order of the spirit courts of this country i can't see any other way because there is no will there's no wish there is no appetite church and state in this country are still wedded in a poisonous pact. the burial of an arabian general assassinated by the us is postponed after dozens die in a stampede at his funeral. home how he and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up confusion over the future of u.s. troops in iraq the pentagon says the general's letter about withdrawal plans was a mistake. a suspended sentence for a british woman found guilty of lying that she was raped by israeli teenagers in

cyprus. and possible so as i am in venezuela the opposition leader is the time and she returns of parliament after being barred from congress. the burial of a top rainy and general assassinated by the u.s. has now been spawned after a deadly stampede during his hometown funeral more than 50 people have been killed the crash happened as huge crowds gathered in the city of car months to bid a final farewell to class on solo money who was killed in a u.s. air strike on friday in iraq when response to the killing runs parliament's has designated the u.s. army and the pentagon as terrorist organizations are as earlier u.s. secretary of defense was forced to clarify it was not pulling troops out of iraq that's after a draw. a letter was leaked indicating the withdrawal of the top general said it

was circulated by mistake well that speak to dorsetshire barrino who joins us live from. lots happening in iran today. staggered by the numbers but only of people on the streets for that for those funerals but also the stampede walky thomas. well according to the spokesperson for the country's emergency services there are now over 50 casualties and deaths as a result of the stampede and over 200 people have been injured and it is a very chaotic scene in care mon as a result of the number of people who turned out to attend the burial service of the late general hossam so the money. thirties there were really not expecting the kinds of numbers of crowds that they've had to turn out today as

a result there's been a series of incidents in the stampede being the worse of them we know that the as a result of that stampede the burial has been delayed for the forseeable future we believe that the authorities are now trying to clear the area and the streets in this city of care mon in central iran now this is a very small city it's a population of about 820000 people so it's not really equipped to handle this kind of volume of people and we've already heard from president hassan rouhani who's expressed his condolences to the families of the victims of the stampede and we know that the victims some of them have come from across the country so it wasn't just people who were from care mon or from the surrounding areas we know some of the victims to be from the southern city of bam that boston shiraz as well as other cities across iran so as the hours and move on the sample it's just becoming more and more clear of how chaotic the scenes have been in that city well there's been

chaos but the really good parliament's spin taking action just talk us through some of the political developments that have been of significance. well aside from what you already mentioned that the pentagon and the us army is now a terrorist organization according to the iranian authorities the parliament has also approved a budget for of 200000000 euros to go straight to the courts force of the revolutionary guards as a result of the assassination of major general hossam so they money that his division that he oversaw within the revolutionary guards that was in charge of the country's clandestine operations outside of iran is now going to get a 200000000 euro boost to improve their defenses this is something that was approved immediately in parliament on tuesday as a result of what took place you've also been speaking to iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif who has had a bit of an issue with the u.s.

government and secretary of state my pump specifically the foreign minister was supposed to travel to the united states on thursday to speak at the united nations general assembly but as a result of a series of delays his visa is not being issued by the u.s. government i spoke to him earlier today at an event he was hosting in the capital let's listen in to some of what he had to say. secretary pompei or caused the secretary general of the united nations yesterday and said they didn't have time to . consider my request and therefore they would not issue a research. that is a violation of the united states' commitments the i mean if the us if it takes. 25 days for the us bureaucracy to issue a visa for a foreign minister it was resisted the united states many times in the past 35 years then. that's the word asian of the u.n. charter headquarters agreement wide ocean of u.s.

obligations both for a country that commits war crimes and crimes against humanity committing a technical violation of a u.n. headquarters agreement is not important the question is what are they afraid of what do they think would happen if i go to new york. that that's a question that they need to answer pertaining think again they're mistaken as secretary pompei or thought that people were dancing in the streets of tehran and baghdad for their measure of generosity money and now he sees the sea of humanity turning out they think that i cannot communicate with the american people without coming to the united states where i can communicate with the american people sitting at my home iran will respond to because there was an act toward an act of war combined with an act of terrorism against a senior official of the stomach republic of iran and a citizen of iran and we are bound to protect our citizens and our military officials was an act that has to be. reciprocated by by iran.

make the necessary deliberations and it will be an act that we do not in a heading in not in a hasty man and but after necessary deliberation however the act by the united states had other elements and it enraged to feelings of the. many people. so you know that will have consequences for the united states and i believe the most important consequence is that the days of the united states in this region. the foreign ministers of odds are eve has already referred to defense secretary of state's mike pump air rather as a clown masquerading as a diplomat and with the latest developments about his visa not being issued it just appears that the divisions and the tensions continue to increase between the u.s. government and iran and the latest developments here that have taken place over the

past few days only add to this add to the rising tensions so it doesn't appear as though these the situation will get a relief anytime soon as the foreign minister is not u.s. bound for this trip we're just waiting to find out how the and when the iranian government will respond ok there was such a barrier live in tehran for now thank you well the secretary of state is jus to speak in just over an hour in washington for more we can speak to our white house correspondent kimberly whole kits in washington d.c. a kimberly what are we expecting to hear from you. well we're expecting to hear much of what we heard when he made the rounds on the sunday chat shows and that was essentially that the argument that the strike to kill general was in the words of the united states the troubled ministration justified so perhaps there will be questions with regard though to the timing and some of the evidence that the united

states says that it has that there were imminent attacks on americans the argument that the trumpet ministration has made for conducting this strike but also we expect there to be tough questions too about what dorsett was talking about just moments ago why the united states has not issued this elisa to allow the iranian foreign minister to attend the u.n. security council meetings on thursday because we do know that he was allowed in last september for the u.n. general assembly now the argument has been that there have been delays in the processing of that visa but we all know that the state department is the one that controls the issuing of those visas and could rapidly do so if it wanted to so so very confusing messages coming out of the trumpet ministration particularly when you remember about 24 hours ago kellyanne conway the counselor to president trump said that the top administration was still open to negotiating with iran to even talking about a new agreement to limit its nuclear program 1 it doesn't seem to make much sense

or is it odds with the fact that if they were willing to negotiate why they are not issuing this visa so that any kind of discussion can take place so we'll be watching carefully as might pump a addresses reporters in about an hour's time and kimberly meanwhile the trumpet ministration is expected to brief congress of. the money would look you tell us about. yeah it's looking like wednesday afternoon unless that has been moved up it's been a bit vague at times but the latest information we have is that both the house of representatives controlled by democrats and the u.s. senate controlled by republicans will both receive what's known as a hands on briefing this will be a detailed briefing not only the arguments about why the trumpet ministrations says that it conducted the killing of gen solo mani but also there have been questions again about the timing many people arguing that the president is using this is a distraction from domestic headlines that are problematic namely his impeachment

in the house of representatives and the trial that now moves to the senate so there are going to be questions that are going to be answered by some top trump administration officials namely we're going to hear from the or they're going to hear from the defense secretary as well as the secretary of state the director of the cia and the chair of the joint chiefs of staff from the pentagon so high level briefings that will be taking place we're also watching carefully for the president to see if he will say anything he is expected to greet the prime minister of greece in the coming hours he often takes a few reporters' questions we're looking to see if he'll elaborate more on some of those reach weights that he sent out this morning from republican senator lindsey graham a once again making the argument that this attack was justified because it was to avert attacks on u.s. military as well as u.s. interests ok kimberly. thank you remote rockies and bus route have held a funeral procession for a paramilitary leader. he was killed along science of money in friday's airstrike

hundreds of schools the commander of the iranian backed. station forces is funny cers were involved in the see the u.s. embassy in baghdad last week the sum of injuries. where there was a funeral procession and public viewing for my hondas. after some d.n.a. tests and his body being blessed at religious ritual religious science in iran his body has arrived in basra where there was a funeral and the body will now travel to nudge of for its final resting place i would imagine wonders is now been replaced by. a commander who's also been quite efficient in the fight against somebody was very close to iran as well and how the lumber used to lead the bugger militia we've also seen the impact of this from his beloved because there was a lot of influence of that particular group and the united states going after that

group signaled that there was some sort of intelligence that the u.s. had about that group it blamed the group for attack and. carried out strikes against that group on the iraq syrian border and this is a group that was headed by a more hundreds who were scared taken out with a sense of the money so he was a significant figure he was seen as somebody who was bringing together the various factions because within the popular mobilization forces there is a number of smaller groups with various interests and ideologies some extreme some not that much and then he was the kind of figure who could rally them all together under the umbrella. still to come on al-jazeera forces loyal to libyan warlord khalifa haftar are making sweeping gains we'll bring you the latest from tripoli. and dirt spins and gold spins we'll look at the impact of senator kerry is calling both at.

the. hallow i think arguably we're in the depths of winter now the average temp in the depths of winter in tokyo it's about 10 degrees at the moment given what's coming out of china you've got cold to the north and warm to the south and it's really quite warm it's 17 in turkey in the forecast and that warm and cold contrast of zeus that stormy system in the siege of pan that's moving eastwards snowfall cardo maybe in the tops of the mountains in honshu but mostly we're talking rain an increasing breeze the backwash eventually just disappears near left with sunshine and deteriorating across he in for example beijing central part of china still the potential for a bit of rain for the sas is looking largely fine bit breezy in hong kong at $21.00 degrees the rain proper in indonesia is once again showing that it wants to come to

the west so in the immediate future you got these big showers the orange tops going just through bali and lombok and to the east and then java takes over by the time we get to system that's the folks the heavy showers including jakarta so yes there could be yet again an increase in the flood risk even some more flooding in india and maybe surprising forecasts sheryl's are actually in the heart of india further north rather than further south for the season would suggest. when was the last time you were out on the streets protesting whether on line you feel the weight of the system going to walk through each and every leg with or layer further and further into the jail or if you join us on say retention has to start from day one whether again you and attention or your incarceration this is a dialogue everyone has a voice so far there are studies that support our coverage will be varying accounts

but i want to give people the reason for joining the global conversation on how does iraq. this is al jazeera reminds of the headlines this hour the burial of iranian general constance on the money has been postponed after more than $50.00 people were killed in a stampede during his funeral procession the commander was assassinated in a u.s. drone strike in baghdad on friday. iran's parliament says approved a motion designating the u.s. army and pentagon as a terrorist groups the foreign minister says the u.s. miscalculated by targets in solomonic in holland iraq thousands attended

a funeral procession in basra for paramilitary leader abu mufti on the hondas he was killed alongside it's all the money in friday's airstrike. a british woman convicted of lying about being gang raped by a group of israeli teenagers in cyprus has received 8 suspended prison sentence the woman says she retracted her story after being pressured by police she was also suffering from trauma and doesn't have a lawyer the case led to protests in britain and a call for tourists to boycott the islands for a challenge explains what's next for the british woman. i was in the courtroom as this was being read out. over the shouts of her supporters down on the streets it was quite hard to hear what was going on the judge reading quite loudly and in greek she was having this translated to already english at the bit where the judge was saying that the 12 israelis had had their rights taken away from them and their

liberty deprived she she lived very upset about that shook her head slowly in the courtroom but her fight goes on she is although she's now free to go. she's going to pursue this in the supremum court of cyprus still saying that she is a victim not a criminal and if that doesn't work she's going to go to the human rights courts in europe he has political undertones as well there are people resist the way that this court case was handled was to do with cyprus trying to safeguard its time with with israel there are a whole host of things bubbling around and different accusations and defenses being given but yes the legal team here her legal team asserted that while she was being questioned she wasn't given a lawyer while she was in even given a translator that this was. kind of a whole host of violations of the of the way that this should go through the courts

and she had been turned from someone who should be given supports and being listened to into someone who was then made a criminal. a judge in india has set the execution date for 4 men convicted of the rape torture and murder of a university student from a bus down the. states back to 2012 she later died from her injuries and the case triggered mass protests that ultimately led to. 6 men were involved in the attack but $100.00 in prison and another was a minor at the time. the case is impacts in indian society. the mother of appeal to a cotton sheets that she wants capital punishment that she's been waiting for years now over 7 years and that she wants justice for her daughter and dramatic scenes of that court judges of course have. a. death sentence the death sentence was

awarded earlier but they've said that it would be capital punishment indeed an expedited the sentence of death warrants have been issued against this case on t.v. laws and said one of the things in the now is that in the rarest of rare cases capital punishment would be awarded as been done in this case but i have to mention that several legal experts continue to say that capital punishment is not seen as a deterrent to rape in a country like india the patriarchy and other issues continue to prevail and the government has to come up with a more holistic policy in order to be in order to deal. against on on wyland against women so this case has now perhaps seen a closure of this family with perhaps your closure on january 22nd when these 4 convicts will be hanged we believe the sentence would be carried out early in the morning indian time and while this is going to please many people many people would

consider this just as legal experts continue to be very careful in their impact or if any at all this will have on a future case of violence against women. forces loyal to libyan general her if i have to have reached the center of syria it's a coastal city east of the capital tripoli they've also sees the nearby card to be a airbase one of the largest military installations certain strategically important so you have to as months on the offensive to seize tripoli will libya's u.n. recognize government is based he's aligned to a rival of ministration in eastern libya spain's parliament has naturally approved a coalition government a sense months of political deadlock which was triggered when by 2 inconclusive elections last year federal sanctions will lead to an alliance between his socialist party and the left wing we need us for demo's votes well supported by

catalan separatists who agreed to abstain. venezuelan members of parliament are set to meet for the 1st time under a new leadership opposition leader 1.0 is planning to attend the meets a just 2 days after soldiers blocked him from seeking reelection the speaker there is part of a deputy backed by the material governments was sworn in instead he and quite so have pledged to lead the session i live in america and certainly seen human bring some issues with the reports from caracas. the headline reads congress wakes to 2 speakers of the house in a country which already has 2 men claiming the presidency that is whalen's are understandably confused and frustrated when you think you know muslim but i'm going as the saying gars we lift as if we were lost in space. on sending national guardsmen prevented opposition majority leader one by law and other deputies from entering parliament to initiate the year's session as the

constitution stipulates. in his place the pro-government minority sworn in as speaker and deputy recently expelled from his opposition party but that wasn't the end of it this is the headquarters of the opposition newspaper. whose auditorium was used on sunday night by the opposition to elect and swear in one wide door but in a few hours why though will attempt to return to the real congress building accompanied by some 100 opposition deputies to challenge the man who he says is usurping his rightful place ironically we spiral continues to insist that he's a legitimate government opponent. this is a parliament that continues to raise the flag of democracy this is an opposition that represents an alternative to those in power. but given that he was chosen by the government that's a hard sell. there are traces there are corrupt and there is only one national

assembly the other voted was a cruel assault on congress with the complicity of the dictatorship. washington has rushed to reconfirm its support of wide all we're looking at additional. sanctions personal sanctions economic sanctions that we think will bring more pressure yet on the really. big wide ball has clearly lost in menton and support since he declared himself interim president a year ago promising to usher in regime change how this latest chapter in the power struggle plays out is anyone's guess you see in human al-jazeera caracas at least 30 people have been killed in a bomb attack in northeast nigeria on monday it was carried out on a bridge in borno states near the border with cameroon many people were also injured there's been no claim of responsibility but the armed group boko haram has been active in the area for more than 10 years buildings have been damaged and

communications are partially down enough to 2 earthquakes on the island of puerto rico the initial magnitude 6.5 quake not ever just see across the u.s. territory after damaging its main power plants a magnitude 6 quake struck just 3 hours later the strongest in a series of earthquakes to hit the island in the past 2 weeks i was on those in washington d.c. he says the island is braced for further aftershocks. the epicenter at least where the hardest hit area that we're seeing where most of the damage is it's along the southern coast of puerto rico we've seen pictures on social media and a little bit of video that people have been posting on social media showing that in one town the main churches collapsed in other towns along the southern coast we've seen some roads that have collapsed and washed out as well as some buildings and homes that have collapsed as well in the city of potence the city of about 150000

people on the southern coast we've seen some damage there as well the main hospital there while not collapsed has been completely evacuated because there's fear that the hospital infrastructure or the foundation could be compromised soon after these earthquakes hit there was a tsunami warning that was issued but it does not appear that there is a tsunami threat at this time the people who are very nervous in puerto rico because they've been hit by seismic activity that has been going on recently it was just on monday that the island was hit by a 5.8 earthquake so and these are latest earthquakes it there are reports that people ran out of their homes into the streets and gathered in parks and other public areas just to be together in fear of more aftershocks that could be coming coming soon. the south korean president says there's

a desperate need for better relations with north korea in his years speech in cold from the talks with kim jong un he wants came to visit so well cooperation between the countries which is still technically for households in recent months u.s. led could rise ation talks are also on hold last week jim said he'd soon reveal a new strategic weapon. for talks in a time of deadlock in u.s. north korea talks and we are even concerned about a step backward an intercom in relations we are in desperate need of practical ways to improve into korean cooperation when that same speech president men promise to create more joel workers' pay and to help the poor it's a timely pledge given a study that has revealed young people are feeling increasingly pessimistic about their future writes reports from so. they are known as dirt

spoons young people from low income families who despite gaining high school and college qualifications often end up in jobs they don't want for little money and with little chance to better themselves they're seen as living in the shadow of so-called gold spoons those with a privileged upbringing you son ho is a rights and social commentator who's long studied the experiences of young koreans caught in the lowest social class. the biggest issue is work housing is next even if you have a good place to live housing costs have gone up a lot the cost of living feels higher because young people don't earn a lot very few people i know are able to save and there's a sense of dejection. the plight of the dirt spoons has been highlighted by the release of the movie parasite a dark comedy about 2 families of haves and have nots that won the prestigious

palme d'or at the cannes film festival. the belief that working hard in your studies and then in your job will inevitably lead to success has been a driving force for generations of south koreans it's why many schoolchildren will do extra classes until late at night and young workers will put up with poor pay and conditions but increasingly that belief is being challenged. a recent study of people in their twenty's shows 3 quarters of respondents no longer believe hard work alone is a guarantee of success and that a person's future is determined more by the social group they're born into. due to the social class they already belong to even if young people make an effort the possibility of upward social mobility is very limited that the growing wealth gap is unwelcome news for the liberal government of president moon j n who is supposed to be narrowing it the faltering economy is making things worse.

if you ask young people of faith have hope most will answer no the gap between rich and poor is getting wider. bleak economic prospects mean that for the dirt spoons the year ahead is likely to be another that reinforces that life's getting tougher at the bottom robert bride al-jazeera so. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories the burial of iranian general cousin solomon he has been for scotland after more than 50 people were killed in a stampede securing his funeral procession the commander was assassinated in a u.s. drone strike in baghdad one friday huge crowds condemned the u.s. on the 3rd and final day all for sessions for solomonic many welcomes a motion by parliament designating the u.s.

army and the pentagon as terrorist groups and. our revenge will be harsh and tough be certain because we are telling the enemy we will avenge him if you respond to our revenge will burn that place in love and they themselves know where it is. now in neighboring iraq fison 7 tent at the funeral for paramilitary leader 100 he was killed alongside still the money in friday's air strike 100 swells the deputy commander of the iranian backed popular mobilization forces his fighters were involved in the siege on the u.s. embassy in baghdad last week. here's defense secretary mark esperance that's a clarify that there's been no decision to pull out troops from iraq as after a draft letter by a top general was mistakenly circulated it says u.s. forces were moving on as a sign of respect to iraq's parliament which recently passed a motion to expel foreign troops. venezuela's opposition leader upon

why don't has again been blocked from entering the country's parliament soldiers brought him from standing for reelection on sunday newspaper a deputy backed by them as your own government's sworn in instead. spain's parliament as narrow they approved the coalition governments the sense months all political deadlock which was triggered by 2 inconclusive elections last year federal sanchez will lead to an alliance between his socialist party and the left wing in the the us but their most votes were supported by catalan separatists who agreed to abstain the arrangement sparked protests by those who say the deal puts the national unity at risk this year to date stay with us and al-jazeera the u.s. continues after the string. we were told that between russia has this been addressed by turkey we listen what is the

proposal of spain. we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter how does iran. have any al-qaeda and you know in a stream today in india will mass protest stop the country's controversial new citizenship law we will take a look at the debate surrounding the citizenship and amendment act you can be part of the conversation as well where on twitter at 8 a stream and streaming live on. ringback i am an actor writer and activist but most importantly a human voice and you are in the street. protests across india are continuing their fight against a new citizenship law that excludes muslim immigrants and stuck in fear of break to

add the muslim discrimination in the country to citizenship a member at pass parliament in december and wants no muslim immigrants from pakistan afghanistan.