this is al jazeera. i live in doha everyone i'm kemal santa maria and this is the news hour from al-jazeera iraq's prime minister's warning of dangerous consequences to u.s. airstrikes in his country and in syria while iran is calling them an act of terrorism also in the news to down sentences $29.00 security forces to death for torturing and killing a protester. are none of the top stories from europe including high level support

for a jailed separatist leader spain's state attorney says catch one politician. should be free. a state of emergency in parts of australia as bushfires burn out of control forcing a rethink for new year's eve celebrations i'm paul race with all the day's sport including le bron james celebrates his 35th birthday he wakes them all starting on the court as well. unacceptable and vicious is how iraq's prime minister is describing u.s. airstrikes in both the rank and syria however washington is warning of further action to protect its personnel if necessary the strikes targeted 3 camps of an iranian backed group in iraq 2 in syria as well at least 28 fighters were killed and 51 injured. 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. plenty of reaction as you can imagine iraq has warned of dangerous consequences iran says it's a terrorist act the u.s. says the strikes were what it describes as a decisive response to threats by iranian backed forces against american personnel well a similar fulton reports now from baghdad the strikes risk further destabilizing a country already reeling from 3 months of anti-government protests. and unprecedented confrontation between the u.s. and iran on iraqi soil for the 1st time u.s. airstrikes targeting the bases of an iranian backed armed group killing and injuring dozens the operation in response to a series of rockets that struck military bases where u.s. personnel are stationed a u.s. contractor was killed in the most recent attack in care coke what we did was take

a decisive response that makes clear what president trump has said for months and months and months which is that we will not stand for the islamic republic of iran to take actions that put american men and women in jeopardy a type hezbollah is part of the popular mobilization forces a paramilitary group set up to fight eisel its integrated into iraq's armed forces though the u.s. has accused some factions in the pm of taking orders from to hand rather than baghdad until recently the us and the pm are fought side by side against isis following isis territorial defeat 2 years ago the us retained around 5000 troops in country to support iraqi security forces as they search for isis sleeper cells hiding in deserts one of those clearing operations coincided with the u.s. mission against the type that i know as an air base here in western anbar province is an important launching pad for operations against beisel but recent rocket

attacks against bases where u.s. personnel are stationed including i know last an air base in early december could hamper operations. raising fears of a proxy war between the u.s. and iran on iraqi soil in an unusual announcement following that i know acid attack the u.s. publicly blamed the type hezbollah the iraqi government hasn't attribute blame but has tightened security. said the their increased security measures were. cooperation with coalition forces there are surveillance patrols and additional troops to secure the outer perimeter of a search to protect the base investigations are continuing until now but it's not completed. promises of investigations have done little to reassure the u.s. none of the government's probes into any of the previous rocket attacks have been published the analysts say the details are well known and. i think that the iraqi joint operation command in iraq intelligence has many details about the people who

attacked the k one basing cook iraqi government was confused because the pressure of khateeb his blood is deeply entrenched in the iraqi parliament and the iraqi government and that's why they decided to keep in line with iran and the iranian political parties. the iraqi government divided and weekend after 3 months of protests demanding sweeping political change has called on all sides to cease any unilateral actions neither us nor the pm appear to be listening both have vowed to take action setting the stage for further escalation simona fulton al jazeera like that and now we move to teheran with who has the latest iranian government reaction . well iran so far has just responded with words president rouhani was speaking earlier this morning he did address the airstrikes what happened was that the foreign office spokesperson issued

a statement they condemned the airstrike said it was a manifestation of terrorism they called in the united states to respect iraq's sovereignty independence and territorial integrity they also said that the united states wasn't interested in fighting isis because the positions targeted those groups targeted had caused damage to isis in the past but they also said that these attacks showed negligence on behalf of the united states and they should accept the consequences of that actions also later on in the day the government spokesman issued a statement that he denied that iran is behind any of the attacks on united states bases and said that these kinds of allegations without evidence are not a justification for bombing people so the response out of iran has been a bit slow because iraqi groups responding 1st his belied lebanon responded and then we heard something from iran but what will be interesting is how his will respond because and what would united states will do next because the united states

has said iran is behind this group they have close links and how how much will it take before the united states turns its attention to iran and also mike hanna in washington d.c. for reaction from there and mike it's clearly a return of the tree measured by the united states but you have to wonder if it's maybe just the 1st in a series. well an administration official has just briefed reporters on these airstrikes diskettes arising them as a defensive action but saying too that they must be seen in the context of restoring a posture against what he says is a rainy and aggression so the question as you say is whether this is a response to a series of attacks as claimed by the administration officials or whether it is indeed the beginning of a new more offensive u.s. strategy in the region now we do know that the secretary of state the secretary of

defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff have met with president trump in the past 24 hours they briefed him and tellingly the secretary of defense said after that particular briefing that the president has been made fully aware of the range of options that he has in the days weeks and possibly months ahead incidentally to no comment from the trumpet ministration on to reports that the iraqi leadership was informed of the strike shortly before they happened both the iraqi caretaker prime minister and the president asked the u.s. not to carry out these strikes so questions to not only about the u.s. posture in the weeks ahead but also about the way in which should regards iraqi sovereignty haven't been asked by iraqi leaders not to carry out the strikes going ahead and doing it anyway kemal interesting mike hammer in washington thank you let's pick up on some of that with our guests joining us on skype from falls church

virginia is douglas ollivant who served as the iraq director on the national security council and this was during both the bush and obama administrations douglas thank you for your time and. just to pick up on what mike was saying and i hope you could hear that the idea that the iraqis said don't do this the u.s. went and did it anyway and said we'll do it again if we have to if we got an issue of as the iraqi sovereignty here. well i think the united states has been very clear look the united states was put in a very very bad position it all and cheered these soldiers and associated contractors to. iraq's army both in its basic training and it specifically in the fight against dosh and the iraqi government is unable to keep substate actors from attacking it now clearly the attack on all com is ill chosen and doesn't advance the cause very much it doesn't help to be bombing iraqi part of

the iraqi security forces even if we don't particularly like the group they come from that is fighting against dosh on the front lines at all times that said the united states had made it very clear to the iraqi government want to american is killed and we will retaliate the united states had a credibility problem of the didn't do that it just gets complicated just listening to their talking about all the different factors here and the fact that sort of behind all of this appears to be us iran animosity which we know well about and which you know a few months ago building up u.s. forces in the area looking like u.s. and iran might be getting closer to a conflict do you think that is still a possibility even if in a distant one. well it's always a possibility i think it's a very distant one but it's perhaps one of the more up possible ones on the planet right now so we do have to keep that in mind i do think in some ways that perhaps

the united states was baited into this attack as i said this red line which communicated very clearly to the iraqis i mean which communicated very clearly to the iranians it's not clear to me that the iranians didn't want this exactly to happen to destabilize what looks like a process that was headed towards a less iranian influence the iraqi government it's unclear whether that process is terrible timing for iraq i mean you are in iraq specialist you know about what it's been through in the last mean going back to 2003 obviously but right now the problem is the iraqi government is so weak and and it needs to be able to show some strength when it's got this of actions happening on its own territory and can it do that it needs to find a way to show something and i agree that this situation has put the iraqi government in a bad position again the united states made it very clear what position it would be

in when this happened so this should not be a surprise to anyone that this very predictable response occurred but yes now the iraqi government has to find a way out of this a way to assert its sovereignty a way to balance its relations with its 2 outside partners the iran and the united states and try to find a way to get its government reestablished or there in a can or caretaker government right now incredibly difficult douglas ollivant joining us very much india today thank you appreciate it. now the russian and iranian foreign minister condemning u.s. military action in iraq and syria. he was hosting mohammad zarif for talks in moscow salvaging the 2050 nuclear deal was also on their agenda i discussed conflicts across the middle east and said they were keen to increase their cooperation. despite the fact that americans are now thousands of miles away from their borders under a pretext of defending their right they have drowned the people of iraq in syria in

blood the recent actions by americans in iraq are unacceptable to the iranian russia put efforts to establish peace both in syria and in iraq the cooperation between our countries with the talks is proof of that. let's have a look at what's coming up for you on this news out responds after a libyan appeal to stop the fall of tripoli. also bolivia reveals allegations of an international plot to help former president evo morales the latest on an escalating diplomatic crisis. that is football's new technology ruining enjoyment of the game that so many pulpits will have to sport but later. rebel find is a 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 been the by a.t.f. rebels they operate in both to see and neighboring uganda rid of killed hundreds of people recently has been following developments from nairobi and says it is expected the death toll will rise it's now calm but this is the death toll would likely rise in this day the number is now 23 silly because the killing spree went on for many people still unaccounted for they say when the rebels entered the village they went from house to house cleaning everything. in their part anyone they came across including women and children they killed what can happen in the couple of hours that people been trying to walk to any town a walk that can take them hours when they get big they plan to sleep in churches if that is possible or speak with family members you get a sense there that people are terrified. from uganda they've been operating in that part of for more than 20 years causing havoc attacking villages

a terrifying people and of course the civilians have lived in those conditions for many many years when it comes to the government for years for decades people in that part of. the healthy being 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 on a bad state there's no infrastructure they feel let down so a lot of people say that when these attacks happen and they do happen often they feel alone. the united nations ascent a rapid response team to central african republic now to violence between shop owners and fighters demanding money at least 40 people were killed in the capital on thursday the un has warning against an escalation of fighting following years of unrest between muslim and christian militias militarists at a market in benghazi that was attacked and explains now what ultimatum traders have given to the armed groups. reconstruction look at the future 5 neighborhood market

is ongoing dozens of stores were burned or destroyed by the militias when we came at tacking on the french mission in this market attacking traders in the process right now traders are busy trying to organize work and reconstruct their stores and start business going again in the meantime this market has been closed by the authorities until when it's fully restored in the market tension is high in this place with ultimate and given to the i'm proves quite traitorous to so rhonda. the warning is that if they don't in the next 48 hours or so there will be a tough line and now people are afraid that things will get worse before they even get better. earlier spoke to. who is a spokesman for the un peacekeeping mission in central african republic and he said that the government must address the root causes of this conflict. situation was that in pick up 5. we had a situation where we have

a coming out hope we'll have self defense go up. there in the beginning they were there to to to defend the. market does it defend the traders against what we can say ex-ante by laika and now those people become dogs committing atrocities those. collecting taxes attacking civilians and the churches have seen that. for them it is enough and i would there was just one talk to stop they want everybody to lay down their arms for the sake of 5 come back to peace like it used to be. a long time ago it's not a question of firm in his car not being able to but it's just a question of gangs but now we are negotiating with all the parties the traders the gangs and i was so we are negotiating with the disappear society

and local authorities to find ways to bring back peace. a court and sudan has sentenced 29 members of the security services to death they were convicted of torturing and murdering a protester in february the death of the teacher was an important moment in the uprising against former president omar al bashir has been morgan is in sudan's capital where people are celebrating the verdict hundreds of people erupted in joy outside the courtroom here in on demand the turn city of sudan's capital hard to they're celebrating the verdict that the judge issued when he sentenced 29 members of saddam's security services to death over the killing of a protester in february now the story of the schoolteacher who was killed in february of their 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 say 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 and 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 did bashir 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 in vain. now bolivia is expelling mexico's ambassador and 2 spanish diplomats interim president jennie 9 years accuse the diplomats of interference for

trying to extract a former president even. criticize the decision and recalled its own ambassador for her safety on home and with us now from mexico city john just bring us up to date with this one. well as well as mexico in bolivia spain of also sorts from willingly got involved in this tussle and that's because spanish deployments went on what was apparently a sort of informal visit to the mets can say and after that they tried to leave but the cars with the bodyguards the police that were going to pick them up was stopped from getting to them in the embassy and there was a whole sort of cools messages on twitter about this the fact that the security detail for the spanish diplomats couldn't get to the embassy and to pick them up this is obviously a very tense time in bolivia and particularly where the mexican embassy is because our colleagues in the country believe you are telling us there's not only quite

a police presence outside that embassy there's also groups of residents neighbors of the embassy that a sort of holding a vigil they're holding a vigil because inside of that mexican embassy and 9 people which the believing interim government would like to get their hands on and which are sort of allies of former president ever more rallies and this really has caused a lot of tension now when the spanish diplomats went to go out their cars were prevented from going to get them and then after that those spanish diplomats were then told that they needed to leave the country they're also persona non-grata and after that which just happened is that spain has now responded to that and said that it's also going to expel apparently 3 bolivian diplomats from spain so this is really a tussle that started between mexico and bolivia and it started because ex president ever more alice was granted asylum when he fled bolivia by mexico that

started this tension then after that those 9 people that were given asylum in the ascent in the mexican embassy heighten the tension and now we've got to this a sort of 3 country soap opera here and when you have bad sort of situation and you have i mean obviously everyone has their own perspective on it but is there a sense of maybe who is in the right in this particular situation. i think that all depends on which faction ron and what you're taken is that this if you're on the faction that supports obviously believe is interim government led by interim president jimmy 9 years you'll say well we're trying to clear up the corruption and the mess that was left after almost 14 years of government by x. president ever morale is party we need to get hold of these people to do this mexico is getting in the way of that they've given these people that we consider

criminals safe harbor and they've also done that with the ex president even though he he still talked about politics after leaving the country if you're on the other side of that divide you're saying well this is a situation in which the interim government is going after president x. president ever morale is and his supporters this is a persecution really by these conservatives who sort of recognize as a bit of an elite that have been really in opposition to ex-president ever more or less since he gained power and finally got their hands back on power and jimmy 9 years herself was quite a sort of marginal figure even in the country's senate before she before she got into this position of being the interim president i suppose between with those different takes there's also another question here and that's this this is an interim government it's meant to be a caretaker government to get us to the next elections in bolivia in which people

will vote will decide what direction the country's foreign policy among other things will take but this interim government hasn't really wanted to wait for that they've distant they've come closer to the u.s. they've distance themselves from former allies and the question is do they have a right to do that as an interim government john homan in mexico city thank you. temperatures in southern australia have soared again helping create yet more catastrophic bushfire conditions extreme fire warnings have been issued in victoria south australia and new south wales with many people people being told it's too late to leave their homes as the flames get nearer the yellow pages or the young. strong winds and record heat this fire season in australia is being described as kind of traffic and now there's a new threat columns of smoke and heat from the flames are causing thunderstorms and lightning that could spread the fires and spark new ones 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 for toria tens of thousands of people including tarus 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 and far 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 holiday sometimes you just get it from you telephones disconnect from listening to the right yeah you actually enjoy. fires and 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 fires are very quickly encroaching on. areas and rural areas where people are living their livelihoods through agriculture or they where they actually live. volunteers are also struggling to save wild animals under threat birds could get away so the birds are still around but things like possums kangaroos wallabies one bats the kidneys all of them but we were just not getting the call out so. 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 could see a little bit of a yawn al-jazeera. spoke to peter newman earlier who's a professor of sustainability occurred in university he also contributed to the most recent intergovernmental panel report on climate change for the united nations

his belief is that this rise in temperature just isn't a surprise it's been pretty much predicted we are a test case for what will happen in many parts of the world as we get to another degree temperature rise in temperature it's the indian ocean dr paul has enabled this to occur quicker in a stroller it for the last year we have had the hottest temperatures on record right across the country and it dried everything out so that the as soon as it started to become the summer the fires just took off we've now got a 1000 kilometer fire front going through victoria the whole of the southeast these are lies it's quite extraordinary but predicted and i do think that the the you can go back and see what the scientists said

sighing that this will occur a lot quicker in this part of the world. in the news ahead allegations of torture al-jazeera he is from kazakhstan taint alongside we muslims and shin jon pertwee will lie because the race to replace the u.k.'s opposition leader is heating up and he's writing a can champion arrives to defend his title and paul has more on that joke of it should be sports. had some pretty good clear conditions across much of iran and east was across into afghanistan is a bit of but no real weather with that cat instead it is still reserved for the eastern end of the med and in particular across much of turkey and northern

sections of syria now as we go through tuesday it does tend to read the weekend what we have still got want to cause the snow should clear by tuesday it's a little bit milder 11 celsius and aleppo 16 in beirut but again there is a chance of those showers but as we go into wednesday it tends to increase again some more of those coastal showers and again we could see the full cost particularly into northern areas of turkey quite a bit of cloud across into will central southern sections of iran and also the chance of a few snow flurries across into kabul feeling cold there a high of just 4 degrees celsius not cold across arabian peninsula some very nice time which is fairly cool breeze at times the overnight hours again getting cooler but you can see quite a bank of clouds across the southern coastal areas of amman and yemen it tends to dissipate a bit by wednesday but there's quite a bit of cat pushing into northern sections of not expected to bring any showers with it instead there are a few more showers really choose to stand to johannesburg and we could have some pretty strong thunderstorms from time to time.

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at the mercy of the russian camp for palestinian refugees al-jazeera fluent in world news. this is the news hour from al-jazeera and these are your top stories iraq's prime minister is warning of dangerous consequences of the u.s. strikes in his country and in syria they targeted an iranian backed group killing 28 of its finest. judges in sudan and sentenced at least 29 people to death for the murder of a teacher. was killed in february while being held in detention for taking part in anti-government protests and bolivia is expelling mexico's ambassador and 2 spanish

diplomats interim president jimmy 9 years accused the diplomats of interference saying they're trying to remove a former aide to the ex-president even rollo's who is wanted by the libyan authorities. took as president is fast tracking legislation to allow the deployment of troops to libya president egypt time better ones government is expected to submit the motion to parliament on monday if he is un recognized government requested the forces to stop the military push on the capital forces loyal to ward . mahmoud has this report 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 hefted of committing crimes against humanity in their campaign to capture the capital. we are asking the international

community to perform its role after 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 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 our 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 have to his forces are reported to be getting very enforcement from russia. and

advance it 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 density populated areas of the capital the futile for human casualties is growing. more that there were had a visitor tripoli. now a jail separatist leader has received some high level support in spain more on that story now authoritative and your opinion center thanks carol yes the state attorney has called for the release of catalonia jailed separatist leader or home care us to serving

a 13 year sentence for sedition and misuse of public funds. well gesture is widely seen as an act of political goodwill because the socialist party is trying to persuade his party to help it form a government ok us was elected as a member of the european parliament in may and the state attorney has asked for him to be able to go to brussels to take his seat top court so he's entitled to any unity as an 8 partition or. one a set or a challenge joins me in the studio so kind of complicated legal maneuver tell us more about it there's a lot going on here is a sort of interplay between european justice spanish justice and party politics as well i think it's important to say that the spanish state attorney is not saying all is forgiven you can go free what he's doing is saying the oriel and keris should be allowed if the supreme court. in spain agrees to go to brussels to take up his position. be admitted as it was

a member of parliament etc but he should still come back at some point some time in jail they have also asked that his immediate see as an m.e.p. be removed from and that's something that the european court said that spain had to do if they want him to spend any more time in jail. having said that it is unlikely that that is going to happen because there has to be a consensus amongst the $700.00 or so member parliaments of the european union. they're having to do all this because the courts in the european union ruled that because he was an m.e.p. . he was therefore removed from jail time and prosecution etc so this is something that spain is kind of having to do because the european court has said it has to and sort of think there are there is a political context to this in the absolutely and the you mentioned in your intro

he is the leader of this. catalan separatist party which the socialist party at the moment in spain is courting because they want to form a coalition government spain has had 2 general elections this year. the socialists have of one both those who don't have enough to form a majority as they're doing lots of negotiation lots of of horse trading at the moment and being nice to oriel can keris is being viewed in spain at the moment as as a bit of who good will gesture in to try and get those cattle on separatists on side so that they can be a part of this coalition deal or a chance thanks very much andy. a search is on in britain for a new leader of the labor party jeremy corbyn says he won't lead the main opposition into another election polling is a landslide defeat to boris johnson and the conservatives last month arguments over

the future direction of the party and how to win back the voters have already started reading 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 labour's support in its traditional northern english constituencies evaporated the sorts of voters who abandoned labor at the election in next industrial seats had been moving away from the party for some time but the support really went off a cliff in disaffection 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 corbin as a candidate replacement will face no known viable 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 happened in the 1980 s. when labor we realised that the party's got to change we've got to be part of the change and we've got to be willing to reexamine our own beliefs and recognise if we're going to win an election people on 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 here starmer and angela rayner and from the why. at a party the support for past critics of korban such as jess phillips lisa event 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 of varied and they are disputed in the party's 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. al-jazeera westminster. a cyprus court has found a british woman guilty of lying about being gang raped by 12 israeli men the 19 year old woman who cannot be named for legal reasons was arrested after police said she had withdrawn an accusation teenagers had raped in a hotel room at a holiday resort in july she was convicted of public mischief which carries a fine a jail term of up to one year. the wind says she was tracked at her accusation on

to duress from police during persistent questioning without a lawyer present. and advantage of the court the. plan was found to be give the sense of the chief. of their cause is respected however i would expect fully. we believe that there have been. many violations in the procedure and that is a fair trial of a crime have been violated. we are planning to appear that decision to the supreme court hoping that the climate will find justice. at least from the supreme court on the summer question more i'm happy to hear that the court convicted the qs didn't found that all the other. and there she made against my clients with false charges and i hope the court finds it right to serve her with a harsh sentence and they will reflect the damage she has caused to my clients a sentence that will send

a message of deterrence to all those accusers who find it ok to make up false plots against this or that teenage boy now a floating nuclear power plant has been connected to an electricity grid successfully producing power for the 1st time in the russian town of peg the best song known as academic long a soft set out on a 3 week journey from reporter movements in august told by a fleet of tank equipped with 2 reactor systems the vessel is capable of producing enough electricity to power a city of 100000 inhabitants russia says the floating nuclear plant is safe but environmentalist claim it's inherently dangerous. or who london a little later another back to come out and our foreign thank you for that al-jazeera has heard testimony from people who say they were detained and tortured in camps in china according to activists more than 2000000 people have been hill province most of the muslim week but there are also minority groups like ethnic

summer been met some of them. or in the guards 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 pullman's and rhymes. everyone unable to understand is drugged up in the dark solitary cell for days are often heard screams in there the only 1st 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 one. 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 kozluk men and women many refused to reveal their

identity seeing they are 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 causes who gone missing in xinjiang your world says many suggest members of the hunt chinese majority are trying to eradicate muslim identity. after detention people were sent to came through there were subjected to ideological purification they were forcibly taught chinese language and renounced religion in the camps prisons are tortured to north 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 and own vision for individual sanctions on you know people like 10 to one or 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 tools china shows ethnic to people in what it called reeducation camps it's. as most who have 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 or we have not

affected. to meant for the victims. compensation for the tortures. for dividing their families for their supper. or in back wants china to repeat compensation to 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 tom and jerry down to 0 a marquee causing a storm in china a scientist who caused a worldwide controversy over so-called gene edited to babies has been sentenced to 3 years in prison. was convicted of illegal medical practice in human embryos and what the court and described as the pursuit of personal fame and gain on his announcement last year of the birth of twins whose genes have been altered caused global concern about the ethics of his work. a man suspected of stabbing in new

york during a jewish festival has been charged with 5 counts of attempted murder the governor of new york described the latest attack on orthodox jews as an act of domestic terrorism 5 people injured by a man wielding a machete he stormed into a rabbi's house on saturday nights. as about to move into 2020 are looking back or looking at major stories shaping the world venezuela which is actually causing the largest refugee crisis within latin america in recent history many 5000000 venezuelans a fled poverty and chaos in the past 6 years many of them now in paris are trying to make a living. has met some of them. to be used to be almost sort of played most days now he's making a living playing what he calls junk music. he was

a teacher in venice with and played in some of its most important orchestras but now he makes $45.00 on a good day playing on the streets of lima but really. this is the reality that life puts in front of us it's important i can do what i like this is the job and i learned in venezuela to fight for our dreams and get where you want to. go this is part of the worst refugee crisis in the history of latin america and the most under-funded in modern history says the brookings institute. while many business willing to have faced discrimination nearly 70000 have been granted residence there are more than 100000 of now living in most found underpaid and most of taking any job to be able to make ends meet and send money back to the families in minnesota. theater producer and then them in the saw 1st found

a job as a store vendor now she sells toys me that i was forced to and it's frustrating because we were forced to leave and most of us are young we are productive workforce but you don't know what you'll do. you in h.c.r. director 50 because says part of the challenge is ensuring the skills of in a swimming pool. are best used to. eat at the 57 percent of college graduates are belong to a super qualified workforce but if we have engineers selling candy on the street that doesn't contribute to the country's economy that needs to be worked out. fortunately says she and other musicians have figured out how to make the most of their skills and come together. they've created the migrant symphony or. most of the musicians are venezuelans and they're giving concerts sometimes for

free but they say they feel privileged among refugees if not going back home at least they're doing what they love. was. last day of the year we will continue our look ahead to 2020 with a report on the issues likely to affect the u.s. presidential election in the new. sports coming up right now in the news on. the next big step for we'll explain all.

back here with useful very much going to start with football this season in the english premier league was meant to be the one in which the new video assistant referee finally eradicated poor decisions by the actual referee but instead the technology is causing huge discontent among players coaches and fans many of whom think it's ruining football while still getting decisions wrong now the sport's lawmakers have stepped in and suggested the technology is being used too much and too harshly for the good of the game they say they will issue new advice to referees in february on monday brighton's manager suggests suggested they look to an even more radical solution if you want everything so correct that in the end is do away with laws referees put drones up use computers artificial intelligence

and on sure get all the decisions correct but don't think anybody will really like football anymore i think football at times is really unfair but that's what's so good about it it's like life sometimes you get on the wrong end of a decision and you have to get on with it now david moyes was once the rising star among football managers in the english premier league but he's failed to hold down a job since being sacked by manchester united in 2014 now he's returned to west ham united a club that he left 18 months ago moyes saying he has unfinished business in east london where he replaces manual pellegrini who replaced him in 28 aine. lou dobbs business. really really enjoyed not so your last job. in the same. terms think you variation of the leaders of the. world sport sound sustainability don't often go together but one football team

in the u.k. is bucking the trend with a series of eco innovations forest green rovers have already won the title of world's only official vegan football club and have now been given permission to build a new stadium out of wood they believe their new $5000.00 seater ground will reduce their carbon footprint a lower league team already has an organic pitch solar power and an all began menu at their existing stadium in southwest england. at the rio olympics in 2016 the diving competition was hit by a problem that turned their pools green and at the next games in tokyo it seems especially is the problem 2020 organizers are set to take emergency countermeasures after the substance was found in the roof of the olympic swimming venue the fireproofing of insulating material asbestos has been linked to a range of health problems including cancer. india will take part in the 2022 commonwealth games after reversing its plans to boycott the event their protest was

over the decision by host city birmingham england to drop the sport of shooting its inclusion is optional for organizers but india won 16 of their $66.00 medals at last year's games in australia in the sport the country is also indicated it now plans to bid to be hosts of either the 2026 or 2030 event. le bron james celebrated his birthday in star as he reached a milestone in the l.a. lakers victory against the dallas mavericks james he turns 35 on monday became the 9th player in n.b.a. history to reach 9000 assists he got 13 of them against dallas like a summer signing on to the davis had not 23 points as well and 9 rebounds as they used to 108 to 95 victory they stay top of the western conference standings. in memphis dillon burke scored 20 points rookie brandon card at 18 as a mattress grizzlies proved too good for the hornets it was a 5th straight loss for charlotte the grizzlies taking at 117 points 204.

defending n.f.l. champions the new england patriots were given a wake up call as the regular season draws to a close they'll have to play the 1st round of the playoffs for the 1st time in 10 years after being beaten 27 to 24 home by the miami dolphins the tennessee titans on the philadelphia eagles to the last 2 playoff spots that were up for grabs on sunday i think we got it you know think about putting trying to win one game and you know not think about you know many things other than that so. you know we we don't play we're capable we got beat you know go play next week and we got to play a lot better next week. in the n.h.l. its 8 straight wins for the defending champion sent louis blues on sunday night they secured their 26th victory of the season with a 41 win over winnipeg jets the blues bettering the 7 game winning streak play managed at the start of november. australian open

champion novak djokovic has arrived down under with an extra set of judy's to take care of he'll defend his title at the year's 1st grand slam before that to lead serbia at the a.t.p. cup and you team event played across 3 settings. i think it's great for support that we have you know vacation introduced in a country that we can freely say is a country that loves then this i think it's the best place to accommodate a new concept in the new format of competition. the world number one rafael nadal also arrived in australia on monday he's won 19 grand slams but only one in australia and that was 11 years ago. all right that's all your sport for now we'll have more later 100 back to come all of the thank you for that paul. yes paul. tyler is with you

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iraq says it will reconsider relations with the u.s. led coalition after military strikes targeting paramilitary groups in the country. and our intake of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up 29 members of saddam's security forces received death sentences for torturing and killing a protester. a firefighter dies as heat wave conditions exacerbate the difficulties in tackling australia's catastrophic bush tries. and

a gesture of political goodwill for a jailed cattle and leader spain is state attorney recommends his release.