Think show their parliament or or a Prime Minister or the even the presidency could do were and perfectly were the demonstrators or the protesters and the problem is a very complex in iraq the political system has produced a consensual you know all between the Political Parties and they have shared the power they have here everything and fortunately they cannot. Its resulted in their in a very proud you know and their you know weak government as well as very weak you know procedures to fight the corruption mismanagement you know these are real demands by everyone in iraq iraq would like to see their country is very prosperous and very strong country has a good economy has a good basic instinct services unfortunately the government. Which is the product of the political process and the parliament as well i dont think should the parliament could do with their emergency assertion do much because they are part of the craftsman not part of the solution so then what youve been discussing there is there is the systemic problems with the Iraqi Government and you know the Prime Minister of them hate is they even said there is no magic solution to the governance problems which are iraqs had thats long term were looking at pictures right now if i was in the streets and were looking at people protesting and people getting killed what do you do to stop that right now. I think rio. The new forms to the political processes that would be 10 job loss on the grounds not only promises and thats from says will the just pulling the people around promises to fight the corruption and bring all the corrupt officials to the justice and set them liable and accountable for what they have done and the past 16 years of the concept of governments where very fragile very then we cannot you know face are confronted with the Political Parties that are forming the government and therefore i think the real freeform and would be you know. I dont think so even that the the figures who are participating in the political processes are one apply to make this kind of reforms because they will deprive themselves of from the blue jays they have gotten from 2003 until today so independent of figures independent academy people. People who are not the parties and could possibly space in a community to provide the real and the breck matic reforms to the political process in iraq just quickly im just waiting for notes here where you pointed out give me that these protests have happened in the south and in baghdad which is a shia majority is that a significant part of these protests is very significant i think you know. You know this is a protest are this these the demonstrations are you know and after so of of a series of protests and demonstration took place in the past 2 years and the body was like expecting this approach you know them stretching to take a place in the last summer but it was i think possible until today. Because people are boiling for a problem from you know just a promising them for you know for nothing the government is handcuffed by the political elites they could not do anything here on the ground the they cannot fight the corrupt people they cannot to provide the jobs to dos who are a need for the poor job they cannot to provide even the the minimum of basic services so i dont think so the government therefore back to your question most of the people are who are them straight into though which is more significant as wealth in the south and in the end back there in the little that means the majority of people are getting the street to protest against the shiite majority government although there are sunni representative in the government as well as kurds are representative of the government so because it is consensual government and that thats really a 2nd if it cant and the protests shall she others are dispersed who aided the resentment with word that when the government and i need to a real what he plans on the ground so they will be feeling you know they are children and they have to be deal. With it or with the other people ismail also than me thank you so much for your thoughts and for staying with us as well to appreciate it thank you very much. Plenty more ahead for you on this news hour including the president ordering the release of hundreds of detainees linked to the countrys separatist crisis but will that be enough to end the fighting there. Also the conservation efforts that have led to this species making a comeback and spoke with south africa take a big big step towards the Rugby World Cup quarterfinals. Now the u. S. Justice department is facing a deadline to hand over all information about a whistleblower complaint that sparked an impeachment inquiry healths Intelligence Committee which is conducting the inquiry against President Trump says it wants all the material by friday this comes as ukraines new top Prosecutor Says he will review some 15 cases which were handled by his predecessors including a criminal case involving a Natural Gas Company that employed the son of former u. S. Vice President Joe Biden meanwhile house investigators have really several Text Messages between state Department Officials this is about withholding aid to ukraine the former special u. S. Envoy to ukraine could focus handed over these talks when he testified before 3 committees on thursday and still more developments Vice President mike pence is now under the spotlight after reports trump also involved him in the efforts to pressure ukraines president but pence is defended the president s call for an investigation i mean the fact that my predecessor had a son who was paid 50000. 00 a month to be on the Ukrainian Border at the time that Vice President biden was leading the obama administrations efforts in ukraine i think is worth looking into and the president made it very clear that he believes he believes our other nations around the world should look into this world. Ok heres the team covering this this hour capitol hill where more impeachment hearings are expected were starting though outside the white house with Kimberly Kimberly mike pence theyre doubling down as we say and what the president was saying about investigating. Foreign investigations i mean they seem to be just reiterating the point of what the whole impeachment is about. Yeah theres no question that the number of characters of the trumpet ministration is certainly widening and that includes Vice President mike pence he certainly has now been ensnared in this impeachment investigation and we are learning from all of this that we are he was aware of the july 25th phone call its not clear though whether he was told about donald trump and what he happened to say in that phone call namely the suggestion about an investigation into the bidens now i should point out that the u. S. President donald trump has been speaking from the white house in just the last few moments he has just departed from the White House South Lawn to go speak to the Wounded Warriors north of here in bethesda maryland and the president just like his Vice President speaking in live in in lockstep if you will saying that there is the right and duty of this administration to investigate the fact this is not about trying or rather this is about trying to root out corruption this is not about politics and essentially what donald trump is saying is that he believes is the democrats continue to try and investigate with this impeachment inquiry that they are going to pay a price at the polls now the u. S. President has also been saying that he denies that those tax messages that were released overnight that they were incriminating in any way they dont show any quid pro quo as we say in washington essentially withholding aid to ukraine in exchange for the political investigation the president says he has a right to call for and the other thing that the president said in all of this is despite all of this fixation on his political rival joe biden the former Vice President donald trump saying just now that he doesnt really care about joe biden and thinks he wont do very well if he becomes the democratic president ial nominee. The white house and now we are off to capitol hill. Concert how to tell us about further hearings happening. Well the hearing is still reeling from these Text Messages that were released overnight and capitol hill is still digesting what it says and they appear to be a compelling case that u. S. Diplomats and ukrainian officials knew exactly what was at stake when trump said to the ukrainian president during the phone call do us a favor though and what was at stake it appears to be a meeting an invitation for zelinsky to meet with trump at the white house now just go very quickly a few of these text the day before the phone call between the 2 president s the ukrainian on boy the u. S. Envoy to. Laid out the terms to any ukrainian aide and he said assuming president z. Convinces trump he will investigate what happened in 2016 we will nail down the date for a visit to washington then after the phone call us diplomats texted amongst themselves confirming that ukrainians understood that trump wanted quote the deliverable that being a statement that was drafted with the help of transpersonal attorney Rudy Giuliani and in fact ambassador volcker proposed wording to be given to their ukrainians for that statement that they should say we intend to initiate an investigation including karisma which is the Ukrainian Company that joe biden sunset on the board of and the 2016 u. S. Elections but after that ukrainians still wanted a date for that white house meeting before providing this statement and thats when they figured out that in august the u. S. Aid was withheld from them to have been promised and thats when another u. S. Ambassador bill taylor entered the conversation asking his colleagues quote are we now saying that Security Assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on a ukrainian investigation at which point another ambassador ordered sunland who is a wealthy. Hotel owner and trump donor said call me democrats are saying that this appears to be spelling out in black and white that indeed there was a quid pro quo. We have evidence of Text Messages between state Department Officials expressing concern as early as may that Rudy Giuliani had a jew there was a giuliani biting thing going on that had concerned a state Department Official we have evidence that a state Department Official was concerned that there was a linkage between Security Assistance and as he described a domestic political campaign. So i know the attacks were long but its important to really lay out exactly what evidence democrats are now working with and now theyre getting more evidence as the Intelligence Communitys Inspector GeneralMichael Atkinson is now on the hill giving his close door testimony to investigators he is expected to speak more about the whistleblower report about that phone call between troubles unless you that open the doors to all of this and exactly what witnesses and what other evidence he may have access to that he could point investigators toward as well come on how to castro on capitol hill thank you for all of that stuff. And now i guess clay think his in philadelphia professor of law at the university of pennsylvania always good to see you claire lets start with Vice President mike pence today because this kimberly was pointing out he is another person being involved in this i mean this is were learning a lot about how many people could potentially be on one phone call at once and when its the president and the Vice President and i think the secretary of state as well it implicates a lot of people. What we learned the day before yesterday from a story that the Washington Post broke is that the Vice President had an aide on the phone call he was briefed on the phone call he was given notes he was given a transcript of the phone call on his way to ukraine and yet in the face of all that he was still claiming that he wasnt really aware of the details of the phone call and thats just not credible moreover it seems that if anyone was really involved in laying out the quid pro quo involving the sending of military aid to ukraine which the president decided to hold up while he tried to get information on hunter biden out of ukraine it appears that mike pence was involved in laying out that quid pro quo so what were talking about is a large scale conspiracy to subvert and violate Campaign Finance laws here that numerous federal agencies were involved in and the Vice President so no clear youre a legal expert in your laying out the legal argument but it appears that the white house isnt going down that path or misses that they just keep sort of talking and deflecting into the idea that well the bidens need to be investigated or this needs to be visited or china needs to help or ukraine needs to help. The laws has got to be important here. Thats right the law is very important and of course it will be very important when the house draws up its articles of impeachment which is where it looks as though we were going the interesting thing is while the white house is not going there as you say because they are trying to deflect and denali wrongdoing in this case the president is openly requesting Foreign Countries to assist in continuing to dig up dirt on hunter biden and investigate joe biden he yesterday just yesterday asked china to him to assist with this project so hes openly asked now admitted to asking ukraine he asked australia hes asked china is doing all this in plain sight and these requests do violate u. S. Law clear one other issue one has to ask you about is the subpoenas the democrats are saying they want everything by friday. This seems to be leggin lack of cooperation from the white house what happens if they dont actually cooperate with the subpoena. Well 1st of all theres a theres a request for voluntary cooperation and congress will always ask the white house to cooperate voluntarily if they dont cooperate voluntarily we expect to see a subpoena issued to individuals who they expect to have those documents that they want and if those subpoenas arent complied with then its up to congress to decide whether or not to hold those individuals in contempt of congress as far as enforcing a contempt citation congress has a number of different options one of the most likely options is that they would try to send it to a federal judge 6 and ask a federal judge to help and enforce the contempt citation clear always so informative talking to you thank you for joining us today. No host scott there are hoping for a Golden Knights of the world athletics championships here in doha more on that with far a smile. Yet to come all its all eyes on the high jump its the 1st of 6 titles up for grabs later here at the Khalifa International stadium. Bar shame is the defending champion and the big home favorite in fridays final will have action from another Golden Moment from britain as Catarina Johnson thompson finally delivers on the big stage and there was a huge upside in the 400 meters the olympic champion is beaten by the 3rd fastest time in history will also have action from the Rugby World Cup join us here at cle for International Stadium in about 20 minutes lots of sport coming up looking forward to that with fara and still ahead in the news as well were going to look at how young voters in britain will shape the countrys next general election whatever that counts. Hello there we have got some rain across the middle east is knows exactly why its spread you can see where the cloud is across more areas tools east but as we go through the next couple days some rain showers pushing into southern areas of iran and working their way across into southern areas of pakistan as well its already cooled off quite a bit across much of a afghanistan 20 celsius in kabul and then the clouds and the rain pushes further in the general direction so reading comes in much of central and Northern Areas of pakistan but drying out across much of iran meanwhile some showers to northern turkey much cooler and sunday of 19 degrees celsius so some nice sunshine in beirut with a high of 29 is still pretty warm across much of the Arabian Peninsula fairly calm conditions no real strong winds in the forecast. Still feeling quite humid particular in doha saturday 37 is the High Temperature has gone as the clouds along the southern areas of both oman and on into yemen temperature wise its in that i thought is the muscat weve got 30 on sunday and then into Southern Africa the temperature is a still on the high side 70 calls into where dublin in johannesburg there is some cloud just sliding by the south coast 21 is a high that if you cape town on saturday. International trade would you support it having free trade would not change your money or the japanese or chinese dogs