Considers setting up a Monitoring Mission in libya to keep an eye on any potential future a cease fire turning to the u. S. Dollar venezuela is moving away from the bottom of the economic crisis goes on. But over in the u. S. Senate has launched formal proceedings for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump House Democrats read the charges in congress it sets in motion the Legal Process the trial which donald trump has denounced as a con job by the democrats will start officially next week. With us from washington. The ceremony laden impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is now underway theory. All persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment donald j. Trump has abused the powers of the presidency in that. Using the powers of his high Office President trump solicited the interference of a Foreign Government ukraine in the 2020 United States president ial election john roberts the chief justice of the Us Supreme Court has taken an oath to become presiding officer i do in turn swearing in the members of the senate just to become impartial jurors so help you god. But an impeachment trial under u. S. Law is not just a judicial proceeding it is a proceeding that is both legal and political with most of the jurists who will decide the president s guilt or innocence being members of his own Political Party and in an Election Year there is little reason to believe that republican senators when a vote to remove their own leader from the white house in the recent polling shows most americans expect a fair trial in the senate is not one rigged in the president s favor the democrats say to get that they need to open the proceedings to new witnesses and new evidence that appear to incriminate trump further the president is blocking them and again the American People just about all of them are asking the question what is the president hiding this chamber exist pershing eisley for schussler not a president so that we can look past the daily dramas and understand how our actions will reverberate for generations. So that we can put aside animal reflexes and animosities and coolly consider how to best serve our country now the senate has summoned President Trump to answer the impeachment charges its a hoax its a hoax Everybody Knows that but its unlikely hell make an appearance its his attorneys who will plead his innocence in opening arguments scheduled for next week castro aljazeera washington. Meanwhile and aides to Donald Trumps lawyer claims the president knew exactly what was going on with the efforts to pressure ukraine into investigating former Vice President biden and his son a White House Correspondent kimberly how good looks at that one. Really like the explosive allegations came from this man lev parness he says he was an associate of donald trump and worked in ukraine with the president s personal attorney Rudolph Giuliani now hes speaking out the truth. In an interview parness who is in court for various financial and corruption charges describe still living messages directly from the u. S. President to the ukrainians it was an effort he claims to dig up dirt on trumps political rival former Vice President joe biden whos running to replace him president. He was aware of. These new allegations come at a sensitive time for the president of the u. S. Congress begins the trial phase of his impeachment trial it was impeached in december on charges of obstruction of congress after busa of power after reportedly pressuring the ukrainians to investigate bidens son hunter who sat on the board of a Ukrainian Energy company thursday a congressional Watchdog Agency released its report stating the white house violated federal law by withholding military aid to ukraine part of the quid pro quo allegations against trump trump also denies his relationship with parness and his associate even those photos of trump and parness side by side have surfaced. Never had a conversation that i remember with democrats are pushing for witnesses like parness to testify the white house is attempting to block witness testimony in the statement White House Press secretary Stephanie Grisham pushed back on part of his claims these allegations are being made by a man who is currently out on bail for federal crimes and is desperate to reduce his exposure to prison but part of his claims may be hard for senators to ignore the guy at. Her. Well you wrote never democrats have also released new evidence Text Messages and emails they say proves the president leverage president ial powers for political purposes parness says there was a Pressure Campaign to remove u. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie avan of it from her post even releasing texts which suggested she was being watched and that her life may have been in danger before trump recalled her last year she testified in november she received a warning from a colleague and she said she wasnt sure but there were concerns about my security the Ukrainian Government has now launched an investigation into possible surveillance of the former u. S. Ambassador kimberly healthy at aljazeera washington. The developing news to bring you the u. S. Military just announcing a number of Service Members were actually treated for injuries after the missile attack this is going back to the missile attacks on bases in iraq and its month his government is all new in washington and i was a Little Information coming out about what are you hearing. Yeah the u. S. Military just confirming within the last few minutes that there were 8 u. S. Service members that were injured on that missile attack at the al Assad Air Base in iraq last week now i should point out it does not appear to be serious injuries nevertheless this is what the pentagon is telling us they say that after the missile attacks on the base many of the Service Members were screened for concussions which they say is very common the blast from missiles can cause buildings to shake and rattle and and can cause potentially concussions in in people that are even outside of the Immediate Impact zone once these tests were done on multiple Service Members who were at that base there were 8 of them that needed further screening they showed signs of some sort of concussions that were they suffered after the blasts from those missile rocket launches 3 of the Service Members have been transported to a u. S. Air base in germany another 3 have been transported to a u. S. Air base in kuwait and they say theyre doing further testing the military says this is all part of standard procedure no one is in any sort of life threatening injuries or anything like that in fact the military says that they are expected after the screening is complete to be sent back to iraq so thats what we know now there are injuries or i should say there were injuries that this is the 1st time that it was being disclosed i should point out but it does not appear to be very serious but just interesting to keep an eye on isnt it given dont upset all was well after those attacks thank you deborah is on the in washington. More than 2700 people invented guatemala and a fast growing u. S. Caravan that started in honduras mexicos government is bracing for the arrival of hundreds of migrants on its southern border with guatemala most people escaping chronic poverty or Gang Violence as President Donald Trump is of course pressuring mexico and Central American nations to accept more migrants while his administration also begins the process of sending Asylum Seekers from the u. S. Border with mexico back to guatemala john holmes in Guatemala City for us at a shelter where migrants have arrived. More than 2700 people so far have left on door to us and have entered guatemala on a new caravan that is trying to get many of them to the southern border of the United States now there are a lot of them just arriving in Guatemala City this is the biggest migrant shelter in Guatemala City let me just show you a little bit of whats going on there some people here that are charging their phones to try and keep in touch on the way through if we go a little bit further in we can see that also food and drinks been handed out to a lot of people coming through here a lot of them have been traveling for a couple of days already to make it here from honduras some people here trying on some fresh clothes on the way. And you can see people just starting to settle down to sleep here now weve been talking to some of the people that are coming through and basically what theyre telling us is that theres a variety of reasons for leaving honduras the 2 main ones poverty this is a poor country a lot of people are in economic problems a lot of people are unemployed and also violence from doriss all also a country that for years now has been in the grip of gangs that have been exporting people from that country man i was talking to just a little bit earlier said he had to leave his moto taxi business when the gang just cut asking him for what they called a war tax and in the end they threatened him and he just had to get out so these people hoping to get through mexico and to the United States that might be the problem for them the Mexican Government under a lot of pressure from President Donald Trump has said that they will be sealing off their border that theyre not going to let these people get through into mexico and go through to the United States so thats going to happen probably a couple of days more ahead of them for now theyre taking a rest and just getting ready to spend the night here in Guatemala City. Authorities in the philippines are urging those who have been evacuated near the tall volcano to leave their homes immediately seismologists say there are signs the 2nd eruption may be coming of a kind of 1st erupted on sunday towns nearby have seen buildings collapse just under the weight of the falling ash 54000 people are in Evacuation Centers across a problem so lets get an update now here is rob mcbride in a city which has been heavily affected by the ash. Thats right we are overlooking in fact the volcano and the all eyes are on what it might do next especially of course from the vulcanologist who are monitoring it hour by hour and we remain at this level for which is this threat of an imminent eruption but the volcanologists seem to admit that imminent could mean several hours but it could also mean several weeks or months we might continue at this level for some time we really dont know if i can just step back and actually give us a closer look at what is looking like this friday morning off and this lake shrouded in mystery rain clouds but were getting a pretty good look at the volcano and it it is it time strangely beautiful you have to remind yourself that this is up there in the worlds rankings right now is one of the worlds most violently dangerous volcanoes and at times it looks strangely beautiful curls of gas and steam coming out occasionally coming out more violently would we get these small eruptions and all of this stuff being blown in the same prevailing winds weve had for the past couple of days kind of a southwest direction moving left or right as youre looking at it moving across this lake of course this is a volcano within a volcano it sits within this lake which itself occupies a much bigger crater from a now h. And extinct volcano but its on the far shore line of where 3 some of this prevailing ashes are forming that were seeing that lockdown the evacuation of the villages and as you mentioned that Something Like nearly 60000. 00 people have been evacuated the vulcanologist tell us that it is this same pattern of reducing emissions but at the same time they are still reporting extensive seismic activity these small mini earthquakes happening all the time and it is quite deceptive were not seeing the kind of larger shakes and quakes that we had a few days ago which you can really feel these mini earthquake shake buildings that youre in we simply dont feel those anymore but we know from monitoring equipment that they are still happening which means according to the volcanologists that there is still a lot of shifting molten rock magma underneath this lake and who knows when that might erupt to come up. Robin bride thank you for that update in the news ahead and we want to in fact to be the president of this country can accuse the Rights Violations in stealing public funds so why do many in the gambia want to hedge on it to rule a dead. And others a big storm system developing in the pacific is that thing swirling into British Columbia with this frontal system stretching right stretching right into california that will bring rain of course snow to the cascades and strong winds elsewhere in the u. S. But have a southerly breeze out through the plains states is producing a fair amount of rain or snow depending on the temperature its not that cold in minneapolis at minus to winnipeg at minus 10 is if the suddenly keeps blowing temps will keep rising but hes not going to keep blowing now theres the pacific storm on its way and of course as icing strengthens Everything Else has moved east was which means the subsidies now morning running up to the ohio valley the stones in the north the talking cold air means we down to minus 18 winnipeg and that cold is going to creep into the midwest so many up his mind history maybe the warmest day of the weekend. Now for the sas stand it weather really the breeze is blowing in the northeast there are a few showers around the satellite picture shows you know great detail but you can imagine those showers again are blowing across eastern cuba some places his from the early for example north coast is going to be west of science coast and this coast larry from costa rica northwards frequent showers i think falls on the storms. But. The form of the burning inspired you to be in dreams of peace and democracy but how many came to pass they transformed from communist the social democrats but it was a fake democracy people in power travels through the former eastern bloc to ask why post cold war optimism has succumbed to darker more authoritarian realities the Police Called a cup or 4 brout a bomb to the large and they were ready to detonate beyond the war part 2 on aljazeera. Headlines on aljazeera this hour the u. S. Military has revealed 11 of its troops were injured in the missile attacks in iraq earlier this month the u. S. Had originally said none of. These Service Members treated for caution. Your senate has launched the formal proceedings for the impeachment of but impeachment trial of president to trump the chief justice of the u. S. Supreme courts been sworn in as the presiding judge along with 99 senators as children and more than 2700 people a bench in a fast growing caravan back to the United States the migrants many of whom are unsure and will 1st have to go through mexico. To live in water for half to his phone to greece after its government criticised its exclusion from the un backed peace conference athan says it should have been included in the talks because tripoli signed a maritime and military deal with its regional rival turkey a conference in berlin is the latest International Effort to end 9 months of fighting between afters forces in the east of libya and the un recognized government in tripoli after a city is committed to a cease fire even though he hasnt released on the deal one that started on sundays already failed now does iran has learned the u. N. Is considering a Monitoring Mission now and to keep watch in the event of another cease fire and diplomatic editor james bass has more. The German Foreign minister heiko mass in the Eastern Libyan city of benghazi meeting general Khalifa Haftar the man who brought fresh conflict to libya 9 months ago when he launched an offensive on the capital tripoli the general has still not formally signed up to a ceasefire just days before an International Summit is due to be held in berlin. Earlier this week russia and turkey which are on different sides of this conflict had summoned general haftar and fires al suraj the Prime Minister of the un recognized government to moscow for talks seraph signed a cease fire agreement after did not aljazeera has obtained a copy of the latest report by the u. N. Secretary general antonio good terrorists to the Security Council its critical of what it calls the unrecognised government in the east and says that the territory controlled by general have to has become a hub of Illicit Activity including the sale of drugs and arms this months president of the un Security Council is hopeful about what could come out of this weekends berlin summit were waiting for that would news from the conference aljazeera has learned from a number of Security Council members that there are plans for a mission to monitor a cease fire in libya one model will be the u. N. Mission in the port of a dater in yemen which has been observing a shaky cease fire for about a year as in her data a joint commission will be set up with 5 members nominated by Prime Minister saraj and 5 by general haftar one can look at her data as a model of observer you know people monitoring cease fires in civilian clothes in a small area. Libya is rather larger than the municipality of data the actual monitors could be supplied as in yemen by the United Nations but a number of different options are under consideration including using teams from the African Union the European Union or the arab league or a combination of those im told by one diplomat that the Security Council could authorize a mission very quickly but were not there yet. And one man who has shown he can be both defiant and fickle stands in the way and that general haftar james bays aljazeera at the United Nations. More than 100 migrants landed on the shores of the great content of last boss on thursday camps there are already overcrowded with conditions being described as catastrophic the government says they have reestablished a Migrant Ministry and dealing with an increase in arrivals and the bad Living Conditions the uns humanitarian wing estimates there are more than 100000 migrants and refugees in greece russia has denied bombing civilians in the deescalation zone in syrias they province attacks on the countrys last remaining rebel held area resumed on wednesday despite the ceasefire and at least 21 people have been killed in recent days. All. The damage caused by one of several air strikes in the Northwest Province of a plant survivors trying to salvage whats left i emergency crews combed the rubble to recover the body of a child was was other civilians were among the casualties and it lip city. Did it give us your point that in the afternoon it lapses he was targeted by stick or 23 jets they hit the Industrial Area and alcohol markets and most of those hurt have serious injuries. In a nearby hospital friends console a father grieving his son was a ceasefire which started on sunday was shattered on one so. Just attack it the city as well as several rebel held town. The ceasefire was brokered by turkey which supports the rebels and russia which backed the syrian governments 9 month offensive. I fighters are going to al qaeda are the strongest forces in the serious home to around 3000000 civilians according to the u. N. Close 2400000 syrians have been for. From their homes and it lives in the past 10 weeks no time no shelter no food people are starving to death in this governor and theyre not being well theyre dying because theyre hungry russia and turkey are reported to have been to go sheeting the establishment of a security zone for the displaced during the winter and russia has announced humanitarian corridors have already been established to allow people in its lip to cross over into government held territory its unclear how many have chosen to go. With a yawn aljazeera. The iranian president says dialogue over his countrys Nuclear Program is still possible in a televised speech house on iran he said he wants to prevent war but he also revealed iran is down and reaching more uranium per day than before the nuclear deal in 2015 tehrans accusing europe of yielding to u. S. Bullying after attributed disputes mechanism that could reimpose u. N. Sanctions on iran. When the us pulled out of the nuclear deal we contacted the other parties and expressed our preparedness to fulfill our obligations however today we in terms of the Nuclear Power we have no limit we are in a much better situation compared to before the deal rhenium enrichment today its much higher than that stipulated in the deal we had signed we cannot sit. There bundled in their obligations we will reciprocate. The thousands of supporters of the gambians formerly there have been demonstrating in the capital punctual demanding his return john has been living in exile in equitorial guinea since losing the president ial election to the current data out of a bar that was back in 2016 Nicholas Hawke with this report now on the growing calls for his return. They want him back. Maybe loathed by Many Gambians for his repressive 22 year long rule in which human rights organizations believe thousands were tortured and killed but this crowd loves him calling him the builder of bridges theyre members of his Political Party the alliance for patriotic reorientation and construction also known as the p. R. C. He cant come as a private citizen. For. The president. And we want to be the president of this country. What youve done to this country and the whole war weve seen it. This is a busy month. 3 years ago he said he would rule the gambia for a 1000000000 years he was forced out of power into exile when west African Forces intervened when he refused to concede defeat after losing the 2016 president ial election it is from the comfort of his farm in equitorial guinea that the 54 year old former president is watching events unfold in his country with many disappointed with current president adam a barrows leadership you are no Supreme Leader you want to be myanmar supporters are just for the stability that came with his regime and so in a recorded phone conversation to Party Leaders he says he wants to come home. Jummy believes he has an agreement to with the African Union and west African Leaders allowing him to return to the gambia while he may get a heros welcome from his Party Supporters victims of torture and those that lost loved ones at the hands of job Security Forces want to see him back in the country as well but to face Justice Nicholas hawk aljazeera. Southern africa is facing a hunger crisis on president and scale and that is the verdict of the United Nations the Uns World Food Program which has 45000000 people there are in urgent need of food aid. Only has half of the 500000000. 00 it needs to respond to the emergency spending drop flooding and Economic Hardship for example half of zimbabwes 15000000. 00 people face chronic Food Shortages with zomby on the and namibia also badly. Paraguayans government has declared a Health Emergency over an outbreak of dengue fever hospitals in the capital struggling to cope with at least 1700 suspected cases since october 1 infected patient has been confirmed dead with authorities investigating another 9 deaths that could be linked to the disease kills around 22000. 00 people globally every year. Venezuelas believer is now the worlds most devalued currency and although its embattled populist government is banned from using u. S. Dollars but his weapons themselves are increasingly turning to it as the scene human reports from caracas. Theres something very unusual in this retail store in got access prices are all in u. S. Dollars the same goes for this shoe shop in the country with the worlds highest hyperinflation rate more than 50 percent of transactions are now being carried out in the currency of what the government calls the evil empire it will be a loss of dollar although the government accepted its defeat against the dollar and has allowed it to emerge from the Grassroots Level in a spontaneous dollar as asian process its the venezuelans themselves have come up with this new payment system. Everywhere prices are being calculated in dollars but its complicated im negotiating to see if they can give me one avocado for 1. 00 all right so we have it below because theres no change. I mean you dont arise ation is a term that describes the u. S. Dollar as a substitute for a countrys local currency when it becomes almost worthless as is the case in venezuela but salaries and pensions equivalent to around 5. 00 are still paid him believe it is which by very little so for a great many even his waylands like a dunya isa it means more famine than feast all of them said im a Senior Citizen im never handle dollars and so im in the clouds when they quote me prices in foreign currency. Only 7 of them are not all going to go in december somebody gave me a dollar and i said oh my how exciting a dollar and what can i buy with it. 2 pieces of bread thats all. Her children help her try to understand the increasingly complicated system for using the governments cryptocurrency alternative the petro which requires some practice. But its not widely accepted and has in fact spiked inflation those who can race to electronically transfer their believe that is which depreciate by the hour and by dollars on the black market. Meanwhile dollars are pouring in not just from remittances sent by an estimated 4500000. 00 venezuelan migrants but also illegal gold mining Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering its a hard currency free for all but a formal dollarization of the economy is out of the question since american sanctions by venezuelas government from using the u. S. Banking system you see in human aljazeera got access. Into the headlines the u. S. Military revealing that 11 of its troops were injured in the missile attacks in iraq earlier this month the u. S. Had originally said no one had been hurt these Service Members been treated for concussion they released on their with more details from washington it does not appear to be serious injuries nevertheless this is what the pentagon is telling us they say that after the missile attacks on the base many of the Service Members were screened for concussions which they say is very common the the blast from missiles can cause buildings to shake and rattle and and can cause potentially concussions in people that are even outside of the Immediate Impact zone. The u. S. Senate has launched the formal impeachment trial of President Donald Trump the chief justice of the u. S. Supreme courts been sworn in as presiding judge along with 99 senators as the jury the trial which donald trump has denounced as a con job by the democrats will start next week. Or than 2700 people have entered guatemala in a fast growing caravan bound for the United States the migrants many of whom are hunter and will 1st have to enter mexico trump administrations been pressuring Central American countries to accept more migrants or forces in the philippines are urging those who havent evacuated near the to how volcano to leave their homes immediately seismologists say there are signs the 2nd eruption may be coming volcano 1st began erupting on sunday in around 54000 people are now in Evacuation Centers across the tigris province. Russia has denied bombing civilians in the deescalation zone in syrias problems since the cease fire was agreed attacks on the countrys last remaining rebel held area resumed on wednesday and at least 21 people have been killed just in recent days and irans president says new dialogue with the world over his countrys Nuclear Program is still possible in a televised speech our son ronnie said he wants to prevent war but that he also revealed that iran is now enriching more uranium per day than before the nuclear deal in 2015 europe today with the headlines on aljazeera people in power beyond the wall is coming next. The Climate Crisis and the environment take center stage at this years World Economic forum in davos Business People experts and leaders from around the world can expect an icy reception from some as they discuss how to save the planet from the threats of rising temperatures get the latest updates fun aljazeera. The fall of the berlin wall just over 30 years ago came amid sweeping changes the bend the cold war and see the downfall of corrupt authoritarian regimes across the Eastern Europe but 3 decades on the prodemocracy optimism of those days has turned south jennifer o. B. s and nationalism are on the rise political corruption is not going away in the 2nd of 2 special reports weve been to belgariad romania and poland waspy. The lessons of history havent been
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