this is al jazeera. you're watching the news hour live from our headquarters in doha i'm coming up in the next 60 minutes a day is a solemn. day. democrats were proud donald trump's impeachment towards a full vote by the house of representatives. it's a witch hunt it's a sham it's a hoax nothing was done wrong. also ahead the u.k. is the reelected prime minister vows to heal his country's divisions protesters though say they'll fight him every step of the way. while in algeria people come out to denounce the results of an election they say was

a farce. hello u.s. democrats have taken another major step in the impeachment process but divided congress and the nation so a panel has now approved 2 charges against president donald trump and the house of representatives the set to vote in favor of impeachment next week our white house correspondent kelly how reports from washington. another ford visit to the white house overshadowed by domestic politics as the president of parent why sat comfortably in the oval office u.s. president donald trump railed against the democrats push to impeach him in congress for his dealings with ukraine's president it's a witch hunt it's a sham it's a hoax nothing was done wrong 0 was done wrong it's

a scam it's something that shouldn't be allowed and it's a very bad thing for a country and you're trivializing impeachment and i tell you what someday there will be a democrat president and there will be a republican house and i suspect they're going to remember that objection the committee has adjourned. but democrats argue trump abused his presidential powers for political gain the house judiciary committee voted to approve 2 articles of impeachment against president trump the vote along party lines allege trump withheld military aid in order to pressure ukraine to dig up dirt on a political rival former vice president joe biden trumps also accused of obstructing congressional oversight into the matter for the 3rd time in a little over a century and a half. the house judiciary committee has voted articles of impeachment against the president for abuse of power. and obstruction of congress

a vote to officially of ph trump is expected next week in the house of representatives he'll become just the 3rd president in u.s. history to be impeached trump was visibly angry following approval of the charges against him lashing out at those he believes have done him wrong like the woman overseeing the impeachment house speaker nancy pelosi is a liar and others a dishonest fake media horrible f.b.i. people crooked hillary a fighting mood morphing into strategy spotted on the white house campus on friday trucks personal attorney and ally rudolph giuliani it's a signal trump is pushing to call witnesses and expand the impeachment process he says has been politically biased against him even as the republican leader mitch mcconnell is pushing for a swift trial in the senate i think they're giving the signal that this is really just a show trial that senator mcconnell knows where the votes are and knows how this is

going to come out and he wants to have a very short proceeding so that they can move past this quickly but for in a tory asli thinskinned president the personal humiliation of a looming impeachment in the house of representatives appears to have only intensified donald trump's desire to fight back in the u.s. senate in an attempt to clear his name can really help get al-jazeera the white house. let's look at the 2 most recent presidents to find themselves in a similar position to tromso 1974 the house judiciary committee approved 3 charges against richard nixon but he resigns before a house vote then in 1980 bill clinton was tried in the senate on 4 articles of impeachment but was acquitted and he stayed in office and in trump's case as we've heard it's almost certain democrats will vote in favor of triggering the senate trial process trump's republican party controls the senate so it's improbable that

the 2 thirds majority required will vote to remove him from office let's bring in john f. ing there he worked as a communications director for the democratic national committee he's joining us from washington hi there thanks for joining us on the al-jazeera news hour so if trump is it created in the senate which really looks likely what is the point of all of this it's a great question i think there are a lot of americans asking themselves that too it is true it is very unlikely that the senate is going to remove donald trump nevertheless at some point after enough lines had to be were crossed the democrats had to do this for their own base if you're just talking about a political calculation at a minimum and i think you've seen this with what's bigger bill is doing she's focused on the one thing that is clearly unmistakably impeachable conduct they're going to put this to a vote republicans are going to defend their guy that's fine at least democrats can say they honored their oath they did what they were supposed to do and move on so

that next year they can talk about the kitchen table issues that voters are going to be more likely voting on in november but speaking of bases is there any risk at all the this is going to energize the trump base that this actually won't achieve what the democrats wanted to achieve which partly is not another 4 years of the trump presidency. yeah absolutely i think there is the possibility that this energizes them but honestly it doesn't change that much democrats clearly thought this guy's behavior was beyond the pale before impeachment they'll think that afterwards trump's base is going to be what trump space is going to be he's going to whip them up for next fall but if we can have a conversation about how his tariffs are hurting people how his tax bill was a disaster how when he controlled both houses of congress with his party all he wanted to do was to get rid of people's health care if we get back to that conversation that's the conversation that democrats want to be having going into november there's a company they should actually read pretty. apologies but i mean one of the conversations also that's being had right now is that in fact it is

a strong economy in the united states and historically incumbent presidents overseeing a strong economy don't tend to lose an election so would this be any different. there's a there's a lot of numbers that measure our economic performance that are looking very nice right now there are a lot of americans that are not feeling that even though you having records in the stock market and unemployment is low what you see is that 4 out of 10 americans find they don't have enough money in the bank for even a relatively minor emergency you find that 6 out of 10 americans say that their household are living paycheck to paycheck so there are some there are some over performance but what you see is the lion's share of that gains going to the very few people at the top of the economic ladder so there is a real restlessness and the opportunity for democrats to make their case on the economy if the democrats feel they can put the impeachment piece behind this that's

not to say that this is a purely political calculation though it is absolutely the case that what this guy did is everything that the founding fathers and framers of our constitution were worried about when they wrote the impeachment clause and so you see a lot of real personal passion out of the democratic members here and it's really fractured congress in a way we've never seen before because the republicans are are just not acknowledging the facts at this point and seeing the the the the plain as of their lying and the players of their refusal to acknowledge facts it's really there is no good faith left and so how much of an issue is that for the democrats that you don't really have a single republican joining the democrats on this issue and we really see this partisan divide. yes it's huge we saw in the middle of october there was there was a nice old man republican congressman in florida who run a business and then run for congress later in life who said yeah i'm open to

teaching president trump we got a look at the evidence i don't know what happened in the next 24 hours after that but 24 hours later in outs he was retiring from congress he would not be he was basically made an example of and since then we haven't seen much we'll see there could be a few brave souls in the senate or more concerned about history than they are about donald trump but by and large what we see is this republican party is in lock step behind and afraid of don in fact it's part of why it's so ironic that when they say well nothing we know what nothing went wrong because president selenski of ukraine said nothing went wrong well these guys know very well what it's like to be under political pressure from donald trump and to say things they know aren't true because of it all right we thank you very much john f. ing her for joining us from washington and president something of a win on another front the u.s. supreme court has agreed to hear his appeals in cases relating to his finances trump is trying to block the release of bank records tax returns and other

materials there are sought by democrats in congress as well as a prosecutor in new york who's investigating allegations of corruption in trump's real estate business trump's lawyers say it's just part of efforts to quote dig up dirt on the president's let's get more on this cross over to mike hanna also joining us from washington so what more can you tell us about these particular cases and the investigations. well these are 3 separate cases that the supreme court has agreed to here they all deal with attempting to a deep dive into president trump's financial records 2 of the cases involve congressional committees the 3rd involves the new york prosecutor which is in fact a criminal investigation undergoing there so certainly he has lost every single way in every court to this particular point the supreme court now at his request saying it will expedite a hearing to decide on the matter were broad terms concerning all 3 cases essentially what that question is whether or not

a sitting president can be prosecuted or investigated lawyers are arguing very strongly that he may neither be prosecuted nor investigated while he remains in office but the lower courts have absolutely disagreed with this point they insist that he is not above the law it's up to the supreme court novel to either reject the surgeon or to agree with it if there are precedents for this mike. indeed iesus cases involving the separation of powers essentially and the rights and powers of a sitting president that's come up before both bill clinton and richard nixon attempted to block attempts to get financial and private details through and clinton's case in particular through grand jury evidence now the courts in both nixon and clinton's cases ruled very strongly that the president's on not above the law or the supreme courts at the time also agreed with these positions so the

precedent that is there is that the president is subject to law now the important fact to notice as well is that it's not necessarily the president himself subpoenas from congress and from the new york prosecutor have been directed to the subpoenas have actually gone to his financial advisors to his accountants so strictly speaking it is not president trump himself who is being affected directly by this and this is going to be an important element to the whole case an element that the lower courts have pointed out very strongly so the issue here is that when the supreme court does hear this and that's going to probably be in march a decision could be expected in june but this is going to be right in the beginning of a presidential campaign so it's going to have a massive political impact which is in a way why the supreme court has agreed to expedite this case and act on it for the supreme court very speedily all right am i can i thank you. well just days before

the u.s. china trade war was about to end struck an interim deal trumpet ministrations called off new tariffs that were due to start on sunday i will reduce existing web use in return china will buy more american farm products and rules for u.s. companies accessing its markets katrina new reports on the likely impact for one chinese manufacturing hub. a christmas wonderland in southeast china bias from all over the world come to this market in the rue city the festive season decorations. but this year it's not all merry bright vendors here say the trade war with the united states is bad for business. business is noise good as it used to be there are more and more sellers and fewer and fewer buy is i can barely make a living no. but christmas has arrived early for these suppliers with chinese and u.s. negotiators announcing they will sign what's called

a phase one deal soon delaying extra tariffs on $156000000000.00 worth of chinese products including christmas trees tinsel and a range of other goods however adolescents want any agreement is only a temporary truce not an end to the trade war they might be able to reach a mild as small trade deal but in terms of the stuff both sides really want the us really want china to get rid of in this drug policy to create a leveling playground for foreign companies this is not going to happen anytime soon to many chinese manufacturer is expected agreement is likely to be too little too late extra duties imposed earlier this year some as high as 25 percent have already forced many factories to scale down production and fire stuff these workers have been paid since the trade war began and with good reason the bicycle industry

is one of the. it's affected by an increase in tariffs and distracted the eyes on the american diet by the late good supplies bicycles to major u.s. retailers including wal-mart and says a rise in tariffs has caused sales to drop by about 20 percent we are sold. our shares for this person must still see what you want to see how the person was going to do this year because this is a 1st year christmas with the for the purpose of. in order to keep going during difficult times this bicycle maker is relocating some production to cambodia and the asia back in ybor many suppliers have already started moving their focus away from the u.s. towards new markets in the middle east and africa. lasts a few months but chinese exporters expect the children between beijing and washington to remain to nettie christmases to come between e.u.

al-jazeera china or analysts say the deal falls well short of what president trump wanted when he fired the 1st shots of the trade war last year from washington alan fischer explains why the u.s. still sees this as a victory. the white house says that this is a significant and important agreement donald trump himself says it's a phenomenal deal they've been talking about this for a very long time you remember it was back at the beginning of last year that donald trump said that trade wars are good and easy too when there have been discussions which came almost came to a deal but then fell away now the united states says it has a 9 chapter 1st stage agreement with the chinese that covers important issues such as tech transfer intellectual property theft opening up china's financial income see markets to outsiders namely the united states and also the sale of agricultural products donald trump sees that as very important farmers have struggled

a lot because of the targets that were imports but he sees the farming community of the center of the united states as very much his base his heartland and so as we approach an election year he is very keen to address their concerns those a say there are 9 chapters on this the united states hopes to have the deal signed early in january we don't have the thought text of the agreement yet we're expecting that around the time of the signing they say it's being held up because they have to check the legal and also the technical language as well there is a concern though because they're saying that they will sell somewhere in the region of $40.00 to $50000000000.00 worth of agricultural commodities to china over the next 4 years that would take the told her own $200000000000.00 the problem is it's not entirely sure that america's farmers can produce at that sort of level with the current restrictions in place the most important thing this deal deals with is the

targets that were due to be imposed on sunday they know essentially gore way but there are still tat of or on chinese goods coming into the united states about 25 percent on $250000000000.00 worth of goods and 7. point 5 percent on $120000000000.00 worth of goods those taught us will start to come off as china starts to meet the requirements that they have agreed to there will be a very strict monitoring system involved as well says the united states much more to come on the al jazeera news hour including an act of violence at a demonstration divides iraq's government protesters. mourning in the chair after the worst attack on its military in living memory. and tiger woods u.s. team fights back at golf's president's cup peter as the action in sport.

the u.k. prime minister boris johnson says it's time to let the healing begin after his stunning victory in a divisive general election dominated by bricks at johnson's conservatives want to majority of 80 seats the party's biggest for 30 years and a clear mandate to take the u.k. out of the new charlie angela reports from london. boris johnson is welcomed back to downing street. to the conservatives radically reconfigured britain's political map with the biggest majority since the 1987 i'm proud to say that members of our new one nation government a people's government will sit tight from constituencies that have never returned a conservative the. 100 years and yes they will have been able i mean mandate from this election to get it done and we will honor that mandate by general the 31st

striking a more grateful note johnson thank labor voters looking sides his promise now to embrace all deliberate rex's i say thank you for the trust you have placed in us and in me. and we will work round the clock to repay your trust and to deliver on your priorities with a parliament that works for you i. but a group of young protesters gathered near downing street projecting his vision and briefly clashing with the police and was. angered by the outcome in which the conservative party took dozens of labor seats in the country's industrial north and midlands. thank you very much for the labor leader it's a rejection of his vision for the party he says he will not stand in another general election i did everything i possibly could in order to bridge the divide between those that voted to leave and those that voted remained because at the end

of the day they're going to live in a country where we're going to need that investment for the future we're going to have if this government stays in office more homelessness more divisions and more a bigger gap between the richest and the poorest it was a bad result thing for the program a liberal democrats their leader joe swinson unseated her constituency so she will step down immediately i'm proud that liberal democrats have been the unapologetic voice of remain in this election giving people the chance to choose to stop breaks that. obviously it hasn't worked for boris johnson his brief time in office has been marked by repeated defeat and parliament legal interventions and desertions from his own party this result is better than he could have hoped for but his simplistic election promise to get bricks it done will now be put to the test with your post and lead the country through the most momentous transition since the 2nd

world war charlie onto al-jazeera and. the result has dominated discussions among leaders meeting in brussels and talk about lurks claims why they're happy with the outcome. there was a huge sense of relief in brussels as e.u. leaders arrive for the last day of this summit that finally there was clarity over what the u.k. wants after months of uncertainty all agreed that what was needed now was to get on with brakes it next steps is stratified that would draw agreement which guarantees no hard border between north and south guarantees the protection the common travel area and also the fact that british and irish citizens rights will be protected around the election by telling everybody that he wants to deliver so now it's time for delivery. leaders discuss the u.k. election results in a special session if the u.k. parliament ratifies a withdrawal agreement britain could leave the e.u. on january 31st paving the way for a new round of negotiations between the e.u.

and u.k. to reach a free trade agreement the use briggs a negotiator michel barnier would direct the talks boris johnson says that he wants a u.k. trade deal with the e.u. by the end of 2020 was so many youth issues say that timetable is simply unrealistic and such an agreement could take years the timeframe ahead of us is very challenging we will get to have to work as soon as possible. we will be ready to get the most out of the short period of a levels but for me it is important at this moment to say that the united kingdom yes will become a search country but at the very end we will have an unprecedented partnership. it's been awhile since leaders have been upbeat about the blocks relationship with the u.k. but the positive mood could be short lived if johnson asks for an extension to the

trade negotiation talks could drag on for years taking up more time if johnson refuses an extension and fails to reach a trade deal by the end of 2020 it could lead to a no deal breaks it an outcome that would be a failure for the e.u. after years of diplomatic efforts natasha butler al-jazeera brussels the leader of lebanon's hezbollah group is insisting the next government must include all political factions to tackle the worst economic crisis in decades the call comes as protesters continue to block roads and hold rallies in the capital beirut and elsewhere in the country politicians have been unable to form a new government since mass demonstrations forced prime minister saad hariri to resign in october as well as his cabinet has learned supporters are fought with some protestors want lebannon sectarian political system overhauled. well. we hope the consultations take place on monday and we hope the prime minister

is named based on a majority of votes however the government formation process would be easy we've lost a lot of time we have agreed on a name yet but we hope that next monday a prime minister will be named after that we can speak about the formation of the government. protesters in algeria have rejected the result of thursday's presidential election which was won by a former prime minister abdullah measure is seen by many as part of a long ruling corrupt establishment but he's offering talks with demonstrators hoping it'll move the country forward nicolas cage reports. it was an election the majority of algerians didn't want him to now come it seems rejected by many. tens of thousands rallied across the country is the results of the presidential election were announced i didn't measure it but abdul majid to boehner see just over $4900000.00 votes achieving

a total of 58.15 percent of the vote. at dell majeed to bone is a former prime minister of algeria both men who held that position before and after him were found guilty of corruption he served during the 20 year rule of president abdelaziz bouteflika who resigned in the face of mass demonstrations in i am of course you know you are born with a nose he does not represent us neither do the other 4 candidates we said no to elections with all those who are part of the former regime i do not agree with what is happening so we show them that i stretch my hand to the protesters to begin a serious dialogue for algeria i thank the protesters as they have helped to bring democracy to the country. with less than 40 percent of the $24000000.00 eligible voters turning out and millions describing the election as a ch'an the new leader will likely have

a difficult job ahead of him one thing we manged sure to want that is not going to have any concrete any real let's real legitimacy and this we would him and there are a lot of fresh air yesterday from the people who had been escaping get in their demands and asking for more and more and pressure and their community to read brought him to. the military backed interim government was hunting the outcome would end months of protests demonstrators demanded widespread political were fooled with non insight so far they're unlikely to accept the election results quickly gauge al-jazeera. and the news ahead in just a moment. the. call for justice in chile after the u.n. again accuse the security forces of abusing press asters. i thought after the madrid denounced the climate change summit as a failure asked all talks go into overtime. and in sport wayne rooney gets down to

work in his new role as a darby county. we got some rather large weather pushing up the eastern seaboard of the u.s. at the moment we're seeing some very heavy rain into parts of florida into georgia . looks like this develop into something of a nor'easter as you go on through the next couple of days what weather pushing right out for the mid atlantic states it down poles with some snow on the northern flank there's a nor'easter that's because on through sas they sent a general dry still cold enough not. cold as it has been recently but not a sightseeing in winnipeg that should be cold enough that we're looking at the temperatures around plus itay for l.a. but in between some a wintry south more snow than over the rockies at least for

a time that will make its way further race with just pushing over towards the central plains eastern seaboard general dry by sunday but we will see some rather wintry weather just spinning out of that eastern side of canada off the top temperature around freezing may monitor the caribbean also sunshine what it says showers a possibility night system once the weather just pushing towards the dominican republic for a time as bonnie out a could see somewhat weather rash of showers too just pushing into the wind with dollars and the label dollars for jamaica as generate drive generate drive into cuba i don't for a good pot central america. with . from the ancient and pros to come and see to us. age old philosophies and the rule of order remains central to the world's oldest living civilization in the 2nd of

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following the top stories on the al-jazeera news our congressional committee approved 2 impeachment charges against donald trump next week the house of representatives is expected to vote in favor of. the u.s. and china have reached the limits of trade agreement. is counseling new tariffs that were due to kick in on sunday in return china will buy more american farm products. johnson says it's time for britain to start healing the divide over after his conservative party's election victory the opposition labor party's heavy defeat has mostly been blamed on leaders. who says they'll step down. so it wasn't just the conservatives who had a good election night the scottish national party also made huge gains

strengthening its calls for another vote on independence the reports from as. she's almost certainly the most popular politician at the border now scottish nationalist party leader nicolas is calling the city to grant scotland a referendum. on breaking away from the u.k. . so to the prime minister let me be very clear this is not simply a demand that i or the s.n.p. are making it is the rate of the people of scotland and you as the leader of a defeated party in scotland have no rate to stand in the we. this was stooges reaction as the s.n.p. took the seat of joseph wilson the liberal democrat leader with 48 of scotland's 59 seats in the westminster parliament they say the message to london couldn't be clearer. but in the scottish capital already home to the devolved parliament not everyone agrees that another independence vote is now more likely. under left.

so. i think you're i think quite honestly stop punishing scotland. because referendum hopefully happens a stamen. when scotland held a public vote on independence 5 years ago the result was a clear no but in 20 sixteen's breaks it referendum 62 percent of scottish votes were to remain with a no deal breaks it at the end of next year is still a possibility the s.n.p. says it's fighting to protect scotland's economic interests she says she's got a clear mandate for a fresh independence referendum and nicolas sturgeon's determined to make the most of her moments but just how much leverage will she have over boris johnson this expert says while in the short term little will change the direction of travel is clear the certainty would come after the scottish parliament elections in 2021 would be really difficult for a u.k. government to continue insisting a new referendum but i think it does show is a stark difference between scotland and england so boris johnson's conservative

party lost in peas in scotland but again i'm in england and i think it just highlights that stark difference between the political directions of 2 countries are going in. these are troubled times for the united kingdom we still don't know how close a relationship it will have with the european union scottish nationalists hoping. we played today as. i did. for northern ireland's pro nationalist parties returns more winning candidates than pro british unionist parties for the 1st time ever so now again goes in belfast and explains what this means. the election results have delivered a victory for pro irish nationalist parties who for the 1st time in history ascending more representatives to westminster than the unionist parties particularly hard hit has been the d p partners with the conservative party in a confidence and supply arrangement of course underlining this election has been

about one thing sit there now is certainly that may not be what everybody wants but least we know the direction we're going but i'm happy with that now while that opinion expressed relief at the result let's not forget that northern ireland voted to remain in the 2016 brics a referendum course that is because brics that itself underlines the very fragile nature of northern ireland's status and the implications that it could have for its security and also for trades but the biggest concern for northern ireland is that we could be looking at problems on the streets and coming from both sides but i think i think this a lot of this has been a nationalist and i don't really think a curve very much but more than an inch or 2 from it and underlying all of this is the fact that the northern irish assembly has not been sitting for nearly 3 years

and that's a complicating matters as the u.k. exits the european union already there are calls from the sion same leadership for a board a poll on the status of northern ireland making perhaps the idea of the union and a possible break up of it a reality. nearly 10000 protesters have held a day long hunger strike in northeast india the state of assam has seen much of the protest violence and the passing of a controversial citizenship law it offers a path to citizenship for 6 minority religious groups from neighboring countries but it excludes muslims and shovel reports. demonstrations and confrontations with police for a 3rd day in india these students are protesting against the new law which allows refugees 6 minority religions from neighboring bangladesh pakistan and afghanistan to become indian citizens but excludes muslims. 'd

in the state of assam a popular resistance movement is growing. 2 people died in a violent protests on thursday and there's no sign of a let up people here say the law is against their interests. debasement he says the assamese people fought to preserve their identity in 1971 when bangladesh was formed and a flood of refugees made assam home. the new law extends the cutoff for refugees to 2014. the central government in there b. has been between us put to long using assam as a dustbin by shoving whoever they want have. a movement against immigrants from bangladesh has raised in a sample decades with claims it further strains the state's resources they have been bribing the. they have been struggling yeah they're been driving jobs and that

surely the local people the indigenous people are been feeling a kind of insecurity some assamese fear they could become a minority in their own land these are some means have been singing songs expressing their love for their language and their culture this is a although there are cars on the roads and the shops may reopen things won't return to normal anytime soon not until the whole state of assam is exempted from the new law. the protests here in doha t. on friday were relatively calm compared with the previous 2 days but those taking part see the stock market but i'm going to be look where you are so. we don't have rice lead to anything but our movement is not right nothing is going on. the japanese prime minister shinzo abi was supposed to be hearty for a summit but that's been deferred. some worry the movement made lose its momentum but others insist the fight for assam.

al-jazeera. india they one has accused chile of committing serious human rights violations against anti-government protesters investigators detailed what they say were unlawful killings as well as torture sexual abuse and excessive force there urging the government to end the indiscriminate use of blood pellets and tear gas which have left about $350.00 people with severe eye injuries chile says the report is premature because its own investigations are still going on arline america editor mr newman has more from santiago on the response to the un investigation. this demonstration from the presidential palace protest against the shocking number of chileans who have been shot and the eyes of many cases blinded by riot police hit either by rubber pellets or by tear gas canisters and that is just run by

margins that isn't quoted in the latest human rights report issued by the united nations the charges include rape sexual abuse illegal detentions torture little list especially of excessive use of force by the riot police. the matter of what they are putting on a presentation that says that their eyes will be the eyes of those who can no longer see a. bright policeman shot at me but pellicano directly to face a short range burst open my left i am struggling for a cup of my life my mother my take care what is blind and now we only have one good eye between the 2 of us. this is the 3rd human rights report against chile in less than one month this time the government was prepared just before the un report was released the director of the police announced that 4 police generals including the head of special forces and public order composites called here were being let go

into early retirement they've announced a total restructuring of special forces new training new loader cannon and tear gas trucks and now even a new name for the special forces back. to the lines but the problem here is of the leadership and even active members of the police force and retired general said saying that the time is well overdue to replace general mind your own house however the president is refusing to do it. police in iraq are issued to arrest warrants against demonstrators following the killing of a teenager in baghdad the top shiite cleric ayatollah sistani says it was a crime and anti-government protests which normally follow friday prayers were smaller than normal simona reports from the capital. it was a gruesome development in iraq's mostly peaceful anti-government protests a mob killed 17 year old nathan then hung his body from

a traffic light as hundreds of people as well as security forces stood by the circumstances of thursday's killing remain unclear demonstrators accuse the teenager of shooting at them but a military spokesman said he didn't harm anyone neighbors say he simply wanted to protect his house from encroaching crowds. i think. he's the son of neighborhood i've known him since childhood when i heard his name i was surprised he's just a child how can they accuse him of. some protesters blame the killing on infiltrators refusing to accept the possibility that other demonstrators could be capable of such violence. yes but i mean. it has affected us it has brought about reputation upon us we went to protest peacefully we would never kill and slaughter anyone like that is the parties who sent infiltrators. on friday crowds in tahrir square which has been the epicenter of months of anti-government

demonstrations were noticeably thin except for members of the sudras movement. the followers of shiite cleric that assad or have discreetly manage security throughout the demonstrations but in an unusually public show of force they marched on tahrir square to make their position that they're not we are human shield to protect peaceful demonstrators and refused a disgraceful act we expect those criminals who committed these awful crime to be punished and we are waiting for the other so there's all this. a ministry of interior spokesman told al jazeera that an investigation is ongoing to arrest warrants have been issued so far no one's been detained thursday's brutal killing here in square is unprecedented and it's signal something broader observers say it's a dangerous sign of growing acceptance of violence and the breakdown of the state's

seem an awful thing al-jazeera. saudi arabia is reported to have health secret talks with iran in an attempt to ease tensions the wall street journal quotes unnamed saudis are saying the kingdom is trying to avoid additional risks to its oil dependency economy iran denies accusations from saudi arabia and the u.s. that it was behind drone rocket attacks on iran and september. has had a policy analysis center for research and policy studies he says riyadh has realized u.s. pressure alone won't stop the threat of iranian attacks. i think the september attack was a turning point in my opinion in terms of saudi arabia thinking about revising its its fun policy especially concerning iran and other many issues of course in the region i think the saudis they came to realize that it's very difficult but it helps to rely on the united states because they expected the administration to

take a tougher position on iran especially after the attack on. on september the saudi the saudis actually did realize that the americans are not willing to engage in any sort of military activities against the iranians unless they have their national interests are directly affected by the. iranians so from that time i believe they started the sort of. trying to approach that iranians and in fact to him a lot these did it also exactly the same after that after that attack saw. the saudis right now are trying to ease the tension with the iranians because that would have served their interest much more than increasing the tension with them for humanitarian workers kidnapped by an armed group in northeastern nigeria have been executed according to the french aid agency action against hunger they were

part of a group of 6 people abducted in july near the town where armed groups including boko haram operate one was killed in september action against hunger is calling for the remaining hostages to be released. president mohamed who is to food has decorated the 71 soldiers killed in an army base attack with a cross of courage the assault on tuesday was the deadliest on its military in living memory and i saw a ling group claimed responsibility for the attack on the remote base close to the border in the past 4 months more than 230 soldiers have been killed in the. past so . i have come here to express my feeling of revulsion on behalf of all my compatriots in the face of a war imposed on us by an enemy who has addressed us with nothing but aggression in a violent and treacherous manner this enemy took 71 of the nation's valorous children un climate negotiations are heading into overtime as representatives of

almost 200 countries try to reach an agreement protesters gathered outside the summit in madrid calling on delegates to put science above political interests there are debating issues including how countries affected by climate change should be compensated vulnerable states are urging big polluting nations to show more of a commitment to averting environmental disaster. but we continue to at these cops kick the can down the road we know what needs to be done we know what decisions need to be made what actions need to be taken but there are a few voices that are dictating the agenda of the many. people it was going to go back was something that they can all said but it was this is. said it. shows that. if you don't have something that we can be

proud of but that to continue negotiating. well armed a standing of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere wouldn't be possible without a man named charles keeling back in 1958 he began monitoring c o 2 levels a measurement that's known now as the killing curve he painstakingly recorded those levels every day for decades and now his son ralph has taken over the job my father came to scripts and i think 956 with the task of measuring carm dockside different places around the world you $958.00 he was getting readings of around $310.00 parts per 1000000 now we're up at. almost protein $415.00 parts per $1000410.00 or more. so it's really it's just really rocketing up the main operation in my lab as in my father's lab involved sending flasks these are glass to the ears out into the field that are filled with an air sample and sent back and then we analyzed it in the lab

it established as a matter of fact that humans were impacting the planet in a global scale model or record in particular has become known as the keeling curve was already clear in the fifty's in the sixty's in the seventy's the core problem is the burning fossil fuel burning more and more decade by decade it's not like we understand this problem and are starting to curtail it's like you've got a weight problem in your response is to eat more and more you have to go back millions of years before you find levels of highs today and that was a a world with a very different climate. i think what's really changed in the last decade in particular is people starting to feel the weirdness of the climate around them in terms of freak weather crop failures and so it is it's lost to some of its remoteness it's starting to creep into people's lives i think it's going to get kind of rough to be honest and i don't see how we get around this without serious consequences and the sooner we understand what we're facing and started doubting to it and reducing the of the problem the better off we'll be and sadly it's taken

a long time to get there. next of a sports news anchor will tell us why pakistan's 1st contest than a decade isn't going to. go an. al. qaida our. allies. are an. hour or 2 hour an. hour or 2

hours. thank. you and. again time for the sports news here is peter thank you very much tiger woods and these u.s. team 4th back to keep themselves in contention at gold's presidents cup but it's still the internationals who are in prime position as they look to win the tournament for the 1st time since 9098 david stokes reports. the players in this

mad germs in the lead to national team luis hasan and adam scott 5 shared on by an australian crowd the internationals were well placed heading into day 2 chasing only the 2nd win in 25 years of the presidents cup they had a full one lead over the u.s. and that gap looks set to grow. the men in green hold after putt and at one stage ernie els his team were headed over for 8 at the full seems matches. they did manage to win the 1st to make up a 61 lead but the americans fought back. playing captain tiger woods once again leading from the front with a just and thomas they were the only path to score a point for the u.s. on day one and despite training twice against a decade and be on when they got the match back to square with 5 to play.

further ahead of the 18th hole it was patrick company who secured the 1st american point of the day of the 14 foot putt to get the overall score to 16 then on the same hole almost a carbon copy from thomas this time from 17 feet another point for team tiger vibe and look at all pretty bleak but you guys turned it around and played phenomenal come in and you know it was important for us that in the way we didn't totally change the last hour look at the record we've had in the foursomes the last 25 years. you know for us to come out to an r 2 in arkansas isn't like a win for us so we would have taken that at the start of the international still have a healthy lead of 3 points but the momentum is with the americans with 20 points still up for grabs on saturday and sunday david stokes al-jazeera. after the record breaking success of this year's women's world cup in france fever has received 4

official birds to host the next tournament in 2023 australia and new zealand had already submitted a joint bid brazil japan and colombia also formally joined the process on friday ahead of the deadline and supported birds from south korea and south africa were withdrawn the winner will be decided by a ballot at the fee for council meeting in june. coach cervi is confident of causing another upset at the fever club world cup when they take on monterrey in saturday's quarterfinals kafirs national champions were invited to join the tournament with it being staged in doha our side that beat oceania champions union support in the opening match they now face the top side of the central north america and caribbean region and chevy is already looking further

ahead i dressed all of my players i know i'm here to win i'm here to win it's totally different everybody say that i want to raise fable but i here do we. bring it was moving the match. many visual made it over because they had gone through things that we qualified to go to the final and also we are now. imagine my confidence. favorites liverpool enter the tournaments on wednesday at the semifinal stage that every ward manager you're going to plop for his champions league victory he's been given a contract extension through to the 2024 season wayne rooney is preparing for the next chapter of these korea and is training with darby county of the joining them as a player coach england's record goalscorer left d.c. united at the end of the major league soccer season but cannot play for darby until his new registration begins in january of places with a top level which maybe

a lot of them haven't. i think once they are to. got to know me and to see me as part of the team than. every in which they might have thought about me before and goes out the window and they see me for. a normal guy in just one of the team it cricket now and after 3 days play pakistan are yet to bet in their 1st home test in a decade rain and bad light meant only 32 balls were possible on friday in round pindi franker didn't lose a wicket and we want to turn it into for 6 in their 1st innings but the match almost certainly heading for a draw. or straightly are firmly on top after day 2 of the opening test against new zealand in perth of making 416 in their 1st innings australia's mitchell starc win took 4 wickets to leave new zealand in trouble on 109 for 5 the athletics world has

been paying tribute to legendary new zealand runner peter snell who has died at the age of 80 he is the only man in the last 100 years to win middle distance double at the same lympics which he achieved in tokyo in 1964 star was also voted his country's sports champion of the 20th century. the jaws big wave championships you know why he was spectacular when it came to wipe outs that is so if is competing on the north shore of mel he would toss to the knowing and so forth who waits that. one all for the other they get getting knocked down not surprisingly the 2 wins but he can't and page all on the cleats. and that's who leave it for now we will see you again later for more sports news. thanks for watching the news hour as there are back in just a moment we'll have much more of the day's news coming your way see in a minute. trouble

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