No im Barbara Starr you watching aljazeera live from london also coming up on the program a Suicide Attack in afghanistans capital kills at least eleven people more than twenty others old wounded has irans protest movement ended after just a week officials they clear the under arrest over as progovernment supporters hit the streets for a second day. Really stings the race and i usually dont come out here like this and normally dress like a ninja in some spots its colder than the surface of mars a monster snowstorm hits eastern parts of the u. S. Lawyers for u. S. President donald trump are trying to stop the release of a book that details a west wing on the trail one steeped in the function and then called buttons. Written by journalist Michael Wolff the book extensively quotes trumps former chief strategist the balun who was fired last year on thursday the white house came out fighting describing the book as trash by nor for that no one has heard of they are as the book reports. President Donald Trumps press secretary came out swinging thursday saying americans are more concerned about policy then a new book on the white house i dont think they really care about some trash that an author that no one had ever heard of until today or a fired employee wants to peddle earlier attorneys for the president sent a cease and desist letter to the publisher and author demanding the book not be released next week they also threaten former white house strategist steve bannon with legal action for telling author Michael Wolff that Donald Trump Jr was treasonous and unpatriotic for meeting with russians before the twenty sixteen president ial election after excerpts of the book were released wednesday and enraged President Trump said of bannon when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind initially ban and fired off a tweet saying i wont speak about who lost their minds or ever had one but he later tweeted that the president was a great man that prompted President Trump to downplay the vitriol at a white house meeting thursday dont really call me very bad last night so you know you obviously changes to pretty quick the book is a distraction for a president who is trying to advance his policies in the face of a deepening special investigation into russias meddling into the twenty six thousand president ial election author Michael Wolff says he spent eighteen months and conducted roughly two hundred interviews with president from senior staff during the transition and the first year of his administration in a column thursday wolf seems to question the president s Mental Fitness for office it used to be inside of thirty minutes hed repeat word for word and. Russian for expression the same three stories now it was within ten minutes the book is prompting speculation that the twenty fifth amendment to the constitution could be used to remove the president from office but former federal prosecutor Melanie Sloan says that he is unlikely to imagine the majority of the cabinet and the Vice President of the United States actually sending a letter saying that the president of the United States is mentally incapacitated is very hard to imagine and there are many commentators who believe this could lead to a constitutional crisis sions sloan says impeachment is a more likely scenario but with the Congress Still controlled by the president s own party that two seems unlikely at least for now dion estabrook aljazeera washington. Well Alexander Nazarian interviewed steve bannon for this weeks cover story in Newsweek Magazine he gave me his assessment of balance motives he is terrified of what Robert Morvillo the special counsel is going to come up with and he is pointing to jared questioner and daal tom junod specifically in saying these guys are in real trouble hes sending out sort of almost flares maybe even messages to President Trump saying these are the guys you better you have to include in your son the they could be in real real trouble why do that in a book like this in such explosive language i dont know i dont think steve benen really worries about what he says i dont think hes out there to make friends to make money. He doesnt want the former and he has plenty of the latter i think this is for his ideas and his ideas are bigger than steve benen according to steve benen bigger even than donald trump so hes willing to burn any bridge in order to get where he is what he believes hes the con. Needs to go i think hes a dangerous enemy even more than hes a useful ally i dont think President Trump can alienate steve benen fully even if he will no longer embrace him the way he once did. An explosion in the Afghan Capital risk of at least eleven people and wounded twenty five others eisel has claimed responsibility for that which targeted security personnel the police were carrying out an anti drugs operation when the blast happened. Good has more now from kabul a suicide bomber detonated his explosives among the crowd of protesters on thursday now the protesters were demanding their business is to be open Afghan Police have been greeting businesses in shops in kabul but ny area where these shops are reported to be selling illicit substances like alcohol which is banned in afghanistan these shop owners were demanding their shop being opened the Afghan Police try to stop these protestors clashes broke among the protestors and Afghan Police and in these clashes number of protesters and also Police Wounded now taking the advantage of a suicide bomber detonated his explosive among the crowd of police and in the protestors. And it turned the whole the protests into a blood shed by killing number of people and dozens of people wounded. The u. S. Has imposed sanctions on five companies it says a working on the Ballistic Missile program it comes ahead of a u. N. Session on the. Twenty two people were killed irans army chief says they cleared the protests are over but says his troops are ready to intervene if. The size of these progovernment rallies is a message to irans critics at home and abroad. Irans government has plenty of public support and is here to stay. Speaking to a crowd in the Northern City of mush even a political rival of irans president in the last election said the predictions by foreign foes of an imminent overthrow the government was a miscalculation. This crowd is glorious and meaningful when iranian people felt the footprint of the enemy they came to the scene and declared their hatred of america and all the arrogant powers. In recent days would suggest that a majority of iranians are in favor of maintaining irans way of government especially in the face of violent instability but they dont necessarily support president Hassan Rouhani policies the economic problems that sparked in the waning antigovernment demonstrations in the first place are still a challenge for the rouhani administration. The main issue for the papal is currently inflation and the Economy Economic problems have resulted in corruption and moral issues in Society Economic stability its very important everyone who takes office makes some promises but the. Recent protests were because of high prices things shouldnt be so expensive that people have to cry out it was because officials didnt care about the people. The cost of living is on the rise as unemployment and the economic boost draw any promised with his reelection has yet to materialize despite the partial lifting of economic sanctions following the nuclear deal with western powers in two thousand and thirteen government supporters are calling for all iranians to be a part of solving the countrys problems. The government should adhere to its promises the promises talked about during the election and be accountable the whole country can help solve the economic and political problems here for now public support for the government appears to have ended a violent week of anti establishment protests what comes next will depend largely on our irans leaders deal with the countrys economy and what even if they are the legitimate grievances of their own people. Russian and Syrian Government their strikes have killed twenty three civilians in a rebel held suburb of the capital damascus three children and eleven women are to be among them who several babies were injured the government has been stepping up its aerial campaign on rebel held areas killing at least seven civilians in Northwestern Province on tuesday. Well italy province is thought to be the largest remaining rebel held area in syria its inside one of the socalled that the escalation zones set up last september in an effort to scale back the conflict but with no letup in the fighting tens of thousands of civilians are leaving the area is in a hole the reports. They set up tents wherever they can on the side of roads in open fields syrians are still on the move trying to find a safe place many have already been displaced more than once these people are from the north and hama countryside and from the villages along the neighboring provincial borders of lib areas that have become battlegrounds. We fled the bombardment and the airstrikes we cant go back because our house was hit and it is now destroyed they are targeting civilians and their homes not the rebels. The recent wave of displacement coincides with the Winter Weather is setting in and making life even more difficult near freezing temperatures are common here and many fear they may have to live out in the open for a long time they have nothing to return to and some of their villages have been recaptured by Government Forces for many going back is not an option. We had to leave the area because of airstrikes we tried to return to the village but it was talkative again we hope that the regime doesnt control the area the United Nations says up to sixty thousand people have been displaced in recent weeks it also says aid is scarce there are already an estimated two hundred thousand displaced people in people who fled from areas across the country retaken by Government Forces. Were being displaced for the past seven years running from one place to the other its horrible if god doesnt help us no one can kill us all even the children the regime wants to control every single area. The violence is not confined to areas close to the frontlines villages across the province are coming under fire. Hospitals bakeries markets have all been hit by air strikes it live under rebel control in two thousand and fifteen it is also supposed to be a russian guaranteed deescalation zone. It is a heavily populated province an estimated two Million People live there people fear the presence of. Which declared. Could be. Offensive the Russian Military did say. To defeat that group in two thousand and eight. The military campaign aims to recapture a military airport. In the province whatever the objective the offensive continues to cause much suffering. Still to come. More than two hundred injured in a train crash. And. Charges against a german national. Hello there across australia the weather is popping up now in the north weve got a few showers at the moment and they were giving giving us some fairly heavy rain and it looks like well see some more over the next few days as well so still a few showers then on friday but those showers really get going as we head through saturday and then some of the wet weather will be very heavy and after that looks like the monsoon will set in so welcome rains hit elsewhere and the weather is also popping up but for a very different reason here in the southeast it looks like the temperatures are on the rise so by saturday will be up to thirty six in adelaide and thirty eight in melbourne so across this region there is likely to be a problem with wildfires out towards the east you can see this massive cloud weve got across the north island at the moment thats giving some of us some very heavy rain and its marching down across the south island too its also giving us some very very strong winds and those are likely to stick around for a while on friday before eventually easing and saturday does look far karma still likely to be some fairly gusty winds at times and still a few showers around perhaps but for most of us the drier and a lot calmer if we had to further north we can have a look at whats going on over japan most of us having some find a settled weather at the moment little bit more in the way of cloud though in the south but as we head into saturday it just moves its way northward gives us a little bit of snow. In the philippines millions live in overcrowded slow but some of found another place to call home Public Cemeteries one when east meets those living among the dead at this time on aljazeera. Aljazeera. Swear every jools. Now reminder of the top stories on aljazeera Donald Trumps lawyers are trying to stop the publication of a book containing explosive claims about his presidency trump was also threatened his former chief strategist with legal action over the family tree remarks made in the book. At least eleven People Killed and twenty five wounded in the Suicide Attack in afghanistans capital i saw has claimed responsibility thats according to the groups and marked agents and the irans army chief says the six days of antigovernment unrest start over and but he is warning his troops are ready to intervene if necessary thousands of progovernment supporters have been rallying for a second day. Donald trump has taken credit for a so when relations between north and south korea the two sides are inching closer towards talks and on wednesday reopened a border hotline trump tweeted with all the failed experts weighing in does anybody really believe that talks and dialogue would be going on between north and south korea right now if i wasnt firm strong and willing to commit our total might against the north fools but talks are a good thing well meanwhile washington and seoul have agreed that they wont carry out joint military drills doing next months Winter Olympics which are being held in south korea rosalyn jordan has more details from washington the trumpet ministration has agreed to delay the military exercises known as full eagle until after the end of the Winter Olympics in winter paralympics in south korea thats because the South Koreans have been concerned that they wouldnt have enough armed forces to provide security for the games as well as to participate in this annual joint military exercise with u. S. Troops its an exercise that includes both the army the air force and the navy meantime the fact that the North Koreans have extended an effort to engage with the South Koreans in the South Koreans have seemingly welcome to this is a development thats being welcomed at the United Nations for hawk is the deputy spokesperson for the secretary general. The secretary general is very keen to make sure that all the Security Council resolutions concerning the nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula can be implemented and in that context he is hoping that. Recent moves will help pave the way forward for such resolutions to be implemented through diplomatic initiatives and and of course well continue to monitor the vents as they develop even though north and South Koreans are simply going to focus their first talks on the involvement of north korean athletes in the Winter Olympics u. S. Officials are going to be paying not just very close attention to these discussions but also consulting with south korean leaders theyre concerned they dont want to see north korea try to use this opening to try to escape some of the more onerous sanctions that have been imposed upon it because it refuses to give up its Nuclear Weapons program chinas president is urging his military leaders to improve their soldiers capability to win wars zeeshan paying made the comments at a ceremony at an army base outside beijing mcbride is in beijing with more. This was a show of military strength meant to impress president xi jinping with seven thousand troops and their hardware at a parade in herb a province outside beijing delivering a speech where he urged the troops to carry out the jew tees bestowed upon them by the party and the people as they entered what he called a new era we have told it is also a speech that was carried live to thousands of other locations across china where the military were listening being mobilized in what the newspapers are calling a Mass Mobilization of the Peoples Liberation army with such a spectacle not surprisingly this has been making the news across the state run t. V. Channels this is the main item of news and really show she jim paying in his battle fatigues is very much they head of the armed forces here the commander in chief and it comes a couple