after. hundreds of protesters demand the closure of the u.k.'s embassy in tehran after iran excuses the british ambassador protests a painting in an illegal protest. meanwhile qatar is a mirror meets iran's leaders into iran calling on all parties to defuse tensions and saying dialogue is the only way forward. to watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters in doha i'm dead to you now bill gates also heads calls a meeting of its national security council after the death of the least 89 soldiers in a raid on their base and libya's u.n. recognized government on the war lords 24 have to agree to calls from both russia and turkey for a ceasefire. follow

we begin in iran where the government is dealing with the growing fallout over its initial failure to admit responsibility for the downing of for ukrainian airliner on wednesday hundreds of protesters gathered outside the u.k. embassy in tehran calling for the embassy to be closed iran's foreign ministry has summoned the british ambassador accusing him of attending protests against the government's initial response he's denied that it's a protests have been held across the country after the revolutionary guard said it mistakenly shot down the jet killing 176 people there a new parliament has denied a cover up with told the military to take precautions to avoid further disasters the recent crisis with the u.s. was prompted by the assassination of the iranian commander costumes today many in iraq. stars amir isn't a run in

a push to those tensions is the 1st leader it's a visit the iranian capital since soleimani was killed in a u.s. attack on january the 3rd. to walk has this visit comes as a very critical time in the region we've agreed that the only solution is to defuse skill ations among all posses and we've also agreed that dialogue and only dialogue is the only route to any solution to any crisis let's bring in joining us from toronto talk us through the significance of the visit of the qatari emir to iran. yes it's certainly important given the current climate in the region the timing is significant this is the 1st time the emir has visited iran that they requested the invitation of iranian president hassan rouhani who said earlier that. they held a closed door session meeting at the presidential palace in north and since then we

have seen pictures emerging from the meeting that took place between the qatari mir and iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei during this meeting the supreme leader expressed his opinion on the issues that are taking place in the region he stressed that the economic ties between iran and qatar need to strengthen and they need to catch up to the political relationship that the 2 countries have the supreme leader also said that the situation in this region is very turbulent it's unacceptable and that is because of the united states presence in the region he stressed that the only way to combat this is by strengthening the ties between the regional countries hinting of course that the fact that the is a large u.s. military presence in qatar and making it very clear that they are rainy and see that as unacceptable and domestically how is this playing out in terms of the diplomatic fallout from that downed ukrainian plane.

well there's been a chain reaction really because the iranians are very angry at their government for not coming forward straight away with what happened saying that they withheld the truth from the public for over 48 hours there was a gathering a vigil at a university in tehran on saturday where the british ambassador was in attendance and he was briefly arrested and released and he's been since summoned to the foreign ministry to answer about why he was there in the 1st place because the cording to the iranians it was that illegal gathering since then we've seen a number of people gather outside the british embassy in tehran demanding its closure and the expulsion of the british ambassador and just a few hours ago we've started to see people that are gathering at various other points in the city demanding accountability from the arabian authorities about

their role in the downing of this passenger plane there was a call for people to gather at various squares in capital in the capital tehran we've heard of reports of people trying to gather at freedom square but since then we are we understand that people have not been able to have not been allowed to gather as a result of this heavy security presence so this situation is very very tense all across the board anywhere you look at it domestically and regionally iran finds itself in a position that is very very difficult to maneuver out of and there visit by the emir of qatar is seen as a sign of a positive sign really a 1st step in another regional power trying to mediate to try and decrease the tensions at the moment also jabari thank you. well a short while ago the u.s. president donald trump weighed in on those protests in iran and in a tweet he said this to the leaders of iran do not kill your protesters thousands

have already been killed or imprisoned by you and the world is watching more importantly the usa is watching turn your internet back on and that reporters roam free stop the killing of your great iranian people mike hanna joining us from washington d.c. what are we to read into those tweets mike well in the last few minutes as being a retreat of that particular one this time in farsi just earlier president trump was treating both in english and then had a translation essentially what you are seeing here is the administration intent in the course of this day on painting and reigning in a country in chaos facing immense internal dissent internally and of course also facing economic sanction and individual sanction externally principally from the united states so throughout the sunday talk shows members of the trumpet ministration have been attempting to ram home this point that the iranian government is facing internal seeds as well as external in the hope that it would

appear that the regime itself will collapse from the inside the obviously very much a coordinated strategy we've seen precisely the same point being made by all members of the trumpet ministration including of course the president himself tweeting from the white house here and speaking of these sunday talk shows the defense secretary has been making the rounds and he's been talking about iran what asper have to say. well one interesting point is that the secretary of defense was not able to back up or confirm completely his president's comment that 4 embassies were imminent attack this is a specific number given by president which nobody else appears to have hold of the secretary of defense saying in the interview that he had no knowledge of a specific number though going on to say in defense of his president that of course

embassies would be a principal target of what was still defined as an imminent attack the same thing was echoed by the national security adviser also saying that he had no knowledge of a specific number of 4 but once again repeating what the secretary of defense said that actually embassies were a prime target and also reiterating the administration's view that the attack was imminent but despite all of this despite the sanctions the secretary of defense insists to that the president is willing to talk regardless of preconditions. well it is still the legitimate government if you will of iran and what we've said i've said publicly the president certainly has said is we will meet with them we're going to sit down discuss without precondition a new way forward a a series of steps by which iran becomes a more normal country it must be stated that iran has made very clear they can't be dialogue of any form unless the u.s. eases or obliterates the sanctions that it's imposed repeatedly in recent months

interestingly enough the sign off republican the. difference the senator one of the senators appearing on the talk shows mike lee making very clear that he was dissatisfied with the trumps inability to administration's inability to provide reasons for the action in iraq saying that he is completely dissatisfied with the classified briefing that was being received by members of congress saying too that at no stage in that classified briefing was the mention of 4 specific embassies made once again contradicting what president trump has repeated in the past a few hours all right mike hanna thank you. at least 8 rockets have been have hit in iraq a military base that houses u.s. and coalition forces the rockets reportedly fell on the runway of balad air base that's north of baghdad for more on this assignment in john major's joining us from

baghdad what more you are you learning about. where these rockets have been on to the ball at their base it's almost half a dozen attacks since the killing of possums their money and the alert that iraqi as well as schoolish and forces have been on according to details by the iraqi security forces for people for iraqi soldiers rather have been wounded including 2 offices this was an attack that no one has claimed responsibility and like many others that have happened since the killing of the monied rockets have been landing in baghdad in bases which are iraqi bases being used by coalition we've heard from the highest to xabi the popular mobilization forces saying that they will claim if the attack previously when they were blamed for accused of carrying out these attacks but we've also heard from other groups which are roughly linked or backed by iran saying that the revenge for costumes for their money is not over the

missile strikes that we saw by iran were just the beginning so far we have not had any claim of responsibility but the car iraqi security forces remain on high alert and it is also worth noting that after the security situation calmed down in the last 48 hours or so the protest movement since friday has seems to have picked up and there have been a number of protests in baghdad and other cities and there have been clashes as well where activists are saying that government. without revealing their identities have been trying to push them out of the camps where they have been protesting for the last few months against not just the influence of the united states but also iranian influence in their country ok osama bin jarvey thank you. tunisia where the government sources told al-jazeera of the death toll from thursday's attack on an army base has now risen to at least $89.00 no one has claimed responsibility nicolette gave charles more. this is the cost of

a conflict that most of the world knows nothing about. 89 body bags soldiers from me killed in an attack at an army base in china go draw close to the border with mali no one has yet claimed responsibility but a number of groups are active here and violence across west africa's soho region has been increasing last month 71 soldiers were killed in an attack meanwhile she is border with mali and became a fast so some believe the conflict in libya is worsening problems across the region after the collapse of the libyan state. after the world not to say that by france that in libya that's way that's when all the problems in this house because they came with. the static to attack countries like molly michel booking the fast so. those countries are too poor to face. the terrorist who are

fighting them. a national security meeting will be held in nigeria to work out how to fight groups including us all and french president emmanuel macron is expected to host leaders from the region on monday with most likely discussed the future of france's military presence in the city hill we need to have a military answer because we need to where educate those jihadists. also but it won't be enough because we need to bring also social and the humanitarian cost is also rising the u.n. estimates half a $1000000.00 people have been displaced in the region because of the violence nicolas cage al jazeera there's been a surge in violence right across the region the number of people killed in attacks and burkina faso mali a new job from 770 in 2006. to more than 4000 last year and it's

largely because of a combination of attacks by armed groups and into communal violence remote areas where the state's presence is weak are especially vulnerable the humanitarian costs is also growing the u.n. estimates half a 1000000 people have been displaced a 10 fold increase in 3 years. in 2 countries ravaged by war 2 separate cease fire agreements are now in effect warring sides in syria and libya have agreed to put down their arms after negotiations brokered by russia and turkey the 2 countries support opposing sides in each conflicts. syria in a moment but 1st libya that's where warlords 24 have to out had initially rejected calls for a ceasefire. in tripoli and he says there's already been some reports of violations . it's now quiet in the front lines as we're getting reports from military

commanders on the ground it's now quiet compared to last night but despite that the government has reported that it has dick documented violations by half to us forces overnight and this morning and also overnight only a few minutes after the spokesman of have to announce said that they are putting the cease fire in place also we spoke earlier today to civilians eyewitnesses locals in ains our neighborhood they said that have to the forces also opened fire randomly in the area this morning but the government is written rating that it's not going to stay silent in front of any violations by have to force as a member of stand the government has been repeating that half the us forces pulling out of southern tripoli is a prerequisite for the government for the government to proceed in any settlement

to this conflict there are also been reports of some skirmishes in syria's illit province where another ceasefire agreement has in place top the pause and fading will allow desperately needed aid into the region as damasio reports from the turkish capital ankara. aside from the fact of people fearing to be essentially bombed out of the skies by the regime of bashar al assad than even by russian warplanes there is a dire humanitarian situation which is a consequence of 78 years of war that continues to plague all this is ins and civilians of syria in terms of how likely it is to hold this is the umpteenth time that some sort of ceasefire agreement has been reached and what is different maybe from with regards to syria is of libya is that there is no where near a nice form of equilibrium between the military powers you have armed rebel groups that are now or only in control of this. province the the the region of it and you

have on the other side of the syrian army you have iranian backed militia you have the russian military which are essentially used all of their mights and firepower to corner those rebel groups or what's left of them in this small area and essentially has been pounding them for months if not for the past best part of years now what's interesting very quickly is that in the past 24 hours the russians have set up checkpoints on the entrances and exits of it live they say to allow for citizens or civilians to leave it live the question is why would they do that if there is a ceasefire which people expect to last the skeptics or cynics would say it is an attempt maybe to filter out as many civilians as they can before the fighting resumes once more still ahead on al-jazeera flights are cancelled down schools are closed as thousands of people flee a volcanic eruption in the philippines and 10 years on from the devastating

earthquake the government of haiti faces anger over food shortages and allegations of corruption. well it rained heavily yesterday in dubai abu dhabi and then in amman is that thing on its way it doesn't look very much but the result was quite dramatic this is dubai you know lightning strike and of course the amount of rain that fell produce pretty widespread flooding somebody reported $257.00 millimeters that seems a little bit excessive but it was that sort of order it's falling heavily and quickly well it's no longer there we got this far and it's been a fairly chilly start i have to say in dire harwell temperatures slowly rising because the tends to die slowly of a days like $21.00 c. for costa to say riyadh still 16 and dubai's about 20 asked pretty typical on the

low side of typical for this time the year there is cloud but it's quite high cloud running across the sahara so don't expect much from it a little bit or a might be possible in libya the breeze the standard breeze the northeast is running across sudan all the way west through the beyond and that's a dusty breeze not especially strong moment in northern libya that circulation which formed in eastern tennessee is moving eastwards that's going to be a wet period i suspect to tropical after a few showers in kenya but the concentration of rain is tom the it's a bit further sasnett still there angola namibia and eastwards. in a 2 part series. observes the lives of 2 children. over 20 years. insights into circumstances that shape

lives. in a rapidly changing. 20 years it. starts with blood and land to story on how to 0. the. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera qatar is amir is calling for a dialogue to diffuse regional tension and what he called a critical time iran's government is facing growing anger over its initial failure to admit responsibility for the downing of the ukrainian airliner on wednesday. at least 8 rockets have hit and walk a military base that houses u.s.

and coalition forces the rockets reportedly fell on the runway of balad air base north of baghdad 4 iraqi soldiers including 2 officers were injured in the attack. and government sources told us just 0 that the death toll from thursday's attack on an army base has risen to at least $89.00 it happened close to the border with mali no one has claimed responsibility. haiti's paying tribute to the victims of the devastating 2010 earthquake that killed at least 300000 people president governor moyes attended the official memorial service at the site of a mass grave for victims he left the ceremony after a small group of protesters arrived a decade after the quake there has been little progress in rebuilding and there are ongoing protests over food shortages and governments corruption to raise about was at the memorial service and saying christophe and brings us the latest. there is a very sad mood here when you talk to people and they remember what happened in

this country 10 years ago here in san christophe people were witnesses of how thousands and thousands of bodies were brought here in trucks and where buried in a mass grave right where we are right now this is the place where thousands of people continue to come to lay flowers because they don't know where their loved ones are buried so this is the place where president maurice came to the morial service to honor those who died during the earthquake to serve when he was very very short about 20 people showed up here to protest against his government demanding his resignation accusing him of corruption past few months have been very very tense here in egypt thousands of people have been taking to the streets demanding noises resignation haiti right now is in the middle of a humanitarian crisis there is united nations is saying back to malnutrition is going to increase among the population here so obviously there's a lot of anger on the streets that's what we've been seeing so far but this is

a day of mourning it's a sad day for most haitians and it's a day also for the haitian government but also for members of the international community to think what went wrong in this past year since the earthquake struck this country and devastated leaving over a 1000000 people without a home and killing at least 300000 people in the philippines all slides out of manila as international airport has been suspended as all 40 is warn a large volcanic eruption could be imminent. in the leaves on the region as about 100 kilometers south of the capital and shooting asked one kilometer into the sky much of it falling on nearby communities thousands of people have been told to leave their homes. and has more on the emergency efforts underway. alert level 4 by government standers means that an imminent hazardous eruption is to take place within the next few hours or days and it's something that according

to government officials the public needs to understand they had taken the disease ssion of canceling and spawning all flights flying in and out of manila d.c. because of the asked for which is they say planes are unable to detect while up in the air so this is why they said they have also detected that the runway in manila are also now covered with ash there are 3 very critical areas that are now being the focus of the evacuation terrain and that is on the 3 communities right at the low lying part of the volcano the volcano sits on an eye on an island in the leak in a very popular tourist destination here in manila and so this has been the per your t. they said they were able to evacuate at least $6000.00 people it doesn't specify whether those people come from this area but there is the 14 kilometer range now that the

philippine government has identified they see those living within the 14 kilometer range of the volcano needs to be evacuated right away so the next few hours are critical they say with alert level for the hope that we'll see at this point but they're asking everyone to stay indoors world leaders have travel to oman to meet its new sultan high from been taught it can saeed he's met with britain's prince charles as well as iran's foreign minister on kuwait's emir the sultan was sworn in on saucer day after the death of his long office cousin the long time ruler. decides the new leader has promised to uphold his predecessor's approach some described as a regional peacemaker and earlier stand ground spoke to stephanie tucker who's in the omani capital she says so tom thumb has vowed to uphold his predecessor's by a 6. this is been very well received it has appeased those concerns but again as many people i've been speaking to here will tell you that it's now going to be the

question will be moving forward if there are cracks they're going to show in the months in the years to come he's going to have to deal with a lot of complexities here on the ground static canonically this this is a country that has a debt issue it has a it has an employment issue and also internationally can they can stay neutral when their leader here will be under pressure for neighbors to fall in line with their foreign policy rather than keeping what's been a very neutral stance but of course you must remember that the country is in a 3 day mourning period for ordinary people bit about how the rubble to express their respect for the former liberal the the light leader express in general that they mourning for someone that they knew was the only leader inside yes and he's seen very much as a father figure he was loved by i think it's safe to say the absolute majority of this country omanis and experts alike and this is a man who ruled absolutely this is not a democracy he did have

a lot of power he was the prime minister the minister of defense and chief of the armed forces but they adored him and many people describe him as you say as a father figure so there's been sorrow there's been sadness but other people saying that he had been rooting for 50 years you had been sick he had really retracted from public life over the last couple of years just occasionally appearing on television or making a statement thailand has seen its biggest political protest in years in the form of what activists are calling a run against dictatorship there harding has won the group wanting the prime minister to step down. this is no ordinary jog around the park it's a political loophole. in thailand protests need approval by the government running events do not. an estimated. $13000.00 ties to skies as runners say they are fed up with the government of prime minister prior to the channel and want

him to step down at the bottom level i want to tell the government that the people don't want you any longer you have been in power for so long but you can't solve any of the country's problems it is getting more and more difficult for grassroots people to make a living. this was the biggest show of dissent against the government since prior you assumed office after the 2014 military coup he held on to power after elections last year with support from an army appointed senate. this run protest follows a rally last month staged by fena thorn is wrong room gronk it the leader of the progressive future forward party who has emerged as the most outspoken opponent of thailand's new civilian government. he was charged on friday for breaching a law on public assembly and his party faces dissolution i want to be part of the he story i think the 1st step in order to bring about a democrat i say is that general but you have to get out that is the 1st step that

would allow that would all but dawes buddha process all of. that in. sunday's event was called run to oust the uncle and an apparent reference to pry its nickname of uncle to. it prompted a rival but smaller walk to cheer the uncle event held in another park which was attended by thousands of older thais right supporters say his leadership has brought stability and security. i have to get all my friends everyone to come in some point my promise but i know you could do it happen later today i just flew from new york to tell me it will support. this 3 finger salute made famous by the hollywood blockbuster film the hunger games is banned in thailand it's used here to . resistance against the 2014 military q. with fingers held high these jogging

protesters are running out of patience. al-jazeera. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera qatar's emir is calling for a dialogue between the u.s. and iran to diffuse regional tension it comes as iran's government faces growing anger over its initial failure to admit responsibility for the downing of ukrainian airliner on wednesday. this visit comes as a very critical time in the region we've agreed that the only solution is to diffuse escalations among us and we've also agreed that dialogue and dialogue is the only route to any solution to any crisis at least 8 rockets have hit in iraq a military base that houses u.s. and coalition forces the rockets reportedly fell on the runway of balad air base north of baghdad's 4 iraqi soldiers including 2 officers were injured in the attack

there's been no claim of responsibility. government sources told the death toll from thursday's attack on an army base has risen to at least $89.00 it happened close to the border with mali and jerry's defense minister says a national security council meeting will now take place on sunday. a cease fire has come into effect in libya after warlords kind of have to agree to the truce just hours before it was due to starts the pause in fighting was brokered by the leaders of russia and turkey who support opposing sides in the conflict another agreement between moscow and ankara has led to a ceasefire in that province the last rebel held territory in syria violence have been escalating there since russian backed government forces launched an offensive to retake it in december. president attended a memorial service for the victims of the 2010 earthquake at least 300000 people were killed and a decade after the quake there has been little progress in rebuilding and there are

ongoing protests over food shortages and governments corruption. in the philippines all flights out of manila as international airport have been suspended as all sorties warn a large will conic eruption could be imminent the. region is about 100 kilometers south of the capital and is shooting ash into the sky thousands of people have been told to leave their homes world leaders have traveled to. his promise to uphold his predecessor's approach as a regional peacemaker those are the headlines inside story is coming up next.

a landslide victory for taiwan was cruelly independent president and a firm no to china's plan to take back the island dupont's controlled so how might they respond to spying when the emphatic when and how far is the u.s. prepared to go to defend its ally this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm off this taiwan has chosen to reject krista ties with china president sighing when who favors independence one of the most folks in the islands history to secure a 2nd term that was just a year ago that a policy suffered major.