libyan warlord khalifa haftar holds talks with turkey's regional rival greece ahead of sunday's peace summit in berlin. hello i'm adrian fit again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. your phone. calls for unity and a condemnation of western powers iran's supreme leader ayatollah harmony and it is his 1st friday sermon in 8 years. he led the investigation into the impeachment of president bill clinton now ken starr joins lawyers representing donald trump and his impeachment trial. warning about the sale of fake drugs in west africa that was

left hundreds of thousands of people dead we have exclusive video of several transactions. we begin with the diplomatic moves ahead of a summit in berlin on sunday to try to end libya's civil war warlord. has met with the prime minister of greece turkey's main regional rival a country that's been excluded from the summit russia and turkey who support opposite sides in the conflict will be at the conference which will try to end the fighting between half the us forces of the un recognized government of fire as. both houses and so those are expected in berlin but russia is downplaying chances of a peace deal. the most important thing now is that after the berlin conference if everything goes as planned and the security council supports the conclusions from the

conference if the libyan sides do not repeat their own past mistakes and start adding any additional conditions and blaming each other as of now the relationships between them are very strange they don't even want to be in the same rooms let alone speak or meet each other meanwhile the fighting continues libya's national oil corporation says that its warehouses of been attacked by forces let's go live now to tripoli i'll just put up the warhead is. what is the situation in the capital right now. well. all eyes now and libya especially in the west to the contrary are on berlin this sunday to see what's going to happen in the peace negotiations led by germany recently the foreign minister and it could nased a government of national accord has sentinel fresh a letter to the german embassy in tripoli due requesting that both

tunisia and qatar be included in the peace talks due to be held in berlin this sunday according to a local television local television here in tripoli the ministry of foreign affairs in tripoli says that. is a key ally and a country that has been affected by the crisis going crisis in libya and also has been hosting thousands of libyan g.'s and for qatar qatar has been all or supporting the freedom revolutions since 2011 remember energy and qatar has been supporting the government in tripoli sticking and dealing with it as the legitimate institution representing libya now it seems that there is the government is trying to achieve balance as you know that the other side

civil contraries supporting have invited for a berlin talks including the united arab emirates egypt france and russia so only turkey is there all the countries supporting the d.n.a. . 4000000000 so this tip by the government of national accord could be read as a way to achieve balance in facing the other delegation supporting the warlord khalifa haftar as i said the fighting in libya is continuing. what is the situation now. well the situation on the ground in southern chipley is it a relatively quiet but the government to military sources say that they have recently documented several violations by have to forces during the past couple of

days and that includes it random rockets launching random rockets on the residential areas also opening fire on civilians will try to take opportunity of the deescalation atmosphere and try to target home but the where killed by have to his forces that's according to the government to the military sources the government says also that have to his forces have been sending reinforcement to the front lines in southern tripoli. of the well head reporting live from tripoli many thanks wood well libya has been torn apart by conflict since long time ruler more mcguffey was overthrown in 2011 it's still vital between warring militia groups which mostly back to rival governments the un recognized administration but by prime minister. is based in tripoli and is supported by turkey and many european nations including italy which is worried that the fighting dear to tripoli will force more people to flee across the mediterranean in the east as the brook based

government the center of power for the ward khalifa haftar he's backed by egypt saudi arabia russia and the united arab emirates france's also accused of providing military support to his forces rearm and spirit is managing editor of libya analysis she says that those attending sunday's berlin conference are hoping it will bring about a breakthrough for a lasting cease fire. well originally the idea of the conference was actually to focus on the international act and given that international act is strange country dreams are huge driver of the current conflict now that was the initial aim so to agree that the u.n. arms embargo which is in place on libya could be in force at the moment isn't being however what we've seen over the last week with russia and turkey facilitating a ceasefire between said i should have to on the ground there as you seem to be any reports of not necessarily completely being in force on the ground now so i signed that deal in moscow on monday after i did not so i think the main media outcome of

that in conference at the at pool is i have to also agree to these trades and i can integrate its hands that will allow the ceasefire to be monitored and to semblance of peace to reign and that's really the for us steps who is moving towards some kind of disco process or even getting the 2 actors in the same room together to be able to discuss possible ways forward iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali harmony has delivered his 1st friday sermon in 8 years he said that u.s. forces aren't safe in the region and beyond after the u.s. killed the top military commander custom solomonic earlier this month comedy went on to urge calm after protests over the accidental shooting down of a ukrainian passenger plane it told worshippers to be wary of western misinformation hakan are glad i get members of the treaty for a serious government keep repeating that they are behind the people of iran but they are a lawyer even if they are standing by iranians it's only to stay they poison to

degas into the hearts of the iranian people. said beggars in tehran and has more reaction to that speech. i have to ask how many had a number of messages sometimes it's for a domestic audience and other times it's an international audience to criticize the european countries that is started that trigger mechanism of disputed in 2015 nuclear deal and taking iran to united nations he said that he never trusted them like a steel hand in a velvet glove that's a very famous line of his that he uses a lot from him is not only the spiritual leader he's the theological the political leader of iran and him attacking the europeans like this could signify a change in attitude and how iran deals with those 3 european countries and especially the 2015 nuclear deal he criticized western powers saying that they care about they claim to care about the people in iran and he said that how about the

millions of people act in the streets during the funeral of general costs and so the money you know he hasn't spoken in since 2012 but he this is the context for this is that we had widespread antigovernment protests back in november we've had the assassination of general costs and so the money the head of the goods force you had the iranian retaliation targeting u.s. targets inside iraq and then we had the downing of the ukrainian airline by any iranian missile after government death to the government here denied it for about 3 days so there's a lot of tension he usually comes out to rally support and calm the situation down and that's essentially what he's done today here in iran. sources close to iraq's investigation into the assassination of an iranian top general have told out zira detailed information on how the u.s. attack took place they explain why a custom solid body was in baghdad and why he met the former leader of the popular

mobilisation forces who mocked the mohan this is a solid been job and. is in baghdad where he spoke to investigators about the new details surrounding some of mani's assassination. this is the 1st time that the iraqi an iraqi high ranking official has spoken to the media about killing off general hossam flamini in a mad behind this according to the details provided to us it took about 64 to 6 minutes for silly money to leave the plane and get to the location before he was targeted by a drone. the iraqi officials confirming that earlier speculation that whether this was a helicopter or a drone because there were many coalition helicopters in the air at that point there were some speculation that he could have been targeted by another missile when they confirming that it was a hellfire missile fired by a drone wish targeted still in money other interesting details about how silly money was driving in a convoy of 2 cars with. toyota sedan and

a hyundai van dawdle of 10 people were killed in that attack according to iraqi forces and when asked why were there 3 missiles fired when they were only to cause this official told us that 2 missiles targeted each vehicle 1st and then a 3rd misfire was fired at the car that money was in when i asked about whether arrests have been made because there have been many reports about some involvement on the iraqi side airport officials or airline officials this this gentleman in the iraqi government to said that they cannot confirm or deny whether these arrests have been made but he said that all these reports that you've heard are complete rubbish and the iraqi government is still trying to get to the bottom of how it all happened look at a weather update next here on al-jazeera then we fly over the trial volcano in the philippines getting a bird's eye view of the threat posed by the rumbling creature plus oh

the indigenous leaders meet in brazil to plan a battle to save the rain forest. hello that savages are once again on the rise across much of the arabian peninsula of had a fairly cool week but that is set to change as we head into the weekend meanwhile plenty of cloud across the north this is being with the rain and of course and snow to the higher ground the system is sitting in the eastern end of the mediterranean so one of 2 showers here but you can see a widespread certainly into northern and western areas of iran and then really sunday that we see this rain quite heavy pushing its way across into israel lebanon up into northern syria becoming very widespread across much of iran and also beginning to push across into afghanistan again some snow in that cold we've also

got a bit of a change to the northwest of africa not so much on a saturday we have a system impacting portions spain sunday by sunday that pushes down so expect some showers heavy at times into morocco and into algeria and then southern africa of those rather heavy showers across areas of madagascar if outside here it could lead to more flooding of the next few days it really is very heavy at times and the scattered showers and thunderstorms through central eastern areas of south africa pushing up as far as mozambique warm still in cape town a $27.00 celsius but for the next couple of days expect to see want to scattered showers. in the heart of the amazon believe me in family as a fan i was imperiled to harvest brazil nuts. the finns can sing the congo to the capital an even more dangerous challenge.

risking it to believe me out. on al-jazeera. way. well again this is a let's remind you of the main news this hour greece is calling for a cease fire in libya the walled khalifa haftar has been in athens for talks after us forces fighting the internationally recognized government in tripoli the talks are happening ahead of a conference in berlin on sunday but greece has not been invited. out as there are

sources of revealed details about the investigation into the assassination of the top iranian general custom sort of mahdi they confirm he landed at baghdad international airport from syria's capital damascus and was killed minutes after getting into a vehicle with an iraqi militia leader. and iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali harmony as delivered his 1st friday sermon in 8 years he said that u.s. forces are not safe in the region and beyond he also called for unity after protests over the accidental shooting down of ukrainian passenger planes. u.s. president donald trump has announced the defense team in his upcoming impeachment trial it includes the former independent counsel ken starr and lawyer alan dershowitz the trial will be led by white house counsel pat. and trump's lawyer jay cycle of the legal process was set in motion in the senate on thursday after house democrats read the charges that trumped faces let's go live now to the white house

our white house for a correspondent kimberly how good is that tell us more about these new additions to trump's legal defense what's significant about these 2 men. well for some of us who covered the last presidential impeachment it's a little bit like deja vu at least in the case of kenneth starr let's sort of look at his background he's 73 years old he's a one time u.s. circuit judge and the reason he's familiar to many americans is because he led the investigation into former u.s. president bill clinton that led to clinton's impeachment more recently he has been part of convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein's legal team and for those who are not familiar jeffrey have said he is of course the american financier who has been was convicted of sex offenses now for the other individual alan dershowitz dershowitz rather he is also a familiar name to many americans he's 81 years old professor of law at harvard law

school his previous clients included convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein and convicted robber o.j. simpson he's part of the defense team representing accused sex offender harvey weinstein who of course the american film producer and broiled in sex abuse allegations now when it comes to deja vu and ken starr an interesting choice he did lead as i mentioned there the case against former president bill clinton but when it comes to ella dershowitz also very interesting because he's known as a democrat he's voted for democrats in the past so interesting that he would be on a republican president's defense team but also interesting in all of this is this gives us some insight into how this legal defense may be mounted sensually he has argued on national television for many weeks and months now the case against perhaps impeaching president trump given the fact that he believes this is something that has been weaponized and could be a dangerous precedent for future presidents in other words that this process has

been politicized so expect that that may be a key component to trump's legal defense in that senate trial that really has kicked off but really will begin in earnest on tuesday was his course from the committee. live in washington kimberly many thanks indeed. guinea's opposition is urging protesters to continue to demonstrate against president over condo's bid to seek a 3rd term in office since october 20 people have been killed in protests that have turned violent 4 boys were shot this week laura but manley reports. burning tires barricades and tear gas canisters have been littering the capital's main roads since mid october thousands of people rallied against any attempt by president alpha condé to stay in power for a 3rd time the government allowed them to march but only on certain sanctioned routes many of the protesters deviated and that's when they say police opened fire and claimed offices didn't stop there. the police entered into the hospital and

they started shooting at us and tried to take some but we refused a coalition of opposition groups calling itself the national front the fence of the constitution has been spearheading the marches it's now called for a general strike to continue. but in the capital conakry those businesses are paying the price. unfortunately today i didn't even get a client so i don't know how the family is going to emerge. so the government is supposed to help us but now the police are entering our houses looting and hurting our children shops markets and carriages are all affected by the strike with a rise in fuel prices and inflation overseen double figures many businesses say they are struggling to survive. going to customers come but very few because there is no security everybody is afraid of the police and government 81 year old condé

1st came to power in 2010 his 2nd and final 5 year term in office is coming to an end this year the opposition says he plans to use a new constitution to extend his 2 term limits and fears that without the support of parliament he may go straight for a referendum it's unclear when the strike and protests will end that's likely to depend on condit's next move. out to theory. police in the democratic republic of congo have dispersed demonstrators with tear gas in the capital kinshasa anti-government protests were led by the former presidential candidates mohsen failure to mourn the killing of hundreds of civilians in the northeast by rebel groups the process was initially banned by thora cease security forces a school that the opposition leader in vans back to his home.

they took my money from me he hurt me i wasn't even marching do you see how badly injured you see how badly injured i wasn't even marching. for a cause the reason is. just what we feel like on the ground the world health organization says that hundreds of thousands of people are killed by fake medicine every year in africa the medical trade in west africa alone is worth 200000000000 dollars with the counterfeit drugs coming from china india and nigeria now west african leaders are meeting in low made to sign an agreement cracking down on the trade off is there as nicholas hock reports from senegal its capital dhaka. it started with an itch and turned into a rash it was then factors are decided to get some medicine but to save money she bought pills from a man out of market after taking them she found she couldn't walk she started vomiting and even lost her teeth she ended up in hospital in intensive care.

the doctor told me i was going to die i had to tell them the truth i couldn't afford to buy drugs in the pharmacy so i bought them on the street. to the pills from a market like this one cameras are not welcome here ours is concealed. we're soon approached this man tells us he buys and sells medicine then shows us what he has among the drugs he's selling or the pills that poisoned far too he tells us it's good quality it's from france he says this is the medicine that we bought inside the market we bought the exact same one at a local pharmacy now some of these drugs look completely different others are identical would be impossible to tell which one is real and which one isn't and selling drugs outside of a pharmacy on the streets is illegal here in san diego and throughout most west african countries but the law is rarely enforced the world health organization says

that the african continent is flooded with counterfeit medicine saying that at least $100000.00 people die every year ingesting think medicine counterfeit drugs is a $200000000000.00 trade and it's said to be booming in west africa the fake medicines are made in china india or nigeria pharmacist say their warnings about the counterfeit are too often ignored even that if it's the state's responsibility to protect its citizens this is poison in our health care system and this is having a devastating impact on our population. no longer trusts medicines she's focusing instead on the food she eats saying a good diet may be the best way to stay healthy nicholas hawk al-jazeera deckard. huge crowds joined climate activists for a climate launch in the swiss city of laws on the demonstration was planned for the 1st anniversary of the climate strike movement was inspired by 2 of the

demonstrators sang happy birthday to mark the occasion before setting out on the launch it also comes ahead of the world economic forum in davos next week which to a movie is planning to attend. to the well. and those. i would like to. but you haven't seen anything yet you have not seen the last of us we can assure you that. that is the message that we will bring to the world economic forum in davos was next week. an aerial survey of the taal volcano in the philippines has the government and scientists worried that another powerful eruption could be imminent people are being warned to stay out of an exclusion zone al-jazeera as john allen jogen was on the flight over the rumbling volcanoes cry so. these

government officials want a closer look at the rumbling volcano so they've come to this military air base in the town this province the plan to fly over the crates here of the top. and decide how to respond to the threat it continues to pose it's been days since that erupted but the crisis is far from over. we flew over the past city towards our late what we saw there was beyond human comprehension. what was once a popular tourist destination is now on recognizable. from above though we can see the and it was killed when time although gave no spewing steam and lumber farmlands this is showing communities damaged buildings in crisis but in the middle of the destruction some are tearing to return for many this is all that they

have left. we finally reach the volcano squitieri. this is what alert level for looks like up close experts are warning of another eruption is imminent. seconds later a fountain of blacks team iraq. it's and the pilot has to make you very quickly to escape a reminder of how the child the situation is. the very 1st 3 bites of the fish from the belly piece of paper that howard the great covering the areas that by now you know iraq and what they have so by the way i think. what we saw. based on my expectation based on the success make the people my heart broke and it was heartbreaking to see the devastation loss terrible as far as the military is concerned we know that they need to be done and they. are see the sense

. and focus more than 50000 people have been evacuated from a 40 kilometer danger zone. but beyond the physical discomfort officials say it is the uncertainty of what might happen next that braces the government to prepare for the worst gannicus eruptions are difficult to accurately predict but more are expected and government officials say they're leaving nothing to chance. but then this province northern philippines. indigenous leaders in brazil say that they're fighting to preserve their land and culture they've been meeting in the amazon region for days to find a way to counter president jaya balsam dollars and darren mental policies which they say are devastating their communities. reports. in the heart of brazil's rain forest dozens of indigenous leaders meet to form an

alliance together they want to stop government policies they say are putting their livelihoods at risk president also not o. want to open up the amazons reservations for commercial mining and agriculture that's of great concern to many tribes who see. it as a threat. brazil's most respected and revered indigenous leader chief ronnie is leading the resistance against the plants but he admits the issue has caused a rift within tribal communities no ma'am and believe me they're all relatives who support both scenarios ideas so the president is causing a division but those who support him are making a mistake we are against him and we will defend ourselves deforestation rates have nearly doubled in the amazon since paul so narrow became president in january his critics believe the fires that devastated the amazon last year were a result at least in part of his policies but speaking before the u.n.

general assembly he downplayed the damage. it's a fallacy to say that the amazon is the heritage of humankind in a misconception confirmed by scientists to say that our amazonian forest of the lungs of the world based on these fallacies certain countries is that of helping him but to media lies and behaved in a disrespectful manner with the colonialists spirit indigenous leaders are now looking for more support at home and abroad. we have to come together only through these alliances and movements we be able to borrow this tragic agenda that reflects bilson our us government. about 900000 people make a brazil's native tribes the president has promised to integrate them into a modern day economy but these indigenous communities fear the price of doing so could lead to irreparable damage to the environment and their culture. katia lapus of the young al-jazeera. there's plenty more video like battling with the latest

news analysis sports and comments at the web site take a look at al-jazeera dot com. it is good terry with us hello adrian for the good here in doha the headlines i was as they were greece is calling for a cease fire in libya or lord khalifa haftar has been in athens for talks his forces are fighting the internationally recognized government in tripoli those talks are happening ahead of a conference in berlin on sunday and a huge minimum you would think if we continue to believe that you to the current circumstances our presence in germany should have been viewed as something positive since we will not be there we expect germany the host to be the protector of europe stands on issues concerning libya europe has a clear position has expressed in the last european meeting a common position recognizes the accord signed between tripoli and turkey as

invalid al-jazeera sources have given details about the investigation into the killing of the top iranian general custom samani and they confirm that he landed a bank that international airport from syria's capital damascus and was killed minutes after entering a vehicle with an iraqi militia leader. iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali harmony as delivered his 1st friday sermon in 8 years he said that u.s. forces are not safe in the region and beyond how many went on to urge calm after protests over the accidental shooting down of the ukrainian passenger plane he told worshippers to be wary of western misinformation. members of the treats wrist u.s. government keep repeating that they are behind the people of iran but aligning even if they are standing by iranians it's only to stay they poison the degas into the hearts of the iranian people. the u.s. president donald trump's defense team for his upcoming impeachment trial has been

named it includes former independent counsel ken starr and lawyer alan dershowitz the trial will be led by white house counsel pat pallone and trump's lawyer jay sekulow. and huge crowds joins climate activist for a climate march in the swiss city of laws on the demonstration was planned for the 1st anniversary of the climate strike movement inspired by tom bowed demonstrates a sang happy birthday to rock the occasion before setting out it also comes ahead of the world economic forum in davos next week which to a book says she's planning to attend. one is fear here on al-jazeera inside story next.

how wall of latin reporting hold on to power the russian leader has named a new prime minister and promised to introduce constitutional reforms but what's motivating can and what are his plans for the future of russia this is inside story . hello i'm richelle carey welcome to the program russia's parliament has overwhelmingly approved the nation's new prime minister the former head of the federal tax service becomes used and will succeed to meet the medvedev that the of death resigned along with the entire government on wednesday after president vladimir putin announced.