this is al jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the get and this is that is our live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the right decision we got it right. the u.s. secretary of state defends the killing of the top iranian military commander custom so the money. funeral ceremony resumes this hometown after a stampede killed dozens and caused to delay. i'm barbara starr in london with the top stories from europe including. activists outrages a british woman who says she was forced by police to retract an accusation of gang

rape gets a suspended sentence for making false claims. also ahead venezuelan opposition leader upon by those allowed into parliament to offer a standoff with security tried to block it. and in sport africa gets ready does celebrated best footballers and all 3 nominees for the continent's football or the year award played in the english premier league. we begin this news with developments in iran on the day of the burial of the top iranian commander the u.s. is defending its action to kill him u.s. secretary of state michael peo says that washington acted because of an imminent threat to the u.s. from iran and that they got it right the secretary of state has also refuted claims that customs on the money was in baghdad on

a diplomatic mission for pay or says iran's heritage and culture is under threat from its own leaders let me tell you who's done damage to the persian culture. it's not the united states of america it's the ayatollah if you want to look at who has denied religious freedom if you want to know who has denied the persian culture is rich and steeped in history and in the act and they've denied the capacity for that culture to continue if you go back and look at the holidays around cyrus and their roots they were not permitted people to celebrate they've not allowed people that they've killed that qassam so the money killed. they're not allowed to go mourn their family members the real risk to persian culture does not come from united states of america that there is there is no mistake. in the saudis hometown huge crowds of gathered for the funeral procession causing a stampede that killed at least 50 people iraq's prime minister. says that he's received a lesson from the u.s. troop withdrawal after the u.s.

secretary of defense earlier denied claims that their forces would soon be repositioning we will get more reaction from our white house correspondent kelly helka just a few moments dorset baris and tyrone for us with more on the stampede but 1st let's join some of the job in baghdad for the latest on that withdrawal letter and some more confusion it seems. well apparently the iraqi prime minister is adamant that he did receive this letter 6 some security officials saying that they don't believe in press statements that people make they believe in the communication that the officially released receive and the last officially received communication from u.s. forces on the ground in iraq was that letter which was now denied by markets and others so it is interesting to see that the iraqi prime minister is holding his ground saying that this was the center's we found discrepancies in the arabic in english texts to be sent it back to them and then they sent the other letter and about 5 hours later they told us via media that this was

a mistake so iraq is insisting that it sees the only way out of this situation after that some silly money and i will madly in mind this is death it's for the good of u.s. forces there are a couple of other interesting points as well that the iraqi prime minister made in a speech a those ones being about to give as well because if you remember the parliament session was not attended by everyone he's saying that the unity of the parliament is very important and those people who did not attend the session are fundamental forces. and should not be blamed for not attending the session he's obviously talking to critics who've been calling for revenge and punishment against sunnis and kurds who boycotted the session of the parliament when it decided that it wants u.s. forces to withdraw it is a divisive issue here in iraq and again those kind of. letters and then denials that are coming from the u.s.

forces are adding to the confusion because the iraqi government wants to be seen as holding its ground to be seen as knowing what it wants to do and according to the iraqi government it is the drawl of foreign forces iraqi prime minister saying that between 20112014 they did live without the presence of foreign forces and it was ok now he says the time has come for these forces to leave it is worth noting that in the last few hours we've heard from at least one part of the foreign coalition the canadian forces who are about 252300 soldiers here in iraq on a training mission they're going to be repositioning some of their troops towards kuwait so there is some movement that is happening but obviously iraq and its government caretaker government that is one small. funeral let's not stampede in iran today there was a funeral in iraq. yes it wasn't just in basra it was on all the stops that the body of 100 as it was

brought back by road into bus for and move towards niger for the final resting place of. the 2nd in command of the popular mobilization forces. loosely knit group of fighting forces which came together in the fight against isis and now are under the command of iraq's a defense pact but it is interesting that. although many people said that. was one of the closest confidantes of ha simply money and one of the key people who could keep this loosely knit alliance of fighters together quickly he was replaced by the leader of the militia who was seen on the coffin of money on a $1000000.00 wonder seeing that their mission will continue. there is going to be revenge for them and the people who have started their following are going to continue their mission. is going to be buried in his coffin is making its way from

town to town as it goes from basra to niger and many professions have been held there are also some reports of people protesting against him as well although much smaller in number but there are people in iraq who also see that iranian influence is not all that good for this country. some a big job in reporting live from baghdad many thanks indeed let's take you live now to run. for a store so talk us through what happened today leading to this stampede in which 50 odd people were killed. well the body of the general hossam still in money was made its way from tehran to his home town of kerem on this morning and there was a procession of the coffin to be taken to the cemetery of the marchers where the general wanted to be buried and along the way there was such

a large crowd that there was a stampede that took place and over 50 people were killed and over $200.00 injured that's according to official figures here and then the officials had to actually delay the burial services because they had to deal with the ongoing situation on the ground in the city now care mon is a small city relatively speaking in the center of care mom province in central iran it is home to about 820000 people so they were really not equipped to deal with the large crowds that gathered to say farewell to awesome soleimani and many of the victims we're hearing now are actually from various other cities as far away as the south the southern city of bam there are boss as well as shiraz we also heard the rain in president hassan rouhani who is expressed his condolences to the families of the victims but we are now hearing that the the burial is. taking place very shortly and the general's body will be finally laid to rest in care mom

you're going to speak with iran's foreign minister today what did you. well why much about zarif was very very emotional in him sat at the latest incidents that have occurred following the assassination of possum so the money he was supposed to travel to the united states to speak at the united nations security council on thursday and he said that his visa was not being issued apparently secretary of state mark my pompei all has said that the u.s. government simply didn't have enough time to issue this result which is something the foreign minister says is laughable because he applied for it weeks ago as was standard procedure but you have to remember foreign ministers of odds are it is under u.s. treasury sanctions since august but this is the 1st time we've seen the u.s. government actually withhold a result for the foreign minister who actually used to live in new york when he was

iranian ambassador to the united nations years ago but coming back to the day's events he said that the assassination of presence of the money is an event that has changed the region forever and he expressed his point of view as well as the government that the united states is to be held responsible let's hear some of what he had to say. respond because it was an act of war. act of war combined with an act of terrorism against a senior official republic of iraq and a citizen of it on your bound to protect our citizens. but united states had other a much. greater creating so many people. so you know that will have consequences for the united states and i believe the most important consequences is that the days of the united states in this region. we've also heard that the iranian president hassan rouhani has been speaking to his french

counterpart in the new micron to discuss the latest developments around the story as well as the foreign ministry has actually summoned the british ambassador in tehran over comments he made about the assassination of us until the money so there's been a flurry of diplomatic activity back and forth there is a lot of interest from various other parties in this region as well as the international community to try and deescalate the tensions that are happening after the following the assassination of us absalom money for now iran has said that they will retaliate and seek revenge for the assassination we are just waiting to find out how and when that will take place. in terms of many thanks indeed let's go live now to washington to the white house correspondent kelly kimberly congress is getting a briefing on the operation that led to the of the death of some of money who's briefing who. you know we know that that briefing will be taking place says the

broadest briefing taking place on wednesday for both the house and the senate it will be comprised of the top trump administration officials on this story the defense secretary mark asper the cia director gina hassle also there will be the secretary of state my pump aoe and the chair of the joint chiefs of staff martin really but in the midst of all of this there continue to be questions not just coming from congress but even from the broader public at large about the timing of the strike to take out general so the money the fact that many have accused the president perhaps of manipulating the timing in his favor given the fact that the big story consuming washington prior to all of this was the impending trial in the u.s. senate to impeach president trump now this is certainly something that is problematic for the president in the domestic headlines so there are questions real questions

about the intelligence this is something that was asked of the secretary of state mike pump a 0 as he spoke a few hours ago he defended the trumpet ministrations decision to have the strike saying that it was me goal and that it prevented the death of many more americans which the administration argues was in it but again very vague in terms of specifics that's why the national security adviser speaking behind me in the last hour or so to reporters also being asked about this question seems to be haunting the administration what was the intelligence this is what robert o'brien the national security adviser had to say growing evidence and strong intelligence force and we're not going to get into sources and methods at this time but i can tell you it was it was very strong he was but he was he was plotting to kill to attack american facilities and diplomats soldiers sailors airmen marines were looking at those facilities is the president expected to say anything on this today.

yeah well given that they gather given the vagueness of the ads here that was provided by the secretary of state as well and this doesn't seem to satisfy many so there is the focus now on the u.s. president and what he has to say he has been relatively quiet on twitter which can be unusual for him so we're watching he greets the prime minister of greece that will be in the coming hour we expect the president will have something to say to defend his actions and to argue that this was an imminent threat against americans and that's why he took decisive action so that coming up about 900 g.m.t. or shortly thereafter when the tape playback comes sitting down we believe in the oval office with the prime minister of greece. a white house correspondent kimberly how get there reporting live from washington can believe many thanks let's speak to remount lever its c.e.o. strategy a political risk consultancy she's also a former u.s. diplomats and joins us live from washington what do you make of all of this as the

administration know what it's doing what's next for the u.s. . i don't think i don't think the president really had any clear sense of what he was doing when he ordered this this killing of general stolen money from what i understand he acted in a very rash hasty way concerned just you know not even a week ago by iraq protesting at nearly storming the u.s. embassy in baghdad that he and his secretary of state pompei a were very concerned that they could face another benghazi moment that time in 2012 when when militants stormed the u.s. diplomatic compound in benghazi libya and killed the u.s. ambassador they were concerned they could face a similar fate they had use that moment that benghazi moment to vilify then secretary of state hillary clinton and president obama they were concerned they could have the same thing happen on their watch right in the middle of a reelection campaign. is what it was you said to say that the president job is

looking at all of this very much through the prism of sort of the reelection. yes i think very much i think almost every decision now going through the white house is one about their reelection every everything is filtered through that prism ok. was slipping under the radar today russia's president vladimir putin arrived in syria on an unannounced visit is that in any way connected to all of this. i don't know that i don't know for how long it was it was planned but i think it's a dramatic illustration of the change in fortune for the united states in the middle east the united states has been the great power in the middle of the great external power in the middle east now for decades today we have president putin showing russia's strength really an essential going off his victory in syria his victory not just on the battlefield in syria but he went to he went to christian churches and shrines on what is the eastern chris today is the day of eastern

christmas to show that he is that he is the defender of christians not president trump not the united states so it's a pretty dramatic illustration of the contrast of the rise of russia versus the united states we also interesting lee had was just yesterday in baghdad the chinese ambassador met with the acting prime minister of iraq and there were photos of that of that encounter that included a whole i think 4 or 5 chinese military officials there offering iraq chinese military assistance in what will become a much more of the stabilizing time so we have both russia and china showing that they are they are right there able to take over a role as an important as important regional power as important powers in the region as the united states sees its its fortunes fall over because talk to hillary many thanks due to remount live or the. thank you.

i. for this were that opposition leader one boy who has been sworn in as national assembly speaker. in the name of minutes i swear. by duties of president in charge to look for a solution to the crises to be able to live with dignity prosperity and bring back humanity to venezuela if i were to do so may god rewards me. before he was allowed to enter upon a bit there was a brief standoff with security forces on sunday he been blocked from entering in his absence distant step to the east was selected as house speaker he's a loyalist president because my daughter oh fled from parliament. had gained access to the building lots of america and it's a noose in yemen has more from caracas. it is but another dramatic and confusing

day in the battle for the control of venezuela's parliament the day started with luis spotted the man the deputy rather who had been declared the speaker on sunday by the pro-government minority calling the calling the session to order even though he did not have a quorum but in the meantime. also been elected by the majority of the opposition as the legitimate speaker of the house was making his way downtown to the chamber you see behind me he was blocked and as were his deputies by various police barricades but eventually they were able to push their way through make it into the chamber just as we spotted. ran out the door i think which is not quite clear whether he actually closed the session 1st but in any case why they all took the seat again as speaker of the house while the electricity was cut out a very chaotic situation the only thing that is very clear is that the government

somehow or other decided to allow this to happen because it did not use the same amount of force there weren't as many soldiers trying to protect the building and prevent by the law and his deputies from going in as we used on sunday. at least 30 people have been killed in a bomb attack in northeastern nigeria it happened on a bridge in borno state near the border with cameroon many people were 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 japan is demanding more cooperation from lebanon over the former this on boss colleagues go on japan's ambassador expressed great concern in a meeting with lebanon's president michel aoun is an interpol warrant for guns arrest in place since he fled japan last week where he was awaiting trial on multiple financial misconduct charges meanwhile japanese prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for commerce cohen's wife. is wanted for giving false testimony in

court last april she's currently in lebanon with her husband a judge in india has set the execution date for 4 men convicted of the rape torture and murder of a university student on a bus in new delhi the case dates back to 2012 the victim later died of her injuries and the case triggered mass protests adulterer to lead to toughen new anti rape laws 6 men were involved in the attack but one hanged himself in prison had another was a minor at the time. students at one of india's top universities said that they've been targeted voicing concern against a new controversial citizenship law the group says that rival students linked to the ruling b j p a behind the attacks. reports that i am one of the yet very very much i she called the girl seen covered in blood in this video after she says she was beaten by a mob a university in new delhi is the one now under investigation. the

police have registered a legal complaint against her and 26 others accusing them of vandalism on the university campus the day before the attack. but only one complained on a crowd of 50 see him hitting the students with on bars. this student says he was also beaten up but doesn't want to worry his parents by revealing his identity. when i called the police they asked me what is. where is it they didn't help us. instead they facilitated the exit of the government. some people including lawyer among law now suspect police let the attack happen and allow the street lights to be switched off outside the campus so those responsible could not be identified the lights in the adjoining

states were all on so so the lights are definitely off and when we were there by around 12 o'clock the lights had on so it's not definitely going to be a hit. the system or something. mangler says activists and journalists were assaulted and taunted outside the campus as the police watched. the students who were beaten up see many of their attackers were from the. students union affiliated with the governing hindu nationalist b.g.p. . but the a.b. repeat denies it was behind the attack and instead says its members were the ones beaten up earlier that day the police say they have launched an investigation or do investigation senior officers of the crime branch and local police visited the attack site and we found vital clues so we are working on that and hopefully we

will crack this case. since the government passed a new citizenship law police have opened fire on protesters and. smashed motorbikes and their leader and beaten up students from john. university in new delhi now many students at this university in the capital say it's clear the police are working against them after war al-jazeera you daddy. hong kong's chief executive says that she'll work with beijing as new envoy to put the city back on the right path after months of protests kerry spoke just days after the chinese government appointed lawyer who nearing to head its liaison office the unexpected move was widely seen as a sign in beijing's frustration with his predecessors handling of the crisis process began in june over a controversial extradition bill. south korea's president says that there's a desperate need for better relations with north korea in his new year speech.

called for new talks with kim jong un he wants came to visit seoul talks to restore diplomatic ties between the countries which are technically still a war story and over recent months. the talks focus on in a time of deadlock in u.s. north korea talks and we are even concerned about a step backward in enter korean relations we are in desperate need of practical ways to improve into korean cooperation in that same speech president byrne promised to create more jobs boost workers' pay and help the poor it's a timely pledge given a study that's revealed that young people are feeling increasingly pessimistic about their future as al-jazeera bride reports from seoul. they are known as 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 who 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 of very few people i know are able to save and there's a sense of dejection. the plight of the 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 rob mcbride al-jazeera sole. we'll get a weather update next here on that is out then forces loyal to libyan warlord khalifa haftar making sweeping gains for the latest from tripoli. a state of emergency is declared in puerto rico after a series of strong earthquakes there. and coming up in sports and on the scene of oscar ball magic from this washington wizards game an. issue. of. hello more winter rain has fallen throughout the gulf you can see the back edge of this scouting out here there are also some fairly big showers in yemen

particular of the masses but the flooding in santa in the forecast the wind directions change the gulf is southerly now so start to feel warmer again but the rain is a long way north as iraq and iran and once more the eastern mediterranean there's more coming in here but you'll see the blues develop of these these mountains society in yemen that are bodies again the potential for flash flooding and again the city of santa is at risk but it looks more likely djibouti will get something from the red sea develop and then the briefly bit of blue and orange that showed up all the way down the coast of yemen is potentially sherry but just move yourselves further in and apart from the hamas and when that season when that comes through and chad which is weakened does nothing much going on in this part of africa no would you expect there to be this is the time the year where you get the heavy rains for the south now they've not been particularly useful just recently in tanzania or in malawi for example but there are clearly some big what top class reflects in the forecast here is showers all the way from the central part of south

africa right up to wards the rift valley but not to the east. but. india is in the midst of a high tech revolution with over 1000000000 mobile phones that's. tough yet in a country where one in full can't lead old writes how can this technological boom be harnessed for the common good. life apps challenges a digital entrepreneur to devise an easy to use for struggling farmers. county find a way to bring the 2 worlds together fly from smoke harvest on al-jazeera. to be a child is to be innocent and carefree but it comes to an abrupt end at the burden of young children. with a mother behind bars for siblings misspend for each other and decide whether to stick together. with the family in the hope of

a chance across the us mexico border the other side of the border a witness documentary on al-jazeera. told. again it's good to have you with us adrian for going to here in doha with the news out from al-jazeera the headlines the u.s. secretary of state has refuted claims made by iraq because some sort of body was on a diplomatic mission but he was killed of a u.s. airstrike michael ioseph that washington strategy is to confront contain iran's actions funeral for proceedings for solemn oddie have resumed after more than 50

people were killed in a stampede huge crowds packed custom somalis hometown of command for the funeral procession iraq's prime minister out all of the almighty says that he has received a letter from the u.s. troop withdrawal fox he says the english and arabic versions of different sounds the u.s. secretary of defense earlier tonight claims their forces would soon be repositioning . iraqis are worried about what tension between iran and the u.s. will be for them many fear sanctions threatened by president donald trump could see a return to the hardships of the saddam hussein era of zero-sum on a full team reports now from baghdad. an uneasy mood has settled over baghdad scarred by decades of intermittent war people in iraq's capital know the eerie suspense that precedes one in coffee shops old and young alike who worry about being caught in the middle as the u.s. and iran threaten further escalation of the stuff out of

a bottle we don't want the battle to come to our country they want to start a war they want to settle accounts but we are the ones who lose young men lose money lose infrastructure we won't benefit from this. people here are still in shock over the u.s. strike that assassinated iranian general qassam soleimani near baghdad airport drawing threats of retaliation from iran and its allies in iraq. adding insult to injury president donald trump threatened on sunday to impose far reaching sanctions on iraq if the iraqi government responded by expelling u.s. troops for such authority brings back painful memories from the saddam era when the u.n. security council imposed a crippling trade embargo. for us as young people we've lived through the sanctions during our childhood we don't want to face the same thing again we want to build the country. instead the country now risks sliding backwards the unfolding crisis

between the u.s. and iran has shifted attention away from iraq's months long protest movement demanding far reaching political reform and an end to iranian interference in iraq . assisting nation demonstrators have been attacked at least twice by pro iranian crowds their worst fear however is losing their cause. people are afraid they are afraid of a strike that happened and they fear that something will happen inside to rear to these demonstrations demonstrators are divided over the parliament's non-binding the session on sunday to expel foreign troops some support the motion calling the u.s. strike a violation of iraqi sovereignty and we want iraq to be an independent country a country thinks and decides and makes its own decisions without any intervention by outside forces while others see the presence of american troops as a necessary counterbalance to raney an influence on of the. i am against the

parliament's decision to expel the troops give me an alternative for the american troops who will protect me an alternative to protect these people that all parties the militias even i have a party to protect me or i will die kurdish and sunni parties boycotted some this parliament vote carried by the main shia blocs it's a sign that iraq's leadership is once again split along sectarian lines. rather than united by national interest as the visions within iraq to deepen over how the government should respond to the escalating crisis between the u.s. and iran many iraqis are worried that they will once again be dragged into a war they did not see their demands for a better future are now overshadowed by fear and not too distant memories of conflict and hardship. in al jazeera. more now in the fallout of the assassination of qassam solomonic is professor of political science at the university of tehran

and says that iran has been stepping up its security efforts in response to the latest events. what happened today is that the parliament changed the previous law to include the entire u.s. military as well as the pentagon and all its subsidiaries riches institutes and even corporations as a terrorist organization so essentially the iranian government now sees the entire us military as a terrorist organization and i think this lays the foundation the legal foundation for a possible military response by you on uranium national security council which has come to a conclusion of what this response will be has not really made its decision public but most probably in this also relates to what was passed today in parliament essentially u.s. bases in the region will become targets i mean the united states has military bases in iraq afghanistan kuwait bahrain qatar saw all these

bases could become potential targets for the reins i would say it's concerning because it shows that there is a lot of confusion in the u.s. administration and perhaps this is what donald trump himself wants i mean the whole mad men theory of him trying to present himself as this out of control leader that even might hit iranian cultural sites but i mean listen if iran does not respond to the attack of course and so they money the trumpet ministration will see iran is very weak and essentially will increase pressure on you on forces loyal to the libyan general harley's a half to the center of a coastal city east of the capital tripoli they've also seized the nearby al qaida big airbase one of the largest military installations sirte is strategically important to have task months long offensive to seize tripoli where libya's u.n. recognized government is based our correspondent the one had explained why it is so

important to general have to come. it's very close to the oil fields and oil terminals in the central coast of libya now it's also the birth town or the hometown of gadhafi and he was killed by the 17th of february evolutionary is in that city into an 11 it was also taken controlled by ice in 2015 until it was liberated from eisel by the government forces in december 2016 now the government forces in the city of misrata say that they are cindy green for cement to a gray area west of city of the city to recapture the city a missile strike carried out by who 3 rebels in yemen has killed 11 government soldiers the iran backed militia targeted a military camp in the south more than 20 soldiers were wounded it's the 2nd attack in the area in just over

a week. a 19 year old british woman has been given for a 4 month suspended sentence suspended for 3 years in the supreme court for lying about being gang raped by a group of young israeli men so barbara starr in london now with more on that from our european broadcast center barbara. adrian saying he'll yes this means that more men can leave sign press and go home but her legal team insists that they'll find all to prove her innocence in cyprus the supreme court and if that's not successful in the european court of human rights they say that she was questioned without a lawyer and was forced to retract the accusation by police for a challenge reports was arriving at court in power limmy the british teenager was met by a crowd of supporters most of these women came from israel he gets to make their views clear on cyprus's criminal justice system i can see with my eyes so many

failures that happen here also as an israeli i think about these youngsters who came back to my country. and they came to return or i would know with no proof at any price inside the courts the 19 year old was told by the judge she was giving her a 2nd chance a suspended sentence for public mischief that in effect means to go by the 1st time in 6 months my mother then came out to speak i guess was the bank he could actually go looking for turning up to die having believed having thank you for making sure that we get justice thank you all of you complaining of. her daughter had been staying at this hotel while on a working holiday in the resort of when she went to the police alleging she'd been gang raped 12 these radios were quickly arrested and then released after the woman for trying to direct his ations she says the police forced her to do this the courts decided she was lying what happens or didn't happen in this building 6

months ago it was helped expose a range of different issues how women to listen to when they say they've been rapes the behavior of young so wrists in policy resorts like. the relationship between cyprus and the u.k. and israel and whether the justice system here is working. should be the teenager's legal team point to a list of potential police violations questioning her with no neuer or translator present and not reporting what was said so the police officers word against the victim. and of course there's no recourse for the victim so we're hoping that if this kid's does go to the european court of human rights that the problem can be redress and that perhaps cyprus can fall into line with other modern jurisdictions cypriot lawyer thinks the country does too little to help women i believe we have a culture that the mist to start changing when it comes to violence against women.

and it is this culture that creates this you stay make problems that we are facing here in cyprus the case has disturbed relations between london and nicosia to my 1st concern be how wealthy we will be following up on something issues in relation to the case i spoke to the cypriot foreign minister about that but there was also a warning from the u.k. foreign minister in the summer season resort such as on upper thrumming with youngsters drinking and partying hard dominic rob says brits abroad should look after themselves chalons al-jazeera and paralympics but we're joined now from nicosia by going to go to you who organized one of the protests outside the court madam thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera the organized one of the protests there it seems obvious you don't believe that the justice system justice system is working in this case explain to us why. this is a man who has been violated repeatedly by

a multiple kinds of power and. group message netware crew when we had to end their court session last time with their peers we were bad in distress to see how of sensibility she was addressed by the judge how he tried to make excuses for regulating there but most importantly we were. in bad asked to hear the judge when he came to that point before announcing his bad the you know share with the audience his appreciation of the delay ability of the. of the of all of that we can as he really fair choose the video and actually hear the fair to the video of and night of consensual sex here if there are 2 that she is support his

opinion that she was an unreliable witness for us sitting there are the laws. a tranny more men should realize how moralistic this course was so easy permeating it judges that by you a short of a theme a witness at that point that we know that this was a very complicated multilayered kind of rape. before of course the girl was before the judge she went and reported the alleged rape to the police and then she says that the police effectively put pressure on her to retract the accusation just explain to us why you think the police would do that. ok firstly because if i something the 1st person who not defied the police was that dot the law of our of the plays which is not quite that is sort of where these girls they'd

he was the 1st want to see in such a there's only 8 semi make it crying in the corridor orse of god of those apartments for 10 what they were got these and he was the want to call the police and tell them what's going on in they sit in they immediately contact their then i don't know who took the girl to the police to report so it was not just an then was in this case isn't what these essentially important cases of reporting rain immediate reporting over there over the instant and 2nd. days passed since the rest of the suspects during the last 10 days she testified she gave a description of the tape description of the events 3 times there was not a single discrepancy or contradiction in what she sits. on the other hand there

were so many contradictions in your column. that many for interrupting or just slightly running out of time out ask a question that kind of links into what we're talking about now we heard from one of the lawyers of the girl saying that really this is an issue of culture that the cole chair there needs to change explain to us why you think what you think the problem is with the culture in cyprus that in your opinion would lead to a woman who makes an accusation of rape to effectively not be believed. ok 3 things when we talk to culture we can say the usual thing about patricia kuhl researching is culture we do have it here but there is also another kind of culture it culture that says citizen shouldn't question that government because our government knows best if you question that your government your own most because it should be saying faith to your government whereas this is

a very it is the essence of constitutional law to these and the 3rd element has to do specifically with the culture not just the rape of a young a i have heard so many news british news according to young about is a part of china it is a part of town and you see young people they are getting drunk vomiting laughing been brought mischievous and sexual and not a lot stuff and in short what these out of order end people have taboos when they see bodies out of order they want to put them in order and they want to punish them this is wrong they think they have the right to punish them for being who they are at the same time this is the last thing i want to say these israeli women said this people could have great my daughter would came out in that statement was that in those israeli women fear or sensitivity there was such a deep appreciation of the how precious life of young.

were going to have to leave their fortune as a leg or an organized one of those protests outside the court rather and here. now after almost a year of political deadlock spain's parliament has chosen the socialist leader pedro sanchez to form a new government sanchez won the vote by a margin of just 2 with 18 members of parliament abstaining he will now head up a coalition of the socialists and a radical left them most movement the new administration plans to increase taxes on the corporations reduce carbon emissions and fight gender based violence. friend says called on person to be flexible during negotiations after the u.k. leaves the e.u. at the end of the month's british government ministers might have downing street before the 1st parliamentary sitting of the year which also covered bracks it johnson's withdrawal agreement is expected to be passed by m.p.'s in the house of commons later this week the french president the man who in mcallen says the post

threats of talks which will follow will focus on maintaining the planes on security and foreign policy and defending the e.u. use economic interests. that is it for london for this volatile it's go back to adrian in doha barbara a state of emergency has been declared in puerto rico after a series of strong earthquakes damaged buildings and left the island without power the initial magnitude $6.00 quake knocked out electricity across the u.s. territory of the damage it's made power plant a magnitude 6 quake struck just 3 hours later i'll just use gabriel's on those in washington d.c. and says the island is bracing 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 church is 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 points the city of about 150. 1000 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 were 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 on 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. sports is next here on al-jazeera and ben stokes is the hero thank god once again far will be here with all the details in just a moment. we'll

. talk sport is far thank you so much the african footballer of the year will be announced in egypt later this tuesday for president giani and since you know is in

cairo ahead of that event getting involved in a kick about with some of the games former greats all 3 nominees for the men's awards star in the english premier league. oh last year's winner mohamed salah is in the running again in 2019 the egyptian won the european champions league and club world cup with liverpool saudia manet was also part of those successes he outscored in 2019 with $34.00 goals he also scored more than the 3rd finalists riyad morez algeria international however had the most assess out of the 3 with 18 last year he also won the premier league with man city and led his country to win in the africa cup of nations there's a big game in the english league cup later on the holders manchester city take on serious local rivals man united in the semifinals it's played over 2 legs and the 1st one is at old trafford united one away at city in the league in december it's their 10th game in a month but only got there still sure believes his players will find the strength

to perform big games give you energy gives you. the urge to go. to the next level. above and beyond what you might be capable of. in your head but sometimes you can if you surprise yourself a city manager pep guardiola ruled out ever switching jobs to coach united saying there's more chance of finding him on a beach in the maldivians have to train she. is like oh no it's in madrid. definitely not whatever happens in the future. it was the only offer. of the motives for the hubble for. england's cricketers have levelled their series against south africa one all by winning the 2nd test in cape town ben stokes was the star on day 5 the all rounder took 3 late wickets to clean up the home sides tale to seal a 189 run when it's england's 1st win that new lens since 1967

the 3rd test begins on january 16th in port elizabeth keep the ready when asked chances came as they were excellent in the field and pretty much everything that came away. and i think recognises key moments which we probably got wrong in the 1st test match so if there is as a young group of players came a young squad of players to. not quickly and really plays into to see that unfold and see happen this this time around there's a lot of small margins in this test match. but for me extremely proud of how we fought you know you never want to lose to as much as of course you don't want to but the challenge that we had through our group last night and this morning was that we will fight with everything that we've got within us to draw on my clean and do anything and everything to to beat us and i have from the kitchen sink at us and just towards the end of the down fortune believed to be

a loser which is fantastic 5 days of perfectly good. organizers of the australian open say they're not expecting a delay to the start of the 1st time as grand slam of the year and that's despite the ongoing bushfires impacting air quality in melbourne where the main draw starts on january 20th there is so far been no smoke related interruptions that the a.t.p. cup which is taking place in sydney perth and grizz been where host australia beat greece to reach the quarter finals helping his side to victory world number 29 a curious he kept his 100 percent record against world number 6 stuff and said suppose australia face great britain next. well there was real defeat for the league leaving milwaukee bucks in the n.b.a. they were aiming for their 6 straight victory up against the san antonio spurs bucs are as young as and tito showing what he can do but it was his 1st to have the edge especially de mar de rosa and racked up 25 points teammate patty mills also chipped

in with 21 this is ran away with. now another of the n.b.a. title contenders the boston celtics also suffered a shock defeat against the washington wizards and that was largely down to one standout player. spirit dance you're right you're going to it's character. to go ok. we're going to make sure. the wizards are one of the worst performing teams this year but if smith came off the bench tonight $27.00 points leading his team to victory by 5. and that is all used back to you daryn many thanks indeed and that is it for the news out time for us here at the house and the baton to all colleagues if you love the barber sarah heads up that you're going to justify what i'll say again thanks for watching along .

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more than 50 mourners die in a stampede at the funeral for the ukrainian military chief killed by a u.s. airstrike i believe the most important cultural question is at the days of the united states in this region. iran's foreign minister says the killing of kasim sulaimani will end america's presence in the middle east. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching our jazeera live from london also coming out 4 men are sentenced to death for the 2000 and.