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sport will be live at the club world cup final which sees liverpool take on flamingo both teams trying to win the trophy for the 1st time. hello india's prime minister is grappling with his biggest domestic challenge since coming to power in 2014 the interim modi has been chairing a council of ministers to discuss the growing protests over a new citizenship law that excludes muslims thousands of people continue to rally across india despite restrictions and bans imposed by officials at least 19 people have been killed and more than 4000 detained since last week much of the violence on friday was in the northern state of our protest that's where protesters set fires and hurled rocks and police have been accused of using excessive force demonstrations have been largely peaceful in states controlled by the opposition

that's where regional leaders say they won't implement the new law on friday thousands took part in a rally in west bengal these state chief minister is a fierce opponent of modi alltop a. government wants one religion to be separated we want to let that happen we are united. let's get an update from sabina's trust her she's joining us live from new delhi to talk us through where you are what you've been seeing sabina. so i've been standing in front of the media is. where some of the 1st protests began and today that mood has been one off defiance there have been thousands of students along with people that lived civilians who joined in your years who joined the men everybody has been talking not only valid constitutional law that's already the citizenship law but also and mainly about the constitution of this

country which has been built on the basic the basics of this constitution is it called the t. and that this is off this constitution is also secularism so that is what people over here have been through. that the fabric is being challenged by this government by. subpoena thank you for that update from new delhi just a reminder now for what's in the law why it's caused widespread opposition so it creates a pathway to citizenship to minorities who face religious persecution in pakistan bangladesh and afghanistan but it excludes muslims opposition parties and protesters say it violates india a secular constitution but that's not the only dynamic playing out in states bordering bangladesh west bengal is controlled by an opposition party the ruling is being accused of seeking electoral gains for the regional vote due in 2021 by opening the door to more hindu refugees and migrants while in nearby northeastern

states especially indigenous people fear an influx of hindu bengalis they say that could put their language and culture under threats let's speak to have a nice kumar he's the executive director for amnesty international india who's joining us via skype from new delhi thanks for your time with us on the al-jazeera news hour 1st just give me your reaction to the developments of india over the past few days and ever since the introduction of this new law. thank you very much 1st of all as you rightly said there's a huge draw just precisely because it not only alliance the constitution of india the principles basic principles like article 14 but it gives right to want to get all of its citizens right to article 21 which actually gives the right off protection against any. 'd 'd intervention on. international liberty and so on but also in the fact that it is

actually a lie lation of international government i'm certain so in particular it's a bad actually what is happening is that people are right to peaceful assembly peaceful doctors also being lied to and i think that 2 parts of the story one the constitutional amendment i had just left like me which is obviously making a difference but. on muslims and the muslims and the 2nd it's implications when the government's promised an r.c.d. national just of citizen but say that it will do a nationwide nazi selecting and drive down getting specially those who was supposedly illegal migrants which has huge implications for a large minority population exhausts country and what are the implications. implications of was that and if you go by what happened in assam which was a statewide n.r.c. which was implemented there and about 1900000 people who had. about citizenship under which a majority of them up and choose numbers of them i mean the idea of them in those.

140000 people out of that list are ethnic tribal communities and what is happening is not just a good sign frankly minority and i think mostly what implication is also that and people because the law requires an r.c.d. quires that you get ancestry to see even generations going beyond but you have to show your and history belonging to do again bits of the sex if that is going to happen in this country where you have. actually 'd kill was around b.c. i did it specially in 2 areas in the for the cool you can expect the pool and the people living it and a man most mighty community is mostly dull it's to actually be able to produce and to papers and produces a citizenship right in effect or to be very very exclusive in its results and let me ask you this from what you've documented on the ground you're calling it

a crackdown you're calling on the indian government to stop the crackdown on peaceful protests against the citizenship law so what have you documented on the ground and also the accusation by some towards the indian government is that they're trying to stifle free speech is that a real concern that you've seen of course there's a real concern because what is happening we have seen increasingly right from the. university crackdown in delhi to i think what it was to me was to crack down on the predation oligarchs. crackdown which is happening across the cities not all across india now what you're seeing increasing day is not only that people have been increasing it also relates to unconfirmed reports ranging but 14 to 20 people have lost that lately but hundreds of them actually facing physically injuries police entering inside the libraries throwing tear gas shells and it's just. using the mobile it's an even firearms shooting down inside it was to colleges and campuses and so on so there's

a widespread report on that all dreams have documented live interviews that you're going to be shocked about how people have faced untrue clients from stage and know it's been years and that's a violation of people's and students' rights of peaceful but this and that so we've fundamental rights which immigrants you can get in decent citizens so as well who does international going to school. all right so we'll leave it there we thank you very much. for joining us from new delhi thank you. control bush fires are burning in australia destroying homes and coming dangerously close to major cities this video captured from a passenger plane shows just one of the fires near adelaide the capital of the state of south australia 2 people have died there. the 100 bush fires are burning around sydney in the state of new south wales record temperatures and howling winds combined there to create what forecasters say were catastrophic conditions just

a washington reports from sydney's western outskirts. this is usually one of sydney's most popular tourist attractions the normally picturesque blue mountains bordering the outskirts of the city. much of it now decimated by bushfires. they've been burning across large parts of australia for months now with flames as high as 70 metres the fire in this region alone has destroyed an area 7 times the size of singapore. but this isn't just bush land it's home for thousands of australians fire crews are working tirelessly to protect residents robert beecroft is a former volunteer firefighter he's seen many bushfires in his time but this one is different for being here for 67 years i've seen a lot of forestry the mountains actually are more you have to brace for quite a few forms but. i haven't seen so many out of control back that the bee

crops like so many families here face a difficult choice leave everything behind or stay and potentially put themselves in danger it's a little bit stressful but you just got to remain positive us suppose it's hard to think of what you want to keep and everything but just get what seems important at the time to go and i'm sure there'll be other things that you think about later but just be prepared i guess it's just bad timing obviously around the holidays but what can you do really. the score is pretty confronting. volunteers for such a strain from the shells some of these fires have been burning since july but authorities are warning that these are catastrophic conditions it's the combination of extreme hey. strong winds and low humidity that makes the situation on the ground incredibly dangerous firefighters are battling the blaze on the ground and

from the air the intense heat has even generated its own thunderstorm nearly all the men and women fighting the fires are volunteers some haven't seen their families in days the locals who risk losing almost everything some are just trying to do whatever they can. quite difficult. and it's quite anxious sobeys problems as ward this is just the beginning of summer and many of fearful of what lies ahead for the rest of the bushfire season just a washington al-jazeera blackheath. a court of pakistan has sentenced a university lecturer to death for blasphemy junaid toughies was arrested in 2013 in cues that insulting the prophet mohammed on facebook he spent nearly 6 years in solitary confinement waiting for his trial pakistan's controversial blasphemy law carries an automatic death penalty countries has yet to carry out

a death sentence for the charge but the law has drawn widespread condemnation from rights groups about 40 people convicted of blasphemy are on death row in pakistan. a christian woman spent more than 8 years on death row before her conviction was overturned a year ago she has since sought asylum in canada her case attracted global attention and led to the killing of punjab governor here he was shot dead by one of his bodyguards and 2011 ciro oppose the laws and had called for bibi to be pardoned 3 months later pakistan's minorities minister was killed by gunmen in islamabad. had received death threats just suggesting laws be reformed i'm not sure he's joining us from. first talk about janay toffees and what do his lawyers plan to do next. well interesting they just to give you a bit of

a bag around here near the feeds came from the united states and. then applied for jobs by north korea university where he was hired as an english literature professor he's a fulbright scholar enough because he had always. prayed for good academic however a group called the organised then object to his facebook page. blasphemy and printed. and charged me under buggiest on law to $95.00 of the penal code i did up august on. anyone who defies the name of the prophet. provided for the sentence of death in this particular case had been in jail since going to be. a number of the judges have already been and today they were. under maximum

security inside the prison because back in britain the 14 his lawyer was gunned down and still he according to reports was kept in solitary confinement because of fear voted that particular judgment coming out inside that day and moreton as were saying come on there has been widespread condemnation on this blast mean all by by rights groups among other people but why has none of the previous governments been able to do anything about it. there's a great question actually. needs to be paid to do it primarily because. people are taking the law 'd into their own and. that sometimes this particular law is used by people. who don't family of god that they were the military

campaign against their. government on the other hand the judge on the other hand finding him guilty nevertheless a really big question mark i have to read that this particular law 'd needs reform so that it did not. ok come on thank you plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including aid reaches a remote pocket of sudan for the 1st time in 9 years. a diplomatic dispute breaks out and worked on a major gas pipeline is put on hold after the u.s. threatened sanctions. coming up in sports nothing gets past the nuggets as they prepare for their showdown with the los angeles lakers we'll have more on that a little later.

first 3 people have been killed in libya in the latest round of drone strikes by warlords and if i have to his forces attack the town of some lots of that's in the northwest of libya the u.n. back government says the drones are being piloted by the u.a.e. to support the warlords the attack comes after have to announce what he called a final offensive to take the capital of tripoli. joining us from tripoli with an update on what's happening over there. this is a new front line opened by the pro-government forces the forces of the volcano of wrath that's the military counter offensive to defend the capital tripoli against have to us forces and yesterday they just opened a new front line in the vicinity of the city of toronto who are about 65 kilometers so i was is of the capital tripoli as you know they wanted to get into the city of the torah because as you know daryn so who is the main stronghold of have to the

forces now and from there they have a central command and from there as government military sources say russian and other foreign military experts are running the battles in southern tripoli helping have to to have to the forces to enter the capital tripoli but they came this time from the city of alert that they used the way from the city to horner but they withdrew from the area after have to fighter jets and drones targeted that their locations 3 would kill the 9 others one did according to military sources were the government of the national accord and the city of about 88 kilometers south east of tripoli is now witnessing a war as a random rockets are landing in the area and the civilians have been fled have been leaving their homes because of the of the fighting and where do the civilians go to

what is the situation like for those who have been caught up in the fighting. well we spoke to eyewitnesses civilians in the city of birth and they say that the city is almost now empty so many civilians have left their homes because of the random rockets launched by have to us forces and have been lending in inside this city of as you know that in select as among the cities that have recently declared mass mobilization to defend tripoli against have the forces so it seems that have the force of trying to punish the city of them for its affiliation to the government forces doing ok then where had thank you. there been closed door meetings in lebanon as the man picked to be its new prime minister tries to gather support from rival political blocs her son and held talks

with outgoing leader assad ahead easy as promising to form a government within 6 weeks but how did it is supporters some of them at least aren't happy with his replacement on friday the army fired tear gas at protesters will block hurled rocks how do you know he has called for calm. when there are those are mere i wish all could express themselves in a peaceful way because the arm yourselves and as for all believe the news and the wish if anyone is angry that he can protest peacefully in god's will the prime minister who was conducting his consultations we hope for good for all. leaders of countries in west africa are meeting in nigeria to discuss how to reduce attacks in the sahara region at their last meeting the regional body pledged a $1000000000.00 to boost military operations in the lawless desert region 71 soldiers were killed in these air earlier this month near the border with mali

troops are often the target of armed groups linked to eisele and. let's bring in a why the d.c. is joining us from abuse where that meeting is taking place so what more is being said. well basically today's meeting. is looking at 3 major issues 1st of all like you said the continuing violence in the sahara region other parts of west africa countries like nigeria countries border the border region why we've seen an upsurge in violent attacks by armed groups in those areas now speeches that. given or delivered at this summit were actually central or focusing mainly on the recurring strikes by armed groups in this region the $1000000000.00 triune being raised by cause to support armies in the region to deal with the problem is actually being utilized as of now

of course commission has announced at this meeting that at least $100000000.00 us dollars of that fund has been disbursed sulfa for the armies of these regions to tackle the rising cases of attacks in the region another issue is of course the implementation of the single currency which countries of the region some countries of the region want to allow it as early as next year and remember that the french president. is in the region and france is keen on convincing west african countries especially the francophone countries majority of whom use the francs which is guaranteed by the french central bank to keep the currency instead of going for the ethical mccrone as we speak using the genaro yes' also going to spend the christmas period with french troops in the west africa especially in the in ivory coast so those are issues that were discussed and in addition to that the issue of presidential elections and guinea bissau the inconclusive elections in guinea

bissau also came up for meeting a formation right now as we speak leaders in this building behind me discussing the final details of their plans for all these 3 items as well as other issues that may come up during the discussion. we'll cross back to the latest thank you for that update from. 2 days of talks are due to start in sudan's capital hard to the latest effort to resolve disputes over the largest hydroelectric dam in africa the $4000000000.00 grand if european renaissance dam on the river nile is nearing completion if europeans say it will provide power to 17000000 people revitalize the economy neighbors sudan and egypt fear it will reduce water supply for drinking and irrigation staying in sudan and has reached a remote rebel held area for the 1st time in nearly 9 years as have a morgan reports from blue nile states the welcome arrival of food and other essentials coincides with talks to end years of fighting when she heard that aid

would be arriving in the state them 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's 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 were being dropped on people farms or livestock some of us fled to ethiopia but i could go because i didn't want to leave my home and become a refugee. the words between sudan's government and the s.p.l. in 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. since the was also more than a series ago yeah boss has been cut off from the military tens of thousands of people but they bring. but many remain behind what missing the horrors of a 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 hot some so dan's new transitional government which is in talks with armed groups including the s.p.l. and north changed 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 can 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 that elected 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 i'll get there oh yeah denial. let's get a check on the weather with everton and how's it looking across europe and we're not talking the searing hates of australia to. rain but it's been pretty warm actually across central and eastern parts in particular last a cloud showing up on the satellite and this time of year to act as a blanket does keep things very much on the mild side and see these 2 warm fronts here these red lines that are drawn on the march we have got a southerly winds and that's been fading some very warm air into moscow is having its warmest december in 133 years as any signs of global warming here on the other side if you're talking packed i suppose have been streaming in it's been very windy and that has brought some violent winds in across parts of west you have these seas coming out of central france but it's in pretty windy winds gusting to around 100

kilometers per hour across parts of spain and portugal we went through saturday on the other side if you have as i said very a very mild in moscow and in fact we've seen temperatures getting above freezing every day since the 4th of december no sign of a white christmas here is the winter solstice of course tomorrow i have not seen a flake of snow for much of december so that is causing the buds to come out very early and it's going to stay mild as we go on through the next couple of days so very mobo picture we got a wet and windy weather streaming across those central areas the possibility of some flooding coming in across the adriatic weather pushing away from parts of italy pushing into the balkans and then we go to war wet and windy weather streaming its way in as we go on through the next couple days as for moscow we're still looking at temperatures going to 7 celsius on monday doctoring. everton thank you well 2 cruise ships have collided with each other in mexico take

a look. the carnival glory was docking in the caribbean resort of cozumel but its 88000 ton sister ship was in the way and 6 people suffered minor injuries as the stern of the carnival legend was damaged. still ahead on the al-jazeera news our international criminal court says it could investigate allegations of war crimes in palestinian territory. on your bike in paris to get round the strikes but not everyone is finding it easy ride. in sport the race to be winter champion stays wide open thanks to late goals in the german bundesliga pew poll we'll have more on that a little later. over a year protestors across france have demanded economic justice police have

responded with mass arrests m h e great weapons to constrain the movement do you think he could have been mistaken between aiming at your head or all your excess all those people in power has been impounds to investigate the escalation of violence in darfur what this means for a free speech and the democratic rights of its citizens police on trial on al-jazeera was the last time you were out on the streets protesting whether on line you feel the weight of the system going to walk through each and every leg with or layer further and further into the jail or if you join us on say week entry has to start from day one whether again you and detention or you're incarcerated this is a dialogue everyone has a voice so for the not just those that support our coverage will be varying accounts but i want to give people the reason for joining the global conversation on al-jazeera.

hello again the top stories. the al-jazeera news hour bushfires in south australia have killed at least one person and destroyed bones to the north east the state of new south wales and during what are described as catastrophic conditions are soaring temperatures and high winds intensify the flames. 3 people have been killed in libya and the latest round of drone strikes by world war 24 have to its forces attacked the town of from some not on the northwest of libya the u.n. back government says the drones are being piloted by the u.a.e. to support the warlords. thousands of people continue to rally across india against its contentious citizenship law prime minister narendra modi has been meeting his

cabinet to discuss the unrest at least 19 people have been killed and more than 4000 detained since last week. and the situation in india has been discussed in malaysia where the prime minister has been hosting a conference of muslim leaders. from kuala lumpur after 3 days of discussions the kuala lumpur summit concluded with what it's organized as the scribed practical steps as promised 18 cooperation agreements between muslim countries have been signed they include investments in technology media food security and a dictation the final day was marked by some strong statements by malaysian prime minister mahathir mohamad that he thought u.s. sanctions on iran which he described as a criminal act iran in particular. but the years of sanctions had been able to continue to progress and develop. to have been

subjected to mbogo and like iran has many. above it and prove this impressively. he also said pakistan's prime minister must have his own reasons for pulling out of the summit at the last minute and although he avoided questions on the persecution of the we go muslims in china he strongly condemned israel for its occupation of palestinian land saying israel should be brought before an international court he also criticised india's new citizenship law which discriminates against muslims to exclude. from becoming citizens even by duplessis i think is unfair saw we have. a. disagreement with this kind of treatment organizers say they have achieved their objectives aware perhaps of the regional sensitivities the meetinghouse provoked they have decided to change its name from the kuala lumpur summit to the taliban

a form or higher form but they say the name change doesn't necessarily mean any modification of the main objective of the summit which is the empowerment of the muslim world india has rejected the malaysian prime minister's comments saying in a state and that they citizenship law doesn't impact the status of any indian citizen or deprive any indian of any faith of their citizenship the malaysian prime minister's remark is factually inaccurate we call upon malaysia to refrain from commenting on internal developments in india without the right understanding are facts. in other news syrian government forces on the russian allies are launched more air strikes on rebel controlled areas and in the province killing 11 civilians children were among those killed when bombs had a busy market in the city of. the main road in the city was also targeted as people tried to flee the attack homes in the city of which houses over a 1000 over 100000 internally displaced people were also reportedly hit by these

strikes. russia says construction must continue on its gas pipeline to europe despite threats a few west sanctions workers being threatened after president donald trump announced the new legislation on friday it includes sanctions against companies involved in building the nord stream to pipeline trump says bypassing ukraine to deliver natural gas to germany gives russia too much influence in europe berlin has also rejected the u.s. sanctions the political analyst at stanford university berlin well rick berke nurse says this sanctions point to strain ties between germany and the u.s. and he explains why the project has become contentious well it is not something that pops up in the last year or so it is a project that has been ongoing for a long time and there's a reason why it's called north korean tool that is the north korean one already and they just double the capacity of what is used as

a pipeline to bring gas directly from russia to germany which makes a number of actors in the political scene upset 1st and foremost the transit countries don't get revenues from acting as transit countries secondly it's against the european union's in present of an integrated and it's the policy and 1st and foremost and that's the main reason for the united states to impose sanctions on this was company that builds the pipeline is that the u.s. wants to sell gas from fracking from the united states it can be ship. as liquefied gas to ports in europe and so russia is just a competitor and the united states want to sell their gas to germany. baseless and outrageous as how israel's prime minister is describing the announcement by the international criminal court of plans to investigate world crimes and occupy palestinian territory condemnation 2 from the united states which says israel will

be unfairly targeted and stands are welcoming what they call a long overdue announcement and bring him 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 fattah been through 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 in 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. and the crimes that are plying the. countable crimes that normal crimes being committed on the palestinian land which will basically set the stage or ending the

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 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 2 restriction over petitions submitted by sovereign states but there's never been opposed to. the court based in the netherlands will only investigate alleged crimes committed after june 2014 when palestine became part of the jurisdiction in the past 5 years thousands of new legal settlements units were developed along with the confiscation of palestinian lands and demolition of their

homes israel's response isn't unexpected it says. 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. or the court's jurisdiction. tritter removed nearly $6000.00 accounts which it says were part of court made efforts by saudi arabia to promote its interests the social media company says the accounts were aggressively in liking and retreating messages favorable to the kingdom discussions about sanctions in iran and appearances by saudis and western media were often targeted japan's prime minister has briefed iran's president on plans to send military forces to protect japanese oil exports from the gulf.

tokyo on friday iran is looking for a japanese supports a boost in economy strangled by u.s. sanctions 90 percent of japan's crude oil is shipped from the middle east. it's a familiar story in argentina the government again deep in debt as inflation and poverty levels rise parliament has voted to declare an economic emergency and an ounce new measures aimed at a movie aiding the crisis but opinion is split on whether the tax rises and other reforms will work this time when. a sweeping new economic law has been approved by argentina's congress it's. officials declared a public emergency to prioritize 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 pay 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 planned 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 join the fight here the president of the nation said 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 by 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 than consensus building strategy so you know for the for the government it's really important to show that it has all the tools to. go share it with the i.m.f. to bring in more funds through taxation the challenge is that the powers are so broad that it different to. the quality and effectiveness of democracy and for any investor looking at the country from outside the be wondering how long will this last for women only be in 2020 or will this administration seek to extend such powers beyond that date. 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 . protesters have been back out on the streets of chile as

capital angry about dealings in negotiating a new constitution police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse people in santiago it's the latest in the month long demonstrations over social inequality on thursday chile's congress approved a referendum on changing the constitution which is one of the protesters main demands are latin america editor of the c n n has been with protesters in santiago. masses the demonstrators are trying to gather near centavos main protest area in italian but in a change of strategy the riot police have cordoned off the whole area and are using large amounts of your gas and water cannons to continue says the spurs crouch. all day they've been breaking up even on authorized demonstrations but the park just keep coming back. and now the police is chasing after the protesters on

motorcycles and on foot to arrest them. there is a lot of anger here 1st because the senate approved an agreement to allow a referendum on whether or not to rewrite the constitution which has been a key demand but it did not include the tonge to. solution less assembly that guarantees gender parity of quotas to chile's indigenous groups that may change but most people here say they don't trust their politicians it's been more than 2 months since massive protests structural changes to address the social and economic inequalities here began and while the government has offered some concessions including a raise in salaries and pensions the protesters and people elsewhere say these don't go nearly far enough. dutch activists have won a legal battle of forcing government leaders to take faster action on climate change judges said the government must reduce emissions so that there are 25 percent lower than they were in the 19 $190.00 this they ruled to happen by the end

of next year then as burkle is a lawyer at the foundation which brought the case against the government here's what he had to say well obviously they have a responsibility but the difference with governments is that since 1902 they have acknowledged that they have a response they have the responsibility over this problem that they have a responsibility for all the emissions in there ever since the climate treaty in 1900 have adopted that responsibility in paris again in 2015 they said we are responsible for this problem we need to make sure that these emissions are going to not lead us to and warming about $1.00 degrees and we have human rights which are the basis of this case that obligate the states to do to take these actions. people in paris are getting on their bikes to be the 3rd week of strikes by french transport workers cycling to work becoming ever more popular as metro and rail

services remain at a standstill that butler has more. weaving through traffic in paris on a bike can be daunting at the best of times for more than 2 weeks of public transport strikes against the government's planned pension reforms has made cycling around the city particularly challenging with most metro train and bus services cut many people opting to cycle vital tied to old runs a shop in the city center that sells and repairs recycled bikes he says his staff is inundated with work we've seen far more people coming in lots who want an old bike fixed some who want to buy a cheap secondhand bike because the only plan to cycle them probably lots of people bring in dusty bags that have been in their center which proves they don't normally cycle paris's city council says the number of cyclists on the road has doubled since the strike began and there has long been encouraging people to bike rather

than drive to help fight air pollution there's a vast network of cycle lanes and a widely used bike share scheme i would say yes i'm quite regularly that would strike them but they're often because there's not really enough there if enough to stop it was i'd say drivers are definitely more stressed and because i have to cycle further on busy road it's not easy there are loads of benefits to cycling it's often much faster on salty journeys it's more environmentally friendly than driving and also it's good exercise for since the beginning of the strides the roads have been so busy the city officials say that the number of accidents involving cyclists has surged emergency workers say the number of accidents involving bikes has increased by 40 percent this expert says that inexperienced riders are often ill prepared or poorly equipped for. well i mean you have to bite you need a basic level of fitness if people are fit they may not have balance of they can

fall down and risk fractures to their head shoulders and body also too much biking if you're fit can cause a multitude of health problems and pain in the knees head and back it's clear that many people will be relieved when the city's transport services return to normal but with trade unions threatening to continue their industrial action throughout the holiday season that's unlikely to happen any time soon until then and despite the risks cycling remains one of the best ways to get around the trash about to. paris. sports news is coming up in just a moment i'm paula be here he'll tell us how the ironic reason why the world skiing cups been abandoned in europe.

when the news breaks today the current government has lost the trust of the people by god to anything because the protesters are against it when people to be caught by floodwater the represent the law of dogs for opponents of brecht's it's wrong for the conservatives al-jazeera has teams on the ground it's now hopes the meeting in paris will push politicians to create a competent and credible government to bring new moon documentaries and life moves on air and online.

well boeing starliner spacecraft is due back on earth sue announced after failing to dock with the international space station it's another very public failure for the aircraft maker which is still trying to recover from safety problems with its best selling plane it's where you get the reports $21.00 and lift off the rise of starlight the atlas rocket carrying the on man stalin a capsule survived one of its biggest challenges only to run into problems minutes after liftoff it appears as though the mission elapsed time and system had an error in it and that anomaly resulted in the vehicle believing that the time was different than it actually was nasa would it contracts to both boeing and space x.

the company owned by billionaire 80 mosque to develop cheap reusable methods of going to space nasa astronauts have been riding russian soyuz rockets since retiring the space shuttle fleet 80 years ago space x. successfully launched its on man dragon capsule into space for the 1st time 3 months ago and boeing is hoping to send astronauts into orbit next year providing a slightly as a result of this to slip at least a month or 2 i don't think it will be. you huge huge delay these things happen it's very slight you get delays all the time but it does it raises the probability that america will have to go to the russians cut in hand and buy some more seats of the russians so yes this latest hitches more bad news for boeing it's already paid a high price this year for 2737 max crashes within 5 months killing $346.00 passengers and crew in indonesia and ethiopia. that cools the grounding of the max

fleet. worldwide the removal of boeing's chief executive and multibillion dollar losses to boeing share price and income and production of the latest version of the world's best selling alanah was stopped earlier this week. the difficulties of the american aerospace industry giant are a reminder that there's plenty of training and learning ahead for the burning before nasa succeeds in the new space race getting private companies to launch astronauts into orbit in a new type of space taxi victoria gate and be al jazeera. to get an update on sports news with paul hi during thanks very much we start with a club world cup final happening here in doha liverpool take on flamingo with both teams trying to win the trophy for the 1st time and let's cross straight over to our correspondent andy richardson life 1st outside khalifa international stadium

and the club world cup maybe doesn't quite have the cache its name suggests but is it a bit more popular for south american teams like flamingo. i think so and i think the ticket for brazilian fans and really that's on the line by just how many find our fans are expecting a night's game around 121-5000 of my the long trip from brazil that's come and watch this game the precursor of that the club world cup something called the intercontinental cup that was a one off or 2 like final just played between the champions of europe and south america that was won a couple of times in the 1960 s. by pele some sources say not really woven into the fabric of brazilian football and from one to themselves want to see in 1981 when they'd be liverpool 3 nil ironically a game from my girlfriend still sing about so this day in that we hope to make in our 2nd verse to that song after its final i think also the timing of of the competition helps preserve it seems in particular comes at the end of the season.

so from one of already won a couple of us interest in the present in league title and they now are the. to cap off their season with this world championship as opposed to liverpool for whom it could be described as something of the mid-season inconvenience and you've also got the fact that at a time when so much south american silent deaths awaits the more lucrative european leagues this really a chance for for a brazilian clubs to reassert itself on a global stage and for not going to have a chance to become the 1st brazilian team to win this title since current teens back in twenty's wealth. now liverpool have never won this trophy are they willing to the task despite the disruption you mentioned. i think you're going described it says a potential luna league for the club in terms of winning this title for the 1st time in his press conference yesterday that he couldn't help but have a few digs at the english premier league and football association authorities that of sent them on their way to cats are saying that while flamingo was sent here with

clear directions to become heroes and world champions liverpool were told they also had to somehow play in the league cup while they were over here in cats all the consequence of that was that they left a jew need see in england it was heavily beaten by aston villa and he said well for mango will go back to a street party if they win it's liverpool go back to a premier league game against leicester city but they are taking it very seriously compare and contrast the 99 he won my game i mentioned some of the liverpool players that played in that game soaking up the chaotic preparations they had for about final when they had to fly alaska in an economy flight that's of nearly 20 hours they arrived barely with science for climate size or with very little idea as to who they were actually playing apart from perhaps the one name they did recognize on the team sheet it was eco not surprising about the last 3 nil they are taking this game very seriously perhaps helped by the fact they've got some brazilian players i mean their own seem like allison and rupert so for me now and winning titles in a good habit to get in see they're hoping to come back to the premier league in in

a few days' time and push on so was trying to win that cycle for the 1st time in 3 decades just briefly on the what plans does favor present jonny and 20 you know have the club world cup after this one. he's got big plans it will stay as it is in this existing format for one more year when it's fighting cats are next year beyond he hopes to expand its include $24.00 teams and 2021 and he's also talking yesterday about the fact that at the moment it's probably only 1012 clubs in the world that really dominate the club scene he wants to see 50 clubs all of a similar level and you can see down the line a sort of power struggle developing as faith which traditionally has been involved only really an international team tournament's looks to have more influence over and make more money from club football brilliant thanks very much and the rich to life 1st across town to cleave stadium will come back to you later where liverpool city rivals everton have announced the appointment of carlo ancelotti as their new manager and slot he was sacked by napoli last week and signed a 4 and

a half year deal at goodison park he wasn't in time to take charge of everton's much on saturday though they have been hosting arsenal who themselves unveiled their new manager. on friday the score in that one nil nil a short time ago was previously assistant at manchester city who play 2nd place leicester later on. well arsenal player mesut ozil support for muslim minorities in china has been having an impact away from social media his instagram post about the treatment of muslims we go in sindh province was praised by demonstrators in turkey on friday they marched in solidarity for those detained by authorities in the province which we go exiles call east turkistan who is of turkish origin was backed by protestors in istanbul helping keep the spotlight on the situation china banned their broadcasts of arsenal matches in response to criticism. australia's sports

federations are preparing to deal with the fallout from the bushfires sweeping the countryside saturday's big bash cricket match in canberra between adelaide and sydney was abandoned by the umpires in the 2nd innings juta the smoke and by contrast in europe the world cup skiing was cancelled on saturday due to snow the men's downhill at val gardena in italy and women's downhill involved france unable to take place in the conditions should be our here at the club world cup final i think that's all the sport for now and i'm sure it will be ok paul thank you very much sir and that's it from paul myself and the news hour for the time being but we're back in just a few moments much more news coming your way right here on al-jazeera all the day's top stories we'll see you in a minute thanks for watching. what

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