But for a city rock is stepping up its response to mass protests across the country the army says it sent a commanders to provinces to restore order and setting up what it calls crisis cells to quell the unrest well the announcement came as at least 29 people were killed in the syria on thursday when Security Forces opened fire to disperse a demonstration that this followed a night of violence in the city of not just where irans consulate was set on fire tehran is calling for firm action against the protesters but the iraqi protestors are accusing tehran of backing a government that they are against at least 350 people have been killed during the protests which are pushing for more job special services and they completes overhaul of the political system so young men in the consulate when it was set on fire all the right plan within a job started firing on us as if we were burning iraq as a whole the riot police by tear gas intensively and the Security Forces rendered heavily with live bullets now mohammed jumps in and is in baghdad. The fact that you have now had 2 attacks on iranian consulates in shiite holy cities within a matter of weeks this month that really goes to show how much frustration there is even in shiite majority cities toward the government of iran because of the outsized role that they play in the politics of course you had this attack last night that was an attack in which the antigovernment demonstrators they got into that compound in and they set. The iranian consulate ablaze they burned it before the attack happened the staff at the consulate they had escaped through a back door were now being told that off the military is going to be sending these security cells to some of the provinces to try to quell the protests we dont really know exactly what form thats going to take there is great concern here right now that perhaps that could mean that there is a crackdown looming that perhaps there will be more violence we just dont know well have to wait and see but also weve been told that there is now a curfew that has been put in place in the city of najaf for the until further notice show theres so much going on here right now the protests continue to swell but the fact the matter is despite the violence despite the specter of potentially more violence all the demonstrators that we continue to speak with no matter what city they are in they say they are committed to continuing to come out until they have a government they feel that actually represents them. Well last week a travel secret reports in cables from iran spy agency were published by the intercepts and the New York Times shedding light on terror ons vast influence in iraq according to the document surround use the u. S. Withdrawal and 2011 to expand its influence and surveillance operations adding top iraqi governments politicians military and Security Officials to their peril both in baghdad and in the senate honest kurdish region of Northern Iraq where theyve ripped routinely reported back to tehran about conversations halves with american diplomats there are humans also show how hiran has protected and paid former cia informants in iraq have kept tabs on u. S. Activities there well not sure where is the director of the Gulf Studies Center at Cancer University he says public anger in iraq is directed both at the governments hands at a rainy and fluence. In the past few weeks there is no doubt the there was a process of rebirth and iraq and that the process basically talking about a new National Identity because. You know sects close this it is across tribes all of these things so whats happening now in iraq. Is an evidence that people there are fed up of you know our site or in interventions and i think we also see that how much this outsider and outside intervention has corrupted the political atmosphere more and more and it creates a political elite which is more corrupted more related to the outsiders rather than to the interest of the people and this kind of level of anger increasing increased rapidly in the last few years with the with the expansion of you know corruption and poverty and the need and the lack of infrastructure and the services which the government unfortunately has failed to deliver to its own people the visitors they are against both they are against they recognize or not because there is the assumption that this government is very weak its actually rely on outsiders and more important they are upset of their arc of the iranian intervention or enter. Business in iraq and they see that this kind of intervention is not helping iraqis its actually create contribute to see iraq as a failed state. 3 planeloads of yemenis have been broken back to their country from presence in saudi arabia 128 men were flown into sonas International Airports awards red cross plains a few hours ago to be created greeted by he commanders and some family members but they were released as part of an Exchange Deal u. N. Special envoy Martin Griffiths has welcomed the prisoner swaps that come out its a new push to end the 5 year war the saudi unity Led Coalition announced on wednesday that santa airport would reopen to limited flights loan patients to fly aids for medical care monitor when she then moved from the airports. This flight is the 1st flight. For the president before this the 1st offer szell. Swarup all relays are for president s of war by saudi arabia u. A. E. Little qualification people are hoping this would push forward for achieving all realizing the peace in yemen which has been going through difficult and destructive times throughout nearly 5 years many of those wife talk to hope they will find their relatives. To agree to go out of this international both but so far we couldnt know that. The exact number of who though more will be ripe but according to the news that i have heard that some of them have been detained and. Which is the just 40 kilometers from sun are also those who are being detained in areas in the course and the coastline of. There are also fisherman. Are concerned that the they want their fighters to be released also there are thousands of people who are being detained who are thats involved in the war especially those who try to travel outside yemen through the areas which are under the control of the saudi us. Well there are there are reports of in yemen spoke city official abdul in a has shar who says the prisoner release is a good 1st step for peace. I walk speak to him to stop all the war against yemen to get in release all the prisoners to pay off the saudis of all the employees in yemen and also to open their son i have courts that is no any justification to close this airport for about 25000000 yemenis living in sinai and living in all Yemeni Government eats. China has accused donald trump of sinister intentions after the president signed the hong kong human rights bill the law means washington can impose sanctions on chinese and hong kong officials seemed responsible for human rights abuses and the sarah clarke reports from hong kong fisons are celebrating the u. S. Move. In Central Hong Kong they gathered to say thank you to the United StatesPresident Donald Trump signed into law the hong kong human rights and democracy act on wednesday the prodemocracy protesters embraced it as a sign of support i think is a good thing for ha ha biggest given the special are how do you say that the economic. Situation of our car to all Mainland China actually yeah. I think it was affecting. The whole situation im very organised to be a part of the whole college stay standing here. Im not saying the word sarah brady but to to. To share one delightful moment of being here yesterday for this remark was that thank you mr speaker i thank the legislation had rare broad bipartisan support in both the u. S. Senate and the house of representatives and for the people of hong kong it allows the u. S. To introduce economic sanctions against hong kong and withdraw the city special trade status if it believes the government is failing to protect democracy and human rights prodemocracy activist joshua wall held the legislation as a victory for the protest movement which is paralyzed parts of the city since june it just increased. Well leaders around the world and politicians aware that its time for them to its down to hong kong but the Hong Kong Government rejected the legislation accusing us of interfering in the citys internal affairs and sending the wrong message to violent protest critics included the citys former chief executive after all these years and just to be on me as to why people in the west are going to happen. Opening the most of the countries as if they had done better dealing with all the mystic problems china echoed that message describing it unnecessary and more into it and some of the u. S. Ambassador in beijing jungle hong kong is chinas Hong Kong Hong kong if as purely chinas internal affairs no Foreign OrganizationForeign Government and foreign individual has the right to interfere with the u. S. Legislation comes less the way got deployed Democracy Party secured a landslide victory in the citys District Council elections that year has been a morale boost for these protesters but so far the government is showing no signs of compromise in meeting these demands for political reform sarah clarke aljazeera hong kong. 41 people are confirmed dead following jesus powerful earthquake in albania rescue workers are trying to find survivors in several countries and sent teams to help and this was the most powerful earthquake to hit the country in decades john says that one of the worst hit cities duress he says most people there have fled for fear of aftershocks. Im standing among a group of apartment buildings and Hotel Buildings along the beach front of the resort town of buddhists and as you can see these apartments above me are completely uninhabited. And renters have fled them they are staying elsewhere they were afraid to come back because there are constant aftershocks and these people dont want to be caught in a situation where a building collapses on top of them because of an aftershock this is the situation all along the beach front of good is about 2 kilometers worth of buildings large high rise buildings like the municipality tells us that some 500 of these people are being kept in temporary shelters in the indoor gymnasium of the School Building until their buildings are checked by an. And theyre told that they can return to them or theyre told the those buildings are going to be demolished i dont other 1000 were told have been put into medium term shelters in hotel rooms because their buildings most likely wont survive but there must be more than that there must be more people who shelter at the moment because were seeing people sleeping in the in tehran on wednesday night thousands of people were sleeping in 3 or 4 kilometers of cars quadruple parked along one of the main avenues of the city they simply do not want to go to bed for the last time and be caught in an earthquake in which their building collapses and there are people who whom we have seen walking the streets here at night in do this with blankets wrapped around them and they said they say to us that theyre going to sleep on cafeteria chairs or that theyve spent the night on the beach this entire coastal section of the us the heart of its economy where all the tourism trade is this is now a ghost. 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Hello once again the weather slushy settled into dry across a good parts of charter members and think a cloud in see those central parts in the times that cloud may be thick enough to produce a little bit apache rain or drizzle i think more so as we go on in sea where sas status cladistically up towards john and do some snow on the northern flank of that 15 celsius in shanghai could see the odd shower here but further south you go with the sunshine 25 degrees in hong kong the only show when the northeasterly wales will face some showers into that eastern side of vietnam and the same northeasterly winds fading showers to southern parts of in the air just around the peninsula heres some very wet weather in play have some lively showers thundery downpours there for schrenker over the next couple of days carol well see what it is showers but its pushing up towards the other possessing the heaviest of the showers as we go through the next few days largely dry to warsaw north of that some wintry weather there over the high ground but nothing much to speak of but a cloud there just pushing into the far northwest of the country a little bit of cloud perhaps thick enough a time speeches 1. 00 to 2. 00 spots around southern parts of oman maybe into yemen as well but for the Arabian Peninsula its mostly fine dry and sunny. The brazilian journalist investigating a politically struction of land grab all the farmers helped yet another elected and hes reprieve them thats empowering everyday people to profit from the destruction of the rain forest people are almost willing to give their life away and guarantee the occupation of the lands is journalism the last hope in the fight for sleep there on the sun the surface not only a land conflict but a culture of the narrative brazil the age of boston are all whose truth is it anyway on aljazeera. This is a reminder of our top stories this hour a curfew has been imposed in the iraqi city of nasiriya after 29 people were killed string antigovernment protests Security Forces opened fire on a demonstration the army is sending its commanders to several provinces to restore order. Busy prisoners whove been detained by saudi arabia have arrived home in yemen the group of around 130 prisoners landed in some airports which has been closed since 2816 there were released as part of an Exchange Deal with china has accused donald trump of sinister intentions after the president signed the hong kong human rights bill that could help protect protestors beijing has threatened to respond. Now sudans government says scrapped a controversial law that was used to limits womens rights cabinets plans to degree a decree nullifying the public order law set in place by former president omar bashir thousands of women were folks in public for when introduces going out with scarves or wearing indecent clothing or him organise in khartoum she explains how the new law will make a difference to women the public order act was an act that was introduced in the mid ninetys by the former government now most of the people incidentally that as an act to regulate society it dictated how men should wear how women should wear where women should be seated seated in Public Transportation basically people feel like it was oppressing the freedom and the movement and the lifestyle of people here in sudan and thats something that local and International Rights groups have said repeatedly they say that the laws under the act of the public order law made it very hard for people to be themselves women were not allowed to be out in public very late and very late was open to interpretation depending on the security agents it had its own moral Police Advice police that regulated and went around society to make sure that women did not come back home late that they did not dress indecently according to the invitation of the moral police law that was around at the time so people viewed it as a law that was basically around to constrain on the use of sadam and to try to dictate how they live their lifestyle and how they want about their daily lives armed groups have carried out a new tanks in eastern democratic republic of congo to Health Workers were killed in a b a car towards a World Health Organization base the violence comes as residents protest against what they see as inaction by un peacekeepers tasked with keeping them safe. French president tomorrow and that crew has rejected an offer by russia suspend missile deployments and made the comments during a meeting with nato chief stoltenberg in paris russia proposed a moratorium after a ban on the maid was lifted in august starting burke used the meeting to address michaels criticism of nato a suffering brain death while questions are being asked about the strength of the transatlantic bomb north america and europe are doing more together than we had done for decades and i can hardly think about any stronger demonstration of the commitment to our Alliance Story collective defense to article 5 than the fact that we are actually doing more together increasing are those of forces investing more in our security than we have done for many many years french president s and i know michael is insisting that Member States must increase their level of corporation let be on the up for the post if any peace in europe our work post i. N. F. Treaty our relationship with russia the subject of turkey who is the enemy as long as we havent resolved these questions we cannot negotiate to realize the cost of the total burden so maybe theres a wake up call thats needed i ask each to consider their priority is to think of the final goal and our strategic objectives we must have a method between us leaders of state and the government along with the Organization Secretary general on the basis of these questions that are asked so we can automatically move forward in the next following weeks. When the sash about law has more on the reaction to macros remarks from the president ial palace in paris. Well if theres no doubt the macro comments certainly roldan angered many nato members who see him as undermining dangerously un