just iraq. al jazeera. hello honorine taylor this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. a standoff in sudan's capital shots are fired as former members of a powerful security service protest against their severance pay. european signatories to the iran nuclear deal triggered a dispute to pressure tehran into returning to full compliance. talks in russia to finalize a cease fire in libya but a key player there warlord khalifa haftar leaves without signing up. and calls for

a 1000000 people to be evacuated in the philippines as action lava gush from the tile volcano. and arpita same as in doha with all the support of the bushfire crisis affects the australian tennis open one player having to pull out of a qualifying match with breathing problems a smoke lingers over the practice courts in melbourne. tensions remain high in the sudanese capital after a standoff between members of the now disbanded intelligence force and the military sudanese soldiers have been deployed to block roads and contain the violence in khartoum the country's airspace was also closed for 5 hours as a precautionary measure earlier in a televised statement she dons information minister said members of the disbanded unit were angry at the terms they'd been offered on their dismissal more they're

set to go to heaven morgan who's in khartoum what's happening now is it under control. well the situation that has started this morning in the sudanese capital khartoum is very much still evolving and underway with heard from the sudanese military al jazeera spoke to the sudanese military spokesperson and he said that some of the units some of the headquarters of the general intelligence service where they've seen the operations unit members shooting at the armed forces have been conned taken under control by the armed forces so in the southern part of the capital to win the place called sober the army said that they've already taken over the base but in the northern part of the to him there's still gun fires that could be heard was spoken to some residents in the neighborhood of 40 which is in the northern part of the capital and this saying that they can still hear gunfire and that they can send

that message to the security situation is still very tense now let's go back to how they started it started a few months ago when the then military council which ousted former president almost bashir ordered the disbanding and the dissolution of the operations units in the general intelligence service that's a unit that is armed and they've given them the option of either joining the military or the rapid support forces or retiring most of the officers have chosen to retire but now they're saying that this severance pay or package that they've been offered is not what they were promised and that they are dissatisfied with that so we've seen lots of tension in the air and we've heard from the from the government saying that those who've been opening fire since morning should put down their guns we've also heard from the deputy head of the military council general mohammed i'm done there's no who has accused the former head of the general intelligence service of being behind the chaos and he's saying that they trying to plant the seeds and so the seeds for future for for for the chaos in the country if i'm morgan thank you very much indeed. britain france and germany say the north

shing a dispute mechanism under the 2015 iranian nuclear deal after accusing tehran of repeated violations meanwhile iran's judiciary has confirmed that a number of people have been arrested in connection with the downing of a ukrainian airliner 176 people died when the military mistakenly shot down a passenger jet last week dosage of ari reports from tehran 5 days after the shooting down of the craney an airliner and the killing of all $176.00 on board the 1st sign of a rainy and accountability act in the weekly briefing by iraq judiciary which was also the 1st media conference since the disaster confirmation of the 1st arrests but no details on who they are and you are you most. of us investigation is on their way and many people have been questioned and some people have been arrested the investigation is still ongoing president hassan rouhani is describing the

downing of that boeing 737 as an unforgivable error it happened while iranian air defenses were on alert soon after the firing of a barrage of missiles at a u.s. base in iraq was. the iranian leadership has faced 3 days of protests for denying involvement in the airliner attack as international pressure grew the revolutionary guard eventually admitted on saturday that the jet was shot down by mistake. rouhani says anyone responsible will be punished but no single person could be planed odyssey. this incident was without precedent in the history of our country there has never been a time when a person in charge of our air defense systems or an officer has committed such an error against a passenger plane in the country's capital and so close to the international airport munns them know how well sympathizing with all the dear families that were hit by this major tragedy i tell them that we will continue this path until

discovering all the aspects of the incident and punishing those involved ronnie's also dealing with another problem 3 european countries have triggered a dispute process which could mean more sanctions britain france and germany say the iranians aren't complying with their commitment to the 2015 nuclear agreement to limit its nuclear development the european signatories to the deal have been pressured to abandon it since the united states withdrew in may of 2018 then reimpose sanctions to damage iran's oil dependent economy the european say triggering their dispute is not aimed at reimposing un sanctions game of these mechanism used to resolve issues relating to the implementation of the agreement within defray were for the joint commission. i think it's has to be clear that it checked if it is there for to find solution and return the full

compliance rescinded framework of these agreements. iran announced its latest step to cutting its commitment to the deal by lifting restrictions on uranium enrichment earlier this month the latest nuclear announcement won't do anything to ease the high tensions between iran and the united states following the u.s. assassination of the head of iran's quds force a simple a money back that 2 weeks ago iran has warned it will force all u.s. troops out of the middle. at all costs iran's foreign ministry says it will have a firm and serious response to any destructive measures taken by the remaining signatories of the deal iran finds itself yet again on the defensive trying to find a solution between the disputes it has with the remaining signatories of the g c p o a because the alternative could have far reaching ramifications throughout the middle east dorset a pari al-jazeera tower on. libya's fragile cease fire is in doubt after warring

sides failed to reach a breakthrough during a child of talks in the russian capital all of honey for have turned to not sign a deal formalizing the truce but moscow says the talks are not dead they have also been reports of have to us forces gathering in southern tripoli threatening the truce brokered by turkey and russia over the weekend the turkish president about one is accused have to running away from negotiations. in the coming days we will carefully monitor the choices that will be made between hafter and the legitimate government if attacks against the people of the government of libya continue we will never refrain from teaching him the lesson he deserves. that bastion is in moscow she says there's still a lot of optimism that have to will agree to a deal. after staying silent for most of the day the government didn't explain anything about why you have to suddenly laughed moscow and didn't sign the agreement he left apparently in the early hours in the middle of the night now they

have. a statement the ministry of defense says that it's actually very positive about the final statement that they have been drafting and that he needs 2 days to discuss this with his allies in libya meaning the local tribal leaders they also say that the main outcome of the talks yesterday that lasted 8 hours is that both parties agree on this in different cease fire so there's a lot of optimism here that this cease fire will still be signed by the by i have to are also i spoke to the head of the russian contact group for libya and he also had the same optimism he sat at the end after suddenly brought more conditions to the to the table he was actually present during the negotiations but he said it's no problem there's no need to be worried that he will do that not only sign this agreement because he has no other option that was the very clear message that i got

here from the ministry of foreign affairs we'll have to see if this is going to happen in the next 2 days. joining me here in the studio is jimmy limited over global affairs analyst and research assistant at the u.k. think tank henry jackson society thanks for coming in structures so that message from the russians that still confident that have to will sign a deal to do that is likely i think it's quite a difficult deal it's not going to be easy because just because you know how many powers are involved it's not going to be easy and i think that in germany and burley next week we're going to see more. explain just a little bit more about the role of russia in libya and what their kind of influence is with after well the russian presence there was quite historical in interest as well as you know russians have energy interests there so it's quite possible that they want to secure more energy deals and energy contracts which actually happened a few years ago already so what that's one of the main interests of russia but i think secondly just because russia is trying to position itself as

a global power now it tries to present itself to its own population especially reading more putin as someone who can bring peace to the region who can be a peace broker that's why he's doing what he's doing he's not just trying to secure peace in the middle east and a secure energy contracts but he's also trying to present himself us someone who could broker peace in the eyes of his own population so basically the number of domestic support as well what about the link i mean clearly if you would make the link between what's going on in syria and what's happening in libya how much is it the case that people are making concessions or that concessions are being kind of forced for syria. to do with what's going on in libya is it do you think those 2 are quite linked that's a good point i think that definitely both russia and turkey and volved to both countries for the same reasons that i think whatever is happening in syria has

a direct impact on russia turkey kind of a corporation or confrontation if you will. still have to see what's going to happen there but i totally agree 2 situations are very much related. to who should not exclude exclude you on either on what happened in iran as well so. that that's a good point i would definitely view both countries as a playground for major powers and you i mean do you think that russia managed to get the upper hand in a way with staging that summit in spite of that have to actually hasn't signed the deal in the end you think that they diplomatically have kind of. i think said and i think that russians are not only talking to general have tara but also to the to a different side and i think they succeeded diplomatically and let's see what will come out of this you mention what's happening in berlin was going to be who's going to be there and why they have an interest in ones in libya well definitely obama

was one of the 1st leaders who accepted the invitation again clearly you know the reasons but also put a shawl without a do or pin leaders will be there as well for example president ma crone has been quite active in trying to resolve this issue so it's going to be an interesting debate but i'm not sure how successful the negotiations turned out to be because again it's not an easy issue the conflict has been going on for almost a year now. and i think everyone is trying to everyone is trying to see. just to check one another specific and see what's going to happen in libya now and where you are and whether. you know things can be pushed forward let's say in syria to the what you think is new about this i mean we've had ceasefire in new truces in the past and then and then things have got bad again in libya what is new this time that would is likely to make a difference well i think the russians are definitely trying to bring the europeans

. to the table they're trying to make you a more active in the. crisis in the middle east it's not again i don't just mean libya here i think we're talking about syria we're talking about iran's the russians would want europeans be more involved in the crisis there again perhaps pushing their own agenda which is obviously not. necessarily correspond to what americans would want to see there and that will be a very interesting dynamic to watch where the europeans would follow the american stance on but they are wrong or syria or libya or they would pick a different position but i have to say that europe itself is quite divided again not on libya but in many other issues and it would be interesting to see there that whether europeans themselves would be able to come to any kind of conclusion germany a moment over thank you very much indeed thank you all and good. and more to come

in this news hour including washington gears up for the start of u.s. president donald trump's impeachment trial which could begin next week. revolution returns why protesters in lebanon have declared a week of anger. a new man in charge of spanish football champions barcelona gets down to work peter has the details. scientists urging the total evacuation of nearly a 1000000 people living close to the erupting tower volcano south of the philippines capital manila because of the geography of the area experts have warned that a volcanic tsunami could happen when the force from a violent underwater eruption causes destructive waves in an explosive eruption magma violently spews out instead of losing out or this along with heavy ash and

tremors has already caused mass evacuations but it's been dormant for 40 years teil has erupted 33 times since 1572 in 1011 an eruption killed more than 1300 people. tens of thousands have already fled their homes and ash and lava started spewing the volcano on sunday as jarrett underground reports tremors are also being felt elsewhere in bhutan this province. hardly any civilian is allowed to enter the town of a good seal here now. and it is clear why. i . was. 8. we say there's just

a massive earthquake and the police officers will have to leave on their station we were just here a few moments ago hoping to embed with them but now we really really have to i don't think i'm going. to calling this area ground 0. is just around 10 kilometers away from the top that erupted on sunday spewing ash just and. we've been told that water in this lake has gone up by a meter raising fears that it might spill over its banks hampering efforts to help those in need. of them in other hosts like the situation is so well at this it is hard for us but the secure our own men this is why we don't allow most to billionths the return violent explosions like these haven't been seen here in

decades and experts warn there could be more. more than 20000 people have been displaced moved to at least 100 evacuation sites and it's not clear when they might return but some have decided to stay let them indoors a clan during the day they look after their cattle and whatever's left of their homes and that night they go back to the evacuation site. our report don't of course but we also look after our new months and do our best to see the 6 first time when i mean i never thought you will be to see today it is really scary and we are afraid just a few days ago a good seal was a thriving agricultural town now people here say it's as if their lives have been put on hold and they're full of a good knee and distress jamelle are

a little dog and al-jazeera a good c.e.o. but then this province northern philippines. protests in lebanon's capital have turned violent with security forces using tear gas to disperse crowds outside the country's central bank demonstrators have regrouped and returned to the capital in what they call a week of anger under the slogan the revolution is coming back protesters smashed windows in what's seen as a symbolic assault on the country's financial institutions after months of anti-government protests anger remains at corruption and falling living standards to reports from the lebanese capital. protesters are back in the streets blocking roads across lebanon they're trying to revive the momentum of a leaderless uprising against the political class that began almost 4 months ago demonstrations haven't stopped since but they have been getting smaller deliveries army has been a little bit and lebanese forces has been a little bit aggressive you know in trying to. distinguish this this

revolution and this uprising and we have we cannot talk anymore to the political system and to this regime because they have not heard us not heard what we are saying for the past 90 days demonstrators say the governing elite has ignored their calls for change and are fighting amongst themselves for see to the next cabinet and set of dealing with the near economic collapse who are all here today with our friends my cousin. all together ok we don't have all the rights in this country we pay what we don't have they give we pay 2 bills for electricity and we don't have electricity from 30 years we need water. many lebanese accuse those who have been in power for 3 decades of mismanagement and corruption. oh week of anger that's how protesters are calling their latest action against the ruling authorities they say their message is clear we haven't given up

and we aren't going away protesters march towards the home of prime minister designate has to protest against the delay in forming a government in the pendant of political parties it seems that cabinet line up fulfills that demand but it is believed he's no longer wanted by the ruling alliance that appointed him. there was a misunderstanding from the start the political parties were never going to agree to a purely technocrat government that is not realistic they weren't going to give up power is especially in light of regional developments anger is growing so is inflation the local currency is devaluing public and health services are failing. is just the victim. with a government. as the saying goes protesters have been waiting to see if government or the political parties can actually produce something they have

faith scenes from the early days of the uprising may have returned but these protesters say this was always going to be a hard battle to win yet they are determined to stay on the front lines so out of. beirut but israel as president has invited international organizations to observe how the country elected its national assembly pro-government supporters who have gathered in the capital in support of nicolas maduro who's given his annual state of the union speech his comments are in reference to an ongoing feud between him and opposition. just over a week ago the government forcibly installed its preferred candidate as speaker of the national assembly instead of who was blocked from entering parliament. i mean. we invite the european union the united nations the african union and all the organizations the community of latin american states and all world organizations come see how the people of venezuela chose their national assembly

this year the doors are open to the international community welcome welcome come and see. us senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says the impeachment trial of president donald trump is likely to begin next tuesday the republican leaders said the swearing in of senators for the trial could start this week he said there was little to no sentiment among his party senators to move to dismiss the articles of impeachment without hearing arguments. yesterday pratik lead us house of representatives will vote on a resolution to name the teen of impeachment managers but donald trump said a trial on wednesday the house impeached last month of charges of abuse of power and obstructing congress democratic congressman akin jeffries hinted at a strategy his party will pursue when it presents its case against trump in the senate. we're going to keep the focus. on the stunning

corrupt abuse of power engaged in by donna. pressure the foreign government to target an american citizen for political gain. at the same time withheld without justification $391000000.00 in military aid to a vulnerable crame as part of a geo political shakedown scheme who was good about it how he joins us from cattle capitol hill patty how close are we now to knowing whether or not witnesses will be called in this at trial. well now we're just days away if you think about it it's been 4 weeks to the day tomorrow that the house voted to impeach the president and us president donald trump so now it's going to start moving very quickly so you might be asking why did nancy pelosi the house speaker make that delay well it could be a couple of reasons it was the christmas holiday and most americans simply turn off the t.v. newspapers this will get the country's attention also we've seen in that for weeks

that the president's former national security advisor john bolton came out and said if he was subpoenaed he would testify before the senate that could be a game changer because mitch mcconnell the republican leader of the senate he is in charge of the senate he has said basically we need to have a quick trial we don't really need to call witnesses and he flat out said on television on camera on live t.v. he really doesn't think it's even possible the trump will be removed from office by the senate because republicans have the majority it would take 20 republican senators to vote the president out of the white house so that said it's not really up to mitch mcconnell the way this works is democrats are going to be lobbying over the next couple of days they just need 4 republican senators to say no you know what i would do what i hear from. the acting chief of staff at the white house so right now the pressure is we're starting to get some indications from a couple members of the republican senate that they might actually say yes i want

to hear actual testimony in which case all of the predictions about how this is going to turn out well that is really going to become incredibly intense here on capitol hill and patty how much difference it is going to make in terms of the republicans or the democrats in the way people vote in 2020 people really link to the to what happens in the senate. it really depends on what comes out if they see this as a fair trial and one of the things that the democrats did by this delay is you've seen the polls go increasing up and up and up. more americans saying yeah i want to hear from witnesses i want to see the evidence that means even like 40 percent of republicans say that and the vast majority of democrats and more importantly the vast majority of independents say that so the republicans who are up for reelection in the senate they could face some pushback if those voters feel like they didn't get a fair trial if they didn't get to hear the evidence and they are weighing that so

for each individual senator they're looking at their reelection campaign for example mitch mcconnell donald trump his huge support his home state of kentucky so he is going to be very careful not to anger those voters who think this impeachment is but the president says a witch hunt and needs to be dismissed but at the same time to try and rein go all of these different senators some are up for reelection for another 4 years and some are in really tough races so that's really who we're watching there is really about 5 or 6 senators one of them is retiring who could really complete loose change the dynamic because again we don't know what these the testimony would be but john bolton has made it clear through the tourney's that he has 1st hand evidence that the public doesn't know about yet remember we believe that there are 3 different conversations with the world leaders in that so-called safe that they moved the ukraine transcript to there's one with the leader of saudi arabia crown prince mohammed bin and one with latimer putin of russia so john bolton had

a front row seat to all of it and he apparently reportedly said that he didn't want any thing to do with what was happening ukraine he called it a drug deal so this could get very interesting very fast thank you very much indeed . u.k. prime minister boris johnson has not ruled out using chinese communications for huawei to provide the country's 5 g. network despite strong warnings from washington the u.s. says the company is linked to the chinese state and its technology can be used for spying and the u.k. will make its decision this month any barker reports from london. has been called a technological cold war over the future of 5 g. the u.s. has been piling pressure on the u.k. and other allies not to use chinese communications company while way over alleged spying risks on monday u.s. officials issue the british government with a dossier of dangers the debate with dividing the so-called 5 eyes and intelligence

alliance between the u.s. u.k. canada australia new zealand washington's warned it would reassess sharing information with the u.k.'s intelligence services if britain gives while away the go ahead the government will give a final decision later in january prime minister boys johnson said while ways critics need to suggest other options if people oppose one brand or not then they have to tell us which is the what's the alternative. on the other hand let's be let's be clear i don't want is a u.k. prime minister to put in any infrastructure that is going to prejudice our national security. there are big companies like nakia and erickson who are well established in fairness they haven't always kept up with the pace of speed with power in terms of the price they chrisman the quality equipment and the size of the equipment we also got something emerging but i think the best solution really for the network operators have a mixed base the suppliers 5 g.

isn't just about half the data on our mobile phones it's about immersive education it's about self driving because it's about smarter cities the list goes on if you believe the hype eventually simply need 5 g. but it requires a vast them a new infrastructure and that comes at a price. claims its equipment is cheaper than its competitors and uses less energy giving it a potential edge in the developing world who always sign 5 g. contracts in more than 30 countries from russia to iceland switzerland to south africa the u.k. suppose some mistreat sions on huawei technology germany and france say they'll increase cyber security measures several countries are still on the fence about possible bombs be given the potential cost to consumers the technological tussle may be won on price rather than politics eve. london. still to come on. i'm coming. down.

there are. desperate journeys with tragic ends and mental health crisis among refugees in greece. and pushing it to the edge the drivers all need to how ironic rally gets at the final stages potentially. had the fine clear conditions across much of sundry up i say clear the has actually been a fair amount of fog the also we call today because we got high pressure in control very light winds and so the ad becomes really pretty stagnant underneath all of that and so much so you've got this problem in belgrade a very high pollution levels and this really is the same mix in with the folks so

not good after all it will stay that way as you go through wednesday meanwhile out across the northwest we see the next system come through some very heavy amounts of rain wednesday really is the clear out there across much of the u.k. and ireland those showers pushing across into the low countries opt into as a democrat across into scandinavia and then elsewhere as i say we have got this low clouds and also a fair amount of fog in the morning hours now by thursday there's another system working its way out from the southwest and we're going to see some very heavy amounts of rain paul supporter you could pick up about 125 millimeters of rain up into western france areas of the u.k. about 50 millimeters of rain this could certainly some flooding and elsewhere we have still got those clear conditions but as a side remember we could see some morning fog now in terms of accumulation of rain we will see plenty of these coastal areas of libya really for the next couple of days some areas could pick up 65 millimeters uncool in benghazi at 15.

adjourning discovery i found this which is the copy of a letter germany addressed to my grandfather 0. traces of family to the regime of. an arts is fascism returned to italian port freshers in the family it makes me sick this letter home and found. on al-jazeera. the floor of the burning spied utopian dreams of peace and democracy but how many came to pass they transformed from communist the social democrats but it was a fake democracy people in power traveled through the former eastern bloc to was quite post cold war optimism to succumb to darker more thorough tarion realities the police called a couple who brought out a bomb to the large and they were ready to detonate beyond the war part 2 on al

jazeera. and i'm going to run to the top stories here now to hear. tensions remain high in the sudanese capital after a standoff between members of a now disbanded intelligence force and the military earlier and a televised statement saddam's information minister said members of the disbanded unit were angry at the terms they've been offered on their dismissal. pressure insists their efforts to secure a truce in libya is still on track turkey's president has accused all. khalifa haftar of running away from monday's talks in moscow russia's defense ministry says

he's just discussing the terms with his allies back home. france britain and germany say they're launching a dispute mechanism under the iranian nuclear deal at the dispute process could lead to the reintroduction of sanctions on iran under previous un resolutions. human rights watch has published its annual review of human rights practices around the globe the organizations report highlights the increasingly dire threat the chinese government poses particularly for social freedoms throughout the world it says china views human rights at home as an existential threat leading to beijing resorting to sophisticated forms of domestic repression the review also examines several countries where significant human rights abuses have occurred and the responses of international bodies or report was released after china barred the head of the charity kenneth roth from entering hong kong on sunday because of the organization support for the city's pro-democracy movement he joins me now from new

york thank you very much for being with us so a lot of your focus appears to be on china what are the main problem areas that you've identified. well as you mentioned the report covers events in about $100.00 governments or country countries around the world but each year i write an introductory essay focusing on an important global theme and this year we stressed the threat that the chinese government poses to the entire international system for human rights as you mentioned the xi jinping government is increasing its repression at home particularly as the economy slows and it worries about political unrest but what we've seen over the last couple of years that is that china is using its economic and diplomatic clout to try to silence criticism abroad that is to extend its domestic criticism overseas it does this against governments it does it against companies even against academics and we ended up holding the press conference at the united nations in new york because the united nations is

a major target of china's efforts to prevent any global in fauresmith of human rights for fear that that my boomerang on china's own repression what do you make for instance of the the effort since congress u.s. congress to have written to prepare legislation that would punish chinese officials for the imprisonment of we can muslims is that do you think a sign that perhaps the tide is shifting when you think that's not enough. well the u.s. congress has been reasonably strong with respect to china they already adopted legislation supporting the hong kong pro-democracy protesters and now they are threatening as you mentioned these targeted sanctions against the officials responsible for detaining 1000000 weaker and other turkic muslims basically until they renounce islam and their cultural traditions so you know so much so good their president trump on the other hand you know keeps referring to his good friend she's paying and so i mean you can imagine him saying oh my good friend you know i'm

ayatollah harmony in iran i mean that you wouldn't do this in most cases but in the case of china he's embracing the persecutor even as the u.s. congress is trying to impose pressure but one thing we recommend is that really the only way to respond to a powerful government like china is for other governments to band together we've seen beginnings of this europe led the way where some 2 dozen governments joined in the collective statement of outrage over what china was doing in changing to the muslims there but we need to see more than this you know china prefers a divide and conquer strategy dealing with one government at a time so they can use its economic pressure to to try to silence dissent or silence criticism but if governments ban together the chinese government has to respond it can take on the entire world that once you say that but i mean are you how confident are you that actually things a already changing because it seems that governments in a do is have the kind of economic interests at heart and there's that amid the deals with china but they and those sort of raise baps the human rights in kind of quiet conversations in a back room but in the end it continues the way it is how confident are you that

this is going to change you. know i mean you're absolutely right that has been the problem in other words many governments say oh we had a private conversation in the back room of the foreign ministry that does no good you know that the instruments of change are the chinese people foremost and if they can't hear a visiting dignitary all they see is the photo op with a dignitary shaking hands with chinese officials and everybody smiling. they think that the world is embraced xi jinping is repression so the key is to ensure that the chinese people hear the global discontent about the repression engine j.-a rather the shutting down of civil society in china as a whole or of the suppression of hong kong's freedoms and that's why it is business as usual the preference to have quiet representations that's got to change if the world is going to stand up not simply to china's repression home but also china's increasing efforts to undermine global efforts to defend human rights which is

frankly going to leave all of us much less secure kenneth roth thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thank you thank you. a new video has been released by the new york times said to show 2 iranian missiles hitting a ukrainian passenger jet that was down last week the newspaper says both were fired 30 seconds apart and launched from an iranian military facility 12 kilometers away from the plane neither strike took the plane down immediately the footage shows the jet on fire circling back towards tehran's international airport before an explosion and crash or 176 people on board were killed rockets are being launched at an air base in iraq housing u.s. troops make a tissue rockets were fired at a base just north of baghdad there's been no reports of any casualties where iraqi and u.s. coalition troops have been targeted by rockets and missiles in at least 6 attacks

since the assassination of custom soleimani the largest came from iran when multiple volleys of ballistic missiles hit bases being used by the coalition and as there has been given rare access to the strategically important base was on a binge of aid reports from anbar province. it's rare to be targeted by a ballistic missile and lived to tell the tale this is one of the 7 damaged locations inside the base currently home to around 2000 u.s. danish norwegian polish and french troops u.s. soldiers see a combination of luck and preparedness help to avoid casualties when iran's i.r.g.c. launched a missile. one left a nearly 6 meter wide creator and a shockwave knocked over blast walls each of these requires heavy equipment for installation pretty i mean we got one of our bunkers used during the time we had one individual that was inside their journey attack. bobby says his bible was the

most precious thing he lost in the ensuing fire which destroyed his living quarters when we should feel the shock of everything that. just flew. i was with the person with me we're basically hugging each other holding the ground. and about 10 seconds after we got out of the bunker to go check on the person down here all the time was glass jaw was guarding one tower on the outer wall and saw the missiles coming in from the scared and i was worried for the other people on base of course i was i was so scared. because. the sprawling 6 mile perimeter is one of the major training recognizance and air logistics bases for us that troops inside iraq and neighboring countries thinking we would get rocketed and that rocket attack would be followed by a base incursions i would wager that if you know there was

a high value target on base to hit it would definitely be our air assets. sit on targeted because it believes the base was used to launch the drone which killed. and for drone pilots such as cost and keeping those air assets off the ground was a priority as soon as they heard about the attack a few hours. as before top and we carry hellfire missiles. we do which is intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance we launched as many aircraft as we could as we're capable of. to to cover as many bases as possible try to keep people safe or at least give early warning. to all of our. other people around iraq this is what remains of the sleeping quarters of $39.00 soldiers who were stationed at this unit they say that they're here to do a job and for them it does not matter what the politicians say regarding their presence in the country. the iraqi government says after the silly money

assassination coalition troops are more focused on keeping themselves safe and iraqi security forces should not have to be at the additional responsibility of protecting them in on the militias such as a ninja has been warned that their attacks will continue until foreign troops leave iraq the coalition recognizes that iraq is a dangerous place there continue threats from isis as well as other groups. we are ready for those threats we've taken defensive action to prepare for those threats we've paused training operations to ensure we can focus on anything that we are required to do to protect our troops and protect our regular partners from the threat of rogue militias and other terrorist gangs. are suspended right just is not happening. so what are you guys doing out to.

something that you have actually talked probably. because one teacher. senior military leaders including the secretary of defense has ruled out u.s. and coalition troops pulling out for now soldiers here remain braced for the heightened level of threat. base iraq. at least 2 people being killed during a 2nd day of anti-government protests in guinea the total number of deaths since monday is now for their mistresses on tuesday set fire to police stations in the central city of peta for almost 3 months found a people have been demonstrating against a possible change to the constitution that could allow president to seek a 3rd 10. a series of avalanches in pakistan administered kashmir over the past 24 hours of killed at least 57 people many more are missing search and rescue crews say they're being slowed down by the extreme weather in pakistan heavy snow and

rain have caused landslides with dozens feared dead or missing military helicopters are being used to evacuate the injured another 15 people have been killed in neighboring afghanistan nasa says the severe smoke from months of bushfires in eastern australia has risen into the lower stratosphere and will circle around the globe before a heat back to the country satellite images show the haze currently drifting over chile and argentina the fires have been burning since september and have killed at least 28 people and forced thousands of people to evacuate. and as one person has died and several people have been injured after a fire broke out at a chemical factory in northeast spain the building in the city of tara goanna has been engulfed in flames following a massive explosion which emergency services said was due to a chemical accident around 20 emergency vehicles are at the scene residents in the

city and nearby have been advised not to go outside and to close their windows tensions between greek villages and refugees are increasing despite the government toughening its stance on asylum seekers in recent months including cutting health care for neuron balls in the 2nd of a series of reports on the main overland route from greece to croatia largely went to one rick village where refugees growing sense of isolation is having tragic consequences. but many greek villages mauritius is mostly. they were preparing for a funeral when we arrived. but in this village of 600 people they have other worries than the dead in the hotel over the railway line 400 refugees are being housed it isn't going well. for the 1st time i saw them i felt fear i saw faces full of anger i could see them thinking that i would say from my

house why we suffering my. section i used to keep my daughter's bicycle outside but one of them tried to take it they've got to know if they don't understand anything. the other day the villagers met and told the police they were feeling unprotected and said they were thinking about themselves with guns against the refugees. obviously everyone has to do something and if we don't have a weapon we'll find something else other hotel they know all about this but it's not the main problem there's a mental health crisis to contend with. saying took us to the place where a few days ago an afghan man who'd been wrongly told his wife and children had been moved somewhere else without him hanged himself from a tree the next day hussein's friend riyadh hanged himself inside the hotel his

entire family had been killed in iraq he complained his severe depression was being ignored his funeral wasn't quite so well attended as the one in the village had enough going on and he told them what had happened to his family they gave me an injection and he was like a robot 20 came back he was saying every day i'm not ok i'm not ok and they did nothing for him. over the last few months the incoming center right greek government has scaled back medical and psychiatric support for refugees to prove to an increasingly hostile public that it's on their side here they can bandage their feet but not their minds. only about mental health care when they need an operation a follow up after operations x. rays scenes like this as it's much more difficult to find a place where the people tweeting and the sad truth is that the story of moria's is

in microcosm a reflection of how europe has failed to get on top of refugee resettlement and to heal people even in hospitable greece these 2 groups of people a world suppose gloriously al-jazeera moreas northern greece still to come when i was there this news. it's a dog's life in the french alps pito have more in sport. join africa's largest trade and investment in the wanda i.e.t.f. gives you access to more than 1100 exhibitors and 10000 visitors and baez and more than 5000 conference delegates from more than 55 countries participate in trade and investment deals with $40000000000.00 u.s. dollars as business and government come together to explore business and networking opportunities at the international exhibit which will include a creative africa exchange by the african export import bank and the premium fatness the e.t.f.

2020 transforming africa. a searching investigation into gun culture in the philippines. and the new rules that were put in place to control it in this country it is not there right. now if you listed the right of light of god orders you're not solving the problem of criminality of the kind of peace because these are not the people who are committing the crime. who are your customers a lot of it has the violence actually got worse rewind stray bullets on al-jazeera. oh. after peter and doha for sport. lauren thank you so much the australian open tennis

grand slam starts in less than a week but the bushfire crisis is threatening to derail bituminous qualifying was delayed in melbourne on tuesday and when it did get underway one player was forced to retire from her match because of put a quality slovenia's your cup of it she was given oxygen at one point but that didn't work out and she was clearly in some distress struggling to breathe she was unable to continue and was helped off course eugenie bouchard also needed medical treatment before winning her qualifier and across town an exhibition match involving maria sharapova was called off early because of the conditions means world number one rafael nadal practiced indoors because of the smoky conditions but webber prospects on looking better for when the tournament starts on monday organizers have already said play can be confined to the 3 roofed stadiums and 8 indoor courts if necessary and defended the decision to allow outdoor play on tuesday we have measuring devices on site on air quality on top of that so we

follow the independent part of the medical experience as well as the advice of the environmental specialists and scientists probably comes in place and so this is the advice of medical stuff we haven't signed like site players of sycophants it's not well in that direction it's usually a strategic. australian favorite ash barty was made to work hard for her 1st victory of the year at the adelaide warm up to a moment the world number one fall back from a sit down to defeat russian anastasio public change over taking at 75 in the decider losses suffered early exit last week. trouble off the court as well with nicholas cowdery suspended on tuesday for doping violation the chilean player tested positive to banned substances at november's davis cup finals curry said it was the result of him unknowingly taking tainted multi-vitamins and that

he'll cooperate with an investigation and in athletics michelle li i has been banned for 2 years the 100 metres commonwealth gold medalist from trinidad and tobago was punished after missing 3 doping tests during a 12 month period. spanish champions barcelona have presented a new coach keek a city in used to be in charge of the rail betis and replaces ed mr hurd the who'd won back to back league titles city and comes in with the club top of the league again and says it's been a whirlwind 24 hours. things went very fast yesterday i was walking with the cows in the countryside outside my village and today i was at f.c. barcelona sports center coaching the best players in the world and they are an extraordinary team you know. ok let's go from football to another of the world's

most popular sports basketball but bron james was up against his former team the cleveland cavaliers on monday and he didn't go easy on them scoring $31.00 points to set up another lakers when le bron was in the chase stick form against these hometown team with whom he last won a championship in 2016 that's his mission with the lakers now and he combined with fellow veteran twice howard to sit out of a title credentials. howard with 21 points but le bron can't be out sean when he's in the smoothies heart still in cleveland but his skills now belong to the lakers they are top of the west after 9 straight when. tuesday saw a significant swing at the top of the standings in the dark already in saudi arabia the bike riders returned to action after a day of respect for paolo going solve this through diet on sunday ricky bread which leads that race by nearly 21 minutes but in the car category defending champion. has cut the lead of carlos science down to just 24 seconds after

a great display on stage 9 science had a 10 minute lead just 2 days ago. really today we push like crazy in a all that a caution to danger to you know just we are going flat out you know the last battle is not easy but the game. we try to be in the games and i hope you know do. do do a good job in of our next day. there's a different pace to the action over in the frame charts where one of the world's most challenging dog sledding races is taking place the ground oughta say savoir more blong is 11 day marathon for the world's top mushers and their hounds a trail 750 kilometers up and down the mountains both in sunlight and lamplight with temperatures as low as minus $22.00 degrees celsius and durrance was the dogs

of the tour de france athletes of the animal world eating 10000 calories of food a day just to keep going. and we'll finish with some spectacular shots from china to deering jet pack skydivers from france jumped out of helicopters they attempted to fly through the famous heavens gates in hunan province as you can see not that big a gap when you're traveling up to 400 kilometers an hour if you're wondering where the 2nd skydive is he's behind the camera they describe the experience as quote a bit scary that's where we'll leave it more sport again later back to you in london actually i was as an understatement that's it for me learned news hour i'll be back in a moment not a full round of the day's news thanks so much watching in a bit.

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