the the in. iran supreme leader joins the crowds marking the funeral of concepts of the mahdi and protesting his assassination by the united states. all of them julie macdonald this is the real live from doha also coming up iran now says it's suspending its commitment to the 2015 you tube deal. in the u.s. donald trump threatened sanctions against iraq if it expands u.s. troops in the wake of super mani's day. was. that is was off position defiance is what it's calling the economy cool after

opposition leader one why don't is blocked from entering. welcome to the program iran's leaders have joined huge crowds and so on for the funeral procession of assassinated general qassam salami as calls for revenge against the united states go yet iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei and president haasan rouhani held prayers at the funeral proceedings in the arabian capital they express their grief as a rainy and packed the streets of tehran with 3 official days of mourning have been declared so the mani's daughter earlier told the crowds that our father's death would bring a dark day to the u.s. . well while the funeral for silver monny is on the way u.s. president donald trump has warned iran that he will impose heavy sanctions if it expels. american troops iraq's parliament voted in favor of removing foreign forces

in retaliation for that u.s. strike that killed last week near baghdad airport and the fallout from the assassination is spreading throughout the middle east iran is vowing to hit back and has suspended its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal and then later on monday nato leaders will gather for an emergency meeting to discuss the developing situation meanwhile iraq's parliament has backed a decision to expel all american troops but al-jazeera smaller fault and explains why that isn't a done deal yet. well it can be done but it is rather complicated because each one of the countries that has troops here in iraq including the u.s. but also other countries like the u.k. and france they have their own agreements with the iraqi government that govern the presence of these troops and those agreements to prove that exactly how is the how these agreements have to be terminated what happened yesterday was that parliament

passed a decision not a law calling on the government to draft legislation to expel foreign troops now what would have to happen next is that the government would actually have to draw up a bill that's bill would that have to be sent back to parliament to be discussed and to be voted on the thing that complicates this further is that the government is currently in a caretaker role after prime minister resigned in the ongoing anti-government protest so we would also 1st have to have a new prime minister nominated that prime minister would then have to form a new government and that government would have to draft this bill now under the current agreement between the u.s. and iraq that also governs the presence of military troops here there would need to be at least a year notice to cancel these agreements so it doesn't seem likely that we will see the departure of foreign troops anytime soon and let's also remember that while there was sufficient majority in parliament yesterday to vote for this decision the

sunni's and the kurds did not participate in the session and they are calling for a time to discuss such to do this is they don't believe that such decisions should be politicized and taken in haste let's cross live now to dorset party standing by for us live in tehran by their doorstep just describe for us the mood and what's been happening today. well the body of the late general arrived in the capital on monday each sunday evening rather late last night from the holy city of this morning early morning the body was taken to teheran university where the spring leader performed a prayer service over the coffin alongside the highest ranking members of iran including the president hassan rouhani the speaker of parliament saudi larijani the head of iran's revolutionary guards major general salome as well as the who's the head of the cherie who was quite emotional at the ceremonies and he was also

standing next to the new head of the pope's force as my that i mean who has been named as in the replacement for the late general hossam so the money all these figures say a prayer service over the coffin and then the body is now making its way through the streets of downtown tehran to the city of goma we are seeing images that the bodies the coffins moving quite slowly due to the large crowds that have gathered. when it arrives. there we more services there and then we understand that the body will be taken to solem on his hometown. in central iran where he will be buried later on tuesday and door so there's also been a significant statement i want of iran from the assembly of experts to tell us what you know. well this is a body that's tasked with dealing with selecting the country's supreme leader and

dismissing that figure there are 88 members in this part of the body and they issued a very strong statement condemning the assassination of us and so money in it they also said that this is a pivotal moment because his death means that it is the expulsion of u.s. forces in the region statement said that they are calling on all the youth of the muslim use in the middle east to do their duty that is to be on standby and ready to put their heed the calls of their economic chief that is the supreme leader to expel the u.s. forces from this region starting with iraq this is a very strong strong statement now i have to point out that this assembly of experts they actually do not have any authority to make this call this is a statement they've made expressing their views but politically it's very significant because their views are quite usually aligned with that of the supreme

leader of iran so this statement is very very politically important we've also heard the sentiment coming from senior advisers of the supreme leader the latest one being the senior advisor at international affairs to the supreme leader he said that the united states has made a grave error a grave mistake by the assassination of us and so the money and that it means this is something that if they don't if the u.s. troops do not leave the region there will be another vietnam created in the middle east dosage of are there joining us live from tehran dawson thank you very much will gabe elizondo joins us now live from washington see d.c. hi there gave so they're quite incredible those statements on the from the u.s. president saying that he would be willing to target iran's cultural sites if provoked. yeah really remarkable there and it's. came started on saturday when trump tweeted that he has over over 50 different sites that have

been identified in iran to strike should it be necessary and he said some of those are important cultural sites not really raised the eyebrows of a lot of people here meaning would the president really strike cultural sites militarily in iran so on sunday when he was flying back to washington after a 2 week vacation at his mar-a lago resort he spoke to some reporters on air force one it was not on camera but the reporters asked him is that what really what you meant in that tweet on saturday and he said he yes and then the reporters asked him well why would you want to strike iranian cultural sites and the president reportedly said this. they're allowed to kill our people they're allowed to torture and maim our people they're allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people and we're not allowed to touch their cultural sites it doesn't work that way those were the words of president donald trump. but according to the 1954

hague convention on the protection of cultural property during times of armed conflict it's against international law to target cultural sites and could be considered a war crime nevertheless that is what donald trump says that he would consider doing now most people say that it's highly unlikely that the pentagon would have actually given donald trump the names of cultural sites pacifically to target knowing that it would have been a war crime but nevertheless this is what the president said it should be noted that iran has 24 different unesco identified world heritage sites within the country and gave meanwhile we've seen u.s. high speed can answer flosi saying that the house will introduce and full on a wow war powers resolution this week what what she hoping that this will achieve. well she's hoping that it will send

a message to trump that he can no longer just take military action without consulting congress 1st because that's exactly what he did when he called for the assassination of solo money he did not inform congress in advance of that strike that killed soleimani and it in fear e ated house speaker nancy pelosi as well as many other democrats in in congress. they say that you know this was essentially killing a general of a sovereign state and congress should have been informed that trump says no it was killing a terrorist so i didn't have to inform congress but but palosi just simply does not agree with that and it doesn't follow the normal protocols of something like this so she's hoping that this week when congress comes back she is going to call this vote to hold trump to account on this it's a little bit symbolic because trump can really do what he wants when it comes to

strikes against the people he considers to be terrorist nevertheless palosi really trying to send a message to trump and his administration now trump earlier on sunday said ok you want me to inform you what i do strikes against iran so he sent out a tweet that said this these media posts will serve as notification to the united states congress that should iran strike any u.s. person or target the united states will quickly and fully strike back and perhaps in a disproportionate manner such legal notice is not required but is given nevertheless so trump basically snubbing congress saying you want any warning that i might strike iran well there it is i just tweeted the warning really remarkable unprecedented for a president to give formal warning to congress through a tweet but this is how president trump sometimes prefers to communicate via twitter and social media gave ellison's of and live from washington d.c.

as always kate thank you. well there have been chaotic and confusing scenes in venezuela as the government of president nicolas maduro forcibly installed a new head of arm sold us rocks off position be there one of his allies from getting into the building ahead of the vote a latin america decided to see a new and has more now from caracas. inside bin israel his legislative palace punches were thrown insults hurled in a chaotic prelude to an even more chaotic vote for the presidency of the national assembly was for hours national guards been prevented dozens of opposition deputies from entering the premises. inside the chamber minority pro-government lawmakers organized a vote with a show of hands that no one counted. luis baba an opposition deputy choose

to corruption and recently expelled from his party was instantly sworn in and it will carry him out of like old brothers and sisters we have differences but we must end all this confrontation. but outside the confrontation of this intensifying the opposition deputies are trying to break their way into the national assembly but the national guard is outnumbering up at this point and i see no way from the building. in a desperate last bid to get in opposition leader flung wide or tried to climb over the spiked little fence surrounding the building. security forces fought him off as well. shaken but determined why the announced he would convene the assembly elsewhere that you live in atlanta we're going to assume our responsibility and rise to this new challenge that venezuela is facing. hours later 100

opposition deputies more than the simple majority needed to win reelected weigel as national assembly. as it didn't vote recognized by washington and many others but not by president nicolas maduro. imperialist came out to say they would not recognize the result of the boat day in the national assembly i say to mike pompei oh the u.s. envoy to venezuela elliott abrams and the assistant secretary of state that they should explain it all trump why they lost the leadership of the national assembly. i clearly the battle for that national assembly until now venezuela is only independent institution is far from over and it will intensify even further. attempts to reclaim what he says is his rightful place inside the legislative palace on tuesday. you see in human al-jazeera got access still ahead on al-jazeera tell you why the price of pork in china is skyrocketing and what's

being done to keep up the demand. hello there had some pretty decent weather across much of japan that is about to change a lot of streaming from west towards the east and this is bringing with it not only the rain but of course in the cold also a fair amount of snow so by cheese day that rain working its way fades speedily across much the korean peninsula pushing into west. some strong winds all the way as well at that time beginning to carry away from eastern china notice the temperature in shanghai on tuesday 21 degrees celsius a huge drop by wednesday 8 celsius which is actually the average for this time of year but look at this quite a messy picture throughout much of japan some very strong. areas we could be seeing winds at about 50 to 70 kilometers allows snow in the cold and some very heavy

amounts of rain and then further to the south across into india those showers will continue across areas of the south sunny from the protests southwards and then we got a line of rain showers working their way through pakistan pushing into northern india a line of snow cool in the cold in the himalayas that have very unsettled picture as we head off into wednesday you can see plenty of rain working their way through . it will though hopefully help the kids some of the small and the pollution from new delhi with a high on wednesday of 16 celsius. more than 7 decades ago a country was split into 3 with. a . plan a map of the collapsing empire when the british had to. examine

the fine india and pakistan and the future home of the neighbors. of blood. the. welcome back you're watching ounces here are a mind of our top stories this hour iran's leaders have joined huge crowds into iran for the funeral procession of assassinated general hossam salome. these are live pictures currently from tehran supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei and president have some good money held prayers at the funeral proceedings in the iranian capital. the u.s. president is threatening sanctions against iraq if it goes ahead with moves to

expel foreign troops donald trump says american forces will not leave unless iran pays for the u.s. base that's there. and iraqi politicians have voted to remove all foreign forces in response to the assassination of commander cinemark well the bill is non-binding and still needs government approval. well for more on this and now let's talk mayor in colombo he's a professor and director of the sins of international and regional studies at georgetown university's school of foreign service in qatar america very warm welcome to the program as we were just saying while we were all for the so much we could talk about what i find particularly stock is that we have these 2 competing narratives of sort of mommy in the state say he's top top as a villain a terrorist a man who deserved what he got and yet we see these pictures today in iran and they seem to suggest a country of course that has taken this attack very personally but there's also a sense of isolation i feel looking at those pictures. and certainly the this

assassination brings home the maximum pressure that donald trump has talked about in a very stark and emotional way in a very very surreal way iranians are now feeling the heavy hand of the united states in terms of the nuclear deal of course the u.s. decided to go its own way and we've heard statements out of europe today saying that they're very sad indeed iran's decision not to go along with some of the articles that are in it but that was this just inevitable that this would happen unfortunately it was for the longest time we see particularly since the american withdrawal iran was effectively the only actor the only party that was observing the nuclear deal because europe of course never stepped up to the plate to live up to its end of the bargain in terms of financial transactions its own trades and

commercial deals with iran and once the americans imposed unilateral. sanctions on iran their p.m.'s also stopped dealing with iran and so iran was effectively the only party observing it and so what the deal what the iranian maneuver does now is to effectively kill the deal. had really. existed only on paper in effect in terms of the reaction from the international community as we call them and we have heard of course dissenting voices from as representatives some members of it from the democrats have you been surprised or would you have expected a more vocal with spawn's from some members of the international community absolutely the voices of dissent to that we are hearing are calling for deescalation we are not hearing unfortunately any condemnation of donald trump's tweets threatening the destruction of iranian cultural heritage we're not

hearing any condemnation of the united states violation of international law by assassinating a journal of a sovereign country and of course what we're not hearing is this promotion of human rights which the europeans are so eager to promote when it comes to other areas or criticism of other actors of whom they do not approve we've also amongst these extraordinary tweets she just mentioned some of their we've got this situation where european governments don't seem to be saying very much i got a feeling from listening to the savi yesterday that there was some diplomatic back and forth but who are the countries potentially that are going to be able to sit around the table and start to deescalate this crisis well endeavor easten past all man has been quite successful in mediating behind the scenes

between iran and the united states also immediately after the assassination of general salim on the we saw that the qatari foreign minister flew to tehran in an effort to deescalate and quite surprisingly we've seen that the u.a.e. and saudi arabia have also called for deescalation but in their case it's primarily because they make ready targets for iranian ras. we've also seen donald trump toys sing about sanctions about potentially leveraging sanctions on iran. if they can do a friendly deal about the removal of forces so as a couple things i want to talk about there one thing the political complexities in iraq in the caretaker parliament and also this idea of sanctions well clearly the americans in general and donald trump in particular have been surprised by the

iraqi reaction what we see here is a blatant violation of iraqi sovereignty and as a result this has brought together the very fractious groups within the iraqi political system it has brought them together and what we saw today were these incredible scenes in the iraqi parliament of people literally shouting slogans to get the americans out and this has been a surprise for the americans and as a result we see trump's overreaction in terms of threatening the iraqis with sanctions i suppose marin the big question that people are asking and in my e-mails and you know when i'm going about my biz my family members are asking you know is this really going to to use agnes kalam ours words end in world war 3 or can you see a path where there is kind of diplomacy as you mentioned with some of these countries

. there is tremendous pressure on the iranian government to act as we solve the millions of iranians who are on their own spontaneously turned out to mourn the assassination of general saloon money so they iranian government needs to engage in some sort of action but their strategic response has historically been quite measured and so if the iranians were to respond they're very likely to do it on their own timeline in their own. way picking a target of their own in a way that benefits them strategically rather than acting through impulse we've also got a situation if i can just go back to europe for a 2nd haven't we particularly in the u.k. where we've got a government right now that essentially has to be in the good books of the u.s. because of this potential trade deal because of bricks that and some of the statements that we've been hearing from the u.k. have been if i can use the word week well not only have they been weak we heard the

. foreign secretary say that general saloon money was quite an unsavory character and he very well might have been in the eyes of some people but this is a shocking statement where you have a blatant violation of iraqi sovereignty and extrajudicial killing by the united states so you're absolutely right unfortunately the europeans in general and the u.k. in particular are really in no position to stand up to the united states and have the courage of their convictions thank you very much for joining us thank you. now in other news a correction has a new president elect leftists a former prime minister's soran millions of it has defeated the conservative incumbent kalinda grab our kids are of it in a run off fold the conservatives hold a majority in parliament but millen overage promised his presidency would be one of

3 conciliation and unity with a vote is seen as an important test before legislative elections later this year. firefighters are finally getting some relief as they tackle bushfires across australia after weeks of high temperatures are being helped by cooler weather and rain fire crews are also reopening dr olds and rescuing people have been trapped for days the fires are likely to keep burning for months prime minister scott morrison is being criticized for his handling of the crisis and he's now pledged funds for the rebuilding efforts. to die we agreed that we would support the national bush for recovery i didn't see by stablish ing i national bushfire recovery fund which will be administered by that agency lay by mr culver the commonwealth is committing an additional an initial $2000000000.00 over the next 2 calendar starting right now to support all of the efforts of

recovery right across the country. in just a few weeks millions of people will celebrate chinese new year around their dining tables but this year china is facing a shortage of its words court and outbreak of african swine flu is calls the deaths of 200000000 pigs on farms across to asia and now the chinese government is looking further afield to satisfy the public's appetite to train e.u. report sent from beijing. poached you shredded pork and braised p. doc all just some of the most popular dishes to have turned the chinese new year holiday. but as families in china welcome the year of the rat few a pork items may be on the menu in recent months prices have more than doubled not i know where you are if prices keep going up like this then i will order and eat less pork or even try to not eat out as frequently as before. african swine flu has

wiped out heart of china's hogsheads up to $200000000.00 farm pigs have died or been culled since the outbreak began a year ago harmless to humans the contagious disease kills pigs within 10 days there is no vaccine. china has 26000000 people farmers and industry is crucial in impacts and many other sectors this shortage has caught everyone's attention including farmers consumers and the garment. the chinese government has released more than 100000 tonnes of strategic pork reserves to ease demand and lifted environmental restrictions on people farming china consumes hoff the world's pork and during the chinese new year holiday demography seeks to address the shortage the chinese government has an all white thinking spring to buy more. and it's pushing up poor prices bald white beijing is ramped up pork imports

from the european union and despite the trade is awaiting tariffs on us pork it's also boosted imports of other protein including australian musson beef and chicken from brazil. agricultural experts say the pork shoulder which could affect the capital in the long term to know we will see increase well poultry consumption is a meter high protein and nutrition other has so short a large cycle and a highly farming value it could be the most possible replacement for paul. to now go pro mains chinese pay for meat but with no went to the shortage in sight it will continue to be more costly to bring home the bacon trini you al-jazeera beijing. a bluefin tuna has sold for almost $1800000.00 in japan's capital it's the 2nd highest price on record the 276 kilogram fish was ox and offered so close to oil

sold fish market the successful bit or as the head of a japanese sushi restaurant chain last year he set the record by part to sing a tune up at just over $3000000.00. this is a 0 and these are our current top stories iran's leaders have joined huge crowds and for the funeral procession of the subsidy to general customs these are live pictures right now from tehran the supreme leader ayatollah ali. come any president hassan rouhani earlier held prayers the funeral proceedings in the arabian capital today of course has been made a public holiday in iran streets and the mayor poured have already been named after this man seen as one of the finding fathers of the country dosage a body has more the body is currently on route from the capital to the holy city of we can see the images that people have come out to say their goodbyes to the

general and as it makes their conference this way to the holy city of rome where their people will also have a chance to pay their respects after that the coffin will make its way from home to his hometown of care mon city in central iran where he will be laid to rest later on tuesday iraqi politicians have voted to remove all foreign forces in response to the assassination of the re mean come on their custom so the money the bill of course still is non-binding and it still needs government approval u.s. president is threatening sanctions against iraq if it goes ahead with moves to expel foreign troops general jobs as american forces will not leave a message iraq pays for the u.s. base that's there. well there were chaotic scenes inside and i'm side venezuela's national assembly after all position media one by doing his allies were blocked from entering the building by police those who were 7 allowed in both to replace

why do it with a politician who was recently kicked out of an opposition party for alleged corruption. as a new president elect's leftist former prime minister is a one man ovitz has defeated conservative incumbent kalinda graf arctic trev age in a runoff vote in which promises presidency would be one of reconsider and. 5 fights as i getting some relief as they tackle bush as across australia the weeks of high temperatures they've been helped by cooler weather and rain meanwhile prime minister has pledged over a 1000000000 dollars to help the rebuilding efforts this year headlines al-jazeera continues here at the news desk to insights to.

tears grow of a war following the us assassination of iran's top minutes with him and european nations are criticised for weak responses to awesome so they met his death along with the collapse of nuclear deal has europe's there ron paul is a player but is it time to rethink this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. europe appears caught in the middle the targeted killing of the runs most powerful general by the u.s. has raised the possibility of a war many countries a restraint as they try to balance relations with both sides there is new.