Department forced to release documents that show trumps lawyer was in close contact with the secretary of state over ukraine. Goes to trial at the International Court of justice over the crackdown on. New life in some of the alleged crimes. Lets begin in hong kong where polls for local elections are now open the poll is seen as the latest for the pro beijing government following months of demonstrations chief executive carrie lamb has cast her vote record 4100000 people have registered to vote its hong kongs biggest turnout since the territory was returned to china from britain in 1997 when speaking to the media kerry appealed for a peaceful. We are facing an extremely challenging situation in organizing this years elections but im pleased to say that with the concerted efforts of all parties including of course over 30000 Civil Servants in many departments working today we should have a relatively peaceful and calm and vironment to conduct these elections successfully. Hongkong prodemocracy activists just. For a test is to continue opposing beijing he was disqualified from running in the local elections says i will protest movement stuff for a few more people around the world just out of hong kong and. Should come out to book. Your action is that your action in marketing to base all this money on the street if you instead of over the political system but i still urge people actually to show how this can head to beijing. Mcbride reports from hong kong now coming amid unprecedented unrest everyone agrees this will be an election like no other many seats are being contested by a new generation of candidates some molded by the protest movement. And wing an independent is out on bail after being arrested and charged for unlawful assembly. People have been paying close attention to the process the excessive use of force by police and the aristos and theyve been studying the views of the candidates on these things and making up their minds in a city of 7000000 people a record 4000000 have registered to vote. You know its tough we dont know which side to take but beijing is in charge in any case all signs indicate that the prodemocracy protests are poised to win a big victory. This is important for hong kong people its like an opinion poll normally dominated by local issues this election will instead focus on the much bigger question of hong kongs relationship with Mainland China with pro china parties having the majority of seats up for election they are seen as having the most to lose given the groundswell of antigovernment feeling prodemocracy candidates are contesting every seat with thousands of new young voters registering for the 1st time the probe aging camp seems to be bracing itself for losses this year the elections have been highly politicized and violence have become a central issue and there are people for and against so local issues sidelined campaigning on streets that bad the scars of months of unrest leo chu is a candidate for the democratic party. Hes not hopeful about the chances of this vote forcing the government to concede on any of the protesters demands i do not have a very strong am optimistic mind about they were care about the people. In this direction but at least. In part a matter for the International Community that but people are thinking in hong kong. This ballot will likely prove the strength of feeling in this deeply polarized city the question then will be watching impact it has on the escalating violence of mcbride al jazeera hong kong. Sarah clarke joins us again live from outside a polling station. Now. Well the polls have been open for a couple of hours now and the official figures indicate that 150000. 00 people still cuffed their ballots in the 1st hour now thats almost 3 times the turnout in that same 1st hour since the 25th jane elections are huge lines at polling booths across the city you may be able to see a line behind this place but this line snakes its way around the building and this is a similar scene across hong kong as you mentioned it was broad mention in the story of 4100000 people have registered to vote thats a Record Number and the increase has been recorded in the 18 to 35 Year Old Age Group so the course currently has the majority in these district elections but certainly the prodemocracy camp is expected to win back some support in this district election so how much of a shadow as the recent protests cost over the election. It was something this is considered a referendum on the political process its been going on for 6 months now its also a test of the publics support for the prodemocracy movement and the protests is now with increase increasingly violent clashes between police and protesters ive a recent weeks weve also seen massive transport disruption across the city where the protesters have been targeting the transport system and thats obviously upset a lot of people the public support could be winding will certainly see that in this particular virus but the early turnout suggests that the pan democrats or the prodemocracy camp my return some sense of my win back some of those seats from the protestant groups but we do expect the early results to be in on sunday evening. All right thanks so much sarah clarke. In colombia and the government protests have continued in the countrys capital for a day large groups of Security Forces patrol the streets of bogota and fired tear gas and thousands of protesters and followed an overnight curfew. Defied by demonstrators who stayed on the streets angry over tax reforms and reforms in Pension System and their m. P. I think has more. Small groups of protesters are on the streets most are peaceful and happening without major issues but other ones if protesters try to march on the streets are blocked one of the rows they are immediately confronted. Quite violently by the police in and taking riot gear with tear gas with grenada bombs as we have witnessed earlier during the day we have now been able to confirm that at least one of these protesters was seriously injured by one of these. Days that hit them in the in the head he is now. Under surgery in a hospital in downtown we understand that his condition is critical but under control so were going to try to find out more about him in the coming hours and more people are also planning to repeat. Demonstrations were people hit on pots and pans in different parts of this city most of the violence seems to be happening when the protesters try to reach the government buildings downtown if they stay further now north and in the plazas and dont try to move on the streets then. Seem to move on peacefully. Now the u. S. State department has released threat holds related to its dealings with ukraine the documents support testimony at the impeachment inquiry that several senior officials were in the loop on efforts to pressure kiev into investigating the president s rival Joe Biden John Hendren has more from washington. The cast of president Donald TrumpsUkraine Pressure Campaign grows ever wider 100 pages of newly released state department documents show that secretary of state mike pump aoe spoke to President Trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani twice in march that was shortly before u. S. Ambassador to ukraine maria vonn of h. Was removed from office scott lucas says its not hard to infer what they were talking about but the day before pompei a 2nd call with giuliani there was a time line prepared which set out all of the material about biden his son hunter and Maria Vonnegut trying to set up in other words a paper trail for the secretary of state of these alleged alleged activities by biden and yavanna bitch that werent enough just wanted an investigation by ukraine the impeachment inquiry is looking into whether the white house engaged in a coordinated campaign to withhold nearly 400000000. 00 in military aid to ukraine until the president of vacuum tree publicly announced that he would investigate President Trumps chief political rival former Vice President joe biden President Trump denies that accusation i want nothing. Thats what i want for you thats what i said i want nothing the newly released documents support this damning statement from embassador Gordon Sunland was there a quid pro quo the answer is yes everyone was in the loop we kept the leadership. Of the state department and the n. S. C. Informed of our activities and that included communications with secretary of state pompei o. The state department had refused to give those documents they were obtained through a freedom of information lawsuit by the Watchdog Group american oversight now Senate Democrats are asking pompei oh in a letter to recuse himself from the state departments response to the impeachment inquiry pump ale was quick to respond im not going to accuse myself from this i know precisely what american policy was with respect to ukraine i was working on it and im incredibly proud of what weve accomplished also joining in the circle of those implicated in the president ial Pressure Campaign is the president s top defender in the impeachment inquiry republican devin nunez clearly these little chris accusations dont reflect Committee Members who are honestly searching for the truth on saturday reports emerge suggesting nunez met with a disgraced former ukrainian prosecutor to find dirt on biden that is according to a lawyer for businessman live parness indicted for his role in working with giuliani to prompt a ukrainian investigation of biden and his son if true the circle of all the president s men in the Ukraine Campaign just got bigger john hendren washington. Well still ahead on aljazeera israels Prime Minister accused of holding the country hostage as his political rival tells him to step down. Putting pressure on the french government to look at how activists are pushing for tougher action to stop Domestic Violence. Hello again to welcome back what across the United States we are dealing with a weather system that is coming in out of the southeast and you can see the clouds right there pushing through parts of atlanta now the system is going to move quite quickly as we go from sunday as well as into monday here on sunday the system is already up towards new england bring some very gusty winds a lot of rain and even some snow towards parts of new england on monday though were talking about the canadian maritimes that sees the brunt of the storm and things begin to clear out well behind the system but for boston things look like this on your 3 day forecast sunday it is going to be a very windy day a lot of rain in the forecast there monday we are looking at clearing conditions and by tuesday plenty of sun and the temperature up to about 12 degrees for you well here across much of the caribbean we are looking at some very nice conditions across much of the area not a lot of rain across the regions but by the time we do get towards monday heavier showers are expected across parts of jamaica as well as up here towards the north where a front will be settling in across the bahamas with nessa seeing attempt a few of 27. 00 degrees there and it is still quite cool here for Rio De Janeiro temptress all into the lower twentys we do have a front to push through so do expect to see some rain in your forecast here on sunday and by the time we get towards tuesday less rain with a temperature of 23. 00 degrees. This does make the heroes in your asia africa middle east over. Its a connection makes mistakes it for the because its. Such a short. Trip. This feel. Youll. Come back youre watching out 0 time to recap our headlines now voting is underway in hong kongs local elections a Record Number of people have registered this time around hed seen as a test for the pro beijing government following months of demonstrations in colombia antigovernment protests have continued in the countrys capital for a 3rd consecutive day hundreds of protesters were dispersed by tear gas following an overnight curfew in isolated looting in public. Records of the u. S. State departments dealings with ukraine have been made public confirmed contacts between secretary of state mike pompei and the president s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani earlier this year. We had miles leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to defend the countrys military against allegations of genocide at the International Court of justice the army is accused of targeting the nations rangar Muslim Minority in 2017 a documentary being add on aljazeera sheds new light on the abuses must warn you though a binge of aids report contains some disturbing images. Nearly a 1000000 muslims live in the. Worlds largest refugee camp in bangladesh as the International Court of justice prepares to begin hearing allegations of genocide and forced deportation of the ring a new documentary uncovers testimonies of abuse and the involvement of me and government officials. The prosecution has gone on for decades but since 2017 hundreds or thousands of rangar were forced to flee after the military accusing the rebels of terrorism as early as 1966 the Burmese Military started to see the ranger as a problem. Through the years myanmars government has even set up special forces to deal with its running the minority british government. There grew up these problems with muslims have existed since the british rule because they brought labor from bangladesh. Were not migrants from bangladesh this is their birth place and i was born in this house that was built 1819 our mosque was also built on 994 my great grandfather. Through the years myanmars government has even set up special forces to deal with its ruling the minority. Was essentially the burmese equivalent of as says. Now sarkar was the executioner this former intelligence chief says the priority was to stop people crossing into me in my or illegally you know i created an a sucker to stop people from crossing the borders it was the right thing to do they were migrants our objective was to control our border they are a guest from bangladesh and we didnt want to accept guest otherwise there would be no more rakhine just got more and more muslims that. Now decades later u. N. Investigators have warned genocide threat for me and is greater than ever i want into earlier the famous soldier held a gun to my head in seed what if i shoot you right now did he seed we have in order to kill all of you muslims we are invincible. Or were injured once their villages were burnt down were funneled into what is now the cum complex where 122140000 were injured are basically imprisoned there are concentration camps detention camps if not into communal violence this is the burma state organizing and watching over the destruction of ruins of villages and the rounding up of hundreds of thousands are injured into camps some ringer say they hit their children in graves theres had their babies burned alive. They threw the children into the fire that turned our heads the other way so that we wouldnt see it at the beginning we have never been soft on human rights in this country we must military denies carrying out mass rape and murder homeowner the really critical media a lot of news about what kind of state is fake there is fabricated news that the military has raped women its not true. They break just right there in the paddy field after 5 months i knew he was there i felt him growing in size only there i got a call the mongolia there are 5 of us women were separated from the crowd and taken into the house. But they closed the door then they blindfolded us and then they did whatever they wanted to do with us. Hundreds of thousands of simmering anger are waiting for justice and a chance to return home some of the job elders there who can see the full program called exiled when it 1st 20 g. M. T. On sunday one of egypts last independent news publications mother is appealing for the Urgent Release of one of its journalists a statement on its website says police took these a lot from his home in cairo on saturday they also confiscated electronic equipment and documents related to his work zelotes arrest is the latest sign of a widening crackdown on press freedom in egypt. Israels Opposition Leader by the gand says once again called on the Prime MinisterBinyamin Netanyahu to resign over corruption charges follows netanyahu statement on friday that he would not step down 3 indictments calling it an attempted coup in noncom has more from tel aviv well against time to statement perfectly for the evening news and this was very much a message not just to the israeli electorate but to the likud party itself yes he spoke in that building just behind me here in the Television Expo center where he had an offer for Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu take a look at what you had to say. Surely a call for unity government is a large as possible i would be the Prime Minister for the 1st 2 years while netanyahu can deal with his legal issues its clear he can come back as Prime Minister this is the only way to prevent an unnecessary election. So the idea is that the Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu will be a part of the government but he wont have any ministries and certainly wont be Prime Minister instead what benny gantz is just thing is that he fights his court cases and then stud