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corruption charges she says up politically motivated. hello i'm maryam namazie in london with the top stories from europe including a mother of a british woman convicted in cyprus of lying about being right calls for a boycott of the country saying it absolutely isn't say. i'm paula race for the sport the rockets star man is back from injury and back in business james harden schools 35 points to help houston down the nuggets in the n.b.a. . hello everyone supporters and members of iraq's popular mobilization forces have fully withdrawn from the u.s. embassy compound in baghdad leaders of the iranian backed group ordered them to leave but there's a condition they want parliament to vote on a timeline for the withdrawal of foreign troops earlier. wednesday the crowds were

back there they were throwing rocks they set fires once again outside the compound angry about sunday's airstrikes by the u.s. on the has blah brigades camps are the strikes that killed at least 27 fighters iran's supreme leader ayatollah khomeini has also condemned the u.s. strikes and warns tehran will defend itself if threatened. me. if you run decides to confront a country it will do it without hesitation we are strongly committed to the interests dignity in progress of our nation anyone who threatens that will be confronted we won't push any country towards war but if others want to impose something on us then we will powerfully stand against them but with its own response the u.s. is deploying $750.00 additional marines to iraq in response to the violence president donald trump threatens to retaliate against iran but said later he didn't want a war ok so we'll talk to mike hanna in washington about that side of things in a moment but i want to start with osama bin java had in baghdad so the protesters

have all pulled back osama but not over. yes kamala's been a dramatic 24 hours here in baghdad after a few years and to the central part of baghdad to the sound of helicopter gunships which were patrolling the skies by the u.s. forces as these protesters were as you rightly mentioned were throwing rocks and stones and lighting fires are outside the compound and now that the iraqi prime minister has appealed to them to end this saying that the message has been delivered and it has been heard by all sides we've heard from the joint operations command of security in baghdad saying that all protesters have been cleared the area has been taken back into the control of iraqi security forces and throughout the last few hours we've seen them move in and a peaceful the draw of all of these people who had come in most of them wrong going to hush the shabby or popular mobilization units shia militias who are now formed

under and fall under the iraqi prime minister it is very interesting that in the last half an hour or so we've heard from his beloved a group which was targeted ads off this popular mobilization units in syria that they have withdrawn and they will be sitting across the tigris river across the u.s. embassy and they will continue to sit there until the iraqi parliament legislates on withdrawing all foreign troops aren't telling all foreign troops to withdraw from iraq now this is going to be an interesting development politically because as you know that i that have been met he is heading a caretaker government after months of protest that he resigned and he is only there until another government is formed and that could take as long as anybody's guess so these are the few developments that have happened in the last few hours it has been a few tense hours in baghdad especially early hours of the morning where with you did we saw protesters getting agitated as well but now. now seem to be moving

towards a calmer phase and politics is kicking in. thank you some a binge of aid in baghdad and now to my canner in washington d.c. so those protesters have got a very clear demand and that's for foreign troops to go instead the u.s. is bringing more in it is indeed the secretary of defense has confirmed that an additional $750.00 u.s. troops will be centered to baghdad as added protection they are based in the u.s. they part of a rapid deployment force they take some 18 hours to deploy so that is under way at present this has not ruled out the possibility of more troops being sent in remembering to that within hours of those demonstrations in the past 24 hours troops were moved in from kuwait crisis response group that has some 100 marines who are on base now in baghdad so the u.s.

stepping up its presence while as you point out iraqis are demanding that they reduce it thank you mike hanna in washington d.c. ok i want have a little look now just to where all of this happened on tuesday have a look at the map it is the heavily fortified green zone in the center of the city pm if supporters were allowed to march right up to the u.s. embassy compound gates before attacking them and then hours later around $100.00 marines arrive to reinforce security according to the pentagon which released these pictures more than 700 other soldiers are now heading to join them so we have got to focus on this thread with us now a former iraqi ambassador to the united nations joining us from washington thank you for your time and bassett are the protesters who have now withdrawn so i guess the acute. protest is over but this time line that they want for foreign troops to

withdraw i mean is that realistic in any way. well i think it depends what you mean by realistic the last time the united states withdrew from iraq completely at the request or through an inability to come to any other agreement with the government of iraq was in 2011. by tooth in 2014 as we know. the islamic state in iraq and the levant occupied one 3rd of the country and we were off and running so this is the danger on the other hand of the current government is a very weak government it's or it was already as your correspondent noted a caretaker government it is not it doesn't have political capital to spend it's it's a spent force and the parliament will come under tremendous pressure by the militia units by the. popular militias to take such a vote it could very well happen and it was i think

a strategic blunder however good it must have felt to have attacked the p.f. units it was i think a strategic blunder for the united states and so what happens with that government being quite so weak it means the americans will do what they believe is in their best interests to protect themselves. that's what the iranians as well who are talking about defending themselves that's all the outside plays in it yes and you have a situation in which the outside players a sort of dictating terms on the ground and literally the government of iraq is a bystander so it feeds further weakens not only this current outgoing government but it feeds into the. narrative of the demonstrations that have been going on for 3 months that the system in iraq is weak and corrupt and in effect will because it is the because those 3 words describe the current government of iraq

facing a genuine crisis where you have foreign powers making decisions over iraq it territory including taking military action. and this action against the us embassy which is a violation both of the sovereignty of the united states at but also the sovereignty of the republic of iraq. it's simply highlights that the entire political system has failed to live up to the reasonable expectations of the demonstrators it's an unfortunate position to be in really as facilitator about a former iraqi ambassador to the united nations thank you for joining us in syria said late province at least 9 civilians have been killed in shelling in airstrikes by the government and russian forces 5 children are among the dead turkey accuses those forces of targeting a school attacks on the last rebel held province in syria have intensified in recent weeks in fact in december alone in the violence forced 9300000 people from their homes. it's

a new year but there's no sign hong kong's antigovernment protesters will abandon their cause protest leaders say more than a 1000000 people packed the city's streets on wednesday but the largely peaceful new year's day march eventually turned violent as police shut down and arrested 400 people for instilling reports from. what was supposed to be a peaceful march descends into chaos and destruction on the streets of hong kong a small fire most likely caused by a petrol bomb birds before it's doused by a will to carry was elsewhere police stupid to arrest a protester after demonstrators ignore their warnings to leave for hours into the protest march police with drew that permit for this rally deeming this to be an illegal assembly meaning they can take action to clear the street and that is exactly what they are doing here riot police have got water cannon clearing the streets of protesters as well as the barricades that protesters have set up crowds

of protesters many wearing gas masks had earlier used a braless and breaks to block roads police fired rounds of tear gas to disperse the crowds. the march it started peacefully in the early afternoon attracting tens of thousands of people who slowly made their way along with 3 and a half kilometer route young and old they chose to spend new year's day much the same way hong kong had spent the 2nd half of last year at another street demonstration. by new year's wish for peace in hong kong but that will depend on the government and the chinese communist party if they continue to tighten their grip on hong kong and these protests will continue. along the way maybe a union groups set up recruitment booths and volunteers collecting donations to assist the protest movement was the crowd didn't let up on its 5.

which include an independent investigation into allegations of police misconduct during the protests and the right to choose their leaders. police did a distance away keeping a close watch occasionally protesters who direct their anger at the police over there. who wanted government protests hong kong has gone on for nearly 7 months now and even though there are rallies and gatherings almost every day they've reduced in intensity there's no indication the government is willing to make concessions they don't no matter what the outcome will be. no one knows for how long this will go on florence louis al jazeera hong kong let us have a look at what's coming up here on this news hour allegations of mass detentions india's most populous state cracks down on protesters opposing a new citizenship law. also we will tell you what the pope had to say after this.

quick incident. and in sports the norwegian wowing the world cup crowds in germany paul will have your support that night. now the united nations envoy to libya is accusing security council members of violating an arms embargo with us and saddam is says there are concerns about foreign fighters being flown into libya now remember turkey's parliament is due to vote on thursday about deploying its own troops president reject typer one says that follows a request from the un back to government in tripoli to fend off an offensive from warlord really for hafter the arab league has warned of foreign influence in libya we've got him a bad day with us now nonresident scholar at the middle east institute he's with us on skype from florence him out thank you for your time. when we talk about foreign

influences i mean it's very vague what is being said there but who are the specific players involved there are definitely a lot of players libya doesn't like any regional or world players even dollar curiously intervening in the country you have right now the primary players however or turkey and russia i would say on the ground and in the air it's predominately the u.a.e. actually the air artie's with logistical support from the egyptians that are in interrupted leave from the capital libya's capital tripoli since april what do you think of the claims as well that aside from turkish forces coming in that there are actually syrian fighters coming into libya as well well these are there are well sourced reports are actually show the syrian forces have already been deployed to libya on behalf of the government of national accord however it is unclear how many

they are so far and the russian mercenaries as well this is i was speaking to an earlier guest about this it was saying that actually and if you talk about syria and russia once again as they were. i should say turkey and russia as they were in syria you know being hugely influential it seems in libya. yet there is definitely been a constant influx of a russian mercenary that has recently actually ramped up so there are more russians that are not coming into libya the idea is that because of u.s. and european inaction and all predominately single out france for being the primary culprit for actual european inaction and this case these 2 players turkey and russia are not poised to actually influence the military landscape of libya and therefore dictate its political future. probably vince with excluding everyone else but also excluding libyans in the process much like they did in syria it says that

what they want political influence because i'm wondering what all these different players in different groups actually want from the bia you mean the external players of the and yeah players well all of them but in particular we're talking about the external ones i guess what they have to gain well the external players and be in a diff they have different agendas obviously turkey has a different agenda then and has different models of intervention the main problem is that so far these have the russia and turkey have intervened because they has been a vacuum left what they want i mean on the russian part is clearly not supporting huf that or they actually want to probably have a area of influence in it and so discord within nato as well so discord within the e.u. and they've managed to do that by well on the turkish side there are aligned against another bloc that has been intervening in libya quite the early release as

2014 dominantly the egyptians and the iraqis about it joining us from florence to talk about the situation in libya thank you for that. bushfires across to australian states growing along with the devastating toll on both lives and homes more than 200 fires and all burning and at least 8 people have been killed in the last 2 days the support from got the. entire neighborhoods have burnt to the ground destroying more than property. jan gilbert is among the thousands of australians who have begun to go back home to nothing rubble and debris now cover what's left of her belongings all of my positions have been tightly in writing everything there is just simply nothing. nothing except that. in other areas the bushfires are far from over. there are thousands of

firefighters are struggling in the states of the tory i new south wales an area that's home to more than 13000000 people and the conditions are expected to get worse over the next few days the winds are expected to be very strong but before the 1st degree temperatures we've got a lot of fire in the last guy that we look at times. in the town of all adult people wait outside supermarkets and stock up on food and water power and mobile phone outages are also a concern you have a challenge with getting people liable to even access the basics like petrol and atrocity and that's causing enormous stress for communities we understand that the australian military is using planes and helicopters sit downs of flames while preparing for possible evacuations. emergency crews are stretched thin and slight changes in temperatures and the wind could spark even more fires there wasn't much i could do a time

a quick and i just couldn't do anything it was just hearing the wind just blew and wind just blew and if you look at everything in mind it's just grass it's just everything everywhere you go it's left nothing. no one knows the precise cost of the damage but it's clear the widespread devastation is immense. leon al-jazeera right some breaking news coming through israel's prime minister says he will seek parliamentary immunity in 3 corruption cases he's just outlined what is a rare and contentious move and likely to delay any potential trial against mr netanyahu for months and in yahoo few recall was indicted on charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust in november and then he survived a leadership test last week after the likud party decided to retain him imran khan in western roussillon for us to take us through to so he's seeking parliamentary immunity what does that mean it has to be a vote. there will be

a vote eventually but let me just take you through what exactly unfolded now had until midnight local time tonight to us for this parliamentary immunity it's been a 2 info process with him sometimes he said he was going to ask for it because he'd done nothing wrong other times he said. immunity is the cornerstone of democracy he has 4 hours before the deadline for parliamentary immunity the process is actually quite straightforward he just follows with the speaker of the knesset the parliament and that process then begin where it gets complicated very complicated in fact is what happens next now israel is going into its 3rd election in a year because they weren't able to form a coalition government that election happens on march the 2nd so any committee that will hear netanyahu is petition to be granted immunity won't be formed until there's a government. that might take until april and then after that it has to be heard

by the committee the committee have to bring it out of committee to plan them and then asked be voted on by the knesset members he's got a political fight and on his hands at this stage because already people like ivan believe one of the kingmakers of israeli politics he had supported netanyahu they wouldn't be a election right now that would be a coalition government but he hasn't as already said he's not going to support the petition for immunity he says we divided along party lines as well so all of this pushes back any potential trial netanyahu might face but he was very clear in his speech he said that you know that immunity isn't forever it's just whilst he's in parliament so he can get on with the business of running the country if he wins the election and that's a big if as well i mean he hasn't won or lost elections the last 2 elections but he did decisively win the leadership challenge and in the likud party east just this

is a political survivors and. he's now absolutely because while he's been ruling his role for nearly a decade now and part of his speech was very netanyahu was very bullish it was very cocky very confident he said that there were no other leaders that it was him that the prosperity to israel he talked about the gas pipeline that was going to open he talked about the his achievements and it was a real showmanship and when you do speak to ordinary israelis here a lot of them will tell you that actually he's doing a good job and they will support him however there are a lot of people on the left 200 center left centrist parties who want netanyahu out because they feel that he's been there for far too long and he actually said this in his speech the only other kind of that's against be the only qualities are is there not me ok thank you for the update imran khan in west jerusalem

now the mother of a british woman convicted in cyprus of lying about being raped is calling for a boycott of the country maryam namazie has those details from a european broadcast center. a cypriot court has convicted the 19 year old woman of public mischief after she withdrew an accusation that 12 israeli teenagers had raped her in an iron apple hotel room in july she says she only recounts her accusation while under duress from the police or foreign ministry says the case raises serious concerns or a challenge. this is the enormous british 19 year old who said she pain guy and raped in cyprus by 12 israelis only to end up convicted herself now her mother has told a british broadcaster that the party resort of iron up is dangerous the place isn't safe she said it's absolutely not safe and if you go and report something that's happened to you you're either laughed at as far as i can tell or in the worst case

something like what's happened to my daughter may happen she's back to campaign trending on twitter to boycott cyprus the teenager was convicted on monday of lying about the great angering women's rights campaigners who say the victim has been turned into the criminal. she says pressure from cypriot police back in july made her retract or accusation against the 12 israelis. when they arrived home at ben-gurion airport some of the young men celebrated with champagne and insulting chance against the woman after her conviction her lawyer vowed to appeal against the decision the decision of the chord is respected however when it's fixed fully disagree with it. we believe that there have been. many violations in the procedure and that is a fair trial of a client have been violated. we are planning to appear as the decision to the supreme court hold think about the climate we find justice inside. some of the

women supporters suspect cypresses economic ties with israel may have influenced the case and they say cyprus is legal system is career. up to an e.u. report in 2018 so the country hasn't fully implemented 14 of its 16 reform recommendations the u.k. foreign office is raising concerns with cyprus about what happened to the woman but the government of nicosia insists its courts are independent the british woman will be sentenced on tuesday rory time and now to syria. all the woman's lawyer. who we've just been seeing in henri's report there joins us live now from nicosia can you start by telling us about your client's condition where is she right now and how is she doing yes thank you and that kind of risk is not in a very group and situation psychologically she suffers from p.t.s.d. something that was put in front of the court as well. expert's opinion was not

accepted by the court. obviously has been the most difficult period for the last 5 to 6 months because she had to stay on bail conditions and that close. ally has been has been on a feast for these 5 months in this country 10 in the tri and so. obviously she's not in a very group condition we'd like to prepare her of course for their outcome of the case because our our ma we had to be honest we expect that this. scene is open to us saying are you saying that it's she is obviously in a in a very difficult situation right now she's only been kept there for 5 to 6 months you are planning to appeal this decision so the next step is that it goes to the supremes court but what can be done to expedite this because it doesn't seem like

it's going to be resolved any time soon. yes this is true about the hour i mean that she has to stay inside. to long to even not depend on the sentencing that will take place on the 7th and the quarter are as to what sentence is going to pause in case the court decides to impose that imprisonment because so far she although they spend months are in prison and should try of detention. then there that we can also request an expectation of their procedure in case she's back in prison any scribe the circumstances of the sequence of events around which she changed her story because of course police in cyprus they've denied any wrongdoing and they say that the decision to retract the allegation was her own. well. that sequence of events. basically she was caught again for clarification according

to the police for a 2nd time after 10 days of reporting their rape and she was kept in the police station arm for i.p.o. the whole state that was. the week she was she stopped being conceived theme of it. being conceived aspects for another crime is not very clear. because she was initially called in for fairness for her there statement as her victim of a crime. she did not have access to either to the team because she has that i had to have a lawyer in as well or as his last breath. and she claimed send this is what was her whole statement was given and that yes and this is of course there is an intermediate decision of the court. and so just to be clear about this when she

signed the statement retracting the rape claim she had no access to legal advice no access to translators and there is absolutely no record of the conversations that she had with police officers is that i mean is that standard procedure over there. it shouldn't be a standard procedure because according to the laws and according to. the facts to have a right to access to a lawyer and normally in the investigation they have to requote down their statements given as this aspect even in this case that is not the only statement given x. is aspects of a crime. it is not clear at which point she was cautioned about being a sas fit. and then for this is not and if not all right thank you very much in a collector. you for taking the time to speak with us the defense lawyer is there for the 1000 year old teenager there in the bank on out fact checking

organizations a warning that not enough is being done to combat this information in georgia he said there and he western websites nurturing russian claims that georgia hosts a secret biological weapons apart tree run by the united states was given special access to the bar trade center and the allegations from tbilisi robin forrester walker has more. than we we showed in george's luka look or through which to takes and prevents the spread of dangerous diseases but pro credibly media claim it spreads disease experiment seeing on humans with cancer zeke a virus killer. and plagues of stick bugs. i asked the laboratories director whether there was any truth to these narratives but we are not making sich a way orson this that the killer must get out of the but they love better tory is. the level of the a laboratory is so high that it can diagonals to hear the sick pyramid have gone

bar and a man of any infection this is no killer bottle it was not me i think this white house is no moderated stink bug coming from the loop of literature but the moderated stink and i'm not a scientist but what i have been seeing here suggests that this is the burra tree is exactly what the georgian government says it is the russian claims that what's going on at the loop is far more sinister haven't been supported by any hard evidence facebook investigators made the stocking claim that judges governing party had adopted russian style d.c. information to discredit its opponents facebook shut down dozens of fake news accounts and pages government officials deny the allegations but fact checking organizations say political groups are increasingly employees such tactics more

than a 100 facebook pages connected to far right organizations spread and he western narratives and then wrote and enjoyed unlikely alliance of patriots party which came 3rd elections in 2016 claims that homosexuality is a western disease and the nato membership pool is another war with russia you are fighting a losing battle. is that how you would characterize it yes because what we see groups of these people is increasing their audience numbers increasing and told their parking we're recording 80 so in this case we have at least a reason. to meet face and to start. working on that issue. like a virus this information in georgia is spreading 1st to the list can be contained written for a steelworker 0 tblisi just one of the stories of bring you at least 30 animals

have burnt to death after a fire ripped through the monkey house that is in the west of germany. said its worst fears have become reality highly endangered apes were among the dead including lone and gorillas west african jim pansies and born in iran you tang's but police say the fire may have been caused by chinese style lanterns which were set off as part of new year's eve celebrations and then landed inside the scene. that's all from london for this but back to kemal and marion thank you so much still ahead on this news are turning the tide on an ocean of whites to thailand to take steps against single use plastics and tokyo's new olympic stadium is opened its doors paul has that and the rest of the sport later.

wintry weather and wet weather continues across northern parts of the middle east a fair amount of cloud around for some particular around the black sea and through the caspian sea so we've got some rain some sleet and snow there spilling out of turkey just nudging down to northern areas of syria maybe want to show it creeping back into lebanon as we go on through thursday further race couple we'll see a fair bit of rain sleet and snow temperatures here struggling to get to read 3 degrees celsius on thursday supposed temperatures are going into friday but it should be a dry day but the states that wintry mix mesas where little further more is towards pakistan towards kazakhstan behind me we're looking at more wet weather just spilling in across that eastern side of the med not looking to brilliance inside for say the next day or so and you can see the levant seeing some bits and pieces of cloud and right for time it's a place of the plough to into northern parts of saudi arabia just spilling out of southern iraq through kuwait we should say dry fine sunny here in doha over the

next couple of days that out of the north ending and breaking a little more sunshine bursting through than the previous sunshine in suez south africa at the moment had a few showers just around the eastern cape the wetter weather is into northern parts of mozambique still looking very just for a good part of madagascar. a city defined by military occupation has never been an arab state he with the capital of jerusalem everyone is welcome but this default structure that maintains because on a project that's what we did for us it was one of the sound of us all for a settlement we this and the story of jerusalem through the eyes of its own people segregation occupation discrimination injustice this is apartheid in the 21st century jerusalem a rock and a hard place on al-jazeera. al-jazeera

. where ever you. you know what the news are from al jazeera and these are the top stories supporters and members of iraq's popular mobilization forces have retreated from the u.s.

embassy compound in baghdad they responded to an order from their leaders who are backed by iran the protesters are angry about u.s. air strikes in iraq and syria on sunday. 400 people have been arrested in a manty massive anti government rally organized crime a 1000000 people turned out to march and israel's prime minister says he will seek parliamentary immunity in 3 corruption cases benjamin netanyahu was indicted on charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust in the. more not top story the withdrawal of the popular mobilization forces from the u.s. embassy compound in baghdad after that 2 day siege simona 14 with the details of the iran backed groups retreat. they left just as they had arrived a day earlier determined and angry but also pleased that they had managed to deliver a message to the us supporters of the iranian backed popular mobilisation forces who had defied the prime minister's orders to withdraw just

a day before now heeded the call of their leaders while some dismantled tents and ferried away supplies used to camp the night out the more defiant ones staged a final showdown in front of the embassy gates burning tires and flags to the sounds of anti-american slogans usa was let out of from our country we don't have a car we can brought it to ourselves more than 2000000 voters who. killed isis road them ran through. the attack on the u.s. embassy was sparked by the latest u.s. strikes against. brigades which is part of the popular mobilization forces the majority of the crowd consisted of its members and supporters but some here say they were also driven by what they perceive as an unjust american policy in the region this is my land and if you want to stay here

you must understand it's. when the governments believe and understand. it's we can leave. as crowds withdrew u.s. helicopter circled overhead after reinforcements arrived from kuwait the night before the white house had pressured the iraqi government to end the standoff but it was clear that of florida's here didn't want to risk confrontation iraqi security forces surrounded the embassy but use no force to remove the crowds or the iraqi governmental forces have been put on a very confusing and sensitive position as i mentioned they have a very sharp partnership and an alliance with both countries the u.s. and iran so the iraqi government has to prove to the u.s. that it's taking either a neutral stance or it's protecting the u.s. embassy because that's what a government has to do. and yet the outer gates of the embassy burned and

vandalized bear witness to the iraqi government's inability to protect the u.s. presence here here at the u.s. embassy appears to be coming to an end with u.s. trade and iraqi counterterrorism forces now taking over the security and basically securing the area of the crowd but the brigades have said that this is just the earth left and for the united states they have vowed that they will not let them down until they feel full departure of u.s. forces from iraq and the monopole to al-jazeera put out. prime minister designate says 40 percent of his new cabinet will be made up of women. generally has submitted his proposed cabinets to the president the members will and will be announced only after the president sends the list to parliament this comes in the 3 months after an election in which no party took more than a quarter of the seats the former prime minister of guinea bissau and ex army chief or moto c. so call him barlow has won

a presidential runoff he got 54 percent of the vote and barlow takes over from president. who was eliminated in the 1st round is encountered that domingo's. says the vote was rigged and he'll contest the result of the supreme court has been political instability without going made a vase naming as many as 7 prime ministers in the last 5 years. now the daughter of angola's former president has told al-jazeera there's been a lack of due process after an order was given to freeze her assets isabel dos santos insists accusations of corruption are politically motivated and says she's not been summoned by any court but the government says action against her is part of an anti corruption drive. well isabel dos santos has been described as africa's richest woman her father the former president shows a eduardo dos santos led angola for 38 years until 2017 and all is an oil rich country oil production and the industries supporting it contribute about 89 percent

of exports but still much of the population is poor a month filomena doesn't us who is the son of the president and half brother of isabel went on trial for corruption himself he has pleaded not guilty i spoke exclusively to isabella dos santos a little bit early and began by putting the allegation that her companies have deprived the government of more than a $1000000000.00. we have not been summoned we have not received any notices from the court nor are i or any of my i directors or companies have been issued any notices whatsoever so this was a completely secret procedure we had no recourse of defense so we were never called to show any documents or even to resent any witnesses in fact we're completely unaware that the case was going on so this is very very worrying because obviously you know in a state of law and in the name aquatic state of law in a country like angle of that i believe it and will it should be it's key for an

investor such as myself i'm one of the largest investors in the country founded a number of companies that are not related to the states of these are companies i work in in retail in for example in media we work in telecom have shopping malls so we basically work in the private sector with private companies in the market and their competition as a laborer is a prize sorry to interrupt you maybe that everything you've described as there is the problem you've got so much influence and so many parts that this new government says that's too much well i'm concerned that might be the case because evidently this is a politically motivated attack there's no doubt about that my father was the former ruler of angola he was president for a very long time chose not to stand for this elections he chose not to stand in 2017 believing that it was important to have a transition it was important for someone new to come and unfortunately the nuclear

who came on board has now trying to convey is politically motivated attacks on his family and specially on his children your brother went on trial for corruption as well he pleaded not guilty did he get proper legal recourse i mean you're saying that this is all been conducted in private as far as you're concerned but he's actually gone to court. my half brother was if you let me know was charged a few months ago and he was under preventive custody for a long time years and all that the law establishes that you're only allowed to be under preventive custody for 4 months in fact he stayed for 9 months so he was arrested for 9 months with no trial no charges this was a complete violation of human rights so there was a leaked unveil asian of his rights or his legal rights he also was not afforded representation on blocking his accounts they have not allowed him to pay for his legal fees so in fact he had to ask for estate lawyer to represent him and i am

very concerned that these court cases are just instrumental just just political instruments 222448 strategy of undermining the legacy of president or sanders and he has achieved. so the protests in india are over that new citizenship law and most of the violence we've seen has been confined to one northern state the government in accra pradesh is led by a hardline hindu nationalist who has been accused of being biased against muslims and as a report now from beirut. 24 year old ali was shot in the head he was a bread maker and the sole provider for his family. his 80 year old father is inconsolable his mother less his disabled brother with 3 kids who are raised has no clue how the family will survive the loss. didn't even let his body home for

the last. what happened to the government what's happened to the police but you came to this fighting. on december 20th some people here in the city of mirror to try to protest against a controversial new citizenship law that many say discriminates against muslims the police say the protesters took the rocks which led them to use force. family says he was not even part of the protests and was merely walking back home from the restaurant he worked in when the police shot this was a video with someone they say it was a witness and claiming he saw the police shooting him al-jazeera cannot independently verify its authenticity. activist who went on a fact finding mission to the city soon after the killings say most gunshots were above the waist and appeared targeted this is absolutely quite deliberate shooting to kill it is not following the standard operating procedure of announcing there

were no announcements no warning announcements mean nothing of the kind and no attempt to use tear gas or water cannons or anything like that no attempt to shoot at the feet 1st it was street to be a shooting to get. activists accuse the police of being biased against muslims. in a recent video the city's superintendent of police a collision are saying it was her telling people in a muslim dominated neighborhood to move to pakistan. we asked the superintendent about the allegations and i will i won't comment on that and while he admitted that the police did fire shots he said it was protesters with illegal firearms who killed the people however he added the police were investigating and or undrinkable there's a big difference between a clean and an untrained shooter the mob doesn't see whether it's firing from behind or front. he said that a dozen police officers were shot and injured and shared this video people here say

they are demonstrating for their right to live in the land of india and that they don't want to go to pakistan they also say they fear the produce and accused of molesting people indiscriminately they say at night taking time off their neighborhoods in case officers. family is in mourning they demand an investigation but don't expect the administration to conduct it fairly. made out with the predation india. thailand has one of the world's biggest producers all of plastic pollution in our oceans retired as an authority so they're trying to clean up the country by banning some single use plastics but as jessica washington now reports they also face another challenge to change consumer attitudes. around $45000000000.00 plus of bags are used every year in thailand for the new year will bring a change in behavior for consumers all around the country major department stores

convenience stores and supermarkets will all implement a ban on plastic bags from this year signs like this are on display around the country explaining the changes telling consumers they'll need to plan ahead for the next time they go shopping there's also a ban on using products with micro beets and plans for a ban on plastic cards within the next 2 years. honestly i think this is a good idea because it will preserve the environment these days so hot as the weather is changing it's hard to do my job as a driver because of the heat we need to stop using so much plastic and reduce the garbage overall but getting thai consumers to break up with plastic could prove challenging the highest percentage of plastic usage doesn't come from department stores and convenience stores it comes from places like this fresh brewed markets and for. installs and getting independent sellers to get on board with a plastic band could prove challenging because. i think a plastic bag bed is

a good idea but what will i use instead what would be a good substitute the supply was a wet so they'd need to be in a plastic bag but still i think reducing plastic is a good idea because of climate change. the empty plastic push has been in part spurred by the high number of wildlife fatalities caused by plastic ingestion one case which caught the attention of the public was that of a baby to go which died after eating several kilograms of plastic that case and others like it served as a graphic reminder to the public of the dangers of excessive plastic usage. now pope francis has apologized for slapping a woman on the wrist during a new year's eve celebration watch this the post the the population of the pontiff appearing visibly angry as the woman then pulls his hand a greeting papal many steps are on the hand well the head of the roman catholic church has expressed his regret for losing patients. that's less and less no name

magica god salvation is not magic but it is patient salvation that is it involves the patience of love love makes is patient many times we lose patients including me and i apologize for yesterday's bad example. still ahead for you on this news hour well tennis number one rafa nadal gets all on the trail of wildlife and trophies in australia paul will have your sport in a moment. my name is some people say that my feelings are only programmed that they're not real but if i think the real 10 they are real don't you think south america was designed to be the world's most advanced autonomous android is one of the more advanced robots in the world can around but feel that's a philosophical question it's not a lot of but you do socially connect on

a subconscious level we are creating this new kind of entity. in the case to help or associate. at least has the potential to be biased in a number of different ways. for jurors for the computer to get. those officers who commit those data entry is wrong to be saying that your son is wrong to. kill becoming a suspect before the actual crime and in-depth examination into preventative policing pre-crime on al-jazeera.

welcome back policy with its warts and all thank you very much we start in the n.b.a. where the rockets star man james harden was back from injury and back in business in houston russell westbrook vi was also returning for the rockets and he did the early damage against denver. nicol yoke it has struggled this season for the nuggets he was doing his best to keep his side in the game but harden with 35 points would inspire the rockets to victory there go on to take 81272112. and in the states 6 straight defeats for the hornets boston celtics the team celebrating at the buzzer in charlotte jason tatum firing $24.00 points their leading scorer kemba walker also contributing an 809 to 92 when. in english premier league jones a marine yost tottenham have made a poor start to 2020 the portuguese watched his team lose it one nil away to lowly

southampton is the 3rd loss in one league game since marino took charge in november and leaves them in 6 well there's the rest of the early results and right now champions manchester city beating everton in one of 3 live matches struggling arsenal take on manchester united later well leaders liverpool play sheffield united on thursday. has been weighing into the v.a.r. video review debate after goals were ruled out because of players' armpits or toe was offside the only problem is it takes like feels like half an hour if you told me to is there or not it was our bit and it's not called but at the end if somebody goes you can score a goal with armpit did an ok and it's offside the new national stadium in tokyo built for the olympics in july has staged its 1st sports event 60000 football fans watched kobe beat and players in the emperor's cup final organizers of the 2020 games still looking to make improvements for spectators at the one point

$4000000000.00 venue. other than are saying so we need to consider more about the signage and about how to get to destination to some areas how to create easily understandable wording and also how information should be provided to customers who come to the stadium. england star. is a doubt for the 2nd test against south africa beginning on friday the paceman only bowled 6 balls in training before pulling out with a sore elbow and would have been practicing at stadium in cape town they'll be looking to bounce back in the 4 match series after losing the 1st test 507 runs that when you look at the last test it having south africa 111 for 5 and. we were 143 in our 1st innings in south africa end up with a 101 lead after the 1st innings i think that's a big area of the game where we lost that way lost the match so those key moments recognising them and performing better in those when we go into the sets the top men's tennis players start their year at the new a.t.p.

cup team event in australia but not everyone seems excited to be involved on wednesday canada's dennis scheib of urged organizers to merge this tournament with the existing davis cup i think it felt weird to have 2 world team event within one month of each other the prize money on offer for the new a.t.p. cup is $13000000.00 less than november's event in madrid while spain beat canada in the davis cup final and his team have been taking in some of the wildlife sights near their base in western australia that all says this new event is important and not just a light warmup for the australian open honestly i think for all of this tournament is not for the abrasion for the go and open eyes of the other we want to compete well and then we will have a week before those going open for me personally to practice for some of them to play. so we're very focused on that i'd be ready for this competition we

have not taken this quantities of like liberation for for another one. noise marius linda very committed a great start to the new year in ski jumping in front of a packed arena of 20000 fans he broke the hill record garmisch heart and passion in germany 143.5 meters on his 1st jump the cornerstone of his victory which was also his 1st title in world cup a vent this is the 2nd leg of the 4 hills tournament with events to come on saturday and monday. all right that's all your sport for now will have more a bit lighter come on paul thank you so much for that and that is your news out there is more news with merriam namaz the on the team in london in just a few moments but do join us again for the news hour from here in doha at 2300 hours g.m.t. about 4 hours from now after more than 13 years of this channel being on air you might just notice a few small changes i'm come all sons and maria thanks for joining us remember the

headlines for you wherever you want them at al-jazeera dot com. the last time you were out on the streets protesting whether online you feel the weight of the system when you walk through each and every level or layer further and further into the jail or if you join us on say entry has to start from day one whether again you and attention or you incarcerate this is a dialogue everyone has a voice for the united states that supply costco right will be varying accounts but i want to give people the reason for joining the global conversation on mt is iraq

it's a tough time for the afghan. security forces taliban attacks have increased their suffering heavy casualties and the prospect of a withdrawal of u.s. forces hangs over them yet young men are still joining up some for reasons but others it's the only way to get a job despite the risks midway's curry be was an army bomb disposal engineer in helmand province he knew the risks he was blinded in both eyes and lost a leg when a roadside device exploded as you try to defuse it always aware of the danger of seeing friends wounded while working on mines i wasn't scared to lose an arm or a leg is a sacrifice we have to mike to serve this country. the brazilian economy is booming but deep divisions still exist between the haves and the have nots in a country where smartphones have become a part of everyday life technology help bridge the gap. the serious the challenges

developers to design apps for a better world travels to real dish on need and needs the young people tasked with making a different life than surveil a far from al-jazeera. was . killed you know that. after 2 days of protest leaders of an iranian backed group tell their members to withdraw from the u.s. embassy compound in baghdad. hello i'm larry i'm ozzy and i'm daniel with al-jazeera. widespread devastation as bush tries engulfed australia's south east coast at least 15 people are believed to have died and scores a missing.