leasing pre-crime on al-jazeera. allies of iraq under attack from the u.s. air strikes launched against a shia group killed 19 people close to the syrian border. held there in chile went on hold this is al jazeera live from doha also coming to stop the crimes against humanity libya's u.n. backed government calls on the international community to act against warlords before. finally home you crave them pro russian separatists complete a full chris the smallpox or 5 year so from war. and get now tens of thousands of the straightly and still to leave their homes as bush fires flare in another state.

hello there the u.s. is calling them proof precision defensive strikes the iraqi prime minister has labeled them quote an acceptable and american attack on the bases of a shia on group close to the syrian border is causing new friction 3 camps of cats a hezbollah our hits in iraq one of them near and 2 inside syria that least 1000 people were killed the pentagon says it's in response to repeated rocket attacks on iraqi bases the most recent one killed an american civilian contractor just a few days ago well similar to fulton explains why these targeted airstrikes appear to be an important shift in u.s. action in iraq. well there are quite significant because this is actually the 1st time that the u.s. actually strikes a target on iraq his soil let's remember the not until too long ago the u.s.

and were fighting against isis on the same side but of course since then the tensions between the u.s. and iranian backed groups have played a quite a bit and this particular at attack we're hearing from a source inside of p.m.s. has claimed as many as 10 lives with dozens of people injured and of course this particular strike comes at the back of a series of rocket attacks that were aimed at military bases where both of us and iraqi personnel are based in the u.s. attributed some of these attacks took a type hezbollah the last one happened last friday and for the 1st time it actually claimed the life of one u.s. contractor and it injured several u.s. personnel now of course secretary of state has said before that any such attack that harm u.s. troops or their allies would be met with decisive force so this strike is basically a response to that now it does present a departure from the previous stance of the u.s. when it basically tried to urge the iraqi government to rein in groups like

a type and hezbollah reminding the government that it is responsible for the safety of u.s. troops because of course they are here at the invitation of the government so this is these strikes represent a departure from the policy in a sign that the u.s. is now taking matters into its own hands live now to she had pretend she's in washington d.c. hi there she have so what are we hearing then from the u.s. . in fact just of the last 4 or 5 minutes from palin defense secretary mark s. but addressed reporters of monologue or trump's golf resorts in florida where they had flown to in order to brief him on the attacks and the message was what you would expect this is a message as far as they were concerned to iran that they will not tolerate they say any more attacks that bad behavior will not be tolerated as they put it and that further actions will be considered there are other options if they're considering if attacks continue what's striking about what they said is that there

was a real mention of iraq and that's really interesting showing that it really was clear that as far as they're concerned what they're doing in iraq is part of a proxy battle with iran and that's significant because this is all happening at a time when iraqi citizens themselves are on the streets and this amazing outpouring of iraq he nationalism where they say look neither america nor iran and we have to wonder what the significance of these strikes will be in that context especially since now we also know that mark phoned the iraqi prime minister about half an hour before the attacks took place to inform that they would be happening and the iraqi prime minister said no to cool the ball this is a complete violation of iraqi sovereignty but the u.s. ignored the iraqi prime minister which has an international legality of locations goes out and went ahead with them went ahead with them anyway there's another part of this to be the. pot as we just heard off the popular mobilization

forces which were forms of various jim militia to try and combat these amik state but since july that has been a decree that they will now be incorporated into the iraqi security apparatus so that's another sign that this is what the u.s. has actually done at least on paper and you could have debates as to you know how integrated or use militias are in the iraqi security apparatus but what the u.s. is now done is bomb what is effectively an iraqi military base will this have to wait and see what the consequences are she happenstance of there joining us live with the very latest from washington d.c. an update on that story for actually happened. well the issue for iraq is that. ponce of a group that helped the government defeat it's been brought into a state sanctioned group of militias known as the popular mobilization forces and many of them are backed by iran hezbollah's leader. this is one of iraq's most powerful men and has in the past fought against u.s. forces but the u.s.

state department says he advises iran's revolutionary guard kenneth katzman is the author of the warriors of islamic revolutionary guard and he says the question now is how iran will respond to those strikes secure was a very targeted strike on certain bases ammunition dumps. perhaps there are rockets to cilla to cut say because bola iran backed militia. there the question is what the reaction is going to be on the part of particularly iran because obviously this was a militia linked to iran and the reaction of the iraqi government which already the care tech approach minister. who has tried to straddle the united states and iran and be friendly with both has. said it was an strange one of iraqi sovereignty so. the strike could potentially cause problems in the u.s.

are direct relationship. libya's un recognized government is calling for the international community to help stop the military tripoli and the forces of warlord khalifa haftar hundreds of civilians have been killed or wounded since the beginning of that offensive in april but without the live reports now from tripoli . the fight for tripoli is collating now the foreign ministry is calling on the united nations and the international criminal court to intervene the un recognized government accuses forces fighting for the warlord flee for have to of committing crimes against humanity in their campaign to capture the capital. on another unwisdom and we are asking the international community to perform its role after it doesn't have any legitimacy and has been destroying tripoli for the past 8 months yet the international community has a lot moved to stop him all we know is we have a new regional and international powers are rising against us the war on the

southern outskirts of tripoli has cost the lives of hundreds of civilians and wandered many more have to the forces repeatedly targeted residential areas and government run facilities with airstrikes and rockets nearly 140000 libyans have fled their homes to seek safety also under threat are oil revenues which are the backbone of libya's economy. the national oil corporation is assessing the damage following greece and airstrikes on the oil refinery in the western city of zawiya. and as government forces battle to stop the fall of tripoli you have to his forces are reported to be getting very enforcement from russian medicine or u.s. and advanced weapons supplied by the united arab emirates turkish troops could soon be joining the conflict the promise to her support for forces loyal to the o. and their kidneys the government is being seen by some as crucial to preventing the

fall of tripoli because president says parliament will vote next month on a monday to send troops but does have the forces advance further into the southern neighborhoods and closer to density populated areas of the capital the futa for human casualties is growing. more that there were a visitor tripoli. craning government forces and russian backed separatists have exchanged $200.00 prisoners a group has just returned to the cranium capital kiev where they were welcomed by emotional family members and president brought amir selenski it was released include soldiers civilians and members of a special police force who were accused of killing protesters in kiev in 2014 exchange force talks between you work your way in and russia's leaders a few weeks ago in paris well in my hayward has the story. for many this was a long time coming ukrainian prisoners finally free to leave the territory they

fought to keep but still controlled by pro russian separatists security was tight as a prisoner exchange began in eastern ukraine some had arrived at the checkpoint in heavily fortified bare coals the identities checked and checked again but the men disbelief them relief that it was happening and they will be able to return home their. fathers though found to fight on this moment ukrainian prisoner said they would fight for their country to president. while this pro russian separatists said he had been beaten and tortured by the cranium security services. sunday's exchange was the result of direct talks between president for lenski and putin in france earlier this month they agreed to implement a pull cease fire in a bid to end the war in the region of ukraine relations between russia and ukraine for howard when protesters in kiev managed to drive out

a kremlin backed government in 2040 russia then seized control of crimea from ukraine and within weeks russian backed separatists took control of the eastern part of ukraine. more than 13000 people including civilians have died during 5 years of conflict the have been attempts to poor to try to end the war and other prisoner swaps ukraine wants to join nato wants your union wants to move west. and that's where ukraine and this. difference may just. result why a prisoner exchange this one has caused controversy in ukraine protesters gathered outside a detention center angry some members of a ukrainian police unit accused of killing demonstrators in kiev and 2014 were released there is little we'll bring civilians caught up in the fighting but this

war to continue this prisoner exchange then a sign that tensions could be easing and he would out of there are. tens of thousands of people in the australian state of victoria have been told to evacuate ahead of what is forecast to be another day of extreme fire danger on monday further north the fire ravaged state of new south wales is facing more strong winds and temperatures exceeding 40 degrees at least 9 people have been killed and 1000 homes destroyed across 5 states in september prime minister scott morrison has now agreed to compensate volunteer firefighters by up to $4000.00 as this is a very prolonged fosli this is putting additional demands on our. firefighters in particular and it means that the turnouts in the call outs have been far more extensive than in previous years going well and beyond and above what is normally expected of those who are engaged in volunteer service and i've got a side particularly when i've been out outside the cities and seen the impact

tickly in rural communities on farmers who are dealing with draft during the day and dealing with was it not in through the afternoon when the a.b.c. says he charisma all is important melbourne and she says the evacuation warning in the toilet will affect about 45000 people a lot of them on holiday. well until recently the tory has a skype to the worst of these guys affecting a stray about saying 1000 homes lost 9 people lose their lives. to die this diet is facing a very serious life threatening conditions we've gotten 3 out of control bush fires burning in the states they've actually been burning for over a month little floridians are now extremely concerned that with the deteriorating conditions today which will see temperatures well into the forty's and very high winds that we thought was conditions these fires will impact communities and as a result they've put out a several emergency warnings telling people to leave they're also extremely

concerned about the road several roads have been closed already now despite that region being quite remote it is very popular at this time of year with many families holiday makers going down the course to spend christmas and new in that region about 40000 people have been told to leave ahead of today's all full of fire conditions with wealth already extremely worried that if the fires are in those areas that their ability to help and decipher. the limited because of those conditions still ahead on al jazeera. killing at. the developing world with the pledge to relinquish. to generate power. to weight.

and though they want to. areas of china we've got the remnants of the recent sting with the front. of the. next couple of days of a few showers around and such a lot of rain really across much of taiwan as you can see there temperature wise on monday not cheap out in shanghai 13 cells with my goodness it does feel cool on shoes that friends of swinging through so some cooler air coming up behind so 5 celsius at best and generally a cloudy picture elsewhere but no such as wet across into taiwan i want to show these coastal areas all that vietnam further to the south throughout much of indonesia we've got the usual rains it's a dry couple of days ahead generally throughout much of the philippines and the rain across into western borneo that does further west was as we head through tuesday so much as some outre java will see some very heavy amounts of rain but on

the bad day tuesday across the malaysian peninsula it will stay dry and now the main story in india really has been about the cold air particularly to the north around new delhi and the fog that is coming with it so this is what it is light this is what it has been several days with all these dense fog it is very cold the temperature is a well below the average so although we've got a high temperature of 16 celsius it feels a lot colder than that unless he wanted to show us to the south. who was sponsored by qatar and. what happens when comes for a new life of crude i.d. railed by committing serious crimes from drug trafficking to little green tomato. i don't remember how many times it started with her boyfriend spoke to me and even her al-jazeera goes inside an italian prison beating men and women from north africa who left only to face life behind. on

al-jazeera. you are watching the iran mind of our top stories this hour a u.s. military carried out what it called defensive airstrikes in iraq and syria against a group known as cuts i have has blocked 619 people were killed the pentagon says it's in response to repeated brokers attacks on iraqi bases the most recent one killed an american civilian contracts ukraine's government and poor since separatists in the east of the country have completed a full swap of prisoners in the 5 year conflict $200.00 firefighters from both sides were expected. tens of thousands of people in the history and state of

victoria have been told to evacuate ahead of 4 it's been forecast to be not the day of extremist fire danger on monday a fire ravaged states of new south wales is facing more strong winds and temperatures exuding 40 degrees. yemeni government is blaming us for a missile attack on a military graduation parade which killed at least 7 people there's been no claim of responsibility for the strike in the summer and tired of the apparent target was security belt forces who are trained and equipped by side of the. coalition it's been fighting against the hutu rebels since 2015. let me share that with our own portray the heathy militias have tried to meet the parting away from the battlefield after they suffered losses on the front lines and into the heart of darling by way of a strike and this strike will wreak not fighting there because the joint southern forces will not stop in just securing darley they will also try to secure tyreese

and other areas. on the other who say they have identified 9 targets in saudi arabia the u.a.e. which they plan to hit next year this in are what they see is a pro who journalist based in some a he says is the who make these threats there are significant disagreements within the society coalition. i think because if we see that the goal in the south is different saudi arabia is supporting the legitimacy of the un on the other side we see that united arab emirate is creating a militia and security forces which actually want yemen to be separated over they call it the session of yemen that's why i think if they continue this way i don't think that this coalition can continue on as well we have seen today press conference for the spokesperson of yemeni out of voters here in sanaa and he has warned saudi arabia and i have a minute and he said that this year. 2020. nemeth if they are a full story

a difference because we know that in many other means and has been developed their air defense and if they can limit. the strength and the power of saudi are not out of force i believe that they can conduct a major attack against saudi arabia united arab emirates and i just want to mention that 2 days ago yemeni a ballistic missile has targeted a military base in niger and i think that was a clear declaration of the end of the unilateral truce that was announced in sanaa 3 months ago on the spokesperson today have said in sanaa that the yemeni army will respond to any attack against yemen either here in area under the control of some or any other attack or a major development in the south especially from the united arab emirates. the governor of new york has described an attack on orthodox jews as an act of domestic terrorism 5 people were injured when a man on for the machete stormed into a rabbi jury hummock a celebrations in upstate new york is the latest attack against the jewish community in the u.s. this rose and jordan explains. 37 year old grafton thomas faces 5 counts of

attempted murder after an attack at a hanukkah party in muncie new york a witness called the attack terrifying just winging it is the word knife i don't know what it was back and forth that the people descending he screamed after me when they came out here is going to have to be hey you all got you but that's it that's about it so far thomas has not been charged with a hate crime the new york state governor says the suspect should get that and more i think this is an act of terrorism i think domestic terrorists are trying to inflict the year they're motivated by hate. they are doing mass attacks these are terrorists the muncie attack is the latest in a series of assaults on jewish americans this year new york city police say that as of december 15th $213.00 anti semitic hate crime complaints have been filed this

year that's 36 more than in 20188 of those attacks have happened in the last couple of weeks including a woman and her son attacked while leaving a coffee shop. in nearby jersey city 3 people were murdered in a kosher supermarket and december 10th while police are increasing neighborhood patrols and some israeli politicians say it might be time for jewish americans to leave the u.s. others say it will take much more than law enforcement to fight anti semitism we would leave these thawing even mold in mayville educational efforts with regard to the whole course remember the ends and the fight against untruth and theism atheism is a mole needed but right now people are scared and the priority is keeping people safe rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington vote counting is under way and given the size of presidential runoff 2 former prime ministers

a competing to replace president jose mario vos who failed to get through the 1st round last month one of the candidates in maurice's sokol and has already accused the interior ministry of stuffing ballot boxes it's hoped the result will help the west african nation and its long running political turmoil. the u.s. military and somali forces have hit 2 our targets with airstrikes somalia's government says a senior member was killed well it comes a day after a truck bomb attack blamed on the armed. when 18 people were killed her religious reports right will be in neighboring kenya. they survived saturday's truck bomb blast it mother dishes but sustained some of the worst injuries now some victims have been airlifted to better equipped hospitals in turkey clinics and hospitals in mogadishu are struggling to cope with the dozens of wounded while going to have responded all from the time the explosion occurred up until now the government leaders have been working hard to provide the services needed by those injured in

the explosion it's now possible for us to airlift 16 of some of the seriously injured in the attack to our brothers in turkey. a truck loaded with explosives has degenerated a security checkpoint in the capital somalis president is blaming the armed group al-shabaab and mohamad up to life on my joseph in the country won't be demoralized by the attack which caused the highest number of casualties in 2 years but. the magnitude of the damage caused by the blast led the prime minister of somalia to request assistance from the turkish government to provide treatment to those injured in the attack. a turkish military transporter landed with much needed supplies and medical staff someone's day to treat patients at a turkish one hospital in mock addition as turkey seeks to boost its influence in the horn of africa it's been an increasingly important a donor especially since the somali famine in 2011 as more aid arise and the badly injured leave the country is on edge somalis constantly wondering when and where

the next attack will be. algiers or. protesters in india are continuing their pressure on the government by coming out in large numbers against the new citizenship law the legislation makes it easier for religious minorities from 3 neighboring countries to become indian citizens but it excludes muslims entre burra was asked a demonstration in new delhi she says protesters there aren't willing to give up. jummy a 1000000 your university in new delhi has become the epicenter of protest against the citizenship law recently passed by the indian government today some of the students reenacted some of the scenes from the days when police boasted and read some of these students on this is that they want an inquiry against these police officials so far 26 people have been killed but only the eligible one of these people has to file a complaint with the police investigations are expected to start soon the others

will be in and water bound those who've been beaten up we will also see visuals on social media of police smashing private cars so these students are essentially saying that they meet on c. and they feel that they may be attacked by the old police now he did start as a student movement but it's also quickly turning into a political long as different political parties out of the ruling. party which is the new nationalists bob he says that they are not going to implement this law in their states that's at least 10 states in india nobody's legally. on the ground these political parties in this states can make the implementation of this law difficult these students say their piece will and that they would be but very few of them. for the government giving. despite being battered by economic and social unrest chile's government is standing by its ambitious promise to go carbon neutral by the gear 2050 the commitment is being praised by environmental advocates but in

cities like cornell it's far too early to celebrate as our latin america editor they see in human explains. this is what remains of the once impressive coal company in the city of god. but while today the mines are closed 28 thermal electric plants powered by coal continue to supply more than 40 percent of chile's energy and 3 of them are located within a 3 kilometer radius here in. america shows us the giant coal ash dump of one of the largest plants he says that since 2003 high levels of arsenic and other heavy metals have been contaminating the air in filtering into the water supply from. cornell is the only city in the world that has a coal ash dump inside a residential area 100 meters from a school $150.00 from a nursery school 30 from homeless the ash is

a health hazard. and that's why i go to is known as a sacrifice zone more than 70 residents especially children have tested positive for heavy metals including planet 9 this who has dangerously high levels in her blood stream she and her 2 children suffer from headaches exhaustion muscle and body pains lack of concentration and other symptoms. no one has taken responsibility they haven't said what will be the long term consequences what will happen to our children we've been totally abandoned by the state what will happen to my children if i die. the good news is the chiles government has vowed to close down all coal plants by 2040 and replace them with clean energy sources like solar and wind. these measures aim to confront climate change and contribute to reducing greenhouse gases but they also intended to create a positive impact in the cities where there is contamination from coal plants she

was pledged to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 it will require one of the fastest coal shutdowns yet for a coal dependent economy but the government's plan to begin by shutting down 8 of chile's oldest electric plants is regarded as an ambitious by environmentalists and much of the communities that live next to them. put their lives plants are unlikely to be shut down for another decade the government argues transitioning to alternative energy takes time and technology. unfortunately for residents like one i had none of this the dream of no longer living with her children in a so-called sacrifice zone will have to wait. to see in human i just put on it chilly. and the explosion zone around the turnover nuclear plant a new year spruce tree has been put up in the abandoned town of property at it's the 1st time the town has seen the new year tree since the nuclear disaster in 1906

former residents opted not to use traditional decorations but instead covered the tree with family photographs from before the disaster they say there were a member a much happier time. this is al jazeera and these are current top stories the u.s. has carried out what it called the defensive strikes in iraq and syria against a group known as. 3 camps were hit in iraq one of them came and 2 inside syria the snow. 900 people were killed and to gain says it's in response to repeated rocket attacks on iraqi bases the most recent one killed an american civilian contractor just a few days ago the iraqi prime minister has called the strikes quote unacceptable she have returns he has more from washington d.c. sexual statement from power on defense secretary mark s.

but addressed reporters at mar a lago drums golf resort in florida where they had flown to in order to brief him all move the attacks the message was what you would expect this is a message as far as they were concerned to iran that they will not tolerate they say any more attacks that it's bad behavior will not be tolerated as they put it or that further actions will be considered there are other options that they're considering if attacks continue the b.s.u. and recognize government has called on the united nations and the international criminal court to stop the military campaign by forces loyal to wartime before halfs are hundreds of civilians have been killed or wounded since he launched his campaign to take back the capital tripoli in april ukrainian government forces a russian backed separatists have exchanged 200 prisoners a group returned to the ukrainian capital kiev where they were welcomed by emotional family members and president vladimir selenski the exchange follows talks

she will you create and russia's leaders a few weeks ago in paris tens of thousands of people in a strange straightly in state rather of victoria have been told to evacuate ahead of what is forecast to be another day of extreme fire danger on monday further north the fire ravaged new south wales is facing more strong winds and temperatures exceeding 40 decrease the yemeni government has begun to see rebels for a missile attack on a military graduation parade in the southern town of dollar at least 7 people were killed those are your headlines the news continues here after inside story we'll see that by.

mogadishu suffers its worst attack in the years raising a question mark over transition plans all wrong groups making a comeback will national institutions be able to take hold more responsibility in 2020 this is inside story. hello welcome to the show i'm sam he's a than nearly 80 people were killed on saturday in the worst bomb attack in the somali capital in 2 years president muhammad of the law he has condemned it as acts of terror.