this is al jazeera. l.o.l. i'm home i hit c.n.n. in doha with the al-jazeera news are coming up for you in the next 60 minutes the head of iran's civil aviation authority says the ukrainian airliner that crashed in teheran awareness day was not show time but video released by the new york times appears to show the moment the plane was hit by a missile. india's top court orders an urgent review of the walked in kashmir and says the internet ban in the disputed state is an abuse of power. and after months of fighting in syria's last rebel held province of russia and since

a ceasefire. and in spite of a joke of it helps serbia secure a semi final place in the a.t.p. camp jock which got in his team to victory over canada to set up a last minute i was the. aviation officials in teheran have rejected accusations an iranian missile mistakenly shot down a ukrainian plane killing a $176.00 people on board the heads of iran's civil aviation organization says the plane caught fire and was having technical difficulties but matheson has the latest . this video posted by the new york times newspaper appears to show an explosion as ukraine airlines flight 75 to is struck the plane flies on for several minutes

before turning back towards to one airport where security cameras capture the moment it hits the ground among the dead was $63.00 canadians we have intelligence from multiple sources including our ally. and our own intelligence. the evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by entering in surface to air missiles at the time of the crash iran had fired missiles at bases in iraq hosting u.s. troops iran's military was prepared for a u.s. response but iran says the plane was not hit by a missile had. any statement made before extracting the information contained in the black box is groundless however i'd like to assure you that the aircraft was not spy a missile the aircraft was on fire for one and a half minutes after taking off so the pilot decided to return to the airport but he had many technical issues at hand. iran initially refused to hand over to the

u.s. the so-called black boxes used to record cockpit voices and flight data but iran has now invited the aircraft manufacturer boeing to be part of the investigation france made the aircraft's engines and says it's too wants to be involved and the u.s. national transportation safety board says it's assigned a representative to the investigation there are reports the debris has been bulldozed into a pile but one expert says the dead may provide answers there could be evidence with literally within the bodies of the victims that could point to whether or not for example an explosion took place inside or outside of the united states is said to have given ukraine's president of. what's described as important data related to the crash. president selenski has laid flowers at a makeshift memorial at the airport where the plane was expected to land. at least one vigil is being held in toronto in canada many of those who died had dual

nationalities he was coming back home from a ship he went to see his mother on holidays and you know i swear an old friend written about. some a furious that iran may have been involved in the crash others are waiting to find out when the bodies of their loved ones might return home rob matheson algis here while jazeera is dorsetshire bari is in teheran she has more on what aviation officials have been saying there. this was a press conference that was given by the head of iran's civil aviation authorities and the man in charge of that said that it was actually impossible for this plane to have been struck by any kind of missile or a projectile device because the plane was on fire for over a minute and 30 seconds in the air before it crashed and that means according to the iranians calculations that it wasn't struck by anything that there was actually

they believe there was a technical malfunction of this plane it took off. 6 minutes after it took off it crashed so the iranians are now looking into this entire incident the iranian president has. expressed his condolences to the families victims we're also hearing that there are. people coming from the united states france and canada to help with the aviation authorities in iran along with their investigation we also know that ukrainian officials are already on the ground in the capital here on friday helping with this investigation according to the head of the civil aviation authority 2 black boxes have been retrieved at but they are very badly damaged so it's not clear what they will be able to find from those devices at this point but for now the iranians are saying it's very important that the international community doesn't make accusations or come to conclusions and he see manner the

investigation is still just starting there's been a special committee that's been formed. by the government and the president himself has called for an investigation so this committee will need at least 6 months to one year to try and determine what actually happened to this flight. well france is among the 4 countries iran is planning to seek help from for the best occasion this is what the french foreign minister had to say earlier on friday he said the france is available to contribute to the necessary expertise before making a stand we need total clarity on what happened and for that there are international investigations which must be implemented if you do it be on the well after the killing over iran's top commander because i'm so many last friday the u.s. house of representatives has voted to limit its president donald trump's ability to engage in further military action against iran al-jazeera is hiding joe castro reports from washington. house democrats say president trump's order to kill

iranian general custom solar monny was a reckless move done without the consultation of congress it is unprecedented the level at which this administration is seeking to obscure the facts from the congress of the american people thursday's vote on the house floor is meant to deliver a rebuke to the president that the democratic led chamber has little confidence in trump's military decision making toward iran despite his justifications we caught a total monster and we took him out and that should have happened a long time ago. we did it because they were looking to blow up our embassy we also did it for other reasons that were very obvious somebody died one of our military people died people were badly wounded just a week before and we did it and we had a shot at him and i took it and that shot was pinpoint accurate and that was the end of a monster the war powers resolution passed in the house on thursday directs the president to terminate the use of u.s.

forces in iran without congressional approval but how much power this measure carries is unclear it is a non-binding resolution which under normal circumstances means it does not carry the force of law but house speaker nancy pelosi says the war powers act is a special circumstance that gives the resolution legality that it does not have to be signed by the president of the united states the congress of the united states and this full power of full voice can speak a new 9 that way about what the war powers act should look like and that should count for something house republicans call the vote a partisan distraction this resolution has as much force of law as a new year's resolution this resolution is not safeguarding our constitution but attacking our constitution by attempting to. vest a duly elected president as commander in chief powers

a similar resolution is pending in the u.s. senate where at least 2 republicans have said they will support the measure to curb iran war powers but whether the resolutions will have that effect or will simply be ignored by the president is a question that may be decided in the courts. castro al-jazeera washington. all arabian and u.s. officials faced off at the united nations for the 1st time since the assassination of course and still a money it was left to iran's impasses or to the u.n. to represent his country foreign minister german serif was unable to attend because the u.s. refused to grant him a visa washington has continued to justify the assassination of solomon e. but limits support has been limited even among its own allies diplomats gets there james bays reports live from the un this was a security council debate about the un's founding document the united nations

charter key international law and also central in arguments about the legality of actions by both the u.s. and iran in recent days on us the us ambassador kelly crosses the charter justifies their assassination of general sort of money pursuant to article $51.00 that says nations have the right to self-defense exactly the same article is invoked by iran to explain its missile attack on u.s. bases in iraq are generally action against an arab race in iraq from which they cowardly on the attack against mortars soleimani was launched was a measured and proportionate response to a terrorist attack in the existence and there exists an inherent right to self-defense in accordance with article $51.00 of the charter. perhaps unsurprisingly both russia and china took iran side than being. at present the united states unilateral military adventurism has led to the tensing up

of the situation in the middle east gulf region china supports a call for peace by secretary-general guitars at this meeting once again the u.s. is closest allies were not giving a full throated endorsement of president trump's most recent actions 5 new members join the security council at the beginning of the year and diplomats believe the council as a whole is now slightly less favorable to the u.s. than it was a year ago james zira at the united nations. european foreign ministers are holding an emergency meeting in brussels on the tensions between the u.s. and iran they're hoping to save this 150 nuclear deal u.s. president donald trump wants the european nations that were parts off the deal to abandon its well francis ayres all sites come back to the table with a warning that iran could develop a nuclear weapon within the next 2 years let's go live now to brussels for our disappears and sasha butler is standing by at this hour so what are we expecting

today. well european union foreign ministers are just arriving in brussels for this emergency meeting that has been convened by the e.u. foreign policy chief bratton now burrell had actually invited iran's foreign minister zarif a little bit earlier in the week for talks with ministers here but as of now we have no news on whether or not the iranian foreign minister will be coming to brussels any time soon now the e.u. over the past few days of course joined in with other nations to call for a deescalation of tensions as those tensions really rise to boiling point between the united states and iran they have urged restraint on all sides in fact the e.u. commission chief said now is not the time for weapons it's the time for discussion and i think there's no doubt that foreign ministers will perhaps be discussing what sort of role they can have in terms of mediation in this crisis perhaps alongside

the u.n. they'll also be focusing of course for how to try and salvage their j c p o a the iran nuclear deal signed in 2015 the e.u. has been struggling to try and keep this deal live ever since the u.s. pulled out of it in 2018 but of course this week we heard from tehran that tehran is now withdrawing some of its commitments that it made to its limitations on enriching uranium now effectively that almost sees the deal collapse so what we'll hear i expect a bit later when foreign ministers give a press conference is where they stand on this because of course they say this deal is really important important to stop iran getting a nuclear weapon important regional security but it seems very hard indeed to try and save it and of course that added pressure from the u.s. president donald trump this week calling on britain france and germany to stop their support for this deal. the nato secretary general is attending that meeting

just explain for us why he's there. yes yes stoltenberg the nato secretary general will be joining this foreign ministers meeting a little bit later again of course to be briefed on the situation to discuss the situation he earlier this week gave a press conference in which he also called for deescalation in which he said that all sides need to be very careful and ovoid a war that he said would be of course in nobody's interest but donald trump this week in the speech that he made on wednesday he called for nato to have a greater involvement in the middle east now trump has been very clear that he believes that the u.s. is carrying too much of the burden in his point of view for the troops in the middle east he would like to see nato ineffectively forces do a lot more there so that he had a telephone call with stoltenberg on this issue in the salton bergen tribes words seem very excited by this prospect so have to see exactly what stoltenberg has to

say about this but there's no doubt of course he will be discussing nato forces in the middle east a little bit later with these e.u. foreign ministers there are of course there is of course a nato mission in iraq ok natasha live in brussels for now thank you. european leadership network and his focus is on that iran nuclear deal he explains why e.u. leaders seem to have such high hopes for saving the deal as opposed to the u.s. . i think the europeans are wedded to it because it proved to work unfortunately the united states felt differently about whether or not this was an agreement that they could stand by under the trumpet administration for europeans that represents not only a regional security agreement that will absolutely help bring stability to the region and hide because at that point in time after the deal was reached we saw a far less provocative iran than we are right now but moreover this is the core to

european security let's not forgot that the middle east is on your doorstep and thus preserving the agreement and the entire verification regime which took over a decade to negotiate is something that europe is unwilling to let go of my think obviously there was around the time that trump left to deal shuttle diplomacy by europeans to see if we could get a more for more agreement where we were able to include say missiles or other peripheral issues but the reality is at the end of the day the most imminent issue at the time that this agreement was reached was the nuclear question and the idea was was that over time iran would socialize itself to the international system as a member of good standing in the international community and thus build the confidence with historic. adversaries like the united states to be able to speak in

good faith on topics like missiles which they refused to include in the original agreement. those who are still to come on this news hour including pressure on india's government which continues as the reasons of people protests and you citizenship. are china's crackdown in hong kong is influencing the election campaign in taiwan and in sports. and she's saying to keep in politics of their events and it will be here with. india's supreme court has ordered an urgent review of the law in an indian administered kashmir the ruling is in the sponsor a series of decisions challenging the galaxy of the government shutdown that includes a ban on the internets the daily revoke the region's autonomy in august and the

post extra security restrictions were earlier we spoke to berlin to grover one of the lawyers representing the petitioners she says restrictions in indian administered kashmir are violating fundamental freedoms i think is a very significant judgment i was representing dimes a newspaper and our contention was that bad on internet freedom is an assault on freedom of speech and expression freedom of the press and the districts and on movement all. have implications for freedom of the court has understated ogg you that these are issues of national security particularly given that gosh me it is a border state that is cross border terrorism and therefore considering security concerns they should be no judicial review the court has said that no these are matters of fundamental freedom and liberty and the court will subject every executive action in order to review they have said held that the into right to it

and that is protected under the constitution as part of freedom of speech and expression and therefore any. destruction of prohibition on internet will have to meet the test of constitutional easy to make sure that his executive action proportional to the problem that it poses right now what the way the state has conducted itself is that those orders were not published those orders were not even placed before the court to fill some full orders were given they have been directed to immediately publish all orders but deigning to internet restriction as well as movement restriction those orders must contain material particulars that why is the state taking this measure and is this is this required is this excessive in fact the court has gone so far as to say that repeated use of section one $44.00 which we are now seeing across the country when that a protest on other reasons is an abuse of power any arbitrary shutdown of internet can only happen after you publish the order alongside and it will be open to

judicial review will happen when jacob is a professor at john harlan there who university in new delhi he says it will be difficult for courts to accept the government's arguments that restrictions are necessary for security. did so before has very distinctly said that the freedom of speech and expression and optical 19 of the constitution includes the right to the internet to that extent it has to be anything down that the government get out audibly truly shut down the internet for what indefinite p.b.'s so to that extent except those that give a judgment and b. and b. it why should i ask the question what is meant by an indefinite period that's to go to p.d.f. right and more importantly if that's not banned the government from. shutting down the internet it only shows that the government should do no good for a long time i think should publish the reason why it is shutting down the need the

next all to some extent it is a positive judgement and the at the if the government wants it can continue with shutting down the internet for kinds of the repeat of the court have to be heavily said that the judiciary has to balance the interests of the indeed you have that history and of expression and speech with the national security of this state now he is the he it is the problem because the moment the government of india brings in the issue of national security john just tend to go by the by the arguments made by the government on national security that are likely to tinker with that and when when he said once you start by listing this i think it's going to be your whole program i think that is people. thousands of protesters have marched in the southern indian city of hyderabad against the new citizenship law the legislation ratified last month clears the way for citizenship for minorities from 3 neighboring countries but excludes muslims hyderabad has

a sizeable muslim population. there were also process in kolkata for prime minister narendra modi is expected to arrive on saturday students plan to block major votes from the airports in protest against the law as well as government forces to increase past feeds also help rama and is in kolkata with the protesters . tens of thousands of people have gathered here very close to the mouth like gandhi monument in calcutta in west bengal to show their discontent with the citizenship amendment act i don't think i've ever seen crowds like this other than the general election campaign of the sights of a society in a cross community representation regarding the rebel areas religions where you have a civil society leaders and religious leaders who are making their speeches to the assembled crowd they want the government to understand that the citizenship amendment act is illegal or 100 usual but one doesn't want to meet with the secular

nature of india and that's the message they want to get across to the right drug over here right here on saturday and they want to make sure that their voice. their very intent is heard not just in new delhi but across the country they are joining hundreds of thousands of other people across the view that are continuing their demonstrations against him during their protests and they had the renderer modi will get to see and understand exactly the strength of the feeling here certainly in west wing all of the state that he has no control over or that the incumbent government hopes that he will of course understand that he's not welcome. iraq's grand ayatollah ali sistani has condemned the recent attacks by the u.s. and iran as a violation of sovereignty. his message was delivered by a spokesman friday prayers in karbala was your call and iraq should be governed by its people and no outsiders should have a say in its decisions. and that feeling is driving thousands of iraqis to baghdad

stutterer square demonstrators want no foreign interference in iraq's internal affairs and have been demanding a complete overhaul of the political system since october well they say it's corrupts and that most iraqis have been kept in poverty according to the iraqi human rights commission at least 485 people have been killed since the protests began 3 months ago. well live 30 enron con he joins us from tahrir square the hub of fancy government protests in baghdad a man i was looking where you are. well the protest began around 8 hours ago it's worth just showing you it's getting bigger and bigger certainly the crowds much larger than they have been in recent weeks that's tucker a square all the way down there and people are still streaming in not just from the neighborhoods in baghdad but from across the country as well and they have

a very key message no conflict between other countries in iraq iraq is not your battleground and you speak to most people here and they will tell you exactly that they are still protesting what they were protesting the full the killing of the iranian come on their costs and also the mali and the hundreds the leader of one of the ship out of a shiite groups they also demanding that the government be changed to a general election that hasn't been bullshit also that they all still waiting for the caretaker prime minister to be replaced and there's still a political crisis here still a very significant political crisis here but it has been 100 days since the protests began so there was a low 'd just a couple weeks ago but now this movement really does seem to be reinvigorated. i'm in iran and we've been seeing some political developments in iraq he just talk us through what's been happening there. where you had the statement from grand

ayatollah ali sistani just before i came on live 'd he was talking about the key word that many politicians banding about the moment and that's iraq several on a separate incidents that brings sort of a cult so that what so ever in this state and that's what the protesters also actually saying but what does that actually mean well we're also hearing from. the secretary of state who had a phone call on thursday nights with the iraq you take a promise of love to the mahdi and he reiterated to the mahdi that they wanted to cooperate and the response from the rockies was very simple the drone strikes the troop presence is all dependent on whether the iraqis agree to it and at the moment they want you in american to actually leave now the mahdi has actually signed be told it's allow them to leave there's a lot of political machinations going on at the moment now indeed there was

supposed to be a parliamentary meeting today to discuss the u.s. troop withdrawal that has been canceled it just goes to show you there's still a lot of politics to be played out before any decision is made to actually ask the u.s. troops to leave iraq a emraan kaun for night thank you very much that's emraan khan bringing us all the latest from baghdad. now in taiwan opinion polls suggest incumbent president sign when is ahead so for challenger in saturday's elections it's time and he said been closely watching the crackdown on anti-government protesters in nearby hong kong scott heiler has more from taipei. early last year taiwan's president saw in whens political future was on shaky ground her popularity had slumped after a party performed poorly in regional elections she resigned as party chair with some advising her not to seek reelection but then came a lifeline from an unexpected source china giving her and her democratic

progressive party a new hope. to crackdown on the pro-democracy protesters at hong kong shifted the political rhetoric in taiwan many grew concerned about china's growing influence he says beijing ramped up pressure on the island and president sadat. the younger generation born into an autonomy and democratic taiwan see this election as about something much more than selecting leaders education a stand against china's one country 2 systems policy. this time this election is no action to choose which president or legislators but those so it's a action is an election to choose whether to and it's going to be a part of china or be independent country some see the election reaching through generations and the island at an existential crossroads it was about taiwan's policy toward china it is about our own bodies. the 1st political party of modern

taiwan woman tang or candy is led by hans well you he said the path to glory for taiwan is not just on cd the d.p.p. but warmer ties with china. the opposition came to says their approach to china has been about engagement that's because the economy here is so over law it's business intrigue with the mainland came to candidates will see. realistic faster its relationship less confrontational than the ruling. i think what's at stake today as we speak is more than just the socal and china or safeguarding democracy and sovereignty this is also a larger picture of what would taiwan be positioned economically in the years to come. so as the 19000000 eligible voters head to the polls are voting with the economy in mind or the future of the democracy here the result will carve the

political path for the next 4 years but also taiwan's position in the region for years to come scotland al-jazeera. has got a check on the weather with jenny knight jenny measurable here in doha has a look at north america has an adjustment has had some very heavy amounts are able to tell you how the probably nothing compared to what we can see across southern states in the united states look at all this cloud what is actually across the south of this is where the focus is going to be now this is today this is friday these storms are developing right now this mass of blue that you can say is indicating where the line of storms on in particular this line of yellow now we could be picking up as much as 135 bellamy to the rain into arkansas and missouri in the next 24 to 48 hours and there are all sorts of warnings in place as a system continues its journey fairly slowly eastwards that threat of thunderstorms will continue its way eastwards and at the moment we've actually got 50000000 people under some form of flood warning or flood advisory because we really will

see some tremendous amounts of rain with this what we call it is about warm air head of the system and very cold dry as behind so you might have notice the temperature drop dallas scotian 22 this friday to 8 celsius on saturday still very warm and it lands have as that band of rain and very warm as well ahead of that system up into washington d.c. and new york so by sunday so if you showers to clear towards the east so still not exactly. dr picture but to much is have come back up by that point to dallas and are beginning to go down to atlanta in georgia to look at these temperatures for new york city now bearing in mind these temperatures that moment are above average we've got 16 and suffer day about 18 on sunday still with a chance of those showers and then my monday it is a good dry sunny start to the workweek 9 celsius actually back close to the average and at least it should be dry but how as to say this if one assumes the warnings are in place and residents will really be taking heed of them. ok thank you jan a lot more still to come here on al-jazeera including more embarrassing leaks from

boeing 737 max. a royal crisis in the u.k. prince harry's wife meghan markle returns to canada after the couple to distance themselves from the royal family. and in sports the philadelphia 76 ers deverell boston's playoff chargers to state their own claims in the n.b.a.'s eastern conference. was the last time you were out on the streets protesting whether on line you feel the weight of the system when you walk through each and every lug will board layer further and further into the jail or if you join us once a week entry has to start from day one whether again you and attention or your own participants this is a dialogue everyone has a voice for the artist those that support our coverage will be varying accounts but

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aviation body says he's certain a ukrainian airliner which crashed and side teheran was not hit only in the south he says there was a fire on board the new york times has released video that appears to show at the moment a missile hit the plane. of the plane's flight recorders have been recovered but are damage from sars offer to help with the investigation and complete transparency . and india supreme court has ordered a review of the lockdown and indeed administered kashmir the governments must submit a report within a week the delhi revoked the beaches autonomy back in august. there have been bombings in northwestern syria just as a ceasefire was due to take effect syria's air force struck multiple targets in southern italy an area within the deescalation zone it had agreed with turkey at the provinces the country's last remaining rebel stronghold where more than 1300

civilians have been killed since the government launched its offensive to retake the area in 2018. well more than 100 civilians have been killed there since the government launched its offensive the violence been escalating in recent months you know the 300000 people have been displaced by russian backed government airstrikes since december children and women are the most affected at least 1755 years and children have been forced to flee and thousands of families urgently need humanitarian assistance aid agencies have provided food and money to more than 180000 people or tomorrow i'll say oh is covering the story for us from ankara we've had russia proposing a cease fire and it led was the turkish position here what's going on. well they've been desperately seeking a ceasefire for several weeks now or if not months saying that there needs to be

some sort of an agreement and calling on the countries that support the regime of bashar al assad to essentially reign in its military as well as their own and namely the russians who have been participating also in attacks on italy because the vast majority if not all of those who've been fleeing libya in recent months hundreds of thousands of civilians have been heading towards turkey there was some brief optimism may be were as people heard the russians announce on thursday that this ceasefire agreement had been reached however there was a bit of caution with that optimism because the turks on the other hand had been announced and think friday as we've seen and heard the heart of there been airstrikes have been shelling particularly in the area of moderate phenomenon. other suburban parts of it lip which went to show that maybe that announcement by the russians were either premature or may be nothing more than just some sort of politicking or at least some p.r.

from the their side and then on saturday we have now. the u.s. rather the u.s. envoy to syria james jeffrey in turkey on friday meeting with officials and then continuing his meetings into saturday before we hear of other developments taking place in terms of the foreign minister defense minister of turkey heading to moscow as well on monday so a lot of diplomatic movement a lot of announcements or at least statements being made but in terms of the reality on the ground still very dire indeed and in terms of the why it's a regional issue what does this supposed ceasefire mean. well this is the complexity of the middle east kind of crystallize through this specific small region inside syria whereby you have the.

different power plays essentially unfolding not just with regards to the syrian conflict but actually another conflict in another country which is libya because you have both russia and turkey supporting opposite sides in the syrian civil war and similarly doing the same in the libyan and what we understand is that the. difficulty in reaching some sort of a session in hostilities or a cease fire in syria was due to the fact that there was an insistence to try and find an agreement between russia and turkey not just on syria but also libya so there is as i mentioned some movement that's going to be taking place beginning of the week we understand monday the turkish foreign minister manouchehr with the defense minister who car as well as the head of intelligence a confidant will be heading to the russian capital to meet with their counterparts those discussions will continue and whether they're going to be able to find some

sort of agreement that will encompass both those conflicts where you see as ever regional power plays taking precedence over the suffering and the humanitarian crises that exist in both of those countries. live and uncorrupt thank you. russia and turkey have called for a cease fire in libya but that has been rejected by warlord who for half their forces have been trying to seize the capital tripoli from the un backed government and fighting has escalated in recent weeks as kathy lopez reports. libyan warlord khalifa hop star says the fighting will continue. a cease fire called by russia and turkey has been rejected and have tar's val to take control of the capital tripoli has been renewed by either the libyan arab forces will continue to target the enemy by iran land moving forward and spread its

control on your forces in all areas from the capital from the east of sirte to the outskirts of us rotter. international concern is now growing across the region haft are met with italy's prime minister to separate content roma hoping to stir support from the european union. then there is russia and turkey which support rivals on the ground ancora has begun deploying troops in support of the un recognized government and by turning down the cease fire half dark could be pushing away russia one of his main allies. fighting has escalated between half there's a libyan national army and the internationally recognized government in tripoli. attempts to take control of the capital have fallen short but have to arse forces have gained ground especially in the coastal city of sirte. libya is strategically important it has the largest oil reserves in africa the country's location along

the mediterranean coast has become a gateway for african migrants playing to europe. to asia as president sayed met with france's foreign minister to warn about the potential consequences of the conflict. i think they call legs beyond asians of all together with my european image upson colleagues we are highlighting the risks of an is school ocean in libya that's the does it with britain to destabilize the entire region from the market to the. leaders from the european union are banding together warning that libya could become a 2nd syria if a cease fire isn't to reach soon katia llopis with a yawn al-jazeera the political consultancy eurasia group has released its top global risks for 2020 and the top sources november's a us presidential election the group says no matter who wins it will be seen as rigs and illegitimates and competition between washington and beijing over trade

and technology is also likely to escalate as they seek more global influence the politics of economics attack and climate change are also set to collide this year and there is a high risk of social and political upheaval across latin america let's get more on this from ian bremmer he's the president and founder of the racial group joins us now from new york thank you so much for speaking to us here on al-jazeera we're only 10 days into 2020 and it's already been defined by heightened tensions urgent crises and it seems a strain leah is on fire so why is that iran and the crisis between iran and the united states is quite far down your list it only comes at number 7 or so. that's right actually number 8 and you know it's funny we put it out after. the tsunami has already been assassinated and i'll tell you i changed my new year's

resolution to try to talk people off the ledge that world war 3 was not imminent we thought the likelihood of major military confrontation breaking out between the u.s. and iran was actually quite low trump has no orientation to wag the dog he's much more interested in pulling troops out of the middle east he's much more interested in trying to get big deals done with rogue actors whether it's the iranians or the north koreans now that hasn't moved anywhere obviously with iran but he hadn't been showing any level of breadline the iranians of course aren't looking for either and when they got hit by the americans they deescalated very radically so you know i think that there was a big misread that even though the drum finally did take a direct step after you know the tankers were head in the saudi energy was taken out and then finally the baghdad embassy was was stormed and of course the base incur kook so that's very different from saying that we were on the precipice of the americans the iranians launching a regional war we never thought that was going to happen and that the e.u.

are currently all european countries are currently meeting in brussels to look for a way forward over this crisis they're still trying to piece this nuclear deal which the americans say that in sheets they day do you think the europeans are on a fool's errand here. you know the europeans like the fact that mccraw on a sort of one strong leading voice that can help to be an interlocutor with the iranians they also don't want to be seen as supporting the united states and the escalation that trump took against solo money so i don't think you're going to see a sudden blow up with the europeans saying ok we're done we're not going to try to continue to push to keep the deal alive in some way so i don't think they're ready yet to move for the display dispute resolution mechanism but clearly the iranians have said that they're going to take further steps to be themselves in breach of the nuclear deal since the americans pulled out you know laterally and have put

major sanctions on iran i suspect that between that and the downing of this civilian airliner and multiple countries now coming out and pointing the finger at the iranian government while the iranians are saying it absolutely wasn't us it's going to make it tougher for the europeans to stand just stand on the sidelines here and i do expect within the next couple of months you'll see the europeans move towards officially declaring they have to go towards that dispute resolution mechanism let's turn back to the big risks 2020 because we are only 10 days into this year and it does seem to be quite a pivot simple if it's a one number one on your risk poll with takes why is this just how pivotal is this presidential election. it's pivotal because it's becoming so diligent because the election is going to be broken i mean we the president of course as you know has been impeached by the house those articles of

impeachment will be sent over in short order to the senate he will be acquitted in the senate he'll then run again but he's running again despite the fact that he had abused power to try to convince the ukrainian government to launch a politicized events the geisha and against joe biden running against him that clip it's very clear that he's going to continue to use to the best of his ability the office of the presidency to benefit himself in this 2020 alexion and impeachment will have broken impeachment will no longer be a process to contain or constrain the president what that means that if it's a close outcome in 2020 you're going to see enormous numbers of people saying this was dealing because of x. channel intervention lack of election security people taken off the rolls and because of investigations and misuse of intelligence and trump will complain if he loses that it was rigged and the democrats will complain if they lose that it was

rigged and so i think for a period of weeks or months you're going to have something that feels a little bit like what we saw in the u.k. after the bricks and fote a feeling that it was illegitimate and an inability to govern on anything except just focusing on that outcome i think people don't understand just how dramatic that's likely to be as we move into november later this year ok ian bremmer great less i would love to chat to you more about this unfortunately we are out of time thank you so much for joining us here on out of his era. lots more still to come on the news hour including the sports and the former major league player fighting and i mean punishments for his bites and he will have. to.

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or all spokesman says the duchess of sussex meghan markle is now in canada to be with her infant son this fall as controversy in the u.k. after prince harry and his wife said they want to divide their time between the u.k. and north america but did not consult queen elizabeth about their plans john howell has more from london. it wasn't long ago that the american actress megan mark ober seen as injecting new life into britain's state royal family marrying prince harry 6 in line to the throne in 2018. but the mix of transatlantic glamour and royalty quickly turned toxic in the press with the duke and duchess of sussex

criticised project set lifestyle at taxpayer's expense and accusations in return against some newspapers of racism in an interview late last year meghan hinted that it might all be too much british man said to me. i'm sure he's going. to die because the british tabloids will destroy your life. there will be critics of the sussex his decision to go their own way becoming financially independent they say splitting their time between the u.k. and north america while retaining their royal status it's so they look for the outside world as though they're trying to have their cake and eat it they're trying to cash in on their celebrity status while maintaining that high a level which is royalty i don't think those 2 things can go hand in hand easily and the idea of using your royal title to make money is something which.

the british royal family has never ever entered into before. outside buckingham palace expressions of support and regret i think it's a shame that the family is now displaced 6 feet high and now a. fragment that contains she's come from a different background and he's come from a different background and they're trying to make it work for both families just trying to make the situation worth while the u.k. press carries the story on every front page the queen deeply upset we're told apparently she wasn't even consulted in advance of prince charles and harry's brother william in candace and with rage and this talk of civil war inside the royal family it's the sort of gossipy reporting that is so common and which harry and meghan seem to think will cease all reduce once they put a bit of distance between themselves and this institution but members of the royal family sometimes forget but the taxpaying public has a legitimate interest in their extravagant lifestyles harry's uncle andrew was

reminded of that in his disastrous televised attempt to excuse his friendship with a convicted paedophile harry and meghan meanwhile have already been removed from the royal wirksworth display at madame tussauds but there are likely to escape the media spotlight jonah hole al-jazeera london. it's time for the sport here's andy thank you hala when a fan of a joke of it helps serbia secure their place in the semifinals of the a.t.p. cup of the world a bit so he had to dig deep in his match with canada's tennis shapovalov the canadian winning the 1st set in a free fall encounter shuffle off a save a code violation to swearing at the crowd in sydney who were largely behind just the which recovers when the next 2 sets that helped his country to a 3 nil win in this tight serve your now take on russia for a place in some based. on m.a.r. cycle looks to be heading for my head of the 1st grand slam of the season i cycle

start the defense of her australian open title later this month and she's through to the last for the brisbane international the world number 3 beating katie there tends to move into the semi's or into title wins at the end of last year this was i saw his 14th straight victory. while athletes have been told to keep politics out of this year's tokyo olympics olympic bosses say any form of political religious or ethnic demonstration on the medals podium is forbidden the announcement preceded the opening ceremony of the winter youthful impacts in switzerland close to 2003 measure athletes are taking part in this 2 week event olympic president thomas back says he wants to protect his organizations neutral status. of the olympic games. to unite not to divide. we are the only round in the world which mainly through stude to go to the entire world to go over. there in

a peaceful competition. athletes that come from different backgrounds and different understandings and there are so many more athletes and olympic games that benefit from the solidarity principle. and if we can look at and try and get athletes to understand that when you're going to the olympic games you're going as a team and not as an individual well the reality is the olympics does have a history of political process of the 1968 mexico games u.s. princes tommie smith and john carlos raised their fists take a stand against racism in the united states in 19 i 6 unhappy at having to represent great britain irish high jumper pacer conaway for the golden heart all and forever flying after receiving his silver medal and the real 2016 at marathon silver medalist of the seller lisa crossed his wrists at the finish line to support protestors in his home country of ethiopia well sports rights just your way says despite the new rules some athletes will still find

a way to make their voices heard athletes are not being god because when they're talking to the media they can take it over the like it's simply that they're not allowed to needle on or put a fist stop like the the 2 did in 68. i mean of course there will always be issues around the olympics but i think it's quite a good thing for the i.o.c. to be saying this is the 1st of all a sport and we want to keep it that way you know if you want to protest about racism in america do it in america or do it at the american embassy don't do it in the midst of. the olympic games which really has no jurisdiction there the head coach of the united states men's soccer team says it was the wrong decision to postpone a training camp in cuts of the same or instead training in florida the squad cancelled the castle trip due to the quote developing situation in the region on thursday usa international city in your desk was allowed to leave i access training

camp in cats are saying he didn't feel comfortable. it was just a precaution and when you look back at it you know it was it was warranted now but i think when making the decision it was you know what's in the best interests of the players and you know we felt the need to change plans quickly made a lot of sense and we did so and now we're here with thankful for being. the boston celtics 103rd straight loss in the n.b.a. with the early season promise beginning to look a little bit shaky this one bitched out by the philadelphia 76 says you have to stop by a job and be sidelined indefinitely with injury just richardson filling in for the sixers with 29 points sort of hit by al horford who left boston just last summer rub salt in the wound of his old same of a jump shot lights on sixers beating the celtics 1998. 13 time ducker early champion stephan potter hansell has won stage 6 of this year's race this being held in saudi arabia the result puts the frenchman 3rd in the

standings behind defending champion nasser let's hear of cuts on race leader car science of spain that's 101 minutes 35 seconds ahead of science on friday is no rest day before the 7500 kilometer rice resumes on sunday. and the former major league baseball player from iran has been finding a few new uses for his bats and already ill tempered game in venezuela escalated to a whole new level when remeron was hit by a pitch there he struck out of the nearest targets on the benches cleared to join in the fights remeron one of 9 players. from the game in the end. ok that is i sports is looking for now thank you very much indeed andy but it runs out best new server to keep me here and i'll just share the packages after the short break if more of the very latest problems.

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. head of iran's civil aviation authority says the ukrainian airliner that crashed into on a wednesday was not shot down but video released by the new york times appears to show the moment the plane was hit by a missile. and how he'd seen and this is al jazeera life from doha also coming up india's top court orders an urgent review of the look tony kushner and says the internet ban in need to speed state is an abuse of power.