make belittle difference, rewind, silent, and i want to see a top iranian nuclear scientists is killed in an attack east of the capital. the country's foreign minister calls it an act of state terror. this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up. ethiopia's government denies. it's ruling out talks with the grain leaders. as a peace envoy is pushed to end the weeks long conflict. tens of thousands of indian farmers march on the capitol, demanding the government scrap laws. they say will cut their names. and it's

actually a popular in paris where a shocking video is fueling debate about police violence. so we begin with that breaking news from iran, and its scientists believed to be at the very heart of the country's nuclear program has been killed in an attack east of the capital, tehran motion factories that it was with the iranian revolutionary guard corps was sanctioned by the united states in 2008, the iranian foreign minister jevons every 1st describe the killing as murder and said terrorists are responsible. he says there are indications of israel playing a role. although he did not provide evidence. israel has refused comment. go straight to us, had begun in tehran, and i said this killing has predictably elicited a great deal of anger in iran. absolutely, we've had foreign minister jihads reef response,

respond pointing the finger at israel. we've had the head of the armed forces, mohamed barghouti say that elements linked to the zionist regime are responsible, and we've had the advisor defense advisor to the supreme leader, ayatollah khomeini promised that there will be an attack on those perpetrators. the words assassinated around $230.00. we are told today and it was there was a explosion in those exchange of gunfire between his guards and these unnamed assailants . he was injured in the explosion and gunfire. we understand. he was flown to a hospital on helicopter. medics tried to save him, were unable to do so. the defense ministry said that he was the head of research and development at the ministry. and they gave their condolences to the supreme leader, ayatollah khomeini, and the nation. now he had had previous assassination attempts on him before

at the height of assassinations of nuclear scientists in the country. but when the news came through, this will be a shock for the area. this is one of the most senior nuclear scientists and individuals that was a part of the missile program. and presumably that's why he has been targeted because he was so deeply involved in this absolutely. as i said that there had been previous attempts on his life before. in fact, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in 2018 had named him as the director of iran's nuclear missile program. and he had, he's movements had been secret. he had gods, we understand that he had guards on the in intelligence ministry has said that they've launched an investigation. now we're also hearing in hearing that $3.00 to $4.00, of those assailants were killed in that exchange of fire. but yet we are

hearing from officials, they're all saying that there will be a response. but the context of all this is that in the context of the 2015 nuclear deal, president donald trump pulled out of that deal imposed sanctions on iran. and iran has slowly been reducing its commitments to that deal. now iranian officials saying the government, the reformists have been looking forward to the united states under president elect joe biden, to return to that deal. now. 6 this could be seen as by some officials here are seeing this as an attempt to damage that although no evidence has been presented in terms of who they, who is behind this. but fingers are already being pointed by the iranian officials here and there pointing their fingers at israel. all right. thanks very much indeed . reporter there from terror on. well, between 20120122 iran accuse israel and the united states of carrying out targeted killings of 4 iranian scientists. physicists, most sood was killed when

a remote controlled bomb went off outside his home in january, 2010, to 24 year old iranian, for the killing, accusing him of be an israeli intelligence agent. in november of that year, nuclear scientist and engineer ri-ri was attacked and killed attackers on motorbikes to touch bombs to his car as he drove to work. in july 2011, the nuclear scientist resigned the jihad was killed in front. in the couple that's off the 2 gunmen on motorcycles there. and in january of 2012 stuff i was killed after a bomb was attached to his car. he supervised the department to the next hunts uranium enrichment facility levert, who's the c.e.o. of the political risk consultancy strategic she previously served in the us national security council and state department and joins us live via skype from mclean. va jimmy, very welcome to the program. so of course,

tensions between iran and the united states were already high. this will run further with the yes, i think it will. it's perhaps not quite as shocking as the killing generals of the money almost a year ago last the last year, early, early last january. but it is, it is very disturbing. it's one of the most high level assassinations that we've seen in iran, certainly in the past year. and i think it is intended to stoke tensions, particularly in this interim period between the end of the trumpet ministration. the beginning of the administration trying to ministration officials have said quite openly that they will do all they can to exert what they call maximum pressure in its most maximum essence, between now and when they have to leave office on january 20th. so you would concur with the iranian foreign minister who points a finger at it, israel, although he has no direct evidence in the course of what israel does, would have the u.s. would know about well, we have is, you know,

background to these types of incidents before so between 20102012, the israelis and u.s. intelligence officials, background in the press quite openly that there, that they knew that israeli officials assassinated these, these 4 iranian nuclear scientists between 201-2012 at the time the u.s. intelligence agency was not happy about that. and that's why they, they talk to the press about it because they were supporting president obama's efforts to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the nuclear dispute between iran and the united states. so at the time, u.s. officials openly intelligence agencies, officials openly spoke about this. so we know, based on that, that there is a background of killing for iranian nuclear physicists. previously, we also have strong suspicions that the israelis were behind the explosions at the natanz nuclear facility in iran. this past july, again we had intelligence officials, both in the united states and in israel. background in the press about this. so

based on the those cut those, those background briefings to the press. there is, there is strong reason to, to suspect both israeli, and possibly even u.s. involvement. given the very public pronouncements of u.s. officials that they will use this time between the end of the trunk administration in the beginning and about in ministration to do whatever they can to to punish iran and to set. 'd iran's progress in the nuclear field and other fields as well. ok. what do we know the status of the iran's nuclear capabilities? since that will trump abound in the nuclear agreement in 2015? and what will factors are these deaths due to change those missions? well, i think 1st and foremost fact is that his death will not do anything to change those ambitions, unfortunately, and may spur the iranians to move further and faster and more intensely towards pursuing their nuclear ambitions. so i think it's counterproductive just in that,

in that respect. but iran's nuclear program has been fully inspected by the international atomic energy agency for years. the head of the a, the atomic energy agency was just in iran a couple of weeks ago. so it's a fully inspected program. there's no need for this kind of subterfuge. and looking around and suspecting and taking the law into our own hands or into the israelis own hands, there's an international inspections regime for this program. and at this point, the i.a.e.a. sees no reason to believe that iran's program is going on a weapons path. they have increased their production and stockpile the low enriched uranium, beyond which they agreed to, to cap it under the iran nuclear core, back in 2015. but that is reversible and that uranium is not highly enriched, which is what it would need to be in order to be converted to weapons grade and for

use in a weapons program. good to get your perspective a depreciate, very much leverage. thank you. thank you very much on to where the government has denied claims. the prime minister is rejecting talks with a grin. the does that since visiting peace envoy to push for a resolution to the weeks long conflict in the northern region, 3 african union, special envoys. but the prime minister meant he told them he'd only speak to representatives operating illegally in the region. a day ago, the army was ordered to carry out the final phase of its offensive and move in on to graze regional capital. well, earlier my colleague are fully back to both spoke to the prime minister spokeswoman brylin saying i think it's a widely understood the concept with regard to the strong words with rejection, particularly because the prime minister has no rejected talking to anybody from that's a grey region impact the provision administration. there have been threats of constitutionally

by the half a federation is an amalgamation, or a composition of various to great political parties that are active in the progressive region. so there is no rejection on his part because this provision of the new thracian is comprised of representative court speaking on behalf of the people of the grand land. but up one point with regard to your question of mediation at this point. and this has been very serious and several times avoid that. one of the key point of all of those measures being undertaken is because, according to the laws of the land in the constitution and the criminal code of the federal democratic republic repeat a copy in your own. national defense force is a credit, is a criminal act in this considered a treasonous act of one. so, part of the country in the right to hold in the country. my thought for you in the service to holding the country together, the action was taken to ensure that the rule of law is being enforced and in place

in the region of a growing mediating with a criminal group. the fact that the treasonous act is not something that's on the table right now, but i see human origins, this conflict right now. this offensive by the government has led to thousands of ethiopians fleeing to neighboring sudan. so you can understand the concern of neighboring countries when the conflict is now spreading into their territory. so why once again reject mediation that may come from sudan and other countries when they're being directly impacted by what's happening in the tigray region. the folly, the federal government is in command of the areas within the to grow region. all of the places that were under occupation are now under federal command and are returning back to learn when in fact the prime minister has made a clear call for all of those that have fled to come back because their areas and their homes are being protected but do you think it's time for the citizens to return, as you say, when the prime minister announced yesterday that the final offensive on macand, the regional capital to gray had begun half

a 1000000 people live in that area. what is the government going to do to protect those civilians living there? the government is going to continue and continue doing what it has been doing throughout this operation and matters most protection for civilians. one thing that we have to understand and has not been well understood by the international community and international media is that one of the reasons that it has taken a little bit longer for all of these various to be occupied is because the national defense forces is not having any military confrontations, the p.l.f. militia in cities and towns that have been a part of its strategic operation of voiding cities and towns and taking terrain in order to get to these areas where a lot of p.l.f. operatives are. so there is one ethics of ensuring that citizens are protected. secondly, that engagement going to be happening in michaela is not something construed by, t.p.m. the propaganda. this is something with due cause for an end to military attention and strategic and tactical operations that is going to be targeted towards the p.p.l. of click element where their hideouts are also clearly known. thousands of farmers

have gathered in india's capital to demand. the government scrapped new market friendly laws, which they say damage their livelihoods, greece, ireland, protesters to gather in the city off to initially trying to hold off the crowds for most of cross entire states to fight the changes they face barricades, water cannon, tear gas as police try to stop their advance has withdrawn and has more now from new delhi, there is a huge police presence here. in fact, so far there are still more police officers here than there are farmers and testers . there are a large number of police buses here to take anyone away for a cause any trouble. and just as importantly, there are police barricades surrounding this area to stop pharmacy come from going beyond this point into central delhi, which is where they wanted to go. but they were denied permission police citing the record high number of coronavirus cases. nigella's police commissioner is appealing to farmers to protest peacefully to maintain order that is after nearly 3 days of

tens of thousands of farmers making their way to delhi from neighboring states. breaking through police barricades and as they faced will to canada and tear gas. so this is a concession by delhi police. we're not sure if it's going to be enough because while we're hearing that a lot of farmers are on their way here. and we can see the preparations for that here and others saying that this is not good enough. still ahead here on al-jazeera, 45000 refugees and counting, we're in sedona where people fleeing the conflict and to struggling to get medical help. hospitals under pressure, mexico is seeing a rapid rise in cases of crude 90 the

recent very obvious change of season levant on recently the arabian peninsula is left this sort of zigs, northwestern syria, typical refugee camp, which of course, wet and red mud underfoot in saudi arabia has flash floods from sunday storms. just one example is jetta from yesterday. this is typical of most cities in the arabian peninsula where you get a big downpour briefly. flash floods that eventually clears away. but the concentration of the heavy in the more persistent rain is usually somewhere in iraq . all the western side of iran with the land starts to get hard. of course, of course, at heart you tend to get snow of it. now even during saturday you got that potential line of thunderstorms across saudi down towards the red sea coast across into djibouti. want to show even show up to the south of that back. rain or qatar for example. but let's take a couple of forecast baghdad, showers on saturday, very little wind drives in through the northwest. it picks up on sunday for a fun day. you got right to showers all monday, q 8. likewise, such, it looks shower in there, but was here on monday. as the wind just turns around to

a lightish northwesterly for the rest of us well, to the west, it's fine again. the sun is art. it's quite warm by day, but there's still showers in bahrain kuwait. from the out. london broke out, then tack to special guest, encumber, thanks. and when you say a lie a 1000000 times, that becomes the fact. you then can create whatever narrative you want, unprompted uninterrupted, and i realized i was working for tony. no evil, you know, being a part of that recreating at maria. let them eat, christopher. why? the death of journalism is only the 1st thing we know for the death of democracy, a studio to be unfair, great dates on al-jazeera root for

but if you watch al-jazeera remind of our top stories this hour, and an iranian scientist believed to be at the heart of the country's controversial nuclear program has been killed commission a fact result is death is being condemned as a terror attack by the government. al-jazeera sources say several assailants were also killed. thousands of farmers have gathered in india's capital to demand. the government scrapped new market friendly laws, which they say damaged, their livelihoods, some of march for hundreds of kilometers defying police bands. if you abuse, governments are denying claims. the prime minister is rejecting talks with to great leaders that says a visiting african union peace envoy has pushed for a resolution to the weeks a long conflict in the northern region. well,

thousands of people are fleeing into fights integrate into camps in neighboring sudan. and after days of walking, many are exhausted and sick, but struggling to get access to health care has been, morgan has more now from get there. if near the border with ethiopia, this is the only health facility at village a refugee camp near sudan's border with dozens come here for medical assistance each day. tecla will die says he was went by doctors back in his home country theo, pia, that he was developing cardiac problems. now he says, days of walking, to flee from fighting in ethiopia. stigler a region and standing in line for aid and for treatment is making him feel worse. i was told to be careful not to exhaust myself to take care of my diet. but since i had to flee my chest pains have been increasing. and when i come here, there's often a long line or no doctor, for hundreds of patients in the camp that hosts more than 15000. the center is the 1st and sometimes the only place to seek treatment. despite that,

it has little to offer to patients all who fled to escape fighting from to grey. i wasn't suffering from anything when i was back at my car drive. i've been struggling to get medication since i got here and the treatment is very poor. more than 45000 refugees have been displaced by the fighting integrate. it's thought of 3 weeks ago, following a government of unsafe on the take rate people's liberation front. the offensive was a response to an attack by the front on a military base and came after months of tension between the regional government and the federal government. 2 camps have been opened in sudan to cope with the influx of refugees. but providing services, especially health services, is challenging as more and more refugees continue to arrive. the camp here has 3 doctors who are also refugees to tend to the sick. we don't, even if we cannot we don't

you know, that could be of benefit. there are many here that we need to be that if we are going to be this, but we don't have that. and we don't obviously think about sudan's commission of refugees says it's trying to assist the refugees with access to health care, but need support from organizations to be able to help the sick develop needed is for health organizations to provide emergency medication and the refugee community is no mingling with the local community and some turn to local health facilities to get treatment. health organizations need to step up to ensure that refugees have proper health care. most refugees here state, they don't know how long they remain in this camp, or if they will be relocated to places with better facilities. but they say they hope their calls for assistance will be listened to before a medical crisis. of course,

he will morgan al-jazeera out of state thousands of anti-government protesters have been continuing their calls for political change in thailand. they rallied in bangkok to monitor the resignation of the prime minister. are you that you're not sure they wanted a new constitution and reforms that would limit the powers of the king, and that includes reversing changes that give him personal control over a royal fortune worth tens of billions of dollars in terms of thousands of people who rallied in iraq's capital, in a show of support for the shia cleric gathered in tahrir square, which was once the focus of anti-government protests. so they had initially shown his support for the demonstrations, but protest leaders now say he's chosen to protect the system. so manifold and was at the rally in baghdad. friday's prayer here and by the dots, the hardest work was an overt display of power on the part of the sudras movement. just days after its leader, influential, shia cleric mocked at all. sutter announced that his party intended to secure

a majority in the forthcoming parliamentary elections and also to nominate the prime minister. of course, that would be a substantial increase compared to 16 percent of seats his party currently holds. but as you can see, thousands of people have gathered here today, which shows just how much political muscle this movement has, and also how much organizational capability they have to hold this thing together. and that's, that's in stark contrast to the anti-government protest movement that has been demonstrating here in tahrir square until just a few weeks ago, their movement has been fragmented. they have claimed that they have been infiltrated by parties like the sudras movement. their movement has essentially been hijacked, so this covering here, leaves little doubt as to who emerged as the victor after months of anti-government protests. what else, where violence between satirists and antigovernment protesters has broken out in the southern city and that's how the, at least one person was killed. the 2 sides attacked each other,

using sticks and rocks. and around 40 people have been injured. french president, a mental macron says he's shocked by a video appearing to shape paris police beating up a black music producer. an investigation is underway and 4 officers have been detained. the incident has increased outrage towards a force already under scrutiny for its tactics, but reports now from paris. a shocking video police officers brutally beating a man in a music studio in paris. images captured on c.c.t.v. record producer michelle seculars says police force their way into his studio physically and racially abused him without telling him why. and then arrested him. if there was a policeman pointing a gun at me hiding, why did they think i was armed? were they going to shoot if they could find that angle? of course i was afraid, i'm a person. i was scared. the people who are supposed to protect me were pointing their guns at me. french news organization, lupe sider,

published the footage alongside pictures of michelle's injuries. the video sparked anger from some politicians and french world cup stars, who denounced racism, prosecutors throughout the case against the producer, and opened an investigation into 4 police officers. under pressure to react, france's interior minister condemned the violence as measures of the pictures are unspeakable. extremely shocking, and as soon as i found out about them about what happened, i asked for the police officers to be suspended. all 4 police officers have since been arrested. the video of michelle has been highly publicized in france. this is the front page of one of the country's main newspapers. it also comes there just a few days after some people say the police used excessive force. while clearing a migrant camp from the square, a police inquiry was ordered after police officers were filmed, beating migrants, and journalists, as a true way,

is one of france's best known campaigners against police brutality. she accuses police of causing her brother adama's death in 2016, while he was in custody. we see these images now, but can you imagine all the people that have suffered police violence that have died because of police brutality in cases where there were no videos and that's why families like us continue to shout. so everyone knows that police violence and racism exist the oh yes, the focus on police violence in france comes as pressure mounts on the government to scrap parts of a controversial new law that would crack down on people's freedom to film and publish images of police on duty, the government says it's necessary to protect offices, but opponents say it's an erosion of rights. and the without images like these police officers won't be able to be held accountable for their actions. al-jazeera,

paris police in cuba have a victim, a group of artists activists in academics who had barricaded themselves into a building and declared a hunger strike. the san isidro movement was protesting an 8 month jail sentence for the rapid, then a solace on charges of contempt. a video posted online shows police and people in medical grounds taking the demonstrators out. the police say they intervene to prevent the spread of coronavirus. but the japanese capital of take care has reported a record number of daily infections from credit hours with 570 on friday. drinking venues and karaoke bars are being asked to close by 10 pm for the next 3 weeks. residents are being asked to avoid nonessential travel, and to work from home. mexico city is on alert after a resurgence of cases there, there are concerns. the city's hospitals could be overwhelmed. john holmes has more now from mexico city. new mexico city's latest effort to stop

a still rampaging coded 19 rapid testing to set up in points around the capital like this one outside the famous host. take a football stadium if free. although the results take about 5 days to arrive. chef manuel lopez wishes they'd been available much earlier. they already have that amount of media that it's being done, but perhaps they should have come sooner. it would have helped to prevent this pandemic because we needed this many months before that way, we would have voided a lot more infections. the city governments also introduced these q.r. codes, which registered the phone numbers of customers at shops and restaurants. so they can be told if they come into contact with anyone infected, this is the way to stop the virus. the capsules authorities have finally concluded, testing in tracing, just like the world health organization said months ago. but outside of mexico city, the federal government still isn't convinced the country's got one of the lowest testing rates in the world. and the coronavirus says that after

a certain point tracing doesn't really work. meanwhile, the mets can death rate is one of the highest in the world, $800.00 more fatal if he's were announced just on wednesday. a more than $100000.00, people have died in total, and things are getting worse, not better, but it pertains here, but president and that is manuel lopez obrador. even still not convinced that a police lockdown is the answer noise down the english channel that doll. so i think its effectiveness has some being fully the most rated, many times looked out, are carried out to exalt the 3 tyrion attitude of an official. you have to trust the people. many in the informal sector, which makes up more than half of mexico's workforce, would agree with him. they have no safety net if they forced to stay home. and the government hasn't brought out a wide ranging aid package to help them. they have to go out and work but the government has put money into these hospital beds so far hasn't run out of those.

there are, however, a lot of questions over the quality of equipment and the service overstretch medical staff are able to provide. and the infections go on, john homan city. all right, let's have a quick recap of the top stories here in al-jazeera. and iranian scientists believed to be at the heart of the country's controversial nuclear program, has been killed, mostly in africa, and his death is being condemned as a terror attack by the government. sources say, several assailants were also killed. i said because the latest from turkey there was a explosion heard that there's exchange of gunfire between he's guards and these unnamed assailants. he was injured in that.