on al-jazeera. the aca. the international criminal court has an investigation into war crimes in the palestinian territories. there are live from die hard also coming up. we are. done deal britain's new parliament voted overwhelmingly to. build. the of violence and northern india and protests elsewhere or new nor the turn and

say discriminates against muslims. and donald trump attacks a magazine that caters to one of his biggest support blocs as christianity today calls for his impeachment. now the international criminal court is preparing to investigate alleged war crimes in the palestinian territories the i.c.c. as chief prosecutor says this could include charges against israelis or palestinians. says available information indicates that war crimes have been or are being committed in the west bank including east jerusalem and the gaza strip palestinians say the investigation as. well israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the court has no jurisdiction to investigate well our correspondent natasha going to enjoins us live now from west jerusalem the talks with some swift reaction there from. yes swift

reaction on both sides but let's back up a minute this is a years long process by the palestinians about a 5 year long process the palestinians wittes seeking redress for what it describes as quote a multitude of war crimes against palestine by the quote occupiers about 5 years ago and a note about what the international criminal court prosecutor has said while she has said that she believes that there is reason to proceed with an investigation because she believes that work crimes either have been this is a direct quote or are being committed in the west bank east jerusalem and gaza there is still a sticking point she is looking for a what is called a pretrial chamber guidance this is on the issue of jurisdiction she says she wants to know and wants to ensure that the area that she is looking at to investigate

will include the west bank east jerusalem and gaza and she says that she needs that pretrial chamber to proceed with an answer as quickly as possible and she's asking for that guidance now she says she's i have in the interest of full transparency because she says guidance on this issue before she actually begins an investigation she believes will lend the investigation to quote greater clarity and added legitimacy as you mentioned there has been a swift reaction on both sides let's start on the palestinian side and mannish rally with the palestinian liberation organization said that she believes that this was long overdue she expects an investigation to proceed as expeditiously as possible and she's saying that the palestinians have invested their faith in the international criminal court for quote justice and she believes. justice will be

had she says she does not think that there is any question that the international criminal court has jurisdiction far as israeli leaders go prime minister benjamin netanyahu immediately whipped off a letter to leaders reacting to this he is calling today a dark day for truth and justice he says that quite honestly the palestinians do not have they do not have a claim he says they are not a state and should not be treated as one and israel has not signed on to the international criminal court they're not a party to it and therefore this is not legitimate netanyahu accuses the international criminal court of being used as a political tool to quote legitimize israel he says the prosecutor by alleging that jews living in their quote ancestral homeland have committed a war crime the prosecutor is quote ignoring our legal arguments as well as

history and truth and he vows that israel will continue to fight this so in the size it what's interesting here again is this issue of jurisdiction and whether or not palestine can be considered a state and therefore proceed with this claim at the international criminal court israel says palestine is not a state palestine says that the un recognized it as a non member state of the un and therefore it should be afforded the same rights as other members natascha can and that live press unless traced him thank you natasha . is their system going to staff a multilateral if as for the state of palestine he's also a member of the palestinian mission to the u.n. and he says israel's actions need fattah international scrutiny. hoping that i can see with all those who are committing crimes against 'd our people against our land

. the crimes that are climbing the almost have to accountable to the crime and no more crimes are being collected on and on the palestinian land which was basically set the stage for ending the occupation and thus opening the path for a conclusion of this conflict otherwise if israel continues to conduct its crimes on our land without any with impunity and without any accountability we believe that this conflict will be choices 'd for other and there is no solution to it so the court and its role it will provide these to this land with holding those criminals and those who allow for these crimes committed in the occupied by the sympathetic 30 accountable to their crimes. river want to other news now and the british parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favor of prime minister barak johnson's bracks a deal and sets a course for the u.k.

to leave their opinion by the end of january but last week's election giving johnson's government a huge win a majority of the legislation sailed through but opposition parties say the government is using its power to die need previous commitments on scrap some important protections reports minister to move secondly to the prime minister to move 2nd reading. there is a new mood in the u.k. house of commons the knife edge bracks it votes of the autumn ancient history the tension replaced by political inevitability and in front of the newly expanded ranks of conservative m.p.'s boris johnson was enjoying the moment history will recall that the 1st act of this new parliament in its earliest days was to break the ice class and find a new way through a new passage through the unsuspected oceans of opportunity this parliamentary majority means that prime minister boris johnson can now press ahead with his vision of brics it the new law will prohibit any trade talks extension beyond

december 2020 and it weakens parliamentary scrutiny of the executive clause on protecting workers' rights has been removed and a previous commitment to receive unaccompanied child refugees has also been watered down. critics opponents say the changes showed the prime minister can't be trusted for only promises over the past few weeks that they are all the party to protect rights at work at the very 1st opportunity they removed the basic provisions they said would be part of this bill that does not bode well for freshman emphatic election victory the prime minister has little need to contemplate the critics or placate his opponents but he will have to consider the voters especially those who switched from labor and in his words lent the conservatives their support in the election the simple fact though is that johnson has the numbers with him the

eyes of the right 358 the notice to the left $234.00. feel his bill will become law in january paul brennan al-jazeera westminster. now huge numbers of people in india defying a police battle public gatherings to demonstrate against a controversial citizenship rallies are being held in new delhi and elsewhere against the law that opponents see as anti muslim now violence has erupted in several cities it was a protest stage and lockout officers were seen hitting people with sticks after a police station was damaged kathy remains in place in the coastal city among the laurel where at least 2 protesters were shot and killed during confrontations with police on thursday and in new delhi thousands have gathered outside the job one of the country's largest mosques they were also gathered outside the university which saw violent clashes on the weekend students there are calling for the new law to be

scrapped. to has more from new delhi. i don't think the government anticipated the length and breadth of this kind of a protest initially it was only the students who were protesting but as the government cracked down on the students people have been coming out saying that this is more than just a protest on the ca. citizenship law but also on the freedom of expression and the need for people now they are seeing is to stand up for the constitution in syria thousands of civilians fleeing to the takesh border following a dramatic increase in russian led attacks in the province activists are appealing for taki to open its frontier to allow for safe passage 7 people were killed on friday morning while at least 19 civilians were killed on thursday shelling and as strikes and have escalated in recent weeks and there are reports that government

forces are preparing for a ground offensive to secure the main highway linking the capital damascus but the northern city of aleppo. now the man picked to become lebanon's next prime minister says he'll work to form a new government within 6 weeks has promised to build a team of technocrats or experts in specific fields like economists and protest as they're convinced that he is capable of lifting the country out of crisis. he deserves a chance. for him to come in as an independent technocrat i'm looking for a technocrat government that consists of independent ministers in order to serve our country in sort out our problems that we all know about i don't know everything and that is why i believe in i'm an engineer and the cabinet will include specialists in economy finance sociology in all fields of interest for all of us to work as a team in order to solve all the problem. is not alone going to solve all of these

problems. he says protest as aren't happy with the new prime minister designate. i'm in an area of the city these people are very much supporters of. the outgoing prime minister and they're very much against the nomination. they want their leader mr hariri to be the nomination but it should be strange in the world of. politics a large city block did not make a nomination that nomination for mr came from the shiite bloc with the hezbollah and amal. politics the structure of the constitution here is that the. president has to be the prime minister has to be a speaker of parliament has to be a shiite muslim so. i have to say this this is just a small section small cross-section of what's happening in beirut mainly the sunny population here that have come out and are protesting seems to be

a big demand to take them forward to get them out of this economic crisis mr hariri even though both men are from the so-called old order now the. best part of 2 months a complete overhaul of the political system here they want the techno politicians to be they want the techno crutch to be in and they want a whole new look at the way politics is done here they believe that the economics of the past 30 years has to be done away with is too much nepotism too much corruption now they're quiet now but they were earlier on throwing stones they were quite aggressive there's a very strong presence of police here and for the moment it's quiet we understand the same as we're going on in tripoli these people are very happy unhappy about the way things are going but equally people say there has to be an end to these demonstrations they have to have a parliament they have to have a prime minister and they have to start getting economic dire situation.

we have a president who is a pathological liar spat on by. the democrats who want. replace him in another debate. and we have the stories from some of the hundreds of one of smuggled out of the ever hear what's being done to help. carlos knows fall in the mountains of you non rain is falling in central china along the yanks in a bit further south that rains been a little bit disappointing persistent in shanghai and it's still there on saturday green is rain of course hong kong's the science and you will stay dry about 22 degrees humidity is not that high and the rain tends to fade away should be a dry day in shanghai come sunday as well and the snow start falling in you know

there's more snow to come of course in the in kashmir for example beyond in the higher ground which is rife this time the air but despite what you saw as cries stream across the airways very stagnant settled in northern india air quality is dropping once again particularly in delhi where you will see showers the northeast monsoon is sometimes tamil nadu more especially and out a moment sri lanka as you can see and something maybe is hinting at forming in the indian ocean a tropical depression of some so over the water for the time being. from blowing down the gulf in the last couple of days that's usually much colder and it follows the thunderstorms so the forecasts are out the arabian peninsula is a dry one it's $31.00 in mecca in the quiet sunshine so the $23.00 in doha it's much the same in bahrain but even that war in riyadh.

experience. places to. hello again you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories the international criminal court is preparing to investigate alleged war crimes in the palestinian territories which it says could

lead to charges against israelis or palestinians palestinians say it's. all israel's prime minister insists the court has no jurisdiction. back to the prime minister by a majority of 124 the u.k. is now on course to leave the european union on january the fast. and india's new citizenship was provoking new protests thousands in the capital new delhi and on the city's say the legislation is. 3 protesters were shot and killed and hundreds detained by police. now u.s. president donald trump has lashed out at a christian magazine that's called for his removal from office the publication christianity today called trump quote very lost and confused and said he isn't morally fit to be president exit polls found that 80 percent of evangelicals christians voted for trump back in 2016 the president's responded in a series. of tweets accusing the magazine of being very far left while our white

house correspondent can be how could joins me now live from washington d.c. can be tell us a little more about christianity today this is an evangelical publication but one that's generally stayed away from partisan issues right. yeah it certainly isn't a magazine that would speak for all christians or for even all even jellicoe christians sometimes there is a bit of a misunderstanding about what it means to be an evangelical essentially means to follow the teachings of jesus to accept him as your personal savior so that would really describe a lot of americans that don't necessarily identify typically as that sort of what many people particularly pollsters would see as kind of this monolithic bloc for example african-americans may follow those kinds of teachings but don't necessarily see themselves as conservatives 2 so it gets very nuanced but in terms of this story i think what you have to take away from all of this is what donald trump

believes in is counting on to help win reelection and that is a very conservative base of supporters that is often white and often identifies as evangelical it helped him win in 2016 and he feels like he kept his promises to that community that essentially he did put on very conservative supreme court picks and he feels somewhat betrayed by the fact that even joe calls in the united states have a bit of a schism just like the american voter as a whole but peculiarly when it comes to the generational shift in terms of evangelicals a lot of the sort of younger evangelicals tend to have a liberal education and tend to see. many of the controversial issues that their parents would perhaps vote for example bt or even the issue of race tend to lean further left than their parents so the president is seeing perhaps a little bit of a product of that in terms of whether it's a road of his core support i don't think so it doesn't seem likely but certainly it

is a reflection once again as we've been talking with regard to this impeachment story all week aaron al jazeera just how divided americans are when it comes to donald trump he's a polarizing figure in. think we can take away from this that christians are no exception it should be noted with regard to this magazine it did at one time have a connection to billy graham a very well known televangelist and as a result of this story his son franklin graham has come out saying my father supported donald trump in 2016 before his death and does distance himself from this editorial once again donald trump polarizing and christians no exception when it comes to the reaction to donald trump. that house correspondent thank you kimberly . 7 of the democrats who want to replace donald trump held their final debate of the year and los angeles they way he said exchanges of everything from the economy to climate change during that debate which was hosted by p.b.s.

news hour and politico. reports. the impeachment was topic number one all the candidates support president donald trump's impeachment and all said they would be the best nominee to beat him in november but my job is to just go out and make the case why he doesn't deserve to be president not in states for another 4 years you cannot have a president with bad temperament was dishonoring the presidency of the united states we need a candidate for president who can draw that sharpens distinction between the russian of the administration and a democrat who is willing to get out and fight not just the wealthy and well connected but to fight for everyone else that's why i'm in this race no matter what happens in the senate it is up to us in 2020 this is our chance to refuse to be taken in by the helplessness to refuse and reject the cynicism of like in

previous debates climate change played a prominent role i believe i'm the only person here who will say unequivocally this is my number one priority and maybe just baby instead of spending 1.8 trillion a year globally on weapons of destruction baby at american president byrd said this god lead the world it said a spending whether the body they're killing each other out baby we pool our resources and fight our common enemy your senator just climate change or there were contentious moments you know. you're not going to have to worry but so does it cover car had you had sporadic coming here to. listen to this argument senator elizabeth warren criticized indiana mayor pete buda judge over accepting campaign contributions from wealthy people the parents just recently had a fundraiser that was held in

a wine cave full of crystals and served 9 $100.00 a. why. this is the priority with surety trast you cannot yourself ask former vice president joe biden clashed over the subject of universal health care put your hand up for 2nd. yesterday did you know you know i know you know biden has maintained believed in nationwide for several months now and many democrats seem to believe he is best positioned to beat donald trump in november. had unsteady performances in many of the past debates with tonight was probably his best showing thus far robert oulds algis hero. now dutch activists have won a legal battle to force government leaders to take action on climate change the supreme court to form of addicts forcing the government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by next year compared to 1900 dutch emissions have already

fallen by about 20 percent and government lawyers argued that judges shouldn't be allowed to dictate policy but the judges said an action on climate change puts everyone at risk while a $60000000000.00 plan to tackle climate change in germany has cleared its final hurdle in parliament that often months of negotiations m.p.'s have been deadlocked on a carbon pricing scheme it's part of a package of reforms including increasing taxes on flights and reducing train ticket prices germany has pledged to cut carbon emissions by 55 percent from $1100.00 apples over the course of the next decade but opposition parties and scientists say the changes don't go far enough don mccain has more from. the train arriving on this platform could soon be a little bit cheaper to travel on that's one of the main effects of the climate change package here in germany that's just been agreed upon by both houses of parliament so what does it mean it means that process on it is that he expresses

well they'll soon be paying a little bit less but the pay. off is that people flying air passengers might soon find their tickets slightly more expensive and over all this is part of the german government's attempt to as it were to reduce its carbon emissions to 55 percent of the $990.00 levels it's going to cost almost $60000000000.00 for germany to bring this through the government had hoped it would go through sooner but there had been a bit of a problem because the green party the environmentally friendly party had opposed some of the proposals the government had agreed upon but they decided they did not want to be seen to be getting in the way of a policy which is meant to speed up slowing down climate change and so that's why train journeys such as these will soon get to be a little bit cheaper the other thing here though is that the cost of this well it may well be borne by big business because polluting business enterprises which

contribute c o 2 to the atmosphere will find themselves being fined and the green party wanted the fines imposed on businesses to be higher they appear to be getting their way the question will be for the government for the greens for everyone in germany do they accept the sort of package that this is does it go far enough that is for later on for now at least it means passengers on trains such as these well their journeys will soon be a little bit cheaper. muslim countries are being urged to reform education systems to keep up with the rest of the wild and produce teenage leaders such as climate activist pressure to back the calls were made on the 3rd day of a 4 day salad and the asia policy makers and experts from 20 countries are discussing ways to improve people's lives in the islamic wild. now china's president has wrapped up his visit to macau locking 20 is since the handover of the former portuguese colony she's in being praised for gambling capitals progress

since the return to chinese rule and she warned against foreign interference and both macau and hong kong well you know what i would like to emphasize is that after the return of hong kong macau to the motherland the pairs of the 2 special administrative region are completely china's internal affairs which books no finger pointing from any external forces the chinese government and the chinese people's will to safeguard national sovereignty security and development interests are rock hard we will never allow any external forces to interfere in hong kong and macau affairs now people trafficking campaign and say hundreds of women are being smuggled out of burundi every year to work as virtual slaves and middle east countries kathryn's wire reports from the commercial capital. now every woman in this room has a disturbing story to tell they traveled to the middle east to become domestic workers and this is a support group for those who time work. who are on duty says she feels

traumatized by what happened to her she used to human traffickers to take her to amman and saudi arabia on different occasions she says she was mistreated overworked and not paid in the years she was abroad. one final more i went there because my mom was sick and i needed money for her medication but they did not pay me and she died they did not even allow me to come for her funeral when i returned from amman life was still difficult so i had to try saudi arabia the treatment was worse the. traffickers started targeting mostly women in after and rest broke out in 2015 following a disputed presidential election and with a struggling economy life has become more difficult most of the women come from poor areas like this one. that death to get any kind of job to feed their families

traffickers know this and take advantage of it. trafficking campaign is see an average of $300.00 women are being smuggled out of the country each year the traffickers face a prison tom of up to 20 years if convicted more than 20 people smugglers are in jail and several job agencies have been shut down. the law is helping but then mid-story a good environment for women to report many are often scared to do so especially if they have been sexually exploited they think will not be accepted by a real family. nor a debt has just returned from saudi arabia after one and a half years just promised a salary of about 200. dollars a month but since everything ended up with the traffickers. i got sick and they would not let me go home i want on a hunger strike and they finally gave me back my passport when i asked for myself

nothing. nor a good rest his life is now even harder than when she left for saudi arabia she sells pineapples making about a dollar a day she sees it's hard to survive but hopes to never again be forced to make a not that desperate journey to the middle east catherine al-jazeera would you were opportunity. and again this is al-jazeera and these are the headlines the international criminal court has preparing to investigate alleged war crimes in the palestinian territories the i.c.c. as chief prosecutor says this could include charges against israelis palestinians. says available information indicates that war crimes have been or are being committed in the west bank including east jerusalem and the gaza strip palestinians say the investigation is long overdue while israel's prime minister benjamin

netanyahu says the court has no jurisdiction to investigate british m.p.'s have backed the prime minister's breck's a bill by a majority of 124 the u.k. is now on course to leave the european union on january 31st india's new citizenship at all is provoking yet more protests thousands in the capital new delhi and other cities are condemning the legislation as anti muslim. the man picked to become lebanon's next prime minister says he'll work to form a new government within 6 weeks and the government protesters there are convinced it's capable of lifting the country out of crisis. he deserves a chance. for him to come in as an independent technocrat i'm looking for a technocrat government for independent ministers in order to serve our country in sort out our problems that we all know about i don't know everything and that is

why i believe in i'm an engineer and the cabinet will include specialists in economy finance sociology in all fields of interest for all of us to work as a team in order to solve all the problem. is not alone going to solve all of these problems in syria thousands of civilians and province are fleeing to the turkish border following a dramatic increase in russian led attacks activists are paying for turkey to open its front to allow for safe passage 7 people were killed on friday morning well at least 19 civilians were killed on thursday shelling and as strikes have escalated in recent weeks well those are the headlines do join me for more news here on al-jazeera off to stay with us.

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