you're watching the news hour live from our headquarters in doha i'm dreading coming up in the next 60 minutes boeing is suspending production if it's troublesome 737 max aircraft in the wake of 2 fatal crash. protests against a controversial citizenship last spread across india as the prime minister appeals for calm. a top democrat puts the pressure on leading white house aides to testify in u.s. president donald trump's impeachment trial. a trial.

is to engage in a cover up. the desperate search for survivors after a multi-story market building collapses in a powerful earthquake in the philippines. hello india's prime minister has called for calm after 5 days of violent protests against the new law that offers citizenship to persecuted minorities from neighboring countries excluding muslims but the protests show no signs of dying down instead they've spread to university campuses nationwide with thousands of students demonstrating in new delhi southern chennai and northern vajra nasi there is anger at modi's government following allegations of police brutality during a campus rally in the capital that turned violent on sunday. but the government has a tax. students by entering university so we will fight for the constitution of

india which did it time and time again that we will fight against the government. so as the pressure builds on india's government over a controversial citizenship law the supreme court is planning to hear appeals to the suite for him the muhammad has more. hundreds of students marched in anger at the citizen amendment act was passed by parliament last week and allows illegal migrants from 6 religious minorities to acquire a citizenship in india but it excludes muslims and these protesters want to provoked. it is not just about about us does not support the minority is against this against the context of this against the nation and what it is and what is the condition of the police met local people and students from jimmy up millia islamia university as they march towards the parliament building and trying to disperse them. the situation turned violent and buses and cars were set on fire.

in the local media say police and to the university classroom and detained students some by force. a deal honey does one of 100 students who were injured he says his arm was fractured i was surrounded by those oh so many policeman legolas 6 to 7 good is the stuff that started beating me and though it was brutal i doubt they would know it using martins they were using some other sticks a wooden aside sticks of wood so maybe i don't know where they were they were using blades nails. and a brutal a drug that was. thousands of people joined the demonstrations as they continued into the night and spread across the country in hiding. right police fired tear gas

and rubber bullets the police have been accused of being heavy handed but they say they've used necessary force. if it was a peaceful mob it would have been peacefully dispersed but did cause damage to public property arson and set motorcycles on fire protesters threw stones at police and we have been injured it's in the police interest to push them back and bring law and order the controversial law allow citizenship to be granted to minorities from 3 neighboring countries but the opposition says it discriminates on religious grounds especially against muslims and goes against india's secular constitution and with anti muslim rhetoric increasingly being used in india pressure is mounting on the prime minister to reduce tensions. for now protesters say they'll continue to demonstrate until the citizen law is revoked and their voices are heard

mohammed al jazeera. or prime minister narendra modi has tweeted that the protests are deeply distressing he went on to reassure indian citizens citizens that the citizenship amendment act wouldn't affect indians of any religion as it is only for those who faced years of persecution outside and have no other place to go except india modi called for peace unity and brotherhood i'm for everyone to stay away from any sort of a rumor mongering and false words on a poor man on as a politics lecturer at the university of westminster she says there are several facets to the demonstrations. the protests are right now prime the of 2 kinds so in the northeast region of india and primarily we have been having protest against fears of 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 further there has also been parliamentary opposition to this ad so these states of. fun job have tried to refuse to implement this act in their states a former member of india's ruling political party has been found guilty of rape and could face life in prison. guard was convicted under child protection laws as his victim was 17 when she was assaulted in 2017 the case came to national attention last year when the woman tried to set herself on fire alleging police inaction sangar was expelled from the b j p in august by prime minister narendra modi to face criticism for failing to act against the politician who will be sentenced on tuesday. now within the past hour boeing has announced that suspending production if it's best selling 737 max

aircraft next month the plane was grounded worldwide in march following 2 fatal crashes within 5 months which left 300 $46.00 people dead despite the grounding boeing has still been producing $42.00 aircraft a month the decision comes off to the federal aviation authority said it would not approve the plane's return to service before 2020 let's bring in john hendren he's joining us from just outside boeing's headquarters in chicago what is boeing saying about this announcement on. well during this is the biggest decision or one of the biggest decisions in boeing's more than century long history after 2 days of board meetings the company made amends decision that will reverberate throughout the u.s. and global economies and it will affect suppliers and airlines around the world the company decided it will temporarily stop production of the boeing $737.00 max plane that's because it's been waiting and waiting since last spring for regulators to

approve it it has also been forced to make a number of changes to software and other things that are expected to have contributed to those crashes so there is good news for the 12000 workers at the company's renton washington plant where they make this plane and that is that is at least as of now they will be no layoffs the company said but there will be affects on suppliers and others going stock dropped 4.29 percent and that affected a day when the dow was otherwise slightly the company had waited 9 months for this plane to get recertified it cost the company over $9000000000.00 to wait that long and here in the u.s. the federal aviation administration which is the regulator that would put that plane back in the air says today it has no commentary. at the end of the day boeing is. huge companies so what is the impact of all of this economically as well as

otherwise. it's an enormous star in it 1st of all boeing is the largest manufacturing export or in the united states in this is its biggest plane like i said it cost the company $9000000000.00 already but that's not all boeing is also the largest component of the dow jones industrial average so when boeing stock is tanking that's actually tanking or we're at least dropping down the stock market overall then you got the effect on suppliers they have to decide whether they're going to keep their workers there some may well ask boeing to help them so that they're ready for production when boeing needs to do that boeing by the way says it's going to focus on delivering the $400.00 planes that it now has ready for distribution these are non $737.00 max planes airlines meanwhile have to decide are they going to cancel more flights which is something they've been doing for many months right now and in the future should they look at buying say an airbus plane

instead of a boeing the chief executive dennis muhlenberg his future could be in question so far the company has stood by him throughout this when all of this is over there are people many financial people who are wondering if he's still going to be in that position or whether the company is going to want to remove him and just put this whole chapter behind them to give you an idea of just how big this decision is analysts are now saying this could affect the u.s. trade deficit globally in the coming year during. all right john hendren with an update from chicago john thank you. now the top democrat in the u.s. senate is accusing president trump of orchestrating a cover up chuck schumer has called for current and former white house aides to testify at trump's impeachment trial but the white house is discouraging them from

giving evidence kimberly hocket reports let's try to have a civil conversation ok passionate debate for and against u.s. president donald trump and whether he should be removed from office it's an issue dividing americans on full display is this democratic congresswoman in michigan attempted to explain why she supports impeachment i hope that even if people don't agree with my decision they see that i based my decision on my personal integrity and that is the most that i can do to show people that i scare them even if we don't agree but even before the impeachment vote is cast in the u.s. house which is expected this week the debate over the senate trial is underway that trial would decide whether trump should be removed from office trump is pushing for a full hearing to clear his name one that would include witnesses and testimony he believes could hurt his democratic rivals now democrats have announced they want

their own witnesses to testify including trump's acting chief of staff mick mulvaney and former national security advisor john bolton to cover up his efforts the white house discouraged both you not to cooperate with the house in corrie even though both men could shed light on trump's motivations for withholding military aid to ukraine the basis for the impeachment investigation these people know better than anybody else the facts there is no reason on god's green earth why they shouldn't be called and testify unless you're afraid of what they might say trump has repeatedly claimed no wrongdoing when he asked you craig's press. it would do him a favor and investigate the son of his political rival joe biden on allegations of corruption trump's personal attorney rudolph giuliani fresh from a trip to ukraine has threatened to expose corruption and bribery on the part of members of the white house under u.s. president barack obama but when asked for specifics trump said he knew very little

of what giuliani was up to he's a great person who loves our country and he does this out of love but maybe he does it out of love he sees what goes on it's an attempt to discredit the proceedings well offering no evidence to dispute the case against him signaling president trump is gearing up for a fight with trademark defiance kimberly hell hit al-jazeera the white house let's go to alan baron he's a former special impeachment counsel to the u.s. house of representatives he's joining us from washington d.c. hi there thanks for joining us on the al-jazeera news hour so clearly there are differences between both parties on the shape and scope of of that senate trial how difficult is it going to be for both democrats and republicans to resolve their differences well i think they really are at opposite ends but no matter how much the republicans are saying we will be there the president is saying that he wants a full and fair trial which cetera i think he probably deep in his heart would

welcome a quick trial in which he really knows how it's going to come out he's going to be quote exonerated by the republican majority and i think when the final analysis comes through i think it will be done want to relatively quick speedy basis but anything any sign that there is any compromise from either side. i haven't seen it so far and yet when they get into the room and try to hammer out a process i mean it's been done before in the clinton impeachment they worked out a rather strange but usable process that they could agree upon it wouldn't shock me if they get to a point where both sides are given a little bit and work work out a compromise and how significant is it that both. the democrats accusing one bolton as well as making of a need the acting chief of staff to be called as witnesses well it's perfectly understandable bolton has hinted that he has

a lot of very important information that hasn't been presented yet about the ukraine situation whether it's favorable or unfavorable and to which side is remains an open question but i think they would like to know what he has to say now to put bolton on the stand to testify without knowing in advance what he's going to stay to say it's somewhat like playing russian roulette i mean you don't know what you're going to get the same thing with mulvaney i mean most veiny a one point. said that there was a deal with the ukrainians and then he walked it back his credibility is not terribly high but still i think they would like to go after him about that the democrats would and here's the thing though if trump is acquitted in the senate's which let's face it most people say that is going to happen what is the point of all of this really. oh i think there really is a point. you know if you let this go if that if the house simply said well we're

going to take a passed since we can't convict in the senate in the history books this will be a very negative event it's important for the facts to get out for the house to take a stand and to say this was wrong if the republican controlled majority in the senate is willing to accept this well then so be it but history should record that the house felt that this. conduct was unacceptable and i think many people who've looked at it believe it's even worse much worse than what went on in the richard nixon near impeachment which led him to resign so i think it's terribly important if only for history in posterity that the house takes a position on this and says this is wrong we can't tolerate this debate and don't have a single republican yet joining the democrats and we see this real clear partisan divide is not an issue for the democrats well it's inherent unfortunately it's

inherent in the impeachment process it is a very political process with a slight gloss of it being something like a trial but it's really not if you hadn't noticed before every body in the house is a politician and everybody in the senate is a politician it's a political event and we have to be cognizant of that or else you really don't understand how the process is working all right and we thank you alan baron for speaking to us on the al-jazeera news hour thank you. on to more ahead on the news hour including iran as well as government is tightening the screws on its political rivals. the broken promise that's prompting thousands of people to demand action against the president in the gambia. in sport italy's top flight football league is criticized for completely missing the mark on their anti racism campaign farah how

those details on that later. but 1st thousands of colombians have turned out to protest against tax reform in the capital bogota demonstrators say the measures currently being debated in congress should be scrapped because the only benefit the rich and businesses have not sought asylum patsey joining us from bogota how big are these protests on the song. well there remain as you were saying in your introduction thousands of people took to the streets here in the capital but that once again is far of this ongoing and i'm precedented national strike that's been ongoing now for almost a month this started on november 21st however the crowds were way smaller than what we've seen in my past week they were absolutely g.'s full and colorful as

says he's been the case in most of the demonstrations throughout this now almost a month but definitely the crowd. was smaller but the people who are out there are insisting that they want to continue putting pressure on president. and they want to try and soft this tax reform which according to damn well hurt the field this middle class well how big business is a sincere tax rate will be about the government says that he said this tax reform will help the economy grow even further. this is what the government is saying. the fact that the crowds are smaller don't tell us that that we might be close to the end of this experience of this strike at least for now though the leaders of the strikes are saying that definitely it will continue in 2020 when more reforms will be presented by the government and the reduction might have to do with people

maybe being tired of being on the streets for so long but also the fact that we're entering the biggest holiday season of the year here in colombia which might help the government to be able to get a vote on this tax reform which finally will depend on 2 center right. parties who have in the sided where what they will vote yes. so what sort of pressure then is this putting on on the government and what do we expect to happen in congress. about people who are demonstrating in protesting for out why this ray of reasons why number of reasons some have to do with these economic reforms about also the fact that people want the government to do more to implement the sorry p.c. away fark rebels that was signed in 2016 but this government has to implement

storing a number of reforms and the government has been opening criticizing parts of that up for people who are also angry at what they perceive as violence some part of the police against protesters and the fact that the government hasn't done enough according to them to the fans social leaders former fighters that have been killed at alarming rates and number of rural areas so these are all the different reasons why people have been protesting and also there's the fact that there is a. the link that these deal was signed here and that is. for 1 get to deal with all these reforms social reforms that i've been able to deal with in the us all right thank you for that update from bogota venezuela's pro-government constituent assembly has approved the trial of 4 opposition

politicians accused of committing treason and other crimes the country's top court which is also loyal to president maduro alleges that the politicians tried to seize military installations something they've denied the government has tightened the noose on opposition politicians this year stripping many of their parliamentary immunity so up opens criminal investigations into opposition leader $1000.00 not keeping a field 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 a violent and a thief. leopoldo lopez i say and who else is behind this his subordinate. but who is also behind this the government of the united states. china and russia

are calling for an end to some of the sanctions on north korea they proposed the draft u.n. security council resolution which would see some sanctions lifted to quote enhanced the livelihood of the civilian population of north korea but the u.s. says now is not the time to consider lifting the sanctions let's get more from christine salumi joining us from the united nations in new york so any more clarity on whether this draft resolution is actually going to be put forward at the security council and voted on. well we do know that it is going before the council to be discussed in private and close consultations whether it will go forward however is very doubtful at this time what the chinese and the russians are proposing is a wide rollback of sanctions against north korea sanctions that were imposed to try to stop it from developing a nuclear weapon and they start with issues that they say are humanitarian in nature related to people's livelihoods things like the export of textiles or

seafood but they would also consider lifting sanctions on heavy equipment and construction equipment where it has to do with. into a korean road and construction projects some relief that north korea has been looking for from sanctions to develop its economy which has been so hurt by these sanctions as it's punished for developing nuclear weapons now the problem is that the chinese and the russians are making this proposal at a time when there is such growing concern in the international community about north korea and its increasingly threatening and provocative statements ahead of a self-imposed deadline of the end of the year that kim jong un the leader of north korea has made for coming to an agreement with the united states over its nuclear program we've seen korean officials warning of a christmas surprise we've seen ballistic missile testing the so much so that

members of the security council got together last week and criticized north korea for taking the steps so even as they are ratcheting up the rhetoric and the threatening undertones to what they're saying we have china and russia proposing a rollback of sanctions and that's why the united states is saying that this is not the time for the security council to consider this this is premature when the north koreans are refusing to meet refusing to discuss we need to get back to the negotiating table 1st and then we can talk about sanctions resolution so there's going to be a long way to go before any action is taken on this measure at the security council writes kristen salumi thank you. well president trump has warned the u.s. is watching north korea closely and says he'd be disappointed if something was quote in the works the u.s. special envoy for north korea has already urged pyongyang to return to the negotiating table to discuss denuclearization tension has been rising in recent

weeks after north korea conducted a series of weapons tests showing has previously warned it would take a new path by the end of the year as christine was saying if the u.s. does not make new concessions. rescuers in the philippines are still searching for survivors following a powerful earthquake on the island of mindanao many people are feared trapped beneath buildings that collapsed in sunday's magnitude 6.9 quake oakley's 4 people have been confirmed dead jimmy rollins oregon has more from. this was once a 3 story building take a look at the puts left of it now devastated by powerful earthquake that struck the province of sore 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 course 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 say 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 you 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 dug an al-jazeera by the volatile sore southern philippines. still ahead on al-jazeera the wife of zimbabwe's vice president is accused of trying to kill him while he was in a south african hospital. the search for a new prime minister has been on as protesters keep demanding a political overhaul. and in support we'll hear from the man keeping football players and fans cool in qatar.

hello there is a rather winter picture across much of the united states side in terms of temperatures but a winter weather advisory structure will vary from the central plains up into the northeast and the whole this cloud we have some very cold air minus 6 in minneapolis but look at this in canada minus 23 celsius in winnipeg that is 13 degrees below the average now choose day is a very unsettled day again to the northeast we've got snow mostly rain to the east into new york city and the west the clouds gathering pushing on shore and as we head through wednesday pushes further inland we'll have some rain showers across into coastal areas of the washington down into oregon and also a few showers likely to san francisco just 12 degrees celsius but it does improve out across the east so a pretty nice day in washington 5 celsius so cool but it should be dry with some nice sunshine meanwhile further to the south across the caribbean and central america widely unsettled plenty of crap plenty of some of these heavy at times and in fact much of this rain out towards the west it's all tied to that same system

working its way through the eastern side of the united states this is the end of a cold front and it's bringing the rain as you can see into southern i was in mexico it will work its way east was as we go into wednesday some very heavy amounts of rain starting to warm at 29 but a very wet day. the story. family frito going home i was 8 years old at school he heard the sound of large explosions. and the hardships faced in captivity they came for me at midnight they told me to leave my son i said how can i see myself so much pain in the eyes of the other female prisoners. and they are pricing. on al-jazeera . testing whether on line you feel the weight.

of the jail or if you join us on. has to start from day one whether detention or your own car this is a dialogue everyone has a voice for the studies that support. i want to give people the reason for joining the global conversation. announced its temporarily suspending production of its bestselling 737 max aircraft and the plane was grounded worldwide in march following 2 fatal crashes within 5

months which left 346 people dead. india's prime minister narendra modi has called for calm after 5 days of protests against a controversial new citizenship thousands of students have joined the demonstrations as anger spreads across the country. the top democrat in the u.s. senate has accused of orchestrating a cover up chuck schumer has called for current and former white house aides to testify trump's impeachment trial the white house is discouraging them from giving of evidence. have been rallying against president urging him to step down in the next few weeks he promised to leave office off to 3 years as part of the deal to form a coalition government testers say he's made living conditions worse because more. they shout in the local language it means it's time time for president adam

a barrow to leave power and 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 remember when the guy. in 2016 that he would save a transitional government for 3 years thereafter he would hold a presidential election. in which it would 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 longtime president john lee 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 us president stressed . another businessman for the before him to. lead to leave the city. on this. but his political party has now stopped backing him because he has surrounded himself with allies to ya john me his 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 adam barrow the change that he had promised and the reform in the security economic and social sector is too slow to convert that sort of work to. high prices and committed to its people cannot afford it. 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 gambler's future nicholas hawke al-jazeera jewel. at least 12 people have been killed in a rebel attack in the eastern democratic republic of congo the raid happened overnight on monday in the village of come and go a day earlier at least 32 people died in another attack in beni which was blamed on the rebel group allied democratic forces and the allied democratic forces was formed in uganda when several rebel factions merged but it expanded into the eastern d.r.s. in the late one $990.00 s. and it opposes the governments of both countries the groups accused of killing

thousands of people including un peacekeepers often in collaboration with other militias several a.d.f. attacks have been claimed by eisel but there is a lack of evidence linking the 2 groups are aboud is head of the un's mission in beni he says attacks have increased because the a.d.f. rebels are under pressure it has always been the case that they're back seat in communities but there has definitely been an increase in the number of attacks in the last weeks and it's going to longer than that almost a few months now this is merely because they are on the run they are threatened by the physical operation that we are conducting but also the congolese military in their stronghold this forest and as a result they tend to run away and as their own no way to conduct these operations when to retaliate against this is a top mission it's a way to put pressure on us and on the congolese military to stop these offensive

operations but also as they move in as they go on 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. the u.s. . officials accused of creating conflict in the country the treasury department's targeted the minister of cabinet affairs and the minister of defense and veteran affairs it says they have been blacklisted for perpetrating the crisis by obstructing the peace process and the united states stands ready to impose other measures against any who seek to expand the conflict and derail peace efforts in. the u.s. secretary of state but he went on to say that sanctions are not permanent and may be lifted if individuals demonstrate measurable support of the peace process in south sudan. again is it hard to neighboring sudan she says the humanitarian situation is critical. 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 morell 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 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 conflict more than a 3rd of south sudan's 12000000 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. the wife of zimbabwe's vice president. has been charged with attempting to murder her husband's. appeared at the harare magistrate's court on monday where she was

also charged with money laundering and fraud it's alleged she removed intravenous drip and catheter when he was receiving medical treatment in south africa in july before trying to force him from the hospital. remains in custody pending a bail hearing for at least 7 cities across libya have declared a general mobilization of forces to fight warlords. that follows the turkish president's promise to provide military help to the internationally recognized government in tripoli that could lead to a confrontation with the u.a.e. egypt and others who support have to his forces have been trying to take over the capital. 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 field off the enemy seeking

to extend the hit you many in the country and to gobble up its riches secondly an emergency operations room be set up in the city and be fully operational to channel all resources towards the battle. of the turkish president has arrived in geneva for a major refugee meeting his heavy security presence arrived at his hotel on monday . first global refugee forum starts on tuesday and takes place at the end the fed decade that saw forcibly displaced people at record levels almost 71000000 worldwide of whom about 26000000 are refugees turkey is home to about 3 and a half 1000000 refugees the german chancellor angela merkel and u.n. secretary general antonio terrace are also expected to attend. at least 5 people have been killed by russian airstrikes in syria's province opposition activists say at least 2 children from the same family were killed in the attack which targeted a village syrian government and russian forces have intensified their arguments

have been recent weeks the northwestern region is the country's last rebel held strong. the nomination of lebanon's next prime minister has been delayed until thursday president michel all was supposed to meet political parties on monday but they postponed went on protests over the weekend against this election. has complicated efforts to form a new government zana has more from beirut's 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 it was delayed 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 this is the real problem lebanon's leaders who share power based on a sectarian political system are deeply divided how did he says he wants to head 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 name the ruling. it didn't budge $41.00 single inch and it's true that the prime minister of trees aren't born. since then they are trying to reproduce the same or this or prevented 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 banks 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 so. iraq's president has until the end of thursday to nominate a new prime minister are the deal resigned last month but that's done little to

convert tester is demanding an overhaul of the sectarian political system there the latest demonstrations started in october but there were similar protests last year corruption high and unemployment poor public services and a low standard of living have angered millions of people at least $476.00 iraqis have been killed and 20000 injured in 2 months of demonstrations calling for change simona for baghdad and she says protesters fear the new prime minister will be linked to the old government's. the new deadline we are told is now on thursday what is also confusing is which bloc in parliament should actually nominate a new prime minister according to the constitution the president is supposed to ask the biggest block in parliament to agree on a candidate now it is unclear which block is actually the largest and this is very peculiar and very typical of iraqi politics because many members of parliament

switch allegiances the vote are not public so nobody really ever knows how many seats are controlled by a given party and the president actually sent a letter yesterday to the speaker of parliament asking him to clarify who is the largest bloc now of course this comes very late in this process this is something that has been clear a long time ago but it just highlights how obscure this process is how little transparency there is and this is precisely the reason why many iraqis are asking not for just the new prime minister but for a complete overhaul of the political system it's a very obscure process that is basically the result of backroom dealings by the one name that has come up quite often is the name of mohamed sudan who is a member of our party which is the biggest ruling party that has been in place since 2003 and he also held several ministerial posts before so he's very much a considered to be part of the political establishment in that's exactly what

protesters don't want they want somebody who has not served before somebody who is not beholden to the current political parties who is actually capable of pushing through very controversial reforms and that's definitely not mohamed also that he has already been rejected by the protesters so it remains to be seen whether he is indeed the one who will be nominated but in any case people want a fresh face they don't want anybody who has held an office in the past. french government official whose pension reform plan sparked a national strike has resigned there's chaos across paris on the 12th day of the strike. the protests were triggered by plans to raise the return retirement age to $64.00 and end special privileges for some workers the man behind the reform. quits after media reports showed several paid positions without declaring them while he was a cabinet minister the u.k.

prime minister boris johnson wants to put his brecht's that bill before parliament on friday the vote on the withdrawal agreement bill will be the 1st step in his plans and. by the end of next month johnson has welcomed new elected conservative m.p.'s to westminster following thursday's election and announced a small reshuffle of cabinet. well talks to restore northern ireland have resumed in belfast storm and has been inactive for nearly 2 years several rounds of talks have failed to restore the assembly because the 2 biggest parties the democratic unionist party and fein failed to overcome differences in issues including the irish language monday's talks were said to be constructive and positive discussions will continue next. we'll tell you about. a football match. up in a moment. thanks. thanks

very much italy's top flight football league sorry as being heavily criticized for its decision should use paintings monkeys part of an anti racism campaign. the league stated the 3 paintings of apes are 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 internet police 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 abedi from the university of the lawyer 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. 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 these they don't understand the. meaning i think they we did understand 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. then was that 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 13 maintained they did nothing wrong he said the money recovered with foley put back into the sports developments listen 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 side's next opponent could be european champions liverpool if they both get to the finals version of the meet with. 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 t.v. 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. the club world cup is the 1st major test event for the main world cup in 2022 and most countries haven't even started qualifying but the host nation already has plans in place for what happens after the tournaments 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 cattle restocked a 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 did 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 but barely going to where it 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 have the different careers and we come together and this is what joins us this

year we've played on these pitchers and i go guests over from from home from the u.k. and i'll bring them out here to grab a look at the pitches that we're going to play and be an impasse of this 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 his former clubs dorman the realm of great 13 time winners around madrid are up against manchester city while the holders liverpool take on athletico madrid other standout matches see a tally and champions you ventus faced lee all and he is cheap labor dortmund taught them take on german league leaders rb light sake and 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 has a keen footballer himself has risen to number one in the fantasy premier league rankings he's been helped by the likes of liverpool duels 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's all your support for now more later well the streets of one of new york's neighborhoods have been lit up by america's largest lantern festival 60 orders to use more than 10000000 lights for a dazzling display in the borough of queens it includes an 18 meter lantern christmas tree and a giant menorah to celebrate the holiday season thanks for watching the news hour we're back in just a moment. i

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boeing is suspending production of fit 737 max and it's the latest fallout from 2 deadly crashes in ethiopia and in. portugal jazeera life from a headquarters in doha i'm sorry you navigate also ahead. protests against a controversial citizenship all spread across india as the prime minister appeals for calm. a desperate search for survivors after a multi-story market building collapses in a powerful earthquake in the philippines. a cold for gambia us president to step down protesters say use going back on his promise.