embassy was the target one iraqi soldier was injured and buildings damaged by god's green zone area houses government buildings and foreign missions witnesses coming up next with an episode called 50 feet from syria. it's 10 years since the arab spring shook countries across the middle east a decade on from the 1st uprising we'll look at the legacy of the revolution. join us as we assess the changes in the political landscape in the middle east and north africa. on al-jazeera. morning morrow morning for you doing are you felt good. when you hear. of the 3rd chance. and nervous ol will but. don't play a little finger sensor tell your fingers but i haven't been to syria for probably 30 years i'm fortunate that i was able to come over here and to going to medical field i think it was footage of a father carrying his son would his arm completely empty to that's what they actually instigated me to contact the syrian american medical society and they put me in touch with the facility in turkey. what did your wife say she said. don't cross the border. i'm really nervous about it i try not to talk

that's the biggest attack on the green zone since 2010 and u.s. suncom says iran backed militias responsible rogue militias although i don't know whether iran had anything to do with this attack necessarily however when you look at the what trump is actually saying that some friendly health advice to iran if one american is killed i will hold iran responsible he says actually restating what is american policy anyway that has been that is just policy from centcom and american presidents that if an american is home then they will be some kind of some kind of response but clearly in the context of the kind of chaotic post-election white house and the reports we get of doldrums erratic behavior the report we go to november about donald trump musing about bombing the natanz nuclear facility in iran it just adds to that sense of of on certainty about what's actually going on here i don't know whether trump is on purpose trying to get some kind of nixonian madman theory of foreign policy going here or something in the last days to keep everyone on their

the intention of not being reactive, but being proactive, and understanding the strategy of using green zones of green zos is if we bring down the disease for a short amount of time, we can limit travel between different zones that we specify. then by opening up the zones that have eliminated the disease, we can rapidly eliminate the disease progssively through zones and restore ourselves back to normal. that is a ocess that has already been used. that is the procesthat has been successful in the country's that a common today, without the disease. including australia, new zealand, china, vietnam, singapore, and so on. the key idea is if you aim yourself for zero, instead of waiting for the disease to grow when you use restrictions, you act quickly and you use the limitation of travel to enable yourself to open up quicklyst so the ctions to have to last long. tty: so the green zone. is basically advocating drastically constraining human mobility. you mentioned the other countries like singapore, new zealand, taiwan, where you see that when it comes to quarantine entering the country whereas if

tty: so the green zone.lly advocating drastically constraining human mobility you mentioned the other countries likega sre, new zealand, taiwan, where you sco that when is to quarantine entering the country. whereas if you cut contact with a covid positive patient, the quarantine instructor. i just wonder if americans will tolete that. >> we have tolerated it, we have quarantined travel restrictions in place. we have donewh everythine people say we can't do that. polls say that the people in many countries want more restrictions. e of the misconceptions that keeps coming up is that doing restrictions is bad for busiss. inbut the whole is if you do short rtrictions then you open up normally and business benefits. it's trying to balance things but -- between fighting the restrictions, which is realbu what hard fonesses. so manyoi businesses are bankrupt across the western world, and they are not getting the benefit that they want. i's the difference between knowing that you invest now for future benefit. katt

embassy was the target one iraqi soldier was injured and buildings were damaged baghdad's green zone area houses government buildings and foreign missions. talks between the u.k. and the european union over a trade deal are over for the day in brussels but they will resume on monday the e.u. chief negotiator michel barnier is u.k. counterpart david frost still have to agree on the final points fishing rights and fair competition rules for businesses there at european parliament has warned that it wouldn't have time to ratify any deal before the official deadline at the end of the year unless it was agreed by midnight brussels time. you're watching out there at live from london still ahead we're looking at what's behind a series of violent attacks on truck drivers in south africa that story coming up shortly. however it looks like it's going to be a rather wet week for a good part of australia we got a fair amount of cloud still spilling in across the northwest we have a tropical low just feeding some wet weather and across the kimberley plateau very close to broome there but some sho

—— green zone in baghdad, where several embassies and government buildings are located, causing minori military has blamed what it called an outlaw group for the attack, and said that one iraqi soldier was injured. pope francis has complained that consumerism has "kidnapped" christmas. in his last sunday blessing before 25 december, he told a crowd in st peter's square that there was no consumerism in the manger in bethlehem, only reality, poverty and love. the italian authorities have destroyed hundreds of millions of pounds‘ worth of the amphetamine captagon, —— of dollars‘ worth of the amphetamine captagon, seized when shipments from syria were intercepted. it was part of a coordinated effort against a trade in lucrative narcotics likely to be run by the syrian regime and its allies. captagon is used recreationally across the middle east but is also taken by militants fighting on the frontlines. 0ur correspondent quentin sommerville, gained exclusive access to the operation in naples. syria's war can seem a million miles away from europe but tonight in naples, it intrudes once agai

military now says it was $21.00 missiles so that's they say is the largest attack on the green zone since 2010 which apparently has now donald trump to release this this tweet interestingly the head of u.s. central command was talking to the wall street journal and he said i don't know the degree to which iran is is complicit we did not seek a war and i don't actually believe they seek one either the u.s. isn't sure whether these are this is the action of some rogue militia or whether it was directed by iran but they do say that they think that the actual missiles as donald trump mentioned in his tweet were supplied by iran and we had a meeting actually just today with secretary of state pompei out of the acting defense secretary the national defense defense advisor national security adviser had a meeting of on iran and militias and in the last few weeks we have a u.s. nuclear submarine as has gone into the gulf which is usually quite a secretive affair but the u.s. has been releasing photographs off it so that they're clearly trying to send some sort of message there was that meeting in

heavily fortified green zone they say the u.s. embassy was the intended target and. defend the u.s. embassy. diverted one of the rockets baghdad's green zone area houses government buildings and foreign missions no casualties have been reported. and watching live from london. on the program macau 21 years since its return to chinese control in. one country 2 systems. and then what's behind a series of attacks try this. story. hello the weather still looks pretty mild but so wet some when the across western parts of here but to change is on the way because this cold front which is sliding its way for the race with some right on that is a weakening feature right that we do have across the passage and he will gradually fizzle out showers rolling in behind in this because i want for the next couple days this next system well gravity rolling from the atlantic that's something to watch out for later on in the way for the time being more wet weather coming in across the fronts pushing into the low countries there's a wakening front that's making its way across the boat 6 has begun one into

thought someone important was either leaving or entering the green zone.oked to his right, saw the person in one of the white vehicles in this video say that somebody in front of him had just been shot. at about that time, bullets started to rain down on his suv. he ducks for cover, pulls his sister, who is sitting in the front seat, down. ali, his son, and his two cousins are in the back seat. as the bullets rained, mohammed peeks up trying to see what's going on, sees victims being shot, killed, machine gun fire all over. his suv is riddled with bullets. as soon as it started, it stopped. he thought everybody was okay, that they had lived through a miracle when one of the cousins in the back seat said that ali was hurt. mohammed got out of the car, opened the door, went to the back seat, saw blood on the inside of the window, and ali slumped over against the glass. he opened the door, and this is a bit graphic. but what happened was ali slumped towards mohammed. his skull was open and a portion of his brain fell out onto the pavement in nisour square. in

militants have fired several rockets into baghdad's fortified green zone apparently targeting the u.s. embassy the iraqi military says some of them hit a residential compound in the zone causing damage but no casualties it's the 3rd attack on u.s. targets in iraq since a truce with pro iran malicious ended in november. eastern iceland has been hit by some of its heaviest ever rainfall triggering mudslides that destroyed at least a dozen homes an entire village has been evacuated but no one has been injured. in the united states top leaders in congress say they have reached an agreement on the $900000000000.00 covert 19 relief package republican senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said that's a bipartisan deal had been reached that will provide the 1st new age in months businesses and individuals will now get a long overdue support in an economy battered by the pandemic the bill is expected to be passed on monday and once d.w. says different simons is following this for us he joins me now from washington stephanie good to have you with us this agreement will come as a huge relief to

cancelled three times and then i was meant to go to singapore and then they cancelled and i had a green zonee to travel without quarantining an, overnight, that was rescinded and the trip was off. chris, you are a seasoned traveller, have you found any highs or pluses in this crazy year? i was lucky enough, i think it was august, when i went to germany and not only got to track down some wild boar in berlin but we went down and got a taste of oktoberfest that wasn't! which was great because it gave us an opportunity to see really what a beer festival was like for locals because the visitors didn't come from overseas because it wasn't on for 2020 but for me, this year, for the first time in my life, i have not been able to go home to australia and carmen, i know you live injapan but grew up in australia but the distance have never seemed wider for me. i miss my family and want to go home is at the moment australia opens borders i will be booking the ticket, i promise you that. and talking about booking your plane ticket once the borders are open, what are your hopes for the future? what will

earlier it was a different bed paralysed gun another researcher to the green. zone balogna moon weapon of mass communication is spreading in global in. a new bad way to marry the dangers of gravity and of m.t.v.'s computers and of mobile devices more than 12 earlier i'm going to monitor the country and if you read on you tube affecting your mother your narrow victory against alternative vision. you will start to question all about your way to excel the nic related to yemen to. earlier era going to create enough career to media narrative a undercover going to destabilize iraq. if you will get exposed i'll take your complaints decontaminate your lying low self reliance and brave everything to. track down. where you can defend yourself and your everyone from the weapons of mass communications. thanks for the r.t. to. give the enemy our fingers you. know whole battle for the journalists always you will gobble to of all was looking scared when it's a lot of the kindle. so do these they're for sure the war well this is the. wolf when you can do that if you have one. that

about why they made this decision when the convoy attempted to establish a blockade outside the green zone the situation turned violent which resulted in the unfortunate deaths and injuries of iraqi civilians further prosecutors recently disclosed more than 10 years after the incidents that the lead iraq investigates who prosecutors relied heavily on so very far that there were no exigent victims and to collect evidence may have had sonny's to insurgent groups himself now at this point there is widespread outrage this seems like the trump administration is almost approving of the killing of iraqi civilians 2 children were among the 14 people in the crowd who died as a result of their gun fire but at this point people are also looking at the fact that trumps education secretary betsy to vos is the sister of the founder of blackwater erik prince now there's also been a lot of outrage about who is not on the list of trump's pardons among the 15 people pardon and 5 sentence commuted it's the names that were missing that many were optimistic and hopeful about were julian a son john edward snowd

green zone lose your mom. you know new car so sad i'm not going to much to me mama says there are. no. human history has always seen continuous war opensource but in recent years it seems to have become more intense the platforming is no common practice and public scrutiny a permanent feature of where do we all stand on the battlefield of belief. i am. well mannered people arrested in paris at a protest against the new security bill critics say the legislation will make it harder to prosecute prosecute police brutality. the round up of the week's top stories british pharmaceutical john. and the makers of a sputnik v. job of agree to cooperate to find out that combining their vaccines will boost their effectiveness also we visited a sun to that is ready producing the russian shot. and to remind me different scene is being fulfilled here if things on this particular line for it she says 6000. goodbye russia china gate which.

priority security officials in iraq say at least 8 rockets have struck by god's heavily fortified green zone they say the u.s. embassy was a target and then 2 rocket systems reported to have fired and devoted most of the missiles and iraqi security work it was injured. today headlines more news coming up right after al-jazeera world. for decades arabs have migrated to countries across europe. and i can say how much of the dems i meant to be just feed so below your comment they would not comment on what is common to have. i found several 100 comments about running mosques. shooting immigrants shooting muslims. most integrate successfully but others become marginalized. with some of the above the governments are going to get back. at them a lot of it but that really is the knowing that this film offers rare access inside mainly muslim communities living in deprived areas in 3 different european countries. some have been subjected to racist attacks others have been radicalized others still have struggled to integrate so we should your camera more to beat ms laws so that you can little more don'

shortly before noon, a convoy of four armored vehicles departs the green zone, the heavily fortifieds. base in iraq. the men inside of the vehicles were elite private soldiers working for blackwater. their code name, raven 23. the men had defied orders from their superiors to remain in the green zone and proceeded on to the streets of baghdad. as they departed, they were again told to return to base. they didn't. within minutes, blackwater raven 23 would arrive at the congested baghdad intersection known as nisour square. 15 minutes later, at least 17 iraqi civilians would be dead, more than 20 others woded, in a shooting thawould go down in infamy as baghdad's bloody sunday. you probably have never heard his name, but you likely know something about how nine-year-old ali mohammed hafedh kinani died. he was the youngest person killed by blackwater forces at nisour square. this is the story of the death of young ali kinani and his father has provided us with the most detailed eyewitness account of the nisour square massacre ever given to a u.s. media outlet. mohammed hafedh abdulrazza

in iraq security forces as saying several rockets have struck baghdad's heavily fortified green zone they say the u.s. embassy was the intended target and anti rocket system set up to defend the u.s. embassy is said to have fired and diverted one of the rockets baghdad's green zone area houses government buildings and foreign missions no casualties have been reported. talks between the u.k. and the european union over brics a trade deal will continue on monday the british government source described the negotiations as difficult because of significant differences in their positions u.k.'s mark frost and his e.u. counterpart michel bonnie a still have to sort out 2 main issues the blocs fishing rights and british war says unfair competition rules for businesses they were european parliament as well in that it wouldn't have time to ratify any deal before the official deadline at the end of the year unless it was agreed by sunday in brussels rewind is coming up next but we're going to have more on that brics it story it is at the top of the next hour 2100 g.m.t. i'll have all the headli

rockets that land inside the green zone at times inside the u.s.sy compound itself, such as what we saw happening on sunday. now, there were no casualties in th that attack, although there was some damage that was done to the u.s. embassy compound itself, but this has led to president trump effectively warning iran saying that if one american was killed, he would be holding iran responsible. now, in response to that, iran's foreign minister tweeted that trump should not be putting americans abroad at risk to try to detract from his catastrophic failures at home. there have also been a series of other incidents that have taken place that are causing everyone on all sides effectively to be greatly concerned. of course everyone remembers what was happening around this time last year where over the new year there was an iranian backed militia group, which is effectively the same group that the u.s. often holds responsible for these rocket attacks that attempted to storm the u.s. embassy, and a few days afterwards, the very beginning of january, preside

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target one iraqi soldier was injured and buildings were damaged baghdad's green zone area houses government buildings and foreign missions. somalia and kenya have agreed to hold talks to restore diplomatic ties after east african leaders held an emergency summit in djibouti somalia cut ties with kenya on tuesday accusing it of violating its sovereignty and meddling in the country's internal affairs it is of the intergovernmental authority on development or egads made the disagreement a priority of their talks we've also been looking at the humanitarian crisis unfolding in northern ethiopia as to grey region fighting broke out there last month when prime minister ahmed ordered a military offensive against regional forces so far more than a 1000000 people are thought to have been displaced many of fled across the border into sudan in thailand voters there of cast their ballots in a regional election for the 1st time since the military coup in 2014 and for the 1st time since last year's disputed election which inspired a mass student led protest movement while turnout in local elections tends

particularly memorable incident, when we were at a meeting at the ambassador's residence in the green zone. the insurgents launched a rocket attack on the house. and of course general austin, it was just another day at the office, he sat there and kept right on going. so i sat there and kept right on going. and wondered what the in the hell are they doing? but he's cool under fire. inspiring the same in all those around him. that's lloyd austin. he was the person president obama and i entrusted with the incredible task of bringing home america's forces. and redeploying our military equipment safely out of iraq. it was the largest logistical operation undertaken by the army in 60 years. getting it done required much more than military know-how. general austin was a diplomat. it was not an easy task. he built relationships with our iraqi counterparts and coalition partners. he was a statesman representing our country, and the skill at -- you know at tables i have sat with him with foreign leaders and i wondered whether or not he was from the state department or from the defense department. b

december 20, at least eight rockets struck baghdad's green zone. residential complex and cars were damaged. the arrest of a senior leader in a militia for his of -- involvement opened up the possibility of a confrontation between the government and armed groups. tensions are escalating between the united states and iran. donald trump blamed iran for the baghdad attack and threatened to respond militarily. the claim was dismissed by the new chief of tehran's elite qud s force. possum solemani was -- the u.s. is concerned about what iranian forces might do on the anniversary of solemani's death. the popular mobilization forces was formed in 2014 after a call from leading -- a leading cleric for iraqis to join the fight against isil. its members are mostly shiite muslims. has bola was set up just before the invasion of iraq by the u.s. it was -- has long-standing ties with tehran. the head of the she a militia -- the shia militia's forces fit -- fought in syria. let's bring in our guests, michael is senior fellow at the hudson institute and a former a

and then they cancelled — and i had a green zone pass that allowed me to travel without quarantining, that was rescinded and the trip was off. chris, you are a seasoned traveller. what's it been like? have you found any highs or pluses in this crazy year? i was lucky enough, i think it was august, when i went to germany and not only got to track down some wild boar in berlin, but we went down and got a taste of the oktoberfest that wasn't! which was great because it was — it gave us an opportunity to see really what a beer festival was like just for locals because the millions of international visitors didn't come from overseas because it wasn't on for 2020. but for me, this year, for the first time in my life, i have not been able to go home to australia. and for people who — carmine, i know you live injapan but grew up in australia but the distance have never seemed widerfor me. i miss my family and want to go home so the moment australia opens its borders, i will be booking the ticket, i promise you that. and talking about booking your plane ticket once the borders open, what do y

green zone teach it mom. i know you care so sit on the opening much to me mama is just back yanno. when they start crossing for this area in the desert this is where the most of the fatalities happen and it's different reasons they hit or the cold like it's very cold at night and it was very hot that the day nobody can carry enough water to survive. to me it's so easy to connect because i'm coming from there but it's also so hard to see like. to see that people don't understand here and it's hard every day is. a struggle because this.

militants have fired several rockets into baghdad's green zone apparently targeting the u.s. embassy there iraqi military says some of them hit a residential compound in the zone causing damage but no casualties it is the 3rd attack on u.s. targets in iraq since a truce with pro iran militias ended in november. 18 italian fisherman who were held for several months by a libyan warlord have arrived home their families are greeted them at a sicilian port and prime minister in just separate context and negotiated their release from libya and general kiley to have to last week after his forces had accused the group of fishing in libyan waters. eastern iceland has been hit by some of its heaviest ever rainfall triggering mudslides that destroyed at least a dozen homes an entire village has been evacuated but luckily no one has been injured. now to nigeria where more than 340 school boys have returned home after being snatched from their classroom by kidnappers earlier this month some of them have now begun speaking out about their ordeal we have this report looking at how the abduc

succeed is being questioned on december 20th at least 8 rockets struck because the heavily fortified green zone one worker was wounded and a residential complex and cars were damaged the arrest of a senior leader in. that huck militia for his involvement in the attack has opened up the possibility of a confrontation between the government and armed groups. meanwhile tensions are escalating between the united states and iran u.s. president donald trump blamed it on for the budget that attack and threaten to respond militarily the claim was dismissed by the new chief of tehran's elite quids force part of iran islamic revolutionary guards corps on a recent visit to their own capital is my if on the replaced cos and so they money who was assassinated in a u.s. drone strike in january the white house is now concerned about what iranian backed forces in their up might do ahead of the anniversary of solar mani's death will discuss this shortly with our guests but 1st let's take a closer look at the main iran backed militias in there and up the popular mobilization forces was formed in 2014 after a cal

when the convoy attempted to establish a blockade outside the green zone the situation turned violent which resulted in the unfortunate deaths and injuries of iraqi civilians further prosecutors recently disclosed more than 10 years after the incident that the lead iraqi investigates who prosecutors relied heavily on so very far that there were no exigent victims and to collect evidence may have helped tunnies to insurgent groups himself. now many have called these pardons by u.s. president donald trump described will argue that this sets a precedent that seems to be the administration approving of the killing of iraqi civilians others have pointed out that betsy divonne secretary of education is actually the brother of erik prince the founder of blackwater many people are not happy with this but other people are looking into the fact not of who was on trump's pardon list but who was not on trump's pardon list there was a whole lot of folks calling for the pardoning of julian assan as well as edward snowden who revealed many aspects of u.s. government activity and killing of civilians

embassy in baghdad on sunday the attack in the iraqi capital green zone triggered the embassy's defensive systems compound received minor damage and one iraqi security guard was reportedly injured it comes ahead of next month's anniversary of the u.s. killing of a rein in general so the money is priceless by pro around groups around. a car bombing in the afghan capital killed 9 people on sunday 20 others were injured among them a member of parliament the deadly attack comes as a new report by u.s. watchdog reveals defense equipment handed over to the afghan government has been lost track of what is to be true with the possible implications. the pentagon has yet again lost track of its stories according to a new report by the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction the department of defense lost track of quote some of the most sensitive articles provided to the afghan military the last gear includes night vision devices surveillance systems and even controls for laser guided explosives the sensitive equipment was supposed to be inventoried by the u.s. every year to ensure