A marine euro has been named as the new manager of the English Premier League side tottenham the former Manchester United boss appointed 12 hours after the london club sacked moderate to tina. China has some of the u. S. Diplomats after the Senate Passed a bill to support human rights in hong kong it comes after months of protests that if the legislation becomes law top officials from the territory could be sanctioned by the u. S. In future in hong kong a standoff between police and protesters on a University Campus shows no signs of ending aljazeera sara clock reports. In a city rocked by violence and months of protests everyday life is carrying on. Primary and secondary schools have resumed classes after being closed for more than a week some major roads have also reopened but traffic is still congested and some bread lines remain blocked. At Polytechnic University in Central California up to 100 protesters are refusing to leave riot police have surrounded the campus ready to bike arrests if any demonstrators try to skype. Flaw. In the process. Of. All. This. On tuesday around 800. 00 surrounded 300. 00 around the idea of 18 and cant be charged with brushing others managed to escape the campus and avoid a wrist some protesters have attempted to flee over the last few hours through the universitys drainage system but they were arrested other attempts were made to a skype of a not but those students were met by police and retreated back inside the campus of the United States senate has backed the prodemocracy protests movement in hong kong and a unanimous vote senate has passed the hong kong human rights and democracy act which threatens to invoke tried sections on the city if the u. S. Considers human rights have been violated we in the United States stand in solidarity with the democratic protesters who have every right to assemble and petition their government for the rights of citizens of hong kong the bill will now go to the house of representatives the Hong Kong Government has rejected the bill demanding the u. S. Stop interfering in the citys internal affairs these rights are being protected by the basic law of hong kong article 4 basic law protect human rights and we have seen that all these rights including rights given to anybody working in hong kong reporting in hong kong so these are all self interest to do so i dont see that and the. Reason for changing that and thats that explain why in our statement we strongly sort of object to any attempt by any country try to. Introns hong kong interest district elections will be held in hong kong this weekend the government has not ruled out postponing that if there is more violence sarah clarke aljazeera hong kong. Britain someones chinas ambassador over allegations that a former employee at its consulate in hong kong was tortured simon chang says the Chinese Secret Police beat him deprive him of sleep and chained him up he says they were trying to get information about activists leading the protests in on kong he was detained for 15 days during a trip to the mainland in august of 0 Andrew Thomas thats the latest from beijing. In the Daily Briefing at the Foreign Ministry here in beijing a Spokes Person denied asylum in chains accusations of torture he said that while he was detained in august all his legal rights were guaranteed and it referred to a statement put out by the shans in place back in august when he was detained which essentially said that he was detained for soliciting a prostitute nothing to do with any activity he was or wasnt involved with in hong kong and the Spokes Person at the Foreign Ministry also said that the Chinese Ambassador in london will not be going and seeing britains foreign minister theyll be refusing that invitation if thats the right word at the same time earlier in the day the Foreign Ministry putting out a very strong statement condemning the u. S. Senate passing this act condemning whats going on in hong kong in beijing saying that this act by the u. S. Senates neglects facts and truth applies double standards and blatantly interferes in Hong Kong Affairs and chinas other internal affairs it goes on to say that the issue hong kong faces is not about human rights or democracy but about stopping violence and chaos and it says that the us senate has what it calls a hidden political agenda and passing this act paints criminal removes as the pursuit of human rights and democracy when the truth is a violent criminal rampantly smashing facilities again this statement aims with not so veiled threats that china will have to take strong countermeasures to defend our National Sovereignty security and Development Issues if the us insists on making the wrong decision no indication of what those countermeasures might be but the clearest signal possible really both in this statement by the Foreign Ministry and in what theyve said in response to simon chains accusations that these are all internal affairs within hong kong and china more broadly but nothing to do with foreigners. David sweet is managing director of Trans National china consulting he says that the u. S. Senate bill doesnt help the situation this is something that hong kong really feels the Hong Kong Government feels i mean i dont im not very supportive of the Hong Kong Government in terms of the way theyve handled this particularly for mrs lamb but but they really feel that this is something that they need to do they need to bring order to society theyve got some sense here that that wouldnt be a bad thing from the population of the protesters still have a significant level of support but i think theyre going to be damned if they law allow the United States to dictate to them how to resolve this so theres this crisis here in the city and if they decide you know if they cant get in for example your audience knows that theyve now surrounded the poly universe of the of a little while ago it looked like that could have been a really big pitched battle and if the winds up being a pitch for you know if the if the police cant get in and then have to eventually call in the Peoples Armed police i just think theyre not going to care what the United States government says and and sanctions against individuals you know im just. The citizen in a crisis and its going to resolve this crisis and i think in that sense from the beginning when you ask me is this interference by by the United States it certainly doesnt add i dont think it helps the situation in any significant way. The deadline for the main rival to israels Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu to form a government expires now in just a few hours benny gantz is negotiating with other parties his meeting with netanyahu as a last ditch attempt to form a unity government has made no progress last month netanyahu also failed to form a government if gantz cant do it israel could face a 3rd election in less than a year lets go live now to western zeros harry force can tell us more so lieberman has been talked about as a king maker harry how crucial will his decision be today. Well yes hes is already come out with a very consequential announcement he is the leader of the right wing secularist israel bit a new policy he used to be nessun you know whos ally in government defense minister but he was essentially a king breaker in may when he pulled his support from netanyahu just as he was trying to make a right Wing Coalition government then netanyahu responded by calling for this 2nd election in a row that elections were also inconclusive and now Avigdor Lieberman has dashed any slim hopes that benny gantz might have had to form a minority government with support from the outside of that government from the 10 palestinian israeli members of the Israeli Parliament who might have supported it that was always a slim chance now lieberman says that he will not back any such government and he wont back a right wing government led by netanyahu as long as it contains the parties of the ultra orthodox religious parties as well and so heres essential he said a plague on both your houses he said he was offered all sorts of things innumerable offers including a rotational Prime Ministership for a year but he would not sell his values he says for seats what he wants is a unity government what the president of the country also has called for is a unity government including both benny gantz and netanyahu but on one side benny gantz says he wont allow a Prime Minister facing indictment 2 to lead a government that he is involved in other charges on the way we think from the attorney general against netanyahu in a matter of days he also wants to go to to jettison his wider religious nationalist bloc as far as netanyahu is concerned he wont give up on either the block or the idea of remaining as Prime Minister and any prospects of a unity government remain out of reach as well so harry to what extent is a 3rd election in 12 months now and never born out of the electorate feel about that. Well the israeli electorate is certainly unhappy with the prospect of a 3rd election in 3 months because the polls suggest that exactly the same or very close to what we have now results would eventually 8 what happens after this deadline is that there is a free for all for 3 weeks if it is missed if counts as seems inevitable now come form a government any member of the knesset who could get the magic number of 61 recommendations of support could potentially put together a Coalition Government but it seems very difficult to see how the situation changes perhaps there are 2 possibilities one is that the very pressure of the 3rd election could focus minds even more and exert so much pressure that somebody somewhere compromises the other is if the charges do come in and they damage netanyahu sufficiently within his own party lee could then do we see the possibility of support splintering away from netanyahu within likud giving dance an opportunity to try to poach some people or even to see some kind of leadership upset within the ruling party so far there seems to be no appetite for that they know these charges are likely to come and yet they continue to support him so were stuck in this unprecedented deadlock in israeli politics it just goes on and on. I was there as harry for said reporting live from west to respond how many thanks this is that from aljazeera still to come on the program well tell you why police decided to target a Position Party members say symbolically. The deadly fall out from the political b. S. Operation to end the blockade of a major fuel plant and that in sport baradar waved goodbye to get another managers job raul will be here to explain a little later. A much awaited testimony will begin shortly in washington the Donald Trumps impeachment inquiry in just under one of the president s allies as you to be sworn in gold and soul and that is the u. S. Ambassador to the European Union now he cost control the see the 1st appearing before congress behind closed doors he altered his testimony to say that the president did withhold military aid to ukraine unless the ukrainians investigated joe biden and his son for corruption now the inquiry heard on tuesday from 3 of the witnesses they overheard the controversial phone call when trump pressured the president of ukraine to investigate the bidens well speak with our White House Correspondent kimberly hellcat in just a few moments but 1st lets join Heidi Joe Castro on capitol hill. What can we expect from this testimony today. Wagering court insaan land is a very important witness to this impeachment inquiry and thats for 2 reasons one is that he is the closest to the president among those witnesses who have agreed to testify and secondly hes really a wild card having him behind closed doors given the strongest defense of the president and arguably the most damning evidence against President Trump so how is he close to trump well some land is argued to have bought his way into the president s graces by being a mega donor wench. Was inaugurated someone was then awarded an ambassadorship appointment to the European Union and then solemn went on to brad to others in the administration about how he alone was controlling or a large part controlling u. S. Policy toward you crave notably ukraine isnt even part of the European Union and he also bragged about his access to the president saying he could reach trump at any time and that gets to the 2nd reason why solomon is so important at 1st he defended President Trump saying that the president s own words deny there being a quid pro quo later though gordon song reversed that testimony saying then that he recalled that he yes presume that the aid security a the 400000000. 00 from the u. S. To ukraine was being withheld contingent on ukraine opening an investigation into trumps political rivals and he says he recalled that not only did that exist but in fact he was the messenger who told that to ukrainian officials so the question today what were watching is which version of the facts are we going to get from saw will he default back to his defense of the president which may open up some wind to perjury or will he be more revealing and perhaps shed more light on the key phone conversations he had with trump which democrats are really hoping that will break open to shed light on exactly what the president s intent was when he on one hand withheld that security aide and on the other hand directed his subordinates to request the investigation into his political rivals all right heidi lets bring in our White House Correspondent kimberly how could also in washington so whats the mood like complete the white house with so many white house officials testifying. Well the u. S. President has just tweeted as he often does and tries to set the tone in the news narrative and the message that we seem to be getting is that there is a bit of confidence after the testimony particularly late on tuesday the feeling being that the testimony has underscored what the president has been maintaining all the time that there has been no wrongdoing in fact the president tweeting in just the last hour or so saying white house confidence grows as hearings were on this is an attempted takedown of republicans by democrats it will never work now the reason that the white house seems to be feeling rather confident or at least the u. S. President is because were seeing something a very we didnt see the last time this country was talking about impeachment of another president president bill clinton were not seeing members of the Republican Party going to the other side joining the democrats saying look i will join you for this vote for peace but what were seeing is a maintaining a split down party lines which we didnt see back in 1998 so the white house feeling as the strikes on that the American Public is viewing this is a political circus maybe wanting to focus more on what might affect them personally so the president is trying to set that agenda were going to see him going to austin texas today where hes going to be going to an apple plant where he is going to make the argument that this plant has created 20000 jobs as a result of his policies and were also watching very carefully as the president leaves the white house in about 2 and a half hours time what he might have to say are committed many thanks indeed on White House Correspondent kelly how could washington Michael Isikoff is the chief investigative correspondent of yahoo news he joins us now live from washington michael good to have you with us much anticipated really in his testimony has been described as pundits rubbing their hands with glee come here to wait what hes wait to hear what hes going to say well why is he so anticipated. Look theres no question that this is the most crucial witness so far. Is the one which this who had the most contact with President Trump on the whole ukraine matter hes already testified behind closed doors he had to amend his testimony already because he his memory was refreshed about yes he did in fact bring up the military aid saying that the best way for ukraine telling the ukrainians in warsaw the best way to get the you the military assistance hold lifted was to announce these investigations but now hes got a real problem because it david holmes before state Department Official and kid have has given a gripping very detailed account of a phone call that someone got from President Trump on july 26th the day after the july 25th phone call between President Trump and president s olinsky in which according to holmes sohn one said the president doesnt give an expletive about ukraine what he cares about is