President s aides for her removal from her post. Was also in the news no letup in the public fury even though chiles government has agreed to a referendum for a new constitution. Loaded mind my. Bringing hope as a court in the u. S. Or does a retrial for a black man on death row for killing a white woman 20 years ago. So u. S. President donald trump is facing accusations of intimidation after attacking the latest impeachment witness on twitter and she testified before congress on friday maria von of it was the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine until she was recalled earlier this year the inquiry is looking into whether trump withheld military aid to ukraine and exchange for the promise of an inquiry against his political rivals back home well start with this report from heidi castor in capitol hill. President trump has said he too busy to watch the impeachment inquiry. Hearings threatening to end his presidency but he found time friday to catch some of the hearing unfolding on live t. V. And he tweeted about the witness on the stand his former ambassador to ukraine a woman he ousted from the post as we sit here testifying the president is attacking you or twitter. And id like to give you a chance to respond read part of one of his tweets everywhere marie of on average when turned bad but would you like to respond to the president s attack that everywhere you went turned bad i mean i cant speak to what the president is trying to do but i think the effect is to be intimidating you vonnegut is a career diplomat who served more than 30 years under president s of both parties in a july phone call the basis for the current impeachment inquiry trump told the president of ukraine she was quote bad news and would go through some things it was it was a terrible moment a person who saw me actually reading the transcript said that the color drained from my face i think i even had a physical reaction it didnt sound good sounded like a threat democrats say trumps attacks on you of on a bitch amounts to witness intimidation and possibly an additional impeachment charge against the President Trump defended his mid hearing tweet saying he had no intention to intimidate i have the right to speak i have freedom of speech just as other people do but theyve taken away the republicans rights given of each testified she was recalled from ukraine without cause in may shed been bronc fully accused of undermining trump she said and was the target of a Smear Campaign conspired between trumps private attorney Rudy Giuliani and corrupt ukrainian officials or continues to amaze me. Is that they found americans willing to partner with them and working together they apparently succeeded in orchestrating the removal of a u. S. Ambassador you gonna bitch says she still doesnt know why she was ordered home on the next plane she was gone by the time the white house froze security aid to ukraine and trump pressed the ukrainian president to announce investigations into his political rivals republicans say democrats have been unable to directly tie trub to an Impeachable Offense the problem of trying to overthrow a president based on this type of evidence is obvious but thats what their whole case relies on they getting with 2nd and 3rd hand information but now complicating the president s defense is this new evidence of possible witness intimidation in the form of trumps tweet that materialize before the publics very eyes democrats have tried to build up the radio bonaventure as a sympathetic witness and now trump himself may have helped them make that case while putting his own presidency in greater jeopardy heidi joe castro aljazeera washington and with us now from washington henry olsen senior fellow at the ethics and Public Policy center a think tank based in the capital nice to have you with us so ive done a few necessarily agree with the idea of witness intimidation but at the very least its not normal to have the person who is a stance of being being investigated shouting from the sidelines during during a hearing like this. Well this isnt a judicial hearing this is a political event and the president is right that he has free speech i dont think he was well advised to tweet what he tweeted or to do it while she was testifying but its not an attempt to intimidate a witness and its simply an attempt to make sure that he has his point of view out in the public and if he had done it 3 hours or 5 hours later i dont think we would be having this discussion and i think this is one of those things that will be forgotten about 48 hours later. Saying its more the issue that representative Schiff Adam Schiff the head of the committee actually chose to read the tweet out in the hearing thats correct thats correct i mean this is a partisan political maneuver that is going on and schiff was a very shrewd to pick up on a piece of information that he could use to drive News Coverage and drive a new piece of story to people who are already decided that they want President Trump removed but its not going to change any minds and its another example of the sort of thing that we talk about today and by monday morning well be talking about Something Else could it not potentially affect future witnesses though you might be thinking well i dont want to put myself in the firing line like that. I dont think so at all i mean anyone who is coming as a witness what theyre going to be is they will be testifying under penalty of perjury anyone who is going to be called will have already testified in private and if they Say Something different in public than they said in private then the democrats on the committee will be surprised and they will try to hold that person to account and i dont think that this is anything that is going to be surprising to anyone whos followed President Trump they know hes aggressive and they know that he will take his views to the public i dont think anyone who is under oath and can go to jail for lying is going to do so because theyre afraid of the tweet from President Trump lets talk more about on of its his test and then he devon eunice was saying in the report just a moment ago that if this is all 2nd and 3rd hand stuff its not relevant and its all positive of this political process to remove the president that said what we heard today was a korea diplomat someone very well respected on the multiple president s who was removed from her job and has never never been told why by anyone. I think its another example of the poor personality ministration of the trumpet ministration they dont treat people well they didnt treat the secretary of state well when he was dismissed by tweet they didnt treat National Security adviser john bolton well when he was expected. To be able to offer a letter of resignation and then President Trump tweeted out that he was going not necessarily of his own volition so i dont know its an unfortunate byproduct of how this president operates and its not a good thing but i dont think its again surprising the president is not a normal president or a normal politician and this is a more chilly out case of him being rougher than he needed to be but do you have any thoughts as to why he and this administration do that because every representative who spoke today would always say to ambassador janowicz thank you for your service we appreciate and theres clearly a lot of respect for what shes done over 30 years korea why does that seem to get just blown out of the water in as use pointed out many many different people. I think that President Trump thinks as we can probably discern extremely highly of himself i dont think he thinks very well of socalled experts and he expects people in his employ and ham bastard does serve at the pleasure of the president he does not need any cause to remove an ambassador at any time that he wants to under our constitution he expects that person to be along with his agenda and apparently he decided she wasnt he should have done it in a more polite way and he should have courted her courtesies but unfortunately and thats a bad thing but unfortunately the president doesnt do that for very many people and thats just something that the American People have to decide when he comes up for election next year whether thats important enough to remove him from office henry olsen from the ethics and Public Policy center in washington great talking to you thank you thank you. Well this impeachment process in the u. S. Is also focusing attention on corruption inside ukraine caught between the u. S. And russia as rival geo political ambitions ukrainians are looking to their president told me the lenski to steer the nation and clean up its political system so vast and with a report now from. Ukraines Flagship Initiative in its fight against widespread graft but here at the newly installed high court of anticorruption the cases are rapidly piling up in the dark a former Deputy Governor of the National Bank hes a suspect in an embezzlement case of nearly 50000000. 00 with the bailout package approved for ukraine the i. M. F. Is pressing the government to recover an estimated 15000000000. 00 that disappeared from the countrys banks they include one previously owned by a supporter of president followed me as a lenski reading this is here and the way they really want to destroy all this money to the country this process i mean cleanup it was a very painful for the society for the government for the budget but. Today i can almost almost tell you i dont see any other massive scrolls. The impeachment process in the u. S. Has focused peoples attention on ukraines long history of corruption. The magical robinson was one of president elect is moving toward the election promises all but has been actually one of the greats richest only cards and the phone. In which he said that the state prosecutor who was one of the sons was worse and has caused some concerns. While many in ukraine consider the us a supporter in its fight against corruption this seems to have changed. Always with the grays all of politics its also a term to use ukraine as a leverage for personal political interest by american politicians. Sergey lesh and co found himself dragged into the case against trump after he was accused by the u. S. President s personal lawyer of madly in u. S. Elections in 2016 who. Giuliani claimed lashon gold medal by exposing secret payments to drums Campaign Chairman paul mann of ford he denies that claim i feel myself as a target of some american politicians and lawyers who decided to make themselves very useful for mr trump and they manipulated to fire him except for mention the fact was fake news. For ukrainian state of other things to worry about the landscapes efforts to go after those who have been rich themselves over the years at their countrys expense have impressed many but many also say its only the beginning and the results have yet to be seen step fasten aljazeera. Just one other note out of washington to tell you about a former advisor to the us president has been found guilty of 7 offenses including lying to congress and witness tampering or just stone was charged earlier this year during the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election has now been found guilty of lying to congress about his contacts with wiki leaks during the election and his efforts to push one of his associates to back up his lies he will be sentenced in february here is part of telling with more. It didnt take the jury long just about 7 hours to find roger stone guilty of all 7 counts obstructing official investigation lying to congress intimidating a witness basically this goes back to the election during the elections dont put out messages on social media that something was going to come with what you call the wiki leaks started releasing emails that were half from the Democratic Party the Intelligence Community now believes that that was done by Russian Hackers so congress as part of their investigation into potential election interference called stone and he said it wasnt me it was this other guy theres no evidence that i was coordinating between wiki leaks and the Trump Campaign for the prosecution brought out texts emails and witnesses they said in fact he was trying to get information from wiki leaks and he was conveying that to the Campaign Including up to then candidate donald trump the most serious charge here is the potential of intimidating a witness there this witness had messages from stone where he quoted the godfather movie about the mafia and threatened to get rid of the mans dog so now what happens well in february stone will be sentenced he faces up to 50 years in prison but the way federal guidelines work it likely face much less time than that of course no stones going to be looking for his longtime friend and associate donald trump to give him a pardon right now hes probably his best bet to stay out of prison. And have a look at whats coming up for you on the news on. T. V. I know. I was just tension on the streets of believe you thats teresa but while jazeera journalists caught up in the rest. Also former finance minister could be lebanons next Prime Minister that possibilities angered the protesters even more. And in sport the on field attack that resulted in an n. F. L. Player getting. An indefinite ban from the game. Its now where politicians have agreed on a plan that will pave the way for a referendum on a new constitution it was announced early on friday same to pacifying some of the antigovernment protesters whove been out on the streets for weeks now but they for now it hasnt worked and seem to be at least demonstrate is back on the streets they once again tear gassed by police in santiago is our last in america at the scene human the c. E. O. We were talking about this 24 hours ago this idea of a constitutional referendum but i think you said it 24 hours ago that it wasnt the kind of thing which was going to make people happy at least not in the short term. Not happy and not certainly it you can see here there are thousands and thousands of people that come out yet again onto the streets continuing to call for short medium and long term reforms in this country are very large number in fact less than 24 hours after the opposition and progovernment deputies finally agreed on whats been called a historic agreement to draft a constitution that will put to bed finally the one that is still in place that was written in 1980 under the pinochet dictatorship now you would think that would make everybody happy because it was one of the. Key demand here but a lot of people are saying that they want to see the small print they simply do not trust the politicians that put this agreement together and it will go to a referendum but other people are saying for example that one of the requirements of writing this constitution will be that it not that each article has to be approved by 2 thirds they argue that this will mean that the minority the wealthy will still be able to block substantial deep reforms in Health Education pensions and salaries the same sort of thing that people have been asking for here for more than a month so they simply you know what i have my feeling is that they just dont trust their politicians enough to even agree on something that they have been asking for all this time and so were seeing them out here again carrying signs this is on my porch and flag behind me some people are starting to leave because theres a lot of tear gas and pepper spray just about 150 meters away from me its being spread where we can feel it were breathing it and this will probably end in more and more clashes with riot police as weve seen just about every day for more than 29 days now come all the see you mentioned the flag before can you explain to our viewers what about actually symbolizing. Well this is the indigenous flag really of all the Indigenous People of latin america but its also represented in my blue chip people who are the original settlers of chile and also part of argentina they are theyve been pushed aside to have their land taken away from them until recently there were they were not so present in these demonstrations there were which it was mainly more to education more Health Better pensions but now the points come to the forefront as well and everybodys carrying the flag and yesterday was the anniversary of the killing of one of the main might point to Community Leaders coming up at the young guy that was commemorated and people who are black and they havent forgotten that so one of the things people say is needed in the new constitution is to give them up which is their right to their land that theyve lost. Ok lucy are willing to go just for now the scene humans are lost in america and its in santiago you might bolivia is expelling all venezuelan diplomats accusing them of meddling in the countrys internal affairs then his way there is a key ally of the former president if a moron is of course resigned this week and sort of silent in mexico after weeks of protests there the demonstrators are back on the streets again demanding a democratic handover of power the interim president. Has come under fire for her previous statements on Indigenous People now you suddenly see or a moment ago starting to struggle with the tear gas well as the demonstrations began in the pubs on friday teresa both of our correspondents actually got caught up in the unrest have a look at this. Absolutely. Lovely fia i was just thrown tear gas by the police on purpose this is whats happening in the middle of a plateau where people have been protesting peacefully a Police Officer just threw tear gas on my eyes says extremely difficult to speaks theyre very sorry theres been protesters. Theres dozens of Police Officers here they just threw tear gas at it right in my ass face passed through and through tear gas in my eyes theres been people protesting here trying to make it to the president ial palace and the