signs off on laws supporting hong kong's pro-democracy movement china threatens a firm response. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up iraqi protesters set fire to the iranian consulate in the city of the shah claiming tehran for propping up a government they want to remove. another rebel attack in these terms of a credit republic of congo feels anger against u.n. peacekeepers accused of failing to provide protection. and a grim task for flood survivors in kenya digging to find the remains of missing loved ones.

as president has signed 2 bills into law that back hong kong's pro-democracy movement american sanctions can now be imposed on chinese and hong kong officials deemed responsible for human rights abuses and all kong special trade status will be reviewed every year the territories leaders say it will damage relations with the u.s. while china expressed extreme carette over the move saying it will respond with foreign countermeasures political heinous from following developments from washington. this could be a powerful tool if the president chose to use it it's not at all clear he's going to not only does it a lot to him saying people in hong kong and china but if that special trade status that could be so critical if the secretary of state was to come back and say no china is not going along with the policy hong kong doesn't have enough independence they could basically take that status away that would have a huge impact on trade but bigger than that it could send a signal to

a financial markets to investors that hong kong is not a safe place to park your money so that is the big concern it does seem unlikely that they're going to take these steps the other bill that the president signed for concrete lee it stops american companies from giving or selling any thing to hong kong authorities that could be used against crowd such as tear gas canisters or rubber bullets so sadly what the president is going to do it's not clear congress is giving him this authority he has sent the signal that he doesn't want to use it so we'll wait to see what the secretary of state says but for this president the big concern is the trade war he needs were all america to get reelected and right now they're really hurting because of this trade war. and i'm going to talk to sarah clarke in hong kong 1st let's go to andrew thomas in beijing so andrew is paddy just referenced the u.s. and china are in the middle of a trade war so what is the beijing response rather out of beijing. well the president talked about the specifics of what now the u.s.

could do given this law is passed but what beijing has reacted to already very very swiftly is simply the symbolism that the u.s. giving or the u.s. president is giving his consent or essentially endorsing what the u.s. senators done they're absolutely furious about that now they knew it was coming beijing because the u.s. senate passed this legislation last week unanimously and it was pretty inconceivable that donald trump wouldn't then sign off on it as well so they had a statement and it cannot very swiftly on thursday morning or read a little bit of it because it's very very strong not just on the specifics of what this means to hong kong but also what beijing thinks this says about the u.s. attitude towards china overall so on hong kong specifically they say this is a severe interference in hong kong affairs which are china's internal affairs a common refrain here and the u.s. has been disregarding the facts and distorting the truth it's openly backing violent criminals with this act now that is all specific to hong kong but it goes

further and it suggests the u.s. lawmakers and by extension of course the u.s. president now is really attacking china overall it's very it says a statement is to undermine hong kong stability and disrupt the chinese nations' endeavor to realise its great renewal the act only further exposes the malicious and hedging on it nature of u.s. intentions to the chinese people the u.s. attempts are bound to fail we urge the u.s. not to continue going down the wrong path or china will take countermeasures and the us must bear all the consequences a very strong statement from beijing what those countermeasures will be well we don't know yet simply don't know there will be a further update from the ministry of foreign affairs about 2 hours from now in that daily press conference but already putting out a statement strong as that and that swiftly well that says a lot about how serious beijing is. ok andrew thomas a latest from they showing thanks sandra let's go to hong kong now our search joins

us live so sara what is the reaction out of hong kong. for the pro-democracy movement will be claiming this embracing this as a victory for their ongoing push for greater democracy within hong kong and of push back trying to push back china from interfering in their affairs but the hong kong government has responded within hours of this act to becoming law and hong kong government has strongly objected to becoming law it says it did they were going to regret the decision it said it disregards the genuine concerns rights repeatedly by home call it says it's unnecessary not warranted and would harm the relations between hong kong and the messiah it also says it gives the wrong message it sends the wrong message to the protest movement of the violent protests as they've referred to them in the past as certainly the government has strongly or angrily rejected this some act becoming ill but the protest movement has embraced it and this evening on thursday evening we have i protest that is by sitting behind or surrounding this particular message and the fact that it's actually this act has

become law on the diet that protests will no doubt attract large numbers and it's let's talk about the protests what is the latest with the standoff that was happening in the polytechnic university. well the university management teams sent about 100 people in on thursday to look for anyone left with inside the polytechnic university campus encounter and i found no one song thursday we now have a huge group or a large group of government and police teams that are going in to start the evidence collection this is now an investigation we've had more than $1100.00 protesters leave that sought a number of them will be charged with writing this place on government tape that collecting things like petrol bombs and the various on the items that i described the devices described as weapons which will be used in their investigation and the university has now said that they want the police out because this particular area is still sealed off iraq's police now they want the place to be to be gone because

i simply want to start the clean up because the university has has had a lot of damage in the last to 2 a so weeks when the protest is barricaded themselves inside ok sarah clarke with the latest from hong kong sara thank you. and a dramatic escalation of iraq's anti-government protests crowds of torch the iranian consulate and the shia holy city of najaf they kissed her on a propping up iraq's government which they have been railing against for 2 months now interrogate me reports. hundreds of anti-government protesters stormed the compound to the consulate in the jaffa 55 to tie a 1000 blankets and replacing the iranian flag with an iraqi war. was to say the symbolic importance of the attack in a shia majority city cannot be understated but this is the city where the ayatollah khomeini used to live it's considered to be the heart of the shia muslim world

and iran thought that it had the population the iraqi shia population on its side in terms of its you know regional policies clearly that's not the case. protesters say rand is. too much power in iraq they won't directly government to take action to limit it the it's the 2nd time this month that in a rainy and consulate has been targeted by iraqi protest as 3 weeks ago security forces killed to demonstrate is in the city of copula. both attacks feed into the why the anti-government protest movement that the gulf to iraq since october so it's unclear you know what options the government in iran has in response to these protests i don't think they have very good options in a so i suspect right now there is deep panic and paranoia in terror on over what happened today in niger. the challenge for iran is how to respond without

alienating the shia community upon which its provide to expand its regional influence victoria gate and be out. at least 19 people have been killed during another rebel attack in the eastern democratic republic of congo this is the volatile region where un peacekeepers have been targeted by angry locals who say they're failing to protect them group called the allied democratic forces are suspected of being behind the attack on a village near the city. and are suspected of a string of recent massacres around ben what sparked the violent protests against the u.n. and the congolese army catherine sawyer reports from the financial capital goma. another tense day in. a protest is shot dead by a policeman on saturday. the police man was later killed by an angry mob. they marched through the city with his body in a way to the area where he was shot in the head. is one of 6 people who have been

killed. over the weekend people here are not and their anger is directed to the u.n. peacekeeping mission called one school they blame the peacekeepers for failing to protect them from a tox from an armed group in the area called allied democratic forces or. the un mission has also been accused of using excessive force of protest as one of our peacekeepers showed that a protester was throwing. at. the peacekeepers so we are still in the process so very fine old socks and fact checking the ripples we have received in the midst of all this another tragedy happened and morning attack by a.t.f. on a village about 30 kilometers from benny more than a dozen people hopped to death with machetes some of them the copy tainted.

on the streets of benny is also being felt many kilometers south and north. was. protesters here have expressed their frustration police have been deployed to keep them from getting too important says this is just a small group of people who have. fired that protest and then all the bad life left in the air to define them this one here that we feel much more all of what is going on in benny they fear the killings but he also said the united nations may feel called one move must leave the country. then message was clear and they told us no matter what force is used to remove them from the street. they'll keep coming back until the demands of the people met that was funny we are tired i come from ah people are being slaughtered the un and our

soldiers are there and doing nothing why then all this force is there if not to protect our people. they finished their potus at a police station. where they paid their last tribute to battle. and back in bed he was buried by family friends and hundreds of other protesters determined to keep the pressure on until the violence stops catherine saw al jazeera. still ahead on al jazeera reopening of the airport in yemen could prove a lifeline to those in need. and the fury of french farmers why hundreds of taken a protest against the government to the heart of the capital.

hello there things are getting a little bit milder across areas of iran this quite a bit of cloud around but the real weather is further to the west but it's fairly falls moving so as we go through thursday want to shasta lingering through areas of cool in anchorage just 12 degrees celsius but we have to 12 celsius in tehran and you'll see have baghdad then down into kuwait kuwait city 26 degrees if you warming up there just 7 celsius in kabul on friday base a fairly quiet picture although the raise the chance of if you will pushing into that fall western side of 21 celsius and beirut should still come with some pretty nice sunshine that across the peninsula it is fine for the most pollen here we could just see want to coastal shiloh's into amman down across into yemen and maybe just the interior of a northern saudi but it should be dry so neutral so much of cattle temperatures feeling pretty good as well about 27 degrees for the next couple of days and a senator much across into riyadh 26 in abu dhabi mole cloud those you can see that

generally across well southern portions of the arabian peninsula then down into southern africa the seasonal rains pretty active all the way from goa right the way to northern mozambique. it is mostly it's warming cape town for the next couple of days although cooling off from friday to 23. sponsored by the time an. al-jazeera is investigative unit goes undercover in the caribbean we don't use the word bribe. would you use a token of appreciation exposing trade and diplomatic passports today. in the partial good will overlook involving some of the region's highest officials . all. al-jazeera investigations diplomats for sale.

watching out 0 these are the top stories we're following for you u.s. president signed 2 bills back in hong kong's pro-democracy activists american sanctions can now be imposed on chinese and hong kong officials dame responsible for human rights abuses the hong kong government calls the legislation unnecessary . police have been or polytechnic university for the 1st time since putting pro-democracy protesters under siege at that campus police say they're searching the grounds to remove makeshift weapons and petrol bombs iraqi protesters have stormed the iranian consulate and the shop setting it on fire testers blame iran for propping up a government they've spent 2 months demonstrating against. the saudi marauding coalition fighting in yemen says it will released some who have the prisoners and

permit limited flights from the rebel held capital sana airport has been closed to commercial flights since 2016 coalition says patients needing medical care can be flown out in cooperation with the world health organization. reports from sana. it's more than 3 years since and as international airport passengers for a commercial flight it's holes have been largely empty sounds the runway was damaged by salyers strikes and 2015 the national airline forced to stop flying there the following year airspace was closed by the war but this hour the u.a.e. a little says it can we are penn to allow patients needing medical treatment to be flown out. of other mothers and son our international airport was not closed by our un international resolution but was forcibly and lawfully banned by the saudi led coalition we've been calling for the reopening of the airport from the beginning

every time we were safe promises from the un but nothing has changed. international organizations say the lengthy closure of sun has airport has made a dire humanitarian situation even worse you were right activists say some international airport should have never been closed in the 1st place it is the only way to end leave yemen by air for nearly 70 percent of the country's population it could have been used before now to fly wanted and sick people out of the country or trade meant. that. how 1000000 patients are in need and have to travel outside of yemen 400000 are in need of urgent medical treatment abroad 45000 have died so far in commercial flights from and into some international airport is a playground violation against international laws and enormous here. then force closure of the international gateway has also left thousands of people stranded

outside yemen the aviation authority says the airport has become ready to welcome passenger planes but return to full operation will depend on the 1st 2 and nearly 5 years of war and the bob seger son are. to kenya work government recovery efforts have been stretched beyond their limits stating floods and landslides people had been left to dig in the mud themselves searching for the remains of missing loved ones reports in the village of tom call and storm ravaged west county. the people of them called village in kenya county. mission days of the floods and landslides swept away the homes there such and for the bodies of the missing relatives william domi cuba is looking for the body of his 5 year old daughter much somebody's gonna i found the body of my son who also died not far from here so i've asked my neighbors to help with the search for my

daughter her body is under this rubble the flood some months followed days of torrential rain entire families were wiped out when a side of water rocks and mud swept across the village the land but once held the homes is now covered by mud and rocks. lost his entire family. and it's hard to bear the loss of my sister who had just finished school that day as well as my mother and 2 brothers i'm all alone in the world in all 21 people died in. 11 bodies have been recovered the rest are still. william capellas yet to find the bodies of 7 of his 9 children who died. my appeal to the government is to help me raise and educate my only remaining son life will never be the same for us we also need machinery to move these rocks to check if there might be anybody's underneath. but government rescue workers are yet to reach this fall for village

they've been hampered by the traditional rain and floods swept away bridges and grooves in was book court that tried to do that took place here as part of a grim picture affecting many parts of west cork county and with continued rainfall there is the possibility of a repeat government officials have been appealing to people to move to safer grounds but the people of this village say they conduit us until they find the bodies of their loved ones local see the results of the witnessed on the grid and for the most of life. we need the government to carry out some conservation work deforestation over farming has made the soil prone to sliding most survivors into. the local charge others have chosen to live in the open not sure when if their lives come with time to. time call in.

unionist in groups in colombia or holding a 2nd nationwide strike in support of anti-government protests the rallies which started last week at the same multiple confrontations between protesters and police colombians are angry about corruption and oppose cuts to minimum wages changes in pensions and taxes reports out of the us say president donald trump was aware of a whistleblower's complaint against him when he unfroze military aid to ukraine trump is facing an impeachment inquiry over allegations he withheld the money to force a crane to and best to get his political rival joe biden new york times says white house lawyers informed trump in august before they told congress a court of bangladesh has sentenced 7 members of an armed group to death for their role in a 2016 attack on a cafe that left $22.00 people dead the men say they will appeal the charges which include training the attackers sense applying arms explosives and money reports from dhaka. crowds packed the cold precinct many queuing outside the building to

hear the verdict security forces sell the entire area inside an antiterrorism tribunals specially created to hear this case handing down that sentences to 7 men on july 1st $2165.00 men armed with guns and grenades stormed the holy artisan bakery in dockers diplomatic zone taking diners hostage 18 foreigners to bangladeshi and 2 policemen were killed for army commandos but the 12 hour siege to an end all the tackles were killed the man sentenced on the witness they were charged with training them supplying weapons explosives and finds a packed courtroom and a very swift verdict by the bell it took 20 minutes and the public reaction was very positive most people were happy with the verdict including some of the relatives we spoke to. excuse were taken in a prison van like this some of them were reciting arabic verses. as the condemned

men were taken to prison ben somewhere heard shouting. 3 authorities have denied any involvement of vises in that attack. with the observation of the court is that those accused were trying to undermine the government destabilized the country and were trying to spread militancy in the country they were trying to conspire to establish an islamic state. in a phone interview the man's lawyer told i'll just say they'll file an appeal with the high court for those whose loved ones were killed there's some sense of justice done a little too much on what about a fish that's you know that's you know this verdict was not just the desire for my family but for the whole of bangladesh also it was that he saw an expectation for many around the world many foreigners were killed all the families had high expectations. and i think that it's being served. the verdict may have been

a milestone but for most to lost their loved ones the pain and loss remains hard to overcome turned to children. dhaka bangladesh a dispute over mining could loom large over bogan bills independence referendum from papua new guinea the region's vice president says he plans to distribute copper and gold mining rights are racing a stake held by the new guinea and government a 60 percent share will go to book and deal with the rest of able to investors the move could complicate negotiations after the independence vote the polling began last saturday and on december 7th the united nations has urged greece to urgently improve conditions in overcrowded refugee and migrant camps on its islands un high commissioner for refugees described conditions as miserable during a visit to lesbos about 39000 asylum seekers are currently living on various islands. hundreds of tractors rolled into the french capital on wednesday to

protest government policies resentment has been growing among farmers over what they call bashing. has more from paris. swapping their fields for the highway hundreds of french farmers drove their tractors to paris on the city's main ring road they disrupted traffic to protest against french government policies and international trade deals that they say make their lives harder and create unfair competition and for going to nominate the former president doesn't recognize our hard work we have one of the most regulated farming industries in the world yet you allows the import of unregulated goods it's unfair this is one of the main access routes to paris this is. a very fast moving traffic with this convoy of practices stopped here and they are completely blocking the road on the city's most famous avenue the shell's leads

a pharmacy straw on to the pavement demanded a meeting with french president emmanuel mccall to discuss their grievances psy-ops our world with the u.s. we really fired up and i agree culture is dying off seriously in all of the different sectors last weekend once again i had a colleague who killed himself this can't go on. traditionally people in france have had a positive image of farmers but in recent years it's changed some environmentalists accuse farmers of creating pollution using harmful pesticides and damaging nature pharma say they're fed up of what they call a grid washing. of 40 years of professional has been badly treated criticised by certain people who imply that we are not doing the job the way we shoot and that we are poisoning people for us farmers that's on a step towards a professionally this parish france's agricultural minister said he supported the demonstration and heard people's frustrations but protesters dismissed his comments

they said they wanted actions not words that they wouldn't give up their protest until there was change natasha butler al-jazeera paris. for example session later as a kid is the prime minister of putting the country's publicly funded national health service up for sale i mean the proof is in newly revealed documents as he seeks to ensure the n.h.s. stays a major election issue paul brennan reports some london. public services and the n.h.s. in particular are the central theme in labour's election campaign in a post britain with the u.k.'s free health service be undermined by predatory trade deals with us pharmaceutical companies president trump this year said the n.h.s. was on the table so n.h.s. or anything else are a lot a lot more than that but still he later backtracked labor says it now has the proof 451 pages of it these uncensored documents the forest johnson's denials in

absolute tatters voters need to ask themselves and very serious questions is the n.h.s. safe in boris johnson's hands we've now got evidence that under boris johnson the n.h.s. is on the table and will be up for sale labor says renegotiated patent rules could add an extra $640000000.00 a week to the n.h.s. drugs bill the documents show that in november 27th seen the u.k.'s lead negotiator wrote the impact of some patent issues raised on n.h.s. access to generic drugs i.e. cheaper drugs will be a key consideration going forward the following march the minutes of the meeting notes the u.s. approach makes total market access the baseline assumption of the trade negotiations the prime minister has dismissed labor's claims as a complete diversion and flatly denied them we are absolutely resolved that there will be no sale of the n.h.s. no privatisation the n.h.s.

is not on the table in any way not quite true according to this former trade negotiator it doesn't appear that for example the n.h.s. or food standards have been red lines as far as we can tell we haven't seen. anywhere in the text saying the u.k. site said this was not on the table and could not be covered in a trite deal if it doesn't say that then it's on the table the scottish national party has reiterated its proposal for a new legislation to definitively exclude the n.h.s. from future trade talks this will gadding t. the seat deals will nor under main the founding principles of the n.h.s. nor open it up to profit driven exploitation documents don't commit a johnson government to actually agree a deal involving the n.h.s. but they do seem to show that the issues have been discussed. labor's general election campaign has been buffeted by headwinds in the past 48 hours and the release of this massive trove of documents is an attempt by the labor party to get back on solid ground the n.h.s.

the question is is there enough mud in here to stick to the conservatives brennan al-jazeera central london. trick at the headlines right now on al-jazeera yes president all trying to sign 2 bills into law that back hong kong's pro-democracy movement american sanctions can now be imposed on chinese and hong kong officials dame responsible for human rights abuses and on kong special trade status that will be reviewed every year the territories leaders say it'll damage relations with the u.s. and its expressed extreme regret over the move saying it will respond with foreign counter measures pedicle hansen following developments from washington. the president made it clear he didn't want to sign this bill he doesn't want to see anything jeopardize what to him right now is the most important thing is getting that trade deal with china don't forget he wants to be reelected if you're going to do that he needs to win rural states rural states of the farmers are really hurting

from this trade deal from this trade crisis so the president wants to see a deal get made congress forces him she did it but he's sending the signal he might not put all that really into place at hong kong police have entered polytechnic university for the 1st time since putting pro-democracy protesters under siege at that campus police say they are searching the grounds to remove makeshift weapons and petrol bombs you can see this search going on right there of diversity has been surrounded by police for 11 days after protesters retreated into the campus following fierce clashes that led to several arrests and a dramatic escalation of iraq's anti-government protests crowds of torque steer iranian consul in this off as a holy city for shia muslims 100 surrounded the building lighting tires blankets and anything else they can find all while chanting iran out they accused iran of propping up iraq's government which they want replaced at least 19 people have been

killed in a rebel attack near the villages in the democratic republic of congo that will add to anger among locals who targeted u.n. peacekeeper saying they're failing to protect them earlier the united nations admitted one of its peacekeepers shot and killed one of the protesters who died in the last few days unions and student groups in colombia are holding a 2nd nationwide strike in support of anti-government protests colombians are angry about corruption and propose cuts to minimum wages changes in pensions and tax increases. and so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera more news to come in the meantime the strain is that next. chinese casino empire is transforming cambodia. develop and criminology when i went to. cambodia. on al-jazeera.

i thought me ok i'm really good the lad i knew in the stream today protests in a wrong what happened while the country's internet was shot all will speak to people inside iran for an update and since several of our community members requested today's topic we want to hear from you what questions you have for our guests send us a tweet or join the live chat streaming right now on you tube. business jasmine ramsi on the communications director of the center for human rights in iran and here in the spring. a shop increasing the price of petrol saying to ronnie ends to the streets this month in anti-government demonstrations that turned deadly and destructive protest has been banks government buildings and cash.