A birds eye view of the damage caused by the eruption. The libyan war only for have tars just held talks with the Greek Foreign minister in athens as part of International Efforts to end the conflict in his country nicos dandiya says he encouraged have to take a constructive approach to an International Peace conference taking place in berlin on sunday while athens has criticized its own exclusion from the un that talks it says it should be included because tripoli has signed a maritime and military deal with its regional rival turkey where John Zarrella joins us live now from the greek capital john so what more details are emerging from that meeting between half and greek officials. The Greek Foreign minister nikos then the us says that he and general haile for half time have agreed on certain basic things firstly that should be as you said a constructive approach in order to achieve a cease fire secondly that as part of that agreement all foreign mercenaries should depart libyan soil and thirdly that there should be absolute enforcement of an arms embargo on libya so that the civil war cannot be encouraged to begin a new buy new shipments of weapons to one side or the other theres another issue though theres another message that comes from mr than the us and it regards germany because greece hasnt been invited to the berlin process mr then the us says we expect the hosts of this round of talks under u. N. Auspices germany to behave as the guardians of european positions and that is a reference to the Statement Issued by the European Union last december whereby it condemned the turkey libya agreement on maritime jurisdictions as invalid and illegal and not having any legal consequences for e. U. Members greece or anybody else that is something that the greeks are now asking the germans to uphold for the for their sake and last night the Prime Minister said that if that didnt happen should such an agreement come to the European Union for ratification he would veto it and john i mean as you say greece is clearly not happy that it wasnt invited to that burning meeting so what role does greece see itself playing in helping to resolve the libya conflict. I think greece sees its role as not holder and defender of stability and legality in the Eastern Mediterranean that is what consistently comes out of greek statements from the Foreign Ministry from the Prime Minister even from the defense minister greece is playing very much by the book it is going according to the law of the sea demarcating its Maritime Territory it has to come to a bilateral discussion on that Maritime Territory a subject of dispute between the 2 rivals for decades now since 1973. And it i think greece is presenting itself as the defender of the legal status quo under the u. N. And under International Law so it is encouraging turkey to come to join that club that is that is its position John Psaropoulos there in athens john thank you i mean on the ground Libyas National Oil Corporation says its warehouses have been bombed several times during fighting revenue from the company is a major source of income for the internationally recognized government in tripoli the violence threatens to disrupt the countrys supply of fuel. The impeachment trial of u. S. President donald trump well now as you move on tuesday the Legal Process was set in motion in the senate on thursday after House Democrats read out the charges that donald trump faces but hes denounced the trial as a conduit by the democrats but is a castro has more now from washington d. C. The ceremony laden impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is now underway very eerie here all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment donald j. Trump has abused the powers of the presidency in that. Using the powers of his high Office President trump solicited the interference of a Foreign Government ukraine in the 2020 United States president ial election john roberts the chief justice of the Us Supreme Court has taken an oath to become presiding officer i do in turn swearing in the members of the senate just to become impartial jurors so help you god. But an impeachment trial under u. S. Law is not just a judicial proceeding it is a proceeding that is both legal and political with most of the jurists who will decide the president s guilt or innocence being members of his own Political Party and in an Election Year there is little reason to believe that republican senators when a vote to remove their own leader from the white house and the recent polling shows most americans expect a fair trial in the senate distro not one rigged in the president s favor the democrats say to get that they need to open the proceedings to new witnesses and new evidence that appear to incriminate trump further the president is blocking and again the American People just about all of them are asking the question what is the president hiding this chamber exist perseid sleep for schussler madam president so that we can look past the daily dramas and understand how actions will reverberate for generations. So that we can put aside animal reflexes and animosities and coolly consider how to best serve our country now the senate has summoned President Trump to answer the impeachment charges its a hoax its a hoax Everybody Knows that but its unlikely hell make an appearance its his attorneys who will plead his innocence in opening arguments scheduled for next week. Aljazeera washington. Where President Trump apparently knew about efforts to pressure ukraine into investigating former Vice President joe biden and his son according to a former associate of trumps noya President Trump know exactly what was going on he was aware of all of my movements live parness worked with Rudy Giuliani and admits he personally delivered messages from the president to the ukrainians from supporters say made up the allegations to avoid federal charges that hes facing trump has denied even knowing him. I dont know part of so that i guess i had pictures taken which i do with thousands of people including people today that i can make but theyre just better i dont know him dont know what hes about dont know where it comes from dont nothing about him an erupting filipina volcano remains life threatening despite we can emissions and fuel traumas government officials have been by helicopter to monitor the volcanoes crater zeros jamila and join them and sent us this report. These government officials want a closer look at the rumbling volcano so theyve come to this military air base in the town this province the plan to fly over the crater of the top. And decide how to respond to the threat it could see it used to pose its been days since the erupted but the crisis is far from over. We flew over the past city towards our late what we saw there was beyond human comprehension. What was once a popular Tourist Destination is now on recognizable. From above that we can see the end it was killed when kate gnosis buttes seen a lot of farmlands this is showing communities damaged confidence in crisis but in the middle of the destruction some are tearing to return for many this is all that they have left. We finally reach the volcano this crater. This is what alert level for looks like up close experts are warning now there eruption is imminent. Seconds later a fountain of plaques. And the pilot has to begin very quickly to escape a reminder of hope on the tile the situation is. Very. From. Our. Area. By. What we saw you. Expect they should also be somebodys success make the people my heart broke and it was heartbreaking to see the devastation loss terrible as far as the military is concerned we know that they need to be done and we are see the sense. And focus more than 50000 people have been evacuated from a 40 kilometer danger zone. But beyond the physical discomfort Officials Say it is the end certainty of what might happen next that braces the government to prepare for the worst. Since are difficult to accurately predict but more are expected and government officials see theyre leaving nothing to chance. To get on with and this province northern philippines. Chinas Economic Growth has slowed to an almost 3 decades low its g. D. P. Grew by just 6 point one percent in 2019 thats the know it since 1900 but within the governments target the worlds 2nd largest economy has been stifled by the ongoing trade war with the u. S. Exporters have been facing steep american tariffs on wednesday the 2 sides signed phase one of a trade deal to ease the tensions. The u. S. Military has confirmed that some of its soldiers were injured in an Iranian Missile attack in iraq and this month washington had initially denied anyone was hurt when the missiles targeted the military base thats north of baghdad they were lost in retaliation to their south the nation of Iranian Military command a customs and a money and a u. S. Drone strike the u. S. Says 11. 00 soldiers have been treated for concussion in kuwait and germany Gabriel Elizondo is in washington d. C. He says the troops are expected to return to iraq after their treatment. It does not appear to be serious injuries nevertheless this is what the pentagon is telling us they say that after the missile attacks on the base many of the Service Members were screened for concussions which they say is very common the blast from missiles can cause buildings to shake and rattle and and can cause potentially concussions in people that are even outside of the Immediate Impact zone once these tests were done on multiple Service Members that were at that base that needed further screening they showed signs of some sort of concussions that were they suffered after the blasts from those missile rocket launches the Service Members have been transported to a u. S. Air base in germany to a u. S. Air base in kuwait and they say theyre doing further testing the military says this is all part of standard procedure no one is in any sort of life threatening injuries or anything like that in fact the military says that they are expected after the screening is complete to be sent back to iraq so thats what we know now there are injuries or i should say there were injuries that this is the 1st time that it was being disclosed i should point out but it does not appear to be very serious well al jazeera has a summer binge of aid visited i mean al assad base just a few days ago he has more now on the strike and what it reveals about the capability of irans military. The kind of destruction we saw was a reminder that this could have gone. In the opposite direction the extent of the damage was quite a lot soldiers there were telling us that they were not there training prepares them for the worst Case Scenario and there is nothing that prepares them for a Ballistic Missile strike it also showed you the kind of Defense Mechanisms that they had in the base many were afraid that this is going to be a rocket attack which will be followed by a ground incursion so those are the kind of fears that they had on site and the the the damage was so extensive those big t. Walls that you see being set up by and large cranes were taken off like lego blocks and they had fallen on at least one of the bunkers which was adjacent to sleeping quarters of some soldiers where one contractor was inside and that was one of the people who was injured as well so it does show that they came very close to a conflict where u. S. Servicemen are contractors could have been killed but it also does show according to military analysts the kind of capability that iran has developed over the years because it can hit precise targets it perhaps did not want to kill u. S. Soldiers but wanted to show that it can launch missiles from iran hit u. S. Targets in the region and get away with it because it does not want to create a situation where many u. S. Servicemen would have been killed as youve seen from the u. S. President saying that if a u. S. Citizen is killed he is going to respond in force. I care not just iraq when we come back hundreds of migrants and join a rapidly growing caravan with hopes of a Better Future and we speak to how this judge has been labeled an enemy of the state and is not the only one of the bright morning. Hello there want to push their way across the Korean Peninsula and on into central japan a lot of activity in the last the as. Southern areas of china a little bit lice in nature on saturday but in fact we could be seeing some pretty heavy amounts of rain the system for the most part is staying really off that east coast but it could bring tokyo and actually feeling quite a bit cooler 6 degrees celsius so the 1st time for many days of actually just a dip down into single figures 6 ounces across into seoul but it should be mostly clear and dry 8 in shanghai and this case guys and of course woman down towards the south wanted to show that out towards the west and then pushing on into sunday no real change except that rain we just need a fairly swiftly away we will see more rain on its way into those Western Areas supporter though just above freezing with a high of one degree celsius and then india again is the fairly quiet here now as we go into friday and saturday the very heavy rain in the snow that will continue to clear by saturday weve just got one or 2 scattered snow flurries up to the north and then down tools the south we could actually have a few more showers in the forecast time which is a still cool as well into new delhi 18 on saturday not really warming up on sunday 17 degrees scattered showers to the south but a wont. Be for. Aljazeera explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how why breweries influence the course of history the crowd felt that he did not get enough credit for editing a budget he wants to be the biggest oracle figure but he was not della the biggest icon in the world the prisoner and the president who came together to end up partite in south Africa Nelson mandela and f. W. De klerk face to face on ill just see. Her. Welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here the sound libyan warlord early for have ties held talks with the Greek Foreign minister in athens because then the us encouraged toughed out to take a constructive approach to an International Peace conference taking place and burning on sunday. U. S. President Donald Trumps impeachment trial has begun the Legal Process was set in motion in the senate on thursday hes accused of threatening to withhold military aid from ukraine in exchange for a political favor and chinas Economic Growth has slowed to an almost 3 decades low its g. D. P. Grew by just 6 point one percent in 2019 thats the lowest since 1990 the worlds 2nd largest economy has been hit by the ongoing trade war with the United States. Chinas president xi jinping has arrived im in ma for his 1st official visit School Children lined the streets in the capital naypyidaw to welcome him shes expected to sign a 1300000000 dollar deal to build a port in Rakhine State thats where myanmars military carried out a campaign which forced more than 700000 people from the minority richenda to flee to neighboring bangladesh in 2017 well Phil Robertson is from Human Rights Watch he says men miles leaders need to consider the impact that chinese projects will have on local people. If theyre displaced as weve seen in other parts of myanmar often the package they get is nowhere near what they had before land displacement you know worse livelihoods worse situations for the people i mean thats something that the burmese government shouldnt want to welcome but unfortunately through their projects and working with the Chinese Government on some of these things they havent really presented the people with a better alternative it is a very poor country but you know development has to be done right and it has to be rights respected weve said that there should be similar to other Major InternationalFinancial Institutions some sort of package where there is Rights Incorporated into the project design that there is consultation process sees you know these things are something that various different groups have fought for for years with the world bank and the Asian Development bank with china coming on board with these major amounts of money were sort of back to ground 0 you know were starting over again fighting those same battles except with with a new group of Major International donors led by an autocratic leader who has shown complete disdain for human rights so its going to be a major struggle and its going to take a number of years. More than 2000 people have entered guatemala in a fast growing Migrant Caravan heading to the United States most of us gaping poverty or Gang Violence in honduras but as john holmes reports its unlikely theyll ever even step on u. S. Soil for. A caravan of more than 2700 homebrewed and hoping to get to the u. S. Its one of several that have set out from honduras since 2018 carrying many seeking to escape violence in extreme poverty. Among also mineral meters a coffee grower is traveling with his youngest son he says theyve no choice and then one day you know i have big debts and one douras that i just cant pay because your work doesnt pay enough to support even yourself. This woman says her nephews were killed over christmas and shes left so they cant get her son to shes too scared to let us film her face when you are. Losing a son would hit me more than anything else weve already made the decision even if they dont let us pass we cant go back and if you need to know what the cost of then we could run to shelter in Guatemala City is safe and have medical care food and a place to sleep even if it is only under the top pulled in that far from out of the center direct through setting up he expected more than a 1000 i asked how they were going to fit in the mother they have to do what else are we going to do we have to work miracles here thats the situation were in those in the caravan would be more miracles heading north mexico under pressure from u. S. President donald trump has said he wont let them through those who do manage to get the u. S. Border find disappointment right at the moment the 1st caravan of congo to is trying to get through guatemala and eventually to the United States plane loads of their countrymen are actually being sent back you already got there and asked for asylum to hear what the mother and that tells you how lou. Until they chances are of that actually being accepted for asylum at the end of this journey miles here knows that hes one of those whove gotten past caravans without success ask him why hes trying again not getting them or not putting one good on them and then we have nothing to lose because in hundreds we have nothing you understand our lives are at risk in honduras as we leave the shelter people are queuing to get in they know their journey is only going to get harder but theyre still going on. John homan how does it work from other city. Thousands of supporters of the gambians ousted leader john demonstrated in the capital to demand his return john has been living in exile in equitorial guinea since losing the president ial election to the current leader adama baron 2016. They want him back. Maybe loathed by Many Gambians for his repressive 22 year long rule in which human rights organizations believe thousands were tortured and killed but this crowd loves him calling him the builder of bridges theyre members of his Political Party the alliance for patriotic reorientation and construction also known as the a p. R. C. He cant come as a private citizen the news stands for. Going to president knows and we want him in fact to be the president of this country receipt what youve done to this country and in town hall one weve seen it is a. 3 years ago said he would rule the gambia for a 1000000000 years he was forced out of power into exile when west African Forces intervened when he refused to concede defeat after losing the 2016 president ial election it is from the comfort of his farm in equitorial guinea that the 54 year old former president is watching events unfold in his country with many disappointed with current president adam a barrows leadership you are no Supreme Leader you want him here among his supporters are nostalgic for the stability that came with his regime and so in a recorded phone conversation to Party Leaders he says he wants to come home. John may believes he has an agreement to with the African Union and west African Leaders allowing him to return to the gambia while he may get. Heros welcome from his Party Supporters victims of torture and those that lost loved ones at the hands of job Security Forces want to see him back in the country as well but to face Justice Nicholas hawke aljazeera. A weather emergency is in place in parts of pakistan after a several hour launches slip through pakistan administered kashmir more than a 100 people have been killed in the last few days isnt one of the affected areas. The while in snow is strong and heavy rain had left a trail of destruction particularly in pakistans Northern Area and pakistani administered kashmir most of the problem is because d of the boy infrastructure which could not take the weight of the recent doms as you can see he didnt rule there not stand. Against the heavy snow that were dumped over this area by digressive them i guess on how still concentrates on improving infrastructure because most of the ball people in these regions are already living on the slope which are wild rivers to avalon turns and landslides and the fact that most of the folk at large for probably accommodation and although the government keep promising new homes it would be better to concentrate on how to improve the standard of construction even in the rural areas of focus on will mitigate the effects of Climate Change im committed in my casualties but if im honest unless due to the heavy snow on the roof of that Building Collapse causing a lot of damage we havent received any help and we are at the mercy of god government should fold back our government should immediately ask the military to send big helicopters to small helicopters that can cope with the weather conditions or help with the rescue of a lot of people who are in dire need of help a carting 30 buckets on meteor logical department this was an unusual bomb that emanated from the air a b. And c. The Palestinian Authority plans to complain to the un after israels defense minister authorized 7 new nature reserves in the occupied west bank the palestinian environment of storage he says israel has already occupied 32 bits 52 nature reserves israel has built more than 250 illegal settlements in the occupied west bank which are home to more than 600000 israelis you know to bring reports from the Jordan Valley in the occupied west bank. Still dont know the exact locations of the areas israel is to the clear as Nature Preserve what a man there is one of them is ready to fully controls more than 60 percent of the occupied west bank so building is already not allowed but these measures are expected to impose more restrictions particularly on farmers and shepherds native reserves those military areas and historical flights are all seen here as part of a policy that aims to drive palestinians. From arm in arm about many people have already left because of the lack of grazing land and these are really harassment they sold all the sheep and if it keeps getting worse i will leave to this Israeli Defense minister Neftali Bennett has made the announcement bennett is a right wing politician who usually gets to support from israelis residing in illegal settlements this comes a few weeks before the israeli elections and is considered the way for bennett to shore up his support among his base no palestinian officials are saying that israeli politicians use an anti palestinian rhetoric just to win more votes not judges in poland speaking out against a bill that would allow the government to discipline them if they criticize judicial reforms the proposed bill is the latest episode in a years long disagreement to the Court Reforms thats triggered a feud with the European Union judge ego to lay has been fighting against the governments campaign. So. When all polish judges have lived under pressure for several years. Every decision or action thats not in line with what the politicians want is met with attacks theres been hate speech against us or our families sometimes judges are intimidated on the street and weve had attacks on our homes but weve become more immune to the attacks and going to thick skin we need to be brave we need to fight. Polands a member of the European Union but the situation with the judicial system here has nothing to do with european standards its more similar to russia. Or other dictatorships. Than. The last protest march attended by so many regular citizens has shown that people really care. More and more people understand whats happening in our country of course we should be able to defend ourselves but help from the e. U. Is also very important because weve used all the means we have to defend the judiciary now i think our last hope is the e. U. And. This argument saying most judges in poland are communist criminals is funny simply because more than 90 percent of them are in their thirtys or fortys and came of age after poland became a democracy the institutions being destroyed today with thought up during the 1st solidarity move. The destruction of our judicial system is certainly a step towards politics it because there can be no place for a democratic country in europe where the separation of powers is abused like this. Its a drama and a tragedy but i believe we will win. Was over. Right after a quick check of the headlines here in aljazeera the libyan warlord anything after just held talks with the Greek Foreign minister in athens niggas then dyess encouraged to take a constructive approach to an International Conference taking place in berlin one sunday athens has criticized its own exclusion from those un backed talks in the trying to resolve the conflict in libya John Psaropoulos is in athens he has more on the great governments expectations from the conference. Because greece hasnt been invited to the berlin process mr than the us as we expect the hosts of this round of talks under u. N. Auspices germany to behave as the guardians of european positions and that is a reference to the Statement Issued by the European Union last december whereby it condemned the turkey libya agreement on maritime jurisdictions as invalid and illegal and not having any legal consequences for you members greece or anybody else u. S. President Donald Trumps impeachment trial has begun the Legal Process was set in motion in the senate on thursday hes accused of threatening to withhold military aid from ukraine in exchange for a political favor chinas Economic Growth has slowed to an almost 3 decade a level its g. D. P. Grew by just 6 point one percent in 2019 thats the lowest since 1990 the worlds 2nd largest economy has been hit by the ongoing trade war with the u. S. Its chinas president xi jinping as rotten me in my office 1st official visit schoolchildren lined the streets to welcome thing shes expected to sign a 1300000000 dollar deal to build a port in a kind state not so i mean most military carried out a campaign which forced more than 700000 people from the running got to flee to neighboring bangladesh in 2718 well those are the headlines the news continues on aljazeera after an inside story on so much of life and. Donald trump has always said hell be tough on china and now hes signed a deal with beijing he says it will correct what he calls the mistakes of the past but this is really the beginning of the end of the trade war between the u. S. And china and who stands to gain or lose this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im Richelle Carey after more than 2 years of escalating tariffs and a seemingly never ending trade war the u. S. And china have a grade on a 1st step towards a truce