the collaboration between british and libyan intelligence services on al-jazeera. schools shops and flights canceled as new delhi struggles with its worst air pollution in years. santamaria with the world news from al jazeera dozens of new advanced centrifuges iran's atomic energy head and also attack iran is stepping further from the 2050 nuclear deal also lebanese authorities about 10 most roads blocked by protesters on monday morning as the anti government demonstrations enter their 19th day i'm looking at how rising inflation and corruption in zimbabwe mean health care is now

a luxury only few can afford. while it is being called new delhi's air pocket the air so toxic in india's capital city of 18000000 people that a public health emergency has been declared schools are shut all construction work has been ordered to stop flights have either been diverted or delayed it was on sunday the air quality index hit its worst level for this year the number was 494 which may not so much on its own but it is nearly 10 times the safe level of 50 and the level is well above $400.00 now on monday. that of the wide why there is smoke everywhere and people including youngsters kids the elderly they're all finding it difficult to breathe the eyes are burning the pollution is that bad. so how to deal with it well private cars with number plates ending in an odd number have been

temporarily banned from the roads that takes away a chunk of the more than 10000000 registered vehicles on new delhi's roads a government study says the transport sector is the biggest contributor to the city's pollution also being blamed there are farmers from nearby states who burn after october to clear their fields for the winter crop more now from new delhi with our correspondent on. that's the iconic rashtrapati bhavan all presidents house in new delhi it's a toll massive building to spot but today one can barely see it it is engulfed in small as is the rest of the city i've been standing here for barely 20 minutes my eyes are burning in the back of my throat and it isn't just me doctors in the city say that many more patients are was it ing them with evidence that can be attributed to air pollution though there's a lot i must i've been using this mosque for a couple of days it's

a bit inconvenient but when i'm traveling on the road then with this pollution my eyes start to water the delhi government just taking the steps to reduce the number of bustos we close the course of the capital and hence reduce breaking up and you should the border to be deployed on this traffic square tell us that the people actually are following the government and also giving these mosques but few people are wearing it it is convenient for many years known as paul muslim neighboring states do not stop burning the stubble pollution in the national capital is expected to continue to remain very severe. search to understand just how damaging is when i show you what the air quality index looks like it measures the health risks associated with pollution these are the basic numbers under 50 good 40 to 100 moderate above that you're talking serious health health risks with everything

about 400 considered how. for comparison bill in city of 3 and a half 1000000 people it's around 21 on the air quality index new delhi at the moment sitting between 40700 in some parts of the city far exceeding the limit that anyone anywhere should be breathing so here is cut that ganesan now a research fellow at the council on energy environment and water he says farmers are contributing to small but they need help to move to greener practices the problem of air pollution in delhi is a multi-pronged one it's not just one item what we're hearing today is of course that farmers in punjab are burning crop residue and as a result equality in delhi has deteriorated but for much of the year more than 300 days out of the 365 dailies actually breathing really bad quality air it never really gets the news the way it does in the winter months so clearly the problem is much beyond just the issue of another troubling that happens you know for about 4

weeks or so in the winters there's a host of problems that need to be addressed really if you have to get this right blaming the farmer is sort of like not exactly the best thing that one can be doing at this point in time but the fact is that they've been incentivise by the cheap availability of basically feel like the city and the water the variable to pump with it and then grow crops that's technically not sustainable in the part of the country where it is being grown which is race and as a result what's really happened is that you know it's lead to it's lead to depletion of the water table and probably they won't be able to cultivate rice to the extent that they are in another decade or so because the water table would have gone to really look and it's because of the fact that there's this rice wheat crop cycle that they're doing that we're seeing the problem currently the solution really lies in sort of going back to i think. multi cropping and diversifying what you actually produce through the year and not lange just in one. just one other story concerning india at least one person killed and 10 injured this is in

a grenade attack in indian administered kashmir no one claiming responsibility so far for that assault in srinagar city. 2 other news iran has announced it is taking another step away from the 2050 nuclear deal the head of the atomic energy organization says tehran is now operating 60 advanced centrifuges double the amount previously known iran also says it's working on a prototype a centrifuge that is 50 times faster than those allowed under the 2015 nuclear deal let's check in with dos de bar in tehran dulce earlier i was talking to you about the 40th anniversary of the storming of the embassy a symbolic day there chosen to announce this news. yes certainly come all it's not a coincidence that iran has decided to make this announcement on the 40th anniversary of the us embassy takeover this announcement was made in the natanz nuclear facility by they had a ron's atomic energy organization ali akbar salehi he said that iran has decided

to move forward and install new advanced centrifuges increasing the capacity currently at that nuclear facility he also said that the level of enrich uranium that has been produced in the islamic republic has increased 10 fold on a daily basis in the past 2 months iran has gone from producing 450 grams of and with uranium to 5000 grams per day that is a huge increase and he was very proud of this fact and thanks to the various employees of the energy organization for their tireless efforts in trying to make this happen he said that all this is happening because iran is facing a political situation when it comes to the 2015 nuclear agreement these were limits set within that agreement and iran decided to sign that in 2015 to slow down its nuclear program but since the united states withdrew from that deal last year the remaining signatories have yet to uphold their on the deal that's the feeling

here and there are so he stressed that point that that is why iran is moving forward with its nuclear program so the do you. really have. no one will do it here too it will be 2 main parties united states and iran just moving further and further apart it doesn't need to deal in goods. no certainly not in this deal has been on its final legs for the past few months and various european diplomats have been trying to salvage it by trying to convince the 2 sides iran and the united states to come back to the negotiating table but iran's position is that until the united states lifts its sanctions that it has imposed on the country since last year they will not come back to any kind of negotiations and the supreme leader himself has said in the past 48 hours that negotiating with the united states is pointless and they will not do it ever again because the united states by the acts that they've had they've carried out over the past a year and

a half they've shown their true colors that they are not trustworthy even though they've signed this agreement that was indorsed by the united nations and it is a binding agreement the remaining signatories have yet to uphold their end of the deal and the united states putting pressure on those european countries not to do any business with iran the iranians say that their nuclear program is for peaceful purposes but the united states has accused it of trying to develop a nuclear weapon and also they want to have the country's ballistic missile program included under this agreement something iran has said is absolutely out of the question that the country's defense program is very very separate from the country's nuclear program thank you for those updates. intel. protests are being held for the 19th day across lebanon demonstrated stepped up pressure on the government protesters have been blocking roads. reopened now by security forces the protesters there continue to call for the removal of the ruling

elite and the complete overhaul of the political system there is also anger at president delay in announcing a date for parliamentary consultations which are required for naming the next prime minister let's check in with stephanie decker in beirut for us stephanie has changed over the day as far as opening the roads go it was a sort of a peaceful thing. yes throughout most areas throughout the country because it wasn't just here in beirut to the roads were reopened without any easier to drill holes or cations with the security force is that something that the army has tried to throughout these 19 days most part really protecting the protesters when it came to also having issues with counter protest or thugs being sent down to the streets have been basically overnight people decided to block the roads again because as you mentioned there are no political movement has happened yet everyone waiting for the president to

announce those parliamentary consultations which means basically forming the next political body to move this country forward and we understand according to a couple of newspaper reports that that could happen within the next 24 hours and then according again to reports this could be a cabinet that's made up of not just technocrats and that's what the people want but also politically affiliated men and women that something that the street doesn't want so at the moment we're going to have to wait and see when the president is going to come out what the what form this government is going to take and whether that's going to appease the streets busy can see most of beirut back to normal people are going to work the banks are open so certainly there is a sense of normalcy but the moment message from the protesters is they want to keep up momentum if nothing changes thank you for that update stephanie. iraq's prime minister is calling for an end to the bloodshed on both sides as more anti-government protests on hills. demonstrators at achieve their goals now they

just damaging the economy matthew was speaking for the 1st time after the president announced last week he would resign but only if a replacement is found he made no further mention his speech. also he met a delegation from the u.s. congress who say they are backing the iraqi government's efforts. meanwhile iraq's human rights commission says at least 3 demonstrators have been killed in karbala near the iranian consulate on sunday hundreds of protesters tried to storm the building they brought down an iranian flag and set on fire and protesters have again started fires and blocked main roads in baghdad. causing traffic jam in the iraqi capital. grab a quick break when we come back leaders from across southeast asia gather in bangkok to hash out what could be a major global trade agreement. or back down. the phone call

was perfect president trump again says the identity of the whistleblower spontaneity to an inquiry should be made public. and there's some pretty good guys across much of the korean peninsula on the cloud is clearing away fairly rapidly off the east coast of japan when it comes to temperature is not see bad 17 in tokyo on shoes or with some good sunshine the color of course up into supporting 110 celsius and the mid teens really across much of the korean peninsula is a bit more in the way of cloud and as we head on into wednesday staying away from home she will be could see some rain showers just pushing across into northern sections of and then we head further towards the south the again we got some pretty good case guys through much of eastern areas of china so $28.00 celsius in hong

kong 20 in shanghai a lot of moisture though to south of there this is really all to do with a tropical system which is trying to develop. some very heavy amounts of rain even if the winds don't develop into tropical storm strength quite cloudy skies ahead of that system and sunday's rain showers across much of vietnam and indeed across much of the philippines and as we head further to the south we'll see a few rain showers across into borneo scattered showers into sulawesi and more in the way of rain certainly full singapore as we head through choose day and it's a very cloudy picture by the middle of the week i'm probably more then in terms of rain across into quantum. a policy imposed decades ago. pregnant woman thought that she could selectively goods and have only boards changing demographics across asia with far reaching consequences creating a pool of socially disadvantaged young men so you have the system where people at

every level were to get being given money money to agree destro zation our money to get other people to me this rotation al-jazeera examines the politics of population control. here with al jazeera these are the top stories air quality in india's capital has reached critical levels with officials declaring a public health emergency number of private vehicles allowed on new delhi's roads has been hauled in an attempt to clear the toxic small in the sea. iran's announced it's taking another step away from the 2050 nuclear deal the head of the iranian

atomic energy organization says to iran is now operating 60 advanced centrifuges iran also says it's working on a prototype centrifuge 15 times faster than those allowed by the deal. approaches to being held for the 19th day across lebanon as demonstrators step up their pressure on the government protesters have blocked main roads they have mostly been cleared. asian leaders meeting in bangkok are discussing what could become the world's biggest trade deal thailand says the next steps in the proposal backed by china will be made in the coming hours there were some last minute doubts about the deal after india raised concerns over cheaper chinese products u.s. president don't trump didn't attend the mazing but he has invited southeast asian leaders to a special summit early next year here is more from bangkok it's got highly. what could be the largest free trade agreement in the world was the focus on this last day of the aussie on summit here in bangkok this is something that's been going on for the last several years it's going to involve the 10 nations of

austrian and 6 other nations who are here negotiating over the last several days now initially there were some mixed messages the commerce minister said that there might be a large and down summit at the end of summits meetings on monday and then there's a little bit of a walking back by the australian counterpart who is also part of these negotiations saying that they're moving forward but there's not going to be a big announcement now this is something we know that was a bit of a prickly point over the weekend india who is one of the members 16 nations a part of this negotiation they had some issues so that kind of put a bit of a stumbling block into it sounds like things are moving forward but we're not going to hear anything definite or finite out of the meetings here in bangkok also another focus on monday the last day of the summit and that is the american delegation now this was the downgrade last year vice president mike pence was here this year the the top member of the american delegation is the commerce secretary so that didn't wasn't received too well by the other nations here in fact that the

meeting this summit with us and members and the u.s. delegation 7 of those nations sent down sent down grade as well of representation to those meetings but amid all this amid this criticism president donald trump through the people here for the united states said that he's inviting them them and members to a special summit in washington d.c. early next year the whistleblower who prompted an impeachment probe into the u.s. president says he will answer questions recent presidents from house republicans are going to jump repeated the call for the unnamed official to be identified inquiry is not due to begin public hearings this month up to several weeks of closed door testimony trump of course accused of threatening to withhold military aid to ukraine unless it investigated democratic rival. well donald trump claims members of the media know who the whistleblower is and therefore must reveal his identity the whistleblower gave a very inaccurate report about my phone call my phone call was perfect it was

totally appropriate but he gave a report he or she but according to the newspaper exists he they think they know they know who it is you know you just don't want to report it the whistleblower. should be revealed because the whistleblower gave false stories some people would go the wrong i won't go that far but. when i read it closely i probably would which it's a trump statement does contradict the white house's own notes of the phone call with the ukrainian president which largely corroborates the whistleblower account more on all of us now from washington john henry. in the impeachment inquiry into donald trump what is interesting is not necessarily who might testify in the coming week but who will not testify there are 3 officials from the white house office of management and budget who have been asked by that inquiry to testify and reports

are that they will not appear in this coming week that is apparently part of a coordinated campaign by the white house to prevent people from speaking to you pietschmann requiring and in that case it's significant because the allegation in the in the fiery is that president donald trump withheld $400000000.00 from the government of ukraine that is in military aid until he received a promise from the president of ukraine look here's alinsky that he would investigate joe biden the president's rival and that he would announce that he was doing so publicly so there is that end the fact that john bolton the president's former national security adviser has said he will not testify without a subpoena so bolton is significant because he has said that that deal the pressure campaign against ukraine was a so-called drug deal and members of congress want to know what he meant by that and whether he thought that meant that anything improper was being done by the

president of the united states and there are new reports that that partisan warfare is driving up interest in the 2020 election there's a wall street journal n.b.c. poll that finds that 72 percent of americans say they are highly interested in the upcoming election those are the kind of numbers we usually don't see until about a month before election day and that suggests there could be very high turnout in 2020 whatever happens with the impeachment inquiry. the rebels in yemen say the saudi u.a.e. coalition is forcing sudanese forces to fight and die on the front lines of released footage which they say shows heavy defeats incurred by the sudanese mohammed ali has more from santa. ok we're going to call the forces these prisoners of war are from sudan and so were there did colleagues. there any allele that the sudanese regime forces soldiers to fight as mercenaries in return for money within the ranks of the aggressor coalition forces other states limited their role

to join in the airstrikes or naval forces the sudanese regime through its forces into the ground warfare where many of the coalition states refrained. as i'm able to verify the authenticity and countdowns of the photos observers say the hoa fees are using gets to send the masses to sudan as a new leaders to pull sudanese forces out of yemen. and the losses of the sudanese mercenaries amount to $285.00 killed and dozens wounded on various fronts of the border. healthy off the shelves say these are weapons and equipment taken from a pig aid of so the knees soldiers and this hope the fighters says teachers are among the sudanese fighting in support of and u.a.e. a led forces the hope he's accused. of pushing sudanese forces onto the front lines i'm not prioritizing them and prisoner swaps the cheerful the

sudanese community in yemen told us that sudan's new leaders should reconsider the decision made by the ousted president to dispatch sudanese forces to yemen. this is the work of the former regime of the sheer who was toppled by the sudanese people and it is known that bashir and his regime was part of militias filthy partly down to undermine the whole region even their participation was not appreciated by this aggression which was launched under the false title of arab coalition. but the 30 or so that he's army commander has dismissed the video psychological warfare he said how these are backed by regional powers with their own agendas and said sudan has to take part in the conflict say more than 6000 or so danis soldiers are part of the saudi the wall street fighting

they are merely 6th grade remains along the coast line straight drawing to a. base. now millions of people in zimbabwe are unable to get medical treatment because it's become increasingly expensive most don't have health insurance and rising inflation and corruption have been blamed for the collapse of the public health care service this report from harlem which us. marketa lana worries finding drugs for chronic illnesses is going to get a lot harder for poor and struggling zimbabweans some public health centers have no drugs for hiv patients the cost of one month's supply at a private pharmacy is roughly 60 u.s. dollars a civil servant about $70.00 a month if you lose your foot in your place because you really need it for you to maintain your lane. if you baby here at least that means you don't get

to look after the children because all the people that. those who can afford it go abroad for the treatment others used a while start expensive private facilities a luxury millions of others don't have is the way has more than 20 registered health insurance and we have about 800000 members the government has its own health insurance for civil servants which caters roughly to 340000 workers that means most people here don't have medical coverage while children under the age of 5 basic feature a public hospitals everyone else without health insurance pays cash for such pain management the patient must have regular i mean true up to access to medication. the medication is becoming extremely expensive. traditionally and historically that medication has been funded largely by donors but with finding the donors themselves

not through lack of world but because of pressures on on their mostly local donors they are unable to support that doctors have been striking finally 2 months of a poor pay and work conditions it's another sign the public health sector is in trouble after numerous negotiations broke down the government issued this ultimatum . coming to be disciplined. so the 1st thing we have a smoke coming to work there will not be paid some here blame the collapse of zimbabwe's public health care system on corruption and the state's failure to prioritize government officials say waste and impose sanctions are the reason for the crisis not them but it's patients who end up suffering and as a bobby's economy worsens there is no sign the situation will improve soon. bolivian opposition politicians are calling for a new election to resolve ongoing unrest protests began in october when president

evo morales won a 4th term opponents say the vote was fraudulent accusing the electoral board of favoring all around us the president has rejected calls to resign and urged protesters to wait for the results of an international election or to prematurely we believe that the best solution to this crisis is a new elections administered by an impartial international electoral body under rigorous observation by the international community as such we demand the resignation of the supreme electoral tribunal under departmental courses and we have names that we will take legal steps with it. protests in chile is show no sign of slowing down as they enter a 3rd wake despite the government offering a raft of economic reforms protesters are calling for the president to resign some though a blame the economic policies that actually began when the country return to democracy back in 1900. reports from santiago. for decades chile has been seen as

a sort of oasis of prosperity in latin america. in 1900 the country ushered in a new democracy and in 17 years of brutal awkward tarion rule. the years that followed were marked by fast pace economic growth and a massive reduction in poverty. when the military dictatorship in chile ended no less than 45 percent of the population lived in poverty from the moment democracy was recovered economic growth was very high but they came a moment around 2000 when that growth stopped. despite the boom of a stable middle class in the 21st century has also witnessed a growing discontent over economic inequality. on october 18th the announcement of an increase in public transport fares sparked massive social upheaval since then the unrest on the streets of the chilean capital and elsewhere in the country has been unrelenting behind the facade of unshakable modern development there's a sense that she has broken the concerns are over stagnant wages low pensions

unequal access to health care and education and a widespread perception that the standard of living is getting worse. many chileans believe the ongoing crisis is rooted in the country's economic model founded on neoliberal principles that are seen as a remnant of the days of the hard line pinochet era and some people's incomes do not match the cost of living in prices here like they are in europe but wages of the same as the rest of latin america in terms of long term solutions we need to think about how to restructure the political institutions that we inherited from the pinochet dictatorship. you know. while many argue neil liberalism is to blame for the state of inequality in others say it's been negligence by the side of the country's political class that's exacerbated the problem nor would i even want to liberalism is a pejorative term for a free market economy i don't think people who participate in these massive march is a protesting against a free market they're protesting against

a lack of opportunities. there is no shortage of opinions over what the solution to chill is political crisis should be but the problem is clear the prosperity achieved over the last 30 years has been cooled by the wealthiest in society and people have had enough when we ended up in. santiago chile. past the hour on al-jazeera will take you to the headlines equality in india's capitals reach critical levels with officials declaring a public health emergency schools have been shot all construction has been halted and the number of private vehicles allowed on new delhi is roads has been halved all in an attempt to clear the toxic small choking the city iran has announced it is taking another step away from the 2015 nuclear deal ahead of the atomic energy organization says tehran is now operating 60 advanced centrifuges and iran says

it's also working on a prototype centrifuge that's 50 times faster than those allowed under the deal. it's not a coincidence that iran has decided to make this announcement on the 40th anniversary of the u.s. embassy takeover this announcement was made in the town's nuclear facility by the head of iran's atomic energy organization ali akbar salehi he said that iran has decided to move forward and install new advanced centrifuges increasing the capacity currently at that nuclear facility he also said that the level of enriched uranium that has been for use in the islamic republic has increased 10 fold on a daily basis protests are being held for the 19th day now across lebanon as demonstrated stepped up pressure on the government roads in the capital of mostly been cleared after they were blocked on monday morning the still anger at president obama's delay in setting a date for parliamentary consultations the needed to name the next prime minister

iraq's human rights commissions as at least 3 demonstrators have been killed in karbala near the iranian consulate sunday hundreds of protesters tried to storm the building demonstrators have been calling for an end to what they see as iranian interference in iraqi politics you might protesters of again started fires and blocked main roads in baghdad they also put up cement blocks causing traffic jams in the capital and asian leaders meeting in bangkok discussing what could become the world's biggest trade deal there were last minute doubts about the deal after india raised concerns of cheaper chinese products he was president donald trump wasn't actually at the meeting but he did invite southeast asian leaders to a special summit early next year and that's my lot for this monday thank you for your company more news with peter w. after inside story.

oh we doing enough to prevent attacks from groups the u.s. releases its annual report on global terrorism naming eisel and iran as persistent threats and it's warning of the managing challenges so what's all the solutions this is inside story. and welcome to the program i'm the stasi attain new threats are imagining the so-called global war on terror that's the warning from the u.s. state department as it released its latest country reports on terrorism the analysis looks at efforts in the u.s. and around the wild to combat troops and their.