field washington on al-jazeera. donald trump and israel's prime minister stand united on a middle east plan that will see israel and its large parts of palestinian territory. under this vision jerusalem will remain israel's undivided very important undivided have i there were no palestinian leaders at the white house and on the ground the plans provoked anger and protests . alarms the whole rommany watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha are also coming up lawyers for the u.s. president finished their opening arguments in his impeachment trial rejecting calls for a key adviser to give evidence. and we visit the front lines of libya's civil war

as forces allied to the tripoli government try to repel an offensive by walt khalifa haftar. back into the program u.s. president all trump has revealed his plan to end the israeli palestinian conflict with israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu standing beside him it's billed as a 2 state solution but under it israel will immediately and its large parts of the occupied west bank and the jordan valley while the palestinian state only comes into existence after 4 years and only if israel feels its security concerns have been met let anyone who says israel's cabinet will meet to formalize annexation as soon as sunday president trump announced that the u.s. will support those moves trump also said that jerusalem would remain israel's

capital the palestinian state would have its capital in parts of eastern as opposed to east jerusalem. well palestinian president mahmoud abbas calls trump's plan a conspiracy and says that no palestinian can accept a state without jerusalem as its capital but i'm not shaky and if. in the announcement we did not find anything new compared to what we heard 2 years ago it is sufficient to say that 2 years ago we heard the jerusalem is the undivided capital of israel as claimed by them we cannot wait and wait and keep on waiting our position has not changed and after we heard this utter nonsense we say no no and a big no to the deal of the century. white house correspondent. killing it is a deal to bring peace to israelis and prosperity for palestinians u.s. president donald trump presented his long awaited middle east proposal at the white

house alongside israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu we have an obligation to humanity to get it this is an extraordinary trump as proposed a 4 year freeze on new jewish settlements on palestinian land the plan also proposes a tunnel connecting the west bank and gaza and a doubling of palestinian territory to include a capital in what it calls al could be arabic name for jerusalem with the united states would open an embassy but in a contradictory statement trunk declared jerusalem israel's capital where u.s. embassy already exists under this vision jerusalem will remain. undivided very important undivided capital. sites holy to muslims christians and jews would also remain under israel's control these ancient lend should not be symbols of conflict but eternal symbols of peace and does

expected trumps 80 page plan also calls for israeli sovereignty over the jordan valley that israel's prime minister argues is necessary for security israel must have sovereignty in places that an israel to defend itself bargain oh no no. but absent from the white house announcement palestinian leaders discussions on trucks middle east proposal broke down in 2017 following the move of the us embassy from tel aviv trump announced he sent a letter to palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas outlining a 4 year timeline for recognition and implement. taishan of his plan president abbas i want you to know that if you choose the path to peace america and many other countries will we we will be there we will be there to help you in so many

different ways and we will be there every step of the way i wanted to ask you about something but in an exclusive interview with al jazeera trump son in law jared cushier said what isn't helpful to the palestinians future is the palestinian authority would rather go in and complain as opposed to come to the table and negotiate which quite frankly shows that they're not ready to have a state if you're ready to have a state and you don't call for days of rage the white house says acknowledge the dire economic conditions of palestinians a new plan builds on a previously announced $50000000000.00 economic proposal with additional grants and loans implemented over the next decade but only if reconciliation is achieved the timing of the white house plan announcement was overshadowed by president trump's impeachment trial in the u.s. senate still the plan is likely to be a key talking point in donald trump's reelection campaign can really help at al-jazeera the white house in the streets limoges there was how

a full set says members of the israeli government to split over the deal. well yes this is one of the complexities of this whole thing i mean if you think of benjamin netanyahu and his keenness as it obviously is to present this what he's been calling a historic opportunity just ahead of the election on march the 2nd and be able as he says he intends to please his office does to start the inaction of the annexation of israeli settlements of illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank as soon as sunday obviously you'd expect the israeli right to the process formant right to applaud that but there are large elements on the far right in israeli politics who oppose this deal the yes show council which represents the majority of settlers and indeed as you say his own defense minister from another party naftali bennett who himself has said that that the very nature of any kind of

recognition of a palestinian state no matter what form it comes in is not acceptable and that it was important to work to ensure that israel never recognized a palestinian state so there are some elements in israeli politics for whom even this what is seen to be an incredibly pro israeli format is not enough they're leaving as the president of the u.s. middle east project which is an independent policy institute he says the plan represents israeli dominance not a 2 state solution this is america taking in its rate proposal and translating it into an american position but it's worse than that it takes what ostensibly looks like what a local peace agreement might look like. and raps into that an act of aggression very close to a declaration of war all the palestinians it is not intended to advance peace

it is intended to force the palestinians to say no to depict palestinians as rejectionists and to allow israel to pursue with greater pace and greater support israel's own unilateral plans it's a very dangerous cynical and aggressive move israel retains control everywhere israel agrees to take on itself not to do things that it didn't intend to do anyway like this question of jerusalem those neighborhoods which israel doesn't want to be part of jerusalem because it's put them on the other side of the wall it is magnanimously saying or the americans are saying on its behalf will be part of this new palestinian creation of jerusalem this is literally taking what peace looks like turning it on its head and turning it into a declaration now to a potential big a turning point in dollar terms impeachment trial u.s. media for reporting republican leaders in the senate say they do not have enough

votes to block witnesses them across accuse the president of abusing his power by asking ukraine to interfere in the upcoming u.s. elections say he obstructed congress by refusing to cooperate with investigators are there as heidegger castro has more 3 days of arguments for president trump's acquittal can be summarized as if trent didn't do what democrats accuse his lawyers say but even if he did he should not be removed from office the bar for impeachment cannot be set this low. danger danger danger trump's lawyers downplayed recent revelations from john bolton the former national security adviser who reportedly writes in his upcoming book that trump withheld security aid to ukraine in order to get investigations into democrats including joe biden responding to an unpublished manuscript that maybe some reporters

have an idea of maybe what it says and that's what i'm that's what the evidence if you want to call that evidence i don't know what you called it i call it inadmissible but democrats want to call bolton to testify who haven't done so yet under the president's orders but says he will appear if subpoenaed their whole argument is diversion. if you don't believe the newspaper report called the witnesses democrats must convince at least 4 republicans to go along with that idea senator mitt romney a moderate republican says he'll be one i'd like to hear from john bolton and i think the idea that's been expressed in the media about having each side be able to choose a witness or maybe more than what west witness paired basis it has some merit republicans want to call joe biden and his son hunter to testify trump accuses them of being involved in ukrainian corruption the basis for wanting their investigation in new jersey enthusiasm for trump's innocence was on display as supporters camped out for

days to attend his campaign rally polls show about half of americans believe trump should remain in office and half want him gone. castro al-jazeera washington. well still ahead here on al-jazeera hong kong's reader announces drastic cuts to cross border travel with mainland china to stop the spread of the corona virus outbreak. and a win for competition or a security own goal the u.k. prime minister's walk away decision has him offside with the u.s. . how the weather set fire across much of china at the moment and indeed across the korean peninsula little area cloud and right now in the process of pulling away

from japan northern parts of on she still seeing some rather wet weather for a time when she weather there into her car there we go wednesday into thursday and that will tend to ease away still some snow there into her cot as pour over the top temps of around 3 degrees celsius well up into double figures though for much of japan as that fine dry weather ensue were korean peninsula into a good part of china hong kong getting up to around 18 degrees celsius in the sunshine in the sunshine stretches across a good part of in the china philippines you see want to chase showers coming through here as has been the case in recent days in recent weeks heaviest of the showers there likely to be across malaysia and gradually pushing down into a good part of indonesia as well want to see showers into parts of south asia these are chiefly confined to northern parts of pakistan northern areas of india helped see clean up the air a little across the northern plains the quality described as unhealthy as opposed

to worse than that that will make its way further east which as we go through thursday but cold and foggy behind. al jazeera explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how rivalries influenced the course of history steve jobs and much better market to lend bill gates for apple is going to bet the farm bill made software what it is today will change the world to high tech visionaries whose breakthroughs inspired a digital revolution jobs and gates face to face on al-jazeera. oh.

book about watching the al-jazeera with me so ho robin a reminder of our top news stories u.s. president ultron present his plan to end the israeli palestinian conflict with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu by his side the so-called 2 state solution will immediately an experience of the occupied west bank and see jerusalem as israel's capital. also palestinian leaders were absent turns the plan was a failed it sparked anger and protesting guards at the west bank present mahmoud abbas has rejected trump's proposal as a conspiracy. and republican leaders in the u.s. senate say they do not have enough votes to block with this is the donald trump's impeachment trial democrats charged truck with abuse of power for asking ukraine to interfere in the upcoming u.s. election. returning now to our top story and trump's plan for the middle east

when israel was created 72 years ago 750000 palestinians were forced to flee their homes for jordan syria and lebanon many of those who left still dream of their ancestral homes but under transplant the refugees right of return will be refused so how they are reports from beirut. ahmed i'll quote i was born in palestine in 1942 he now lives in a refugee camp in the lebanese capital with his children and grandchildren he's been displaced twice but remembers the smells sights and sounds of his hometown and it still pains him that in his old age he'll never be allowed to go home well of them and i mean we are we didn't. we couldn't go home. what can i say. no words can describe it. getting

leave the border just to get close to my palestine but. we believe in ourselves as a nation this compass come a long way from being made up of just tents but it's now overcrowded with thousands of palestinian refugees crammed with in one square kilometer daily life is harsh rubbish collects electric wires or has it and there's poor sanitation unable to gain lebanese citizenship hundreds of thousands of registered palestinians are still denied basic social and economic rights as a result they can't work certain jobs and their children can't go to public schools thousands of palestinians born in this camp have never even seen their homes and the dream of a right of return or even having a states of their own seems to be fading fast with this middle east plan but one thing the refugees say is that they will never give up for generations of palestinian refugees live here thousands more turned up a few years ago fleeing the war in syria while the united nations relief and works

agency for palestinian refugees provides aid it's still not enough many to space palestinians don't support the u.s. president's middle east plan and say they've been forgotten. for. my grandchildren come ahead government. palestine is the heart of the. and. everything in my life is palestinian and i am proud but no one is looking after us. these children only hear stories from their elders about their homeland a place seemingly. their families know only too well they're stuck in this camp stateless for the foreseeable future. al-jazeera.

3 children have been killed in iraq to turkey in libya's capital tripoli another missile landed in the neighborhood near the city center the un recognized government is blaming forces loyal to warlord a half to 3 100 civilians have been killed by rockets or airstrikes since have to began his campaign to seize the city in april meanwhile libya's you would recognize government says allies have shut down and there are 2 supply drove which was being used by have to forces the aircraft came down to misrata turkey has been sending reinforcements to the tripoli based government defense systems. government troops are also making further advances and to have to control territory and of halted an operation by the warlord to take misrata to the berkeley reports from the front line in the town. driving to the frontline through territory that just 3 days ago was held by warlord khalifa haftar us forces.

this government soldiers passing on intelligence about a possible air attack he tells everyone to be vigilant the threats from the air is always present heavy artillery and air power unable to have to as units to overrun government forces and take the town of abu grain 80 kilometers east of misrata on sunday but in the face of a massive counter offensive they could only hold it for less than 2 hours soldiers and civilians answered the call that. the families of misrata are all together united of one voice of one hour print he found him came from misrata grain with ammunition and weapons. this is the new frontline after retaking abu grain units then pushed have to ask forces back 20 kilometers they may be wounded but they are not beaten they are a well equipped and heavily armed enemy which can attack at any moment but only.

it's dangerous they're using drones every artillery rockets but god willing it will protect us we are taking our precautions. they lost 11 men in the weekend attack and 100 were injured including some civilians this is the funeral of a little girl who died of natural causes the people have remained here living with danger every day and they are suffering by 3 o'clock in the ocean is that your heart then you are facing life shooting it's the biggest danger from all sides it's indiscriminate it's difficult because in wars you can't predict what will happen. this medical facility in nearby zam zam is the only community health care center for 100 kilometers the administrator said have to as fighters ransacked the place and salt ambulances and all the equipment it only adds to the misery and increases the anger. why soon but no less this young wounded fighter has lost comrades he is calling have a dog he like many others may find reconciliation difficult when police eventually

comes but many are growing weary of fighting near work for the local police in a ceasefire we are all libyans and we want to stop the bloodshed but if these old man at halftime announces every day that he wants to take them all land and kill more living and young man then we will continue to fight until our last man it's a wild rugged land where little grows but so much blood is being spilled to control it even though there is a notional ceasefire in place no one yet are required to think 5 dead but what has happened here and in the sporadic attacks in tripoli shows just how volatile the situation is and how quickly a car can turn to bloodshed tony berkeley out of their average grain to misrata. there have been clashes between iraqi security forces and anti-government protesters in baghdad. was fired on demonstrators who were resisting attempts by security forces to clear

their terms now thousands of people gathered for similar protests in cities of barcelona severe and measure of 2 people were reportedly killed in the city of kut security forces launched a nationwide campaign to clear protest camps last week a powerful earthquake has struck the caribbean the 7.7 magnitude quake was recorded in the waters between jamaica and cuba to depths of 10 kilometers sinkholes have also been reported in parts of the cayman islands and a tsunami warning for the region has now been lifted to asian or where supporters of a prominent ethnic pashtun rights activist in buckets than are protesting against his arrest the leader of the bush student protection movement dean was detained on monday pakistan's government accuses him of inciting violence has more from islamabad. there were scattered protests all go the strand very big

dozens of supporters coming out in support of money. 'd by the police in the city of. he would be accused of denouncing the country's constitution of speaking against the country's security forces and for using strong and threatening language after that a member of parliament from not really understand that they should be countrywide protests demanding his release dozens of his protest. in front of the press club in islamabad despite their reign and after that there were reports 'd that one of the members of parliament who had just gone through off the border on monday would 1st was detained they figure to force it of course i think the statement from the police that he were detained and not at a stage the government had leaked you christine the organization of taking funds

from the avalon intelligence and even india yesterday the president are sure of any also tweeted in a statement saying that he wanted the release of. august on the foreign 'd ministry day and reacting strongly saying that the afghan president should not interfere and internal affairs of the state so indeed there has been some support for christine on the social media most of the pakistani mainstream media has not been focusing on this particular story china has agreed to receive experts from the world health organization all to help increase understanding of the corona break chinese president xi jinping has told the visiting chief that he's confident of defeating what he described as a devil virus the death toll has now passed 100 with more than 4600 inspectors. oh hong kong's leader has issued drastic new measures in a bid to stop the spread of the krona virus caroline says ferry and train services

to mainland china will be halted flights will because in half and personal travel permits suspended adrian brown has more on the impact the decision will have. hong kong may be part of china but a border still separates the 2 it's one of the world's busiest from 2 years more than 40000000 mainland visitors crossed over last year but a highly contagious virus means that traffics being drastically reduced rail and ferry services will be halted from thursday flights between the mainland and hong kong are being housed. and verified pictures on social media appear to show more visitors than usual trying to enter hong kong before this crossing point was closed the new measures were announced by hong kong's chief executive kerry lamb a leader under siege and behind a mask for the 1st time. needs always here in ny they di create things on the

mainland has also decided to temporarily pause tours to hong kong they make up about 20 some percent the rest would be business travelers and those visiting relatives and coming for other reasons. the partial closure of the border is unprecedented and would almost certainly have needed the approval of china's leadership the outbreak of this virus is feeding into a growing anti mainland sentiment here it's been a theme of the ongoing protests but many legislators say this latest measure simply doesn't go far enough and they're demanding that kerry shut down the entire border local people we spoke to agree. i think the government has done too little the government should shut down all the ports to the media instead of a partial shutdown. i think the government announced these measures too late says there is already an outbreak of the corona virus in the city the ports should have

been shut down earlier there's a run on face masks in some pharmacies their prices risen almost 30 percent in 4 days there is uncertainty over how quickly the virus is spreading here and uncertainty as well over how many people from the worst infected areas have made it here adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. the hallway will have a limited role in the development of the u.k.'s 5 g. network the u.s. called on britain to exclude the chinese tech firm from the project because of security fears that the bubble has more from london. it's a yes but one with caviar as the u.k. government approved chinese firm huawei providing infrastructure for the promised 5 g. rollout they were at pains to stress there was no security risk defying warnings from the us a key member of the so-called 5 eyes intelligence alliance we looked at the issue of how to maintain network security and resilience over many months and in great

technical detail. we would never take decisions that threaten our national security or the security of our 5 eyes partners who are we itself says it's reassured by the long delayed decision we have supplied the cart age technology to telecoms operators that yorkie for more than 15 years. we will build on this strong tracker our cold supporting our customers as they invest in 05 g. network the chinese firm as a so-called high risk vendor will be banned from quote core functions like data stations it will be excluded from sensitive geographic location such as nuclear sites and military bases and it won't be allowed to own more than 35 percent of the infrastructure in any 5 g. networks periphery including radio masts but senior members of boris johnson's conservative party are still worried and their fears are shared by the opposition let us be no doubt 5 key infrastructure from china is not safe under chinese law

every chinese company is mandated to give whatever help it is asked to give to the chinese intelligence services and in secret that a lot of should have been enough for the prime minister to decide against allowing this company access critics or for ways involvement say chinese hackers could access internet connected things such as self driving cars as a backdoor into strategically vital networks allowing them for example to disrupt power stations a complicating factor here in britain is that many providers already rely on while way technology and they'd warned that seeking alternatives would be expensive or a loss like these installed by huawei across the u.k. the company is deeply involved in existing 4 g. infrastructure so a total ban would have meant removing lots of technology bringing higher costs and delays to the 5 g. rollout. the u.s.

government has said in no uncertain terms that it doesn't want quote way involved in 5 g. threatening to review intelligence sharing with the u.k. if it happens with secretary of state my pump coming to london on wednesday that transatlantic conversation is far from over. al-jazeera london. reminder of our top stories u.s. president donald trump has unveiled his plan to end the israeli palestinian conflict with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu by his side the so-called 2 state solution will immediately and its areas of the occupied west bank and see jerusalem as israel's capital palestinian president mahmoud abbas has called trump's plan a conspiracy but i'm not sure. that in the announcement we did not find anything new compared to what we heard 2 years ago it is sufficient to say that 2

years ago we heard the jerusalem is the undivided capital of israel as claimed by them we cannot wait and wait and keep on and wait our position has not changed and after we heard this are turned on to and we say no no and a big no to the deal of the century republican leaders in the u.s. senate say they do not have enough votes to block witnesses in donald trump's impeachment trial lawyers for the president of finished opening arguments against his impeachment democrats charged with abuse of power for asking ukraine to interfere in the upcoming u.s. elections. 3 children have been killed in a rocket attack in libya's capital tripoli the missile landed in a neighborhood near the city center the u.n. recognize government is blaming forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar nearly 300 civilians have been killed by rockets or airstrikes since have to began his campaign to seize the city in april. meanwhile libya's u.n. recognize government says its allies have shut down and there are 2 supply drone

which was being used by have to us forces their craft came down in misrata turkey has been sending reinforcements to the tripoli based government including air defense systems. there have been clashes between iraqi security forces and government protesters back dant. the militia into gas were fired all demonstrators who were resisting attempts by security forces to clear their thousands of people gathered for similar protests in the cities of boston so the. 2 people reportedly killed in the city of. those were the headlines and back with more news here on al-jazeera in half and next it's the bottom line to stay with us.

hi i'm steve clements and i have a question what trumps deal of the century actually bring peace to the middle east or will it bring the exact opposite let's get to the bottom line. so what do we know about the so-called ultimate deal between palestinians and israelis for starters palestinians weren't part of it the leaders who made it u.s. president donald trump and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu are both facing legal troubles and they're both in the middle of election campaigns instead of trying to find common ground between the 2 parties it sounds more like a series of take it or leave it suggestions so is the deal of the century really the biggest debt deal of the century is it a well timed distraction for trump and netanyahu.