getting an accurate informative story out of there is not easy they pose it too late we already have the information they're listening post on. an easy calm across the gaza strip a cease fire is in place after 2 days of violence between israel and islamic jihad . the launching alters your life from a headquarters and. also ahead withholding security assistance in exchange for help the domestic political campaign in the united states would be crazy i believe and i believe it's no. more evidence against us president donald trump by a senior diplomat in the 1st public hearing of the impeachment inquiry.

another day of violence in hong kong the schools and universities are closed across the territory costs. issues its lack of. funding for the community. how years of conflict has devastated sudan's health care system. hello a ceasefire has been agreed in gaza after 2 days of cross border fighting and israeli air strikes egypt has been mediating between israel and the palestinian group islamic jihad's 34 palestinians have been killed in the airstrikes in 2 days the escalation began after the israeli army assassinated it a senior leader of islam a jihad on tuesday israel's foreign minister says it will observe the truce as long as the armed group does the same on islam in june. spokesman confirmed the cease

fire to the north also led winter into effect on the ground at 5 am with islamic jihad conditions on behalf of the palestinian resistance factions dealing clue to the occupation submission to conditions which is to stop the excess of nations protecting the protesters that the much of britain's demonstrations and to begin practically the procedures to break the siege of gaza this is guaranteed by the presence of resistance in the field and it's really nice to respond to any aggression in the future and also the continuation of the egyptian role at the political level very false that is joining us from the israel gaza border what are you hearing about what's just happened terry. just in the last 5 minutes it seems that there is a real fragility to this ceasefire. rockets siren alerts from areas around the gaza strip not right here it has to be said but we got those alerts through on our phones and got confirmation from inside gaza from our colleagues there that more

rockets had been fired out of gaza territory and at around the same time we heard here in this location what sounded like outgoing israeli artillery although we can confirm that certainly loud bangs and so the cease fire had that it had been holding for the last 4 or 5 hours appears to be less firm than it might have and this is exactly what the u.n. envoy a nickel i'm not enough who was involved in concert with the egyptians in trying to negotiate the cease fire was warning of he said that that been a lot of work to achieve it but that the coming hours and days would be crucial in trying to avert a wider war you heard there from the islamic jihad on what it says the terms of the cease fire were in terms of stopping israel from firing live ammunition at the friday protests israeli green not to carry out further targeted assassinations

well certainly the foreign minister of israel in an interview earlier said that israel would not. avoid not declined from taking any action that it deemed necessary including killing those who it deemed a threat so there are differences in the rhetoric and now it seems there are some differences as well in terms of the actual clashes continuing on the ground ok harry we'll leave it there for now we'll cross back to you a little later thank you for that updates. i was about sutter has described how president donald trump put pressure on ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden welcome taylor who was one of 2 diplomats to appear in the 1st public hearing at the center of an impeachment inquiry into trouble. reports from washington the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god william taylor and george kent took the stand together at the 1st public hearing in the impeachment inquiry career foreign officers called by

democrats to tell a compelling story to the american public taylor is the acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine who upon assuming the post in june found himself dropped in the middle of a mystery once i arrived in cave i discovered a weird combination of encouraging confusing and ultimately alarming circumstances taylor had begrudgingly agreed to come out of retirement to take over the u.s. diplomatic mission at a critical time his predecessor maria had been ousted without explanation and president trump personal lawyer rudy giuliani was meeting with ukraine officials to discuss debunked corruption allegations against political rivals that had taylor worried and countered an irregular informal channels of u.s. policy making with respect to ukraine unaccountable to congress taylor began asking questions and learned the informal channel was aimed at getting ukraine to

investigate joe biden trumps potential opponent in the upcoming presidential election taylor says career diplomats were sidelined as trump's shows and aides pressed ukraine to publicly announce a biden investigation george kent a state department expert on ukraine says giuliani was getting more involved in u.s. relations with kiev it became clear to me that giuliani's efforts to gin up politically motivated investigations were now in. acting u.s. engagement with ukraine leveraging president selenski desire for a white house meeting but there was more ambassador taylor says he had a clear understanding that u.s. security aid to ukraine worth $400000000.00 was also on the line the money was essential for ukraine to fend off russia's military advances to withhold that systems for no good reason other than help with the political campaign made no sense it was it was counterproductive to all of what we had been trying to do. it

was illogical it could not be explained it was crazy multiple witnesses have corroborated taylor's testimony much of the facts are uncontested but there is a critical factor still missing from the democrats' argument to impeach president trump and that is evidence that trump was directly involved and therefore to be blamed the closest democrats have come is a july phone call between trump and the president of ukraine a lot of years olinsky tells trump his country's ready to buy more weapons from the us for defense purposes trump sansar i would like you to do us a favor though then ask for investigations into democrats and the bidens this is extortion this is bribery and in any other instance people would go to jail for sure trump says he's innocent and republicans are stanch lee defending him but anyone from millionaire the democrat scorched earth war against

president trump would not be surprised to see all the typical signs that this is a carefully orchestrated media smear campaign prior to the start of the public hearings americans were about evenly divided on whether to impeach trump and remove him from office now that they're hearing directly from witnesses all eyes are on whether the public's opinion will change. castro al-jazeera washington. nancy soderberg is a former deputy national security advisor to president bill clinton and she says the public hearings are an important stage in the impeachment inquiry. well it was like going from black and white to a full living color on a big screen it brought to life the career public servants who are having their courage to stand up to what they believed was wrong to come forward against instructions from the president not to testify and to lay out the facts which are very clear that the president held up military aid to ukraine in exchange for an

investigation of the biden is the real piece of i think new news was more meat on the bones there was a little bit of news that ambassador bill taylor said when one of his staffers he had learned since his previous testimony had overheard trump and son linea vasser to the e.u. who's in the middle of all this talking to the president and it's very clear that it was about the biden investigation and they summed up the call saying that the president cared more about the investigation of the bidens than he did about ukraine that was made headlines kind of a bombshell revelation today but it is very clear that the democrats are building a very methodical case and that the republicans will do anything to blow it up and mirror the president's witchhunt phrases. protesters in hong kong a block many parts of the city center for a 4th straight day. many are angry after 2

demonstrators were injured in confrontations with police and left in critical condition there occupying the city center and walking several major roads schools are being kept until sunday let's bring in sara sparks she's joining us from hong kong tell us where you are sara and what's going on behind you. but we're at the poly take you to this city which is on the inside it just has become a rallying point where protesters and students have gathered all die in those numbers and certainly growing the softer noon right now the campus is completely blockaded the entire campus up that meaning all the road access as well as these tradition access you might be able to break sift out of bricks the entire way around us there even creating brick wall in front of me to try and stop the police officer accessing this particular university campus now these universities have almost become a battleground certainly their own force above me we've got a number of protesters above they've also created all of my number petronas and

sooner boxes of cancer bombs being brought through also got nial scattered across the road and these guys are simply sitting waiting for those the right place to move in the place of held a press conference in the last hour or so and they describe this more behavior as one step closer to terrorism but the place of also confirmed at the base of the numbers by recruiting from the correctional. officer in china i keep up the speed and say i can try and keep control of these protests numbers as they are growing and the crimes of also confirmed on friday that will hold and now the general strike in hong kong targeting the transport system trying to bust the who is for the destruction ok sarah thank you for that update from hong kong. still ahead on al-jazeera in just a moment the u.s. reveals its position on bolivia's new government are supporters of the former leader in from around the state to the streets plus we're in eastern ukraine that's where u.s.

soldiers are working alongside local troops despite the political firestorm back in washington. i. had a famous re-importing interval southern sections of indonesia and you'll also notice this massive wide across the northern philippines this is the latest tropical storm it will continue to strengthen not especially strong but sunday by friday we're looking at winds at about 75 kilometers an hour but it's the rain that of course will be coming with this storm system so we could well be seeing some flooding mean lot across borneo the rains to the north and fairly extensive through much as the montra and some showers likely across as far south jakarta and we push down across into australia the winds of course the picked up again particularly into queensland was the end of the week so the fire danger is critical again throughout this entire portion of australia the rain is to the south you can see if you want showers

across into hope on keeping those temperatures low 15 degrees celsius but it is very warm indeed on friday and 42 degrees celsius and to give united just how warm look at this 40 celsius on friday that really is hot the average is 26 this time of year still very warm on saturday sunday 32 and then there is a slight cooling trend over the coming week but even so very high so again the fire danger is actually very high there me want to cry starts a few showers on friday not biden or clinton and showers in christ church on saturday but war. is to. make you. for the middle east oceania. to a state played such. a commission should still makes the state the city because

it splits to seek such a short slate. into. this field. it's a good goal. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera rockets have been fired from gaza into israel hours after israel and islamic jihad agreed to a cease fire 34 palestinians have been killed in israeli airstrikes since tuesday. protesters in hong kong have blocked many parts of the city's center for a 4th straight day and they're angry as you can see after protesters were injured

in confrontations with police and left in critical condition. 2 u.s. diplomats have become the 1st to publicly testify be impeachment inquiry both william taylor and george can say they felt concerned over pressure. put on ukraine's leader. and donald trump's threat to withhold military aid to ukraine is an important part of the inquiry care of has received an estimated one and a half $1000000000.00 from the u.s. over the past 5 years surpassing reports from the center of western ukraine where u.s. military specialists train local soldiers. that are. laying low seems to be the message in ukraine after u.s. military aid was temporarily suspended in july the country was suddenly at the center of an american political storm involving a phone call between the u.s. president and the newly elected ukrainian leader. undeterred by what's going on in washington ukrainian soldiers are preparing war games with the u.s.

colleagues at the joint multi national training center in the west of the country tactics they can use in the ongoing war against russian backed separatists in the east where we pay attention to politics that doesn't affect our process will be here tomorrow or as long as both governments agree that we're needed here. besides having ukraine's back against russia the americans are getting ukraine's troops ready to become part of nato. this is how u.s. military aid to ukraine looks like an army which was said to be suffering from corruption and the lack of funds now we've got to face russia in the east but one threat to withhold this aid even though it was only temporarily has caused doubts about how much ukraine can rely on its most important ally. after the much debated phone call with trump ukraine's president followed a mere zelinsky said he did not feel pressured by trump's threat to withhold

military aid but analysts say it has affected the image of the united states and ukraine and could even push some towards moscow what we're seeing in washington now that is under threat of unraveling completely as widely reported the series. that for trump our job is not interested in any larger issues of democracy promotion state building and human rights in ukraine rather he's interested in using a crane for his own political needs. but the u.s. president still has some fans in kiev this coffee shop only opened a few months ago i would say it would make ukraine more famous and more people aware of ukraine was happening in ukraine about war in the middle of europe ok but it wouldn't hurt the plane image many americans don't even know that ukraine exists young which i also believe that i don't feel any particular help from america so i think we have to rely on ourselves. not the sort of message ukrainian soldiers

fighting what is known as the forgotten war against russian backed separatists want to hear they hope the u.s. will continue to support them step fasten al-jazeera livy for ukraine. the u.s. has formally recognized bolivia's new interim leader janine annie as but there's been widespread opposition to her appointment 2 people were killed in violence that broke out on her 1st full day in office brianna sanchez has more from the bolivian capital. protesters clashed with police and the army on the streets of believe yeah live rounds were shot tear gas didn't to spill and we believe ian's who demanded interim president. to resign on her 1st day in office she's facing a country in turmoil was social and political disputes are battled all around including the national assembly on wednesday some of it will more or less is mass party members tried entering congress at the end i had resigned from the senate's

presidency she tried to come back a police block the way i know to get this government is trying to portray the court it as a natural thing where legislature's and we need to go to the assembly. on the other side of the barricade his foes shouted adversaries a reminder of what sparked the political crisis the 1st president to resign. the interim president is reliant on security forces to restore law and order she appointed military commanders before the cabinet. taking up command of the armed forces at a crucial time for the state to bring this stage to an end and for new elections. the entering president has said that she wants to bring peace back to the streets of the country and that means the police will continue their patrols with the army . stability naming

a new electoral court and calling on new elections in december is the priority of the transitional government but analysts say nothing can be done without negotiating with more or less a support. the president must begin a dialogue because the m.e.'s party is a reality whether people like it or not otherwise if there's no dialogue were lost . from his refuge in mexico former president model is pledged to return to your question to me it will be that if my people ask for it we're ready to go back to pacify the country but national dialogue is important otherwise it would be difficult to stop this cup from television. in the capital some roadblocks were removed and stores opened after weeks of near shutdown but just for a short time. thousands of angry believe were back on the streets early a reminder of just how far is from coming out of the crisis.

really the. leaders of the world's 5 biggest emerging economies have met at a summit in brazil's capital their meeting to discuss international trade but there are disagreements over the political crises in bolivia and venezuela. reports from brazil. brazilian president greeted the leaders of russia china india and south africa for the $2900.00 bricks summit the theme of what is now the 11th summit of the so-called brics nations is economic growth for an innovative future we free countries who are going to send out a strong message to the international community that we are defending strongly a multilateral system amol open free fair international trade system one controversial topic at this year's gathering is the question of venezuela which has put brazil at odds with russia and china was on wednesday fights broke out on

the street in front of the venezuelan embassy in brasilia between supporters of venezuelan president nicolas maduro and supporters of opposition leader one military police were called to the. as rival factions fought over control of the diplomatic compound. weapon that it was assaulted it was irresponsibly attacked by criminal groups and it is currently under siege we haven't recognized people inside the facilities international law is being violated the geneva convention is being violated we call on the international community to speak out. there were also other protests in the brazilian capital some were against the visit of chinese president xi jinping with demonstrators showing solidarity with the ongoing protests in hong kong the brics summit is taking place during an especially to mulch time in latin america discussions over the ongoing crisis in venezuela as well as the recent resignation of bolivian president evo morales are likely to take place among brics

leaders though not publicly. so despite the obvious differences in geo political agendas the focus of this year's briggs summit continues to be the strengthening of international trade. agreements you know china is trading partner and to give it with my entire team as well as the brazilian business community we want not to just expand we want to diversify our trade relations. the bric countries represent more than 40 percent of the world's population and almost a quarter of global g.d.p. . but as. at least 2 people have been killed in iraq's capital during antigovernment protests 35 others were injured many of those hurt and choked on tear gas or were hit by rubber bullets more than 300 people have been killed since the beginning of october and iraq's government has taken some measures to ease the arm rest but many protesters want a complete overhaul of the political system let's get an update from the top of a name she's joining us from baghdad that's what more you're hearing about the

situation in the protests in iraq's. at 7 am this morning during the sounds of stun grenades and heavy tear gas canister smoke waisted across the square leading into tahrir square in baghdad where of course being the epicenter of the protests since they began on october 1st this square has been the source of clashes between security forces and protesters since security forces tried to block it 3 days ago so they erected a concrete barrier to prevent a primary access route into tahrir square every day since then there has been clashes between security forces and protesters and people have been killed now the strategy here is to confine the protests in the capital to tahrir square the government does not want a repeat of what we saw last week when protesters launched

a campaign of civil disobedience that rippled across the capital 1.40 major roads were closed people were unable to get to work many government offices were closed there were also strikes that shut down schools and the courts here in baghdad the government has been saying there must be a return to normal life there citing the fact that protests at the report cost the country 6000000000 dollars in losses that the budget its approval has been delayed but of course during the protesters do not want a return to the status quo they are continuing to remain in the streets not only here in the capital but across the country demanding that the government resign that their economic prospects improve that they have better services and from what we've heard the last few days speaking to people there's no sign of this protest movement losing its momentum a right to natasha thank you for that update. kuwait's prime minister has submitted

his government's resignation to the gulf arab states ruler job better than mubarak and hama the so bar had been prime minister since 2011 the emir. no intention of dissolving parliament at least 7 people are reported to have been killed in egypt after an oil pipeline caught fire on wednesday the health ministry says the blaze broke out in the north of the country people had gathered to collect leaking fuel in containers before the fire began years of conflict in sudan have left many people struggling to get health care and those living in rural areas often have to travel to the capital for medical treatment but it can be difficult even for those already living there as head of morgan reports when her son abraham was born 6 years ago it was through the thoughts of living in sudan's capital khartoum would make it easy to get medical help he suffers from brain damage sustained at birth as well as man nutrition and anemia his eldest sister had malaria and john just and died after being diagnosed leeds and was through

a fears that with treatment being so expensive it brought him to suffer the same fate. his medicines cost so much that sometimes i don't get them all but if i miss a single $1.00 of them within al if he starts getting convulsions and has to be hospitalized the hospital's afraid that the treatment costs money which i don't always have it's mostly people who take pity on me and contribute. my student says she has to travel more than 50 kilometers to take her son to a hospital doctor according to the world health organization more than 35 percent of sudan's population of 40000000 people live in areas far from advocates health facilities that's because years of conflict have destroyed health facilities in many areas war and 20 years of u.s. economic sanctions have also depleted government funds and less than 10 percent is directed to health care for many the only way to get treatment is by coming to the capital but doctors there say even then it's can't be guaranteed this is number 30

in number one the hospital lacks proper equipment and doesn't have enough beds most are native rehabilitation because they were built during colonial times then there's the issue of manpower we don't have enough doctors in government hospitals because the pay isn't enough so most prefer to have a go to private practice or leave the country the problems facing health services are not a recent difficulty in getting health care contributed to a nationwide protest last year against the government and since and your transitional government took over in august the country has been suffering epidemics like malaria cholera and dengue fever affecting thousands of people so getting treatment has become even more important since september at least 300 cases of cholera have been reported including 10 fatalities and in early november more than 90 people suffering dengue fever were received daily in hospitals in the eastern state of qatar aid organizations say most of those infected are children and more than 2000000 suffer from malnutrition it's in the service side where there

is an access issue there is lack of services there's lack of funding for this have this is that the community needs but those who believe the perception and the standing in the community willingness to be with us in the same platform so that we can work with it it's you say amazing. as it kind of like seeing. mr says that she can't always afford to feed a brain properly but she says she hopes. new government will improve health care so he and her children can get the medical care the. people more going to. india's top court has ordered the government to assess the feasibility of switching from fossil based fuels to cleaner hydrogen the order comes amid an ongoing smog emergency that's affecting parts of north east india and over in the capital new delhi schools have been told to remain shut for 2 days as the air quality index sits at a 458 anything above 60 is considered unhealthy new york for example

currently sits 11 where you can find out much more about this by heading to our website 0 dot com there you'll find the day's other top stories as well. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera this hour rockets have been fired from gaza into israel hours after israel and islamic jihad agreed to a cease fire is really army assassinated a senior leader of islamic jihad on tuesday 34 palestinians have been killed in israeli airstrikes since then harry fossett has more from the israel gaza border. it seems that there is a real fragility to this ceasefire. rocket siren alerts from areas around the gaza strip not right here it has to be said that we got those alerts through on our phones and got confirmation from inside gaza from our colleagues that more rockets

had been fired out of gaza territory and around the same time we heard here in this location what sounded like outgoing israeli artillery although we can't confirm that certainly loud bangs protesters in hong kong to block many parts of the city center for a 4th straight day many are angry after 2 protesters were injured in confrontations with police and left in critical condition several major roads have been blocked schools are being kept shut until sunday. 2 u.s. diplomats have become the 1st to publicly testify at the impeachment inquiry both william taylor and george can say they felt concerned over pressure president trump put on ukraine's leader. and the u.s. has formally recognized bolivia's interim president jeannine and yet as 2 people have been killed in violent protests against her government her appointment rather

former president ever merola says the new interim leader has no legitimacy. that least 2 people have been killed in iraq is capital during anti-government protests 35 others were injured many of those hurt had choked on tear gas or were hit by rubber bullets more than 300 people have been killed since the beginning of october iraq's government has taken some measures to ease the unrest but many protesters want a complete overhaul of the political system kuwait's prime minister has submitted his government's resignation to the gulf arab states ruler jabot in mubarak and have. been prime ministers since 2011 the emir chefs about how says he has no intention of dissolving parliament. those are the headlines on al-jazeera more news coming up right after fault lines that's next thanks for watching what by . a korean doomsday cultist would hundreds of fellow was to a tropical paradise. when i when a student instigates the secretive sick accused of abuse and violence in fiji. on

al-jazeera. in georgia the governor is poised to sign one of the most restrictive antiabortion laws in the country missouri state senate passed an 8 week abortion ban containing no exceptions for victims of rape incest or even the crimes right on the heels of alabama's even stricter legislation in 20199 u.s. states passed laws that would ban abortion in the beginning stages of pregnancy as early as 6 weeks before many women even know they're pregnant. the state of georgia recognize the benefits of providing all legal recognition i'm born child alabama went the furthest and banned the procedure from the moment of conception. just a few years ago the bills were considered politically toxic. and extreme proposal by a fringe element of the anti-abortion movement it is 60000000 innocent babies have illegally made it up there.