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That to make matters worse junction described those concerns about m. P. Safety as the all in all it was the most angry parliamentary session anyone can remember the government accuses the opposition of running away from an election they say he broke the law rather suspending parliament and fear he might do it again thats to the sense of democracy unraveling the whole thing is a horror show barnsley aljazeera london. And. Theres no purpose but to kill as many people as possible as quickly as possible well the latest push for gun restrictions in the us lead to a change in the law. Find out why the cuts are for the world athletics championships. Hello so quieten down weather wise now theres not much in the sky from the point of view daily pretties showers or seasonal rain you might think this looks like the wettest place and it might have been but whats been recorded is in Southern Vietnam and also on the island of sumatra was figures not huge oh thats pretty well its like flash flooding but this is course not abnormal for any time of the year and it could well be that youve got more rain coming to vietnam and just touching cambodia bits of thailand little dry and they were this is the area to watch now malaysia and increasingly indonesia the rains will start to build are not showing themselves very much the next day or so but they are still there in the same place where you saw a satellite picture that includes singapore and cayle quite possibly but more typically still Southern Vietnam cambodia and curling ran into thailand once again still no relief from the drought despite the recent rains in New South Wales the fronts that were active in the bite arent likely to get particularly active as they go overland so youve got tasmania with loads of rain still forecast hobart 60 may be a wet one but melbourne northwards of victorian also as there is cloud theres potential for showers but not much seems like in the forecast and its still quite cold at 13 in melbourne if you do better in perth. Cancer. Experience will never be seen concerning ways places to get. Allegheny what youve got is there and his reminder for main stories this hour u. S. Intelligence chiefs are due to testify before politicians about a whistleblower case thats led to calls for impeachment President Donald Trump has been criticized for his cross keys ukrainian counterpart to investigate his political rival joe biden. The Trump Administration has barred Senior Iranian government officials from entering the u. S. That decision came on the same day president Hassan Rouhani spoke at the u. N. General assembly irans president says there wont be any negotiations on its Nuclear Program as long as the u. S. Sanctions stay in place. And the British Parliament is back in session a day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson the opposition to hold a no confidence vote johnson insists he wont to ask for an extension to break said thats despite a new law requiring him to delay the u. K. s departure from the e. U. To avoid leaving without a deal. Hong kongs chief executive is set to hold her 1st Community Dialogue shell hear concerns from 150. 00 citizens in the next few hours kerri lamb whos under pressure to step down is hoping the sessions will end protests in hong kong that have been running for 16 weeks rallies again turned violent of the weekend with Police Using Pepper Spray to disperse the crowds. I mean that gets caught high there is outside the building in hong kong where the town hall meeting is set to take place is caught firstly hows this expected to work. Well right now its about 2 hours away from when the dialogue is about to officially start and as you mentioned davey 150 citizens of hong kong out of 2 out of 20000 have been selected by computer to come here and engage in this dialogue with 150. 00 supposed to last about 2 hours so we expect maybe about 3 minutes per person if you average it out whats happening here at the venue the Queen Elizabeth stadium just behind me we know that a couple of 100 protesters have started a human chain just a couple 100 meters off from where i am now they havent really come that close now that obviously might increase once we get closer to the time that this is supposed to start this 1st Community Dialogue with kerry lamb is supposed to start at 7 pm local time so that might increase but right now its must be much more media just kind of interested in whats going to happen and we expect those participants 150. 00 participants to start to show up within the next hour we know that they have to register confirm their identity and then thats before they go into the stadium itself and scott how much confidence is there from the hong kong public that this is actually going to address the protests and quell some of the violence weve been seeing over the weekend. This is obviously what kerry lamb hopes that this will really kind of help answer some questions to the public but you have a lot of critics saying that this is a little bit too little a little bit too late she promised that she would have dialogue with the community with those here in hong kong several months ago after the very large street marches we saw 1700000 people almost 2000000 people came to the street she said she would engage in a dialogue with the community that was back in july here we are in september late september and shes finally having one of these dialogues with only 150 people so theres a lot of criticism with that some of you it as almost political theater like this. Her attempt to reach out to the community will be interesting to see how this is digested by the community here once we see this 2 hour session with these 150 people but well have an immediate effect on the protests it doesnt look like it you know were seeing plans for the weekend plans for next week which are going to be very large this protest over the next couple days were expecting we havent seen any kind of stepping back because shes actually engaging finally in these Community Dialogues if you promise thank you very much scott hyla for us in hong kong. Israels president has chosen a long time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to try to form a new Coalition Government thats it now has a 6 week deadline to break the political deadlock with the bible benny gantz neither managed to win a majority in last weeks general Election Party force that has its report from leicester. Israels president laid out the caretaker Prime Minister to announce a result hed been trying to avoid riven rivlin wanted Benjamin Netanyahu to form a National Unity government with his main rival benny gantz those talks failed and instead he chose the man with a bigger potential Coalition Bloc to have the 1st chance at forming a government. Of education who should be handed the task of forming the government depends on who has more chance to succeed currently 55 supported knesset member latanya he and if the 4 supported knesset member benny gantz however 10 of them said they wouldnt sit with him in a government before the announcement a 2nd meeting between netanyahu and dance at the president s home serve merely to confirm what was already clear the talks between the parties had gone nowhere neither man reportedly willing to go 2nd in a rotational Prime Minister agreement netanyahu said he would continue to push for such a deal within days the pressure is on his 1st and hearings on corruption charges a jew next week. The moment got to move totally out of the utmost with the mandate you gave me if i dont exceed a return the mandate to you and with the help of god in israel says ns and yourself mr president who established a broad National Unity government down the line after the announcement guns reiterated that he would not serve under a Prime Minister facing indictment who insisted on bringing with him a large block of right wing parties the longer the process goes on the closer he gets to being charged the more pressure mounts on that and you know to stand aside but if benny gantz his strategy is simply to wait until conditions favor him well the president reminded him that he had another option he could merely toss the ball to the knesset and ask it to find an alternative candidate who could muster 61 recommendations the president has made his initial choice but its no breakthrough israels political stalemate goes on our forces aljazeera westerners. If our chemical factory in northern france is for schools to close and people to stay at home the blaze broke out in the early hours in the port city of wrong 200. 00 firefighters douse storage tanks with water there concerns that the fire could pose a polish pollution risk for the send river. Mollari government supporters and opposition groups have fought each other please use tear gas to disperse crowds in the Financial Capital of blantyre they intervened after hundreds of protesters called for the head of the Electoral Commission to resign there were elections president putin with a week and may has provided what provoked months of anger organizers of the latest march say they were ambushed by government supporters. A 2nd aid agency has stopped work in Northern Nigeria marci course says the army has closed a number of its offices following threats from iceland. The shutdown follows the government accusing the aid group action against hunger of helping what it called terrorist groups im going to address has more from a booth. The shutting down of operations of Mercy Corps International in the northeast of nigeria follows the discovery of 29000000. 00 naira approximately 95000. 00 u. S. Dollars cash with a driver who said the money belonged to the organization that has forced the suspension of approaches in at least through streets in the north east of nigeria area that has blown the brunt of boko haram attacks over the past 10 years including of course the epicenter of the crisis in borno state now this action followed the suspension last week of operations of another nongovernmental organizations in the north east of the country action against hunger which was accused of aiding or supplying book or other fighters with food and medicines because the Nigerian Military is accusing the organization of doing that which the organization has denied the army is saying that that action supplying backcourt of fighters with medicine and food and other logistics is hampering its operations there and bringing that insurgency quickly to an end after more than 10 years now these organizations and the only ones targeted by Security Forces in the northeast weve also seen how United Nations operations were suspended over a year ago at least for a few hours when the army accused it or accused some of the staff of spying for boko haram in the north east of the country now these all this is coming at a time when new information has emerged and confirmed also but my action against and that one of its staff kidnapped by boko haram fighters aligned with the Islamic State the stomach state in west Africa Province has been executed. In the northeast of the country the man was kidnapped along with others in july this year in the town of the masonic. Recent Mass Shootings in the u. S. A push democrats in congress to call for new gun restrictions including a possible ban on assault style weapons but while the majority of americans support the move its unlikely to become law. Has this report from washington the death of a 24 year old mother shot with an a k 47 style rifle at an El Paso Walmart in august was explained by the surgeon who tried and failed to save her life she was protecting a child and so she was actually shot in the back and through a shoulder she had as hole the size of a baseball at the top of her lungs so clearly investors were essentially nonexistent this injury have been caused by a smaller firearm she may have had a chance of survival but theres actually nothing i can do to fix that kind of devastating injury. Wednesdays hearing before the House Judiciary Committee was meant to build support for a possible nationwide ban on assault weapons the firearms of choice of mass shooters in the us if no purpose but to kill as many people as possible as quickly as possible i want killers to rapidly repeatedly fire bullets at the human targets without stopping to reload so i weapons are designed for maximum blood shoot assault weapons were banned in the us between 19942004 today an estimated 16000000 such weapons are in circulation within the country recent polling shows that between 56 and 70 percent of americans Want Congress to ban assault. Protestors against gun violence have regularly descended on the Nations Capital to urge lawmakers to take action. I want them to know that if they dont take action while i was going to be outlaws there could be at stake people who are going to die it is the epidemic that we had to get really have to figure out we have to just and right now but a ban on assault weapons is still unlikely republicans who control the senate have bulked at more moderate measures like expanding background checks for gun buyers the powerful gun lobby has argued for focusing on Mental Health instead it is very clear when you look at mass public shooters what you see is much higher rates of untreated serious Mental Illness and theres the matter of the sheer number of guns in americans hands nearly half of all the guns in the world thats a fundamental difference between the us and new zealand a country that rapidly responded to the Christ Church mass shooting by restricting gun sales and buying back weapons but in the u. S. Where the right to bear arms is guaranteed by the constitution a mandatory gun buyback would be highly controversial with some gun owners valuing they would never comply heidi joe castro aljazeera washington. So the worlds top athletes are here in qatar the world athletics championships gets up and running on friday and the pressure is on our guys is to keep everyone core most events will be enters stadium with air cooling technology but some athletes will just have to compete against high temperatures and humidity and they were tits and has this report. Track and field is stepping into all new territory. For the 1st time ever the world athletics championships are heading to the middle east for 10 days cattles capital city doha will be a focal point for global sport just as the whole country will be in the football world cup plans 3 years time 22 is very important for us our green or doctor because of the media everybody is coming here we want to sort the people in advance what is appropriate for the 2022 but i do believe what is is is an idea of. The championships have been moved from their regular slot in august to avoid the peak temperatures of cats or summer and while the mens and womens marathons will start at midnight to further counter the hate organizers accept it will still be a challenge to keep cool on the streets of doha actually you can deal with heat but humidity is is really a challenge so we will watch all those metrics we do have extra precautions we do have extract stuff out on the course more medical support more water but yes it is going to be tough. Theyll be a very different feel for the majority of events an air cooling system inside the main khalifa stadium will ensure the temperature hovers around 25 degrees celsius and i know theres a lot of talk before coming here whether or not it was smart to do that i mean if it was great in then i think its just going to make for the fact that they can control the temperature in the stadiums its unbelievable i had the privilege of racing here before and i felt the cooling system and i actually loved it. But im only happy that my parents. I hated to paint that wont be repeated at the football world cup the 2022 tournament will be held in the 4 cool months of november and december and the richardson aljazeera. They watch out is there and these are top stories the u. S. Intelligence chief all testified before politicians regarding the whistleblower case that has prompted calls for impeachment president has been criticized for his ukrainian counterpart to investigate its political rival joe biden its summary of a phone call has been released by the white house the socalled whistleblower the one that didnt have any 1st. Or 1st rate or. Second tier information from what i understand you have to figure that out for yourself. But ive spoken with leader Kevin Mccarthy and the republicans many of them. And we were going to do this anyway but ive informed them all of the house members that i fully support transparency on the socalled whistle blower information. The trumpet ministration has barred Senior Iranian government officials from entering the u. S. That ban came on the same day president Hassan Rouhani address the Un General Assembly in his speech rouhani ruled out negotiations on terror Nuclear Program as long as american sanctions stay in place is also accuse the u. S. Of economic terrorism and the British Parliament is back in session a day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson dead the opposition to hold a confidence vote johnson insists he wont ask for an extension to braggs it despite a new law requiring him to delay the u. K. s departure from the e. U. To avoid leaving without a deal and hong kong chief executive is set to hold her 1st Community Dialogue so there are concerns from 150. 00 citizens in the near next few hours hopes the sessions will and the weeks of protests the demonstrations began 4 months ago against an extradition bill that have now turned into a demand for lamb to step down and israels president has outspent him in that in yahoo to try and form a new government the Prime Minister still has no clear path to a 5th term after emerging from the september 17th rerun election without a majority people in power is next. Didnt the u. S. Treasury or just a few months ago say that. We bring you the stories and developments that im officially changing the world living whats behind the lies of piracy. Counting the cost on ill just see it. In june 26th the u. K. Decided to leave the European Union in the aftermath amid acrimonious debate on the exact terms of britains departure questions surfaced about the legitimacy of the referendum that began it all we asked journalist polish ma to investigate now with the brics it saga still mired in Divisive Political wrangling was showing his report again. Last. October 28th seen hundreds of thousands of protesters marched through Central London one of the biggest demonstrations seen in the u. K. In gives aim to get in the 2nd childs to rethink britains proposed exit from the European Union believe only way the couple is going to cover their own behinds by giving us the peoples vote to take so we can actually decide. What to do next. A lot of us think that remaining is a much better idea and trying to reform the European Union make that better problem running a highly went brits britstown quite. Britains Prime Minister might say the same thing but a truce of my not quitting has meant staying faithful to the small majority that voted to leave the 2 years ago whatever the cost yet what if that vote was tainted what if instead of being a free and fair reflection of the peoples will the referendum was one of the biggest frauds ever perpetrated on british democracy in any other election if fraud of they say level had been uncovered then we have the legislation that puts aside the results and we have the election again as the deadline for britains exit from the e. U. Draws near there are still too many troubling questions about the vote that breaks it underway about its fairness and its legitimacy about who was behind it who paid for it and the motives of many of those involved. My name is dr paul lashmar im an older and tiffany head of journalism at City University of london. Breaks it is a watershed moment for the u. K. Like everyone else my students will be directly affected and look at the mess they could be one of the most important political events of their lives so ive been looking for answers what ive heard is a story so complex and murky it almost defies belief. Thank you it only began in 2030 to placate a wing of his party that had loaned being antagonistic to the e. U. Prime minister David Cameron was taking the biggest gamble of his career we will give the british people a referendum with a very simple. Choice. Like all ballots in the u. K. The referendum was to be overseen by the Electoral Commission. Anyone could take part in the public debate the Commission Designated 2 official Campaign Poll gs. One in favor and maybe in the e. U. One for leavin and gave each a fix spending limit of 7000000. 00 pounds. Only british registered donors were allowed to contribute to those campaigns now they go on. David cameron became the public face of the pro e. U. Campaign manager off we are safer in a reformed European Union vote leave it was fronted by the p. M. s cabinet colleagues Boris Johnson and michael gove i think we should take the chance now as a country to take back control the probe breaks its side have the backing of another Unofficial Campaign leave. Its most prominent figure was nigel farrar of the u. K. Independence party but camerons plan backfired because all the odds the u. K. Opted for the exit the u. K. Has voted to leave the European Union. You know history was in the right. The shock on the remains side was profound early hopes of an easy victory dashed how had it gone so horribly wrong. As the postmortems got underway attention began focusing on the role played by social media a powerful tool for sway in Public Opinion to find out more i went to see one of my University Colleagues will be looking at a bracks of debate for a very long time dr marco bastos is a specialist in communications of this is what we call a Network Graph or a plot if he showed me a graph of twitter activity during the referendum strange patterns emerge we noticed a drop in the number of users that we were monitoring it was a significant drop i hadnt seen anything that big up to the point and they turned out that there. He had very much to very much sort of like features thoughts of Computer Generated accounts program to automatically push messages online. Whats happening here is that this box is we tweeting a range of real world users this is a single message in all likelihood there was we tweeted several times by this very same bot marco explained that while bots were used by the remaining campaign it was the leave side that made the most of them they were more for the leave out of the campaign for sure. The figure was quite clear some of my colleagues have looked into similar data and they have come to the conclusion that these accounts war at least a portion of them were operated by that Research Agency in russia based in some petersburg the internet Research Agency or. Is a troll for an organization created expressly to sow discord in this information on the web it was identified by american intelligence as having played a key role in manipulating the 26th election of President Donald Trump the no one year to the time it now seems that they are also played a role in bricks it. On the death of a friend we found a marked change in behavior so accounts that had been intimate tweeting brax it suddenly started to. Edinburgh University Research dr clearly well and has examined millions of tweets that were posted prior to the referendum many of them it turns out from the same suspect internet Research Agency accounts the tweets often at the same format which was that hash tag many u. R. L. And they were using that to manage trending topic so that a lot of people saw them mation and that they were trying to access thats just. What we have here is trolls so its human people writing tweets what they flicked was being. The true scale of the russian twitter activity on brakes it only came to light by accident because the company passed the data to us congressional investigation into the trump election that probe another key social media player facebook was already playing a starring role in this years i covered what is facebook doing to prevent foreign actors from interfering in u. S. Elections one of my greatest regrets in running the company is that we were slow in identifying the russian Information Operations in 2016 and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and im sorry what no one yet fully understands is the role that facebook may have also played in bricks if the company says it has found almost no evidence of russian interference and repeated that claim in a statement to this program but research was skeptical but facebook is basically a black box so we dont really know whats going on inside facebook. And thats not just facebook thats all the instagram what and a number of other platforms operated by facebook. The fact that doubts persist is jus in part of the companys connection to another murky affair. In early 20 the Guardian Newspaper revealed that 87000000 personal Facebook Accounts had been illegally harvested by a u. K. Based Strategic Communications business called Cambridge Analytical it worked because of the president ial campaign and had ties to leave the go and offshoot of a Larger Company called s c l which had an alleged background in military dissin from ation Cambridge Analytic as promised was that it could target people with messages to modify their vote in choices so for a highly new rhotic and conscientious audience youre going to need a message that is rational and fear based or emotionally based the Cambridge Analytical scandal would eventually wind almost 120000000000. 00 off of facebooks market value and raise serious questions about the vulnerability of western democracies to manipulation. To find out more i went to meet the journalist behind the guardians cambridge relative to screw her account walter told me how she 1st began to pull the threads together it started when in order to confirm the data companys links that leave you you she contacted the Campaign Group spokesman and you went more andy right back and he said happy to clarify came originally she did do work for us but we never paid them they were happy to do it for free and. Theres definitely Something Interesting here say because this looks like a donation to me and donations need to be declared. Champion for art in front of the golden left and hes the person who took that photo. And in the face of the more hes in one as well the bad boys it breaks it and breaks it he said it was like a petri dish for the chum campaign. You know it was like a test case carols revelations led to the biggest Data Protection investigation ever held on both sides of the atlantic we started a conversation with Mr Zuckerberg him in general that it can start to identify mental vulnerabilities in voters and works to exploit them by targeting information designed to activate some of the worst characteristics in people chris wiley a former director of Cambridge Analytic turned whistleblower gave evidence to the u. S. Senate and a British Parliamentary committee that began taking an interest in the brakes at referendum and fake news which the definition of a conversion was going to say that i had to get these institutions you know she did you could send the outcome of the referendum might be different i think it is completely reasonable to say that there could be a difference in the wrestling. You know had there not been in my view. There needs to be a deeper investigation of the of fake accounts and a group of facebook groups being used to propagate information conservative m. P. Damian collins is the chairman of the British Parliamentary committee weve had evidence from facebook but we feel that we should hear from Mark Zuckerberg because he buys into mr hes the person who decides what happens at facebook there are still big concerns are faced with not done enough to investigate the role of fake accounts theyve not been transparent on the issue of data breaches and user data and they got in the hands of people who shouldnt have it. Fake accounts russian trolls data mining complicated stuff and none of it do much to quell my fears but there was something unpleasant lurking in the bricks it undergrowth but i barely scratched the surface next up was another whistleblower this time someone whod worked for the official Vote Leave Campaign i was working with of some of the top advisor. As in the country you know constantly seeing Boris Johnson michael gove you know some of the most influential politicians in britain. Recent graduate sharmas sonnie joined vote leave in early 2016 and was asked to engage with ethnic minorities but weve understood that they couldnt just win on white votes they understood that they couldnt win on like people that he immigrants. He was tasked with working with one of the official campaigns reach groups called believe it was led by a Young Fashion student i met Darren Grimes in the 1st week that i joined there was one of the evident one of the few Outreach Groups that was very focused on the liberal progressive message but some he says he later realised the official Vote Leave Campaign and another purpose in mind for the young volunteers to circumvent the legally binding Electoral Commission spending limits only understood that they had a spending cap so they needed to find a way affectively to breach that spending cap its also a good idea sonny was told that vocally had found a way of getting the believe Outreach Group some new Campaign Money but there were Strings Attached effectively vote leave advised us to create ourselves into a separate Campaign Group so that they could give us almost 700000 pounds to spend but they gave it on a condition they gave on a condition saying the only way that they can give it to us is if we give it to a i q which was a Digital Company working at. A i q i q as its sometimes known is a canadian based data business it works on us president ial primaries in 2015 with s. C. L. Elections cambridge i love the tickets Parent Company literally a week before referendum date we were spending hundreds of 1000 pounds a day. On a q yeah a day the money was sent directly from vote leave to make you a never touch be back accounts son is this quiet at these events later turned him into a whistle blower he passed his evidence to the Electoral Commission and in july 28th they find a vote lee 61000 pounds for among other things breaching the spending rules the founder of believe down crimes was fined 20000 pounds is now appealing that decision. But theres other stories involving strange sums of Campaign Fund in that havent yet been as adequately explained. Belfast Northern Ireland one of the poorest parts of the u. K. Which has benefited the most from e. U. Investment for many here theres long been concern that breaks its effects on cross border relations with the Irish Republic could mean a return to the dark days of the troubles so when a small local Political Party received 8435000 pound donation to the brics it campaign the largest in the partys history eyebrows would raise why he was an ordinary Political Party being so involved you know in the referendum in Great Britain in england and scotland back in 2016 investigative journalist peter keegan was shocked when he saw a proto leave 1st assignment in a local english newspaper the ad was sponsored by ulsters Democratic Unionist Party do you pete. For them is a huge sum of money so theyre spending it on a on a piece of material thats not going to circulate norden in ordinary that on at all the single and ferguson cost the day you paid 282000 pounds almost 5 times as much as they had spent on their participation in the u. K. s general election the Previous Year but no one knew from where the money had come to pay for it norton arent these unusual laws as they were secrecy of political donations when ordinary and you didnt reveal the names of political donors and the reason for this was kind of a hangover from the troubles the violence in ordinarily. The loophole was used by the dea you piece shadowy benefactor to hide their identity finally after intense media pressure the d. C. U. Revealed the money had come from a body called the Constitutional Research council or c r c but exactly who or what lies behind the c. R. C. Remains to be seen do you know where the constitutional search came to get its money from you not asked the Constitutional Research here saying you dont know where the order i believe that they have released their money legitimately under we were delighted to receive the donation from their home so you believe that it really meant you have to know that legally l m we do you know their interests and certain say only in the colonies what useful Research Council would publish where they do their fundraising not as a matter for them not the deed the constitution Research Council is jargony term its called noncorporate association it means they dont have to follow Company Accounts they dont have time an address and because of the donor secrecy laws in order and we dont they dont have to tell us who they are they dont have to tell us where they got the money from but the Democratic Unionist Party is supposed to be completely sure it has checked out where this money came from of the money is the justice we also asked the day you paid what your diligence in had done on the true source of the money Spokes Person told us the Electoral Commission has raised no issues in relation. Into the d u p Campaign Including did donation which came from a permissible donor who in turn are themselves regulated by the Electoral Commission. Interesting lay the do you piece spent another slice of the mysterious donation on the services of agric i q the same data company to which boat leave said money when illegally circumventing the u. K. s strict referendum spend in laws the d. P. Did not declare that they were working with anybody to say that they were working poorly on their own yet they spent money with the exact same companies or for at least one of us despite these curious circumstances the u. K. s Electoral Commission has said that it does not have sufficient grounds to open an investigation the d u p had broken the lord had committed a criminal offense to say joe mole is a director of the Good Law Project a body now challenging the commissions decision not to investigate the law is very very clear to protect our democracy from foreign interference those who accept donations have a clear positive obligation to look at and to understand who is giving them money so its the faintly story all over again. Since the breaks that referendum questions about the mysterious donors and the socalled dark money have continued to surface. Journalist peter jukes focused his attention on the biggest political donor in you case history insurance mogul banks. Allegedly he transferred more than 8000000 pounds in loans and donations to leave you and other bricks and campaigns the been face questions about how its going for this because theres no visible means of support is not a wealthy man has a big house but has 8500000 pound mortgage on. The native 9000000 pounds at least. You were never questioned banks has been evasive about the true source of his wealth is reticent troubles m. P. Damian collins chairman of the British Parliamentary select Committee Investigating disinform ation and fake news the reason these questions around our backs and money persisted we keep being told different stories we keeping told well he sold this business and the money came from that sale but it turns out there was no real profit made on that sale or it came from these mines or it came from somewhere else and it never makes sense but what really concerns investigators are the multiple meetings mr banks is known to have held with russian officials in london in the months running up to the referendum why would he be meeting in the breaks and so many meetings me turned out if youre talking about levy u. S. Officials and russian you know Embassy Staff 11 or 12. And im up to press one earth why are the russians dangling lucrative office to british Businessman Bank falling back since you have to ask the question did for money making into the Rights Campaign in june 28th aaron banks and his Business Partner and 2 more appeared before a Parliamentary Committee but he left before the m. P. s were able to fully question him hes misled parliament and the public not only about his own financial activities but also the frequency of his contacts with the Russian Embassy here in london in november 28th the Electoral Commission referred our own banks to the National Crime agency on suspicion that there is criminal offenses may have been the committed banks declined to answer questions but he has consistently denied receiving money from russia and dismisses other claims as ludicrous the case is ongoing in the form of government minister bradshaw believes a full inquiry into the referendum is long overdue he wants an investigation similar to the miller probe into alleged collusion between russia and the trump president ial campaign is its very embarrassing for our government Fran Townsend services to look flatfooted like this and to leave it to an american political and congressional process to reveal the truth about what happened in britain. Over in brussels de facto capital of the union reps it is want to leave many think the truth is already out there i went to meet sajid kerim a leading u. K. Conservative member of the European Parliament he lays responsibility for the brics it mess squarely at the fate of russian president Vladimir Putin a weakening of the European Union is in his interests it is is an aim it is his goal and im afraid we are on the verge of. Delivering that for him today i dont think brits and certainly many of the europeans have actually understood to what extent their lives are about to change unless our governments including my government in the United Kingdom take the step of investigating in protecting our democracy today. It wasnt the only warning about russian meddling i heard in brussels. Russia is responsible for 80 percent on this information actually says even 80 percent after European Commission conference electoral interference former nato secretary general Anders Rasmussen was giving a stark warning of the threat europe faces over the past 2 years foreign interference has been detected any at least 10 divisions and of brendans on both sides of the atlantic. Rasmussen says was surely one of russias targets i have no doubt and i think we have evidence that they interfere so i think the lesson. Is that we should focus on preventing this from happening in the future. Back in britain the endless political rally over bricks it was rolling on but always about half implemented rather than the legitimacy of the referendum that got it going. I began this film with questions about the brics that referendum that urgently needed on says what ive heard has only increased those concerns. As britains departure from the e. U. Draws ever closer im left with one chilling thought were we here in britain juked into making one of the worst political decisions in our history if you win our campaign or referendum or an election based on breaking the law then it is a democratic to lie its a scam to cheat. In september 2900. 00 Londons Metropolitan Police announced they will be taking no further action against the leave e. U. Campaign for spending offenses in the backseat referendum despite accepting that it broke the law the National Crime agency has also said it will be taking no further action on these matters against the e. U. Foreign banks and others. Business updates brought to you by Qatar Airways going places together. Business updates brought to you by Qatar Airways going places together. This is aljazeera. This is the aljazeera news are coming out for you in the next 60 minutes. Chasing the facts in the case against donald trump an intelligence chief order to explain why he didnt taxol a complaint against the u. S. President s. Under pressure to resign Boris Johnson refuses to budge and challenges the opposition to hold a confidence vote. Fears of a crack down on foreigners in the indian state as a huge new detention center. Its built. On sand how much was scored a lie from hell if a stadium in doha the world athletics championships begins here on friday the 1st time the event is at being held in the middle east will look at the preparations and how organizers an athletes planted handle the hot and humid weather. The u. S. Intelligence chief accused of protecting donald trump well have to explain himself in a few hours as the camera to impeach the president s grows acting director of National Intelligence Joseph Mcgraw are being cold before a House Committee he decided complaints about trumps call with ukraine wasnt an urgent concern but details of the call released by the white house reveal donald trump asked the ukrainian president to investigate his political rival joe biden john hendren begins our coverage from washington as the 4th u. S. President to face an impeachment threat donald trump is scrambling to elude history its a joke no president yet has been removed from office through impeachment on wednesday the United States 45th president sounding unusually said dude seem to feel historys wait its very sad what the democrats are doing to this country theyre dividing. Theyre belittling their demeaning a country so many leaders came up to me today and they said. What you go through no president has ever gotten through the white houses own account of a july phone call between President Trump and ukrainian president villota mirrors alinsky was released wednesday it revealed that is trump was withholding 2 150000000. 00 in aid from ukraine he repeatedly asked vilinsky for in his words a favor investigate former Vice President joe biden for trumps potential president ial rival trump asked selenski to coordinate the probe with u. S. Attorney general bill barr entrance personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani trump without offering evidence accuses biden of ending a conflict of interest probe into his son hunter biden took a lucrative position on the board of ukraines biggest gas company in 2014 while his father was directing u. S. Policy there in the summary of the phone calls alinsky promised his top prosecutor in his words will look into this situation but with trump it is side ukraines leader says he did not pursue it im sorry but i dont want to be involved to do a great take all. Elections and i think. Anyone you know that that had a question that is the answer a whistleblower in the u. S. Intelligence community alarmed by trumps apparent use of state power for political gain reported the president s call to an Inspector General however the complaint was not passed on to congress under instruction from the white house and the Justice Department amid the fear it has now been passed to lawmakers i found the deeply disturbing. I also found very credible i can understand why the Inspector General found them credible the House Intelligence Committee received the whistleblower report on wednesday on thursday acting director of national intel. Joseph maguire testifies before congress that session is now part of a formal impeachment inquiry into the president. Asked about the call trump repeatedly turned the focus on biden fully support transparency on the socalled whistleblower information even though it was supposedly secondhand information. Which is sort of interesting but also insist on transparency from joe biden and his son hunter on the millions of dollars that have been quickly and easily taken out of ukraine and china now trumps efforts to prompt an investigation into his rival have instead helped to prompt another historic probe one intended to decide whether he is fit to remain in office john hendren al jazeera washington. For more on this very joined by scott lucas hes a professor over american studies at the university of birmingham thank you so much for speaking with us here on. Just 1st up how do you balance the things for President Trump unarguably 1st mcguire. Well politically and legally they look very bad for donald trump on the facts of the case which is even in the white house reconstruction of the phone call that was finally released yesterday trump repeatedly asked your crane president selenski to investigate joe biden who of course is running for the u. S. Presidency in 2020 and he implicitly connects to releasing military aid to ukraine which he personally had ordered to be held up only a few days earlier now if that connection is made in further hearings then that is both a compromise of u. S. Foreign policy for personal gain and it is a violation of u. S. Federal election law occur im. Joseph mcclaren i think was under pressure because he was the one being used by the trumpet ministration to prevent the release of the complaint by the whistleblower because that complaint was finally given to legislators yesterday it takes the pressure off maguire but i think youll be asked today who specifically in the white house ordered you to hold up this complaint because were looking at not only the crime over the trunk phone call but a possible attempt to cover it up which would be a further legal and political charge and that weve heard these kind of similar accusations before lets not forget President Trump survived this rush approval then the inquiry which many were saying would be unsurvivable republicans weve already heard from them claiming there has been no quid pro quo in the transcripts that weve seen do you think there is a chance he can survive this. Well 1st of all dolled up survived in a year as you call it legally not because these were just allegations the motor report on trump russian links is very clear that there is evidence he obstructed justice on at least 8 occasions and there is evidence of Current Campaign links with russia he survived simply because of the counterattack that he and his republican allies launched remember witch hunt hoax Fake News Media to try to throw dust in everyones eyes about what exactly had been established now theyre using the same a tactics this time in the last 24 hours you have seen the same terms with witch hunt Fake News Media used the attempt to use descent from ation to switch this to joe biden and his son hunter i think legally that does not change the facts of the case but lets be honest here as long as the republicans control the senate and do not break away from donald trump that he will not be convicted on impeachment charges by a 2 thirds majority and it will be up to the American Voters in november 2020 whether he gets a 2nd term well lets lets turn to the American Voters not that theres no shortage of scandal coming out of the american political system especially when one looks at it from afar how is this latest these latest revelations how are they likely to be viewed by the American Public which we shouldnt forget since its fairly polarized along party lines in this. You circle and in that polarized america i think you can assume that those people who were diehard supporters of donald trump often called the base well as donald trump said in 2016 i could shoot a man in the middle of 5th avenue in new york and they would still vote for me but how big is that base maybe 3035 percent and that means what about the other 2 thirds of america do they think trump should be held accountable that even if he isnt forced from office to be held accountable by not voting for him i honestly dont know because i can tell you what the facts of the case are but whether people decide on the basis of the side on the basis of the law or whether in this age of social media they decide on an impulse or a tweet well you and i just have to wait and see you certainly shower for scott licas great to get your thoughts there that scott lucas professor of american studies at the university of birmingham joining us live thank you. Were going to bring you some breaking news now the former french president Jacques Chirac has diets he lads from 1995 to 2007 those details confirmed by son in law well bring you more as it comes in later in this hour. And the British Parliament is back in session a day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson dared to the opposition to hold a confidence vote johnson insists he wont ask for an extension to break sets thats despite a new law requiring him to do so in order to avoid a no deal departure from the e. U. Johnson is under pressure to resign after the Supreme Court ruled his decision to suspend parliament was illegal well lawrence lee has more now from westminster. Parliament spac the protesters are out again and inside the gloves are off for the knives are out from the usa came the Prime Minister attempting to show hes still in charge of the public dont want another referendum but what they want and what they demand is that we all know the promise we made to the voters to respect the 1st referendum. To move or to put the brakes behind us he was roundly heckled they were shouting at him to resign the judges concluded there was no reason and i quote let alone a good reason for the Prime Minister to have shut down parliament. After yesterdays ruling mr speaker the Prime Minister should have done the honorable thing and resign. I i johnson keeps trying to blame the opposition for blocking praxis and insists hes making progress with the European Union his opponents say hes lying every single thing that Boris Johnsons done since he became Prime Minister has gone wrong for him hes lost every single vote in parliament. Boss over 20 of his own m. P. s who now have no loyalty to him and hes been accused of misleading the queen and unlawfully suspending parliament its one thing him saying he wants to get on with his plans but in politics everythings about momentum and at the moment he hardly has any the surrender as. Johnson repeatedly tried to infuriate his political enemies he described the opposition bill which demands he see can text