Gas on a massive funeral procession in bolivia violence over the political transition has turned deadly and well tell you the british oppositions big plans for the next election and it includes spreads. So israels attorney general has charged Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu with corruption netanyahu is facing charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust in connection with 3 separate cases israels longest serving leader could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted of bribery alone attorney generals decision comes as israel faces a political standoff after 2 inconclusive general elections the cea. You want to ship out today i informed the representative of the Prime Minister mr Benjamin Netanyahu about my decision to try him under an inch and excludes 3 charges a day in which the attorney general decided to serve an indictment against a c. To try and minister the serious crimes of corrupt governance is a heavy and sad day for the israeli public and for me personally. So bit of history here netanyahu becomes the 1st israeli Prime Minister to be charged while still in office these are the cases the 1st one concerns allegations that he and his wife received gifts worth more than 250000 dollars the 2nd accuses netanyahu of doing a deal with israels best selling daily newspaper to get better coverage in return he has said to a promise to slow the growth of a rival paper and the final case concerns unfair favors to a leading Telecommunications Company thats you know hes been charged with bribery as well as fraud and breach of trust in that case the Prime Minister denies any wrongdoing in describe the charges as an attempted coup is also insisted he wont resign and is not legally obliged to do so because. The polluted investigation against me erode the public faith in the system they should worry every citizen we have to put an end to this the public has the right to a clean investigation that seeks the truth and only the truth the only way to restore the publics faith in the system is to establish an outside independent committee that investigates the method put an end to this it is about time to investigate the investigators. More from our in our senior political analyst here at aljazeera he says the indictment really brings an end to netanyahu his political future if i recall if its rose but it does sound familiar listening to all of. Long. Impeachment hearings in the United States clearly the similarities between whats going on in washington and jerusalem are quite quite paradoxical i would say not just impressive. Look we have here is a Prime Minister who served longer than any other israeli Prime Minister and he still complaining that israel is unfair to him which is really amazing considering that he did every trick in the book he lied he incited and he ran the most uncultured like coalitions if you will within the country he won by did god he solicited the help of donald trump and so on so forth and he still couldnt muster it this release or the at least the judiciary system still could indict him on fraud in and breach of trust and most importantly of bribery he according to the prosecutor general basically used his office for for his own personal benefit that does sound like what apparently or allegedly happened in the United States however unlike in the United States where the president ial system is quite. Protective of a very strong presidency in a parliamentary system like in is that the Prime Minister doesnt have as much protection as an american president and thats why i think Prime Minister netanyahu will probably find it more difficult to resist the political pressure coming forward and the political pressure is forthcoming and i think that the now with not be able to stand all that pressure. To key witnesses in Donald Trumps impeachment inquiry of delivered more dramatic testimony on capitol hill a u. S. Embassy official in ukraine gave details of a cold he overheard between President Trump and the u. S. Ambassador where they discussed a deal for an investigation by ukraine that testimony came from david holmes on the right there on the left former white house russia expert dr fiona hill both of them testifying on what is day 5 of the public hearing examining with a trump withheld unitary to ukraine he alleges allegedly want an investigation into democratic president ial hopeful joe biden in return for that holmes says he was at lunch with the u. S. Ambassador to the golden sawmill and when he spoke to the president secretary on bass or silence phone was not on speaker phone i could hear the president s voice through the earpiece of the phone the president s voice was loud and recognizable and a baster song and held the phone away from his ear for a period of time presumably because of the loud volume i heard a bass or silent greet the president and explain he was calling from steve i heard President Trump and clarify that ambassador song was in ukraine vasser song replied yes he was in ukraine and went on to state the president selenski quote loves your ass i then heard President Trump ask so hes going to do the investigation. Basser song replied that hes going to do it adding the president s alinsky will do anything you ask him to do for the hill meanwhile criticize some involved in the inquiry for wrongly indicating that it was possibly ukraine not russia has been an interfering in us politics right now russias Security Services and their proxies have gained up to repeat their interference in the 2020 alexion were running out of time to stop them in the course of this investigation i would ask that you please not promote politically driven false or. Russian interests. Movement castro now has been following the hearings on capitol hill she reports on why mr holmes his recollection of the phone calls so poor. He says thats 1st hand because he here heard it with his own ears they were words that came out of the president s mouth to mouth that he that that he overheard on this very loud apparently phone call that the probe the the ambassador to the e. U. Gordon sol and had made it to trump they were actually sitting on restaurant patio as holmes tells it and then after someone hung up with the president holmes whos a who was quite intrigued he said frankly never seen anyone just call the president the United States while having lunch before he asked him what else was discussed and he heard from the ambassador that trump didnt give an expletive about ukraine that he only cared about the big stuff and then when holmes asked what was this big stuff there were there was big stuff he said like the war that ukraine was fighting against russia and so on said no its not that the big stuff is the investigations into the bidens which would help trump politically and the reason that this overheard conversation is so damaging to the president is that it is some of the very rare 1st hand information that we have about that sheds some light at least about what the president s mind was what was his motive when he was withholding the security aid to ukraine at the very heart of the accusations against the president that may lead to his impeachment an effort by the democrats to remove him from office is this question of whether or not trump had corrupt intent so lets bring in bars here in new york now an assistant professor at Fordham University and also coauthor of the book Republican Party politics in the American South 8652968 doris thank you for your time. I want to actually look at all particularly what fiona hill said but in conjunction with what weve heard in the past few days at how is it adding up how is it corroborating Everything Else which weve heard from previous people giving testimony. So both dr testimony and david holmes testimony essentially confirms the basic story weve been hearing over the last 2 weeks which is that the Trump White House was engaging in a policy whereby they were refusing to release foreign aid and refusing to provide presence olinsky with a meeting with trump in the white house which was critical of political value to our selenski unless the government agreed to investigate joe biden and his testimony confirmed that holmes goes for testimony confirmed and basically every single testimony weve heard over the last 2 weeks has suggested the only difference really is whether or not the actors at the time claim to be aware that that was hacked like you find what i thought it was interesting to the way that dr hill today only said monish to. The panel and said to them essentially im paraphrasing but dont peddle this idea that it was the ukrainian interference in the election it was the russians and this plays right into the russian head she was she was she was so direct. Or yes no her testimony was was quite remarkable dr hill took no prisoners and really pointed out this does point which devon years in particular in particular but other members as well when making over the last 2 weeks on the republican side that you know there is a legitimate possibility at least that ukraine somehow was trying to interfere in the 2016 election when in fact and this has been confirmed by the american Security Services consistently it was russia. And then we had mr holmes giving his testimony as well the key thing for him is the phone call isnt it the phone call that he overheard an e. A. Went into in in great detail. Is that enough to say oh well i heard this because the republicans line is a well that 2nd hand no none of this is actually directly with the president. Yeah weve now entered and the president actually tweeted about this earlier today into sort of like a parlor game of trying to figure out whether it was technologically possible for someone to overhear a conversation of the conversation is not on speakerphone and all that certainly republicans are are questioning. Holmes recollection is correct they think he either made it up or the very least misheard certain things. At the very least it suggests that in both the conversation he seemed to have overheard as well as the interaction he had with aunt linda afterwards that trump himself was directly involved in this and that his main goal throughout was to try to get these investigations into bidens activated its debatable to what extent maybe holmes overheard everything exactly on the other hand some of the elements that he identified including the he loves your ass quote which seemed somewhat peculiar at 1st sort of confirmed yesterday as as being correct so at least parts of the conversation appeared to be overheard correctly yet still uncomfortable hearing that quite the cue for it in a book out of the book Republican Party politics so im interested to know on your thoughts on the way the republicans are handling this particularly of the republicans on the committee when the closing statements were made devon unas spoke for about 5 minutes and all it was is really this is an attack on the president its been attacked since he was the candidate whilst adam schiff spent a good 2530 minutes actually sort of forensically going through everything what is the republican strategy and you know is there a strategy or is it just well just deal whats in front of us at any at any moment. My sense is its a mix of 2 things i think partly theyre trying to find some form of a narrative for by they can get trump at least out of the danger zone of being personally implicated and so one of the consistent arguments has been nobody who has direct evidence or direct communications with from has argued that he himself has said we need to go after biden i will only release 8 unless the ukraine investigates biden and thats been sort of a thing that has popped up a lot the other thing that i think republicans on the committee of have definitely been doing over the last 2 weeks is trying to come up not so much with a coherent defense as much as sound bites that could be played out on fox news or on social media and could be shared in a way that seemed to undermine the process but not necessarily provide a more coherent defense through towards the president i want to get me into what the main takeaway for me is from. Sorry just quickly i just wonder if the republicans are almost certain a little bit comfortably and thinking well this can well happen impeachment probably will but weve got control of the senate doesnt matter in the end president is not likely to be removed from office. Yeah so impeachment requires a simple majority to House Democrats have a majority in the house and so its likely that particular given how the last few weeks have went impeachment will actually proceed in the house the next step is a trial in the senate and. Republicans have a majority there you need actually more than a simple majority you need a majority so 20 republican senators would have to flip and vote against trump in the senate that still seems very unlikely and so at this stage i agree republicans are probably assuming that it will actually make it to the senate that they will try to deal with it there probably as quickly as they possibly can and then trump will be acquitted in the senate impeached by the house he will have no direct consequence in terms of him staying in office and try to move on from from there are assessing joining us from new york talking through the impeachment inquiry thanks for super she added lets have a look at whats coming up for you on this news hour how the war in yemen is making life more dangerous for thousands of children. Plus your sports news were going to hear from coach joes a marine you know as he holds his 1st News Conference as the new boss of top. Of the bolivia now where riot police have 5 tear gas to break up a funeral procession in the paths thousands of people took part in the procession that began in the city of it coincided with a debate in congress over just when to hold new elections at least 8 people were killed on tuesday after police and military moved in on a field plant that had been occupied by protesters his mahdi and son feels not in the pods 1st of all marianna is the government actually saying why the police threw tear gas at what was a funeral procession. Thats right come our waiting for the government to to give some answers to everyone that wants to know why would they throw thier gas at this profession the funeral procession the. People have been coming from walking from a lot to escorting these 8 coffins of the 8 men who died in clashes with the police and the army is on tuesday in the city of a little and they were arriving in the perimeters of the president ial palace in fact they can never go into the parade to the area of the president ial palace but they were going to hold a vigil. In the big avenue and i can tell you there were people were not holding sticks or they were not holding rocks they were not throwing rocks at the police and certainly couldnt what could have happened come out is that at 1 point one coffin was put on top of a of a police car could that have triggered a for the police to. Tear gas maybe but it was clear that people were not responding they were not throwing rocks in fact they had to flee and the saddest part of this is that the vans that were carrying a couple of vans that will carrying coffins they were stuck there they were trying to go out men that were carrying 2 coffins they have to dig the coffins on the floor and flee the gases so it was a very sap scene of these people who have who had come all the way from a lot the nearly 4 hours walking claiming for justice for the killings of these 8 men. And people are blaming the interim president for the deaths of the that man whys that. Thats right theyre blaming the interim president for the deaths of these 8 men because when she came to power she took office and she even before naming a cabinet she she changed the ranks of the top military and she issued a decree after many of the cabinet of course is a decree that say that says that the police and the army will not be held accountable in the effort to hold peace will bring peace in the country what has happened is that after every medallist left and she came to power theres been 13 people as hes killed by a. Live rounds and many people think that this is a license to kill so they are what people are claiming on the streets of believers that they want the army out and of course they blame the interim president for these steps. Thank you for that update from the marianna sanchez. International has published a report detailing a range of human rights abuses in chile since the protest to bear a month ago 22. 00 people have been killed and more than 2000 injured reports now from something. Security forces in chile have been accused of carrying out attacks against citizens amidst the ongoing unrest in the country Amnesty Internationals director for the americas. Says the use of excessive and unnecessary force follows a pattern of deliberate repression by chilean authorities. That weve documented cases of and sexual abuse people who have died in the context of the violent repression from Security Forces including the military and police in many cases we have Video Evidence of the use of semi automatic rifles used by the military who shot indiscriminately against peaceful protest as. Since the unrest began more than 1400 people have been injured by firearms used by authorities according to figures released by Amnesty International one of the most common injuries reported by human rights observers is from projectiles launched by police this shotgun cartridge for example thousands of people have been injured by projectiles just like this one police in chile have also been known to aim their weapons directly at protesters resulting in more than 200 people suffering injuries to their eyes and a man. Was shot by these rubber pellets during a peaceful protest and he nearly lost his eye then one part of the one i have a pellet lodged in my head and another one on my