and one question is it getting much difficult like you now they tell you oh yes yes who says don't you trust that you trust on al-jazeera. the shaky cease fire rockets are launched from gaza into israel hours after a truce went into effect. on p t w watching out as your line from doha also coming up. with protesters killed in baghdad as crowds gathering in the capital hit by tear gas and rubber bullets. investigators examining the 2014 m.h. 17 plane crash over ukraine say they have evidence that may link russia. to the shooting of the aircraft. a new poll

a vaccine is all set to be rolled out but some congolese say they are skeptical. rockets are being fired from gaza into israel hours after a cease fire was agreed this would appear to have violated the truce struck earlier between israel and the islamic jihad on the group $34.00 palestinians have been killed in israeli airstrikes the escalation began after the israeli army assassinated a senior leader of the group on tuesday our forces joins us live now from gaza harry is the cease fire still in place. it appears to be for now yes that that sporadic rocket fire limited rocket fire about 5 hours ago now consisted the israeli military says of 5 rockets that were fired out from gaza city here and the 2 of them were intercepted by the anti missile iron dome system so far there's been

no claim of responsibility for firing those rockets there been some reports that it was one of the more minor factions neither islamic jihad nor hamas but we don't have any confirmation either way israel is saying that the it is maintaining that the operation that it says it been carrying out over the last couple of days has concluded saying successfully the death toll mounting substantially to 34 in the last hours of that exchange of strikes and rocket fire 34 people killed here inside gaza no substantial injuries on the israeli side the most deadly of those strikes came overnight with the targeting of a house in central gaza and the deaths of an entire family 8 people killed israel says that the father and husband of that family was a senior commander of islamic jihad islamic jihad can also say that it's pointing

to what it says are concessions from israel in terms of not targeted and not assassinating leadership in this kind of a targeted way in which israel did in the early hours of tuesday by killing a senior commander of islamic jihad and also to protect people on the borders during the protests on the on fridays israel is saying through its foreign minister that it will continue to target anybody it deems a threat and the rules of engagement engagement have not changed despite that disagreement though for now the cease fire does seem to be holding. thank you. if you see people have been killed in the iraqi capital baghdad during protests 35 of those were injured many of those chokes on or they were hit by a group of bullets when 300 people have been killed since the beginning of october since this want a complete overhaul of the political system our correspondent jim joins us live

from baghdad mohammed we do have a meeting in the parliament getting together at some point what can we expect from that. well here's the problem peter we've been told daily that there are going to be substantive measures discussed and taken in parliamentary sessions and really they have yet to really transpire the parliament continues to meet there are expectations by a multitude of protesters on the streets that they will hear perhaps some news that would indicate to them that the government is actually taking their concerns and their demands under consideration discussing them in parliament and yet that doesn't seem to be the case yesterday as well as today it had been expected that perhaps a part of electoral reform would be taken up in the parliament that perhaps ways of combating corruption would be taken up in the parliament that doesn't seem to have

happened it didn't happen yesterday despite the presence of the head of the united nations assistance mission now here in iraq today we're told it has not happened as far as we can tell what we've been told by some officials is that there was a draft law that was completed by the president's office with regard to electoral reform that was then given to the head of parliament rather the cabinet and then it's gone to the president of parliament and that it will be discussed at some point we just don't know when and that's one of the reasons the people that day after day continue to protest despite the threat of violence and that's one of the reasons they keep coming. now because you know parliament here really it's not a surprise that things take a long time to come to some sort of consensus to be discussed to legislate but the fact that you have these thousands of people on the streets in different cities every day the fact that you continue to have cycles of violence between protesters and security forces here people dying the fact that they're still not really

hearing that the officials here are taking their demands under serious consideration and that's what keeps the people motivated to continue to come out day after day peter mohammed thanks so much. russia is setting up a new military airbase in the northeast of syria in an area recently controlled by u.s. forces the new base is in the city of chemistry it'll has combat helicopters and a defensive systems russia and turkey have been carrying out joint patrols in the area since the withdrawal of kurdish y.p. g. forces the investigation into the 2014 downing of the malaysia airlines flight m.h. 17 has found evidence that strongly connects russia to ukrainian fighters in the east investigates is released phone call recordings they say between separatist fight says and high ranking russian officials in the weeks leading up to the attack russia's foreign ministry says the phone recordings are partly false and of not

being confirmed so far 4 people including 3 russians have been charged with murder the airplane was shot down over eastern ukraine killing all $298.00 people on board dermont dual is principal russia analyst at the global risk consultancy of various maple croft he joins us from london dara macdill what's really going on here. well i mean the j.i.t. has been continuing its investigation as an atomic group. more of it. to to really demonstrate even more concretely what it has been apparent. since 2014 that the may 17 was shut down by the separatist forces in donbass. almost certainly with russian supplied military equipment on the questions that had been in their minds in that analysts on this has been to what degree where the militias operating independently to what degree was russia simply supplying

materiel versus actually operating these systems that we're seeing is more and more that affectively certainly the political structures of the so-called tin yet scott and the hans people's republics where were largely controlled by moscow or at least coordinated by an officer. particularly during the summer period in 2014 when if you remember the separatist militias were basically retreating in the face of a ukrainian dance they seem to have been stiffened with a considerable influx of russian military support ok here's the thing being tied to is not the same as being responsible full so how do the investigate says and the prosecutor has tied that pin it down to being a charge. well you know these this is a question for both in terms of how you view this conflict as a military conflict or a. non-legal campaign. and the reality is that the

commanders in the separatist forces as the responsible persons for their subordinates in these militias do bear a great deal of responsibility. this is something of an academic question however the likelihood of anybody actually standing trial or appearing in court over these horrific crimes is vanishingly small this is primarily a political and moral discussion that what the j.i.t. has demonstrated so far with pretty airtight evidence and is that you know the russian military was supplying the missile which ones actually responsible for their book missile which was used to destroy m.h. 17 that they were coordinating their actions with local militia units and the only question really there was a russian military personnel who pressed the button or were they given these units

and then secondly back to their own devices it's hard to interrupt for a 2nd that isn't a question that we will never ever get an answer to despite this coal from the j.i.t. the joint investigation team because that then would come down to maybe the russians saying look this is a licensing issue a licensing issue of who does what with the arms that we either sell to people or we make and then we sell to people so the investigation showed he can never actually find out who chose to bring the croft and who pressed the button that fired the missile that brought the croft down and killed all those people. well the russian response of the russian position on this has long been that they have had nothing to do with it and nor did the d.n.r. and alan are militias in the field at the time had anything to do with it they have raised a number of series raising from a. to a modified s

u $21.00 none of which are really plausible at this point. the fact of the matter is that in terms of international law and accepted best practice. it would be regarded as grossly irresponsible at best to transfer an advance anti-aircraft system to a local militia with very limited training. russia has never. admitted responsibility for doing that it has made fake statements about volunteers and it has at various points claimed that any heavy military equipped the separatists have been able to field has been taken from ukrainian stores in the east. so again that's not really the point here and if they can be demonstrated as yet ok done until i'm sorry we do have to move on with the rest of the listen of will be used in the meantime thank you so much for joining us from london. thank you the situation in bolivia is tense as the future over who will

lead the country remains unclear 2 people have been killed during the interim leader janine and is his 1st full day in office mariana sanchez is in la paz well tensions continue to grow here. with protests starting earlier and earlier every day now at least 2 people have been confirmed dead in protests in the area that's the outskirts of which is an area that has been traditionally a stronghold of former president obama now the rural areas have throughout the nearly 14 years in office been the strongest base for the former president and members of the cocoa farmers. have announced that they will be coming to the capital and join the protesters the protesters continue to. demand that new interim president resigns and they say that they want the military out of the

streets still to come here on al-jazeera. may be dead but the group is far from eradicated we'll find out what's being done about that. and the still deep trouble in one of the world's top tourist spots water levels in venice are the highest in a century. and are the most secure across much of china so you're on these coastal areas in time it is not about the humidity levels have come down somewhat not even a great deal of cloud in the last few hours 25 is the high view hong kong on friday and all the present 20 celsius in shanghai the rain is further to the south and the east and this is this is the latest tropical storm developing through friday and saturday some pretty strong winds at about 75 kilometers an hour but staying well off the south of china but we could. be seeing some localized flooding in the

philippines over the next couple days it's a fairly slow moving system and then over towards india it's really the northwest where we're seeing most of the weather a few more showers into southern portions of india but an unsettled couple of days ahead into new delhi 31 celsius on friday and there is a chance of course the snow is the mountains up a towards the north and then we head through tools the arabian peninsula temperatures here have been coming down steadily humidity levels have also been coming down so feeling pretty good in the morning hours and tom ridge is best and highest on friday as you can see here made it to high twenty's maybe 30 celsius in abu dhabi on friday what we could see is maybe just a stray shower and snow than saudi arabia and certainly we could see some sand and dust with a high that of 26 in riyadh. from the ounces here in london for the past 10 taxing special guests in conversation i

see resistance and i see joy in the midst of pain your books do their unprompted uninterrupted why are all of us people of color and they're just one color this way that is why don't they. exactly fatima bhutto meets marc lamont hill i very much thought i was going to get shot they look like a bad movie studio script on al-jazeera. they're watching al-jazeera a reminder of your top stories of rockets being fired from gaza into israel hours after a cease fire was agreed this would appear to violate a truce agreed earlier between israel and the islamic jihad group. 2 people have

been killed in the iraqi capital baghdad during anti-government protests 35 others were injured many of them choked on tear gas or were hit by rubber bullets. also the investigation into the 24th of the airlines flights i mean 17 has found evidence that strongly russia ukrainian forces in the east. phone call recordings they say are between the faces and russian officials. now foreign ministers from more than 70 nations are gathering in the u.s. to discuss strategy is to defeat eisel it's the 2nd meeting this year of the global coalition to defeat the armed group the meeting was called after the death of the isolator a back all by darby is mike hanna. this week the commemoration of the soldiers who lost their lives in service and speaking at a veterans day event in new york president donald trump highlights what he regards

as the signature military victory just a few weeks ago american special forces raided the isis compound and brought the world's number one terrorist leader to justice thanks to a barrack in war al baghdadi is dead thank the killing of abu bakar bug daddy was welcomed by all members of the global coalition to defeat isis but most were less enthusiastic about another recent development that had a major impact in northeast syria the unilateral withdrawal of u.s. forces from the region which led to a massive military operation by turkey against kurdish militia that had long been fighting alongside coalition forces. the kurds had forced i sold out of northern syria and assumed the governance of the land they captured losing an estimated $11000.00 troops in the process but now the kurds have been driven from many of

their strongholds by the turkish military and with the u.s. protection stripped away they are turning to russia and syria for support on the ground at least the global coalition is beginning to pregnant the division intensified by president trumps decision to redeploy u.s. forces to guard oil fields in northwest syria we want to bring our soldiers home but we did leave soldiers because we're keeping the oil i like the oil we're deep in the oil this unilateral shift in objectivism deep concern to a number of members in the coalition with some contending the seizing of oil facilities in a sovereign state contravenes geneva conventions in russia has an excellent propaganda point now president trump has made the u.s. mission in the kolisch and about not only securing the oil but taking the oil and profiting from it in moscow they're going to have a heyday accusing the united states and its allies of stealing oil i mean in the imperialist war it's a subject that will be at the heart of discussions at the u.s.

state department this week all agree the situation in northeast syria has grown even more complicated but many members of the coalition argue this is a consequence of unilateral u.s. action the seizure of oil fields a particular point of division one that could threaten the unity of a group that is held together in the 5 years since it was formed by khanna al-jazeera washington. live to washington and my colleague rosalynn joel rose is it increasingly difficult to keep this coalition together. while in a word peter yes and that is because of the president's conversation with president urged one early in october in which it had been reported at the time that the president apparently gave mr erdogan a green light to move into syrian territory and to go after what the turkish

government calls terrorists but what many of the u.s. allies also feared was an excuse to go after kurdish fighters because of their longstanding turkish interest in putting down kurdish efforts to declare independence from turkey and from iraq and from parts of syria as well this is one big issue of course the other big issue which mike hanna alluded to in his story is the question of whether the u.s. actually went into syria not so much to help kurdish fighters with root out isolate fighters but whether it went in to try to gain access to those very lucrative oil fields oil fields which i still had commandeered during its efforts to establish a caliphate and for which it was using the oil sales in order to fund its operations it is important to put out that the special envoy for the coalition to defeat ambassador james jeffrey made it very clear to reporters this week peter

that the u.s. is not interested in trying to profit from those oil fields that they are much more interested in supporting local syrians who are trying to rebuild that part of their country and that they want to make it certain that they can do so without any threat from isis or other groups and for the diplomats and also i guess rose for the military plan as the situation in syria is so much more complicated than it was even just 6 weeks ago so when it comes to deploy. the result is that they've still got there when it comes to the traction that those resources get is there a feeling where you are that they can't deliver on what they want to deliver on because the mosaic has shifted. well as you said peter cook situation was already complicated even before the turkish decision to move forces into northeastern syria you have this. 8 year long civil war happening between the

syrian government and rebel forces even though it seems that the battle is now concentrated in the northwestern part of that country but certainly when you have the increasing presence of iranian assets in that country when you have the increasing presence of russian assets in that country supporting the government of bashar al assad it was already difficult for the u.s. and its allies to try to broker some sort of eventual political resolution to the civil war now you have a member of this coalition going after what it considers a threat to its own sovereignty and that really does make it much more complicated there are questions being raised about whether a meeting that's going to last perhaps 4 hours or so on thursday is actually going to lead to a concrete road map but certainly there is an agreement both by u.s. officials and by european officials in particular that something concrete needs to be agreed upon we will find out later on thursday whether they've come to any early

agreements rose good to talk to you as ever thank you so much. u.s. ambassador has described president donald trump put pressure on ukraine to investigate his political rival joe by william taylor was one of 2 diplomats to appear in the 1st public hearing of the sense of the impeachment inquiry into mr trump heidi jocasta reports now 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 iraq and gave 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. had been ousted without explanation and president 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 journal 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 potential opponent in the upcoming presidential election taylor says career diplomats were sidelined as trump's chosen 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 are now infecting 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 dollars 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 stunned sleep 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. the international criminal court has agreed to investigate crimes against muslim law the i.c.c. says there is reason to believe me and laws military committed widespread acts of violence and 2017 and that they could qualify as crimes against humanity more than 700000 gringo fled to neighboring bangladesh to escape what human rights officials of cold ethnic cleansing. the health authorities in the democratic republic of congo a beginning a major clinical trial of a new bowl of vaccine but the rollout is already being criticized al-jazeera as catherine sawyer has more now from the eastern border city of goma. a new a ball of vaccine for a major child scientist a testing it on up to half a 1000000 congolese over the next 10 months to study its effects. the vaccine is

safe it has already been tested on a small sample of people elsewhere according to professor would not have approved it if it was harmful to the people but some people are concerned that the long term effects of the drug made by u.s. multinationals are not yet known and the fact that it needs to doze is 8 weeks apart may not work on people who travel often to challenge and to show rates between the 2 doses will be a indication of the acceptance of his vaccine to population. we we will work with the communities we explain to the communities we believe know that if we explain simply things to the people say they are able to understand about 250000 people in parts of this region are already being injected with another vaccine made by a german company that has just been approved by european regulators those receiving the new a drug given areas that are considered low risk of an outbreak this is

a very busy border crossing between d.r. congo and rwanda tens of thousands of people mostly traders use it every day health workers say vaccinating them is crucial feelings here over both vaccinations are mixed. destruction is good it helps us go about our business without fear. i can never do it i don't know what they're injecting into us they didn't benny and people are still dying. a ball about 3 nations in the democratic republic of congo have long been controversial and political one health minister is reported to have lost his job. for opposing the u.s. study some colleagues say they don't trust what's going on but health workers insist this is the best way of beating a disease that has killed many people catherine al-jazeera comma much of the italian city of venice is still underwater after the highest tide in 50 years

officials there are blaming climate change locals are angry that more hasn't been done to protect the u.s. coast city from high tides the governments expected to declare a state of emergency on thursday. more news all the top stories whenever you want them on the website al jazeera dot com you can see there our top story as well that ceasefire just about holding in gaza amid reports fire being exchanged across the gaza israel border we will recap all the top stories right now. that we are here we go let's get you right up to speed at all the top stories rockets have been fired from gaza into israel hours after a cease fire was agreed this would appear to have violated the truce struck earlier between israel and islamic jihad 34 palestinians have been killed in israeli airstrikes since tuesday. at least 2 people think killed in the iraqi capital during anti-government protests 35 others were injured many of those hurt choked on

or they were hit by rebel bullets. in baghdad. there are demonstrators that gathered around the square because that's where it's close to these bridges that lead to areas of the city where there are government installations where they would like to march the security forces have placed concrete barriers in that square so these demonstrators cannot access those parts of the city that angers the demonstrators they try to get around the barriers and then the security forces try essentially to force them to return to the area where close to tahrir square there was violence today this happens intermittently throughout the days the last few days it's interesting that this goes on because when you go to hear square which isn't that far away where there are these anti-government demonstrations the mood there can be oftentimes jubilant can be vibrant there is music sometimes there is dancing people are happy to be out there the investigation into the 24 of the malaysian airlines flight m h 17 has found evidence that strongly connects russia to ukrainian fights is in the

east investigators released phone call recordings they say between separatist fights and russian officials before the attack 2 u.s. diplomats to become the 1st to publicly testify at the impeachment inquiry into president all trump both william taylor and george can say they felt concerned over pressure president trump put on ukraine's leader. the i.c.c. has agreed to investigate crimes against within the muslims in myanmar a brutal campaign against the ringle was launched by only in last military in 2017 the i.c.c. says there is reason to believe widespread acts of violence may have been committed and that they could qualify as crimes against humanity those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream this will keep you company from 15 g. we'll see you very soon. what kind of does that provide and is anyone willing to pick up the call we bring you the stories and developments

that are rapidly changing the world we live in so is it possible for trump is actually a mature way to be on the counting the cost on al-jazeera. freedom or that that was the rallying cry of the largest slave rebellion in the u.s. more than 200 years ago this week hundreds of people brought it back to life ensuring a powerful reenactment imo they could be and here in the street join us on twitter or in our live you to chat to talk about the lessons learned from the resistance. in 1811 some 500 slaves march for 2 days and enough were to take over new orleans and declare a free republic their attempt was reenacted this week by participants dressed.