well the laughs on al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. out of there on the clock this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes world powers back in libya at a summit in berlin but more than the oil blockade raised doubts about its credibility. security forces in lebanon turned back hundreds of protesters targeting parliament stalemates every new government continues. the bodies of 11 ukrainian citizens who died when a passenger plane was shot down by iran will return to kiev. and unusual climate conditions triggered the largest locus woman east africa in 25 years and is putting

food security at risk. so that libya's warring sides and world leaders have agreed to help secure a fragile truce in the hope it will develop into a full ceasefire at a summit in germany they also committed to ending all foreign meddling in the conflict and to uphold a weapon zimbabwe. has more now from berlin. it was the most important gathering to an conflict in many years but from the start german chancellor angela merkel was struggling to narrow differences between libya's rivals prime minister of the typically based government of national accord phases with used to sit down with warlords. leaving merkel shuttling back and forth. to

convince beige powers to help secure a permanent cease fire and stop the flow of arms into the war torn country. not only in their. everyone with in agreement including the regional organizations the arab league a un of course the african union that we need a political solution it's become evident in the last few weeks that there is no chance for a military solution which could only increase the suffering of the libyan people the un chief said the new diplomatic gains made so far boost the chances for a new political process and led by the libyans weirds all the parties to engage in a leave you no longer dialogue and the auspices of the united nations paving the way for a political solution to the crisis despite the consensus among the participants of the conference there remains huge disagreements for us president manuel mcraney called for an immediate and to foreign intervention powers has recently expressed

concerns over turkey is growing influence but for president of us of. turkey's role is crucial to and violence and prevent her from capturing tripoli. we have been trying on a number of occasions to have a cease fire agreement signed the national government of accord signed a cease fire agreement yes it wasn't signed by the other party led by hostile if we fail to have a cease fire in place and if we fail to have an agreement signed we will never see how fatah's hostilities coming to an end russia is also expanding its influence in libya but appears to be willing to team up with turkey to ensure the cease fire holds even though both countries support opposite sides of the conflict. because. we think both the parties were coming to moscow as they both had heeded our call.

as in they had both responded to our demands of a ceasefire now we are in berlin we hope for more success in this particular crisis . the us world has significantly diminished in the oil rich country the e.u. is divided the friends support half the while the italians back. there were hopes the berlin conference will bring all the parties that can and the conflict button is here was shunned from the peace talks after receiving an invitation last minute morocco which hosted the 2015 peace talks and qatar a key supporter of the d.n.a. were also excluded the bullying conference was essentially about political dialogue libyan rival groups will meet in geneva in the coming weeks to see if they can form a new government or risk turning their country into a permanent playground for foreign intervention has. been well let's hear now from

who's in tripoli and he says the security situation remains fragile and there's some skepticism that a lasting deal can be reached. so for a child or in this ceasefire but it seems that what's going on in berlin is in another. i mean it's going on on the another pass because there are so many hardliners here on both sides who do not want to stop the fighting in fact the people here many people here believe that the believe in talks are meant to bridge the gap between the country's involvement in libya or not between the libyan arrivals and now here for example the west of the camp led by the recognize the prime minister face of raj they say that they come out trust have to and he cannot make peace with have to camp unless he is tried for what they call the war crimes that have been committed by his forces since april the 4th since the launch of the

military campaign. there have been so many question marks they have been addressing these the military the military camp on the ground because many military leaders on the ground they say that they come out hand over their weapons and they cannot stop fighting until i have to the forces pushed out of southern the tripoli meanwhile on the east of the country. military brigade support to get the world for have that and they have taken control of the oil terminal as they say that they cannot accept any foreign intervention in libya they mean the turkish military assistance to the government of national called. well the conference in berlin was also overshadowed by a blockade of libya's major oil fields by hilly for have to forces which is threatening to production in recent months libya has been producing $1200000.00 barrels per day as the country's largest export oil as

a financial lifeline for the un recognized government in tripoli have to shut down for pipelines forcing the closure of 2 the country's largest oil field closures will slash libya's up by more than 90 percent to just $72000.00 barrels a day or less pay now to william lawrence who is a visiting professor of political science at george washington university's school of international affairs joins us now from washington d.c. mr lawrence welcome to the program you've seen the draft communicate is it a starting point for peace do you think absolutely it's sort of a list of principles a list of intents and some interesting ideas. i think the main thing is it remains to be seen what type of international political muscle will go behind the agreement so far we have these we have a kind of consensus on principle and the international community but when it comes to actions on the ground each side just say you know each of the international players supports one side or the other for the most part and they don't really do

much to respect what their side needs to do to respect these international principles right interesting ideas is one thing isn't it but the end is barely dry and part of the conflict or clash in southern tripoli taking out 5 oil terminals it's all a bit redundant if that's going on isn't it. yeah i mean i think the 2 can be a little bit separated we've we've had a failed ceasefire for 2 weeks now and a truce that never came to fruition in moscow and the talks in berlin were not living at peace talks in fact this the libyan parties were there but didn't speak to each other and and this was not going to be about their negotiation it was about international pressure and consensus on libya going forward but it's very significant because i think berlin precipitated these actions on the ground in libya each side's trying to jockey for position and now we have have to are cutting off up to 90 percent of the of the production although i think those numbers might be a little bit off because there's about 10 percent of libya's oil production is offshore

and that won't be affected by this it's a pretty important cog in have. this ability to short of oil supplies how fundamental is the states is over oil to the crisis. it's very very fundamental in you know since 2011 and since the 2nd civil war in 2015 we've had. libyans fighting over access to resources more than anything else control of airports seaports borders and oil and now it seems that the conflict is more and more just over oil so that the thing they're fighting over on the day of the brilliant peace conference is control of the oil which the international community wants to keep flowing for a number of reasons but i have to kind of shooting himself in the foot because he has not been able to sell oil internationally he smuggled a little bit out but not that much and the americans who are quite withdrawn in many ways from many aspects of what's going to libya have proven on 2 occasions

they're willing to intervene militarily to stop oil sales by the east so by blocking oil sales and trying to stop oil sales as a way to gain ground i don't think have to is really playing a winning card here. talk of this conference leader who said you know the off describe a road map towards peace where does that road map actually lead in this case so are we really likely to get to a point where there is a government of national unity. well there's about 48 paragraphs here and it's going a bunch of different directions but the main thing they want is they want to ceasefire they want to strengthen arms embargo and they want to rejuvenated political process but i don't think any of those are going to happen anytime real soon i mean we might get to another cease fire but i think 2 of the things that were very interesting in the communique and haven't been covered much in the press is that they're going to form a monthly meeting of all of these players that were in berlin to enforce it which

is interesting and sort of takes things out of the hands of just the un un's mail but actually forces all these countries to take a look each month at a hard way about what they're doing to enforce it and they're supposed to be meeting in geneva in the coming weeks between 5 military commanders from each side now in your set up piece you said that might have something to with the political deal but i think more importantly if we get the military community together that might get us a step closer to a cease fire right where the president certainly needs all the help it can get when he learns appreciate that thanks very much indeed. a pleasure at least 30 people have been injured in the 2nd night of violence in beirut security forces fired tear gas and water kind of her testers who were throwing rocks at the lebanese parliament on saturday nearly 400 people were injured in similar protests that descended into riots and frustration is growing over financial crisis and the failure of politicians to form a new government center has more now from beirut. it's the 4th night of violence

since tuesday we are outside parliament square but the security forces the anti-riot police have managed to push the anti-establishment protesters away from parliament building this was the security cordon that was protecting parliament building it was really the front line behind the steel barricades the riot police they were using water cannons they were using tear gas they were using rubber bullets the lebanese red cross issuing a statement saying that they have taken at least 30 people to hospital people who suffered injuries as a result of the confrontations hundreds of people were converged outside the. parliament building hoping to try to storm the building it's really a show of protest against the by the ruling elite they believe that the legislature is illegitimate they need to resign people want to early elections they want the ruling elites has been governing this country for 30 years to leave office and to make way for a new government

a government of independent experts who will be able to deal with the dire economic situation in the country so another night of violence in the streets of the lebanese capital you can see behind us here at this field barricades are the anti-riot police who were really engaged in clashes with the protesters who were throwing stones sticks water bottles and firecrackers anything really that they could find. to try to breach the security barrier. plenty more on this news hour including in an exclusive interview a spokesman for iran's hizbollah brigades details plans to respond to what he calls american aggression. a deliberate act of humiliation a former un human rights official gives a scathing assessment of israel's treatment of palestinians and back in the cage economy. on his return to action peter will detail.

hundreds of central americans are gathered on guatemala's border with mexico which they plan to cross on monday morning and they've been waiting. for more people to arrive they say their chances of getting past mexican guards on the other side of the border a better if they cross in one large group of miners government says 4000 people have come in from honduras and wednesday trying to make their way to mexico and to the united states john holdren has more from mexico's southern border. what you're seeing here is one of the overflow areas that shelters here in qunu man have set up to try and cope with the amount of people that are arriving from honduras hoping to pass into mexico a many of them eventually into the united states you can see that here people have been sleeping out in the open there's about 2000 people arrived here on the border between guatemala and mexico and more than 4000 people in total that have set out

from honduras now trying to get further north but there is a problem and mexico has said that it's not going to allow them to transit is not going to allow them to get to the united states where the mexican government has said is that it will allow them to work in the south of the country give them were visas in certain cases it will give them asylum but what's been happening is it makes kind of sorties of only been letting people in in groups of 20 smaller groups and that's given rise to suspicions from these people that they're actually just being deported straight back to hasn't helped the mexican migration authorities haven't told them and haven't told us exactly what's happening to those people so there's a state of uncertainty here there's going to be more people arriving from this caravan probably in the next day or so so on monday they're saying that they're going to take to the border bridge 3 that you know it's got to mexico and they're

going to turn out all mass and demand to be let through so it remains to be same how the mexican authorities are going to respond to that event as well as opposition leader one has defied a travel ban flying to colombia to meet the u.s. secretary of state on monday it is a later show of support from washington which says it is the rightful leader of venezuela despite heavy opposition has been unable to remove president nicolas maduro at least 4 and a half 1000000 people have fled on to the crisis consuming country. french prosecutors have launched an inquiry after a rock police officer was seen punching a protester during a yellow dress rally in paris this comes a day after a video showing the alleged beating went viral a man whose head appears to be bleeding was held down by an officer who hits his face french police have been accused of using excessive force during anti-government protests which began back in 2018 as well as in recent demonstrations against and. the united nations has warned that a missile attack on

a government military camp in yemen could derail political efforts to deescalate the country's 5 year long conflict the government is blaming who threw rebels for the attack on marriage that killed at least 111 people more now from nicholas gage and a warning viewers may find some images in the report disturbing. after nearly 5 years of violence the war in yemen is showing no signs of ending this hospital is filled with government soldiers and civilians injured in saturday's attack on a military camp in the region of mary of more than 100 who killed. who it was around sunset prayers were praise and then we said down in the missiles hit it was around 630 in for 10 minutes or so i couldn't feel anything around me so many of my friends were killed. this is all that's left of the mosque that was targeted blown apart by a ballistic missile how yemen's government backed by a saudi u.a.e.

led military coalition has blamed the iranian backed rebels and his that to retaliate. we would like to offer our condolences to our nation our armed forces and the families of the fallen those who were killed in a heinous attack by the iranian backed hooty militias the fallen were true heroes soldiers in our armed forces among the dead are also civilians. the war has created what the un has labeled the world's worst humanitarian crisis. since the start of the conflict it's estimated more than 91000 yemenis have been killed and another 3000000 displaced by the fighting weekly gauge al jazeera. iraq's hezbollah brigades have told us there that all major groups in the region have met in iran in an exclusive interview a spokesman said they about lying their future action against what they see as u.s.

aggression and been generators in baghdad with more on what's been revealed. this is the 1st time that cut out of his will or hezbollah brigades group has spoken out after a series of events when the united states accused them of targeting one of their contractors and crew coke and targeted their fighters on the iraq syria border the spokesman has been saying that it is going to abide by the iraqi government's decision to for push out american and foreign troops out of iraq and will not be carrying out any further attacks but he did say that their patience is going to run out if the government does not deliver on its promises did tell us that has been law which is banned by the united states is carrying out attacks inside and in iraq and in syria against what he called a united threat which is faced by all groups which are on the right side of history according to him which is isolate. has been has been credited for many of these

attacks by the united states after it was designated as a terrorist group but according to the group they are not in hiding he met us in plain sight he says there they are going to continue their activities political social and others he did mention that they are going to wait and see what the u.s. does in this region but the he said their writing is on the wall in the u.s. forces and coalition troops should be thinking about the leaving iraq he did mention about this this specific meeting which happened in the city of call in iran which he said was a crucial meeting and many important decisions came out of. that meeting was very important to coordinate our actions activities and the resistance and the next steps maybe the americans will stay in iraq and challenge us it was the 1st step in a new era of coordination among shia and resistance forces we answered the call from the solder to meet in calm and one of the results was the protest which will

happen in 4 or 5 days in iraq. and as i mentioned has been banned by the united states it is a group which has been seen as a threat to not just u.s. and coalition troops but according to the united states on iraqis as well it's just something that their spokesman rubbished and he said that they are the sons of the soil and they will continue their struggle against what he called a u.s. aggression and illegal presence in iraq meanwhile anger among iraqi youths over the lack of reform by their government has again erupted into mass protests in the capital baghdad and the southern city of najaf protesters blocks many to road setting up barricades and burning tires demonstrations began in october of widespread corruption and the lack of public services. demonstrators are now threatening to step up their protests and cut of large areas in southern iraq unless government tax officers imran khan reports from. oh

preparations begin for what protesters say will cripple iraq's roads they may be small in number at the moment but these protesters say they will cut off the south of iraq from the rest of the country by blocking all the main roads the reason is simple they say their demands for a new prime minister a new elections haven't been met and if they're not met by sunday night they will make good on that threat all across the south and the shot or so out of ostend we block the roads and are demanding our rights the rights of young people to get jobs we want rapid elections an independent candidate who doesn't belong to the old parties are going to demand the central government go to early elections and nominate a new pm independent and accepted by protesters if not we will escalate and block the highway and all the entrances of the city and kick out the corrupt officials so far iraq's security forces are letting the protesters make a stand. and that's in babylon we allow the demonstrators to express their constitutional rights but not affect or harm other residents when demonstrators

block the roads the security forces negotiate with the protesters to find solutions and we become mediators between babylon's local governments and the demonstrators. throughout the south of iraq protesters gather every day in large number but they concerned that they're not being listened to prime minister i'd love to muddy has said he will step down and he's currently in a caretaker role but so far none of the alternative names put forward for the top job are acceptable to either parliament or the protest movement and that's frustrating the protesters the protest movement faces a decisive moment in the coming days they need to put a no pressure on the government so it meets their demands by threatening to cut off the south or off from the rest of the country is a bold move whether it works remains to be say iraq on al-jazeera. the bodies of 11 ukrainians who died when iran's military. on a passenger plane this month have been flying to kiev or 176 people on board the

ukraine in their line flight were killed what tehran has called a disastrous mistake from stansell. the solemn occasion at airport 11 coffins arrive with the bodies of the ukrainians who died when their flight was shot down by iran's military shortly after takeoff the coffins were carried wired to time to waging curses ukraine's president flawed amused alinsky and other government officials were in attendance relatives of those who died as well as airport staff also paid their respects of them an opponent program of the new program both of those are the captain was a very kind and simple man and he was so easy to be around the flight attendants were very kind and i had a great sense of humor there was nothing bad to say about anyone who died only good things. on january the 8th 2 missiles hit the plane moments after it left to iran's

international airport the strike came just hours after iran carried out a missile attack on a rocky base housing u.s. troops in retaliation for the americans assassinating iran's top military commander custom salaam. after 3 days of denials and mounting intelligence chatter and finally admitted it had unintentionally shot down the aircraft mistaking it for a hostile plane iran is refusing to send the plane's black boxes to kiev denying reports that they had previously agreed to send them to ukraine for analysis the decision has outraged some world leaders who say iran doesn't have the necessary technology to conduct its own proper analysis of the recorders this disaster and that delay in admitting responsibility has led to protests in iran and added to international pressure on the country to take part in an independent and transparent investigation catherine stansell al jazeera. a log on to american demonstration has been held in pakistan's capital islamabad crowds rallied in

solidarity with iran against u.s. policy in the middle east including the killing of top rating military one accustoms from the money i wanted to was a person. strong broader and a lot more by the end of the protests there will be a tourist a u.s. embassy opiates they that security for good renard allow them to get into the diplomatic all claim richard also it's on a bad day go on it is important in order that they will however come within a shouting distance of tax us efforts to compound that slogan that day has on the band aid downgrade israel downgrades the united states of america its paper that against the end of engineer quality and particularly the killing of general caught them so that money food they consider add up march off they also have bought dogs and much yachts to the leader of hamas that they are the proud to

show their solidarity with the budget in reply to it does strong protest against the u.s. states of aggression against iran and of warmongering as you can see the rally has where. and children and hundreds of other top order. shia muslims are one and with the martyrdom of general qassam so money we want to show the world that we are united on his brutal killing by the united states and we are here to raise our voice against america's intentions against iran and shia muslims around the globe it or them border north that after iran gets on had a larger shia are populated restaurant. almost $15.00 to $20.00 brits there in all of the country's population there is stronger it anywhere and i guess the u.s. politics and the region they actually want it from the americans the way they are intervention in the country's foreign energy and afraid they have got it on this

action and getting generals from the money who was the same going off fighting against isis and it through their americans the interest of americans want to get it followed by the isis and they were never interested in killing them and they were against every problem who are actually fighting against isis and i measured from a quite clear that the people really find any aggression and. orderly unacceptable . stood here and i'll just join the philippines is trying to clear a volcano evacuations and it's villages ignore warnings of imminent danger. it may simply leave i. need to liberate made a mistake that is one giant leap for space x. . still to come up to a slip up for the title chasing him to milan italy peter. and

it has been a weekend of severe winter storms across northern sections of the united states and also eastern areas. of canada most of this cloud with the weather is continue to stream away offshore but just have a look at this this isn't jones up into newfoundland off of course the east coast of canada look at this snow 76 centimeters has been recorded but the winds there were coming in at about 130 kilometers an hour so as you might expect it has just blown all of this snow just look at the depth of that snow so quite a job to clear things out of the way but monday it really is a fairly calm quiet day throughout much of united states much of canada as well and as we had often to choose they still fine and dry across much of the east those temperatures below freezing but some nice dry weather some nice sunshine with that chooses the day for these a snow flows to really spread inland down through the rockies and even down into

these northern areas of california just 14 celsius in san francisco but the temperatures they are improving look at this for minneapolis monday minus 11 by the time we get to wednesday and thursday those figures by day are a few degrees above freezing fairly mixed across much of the caribbean wanted to show was heaviest rain into southern mexico but mostly drawing cancun some nice sunshine at 26 celsius. al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how libraries influenced the course of history the cells that did not get enough credit for ending a bust and you want to be the biggest oracle saga but he was mandela the biggest con in the world the prisoner and the president who came together to end up apartheid in south africa nelson mandela and f.w. de klerk face to face on all just. when the news breaks and the moment today the

current government has lost trust the people they can't do anything because the protesters are against it when people are to be cut places like work who represent the loft shots for opponents of rex it's trying for the conservatives al-jazeera has teams on the ground and now hopes the meeting in paris will push politicians to create a competent and credible government to bring new moon documentaries and lighting leaves on air and online. but again you're watching out 0 remind of our top stories this hour and libya's warring sides and world leaders have agreed to help secure

a truce in the hope it will develop into a full ceasefire the libyan rival groups will meet in geneva by the end of january . at least 30 people he injured in a 2nd night of violence in beirut this growing anger over the worsening financial crisis and politicians failure to form a new government. the ceremony has been held in kiev for the 11 ukrainians killed when their plane was shot down by iran's military earlier this month 176 people on board ukrainian international airlines flight. leaked documents suggest that africa's richest woman siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars of angolan government money to offshore accounts the international consortium of investigative journalists obtained hundreds of thousands of papers about isabel dos santos as business empire as she's the daughter of angola's former president joseph it wadded dos santos last month prosecutors froze her bank accounts and assets accusing her of corruption she's dismissed the allegations as

a ground political vendetta. china says it will step up efforts to contain the outbreak of a deadly new virus after new cases were confirmed the national health body says the transmission of the current a virus has not been completely mapped it's believed to have originated from an animal market in the central city of han 62 cases have now been confirmed in 2 people have died. police in hong kong have arrested a number of people taking part in a pro to protest thousands took part in sunday's rally which was cut short by violence between protesters and police who fired tear gas at the crowds and the protests have now been going on for months authorities have approved sunday's rally on the condition it stayed in one place but protesters defied the ruling sarah clarke was at the rally in hong kong and she says the police response is part of a security crackdown ahead of chinese new year. it began as a peaceful rally with thousands gathered in china garden in central hong kong on

the island and at the organizers of this particular rally they wanted to march but the police denied that approval but the point is where to hit any why now they lift and i march along some the busy surface of the big highways behind us on they why to cause why by but the protesters was stopped and we got a police line behind me where hundreds of right place blocked that access and they pushed them back they've also fired a number of rounds of tear gas and sponge tonight on those protesters trying to disperse the crowd and the place always said that they would move in if that particular group of the demonstrate just started to move and they did now we've had a number of arrests also in central and it's all part of a police crackdown as we enter the chinese new year festival other place and the government has banned a number of events of the coming weeks and a number of fish have also of ramped up the security around hong kong as part of a police crackdown on the anti-government demonstrations which are now in the month . officials in the philippines say they're looking for a site to permanently relocate people who live near the active taal volcano but despite warnings that it could erupt again some fishermen and villages have gone

home all back to work has been. 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 and. 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 and tend 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 and from the coast guard. it seems risky enough just visiting here seems inconceivable that anyone would want to spend any time here but 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 well the coast guard by coming out and trying to tell them to stay away. form a bolivian leader even marla's his name the candidates will be running for his socialist party in may's presidential election a news conference and wanted terrorists said his former economy minister will be the presidential candidate on his former foreign minister will be his running mate rollins is living in argentina after accepting an offer of asylum he resigned in november after a disputed election victory which prompted nationwide protests a former top united nations human rights official has described israel's treatment of the palestinians as a deliberate act of humiliation and gilmore stepped down from his post at the end

of last year and shared his thoughts with our diplomatic editor james bay. he was one of the un's top human rights officials assistant secretary general andrew gilmore seen here with refugees in bangladesh serve the international organization for 30 years now he's stepped down and he's given a scathing assessment of the state of human rights particularly in israel and the palestinian territories how bad is the situation on the ground particularly in gaza for ordinary people it is absolutely appalling in gaza the actual physical condition of people is is indescribable it is to me to scandalous that the world allows that. see it's a siege essentially i mean that is the word that when i was in the u.n. we couldn't use that without getting a lot of protest but effectively that's what it is goods and i'll probably allowed in and people are not allowed out he agreed with the assessment the situation is

similar to the way white controlled south africa was run into the beginning of the 1990 s. apart it's very hard to see that the to ration and not regard it as a segregation that is so profound that it that it reaches the level of apartheid but i've never seen a greater deliberate humiliation of an entire people and that has been very consistent trend that i've seen it is good that it gets worse but it seems to be that humiliation is almost part of the the game plan so why is there not more global criticism of israel's actions at the un and in the security council the u.s. takes israel's side and under the trumpet ministration their support has been unwavering even when israel killed more than 70 people in one day at the garden fence the former us ambassador on the day that doesn't was shot through the

fence with sniper rifles there were no danger at all most of them i mean they were shot and getting a number of children the u.s. ambassador said there is acting with restraint and if that is restraint i would hate to see that you know the under strain. u.n. officials are normally very measured with the words they use particularly on this issue so politically charged the real views of a top official now no longer in his post a rare and powerful james pays 0 at the united nations. hundreds of people in northern italy have rallied against far right politics ahead of regional elections next week the so-called sardine movement is named after that crowd of protests and city squares there edging voters in the immediate every minute of region to vote against the right northern league leader met yourself vini is trying to make gains in the area which has traditionally been a stronghold for the left. 8 people have died in a fire at

a home for the disabled in the czech republic 30 people were injured in the blaze on the northwest border with germany firefighters were able to stop the flames from engulfing the facility but poor weather prevented helicopters from transporting those leaving and much as he helped thousands of people in the canadian province of new found and all without power after a massive blizzard hit the region the storm dumped more than 76 centimeters of snow on the provincial capitals and john burying cars and trapping people in their homes and local authorities have declared a state of emergency and say the priority is snow removal and clearing the roads to the main hospital space x. has completed the last big test of its crew capsule before it can launch nasa astronauts from u.s. soil. and there you just saw that trying to stand again. really serious here in time for in california this is looking great so far as they say the american aerospace manufacturer it mimicked

the launch fadia off the florida coast it was testing whether the capsule could separate from a rocket and carry the crew home if something went wrong space x. founder musk says it was a picture perfect mission. and i'm super fired up this is great you know it's really great to hear anyone who has an adventurous part of the body is going to be very excited about this and i think it will help breed a great interest in space well my wall is a senior space writer at space dot com and he explains what space x. will do after his crew capsule test. there are only a few more things that what they need to do. that they want to go through all of the data from this test flight just to make sure that it that it was that that things did go according to plan which it certainly seems like it did you know it looks like a picture perfect mission but they're going to like examine that spacecraft and then just make sure nothing weird happened and then like they're going to do

a couple more parachute tests because it's the 2nd year they revamped that net that parachute system on the crew dragon so that it's going to make sure that everything works just just the way it seems to be working well and that would pretty much clear the way that's that's why people think i mean sometime this spring is is what nasa said and then also what like you must said that's that's the 1st preflight is probably going to take place nasa keeps on saying they don't want to be the only customer for 'd the spacecraft they want to you want to like a bunch of different customers who will take advantage of this service to get up to space and get back down again and it's sort of hopes to be that like anchor tenant basically or like the driving force that kind of shows other companies what they can do with this and sort of say well yeah let's let's like start a whole new commercialization kind of opportunity in space and so yeah i mean maybe we're going to see the these sorts of spacecraft mean crew drag and also boeing's maybe they're going to be taking private space tourists up and down i mean maybe they're going to be doing a lot of other things of university as well will sort of pay them to like take

payloads up there to do experiments and all that mean that's that's the long term vision nasa wants to kind of jumpstart so they're just hoping that this is the 1st step. more than 17 mates including members of brazil's most powerful guying have escaped from prison in paraguay through a tunnel government says prison officials must have been aware of the operation as hundreds of bags of earth run covered in some cells prisons director was fired along with 6 other prison officials hard wise interior minister says the tunnel may just be a ruse to make sure no officials involved are held accountable as many of the inmates simply walked out through the main gate. the 1st round of voting in a controversial parliamentary election has started in more opposition parties a boycotted the vote for $24.00 national assembly seats after failing to secure guarantees of a transparent free democratic election president ali assume money secured

a 2nd consecutive term in march 2019 amid allegations of vote rigging. now that a plague of locusts has been devastating crops and pastures in the horn of africa threatening food security in a region already struggling swarms that have been growing in ethiopia and somalia for 3 months have now crossed into kenya zeros mark where reports from somebody who can't. secondly lenny's attempts to scare off this woman is locusts and almost completely futile he's the chief of a community of herders here in eastern kenya. throbs until it is finished you have it or want it because once there if nor if. i know most kind of gun tormes crossed from neighboring somalia and ethiopia in recent weeks it's the worst plague of locusts to fact the region in 70 years one locust

by itself look harmless but it can eat its body mass in matter every day if there were swarm of tens or even hundreds of millions can eat tons of food each day and that's devastating for the farmers and herders who live here it's dry for most of the year people depend on their animals to survive the animals depend on the plant and the plant being devoured the government started spraying insecticides which it says are harmless to people and livestock. it's released $2000000.00 to fund the fight against the locusts the un's also contributed. to many farms in the neighboring province there the locusts could devastate food supplies and the economy the response is meant to stop that but it hasn't been working well we found this warm the day after it had been sprayed this village

administrator told us the actions taken so far haven't been effective and more must be done within the big number did they are going to get very low numbers so i don't think that it will disease and that is what doesn't work. and so the locusts keep eating and their population keeps growing. but the agriculture minister told us the insecticide is now working and the swarms will soon be stopped the. role i think is the mixing intensity of the. ingredients that cuba. has a problem that has been corrected the government is taking. charge of the situation scientists say it was on seasonal rains across the region last month that caused the locust population to boom he watered the plants they eat and they'll soon start

to threaten people's food security if their feasting isn't stopped malcolm web al-jazeera county kenya. libraries around the world are struggling to retain readers in the digital age but in australia one initiative has worked and it's been borrowed by other countries and you thomas has more on a small changes made a big difference. 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 a find 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 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 get 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 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. so the sport come here on news hour and jumping for gold peter reaction from the queen to you through the pics in switzerland. and escape from severe hardship onto the world stage as a paralympic champion will be i want to silver medal for the 1500 meters and the bronze for the $800.00 and the desire to work overseas i went knocking on doors

looking at a job and was interested in immunology studies that led to international recognition as a global leader in regenerative medicine to inspiring journeys of human endeavor arabs abroad the paralympian and the bone maker on al-jazeera what went wrong in society that opened up the space for the image that a gracious is the european parliament it's not accountable and it's impossible for the people to bet it is for link up our people trying to take. that lead and if profundity strong demand our song moment while getting the growth the projection isn't of this world because the model doesn't work europe's forbidden colony episode 2 on al-jazeera.

and again let's get straight on to support his peter thank you very much a new era at barcelona and the coach t.k. said he and began with the winning start on sunday the spanish champions going top of the league 'd as well above rivals real madrid. city and took charge in the boss a dugout for the 1st time in a home game against granada at the no camp a 2nd half goal from the n.l. messi giving them a one no victory lowballs lost to a 1st title in the english premier league continues then a 16 points clear at the top there were 2 no winners of a manchester united at anfield virgil van dyke's 1st off header and a goal with the final play of the match from home clinched the victory the liverpool fans believe their 30 year wait to be champions is over but the manager is not celebrating yet it's. of course allowed to dream to sing whatever they want

as long as they do their job as well in a moment when we play all fine we will not be part of that party yet. but it's no problem you know our job. you venters have opened up a 4 point lead at the top of it so he said they are 2 goals from christiane or an elder as the champions one to one home to paula you very closest rivals in some alone slipped up on a visit to lake cheer on sunday into labor but it finished one movie thanks to this girl from market man troops. khana mcgregor made an emphatic return to the ultimate fighting championship securing his 1st win in more than 3 years then there's paul vender worth reports it sets up the prospect of a dream rematch for the sport. preparing to enter the octagon at his heaviest ever fighting weight of the great ahead promise to put on a show in his 1st fight in 15 months. the forward to division champion moved up to welterweight for the 1st time in his career and wasted no time against american

donaldson running. mediately after the 42nd technical knockout when u. of c. boss dana white suggested mcgregor's next fight should be a rematch against russia's lightweight champion hope the new mega medal of car very personal madame man and his team and. look it is what it is i make no promises than i was i am who i am and it's it's not it's it is what it is so i have the same is demanding $100000000.00 before they consider what could well be the biggest pay per view in the u.f.c. as history the 1st fight was marred by controversy before it even began. mcgregor was arrested and 2018 after throwing a handcart into a bus full of fighters including the man from dagestan then immediately after the beating the 31 year old had jumped out of the cage seeking retribution for a number of racial and religious slurs in the build up to the fight both fighters

were fined and suspended i'm a russian than that so i would love to go to moscow and compete there they will be like something out of a rocky movie you know i mean so i'd be very eager to do it at this time outside the octagon hasn't gone so well he was fined for punching an elderly man and has denied allegations of sexual assault. after becoming the 1st man to secure knockouts in 3 weight divisions there's little sign that his actions outside the cage are reducing the u.f.c. swished to get the most bang for their buck out of the irishman paul vander werth al-jazeera. australian open champion novak djokovic goes in search of his 8th melbourne title over the next fortnight as the year's 1st and us grand slam event gets underway. has been boyda by leading serbia to victory at the inaugural a.t.p. cup shock of each believes he's arriving in a better place for the big tournaments says he enters the latter years of his korea . i have completely different life today than i had 5 years ago

and you know i'm a father of 2 children and obviously things are not the way they were 5 or 10 years ago and i and i know that but that doesn't necessarily mean it's better or it's worse it's just different. former world number one lee westwood secured a rig golfing fees on sunday he won the championship by $2.00 shots giving the englishman european tour victories in each of the last 4 decades it was only 2nd trophy in 6 years and 44th korea tied. up england's cricketers heading to the final day of the 3rd test in south africa needing just 4 more wickets to take the lead in the series the bowling of captain joe root doing some unlikely damage as the proteas were made to follow on their port elizabeth route is very much a part time spinner but she took 4 wickets at south africa close on $102.00 for 6

in the 2nd innings 8 gold medals were up for grabs on sunday at the winter youth olympics in less than both the individual titles were decided in the ski jumping austria's marker verger claimed a narrow win in the men's event with russian and naver taking gold in the women's competition. and romania have their 1st gold medal of the games that came from 17 year old georgette a porpoise coup in the women's mana bob they go shaping the famous track at st moritz this discipline is being added to the full program at the next winter games in beijing in 2022. ok more sports news coming up again later we'll see you then. president ford it's a year later that is it from a dick clark for this news hour but i will be back in just a couple minutes with another half hour news so you know.

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well powers back a cease fire in libya at a summit in berlin good more shelling and an oil blockade raised doubts about its credibility. and i make a lot of this is out 0 life and also coming up security forces in lebanon turn back hundreds of protesters targeting parliament stalemates every new government continues. the bodies of 11 ukrainian citizens who died when a passenger plane was shot down by iran to return to kiev. it seemed like. the deliberate middle.