this is al jazeera. hello i'm adrian from again this is the live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes trying to accuses the us of interference after the senate approves a bill aimed at protecting human rights in hong kong. a possible election in israel the 3rd in a year as talks to form a coalition government it stalemate. and a senior u.s. diplomat close to president trump is due to testify in the impeachment inquiry. was

a marine euro has been named as the new manager of the english premier league side tottenham the former manchester united boss appointed 12 hours after the london club sacked moderate to tina. china has some of the u.s. diplomats after the senate passed a bill to support human rights in hong kong it comes after months of protests that if the legislation becomes law top officials from the territory could be sanctioned by the u.s. in future in hong kong a standoff between police and protesters on a university campus shows no signs of ending al-jazeera sara clock reports. in a city rocked by violence and months of protests everyday life is carrying on. 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

bread 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 bike arrests if any demonstrators try to skype. flaw. in the process. of. all. this. on tuesday around $800.00 surrounded $300.00 around the idea of 18 and can't be charged with brushing others managed to escape the campus and avoid a wrist some protesters have attempted to flee over the last few hours through the university's drainage system but they were arrested other attempts were made to a 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 of hong kong article 4 basic law protect human rights and we have seen that 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 that's that explain why in our statement we

strongly sort of object to any attempt by any country try to. introns hong kong 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. britain someone's china's ambassador over allegations that a former employee at its consulate in hong kong was tortured simon chang says the chinese secret police beat him deprive him of sleep and chained him up he says they were trying to get information about activists leading the protests in on kong he was detained for 15 days during a trip to the mainland in august of 0 andrew thomas that's the latest from beijing . in the daily briefing at the foreign ministry here in beijing a spokes person denied asylum in chains accusations of torture he said that while he was detained in august all his legal rights were guaranteed and it referred to a statement put out by the shans in place back in august when he was detained which

essentially said that he was detained for soliciting a prostitute nothing to do with any activity he was or wasn't involved with in hong kong and the spokes person at the foreign ministry also said that the chinese ambassador in london will not be going and seeing britain's foreign minister they'll be refusing that invitation if that's the right word at the same time earlier in the day the foreign ministry putting out a very strong statement condemning the u.s. senate passing this act condemning what's going on in hong kong in beijing saying that this act by the u.s. senate's neglects facts and truth applies double standards and blatantly interferes in hong kong affairs and china's other internal affairs it goes on to say that the issue hong kong faces is not about human rights or democracy but about stopping violence and chaos and it says that the us senate has what it calls a hidden political agenda and passing this act paints criminal removes as the

pursuit of human rights and democracy when the truth is a violent criminal rampantly smashing facilities again this statement aims with not so veiled threats that china will have to take strong countermeasures to defend our national sovereignty security and development issues if the us insists on making the wrong decision no indication of what those countermeasures might be but the clearest signal possible really both in this statement by the foreign ministry and in what they've said in response to simon chains accusations that these are all internal affairs within hong kong and china more broadly but nothing to do with foreigners. david sweet is managing director of trans national china consulting he says that the u.s. senate bill doesn't help the situation this is something that hong kong really feels the hong kong government feels i mean i don't i'm not very supportive of the hong kong government in terms of the way they've handled this particularly for mrs

lamb but but they really feel that this is something that they need to do they need to bring order to society they've got some sense here that that wouldn't be a bad thing from the population of the protesters still have a significant level of support but i think they're going to be damned if they law allow the united states to dictate to them how to resolve this so there's this crisis here in the city and if they decide you know if they can't get in for example your audience knows that they've now surrounded the poly universe of the of a little while ago it looked like that could have been a really big pitched battle and if the winds up being a pitch for you know if the if the police can't get in and then have to eventually call in the people's armed police i just think they're not going to care what the united states government says and and sanctions against individuals you know i'm just. the citizen in a crisis and it's going to resolve this crisis and i think in that sense from the beginning when you ask me is this interference by by the united states it certainly

doesn't add i don't think it helps the situation in any significant way. the deadline for the main rival to israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu to form a government expires now in just a few hours benny gantz is negotiating with other parties his meeting with netanyahu as a last ditch attempt to form a unity government has made no progress last month netanyahu also failed to form a government if gantz can't do it israel could face a 3rd election in less than a year let's go live now to western zeros harry force can tell us more so lieberman has been talked about as a king maker harry how crucial will his decision be today. well yes he's is already come out with a very consequential announcement he is the leader of the right wing secularist israel bit a new policy he used to be nessun you know who's ally in government defense

minister but he was essentially a king breaker in may when he pulled his support from netanyahu just as he was trying to make a right wing coalition government then netanyahu responded by calling for this 2nd election in a row that elections were also inconclusive and now avigdor lieberman has dashed any slim hopes that benny gantz might have had to form a minority government with support from the outside of that government from the 10 palestinian israeli members of the israeli parliament who might have supported it that was always a slim chance now lieberman says that he will not back any such government and he won't back a right wing government led by netanyahu as long as it contains the parties of the ultra orthodox religious parties as well and so here's essential he said a plague on both your houses he said he was offered all sorts of things innumerable offers including a rotational prime ministership for

a year but he would not sell his values he says for seats what he wants is a unity government what the president of the country also has called for is a unity government including both benny gantz and netanyahu but on one side benny gantz says he won't allow a prime minister facing indictment 2 to lead a government that he is involved in other charges on the way we think from the attorney general against netanyahu in a matter of days he also wants to go to to jettison his wider religious nationalist bloc as far as netanyahu is concerned he won't give up on either the block or the idea of remaining as prime minister and any prospects of a unity government remain out of reach as well so harry to what extent is a 3rd election in 12 months now and never born out of the electorate feel about that. well the israeli electorate is certainly unhappy with the prospect of a 3rd election in 3 months because the polls suggest that exactly the same or very

close to what we have now results would eventually 8 what happens after this deadline is that there is a free for all for 3 weeks if it is missed if counts as seems inevitable now come form a government any member of the knesset who could get the magic number of 61 recommendations of support could potentially put together a coalition government but it seems very difficult to see how the situation changes perhaps there are 2 possibilities one is that the very pressure of the 3rd election could focus minds even more and exert so much pressure that somebody somewhere compromises the other is if the charges do come in and they damage netanyahu sufficiently within his own party lee could then do we see the possibility of support splintering away from netanyahu within likud giving dance an opportunity to try to poach some people or even to see some kind of leadership upset within the ruling party so far there seems to be no appetite for that they know these charges

are likely to come and yet they continue to support him so we're stuck in this unprecedented deadlock in israeli politics it just goes on and on. i was there as harry for said reporting live from west to respond how many thanks this is that from al-jazeera still to come on the program we'll tell you why police decided to target a position party members say symbolically. the deadly fall out from the political b.s. operation to end the blockade of a major fuel plant and that in sport baradar waved goodbye to get another manager's job raul will be here to explain a little later. a much awaited testimony will begin shortly in washington the donald trump's impeachment inquiry in just under one of the president's allies as you to be sworn in gold and soul and that is the u.s. ambassador to the european union now he cost control the see the 1st appearing

before congress behind closed doors he altered his testimony to say that the president did withhold military aid to ukraine unless the ukrainians investigated joe biden and his son for corruption now the inquiry heard on tuesday from 3 of the witnesses they overheard the controversial phone call when trump pressured the president of ukraine to investigate the bidens we'll speak with our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat in just a few moments but 1st let's join heidi joe castro on capitol hill. what can we expect from this testimony today. wagering court insaan land is a very important witness to this impeachment inquiry and that's for 2 reasons one is that he is the closest to the president among those witnesses who have agreed to testify and secondly he's really a wild card having him behind closed doors given the strongest defense of the president and arguably the most damning evidence against president trump so how is

he close to trump well some land is argued to have bought his way into the president's graces by being a mega donor wench. was inaugurated someone was then awarded an ambassadorship appointment to the european union and then solemn went on to brad to others in the administration about how he alone was controlling or a large part controlling u.s. policy toward you crave notably ukraine isn't even part of the european union and he also bragged about his access to the president saying he could reach trump at any time and that gets to the 2nd reason why solomon is so important at 1st he defended president trump saying that the president's own words deny there being a quid pro quo later though gordon song reversed that testimony saying then that he recalled that he yes presume that the aid security

a the $400000000.00 from the u.s. to ukraine was being withheld contingent on ukraine opening an investigation into trump's political rivals and he says he recalled that not only did that exist but in fact he was the messenger who told that to ukrainian officials so the question today what we're watching is which version of the facts are we going to get from saw will he default back to his defense of the president which may open up some wind to perjury or will he be more revealing and perhaps shed more light on the key phone conversations he had with trump which democrats are really hoping that will break open to shed light on exactly what the president's intent was when he on one hand withheld that security aide and on the other hand directed his subordinates to request the investigation into his political rivals all right heidi let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly how could also in

washington so what's the mood like complete the white house with so many white house officials testifying. well the u.s. president has just tweeted as he often does and tries to set the tone in the news narrative and the message that we seem to be getting is that there is a bit of confidence after the testimony particularly late on tuesday the feeling being that the testimony has underscored what the president has been maintaining all the time that there has been no wrongdoing in fact the president tweeting in just the last hour or so saying white house confidence grows as hearings were on this is an attempted takedown of republicans by democrats it will never work now the reason that the white house seems to be feeling rather confident or at least the u.s. president is because we're seeing something a very we didn't see the last time this country was talking about impeachment of another president president bill clinton we're not seeing members of the republican

party going to the other side joining the democrats saying look i will join you for this vote for peace but what we're seeing is a maintaining a split down party lines which we didn't see back in 1998 so the white house feeling as the strikes on that the american public is viewing this is a political circus maybe wanting to focus more on what might affect them personally so the president is trying to set that agenda we're going to see him going to austin texas today where he's going to be going to an apple plant where he is going to make the argument that this plant has created 20000 jobs as a result of his policies and we're also watching very carefully as the president leaves the white house in about 2 and a half hours time what he might have to say are committed many thanks indeed on white house correspondent kelly how could washington michael isikoff is the chief investigative correspondent of yahoo news he joins us now live from washington michael good to have you with us much anticipated really in his testimony has been described as pundits rubbing their hands with glee come here to wait what he's wait

to hear what he's going to say well why is he so anticipated. look there's no question that this is the most crucial witness so far. is the one which this who had the most contact with president trump on the whole ukraine matter he's already testified behind closed doors he had to amend his testimony already because he his memory was refreshed about yes he did in fact bring up the military aid saying that the best way for ukraine telling the ukrainians in warsaw the best way to get the you the military assistance hold lifted was to announce these investigations but now he's got a real problem because it david holmes before state department official and kid

have has given a gripping very detailed account of a phone call that someone got from president trump on july 26th the day after the july 25th phone call between president trump and president's olinsky in which according to holmes sohn one said the president doesn't give an expletive about ukraine what he cares about is the investigations into the bidens silent did not testify about that when in his closed door deposition he's now going to be grilled about that why didn't you tell us that the 1st time he either will confirm a holmes's count or disputed and raise serious questions about why he omitted such as a significant conversation when he 1st testified under oath could he michael face perjury . the commission and the fact that he's that he's already have to change his story . sure that's that's the threat that he's facing right now whether

he tells the full story or if he contradicts other witnesses there's the question of who's telling the truth here it's hard you know holmes's account which we now have which he gave in closed door deposition we've got a copy of it is very vivid very specific it's supported by. the charge d'affaires hales who learned about it from from homes that same day so you have 2 witnesses who have now recounted this conversation under oath to the committee and signed one who has not mentioned it at all he's going to be grilled very closely about that and all the anticipation is going to be about how he handles that very important line of questioning you heard when a white house correspondent saying just a few moments ago about this error of confidence at the white house why would the white house be so upbeat given all that that's going on in this inquiry.

well to one extent they have to be that's what you want to tell the reporters when they call in the midst of this impeachment inquiry but it is true that the public opinion polls so far do not show a big shift in support for the impeachment of the president you have a divided country with something like 49 to 52 percent supporting him pietschmann depending on which poll it could be a little lower it could be a little higher but no dramatic move in the direction of impeachment now of course we've only had one week of. testimony in public hearings this is the 2nd week i think a lot of people are going to be seeing what does the needle move after this week and as we go into the thanksgiving holiday here in the united states that's the big question because if this remains a divided country with divided parties democrats on one side republicans on another it does raise serious questions about whether when this impeachment the inevitable

impeachment goes to the senate you're going to get senate republicans who will vote to convict and remove the president regards talk to michael many thanks indeed michael isikoff the from yahoo news. israel says that it's hit targets in syria belonging to the government and allied iranian forces but the syrians say that many of the incoming missiles were intercepted israel says that it was responding to rockets from syria into its territory on tuesday russia says the israeli military action was the wrong move to keep the syrian government. from beirut. and. military acknowledging that its jets were responsible for targeting positions of the 4th which is an arm of the iranian revolutionary guard they do have a presence in syria and according to the israeli military they also targeted syrian

military positions surface to air missiles in and around while it is rare for israel to target. troops it is quite rare for them to target the syrian military in what is really being seen as a message to the syrian government that. for any attack emanating from oil israel is calling an act of retaliation they say. was responsible for firing rockets towards the occupied golan heights on tuesday there's no independent confirmation on what exactly happened and whether or not that incident happened but has repeatedly said that it will continue to strike because they believe their presence there is a threat to its national security. to attack israel and basically create a new front along the occupied golan heights. area so israel continuing

with these strikes they've been happening for years but the shadow war if you like between israel and iran is open because in previous months israel really has been more forthcoming in claiming responsibility for those strikes as we reported russia has condemned the israeli air strikes on a. is a journalist and says that still wants a good relationship with iran and israel. now russia called this israeli missile strikes are wrong to move to foreign minister mr grant says that it is contrary to the international law and that it only needs to escalation of tensions in the region russia said they're going to contact all of the sides involved to clarify the circumstances what is not known at this moment is whether israel informed russia before the strikes about what is to happen we know that since 2015 russia has its troops in syria and russia is involved both in the political and military

militarily in syria at the same time iran is good and russia is even good relations with iran and russia also wants to be keep good relations with israel so for russia this is not an easy situation to be in in zimbabwe riot police attacked opposition party supporters with batons tear gas and water cannon police called off the head halters of the movement for democratic change in harare supporters were there to hear party leader nelson chamisa highlights the ruling zanu p.f. failure to improve the country's economy. reports from the zimbabwean capital. the barclays main opposition leader nelson chamisa had won it to ajay's his supporters outside the m.d.c. party headquarters in the rye the building me behind me easy want to tell people about the plans he asked i'll speak seek when right please. some of them are in the cars and the words i can see behind them big pain in. the

road to the party here telling people to get off the street the police say that they really didn't want this ready to take place in the city center because a big could be opposition leaders say that is not true they say the plan was to. peaceful the police didn't leave in using tear gas. yes and battle says you can still smell the tear gas in people's eyes are watering the message was clear the made opposition party was not allowed to gather in the city center the ballot to displace people from this area and they're trying to move further into the city to see if they can weed out any of the supporters may be hiding in their different alleyways hoping to maybe come back and leave who it is once again a force of huge strong force shown by riot police in zimbabwe when the police tell opposition supporters not to protest or hold rallies they usually stop them from

making it happen others in the forest say their anger the frustration they say why is it when the ruling party has rallies they're allowed to hold been ready for it they are not but they say that they are defiant will try again at some point to have another right even right now most of them happy displaced in bolivia at least 3 people have been killed during a security operation to end the blockade of a major fuel plant supporters of former president ever been demanding the return of the leader after he resigned earlier this month following anti-government protests . reports. violent scenes once again in the city. 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. several people were killed and many others injured when security forces cleared the way they are. they are killing our bolivian brothers we want

freedom we want a president with our blood we will fight for it with our lives we're further down the road blocks in many parts of bolivia and the streets leading to the capital are no exception protesters say bolivia's democracies under threat but protests like this one are preventing gas diesel and some. from reaching the city people here say that they want to repeat what indigenous leader park at 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 johnny 9 years. back at that is subjective in 781 was to isolate passing the fight for independence from spain he was later killed. under siege was a tactic also used in more recent times in 2003 then president.

was also forced out of office after massive demonstrations that closed the capital with ever more or less out of the country and an interim administration in place security forces claim they won't allow the past to repeat itself 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 what i list party for new elections this people that want to have a new process within the must but there are no negotiating with with a government for new elections by the radical people within the party led by

a. person in this people with threats and everything to do 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 a nation on the edge. all right let's get a weather update now. on the news from 5 to flooding in the space of just a few weeks it's tell us more there's meteorologist kevin corriveau that's right adrian a big change is happening here in the south southwestern part not states but 1st of all i want to show you the big picture and why it is happening we're talking about the jet stream really kind of carving the path of how these weather systems go and right now the jet stream is really pushing down across the pacific and then pulling back up in the southwest and what that's doing is bringing a lot of rain across much of this area so see the clouds right there well we are looking at some flood potential across much of the southwest including the southern

part of california as well we are looking at rain anywhere from los angeles right now over here towards parts of phoenix up towards las vegas now you remember all those while far as last month we are seeing that big change temperatures down into the teens across much of the sara today tomorrow we're going to be seeing that cold air still in place a most of the weather is going to start to push a little bit more over here towards the east but the snow is going to be a big deal in this area so far we have seen about 70 millimeters of rain falling across the southern california region so for today los angeles thunderstorms today tomorrow more rain things get a little bit better by the time we go towards friday and that cold air is making a big difference here across much of the western united states noticed a big drop in temperatures anywhere from canada all the way down here to parts of colorado we're talking about teens and below across much of this region that you're in. kevin many thanks still to come here on the news on how business spent in iraq feeling the pinch as empty cup protests drag on and we'll tell you why some say the

very ping is just as dangerous as smoking. but later in sport we'll hear from a wild as he prepares for his latest heavyweight title defense in las vegas. from me out to c.n.n. london will cost center special guests in conversation when societies declined when women of the title the only thing that benefits from this contract itself and from states uninterrupted is their 1st run scared girls are those who don't work for him or. can be swell people like to think that there's nationalism is not as ugly as someone else's nationalists in the studio would be unscripted on al-jazeera. our planet is warming as never before with profound consequences for all life on

earth but the world's leading scientists say there is still time to plan an s.o.s. that's not the facts and the science behind the issues affecting our planet. and brings you what people across the globe doing to tighten the crisis around. on al-jazeera. it is good to have you with us adrian from going to here with the news hour from now to 0 top stories china has summoned a u.s. diplomat after the senate passed a bill to support human rights in hong kong after months of unrest in hong kong

protesters inside a university campus and refusing to surrender to. britain to summon china's ambassador over allegations that a consulate employee in hong kong was tortured simon chang says the chinese secret police chained him up and beat him while demanding information about activists leading the protests in home and influential israeli politicians who could have a major role in the next government is refusing to back either candidate for prime minister avigdor lieberman's decision could push israel closer to a 3rd general election in just a year. where new president got a bye rajapaksa has named his elder brother mahinda a former president as prime minister had to replace his run in with from a singer who's stepped down after his party's poor showing in the election this week it's going. to colombo and they'll flanders can tell us how does this work then in sri lankan politics how does the president appoint his brother prime

minister. it is right now what. so far is that prime minister running. has announced. he's intention to resign as prime minister he basically said that given the people that this victory for president. that he has decided to step down giving the president the opportunity to set up the government that. the wave is that the private. mr resigning the present has the authority and the leave way to call upon anyone that he feels commands the confidence of a majority or a significant power in parliament to set up a government and this is what's expected so victimise saying that he is stepping down he did say the formal resignation will basically be sent to the president

tomorrow and that he has always respected democracy value democracy at this step is also in keeping with those ideas engine this is the end of the singer in politics. well adrian it's a case of never say never victor missing. been down but not out again and again and again after this time round he has been prime minister a number of times in sri lanka is history he will get up just him sort of but there is an increasing sort of a sentiment about victor missing her not just within the public obviously the public spoke and that was the reason we didn't see him taking on go top it out to parts of because he knew he would not sort of command the public support however he still holding very strongly to the party leadership of the united national party

and i believe the party is also now beginning to look in on its of to try and decide what where they go from here that it might be time for. her to hang up the reins now this means that with his resignation as it stands he's still party leader which means he crosses over the floor of the house and takes on the opposition leadership but as to whether this is what the broader section of his party wants it remains to be seen there obviously have a lot of soul searching and some strong and key decisions to make as they go forward after this presidential election. the nominee thanks for that is reporting live from colombo a u.s. military helicopter has crashed in afghanistan killing 2 crew on board u.s. commandos in lago province and the afghan government are denying taliban claims that the aircraft was shot down. the pentagon is warning that eisel is getting

stronger since the u.s. withdrawal from syria and is offensive in a report it says that those developments have allowed eisel to rebuild its capabilities and resources and also warns that the death of isolated daddy won't slow the resurgence added says the group is likely to focus on freeing fighters being held by kurdish led forces in syria not a hashimi is director of the center for middle east studies at the university of denver he says that a stabilizing force is needed to fill the power vacuum in the region the short term challenge is to try and stabilize this area it was previously stabilized by american troop presence in alliance with kurdish forces so now that that arrangement has been. changed i think that's the immediate i think the pressing challenge is to find some alternative security arrangement that prevents this area from further destabilizing allowing isis to you know insert itself and to

reorganize but of course the longer term challenges still remain in these have to do with you know that the social economic and political conditions that produced isis to begin with to have to do with you know authoritarian regimes unemployed young people the lack of hope and also the ideological challenge that isis still poses as a as a movement that can still attract disgruntled young muslim men from around the world so i think those are the you know those are the 2. immediate imperatives that i think need to be dealt with. weeks of anti-government protests in iraq are hurting business on many shop owners say they're sympathetic to protesters to munge they also want to return to stability some other fulton reports from baghdad. as protesters digging 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 then

other 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 worry about how they will support their families when. we have daily labor is this is a livelihood work 2 or 3 days if. 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 think practically and to transfer their investment to other countries the partial internet shutdown has head butting online business community. is iraq's main online food delivery company but revenues have dropped more than half since the recent protests began. batting 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 the 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.

an educational innovator who redesigned teaching methods worldwide has won a major prize here and larry rosen stalk picked up the wise prize for education to tackle for tackling inequality by challenging conventional teaching methods he's the founder of the high tech high schools which i learned a center inclusive the annual wise awards recognizes 6 inches of projects tackling education challenges and one has received a $20000.00 prize and international recognition a sullivan job it is at the summit and has met the award winning. it's been 10 years since the prestigious wise award was knowledge here in doha qatar and every year one prominent member from the education industry gets that award this year it's been larry rosenstock who's with us to talk more about his project and what he does thank you very much for being with us today we believe that you have been running a successful program with public private public schools a tell us

a bit more about it and how is it different and how is it making an impact one of the ways it's different is that it's basically a project based pedagogy so the students are courses traditional stuff a little bit but what they're doing is they're creating new knowledge by coming up with great ideas they're publishing books they're sending out balloons and taking measurements for science they're they're just basically doing the type of work of adults but they're doing it early and people say to me well wait a 2nd what about english history math and science they said oh that's all math it's all history it's all in there it's all science science it's just this week we bring it in that way because all of us as human beings including you right now interview me. love to do something that wasn't there before and the wise prize gives me the freedom. to spend a period of time looking at the best $100.00 projects both in our schools and outside of our schools in the world and creating

a digital platform for them all this is from little kids to hire kids for the entire world to benefit from and years i want but what comes from this prize to come through me and the people i work with and go out to the world a lot just association of doctors in the u.s. has called for a ban on electronic cigarettes and very plain devices the american medical association says it's worried about the rise in long illness linked to more than 40 deaths it's also concerned about the shopping crease in the number of people they ping and wants only devices a. moved by the u.s. food and drug administration to be sold and new york has joined a number of states suing the biggest e cigarette manufacturer in the u.s. the state's attorney general says it used glamorous marketing to target to target young people be allowed minors to purchase its products in violation of new york state law and jewel violated new york state law by repeatedly repeatedly targeting

teenagers if you it's a vast advertising campaigns and selling products in a variety of appealing flavors they can be no doubt that jewels aggressive advertising has significantly attributed contributed to the public health crisis that has left youth in new york and across the country addicted to its products by glamorizing they think but at the same time downplaying the nicotine found in bathing products from the center for disease control and prevention says that over 2000 people in the u.s. are suffering from lung illnesses that are connected to vapor and the number of vapors worldwide has been increasing rapidly from about 7000000 in 2011 to 41000000 and 2018 according to the world health organization india has already banned the cigarettes and the u.s. is actively considering it many european countries like austria belgium germany and italy equate favoring devices with tobacco products ok to not lee is lead of the

addiction research group at the university of east anglia she joins us now from norwich in the united kingdom and good to have you with us there in the u.k. they took a very different attitude towards the cigarettes and they ping don't. yes that's right we've had a much more measured regulatory approach to the cigarettes in the u.k. right from the word gay when they 1st started to become popular and we think that that's been very beneficial and that we've been able to promote a cigarettes as a smoking cessation age to adult smokers willing to quit smoking where we haven't at the same time we haven't seen the youth uptake of aping amongst never smokers so having a balanced approach to regulation seems to have enabled us to promote a paying for smoking cessation but prevent uptake of aping by young people who've never smoked tobacco so one of the health risks of being versus smoking tobacco cigarettes in the u.k. have you seen. the kind of long illnesses that the the us is currently seeing.

well no we haven't perhaps surprisingly that a cigarette uses become so much more popular we just haven't seen the outbreak of acute lung injuries that have been seen in the u.s. what we do know about the u.s. outbreak now that we have the lab reports of exactly what people were very paying is this seemed to be a very isolated outbreak connected to the vaporing of t.h.c. illiquid containing vitamin a acetate and so for many of the cases there was a severe lung reaction and allergic reaction to the vitamin e. acetate now that's a product that's actually banned for use in the u.k. so what we've seen in the u.s. seems to be an acute outbreak connected to particular vite devices that haven't been available in the general population in the u.k. in and amongst other european countries so you know no one's saying that vaporing is completely safe clearly there will be the odd occasional reaction to paying but

what we do know is it is certainly much safer than continuing to smoke tobacco so people who are current tobacco smokers who switch to merely replacing one habit for another are they going to become addicted to the nicotine that's in the vapors . well clearly tobacco users smokers are addicted to the nicotine that they consume through cigarette smoking but actually we know that it's not the nicotine that is the most harmful constituent it is the cost the jennet properties that are produced through the. process of combustion that are most harmful to health and directly linked to cancer risk so although people that's quit smoking by switching to a paying will continue to have an addiction to nicotine they are continuing that addiction in a much less harmful form and we have to recognize that some people will choose to

continue to use nicotine and are happy to have that level of addiction now if we can encourage them to do to continue that addiction in a much less harmful way that is clearly beneficial in terms of public health so encouraging people to switch from using nicotine in the most harmful for which slade tobacco smoking to using it in the least harmful form possible is is something that we want to encourage from a public health perspective can create a really good story too quickly not really there in the fine city of nourishment former home a fine city that is code for many things thank you. just ahead here on al-jazeera in sports reaction to. making his return to the english premier league.

want. i don't get time to support his writing thank you very much joe the marine here is due to take his 1st training session as tottenham manager later marino was appointed on wednesday just 12 hours after the london club sacked maruti a portrait painter the former manchester united manager has signed a 4 year deal worth a reported $19300000.00 a year and rakes in the 2nd highest paid in the world after pep guardiola of manchester city and it's reportedly almost double what is previous as a motor to report to tina receives a cowardly 14th in the premier league table 11 points off the champions league places. to put say you know considering that he's the reason why we

even end of season right i was shocked because there was no sign that it's going to happen so we never wanted it of never played people long are like the players. phone for an issue so they didn't want to leave but nevertheless marine here is the new man in charge the portuguese has been out of work since being dismissed by manchester united in december 28th saying in a statement tottenham's chairman daniel levy described jersey as one of the most successful managers in world football and his record at its previous club certainly bears that out the 56 year old has won $25.00 senior try fees in a career that began at benfica 19 years ago he's won a total of 8 league titles in a record 4 different countries portugal england italy and spain and will remain here is one of only 3 managers to won the champions league twice with 2 clubs porto in 2004 and into in 2010 well earlier i spoke to football writer gave you actually

in cats i began by asking him if he thought this was a good appointment for tottenham. daniel levy will tell you yes absolutely yes because i think the target of the cook right now was to make sure that the bottom you of the company the value as a quote in the eyes of the world 'd did not diminish so what we've got straightaway is it doesn't see the shareholders 'd to the owner 'd after the funds as well and to the media that they want still to complete another thing is what they are going to ask him to do because it's this is the beginning of another project i know that that levy will probably won't be able to offer him or everything that he would require to win the league and the i saw that he was just the perfect man to replace somebody like but that you know. well the donna has quit is courage of argentina after just 3 months they've lost 5 out of again since he joined back in september

and they're on the verge of relegation as world cup winning legend played down concerns about his health earlier this month saying he felt more alive than ever of the 6 clubs he's managed our new one job has lasted more than a year the brawn jennings has broken yet another basketball record in the n.b.a. the l.a. lakers star became the 1st player in history to record a circle against every team in the league that's all frank charges before you can take to the set against the oklahoma city thunder with 25 points 11 rebounds and 10 assists the night is winning far from one. of the golden state warriors and a day 7 game is leaking from there he began to review them on the swing on the bench all day it is just a vicious he had 11 altogether plus 11 rebounds and 8 points just short of a triple double that any fellow could lay and injured as well but wasn't serious start which is good news for the warriors who already have several players out injured by one they can easily seen. and he married by the winning return to the

davis cup after 3 years away he came back from a set down to beat the netherlands time on the greek spall which gives great britain a one love lead in the best of straights are also on wednesday now about djokovic one his matches their way into the davis cup quarterfinals with not victory in that tie against the time said yeah we can get back in 2010. high spring are back in action later on after a late finish on tuesday they were trailing russia and so rough in a down level things up by beating karen catching up in straight sets and then in the deciding doubles marcel granollers and nicky on a low tide that rocked up to victory to want to finish close to 2 am local time the local didn't seem to mind too much defending champions correction like. a negative thing. my personal opinion is we all just think the last match and quarter to one and that makes. a big trouble for us for the players. and the same time for the

for the people who are coming to the stadium too because tomorrow he's workaday australia have a new rugby union cards and he's from new zealand dave reddy replaces michael checa and will lead them to the 2023 world cup in france ronny courage new zealand's under 20 side to 3 straight world cup titles or one of bats about super rugby championship the white cats are chiefs is officially start in july when he's finished with the glasgow warriors in scotland rugby australia boss reilly in castle is happy with the appointment but says they did approach the current england coach and former wallaby boss eddie jones we had some discussions with the behind you know the saints but also at night he was country to england and he had a very tight contract with england and i wrote him out from our discussions and we looked really hard at the australian options and he wasn't the one that's leaving that we believed was available i succumbed to the strong it's something that we've

identified as it is nearly that we need to spin on time focused on to grow and develop and our young coach is coming through ok to las vegas now with the anti wild and lewis ortiz have arrived for their heavyweight bout this saturday while there is the un baten w.b.c. champion who beat cuban 5 to ortiz in their 1st meeting that was back in march 28th but 5 was in brooklyn now they are at the m.g.m. grand while there was never last in 42 fights and he's won 40 a vote. i'm a fighter that fight gostin 2030 even 4050 pounds heavier and you see the magic that happens every time with louis artesian oh he's one of the most dangerous fighters in the in the sport of boxing period you can't just go in and do anything with him and with that being said. that's why we're here to see what's going to happen that's it but a thanks indeed will be live in washington for gordon songbirds much anticipated

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