To say that well youre not going to get democracy youre going to get the Syrian Civil War or the chaos in yemen if you dont follow orders there has been a narrative here particularly by the trump regime that everything is fine in egypt and see shes a wonderful president clearly the protests puncture that but it is important to say that there are others in congress and Civil Society who are very critical of the c. C. Regime and the rampant human rights abuses that are taking place there and that are aware that this level of repression along with deteriorating Economic Conditions are not sustainable in the long run been a lot of talk in the past and sometimes in the present in the United States and european powers about democracy and human rights promotion and rule of law but unfortunately they need these written these governments dont walk the walk they still support to the Egyptian Government they still send significant military aid and they dont raise significant. Their voices with regard to these kinds of human rights abuses and the lack of freedom of the press or freedom of speech or a right to assembly and protest. Still ahead on aljazeera chained abused and tortured Nigerian Police 3 at least 300 imprisoned boys. Daring or death wish base jumpers take a leap of faith from one of the laziest best known. Had those things in fairly heavy rain across western and central areas of japan the cloud on the satellite showing you really where weve seen the worst of this but its a fairly fast moving system so natural fat all the time again through sunday well see a soggy end to the weekend but not as heavy this rain as we have seen and certainly care in the way from much of the Korean Peninsula and then by monday it is a much drive picture but those touches on the high sides of feeling quite humid take your 29 degrees and a senate 29 across into seoul now further to the south got some rain in the fall called taiwan for the next couple of days really much of china as you can see is clear skies also much of thailand laos across into northern vietnam and thats the way it stays as we go through the next couple of days however you will see here we have got by monday next time food this is my tag it is a Tropical Storm right now it will be developing and getting stronger by monday we could see some sustained winds about 120 kilometers an hour and that will bring some very heavy amounts of rain across into much of taiwan further to the south the rains becoming more extensive study across much of borneo not a bad day sunday the rain heavy a further to the west it sings across into the may pincers well by monday and then blanketing much of borneo. Right. Youre watching aljazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour on stations in afghanistan which used to have closed almost an hour ago but have been extended for 2 hours one of 5 stations had failed to open the taliban had threatened to stop people from the ballots and have been several bomb attacks. Donald trump special envoy to ukraine has quit volcker was asked to give evidence about a call thats led to an impeachment inquiry into trump the president reportedly asked ukraines leader to investigate his political rival. Hundreds of protesters have defied a security crackdown for a 2nd friday in egypt they have joined rallies calling for the president to resign accusing Abdel Fattah Elsisi of corruption and destroying the economy. Protests are being held in hong kong on saturday to mark the 5th anniversary of the socalled Umbrella Movement thousands marched in 2014 to demand the right for the territory to choose its own Leader Police have used pepper spray on some protesters rallies are also shuttled in other cities including london and washington d. C. In a show of solidarity the movement inspired the recent protests that have been running for 17 weeks now. Well lets go straight to our correspondent sara clark whos in hong kong outside the leg building several reports of pepper spray being used by police it looks like these protests saw gathering steam. Look at thousands of people have gathered where we are which is in front of the Legislative Council building here in hong kong which is effectively hung parliament. Has been fired out of the protesters who were taunting some place behind large barricaded inside the building of Council Secretary of his also issued a red alert which calls for the evacuation of stopping people inside that building and that simply a precautionary measure measuring things do here but as you mentioned this is a gathering its organized by the super human rights front which is the organization thats been leading these mass rallies during this anti extradition bill antigovernment bill movement in the last few months and again thousands of people have attended tonight and people are still flowing in its very much a peaceful rally and its the end of its the anniversary 5th anniversary of the umbrella revolution and in the coming days we have more protests today is about is about the anniversary of the Umbrella Movement but on the weekend on sunday we have more rallies in the lead up to Chinas National Day which on tuesday and thats a Public Holiday in hong kong as well as in china and this is the anniversary of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the peoples republic of china and places certainly preparing for potentially violent clashes between the 2 opposition cant. Choose time. In hong kong thank you very much for the update. Police in nigeria say they freed more than 300. 00 male students held captive in a building in the Northern City of could do you know some were found with chains around their ankles they say some of the students as young as 9 years old was sexually abused and tortured. This place is an. Islamic school because you have small children some of them are brought for neighboring countries like you know fossil miley. The children gathered here for all of us all over the county here some of them why even change i use human eyes im a dangerous has more from the. Police say some of the rescue children had marks on their body that showed evidence of torture at some point or another meanwhile many of them were found chained to structures or some form of metals inside the building which was registered as an Islamic School but also some rehabilitation work is going on there the police are saying that neither do the operators of the institution had licenses to operate as Health Workers or rehabilitation workers nor be used to sion is some was registered as a Rehabilitation Center and its believed that many of the inmates of that institution or school were particularly there by their parents either for Islamic Education or for some form of these talks if occasion because its thought that many of those found their abuse some illicit substances at one point or another investigation is currently going on but reports from the city itself says that many of such institutions exist in the city of karbala and other parts of nigeria Climate Change is being blamed for frequent droughts in somalia that are forcing people to leave their homes almost every 2 years the un says more than 2 and a half 1000000 somalis have been displaced. Mohamed has this report from the film by. Dry dusty and parched desert sand is slowly taking over ones full time fields in somalia. Just 2 years of to the last drought and the countrys again facing one of the driest thrain assistance in more than 3 decades. The victims are visible almost everywhere makeshift camps like this one for those affected by drought can be found in almost every city. This is by door in south west somali these people have just arrived from the countryside. However builds a heart for her family from old clothes she says it took them a month to get here but on the name brand i know what i want i want cattle died 1st and then the crops failed and we fled hang out here but it is team follows as we have had no help. The people of somalia have always name drop outs and use the buses total milestones but that was 1. 00 what 10 or 15 years up now theyve become the new norm and Scientists Say that the country has dried up mark foster in the 20th century than at any other time in the past 2000 years. These bought in plains of sundins 2 and have always known long dry spells but theyve always been followed by. Enough at least to rebuild hearts so thats can be repaid and milk provided for the children. Thats changed 91 year old loose ace he has never seen shifting weather patterns the some for giving. Me here and i dont remember our grandparents not having food until recently this droughts are quite different from what we used to see theres no time for recovery they just keep coming back. Just a few months ago to shut up that man had 25 goats now she has just 5 the rest with it and died in the current drought a lot of the my welcome my high survive on donations from well wishers is no pasture for the goats and im forced to look for grass for them in fountains and at times i even have to share my food with them. Nomadic animal hiding is not just an Economic Activity for the people of somalia it is who they are. And as the Climate Changes they too being forced change the world has either baidoa in southwest somalia. At least 4 people have been killed after days of violent protests in haiti demonstrators are accusing president. Of corruption and blame him for a shortage of food and fuel they say though continue protesting until he resigns. Reports from the capital port au prince. Chaos has taken over the streets of port au prince. What started as demonstrations over an ongoing fuel shortage has grown into a nationwide protest calling on haitian president. To resign. The president promised the haitian people to lift them from poverty to pull them out of the dirt and when he became president he made everything work. On friday thousands took to the streets authorities in the haitian capital tried to control the crowd but with little effect mobs of angry demonstrators broke into buildings and looted businesses. Several people have died. One Police Station was vandalized by looters and nearly set on fire people could be seen running off with police here things like riot shields body armor and anything else they could carry thank you but those years if the president really loves haiti he should resign he should wait for there to be more looting in the streets for him to resign. With nightfall the streets of the haitian capital have quieted down and the city is now under a sort of selfimposed lockdown haitian president continues to call for a National Dialogue but opposition leaders havent said as demonstrators to continue to protest and continue to pressure the president to resign meaning the unrest in the country is likely to continue madrid up in port au prince. And colombia allegations of corruption a misuse of public funds at a university has led to more protests students marched through the streets of the capital bottle for a 5th day. Start. Last monday as a single and take corruption protest on the part of the students of the district the Public University here in bogota has grown into a full blown out movement at least 10 different public and private universities with students protesting day after day against the boat a number of alleged cases of corruption in the administration of this Public University but also against what students describe as a very violent response on part of the police to these protests. To get into soon you will see many universities have decided to mobilize against these cases of Corruption Students have had enough of corruption at all levels in this country and that nobody does anything about it its a claim against policies that only generate violence protected by the police or the loony lonely years since monday the District University students have been demanding transparency and reforms and fighting for quality Public Education and private universities need to agree with that. The protests escalated into full blown riots on tuesday and wednesday leaving at least 10 people injured as the Police Tear Gas to use Water Cannons against the protesters to block one of mean roads the Police Response was widely criticized and only had the effect of making the demonstrations bigger with more students participating in solidarity unlike previous days on friday the protests were so peaceful despite the students marching through downtown bogota with out old tory sation something that the students say is a victory for dear demands and this movement that they promise will continue but 100. 00 base jumpers from around the world a competing in malaysia they skipped somersaulted and die from a 300 metre high deck on Kuala Lumpur TowerFlorence Fleury was that. Leaping off a free falling for a few quick seconds. And then its time to deploy the parachute. No room for mistakes or 2nd guesses this is base jumping plunging from a fixed object its considered more dangerous and more technically difficult than skydiving skydivers typically exit a plane at around 4000 meters but at the calle tower annual base jump divers only have 300 metres before they reach the ground that intense feeling that i get the closure that i get from it for me i always risk right away we understand the risks you know its there its present every time that we jump and its kind of a good reminder and i mean you dont want to ever let that going to where you want to feel that intensity in a kind of a mind like a really fun when its also you know it has some danger to. Hold a shane loved 1000 skydives before he did his 1st base jump this is his 7th time at this 4 day event that attracted almost 100 people from 25 countries this isnt for the faint hearted even just standing here on the ledge i can feel my legs turning to jelly slightly now once they jump jumpers will freefall for about 3 seconds before opening their parachute at the last minute the parachutes a smaller and designed to open fast and theres no reserve chute there wouldnt be time to use one a lot of effort is put into safety teams continuously check wind speed and direction jumpers wear helmets and other protective gear the technical crew checks jumpers equipment and things like that and we ensure that we are standing where theyre landing and things like. You know we really. Everybodys aware question. Its an extreme high risk sport only dad hands and thrill seekers need apply florent slowly aljazeera. Well from one vertigo and juicing story to another a climber known as the french spiderman has just scaled a high rise building in frankfurt and row bare is known for his dead the solo climbs up skyscrapers on the worlds tallest building in dubai in 2011. This is our desire and these are the top stories polling stations in afghanistan would be to have closed an hour ago but have been extended for a further hour one in 5 stations had failed to open the taliban had threatened to stop people casting their ballots and theyve been several bomb attacks donald trump special envoy to ukraine has quit kurt volker was asked to give evidence about a call thats led to an impeachment inquiry into trump the president reportedly asked ukraines leader to investigate his a political rival. And there have been celebrations in the hometown of zimbabwes former president Robert Mugabe where he will be buried on saturday the government to push for a burial at a National Monument for the family wanted a private ceremony in his village was 95 when he died this month led zimbabwe for 37 years hundreds of protesters have defied a security crackdown for a 2nd friday in egypt they join rallies calling for the president to resign Abdel Fattah Elsisi of corruption and destroying the economy. A former education Government Contractor whose videos helped spark the protests has issued a new message on social media calling on sisi to step down well that is not how the. C. C. S. Way that you will leave power if the people dont want you so please be a man if you would dont let your offices upset the people let them walk in the streets freely you promise the People Freedom so please stop being a liar. Police in nigeria say they freed more than 300. 00 male students held in a building in the city of do you know some were found with chains around their ankles they say some of the students was young as 9 years old had been sexually abused and tortured. This. School because. Our neighboring countries but. For all of us all over the county they were here some of them why even you know why use human ice police have used pepper spray on protesters in hong kong saturday marks the 5th anniversary of the Umbrella Movement thousands marched in 2014 to demand the right for the territory to choose its own leader. Those are the headlines more news after inside story stay with us. Democrats call it a cover up. Of the white houses efforts to log down recalls of a president ial phone call will the impeachment effort against donald trump intensify or will it backfire on the president s opponents this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the show im sam hes a than leveraging the office of the u. S. President to interfere in the 2020 alexion thats the accusation facing donald trump in a whistleblower complaint that set him on course for an impeachment investigation trump has been accused of trying to persuade the ukrainian leader to dig up dirt on his rival Joe Biden John Hendren has the details from washington d. C. Democrats have a new word for the white house response to a whistleblower this is a cover up the accusation follows a newly released whistleblowers report that says the white house tried to lock down the transcript of a phone call in that july call President Donald Trump pressed ukraines president to find dirt on a rival president ial candidate in this case former u. S. Vice President Joe Biden reads like a classic organized crime shakedown the report says u. S. Officials told the unnamed whistleblower that they were directed by white house lawyers to transfer the transcript of a conversation to a separate Electronic System that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information even though the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive that left trumps new acting director of National Intelligence explaining on capitol hill why he withheld that mid august report from congress until thursday we consulted with the White House Counsels Office and we were advised that much of the information the complaint was in fact subject to executive privilege a privilege that i do not have the authority to waive so a white house transcript of that call shows that trump repeatedly urged ukraines Volodymyr Zelinsky to investigate whether joe biden sought to interfere in a conflict of interest probe of the Ukrainian Gas Company for which his son hunter biden worked at the time trump was with holding nearly 400000000. 00 in aid without explanation under fire denies using any pressure what these guys are doing democrats are doing to this country is it grace but theyre going to tie up our country because frankly this so tied up this so its good up as the director of National Intelligence testified here on capitol hill President Trump was at the United Nations talking to staff he told them he wanted to know who told the whistleblower about his phone call adding that they were close to a spy and then he said something that sounded menacing. According to the whistleblower several senior u. S. Officials were concerned by the president s call now exhibit number one in hearings to decide whether to impeach donald trump john hendren aljazeera washington. Lets bring our guests into the show now than we have in london greg swenson a spokesman for republicans abroad u. K. By skype in reston virginia rena shar republican strategist and in burlington vermont hassen a Democratic Political strategist good to have you ward if i could start with greg in london so does the effort by the trumpet ministration to move those wreck hordes to so we say an unusual computer server does it indicate a cover up now of course not look the president needs to have executive privilege you need to be able to have private conversations with another president of another country thats just natural and you also recall that there were a lot of leaks especially early on in this administration theres no shortage of of opponents of the president baked into the into the deep state in washington and in the Intelligence Services the f. B. I. And cia so look even you know theres no secret that there is a lot of leakers and a lot of whistleblower so you know there are so many weeks in the beginning like rachel this info on olympic tape maybe. If its just a general approach to security you would probably be moving all your sensitive records but if its just one phone conversation you know i think that raises a bit of a question mark its. Well it could if youre especially if youre on the other side and youre desperate to find something on this president theyve been trying to impeach him since december of 2016 on whatever the you know the topic of the day is you know to try to with the russian collusion story really invested in that and so they just need something so look theyll pick on anything this one happens to be the the news of the week from the whistleblower sounded it almost sounded like a lawyer who wrote that. Document not not an analyst but anyway look you need to have that confidentiality that has been an issue in the administration but i dont see anything really wrong with that and by the way the when they did release the document which they they did without a lot of pressure i mean yeah it took a couple of days but if there was anything really bad in it then he would have disclosed he would have claimed executive privilege but he was pretty quick to release and i didnt think you know depending on which side of the aisle youre on you know it didnt seem to me like there was any real smoking gun there just a couple of implications that you can interpret one way or the other ok will come perhaps to the contents of the transfer what if i can continue that point with reno so gregs point here renewed is that basically theres nothing and unusual in the effort that the white house made to keep this conversation private there are too many as greg said perhaps deep state elements in the f. B. I. And the cia as he said and this is how anyone should behave if he wants to keep his private matters private. Well 1st and foremost i hope greg is ok because hes reaching really hard to make the point hes making im sure shoulders hurting i mean i have not heard anything more bizarre in my life and im a peach tree and it doesnt matter about my Party Politics of that for the fact that ive been a republican longer than donald trump has and ive been a strategist in the party far moggridge than mr tucker but the reality is simple here this is about words that reviews everyone except it under any other president a word like weaver in the readout from the white house how do they not see that thats problematic when you ask where rebore thats the definition of quid pro quo and to the point that many republicans are in washington about there being no mention of aid being withheld from the crane at the call its because the aid was already withheld before so it is very puzzling to me that many folks are not willing to put country over party here look ive never supported donald trump but the reality is simple i would not accept this kind of year for anyone but is it a jump youre going to maybe convert to gregs defense if i could to pin him i guess supporters of donald trump would argue that this is a president whos been on the fine since well even before he got into the white house and nothing is really held on him and does he have a right old as some people have a right to be a little bit paranoid. Now sammy i there is no need to defend gregg here theres no need to defend anyone here everybody is entitled to their own opinion everybody should read the transcript of the call everybody should read there was a worth of playing in my book there is nothing more future got it than whistle blowing in this country we cannot let the people in power hide from the fact that they are using taxpayer dollars my hard earned money is paying taxes in this country and it goes to eating country to their defense and i think its very simple and we know for a person who is that part of the Intelligence Community been an analyst to come forth and say ive heard things that im worried about of course that troubles me that that person the counts were 1st hand that he or she was not standing in the oval office to hear the call themselves or the other allegations are making but the reality is simple an impeachment proceeding inquiry allows the president the best venue to defend himself so donald trump has nothing to hide he should really submit himself to this think really and stop calling everything a witch hunt stop gaslighting the American Public and lying day in and day out all right ill give credit a chance to come back in on this go his crack. Yeah yeah it was a long monologue or a long rant so its hard to hit every point but ill try to address a few i think you know 1st so we have to look at this president s been harassed from the beginning and the trump papers have have to try to look for you know for it for anything obviously they invested a lot in the mall or investigation now is a failure so now theyll take anything look this is a president let me jump in if i were a defense all this yes there is one that either but is it not fair to say that this president has behaved in a way that to Many Americans it seemed against the normal president ial convention and thats precisely why hes been on the fossa much since the moment he got into the white house sam youre absolutely right he doesnt act like a traditional president and thats one of the reasons why he was elected so whether you like him or or not you know a lot of us conservatives were very skeptical or nervous about him when he started and you know we didnt think hed govern like a conservative and we were pleasantly surprised we also were a little disappointed with the frenzy on the Progressive Left and the never trumpeters on the right who have just been very unfair you know in the media and again on the Progressive Left so look this this president will never catch a break its one of the reasons why i think this will backfire though because so many of the people the commonsense voters the you know the moderate center right and center left voters are going to look at this story greg that is not just always there has been under fire is it i mean its very day one from things like apparently inviting russia to hack or get hold of Hillary Clinton emails to the allegation of saying hey do me a favor to the president of another country thats not just. Politics right this is this is you could see what im getting here that he will could be water that no i cant sammy i mean its a really good point and he has an a very unconventional delivery and an very unconventional way of communicating is very transactional he likes the art of the deal he like. The flattery too and you noticed he was really gaming the flattery with with the president of the ukraine and and you also noticed you know he was held to the 8 until the phone call because he likes to be asked for the order now but remember a lot of this has been done before Vice President biden did it in 2015 the Obama Administration did it in 2016 and of course you had to the senator 3 Democratic SenatorsMenendez Leahy and durban sent a letter last may doing the exact same thing except it was in writing and when Vice President biden did it he bragged about it when he got back to washington so look i think that everybody has to look at this is politics theyre all there is often gaming with aid and you know or is that sort of implied quid pro quo sometimes its very clear and deliberate like with biden sometimes its a little more subtle all right let me bring out a shot into this i will come back to you just lets give a 2nd father said to weigh in on all this is this all just politics whats been released so far doesnt seem like theres good grounds for impeachment. There is a fundamental question here and that fundamental question is is is that is the United States it country that is ruled by the government as governed by the rule of law or are we a country that allows individuals president s to be use the power they have an office you just heard greg over here talk admit that this is indeed quid pro quo that indeed 400000000. 00 worth of aid was threatened or suspended for the purpose of digging up dirt on a political opponent to the president s benefit that is extraordinary and its upsetting and it should be upsetting to republicans to democrats and people who dont have a Political Party affiliation to be able to use and abuse power in this way for ones own political gain the report there was a report not only indicated this quid pro quo it also indicated a coverup