passion. and very serious just. at least 10 protesters are shot dead across iraq as anger against the government shows no sign of letting up. as i'm seeking this is live from doha also coming up getting tough on protesters in chile the president introduces new measures to rein in violent demonstrations that have left at least 20 people dead. president former national security adviser is a no show at the impeachment inquiry john bolton says he'll testify only if

a court clears it. facebook unveils plans to avoid misinformation in the lead up to the u.s. elections after it was criticized for not doing enough to remove misleading political posts. below police in iraq fired on protesters in the southern city of basra killing at least 7 people demonstrators have been staging a sit in for days blocking the entrance to the port of. many iraqi cities have been gripped by weeks of protests there's anger over a lack of public services corruption and unemployment and iraq's capital at least 6 more demonstrators were shot dead on thursday the clashes broke out on show bridge where security forces used live fire against protesters. as more.

the forces 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 or of course the main source iraq's oil wealth 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 call that had told reporters at a press conference on wednesday as 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. well chile's president has announced new measures to clamp down on violence as demonstrations there continue for a 3rd week president sebastian pinera proposed laws that would toughen penalties for looting and rioting in america and tennessee newman reports from santiago. it's been 21 days of mass disturbances and demonstrations in chile and amid mounting

criticism for not controlling the violence that often accompanies peaceful protests presidents have a stamping it addressed the nation with a series of measures. we want to announce a public agenda to strengthen public order and better safeguard our citizens security we've lived days of tremendous violence vandalism and delinquency provoked in most cases by groups of organized crime. the 10 point plan includes outlawing barricades and the use of masks and other methods to disguise one's face including andrew stevens the role of intelligence services and the use of helicopters dream protests among others. wednesday the uptown headquarters of the conservative party which is part of being it is governing coalition were attacked and ransacked. we are facing coordinated and organized groups who are acting in a directed way we need to investigate this so that we can find the leaders of these violent groups who are causing destruction and i intelligence system wasn't

prepared for this type of violence and the threat of higher penalties hasn't dissuaded protesters perhaps not surprisingly the president's new and now trying to security measures coincide with the mass demonstrations moving uptown to an area that had been considered off limits that kind of always peace in the middle of 3 weeks of demonstrations because you can see this area which is the epicenter if you like the headquarters of the biggest businesses in the country are now being closed and surrounded by protesters. while most protest is insist they don't support violence some argue the car. evil is a necessary evil. but if it's a sort of pin yes says he listens to peaceful protests but what about those who have been demonstrating for more than 4 years but better penchants if those who started those protests had written a letter to the president instead of rushing the metro with the president listened know. that called for

a rare emergency meeting of chile's national security council opposition members and demonstrators accuse the president of trying to criminalize the protests while others lamented that he had not been so energetic about increasing penalties to curtail police brutality. oh you see in human al-jazeera sent out. a chuck walker is professor of history at the university of california davis he says president pena response to the protests have fed into the frustrations well he's very unpopular and he has not handled this at all well its popularity is going down the path of the very top and you know it with a regression and many other modern groups have just been horrified by seeing you know young young people beat on the streets reports of the tensions violence and and rapes and such and sexual violence really as women people recall the terrible years of pinochet and there's a lot of echoes very a lot of political humor about this so he's handled it on all fronts that it quite

poorly he also i think now is trying to win over time thinking that people will get hired of the broadcast and that the protests will go away if it's proving wrong or being stronger and stronger and the patients now with the the i are going against him. brazil's top court has overturned a law requiring criminals to go to jail after losing their 1st appeal it means thousands of prisoners including former president luis in nashville luna de silva could be released he was jailed in april last year as part of a wide ranging corruption probe. the acting white house chief of staff has been subpoenaed to testify at the impeachment inquiry on friday but it's unclear if mick mulvaney will appear because the white house has told officials not to comply trump's former national security adviser john bolton did not show up to the hearing on thursday bolton who was fired

in september says he will only testify if a federal court orders him to do so and the transcript of the testimony for a state department official who appeared before the inquiry last month has been released george can says he was told to quote 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 is the 4th transcript to be released from the inquiry on michael isikoff is chief investigative correspondent for yahoo news he says bolton's absence is not a surprise. nobody really expected john bolton to show up today for his testimony he had the same lawyer he has the same lawyer and his deputy his former deputy charles come from and who actually sued went to court seeking a judicial order as to whether or not he has to testify in response to

a subpoena when the white house has directed them not to because of executive privilege grounds that the committee the democrats have now withdrawn that subpoena because they did not see a favorable outcome coming from the judge who was assigned to that case he was a republican appointee a judge leon and they were afraid that the judge was not going to give the direct order for mr kopper men that they wanted so once they leave withdrew that they basically said we're not going to force this in court right now that affects mr goh bolton who will almost certainly not be testifying before the house the real question though is what happens when this goes to a trial in the senate and. whether i think it's very likely that there will be a requests by the democrats to bring mr bolton as a witness before a senate trial and i think the calculus there changes and we could well end up

hearing mr bolton's testimony it will be quite dramatic in a trial before the u.s. senate. quake in northwestern iran has killed at least 4 people and injured 70 others the magnitude 5.9 quake struck around 2 am local time near the town of huston iran's press t.v. is reporting 8 rescue teams would deploy to the area. became a fasteners president says his security forces will hunt down the people responsible for killing 47 employees of a mining company gunmen attacked a convoy of 5 buses from a canadian owned mine near in the east despite a military escort 60 people were injured and dozens more feared missing no one has claimed responsibility but groups linked to i saw an al qaeda have staged dozens of attacks in the region in recent years in an address to the nation president rock club already has called for unity to tackle the violence.

we must remain dignified and courageous that's why i willing gauge the defense and security forces to track these terrorists and i call all of our people to mobilize against the terrorists i oughta the recruitment of volunteers for the defense of the homeland in zone under threat only a general mobilization of the sons and daughters of the nation without any consideration for the region ethnicity political opinion and religious faith can defeat these murderous faithless lawless who dream of submitting our nation and our courageous people to their mercy. henry work and as a freelance journalist he says people are skeptical about the international response to the latest attacks. both of it's happening in kenya fast. have not been a true tribute to the 2. groups that are operating in the country. the government has

a very difficult time working out who is responsible for them but we do know. that this groups are operating in the country including islamic states in the great horror that's real islam but also some of these facts hoping for them to go home who are exploiting the lack of. the floor in particularly the north and the east of the country on monday the french defense minister if it's 15 fasten an answer they were going to carry out the 1st major deployment of french troops to begin in fact so. in terms of the reaction to that from the cannot be people there is a lot of mistrust of french troops arriving in kenya fact so a lot of people say it's very back to the colonial era in terms of whether it will actually do anything to stop the violence i think it's being sudden by analysts. bandaids. addressing the causes of the violence so.

perhaps we will see it with option but. it's anybody's guess still ahead on agitate a prominent cambodian cambodian opposition leader living in exile is frustrated in his efforts to return home. thousands of migrants are taking refuge in the french capital find themselves looking thing you. hello the snow has already fallen and for a time we can back off the difference between the cold air here on the walls in the south is this frontal zone it's been pretty act has been a lot of rain falling in texas kansas arkansas and northeast with the snow on the back edge to come through though be on the ground lying on the ground

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but again you're watching i just a reminder of our top stories this hour iraqi security forces have shot dead at least 7 protesters in boston several more were killed in baghdad and that's the spot a government promised to stop using live ammunition. the protests have continued in chile after the president announced tougher measures against rioters and looters at least 20 people have been killed in the last 3 weeks. the acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney has been subpoenaed to testify at the impeachment inquiry into u.s. president donald trump that's after refusal by former national security adviser john bolton to attend the hearing. a facebook has revealed to more details on how it plans to protect the 2020 u.s. election from foreign interference measures include securing the accounts of elected officials and making the ownership political pages more obvious the company's been criticized for not doing enough to remember. move misleading

information larry maggot is c.e.o. of connect safely dot org an internet safety and privacy and security organization which advises companies including facebook he joins us now from chicago thanks very much for being with us so 1st of all do these measures go far enough in combating political disinflation on facebook or far enough for the hard question and for they certainly go a long way compared to where facebook was in 2016 when it was caught completely unaware and had no defense against the attack on our election so they've certainly made progress since then whether it's enough remains to be thing but at least they're moving in the right direction are there ways that people can get around can get around this that the people who are who are sending these these ads can can can bypass the measures i'm sure there are i mean i don't think anybody expects that facebook is going to be 100 percent successful in preventing any

interference in the election either in the u.s. or another country but if they can cut down on it if they can at least make a theory of effort in that direction that's going to help but i think there will be ways around it i'm not clever enough to know exactly how that what they're going to do but given the amount of resources available to russia and other state actors and others and the stakes here i'm sure that they're going to put a lot of effort into getting around it and will be at least partially successful well twitter announced a few days ago that they would ban all political ads on their platform and it's is it unlikely to you the facebook will do the same and if so why. it's hard to know if there are there are reports that google may be making an announcement in that direction thune as well although they're not confirmed i don't know mark zuckerberg was very clear where he said that he wanted to continue taking

the the ads even though he said there wasn't much money in it for facebook but he argued that it with a free speech issue that he doesn't want to interfere with the free speech of a politician i think at the very least they should ban ads or take down ads that have been shown to be factually incorrect but if the if the at the end of the day they may be better off not accepting the ads at all we'll just see what they what they decide to do but right now they're taking the ads and they're not fact checking them. is it because there's too much money to be made i don't think it i think in the scheme of things it's not that much money for facebook i do think it's an ideology on the part of dr berg he really strongly believes that politicians should be able to advertise and they should be fact checked but i think he may change of mind a given the backlash after he said that in congress there were a lot of people on both the political across the political spectrum who thought that it was kind of a silly position to to get your perspective on this larry magid joining us there

from chicago thanks for being with us. thank you very much now the president of south sudan and the opposition leader have once again delayed forming a unity government president salva kiir and his longtime rival rick mush are great to extend the deadline by 100 days they met in uganda for talks but were unable to resolve differences over a peace deal 2 men fell out in 2013 sparking a civil war the left hundreds of thousands of people dead kiram a shark signed a truce last september. and the international criminal court has sentenced a former congolese rebel leader to 30 years in prison bosco and again they're also known as the terminator and served time for war crimes committed in the democratic republic of congo's north eastern into the region catherine soy reports from q one ger in east india r.c. model rape and conscripting children a soldier's offenses committed by. 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 job for a rape of civilians as a crime against humanity and as a war crime for 28 years for a murder attempt an attempted murder as a crime against humanity and as a war crime said to yours. for prosecution as a crime against humanity. of imprisonment. into ganda was called the time in a time by people in eastern democratic republic of congo the crimes committed by the patch arctic force for the liberation of congo rebel group included modern

sexual violence and the sexual slavery of female child soldiers one as young as 9 in tug on the lead the military wing thomas lubanga was the head of the group and is serving 14 years in jail at the i.c.c. this man says his 2 brothers were killed by the fighters. we lost many family members sisters brothers uncles we also lost a lot of property you tory might be the focus of intent and is 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 gondor 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 one lost a loved one of those we talked to said. and the fighters he led them off protecting

a rival rebel they also say they want justice kill of one like you and rebecca shows us has cause she says her husband and one year old son was killed in. what's happening with entire gonda should be a deterrent to all those who want to come and terrorize us in the villages those people destroyed all lives and a gun that is the 4th person to be convicted by the i.c.c. . turi sais 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. a cambodian opposition leaders from a band political party are being prevented from returning home they want to lead protests on saturday against prime minister hun sen laura burdon manly 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. and the allowed to vote or to try the national. right for hundreds of thousands of research they have received from very high up the instruction not to allow me to. his deputy musak is 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 since being released

a day before her news conference in jakarta was interrupted by the come podium ambassador to indonesia so you hear. what he can do. but she says. she's a criminal we have chosen to go back home to cambodia. we have high hopes that. chair. would be on the side cambodian democrat. party's acting leader sam rainsy has been part of cambodia's police. for decades he was the finance minister under a unity government in the early 1990 s. . the 400 senseis power in a coup in 1970 reigns he says have his own opposition party but he left cambodia many times to avoid government charges against him cambodia trying to bully all its

neighbors keep c.n.r. the exiles out or arrest them and send them back we don't think that anybody actually embody a dirty work to arrest people and actually. argue c.n.r. fissionables like all cambodians have the right to return to their country and. 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. laura has a manly outas there are other french president has criticized nato calling it brain dead in an interview with the economist magazine emmanuel mccall warned your p. and countries they can no longer rely on the united states to defend the alliance says nato is suffering from a lack of coordination and u.s. unpredictability german chancellor angela merkel says she disagrees with my calls

quote just think words. a police in france of dismantled a makeshift camp in paris home to thousands of migrants and refugees it happened just a day after the french government announced tighter immigration policies it's the latest in a series of canned closures throughout the capital with more still to come natasha butler reports from powers 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 immigration here it's not good environment it's very cold and over there is to call. also every time a strain i mean there's

a ground this really is not for good for like in recent years police of evacuated a number of similar camps in the city the mayor of paris at the situation was inhumane and she urged the french government to do more to help check phone this and so we'll put you up through 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 or 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 do. i 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 camp clearance comes one day off to the french government's announced new measures to tighten its immigration policy assigned for 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 sasha butler al jazeera paris at least 9

people have drowned trying to reach spain's canary islands their boat capsized want to hit rocks close to lands a rotty early on wednesday 15 people were thought to be on board the dinghy when it set off from a good deal in morocco. this is to get a round up of the top stories iraqi security forces have shot dead at least 7 protesters in basra that follows reports of protesters tried to break into government buildings and in baghdad at least 6 protesters were shot dead that's the spot a government promise to stop using live ammunition how much has more from baghdad. it seems as though the demonstrators in all the cities across iraq basically no matter the violence or the threat of mormons state they are committed to this

course of beers and they want to in essence read down the political elites in this country and they want to expect some sort of mass change chile's president has announced tougher measures against violent protesters president sebastian pinera those laws to increase penalties for looting and rioting at least 20 people have been killed in the last 3 weeks you see newman has reaction from santiago part of the measures include prohibiting the use of people from covering their faces during the demonstrations putting up barricades the police will also be given far more more money to improve intelligence and also the use of helicopters overflying demonstrations this is not gone down down 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 or the acting white house chief of staff has been subpoenaed to testify at the impeachment inquiry it's unclear if mick mulvaney will appear because the white house has told officials not to comply u.s. president donald trump is accused of abusing his power by pressuring ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden a chump's former national security adviser john bolton did not show up to the hearing on thursday his lawyer says bolton won't appear voluntarily. brazil's top court has overturned a law requiring convicted criminals to go to jail after losing their 1st the pale that means thousands of prisoners including former president louisiana the silver could be released he was jailed in april last year as part of a wide ranging corruption probe those are the headlines faultlines is next. in 2020 tokyo will host the paralympic night with the nation as a troubled history caring for people with disabilities one i want to. japan's

disability. now to the era. these grainy images from a chill surveillance camera captured one of the last days of madeleine pickens life what do we know about madeleine's final hours day suffer greatly suffer greatly nobody came to her. on april 17th 2014 madeleine was booked on a drug charge at a cello in oregon. that's her slumped down and struggling to stand her body goes through heroin withdrawal. she died 3 days later after pleading for help from the chelles for profit medical contractor a company called corrosive. she says the chaplain from the jail and another police officer came.