and. iraq's president threatens to resign he would not appoint a prime minister rejected by protesters. this is al jazeera live also coming up so if he lives out the next steps toward sending troops to tripoli hit by corruption cases and to repeat election 5 years israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu faces a primary challenge from his party. an independent report accuses police in india of using an authorized at excessive force against opponents of a new citizenship will.

iraq's president says he would rather quit the name a new prime minister rejected by protesters by himself is refusing to designate the nominee of an iran backed parliamentary bloc in a letter to parliament he says that out of my keenness to avoid bloodshed and protect civil peace i will not name assad ally dunny as a candidate for the next prime minister. is in baghdad she explains what might happen next. it's clear that the president is not willing to carry out what has been laid out as his duties in the constitution the constitution is very clear the largest ruling bloc in parliament has so nominate a name and that person becomes the caretaker prime minister until the country is ready to hold elections but since the ruling bloc is the group which is a group that's known to be allied with iran their candidates have all been rejected and this is the 3rd one that has been rejected by not only the president but

various other coalition groups in parliament as well as the people on the streets they say that they don't want any candidate that is before us by a politician by a political group rather they want somebody who is in the pen now the president has now chosen to submit this letter in which he stresses that if he is to carry out his constitutional duties he will be going against the wishes of the people on the streets and that is not something that he's willing to do so what he's essentially done is put the ball back in the court of parliament to force them to understand his position he's been under tremendous amount of pressure we know that he has been supporting the demonstrators on the street he also has the backing of the clerical establishment in iraq so we think this will be seen as a maneuver for him to try and dissolve parliament the possibly call for early elections which is something the. storage cleric in iraq has also called for ayatollah grand ayatollah ali sistani during friday sermons last week his

representative in karbala said that there must be early elections held so this is all happening in an effort to make that a possibility the president has now left baghdad we've heard from various sources that he's back in his home town until the parliament decides what to do next but for now they have to decide whether or not to accept his position and that is that he will not accept this candidate who is the governor of basra because there is such opposition to him and his record because basra is one of the poorest provinces in. iraq while it is actually home to 70 percent of iraq's oil reserves so there's a lot of allegations against this governor and that is why this candidate has not been accepted by anybody specifically the president himself so he's now put himself in a position where he says it's really not up to me anymore it is up to parliament to decide what to do next turkey's president says he plans to send troops to libya with the tripoli based administration saying it will request military support if

the conflict escalates turkey says it wants to support libya's internationally recognized government which has been under a months long offensive by forces loyal to warlord how they fire hafter president richard says he will present a bill on the deployment to parliament in january from the beginning we have objected to the coup perpetrated by the retired general against the lawful government we provided and are still providing assistance to libya's legitimate government against the coup plotter who is receiving support from certain european states libya is a neighboring country as we share maritime border lines in the mediterranean sea once the parliament comes into session we will present the proposal for dispatching turkish troops to libya based on the security cooperation agreement once indorsed by the parliament we will be able to effectively back the legitimate government some states who support the coup general with their jet fighters tanks and militia object to this move and criticize turkey because of it and the office of tunisia's president has dismissed any allegations of an alliance after the turkish leader

biden unannounced visit on wednesday a stipend said to news you will make an independent decision stressing the importance of its sovereignty in a moment we'll hear from there why head in tripoli about what the government is saying there 1st. explains developments in turkey. once the new year begins president on c.c. will take a bill to parliament that is going to not only authorize the deployment of troops but also give a monday off what they can do once the lord in libya so that is what is happening right now but again this is something that has got to regional implications with already rising between turkey and greece on one side as well as cyprus because of the energy reserves in the eastern mediterranean sea so it is going to have region or medications they say they are in need of military

commanders to run the battles on the ground especially during the past few days after half of those forces have advanced and taken control of strategic locations in southern tripoli including get a military camps strategic military camps in southern tripoli helped by russian mercenaries from the wagner company in order for turkey to send troops to d.n.a. it needs and human day because the agreement signed with libya last month does not entail sending troops in fact it only entails military and security cooperation which that includes military equipment and navy vessels maybe and also logistics but it does not entail sending get troops there is why odone is distressing on

an official request from the d.n.a. is a must for the turkish government to send to send it to troops to fight along with the government of national accord to defend the capital tripoli against have those forces. now let's look at why this conflict has wider consequences for the region libya has become a major transit route for migrants and refugees heading to europe so european governments was a stable country to stop the flow of people crossing the mediterranean there's also a new maritime border deal between libya's internationally recognized government and turkey it carves out a corridor between the 2 countries potentially clearing the way for oil and gas exploration but greece egypt and israel oppose that agreement and speaking of oil libya's known reserves are among the largest in the world at nearly 50000000000 barrels syrian activists say near freezing temperatures

a slowing the government's offensive on the last rebel held province of italy the fighting has forced 130000 civilians from their homes many into make shift camps the region has suffered weeks of artillery bombardment and is strikes by the syrian government and its russian allies many syrians are on the move north towards the turkish border but the turkish president has warned that his country can't cope with another influx of refugees from italy province russian backed syrian government forces are now focusing on capturing the rebel held city of mara newman the area is key for damascus as it sits on an important motorway which links the capital to aleppo once syria's largest city and u.s. president donald trump has tweeted about the situation in lives saying russia syria and iran are killing or on their way to killing thousands of innocent civilians in libya province don't do it turkey is working hard to stop this carnage our white

house correspondent kimberly halkett gives us some context around the timing of trump's tweet. this tweet from the u.s. president comes on the heels of statements by the u.n. secretary general where there has been a very strongly worded statement regarding the military escalation the concern about the impact on civilians and also the call for sort of a sation in the violence in terms of the hostilities given the fact that those impacted have been children so there is a concern sort of the world is watching at the u.n. level you add to that that the u.s. congress has been also watching very closely the escalating violence in fact so much so it pushed through a pentagon budget that included very tough sanctions against syria russia and also iran for alleged war crimes the president signed that into law on friday so it appears that this is on his mind and you have to remember in the context of this is

the fact that the united states has already launched air strikes in syria on 2 occasions once in 2017 once and 2800 so there's no other way to read this except that the u.s. president has essentially alerted the world and the countries involved putting them essentially on notice that if people are questioning the relationship of the united states president invited the turkish president to washington last month the there was also a bilateral offside unplanned unscheduled meeting that took place in london at those nato meetings so there is real questioning about the relationship the loyalties of turkey and many people putting that into the microscope here in the united states looking at the president wondering with this tweet what are you doing . the mexican government is appealing to the international court of justice after a series of disputes with bolivia mexico's accused bolivian police of spying on its diplomatic personnel in la paz that's after graduate former believe in president evo morales as asylum when he resigned following a disputed presidential election

a rapper joins us now live from mexico city there's clearly been political tensions between the 2 now these allegations of spying toes more about what's going on here and why the appeal to the international court of justice stan there's been friction between mexico and bolivia since the start of bolivia's new presidential administration now what we're seeing is is met mexico calling on the international court of justice to mediate this dispute between the 2 nations and it was mexico as you mentioned stand off for political asylum to former libyan leader ever more allies after he resigned following pressure from bolivia's armed forces mexico has granted political asylum to 9 individuals at the mexican embassy in in the bolivian capital since that mexico alleges that there's been an increased police presence as many as 90 police officers in front of the bolivian embassy

mexico is also alleged an increase in harassment of of embassy staff outside of the outside of the mexican embassy in bolivia so mexico's government announced on early on thursday that they were calling on the international court of justice the i.c.j. as well as the united nations to mediate this dispute to mediate this growing rift between the dude the 2 nations mexico's president and that is going to elope is over the announced early during his morning press conference on thursday that he hopes sense prevails as this dispute continues between the 2 nations stand is their response yet from bolivia. the response from a bolivia's foreign minister got in lone heidi crow that a guest has been in the past has accused the mexican government of engaging in a campaign to destabilize bolivia in favor of everyone alice accusing mexico of wanting to interfere in bolivia as upcoming general elections but on the question of the talks at the i.c.j. we did hear on thursday from government minister are 2 domo deal who says that that

mexico has threatened bolivia with taking the libyan officials to the i.c.j. saying that quote we will see you there and we will see who has truly violated treaties the government minister there referring to the convention of vienna of 1961 which guarantees the rights of embassies and guarantees the rights of diplomatic missions bolivian officials accuse mexico of harboring criminals harboring terrorists what we're hearing from mexican officials in response to that is saying that what mexico is doing at the embassy is granting political asylum to individuals who are fleeing political persecution in this includes 2 former ministers that served under former leader ever what is stan. thank you for that still ahead on al-jazeera as it were yesterday still filled by survivors 50 years after a devastating tsunami killed hundreds of thousands of people across asia plus. it is a city of refugees stretching as far as the eye can see what is the future hold for

these ranges are they any closer to going home i'm stephanie decker in southeastern bangladesh will be looking at those questions coming up. how the weather remains a little disturbed around the eastern side of the mediterranean through little rants but we have got signs of quiet to weather coming through as we go on into the next couple of days is america plant then more wet weather there. syria pushing across into lebanon maybe into israel as well for it's high well the process syria northern areas of iraq seen the rain and the snow up towards a coax is the similar picture you go on in seas sats day things becoming a little less washed but as far as that right and snow is concerned but it's still very much that temperatures struggling to get into double figures for jerusalem a 16 that the beirut come across in sioux falls afghanistan pakistan is lousy dry

plenty of sunshine as is the case to across the arabian peninsula pleasant sunshine here in howell it is feeling a little chilly as we go into the evenings and the overnight payable temperatures generally getting up to around $24.00 celsius nice is down towards southern parts of amman you could catch a shower which is out what's the weather just not doing its way over towards the horn of africa society something to watch out for over the next couple of days housefull southern africa we still have a few showers in see the east all of south africa further north that's where the wetter weather will remain into madagascan water madagascar pushing across into northern areas of maize and bake them will.

you're watching al-jazeera his reminder about top stories iraq's president says he brother was in the midst of it was rejected by protesters. is refusing to support the nominee put forward by the largest parliamentary bloc which is backed by iran. turkey's president says he plans to send troops to support libya's internationally

recognized the conflict escalades tripoli boasted ministration as being under a months long offensive by forces loyal to ward off the. syrian activists idea freezing temperatures are slowing the government's offensive on the last rebel held province of you'd leave the fighting force 130000 civilians from their homes this month. at the weather is making life even more difficult for syrian refugees in lebanon winter has always taken its toll on hundreds of thousands living in camps but this year the economic crisis in the host country is making things much worse as i had a hard reports from bekaa valley. winter is setting in temperatures are falling and there's little to protect the hundreds of thousands of syrian refugees who live in makeshift camps there are no concrete structures because the lebanese government doesn't want syrians to stay here permanently. shelters are not

suitable for the cold months and families are complaining the aid they receive is not enough they burn wood to stay warm but many can't afford to buy fuel widow needs to make ends meet with the less than $150.00 provided by the united nations with that. you know how expensive it has become my children no longer eat meat or fruits i can't afford to send them to school during the day they collect wood and i have kidney disease and can't work. those who can work struggle to find a job lebanon's economy is in crisis food prices are rising in the local currency the lebanese pound has lost at least a 3rd of its official value. the general situation of course is affecting both lebanese and syrian refugees and the targets mainly are the people who are in severe but it is situation where they are constantly trying to afford and sustain their basic needs and their needs are greater during the winter months

refugees are not only facing freezing weather conditions nearly 900000 of the 1000000 syrians registered with the united nations live below its designated poverty line that means surviving on less than $4.00 a day. mud is one of many refugees who rely on you had cash assistance but she recently lost her refugee status and un help because she returned to syria for a few days and that was not honestly after that wouldn't be as i had to go to damascus to get my daughter because healthcare is too expensive here but when we came back and there you and took away our status as per that aggregation. her grandson mohammed is forced to work in the fields for $4.00 a day but that is only during the summer the 11 year old never went to school he doesn't read or write. i wish i can study.

i wish i can get an education. and be able to go with my friends to school. mohammad seems to realize that this is unlikely to happen. because. police in india being accused of using an authorised that excessive force against protesters in new delhi was just a university around 2 weeks ago an independent investigation by a civil rights group found offices indiscriminately big demonstrators destroyed public property and arrested people unlawfully police are also accused of intimidating and firing on protesters in order pradesh where 18 people were killed the demonstrations are against a new citizenship law that's been labelled as anti muslim. and thousands of people in various cities and joined the latest protests against the dozens of arrests have been invited off the protesters chanted slogans against prime minister narendra

modi. is in new delhi. me and many years to me a university in the capital new delhi and that is the police response to the protests that took place here soon also the citizenship lowest cost maybe 2 weeks ago that led to protests breaking out at universities around the country not just against the citizenship but to the police mr holmes to the protest the fact finding team that looks at the response says that police entered campuses and. that they brought law broke c.c.t.v. cameras that their social security guards they say that they are students and they unlawfully detained many people destroyed property that was not involved. and that they used excessive force tear gas to protest this with passions to stop the valley from reaching parliament the fact finding team has said similar tactics were used in the stage of what 18 people were killed in protests last week from

thomas in the end a movie he has only condemned what he said was violence on the possible criticism he said that students have an obligation to keep university safe and that protest is. what endangering public safety so the government very much defiant in the face of criticism. members of israel's liquid party of voting for a new leader this is the 1st major challenge to caretaker prime minister benjamin netanyahu after more than a decade in power a veteran politician gideon saw hopes to on cygnet in yahoo claiming he is better positioned to form a government that in yahoo remains popular among the party. for years through we cannot let the rain and the wind. our spirit is stronger than the wind outside. i ask you i ask you we walked

together and we brought about great things to the country and in order for us to continue bringing about great things to the country we need to go vote for me for you i mean i feel a great awakening of voters in the field people understand that today there is a need for a change and god willing together we will make this change today. strikes other pension reforms continue to disrupt travel across freds the demonstrations are now entering their 4th week up to 80 percent of trying services have been canceled embarrass the national rail operation says it's already lost more than 4 $120000000.00 the u.n. is condemning an artillery attack on a market in northern yemen across the border in saudi arabia the saudis are commenting on the cross border shelling which killed at least 17 people including 12 ethiopian migrants. the 3rd attack within a month on the same market in sa the province won't go unpunished. but moral

service is a being held across asia to back the 15th anniversary of the devastating indian ocean tsunami 230000 people were killed were best of wives swept into 12 countries so hard reports that it's business as usual for these fishermen in the thai province of punk but on this day 15 years ago a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9 point one earthquake devastated the coastline here. waves as high as 17 and a half meters came crashing in from the ocean killing nearly 5000 people in this village alone. with half the population wiped out nearly everyone who has lost a relative or even a friend. knew one chance or a long knows too well the no matter how many years of postes the pain of losing your children never goes away comedian when i don't think they died on the day the tsunami hit we couldn't find them until the 28th and their bodies hadn't decomposed

at all i often imagine how much they would have thought about me before they took their last breaths but we couldn't find them we couldn't help them this is stuck with me and every time i think about it it hurts my these images shocked the world the day after christmas shortly before 8 am in 2004 the earthquake struck under the sea in northern india. it rippled across the indian ocean triggering a tsunami that hit dozens of countries in asia and along africa's east coast getting close to $230000.00 people and it happened during peak services and the majority of those who died were in indonesia entire villages were flattened. and the carnage of that day is still fresh on the minds of those living in such a province the west hit area where 170000 people were killed. when you have a half of the government and people of that say today we see. normally want to

thank more than 150 countries that have been involved in helping rehabilitation and reconstruction. rubble because by no one knew the tsunami was coming on that day there was no early warning systems in place about it was a global lesson learned. since then more than $400000000.00 has been spent across $28.00 countries on detectors. survivors say the technology is not enough though and that public awareness and education are necessary to save people's lives so i hired al-jazeera with $29.00 team coming to a close we're looking ahead to the stories sure to make headlines in the new year the good news of course is something that 3 quarters of a 1000000 rohingya in bangladesh need in the 1st of our series stephanie decker reports from cox's bazaar we're a hindu refugees remain stuck while 1000000 bars leaders deny the genocidal campaign which drove them there 2 years ago. the forest is slowly growing back

even starting to outgrow the huts it now shares these hills with this tree used to be the only reminder of the thick canopy cut down to make way for the hundreds of thousands of who fled what you see here was a forest preserve 3 years ago it's taken a multinational effort by different agencies together with the bangladeshi government to host almost 900000 people on this challenging terrain but what happens now this is the 3rd year of the rowing go crisis the 1st year was all about saving lives and the 2nd year was about stabilizing the situation in the camp that you see and i would say about the 3rd year really has to be about preserving people's hold and their dignity for the year for the future and when we look at the hills of myanmar just over there that's where people want to go that's what they tell us they want to repatriate the multiple attempts to start a voluntary repatriation program that's failed no one here trusts the me and my

government will ensure their safety it hasn't allowed any observers to visit the red areas and bangladesh has made it clear it can't host them forever. for the refugees there is a lot of time to think. it is the father of 3 young children. he was i was attacking living here now for almost 2 and a half years somehow we are managing and for that we're really grateful to all those who are helping us but we are deeply concerned about our children's future and their education although we are getting by but if we end up staying here longer than it is very likely our freedom and movement will be more restricted. there are already restrictions here reading the contour of the camps nor access the main roads after dark and recently the military has started to build a fence around the camps perimeter the local bangladeshi population is also becoming frustrated with the refugees the situation is not sustainable in the long

term but there seems to be little international pressure on me and more to change it it's almost 2 and a half years on and still no one has been held to account for what happened to the rangar these camps or the families of some of the world capital cities but what everyone has a story of tragedy and trauma it seems the world the simply accepted that this is just the way it is this vast landscape of refugees hidden away in far south eastern bangladesh is simply a new reality it's a reality no one here wants to accept with their lives on hold everyone wants to go home mean mars mountains can be seen from all across these camps but as things stand for now it may as well be a world away stephanie decker 0 in the rain the refugee camps of southeastern bangladesh 2025 years of conflict in yemen the war has killed thousands of displaced more than 3000000 people in part 2 of our series on next year's biggest stories examines the prospects for peace that's coming up on friday december 27th.

the final solar eclipse of the decade has wowed sky watchers all over southern asia the phenomenon lasted about 3 hours the so-called annular eclipse or ring of fire was seen along the path stretching from india and pakistan to thailand and indonesia it only happens when the moon isn't close enough to worth to completely obscure the sun. this is al jazeera these are the top stories iraq's president says he'd rather resign the name of prime minister who's rejected by protesters. is refusing to support the nominee put forward by the largest parliamentary bloc which is backed by iran turkey's president says he plans to send troops to support libya's internationally recognized government if the conflict escalates to tripoli based administration has been under

a months long offensive by forces loyal to warlord only for hafter. from the beginning we have objected to the coup perpetrated by the retired general against the lawful government we provided and are still providing assistance to libya's legitimate government against the coup plotter who is receiving support from certain european states libya is a neighboring country as we share a maritime border lines in the mediterranean sea once the parliament comes into session we will present the proposal for dispatching turkish troops to libya based on the security cooperation agreement once indorsed by the parliament we will be able to effectively back the legitimate government some states who support the coup general with their jet fighters tanks and militia object to this move and criticize turkey because of it. the mexican government is appealing to the international court of justice accusing bolivian police of spying on us diplomatic personnel in the past that's after a graduate form of bolivia and president if a morale is asylum when he resigned police in india are being accused of using an

authorized at excessive force against protesters an investigation by a civil rights group found offices indiscriminately big demonstrators destroyed public property and arrested people unlawfully strikes of a pension reforms continue to disrupt travel across france the demonstrations are now entering their 4th week up to 80 percent of trying services have been cancelled in powers members of israel's likud party of voting for a new leader this is the 1st major challenge to caretaker prime minister benjamin netanyahu after more than a decade in power those are the headlines the news continues here on out 0 right after inside story.

playing ever a triad football is go missing in uganda in a carbon copy disappearance from earlier colder months fear human rights abuses and years of military service blamed for the latest defections but is there action enough to expose our friends respected regimes this is inside story. hello welcome to the show i'm sammy's a than well i've a since independence from ethiopia 26 years ago outraise been ruled by president that's what he dismisses.