i'm going to be a tree not a symbol. for all knowledge easy to. follow i maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up iran has just started the process of activating its uranium enrichment facility despite warnings unconcern from the united states and the e.u. . the date is set for the 1st public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump. that come with us. our leaders began campaigning for the u.k.

snap election with bracks it looming large on the agenda. in sport born in the current events is of puts birthplaces in the last 16 of the european champions league reaching lokomotiv moscow soon warmed to move into the locker room . welcome to the program in the past half hour a uranium enrichment facility in iran has been activated marking the country's latest step away from the 2015 court the atomic energy organization of iran says uranium gas is now being injected into centrifuges that means the facility will be cost as an active nuclear site rather than a research plant the u.s. which pulled out of the day last year has called the move a big step in the wrong direction french president says it's a signal iran intends to quit the nuclear agreement altogether.

absolutely a today 2000 kilograms of you have 6 was delivered to ford a nuclear sought under the supervision of all speak to the restarting of centrifuges will take a few well as and from but not the process of injecting new ronnie and gas into them will begin. well those are just bari joins us live now from tehran just to explain to us why iran has taken this decision. well merriam according to the president hassan rouhani the 60 day period that they had issued the remaining signatories of the nuclear agreement for european remaining signatories that is britain france and germany did not uphold their end of the deal and that is why as of midnight tonight that deadline expired and iran waited until that exact moment to restart the for joe nuclear facility the president says that since the united states with through the european signatories haven't done enough to do what they were supposed to under this agreement that is

why iran continues to scale back its obligations to this deal now under that agreement this facility the for the nuclear site became a research facility as of january of 2016 but as of midnight tonight that is no longer the case this facility is the only one in iran that is able to produce 20 percent enriched uranium is one of the most important facilities that iran has. so as you say iran has now increased its activity at that underground. nuclear plant what does this mean for the nuclear agreement itself because iran has suggested in the past that under certain conditions it might be prepared to reverse these moves. yes certainly iran has said that all these steps they're taking is within the nuclear agreement there are articles in that agreement for such. an issue when somebody leaves this agreement the other parties

have things they can do a bit but since iran is not happy with the fact that the united states left and impose a series of sanctions on iran they are using article 36 of the way to show their discontent with the remaining signatories and they've said that as soon as that the european signatories return to full compliance of this deal so will iran they are all these steps that they've taken are reversible but there's very little hope at this stage of that will happen in the new future thank you very much from tehran dosage of bari. and now to the united states where impeachment proceedings against president donald trump will reach a critical stage next week the u.s. house intelligence committee has announced it will hold the 1st public hearings in the inquiry with 3 key witnesses to testify the investigation centers on whether president trump abused his power by withholding aid to ukraine and exchange for an investigation into political rival joe biden i think you will see

throughout the course of the test when not only their testimony but many others the . most important facts are largely not contested we are getting increasingly appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year and the degree to which the president and listed the whole departments of government in elicit a move trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent as well as further conspiracy theory about the 2016 election that he believed would be beneficial to his reelection campaign i do joe castro is following the story for us joins us now from washington now the transcript has been released of the testimony given by ambassador bill taylor what does it show and how damning is it. well merriam taylor if you will is

really the impeachment guy that investigators have been following the roadmap that he shared with them 2 weeks ago when he testified behind closed doors providing key conversations people dates and places that connected the dots on the question that's really at the heart of this impeachment inquiry of donald trump and that is whether he used u.s. foreign aid to ukraine as leverage to get ukraine to investigate his political opponents and we're seeing from taylor's testimony the transcripts saying that taylor had a clear understanding that there was indeed this quid pro quo and he goes further to say in this transcript that he knew where this demand for a statement into opening the vesta geishas came from he said this came from rudy giuliani trump's private attorney who was empowered by the president to circumvent

normal diplomatic channels and deal directly with ukraine to keep up this pressure as trump was withholding this military aide and again that is the the heart of this impeachment inquiry why taylor is such a significant witness and why his transcript now is also so revealing miriam and of course in the coming weeks we're going to have public hearings and more transcripts of any conversations that take place behind closed doors how significant is the new phase in the impeachment inquiry going to be. well they're significant because taylor will be one of the 1st witnesses called to testify in public and everything we've learned about him has come from the mouths of reporters you know the public hasn't actually heard from taylor himself and that's why making this case really as a publicity move is so important for democrats who are trying to convince greater

numbers of the public to get on board with this effort to impeach president trump up until this point there have been more than a dozen witnesses both former and current administration officials who have walked past the cameras and entered into those closed doors of the secure area to give their testimonies and now both democrats have had that opportunity to to vet these witnesses for their credibility and for the compelling elements of their stories which they are expected to bring now to the public's attention lakshmi be seeing some of the same witnesses speaking before cameras to offer their testimony starting next week thank you from washington heidi joe castro. well in all the developments u.s. democrats have made gains in state elections and what's being seen as a blow to president donald trump the results are gauge of the political mood almost exactly a year ahead of the next presidential election conjured up as how diane has mall.

democrat andy bashir says he's won kentucky's race for governor. it was a typo motion especially for a conservative leaning state. it's a message that says our elections don't have to be about right versus left they are still about right versus wrong. it's seen as a setback for president donald trump who easily won kentucky in 2016 to kentucky is leading there were no personal he campaigned for republican governor matt bevan who's recent fights with labor unions and teachers made him among the least popular governors in the country these are stories you win they go to make you like and if you lose they can say trump suffered the greatest defeat in the history of the world this was the greatest you can let that happen to me. in the one swing state of virginia democrats won the majority in both the house and

the senate the 1st in more than 2 decades virginia is especially big congratulations to shift could give the party control to pass controversial laws on gun control that were previously blocked by republicans. in the conservative state of mississippi republicans won big victory. reeves took the governor's seat against the state's attorney general jim hood the victory seen as a sign of stability for trump a year before the presidential race these elections are a glimpse into what president from could expect in his 2020 reelection bid including whether the democratic led impeachment inquiry is swaying his base. this of the young al-jazeera. you with the news hour live from london and much more still ahead on the program. we slipped in the. movement towards the policeman.

and its people a stabbed in an attack in the ancient city of one of jordan's most well known terrorist sites more boeing jets stay on the ground with new concerns over the safety of their wings and in sport will tell you which olympic disciplines have been scrapped for world athletics elite dying in the. 5 weeks of intense political campaigning is underway in the u.k. ahead of december's general election it's the nation's 2nd election now since the 2016 referendum vote to leave the. reports. the election campaign is officially on and the prime minister left downing street with the air of a man with no time to waste even using social media to post an election update while on route to get the queen's approval for the ballots with the royal formalities

complete johnson returned to downing street to address the media and lay out his battle plan a stark choice he said between his vision of a u.k. quickly out of the e.u. with a dynamic free market economy and his opponent's plans for high taxation and more breakfast uncertainty come with us get bricks it done and take this country forward . this is the alternative next year spend the whole of 2020 in a horror show yet. in a newspaper column on weapons day the prime minister attacked jeremy corbyn the opposition labor party leader for targeting the rich with a vindictiveness not seen since talent but on the campaign trail in the u.k. midlands mr corbyn insisted that britain's richest 5 percent had a moral obligation to pay more together we can do something spectacular we can transform people's hopes by the inclusiveness he of our campaign and into town and

so that's communities and painful and not held back and left behind i think it is time for real change again as campaigns go it's been a shaky start for the conservatives in a sign of just how unrestrained this election campaign may become the party posted a doctored social media video of labor's bracks it spokesman kier stammer and then refused to apologize when called out for it. and just moments before the prime minister's speech a letter arrived from cabinet minister alan kent's tendering his resignation over allegations which he denies that he lied about his knowledge of a collapsed court case can's was lined up to lead the conservative campaign in wales and his loss is a blow and those setbacks came off the back of controversial and much criticised comments by senior conservatives about the grand felt our 5 think before but this is a marathon not a sprint the 2 main parties are being challenged by the climate initiatives of the

green party targeted pressure from nigel faraj party to separate his vision from the scottish nationalists and a new optimism from programming liberal democrats. and liberal democrats by for the full action to witten so that we can stop reg sit and create a greater future. next 5 weeks is shipping up to be a no holds barred political scrap an election battle with local and regional twists on the contest whose results will have far reaching consequences across europe and beyond paul brennan al-jazeera and the deputy leader of the opposition labor party has announced that he is stepping down and will not be seeking reelection as an m.p. in next month's election in his resignation letter tom watson says the decision is personal and not political watson has served as deputy for the entire 4 years of jeremy corbin's party leadership. well as another story we've been following here in the u.k. the environmental groups who launched mass protests in london last month have won

a court battle with a u.k. police a ban on the extinction rebellion demonstrations has been rolled unlawful and now hundreds of people who were arrested could potentially claim false imprisonment. has more from central london. a victory for freedom and democracy that's how environmental activist described wednesday's decision by u.k. courts to police ban on their protests was illegal the case was brought by lawyers acting for extinction rebellion a movement of climate change activists behind the so-called autumn uprising a series of protests held across london last month demonstrators have blocked roads and entrances to several key sites and buildings including parliament square the bank of england and london city airports the police made $1828.00 arrests and charged $165.00 people the protests cost an estimated $30000000.00 to

police a decision was made to ban all extinction rebellion protests across london with the police citing sections 14 of the public order act as justification it's gives you authority as the right to prohibits public assemblies if they believe they may result in serious public disorder or serious damage to property or the life of the community early chalons a member of the european parliament for the green party was herself arrested during the police crackdown today's ruling is incredibly significant actually and it'll have a big impact it's significant because it's about defending the rights to public assembly and protest and those rights are fundamental to a functioning democracy the ruling by the high porch not only means that environmental activists can hold similar protests again this time potentially during the current election campaign it's also paves the way for those who were arrested. the police for compensation several 100 of our activists who were

arrested under this ban will now. have the charges against them drops and if they don't have other charges against them they'll be able to sue the police for false imprisonment and they have the right compensation the police can appeal against the decision but extinction rebellions lawyers say they are ready to continue to fight the extinction rebellion movement said that their protests were designed to raise awareness about the urgent need for action to save the planet today's ruling means that not only can they continue their protests but it's also given their message more probably city. london i'm joined now in the studio by sara land and from extinction rebellion so electorally for you in court today what are your plans for the movement now is there more protests likely to happen or you know that's that's a really good question so in terms of we ballin again going out to berlin again everything's on the table we're discussing what that's going to look like as we

move forward into the future. but yes there is going to be there is going to be more action from extinction ballin the climate the climate catastrophe we're facing is merely gathering pace it hasn't gone away and so neither of way so for many people within the movement it's a moral duty to actually act in light of what's facing off on earth in response to the ruling today the metropolitan police said that the decision to impose the ban was not taken lightly and they said that it was only made after unacceptable and prolonged disruption to londoners can new source of see the dilemma that they face in a situation like this yet so absolutely the police have a duty to uphold the law and everybody hugh came out as part of extinction rebellion understands and understood that the police need to uphold hold the law and that. we were in many cases actively breaking the law so we understand that and

we're prepared to accept the consequences of the law being used correctly against us so. so yes i do i do understand that the police have to impose the law but what we want to do is to force our government whatever new government we that comes after this this general election we need to push our government to act on the risks that we face. and the police are there in in the middle and it's by pushing the police that we can then push push the government and it is by disrupting and disrupting unfortunately the life of london londoners that we can get the government to take notice do you how effective do you think this sort of tactical protest and disruption is likely to be in getting the government to take notice because when you look at their agenda right now it's pretty for where we're going to well we're in the middle of an election campaign now but really. the political scene in this country is dominated by bracks it do you really think the bandwidth

is there to really address something like this so that's a really really valid point it's a really good question and one of the things that we have to do and i'm really pleased in many ways that this election has come after the october rebellion because it does mean that the that the emergencies that we face are already in the news and they're in people's minds and so we need to build on that and but in trying very hard to get the government to take notice do you risk having people turning against you because of the disruption entering so it's not about extinction rebellion being popular it's about putting that message the vulnerability of our society to climate catastrophe is in our water supply and in our food supply and if we don't put that out there if a government doesn't act on it it's failing in its moral responsibility to look after its citizens to look after us and we have to put that out there because if we don't what we face is so grim is so awful that we have to carry all night in that

so we can't do it we can't do anything else so in a way the bandwidth has to be there because it's about it's about protecting lawfulness though there is no great crisis humanity has never faced anything like this before and and unfortunately we are the people who live at this time and we have a responsibility to act on it so we can't go away sara line and thank you. well now u.s. president donald trump says that talks went well with officials from egypt ethiopia and sudan over a new down being built on the nile river the african ministers gathered in washington for talks aimed at reducing tensions over the project ethiopia has been building the ground renascence damn near its border with sudan for 8 years but egypt fears that down will reduce the flow of water along the river which accounts for nearly 90 percent of its supply and mike hanna joins us live now from washington mike what more of we more real and then about donald trump's meeting

with the ministers where the meeting came as a great surprise there was no prior none cement and it was only that are confirmed after the meeting took place when president trump tweeted out a picture of the foreign ministers from the 3 countries in his oval office president trump says that the meeting went well the discussions will continue certainly this whole meeting has been very low profile indeed no media opportunity to speak to the ministers or indeed the treasury secretary who has been mediating in these talks but very important talks indeed given the fact that the talks have broken down 3 times since 2014 alone so bringing the 3 foreign ministers together in d.c. a very major move in developing some kind of agreement on the building or the use use of that down in ethiopia what are the stumbling blocks to resolving this

because it is a long running dispute is as you say. well the one stumbling block may have already been removed and that was ethiopia's insistence that it would not accept any 3rd party to mediate it insisted that any agreement would have to be reached between egypt sudan and itself however the fact that the foreign minister traveled to d.c. at the u.s. his invitation appears to indicate that there may be a willingness now by ethiopia to accept some kind of outside mediation in the form of the united states in this particular case so that is certainly a step forward now the other points that still need to be resolved essentially egypt long ago gave up any idea of halting construction of the dam what it's looking for is an agreement on how much water will be released from the dam what egypt once is not to see its supply of water coming down the nile being reduced

because of that particular dam ethiopia continues to insist that the level of water within the dam is up to it to decide it is determined by local factors within ethiopia itself but certainly by the fact that ethiopia is now willing it would appear to talk with the presence of a mediator then this is a significant shift forward and does raise the real possibility of an agreement being reached in coming months thank you but the latest on this story from washington mike hanna now 8 people have been injured in a knife attack in the jordanian says here 3 mexicans and a swiss national were among the stand the city is one of the most popular tourism destinations in the country and it's myth reports now from the jordanian capital amman. no one is there are other qualified as one tourist lies face down apparently bleeding heavily another tries to stop the blood flow. a woman

screams in spanish he's got a dagger. that witnesses say a man jumped over a fence at the roman city n.j. rash and randomly slashed and stabbed at people around him. and he was heading towards the care for tear and i was standing by the door behind me while the tourists aleut them into the cafeteria past in front of me in a link towards them slipped in instead me then backed away moving towards the policeman he gave the policeman a slight stare and tried to attack him from behind and i pushed him to the ground afterwards all the policemen came and took him. 3 mexicans a swiss and 4 jordanians were injured 2 described as in a serious condition although everyone is now stable according to jordan's health ministry the. movement of 2 people who are admitted to the operation room of the doctors at the public hospital in georgia still working on the bleeding has stopped the situation is under control and both people are stable them 2 cases were transferred by helicopter to king has seen medical city one was

a mexican tourist and the other one was a jordanian guide we pray for them to recover the roman city it is one of jordan's most important tourism attractions more than $300000.00 people visited last year attacks on tourists are rare it's one of the most stable countries in the region and that helped boost tourism which generated revenues of around 5000000000 dollars last year that's essential income for a country facing an economic crisis and with youth unemployment at around 40 percent but at smith al-jazeera a mum. much more still ahead on this news out from london ahead of the u.s. agency for palestinian refugees resigned suddenly after reports says it's riddled with misconduct and abuse french prime minister announces a new measures to get tough on immigration but is it just political stunt and in sport iraq is forced to find a new chill than you for that world cup qualifiers because of the deteriorating

security situation. how the weather is pretty messy pretty mobile all across europe at the moment lots of cloud in the right part of it's a central part of the mediterranean or storms coming in here for at least of them italy pushing across the iraqi into the balkans and yet more wet windy weather pushing into the northwest as well thursday that's like a pretty miserable day for the front stay out into the low countries even into northern parts by the portugal looking rather disturbed temperatures struggling to get to around 10 or 11 degrees celsius some snow over the alps a piece of more wet weather there down into the balkans pushing across greece actually ahead of that nazi bad there's a little ray of sunshine that's down into the southeast and colder athens at 24

celsius trying 5 for a time anchor at around 21 so just notice the temperatures cooling off well because rest over the next couple days 90 or 20 celsius here that's where the best of the weather will remain a while wet weather coming back into italy heavy rain possibility of some flooding in some snow significant snowfall coming in across the alps a dry day up towards the northwest of here a cool one not just for london and for paris that's what's the weather that we do have into central parts of the mediterranean it will set his way in full as northern parts of algeria and she does yes we go through the next couple of days and cooler. dreamz johnson and entertainments a way for people to rise above the violence around so it's my role to give these girls a different idea that they can leave the wards of this community 3 short films show how performance creates

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welcome back a look at the top stories this hour now iran's activate an underground uranium enrichment facility this is the latest step away from the 2015 nuclear of course. u.s. presidents held talks of a controversial down on the nile a success the u.s. is trying to find agreement between egypt. and sudan. and the much anticipated 1st public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump will be held next week 3 witnesses that will give evidence. but i'll speak to jeff hauser is the executive director of the revolving door project at the center for economic and policy research and washington can i ask what particularly you will be focusing on in the coming weeks obviously the impeachment inquiry now going into a very significant public phase. and there will be key witnesses called to testify

next week. be looking to see if a coherent narrative forms from these hearings that is heard by what i consider the 10 percent of americans who are most important in american politics and these are the people who are not really part of donald trump's base they find him somewhat embarrassing but they also think he's doing ok to solid job as president and they're also not very fond of the democratic party and they are the 10 percent that separates the republican party from being in bad shape politically like they were revealed to be last night in elections across the country and being in catastrophic shape be very interesting this see whether or not these career figures within the foreign service of the united states these very down the middle figures can be persuasive to people who don't follow that much politics would prefer to not oppose

donald trump but are also not enthusiastic about donald trump what will these people hear from next week's hearings and will there be a coherent story that forces american people who've been on the sidelines to pick a side and decide that donald trump is a problematic president or could it have the reverse effect and just reinforce a perception that donald trump is being victimized by congress and could it actually bring that crucial 10 percent into trump scamp. that i mean that's obviously a very fair question to ask i think that the democrats running this hearing are pretty savvy players congressman adam schiff who will be chairing the hearings has scheduled next week 3 witnesses who i think are. best suited to avoid bringing doing any harm the are not illogical figures these are people who are very

hard to dismiss as. democrats members of some sort of deep state conspiracy against trump i think these 3 people have been chosen because they not only have very relevant evidence to present to the american people but because they will make very effective spokespeople on behalf of the truth so i don't see this hearing back firing of those yes theoretically it could do so i think if you look at the way house republicans have come out of the last few weeks of testimony and the sort of whispers you hear among republicans there really is not a lot of upside for the republican party they're just hoping to make this as complicated in dirty and messed up a situation so basically nothing really changes i don't think they're optimistic that they can make gains through these hearings removing trump from office would that would need to be quiet dramatic shifts in public opinion for that to happen

and republican senators particularly will be watching public reaction closely do you think that these herring i mean how closely the independent votes says and and a large chunk of republican votes is going to be paying attention to this close attention to this. i think it remains to be seen how close the american people will pay attention and i think that there the extent to which there's been conversation that the senate will not all tamale convict donald trump even if he is impeached by the house of representatives can be a little bit of a self satisfying prediction whereby the belief that trump is safe might reduce interest in the hearings next week and i would like to think that people pay very close attention but i think some of that is going to be incumbent upon the democrats to tell an interesting and persuasive enough story that. people are

forced to pay attention i don't know that it's inevitable that they will pay attention all right thank you for sharing your insight on this story with us appreciate it jeff hauser joining us there from washington. now a chilean prosecutor seeking court approval to investigate 14 police officers for allegedly torturing protesters during the current wave of anti-government unrest it comes as the demonstrations continue for 20th day with protesters angry at any quality and one of latin america's richest nations president sebastian pinera is now proposing an increase in the minimum wage to congress the latest in a series of concessions that have so far failed to pacify the protest has on latin america added to the sentiment is in the capital santiago joins us now and so is this investigation into police torture of protest is likely to go ahead then. i am i think it will i think it's inevitable especially since the president has given his word that any abuses by the by the security forces and even ordinary

police and soldiers during the time that there was a state of emergency declared here for more than a week has given his word that they will be investigated they will be punished and normally those things do happen now just how many more this is only 14 of the more than $180.00 charges of torture and of. and police brutality will be investigated is another matter there's also another policeman that's already been he's been arrested already because on monday in fact or tuesday he fired pellets into a secondary school inside the school itself where some of the female students were protesting so he was immediately arrested there in the meantime right as i speak just about a 100 meters down the road police are using tear gas water cannon against peaceful protesters as well as against looters that for the 1st time since these protests began have come here where i'm standing now this is uptown this is the been

basically the symbol of opulence and prosperity in santiago all the offices here have allowed their staff to go home the main or rather that in america's largest shopping mall which is 100 meters behind me has been closed and another one that's about 4 kilometers ahead of me has also been closed so this is coming closer and closer to the area that hadn't been feeling the brunt of the protests and the protesters are saying that they're doing this prison figley so that the people who have the most to lose can hear their message. and they are determined to continue with their demonstrations that they don't see any of those concessions wiping the area as being acceptable he is saying he won't resign but can he really survive this crisis no. he certainly is making it clear that he is planning to stay till the very last day of his mandate which is more than 2 years from now

any is struggling is doing everything he can to try to appease protesters and members of the opposition party but they're still negotiating there isn't any clear leadership or leader to this social movement that has erupted in the country so exactly who would replace him is a big question there are calls for his resignation but right now it seems to have the most support are demands for a constitutional assembly for a new constitution the president seems very very unwilling to go ahead with that although he says he's happy to do consider constitutional reforms and if he continues to block that that could lead to more and more pressure for him to resign last america to be seen human reporting to us there from santiago thank you the head of the united nations agency for palestinian refugees has resigned it's after an investigation highlighted management issues connected with. our diplomatic editor james bays reports on this from the united nations. pierre crack and

bullheaded annorah the u.n. agency that helps palestinians for more than 5 years he was widely perceived as one of the un's best communicators yet that from a humanitarian point of view there is one very fundamental difference but in recent months he's been at the center of controversy after allegations of mismanagement involving his inner circle his deputy and his chief of staff quit in july but it's believed his chief advisor maria mohamedi seen here remains in her job a leaked ethics report said she was given a favored position to occur on most of his trips using his authority to secure her business class travel their relationship the report said created a toxic atmosphere the u.n. says after secretary general antonio good terrorists placed mr crack and bill on administrative leave of absence he finally resigned i think it's also important to

reiterate that the preliminary findings of the this oil worse report exclude fraud or misappropriation of operational funds by the commission or general they are however managed they were however managerial issues that need to be addressed someone was bumped up to business because they had a very favorable relationship with the commission in general with that amount to misappropriation off an order in your view i cannot go into further detail at this point i've spoken to ambassadors from many of the main donor countries to under and to those close to the un secretary general is a real feeling of dismay at the way things have worked out there's been a distraction in recent months from the important work the agency does for palestinians one gets the sense from most of them that they would have preferred the commissioner general to fall on his sword earlier jamesburg days al-jazeera at the united nations. thousands of bolivians i'm not sure the capital of passin

separate demonstrations both for and against president on raul is opponents say he committed fraud to get reelected last month but morales who is 11 his 1st indigenous leaders says the allegations are racist and the opposition is trying to mount a coup or matheson has more. for more than 2 weeks supporters and opponents of president evil borderless hope the rally in the libya's capital. day and night demonstrations have continued unresolved on both sides as hard and. we're going to radicalize the proteus and it does not matter if we give our lives for our children's freedom my mother fought for my freedom and rights in 2003 and i'm going to defend it for my children not getting. that there is yeah i do not want to be a servant of the united states previous governments have always been sevenths to the us and even wealthy people. even more $1.01 looked presidential

vote beating opposition candidate carlos mesa by 10 points but vote counting was halted for 24 hours when it restarted there was an unexplained shift in favor of marlice bolivia's 1st indigenous leader the vote is now being audited the results may not be available for several weeks morales says he now has a 4th term as president and the opposition is trying to seize control of the country. when they can't win the election they come up with a fraud you know we see that it's not a fraud but acquitted. supporters of but alice blocked an airport close to powers to stop opposition leader luis fernando come ashore reaching the capital commercial seen here wearing a black cap was forced to fly back to the eastern city of santa cruz ca marshall says he plans to return with a preview written resignation letter for president even. dollars to cyanide.

in mexico one person has been arrested in connection with the deaths of 9 u.s. citizens after a suspected drug cartel attack 3 women and 6 children were killed when gunmen opened fire on their cars near the town of his 8 children were found alive after escaping and hiding in the bush officials say it's likely to have been a case of mistaken identity the u.s. president donald trump has offered to help mexico wipe out drug cartels at least 3 more people have been killed in the iraqi capital baghdad as security forces attempted to disperse a large anti-government protest the iraqi human rights council says another 17 people were injured it comes after 2 protesters were killed overnight in the city of karbala south of the capital more than $260.00 people have lost their lives across iraq and demonstrations that began last month over corruption and high levels of unemployment that comes after iraq's prime minister says the cost of anti-government protesters blockading the country's main golf course has now

surpassed $6000000000.00 demonstrators have been blocking roads in and out of the us report for the past week on tuesday a protester was killed and dozens injured after security forces opened fire to disperse them the port which is just south of basra brings in most of iraq's food and medical imports where rocks a military spokesman says security forces have been ordered not to use live fire on protesters you know i think about you to avoid any confusion clear in strict instructions have been handed down that no live ammunition be used would have also been given not too low a new low of ammunition on the ceiling the. i was going to 2nd day of protests and hard to move for the death of a sudanese police officer in egypt and those are all 19 was one of the few officers who refused to attack protest as off they staged a sit in in front of the army headquarters and hard to see if said he knew who gave the orders for the attack and that he had the evidence to back up his claims. the

french government has announced tough a new immigration policy is cracking down on illegal migrants and preparing quotas for foreign workers they're seen as an attempt to win voters from the far right as natasha bought their reports from paris. after french capital meeting in paris france as prime minister edouard felipe announced a raft of new measures aimed at tightening the country's immigration policy. we must take back control of immigration taking back control means making clear choices about asylum and integration granting the right stay years actively based on our principles and goals rather than passively carried out as long as the cases . the government wants to introduce immigration quotas for workers and attempt to address the country's skilled labor shortage in industries such as construction they're also plans to tighten rules for asylum seekers access to health care would be limited and benefits more rigorously controlled the number of asylum

applications has increased in france in recent years and the government says it must crack down on those who abuse the system rights campaigners say that asylum seekers already face very difficult conditions in france many of them end up sleeping rough in makeshift camps like this one in paris in the 5th is the government's new measures will only make the situation worse. the prime minister says france most regain its sovereignty well before contour wants to be more southern which will start by getting rid of these undignified camps in our cities then we can talk about sovereignty and humanity. halfway through his presidential term emanuel macro is taking a tougher line on immigration but it's a gamble he may succeed in wooing voters away from his main political opponents the far right and stem the rise of what he calls dangerous populism but he also risks alienating some supporters who say that he's failing to uphold france's

humanitarian values the sasha butler al-jazeera paris. problems continue to mount the world's largest airplane manufacturer with safety concerns about more planes many boeing 737 and jesus being grounded after finding cracks in the wings while a whistle blower has pointed out a potential issue with oxygen on the 787 dreamliner. boeing want the pride of the skies is facing further turbulent. irish budget kerry o'brien there is the latest airline to ground some of the boeing 737 n.-g. planes in its fleet after finding cracks between the wings and the fuselage on 3 of their aircraft in the last month 50 boeing 737 and planes from various airlines around the world have been grounded for the same fault. the small cracks appeared in what's called the pickle forks structures that help secure the wings to the body

of the plane components that should last the plane's lifetime there are 7000 boeing 737 n.g.'s flying worldwide currently 1000 have been checked 50 have been found to have these cracks this is something boeing is addressing of course optics wise it's not a good look at the 737 max still grounded world wide and now more problems with the current and existing 737 the recalled planes are earlier versions of boeing 737 max aircraft a model involved in 2 crashes within 5 months that killed 346 people that entire fleet remained grounded its investigations continue. in 2014 al-jazeera exposed quality concerns at boeing south carolina factory in an exclusive investigation using undercover filming it looks at issues concerning another during the aircraft the 787 dreamliner now in a separate development

a former quality control engineer alleges that some of the oxygen systems fitted on the dreamliner could be foti boeing admits there was a problem with some oxygen bottles in 2017 but say that was addressed but travel sites are already offering the option to exclude certain aircraft from their searches boeing will have to reconvince the flying public if their safety. coming up very shortly going to bring you all the latest sports news a ground breaking story out of. the same as the man. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. with.

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as promised with andy. thank you mary and well an injury song went from douglas costa. into the last 16 of the european champions league a 21 win over lokomotiv moscow taking them through the knockout rounds. aaron ramsey handed uva an early lead in russia that is the italian side's 300 champion's league goal costas when it came in the 94th minute sorry our champions remain unbeaten in all competitions this season price on japan are on the verge of qualification for the knockout rounds well by munich all through to the last 16 after that so you know when overly m.p.r. cost by and fight the coach. on sunday with awesome vanga a possible replacements coaching is what it was my whole life until now and

everybody who is coach to read it to you would say you know you miss the intensity about something sunni's and something to do it nice. and so or i enjoy this world being so i don't miss too much but on the other. foot board game we knew football game of preparing a team for the game and players and get satisfaction emotions is something with us and iraq has been ordered by football's governing body fifa to find a neutral venue for its upcoming world cup qualifiers by thursday because of the worsening security situation in the country iraq were due to play iran and bahrain in pastoralist from this month but weeks events the government protests have seen hundreds of people killed last month to no whenever hong kong was the 1st time that iraq had played a competitive home international in a year is an ongoing civil unrest in chile has forced the final of south america's

top club competition a couple of its a tourist to be moved to peru the game between brazil's from ankara and river place of argentina was to have taken place in the capital santiago but it will now be played in lima. oh most of now we're come i don't think it would have been nice to play a copper look at the daughter's final in a country which is facing serious issues not just for us players but also for the fans journalists everybody that would be going there i think the protesters would have had a field day and something tragic could happen but thank god didn't change the location of the final to lima. the australian women's football team will now get paid the same as their male counterparts thanks to a landmark deal the matildas and socceroos is that no will each take an equal split of revenue generated by the national teams and a new contract system guarantees the top women's players will earn the same as the men the men have been paid more despite being ranked lower in the world compared to

the women this new deal is enormous as a female footballer it's kind of what we've always dreamed of we've always wanted to be treated equal we want to. step out on that pitch with equal opportunity in the equal facilities that the men have been exposed to a new c.b.s. show is signs of respect now we're going to be completely included i think. having these facilities that the men have been exposed to is now going to set us up for success world athletics is ditched several a limb picked disciplines from their elite competition the 200 meters 3000 meter steeple chase and triple jump to some of the events that won't feature in next year's diamond league organizers have reduced the number of disciplined soviet makes can fit into a 90 minute television window governing body the audible f. says the decision is based on fan research over 5000 meters long with a discus also on the way outs. well the dharma lay consists of a series of annual track and field events held around the world only $24.00

disciplines now 12 male and whole female will feature at all meetings according to research done by the league the 100 metres long jump and high jump most popular amongst fans relegated disciplines like the triple jump will be moved to a 2nd hits or of one day meetings and ahead of the united states anti-doping agency believes russia should be given a lengthy ban for state sponsored doping offenses travis tygart has been talking at a meeting of the world anti-doping agency in poland a decision on russia's sporting future is expected next month i think anything less than a multi-year suspension of the russian federation is good but will be terribly disappointing given the level of corruption and tainting of the olympic games they have done over the years here we are again on the brink of some major decisions that will impact its credibility and possibly put it on life support once again of the right decisions in accordance with the rules no one's asking for anything other than the

rules to be firmly in strictly enforced world heavyweight champion dion say while they believe tyson fury may yet dodge their rematch which is penciled in for next year while the takes on season later on this month but he still wants to face fieri after their fight last year ended in a draw fury's had a couple of fights since as well as a professional wrestling appearance afghanistan you're running you know if you're around as far as you care you know me but you got to remember he signed the contract you know me and when you saw. anybody know that the pin is a silent warrior you know me you have to pay consequences you're not a day so the fire will happen unless they give us the money well theories how to listen to that interview and posted this response on instagram. just great for you with all trees do your own thing up using my name very relevant you should be on 20 percent given your fair share. i don't know 33 in this walt i work hard for

everything so the thing is we walled cracow your own business and i'll see you feb 22nd to finish what i started. forming a one world champion a lewis hamilton has been celebrating his 6th title back at the messiah his factory in the united kingdom out in the championship at sunday's us called prix. i mean when i joined this team everyone said it was the worst decision that i could ever make and just everything every time arrive at the track and every time we come away with success and particularly in the year i just i don't have to say anything because i know the people that were saying that and i'll say now i knew do it ok that is how sports looking for now let's get back to marry him in london. thank you very much. for you but i will be back in a moment with much more of the day's news and all the bulletin coming up plus

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