on the streets of time and feel is generally some senators are preparing for a briefing on b. u.s. military strike and whatever response it may bring. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes world leaders prepare for a meeting to resolve the conflict in libya but russia isn't confident they'll reach a deal. with. iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei calls for national unity and condemns western powers donald trump says he better watch his words. let the investigation into the impeachment of u.s.

president bill clinton now ken starr will represent donald trump at his trial. thousands of migrants gather in guatemala all routes to the u.s. but mexico's president says he will not allow them to pass through his country. russia has cautioned both sides and maybe this conflict ahead of a highly anticipated summit and balun on sunday acting foreign minister sergei lavrov as wallowed khalifa haftar and prime minister of the un back to government fi is. to come together in berlin without adding conditions on the terms of the meeting is currently in greece ahead of those talks which are aimed at ending the 9 month conflict 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 the libyan sides do not repeat their own past mistakes and start adding any additional conditions and blaming each other so as of now the relationships between them are very strange they don't even want to be in the same room let alone speak or meet each other. meanwhile holly for half so has written a letter to russian president vladimir putin thanking him for trying to resolve the libyan conflict service and has more from moscow 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 letter now seems to be safe face saving operation to make sure that russia is back in the game. and supporters of huffed have been rallying in the libyan city of benghazi hundreds of people have chosen to the anti turkish slogans and demanded a halt to libyan oil exports they say oil revenues are only benefiting the tripoli based administration libya's national oil corporation says production is the country's single source of income in any destruction would have far reaching

consequences. when libya has been torn apart by conflict since long time ruler muammar gaddafi was overthrown in 2011 it's divided between warring militia groups which mostly back to rival governments the un recognized administration led by prime minister fires also is based in tripoli it's supported by turkey and many european nations including italy which is one of the fighting near tripoli will force more people to flee across the mediterranean. in the east the broker based government the center of power for war khalifa haftar now he's backed by egypt saudi arabia russia and the united arab emirates france is also accused of providing military support to his forces marco and other one is in tripoli and says the u.n. recognize government based there once qatar and 2 micio to attend the berlin peace conference on sunday 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 bit of talks we know that the government of national accord is keen to include both countries to achieve some kind of balance facing the other daily geisha in supporting the warlords really for have that as you know at least 4 countries supporting the warlords highly for have 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 it says that tunisia is very important to take part in these talks as not only as a neighboring country and being impacted and and affected by the ongoing crisis in libya but it has been also costing thousands of libyan if you g.-d.

and as for qatar the government says that qatar has been always supporting the freedom revolutions in libya since 2011 and the government believes that qatar is a key. player in the peace talks in berlin jason packer's founder of the consultancy libya analysis he explains why the conflict now involves so many countries including greece. ever since huffed attack tripoli in april 29000 the nature of the civil war in libya changed for the last 4 years before then you had a proxy war the different libyan coalitions were fighting with outside actors supporting one side or the other but now what's happened is it's really the outside actors who are running the show and the different libyan coalitions are fighting

and have to has many supporters in egypt russia the u.a.e. saudi arabia jordan and to some extent even france where as the g. and a has not been able to get military support from its traditional allies the u.s. u.k. and italy so it's been between a rock and a hard place and desperately only the turks have stepped up to the plate with the drones air support and mercenaries that the g.n.a.t. needs and in exchange for that they demanded you need to sign this maritime m.-o. you and the maritime m.-o. you violates the international law of the sea known as un closs in giving a turkish libyan shared zone of economic influence between south western anatolia and the libyan coast and of course that has enraged greece and cyprus because they've been prospecting for natural gas in those waters. thousands of

people have been injured in clashes in the iraqi capital baghdad security forces have fired tear gas to break up a crowd of demonstrators trying to bring to baghdad to bridge the bridges close to talk to your square where thousands of camped out for months demanding political change in iraq hundreds of people have been killed since mass protests began in october. iran's supreme leader says european countries can't be trusted in negotiations over the 2015 nuclear deal ayatollah ali khamenei made the comments during friday prayers it's the 1st time he's led the salmon in teheran an 80 years i said big has more from the iranian capital the day's events began with the customary. and the chants of death to america a 1000 the faithful to friday prayers to hear that supreme leader. the last time he did this was in 2012 the myth of the arab spring the spiritual and political leader of iran focus to the united states and europe with the europeans having cricket the

dispute mechanism in the 2050 nuclear deal and with the rod to the united nations well you've got again germany france and even government of the u.k. responded to their threat after the u.s. withdrawal from the nuclear deal i said i don't trust them and that they're american servants and clients these countries want to bring the iranian nation to its knees and the u.s. which is your master couldn't do anything let alone you who were smaller we can be a deceitful in the negotiations with those a steel hand in a building glove they cannot be trusted we have no problem with talks but not with the us. but domestically the country has seen protests against price rises and in the last week condemnation of the downing of the ukrainian passenger jet after it left with the loss of 136 lives the message one of regret and condolence call to all. the plane crash was a bitter accident he burned through a hot next month iran has parliamentary election polls show that the turnout could

be very low an obvious concern for the legitimacy of the political system here in iran. my dear brothers and sisters my d.n.a. should have iran the presence of the iranian people is the most important factor of power and this presence is power in many places one of the most important goals is the election. the nation of military commander general dostum so the money by the united states had resulted in a wave of support throughout iran but that changed when its military shut down the ukrainian airline. how many decided to speak at a time when the country is experiencing tense pressure extending domestic. support the situation and getting face up to the challenges that the coming months this country may face. on donald trump's responded to those

comments made by ayatollah ali khamenei on twitter trump said the so-called supreme leader of iran who has not been so supreme lately some nasty things to say about the united states and europe their economy is crashing and their people are suffering it should be very careful with his words though as a public policy professor at george mason university he's joining us now from washington d.c. good to have you on the program just make a comparison for us if you can between the way that donald trump's worded this tweet compared to previous tweets he's made in the spawns to statements from iran. it was far as i can tell he makes threats that's his normal mode of discourse and that's who is making towards company that he insulted the united states and donald trump said be careful what you say there could be consequences donald trump operates by threatening that's why he is not. what is the danger what is the risk that the white house may become overconfident given the fact that iran now

appears to be very much on the back and is going through a very difficult situation. he already has your he believes he brought the europeans in line by making a threat to them he threatened the major european countries germany france and britain with a 25 percent tariff on automobile imports to the united states unless they initiated the dispute resolution process with the u.n. and it worked or at least they have initiated that process the europeans claimed it wasn't because of trump's threat the charms normal mode of discourse is to threaten people and he believes it works and in many cases it has worked so far coming me insulted trump right back in his remarks at the prayer service in which he said that trump was really a high school bully and everyone had experience dealing with those kinds of persons

given the situation as i say that iran is facing at the moment and also of course the fact there's an impeachment trial going on in the u.s. at the moment are we back to a state of tit for tat rhetoric between iran and the united states or is there something else going on behind this. well i think that's exactly what's happening we are in a tit for tat situation with iran and the united states threatening each other but that's the way trump prefers to operate he believes that strength is the key threats are the way to communicate that strength and so far he's had some success in doing that. he pulled out of the nuclear accord and that accord appears to be breaking down which is exactly what he wants and he's threatening iran that if they resume their income their increased enrichment of uranium there could be serious serious consequences and he's backed up his threats when he killed the page the attack on the iranian general showing that he was extraordinarily serious about

these threats it's got americans very worried about the possibility of a war with iran and one of the effects may be that it's increasing support in the democratic party for one of the contenders bernie sanders who is an antiwar democrat democrats are very worried about war and as it happens trump believes the easiest democrat for him to defeat would be bernie sanders who could be working in that respect as well i want to get your opinion about something that one of our previous guests referred to we were talking to him about this is the impeachment trial that was going on and he was said he was fairly convinced that they the defense policy in a sense defense in terms of the impeachment trial was to distract the american public from the actual trial itself and he would not be surprised if there was some sort of external action that was going to go on during this trial to try to distract attention away from it what do you think the chances are that iran may

become that destruction. well that's what people thought happened a lot of people believe it happened when the united states killed eliminated general so many that the trump was using that as a way from for of distracting from the fact that he had just been impeached and was facing the trial trump wants to show that he's still the leader of the united states he can carry on. he's mounting the vigorous defense but he's rely mostly on other people to mount that defense so i believe. it is a tactic that he's inclined to use to try to distract attention that's what people thought bill clinton did when he staged attacks on terrorists to end candidates in iran and iran in afghanistan and in sudan after attacks on american embassies in east africa a lot of people thought that's what president clinton did while the same assumptions are now being made about president trump as always it's good to get your thoughts on this bill schneider thank you very much indeed for giving us your time and when

i say it's a sanctioning a brigadier general from iran's islamic revolutionary guard for his involvement in a crackdown on protesters in november at least 300 people were killed when security forces suppressed a nationwide protests that started off to fuel prices what increased the united states is listing i.r.g.c. brigadier general haasan shover pour under section 7031 see. sanctions general shot up or committed gross violations of human rights against protesters in musher shar he oversaw the massacre of 148 helpless iranians in the mush our region last november general shot a poor was in command of units responsible for the violent crackdown and lethal repression around musher shark. but of more ahead on the news hour including india's new citizenship law creates panic among hindu isms lowest social group. by

china is being blamed for mekong river shallow waters by those who depend on it the most. and i don't want to for african footballers i'm liverpool's coach says the top clubs may lose interest in signing players from the continent is going to be here to tell us why. us president donald trump's defense team for his upcoming impeachment trial has been announced they're going to include former independent counsel ken starr and lawyer alan dershowitz the child's going to be led by white house counsel. and trump's possible attorney jay sekulow for more we cross live together in washington d.c. gave it seems like trump has put together a really high powered the defense team what are we reading into this. well i think you can read into it that he's taking this quite seriously probably as he should be

trump and his folks taking no chances bringing in the best people that they think they can possibly get i'm just looking at alan dershowitz he's a long time harvard law school professor. and considered a preeminent constitutional lawyer in america very well known in washington and elsewhere kind of a celebrity lawyer if you will interestingly enough dershowitz is a democrat and you actually voted for hillary clinton however he's come out very strongly over the past several months in support of trump and saying that this impeachment process is unconstitutional and that is what i think scott trump's attention and that's why he's brought him on his team then you also look at. ken starr who in the late ninety's was the independent counsel that prosecuted then president bill clinton for impeachment so he's very well known in washington as well essentially trump bringing him out of retirement to be part of his defense

team so there's 2 things that are both of these lawyers have in common they're both both very media savvy and they're used to being in the media spotlight and i think that's probably what trump likes about them as well because he knows that once this trial kicks off next week it is going to consume washington and really the united states and he wants people that he feels give him the best chance to defend him. as you say one of the things that seems to pull this this particular team together is an element of showmanship what do you think that is going to do in terms of trump's strategy in the defense. well the jurors if you will on this trial are 100 u.s. senators those are the people that are going to be ultimately deciding here and i'm going to give you a little math so bear with me but this is critical in a key number is 20 let me explain why there's 100 senators and 4 trump to be

convicted and removed from office it would take 2 thirds of the senators to vote to convict him that's the magic number they're currently $53.00 republicans and $45.00 democrats assuming all the democrats vote to can fix trump is which we we expect it would mean that 20 republicans would need to vote to convict trump and that would be the magic number there would convict him and remove him from office that would be the 2 thirds number so really this is a numbers game quite frankly trump knows that he has to hold on to 20 republicans and then he will not be convicted in the senate and removed from office so that's really the key number to be watching nevertheless no matter what happens in the senate of course trump will always have on his record that he was impeached by the house of representatives the key now is with the senate and that key number of 2 thirds of those 100 u.s. senators thanks very much in the. president's version one has

accused the syrian government of breaking a cease fire agreement in killing 20 people in the opposition held province of idlib came into effect last sunday but violence has continued pushing more people from their homes and protesters on to the streets shall about this reports. the ceasefire deal was short lived in a loop syria's last opposition on play. brokered by turkey and russia it came into effect on sunday. this was filmed on thursday it shows a russian jet in the syrian army pounding opposition positions they say they were provoked. but the. military operations result on southeastern fronts after the insurgents violated the truce and targeted humanitarian corridors. the insurgents are rebels aligned with the syrian opposition the last fighters in a war that began nearly 9 years ago is supported by turkey president responded to

the escalation after friday prayers. unfortunately this is clear proof that the syrian regime is not abiding by the steps that we took regarding the ceasefire and the excuse is always ready this is the excuse terrorist organizations are doing this or that these are all lies. you are living in this province a 3000000 people it's a last opposition stronghold with little recourse they sing of the suffering heart full of not fear but. this is as much a protest as a funeral they say despite the ceasefire 2 bombs killed their friends here on wednesday. and in the shadows 350000 syrians who fled their homes since early december michael hart the found shelter in mosques across the province and that then we have no one our neighbor knocked on the door

in the morning and took us with him myself and my younger brother he pushed us here as we were living on relief aid. life is stark here in the winter many refugee seems it's just building carcasses the snow heaps. let me get ahead of him how does it all know let us we're waiting for someone to have mercy on us come to help us here we committed no crime to be punished this way no one is looking at us and mercy my husband and son up both disabled our life is destroyed this was meant to be temporary now the cease fire has broken again shall a palace al-jazeera and. almost $3000.00 people are heading north through guatemala towards the mexican border hoping to reach the united states most are escaping extreme poverty and gang violence in honduras mexican president andras monger lopez obrador says the migrants won't be allowed to travel through his country to the

u.s. our correspondent john holmes with those migrants in guatemala city. this is the queue of people from honduras that have traveled in a caravan they were aiming to get to mexico many of them to get through mexico and to the united states were actually outside of 'd a migrant shelter here in guatemala city so this is just one of the stops on the way for them there's already people that have gone on and already at the border of guatemala mexico now what's going to happen there is the mexican government's already said that it's not going to give them transit so that they can get through and get to the united states he says that the most it can offer them is to enter the country and to ask for asylum but it's actually quite a backlog for asylum in mexico city so the people here as we said that a lot of them are sort of destined for disappointment really in the in the hope of reaching that dream of the united states the reasons that they go in and the

reasons that they're leaving honduras really 2 things by loons they're fleeing from gangs city extort and kill much of the population in various different parts of the country and also poverty in honduras there's not a lot of opportunities this in a canonic situation that's been bad in the in recent years has been getting worse when people say they just don't earn enough to live so looking for more opportunities in the north they come many of them with what they carrying is who they have. taken to stop here in the shelter you can see they're just going in and the new the next stop on their route nor. more on to government protests are being held in chile's capital santiago demonstrations started in october over an increase in some way fares but they quickly transformed into widespread anger over the struggling economy and inequality at least 26 people have died since the protests began. water levels in the river which flows through china and 5 other countries

have dipped sharply after china began testing equipment and one of the rivers upper dom's underfund slowly reports from southeast come badia the water levels there are expected to drop by as much as 25 centimeters. tall stross has been fishing in the mekong river for more than 20 years just like his father did before him. from all the used to be a lot more fish we only had to cast down nets and they'd be whole we used to catch about $70.00 to $80.00 kilos each time but now there's hardly any. he says fish used to be abundant even in the dry season but not since the last couple of years he's also noticed more extreme fluctuations in water levels there are 11 dams in the upper reaches of the mekong river in china environmental advocates say these have had an impact on the river and the life in that 70 percent of them they teach

this that migratory species meaning that then my quit. and 1000 in vietnam all the way up to not and part of thailand so today they depend lastly on the seasonal water level of the meco driven by they drought and flat sokol in early january china issued a statement to say it's testing equipment in one of its dams increasing outflow by more than half the mekong river commission and into governmental organization warned countries in the lower reaches of the river including cambodia to expect lower water levels this week this season's drought has caused the water level in the mc to fall to its lowest in 60 years and there's been an exceptionally low flow of water in most parts of the river basin the 6 months. further from the. village one that relies mostly on rice farming here people rely on water stored in horn's

during the dry season but even these have dried up. when there's no water there's lots of problems we have to spend a lot of money to drill a well an equipment small pump isn't good enough we have to get a bigger one it already spent double of what i normally would in the mekong river commission and china have said they'll conduct a study to identify the causes and impacts of the season strout but with more dams being planned for the mekong it's communities who rely on the river who continue to pay the price florence al-jazeera province cambodia thousands of volcano evacuees in the philippines have been temporarily allowed to return to their homes in the danger zone the man of the town and batonga us province lifted evacuation orders on friday so people could go buy a quarter of a can always come to collect belongings and rescue their animals volcanoes activities weakened in the last few days but authorities say an eruption may still

be imminent. still ahead on al-jazeera could a new tax on tech companies make social media safer calls for urgent research into the impact of the internet use plus what the serbian government is or is not doing to clean up smoking winter conditions. and in sport the striker who had to be on his toes to accept a gift from the goalkeeper we'll have more later. how this rain developing to the south of japan is sort of reminiscent of a proper tropical cyclones this massive cloud here but i think it will stay in the water which is war with iraq to be anyway and it will brush the edge of honshu possibly tokyo with a small amount of rain and quite

a breeze wrapped around it beyond that it's quite what the the culture is not that good beijing's walled off a little bit plus 5 plus 6 they were all a bit worn you might expect compared with the average but apart from that the weather is relatively quiet his passing cloud something developing here just a thought of us talk but that's about as far as we're going to get it if we move sas and catch up with the proper wet season it's indeed an easier of course there's been a mess of showers recently have a borneo and i think they'll be repeats they grow daily of course is plenty of moisture the temperature rises to the low thirty's and get these speckles of thunderstorms widespread here catching sort of ways a rather less obvious in java and in the bottom half of sumatra it seems for the west coast where they're developing in a daily basis that's going to the case both saturday and sunday and then late interesting clump of thunderstorms drifting through the science china sea but at the moment it's over the water asked for jakarta the risk of sudden storms increases.

we live in a digital world where even the remotest communities have access to mobile phones. but look in this technology bring to a nomadic existence life apps travels to the media and gives the software design the ultimate challenge design a map to help to him the tried in their daily lives can you really be done. fly facts one for nomads analogise even. when the news breaks today the current government has lost trust the people by god to anything because the protestors are against it when people are to be hurt by what work we represent beloved dogs for opponents of brecht's it's drawing for the conservatives al-jazeera has teams on the ground right now hopes the meeting in paris will push politicians to create a competent and credible government to bring you more road when documentaries and

light moves on air and online. you're watching out as either a reminder of our top stories this hour russia has called on both sides in libya's conflict to come together a head of a summit in berlin without adding conditions on the meeting the told her aimed at ending the 9 month conflict. iran's supreme leader says european states can't be trusted in negotiations over the 2050 mm nuclear deal ayatollah ali khamenei made the comments during friday prayers it's the 1st time he's led the 7 in tech run in 8 years. turkey's president about iran has accused the syrian government of

breaking a cease fire and the last rebel held province of ablett at least 20 people have been killed the ceasefire was supposed to take effect last sunday. activists in asia are calling for action to stop attacks by armed groups in the sun held region at least 170 soldiers have been killed in less than 2 months and thousands of people have been displaced has more from the capital niamey. the presence of a large number of police officers on the streets of the capital of nigeria dampen the spirits of the protesters they planned to come out on the streets and demand the government takes action to end the violence in the especially near the border with mali while the country has lost at least $160.00 soldiers in less than 2 months. later we only learnt on social media that our request to protest was outlawed we weren't informed officially and you can see this large deployment of

police to chase away as if we were fighting the government the government should understand that we are not at war with them but we are gathering to show support for our soldiers. a small group of demonstrators gathered in the capital but they were chased away by police. across the city to prevent them accessing their destination which is of course the national assembly why they intended to gather what we see here is just a small number of protesters who have not doing much. of course to watch what the police are doing right now. you just saw the police i kind of stuff tear gas dispersing the little crowd we had in front of the camera now this is exactly what's happening in most parts of the city to demonstrate to saying there are going to regroup and decide on the next

line of action the world health organization says hundreds of thousands of people are killed by fake medicine every year and africa leaders are meeting in togo's capital alone made to sign an agreement to crack down on the trade but it's big business in west africa alone the trades worth $200000000000.00 it's kind of a drugs coming in from china india and nigeria reports from dakar in senegal. 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 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 mountain has us he buys and sells medicine then shows us what he has among the drugs he's selling or the pills that poisoned 5 to 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 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. for to 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 the car but isn't democratic republic of congo have fired tear gas at demonstrators in the capital kinshasa government protests have been led by the former presidential candidate martin fail to mourn the killing of hundreds of civilians in the north east by rebel groups the protest was initially banned by authorities. protesters in the yemeni city of taiz are demanding that the government does more to end nearly 4 years of conflict the southern regions on the frontline of yemen's conflict and has

struggled with famine and poverty pro iran who the rebels and saudi u.a.e. backed fighters are battling for control of the city. hundreds of thousands of people in india have been protesting against a new citizenship law saying it discriminates against muslims but many delegates those in the lowest social group in the hindu caste system fear it will also make conditions worse for them as over her reports from uttar pradesh. 22 year old our law is going around his village in the northern state of alter predation to convince parents to send their children for free education. the classes are organized by a community called the army which was formed in 2014 to tackle the problems faced with upper caste hindus. delegates are at the bottom rung of the caste system and

say they are often violently discriminated against our local wants all delegates to know their rights but now there is added concern about the new citizenship law because it means that. man this b.g.p. government did mean opposition is against ducard. muslims and belit the look community is worried that today they are targeting muslims tomorrow it will be us. in new delhi the beam army led the lights in a protest against the law. their leader gender she. was arrested. the opposition says the indian government broke the new law to create a hindu muslim divide but it may have cause unintended splits many in the ballot community traditionally marginalized by upper caste hindus are now questioning the law their opposition along with that of muslims has the power to change governments

go to the class activists say will be at a serious disadvantage if the government asks for multiple documents to prove their citizenship historically they have been the setlist landless people so which document they could possibly have the leads and the muslims are the water of change they represent change in the society. if they are being pushed to the wall they will vote for the change. our looks father believes the law is a way for the government to die we're at attention from economic problems but it also provides an opportunity to target ballots. the thinking of those who are privatizing government sector is they will give jobs to the people not the ballot they want to sell them but these women are also members of the dullest community supports the new law. a tale that it must be good i trust the prime minister he

would have made a good will. the indian government says many of the religiously persecuted people it will grant citizenship to our delhi. but our look says young talents who were able to vote in the last elections were seduced by false promises made by the ruling nationalist b.g.p. . he says it won't happen again education will see to that arch of laura al-jazeera multiplication india. tech companies are being accused of withholding data on social media and internet use a panel of leading psychiatrists is warning there is growing evidence that increased screen use is hurting children but it can't be properly researched unless that data is released the u.k.'s royal college of psychiatrists found there is evidence of a complex relationship between technology use and depression but it calls for urgent funding so that that relationship can be investigated properly it suggested

a levy on tech companies could fund independent research for people working with children the report also noted that gaming disorder was now classified internationally as as disease dr john golden is the vice chair of the royal college of psychiatrists child and adolescent faculty it was also involved in the report and he believes tech companies need to make the mental health of their users a top priority. it seems that at the moment that priorities of are making money increasing advertising revenue increase in a numbers if use as which is understandable is there there's this but the reality has that a lot of young people are suffering through access to social media an online for example if they have an eating disorder that their knees algorithms which will kush mo content related to eating sort as other people who have eating disorders my encourage people who go online and look up eating this orders took to be a better honor x. that for example and that's the sort of thing that is not helpful we think they

should be rather a courage to access more causes it was orses that might support someone with him eating the sort of but the algorithms don't necessarily work high bet in the moment so we do think that that that should be an independent regulates the with 50 that can't be required to release data from social media companies for the benefit research into this area i think it's fair to say by the way that there's a kind of double stand it in relation to protecting children online and offline if there was a at home being done to a child offline social services would step in we'd want to you know look off to that child them but we seem to not manage that so well when it comes the online world juma suffering various homes when they're online and we don't seem to be doing enough to protect than and the balkans went to a small there's a very early misery but this hear people have had enough widespread for alliance some coal and wood fires has been impacting air quality ellen a glue such as and belgrade and she says so far the sabby in government hasn't of address these concerns the real problem is the communication between the

governments and the citizens both in boston herzegovina and in serbia for example here in belgrade the president of serbia. days ofter 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 we see going to do something and this minister should hold a press conference today but he cancel it and in meanwhile the serbian president said that 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 from the government is that prime minister said that serbian government should the coordinates all are going ization involved in

the air protection during the days they're coming so we should get some more information about that. pollens opposition dominated senate has rejected a new law that would have allowed judges who criticized the government's judicial reforms to be punished 100 member senate now really voted to reject the law but the lower house controlled by the ruling nationalist law and justice party still has the power to make the bill law and even barbara 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 learned justice party have a majority and they are likely to get this bill passed they're 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 have 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 when all virulent 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 and 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 movement. 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 graeme. guineans opposition is urging protesters to continue to demonstrate against president has been to seek a 3rd term in office so isn't 20 people have been killed in protests that have turned violent. as more. 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 young boys 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 garrett is a role 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 i fear is that without the support of parliament he may go straight for referendum it's unclear when the strike and protests will end that's likely to depend on condit's next move. nor about the money out just there i. still had a knowledge is it of the man being given a shot of the tension and the ultimate fighting championship despite several one in the law. nor the sport.

frank assessments the one being about these bushfires usage really wiping out the politics of climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate cyclone goes through school you've been told what the law is on 'd about this argument is astonishingly patronize a in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of the iraq of a new conscious and aware youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on al-jazeera. in the heart of the amazon delivery in families but then lives in peril to harvest brazil nuts. but it's getting the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. risking it all the libya. on al-jazeera.

war. it's time for the sports here's 5. thank you carlos sens has won the backer rally for a 3rd time the spaniard finished more than 6 minutes clear of defending champion of cats are the world's highest profile off-road rally was being held in saudi arabia for the 1st time with sans his previous 2 wins coming in south america a 57 year old winning by 6 minutes. who won the final stage in his 1st win of the stock car. and has been really died from the. bush in 100 percent no no no d.c. . it's nicer when the bubble is so so so hot it is nice and.

very different in god. but it probably. in the bikes category ricky made history by becoming the 1st american to win the dakar on 2 wheels since the insurance race began in 1979 rabbit beat out jose ignacio of chile by 53 seconds liverpool manager you're going to describe the decision to move the africa 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 keda of guinea and senegal is raining african player of the year saudi money would be called up to play in cameroon klopp said the clubs would be less willing to sign talent from africa if they were absent for several weeks due to the tournaments the african government has going back to china in 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. more or not be well because they have a tournament in fed and general february of course not. but if you have to make a decision but bring in a player it's a massive form because you don't have to but you will be policies already you haven't fought for weeks wrong about 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 for showing up a week after reportedly turning down the job of coaching barcelona chevy hernandez on friday coached as outside team to victory and the cats are cup final but even a man of his long playing career won't have seen many goals quite as bizarre as this one is long ball upfield looking easy for the i'll do hill defense but then this happened. the keeper hitting it

straight to our sad striker baghdad boucher to show instant reactions to score outside waiting for nail to give shabby his 2nd trophy as coach. the goal in state warriors nightmare season has got even worse the enemies most dominant team of the last decade have slumped to a 10th straight defeat it's their 1st double digit losing streak for 18 years so how malik reports it's been a miserable season for the golden state warriors with 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 started 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. right direction by

jumping the veil scored the depleted warriors 68 to 51 in the 2nd half to take the game to overtime nicklaus joke which starring for them with 23 points over all that's little baby girl. it just wasn't going to be golden state's night their 5 consecutive trips to the finals looking like it's distant memory. in dnd they just didn't have enough the nuggets going on to win it by 3 taking golden state's losing streak to 10 games and now the night of pain for the warriors and they found. him ali al jazeera. the san francisco giants have made history by becoming the 1st major league baseball team to appoint a full time female coach les annakin a former softball player joined the giants in 2014 as an intern and has now been named one of the team's assistant coaches the m o b is lag behind the n.b.a.

and n.f.l. which both already have several women on the benches connor mcgregor will be back in the cage in las vegas on saturday night 15 months after losing his lightweight championship fight against can be off and hasn't fought since his defeat to the russian back in october 28th he has however had several run ins with the law including being fined for punching an elderly man at a bar now legations of sexual assault which she's in a night mcgregor weighed in on friday for his welterweight fight with donald sharon a another you have seen veteran looking to make a comeback at 31 year old mcgregor was the you have sees 1st 2 division champion but the last fight he won was back in 2016. and that's all your sport for now more later. and i was always of course you can get more pictures i'm a lot more background on all these stories on the website i'll just leave i don't call jordan's going to get

a couple of minutes for the latest of all the stories about the summer but for the . they joined one of the world's most notorious armed groups. but found a way out rebuild their lives and now help our vets. a tale of course for crude and child soldiers and the have referred to exploitation of women daughters of alice a bad part of the radicalize nude scenes on al-jazeera. when a french soldier was murdered in a so-called terrorist attack. his mother retaliated with a love. speaking out against intolerance and alienation.

she travels the world with the result of a grieving mother who lost a son but adopted a generation plenty for a witness documentary on al-jazeera. if you want to learn about the world might look like very soon regards 100 and hungry zillion extreme example of the predicament the whole world is going through. says mass immigration story we had paunch question is the thing we call jurors and the problems that the culture of the news you are she so it's in reading us is or is not comfortable with european culture visitors not like good fashions. triumphal march. dreams of conquest of global tried. this is very very uneventful glide towards the precipice without resistance

we are past the danger has already happened. it was then just 10 years ago. now this is it. well leaders prepare for a meeting to resolve the conflict in libya but russia isn't confident they'll reach a deal. i wonder in jordan this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up. with. iran's supreme leader calls for national unity and condemns western powers donald trump says he better watch his words. he let the investigation into the impeachment of u.s. president bill clinton now ken starr will represent donald.