and 3. d. w. zyklon in course. terms maybe. lead. player. this is t w news live from tehran promises harsh retaliation as u.s. air strikes kill a top the iranian general the pentagon says the strike at baghdad international airport was to prevent future iranian attacks the death of the elite commando concept of money dramatically escalates middle east tensions also coming up australia's prime minister facing growing criticism over the deadly. angry

president super lost that say scott morrison should have done more to help victims of the blazes raging across the country. and unanswered questions after dozens of animals are killed in the devastating zeus' fire in germany fortunately something did survive the inferno and the zoo has now. i knew could sneak in and thanks very much for joining us. global powers are warning that the world has become a more dangerous place to us as strikes killed a top iranian general the american attack on baghdad airport killed senior come on the money the head of iran's elite could force he was seen as the architect of

terrans military operations in the middle east the iranian supremely to ayatollah khomeini has warned the u.s. to faces harsh for tally ation u.n. security council members china russia and france have all criticized the action of the u.s. and strike came in the middle of the night later the pentagon tweeted this strike was aimed at deterring future iranian attack plans don't trump usually very active on twitter tweeted only this image. moves dot com to get iranian state t.v. confirmed the death of general. iran's top security body called an urgent meeting for friday. the foreign minister mohammed just wants to reef tweeted the u.s. act of international terrorism targeting and assess

a meeting general salami is extremely dangerous and a foolish as collation. the u.s. government has accused me of having a key role in fighting in syria and iraq he reported directly to the country's supreme leader ayatollah khomeini. also killed the deputy commander of the uranian backed militias known as the popular mobilization of forces the u.s. has accused the group of being behind the recent attack on the u.s. embassy in baghdad experts say the death of mani could be a turning point in the middle east and potentially draw retaliation from iran and the forces it backs in the region against israel and u.s. interests. and for more on this story i'm joined in the steer by get a steinberg from the german institute for international security affairs and us political analyst rachel you know can you give us a sense of just how much potential this as strike has to unleash.

in an already extraordinary volatile region. you can't overstate the importance of general slow money for iranian expansion and in recent years he has been the general of his generation in the iranian military so the iranians from their point of view will have to react and the problem is that they have already escalated the conflict with the united states just think of the iranian attacks on the saudi oil installations in september the next logical step i think would be 1st to kill americans i think that is what's going to happen not imminently perhaps after some months and the iranians will try very hard to evict the united states forces from iraq. rachel what do we know about how this u.s. decision was made would president trump have given the go ahead fully aware of the

the possible consequences so this attack and this killing was directed by president trump and self department defense tweeted that this was a defensive just decisive action directed by the president the question is what comes next and has the u.s. national security apparatus been working behind the scenes and are they prepared to have a response from the united states depending on how iran decides to respond ok we'll talk more about the implications of his death in a moment but 1st let's take a closer look at the scene at this significant. as commander of the elite could force of iran's revolutionary guard custom saloon money was iran's top general he was also its most recognizable and popular military commander supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei once called him a living marcher of the revolution. money joined iran's revolutionary guard after the iranian revolution in 1979 he saw action in the 8 year iran iraq war.

in 1980 became commander of the kids force that conducts iran's clandestine and foreign military operations the us considered him a terrorist and blamed his could force for the deaths of hundreds of american soldiers so the money was especially active in iranian operations against rebel groups in syria against the so-called islamic state and supporting shiite militias in iraq over the years so the money survived a number of scrapes with death including an airplane crash in 2006 and a bombing in damascus in 2012 he was 62 years old when an american missile killed him in baghdad. what was this top arabian general doing in iraq. he's an iraqi politician the the courts force is responsible for iranian foreign policy in the. arab world especially rock syria lebanon and he has been

called the most influential person in iraq by iraqi politicians in recent years in fact in order to become prime minister in iraq you need to be concerned of hossam solo money. already in 2006 and 2012014 and 2018 again so it was quite a routine event and he was visiting his friend one day is the head of the hizbullah brigades these are the closest allies of the iranian quds force the guy who has been killed with him and the militia responsible for the attacks on americans in recent weeks and the militia main route live responsible for the attack on the american embassy just 3 or 4 days ago rachel let's have a look at the u.s. now what's the reaction been in the u.s. to saddam mani's killing politically but also from the public and surprisingly the

reaction has been pretty divided among political lines so this killing was carried out without the knowledge of top congressional senators like chuck schumer and congresswoman nancy pelosi and you've gotten tweets from some republicans like ben sassed tom cotton lindsey graham saying that this attack was coming the iranians have been punching the u.s. in the nose for a long enough and they. expected it and they deserved it democrats on the other hand have had a very different reaction saying that yes so money had blood on his hands but this is an escalation for which the u.s. might not be prepared and so when congress comes back from its recess next week we can expect them to kind of start looking at checking the president's war powers but as you saw from trump's tweet just the in. american flag he's going to use this to try to drum up support from his base does this attack figure in any kind of plan the strategy that president trump has for the middle east so the question is you

know does trump have a strategy in the middle east and if so what is it obviously countering iranian influence as well as supporting u.s. allies saudi arabia and israel is a mainstay of that but this killing i think puts the u.s. administration as well as diplomats and forces abroad in in an impossible spot because now the administration has to strategize and think 5 or $66.00 steps ahead and given that the president himself is sort of a rogue actor and likes to you know a very active area and possibly this is going to be pretty difficult a difficult one for the u.s. to navigate can we get your take on that can the international community discern any coherent middle east refugee from washington right now there is nothing like an international community and especially not in this regard we have seen an escalation between the iranians and the united states in recent months and the problem about this escalation is that the united states i think doesn't have

a strategy maximum pressure is not a strategy it's not clear what they want and i would have expected a military response by the latest after the attack on the saudi oil installations it has been u.s. policy to protect the gulf states from any kind of attack since since president carter the carter dr even 1980 and president didn't follow up on his threats and i think that was the mistake that prompted the iranians to escalate they thought they could get away with anything such a kind of attack and targeted assassination of a regular military commander should only happen if you are ready for military conflict on the front administration is obviously not not yet at least not before the elections or it will have to leave it to steinberg and rachel reside thanks so much for your analysis thanks.

now to some of the other stories making news around the world. police in one of sirens have rescued a 3 day old baby girl being held hostage inside an ambulance media reports say the standoff began after the father assaulted the baby's mother and then hid in the vehicle they say the baby is in good health in the hospital. police and tyrus have used tear gas to disperse protesters from emanuel buchholz party headquarters as the standoff over the president's planned pension reform continues trade unions have called on the public to step up their protests national train services have been disrupted by strike action for 29 days now making it the country's longest strike since 1968. the trump administration has announced a ban on flavored east cigarettes to curb the health risks tied to the teenage use of a thing products and then stolen tobacco flavors will remain on the u.s.

market health groups say the ban does not go far enough because the only applies to a cigarette cartridge is not liquids separately. and australia's prime minister scott morrison is facing growing criticism over his handling of the deadly bush is ravaging the country angry residents say he should be doing more to help people burned out of their homes the navy is still evacuating hundreds stranded on the beaches around the town of malibu to thousands more are fleeing by road. a new sign that the state a feller is to new normal this is a straight in mimics emergency sirens a sound that snow is commonplace us to smoke filled air in the bushfire zone australia's prime minister scott morrison has been visiting the affected area which now encompasses most of the country's 2 southeastern states while there morrison

was on the receiving and off hefty criticism only learned from my body nor was it or 1 am i here i am. in 2 incidents caught on camera a firefighter and a local resident refused to shake hands with morris on. the year and the 2nd thing to be give more money to our. people because often they are just looking for when they took a look at the mall god help you get the feeling that. people are also angry that the prime minister has downplayed the role of climate change in causing the bush fires morrison has brushed off the criticism saying he's not taking it personally like this isn't about any one individual certainly not me or anyone else we all have to do the job that we have to do we are going to keep focused on doing that your people are angry understand it people have suffered great loss people are

hurting people that's what happens in natural disasters meanwhile the straight in navy continues to evacuate people trapped in the coastal town of by our boats to a larger ship on friday over 1000 people of were transported from there to melbourne those on their way out clearly relieved. that i actually have held it together pretty well till yesterday when i heard they could be coming back and that's when i. had my fright dan and i felt better after and now we're here and we. on the bar in we're going home with cena families. the fires is set to worsen again this weekend was authorities warning that the window for getting out of the threatened areas is closing quickly. to latin america now where a number a year of heavy unrest could lie ahead in 2019

a wave of protests broke out across the continent by the end of the year many were occurring simultaneously take a look at some of the countries affected venezuela remains in the grip of an economic crisis a year ago opposition leader claimed the presidency from nicolas maduro who's accused of election fraud and dictatorial rule argentina is in a deep recession and on a bill to pay its foreign debt of more than $100000000000.00 in neighboring bolivia . president evo morales was pushed from power in november while in chile and colombia protesters are demanding better governance and solutions to economic inequality now in colombia government opponents are preparing to step up that demands for a whole raft of reforms they want an end to corruption a better education system and more protection for indigenous people and their

offspring for full implementation of a peace deal signed nearly 4 years ago with the former rebel group health care is another highly controversial area doc to say corruption has caused the medical system to collapse. one man will loves working at the hospital he likes to take his time with patients making sure they feel safe and that they understand their conditions and treatments but doing the job with such dedication has become increasingly difficult for many people working in colombia and health care. one out of 4 health care professionals are unhappy. that one of our system shortcomings is the pay the physicians receive. some of them have to work 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet. that overworked and underpaid

doctors and nurses aren't the only ones feeling let down by colombia's health care system even in the capital where there are plenty of hospitals and clinics patients are finding it impossible to get even the most urgent appointments. i call the hospital every day but they don't have time for me i tell them please i suffer from multiple sclerosis i need special treatment and they never have time. to give you an appointment after one or even 3 months it's horrible healthcare service here is awful. such problems are related to structural weaknesses colombia's health care system is dominated by private insurance companies numerous of these intermediaries between patients and doctors have had the headlines for embezzlement and corruption the president of bogota medical association says it was their grief that caused the system to implode. it's over says it is like the less services

these companies provide the moment they make so the insurance company denies treatments or takes a long time to authorize them allowing the patient's condition to deteriorate would they even refuse to cover therapy all together. necessary treatments denied without explanation it almost destroyed this young woman's family her brother had alarming symptoms but his doctors weren't allowed to run the tests they needed to diagnose him i mean this is the mrs but it took his insurance companies 7 months to authorize a cuts from january until august when they finally got the results they saw he had a brain tumor. and when we found out he had a cheer he'd already lost his hearing and suffered irreversible brain damage. money and eyes a nurse her self and has been participating in the protests suffering from the health care system shortcomings as a patient and

a professional she urges her fellow colombians to keep fighting for change. i will be a coffee and i'm confident there will be change someday maybe not exactly how we wanted to be that would be perfect i don't believe thoughts going to happen but some kind of change no matter how small for the time being it doesn't look like the government will heed people's calls but in the waiting room and on the streets colombians have run out of patience. i'm joined by constantine a member of the german parliament has with the parliamentary friendship group for relations with the and dan states thanks so much for joining us today colombia's health system of this the under massive pressure as we saw that one of the drivers for the anti-government protests are the similarities and what's fueling the protests in other latin american nations well yes the protests we can see different latin american states like chile like believe also in colombia are similar they

serve as role models for each other and as references and precedence to each other but on the other hand let's not forget that the problems can also be very specific the issue of the peace deal in colombia for example is very specific the presidency in bolivia is very specific of the constitution and chile as well so there are similarities but on the other hand also very specific and for example social or health issues in each of the respective countries i work with the parliamentary a friendship group relations with their and they in states what kind of what do you do to support latin american nations virtually all the members of the french of groups do have an issue they work on as a member of parliament which is my case domestic policy but at the same time the german parliament is committed to developing a friendship with other members of parliament in the world and so i'm for example working on human rights issues when members of parliament in the indian countries are concerned which is for example the case of one of the consensus in venezuela parliamentary colleague of mine who was held in custody more than

a year and we are looking into these cases and trying to promote human rights and democracy in latin america as a matter of friendship between the countries there's up evil there's discontentment across many countries in latin america are there any signs that 2020 could bring any kind of stability well in the on the on the one hand we can see that the you lack of respect for democratic institutions and for democratic decisions within decent institutions. is something that is trying to be sold by those who are ruling in colombia for example by the government in chile on the other hand but much will depend on these on the question if these processes of dialogue for example the process of new constitution julie or the dialogue in colombia which is beginning are given a chance and if the protests find the priority what they want to change right now they want social change they want to become

a change ecological change when rights but they need to be sort of a spokesperson of these protests and the need to be a list of priorities for the protests otherwise i'm afraid these protests of these process will feel. constant include a member of the german parliament is with the parliamentary friendship group for relations with the and in states and so much for joining us. here in germany a zoo hit by a fast moving fire has now mostly reopened to visitors people have been expressing their grief at the cafe fed zoo where dozens of animals including several privates killed a woman and her 2 adult daughters turned themselves in up to the blaze and they say they admit slicing and releasing chinese lanterns which the thoughts of stop us at the fire the 3 were apparently unaware that the lanterns illegal throughout the me . pay let's cross over to our correspondent rebecca down maia who's at the zoo in

safe it rebecca the zoo has opened its doors again to the public this morning how are things going that today. well it started out fairly slow there were a couple of people who had gathered to lay candles and it's picked up quite significantly lots of families here lots of kids there was a group of preschoolers who came and laid down the book of drawings that they had made to remember the animals who had been killed i also spoke with a woman who said that she grew up with this issue and that she takes her kids here very frequently and that one of her children really enjoyed playing with one of the baby orangutang from behind the glass one of those of us who unfortunately died in the fire on new year's eve so people have obviously been really affected by this the losses have also so kissed attention on the chinese lanterns that apparently caused the fire the illegal but that's still easily available can you tell us more about the device at the debate that they generated. absolutely there's

been there was already a debate going on ahead of new year's eve about fireworks and the flammable objects in general in germany and celebrating with those now the paper lanterns the sky lanterns they are banned in the state of north rhine-westphalia where craig is located the people who came forward and said that they purchased those lanterns they did not know those those items are banned a lot of the a lot of the online shops where they're sold they don't have warnings they don't contain warnings about possible legal ramifications and that's really sparked a big debate police have also said that it would be extremely difficult as well to police the selling of those sky lanterns so it's sparked a debate about not only their use but also how to regulate this ban all right rebecca there in case it thanks very much. he was the absolute

star of the silent film world charlie chaplin 1st appeared on the big screen in 1914 he was one of the very 1st influences in the early years of cinema chaplin inspired generations of comedians and now an exhibition in the french city of no want highlights his legacy. had a cane baggy trousers a too small jacket the walking linking an iconic style that has inspired many 20th century artists the art works are stylistically diverse and send the observer on an emotional rollercoaster much as chaplin himself did in his films modern times call for a modern perspective the machine becomes a guard to go interview for the most famous example is known in times with a scene where charlie is completely swallowed by the somebody's life and he's like a small cog this is what is on the show is trying to portray an upward movement

which is an assembly line. chaplin himself can be recognizably depicted with just a few lines for what's said so we can see clearly how a world appears from a few things we have this big white cloud that was just a few lines draws the most ash into small spots that become ice it creates a world and that's exactly what's happened with this character. charlie chaplin won his 1st oscar in 1929 for the film the circus his influence was so great that his character of the tramp has become a part of the circus world. the original promotional posters are also sought after artworks visitors to the museum in not to get to see everything made charlie chaplin so unique including how the british born performer overcame great poverty to teach himself acting and singing and became one of hollywood's biggest stars.

a quick reminder of the top story we're following for you today iran's ows revenge of the u.s.'s strike kills one of its top generals to the need to command a customs funny money dramatically escalates middle east tensions. are watching the news live from the island i think that you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site that's called i knew you could get mackinnon in berlin on behalf of the whole team thanks so much for joining us.

you know good shape. controllable urge to lose weight. can take over your life was dramatic consequential. stomach problems infertility eating disorders dangerous. people. deal with eating disorders

. in good shape next to. every 2 seconds a person does forced to flee their homes nearly 71000000 people have been forcibly displaced. the consequences have been disastrous for our documentary series displaced depicts dramatic humanitarian crises around the world. forgetting i didn't go to university to kill people at night or to have my boss come to me and tell me to kill someone having in many and if i don't they'll kill me. for their lives and their future so they seek refuge abroad

as a boy in a bus scares me the most about this steadiness seems to rise is that someday we won't even see the roofs. but what will become of those who stay behind it's a way my husband went to peru because of the crisis. if he hadn't gone there we would have died of hunger he. let us run out of town and. just starts gently fifteen's on. welcome to any good shape coming up. vision loss what can cause your sight to deteriorate. shingles effective treatments for a painful viral disease. and eating disorders what to do when someone has

anorexia or bulimia. hello and welcome to in good shape here's your favorites.