The. Another day of violence in hong kong the schools and universities are closed across the territory costs. In linton north dakota remember the people who protested at Standing Rock in north dakota over plans to build an oil pipeline unit of American Land well theyre back this type protesting plans to expand that pipeline. Hello a cease fire has been agreed in gaza after 2 days of cross border fighting and israeli airstrikes egypt has been mediating between israel and the Palestinian GroupIslamic Jihads 34 palestinians have been killed in the air strikes over the past 48 hours the escalation began after the israeli army assassinated a Senior Leader of a slum of jihad on tuesday. Israels foreign minister says it will observe the truce as long as the group does the same an Islamic Jihad spokesman confirmed the ceasefire and other than the also led winton to effect on the ground at 5 am with Islamic Jihad conditions on behalf of the Palestinian Resistance factions dealing clue to the occupation submission to conditions which is to stop the assess the nations protecting the protesters at the much of britains demonstrations and to begin practically the procedures to break the siege of gaza this is guaranteed by the presence of resistance in the field and its really nice to respond to any agreements in the future and also the continuation of the egyptian role at the political level. Very fossett is joining us now for an update from the israel gaza border what more are we learning about the terms of fire and from what youve been seeing or hearing is that holding. It certainly appears to be holding for now we havent had any sirens in the area since 6 oclock this morning that was just a few minutes after the cease fire was was meant to go into effect israel has relaxed restrictions across almost the entire country in terms of schools and transport and businesses some restrictions to in place here in the gaza area the israelis declaring very these really army is declaring that this operation has concluded and they say successfully with little cost to israel and and punishing Islamic Jihad a very different sort of set of assumptions coming from Islamic Jihad as you heard in that brief announcement there they say that they have secured concessions from israel in terms of not targeting leaders in the way that they did on the early hours of Tuesday Morning when. I was killed along with his wife as he slept and in terms of. Truck trying to circumvent the kind of israeli live fire tactics that weve seen at the friday brought border protests israeli officials denying that and indeed the foreign minister israel katz was interviewed earlier this morning saying that they would continue to target anybody who may deemed a threat one of the interesting things that has happened in all of this is how mass israel israel has been very much saying its targeting Islamic Jihad its moved away from its policy of Holding Hamas responsible for everything that comes out of the gaza strip israel has made this about Islamic Jihad so far although the rhetoric has been very supportive of Islamic Jihad hamas did not get involved in a big way in terms of rocket firing all right ahead we thank you for that update. A u. S. Ambassador has described how President Donald Trump put pressure on ukraine to investigate his political rival Joe Biden William Taylor was one of 2 diplomats to appear in the 1st public hearing at the center for impeachments inquiry into trump caster reports from washington d. C. The whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god William Taylor and george kent took the stand together at the 1st public hearing in the impeachment inquiry career foreign officers called by democrats to tell a compelling story to the American Public taylor is the acting u. S. Ambassador to ukraine who upon assuming the post in june found himself dropped in the middle of a mystery once i arrived and gave discovered a weird combination of encouraging confusing and ultimately alarming circumstances taylor had begrudgingly agreed to come out of retirement to take over the u. S. Diplomatic mission at a critical time his predecessor maria had been ousted without explanation and President Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was meeting with ukraine officials to discuss debunked corruption allegations against political rivals that had taylor worried and countered an irregular informal channels of u. S. Policy making with respect to ukraine unaccountable to Congress Taylor began asking questions and learned the informal channel was aimed at getting ukraine to investigate joe biden trumps potential opponent in the upcoming president ial election taylor says career diplomats were sidelined as trumps shows and aides pressed ukraine to publicly announce a biden investigation george kent a state department expert on ukraine says giuliani was getting more involved in u. S. Relations with kiev it became clear to me that giulianis efforts to gin up politically motor. It investigations are now infecting u. S. Engagement with ukraine leveraging president selenski desire for a white house meeting but there was more ambassador taylor says he had a clear understanding that u. S. Security aid to ukraine worth 400000000 dollars was also on the line the money was essential for ukraine to fend off russias military advances to withhold that systems for no good reason other than help with the Political Campaign made no sense it was it was counterproductive to all of what we had been trying to do. It was illogical it could not be explained it was crazy multiple witnesses have corroborated taylors testimony much of the facts are uncontested but there is a critical factor still missing from the democrats argument to impeach President Trump and that is evidence that trump was directly involved and therefore to be blamed the closest democrats have come is a july phone call between trump and the president of ukraine a lot of years olinsky tells trump his countrys ready to buy more weapons from the us for defense purposes trump sansar i would like you to do us a favor though then ask for investigations into democrats and the bidens this is extortion this is bribery and in any other instance people would go to jail for sure trump says hes innocent and republicans are stanch leave defending him but anyone from 1000000 with a democrat scorched earth war against President Trump would not be surprised to see all the typical signs that this is a carefully orchestrated Media Smear Campaign prior to the start of the public hearings americans were about evenly divided on whether to impeach trump and remove him from office now that theyre hearing directly from witnesses all eyes are on whether the publics. Will change. Castro aljazeera washington. Nancy sorter berg is a former Deputy National security advisor to president bill clinton and she says the public hearings are an important milestone in the impeachment inquiry well it was like going from black and white to a full living color on a big screen it brought to life the career Public Servants who are having their courage to stand up to what they believed was wrong to come forward against instructions from the president not to testify and to lay out the facts which are very clear that the president held up military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation of the vibes is the real piece of i think new news was more meat on the bones there was a little bit of news that ambassador bill taylor said when one of his staffers he had learned since his previous testimony had overheard trump and sunlight in the ambassador to the e. U. Whos in the middle of all of this talking to the president and its very clear that it was about the biden investigation and they summed up what they call saying that the president cared more about the investigation of the bidens than he did about ukraine that was made headlines kind of a bombshell revelation today but it is very clear that the democrats are building a very methodical case and that the republicans will do anything to blow it up and mirror the president s witchhunt phrases. Protesters in hong kong have blocked many parts of the city center for a 4th straight day. Many are angry after 2 demonstrators were injured in confrontations with police and left in Critical Condition there occupying the city center and blocking several major roads schools are being kept shot until sunday lets get an update sara couric is joining us from hong kong to talk us through what youve been seeing sara. Lets you mentioned there was a gathering earlier in central the water cannon was moved in as well as a number of right place to try to disperse that crowd that was a flash mob of protesters in a number of onlookers the members of the public joined in with another small want to talk to xing which is an area on the hong kong islands east and districts and where we are where the Polytechnic University this is on cal inside this is been an Assembly Point all day we have hundreds of protesters behind me and students have been gathering in the campus an hour on this road blocking all Access Points into the Polytechnic University theyve been calling on others to come and join them as well now theyve almost kind of created their own force where we are the barricaded themselves in theyve used Everything Possible including titles chairs. Pot plants to try and block the place from getting in the not be able to see the bricks behind me they have basically chiseled out these bricks from the pipes and created again another barricade or a block for those place the right place when the event she didnt move in we had some right place earlier ahead of me they seem to have are treated and we had another group of Police Arrive in the last hour or so but once again they seem to have disappeared so at the moment its a waiting game to see whether or not the right place doing move in to try to disperse this large gathering growing number of protesters here at the Polytechnic University one more thing i should add they got the press conference has just been held by the police its under way it also announced their boosting their forces by recruiting members of the Correctional Services staff to try and hats they the officers in the police force to try and deal with with the ongoing protests ok sara thank you for that update from hong kong. Still ahead on aljazeera a new ebola vaccine is all set to roll out but some congolese are skeptical. Deep trouble in one of the worlds top Tourist Spots water levels in venice are at their highest in half a century. Hello there still a very unsettled picture across much of europe the southeast is a huge swathe of cloud with some rain pushing into turkey and theres more rain on the way into Central Regions of the meds that means more rain for the already flooded venice meanwhile another big system is just getting its lawyers out across the west but also as well as this rain of course we have had some significant snow just look at theres more than 25 centimeters this is in austria just the southern portion really so close over sea to the alps and if its hard to the north away from Heather Boushey had about 70 centimeters of snow in just 24 hours through thursday theres more rain across the central med also across into the southeast of their family light and scattered but really the main system is this one in the west a med against innovations and another very intense pressure working its way across areas of u. K. And across into low countries and france that will continue his journey eastwards by friday this rain then pushing across of the central areas so again theyll be more rain across much of italy particularly heavy into the southeast of france so we really are expecting to see some flooding because of the amount of rain that will be coming down meanwhile Northern Africa is mostly dry but with all this rain throughout the mediterranean thursday and friday there is a chance and time is a low of just 15 and l. G. s. Sponsor. Its. Going to deal with all the t. V. Unless you get out you disallow i disagree with that. A lot this sounds like i would be labeling the public the country for the are you not literally mean anybody these people well trained much of the Islamic State machinery. Of a very inspirational popular literature teacher join me in the hot sun as i put the questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate. Aljazeera. Problem again the top stories on aljazeera a ceasefire has been agreed in gaza after 2 days of cross border fighting between israel and the Group Islamic jihads 34 palestinians have been killed in israeli airstrikes since tuesday. The tossers in hong kong a block many parts of the citys center for a 4th straight day many are angry after 2 protesters were injured in confrontations with police and left in Critical Condition. 2 u. S. Diplomats have become the 1st to publicly testify at the impeachment inquiry both William Taylor and george can say they felt cornered concerned rather over pressure President Trump put on ukraines leader. And Donald Trumps threat to withhold military aid to ukraine is an important part of the inquiry so kiev has received an estimated one and a half 1000000000. 00 from the u. S. Over the past 5 years stuff awesome reports from the center in western ukraine where American Forces train local troops. But it. Seems to be domestic in ukraine after u. S. Military aid to. Spend it in july the country was suddenly at the center of an american political storm involving a phone call between the u. S. President. And the newly elected ukrainian leader. Undeterred by whats going on in washington ukrainian soldiers are preparing war games with the u. S. Colleagues at the joint Multi NationalTraining Center in the west of the country tactics they can use in the ongoing war against russian backed separatists in the east. Where we Pay Attention to politics that doesnt affect our day to day process will be here tomorrow as long as both governments agree that were needed here. Besides having ukraines back against russia the americans are getting ukraines troops ready to become part of nato. This is how u. S. Military aid to ukraine looks like an army which was said to be suffering from corruption and the lack of funds now beefed up to face russia in the east but one threat to withhold this aid even though it was only temporarily has caused doubts about how much ukraine can we rely on its most important ally. After the much debated phone call with trump ukraines president followed emir zelinsky sat he did not feel pressured by trumps threat to withhold military aid but analysts say it has affected the image of the United States and ukraine and could even push some towards moscow what were seeing in washington now that is under threat of unraveling completely as widely reported to see is that for trump our job is not interested in any larger issues of democracy promotion state building and human rights in ukraine rather hes interested in using grain for his own political needs. But the u. S. President still has some fans in this coffee shop only opened a few months ago i would say it would make ukraine more famous and more people aware of ukraine was happening in ukraine about war in the middle of europe ok but it wouldnt hurt the plane in which Many Americans dont even know that ukraine is this young pitcher vios billeted. I dont feel any particular help from america so i think we have to rely on ourselves its. Not the sort of message ukrainian soldiers fighting what is known as the forgotten war against russian backed separatists want to hear they hope the u. S. Will continue to support them step files from aljazeera livy ukraine. They were formally recognized bolivias new interim leader janine on years but there is widespread opposition to her appointment 2 people were killed in violence that broke out on her 1st full day in office by ana sanchez has more from the bolivian capitol. Protesters clashed with police and the army on the streets of bolivia live rounds were shot tear gas didnt display and we believe who demanded interim president. To resign on her 1st day in office shes facing a country in turmoil i socialize political disputes are battled on around including the National Assembly on wednesday some of it will more or less is mass Party Members tried entering congress at the end i had resigned from the senates presidency she tried to come back a police block the way i know to get this government is trying to portray the court it as a natural thing where legislatures and we need to go to the assembly. On the other side of the barricade his foes shouted adversaries a reminder of what sparked the political crisis that forced pr