the u.s. military mistakenly sends out a letter suggesting troops would be withdrawn from iraq.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 radio general 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 who for have to us 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.

say the u.s. defense secretary is had to clarify there's been no decision to pull troops out of iraq spear and other military figures set the record straight off the draft letter by top general balls in their words mistaking the secular ated this confusion followed a vote in iraq's parliament pushing for all foreign forces to go after the assassination of the top iranian come on a custom so the money iraq is also urging the u.n. security council to condemn the killing of sort of money and a shia militia leader who died alongside him un chief antennae could terrorise is worried about the growing fallout i've been following the recent rise in global tensions with great concern i mean constant contact with living officials around the worlds and my message is simple and clear stop escalation. exercise maximum restraint restart dialogue new

international cooperation that does not suggests the terrible human suffering caused by walk and then be massive scenes of grief and rage which would fill the streets of iran say capital of the supreme leader ayatollah khamenei we lead a funeral precious we'll have more from iran shortly but 1st let's look at part of what this draft letta said in june deference to the sovereignty of the republic of iraq the combined joint task force will be repositioning forces over the course of the coming days and weeks to prepare for on wood movement is trying to revel in this we can speak to john 100 he joins us live from washington d.c. john the confusion totally reigns does now as we get any more clarity about what happened. we are at least from the pentagon's perspective mark esper the u.s. defense secretary says that letter was in his words a mistake he says it was

a draft it was a mistake it was unsigned and it should not have been released and one of the chip off here was that it was unsigned when pentagon officials released letters like this they put their signature at the bottom of it that's part of the protocol in the u.s. military and in this case that was not done we are told that what happened was a draft was going back and forth between u.s. and iraqi forces and that it was apparently leaked according to u.s. officials anyway from the iraqi side it was never intended to be final and according to the according to general mark milley the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff it was poorly worded he said it implies withdrawal and that is not what's happening what we are told is happening is that troops are being repositioned within that region they are not going to leave iraq at least according to the u.s. and that would be embarrassing if they did because it was just

a day ago that president donald trump said troops were not leaving iraq if they were leaving he said iraq would have to pay billions of dollars at the u.s. paid for for an air base in the law that has since been turned over to iraqi forces and then he went on to threaten sanctions against iraq if that were to happen and just to put this on a perspective there are actually many troops going to the region there another 4500 sailors and marines going to the region according to the pentagon that is an indication of 4000 from the 82nd airborne division and others and although there are only 5000 u.s. troops in iraq now there were about 50000 in the region and that is a build up because of this iran u.s. standoff so that is one side of things john on the other side we've got this vote this non-binding vote the place in iraq which called for old troops all foreign troops to be pushed out of the country. that's right and that's why this letter was taken so seriously because a day after iraq carried out this non-binding vote to kick the u.s.

out you have a u.s. general the guy one star general in charge of u.s. troops in iraq writing a letter that seems to suggest they are preparing to leave the region he said we're going to need a lot of helicopter traffic in the area so people took that as gospel and then of course you have the pentagon saying whoa that is not what we intended to say so i suspect that general is going to hear if he hasn't already from his commanders in the pentagon from right ok joel leave the time being to 100 reporting well let's get more reaction from what's happening in baghdad to his all up and you have 8. 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 withdrawal of foreign troops. to mike hanna at the united nations

headquarters in new york he says iraq demands condemnation of the assassination members are divided. 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 where the council remains totally disappear knighted. and pictures just coming to us now out of the iranian city of command and that's the custom sort of monies hometown the coffin carrying his body has just arrived there it will be his final resting place and he will be buried there on tuesday after the funeral procession to on a sort of money and the top iranian military commander who was assassinated last week when the $2.00 said beggar reporter who takes us through earlier events in tehran. a nation in mourning and tears from the supreme leader for iran's top military general assassinated in the u.s. drone strike in iraq many a friend of customs for the money lead the funeral service at the university

outside the streets of the capital were packed with the iranians who considered for the money a hero a man who defended his country crowds like this have not been seen since the death of the founder of the republic ayatollah khomeini 30 years ago so the one his daughter addressed the crowds you know it's hard to harness her yeah i would say 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 you will see 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 for a run but for the entire region but here president donald trump book that 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 a chance of death to america and an expectation that iran must respond with we should take revenge the feeling that i had to was in little 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 on some blood with blood residual that whatever since i heard the news i've been crying 100 so we had feelings but at the bottom of our hearts we want revenge revenge revenge but not everyone agrees on what action to take and their intended political struggles in parliament if 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 are on. head of nato has warned iran against further violence and provocations after an urgent meeting in brussels secretary general audiences stoltenberg says a new conflict is in no one's interest but it's a maintains a $500.00 strong training mission in iraq for the fight against eisel it is suspended that after sort of money is death 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 require a nuclear weapon we shared concerns about iran's missile tests. well it had our from the tasha butler who's in brussels and who says that the us shared the strategy behind its isolation 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 bugs said in a press briefing off to 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 slim however a soldier but said he could share that information with the public or with the press but that other nato ambassadors had been adequately brief did say that all the ambassadors were in agreement over the fact that they felt that all sides must now show restraint there must be a deescalation almost sides because i still to put said you know 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 is a destabilizing influence in the region. in the years ahead the protests across india are off for a month's time students and teachers of public university in the capital. and political chaos in venezuela as 2 men claim to be the rightful leader of the

national assembly. how i was there was a very wet weather pushing its way across the central parts of china and that will head towards japan over the next dial says is that cloud squeezing its way across the east china sea the yellow sea towards the korean peninsula gradually clouding over across central and southern parts of japan then heavy rain for it's high sliding across shanghai warm right here $21.00 celsius and on tuesday off neighbor that really wet weather will set in across the korean peninsula and eventually a good part of japan will see some very heavy rain as you move into the middle part of the week it's warm right 1617 celsius there for tokyo look at the temperatures

take a tumble in shanghai the wind string around to the north it will be largely dry crisp sunshine temperatures at around 8 degrees celsius for the south as usual scattering of showers across southeast asia some big alive you see i was there through malaysia for the showers returning yes again into were indonesia said he was heat of the day downpours very much on the cards as we go on through the coming days and that could of course lead to further flooding heaviest showers will be across the eastern side of java gradually making their way he sed. frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires is that you really want to know the politics of climate change informed opinion on the economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate people on the streets don't even know what the law is all about this argument is astonishingly

pantomimes an in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of the new iraq of the new conscious and aware views about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kotor inside story on al-jazeera. again you know what you al-jazeera remind of our top stories this and u.s. defense secretary mark casper says the united states has no plans to pull out of iraq it comes after a letter was leaked to iraqi media saying u.s. forces will be repositioning over the course of the coming days and weeks depends consensus that it was a mistake. iraq has called on the u.n. security council to condemn the killing of her radiant general custom sort of money

and the iraqi militia leader who was killed alongside him during a u.s. drone strike last week general antonio terrorists is also calling for restraint. so the money's remains have just arrived in his hometown of come out his final resting place he will be the perry don't choose to earlier on monday a huge crowds packed the streets in the capital tehran for the funeral procession the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini and the president hassan rouhani held president gets on. well more now on that mistakenly sent letter about u.s. troops in iraq and glen call was deputy national intelligence officer for transnational threats at the cia and he told us the confusion over the letter is symptomatic of the chaos in the trump administration. by this point everyone on earth should have the measure of the man he is utterly amoral selfish focused narcissistic and doesn't care about the law. custom

coordination or 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 strengths without much thought and thus we killed silly money we knight states and now he doubles down as you will always do everything is in conflict with itself in iraq in the united states between iraq and united states between the united states and iran and most things are are incoherent and all of 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 thought well moving on forces

loyal 'd to libyan would have to have reached the center of so it's a coastal city west of the capital they've also seized the nearby. ebay switches one of the country's largest military installations have to stream said trying to wrestle control of from the un recognized government as part of an offensive which the general mentioned april to take over tripoli. but the book that i have 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 executing great detail in spite of hours in no more than 3 hours approximately we were in the heart of the city of sirte mahmud up to $100.00 is in tripoli and he says the situation in sirte is changing rapidly. we're getting news from military sources in this coastal city of sirte saying that have told us 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 over 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 the tribe that's the tribe of the warlord have to now the city of sirte it is 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 forces attacked at least 5 soldiers have been killed in mali after a roadside bomb hit an army convoy near the town of the turner mali his struggle to

contain rebel groups who've killed more than 140 soldiers since september thousands of french troops have been stationed in this a whole region to help try and contain the violence to venezuela where 2 men claiming to be the leader of the national assembly on sunday troops physically blocked the opposition leader and his allies from taking part in a vote for the position that i don't have expected to be reelected instead it was sworn in as later one a separate vote held away from 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 they violated the rights of venezuelans what you saw yesterday is what you've been saying for years persecution kidnappings arrest and of takeover of the assembly. we want to tell you the truth about the change that our national

assembly is undergoing used today the national assembly elected its leadership in accordance with the constitution of venezuela in accordance with the constitutional mandate and the assemblies quorum regulations a lot of america i literally see new minutes in caracas and she explains what's likely to happen in the coming. 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 from what we understand belonged to the opposition but in order but another group the remaining supporters of one by the law and one by law 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 of 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 i'm a former supporter of why those who belong to an opposition party called for some 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 signal of the rules yes it was that 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 who 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 dog 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. protests have been held across india condemning an attack that targeted students and teachers at a problem university in new delhi major rallies took place in bangalore chennai. mumbai new delhi justice a students affiliated with the ruling b j p carried out the attack counter demonstrations have also been held in solidarity with the accused b j p student body they were responsible. for more than 30 people who were. under attack on sunday evening 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 too little to contain the violence the police say they're 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. firefighters tackling australia's widespread bush taking advantage of improved conditions rain and cooler temperatures bringing some relief but that's only short term with authorities warning the funds will burn for months jessica 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 if these cooler conditions with life wins and even a bit of rain unfortunately that rain is not enough to bring this crisis which has been going for months now it is not enough to bring this crisis to an end it's

expected that australia won't get significant rain at least for another $4.00 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 are also fires burning in new south wales and there are fears that those could burn with violence further south in victoria crews working to make sure that those fires don't join up and create a a mega blaze that would go between 2 cities the police in uganda have again detained musician and political activists but we won he was prevented from holding the campaign rally for next year's presidential election he's fired tear gas to disperse his supporters outside the capital company the wind has been calling for a long time president yoweri museveni to step down mr varian meanwhile is marching through the jungle he wants to highlight the liberation struggle 3 decades ago that led him to taking power back in 1906 critics have dismissed it as

a stunt to rally support for 6 term in office. in democratic republic of congo authorities want to pay around 10000 families to move away from lucrative minefield to make way for foreign companies but has her room a chance to reports many people are refusing to leave because they don't trust the government. these men used to work for themselves that was until the congolese government moved them and gave the mining contract to a company from china that means working for the chinese if they want to survive now they hear local authorities want to pay people to move even further out to make room for more foreign mining companies i mean summated $10000.00 families could be affected. only big companies are allowed but we will not leave until we know where they want us to go better we also don't know how much money they are offering us to move. more than half of the world's cobalt is produced in democratic republic of

congo it's a vital component in batteries used in goods ranging from electric cars to phones and laptops but some here in the south east township of into tonga province say they are not benefiting they want fair compensation before they move. there were 2 previous 3 locations before to their village of. those people are now suffering they were led to a boat 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 or electricity we haven't heard any politicians come and explain to us what's going on civil society groups a past relocations have expose corruption and human rights abuses in the mining

sector. the previous relocations did not work in some cases people were forced to move the government can't make people leave an area without providing adequate housing and other facilities including fair compensation in a statement the provincial governor richard. says with a drop in price of cobalt on the world market the relocation of people from is no longer on the agenda because no company is ready to finance its relocation process it is now up to the national government through the ministry of mines for years locals have been told by the government that foreign investment creates jobs but at this foreign owned mine these men say they earn barely enough to survive. al-jazeera the u.s. prosecutors in los angeles have filed new social assault charges against hollywood producer harvey weinstein as his trial on separate charges begins in new york the 67 year old has pleaded not guilty to assaulting 2 women one of whom says he raped her 2013 they found guilty he could spend the rest of his life in prison dozens of

women have accused of sexual misconduct. so this is our desert these are the top stories and u.s. defense secretary mark esper says the united states has no plans to pull out of iraq it comes after a letter was leaked to iraqi media saying u.s. forces will be repositioning over the course of the coming days and weeks the pentagon says the letter does not reflect current policy as on jeff it has the latest from baghdad 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 2 pull which was which was 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 that kind of confusion that has existed here in iraq after the assassination of money iraq has called on the u.n. security council to condemn the killing of iranian general consumption of money and the iraqi militia leader who was killed alongside him during a u.s. airstrike last week secretary general and tony good terrorists is also calling for restraint what sort of money is coffin as arrived in his hometown of coma his final resting place will be buried there on tuesday earlier on monday huge crowds packed the streets in tehran for the funeral procession supreme leader ayatollah khomeini and president hassan rouhani held prayers in his honor forces loyal to libyan warlord holy for have to have reached the center of the strategic coastal city of sirte trying to wrest control from the un recognized government

it's part of have to is wider offensive to try and take the capital tripoli. venezuela's new parliament speaker is insisting his election as new leader of the national assembly was legitimate on sunday there were a chaotic scenes in caracas as troops physic the opposition leader one quater and his allies from taking part in the vote lighter had expected to be reelected a protests have been held across india condemning an attack that targeted students and teachers at a problem university in new delhi protesters say students affiliated with the ruling b j p carried out the attack. the up to date with the headlines here an undeserving makes up its own story.

growing fallout over the killing of iran stop military. votes to expel foreign troops now president sanctions against baghdad so what will this mean for the u.s. presence in iraq and what consequences for the why don't we this is inside so. cohen welcome to the program back to the middle east is grappling with the united states assassination of costs and sum of money in an extraordinary session on sunday iraq's parliament voted to remove foreign troops from the country take a prime minister. says the government is preparing legal and procedural steps to him.