In 2 days over in a strangely or a state of emergency has been declared for fires burning in the east. And im leah harding here with all of your sports liverpool leave it to the last minute roberto for me you know its set up a final against his fellow brazilians in the Club World Cup. Ah. That police in india have detained 100 circle several cities for defying a ban on protests the government is trying to stop mass demonstrations against a new citizenship law that opponents say threatens the countrys secular constitution a 1000 demonstrators rallying in the capital have been rounded up no this legislation has provoked anger because it offers a path to citizenship for persecuted minorities. From 3 neighboring countries but specifically excludes muslims phone Companies Say theyve suspended internet and mobile services in parts of new delhi following a Government Order many train and metro stations are closed their opponents of the law called for a day of action there have been large rallies and additional arrests in multiple cities across the country well lets say across life now to new delhi were so hell raman is standing by to help people are still taking to the streets and they are being swiftly arrested what is the governments strategy on this i mean they can arrest everyone. Yes i think her surprise the government of the strategy has been very clear is trying to hunt down on these demonstrations but the difficulty that the government and the authority of found and what we actually witnessed today very close to the bridge for where we were in the capital new delhi was that these demonstrations some of that were just sporadic there were some many hundreds at march towards the red ford and police could actually see them coming in from a distance they score to them into the vet for itself and then subsequently arrested them each and every one of them placed them on buses bus them out to the furthest most points of the capital and in fact we thought they were going to be detained at police stations but they werent what the authorities did was literally drop them off at the edge of delhi in delhi is a huge city has a population of nearly 26000000 and drop them off in a city where the internet and telephone lines were cut so the various demonstrations that were happening. Basically allowed the various demonstrators to be spread across the city they couldnt communicate with each other as to where to congregate later and this situation was dispersed it has to be said that the demonstrations were very peaceful in nature they were loud they were boisterous lots of flags lots of cards against the government and the police were very restrained there was various sets of Security Forces the brown khaki colored normal police that you see on the streets here of delhi and then there was the riot police are already prepared with us and also the long sticks the lotties as we call them here in india just in case the crowd got rowdy but that was generally the the nature of the demonstration that we saw here lots of Civil Society people arrested lots of politicians arrested but apparently what we know is theyve all now been released but are in different parts of the city. And this say hell have the same daily demonstrations here but realistically i mean how long can this go on for how long can they may detain. These process. Well it is interesting because basically the the social Media Network itself is making sure that the citizenship amendment and his heart both front and center high profile in terms of being in the public psyche and in the public discussion domain and therefore now were seeing messages from bollywood stars and from politicians and Civil Society across the country saying we have to keep that meant we have to keep pressure on the government and keep this forefront in this in the Supreme Courts mind when they reconvene after the christmas and new year recess to consider the rules that have to be written around the law which they have requested the government to present to them once those rules have been digested you might say by the Supreme Court judges they will then ask all the petitioners that are complaining about the new law and the government to hear their arguments in court on january the 22nd so heller from now till the ice only assuming from what we can see and the way people are talking to us that and that so there will be passionate about the fact that indias constitution indias secular could ensure olds are under threat and something has to be done and this law has to be removed so expect more demonstrations expect more public anger and a very very strong victory ali good discourse between the opposition and the government of the interior minister ahmed shah who said this law is not going to go away its here to stay well well see in times for that so that says a hill rahman there reporting live from new delhi well lets say with this city chandra is assistant professor of government at Georgetown University and joins us on skype from kolkata good to have you with us on the program we heard from the hill that the government is perhaps caught off guard. By the numbers of protests but surely they werent courts of guard by the the scale of opposition to this law do you think its a rush this through or that this was a deliberate tactic from the governments. I dont think they. Come from on but. Theyre not just. Number of decisions including one man Walking Around temple in new york here which was built and now is going to be rebuilt or built on the site of parades march so i think the series of steps of the government of the act and since it was reelected in me but the complete majority are and i dont think they really take the position seriously but it seems that outside the part of hunter started the political system there is a tremendous opposition society especially among young people students and to. Well this is perhaps opposition outside the parliament but the p. G. P. To have an enormous mandate is a decisive win in the last election and certainly. They have this man satan and this is one of the things that they said they would do if they were voted in so surely there must be some support for what theyre doing. There is support but you know by the works of a parliamentary system of that you can get a very decisive Majority Party 80 percent of the vote what do you do about the other 62 percent who didnt vote for the government. And i think thats where you see in particular where you have need your pin rule in the streets i think thats where you see the most vehement opposition and clashes of the police and so on in the not only stance and state governments can actually decide not to implement the new law or any new all of that come out so i think that sets up a tussle between state and youre dead. And so how do you think this will play out given the strength of the opposition on the streets and the reluctance of some states to push this through do you think that the government may eventually be defeated on this. I think the were in for a protracted constitutional crisis and i think at some point the Supreme Court in general will have to rule i dont think that will be the final word because even if it becomes a law implementing the law ultimately depends on the states and districts of the country so instead of governments where the leader he is not in power or opposition parties are in power theyre going to resist and theyre going to resist with the federal bring but. Also individuals are pretty Civil Servants of policeman bringing to resist and knocked more head with implementing the law so little of a kind of civil disobedience and some sense in and outside the state. Ok is a chanter good to get your thoughts i thank you very much indeed for joining the aljazeera news. There was a vote split star in party lines much like its divided nation the u. S. House of representatives has impeached President Donald Trump the Democratic Party controlled house charged with abusing his power as well as obstruct and congress in its investigation of those 2 articles of impeachment now go to the Republican Controlled Senate for trial but House Speaker nancy pelosi has thrown uncertainty into these next steps by refusing to say when she will sense those articles we always we wont make our decision as to when were going to send it when we see what the deal is on the senate side but thats a decision that we will make jointly yes. Im not heard. That would have been our intention but with. What happens over there that i said where you had said it tonight because its difficult to determine who the managers would be until we see the arena in which we will be protests attaining. Well as a lot played out in washington donald trump was rallying his supporters as in michigan thats one of the states that he narrowly won in 2060 now he slams democrats impeachment efforts as illegal and a disgrace and he points it out to those little chance hell actually be convicted and removed from office by the senates from battle creek john hendren has just reports. 1 1 the battle was joined in battle creek. President trumps 1st reaction to impeachment came in one of the key states he needs to win again in 2020 and it was predictably trumpy in outright defiance this lolas partisan speech is a political suicide march for the Democratic Party have you seen my polls of the last 4 weeks about a 3rd of his prepared speech focused on impeachment it was a split screen moment as the house voted along party lines to impeach trump he was standing on stage in battle creek i think we have a vote coming in so we got every single republican voted for us was. He spoke in a county he won in 2016 in a state he won by the narrowest president ial victory in michigan history were here when the presents and you got to win the close states and michigan shapes up to be close again trump won michigan largely on the strength of the votes of working class white voters in places like here in rural western michigan where some who once built american cars. Now dismantle them it remains a region divided guys lets lets try to have a civil conversation this was the reaction to a local congresswoman announcing her support for impeaching trump im going to be voting yes on obstruction and. Theres a small group of protesters outside but despite the Impeachment Vote the founding of the moment is the way. The people inside this arena. Donald trump can do no wrong. No matter why i dont care what happened. To him in the way that. Is the president vowed not to surrender through the i like. The previous actions that a crazy nancy pelosi says house them. With an eternal market share really its grows. With a Republican Controlled Senate on likely to remove him troops they will likely be decided in the november election in places like this john hendren aljazeera battle creek michigan. Lets see what happens when this does get to the senate which kid be seen as january all over the chamber could dismiss the charges Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has said the trial will go ahead the chief justice of the Supreme Court john breaux berts is sworn in as chief presiding officer in the senators will act as jurors the house of representatives members kids act as prosecutors they and lawyers for the president will crossexamine the witnesses at least 2 thirds or 67 senators are needed to vote guilty on at least one article of impeachment to have donald trump removed from office now if this happens the Vice President would become president of the United States serious senior political analyst Marvin Bashara joins me now here in doha marble they were fought through the process that will eventually happen but it does seem and all fully long way off especially since those articles of impeachment havent even got so the senate yet whats going on. Well clearly. The speaker of the house once a bargaining chip with the Republican Leadership of the senate and the only way she could do that is by withholding those articles of impeachment sort that in her in her mind there wont be a congo room trial in the senate that will simply venda kate and declare President Trump any incident without any serious process so they could just would hold it indefinitely until more information comes out and continue to claim that the president was impeached or they get better deal from the Republican Leadership in the senate and then they go to a trial that is more conducive to a trial than a political circus but as well is that their political circus is arguably what this is as terror invented it doesnt really appear to be about right and wrong and you know evidence or the lack thereof what is this really about its i mean the population assumes that hes going to be exonerated by the senate so so here essentially is going to decide the fate of the trump presidency. The electorate because as you said what is supposed to be a Legal Process where the Founding Fathers of the United States. Pleaded with future generation is that they treat this as a huge deal and that they judge it on its merits not on it to logical grounds of course has not been the case neither in the trial neither in the clinton impeachment process nor apparently in the term impeachment process so i think what you have now is a president that is very robust boastful of his rejection of this kind of process and this in no way is both a condemnation of the president but also a vendy cation of the populace donald trump because what does donald trump really stands for in this context he stands for that democracy is about he the elected and the people Everything Else in between is the destruction whether it is the media were there it is the courts whether its the Political PartiesEven Congress in the us far as his concern is the destruction because as a populist leader excellence he thinks the jora he decided and he is the president and the only way hell be removed from office is by the electorate Everything Else is unfair to him now the poor numbers are on the appeal process havent really seen to be moving one way or another trump strategy is arguably been incredibly effective and that carrot surprises his president does not he is its a stroke he can buck the trends in the conventional ways were now seeing this come to the ultimate head the impeachment process do you think that ultimately the u. S. Institutions as they are able to withstand this force this trumpy and populist force what does the future herald whichever way the the impeachment trial goes. Well look behind the smokescreen if you will there is an Ongoing Court unquote civil war they put little it illogical civil war in america about the saw all of america will america be a pluralistic liberal democracy or will be a populist nationalist democracy and in the latter sense nationalist would mean more like need to vest white and so on and so forth the earlier it would mean more blacks minorities support for free speech defense of the institutions that are supposed to be or have oversight over the democratic process i think President Trump represent the nationalist democratic in liberal america while more the Democrats Congress and the courts represent something more liberal and pluralistic and i think here in the next 10 months or so americans will have to decide do they only vote by their pockets and whether there is some economic progress or better income tax on so on so forth or whether they will vote by their conscience meaning do they want a liberal democratic america or a nationalist in liberal. Came our way and Bashar Al Jazeera is senior political analyst thank you very much for your thoughts there is lots more still to come on this aljazeera news hour including. It is still not clear who will be lebanons next Prime Minister after a major party declines to put forward a nomination and protesters fight Police Outside barcelona as Fertile Ground as the teams please its el classico match against real madrid leo will have all the details for you. Consultations are taking place in iraq as the deadline for the nomination of a new Prime Minister looms to step down from the polls last month after weeks of violent protest in which more than 400. 00 people were killed but the demonstrations have continued people say they want a complete overhaul of the political system theyre angry about widespread corruption i unemployment and Public Services 5 no 2 smaller fulton in baghdad smaller with expected announcements on monday and then it was purple perspire hundreds of thursday he just gave us an overview of the timeline and why theres been this confusion. Well its been a very confusing process and that is because the resignation of the Prime Minister is not clearly defined in the constitution Prime Minister idol of the the announced his resignation on november 29th parliament then met to discuss it and approved it on december 1st but according to the bylaws of the council of ministers its actually the president who is supposed to receive it and that happened on december 4th so basically today is the end of the