Programme the un is planning to more than double the number of people it helps to more than 4000000 but as many as 7000000 its expected to get worse with little rain forecast before the april harvests. Extreme weather and an economic meltdown have pushed those people into severe hunger and for a country that used to be the bread basket of Southern Africa the situation is nothing short of tragic theres no other way of putting it the crisis is being exacerbated by a dire shortage of foreign currency runaway inflation mounting unemployment lack of fuel prolonging Power Outages and large scale living life stock losses. Security forces in lebanon have used here against nuclear protesters who were trying to block a main roads in downtown beirut hundreds of antigovernment protesters battled with my police and dragged them from the roads is anger after i going Prime Minister saad hariri back to a prominent businessman as his replacement critics say wont fix corruption and government mismanagement which is led to weeks of protest. A gas explosion outside a factory in sudan has killed at least 23 people and injured 130 others it caused the fact fire at a factory in the capital so hot as if he sells. The gas tanker exploded next to the Ceramics Factory in an Industrial Area in her. Big calls was sent flying people ran for their lives the factory was gutted my own and i said i dont know i honestly dont understand anything as we came in from inside the factory i heard a loud boom in iran and behind me was another man severely injured my leg was injured we immediately ran outside and that was if you could have a gas tank or near the factory exploded either as a result of it not being connected properly or a technical error in the way the gas was released it caused an explosion which is that the factory on fire will find out more later from the investigation. Overwhelmed to the number of injuries and severity of burns the Health Ministry has called for blood donations in nearby hospitals have brought in off duty doctor. We were working without a warning the wall spyro soon as they ran someone next to me i didnt know what to do i had to leave him they took me to the hospital and thank god im alive i. Police say for health and Safety Standards cause the fire to spread to the Indian Embassy in front of them says more than 50 of its nationals worked at the factory think of some of them are amongst the casualties. And finally 4 months after sailing to the United States swedish climate activists cressets on bird has returned to europe again by sailboats its in asia who prefers to use low carbon methods of transports hitched a lift with an australian family for the 3 week journey to the portuguese capital lisbon. This is al jazeera and these are the headlines u. S. House democrats have released a report laying out the case for the impeachment of donald trump it says the president s used his powers to get ukraine to help him with the 2020 alexion the white house has called the report a one sided show castro has the latest from capitol hill the House Intelligence Committee has been giving its stamp of approval on this report and now it is now passing that report on to the Judiciary Committee which is significant because it is the Judiciary Committee that will draft articles of impeachment basically these are the charges that trump would face once this goes to a trial in the senate. The u. S. House of representatives has passed a bill demands and sanctions and senior chinese officials over the treatment over weaker muslims china has condemned the legislation and has denied allegations of mistreatment the 70th anniversary of nato has turns into a tense war of words the u. S. And french president s own get on several points including nato israel and the return of fighters micro also christmas attacks turkey over its military operation in syria. The World Health Organization says smalls worsening Measles Outbreak has set back global efforts to eliminate the disease 60 people have died since the epidemic started in mid october many of those are children under the age of 4 more cases are being reported every hour with more than 4000 people infected in a population of just 200000 people. Nearly half a zimbabwes population faces severe hunger thats the analysis from the Uns World Food Program the u. N. Is planning to more than double the number of people it helps some of the 4000000 but as many as 7000000 need aids its expected to get worse with a little rain forecast before the april harvest sensitivity forces in lebanon have used tear gas to clear protesters who were trying to block a main roads in downtown beirut theres anger after outgoing Prime Minister saad hariri back to prominent business ministers replacements. And though thats your headlines to stay with us here on aljazeera the news continues after whose truth is it anyway stay with us. H. I. V. Aids is still a major killer and african nations are struggling with the highest infection rates thousands of experts will meet in rwanda to Exchange Ideas and work out how to confront one of the worlds most serious else challenges special coverage on aljazeera. The day. I am. Lose you. Who for. The world. Is going to move the. Second term in office has been a series of meetings. Prime ministers to something. Done on