To outrage. Across iran as the government takes full price response 50 percent its not. Sure lichens are voting to elect a new leader with ethnic divisions on the rise after the deadly Easter Sunday bombings. But we begin in the u. S. For President Donald Trump is facing accusations of intimidation after attacking the latest impeachment witness on twitter as she testified before congress on friday many of out of it was the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine until she was really cold earlier this year well the inquiry is looking into whether trump withheld military aid to ukraine in exchange for the promise of an inquiry against his political rivals back home aljazeera is heidi joe castro has more from capitol hill. And trump has said he too busy to watch the impeachment inquiry hearings threatening to end his presidency but he found time friday to catch some of the hearing unfolding on live t. V. And he tweeted about the witness on the stand his former ambassador to ukraine a woman he ousted
The Palestinian Armed Group Islamic jihad says there will be no limit to its retaliation following the killing of one of its commanders. And his wife were killed in an israeli airstrike on his home in gaza overnight Israeli Military says around 50 rockets have been fired in retaliation from gaza prompting the closure of schools and some Transportation Services and responded with airstrikes targeting apartment buildings and a hamas facility israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to speak to the media within the hour and syrian state media are also reporting an attack near the Lebanese Embassy in damascus Group Islamic jihad says the attack targeted the home of another of its leaders at least 2 people were killed and 6 and lets go live now to Harry Fossett was and less troublesome so what else do we know. About these airstrikes about the targets that were hit. Well the main target that was struck was indeed the home the indeed according to the Israeli Military the floor we
Party analysts say legislators aimed to control the judiciary to stop prosecutors from investigating corruption probes although it is see it i mean certainly though to bridge scandal contaminated prues political system with bribes and networks built by businessmen to win contracts by corrupting not only high profile Public Servants but authorities all over the country but former congressman carlos to be none too nice his party protected corrupt individuals it was a good move of course not never we werent looking to resolve the bottom line of the issues that was a matter of the judiciary but we had to protect the legislators immunity the press try to destroy us. A year ago criminal investigations. Preventive detention struction of justice and love doing money on the rich and legibly paid for her Political Campaign in 2000 sting along with many other politicians involved in similar probes she can run again for legislative and president ial elections the law allows candidates who havent b
Knows what the worlds going to be like bob johnson now has to see if the u. K. Parliament has any more appetite for all this in the e. U. If it all gets rolled out he will say hes tried and everyone else is to blame the question by then will be if hes still in control of events largely aljazeera manchester. Still ahead on aljazeera a day after a student was shot by Hong Kong Police anti beijing protests saw no sign of letting up. And the man with the silver hair sprints to golds at the worlds athletics championship. Tropical storm retired disappears from shanghai just off the top your screen leaves all of china really underneath a quiet spell of weather. Which is to be expected there is rain gathering good in the west it might make some progress in the end of the next couple of days but hong kong for example is a quiet 32 degrees and not overly humid either to the monsoon and its retreat has been as you know very wet and this little spin of cloud his suggests you know an inhouse front
Hearing is due on october the 2nd and looming behind everything as you said at the beginning of all this is the prospect that everybody seems very keen to avoid the prospect of a 3rd election the question is whether they will be able to be creative enough make enough compromises that perhaps theyll be all sorts of fractures and splinters between and within parties along the way as they try to avoid that happening were in for a lengthy i think period of attempted Coalition Building thank you very much for that Harry Fossett live for us in jerusalem. Tehran is prepared for an all out war that the threat from iran foreign minister if the u. S. Takes military action following the bombing of 2 major Saudi Arabian Oil Facilities jobs or if says iran wont blink to defend its territory if its attacked is deny tehran had any involvement in the drone strike see vons oil minister says the us is using oil as a weapon to sarap the conflict the us secretary of state however says the attack of the re