not to so much to the rest of the world's indigenous people who live here have always realized that now is the smoke there was the sky and the ashes pollute the river the rest of the world is beginning to realize it too. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian fatigue and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes a send off from iran's most powerful the supreme leader leads prayers for the assassinated commander custom solid body as huge crowds packed the streets in the u.s. politicians returned to washington to debate whether the president overstepped his powers when he ordered the assassination. protests across india after

a mosque group attacks students and teachers at a prominent university in the camp. was. venezuela's opposition denounces what it's calling a parliamentary crew of the opposition leader one is blocked from attending. and i'm peter sagal you support football returns to italy off the winter break and so does racism as mario balotelli faces abuse from the stands again. a funeral procession has been held for the iranian general custom solemn audience iran but the fallout following his assassination on friday in a u.s. airstrike in iraq is growing iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali harmony and president hassan rouhani led prayers at the funeral proceedings in iran's capital on monday and just moments ago

a funeral procession was held in the city of qom so him on his body will be taken to his hometown c'mon where he will be buried on tuesday. u.s. president on will trump has warned iraq that he'll 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 sala money last week they have backed at airports iran is vowing to hit back and has suspended its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal a nato ambassadors are due to gather for an emergency meeting to discuss the situation we have a team of correspondents covering the story shortly will join us some a been job in baghdad but 1st let's speak to a big who's in iran talk us through the events of the day asad you were down there in tehran city center when this funeral procession was taking place how would you describe the mood. well the mood was

calm i saw thousands of people walking the streets heading towards the university where the funeral was being held and then the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini led the prison and he began to cry and some people say that's when the 1st times actually cried during a funeral prayer now when he began to cry it was being broadcast on speakers and screens around the city people in the crowds also some of them began to cry and after the funeral there were chance there was singing and the customary death to america chance of course that you often hear in iran some of these demonstrations but this procession was very very different to begin with it was the largest profession that i've ever seen and many people many commentators here saying that some largest not just perception that they've seen in 30 years since the death of the founder of the stomach republic how many people that we spoke to this still a lot of anger a lot of emotion and people are still calling for revenge and that that is the

major challenge for the government because they are expected to respond and respond to the united states assassination of course and so the money but also if they do respond then maybe a retaliation from the united states now how do they respond without having an all out war with the united states but right now they do have the support of the public just back in november there were widespread anti government demonstrations now we're seeing widespread support for the government and this republican even from those people that oppose the political establishment had they have recognized us and for the money is a patriot and someone that defended the country from isis and prevented them from read reaching the borders of iran so it has united the country somewhat and the government and the political establishment head does now have popular support and while the funeral was going on there was a significant statement out of iran today tell us more about.

yes the statement came from the assembly of experts that this is an important body here in iran and that they called upon young people to mobilize to expel u.s. troops from iraq not only from iraq but from the middle east to begin with from iraq also divides raef the foreign minister tweeted out and he tweeted pictures of the funeral procession and he said have you ever seen such a sea of humanity in your life and he called upon donald trump and said do you still want to listen to the clowns advising you on our region the government spokesman has also tweeted then he said that all aspects of the unfair sussan nation of carson from the money have been discussed and he has reiterated on the necessity of giving a crushing response to this act now there's still strong words coming out of iran and the public and many politicians are calling for a strong response and people in the region are nervous as to what that response

will be. reporting live from tehran assad many thanks indeed let's go live to baghdad as there is a suburb in job it is iraq's parliament a caretaker prime minister have been calling for the expulsion of american troops but of but given the the challenges facing iraq's parliament right how can combat even be done. well adrian let's let's see what these challenges are the 1st thing is that yes the iraqi parliament has voted with a decision that u.s. forces assistance from u.s. forces should and the government is a caretaker government he said it's an interim government which is not have the power to make these major decisions although the prime minister's office has said that now the legal framework to make sure that this decision is implemented indoor is going to begin then the next challenge is that how the deformed government this govern this case for forming a government after months of protests has been pending for weeks and weeks so they will have to come up with

a government that government will have to end agreements not just the one that was signed in 2014 when iraq asked for assistance to fight eisel but also other agreements which govern the presence of foreign troops not just american troops but other troops as well just france has about 1000 troops here in iraq and syria so those are the agreements that govern the presence of international troops and even if tomorrow they came out and said that all of these agreements and the invite which is a very big if it will take at least a year for some of the special framework agreement to kick in according to what iraqi government has agreed with at the government so that is the kind of time frame that you're looking at but then again they're the people that are out on the streets the militias the few senior leaders of the groups of the popular mobilization forces have been coming out with incendiary statements we heard from last night saying that china and russia could replace the u.s. influence in are not for the saying essentially there is going to be a meeting of all militias inside iraq and outside iraq and on where they are going

to chart out a few to future strategy we've also heard from other leaders saying that they are out for revenge the group the u.s. targeted is saying that even if u.s. troops leave while entirely it will not absolve them of the crime that they have done so there's a lot of pressure on the iraqi government and a very hard work in. the days and weeks ahead for if it wants to end the presence of foreign troops here in iraq president has been pushing back on some of the language that's coming out of iraq right now want to people there think of him saying that he'll charge them for the bases that they've set up in the country. when it has not gone down to whoever you speak aaron or because they're out says that it remembers the sanctions that were imposed by the united states in the ninety's and also the sacrifices that iraq has made in essentially the fight for the rest of the world iraq was the epicenter iraq and syria where the group isis

inflicted the most the majority of its its crimes and iraq says that it has given thousands and thousands of lives billions of dollars worth of economic disaster so there is this sentiment here officially that there hasn't been a response to what donald trump has said we are expecting there are going to be meetings between the iraqi prime minister and u.s. officials in the in the nick coming few hours but the sentiment on the ground is that did the united states president does not respect or up we heard from one parliamentarian in the parliament just 24 hours ago saying that united states represents actually respects iran because it said that sending me juries and messages to iran get in it acts on its own inside europe and has no respect for the sovereignty of this country and that is the kind of sentiment that we have been seen since friday when a u.s. missile took out the money and it will mad the end $100.00 a lot of anger but also a lot of show of restraint iraq seems to be on edge multiple rocket attacks have

taken place in various areas so far there have been no damage but people are bracing themselves for what they fear is going to be yet another escalation between 2 major giants on iraqi soil al-jazeera is a suburb and java reporting live from somebody thanks dave let's go to washington now and our white house correspondent kimberly how could so quite incredible statements coming out of the u.s. president of the moment saying that. they're really really in charge iraq for use of the bases but he'll target iran's cultural sites if provoked what on earth do you make of that. well the incredible statements continue adrian i'll get to the cultural sites in just a moment the u.s. president has been tweeting in just the last few moments he just tweeted in all caps iran will never have a nuclear weapon this comes on the heels of his counsellor kellyanne conway in the driveway in just the last hour or so telling reporters that in spite of the

president saying all of that in spite of all the escalations we've been talking about in the back and forth that has been going on between these 2 nations the white house is still confident that it can negotiate nuclear deal with iran this is remarkable given the fact we know that iran said just you know in the last 24 hours that it is retreating from that pact so that's the latest headline from here and now when we get to talking about some of those other remarkable statements from the president he has also threatened iran despite saying he thinks there's room for negotiation he's threatening to attack cultural sites that are important to iran and the iranian people 52 in fact this number significant because it was 52 american diplomats that were detained by iran back in 1989 the u.n. security council is saying that if the united states doesn't in any way attack these sites because it perceives that iran has retaliated against the killing of general soul of money that in fact this would be a violation of international law still this is something the u.s.

president defended as he returned to washington sunday night in fact he said to reporters speaking about iran they're allowed to kill our people they're allowed to torture and maim our people they're allowed to use roadside bombs to blow up our people and we're not allowed to touch their cultural sites it doesn't work that way again the white house has been in the last hour or so defending this suggestion by the president to attack these cultural sites even as there is international outrage at the suggestion. politicians back to work today in washington off the christmas and new year break u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi has said that the house will introduce and vote on a war powers resolution this week what is she hoping that's going to achieve what she's hoping to be able to conduct the check and balance on the white house and presidential power this is something that's mandated and required by the u.s. constitution for nancy pelosi saying that she's going to introduce a war powers resolution to limit the president's ability to take military action

against iran sensually though the white house is saying that they've done nothing wrong in fact again kelly and call where the counselor to the president has been saying that congress will be briefed on all of this congress arguing it hasn't been briefed it's really been kept in the dark back the president saying pay attention to my tweets if you want to know what's going on with congress saying that is wholly insufficient still the white house defending what they've done to this point saying that congress could be grief it could be as early as this week it's up to the pentagon they'll be briefed in due course that's how this process works really different ideas depending on whether you're sitting in the white house or whether you're sitting in congress about how this process works expect this to be hotly debated in the coming hours and days how does there is white house correspondent kimberly how could life in washington kimberly many thanks the geo political turmoil is also having an economic impact oil prices have risen significantly with the benchmark brant crude climbing building 4 percent since the assassination of

custom so the money it's the highest the prices have been since september when drones were used to attack oil 'd processing facilities in saudi arabia the u.s. state department has warned that saudi oil facilities could be targeted again by iran that's friends concerns about a possible disruption to global supplies earlier my colleague elizabeth brought him spoke to an economics editor i've been his his assessment of what's next for the energy markets. what we're seeing is a geopolitical premium which is which oil traders are paying currently now if there is an attack we could see or prices rights rise to $80.00 a barrel but that would have an impact on the global economy but not a huge impact if you really want to see a catastrophic effect on the global economy then we need to see oil prices double to ormus $150.00 a barrel and we're nowhere near that and there's plenty of oil supply well we don't need to be concerned about what's happening in the oil markets too much but bit on

the geopolitical side yes you know we don't know what the response will be and so people don't need to be too worried right now but what or what about saudi arabia i mean it's a big player in this geo political tension absolutely and could iran could be affected yes so because share price is now down. to almost its i.p.o. price of $32.00 worth $34.00 something so you know we're not too far off the us now the reeds one of the reasons why or be or prices why are prices coming down is because of the tensions now if you want to start an economic war with saudi arabia where would you hit you would hit aramco the oil facilities were hit back in september and the oil price. is $62.90 a barrel you know we're way above that right right this very moment in oil price terms. this is the news hour from al-jazeera still to come on the program the

strain is raging the red glow the scenes confronting emergency service workers as they continue to battle bushfires. we're in liberia to find out why there's growing discontent with the nation's ruling elite. at its core the reinvention of the olympics gives winter games debut to athletes from the middle east. protests are being held across india condemning an attack that targeted students and faculty at a prominent university in new delhi demonstrations taking place in bangalore to chennai chander ga and mon by the signs new delhi the protest has said that students affiliated with the ruling b j p carried out the attack counter-demonstrations have also been held in solidarity with the accused b j p student body denies that it carried out the assault of more than 30 people

who were inside the wall hello there a university under attack on sunday evening masked people with rods sledgehammers and stones targeted teachers and students despite multiple calls victims say the police arrived late delhi police which is controlled by the central government is also accused of doing little to contain the violence. i'm totally shocked. did institute. i can end up for the program how did these. you know politics aside elections aside this is india we're not the but not made it public i'm shocked i may not do politics again that's a different thing but what has happened to be is a travesty now from. the university campus the policemen are present here in numbers today but on sunday evening when some of the students and

teachers here water under attack they took their time to enter the university one must also get clearance from the security guard so the students who were beaten up are asking why the security guards just careless or was the administration of the university complicit in the attack that took place on sunday evening about 50 people including women wearing mosques holding i enrolled in their hands went from one also to another they beat up students as well as some teachers and threatened the students as well at the moment about 20 people students and some teachers are receiving treatment at a hospital in new delhi now the students who were beaten up allege that the group that beat them up one gangster bought part of the a which is a students' union affiliated with the hindu nationalist party to the party the whole minister of the country who comes from that party has ordered an inquiry and several ministers in the current government have started in this university have condemned the violence but the students here don't feel safe anymore many of them

have left their hostels and gone back home or to their friends as houses to stay there the big question that people are now asking is because there's a sense of disbelief and panic that how could such an attack take place are students now not safe inside their hostels the students of this university have been protesting against the controversial citizenship law and more recently also against the proposed fee hike. police say they are investigating how mosques people could enter the university campus and attack students. i didn't even get and as far as the identification of people who were participating in the clashes all possible methods of identification are being invoked we're also keeping an eye on the messages videos and pictures circulating on social media that the investigation is going on in right earnest and they will be identified soon. on among those attacks with a thought has an assistant professor at. the whole university he joins us now via

skype from new delhi good to have you with us what happened to you. so you can reveal that what happened to you sir. well i was at a demonstration a peaceful demonstration later frankly at one point and we heard. there are some people who gathered in get a hostage who will have your arm. and a little indication of a decade so some of our faculty members in this to you. but me would or not to the day that i was in a stable so i thought i would go ahead and have a look and i know east that it was absolutely shocked because cherie already know each university in india and there's a group of about 5060 young men armed. with their faces covered and then he calmly getting huntley for an attack i spent my

entire life on again but i've never seen anything so incredibly. and. where you were when you were attacked by the by this this group of people. yes when i tried to date pictures. according them approach me asked me to believe that the jurors the surrounded me and it me up to 2 dimes and i can see who. and what i managed to drop my site that is skew and it came back to where in progress was happening and are i one of the people that the back is coming and eventually how badly hurt waves i was that i was unlucky not to have been badly hurt but some of my own students and police were extremely badly hurt as has anything like this happened before on on the campus who do you think this small books were so when. a surrounding me

and from their training in war zone there and each of these were young men mostly from not india and i know i say what political affiliation there were definitely were not genes tunes i recognize my students. or they were a mixed group some of them will be doing the students some of them are outsiders very difficult so it will exactly them who is policing the university campus itself what is the state of security like on campus. right now and then as police images manning the gates and trying to keep people out of the gambles from getting in there are. a behind it so that activists at the gate shouting slogans except out so there is a sense of kind of feel that if the bullies does not do its job which clearly it

hasn't done in this instance instance these 2 these these elements can get back into the campus and it will be more well ok. do you sense that that the something going on here that perhaps university authorities in complicit are complicit in in what's going on where these people inside the campus where they they not they weren't external forces they didn't come into the university could they have been there all along. mine services. could be a mix some. you know students are marks i think most of them are outsiders and i don't think. i find it very difficult to believe that such a large number of or be pulled in come from the outside who aren't really started

you know garner and get organized they don't do you don't have security not knowing about it i mean this is just. absurd i mean we have lived on that campus for many years and there's the security job is to. keep a record of who's coming in in the those are was walking in and my thought protect their identity cards we always you know we have an official sticker or not cars so we can get in and get out but any other person was not a student or a faculty has fishel i need guard or. even address and name of the bus and what i want to visit on the campus so it's absolutely amazing how so many people who are outsiders in and of the campus they don't stop russian so obviously you do some kind of collusion. they will leave it good to talk to so many thanks dave for sharing your your experience of your thoughts with us that's for our system professor at ohio. joel hollis or in our university.

they've been chaotic and confusing seems in venezuela as the government of president but they were forcibly installed a new head of parliament armed troops physically blocked opposition leader on his allies from getting into the building ahead of the vote a latin america and it's a use in human reports now from caracas. inside been israel as legislative palace punches were thrown insult her alight in a chaotic prelude to an even more chaotic vote for the presidency of the national assembly. for hours national guardsmen 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 and opposition deputy choose to corruption and recently expelled from his party was instantly sworn in

a 100 model like all brothers and sisters we have differences but we must end all this confrontation. but outside the confrontation was intensifying the opposition deputies are trying to break their way into the national assembly but the national guard is outnumbering about just like you and i see no place in the building. in a desperate last bid to get in opposition leader. tried to climb over the spiked middle fence surrounding the building. security forces fought him off as well. shaken but determined weisel announced he would convene the assembly elsewhere they really wanted to hand that 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 why the lies national assembly president 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 today in the national assembly i say to mike pompei o the u.s. envoy the best way to elliott abrams and the assistant secretary of state that they should explain why they lost the leadership of the national assembly. i. clearly the battle for that national assembly until now venezuela's 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. see in human al-jazeera got access. we're going to weather update next here on ars a 0 then we'll tell you why thousands of families living the lucrative mining

fields of the democratic republic of congo face relocation. by the price of pork in china is skyrocketing and what's being done to keep up with the mob. and its course is the bone james finally leading the lakers towards the n.b.a. championship will be here but born on a basketball masterclass in. hello that is a fairly quiet picture generally throughout much of the arabian peninsula the recent rain kid very swiftly out of the picture but unfortunately still to the all the cross the live and we are going to see more in the way of rain now all these coastal areas throughout of israel 11 on. a very strong winds to choose the on wednesday and some heavy rain at times as well as i know will change as we go

through the next couple of days of course to the north of there in turkey that rain changing into snow in the cold and then quite a line of rain showers working their way through areas of iraq and eventually on into the north and the west of iraq and then into northern africa that same system it will be impacting these northern areas particularly libya on into egypt but the winds are really quite strong and also beginning to push a fair way south as well so really feeling that weather to the north of 3 will central and southern areas time 14 celsius though in shipley and across into benghazi and in capetown on tuesday 27 celsius some good sunshine but the rains becoming really quite widespread and heavy throughout much of the south africa and then elsewhere we've got the usual scattered showers really across into mozambique and again some fairly stubborn rain showers into all central and northern areas of madagascar.

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i didn't get sandy with us adrian for the get here in doha with the news from the office here of the headlines iran's leaders joined a huge crowds and tech crunch to hold prayers at the funeral of the assassinated general custom salomone a procession through the capitol has ended at his body will now be taken to come on where he'll be buried on tuesday. protests are being held across india condemning an attack at a prominent university in new delhi last people with broad sledgehammers and stones targeted teachers and students dozens were injured. and chaotic scenes inside and outside of venezuela's national assembly after opposition leader upon boy though it

is allies were blocked from entering the building those who were allowed in voted to replace quite a with a politician who was recently kicked out of the opposition party for alleged corruption. back down to our top story huge crowds of packed the streets of iran's capital for the funeral of the military come on a customs of the money prayers were led by the supreme leader ayatollah ali commonly who's promised revenge others are as i said big reports from tehran a nation in mourning and tears from the supreme leader for iran's top military general assassinated in the u.s. drone strike in iraq to the how many a friend of customs in the money lead the funeral service at the iran university at sight the streets of the capital were packed with the iranians who considered for the money a hero a man who defended his country crowds like this have not been seen since the death of the founder of this like republic ayatollah khomeini 30 years ago so the money's

daughter addressed the crowds you know it's hard the hard. hard our photo hard today the philosophy and struggle of my father has made the resistance front into a principled and victorious philosophy. so the money and iran have long supported palestinian groups a senior hamas leader ismail haniya paid his respects us we here to express our heartfelt condolences to the leader of the islamic revolution ayatollah khamenei general salim on his family and the flag years of the resistance against the zionist regime in the us the crowds chanted sang and cried the feeling here that this is a moment of change not just for a run but for the entire region yes president donald trump book and the fascination of boston for the money would result in people coming by and celebration coming out against the political establishment in iran well the number of mourners here in the one so that he was great to be mistaken there were

a chance of death to america and an expectation that iran must respond with we should take revenge the feeling that i had to was in middle it's just i don't have this feeling towards anyone else in government hands that's not my heart there's no one is valuable as the general a little on some blood with blood running with my gun i want to tell the world and that stupid presidents that they killed the general but we will continue his pov and they can all do a damn thing as residuum that what kind of it since i heard the news i've been crying 100 so we had feelings but at the bottom of our hearts we want revenge revenge revenge but not everyone agrees on what action to take and their intended political struggles in parliament if you watch arabic or your eyes the best response is to expel us forces from the middle east and make efforts to liberate palestine but the specific response of iran should be hasty and should be well considered an important body called the assembly of experts condemned the killing of said the money and said silence in the face of assassination would make iran

weaker they called upon young people to mobilize and prepared to american forces from iraq as the world awaits iran's response the government here will find it hard to ignore the calls for revenge and when it's revenge for. man of course i'm sure the money standing it would appear this popular support for whatever action may follow. al-jazeera that run. invesco has issued a statement reminding the u.s. that it signed international treaties committing it not to harm cultural heritage sites in the event of an armed conflict the u.n. cultural body was responding to the u.s. president's threats of major retaliation against iran's cultural sites in 2018 the trumpet ministration withdrew the united states from unesco accusing the organization of being biased against israel imo is a professor of history and anthropology at shawnee state university he joins us now via skype from athens in the u.s. state of ohio good to have you with us professor what do you make of president

trump's comments. all right so the deliberate targeting of cultural sites whether they're religious or heritage ones is a behavior that we normally associate with rogue states terrorist entity such as taleban and isis and their criminal acts and civil wars in general so you can understand the revulsion felt by so many of us and so many people run the well i say when trump seemed to suggest that cultural sites would be included on the list of. prospective targets that may be hit by the u.s. in response to a strike or an attack by iran following the killing of some slain money so they reckon they were off the cuff remarks ill for through that that the president did not understand you know. yes i mean certainly i think that you know trump's well known for not following clearly defined oh well who.

prepared the talking points he was probably talking off the cuff and he said it and then also true to form trump is also fairly well known that when he does make a slip like that he is almost inevitably going to double down on it if he's challenger taken to tossed it so and this is again exactly what we've seen a while stipe believe this excerpt from pale was asked specifically about this on the morning talk shows here on sunday in the u.s. and he did not walk it back i believe there's been some reporting this morning suggesting that perhaps this is not exactly what he meant and not to say that not to forget that it is actually illegal under both united nations and unesco conventions to target cultural heritage site it's considered to be a crime there is a u.n. security council resolution to that effect to $1009.00. dating back 220157 or 2050 so it's on life i mean even if the president trump himself wanted to hit

cultural sites in iran it's unlikely that the u.s. military would allow him to do so even offer him the option of cultural sites target yes. yes that's correct because it does break so many norms international laws and even you know the message that i should i should point out that the mass going on 154 hay convention which is the primary sort of basis it legal base if you will regulating the sort of what happens to culture property in times of war does have a waiver section where you can specifically apply it wavered if battlefield conditions specifically require you to attack or target such a site but these conditions of thought quite specific that they're highly you know regulated and you can't simply just target sites you know without any

any specific reason dictated primarily by battlefield conditions i'm sure lawyers and you know would be would be arguing over this but and therefore in my opinion it's very unlikely that. the emma that the d.o.d. here department of defense would offer any such targets but the u.s. is no longer part of the of the unesco if the president trump withdrew it in 2018 i mean it does does that matter. i don't think so and i think there is a much broader. x. standing global understand world understanding that targeting cultural heritage cultural sites heritage religious or otherwise is basically outside the. mish basic human norms in fact the united nations and 948 but evaded by the horrors of the whole goals. issue the declaration of human rights and i want to go 27 specifically asserts that culture is

a basic human right and therefore protection of cultural assets cultural buildings monuments sites etc is part of that and this is been repeated in numerous really resolutions and remember in a sense a revolution there is allusion to 1009 in fareed 2015 to each you know the us voted for. it which physically actually deals with talk of combating terrorism also condemned the destruction of cultural sites by isis and a lot structure so i doubt that the us would want to be included in that group it just it's just not going to have a really good story to professor many thanks indeed for being with us thank you thousands of people of marched in liberia's capital monrovia of the country's deepening economic crisis demonstrate sense of the mounting the president george weah take action to tackle the rising cost of living and government corruption it's the 3rd demonstration against the former town president since june last year the

government said it would block any protests before the end of january but opposition groups about to defy the ban al-jazeera as ahmed idris reports from monrovia. right behind me the police are preventing. some demonstrators just a few hundreds of them who are trying to access this road by the way to proceed to the presidential palace is now they've been trying to do that since morning and the police are not letting them go to that particular location coming to this place it's on the road on all major streets leading to this place where you have the president's office the column and the supreme court all cited in this locality there is must see police presence and roadblocks to try to organize things we spoke to the minister in charge of information who said this is a team development and they want to see that the protests which were licensed by

the government all holding peacefully however one thing about today's protests is that the numbers we see no way and yeah what we sold 7 months ago on june 7th when there was a must a ton out of people to protest what they call. shortcomings in the administration rampant corruption and all these issues they are complaining about organizers i spoke to one of the we're going to use this of this demonstration and he's telling me the numbers don't matter as long as the message gets to the right people which of course is the government of liberia they want action and one of them even went further to say that they are not leaving this place until big government agrees to talk to them and until the government promises to take action on all the demands that put forward. in uganda police again detained musician and political activist bobby wine he was prevented from holding a campaign rally for next year's presidential election police fired tear gas to

disperse his supporters outside the capital kampala the meeting of been authorized by electrophoresis well the white has been calling for the retirement of longtime president missed 70 meanwhile the president himself is marching through the jungle and 7 he says he wants to highlight the liberation struggle 3 decades ago that led to him taking power in 1986 critics and dismissed it as a bid to rally support for a 6th in office with 70 began his 6 day march from the north of come on saturday at least 5 soldiers have been killed in mali after a roadside bomb hits an army convoy in the central region of tona mali has struggled to contain rebel groups who killed more than 140 soldiers since september thousands of french troops have been stationed in the region to help contain the violence in democratic republic of congo authorities want to pay around 10000

families to move away from lucrative minefields to make way for foreign companies bust as a serious head of its us are reports many people are refusing to leave because they don't trust the government. these men used to work for themselves that was until the congolese government moved them and gave the mining contract to a company from china that means working for the chinese if they want to survive now they here local authorities want to pay people to move even further out to make room for more foreign mining companies i mean summated $10000.00 families could be affected. only big companies are allowed but we will not leave until we know where they want us to go better we also don't know how much money they are offering us to move. more than half of the world's cobalt is produced in democratic republic of congo it's a vital component in batteries used in goods ranging from electric cars to phones and laptops but some here in the south east. in the tender province say they are

not benefiting they want fair compensation before they move. there were 2 previous 3 locations before to their village of. those people are now suffering they were led to a board compensation the government must 1st build proper houses for us before we move. 2 years ago around 600 families were relocated to this place come to kenai village about 25 kilometers away from but starting over hasn't been easy for everyone some families say there are great moving. we still don't have proper sanitation facilities there's no running water. we haven't had any politicians come and explain to us what's going on civil society groups a past relocations have exposed corruption and human rights abuses in the mining sector. the previous relocations did not work in some cases people were forced to

move the government can't make people leave an area without providing adequate housing and other facilities including fair compensation in a statement the provincial governor richard. says with a drop in price of cobalt on the world market the relocation of people from is no longer on the agenda because no company is ready to finance its relocation process it is now up to the national government through the ministry of mines for years locals have been told by the government that foreign investment creates jobs but at this foreign owned mine these men say they earn barely enough to survive. out of their high profile trial of the american film producer harvey weinstein has begun in new york he's pleaded not guilty to charges of assaulting 2 women including raping one of them in a hotel room in 2013 if found guilty he faces life in prison. in australia 6 smoke and raging flames are forcing pilots to turn back from missions to rescue people trapped by bushfires this air force plane was trying to land

a mallet cooter in victoria state on saturday up to 4000 people had to flee the town and shelter on beaches over the weekend when the fires came to close rain and cooler temperatures are bringing some relief for the place is likely to burn on for months or a few weeks millions of people will celebrate chinese new year around the dining tables but this year china is facing a shortage of its favorite food pork katrina hear reports from beijing. shredded pork and braised. just some of the most popular dishes served during 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 a 1000000 for us if prices keep going up like this then i will order and eat pork

or even try to not eat out as frequently as before. african swine flu has wiped out heart of china's hope heads up to 200000000 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 if. china has 26000000 people farmers and industry is crucial it impacts the many other sectors of this shortage has caught everyone's attention including farmers consumers and the government. the chinese government has released more than 100000 tonnes of strategic pork reserves to ease demand and lifted environmental restrictions on farming china consumes hoff the world's pork and during the chinese new year holiday demography seeks to address the source it's the chinese government hasn't worldwide spending spring to buy more. and it's pushing up poor prices worldwide beijing has ramped up pork

imports from the european union and despite the trade is awaiting tariffs on u.s. pork it's also boosting reports of other meat protein including australian musson beef and chicken from brazil. agricultural experts say the 4 could effect eating habits for the long term and she you know we will see increase well poultry consumption is a metre high protein and nutrition either has a short a large cycle. it could be the most possible replacement foothold. for now china's favorite meat but with no end to the shores he didn't cite it will continue to be more costly to bring home the bacon. you. just ahead in the sport things get a little bit heated on court in france but peter will be as we explain just.

but i get time to support his peter thank you very much football's return to italy after a winter break but so too is racism mario balotelli has criticised fans for years once again targeted on sunday the pressure striker school the opening goal in their 21 defeat a lot but shortly after the game had to be halted because of racist chanting a stadium announcement was made to fans and even last year's coach tried to tell them to stop balotelli elater posted

a video of the go on social media with the words a lot sea of fans that were at the stadium shame on you the club also released a statement saying dissociates itself in the most exhaustive way possible from the discriminatory behavior carried out by a very small minority of fans the club confirms its intent to prosecute those who betrayed their sporting passion causing a serious injury to the image of the team and the club le bron james put on a master class as the los angeles lakers showed off a title grid angels against the detroit pistons brawn only because on the breakaway to set up anthony davis in the 1st quarter. but it was at the basket betty really well the crowd at staples center. i mean that passed. some old lakers frailties reemerged as the person's full back to leave though they should. vote for the one took it upon themselves to stop

a charge with one of his own lakers sealing 810999 of a 3 they've won 5 in a row and a 1st championship in a decade became increasingly possible for. in tennis so i followed our lead the reigning davis cup champions spain into the quarter finals of the new team competition the a.t.p. cup the world number one was interrupted for any singles match against publicly of us of a euro boy and dropped just 3 games in a straight sets victory which clinched the time spain would go on to win the doubles match as well for 3 no victory. things were a bit more heated in the time between serbia and from a stranger and then well pair lost a tie break to do so and live it she in the 2nd set of the match and went over to get in spirited he had alternative plans for the unfortunate itan team to come down low pay fighting back to win the match but serbia would take the tie a $21.00 thanks to wins will never talk about each in both the singles and doubles . the reinvention of olympic sports is allowing new countries to make the

winter games debuts one of these is cutter which is sending an athlete to the youth and then picks in switzerland it's all thanks to a new form of hockey and a thriving league in the designation al-jazeera summer reports. 15 year old fellow artist days unusual in qatar because even i talk a player he's unique in cata because he's the 1st athlete from the country ever to become a winter olympians after call fine for the 2020 youthful imput games and last time . around with us and i want to vilify the. i've been skating since i was 7 years old at the same rink i became more fascinated by the game when i used to watch ice hockey players from the national team compete here at participated in mini competitions on an international level and now i'm competing for the games in switzerland after all the support i've received from the coach and my team because i've been dubbed not. as

a bit will compete in one of the games in news disciplines 3 by 3 ice hockey. the teams are formed of athletes from different countries so the teenager will be playing both with and against a more established nations like sweden finland and the czech republic. the introduction of a new hope the format to the winter games means the emerging nations don't need an outstanding team they just need an outstanding individual and that's what qatar has and the other day. what they also have is a thriving domestic competition the qatar international i hope the league is packed with ex-pats from canada and the u.s. as well as other countries playing every week at the rink in one of many shopping malls of the capital doha free of all kinds of levels we've got guys who were once paid to play ice hockey they're phenomenal players others a rookie like myself and their record for 4050 years and there are 4 or 5 coverage

that are excellent skaters. and they're playing are a division very competitive it's amazing to watch these kids grow up actually they're challenging some of our age it is a place now and quite honestly there's a lot of those who died players who are way better than me but if they get in their face and they're very skilled after the league introduced kut-o. yis to the sport the limb pick a committee wants to take it further. there's a nation confident that they will become the 1st of many to go from passing through the food courts to sports because state time. all dizzy had done. a story as cricketers have moved closer to india at the top of the world test rankings after completing a 3 nil series whitewash of an easy and meanwhile attains final days in prospect in the 2nd test in cape town with south africa chasing a target of 438 against england they close play on 126 for 2.

just and thomas has snatched victory from the jaws of defeat at golds same tree tournament of champions former p.g.a. champion squandered a 3 shot lead in hawaii and ended up in a 3 man playoff with zander shelf patrick read thomas a birdie the 3rd player hold to win he 2nd title at this 2. and the new bull riding season opener at new york's madison square garden on sunday and the states will have a competitors as the biggest and baddest bulls made things a bit rough for some. it's painful recalled over here a state aboard a bull called bizerk what else was going to be called to clinch the 1st major title of the $28280.00 season the brazilian winning 109000 dollars it's. ok we'll leave it there for now more sport coming up again a little later adrian peterson had everything but the kitchen sink in that many thanks dave that's it from i'll be back with of the day's news in just

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