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i'll call them. he's residents in the highly secured green zone. in the early hours of sunday, iran con reports. it's been called and attempted assassination and explosion followed by gunfire on prime minister must have alcorda him, his residence in the most secure part of iraq, the heavily fortified green zone of baghdad. according to the prime minister's office, drones carrying explosives were used in the attack, caught him, he was unharmed and spoke to the nation shortly after a lima to all of those who were worried. my residence was targeted in a cowardly attack. thanks to god and his grace, all of those working with me and i are doing well international condemnation. the attack was swift, the u. s. issued a statement of relief that the p. m. was unhurt and called it an apparent act of terrorism. ron's top security official allie sham honie condemned the attack, calling it a new sedition. rhonda slim is from the middle east institute. she says, call me as long had issues with paramilitary groups,

backed by wrong. i had lots of resources and they have manpower. they have what been re, they had lots of financially, sofas, resources. after all, you know, billions of dollars are allocated every year in the iraqi budget for the has the shabby which is the umbrella. what a lot of these militias, in addition to whatever they get from it on the iranian backed militia groups have been protesting cicio tov attempt election, which they said was subject to fraud and corruption. the father lawrence lost a significant amount of seat. the supreme court has rejected most of the allegations of fraud. so far, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. iran caught our deserve well hours after the attack must have academy called a meeting with the heads of the country, security agencies. his officers, the drone attack was high on their agenda. there are reports of several members of the prime minister's personal protection units who were injured and sunday mornings incident. madame de la hud is in baghdad. were this updates according to the

security national security cabinet. the investigations are underway, the national security cabinets calls it a major to that not only to the prime minister but to the integrity and security of the whole country was tending now in one of the areas near the green zone occupied by the protesters. and these protests, those we have been speaking to, many of them they deny they deny that they, they have carried out that tact, but they say that it could be of course, treated by a 3rd party to ferment violence between them and security of forces. you know that this is, this attack comes off to friday's violence between the protectors and the security forces. and now these protect says the blame called me himself for

a crack and for what they call, cracking down on the protest. let's make sure model, i'm be shot, his algebra senior political analyst joining us from paris by skype behind. one, thanks for speaking to us. so what is the message behind the set attack and who do you think it's being sent to? of course it depends. who is behind the attack right now? we're certainly not, not making any particular fame because so the investigation is not ordered. and we don't know for a fact. we can mix some guessing. and clearly, whoever's behind the attack know also is an issue with the elections themselves. of course i ron's all eyes in iraq claimed that the united states and other minions in the region have brig the elections or help reg d elections. and they are the ones who are responsible for the assassination

attempt that the prime minister. that's not exactly convincing and attempting to not any more clearly when a lot of iran's olives half lost so much in the october elections and says they've been demonstrating in the streets against the prime minister and against that elections accusing the prime minister of being part and parcel of the conspiracy against the iraqi voter and then we have this attack. so clearly one can see a pattern here. a pattern of disgruntled are iraqis, and a lot of them iranian all eisen say that they did what did not count that. you know, a lot of a lot of these election stations where we're rig sch on, although the election commission didn't look into what ever allegations they went on, found that there isn't really much of much about violation and still we had the violence and the threats and demands, so really all, and all we see a lot of iranian allies in iraq are claiming that you know invisible hands led by

the united states and is, are, and others are responsible sch. but we also see a great that on what of iraqis saying we need to turn the page on the iraq, the occupation on an iranian influence. iraq is for the iraqis. and now this is the 5th elections, and the rockies have made their voice clear on. although the participation was quite low, interested, actually perhaps one of the lowest since 2003. and yet the iraqis have made that was heard and now they need to form a gun. right. so does this then complicate the situation a little bit more when it comes to what's happening with the election crisis and the protesters that are out in the vicinity of the green zone. how will this attack affect the, the electoral situation right now? you know, there's a saying and it's really worked perfectly here. right. it says what, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. and clearly what didn't kill or i,

mr. gordon, me certainly made him stronger and made whatever allegations, whatever people behind him, stronger. so i think that certainty backfired against whoever in iraq or influenced from outside the iraq. i tried this, this attempt is foolish and will say against a racket minister and those who really filled the streets of baghdad and other places, but protesting the election just because the last, what's the point of what the election if you're going to simply protest reject the election results only because he was spending a number of seats. that's an issue. and i think iraqis was suffering a lot during 2019. have made appearance in the selection. not a lot, but because some work i did that actually, but we had more than 30 some seats representing some of those who put who protested non violently peacefully, back in 2019 and those who are attacked and then have lost a good number of seats so really clearly, iraq is trying to get out of the,

the blunders than the chaos that, that followed the, the, the, the occupation of 2003 and its aftermath. and they're trying to open a new page. the main thing is now is forming a government and believe me, there is nothing more difficult on forming a government in iraq. because it needs to be almost cy, consensual among the shikes, the major blocked in parliament. it also needs to get the support of the sudanese and the courts. it also needs in some form or another get the support of iran or a green light from bloss for a long time. the united states now that we seeing that the united states warn or affected iraq has certainly waned up with the, with a withdrawn from or from mostly from view. sh. so clean. it is going to be jostling for, for a while for influenced for forming the government. sh. we don't know exactly who's then soon as an extreme instead of my b. although now cut the medicaid, they may, might have a better chance. and again, open the parent. this is to say that he was almost like an accidental prime

minister. he was a security man, and he's in fact, it was a journalist from a security man come a portion of consensus. why? because there are, there aren't that many leaders in iraq that to present blocked up that for my majority in parliament. and hence any one number of leaders of the, of any one of the parties has not since 2014 become a premier. so it has to be a person where the consensus is around and not only consensus with the shiites and the shy parties, but also as i said, the city and the courts and others enhance. this is going to be a complicated process moving forward. certainly the protest and the violence in the streets and the attempt at the prime minister's life. all of that complicates the pictures moving ahead. but clearly, again, the rockies are adamant with turning the page of over the past 18 years and trying to move forward with something that resembles a normal iraq lackey's won an iraq. thank you so much on besought as our senior

political analyst. thank you. hundreds of thousands of people have been rallying in several if your pin cities in support of government forces battling or rebel advance. so the largest demonstration was held in the capital at the shop. a bomb concern is growing after the year long conflicts against ryan rebels intensified the t. p. s. has captured strategic towns along the road through the capital and threatened to move on up above. many countries have off their citizens to leave after the government declared a state of emergency. well, in recent days, if your prime minister has had his social media posts walk by facebook on twitter for violating its policies against and fighting and supporting violence. but on sunday i'll be met, took on a different tone, instead, calling for national unity. he tweeted this, if you p, our beauty is in our unity. when we stand together, we can overcome anything. we stand on the shoulders of her ancestors today we stand, committed to laying

a solid foundation for generations to come. that was the tweets by the prime minister. let's get an update from mohammed, though. he's joining us from these and there was a march and a protest that was happening in support of the if you open government against the t p level, how much, how reflective are these rallies of the actual mood and the political feeling in the capital right now? well, is that in the very much the present, the sentiment on the streets of the sub of a most people here for support and the chip and defense forces and prime minister abbey. i meant it. although again, they are those who are feel that the whole wall is pointless and ad, but those supporting them tens of thousands of them took to the streets as early as 6 a. m local time here. and the protest ended up being a big square in the middle of a suburb, but known as miss gil square,

that square the national day celebrations often held. and those rallies were addressed dot raleigh that was addressed by the mail of this uh baba, identity a bit. who among adopting sent not that big huge prussia of if you appear is being put on from externally. ease at not having any good seeing on the impact on the government and that it's supposed to stop and as soon as possible. say that if your peer can take care of it's a phase. there was a sobering moment though, when a put a philippines singer, a big tardy coo and jen casey, had told the protest us not that it was time to stop the war. he was cold to sing in praise of the if you have been defense forces. but of that to go off script and told them the protest us while we suffering while we always wedding black in sort of while we have fighting,

he told young people who are flocking to the frontlines that they should not go on . is that eldest? should go not to fight, he said, but to preach peace. and mohammed as far as the advances go for the t p a laugh m. how, how far are they? or rather how close are they to the capital something that they've been saying they're going to march on? well, it's hard to still at this point because journalists, i'm not being allowed to go to the front lines on the theaters of action, a few 100 kilometers away from a december. by the last we had was, they had retreated from the thompson campbell chanda, see about 400 kilometers away from the capitol. we cannot tell exactly where they are. they also have lice and some of them in the auto mall region, which is very close to our disobey t up yet. but when you look generally at life in that is up, but it doesn't change to us. all people are going about their businesses as usual,

but, and it's a heavy police presence across the city. of course not is not lending any kind of work to the embassies around here, like the u. s. embassy, which has asked all non essential stuff. and citizens of the united states who are in, if you have yet to leave immediately. so are the canadians than the wiggins and the so debbie and among others. but again, people in the summer but going around you know, their business as usual. ok, thank you. so much bahama don't reporting from auntie saba here with the news, our knowledge of 0, there's plenty more ahead, including the fears of renewed conflict in engine administered kashmir families. more in those caught in violence of security in the region is stuffed up. we'll have more on why god does main power plants is under threat of shut down and support the chase for the formula. one drivers title takes an unexpected turn ahead of the mexican brown. pre gemma will have the details

a little later. ah, but 1st police and su, don, have fire tear gas to disperse teachers rallying against the power grab last month by the military. the protests are part of an ongoing civil disobedience campaign by pro democracy activists. demonstrators has set up barricades and blocked streets to denounce any power sharing arrangements with the military. they've rejected an internationally mediated plan to defuse the crisis. have the generals who lead the arm take over? hey, morgan has more from cartoon. the professional association, the body that has spearheaded calls for protests, have called on people to participate in general, strikes and civil disobedience. that is to say that asked for people to stay at home and stay away from war to show the army that they don't want to be control. and they don't want to work under military rule. now we've been driving on the

street of how to some of the main roads. processes have been asked to set the barricade, to reduce the movement and show they processed the input be full ways. but many of those main street are actually open. and what you can see going around driving around, hard to me, is just the remnants of those barricades which have been removed by the military asper some protested, but some have also been removed by civilians themselves. processes have reported that the police and security forces have use force to open those barricades that was set up concrete blocks rock breaks. people are using what they can to barricade the street to reduce the movements around the capital hard tube. now they said this is their form of resistance is how they show that they are against the military. most barricades are found on roads at residential neighborhoods. protests say that these barricades have become a symbol of their resistance to the military take over there now calling for

a complete solution of the power sharing agreement that was signed in 2019 between the army and the civilian coalition that led to the formation of the transitional government, which was evolved by the military on october 25th, the day of the peak over it. they say that they want to see the army return back to their barracks and have no role in governing the country and its politics. this all comes while prime minister out the land remains under house arrest, as well as several other senior former government officials. now mediation efforts to try to bridge the gap between prime minister out the door and the civilian coalition on one side and the army on the other side is yet to produce any result. morocco's king says control of western sahara as non negotiable attentions flared with algeria about the disputed territory. king mohammed the 6 says moroccan sovereignty in the region will never be up for discussion. morocco claims the former spanish colony as its territory, but algeria backs the palace are your front movement in its fight for the independence of western sahara. libya's electoral commission says candidates for

presidential and parliamentary elections will be able to register from monday. the vote is scheduled to take place on december the 24th. that's according to a us back plan. earlier libya's presidential council suspended, the foreign minister accusing her of administrative violations. she's also been borrowed from traveling just days before an international conference on libya in paris. but the transitional government has rejected that decision. there are liberal correspondent malik trina, here with us, and they'll have to discuss all of this will get onto the foreign minister in a moment and like, but 1st on the, the announcement by the electoral commission. so i suppose the big question is now is who will be running for president in libya? well, that's right, and really this is where we start to see the divisions happen. you know the election, the presidential candidates will be starting to send in their applications starting tomorrow. who's gonna run for president? we're likely to see. 15 percent is the western strong man,

former minister of interior, prime minister rob me today. but now we're hearing that he intends to run for elections on eastern libya. it's likely that police have to, will run for elections. and also i give a follow, he's a speaker of the eastern base parliament. and really this is where we're going to start to see divisions. i mean, it was a very long and difficult process for the united nation support mission to come up with this piece plan to try to bring in all the all the sides in order. and they brought in this unity government, which is leading the country to elections. now, we're going to see these divisions start to arise again, who can run what kind of powers of the president have are the legislative branches in libya have yet to agree on a framework, a constitutional framework. so what kind of president, what kind of powers of the president have, what kind of authority does you have? those are questions that are made to be answered. and we're going to have to wait and see what kind of implications this is going to have on the election scheduled to take place in just 6 weeks. yes. so how likely is it that these elections

actually do take place? well look, there's a lot of international pressure for the, for the elections that take place on schedule. the international community is saying, elections will bring forth a, a permanent, permanent government that is recognized across the world. but i radically, if the elections themselves that could possibly see the divisions happen again, and we could possibly be be back at square one. so i think a constitutional framework making sure that the, the authority is that each branch of government has the legislative branch, the executive branch that needs to be clear. so libyans know when they vote somebody into power, what kind of powers he has that needs to be clear for libyans in order for them to, to go to the booth and vote those they want and power. and while happy with us, let me ask you about the foreign minister who's been accused of administrative violation. what does that mean? what does she queues off on, and what's triggered all of us? well, according to the roadmap,

the presidential council is the highest authority in the not in the government of national unity. so they're responsible for foreign policy. they're responsible for representing the government of national unity. they say that those women goose over overstated or overstepped her boundaries. and a recent interview, she said that she was working with us authorities on actual dyna libyan a living citizen out of the country. and so this is the presidential counsel flexing their muscle saying hold on, wait a minute. we're the ones that you have to coordinate with before you say anything like this. you have to talk to us and make sure that we're okay with it. right. ok, thank you so much. not a try. now, as our libya correspondence or usa bonder, there's a professor of political science and international relations that cuts our university . and on the issue of the foreign minister, he says that her suspension illustrates the rift between competing interests in the run up to the elections. i think it said the did the decision to respond the dean

foreign minister for the b. i, let's not forget it thankfully, and it hasn't been taken by depletion. does a do business with council, which the government rejects that shows 8 deep division between the political actors in libya, especially given this international conference in paris and also the elections the scheduled before the 24th of december. i think the are the statement that you would collaborate with us. i over the hon. the handling of the specialty. good little, i suspect for the lockerbie bombing in my view is the not to the, the domain. the reason why she was and he moved from our office bump. what only for about 14 days pending investigation, i believe. but although a decision pertaining to delay caught off

a number of ambassadors like the, the big battle in the u. s. and in oman and the olive league, she claimed that the dealer credentials have expired. but as far as the libyan law is concerned, she does not have the authority to appoint all to a record ambassador's own. so she has been very vulcan against the turkish presence in libya and doug angled, a number of a conservative olden move islamic groupings in the country. shirley allen's government has declared the explosion of phil tanker and free town and national disaster. at least 99 people are now confirmed dad's score as a father is are severely burned and being treated in the capitals. 3 hospitals. medical workers say they're overwhelmed. alexander lurch reports all that remains

from the devastating tanker explosion in the free town suburb of wellington. the blast happened at a busy junction after a fuel truck collided with another vehicle. witnesses say crowds of people trying to collect the leaking fuel before it suddenly ignited the resulting fireball incinerated shops and market holes and engulfed nearby cars and buses. they are barnes cars and our bodies on the knee. we cannot give them one full access in 2nd decency. so with an answer this morning, so i so get fill, find out body council for those affected scores of burn victims are being treated at free towns, hospitals, the number of patients to overwhelming to allow families inside. so relatives wait outside for news scanning a growing list of victims. awesome. and timbo lost his younger brother. he left home and said, who was going to buy bread for us to eat. when i heard about the explosion,

i went to the scene and i saw my younger brother lying down. he was burnt all over . i felt so bad. i loved him so much. the government has promised the best care for those affected. thank ye. yes, that is what we had additional doctors in the ground and sufficient nurses, government pharmacy was open or medicines, and the pharmacy was used to treat the wounded for free, so far to have resources to stabilize them. we have people seriously wounded in the intensive care unit, sierra leona underfunded health service last hundreds of experienced workers. during the 2016 ebola epidemic. the world health organization said it's now dispatching supplies and bern experts to help the west african nation. yet even as the clear up continues, authorities warned the death toll is expected to rise. alexander lurch, al jazeera trees have been uprooted, and rhodes are under water and the southern indian state of tamil nadu. this comes

after the heavy as downforce in 2015 flooding that year killed more than 200 people enforced many others from their homes. meteorologists are expecting more rain on tuesday for more on those rains in india. let's go to jeff harrington with the weather. jeff, hello, welcome to your world's weather update. we're going to begin in india to see you by the way, this southern slice of india continues with that drenching rain. but same goes across them, all these and look at this pocket of rain getting striped by it into the western corner of sri lanka on monday. further to board, the east, the southeast of asia, thunder downpours, bank, our coachman city, called him poor singapore jakarta. and same goes for bali with the high of 32 degrees and you know, when we see these thunderstorms, the rain can really paula, quickly, as we've seen for that eastern slice of java. next, cold siberian air has infiltrated the north and northeast of china. so i put the

colors on here, the darker the purple, the lower the temperature, rain turned to snow in beijing and my old ny, it accumulated quite quickly here, given us a wintery scene, temperature is also coming down across the korean peninsula, soldiers, 12 degrees, and shanghai at the height of 10 now in terms of that precipitation it's running into the korean peninsula, the rain snow line rate of brown harbin. and also some drenching rain can be expected as we look toward q to chicago and also southern sections of honju. but for now, looks like a dry day in tokyo with a high of 20 degrees. and now you're up to date with the head on the i'll just there are news our taking a new direction. we take a look at scotland transition from oil and gas to renewable symbols for trouble tom, the efforts to save a 100 year old buildings in liberia of capital and in for it will show you how name double healthier streets is victory over money.

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