What weve heard from President Trump about how. He wants to ask china and the ukrainian press the president to investigate joe bodies and what does this mean for the impeachment investigation against them. Well hes just digging as hone hole deeper by. Reaching out to other governments for assistance not just the chinese but now apparently also the australians we dont know who else and this is a classic tactic by President Trump that hes used quite successfully as entire life deflected i dig in an attack and thats his effort if you saw that extraordinary press conference yesterday with the president of finland he never answered any of the questions he just attacked attack deflected and he thinks that this is going to work for him and it may have worked for him in business but it will not work in the United States government theres a checks and balances and what he will slowly learn and the faster the better because everything is going to come out what was the purpose of withholding the aid that he rightly increased as president to ukraine what were the terms of that suspension what triggered the reentry of what was the process that led him to decide one day d to hold up the very aid that he had approved and what was the quid pro quo any time a president ited states is on the phone with a nother leader that in an up self is pressure because when the press the president and states ask you to do something it is very hard to say no where the a slow roll out or actually do it depends on the countries but i think this is one more day of obfuscation and whats going to happen is this circle of people who some of whom the volcker today testifying are true Public Servants others are his political henchmen inside an outside the white house all of them need to just get up tell the truth because it will come out and the cover ups are always worse than the original crime so its tell me more a bite why exactly is the cover up worse than the original cry because a lot of people are struggling just to. The United States but otherwise to see what President Trump has done wrong here just asking for something on a phone call why is the legal aspects of the of the accusations might be lost on a lot of people why is a cover up more more damaging. Well apparently what happened is he held up ukrainian aide to get dirt on a political opponent thats not good whether its impeachable well find out but thats the underlying fact and well dig deeper into what happened and why and who was involved thats the investigation is going on in congress but what always happens whether its Richard Nixon in the coverage of watergate whether its president clinton and. His impeachment effort its always the those who try and lie and cover up goes back to Ronald Reagan in their own contra says people go to jail because of this and ultimately. You get everyone involved look ive worked in the white house the natural instinct is to protect your present defend because its a Political Climate and you want to fight back and defend what you do because you believe in it whats happening with President Trump is everyone around him seems to be circling and trying to play to his cues focus on biden focus on biden focus on biden and do not answer any of the questions like weve seen with mike pence and. Also the secretary of state mike pompei are they were in the know on this. At least Vice President s staff or was in on that phone call whether he briefed as boss or not we will find out what the strong message that all in this circle should here is just tell the truth because you cannot hide it the u. S. Government does not work like that so the longer this deflection continues its going to just get worse for everyone involved and just quickly say. How much of this does anything matter because President Trump is being attacked for all sorts over the past and has managed to come through and its this is turning it seems like its more of a political question than a legal one his baser locking up the defense even president clinton managed to get the cases impeachment inquiry and survive how much of any of this going to last its of the voters in the next election. Well it depends on how it evolves i think nancy pelosi is political calculation is this is not necessarily helpful to the democrats in the long run as you said president clinton was. One of those popular president s ever and still remains very popular people dont care. What were they will care about is officials in inner circle hiding the truth from the American Public and so it matters very much any impeachment process is its very rare in history so it matters to the president how its all going to unfold we really dont know yet but it is going to have an impact particularly on those aides who are getting sucked into this vortex ok nancy so words are very great to get your thoughts thanks very much indeed for speaking to us thanks now the death toll in iraq is rising with a curfew in several cities failing to quell 3 days of violence and see government protests demonstrations have spread across 9 provinces with Security Forces opening fire on crowds of people so far at least 20 have been killed most of those deaths happens in southern iraqi cities like nasiriyah and ammara i would baghdad alone at least 440 people have been injured more than 200 protesters were arrested but many have since been released a government imposed curfew remains in several southern cities as well as baghdad in the European Unions just issued a statement urging iraqi Security Forces to exercise maximum the streets and keep those protests peaceful lets bring in a judith know rick in athens greece she is the author and journalist whos written extensively on iraq 1st of all judith what would you say these protests are by its. They are about the fact that shiite who are in power do not get what they think they should they should get that that they think they they are entitled to. Since 2003 its the shiites who are the majority and who are the majority in the government as well informed of government but you dont see that if you travel around in the south of iraq. There is a lack of of everything infrastructure but also many young people are out of jobs and if you know that huff of the of the. Iraqis at the moment is under 20 then you understand is a very big problem that so many of the young people trying to ok i know this problem of unemployment is not new to iraq what was different this time brains. The difference is that this times its not organized there is no Political Party behind it like it was last year this is as good as the protest to say themselves there is no recompense ation that that cant talk to the government theres no one the government has already said lets talk they dont have one someone like that so these are groups of young people who say the government should go if the government doesnt go. Were never going to get any future ok. Im sorry to cut you short but thank you very much indeed for joining us from athens in greece. Theres lots more still to come on the news hour including. Find out why theres going concern about its a possible transatlantic trade war between the u. S. And europe. I may fly out on board the Greenpeace Campaign ship as brands are reporting on a unique scientific expedition off the coast of south america. And in sports with irelands got back to its winning ways at the Rugby World Cup. Bringing up to date on a developing story out of paris where at least 4 Police Officers have been killed by a kohli among the. One woman and 3 men on the sasha butler can bring us the latest details from the french capital. Or more details are emerging about the Attacker PoliceUnion Spokes Person said that the attack was a 45 year old man whod worked in Police Administration for more than 20 years it seems that in recent years he had worked in this paris headquarters right in the center of the french capital very close. Most recently in the Intelligence Services while he carried out an attack with a ceramic knife that would not have been picked up by metal detectors around 1 oclock in the afternoon eyewitnesses said that see a large doubt several Police Officers 4 Police Officers were killed i witness is described scenes of real panic of people crying and Police Officers extremely shaken the french Prime Minister interior minister and president rushed to the scene the whole area around this paris headquarters has been cordoned off and this attack comes just one day after thousands of Police Officers marched through paris to protest against what they say are increasingly stressful work conditions and also protest against what they say is increasing violence against the police arab citizens in israel are staging protests against what theyre calling Police Inaction on Domestic Violence hundreds are protesting outside the merged our crude Police Station in of the upper galilee they say there have been 70 killings recently in the deaths of been widely ignored by Israeli Police force it is life or is in west jerusalem harry whats happening in the north. Well yes this is a protest in this town of tulkarem and it should clarify that were talking about Violent Crime about murders and killings using weapons such as firearms and knives and in recent weeks its felt a palace in israel is that there will be a story like this to wake up to every few days just this week in this town there was a brawl involving 3 brothers 2 of those brothers were killed with a with a gun shot each and a 3rd man was killed with a stabbing injury and so this is representative of whats been happening in these communities especially it seems this year more than 70 people according to police have been killed so far palestinian israelis make up about 50 about 20 percent of the population about 50 percent of murder victims and there is a feeling that. The places in with which they live are essentially vacuums when it comes to proper security that police are properly engaged there arent enough on the streets and that essentially such crimes go unpunished whereas if they were happening in more jewish areas of israel there would be a lot more police in gauge went now there is a meeting thats been called by israels Public Security minister earlier today in which he says there will be plans put in place to put in specialist units to target specific areas specific criminals hundreds of new police on patrol in these areas the Police Spokesman also saying that new Police Stations have been and will continue to be put in in palestinian israeli villages and towns but it also does represent a wider feeling and one which was reflected in the recent election where there was an upsurge in voting for palestinian israeli parties the socalled joint list of a elected 13 members to the israeli knesset. The parliament and today the day which the knesset is being inaugurated this new knesset those 13 members have boy because it is part of a general strike which is going on in arab areas of israel on this day about this issue and the leader of the joint list im a notice saying a racist government neglected us and the police have abandoned on neighborhoods to gangs and criminals so very strong feelings on this subject rick a hairy farce that life has in west jerusalem thank you. Now in hong kong an 18 year old student shot and injured by police during antigovernment protests has been charged with rioting and assaulting 2 Police Officers students at the Chinese University in hong kong held a rally to condemn the shooting of their colleague on tuesday which was national day in china sarah clarke has more from the court where the student was charged. The 18 Year Old High School student who was shot with a live bullet during tuesdays demonstrations by a Police Officer has now been charged with a number of offenses including rioting arson and assaulting a Police Officer that he wasnt able to appear in thursdays Court Hearing it was shot in court simply because hes still in hospital in stable condition he was one of the group of 7 cases that were heard at the shot in court but only 4 of those people were able to attend because of the injuries now a couple 100 people gathered at that court to show their support for the High School Student who was shot because the police are still under pressure as to why they used live bullets during that demonstration and why they targeted the protesters chest now on friday the government is expected to announce a special meeting the executive council which is effectively the governments cabinet will host this meeting and is expected to consider implementing a new anti mass bill which simply bans the use of mosques being worn at these unlawful assemblies are considered by the government not the strategy would be used by simply used to utilise through the Emergency Powers now the probation groups have already showed their support towards this particular act on this particular motion on friday kerry lamb is expected to hold that executive Council Meeting and will make an announcement shortly after. Well the action is underway on day 7 of the world i thought 6 championships here in doha with more scope to far. Thanks so much weve got 4 titles up for grabs later on thursday and the stadium there have tattle on and it have on reached their conclusion there is also the finals of the womens 400 metres and shot. While action from another Golden Knight on the track including Dana Asher Smith securing her 1st wall tido and the American College champions trice gold in an incident field 110 meter heard all the finals was quiet action from the days matches at the Rugby World Cup join us in about. Who the and what or we appear to have lost far unfortunately lets bring you some news coming out of nigeria 8 people have been kidnaps a gun points in the area of the say 6 girls and 2 Staff Members were abducted from a boarding school in kaduna states early thursday morning rescue teams have been sent to look for the group while nigerias president is visiting south africa following attacks on foreign businesses the last month Mamata Bihari met with president of force and the 2 the gers discuss ways to prevent similar incidents from happening again or the violence problem says nigerias finance 600 citizens home South African businesses in nigeria were targeted in retaliation to the attacks in johannesburg and hes a member isnt pursue oriya where the 2 leaders are leasing. While much of the focus in meetings between the South African president. 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 are doing whatever they can to ensure it doesnt happen again we have expressed our work deep regret. Of the past few weeks that many present themselves who are turks. To the foreign national. Condemnation or or. Violence remains very very. We here. Who are. Great measures. Of which are probably. In 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 wants 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 his in of opec violence. Lots more still to come here on aljazeera. Im a cloud on board the Greenpeace Campaign ship as brands are reporting on a unique scientific expedition off the coast of south america. How i welcome southern look at the international forecasts more hates across the middle east but some showers today and to the southeast in kona southern parts of iraq a little bit of cloud on the charts hey weve had some wet weather so making its way across the far south of pakistan and that will be the case as we go on through the next day or so so friday a chance of wa