the burning wall. and. since the now for a number of. and i am not as pessimistic as you are in the last few years we have brought forward cooperation in a european initiative. of intervention in areas where we thought it was not possible and now we have got. greece comes back to the can factor and there is a real dynamism. and. it is it happens in an integrated way together with nato. you know also this this doesn't mean this is the end of face all experience threats but europe is stepping up to its responsibilities. as you go.

forward i think because you don't already. know how this is struck he took off he scratched no i spoke to the secretary general. the president trump that we need to ensure law in its european contrariness and also those who are close to the russian border are not stupid exposed to russian almond. and we need to take this joint position you know with a new treaty now of i that maturity and i would like europe to step up to its responsibilities as france does. and that we together can coordinate and embark on the new dialogue with russia. in terms of security and disarmament. not territory.

leaders coming up with russian green river. and there's a possibility this is very very for security very very important crane operators very far from the state border in russia also that they work out a treaty they were guaranteed because of the fighting over time to all and i think is a really good chance and also with respect to nuclear weapons i've spoken to president bush and i have communicated with you know we are very much wants to and sir we work out a treaty here some higher in nuclear weapons that will probably include china and so forth. yourselves by the way they were through china and some other countries but we intend to see if we can work something out to stop the proliferation to stop what's happening because we are making a lot we are reading

a lot and frankly. the whole situation with nuclear is not a good it's not even a situation we ended 3 because it wasn't being here to buy the of the senate but they want to make a treaty is we think we've got it one of the most important things we can do that frankly so we're dealing with right here or in the in the treaty where we really and we're going to start a nuclear nuclear weapons missiles and nuclear weapons and we think something can be worked out we do they want to do it we know they want to do it and we want to do us a i spoke to china about it they were pretty versions they were extremely excited to get involved in that those are very good things to happen with respect to that and i think it's very work no nuclear situation very very important. thank you all very much thank you chris.

it's. our you've been watching us president donald trump and french president emmanuel mccall making some comments today i had of their biological meeting before the nato summit in london world leaders gathered in london to mark the 70th anniversary of the alliance call and made some wide ranging comments from discussing their position on i saw fighters to trade taxes the future of nato military spending and of course their respective relationships with turkey now the french president addressed his recent comments about nato being brain dead for which is caught a lot of heat saying that he thinks things needs to be shaken up and that they must be clear on the fundamentals of why. nato should be how to achieve long term peace in europe and who the enemy is the president of the united states for his plot a knowledge to trade dispute with france saying he hopes to work out things and that things will be looking rosy again in his words let's bring in jonah hall has

been listening in to this press conference in london for us his outside the u.s. ambassador's residence in london where the 2 leaders have just met. let's start with how the whole encounter went jonah what was the main message from the 2 meters . this appears to have been an encounter bristling with tension between emanuel not rome and don't need trump at one point don't trump said look that's why he's such a good politician because he's expert at giving no no answers they covered all sorts of areas of dispute between the 2. having started off by saying they've never managed that never failed to find solutions between the 2 of them they do manage to expose an awful lot of problems but the keep it probably was emanuel maccarone saying that he absolutely stood by his comments about nato being effectively brain dead the comments that he made in an interview to a newspaper shortly before this but you recently read it and comments against the

backdrop of france's bit bitter disapproval of donald trump's unilateralism in withdrawing troops from northern syria allowing president erdogan and turkey fighters to move into that ground and take on the kurds who of course no one sees as a terrorist threat he wants nato to take he's viewed nato those sees them as very recent allies of western fighters and the fight against i still and very much mr mccraw on putting the issue of turkey front and center in all of this standing behind his comments that the alliance was close to being brain dead he insists this is a new age new challenge new ways of doing things and. needs to reconsider what precisely it is he said we have to be clear it is not enough just to be talking about putting more money in of course another dig directly at donald trump. we have to have

a common definition of terrorism if which is to assume that the common enemy to us all is what he said was islamic terrorism and again on turkey turkey is fighting now those who stood shoulder to shoulder with us these are the real issues we need strategic definitions who is the enemy today rather than just putting money in and again to ram the point home on turkey how can turkey threaten to undermine the collective defense of the alliance by saying it will stand in the way of baltic defenses against russia if nature doesn't stand behind it on the kurds how is it possible that turkey has been able to buy russian air defenses we have to result turkey's ambiguity regarding i still fight is which he said turkey often for a long side or worked alongside us proxies this is detrimental to our security take a listen now to a little exchange and what mr macron had to say specifically about returning i still fighters. no making

a mistake number one problem an arm of the firm fight as this is the ice type of racism. and you have more more by this decision to pick which one is a great politician because that was one of the greatest non-answers i've heard and that's ok because sometimes they will say that if you're going to have some tunnel vision from the evil side i don't think the president is wrong but could be the threat to say this is your god responsibility i'm sorry to say that. we had some awful but if you don't you get to really feel as if you seem to know no one. no to be on the group is groups this is why you started to discuss with dogs how often if there is to it but i seem to be any on duty in the security video that is moved. it didn't run from in the movie or the situation on the ground. jonah the tension clearly papabile there between the 2 leaders a bit there clashed on

a number of issues on nato of course on turkey there's been a lot of talk over the years that nato is in crisis is there a sense that it's worse to style around with all these different tensions between 2 of the biggest countries in the lines the u.s. and france. and i think all of this is sort of exploding out into the open possibly quite unexpectedly we knew that these bilateral meetings were going to be taking place we knew that these issues were out there but certainly nato was hoping jens stoltenberg the secretary general for a much calmer meeting of leaders than he experienced last year when donald trump waged in an eclipse to duel with his demands for european nato members to pay far more for their defense. mr stop but i want to say that we are raising far more money your hard talk has won mr president let's move forward but of course mr erdogan before he left is stumble laid down the glove laid down the gauntlet saying

if you don't fall in behind me in my fight against the kurds i will block efforts to protect the baltics that is an absolute breach of his responsibility as a nato member to the collective defense of all nato members it has brought on to into the open this huge disagreement this rift within nato donald trump america arguably not arguably the most powerful member of the nato alliance tends to be and has continuously today been defensive of mr erdogan so it is very clear that while they may have their will and they may claim to have a background of raising problems and finding ways to solve them but this is an extremely difficult problem to solve that it isn't going to have a quick fix it is going to shine the spotlight firmly on quite what this alliance is all about in the modern age it may not now lead to existential questions but they may be yet to come john how in london thank you very much for the moment jonah about russia courses watching very closely what's happening within nato let's bring

in step boss and in moscow for a step renewed criticism of nato from prison that amir put in. yes exactly and the new criticism he has been saying and complaining about the expansion of nato for many years already this is a direct threat to russia for example ukraine and also georgia having these ambitions to become nato members as well he sees that as something very close and too close to the russian borders but we have to say also that this referee about nato being this enemy of russia is also being used for them consumption basically unites the people here in russia with a common enemy and what we have been seeing lately is a bit of a shift and we could also hear this in them across statements basically it is now clear that put in as looking more towards europe again and the normandy talks also mentioned by mark macor next week in paris where he's going to talk to merkel and

and also with michael about the future of the war in eastern ukraine shows that britain is ready to to normalize the relationship and that they're anxious that he's been facing for 5 years that he wants to get rid of them certainly the french president seems keen to have warmer relations with russia on your mccraw can we even expect perhaps an expert shift in the russian nato relationship or we're a long way from that. we're probably a long way from that but put in also said that he wants to talk too late though he also shows that he is open to discussion and at the same time he also said that nato is still existed despite the fact that the soviet union has collapsed a long time ago basically also playing into what mccoy is saying that there needs to be some kind of new security cooperation not maimie maybe thinking in these 2

huge blocks but maybe thinking about more smaller blocks or more smaller corporation so it's very interesting that putin far away from russia is basically getting involved in the discussion about the future of nato thank you for that service and live for us in moscow where let's now a speak about all of this to robert hunter who is a former u.s. ambassador to nato he joins us live from washington d.c. thank you so much for being with us on al-jazeera i believe you've heard the news conferences between the french president and the american president for the longest time there's always been talk of nato being in crisis and they went from calling this gathering a summit to a leaders' meeting is emanuel mccrone completely wrong when he says nato is brain dead. he's completely wrong that it's brain dead but it is leadership dead the president is states's refused and they his entire presidency to

say the most important thing you need to say which is that the united states is totally committed to what we call article 5 of the nato treaty which is an attack against any one country is considered in the in the alliance is considered an attack against all if a president is prepared to say that even though i think we would we would support anybody who was attacked then everybody's going to be going to be very upset and have been for 3 years but at least the micro is trying to fill it yeah i'm sorry to interrupt you on presidential nominees is not threatening to withdraw the u.s. from nato any more or reduce the u.s. role in europe so is that perhaps a good father that step. well i don't think he ever intended to withdraw from nato it's fundamentally against american national interest we get an awful lot from being a nato now what's happening is mr trump is going to declare victory at at this meeting it's not a summit they were supposed to have a summit last they probe but they pushed it off because they were afraid he was

going to misbehave that's an amazing thing he's going to declare victory the allies he's going to say under his pressure have now increased defense spending by $130000000000.00 a year and so he's going to say see you see i wish i was strong and and then they backed off i'm a i'm a great hero and by the way i also said i'm not as negative on nato i'm kind of positive about it now in fact i try to think that this little thing he just had with macro might have been worked out in advance the 2 of them were going at things and it was almost like kabuki right it trysting that you say that just looking at the bigger picture ambassador hunter you know each member states whether it's france the u.s. turkey seem to be driven by their own interests when you look at turkey for instance it seems at them all focused on their regional struggles rather than the big picture of defending the alliance having with your experience within nato do

you think may till can really tackle all the current threats that faces as one with everything changing around the world right now. well every country always looks after its own self-interest during the cold war is easy because it was a soviet union it's been more difficult now turkey has a point which is the united states invaded iraq that set loose all kinds of stuff including including the islamic state and then to fight the islamic state we and the west got involved with the kurds well the kurds had their own ambitions it wasn't just to fight isis it was also to assert their role within turkey so on and say wait a 2nd. have an ally you've got to support me and what he has done and this is this is again a game he's playing you know support may and by the way i'll veto and its support in the. 3 baltic states this is going to get worked out tomorrow and this

meeting is being not being held in the law that itself or the countries where. they're going to set up a process to try to work it out this is what one does before summit to position oneself to come up the best one get i'm not worried about the future of nato ok let me just ask you one last question before we let you go ambassador hunter you know top appearances now mike home and to juan op nato's latest troublemakers if we want to call them that but what would you say or who would you say is nato's biggest problem today. i think the biggest problem is though an act of leadership by the president not his face and also the whole bar breck shit when here is my cross saying i'm losing to a degree mark pillar across the atlantic though trump is going to respond but i'm also losing the british in terms of the european project which means it could be

harder to deal with the germans it's going to be harder to get things done in ukraine where the only person who really loves rocks that is a lot of near putin so i think mark rowlands is sending a shot across the bow and i welcome that he's doing i think it's about people woke up not that nato is brain dead but the people we need to get serious about some of things we haven't been as serious about as we need to be ambassador hunter very good to talk to you about the sink you so much for joining us on al-jazeera robert hunter is a former u.s. ambassador to nato joining us from washington. there watching the news hour on al-jazeera with me for a lot more coming ahead including a typhoon test to a central philippines ripping roofs from homes and damaging and airport. rolls on the multi spry ministers to stand down immediately over the murder of journalist daphne. and we here from new tottenham coach shows a marine you know as he prepares to face a club that socked him

a year ago. first to iraq where they launch a spot of entry blank says it's giving up its right to lead the nomination process for a new prime minister the airline siren insists it's rocky people who should pick their leader prime minister i did abdul mahdi submitted his resignation on saturday but he'll stay on take a prime minister on monday dozens of people were wounded after security forces used live ammunition and tear gas shearing protests that spring in simona fulton in baghdad for us so negotiations simona to select a new prime minister in full swing what's the latest on that front 1st. well president barham saleh has been meeting with representatives from several political parties today and also from different sects including shia sunni and kurds to basically come up with a shortlist of

a potential replacement for prime minister. the separately we're also hearing that customs will be mounted the head of the iranian could force has arrived in baghdad and is holding his own consultations with iranian backed political parties who hold a great amount of seats in parliament presumably to make their own short this now both of these paths are unconstitutional misremembered it is this is unchartered territory we haven't seen a prime minister resign since the 2005 constitution was put in place but what that constitution calls for is for the biggest park in parliament to nominate a candidate and we've side on basically abdicating that responsibility we're kind of in our charter territory here it's unclear who exactly will put forth this nomination i spoke to political analysts earlier today. and this is what he told me about tyrone's latest statement. the.

the subtle and political bloc has chosen to be in the opposition and will only interfere to veto anything wrong suttle is not taking part in the approval or selection process but it will have its own say regarding anyone selected outside the demonstrations squares one of the main demands of the protesters is early elections one of the chances of that happening. well it's unclear at the moment 1st of all it's also unclear how long this new government would be in place whether it's it will be men in place until the next regular elections in 2022 or whether it will be a temporary government for the next 6 months or so until a new electoral law is passed to them call for early elections now today there were supposed to be a parliamentary session to discuss this new electoral law but it was not held because of the vast disagreements over the proposed changes to this law the legal committed and said it is simply needed more time to discuss in detail the articles

and the proposed changes mostly these changes call for an increase in the share of independent candidates in an effort to placate the demonstrators and to ensure representation outside of the political parties but it still retains quite a bit of power in the hands of the current political establishment and even if this law is passed in the coming weeks or months it's not what demonstrators are asking for day want an electoral reform that basically puts in place a presidential system whereby they can elect the head of state by popular vote rather than having him being chosen by political party so even if we have an early election under this new law it's unlikely to appease the demonstrators on the streets thank you for that simona fault in life or a sin baghdad's. iranian state television has acknowledged for the 1st time that people it describes as rioters were shot and killed during recent protests thousands of people joined demonstrations angry over an increase in petrol prices

which are set by the government human rights groups say as many as 200 people were killed iran's government has rejected that figure putting the death toll at 13. a powerful storm has struck the philippines forcing nearly a quarter of a 1000000 people from their homes typhoon come henri has reps will strummed buildings knocked up power and hold hundreds of flights as a 20th storm to hit the philippines this year. linda gunn reports from hour by province in the central philippines. safe would worry battered the beagle region in situ philippines for more than 10 hours the wind was violent and harsh and incessant rain drenched the province of by for people here so food could more reason landfall at night brought fear and despair. and the morning brought no respite cynthia blew out the just devastated her home is destroyed

because we evacuated i moved to this center with may children at 4 am i came back to check on my home barely anything is left by then no way to get the money to rebuild it again this the wall was built to protect villagers perms farm. but more than a 100 homes were this royd monday night by their preparations there was no stopping they would come worries raw power lines are down the airport and seaports have suffered severe damage. more than 100000 people were evacuated before computer hit many expect they'll have to live in the evacuation center for weeks if not months. we have been doing the seeing and of course tours and of course the majority of people will always go. but there are many areas across the beagle

region affected by typhoon come worry that remain cut off the government says it is doing all it can to reach them and get aid to those who need it most it took cynthia more than 13 years to rebuild her home after another devastating typhoon in 2006 typhoon durian left more than a 1000 people dead and more than 600 missing. it was a tragedy that cynthia hoped would not be repeated. she says life can be unfair especially for people who don't have much anyway. she has no choice now but to start all over again jim duggan al jazeera the central philippines extreme weather and an economic crisis have left nearly half of zimbabwe's population facing severe hunger the united nations is warning that the country is on the brink of starvation with women and children the hardest hit the u.n.

is planning to more than double the number of people it helps to over 4000000 but as many as 7000000 are in need of food aid the situation is only expected to get worse with little rain expected before the april harvests. extreme weather and an economic meltdown have pushed those people into severe hunger and for a country that used to be the bread basket of southern africa the situation is nothing short of tragic there's no other way of putting it the crisis is being exacerbated by a dire shortage of foreign currency runaway inflation mounting unemployment the lack of fuel prolonging power outages and large scale living life stock losses. 5 people including a police officer have been killed in the latest untie un protests in the east of the democratic republic of congo and the 7 people are recovering in hospital after gunfire was heard throughout the city of beni on monday the situation remains tense

security forces say they were forced to fire on protesters who were making their way towards a u.n. base locals accuse a un peacekeeping force called miniscule of failing to protect them from rebel attacks. i was shocked by the news goes soldiers these people were shooting from everywhere as he was storming the building on monday but whatever the situation we will continue to fight against the u.s. i'm calling on other people to continue the struggle while we are here in the hospital we will push the you in us of being. al jazeera as catherine sawyer reports now from goma the largest city in eastern the r.c. . the congolese military has been reinforcing in the eastern town of beni the this people are marching on a un peacekeepers base at what they see as if the un forces to protect them against attacks by rebel groups including the so-called democratic forces determined to

keep the mission out protesters have already damaged a number of u.n. buildings supporters started a little over a week ago the congolese army has been sent to end the violence but has failed to stop the a.t.f. killing more than a 100 people in the last month and up to 2000 in the last 5 years now they are ordering the public off the street insisting they and the un are on their side so. we're calling on the population and all members of society in north kivu province to stop working with our enemy the population should not forget about the real enemy the police is not the enemy the earth the soldiers are not generally the un is not the enemy the real enemy is the a.d.f. rubble. the violence in beni is now hampering efforts contain an airball outbreak that's killed more than 2000 people in the democratic republic of congo since august the militarization of the medical response and. distrust of government

troops and sometimes peacekeepers are not always seen as orses by everyone and now the world health organization has been forced to scale down operations in the area some congolese here are angry by the military claiming that the protests in beni have been infiltrated by armed people they say they're trying to vilify the protesters and deflect attention of what is really going on in that region they say there is genuine anger and frustration about the state of security and this is an issue that needs to be addressed i gently catherine soy all dizzy or goma. still ahead on this. hour one of the world's most colorful entrepreneurs goes to court in a defamation case and in sports i will be here with action from the n.b.a. where philadelphia look to continue their winning streak at home to stay.

ahead of the pens a wintry weather on its way across into mono all that and central areas of tuckey plenty of cloud elsewhere as working their way across iran but you can see as we go through wednesday really is about that snow sweeping its way through central and eastern areas of turkey 6. wednesday thursday a very cold day 3 celsius but it should be dry and bright that snow working its way south was pushing across into syria on a towards northern sections of iran so just 13 celsius in attire to the south of there we have got to a warmer weather of course mid to late twenty's celsius what a bank of these coastal areas of amman down across and yemen on its way because of this we have a system just to the east of somalia looking to bring some heavy rain as we head into thursday and we could see some coastal to the north because of that system

meanwhile into southern africa those rains extend in right way down across into bowls wanna and again into south africa now temperatures 24 celsius you in cape town on wednesday a lot cooler though with these showers and these thunderstorms raining today as well on wednesday and then look at the temperatures as we head to thursday no real change in johannesburg but capetown a real jump 33 degrees which is about 10 degrees above the affray judge. 960 on the supporting people's lives. the hoods over 100 countries by funding projects in an array of sectors. ranging from infrastructure to health and education. these initiatives ultimately help to eradicate poverty. and promote sustainable development.

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a reminder of our top stories u.s. president donald trump and his french counterpart in monument core have downplayed differences since trading barbs over the states of nato early a child criticized macross description of nato as brain dead saying he was being nasty and disrespectful meanwhile nato secretary general jan sultan brick has said he's working to resolve the rift with turkey over a baltic defense plan turkey's fries and russia typewriter juan is threatening to oppose it unless nato recognizes groups turkey is fighting in syria as terrorists and in other news a un says extreme weather and an economic crisis have left nearly half of zimbabwe's paul. but nation facing severe hunger women and children are most at risk it plans to double the number of people it helps to nearly 4000000 but 7000000 are in need of 8. now to another story that seem a sham the prenatal meeting in london between the french and us need is stunning

trampas against france will pay the price for imposing tabs on us tech giants. the us is being treated unfairly and things will get very tough for the e.u. as a whole if it doesn't change the u.s. president has threatened terrorists on french products in response to a new french tax on american tech companies. companies the tech companies look you know they're not going to be refutable because they're not exactly from a proposal here are emerging companies. we want to tax american companies to support we want to tax and that's not the story goes into this and is the president on the pretext of long term of the tax. we rather than to the point where it works if you were little were there is a mutually beneficial test as. in paris for us natasha this issue of terrorists featured largely in moscow and trumps meeting does

it sound like they could reach some sort of agreement. well both president trump and president mike ross said that they are 2 leaders who don't always see eye to eye have differences but they hope to talk about this and come up with some sort of solution but what is clear is they both have polar opposite ideas on this issue now you heard president trump there as far as he is concerned he feels that this french digital services tax brainchild of a french presence around or micron is unfairly punishing u.s. tech giants and he says it's up to the u.s. to tax us companies it's not for france to be doing it in one or micro responded basically by saying that that's not the case that this digital service tax isn't just punishing if you like u.s. companies it also applies to other companies french companies and chinese companies he said france is very concerned as are many other european countries about the power of these huge tech companies and this is feeling that they simply need to be

better regulated more fiscal fiscally responsible and that's what i meant in my craw saying he's also calling on the european union for a very strong response we did actually hear from a spokesperson for the european commission saying that europe would have the e.u. would of course back france and come up with some sort of response because as emmanuel michael told donald trump we have several other countries in europe who are planning a similar kind of digital services tax and we can't be in a position where the u.s. decides to try and slap tariffs on goods and all those countries also so what sort of other french goods natascha could face tats. well u.s. trade officials are suggesting that dozens of french goods could have tariffs imposed on them by the united states many luxury products cheeses sparkling wines handbags beauty products makeup that kind of thing and we have already seen the

impact of these threats by the united states here in france on the french stock markets with shares in some of the big major brands international companies like l v m h and caring have already fallen so already just those threats alone have had an impact and that is of course what the french government would want to avoid thank you for that natasha brought in a live for us in paris. the head of a european union delegation sent to malta says prime minister joseph muscat should step aside as soon as possible the delegation warned against any political interference in the investigation into the 2017 murder of journalist daphne corona . sophia. the head of the mission express doubts about the government's credibility after meeting with the maltese president he says he will leave office by january. i also think it's a matter of political judgment and i think everybody recognizes including the prime

minister himself studies made some serious errors of judgment. and i would say that you know staying on longer than necessary is also judgment error. but that's for him to defend now as that a unique got under way protests continued outside government buildings in monitors capital the justice minister owen when each he was greeted with anger when he arrived he and successfully ducked an egg thrown by a protester as the crowd shouted shame on you. with winter in full force the council of europe's human rights chief says a makeshift refugee camp in bosnia must be shut down hundreds of people are living in miserable conditions in the walczak camp on top of an old landfill site. in an insulated tents and have no access to sanitation or other services was in authorities say they can't move the residents until a suitable are tentative site is found. to be too old as you see that this is not

legal rick human being that it is a person in the early warning system that is going to come in here and reassure the public like this exists in our country. finland's prime minister has resigned after a coalition partner withdrew its support from his 5 party cabinet on t.v. now has faced fierce criticism and allegations of lying over how he dealt with a crippling postal strike industrial action spread to finland's national airline and other companies before being settled last week. in malaysia former prime minister najib razak has been on the witness stand for the 1st time to defend himself against corruption allegations the trial in the high court has to do with a multi-billion dollar scandal at malaysia's state's own funds known as am one m d b now is accused of illegally receiving about $10000000.00 when he was in office is speeded not guilty to all the charges which include money laundering and abuse of

power and a jobs lawyer has also emphasized the alleged role of a businessman known as jolo who's been named by u.s. investigators. the. scheme was devised by do together with 4 arabs. from saudi and another 2 from the dog or. the empire management or one m b s artist will all be at all. by dual. hong kong's leader carrie lam says new u.s. laws supporting protesters are unnecessary interference months of anti-government demonstrations of plunged hong kong into a recession for the 1st time in decades the new u.s. law signed last week could limit trade with hong kong if the chinese territories autonomy is jeopardized or they go the needle file

a huge we are totally against it we don't see any need for this proposed law and we don't see any justification for it human rights and freedoms are protected by the basic law here in hong kong in fact i would like to ask in which way have the freedoms of hong kong actually been undermined we have freedom of the press the freedoms of assembly and to demonstrate religious freedom so there is an overseas parliament and an overseas government that has interfered with hong kong's affairs and that is most regrettable. there is still no progress towards the formation of a new government in lebanon and is adding to the frustration and anger among protesters who want a change in the political system but some lebanese are finding creative ways to portray the revolution as in a harder spoke with one of the name beirut. pierre aboud came home from dubai to design the sculpture made from recyclable materials it is a way of crediting lebanon's women for being at the forefront of the so-called october revolution this artwork stands in beirut's martyr's square which has been

taken over by opponents of the governing elite who have been demanding change the corruption that is in this country want us to be violent they are dragging us to be violent but then the woman comes calling down guys i'm going to deal with those people we are nice women have been on the frontlines visiting strongholds of the main political parties reaching out to their supporters who have attacked peaceful protesters they say they are trying to keep the country united and the void to return to the days of the civil war there have been violent incidents but the protest movement has remained largely peaceful but there is also fear of a financial collapse banks are imposing controls on access to cash there's a shortage of dollars which resulted in the national currency lira losing nearly 40 percent of its value on the black market. a political crisis is preventing the

formation of a government that is needed to implement economic reforms and those changes are required for international assistance to start flowing in what we all have as one main goal and that is an independent government from all the political parties as long as we all stay together and not religious try to keep us strong on the ground with the same demands. they'll just they're going to be forced to listen sooner or later so far the governing alliance is refusing to give up political power despite almost 2 months of protests instead they have tried to intimidate those in the streets thugs were literally out on the streets mashing property terrorizing coming down to the point to the protest sides pulling down. and yet people's response was we're not going to you know this is. this is not going to respond and this was not going to become sectarian protesters used what was left of the burned tents to

build this statue the phoenix a symbol of renewal and resistance the message that they will continue the struggle that began on october the 17th. beirut. the defamation trial of one of synacthen bonnie's most colorful entrepreneurs in moscow is getting underway in los angeles and also stems from mosques on line comments about one of the divers who was involved in the thai cave rescue last year rob reynolds has the story from los angeles. tomorrow billionaire yuan musk's tweets if gotten him in hot water before now they've landed him in court musk is being sued by british cave rescue diver vernon un's worth on worth participated in the successful effort to rescue 12 boys and their coach from a flooded cave in thailand last year musk sent a robot mini submarine to thailand but said the sub was useless and musk was

pulling a publicity stunt that's when musk called unsworth petto guy on twitter implying with 0 evidence that he was a child molester unsworth later sued musk's judgment has been questioned often musk came under scrutiny by regulators when he tweeted in august 28th that he had secured funding to take tesla he's money losing heavily indebted electric car company private with he later implied backing from the saudis there was no deal and musk was charged with fraud and abuse on you for you did you not only are you doing a settlement reached with regulators required him to resign as tesla's chairman and pay a $20000000.00 fine another incident that shook investors occurred in september 28th when musk went on a live podcast and smoked some marijuana offered to him by the show's host federal law still designates cannabis as an illegal narcotic to. and

musk's pot for pot put his company space x. contracts with nasa in jeopardy. last month with while the death toll fanfare musk unveiled the electric pickup truck the so-called cyber truck the vehicles design was widely mocked is appearing like something out of a teenager's video game to make matters worse most boasted that the cyber trucks windows were bulletproof only to watch them get shattered in a live demonstration in. a man at the grocer meanwhile musk's lawyers have argued that his tweet about unsworth wasn't really meant to imply the diver is a sexual deviant just a creepy old man owns worth is seeking $75000.00 in damages robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles u.s.

scientists have confirmed the existence of another strain of a child and they say it's good news as doctors and dentists from around the world meet in wanda where the help of one day eradicating. the reports. there this is the 1st newly declared strain of hiv in 1000 years it's not actually 8 new strain it was 1st discovered in some one in 1983 in the democratic republic of congo and then someone else in 1990 also in the d.l.c. but only now with the advance of genome sequencing techniques has a 3rd sample isolated in 2001 also in the d r c been definitively identified as the same variant of hiv as the other 2 samples and according to the rules once 3 independent samples of the same hiv variant are discovered a new strain can be announced discovering this new strain of hiv is really just the 1st step we've confirmed that it exists and we've shared the sequence with the greater research community and that will allow everyone to be able to evaluate how

it might impact diagnostic testing treatment potential vaccines researchers say this new strain is a variant of the most common form of hiv and is detectable treatable and also very rare as sequencing technology advances it's likely more new strains will be discovered and this researchers say is not necessarily a cause for alarm but will help them understand how the virus has developed over time such vigilance is also necessary as there is always the fair restrain not detectable in a blood sample may develop causing widespread infection in people and the world's blood supplies the good news is this new strain can be detected by the current tests and the fear is that if there was a new strain. that wasn't detectable in the current tests it could spread quite a bit before we knew it was a problem and could try to intervene especially from a public health perspective the goal of the research has long been to find an i.v.

vaccine and in recent years there's been a resurgent interest in finding a cure as more strains are identified it is hoped that more clues will be revealed as to the origins of the virus. and how it evolved and what the variables. are how they differ with a variety of little. while iraq seen a. washington. head on al-jazeera a day after qualifying for big debut we'll show you how this can go to another well i told me is here next to stay with us. thank you.

i'm 43 i think folly boxers anthony joshua anthony and andy ruiz jr are holding their public workouts in riyadh on tuesday ahead of their much anticipated heavyweight title rematch the choice of venue is rather controversial given saudi arabia's human rights record roos jr is aiming to retain his w.b. a i.b.s. and i.b.o. heavyweight world title belts but joshua wants to get his revenge after losing his belts to ruis in new york in june. i see everything good you know it is a country where they want to bring a lot of entertainment so i'm really excited to be here and to show off my skills and i've been the 1st message in heavyweight champion of the world there. is a fly in it. i don't see how the body is made so this way you have a defense of good so the way it was going to be on the day never the most is over

with. well this is not the 1st heavyweight title fight to be held outside of boxing traditional heartlands go back to 1973 in kingston jamaica george foreman came world champion by inflicting smokin joe frazier's 1st defeat of his career knocking him out in the 2nd round a year later probably the most famous of them all the rumble in the jungle in zaire these days known as the d. or c. the champion for men was shocked by muhammad ali who regain the world title using the famous rope a dope tactic and then to the philippines in 1975 and ollie defended his crown against frazier in the thrilla in manila it was the 3rd time they fought and ali won after 14 brutal rounds when frazier's corner threw in the towel and then fast forward 15 years to 1990 and probably the biggest upset in boxing history this time in tokyo after 37 straight wins iron mike tyson was beaten for the 1st time by buster douglas and there was another big shock in 2001 that the carnival city

casino near johannesburg the champion lennox lewis was knocked out by the underdog . in the 5th round. now switching to football joe's a marine yo says he expects a friendly welcome at his former club manchester united on wednesday he took over at tottenham last month and faces united for the 1st time since they sacked him in december of last year and that there's really nothing there. the coach that is trying to win against manchester united in the city. will chester and i think from that. is the way is to book. it is bit like mr mandela was was saying sometimes you never lose your way in the warren and. at united thought i was in and i wouldn't marino successor at united ole gunnar sol shire is under pressure he took over with them 6th in the premier league but after

50 games in charge they're struggling down in one 3rd place $22.00 points behind leaders liverpool it's not where we want to be and we know we have to improve so we were going. to do the right listen to what he's been told as well documented to be chomping at the bit to be involved but if you play the more you know post already know italian striker mario balotelli can leave his current club on a free transfer in january that's according to the club owner. but a telly returned to his hometown club back in august but he's only scored twice in the 8 league matches that he's played pressure are bottom of syria last month he was racially abused by house verona fans and just over a week ago cellino claimed balotelli quote needed to whiten himself comments the club said were misunderstood now the owner has said he wouldn't stand in balotelli his way if he wanted to leave in january claimed the 29 year old was not best

suited to a relegation battle. well bresh a struggle at the bottom of the table it's a very different story for 4th place. there now just 3 points behind not in 3rd after this incredible come from behind victory on monday with 15 minutes ago we were trailing for doria 31 but then 2 goals in 2 minutes drew them level and it's got even better for them in the 96 minute substitute. heading in to make it 43. it's working while the scenes at the arena. and meanwhile in portugal porto have moved within 2 points of league leaders been feet thanks in part to the stunning goal amazing they were one nil up against relegation threatened. on monday when is a louis scored with a spectacular overhead kick to nil the final score. to the n.b.a. and the philadelphia $76.00 ers just cannot be beaten at home they beat the utah jazz by 9 points on monday this alley oop wait for it here done by bin simmons was

one of the highlights it's now 10 wins from 10 at home for the sixers is this season and the indiana pacers comfortably beat the memphis grizzlies by 13 points 7 of their players made it to double figures including bonus with this dunk boom elsewhere the atlanta hawks ended their 10 game losing streak with victory over the golden state warriors. southeast asian game organizers have been forced to delay more events after the arrival of typhoon mori in the philippines most of the outdoor sports like volleyball surfing triathlon and sailing as you can imagine have been delayed until wednesday and thursday because of the weather conditions the sea games is held in 3 clusters on the island of luzon which has been hit quite hard by heavy rains and high winds. now it was a good day for the thais who defended the women's badminton team title against another nation powerhouse indonesia it was a tough encounter indonesia's gregorio. injured her knee and despite carrying on

she continued to struggle and was clearly in pain as she lost the opening singles match. yes that looks pretty painful well thailand close out the tie when they won the 2nd doubles to. leave and the gold medal that fits in the medal table on $41.00 in total well behind leaders of the philippines who have $94.00. well from the sea games to the other kind of sea surfing and chris some more has won her 4th world title after making it to the semifinals at the ws all event in maui just a day earlier the whole why and had qualified for tokyo 2020 or surfing will be making its olympic debut she was beaten in the semifinals by fellow olympic qualifiers stephanie gilmore but that was still enough to give her the trophy the only surfer with more world titles is kelly slater with 11. happy for her well that's it for me had to record a folly thank you very much for that that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera but do stay with us we've got plenty more coming up including the way to some nato

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were great is not the engineers over the earth and that's ok because sometimes the little bit that you can have something different from the u.s. side stock divisions within nato come to the fore as u.s. president donald trump and his french counterpart emanuel not called me to discuss contentious issues. play watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to hold still ahead for the 1st time iran's government.