Is a new protocol on our land in Northern Ireland consisting of 5 elements. In the 1st place all our actions are based on our shared determination to sustain the belfast good friday agreement the fundamental basis of governance in Northern Ireland the protection of which is the highest priority of all and from this follows the 2nd principle namely that we shall of course uphold all the longstanding areas of cooperation between the u. K. And off friends in ireland including the rights of all those living in Northern Ireland and north south corp the common travel area which predates both the good friday agreement and the European Union itself. 3rd we propose the potential creation of a regular trees on the island of island covering all goods including agra food for as long as it exists this would eliminate all regulatory checks for trade in goods between arland and Northern Ireland and speaking after johnson made those comments islands Prime Minister leo varadkar ruled out having any customs checks at the border. Our objective is very clear we dont want to see any customs posts between north and south nor do you want to see any tire of our restrictions on trade north and south and they were all in the 1900 s. We dont want to go back to the us the majority of people in the north dont the majority of people in the republic of ireland dont lets go live now to london i was there is not is outside the houses of parliament and the parliament threw out the deal that Boris Johnsons predecessor to reason may agreed with the European Union but once but 3 times are sure as the Prime Minister that he can get this deal through. Well a. J. In listening to him there in the commons in the last couple of hours youd think that he was just the pits to me a reasonable miss he talked about compromise said that this proposal was something which it might compromise on the party sides and would require compromise on the European Union side as well but he was rebuffed by a number of a number of parties here in the Commons Hilary benn a labor opposition politician reminded him that he himself on wednesday had accepted the private plans would involve at least some physical customs checks votes went against both the good friday agreement and subsequent commitments as well the leader of the opposition told Boris Johnson that what he was putting forward was designed to fail he said it was a rehash of plans that have been brought forward here in westminster and have been roundly rejected now of course behind that lies the fear among the opposition that Boris Johnson is really getting ready getting britain ready for a no deal bret said at the end of october Boris Johnson again has insisted that he wants a deal thats his priority as well as as you heard protecting the good friday agreement but at the same time people here and in brussels have seen a memo that his office has put out to conservative politicians basically advising what to do if there is no deal and if there is a crash out or a no deal brecks it which involves how to spin it how to blame the European Union and i think that his opponents here are very aware of that its a course these are just proposals theres no deal yet to get through parliament but how is the European Union reacting to Boris Johnsons ideas. Well a. J. You know i think initially it was very polite if if sibs you but now really weigh hearing very very stark reminder of how far the government the British Government needs to move weve heard the Irish Foreign d minister simon cave me saying that these proposals will not be the basis of a final agreement although he hopes they can be a stepping stone in that direction but his boss the irish teashop has had said in the last half an hour or so. That they simply are not acceptable he said that there would be a number of solutions that woods work including the irish backstop which these plans are put a supposed to replace his bottom line is that that shall not be border checks or customs checks anywhere on the island of ireland and given that the Prime Minister has accepted those will have to happen somewhere then there isnt a clear contradiction youd think also weve heard from the European Union European Parliament Steering Committee that the plans do not much even remotely what would be needed to reach a compromise in their heads that has said. These plans over rather the governments plans are not proposed seriously because of that memo in which theyre outlining how to blame the European Union for fadia so a lot of negativity right now Boris Johnson will be holding more talks with his counterparts around europe in the coming days but given that he plans to suspend parliament next tuesday for almost a week ahead of the queens speech a lot of the opposition here a still worried about how he might plan to get around this new obliges him to seek an extension without a deal theyre very worried about the timing theyre also trying to get that tax 6 right so its still very complicated out there as indeed. And friend reporting live from outside the house upon is another many thanks dad. Joe biden has described donald trump as desperate and defensive the u. S. President called his potential 2020 democratic rival stone cold and without offering any evidence trump again denied pressuring ukraines president to investigate biden and his son details of a call between the 2 were made public after a whistleblower complained that prompted the democrats to launch an impeachment inquiry more now from serious she has. House democrats announced on wednesday that they would subpoena the white house for documents related to their impeachment inquiry if they dont receive by friday theyve also asked for documents from the state department am President Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani but they warn that no one should think they can avoid cooperation through lengthy legal action challenging congresss authority for example so we are concerned that the white house will attempt to stonewall our destination much as they have stonewalled other committees in the past. Its why i say the white house needs to understand that any action like that that forces us to litigate or have to consider litigation will be considered further evidence of obstruction of justice and of course that was an article of speech meant against nixon the implications for the white house clear from the democrats dont think you could hold the impeachment process up in the courts if you dont cooperate with the inquiry will simply rolled out to potential articles of impeachment as obstruction of justice and infer that the reason you are not complying is because what the whistleblower said initially was true about the white house donald trump once again attacked the whistleblower who alleged he was abusing the office of the presidency to undermine the 2020 lections in his interactions with the ukrainian president this country has to find out who that person was because that person is a spot in my opinion but later in a press conference with the finnish president mr trump said he would cooperate with House Democrats in their inquiry however he grew to. He did as he was asked exactly what he had been asking the ukrainians to do in the 1st place biden and his son are stone cold crooked and you know it is son walks out with millions of dollars the kid knows nothing you know it and so do we go ahead ask you quickly the question was what did you want president selenski to do about present my President Biden and his son hunter. And you talking to me yeah i was just a follow up of what i just asked are you ready we have the president of finland ask him a question i have one form i just wanted to follow up on the one that i asked you which did you hear but if you want to hear me ask him a question im troubled president ial campaign released a new advert arguing that the impeachment process is simply the democrats attempting to undermine democracy because they beat him at the ballot box its nothing short of a coup and it must be stopped its a message that does seem to be resonating with trumps base at least the campaign is reporting tens of thousands of new donors and huge sums of money pouring in she able to see out washington and later on thursday the former u. S. Special envoy for ukraine who resigned last week will testify before 3 congressional committees as part of the democrats impeachment inquiry could volcker is the former the 1st former official to testify as investigations and trumps dealings with ukraine get underway lets cross live out of washington our White House Correspondent Kimberly Al Kut i can tell us more kelly how damaging could cook book us testimony be to the president today what are we expecting him to say. Well this is a closed door hearing so it will be reliant on leaks whether or not we know what he shares with the investigators up on capitol hill but what we can take from this adrian is that increasingly. The number of officials attached to the trumpet ministration ensnared in this controversy continues to get wider not only do we have the former u. S. Special envoy kurt volker text of firing on capitol hill behind closed doors but there is also reporting coming out about the u. S. Vice president mike pence that he too was involved in efforts to pressure the ukrainian leader now we are according to the Washington Post is reporting this understanding that perhaps the Vice President was not fully aware that the President Donald Trump was allegedly pursuing sort of another track to try and damage a political adversary in this case former Vice President joe biden but at the same time we do know that the u. S. President donald trump instructed his Vice President mike pence not to attend the inauguration of the ukrainian leader of lattimers selenski so certainly this is problematic for the white house as the u. S. Congress continues to investigate and the woman who has ordered this investigation the impeachment inquiry now see pelosi has been speaking on television here in the United States in the last couple of hours saying that she is going to continue to press for this investigation to move forward to find facts because of her view in the democrats few the actions of the u. S. President have undermined not only the u. S. Constitution and also National Security but also the integrity of u. S. Elections about mike pence then who until today or yesterday had managed not to be drawn in to be embroiled by this this this control b. C. I mean how damaging is it for him yes. It. Its very damaging for mike pence because you have to remember he has a long career in washington while he is part of Donald Trumps sort of unconventional Administration Mike Pence is a pretty typical u. S. Politician you know he comes from the u. S. State of indiana he represented indiana in congress now of course is the u. S. Vice president the fact that he has sort of tried to portray himself as a very school squeaky clean upstanding type of individual hes an evangelical christian very devout this is very damaging for mike pence now according to the Washington Post article mike pence was unaware of what the president may have been doing behind the scenes with regard to trying to damage his political adversary. Former Vice President joe biden but at the same time just being attached to this is a problem we should also point out that in the midst of all of this the u. S. President is going to be speaking potentially in the next hour and were watching very carefully for that adrian hes going to be heading to florida leaving the white house he seems very angry as he has been since this inquiry was announced so of course well be watching that carefully to see what more the president has to say about the controversy believe anything so White House Correspondent kimberly how could they live in washington d. C. Or meteorologist it was when folks is here to bring us up to speed with the weather some relief at last in parts of india yeah thus far we have got signs of the monsoon rains that last pulling away from the northwestern corner around 10 days later having said that agent and im afraid there is still some heavy rain around in the full cost having said that but some tools northwest we are seeing signs of an improvement lots of cloud showing up on the satellite picture you see some pockets of heavy rain into southern parts of towards the northeast as well but the literary 130. 00 millimeters of rain in 24 hours september average rainfall 780. 00 millimeters of rain october average rainfall one 160. 00 millimeters of rain so that is a big proportion of the. October rainfall already further north up and to be a house that was still having major problems with the rainfall and you can see water is really really reluctant to subside at present they will start to ease as we go on through the next couple of days for the showers never really too far away having said that so more showers up into the northeastern corner more showers i think this is going to focus for the heaviest rain over the next couple days down the Western Ghats or way back down into carolina up towards the northwest as the signs of things beginning to improve signs of the weather beginning to improve for the Korean Peninsula now as well we have got wetter weather from the remnants of the storm gradually making its way eastward safer than ever so many thanks it was a dramatic night at the world athletics championships here in doha and i think everyone was there for more on that lets join sara up the road in our studio at the international stadium. Thats right adrian. Taken a tumble but day 6 also some of the stars of tomorrow stepping up coming up at 1345 g. M. T. Britains smith wins have 1st wall title and make history in the process an American College champion the strikes gold an incident filled 110. 00 metres hurdles final. And. Yet another wall the title and we also look ahead to whats coming up in the stadium on thursday join us in about 20 minutes. Well this time many thanks still to come here on the news as well as all that safe from war but under threat of deportation the new fear for Syrian Refugees the tension between turkey and cyprus of a vast gas and oil reserves that lie beneath the mediterranean sea. To strengthen the good you have to shore do good all the more with it come still fight against corruption. Destroy new chiro heroes like know who are bad who refuse to 15000000. 00 brian the achievement of heroes like him to showcase by the International Ace award it shines a light on these heroes because the best way to fight a darker use to shine a light lets make a rule to Better Police nominate your Anti Corruption miro now. Recently reelected for a 2nd 5 year 10. We asked the president of malawi about alleged Election Fraud and corruption there been allegations made against you even how corrupt is malawis the president of malawi pete in the 3. To aljazeera. Well i get adrian for the get here in doha but the news from out 0 of the headlines. Coming out of open fire on antigovernment protesters in the. Capitol there are defying a curfew at least 20 people have been killed during 3 days of demonstrations across the country against corruption a lack of jobs and poor public services. At least 4 Police Officers in paris have been killed in a knife attack by a colleague the attacker was later shot dead the motive is as yet unclear. And france says the European Union is ready to respond to sanctions of its own if the u. S. Goes ahead with 7 and a half 1000000000. 00 worth of tariffs on e. U. Imports the u. S. Says that the taxes are in part retaliation for e. U. Subsidies given to european plane manufacture a loss. By lets get more now on that impeachment inquiry into President Trump and its implications on u. S. National security william courtly as a former u. S. Ambassador to kazakstan of the former special assistant to president clinton he joins us now live from washington d. C. Thanks for being with us former u. S. Envoy to ukraine cut bulk of them will testify today before 3 congressional committees he resigned from his post last week what will politicians be looking to get from him today they will be interested to know whether there are more connections between giuliani and ukrainian leaders that have been revealed thus far. As nurse we can tell though from whats been said publicly ambassador volcker was responded to requests. To present the landscape to make contact with giuliani so his role was relieved of contacts and that was a helpful thing to do because it was important contacts on issues like the political issues like that not be done in official channels but be done in private channels. It took about Rudy Giuliani the House Intelligence Committee a subpoena documents from. Rudy giuliani trumps lawyer who allegedly worked with ukrainians to investigate joe biden at how normal is it to have a private citizens Rudy Giuliani is involved in a countrys foreign affairs. Various president s that various times have made use of private citizens to negotiate. Various activities for example spy swap in one case president roosevelt was Franklin Roosevelt was noted for using a variety of channels of communication so it really depends on the president but for the most part in modern times president searchers a state of tend to rely more on official channels thats more reassuring too for governments they prefer official channels generally ok so if mike pence the Vice President as weve been discussing with our correspondent out here has managed not to be drawn into this controversy involving that phone call questions are now being raised about his involvement and how many people on the line when a president is talking to a foreign leader how many people are involved and what normally happens to that information the state department and n. S. C. Staff prepare talking points for president prior to a call in the oval office can be several important officials from the state department from the n. S. C. Staff and then and the white house situation room some more junior staff will be sitting around taking notes and they prepare the transcript ok good to see so many thanks indeed for being with us that so william called me that theyre welcome sir. North korea says that its latest weapons test was a new type of submarine launched Ballistic Missile it was fine towards japan on wednesday hours after the announcement of the resumption of denuclearization talks with the u. S. On saturday mission which is a professor of International Relations at Cook University of foreign studies he says the Missile Launch is unlikely to affect the restocking of those talks with the us this is definitely a qualitative. Improvement in range versus what weve seen from the testing of Ballistic Missiles in north korea over the last few months and this will i think put pressure among other things on the trumpet ministration and how they deal with north korea you know trumpet said the short range Ballistic Missile tests that were not a problem that they were standard you know this is obviously. Higher terms of threat of course its very much will depend on how good with 3 a submarine capabilities are and what we know about them so far is that theyre not particularly sophisticated in the submarine Warfare Technology by the u. S. And japan and south korea would have a very good chance of being able to track with real submarines so i wouldnt treat the threat in alarmist way and they clearly north korea is improving their delivery capabilities. Nigerias president is visiting south africa following attacks on foreign oil and foreign owned businesses that last month behati says that hes discussing the welfare of his people budgetary and government flew 600 citizens home following attacks in Johannesburg South africa and businesses in nigeria were targeted in retaliation after serious from the miller is in pretoria where the 2 leaders are meeting. While much of the focus in meetings between the sub african president s. And his counterpart nigerian president mamadou baria focused on business and political ties between the 2 countries a significant amount of attention has been paid to the recent incidents of xenophobic file and in cities like johannesburg in south africa where lash nals from other african countries were targeted some of them nigerians are of course has condemned the violence and once again hes expressed what he says is deep regret for the public violence saying that both countries a doing whatever they can to ensure it doesnt happen again we have expressed deep regret at the end of the past few weeks that many president s who appeared. For international. Condemnation. Or or or. And the violence remains very very. We have the. Measures. Of. The future and this is an important relationship that south africa enjoys of nigeria 64 percent of the trade that south africa has with the west africa is attributed to nigeria specifically this is a relationship that it appears both president s want to safeguard theyve also spoken about some of the root causes of the of the problems that have been seen as just a month ago but also in other years a saying that they need to cooperate in terms of the police and Security Intelligence in both countries to ensure that the violence doesnt escalate in the way it did previously and now the meetings between the president s are concluding during the state visit over the next 3 days and a lot of attention will also be paid to the ties between the 2 countries in that this is a strategic relationship one that might have seen some strain it during the periods of a scene of a big violence. In mali the families of 25 soldiers killed by fighters linked to al qaeda demanding information from the government protesters in the capital bamako say that Army Commanders are withholding details of mondays attacks on 2 bases 60 soldiers are still missing families accuse the government of failing to properly equip soldiers to fight armed groups. The taliban and pakistans leaders in the u. S. To resume peace talks in afghanistan Senior Leaders of the Afghan Taliban met pakistans foreign minister and islam about on thursday president on the tribe called off talks with the taliban last month following a bomb attack in kabul that killed 12 people including a u. S. Soldier on lebanon is being criticized for its decision to send back Syrian Refugees who arrived after april without proper documentation human Rights Groups are accusing lebanon of putting the lives of the refugees in danger nearly 3000 of them have been sent back in the past 4 months to hold a reports. These refugees may be safe from the war in neighboring syria but there is little that protects them in lebanon leaving the camp to find work has become a risk they live in fear of arrest and deportation due to tightening restrictions by various government bodies which insists returning to syria is safe. I entered legally in 2012 but i havent renewed my residency since i need to pay 200. 00 for every year and i dont have the money i also need a sponsor which i cant find the lebanese restrictions began in 2015 when doors closed to Syrian Refugees new visa and residency regulations were imposed now syrians who entered without proper documentation after april the 24th this year are being deported Rights Groups dismissed assertions by lebanons leaders that the restrictions are about improving security and protecting the economy its general security has admitted that they have defaulted over thousands of Syrian Refugees in the last month human Rights Groups say some of those deported entered before the cut off date and werent given the chance to consult a lawyer or challenge the order in court they also accused lebanon of putting those syrians at risk by handing them to the government in damascus accused of arbitrary arrests and torture that has led to deaths in the tension one of the individuals that was deported was a prominent opposition reporter he wrote publicly for opposition and has all the name and of course upon. Transfer to syria he was arrested by the syrian authorities the un confirmed deportations are happening and there could be more because the majority of refugees lack proper legal documentation which. Documents. Some International Organizations are accusing lebanon of violating its obligations to protect those fleeing persecution and violence they said representatives to beat officials here to find a way to stop the deportations when someone caught her. In the airport. And we know if they go back were going to be clear that one violation from. Anxiety is growing among the almost 1000000 registered Syrian Refugees who along with Rights Groups believe the deportation order is part of a wider government crackdown that is about making their life increasingly harder to pressure them to leave. Beirut. In hong kong an 18 year old student shot and injured by police during antigovernment protests has been charged with rioting and assaulting 2 officers students at the Chinese University of hong kong held a rally to condemn the shooting of their colleague on tuesday which was a national day in China Saudi Arabia says that its oil output is back to normal after last months attacks on its facilities the countrys Energy Minister told a conference in moscow that the kingdoms Oil Production capacity stands at 11300000. 00 Barrels Per Day but he didnt give any updates on repairs to the Processing Plant that was hit yemens who the rebels say they were behind the strikes but the u. S. And saudi arabia have blamed iran. The arguments over who will profit from oil and gas reserves in the mediterranean have taken center stage in greece territorial tensions between turkey and cyprus were discussed in athens and syrias johnson hopeless is the. The Eastern Mediterranean Energy Leadership summit in athens on tuesday was dominated by cyprus 2 years from now the mediterranean island is aiming to join neighbors israel and egypt in being Energy Independent and an export or of natural gas thats not going down well in turkey it wants an agreement with the islands Turkish Cypriot community on how the Energy Wealth will be shared turkish ships are exploring for oil and gas within the area cyprus has demarcated as its exclusive Economic Zone some experts predict the political insecurity will hamper Development Using his gunboat diplomacy in raising the 3rd of the sky and war. Make it impossible for any. Actor like competence to make long Term Investment in turkish troops invaded cyprus in 1974 in response to a greek could attempt on the island turkey controls more than a 3rd of the Divided Island where the Turkish Cypriot minority lives a political settlement remains elusive with the republic of cyprus dominated by the Greek Cypriots the cypriot government is offering to open a bank account to deposit 30 percent of oil and gas revenues for Turkish Cypriots until a political agreement is reached but turkeys government says that is a unilateral change to the status quo so we kept warning the greeks if you do not take any unilateral steps which would a infringe on turkish Continental Shelf rights. On the rights of the Turkish Cypriots on the north because it is not enough to say look dont worry im going to give you a share of any proceeds turkey also disagrees with the area cyprus has demarcated with its neighbors saying it should be a lot smaller if we accept the turkish version of the c. P. O. Text and chief Economic Zone we will be left. 31 percent of what it actually is today all of the discovered it in cyprus so far will all fall in other countries. And i think turkey must 1st answer the question how is that in the interest of Turkish Cypriots much is at stake according to the United States Geological Survey the Eastern Mediterranean holds 350 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 3 and a half 1000000000 barrels of oil that alone is enough to power the entire European Union for 20 years at the moment cyprus egypt and israel stand to most of those resources and turkey has none of them. The overarching question is whether turkey will demarcate its maritime interests according to the International Law of the sea like its neighbors or raise the temperature further jumps are up a loss al jazeera athens still to come here on the news and sports with how island got back to winning ways a broad based world cup
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