al-jazeera states swear every. this is al-jazeera. you know nor intended this is they are their news hour live from london coming up. iraq's military boosts its response to mass protests while in the south dozens are killed as security forces opened fire on demonstrators. the u.s. president makes a surprise visit to afghanistan where he says talks have resumed with the taliban. welcomed home dozens of yemenis returned to sana'a after being released from saudi

prisons. only setting out its plans for a new era in space exploration europe's space agency sets its sights on the moon and must. have all your sporting clothing police in london stopped by and on track frankfurt france and getting into also the emirates stadium ahead of the europa league details coming up. in iraq at least $33.00 people are reported to have been killed after security forces opened fire on anti-government protests in the southern city of nasiriyah earlier the army dispatched commanders to provincial areas with instructions to restore order we're also hearing of 11 people killed and 800 injured in the city of najaf a protest to set fire to the iranian consulate on wednesday iraq's foreign minister has called his iranian counterpart to apologize over the incident. reports from

baghdad. in iraq a dramatic escalation hundreds of anti-government protesters storming the compound of the iranian consulate late wednesday in the southern city of measure setting parts of the diplomatic mission on fire replacing an iranian flag with their doctor and so when the. it was set on file all the broad police in the job and the security forces started firing innocent as if we were burning iraq as a whole the right police fired tear gas canisters intensively on the security forces rained as heavily with live bullets. protesters say iran is exerting too much power in and off and they want their government to take action to limit it 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 on the this is the 2nd time this month that an iranian consulate in a shiite majority city has been targeted by 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 hours later violence in 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. 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 issue a new electorial law for the best of the people to hold early elections after the rocky parliament dissolves itself and the government resigns but many protesters say much more needs to be done they have today 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 they will continue to come out and press for the rights and opportunities they say they deserve. but that is president donald trump says his government has resumed talks with the afghan taliban he made the comments during a surprise visit to afghanistan where he met president ashraf ghani and addressed

u.s. troops ahead of thanksgiving and september trump canceled talks with taliban leaders declaring peace talks dead that followed the death of an american soldier in a suicide attack in kabul the taliban wants to make a deal we'll see if they want to make it there's going to be a real deal but we'll see but they want to make a deal and they only want to make if you're busy doing a great job that still is they want to make you so i want to thank you and i want to thank the afghan soldiers west jordan who's in washington d.c. and what more do trump say in afghanistan. well lauren he also made a point of us stressing that the u.s. is very much interested in either achieving total victory or in achieving a real cease fire and supporting a real peace deal between the taliban and and the afghan government donald trump said that this is a situation where yes the u.s. has been in put it he calls endless wars for much too long but that the u.s.

does have a national security interest in making certain that the afghan government can protect its people from attack he did say that the efforts to want to go see a peace deal have been going on for some 6 months of course those who are watching closely will recall that in early september the president apparently had planned on inviting taliban leaders to camp david outside washington in order to trumpet some sort of peace talk a breakthrough but that was scrapped after the taliban carried out a couple of attacks and in one of those attacks a u.s. soldier was killed and that was when the president decided that the taliban leadership did not deserve to have an audience with him at camp david that he was questioning their commitment to actually negotiating a strong peace it is worth pointing out that the president went under the cloak of

secrecy but it's almost become a routine operation as it were for a u.s. president to carry out since george bush 1st went to afghanistan back in november 2001 and can read more into trump's decision to meet the afghan president on that same trip. well certainly from a political standpoint it's an interesting decision to meet with him i took note that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley who was already scheduled to be in afghanistan made a point of meeting both with president gandhi and with the chief executive of dollar a goal of that those 2 meetings happened on wednesday but the fact that the u.s. president met only with president hadi and not with abdullah abdullah the chief executive could be seen as perhaps indicating his preference as they try to work out a resolution to september's presidential election in afghanistan president jordan

thank you very much dozens of yemenis have been welcomed back home from jail in saudi arabia sponsored a prisoner swap 128 men were flown into centers international airport aboard red cross planes they were greeted by hooty commanders and some family members u.n. special envoy martin griffiths has welcomed the prisoner swaps come amid a new push to end the 5 year war you sound a u.s. led coalition announced on wednesday that airport would reopen to limited flights allowing patients to fly out for medical cat 100 dollars at the airport in santa as the prison has arrived. this flight is the 1st flight. for the president before this the 1st offer szell. swarup all relays are for presidents of war by saudi arabia u.a.e. little qualification people are hoping this 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 wife talk to hope they will find their relatives. to agree to go out of this international pose but so far now we couldn't know that. the exact number of who though more will be ripe but according to the news that i have heard that some of them have been detained and. which is the just 40 kilometers from sun are also those who are being detained in areas in the course the law and the coastline of. there are also fisherman. are concerned that the they want their fighters to be released also there are thousands of people who are being detained who are that's 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. earlier our reporter in yemen speak to her she official abdul ahad he says the prisoner release is a good 1st step towards peace. you know walk speak to him all the war against your men to release all the prisoners to pay the salaries of all the employees in yemen and also to open their son i reports it is no any justification to close this airport for about 25000000 yemenis living and living in all the yemeni government. coming up on al jazeera this news hour the devastating crush which killed $95.00 football fans 30 years ago the former british police chief in charge of the match was found not guilty of manslaughter.

and start victory for women's rights in sudan as the government scraps a controversial public order act. and in support a day after announcing a $500000000.00 investment the owners of manchester city are involved in another big money deal this time in india. pro-democracy activists in hong kong calling on world leaders to follow the u.s. after president signed a bill supporting human rights in the semi autonomous chinese territory and no one has 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 are how to say that there be be economic. situation of talk of a chill all mainland china actually yeah and. i think it won't affect the that the whole situation i'm very organised to be a part of hong kong and stay standing here. or not say the word set or break but to to. to share one delightful moment of being here yes for this reason of course that thank you mr speaker i thank the legislation had rare broad bipartisan support in both the u.s. senate and the house of representatives and for the people of hong kong 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 encourage world 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 protesters critics included the city's former chief executive of the all these years interests me as to why people in the west are going to happen. most of the countries as have been have done better. with their own 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 is china's hong kong hong kong as a purely chinese internal affairs no foreign organization foreign government and

foreign individual has the right to be which i'm going to the u.s. legislation comes less than a week after blow democracy party secured a landslide victory in the city's district council elections that too has been a morale boost for these protests but so far the government is showing no signs of compromise in meeting these demands for political reform sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. the french president continues to stand by comments he made earlier this month where he described nato as suffering brain death or hosting the nato chief started back for talks in paris in my own work or said his message was a necessary wake up call for the organization started burke said his meeting with my core was constructive but there are still big questions being asked about the role and future of nato in the modern world that's about to report 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 a few weeks after he described the military alliance as brain dead but if you install timberg 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 one of the questions i ask are open questions that we have not resolved peace in europe. treaty the relationship with russia the subject with 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 course comment that nato is brain dead didn't go down well with stoltenberg pretty 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 their war in syria iraq or iran is behaving differently so this is something very useful and it's much better to discuss the problem together with experts inside the alliance than than 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 polarized and the security challenges have changed nato might not be at death's door yet but most members an expert concede that for it to survive

successfully it needs a fresh approach especially butler i'll just sirrah paris. well robert hunter is a former u.s. ambassador to nato he joins us live from washington d.c. thanks very much indeed for being with us so michael hasn't pulled back from his criticism and he said i'm glad everyone now thinks we should think about our strategic goals do you think people have changed the focus as a result of his criticism or is that wishful thinking on his part unfortunately i think it's wishful thinking so far the roof thing that has to happen and the summit meeting next week in an angle is for the president and that is states to demonstrate for the 1st time and his presidency that he personally is deeply committed to the future of nato and in particular to what's called article 5 which is the part of the treaty that says if one hour gets attacked everybody has to kind of respond trump has been all along to do that and i suspect he won't do it next

week meanwhile mccall is using his comments to try to assert his own leadership in europe on security and other matters particularly now that britain is going to be getting out of the european union so mccraw is really saying ok if mr trump is not going to do it i will do it i will be the soul of the the security relationship in europe i mean how potentially dangerous is it to nature that michael is continuing with this stance because it the opponent in the baltic states for example a partner in noid with with michael because they view his stance as a kind of pro russia anti u.s. and others have kind of expressed a sort of disappointment with that with the comments what where does that where's heading you think. well i think what micron is doing is quite useful because nato has not been doing very much lately except meeting the responsibilities in central europe against let's face it russian aggression and and ukraine but now

it's important for others to step up particularly the united states and among other things it's important to try to deal with some of the other problems like turkey where mccraw spoken out very vam mentally about what the turks are doing in syria which could lead to attacks on turkey and then when one of their allies do they support turkey and also the need finally to start coming to terms with recognizing that russia is going to be an important power in europe now i think mr trump would like to do that but at the moment this is all stuck in the middle of the thing you're in the united states which we are totally preoccupied with which is the impeachment of donald trump the democrats say oh well trouble would be president if it weren't for the russian connection and obama the way russia's. relationship with which means that trump must be of mr putin's pocket so for trump to be able to do

serious things with russia is not possible now because everybody in washington right now is focused on one thing which is how do we get rid of trump say who is paying a price for that of having i don't i mean you mention in passing that turkey and take a particularly cross with they've they've they've accused the whole of being a sponsor of terrorism because of that criticism of the of the operation in syria why do you why why do you think this one this is so important i mean that remind us why that the syrian thing was such a critical part for for nature because that was something that the president trump agreed that his troops should put out of syria without consulting it seems the nato part is. i think a syria problem and that turkey syria problem could be handled by a few countries on the side because it is important except for one fact which is

all the citizens of nato are taken by unanimity so what's happened now when my caller says you know you turks have to start behaving so mr erdogan the president of turkey has come back and said ok charlie next week at the nato meeting i will veto what nato wants to do to reassure the central europeans so this is been brought into nato where it has no business being so it is a bit of a mess question will the president not his 3rd step in show him self to be a leader sort these things out i don't think for a minute that he will do that robert hunter on that note thank you very much indeed for your thoughts the thank you the death toll from tuesday's earthquake in albania has risen to at least 41 people but you work as a continuing to search for survivors amongst the rubble of collapsed buildings but hopes of finding anyone alive and are fading the magnitude 6.4 earthquake was the

most powerful to hit the country in decades john is in one of the worst hit cities doris he says most people that 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 the owners 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 dude it's about 2 kilometers worth of buildings large high rise buildings like these 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 and checked by engineers and they're told that they

can return to them or they're told the buildings are going to be demolished and 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 they said they say to us that they're going to sleep on cafeteria chairs or that they've spent the night on the beach this entire coastal section of the heart of its economy where all the tourism trade is this is now because. the un says

unaccompanied refugee children living in greece at risk of abuse and exploitation. the un high commission of refugees who spent the past 2 days visiting the overcrowded camps on the greek island of lesbos to program day has urged european countries to do more to help greece which is on the front line of the refugee crisis almost 65000 people have arrived on the shore so far this year as an increased 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 a very big sense of despair and the lack of prospects that makes the situation even more. worrying and difficult 3 world health organization workers being killed in democratic republic of congo in attacks on to bowl a virus treatment centers is the latest in a series of attacks in the east of the country this as 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 when 70 people have been killed in attacks by different armed groups since the army launched an offensive last month. sudan's

transitional government has approved a law to dismantle the regime for president bashir. the country's prime minister says the decision was not an act of revenge aimed at preserving the dignity of the sudanese people the rule was passed during a joint meeting of sudan's sovereign council and cabinet bashir was removed from office in april after 4 months of anti-government protests. earlier on thursday she dons government scrapped a controversial law that severely curtailed women's rights and which was condemned by human rights groups hiper morgan has more from khartoum on how the law affected women's lives the public order act was an act that was introduced in the mid ninety's by the former government now most of the people in sudan 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 or vice police that regulated and went around society to make sure that women did not come back home late that they did not dress in decently 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. still to come on al-jazeera. political improvise ation how television produces responded when the u.k. prime minister was a no show at a climate debate. to take a closer look at how the memory of lebanon's civil war is encouraging the protests as of today. and as for gulf cups 3 decades of tradition in south africa the whole

is here with that story. 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 they're still plenty of clouds but some areas seeing less than others that's the rain through eastern portions of europe through friday but it's carrying last away from the balkans turning to snow in that cold. snow 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 coming from 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 aside to produce any showers temperatures are not too bad as well 21 ship and $23.00 in bag on friday mostly clear maybe just some clouds along the coastal areas but it's a lot about a 20 in algeria's. day one of a new era in television news we badly need at these moments leadership and tell me this encampment that we're in today it didn't exist 3 weeks ago now there's at least 20000 or hinder refugees who live here on al-jazeera i got to commend you all

more all i'm hearing is good journalism president hosni mubarak has resigned after all the lies the attempts of coverups jamal khashoggi his loved ones want some form of closure people are suffering put on dying entire school systems books elapsing we are in the beginning of a mass extinction we saw the syrian army flag police the guy in the city just before the. movement's a good cinema saw the planet about a 100 meters away from a square in the front line but sometimes happy hanukkah happy about to commit. mass.

or mind of the top stories here now to syria at least 33 people are reported to have been killed after security forces opened fire on anti-government protests in the southern city of nasiriyah the governor of the province has resigned over the deaths 11 people have also been killed in the city of najaf where protesters set fire to the rainy and consulate on wednesday. president donald trump says his government has resume talks with the afghan taliban made the comments during a surprise visit to afghanistan. dozens of yemenis freed from jail in saudi arabia as part of a prisoner swap deal have arrived home they were greeted by 30 commanders and family members at santa airport which reopened on wednesday. britain's prime minister boris johnson is facing criticism for not taking part in the u.k.'s 1st leaders' debate on the climate emergency it's conservative party was

instead represented by an ice sculpture of the world as was the brics it party leader also didn't show up the sculptures melted as the debate progressed the conservatives have made an official complaint saying they were not allowed to offer someone else in place of the prime minister of labor and the green party have pledged to cut carbon emissions to net 0 by 2030 this election is our last chance to tackle the climate and environment emergency the climate movement has changed our politics forever and labor has listened to just $100.00 companies are responsible for 70 percent of emissions and you would home must not pay the price of the transition to a net 0 economy labor will kick start a green industrial revolution bringing new wealth to all parts of our country the liberal democrats aim to get to net 0 carbon emissions by 2045 and stressed the importance of e.u. membership. i totally agree the role that we play internationally is so important

but surely you can see that's why it's so important that we keep our seat at the european union table because we have led the way in europe on this europe has led the world that's how we got the ambitious paris accords through and turning our back on the european union is turning our back on our best we're fighting the climate emergency a former british police chief has been found not guilty of the manslaughter of $95.00 liverpool football fans at a match 30 years ago david duncan field was in charge of policing 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 new fokker reports thought much as i was never heard or read here for a cup match between liverpool with not even forest at sheffield wednesday skills program and it started on time but outside the stadium the 1st signs of disaster a boy lifted clear from the crowd still waiting to get. inside the ground behind

one of the goals horrific events were unfolding. thousands of lives whole farms were being crushed behind high anti-riot fences commons at the time. police and players struggle to comprehend all this happening. a major inquiry blamed a breakdown in policing including a failure to delay the game and a decision to open gates that allowed firms to surge into the stadium and then into the already packed standing areas. the mounts commander was former chief superintendent david duncan field trial for the gross negligence manslaughter of 95 people 96 victims god only school years after his birth took in 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 fans 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 to all of you. people with this. ought not to say graves. that 96 year old one of the strains this has been. obvious shade of this obvious the. 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 parka al-jazeera. 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 sunderland the u.s. envoy to the european union they claim he retaliated against them professionally after they rejected sexual advances sandlin denies all allegations calling them concocted songlines testimony linked president trumps decision to withhold aid from ukraine with investigations into his political rival joe biden. maren transpersonal lawyer has been accused of pursuing lucrative business deals with ukraine officials while pushing the president's agenda yes media's reporting 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 but 2 weeks of impeachment hearings in the u.s.

have done little to shift the american public's opinion on president donald trump without a clear mandate most political analysts say the republican controlled senate will not try to convict him but with the presidential election less than a year away voters in swing states could decide if trump gets a 2nd term in office how does your castro went to meet voters in one such state pennsylvania. the streets of media pennsylvania are adorned for the coming holidays but as matthew cole forbes awaits the trolley to work headlines from the impeachment hearings in washington threaten to take away some of his cheer i really don't agree with it. i mean they're going to i'm not a politician anything like that i just i think they've been trying to mess with in the sense that they get to. the 20 year old restaurant worker and business student is among the white working class swing state voters who deliver trying to victory in 2016 in cold forbes says the impeachment inquiry centered on whether trump

inappropriately pressured ukraine's president on a phone call has only cemented his support i don't really know what happened at all on that phone call. but i've read part of the transcript. and i don't really see like what they're trying to you here. polls show americans remain evenly divided on whether to impeach trump weeks of public hearings have done little to change minds and democrats have privately knowledged that senate republicans will have the power to decide president trump's fate will not vote to convict him so it's a foregone conclusion that impeachment will not remove trump from office so what does it all for well he still has to fight for reelection within a year and so his future still very much depends on how the efforts to impeach him plays off of american voters. since the get go.

they're finally getting around to it. is a power you have to you have to try to hold people accountable with most americans showing a clear partisan divide on whether they support impeachment it's the rare swing voter who will likely decide whether trump remains in office after 2020 like the voters who helped elect delaware county council woman monica tail. the office earlier this month control of the local government flipped from republican to democrat for the 1st time in 150 years we have a lot of people who are moderate we have a lot of people are somewhere in the middle from somewhere in the middle and i think we are a good example of where that swing vote is going to come from in pennsylvania is you know it's a swing state but even as political analysts say these pennsylvanians suburbs have shifted left in an apparent move both against trump areas of the state have moved further right recent local elections in western pennsylvania some republicans gain

in strength a sign that the battle for the state's electoral college votes pivotal to whether trump wins reelection in 2020 will be fierce. al-jazeera media pennsylvania. lebanon has experienced 3 days of violent protests reviving memories of the country's bloody civil war which took place between 175 and 998 however 6 weeks into the demonstrations some determined to restore peace and establish a united voice against the ruling elite you know how to report beirut. a message of peace at a time of political turmoil. mothers joined hands after a violent incident between supporters of rival political parties brought back dark memories. i know of many was where look at on civil war began in 1975. they called for a national unity. the people fighting no other born after night in

a day after the war was gone they don't know what is the taste of the war they don't know if it's blood will come blood will not give them. will not give them a turn that is they walk to the mainly christian neighborhood of i know many towards what was the front line that divided the lebanese capital. they then crossed into the mainly shiite neighborhood. of shia. it was a warm welcome from a person who seem to want to leave the past behind. i think but it was a different picture a few nights ago there was a standoff between supporters of christian opposition parties and backers of shiite parties in power and hezbollah who have used force against abd establishment protesters across the country in recent days. is doing what they best do just play on the sectarian. the sectarian emotions they're trying to

use the tools on the street of intimidating. peaceful protesters and this is being used basically to i think. for internal kind of balance and power struggle in between the establishment parties opposition parties have been accused of hijacking a popular uprising for almost 2 months there have been protests against the political elite who are refusing to give up power and that was the story of the cold war the balloting that is why many are concerned the longer this political crisis lasts and the longer people remain in the streets the likelihood of more violence increases for their baby. north korea says it has successfully tested to multiple rocket launches it follows confirmation earlier from the south korea's military the north had far too short range missiles into the sea it's believed north korea's supreme leader kim jong un oversaw the test which

coincides with the u.s. thanksgiving holiday came to set a year end deadline to restart stalled denuclearization talks with washington. the future of europe's role in space has been decided in space after 2 days of meetings in seville the $22.00 members of the european space agency signed off on projects with 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 agency's also looking into a space based 5 g. network to deliver faster fame connections and is a way to get early warnings a solar storms it's obvious any investment in space science helps the economy here on earth for new jobs and technology but the agency's director says reaching 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 in time they're from 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 all the member states plus live in europe last canada to subdue for the support of what we're doing well but massey is the deputy executive director of the royal astronomical society here in the u.k. he joins me live now from bristol thanks very much indeed for being with us so how surprised are you by the increase in spending for the european space per project. well i'm pleasantly surprised because these things tend to be a big tussle much as younger than i was imply and you know realistic evolve to look to a flat budget in cash and so that something that you know gets a road a bit by bit actually looks that they managed to achieve were a growth the most of the programs there are a few exceptions and most of the requests they are slowly mix and that's that's

really good news i think it's still when you look at the individual contributions the state has it right and it's about trying to member states it's not a massive drain on each individual budget yet it's something that rio's real to the defense the science and also the space industry in general and so which are we when we mention some of the projects going to get some funding which are the ones you think will stand out when we look back on it. i think it's always the science programs that stand out in the eyes of the public in the news media russia i mean imagine if in a decade's time or a bit less than that you're covering a european american mission trying to letting a small asteroid i think that would be quite big news that works and it's really great if europe's got a central role in the gateway as well you're developing in that actually having astronauts around the moon again now lady nasa you know nasa is leading a lot of that but it's still very much a multinational mission but there are also things like a gravitational wave observatory you know you remember those shock waves across the universe that we 1st discovered a few years ago a big get story observatory it's

a it's really good news that so you know i think it's great to see that kind of investment in fundamental sciences as well as in things like communications and those of ocean how does it i mean do you mean you would have had dealings with with this outfit to me how well does it work to have i mean the anita that mention is memory different nasa has one country in that they hear a 22 had a plan is it to collaborate on such a scale of these kind of projects yeah i mean i mean look i don't doubt there are challenges but you know it's a single work force say and do although of course the people based in different countries there are different aspects of the 7 different countries including here in the u.k. they do similar together pretty well and scientists engineers tend to like working on projects together irrespective of their nationality i mean you know you need to cover language i guess most engineers and scientists will speak english and you know them the number then i suppose of the u.k. gave them to europe and it was the german solomon dutch but they work together very well and that's why such fantastic projects coming out of european space agency

over the last decade and interesting also on that the u.k. in spite of potentially leaving the e.u. after the election appears to be staying in within the essay and this as increases funding yeah i mean european space agency the europeans so them's of trees so little so all these intergovernmental projects that are separate from the now expects say that the e.u. . he contributes at least and there are questions about u.k.'s relationship with that side of it along to them but it's intense the science program intends an awful lot of the work the u.k. is to be going to stick strongly keen to maintain that relationship which is good news because now it's no secret the scientists are very worried about yeltsin off the brakes and what that might mean for in session cooperation i think it's absolutely vital that we ensure it continues and is there is very good mechanism for achieving the robert massie thank you very much indeed to hint to her time to talk to us not just here. and coming up we'll tell you how this ancient sport.

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the our. business updates. the world thank. you. thank you as you've been hearing a jury in the u.k. it's found the police officer in charge on the day of the u.k.'s deadliest sporting disaster not guilty of gross negligence and manslaughter $96.00 liverpool fans died as a result of a fatal crash of sheffield wednesday as hillsborough ground in 1909 former police

chief superintendent david duncan field was cleared after a 7 week retrial over hillsborough disaster had a huge impact not just on the families of the victims but on football in britain as a whole in the wake of the tragedy standing room terraces were banned from the top due to physicians in england and modern all see to stadia were introduced in the years leading up to hillsborough the rise of hooliganism had resulted in oppressive policing at football matches well since $99.00 placing it going to place a greater emphasis on crowd safety and 3 years off the hillsborough the english premier league was launched with a new safety recommendations that grounds there having an effect it resulted in more women and families attending matches which in turn help transform the image of the english side brazilian team flamengo are now targeting success at the club world cup to cap off their most successful season in decades on wednesday the rio team lifted the brazilian league trophy from celebrating their 7th domestic title

in front of their hard fans and readers merican our stadium team we've also just won south america's cup alliterative torres for the 1st time in 38 years for mankind will enter the club world cup in qatar at the semifinal stage. if you win the cup or live at the door it's the most important tournament in south america as well as a strong championship the brazilian league what more could you want but let's see what happens i'm very happy at flamengo we have 20 more days to work with the team before we go to cats are. in the majesty night you were beaten by a star in their group al game and their wins for rome and mention go out back on thursday meanwhile these were the scenes outside our stalls emirates stadium in london ahead of their group f. clash with current track frankfurt the german fans were banned by you a fan after trouble at a previous game as you can see it didn't stop scores of ultras trying to get into the emirates stadium police moved in to make sure they didn't ask for the game itself it's currently still going on strongly to want to frankfurt and the owners

of manchester city have announced they're buying a majority share in the indian super league club by city f c it comes a day after the city football group or c f j revealed a $500000000.00 investment from u.s. private equity firm silver lake the deal means the f.t. now have a stake in 8 clubs around the world including man city new york city f.c. and now been city are the final race of the f one season takes place in abu dhabi on sunday 1st practice is on friday now ferrari will be looking to end a disappointing campaign on a high recently team bosses held crisis talks with their 2 drivers about the investor and charlotte clare after the pair crashed into each other at the previous grand prix in brazil and we we looked at it and i particularly looked at it obviously just ran understand how we call love made the things better i think it was a very unfortunate 1st of all because the church was extremely small and it had big

. big drama after that so that was a little bit unlucky but as a team i think we probably should try. and be a bit less aggressive in between each other to to for these things to not happen again for the team is not good for everyone that is supporting us it's not good soul try for it to to not to it's not happen again. can the mcgregor has revealed who is a pirate it will be as you see come back fight next january the irishman's agreed to fight donald children e r u c 246 in las vegas on january 18th the former 2 division world champion hasn't fought since losing to be no drama come out of lost. in the n.b.a. anthony davis led the l.a. lakers to a win against his former team the new orleans pelicans despite the boos he scored 41 points to help the lakers 281142110 win elsewhere the houston rockets beat the visiting miami heat james harden starting for the rockets team 873 pointers and scored 34 points as houston crews passed the heat 117 to one hour late to. host the

boston celtics ended the brooklyn nets 4 game winning streak campbell goal to storing a season high 39 points in his return from injury as a celtics base the next 121-2110 boston win for the 3rd time in 5 games now as host of the southeast asian games the philippines get to introduce sports they know they'll be good at one of them is an ancient filipino martial art call out of nice german island dock and reports. korea has take one do japan has karate and the philippines also has its own martial arts sport at least. 6 so this is why for jude rodrigo is a nice it's more than just a combat sport it has come to symbolize the filipino identity so for the past few years she along with other members of the at least national team have been clocking in long hours to train for their biggest competition the southeast asian games plus

of a personal goal and it's more of the you feel we feel our lives have a better future because if we don't perform well this year we don't perform well in the next few years that our ines will probably not clear as much. are nice with the preferred duel match of filipinos hundreds of years ago it was originally called out a miss the model or harness of the hand. the philippines is hosting the southeast asian games for the 4th time and much is at stake at least players aim to clinch at least 15 gold medals hoping not just to put a nice in the spotlight internationally but also so it may flourish as a popular sport in the philippines i want at least to be to be in the. international you also want. to be promoted despite limitations in resources and government support for the p. the athletes have always exult in combat sports like their black belt or gretchen

miller lead who is a 3 time gold medalist in the sea games her records remain unmatched across asia to this day the athletes. sports commission now provides food which is the basic which is i'm glad that happened also there they got their food for free like before though we need the $11000.00 beds that i received i need to buy my own food every athlete stream not really the gold medal but you know at the end of the during the ceremony that year you're the reason why you're the national anthem is being played you know like everyone would be standing up. for your country for your flag. compared to other sports at least cuts across social classes in the philippines all you need is a stick or 2 using sticks and knives and disguised as a folk dance at

a nice is believed to have been used by need to to fight during the early spanish colonial period so it is seen not just as a sport but also an art form that represents the filipinas ability to resist and injure or to dogon al-jazeera and. extreme weather in south africa has forced golf bosses to break with decades of tradition for the 1st time since the european tour began in 1972 players are being allowed to wear shorts temperatures are topping 40 degrees at the alfred dunhill chopper chip in leopard creek shorts had previously been restricted to pro-ana vents and practice rounds. that is all the sport for now about to learn in london. thanks very much and a quick reminder that you can always catch up with the sport and of course news on our web site address that is out there dot com. and that's it for me don't tell if there's news up on the back or i went with another full round of the day's news

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a tough time for the afghan security forces taliban attacks have increased suffering heavy casualties and the prospect of a withdrawal of u.s. forces hangs over them yet young men are still joining up some for reasons for others it's the only way to get a job despite the risks midway's curry b. was an army bomb disposal engineer in helmand province he knew the risks he was blinded in both eyes and lost a leg when a roadside device exploded as you try to defuse it always aware of the danger of seeing friends wounded while working on mines i wasn't scared to lose an arm or a leg is to sacrifice we have to like to serve this country. listen. mother mother thought i would be singing you parliament with the poor i never dreamt of the way the words failed music speaks. to short films about how

music. and inspire hope for a better life a.j. selects on al-jazeera. the u.s. president makes a surprise thanksgiving visit to afghanistan where he says talks have resumed with the taliban. and on taters is al jazeera live from london also coming up sudanese authorities passed a decree dismantling the regime of former president bashir and dissolving his national congress party. iraq's military breached its response to mass protests one in the south dozens are killed the security forces opened fire on dead.