that matter to you. down to 0. want to endorse it. 0. allow i maryanne demasi you're watching the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes the u.s. military says it's preparing to move troops out of iraq following a vote in the iraqi parliament calling for the withdrawal of foreign troops. tears from iran's most powerful leaders as crowds packed the streets of tehran for the funeral of assassinated commander qassam selim money. also coming up on the program

forces loyal to libyan warlord 25 to say they've seized parts of the strategically important city of sirte. and the wall of red facing firefighters as they try to tackle the blazes in australia from the air. holes who. made racist chaunce towards mario balotelli but on the field kristie all the rebuilding storks the new year in store with a hat trick for your insights in city of. hello a very warm welcome to the program out top story this hour the u.s. army has told iraq that it is preparing to move out of the country they say in a letter to iraq's ministry of defense from the u.s. brigadier general william seeley stating that the u.s. will be repositioning forces over the course of the coming days and weeks he says

they are doing so in jew deference to the sovereignty of the republic of iraq of course this follows the assassination of the iranian military commander money in a u.s. airstrike and iraq's call for foreign troops to leave that country. of aid is live for us in baghdad and of course this comes hot of the heels of that vote in the iraqi parliament what is reaction likely to be that of this. well mary i'm in it's been a very interesting 24 hours because the morning started with a threat from the u.s. president donald trump saying that if iraq forces us to leave it will. shut down its bases it will have to pay compensation it will have to face sanctions and now we see this letter which has been confirmed by a few sources in the iraqi government that u.s. forces are being relocated on their way out as a sign of respect to the iraqi parliament again a decision which was non-binding a decision which was not attended by many in the iraqi parliament but it is

interesting that we've been hearing helicopters in the last 2 hours helicopter flying over the green zone which had stopped after the killing of customs for the money but they were flying quite frequently after the u.s. embassy attack and now they seem to be in the air again and this letter refers to the movement of a number of types of helicopters as troops will be relocated for their move on birds what does this mean well there are more than 5000 troops in iraq in any given time and this letter talks about a few 100 troops so it is going to be significant in terms of its symbolism but does it mean that the u.s. is prepared to pull out of iraq well i think it is it is a bit premature to say that but this does signal what iraq wanted all along this is what iran wanted all along and that was something that we heard from the iraqi prime minister just 24 hours ago at the iraqi parliament where he said that now the u.s. forces are no longer facing the threat of ice and that they're being hunkered down into their own bases because they face threats from within and outside iraq and it

would be not possible for iraqi security forces to protect them and less than 24 hours later you see the statement and we hear the helicopters in the air signaling that there is some shift that is happening but it is going to be clearer as the day breaks in iraq on how many troops will be moving out are they moving out of iraq are they being relocated to other bases because the u.s. has a number of bases. which we have seen in the course of the last few the fight against lies. of course that there is much that needs to be clarified from this letter. but what about concerns on the part of some iraqis and some iraqi policy politicians about what they could mean for stability in the country about what a departure of the u.s. could mean absolutely mary because this is an issue like many others which divides iraq iraqis on ethnic and sectarian grounds as i mentioned that the kurdish and

sunni m.p.'s did not attend this session of the parliament just joint statement come out which the u.s. is respecting and there have been concerns from them because they have to trust one iraqi forces are capable of protecting them against a threat like i said they weren't able to do so in 2014 now iraqi forces they say that they are battle hardened and they can take on challenges like that the 2nd question is do they trust these forces because that trust deficit as we've seen in mosul have been problems in other areas where forces which are loyal to iran forces which are backed by iran are not welcome by the local communities there we saw it include cook we've seen it in mosul and other parts as well so it is going to be a difficult question for these communities and then again there are protesters who have been calling for all sorts of foreign influence to end they're not they don't want american influence to be replaced by iran these are the protesters who forced out the iraqi government the iraqi prime minister is

a temporary one he is an interim prime minister and he's been emphasizing that the government needs to be formed as soon as possible so there are multiple voices here inside iraq which are off concerned that this if there is a good draw of corelation troops it will leave a vacuum and they're afraid that that fracking will be filled by forces which do completely do not trust. all right a some a binge of a thank you very much all the latest from baghdad and joining us now is john hendren from washington and just saying a line here from the u.s. defense secretary mark as for saying the united states has no intention of pulling out of iraq. that's right that is from an off camera briefing that has just occurred at the pentagon that means there's a lot of difference there's a big gap between what the pentagon is saying and what this letter purports to say so we're going to have to get some more explanation about that i think osama had some good analysis there in saying it could be a matter of

a certain number of troops not all u.s. troops leaving iraq or it could simply be a formality a required response to that iraqi vote yesterday the non-binding vote that u.s. troops should leave iraq but i think we can take it authoritatively from the u.s. defense secretary when he says the u.s. has no plans to withdraw from iraq that that is exactly the message from the pentagon itself and of course we heard president on all trump just a day earlier on sunday saying as he as he left more lago talking to reporters on his plane saying that the u.s. would not withdraw from iraq unless the iraqis paid for the u.s. air base it belied which has already been turned over to the iraqis themselves and he said that the u.s. would then levy heavy sanctions on iraq sanctions that made the iranian sanctions pale in comparison to what we need now is to get a little more explanation we hope to get more of that came out of that press

briefing with the u.s. defense secretary but apparently things are not as they initially seemed and that makes sense if you listen to what president trump has been saying yes some very bellicose comments as you are saying about the prospect of sanctions against iraq if they try to move forward on this initiative to expel foreign troops of course it doesn't mean that the u.s. and particularly president with the campaign campaign pledges that he has made doesn't want to remove troops from the region but present presumably they want it to be on their terms. exactly ultimately president trump campaigned on pulling u.s. troops out of these foreign wars and that is something you want to do but this is certainly not the way that he would want to do it but just to put this all into perspective i was there in 2003 in iraq after the invasion when the u.s. troops are there and spent a lot of time in that region since then and i can tell you the force that's there now $5000.00 u.s.

troops is a mere fraction of what initially was there there were $177000.00 coalition troops that invaded iraq initially and then for a $130000.00 of those were u.s. troops and so there were just massive numbers of foreign troops there many of them u.s. and those numbers were multiplied by the contractors and others who came there the people came for catering from other countries so there is this massive presence and it is really doing build significantly so what you have there now are largely special forces and other troops whose job it is to train iraqi forces and to engage in the fight against isis so a very small number of troops there and the but the u.s. is now saying they are not going to pull all of those troops out and we need to get a little more reporting on exactly what this letter signifies indeed we do thank you very much for now from washington john hendren meanwhile huge crowds packed the streets of iran's capital full at the funeral of qassam seller money pres were led

by the supreme leader ayatollah ali home and i was promised revenge against the united states for the strike that killed salim mani as i beg reports from tatiana it's provided a shell of a national unity. 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 in 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 but hardly hi yeah i would see anwar for 2 ha ha today the philosophy and struggle of my father has made the resistance front into a principled and victorious velocity. so the money and iran have long supported

palestinian groups a senior hamas leader ismail haniya paid his respects us we're here to express our heartfelt condolences to the leader of the islamic revolution ayatollah khomeini general solomonic family and the flag bearers of the resistance against the zionist regime and the us the crowds chanted sang and cried the feeling here that this is a moment of change not just way run for the entire region but here for president on the front porch of the fascination of boston for the money would result in people coming by celebration but 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 with we should take revenge the feeling that i had towards the digital it's unique i don't have this feeling towards anyone else in government and that's not my heart there's no one is valuable as the general level on some blood with blood residual that

whatever since i heard the news i've been crying and it's a weird feeling but at the bottom of our hearts we want revenge revenge revenge but not everyone agrees on what action to take and they are intended political struggles in parliament if roger 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 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 run. well u.s.

senate majority leader republican mitch mcconnell has urged american lawmakers to wait for the facts before criticizing president trump's decision to order the assassination of us in santa monica now it is completely appropriate this decision will generate interest and question from this body we can and we should learn more about the intelligence and thinking that led to this operation and the plan to defend american personnel and interests in the wake of that unfortunately in this toxic political environment some of our colleagues rushed to blame our own government before even knowing the facts rushed it to split hairs about intelligence before being briefed on it and rushed it down blazed alimony as evil while presenting our own president as the villain. well how did you castrate joins us now from capitol hill so mitch mcconnell that defending the president against

criticism about the timing on the attack on us i'm still a money did do we know is that it has learned any more about the informational the intelligence that prompted this strike. well we know that on wednesday the senators of both parties the full senate is expected to receive a briefing on that intelligence behind closed doors and for once if you listen to what mcconnell just said he did say that the senator should receive that information for once something that leaders of both parties in the senate appear to agree on we also heard from chuck schumer the top democrat in the chamber a little earlier and he said that yes everyone should learn more about the intelligence with the president claiming that there was an imminent attack being planned by silly money which justified his executive decision to kill the iranian general but schumer also accused trump of careening from one in polls to another

that was the schumer's words and having a complete lack of strategy and leaving global hotspots worse off than when trump took office 3 years ago earlier i also spoke with another democratic senator ben cardin of maryland he is a democrat and a top member of the senate foreign relations committee and a co-sponsor of one of the senate resolutions now that would seek to end the military intervention regarding iran without congressional approval he said that the u.s. policy toward iran took the wrong turn when president trumka cited to withdraw the u.s. from the iran nuclear deal and that last week's drone strike killing sulaimani only made things worse. it was clearly provocative there's no question that the accelerates the danger between iran and the united states from point of view of a military action we need a diplomatic solution and the president's actions makes much more difficult he

based it on the end of the threat we now need to know what that and the threat was all about and that's i hope that briefing this week will clarify. meanwhile president obama has been speaking out as well today not backing down and threatening further retaliation in the face of any response from iran that's right he spoke on conservative radio earlier in the day saying that silly money should have been taken out long ago by previous u.s. administrations and there's still backlash coming out about what the president said over the weekend when he said that if tehran retaliates then the u.s. could strike at 52 cultural heritage sites within iran now that would be considered a war crime under international law and democrats have been outspoken in criticizing the president's rhetoric but president not backing down and this morning also his presidential counselor kelly one kellyanne conway defending threat though massaging

it a bit saying that perhaps some of these cultural heritage sites in iran was disguising military assets that were also in place but certainly as a whole the white house the administration standing behind the president's hard line threats merriam thank you very much heidi joe castro of course said in plenty of international reaction as well with the head of nato warning iran against further violence and provocations after an urgent meeting held in brussels the alliance has put on hold an anti eisel training mission in iraq since saleh money's death. 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 the united states also briefed on the regional situation following recent attacks on coalition forces in iraq on the

strike against generals for the moment. for years all our allies have expressed concern about 2 wrongs do you stay abroad singer to it is in the why the middle east region. we agreed iran must never require a nuclear weapon we shared concern about iran's missile tests. well united nations has also been speaking out calling for maximum restraint from wild leaders without naming any countries that are general intent of the terrorists that tensions were at the highest level in the century i've been following the recent rise in global tensions with great concern i mean constant contact with living officials around the world and my message is simple and clear stop escalation exercise maximum restraint restart dialogue

re new international cooperation let us not forget the terrible human suffering caused by war on mike hanna night of nations and joins us now like that has been a letter from iraq's mission to the u.n. hasn't there. yes indeed iraq has sent a letter to the president of the security council as well as to the secretary general asking for the united nations security council to condescend the conducted air strikes and assassination which the letter says contravenes the human rights obligations of the united states the letter also says and stresses that any military operation on iraqi soil without the consent of the iraqi government and without prior coordination is considered a provocative hostile act that violates the charter of the united nations so we had

that brief interjection from the secretary general there he name no names pointed no fingers but some of the ambassadors were a little bit more forthcoming the chinese ambassador describing the u.s. action as violating the basic norms of international relations now he was asked directly with the china was considering calling a meeting of the security council or indeed getting a security council statement out he wouldn't be drawn on this saying that he's discussing this matter with other members of the council the russian ambassador to spoke to the media he was awesome same questions he was asked whether there would be a joint statement from the security council with regard to this ongoing conflict between iran and the u.s. and he said very bluntly not chance so any hope that iraq might have of getting some uniform statement from the united nations security council clearly desh right at the very 1st instance the security council remains so divided that it cannot

even come together to agree on a statement calling for an end to hostilities all right thank you very much mike hanna with all the latest from the united nations i'm joined now in the studio by banning is a doctoral researcher at sas university here in london focusing on iranian foreign policy. in the last. also there's been some confusion about this letter that was sent from a u.s. representative in iraq to the defense ministry essentially saying that was there would be some sort of redeployment or repositioning of u.s. troops and now that the pentagon and the defense secretary mark esp a saying the u.s. has no intention of pulling out of iraq. clearly clearly there is a need for clarity bought one thing that we have seen since the u.s. as strike is this uncertainty of the u.s. military presence in iraq. so i think there's a lot of focus on this ali money aspect of the u.s. military presence in iraq and how that violated iraqi sovereignty i think the other

component to it and perhaps the more important component is that one of the other victims of this assassination was i will mathew in the hundreds was a senior operational commander of the p.m.u. which formally is part of the iraqi armed forces we have a situation where the u.s. military which is in iraq at the invitation of the iraqi government is assassinating an iraqi military commander in baghdad that in itself made untenable to have combat troops in iraq i think at the very least they will keep some kind of maybe just a call maybe some training mission for some time but i think politically is just untenable to keep u.s. troops in iraq i think the process of them withdrawing it's not going to happen overnight they'll probably take a few months maybe towards the end of 2020 but i think fundamentally the u.s. has put itself in a position where i think it can no longer say the. as you say the it was there was has been seen as an attack on iraq sovereignty as well but in that vote in the iraqi parliament it wasn't final and there were

a great many lawmakers particularly sunnis and kurds who boycotted the vote so as time goes on and past perhaps the dust starts to settle from the killing of silly money will we see the iraqi government perhaps trying to to some extent preserve the presence of the international coalition in that country because of the threats from i sell and so forth i think that is certainly a valid dimension to the debate but i think another perhaps bigger card in the mix is trump's reaction to it as you saw in his remarks yesterday he was basically threatening iraq with sanctions in case it started happening and what he called very friendly terms if you have a situation where there's a face saving way for both iraq and the u.s. to come to an agreement for a gradual withdrawal of u.s. troops i think it would be more time and more political space to get by and. the same lawmakers who you just mentioned to also buy into the process and alleviate their concerns especially the kurds how badly would iran like to see an abrupt and

immediate u.s. withdrawal from iraq i think that would certainly be for silly money and achievement which he did not manage to get through in life which he would have achieved through his death and that's certainly a strategic iranian goal particularly because it also impacts the u.s. military presence in syria so the short answer to your quick to your question is basically very much. ok thank you very much i could probably not issue any thank you a lot has been reaction in the international markets as well as global oil prices surging more than 5 percent since the assassination of cost of solar money now at $70.00 a barrel the price of crude is at the highest level since september when drones were used to attack oil processing facilities in saudi arabia the u.s. warned over the weekend that iran might retaliate facility death by targeting oil facilities in the middle east a prolong the oil price could raise the risk of a global economic recession well in my colleague elizabeth braun and spoke to the

economics editor a bit early here is his assessment of what might come next in an issue 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 reason 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 at that time rose to $62.90 a barrel you know we're way above that right right this very moment in oil price terms. hear the news hour live from london well still ahead. protests across india after a mosque group attacks students and teachers at a prominent university in the capital. thousands rally in liberia's capital

monrovia with demands for football a town president george where. and in support the reinvention of the lympics gives a win to claim state techniques from. the i. we go to libya now where forces loyal to the warlord khalifa haftar say they have seized the strategic coastal city of sirte from the un recognized government so he is situated on libya's coast and it's the dividing line between half the libyan national army and the government of national court based around 450 kilometers away in tripoli city's port and military camps in the south was seized it comes as turkey is preparing to deploy troops to help shore up the government in tripoli. has moved from tripoli. forces have taken control of several parts of the city including the poorest the city center that's also

along with the military camps in the southern city fighting is still going on until now according to military sources in the area and they say that they take all what happened after a certain detachment in the city that was belonging to the government forces that changed position just because the our affiliate to their photogenic tribe that's the tribe of the warlord believe or have them now the city of sirte it is a very strategic as it is very close to the oil fields and oil ports in central libya and specially close to the coast we're getting also news from military sources in misrata that they're sending the troops. to repeal health forces or tag the u.s. a special representative venezuela elliott abrams as washington is looking at

additional sanctions to put pressure on the venezuelan government comes after chaotic scenes in the country yesterday as the government of president nicolas maduro forcibly installed its preferred candidate the head of congress on trips blocked opposition politicians including quite 0 from entering parliament ahead of the vote luis perez who was recently expelled over corruption allegations has been handed a post i'm going to. get it's not just that they have prevented the lawmakers from entering the assembly they did not allow the president of the violated the rights of ovan is really what you saw yesterday is what you've been saying for years the persecution kidnappings wrist and of take over of the assembly. the latin america and italy scene even as life 1st and crack as tell us more about luis and how he's handed up in this position. hello there well it's a rather bizarre story to say the least least that i as you mention was expelled from his party but his party was an opposition party it's the 1st justice party he

was involved or even still involved in fact and under investigation and in the so-called collapse gate affair it's a scandal in which allegedly he and a group of other deputies make did the dirty dealings were involved in dirty dealings for the. back of the basket of basic goods that is sold at a very very low prices to ordinary venezuelans by the government but beyond that he had been a member of the opposition and then when he was began to be investigated in november he was expelled and then suddenly he became a critic an outspoken critic along with others that were in the same situation one guy dull and he said that he would not vote for him that's why he was the candidate and the hearing is that is and he still says and he is a member of the opposition i saw him to day he has in fact convened a new session of the national assembly for tuesday and the agenda is to ask for the

liberation of political prisoners to demand more free and fair elections except in so he was certainly trying to sell himself as a that's a person who is very much still in the opposition but he was elected by the pro-government deputies not by the majority of the opposition so i think that tells you quite a lot so how the ordinary venezuelans the this design changes that. you know i think ordinary venezuelans are very confused at this hour you have to remember that the media in this country is dominated by the government and so all they're hearing now is that one guy dall did not show up at the national assembly election because he didn't have the votes nowhere does it say that he wasn't allowed to go in or that many of the other deputies. we're blocked so they are confusing not sure what to believe the united states and in fact just a short while ago the us vice president mike pence came out in strong support of

bill saying that he is the only recognized leader of this country the russia of the russian foreign minister came out and called the elections very democratic on behalf of that no surprises there but at ordinary that israelis don't know what to think at this point they're very confused and they're very very demoralized as their economy continues to sink while the little while the political situation we are in the conflict as going to. thank you very much our last america and it's a new scene and it was latest on that. still some bring you on the news from london morning in iran crowds packed the streets for the funeral procession of general hossam salim money. and then a bit later on with peter find out who held their nerve to win the 4 hills tournament in all straight.

we got more wet swindell but mild weather pushing into western parts of europe and down into the southeast we got some rather lively showers longer spells of rain here in between it is quiet we are still having missed info problems into the central areas but to the main where the action remains either side of that so here's the next band of cloud that's waiting out into the atlantic and that will push its way further east which as we go through the next couple days choose to have a blustery day across northern ireland scotland northern areas of england pushing across into norway some right and some snow pushing for here over the high ground and it's rightness now to the high ground for turkey eastern side of the med seeing some very choppy waters gal force winds and some very heavy rain pushing in here as well as you go on it's wednesday that will snow just for a little further east was sought for still in the mix there still quite into those central parts and cloud and rain just not in his way down across england into low

countries pushing across a germany and indeed into parts of northern france well in areas of africa well generally driving we do of course have that sherry right effect in the far north of libya just pushing across the coastal fringes of egypt as well up towards northern parts of egypt over towards the northwest estate's fine dry and warm. but. it is murder when you throw a fire bomb into someone's home and meet it you know you know. not insignificant in numbers that insignificant ideologically the insignificant event is a crime get down very significant by dictating big government and the fact that the policy down shall not counting the radicalized series on al-jazeera in a 2 part series. observes the lives of 2 children. over

20 years. where insights into circumstances that shape lives. in a rapidly changing world. 20 years of mean starts with floods and land buddha stories on how to 0. welcome back with the news hour live from london a look at the headlines this hour the u.s. defense secretary mark aspect is saying the u.s.

has no plans to pull troops out of iraq it comes off to a letter was leaked to iraqi media say u.s. forces would be repositioning over the course of the coming days and weeks that has now been denied by the pentagon. huge crowds meanwhile have packed the streets of tehran for the funeral procession of iranian general possum's the country's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei i and president hassan rouhani held prayers and proceedings in the iranian capital. and our other top story this hour forces loyal to the libyan want to say they've seized the strategic coastal city of sirte from the un recognized government. more now on our top story the assassination of money i'm joined from washington by ali who is a senior fellow at the arab gulf states and i want to start by getting your thoughts on conflicting the reports we have had some clarification now from the pentagon that a letter that was sent from u.s.

army representative in iraq about to u.s. troop withdrawal was well essentially poorly worded and an era. if pentagon chooses to be straw u.s. troops from iraq that would clearly be the final victory of the late cost of stolen money who was working towards victory in the us from iraq ever since 2003 but they've got managed to do so while he was in alive if he does so after his death death would be the final victory however if the us chooses to remain in iraq in spite of the wishes of the iraqi parliament practically elected parliament death would create other types of problems for the united states which this time could public can take advantage of how this stomach republic has systematically questioned the legitimacy of the united states military

presence in iraq has tried to appeal to various political parties in iraq who are not only angry with iranian presence in iraq and the iranian influence but also with american influence and presence after all iraqis are nationalists they would like to see a sovereign country both functioning while the united states is pointing an accusing finger against iranian meddling in iraq this lawmaker public is pointed out that the united states is not much better. for the iraqis in the attack on their soil was seen as really an attack on their sovereignty as well but as we have seen in recent weeks and months there has been a backlash against iran's encroachments on iraqi sovereignty so will we see perhaps some effort on the part of iraqi politicians to preserve and to maintain actually

the presence of coalition troops to counteract iran's presence. iraqi politicians have until now managed to strike a balance between the united states and the stomach a public after all u.s. is the most important military force presence in iraq and also the most important back here and ally of the new iraq and the slum to public is a neighbor which is never going away so they had to find a balance between the 2 powers now we see some disturbances and we also see poor isolation read in the iraqi political system and this polarization is going to continue as long as the slugger public and the united states choose to fight their battle in the iraqi political territory and seen and i suppose the military dimension is just one aspect of it because they've also been these reports that solomon he was involved in some sort of of the chairs with the saudis and given and

this would have been important to walk i mean the prime minister said that he was due to meet salim money because of course they don't want to be caught in the crossfire of any sort of proxy war between iran and the u.s. all iran in the saudis for that matter so then the question becomes whether some sort of back channel initiative or commitment to reduce tensions has been extinguished. which is why i believe that the united states' decision to assassinate a major general salim money probably was an overreaction president trump was watching events unfold in baghdad he believed that there was a threat to the security of the united states embassy compound in battle dog and he ordered the assassination at the time that some of the people who had seized and who had forced into their way into the embassy grounds over all of the out of the

embassy but it was not the risk that the united states could live with so on the iranian part the mistake was to allow proxies to have forced entry into the compound and from the u.s. it was possibly an overreaction to assassinate measures your solemn money rather than taking out some people in lower levels of the courts force. in washington thank you will the impact of general salim on his assassination is also being felt in yemen iran back to the rebels holding a rally thousands of protesters there are chanting anti-american slogans on the streets of the capital sana'a. meanwhile the saudi backed government says it considers the killing of solomon as an important step to end the conflict in the region $100.00 ela thomason son and says it's strengthened some forces that. but if it is bring them in the south downs god the outside the old city of sanaa you know

it's going down the us says lisa i think it's the outside slogans that i think they will carry on is a struggle i think described and also we have called them the league of civil rights of law and also the axis of resistance so i think the thing was looking for what the scribe was this was john the big day and this would eventually would be a withdrawal of the u.s. forces one look up what america the u.a.e. and saudi arabia are the enemies of islam today u.a.e. has bombed graduate students at the war academy in libya the u.a.e. with saudi arabia are bombing yemenis indiscriminately with the u.s. recent well crime of assassinating cilla money i can see an end to such a coalition led by the u.s. which has become very close to the day i became but the hold on a shadow went out to the u.s. his existence in the region poses high risks and dangers to the arab people for example yemen has been subject to

a brutal war and destruction for nearly 5 years with no justification but it was initiated an order from washington through its agents in the region the main role of the us was supporting its tools with weapons in arms sales the united states of america has violated all norms and international principles it has even violated the un charter and its own constitution which trumps order to kill he has violated the agreement of the us existence in iraq. the situation has become more difficult also for yemenis the one thing going through more than 5 years the world with saudi arabia was i was i was was the winning of the cycle i have joined the likes of the distance by the leaders of the us of a school for. film mogul harvey weinstein's arrived of course in new york ahead of his rape and sex assault trial the movie producer has pleaded not guilty to charges

of assaulting 2 women including the rape and predatory sexual assault if found guilty he could face life in prison the case is just one of several against weinstein after dozens of women accused him of sexual misconduct spanning decades while at the courts in new york he was charged with other sex crimes charges by prosecutors in los angeles. using a walking frame following back surgery. firefight as a taking advantage of cooler temperatures and rain as they continue to battle more than 140 bush tries this by and was prevented from landing to help evacuate thousands of people trapped in the town of some 500 kilometers east of melbourne forty's a warning there is no room for complacency with temperatures expected to rise again by friday federal government says it's willing to pay whatever it takes to help communities recover dedicating one point $4000000000.00 on monday jessica washington is in batemans bay on the new south wales coast and says that the cost of the wildfires is rapidly mounting. this part of new south wales is usually so

picturesque that it draws thousands of visitors every year but it has been completely transformed by this bushfire season crews have been battling heat wave conditions for days but after days of bad news this finally a bit of good news cooler conditions and even some rain there's also some good news coming in from the federal government who've just pledged at least $1400000000.00 us dollars to help communities just like this one with their bushfire recovery to die we agreed that we would support the national bush for recovery our agency by stablish national bushfire recovery fund which will be administered by that agency led by mr culver the commonwealth is committing an additional an initial $2000000000.00 over the next 2 calendar year starting right now to support

all of the efforts of recovery right across the country the bushfire relief fund will focus on roads infrastructure and of course houses some communities have been almost completely destroyed this bushfire season spending for the relief fund hasn't been capped recognizing that australia is longest bushfire merge and sea is also likely to be its most expensive we go to india now where police are investigating how mosques men stormed one of the country's most prestigious universities on sunday protests have been held following the incident at a narry university in delhi it comes as demonstrations against a controversial citizenship will continue at similar institutions in while more than 30 people were injured in sunday's attack by salience with sticks and rocks with some of them shouting death threats a tack has been blamed on the students' union which is closely linked to the ruling b j p party of the prime minister narendra modi. i'm totally shocked.

get did. i can end up with a program how did these. you know politics aside elections aside you this is this is india we're not that but not in public i'm shocked i may not do politics again that's a different thing but what has happened today is a travesty. well thousands of protesters have gathered in liberia's capital to rally against the country's wessling economic crisis calling for football attend president george where to take decisive action to improve the country's finances is liberia ranked as one of the world's poorest countries demonstrators accuse the government of corruption and abusing its power and mass demonstration is the 2nd since june i'm an address at the protest in monrovia where people are saying they won't move until the government takes action. gross leading to this particular area

of the capital as they call it locked us in security on the streets as well as rocks trying to organize a protest designated right here and you see please men trying to keep order and calm on the streets and at the same time trying to block the protesters from accessing key areas where government installations like the office of the president is not created as well as the supreme court and the national parliament now the. government says. and and that the protesters are insistent that they not. because they would like to see action from the president. however because the system because only. one. we really don't know exactly what. measures the security forces will take in the dusters insisted on staying. what i was allocated to that we understand that the protesters are demanding of the

government to take action issues that. improve governance as well as the president asking the president of the closest of the constitution doesn't require them to do so publicly our job when asked about some of those demands have been addressed and also that all look at the rest of the demands but they are not made and. about what. i've done the start of today is the most right now about the numbers compared to what happened some months ago when they disappointed for many of the supporters were expecting big numbers to be present. all the sports still had tempers get. attendance to. respond.

a little. let's get a sport now with peta. marion thank you very much christiane or another kicked off a new decade in the same for many in the last as you ventus return from the winter break in italy's city are. he scored his 1st hattrick for the club and therefore know it against kelly r.d. on a monday it was the 56th of its career in total bernardo taking his tally for the season to 15 goals interval and stay top of the table ahead of us after they were $31.00 winners at an uppity. on his return to the san siro that any behavior which was

unable to provide the spark ac milan are looking for to lift their season he came on as a 2nd half substitute in a goal or straw at home to sampdoria but he telling football is also dealing with some familiar problems lot c.-o. have responded after some of their fans made racist chants towards mario balotelli in their win and pressure balotelli described it as shameful sit at the club 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 a sporting passion causing a serious injury to the image of the club and the team. over in england tottenham and london police have closed the very investigation into claims of racist abuse towards chelsea's antonio ruediger they found no evidence to support allegations made in the english premier league match last month ruediger

said he heard of monkey noises after he was involved in the sending off of spurs player son young in main. the reinvention of olympic sports is allowing new countries to make the winter games debuts one of those as unlikely as it may seem is cutter which is sending an f. lee to the youth olympics in switzerland it's all thanks to a new form of hockey and a thriving league in the days that nation al-jazeera sunnah reports. 15 year old fella disobeys unusual in qatar because even the ice hockey player he's unique in custer because he's the 1st athlete from the country ever to become a winter olympians after call fine for the 2020 youth the limpid games in the sun go down with us and or with a village rather than 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 and i participated in many competitions on an international level and now i'm competing for the games in switzerland after all the support i've received from the league the coach and my team because i've been dubbed not. necessary will compete in one of the games and 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 hockey 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 so what they. 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 other rookie like myself have a record for 4050 years and there are 4 or 5 conferees that are excellent skaters. and their planetary division very competitive it's amazing to watch these kids grow and actually they're challenging something for a different place and quite honestly there's a lot of those guitar players who are way better to be put in their fifty's and they're very skilled after the league introduce catteries to the sport the name 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 courts to sports because state. all dizzy had done. now in tennis rafael nadal led the reigning davis cup champion spain into the

quarter finals of the new team competition the a.t.p. cup the woman one was in to reflect for me singles match against top bloke with us all but you're a guy and they'll drop to just 3 games in a straight sets victory which clinched the time spain's would go on to win the doubles match as well handing them that we know victory over the south americans. things were a bit more heated in the time between soviet and front as you're about to see frenchman ben why are pair there is last time a break to do so and live it she may singles match and took out his frustrations a record player fighting back to win the match but will take the tie to one thanks to wins for novak djokovic in both the singles and doubles as they qualified for the knockout stage. strenuous cricketers have moved closer to india at the top of the world championship of to completing a 3 nil series whitewash over new zealand meanwhile

a tense final day is in prospect in cape town where south africa are chasing a target of 438 against england in the 2nd test the home team close play on 126 for 2 only a dumb sibly squaddies maiden test century for the tourists. poland's . ski is celebrating his 1st title at ski jumping prestigious 4 hills tournament he wanted in style as well with victory in the final leg of the competition at busch of sheriff an in austria on monday about ski with effects of 143140 point 5 metres to secure the win defending champion and world cup points made over you caba she missed out on the podium altogether. and that's all the sport all right thank you very much peta that's it for the news hour but i will be back in just a couple of minutes with a full but lesson for you going to bring you all the latest on developments with iran iraq and the u.s.

and. india is in the midst of a high tech revolution with over 1000000000 it's. tough yet in a country where one in 4 called legal drugs how can this technological boom be holidays to the common good. life perhaps challenges a digital trip to devise an easy to use to struggling fox. county find a way to bring the 2 worlds together. life's most harvest on al-jazeera.

driven by outrage and spanning generations the real hinge of demonstrators gathered on the very day a widely criticized repatriation agreement between the governments of bangladesh and me and more was to begin the anger was all too apparent and the fear was palpable if you don't like we're so afraid that if they send one of us back to myanmar today tomorrow they'll send back 10 and the day after tomorrow they'll send back 20 if we were given citizenship in myanmar then there would be no need to take us back there we would go back on our own we must remember the rancho among the most persecuted minorities in the world. refugee problem is something which is a geopolitical issue. that's for governments international institutions to manage under 1000 refugees don't have the right to move freely on the other hand goods can move freely as far and as much as they want it's a multinational colonialism this is

a v i'm not and over the democratic process these companies they just want the money europe's forbidden colony episode one on al-jazeera. the on. the u.s. defense secretary denies reports that he is pulling troops out of iraq following a vote in the country's parliament calling for withdrawal meanwhile tears from iran's most powerful leaders as crowds packed the streets of tehran for the funeral of a assassinated commander some sort of money. maryanne demasi nandan now watching al-jazeera also coming home forces loyal to the libyan warlord relief after say they seized part of the strategically important city.