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lebanon has a new prime minister former education minister has been chosen by the president. hello again i'm in the says al jazeera live from doha also coming up a shooting attack in moscow near the headquarters of the f.s.b. security. libya's government in tripoli accepts a turkish offer of military support backing forces loyal to the war. and donald trump is impeached but house speaker nancy pelosi refuses to say when she'll send the articles to the senate for trial.
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let's go now to lebanon where the president has designated a former minister of education and hezbollah backed academic. as the country's next prime minister well just moments ago today addressed the public stating what he hoped to achieve in his new role the beloved. i was informed by his excellency the president michel. the outcomes of the parliamentary discussions in line with the constitution i was there to form the government to begin with extend all appreciation and deep gratitude to his excellent through the president. they're excellent members of the parliament for the trust they placed in me similarly extended opposition to all the members of the parliament hoping that i would be able to. very. left up to the confidence placed in me when i form the government in consultation with the president on the basis of
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the constitution so that the government will live up to the aspirations of the people a government that will live up and realize their concerns and meet their demands and provide a secure future or take the country from this this to belle-isle situation to stability and realistic idea for a plan that does not remain an compare for. now for more on this let's bring in our correspondent tony battle he's live for us and barrett attorney he is clearly asking people to give them a chance how's the news being received there. well it's a big big task because this is a country that's in a very serious situation and you seen over the last 2 months the demonstrations in the depth of feeling on the streets those violent demonstrations have been put down with violence and there's deep rooted concern here about the politics of lebanon from the last 30 odd years so he's now got to heal
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a country and he i think is very much aware of that he was very conscious to reach out everybody's got to talk to everybody he said including the representatives of those civil disobedience organizations that were staging demonstrations he actually said i've heard the calls i've heard your demands and i felt your pain also as it was at pains to say that he was an independent man i think a lot of people have been assuming that because he's been put forward by the pro hezbollah alliance and not the psammead blocs that he was a hezbollah man he's saying that he's independent and i know a lot of people are saying it's about policy not personalities so he's got a job on his hands to form a government that's going to be reflective of the society as a whole and start to heal some of these problems that are deep rooted in lebanon these demonstrations are to go on want a total overhaul of the lebanese political system they want a techno crack to government to be in place to represent the country as it moves
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forward not a techno political government that has happened before with all the corruption and the nepotism that went with it so he's got a pretty big job i think you will see in the next few days according to the strength of the demonstrations and they will probably still go ahead what the depth of feeling is and if people are prepared to trust him and that's what exactly what he's doing to lebanon has to come together everyone has to join hands to save the country and they want him want them to trust him. tony we're looking at. what appears to have been a domestic political crisis but we were saying earlier that lebanon's had also a long history of foreign powers getting involved in regional politics so how was his appointment likely to be seen beyond lebanese borders. i think it depends on what the shape of the government will be as you say lots of countries have been playing their games in lebanon for many many years syria iran israel the united states and it all depends on what this government is and how it performs if
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you start to answer the questions that are being asked the poor serious issues in this country and we start to make improvements and i think everybody will say yes it's the right move if they start showing favoritism if they lead toward group or another that will get one so i don't know the credence. to take a stand and that could and as we've seen many times in lebanon in a violent way violence is never far away from the lebanese political system they're hoping that this man can actually heal the wounds and move forward and the violence will be a thing of the past tony betty there with the latest from beirut thank you tony now libya's new unrecognised government says it will accept an offer of military support from turkey the tripoli based administration is fighting an offensive by warlord khalifa haftar his forces are trying to capture the capital schools in the southern district of abu salim in tripoli has now been suspended and all 30 they're saying it's because of sporadic fighting and shelling by have to us forces but our
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correspondent what are the wahid is in tripoli for us last words after i began this offensive back in april but we're seeing this escalation and fighting now talk us through the situation on the ground there. well the situation on the ground is a very tense. a low the clashes have a relatively. decreased it compared to the past few days and specially since have to declared the 0 hour the last week but there hasn't been any major advancement on the ground for the neither side of the. factions but on the other hand the government of national called the. back to government of national accord is trying to prevent have that his forces from entering the capital city center now the government officials have met with military commanders who are running the
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battles against have to his forces and they have decided today to start putting get in place the agri meant or memorandum of understanding between libya and turkey that was signed by both. the prime minister face of and the turkish president of the hon and a member of staff here this agreement is a military and security agreement and it entails is it entails that turkey would support the g.n.a.t. the government of national court where the military and security supplies and that also entails getting news from the government that they are going to demand advances weapons including fighter jets and probably advances air defense system from turkey to prevent have that his forces from entering the capital tripoli this this is also as you know that the government says that this is any action to
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have to forces. of russian an african mercenaries mom and i believe i had there live for us in tripoli thanking him afterwards. well there's been a shooting in moscow near the headquarters of russia's main security service the f.s.b. leaving at least 3 people dead now that's taken place just in the last couple of hours you're watching live pictures now from the streets of moscow near where that happened where the streets have been cordoned off our correspondent step vasant is there for us in moscow step i know this happened very recently but what do we know at this stage we're hearing that at least one of them was an officer. yes the latest reports in our c.n.n. these are media quoting the actors be from surface they say that inside the headquarters and you can climb the main building the attack started 3 attackers
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came in and 2 have been killed during a shootout with allegedly the officer one of them managed to escape and then ran into the street where he also managed to kill a traffic police personnel and then later the f.s.b. has also made public that they killed a 2nd neutralized they killed this last attacker as well that's the latest information that we have so far but it's still very sketchy on how this could happen how these people would answer this very and secure building in the heart of costco the f.s.b. is of course the old k.g.b. the services soviet times and it was one of the most secure buildings in the country and in this city so it is still a lot of questions president puts it was actually attending a conference to members to commemorate the tories of the f.s.b. at the same time the shooting was taking place the spokesman for president putin
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that has said that he has been briefed on the situation but hasn't made any comment so far from any government officials except that we also saw that the health ministry has said that there has been some for seriously injured the people as well i'm saying now reports that a source close to the f.s.b. says that the shooting incident could be linked to persian speech today do we have any idea about the motivations that might have been behind this this attack and i imagine the security services to taking the investigation incredibly incredibly seriously. well it's not very clear what the motivation has been and there's no 6 space so far about this but yes it was 2 days annual press conference by president . if you ask more than 4 hours and he was asked during that press conference what the most stirring event was during his 20 year long who left the french and terrorist attacks and he said that the specially the one in 2004 at the school it's
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a land where one has 300 people were killed mostly children was the most striking one and he also mentioned that the russian always much more on top of these terrorists the parents many of them have to be confronted that's also something that the police keep styling everyone. pick attack was in 2017 others just the just the natural. than it's been a car guy and we don't know of course at this stage if this was a car was attacked and what the causes are behind it the police is at has been saying that they're still trying to identify the person that they have been shot and instead fashion that on the line for us from the sky we'll be bringing you more on that as we get it thank you stephanie. now in a vote split down party lines much like it's divided the nation the u.s. house of representatives has impeached president donald trump the democratic party controlled house charged with abusing his power as well as obstructing congress in
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its investigation those 2 articles of impeachment now will go to the republican controlled senate for trial but earlier house speaker nancy pelosi says she hopes that the senate can reach 100 percent agreement on the rules of that impeachment trial when peach the present immediately everybody thought her the next thing the next thing for us will be when we see the process that is set forth in the senate then we'll know the number of managers that we may have to go forward most recent and that case taking up an impeachment there was. a proposal on the floor put together but in a bipartisan way $100.00 senators voted for the process on how they would go forward on the case of president clinton in the hope that they could come to some conclusion like that but in any event we're ready when we see what they have we'll know who and how many we will send over well the top u.s.
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senate republican leader mitch mcconnell has denounced what he called an unfair house impeachment of president on the trunk the opposition to impeachment was bipartisan only one part of one faction water this out on the house's conduct wrist deeply damaged during the institutions of american government this particular house of representatives has led its partisan rage at this particular president great a toxic new precedent that will echo well into the future. heidi castro now joins us live from capitol hill in washington d.c. heidi in this very pronounced era of partisanship we're seeing. this complete dead dog between the democrats in the republicans and nancy pelosi has cost uncertainty
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over what happens next she's holding back those articles of impeachment how much leverage does she have here. well in reality the house democrats have very little leverage at this point but they would have absolutely 0 leverage if they were to indeed pass these articles on to the senate which would legally pass this process to the next step in the impeachment removing the house's participation. whatsoever except for the role of those house managers who would serve as prosecutors in that case but as far as dictating the terms of the trial that would be basically abdicating any control and so you do see this sort of a desperate effort by house democrats to keep their fingers in the joe so to speak at least for this time being perhaps there is some leverage in waiting before delivering these articles into the hands of the senate republicans what are they
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waiting for well we know there's a couple kate of course cases that are pending that may or may not come out in the democrats they were which may compel testimonies from other witnesses in the trump administration we also know that there appears to be a growing public desire for a fair trial that according to polls americans do expect this impeachment trial in the senate to be fair and that in fact even 2 thirds of people who identify as republicans said they would like to hear from additional witnesses that have thus far been blocked by the white house from testifying and it is those witnesses that are at the center of all of this the sir. it's minority leader chuck schumer has said he wants to call make believe me who is the acting white house chief of staff and the former national security advisor john bolton among others who may have
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insight into trump's motives when he was withholding this security aid to ukraine and that was at and it remains at the very heart of these impeachment proceedings whether the president had corrupt intent when he tried to get investigations into his political rivals was he using that security aide as leverage so at this point the mitch mcconnell who is the top republican in the senate has rejected that idea outright to call more witnesses and what you're seeing now are democrats in the house trying anyway really to still lay some pressure to get those witnesses and indeed all of this happening as we head into an election year heidi castor there for us on capitol hill thank you heidi well still ahead on al-jazeera violence in india where opponents of a controversial new law defy government efforts to crack down on large protests. and also the conservative victory in the u.k.
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we travel to a traditional leyva stronghold to find out just what swung the vote that. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecasts were here across it is looking quite nice over the next few days most of the clouds that we were dealing with are now pushing to the east into india so we're left with a lot of partly cloudy to sunny conditions across the board temper wise we're dealing with a lot of teens for tehran that means 13 degrees view baghdad at 19 and for quite city it is going to remain about 1000 degrees but we are looking at some winds across the area as we go into the weekend well here across the gulf we have been dealing with those same winds here in doha as well the skies have been clearing slowly so we're going to see more sun as we go towards friday and into saturday and as we go towards saturday those winds will start to come down as well we do expect to see attempt here of about 23 degrees down to
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a celeb it is going to be quite nice with plenty of sun with a temperature of 28 degrees and then as we go toward southern africa what we saw are plenty of clouds moving from cape town over towards durban things are improving most of those clouds and showers are now in the indian ocean will be left with the much warmer temperatures across the board for johannesburg we do expect to see $32.00 degrees here on friday durban at about $28.00 degrees and then as we go towards saturday it is going to be quite nice for cape town winds coming out of the south at $22.00 but clouds are going to be in the forecast for much of namibia if the wind hook expect to see a temper of $31.00. with one of the highest murder rates in the world who is the main challenger going to
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central america the smallest countries is gang related violence you or a country that's not. in our. country. the president of el salvador. hello again i'm just. a reminder of our top stories this hour former education minister has been named lebanon's new prime minister president michel aoun hosted consultations on thursday with deputies to pick the new premier who must be a sunni muslim under the country's sectarian power sharing system. there's been a shooting in moscow near the headquarters of russia's main security service the
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f.s.b. leaving at least 3 people dead police say the gunman has been killed. and u.s. president donald trump has been impeached for alleged abuse of power and obstruction of congress but house speaker nancy pelosi has turned uncertainty on to the next steps by refusing to say when she'll send the articles to the senate. now a deadline for the nomination of a new prime minister in iraq. stepped down from the post last month after weeks of violent protests in which more than $400.00 people were killed but the demonstrations have continued people say they want a complete overhaul of the political system they angry about widespread corruption high unemployment and poor public services. turkish president rush uptight about iran has denounced other muslim nations for not supporting his plans to resettle refugees in northern syria he underlines the pressure his country was under saying 50000 people were migrating from from syria is in
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a province into taki meanwhile 3 civilians have been killed and several others injured in the latest round of russian attacks on rebel positions in southeast shelling and as strikes in the province have escalated in recent weeks. to india now where at least 3 people have died in clashes with police during protests against a new citizenship those rallies went ahead despite a ban on demonstrations with police detaining hundreds of people across the country internet and mobile services have been blocked in parts of the capital new delhi so how raman reports. they marched in the thousands across india in the capital with placards in hand they denounced the government and its new citizenship law i it was peaceful here a civil society leaders politicians academics and people congregated at the historic red fort near the muslim quarter of the city was a confrontation with the police it was inevitable was the was
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just going for control of the situation has been a daily battle for police and civil society says the law was passed nearly a week ago and it was. 6 that there was a heavy security presence backed up by riot control personnel this demonstrator is clear about why he's here. the government shouldn't be doing this it's unfair here all the same we live here in india because we are equal in free we have a right to protest was a small protest as arrived ready to be taken away by police so that you know that and. that lady is being saying i'll go i'll go peacefully with the police and that's exactly what's happened with the protests that have been coming into the red fort complex here they've been slowly to the hundreds of the going slowly protesting quietly and peacefully arriving at the barriers they've been arrested
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individually and loaded onto those coaches that you can see behind me for processing was one by one they were loaded onto buses and driven away each denouncing the police to the other people that you know they were not civil society leader you can put a yard over many communist party leader. this was some of the high profile arrests those taken from here were released later others were detained. there have been protests in over a dozen indian cities for new delhi to look for a book by to judge the cult qatar saw some of the largest demonstrations ordered national day of anger as it was being called against the new immigration law. even in hyderabad police had their hands full taking demonstrators away to be processed or charged. one politician from the west bank gold has a warning for the b j p led government the politicians will only be the catalyst and if in our people of people the 1st part they will not accept this law and the 2nd part is the at the 1st opportunity when it comes to the bottom they will help. the youth
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ortiz are not taking any chances while the demonstrations great strength of. the government has imposed restrictions banning gatherings of more than 4 people and cutting it today at a mobile services in some areas the protesters here say they want the government to scrap the new law and i go will likely go on until lot happens but it'll be up to those in power to determine how they deal with that and reserve board in the days ahead. to hell robin al-jazeera you delhi. britain's queen elizabeth has outlined the agenda of paris johnson's new conservative government addressing the houses of parliament she said leaving the e.u. by the end of january is at the very top of the agenda the event marks the official state opening of parliament and it comes just a week after johnson's conservative party secured a landslide victory my government's priority is to deliver the united kingdom's
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departure from the european union on the 31st of january my ministers will bring forward just nation to ensure the united kingdom's exit on that date. and to make the most of the opportunities that this brings for all the people of the united kingdom there after my ministers will seek a future relationship with the european union based on a free trade agreement on the back i was listening to the proceedings and he says the new government wants to reassure the public about britain's place in the wilds often says the government has made it very clear that leaving on the journey the 31st is going to be a priority it was a huge money a substantial mantra for boris johnson throughout the election campaign also we knew that the national health service and protecting the national health service was going to figure highly to the government has promised investment of $44000000000.00 over the next few years this given the fact that the opposition
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during the entire election campaign had been repeatedly accusing the government of planning to sell off the national health service in some sort of trumped style trade agreement so trying to restore confidence in faith in the public who are going to be scrutinizing the government closely is a vital force johnson going forward but also a plan to kind of turn the united kingdom into an outward facing nation when it does leave the european union 7 taining a presence on the global stage was central in this speech to now working class voters and much of the british labor party is traditional heartlands abandoned in the election and switching over to the conservatives now and see reports from one such place stoke on trent in this small revolution in english politics these are the streets where the voices have demanded to be heard and it isn't hard to work out why the story of the working poor in this country gets worse with every passing
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year in the 6th richest country in the world people who work in places like hospitals or factories are relying on someone to give them essential for their babies because they can't afford to buy them. this church has been taken over by the sheer need most shockingly of all they told us these little packets of baby food aren't being eaten by infants but by their parents parents to sacrifice in their own health an equal any tradition by making sure so so so so they that so the children don't have to be exactly and also to make sure that their children got the food that they need and these are these are working people working people yes definitely. it's just absolutely sure he's extremely since the election all the analysis has suggested the vote for the conservatives in places like this came almost entirely from older white people who may or may not still be around to
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see bricks it's eventually get done even so the conservatives know they have to do something for these communities. that are expected to be absolutely inconceivable that places like this would vote for anybody but the labor party but in this election not just a few places but almost everywhere in the midlands and north of england chose to vote conservative instead and that represents the most amazing opportunity for the conservatives to redraw forever the political map of england but only if bracks it becomes a hugely important vehicle for social change oh you. mean we've been tracking stoke on trent since people like alley and short voted to leave the european union over 3 years ago since then he has changed her mind then regrets her votes and she doesn't trust the conservatives to change stokes fortunes there's not a lot here any wall and i want to know what they're going to be fit for. you know i
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want to know what are they going to be forced because this is a city that's broken and you need to get rick perry to look around huge amounts of the north look like this with pockets of successful industry next to visions of post-industrial dispair. the conservatives have always been blamed by so many for causing this damage but now they're in charge of pushing it rights people would welcome any more job security and also probably higher pay jobs you know we still relatively low wage to qana me no matter what start here and so anything that can bring some or affluence and prosperity to the presidency it would prevent cosco to the way force would be more than welcome but next christmas the u.k. will be out of the european union the prime minister has made himself to the parents of the children who will get one suite for christmas this year and a little toy as well if he can make it work with them it will have failed lawrence lee al-jazeera stoke on trent.
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hello again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines former education minister hasan dia has been named lebanon's new prime minister president michel aoun hosted consultations on thursday with deputies to pick the new premier who must be a sunni muslim under the country's sectarian power sharing system at least 3 people have been killed in a shooting attack in moscow near the headquarters of the f.s.b. security status one member of russia's security service was killed you're watching live pictures now from the streets of moscow where russian police say machine guns were used that area has now been cordoned off u.s. president donald trump has been impeached for alleged abuse of power and the obstruction of congress but speaker nancy pelosi has turned uncertainty on to the next steps by refusing to say when she'll send the articles to the senate. well in
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iraq a deadline for the nomination of a new prime minister looms a step down from the post last month after weeks of violent protests in which more than $400.00 people were killed but the demonstrations have continued people say they want a complete overhaul of the political system they're angry about widespread corruption high unemployment and poor public services to president rush uptight about iran has denounced other muslim nations for not supporting his plan to resettle refugees in northern syria he underlines the pressure his country was under saying 50000 people were migrating from syria as it did province into taki meanwhile 3 civilians have been killed and several others injured in the latest round of russian attacks on rebel positions in southeast it did. the pakistani military has denounced the ruling of a 3 judge panel which sentenced former president pervez musharraf to death the special court found was sheriff guilty of high treason for subverting the
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constitution in 2007 the court then directed law enforcement to arrest him but he dies before hand that his body should be dragged through the streets and hanged for 3 days the government is calling for the leader of the panel to be disbarred well those are the headlines for now and we will have more on that developing story in moscow that deadly shooting in the f.s.b. security service head courses we will be bringing you much more on the ongoing investigation you're watching live pictures now of that area that has been cordoned off after that attack for now it's inside story do stay with us here on al-jazeera as we bring you more as we get it.
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algeria swears in a new president after an election few people wanted. to. illegitimate so how will he manage his critics and can he ends months of demonstrations demanding political change this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. for the 1st time in 20 years algeria has a president who isn't. the former leader stepped down in april when thousands of people rallied against his bid for a 5th term in office but it appears many people are also unhappy with the man taking over.
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