Across the city as the government debates a new policing bill. And in sport there are big changes from golf cap in caps are just over a week to go with the blockading countries saudi arabia bahrain and the u. A. E. And now that were now competing. Top story a new wave of israeli air strikes in gaza has killed 13 people air raid sirens of also sounded in southern israel 23 palestinians have died since tuesday when israel killed a Senior Commander of the armed Group Islamic jihad fighters in gaza have responded by firing at least 220 rockets towards israel egypt and other International Officials are working to mediate a ceasefire if they can between israel hamas and Islamic Jihad al jazeera is harry force it is on the israel gaza border so harry just take us through whats been going on at that frontier today. Well the last couple of hours of scene the pace pick up again to a degree in terms of both the rockets coming out of gaza and just in the last couple of minutes we heard some more heavy explosions coming from gaza behind us which sounded like further israeli attacks there have been 13 People Killed inside gaza during the course of wednesday as well as the 10 people who were killed during the course of choose days so a death toll of 23. Israel is continuing to say that it is targeting very much Islamic Jihad fighters and sites that they hold Islamic Jihad responsible for the. Vast majority of the rockets have been coming out of gaza during the last period and that is why they say they took the action they did on Tuesday Morning to assassinate this Senior Commander who may blame for a spate of rocket attacks over recent months every couple of minutes we see indications of new sirens going off in the area around gaza the Islamic Jihad is also promising to expand its circle of retaliation and earlier on wednesday we saw even communities quite close to jerusalem having interceptions above them from israels iron dome and warning. Sirens sounding in warning as well so it does seem still that this is a continuing situation there are no signs yet of any success in the mediation is being talked about in terms of the United Nations and egyptian influence Islamic Jihad is continuing to fire rockets israel is continuing to mount strikes inside gaza territory. This comes at a sensitive political time in israel should we be folding that into how we gauge whats going on here on both sides. Yeah i think on the politics front from israel there are 2 quite interesting things happening one is very much related to the to the mechanics of what theyre doing inside Gaza Benjamin netanyahu the beginning of a special Cabinet Meeting said that they were targeting Islamic Jihad they were punishing Islamic Jihad they were sending a message to Islamic Jihad he didnt mention hamas at all and early one of his ministers said that they had changed their policy from Holding Hamas responsible for everything that emanates from gaza to specifically going after Islamic Jihad in this operation the hope obviously from israel is that hamas holds its own fighters in his own rockets back and that prevents this escalating into a much broader conflict for now hamas seems to be doing that but at the same time saying its very much acting in accordance with and side by side with Islamic Jihad indeed one of its. Main spokespeople main spokesman was quoted as saying just a short time ago that there is no success that israel can have from trying to separate hamas from Islamic Jihad that they are standing in the fight together however also suggest that so far they havent actually fired any rockets also theres the domestic political situation netanyahu is under huge amount of pressure politically legally hes trying to maintain his position this makes it more difficult for benny gantz to work certainly with the palestinian israeli joint list trying to get support from those members of the parliament from outside as to form a Minority Coalition so far the indications are that this isnt or at least the the the message coming from the israeli political establishment is this is not a politically motivated attack however there is no question that Benjamin Netanyahu will do what he can to make the most of it domestically as well terry thank you. Now in just under 2 hours time from the witnesses in the u. S. President donald trump impeachment inquiry are expected to testify publicly for the 1st time it could lead to an Impeachment Vote in the house of representatives for only the time in the countrys history and then in syria trial in the u. S. Senate particle hain has more from washington. For a moment the 1st day of his presidency there have been calls for Donald Trumps impeachment. But for the 1st 2 years with his party in control of congress it was more along in from the left than an actual possibility until. The democrats won back control of the house of representatives in the 28000 election and some of the most left leaning members made clear their intention because were going to go in there with. That was not a sentiment shared by the speaker of the house nancy pelosi who resisted all calls to start an impeachment proceeding mr miller were looking forward to. Or after the conclusion of special counsel Robert Muller is investigation which left it up to congress to decide if the president acted appropriately in regards to russian interference in the 2016 election but that changed in Early September of this year when a whistleblower complaint came to light in it the still Anonymous National security official wrote of more than a half dozen officials who knew about a phone call between President Trump and the president of ukraine and they found it deeply disturbing the allegation was that trump was Holding Hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid meant for ukraine which is fighting off russian aggression intil the ukrainian president promised to investigate trumps potential political rival Vice President joe biden and his son hunter who had worked in ukraine in damage control mode the white house released notes from the call. All it did more damage because as the notes point out as the ukrainian president is promising to buy more u. S. Missiles trump responds quote i would like you to do us a favor though he goes on to ask for investigations into a debunked Conspiracy Theory about the election and later brings up the bidens the president must be held accountable no one is above the law thats when democrats announced an impeachment inquiry would begin along with the president s almost daily defense of the call i made a call the call was perfect there was no way broke their way out so were trying to leading in the polls they have no idea how they stuck me it didnt help in the president s own acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney went on camera and seem to admit it happened and i have news for everybody get over it theres going to be political influence in Foreign Policy he later tried to take it back well the white house made clear they would not cooperate to find subpoenas for testimony and documents attorney bruce fein says that could backfire i was there at nixon what we did is ok that itself the defiance itself is an Impeachable Offense i try yourself because the impeachment process becomes farcical. If the president can simply withhold and block access to the relevant evidence some members of the trying to administration have gone to court to ask a federal judge who they should listen to the president who says dont go or the congress that subpoenaed them to show up but while that will take months to work its way through the courts democrats are pushing ahead the 1st 3 to testify in public 3 long Time State Department employees they testified behind closed doors that the president did withhold hundreds of millions in military aid to ukraine because he wanted to debunk Conspiracy Theory and his political opponent investigated republicans have been struggling to defend the president but many seem to be settling on one strategy and i would make the argument that every politician in washington other than me virtually is trying to manipulate ukraine to their purposes menendez tried it murphy tried it biden tried it trumps tried it theyre all doing it they are all trying to manipulate ukraine to get some kind of investigation either and investigation or started investigation the everyone does it defense except no other president in the history of the country has been proven to do what trump allegedly did a slim majority of americans now support impeaching the president and removing him from office both sides we watching to see if that changes with public hearings the results could determine the president s fate in office and in the history books. Aljazeera washington. Live to the White House Correspondent kimberly hell kid can be whats the 1st thing we should be expecting or looking for today. Well this is a pretty busy news day in washington because well all eyes initially will be focused on those public impeachment hearings there is a lot of other things that are on the president s schedule as well but if you look through the lens of all of this what were going to be examining today is really the president s relationship with foreign leaders so as political he reported there initially its these public hearings where under the spotlight is going to be this very dramatic almost unfolding for a very fitting for a reality t. V. Show president drama where under the spotlight will be his relationship for that telephone call with the ukrainian president who pretty were pretty sure how that drama is going to end we know that it likely is going to be voted along party lines with democrats voting to eventually pitch the president republicans pushing back calling this a partisan scam something the president has actually tweeted about early this morning but then were going to shift focus a little bit later where theres going to be some more questioning about the president s relationship with another foreign leader and thats the turkish president. And this could ignite some sort of bipartisan push back against the president as almost simultaneously as these hearings are going on where theres going to be some serious questioning about his decision many people say to greenlight the Turkish Forces going into syria and attacking Kurdish Forces as they have been longtime allies of the United States so theres going to be a joint press conference peter where we no doubt will be getting a lot of questions about not only syria policy under the trumpet ministration also the relationship with the turkish president but of course also were going to be hearing a lot potentially too about the impeachment hearings and the president s decision and why he did what he did with regard to the telephone call between himself and the ukrainian leader back in july. Youll keep us posted im sure as you watch that unfold there in washington many thanks for the meantime lets talk now to Michael Isikoff hes a chief investigative correspondent at yahoo news he joins us as well from washington michael good to have you here on the news how might this change the prism through which the world views the trump presidency. Well look this is the key moment because this is the moment that the impeachment hearings are going public this is the chance for the democrats who are pressing this to make their case to the American Public and its also a chance for the republicans who are playing defense lawyers for the president to poke its holes and its going to be really interesting to see how the 2 sides fare in till now both sides have been playing to their base democrats. In the prosecutorial mode playing to its progressive base that almost unanimously wants to see the president impeached and removed from office the republicans playing to their base the trump base and to the fox news crowd that has been attacking the president s critics consistently the question now is these public hearings are for that small segment of the American Public that has not made up its mind about donald trump right now it may not be a large part of the American Public but its the crucial part and the question were all going to be looking to see the answer to is can both sides you know module a its its rhetoric and try to persuade that small segment of the American Public that will be watching the hearings and hasnt yet made up its mind will the genuinely however michael want to quote you. Rhetoric given that this in scenery if when it gets to the vote the republicans wont vote to go to impeachment i. E. They wont vote against the guy in the white house so therefore the standards of impeachment or the high watermark of yes we should go to full full impeachment wont be reached. Well look you know the question of what is an implantable offense is is is an open one the constitution talks about treason bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors and you can interpret those words any way you want whats really interesting is in the over the last week youve seen the democrats shift their their wording in how theyre describing this for since september youve been hearing a quid pro quo quid pro quo theyve dropped that phrase now and talking about bribery and extortion using the language of criminality that more matches the words in the constitution and you know the question is can they convince the American Public that thats what were talking about here that this is a case of bribery and extortion criminality by the president which sort of would associate more with the words in the constitution and you know well see we know pretty much what the evidence is i dont think were expecting any bombshell new revelations the question is how does it come across to the American Public how do the witnesses hold up and how does the questioning go briefly michael because were running out of satellite time in who was it in the white house in your mind said the president yes you have a phone call you pitch what you want in that particular way who sits him thats a good idea you go for it. But its not clear that anybody did in fact the weight of the evidence suggests that this was being driven by the president himself after consultation numerous consultations with his lawyer Rudy Giuliani who was feeding him the idea that. There was improper ukrainian interference in the 2016 election there really isnt very little evidence of that and that there was evidence of corruption by the bride by the bidens i think the weight of the evidence suggests this is coming from this has been coming from donald trump himself ok well leave it there Michael Isikoff in washington thank you very much good to talk shes lost most its come for you here on the news hour including a new interim president takes control of bolivia but theres a strong show of support for the exiled leader will not unless. People are told to leave big parts of australia as the bush fires rage out of control. And in sports he hasnt played in the n. F. L. For 3 years but could call him captain next because seeing a real shot will be here with us story coming up. Of course in hong kong is deciding whether university can stop police from entering its campus after clashes with student protesters overnight demonstrators have been blocking streets in the city center for a 3rd day the government says schools will close on thursday because of safety concerns lets go live now to hong kong and our correspondent difficult balance to get when will we know the outcome of this decision on the part of this university. Well peter literally in the last 3 minutes a decision came through the courts have said no to the injunction applied for by the Student Council here Chinese University they say their argument that there was no criminal activity in the university had no grounds the opposition said that because students had to face proper property and the violence that we saw on tuesday night meant that police should still have permission to come on the University Campus and on the University Grounds and this is sure to anger many of the students here who have been standing by and waiting for that Court Decision although many of them many of the protesters here im at the Chinese University have decided to take matters on their own in their own hands as they awaited that decision that in setting up barricades as blocking entrances to the university theyve been setting up all kinds of little booby traps just in case police do try to enter they theres dug their heels in for the night there they say theyre here for the long haul to make sure that they want to safeguard their campus they have collected supplies from not just other students but alumni and other people who support them across hong kong after violent clashes on tuesday night between the police and the students here. And whats the latest here as to where we are with the protest. Right peter as far as protests goes there are sporadic protests in many parts of hong kong over the past few hours police have been firing tear gas and several districts again as small groups of protesters try to blockade trying to push through or trying to continue with their threat for a week day disruption to hong kongs affairs they set up barricades in one area they block roads and then police try and disperse the protesters move to other areas in the financial district where earlier today we saw office where. Come out in support of the protesters in a flash mob hundreds of them standing out in the main streets of the Financial Center just around the corner from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange they went back to work but many protesters remain blockading the roads there but police have cleared that since but it just seems like the protesters are continuing their action in many different parts of hong kong. Ok well leave it there thanks very much. Bolivias Senate Opposition leader says shell work to hold a new president ial election as soon as possible after being sworn in as the interim president jeanine and as to power after the former leader even more or less resigned and fled to mexico hes faced weeks of protests over the disputed Election Results in the country while supporters of mr morales are expressing their outrage and condemning what theyre calling a coup al jazeera stories about travel to allow tope to see firsthand how people dealing with the news of his exile. The past few days have not been easy for people in dont believe us 1st indigenous leader in what alice was forced to resign when the organization of american states or o. E. S. Announced fraud had been committed in the president ial election. The military requested that he step down he supporters denounce it is a call. For getting a koran in Wonka Morales was the man that gave them dignity after years of discrimination. Yes in these years we have seen change we have seen our lives get better im young but ive seen how Indigenous People have suffered in this country now these racists the ones that burn our flag want to shut us down people around gree because everywhere else opponents burned their woodpile a flag which represents indigenous communities here there are roadblocks everywhere these days as morally supporters vow to continue the push for his return from mexico theres been cayle since he stepped down forcing the police to request the help of the army to restore order in the city the site of fighter jets flying overhead its making people even more furious there where you live the people are. Having running down 5. Of them are. Back im not going. By the im forcing. An interim president jenny 9 years was sworn in by bolivias opposition on tuesday in an attempt to fill the power vacuum her supporters celebrated her designation. There whenever we are facing a president ial succession brought on by the vacancy of the presidency and to the absence of the president according to the constitution as president of the senate i immediately assumed the presidency of the state and i promised to take all of the measures necessary to pacify the country but the Assembly Meeting happened without the presence of ever more or Less Movement towards Socialism Party congresswoman assume that. They will not cooperate with those who carried out a call does anyone im a little. We are not of that assembly because we are not giving khartoum and we want to recognize her as a president the florist our own senators to escape and step down. Even though more or less hes accused of fraud and violating the constitution people will see him as the man who changed bolivia for good many are dreading their return of the racism they faced in the past and thats why many say his resignation hurts them even more. Ok lets take you live now to the heart of the story to reason is there for us here on the news stories of what its 5 past 9 with you in the morning what are we expecting to happen today. Well as you can see right now while some areas of law passed in specially theres roadblocks and lots of tension in other areas like this road block where you can see right behind me this place is where filled with opponents of on what i live for weeks well now theyre gone and there seems to be a few people seem to be calming down in areas such as this one mostly because an interesting precedent was. Jenene us was sworn in on tuesday night shes a conservative from the opposition the reason why she became interested press in this after a series of resignation from the able what i listen to Movement TowardsSocialism Party thats the mass party and she has said that her main priority is to calm down the situation and work alongside the armed forces and the police its not going to be see what we know for now is that there are thousands of a more orderly supporters of indigenous communities that are afraid of whats coming next theyre saying that theyre going to march towards the other centers around the country where it will what is continue to have support theyre also calling for another meeting another Assembly Meeting later this wednesday saying about theyre going to meet there and declare that what happened on tuesday that. The. Interim president is completely illegal because it happened without poor old the mass party has 2 thirds of congress here and thats why theyre saying that what happened in this country is complete so we have to see what happens to about these days how this interim new president manages to calm down whats happening here in bolivia its not going to be easy because they havent reached out to a large sector of the population and those are able what i have supporters indigenous communities one of very much afraid of whats going to happen in this country weve been talking to them as you see in that feature theyre afraid of a comeback of razor them and they are afraid that theyre not going to be a priority for whatever government is coming next to result many thanks. Lebanons president says the Economic Situation across the country is getting worse because of the ongoing political crisis and the protests demonstrations are up for another day off the woman the shot that so some people you know me says a soldier has been detained to forces open fire on protesters blocking a road people have been blocking traffic by setting up burning tires off of the president Michelle Obama told him on tuesday to go home its been more than 2 weeks now since the Prime Minister resigned following weeks of protests earlier stuff that was upholding south of beirut with tensions on the streets. We are one of the many roadblocks that are now across the country you can probably hear people arguing theres a lot of frustration among the drivers telling the protesters who are blocking the roads that this is not the way to air their grievances because they want to go about their daily lives get to work get to wherever it is they have to go you know its are is very hard to tell americans are so sorry sorry how close are you sorry were live her life were live with life were going to were live ok were alive but this is not another story ok so theres a lot of thats why there was a lot of frustration ok. Ok what would you why are you here blocking the road i dont understand you because i am very hungry but i did not have the ok ok ok i dont understand. Ok but tell me what about how do you how does it make you feel. How do you hear what you want to do your brother i want to go through. We dont want this. Kind of what your reaction to the president in the speech yesterday just you were on the side of the people who go to thoughts of the common. People if you dont like. This go to their country oh you can talk to your country through. This is this is why people are very frustrated interpret in the words of the president he said to them i thought i think. This is what theyre trying to do to keep the pressure on the street on the people on the government for change so you can see cars are backed up theyre going out theyre turning even down there the highways blocked with burning tires. Officials in australia have ordered more people to evacuate as firefighters to struggle to contain an outbreak of bushfires well cooler conditions have brought some relief in New South Wales a cause leave immediately warning has been issued for several areas in the state of queensland the outbreak of bushfires on australias east coast has already claimed 3 lives and destroyed more than 150 homes firefighters say itll be weeks before they can extinguish all of the blazes and to thomas is in sydney. Its a Beautiful Day in sydney on wednesday 25 degrees celsius very light winds and no smoke in the air a complete contrast to what we describe as catastrophic weather conditions on tuesday temperatures in the high thirtys very high winds and lots of smoke in this city as well that catastrophic conditions doesnt necessarily mean theres going to be a catastrophe all the authorities are saying when they use that word is that when fires take hold in those conditions they can lead to a catastrophe because fires spread much much quicker than authorities generally can get on top of them and theres a real threat to life on the certainly was on tuesday at one stage more than 20 fires across the state of New South Wales alone that were out of control and directly threatening lives now luckily or perhaps through preparedness no one did die people were prepared prepared to flee flames and although homes were destroyed no lives were lost the danger has not passed on wednesday its merely moved to queensland further north of here there are emergency warnings in place people being told to flee their d homes quite native brazil been very very high temperatures very strong winds and in the medium term as well even here the rural fire commissioner has said that were not out of the woods yet there is likely to be higher temperatures coming back again around sydney and around the state high winds will return as well no forecast for rain whatsoever and after months of drought which some here are playing on Climate Change there is a very real risk that more sparks will ignite more fires and that any point over this summer which is barely begun here in australia. The spies really could much more tragic than they were on tuesday. Venice recording its highest tide in more than 50 years leaving to resist wading through flooded streets the Emergency Services of sauce can sense the damage from some Tourist Attractions of being completely inundated with water this is a man has blamed the exceptional flood on Climate Change and said it leaves a permanent mark on venice. Lets stay with weather related subject says jenny yeah. She was fighting elsewhere because it is not just in venice its also in other parts of the world and this is actually the u. K. This is in South Yorkshire this is a time very close to dawn costa and it has stayed underwater nav a several days weve just seen system offices and come through and this has been the result has been really not a great deal of time for this this weather its actually drop in between us just now have a look at conditions in venice heres another image some square and it really is about how fierce these waters were its due the winds as well theres a boat here it shouldnt be our it is and theres another one as well and this is because as the rains were coming down the winds were really strong the winds coming in from the south and what they were doing this funneling all the water and preventing it from actually coming back out of the lagoon that was all this was happening look at is dubrovnik just off the coast above neck the highest wave ever recorded 10. 87 meters so this has been it will continue to be a very vigorous storm through central areas of europe now it is on its way eastwards and as had the winds have been strong coming out from the south that will continue to funnel in the same whole area can see them here so not helping on these waters to recede weve got pretty good conditions out but then look at this through thursday a very vigorous system in the southwest of europe this will bring rain it will bring snow and theres another system heading in across the u. K. So again we are looking at the likelihood of flooding but walsall that is going on it is still well above normal in terms of temperatures mt caressed 22 on wednesday still cooling off but even so look at that 12 degrees above the average peeta is all going on wherever you look. Kenny thanks very much still to come for you here on the news of egypt a search for investigate alleged human rights abuses as the u. N. Human Rights Council views the countrys human rights record and in sports as tennis action from the a. T. P. Finals including a shot from one of the favorites. For you protesting about how does this impact where there are on line well i face many people seeing im directly across like its playful or if you join us on saturday this is an attack on Academic Freedom and on our ability to do research and teach freely this is a dialogue myanmar is not making it very welcoming for people to come back everyone has a voice Climate Change is real d the discussion is real and im here to talk about the solutions on aljazeera. When the news breaks. When people need to be cut and the story needs to be told the police to come out from the politics with exclusive interviews using that was a mistake you know and indepth reports taking on the environmental and Climate Crisis by many fronts not least better be an aljazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more road winning documentaries and live news. Youre watching aljazeera im peter dhabi these are your top stories so far its really a story of the 13 palestinians taking the death toll since tuesday to 23. 00 egypt is one of several countries trying to mediate a cease fire between israel and hamas and Islamic Jihad. In about 2 hours from now witnesses in the u. S. President donald trump in pietschmann to inquiry are expected to testify publicly for the 1st time mr trumps accused of pressurising ukraine to investigate his political rival joe bidens family. Bolivias Senate Opposition leader has declared herself interim president after weeks of unrest janeen has taken over from the ousted former leader. Is now in mexico after being granted asylum there. Ok lets take a closer look now at the rise and fall of abel morales bolivias 1st indigenous leader now he came to power in 2005 promising to fight for the rights of Cocoa Farmers and the Indigenous Peoples there well as invested heavily in public and so shell programs cousin poverty rates in half by 2018 after nearly 14 years in office he was one of south americas longest serving leaders and a towering figure for the regions Left Wing Movement his popularity levels began to take a hit after hit tempted to abolish president ial term limits in 2016 after declaring victory in last months election he was accused of fraud leading to weeks of protests and ultimately his resignation well mr morales is hoping to make a political comeback from mexico after his arrival he called for peace back home john holmes. And has more on that. Whenever morale is woke up on sunday he was still the president of bolivia. By midday tuesday he was out of power and then next on touching down in mexico he said things could have been worse. I want to tell you were extremely grateful because the mix can president has saved my life it wasnt easy getting him here the mets can foreign minister described the tense standoff before he could work out a route for him to leave the country were going to see he wanted to see but there were even the supporters surrounding the airport and the armed forces within it and there was a period of real tension for evo morales was already on board the plane it was the worst moment as. President morales said that a coup pushed him out on sunday the army had asked him to resign he was blameless he indicated. To the world my only crime is that evil is indigenous the only sin weve committed as social programs for the poor and always suiting for equality and justice. He would deny that humans hard to extreme poverty brought Economic Prosperity and stability to the country during his time in power. But his opponents point to a growing authoritarianism and then serious irregularities in the last election he went against the constitution to run in the 1st place so its a complex situation here for a president who over nearly 14 years did do a lot especially for the poor and vulnerable in bolivia before he disappeared from view he made a coup for peace in his homeland you know i mean you know i mean they finally id like to say for the not to be any more bloodshed more confrontations weve decided to resign for the people. If i make it and see this in a minute while i have life we will stay in politics while i have life the fight will continue and we sure that the people of the world have all the right to free themselves. From all. That wish is going on and sit in bolivia where despite his absence his supporters and the opposition continue to clash join home and how does it or make scarcity. Thank you zation Police Brutality against demonstrators in chile and now being investigated dozens of protesters have complained of being shot in the face by forces using rubber bullets and pellets latin america as a to see in yemen has the story. Heeding the pause for a National Strike thousands marched all over chile among them was who says hes striking for his 10 year old daughter. I dont know if the president is blind but weve been protesting all of the chile in the sli and he still doesnt get it he has to fix the country. Yet this National Strike has been held to continue to demand social reforms in chile as it could have been during the last 25 games are people who are here because they could no longer see. At centavos and solve a lot of hospital friends and supporters of the latest protest or to lose one or more eyes from pollutants waited for the incentive to recover from surgery was in 200. 00 demonstrators have suffered total or partial blindness in less than one month which according to chiles medical association is comparable only to protesting gaza over a 6 year period. When this is say the 18 Year Old University student was demonstrating monday night with a group of friends when a riot policemen shot him with a pellet gun at point blank range. After what theyve done to him he is obviously very angry his life has been pay. Minutely altered that his position is to keep protesting for social change so that the loss of his left eye will not have been in pain. At least 3 more people have been shot in the face and eyes in less than 48 hours prompting some lawmakers to demand that rubber bullets and pellets be banned as a form of crowd control in the er domingo on sunday night the director of Police Promise to restrict the use of weapons of this kind to a minimum after another protester lost both eyes instead this into was shot at 2 meters distance chile called to novice. Human rights watch and the interim eric and commission of human rights are investigating the charges of Police Brutality which appear to be only increasing the level of anger and violence on the streets you see in human aljazeera santiago. Catalan separatists blocked a major motorway that links spain and france for a 2nd day protesters built several barricades to stop traffic on the key motorway on tuesday catalonia as Regional Parliament approved a motion that expressed the will to exercise the right of selfdetermination quotes in a concrete way. The u. N. Special representative to iraqs in the country meeting political leaders to try and bridge the gap between protesters and the government Iraqs Parliament has convened to discuss constitutional reforms and satisfying protesters demands thousands of iraqis have been protesting against corruption and a lack of basic services at least 319. 00 people have been killed since demonstrations began last month. Several countries of urged egypt to investigate alleged killings by its Security Forces and other human rights abuses now the un human Rights Council is reviewing egypts record as part of a regular examination of all Member States. We recommend egypt one address impunity by credibly investigating allegations of extra judicial killings torture and forced disappearances by Security Forces publicly released findings and to prosecute those responsible to release detainees held for exercising their rights to freedom of expression or association and ensure a fair trial guarantees for those remaining in detention 3 commit to supporting a free and active Civil Society by ending case number 173 foreign funding investigations travel bans and asset freezes against Civil Society. In geneva natasha over to you. Well this was the 3rd review done by the human u. N. Human Rights Council since 2010 on the situation in egypt and what they do is a panel of u. N. Experts collate information from egyptian authorities from n. G. O. S from Civil Society individuals and other u. N. Experts on the situation on the ground in egypt and they put forward this review and come up with recommendations at the end and what we saw today though in the session in geneva was a delegation from egypt put forward a report and present their their perspective on the human rights situation in egypt you might say they painted rather glossy picture of the country they then had to respond to questions from other Member States the Member States raised concerns over a litany of what they said were human rights abuses everything from what they called state sanctioned torture they talked about possible and forced disappearances they wanted to know more about why egypt isnt doing more to protect the rights of prisoners and women in the country as well as human rights defenders what with me to talk more about this is someone who is in that session jeremy smith from the Car Institute for human rights studies you were the director of the Geneva Office you were there in that session and what was very interesting is so many of the Member States raise real concerns about what they called human rights abuses in egypt we surprised about how many of them actually spoke about their concerns and perhaps you can tell us a bit more about what those concerns were sure you know i was i was hopeful that this many states would speak out against the president repression thats happening in egypt. Because the International Community has been silent for far too long on this issue and today. Having witnessed egypt murder. Kidnap in prison and torture thousands and thousands of citizens for criticizing it today the International Community finally spoke and he spoke from states from asia all the way to latin america it spoke a wide range of states around the world grill it egypt on. And forced disappearance on systematic widespread torture on the killing of protesters in the in the attacks against protesters and on of wide variety of really Grave Human Rights Violations its about time that that happened and i was happy to see it. What i think that this says is that egypt despite all of its efforts besides it despite having banned human rights defenders from traveling outside of egypt having put them in prison have been having a band and in prison journalists having done all of this they still cannot control the narrative because the facts are too clear there is too much going on and the International Unity showed today that they know whats happening in the country that theyre extremely concerned and i think that they have had enough of it and what did you think about the response from some of the egyptian delegation when they were questions about some of these human rights pieces. They refuse to engage on the facts and they play around with laws and with. With with grand promises but the facts are there the research is there there are thousands of reports that documents systematic torture kidnappings the entire and ny elation of the independent Journalist Community and independent Civil Society community they spoke around the issue but the International Community didnt buy it they came they came with extremely sensitive questions for egypt about extremely Grave Human Rights Violations and its now up to egypt to respond to that. Ok jeremy smith thank you very much indeed for joining us and it is it will be up to egypt to respond because what happens next in terms of procedure is our recommendations are made by this u. N. Panel here of the u. N. Human Rights Council and then egypt will have several months to respond before a final report is agreed upon. Natasha thanks very much. Nearly a 1000000 people have been affected by flooding in south sudan heavy rain in october and november destroyed homes and farms and aid organizations say theyre desperately trying to provide assistance in a country already in dire need of help dozens of people have died there and of fears of the spread of disease he said. This is what the eastern town of people are in south sudan looks like now homes and schools nearly fully submerged people trying to salvage what they can and more and what they cant its the aftermath of weeks of heavy rain since october. On a school hit master but my school has been drowned by the floods a drying so much that people saw the river rising into their houses i ran to schools but even the schools were submerged and it was a good agricultural season we had harvested our crops but floods destroyed even those. I didnt. George says he had to leave people or and come to south sudans capital juba for refuge back home very little has been spared by the floodwaters people here say its the worst theyve experienced in more than 20 years a state of emergency has been declared in 27 of the countrys 52 states more than 100000 people have been affected with almost half of them displaced over 76 people laws from the entire population of. You know 400000 population have been have been displaced some of which are 200 plus been have been 2 still are very we are calling so loud a little humanitarian interventions the floods have also destroyed farmlands raising fears that it will add to the problem of Food Shortages aid organizations say the need for an urgent response is vital in a country where years of war has left 7000000 people in need of help to survive the 1st phase is to provide that the median Emergency Response to try to get the people who are living in water to have access to Water Purification tablets to have access to toppling to have access to all their medication to have access to medical schools and that those are the things that we started to work on that and as i said on our category were system that we started to work on is to look at how to start to really work in an area where the water started recede to start to really rehabilitate the water point people residents say theyre concerned there will be outbreaks of water point is eases and they say they dont know how long they will have to wait in camps or in the open before the water levels recede and now for them to be able to go back home people morgan are just there are. Still to come. Time for sports news is from peter thank you so much organizers of footballs gulf cup encounter will carry out a new draw a name a 2nd stadium on thursday they need to make room for saudi arabia bahrain and u. A. E. Confirmed the now complete despite all 3 countries blockading caps are all 3 originally said they would boycott the tournament which was due to be held solely at doe has khalifa stadium but with barely a week to go until it starts theyve made a u. Turn which means organizers need to accommodate 8 teams instead of 5 the 3 blockading nations will play matches against housecats are as well as yemen iraq kuwait and oman the start date has been put back by 2 days to november 26th to allow more time to reorganize the schedule its not an easy decision though that its has been working with i think the president on the buzzer because it will be a lot of the to do to get them over convince them to come to to learn that element is still a good son told us and also have to what has been to come from this for division and be accepted on the result is that they are going to be. The land sea and air blockade has been in place since june 27th and there are currently no direct flights or open land routes into caps are not clear how the teams plan on traveling to doha but saudi and the club teams have played and caps are joining the blockade account as players went in the opposite direction earlier this year to compete in the asian cup in the u. A. E. They had to make a 5 hour journey via kuwait to get there instead of what ordinarily would be a 40 minute flight and they faced a hostile reception next to no fans risk traveling and just to make sure the u. A. E. Blog bought tickets for the semifinal to make sure only their fans its handed shoes were also thrown at us players during matches nevertheless kept our beat saudi the u. A. E. And then japan in the final to win the asian cup much to the delight of fans back home in doha earlier we spoke to middle east analyst james dorsey he said given the wider political context hes not surprised the blockading nations have chosen to compete and. I think weve seen over the last several months and certainly the last several weeks. Number of broader moves in the region both d to try and dial down tension between the gulf states Saudi Arabian the u. A. E. d and but claim as well a got are on the one hand but also between saudi arabia and iran and so this fits very much into it and what i think it suggests is that there really is an effort to see if. To prevent a complex from getting out of control i mean obviously this is a political decision its not a sports decision this is simply a gesture which is not insignificant so with other words you had 2 years ago the refusal to play in doubt i went out i was going to host and you also had tension in kuwait that took over the hosting of the games at the time i go back to the saudi and morality teams refusing to. To attend a press conference in which be in the gutter a Sports NetworkTelevision Network was represented so this is a is a major major step in terms of dialing down the tension when i think where sport does come in is the fact that throughout the last 2 and a half years and actually even going further back before the eruption of the crisis with the economic and diplomatic boycott u. S. Seen continued references to primarily a fact the governor was hosting the world cup in 2022 as being an issue that certainly the way he was trying to undermine and one would assume that even if the decision by the saudis the emerald hes in the bunker a nice throw plan he got there a bit into a mess its a mess that the got to ease i would imagine welcoming. The n. F. L. Will hold a private workout for free agent colin cabernet played in 2016 a 32 year old a schedule to audition for the teams on saturday in atlanta all 32 teams have been invited to the session but its not known how many will actually a talent its highly unusual for the lead to range a tryout for just a Single Player cabinet who last played with the San Francisco 49. 00 ers began nailing injuring them at them to protest a Racial Injustice in the United States it opted out of his contract after the 2016 season it became a free agent hasnt played professionally sense and 2017 caprona filed a grievance against team owners saying he believed they were coleading against him the case was settled in february for less than a reported 10000000. 00 earlier we spoke to an f l analyst Michael Carlson and asked him whether this is a legitimate chance for cap and to make his way back to the n. F. L. I think theres 2 things going on in one sense it is Public Relations and i think the fact that it takes place right after veterans day is certainly a key part of that but i think its also the leagues sending a signal to the teams that its ok with them to sign cap riddick not of course that there was any collusion going on but i think teams n. F. L. Teams have been reluctant to sign catholic because the league doesnt really want want them to on a on a more political level i think they see Donald Trumps influence waning in washington and trump made a huge deal about capper nikken eric reed taking the d. Protesting Police Violence against black people use that against the n. F. L. In the n. F. L. Of course is always very wary about their antitrust status and their tax breaks from from the government so they dont like to offend the government i think this is a sign that they dont think thats going to be a problem any longer for them. Thomas mallon domenech team played the best match of his life to beat no bad shock that should reach the semifinals at the a. T. P. Finals team the french open runner up outlasted the 5 time champion to win an epic 3 set match that last if you know 3 hours at the 2 unlined in. The austrian becomes the 1st player in the last 4 jock which now faces a winner takes all match with Roger Federer for a place then this time. And that is all your sport for now peter back to you thanks very much on the other side of the break well take a live update on the impeachment inquiry in stone when we come back ill see in a couple minutes. I was taken to military are those that i was severely beaten are not in force to ever sit down. And to make sure that when entitled to be there basic rights or Citizenship Rights once their villages were burnt down were falling over into what is now become complex where the marines are basically imprisoned exiles coming on aljazeera. The growing up in the United States i learned that the 1st amendment is really key to being a freedom of the soldiers going to be. The resources that are available but its an aljazeera story to me is that we just dont tell you what the soldiers of the story want to know the government is not going to do the one thing the demonstrators want to apologize for what aljazeera does we ask the questions so that we can get closer to the truth the u. S. Is a Tipping Point scientists are telling us right now that we have just 12 years as the worlds leaders to agree on a solution people are taking the truth into their own. With his actions again its one kills people and it kills people. Both sides were to move the peoples doors on aljazeera. The 1st public testimony in the u. S. President ial impeachment inquiry. On capitol hill. Youre watching aljazeera live from our headquarters here and also coming up. Israel launches more strikes on gaza across the territories bringing the death toll so far to 23. 00. Protesters in hong kong refuse to back down across the city as the government debates