blood and tears crunch to colonise nation. on al-jazeera. iran's top nuclear scientist is killed in an attack by gunmen in the attack. iran, one official calls it an act of state tara oh, i maryam namazie in london. you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program . a new drive to resolve the week's long conflict in northern ethiopia. ups fade after prime minister ahmed meets african envoys as growing anger in india, tens of thousands of foreigners descend on the capital to protest against the law they say will slash their incomes. and police violence under the spotlight in

france, an attack on a black music producer goes viral for offices are to tank the u.n. secretary general has a restraint after the assassination of a scientist at the center of iran's nuclear program. and trying to get terrorist has warned against any actions that could lead to an escalation of tensions in the region. or gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying his odd there and his bodyguards in the city of fast as a delay to died in hospital. iranian officials, including a pharmacist, i'm homage of odds are if suspect israel was behind the attack, but they've not provided evidence. a military commander has promised to retaliate. to go out burst the car, carrying him was shorter and about 15 seconds later i missed some pickup truck that

was loaded with explosives blasted about 15 to 20 meters away from his call. inflicting wounds on him that led to his death. almost since there was a professor of physics at the imaam hussein university, a former head of the physics research center and a senior scientist at the iranian ministry of defense, western and israeli intelligence claim. he was the man in charge of project ahmad, which they say was iran's attempt to build a nuclear bomb. but iran denies ever having tried to develop a nuclear weapon. a landmark report by the u.n. nuclear watchdog, the i.a.e.a. identified him as playing a key role in what to develop nuclear technology, is also believed to retain links to iran's elite revolutionary guards. he was subject to a un security council asset freeze because the council says iran refused to make him available for an interview with the international atomic energy agency. as a bank has more now from teheran, the intelligence ministry has said that they're launching an investigation. now

this is a very high profile, killing in fockers are there was a high profile nuclear scientist. now he had been targeted in the past going back 10 years. so his movements were highly protected. it was kept a secret and there will be questions internally about how this has happened, how the security breach has happened. but there has been official response. foreign minister divides, raef has pointed his finger at israel, the head of the armed forces. he has also blamed israel and the defense advisor to the supreme leader, ayatollah khomeini, has said that the perpetrators will be targeted now most. and there was also known as the father of iran's nuclear program. he was given that name by some individuals outside of the country. now that nuclear weapons program was around 2003, some activities went on until 2009 buckled into the year. there were no more nuclear weapons programs taking place inside iran. so the question is, why would anyone want to assassinate him now? and the feeling here in iran is it's an attempt to sabotage any future negotiations

or talks between iran and president elect joe biden, around that 2015 nuclear deal that nuclear deal that president donald trump pulled in ited states out of an imposed sanctions on iran. now president elect joe biden has said that he would like to return to that deal. and iran has also indicated that they would be willing to return to their commitments as per that deal if the united states was to rejoin this assassination. would make any future talks any future negotiations, very complicated and increased tensions in this region. well, treated parsis, executive vice president of the quincy institute, a think tank focusing on the importance of diplomatic engagement and military restraint. he says the assassination of such a high profile prominent figure, was a major breach of security in that country. he has been one of the most protected individuals aside. if you're on mindful of the fact the israelis have engaged an

assassination in iran before and have managed to assassinate several iranian nuclear officials, some of them quite senior. so this was someone that they had tried to kill before and she failed. and the iranians knew very well that he was a target, and there was no security around him. nevertheless, whoever did this, most likely israel managed to get to them. the danger for the iranians, of course, here is that is really reveals the tremendous breaches of security that must have existed in order for this to happen. it is taking place within a context in which the i.r.g.c. intelligence have been arresting, environmentalist, arresting academics and claiming that these people are spies all the same time that we're seeing not only this successful assassination other as assassinations, as well as other forms of sabotage of the nuclear program, so the questions that i hope people in iran start asked himself has r.g.c. intelligence been focusing on all the wrong targets?

now ethiopia's government denies it. the prime minister has rejected talks with to grain lead as his international negotiations push for a resolution to the weeks long conflict. 3 african union, special envoys met with latin at this, i'm about to tell them he only speak to representatives operating illegally in the region. a day of the army was ordered to carry out the final phase of its offensive and moving on to graze. we gentle capital mccalla a. a government imposed deadline for to claim forces to surrender expired on wednesday of ethiopian prime minister spokesperson balance am told, al-jazeera explained the government's position. i think it's a widely misunderstood concept with regard to the strong word with rejection, particularly because the prime minister has not rejected talking to anybody from the to grow region impact. the provisional administration that has been set up a constitutionally by the help of federation, is an amalgamation, or

a composition of various to grow political parties that are active in the to grow region. at this point, one of the key before the whole of those measure is being undertaken is because, according to the laws of the land in the constitution and the criminal code of the democratic republic repeat, attacking your own national forces as a christian is a criminal act in this considered a treasonous act as well. now at least 7 people have been killed and 10 others injured in the somali capital mogadishu, when a suicide bomber blew himself up, an ice cream parlor, a police official said the death toll could rise as the critically injured were rushed to nearby hospitals. no group has claimed to be behind the attack now to india, where thousands of farmers have been marching on the capital, new delhi, after 3 days of breaking through police barricades on state borders. they want the government to repeal laws that could end guarantee prices for that produce something they fear could put them out of business. elizabeth pronto reports from

new delhi using their tractors to remove police barricades pharmacy voyde victoriously on their way to the capital region of delhi. for 3 days, tens of thousands of farmers from the states of punjab and haryana pushed barricades, shipping containers and even trucks out of the way the, the tear gas water cannon and being hit by police batons didn't stop the farmers from continuing on their march court. let's go to delhi, but the comic farmers across the country want these black laws brought by the government to be repealed. this is our demand. the farmers are against 3 new laws which allow private companies to buy directly from them. they say the changes will see the end of the government's guaranteed minimum price for their project was and leave them at the mercy of large corporations, around half of india's 1300000000,

people who work in the agriculture sector. many agree that it needs reforms, but they say these laws won't benefit farmers. after trying to stop the march for days, delhi police made a concession. after a discussion with farmer leaders, delhi police had an order to hold. police would grow up as did need a good omen, but already they are really appealed to them to mundane b.s. . but most faunas didn't take up that offer are not that it will block the highway until the government comes to talk to us. we will block the highway here who will listen to us there in new delhi. they'll make us sit somewhere and know what will come to talk to us. alice off to delhi police assigned an area for approached lists on the outskirts of the city. few farmers showed up, even as the supporters set up a food stall to feed them. there was a large police presence here waiting for the farmers. and just as large a presence beyond this area, to stop the farmers from reaching central delhi and what have been the biggest

protests since. the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, elizabeth piron of al-jazeera east delhi. it's a museum in iraq where tens of thousands of people have been showing their support for influential shiite cleric solder before parliamentary elections. they're due to take place in june to try to soothe anti-government protests. sather had initially shown his support for the demonstrations, but protesters now say he's chosen to protect the system. so mona fulton reports from baghdad. the on friday followers of powerful shia clerics took over budget outs to square the. 8 in the, in mom's words, the goal of this friday prayer was to defend their religion and homeland in the face of immorality and nonbelievers, a criticism of the secular leaning anti-establishment protesters who until recently occupied the square baba yaga about the city, october protest,

and negative sides as for the negative sides of any protests and the hands of the american embassy pi's security, have seen attached to her historic there for the prayers also aims to shore up political support. yes, yes, to our leader. they proclaimed their support for sutter after he and his aim to secure a majority in the forthcoming parliamentary elections, which would allow him to nominate the prime minister. or else out there is a patriotic either for all iraqis, the sunnis, the shia and the kurds. i will always consider it a shepherd that iraq is do not run from so if the people his constituents, he refuses but many disagree. the prayer took place in the same square where just weeks ago, security forces cleared remnants of iraq's beleaguered protest movement, which had aims to topple the ruling class, including the sudras who won the last elections. activists say the protests

gradually lost steam due to violence. and because political parties including the sudras to hijack their cause, they infiltrate the demonstrators, squares, and in every city, wherever they can. and they tried to manipulate the process, try to get to solvent. sutter has long tried to brand himself a reformist, and initially supported the protests. but india and he is seen as having chosen to protect the system. they have lost a lot of grounds, political grounds, social grounds. people who have doubted them as being real reform. but they found out they are not, they are just part of the political regime which runs the country since 2003. so they are now trying to gain back some of the ground and indeed thousands turned out to show their loyalty for solder. friday's prayer was

a display of power on the part of the saddest moment. i heard one of the 2 elections. but anti-government protesters had struggled to organize politically, to put up a serious challenge to incumbent party, is like the sadrist murder aiding their prospects for a choral success. similar fulton al jazeera but that now in a further blow to donald trump's attempts to overturn the presidential election result, the u.s. federal court of appeals has rejected his campaign's request to block joe biden been declared the winner of pennsylvania. in their ruling, the 3 judge panel said charges of unfairness are serious, but calling an election on fed doesn't make it so. and rejected. trump's claim of widespread problems with mail in ballots counted in the state and the democratic officials scheme to ensure biden's victory trumps lawyers have tweeted they plan to appeal the case at the u.s. supreme court. much more still ahead on the program has been screeching of astra

zeneca is a vaccine trial. the w.h.o. saying that more days here is needed before any conclusions can be drawn. and venezuela said goes 6 verdicts are in for oil executives accused of corruption. melbourne has been released. the weather is gorgeous and apparently coronavirus has also gone so you can celebrate a bit on the beach. the weather will not keep. i'm afraid. we've got clive stretch across the bite. it's representing a frontal system, a trough which is a line of weather. sundry type from the south of australia down towards victoria and tasmania were quite as good. but the real story probably happens further north . just watch the temperatures 38 in adelaide. 33 in sydney on saturday on sunday 39

in sydney. there's a huge area of extreme heat, existing and forming, getting worse if you like in the outback of both queensland and the southwest of the city forecast shows that for the city itself, you lose it because proper seabreeze on monday, down to 24, rising into 30 by chews day. obviously the opposite is happening. the station has side of the equator. winter is showing itself. you will feel it. in the north of japan snows likely in her day. snow in the mountains of honshu. otherwise it's fine though cold carbons minus 8 overnight. frost in general and will happen quite possibly just about. but by day the sun is out brilliantly. an invitation to bear witness to all that life office. the heidi's, the learners, the trials and tribulations, the unseen movements,

and everyday miracles, the injustices, the defiance. the test of character and the personal victories, the witness documentaries, with a delicate touch on al-jazeera, the euro, the earth. welcome back a look at our main story this hour. a scientist at the center of iran's nuclear program has been assassinated in the capital tehran, the vehicle carrying moss in fact is, are there was ambushed by gunman in the city of bob saget. he died later in

hospital, the u.n. secretary general antonio terraces urged restraint. thousands of farmers in india or marched on the capital, new delhi, after 3 days of breaking through police barricades on state borders. they want the government to repeal laws that could and guarantee prices for their progeny use of french president emanuel macron says he's shocked by the shank police in paris, beating up a black music producer. the incident has resulted in an investigation and the suspension of 4 officers more on that story. now, the french president has said that the video showing police in paris assaulting an unprovoked assault on a black music producer. he said it's unacceptable and shameful. it's resulted in an investigation as you are saying, 4 officers have been suspended in response to what has taken place. but it's also really fueled debate and cause major outrage in the country over the heavy handed tactics of the police reports on this 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 the 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. the pictures are

unspeakable, more extreme, lee shocking and a series 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 in the video of michelle has been highly publicized in france. this is the front page of one of the country's main news papers. 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 yes, continue to shout. so everyone knows that police violence and racism exist. 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. natasha bottler al jazeera paris. the world health organization is saying more data is needed to review the efficacy of oxford university in astra zeneca. as coronavirus vaccine doubts have been raised over its effectiveness after participants were given different doses by mistake leading to 3 different results. astra zeneca says

it's likely to run another global trial after the job was found to be 90 percent effective among a subgroup by ara. what we've seen as a press release and what is really the next most important step is that the data really needs to be evaluated based on more than a press release. there's only a 1st of all limited amount that can be said in a press release. and secondly, it really needs to be reviewed in terms of the data and questions asked about the data that may come up in the course of the review. meanwhile, russia is working with hungary to try to speed up the process of approving its coronavirus vaccine for hungary and doctors will travel to russia to observe the manufacturing process and a partridge test for the sputnik 5 vaccine. as part of the efforts, hungary's foreign minister said the country wants to have a vaccine in place by january last week. the e.u. want hungary against using russia's vaccine. well elsewhere in denmark, the prime minister is broken down in tears after apologizing for

a government ordered to kill millions of mink. in an effort to curb the spread of the virus met a fredrickson was visiting a farmer whose entire herd of mink was euthanized. the order came after 12 people were infected with a mutated version of the virus discovered in a mink. fredericks and now admits the plant had no legal basis and is facing calls from the opposition to resign. we have 2 generations of really skilled mink farmers, father and son, who in a very, very short time have had their life's work. shocked, hurt. it's been emotional for them. they have a 1st for them. sorry. and as i was saying to them, when we are on the other side of this and hopefully have a proper agreement in the compensation, i hope that the other monk breeders will remember that it was not because of them. it wasn't because they have been that we made this decision. on the contrary,

the world's best mink pleating to explain right here where we stand. but it's because of the virus. belgium is detected an outbreak of a highly pathogenic bird flu at a poultry farm which has killed 600. it's the outbreak was found in the western town of men last week, officials and forced measures to prevent birds from coming in contact with swans in bruges. in northwest belgium, after 3 wild birds contracted bird flu, a further 151000 birds, the men in fall, one later killed to prevent the spread of the disease. now to better roost, the president, alexander lukashenko, has promised to step down if a new constitution is created is not confirmed. if that process is underway or if it's even being seriously considered, a local shank has so far resisted months of protests calling for his resignation. critics accuse him of rigging the election and cracking down on his opponents.

after 3 years of venezuelan court has found 6 u.s. oil executives guilty of corruption, they were arrested in 2017 after being called to crack us for meeting the defendants who all have denied any wrongdoing. what the u.s. refining company sic, which is owned by venezuela state oil fan. john heilemann reports these 6 oil executives, 5 of them u.s. citizens are already been stuck in venezuelan prison for years. now they've finally been tried, found guilty of corruption and received sentences of between 8 and 13 years. whatever he wants to do. this letter is from one of them to mobile though. it's the 1st public message from any of the men since their arrest. he wrote just before his trolls, conclusion is lawyer now reaching across roads where justice is done, i'll be able to rebuild my life and try to compensate my family for the last moments . the light is intense. the hope is great. give me freedom. freedom was denied to

him. human rights advocates say that venezuela's justice system is plagued with corruption inefficient simply, schoolboy is his lawyer. why not intimate case? there is no evidence. it's not there is no circumstantial evidence or no indirect evidence or flawed evidence. there is no evidence known period. the game or him be out. how does it? i asked the team of venezuela's attorney general topic williams to his response about the cases no comment. the men work for oil company sick go. they were arrested and charged with embezzlement. after being lewd to a business meeting in venezuela 3 years ago, the case is played out against the backdrop of the acrimonious relationship between president nicolas maduro and the trumpet ministration. like many other countries,

the us supported mcdougal's rival, one quite those claim to the presidency, or we want to get every american back if the u.s. secretary of state has indicated that he believes the 6 men are being used as political hostages. despite before the trolls verdict but those family were hopeful, he would be home for future thanksgivings, just like the ones they used to celebrate together. so i think my father wants to share to the world that he message both lot of hope and of justice. he's been held for, you know, over 3 years i'm just, lee, and now there's a glimmer of hope. with the trial i'm going. now the trial is over for the 6 men and their families hope appears to be waning john home and how does it because in several countries are going on strike calling on the company to improve pay in safety conditions. the protest and make amazon pay coincides with black

friday. the multinational companies biggest sales events of the year. garment workers in bangladesh, demanding pay for finished orders that would then cancel because of the pandemic. meanwhile, make amazon pay is being projected on to the london had cortez to demand a government inquiry into practices in the workplace. well, earlier i spoke to chris small to form amazon employee and founder of the congress of essential workers. he explained to me what his campaign is asking of the public then to solitary with the sense of workers. you know, its answer. workers are amazon employees and the company failed to protect us. so if you stand this all dirty, we're 60 workers where it's going to boycott the cancel your prime membership stop order from amazon. and so they do better by employee. we have a warehouse workers that are out here, gives the workers that have died to mark things. so we do have started abrogating. it was in the very beginning. they failed to protect us and dows of employees worldwide with direct wiring and many are out here, suburbs,

bill so well for consumers to spend this holiday where it is them to work with them . boycott the company. now some heated scenes in taiwan with arguments and scuffles breaking out inside the parliament of the government's decision to ease restrictions on u.s. . pork imports opposition politicians dumped buckets of pig organs on their rivals, punches punches also find various points. a new policy will also will allow american paul campos to have acceptable residue of an additive called rack to rack tappan. mean critics are concerned about its effects on both animals and humans. now locus ravaging crops could become a thing of the pos, with researches here in the u.k. saying they might have found a solution to the insect problem. plaguing farmers are such as looking into the genetic code of desert locust to find a pesticide to kill them or stop them from swarming, but doesn't harm the crops. the u.n.

says a small cloud of 40000000, locusts eats the same amount of food in a day as 35000 people. the insect is known to destroy crops across africa. the middle east and central asia tell matheson is an associate professor of neurobiology at university of leicester. he was part of the team carrying out a study. he hopes it will lead to a pesticide that can control the insect population without eradicating it. once you've got a genome, you can do all sorts of different things with that. clearly controlling like this is one of the things that we would want to tackle. and what i say we have in this is anyone who wants to get involved in doing this essentially. so this is not just our program, but we're trying to provide a resource for people across the globe because one of the big problems with controlling low this is simply the infrastructure on the ground. when we spray pesticides on, on animals or in the current pesticides. so we kill the locus, but they have a huge amount who consequences as well, but mostly toxic to the operators and sort of using them. so the idea that once

you've got the genome you can start trying to design has decide which target things which are specific to the genome of this particular organism. and don't have the knock on effects for other insects, for example, in the environment. well, more in everything we're covering right here, al jazeera dot com has plenty of analysis that it takes you behind the headlines as well. not date. now on main story this hour, a scientist at the center of iran's nuclear program has been assassinated near the capital tapper on the vehicle carrying the loss. and there was ambushed by the gunman in the city of upside if he died later in hospital. iranian officials, including the foreign minister mohammad javad, zarif suspect israel is behind the attack, but haven't provided evidence. the u.s. actually general antonio, the terrorist has restraint it today or hold to homilies.