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 h
A new policing bill. And well hear from those displaced by south sudans worst flooding in 20 years and the people trying to help. In just under an hours time witnesses in the u. S. President Donald Trumps impeachment inquiry are expected to testify publicly for the 1st time these hearings could lead to an Impeachment Vote in the house of representatives so only these 3rd time in the history of the United States and then a trial in the u. S. Senate patrick or hain sets up our coverage. For a most 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 a longing 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 were going to. That was not a sentiment shared by the speaker of the house nancy pelosi who res
Participate including presenting his case submitting request for testimony attending hearings raising objections to testimony giving given cross examining witnesses and more and contrary to what you may have heard today we give more opportunity. To the to his case then was given to other president s before and thank you mr chairman for making that point so clearly and these actions this this process is an open hearing seeking the truth and making it available to the American People will inform congress on the very difficult decisions we will have to make in the future as to whether to impeach the president that decision has not been made thats what the inquiry will pursue it will investigate and then we can make the decision based on the troops i dont know why the republicans are afraid of the troops every member should support allowing the American People to hear the facts for themselves this that is really what this vote is about what its about the troops and what is it stake what is
Normally done but as highly alluded to earlier the president still holds very strong to that base of support that doesnt want him to do things the way washington has always done things and thats why theyre not particularly bothered that he has broken protocol even as democrats allege this hits the foundations of american democracy could have really go to any American Election security. All right thanks so much kimberly how to lets just well for a moment on the numbers that were seeing here on the screen now clearly weve got more yeas the nays thats not a huge surprise 215 saying yes to this motion versus 179. 00 according to how whats displayed on the screen now pretty much all the republican votes have said no to this and all but one democratic voice so far has said yes to this measure so that is very much a partisan vote i think that most people will agree but it does look like if you look at the numbers are still going up as we talk with why we need to wait a minute but now were at
Than 200 years ago is what watched came forth today so this isnt about the Republican Party this is about the republic no one should ever go through this again we believe in the rule of law but unfortunately in nancys house we do not. Every single day our Government Works with another government to solve cases but the president asked for was an open case that the attorney general was already investigating it is nothing about the future its about something that happened its something that the entire country wants to know and get to the bottom of that we had just gone through 2 years of a nightmare why did that happen wouldnt you want to know that answer even as a journalist i believe you would be craving to know that answer and yes when we use taxpayers money i want their countability. This is precious money that is that is taken from hard tax working taxpayers i want to countability about it and the ukraine did nothing for the money to be released so again when adam shift looked into t