join us on sat no evil person just wakes up the over the morning in the city i want to color the world in darkness is a dialogue and that could be what's leading to some of the confusion online with about people saying they don't actually know what's going on join the colobus conversation at this time on al-jazeera. iran supremely to blames the country's enemies for anti-government protests which have now claimed twenty two lives. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up

israel's parliament passes a law making it harder to hand over parts of jerusalem under a future peace deal. south korea sees as can all of branch proposing talks next tuesday on the winter olympics. more than seven hundred hostages escape we talked to a former captive of the group. and indonesia tries to convince terrorism bali is safe despite the ongoing eruptions of the volcano. iran's supreme leader has blamed his country's enemies for the six days of unrest which has now claimed the lives of twenty one protest as and one policeman according to state media at least eight people died overnight in clashes between anti-government demonstrators and security forces riot police are also now out in force in several cities in the country hundreds have been arrested and one

prominent judge one song could face the death penalty well matheson has mall. gunshots in the city of persia and on monday night. demonstrators defy a government social media blackout posting these pictures from cities across iran of damaged cars frightened crowds and burning buildings. just hours earlier in the capital tehran there was little sign of the turmoil which is engulfed parts of the country but the issues which have sparked the protests such as iran stuttering economy after years of sanctions and the fear of unemployment are serious concerns for people here i got one damn thing john because i working but in this society i'm always stressed about the possibility of getting fired the next day always being worried about my job my family the security of my family the main problems people are grappling with are their security the economy and their

livelihood so more money advanced and there are some who are poor and cannot make ends meet what should they do life is really difficult we have ten. i have a daughter and son both at school the high prices really put me under pressure at home u.s. president donald trump has tweeted that iranians are hungry for food and freedom and that's led to protests outside the white house demanding the removal of president rouhani yes iran's supreme leader says the country's enemies are to blame for fueling the protests bushmen montazeri if the enemy is waiting for an opportunity for a crack through which it can infiltrate look at the recent events all those who are at odds with the islamic republic have used various means including money weapons politics and intelligence apparatus to create problems for the islamic system islam and republic and the islamic revolution. on monday night protestors also continue to demonstrate against iran's support for syrian president bashar al assad as well as in lebanon and hamas in the occupied palestinian territories iran's republican

guard is threatening to stop the demonstrations but there are still calls for more protests rob matheson al jazeera. eric randolph is the deputy bureau chief for the news agency france press he joins us via skype from toronto taking the time to speak to us what can you tell us about the situation there in teheran why you are and elsewhere in the country well for now it seems relatively calm but i have to say that it's very difficult for us to report remember that i mean there are very tight restrictions on what the media can do and sharon we know there's a heavy police presence around is actually not been the focus of much of the at rest unlike the last major demonstrations in two thousand and nine it's mostly been out in the provinces we had only just got to protest the last few nights but it does seem to slightly calmer as far as we can talk now. and in terms of the response of police we've had about a c.g.

militia and others who else on the streets how would you describe the response of government forces to what is happening sure so far they haven't unleashed the revolutionary guards and the best seats in full force they've been conscious of the fact i think that they don't want to confront to forcefully the protesters the various. night to even more violent protests that said there have been hundreds of arrests of four hundred fifty arrests in terror on alert in the last three days and threats that it continues that there will be a much tougher crackdown and you've written about the rationale and the underlying fact is that have driven these protests we know that economic grievances have been in place for a long time but one of the one of the other elements to this the other causes behind this unrest show i mean i think as much as people want to see this

revolution in terms and some of the slogans certainly have been revolutionary in terms of attacking the as i read regime in soho these have been driven by economic grievances bread and butter issues such as high unemployment soaring prices things that have been bubbling away in iranian society for a very long time and people are simply fed up with the ballot they tried reformists they tried moderates they tried hardliners and conservatives and none of them have been able to deliver on what really matters the people which is jobs and the future that year and so what can we then what can you tell us about the demographic makeup of the people out on the streets now particularly compared to two thousand and nine or seems to be everyone's main point of reference. sure this is definitely the biggest test since that those protests were much bigger are you talking hundreds of thousands of people on the streets back then there's are talking about we're

talking in the hundreds or thousands the big difference is that it's much more the stuff that's happening and certainly to both the different towns and cities across the country this time that makes it much harder for us to verify information and it and it much less interesting as i said and that suggests that there is a much bigger groundswell of discontent with how the government has managed things . and basically feeling that the promises that this government made the nuclear deal with world powers weird results in a much better economic situation from those promises just haven't been fulfilled earlies not quickly enough and that's something that's about much more in the provinces where people simply don't they're represented don't have to listen to what you hear in the streets of tehran as well people who simply may not agree with the violence that they've seen the protests that they bury much understand the underlying economic problems the driving this unrest well at randall thanks very

much for shedding some light on what's happening there for us appreciate it a.f.p. deputy chief there for us in teheran thank you so nasty minutes the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley has called for an emergency un session to discuss the situation in iran. dozens have already been killed hundreds have been arrested if the iranian dictatorships history is any guide we can expect more outrageous abuses in the days to come the un must speak out in the days ahead we will be calling for an emergency session both here in new york and at the human rights council in geneva we must not be silent the people of iran are crying out for freedom all freedom loving people must stand with their cause the international community made the mistake of failing to do that in two thousand and nine we must not make that mistake again. well mike hanna is live for us now at the u.n.

and so a very dramatic comments there from u.s. ambassador nikki haley how will the members of the united nations respond to this school well it's very much the question essential what the ambassador was doing was outlining the u.s. focus of interest throughout this year of twenty thousand and eighteen she went through a list of priorities that the u.s. is going to be looking at top of that list as we heard the was iran now she said she would be pressing for an emergency security council meeting in the days ahead also possibly a meeting of the human rights council in geneva but to that question that you are as does absolutely critical what kind of support are she going to get from other council members on the matter of iran at present certainly one could expect that russia and china may raise some objections to holding an emergency session on this particular subject at this particular time very much this is an item of the u.s.

ambassador's wish list it would seem no hard work and no hard yards have been put into actually making this meeting happen at this particular point this is something that she says in the days ahead she's going to work for she may find that work rather difficult thanks very much mike hanna at the united nations. the spokesman for palestinian president mahmoud abbas says a new israeli law which makes it harder to hand over parts of jerusalem is equivalent to a declaration of war israeli m.p.'s passed the bill which means two thirds of the knesset must now approve giving up territory under a future peace till a simple majority was required previously it comes a day off the party of prime minister benjamin netanyahu approved a draft resolution calling for large parts of the occupied west bank to be an excess. has more from kafr acts up in occupied east jerusalem. there are so many

questions being asked about the impact of this new law what we do know for sure is that number one this law would mean that a supermajority or eighty of one hundred twenty knesset members would be needed for approval of any future legislation when it comes to giving up territory in jerusalem that's instead of the sixty one or simple majority members of the knesset that are needed or that were needed before now that makes a big difference because in effect that essentially takes a ruthless off the negotiating table and any future peace talks now the second and perhaps more contentious issue this brings up is that this could potentially allow for the changing of jerusalem's municipal borders that means that neighborhoods like one behind me call for. as well as a refugee camp neighborhoods that are both behind the wall they would no longer potentially be part of the jerusalem municipality that raises a lot of questions about what would happen to the residents that are now considered residents of east jerusalem with those residents continue to be residents of

jerusalem when they continue to be residents of israel would they be able in the future to vote in jerusalem elections many questions at this hour we've spoken to lots of analysts lots of lawyers there scratching their heads about it as well essentially this raises many issues about over one hundred thousand palestinians that are in neighborhoods like this that don't really know going forward what their residency status or other status are going to be bringing a lot more uncertainty into an already very uncertain time. south korea has accepted the north's rare offer of talks proposing that the two sides meet next tuesday sells that they would mainly focus on north korea's participation in the upcoming winter olympics which are being held in the south and it's met reports. in the freezing environment of the winter olympics there might be a chance for a foreign relations between south and north korea hopes are being raised following the new year address by came north korea's leader suggested sending

a team to the winter games starting in south korea next month government leaders in seoul were quick to seize the opportunity. from the government proposes to hold high level talks with north korea on january ninth at the peace house in panmunjom true spillages to discuss north korea's participation in the pyongyang winter olympics. south korea's president favors talks with the north as a way of managing pyongyang's nuclear and missile threats. the improvement of relations between north and south korea cannot go separately with the resolving north korea's nuclear program so the foreign ministry should coordinate closely with allies and the international community regarding that. the chinese say they've noted what they call positive signals from both sides of the border. or truly though. china welcomes it supports north and south korea taking earnest efforts to treat this is an opportunity to improve mutual relations promote the alleviation of

the situation on the korean peninsula and realize denuclearization on the peninsula . you want. something while offering to send a team of athletes to the olympics came also said the nuclear button is always on the desk of my office a north korean nuclear bomb test last year as well as the firing of more than twenty missiles continue to defy the world u.s. president donald trump wants to toughen sanctions further as pyongyang continues to develop nuclear missiles it says it will be capable of hitting the continental united states. if negotiators do meet next week ahead of the winter olympics they'll be the first formal talks in two years bernard smith al-jazeera. filth california on program. begins the new year with twitter attacks on enemies and allies ally angering pakistan teasing it lines and deceit. and syrian government ramps up its assault on rebel held positions near damascus and dozens of

civilians. hello and welcome to international weather forecast now we've seen one eye to weather system working its way across france there's another one which is going to be steaming through during the course of choosing night into wednesday across the u.k. through into the north sea and then across northern parts of france into germany so some very severe weather made worse by the fact we've got spring high tides could well be some coastal inundation here and then we've got mild weather returning on thursday terms a fourteen in paris so that's going to have some implications up over the alps or snow as temperatures really start to rise further towards the east looking relatively quiet here five and rather greying hair in ukraine for the north we've got some snow there up into parts of scandinavia on the other side of the

mediterranean thing point interesting of course strong wind coming in from the northwest so for tunisia down through libya some strong winds extending through right down to the south and away across parts of chad nissho to a more eastern areas we've got unsettled weather conditions here some showers developing and temperatures of just eighteen in cairo central parts of africa cherami quite quiet showers from the bone southwards much of west africa dry and fine those are heading towards the far south of africa there's a storm development taking place towards madagascar could be some very heavy rain here. there were over forty charges as i recall that primarily it was material support the holy land foundation was the biggest muslim charity in the us they were considered to be a legitimate american charity because we weren't able to see the secret other than we were able to tell it in a two part series on al-jazeera world examines one of the most controversial court

cases of the so-called terror the holy land falling at this time i'll just sit. back let's update you on the stories making headlines now anti-government protests in iran are into the sixth day at least twenty two people have been killed since thursday the u.s. says it will call for an emergency un session on iran. palestinian president spokesman says and u.s. right you know which makes a heart attack on the policy of jerusalem is equivalent to a declaration of war and south korea has accepted the north's rare offer of talks

proposing they meet next tuesday to discuss north korea's participation in next month's went and then picks. well now the u.s. is to withhold aid funding from pakistan u.n. ambassador nikki haley has announced on the pressure from its neighbors as well as the u.s. pakistan now plans to take control of charities and financial assets linked to hoffa's saeed who many believe was behind the two thousand and eight long by attacks it's going to explains. there's a ten million dollar reward for any information leading to the conviction of hof is sight yet here he is at a rally last week protesting u.s. president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel. the united states believes saeed is the mastermind of the two thousand and eight attacks in mumbai over the course of four days attackers used automatic weapons and grenades to kill more than one hundred sixty people say he has denied involvement

in the attacks and a court in pakistan found there was insufficient evidence to convict him and twenty seventeen he was put under house arrest for violating anti-terrorism laws when he made his release prompted outrage from pakistanis and the u.s. government which is long been critical of pakistan when it comes to clamping down on terrorism the pakistani government has targeted saeed's assets and charities they include three hundred schools hospitals ambulance services and a publishing house the government is blocking fund raising and there are plans to assume control of them the un security council has also banned two of sedes organizations pakistan is under pressure and their fire this new decision. has come after the british oh by the americans by you and by india. this is a challenging time in pakistan u.s. relations we must see decisive action against terrorist groups parading on their

territory and we make massive payments every year to pakistan they have to help pakistan says moving in on saeed's groups isn't bowing to u.s. pressure it's intended to fulfil its international obligations reuters reports that pakistan was worried it would face un sanctions for failing to crack down on terrorist groups later this month a un security council team will visit to check on its progress natasha going to aim . in while in pakistan supporters of site have been protesting against the move kemal haida has more from islamabad the pakistani government has moved to ban however sade's chatted the outfit which has been working across buggiest on a national disasters and has earned respect among the people in the country however

the move will be seen by dame as an attempt to stifle the day work in this country there are already raging protests in progress on starting in the city of karachi and are now threatening to block the grand trunk road a major whitetail highway where then progress on the progress on the foreign minister on the other hand also lashing out at the united states by saying that buggiest envoy is being blamed for the united states failure then of honest on and by the americans blaming pakistan so indeed major developments right in the region but also a strong reaction expected from hafiz saeed outspread who said that this move are stored leon justify moving to syria where a spike in violence has killed thousands of civilians it's part of a government assault on rebel held positions me at damascus four hundred thousand people have been living on the siege in eastern cusa for the past four years in desperate need of food and medicine and hunger reports.

markets are being hit civilians the victims civil defense volunteers who rushed to help those who are still alive in recent days at least. killed in what opposition activists indiscriminate. airstrikes believed to be carried out by syrian government warplanes have intensified in the rebel controlled area of eastern. and it is residential neighborhoods that are coming under fire the government says it has launched what it calls a counter offensive because rebels are firing shells into territories under its control but rebels say the government is trying to help troops trapped in a military installation in the suburb of her.

troops a truck to. understand that there are negotiations to secure their release. the recent attacks may be linked to the fighting but it has been weeks since the government stepped up its military campaign in. a deescalation zone the syrian observatory for human rights said almost two hundred civilians were killed in strikes and shelling including many women and children. civilians are not just getting killed in attacks children are dying from malnutrition patients are dying from the. syrian government forces the united nations is warning that the situation has reached a critical point food supply and the international committee of the red cross has also expressed alarm what it calls a humanitarian crisis. eastern is densely populated some four hundred thousand people live there it's on the doorstep of damascus the seat

of the government's power pro-government forces want to recapture this region but so far its forces haven't been able to make any advances on the ground so its strategy is to punish civilians for supporting the rebels in the hope that they all surrender so to. beirut. i jerry's military says more than seven hundred people held hostage by the armed group boko haram of managed to escape they were found near mangano close to the northeastern border with chad the military says many of the captives were farmers and fishermen who were being kept as forced laborers or those who escaped were among thousands of people believed to have been kidnapped by a book in northeastern nigeria catherine so i went to my golly wishing that former captors of the group and families of girls still held hostage. this mother's in my dog a desperate for news of their teenage daughters who were kidnapped by boko haram almost three years ago their tag of also killed men in the village in northeast nigeria. was seventeen years old

a woman. only god knows where she is i've been praying to him to bring her back will keep saying maybe you can help us find to several other girls from this area have returned home after fleeing the boko haram a cop his which gives this mother's hope thousands of people mostly women and children have been abducted by boko haram to escape say they were forced to become wives signed up how was life with book or her own. we suffered a lot my husband beat me but i made good friendships with other women who had also been abducted. and how did you manage to escape. one day my husband left in a hurry he didn't tell me where he was going then i heard nigerian soldiers were coming so i just started walking. in twenty fourteen more than two hundred girls

were kidnapped from the secondary school in chibok some escaped. after negotiations between the government and. one in a hundred girls remain prison as. the catholic church is taking girls who risk being kidnapped if they return home anybody that has any clues contact with stayed with them for a month or two months or more when they come back to the community this suspicion is still there these people. to be incorporated in the community or they are spies men and boys are also in danger many have been taken and forced to fight for. when they escape they have to face tough military screening to make sure they're not active members of the group the screening process needs to be more transparent people need to know what happened once you surrender yourself to the military and if you are in a sense like most of the people are then what's going to happen to you what are

what is the process you're going to go through because once they know that's they're going to be able to come back more back in my galley zainab says she was seven months pregnant when she returned now she just wants to take care of her child and prays often for the imprisoned women she forged relationships with back in the forest catherine al-jazeera but the galley northeast nigeria indonesia's government is trying to deter respect of bali visitor numbers have dropped more than seventy percent since september because of the ongoing eruptions of the volcano costing the island a billion dollars in revenue step vasa reports from bali. inside the danger zone tourists are visiting bally's most famous temple. just seven kilometers from the crater of the erupting volcano and was off limits for the past three months the decision to reopen a tourist attraction shows the government's eagerness to lure visitors the whole

gay know is still at its highest alert level or agree with this decision there are many other places where tourists can go in delhi we can't predict nature it's a better to put safety first around five million tourists visit bali every year but after the eruptions and airport closure last month several countries including china issued travel warnings hotels far away from the volcano and an owners were forced to temporarily suspend staff. to reassure tourist president joke of a daughter took southeast at one of bali's famous beaches tourism has recovered slightly during the holiday season but many balinese are suffering. has worked as a guide to taking around one thousand tigers every year since september his business has stopped promising and i want to talk and i am confused what to do now i want to work but i have no other work experience than being

a guy i hope someone can give us a job because all sixty two guides of a girl are now jobless and we've no money to go back to farming them. vocal knowledge is saying nobody can predict how long gone will rot or if the eruptions will become bigger than last time it erupted in one thousand nine hundred sixty three it killed more than fifteen hundred people all living near the volcano well a volcano continues to erupt the government has gone out of its way to convince tourists that bali is safe outside of the danger zone ten kilometers from the crater the huge losses in tourist revenues has taken the authorities by surprise and some say this is a wake up call for the holiday island not to fully rely on to. as i'm. do we john has learned how fragile his business is over these past month his small resort in a safe area near the volcano has been mostly empty and he hasn't been able to pay his staff on the eclat for what i have learned from the situation is that we have

no choice then to accept what happens to us and start to look for alternatives if my resort business fails then maybe i can start selling food. but not all is lost because some tourists the erupting volcano has become an attraction in itself perhaps with the right safety measures in place bali could used to spec to call of nature to its advantage step fossum al-jazeera superman. has much more to be read about on our website al-jazeera dot com. just a quick look at the top stories for you now at least eight iranians have been killed overnight in anti-government protests according to state media with twenty two people having died since the demonstrations began on thursday more than five hundred people have been arrested the country's supreme leader blames what he calls

iran's enemies for the trouble the u.s. says it will call for an emergency u.n. security council meeting to discuss iran. we must not be silent the people of iran are crying out for freedom all freedom loving people must stand with their cause the international community made the mistake of failing to do that in two thousand and nine we must not make that mistake again a spokesman for palestinian president mahmoud abbas says a new israeli law which makes it hard to hand over parts of jerusalem is equivalent to a declaration of war israeli m.p.'s passed the bill which means two thirds of the knesset must now approve giving up territory under a few chippie still a simple majority was required previously it comes a day after the party of prime minister benjamin netanyahu approved a draft resolution that calls for large parts of the occupied west bank to be annexed south korea is accepted the north's rare offer of talks proposing the two

sides meet next tuesday sold said the meeting would mainly focus on north korea's participation in the upcoming winter olympics which are being held in south korea. dozens of civilians have been killed in recent days as part of a government assault on rebel held positions near damascus the government says it has launched a counter offensive because rebels of firing shells into territories under its control four hundred thousand people have been living under siege in eastern guta for the past four years and the u.s. is to withhold two hundred fifty five million dollars of aid funding from pakistan un ambassador nikki haley's announced earlier president trump accused pakistan of offering a safe haven to terrorists under pressure from the u.s. and its neighbors pakistan now plans to take control of charities and financial assets linked to hafiz saeed who many believe was behind the two thousand and eight mumbai attacks you're up to speed with all of our top stories the stream is coming

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