listen ship to the planet there been lots of instances that i've seen where indigenous communities just have a better model. later clashes in the lebanese capital security forces fired tear gas that defied protesters who say the target of waiting for change. so robin you're watching al-jazeera life will headquarters in doha also coming up the prime minister of libya's u.n. backed government has full peace talks and along with his rival for power the warlord khalifa haftar also. i. scuffles on the border between

mexico hundreds of migrants are trying to head to the u.s. . something political items in the home is affecting traditional chinese new year markets. welcome to the program we begin in lebanon all the while protests have turned violent security forces fired water cannon and tear gas on demonstrators in a faceoff that lasted several hours well the $200.00 people were injured demonstrators say that tired of waiting for the government to fix the ongoing economic crisis they held a report saw from beirut. rage in the streets of the capital in what might be a new phase in an uprising against lebanon's leadership that is now in its worst months fears confrontations between anti-riot police and anti-establishment protesters. sure and downtown beirut into

a war zone this is the epicenter of i protest movement that until a few days ago was relatively peaceful running battles began when demonstrate this we want the political class they blame for mismanagement and corruption to leave power tried to storm parliament building security forces responded with tear gas i feel like the message protesters to back off and that make out when it and i think that the message of everybody here is that the more return 11 ons economy has been in turmoil for mons a proposal to tax what's up polls which should be a free service triggered the protests in mid october unemployment was rising on the lebanese a local currency the lira was losing value riyadh in an economy can grow i says everybody's going to get hungry to everybody's going to give did me do this sooner if i don't have to convince anybody are both what's happening to do it's clear to what's happening who can get a hold of the their money in the banks we lost the recent job fun only ever thing

this is the country with 5 balls indians this through the it is an amazing country it they took everything who have nothing left this is a was our only option is to go down on the streets by now vigeland so we have to use violence were off i think a 40 year career up good government there is anger at banks which imposed caps on good troubles there is a shortage of dollars anti-riot police had been using excessive amounts of tear gas to disperse the crowd but anti establishment protesters are defiance the wondered were in the dozens bows protesters and security forces were taken to hospitals there is a political vacuum many lebanese are growing impatient with politicians who are refusing to form an independent government free of the influence a political parties instead they are bickering among themselves for mitt stereo

posts in the next cabinet this new government are legit technocrats but was really just a smokescreen for the old ruling oligarchic elite so the protestors were really upset this is the 3rd night of violence since tuesday when activists said they planned to revive the momentum of the protest movement after a brief lull they announced what they called a week of rage they seem to be living up to that promise the united nations has already described events in lebanon as dangerous chaos it is what comes next that many fear senator al jazeera beirut about harvey is the director of research at the arab center in washington d.c. he says the country's leaders aren't doing enough to answer people's demands. the problem is the ruling class is not responding well people on the street one. are going to doing it just postponing it was the formation of a new government even though the protesters have given the new. prime minister

designate percent. of all month so far. this one called government but apparently he's not being allowed even by the people who live here nominating him to do their job is not being allowed to pull down governments or the economy it is really the. end of very bad shape unemployment. the local currency everything has collapsed you think it's going well there i mean what's happening or since tuesday it's been expected i mean. people cannot take it anymore and this is we just entered the 4th month and things going to one like this at all. in the next few hours libya's warning signs are expected to attend a highly anticipated peace conference in germany the gathering of berlin is backed by the united nations walt khalifa haftar launched an offensive in april to take

tripoli from the internationally recognized government attempts to negotiate a cease fire broke down last week at a summit in moscow russia alba possible from the german capital. this was the moment libya's arch rivals was supposed to agree to a ceasefire prime minister face a subtle and warlord in moscow for a meeting brokered by vladimir putin and the loss of play if at all but after walked out of the last minute the collapse of those talks has been a setback for international efforts to end the conflict many are now waiting to see whether leaders from 12 countries can achieve in bullying what eluded put in an add on in moscow and persuade rival factions to reach a truce. what people in conferences try to do is get agreement between the states meddling in libya to stop their support of the warring parties problem is that western states on moderated put pressure on half that front office in particular

the u.a.e. so the promise is that the foreign medicine american billing it in ring hollow german chancellor angela merkel is pushing for a permanent ceasefire in libya and implementing an arms embargo but that may not be an easy task libya has been marred by an armed conflict for years. is leading an offensive to capture tripoli backed by the u.a.e. it eurabia friends and russia the general has brushed aside reconciliation efforts . he's intent on defeating his opponent as prime minister of the international recognized government based in tripoli. they were asking us if any talks taking place when tripoli is under a question is an absolute disrespect for those who were killed for the sake of democracy it is a disrespect for those forced out of their villages and cities hotter has a list of demands he wants armed factions in the west to disband and his libyan

national army to take over he's also made it clear that the military and maritime deal said was just government signed with turkey should be scrapped for the leaders attending the berlin peace talks the libyan conflict has reached a tipping point violence is on the rise and an arche has paved the way for a wave of mass in areas to join the conflict raising fears it could be a prolonged and spillover threatening your security that's why the international committee is determined to end war in libya al-jazeera. meanwhile in libya forces loyal to have to have attacked 5 eastern oil ports the state oil firms close down the sites and that's expected to result in the loss of $800000.00 barrels per day of the output of the one head is in tripoli and says the oil blockade is already having an impact on global markets. in less than 24 hours their libyan air dinar has lost about. 10 percent of

its value compared to hard core of his b. because of the blockade of the buyer terminals and oil exporting ports in the east of the country the united nations' support the mission in libya has except 1st concern over of the blue kade of the installations and it's sad that the. must not be part of the conflict there and no see that's the state oil for the national oil corporation must stay neutral away from the current of the conflict that's going on the oil revenues are of the bag borne of libya's national income which is estimated at about $55000000.00 a day lost because of the. in yemen 30 government soldiers have died in a missile strike in the northern region of mali and it hit

a military training camp dozens of people were also injured well sources say who the rebels are behind the attack because one of the explosions. according to the whole these books man he says that on friday they have already fault and advancing a by the saudi government backed forces to the region. this latest fatalities that the we have. heard than received about. there are different stories one says. this news has belonged belongs to an independent newspaper which has just published its front page and will be distributed in the morning that the whole thing is have already captured the 29th mechanical military. brigade for the 29th military military and also

belongs to the 7th military region backed by the saudi arabia and also the the government. this is one of the explanations of the high mortalities that they have already captured this military can brigades and also they have can be skated it's. but another source that i have to contract to the he mentioned that the the how these have used ballastic messiah will honor a military cand eastern or the province of marib it's a training camp such as resulted in the high mortality among those who were inside the camp the sause told me that the this it was a preemptive strike on this military camp as it is was going to support and reinforce those who have been defeated and in the in the

eastern of. at least 4 people being killed in a car bomb attack there. probably targeted turkish contractors' in somalia it happened in the town of goma northwest of the capital mogadishu 15 others were wounded though the turkish engineers were having lunch with small the police at the time. has claimed responsibility well still ahead here all al-jazeera tens of thousands of will across the u.s. take a stand against president trying. i'm andrew thomas in sydney where a worldwide trend of the library's abolishing fines began i'll be explaining why so many other places are borrowing the idea. of. hello that savages have been on the rise quite steadily across several southern

regions of the arabian peninsula but to the north is becoming very unsettled once again plenty of clouds plenty of rain and of course some snow but at the same time we have also got a lot of folks this is the whole up into northern pakistan so some very very murky conditions we have got some snow flurries all my way into afghanistan as we go on through sunday but really is the eastern end of the med where they're going to see some very heavy amounts of rain again in israel lebanon on up into syria it could actually lead to some localized flooding the winds are pretty strong as well and really it's not a great change by monday by then we've got more snow flurries and some rain like across much of turkey and that snow rain on its way eastwards in fact on his way into western areas of pakistan and then down into southern areas of africa again has some very heavy amounts of rain continuing across much of madagascar very heavy indeed as it go through sunday we've had flooding already into well central areas you could see some more really over the next couple of days this rain will be

spreading across the muslim big channel so central and southern areas of mozambique again seeing some very heavy amounts of rain why discovered. much of the eastern areas of south africa windy in cape town but mostly draw monday with a high of $27.00. the. first in the heart of the amazon believe in family is the grandma is imperiled to harvest brazil nuts. and getting the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. risking it to believe me out. on al-jazeera. way.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera with me say hello rob a reminder of our top stories lebanese police have fired water cannon and tear gas against protesters demanding a resolution to the economic crisis more than 200 people were injured in the capital beirut also ward cleaver have turned the leader of libya as u.n. recognized government to arrived in berlin ahead of a highly anticipated peace conference which will start in a few hours time the conflict started a problem. and in yemen 30 government soldiers have been killed in an attack in the northern region of dozens of people were also injured sources say who the rebels were behind the attack. the 1st migrants from a caravan moving north through guatemala have been allowed to start crossing into

mexico but under pressure from the white house the government there says it will try to stop them carrying on to the u.s. mexico says it has a plan but as john heilemann found out of the border everyone is convinced. on saturday morning the 1st members of a mass migration of 4000 hundreds arrived at mexico southern border. many been traveling days to get this far but now they found their way ahead blotz. after a brief scuffle involving a few young men the gates and the border bridge were closed and those like casted a single mom with 4 children settled down to wait for the rest of the caravan to arrive not to get hold of them. i want a better future for my children because they're under arrest you can't get work even the young. many here a fleeing poverty in some countries murderous gangs in the city and after a pause the mexican authorities began letting them through 20 at

a time we caught up with eric as he queued meaning at that like. my daughter doesn't have shoes because i can't get work it's the need that we all have in the country many like johnny go back thinking this easy entrance might be a trip there but we're worried that they'll deport i spoke to our country after all that it's cost us to get this far it didn't help that migration of dorothy's refused to say where they were taking the hondurans in buses what's going on i mean but this is. what mexico's president said give people visas to work in the south of the country or asylum if they qualify for it but what he won't do is let them pass through and get to the u.s. . that was the aim of most people here to start with and some say they would definitely settle for staying in mexico if they were allowed to join homan now dizzy or on the mexico guatemala border or staying in the americas at least 6 people have been killed by flooding and landslides in southeastern brazil

firefighters arrived by helicopter on saturday to rescue people trapped in houses buried in the mud officials say a month's rain fell in just 24 hours turning streets into rivers destroying buildings and sweeping away cars in the u.s. impeachment managers with the house of representatives have filed a brief laying out their arguments for the charges against president donald trump now the senate trial has formally begun with opening statements expected on tuesday in their briefing document the democrats say trouble abandoned his oath and must be removed from office to safeguard the integrity of the 2020 alexion. the white house released a statement trump did respond saying that the altar calls of impeachment submitted by house democrats already dangerous attack called the rights of the american people to be choose that president this is a brace of god to overturn the results of the 26 state election i did to fear with

a 2020 alexion just months away i will if it is a fully u.s. attorney of the host of talking feds podcast he says trump's defense team has taken an aggressive tode it is stressful it's there really a few so a lot of things they had already said and they they really give no quarter so 1st of all it's technically it's not just a press release it's a legal document he has been summoned to appear in front of the senate and this is answer to the summons and then he will also on monday file a trial brief there's really not much in the answer to the summons that we haven't heard before including it plug nations tone he they really strike out at the house managers for daring to have initiated this process which they try to portray as something of a constitutional hijacking so it's a very aggressive tone but no more or less than we've heard from them in recent

months. making their own demands for trump's removal from power who are thousands of protesters in washington and across the u.s. on saturday they held rallies marking the 3rd anniversary of the women's watch that drew millions of protesters to the streets the day after trump's inauguration 2017 as well as the main event to washington rallies were halted chicago yuletide los angeles protests to say trump must go in order to protect diversity equality and human rights. rally in washington d.c. . despite the cold temperatures and nearly freezing rain it hasn't stopped thousands of people from coming out on the streets here in washington d.c. for the 4th annual women's march the 1st one happened in january 2017 and it was in response to president donald trump's inauguration in that march he was almost like a protest there were more than a 1000000 people throughout the united states and took part in that 2017 this one

is much different there's only a few 1000 people here nevertheless everyone here says that while the numbers are much much smaller that it's important that they're here for us and so much bigger than that for us it's about the impact that people are able to have let me go back and say that community is for us it's about people coming here getting inspired getting motivated and to get out and actually back into the communities to focus on the public and i see i think the marginalized populations african-americans l.g.b. team here and hispanics which i am part of that culture if we don't all get together and stand nothing's going to change and all of us collectively can make that change happen most people here tell us that it doesn't matter of trump is reelected or not they're going to carry on this movement for years to come there's already talk about maybe another's women's march later this year closer to the election. in syria warplanes of bomb shelter housing displaced people calling for an adlib is the latest attack to violate a cease fire that came into force

a week ago cutting lopez had reports where no one. heard a desperate rush to save lives to get this shelter for displaced people was one of several sites hit by recent airstrikes in syria. inside is a family including several young children who have the urgency crews take the injured to hospital come across some of the missiles hit several towns in the northern province of aleppo. but for others it's too late for the new year because some of the airstrikes hit this house which was for displaced people they came here looking for shelter trying to escape the bombing when we arrived we found 4 bodies on the ground. turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan on says syria's government violated the cease fire brokered by turkey and russia. the target it live province is the last territory controlled by rebel groups in syria's

northwest region. thousands of civilians are caught in the violence the u.n. says more than 300000 syrians have been forced from their homes over the last 10 weeks women men and children simply carrying out everyday activities at the workplace in markets and at schools being killed and maimed in senseless violence was i these protesters say they've had enough they are tired of short lives cease fire agreements that go ignored. for those of us living in syria we know the talks of cease fire turned out to be lies there is no cease fire a few days ago there was a massacre here that killed civilians many many families are now packing their belongings in leaving so many die. yet know where they can go and be safe courtesy of this of the al-jazeera. east africa is seeing the most serious escalation in the

member of locus in 25 years is adding to fears over food security authorities there say there's been a dangerous rises swarbrick tippity the insects have destroyed hundreds of thousands of hectares of crops the region is still reeling from recent floods and drought. this hour long we have lost we thought that was over the next coming for you now this time they're not with you can see this cleaned all this was a glimpse. of them also destroyed chinese new year is one of the biggest celebrations in hong kong but for the 1st time the government has canceled some of the main events for safety reasons it's also banned the sale of items without any political reference to government protesters have been warned they'll be targeted by police if they ignore the bam sarah clarke has moved. up. the street to decorated in traditional chinese new year style markets

a big tour park essential to the busy and colorful festival plants and flowers signifying hope and promise for a new year. but the government has banned the sile of water known as dry goods any items with a political reference that hasn't stopped pro-democracy groups holding their own independent markets because of the protests and also we think that hong kong people was attacked more control on their own freedom and in the moment so we plan to set up this market. hopefully hong kong people can have their freedom on how to use their money they said. this is one of the number of crowd funded markets being held across the city called. the handicrafts and products highlighting the antigovernment message which still hold his cane to reaffirm their political stance in the past hong kong that is that facing some problems with bodies.

we want to give us a. happy. new year. and that they feel happy and proud of the homecoming as they are around 15 independent organize markets being held at the chinese new year holiday break the location of some of them is not being shared publicly you have to. the 1st to get those details in the current climate organizers fear any politicize a bit will be targeted by police security checks are in place across the main festival locations but the government isn't taking any chances the annual fireworks display has been cancelled so too has the traditional chinese new year parade what was once considered the most significant festival of the year in hong kong is rather low key 2020 anti-government protesters planning another rally on sunday which might further dampen the celebrations sirrah clark al-jazeera hong kong. long running the transport strikes in france could end on monday after the main

union call for them to industrial action the protests brought people from all sectors out onto the streets. i. operate workers were the latest in a string of creative demonstrations against pension reforms in paris of friday night present to be evacuated for the fair when singing and dancing protesters blocked the exits. staying in europe the 1st woman to be appointed to a management position in the vatican says she's looking forward to advancing a feminine point of view in her role pope francis named of francesca did giovanni as the new undersecretary for multilateral affairs in the vatican's secretary it of state should be responsible for coordinating the holy see's relations with groups including the un. libraries around the world are consistently looking for ways to keep up in the digital age at an australian. prison popular gaining attention

around the world under thomas has more how well small changes helped bring people back to the library. it's a brand new library with a new way of lending borrowing a book has been the same for decades people read them for a set amount of time then return them if they don't books become overdue and readers are fine when they bring them back. but that's changing many australian libraries have a since 27 so you tested i know following policy managers say yes to save stuff time and the costs of administration which were 10 times higher than the revenue raised from fines potential fines also put off poor people from using libraries and stopped them borrowing books once they owed fines they couldn't pay in the 1st trial that we had the amount of items that got returned to the library was 3 times as many that we usually have any it's sorry that was close to 70000 items that came

back so we regained a whole lot of customers that hadn't been using our services because they were either afraid of the fines that with a or a bit embarrassed to come back the trial has become a permanent change we just want this to be a welcoming friendly place and having fines and chasing people down for money is really not the kind of relationship that we want to have with that community in the digital age libraries like this one mostly lend traditional books they need to change to survive but opinion is divided it's great because i get them during have to try and remember the dates and things like that and then if you just come in whenever it suits us other people is waiting for the opportunity to read to the same bolt if they are not penalized than the other person will be lost opportunity but the no foreign policy is spreading this initiative is one that's proving popular with councils across australia and beyond borrowing the idea libraries in

scandinavia britain and the united states have scrapped the fine system other countries too are considering taking a leaf out of the same book under thomas al-jazeera sydney. and you can follow more that story in all the others that we're covering here on our sara by logging on to our website at al-jazeera dot com a sound is there a dot com. and you're watching al-jazeera with me cell romney a reminder of our top stories the lebanon's months long protests have turned violent security forces fired water cannon and to get some demonstrators in a face off that lasted several hours more than $200.00 people were injured demonstrators say they're tired of waiting for the government to fix the ongoing economic crisis. in the next few hours libya's warring sides are expected to come

together in berlin for a highly anticipated peace conference backed by the un warlord khalifa haftar launch an offensive in april to take tripoli from the internationally recognized government attempts to negotiate a cease fire broke down last week at a summit in moscow in yemen 30 government soldiers have been killed in a missile strike on a military training camp in the northern region of dozens of people were injured sources say who the rebels were behind the attack but has more details this latest fatalities the early we have her her than received about. there are different stories one says. this news has belonged belongs to an independent newspaper which has just published its front page and will be distributed in the morning that the healthiest have already captured the 29th mechanic in military. the 1st migrants from

a caravan moving north through guatemala have been allowed into mexico there were scuffles at the crossing earlier central american countries are under pressure from the u.s. to stop them reaching its border most of the migrants are fleeing honduras. in the u.s. house impeachment managers have filed a brief laying out their arguments for the charges being brought against president donald trump saying that he must be removed the senate trial fully open those day with opening statements expected of choose stay east africa is seeing its increase in swarms of locusts it's adding to fears the food supplies could be limited to the region still reeling from floods and drought kenya is all of the worst affected countries the insects have destroyed hundreds of thousands of hectares of crops as some of the world's most vulnerable areas one you said half an hour risking it all is the next. the climate crisis and the environment takes center stage at this year's world economic forum in davos business people experts and leaders from

around the world can expect an icy reception from some as they discuss how to save the planet from the front of rising temperatures get the latest updates on al-jazeera.