well the bombardment of syria's last rebel held province intensifies the un security council fails to approve a delivery. you're watching all jazeera live from our headquarters here and also coming up india's prime minister summons is cavernous after another night of violence and more protests against the contentious citizenship law. a searing heat wave intensifies the bush fires raging in australia that have destroyed hundreds of homes. also

ahead on your bike in paris to get around the strikes but not everyone is finding it an easy ride. the top story thousands of people are leaving syria's province heading for the turkish border trying to get away from airstrikes and bombings by the government and russia 9000 kilometers away in new york a split at the u.n. security council has put a delivery's at risk more on that shortly 1st. reports on what's happening in syria's last rebel held province. russian bucked the government forces of intensified the bombing campaign which includes al strikes dropping bombs on shelling the town of the new man in south london and syrians living there say the tox at the school with hospitals market some homes targeted here rescue workers are

struggling to save a young girl stuck under the rubble of all in moderate to norman. that tal in northwest syria is seeing some of the heaviest of talks in the almost 9 . public and go against the offensive spilled onto the streets on friday hundreds in italy protested what they called the neglect of their plight by the international community they also called for a swift hole to the bomb but. we are the people of south of the countryside where i was in a protest and it lib city condemning the bombardment and the targeting of the evacuees as they try to clean the house and the protesters won't get much of the friday prayers in the small town of soma just a few kilometers from the border with turkey the town is a hub for aid going into city fighters from the opposition hired to his shop said

the body has to stop the protesters from walking towards the border but they failed turkish security forces say they were forced to send reinforcements to ensure the protesters didn't cross the border with intensified bombing campaign forcing thousands to flee their homes in the many face a cold and hungry winter. official comes on the syria turkey border of food forcing many of the displaced to live in flooded makeshift camps where a delivery is a few and far between an animal or woman abusing these pieces of cloth this family consists of 16 people nobody helped us we use all kinds of materials including shoes in the stove to warm up our children fuel prices have more than doubled in the past 2 months and charities and hospital say they are struggling to respond to the crisis mohamed atta well just stumble well the un security council meanwhile has rejected rival resolutions that would have continued the

delivery of aid to syria the 1st one supported by the un humanitarian office was vetoed by russia and china mike hanna explained the establishment of the 4 crossing points has been renewed each year the 1st time that russia backed by china has cast a veto the drafters of the resolution had initially wanted 5 crossing points to be established but then they reduce this to 3 in the bill to avoid the russian and chinese veto but even this watered down resolution failed to pass raising once again the question of the credibility of the security council just as i was sitting . in the seat in a state of shock i am continuing to stand here in a state of shock and as many of you know when i started the presidency in the month of december i talked about credibility in the council and today we took a huge step backwards in credibility where it really matters russia in turn

introduced its own resolutions suggesting to crossing points be open for a period of 6 months both on the turkish border this was rejected by 6 members of the council who labeled it as a cynical political move the united kingdom voted against the russian text because we will not negotiate with a gun held to our heads over a cynical offer that would say fewer lives than we know is needed and that the un very clearly set out was necessary. the one year term for the 4 crossing points expires on the 10th of january and unless the security council can come up with a compromise resolution by that date it will be millions of syrians with no humanitarian aid. india's prime minister narendra modi has called for a cabinet meeting to discuss the security situation following violent protests over the controversial citizenship war another police fired tear gas and water cannon

and demonstrators in new delhi and other cities overnight at least 8 people have been killed in the past 2 days more protests are expected later on saturday the citizenship law provides a path to citizenship for migrants from 3 neighboring countries but it excludes muslims so we mistrust joins us live now from the capital new delhi sabina is mr modi getting ready perhaps to row back or soften this legislation i told her we think. so right so i'm standing in front of. millions lobby of the diversity where some of the 1st protests happened and the protests that we hear is just beginning it's growing this is not the only protest that's happening in the country today across delhi there are several protests and we were going through one of the protests where we were told that we have to move out because there have been some infiltration by the

rightwing factions now. across india and a several other cards the protests are that are happening in bihar the state of bihar there is a complete shutdown that's in the north northern india now what is interesting is like yesterday when the protests happened over here that where we're standing there entire approach was absolutely full of people but the by the evening. it just became violent and what is. also interesting is like a lot of the violence that has been taking place and out of the depths that that's taken place have been in areas where it's governed by b.g.p. i'd be. so yesterday as we saw yesterday it was quite peaceful protests suddenly turned violent. from friday prayers to street protests indians in the capital new delhi who are in no rush to

obey the government's ban on large gatherings. they want the scrapping of the citizenship law passed any of this month it paves the way for migrants from 3 neighboring countries afghanistan bangladesh and pakistan to become indian citizens but not if they are muslim tens of thousands of protesters in various parts of the capital joined the outcry against what they say is divisive and discriminator e legislation by the ruling b j p hindu nationalist party. in delhi is gemma gender shaker. a leader from the delhi party a so-called untouchable cost waved a copy of the indian constitution later he even read sections from it security forces arrived as barricades were built government leaders haven't officially responded to friday's protests protesters call for a peace harmony and nonviolence

a mom in the i pay my gratitude to hindu christian sikh and valid brothers who are fighting this battle alongside us i also want to tell it to the people here who make this rally x success by protesting peacefully and being united. in the northern city of luck now the capital of at that with the police for protesters 24 hours after one person was killed. 2 others were killed in karnataka state a ban on large gatherings has been imposed in both states the port city of my. lauren karnataka remains under curfew till sunday protesters waited until late evening to joining demonstrations turn violent in delhi as police use water cannons against the protesters. get sued today. the government has called the ministers for a meeting to figure out what to do next know how to talk to members of the

coalition government have been saying inciting if the inciting statements got some others have to push and are saying that this law is ill timed and what we've been saying seeing is like it is not a sick tarion kind of a protest a lot of the people that we've been seeing are students civilians who have come to the streets in saudi directv the students in solidarity with the muslims and it's they are now talking about the constitutional crisis and existential crisis and the fundamentals of which on which this has constitution of india is based on so enough thank you so much. senior regional politician from india's governing party has been sentenced to life in prison for raping a teenager cool deep seeing a single a former

b j p legislator was convicted earlier this week the accuser who is 17 at the time of the attack attempted suicide last year accusing the police of inaction her family was put under protection in july after she was injured in a car crash and 2 of her family members were killed is expected to appeal. catastrophic conditions have intensified the bushfires blazing across eastern australia soaring temperatures and strong winds fuels more than a 100 bush fires burning in new south wales thousands of emergency personnel are working across the state on the biggest deployment australia has ever seen hundreds of homes and more than a 1000000 hectares of bushland have been destroyed over recent weeks jessica washington has more now from a neighborhood in sydney's blue mountains near the front line of the fire. here in the blue mountains of sydney authorities are facing off against a number of challenging factors there's the extreme heat and the strong winds but also the low humidity and that is putting lives and property at risk here in the

blue mountains it's worth bearing in mind that this is not just bushland this is a residential area and i'm speaking to you from a residence back yard here in black he would joined now by richard smith who has been a local in this area for a number of years richard tell us what does it feel like to see your community go through something like this it's really horrible it's really frightening it's getting really bad now and it's been we haven't no one's being a slave and it's paying because it can just flare up at any time during the night. and richard what is your plan residents here have been told i will. saying because it's just getting too bad now it's too windy and it's going to close richard thank you and what we have just heard from authorities here in the community of blackheath they're advising that the safest thing for residents to do at this moment is to leave and go to a nearby suburb but of course the advice is changing basically every moment this is

an incredibly volatile situation and an incredibly challenging day for authorities here. ok lots more ground still to cover for you here on al-jazeera including the international criminal court says it could investigate allegations of war crimes in palestinian territories aid reaches a remote pockets of sudan's. the 1st time in 9 years those stories when we come back. how i wouldn't right now good descriptions of the european weather at least in the west now most of the rain has been in portugal then spain and more recently is falling in southern france and northern italy ahead of that from there but the next one that's following it will bring yet more but the whole lot is moving slowly eastwards so the overnight picture take you into saturday brings laws snow for the out it's fairly wet and heavy snow this and rain to the south so it's not going to

be that silly a good base for the ski trade for example and central vienna reflects this is generally a warm area shouldn't be 10 should be more like plus one all of eastern europe is warmer than it should be and the next band of rains waiting to come in for sunday so between saturday and sunday western windy for western europe is using not so much spain and portugal and yet more snow to come the rain is still circulating here this is flood potential around the adriatic again it's a least switzerland and maybe austria and safina now so that will be paid off into northwest africa the pictures a largely cloudy one rather than the wet one about 20 years and tunis much the same on the whole lot clears eastward sensible we get to sunday whatever's happening in europe the sun shines and the breeze isn't that strong this is throughout the whole of north africa and to get a bit further south. on counting the cost especially on investing in the burgeoning markets. how foreign

direct investment is reshaping the global economy and what that means for the future of anti-globalization a sense of. counting the cost on al-jazeera. i really felt liberated as a journalist was. going to the truth was that i would. call this just. watching al-jazeera. headlining stories that thousands of people are leaving serious problems heading for the border with turkey trying to get away from

airstrikes by the government and russia un observers 18000 people have been displaced in just 24 hours india's prime minister narendra modi has called for a cabinet meeting to discuss the security situation following violent protests over the controversial citizenship more protests are expected later today the new law provides a path to citizenship for migrants from 3 neighboring countries but it excludes muslims. heat wave has worsened already catastrophic conditions in australia as firefighters battle more than 100 bush fires burning across new south wales the authorities are warning of high winds making the flames more unpredictable. hundreds of supporters of lebanon's outgoing prime minister saad had been out on the streets protesting against the man who set to replace him. troops fired tear gas or people blocking roads who held fireworks and rocks at them called for

calm on twitter asking those who really love him to leave the streets the prime minister designate has sunday up is promising to put together a government within 6 weeks tony but he is in beirut. less than 24 hours after lebanon's do prime minister designate was announced this was the reaction from people in one beirut suburbs. they launched angry street protests a confronted lebanese soldiers and riot police rocks were thrown with casualties on both sides. say. this is a sunny harry of beirut and these people are supporters of sorry the outgoing prime minister he's calling for people to remain calm he wants them through reduce the tension and he wants them to work with a new prime minister to help solve the problem but obviously that message is not being heard by these people. i was even though the prime minister designate has sunday as is

a sunni muslim he was nominated by the predominately shia alliance of hizbollah and the mouth and its christian allies many in the sunny community expected hariri to be nominated and said i thought ben there is anger on the street because sunnis feel like we are being excluded no one will accept this people are hungry they don't have jobs and now they want to silence others. but as your measurement of them as market we need a person like her i can save the country from sectarian strife and a man who knows about the country and who can save the economy and the days that how do you get the latest protests following weeks of anger demanding political reforms were confined to largely sunny populated areas in beirut and tripoli lebanon's 2nd largest city. d.m. says he understands the problems but has asked the people to give him a chance. he says he will begin talking to all political groups on saturday and says he hopes to form a government within 6 weeks. 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 diablo's a university professor and former education minister but many especially within the civil protest groups associate him with the corruption and nepotism there's played lebanese politics for decades i can didn't see all sides of the sectarian divide that he can solve the country's deepening crisis is not going to be easy is that you would charge of the amount of time of the year with. and but i'm really troubled about all of this that you have to roll against the interests of the established party. warning creasing number of lebanese the time for protests is over shops and businesses are closing the economy is on the verge of collapse youth unemployment is at an all time high inflation is soaring and many people are desperate for a solution. to the most we are targeted situation even the corrupt politicians are

tired and we need a solution of wise we will have to emigrate and leave the country to the politicians of. has a limited time to overcome political divisions and form a government to solve the crisis and quell the anger if he fails further chaos and instability seems certain tony berkeley al-jazeera beirut. baseless and outrageous is israel's prime minister is describing the announcement by the international criminal court of plans to investigate alleged war crimes in occupied palestinian territory condemnation 2 from the united states which says israel will be unfairly targeted palestinians are welcoming what they call a long overdue announcement that it would end reports from ramallah. it's one of the alleged war crimes the international criminal court to me investigate the targeted killing of unarmed protesters along gaza's border fence with israel chief prosecutor fatah been sued the says she's satisfied war crimes have been or are

being committed in the gaza strip and the west bank including occupied east jerusalem she says because of the complexity of the situation she will ask the i.c.c. to rule on the territories on which it has jurisdiction palestinians welcome what they call a long overdue investigation. will hoping that the i.c.c. will hold those who are committing crimes against our people against our land. crimes that are climbing. countable crimes and no more crimes are being committed on the palestinian land which will basically said the stage or ending occupation and thus opening the oracle of the scope but israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the court has no jurisdiction to investigate in the palestinian territories this is a dark day for truth and justice the i.c.c. prosecutor has apparently decided not to dismiss outright the palestinian claim

against the state of israel this is a baseless and religious decision the court has no jurisdiction in this case the i.c.c. only has to restriction over petitions submitted by sovereign states but there's never been a pounds to. the court based in the netherlands will only investigate alleged crimes committed after june 2014 when palestine became part of the i.c.c. jurisdiction. in the past 5 years thousands of new illegal settlement units were developed along with the confiscation of palestinian lands and demolition of their homes israel's response is an unexpected. it says the i.c.c. lacks validity over the israeli palestinian conflict since israel is not a member of the courts and palestine is not a state even though the united nation granted palestine the status of nonmember state 7 years ago palestinian leaders say any crimes committed in palestinian

territory must fall under the court's jurisdiction. the construction of a russian gas pipeline to europe could be delayed by new legislation in the united states president trump or signed the defense bill of the joint base andrews not far from washington it includes pay rises for troops and a new space force and sanctions against companies involved in building the nord stream to pipeline mr trump bypassing ukraine to deliver natural gas to germany gives russia too much influence in europe 2 days of talks are due to begin in sudan's capital khartoum aimed at resolving disputes over the biggest hydro electric in africa before $1000000000.00 grand ethiopian renaissance dam on the river nile is nearing completion the ethiopians say it will provide power to 70000000 people and revitalize the economy neighbors sudan and egypt produce

supplies of water for drinking and irrigation. and staying in sudan aid has reached a remote rebel held area of the 1st time in nearly 9 years as head of morgan reports now from the blue nile state the welcome arrival of food and other essential starts coincided with talks to end years of fighting. when she heard that aid would be arriving in the outpost in blue nile state says she walked for more than 8 hours to queue for it after more than 80 years the area controlled by sudanese rebels known as the sudan's people liberation movement north is finally receiving humanitarian aid and did not want to miss out as. there is no food most of the time and because of the constant bombardment in the 1st years of the war a lot of terrible things happened they didn't care where their bombs are being dropped on people farms or life stuck some of us fled to ethiopia but i could go because i didn't want to leave my home and become a refugee. the war between sudan's government and the s.p.l.

and north erupted after the government refused to allow the states of south kordofan and blue nile a referendum on whether to be part of sudan or the newly created south sudan as part of a 2005 peace deal the s.p.l. and north also accuse the government of impeding democracy. the united nations says more than 2000000 people have been affected by the conflict with more than have a 1000000 displaced several rounds of peace talks between the s.p.l. and north and the previous government of ahmed rashid collapsed when they failed to agree on many issues including humanitarian access. says the was also more than a series ago yeah has been cut off from the military and those of people but they bring also but many remain behind what missing the horrors of the civil war now with is coming in for the 1st time they're waiting to see after all of these years things are really starting to change the. most trouble held areas in the country are nearly impossible to access from the capital hurts whom so dan's new

transitional government which is in talks with armed groups including the s.p.l. and north change that in december allowing aid workers to head in for the 1st time a major day a great breakthrough in an area that has not received the help that is needed none at all from the united nations in over 9 years and when you compound the war the ton fully with the flooding that just take place these people are in need of been extremely impressed with the openness and the willingness of the leadership of bilking others to do what we need to do without getting in the way and they have given us just unimpeded access talks between sudan's people liberation movement north leader abdul aziz and hello and the sudanese government are going on but many issues need to be resolved before a peace deal can be signed calling for an answer down oh for. justice. democracy equality of the busy problem is

a show of the sharia sharia islamic law for. the macnow we warn a secular democratic. state and this is where the government is there like as the issues continue to be talked through hundreds of thousands wait and hope that whatever the outcome be age will continue to arrive he will morgan al-jazeera. denial. argentina has adopted wide ranging measures to boost its economy the new government is seeking to rescue the country from you. sky high inflation al-jazeera has. a sweeping new economic law has been approved by argentina's congress it's. officials declared a public emergency to prioritise the worsening debt crisis gripping the nation's economy. it does necessary to solve the debt problem in order to bear you need the ability to be and in order to be able to bear the economy has to cover. argentina's

debt crisis has put the government on high alert the new economic measures seek to combat worsening poverty and to curb back inflation estimated to reach as high as 55 percent by the end of 2019. the plan will also implement higher taxes related to farm products tourism and exports. on wednesday thousands protested outside argentina's congress calling for a rejection of the economic plan to go if you're going to go because you know the president of the nations had last week that if we don't like something about him we can go out in the street well here we are mr president and we're asking for serious news. for those in favor of the law the measures are a crucial step toward restoring economic stability in our country was left of concrete steps are not taken to curb hunger and poverty things will only get worse . the government says 70 percent of revenues recovered from the new taxes will be

directed toward housing infrastructure and social projects but some analysts believe the measures go too far it's more of an imposition by consensus building strategy so you know for the for the government it's really important to show that it has all the tools to negotiate with the i.m.f. to bring in more funds through taxation the challenges that the powers are so broad that it effectively rigged. the quality and effectiveness of democracy and for any and by. 30 looking at the country from outside the be wondering how long will this last for when they'd only be in 2020 or will this administration seek to extend such powers beyond that day. the public debate over argentina's economic policies takes place is the nation's central bank is engaged in talks with private creditors and the international monetary fund over the nation's debt estimated at $50000000000.00.

this is al jazeera these are the top stories of thousands of people leaving syria's province heading for the turkish border trying to get away from airstrikes and bombings by the government and russia u.n. observers say 18000 people have been displaced in just 24 hours india's prime minister narendra modi has called for a cabinet meeting to discuss the security situation following violent protests over a controversial citizenship law more protests are expected later on saturday the new law provides a path to citizenship for micron's from 3 neighboring countries but excludes muslims. has more now from new delhi. today. the government has called the ministers for a meeting to figure out what to do next no doubt to members of the coalition

government has been saying inciting as he is inciting statements but some others have in their coalition are saying that this law is ill timed. heat wave has worsened already catastrophic conditions in australia as firefighters battle more than 100 bush fires burning across new south wales the authorities are warning that high winds are making the flames more unpredictable. hundreds of supporters of lebanon's going prime minister saad hariri have been out on the streets protesting against the man who said to replace him troops fired tear gas at people blocking roads who held fireworks and rocks at them mr hariri went on twitter calling for calm asking those who really love him quote to leave the streets the prime minister designate sunday up as promising to put together a government within 6 weeks. the international criminal court wants to open an

investigation into alleged war crimes in palestinian territories the palestinians have welcomed the decision but israel's prime minister says the i.c.c. has no jurisdiction and the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o says it's unjustified both israelis and palestinians face the possibility of having charges filed against them. the u.s. president donald trump has signed into law sanctions which could affect the construction of a russian gas pipeline to europe the legislation targets companies involved in building the north stream to pipeline the project would allow russia to bypass ukraine and deliver gas to germany under the baltic mr trump says the pipeline would give russia too much influence in europe. those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story i will see you very soon but.

with every. catastrophic bushfires in australia reaganite the debate over climate change with the government accused of not doing enough why was 20191 of the worst years on record if you know when the 4 winds phys ed is there the political will to find a solution this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. bushfire is

a common during the summer in australia but firefighters are calling this year's conditions catastrophic.