knowledge of the lands is journalism the last home in the fights of the the amazon the sis not only a land conflict but a conflict of narrative brazil the age of both n.r.o. whose truth is that anyway on al-jazeera. al-qaeda has a new home base. it is the islamic republic of iran america's top diplomat again accuses iran of having links to al qaeda even the allowing the group to set up its home base there. well again i'm come on son to maria here in doha this is the world news for now just. absolutely ridiculous this is the this is causing tremendous. speaking for the 1st time in days on democrats for their efforts to force him from

office search teams recover one of the flight recorders from a passenger jet that crashed into the sea off to counter. the people. and uganda's opposition from one of the wind just supporters to turn out and defy intimidation in contentious elections. in the last half hour u.s. secretary of state mike has declared al qaeda has established a new home base in iraq he made that assertions without any hard evidence in what appears to be a last minute offensive against terror promised in the rest of the trumpet ministration prepared to leave power in washington we also said he could confirm the death of abu mohammed al masri that death was reported last year gunned

down by is ready in iraq. al-qaeda has a new home base it is the islamic republic of iran as a result of the logs we could creation is poised to gain strength and capabilities we ignore this iran a kind of nexus at our own peril. we need to acknowledge it we must confront it indeed we must defeat it so let's start with alan fischer at the white house allan we were talking last hour about things that usually happened in the last week all that in ministration how does this sort of sit in that usual time for. it's certainly. not on her door but it is rather unusual that the secretary of state would make such a speech and that he would to declassify information joining

a speech drawing links between al qaeda and iran just by contrast that the these rumors these stories these allegations have been around for some considerable time over a number of years even before 911 there was talk of iran having connections with al qaeda certainly the intelligence community has always been very skeptical of that idea might pompey or has always been keen to demonize iran he's very much behind donald trump's idea of maximum pressure he is of course a former cia director so he will get intelligence across his desk that some in the intelligence community would even see a but we know that the center for strategic and international studies very important thing tank here in the united states at the end of 2019 published a report that suggested the links between al qaeda and iraq iran are very very small indeed in suggested that if there were high profile members of al qaeda there were maybe no more than 5 living in iran that really doesn't matter to meit pompey

of course he will suggest that if you've got one you've got more than enough there is a concern that might pompano is doing 2 things 1st of all making it very difficult for the bite in mr incoming by the ministration to make any sort of peace moves towards iran for any sort of approach or to make sure that the 2 nations get on better and perhaps even consider going back into your nuclear deal which was negotiated by joe biden's over the course barack obama's administration the 2nd thing that some people on the hill are very concerned about is that by tying al qaeda to iran then that might pompey or and donald trump and the administration would then have an excuse to launch some sort of attack in iran itself to go and do that sort of thing you would normally need congressional approval given at the houses. controlled by democrats given that the senate is not controlled by democrats you're not going to get that however there is an ongoing authorization for the use of military force which targets al qaeda so if you could go and say

well we were attacking iran we were attacking members of al qaeda that is why we carried out that attack that would certainly give them that and we know that there's been some concern particularly since the turn of the year that donald trump might be planning some sort of assault on the run there's nothing really concrete to back that up just some grumbling some chatter in the intelligence community knowing fear for some but that would certainly be a way to explain any action that they take if they say well there is this authorization for the use of military force against al qaeda that is why we launched that assault not seeing the end of that is going to happen but that is in a way trying to put that point people speech in some sort of context and so why say all of this now as we point out so close to the end of the administration is the main one of the reasons maybe another 10 to polls and focus away from everything else that's going on. well 2 reasons for one he's not got the

platform to do this much more often and as i say he's trying to make things difficult for the incoming biden ministration to make any sort of moves towards iran which has been really a country that has. been targeted by the trumpet ministration from the very early days remember back in 2016 before the election then donald trump said that one of the 1st things he would do on day one would pull out of the iran nuclear deal he was talked out of that and a couple of occasions when he had to reauthorize but when it came to doing it for the 3rd time he said i'm absolutely not doing it and refused to do it so pulled the plug on at that point the other thing is mike pompeo is interested in running for the presidential nomination for the republican party in 2024 so being tough in iran he believes plays well to the base and makes him look strong and certainly if you continue to attack iran it plays well with the conservative base america has scar tissue from what happened during the carter administration when the hostages were

taken at the iranian embassy they do not trust iran that has been the case for many many many years donald trump to a degree. cut into that rather than played up on it he tapped into that and so there is always a concern the but what iran is going to do next and in some cases people who close to donald trump would say they've been justified in some of the things that iran has done and they've been it's been true with with what they've predicted and what they've said but they would like to continue this campaign of maximum pressure and they're hoping that by highlighting this it makes it much more difficult for joe biden to step away from the infections that the white house thank you for that alan . reaction from iran with our correspond in the moment i just want to show you this tweet 1st of all java will go into this in more detail with dosage of our in a moment but no lines there about war mongering lies no one is full 911 terrorists came from secretary pompei his favorite middle east destinations not

from iran that's the iranian foreign minister dosage of bari i mean predictable sort of reaction from the iranians there but might bump a account with a lot of what he came out with a lot of specifics without necessarily backing it up with evidence. yes certainly said that that he had documentation that provided proof that the 9 and 8 of the 911 hijackers had traveled through or through iran trier to the attack that was carried out on september 11th in 2001 but he didn't specify what purpose they had for traveling through this country he also said that very soon you believe very strongly that they have set up has set up an office in base in iran and that they are continuing their fund raising activities and he put forth some very very distinct and very strong possibilities or scenarios that if there was

a strong relationship between the skull fragments of the system in iran and al qaeda the combination could be very very deadly for the international community that they should not let that happen this kind of language this kind of rhetoric that was used by my pale reminded me of when colin powell was speaking at the u.n. in 2003 before the united states invaded iraq it seemed like there was a groundwork being late for an excuse to carry out some kind of an action this is of course something that we've heard like alan mentioned there was there's been rumors of this whispers of this over the past few months that president trump wanted to strike some of their own nuclear fist sylvie's in order to. deter the country from pursuing any further its nuclear activities but iran for its part has been very very strong in their position they haven't altered at all we heard from

the supreme leader on friday who said that the iranians aren't waiting for the u.s. to return to the j.c. meaning of the agreements of 2050 what they want is an immediate lifting of the sections that they u.s. has imposed on iran since they withdrew from that deal in 2000 and. they've left it that's fine and we don't care is the feeling but the sanctions they've imposed on him since then are absolutely inhumane and have had really serious economic consequences on the population of this country so that is position here and this speech will be seen as another attempt by this administration in the final days to try and make things very very difficult for president elect joe biden who of course has had a personal relationship open about 30 years with foreign minister mohammad javad zarif the foreign minister was a iranian ambassador to the u.n.

decades ago at the same time joe biden was also working for the u.s. within the u.n. so that you have had numerous meetings they have had some kind of a relationship in the past and the foreign minister zarif spoken about that relationship and said that he believes the president elect to be much more logical much more well in foreign policy on understanding this region so there is a sense that the incoming administration will see things very very differently and certainly this language that we heard today will not be hurt in the coming weeks after january 20th thank you jill such a bari in teheran the other developing news in the past hour that is the u.s. president speaking for the 1st time in days certainly since the violence on capitol hill he came out strongly against the democrats in washington who were trying to remove him from power over the events of january 6 trump says attempts to oust him

though of course in tremendous anger but he wants no violence he also describe it as another which hunt democrats either want him to quit. be pushed out by his own cabinet or they will go down the path all of them each man's. it's really a good thing you wake up the great work done. it's ridiculous absolutely ridiculous this is. forcing the men to anger you doing it and it's really a general thing that they're doing. or. just to continue and then i think it's a good thing then they get to our country and it wasn't demanded zanker i want bill bennett. how does your casters on capitol hill to take us through that and other developments i mean that could have been a year ago couldn't it be the same sorts of lines greatest which aren't and american history. the fact is he could well be impeached for

a 2nd time you know. that's right sounding like a broken record come all but the president did also defend his speech that he gave in the moments before the riot here at the u.s. capitol last wednesday he said that the words he used were completely appropriate force that was a speech before his supporters and thousands who are rallying to overturn the election results during which i urge them to march upon the capitol and fight against the certification of the election results and we saw the violence that followed this again is trump's 1st time really emerging from the white house since those violent events of a week ago it's a president who has been silenced on social media he's increasingly isolated now 3 of his cabinet secretaries have resigned and the calls for his immediate removal from office are growing here on capitol hill so take us through some of those events i mean 2 things one is the 25th amendment one is impeachment likely to go

down. that's right i'll take on the bigger of those 2 options right now which is the impeachment vote that congress is careening toward tomorrow this would be charging president trump with one article that accuses him of inciting violence against the u.s. government now most almost all democrats have said they would support voting for this article and a handful of republicans are expected as well so the 2nd impeachment of trump is expected tomorrow which would make him the 1st president ever to be impeached twice however a trial in the senate would likely have to wait until after trump leaves office in 8 days time and that's why the house democrats have another tool that they want to act on tonight that is a resolution calling on the vice president and trumps cabinet to invoke the 25th

amendment which would declare the president for office and allow the vice president to assume the white house immediately that this is likely to be a very symbolic gesture as it's a non-binding resolution and pencil to many has said that he is not he's not open to this idea of removing the president early pence just met with trump at the white house yesterday they're set to have had a good conversation but house democrats want to ultimately pass this resolution and this is expected to pass as well tonight which would deliver a message to trend that he should be on good behavior at least for the 8 remaining days of his presidency to not incite more violence because the f.b.i. as you know has warned of armed protests planned around the country and here in the u.s. capital leading up to joe biden's inauguration on january 20th. on capitol hill today thank you heidi.

other news of the day now and divers in indonesia have recovered one of the black boxes from a passenger plane that crashed into the sea with 62 people on board the one that found as the flight data recorder logs information things like instrument readings and engine performance and altitude the cockpit voice recorder which actually tapes the pilots not found yet still in the see this boeing 737500 crash shortly after takeoff from jakarta on saturday jessica washington. here a ton to preop porch this is where the search effort for the investigation into flight as j 182 is being coordinated you can see some of what crews have brought back from a search of the java sea north of jakarta near the 1000 islands that includes parts of the aircraft large and small mostly mangled beyond recognition crews have also

found human remains and the belongings of passengers but what authorities announced just a few moments ago could provide the clearest picture of what happened to flight s j one a today announced that they found the flight data recorder just a few hours ago they have not yet found the cockpit voice recorder however they are optimistic that that cockpit voice recorder should be in a close vicinity to where they found the flight data recorder. everybody. we believe that the cockpit voice recorder is also in that area because of the beacons reading that's why we believe it will be found. the flight data recorder is now in jakarta and in the hands of the kay and katey that is indonesia's transport safety commission they are the ones who are conducting the investigation into what happened to this boeing aircraft this boeing 737500 flight from jakarta to pontianak in west delhi months they say that it could take $2.00 to $5.00 days just

to download the data from the recorder and that it is likely to be a long process be commission has also announced some early findings that they are confident that the plane was fully intact before it and to the java sea based on the size of the debris field which they say is around 300 to 400 meters in the u.k. is introducing new rules to stop companies doing business with a part of china where there are allegations of forced labor foreign secretary dominic rob says there is growing evidence that week of muslims in sion john province are being abused on a huge scale he described as barbarism human rights groups say at least a 1000000 we kids and other minorities have been imprisoned in camps in recent years china denies this saying people are being educated and trained in special sentance. well malaysia's king has declared a state of emergency at the request of the country's embattled prime minister seems as additional powers are needed to stop

a surge in covert 900 cases the country is reporting almost 2 and a half 1000 new infections every day critics say it's just i'm a temp by an unstable government to cling on to power and support from florence that. the emergency declaration comes just a day after the prime minister announced tighter restrictions for 5 states and the federal territories including the capital kuala lumpur a 3rd wave of corona virus infections have shown no signs of slowing down the government says the health care system is near breaking point in a televised speech on tuesday prime minister meeting yassin sought to reassure the public. let me assure you that this a 1000000000 government will continue to function the emergency proclaim by young people is not a military coup and curfew will not be enforced king sought end of july sort on ahmed shah had an october project at wieden spring quest to declare an emergency

deeming existing laws sufficient to curb the spread of the coronavirus since then the number of cases has increased 5 fold but not everyone views the emergency as a necessary tool for slowing the violence to declaring burgess said this period would perhaps an additional note and damage fighting ballyhooed 8 so a lot of people are number one in its belief or what it decrees and of the emergency and number one would look forward to learning more heroes as to how this who will rights will be for the. parliament and state assembly sittings will not continue and all elections are suspended civil rights activists say they are concerned that the government will now avoid parliamentary scrutiny the prime minister says the period of emergency will give the country much needed calm and

stability weeden yassin has been facing a leadership challenge for months he holds a very thin majority in parliament the largest party in his ruling coalition the united laze national organization has threatened several times to withdraw support to force an early general election. a general election is not due till 2023 the prime minister has promised that polls will be held once it's deemed safe to do so florence louis al-jazeera kuala lumpur. we turn to europe now with the european commission president visiting health ministers from the e.u. member states to stick to a joint strategy on coronavirus vaccines the e.u. is negotiating contracts with the vaccine developers as a block but some members may be breaking away to make their own deals with suppliers meanwhile police in the u.k. will be getting tougher on lockdown rule break ins london's police chief says

people who breach restrictions will be more likely to be fined and the policing minister hasn't ruled out strict measures infections are rising sharply in the u.k. and the office of national statistics is there were more than $90000.00 excess deaths last year which is the highest since world war 2 paul brennan is in richmond gauging the mood about the police clamp down. the intervention of britain's most senior police officer into the discussion about coronavirus restrictions comes at a critical time just 24 hours after the chief medical officer pointed out that we were perhaps entering in the u.k. the darkest period of this pandemic dame crested addict the metropolitan police commissioner talking about parties house parties raves in railway arches and gambling parties as well in clear defiance of the restrictions that are in place it was preposterous she said that anybody can pretend to be unaware of the need for

restrictions given the state of the current pandemic now here in richmond the infection rate is remarkably low around $245.00 cases per 100000 but that said we've been asking people exactly how corrosive it is to see other people breaking the rules how much does their behavior impact your behavior. i think it's quite irresponsible if you want my honest opinion on it. there's plenty trying to party as paint want to see your friends to socialize and if the government asking you at this moment in time to to. a distance and be compliant i think it's a small thing. to ask and to do i think it's an impossible situation i don't think we have a race particularly in richmond. but if you're young you you probably don't think it applies to you a few people breaking those rules and then impacting on

a lengthy lockdown for the rest of us that are trying desperately to avoid but there is a severely damaging in fact despite headlines of illegal raves and illegal gatherings compliance with the coronavirus restrictions here in the u.k. is actually pretty high that said the police's move from engagement with gatherings to enforcement of fines and penalties is fraught with potential difficulties there's the resourcing issue for a start are there simply enough police officers in order to do that job and 2nd of all is the sometimes confusion between what are guidelines and what are actual laws that said the government is extremely worried about the way the infection rate is going the data is very bad indeed and as the policing minister has said there may be more restrictions coming down the line with the police and the government on

tenterhooks india's supreme court will halt the implementation of controversial new agricultural balls farmers have been protesting them since november saying the changes will undercut prices government says the agriculture sector that was long overdue for reforms judges are disappointed with how the government has handled the standoff and ordered the creation of a committee to negotiate. ugandan opposition candidate bobby wind says his home has been raided by the military as he accuses the ruling party of intimidation one spoke to the media along with 2 other opposition candidates saying they will work together to monitor thursday's presidential and parliamentary elections they also asked supporters to help by reporting any suspicious activity at voting stations catherine sawyer with more from kampala. this is not the 1st time we have seen a bobby wine and one of the candidates that was in that press conference calls called patrick a more reactive seen them being arrested more to pull times detained they've been

blocked from attending their campaign. the wind aid some of them have been killed in the last few weeks so they say that this is a government that is trying to intimidate them but i also spoke to the government spokesman who said that this individuals have been defying regulations he said this election is happening in the middle of pandemic and they are government restrictions including meetings that should not be with more than $200.00 people but they say that this individuals are going and calling on hundreds of supporters to come and the government is not going to allow that to happen but like i said poppy wind and they have a opposition leaders saying that this is a way of the government trying to intimidate them and they have said that they are going to get their vote they're calling on their supporters to voting day after voting they're saying that do not go home be at the polling station record

a new mall practices that you hear be other polling stations during counting because that is a crucial time so essentially calling their people to come out and gather the vote but they're also saying that they're going to pool their resources and send agents to polling stations across the country to make sure that nothing and to what happens. on the respiratory illnesses have been spreading among refugees and migrants stuck in freezing weather in bosnia and herzegovina government putting up he said tents but there aren't enough for everyone so some have had to find other shelter in which was heavily bombed during the war in the 19 ninety's support from . lacking the basics needed to shelter from freezing conditions migrant families and unaccompanied children are stranded in the cold waiting for a helping hand. but they've learned it's unlikely to come from the local community

in the north west of bosnia herzegovina there are thousands like them hoping to cross into croatia and into the e.u. . as the temperatures continue to drop conditions are worsening at camp lipa and for 900 people who called it home if only temporarily the government refused to upgrade the camp for the winter and with no running water or power its residents were living in squalor the international organization for migration the i.o.m. began to shut it down last month and tried to find alternative accommodation on the suburb 23rd a fire ravaged the camp and left those living there out in the cold when they look to relocate local people block their buses so they remain in the area taking shelter wherever they can some have been doing that anyway for months 16 year old ali sleeps in an abandoned bus among shoes not saddam and though he come i was in the barrack am for 2 months but i've been sleeping in a bus for 5 or 6 months now i'm living in really bad conditions there's no one to look off and it's not safe to be a reception center he mentioned is fully stocked and sits unused after the e.u.

spent $100000000.00 to open it it closed in october under pressure from local authorities unwelcome and unable to move some have found shelter in homes abandoned during the war in the 1990 s. but there's no hot water to wash and it's difficult to cook mayo magnetite anything you just go to be there that is the most of the industry that just because of the closeness there doesn't have much to kids you know it's. most of the migrants come from muslim majority countries serb and croat dominated areas have refused to accommodate them leaving aid agencies and others in a difficult position basically. to 1000 people's work to go around the region providing them food parcels people living in squats or those who are finding some deserted. devastated the both warring here are in

need of the basic humanitarian assistance those people do not have the possibility for regular food distributions to receive the food. the e.u. foreign policy chief says the reputation of bosnia and herzegovina is on the line as people are left dying in the snow and chapelle al-jazeera. half past the hour on al-jazeera these are the top stories u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o. says al qaeda has established a new home base in iran he made that assertion without providing any hard evidence it appears to be a last minute diplomatic offensive against tehran in the final days of the trumpet ministration al qaeda.