that full force he's. one of many snakes the most a forger as he reveals the secrets of the strike on al jazeera. al-jazeera. how there are. coming up in the next 60 minutes the united states says it has no plans to withdraw troops from iraq and the. pullout was a mistake. from iran's supreme leader is huge crowds packed the streets of tehran for the funeral of assassinated come on a customs on the. libyan warlord only for have to forces say they've seized part of the coastal city of sirte from the un recognized government. plus australia's

raging red glow the scene is confronting emergency service workers as they continue to battle huge. so that the u.s. defense secretary says there's been no decision to put american troops out of iraq this comes after a draft letter by top u.s. general in iraq revealed that forces will be repositioning to respect bank that sovereignty the confusion in the pens can follow sunday's non-binding vote in the iraqi parliament calling for the removal of all foreign troops in response to the u.s. his assassination of iran's top commander custom sort of money. iraq has as the u.n. security council to condemn the killing of sort of money and i would have. had to rein in back to recchi paramilitary groups it won't swirled leaders to ensure that bank that is not dragged into international and regional crises here in sexual

general hunton you could terraces also calling for restraint 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 walk meanwhile in tehran mourners flooded the streets in grief and rage iran's supreme leader ayatollah khamenei led funeral presence for the money and at one point was seen weeping well we'll have a report from tehran in just a moment the 1st his own binge of 8 with the latest from baghdad. just outside of the green zone we started to hear helicopter traffic heavy helicopter traffic which

we hadn't heard since the death of christ in chile money on friday night and that indicated something was happening and after that a letter was released by various media outlets and we confirmed with multiple iraqi sources in the government as well as in the military who said this letter was authentic now it to be is that this was a draft of a letter for coordination purposes and the troop movement which was which were signaled in that letter is only for coordination purposes the u.s. according to the department of defense is not pulling out of iraq it does show the kind of confusion that has existed here in iraq after the assassination of course insulin money every night has been eventful whether it was bin rocketing rocket attacks or some sort of statement from from armed groups it was monday a very busy day for the iraqi government the iraqi prime minister and i spoke to a number of world leaders the qatari of mir leaders from the u.k. britain china and the united states ambassador and the essence of that was that he

wanted the world to see that he wants iraq's sovereignty to be respected he wanted the world to see that he wants iraq what is standing behind what he called a quick draw for troops let's rejoin 100 he joins us live from washington d.c. and john though so much confusion is all clarity now. well there is a little more clarity certainly and that clarity is that this letter was apparently never supposed to go out if you look at the bottom of this there's a curious thing missing it is the signature from general brigadier general bill seeley who wrote this letter and the pentagon says that the reason for that is that letter was never supposed to go out the reason the iraqis had a copy of it is that they were sending drafts back and forth we are told but mark esper the u.s. defense secretary says this is not the policy of the united states of america the u.s. has no plans to withdraw from iraq and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff

general mark milley the highest ranking uniformed military officer in the u.s. says it is poorly worded implies withdrawal that is not what is happening so apparently there was a bit of daylight between what the pentagon wanted and what the general on the ground in iraq in control of u.s. forces wrote in a letter that was never fully signed or vetted by the pentagon so this may look good for the iraqi prime minister but it does not look good for the trumpet ministration or the pentagon and they made it clear that this is not u.s. policy right now you have to wonder how it's possible that they could be such a situation where which is not joined up in any way that they've got it completely wrong. my understanding from talking to people with close ties to the pentagon is that what's going on here is that the u.s. is repositioning troops that repositioning may or may not be directly related to the vote of the iraqi parliament kicking u.s.

troops out a non-binding vote but that what's happening is is the u.s. is moving some troops it doesn't want to specifically say from where and to where that is because those bases become sort of rocket magnets they have been attacked repeatedly and a contractor u.s. contractor was killed at one of those bases in the last few weeks but they insist that these are simply movements within the region and that they are not leaving iraq that would be a tremendous embarrassment to president trump who just 24 hours ago said the united states is not leaving iraq if it were to be required by the iraqis to leave that country that iraq would be required to pay billions of dollars for an air base the united states built there and that the u.s. would levy heavy sanctions against iraq so the united states government here in washington anyway wants to make it clear that it's not leaving all right john thanks very much john hendren reporting that. well as we mentioned huge crowds

packed the streets of iran's capital because some sort of many funeral said because the latest now 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 wrong 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 this logic republic ayatollah khomeini 30 years ago so them 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. 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 a run for the entire region but here for president donald trump all of the fascination of boston for the money would result in people coming out and celebration coming out against the political establishment in iraq well the number of mourners here i think is the one so that he was greatly mistaken there were chance of death to america and an expectation that iran must respond with we should take revenge the feeling that i had to was the digital it's unique 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 residual that what i was 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 before 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 shouldn't 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. that run well tensions in iran causing concern at the united nations let's cross straight away to mike hanna at un headquarters in new york and mike a number of questions being raised not least iraq wanting some guarantees.

yes indeed well iraq has sent a letter to the president of the security council and the secretary general asking for the security council to issue a statement condemning the united states for its action iraq says in the letter it stresses that any military operation on iraqi soil without the consent of the iraqi government and without prior coordination is considered as a provocative hostile act that violates the charter of the united nations so iraq wanting at the very least a statement from the u.n. security council but this isn't very likely the council and as on so many other issues deeply divided on this matter the chinese ambassador is saying that he is consulting with other members of the council when asked whether he will call for an urgent meeting the russian ambassador being even more blunt asked whether there was a likelihood of a joint statement from the security council he simply said no so clearly the issue of the security council and dealing with this crisis at the moment very very

difficult with the council remains totally disunited the thing is that you'd expect with something like this that this significant and it's just happened that there would be meetings galore going on in the corridors of the u.n. . well it's quite ridiculous in a way because it's obviously not on the agenda of the security council libya and syria were on the proceedings of the council today and while it's not for me being discussed it certainly being discussed in the corridors behind closed doors obviously it's of deep concern to diplomats what is happening here and diplomats some of them took the opportunity coming out of the shuttle meetings to make their comments about what is happening the chinese ambassador for example or sharply critical of the united states saying that it's violated basic norms of international relations this is by russian ambassador as well so certainly there is deep concern within the corridors the united nations but there again there's

a sense of impotence because the u.s. is a permanent member because russia and china are permanent members this simply cannot be agreement on whether or not to call an urgent meeting on this they cannot even be agreement on whether to issue a united statement condemning the ongoing crisis mike thanks very much and they mike hanna reporting from the u.n. there in new york and let's take this all we can speak to glenn collins a former deputy national intelligence officer for transnational threats at the cia and he joins us on skype from boston mr cole welcome to the program what do you make of these latest developments this confusion over the letter that seemed to suggest that there was an imminent pullout from iraq but it was later denied by the defense department. right well there are 2 kinds of confusion i think one needs to have conscious in one's assessment here the 1st is the understandable bureaucratic kind of confusion that happens every day in every ministry of every

country in the world and that's what we're dealing with with regard to the letter i know this is how it happened is the vote by the congress the parliament in iraq came for the removal so the american officials. in place would start to draft responses to that that that letter would then be sent or that that draft proposal would be sent to the period for coordination clearance and change and saw it would go up the chain of command through the military to the national security council and so on and as that was that process was going on clearly we heard from the secretary of defense there or the joint chiefs of staff chairman the answer in washington was no no no that goes too far let's try to find some way to keep from having to pull out completely we'll talk about redeployment but the letter was leaked or issued inadvertently that i think is a classic kind of bad mistake but an understandable team one the larger confusion

is from donald trump's capricious and incoherent policy decisions where he acted viscerally without concern without taking any consideration of his advisors positions and ordered the killing of sulaimani now that's debatable action to take but clearly in concert in line with everything else he's done as president there was no thought to step 234 how that might relate to some coherent plan right and he still continued to be bold new threats not only to iraq in the suggestion of potential sanctions but also for potentially targeting cultural sites in their own . yes well he doesn't he is by this point everyone on earth should have the measure of the mat he is utterly amoral self focused narcissistic and doesn't care about the law. custom coordination

or consequence he thinks. in an emotional this or a way in response to what he perceives as slights or threats or opportunities and that's it always inclining to a position of apparent strength without much thought and thus we killed silly money we the united states and now he doubles down as he will always do right i just want you about to be the vote that the iraqi parliament held that you were alluding to a little bit earlier they held this non-binding vote to get troops to leave foreign troops what likelihood is that. she taking effect given that a significant part of the parliament wasn't there including the sunnis in the cut right you know that what that's that's the important point now iraqi like all societies has all sorts of countervailing forces and ethnic groups and interests

so the shia who have largely been sympathetic to or in the sway of iran since frankly the american invasion of iraq. voted to have them the americans go of course the kurds and the sunni's aren't so thrilled by that because to the extent that they have a protector and forcing a rule of law and not simply a shia dominated revenge driven majority aren't so happy so i would anticipate and i'm not an iraqi domestic political expert but i would anticipate that there would be some modification and look for a way to square the circle everything is in conflict with itself in her. back in the united states between iraq and united states between the united states and iran and most things there are incoherent and all the leaders in the world you and i included as observers are trying to make sense of what cannot be made coherent

because it is an incoherent step of this series of visceral steps taken by the man in the white house arguing khalil even though i do appreciate your perspective on this thanks very much indeed and time but i'm more ahead on the us are including we'll tell you why fountains have rallied in liberia's capital of monrovia. and protests in india after months group of time students and teachers at a public university in the capital. small chemicals christina rinaldo starts near and starting to vent to. the actions. set and forces loyal to the libyan warlord who for have to have reached the center of the city of sirte that's off they took control of the nearby like how to be the base one of the largest in the country after strips of trying to wrestle control of

the strategic city from the un recognized government's part of an offensive which the general launched in april to take control of the capital tripoli. having the difficult but i have said this strike which was planned for very efficiently and with great caution was under the direct supervision of the commander in chief the plan was executed great detail in spite of hours in no more than 3 hours approximately we were in the heart of the city of sirte well it's a now from the one who's in tripoli and he says the situation in sirte is changing rapidly. we're getting news from military sources in this cause to the city of sirte saying that have to those forces have taken control of several parts of the city including the poor and the city center that's also along with the military camps in southern city fighting is still going on until now

according to military sources and the area and they say that they take all of what happened after a certain detachment inside the city that was belonging to the government forces that changed position just because the our affiliate to their tribe that's their tribe of the warlord have to 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 troops. to repel have to his forces attack well let's take this on we can speak to mansour who's the chair of political science department at university of texas center and tony in the united states and he is an expert on libya and joins us on skype from san antonio mansoor if you have to the forces maintain their grip on this would indeed be

a significant setback for the tripoli government wouldn't. yes of course it's it me it's it's it's are to do this not a my not if so this taken to cut their out from from beyond the 2 to trip pretty and you are very difficult to point to support his troops over the interim we had a little bit about the significance of set in from my mood in his report just a couple minutes ago tell us a little bit more about that significance and why it is crucial in the strategic the strategy of the and strategic have of what's going on in libya right now where the truth is except for those that sought to will be wide open wide open folklore full report also have to reserve troops to to to engage in slaughter and slaughter is the source of power for the west of. tripoli come for it's not about that and tripoli will fall but sorta what it was was what the hold up it means is

a different war and ultimately ultimately thought there would be the source of books all the weapons and then the the arms of the couple coming from turkey and so suit the. suit has always been. and even the redrawing of the borders to sort out what was meant to that city is within the zone of those borders so much thought and sees it as being very very important but it also wider and of course as you know this comes in his deploying military advisors and experts on to the field then in libya what sort of difference will that make to things develop. the truth is i don't think much much much will come of that doesn't list unless tookie brings down the 20000 troops or them that not only the supplying arms arms can be met with someone else i mean the circus

a place on to the city to to the worst the east will get one strong on the egypt from france from the emirates and saudi arabia or whatever so the issue here is not arms it's man if the turks come into libya with forces ranging from 100-200-3010 extension 000 that don't make a difference otherwise it's once. again we appreciate your perspective and thanks very much it's my pleasure thank you for having. to venezuela now where the new parliament speaker is insisting the rules were followed when he was elected as the new leader of the national assembly on sunday there were chaotic scenes in caracas his own troops physically blocked the opposition. and its allies from taking part in the vote had expected to be reelected instead it was sworn in. one separate vote held outside the national assembly president nicolas maduro has

acknowledged as the speaker i mean. it's not just that they have prevented the lawmakers from entering the assembly they did not allow the president because they violated the rights of venezuelans what you saw yesterday is what you have been saying for years persecution kidnappings wrist and of takeover of the assembly. we want to tell you the truth about the change this our national assembly is undergoing yesterday the national assembly elected its leadership in accordance with the constitution of venezuela in accordance with the constitutional mandate and the assembly scorm regulations. in america to listen human is life for us in caracas just as ever it's a complicated situation if you try and unravel it for us. yes that's an understatement there are $167.00 deputies that's the maximum amount in venezuela's congress or national assembly on sunday about $123.00 were

inside the majority of what we understand belonged to the opposition but in order but another group the remaining supporters of one why though and one why the himself were blocked from coming in we saw that ourselves this is not something that we've read about we saw him trying to get over the fence and get into the national assembly he wasn't allowed in why is that important not only because the fact that he has the right to be in there but also because as the president of the outgoing speaker of the house the constitution demands that he be the one to 2 open the session and if he doesn't open the session presumably that can't be done he wasn't allowed to go in there and instead there was a maneuver where the a former supporter of why those who belong to an opposition party called 1st justice and who was expelled from that party. because of allegations of corruption took over and was named now supposedly he belongs to the opposition but he was

elected with a vote of from the minority pro-government parties what was this a violation of the constitution if you're a stickler of the the rules yes it was then afterwards why they all went and held a parallel session which was also irregular but technically speaking still constitutional what we have now are 2 people who consider themselves or call themselves presidents of the national assembly and in a few hours both of them there will there will be a confrontation because one by the law and his more than $100.00 deputies are going to try to get it back into that national assembly to hold a session and reclaim what he calls his rightful seat while the other man who supported by the government is going to clearly not allow him to do that and it will there will be a lot of confrontation i can almost assure you of that and how will that reflect on the street between the respective support of the 2 men. why the law has called on his supporters or for people in general to come out and

support him to accompany him back into the national assembly we know that some students have already promised to accompany him but what as we've seen in the past is that supporters of the government and their organizations were probably also be out there in mass as well as a large number of the national guard so what we could see is 2 very large numbers of people untag and distinct groups facing each other off we don't know whether they whether the opposition will be blocked off from the premises of the national assembly or not but. who is who claims now to be the new president the new speaker of the house says that everybody including the opposition has a right to be in there so it's a very complicated situation indeed thanks very much indeed newman reporting well still ahead here on al-jazeera will tell you why thousands of families of mining fields in the democratic republic of congo face relocation. disgraced hollywood producer harvey weinstein could face life in prison he goes on trial for

rape charges. and in sports the reinvention of the olympics gives the winter games babies roughly the middle east. i was there were some rather wet weather into the southeast corner of the us and bits and pieces of cloud to op into new england eastern parts of canada but by far the liveliest weather is across the pacific northwest that's rolling in from the pacific pushing across into oregon into washington into b.c. as well heavy rain here could lead to some flooding that we some snow to as it pushes over the rockies quite in between and there's that disturbed weather a little further race easing up across the mid atlantic states for choose day and

just not going up towards d.c. towards new york and sweeping through as we go on into wednesday some snow on the northern flank of that around the canadian maritimes central areas of north america generate dry central parts of canada having said that we'll see some rain some snow at the day some freezing rain is still very disturbed around the pacific northwest further south a shower a dry 18 celsius there in l.a. with the sunshine and a fair amount of sunshine too across the caribbean that we want to to showers for sure just create their way towards the lesser antilles you might just catch want to show the showers around the dominican republic southern parts of cuba but for the most part is fine and sunny. examining the impact of today's headlines you use the misinformation but i've used the term by setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions how unique aloma is this

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but again you're watching al-jazeera reminder about top stories. persist united states plans to pull out of iraq. it was leaked to the iraqi media saying u.s. forces will be repositioning over the course of the coming days weeks and the pentagon says let's it does not reflect current policy. huge crowds have packed the streets in tehran for the funeral procession of the radio general the money supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei and president hassan rouhani helped present his on to the money was killed in a u.s. air strike in iraq. forces loyal to libyan war he for have to have reached the center of the strategic principle city of sirte but trying to wrest control from the un recognized government part of whiter offensive to take the capital tripoli.

top story now and the impact of kassam so the money assassination is also being felt in yemen where the iranian backed rebels have held a rally thousands of protesters chanted and the american slogans on the streets of the capital sana meanwhile the saudi backed government says. as sid considers the killing of son of money an important step to end conflict in the region how and on the top was among demonstrators in the yemeni capital. spite of the city bring him a nice house council got the outside of the city of sanaa you know it's been done via such. as it was it's the outside slogans that they will carry on business struggle as they described and also they have called them the leaders of a lot so also the axis of resistance so stick with us it's coming from what scribed was this was

a big day and this would have been sleeping with the withdrawal of the us forces when i discovered 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 war 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 whole the u.s. is 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 and old at 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 with trump's 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 was was was was was out when it was just like a. join. the live. overhead of nato has warned iran against further violence in provocations after an urgent meeting in brussels sector general jens stoltenberg says that a new conflict is in no one's interest and call for restraint in deescalation nato maintains a 500 strong training mission in iraq for the fight against eisel but it suspended the mission following the death of sue the money nato is prepared to continue or training and capacity building when the situation permits we remain strongly committed to the fight against international terrorism. after the meeting today at

the united states also briefed on the regional situation following recent attacks on coalition forces in iraq and the strike against generals for the money. for years all our allies have expressed concern about iran's destabilizing 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 let's hear more from our correspondent tasha butler from brussels and he says that the u.s. shared the strategy behind the assassination with nato allies. yes the nato secretary general convened this emergency meeting of nato is 29 and busters here in brussels to discuss the situation the tensions that are really reaching boiling point between the united states and iran now of course united states is

a nato member and sultan said in a press briefing after the meeting that the u.s. ambassador had briefed the other nato ambassadors on the u.s. a strategy on why they had decided to kill general however a soldier but said he can share that information with the public or with the press but that other nato ambassadors had been adequately prefer he did say that all the ambassador's were in agreement over the fact that they felt that all sides must now show restraint there must be a deescalation on all sides because i still to put 30 nobody wants to see this heading towards a conflict he also said that nato had expressed in the post its own concerns about iran and what he said was iran's a destabilizing influence in the region. ok well oil prices have surged more than 5 percent since the assassination of custom so the money $70.00

a barrel the price of crude is the highest since september when drones were used to attack oil processing plants in saudi arabia united states warned over the weekend that iran might retaliate for sort of mani's death by targeting all facilities in the middle east a prolonged oil prices could raise the risk of a global economic recession well earlier my colleague elizabeth spoke to our economics editor has 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 per $34.00 something so you know we're not too far off the us now the reason one of the reasons why all the ore 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. at least 5 soldiers have been killed in mali after

a roadside bomb hit an armored convoy near the town of the turner struggle to contain rebel groups who have killed more than 140 soldiers since september thousands of french troops have been stationed in these a whole region to help try and contain the violence. well thousands of protesters have gathered in liberia's capital to rally against the country's worsening economic crisis they've been demanding that suppressant george where and take action against corruption in the rising cost of living is a 3rd demonstration against the footballer turned president since june last year government said it would block any protests before the end of january but opposition groups vowed to defy the ban on addresses in liberia's capital of monrovia and he says as a heavy security presence at the anti-government protests. the road leading to this but you can't pick up it all as they call it have been blocked they've been must proceed going to go climbing on the pavement as well as the uprising organizers.

designated right now you see policeman trying to keep order and calm on the streets and at the same time try to block the protesters from accepting any as well government installations like the office of the president is located as the supreme court and the national parliament now that the. government says the process will hold and and that the protesters are nice and that they're not moving out because they would like to be absent from the from the cold however because i mean that's all of it for one day this week and today we actually don't know i don't know what will happen what measures that the congress will take if the productive be successful on saying. what sort of offensive to the we understand that the protesters demanding the government to take action if you like says that it will tackle corruption improve the governors as well as the president in the process to

declaim as a sole source of course it does not require you to consult publicly now when it is about some of these demands of popular rights plan also have a lot of the rest of the demands but they have not made another. the start of today's demonstration however the numbers what happened 7 months ago really disappointed. expect to be present. 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. but we wine has been calling for a long time president yoweri museveni to step down protests are being held across india condemning it attack that targeted students and teachers at a prominent university in new delhi major rallies took place in bangalore.

mumbai and new delhi protesters say students affiliated with the b j p carried out the attack counter demonstration supposed to be held in solidarity with the accused the b j p student body deny that they were responsible. for than 30 people who were inside. near university came under attack on sunday people with sledgehammers. teachers and students despite multiple calls victims say the police arrive late delhi police which is controlled by the central government is also accused of doing little to contain the violent. police say they are investigating. 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 the investigation is going on in right earnest and they will be identified soon. well earlier we spoke. to use

an assistant professor at the job of their university and he was among those who were attacked and says that this was a planned assault. mind sosa's. there could be a mix. you know students. 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 beatle can come from the outside who aren't calmly started you know foreigner and get organized they don't be undone of security not knowing about it so it's absolutely amazing how so many people who are outsiders who enter the campus and i mean stop russian so this looms to some kind of illusion right now denis police which is manning the gates and trying to keep people out of the gamblers from getting me there are. illegally behind so the activists at the gate

shouting slogans except so there is a sense of kind of c.r. that if the police does not do its job which clearly it hasn't done in this instance instance these 2 leaders these elements can get back into the gambles and there can be more violence to australia now and thick smoke and raging flames are forcing pilots to turn back from missions to rescue people trapped by the bushfires this air force plane was trying to land them medical in the state of victoria on saturday up to 4000 people had to flee the town and shelter on beaches of the weekend when the fog came to close rain and cooler temperatures are bringing some relief the place is still expected to burn for months just to washington is in one of the worst affected areas in the country southeast. this is a brief period of for a spot it's expected to be around 72 hours of these cooler conditions with light

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 a stray won't get significant rain at least for another $4.00 to $6.00 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 their fee is that those could burn wood fires for the south and victoria crews working to make sure that those fires don't join up and created a mega blaze that would go between 2 cities prosecutors in los angeles have filed new rape and sexual assault charges against hollywood producer harvey weinstein it comes as weinstein's trial on separate rape charges begins a new york 67 year old has 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 dozens of women have

accused one scene of sexual misconduct 18 but decades for the charges may yet be filed against in all 8 women came forward to report that they were sexually assaulted by the defendant in los angeles county 3 of those alleged crimes took place outside of the statute of limitations and for that reason we have declined to file charges in those 3 cases we continue to investigate allegations involving 3 other women to determine if additional criminal charges will be filed well let's head now from a bit strange to weaver who's a women's empowerment expert in the founder of the exceptional leadership institute for women and she says the weinstein trial is a defining moment for the. this has been a long day coming allegations against weinstein actually came about 2 years ago and

as i'm sure you're aware those allegations just exploded roughly 80 women came out to say that he had engaged with sexual misconduct with them ranging all the way up to rape so many women around the nation and quite frankly around the world have been motivated by me to movement that those allegations spawned and it's it's a it's a day that quite literally millions of women have been waiting for as i mentioned some 80 women have come out to accuse him of sexual misconduct but that's while there are trials right you know it's more than accused here we're talking about actually being able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt and so the idea here is to have women who have come forward bravely to actually stand in a court room to say what happened to them if they do that and if a jury hears all the evidence and then suggests that he's not guilty it may make millions of women around the country sort of come face to face with their biggest

fear and that is that if they are sexually assaulted that no one will believe them and that might drive them further underground or still ahead here on al-jazeera sports with peta find out she was killed in the window for those 2 and you know stripping.

in a democratic republic of congo authorities want to pay around 10000 families to move away from lucrative mine fields to make way for foreign companies but reports many

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 here but we won't leave until we know where they wanted 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. into tonga province say they are not benefiting they want fair compensation before they move. there were 2

previous relocations 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 by starting over hasn't been easy for everyone some families say there are a 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. sears with a drop in price of cobalt on the world market the relocation of people from castle 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 for an investment creates jobs but at this foreign owned mine these men say they own barely enough to survive. al-jazeera. is peter thank you very much christiane a an elder kicked off a new decade same form very end of the last as you venters return from a winter break in italy said he our. first her trick for the club and therefore. it was the $56.00 turtle taking his tally for the season to 15 goals into a top of the table ahead of us after a $31.00 win and. on his return to the san siro which was

unable to provide the spark. this season he came on as a 2nd half substitute in the goalless draw at home to sampdoria. but he telly and 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 lots here said 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 betray their sporting passion causing a serious injury to the image of the club and the team. over in england tottenham and london police have closed a 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 sawn young men the reinvention of olympic sports is allowing new countries to make their 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 is sunnah reports. 15 year old fellow artist days 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 or limping games in the sun. around with ever so know what could 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 to 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 have been dubbed. the day 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 the 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 until one 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 other rookie like myself are going to record for 4050 years and as there are 4 or 5 coverage that are excellent skaters. and their plans are a division very competitive it's amazing to watch these kids grow up actually the challenging summer age isn't played out and quite honestly there's a lot of those guitar players who are way better than me but if they could in their fifty's and a very skilled after the league introduce catteries to the sport the limb pick a committee wants to take it further. there's a nation confident does today will become the 1st of many to go from passing through the food courts to sports because state. all dizzy had done. now in tennis rafael nadal led the reigning davis cup champions spain into the

quarter finals of the new team competition the a.t.p. cup the win the one was into rif it for me singles match against public with us all the euro why and they'll drop to just 3 games in a straight sets victory which clinched the toys 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 serbia and france as you're about to see frenchman benwell pay there is last time break to do so and live it she in a singles match and took out his frustration spare record player fighting back to win the match but serbia would 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 tennis championship up to completing a 3 nil series whitewash revenue zealand meanwhile

a tense final day is in prospects 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 scored is maiden test century for the tourists poland is celebrating its 1st title at ski jumping prestigious for heels tournament he wanted in style as well with victory in the final leg of the competition at bishop sheriff and in austria on monday he with a foot of 143140 point 5 metres to secure the win defending champion and world cup points leader a couple yeah she missed out on the podium altogether. and that's where we'll leave it for now i'll be back again a little bit later with another sports bulletin peter thanks very much day we will see you later that is it for this news hour but i will be back in just a couple of minutes with more of the day's board see them.

january on out you see the. president donald trump is that the president in history to be impeached what does this mean for the future of the u.s. leader on the brink of an election before much chilian presidential candidate explores the defeat of left wing political parties across latin america and look at how this year's world economic forum to focus on ways to tackle the impact of climate change an expropriation of family links to the city's regime examines it

it's early may now be embracing fascist ideologies most believed gone forever with the general election out of the way breaks it is now so how would the u.k. proceed with the transition in the coming months january on al-jazeera. frank assessments the one good thing about these bush bars is that it's really wiping out all of the climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel on those 2 school board lawyers all 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 youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on al-jazeera talked to al-jazeera we were told to get to that betrayal of russia has this been addressed by talking we listen to what these the proposal of spain fork up

a lawyer we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter now to 0. the u.s. military mistakenly sends out a letter suggesting troops would be withdrawn from iraq. it is among developments after the us assassination of a regional car some sort of money is being mourned on masts his home country. and i'm a cloud this is our life and also coming up in this program a libyan warlord he for have to forces say they've taken the city of so it's an important game in their battle for the capital tripoli. we'll hear from congolese

families who say they're being pushed out of lucrative mines to make way for foreign companies.