as i put from questions to my special guests and challenging them to some straight talking political debate here on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. and i am is the problem and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes they are replacing international law with the law of the jungle. palestinians condemned the u.s. for a versing a decades old policy on israeli settlements. 2 key witnesses who had the contentious func call between donald trump and ukraine's leader gets set to testify at the impeachment inquiry and. protesters in lebanon blocked

politicians from holding their 1st parliamentary session in a month. in sports there is in a recurring returns as manager of spain the former barcelona boss returning to the job 5 months after the death of his baby daughter. the united nations says israeli settlements in occupied palestinian territory. a breach of international law that's after a u.s. decision to not longer consider israeli settlements and legal well russia has also reaffirmed at stars that the settlements are illegal while palestinians have been condemning the decision israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu went to the west bank he celebrated the announcement as a quote huge achievement that fixed a wrong rosalyn jordan reports from washington d.c. . for 41 years the u.s. has called israeli settlements built in the occupied west bank illegal under

international law that u.s. policy changed on monday calling the establishing of civilian settlements inconsistent with international law hasn't worked it hasn't invents the cause of peace this is a complex political problem that can only be solved by negotiations between the israelis and the palestinians pump ailes announcement is the latest in a string of controversial white house moves designed to support israel recognizing jerusalem as israel's official capital moving the u.s. embassy there from tel aviv in 2018 and forcing the palestinians to close their office in washington leaving them no diplomatic presence in the u.s. apart from at the united nations pomp a.o. said the policy change had nothing to do with benny gantz as efforts to form a new israeli government so the timing of this was not tied to anything that had to do with domestic politics anywhere in israel or otherwise this was about we were

done we finished we conducted our review and this was the appropriate time to move forward the current israeli government was thrilled. this is a historic day and another great achievement after president trump recognized jerusalem as the capital of recognize all sovereignty over golan heights and now put an end to the lie that settlements are illegal nation from jordan and from hamas we warn against dangerous consequences of the us change of position a continuation of u.s. policy to support occupation from the palestinian leadership not just anger but also a call to action that's prole is that i was a patient. war crimes and this is constituent a major threat to international peace and security and this is. international community from the rules of international law that all wars of solving conflicts by free support means and to the horrors of the. the european union and many other countries say the settlements violate un security council resolutions and undermine

the chances of a 2 state solution but even with what the u.s. says are the hopes of renewed peace talks the embassy has issued a security warning knowing some could target american interests in israel and the occupied territories in protest rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. well let's bring in neda abraham our correspondent is live for us and ramallah in the occupied west bank as a nother blow for palestinians one of the but is this some comfort in the united nations and russia saying their stance hasn't changed. the international community has made it clear in several occasions the u.n. and the e.u. by saying that these settlements are against international law however on the ground they have been under construction since 1967 if course it goes on abs and flows sometimes we see an acceleration of building for example in the time since

donald trump was elected as the us president the israeli plans to build more settlements has doubled in comparison with the 3 years before that so it's an issue that palestinians have been fighting against and talking about over the years they feel that the israelis are trying to kind of impose facts on the ground and then building these settlements which are against international law but then asking everybody to accept them as kind of like this is the scene are you that we're living with right now for palestinians this is one of the main issues of the conflict it's something that they deal with on a daily basis there are more than $250.00 illegal israeli settlements and outposts in different areas in the occupied west bank into including east jerusalem and some would tell you that they have rendered the west bank into a piece of swiss cheese whereby the settlements are connected with a network of roads infrastructure checkpoints and what have you and they are also

taking up palestinian resources and all of that person is would tell you is killing any opportunity for a contiguous future palestinian state it's neither thank you for that announce that neither abraham live in ramallah let's bring in our senior political analyst madam on bashar he is joining us from our broadcast center in london. as we've been hearing on the u.n. russia you know saying that they haven't changed their stance and once again we have the u.s. diverging with international norms. well certainly the united nations or russia have no weight in what goes on in israel palestine because since a number of decades certainly since 991 it was the united states that dictated the diplomatic and the non diplomatic reality on the ground in israel palestine so really everyone else just talks it's the united states that has these to teach

equate and the leverage with israel and it used to be with palestine in order to make things or break things and just to nuance a bit our report about the u.s. policy on the question of settlements let me just summarize it or in few seconds yes since 97 to 8 the united states did consider the settlements illegal in the 10 years prior to that after $67.00 there were seen as in egypt emits in the eyes of various american administrations but they did nothing or little about it the reagan administration did not exactly see the settlements as illegal although they pushed for freezing the settlements the clinton administration was more than happy to ask after the 1st after the 1st bush administration for a freeze of the settlements but the israelis never responded positively for that now that's or

a number that was all poseurs illegal in 1998 after the carter administration was advancing a peace agreement between israel and egypt. bush jr did not really look seriously about the freezing of the settlements and we ended up with obama basically turning his back on his own promise in cairo for israel to freeze the settlements and now we have the thump in this tradition that sees a major weakness in the arab political order that sees real division and weakness among the palestinians themselves taken advantage of all of that with his eventually call an extreme zionist base in order to see this settlements as illegal the refugees have no right to return and jerusalem as capital of israel so really the trump administration is reshaping the american policy towards israel palestine and sidelining the international community in favor of the extreme netanyahu

government and further alienating if that was possible the palestinians madman whose byan israelis the international community needs if any said notion to the conflict is ever possible. absolutely and you could have you could've thought that they couldn't in it the palestinians anymore but yes they are but unlike what the palestinian spokesman or leaders of etiquette said earlier it didn't really turn from the law of international law to the law of jungle they basically are trying to turn it from the international law to israeli law basically giving way to israel to impose its own laws in the occupied territories and that would be fine if then we will all recognize that there is one sovereignty between the river and the mediterranean and that is a palestinian israeli sovereignty edge own sovereignty if you will and hence impose

local loads on customs the problem with imposing israeli law on occupied territories is that if 1st of all it is illegal 2nd of all it does defy the international committee and 3rd of all that it will create even more hostility among the palestinians because that's is in short a new form of a part tate. what should the palestinians do they should stop being angry and start being smart 1st of all no longer for look for saviors from washington brussels or even cairo and start looking for solutions domestically but 1st and foremost unite how could the palestinians expect anyone to come to their help how could they ever expect to succeed if they themselves are divided they need to not unite and but unite on what unite on a clear strategy on a clear vision because if they don't or another elections that is totally divisive

under the occupation no democracy or no sovereignty or not dependence that would only need to further divisions among the palestinians they need to sideline this whole point of the elections unite on a program and i think that program form and then the electrical point of view could no longer be a 2 state solution because the 2 state solution is dead buried and and now they need to think about how they're going to approach the one state to reality how they're going to be living with israelis on the one sovereign independent state where jews christians and muslims but a citizen israelis live equally under the law that ron thank you as always for your ira and science that is our senior political analyst madame understand live and learn to thank you.

public impeachment hearings against the u.s. president is set to resume shortly in what could be an explosive 2nd week of testimony from 9 witnesses donald trump is accused of pressure in ukraine into digging up dirt on his political rival joe biden but it's take a look at the fall officials who testify on tuesday jennifer williams is a foreign service a vice president mike pence she has listened to president trump's ukraine phone call and has said it struck her as inappropriate she'll be testifying alongside left and kowtow alexander vend been who also heard the phone call at the center of the inquiry now a little later in the day the committees will hear from could volcker the former u.s. special envoy for ukraine where he's denied participating in any effort to dig up dirt on joe biden and the national security council's former official in charge of overseeing russia and europe policy will also give evidence tomorrow said it had told investigators that he had concerns over trump allegedly withholding u.s.

aid to ukraine to get an investigation into joe biden we will speak to a white house correspondent kelly holcomb shortly but 1st let's go to heidi show koster she's joining us live from capitol hill and the democrats will be hoping that this quartet of witnesses heidi will be able to flesh out various parts of the narrative here. that's right elizabeth and if we look at the morning's witnesses 1st these are both national security experts on ukraine who were listening to that phone call on which the american president donald trump asked the president of ukraine to open investigations into trump's political opponents in the u.s. and these 2 witnesses used very similar language to describe what they thought of the call alexander vended who is on the national as a staffer on the national security council within the white house he said that he was concerned and he immediately alerted white house attorneys to what he thought

may have been something improper and jennifer williams the 2nd witness this morning she works for the vice president's office and she described that call as inappropriate and view joie and those descriptions from both these witnesses have earned them the ire of the president they've been both attacked as never a trump arrest by the president on twitter there's no evidence to suggest that either of these 2 have ever said anything or thought anything are have been on the record been opposed to president trump and particularly for alexander venom and the attacks have been problematic because the republicans have come to his defense pointing out that he is a wounded veteran from the raw war and that he as a young child fled the soviet union with his family fleeing persecution of jews and so these 2 may be sympathetic witnesses to the american public however elizabeth as

we know this this case for impeaching the president rest more than just on sympathy alone and democrats are facing the challenge of trying to prove that there was intent on the president's side she withhold u.s. security aide to ukraine as leverage to get them best occasions into his opponents and to to make that point the the witnesses this morning don't have. that much information to share the lower level officials but that's why this afternoon those other 2 witnesses heard volcker the former envoy to the ukraine and to jim jim morrison who is a higher level official on ukraine at the white house they may be able to shed more light but it's notable that republicans are also hopeful that those 2 witnesses may defend the president morrison was one who was also on the call he said that there was nothing improper from what he heard and kurt volker has said that he did not connect the withhold the withholding of the aid to this request for investigations

of the question is whether his testimony might evolve or whether he will continue to be the defender of trump that republicans are hoping to count on heidi thank you that is heidi show cost over the natives live in washington d.c. let's bring in kimberly housecoat she's also joining us live from washington and is that an interesting day not just on capitol hill but even at the white house committee given that given so many officials are testifying. yeah and so far the president has been largely quiet on social media he often tweets about this time injecting himself in important news days trying to control the narrative we've not seen that yet but we certainly remember watching for very carefully in these upcoming proceedings whether or not the president will do something he did last week and that was treat during witness testimony now this is certainly something that even his supporters have said may have been ill advised because what it did was it opened him up to not only looking like use trying to control the news

narrative but accusations of witness tampering even witness intimidation so that's one of the things we'll be watching for very carefully the other thing the president tweeted about a monday and looking for more information about is whether or not the president himself will testify in these proceedings what we heard repeatedly last week was a lot of these witnesses did not have firsthand knowledge this was hearsay that's when the president or rather one of the democrats on the committee that is asking questions of witnesses said well we can have the president testify that would be 1st hand information president now suggesting in a tweet that he is considering it but has said nothing more so what are we watching for today we know the president has a cabinet meeting that will be happening in a few hours time it's very likely that the president may because this is going to be happening during the same time that these witnesses are speaking on capitol hill that he may be reacting to what he's heard so far and even countering back to some

of the claims that have been made. kelly thank you for that for now that is kimberly held at live in washington d.c. . now to some breaking news coming into us from the swedish capital stockholm we're hearing that the swedish prosecution authority says they will not proceed with the investigation into the rape allegations against wiki leaks founder julian assange again the swedish prosecution authority saying they're not going to proceed with the rape allegations against wiki leaks founder julian assange we will have more on that as it becomes available to us. so let's move on to other news for now in the united nations has raised deep concern at iranian security forces use of live ammunition to disperse protesters the government says 6 protesters and 5 security officials have died since demonstrations began over

a rise in fuel prices but a un human rights spokesman says they have reports that dozens of people have been killed but the cost of fuel soared on friday when the government cut subsidies and announced rationing let's bring in our correspondent dorsetshire bar who's joining us live from the capital so where or how do things stand now daughter after days of violence for the government has called you know hooliganism and rioting and security forces being stabbed to death. yes it's been quite tense here in iran over the past few days but since we heard from the supreme leader on sunday morning that he backed that the system made by the government to go ahead with this fuel price increase it became very clear what was going to happen that is the tell just ministry as well as the revolutionary guard issued statements saying that they will do everything in their power to make sure that common order is restored in iran and since then we've seen

a heavy presence of security forces across the cities in iran and less and less people are gathering to protest these increases we've also seen a number of looting and a number of banks that have been set on fire as well as gas stations in other major cities such as shiraz and meshad and that is really where the point of contention is the authorities are saying these people that are taking part in these demonstrations are not ordinary iranians but they are elements within iran that are being fueled by outside forces they're being encouraged to increase the unrest in the country it's not really reflective of what is going on with the ordinary iranian but in terms of how ordinary iranians feel we've spoken to a number of people and they say that even though they do recognize they need help from the government in the subsidies that $20000000.00 have already received in their bank accounts as of monday morning it's not going to be enough to really counter the over 40 percent inflation that is going on and the high unemployment

rate that sits at about 14 percent the reason the government is doing this has said is because of the intense economic pressure iran finds itself under as a result of the united states withdrawing from the nuclear deal last year and imposing a series of tough sanctions on iran's oil and banking sector now the government has said they're going to do everything they can to try and help the average iranian to combat these rise of prices and the ordinary people are worried that the fuel prices increase will also mean that the other goods. well also see an increase in prices or i do also thank you for that and now that is over the nation. thank you. protests in lebanon have the postponement of parliament by blocking and pays from entering all calls were attacked near the parliament building in beirut but more than half the m.p.'s had already chosen to boycott what would have been parliament's 1st. government demonstrations began a month ago zain hall the reports from beirut. protesters gathered along the roads

leading to the parliament building in downtown beirut they formed a human chain to prevent m.p.'s from holding their 1st session since the protests began a month ago the lebanese army and other security agencies were out in force to keep the peace but there were sporadic scuffles we don't believe that they were. ever there are going to agree about is always. the people only a few politicians managed to force their way through some on motorcycles while almost half of the 120 member of parliament many of them in the opposition boycotted the session there was a lack of quorum and the session was postponed without the date being set the people declared victory but the political crisis is far from over were demanding or basics rights which are a given in any country in the word so i mean this is

a victory today of course much more are going to come we're not going to stop this is not going to end here until we get what we want we are the people we have spoken anti political establishment protesters are demanding a new government in the pendant of political parties to enact much needed economic reforms and prepare for a new law to govern early elections there is little sign the politicians or the people are ready to make concessions but these protesters no longer be in control of the streets. forces have been dealing with that they have become more forceful and on sunday the army chief general shows up out and his 1st comments since the protests began condemned what he called the an authorized blocking of roads with the army and whether the army or the police and it's not right in my opinion they should stand with us because i know they agree with us i know degree with what we're doing here on the streets so i think it's just

inevitable that this is the. it's been it's been in the making for over 30 years it's about time. authorities are trying to restore a sense of normality lebanon is no longer disrupted by school and bank closures even though controls are in place for us dollar were drawls and transfers abroad but this movement doesn't seem to be going away they have top of the government and now brought parliament to a halt they are standing their ground is that a father built to burundi now where 8 soldiers have been killed in what the defense ministry is describing as the largest attack in years dozens more missing after the jungle ambush north of the commercial capital but inboard towards the border with rwanda no group has claimed responsibility and that's been our correspondent catherine sawyer she is joining us from and west burundi what more are you hearing about the attack catherine. well elizabeth i have listened to the

statement by the defense minister was very keen on detail but he did confirm that incident that happened to be talk a province that bowe does a rwanda he did say the rebels crossed into a room in the and attacked this military post in an area near their key bureau forest which straddles. the democratic republic of congo and rwanda so they attacked and went back into the forest and perhaps crossed into rwanda he said he did not talk about casualties but we have been told by people who would be around that area that they walk our children just to give you some context in the of fancy that has been going on for months against a malty for rebel groups in the queue barrel for us the government says and this is not the 1st attack we have seen several attacks and confrontations between the military and some rebel groups the huge area has been militarized in fact just

a few weeks ago some journalists went there to cover in the tack that happened previously they were arrested they're still in custody they're being charged with a tampering with national security so the government saying that it's going to go on with these offensive until it wipes out all the rebel groups that are in that forest and katherine what kind of impact these attacks these operations having on the political environment for the lections just around the corner. well they certainly anxiety these rebel groups that the government you saying that it's fighting are said to have been formed back in 2015 when there was a political crisis after the president here including visa decided to run for assad's town which we he went ahead and warned we so a failed coup and a street protests as well and even after that died years that followed we so vigilante style attacks on peace. pool in the commercial capital and other areas

rebel groups were accused of that we also saw targeted killings by security forces accused over the government right now elizabeth is trying very hard to show that that peace that violence is behind it and that they're preparing well for the general election that is going to be held next year but when you hear you get a sense that there's a lot of fear it's been very difficult to speak to people on the street especially on anything that's going to criticize the government the few people that we managed to speak to told us that we have to hide their identity because they're fearing they might be arrested we also spoke to an opposition leader who think that they seem to be a little intimidation going on and he does the great this is going to get watched as the election is but if you speak to government officials ruling party official they say people have nothing to fear. preparations of going while the election is going to be free and bad this is not going to be. violence but. in this

country catherine thank you for that finale that is catherine soy with the latest live in kanye ocean west burundi it is time for the weather now has ever said with news of rain here in the middle east have. yeah that's right lazy cold wet weather we've got windy weather we've even got some snow for good measure take a little a satellite dish a lot sick loud shang up and it's pretty just that wet weather still continuing to look its way around the southern parts of the caspian sea we've seen a fair bit of snow it's more the all round that rain sleet and snow that's been continuing on the 19 millimeters of rain here in the space of 24 hours that's where the south this is where the heaviest of the rain currently lies but it's always been this way the race was still a chance of some pockets of snow that will see some snow sent to the high ground off afghanistan northern parts of iran as when stressed in the cross the caspian sea then this would go on. and on which is why. a little further east was gangs up

here bills together some very heavy rain pakistan seeing some right that's likely to cause some flooding and snow that you can see pushing up into a good part of afghanistan full of that same lot of cloud and right it's raining outside of the moments and he lives because this area cloud is just pushing its way through drifting across the gulf making its way down sward cod as we go on through the next couple of hours as we go on into the early as we'll see our rain here in doha grass declaring for a bit the strength of those winds 70 sexing him was stiff smile when coming through as we go on through the next couple of days it will be draw a list but it's turning rather cool thank you and now still ahead on the news hour as west africa's largest mosque but in senegal find out about the powerful religious group behind it and in sports favorites from odds play they face match from the new no davis cup the next action from the traders coming up.

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i'm in is the problem in doha these are the top stories at this news hour the united nations says israeli settlements in occupied palestinian territory a still a breach of international law this after a u.s. decision to no longer consider israeli settlements illegal israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu celebrated the move as a huge achievement. now the u.n. has raised deep concern at avani and security forces use of live ammunition to disperse protesters the government says 6 protesters and 5 security officials have died since demonstrations began over a rise in fuel prices. and

a swedish prosecutors have announced that they've dropped their rape investigation against julian assange prosecutors say the corroborating evidence was sufficient to prove the allegations assad is currently serving a 50 week sentence and bush and for jumping bail in 2012. well let's go back to one of our top stories now in the ongoing impeachment inquiry into the u.s. president we're joined now by lloyd greene a former justice department official and he is joining us live from new york very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so we i think house way through 2 weeks of hearings planned so far how would you say the democrats are doing in proving their case. i think the democrats are making their case that they're laying it out factually their witnesses have actually been compelling. so i call that a plus for the democrats they've also received assistance from the president with

his tweet on friday lashing out at one of the witnesses that was not on it place that you want to be it was really quite an extraordinary moment when he is tweeting about marie event which and she was asked by adam schiff the committee chair to react to the president's tweets in live time real time. what will you be looking out for in today's testimony. ok today's testimony i think they're going to be 2 pieces one is going to be the person of the witnesses. alex men men is going to be testifying he'll be wearing army uniform today. people are going to be focusing on him today he is one of the people who. everyone is focused on he was the subject of

republican brickbats. last week people i think on the republican side are going to be testing a master of consistency of his story looking to see how convincing he is or he isn't he's a potential problem for the administration and i think both democrats and republicans alike are or very very mindful of that reality and is it because he is a potential problem for the republicans that we had something of a character assassination of him a few weeks ago when he 1st testified behind closed doors you know donald trump and other republicans questioning well whether he's really american because wasn't he born in ukraine. i think big toss of that fact that is potentially problematic. i think that's why he may be targeted i mean the narrative that had been used against him is shifted over time. at one point people were raising questions about his testifying and where

he stood on things they had raised the issue that he had been born overseas as some as it were some sort of defect in his story that has now shifted when they realize it was way too hot a place to go now it's become one republican senator from wisconsin is raising the question of does he believe actually in the legitimacy of the trump presidency if you're going to make a factual case that doesn't strike me as the best line of attack for the general public though it may make parts of the president's base happy or please and may even make the president pleased that as a former justice department official lloyd green joining us live from new york thank you now a standoff between police and protesters at a hong kong university appears to be ending he said surrounded the campus they were

arresting anyone who left it's unclear how many people are still inside authorities so they've arrested more than a 1000 people on a number of charges hong kong's leader has condemned protesters who threw petrol bombs and fired arrows at police or east have been searching for peaceful resolution using force has always been the last resort to respond to a few hours of divides us. over the past few days repeat it to the future devices to surrender their breath and lift the campus however some still warnings and if it was to the. reports now from hong kong. this is the aftermath of monday night street protests roads blocked with burnt out cars tables and chairs strewn across major birds in hong kong central kalin district at

polytechnic university protesters started to emerge from the campus after a not a violent confrontations with police the choice to surrender we just want to leave . them out why did you not only. because i have a lot of political will also afraid of order police say on the air and because we don't know what will happen and some people. are coming are always because that is also enjoying some synagogues i say or something like police set up a checkpoint to the campus for questioning those charged with brushing face up to 10 years in jail some students managed to escape on monday they were met by police firing tear gas and rubber bullets on tuesday university professes school teaches and principals negotiated a deal allowing students to leave the campus peacefully with those under age and they meet police agreeing not to arrest them we talk tongue here by my details in

photos and then we beat them but do things. which reach me if the police believe based on the arresting them let me make sure that they are safe to get dealt with before you. meet these protesters have emerged voluntarily for the still hard core group of protesters holed up inside the campus despite attempts by police to negotiate their exit they were facing to leave. hong kong's chief executive kerry land. condemn the protests she says 600 have been arrested 200 of them are under the age of 80 she appealed to the remaining group to give themselves up we will use whatever means to continue to persuade and arrange for these remaining protesters to leave the campus as soon as possible so that this whole operation could be able to end in a peaceful manner and lay the basis for the subsequent work by the police to stop

violence in hong kong this protest at the university almost be over but the cleanup is still underway with the added government movement vowing to continue the demonstrations which is now entering this 6th month sirrah clark al-jazeera hong kong. the u.s. has broken off talks with south korea over the cost of a american troops in the country president donald trump has demanded $5000000000.00 so we're currently pays one body and that's put a strain on the decades old an alliance the us keep almost 30000 troops the country to discourage what it sees as aggression from north korea now 3 taliban commanders have been released by the afghan government as part of a prisoner swap sources have told al-jazeera that they've landed and cut it all senior taliban leader and us have cannae is among them and in exchange 2 professors from the u.s. and a stranger have been released after spending 3 years in taliban custody afghan president ashraf ghani announced the swap last week mohammed though has more.

that's 3 home on the wall caught on 3 in doha the bank produced from prison enough on its. promise me how business she and the money they belong to. the of from the how. to walk i'm not going to the fuss all i'm on this honest kanani is up to the deputy. here and it's most surprised of the it's the only place in the world where outside negotiators come find that little taliban the taliban hub a political office in doha. the whole thing talks between them and the us the gulf. coast of these the city come on bas up being exchanged for 2 professors a medic and had been hearing trillian to move through wigs would not say you had to

have been picked up by a medic come full so not being flown to germany where the expected to be treated at the u.s. military hospital there because this aide to be in the house of course these prisoner swap is going to compliment the faults of the u.s. special envoy to the peace process that. has been making shuttle diplomacy in the simple weeks trying to bring the box to the table so they could negotiate a deal to the. long war in afghanistan after president trump to clear the talks that last september. now south korean leaders are appealing for u.s. help to recover 2 ships seized by what the fighters in yemen the hope they say they also captured a 3rd saudi owned ship near the red sea port of call data the saudi government is calling this seizure

a terrorist operation the official told al-jazeera that the vessels including a tug towing a drilling rig will be released when south korea confirms there on a ship. now a powerful religious group in senegal considered to be an ally in the fight against al qaeda has opened what it says is the largest mosque in west africa nicholas hot has more on the $50000000.00 project in the holy city of tuba. for loving jell-o. this is a special cup of coffee it's called tuba brewed sweet makes with herb this 100 year old secret recipe has its origins within the local soofi islamic group called the merida brotherhood so not only the it's good for your health if you drink it every morning you'll be placed by the brotherhood's leader and you won't get ill this is syrian to the leader of the mori brotherhood behind to a coffee next to him is senegal as president mikey and on the other side his political rival former president water a rare moment of unity orchestrated by the influential group outside millions of

people gathered for the you know gratian of west africa's largest mosque. so this is a gift for us the marines to have such a big mosque here in africa it's not an easy task but with sacrifice we did it. in a country where nearly half of the population lives on less than $2.00 a day the murray brotherhood raised $15000000.00 to build this mosque the group's holding include a sprawling business empire ranging from a t.v. station and transport to real estate and agriculture most of it supported by donations but rights groups including human rights watch accused some members of the marine brotherhood of forcing children to beg for money in order to enrich the more eats the group's policy adviser denies the allegations. however if our leader has a plan for me to raise funds and everybody needs to contribute they'd be. the

movement started with the beginning of the 1900 centuries right here in tuba then colonial power france forced him into exile to gain control of the merida farmland see the brotherhood as a threat now france considers the breed's as an ally against armed groups like isis and al-qaeda affiliates in the sahara region of west africa who are trying to gain supporters among young senegalese for the 4000000 followers of the brotherhood this isn't just a holy city it's the spiritual capital of senegal because important economic social and political decisions for this country are taken away from the official capital decor and right here in tube. and so the brotherhood is a powerful institution in senegal influencing all aspects of life including the cup of coffee that people drink nicholas hawk al-jazeera to senegal. back to our breaking news now from sweden where the prosecution authority says it will not

proceed with its rape and vest and to which he leaks founder julian assange. he's following this from london so what of the prosecution has been saying again about why they're dropping this case essentially. well the decision has been announced by the deputy director of public prosecution ever marie persson in sweden the basic reason is the quote evident that evidence has weakened considerably due to the long period of time that has elapsed since the events in question now in a press release the deputy director of public prosecutions there reminds people that the initial investigation including allegations of rape started. 2010 so 19 years ago then they remind people that.

once julian a son's had in fact effectively gone into hiding in the ecuadorian embassy here in london after breaching his bail conditions while he was being sought by the swedish or forty's they failed to actually get him to go to sweden although it's true that he was interviewed by swedish officials in the ecuadorian embassy so the case the investigation was effectively dropped but then when he was forced out of the embassy earlier this year and arrested by british police the investigation was really opened at the request of the complainant but now the swedish justice system evidently saying that too much time has elapsed and that the evidence in their eyes has weakens too far there's no prospect of. a trial really so so that's their reasoning and they haven't had any reaction from songes team.

we have a just should point out that all along he has rejected all of the allegations which were never actually put brought to charges in sweden but now the editor in chief of the wiki leaks website which julian assange has helped to found as welcome this announcement saying let us now focus on the threat mr sanj has been warning about for years the belligerent prosecution of the united states and the threat it poses to the 1st amendment so the background to that is that julian assange is now in belmarsh prison here in london while the british government considers a request from the u.s. for his extradition he faces allegations of conspiring to break into a classified computer belonging to the pentagon and if convicted he could be jailed for up to 175 years on those charges now all along julian assange has said that his ultimate fear is being extradited to the u.s.

where he says he could possibly face the death penalty but he has in some circles at least to receive assurances that that would not be the case still his legal team say that he must not be sent they are saying he should be treated as a journalist and that the case raises serious questions for the freedom of the press his lawyer just a few days ago said his health is significantly deteriorating in prison the australian government has said that it does definitely won't be stepping in to help and that he should be treated as any other citizen increase citizens and critics of mr assigns say much the same thing that he knew what he was doing and that he was not acting as any other journalist would have done when he released a whole dump of information without any kind of sifting through it big questions in terms of justice but what the the case doesn't really change in light of what the swedish prosecutors have said in the last couple of hours and i mean thank you for

that for now that is not in baba with all the latest again on that breaking news sweden's prosecution authorities saying they were not to proceed with the rape investigation into julian assange thank you madame. all right let's move on now and an ambush on an army patrol in the northern mali has killed and injured both soldiers and their attackers at least 24 soldiers and 17 fighters were killed in the town of course where no one's claim responsibility for the attack during a joint military operation with neighboring tunisia we have the sports news to the head on the news hour and we'll show you the ice hockey player who has. a game for .

it's time for a whole about sports thank you very much elizabeth luis enrique has been reappointed spain's national football coach having stepped down in june to care for his late daughter the 4 barcelona manager had been in the job 11 months before leaving the role his 9 year old daughter zinah subsequently boss the way in september after a battle with byrne cancer and rick a former assistant little bit more i know took charge in his absence and led spain to europe 2020 qualification experience football federation says he wanted to make way for enrique's return but it's off to far monday's 5 no win over remain yet he reportedly left 20 is well this is the 5th managerial spell for spain's team since june 28th in all under the leadership of spanish f.a. president louis. the libya looking pretty good here nobody can feel cheated in this

situation everybody knew that if louis said reeky wanted to return the door was always open kevin browns n.f.l. star myles garrets will appeal his indefinite suspension for striking another player with a helmet on wednesday carrots who is the number one pick in the 27 team draft was at the center of this mass brawl during the browns going with the pittsburgh steelers last thursday at one point he rips off the helmet of pittsburgh quarterback mason rudolph before hitting him rudolph wasn't seriously injured in the n.f.l. have suspended for the rest of the season without pay and that is the biggest band ever handed out by the n.f.l. for a single game incident. so that wasn't a great look for us both and neither is this from the n.h.l. nothing unusual about the brawl between the washington capitals and a heinz ducks duck even but cats plant garnett half away in the red was run out of

the game for spitting on the ducks eric's good brunson the rest reviewed the video and kicks him out but halfway could still get a fine and a longer suspension they have a shot at as far as to victory for the count to have more points in any other team in the n.h.l. some far this season followed to some positive sports in the n.b.a. look a don't cheat scored a career high 62 points for the dallas mavericks and their win out of the san antonio spurs he also got 12 assists and 12 rebounds in a triple double down to just 20 years old and he joins the bron james in the record books they're the only 2 players in n.b.a. history younger than $21.00 to have 40 point triple doubles. also of the chicago bulls were hosting the milwaukee bucks and for the 1st time it was john is on to complet who stole the show for the see that hit 33 points and 10 rebounds to this impressive dunk but if you thought that was good this coming up wasn't bad either hutchinson setting out when dole cartegena nevertheless it was janice and

the bucs who walked away with the win by 11 points it's their 4th straight victory . and there was late drama at the staples center in los angeles with 25 seconds left the l.a. clippers were down by 2 against the out to have a city thunder but then the whole georgia gets the team that traded him earlier this year stepped up with a 3 pointer to turn things around he added a free throw to make sure the clippers are one part too. tennis and davis cup favorites france are in action right now their one on one with japan after the japanese a level that siren with your she hit or beating go on cease in straight sets earlier joe wilson song or comfortably beat us attack out which jamar in straight sets are only dropping 3 games the title now be decided by the final match which is the doubles which has just got underway in madrid.

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