device exploded as you try to diffuse it i was aware of the danger of seeing friends wounded while working on mines i wasn't scared to lose and to sacrifice we have to like this country. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian forgetting this is the news live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes libyan border collie if i have to hold talks with turkey's regional rival greece ahead of sunday's peace summit in berlin. calls for unity and a condemnation of western powers iran's supreme leader ayatollah khomeini delivers his 1st friday someone but in 8 years. he led the investigation into the

impeachment of president bill clinton now ken starr joins lawyers representing donald trump at his trial. hello i'm maryanne demasi in london with the top stories from europe including a small emergency with 4 southern european cities ranking amongst the most pollution in the world protesters demonic government take action. and on fire a small have all the day's sports including carlos sanchez one the dakar rally the spaniard winning the world's highest profile off road rally for a 3rd time. we begin with the diplomatic moves ahead of the summit in berlin on sunday to try to end libya's civil war was told met with the prime minister of greece turkey.

regional rival of 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 have task forces and the un recognized government of affairs. both have expected to be in berlin but russia is downplaying chances of a peace deal globality 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 have been bombed by after forces let's go live now to tripoli syria's of the 100 with us from the.

start with libya's foreign ministry there are reports that it wants. to join the talks in berlin. will. the foreign ministry in tripoli has sent an official letter to the german embassy in tripoli requesting that both qatar and tunisia be invited for the talks we know that the government of national accord is keen to include both countries to achieve some kind of balance facing the other delegation supporting the warlords really for have to do as you know adrian that at least 4 countries supporting the warlord tell if there have to are invited to take part in the 1000000000 talks on sunday including the united arab emirates egypt

russia and france so by this move the government here in tripoli is trying to achieve balance that tunisia is very important to take part in these talks as tunisia not only as a neighboring country and being impacted and affected by the ongoing crisis in libya but it has been also hosting thousands of libyans if you g.-d. and as for qatar the government says that qatar has been all supporting the freedom revolutions in libya since 2011 and the government believes that qatar is a key player in the peace talks in berlin meanwhile we're getting news here in tripoli reported by a local television saying that saddam might not attend the billing talks on sunday and instead he might send a delegation we know that so large has been under pressure over the past few days

as you know adrian that many allies in the west of libya allies with. have been requesting that have to the forces. must pull out from southern tripoli as a prerequisite for any peace talks also the fact that the western a camp led by so large has only turkey as an ally in the berlin talks compared to. 4 countries supporting catheter on the other side also the fact that they have to did not sign their cease fire called in most school despite the fact that both the . prime minister saraj and the head of the high state council signed the cease fire called in moscow this has resulted in a kind of frustration a lack of trust here in the western a camp led by the prime minister to face a large so it's remains to be seen whether or not there german government will

respond to the astrologers request and invite tunisia and qatar to these talks but would otherwise have lived there for us in tripoli al jazeera says following the story from athens he says that the talks are focused on greece's strategic concerns in libya. we still don't know whether there's going to be any statement after the meeting between general have tyler and the prime minister and that meeting is still ongoing as far as we know but we do know what was said earlier in general have to his meeting with because then there is the foreign minister mr then the us told reporters after that he and general have to have agreed that among general have to us aims at the peace conference to secure a cease fire and security in his country should be the pursuit of the. a blockade against any other reaching the warring sides

a departure of foreign mercenaries that have played such a large part in this war and also in an old mint of the maritime jurisdiction agreement reached by crafters rival the government in tripoli with turkey last november that is an agreement greece has taken particular objection to because it infringes upon areas in the mediterranean that greece also sees as its maritime jurisdiction belonging to its eastern asian islands and so it wants that agreement and all that is its main concern in these talks but of course it is aligned with its european union allies and partners in wanting international law to prevail in libya and an agreement that's acceptable to all sides meanwhile khalifa haftar has written a letter to russia's president vladimir putin thanking him for his efforts in trying to resolve the libyan conflict i'll just step boston and moscow has more on

that. the press service of the kremlin has just made public that i have to have send a letter to president putin to reaffirm his willingness to go to moscow again to continue the dialogue the peace talks and he also said mr president my dear friend i wish to express my personal gratitude and appreciation to russia for afeard stores establishing peace and stability in libya and this is all of course very interesting because this latter comes a little over 4 days after have to pretty much embarrass president putin after he left moscow there were peace negotiations going on for more than 7 hours so russia the prime minister of the u.s. backed government in libya had signed this cease fire agreement and have to ask some time until the morning to think about it and then suddenly in the middle of the night left moscow without any signature so this was seen as

a failure of course for moscow and for president putin and this latter now seems to be a safe face saving operation to make sure that russia is back in the game. well libya's been torn apart by conflict since long time ruler muammar gaddafi was overthrown in 2011 that's divided between warring militia groups which mostly back to rival governments the un recognized administration led by prime minister fares also. is based in tripoli but it's supported by turkey and many european nations including italy which is worried that the fighting near tripoli will force more people to flee across the mediterranean than in the east there's the brook based governments the center of power for the warlord coming for half the who is backed by egypt saudi arabia russia and the united arab emirates france is also accused of providing military support to his forces riyadh and smith is managing editor of libya analysis and says that those attending sunday's berlin conference hoping it will bring about a breakthrough for

a lasting cease fire well originally the idea of the conference was actually folks on the international axis and given that international act is all a strange country dreams are huge driver of the current conflict now that was the initial i'm sorry to agree that the u.n. arms and body which is in place on the bia could be in force at the moment isn't being however what we've seen over the last week when russia and hickey facilitating a cease fire between set up and have to on the ground there as you simply only reports it not necessarily completely being imposed on the ground now said i signed that deal in moscow on monday after i did not so i think the main media outcome of the vote in conference and yet as i say from paul is i have to also agree to these trees and i can integrate its hands that will allow the ceasefire you monitor it and see a semblance of peace to reign and that's really the for us who is meeting to it some kind of disco process or even getting the 2 act is in the same room together

to be able to discuss possible ways forward. here with the news out from al-jazeera still to come on the program al-jazeera sources in iraq provide us with details of the investigation into the assassination of the iranian general custom solomon he will tell you more al-jazeera flies over the towel volcano in the philippines getting a bird's eye view of the threat posed by the rumbling crater plus a warning for african footballers liverpool's coach says the top clubs may lose interest in signing players from the consulate far will be back to tell us why. iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali harmony has delivered his 1st friday sermon in 8 years he said that u.s. forces are not safe in the region and beyond the u.s. killed the top military commander qassam sala mahdi earlier this month holiday went on to urge calm after protests over the accidental shooting down of

a ukrainian passenger plane he told worshippers to be wary of western misinformation. members of the treats for its u.s. government keep repeating that they are behind the people of iran but a lawyer even if they're standing by iranians it's only to state the poison degas into the hearts of the iranian people. are serious as had begun tehran was there for that speech. 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 theologically date he's 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 about the millions of people out 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 he had widespread antigovernment protests back in november we've had the assassination of general cos and so the money the head of the good force he had to rein in 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. is editor in chief of the

sons decisions he joins us now live from tehran good to have you with a sponsor as we said this is the 1st time that the supreme leader has led friday prayers in 8 years why now. hello and thanks for having me well as a matter of fact it was very much important because as your reporter said iran has been experiencing a number of events some shocking actually in the last few days or the last couple of weeks you know after surprising number of people somewhere around 25000000 people took part in funeral procession of money. that needed to be a 2nd image sent out to show that the reigning people are spending and to great it and in support of best opposition after a few 1000 people took out to the streets of following the ukrainian passenger

plane incident and the western media outlets saw hard to magnify their image to pretend that iranians are divided as if they are equal to 25000000 people why there were no more than a few 1000 so they'll run needed to show of the strong support that that the public support is too deep and deeply rooted and too strong to be held back or swayed back because of such events also it was pretty much important because it showed the lines of policy of tehran you know the assassination of money is understood here. as it as a plan a plot by the united states to weekend iran's power in the region forced into iran to the negotiating table when the iranians supremely there is stress today that tehran needs to reinvigorate its military power he was showing that the

assassination has backfired on the u.s. since iran is going to move the opposite way and reinvigorate its power in the region ok so and so are all the reasons which made them and pretty much you know important and i was going to ask you the stuff what with the what were the standout moments in the supreme leader's speech for you. well. this standpoint here was the last point i just said that iran has decided 1st of all to reinvigorate that military power in order to attain the objective that is it has been stressing ever since. they've been saying that expulsion of the us forces from the region is the ultimate goal and the objective the strategic objective and sentenced today and the viewpoint of the leader show that iran is

a standing firm in that regard also with regard to the ukrainian passenger plane he showed a very serious stance saying that investigations should continue to fishel should continue their probe into the incident also they should improve the systems and the air defense systems in order to avoid. similar accidents in future so he showed very much you know care about this incident but still i believe iranians were shocked of course in the last 2 weeks and some parts of the society might have been you know still in the shock so they might have been feeling some kind of passiveness but the iranian supreme neither really energized them and show them the policy and the path and especially when you consider the cold weather here it was it had just started snowing such a huge crowd that gathered around him again they renewed allegiance to the islamic

republic and the leader and they would follow his line as as was expect that that's one of the park making you know sentiments that e.-s. hat and whenever he appears in the friday prayers he may very drastic change in the community in the iranians in the officials so he was very influential in his press. who was very much influential even without saying award the very fact that he let the friday prayers was very important mustapha good to talk to you many thanks indeed once again for being with us most of the editor in chief of the news agency thank you sources close to iraq's investigation into the assassination of the iranian general have told us in syria or have given al-jazeera detailed information about how the u.s. attack took place they explain why it cost him some money was in baghdad and why he

met the former leader of the popular mobilisation forces will mark the we'll hand this on the 0 sum of the job it is in baghdad at a spoken to investigators about the new details surrounding sort of monies assassination. this is the 1st time that the iraqi an iraqi high ranking official has spoken to the media about killing of general carson flamini in a room at the elbow hundreds 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 where he was targeted by a drone and. 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 are confirming that it was a hellfire missile fired by a drone which targeted silly money other interesting details about how silly money was driving in a convoy of 2 cars with. toyota sedan and

a hyundai van. of 10 people were killed in that attack according to iraqi forces and when asked why were there 3 missiles fired when there were only 2 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 to be made because there have been many reports about some involvement on the iraqi side airport officials are 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 canada is stepping up the pressure on iran to commit to a full investigation into the downing of the ukrainian airliner last week prime minister justin trudeau spoke of the country's capital

a short time ago and said it's important the black boxes are examined as soon as possible 67 canadians died in the crash. iran does not have the level of technical expertise and mostly the equipment necessary to be able to analyze these damaged back black boxes quickly there are only a few places in the world that can france is has one of the laboratories that can do it there is a beginning of a consensus that the french are certainly offered to do it that that would be the right place to send those black boxes to get proper proper information from them in in a rapid way and that is what we are encouraging the iranian authorities to agree to us president donald trump's defense team for his upcoming impeachment trial i don't yes they will include former independent counsel ken starr and lawyer alan

dershowitz the trial will be led by white house counsel pat polonium trump's personal attorney jay sekulow of. typing aerostar you just love him let's go live to washington white house correspondent kimberly is with us now tell us more about these additions to the trump legal defense the significance of these men. yes and i'll try not to have some of the pronunciation errors because i have an awful lot of trouble with those when sometimes to let me get into ken starr that's a name i can pronounce and it's it's interesting because this is someone who is familiar to some of us who covered the last impeachment of president bill clinton it's almost like deja vu he's 73 years old one time u.s. circuit judge he led the investigation into former u.s. president bill clinton that lead ultimately to clinton's impeachment and interestingly part of convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein's legal team he of course the american financier convicted of sex offenses before he died now the

other interesting addition to trump's legal defense team as this trial gets underway in the u.s. senate alan dershowitz 81 years old professor of law at harvard law school his previous clients included convicted sex offender jeffrey apps stein and convicted robber o.j. simpson part of the defense team representing accused sex offender harvey weinstein the american film producer embroiled in sex abuse allegations now what's interesting particularly about that last edition of alan dershowitz is the fact that it gives us a bit of insight into the tact that this legal defense may try to take we know the president is still expecting an acquittal because of the dominance of republican u.s. senate but also alan dershowitz has been on national television here in the united states for many weeks now advocating this case should be dismissed we also know that in the past he has voted for democrats and even opposed bill clinton's

impeachment so we expect that he may make a similar argument on the grounds of the constitution that this is a dangerous precedent adrian that this could in some way lead to this process of impeachment being weaponized by political parties and future presidents so this is sort of giving us a sense of how this defense is shaping up as this trial is now underway started sort of with the pomp and search. sounds on thursday but officially those arguments and all of these sort of arguments that will be embroiled in from the defense really beginning on tuesday of next week a white house correspondent with perfect pronunciation kimberly how could that live in washington can be many thanks. more than 2000 people have entered guatemala and a fast growing migrant caravan that's heading for the u.s. most are escaping poverty or gang violence in honduras but his house is here as john holdren reports now it's unlikely they'll ever step foot on u.s. soil. a caravan of more than 2700 homebrewed and hoping to get to

the u.s. . it's one of several that have set out from honduras since 2018 carrying many seeking to escape violence in extreme poverty. among also mineral meters a coffee grower is traveling with his youngest son he says they've no choice and then one day. i have big debts and one douras that i just can't pay because your work doesn't pay enough to support even yourself. this woman says her nephews were killed over christmas and she's left so they can't get her son to she's too scared to let us film her face when you are. losing a son would hit me more than anything else we've already made the decision even if they don't let us pass we can't go back. to now at the cost of then we could run to shelter in guatemala city they're safe and have medical care food and a place to sleep even if it is only under the top pulled in that $5.00 of them out

of the center direct through setting up he expected more than a 1000 i asked how they were going to fit in the mother they have to live what else are we going to do we have to work miracles here that's the situation we're in those in the caravan would be more miracles heading north mexico under pressure from u.s. president donald trump has said he won't let them through those who do manage to get to the u.s. border find disappointment right at the moment with this caravan upon gordon's a trying to get through guatemala and eventually to the united states plane loads of their countrymen are actually being sent back and already got there and asked for asylum to hear what the mother and that's. you know how little they chances are of that actually being accepted for asylum at the end of this journey mouse here knows that he's one of those who've gone past caravans without success ask him why he's trying again not getting them or not putting one good on them and then we have nothing to lose because in hundreds we have nothing you understand our lives are at

risk in honduras as we leave the shelter people are queuing to get in they know their journey is only going to get harder but they're still going on. john homan how does it work for melissa 3. an aerial survey of the volcano in the philippines has the government and scientists worried of another powerful eruption could be imminent people being warned to stay out of an exclusion zone. was on the flight over the rumbling volcanoes craze. 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 crater of the top. and decide how to respond to the threat it continues to pose it's been days since the 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 we can see the end it was killed when toppled came gnosis buttes the scene and lava farmlands . communities damaged a province in crisis but in the middle of the destruction some are tearing to return for many visits all that they have left. we finally reach the volcano this crater. this is what alert level for looks like up close experts are warning their eruption is imminent. seconds later a fountain of blacks. and the pilot has to make you very quickly to escape a reminder of how the tile the situation is. the very 1st 3 bites of the

fish from the philippines. that howard was on the script called very area. but by now both you know iraq and. what we saw your. expectations also based on 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 a lot of things need to be done and we. 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 breaches the government to prepare for the worst volcanic 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. will get a weather update next here on al-jazeera then the sale of fake drugs in west africa has left hundreds of thousands of people dead we have exclusive video of several transactions. china's economic growth at its lowest in nearly 30 years we'll take a look at what's behind the slowdown. that in sport an imperfect 10 for the basketball team that's only used to setting the games on highest standards. once again on the rise across much of the. week but that is set to change as we head into the weekend meanwhile plenty of drought across the north this is bringing

the range and of course snow to the higher ground the system is sitting in the eastern end of the mediterranean so i wanted to show us here. you can see a widespread. western areas of iran and then 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 against 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 impact importance by sunday that pushes down so expect some showers heavy at times into morocco and. algeria and then southern africa the heavy showers across areas of madagascar if it could lead to more flooding of the next few days it really is very heavy at times and the. central eastern areas of south africa pushing up as far as mozambique warm still in capetown

a $27.00 celsius but for the next couple of days expect to see one of. such an investigation into gun culture in the philippines. and then put in place to control it in this country it is not the right time. the right of. your not solving the problem of criminality of the peace because these are not the people who are committing the crime. to your customers a lot of. the violence actually. rewind stray bullets on al-jazeera. they join one of the wilds most notorious sound groups. but found a way out to rebuild their lives and now help our vets. a tale of

course recruitment child soldiers and they have rethink exploitation of women or daughter is a palace a bad part of the radicalize nude scene and it's tunnel designer. that again it's good to be with us avery and figurehead doha with the news out from al-jazeera the headlines libya toward khalifa haftar held talks with the prime minister of greece turkey has made regional rival ahead of a major summit in the ongoing war in the civil war athens has been excluded from sunday's talks in berlin turkey and russia who are at the opposite sides of the conflict will attend. iran's religious leader ayatollah ali how many has criticized

several european states say that they can't be trusted in negotiations over the 2050 nuclear deal. comedy made the comments during friday prayers it's the 1st time that he has led them in tehran in 8 years. and us president donald trump defense team for his upcoming it pinch for trial has been named it includes a former independent counsel ken starr and for alan dershowitz the trial be led by white house counsel pat chip loney and trump's lawyer jay sekulow. cities across southern europe are experiencing dangerously high levels of smaug leading to protests in bosnia and serbia for more on that let's join maryam namazie at our european news outta there. a yeah thanks very much well it's an annual misery this winter small and it tends to hit across the balkans region of europe as he was saying widespread reliance on coal and wood fires has

a severe impact on air quality but this year a growing number of citizens across the region taking to the streets to demand the government take action brennan has our report. belgrade sarajevo pristina and scorpio in recent weeks all 4 have been ranked in the top 10 list of the world's most polluted cities january has been a suffocating ordeal for the residents of the balkans. for the whole of mankind this is not good at sarajevo then belgrade and all of the city it is polluted because of cars and bad feel cool and like night. a recent un report agreed finding that more than 60 percent of people here rely on coal and fire wood stoves to heat their homes 20 percent of the region's premature deaths were directly linked to chronic air pollution the bosnian capital saudi aver sits in a valley ringed by high mountains and most of the past week pollution in the form

of microscopic airborne particles has been at least twice and sometimes 8 times higher than the e.u. safe limits to the d.c. we can hardly breathe when we go out it's especially hard for patients with heart and lung problems sometimes you can't even walk on the street even with a scarf on it was suffocating. in the bosnian town of tuzla this week carrying banners saying we want to breathe hundreds protested their anger at government inaction we were to show you. the local authorities tell us stories about some nebulous temperature inversion and the like but we all know that the basic cause of pollution in this city is particle pollution and from individual heat and stoves the city is simply not investing in our. emissions now that i came here to support these protests and to finally make survey people to enforce a change to show that they care about their city and about breathing with.

governments and local authorities often downplay the issue some politicians refer to it as choking season simply typical for the time of year this year though campaigners are rejecting that narrative like never before and. clean energy be made more accessible that older polluting vehicles should be banned regulations on industry emissions and power plants be tightened all that requires money investment and with impeccable timing the european union last month announced a new green deal fund promising $1.00 trillion dollars of investment in the western balkans it can't come soon enough paul brennan al-jazeera. well yelena goes shank joins us live now from the serbian capital belgrade of course you are in one of the cities that's been suffering from these dangerous levels of smaug in recent days what's it like over there just just describe to us that the conditions.

you can actually see the air there that's the problem tonight it's even clear the night before 8 you couldn't even see those buildings. there is no problem you're just across the street but you couldn't see this building that's why the protest was held here in belgrade organized by initiative don't to drownd the belgrade this is a group of citizens who are trying to warm authorities about the air quality in belgrade and there they came out with some. short service and long term measures for that problem and they want it from the government to adopt to those measures as soon as possible without any delay 1st of all they want to be informed on their living is about the air quality and then they want transformation of. public transport so the number of course could be reduced they're also very very

active in promoting alternative way of transport like cycling or walking and of course the big issue here is the way of heating last research here in the balkans shows that 9 out of 10 people feel that pollution is a problem in their community but they don't feel like they can do anything about it and this protest should make some difference about it. we've been speaking about there being this problem with wind test smog but given the fact that obviously we have this pollution issue in the government hasn't been doing very much these are some of the most polluted cities in europe is this something that people are actually experiencing all year round is it getting worse. oh sorry i will have this problem or during the or whole year and belgrade the. more connected to to do winter when we are talking about this this problem and the

real the problem is in communication between the government and the citizens both in boston herzegovina and in serbia for example here in belgrade the president of serbia. days after the very polluted air here here in belgrade. where is the minister of environmental protection where is he is he alive is he going to say something is he going to do something and this minister should have called a press conference today but he cancel it and in meanwhile the serbian president said this pollution is a result of the standard here is sort of so everyone can afford to drive the car so that's why the air is polluted to so this kind of commons make people more even more angry so do news a from the government is that prime minister said that serbian government should

the coordinates of all of them is ation involved in the 1 ear protection during the days they're coming so we should get some more information about that thank you appreciate it lucia joining us there from the serbian capital belgrade. meanwhile huge crowds of people have joined climate activists gratitude for a climate march in this. demonstration was planned for the one year anniversary of the climate strike movement inspired by to unpeg demonstrators sang happy birthday to month vacation before setting out on the march it also comes out of the world economic forum in davos next week which is planning to attend. to the world leaders and those in power. i would like to say. that you haven't seen anything yet you have not seen the law so we can assure you that. we

with. and that is the message that we will bring to the world economic forum in davos next week. in other news ukraine's president wrote in his alinsky has not accepted his prime minister's resignation after a leskie hunch criticised the former comedian's limited political experience and leaked order recordings a voice sounding like can charge is heard saying zelinsky knows nothing about the economy is as not confirmed that the voice is his but he has offered to step down to remove any doubt that he respects and trust the president so let's go says he would give one sure because 2nd chance in that it wasn't time for a shake up politically. poland's opposition dominated senate has rejected a new law that would allow judges who criticize the government's judicial reforms to be disciplined 100 member senate voted by 51 to 48 to reject that law but the

lower house controlled by the ruling national justice party still has the power to make the bill to make it to officially law again baba has more from warsaw. with this move by the senate the upper house of the polish parliament was expected it sends a message to the government that the opposition controlled upper house is not happy with the judicial reforms it's trying to push through but now the bill will go back to the lower house of parliament where the ruling your and justice party have a majority and they are likely to get this bill passed there determined to push through what they say are necessary reforms but those reforms haven't the government rebuke not just of the european commission but also from a number of judges who've taken to the streets in recent months and ordinary citizens now one of those campaigning judges has been telling us that he thinks if things go on as they are then eventually poland could actually get expelled from

the european union saying different national. press one or there are a lot polish judges have lived under pressure for several years. every decision or action that's not in line with what the politicians want is met with attacks there's been hate speech against us or our families sometimes judges are intimidated on the street we've had attacks on our homes but we've become more immune to the attacks and going to thick skin we need to be brave we need to fight . poland's a member of the european union but the situation with the judicial system here has nothing to do with european standards it's more similar to russia. or other dictatorships. than. the last protest march attended by so many regular citizens has shown that people really care. more and more people understand what's happening in our country of

course we should be able to defend ourselves but help from the e.u. is also very important because we've used all the means we have to defend the judiciary now i think our last hope is the e.u. . this argument saying most judges in poland are communist criminals is funny simply because more than 90 percent of them are in their thirty's or forty's and came of age after poland became a democracy the institutions being destroyed today with thought up during the 1st solidarity move to have. the destruction of our judicial system is certainly a step towards polacks it because there can be no place for a democratic country in europe where the separation of powers is abused like this. it's a drama and a tragedy but i believe we will win. was over gram of. iraq

gold coin britain's king at the 8th has been bought by a private collector for a 1000000 pounds making it the most expensive british coin ever a coin made from 22 carat gold it was one of 6 prepared by the royal mint when edward became king in 1936 but he abdicated at the end of that year to marry an american divorcee wallis simpson meaning the coin never entered secular nation on the 6 coins made 4 in museums 2 of them privately owned. that's it from london fallacy in about 10 minutes time adrian. many thanks the world health organization says that hundreds of thousands of people are killed by fake medicines every year in africa the medical trade in west africa alone is worth $200000000000.00 but the counterfeit drugs coming from china india nigeria now west african leaders are meeting in low made to sign agreements cracking down on the trade al-jazeera sticklers hawk reports from some of goals capital. it started with

an itch and turned into a rash it was then factories are decided to get some medicine but to save money she bought pills from a man at a 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 selling or the pills that poison 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 it 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 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 pharmacists say their warnings about the counterfeit are too often ignored. it's the state's responsibility to protect its citizens this is poisoning our health care system and this is having a devastating impact on our population. no longer trust 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 car. china's economic growth slowed to an almost 3 decades low its g.d.p. grew by just 6 point one percent in 2019 that's the lowest since 1990 but still within the government's target the world's 2nd largest economy has been stifled by the ongoing trade war with the u.s. exports has been facing steep american tariffs or one stay the 2 sides signed phase one of a trade deal to ease the tensions for green rory green i'm sorry is a financial expert on china and says that there are positive signs in the economy despite the relatively low growth to go. we certainly look at the comparison between the 23 in the q 4 numbers for g.d.p. and for china's industrial production and retail sales investment you can see a real clear improvement in those numbers so we actually think that the china

chinese economy has bottomed out in a sense for a relatively stable period of strong stable a strong period of economic growth china is in a very tricky transition period where it's trying to shift away from a credit fueled investment driven economy towards a more high tech consumption. fueled growth model and at the moment it's kind of caught in the middle of the consumption is not strong enough the technology upgrading hasn't carried out at such a high pace so it's still having to rely bear on investment and credit to to boost economic growth again continues to build up problems within the system that continues to grow and until this transition successfully occurs china is a very tricky balancing act to maintain here. just ahead of the news outlets for the wider who's played history of the dakar rally car will be here with the rest of

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the you are or you are the one. that i did not just for his for thanks adrian carlos sands has won the dakar rally for a 3rd time the spaniard finished more than 6 minutes clear of defending champion of catch our world's highest profile off road rally was being held in saudi arabia for the 1st time with sands his previous 2 wins coming in south america a 57 year old winning by 6 minutes over who won the final stage in his 1st win of this dakar. but has been really thought from the fed to say do you push in 100

percent no no no d.c. . it's nicer when the bubble is so so tough so how did this nice and on the. set of the frame got to do with them but about. and over in the biased category ricky grab made history by becoming the 1st american to win the jack are on 2 wheels since the endurance race started back in 1979 brought back beat out jose ignacio of chile by 53 seconds. week after reportedly turning down the job of coaching barcelona geoffrey hernandez on friday coached his team to victory in the qatar cup final but even a man of his long playing career won't have seen many goals quite as bizarre as this one this longball up field look easy for the elder held defense but then this happens. we keep

reading it straight to the outside striker who shows instant reactions to score outside winning 4 nil to give chevy his 2nd trophy as coach liverpool manager you're going club has described the decision to move the african cup of nations back to a winter date in 2021 as disastrous both for his team and for african players in general liverpool have 3 stars egypt's mohamed salah nabby kate of guinea and senegal's reigning african player of the year is saudi a money will be called up to play in cameroon which said that the clubs would be less willing to sign talent from africa if they were going to be absent for several weeks due to the tournaments the african government has going back to china february which is. for us a catastrophe in that moment losing 3 players the other thing that doesn't that's true it doesn't help african players go even though it sell side you more

or not the know because they have a tournament in fact and general february of course not but if you have to make a decision both bring in the player it's a massive form because you don't have to but you will be policies already you haven't fought for weeks runabout you don't have it so that's normal process so as a club you have to think about things like that it doesn't help the players push you in the. on sunday liverpool hope to increase their lead at the top of the premier league when they play manchester united united have just sold their club captain ashley young to inter milan who are challenging the eventis for the italian league title united appointing harry look wire is captain in place of young who leaves after 9 years in manchester. the golden state warriors nightmare season has got even worse the n.b.a.'s most dominant team of the last decade has slumped to a 10th straight defeat it's their 1st double digit losing streak for 18 years so how malik reports though it's been

a miserable season for the golden state warriors with the stars steph curry and clay thompson missing most the games through injury they've become the n.b.a.'s whipping boys but against denver on thursday they looked like they might be in for a real win. despite losing their previous 9 the warriors start to top taking a 17 point lead into halftime the nuggets though are the 2nd best team in the western conference this season and they weren't about to lay down. one right direction by jumping the veil scored the depleted warriors 68 to 51 in the 2nd home to take the game to overtime nicklaus joke which starring for them with 23 points overall is that some little baby. it just wasn't going to be golden state's night their 5 consecutive trips to the finals looking like it's distant memory i know for sure but in the end they just didn't have enough the nuggets going on to win it by 3

taking golden state's losing streak to 10 games another night of pain for the warriors and their fans through hell maalik al-jazeera. time as world number one ashley barty looks to be heading form just in time for her home grand slam party beating danielle collins to go to the final the adelaide international a 23 year old lost the opening set and had to come through a 3rd set tie break party will play ukrainian teenager diana yes transco final as she builds up to the australian open which gets underway on monday. and the n.h.l. the game known as the battle of new york lived up to its reputation city rivals the rangers and islanders fay. and relevel with less than 30 seconds left chris kreider settle things scoring a power play goal to win it $32.00 for the rangers. ok and that has are your sport for now adrian back to you many thanks a day that's it for the news out time for us to have the boss on to our colleagues

in london mary i'm here to update you about it all see again by the. joint africa's largest trade and investment in the one day 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 a premium hawkings we have 2020 transforming africa. in

the heart of the amazon believe me in families but then law is imperiled to harvest brazil nuts. it's getting the cargo to the capital isn't even more dangerous challenge. risking it to delivery out. on al-jazeera. on counting the cost from most of the trade deal is china capitulates can beijing deliver tens of billions in extra trade russia seeks to isolate ukraine with a pipeline via turkey plus south korea's does struggling to climb the social escalates counting the cost i'll just see if. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the wound so no matter how you take

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