>> area' watching al jazeera live from london. in the next 30 minutes we'll be meeting the armed vigilantes in burundi. there has been progress in paris draft document that could lead to binding agreement on carbon emissions. venezuela gets ready to float as opposition chances of winning a first majority in 16 years.

well, the iraqi president is saying the presence of any foreign troops in his country contra-convenience international law. referring specifically to turkey soldiers near the city of mosul. the city held by fighters from the vaccinate. the president said that the turkish forces violate iraq's sovereignty. the iraqi prime minister said that his forces are able to push isil fighters out on their own. the increasing scrutiny about the way in which it does so. the recent report highlights increasing human rights abuses in parts of iraq which have been reclaimed from isil. more from irbill.

>> they've had recent success in recapturing territory from sinjar. now they're hopeful they can defeat armed groups with help from their ally it is the american must intervene with or without permissio per. >> we will consider any such troops to be an act of aggression.

one of those groups accused of abuse as it is popular mobilization forces. a mainly shia militia. but president obama said he won't authorize airstrikes to support them. it all goes back to the 2003 u.n 2003 u.s. invasion of iraq. that's when paul bremer was sent by president bush to oversee iraq's transition nat government. bremer made a series of decisions including disbanding the iraqi army that many say have contributed to the rise of isil in iraq. >> i did not disband or destroy the iraqi army. there was not a cybil member of the iraqi army stand at arms on april 17th as the general has testified himself.

the question wasn't wasn't to disband. that was a mistake. we should never have used that verbal. the question was should we recall the army. >> the only real debate is whether ground troops are needed whether they be western, arab, turkish or iranian in the fight against isil. and that debate is still raging. imran khan. >> meanwhile the air assault in syria is intensifying in the last two days, 70 people being killed in assad regime and russian airstrikes. the u.s.-led coalition campaign continuing. there are numerous the british

government which gives the go ahead for syria as part of the >> all of them have been battling the syrian army. i >> battling isil for control of their territory in the north. the russian air force has becomed all facilities controlled by isil all revenue is vital to isil's finances. but the institute of the study of war an u.s.-based think tank

said that the russian air campaign has mainly hit syrian opposition groups. assad's army is supported on the ground by fighters from the lebanese group hezbollah and other shia militias from iraq, iran, and afghanistan. high ranking iranian officers leading the iraqi and afghan militias in syria. 76 soldiers have been killed in in syria. >> we'll going back to ministry of foreign affairs saying that turkish forces have entered the iraqi territory without knowledge of the central government, and that is, quote,

a hostile act. well, the stand off between russia and turkey continues after the shooting down of the russian jet which the turkish government said it was in its air space. turkish authorities have stopped russian vessels, they say they're prevented from leaving the port. officials there reportedly would not allow turkish ship to approach the port. here is bernard smith from istanbul. >> we understand from turkish officials that there are four russian cargoes there. they say they're exercising their right to do this. normally they don't go to such length of searching vessels and prevented them from leaving the sport. the suggestion is that this is some tit-for-tat action in response to only russia inspecting and delaying turkish

vessel but also because of the economic sanctions that russia is going to impose on turkey. they're not supposed to kick in until january first. but already we're hearing reports of cargoes and trucks containing fruits and vegetables being sent back, being turned back from russia border post. they'll have to come back here to turkey. >> triple suicide-bombings have killed 27 people on an island in lake chad. the attacks were on a busy market day and left another 80 people hurt. the bombers were all women, and they suspect the armed group boko haram to have been hyped the attack. chad's government said that the islands are a gathering point for the armed group as they fight the coalition from nigeria, cameroon and chad. three gunmen dressed in police uniforms have been killed in burundi's capital. this is just the latest incident

in the country hit by violence over the president's decision to stay for a third term in office. the fighting insurgents. catherine soi spoke to some of the eye lend men who say they're just protecting their neighborhoods. here is our exclusive report. >> when the sun sets work begins in a suburb of burundi's capital. pierre and a few others are on watch. they say they're protecting their homes from the random and regular killings in the city. if the attackers, we'll defend ourselves. we met two other young men. they dress like police and dig out a grenade. he tells us that he'll use this

today. they wouldn't say whether they're an organized unit, have a leader or where they get their weapons from. >> the police have been coming to our neighborhood to arrest and kill us. but at night we go where they are and fight them. >> what started out as peaceful protests i protest. >> this cannot negotiate with government when we're committing homicide like this one. >> the united nations, africa union, and human rights groups are concerned about the

killings, which they all say they have ethnic dimension to them. it's a disturbing trend for those who follow burundi affairs closely. they're also killings following the 2010 presidential election but more people now seem to have weapons. >> if they decide to combine forces, the vigilante groups and the armed more more organized group, we have a much more sophisticated, and i would be able to gather much more resources to challenge the state. >> the armed men told us they won't give up until the president steps down. government forces insist that they'll hunt down each one of them. many innocent people are caught in the middle. catherine soi, al jazeera. >> spokesman for the african union, he joins me now from johannesburg to talk about the situation in burundi.

the african union has said it is vital that peace talks are held immediately. how likely is that to happen? >> it's most likely. it definitely has to happen. there must be dialogue among the d about burundiens themselves. with the african communities, and the chief immediate mediat mediator. so there is a likelihood that there is going to be a dialogue because that's what is needed. violence and the killings and human rights violations that we're experiencing in burundi

must really come to an end because a lot has been given to burundi. >> you could send in immediately the east african stand by force. it is on stand by officially at the moment. it would be the first time that it had been used, but you have it ready and waiting. why not send it in now to stop the violence before these talks? >> yes, you're right. the east africans stand by, the african stand by force is ready. together with the united nations, the african union is already planning a contingency just to shoot the dialogue back. and the low intensity killings that is currently ongoing

continues. it's important as chairperson of the africa union commissions, it is necessary to have dialogue as the solution. if we're going to dialogue sometime later on, why not dialogue now and save the lives. >> i can see the argument from people in burundi right now. it's simply every day you wait more and more people are going to die. send in the forces and then have dialogues. so why wait? actually the situation is ongoing. the chairperson has been speaking to various leaders

within the region, and we are hoping for more cooperation. >> thank you for talking with us. coming up, hundreds of people died in southern india including 14 hospital patients after waters cut the power to their life support machine. we'll have that report. stay with us if you can.

>> more news from al jazeera. these are the global headlines. the iraqi government insist it's own forces can handle the threat of isil alone and called for the troop presence in violation of law. stopping ships as relations between countries remain tense. and police killed in an attack on a military commander citizens in burundi tell al jazeera they're being forced to take control of the streets as vigilantes. rains in india's state of tamil

seem to be easing. 280 people are known to have died in the flooding. among them 14 patients who lost their lives in the intensive care unit died after floods destroyed the generators running the life support machines. >> power failures across the city, the government said that private facilities like hospitals should have been ready for a crisis of this magnitude. the critics argue that despite the private facility having to have these facilities ready in terms of back-up generation or backups of backups in times of crisis or potential flood in low

lying areas it's the government's responsibility to have oversight of what is and isn't happening in these particular areas, and how ready the state is more generally when it comes to dealing with such a disaster. now, preparing when it comes to the essentials in times of crisis, and this debate will continue to some time yet despite relief and recovering happening in the southern state. >> approving a text of what they call a dossier which they hope will curb global carbon emissi emissions. delegates will try to arrive at

a settlement next week. renewable energy is becoming more popularity, with that more land is taken for wind farms. in france, they have 800 wind farms there that have resulted with hundreds of legal disputes. >> remote and ruler, little to disturb the peace and tranquility unless you live near one of these. and here's the problem. two villages in central france separated by a ridge and eight wind turbines. the village has turbines on its territory but they're a long way

from the town. the village of lovoin has no turbines on its land but has full view of the spinning blades. this man lives under the ridge. he said on windy days the noise is unbearable. the turbines have split the community. >> the first thing is the noise. they have destroyed th his home's value. >> back in san clémente where they benefit from the turbines they are out of sight and out of mind. >> personally they don't bother me. we need something to give us energy, and for me this is clean energy. >> small scale wind farms are the norm in france, but there

are actions aimed to block them or to have them dismantled. the win >> 2030 france has committed to 40% renewable energy. >> the mayor of lavoin said the only pay back for his village is a ruined countryside. >> what we need most is they're only producing electricity 9% of the time. the impact on the landscape is terrible. you can see them 50 kilometers away. all that not made electricity. >> this is likely to be just the beginning. there are proposals for another set of wind turbines just a few kilometers away. this kind of dispute will only become more and more commonplace as local authorities and their communities try to find that difficult balance between the need of keeping the integrity of

the landscape and the local environment intact and the growing requirement for renewable energy. wind power provides 3.5% of french electricity right now but there are plans to prime minister wind energy by twenty20. it seems this will become a more familiar side across france something that communities will have to reconcile. nick clark, al jazeera, france. >> thousands of people have been protesting in the south korean capital about their president's conservative government. >> termed to be heard for the second time in less than a month, thousands of south koreans march through seoul to show their anger at the government. and it's not just about history books that have been written by states or unpopular labor reforms. >> the government has ignored public opinion, and it is reflected in policies.

each and every one of us have frustrations in our minds. i came out to express that. >> there is a growing mistrust of president park, a conservative second generation politician who was elected three years ago by a small majority on the promise of being more progressive. park's father was president for 20 years after a military coup in 1961, and he's credited with driving the country's economic growth. when his daughter promised vitalization many say they believed her. some are worried that president park has other traits in common with her father. he put these governmen anti-government posters up in his shop window. the police came around and said he was spreading lies. >> it is very serious. the freedom of expression and the values in the constitution are seriously being undermined. even more serious if they do

this to ordinary people. >> but these so-called ordinary people will not be deterred. >> people hearsay that things have not been going well for a long now. a widening work and erosion of the middle class. analysts say such demonstrations would have happened regardless of who was in power. >> it isn't just the streets that they're going to to be heard. with more south koreans feeling worse off now than they did before. they hope change comes between their silent prayers and their angry chants. al jazeera, seoul.

>> venezuela's socialist government is seeing its toughest protests yet. there is concern about the integrity the about the way the voting system works. here is our latin american editor lucia newman. >> at a community center in caracas, working mothers scramble to get free baseball caps, propaganda distributed by the ruling socialist party. just ahead of the arrival of one of its pop congressional candidates. we're assured that the venezuelan voting system is pamper proof. >> the system has been 100% audited and will reflect the true will of the people after they go to the polls on sunday. >> indeed, this time around even the opposition coalition said that it is satisfied venezuela's

electronic voting system gives sufficient guarantees. but is that enough? >> it's not the process that is raising red flags, but everything leading up to it, and it ask at the top of the list, the use and abuse of state resources to tip the playing field in favor of the ruling party candidates. right here for example, the socialist candidate is distributing a government subsidy benefit to young mothers who are being reminded it is their duty to defend the revolution with their vote. the government overwhelmingly controls venezuela's television networks bombarding the airways against the opposition. ngos monitoring the campaign are also concerned that the voters could be pressured at the polls. >> i'm not sure that people will have the freedom to cast their vote properly. when they go up to the machine there won't be someone watching how they vote, they won't be afraid of losing their jobs if

they don't vote the way they're supposed to. >> the president of the council is widely considered a government loyalist, and for the first time no international observer groups have been accredited except for one. >> we're appealing for a peaceful non-violent that all players commit to recognizing an the respect of the results. >> with so much at stake the stability of the deeply divided nation will almost certainly defend on it. lucia newman, caracas. >> christmas preparations are taking place in the occupied west bank against the back drop of renewed violence between israelis and palestinians. bethlehem the biblical birthplacer jesus christ.

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