but the most russian goals will be a treaty not peace and war. russia on al-jazeera. at least temper testers are shot dead across iraq as anger against the government shows no sign of letting up. on how the market in this is al-jazeera live from doha also coming up getting tough on protesters chile's president introduces new measures to rein in violence anti government demonstrations that have left at least 20 people dead. president

transformer national security adviser is a no show at the impeachment inquiry john bolton says he will testify only if a court clears it's. the former congo these military leader known as the terminator gets 30 years in prison for war crimes including murder rape and recruiting child soldiers. police in iraq are far don't antigovernment protesters in the southern city of basra killing at least 7 people demonstrators had been staging a sit in for days now blocking the entrance to the ports of cars are many iraqi cities have been gripped by weeks of antigovernment protests as anger over a lack of public services corruption and unemployment well in iraq's capital at least 6 more protests were shot dead on thursday security forces fired at demonstrators on the shuhada bridge have

a junction has more from baghdad. curity courses used live fire on protesters outside of government buildings there there are also reports that some protesters may have been trying to storm government buildings and bus are of course the main source of iraq's oil wealth and demonstrations as you indicated have been going on there and not just port also you had thousands of demonstrators that are gathering around other government installations you had a group in the past few days to block the entrance the bus the provinces and also the oil refinery you had official to come out in the past few days saying that this type of activity is costing the government billions of dollars so attention continuing to rise about that we must stress so that we have not been able to get any type of government confirmation yet with regard to these latest reports be it

didn't basra the violence there for the violence that you spoke about in baghdad there are these reports now in baghdad that several anti-government protesters have 24 hours have been shot all of this happening against this backdrop where you had iraq's military spokesman saying on wednesday that security forces had been ordered not to use live fire on demonstrators and major general abizaid couldn't cut that had told reporters at a press conference on wednesday he had said to avoid any confusion clear and strict instructions had been handed down that no live ammunition being used orders have also been given to not allow any live ammunition on the scene of protests. chile's president has announced new measures to clamp down on violent government demonstrations carry on for a 3rd week earlier on thursday protesters shouted at the health minister he was visiting a hospital in the chilean capital president sebastian pinera proposed to toughen

penalties for looting and rioting especially by people hiding their faces from mosques a series of concessions have failed to pacify the protests is all to serious latin america it's good to see human isn't something. presidents have a stamping it has called for a highly unusual meeting of the national security council which i haven't met in this country since 2014 thereby sending a message that things in the country are more serious than some may believe this came on the heels of announcement of new measures to try to curtail the violence that has often been associated with these protests he says that they're being carried out by isolated but very very violent groups she says are organized by being led by organized crime although he gave no specific evidence of this at least not yet part of the measures include prohibiting the use of people from covering their faces during the demonstrations putting the barricades the police will also be given far more one money doing prove intelligence and also the use of

helicopters overflying demonstrations this is not on don gone down very well with the demonstrators who say that this is just an attempt to try to criminalize the protests while the opposition says that people will continue to protest until the government really gets the message that would people need is substantial change social change an economic change. the former national security advisor to donald trump has failed to appear before the impeachment inquiry into the president john bolton was formally asked to testify on thursday but his lawyer says his client won't appear voluntarily bolton who was fired by president trump in september says he would only be willing to testify if the federal courts backs a congressional directive asking him to do so it means inquiry centers on whether president trump abused his power by pressuring ukraine to investigate his political rival chills biden and the transcripts of the testimony of the state department

official who appears before the inquiry last month has been released george kent says he was told to keep his head down on ukraine by senior colleagues despite the country being part of his portfolio he also criticized the apparent influence of the president's personal lawyer rudy giuliani in shaping ukranian policy it's the 4th transport to be released from the inquiry let's get more now from and together he joins us live from washington d.c. and say starting with the impeachment inquiry just talk us through the significance of the latest revelations. well john bolton being a no show is not really much of a surprise i think the democrats were quite prepared to push on without him regardless i think really what people are looking forward to now or looking to now is a new chapter in this impeachment process which is open public hearings which begin

next week that is the democratic party's real solid chance to present to the american people their case against president trump and that he was trying to withhold military aid in return for dirt on a political foe and there are 3 key witnesses next week we've got marie you're one of which the former ambassador to ukraine we've got george when you were just talking about his deposition which was released today and then you've got bill taylor who's all highly connected to ukraine all who've been quite vocal in. how upset they've been with president trump and what happened in these phone calls so i think that is the attention of the democratic party right now because millions of people will be watching this it's not behind closed doors as it has been over the past few weeks it's out in the public eye and it gives the democrats a real chance to set their case to the american people never mind the politicians this is all about convincing the american public something went very wrong here and the impeachment proceedings against president trump should go forward. meanwhile

and the pressure on the u.s. president seems to be increasing after his foundation was fined $2000000.00 tell us more. you know this is a judge's decision basically saying that on trump used the trump foundation a charitable foundation to further his own political gains he was using his campaign workers were working in conjunction with the foundation and the route to the iowa caucuses in 2016 that's not supposed to happen he had a portrait commissioned for $10000.00 using foundation money he since gave that back and he settled some legal claims at his golf club in florida all things that are not supposed to happen with a charitable foundation the $2000000.00 fine will now go to an a range of different charities but clearly not good news for president trump it doesn't look good but i think far more attention would be paid to this story if not for the impeachment proceedings ok and to gallacher their life as in d.c.

thank you very much indeed. the international criminal court says sentenced a former congolese rebel leader to 30 years in prison both going to grand also known as the terminator will serve time for war crimes that were committed in the democratic republic of congo's northeastern it turi region catherine so i reports from q one ger in eastern d r c mada rape and conscripting children a soldier's offenses committed by post contact and that along with other war crimes have led to him being sentenced to 3 decades in prison he ordered fighters to carry out attacks in the tora province over to yes in 200220032 drive out one ethnic community judges of the international criminal court in the hague described his involvement in atrocities carried out by rebel soldiers as a substantial. parade of civil unions as a crime against humanity and as

a war crime vent the a.t.'s for a manager and attempt an attempted murder as a crime against humanity and as a war crime said he is for prosecution as a crime against humanity said 2 years of imprisonment a move into ganda was called the time in a time by people in eastern democratic republic of congo the crimes committed by the patchy arctic force for the liberation of congo rebel group included mada sexual violence and the sexual slavery a female child soldiers one as young as 9 and tug on the lead the military wing thomas lubanga was the head of the group and the 714 years in jail at the i.c.c. this man says his 2 brothers were killed by the fighters with a different musical being the we lost many family members sisters brothers uncles we also lost a lot of property. it to remind be the focus of an attack on this case but in

another town more than 800 kilometers south victims of a massacre where 150 people were killed in one day in 2006 have been following court proceedings kinley they claim to have done to was one of the leaders of rebel fighters who attacked their villages in q one and was in charge of the killings almost everyone here in q. and a lost a loved one of those we talked to said what's going on and the fighters he led to use them off protecting a rival rebel they also say they want justice of when they queue and unthought rebecca shows us has scars she says her husband and one year old son were killed in isn't it what's happening with entire gonda should be a deterrent to others who want to come and terrorize us in the villages those people destroyed our lives and again that is the 4th person to be convicted by the i.c.c. . in it turi say's he deserves to be in jail for life rebecca. is

still waiting for justice catherine saw al-jazeera q one job he's done democratic republic of congo. the presidents of south sudan and the opposition leader have once again delayed forming a unity government president salva kiir and his longtime rival rear agreed to extend the deadline by $100.00 days they met in uganda for talks but were unable to resolve differences over a peace deal the 2 men fellow gets in 2013 sparking a civil war that left hundreds of thousands of people dead their parts they signed a truce last september. still to come on al-jazeera thousands of refugees each taken refuge in the french capital find themselves looking for new homes. and a prominent cambodian opposition leader who's been living in exile is frustrated since his efforts to return home to campaign.

what is almost stopped raining now in china still cloud out in the west as to cloud in the east by satellite picture but in the forecast there's really not much there all the action is still over the water in fact you go circulation here and one behind me so that still quite active but if you're in hong kong or shanghai it's lotion miti temperatures still reasonable coming down slowly for the most part on the skies cloudy or ensure we do but it is the king mostly dry now that spin is yet another tropical cyclone developing to the west the philippines it will most certainly drift towards the vietnamese coast following is brother or sister which he is or has reappeared in the bay of bengal now that is

a rare event but that's where all the energy is so there are all that many showers further south through borneo to be a few maybe soloway see much of indonesia looks pretty dry through sumatra it looks cloudy was some rain blocking kalen and a pin in thailand as well maybe in myanmar but not much around at the moment however in the bay of bengal is a tropical cyclone has been renamed as bulbul and it might well become pretty nasty on its way study notes was to make landfall bringing big waves and shoot amounts of rain by sunday. the weather sponsored by katherine. when an ethiopian mother put her daughter up for adoption she knew little of what was to come. with family bonds severed a traumatized child tone between 2 worlds struggles to return home in a profoundly human story exposing deep flaws in denmark's adoption system having.

a girl in return a witness documentary on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera a quick reminder of the headlines this hour iraqi security forces have opened fire on anti-government protesters in the southern city of basra and the capital baghdad killing at least 10 people demonstrations over corruption unemployment and poor public services have gripped iraq for over a month. and the government protesters in chile have shouted down the health minister as he visited the hospital to meet people injured during demonstrations

the president has proposed tough laws to toughen penalties for looting and rioting . and all trumps former national security advisor fail to appear before the impeachment inquiry into the president john bolton says he'll only testify if a federal court orders him to do so. cambodian opposition leaders from a band's political party are being prevented from returning home they want to lead protests on saturday against prime minister who sent. or burton has more. from his home in paris sam rainsy says he's determined to return to cambodia he's been in exile for much of the past decade raese says he wants to gather other opposition politicians from the band cambodian national rescue party to lead protests against prime minister. was telling us he says it's to

restore democracy to the country but as he arrived as an airport in paris in an effort to return home this happened and not enough for me to. i'm not allowed to vote or to try international. right and so i visited. a certain have received from very high up in the structure not to allow the to hold his deputy musak it's one of several opposition leaders who fled from cambodia fearing arrest she to try to return to cambodia but was detained after landing in malaysia and has since been released. a day before her news conference in jakarta was interrupted by the come podium ambassador to indonesia so you're here then. why are you going to come. but she's a really difficult here. she's a criminal we have chosen to go back home to cambodia.

we have high hopes that. that chair. would be on the side of cambodia democrat. party's acting leader sam rainsy has been part of cambodia's political fold for decades he was the finance minister under a unity government in the early 1990 s. . before 100 senseis power in a coup in 1970 he says of his own opposition party but he left cambodia many times to avoid government charges against him cambodia trying to bully all its neighbors . c.n.r. exiles out or arrest them and send them back we don't think that anybody actually embody the dirty work to arrest people and actually. argue c.n.r.

. like all. have the right to return to their country. sam rainsy says he's ready to return home and bring an end to prime minister hun sen's government and restore democracy in cambodia even if it means prison or worse laura has a manly al-jazeera. the french president has criticized nato calling it brain dead in an interview with the economist magazine manual mccrone warned european countries they can no longer rely on the united states to defend the alliance micron's says nato is suffering from a lack of coordination and u.s. predictability german chancellor angela merkel says she disagrees with microphones quote drastic words tony c. is a former georgian deputy foreign minister he says other nato members are unlikely to agree with macro. even we if we can agree on the currency analysis about

the problematic issues inside nato such as the american and been american presidents had to just always lease open a zation the problems with turkey i think he's. conclusion and so he the solutions he's proposing are quite radical and nato still remains the most powerful defense alliance in the world. if we just look at the head of military budgets and the military capacities of the countries that are involved in this organization organization they are still far far ahead. had their their immediate competitors like china russia or some other countries if he wants to replace neato with the idea of european defense i think france will be almost alone in this in this project because most of the member states are pretty much pretty much attached to nato and the membership especially the countries of eastern and central europe also

the other proposals are for me one micron of being close to russia and bring russia closer to europe and far away from china i think it's also a mistake because it's deeply underestimating their the nature of the russian regime and the fact that russian regime has to share its shares much more with china than with europe. police in france have dismantled a makeshift camp in paris home to thousands of migrants and refugees it happened just one day after the french government announced tighter immigration policies this is the latest in a series of camp cautions throughout the capital with more still to come and sasha butler reports from paris hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers sheltered from the cold and rain as french police evacuated a camp in northern paris before dawn among them families with young children for

months nearly 2000 people had been living in desperate conditions in flimsy tents wedged between roads with no sanitation most were from sudan somalia or afghanistan it's a really bad condition for all the immigration here it's. not good environment it's very cold you know where there is to call. also a set every time a strain i mean there's a ground this really is not far but for like in recent years police of evacuated a number of similar camps in the city the mayor of paris said the situation was inhumane and she urged the french government to do more to help check phones and this and so we'll put you high proof each time we're told it won't happen again if we don't want this to happen again we need a proper system that recognizes people's rights and gives them a dignified reception a country should be capable of this. as daylight broke people carried their

possessions and boarded buses french authorities said they'd be taken to shelters in the paris region to assess whether they have the right to apply for asylum. as workers began cleaning up police said officers would remain on scientists to prevent future camps in the area where the road here remains closed but most of the tents have been cleared away the cleanup operation is continuing but what is happening is that there are some migrants who are coming back they perhaps live somewhere else last night and they're finding that all their possessions and gone and they don't know what to do. this somali man didn't want to be identified but he told me that he had lost all his belongings he said it was the 3rd time he'd been evacuated from a camp in paris and experience that campaigners say is all too common for we don't know yet what solutions are proposed besides temporary housing in a sports hall we have to think about the long term and not only about today that's what's important some people are leaving today but what will happen in 2 weeks in a year can those people stay in this housing and not go back to living on the streets the cam clearance comes one day off to the french government announced new

measures to tighten its immigration policy assigned to some that the government serious about cracking down but activists say the evacuation is little more than political p.r. because unless there's a better system to humanely manage migrants who arrive in france vulnerable people who continue to end up in the street the sash al-jazeera paris. at least 9 people have drones trying to reach spain's canary islands their boat capsized when it hit rocks course the lands of all sea early on wednesday 15 people were thought to be on board that any when it set off a magazine or in morocco. forces in spain go to the polls on sunday for the 2nd time this year the election was called in september after the socialist party failed to gain enough parliamentary supports to form a government one of the key issues will be the independence for catalonia a divisive issue that recently spark process in barcelona journalist there and he

sent us this reports. when spain's supreme court found 9 catalan separatist leaders guilty of sedition in the pursuit of independence shock quickly turned to anger on the streets of barcelona with satellite in a series of late night confrontations with police and the question of capital and independence came to dominate yet another election campaign spain's 4th in 4 years . it's a very difficult moment on india and i can only speak for myself not for others because people have reacted in different ways. husband joachim was catalonia interior minister when the region held its illegal referendum on independence in 2017 he was given a 9 year jail sentence or you could build. if you need the money and i think this ends any hope of reconciliation and also any confidence that people had to find

a political solution there was a time for that but i think it's over now. the clamor for independence that divides the country also divides catalans a greater proportion of whom according to the polls don't support the cause like business owner river dooley or societies in order to to grow to develop they need stability stability is the main ground for confidence when this confidence and the companies investors consumers spend money sell everything into whole everything it's at this moment in stable so at this moment we're out we can say that we are society on whole it looks as if one so again a divided catalonia will not find comfort in the ballot box it's true that the session is to question is the big issue in this election but that's mainly because the big parties are competing against one another over who takes the hardest line against catalan independence at the landing and its role has come to all these

events another then another level because it falls like. silence of the status quo on the stability of the of the state and it's a challenge that nobody seems to have any answer for you know not so far i would say. my impression is that this is going to be enough sort of like us they made their situation for a few years the polls predict no majority when a socialist leader pedro sanchez is expected to score highest and will likely try again to form a coalition but no scenario offers hope to the separatist cause in catalonia so the scenes that followed the sentencing of its leaders in october may turn out to be among the last desperate throws of a movement with nowhere left to turn jonah how al-jazeera barcelona. the zealand has passed a climate change law in that reducing its net carbon emissions to 0 by 2050 the

bill was passed with near unanimous support an independent climate change commission will be formed to monitor progress. meanwhile italy is introducing mandatory lessons on climate change in all public schools students will learn about the subject from primary through to high school it's the 1st country in the world to make studying sustainability and climate change compulsory monica for sony is an italian politician and co-chair of the european green party she says making climate change a compulsory subject in schools is a step in the right direction needs to be as in many other countries we do have a lot of climate negotiations people that think that james doesn't exist or at least is not well by human activity in there or cannot be stopped but i believe that based ourselves on science and they mean it's a very. good discussion also to the agenda 2030 the un

goals in sustainable development which are accepted by everyone so i think that there are ways in which it is possible of course to present a discussion because not that there is not only one way to be a good government change but the fact that resenting what the issue is and what the consequences are really are of climate change i think that this is beyond in doubt at a time a limb pick triple jump champion christian taylor is urging athletes to unionize and to mount a greater say in how their sport is run this fall as world at last 6 to 7 to drop several disciplines from its elite series of events the 200 meters 3000 meter stick which chase and triple jump are among 8 disciplines being axed from next year's diamond clique organizers reshape the format so it can fit into a 90 minutes television window. it is an effort to unify professional track and field athletes from around the world to just have a boys have a presence when these systems are being made when when decisions are even being

thought about i wish athletes had more presents walked into it on the decision making and this is hopefully going to be an effort that the athletes can come together and make a stand united united stand united front it's an olympic year to bayport year these dima the competitions really get you the exposure the experience i guess the top athletes in the world but now the athletes will have to see other meats go to different countries go to different events to try to get that competition in preparation for the tokyo 2020 olympics. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines police in iraq have fired on nancy government protesters in the southern city of basra killing at least 7 people demonstrators have been staging a sit in for danes unlocking the entrance to the port of custer and interacts capital several more protests as for shopping day it's on thursday security forces

were reported to have used live fire that's despite a government promise not to use live ammunition on a junction has more full. it seems as though the demonstrators in all the cities across iraq that basically no matter the marlins or the threat of mind once they may face they are committed to this cause a very they want to annex and bring down the political elites in this country and they want to effect some sort of mass change. chile's president has announced new measures to clamp down on violence as anti-government demonstrations carry on for a 3rd week earlier on thursday protestors shouted at the health minister who was visiting a hospital in the chilean capital a series of concessions have failed to pacify the protesters. former u.s. national security adviser john bolton has not appeared before the impeachment

inquiry into president trump he was asked to testify on thursday but his lawyer says his client wants a pair voluntarily bolton who was fired by president trump in september says he would only be willing to testify if a federal court orders him to do so. at least 9 people have drones trying to reach spain's canary islands their boats capsized when it hit rocks close to lands of rossi early on weapons say 15 people were thought to be on board that any when it set off for a magazine or in morocco 4 were rescued and another 2 are still missing spain is one of the main european destinations for migrants and refugees who try to make the dangerous journey from north africa for those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story stay with us.

this week marks 30 years since the berlin wall came down it signaled the end of a decades long cold war that bitterly divided east and west so what sort of legacy did the wall leave behind and did it bring about a new world order this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm darren jordan it was the single most important moment since the end of the 2nd world war on the night of november 9th 1909 the berlin wall came down it drew to a close one of europe's dock.