every. this is deja vu news live from berlin tensions mounting in iran as protests spread after the government denied for days that shot down a ukrainian passenger jet demonstrators accusing the regime of a cover up also on the show on alert in the philippines of all kaino near manila appears to be on the verge of a major option is spewing gas a lot of thousands of people have been forced to flee while more from our correspondent. and the mayor of a small town in northern germany resigns after receiving death threats from neo

nazis in germany under his germany rather underestimating the danger from the far right extremist. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us this morning the government in iran has denied a cover up after admitting it accidentally shot down a ukrainian passenger jet killing all 176 people on board protests took place in a number of cities over the weekend demonstrators have criticised the government for an initially denying that it was behind the disaster and tehran security forces have used tear gas disperse the protesters but they deny accusations that they've been using live ammunition. shouting and chaos as onlookers help people shot and bleeding. on the streets of tehran this

video was taken near the square where crowds had gathered outraged at the cover up after iran shot down a ukrainian passenger plane. video shows tear gas being fired into the crowd. to disperse leaving a trail of blood as they flee. in signs of increasing defiance images of iran's heroes are being desecrated ordinary iranians are speaking critically about the crash but even talking about it makes my heart beat faster and makes me sad and i feel ashamed when i think about their families i'm so sad to. see. this on all of our media try to describe it as a technical problem because of their interests and political and international reasons but later developments changed the game and they had to tell the truth or. pro-government newspapers are also voicing their disappointment and printing lists

of the names of the victims shame reads this headline in farsi and on forgivable just days earlier the iranian regime had been celebrating its missile attacks on iraqi air bases housing u.s. forces. now that narrative is also changing the commander of the revolutionary guards telling the country's parliament that they had purposely avoided killing american troops earlier state media had falsely claimed they killed 80 in further signs of cooling tensions iran's top officials met with the emir of neighboring qatar a u.s. ally both sides agreed that deescalation was the only way forward. let's get an else us now with professor sultan barakat is the director of the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at the doha institute thanks so much for coming in this morning can you tell us what kind of challenges these 2 days now

of running protests present for the regime in tehran well i think it's a clear signal to the region that people are out in august of this continuous state this off revolution maybe it is now time to. go down and reflect on the original purpose of the revolution of 97 time on. in this great cannot continue in a state of flux for decades to come. out of the revolution was to create a new iran that iran has to belong to the world order in some way and i think people inside iran feel as much as those who are outside your own particular neighboring countries that there is no real reason to have those kind of you know to apply to me and you know when you talk about you don't other countries in the

region more broadly speaking the emir of qatar has had talks with iran's leaders that was that was yesterday and sunday can you tell us how significant was that this it. i think is very important cuts aren't could potentially or play i really important role in diffusing the tension between not only the arab states and iran but more importantly between the united states and and it off cuts are as you know is has in jory good relationship with all sides it's follows a policy off numb interference with its neighbors affairs and has managed to gain the trust of all sides ok hand the foreign minister working their prayers to visit immediately after the the assess additional soul a money and i think that has bape their way to a full cuts a to perth were drawn in pin bringing the at the true sites proles ok he's thing it could pave the way for talks with the u.s. the u.s. defense secretary mark s.

per says that present from visual like told talks with iran yes well i think it would and that it is clear that vote size do not see it escalation the at gen of the sort of to trip chats retaliation that's has happened over the last few week shows there neither iran nor the united states would like to see a full scale walk they have been nath the during actions that's out very carefully calculated it that they've taken time to to reflect it have not responded in a key nat in the a kneejerk reaction and saw on which indicates that most size you not wish to how war and then the alternative is to chalk and for them to talk i think as misses out he put it on the any days of this crisis is there real issue for them is the in nuclear out the oh and the lifting or these sanctions or of become exceptions all for iran ok now i don't think it's i was

a talking we're talking about sanctions for example could could be a way a forward but tween the u.s. and iran we have to leave it there professor vajra cow thanks so much for coming n. or us this morning thank you very much. let's get your brief down some of the other stories making the news many of the victims on that plane in iran were from canada and mourners across a country have been paying tribute to them at a vigil in edmonton prime minister prideaux saying he would pursue justice for the victims' families 57 canadians many of them with iranian descent were killed in that crash thank you. libya's warring rivals are expected to hold peace talks later in moscow this after i as all of us are raj and his un backed government agreed a conditional truce with the rebel leader khalifa haftar both sides have accused each other of violating that agreement. and their share of the government says

heavily armed jihad as have stormed a military base killing 89 soldiers in tact was launched near the volatile border with mali and the sabur 71 soldiers from this year were killed in the same region that attack was claimed by so-called islamic state. authorities in the philippines are warning that a volcano near the capital could be on the verge of a dangerous eruption the tall volcano located about 60 kilometers south of manila began spewing ash and the lava on sunday the city's international airport was shut down thousands fled. a warning shot from tower volcano as it's to use a column of ash and steam into the sky the ash plume generating enough static electricity to produce volcanic lightning. although one of the philippines most active volcanoes it last erupted more than 40 years ago

now experts say an eruption affecting a larger area could be just hours away the ash and steam have prompted thousands of people living in towns close to the volcano to follow evacuation orders. more with all the rules of when the volcano started blasting steam we ran away up here the road was crowded ticket with cash and pebbles were falling from the sky. yeah but a little but the ash fell as far away as the capital manila some 60 kilometers north of manila airport authorities ground. and it all air traffic affecting dozens of domestic and international flights. with the forces. on the top to hold. them. as travelers wait so do the people of the philippines to see what else tall volcano may have in store.

ok let's get the very latest on this now a deed of use on a song toast in our gate area which is close to the volcano to date you anna can you tell us what's happening where you are right now i'm about 6 miles away from the volcano which you'll see behind me and since we've been here the last couple of hours we've seen the volcano continuously spew out clouds of volcanic ash and the clouds have been turning from white to great to sometimes black the authorities have raised the alert level to 4 out of a 5 point scale so they're warning of a volcanic eruption within hours or days so that can mean possible volcanic eruptions that's a result of you know eruptions that come into contact with the water around the volcano causing flooding into the certain areas so right now to our volcano it's

really under watch and it can be very much like into a pressure cooker that can explode at any time or people in manila which is very close by of course dealing with this threat or are some people leaving the capital voluntarily as of caution. no there aren't many people leaving the capital of manila. as a precaution on the contrary of people advised to stay indoors while the volcanic ash could be felt all the way from the guy tie or heat into a volcano which is about 40 miles away in this part where i'm at there have been forced evacuations since yesterday and about 8000 people have been moved to evacuation centers or safer ground i talked to some fruit vendors here earlier and they are very much worried about their crops you know the volcanic ash has coated large swaths of pineapple fields in just greed doest and they were wishing for rain

because at least that would wash away the volcanic ash but then at the same time they weren't sure if that would be enough to clean the fruit because the ash contains sulfur also interestingly enough where at the gate that is a popular weekend destination for many people who want to get away from the city and the activity from tall hasn't stopped people from coming here i'm at a restaurant view deck and all around me there were people taking selfies in front of the volcano and i spoke to a couple earlier today they came from a neighboring town to spend their husband's birthday here so it hasn't deterred people from coming here they said it was yes scary to see this kind of a video but also terrifyingly beautiful to see what nature is capable of. views on the songs they're in to guard our which is close to the tall volcano in the philippines or here in germany local politicians have been facing a spike in intimidation over the last few months and it's threats from the far

right that are causing special concern now a quarter of all german mares are reporting being insulted or or threatened in physical attacks been carried out on about 2 percent of mares or their staff members now the number of on reported cases is in. and there are nasty extremists has been arrested in connection with that now these incidents are are having an effect with some elected officials people in germany have been curious about what's going on and passed off because of the news that rocked the town right before new year's eve may announce he was resigning because of death threats from right wing extremists but ordered. 2 nights in a row i received notes in my mailbox one contains an explicit racist and sexual slander you may think maybe it was meant for someone else but it wasn't funny it

was horrible but the 2nd one was worse it said we're going to gas you with the ante for the day before right after christmas a nun perpetrators vandalized his car window with a swastika he decided to step down from office in order to protect himself and his 14 year old son i was a pretty huge concerns i don't want him to have this politicized mayor that i want to protect him but also the office of the man i don't want to be politically times it. was mayor of stuff for atheists even before that he was socially active for example he was a soccer coach for the local club in charge of young players. the 1st criticism from the right came in 2016 when a refugee family moved to town right above the sports clubs clubhouse. soon thereafter there were right wing extremist stickers all over the playing field their message this year is a nazi zone many people in the village were shocked by his resignation work with

folk in the local council the news came as a surprise to him. because they're mine and we all think that it's not good. where the losers in this story which is very sound. and focus states very clearly that the village of stuff does not have a nazi problem there are a few extreme rightwing people in the community but he says the problem lies deeper in society itself as a society is a catastrophe the problem is that people can suddenly say out loud what they wouldn't have even dead to think 5 years ago and that's not only in the supposedly left behind eastern germany apparently people here also feel left behind. the focal case is now being investigated by german authorities but doesn't want to give up even though he's no longer mayor he wants to keep fighting the far right. those

talk about this more now with our political correspondent actually on a caution in the studio good morning michael yon because we've seen right wing stream is a groups publishing names and addresses of course undesirable politicians and journalists on the internet have we been under estimating the potential danger well 30 certainly have been underestimating the stranger we've seen the shocking killing off of all to look good last year local politician in the state of heskey just been furring to and yeah this is something that has been on the rise the last couple of years so seen the stats so look a petition not only mayors but any kind of likes community council members have been threatening more more in germany so now currently estimates are at 40 percent of community politicians any kind of political have been threatened and other service by authorities show that in almost one out of 10 of these local communities

there has been also incidents of physical violence against letisha and 40 percent have been threatened that were like this this includes a receipt now the case of a mayor of a small town but this also includes for example representatives and councils in local communities people who are engaged in any kind of low click to vittie so this is something that anybody who's trying to be engaged in this is especially referring to engage men to its refugee help integration help that these are now being at the aim of especially far right extremist. the threat coming from is from individuals from groups to civic organizations do you know anything about that so the investigations that have been conducted in these incidents so far suggests that often these are these threats are coming from groups of networks sometimes the threats are even signed by. senders that suggest that they are part of an effort for example referring to the national socialist underground to pay. and oh so the

national socialist underground was a group of me a nazi s. in the last decade response bait responsible and. mrs 4 x. 7 killings in a christian me as germany seen anything like this before this level of intimidation and threat of local politicians and as you said community workers dealing with specific issues in the modern federal public of germany this level of threatening like this. country wide phenomenon is unprecedented we can say that there have always been cases of politicians being at the cross fire off the public are there been violent incidents before 3 look for example at the history in the 1970 s. . left wing terrorism by the faction but this is different this is something that is widespread this is something that is coming from an underground network and this something that is very distant fueled by hate that is spreading in social networks

you have to say the red army faction actually engaged in assassinations versus very specifically in the seventy's. one local politician as a result of all this as applied for a license to carry a concealed weapon a concealed handgun is very rare in germany and diverse in the united states a response to the threats that he's getting what can we done to protect especially lower profile local politicians from attacks so they all have to start getting concealed weapons licenses now you know of course this is not the solution for this issue and the representatives of the community councils and mayors a christian many have been calling for the federal government and for federal authorities to step up now we see in germany not only for those who are representatives of communities or governments but also for any individuals who are the victims of hate speeds all threats in social networks that there is not enough done by authorities that the. noles that is currently or the legal system that's

currently are. provided in germany isn't a death as to these new challenges and that the authorities the investigative authorities haven't been able to deal with it yet properly and this is something that needs to be stepped up ok so there are calls then for a tightening of the net stories or whom does that's it's a long word it's a very very tight one of europe's tightest restriction on social media for examples are there are calls now to to tighten that up even more here is that those laws for example they're very much only in the regards to how social networks can help with the investigation or how to kind of inhibits how to kind of fight hate speech within the networks it's not so much about the prosecution that's something that needs to be stepped up by german authorities actually on thanks much for coming in on this force today in other news clashes marder carnival opening event in rio de janeiro. on sunday police firing tear gas and rubber balls to disperse huge crowds

that were gathered in the city's copacabana district it's not clear what sparked that disorder revelers accuse police of using excessive force. rain is forecast for new south wales the state worst affected by australia's bushfire crisis prime minister scott morrison has seen his popularity nosedive largely due to his handling of the crisis he said that he could have handled his response better. while no other casually of those bushfires has been the country's koala population at least 25000 kuala bears are feared to have died since the start of december saumur being offered refuge you know wildlife park on south australia's kangaroo island but the owner is also having to make some tough decisions about which animals to save work lots. they've been through hell barns on their noses paws far and small. sam mitchell usually has 15 koalas in his

wild life visitor park on kangaroo island at the moment there are more than 100 and every day they keep coming. into 2 knots a guy there was a lot of 50 percent of the habitat still over mining but then of course was a i've continued to burn more and more brands. so we need to collaborate with the government as to whether some will be moved to the mine lands however the mine land is also burning as well the arrivals never stop some fear that 80 to 90 percent of all koalas on the island are dead the wildlife park has become a veteran reclaiming the kitchen transformed into a treatment room sometimes vets have to put down half of all new patients. or we're trying to do and he's not an exotic exact science and it is not easy is decide which of these animals have the best chance which of them have no chance. and send

them in the right direction and it really is very different. not far from the wildlife park miles and miles of barn asked soldiers will need area they collect dead animals charred or small poison kangaroos bards and koalas through we don't have the seeds to wall off because i'm on property but also. as part of mental health support and for welfare reasons they start off in the so population of control and i can rapidly return back to normal off the authorities no want to drop emergency plans for the rescued koalas with their natural habitats barns out the cannot return home without serious starvation. to britain now where prince harry will be in talks with the queen later today is the british royal family tries to resolve the crisis triggered by his shock

announcement that he wants to step back from his duties as a senior royal the queen will be hosting that's also her country estate with the prince charles and prince william and in attendance as well now on the agenda will be how much money megan and harry will still receive the royal titles and what commercial deals will be permitted to strike over the weekend footage emerged of the prince appearing to promote his wife's acting career with the c.e.o. of disney that was at a film premier over the summer. we have some sports to men's tennis now in serbia have won the a.t.p. cup led by novak djokovic the inaugural tournaments in australia has been of course overshadowed by those bushfires in australia but there is a fans in sydney had something to cheer about after he beat world number one off in the dog the new a.t.p. cook could not have asked for a better final rafa nadal took an old phone novak djokovic as part of spain's clash

with serbia and joke of it was desperate for a victory with his side already behind after losing the 1st singles roba the world number 2 convincingly to the 1st 662. no doubt won the davis cup with spain just 6 weeks ago and this complained that the 2 tournament such a similar he clung to force a 2nd set tie break but shock of it would not be denied until the final to a decisive doubles match. the serbian opted to play in the doubles despite his weary limbs but no doubt starts out it prove costly as djokovic in a victim to it ski dominated. they sealed a 6364 win over pavlo come in your post stuff i'm feliciano lopez. new title means a lot to joke of it. remember this experience for the rest of my life is. the nicest. tennis size now turn

to melbourne for the a stallion open grand slam starting later this month. a preview on our top stories this hour rain scary forces that are using live ammunition on protesters demonstrating over the government's initial failure to admit. they shot down ukrainian passenger. comes after video emerged showing a woman who appeared to have been shot in the leg. and authorities in the philippines are warning that of all canine years a capital could be on the verge of eruption a tall volcano about 60 kilometers south of manila has been spewing ash and lava forcing thousands to flee. the state of u. newswire from berlin wives who are at the top.

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