army why not? the decline continues an episode or 2 of blood in tears, french decolonization on al-jazeera holding the powerful to account as we examine the u.s. is role in the world. on al-jazeera, president rouhani accuses israel of killing a prominent scientist at the heart of iran's nuclear program. well over more a kyle, this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up. thousands of farmers protest in and around india's capital for a 3rd day fair in new north will leave them at the mercy of big companies. justice

department revises how death sentences can be carried out as it tries to rush through more executions. under such a popular in paris where a shocking video is fueling debate about police violence, iran's president has accused israel of assassinating a prominent scientists here in the u.s. and israel say masterminded a secret program to develop, a nuclear bomb. said on state t.v., that the killing of well not slowed down terror on its nuclear program, which it says is peaceful. gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying the scientist and his bodyguards near the capsule on friday. central honey is promising with time. shortly with our correspondents there, dorsetshire, bari, but 1st, this report from the aftermath of the killing holds

in a car and blood on the floor injured in the attack must in fact result there was taken to hospital, but later died. he had been one of iran's most senior nuclear scientists and had already survived a previous assassination attempt. based on the report made by the gods 1st, they opened fire to. then after 10 to 15 seconds, a truck carrying explosive materials exploded. continued after the explosion. officials admit his death is a blow to the country's defense program. foreign minister zarif was quick to lay the blame. he said in a tweet, the killing had serious indication of israeli involvement, but presented no evidence. this really prime minister had named factories that in 2018 as the director of iran's nuclear weapons program. a key part of the plan was to form new organizations to continue the work. this is how dr. morse, in fact,

is the head of project about put it. remember that name for his or so here's his directive right here. and he says, the general aim is to announce the closure of project. but then he adds special activities. you know what that is? a special activity will be carried out under the title of scientific know how developments previous assassinations of 4 ring and scientists between 201-2012 have also been blamed on israel with u.s. officials, briefing the press about his rating involvement. so based on the background briefings to the press, there is very strong reason 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 trying to ministration in the beginning about a ministration to do whatever they can to punish iran and. 'd iran's progress

in the nuclear field and other factors are they had been under a u.n. security council list of sanctioned individuals. iran had never allowed him to be interviewed by the international atomic agency. he's whereabouts also kept secret. the killing will also raise questions about the country's internal security. iranian officials are already vying to respond while saying the nuclear program will continue. but the timing of this assassination comes when iran is waiting for president elect joe biden, to return the u.s. to the 2015 nuclear deal. a treaty intended to keep iran's nuclear program peaceful, most and for the most senior and crucial scientists killed to date. this threatens to complicate any future talks and further increase tensions in the region. aside, big al jazeera to her on 2 hours. there is a bar and also we've been hearing some strong reaction from the president. that was warning yes, the president has under honey,

started off his weekly corona task force meeting in the capital by talking about the assassination, which he called the savage assassination, which took place on friday. the president said that this is an act of desperation on the part of the zionist regime, referring to israel, and also said that this shows that the enemy is very, very stressed in the last few weeks that it has referring to the few weeks left in president u.s. president donald trump's term in office. he also talked about what iran might do in response. let's listen to what he had to say. i'm a douche, man. only iran. all of iran's enemies should well know the people of iran and those in charge of this nation are braver than to let this criminal action go without a response. in the right time, a response to this crime will be given and likewise, the people of iran are wiser than to fall in the trap of the zionist conspiracy.

and those of the timing of this is fascination is absolutely critical, isn't it? with joe biden about to enter the white house. what does it mean for iran's relationship with the west? certainly it's very, very important. significant. really is that this assassination not only killed the 63 year old scientist, but it also killed any chances of diplomacy between iran and the upcoming us administration. in terms of returning to the nuclear agreement 2015, there is a very strong chance that the conservative voice inside the country will only get louder after this assassination. and there will be a strong determination to try and prevent any kind of reparation that might have taken place between president rouhani is administration and the incoming u.s. administration of president elect biden. there's also very strong reaction in terms

of how this could have happened. there is the question of the security apparatus inside the country that allowed this assassination to be carried out there. it raises a lot of questions about how secure the situation is inside the country. and that is also another cause for concern not only for the administration of president hassan rouhani, but also for the whole establishment in the country. ok, many thanks for bringing us the reaction from terror on this one of india's agriculture minister has agreed to meet farmers after 2 days of protests in and around the capital. thousands of rallying for a 3rd day against new laws. they say could put them out of business, many are refusing to move to an officially designated protest zone in new delhi. demonstrators say they won't stop until the government scraps laws that could and guarantee prices for their produce. that's going to the latest now from elizabeth pran. i'm. she's live at the single crossing is between delhi and harry on a states. that's why i'm a many farmers that we can see the behind you. why are they stopping there and not

carrying on to enter the capital? hi laura, we are assessing the border crossing with thousands of foreigners remaining camped out. and they're refusing to go to that ground that was allotted to them by the indian government because it was their demand that they be allowed to march to the center of the indian capital new delhi to have the opposition hood. they don't want to be sidelined into some ground on the outskirts of the city. and it's that that's the reason why they are going. they are staying here. they are raising slogans, making speeches, criticizing the b, j. p. government and its policies. that's the situation at single border. it's a similar situation in other border crossings around the indian capital. and while it is peaceful here today, unlike the last few days, there was

a massive police presence on the other side of the protesters, keeping a very close eye on them. and because of this is the 1st things, and these are the largest protests. and then just since the coronavirus pandemic, one of the rules about such gatherings and how is the government dealing with them? so these large gatherings aren't allowed. but what the pharma say is that large gatherings aren't allowed. the government says they're not allowed because of the coronavirus can direct. and yet we had a massive state election and the state of bihar. a few weeks ago where the government was campaigning, where prime minister in that interim order, where many politicians were campaigning and thousands of people were attending. and that is something the farmers keep saying when they're told that they're not allowed to protest. they say, while the government allows large gatherings when it suits them, and so that is why they, they are out here. the government is saying though,

the agriculture minister we heard from him, he's pleading with them to stop. he saying that in light of the coronavirus pandemic, also the fact he says it is sleeping outside in the cold winter months. he's asking them to accept the government's invitation to talk to find a solution. but the pharmacist saying that the 1st round of talks didn't lead anywhere. they don't trust the government, they want the government to ensure that a guaranteed minimum price for their projects. and that is what is at the heart of the standoff between the government and the farmers. they want the government to guarantee a minimum apprized, the government will not write that into legislation. and so the pharma say that they will continue with their protests, whether they are allowed or not. and out until the government repealed those laws, they certainly seem quite firm in their stance. they're ok for the moment says, but thanks very much for the update just outside delhi. now if you haven't 60 days until president elect joe biden takes office, the u.s.

justice department has a number of federal executions and has changed the rules on types of methods that can be used clearing the way for the use of poison gas and firing squads. biden is against the death penalty and says he will work to end it. mike hanna, has more from washington d.c. . news of the new protocols only came out because it was printed in the federal register as it has to be by law. the impact of this though, is to give the federal government a far wider range of methods of execution to use normally, it has been by lethal injection, but the justice department is now saying that it has got to keep the option of using a form of execution used in each particular state. now states decide what form of execution they use most have used a lethal injection. however, some have moved away from that because of the shortage of the drugs needed. so the justice department is attempting to say that it needs to do this to fall into line with protocols exercised by the states in which

a federal execution will be carried out. now this is significant because the finite executions have been shared between now and the 20th of january. when joe biden comes into office 3 of the months and through to next month. the justice department is able to exercise what form of a death sentence is a pickle to a particular state where it's carried out. it must be noticed as well. is that the death sentence, federal death sentence was on hiatus from 2003 before justice department reinstated federal death penalties earlier this year. and since then, there have been more people executed by the justice department then there were in the last 50 years. so there has here on al-jazeera, they ravage crops and cause widespread devastation. but could there be a new way to stop swarming, locusts, grapes and roll off a wine industry,

becomes the latest casualty of an escalating trade with, between the strain and china. have the also the winter might well be described as an arctic blast has just happened over northern europe. it spread right down to the east and has been persistently foggy for a while now. but the arctic air coming over, what is still warm water is ready to speak in the southern baltic at 9 degrees. you sometimes get this fog rising up from the water, which is what happened in southern sweden, visible over mamma. now isn't going to happen over the water elsewhere. it's just land. fog is hard to move. it might shift a bit. is this cold to sink south? stick in the throat of the top to drop a little bit snow over it. they will keep moving slowly, says it's not a lot of snow. is just a confirmation that this cold is likely here to stay the forecast with vienna.

should it get even colder by tuesday, as the wind picks up and the story becomes rather more frequent, sunshine might be optimistic, but then again, you might be lucky, certainly on the mountain tops you will be. they poked through the fog last. rather more active weather wind and rain has been circulating again. the western med is the eastern side of spain. it's got particularly when valencia is the 2nd time this month is a twice the month's average in one day. but that rain is spreading eastwards is a warning out today in fact for sardinia to heavy rain. the key is going east through italy towards greece. later on sunday but dissecting the headlines in the midst of a pandemic. let's start with some of the all new ground realities of back in the news coverage. what's the lay of the land there? stripping away the span of a gripping story about presidential corruption. it is real reporting. it's not in

your challenging assumptions and the official line. we all decided we need to cut our score. we don't want to hear lies on the authority and it's media village on out is iraq. watching out there has reminded of our top stories this hour. iran's president blames the assassination of its top nuclear scientist on israel. gunman ambushed a vehicle carrying most and factories all day, and his bodyguards ran on friday. iran has said it will retaliate. hundreds of police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed to control

protesters in and around. india's capital. thousands are rallying against new laws . they say could take away their livelihoods. and the u.s. justice department for a federal executions as joe biden moves closer to taking office. it's also cleared the way for the use of poison gas and a firing squad. new restrictions will be imposed in los angeles from monday in response to a spike in corona virus cases, all private and public gatherings of people from different households have been temporarily banned. it comes as the number of recorded infections nationwide passed the 13000000 mark. this week, millions of americans traveled for the thanksgiving holiday despite warnings to stay at home. the world health organization is warning countries to remain vigilant, even if they see a decrease in corona virus cases also said more data is needed to review the efficacy of oxford university and astra zeneca coronavirus. vaccine doubts have

been raised over its effectiveness after participants were given. different doses by a mistake to varied for adults. what we've seen is 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 voters in india. the minutes of kashmir, heading to the polls for the 1st time since the indian government revoked the region's autonomy last year. but opposition say police have been preventing them from campaigning freely as more it's been more than a year since new delhi stripped the autonomy of indian administered kashmir. effectively an exciting parts of the disputed territory. these local elections the

1st since then, a seen by many in this region as a test of how unpopular that policy is and opposition coalition. the group car alliance has been campaigning for the area, special status to be restored. but candidates, say police have used security concerns as an excuse to harris them, you know, has been very difficult right from the border go. nominate him. we have picked up by the whole court. it takes me almost 2 or 3 yards from here in the morning. we're going to go back to business in the yard. india's decision to revoke self rule in the majority muslim populated region has caused anger. and many kashmiris are determined to make their voices heard. what if the other i were injured by a car going out? we'd planned to boycott the elections, but after the group got alliances, fog it compulsory thing. we decided the real cost of war to get the b.g.p.

it be then ordered that i'm. 6 $1.00 of the members of india's governing hindu nationalist, b. j. p. have been campaigning hot on the board. the party's you've joined hands under the good car alliance, our corrupt politics delivering justice. people have understood this and are now following us. political analysts say there's a lot at stake for the government in this election. if you have significant voters torn out, you will, the government of india will definitely show the world that yes, people of kashmir have gone silent for some reasons with the situation. and now they're back to life, not only for their normal life, but even for the political and emigrating life. everything is back to normal and that is what the government of we haven't tried to project out of these elections. the elections are happening across the region in 8 faces and will end on december the 19th with results expected. 3 days later. the tory gating be al jazeera

cycling gatti has killed at least 8 people and displaced thousands more northeastern somalia. the storm is the most powerful to hit the horn of africa since records began. 2 years worth of rain fall in just 2 days, and the u.n. is warning the site could worsen. a locust infestation sweeping across the region is a greater threat to somalia's food security. but locusts ravaging crops may soon become, a thing of the past because we searched in the u.k., looking into the genetic code of deserts. locusts aiming to find a pesticide that can help keep the insect populations under control. a cloud of 40000000 locusts each the same amount of food a day as 35000, people associate professor of neurobiology at the university of leicester. he was part of the team that carried out this study and hopes it will lead to a pesticide that can control numbers of the insects. what we've attempted to do, and what we've succeeded in doing now is to for the 1st time sequence,

the entire genome of the desert locus, just the circuit. and it turns out the genomes about 3 times bigger than the human genome. so it's quite been quite a massive undertaking and cause lots of problems that the scientists doing the coding. but we've been able to do this, and now that information is deposited where it's freely available to anyone who wants to go and dig into it and start looking for keys and all that information that we can use to target these animals much better than we can at the moment, once you've got a genome, you can do all sorts of different things with that. clearly controlling locus is one of the things that we would want to tackle. and when i say we are, and this is anyone who wants to get involved in doing this, essentially. so this is not just our program of work. 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, certainly kill the locus, but they have a huge amount who consequences as well. they mostly toxic that the operators and so

are using them. so the idea that once you've got the genome, you can start trying to design his decides which target things which are specific to the genome of this particular organism. and don't have the terrible knock on effects for other insects. for example, in the environment for french police officers have been detained after a video emerged, showing them beating a black music producer in paris. presence of a new electoral has called the incident unacceptable and shameful. it's all to sparked outrage towards a police force already under scrutiny for heavy handed tactics. a dash about the reports, and a warning viewers may find some of the images in the story to stepping 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, 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 of the pictures are unspeakable. more extreme, lee 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 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 continue to shout. so everyone knows that police violence and racism exist. the focus on police violence in france comes as pressure mounts on the government to scrap part 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. it's national bottler al-jazeera, paris, or thousands of people have protested against that controversial security bill in old city was one of the flashpoints in last year's anti-government protesters or clashes between demonstrators and police. another protest against the bill is expected in paris. in the coming hours. china has imposed taxes of up to 212 percent on a stray and wine and escalating trade route. china has accused australia of flooding the market with cheap wine and harming local producers, which denies the tax is the latest in a series of sanctions from china that includes cuts in australian beef imports and other products. the measures are widely seen as a retaliation against australia's support for a coronavirus investigation and criticism of

a security crackdown in hong kong. john is the managing editor of the china story. it is truly a national university and former treasury official. she says the rift between the countries goes back several gay is trying to tension is really just one part of the broader tension between australia and china. and that tension has its history. go back to 3 years ago now. and australia has been put into basically the breen's since then. but this year it has escalated partly because the australian government's call for an independent inquiry into the origin of covert. and that has really angered at the chinese government and the chinese government then pocket australia for a strong export and why they do that. it's because, you know, means that the australian government, if exports to china are week ago, the chinese embassy and the release of 14 previous us to the australian media.

so battles back, all the way to pacify or interference legislation in $27.00 tape. when ben 2080 and the wrath of the foreign investment decision. so all of these bills out to all 14, these are grievances that china is basically polishing australia for it is using trade as a weapon at the tool to punish australia politically. more than 100 cuban artists have held a protest outside the culture, ministry, and against what they say is a state crackdown on dissent. demonstration came after police broke up, another group holding a hunger strike, calling for the release of a jailed rapa authorities say the group violated creative protocols. thank you so government of cracking down on freedom of expression. 3 days of national mourning have ended in argentina following the death of football star donna, in

a time of reflection for many fans on both his logic on the pitch and the controversies off it reports from the neighborhood on the outskirts of oneness. iras, where it all began. the residents of v. a few would be insulted if you called their neighborhood a slum for their 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 his death on wednesday. hit them hard. you know, 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. i i 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 real 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 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 and he made his just 15 years in the heart of the neighborhood where his memory continues to inspire. 1 i was

given the space to fill it with what i felt. so i did the world cup. it has to be here from where you 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 did many more with his artistry with the football and continues to inspire after his death, both here revere and beyond. that top stories. ron's president blames the assassination of its top nuclear scientists on israel and tear on friday. iran has said it will retaliate in june time. president rouhani has been

speaking on state television, has more from tehran.