then matter to. al-jazeera. retaliation a powerful iraqi shia group says it will hit back after u.s. airstrikes killed dozens of its fighters. hello again i'm peter dhabi you're watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up. they're calling it a turning point for sudan 29 members of the security forces are sentenced to death for torturing and killing a protester. walls of fire in new south wales and tens of thousands urged to leave their homes and victoria as australia's bushfires worse. tit for tat expulsions

over a runaway president the escalating dispute between spain bolivia and mexico. a powerful shia group is vowing retaliation for u.s. airstrikes on its camps in iraq and syria hezbollah has promised revenge for what it calls the aggression of evil american raven's sunday's bombings targeting 3 of us bases in iraq and 2 in syria at least $27.00 fighters were killed and $51.00 were injured when the strike sparked protests in kirkuk and basra and iraq's national security council says it's reconsidering its relationship with the u.s. led coalition against eisel the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei are called the strikes a decisive response to threats by iranian backed forces against u.s. personnel as want to further action to protect them if necessary. we'll have an

update from washington in a moment but 1st to mona fulton begins our coverage in iraq's anbar province where some u.s. troops are based. 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 koch 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 this the republic of iran to take actions that put american men and women in jeopardy the type hezbollah is part of the popular mobilization forces a paramilitary group set up to fight eisel it's integrated into iraq's armed forces both the u.s.

has accused some factions in the pm of taking orders from to hand rather than baghdad until recently if the u.s. and the pm are fought side by side against isis following isis territorial defeat 2 years ago the u.s. retained around 5000 troops in country to support iraqi security forces as they search for i saw 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 about the acid attack the u.s. publicly blamed the type hezbollah the iraqi government hasn't attributed blame but has tightened security. said the but the very inclusive purity measures were.

operation for 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 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 seize any

unilateral actions neither us nor the p.m.s. appear to be listening both have vowed to take action setting the stage for further escalation simona fulton al jazeera but that. is in tehran with the reaction from the iranian government. 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 these attacks showed negligence on behalf of the united states and they should accept the

consequences of their actions also later on in the day the government spokesman issued a statement and 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 will stay with the story keep a lid on those in washington looking at the u.s. perspective. the way that this is being viewed in washington is basically this senior administration officials are saying we've been very patient we were invited

to iraq by iraqi officials we are there their invitation and we've asked iraqi rip officials to figure out how to stop these missile attacks on bases that are putting american lives at risk according to senior military officials here in washington the iraqis have not been able to do that so this these attacks or these strikes now by the americans are in response to that basically telling the iraqis if you can take care of this problem we will that's number one but then also sending a very clear message to iran that this will not be tolerated at least from this administration's perspective here in washington. he is the former deputy permanent representative of iraq to the united nations he says any escalation in iraq could have far reaching consequences u.s. forces are in iraq. the government of iraq so the review

presumably will be on the way we would potentially come to the conclusion that. the americans are no longer needed or in any event no longer remain in iraq with the with the. large scale operations against having concluded the american role has been mostly one of training. the fear of course of the last time the united states would rule from iraq in 2011 lead ultimately in 2014 occupying a 3rd of the and this is always been my fear that and then any escalation between iran and the united states will the expense of destruction in iraq and i think we're seeing the beginnings of that i fear the other possibility of course is that this put have been an opening salvo in a wider. there is the potential for civil war in iraq right now the situation and

in the countries extremely preparedness and this could be an event which. kind of prices if. it's of. and thus far can really cause a major explosion which will have ramifications throughout the region for the. pro-democracy activists are celebrating what they say is a turning point in the history of sudan 29 members of the security forces have been sentenced to death for the torture and murder of a protest a school teacher. was killed in february during protests that eventually led to the ousting of the president omar al bashir morgan was at the courts in on. monday morning started with hundreds gathering outside the courtroom to demand sudan's largest city eagerly following what was happening behind the heavily guarded walls some demanded the death penalty for the $41.00 national security service officers they were charged with the manslaughter of. a schoolteacher in the eastern state of

. in court the judge brought them more than 12 weeks of trial to an end. to. the defendants are facing charges of manslaughter which falls on the article $130.00 which carries a death penalty the 1st defendant to the 27th who received a death penalty the 31st in 30 federal sentencing defendants 20. 8 of the charges what abreast are sentenced to jail. the verdict was welcomed by ahmed the hottest family his daughter and death in custody provokes anger in schools all over sudan and a wave of protests demanding the end of the 30 year rule of president obama and he was eventually deposed in april following months of unrest it was initially sparked by rising food prices and grew into a wider revolt demanding radical change the shear has been charged with inciting and participating in the killing of protesters. that we consider this case to

be a turning point in sudan's history many institutions in the past both the judicial and security used to cover up the crimes committed by security forces this is the 1st time we have security forces put on trial for torture it's the 1st ever we've had a verdict on a large number of those involved in the crime the security forces and intelligence services used to be a fortified fashion that were untouchable. after what seemed like a long wait the verdict was greeted with celebrations since the formation of a transitional government the demand to bring to account those involved in killing protesters over the past year has been driving demonstrations for many monday's verdict is only the start of the response for those calls a response days they must include more trials of the accused to bring justice to other victims. activists at least $250.00 protesters have been killed since the start of the revolution 12 months ago so dance prime minister has set up a committee to investigate the death including my son. the local gun your son

little by little we welcome the verdict today but we're also waiting for the trials for those who killed my son we followed a complaint and we've brought forward witnesses that we haven't heard of any trial yet we'll be following that up until we bring justice for my son and others who were killed we will die fighting for that justice. sudanese are celebrating what they say is the 1st victory and are vowing to continue to stave god their revolution until all crimes are accounted for people morgan al-jazeera on their mind. tens of thousands of people are being urged to stay clear of fires across southeast australia there are 7 fires on the new south wales south coast and firefighters say they pose a serious threat to life they're edging people to move to bigger towns or to the beaches in the state of victoria as many as 4000 people are trapped on a beach in the seaside town of monaco to as bushfires in circle a popular tourist area residents on social media say they're preparing to seek

refuge in the water emergency services are sounded the alarm of the lightning and thunderstorms which could spark more fires catch a lopez or a young as the story. strong winds and record heat this fire season in australia is being described as kind of traffic and now there is 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 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 to replace 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 disconnect from you tell a farm's disconnect from listening to the right yeah you're actually at the to enjoy yourself. fires in prolonged droughts are common in austria. 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 5 very quickly encroaching on. areas and rural areas where people. living their lives which through agriculture or they will 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 wombats kidneys all of them but we're just not getting the call out so. i don't have. the fires are already described as an unprecedented disaster and emergency crews are expecting conditions to worsen into the new year katia llopis of the yuan al-jazeera. well look you can see is a spokesman for the county fire authority in melbourne he says the terrain in victoria makes the bushfires especially difficult to fight we're talking about very small 'd town ships and some larger towns as well that and it's all been amongst forested areas of victoria so they're very hard to defend we really have to wait until the far reaches that here and ships in the half or 14 crews protect the k. yes it's in those areas unfortunately we do believe that we're going to have lost a number of houses across a skips landed in the north east of the state just given the significance of

baseball has. still to come here on al-jazeera a gesture of political goodwill spain state's attorney recommends the police of the jailed country one separatist leader. getting 2 adults it just got more difficult for alaskans living in remote areas. hello there we have got the chance if you coast into eastern areas of china plenty of con has been streaming away from the coast in the last few hours but the showers will tend to go on in to choose a now we should have enjoyed in hong kong we've got this on shore flow so we could just have a stray shah but really the rain further to the south in the west across into high now and pushing into these northern coastal areas of it now and still fairly wet

day really across much of taiwan so taipei 20 celsius with those showers that should be dry on wednesday so quite a cloudy day but a much improved picture really as well through much of eastern china 11 celsius in shanghai so not as cold as it was but there are very persistent in this coastal areas of vietnam want to see a washout in the 4 calls as well across areas of the philippines and certainly west of borneo that's where the heavy rain will be as we go through wednesday it tends to come fairly extensive and really quite heavy across much of sumatra not out across the many peninsula but also fairly widespread rains across much of java that want to see showers across southern areas of india but really the main story here has been and will continue to be the cold across northern india and also all the way across into northern bangladesh particularly in the overnight hours but not warm by day new delhi at best up to 17 degrees. the weather sponsored by catherine. they wanted 43000000

pounds worth of weaponry that was 6000000000 pounds in commission. there's no hope of any more because there's always a small cardboard people for a really really good business. in essence we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function more shadow on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour shia groups that he has followed as well in your television the u.s. airstrikes has killed his 27 of its fighters in iraq in syria protesters in kirkuk

and bass for her for jack to the strikes and iraq says it's reviewing its relationship with the u.s. that coalition fighting i saw. pro-democracy activists is celebrating what they say is a turning point in the history of sudan 29 members of the security forces have been sentenced to death for torturing and murdering a protester who was killed during anti-government protests in february. tens of thousands of people are being urged to stay clear of fires across southeast australia firefighters for the blazes in new south wales and victoria pose a serious threat to life and property more than 14000 square kilometers of land have been destroyed in recent weeks. at least 23 people have been killed in a rebel attack in eastern democratic republic of congo fighters from the allied democratic forces launched an overnight raid on. 18 kilometers northwest of the city of beni there have been several protests in bending in recent weeks with locals accusing un peacekeepers of failing to protect them against rebel attacks.

has been following developments from nairobi is now calm but tense of this is that the death toll would likely rise in fact this day the number is now 23 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 creating everything in their path anyone they came across including women and children they killed what's been happening but a couple of hours that people been trying to walk to any town or water 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 the aid 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 these 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 are in a bad state there's no infrastructure. so a lot of people say that when these attacks happen and they do happen often they feel alone. the turkish government says it's fast tracking a new bill through parliament that would allow for the deployment of its forces to libya it's in response to a call for support by libya's un recognized government his forces are trying to stop a military push by the warlord holly for after he's been trying to seize the capital since april turkey's government says the conflict threatens turkish interests turkish legislators of been summoned to an emergency session of parliament on thursday to vote on the bill. police in turkey have to taint at least $124.00 people over suspicion of links to ice so the raids targeted more than half a dozen cities including istanbul and the capital ankara the police are still

searching for at least 17 other suspects a number of those detained believed to be foreign nationals crackdown comes ahead of new year's celebrations which have been targeted by the armed group in recent years. spain says it will expel 3 bolivian diplomats as part of a tit for tat move after bolivia's interim president asked 2 spanish diplomats and the mexican ambassador to leave the country now the standoff began when mexico granted asylum to the former bolivian president evo morales john home and has more from mexico city. libya's caretaker president jimmy 9 years says she's had enough she's kicking out not just the mix can but also to spanish diplomats she accuses him of meddling in her country's affairs not only mostly that what we cannot tolerate is the abuse and arrogance of rulers who are clearly trying to cover up and protect criminals that have committed crimes of sedition armed uprisings and terrorism her anger is directed at 9 bolivians including allies of

ousted president ever more as who've been given asylum inside the mets can embassy the government wants them out and under arrest i am anti moralist protesters keeping vigil outside alongside police to ensure they don't escape when spanish diplomats turned up for a meeting with their mitts can counterparts some thought it might be cover for a getaway the spanish security team waiting outside the embassy were harassed and scared off and the diplomats left stranded eventually they go back to base but the believing government remain deeply suspicious if they don't want to be this group of mexican and spanish government representatives has seriously affected the sovereignty and dignity of the people and the constitutional government. spain denied trying to interfere and announced it was expelling 3 bolivian diplomats in response. it's co-opted not to go to perhaps i'm willing to further inflame tensions that began when it granted asylum to have

a moral is in november. we haven't got the intention to break diplomatic relations with the livia and i embassy will continue its work in bolivia. of course there are wider questions beyond this situation chief among them is whether this caretaker government has the right to make these big foreign policy decisions it's not just in this case it's also broken with former allies and got closer to former adversaries despite the fact that it's unelected and only meant to bridge the gap until a fresh vote. perhaps the biggest question is when those elections will be held so bolivians can choose a permanent government that too has yet to be resolved john homan how does it make screw city. spain's attorney general has called for the release of a catalan separatist leaders so you can take your seats in the european parliament orioles aquarists is serving 13 years in prison for his role in canceling as failed

bid for independence his sentencing came 5 months after his election as an m.e.p. a european court heard earlier ruled he had parliamentary immunity challenges following the story from london he says the state's attorney is not absolved. of any wrongdoing that what's going on here is an interesting mix of european justice spanish justice party politics in spain and also that nation's experience with separatist sentiment the state attorney is certainly not recommending that the supremes court in spain releases oriel from the keris forever that he is now absolved of all wrong doing but it is saying that he should be let out of prison to go to brussels to take up his position as an m p it's also asking that the european union essentially remove his diplomatic immunity his immunity as an m.e.p.

. is doing all of this because the top court in the european union the court of justice for the you said that that is what should happen but there is a party political context to all of this and that is that spends out to elections this year that have been basically inconclusive the socialists have won but not with the majority so at the moment they're doing lots of horse trading and trying to build a coalition one of the parties that they're talking to is the cattle and separatist party that can carry us is their leader also this is being seen in spain as a kind of goodwill gesture to try and help the socialists form that coalition government at the same time as looking like everything is being done in accordance with the letter of european law. the chinese scientists who created the world's 1st genetically edited babies has been sentenced to 3 years in prison. was convicted of

illegally practicing medicine and violating regulations in a chinese court last year her declared he'd use gene editing technology on twin embryos to make them resistant to hiv but the announcement set off an ethical firestorm with many scientists warning that the genetic changes could have dangerous consequences for future generations. living in the u.s. state closest to the north pole has its benefits like close knit communities and of course pristine wilderness but getting basic medical care in alaska can be a major problem as most places aren't well connected by roads from the native village of new talk show castro has more. right 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 playing 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 i earn. money. i have kids i have kids. i care and money 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 alaska natives depend on with no medicine if another our child gets sick they can

die. we are now in the city of anchorage we're 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 try to catch right through you're likely down here but they were there with that so they canceled their flight mary apoc will 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. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories she. has bala describing. allegation of the u.s.'s strikes which killed at least $27.00 of its fighters in iraq and syria protesters in kirkuk on have rejected the strikes and iraq says it's reviewing its relationship with the u.s. led coalition fighting eisel washington has defended the strikes as a targeted response to iranian attacks on american forces gabriel elizondo has more senior administration officials are saying we've been very patient we were invited to iraq by iraqi officials we are there on their invitation and we've asked iraqi rip officials to figure out how to stop these missile attacks on bases that are

putting american lives at risk according to senior military officials here in washington the iraqis have not been able to do that so this these attacks or these strikes now by the americans are in response to that basically telling the iraqis if you can't take care of this problem we will pro-democracy activists to celebrating what they say is a turning point in sudanese history $29.00 members of the security forces have been sentenced to death for the torture and murder of a protester schoolteacher kiyo was killed during protests that eventually led to the ousting of the shia. of thousands of people are being urged to stay clear of fires across southeast australia fund fighters say the blazes in new south wales and victoria pose a serious threat to life and property in victoria several coastal communities do remain isolated from help because the main highway has been cut off. so that is hallway the hallway being kept you would imagine we've got

a number of communities that are actually isolated and again this was a scenario that we forecast a number of guys ago so our focus today is very much about how we can get in how we can support those 1000 packed communities so we have moving to make sure helicopters damage the been stellar areas so we can let and she look at transporting people in and out of some of those communities. we have to do that at the same time we are still facing a challenging situation in washington the growing faustin. last one used when are you on so it's always there for you the website address to 0 dot com up next it's inside story i will see you very soon.

soften your stance so we'll take offensive measures the warning from north korea to the u.s. over stalled nuclear talks how will washington respond and what is the new approach young says it's considering this is inside story. hello welcome to the show i'm sam is a down north korean leader kim jong un has called for positive and offensive measures to protect the country's security and sovereignty but said head of the.