risky to believe you know. on al-jazeera. the arab. the prime minister of libya's u.n. backed government prepares for peace talks in berlin along with his rival for power the world khalifa haftar. well again i'm just on the attack and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. protests turned violent and levanon anger is rising as the economic and political crisis deepens. a massive rally gets underway in hong kong as a large crowd continues to gather in the city's central district. plus

a novel idea a new and strange and i agree with an innovative way of lending. in the coming hours libya's warring sides are expected to attend a peace conference in germany the gathering in berlin is backed by the united nations world khalifa haftar launched an offensive back in april to take tripoli from the internationally recognized government attempts to negotiate a cease fire broke down at a summit in moscow last week and ahead of those talks the turkish president has reaffirmed that they can be no military solution to the conflict while our correspondent without the i had a standing by for us in libya's capital tripoli but 1st let's go to hama who is in berlin house and this is a highly anticipated meeting talk us through what we expect to happen today.

this is behalves one of the rare where the international community where the key players could come together set aside their differences and negotiate a permanent political situation. political way out of the crisis in libya do they have leverage absolutely have huge leverage because some of those key players are the ones that back rival groups in libya you have the russians. the egyptians and the french attending and they are the ones who back war not only for have to or you have mainly the turks who are attending and who back the general government of national accord based in tripoli qatar also backs the government but it has not been invited to some of the italians have been taken very ambiguous stance when it comes to the libyan crisis all those parties along with the americans were expecting secretary of state to arrive later and attend the

conference they want to do 2 things here in berlin and this is exactly what chancellor angela merkel is hoping to achieve she wants to get guarantees and reassurances that there will be a permanent cease fire in libya this is unprecedented number 2 they would like to implement the arms embargo to prevent all those countries that have been meddling into the affairs of libya to step aside and pave the way for a political solution could they achieve that i've been covering most of the political talks about libyan crisis over the last 2 years i don't see really the chances a less you have all the parties saying today that if we don't get our act together the country my plans into uncertainty well hashemite i see there's already been some controversy ahead of today i mean as you say some countries are not invited cats are morocco even libya is neighbor tunisia do you think that would undermine any chances for

a breakthrough. they so that being excluded from a crucial moment could pave the way for a permanent solution to the crisis in libya the tunisians neighbor libya and they have been a key player in the region since the 2011 spring however they got short notice invitations yesterday and they turned it down i think it was an expression of disagreement about the way they were dealt with they saw this as a sign of disrespect for the tunisians the moroccans use yesterday delivered a rare rebuke to the international community and to the 1000000000 conference for a reason because you remember there were rockers were key players in the 2015 peace agreement about libya which took place in morocco and that's still the only political platform that manages life it's the only one that paved the way for the jna to be established in libya and prime minister face the service recognized by

the international community the moroccan sold that exclusion as a sign that the international community is going to scrap this spirit agreement of the 2015 and start a new political process with qatar is a crucial player in the region they have been from day one in 2011 providing significant significant assistance to the gadhafi forces in libya now they saw themselves excluded one and the other party particularly the egyptians and provide significant military assistance to have to have been invited this is definitely going to be seen. as a exclusion of the qataris and this could by the way undermine the chances for a permanent political solution to the crisis in libya has some albar they will be keeping an eye on those talks resume beland thank you hashem well meanwhile inside libya 5 eastern courts have been closed after an attack by forces loyal. i have to

and expected to result in the loss of around 800000 barrels of oil per day and our correspondent when i believe i had joins us now from libya's capital tripoli but how is this blockage of these airports actually impacting the country's economy. it's definitely affecting the country's economy as you know that oil revenues are the backbone of libya's national income 96 percent of the national income comes from oil revenues and these are 5 of the major oil terminals in the east of the country control of the forces loyal to the warlords really for after they represent the majority of the oil industry lesions in the country their national oil corporation this is the state oil firm here in tripoli

says that it's going to be losing a boat $800000.00 barrels a day of oil crude and that is to made it about $55000000.00 a day if this blockage continues but again here in the in tripoli we have been noticing a major leap in the hard currencies values against the libyan dinar because of this blockage and people here are very because they have experience in a bitter experience in 2016 when these 5 major oil terminals were blockaded by armed with group in the east of the country in 2013 and the consequence is came out in 2016 which was many fisted in financial crisis in the in the country. given the timing of this presumably this is an attempt by khalifa haftar to improve his bargaining position in berlin do you think

it could derail those talks entirely. will i think it will to some extent derail the peace talks in bilin because there is some sort of disillusionment here for us and the west in the camp here in tripoli led by the un that ignited a government of national accord and. and the back to prime minister just stated to western media that he is so frustrated he is so disappointed at what he calls the western negative reaction to how stars forces blockage of the oil terminal as he said that the fact that house has given green light to his forces to block the aisle terminals means that he does not want peace and this is also coupled with the fact that saddam is not happy with the fact that both tunisia

are not invited to the peace talks and also the west of the camp led by believes that there is no balance in these talks given the fact that i have to the camp is represented by civil counters that burger king have the image it's france egypt russia well on the on the other hand all the turkey backing is invited for these peace talks so many people here are frustrated there is some kind of disillusionment many people here are worried that these peace talks will not be bringing a breakthrough or something we'll be watching very closely with our bill ahead there for us on the ground in tripoli thank you. and moving on and war than 60 government soldiers have been killed in yemen after a missile strike in marriage dozens more were wounded in that attack which targeted a military training camp our correspondent mohammed al is and yemen's capital sana'a and he says the death toll from the attack is expected to rise. the attack

has involved according to sources 333 missiles one targeting a gathering of the government forces and another one targeted weaponry where we're house. the nobody has so far i claimed responsibility over the attack has targeted this military camp which is. south west of the province of rep it's a little bit far away from the whole fees but. their missiles could reach such distances even that they have reached over 11000 kilometer will be targeted. targets inside the saudi territories but so far. we are still waiting for whether the whole confirm it or deny their responsibility over the attack. now

protesters in lebanon are preparing for another day of rallies after moments of peaceful demonstrations descendant of violence on saturday night nearly $400.00 people were injured after security forces fired tear gas and water cannon at crowds in the capital and a standoff that lasted several hours demonstrators say they're tired of waiting for the government to fix the ongoing economic crisis and how to reports 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 fierce confrontations between anti-riot police and. protesters turned downtown beirut into a war zone this is the epicenter of a protest movement that until a few days ago was relatively peaceful running battles began with demonstrators who want the political class they blame for mismanagement and corruption to leave power try to storm parliament building security forces responded with tear gas i feel

like the message is for protesters to back off and that they can't win and i think that the message of everybody staying here is that the more violence they face the more of an issue and return lebanon's economy has been in turmoil for months a proposal to tax what's up coals which should be a free service triggered the protests in mid october unemployment was rising and the lebanese local currency was losing value we are in an economy to grow this is everybody's going to get hungry everybody is going to need to do this so. i don't have to convince anybody about what's happening today it's clear what's happening who can get a hold of their money in the banks and we lost everything finally everything this is going. to be it is an amazing country they took everything we have nothing left this is our only option is to go down on the street and vigeland so. i think before the year corrupted government.

there is anger at banks which imposed caps on the troubles there is a shortage of dollars anti-riot police have been using excessive amounts of tear gas to disperse the crowd but anti-establishment protesters are defiant the wounded were in the dozens both protesters and security forces were taken to hospitals there is a political vacuum many lebanese are growing impatient with politicians who are there fusing to form an independent government free of the influence of political parties instead they are bickering among themselves for ministerial posts in the next cabinet this you know government alleging technocrats it was really just a smokescreen for the old ruling oligarchic elite so the protesters 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 beirut all weather is next but still ahead the poor rural communities in afghanistan finding it ever harder to survive the base of the cold wind. trying to clear people from around a volcano as some ignore warnings of imminent danger. warnings in force across parts of southwest europe to some stormy weather. system which is pushing is why. southern parts of france across

a good pots of spike to the east and by pushing into that western side of the mediterranean so we can see some really live shot was hit deep area of low pressure grinding away just churning up the the waters of the mediterranean sea some very heavy rain coming through as we go on through the next couple of days very strong winds and a fair bit of snow as well further north is a good deal kwacha high pressure in charge here around the british isles into the low countries across a good pot of france we are going to say staying laci try here then fold and frost problem certainly a possibility across the northwest but further south there's that wet weather chatting away than as a set across that western side of the mediterranean snow event a snow there across eastern parts of spain sulking range for many as we go through the next couple of days you personally into monday and you can see still very disturbed elsewhere does that pretty quiet as you can say but some really live it was cross that western side of the mediterranean in those showers will say russia

cross the fall north of africa with a chance of fighting for northern parts of iraq i. talked to al jazeera we were told to get to it without bigotry of all the ration has this been addressed by took a listen what is the proposal of spain for capello we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter which is their own. context these are the things storytelling around the biggest issues done but you have to do the usual do it again. already.

hello again i'm. remind of the top stories this hour libya's warring sides are set to meet as a highly anticipated peace conference invalid and the talks are the latest attempt to end months of fighting off the world khalifa haftar launched an offensive to take the capital tripoli back in april. more than 60 government soldiers have been killed in yemen after a few sea missile strike in marriage dozens more were wounded in the attack which targeted a military training camp. and protesters in lebanon are preparing for another day of rallies after months of peaceful demonstrations descended into violence on saturday night nearly $400.00 people were injured during a standoff with security forces in the capital that lasted several alex. now scuffles have broken out between protesters and police in hong kong after thousands of people gathered peacefully for a rally that organizers a calling

a universal siege on communists police approved this latest pro-democracy demonstration but have banned participants from actually marching through the city you're watching live pictures now from there now some protesters have defied those orders protests in hong kong on now in the 8th months and rallies have often turned violent our correspondent sara cock is at that rally and she says it so far remained peaceful but police are prepared to block protesters if they do attempt to march. at the moment we've got a large gathering assembly here in central component calling for democratic reform it's been cool to see on communism they're also speaking out against police brutality now this is one of a number of rallies being held globally today we have 12 cities or so she said 12 countries 27 cities taking part in similar rallies around the world police the police presence here at the moment is quite heavy with a large police presence in front of me the whole way around central all the way to add more to this particular group had said that much to add to your past and where

hong kong's effective parliament is based we believe there's no water cannons situated they're going to deny any access and again the protesters and the organizers have said they wanted to factor in much at the moment is peaceful but they do much we do expect the police to try to disperse the crowd they are increasingly clamping down on these they've denied a number of rallies to go ahead over recent months they've also banned a number of festivals and fairs and vents over the next couple of weeks which is of course chinese new year they've canceled the fireworks which is an annual despite of also cancelled other mine right there's a heavy security presence around hong kong at the moment simply because the protesters have said they want to ramp up their campaign over the chinese new year period it is a sign that they clamping down but at the moment these protesters are showing no sign of pulling back as we enter the new year 2020. heavy snowfall in parts of afghanistan has killed dozens of people in recent weeks our correspondent went to hair out province in the west where people facing harsh conditions are appealing

for help. in villages all over the country afghans live in much the same way they have for centuries there are no gas or electricity lines people still collect the wood they burned to stay warm in winter. that's how 18 year old mother died his father said he walked to a nearby forest to gather brush for a fire to keep the family warmth is a nice to sit here. a lot of the lot of them were all of them junk others what we thought that he went to his sister's house on the other side of the woods finding oaks to not work at not so we went there the next day we found his body in the snow our next year's father said his son probably became tired walking in the heavy snow and with no one to help him fell asleep and froze to death conditions are miserable for people in other us gun district one man in this village said here in the forgotten corners of afghanistan people are living waiting to die.

snowfall was so heavy this year the roof of my johns mud house collapsed in the middle of the night her family was sleeping when it happened. i ran out of the room and my husband was screaming for help i was only able to pull my children out of doing things my husband was trapped and tied on to develop all when the neighbors came they removed his body. even before the storm she did not have much now a widow sitting outside her broken home she seems completely lost though tragic local officials say the overall death toll in this area has been low but village elders say they are in serious need of help weather related illnesses and injuries have affected nearly every one of the 700 homes in this community people we met said the winters in this part of the country have been getting increasingly more and more extreme but the cold is more severe than they have ever experienced in the past and

we are expecting 2 more months of snow fall and they are already worried about the next disaster when the snow eventually melts and floods their homes even if people wanted to leave their ancestral lands they say they have nowhere else to go. if they don't get help soon elders here worry out of work young men could join armed groups like the taliban more as a matter of survival than ideology. i got these people are jobless and they do not have anything to eat if these men commit rogueries or join insurgents and it is the right. the biggest complaint we heard was that people here need a medical clinic the nearest one is in district headquarters on the other side of snow covered hills one woman said people have no choice but to walk while they still can before the next storm it seems desperate but they may be the lucky ones deeper in the mountains where the roads are still covered in snow district officials say many villages remain inaccessible and the true scale of human

suffering still out of sight seeing bus ravi other risk on district herat province afghanistan. now an eruption warning is still in place for the tall volcano in the philippines but some fishermen and villages who are living in the area have ignored it and gone home or back to work from the bride joined some coast guards who are trying to keep people away from. the philippines coast guard he's making this early morning patrol every day at the moment there's still a restriction in force on anyone going to the island it's simply too dangerous to go there and this is part of that. just as we were approaching the island we saw boats also coming to the island and also we see people on the shoreline here that people still have fish farms here so they come out very early morning to tend to their fish farms despite warnings that they should be staying away. so they've

been telling the fishing boats they can't stay here they have to leave and some of them have left but we still have these guys on the shoreline here who are determined to stay and there's not much the coast guard it seems can do about that . we're urging them to leave the island and those we see trying to come across we stop that because it's still a level 4 and we've got to think about safety and as we've been driving around here we see just over the hillside huge billowing clouds of steam and dust coming from the volcano having said that it does seem as though the emissions have dropped in the past few days or so it seems a lot more peaceful so it's hard trying to tell people that they can come out here people say look we have livelihoods we're going to make a living we have to come out attend to our fish farms or come out and fish what else are we going to do there are villages dotted all around the coastline of this volcanic island as we've been going along we've been seeing boats at all of them and people happily at work as though life is getting back to normal and seemingly

impervious to the warnings from the coast guard. it seems risky enough just visiting here seems inconceivable that anyone would want to spend any time here. the people left they left behind livestock also left behind domestic animals we just noticed there was a dog on the shoreline the coast guard here just made an attempt to rescue it put it in the boat but it doesn't seem to want to leave. the coast guard will be out again tomorrow morning to do the same warning people to stay away and that this is still a very dangerous volcano but what also annoys them they tell us is that while other people are putting their lives at risk by coming out here so what the coast guard by coming out and trying to tell them to stay away. a 1st migrants from a caravan moving north through have been allowed to stop crossing into mexico but under pressure from the white house the government there says it will try to stop them from carrying on into the u.s. john heilemann is at the mexican border and sent us this report. on saturday

morning the 1st members of a mass migration of 4000 home durance arrived at mexico southern border one of the . many been traveling days to get this far but now they found their way ahead blots . after a brief scuffle involving a few young men the gates on 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 at a local sort of what. i want to bet a future for my children because in honduras 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 it's a time we caught up with eric is he cute i mean you guys are my daughter doesn't have shoes because i can't get work it's the need that we all have in the country

but many like johnny help but thinking this easy entrance might be a trip was the part that we 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 authorities refused to say where they were taking the hondurans in buses but among them but this isn't 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 al-jazeera on the mexico guatemala border. in the u.k. buckingham palace has announced there's an agreement has been reached on the future roles of the duke and duchess of sussex prince harry and meghan will no longer use their titles of royal highness the couple will also repay public money used to renovate the u.k. home libraries around the world constantly looking for ways to keep up in the

digital age and in a strangely one initiative has proven especially popular andrew thomas has more on how one small change has helped to 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 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 actually 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 nice 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 without 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 then don't 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. well again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines in the coming hours libya's warring sides are expected to attend a peace conference in germany the gathering in berlin is backed by the united nations fourthly for have to launch an offensive in april to take tripoli from the internationally recognized government earlier attempts to negotiate a cease fire broke down at a summit in moscow last week and ahead of the talks the turkish president has reaffirmed that there can be no military solution to the conflict meanwhile in

libya forces loyal to her if i have to have attacked 5 eastern oil ports the state oil firm has now closed down those sites and that's expected to result in the loss of around 800000 barrels of oil a day with about $55000000.00 more than 60 government soldiers have been killed in yemen after a missile strike in marriage dozens more were wounded in the attack which targeted a military training camp the diff toll is expected to rise because of the. turkey was involved according to sources 333 missiles one targeting a gathering of the government forces and another one targeted within the re where we're house. nobody has so far clean responsibility over the. targeted a this military camp which is. south was still the problems of. there's

a standoff between protesters and police right now in hong kong after thousands gathered for a rally that organizers are calling a universal siege on communists have a look at these live pictures now that we're getting directly from there you can see tear gas has been fired as some protesters defied police orders not to march through the city of protests and hong kong are now in the 8th month and rallies have often turned violent have a look at some more of these pictures what the police did say that they were giving protesters and demonstrators approval to actually gather but not march those those orders have been denied and protesters and police are now obviously having scuffles throughout the city will be staying on that story throughout the day well those are the headlines do stay on for talk to al jazeera. the climate crisis and the environment take 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 fray of rising temperatures get the latest updates on al-jazeera. the big city. less january the almost unknown president of venezuela as opposition controlled national assembly took his country and the world by surprise. and i don't know maybe just one door declares himself interim president the justification was that president nicolas maduro was not a legitimately elected leader but a usurper and a dictator. venezuelans desperate for economic and political change rushed to show their support with the united states leading the charge nearly 60 countries followed suit. but 12 months later the promise of political change seems

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