i really felt liberated as a journalist was. going to the truth was that i would love for this job. i have the right to speak i have freedom of speech just as other people do. donald trump accused of attempting to intimidate the former ukrainian ambassador as she testified sabby of a chance inquiry. on how he did and this is al jazeera a lot from doha also coming up a cease fire on the brink rockets and missiles are fired over the skies of gaza.

to outrage. across iran as the government takes full price response 50 percent it's not. sure lichens are voting to elect a new leader with ethnic divisions on the rise after the deadly easter sunday bombings. but we begin in the u.s. for president donald trump is facing accusations of intimidation after attacking the latest impeachment witness on twitter as she testified before congress on friday many of out of it was the u.s. ambassador to ukraine until she was really cold earlier this year well the inquiry is looking into whether trump withheld military aid to ukraine in exchange for the promise of an inquiry against his political rivals back home al-jazeera is heidi joe castro has more from capitol hill. and trump has said he too busy to watch the

impeachment inquiry hearings threatening to end his presidency but he found time friday to catch some of the hearing unfolding on live t.v. and he tweeted about the witness on the stand his former ambassador to ukraine a woman he ousted from the post as we sit here testifying the president is attacking your twitter. and i'd like to give you a chance to respond read part of one of his tweets everywhere marie of on a bitch when turned bad but would you like to respond to the president's attack that everywhere you went turned bad i mean i can't speak to what the president is trying to do but i think the effect is to be intimidating you've on of it is a career diplomat who served more than 30 years under presidents of both parties in a july phone call the basis for the current impeachment inquiry trump told the president of ukraine she was quote bad news and would go through some things it was

it was a terrible moment a person who saw me actually reading the transcript said that the color drained from my face i think i even had a physical reaction it didn't sound good sounded like. a threat democrats say trump's attacks on you of on a bitch amounts to witness intimidation and possibly an additional impeachment charge against the president trump defended his mid hearing tweet saying he had no intention to intimidate i have the right to speak i have freedom of speech just as other people do but they've taken away the republican's rights testified she was recalled from ukraine without cause she'd been drunk fully accused of undermining trump she said and was the target of a smear campaign conspired between private attorney rudy giuliani and corrupt ukrainian officials or continues to amaze me. is that they found americans willing to partner with them and working together they apparently succeeded in

orchestrating the removal of a u.s. ambassador you gonna bitch says she still doesn't know why she was ordered home on the next plane she was gone by the time the white house pros security aid to ukraine and trump pressed the ukrainian president to announce investigations into his political rivals republicans say democrats have been unable to directly tie trub to an impeachable offense the problem of trying to overthrow a president based on this type of evidence is obvious but that's what their whole case relies on they getting with 2nd and 3rd hand information but now complicating the president's defense is this new evidence of possible witness intimidation in the form of trump's tweet that materialize before the public's very eyes democrats have tried to build up a radio bonaventure as a sympathetic witness and now trump himself may have helped them make that case

while putting his own presidency in greater jeopardy heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. well more closed door testimony from the inquiry is a merging u.s. embassy official says he overheard a phone call between trump and the american ambassador to the e.u. she has more on that from washington. david holmes as you accompanied us as you ambassador gold and some of them to a lunch following someone's meetings with various ukrainian officials including president selenski and during that love someone decided to phone donald trump on his cell phone to update him on how things were going and don't trouble speaking so loudly holmes says that he could actually hear dog trumps end of the conversation and he heard from immediately are so are they going to do the investigations and someone said yes they'll do anything for you that they love you words to that effect and as far as holmes is concerned what they were talking about was the investigations into joe biden and his son hunter biden and hunter biden's business

dealings with an allegedly corrupt energy firm after that conversation their homes took the opportunity to ask so and so you just don't really care about ukraine or words to that effect and so on and said well he cares about the big stuff so firms are small big stuff i mean like the war with russia and so on and said no is really concerned about is the investigation into the bidens and what completely benefit him. in some ways this isn't new we already knew the donald trump would ask the lenski to open an investigation in to buy them from the july transcript or partial transcript of the phone call but it does add then to how involved the trump was in trying to get selenski to open an investigation into the bias in how involved he was into whatever someone and rudy giuliani were up to in ukraine despite donald trump's constant. stations that there was no quid pro quo months ago there's no

quid pro quo on this on this phone call but it adds to that impression certainly from bones around in the administration by terms that as far as they were concerned they came to the conclusion that there was some sort of quid pro quo about one thing and also certain about golden summons testimony on wednesday the current after more interesting because he did mention it in his last 2 appearances in congress there is yet another thing he may have to be have to remember and he may be in some some trouble as a result. meanwhile a former advisor to the u.s. president has been found guilty of 7 offenses including lying to congress and witness tampering or just stone was charged earlier this year during the investigation into russian interference in the 2816 election he's been found guilty of lying to congress about his contacts with wiki leaks joining the election and his efforts to push one of his associates to back up his lies he'll be sentenced in february. israel says it's carried out airstrikes in response to rocket fire from

gaza overnight to markets from far toward the city over the years sheba it raises more dates about a ceasefire with the palestinian armed. jihad with a truce and had it beat on thursday after the worst cross border fighting in months killed 34 palestinians let's get more now from harry fossett in gaza how do you want to tell us. oh yes those rockets were fired in the direction of the shaver what's known as a long range rockets here in gaza just before 2 am local time both of them intercepted by israel's anti missile and dome system and then it was several hours later before dawn and guns of it the response came in the shape of strikes from the israelis the interesting thing about this those that the israeli military is explicitly saying this time around it was targeting the sites belonging to hamas the main faction here in gaza the faction that controls the gaza strip throughout

this round of fighting up until this point they've been exclusively saying that they've been targeting islamic jihad because it is let me just add that they blame both for a round of rocket fire that's emanated from this trip in recent months and for the rockets that were coming out of $450.00 rockets they say that came out from gaza during the course of this latest round of fighting of course this entire round of fighting began early on tuesday morning with a decision by israel to assassinate a senior islamic jihad commander and this strategy of separating out islamic jihad from hamas appeared to have been relatively successful from israel's point of view hamas while supporting islamic jihad virtually and certainly making statements of solidarity had not joined in the rocket fire itself perhaps this is an indication that israel believes this latest round of rocket fire did come from hamas and so we wait to see what the implications of that are on the cease fire going forward ok

harry foster there life reza in gaza thank you. gunmen ensure lanka how far out on buses carrying muslim forces but no casualties have been reported it's what happened shortly after paul's opens in new sri lankan presidential election ethnic tensions have been hiding since the easter sunday points while the former defense minister got a buyout rajapaksa is being challenged by a minister in the current government's such youth. let's get more now from bernard smith he's live in colombo and bernard the violence starts appalling day what will he tell us. all of this was a convoy of around a 100 buses were told carrying mainly muslim and voters been displaced during the civil war and where they are living now to where they were originally registered to vote vehicle a convoy was fired on stones were thrown rocks were thrown and there's a time to form some sort some sort of roadblock nobody was injured and they have

been able to go ahead and go on to where they are supposed to vote i have to say in comparison to the previous election actually the level of voter intimidation been few reports of it this time around it's been much more peaceful but yet what's happened overnight an indication of how tight this campaign is going to be hala. that will burn a close look at the voter south ny there are some $35.00 candidates in the selection but in effect it's really coming down to 2 men isn't that. yes between supply rajapaksa and such a such as premadasa rajapaksa the former defense minister at the time of the civil war when his brother mahinda rajapaksa was president there's always been dog since the end of the civil war that they won with allegations of significant human rights abuses towards the end of the war the un estimates some $40000.00 people were

killed in the closing stages of the war there also perceived as being close to china. foreign debt is 45 percent of its g.d.p. and about i think it's a quarter of that debt is owed to china a different subject premadasa is he also has support from the. majority population but they're mainly rural. poor voters reaching out to tamil a muslim voters as well in the hope that he can persuade them to vote for him as so rajapaksa doesn't win again it's all in the shadow of the easter sunday bombings 'd 263 people killed in those bombings and rajapaksa been campaigning announced his campaign not long after those bombings on the campaign of such security so everything done in the shadow of those bombings. ok bernard smith there live for us in colombo thank you very much indeed more from bernard 6 said and it seems we have ensured lanka throughout the day but for now thank you. also still to come here on

al-jazeera and clear. the libyan security forces far only supporters of former president former rolla spice. on florence grew impatient village church on province china where thousands of villages like this one here have benefited from a boom in online shopping. hello those in a real cool off across sections of the middle east over the past week and the local weather on the way plenty of cloud and there's some snow in the forecast as well northern sections of iran look at this to 6 celsius in tehran meanwhile to ease cloudy skies in kabul and then the rain beginning to work its way southwards across into northern sections assad arabian by sunday very extensive and pushing across

you can see much of q ways and also across into iran some snow again to those higher elevations so time is really coming down of the next few days in kuwait city 27 in southie by monday 22 the average is 28 so probably feeling pretty pretty cool with that temperature of 22 and that re not surprisingly it will work its way southwards across the raven peninsula and so we will see some showers here over the next couple of days across northern side you cross bahrain and also on into cattle because if you coastal around amman in terms of accumulations well it may not be the sort of accumulations we see more tropical regions around the world but it is significant in some of these shows they will be very isolated but we could have some very heavy downpours me one across in the south africa we've got more rain showers to the eastern cape but really the very heavy rains across in about africa could see as much as 300 millimeters.

it's it the job through the whole real way of the planet but somebody has got to do it where though you'll go to the pilot goes the voice you're promoting clean safe sanitation for all but with a 3rd of the world lacking basic facilities can his unique style really help clean up the mess burning culture the pop culture is the past those where it goes soft with any asian problem misted toilets eyewitness documentary on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera quite a run of the headlines for you this hour u.s.

president donald trump is facing accusations of intimidation after attacking the latest impeachment witness on twitter as she testified before congress 3 of an eventual as the u.s. ambassador in ukraine trump is accused of pressuring ukraine to investigate his political rivals israel says it's carried out more airstrikes in response to rocket far from gaza it raises more doubts about a cease fire with the palestinian armed groups islamic jihad's and gunmen ensure lancair have farmed on buses carrying tamil and muslim forces but no casualties have been reports it's it happened shortly after polls opened in the presidential election. iranians have protested in multiple cities after the government's hike the cost of fuel by 50 percent the move prompted fears of rising inflation despite seron promising the revenue will go towards families in need charlotte ballasts

reports and the. mobile phone video out of western iran shows people chanting fuel prices go higher the poor get poorer. the image repeats in the northern city of mashad except the words our dictator let go of our country. and near the border with iraq they repeat turn your car off while blocking traffic. a sunset fell across iran protests grew against a rising petrol prices and fuel rationing was the government introduced the hikes on friday saying it was to help pay for subsidies for 18000000 families in the had that said is that the 1st payments will be handled within the next week or 10 days and transferred to the families in model year a strong president believes that if there is going to be petrol price reform all of the new revenues will be paid back in full to the people but for many it was a shock motorists must now pay about $13.00 seems police or that's

a 30 percent jump they're allowed 60 liters of fuel per month anything over that they pay double for the national with i hadn't heard the news i came here and filled $3.00 leases and then i noticed the price was $90000.00 reelz then i asked and they said the price is now $30000.00 reales per liter mosher a sphere the consequences will be far reaching there on the to iran in tehran and the rest of iran everything is dependent on fuel prices if the price of fuel goes up in the night by day the price of rent will go up as well as other living expenses including fruit and vegetables it affects everything which is very bad i really believe that it will paralyze a classless society. in laboring class the fuel price hike in rationing stems from multiple issues iran has huge energy reserves but a limited refining capacity to get it to the pump the government is fighting few smuggling to its neighbors iran has some of the cheapest prices in the world today

heavy subsidies and the full of its currency the economy has been in freefall since u.s. president donald trump pulled out of the iran nuclear deal last year. why did they make this decision because they don't have money left we are under sanctions they want to take the money out of the people's pockets they have a budget deficit they have to take it from my in your pockets to be able to run the country. former president obama didn't shed implemented fuel rationing in 2007 in an effort to curb consumption iranians resisted it and this time it's no different charlotte ballasts 0. people have been killed and more than a dozen wounded in a bomb blast in baghdad it's an explosive placed on 3 the car detonated his own fighting evening security forces say the blast happened to square a focal point for anti government protests that have gripped the iraqi capital for over a month well earlier at least 2 people were killed and dozens injured us security

forces far tear gas and the life runs on protesters iraq's top shia leader toyah ayatollah ali sistani called for calm in his weekly salman mohammad junction has the latest from baghdad. so the smoke that you're seeing there that's coming from the lebanese square that the squares just about 300 meters to the north of where we are we're into your square which is the epicenter of anti-government demonstrations week here in baghdad to laramie square that is a square in which there have been repeated clashes this cycle of violence that keeps happening the last several days when anti-government demonstrators that are there trying to get around these concrete barriers that the security forces have set up so that people in that square cannot been approached the bridges that lead to parts of the city where there are government installations as i said to him here's where this is the epicenter this is really the only place where it's lawful for our people to protest in baghdad and there's a lot of contradiction here because while you have the violence going on in places

like atlanta square here you have a time bomb of the past about mr but you also have ambulances and medics bringing the injured from those other clashes here for treatment if you look around me there are several ambulances there are volunteer medics there are tents full of medics and these took drivers that. as as ambulance drivers as adam. ambulance drivers bringing the injured here for treatment so while you also certainly sems all the all the tension because of the violence that goes on in other parts of baghdad here's one for how the bass about his fear at times and if you look around me there are families here this is a party the weekend their families here there are mothers and fathers bringing their children to see this historic moment you have here a stretch of wall where there are many murals protest art that's been painted repainted almost every day for the last several weeks or so there's

a lot of different things going on here in tahrir square now everybody i've spoken with here today they've told me that they do not believe that the government is actually listening it was actually that in their demands into account they say they're going to continue to come out here till they feel the government to actually start to really try to make reforms and listening to their demands. security forces and bolivia have shot and killed 5 protest hours in the town offs a couple. it's the single most violent incidents from the protests that have followed president evo morales his resignation and interim government says safety charged but rallies calling for a democratic transition of power have continued to friday's killings from villages protests to 15 cities a bow has more from the past. once again clashes in the center of.

a supporters of libya's former president evo morales try to make it to the presidential palace notice so good at this he's a member of the a mining digit his community he says he wants democracy back in the normal body copilots we only have these chin straps and sticks we don't have weapons but we will defend ourselves but we have a hot sun the right place and we want to defend democracy. even though some protests are violence people want to gather peacefully to demand elections but the situation is so tense that even journalists have become a target i was just at only tear gas by the police on purpose this is what's happening in the middle of a plateau where people have been protesting peacefully a police officer just threw tear gas on my eyes many of those who protest i'm not happy with the interim president is anyone yes who they say does not represent them a series of tweets posted by her and very fired by news organizations in the past

have offended the indigenous majority here. she took office without consent if it's not even the me with the military to come and call for elections the armed forces are also trying to quell the protests they're carrying the indigenous woodpile a flag which for many is more important than the national one bolivia's interim administration has made a foreign policy shift and ask venezuelan and cuban officials to leave the country they say they have been organizing unrest in the wake of the resignation of former president evo morales. these people were arrested for possessing firearms without a license they are foreigners they're venezuelans libyans are clearly concerned because there are these types of groups looking to destabilize a government that has been legally established which is headed by president jeanine . protesters from the city of cochabamba have been trying to reach the capital. some social media show that several people have been killed in clashes with the military and the police the videos could not be independently verified by al

jazeera and then from mexico it will more or less said new elections are the only way to calm the situation down. here for the sake of democracy if the interim government of bolivia doesn't want me to take i have no problem not taking person new elections i just wonder why there is so much fear of evil but i'm willing to see it priorities and willing to bring peace to. but there are questions over whether his party will be allowed to run because it's been accused of committing fraud bolivia desperately needs min in full negotiations that would allow elections to take place soon as many believe only an elected president will be able to take the country forward that he said will. pass. the u.s. courts has blocked the execution of a black man just days before it was due to be carried out some 51 year old worldly reads have been convicted of the murder of a white woman back in 1996 but the texas appeals court says new evidence of his

innocence must no be considers john hendren has more from austin texas. when rodney reed awoke on friday morning his days were numbered numbered to 5 he was scheduled to die by lethal injection at the hands of the state of texas on wednesday nov 20th that is for the rape and murder of stacy stites in 1996 but late on friday the texas court of criminal appeals issued a stay demanding that new evidence be considered among other things his lawyers got an affidavit from a friend of the victim that seemed to corroborate his story that he was having a long term affair with stacy stites and that that would explain why his semen was found on the victim when she was found dead in another explosive piece of evidence an inmate in jail along with the fiance of stacy site says that that fiance confessed to her murder he has since through his lawyers denied that he has done so

but that of another piece of explosive new evidence this happened just hours before the texas parole board recommended a 120 day stay of the execution so that they could consider new evidence or the court's consider consider new evidence that is a very rare thing 566 people have been executed in the state of texas since it reinstituted the death penalty in 1982 the parole board has only asked for a stay 5 times it's only been granted 3 times and now rodney reed hopes to be the r. . and finally people in china more of their shopping online than an any other country in the world and many remote serious people have embraced technology becoming online entrepreneurs starting on sleepy villages since an e-commerce hopes reports from patient village east of china. in less than a decade legion home has transformed his life the former street snack vendor is now

c.e.o. of his own company it makes camping equipment and has an annual turnover of there are $9000000.00 puts it down to hard work good luck and the rise in online shopping. as the internet develops our shopping habits change there are also more opportunities to make money we can do business from home whether you are one person 100 people were on the same platform everyone can find something assumes. his success attracted the attention of others in village who asked him to teach them how to start an e-commerce business at least 16 family that's about 10 percent of the population here are involved in e-commerce in one way or another mostly as middlemen selling products made by others. but some like lucian friend are more on to printer he sells wood salvaged from old houses in the village.

doing e-commerce gave me more flexibility i have to work any way either at the factory or at home i make about the same money but i have more freedom doing this i can take care of my children or go fishing if i like. across china there are thousands of villages like. rural communities whose fortunes have changed because of the internet power is owned by chinese multinational ali baba and is china's largest digital platform it's where many e-commerce businesses got their 1st start . villages where at least 10 percent of households are involved in eco mess and that have a combined turnover of at least one and a half $1000000.00 a year are known as toppled villages over to you got to know the government has been supportive of infrastructure like la just sticks and transport this village is

mostly operated allow free market basis with some gliders or hope for the government. not everyone strikes it big in eco mess but some are showing that the internet and business sevi can be a potent combination florence louis al-jazeera beige village to province china. this is al jazeera and these other top stories u.s. president donald trump is facing accusations of intimidation after attacking the latest impeachment witness on twitter as she testified before congress on a virtual as the u.s. ambassador in ukraine trump is accused of pressuring ukraine to investigates his political rivals israel says it's carried out more airstrikes in response to walk that far from gaza overnights 2 rockets for far towards the city of their sheba it

raises more don't survive a ceasefire with the palestinian armed group islamic jihad's a truce was agreed on thursday after the worst cross border fighting in months killed 34 palestinians are a force that has more from gaza. those rockets were fired in the direction of bush over what are known as long range rockets here in gaza just before 2 am local time both of them intercepted by israel's. iron dome system and it was several hours later before dawn in gaza that the response came in the shape of strikes from the israelis the interesting thing about this though is that the israeli military is explicitly saying this time around it was targeting the sites belonging to hamas the main faction here in gaza the faction that controls the gaza strip. gunman ensure lanka have fired on buses carrying tamil and muslim forces but no

casualties have been reporting it's it happened shortly after polls opened in the sri lankan presidential election tension has been high since the easter sunday bowman's security forces in bolivia have shot and killed 5 protesters in the town of secada it's the single most violent incident from the process that have followed the resignation of president evo morales an interim government has taken charge but rallies calling for a democratic transition of power and have continued friday's killing spree and the death toll from bolivia's process to 15 and process had broken out in iran after the government tank the cost of fuel by 50 percent and prompted fears of rising inflation to hand says the revenue will go towards families in the it's. short states news continues here on al-jazeera after earthrise the stay with us. on account of the cost with briggs it make america great again to make it india are

we seeing a backlash against globalization or is it just of all the economic war plus francis richest man is worth over one $100000000000.00 we find out if alt is an unequal society counting the cost on al-jazeera. climate change is an existential threat to life. the world health organization predicts that in 30 years it will be directly responsible for the deaths of over $250000.00 people each year. many feel governments a failing to respond and it's unlikely that the paris agreement targets of keeping the global temperature rise below 2 degrees centigrade will be maps. which.