investigating the use and abuse of power across the globe on the agency's. a sendoff from iran's most powerful the supreme leader leads pres for the assassinated commander kasim solomonic and has huge crowds packed the streets. in the u.s. politicians return to washington to debate whether the president overstepped his powers when he ordered the assassination. oh i'm adrian for the get this is out to 0 live from doha also coming up forces loyal to the libyan war khalifa haftar take control of one of the largest military bases in the country. and protests across india last group attacks students teachers at a prominent university campus. huge

crowds of packed the streets of iran's capital tehran for the funeral of military commander saw a mani the general was assassinated on friday by a u.s. airstrike in iraq prayers were led by the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has promised revenge on his ear as i said beg 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 many a friend of customs for the money lead the funeral service at the university outside 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 the republic ayatollah khomeini 30 years ago so the on his daughter addressed the crowds you know it's hard to harness how you would see anwar

photo ha ha 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 generously moneys 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 a run for the entire region but here president donald trump all of the fascination of boston for the money would result in people coming in celebration coming out against the political establishment in iran well the number of mourners here i think is the one so that he was greatly mistaken there were a chance of death to america and an expectation that iran must respond so we should

take revenge the feeling that i had to was in little it's unique i don't have this feeling towards anyone else in government hand that's not my heart there's no one is valuable as the general a little on some blood with blood running down 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 weird feeling 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 roger arabic or you are 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 oust 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 a man of course and so the money standing it would appear this popular support for whatever action may follow assad based al-jazeera that are on. let's go live to baghdad how does iran sullivan java is the forests iraq's prime minister has met the u.s. ambassador to iran some of what he said about that meeting. well ended our few minutes we've heard from the prime minister's office confirming the meeting between the u.s. ambassador and the iraqi prime minister the prime minister's office says that it was emphasized that all sides must work to words a speedy withdrawal of foreign forces something that iraq wants obviously something which the u.s. is not willing to do as we've heard from the u.s. president donald trump saying that if iraq takes such steps it will have to face

consequences such as sanctions and having to pay for their bases it's not clear whether mr trump's tweet was discussed it would mean the ambassador and the prime minister but it is clear that what iraqi government wants is what it wants to convey the message forcefully to the united states that this is what its parliament has voted upon now but it is worth noting that after the parliament's decision it was a unanimous decision but it was nonbinding it was only unanimous for the people who were present there and the kurdish members of parliament and arab sunnis were not there so iraq remains divided on this issue on what to do does it really want a complete withdrawal will it be a partial withdrawal how long will it take for foreign troops to withdraw and which one of them will drop so it is going to be a complicated few days and weeks ahead for iraq's government which is worth noting that it is an interim government because it was forced out by months of protest against corruption and a lack of jobs given given that the challenges then can't carry iraq's parliament

even even do it you say that there's a lot of divisions were. absolutely so even if they overcame all of those divisions of which is the sectarian and ethnic divisions of it being certain is shias and kurds even if they did tomorrow came together and said this is the law now u.s. forces should leave there are other agreements besides that 2014 agreement where iraq asked international troops to come to its country and save it from iceland there are agreements with the united states this question framework agreement of the f.a.a. under which iraq will probably need to give a year to u.s. forces to leave this area and similar agreements exist in parallel to that with other countries such as the united kingdom france germany etc so it is going to be a very difficult position for an iraqi government to take but again even before you get to that point there needs to be

a permanent iraqi government this government has already exceeded its constitutional limit to stay in power the prime minister has not been nominated there is no agreement so it does feel like that the government is pushing the case to show at least that it is trying to do something but what it will be able to achieve is probably not that much and it is not the kind of time that forces on the ground including groups loyal to iran are backed by iran are willing to give foreign troops some of the driver for to live from baghdad many thanks let's go to washington our white house correspondent kelly helka joins us live from. the president as about monday morning back to work back to washington from florida what's you've been tweeting about today. you know he hasn't been backing down and he's been astonishing many of those following his twitter feed with yet another statement expressing optimism well actually that was his counselor kellyanne conway

we'll get to that in a 2nd the president for his part waiting in all caps that iran will never have a nuclear weapon and this is astonishing given the fact that his counselor kellyanne conway speaking to reporters in the last couple of hours says despite all of this there is optimism at the white house that there can be a renegotiated agreement with iran to limit its nuclear program this is unusual because iran said just a day or so ago that in fact it's retreating from the pact that the united states pulled out of that 2015 agreement to limit its nuclear program and we also have to in the context of all the events that have been taking place it doesn't seem like there's any room for negotiating right now but that's what the white house has been saying officially and and this comes on the heels of even remarkable statements regarding cultural sites inside iran are important to iranians the u.s. president has been threatening to target those sites if in fact iran in any way retaliate for the u.s.

killing of general sort of money now this is something that the u.n. secretary the u.n. security council in fact has said is a violation of international law and certainly there's been international concern even condemnation if the u.s. were to take such action still this is something that the united states that it's prepared to do and in fact kellyanne conway saying that any action the u.s. takes would be within the law it's hard to know what law they're talking about so very strong statements but i think you can take from all of this that the u.s. is not backing down clearly many thanks to the white house correspondent can be how could that in washington as we were going on a u.n. secretary general who until you know good tenet show was speaking about. the situation let's go live to the u.n. al-jazeera is my count is the mike what did he say. well it was a very brief statement around one minute in total the secretary general came to the stakeout position outside the security council issued the statement and then walked

away declining to take any of the numerous shouted questions in his very brief statement he said that he's in contact with officials around the world my message he says is clear and simple stop escalation exercise maximum restraint restart dialogue renew international cooperation but in a way this brief statement an indication of how powerless it would appear the u.n. and the u.n. security council would appear in dealing with the conflicts in particular that iranian u.s. conflict underway at present the u.s. has protested loudly in the course of the day about the fact that the attempt to get a statement issued by the security council condemning the demonstrations and what it says was the attack on its baghdad embassy last week was blocked by russia and china so this is just an indication of how the security council is from playing any

effective role in attempting to deescalate the crisis that is being faced right many thanks indeed to the head of nato has warned the iran war to run against further violence and provocations after an urgent meeting held at its headquarters in brussels secretary general again stolzenberg says that a new conflict is in no one's interest stoltenberg has called for restraint deescalation they so maintains a 500 strong training mission in iraq for the fight against eisel but it suspended that mission following the death of sum of money. nato is prepared to continue our training and capacity building when the situation permits we remain strongly committed to the fight against international terrorism. after the meeting today in the united states also briefed on the regional situation following recent attacks on coalition forces in iraq and the strike against general salim on.

for years all our allies have expressed concern about iran's d.s. stabilizing activities in the why the middle east region. we agreed iran must never acquire a nuclear weapon we shared concern about iran's missile tests by better brussels officers natasha is that what more did book say in a session. where the nato secretary general and stoltenberg convened this emergency amazing alternators 29 hour buses to discuss the situation the crisis the tensions between the u.s. and iran that are really reaching boiling point now what he said was that of course the u.s. is the main nato member and the u.s. ambassador to nato briefed the other ambassadors about why the united states decided to kill general solar monny now what's sort of bloke said was that he can

share with the press or the public exactly what the u.s. disclosed but the others felt that they had been adequately briefed the also asserted that nato in the paul says repeatedly warned iran against its what he called destabilizing influence in the region and he said that all nato ambassadors were in agreement that there must now be a deescalation of tensions that all sides she chose restraint because we didn't want to see he said any what heading towards a conflict stoltenberg was almost at the end of his a brief press. meeting greece for a statement i should say he was also what nato would do how would respond if iran was to target u.s. interests well stolzenberg said he wouldn't be drawn into that kind of conversation because it would only fuel the tensions there were already seeing potential many thanks indeed our zeros nashbar for their live in brussels forces law as the libyan warlord khalifa haftar has taken control of one of the largest military bases in

the country the al qaida beer base is on the outskirts of the coastal city of sirte after us troops are trying to wrestle control of the strategic city from the internationally recognized government of national accord it's part of an offensive which the general launched in april to take control of the capital tripoli let's go live now to tripoli would up to one head is there for us and tell us more about the situation right now in sirte. well airdrie and the situation remains very tense in and around the course of the city of sirte that's after a military offensive launch had by have to forces this afternoon and we're getting reports from military sources in the city saying that half that as forces have now taken control of the whole city of sirte it their troops from misrata there were assigned to secure the city since the liberated it from ice in 2016

retreated about 30 kilometers to the west from syria it meanwhile troops from the city of misrata according to military sources there say that they are heading their way towards sit it to have the forces attack also eyewitnesses in the city and their fighters with the government of national accord so you dad to their take over what happened mainly because one military unit. belonging to the government it's the salafist trend that belongs to an ultra puritan islamic movement called the salafism that change it position. sort of received last from tripoli we're going to weather update next here on how to 0 there will be and liberia's find out why this growing discontent at the

nation's ruling elite. hello there 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 north across the pond we are going to see more in the way of rain now all these coastal areas throughout of israel 11 on into serious 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 right changing in to snow in the cold air 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 iran 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 a 3 will central and southern areas timers and 14 celsius though in shipley and across into benghazi and it's the one set in cape town 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. frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires usage really wipe them out the politics of climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping domino trouble float right now critical debate sequel on posters going to be told what the law is all 'd about this argument is astonishingly patronize a in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of

a new iraq of a new conscious and aware use of that struggle against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on al-jazeera. well again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the main news this hour iran's leaders joined huge crowds and to hold prayers at the funeral of the assassinated general same solomonic his body was later taken to the city of qom somebody will be buried in his hometown come on that on tuesday. the u.s. president is threatening sanctions against iraq if it goes ahead with moves to expel foreign troops donald trump says that american forces won't leave unless iraq

pays for the u.s. base that's there. and forces loyal to the libyan war after taking control of one of the largest military bases in the country after us troops are trying to wrestle control of the strategic city of sirte from the internationally recognized government of national because. they've been chaotic and confusing scenes in venezuela as the government of president declares but otoh forcibly installed a new head of parliament armed troops physically blocked opposition leader. and his allies from getting into the building ahead of the vote a lesson america to use in human reports from caracas. inside bin israel is legislative palace punches were thrown insult her world in a chaotic prelude to an even more a chaotic vote for the presidency of the national assembly. on for hours national guards have been prevented dozens of opposition deputies from entering the premises

. inside the chamber minority pro-government lawmakers organized to vote with a show of hands that no one counted. luis badla in opposition deputy choose to corruption and recently expelled from his party was instantly sworn in every day 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 write their way to the national assembly but the national guard is outnumbering up at this point and i see no place in the building. in a desperate last bid to get in opposition who. 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 that

you're going to hand that we're going to assume our responsibility and to 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 oh the u.s. envoy to paris whale elliott abrams and the assistant secretary of state that they should explain why they lost the leadership of the national assembly. clearly the battle for that national assembly until now venezuela's only independent institution is far from over and it will intensify even further when wide all attempts to reclaim what he says is his rightful place inside the

legislative palace on tuesday. you see in human al-jazeera caracas the response of the opposition politician elected under those highly unusual circumstances a speaker that as well as national assembly spoke to the media a few moments ago he insisted that everything was done according to the rules. we want to tell you the truth about the change that our national assembly is undergoing used today the national assembly elected its leadership in accordance with the constitution of venezuela in accordance with the constitutional mandate and the assemblies quorum regulations. process are being held across india condemning it attack the targeted students and faculty at a prominent university in new delhi demonstrations taking place in bengaluru channel i chanda and mon by besides new delhi the protestors say that students affiliated with the ruling p j p carried out the attack counter-demonstrations have

also been held in solidarity with the accused the b j p s student body tonight is that it carried out the assault or more than 30 people who were inside. there a university came under attack on sunday evening last people with roads sledgehammers and stones targeted to teachers and students despite multiple calls victims say the police arrived late the delhi police which is controlled by the central government is also accused of doing little to contain the violence. the police say they are investigating how mosques people could have entered the university campus and attacked students back. and as far as the identification. the 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 the investigation is going on in right earnest and they will be identified soon only i spoke to i'm

a product an assistant professor of geology you know university he was among those who were attacked and says that this was a planned the salt mine sosa's. there could be a mix. you know students. i think most of them were outsiders and i don't think. i find it very difficult to believe that such a large number of people can come from the outside. who are armed only stout you know foreigner and get organized then down the internal security not knowing about it so it's absolutely amazing how so many people who are outsiders who enter the campus without stop question so this looms to some kind of illusion right now there is police just manning the gates and trying to keep people out of the

campus from getting in there are. illegally behind so the activists at the gate shouting slogans except 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 gambles and they can be more well. police in uganda have 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 had been authorized by electoral forces will be wine has been calling for the retirement of longtime president and the 70 the president himself is marching through the jungle 70 says he wants to highlight the liberation struggle 3 decades ago that led to him taking power in 1986 critics have dismissed this as a bid to rally support for

a 6th term in office 70 began his 6 day march from the north of come on saturday. thousands of people of boston liberia's capital monrovia over the country's deepening economic crisis demonstrators demanding that president george weah take action to tackle the rising cost of living and government corruption it's the 3rd demonstration against the president since june last year the government said it would block any protests before the end of january but opposition groups to defy the ban al-jazeera. is in liberia's capital and says there's a heavy security presence at the anti-government protest. arose leading to this particular area of the capital as they call it had been locked. on the streets as well as run trying to organize a protest. designated right you see peace men trying to keep order and calm

on the streets and at the same time try to block the protesters from accessing and yes well government installations like the office of the president is located as well as the supreme court and the national parliament now this is where the government says the project and and that the justice system but they may. because they would like to see action from the president. however because the system. for one day ends today we really don't know exactly what. measures the security forces will take if the protesters insisted on staying you know what i was a little kid to that we understand that the protesters demanding that the government to take action key issues such as the. government as well as the president asking the president to the place of the constitution doesn't

require him to do so. when he's insisted that some of his demands been addressed and. that all the killings. the demands. are not about the public statements after the start of today's demonstration however the numbers compared to what happened something months ago really disappointed many supporters expect a big numbers to be present. 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 a study of 6 smoke and raging flames are forcing pilots to turn back from missions to rescue people who are trapped by the bushfires this asked force plane was trying to land in the victoria station on saturday absolute 4000 people had to flee the town and shelter on beaches over the weekend when the fast came to close rain and

cooler temperatures all bringing some relief but the blaze is likely to yet for months jessica washington reports now from batemans bay on the new south wales south coast this is a brief period of for a spot it's expected to be around 72 hours if these cooler conditions with life winds and even a bit of rain unfortunately that rain is not enough to bring this crisis which has been going for months now it is not enough to bring this crisis to an end it's expected that australia won't get significant rain at least for another 4 to 6 weeks that that's the only thing that can really bring this this bushfire emergency to an end for now crews working to ensure that fires burning along the east coast there also fires burning in new south wales and there are fears that those could burn with fires further south in victoria crews working to make sure that those fires don't join up and create a mega blaze that would go between 2 cities. it

is good to have you with us hello adrian fenty going to here in doha the headlines on of his era iran's leaders joined huge crowds in tehran to hold present the funeral of the assassinated general cassim saw the money his body was later taken to the city of qom so the money will be buried in his hometown of among on tuesday the u.s. president is threatening sanctions against iraq if it goes ahead with moves to expel foreign troops donald trump says that american forces would leave unless iraq pays for the u.s. base that's that speaking moments ago about the geo political tension the u.n. secretary general antonio 10 days cold for deescalation i've been following the recent rise in global tensions with great concern i mean constant contact with living officials around the rules and my message is simple and clear

stop escalation exist size maximum restraint restart dialogue re new international cooperation let us not forget the terrible human suffering caused by war forces loyal to libyan war old khalifa haftar taking control of one of the largest military bases in the country after us troops are trying to wrestle control of the strategic city of sirte from the internationally recognized government of national accord it's part of an offensive which the general borscht an april to take control of the capital tripoli. and a stray a thick smoke and raging flames forcing pilots to turn back for missions to rescue people who are trapped by the bush files this air force plane was trying to land and now it kuta 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 but the blaze is a likely to burn for months all the 30 people who are inside a hollow narrow university came under attack on sunday evening mosque people with broads sledgehammers and stones targeted teachers and students despite multiple calls victims say that the police arrived too late the delhi police which is controlled by the central government is also accused of doing little to contain the violence. there is the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story next.

growing fallout over the killing of iran stop military iraq's parliament votes to expel foreign troops now president trump is threatening sanctions against baghdad so what will this mean for the u.s. presence in iraq and what consequences for the wider region this is inside story. and welcome to the program 40 back to the middle east is grappling with the united states assassination of costs and some in monny in an extraordinary session on sunday iraq's parliament voted to remove foreign troops from the country caretaker prime minister. says the government is preparing legal and procedural steps to him

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