some of it i like. in gym police are accused of excessive force as the death toll rises from protests against a new citizenship all. the watching al-jazeera live from i had quarters and i'm dying to navigate also ahead cooler weather brings a glimmer of hope for firefighters struggling against australia's bushfire it's. getting more for taste for politics is bax go to the polls with a wider range of choice. extra time winner against the mango puts liverpool on top of the world.

hello protests against india's new citizenship law are becoming the biggest domestic challenge to prime minister narendra modi since he came to power 5 years ago opponents say it discriminates against muslims and is an attack on the secular constitution at least 23 people have been killed and more than a week of demonstrations rights activists are accusing police of using disproportionate force so we must trust the reports from new delhi. they are police in the northern state with that but they are not taking chances. did vans while firing tear gas at protesters who are defying a government ban to congregate in large crowds. every tactic is being used to quash nationwide protests against a new citizenship law the police are being accused of using excessive force was. oh what started as a student demonstration has grown into

a larger movement to denounce what governments often and say is divisive and discriminatory legislation. the law excludes muslims from neighboring countries from receiving indian citizenship which goes against india secular constitution the unrest in india has been discussed at a conference of muslim leaders in malaysia prime minister mahathir mohammed said the indian law is unfair to its group most limbs from becoming citizen even by due process i think is unfair so we have roy's. disagreement with this kind of treatment india rejected his comment saying the law doesn't impact the status of any indian citizen or deprive any indian of any faith of her or his citizenship the malaysian prime minister's remark is factually

inaccurate we call apartment asia to refrain from commenting on internal developments in india without the right understanding of facts. on saturday protesters packed the streets of new delhi despite the government's ban on large crowds. 7 the. lawyers from india's supreme court and high courts joined the outcry we are running. the discriminate among 6 jenny jones and muslims if. us everyone we are outside the jam in years time you dusty where the 1st yet. now. still cademy joined by people. at the middle east one of the. art students depicted the constitution and the government's attitude to it by painting this street it's amazing the united nation in that sense

. it's also just the idea behind it which is so vicious the idea behind the act it's all vicious that everything human being everyone in this country will be affected and standing up indians here are vowing to continue their define for vote against the law and say they won't allow the government to destroy the very fabric on which their nation is built on. to al-jazeera new delhi india. a turkish ship has been seized off the coast of northern libya by forces loyal to warlords $24.00 have it happened just hours after turkey's parliament voted to approve a military agreement with libya's internationally recognized government have to a spokesman says their naval forces approached the boat near the city of derna so they could search and verify its cargo and its crews are being questioned meanwhile

3 people have been killed in libya in the latest drone strikes by half saudi's forces they attacked autonomy in the northwest of libya the internationally recognized government says the drones are being used by the u.a.e. which supports have. cooler weather conditions in australia are set to help firefighters contain more than 100 blazes across the state of new south wales fires have been burning out of control with conditions described as catastrophic bushfires have killed 8 people and destroyed hundreds of homes prime minister scott morrison has apologized after taking a family holiday during the disaster and morrison has been criticized in the past for not connecting the bush fires to climate change but now he concedes there is a link there is no argument about the links between in my view in the government's view and any judgement in this country about the links between broader issues of

global climate change and and weather events around the world but i'm sure people equally would to acknowledge that the direct connection to any single farmer event it's not a credible suggestion to mike that link so we must take action on climate change we are taking action on climate change just a washington has been in the blue mountains west of sydney and reports there are fears the worst is still to come. this is usually one of sydney's most popular tourist attractions the normally picturesquely mountains bordering the outskirts of the city. much of it now decimated by bushfires but. they've been burning across large parts of australia for months now with flames as high as 70 meat is. 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 for sure the mountains actually in my younger days for quite a few forms but. i haven't seen so many out of control back to the b. 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. it's because it's pretty confronting. volunteers for such

a strain from some of these fires have been burning since july but authorities are warning that these are catastrophic conditions it's the combination of extreme hate 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 for locals who risk losing almost everything some are just trying to do whatever they can to spend. having their older get much sleep and it's. anxious cities 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. paulson just opened the stand where there have

been key human rights developments since last election in 2016 that includes people with criminal convictions being allowed to vote and a minimum number of female candidates but the 5 registered parties still have to operate within strict rules laid out by the government without them having reports from the capital tashkent. it's a show that at 1st done and then galvanized the country a lot of political debate unscripted and an edited the 1st was because. there have been 29 others over the past 3 months where a wide range of topics were discussed often putting the candidates on the spot to the point that this party leader admitted his big politicians lacked courage lots of them and some we didn't anticipate this level of success it was difficult at 1st because politicians went ready for this but then they prepared and were able to answer questions they didn't expect. people have become more interested in the

parties and their programs. then he'll come back off is a proud cook of stan's national dish cloth and despite steering hundreds of kilos of rice a day he followed the debates. there was a lot of truth and real issues with these debates we cannot understand what needs to be done in the correct way and what is wrong there is a lot of change and these elections are very different from previous ones who specs will have to choose between 5 parties ranging from left to right on the political spectrum but all government funded with similar platforms. there are no opposition or independent candidates running in this election pakistan is only 28 years old it was formed after the fall of the soviet union and $99.00 to $1.00 so regardless of this truly cummings people are excited to go to the ballot boxes still for the 1st time the parties are somehow competing against each other to win over voters since

president shafqat museo you have took power in 2016 he is gradually taking the country out of isolation reforms. in almost all spheres of life social life political life a canonical. in some spheres we see great success in some spheres we see some controversial changes and psalms fears we see the real problems of reforming he has permitted greater freedom of expression which allows come only dean he said cool of to speak to us without fear of repercussion at 31 he's a 1st time voter he supports the liberal democratic party because it promised to back small businesses like his on the. us military is elections were just nominal now we say freely what we think before we are scared we can see the reality even if

it's still not completely transparent i hope this will continue and it will become more liberal. president museo you have promised that parliament will become a true school of democracy millions of whose backs hope that day comes sooner rather than later but at that hammy al-jazeera tashkent in as big a step. still ahead on al-jazeera a university lecturer in pakistan is sentenced to death for blasphemy after his social media posts. i'm seeing human in santiago chile and i'll be telling you why record numbers of elderly people are committing suicide here. welcome back to international weather forecast all of the next few days the main

focus across united states is what is going to happen down across much of the southeast we have an area of low pressure in the gulf of mexico and that is going to bring some widespread rain across parts of florida georgia as well as into alabama we could be expecting some flooding situations as we go towards monday as well up towards the north though not looking too bad for new york temperatures coming up to about 7 by the time we get towards monday but out across the west it is going to be the rain all the way down through los angeles a chilly rain with a temperature there of 13 degrees what here across the northern part of the caribbean we're going to be watching a funnel body start to sink a little bit more down towards the south across the florida keys into cuba as well as into mexico you can expect some heavy rain as we end on sunday the rain continues across much of the area but out here towards the east we're looking at partly cloudy conditions for bridgetown with a temperature into the low thirty's in panama city rain for you with a temperature of 29 and then very quickly across south america things are looking quite nice for what is that has a temper of $25.00 with plenty of sun in the forecast but for rio it is going to be

a rainy day with thunderstorms in the forecast here on sunday $32.00 degrees but by the time we do get towards monday it is going to be heavy rain with a temperature of $27.00. experience. in places to get.

0 at least 23 people have been killed and more than 1500 arrested across. the new citizenship. is becoming prime minister narendra modi's biggest domestic challenge since coming to power 5 years ago. drone attacks by forces loyal to libyan warlords killed at least 3 people the strikes occurred a week after have to finally take the capital tripoli. off the coast of. cooler weather conditions in australia to help firefighters contain more than 100 blazes burning across the state of new south wales the bush far as have killed 8 people in the store and hundreds of homes across the state. a chill am police officer has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm after

a protester was round by an armored vehicle the policeman has been released on bail but there are calls for him on his superiors to be fired the 20 year old man who was run down as in hospital with a suspected fractured pelvis police were trying to disperse crowds have been protesting against pension system for the past 2 months. i'm a congressman charlie has passed the bill to increase pension subsidies for the poor by as much as 50 percent but people still aren't happy they want a complete overhaul of one of the world's most controversial private pension systems are not america editor has this report from santiago. it's the holiday season and bill want to see gnosis making a christmas cake but not for her family selling these cakes is just one of the many ways the 62 year old pensioner tries to make ends meet. she also fixes

clothes like other pensioners her low income neighborhood but at the has to keep working because after 35 years of factory work her monthly retirement check is $133.00 well below chile's poverty line of us talking about him on the same street there are 4 grandparents in their eighty's and 3 still work the other is too ill and she lay retirement's nothing to look forward to. who lives in an upper middle class area agrees she retired at the beginning of last year after working 37 years 1st as a nurse and then as a university professor with a master's degree she used to make nearly $2000.00 a month. with a look at them but when i went to do my retirement papers i discovered that i had a pauper's pension i said is this a joke and i was told no madam it's like this for everyone the $300.00 i am getting isn't even enough to pay for my health insurance. nothing infuriates chileans of

all walks of life more than their compulsory private retirement system or a.f.p. it was created under chile's military dictatorship and was supposed to guarantee pensions equivalent to 70 percent of one's last paycheck. instead 10 to 20 percent is the average. with good reason the a.f.p.'s are the number one target of millions of protesters from. chilis pension funds make massive profits which are not redistributed to the contributors even as pensions drop would get them all over the floors and you know this model was designed with the objective to transfer the workers savings to capital markets like banks the big retailers etc and that's helped create large economic groups that have concentrated wealth in a few hands as never before and worst of all it's forced millions of chileans to live in misery. in chile the suicide rate for elderly people has

soared and one of the prime reasons is because they no longer have enough money with which to survive amid all the protests the government has actually raised the state pension subsidy but even after doubling that subsidy for people over the age of 80 it is still nowhere near a minimum wage at a time in life when people have greater expenses for medicine and for doctors. the government's offer to partially compensate for the a.f.p.'s shortcomings with tax payers money has only added more fuel to the fire and it's unlikely to be put out without a major overhaul of the pension system that only seems to be benefiting those who don't pay for it you see in human santiago oakley's 18 people have been killed in a prison riot in honduras 16 more were injured in the fighting in the coastal town of tele and police are yet to say what caused it although media are reporting

a cost between rival gangs. a court of pakistan has sentenced a university lecturer to death for blasphemy today toughies was arrested in 2013 accused of insulting the prophet mohammad on facebook he spent nearly 6 years in solitary confinement waiting for his trial and pakistan's controversial blasphemy law carries an automatic death penalty it's yet to actually be carried out but the law has drawn widespread condemnation from rights groups of kemal haidar explains from islamabad jeanette hafiz came to pakistan from the us and was hired as an english literature professor. and prayed for did i get to make however a group of students then object their facebook page. of blasphemy and printed. for me. 'd to 95 of the penal code i did above.

anyone who fires the name of the prophet. in this particular case. a number of the judges have already been and today they were. under maximum security inside the prison because back in britain before. his lawyer was gunned down and. according to reports was kept in solitary confinement because of fear had voted particular judgment coming inside there. but at least 11 people have been killed in iraq strikes by syrian government forces and their russian allies in the latest attack on the province a busy market was struck in the town of the main roads as people were leaving the

area syrian troops are advancing on the country's last rebel held areas capturing 2 more villages on the southern edge of the edge of the the u.s. secretary of state might propose as russia and china have blood on their hands after they vetoed a u.n. resolution to allow cross border aid into syria on friday. he says tens of thousands of people are fleeing. that's the little. russian in syrian government military jets continue to target many towns and villages in the countryside. here in the town of sara keep a popular market and residential homes were hit many civilians were either killed or injured by the strikes. at the same time other towns and it lives eastern and western countryside were targeted. is on the highway connecting aleppo and damascus tens of thousands fleeing areas under attack such as marital newman use this road

the targeting of the main towns and highways used by the residents now worsen as the humanitarian situation. there been more closed door meetings in lebanon as the man picked to be its new prime minister tries to gather political support her son india held talks with the outgoing leader. but the former caretaker prime minister supporters aren't happy with his replacement the others promising to form a government within 6 weeks on friday the army fired tear gas at protesters who were blocked roads and hurled rocks is calling for calm exactly. i wish all could express themselves in a peaceful way because the army is els and it is for all the liberties and i wish if anyone is angry that he can protest peacefully in god's will the prime minister is conducting his consultations and we hope for good for all french forces have killed 33 fighters in the mopti region of mali president of manual i printed the

announcement in a speech in the ivory coast a french army command confirmed the death toll in the operation which it said to place overnight near them or. order. border security remains a big concern for west african leaders and a summit has ended in nigeria's capital where leaders discussed fund raising to support the fight against increased attacks in the sa had region the vast and remote area of the southern sahara desert spans many borders and it includes areas dominated by groups affiliated to ice or and. so on a wing is an associate professor of haven for college and the author of constructing democracy in africa she says more needs to be done to address the underlying issues that lead to violence there needs to be economic growth and and political capacity to to address tensions within populations in these countries another way it stays groups that are acting are able to recruit locally

and that realty to prove right has to do with local discontent and we had from the un special representative in this is what he talked about he said that more needs to be done to address the root causes of extremism what are those courses in this region and how can they be addressed. well things like widespread poverty infrastructure that's built in cities but doesn't connect diligence is that are deep in rural areas people are feeling very disconnected from the political situation in the capital cities and that leads to resentment so. you know it's a question of economic growth addressing poverty having people who live far away from capital cities feeling as though the state cares about them and is interested in promoting development across many of these countries and so far we haven't seen enough about that and that's part of the problem and i suppose that things like

that take longer than pledging a 1000000000 dollars and military support was there anything to address did you see or hear of anything to address the those root causes either at the summit or what was called the extraordinary summit that was held in september. now you know there has not been and frankly and not of a push towards those political and economic issues and we all recognize there is an absolute security threat and that means military responses are important but it's not the whole story and i'm not convinced there's a not of a commitment from the leadership in many of these countries to address those issues russia says construction must continue on its gas pipeline to europe despite the threat of u.s. sanctions president donald trump has announced penalties on front helping russia as they don't gas companies to finish the north's 3 into the pipeline from says the project would weaken ukraine in its long running confrontation with russia and give

moscow too much influence in europe well regarded as a political analyst that stanford university berlin who explains why the project has become so contentious. well it is not something that pops up in the last euro so it is a project that has been ongoing for a long time and there's a reason why it's called north stream tool there's a 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 geopolitical 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 interest of an integrated energy 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 that can be shipped 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. one of the biggest football clubs in the world has added the club world cup to which trophy cabinet for the 1st time european champions liverpool beat results from ingle in saturday's final in qatar but it took an extra time goal from brazilian striker better for me to break a nail all dead last for the top english team liverpool now becomes the 12th european club to win the tournament south african side south american sides excuse me have won the other 4 and cats are will host the tournament again next year as part of its preparations for the 2022 fee for world cup our correspondent andy richardson was watching the final at the international stadium. while liverpool manager you're going to club said it would be like the club taking a lunar leap forward if they could win this title and they have indeed taken that

giant step and won the club world cup for the 1st time albeit in a very tight final against flamengo of brazil so what ironically decided by when to buy a brazilian strike apply. fall of a poor both sides i mean i'm scoring the winner just as he did in the semifinal against the monster right little pole now straight back into premier league action as they tend to win that title for the 1st time in 3 decades huge disappointment for the flamingo and the thousands of fans who might the long trip from brazil a title that means so much to the consonants and that country they couldn't quite repeat their heroics of 1981 when they beat liverpool in the intercontinental cup final that was the forerunner of the club world cup as for this tournament well it returns in this format to qatar next year as the country continues to build up to the main world cup in 2022 ast events before president john in france you know intends to expand its were 24 team tournament hosted by china in 2021 he's talked

about his desire to have more powerful club seems around the world sort of a global super league perhaps in the future as well what you can see on the horizon for an organization like speaker who have traditionally been involved in organizing international team tournament is a bit of a power struggle as they attempt to get more influence over and money out of the club game. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera at least 23 people have been killed and more than 1500 arrested across india in violent protests over a new citizenship law opponents say discriminates against muslims and on the secular constitution and police have been accused of using excessive force against protesters the turkish ship has been seized off the coast of northern libya by forces loyal to world war 3 if i have to add it happened just hours after a turkish parliament voted to ratify a military agreement with libya's internationally recognized government meanwhile

drone strikes on the libyan town of left 3 people dead the internationally recognized government says the drones are being used by the united arab emirates which supports have to. cooler weather conditions in australia are said to help firefighters contain more than 100 blazes burning across the state of new south wales fires have been burning out of control with conditions described this catastrophic the bushfires have killed 8 people and destroyed hundreds of homes prime minister scott morrison says his government is taking action on climate change but there is no argument about the links between in my view in the government's view and in any judgement in this country about the links between broader issues of global climate change and and weather events around the world but i'm sure people equally with dignity that the direct connection to any single fire

event it's not a credible suggestion to make that link so we must take action on climate change we are taking action on climate change poles of open than it was back to stand where there have been human rights developments since its last elections and 2016 that includes people with criminal convictions now being allowed to vote as well as a minimum number of female candidates but the 5 registered parties there still have to operate within strict rules which have been laid out by the government for this election you're up to date for the headlines more news coming up right after counting the cost thanks for watching. with one of the highest murder rates in the wilds the main challenger one in central america smallest countries is gang related violence you are a country that's not technically a war but you have levels of files that look like countries that are the president of el salvador. talks to al-jazeera.

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