you know what exactly does it mean if names nationalities golding doing a witness documentary on al-jazeera do you support the mask is. an iranian backed group attacked by u.s. forces in iraq and syria and now warns of a strong response. from doha everyone i'm come on santa maria with the world news from al-jazeera sudan has handed down the death sentence to 29 security forces for torturing and killing a pretty protester. a state of emergency in parts of australia as bushfires burn out of control and why getting to a doctor just got a whole lot harder for alaskans living in remote areas.

so an iranian backed group targeted by u.s. airstrikes in both iraq and syria is vowing a strong response but the u.s. is also warning of further action to protect its personnel if necessary 3 camps in iraq and 2 in syria was struck that killed at least 27 fighters and injured 51. now that if we are warning the united states as we warned before that their legal presence means they are standing against the iraqi people and the iraqi people have the right to confront them with all types of resistance a breach of sovereignty is how the iraq outgoing prime minister described this iran called it a terrorist act but the u.s. says the strikes were and this is a how it describes it a decisive response to threats by iranian backed forces against american personnel

well some wonderful team is in baghdad for us she says there is pressure by iran backed factions in parliament to expel foreign troops from iraq. just heard a statement being released from the office of a grand ayatollah ali sistani who is the highest religious authority shia religious authority in iraq and he condemned these attacks on quote iraqi forces which is of course a very important statement because he's basically saying that the type hezbollah being part of the p.f. should be considered a state force and he called on the u.s. to respect iraq's sovereignty and not to further add to the burden on the government which is of course already dealing with 3 months of anti-government protests now we've also heard news coming from al fatah which is the iranian black back bloc in parliament now of course the p m f has not only arm close but it also has its political wings and. is the biggest party in parliament which also forms

the biggest block and they basically called upon political parties to rally together and to basically support expelling foreign troops including the u.s. troops from iraq now technically according to the constitution it's only the executive who can propose such legislation sort of parliament cannot really do that so we have to closely watch what prime minister out of his government will be doing whether they will indeed table such a bill to see the departure of foreign troops and we've had you know parliament calling on the departure of foreign troops in the past before but it never materialized because there was no support for such a move from the government but of course parliament being dominated by these iranian backed groups means that such a legislation if tabled would easily pass. and now we'll hear from mike hanna in washington d.c. with reaction from the u.s. the question is whether this is part of a new u.s. offensive whether it is the beginning of something rather than

a consequence of attacks by the various armed groups within iraq itself certainly the secretary of defense mark espers says that they have briefed president trump about what options remain in terms of dealing with what they see as this ongoing conflict with iran it's important to note that the whole context of these strikes being made very clearly in terms of u.s. relations with iran although the strikes were carried out in syria and in iraq the senior trump officials are painting this very much of an ongoing conflict with iran so once again you put this together with the secretary of defense speaking about what options have been given to president tran and also for example you have a tweet from the former national security adviser john bolton welcoming such strikes and saying that they are long overdue clearly this type of reaction may embolden president trump in terms of what he does next and. gives an answer to the

question is this a consequence of an action or is it the beginning of a new u.s. offensive. on to other news and turkey's government has announced it is fast tracking a bill before parliament to approve the deployment of troops to libya in response to libya's u.n. recognize government's call for the international community to help stop the military push on tripoli by forces loyal to ward haftar or the one who 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 warlords really for have to head of committing crimes against humanity in their campaign to capture the capital 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 not moved to stop him only now as we have a new ally regional and international powers are rising against us the world on the southern outskirts of tripoli has cost the lives of hundreds of civilians and wanted 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 and 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 giddy enforcement from russian missionaries and advanced weapons supplied by the united arab emirates turkish

troops could soon be joining the conflict the promise to support for forces loyal to 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 mandate to send troops but as have those forces advance further into the southern neighborhoods and closer to the density populated areas of the capital the fuel for human casualties is growing. more that there were head of disease at our tripoli. now rebel fighters are being blamed for killing at least 18 people and torching their homes in democratic republic of congo police say the overnight raid is the latest in the eastern region of burn me by a.d.f. rebels now they operate in both the city and uganda and of killed hundreds of people recently following this one from nairobi how do any update on the situation on the ground. while it's now calm about 10

sufficient to the death toll would likely rise in fact this day the number is now $23.00 solely because the killing spree went on for hours and many people still aren't accounted for they say when the rebels into the village they went from house to house putting everything in their path anyone they came across including women and children they killed 2 has been happening the couple of hours that people been trying to walk to any town or water that can take them hours when they get their plan to sleep in churches if that is possible or speak with family members you get a sense there that people are terrified the a.d.'s are from uganda they've been operating in that part of the for more than 20 years causing havoc attacking villages a terrifying people and of course these civilians have lived in those conditions for many many years. this is an area that got us. government soldiers as well and it seems like they're unable to really protect the

population. and people are angry about that they say the army feels like they don't take them as a priority for example this attack they say the army took hours to get to the village at the time the army got the the rebels had gone to they were ducking the army to do except pick up the bodies and healthy people too many town when it comes to the un we saw a few weeks ago people went to the streets protesting feeling why asking why is united nations why are you in the country why in this part of the. the aren't helping us they wanted them out of the country they even burned some property belonging to the un is now karma also in terms of that but it is tense particularly around the un areas when it comes to the government for years for decades people in that part of. the south they've been marginalized by the government in kinshasa they feel that all the resources go to the capital when you look at their part of the d.r. see the roads are in

a bad state there's no infrastructure to feel it down so a lot of people say that when these attacks happen and they do happen often they feel alone this latest 11 of them asked he said why go to the u.n. base we don't feel they can protect us let's go to a church let's go to stay with our family that are terrified people are and that's how that you let down by the u.n. the army and the government. thank you for the. judges in sudan have sentenced 29 members of the security forces to death for the murder of a teacher the quarter in a cartoon was packed for that food act killed in february while being held in detention for taking part in anti-government protests that eventually toppled the deposed president bashir. morgan is in khartoum for us where people are celebrating the verdict hundreds of people erupted in joy outside the courtroom here in the to

city of sudan's capital there celebrating the verdict that the judge issued when he sentenced 29 members of the down security services to death over the killing of a protester in february now the story of the schoolteacher who was killed in february a group the nation especially when witness testimonies came out detailing how he was tortured to death by the security forces protesters have been demanding in february now for then president almost bashir to step down now he was ousted by the military in april and a transitional government was formed in august but the demonstrations are still ongoing people are saying that they want justice and accountability for the deaths of fellow protesters activists the more than 200 people have been killed since the demonstrations began in december and people are saying that they want legal reforms and they want to make sure that despite a new attorney general and you head of judiciary in plays then they want judges to replace them to make sure that every single protester who was killed and there's justice for his or her death and they're saying that they want to make sure that

the full of president obama who was charged with inciting and participating in the killing of protesters is also sentenced to death so that they feel that their revolution is over and that the deaths of their fellow protesters did not go invade . iran says it has seized a ship in the gulf on suspicion of fuel smuggling 16 malaysian crewmembers on board were detained this was near. island close to the entrance of the strait of hormuz iran said the ship was carrying more than 1300000 liters of fuel. in the news ahead we will speak to ethnic groups to say that detailed in chinese detention camps. will.

hello there quite cloudy across central areas of china we have also got a fest remove caddis worm his way away from the east coast but it does mean that i want to show is in the forecast and with quite that strong. cross into hong kong but 20 celsius is the high on tuesday it is a cool day up in shanghai at 5 degrees and still some very persistent showers across much of the taiwan but 20 celsius is the high there you can see the direction of those windows and those showers pushing across china and across into northern sections of coastal vietnam and that will stay in the forecast really as we head off into wednesday that across india now we've been talk about the cold air that's been in place across northern end in new delhi in particular but that same strip of the continent has also been impacting northern sections of bangladesh again here time which is well below the average particularly in the overnight hours so for the next couple of days time which is really just a few degrees above freezing cold by day but as a science by night is particularly cold just 15 celsius in new delhi further to the

south it is moderate in non-poor as we head through tuesday wednesday a similar picture rather more cloud in the picture and again. to the south into tunnel now too. on counting the cost $29.00 teams want to give it's been a world struggle to put aside short term economic game to save the planet for glass of america the middle east people took to the streets to ask the spread of wealth at a trade war reshapes globalization counting the cost on al-jazeera. all right i'm. glad you. got some of it i like.

to take you to the headlines on al-jazeera this hour a top iraqi militia leader has warned of a strong response against u.s. forces in iraq following airstrikes on a shia group killed at least 28 people and iran has also condemned u.s. attacks but the u.s. says it will not rule out further action. took his government's fast tracking legislation to parliament on monday for a vote on sending troops to libya the un recognized government in tripoli is appealing for international help to stop the campaign to capture the capital. by warlords khalifa haftar and judges in sudan of sentence at least 29 people to death for the murder of a teacher of medicare was killed in february while being held in detention for

taking part in anti-government protests which are eventually to post then president bashir. to australia now where many people are being told it's just too late to leave as dangerous bushfires approached and several towns in the state of victoria are under threat and temperatures are expected to rise also in new south wales a volunteer firefighter has been killed while battling one of the 5 kathy opens up the young as more. strong winds and record heat this fire season in australia is being described as kind of thick and now there's a new threat columns of smoke and heat from the flames are causing thunderstorms and lightning they could spread the fires and spark new ones we. we have recently issued a severe thunderstorm warning for central victoria including a specific warning for some severe thunderstorm cells that are moving towards the melbourne area. the fire threat is high in the states of new south wales south

australia and to toria tens of thousands of people including turrets have been told it's too late to leave as out of control fires burn year by they've been advised to immediately seek shelter police are already very strong to get people out of those environments get the wife from the bush environment but as you know once you go on hold out sometimes you just connect from your telephones you just connect from listening to the right yeah you actually. fires in prolonged droughts are common in australia but this year the fire season started earlier than usual millions of hectors have burned over the past few months and more than a 1000 homes have been destroyed the government has been criticized for not tackling the fires fast enough. the fire very quickly encroaching on. areas and rural areas where people. living their livelihoods through agriculture or

they where they actually live volunteers are also struggling to save wild animals under threat the birds could get away so the birds are still around things like possums kangaroos wallabies one bats the kidneys all of them but we were just not getting the call outs. i don't know. the fires are already described as an unprecedented disaster and emergency crews are expecting conditions to worsen into the new year. with a yawn al-jazeera. spain's state attorney is calling for the temporary release of a jailed catalan politician audial john curtis was sentenced in october to 13 years in prison over the failed 2017 cattle an independent spirit he'd been elected to the european parliament in may while he was awaiting his verdict in jail spain's solicitor general's office has requested john kerry us be able to travel to brussels to be sworn in as a member of the european parliament or

a challenge is following developments from london and says john curtis is position in the european parliament is important as to why there are calls for his release his status as a member of the european parliament is integral to this call from the solicitor general the attorney general of spain for the supreme court of spain to let oriel eucharist go to brussels and take up this position as an m.e.p. as an m.e.p. which he was elected to be whilst on trial for 'd these these crimes sedition and misuse of public funds. when the european elections happened in may. his position is m.e.p. means that he has parliamentary immunity and that is why the courts of justice of the european union on december the 19th said that essentially he

should be allowed to come to brussels to take up this position and that's why the spanish solicitor general has made this call essentially it is going through the processes is part of this the machinery the interplay all of european justice the courts of justice of the european union and how that works together with the justice systems of the member states. now al-jazeera has obtained harrowing new testimony from people who say they were detained in internment camps in china according to activists more than 2000000 people have been held in that province most of them muslim wages but there are also minority groups such as ethnic kazakhs some of binge of admit some of them in because it stands largest city. or in mexico as the gods tortured him for fun he is one of thousands of ethnic cause it's who've been held in china's internment camps in the northwestern singeing region he claims

he was forced to take medicines and injections that have damaged him physically and mentally and he says he lost some of his hearing because of beatings he sustained he struggles to remember what happened but he recalls being forced to resign chinese poems and rhymes with. everyone unable to launder songs knocked up in the dark solitary cell for d.s. are often heard screams in there the only fair us one rice meal there are about 25 people in one cell and everyone there had one dream. he's not the only one at this mosque in the in kazakhstan some people claim spies from china have tried to film them because the government does not corroborate these claims other they are interviewed several ethnic conflict men and women many refused to reveal their identity saying they were afraid and feared their relatives may be persecuted. rights workers say an estimated half a 1000000 catholics are being held in camps in china thousands of their relatives

don't know whether they're dead or alive many people have been telling us that basic freedom of movement such as the ability to go to a mosque could land them in jail in xinjiang activists documenting their cases say they all share similar stories this organization has documented the cases of at least 2000 ethnic conflicts who've gone missing in xinjiang your world says many suggest members of the hunt chinese majority are trying to eradicate muslim identity. after. attention people were city came through they were subjected to ideological purification they were forcibly taught chinese language and renounced religion in the camps prisons are tortured beings are not about to sleep people are forced to lie on the concrete floor of those who have been freed from cames there's not a single person who doesn't have a physical or mental health issue human rights watch says the world must act for those being held in detention camps in china there is real merit in investigating. officials who are now credible alleged to have engaged in serious or rights

violations the recently leaked cables published through the i c i j certainly substantiate those points there's room for sanctions on the companies that have been able to refresh an inch in their own vision for individual sanctions on you know people like 10 to one was were to highlight the chinese government officials who've been architects of the policies but possibly most important is closing the camps and giving people inside the region the ability to once again contact their family members. in managed media towards china shows ethnic turkish people in what it calls reeducation camps it says most who've been detained have graduated and left the chinese government denies detainees have been abused and tortured experts say those mistreated have no legal recourse on the international level all we have . effective legal instrument for the victims go work wired the compensation for the torturous. divide in their families.

or in back wants china to repeat compensation for harming him and to explain why he was detained without charge and brainwashed but he also knows that with china's enormous power that weight is likely to be in vain and jolly down to 0 a marquee kazakhstan. in china a scientist who caused a worldwide controversy over so-called gene edited babies has been sentenced to 3 years in prison who was convicted of illegal medical practice in human embryos and what the court in chains and described as the pursuit of personal fame and game his announcement last year of the birth of twins whose genes had been altered caused global concern about the ethics of his work to the u.k. where the search is on for a new leader for the labor party jeremy coleman says he won't lead the main opposition into another election following his landslide defeat to johnson and the

ruling conservatives last month and the arguments over the future direction of the party and how to win back voters has already begun paul brennan reports from london . december the 12th was a disaster for the labor party and the humiliation for its leader jeremy corbyn $42.00 parliamentary seats were lost its worst general election result since 1935 the concept of party candidate 17 was labor support in its traditional northern english constituencies evaporated the sorts of voters who abandoned labor at the election in next industrial seats have been moving away from the party for some time but the support really went off a cliff in this election and that's partly because of bracks it but it's important to remember that a lot of people who voted remain also rejected the labor party this election so it's more than just brick said they really didn't trust or have any connection with jeremy coleman is a candidate replacement will face an unenviable challenge it's not just the 123

seats labor would need to win back to get a parliamentary majority it's also the need for internal reflection particularly by momentum the grassroots group formed in 2015 to support called in socialist regime for labor i'm not saying every momenta member will sign up to that but there will be some as happening now. $980.00 s. within labor we realize what the party is going to change we've got to be part of the change and we've got to be willing to reexamine our own beliefs and recognize if we're going to win an election as people in the left we have to be prepared to compromise and we have to be where the country is not where we would like it to be there are several senior figures thought to be considering a leadership bid among the existing shadow cabinet there are rebecca long bailey emily thornberry starmer and angela raina and from the wider party to support for past critics of corbin such as jess phillips lisa nnamdi yvette cooper and clive lewis the timetable on the rules of the contest will be decided by the party's

national executive committee body still dominated by corporate supporters the reasons why labor's vote collapsed are varied and they are disputed and the party is response in fact it's very future depends on perhaps 2 crucial questions firstly to the party membership put aside internal factional differences to choose a leader who can accurately identify the relevant problems and tackle them and secondly do any of the potential candidates for leadership have the talents and the skills for that task paul brennan al-jazeera westminster. a living in the u.s. states closest to the north pole has its benefits alaska is famous of course for its pristine wilderness but when many communities just are connected by roads getting basic medical care is a big problem the state governments now stepped in to pay for some patients to fly into hospital critics say that's just a sticking plaster solution as hard as your caster reports. life is simple in the

village of new talk alaska surrounded by water and the arctic tundra the 350 you pick natives who live here hunt their own food and take care of each other the best they can but when someone sick help is much further away that doctors are worried that they're my right the only. albertine a charles is a schoolteacher to get to an eye doctor and she'll have to leave new talk by plane she makes the journey every other month at a cost of thousands of dollars the alaskan government's medicaid program pays for the transportation even though i work even though. money i have kids i have kids. i care more than a 3rd of new talks residents live in poverty in a state that's been an economic recession since 2015 alaska's governor slashed the

medicaid budget last summer eliminating non-emergency adult dental care and cutting payments to specialists and travel providers by 5 percent that's led to fears of doctors and airlines dropping out of the state health program which many alaskan natives depend on with no medicine if another or child gets sick they can die. we are now in the city of anchorage where albertine as i specialist doctor is found to get here she has to take 2 flights to cross 800 kilometers of mountain and i guess a journey well known to many rural alaskans wellwood began. yesterday morning we tried to catch right through your likely down here but the where there were that the castle their flight marry a park we'll finally see a neurologist after 2 days of travel i ask what she do without the government paid

flights to the hospital i'll just understand i'm tougher. it's unfair to the to penalize this group of people who do live in a remote area by not letting them have their you know medically necessary care the governor has warned more budget cuts are to come will be felt deeply here in rural alaska where the most vulnerable and isolated populations are found. castro al-jazeera new talk alaska. up us they are on al-jazeera these are the headlines an iranian backed group targeted by u.s. air strikes in iraq and syria is vowing a strong response of the 28 of its find as were killed iran has condemned the attacks washington says it won't rule out any further action so when a full team has more now from baghdad. we're hearing

a lot of responses come out of the government but also the pm math and we've also just heard a statement being released from the office of a grand ayatollah ali sistani who is the highest religious authority shia religious authority in iraq and he condemned these attacks on quote iraq forces which is of course a very important statement because he's basically saying that the type is bala being part of the p m f should be considered a state force and he called on the u.s. to respect iraq's sovereignty and not to further add to the burden on the government of the headlines turkey's government is fast tracking legislation to parliament on monday for a vote on sending troops to libya a u.n. recognized government in tripoli is appealing for international help to stop the campaign to capture the capital but really for half the judges in sudan of sentence at least 29 people to death for the murder of a teacher. who was killed in february while being held in detention for taking part

in anti-government protests that eventually deposed the president on one of the sheer. soaring temperatures in southern australia again creating catastrophic bushfire conditions extreme fire warnings have been issued in the states of victoria sample strayer and new south wales where one volunteer firefighter died battling a fire many have been told it is too late now to leave their homes as the fires get nearer and spain the state's attorney is calling for the temporary release of a jailed cattle and politician curtis was sentenced in october to 13 years in prison over the failed catalan independence bit in 2017 he was elected to the european parliament in may while he was awaiting his verdict in jail. you're up to date with the headlines here and al-jazeera adrian is along next with the latest edition of counting the cost.

hello i'm adrian fenty again this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week 2019 and what a year it's been called the world put aside short term economic gain to save humankind from latin america to the middle east people took to the street to protest the unequal spread of wealth and demand that governments and staring. at a trade war between the united states and china has put the brakes on global growth and is reshaping globalization. the biggest story of this year and for that matter this century has to be climate change and

the lack of will or apparently the lack of will to do anything about it with the exception of the european union.