in the world it will take 10 to a 1000 years for this to disintegrate and that's what's choking this city. china accuses the us of interference after the senate passes bills supporting hong kong protesters. i don't know come on peter told me you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up this real strike syrian military targets in response to rocket attacks the day before. i should have seen that connection differently and had i done so i would have raised my own objections. donald trump's former special envoy to ukraine tells the impeachment inquiry he didn't realize kian for was pressured to investigate joe biden. also had out of business weeks of

antigovernment protests in iraq are affecting trade. china some of the u.s. diplomats after the senate passed a bill to support human rights in hong kong following months of often violent unrest if the bill does become law top officials from the territory could be sanctioned by the u.s. in the future in hong kong a standoff between the police and the protesters on a campus shows no signs of ending is there a clock. in a city rocked by violence and months of protests every day life is carrying on the major primary and secondary schools have resumed classes after being closed for more than a week some major roads have also reopened but traffic is still congested and some raw lines remain blocked. at polytechnic university in central california up to 100

protesters are refusing to leave riot police have surrounded the campus ready to mike arrests if any demonstrators try to skype. all. this. on tuesday around $800.00 surrounded $300.00 around the idea of 18 and can't be charged with writing others managed to escape the campus and avoid a wrist some protesters have attempted to flee over the last few hours through the universities drainage system but they were arrested other attempts were made to skype of a not but those students were met by police and retreated back inside the campus of the united states senate has backed the pro-democracy protests movement in hong

kong and a unanimous vote senate has passed the hong kong human rights and democracy act which threatens to invoke tried sections on the city if the u.s. considers human rights have been violated we in the united states stand in solidarity with the democratic protesters who have every right to assemble and petition their government for the rights of citizens of hong kong the bill will now go to the house of representatives the hong kong government has rejected the bill demanding the u.s. stop interfering in the city's internal affairs these rights are being protected by the basic law hong kong article 4 basic law protect human rights and we have seen that work all these rights including rights given to anybody working in hong kong reporting in hong kong so these are all self interest to do so i don't see that and the. reason for changing that and does that explain why in our statement we strongly say the object to any attempt by any country tried to sort of inference

hong kong's own interest district elections will be held in hong kong this weekend the government has not ruled out postponing that if there is more violence sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. meanwhile britain summoned the chinese ambassador over allegations a consulate employee in hong kong was tortured he simon chang he says chinese secret police beat him deprive him of sleep and chained him up was pressing him for information about activists leading those protests in hong kong with the chain was detained for 15 days during a trip to the mainland in august to beijing and our correspondent andrew thomas and do we know any more details about these claims from mr chang. well the claims were put to a spokesperson for the foreign ministry here in beijing about 2 hours ago now and the response from beijing was essentially to send up deny them completely and say that mr chen yes he was detained but he was detained for soliciting a prostitute nothing to do with what happened in hong kong nothing to do with the

situation there and while he was detained all his legal rights were respects it well that of course goes against everything that this the chain has said in his interviews with the wall street journal and others which essentially say that he was tortured for the 2 weeks or so that he was held in detention on in mainland china so a real difference there or in terms of story and interestingly as well the foreign ministry spokesperson said that the chinese ambassador in london will not be going to see the foreign minister in london he will turn down that invitation so rebuke there to the british government now peter little bit more on the chinese response as well to this passing of the vote in the u.s. senate which really has condemned what's going on in hong kong china in turn has issued a very long and detail very strong statement condemning that vote in the u.s. senate i won't read much of it but suffice to say that they say that this act by the. u.s. senate passing of the act neglects facts and truth applies double standards and

blatantly interferes in hong kong affairs the issue hong kong faces not about human rights or democracy but about stopping violence and chaos they call the u.s. senate they say the u.s. senate has got a hidden agenda this act hates criminal moves in hong kong as a pursuit of human rights and democracy that is wrong this statement says and it will boomerang back against the u.s. and towards the end of this statement there's a real well not very veiled threat it's all a very explicit threat that if this act goes further and is made law if donald trump essentially gives his consent assent to this law then there will be serious repercussions and they china will have to take strong counted. as to defend our national sovereignty the essence of the statement there and indeed with the simon chain issue as well is that all of these issues are internal issues within china hong kong which of course is one country and there nothing to do with the british government or the us senate or indeed the american presidency either so really

strong condemnation by china of all this what they see as interference in their internal affairs. thank you. israel says it's fighter jets launched attacks in syria more planes hit syrian army talk it's under arms could force in the early hours of wednesday morning that's according to the israeli military syria says many of the rockets were shot russia's described israel's actions as a quote wrong move a day earlier israel intercepted 4 rockets launched towards the occupied golan heights from syria so in a holder is in beirut. the strikes are being described as wide scale extensive multiple locations have been hit multiple targets in and around the syrian capital damascus israel the israeli military as well as israeli prime minister ok knowledge thing that they were behind the attacks they're calling it an act of retaliation they are blaming the iranian force which is an arm of the iranian revolutionary

guards which also has a presence in syria of responsibility for firing 4 rockets from syria towards the golan heights on tuesday so they're saying the overnight strikes are in retaliation for that incident there's been no independent confirmation on that incident military is saying that the overnight strikes targeted positions based arms depots belonging to both the outputs force am the syrian military now over the years israel has been targeting positions belonging to the iranians or iranian allied groups in syria they have targeted the syrian military in the past but it is quite aware definitely this can be seen as a message to the syrian government that we hold you responsible for any attacks that emanate from syrian soil and threaten the security of israel and israel believes that the iranian presence in syria is a threat to security it has repeatedly said it will continue this strikes and in many ways it has the support for the cause of the proof of the russians who are the

main power broker in syria the russians seem to turn a blind eye when these strikes happen on condition that those strikes weaken their out. the syrian president bashar assad so a shadow war between israel and iran now clearly out in the open iran has not really recognized or acknowledged that its bases have been hit in syria and the syrian military also not confirming that those bases have been hit the media the state media saying that right they forfeit the attacks and that they shot down a number of the missiles. and u.s. helicopter has crashed in afghanistan killing 2 military personnel who were on board u.s. commandos in a local province on the afghan government denying taliban claims the aircraft was shot down. the deadline for the main rival to the israeli prime minister benjamin

netanyahu to form a government expires at 22 hours g.m.t. on weapons day but again it's negotiating with other potential political parties his meeting with mr netanyahu as a last ditch attempt to form a unity government has made no progress if guns cannot form a coalition israel could face a 3rd election in less than 12 months. a senior diplomat who's emerged an important witness in the impeachment inquiry against president trump is due to testify in the coming hours he's gordon song and he's the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. he revised his initial testimony to say he believed mr trump had linked restarting military aid to ukraine 2 it's investigating the bidens joe biden and his son hunter on tuesday the white house attacked its own ukraine expert as he was giving testimony is alan fish. this could be a pivotal week in the donald trump impeachment hearings many of the shuttle to give

evidence were on the controversial july call with the ukrainian president that kills a key claim the hearings are based on 2nd hand reports giving evidence of tenet colonel alexander vigilant. a career army officer and the ukraine expert on the national security council he was concerned by the call by president trump pushing for an investigation into democrat joe biden and his son immediately took those concerns to a white house lawyer is improper for the president of the united states to demand a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen and a political opponent a decorated veteran of the war in iraq vidlin has seen his actions in testifying under attack from president trump's supporters who question his loyalty this is america is the country i've served and defended that all of my brothers have served and here right matters. thank you sir gilbert.

and i. one of vice president might pence's aides jennifer williams also appeared before the committee saying she had the call and considered it political in nature republicans are insisting the president did nothing wrong and was fully entitled to demand an investigation into biden and his son's business dealings in ukraine as millions of americans are watching throughout the hysteria and frenzied media coverage 2 key facts have not changed that are critical to these impeachment proceedings one ukraine in fact received the aid and 2 there was no investigation into the guidance then we had an appearance from kut volcker the former special representative to ukraine he's a witness called by republicans but he dismantled a key republican talking point that joe biden did something wrong as i previously testified i have known vice president biden for 24 years is an honorable man and i hold him in the highest regard former national security official timothy morrison admitted the ukrainians were told the u.s.

wanted something from ukraine to unfreeze the that had been allocated an actual quid pro quo that the ukrainians would have to have the prosecutor general. make a statement or with respect to the investigations as a condition of having the ablest as democrats try to build a compelling case the republican leader of the senate where the definitive vote on action will be held says he doesn't see donald trump being removed from office it inconceivable to me to be 67 votes. to remove the president from office president trump who's described some of those giving evidence as never trampers in the past actually acknowledged he doesn't know most of them but i don't know i never heard of him i don't know any of these people other than i have seen. a couple of their investigation the white house is continuing to mount its defense issuing a statement from keith kellogg the national security adviser to vice president mike

pence he says he was on the call to the ukrainian president and despite evidence from others on tuesday he insists president bush did nothing wrong alan fischer al-jazeera washington. still to come here on al-jazeera a row breaks out as the u.k.'s prime minister and the main opposition party leader go head to head in the 1st televised debates of the general election campaign and violence in bolivia as the army tries to end the blockade on a major fuel plant. hello again it's good to have you back well here across the philippines we are going to be watching to better conditions in the next few days we did have a tropical system pushing across was on brings a very heavy rain across the region the system is going to emerge back into the south china sea still some very heavy rain there for manila here on thursday better

conditions though by the time we get towards friday and your temperature coming up to about $32.00 degrees there across much of malaysia as well as indonesia a very heavy rain over the next few days pushing over here towards the west as well call a poor singapore expect to see those rain showers pretty much all day temperature in kuala lumpur about $32.00 and singapore at $27.00 degrees there well temperature is on our map here across much of australia we are looking at those temperatures well above average we're talking adelaide and of course the threat is going to be moving over here towards new south wales as well as queensland we do have a front that's going to be making its way towards the east very slowly here's that front right there ahead of it that's where those temperatures are quite high take a look what we do expect to see as we go into thursday temptress coming down for adelaide so that is some good news there but for parts of melbourne those temperatures are on their way up $39.00 degrees there but by the time we go towards friday finally we get a little bit of relief and we do expect to see melbourne at about 20 degrees for you.

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a reminder of the top stories so far israel says it's fighter jets launched attacks inside syria the israeli army says its planes hit syrian military targets and iran's cords force in the early hours of wednesday morning. china summoned a u.s. diplomat after the senate passed a bill to support human rights in hong kong following months of unrest in hong kong protesters inside the university campus there refusing to surrender to the police. britain summoned china's ambassador for the allegations a consulate employee in hong kong has been tortured simon chang says the police chinese secret police changed him up and beat him most amount of information but activists leading the protest in hong kong. a bahraini dissidents has made a formal complaint to the police in the u.k. he says staff at bahrain's and besieged try to muddy him by pushing him off the building's roof lawrence lee reports from london. if the bahraini authorities harbored any hope that mussa mohammed's campaign against them was over then they

were wrong because here he was at a police station in central london entering the formal complaint that staff working at their embassy in london had tried to murder him it was in late july the mohammed climbed up to the top of the embassy roof to protest against the imminent executions of 2 anti government activists in the gulf states. footage from the ground shows an apparently being beaten with sticks on the edge of the roof he claims the diplomatic staff tried to push him off the roof and then out of view began the process of trying to kill him inside the embassy mohammed says at the point when the police forced entry to the embassy to calm the situation they saw him on the ground being assaulted. to help. and then i so i saw the police the cam on that awful blame and missy and the 111. of the. officers came to me and said to me more say you are not you are you are

safe now we are with you here all this footage is now in the hands of the police so to presumably the testimonies of the officers who my hermit says saved his life his legal team say the meeting with the police went well and that they are determined to investigate it but they also know full well that embassy staff have diplomatic immunity which means they can be prosecuted and anyway if they disappeared off to bahrain that we almost no chance of getting them back the other thing they don't know is whether any one of the foreign office in london has asked the bahrain is what they were doing some had on the night in question i believe the british government at this is stage should be summoning the beheading invested there and to question him about this this incident. which supposed to be the response of. person on what happened. i don't recall any questions that from

the foreign office we expect them to take them very serious for the police the whole thing is something of a diplomatic minefield having offended the bahrain is by knocking down the door of the embassy they're now being asked to call for the prosecution of diplomatic staff on charges of attempted murder the whole thing is as much political as it is criminal largely al-jazeera. the governing conservative party cause a controversy last night after renaming its twitter account fact check the u.k. that happened on tuesday night right in the middle of a live televised leaders' debate ahead of the general election it can't post it challenges to statements made by the opposition socialist leader jeremy coleman before reverting to its original real name paul brennan what's the debate prime minister boris johnson came into this t.v. debate with a double digit lead in the latest opinion polls with the possible disadvantage of

being the incumbent in this race the labor party leader jeremy corbyn came to solve it with the pressure of knowing that with less than 3 and a half weeks until polling day he needs a breakthrough soon with the 6 lots were drawn at corbin spoke 1st on public services to many families without a proper home struggling to make ends meet while tax cuts are handed to the super rich johnson led on bracks it whether you voted for leave or remain people want to get bricks it done and to unleash the potential of this entire country the questions ranged widely from bracks it to government austerity to personal integrity how can we trust you. at times the moderators struggle to keep the debate on topic and on time this is. interesting this is why this is quite interesting and i know you want to return to practicing mr johnson but in your specific moment we are talking about the n.h.s.

on bricks it a labor government would read because she is a new deal with the e.u. and then put it to a 2nd duty referendum johnson repeatedly demanded to know where the cold wind will campaign for or against his own breath to deal in that referendum but we don't know and i've asked this before we don't know which side mr corbyn would campaign is he going to campaign for leave can remove come in from the other direction it's called impress the prime minister on the future of the national health service and emphasise the point with a personal anecdote about a friend who'd recently died of cancer the nurses that were trying to help or were unable to get anyone to see her because they were under such strain and stress and so she recorded a video saying please in my memory make sure nobody else goes through this pain other opposition party leaders were excluded from the main debate and allocated to separate t.v. interview programs the liberal democrats the scottish national party the greens and the party i would revoke article 50 something the prime minister has the power to

do and we do that on day one westminster governments can decide to cause the direction of travel when a corner is and policies that we don't want a point to us and therefore that really illustrates the importance of scotland to say don't for our sales what kind of country we want to be here we really do need to transform our whole country in the next 10 years we know how to do it we just need to make sure we've got the well and the investment to make it happen the plan is to get some breaks it boyce's into the house of commons to hold boris johnson to his promises political commentators will wrangle over which leader came out on top from this debate but there are several more televised encounters still to come in this election campaign plenty of time for voters to make up their mind before december 12th. paul brennan al-jazeera london ukraine says it's ready to accept a quote reasonable compromise on settling the conflict in the east more than 13000 people have been killed in the party

a conflict between russia backed separatists and ukrainian government forces leaders from ukraine russia germany and france are expected to discuss the issue at a summit next month ukraine's foreign minister says they'll go to the meeting with open ideas and an open mind in eastern ukraine russia backed separatists have just finished a week long operation to remove land mines the work in a village near donetsk took place after both sides withdrew their armed forces from that area amnesty international says more than 100 iranians have been killed since what it calls a brutal crackdown began last friday on protestors the iranian government puts the number of dead at 11 including 5 policeman state t.v. is showing some of the protesters arrested for rioting and threatening shopkeepers . in bolivia at least 3 people have been killed during a security operation to end a blockade of a major fuel plant supporters of the former president abel morales had been demanding the return of the leader after he resigned earlier this month following

antigovernment protests to raise a boat now reports. violent scenes once again in the city of hundreds of members of the security forces headed to the sink at the gas plant on tuesday supporters of dallas were blocking it to prevent gas from reaching the capital us. several people were killed and many others injured when security forces cleared the way and. they are killing our bolivian brothers we want freedom we want a president with our blood we will fight for it with our lives. there are roadblocks in many parts of bolivia and the streets leading to the capital are no exception protesters say bolivia's democracies are under threat but protests like this one are preventing gas diesel and some food items from reaching the city people here say that they want to repeat what indigenous leader back up that he did when he shut down all access to the capital well they're saying that they want to do

exactly the same right now to force the resignation of interim president or anyone here. to back out that is subjective in 1781 was to isolate passing the fight for independence from spain he was later killed placing under siege was a tactic also used in more recent times in 2003 then president gonzalo son to the last other was also forced out of office after massive demonstrations that closed the capital. with the country and an interim administration in place security forces claim they won't allow the past to repeat self many say the violence needs to stop. bolivia is split into it is a good country even more or less is gone and what are we going to do about it i would like to see people unite and find a candidate for elections stop throwing rocks we are killing one another among the

libyans and elections will come and we won't have a candidate violence needs to stop. the attempt of us happened as the interim government is negotiating with a one party for new elections this people that want to have a new process within the must but there are no new. with a government for new elections by the radical people within the party led by him or this are. these people with threats and everything to do any consensus with the government some type of consensus appears to be the only way out of the current crisis a crisis that has this and the nation on the edge. weeks of antigovernment protests in iraq are hurting businesses that many shop owners say they are sympathetic to the protesters demands they also want a return to stability and some of that story for us from baghdad. as

protesters dig in their heels in downtown baghdad nearby businesses face a struggle of their own traders near tahrir square have found themselves on the front lines between security forces and demonstrators this hardware store and another were burned down in recent unrest staff are still sorting through charred merchandise because the anti-riot forces were on top of the buildings they targeted them the 2 shops that belong to us this one and that one were burned we were able to extinguish the fire as you can see it all turns to ash. surveillance video from adjacent buildings shows protesters throwing petrol bombs the shop is insured but it will take time to rebuild in the meantime shop employees warry about how they'll support their families when they're not both young and we had daily labor is this is a livelihood if i don't work 2 or 3 days it affects me on. it's not just the businesses

around tahrir square that are feeling the pinch port and road closures in southern iraq have stifled trade analysts fear the uncertainty stemming from the protests could have long term adverse effects on the economy. political stability is an essential part of the investment climate i believe that these problems will lead businesses to finke practically and to transfer their investment to other countries the partial internet shutdown has head but it does budding online business community. is iraq's main online food delivery company but revenues have dropped more than half since the recent protests began. to tell about application depends greatly on the internet if the situation continues like this we don't think we can continue for the next 2 or 3 months i don't believe we'll be able to cover their salaries. the lack of jobs is what started protests in the 1st place but now the economy appears even worse off demonstrators say that whatever

the cost of the unrest it's nothing compared to what has been lost to the corruption and a small price to pay in the interest of bringing about larger change. al-jazeera. he said over here in doha with a quick reminder of your top stories so far china has summoned a u.s. diplomat after the senate passed a bill to support human rights in hong kong following months of unrest there in hong kong the protesters inside one university campus refusing to surrender to the police britain's summoned china's ambassador over allegations a consulate employee and hong kong was tortured he simon chang he says chinese secret police changed him up and beat him last of all of the information about activists leading the protest in hong kong. israel says it's fighter jets launched attacks inside syria the israeli army says its planes hit syrian military targets

and iran's quds force in the early hours of wednesday morning syria's military says many of the rockets were shot down one day earlier israel intercepted 4 rockets launched towards the occupied golan heights from syria a u.s. helicopter has crashed in afghanistan killing 2 military personnel who are on board u.s. commanders in the province of logo and the afghan government are denying taliban claims that the aircraft was shot down. the deadline for the main rival to the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to form a government expires at 22 hours g.m.t. benny gantz is negotiating with other parties his meeting with mr netanyahu is a last ditch attempt to form a unity government it made no progress if mr gant cannot form a coalition israel could face a 3rd election in less than a year more witnesses have been publicly questioned in the impeachment inquiry against donald trump one of them the white house ukraine expert described his phone call with ukraine's president as improper ukraine says it's ready to accept

a quote reasonable compromise on settling the conflict in the east more than 13000 people have been killed in the 5 year conflict between russia back separatists and ukrainian government forces leaders from ukraine russia germany and france all expected to discuss that issue at a summit next month ukraine's foreign minister says he'll go to the meeting with open ideas and an open mind. amnesty says more than 100 iranians have been killed since what it calls a brutal crackdown began last friday on protestors the government puts the number of that at 11 including 5 policemen state c.v.s. showing some of the protesters arrested for rioting up next to talk to our jazeera adrian's hear from tangy with the news r.c.u. immediately after that of life and. statement the prime minister. mission is to the british on the 31st about trade and making this country the

greatest placed on a person's departure is delayed but how about follow the drama of bricks it on al-jazeera. 'd you can. see. he's recognized by many as a symbol of left wing movements in latin america union leader and activist ever more on these became bolivia's 1st indigenous president off to his party movement to socialism won the 2005 election. during moralists his almost 14 years in power bolivia's economy grew one of the highest rates in latin america and poverty was almost home taking advantage of his popularity moralists decided not to complete his 1st 5 year term and called for an early election in 2009 he easily secured a 2nd victory then a new.