'd protests as in iraq says ablaze iran's consulate in niger tehran demands tough action against those responsible. hello welcome to our there live from doha i'm marty dennis also coming up. the saudi led coalition agrees to open sun our airport in yemen to see prisoners are expected to be flown in shortly. china accuses the us of interference of balls of consequences after president trump science and law supporting hong kong's human rights i made ongoing protests.

thousands of colombians refused to back down there's a national strike against corruption and economic inequality. now the iraqi army says it's sending its commanders to provinces to restore order in a statement it said it's setting up what it calls crisis cells to quell the mass on the rest this follows another night of violence at least 8 people were killed in nazareth when security forces opened fire to disperse a demonstration there. and also iran is demanding firm action from the iraqi government after an attack on its consulate in the city of nat jeff anti-government protesters torched the building there accusing tehran of supporting the iraqi government who they have been railing again. it's full 2 months later i gave him

a report was. hundreds of anti-government protesters stormed the compound to the iranian consulate in the jaffa $55.00 to tie a 1000 blankets and replacing the iranian flag with an iraqi one was analysts say the symbolic importance of the attack in a shia majority city cannot be understated this is the city where the ayatollah khomeini used to live it's considered to be you know 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 exerting t. much power in iraq they want the iraqi government to take action to limit it was 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 karbala. both attacks feed into the why to anti-government protest movement that thing gulf to iraq since october 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 it's provide to expand its regional influence victoria gate and be out you say oh. well let's go live that's mohammed m.g.m. his in the iraqi capital baghdad says we've got these ongoing protests in nasiriyah in the south and we've also got this incident in not jeff which has infuriated the iranians of coals and the iraqi government is to send in the army.

that's right martina a dramatic escalation to the crisis that is currently unfolding in iraq just in the past 12 hours or so let me tell you 1st about the latest we're hearing about what happened in the southern shiite majority city of najaf so the we are hearing from medical sources there that at least 8 protesters were killed and at least 45 wounded in clashes that took place between protesters and security forces close to government buildings in the around 3 am local time that's about 10 hours 10 hours ago that's one thing and we're also hearing from people on the ground that they expect the casualty figure will rise then of course you have what happened in of course it's the seat of the authority here in the it is a holy city the fact that you had these protesters. despite their fear of reprisals going to the compound of the iranian consulate attacking it

torching that building that is extremely significant in a majority shia city and it also echoes another attack that happened against the iranian consulate in the shiite holy city of najaf that happened in early november there are protesters here that again and again whether they be in shiite majority cities or other parts of the country that have decried the outsized influence of iran in the politics and so they want to see that come to an end certainly this is worrisome not just to iran it is also worrisome very much to the shiite majority government here in iraq we've had a statement from the government in which they condemned the attack and they say that this attack was aimed at damaging the historical relations between it off and on and with the rest of the countries that's what the interior ministry said in a statement just a few hours ago beyond that also one more thing to add as you mentioned now we're hearing from right off the army sources that that off the military is going to send

military leaders to different provinces in the country to try to quell the unrest that's also raising. a lot of concern right now as to what form exactly that's going to take does that mean there is going to be a crackdown what measures are going to be taken in these provinces in these cities in parts of the country where demonstrators continue to come out day after day and now once again they have attacked an iranian installation here in iraq more teen mom a gem jim live in baghdad thank you very much indeed let's go now to dulles or jabari she's in the iranian capital tehran and the radians demanding a decisive action to be taken against the perpetrators of the attack against his consulate in jeff. yes certainly the reigning foreign ministry spokesperson up us mousavi has issued a statement saying that the iranian government and i'm going to quote from it saying demand decisive effective and responsible action against the destructive agents on aggressors the point of view here is that something needs to be done very

quickly to take control of the situation is very much an important city for iranians and the clerical establishment here not only did the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei study there but also the founder of these amik revolution ayatollah khomeini spent many years there in exile this city is very important for iran because of the clerical. schools that are there in the history that they share the opinion here is that these attacks are taking place by small groups of people that are being fueled why outside forces mainly western countries to try and create a rift between the relationship between iran and iraq their relationship has never been stronger right now there are trade annually is at $13000000000.00 in the ratings are currently providing a 3rd of the country's electricity in iraq so it's very important for this relationship to continue also strategically iraq lies shares

a border with syria as well as saudi arabia countries that iran is very interested in maintaining some kind of power or around and so for them this incident is unacceptable and they will do everything they can to put pressure on the iraqi government to try and quell this on the rest as soon as possible. live in tehran thank you. for the sound hammer out a coalition fighting in yemen says it will release some the prisoners and permits limited flights from the rebel held capital some are apples being closed to commercial flights since 2016 the coalition says patients needing medical care can be flown out in coordination with the w.h.o. that's the world health organization mohammed reports now from the yemeni capital. 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 saudia strikes and 2015 the national airline forced to stop flying there

the following year as airspace was closed by the war but this hour the u.e.a. little says it can't be up and to allow patients needing medical treatment to be flown out. of other mothers and some are international airport was not closed by a un international resolution but was forcibly unlawfully 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 human rights activists say some international airport should have never been closed in the 1st place it is the only way to enter or 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 all know 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 but in commercial flights from and into some international airport is a flagrant violation against international laws and enormous. the enforced closure of the international gateway has also left thousands of people stranded outside yemen the aviation authority says the port 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. now rebels in the democratic republic of congo have attacked a w.h.o. base at the world health organization at least 3 people were killed including a w.h.o. worker elsewhere people's anger has turned on un peacekeepers being blamed for not

keeping people safe from the increasingly restive east of the country catherine sawyer reports from goma. another tense day in. a protest a shot dead by a policeman on saturday. the policeman 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. the bodies 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. then 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 mourning a talk by a.t.f. and the village about 30 kilometers from benny more than a dozen people hopped to death with machetes some of them the copy tape had. gone 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

a protest of the all the blood libel that's in the air to the fact that they have $150.00 people much more all what is going on in benny they fear the killings but he also said the united nations may feel called one. god must leave this country. their message was clear and they told us no matter what force is used to remove them from the streets they'll keep coming back until the demands of the people of delhi i met that. money we are tired i come from our people are being slaughtered the un and our soldiers are there and doing nothing why then all this forces there not to protect our people. they finished their parties at a police station. where they paid their last tribute to the heat of battle. and back in bed he was buried by family friends and hundreds of other protestants determined to keep the pressure on until the violence stops catherine sorry

al-jazeera. that china is accused of trump of sinister intentions after the president signed a hong kong human rights bill beijing has summoned the u.s. ambassador the law means washington can impose sanctions on chinese and hong kong officials dangerous sponsible for human rights abuses it also bans the sale of tear gas rubber bullets and other equipment used by the security forces china has threatened to respond well leading pro-democracy activists just their walls says the u.s. has shown that it prioritizes human rights over business for you as president sign on the hong kong human rights and democracy act that's the remarkable achievement of all the hong kong was no matter a democrat or republican the new bipartisan consensus from both the us administration and the congress is just that of hong kong to pirate past human

rights and democracy and lobbying override by the trade negotiation all right let's go live now to beijing and speak to andrew thomas a correspondent and to the chinese response has been swift and on their big u.s. . an ambiguous and furious they have summoned the u.s. ambassador in to see the foreign ministry here in beijing for the 2nd time in a week and choose day they brought him in one of maginnis to try to encourage the u.s. president to veto this bill the u.s. president has signed it and they've called the u.s. ambassador in again beijing swiftly put out a statement 1st thing on thursday and then they talked about it as one of their foreign ministry briefing on thursday afternoon beijing time now this is on the one hand about the practicalities of the potential sanctions but it's also about the symbolism that what they discourage in lee call these so called hong kong human rights and democracy act means now in part that is about the specifics of what is

going on in hong kong they say that bypassing the sites and by donald trump signing the exact it is encouraging the violence in hong kong and it's undermining the sovereign see that china has over hong kong it undermined this whole idea of one country 2 systems and it's the u.s. interfering in hong kong or it's china's internal affairs on the other hand though they say that this goes further and this is all about the u.s. really demonizing china even more than it has in the past i'll read a bit of a statement to you this act will only further expose the malicious and hedge of monic nature of u.s. intentions to the chinese people including our hong kong compatriots and the chinese people will only standing great the solidarity the us attempts are bound to fail so that is beijing really saying that this act doesn't just relate to the specifics of the violence in hong kong but it really is symptomatic they think of

the way that the u.s. is treating china more broadly and they say that consequences will follow from this that outline what the counter measures will be but beijing is saying they will come and you tell us live in beijing thank you. we got a lot more to come here and out there including flood survivors in kenya they're forced to dig through layers of mud to find the remains of their missing man. and preparation delays in the philippines a foreign team sleeping on floors just days before the southeast asian games. how the weather still looking very messy molson windy across a year but we have told arrests again from all the possibly go on into the early pos hold next week at the moment some very stormy conditions still in place just

around central parts of the mediterranean pushing up into it with this area of low pressure but look further north and you can see are often of weather system still making their way through across the british isles through the low countries and this cold front this blue lines are drawn on the chart there that signifies that we are going to see snow much colder at sucking in next week but at least it will turn dry for the south the saints more heavy rain in general and all the possibly still very disturbed $56.00 millimeters of rain here in 24 hours that makes about $200.00 millimeters in the last 5 days that what's the weather now in the process of not seeing further race with still some snow there over the austrian alps the swiss elves' northern parts of the italian alps as well further north well there we go with a northerly starting to talk its way in some bits and pieces of cloud and rain 10 celsius there in london month by friday the northerly really setting in just 7 degrees for the south the still some more snow just around the outset cold enough in scandinavia down into parts of the mediterranean and resupplied and rain pushing

towards turkey but lossie dry for north africa. too much sponsored by countdown this. week stories generate foundation is a line. these protests are saying down with the system and down with all of the parts with different angles from different perspectives just because we came to prison there's a me right stopped at the gate separate the spin from the fact the western media jumps on stories we don't taking down the misinformation from the journalism it's about telling the stories of those human beings out there with the listening post on al-jazeera.

covers taken out of the top stories here and out as air iran has called for decisive action to be taken against protesters excessive light is consulates in the iraqi city of najaf demonstrators blamed tehran for propping up the government they've been railing against. the saudi embassy coalition in yemen says it will release some prisoners and allow limited flights from the rebel held capital sanaa airport's been closed to commercial flights since 26 in. china has accused donald trump of sinister intentions after the president signed a hong kong human rights bill that could help protect protests is aging and threaten to respond. to recovery efforts in kenya have been stretched beyond their limits by devastating flooding and landslides but to kill or lead in the county of west pocket people have been left to dig in the mud themselves searching for the

remains of their relatives so far at least 65 people have been confirmed dead within the past couple of days with up to 120000 more affected mohamed odeh reports now from the village of tom karl one of the communities cut off after the storm. the people of time called village in kenya west book called county. mission days after 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 landslide in some cult followed days of torrential rain entire families were wiped out when a vast side of water rocks and mud swept across the village the land that once held

their homes is now covered by mud and rocks. lost his entire family down by the melissa 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 time come live in bodies have been recovered the rest are still missing. william capello is yet to find the bodies of 7 of his 9 children who died began you know with 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 flung village have been hampered by the torrential rain and floods which also swept away bridges and roads in was the court that tried to do that took place here as part of a grim picture affecting many parts of west county and with continued rainfall

there is the possibility of what appeared to government officials have been appealing to people to move to say fun grounds but the people of this village say they conned do that until they find the bodies of their loved ones locals say told the last disaster that witnessed and they dread and if for the loss 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 call have sought shelter in the local charge others have chosen to live in the open not sure when if ever their lives come to a time to any sense of normality mohammed on the wall just see it or some call in north western kenya. rescue workers in albania are racing to find survivors from tuesday's powerful earthquake several countries have sent teams in to help 40 people so far been confirmed dead this was the most powerful earthquake to hit the country in decades now brazilian causes up hold

a corruption conviction against the former president lewis in asio lula da silva it also increases sentence by 5 years he was released from jail early this month after the supreme court ruled a person can only be imprisoned after all appeals have been exhausted lula was found guilty of receiving bribes from construction companies in which of the public contracts he's denied wrongdoing. protests as in colombia remain defiant thousands of them of demonstrating for a 7th consecutive day and they're angry about corruption and propose cuts to the minimum wage many are demanding the resignation of president even do k alessandra preeti has more from the capital bogota. when me and unions and student groups called for a national strike on the under 21st few imagined it would have sparked an unprecedented movement. the marches that day were the biggest in decades. and the night

spontaneous demonstrations broke out in which as well as poor neighborhoods and have continued now for a week and abated. this generation will cop columbia's finally awake and if demanded to be head the time has come to find solutions to our social problems we are not afraid anymore to speak up and show ourselves to the well despite being one of the most an equal countries in the world colombians have seldom brought their grievances to the street. decades of civil conflict with rebel groups in paramilitaries violent drug cartels in killings of political and union leaders had silenced social my lais. but the signing of the peace deal 3 years ago that this arms fire rebels seems to have also opened the door to long neglected the nation's capital to him but now. let's immediate concern that one by. the hand that never look like has played at least in the large cities and to other

types that move in and carry related to education can see it but perhaps. that. colombian president's response has mostly been to discredit and criminalize the demonstrations while playing lip service to their constitutional right to protest. we are living moments of great demand in society but let's be clear the arsonists will not win was violence what they did will not help them at the polls. in recent days riot police have used tear gas and stun grenades to the spurs the mostly peaceful crowds one teenager died after being hit by a gas canister rallies continued i know the pro. so you haven't reached the kind of fevered frenzy that we've seen in chile bolivia or ak well or in. the political social demands that many believe it's easier to.

guess and look i think columbus going through a political transition where the priest or the international contest and a new generation are all playing a role where we don't know yet is where we're going with it. while it's unclear what they were achieved these protesters believe the time is come to confront many political challenges that have been postponed for way too long as the m.p.'s just read of the work. the un has urged greece to improve urgently conditions in overcrowded refugee a migrant camps on its islands the high commissioner for refugees relief or grandy described conditions as miserable whilst on a visit to less boss there about 39000 asylum seekers are living on various islands greece's government says it's trying to improve the camps and move unaccompanied children to permanent housing on the mainland chinese owned mobile

tick-tock has admitted that it removed a viral video that criticised beijing's crackdown on weekend muslims photos as these began in a video with a make up tutorial before condemning china's mass detention of leaders and other minorities in shin jang province to turkey initially denied diseases claims that her video was taken down and her account blocked for a month but the company is since admitted it was briefly removed due to what they say was human error is also issued an apology the southeast asian games start in the philippines on saturday but the organizers facing complaints that athletes are being forced to sleep on the floor and to go hungry to linda hogan has more from manila. i don't press conference here in manila organizers in charge coming from the government actually denied that they have been disorderly in their management of the sea games here in the philippines they even said that they will

investigate reports that some athletes have suffered food poisoning have been brought to the hospital and there is in adequate food for athletes and members of the changing team from different countries they even went as far as leaving journalists holds local and international for what they described as exaggeration of reports coming in on social media and in publications but journalists errant the once reporting it out police themselves have complaining of management and they have they have been asking the government to basically fix it as soon as possible specially logistical and managerial operations like organizing hotels hotel rooms and bus transport system now president of diego dared to himself already said that he wants an investigation into how the scene games is being managed by several factions of his government this isn't the only controversy that has surrounded the sea games last week there has already been an inquiry in the senate about whether

the budget allocated and loan for this project is overpriced and whether the funds have been disbursed properly. right time for us to recap the main stories here of al-jazeera 13 people have died in the iraqi city of nasiriyah security forces opened fire on a demonstration of the iraqi army says it's sending its commanders to provinces to restore order in the statement it says it's seeing up what it calls crisis cells to quell the mass armrest and iran is calling for decisive action because protests was torched its. consulate in the iraqi city of no jeff demonstrators blame terror on for propping up a government they've been railing against the heavy gem june is in the iraqi capital baghdad. we've heard again and again from protesters here they are tired of

the outsized influence of iran in the politics clearly this is worrying iran but also it's very much worrying the shia led government here in iraq when you look at what's been going on here when you see how the parliament has been trying to reconcile the demands of the protesters with these efforts to try to mollify them by attempting to pass let's say electoral reform that is not doing anything to mollify the protesters. the saudi immorality coalition in yemen says it will release some of the prisoners and allow limited flights from the rebel held capital some airports been closed to commercial flights since 2016 china has accused donald trump of sinister intentions after the president signed hong kong human rights bill it could help protect protests is beijing has summoned the u.s. ambassador and threatened to respond with counter measures at least 19 people have

been killed in a rebel attack near the village of oil in the easton democratic republic of congo it's expected to add to the anger among locals who targeted u.n. peacekeepers saying they're failing to protect them a world health organization facility is also been attacked in a number incident elsewhere in the country recovery efforts in kenya have been stretched beyond their limits by devastating flooding and landslides in west pocket people have been left to dig in the mud themselves searching for the remains of their relatives coming up next it's the strain. al-jazeera we were told to get to that between russia has this been addressed by turkey we listen what is the proposal. for a couple on you know we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that

matter. i have 3 ok. you're in the stream today protests in a wrong what happened while the country's internet was shut off we'll speak to people inside iran for an update and since several of our community members for quested 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. this is jonathan ramsay on the communications director of for human rights in iran and here in the spring. a sharp increase in the price of petrol center on the ends to the streets.