iraq's military boosts its response to mass protests while in the south dozens are killed a security forces opened fire on demonstrators. on the intent of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up welcomed home dozens of yemenis returned to sana'a after being released from saudi prisons. the french president says naturedly dismissed seriously consider the future of the airlines as he hosts sector general against stoltenberg in paris. and boldly setting out its plans for a new era in space exploration europe's space agency sets its sights on the moon and mons.

who we start in iraq where at least 29 people are reported to have been killed after security forces opened fire on anti-government protests in the southern city of nasiriyah medical sources say live ammunition and tear gas canisters were used earlier the army dispatched commandos to provincial areas with instructions to restore order we're also hearing of 3 deaths in the city of najaf where protesters set fire to the rain in concert on wednesday iraq's foreign minister has called his iranian counterpart to apologize over the incident. reports from baghdad. in a doc a dramatic escalation hundreds of anti-government protesters storming the compound of the iranian consulate late tuesday in the southern city of najaf set in parts of the diplomatic mission on fire replacing an iranian flag with the intent of how to go when the consulate was set on file all the broad police in the job and the

security forces started firing and as if we were burning a rock as a whole the riot police fired tear gas canisters intensively on the security forces rained us heavily with live bullets the protesters say iran is exerting too much power in an office and they want their government to take action to limited. according to analysts it's not just this attack that significant but also the symbolism of where it took place 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 the this is the 2nd time this month that an iranian consulate in a shiite majority city has been targeted by an off the demonstrators 3 weeks ago security forces killed 4 demonstrators who stormed the consulate in the city of

karbala both attacks feed into the wider anti-government protest movement that's engulfed iraq since october. by early wednesday violence in the yet another shiite majority southern city dozens killed or wounded in nasiriyah when security forces opened fire with live rounds and tear gas to disperse crowds of protesters hours later military announced the troops would be dispatched to southern iraq to restore order anti-government demonstrations have been raging in iraq since early october with protesters accusing the government of corruption and demanding a complete overhaul of the country's political system since the unrest began at least 350 people have been killed and thousands wounded. political analysts say the only way for the government to find a solution is by pushing for reform to talk about what. to issue a new electorial role for the best of the people to hold early elections off to be

rocky polman dissolves itself and the government resigns but many protesters say much more needs to be done day after day the demonstrators that we speak with be they in baghdad or other cities tell us they don't feel the government is taking their demands seriously they say that no matter the risk it will continue to come out and press for the rights and opportunities they say they deserve how many times women does it by that. dozens of yemenis have been welcomed back home from jail in saudi arabia as part of a prisoner swap 128 men were flown into sunrise international airport aboard red cross planes they were greeted by hooty commanders and some family members here as special envoy martin griffiths as welcome the prisoner swaps come amid a new push to end the 5 year war the saudi u.a.e. led code it coalition announced on wednesday that said our airport would reopen to limited flights and our in-patients to fly out for medical care but a lot i was at the airport in santa as the prisoners arrived. this flight is the

1st flight. for the president or for this the 1st official. swarup or release of for president before by saudi arabia u.a.e. a little qualification people are hoping this disturbed would push forward for achieving all realizing the peace in yemen which has been going through difficult and destructive times throughout nearly 5 years many of those who i've talked to hold their they will find their relatives. to really to go out of this international post but so far now we are we couldn't know that. the exact number of who though who will be arrived but according to the news that i have heard that some of them have been detained and. which is the just 40 kilometers from santa also those who have been detained in areas in the

course of there and the coastline of data there are also fisherman. hoti are concerned that the they want their fighters to be released also there are thousands of people who are being detained who are not involved in the war especially those who try to travel outside yemen through the areas which are under the control of the saudi you a little qualification. pro-democracy activists in hong kong are calling on world leaders to follow the u.s. after president donald trump signed a bill supporting human rights in the semi autonomous chinese territory the law allows washington to sanction chinese and hong kong officials guilty of human rights abuses beijing has accused trump of sinister intentions and has vowed to

respond sarah clarke has more. in central hong kong they gathered to say thank you to the united states president donald trump signed into law the hong kong human rights and democracy act on wednesday the pro-democracy protesters embraced it as a sign of support i think is a good thing for hong kong biggest given the special hour how to say that it be the economic situation of town car to all mainland china actually yeah. i think it was affecting. the whole situation i'm very on this to be a part of hong kong to stay standing here to do not say the word celebrate but to to. to to share one delightful moment of being here yes for this remark was that thank you mr speaker i think the legislation had really broad bipartisan support in both the u.s.

senate and the house of representatives and for the people of hong kong the it allows the u.s. to introduce economic sanctions against hong kong and withdraw the city special trade status if it believes the government is failing to protect democracy and human rights pro-democracy activist joshua wall held the legislation as a victory for the protest movement which is paralyzed parts of the city since june it just increased. well leaders around the world and politicians aware that it's time for them to it's down to hong kong but the hong kong government rejected the legislation accusing us of interfering in the city's internal affairs and sending the wrong message to violent protest critics included the city's former chief executive after all these years it has to be on me as to why people in the west because i have heard of opening the mobs of the countries as if they had done better dealing with the domestic problems china echoed that message describing it

unnecessary and more into it and some of the u.s. ambassador in beijing jungle hong kong china's hong kong hong kong as a purely chinese internal affairs no foreign organization foreign government and foreign individual has the right to tell me which i'm going to the us legislation comes less a little we're going to blow democracy party secured a landslide victory in the city's district council elections that too has been a morale boost for these protestors but so far the government is showing no signs of compromise in meeting these demands for political reform sarah clarke 0 hong kong. in the united states a key witness in the impeachment inquiry against president donald trump has been accused of sexual misconduct 3 women have made allegations against gordon tsonga and the u.s. envoy to the european union they claim he retaliated against them professionally after they rejected sexual advances songlines testimony linked president trump's

decision to withhold aid from ukraine with investigations into his political rival joe biden. and trump's personal lawyer has been accused of pursuing lucrative business deals with ukraine officials while pushing the president's agenda u.s. media is reporting a rudy giuliani explore deals worth hundreds of thousands of dollars that's what he pressured ukraine to dig up damaging information on biden giuliani's influence on u.s. ukraine policy is a focus of the impeachment inquiry giuliani says he never accepted a penny less cost to our white house correspondent can really help it took a much some of that in a minute but meantime some breaking news about president trump making a surprise trip to afghanistan. yeah it was a pretty quiet thanksgiving holiday here in the united states until just a few moments ago when news broke that the president had made an unannounced visit to bob graham air force base in afghanistan now this is part of a tradition we've seen with other presidents during the holidays making surprise

unofficial visits to support the troops he served turkey apparently to some of those that are serving there away from their families in the holiday was a bar at 2 and a half hour visit we're told but during that visit we also know that the president in addition to speaking with service members have bilateral meeting with afghan president ghani and we are told that in the midst of the collapse with talks with the taliban that those talks have now been put back on track that the u.s. president saying during the meeting there as he addressed the troops that it was his belief the taliban does want a cease fire he also talked about apparently a substantial drawdown of u.s. troops 1st not putting forward a number later according to white house pool reports the president putting that number at about 8600 u.s. soldiers you have to remember this is america's longest running war now a generation of men and women who have been serving there the u.s. president has always been very supportive of the u.s.

military making that unannounced visit to afghanistan and now just getting the reports of that here in the united states and around the world and kimberly. in the meantime there were these claims earlier on when they're against golden. house he responded. yeah well the headline seems to be sort of overseas it's those headlines back in the united states that continue to hot donald trump even as many would say he tries to kind of distract from that problematic news coverage with these types of media appearances back here in the united states there has been some revelation about one of his ambassadors gordon somnolent who hasn't been particularly helpful to donald trump in his testimony in the ongoing impeachment inquiry in fact initially he said behind closed doors when democrat investigators were questioning him in a deposition that there was no quid pro quo in other words no leverage of the office and perhaps an oval office meeting for the ukrainian president if that president then investigated donald trump's political rival joe biden now don't

gordon saw in fact saying there was a quid pro quo and now allegations against him coming from 3 women accusing him of sexual harassment and sexual advances now he is denying all of this he says in a statement untrue claims of unwanted touching and kissing are concocted and i believe coordinated for political purposes this is just adding fuel to the fire on both sides as this impeachment inquiry continues to gather momentum we have the judiciary committee coming up with its hearing on december 4th expect there to be even more explosive allegations as both sides try to prove their case or defend donald trump can be how could thank you very much indeed the french president has welcomed nato secretary-general u.n. stoltenberg for talks in paris it was a chose for the 2 men to clear the am strongly criticize the organization last month calling it brain dead but there are still big questions being asked about the role and future of nato in the modern world had

a bit 70th anniversary meeting in london next week about the reports from the french capital. it was a longer handshake than usual for the french president it seemed to be a sign that emanuel was in a conciliatory mood as he greeted nato secretary general at the least say only a few weeks after he described the military alliance as brain dead but if you install tim burke had hoped for an apology or a retraction he didn't get one as mike ross stood by his claim that nato lacked direction because some of the questions i ask are open questions that we have not resolved peace in europe. treaty the relationship with russia the subject was turkey who is the enemy so injuries or decision let's not negotiate cost sharing a burden sharing maybe we needed a wake up call if you permit english expressions stoltenberg said nato members often had different opinions but that didn't mean the alliance has no future so the

policy start while questions are 'd being asked about the strength of the transatlantic north america and europe are doing more together than we have done for decades it's clear that my comment that nato is brain dead didn't go down well with stoltenberg but is certainly shaken up the alliance and focused minds on coming up with some new ideas germany's foreign minister has suggested that a group of experts from outside nato could be created to review the organization some analysts say such a move would be constructive it was war in ukraine there's a huge problem in middle east or war in syria or iraq or iran is behaving differently so this is something very useful and it's much better to discuss the problem we gather with experts inside the alliance than then criticizing the alliance and. your party the credibility of the alliance. next week nato leaders meet in london for a special summit to mark its creation 70 years ago during the cold winning it was

a time when members agreed on their aims and who was the enemy today its leaders are politically poll. the security challenges have changed nato might not be at death's door yet but most members now expose concede that for it to survive successfully it needs a fresh approach. i'll just sirrah paris still to come on al-jazeera the devastating crash which killed $95.00 football fans 30 years ago the former british police chief in charge of the match is found not guilty of manslaughter. and historic victory for women's rights in sudan as the government scraps its controversial public order act.

hello there as we head towards the weekend it does look as if some balls europe might finally get a bit of a break and the very unsettled conditions we have seen for such a long time now there's still plenty of clouds but some areas seeing less than others that's the rain through eastern portions you know through friday but it's clearly not the way for the balkans turning to snow in that cold as far as the you . know sweeping southwards across portions of sweden and then we have this area of unsettled weather across central europe but a pretty good day friday across much of the northwest the winds are coming to the north it will feel cold probably colder than that 7 which is the the daytime high as the south of the winds not quite as strong there's another system just waiting in the wings it will bring the rain into western france northern sections of spain and portugal but it doesn't make a great deal of headway so some pretty good clear conditions finally across central europe and some very good conditions to into southeastern france and northern italy where of course we have had recent flooding and then we had it to the south into northern africa even the system sweeping the way throughout the mediterranean not

really fallen of south produce any showers temperatures are not too bad as well 21 in ship and $23.00 in bangles the on friday mostly clear maybe just some clouds along the coastal areas but it's a lot about a 20 an algae is. as we embrace new technologies rarely do we stop to ask what is the price of this progress what happened was people started getting sick but there was a small group of people that begin to think that maybe this was related to determine if this closure and the job investigation reveals how even the smallest device is deadly environmental and health comes we think ok we'll send our you waste to china but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe death by design on al-jazeera.

armaan of the top stories. at least 29 people are reported to have been killed after iraqi security forces opened fire on anti-government protests. the army earlier dispatched commanders to provincial areas with instructions to restore order. dozens of yemenis freed from jail in saudi arabia as part of a prisoner swap deal have arrived home they were greeted by commanders and family members at santa airport which reopened on wednesday. the nato secretary general says the transatlantic alliance still has a future even though members may have different opinions and stoltenberg was in paris for talks with the french president. earlier called your nose ation brain

dead. a former british police chief has been found not guilty of the manslaughter of $95.00 liverpool fans at a match 30 years ago david duncan field was in charge of the $989.00 f.a. cup semifinal at hillsborough in sheffield where the supporters were crushed to death it remains the worst disaster in british sporting history leave barca reports . much as i was in the car at the f.a. cup match between liverpool and not even forest at sheffield wednesday skills for a ground that started on time but outside the stadium the 1st signs of disaster a boy lifted clear from the crowd still waiting to get in. inside the ground behind one of the goals horrific events were unfolding. thousands of liverpool fans were being crushed behind high anti-riot fences commons at the time opera lease and players struggle to comprehend what was happening i'm. a major

inquiry blamed a breakdown in policing including a failure to delay the game and a decision to open gates that allowed fans to surge into the stadium and then into the already packed standing areas. the munch commander was former chief superintendent david duncan field he stood trial for the gross negligence manslaughter of 95 people and 96 victims don't i don't know school years off the hillsborough duncan field didn't give evidence because he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. computed initially claimed that liverpool fans had forced a gate open and rushed into the stadium he later admitted it was a lie. police have been accused of trying to shift the blame on to the fines relatives of those killed fear they will never know the full story of what happened at hillsborough for many the not guilty verdict came as a blow they say they'll continue their search for justice but not like. all of you

. on. this. ought not to say rapes. that 96. 1 displays this has been just that obama say this. hillsborough is see it into the country's consciousness. altering safety standards of sports venues around the world and changing british football for ever the al-jazeera. the death toll from tuesday's earthquake in albania has risen to at least 41 people rescue workers are continuing to search for survivors amongst the rubble of collapsed buildings but hopes of finding anyone alive and now fading the magnitude 6.4 earthquake was the most powerful to hit the country in decades. is in one of the worst hit cities douras he says most people there have fled for fear of

aftershocks. i'm standing among a group of apartment buildings and hotel buildings along the beach front of the resort town of buddhists and as you can see these apartments above me are completely uninhabited. and renters have fled them they are staying elsewhere they're afraid to come back because there are constant aftershocks and these people don't want to be caught in a situation where a building collapses on top of them because of an aftershock this is the situation all along the beach front of good is about 2 kilometers worth of buildings large high rise buildings like the the municipality tells us that some 500 of these people are being kept in temporary shelters in the indoor gymnasium of the school building until their buildings are checked by engineers and they're told that they can return to them or that told the buildings are going to be demolished at another 1000 we're told have been put into medium term shelters in hotel rooms because

their buildings most likely won't survive but there must be more than that there must be more people who have shelter at the moment because we're seeing people sleeping in their. on wednesday night thousands of people sleeping in 3 or 4 kilometers of quadruple parked along one of the main avenues of the city they simply do not want to go to bed for the last time and be caught in a quake in which they are building collapses and there are people who whom we've seen walking the streets here at night in do this. with blankets wrapped around them and the so they say who is that we're going to sleep on cafeteria or that they've spent the night on the beach this entire coastal searching of the heart of its economy where all the tourism trade is done this is no go through. the u.n. says unaccompanied refugee children living in greece are at risk of abuse and

exploitation the u.n. high commissioner for refugees is spent the past 2 days visiting the overcrowded camps on the greek island of lesbos grandy as urged european countries to do more to help greece which is on the front line of the refugee crisis almost $65000.00 people have arrived on its shores so far this year and 80 percent increase on 2018 i found the conditions in which people live. extremely disturbing. very inadequate access to basic services a situation of generalized tension often resulting in violence expression the violence against minors violence within the communities themselves but because of the situation the most penalized are certainly the women and children and especially the high number of unaccompanied i'm accompanied children and they're

very big sense of despair and lack of prospects that makes the situation even more. worrying and difficult. 3 world health organization workers have been killed in democratic republic of congo in attacks on 2 it boehner virus treatment centers so there is a series of attacks in the east of the country or this is protests were held outside the united nations peacekeeping mission in the regional capital goma they say the u.n. is not doing enough to protect civilians and accuse one of their soldiers of killing a protester on monday more than 70 people have been killed in attacks by different armed groups since the army launched an offensive last month sudan's government has scrapped a controversial law that severely curtailed women's rights and which was condemned by human rights groups the law was enacted during the 30 year tenure of the ousted

president omar bashir the legislation punished women for quote in incident and immoral acts leading to should be a pardon indecent immoral act steam to women being fined flaunt and even jailed for wearing indecent clothing or drinking alcohol even morgan has more from khartoum on how the law made women feel as if they were being dictated to. the public order act was an act that was introduced in the mid ninety's by the former government now most of the people inside them viewed that as an act to regulate society it dictated how men should wear how women should wear where women should be seated seated in public transportation basically people feel like it was oppressing the freedom and the movement and the lifestyle of people here in sudan and that's something that local and international rights groups have said repeatedly they say that the laws under the act of the public order law made it very hard for people to be themselves women were not allowed to be out in public very late and very late

was open to interpretation depending on the security agents it had its own moral police vice police that regulated and went around society to make sure that women did not come back home late that they did not dress indecently according to the invitation of the moral police law that was a around at the time so people viewed it as a law that was basically around to constrain on the use of sadam and to try to dictate how they live their lifestyle and how they want about their daily lives south korea's military says north korea has fired 2 short range missiles into the sea the test firing coincides with the u.s. thanksgiving holiday south korea's supreme leader a bigger part north korea's supreme leader kim jong un has set a year end deadline to restart stalled denuclearization talks with washington and orange is the 1st since last month. the future of europe's role in space has been decided in spain after 2 days of meetings in seville the $22.00 members of the european space agency signed off on projects

worth nearly $16000000000.00 the blockbuster proposals include missions to the moon jupiter and neptune as well as sending the 1st ever rock sample back from mars the agency is also looking into a space based 5 g. network to deliver faster phone connections and is a way to get early warnings of solar storms and argues any investment in space science helps the economy here on earth through new jobs and technology but the agency's director says reaching an agreement was no easy feat. it looks almost so simple after such 2 days of intensive discussions there is a program we have missions everything everything looks trivial but. each and every one who looks a little bit more into detail knows that these are really complicated procedures and i'm therefore very happy i mean nasa has one government we have 22 so this is already something which is different and i'm very grateful for the member states

plus live in europe last canada to subdue for the support of what we do. remind of the top stories on our syria u.s. president donald trump says his government has resumed talks with the afghan taliban he made the comments during a surprise visit to afghanistan trump met the afghan president ashraf ghani and addressed u.s. troops ahead of facts giving he said he believed the taliban and afghanistan are open to a cease fire. at least 29 people are reported to have been killed after security forces opened fire on anti-government protests in the southern city of nasiriyah but because sources say live ammunition and tear gas canisters were used the army earlier dispatched commanders to the provinces with instructions to restore order

3 planeloads of yemenis freed from jail in saudi arabia as part of a prisoner swap deal of arrived home with 130 men were greeted by hoofy commanders and family members at santa airport which reopened on wednesday the u.n. has welcomed the prisoner swaps come as part of a new push to end the 5 year war the french president emmanuel michael has welcomed nato secretary general against altenburg for talks in paris last month my horse drawn me criticized the organization calling it brain dead and i meeting comes ahead of its 70th anniversary meeting in london next week while questions are being asked about the strengths or the transatlantic bomb north america and europe are doing more together than we have done for decades and i can hardly think about them as strongly demonstration of the commitment to our reliance story collective defense to article 5 the fact that we are actually doing more together

increasing are those of forces investing more in our security than we have done for many many years pro-democracy activists in hong kong are calling on world leaders to follow the u.s. after president trump signed a bill supporting human rights in the semi autonomous chinese territory thousands gathered for a rally saying they wanted to give thanks to the u.s. for their support beijing is accused trump of sinister intentions and has vowed to respond the law allows washington to sanction chinese and hong kong officials guilty of human rights abuses do stay with us the stream is up next takes a look at the video game fortnight after that thanks for watching.

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