Warnings about lebanons sinking economy after a deal to form a new government unravelled. Democratic Party Leaders in the u. S. House of representatives have announced impeachment charges against donald trump it makes him only the 4th president to face a formal effort to be removed from office in response trump repeated his assertion that hes the victim of a witch hunt heidi joe castra reports from washington standing before a portrait of one of the nations Founding FathersGeorge WashingtonHouse Democratic leaders made a historic announcement today in service to our duty to the constitution and to our country. The House Committee on the judiciary is introducing 2 articles of impeachment charging the president of the United States donald j. Drum with committing high crimes and misdemeanors the 1st article is abuse of power for withholding security aid and a white house visit with ukraines leader in exchange for political investigations that would benefit trumps reelection the 2nd obstruction of congress for refusing to cooperate with impeachment investigators the evidence is every bit as strong that President Trump has obstructed congress fully without precedent and without basis in law if allowed to stand it would decimate congresss ability to conduct oversight of this president or any other in the future trump is only the 4th u. S. President to have impeachment proceed this far he denies all wrongdoing tweeting during the democrats announcement witch hunt democrats say the evidence against trump is damning it includes testimony from more than a dozen witnesses and a white house call summary showing trump asked ukraine to launch investigations into his political rivals republicans though say thats not enough to remove a president theyre not impeaching the president because they they can the list and Impeachable Offense theyre impeaching him because theyre afraid he will get reelected thats not why you have the power of impeachment thats the abuse of power democrats are keeping the impeachment articles narrowly focused on trumps recent conduct with ukraine they decided not to charge the president for trying to stop the previous moller investigation that examine whether his campaign had colluded with russia in the last president ial election in less than a years time a deeply divided america will return to the polls that will be after trumps impeachment trial in the senate where hell likely be acquitted by his fellow republicans democrats say despite the slim chance of removal doing nothing or waiting what amounts to complicity with trumps misconduct the argument why dont you just wait amounts to this. Why dont you just let him cheat in one more election why not let him cheat just one more time democrats say trump remains a threat to the Upcoming Elections and to his own country hi joe castro aljazeera washington now heres more of what President Trump had to say at a Campaign Rally you saw there socalled articles of impeachment today people are saying theyre not even a crime what happened all of these horrible things remember bribery and this is where are they they send these 2 things are not even a crime this is the latest weakest impeachment you know our country said actually many impeach that you called judges and lots of many of pages but it was on today everybody said this is impeachment lite. All saudi arabia military students in the u. S. Have had their Operational Training suspended if allah is an attack is an airbase in florida last week in which 3 people were killed a realist sunday reports the decision taken by the pentagon its being called a security and safety stand down all saudi military students at all u. S. Military bases barred from training indefinitely in the United States the decision comes as the f. B. I. Continues to investigate a shooting on a u. S. Military base on friday when a Saudi Royal Air force officer killed 3 u. S. Service members and wounded several others the gunman mohammad saeed. A 21 year old lieutenant was killed by police the decision to shut down saudi training is believed to affect more than 850 saudi military personnel in the u. S. Analysts say the move to halt saudi training is significant though sending a signal to a country that you have a close relationship with to sell a lot of military equipment that we dont trust the people that are part of your your your government theyre trying to send a signal that its important that you make sure that the people you send us or not prone to do some of these terrible things the shutdown is part of a 10 day security review ordered by defense secretary marc esper any tended to examine betting procedures of Foreign Military students in the u. S. Its an escalation by the pentagon it 1st said the whole to training would only affect about 300. 00 saudis at 3 bases in florida but then late tuesday expanded that to all saudi military students in the u. S. Person after the shooting the governor of florida said it was terrorism and urged the pentagon to do a better job of screening for new metairie students theyre doing a big review about how all this stuff is done in terms of the vetting but my sense is that more needs to be done over the weekend the defense secretary signaled a review was considered anybody that comes to United States to train is or should be vetted by the Department StateDepartment Homeland security and ultimately us there are more than 5000. 00 military personnel from more than 150 Different Countries currently in the u. S. And various bases throughout the country doing training its a military exchange thats been going on for many years now but since the shooter was from saudi arabia its now saudi military personnel that are being closely scrutinized gabriel zonda aljazeera washington. Me amals leader and sun city is set to lead her countrys defense against allegations of genocide a day after sitting through graphic accounts of mass murder and rape the crimes etc being committed by the military and are at the center of a case at the International Court of justice in the hague when hey is there once a human rights and democracy campaigner myanmars leader arrived at the International Court of justice accused of being complicit in genocide the case against Aung San Suu Kyi is government was brought by the gambia on behalf of the organization of islamic cooperation on the opening day it was alleged widespread abuses were carried out by me and my Security Forces against communities which they say amount to genocide every day of interruption means that more people have been killed more woman ive been alive and my children have been burnt alive for what crime on the because they were born different born of a different ways and to a different religion from doors who kill and weep them and for this and will judge that they have been made to pay the ultimate price genocide. As lawyer after lawyer laid out the game because case suchi watched and listened in the court room one could only imagine what was going through her mind as repeated allegations were made of rape torture and murder by soldiers it was very important for thir have to 30 inches away from people who are describing and really excruciating and painful detail of the horrible crimes of the Burmese Military that happened on her watch. Me and says the raids on villages in Rakhine State were legitimate Counterterrorism Operations the gambian say me and maher was and still is trying to wipe out an entire ethnic group in the short term the court is being asked to order me and mar to take steps to protect the rich from 3rd the genocidal acts the opening of this trial was ironically held on International Human rights day day 2 will see me and begin its defense led by Aung San Suu Kyi herself it will be a remarkable sides a Nobel Peace Prize winner detained for years by the military now defending them and herself against charges of genocide the case before the i. C. J. Is not a criminal trial meaning charges wont be brought against individuals but given what she wants to do for Aung San Suu Kyi is effectively on trial along with the military and government as she left she was jeered by protesters who came to see the rigging finally have their day in the worlds highest course when hey aljazeera the hague. Right lets go live to 70 deca our correspondent susan cox is bizarre in southeastern bangladesh where of course sees hundreds of thousands of reindeer refugees have set up temporary homes and stephanie its going to be the most astonishing site for the whole world to see ansel see cheney effectively as it were in the dog what kind of impact is that likely to have among the people whove been in this situation for at least 2 years. Or going to have to wait and see and of course whatever the court rules they dont have any measures to implement it so to speak but as you mentioned symbolically it is hugely important as wayne restating their Nobel Peace Prize winner defending her country against charges of genocide while that evidence is here are so its the biggest wreckage account in the world i can tell you that people are aware of the trial theyve been trying to get news of the internet how to been cut in this count for the last couple of months since a large protest took place here marking the 2 Year Anniversary while today only for some reason 3 g. Is back on so people are being able to access the news and of course today were expecting an come through g. To speak you also had people meeting last night with Community Leaders who would listen to the radio and would pass on the information the news to them so theres people very happy that there is this trial going on but theyre also aware that theyre going to be huge challenges ahead as you were saying you said temporary homes people want to go home but martin but at the moment there is no signs that thats going to happen anytime soon this count is taking a more lets say permanent form and some of it and some of its areas are many counts that make up the wider area and theres no guarantees for me and where that if they do go home theyll be safe so at the moment nothing here is resolved and i mean you make the point about the safety of these people obviously being the immediate issues upon which the court is going to pass some sort of measures to have any idea still kind of measures that will protect these people in the meantime before a final judgment is made as to whether genocide has been committed against them. Well the case that theyre hearing is about emergency provisional measures before the real court case can be heard and what that means is that the gambia is asking the court to rule that mean more protect the ranger population still inside me and more and they also protect the people here if they go back home this is the key issue theres been an effort multiple efforts to repatriate people here back to me and mark voluntarily but more has been given access to the United Nations that has been given access to journalists to see the areas to see what kind of situation they will face when they go back there in the population for all purposes and reports that remain inside me and mark are still persecuted they are restricted in terms of their movement they call and have access to education margins are limited all these kinds of things lead to a very thats a atmosphere of mistrust let alone the horrors that were inflicted on the people here so it is a situation that is unresolved it seems to be unresolved in the future and whatever happens when it comes to this court ruling i think i really think its anything to analysts and observers will tell you that its not going to have a direct impact on the ground people go home anytime soon. Stephanie decker live in cox thank you very much now the Pacific Island of bosons il has voted overwhelmingly to become independent from power in new guinea it was just under 98 percent 97. 7 percent to be precise all the population that supported the move the result the result is nonbinding in the final say rests with papua new guineas parliament the vote was promised as part of a peace agreement. Groundling keeps recovery crews from reaching new. Hello again welcome back to your International Weather forecast well we do have a few clouds pushing through iraq right now making their way towards iran you can see it on the satellite image right here and that is going down here towards the southeast more towards the arabian sea and were going to be seeing some rain showers here for karate here on one say maybe 28. 00 degrees but the snow is going to increase in the Higher Elevations by the time we get towards thursday we do have a storm system that we are going to be watching very closely over the next few days comey and off the mediterranean making its way towards the east and that is going to bring some very heavy rain not only for turkey for a cyprus for parts of syria as well as into lebanon as well for beirut expect your conditions to start to deteriorate as we go to the next couple of days we have seen flooding there already so it is going to be heavy rain here on thursday and windy conditions by the time we get towards friday well we have seen a lot of rain here across much of the gulf the rains going to continue on wednesday but by the time we get towards thursday things will be clearing up across much of the area and then very quickly a plus across parts of Southern Africa we are going to be seeing rain for durban with attempts of 24. 00 degrees but by the time we get towards friday we are going to see those temperatures come down as well johannesburg you may pick up a few showers as well a 24. 00 and cape town at 27. 00 degrees. I think stories generate found scenes of headlines these protests are saying down with the system and down with all of the parties with different angles from different perspectives just because we came to prison doesnt mean all right stopped at the gate separate the spin from the fact the western media jumps on stories lead on taking down the misinformation from the journalism its about telling the stories of those human beings on the ground with the listening post on aljazeera. Lets have a look at the top stories here it out 0 this morning donald trump is called the impeachment charges against him weak democratic Party Leaders announce among kissing him of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. The pentagon has suspended the Operational Training of more than 850 Saudi Arabian military students following an attack by a Saudi Air Force officer at an air base in florida last week. Mia miles leader Aung San Suu Kyi is set to lead her countrys defense against allegations of genocide they stem from the 2017 military crackdown which forced more than 700000 ranger muslims to flee to neighboring bangladesh. The volcanic activity has significantly increased on new zealands white island delaying efforts to recover the 8 people who are missing believed dead in erupted on monday killing at least 6 others 30 people are in hospital many with burns to more than half their bodies theres mounting pressure from relatives to find those still accounted unaccounted for but emergency workers say its just not safe enough this is an utterly critics situation we all agree that retrieving bodies of the deceased from the island is an absolute imperative. Every day that passes with those bodies and recovered is a day of anguish for the loved ones who have been affected we recognize this and were doing everything we can. There is always a delicate balancing act when it comes to recovery operations of where risk to human life exists and right now the science tells us us that this is just too high. And jessica washington is on the coast near white home and the mood here in fact attorney is noticeably grim this community has been deeply affected by the tragedy that happened just 50 kilometers from here on what island we really are. River systems and when we flew into the woods a lot of people really distressed lawing and. Some searching with her for looking and reasons. To sort of to. Help people and that was with this is. A horrendous and while a large number of the people who have been negatively affected overseas visitors coming onto boats and things like that. We do have local people some. Boats which would normally be packed with tourists are instead docked here as we await information from authorities on whether or not its safe for them to commence their recovery operations on white islands. The white house says donald trump has again warned russia not to interfere u. S. Elections as he met the Russian Foreign minister sergei lover off they also talked about a range of global issues during a visit that critics say sends a dangerous message is practical hane. It had all the pleasantries expected when a foreign diplomat visits the us meetings a working lunch with the secretary of state but somewhat unusually the Russian Foreign minister got another meeting at the white house with the u. S. President earlier at the state department circle of robin might pompei i said their discussions pretty much spanned the globe from syria to venezuela ukraine to israel but it was the 2016 u. S. Election and allegations that russia interfered in it that provoked some tough talk a flat denial from leveraged who repeatedly said the white house was refusing to release correspondence to prove their innocence when is the quote the no no to we read them all or report there is no proof of any collusion for the 4th time now our suggestion is to publish that data that would show how russia responded through especial channels to review threats and Cyber Networks to show how russia responded to show how we suggested how to discuss this confidentially. I will publish all the documents we think appropriate we think we shared plenty of facts that show what happened in the 2016 election with our russian counterparts we dont think theres any mistake about what really transpired there but critics say tough words here at the state department are simply not enough they say the entire welcome sends a dangerous message i think we should not be receiving foreign minister of russia over. The state department it rewards their bad behavior it rewards the kind. Of disruption you know democracy that russia has been gauged in and it will lead to more the visit comes at a time when the u. S. President is facing impeachment for allegedly trying to get ukraine to interfere in the next election but this made it clear what happened in the last one is still proving to be a problem for both countries relationship pedicle hain aljazeera at the u. S. State department. Just 24 hours before voting begins in the u. K. Election polls are cautiously predicting victory for the current Prime Minister baraks johnson but theres still the chance of a Hung Parliament and theres another factor that could muddy the waters and that is tactical voting power and see explains what it is from working on one of the battlegrounds. If you wanted to find somewhere to symbolize conservative england then this would do fine working im in the Countryside West of london is well off and takes care of itself. But perhaps because of that it voted by some distance to remain in the European Union both parties said we missed all of the referendum result despite the best efforts of the towns longstanding conservative m. P. John redwood is an example. In this election the pro e. U. Forces see an opportunity to get their revenge on him and the timing really matters places like working and represent the last chance for opponents of brechts its trying to stop the conservatives from getting it done but to do it in both persuading the public to vote not for the part of the mark but for the party in any constituency with the best chance of beating the conservatives and thats where things get messy. Here the end of that with the best chance is a former conservative who defected to the liberal democrats were the opposition parties to stand down and give him their votes hes pretty convince he would win weve got a huge body of data sorry when its neck and neck this is why for labor very even if you have told you know vote for where you are if youre a tory remain and you think bricks are is a complete and utter disaster and you dont want to then youre also voting for me and if you can coalesce those 2 things together then were not going to get out. And this is the labor candidate she broke her ankle right at the start of the campaign and is trailing in 3rd place but even though she cant win she resolutely believes she should not participate in tactical voting you might say to people you know your life oh my perfect you passionately believe in the policies but actually were not going to stand anyone here because we want you to vote with them i just its not fair its not right democratic to get number 345 how the 2 main opposition parties agreed at the start of the campaign to stand on a joint platform then things might have been different but their general refusal to form a united front against bracks it could be a decisive factor on thursday its the system thats broken and actually what were offering is a chance for your vote actually came and for increased democratic participation but daily we would love for the Voting System to be changed so that acts of voting isnt necessary. Fortunately this election is which. I think is that it is impossible to get around the fact that this is the brics its election because the conservatives have made it does you know the stark choice for people who dont like it is that ignoring its might allow it to happen largely aljazeera. And now you can see a full list of all the candidates standing in the working them constituency there are 5 of them in all and an interesting one to watch on Election Night for coverage here on our air. Same in the u. K. In parliament to struggle to agree on anything when it comes to breaks it and thats partly due to the make up of the chamber paul brennan has more. One of the reasons why were having this election is because parliament has struggled to agree on anything when it comes to bracks it and that is partly due to the makeup of the chamber so lets take a look at why that is there are 650 seats in the house of commons but a party doesnt necessarily need more than half of those that would be 326 seats to actually secure a working majority when parliament was dissolved in november the conservative party had the most seats but with only 298 mph and after the 2017 election the conservatives relied on support from the 10 m. P. s of Northern IrelandDemocratic Unionist Party to get their legislation through labor was the Main Opposition Party with 243. 00 m. P. s the Scottish National party which only fields candidates in scotland had 35. 00 seats in the chamber the liberal democrats made headlines this year with a series of high profile defections to the party and they had 20 m. P. s when the chamber dissolved the lib dems though have formed a remain an election pact with ply comrie and with the green party which had 5 m. P. s between them not forgetting though shin fein another Northern Irish party which had 7 m. P. s which in fein doesnt recognise westminster is right to rule Northern Ireland so they dont take their seats which means a new government might need slightly fewer seats for a workable majority perhaps as few as 320 france is to host a conference on wednesday hoping to raise money for lebanon as its economic crisis gets worse lebanons leaders they arent expecting any new pledges as they struggle to put together a new government then the harder has more now from beirut. There is growing financial uncertainty in lebanon businesses are closing unemployment is rising the National Currency is losing its value and there is a shortage of dollars we have received now about 70 requests in the last week from Significant Companies for significantly off so the problem is serious and these increasing the problem has been building up over many many years. The government is bankrupt frankly its being described as the worst economic crisis in decades its what triggered anti political establishment protests now in their 2nd months longtime ally france is hosting a meeting of lebanons International Support group to secure credit lines to import basic goods like food and medicine the call for the meeting in paris is very interesting because it comes to days before the Political Parties dominate the Prime Minister so in a way we see an implicit intervention in the process of deciding the Prime Minister sending a message with how the power the International Community is willing to help lebanon Prime Minister saddle had he who resigned over a months ago due to the protests stayed on in a caretaker capacity but he is conditioning his return on the formation of a nonpartisan government which has been rejected by his political rivals the iranian backed hezbollah and its allies france the former colonial power in lebanon has led mediation efforts in past crises it now hopes the meeting in paris will push politicians to create what the French Foreign ministry calls a competent and credible government to restore the Economic Situation and meet the aspirations of the people protesters want independent experts to lead the country into early elections foreign powers have weighed in with their own demands. Being. There are other conditions that. Have not been stated publicly by Foreign Countries apart from who the Prime Minister will be there is the us condition that hezbollah is out of the government political deadlock is not unusual in lebanon where parties have Regional International alliances very few expect stability until those countries find Common Ground said of beirut. Now a huge sinkhole has opened up in brazils capital brasilia at least 4 calls were swallowed up theyve been parked next to a building side when the ground started to collapse and fortunately no one was in the. Conversation of the top stories here at aljazeera u. S. President donald trump has called the impeachment charges against him weak democratic Party Leaders say he abused the power of his office and obstructed congress in its investigation. You saw there socalled articles of impeachment today people are saying theyre not even a crime what happened all of these horrible things remember bribery and this is where are they they send these 2 things are not even a crime this is the lightest weakest impeachment you know our country said actually many appreciate you called judges and lots of it many of pages but it was on today everybody said this is impeachment lite. The pentagon has suspended the Operational Training of all Saudi Arabian military students in the u. S. It follows an attack by a Saudi Air Force officer at an air base in florida last week in which 3 people were killed. Were miles either uncensored she is set to lead her countrys defense against allegations of genocide a day after sitting through graphic accounts of mass murder and rape they stem from a 27000 military crackdown volcanic activity has significantly increased on new zealands white island in what could be a blow to efforts to recover the 8 people missing believed dead it erupted on monday killing at least 6 people 30 others are in the hospital 25 of them in Critical Condition the Pacific Island of bougainville has voted overwhelmingly to become independent from power new guinea almost 98 percent back the move the result though is nonbinding in the final say rests with power for a new guineas parliament the vote was promised as part of a peace agreement. The white house says donald trump has again warned russia not to interfere in u. S. Elections so gay lover of the Russian Foreign minister is in washington for talks he met the u. S. Secretary of state like calm care or lover or says allegations of russian meddling in the 2016 election are baseless the listening post is next. The last time i spoke to him he told me he was thinking of going to syria the world wants to see syrias fighters up close and personal but those behind the camera pay the price filmmaker yes it is made easy chillingly intimate footage on and behind the front lines cost him his life his body was riddled with bullets an exclusive documentary syria the last assignments on aljazeera. Is bracing for an early election of the public setback the Goldfish Bowl just last week so it really matters. Tremendously that he was trying to kill the cat but i think ok now you say not just me why should we believe. Him hello im Richard Geres bird and youre at the listening post here are some of the media stories that were covering this week the british are in election mode once again and their news outlets are proving to be no more adept at dealing with a lying politician than american ones are my beauty my purpose advertising those feel good ads designed to make you feel good about buying something filipino president roderigo do territory is taking on