we bring you the stories and developments that are magically changing the world we live in to what extent will china be a drag on the global economy in 2020 counting the cost on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. this panzi will be held accountable no one is above the law signed sealed delivered articles of impeachment against donald trump have been submitted to the senate for the trial of a president for the 3rd time in u.s. history. iran's president blames what he calls the u.s. are against for fueling mayhem in the middle east and repeats his call for all

foreign troops to leave. all change in russia the entire government has resigned and a new prime minister is named as president putin pushes ahead with a constitutional overhaul. and a burning issue the new climate data which shows the past decade was the hottest on record. while the u.s. house of representatives has just delivered the articles of impeachment against donald trump to the senate only the 3rd president to face such proceedings in american history speaker nancy pelosi signed the document that represents the start of a trial against president tom and follows a vote and the democrats controlled house where 7 members have also been assigned as managers of the trial the team's going to act as prosecutors and it's led by

house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff chumps accused of pressuring ukraine's leader to investigate his political rival joe biden charges that he's dismissed as a hoax. make it be very clear that this president will be held accountable that no one is above the law and that no future president should ever entertain the idea that article one i mean she's the article 2 says that he can do whatever he wants. or the senate leader mitch mcconnell is confirmed the impeachment trial will start on tuesday he says he's confident the senate will serve justice to the nation this is a difficult time for our country but there's precisely the cottage. for which the framers created this and i'm confident this body can rise above short termism and factional favor and serve the long term best interest of our nation.

ok let's cross over to heidi jewel cost her who's live for us now on capitol hill and she's been following events as the been going along heidi we've seen a lot of pomp and circumstance around this but tell us about the significance of what's been happening. or rob you see members of the leaders of both parties framing this in its historical context calling upon you know the framers of the constitution you just heard majority leader mitch mcconnell the top republican in the senate calling for putting aside this factionalism well you know that's not even a word used nowadays in the u.s. to describe the partisanship we've been experiencing d.c. but it is a word that you see used by the framers of the constitution historically and so both mitch mcconnell and nancy pelosi the top democrat in the house saying that this is the most somber and important duty of congress to perform just

under that of declaring war so what do we see from now going forward well we saw the pomp and circumstance as you said that march across the u.s. capitol building which is more than just symbolic you know taking those articles of impeachment which are the actual documents upon which are printed these allegations against president trump and carrying them by hand across the threshold of the u.s. capitol rotunda going from the side where the u.s. house of representatives needs to the other side of the capitol building where the senate has its chambers that means at the new threshold also in the status of this impeachment now we see the other half we're going to see the other half of this impeachment process play out which is the upcoming trial of president trump now that is a guaranteed process that will happen 1st thing we'll see will be tomorrow when

these article. are read aloud it before the senate chambers by those the managers of the impeachment those who will be prosecuting the case followed by this wearing in chief justice john roberts of the u.s. supreme court who will preside over this impeachment trial of president trump heidi if i understood it correctly senate leader mitch mcconnell was saying that the trial itself is actually due to start on tuesday but i understand of course that there's a lot of process that goes on with that in terms of calling witnesses and so on that doesn't really leave a lot of time does it what happens between now and tuesday when the trial itself actually takes place. you will see what happens publicly which will be this swearing in moment and just for technical purposes the trial actually starts as soon as they are sworn in which will be around noon tomorrow but you're right we won't hear any legal arguments until tuesday when mitch mcconnell says that is when

the 2 sides the counsel for the white house and also these impeachment prosecutors will be giving their opening statements we don't know how long those statements will take most likely this will be a mole tied to a process in the last impeachment trial of president bill clinton it took 6 days for those opening statements to conclude and after those opening statements for president trump that is when the u.s. senators will likely face the question of whether or not to open the impeachment trial to new evidence that is the big question mark now hang over the whole process with democrats saying that there are additional witnesses including former national security advisor john bolton who have thus far been silenced by the white house who were in the position to perhaps know what the president's motives were when he delayed security aid to ukraine did he do so with the corrupt intent to pressure

the government of ukraine to open investigations and their job. biden that is the central question of all of this and it's one that republicans say has simply not been proven with the evidence that exists and they hope not to add any additional evidence to what's already out there heidi thanks very much indeed well the senate is expected to transform into an impeachment court as an early as thursday all those significant probably proceedings won't begin until next week now here's how the process should play out pretty much as heidi was describing there the chief justice of the supreme court john roberts is going to be sworn in as chief presiding officer of the senators are going to act as jurors house of representative members act as prosecutors along with lawyers for the president they would examine the evidence put before the senate at least 2 thirds or $67.00 senators need to vote guilty on at least one article of impeachment that have donald trump removed from office this happens the vice president becomes president

obama is a former special impeachment counsel for the house of representatives and he was involved in the impeachment and removal of 4 federal judges alan is joining us now from washington d.c. thanks very much indeed for being with us one of the considerations of course that everybody is now looking to is whether or not witnesses are going to be called in this case if witnesses are not called how effective is this process. well it certainly cripples the process to be very candid what i would expect the opening statements are not literally evidence in a trial you can in the opening statement part of it and the closing arguments are not actually evidence they are argument and i would expect that the democrats in their opening statements will allude to all this evidence that they has recently come up in the last 24 to 48 hours about mr giuliani about documents that suggest

that the president knew exactly what was involved with regard to getting a concession from the president of ukraine with regard to investigating the bidens now i think would suspect i don't know it for a fact but i don't think there's anything to preclude the democrats from alluding to all of that in their opening statement and i'll be very interested to see whether they do that it doesn't make it evidence that issue of whether this can be introduced as evidence will have to wait until after opening statements nancy pelosi has made repeated reference to the fight that this is about a close to chew tional an element that it is a protection of the constitution but i thought a very brief look through the monitors in the prosecutors they're going to be taking this case forward it doesn't seem to me as though many of them actually have a constitutional background they are litigators but they don't have experience in terms of constitution are you surprised that. not at all again this is

a political process if we if it were purely constitutional law it might be a good idea to have all the major constitutional scholars participating in this this is the this is both political and legal but primarily political now adam schiff with whom i've worked on 2 other impeachments of federal judges who have a lifetime appointment unless they're removed by either death or and or remove it pietschmann i worked with him for a year is a very good. trial lawyer but he also happens to be someone who you know he's extremely well trained he went to stanford and harvard law school he is a very very astute lawyer and is more than capable of dealing with any of the legal or constitutional issues that may come up let me talk to you about this political element to it because of course this is in many ways the nub of the republicans

argument against this trial that it is politically motivated in your opinion and given given your experience of this process how much of this is an attempt by the democrats simply to essentially throw as much mud as they possibly can at the president as close to the upcoming election as possible. you have to start the 1st question you have to ask yourself is what does the evidence today show and i think it is not unreasonable to say that the evidence that was compiled in the house with regard to the activities by the president and the people around him with regard to holding off the money that ukraine desperately needed ukraine our allies who were involved in a hot war with the russians and that money had 400 $1000000.00 had been allocated by the congress and for the president to say in effect you are not you the

president of ukraine you're not going to get this money unless you do a favor for me that benefits me personally politically i mean that in a nutshell is what went on here to my mind that is far more serious than anything involving bill clinton with his. in getting involved with and in turn in a sexual liaison i mean we are talking about an ally in a hot war and the president is playing games with getting them the aid they desperately need so that he can get some political gain out of it. this is not this is very serious stuff and if the president is not impeached and removed because of it well. it just shows how political this is this is very serious action on the part of the president really interesting to get your views in this thank you very much indeed for your time out on bond. well as the state of the trump impeachment

was unfolding the u.s. and china signed the 1st phase of a new trade deal which will see china buy more american goods china is committed to buying an additional 200 $1000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods and services by 2021 beijing's also expected to remove some of the tariffs it's placed on u.s. products but the agreement keeps in place american tariffs on 360000000000 dollars worth of chinese goods until further negotiations when donald trump says the agreement delivers economic justice for the us together we are righting the wrongs of the past and delivering a future of economic justice and security for american workers farmers and families i want to thank president xi who is watching as we speak can be going over to china in the not too distant future our negotiations were tough honest open and

respectful leading us to this really incredible breakthrough most people thought this could never happen should have happened 25 years ago by the way but that's ok mike hanna is live for us in washington with more on this is everybody is happy with this deal as the president thinks they should be. well some particularly among the democratic party are deeply critical of the steel they are arguing that actually this is going back to where the situation was before president trump launched the trade war some 2 years ago also pointing out one particular problem in the deal as announced at this point the phase one of the deal and that is it does not address in any way a central issue that to determine its us china relationship and that is chinese control of its own companies particularly those state owned companies the huge subsidies that it pays which gives those companies a massive advantage over its u.s. competitors this is not addressed at all in this particular deal that being said

it's made very clear this is phase one this is in the way a truce not an end to the negotiations the negotiations will continue in terms of phrase 2 phase 3 president trump's administration points to the fact that there are still punitive factors involved that although a number of tariffs have been lifted they will be immediately reimpose should china not meet the standards of the deal as outlined at this particular point so while they are critics many are still breathing a sigh of relief that if at least the war is not over there is certainly a truce in place at this point mike thanks very much indeed. well the world's 2 largest economies have been locked in a bitter trade battle that's lasted 18 months the u.s. president has long accused china of unfair trading practices and intellectual property theft china believes the u.s.

is trying to curb its rise as a global economic power so far the u.s. has impose tariffs on more than $360000000000.00 of chinese goods china has retaliated with top of some more than 110000000000 dollars worth of u.s. products well david jacobs and a u.s. china trade specialist he's joining us now from dallas and texas we appreciate your time sir thank you very much indeed i've had a very brief skim over the details that we know about this deal it looks as though china's going to open its markets to u.s. companies it includes that $200000000000.00 worth of purchases that china is going to make in u.s. goods it's also going to leave play in place many of the type of just like might was talking about there's also the threat of additional punishment if china doesn't live up to its side of the deal to my mind china's not rightly getting a very good deal out of this why would it sign a deal like this. well i'm not sure it's not getting a bad deal but i think it signed it just to have

a stopping point while it begins to negotiate and absorb the impact that what. trade war over the last 18 months interesting leigh the exports for china have just skyrocketed in december it was up 17 percent over a year ago and 7 percent over november i'm not sure that they're feeling smug to be honest with you and what they got was a little bit of a truce in exchange for buying some things that they need and what america got is there's certainly farmers who are upset and wish that they had had some of the benefits that are going to go to soybean growers there's fishermen who are upset there's a retailers who are upset there's automotive people who are upset and you know this is so much remains to be seen all we got as you pointed out is a very short and slight truce and now there is an opportunity to address some more

substantive issues when you look at the agreement at the very beginning there is an issue there is titles of sections one of which is a title about intellectual property but there's not much there that can be enforced and it doesn't create changes within the sovereign structure of the laws addressing control of an optional property that china has so i think that we're at a pause and that's probably good for all sides but on the other hand we didn't really address any of the structural imbalances that exist between the 2 countries and hopefully we get a chance to do that now good to get your thoughts on this david jacobs and we appreciate your time thank you. fame overhead in the news including in buried alive some people are rescued from under the snow after avalanches in kashmir but dozens more on so lucky. we made the team working to stop fisherman in

the philippines from going into waters around an erupting volcano. a lucky escape but not go along so at the dakar rally in saudi arabia fatah as the sport. russian jets have resumed bombing a village province syria's last remaining rebel held area. as of the 1st attack since the beginning of a ceasefire brokered with turkey several towns were targeted including 2 main markets in city at least 15 people are reported to have been killed the syrian government launched an offensive last year to retake it lead and hundreds of thousands of people have fled the fighting. iran's president has warned that european soldiers in the middle east may be in danger haasan rouhani made the comments just a day after britain france and germany launched

a dispute mechanism under the 2015 nuclear deal they accuse iran of repeated violations diplomatic editor james bays reports from the united nations. 'd at a time when large crowds of iranians have been protesting in the streets the country's president instead addressed his comments to the international community has signed rouhani is a meeting of his cabinet dismissed recent suggestions from the u.k. prime minister boris johnson that there should be a new deal with iran and said they should focus on the one already agreed in 2015 that. if you take the wrong step it will be to your detriment pick the right path the right path is to return to the nuclear deal there was this warning note to european nations saddam was on the call yaml is that. the american soldier is not secure today to moral maybe the european soldier will not be secure let us

address the city security for now the iran nuclear deal signed with 5 world powers including the us in 2015 when the obama administration was in office is still in existence but it's in trouble gradually in 5 stages the iranian side has stepped back from some of the restrictions imposed on the deal the most recent this year is to no longer comply with the restrictions on the levels of enrichment of uranium it's carrying out a process that could be used to make a bomb weapons grade uranium is enrich to about 90 percent the response to this from the european side is to formally trigger the dispute mechanism set out in the deal one european diplomat has told me their country estimate is that iran is one to 2 away from big. a bomb i'm told the europeans have no plans at this stage to bring the issue back to the un security council that has the power to trigger

what's known as not back reimposing all the international sanctions against iran the dispute mechanism allows for further negotiations and would take many months iran watches those say the leadership in tehran is actually less interested in this timeline and focused instead on the u.s. political calendar they're looking to november's presidential election with the hope they can trump out. al-jazeera the united nations. canadian investigators are expected to examine the wreckage of a ukrainian jet shot down in the iranian capital last week visiting the site into iran but they haven't been granted access to the flight and cockpit recorders all 176 passengers and crew died when iran's military mistakenly shot down the plane most of the victims were from canada on tuesday iran's judiciary confirmed a number of people have been arrested in connection with the downing of the

airliner. russia's prime minister has stepped down in a move seen as paving the way for president vladimir putin to hold on to power when his time ends in 2024 the miter medvedev says his resignation will allow for putin to introduce sweeping changes to the constitution joining his state of the nation address putin proposed an increase in parliament's power as well as an enhanced role for the state council on the whole reports it was dramatic and entirely unexpected except the just hours before the resignation of russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev and his entire government the president vladimir putin had called for government change. we as the government of the russian federation should provide the president of our country with the opportunity to make all necessary changes to the political system. in the annual live televised state

of the nation address putin said that the constitution should be amended to allow parliament to choose candidates for prime minister and the cabinet a power now enjoyed soley by the president and the president he said should in future serve a total maximum of 2 terms putin himself is currently serving his 4th the proposed changes would substantially limit the power of whoever succeeds putin as president after he steps down in 2024 as he's constitutionally bound to do supporters describe the move as deepening democracy empowering elected members of parliament critics however suggest it offers a concrete clue to russia's hottest political question what happens after putin the answer some believe is more. the main result of putin's address tweeted kremlin critic alex in what kind of idiots and or crooks or all those who said that putin would leave in 2024 the only goal of putin and his regime is remaining leader for

life taking ownership of an entire country and appropriating wealth to himself and his friends the russian president seeks to. continue to exert control or the russian political sphere even after he leaves the official office of the president so this more is intended to change the. structure of their ashram government in such a way as. to possibly move to a different position from which he will be able to do so. but the view of putin has said nothing of his intentions post presidency but he could be planning a repeat of these 2008 move to become prime minister or take on another senior role a weakened presidency might pave the way for russia's longest serving leader since talent to take power with him when he goes you know hold al-jazeera.

earlier my colleague lauren taylor spoke to maria she's an independent political analyst based in moscow and she says putin's proposed constitutional amendments are all about keeping him in power beyond the end of his. 2024 weeks in will have to step down after his 2nd consecutive term are in is a challenge to the political system in russia and personally because he has to stay on as the most powerful politician in the country he has to retain his grip on power question is how do you do this if you have to step down from that position of the president so the amendments to the constitution are elements of an attempt to change the political can think in ration to change the. constitution the structure of institutions of state power so that can take another office we don't know which one maybe even more than the one and to remain automatically in charge 3

mentioned potentially a kind of combination of rows is that something that would would work for him do you think to try and keep him in power. right now we have to make do with speculations we don't know what the amendments apparently came down to is among other things the redistribution of government's authority from the presidency to the parliament also and empowerment of certain gaudiest that are not even constitutional right now such as the state council which is actually a collection of high ranking officials. so whether or not put in the will make do with just one office or take several or take offices that don't even exist today. this is up to speculation the vast decade was the hottest ever recorded on the

planet and it's only getting worse that's according to a joint report by nasa the us national oceanic and atmospheric administration the findings show that 2019 was the 2nd hottest year since global records began $880.00 scientists believe warming temperatures are jews are humans emitting billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is predicted that as global warming continues it will be more heat waves wildfires stronger storms flooding and rising sea levels we've gotten schmidt is director of the god out institute for space studies he says this rate of temperature was predicted decades ago. it is the same situation that we have been telling people about for many years in predicting ahead of time we when we predicted that the that the rate of change would be as as it is and the models that we put together even in the 1970 s. in the 1980 s.

predicted the changes in temperatures that we're seeing now and we understand wind that's happening so short i mean there are people that don't want to see that but there are people who are who have been following the science who understand exactly how solid a case this is it's not reversible on our choices are really to to keep our foot on the accelerator and to to keep increasing at an ever increasing rate or to slow it down and those are our choices we can through actions to reduce carbon emissions are slow down what's going on and perhaps stabilize the climates a day at a reasonable temperature depending on how heroic those mitigation efforts are. still ahead an al-jazeera find out why venezuela's opposition leader had to hold a parliamentary session in a seat or beaten but not broken students in india say they'll continue to protest against the government even after their campus is attacked. and rally for release

the stars of tennis come together in melbourne to raise money for victims of the astray in bushfires. hello there we have still seen a few scattered thunderstorms some of them strong across more southern regions of the united states and you can stream east was over the last few hours but this was a scenario late monday in tucson carolina this is the town of lawrence and just look at the damage that was done this was actually a small tornado that came through winds were confirmed to be around 145 kilometers an hour so as you can imagine it did some damage now the severity the storms of course they have been weakening but we still got the chance of a few more developing on thursday sunny coming out of texas heavy amounts of rain meanwhile is much clearer through much the southeast pushing up into the northeast

as well the snow still continuing to work its way into the west as i say this is all courtesy the recent storm the pacific northwest on the big winter storm of the season the rain is further to the south across into california that tends to die away by friday but on friday this rain pushing up to the north and this is when it makes that cold air so we are going to see the snow really beginning to develop particularly into the upper midwest and across the great lakes it's a cold day friday mine is to minneapolis minus 6 in toronto and also just a degree above freezing in new york and closer to the averages meanwhile across into the carry on a few scattered showers but dry and sunny in cancun with a high of 26 celsius. an escape from severe hardship on to the world stages of paralympic champion will be i want to say for now though for the 1500 meters i'm the bronze for the $800.00 under desire to work overseas i went knocking on doors looking at

a job and was interested in immunology studies that led to international recognition as a global leader in regenerative medicine to inspiring journeys of human endeavor arabs abroad the paralympian and the bone make-a on al-jazeera was the last time you were out on the streets protesting whether on line you feel the weight of the system going to walk through each and every love billboard 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're in detention or you're incarcerated this is a dialogue everyone has a voice so far there are studies that support the rush coverage will be varying accounts but i want to give people the reason for it join the global conversation on al-jazeera.

ga ga's in a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. house of representatives has delivered the articles of impeachment against donald trump to the senate and follows a vote in the democratic controlled house was 7 members have also been assigned as managers of the trial. the u.s. and china have signed the 1st phase of a new trade deal the agreement includes a promise from china to more than double purchases from american farmers in the 1st year but the u.s. says it will keep most of its talons in place until face to. the iranian president says european soldiers in the middle east may be in danger a single honeys warning comes just a day after britain france and germany triggered a dispute mechanism under the 2015 nuclear deal. ok let's go back to

our top story now one of the people who could be pivotal during donald trump's impeachment trial is the man who's going to preside over a 2 u.s. supreme court chief justice john roberts that even though his task is mandated by the u.s. constitution domestic politics could complicate roberts's role both join the trial and at his day job mostly in jordan explains. john roberts has been the u.s. supreme court chief justice for more than 15 years the upcoming impeachment trial of u.s. president donald trump will test roberts' efforts to stay impartial i don't think he's going to you know put up with many shenanigans here and many bogus defenses while some think roberts could play an active role he could issue subpoenas he can make rulings. and his rulings would have to be overturned by 51 senators so republicans would have to hold their lines pretty strongly the fact is roberts'

role is more ceremonial than pivotal he'll read senators questions outloud and he may analyze whether various bits of evidence should be presented however it's the senators who will decide what evidence to introduce or which witnesses can testify not roberts and more important it's the senators who will decide whether to convict analysts say roberts will move carefully he doesn't want to be seen as favoring one side or the other in a political brawl but might also influence roberts is trial performance his day job critics have attacked roberts both for supporting president barack obama's health care program and for defending the right of corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns and this year roberts will have to weigh in on trump's financial records abortion rights and the possible deportation of the some 700000 young people known as dreamers congratulations mr president. then there's

the dust up between the president and the chief justice after trump accused a federal judge of bias back in 2018 this was an obama judge roberts did the unthinkable he fired back but we do not speak for the people but we speak for the constitution our role is very clear. we are to interpret the constitution and laws of the united states and ensure that the political branches act within them trump then attacked roberts on twitter it's not too much to assume that if the senate convicts tromp he will lash out at everyone including at the chief justice who presided over his impeachment trial rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. a senior u.n. official in lebanon has blamed the ruling elites for failing to tackle an economic

collapse that has reignited protests in the capital demonstrators have regrouped in beirut for a 2nd night they've been targeting lebanon's financial institutions as part of a symbolic attack on the ruling elites economic plans also remains at corruption and falling living standards then a caller is in the capital beirut she explains why there's being so much anger directed towards the country's banks. running battles in the streets of the lebanese capital for the 2nd consecutive nights untied riot police using tear gas to disperse protesters who as you can see are out in force and here is growing frustration is growing 11 on it is now the 4th month since think anti-static 7. people took to the street to the mound a change in leadership the country's economy is in near collapse a close close to us here there are banks people vandalizing banks and destroying

cash machines really venting their anger at the banking sector that goes on all capital to. prevent it from accessing and their deposit savings there is a cap on the withdrawal of the capital withdrawal of lebanese pounds tear gas is being used by my right from the earlier protesters were outside at least back to finding the same. thing you have to think of to speak to. the peak of her feeling that this country without a government is a political vacuum and the end of october a people i think i'm going to have a doubt we'll tell you who that of. and what what. well abortions have been doing is occurring among them down. over.

the warning that the situation is quote. these are stay off and in lebanon and blaming really the politicians for a failing financial system. sporadic fighting is raising those in libya's warring sides after a cease fire talks stalled in moscow turkey and russia brokered the 5 truce over the weekend but ankara says it's too early to say the cease fire has collapse hopes of now moved to an international summit which will be held in berlin on sunday aimed at resolving the conflict was a mile sheil reports from ankara. despite being able to bring both sides of libya's civil war to moscow on monday russia and turkey failed to get them to sit around the same table meeting with each site separately those meetings finished with only phases some raj the prime minister of the un recognized government in tripoli signing a truce agreement whereas warlords asked for more time to consult his allies before

committing to the deal there was however an understanding that fighting would stop in the meantime the head of libya's supreme council of states that have to refuse to agree to the truce because of pressure from the united arab emirates which is a major supporter of the warlords domestic each other and it was confirmed that's one of those were present was the charge d'affaires of the u.a.e. embassy in russia which is part of the reason or obstruction the russian delegation then requested a deadline of $2.00 to $4.00 days to respond to some things that our position was clear we came on the basis of the desire of 2 countries to reach a solution so we're going to sign alone now. it was on t.v. channels that tough that 1st appeared in 2014 abu dhabi has been accused of financing arming and supporting military regimes across the arab world in a bid to reverse the tides of the 2011 arab spring uprisings them are at straws

half thought of to pursue their objectives in libya but it's not only the u.a.e. that supports the warlord egypt who has helped him militarily and russia has printed money for him and even sent mercenaries to fight for the renegade it's why many believe that moscow will ultimately force hough that to agree to a political deal before germany hosts the planned international conference on libya on january the 19th there are very very different measures and yours that really the problem is the libyan person and what is going to be odious one is that an arms embargo that has been piloted over the last one months many many years were would really going to take away the military means. and then that would be another. on the other side prime minister saad raj seems to have agreed a way forward with turkey which has helped maintain his government's not least by sending military support to slow have the violence on the capital tripoli turkey's

foreign minister. had this to say on wednesday because it like there today we worked hard on the stockman we put into consideration the compromises regarding the situation in libya according to the proposals made by mr huffed and mr surat this document has been approved from outside we received a copy of the document have to ask for some time until tomorrow to see the whole situation and you will probably sign this document tomorrow morning although fighting has largely stopped since that initial ceasefire called for by turkey and russia came into effect after midnight on sunday there have been several breaches by half and his fighters with reports of attacks on government positions southwest of tripoli. many are wondering whether the current fragile cease fire can hold until world leaders meets in berlin this weekend but just as important is whether or not this world fully for which there will agree to participate in and commit to the political process that the boiling conference is supposed to help establish

that analysts believe will depend more on what his backers and abu dhabi and cairo the 5 and just how committed russia is to ensuring an end to the fighting demolish al-jazeera carro. emergency crews in pakistan administered kashmir have recovered 21 more bodies is the search for victims of recent avalanches at least 160 people from both pakistan and afghanistan have been killed because of the severe weather in recent days the region's nehalem valleys the worst hit area people are believed to be trapped inside their homes buried by heavy snowfall authorities have been forced to use helicopters to rescue the injured as many roads remain blocked by snow. in the capital islamabad and he explains why pakistan is experiencing such severe winter storms. according to the pakistani media your logical department this work the heaviest because this time to read the front came from the southwest

picking up moisture from the arabian sea because of the rising surface temperatures that sea and that heavy snow would go by nuclear stand pakistan and the stoning area that is more effected areas and regions for the plane with chains because in winter temperature is race a system sea surface temperature praiseful what happened there it really intensified the edges system which is opposing in their regions that is the one thing full and intensity of weather system is increased due to global warming and the infrastructure which we have in this region is not too much developed the particular system moving from the sea over pakistan is cause for alarm because any ride in global temperature it is likely to make progress down and the region more. violent phenomena which has led to a loss of life across pakistan by bad also is blamed on the paul performance of the

national disaster management got harder to regain need the warning of the material logic and department and the fact that most of the infrastructure in rural. not developed properly and their fall. from roof collapse now got me here logically department is saying that the next threat is this is coming ad no money from the right and i'm like need to do ad my damage caused by the bad it's thought about 40000 people have been forced to leave their homes in the philippines is the taal volcano spews ash and lava into the air several new cracks have opened in the ground nearby scientists say a bigger eruption could be on its way they want the area completely evacuated sudan has reopened its airspace after an armed revolt led to the death of at least 2 soldiers and the closure of the capital's airport members of the former security

service with links to deposed ruler almost a shia stage the uprising on tuesday members of the disbanded unit were angry at the terms they'd been offered as they were dismissed from their roles. a convoy carrying 4 venice while an opposition politicians has been attacked by a group with crowbars nobody's been injured opposition leader moved the parliamentary session to a theater in a suburb of caucus following the attack president nicolas maduro has previously tried to stop the opposition leader presiding over the national assembly latin america editor of the c n human has more from caracas. it was a very dramatic moment yet the 3rd one in a row in this month around the national assembly it was not the opposition leader one why though who was attacked it wasn't in the caravan but rather other members of the opposition who had gone ahead of him and there were armed gangs as well as soldiers around the national assembly building called the legislative palace at the

same time the pro-government constituent assembly was meeting inside there knowing full well that why they had called for a meeting of the national assembly they share the same building but in different chambers they were attacked they were shot at and what at least one of the cars had their windows broken with a crowbar or a stone it looked more like a stone to me but in any case no one was injured quite miraculously and they have already convened another part of the city and it looks like they're going to have to keep doing that from now on because the government is clearly making a plea is making it obvious that they will not allow one why though and his deputies to meet anymore in what has been the national assembly the only independent institution democratic institution to venezuela up until now students at a top university in india would attacked last month they say policeman beat them up and vandalized some of the classrooms but they've continued their protests and now

there's a mere 1000000 islamiya university has become the center of demonstrations against a new citizenship law and reports from new delhi. class strewn on the floor windows smashed. furniture scattered and used gas shelves lying next to abandoned bags. so he was studying in the library when the pilots broke out on december. was writing an application for a job. now there is an eerie silence in the library of johnny a millionaire slum a university in new delhi. police men are accused of entering the campus to chase students protesting against the new citizenship law that critics say discriminates against muslims and breaches india's constitution. most of all was also in the library that day when i was in order for this

is spite of that i was i have my daughter and fractured so it makes. it really become new normal for them they will go they will because they will detain us while they were taken to. the pa has given his testimony to the national human rights commission visiting to investigate the events of the day. he says he was doing some research when about 20 policemen attacked this corridor or spattered with drops of blood students say they were in the library on december the 15th when police charged in and started beating them up then they say they ran for their lives. students say the police broke down the door and tissue soaked in blood on the stair and the single shoe all signs of the violence that followed there are also broken security cameras lying around students

a policeman broke them so there is no evidence of what happened. the university's administrators say they have been trying to file a police report or f.y.r. no legal action has yet been taken we are following it up with the police we are asking them to register for a year because you've already given the complaint. now what this student wants they want that the university should move to court seeking a direction from the court to the police to reduce. their complaint has been sent to the ministry of internal no that has jurisdiction over the police. but the students aren't waiting they say they've got the university to postpone their exams so the momentum behind their protests will carry forward. and if this graffiti and these slogans are anything to justify this seem determined to challenge the government for a long time to come. al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera the world's

best young skiers do battle on the slopes far as got the action from the winter viewed celebrex.

from. all. sides of the sport his father. thanks very much the top stars of tennis have come together in melbourne to raise money for the victims of the australian bush fires rafa nadal and roger federer part of the rallies for relief exhibition along with other former australian open champion string of williams and novak. they raise

close to $5000000.00 with adele and sutter making their own combined want to use. that they'll go with the couple of hours away with decided to give. $250000.00 australian dollars to the bard in the fires really together. and so it's and we're quite lucky we don't have these kind of extreme situations so always happy to help always happy to lend my time or my money for that matter and it was a pleasure to be here tonight with nick and all the other legends of the game and at least to my fair share. but also red sox say the behavior of manager alex cora was not acceptable and they had no option but to fire him major league baseball investigation found that core organized in the legal system of what's known as selling stealing while coaching at the houston astros 27 team and on field camera

was used to detect pitching signals made by opponents which is against the rules the astros fire their manager a.j. and general manager just learn how on monday following the inquiry. we must ensure to the best of our ability that everyone in the organization represents the club in a manner that deserves the support and respect of our fans. since joining the red sox alex cora has been one of the many people who we work with that has consistently put the organization to their own interests he did that yesterday as we discussed how to move forward. we obviously underperform last year but we. have every expectation that we will be competitive this year and we have a great group of players and i don't consider our situation to be that we're in a hole we have a challenge in front of us but we also will figure out

a solution and be ready beginning of the season the asters won the world series in the season they're accused of cheating by the american sports broadcaster michael chorus and doesn't think the crime warrants them being stripped of the title sign stealing per se if you're smart enough player to be on the base pass and to be able to read another team sides and decipher them i don't think that that's cheating i think it's gamesmanship basically and it's smart playing baseball when they 1st found out this might be happening immediately told here seems not to do it so part of the reason why these players these people are being punished as hard as they are and possibly deserve more is that they were consciously violating an advisory from baseball a command from baseball not to be doing this fernando alonso had a lucky escape on wednesday at the dachau rally in saudi arabia former ask one world champion role to sell you out on the sand dunes during the 10 stage now when

he was hurt of the car was able to continue with the race stage was also cut short at the halfway point due to strong winds and worsening conditions in the desert also saw some of the competitors go the wrong way and lose time carlos aims to get than it has stretched as slim over the lead of 24 seconds to over 8 minutes rally ends on friday. good day we see how the navigation is really to get in the hole really to me at least going up and down for one all day i know that. today we didn't go back we have for good the speed that. we pushed it was the biggest day it's. next year's african cup of nations in cameroon is being news from june to a january start date this which is unlikely to go down well with european clubs algeria won the tournament in 2019 which was held in egypt over the summer the cameron football federation says the move will help avoid the country's rainy

season european clubs won't appreciate the disruption to their league season as they'll be without their african players or that during. the german bundesliga returns from its month long winter break this weekend but it might take place without her berlin coach jurgen klinsmann a coaching license needs renewing every 3 years with the german f.a. but has expired and he has yet to submit the necessary paperwork klinsmann has left the documents at his home in california he's been able to provide some information and hopes to be in charge for health as game with byron munich on sunday the winter use olympics have reached the halfway stage in those sand with the final medals handed out in alpine skiing on wednesday finland grabbed a gold in the last discipline the parallel mixed team of then to head of germany and austria out of the 9 medals up for grabs in alpine skiing sweden austria and switzerland finished with 2 golds. tell your sport for now more later

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