that's a speech that's in america. is there a wrong? val's a severe revenge after a prominent new kid scientist is killed in an ambush and says it suspects israeli involvement. this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up, ethiopia's prime minister meets with african leaders, but rejects international office to mediate the conflict in the tape where region between government and regional forces confrontation in iraq between supporters of top clerics outsider and

anti-government protesters ahead of parliamentary election. one such a popular in paris where talking video is fueling debates about police followed a scientist at the center of iran's nuclear program has been assassinated near the capital. tehran gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying musson factories out and has bodyguards factories that it later died in hospital. iranian officials, including the foreign minister, suspect israel was behind the attack, but haven't provided any evidence. a military commander promised a strike as against those responsible outburst. a car carrying him was shot at about 15 seconds later, i mistimed pickup truck that was loaded with explosives blasted about 1520 meters

away from his call that led to his death. and our correspondent also bag is in the capital tehran. he says people that believe that factories that i was assassinated to wreck any prospect of iran and the u.s. . continuing with the new kid deal once president elect joe biden assumes office in january. the intelligence ministry has said that the 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, backcourt 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 the 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, i'll tell you more about mr. factories that in here is

a university professor of physics and former head of the physics research center and a senior scientist at the iranian ministry of defense. western and israeli intelligence claim he was in charge of project, which they say was around attempt to build upon that terror on denies. ever trying to develop a new and a landmark report by the u.n. nuclear watchdog. the i.a.e.a. said he played a key role in developing nuclear technology, and he's also believed to have had links to iran's elite revolutionary guards. that he himself was subject to a un security council asset freeze because iran refused to make him available for an interview with the i.a.e.a. . well, let's speak to mark fitzpatrick. he's an associate fellow at the international institute for strategic studies. and he was also previously a u.s. deputy assistant secretary of state. he joins us now from washington. d.c. no one has yet determined if. ringback a state actor was involved here, but to assassinate someone of the standing, can you talk us through the, the strategic calculus as you see it here?

sure. 2 different levels. suppose the noble is that they was critical to the past development of iran's nuclear weapons program. it program that has largely been on hold for the past 15 years. they has been maintaining the personnel and the organizational apparatus to get it going again, should in order come. and the purpose of the assassination, presumably austin simply is to prevent iran or to impede iran from building nuclear weapons in the future. but the more logical reason for doing this now because iraq was not on the verge of building a nuclear weapons. reason for doing it now is to impede the by ministrations returned to the j. c. p. a way and as your correspondent mentioned explained why

both the american side and the iranian side, it's going to make it more difficult. when you mentioned that the timing, i recall, it was also just over 2 weeks ago. now that we know that president tom possible options to potentially strike against iran, visited israel shortly off that tehran is no doubt putting that into its calculations as it thinks about what's happened to sure. i think tehran will believe that the united states was complicit in this and the 2 data points that you just mentioned, the fact that trump wanted to strike iran, and he asked for options to go after iran's nuclear program. and then the meetings in israel with palm pale, all do point to the united states at the very least, have a given a green light to the assassination. i recall the last assess a nation of a nuclear scientist in iran wasn't 2012 under the when the obama president obama wasn't in the white house. and u.s.

government reacted very negatively that time to israel's presumed assassination and condemned it. i don't think we're going to see condemning it. i wonder if the incoming administration will say something in order to try to preserve the prospects for returning to the nuclear deal. why do you want to come to make a deal out of my mind? but just coming back to the faster teaching point you mentioned that you've worked on nonproliferation issues yourself. i understand how much says factors that is death actually affects iran's nuclear program. well, he was, you know, a very important figure. he was like the robert open heiner of iran's nuclear weapons program. but you, you know, to develop a program like this, you need a leader with both the intellectual and the technical smarts and the organizational ability to bring people together. and that's what he was doing. and if iran were to actually decide to produce nuclear weapons, you'd want somebody like properties. are they at the helm? the question is, is he replaceable, and many people think maybe not. but you know,

we don't really know. what we do know is that he has been on the scene for over 20 years and he presumably will have meant toward many associates over those years . and presumably some of them can i take over from him. what other data point is that in 2011, the head of iran's, the founder of iran's ballistic missile program, was killed in what was attributed to mossad. did that stop iran's missile program known, had it off and went on to develop bigger, more, more accurate missiles. so taking out one individual doesn't stop the program, it may make it harder, but if that was the reason for doing it, it wasn't worth it. so, i want to ask you briefly where to from hit still nearly 8 weeks before biden takes office on january 20th. you know, from the sounds of things enron does plan to respond to this. they will say they

had a master of ceremonies, death now to generate none of this bodes well for the day c.p.o. a no, not at all. so there are $22.00 factors here, one, the impact on it by administration decision. if the right response kinetically, if they kill israelis, you know, maybe they would be israeli citizens, not oficial, if any americans were killed. it makes it politically much more difficult to obama to resume its role in the j.c. without conditions already, even within bones own party. some people are saying he should have conditions for him recently. and so if you run is seen as a bad actor, you know, if there, belligerent, that makes it harder. and then the 2nd factor is any run, i think this is even more important. iranian hardliners are going to themselves, want to put conditions on the united states for iraq to return to that deal. and it

makes it much harder. they're going to be empowered. the hardliners in iran are in there were by this very tricky process. did not fitzpatrick there from the international institute of strategic studies, speaking to us from d.c. . thanks so much. great to get your thoughts. hima have been happy to speak without syria. thank you. how moving on and ethiopia has denied reports that the prime minister is rejecting talks with to grand. maida's be off. net met with african union envoys and told them he'd only speak to representatives operating legally in the region. his forces have been fighting troops there for almost 3 weeks now, up and insisted. his government must enforce the rule of law in tikrit or risk, a culture of impunity that could threaten the country's very survival. on thursday he ordered the army to carry out the final phase of its offensive move in a regional capital. well, the therapy and prime minister spokeswoman relend same spoke to al jazeera and described the government's position for us. i think that the 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 constitutionally by the half a federation is an amalgamation or a composition of various to grab political parties that are active in the, to grow region. at this point, one of the key aspects of why the whole of those measures being undertaken is because, according to the laws of the land and the constitution and the criminal code of the federal democratic republic repeat, attacking your own national defense forces as a credit is a criminal act in this considered a treasonous act, is one, 0. tens of thousands of people have rallied in iraq's capital to show support from the outside ahead of parliamentary elections next june. they gathered interest square, which was once the focus of anti-government protests across wants when a fault in reports from baghdad. the on friday followers of powerful

shia cleric took over budget at starting square. 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 in the lottery. baba, yaga, the october protests had positive and negative sides. as for the negative sides of these protests at the hands of the american occupiers spread the obscenity into a square. 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 to save the tartar. all solders, a patriotic leader for all iraqis, the sunnis,

the shia and the kurds. he's considered a shepherd for all iraqis. he will not run for himself, but for these people, his constituents, he represents all iraqis, 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 pts hijacked their cause, they infiltrate the demonstrators, demonstrations squares. and but it died under, in every city, whatever they can. and they tried to manipulate the process and try to get to soften up. 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 message, but they found out they are not. they are just part of the political regime which runs the country since 2003. so down 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 suburbs who made a hurdle of the june elections. but anti-government protesters have struggled to organize politically to put up a serious challenge to incumbent party is like the sadrist murder aiding their prospects for al gore. all success. some on a fault in al-jazeera and some on iraq through paypal account and violence between satirists and anti-government protesters. at least one passing things around 50 people. hostile had few here on al-jazeera. growing

anger in india, tens of thousands of foreigners descend on the capital to protest against a law they say will flop. venezuela's sitarist 6 ballots, or enjoy executives accused of corruption. out of the santa ana winds in southern california, a cloud in the sky and more strikes again by tuesday. but the mainstay, it's probably going to be in the immediate future. the amount of rainfall in sudden texas, louisiana, across the florida panhandle. there's been flooding in new orleans just recently, just street flooding, but that could be rather more and rather more widespread because the next couple of days sees that rain strengthen the circulation for was it runs up through the deep

south. another winter to the north is more or less confined to the great lakes, at least the immediate future. there's a storm system coming into british columbia. but otherwise, the u.s. states, with the exception of what we mentioned, are fairly fine and not particularly cold. now, in the caribbean, things are sherry's, they should be at this time the year, the concentration of rain that we saw in honduras. nicaragua isn't quite as concentrated in fact in the next day or so. it's probably going to be rather wetter in costa rica and panama than is going to be, for example, in honduras. not that it's bone dry, and the big showers in south america as well as being particularly sundry. the time polls have been notable in places like southern power go to the northeast of argentina. that line still exists. extends out through bolivia into peru. after world war 2,

france's great empire began to unravel in vietnam to most of the city, but it was throwing themselves into the streets, bursting with joy, kissing each other, and algeria 3 days until she asked if they indochine mean that many, steve biko french army. why not? the decline continues an episode or 2 of blood in tans the french take on and i think shot on al-jazeera. oh again i missed all the attendant on. that's remind you of our top stories here, this hour. a scientist at the center of iran's nuclear program has been assassinated in the capital tehran,

the vehicle carrying muslim fuckers out. it was ambushed by gunmen in the city of upside. iran suspects israel of involved. ethiopia's government is denying that the prime minister has rejected talks with to grand leaders. 3 african union special envoys met in addis ababa. he told them he'd only speak to representatives operating legally in the region. the mass rally has been held in iraq's capital baghdad, in a show of support following shipler bid to run in parliamentary elections mixture. thousands of people gathered in tahrir square, which was once the focus of now for french police officers have been detained after a video emerged, showing them beating a black music producer and paris' president emanuel has called that incident unacceptable and shameful. the assault has sparked outrage towards a police force already under scrutiny. the heavy handed tactics, the tosh about to reports 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 michele's 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, loop 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, 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 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 us continue to shout. so everyone knows that police violence and racism exist. the only real reason 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 thousands of followers in india have finally launched on the capital, despite place barricades to try to keep them out of new delhi. they want the government to scrap laws which could end guaranteed prices for their projects, something that they fear could put them out of business. elizabeth prong reports from the capital, baghdad, using their tractors to remove police barricades,

pharmacy void 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 was 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 discussion with former leaders, delhi police have already but most foreigners didn't take up that offer. 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 protests on the outskirts of the city. few farmers showed up, even as this supporters set up a food store to feed them. there is a large police presence here waiting for the farmers. and just as large a presence beyond this area to stop farmers from reaching central delhi in what have been the biggest protests since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. elizabeth parata al-jazeera,

east delhi. well antigovernment protesters in thailand are not backing down on their call for the prime minister to resign. thousands gathered in the capital, bangkok, they are also demanding constitutional reform and also limiting the king's powers. demonstrators have broken a long standing to be by criticizing the monarchy protesters, as you can see held in face of all docs as shields against water cannon. the world health organization is warning countries to remain vigilant, even if they see a decrease and coronavirus cases. the agency also said more data is needed to review the efficacy of oxford university in astra zeneca 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 era. 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 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. now of course in venezuela has found 6 u.s. oil executives guilty of corruption. they were arrested and 2017 after being called to caracas for missing. the defendants deny the charges for the u.s. refining company. citgo, which is owned by venezuela state oil for ports these 6 oil executives. 5 of them u.s. citizens are already been stuck in venezuela imprisoned for years. now they finally been tried, found guilty of corruption and received sentences of between 8 and 13 years. to this letter is from one of the 2 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 rows 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 school bias. his lawyer again, the male white woman not even being intimate case, there is no evidence. it's not, there is no 2nd, stanch evidence or no in direct evidence or flawed evidence. there is no evidence, none period game or him be out. how does it? i asked the team of venezuela's attorney general topic williams, his response about the cases. the answer, no comment. the men work for oil company sick go. they were arrested and charged

with embezzlement. after being glued 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 point quite those claim to the presidency. we want to give every american but us secretary of state might compel you 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 out a lot of hope and of justice. he's been held for at 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 homan, how does it? 3 days of national mourning in argentina have ended following the death of football star and spend a time of reflection for many fans on both his magic on the pitch. and the controller says he sometimes forced off it, that ports from the neighborhood on the outskirts of rattle began the residents of e. . a few would be insulted if you call the neighborhood a slum for they're proud of what they have proud that one of their own lived and played here before leaving to become the greatest footballer the world has ever seen. diego maradona's death on wednesday. hit them hard, so not on another morning when you feel it in the neighborhood its side, many people are crying. the whole place is practically in silence. usually it's happy music, but now there's a terrible silence. of course, everyone of

a certain age has a memory of the cheeky little boy who could do incredible things with the football . played regularly with him when they were 1213 years old. he wasn't surprised to see diego school, his wonder goal against england in the 1986 world cup was was me. it was a great goal, but it was normal for us to see it here. as a keeper, i'd give him the ball and he'd go past 123. all of us and score, he says the eagle gave them joy, a rare commodity in a place like this. if you live on in our hearts and minds, not just for arjun times and here in fiorito, but in the hearts and minds of the whole world, the people here say they're proud that maradona never forgot the never forgot where he came from. it was on pitches like this one in beijing, fiorito covered in dust and stones. that diego maradona, the boy formulated his footballing skills to one day,

display his magic in the best stadiums in the wild maraton. his precocious talent was spotted early and he made his profession just 15 for one osiris club continues . junior, was in the heart of the law, but the now neighborhood where his memory continues to inspire. i was given the space to fill it with what i felt. so i did the world cup, the dear god brought us, it has to be here from where he played from when he became so big. he outraged many with his behavior, both on and off the pitch accused of being arrogant, aggressive a cheat. but he enchanted many more with his artistry with the football and continues to inspire after his death. both here reveal i'm beyond that one of cyrus.