it matters so much to the rest of the world's indigenous people who live here have always realized that now is the smoke fills the skies and the ashes pollute the river the rest of the world is beginning to realize it too. thousands of people attend a funeral procession in iraq for the targets of friday's u.s.s. strikes in baghdad. this is auxerre live from doha also coming up in the program his reign of terror is over donald trump defends his decision to kill and soleimani saying he acted to stop a war with iran not stop one. rise up against foreign occupation warlord who he for have to school to libyans as turkish troops prepare to join the war. another state

of emergency in southeastern australia where catastrophic bushfire conditions back . so that we begin in iraq where thousands have been attending a procession for those killed in friday's u.s. airstrikes targeting major general cause some sort of money the formal funeral has been underway for the top iranian commander as well as. the deputy commander of the around by popular mobilization forces behind us will later be buried in not just in iraq so the monies body meanwhile will be flown to iran let's go straight to baghdad where zone pinch of aid is standing by and is ahmed just take us through the day's events have things gone. well dick in this warning we got the funeral procession under way from just the outskirts of the green zone in

baghdad moving to words meant shyam and then towards karbala and then another for it would be the final resting place of 100 the 2nd in command of the popular mobilization forces along with class into the money the leader of the force the mood here has been angry but restrained thousands of people have turned up with flags belonging to the various factions which constitute the popular mobilisation forces the group of militias which was a key in fighting i salute and at times was seen as indirectly coordinating with u.s. forces as well and now they find themselves at odds with the u.s. forces are on this was one of the leaders who you saw outside of the u.s. embassy compound on tuesday as iraqi fighters as part of of these militias went in and laid siege to that compound and in the wake of these events the leaders have said that there is going to be revenge or we've been hearing all sorts of chants from this protest saying that death is certain but it will be certain for the enemy

as well people saying that no one this money your blood will not be spilled in vain so a lot of anger on the street but again a remarkable show of strength restraint as well where many analysts had feared that this might turn violent this could. this crowd could turn to words the green zone as well but so far none of that has happened people are angry they're showing suborders outpour of grief as well we've seen children we've seen women not people from various sections of society where we saw the iraqi prime minister both the current and the former prime minister as well as the leader of the popular mobilization forces who is also a national security advisor or seen at this procession anybody who's everybody and a body and everybody at the iraqi the helm of affairs is there. they are saying that this is a flagrant violation of his sovereignty they are bracing themselves for repetitions and reactions which the iranians say is going to be at

a time and place of their choosing. meanwhile president rouhani of iran has been busy fielding calls from right around the world. absolutely and so has the iraqi president as bob solly has been speaking to the french his french counterpart as well as turkish both presidents calling him. saying that they are both conversations very similar in nature saying that they've both countries have reaffirmed their support for iraq's sovereignty and no international leader wants iraq to become an international of war fears playground where escalating tensions between the united states and iran manifest themselves here in iraq because iraq has been so close with both both countries that are has one of the largest u.s. forces presence since the u.s. led invasion here more than 5000 troops already stationed here $750.00 deployed to the region after the embassy attack and then $3000.00 additional troops so iraq

does not want to be boiled brugge brought down into this conflict of these 2 major countries but indeed it finds itself at the crosshairs and the iraqi government again a government which has been forced out by protests is bracing itself to appear not just before the proponents of iran's involvement in its internal affairs but also the opposition which sees iran as meddling into iraq's affairs and one of the reasons why there is rampant corruption and a lack of jobs on sunday that is going to be an extraordinary session of the parliament where all of these affairs will be undoubtedly discussed by the politicians as well as talk of a legislation or a cancellation of the agreement between iraq and the united states as many people including in peace see this attack on questions of the money and i will match the mundus as a violation of the united states rule of engagement and iraq's sovereignty as all

inside so that's a zone but you have a reporting from by and. well thousands of iranians are denouncing the united states for sort of moneys assassination they're gathering in cities and towns right across the country shouting death to the united states and calling for revenge hundreds of students have also gathered at the university of tehran. meanwhile a red flag has been symbolically raised over the cotton mosque in iran's holy city of qom it's a traditional shiite symbol of blood spilled unjustly and the call to avenge the person who was killed multiple iranian military leaders are vowing to retaliate for sort of monies killing a top revolutionary guards general has threatened attacks on ships in the persian gulf and to punish americans wherever they are in reach also jabari is in tehran where the country foreign minister has traveled for talks as the gulf state urges all parties to exercise restraint. we've just heard from the foreign ministry qatari foreign minister mohammad. is in the iranian capital and holding dialogue

with his iranian counterpart while much of the rate we understand that this was a very last minute trip it is the 1st official visit from the qatari foreign minister at a very very critical time we believe that he will also be meeting with the iranian president hassan rouhani later on saturday these meetings come at a time when the international community is extremely concerned about how or iran will retaliate to the assassination of a major general a money we've also been hearing from president hassan rouhani who visited the family of the assassinated general early on saturday morning into let's hear some of what he had to say. 'd this great man deserves not to be killed by any ordinary person or terrorist but to be killed by history's biggest terrorist when this general diet the whole u.s. army is put on alert and the entire region. money is assassination is worse and

already tense relations between the united states and iran depends going says it will now deploy more than $3000.00 troops to the region in the u.s. reaction has been split largely along party lines republicans praising donald trump's actions well rival democrats questioning why the president did not consult congress before approving the strike speak to a question of political hay and he joins us live from the pentagon. $3000.00 troops what more do we know about their deployments and what will their role be. well there there pretty much as a just in case they're needed in the region the pentagon announces about 3000 troops or from the 82nd airborne this is the immediate response force they're heading out to join this $650.00 that are already there we believe they're probably going to spend most of their time in kuwait and this is expected to be a 60 day deployment but of course it can be extended because really the big question now is when will rand respond and exactly how will they respond so this is

a force that is trained to basically just sit in the region to be able to rapidly deploy if they're needed if there's an attack somewhere. the reports of the united states stopping the fight against for the time being what more do we know about well i've been asking around the building and surprisingly not surprisingly because it's saturday 'd there aren't a whole lot of people around here but that would make sense and we do know that nato has postponed basically delayed its training mission in iraq as well and this is why that makes sense they're concerned that iran is going to go after u.s. targets obviously it's much easier to protect american forces if they're within fortified bases as you know most of the bases have several levels of perimeter security so that gives them a sense of having a little bit more security that if the troops were basically patrolling the streets so we're trying to get official confirmation of that here let you know soon as we get it but it does seem to make sense because obviously they're concerned they're afraid that american soldiers all over the world are now going to be targeted by iran run of course a lot of the dissection of what's happened has been going on around the world not

least in the united states and further view on the motives behind donald trump's actions in. what we're seeing democrats say remember that movie way the dog with the president possibly trying to distract from the impending pietschmann trial in the u.s. senate of course republicans are saying that's nonsense that this was in fact justified the big question though is going to be about the intelligence we've had some members of congress from both parties that have been briefed we're seeing a trend now democrats are coming out and saying there's not enough there there to have taken this step and republicans are saying no the president was perfectly justified so how does this going to go forward well the senate we expect is going to get a full the full senate 100 members are going to get a briefing from the intelligence community about exactly what this intelligence was because remember this is a very big deal this is the u.s. assassinating a leader of a foreign government in another country without that countries permission that is illegal unless they can say they were acting in self-defense and that's what we've

seen from the secretary of state my pompei oh he's been saying there was an imminent threat that was putting hundreds of not dozens of american lives at risk so they now are going to have to prove that to members of the house and senate and what we're going to see them play out on the floor is we've seen republican senators saying we want a resolution saying this is a great thing that the president did and we're seeing it democratic senator tim kaine saying he wants to put forward a resolution banning the u.s. from entering conflict with iran so this would be some possibly some really key votes coming up in the u.s. senate in the u.s. house right now everyone saying ok 'd this happened why did it happen and is it legally justifiable that it happened so there's going to be still much more debate about this in the pentagon at the capitol in the state department at all really across the country rights to be very much and see how it all unfolds but even so i bring thanks a lot well for more perspective we spoke with roger shanahan who's a research fellow at the institute for international policy and he's sort of monies

death is likely to bring political upheaval to iraq. from foreign policy to middle east it's relatively incoherent and reactionary rather than the result of well thought out strategic intent but i think what we're saying in terms of military sponsors in the short term is a change in the rules of the game and we saw that after the death of the u.s. military contractor. against the attack on the attack against the u.s. and iraq and we saw a quite just portion response from the u.s. attacking 5 militia targets killing up to 30 people including some iranians and now he's saying this response as well so i don't think that we can i did use a long term strategic change other than there's a change to the rules of the guy in the stand up the train the u.s. and iran yes i mean you know i don't even do something of this magnitude expect.

you know the playing field to study the same i think for the next few weeks and perhaps couple of months while both sides are taking stock of exactly what's happened and trying to chart the next i think is going to pick a period of fear politico and security uncertainty in iraq particularly but in the broader region. still ahead here on al-jazeera. china replaces its top representative in hong kong as princess ends of the 7th month and. then a new year's mystery how did 4 men miss and see it colors go in free japan and what does it mean for the charges against.

how we got the rain clouds gathering across central parts of china as for japan here it's a fine and dry winter weather making its way from west to ace through the sea of japan will see some wet weather just easing over towards honshu but coming in behind this next weather system that will slide out of the yellow sea it's running over towards supreme peninsula central areas of china sensing some wet weather to go through sunday and that is and snow on the northern flank of that is sunday into monday when it will make progress they were towards a south korea or talking to about across a good part of japan temperatures getting up to around 10 maybe 11 or 12 degrees celsius so there is a china generally fine and dry there are a few showers just sliding their way down around the coastal fringes the vietnamese just casio watch out to into cambodia or even into laos eastern parts of the philippines or sort of with a chance of seeing some showers but the western weather remains across indonesia just southern parts of malaysia a lot of wet weather pushing through here not as wet as he has been recently but

some wet weather there never the last chance of some weather to say into the eastern side of india just where we have these clouds here just easing down towards on top of dash but today somewhat trying for a good part of bangladesh. for the nomadic jacka tribe survival is about reaching their destination if we don't hurry will never be able to get the top of the story we follow the mongolian herdsmen on a treacherous migration. can trace dangerous the ice and then as they strive to preserve their traditional way of life into the legendary sometimes luser cattle there was the cold war because of the storm risking it all mongolia on al-jazeera.

every i knew what she had to sarah a reminder of our top stories this hour the formal funeral for you for the top iranian commander custom sort of money and. the hundreds of iran back pocket mobilization forces is on the way in baghdad both men were assassinated in u.s. airstrike in baghdad airport on friday. in iran thousands of people across the country including several 100 students at the university of tehran up denouncing the united states for sort of moneys assassination many a shouting death to the u.s. and calling for revenge. now firefighters in australia are bracing for a difficult night as hot and windy conditions continue to spread bushfires nearly 150 files a burning in new south wales alone

a dozen of which are out of control in south australia 2 more people are confirmed dead after that call quote fought on kangaroo island and dozens more properties have been destroyed in several states in victoria at least a 1000000 hectares of bushland has been banned and 6 people are missing tens of thousands of people have fled the worst affected areas in the southeast jessica washington is in one of the areas of my low a bay on australia's southeast coast. many parts of australia have been devastated by this year's bushfire season this south coast of new south wales is just one of them which has been hit incredibly hard if you take a look at these trees you can see that many of them have been absolutely blackened and most of them at the roots that means that they are a risk to the residents here the residents in this community of milou of they do face a difficult prospect of rebuilding their community streets like this one are not uncommon in this community row after row of houses completely destroyed it's

a very difficult to imagine what these residents must be going through this bushfire season has already claimed dozens of lives hundreds of homes and some scientists estimate that around half a 1000000000 animals have died as a result but the full cost is a warning that the crisis is far from over this year's bushfire season began unusually early and it will be at least a few weeks' time before there is enough rain to bring it to an end. to libya now where warlord who leave or have to says his fight is not against a foreign occupier after turkey's parliament agreed to send troops to libya have to say forces have been attacking the capital tripoli since april libya's u.n. recognized government asked turkish president for support the e.u. us and arab league has expressed concern about turkey's decision symbols ravi as more. the man who has for years led a parallel government in libya now calls on all libyans to rise up against what he

described as a looming turkish invasion but i don't know but i don't know how the enemy has announced war of the ties aggression and decided to invade our nation just a watchful defended turkish people which are tied to us and brotherhood and islam must stand in the face of this deranged cantilevered who is leading his army into ruin. and i don't know much that i would be at the top of that we had a speech to the whole. the arab world to its people and amusingly does to its youth and saying that a national war is being fueled by this today's tech assault on a lot of the hotels and targeting the at a bit tentative from its west to its east. huffed are self declared libyan national army has been fighting to take control of tripoli since april more than 20 rockets hit civilian areas of tripoli shortly after his speech have stories backed by turkey's regional rivals saudi arabia egypt and the united arab emirates

turkey is determined to support the un backed government defending the libyan capital turkey's parliament approved the deployment of troops to libya last week after the g.n.a.t. asked for military support but there are still no confirmed details on timing troop numbers or what role they'll take. in a statement the u.n. secretary general antonio terra's said he wants an immediate cease fire and a return to political dialogue by all parties but even the un backed government seems to have lost faith in the un's efforts on the ground one senior g.n.a.t. leader told libyan t.v. his government no longer relies on the u.n. mission in tripoli zain basra. well as head our mouths are as my head who's at the scene of the strike and says residents are worried about further attacks. this densely populated area in a neighborhood in the vicinity of m 80 good airport the only operational airport in

the libyan capital tripoli was hit by rockets launched by forces loyal to the world for have to the transportation minister of the government of national accord said that this area was hit by 20 rockets into n.t. 4 hours one old man was killed several other civilians were wounded a child lost his eye there is a schools here and this area to get an education was suspended at schools in a airport a vision was also hold to it in the in the aftermath of this attack there is also a hospital in the neighborhood of abts hospital that was hit by a rocket launcher by have to us forces and the united nations support the mission in libya has expressed concern over indiscriminate shelling of residential areas people here are still living in a state of panic fear and anger and they say that in the aftermath of the attack

some of them left their homes others try to keep inside fearing other possible and they say that as long as have to his forces are on the southern outskirts of tripoli then such attacks will most probably continue. the death toll from syria's 9 years civil war has reached 380000 that's according to the syrian observatory for human rights and it comes as forces loyal to president bashar al assad resumed their heavy bombardment of the country's lawless rebel held area several towns and it lit province have been hit by a strikes carried out by russian and syrian government acro thousands of civilians have been forced to flee the area of the pos months. a lawyer for the foreman isn't boss collins gun says he feels betrayed by the japanese justice system then fled japan this week claiming he was avoiding political persecution and allegations of financial misconduct more details are emerging about guns dramatic escape and next

year prime reports this house in beirut. is believed to be holed up now arguably one of the world's most famous fugitives sort by police in japan and take the subject of an interpol red notice and a global bady a frenzy. his escape has embarrassed authorities in japan had lived under house arrest and strict conditions including a ban on overseas travel. media reports say the surveillance cameras show him simply walking out of his tokyo home on sunday he didn't return he knows that at the end of the year japan edgers new years which is probably the most important holiday season here so that it would be very few people watching him so he was going to escape this was the time. and he had to sort of preparing taking lessons in the martial arts and being a physical trainer so he was ready to run. the former head of the. making alliance

and a giant in the global auto industry he was 1st arrested in $28.00 he was facing trial on charges of financial misconduct allegations he's repeatedly denied. his escape spanned 3 continents and plenty of mystery gone contains he was fleeing political persecution of a turkish company it says going to a charter flight from osaka to istanbul and another from there to his childhood home by rote. it's understood that there's an interest in lebanon after a transit through turkey from japan the following is very important it is understood that there was a transfer in the cargo department at the airport in istanbul for. an employee falsified flight records name didn't appear at 5 people have been arrested and take a accused of human trafficking. going has tried before to evade

attention by dressing as a workman when leaving custody and match and his blog lawyer to kashi to kano seen here with the v. it says he felt betrayed by carlos going to skype but not by going himself instead the japanese legal system had been bad from seeing his wife and want to qana called a violation of human rights and another lawyer was being spied on palace gone as promising to tell his side of the story this week alexia brian al jazeera. at least 65 people have died in recent tribal violence in sudan's western region disputes between ethnic groups have seen homes burned and thousands of civilians displaced according to un peacekeepers they were sudan's government to restore peace and bring its perpetrators to justice. china has replaced his top representative in hong kong as social unrest in the city enters its 7th month state media say the

head of beijing's liaison office says why new zealand has been removed it's the 1st major reshuffle since the protests began. florence louis as more and why beijing's leo's own office is important. it's supposed to promote communication between china and hong kong it's effectively a bridge between mainland china and hong kong and it promotes and coordinates probation candidates now it has sometimes been accused of overstepping its jurisdiction just as an example in the 2004 legislative council elections and the believes on office was accused of mobilizing members of the interest groups and housing associations to support the pro establishments party and since 2010 the liaison office has often been a target for pro-democracy protesters now as to what sort of practical impact it will have on hong kong politically it might be a little bit too soon to tell we don't really know yet whether the signals that

china is going to adopt a more hardline stance when it comes to its treatment of the anti government protests in hong kong but what's interesting to note is the timing now the this reshuffle the 1st major reshuffle since the protests began 7 months ago comes 6 weeks after probation candidate suffered a humiliating defeat at local district council elections so while it may be a little bit too foon to tell whether this signals how china is going to be handling the protests in hong kong we know that the interest the timing of this it says any interesting. hundreds of modern children and teenagers is sleeping on the streets of perm many of them alone winter temperatures plummet. in the french government to do more to help. the snow from power. it's a cold night in paris and these young children and their families are spending it

outside the people here are asylum seekers who say they fled violence and poverty for a better life in europe but few imagine that they'd end up on the street relying on charities for survival the 6 year old girl is from iran her and says they've been homeless for months. we have so many problems we want to send her to school but we can't as we don't have a home for these children and their mother who didn't wish to be identified from the democratic republic of congo. i don't know what to do my children are 5 and 8 years old i want them to go to school it's so painful for me to see others go but my live in the street a mere is one of a group of volunteers helping the families he understands them better than most the kurdish refugees here arrived in france 2 years ago as a teenager and was homeless i was very rich. factory. city teacher she write your books. really shop.

back in the north of the city has rows of tents and makeshift shelters are crammed along the ring road campaigners say that hundreds of children and teenagers are sleeping on the streets of paris often in appalling conditions like this and what activists say is that the french government is flouting international rules by failing to protect minors under french law all minors should be protected by the state but at this charity's day center staff say many young people sleep outdoors for months waiting for a judge to formally recognize their age. not. search . from help from the state and basically back in the street. after more than a year a judge has finally ruled that this afghan teenager is

a minor and now i. could live in france to be. become good live the french government says it wants to crack down on illegal immigration and has tightened its laws but the authorities tougher approach seems to deny basic human rights to some of the most vulnerable natascha al-jazeera paris. 7 this is ours are these all the top stories the formal funeral for the top iranian commander custom sort of money and. the iran backed popular mobilization forces is underway in baghdad both men were assassinated in the u.s. airstrike near baghdad airport on friday iranian president hassan rouhani visited the family of sort of money early on saturday morning 'd. this great man deserved not to be killed by any ordinary person or terrorist but to be killed by

history's biggest terrorist when this general died the whole u.s. army is put on alert in the entire region in iran thousands of people across the country including several 100 students at the university of tehran denouncing the united states for sort of money society the nation many are shouting death to the u.s. and calling for revenge. meanwhile a red flag has been symbolically raised over the qur'an mosque in iran's holy city of qom its are traditional shiite symbol of blood spilled unjustly and a call to avenge the person who was killed a top revolutionary guards general has threatened attacks on ships in the persian gulf and to punish americans wherever they reach. the death toll from syria's 9 years civil war has reached 380000 that's according to the syrian observatory for human rights it comes as forces loyal to president bashar al assad resumed their heavy bombardment of the country's lawless rebel held area several towns and it lit province have been hit by

a strikes carried out by russian and syrian government takraw. fire fighters in australia are bracing for a difficult night as hot and windy conditions continue to spread bush it's. a nearly 155 granny in new south wales elaine a dozen of which are out of control in south australia 2 more people are confirmed dead off the foreign kind ruin and tens of thousands of people have fled the worst affected areas in the southeast china has replaces top representative in hong kong as social unrest in the city enters its 7th month state media say the head of beijing's liaison office that's why the men has been removed it's the 1st major reshuffle since the protests began. stay with headlines got more news here on al-jazeera right off to risk it all off now.

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