it's in the motions they've all extinction. 0. 0. 000 i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up. with this is. the u.s. senate's top democrat republicans to summon current and former white house officials to testify and president trump's expected impeachment trial. india's prime minister calls for calm but protests against his new citizenship will spread across the country. and gambians rally against the president adama

barrow urging him to keep his promise to step down off to 3 is. and in sport the semifinals of the club world cup get underway in doha where a south american champions manco take on asian champions all hello in the final 4. welcome to the news hour we begin in the u.s. the top democrat in the senate has accused the president of orchestrating a cover up chuck schumer has called for current and former white house aides to testify at trial he's expected impeachment trial he says republicans have no reason to keep witnesses from testifying unless the president has something to hide they include the acting chief of staff make mulvaney i'm a former national security adviser john bolton a moat in the democrat led house to impeach president trump is expected on

wednesday if that passes which is widely expected he will then be tried in the republican controlled senate. i haven't seen a single good argument about why these witnesses shouldn't testify or these documents be produced unless the president has something to hide and his supporters want that information hidden in. the trial structure i outlined in my letter to leader mcconnell will ensure that all the relevant facts come out without dilatory action. castro joins us live now from capitol hill has there been any response from the republicans specifically from mitch mcconnell on the coals that we've heard from chuck schumer and to discuss the structure of this trial. well marian we heard from mcconnell's aides earlier that he was planning to negotiate with democrats in the senate who

are the minority party in establishing these senate trial rules that will that will decide how this impeachment trial against unfolds of course the u.s. constitution offers really very few parameters how an impeachment trial will look like this will only be the 3rd time in u.s. history if trump is impeached by the house as expected that the president's impeachment has gotten to this stage but what democrats in the senate are asking for is they're saying that over these last 2 months of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry the investigators and the american public has still yet to hear from trump's innermost circle these are people that chuck schumer says have the most direct contact with the facts that are in dispute and that are at the center of this impeachment of president is impeachment inquiry of president trump and that goes to the motive of the president when he withheld aid from ukraine was it as

democrats claim for the corrupt purpose of influencing that country to open investigations into his political rivals or was it as trump himself claims and his republican defenders was he doing it in order to fight corruption in ukraine and the list of 4 witnesses that democrats have on their wish list for the senate trial include the acting chief of staff mick mulvaney who was the one that ordered that security aide to be frozen and the former national security adviser to trump john bolton who had privately complained to his aides that he thought the white house's actions of trying to get these statements on the investigations into trump's rivals he called this a drug deal now all of these individuals were asked to participate in the inquiry hearings they all refused under the president's orders and democrats are. saying that if the white house has nothing to hide as it claims then why not let these

individuals come forward and clarify exactly what the president's thinking was on that key question of his motive for freezing the security aide right so the democrats arguing that the trial has to have witnesses in order for it to ultimately be credible why are the republicans trying to avoid that scenario. well it's unclear whether or not they'll fully of weight that we know that that's one school of thought with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell having indicated earlier that perhaps they'll just have opening statements before the senate and then quickly move to a vote on trump's guilt or innocence but there's also reports that the white house wants witnesses that trump himself to prove himself approves of the whistleblower for instance who wants this entire inquiry so there's still some tension there within the republican caucus in the senate on exactly which how to proceed but what

is clear according to what mitch mcconnell has said is that he is in total quarter nation with the white house and directing the senate rules. all right thanks very much castro with the latest on developments there and capitol hill our white house correspondent kimberly how it is live with us now and president trump has been speaking to journalists in the last half an hour what is he how to say about his impending impeachment. much less fiery than we saw from the president is posed to reporters on friday this time the president was asked directly about one of the many tweets that he sent out on monday morning essentially he retreated something from his personal attorney rudolph giuliani who has just returned from ukraine and the u.s. president has for days now been dangling out the prospect of new information that would shed light on this impeachment inquiry that has not yet been revealed to the public so he was asked very directly as he spoke at

a roundtable with governors inside the cabinet room if there that information from giuliani has been shared with the white house the president would say no not too much only that the motives for rudolph giuliani doing this are because he loves his country and he sees what's going on what is the president doing what is he saying there he's suggesting that there is more to the story as long as he does that this gives the plausible deniability that the president has been essentially making the argument for says the start of this impeachment inquiry that he has committed no wrongdoing they've also heard the discussion about the sort of the witnesses being called forward in the u.s. senate the president has for weeks been saying that he wants to have other witnesses defend his name in the u.s. senate he wants to call hunter biden the son of former vice president joe biden and asked why he was on the board of an energy company in ukraine well the vice

president was in office you have to remember the foundation of this impeachment inquiry is the allegation that the president withheld military aid in order to dig up dirt on a political rival so now as we see this discussion of the different calling of witnesses from the democratic side it really is kind of the blowback that the president himself invited when he introduced the prospect of calling all of these witnesses we have this open air negotiation that's going on in the media right now but when the president had an opportunity to address it in the cabinet room he really said very little. thank you very much can really help get from the white house. we go to our the headline story now india are on the prime minister's call for calm off to 5 days of violent protests of or a new role that office it is in ship to persecuted minorities from neighboring countries but excludes muslims around ramadi tweeted that the protests are unfortunate and deeply distressing went on to assure assure indian citizens that the citizenship amendment act would not affect indians of any religion as it is

only for those who have faced years of persecution outside and have no other place to go except india modi called for peace unity and brotherhood and for everyone to stay away from any sort of rumor mongering and falsehoods. but protests have shown no sign of dying down instead they've been spreading to university campuses nationwide with thousands of students demonstrating in new delhi southern chennai and northern veyron s.c. there's anger at modi's government after allegations of police brutality joining a campus rally in the capital that turned violent on sunday when his supreme court is expected to have petitions challenging the citizenship law on wednesday. means some 800 government has a text by interim university so we will fight for the constitution of india we've said it time and time again that we will fight against the government.

right so. we've been hearing from of course some of the people there have been protesting in several different cities and despite the government calls for calm we have seen these protests spread not just in the capital but in other cities across the country this despite the prime minister's call for calm. think up against. citizenship. and. pilots against. those guns. and we should be standing up for it and people should know more about what is happening in new york you think you are in the genius try. and my people are getting killed and nobody's talking about it so joining me now is an aparna man on who's a visiting lecturer in doctoral research from politics university of westminster the center of democracy just looking at some of the images there and some very

passionate clips from people that are out on the streets right now i mean this isn't just places like mumbai and delhi it's chennai environ i see go hard to hydro by bhopal pondicherry all these disturbances and protests going to keep spreading like this. what i can say right now it definitely seems so so these protests are all relating to the citizenship amendment that i would be happy to elaborate on for 2 of the tron but the protests are right now prime the of 2 kinds so in the northeast region of india. were primarily have been having protest against fears of loud skin migration happening into the into these areas because of the citizenship amendment act while in mainland india the protest is primary against the discriminator e nature of the spin and the protests have been in the short span of 36 hours in 16 universities all across india and there have been large scale rallies being carried out on the streets in the roads everywhere and for there has also been

parliamentary opposition to this so these states of. job have tried to refuse to implement this act in their states new prime minister narendra modi has shown himself to be a leader who is not afraid to make well to make certain bold decisions and to take risks is this a gamble too far do you think he had this reaction. to be fair i do think he anticipated this reaction but this is perfectly in keeping with the this government's overall strategy of you know making or reducing muslims into 2nd class citizens for the country and this is not one at that could be a seeing this happening in a pattern so you have the b j p whose parent organization is obviously the right wing organization called artist says the rashtriya swayamsevak sangh and the b. g.o.p. has had 3 very clear aims for this after their reelection in me 2019

where they have been in boulder and with a majority from the country so their 1st aim was to sort of push me which effectively they have done at reducing kashmir in a seed situation even for months after it started the 2nd before it was the building of the temple on disputed territory so one of their campaign slogans has been monday where he's been hanging which means we're going to make the temple and the supreme court gave a judgment upholding the construction of the temple in that area while giving 5 acres of land to muslim he was sent to us saying that he would have anticipated this reaction or an amendment but in terms of the strength of the opposition the diversity of the protest is does this go across sectarian religious ethnic divide within india and on the words is it just indian muslims protesting arabs that go beyond that that is not the case i do have to point out that muslim student universities have been targeted disproportionately because we have had cases of

troops going into libraries where students were not protesting but simply because they're muslim majority muslim student majority universities they have been targeted disproportionately but people from all across the country across classes and on muslims in the city about the discriminatory nature exactly they have been coming out in the streets and saying that this goes against the very secular nature of the country it goes against the preamble of the constitution and makes absolutely no sense i'm sure we'll be discussing this again thank you very much and on a pony mantel thank you. well in other developments a former member of india's ruling political party has been found guilty of rape and could face life in prison guard was convicted on the child protection roles his victim was 17 when she was assaulted in 2070 the case came to national attention last year when the woman tried to set herself on fire alleging police in action was expelled from the b j p in august by prime minister narendra modi who faced criticism for failing to

act against the politician will be sentenced on chews day. and china and russia calling for an end to some of the sanctions on north korea they have proposed a draft u.n. security council resolution which would see some sanctions lifted to enhance the livelihood of the civilian population of north korea the draft resolution would also exempt the into korean rail and road project from un sanctions it goes on to welcome to continue dialogue between the u.s. and north korea. as much more still ahead for you on this news hour from london a wife of zimbabwe's vice president is accused of trying to kill him while he was in a south african hospital. also venezuela's government tightens the screws on the opposition approving the trial of 4 position lawmakers for treason we'll tell you about the chess and grandmaster that's also a football mastermind of the details of that in sports.

now at least 12 people have been killed in a rebel attack in the eastern part of the democratic republic of congo the raid happened overnight in the village of come mungo it comes a day off to at least $32.00 people died in another attack in beni which is blamed on the rebel group the allied democratic forces they are the latest in a wave of deadly attacks which triggered protests against the congolese army and u.n. peacekeepers by residents who say they're failing to protect them and violence has also disrupted efforts to contain the outbreak in the region which has killed more than 2200 people. omar is the chief of money scope bureau in beni that this is the un's mission in the democratic republic of congo and he joins me live via skype from that location can you please shed some light on the way in which the this group the allied democratic forces they've been

carrying out these attacks tell us a bit more about how they operate and the way in which they conduct their attacks. they are the hurried forces is a group that has been living and operating in this part of the congo for decades this armed group is extremely. extremely. they move around in the forests that they knew very well you have to remember this is a very very dense tropical forest with very little infrastructure no roads no bridges they move or of a foot they identify their target which is often civilian village or a small community and the attack is using machetes so often once they're finishing their attack and as the leave they fired a few rounds from their rifles and this is to facilitate their departure and then they disappear they often conduct these operations at night with the purpose of

either retaliate against other attacks either by us or by the congolese military or to replenish their supplies this could be food supplies or medical supplies or sometimes also they do that when the military installations 2 weapons and mission right they can spring up spontaneously and they they have the capability to cause quite a bit of destruction and they are known for that horrific violent attacks against civilians but the interesting thing is that they have become more active in the past year or 2 now why is this. there any external forces supporting and funding this group what do we know about that. it is clear that since the beginning of the offensive operations by the congolese armed forces which we are part of this support we supported these operations just simply with

recognizance and intelligence with the cas evacuation casualty evacuations as well as with indirect fires from the beginning of this operation the armed this armed group the relevant critic forces have started commuting atrocities in order to kind of against these principle operations this group is are able to conduct conventional. warfare therefore they tend to conduct a symmetric warfare using guerrilla tactics and that's why and they started to do this why has this happened because this is a group that has been around in various forms going back many many years to the ninety's why are they targeting civilians in in beni in north kivu now because it wasn't always this way. it has always been the case that the back seat in communities but there has definitely been an increase in the number of attacks

in the last weeks. longer than there was a few months now this is merely because they are on the run they are threatened by the physical operation that we are conducting oversells but also the congolese military in their stronghold forests and as a result they tend to run away and as the room where they conduct these operations when to retaliate against the civilian population is a way to put pressure on us and or the congolese military to stop these offensive operations but also as they move in as the go or the run they need to replenish their food their medical supplies and their weapons so really this is the reason for this increase in attacks in the recent weeks thank you very much. for joining us the head of the u.n. mission and benny. wife of zimbabwe's white vice president constantine. has been charged with attempting to murder her husband.

appeared at the harare magistrate's court on monday where she was also charged with money laundering and fraud it's alleged she removed as intravenous drip with a catheter when he was receiving medical treatment in south africa in july for trying to force him from hospital magistrate audit that she remained in tuscany pending a bail hearing. now to venezuela the pro-government constituent assembly has approved the trial of 4 opposition politicians accused of committing crimes including treason president nicolas maduro alleges that the politicians try to seize military installations something they have tonight but there are as government has tightened the noose on opposition politicians this year a been in criminal investigations into opposition leader one why does it also stripped many of quite as colleagues of their parliamentary immunity. cannot be a popular film thanks to the cooperation between the civil military and intelligence agencies we managed to detect in time who is behind this conspiracy

a fascist monster leopoldo lopez a fascist most a psychopath who has in the past 20 years been behind all the coups and violence he carries violence in his veins he is a mentally ill person of violence and a thief. leopoldo lopez i say and who else is behind this his subordinate one. who is also behind this the government of the united states. who has been on rest in colombia are also thousands of people that hang out to protest tax reform in the capital demonstrators say these measures carney being debated in the congress should be scrapped because they'll only benefit the rich and bake business live now to our last 100 b.s.t. who is in force some pretty large scale protests taking place behind what's happening today alessandro. well marriott lives neither day i wrote another day of demonstrations here in the capital as far as

this ongoing national strike that started last month on november 21st and it continues this fight the fact that we are getting. to the largest holiday season here. colombia how there are smaller crowds that what we have seen in past weeks about it as you can see. housing remains protesting against the government in this case in front of congress as their representative here at the baby tax reform that president to get his government are proposing for 2 the country and these protests happen have a number of said research countries that move away from this reform which is pretty much now in the hands of a couple of center right parties that are on the line really clear if they will be

felt in favor of this reform which protesters want to see scrap literally because they say that the only thing it does is cutting taxes to big businesses and putting new taxes on the middle class the government. savvis says that this will be will help fellow grow more in the coming year so i think we're what will happen to the reforms the crawl the gulf or 1 the leaders of the strike is that the numbers have been going down and we haven't seen the kind of day lead demonstrations that we've seen in the 1st 2 weeks of this ongoing strike so this is what's happening here and now about it's clear that the people who are out there still party motivated and the leaders of the strikers say that even if this reform passes there will be more rallies that the calving year to continue putting pressure on the

government of president to do this on a number of reforms very much the only latest on those protesters taking place in bogota thank you allison from p.s.e. . oh now we go to the philippines right rescues there are still searching for survivors after a powerful earthquake on the island of mindanao many people are feared trapped beneath buildings that collapsed in sunday's magnitude 6.9 quake at least 4 people have been confirmed that toll could rise as an unbroken reports now from a data. this was once a 3 story building take a look at what's left of it now devastated by a powerful earthquake that struck the province of dubbo the sewer in southern philippines on sunday afternoon after hours of going through the rubble rescuers have recovered 2 bodies and they remain hopeful there are still survivors in.

the earthquake was very very strong and in a matter of seconds we couldn't see much and we were surrounded by dust i was scared i ran as fast as i good government officials are asking for people to stay calm it hasn't been easy people here tell us there have been a series of earthquakes and aftershocks over the last few months thank you ali 20000 people have been displaced since a series of earthquakes struck many areas of the southern ridenhour region in recent months. this is really the best the ping so difficult for us. to strong we try to provide everything that our people lead but it isn't easy we ask for prayers people your say they are living a life on edge that's because a relative period of calm is often interrupted by a series of violent earthquakes like this one. these

families are to this chance to speak on camera their loved ones are trapped inside and they feel helpless. and as night falls their desperation grows they fear they are losing any chance of finding them alive i just dog and al jazeera by the double dose soar southern philippines. and new zealanders have observed a minute's silence exactly one week since the eruption of the white island fall. kaino prime minister just into od and lead the tribute in the capital wellington to all of the 16 people killed police still trying to recover 2 bodies believed to be in the waters off white island further 26 people or so in hospitals in new zealand and australia many in critical condition with severe injuries. for you on this news hour from london both iraq and lebanon perspiring nany of a new prime minister until thursday after politicians failed to reach any agreement

dozens of anti-government protesters are detained in kazakhstan on a day meant to celebrate the nation's independence. champions league favorites manchester city is set for a real challenge in the round of 16 the whole draw coming up with sport. hello the various other weather picture across much of western europe pensive me an hour without we have got some rain and also some snow now we have of course had more rain across northern areas of italy so once again we've got pictures like this coming out of venice pedestrians of course taking to the walkways just to avoid the water in some mosques where this also coincided with high tide now a bit of a break there really when it comes to the rain but not elsewhere as we go through tuesday it's

a very unsettled paten much cloud really covering much of northern europe right there down to the west and even again across into areas of italy the snow really confined to the mountain tops how much is elsewhere not too bad but the rain certainly is that coming in and sunday by wednesday that rain will work its way across towards the central med some heavy rains at times putting into western areas of italy and look at this another system just waiting in the wings and that could bring some very heavy rain into portugal and spain unsettled to the north through scandinavia but really the bulk of europe in these how much is it for example of a caress that's about 10 degrees above the average for this time of year now down into northern africa we've got plenty of clouds streaming in it's all from the same systems pushing through europe and it does mean is it go through choose say some rain some snow to the mountains that will clear that by wednesday so clear in robot at 18. a story of love family and freedom calling from i was 8 years old the last school

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a comeback here with the news hour live from london a look at the headlines now the top democrat in the senate has accused president donald trump of orchestrating a cover up chuck schumer's calls the current and former white house aides to testify trump's expected impeachment trial india's prime minister nuri modi has called for calm off to days of protest over a controversial citizenship will spread to universities across the country modi tweeted that the protests are on fortunate and deeply distressing. and at least 12 people have been killed in an overnight attack in the village of cum mungo in the eastern part of the democratic republic of congo just a day earlier at least 32 people were killed in another attack and any which was

blamed on the rebel put the allied democratic forces. well the council has been discussing its role in west africa a day after its leaders of the leaders of the saw whole region held an emergency meeting in asia on the rising violence that just a few days ago 71 soldiers from me were killed by fighters linked in the border with mali ahmed interest has more from. these disparate time so off recursively. groups that inflicted heavy losses on news that 40000 civilians from the. leaders of the countries affected no one us g 5 scrambled this meeting in yemi to urgently find a solution almost president mohamed a use of force says the frequency of sophistication of recent attacks is waters of . enough doesn't it doesn't you notice that the scale of terrorist attacks are getting larger day after day terrorists are getting more sophisticated weapons the

terrorists have been real war professionals they progress every day on the strategic operative and tactical levels. the g 5 chairman appealed for a new strategy to face the growing threat. we must work together to ensure victory against terrorism in the short middle and long term as the case in other countries fighting terrorism we need allies in alliance characterized with responsibility cooperation and respect for each other. at the end of the meeting the leaders resolve to work together to fight the moves which until now has been largely carried out by the national lobbies syrian. leaders have agreed to improve cooperation between national forces joint military operations and international allies as well as bit of coordination on both a political and strategic level they've also agreed on information sharing between security institutions and the countries to better feist terrorism. earlier the leaders paid their respect to the graves of 720 just soldiers killed last week when

fighters linked to eisele over that b.z. unitas more than 230 soldiers have been killed in mali putting up arsenal and me here over the past 4 months in addition to 30 french troops who died in helicopter pollution while hunting for the fighters in the electorate region what i mean it's really it's a carrying out attacks the regional armies and it's a group of civilians raising concerns of more violence in the coming weeks and months the g 5 leaders have concluded their summit but their citizens living on the front lines are desperate for help for now although it's not clear if the resolutions of the summit will do that. but michael. well now to libya where at least 7 cities across the country have declared a general mobilization of forces to fight the war lords. it follows the turkish president's promise to provide military help to the internationally recognized government in tripoli now that could lead to

a confrontation with the way egypt and other countries who support have to use forces have been trying to take over the libyan capital for months. little by. what we do the following 1st the state of total mobilization across the city with all assets and resources to be put at the disposal of the state for the upcoming decisive battle which is meant to root tyranny and oppression preserve the people's will into fiend off the enemy seeking 2 weeks the in the who to many in the country and to goebel up its riches secondly emergency operations room be set up in the city and be fully operational to channel all resources toward the battle. you know i did states impose sanctions on to south sudanese officials it's accused of generating conflict in the country the treasury department's targeted the minister of cabinet affairs martin and i'm laura the minister of defense and veteran affairs money young juke it says they have been blacklisted from the pet to a to the crisis of obstruction obstructing the peace process. in the morgan has

more on her from hard to now on this sanctions are all part of a passion by the united states recently. the sanctions by the united states on to south sudanese officials comes just 6 days after the united states sanctioned 5 other south sudanese accusing them of human rights violations and committing atrocities now the 2 new people to be added to the list cabinet affairs minister martin. who the united states accuse of recruiting local militias to fight in south sudan's conflicts the other person to be sanctioned is defense minister called my young jew who the united states accuse of not implementing the security arrangements from the government side asked for peace agreements signed between south sudan's government and various other groups here in the sudanese capital how to him more than a year ago now ask for that peace deal there should be a certain amount of government soldiers and opposition armed opposition soldiers in the capital and various other states before the return of the opposition leader

rick machar to form a transitional government now that deadline passed the initial deadline for the formation of a transitional government was may that was extended to november and then again to february by all sides after the sides agreed that many issues are to be implemented now the sanctions come as written my char the opposition leader and south sudan's president salva kiir are meeting in juba to try to discuss ways forward to try to implement the parts of the peace agreement that need to be implemented before a transitional government is formed all this comes as millions of south sudanese continue to feel the impact of the conflicts more than a 3rd of south sudan's $12000000.00 population have been displaced and more than half of them are in dire need of humanitarian assistance and the world food program came out just a couple of days ago and said that the country is at risk of famine if no military assistance is given to millions so many people in south sudan continue to wait for peace to come so that they can feel political humanitarian and economic stability

of thousands of gambians a. a rally against the president on down the barrel calling for him to step down at the end of this year he promised to leave office after 3 years as part of the deal to form a coalition government protests to say he's made living conditions worse style as nicholas hack now reports from banjul. they shout in the local language it means it's time time for president adam a barrow to leave power. says he broke a promise he made to the people of gambia who brought him to power 3 years ago so we are protesting because our president. and i remain with the governor. in 2016 that he would serve a transitional government for 3 years thereafter he will hold a presidential election. in which it will not be a participant and where but imagine as the winner of that election he would graciously hand over to that person. instead barrow says he wants to stay in power

and complete his mandate until 2021 saying he's respecting the constitution but in 2016 with most political leaders in jail the opposition rallied behind president barrow then a political outsider they had protested under the slogan gambia has decided when long time president refused to concede defeat during that year's presidential elections barrow told al-jazeera at the time he would respect the will of the people and only lead the country through its transition to democracy organizing elections in which he would not take part brunton our broken us president stressed and part of a political party and a new business must. put their trust before him to. lead to lead the city. on this of hard work. but his political party has now stopped backing him because he has surrounded himself with allies to ya john me is foreign and finance minister

as well as police chief are now part of perilous cabinet a protest like this would simply not take place under john they people would be too afraid to take to the streets and demonstrate against a head of state and so while there is more political freedom under add a member of the change that he had promised and the reform in the security economic and social sector is too slow to conduct those sort of water. high prices and commodity. afforded. countries. down there was a bit of that when. this was. protesters handed a petition to a government spokesman setting an ultimatum for barrett to leave power next month as he promised to do so 3 years ago this is an unprecedented show of force since the nation's return to democracy and a reminder to its political leaders that it's the people not politicians who are in charge of the gammas future nicholas hawke al jazeera ben jewel well now to

developments in lebanon the nomination of the country's next prime minister has been perspiring to thursday after new complications and efforts to form a new government it follows another night of violence where security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters who were outside the parliament activists say political changes are needed to pull the country out of a destabilizing and spiraling economic crisis in a 100 has one hour from beirut. minutes before the constitutional process to form a new government was set to start lebanon's presidency postponed consultations until thursday politicians were to name their choice of prime minister and saddle heidi the caretaker prime minister was supposed to be renamed but he requested the men to avoid in his words violating the constitution and preserving unity among the nation sects. it seems the christian participation or vote is the reason why. the liberties forces party is refusing to name

a prime minister from the political class and the other main christian party the free political movement is refusing to name how do you know this is the real problem lebanon's leaders who share power based on a sectarian political system are deeply divided how d.d. says he wants to have a government free from the influence of political parties his rivals led by the iranian backed hezbollah who are part of the governing alliance and hold the majority in parliament say they won't give up power the compromise is hard to teach because every party is sticking to its position and. it didn't budge for one single inch and it's true that the prime minister of greece aren't but since then they are trying to reproduce the same the same system a change in leadership is what anti-establishment protesters have been demanding for 2 months but the largely peaceful uprising against those who have ruled lebanon

for 30 years has turned violent in recent days confrontations between unarmed protesters and security forces is raising fears about stability and security political deadlock is not rare in lebanon but there is an urgent need to form a government the country is in turmoil the ruling class is bargaining over power while workers are losing their jobs companies are closing the local currency is losing its value. and people do not have access to their money and bags the economy is on the brink of collapse but even international financial assistance is being conditioned to the formation of a government that meets the aspirations of the lebanese people and now the united nations is warning the political impasse creates fertile ground for provocations and political manipulation that could lead to more violence. well it's a similar story that's unfolding in iraq where the president's deadline to nominate a new prime is to there in the next 2 hours has also now been extended to says day

. stepped down from the post last month following weeks of violent protests in which $476.00 people were killed since then people have continued to demonstrate demanding a complete overhaul of the political system is a they're angry at widespread corruption high unemployment and call public services . now the human rights group amnesty international has detailed a wall to kohls a vicious crackdown by iranian authorities following nationwide protests last month the report says at least 304 people were killed in the 1st 3 days of the protests majority of them was shot in the head hot or vital organs indicating security forces were shooting to kill the un says 12 of those killed were under the age of 18 in the iranian authorities have refused to release any figures of those killed more than $7000.00 people have also been arrested including journalists students and activists and some have been forcibly disappeared prisons are reported to be

a severely overcrowded children as young as 15 have been detained alongside adults including in fashion for you a prison which is notorious for torture. wolf from amnesty international says as widespread concern about the routine nature of torture and country. for iran the number of protesters killed in what was a. period of $34.00 days is appears to be then the highest death toll well at least we're aware of in protests. since since the revolution so this is this is a very significant this is a very significant development obviously there are you know hundreds of people who were detained in iran. and have been detained in iran over recent years in relation to their simply then peaceful expressing their views so that's not that's

not unusual but here we're talking about thousands. well the stories are falling dozens of anti-government protesters have been detained in kazakhstan for holding rallies now on independence day onwards of people demonstrate in the capital nursultan and the city of on marty they were calling for political and economic reform and an end to corruption police broke up several notches after the government to plant them illegal solomon says protesters have come out for different reasons. dozens of people have been coming to mourn him and in kazakhstan's largest city some of them have been coming here to commemorate independence day others have been coming to more than 1986 revolution against the soviet union and some others have been coming from various political factions in gaza fun including those belonging to the opposition some have been demanding more political and economic reform asking for political prisoners to be released asking

for more freedom to assemble as well as read what they want to see people should hearing from protesters saying that they want the karzai government to stand with the cars that in china not give those who crossed over into conflict airdrie and they want the government to stand by its people this is an opportunity for based opposition groups to come and so far they've remained peaceful they have been able to change and we heard from police say that when they start chanting at the government slogans that this is not an organized or authorized protest and they should go home but by and large it has remained peaceful. boeing's shaz have fallen as investors and as buy a company announced meant that it will halt production of the troubled 737 months next year now boeing's best selling plane has been grounded since march after 2 crashes in indonesia in ethiopia killed $346.00 people it's cost the plane

manufacturer more than $9000000000.00 so far boeing's board is jus to meet for a 2nd day in chicago. u.k. prime minister boris johnson wants to put his brakes that bill to parliament on friday in a vote on the withdrawal agreement bill will be the 1st stage in his plan to have person leave europe by january 31st johnson has been welcoming his new raft of conservative m.p.'s to westminster as an informal gathering he also spoke to u.s. president donald trump on the phone and said they look forward to negotiating an ambitious free trade agreement. and talks to a softball the island's assembly of resumed in belfast as well the provinces legislature has been inactive since january 2017 several rounds of talks the fell to restore the assembly because the 2 biggest parties the democratic unionist party and shin fein were unable to overcome their differences on issues like the irish language monday's talks were said to have been constructive and positive and discussions will continue next week. well as much well so i have for you on the

program we're going to be hearing from keeping from. coal and gas on that story and much more coming up in the sports. business update. going places together.

business updates. going places together. time now for around the world sports news before and. being heavily criticised for its decision to use paintings of monkeys it's part of an anti racism campaign stated the 3 paintings of apes. they're intended to spread

the values of integration multiculturalism and brotherhood others have branded the exhibit as a sick joke telling football has been marred by monkey chants and other incidents of racism please this. year. why use monkeys to talk about racism 1st of all it's a topic which is close to my heart because i only paint monkeys as a metaphor of the human being and also because the day of the monkey chants into kelly do i was at the stadium to watch internationally i mean interfere and i felt humiliated because all my brothers at the stadium were making monkey chants to an extraordinary player and a very good person and went through a 1000 difficult situations in his lifetime. earlier we spoke to professor nicholas somebody from the university of the line yes he believes there's a serious lack of understanding within italy's footballing authorities about how to deal with racism. but you've seen these messages. the legacy.

that really think about. the people who are touched by racism and they all wish they never ask. they never involve or for example black people in this campaign it and they think these are big problem in the main reason why there are certain states they like the they don't understand the. meaning i think they we learned their stand they think is very important now that we are really not globalized society. the controversy good debate that these coming from outside and from some part of the diagnosis i did to be closer than was are a strong reaction not by the. mainstream but more by social media exactly so they will understand that that was. not that would be a good message. football's world governing body sci fi has filed

a court claim against former president sepp blatter and former vice president michel platini to recover more than $2000000.00 from an illegal payment in 2011 blatter then see for president approve the payment to be made to politically for work he had done a decade earlier illicit payment became the biggest corruption scandal to rock the football world leading to both men receiving lengthy battens blatter and play team maintained they did nothing wrong he said the money recovered with foley put back into the sports developments let me finals of the club world cup kick off on tuesday with south american champions flamengo set to face asian champions i'll hillel in doha let me go as head coach jorge hayes's was actually the manager of last year the brazilian sides next opponent could be european champions liverpool if they both get to the finals. version of the meet to the. liverpool is a team that's been playing together for 5 or 6 years but i don't want to talk about

liverpool i'm interested in talking about. i'm not playing against liverpool i'm playing against. the team and that's the beginning of this season obviously it's not known worldwide but i know them all i was the head coach i know the players and it's a highly skilled team. now the club world cup is the 1st major test event for the main world cup in 2022 countries haven't even started qualifying but the host nation already has plans to in place for what happens after the tournament finishes and the richardson reports. the 2022 world cup is reshaping cattles landscape in 3 years' time this country will host football's biggest tournament but already plans are being made for what happens when it's all over. the man known in cats or as dr cool used to design air conditioning for cause for the last decade he's been developing cooling technology for football stadiums science with long term value

for qatar and other countries aiming to combat high temperatures with. the air goes out gently towards the supporters but it's recycled again like a conveyor belt this is one of the things that makes the technology sustainable we do not air condition the whole stadium but target where the spectators are it's a unique technology that cats are introduced to the world. creating a meaningful legacy is a complex challenge but secondly for a small country hosting such a huge tournament the hosts have to make sure the not only do the stadiums have a life beyond 2022 but that everything else that comes with a world cup also has a purpose before and after the main event. it means not just elite teams are given access to the dozens of new training pitches that have been built there also home to a community league set up by world cup organizers now have the community that barely can the west has access to training facilities in 3 years' time we're going to have the best footballers in the world coming here and at this moment in time for the

next 3 years and after 2022 our community football league with all of its players will be playing on these facilities we all come from different backgrounds we are the different careers and we come together and this is what joins us this year we've played on these pitches and i go guests over from home from the u.k. and i'll bring them out here to grab a look at the pitch that we're going to play a b. and b. in pass of us and the build up to the world is just it's amazing to be a grassroots football culture part of the less visible legacy organizers hope will be in place well beyond 2022 and the richardson al-jazeera doha. there are some mouthwatering ties in the last 16 of the champions league which takes place in february 1 of your former clubs dorman the realm of grit 13 time winners around madrid are up against manchester city while the holders

liverpool take on athletico madrid other standout matches see a tally in champions you ventus face. and he is cheap labor us you dortmund taught them take on german league leaders are be light sake now world chess champion magnus carlsen is used to outsmarting rival grand masters but the new region is now getting the better of millions of football fans around the globe the 29 year old who is a keen footballer himself has risen to number one in the fantasy premier league rankings he's been helped by the likes of liverpool duo saudia money and mohamed salah who are both in his virtual team but is strategy isn't anything groundbreaking he says it's just down to stats and a gut feeling. and that is all you sport for now it's our back to merion and light and all right thanks very much i well that wraps up the news hour but i will be back in a couple of minutes with a full bus and for entering our round up of all the day's top stories including all

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al-jazeera where every. so i also have witnessed this. the u.s. senate's top democrat says donald trump's expected impeachment trial will be a cover up less white house aides testify. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program i india's prime minister calls for calm but protests against his new citizenship law spread across the country.