we will sey next time. >> ♪ >> hello, and welcome to the news hour. coming up on the program. >> i have decided to issue an invitation for iran to participate. >> syrian peace talks on the verge of collapse after leaders asked iran to attend. intervening. central african republic. and a nuclear deal comes to iran after the halt of

production of higher grade of uranium. >> we have the latest from europe. the stand off in ukraine, tenses high after clashes in kiev. >> but first just two days after syrian peace talks are due to take place in switzerland the whole process appears to be on the edge of collapse. an invitation for the united und nations to attend. it appears that the u.s. is trying to apply conditions. we have reports from tehran. >> ban ki-moon has finally

invited iran to the party. a year and a half after the first syrian meeting in geneva. >> as convener as host of the conference i have decided to issue an invitation for iran to participate. >> reporter: russia' >> australia, indonesia, and many others. if there is no iran in this list then i think the peace talks will resemble a hypocrisy. >> reporter: but will iran attend? only if there are no pre-conditions. that means no requirement to remove bashar al-assad from power. crucially iran hasn't agreed to one main step outlined in the

geneva communique from 2012 that a transitional governing body must be established with full executive powers and and will allow essential humanitarian aid to be delivered to affected areas. >> it is a sensitive issue and it will be continued for three years because some insist on a military issue. the main problem is extremism and sectarianism. >> reporter: they made those comments after a week long diplomatic trip to iraq, jordan, syria and russia. the u.s. and middle eastern allies have been staunch opponents of any expanding iranian regional role. these countries and iran support not only the syrian conflict but

conflict in iraq and lebanon and saudi arabia in particular is nervous about iran's growing ambitions, including its nuclear one. the saudis don't want iran part of talks and now are refusing to attend. even though iran has the visit the reception for the most part is still cold. >> in a moment we'll be crossing lines to istanbul whic istanbula couple of ago there were peace talks. anita mcnaught is there live for us. but first let's go to geneva, what a mess. there was diplomatic arm twisting in istanbul. now an invitation from the u.n. the u.s. doesn't like it it's all jeopardizing geneva, isn't it?

>> it is absolutely jeopardizing geneva. something they've been trying to organize for eight months to sit around the table with the syrian government to try and form a transitional government. in the end as you say they managed to get the opposition that we can finally at the last minute agree and then ban ki-moon issues this invitation for iran to join all the other countries. more than 40 countries in these talks and it looks like the opposition may not come, the whole thing in jeopardy. it all seems very aid. i can tell you what chain of developments very closely at the u.n. both on chemical weapons and on this issue the peace process. ban ki-moon consults terribly wide lynn. i always consults with the five permanent members of the u.n. security county, and particularly on this issue he

callalways consults with the u.. and russia. >> just stay there for the moment because we want to get one reaction to the news of iran's invitation. >> it was like shock for all of us. when you are going to have political solution for any crisis for any problem you should invite the people who helped to achieve such goal, not to bring the people who can make this goal could not be achieved. it's very important for all the people to be peacemaker, not deal breaker, as we say. >> anita mcnaught joins me live and she knows all about diplomatic arm twisting because she watched it happen in

istanbul. so what's the view now? >> well, they barely made that decision to go to geneva, and the last thing they needed was the joker in the pack being iran. it's a decision that some of the more cosmopaliton. this is place badly on the syrian street. iran is loathed and blamed for much of the trouble inside syria. and we see that it its more nuanced and more clear in the battle of brinkmanship being played here. they have three conditions for iran before they're prepared to accept it's attendance. iran, of course, saying it won't accept any.

they want it to pull all its troops out of syria and make a clear commitment to the principles of geneva one and make clear commitment to the principles of geneva two. and if they won't do that then they will ask ban ki-moon four hours from now to withdraw his invitation or they cannot go. it's a chain reaction. they're not saying we're not going right now. but between now and 19 gmt, if iran doesn't do this, and ban ki-moon doesn't do that, then we're not going to go. it's not looking good. >> afeet at a mcnaught in istanbul. >> s. >> in a new interfere, he said he still wants to stand as president, and he talks about what he calls terrorism in his

country. >> saudi ansaudi arabia i don'ty reason why i shouldn't stand for elections. there is still four months to go before a date is announced. i will not hesitate in a second to run for re-election. my candidacy is significant. >> as you know, president assad insisting there is a role for him inside syria, a role in the future. is he trying to dictate the agenda here? >> i think this has always been the syrian position. if we do get both sides around

the table looking at this hour quite unlikely at moment unless we see movement on this iran issue, then i think that is an indication of how hard the negotiations are going to be. what they're trying to do is build on geneva one. reminder that was an agreement in june 2012 by which both sides are supposed to sit down and come up with a transitional government. the opposition won't accept assad and those around him in that transitional government and the syrian government won't have it without assad and his inner circle, and geneva one is supposed to come up with a deal by mutual consent. if they do get to talking, that consent is going to be difficult. >> thank you. and thanks for anita mcnaught in istanbul, too.

inside syria the violence goes on. they've been fighting government forces north of aleppo. the province has been seeing fighting in the islamic state of iraq. activists are reporting two car bombs have exploded at a rebel checkpoint. it happened at the turkey-syria border. inspectors from the u.n. watchdog has started watching iran for the next six months inspectors will visit a number of locations in iran. as part of the deal tehran has already stopped enriching uranium to 20% and diluted it's stock pile. it will allow more inspections on its nuclear sites. while iran won't completely scrap it's nuclear program, in

turn the adjustmen u.s. and e.ue sanctions and provide airplane parts and medicines to the country. and finally, they won't be able to impose any new sanctions on iran, and they have welcomed the deal. >> they can no longer loosening and tightens sanctions as they see fit, and other countries like china who claim to be superpower m. will not longer impose it's will on them. now they have said these things once and those countries have said yes, sir, but if they were to do such a thing again, the credit of these countries would really go under scrutiny and many other countries like those in europe, they also don't want

to do these sanctions any more. >> diplomatic correspondent for a weekly persian newspaper. she said iran will now have access to frozen assets again. >> within the six-month period iran will have access to $6.2 billion but this is part of $100 billion of frozen assets. and also this amount of money will come, the $4.2 billion will come in transits. it will start only in february. at the same time in the past few months a lot of nuclear scientists and employees of these nuclear reactors have been laid off. so their voices are being heard in the newspapers, and those hard liners are questioning that

what is it that return for all of this that we are giving, what are we receiving in this six months, and certainly the supreme leader has in the newspapers and announcements that we are hearing is not very happy about this deal, either. so there is news coming that the negotiations would be taken from the foreign minister back to the supreme national security council. >> al jazeera is calling for the immediate release of five journalists being retained in egypt. they have been held without charge 23 days. they're accused of spreading lies harmful to state security and joining a terrorist group, charges that al jazeera say are completely fabricated. >> you're watching the

al jazeera news hour from doha. i'm stephen coal. still to come, the growing wealth divide. we'll have the results of a new study. and the shocks keep coming. we'll tell you which big name is the latest to tumble out of the tournament. >> foreign ministers meeting in brussels have approved sending 500 extra troops to the central african republic to help restore order after bloody religious violence. in the meantime, poll situations have elected a new interim president to serve throughout the process. do we have any details about the size of its force and what it's mission will be?

>> well, the force which has been agreed in principle here in brussels would normal 400 and 600 troops, and it's mission would be to primarily secure the airport to oversee the distribution of food and humanitarian aid. and the troops would spread out and try to address some of the violence, inter religious fighting and revenge attacks we've seen in recent days. i must stress these days it's a political agreement, a decision in principle. everything will depend on how the different states will decide to turn that into a practical agreement in terms which country, and how the force will be organized. there is another key step, the united nations, which will allow

other force to go on the ground. so there are a number of political steps that need to be taken but crucially there has to be a decision about how this will be implemented in practice so it could be some weeks before we see european troops on the ground in the c.a.r. >> we're going to go to bangui in a moment. do you detect a will to send crops this far away from france and europe? >> there is a political will, but whether that will be reflected in practice. there is the question of public opinion in those various countries. even in france where there are 1600 troops in c.a.r. even there, six of the ten people indicted they didn't think that the intervention was a good idea. you have to think how will citizens in other e.u. countries will react sending their forces

to a country that some people haven't even heard about. it will be difficult in diplomatic context. >> will extra troops in europe help solve anything in the c.a.r. barnaby? >> they will help. they will be welcomed. the more that are here the better. you have to say 500 is something of an incremental increase given the size of this country, and given the scale of the problem. i've been talking to some people in the national assembly building where i am, and they say this is good news. they welcome it as a sign of solidarity. and then in an ideal world they would like 500. >> can you tell us more about

the new or political process, barnaby, the new interim president, we wonder how interim and what powers you have. >> you might say this is a significant moment another significant moment, the women i think i stand to be corrected, but th to put the woman in char. watching her convoy leave now and there are people lining the streets. and cheering and very quick snapshot of people they say she is a woman of integrity, and they welcome this as a positive development. she is the former mayor of bangui, she is in charge of a state that is bankrupt and

doesn't function. it can't pay it's civil servants. it doesn't have an army or peace force, and it can't run schools and hospitals. nevertheless, figure heads can be important but clearly she's going to rely on the international community if she is effective in this what i would say and he overly ambitious transition program, there are 200 million people displaced in this country. the idea of holding a fair and free vote you have armed militias roaming around, and it will be quite improbable. >> barnaby phillips reporting live from bangui. thanks, barnaby. >> a series of bombings have killed 26 people in iraq. the explosions went off in the capitol of baghdad. there were seven. bloodiest attack happened i a sa

neighborhood. no. pakistan a suicide-bomber has killed 13 people in a market. troops and police are investigating the scene of the attack. six of those killed were soldiers. nato soldier has been killed in a taliban suicide attack. the car bomb went off i at a ga, and all were killed. opposition protesters have clashed with riot police for a second day in ukraine's capitol of kiev. for the latest on that let's go to felicity in our news center. >> reporter: that's right. mass demonstrations have done nothing to prevent anti-government rallies. sunday saw peaceful protests turn violent and earlier clashes erepresented yet again. we're joined with jennifer from

kiev. what are things on the streets right now. >> reporter: tensions remain high in kiev as nightfall on the second day of those clashes police and protesters still are at a stand off. about 400 meters that way near the stadium as violence continues. [ explosion ] >> reporter: there is a front line in the center of kiev. anti-government protesters in a rebellious stand off with hundreds of riot police. they hunker down while people made weapons from anything they could find. those not willing to fight still came out in support to let police know that they are there. >> after two months of peaceful demonstrations it has come to this. open confrontation on the treats of kiev. protesters say they want t from

hero presssive government. >> yanukovych agreed to talk only after th the protest turned violent on sunday. >> i think the position and his talk more and more is nonsense. now it's the talk of ukraine. >> tell the president doesn't want to hear us. he doesn't listen, and that's why we are here. we try to fight, we try to do something. >> police and protesters continue a game of cat and mouse. with officers firing rubber bullets if people get too close. ukrainians say they want real change and want their voices heard. they say they gave politicians a chance. now they're on the streets someone will have to live. >> well, is anyone living?

are there any signs that the president is, in fact, prepared to compromise any way? >> well, president viktor yanukovych called for cross parties of the opposition representatives and representatives of the government. but indicative of the problems of the opposition. who will be part of that condition and what are their actual demands. that's what drove the protesters to frustration and anger that took them to the streets. lack of action has been a continuing theme here. another protest went to the offices of the european union to call for action. demonstrators have been coming up to me saying it's okay to have moral support, moral support is fine. but we would like to see real action. that's why they say they've taken to the streets in the clashes that continue in bitter

cold temperatures here in kiev for the second day. >> jennifer, for us. thanks, jennifer. search forgive 12 peoplsearm a boat found drifting. two and a half kilometers were short two people dived in the sea sparking a rush that overturned the boat. five days after dozens of migrants jumped over the border of morocco. this time 50 people made it over the 60 feet high melt fence. one person drowned as they jumped in the sea as police intercepted them. more in this news hour including: >> in eastern slovakia where

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taking the impossible from lab ... to life. on techknow, our scientists bring you a sneak-peak of the future, and take you behind the scenes at our evolving world. techknow - ideas, invention, life. on al jazeera america >> welcome back to doha, i'm stephen cole with the top stories in this news hour. the syrian national coalition is threatening to withdraw from the meeting afte after the u.n. invd iran to the table. the president of c.a.r. has been elected, and previously mayor of the capitol. bangui. opposition protesters have

clashed with riot police for a second day in ukraine's capitol of kiev. new laws have been se set that bring limitations to protest. since the conflict began in south sudan last month, crops recaptured the town of bor. while we're in bor, the town has changed hands several times. how important is this retaking of the town? >> well stephen, very significant, indeed, because it essentially means that the rebels stronghold on any major town is ceased, and they do not control any towns that they had

captured following the outbreak of violence in the 15th of last month. now on the political developments there have been quite a few. the president of south sudan just finished a press conference behind me in the last few minutes, and outlined what would be called the row map to regain peace and stability in the world's youngest nation. the main point of it is uncanyon cease-fire and hostility on ott sides. the huge need of humanitarian aid and effort to be put in places where people--places like bor where thousands were displaced and killed. there must be a political process and very surprisingly with those who were behind what the president has described as an attempted coup. there must be also an investigation to find out who was behind the massacres and killings that have taken place particularly after we heard from the united nations, war crimes

have been committed. i'm going to choose the spokesperson for the president, and i'll start by asking you about this road map. it seems very particular that on the one hand the president has accused riek machar of attempted coup and committing crimes, buts wills saying any political processes must be done with him on site. >> as the president has said before, and time and again there can be no military victory, military solution to the problem. at the end of the day there has to be a political solution that is now one-month-old. as you just finished the press conference, the road map that

was mentioned, it has to be unconditional, and humanitarians access to the effected people, and among them also the president has also given the point of grand national peace and political dialogue because at the end of the day it must be the political dialogue of the people of south sudan that can bring peace. >> it seems that what is taking place how is that the government forces together with the supreme court from the ugandan office now you chase out the rebel fighters, now you tell them to come and discuss. it's a strange situation because there is no political gain here for the other side. >> the rebels, whenever they get into town.

they kill people, they maim, even in bor you have seen they have demonstrators lying in hospital. the government now is restoring order, and is now ready to call them to a dialogue. at the end of the day they are citizens of this country, and they cannot be citizens without attempt to normal life and renounce thos the violence, they can come back as citizen of this country. if they don't do that, i'm afraid there can't be any good solution that can be done with these people. the government is in control of the whole town. the rebel at one time has taken. they have destroyed those places, and it is time to reconstruct those places. >> thank you. that is the government's take on this conflicts, which has been raging for weeks. we have seen how devastating it

has become. even though it seems very reconciliatory, the tone coming outs of the presidency, saying are you willing to pardon the former vice president, he said he is willing to pardon them. but there are tens of thousand who is have no place to go back to because they have been burned down, and many have been killed. >> the olympic torch has reached the town of volgograd where suicide-bombing claimed lives just a month ago. let's go to our european broadcast center. >> yes, so far it has been up in space, underwater, and now the olympic flames is in volgograd. as you can imagine the security is very tight and it has been significantly scaled back. that visit comes after the video

emerged as the men who carried out the suicide-bomb, warn of attacks on the olympics themselves. w[ train whistle ] >> reporter: the olympic train rolled into town, but the welcome was deliberately subdued. just meters from this spot less than a month ago 18 people were killed in a suicide-bomb blast. a second attack a day later took the total dead to 34. torch bearer andre kar pov is a native of volgograd. he told me of his pride to carry the flame and the pride of his city. but when asked about the attacks, he spoke in sadness. >> the whole country, we feel like pain. >> reporter: volgograd station still bears the scars of the

attacks three weeks ago. by staging the torch as planned, the release of a new jihadist video over the weekend underlines the fact that the threat remains very real. this 49-minute video claims to show a recording of the two volgograd bombers. the authenticity of the tape has not been verified but it. talks about the threats to carry out the bombings. >> we must move forward. >> but it was noticeable, various musical events planned along the roots were canceled. >> we limited all the celebrations during the route in this city, and special regime

was hardened. so right now we just make our normal olympic torch relay without no celebrations. >> the city of volgograd is a powerful symbol of pride, and the area has been repeatedly targeted by separatist attacks. and with sochi fast approaching that threat is now continuous. al jazeera, volgograd. >> let's look at where the torch is headed next. it will travel south to russia's troubled caucasus region. and on the 29th it will pass through chechnya before making it's way back to sochi which it will arrive on the fifth of january. for centuries the roma have

suffered, and prejudice has made it difficult to hard and integrate in society. in a three-part series we have traveled through slovakia and hungry to find out more about what the future holds for roma. >> in rush how people hurry on their way. just 2% unemployment in a thriving west of the country. but in the east where so many roma live there is nothing to get out of bed for. the european union paid for a new road through this village which means that children can get to school without being covered in mud, but for adults there is a dead end. >> when they realize applicants are roma they say call back later or they say they don't

want them. every romthere was a time when a man and woman had a job but that's gone now. elamo worked right until the berlin wall came down. he said it was a golden time. >> wes a peaceful life. in a socialist state everyone worked. there were tens of thousands of roma in the steel works. i worked there for ten years. >> so where the roma live there it is a breeding ground for pessimism. they've had to put umbrellas over their flats because the rain comes through. >> what do they say to you,

you're a gypsy. >> faced with the choice of no work or immigration many have tried to learn a trade at school. but here organizers found there is a wall of racism. >> at the start we have mostly white students and it was easy to find them a placement. we just called restaurant and hotels and they took two or three. but as soon as we started training roma children the place dried up. >> and now it seems that those they rely on, there have been a change in social attitudes. >> there have been new rules forcing people on benefits to work. in order to do that they have to sign in an office. well, those offices haven't been built yet. even if they have been clearly nobody has a car and they have to borrow money each other even to get the bus fair. it's as though the entire system is designed to make life as difficult as it can be for them.

>> many people say roma are lazy but over time they have given up trying. there isn't much understanding for that demoralized mindset. >> the european space agency has woken up unman spacecraft. the rosetta probe will be landing on a comet. ♪ >> reporter: for almost ten years rosetta has been traveling through space. it has been using the planets to catapult it to a speed of 1 hup kilometers an hour. now it's been in hibernation let's see if it is still i inta.

>> it's a veteran of space flight at and it takes its toll on robotic probes. they really hope that it will be functioning fully for its main mission which is to map and land on a comet. >> after circling it, it will bolt itself to the comet and then begin to analyze the surface. >> the jury is out at the high risk, it will get warmer over the next couple of years a continued develop a tail, it is riskily, or do you land on a safer place to hopefully hold on for the whole ride. >> they believe it was created

$745 billion when the solar system formed. they hope the spacecraft will take the first close up images of the surface and will be able to determine if it brought water or even life to earth. >> we have the latest news from europe. let's go to doha. >> as the globe trotting rich and powerful get ready to meet in switzerland, many say the global inequality has been driven by a power grab by the wealthy elite. half of the world's wealth is owned by 85 people. together, they're worth $1.7 trillion as much as the world's 3.5 billion poorest people combined. they have used political influence to skew policies in their favor on financial deregulation and tax breaks and it could balance social unrest.

joining me live is max lawson, probably getting his gloves ready for the snowy confines, max, your premise is that wealth inequality leads to social instability. where is the evidence of that? >> we think the evidence is certainly in history, and it's all around us. we saw protests in recent years whether it's the occupy movement all over the world. people getting really angry. we've done opinion po polling, s we ask a simple question. do you think the laws, the rules in your country are written on behalf of the majority or the rich minority. sometimes in some countries, 80% of ordinary people think that the rules of their country are written for the rich, and we think that is a recipe for unrest and it is completely

unsustainable. we can't see in a world of finite resources to have half of the world's people own less than half and the rest is owned by 85 people. in europe and in the united states when you see rapid increases in income inequality, and then when you see rapid increase in people's anger towards the legitimate political systems, and they're now saying clearly that they think the political system is not for them, they may tend to look to other ways of making their voices heard. i think there is a clear and logical link in history of what we're seeing a rapid extremes in wealth, and social unrest. >> so how do you--i mean, is your answer to how do you

persuade wealthy people to give more of their money away. up at the w.e.f. the head of microsoft is always there announcing he's giving away millions and millions. and warren buffet said he has given away millions. do you want wealthy people to be poorer, would that help? >> i think it would definitely help. billionaires, how anyone could need that much money, more money than they could spend in a thousand life sometimes, i don't understand personally why anyone would need that. but what is really interesting, you're not just seeing billion narrows like bill gates giving their money away, which is a great thing, but you have billionaires like warren buffet who recognized that he pays a lower tax rate than the secretary in his office. there are many who millionaires

for progress. very rich people who feel they havfeel it hasgotten extreme ant not contributing enough to society. they have to walk in the same street and live in the same world as everybody else, and we need to have more of a group approach to it. it's not certainly not the case that all these billio billionaie representative to the message, but the key thing that makes things change, and we've seen this recently in countries like brazil the power of people, people power. you've seen brazil, one of the most unequal countries on earth is one of the few countries that has gotten more equal in the last few years. it has proved you can have a very successful economy while making the gap between rich and poor get better. we think there are more news stories out there and we think that the situation is not inevitable but we are worried about it. >> max lawson, thanks for

joining us. >> thank you. >> fifa president is facing a challenge in world football, and jer will tell you all about that in sport. and the lattist fro the latest e next.

>> time for a look at sport. >> stephen, thank you so much. we could have a fight on for the top job in world football. fifa's former deputy secretary

jerome has become the first person to announce an intention to run in the next year's presidential election. she has previously served as organizer of france world cup in 1998. he wands to modernize the 110-year-old constitution. >> we're in a system where the government needs to be reformed to better reflect the world to incorporate the stake holders, to rebalance between the continents, but also what most of the people ignore is that the world community of football elect a president, and to put it this way, the football executive committee, so you understand how difficult it is for fifa under

these conditions. >> fifa will begin inspecting several stadium world cup this week. >> i'm here outside of the stadium that seats 50,000 people, and this stadium will host several matches in the group stage of the world cup. let's go inside and take a look of how it's going. one of the most striking parts of this stadium is actually the roof, and they have 66 of these panels, and they call leaves. they provide a natural air continuing to the stadium because the windows that blow off of the nearby lakes throws through here all of these panels are fire resistant as well as provide uv protection from the sun. certainly definitely one of the more interesting parts of the stadium without a doubt.

something that right when you get here it immediately catches your eye. it is owned and managed by one of two local club teams here. unlike other host cities where the government funded the building of the stadium, not here. this was a partnership between the club and the builders. the initial cost was $150 million, but in the end it will be $200 million. it was supposed to be delivered in late 2012 but they were delayed because of worker strikes and other issues. but as you can see it's almost done. the grass is completely laid. all of the chairs are in place. they say that this stomach is very close to hosting one of its first test matches. here's the pitch or the field, and this is put in more than a year ago. it was one of the first stadiums that had the pitch laid. this was grass imported from the united states. they're very proud of it because they say it is resistant to all sorts of different weather

conditions here, wind, rain, the heat, clearly this pitch is going to see a lot of football stars on it once the world cup rolls around. >> north carolina is concerned that it will send a men's and women's football team to compete in asian games in south carolina. the two nations are technically still at war because no peace treaty has been signed, but they will travel to compete in the tournament this september. the shots keep coming at the australian open. just a day after williams was knocked out in melbourne, sharapova has followed her. the champion struggled with her serve and made 45 unforced yours as she lost 3-6, 6-4, 6-1. but defending champion victori y

asrinka. and for the men's, it was a hard fought win. winning 7-6, 7-5, 7-6 as he looks to secure his 14th title. wimbledon champion andy murray and instead ofs roberts. frustration got to him at one point. but the scot battled through winning three let's to one. measurmurray will played in.

against federer. >> john fox preaching all week to finish the ballgame. that's exactly what the broncos did. peyton manning delivered the dagger on offense, and there was a key sack in the corner as the broncos punch their ticket for the super bowl xlviii. >> it's an exciting feeling. i remember both sometimes we won the afc championship. i'm an afc guy. i'm biased towards this conference and it's a hard conference to win. >> the broncos will be making their seventh appearance at the. super bowl.

in denver, colorado, al jazeera. >> seattle made it by beating the san francisco 49ers. the seahawks won 23 23-17. >> it's hope that it pops the cork and gets it done. >> stay with us here. because we've got another half hour of news coming straight to you from me in doha.

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