to be set up in the south of the country the iraqi prime minister will go on to visit iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei on sunday where they will discuss further the redevelopments in the region and of course how to strengthen the ties between iran and iraq still ahead on al jazeera anger in mali where protesters blame politicians for ethnic violence that killed nearly one hundred sixty people last month plus we'll tell you why an increasing number of palestinian israelis say they will boycott the elections on tuesday. hello again welcome back we're here cross parts of asia in particular we're talking about japan things are going to be quite nice as we and the weekend we do have a system that has made its way out here into the pacific that means a cold for it has pushed through now not far enough that the temperatures have

started to get a little bit chillier but for tokyo here on sunday we do expect to see a high about twenty two degrees it will change though by the time we go towards monday the cold air will start to settle in terms of will drop about six to seven degrees across much of that area so from twenty two down to about fifteen degrees there for sendai it is going to be a partly cloudy day about eleven degrees here across china though it is going to look quite nice over the next few days we did have some clouds they have begun to dissipate across much of the area we do have a few spotty showers just to the north of hong kong twenty nine degrees is going to be a high there on sunday a little bit warmer towards food show as well as shanghai where we do expect to see thirty's as your forecast of high for sure hard those temperatures will be coming down to about twenty four degrees there and then very quickly across parts of the philippines we're going to be seeing more rain across much of the south down towards davo we're going to be seeing attempt a few of about thirty three degrees manila thirty five and over here towards holtzman it is going to be a partly cloudy day with showers passing through with a temperature of about thirty three degrees in your forecast.

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zero again you're watching al jazeera live from top stories this hour of ahead of the united nations has told maybe in war no twenty four have taught to stop his advance on tripoli forces loyal to have to say they've reached the outskirts of the libyan capital to the south in a push against the internationally recognized government in algeria hundreds of thousands of people have rallied in the capital for the first time since the resignation of president. they want his eyes to go as well and iraq's prime minister is in iran for his first official visit relations between the two countries continued to strengthen this fight efforts by washington to curb iran's influence in the region. well reports say the u.s. is preparing to declare iran's revolutionary guards a terrorist organization iran in turn may put the u.s. military on its terrorists as well from washington. it would be unprecedented this would be the u.s. basically saying i'm part of

a another country's military is part of a terrorist organization so what does that mean that allows the u.s. to designate them and that restricts their travel it makes it a crime to provide material support to the revolutionary guard and it would a potentially freeze any assets that they have the united states although it seems highly unlikely that iran's revolutionary guard has any assets inside the united states so there's concern here according to the wall street journal there's mike pompei o secretary of state john bolton a national security advisers long time hawks on iran that they're pushing the president to do this the other side you have the cia and the u.s. military warning that it's unlikely that this will do the amount of damage to the iranian economy that they would like to see at the same time saying that this could put u.s. troops at risk in so much so that central command might issue a warning to u.s. troops to be on the lookout for any potential reaction so these are two sides that are squaring off trying to move the debate to the public sphere whether or not they

do this we don't know and it is potentially going to have a lot of blowback the other countries for example those who are in the nuclear agreement they're already trying to come up with a workaround for the u.s. pulling out of the nuclear deal this could provide even more incentive for people and those companies to try and find a way to work around the u.s. financial system let's speak some more about the. political analysts in tehran joins us via skype from the iranian capital thank you so much for being with us the united states has already blacklisted dozens of entities and people who are affiliated with the i r g c but the organisation as a whole is not what would be first of all the implications the consequences of such a move for the revolutionary guards and for iran as a whole. well and thanks for having me well you know when do you wish there's a makes a group or an entity as a terrorist group directly or as a sponsor of terrorist group there are economic repercussions they as you mentioned

in your report it would include you know travel bans as well as asset freeze and so on and so forth but when they there's likely that group or entity as terrorists then there are also security and military implications you know the audio to see has already been on their presidential decree one three two two four that that names it as a sponsor of terrorism so much of the economic impacts have already been you know imposed on iran in the much sanctions have been imposed on the i.r.g.c. actually and a what remains to be seen is actually the military and security rick a cautious. rick tabish of the region in the world not just iran and the u.s. because they are grave and they could end up in war you know as a businessman. donald trump apparently is considering economic repercussions and sanctions as well as leaving psychological impacts on tehran and

i.r.g.c. to change the calculations here but what he doesn't know much about is apparently of the security and military results of repercussions of such a decision. this move could be a game changer but not in the way the zire by donald trump in a way that even you know wreak havoc on the region right because last summer they let me just go up on that let me just pick up on that you say this move would be a game changer for the region and iran is warning of a crushing response presumably they would also label the u.s. army as a terrorist organization what consequences then for the region as a whole for the situation in places like syria or even afghanistan you know if the u.s. as well is labeled as a terrorist organization the u.s. army what consequences. you know last summer dumbell charming tended to do to make the similar decision right then i or just the chief commander major general

geoffrey warrant that they would do secret that move and target the u.s. army soldiers in a radius of two thousand kilometers as far as the borders of occupied golan heights that means the battlefield will be you know extended to somewhere. around two thousand kilometers now considering that both have boots on the ground in the middle east in syria iraq and elsewhere especially in the persian gulf then the smallest mistakes or misfire or engagement in an unnecessary conflict would end up in war and considering that the middle east is a very sensitive region where thirty percent at least of oil supplies and energy supplies goes through this region then a war would have a conscious war not just the one in the u.s. but for the whole region and the world that would end up in rising energy prices

you know security of energy would be at stake so the decision as this you know donald trump apparently wants to change the calculations into iran by threats and intimidation but apparently he has not been presented with options in washington since he has. apparently some you know decision some option that also raises the stakes not just for iran but also for to us sport the region and for the whole work so if there are still left you know there are some wise minds left the washington apparently they need to harness is this issues and they need to present them with better options also the european actors the european union and states if they really mean to be global act there is the only need to take action in order to stop animosity that would you know set fire to the whole

war thank you very much when they do that thank you very much moustapha question for speaking to us. israel heads to the polls on tuesday to elect a new government almost a fifth of the voters a palestinian israelis say they are actively discriminated against recent polls suggest that an increasing number of them intend to boycott the election seventy deca reports from northern israel. these ladies are getting ready to welcome a guest political campaigning is intimate here. hopefully these elections will bring something that will help all the arab towns someone who stands with us and helps us so we don't keep feeling like we live in a country without having a place in hopefully things will get better. as a candidate for the ballad party part of two palestinian israeli coalitions running in these elections she's trying to convince these ladies to vote for her. getting into parliament in this race is true white wing and extremist religious atmosphere

is not an easy reality for us there is a direct policy by this government to target the palestinian community. through a lack of investment in education in various aspects of life in addition to land confiscations and house demolitions but recent polls suggest palestinian israeli voter turnout could be lower than the last elections adam a nutter says he intends to boycott this vote. also. boxes when there are open the box like an instrument and we are not. we have a history where after this we have life we have we have a homeland and we have roots the palestinian israeli parties are predicted to get around eleven seats according to the latest polls out of one hundred twenty and regardless whether it's benjamin netanyahu or his main challenger benny gantz forms a new government through a coalition the palestinian israeli parties say they will join them palestinian israelis make up almost

a fifth of israel's population and they hold full israeli citizenship but have only spoken to say they face racial discrimination such as the controversial nation state bill that was passed last year which says that israel is the nation state of the jewish people and self-determination is also unique to the jewish people. are using this law and they will use it more and more in the future to make equality impossible. is a human rights activist he says this is the most right wing government in decades and little will probably change but he doesn't agree with those intending to boycott all of think that it spoils ability to welcome the election and then to say oh yeah we had the chance to you know to send his government home. we boycotted the polls suggest that benjamin netanyahu is best placed to form the next government and it could be even more right wing than before stephanie decker al-jazeera northern israel. thousands of protesters in mali have condemned the

government saying it's not doing enough to stop ethnic violence the demonstration one of the biggest in recent years follows the killing of almost one hundred sixty villages from the finale group priyanka go to has a details. i am girl with the killing of villages now directed at president abraham . protesters gathered in the thousands of the capital bamako in one of mali's biggest demonstrations in years protests to say the government and u.n. forces are not doing enough to stop the bloodshed the point to increase. in mali is going through a multidimensional crisis we have witnessed killings that mali has never known in its history in its entire history last month at least one hundred fifty seven people were killed in the more the region members of the dog and ethnic community have been accused of carrying out the attack on full lani herders in the village of . the two groups are often in conflict or access to land the killings are

believed to be the deadliest incident of ethnic violence in mali in a generation opposition parties and some religious leaders say the president has failed to act there is in the book of the new today president kate his regime is condemned his prime minister is not capable of resolving the country's problems you must accept the people's will which is democratic change transparency in the country's management not using millions against each other. seventy three zero preston kita has said he delivered justice and is replaced to office top generals saying millions need to feel secure despite a peace deal in twenty fifteen his government a struggling to control civil active armed groups linked to al qaeda and i saw violence is fast spreading into neighboring countries far so charred and ejector and the u.n. says wouldn't tree million people in mali are now in desperate need of food and

humanitarian aid. to syria to mozambique now where more than one and a half million people are now reliant on food aid after their homes were devastated last month by cyclonic die al-jazeera samad a miller has the latest from jenin macondo near the port city of bear we're inching of underwear at least seven hundred families have gathered to collect food from the world food program they're distributing beans rice and whale and so far that everywhere has distributed food to about half a million people now that flood waters have receded and areas like this are excess of all they're able to reach more people now timidly one to hand out to at least one point seven million people who are in areas that were devastated by cycle only it dies so far they've used as well as boats to get that food arrived at another areas are exists of all people here have lost their homes lost farms and revolts

there's food distribution really would have nothing to survive on this is about helping them survive the off the effects of the cycle and the double to faeces it could take several months for recovery and for people here to be back on their feet . a generation ago thousands of royal stags rowland the kashmir valley but now they're close to extension fewer than two hundred are left in the wild after decades of conflict poaching and poor management bennett smith reports it's never been harder to spot one of these animals in the kashmir valley government census takers accounting how many royal stock also known as hangal left here there were just two hundred seventeen after the last tally three years ago or the years while population has declined one of the reasons one of the main reason has been the grazing pressure nor mads from the different parts so different parts

of the very big government occupy the mean agrees in lansford out of hand we used to be. very what hangal used to go to work for the fans has also played a role in the decline in the population of the hong was. the stock graze on land used by the military in india not ministered kashmir barbed wire and decades of patrolling soldiers have disrupted the stags breeding pattern. the nomads say they too have been affected by conflict and have been forced to give up grazing land it's. needed or not for the tamo started here in nairobi ninety's the indian security agencies closed our traditional route and pastures so they're not holders have to look for are denied moves. the census team take samples of stock droppings these will be tested for viruses and parasites and help estimate how many struggle left. seventy years ago three to four thousand stag roamed here.

probably the degree addition is taking place here but i would have fragmentation is taking place but human population who would have additional has moved very much closer to the white areas and that definitely is one of the factors the handle is the only surviving relative of the european red deer on the indian subcontinent the government has provided funding for a breeding center that should be operational by the end of the year but it will take intensive efforts to bring the royal stag off the list of critically endangered species bernard smith al-jazeera. well again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera the head of the united nations has told libyan warlord highly for have talked to stop his advance on tripoli forces loyal to have to say they've reached the southern outskirts of the libyan capital in a push against the internationally recognized government in algeria hundreds of

thousands of people have rallied in the capital for the first time since the resignation of president abdelaziz bouteflika they want his eyes to go as well iraq's prime minister is in iran for his first official visit abdul mahdi strip comes just a month after a visit by the iranian president hassan rouhani to baghdad the two leaders are expected to sign political economic and military agreements relations between the two countries continue to strengthen despite efforts by washington to curb iran's influence in the region brigley have it in a hot we wish to see our well developed relations bilateral relations to be an example to follow and also to be a precursor to similar ones with all the regional countries iraq not only aspires to maintain such healthy relations with iran but we are willing to develop widen and deepen our bilateral relations similarly with kuwait saudi arabia egypt could tar and the united arab emirates we wish the region to enjoys. stability and peace

and to put an end to wars thousands of protesters in mali have condemned the government saying it's not doing enough to stop ethnic violence they march in the capital bamako demanding the resignation of president brain but car kaita a demonstration follows the killing of one hundred sixty four villages members of the rival doggoned community are suspected of carrying out last month's attack. it is the president. is not culpable for solving the country's problems we must accept the people's will which is democratic change and not to use my lens against each other they are really not cut people off solving security problems and a code in morocco has upheld a ruling against leaders of a series of demonstrations that began in two thousand and sixteen forty two activists from the al here rock protest movement was sentenced to up to twenty years in prison than race was fought by the death of a fisherman but turned into protests against government neglects. you're upset with

headlines on al-jazeera the news will continue here right after inside story to stay with us. there are fears of a full blown bastille in tripoli. forces march towards the libyan capital the war has promised an end to the country's turmoil but can he deliver or is libya on the brink of another round of civil war this is inside story.

however and i'm welcome to inside story i'm come all santamaria we are talking libya today a country which hasn't had a stable government since he was forced from power back in two thousand and eleven in fact it's got two governments in different parts of the country and right now the powerful warlord behind one of them seems to be making a play for complete control has sent his forces west on what he calls a victorious march to the capital tripoli in response the internationally recognized government van has deployed its troops raising fears of a major showdown the united nations is called for calm in fact secretary general antonio terrorists has gone to libya himself but after eight years of instability and so many other countries playing influential roles libya's future looks as uncertain as ever so here's how it all plays out on the map in the west in the capital tripoli there is a united nations backed government led by prime minister. in the east the

government of to brooke is backed by the u.a.e. egypt fronts and russia it is the sense. of power four hundred one hafta and it's from there he began launching campaigns to take important oil fields and the key port cities of benghazi and ruslan move now after is ordered this large number of his troops to move further west to take control of tripoli but the un backed government quickly called its fighters to reinforce the capital and to fight to protect it but the focus really is on one man right now he was an army general on the mormon gadhafi but defected to the u.s. in the late one nine hundred eighty s. he returned to libya in two thousand and eleven and began gathering support among tribes and businessmen by twenty four tane he'd allied himself with that government into brooke he launched something called operation dignity saying he would fight what he called terrorist militias that included as we said advancing on the strategic oil fields and port cities and quickly taking control of large parts of

the country have to has presented himself as the only solution for libya's instability telling his fighters to use force only if necessary. so we've got our panel to talk about this today let me introduce them in tripoli first of all salah. was a political analyst and a senior advisor to the negotiating team of the high council of state this is an advisory body which came out of the peace talks and twenty fifteen and better to have gotten out of them out there who is director of the tripoli based subject institute and then benghazi a month sort of a professor of politics from the university of texas at san antonio it's lovely to see all three of you gentlemen thank you for joining us i like to start our discussions with one question for the three of you just to get your views on this one initial question so i'm going to start with in tripoli and the question is simple can khalifa haftar be successful in taking tripoli are his forces strong

enough do they have the momentum right now do you think. absolutely not he never did and he never well and it's already a puritan aground his forces are retreat west of tripoli his forces. in the mountain have been surrounded at least a few kilometers away from where un where he first entered there's a great momentum great excitement among the troops that are working for the. government of national accord a bun till last night three o'clock early this morning they took over the. so-called kilometer twenty seven bridge and route that have to forces and took many prisoners so i think the tide is turning and i expect that khalid to have to

has to go to his plan b. or leave it will talk about a plan b. later let's go down i saw him at the in beirut what do you think is funny for half the on the right track for himself at least here. well i think it's the purpose of this was to increase the pressure on the international when it was timed wasn't an editor as was in libya militarily speaking i think his strategy and his add in a the libyan national forces is not so much a collection of just armed groups it's a belief system it's a narrative and any he really kind of goes into different cities trying to co-opt different groups trying to negotiate with them and he offers them not only financial a murderous support but he offers in this narrative you become the army and all of your opponents your local opponents that you may have fought against for resources or for local power they become the fact that terrorists so it's really the kind of the power of half there is a narrative and i think that is really facing a massive massive problem and and a struggle not to the cool and western the because many of those forces came into

existence based on the belief that they had an ideological conflict with hope with a definite doesn't leaven they did not want to see military will persist in two thousand level into the night scene they still have that major red line that i want to see the country return to move to rule whether it's piece by piece as the enemy is trying to achieve or whether it's half there coming at the helm of a need peaceful government has been delivered of this national conference in a couple of weeks either way that is a red line for many of those groups and i think those groups are providing the massive massive obstacle which would also be conscious of the fact that two thirds of libya's population are based in western libya many of those groups disagree with one another they have different views they have different political positions but they agree to this general consensus that they want to see pluralism in whatever state they want to to build next they want to see a civilian state not a murderous thoughts and so i think there's going to struggle militarily or even this negotiation or co-opting tactic that is trying to trying to pursue in western libya so i think is going to struggle

a lot because already explained he arrived twenty seven he lost one hundred twenty eight troops late last night early this morning and they lost a significant amount of military and i mean issues and and heavy artillery with them interesting and i'll come back to you in a bit to talk about the timing as i think you raised an interesting point there. in benghazi what do you think. you know i really hate to lose the polls but i disagree i think i think this is just the beginning this is this is unfortunately a war and have to is very very careful not to use x. is to kill people here's a never in the never done that and in any of the areas even when it's really your judgment from from beirut is why it's right that it will go out to individuals but to push comes to shove you would use but i mean he's fighting against militias and you beat them i mean most of the time they can produce a war to come through continue were claimed to be well on the right there in the

wrong and they would be destroyed only michael after interesting and presumably months or khalifa haftar wouldn't have undertaken this and they say thought he had a chance of victory i mean the second going on further than at the split governments are going on for so long already and he's now making this final push. exactly exactly in this book which is most of the new year in general from. the divisions in the worst so much so deep between towns and cities it will be sure each other and this is that this is not a new director knows that and he will he will do that is best time to no doubt about it is not too subtle about tripoli do you want to answer that because he is giving us a very different narrative yeah yeah yeah. and i'm really sorry to hear a month or say this stuff after a long period in opposing another military man have. a deathy

during thirty years of opposition. but the fact is i mean we don't have to rely on what your baku she's saying or anything we can just look at the reports of the panel of experts of the security council and what it says about the so-called libyan army often if after is composed of tribal militias it's composed of mercenaries from darfur and it's all appeared i mean why would an army have have a salafist. brigade why would an army have a brigade called the the blood seekers or whatever whatever these are this is a brigade composed of people whose relatives were killed in the war and present us with. an officer of the republic. styled after

sisi who he considers a role model and he wants to establish something like what what's happening in egypt ok gentlemen let's move away from the conflict itself and i want to go back to a point. which. he made in beirut and actually i will come back to you and us and this is about the timing with the united nations secretary general antonio terrorists making a visit you're saying he's timing it for that visit my question is what is antonio terrace trying to achieve at the moment he is there he's going to talk to khalifa haftar and yet it is no room that the other government is the one which the u.n. backs what does the u.n. actually trying to get out of this. well i think it's a really difficult position for for it on your terms of the moment because on the one hand even the narrative even the response by the u.n. has been timid best so they vote for restraint by all parties behave falling short

of actually labeling half the labeling this or condemning or sanctioning or penalizing have their skill ation of violence and it was certainly timed to coincide with his trip because half there is betting on the fact that he has significant amounts of diplomatic and political support from a member of the p five in the security council france and and the u.a.e. which has been able to give him not only political but military support on the ground they establish an air base in two thousand and sixteen it doesn't sixteen was the year that the u.n. actually announced a peace government a peace deal in libya and it was the very same year that the that the u.a.e. ramped up its political military and financial support of have to establish an air base will have them which is the libya they they violated the bargain as a celeb of course rightly rightly pointed out and there was at least that was the most significant year of arms embargo violations by the way in the year in the year that we were supposed to kind of deliver a peaceful solution so i think there is absolutely certain and concrete in his

assessment that the u.n. is kind of paralyzed and immune or he is immune from kind of getting any kind of diplomatic pressure from them and that's a message to libyan factions libyan political opposition groups that have had opposed after so is affecting the tone than the u.n. can't do anything i can do this even whilst the un is there and there's no way they're going to stop me and it's effectively based on a deal that was struck last month and abu dhabi where have there met with and effectively saraj holds one piece of this entire puzzle that half a dozen hold international genesee and international political legitimacy for for his government at the moment have there is effectively illegitimate he doesn't have any kind of real position in in a unified libyan state and effectively he's trying to acquire that political currency from sort of but it's also based on the fact that when the last government was delivered when these negotiations did take place for years by the un there was a libyan political agreement that would reconfigure the state.